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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
BIRkENHEAD A MEMBER

London, Nov. 5 R-The directors
Of the Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd, announced today that Lord Bir-
kenhead, former secretary of state
for India, would become a member
of the board of the company. Ever
since Lord Birkenhead's resignation
from the cabinet there has been
much speculation as to what activi-
ties he would enter and today's an
houncement cleared this up.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

New Haven - Accidental dis
charge Of rifle may cause loss OF life
to Victor Paulinis. -. of Mount
Carmel. Younger brother aged four
shot him.
Waterbury - Sons OF Morris
Shelnitz. indicted with Louis Leo
pold on charges of wiiful burning OF
building ana causing loss of life,
testified their father was home on
night of fire.
Manchester - Gilbert N. Mon
tague Of New York tells members Of
Manufacturers' Association of Con-
necticut that cooperation between
competitive producers is possible.
Bridgeport - Ethel SWist, 81,
pleads guilty to assault with deadly
weapon and sentenced to year in
Jail. She was charged with attempt
ing to kill her divorced husband.
Hartford - United States Sena-
tor-elect Frederic Walcott names
William NJ. Sault as secretary.
Bridgeport - Coroner John J..
Phelan will conduct inquest Satur-
DAY in death of Charles Corbett.
negro cook on steamer. Walter
Hammill. negro pantryman, is held
in death.
Paris - Cecil Z. Sorel, famous
actress, who in private life is the
Nictomesse Guillaume de Segur. is
to auction her bed which was used
by Nine. Du Barry. $50 years ago.
This Is going on the block with the
rest OF Cecile's antiques. She will
use the proceeds 10 refurnish her
house with the products of contem-
poraries.
New York - One of the Magical
Morgan" twins is to visit this coun-
try for the first time since she be-
came a peeress. Thelma Morgan
Converse Furness. viscountess, is en-
route with her sister, Mrs. Reginald
C. Vanderbilt. They are to lease an
apartment till after Christmas.
London - Lord Charles Cayen-
dish, younger son of the duke of
Deyonshlre, is going to New York
to study banking. A portrait of an
ancestor. Lady Betty Compton. was
sold recently to an American for
some 100000.
st. Louis Business as usual
right after election. Having voted
for the winner. Lindbergh promptly
took to the air for Mexico.
New York - Experts who spent
all summer in the Tennessee noun
tains to photograph lightning hiding
super power lines have a $4,000
autograph. That's what it cost to
get a record of one bolt.
Leningrad - The speed record for
marriage and divorce seems to be
IS minutes. A couple here, taking
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
Wife Gets Year for
AssauItirg Husband

Bridgeport, Nov. s UP)-Mrs.
Ethel Swist. who pleaded guilty to
shooting her husband, Frank swist,
Stamford butcher, when she learn
ed he intended remarrying. must
serve a year in Jail.
Sentence was imposed by Judge
Edwin c. Dickinson in superior
court here yesterday on a charge
OF assault with q dangerous weapon.
Swist has recovered from the
wound received when his wife at
tackled him on q Stamford street.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
Quick Pile Relief

Piles are caused by congestion of
blood in the lower bowel. Only an
internal remedy can remove the
cause. That's why salves and cut
ting fail. DR.. I.eonhardt's Hem Roid,
a harmless tablet, succeeds. because
it relieves this congestion and
strengthens the affected parts. Hem
Roid has given quick, safe and last
ing relief to thousands of Pile
Sufferers. 1t will do the same for
you or money back. Fair Drug Dept.
and druggists everywhere sell Hem
Roid with this guarantee.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
NO MORE FUMRIING

New York. Nov. : (UP)-''lll see
that there'il be no more fumbling."
Coach Chick Meehan muttered un-
allowed Georgetown to beat New
York University last week, to ,.
Meehan started to do something
about the fumbiine yesterday when
he had the New York football play
ers scrimmage and practice with wet
footballs. Although the sun was
shining, the balls were wet and slip
perry. A garden hose turned the
trick.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

would never run the affairs OF the
democratic party in Texas and Dc,
clared that they would rather lose
with> democrats than win with re-
publieans.
Judge d. d. Sartin Of, Wichita
Falls. an anti-Smith leader, an
nounced that the machinery which
was set up to oppose Smith would
not be scfapped but would be main-
tanned to purge party OF "Tammany-
ISM"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
PAWNEEs TO PRACTICE

All members of the Pawnee foot
ball team are asked to report for
practice tonight. A stiff workout is
anticipated with Coaches Gi4netta
and Turner In charge. Manager
Quartz is arranging for a game SUM-
day.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
FORD FACTORY

Cobb. Ireland. Nov. s P-Tke
steamer Lake CORN arrived at Cobb
today with the first consignment Of
machinery for the Ford factory
which will shortly begin the manu-
facture of tractors in Ireland
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
PHONE TEAMS TO BOWL

Members Of the bowling team of
the Southern New England Tele-
phone CO., will go to Torrington to
play the telephone company team
from that city temorrow evening.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
Speaking
OF Sports

"Wop" Manolian who formerly
Ae(d this city a. his home but who
later moved to Boston and there
captured tho New England middle
weight boxing title. was defeated for
that honor last night in Boston by
Al Nellie Of Lowell. Manolian bare.
" escaped being knocked out two or
three times. Mello now holds the
two titles. being welterweiEht champ
Of New England.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

The Turkish horsemen OF South
ern Siberia keep on their clothes
without change till they literally
fall off.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

The Hartford Giants are anxious
to defeat the Nutmegs Of this city
In the next game Of the series be-
tween the two. This will be played
q week from Sunday at Memorial
field in Willow Brook park. Addi-
tional strength will be added to the
lineup because help has been prom
Used from either the Providence
Steam Rollers or the New York
Giants.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

Leningrad - The speed record for
marriage and divorce seems to be
IS minutes. A couple here. taking
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

The Nutmeg team will be prac-
ticaliy the same for the second game
as 1t was for the first encounter,
with the exception of Mclean. for
neF f4llhack Of Georgetown. He
will be in the lineup on Sunday
against the Stapleton team.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

New York - Experts who spent
all summer in the Tennessee noun
tains to photograph lightning hiding
super power lines have a $4,000
autograph. That's what it cost to
get a record of one bolt.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

Another blue law has been wiped
off the books in Massachusetts, with
the success of the referendum allow
ing Sunday sports throughout the
Bay state. The law is somewhat
similar to that which is on the books
in Connecticut. 1t gives the cities
and towns OF the state local option
on the question.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

The New Britain High school team
meets its strongest opponent next
Saturday afternoon in this city when
the Hillhouse High eleven of New
Haven comes here to play. The ad-
dition of Middleton to the local line
up has added great strength.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

Many have been inauirins of US as
to the details Of the bus trip to
Sta pleton, 8. l.. next Sunday. We
have no knowledge whatever about
It but We have already and repeat
eddy announced that those going
would have to communicate with
Manager Henry zehrer by tonight at
the latest. He will furnish all the
details a. TO price of round trip and
any other information desired.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

The New Britain Blues and the
Meriden Mohicans will clash this
coming Sunday at Memorial field in
Willow Brook park. This game was
to have been played last Sunday. but
. downpour OF rain prevented it.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08

This will apparently save the day
for these Massachusetts cities which
were represented in the Boston
Baseball League. The loss Of Sum
day games to these teams meant =
great deal from the box office an
gle and now that the sport will be
allowed. it is practically certain that
Springfield and Pittsfield will start
with the possibility great of the
Waterbury and Bridgeport franz
chises going to Massachusetts.
The daily worker., 1928-02-11
HENRY L. MENCKEN
AS A PSYCHOLOGIST"

ment Of the American petit-bourgeois.
Take all of his pet ideas and COM
pare them with the superstitions of
the average" intelligent hundred
percenter: you will get book that is
funnier even than the American
Credo." He has laughed at Green
wich Villagers, politicians, the
booboisie, the national specimen, and
the rest of it, but at bottom, and often
right up on the very surface, his no.
tions about life and society are very
much like theirs.
In common with congressman, col
lege professors, cub reporters, Eighth
st. poets and chautauqua orators, he
believes that history is made by great
individuals. In common with book
keepers he believes that the majority
of mankind are incurably and hope
lessly stupid and that wisdom and
superior brains are gods gifts to q
select few. In common with elderly
spinsters who invite bad artists to
tea he believes that real artist must
be sick, preferably syphilitic. In
The daily worker., 1928-02-11
Workers Education
in Capitalist U. .S.A.

BY travelling 500 miles every week
for the last six weeks in buses, cleo
trio trains and steam railways. at a
minimum fare of $4,000 a week, D.
E. Early, the first circuit teacher of
the National Agitprop Department of
the Workers Party, has been able to
found and keep going courses in Fun
damentals of Communism, and related
subjects in six cities in upper New
York State, most Of which had never
had classes before of any character.
These cities include Niagara Falls,
Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo and
also Erie and jamestown, Pa
/ In Buffalo there are 23 students en-
rolled; in Niagara Falls, 81; in Erie,
18; in jamestown, 9; in Rochester, %;
and in Syracuse, ID; making total of
1OS students receiving instruction thru
the circuit courses.
Sells Literature.
In the short period in question,
Early has sold over hundred dollars
worth Of literature, the students have
paid over $4,000 in tuition fees, and
new members and subscribers for the
DAILY WORKER have been secured.
In addition, thanks to the activities
of Comrade Early, mass meetings
were arranged for Lenin Memorial, for
Hands off Nicaragua, and Hands off
China and other issues, some Of which
could not have been arranged other
wise. Also, forums have been set up
and the circuit teacher has been able
to cover important forums and inner
party discussions on the question Of
the opposition in the Communist Party
Of the Soviet Union.
The district reports an increase in
activity, an increase in interest and
understanding Of the party and it's
work, an increase in influence over
non-party members, and q general
raising Of the political level Of the
district as result Of this experiment
The daily worker., 1928-02-11

in circuit course work. It has also
proved good method Of breaking in
to comparatively new territory.
Build Young Workers League.
In some towns, the Young Workers
League has been greatly strengthened
as result Of the classes and other
activities Of the travelling organizer.
This is especially the case in Syracuse,
where most of the students are young
workers, and a League organization
Of ten members has just been formed.
Also, three new party members were
secured in Syracuse since the classes
have been started.
Erie and jamestown are cities which
are almost never reached by national
speakers, and have had practically no
activity Of an educational character.
The interest of the workers in these
wo towns is reflected by the regular
ity and high percentage Of attendance
at the classes.
The daily worker., 1928-02-11
Liberal N. Y. Journalist
Reaches SANDING Camp

Carleton Beals, liberal journalist
and occasional contributor to Fedora
ted Press, has forced his way
through the Latin American jungles
to General Augustine Sandino, accord
ing to a dispatch. Beals is now in
Managua-"American territory"-the
capital of Nicaragua, writing his
story, the despatch adds.
Beals left from Mexico City. His
guide was arrested at Tegucigalpa,
capital of Honduras, but the writer
continued on horseback through the
jungle and reached Sandino. He
spent some time with the Nicaraguan
patriot who is fighting American in
tervention, escaping the bombs and
bullets of American marines warning
on Sandino.
The daily worker., 1928-02-11

to ditch Marx and VeDlen because
they're "dull writer's" and thus con-
fuses a proletarian scientist and lib
eral pedagogue as exponents of the
same point of view. Mencken has
never understood socialism because he
is typical bavarian spuzbuerger, a
bohemian in outlook, a good Ameri-
can citizen, a romantic worshipper Of
the alleged glories of feudal society.
1t was his hard luck, intellectually,
that he first heard of socialism, from
a profound revolutionary thinker like
Robert Rives LaMont.
Mencken makes no bones about his
Sociology" which makes him a much
safer thinker" from the working
class point of view than lot of Glib
erals" radicals" etc. He says capi-
talism is good and democracy a lot
of hocus-pocus, schweinerei and flap
doodlery. 1t is true that under capi-
talism (Which for all it's beneficiaries,
including the author of "Prejudices"
is a pleasant system) democracy is
a fake pure and simple which
shouldn't fool anybody but half-wits
and the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Mencken should be given congress
sional medal or the seat of Compare
tive Archaeology at Dukes University
for his services to American capital
ism as sociologist, for his defence
Of private property and his attacks
on Soviet Russia. The fact that he
raises hell about a lot of things is
only proof that the urt-jester can
stick pin into the kings nip SO long
as he supports the monarchy. Dis
cussing Mencken as sociologist is
like discussing Coolidge as poet. He
knows less about the laws of econo-
mics than Puritan about real virtue.
But TO tell the truth / don't think
IT'S as sociologist that Mencken is
or has been the hero of the day, but
as a social phenomenon. First grant
him his virtues: he is clever, his style
makes reading a pleasure tits not
easy to initiate it, either! I'm try
ing, as you see). He observes many
truths about individuals and books; he
is vigorous and above all, rarest of
all virtues in modern ink-slingers, he
is honest. agree with lot he says
about people, and with nothing he
says about society, but l always feel
that he means what he says, and
though that is no virtue in politi-
clan, it is no doubt quality which
is very useful for a writer. AS So
cial phenomenon Mencken fulfills a
real function. He is character"
that does for the average" American
what Sam Johnson did for the saver
age" Englishman; he is the embodi-
The daily worker., 1928-02-11

social patriots: the Noskes, the
Eberts, and the Scheidemanns in
Germany and their counterparts in
the other countries, who in the name
of the defense of the "fatherland,"
betrayed the social revolution into
the hands of their imperialist mas
ters.
But the call for unity and victory
is not sufficient There are some
minds that require more subtle
technique and which must be fur
nished with "war aims of a highly
rationalized and idealistic type" The
very opposition to war can be CAPT
talized by declaring the present war
to be "war to end war" and to
destroy the Octopus of militarism." !"
and who now called upon the social
lists, syndicalists and anarchists to
support the "fatherland of revolu-
tion," imperialist France. The author
The daily worker., 1928-02-11
A Strange Funeral IN ByuddocR
By MICHAEL GOLD

Listen to the mournful of a strange unera1
Listen to the story of a strange American funeral.
In the town of Braddock Pennsylvania,
Where s-mils
and sky,
1t is spring Now the frightened
land Of the steel ogres,
And Jan Cepak the Bohemian
in the morning.
hung with wild white blossoms,
at
of birthstone,
The plumree soften his heart
The soften his
And
his baby little daughters they
and happy,
He remembers and sheep and the gnnng
and fields of sunny Bohemia
Listen to the mournful drums of strange funeral
Listen to the story of a strange
Wake wake up Jan Cepk the
The flames fngg yellow
at their
Wake up! is ten o'clock and the batch
to be poured your pudding trough,
cauldrons,
Wake up and wake up for the
raging and running down the floor like escaped madman
The daily worker., 1928-02-11
BOOK REVIEWS and COMMENT
The Gentle Art of Poisoning the Minds OF the WorRerS

fails to mention in this group the
One must be careful, however, not
to weld too much to the working class
by proclaiming ideals (which would
wound the property sentiment OF the
possessing classes" The slogan Of
a League of Nations hit upon in the
last war was fortunate stroke f9r;
"a war to vindicate international
law has the sanction of bourgeois
morality about it and avoids any
thing which tinges of class issue.
In the last war this idea figured
heavily, Those who were arguing
for British participation in the war
on the grounds Of national self
interest chucked this article of faith
out of the window and transformed
the war into holy crusade for the
law Of nations"
Apparently this slogan still has It's
uses for, "Should there be next
general war, war aims OF an ideal
istic character will probably be Just
as important as they were in the last
war. International organizations are
still so weak that at least one other
war can be fought on the pretext Of
strengthening them"
After the public has been mobiiized
for the war it is necessary to keep
the passions of the masses at a fever
heat. The most efficient method OF
doing this is to spread stories OF
atrocities by the enemy. On pages
85 and Sc of this volume there is
list of atrocities utilized in the last
war, and which with a little revamps
ing can be made TO serve again in the
next war. AS a matter of fact, tfie
author points out that some of these
atrocities are very ancient and one
at least was used against the Turks
at the time of the crusades. The
most effective atrocity stories, the
author states, are those dealing with
sex enormities, mutilation, and the
raping of women, all of which "yield
secret satisfaction to q host OF
vicarious ravishers."
The book is mine of information
of the propaganda literature of the
war and of the thousands of intel
lectuals in all countries who helped to
betray the workers. Bernard Shaw,
H. G. Wells, and John Dewey are but
few of those mentioned. These
liberals" are probably disillusioned,
row that the war is over. But there
is no doubt that the busy psychologists
OF the propaganda bureaus will in
vent new bait for them when the
rext war breaks out and they will
cnce more do the dirty work of their
imperialist masters.
-CY OGDEN.
The daily worker., 1928-02-11

ambulance chasing lawyers" has been
ordered by the first department OF
the appellate division of the Supreme
Court, embracing New York and
Bronx counties.
A Supreme Court justice will be ap-
pointed with full power to investigate
the books of attorneys and accident
insurance companies.
They Work This Way.
Ambulance chasers have become
openly so INSCRIPTIONS in their prac-
tices that they are hurting the law
business generally, lawyers say.
Ambulance chasers" are shyster
lawyers who send solicitors out to
look for accidents, particularly acci-
dents to workers who are injured on
the job. They make connections with
venal hospital employees, especially
with doctors and interns, who try to
induce the worker while his mind is
still hazy after the accident, to. sign
a contract with the lawyer on whose
payroll the doctor Is.
Lawyers Get rs Per Cent
The action Of the Supreme Court is
a result Of the serious inroads which
the ambulance chasers have made on
the business Of the "ethical" attor-
neys, with the luxurious office suites.
Workers who have gone thru the
hospital and legal mill following an
injury on the job have found that both
the shysters and the more "ethicaP'
practitioners always take about 75
per cent Of the award for the workers
injuries.
The daily worker., 1928-02-11

common with every devotee of the
Book of Etiquette he believes that
civilization is a matter of small
aristocracy. In common with every
police-court Judge he believes that the
Bolsheviks are evil and stupid. In
common with every cloak and suit
manufacturer he believes that capi-
talisnr is good enough for the world
and that if you have money you're
all right. You could go on like this
for long time.
Where Mencken differs from the
rest of his fellow-compatri is in
his genuine love of literature that is
not too new, his quixotic devotion to
learning and culture. This is what
makes him the god of the learned
professions, the intelligentsia. It is
not for nothing that he is read, imi-
tated and worshipped by all the
younger editorial writers of the land,
or that he wraps himself in the Stars
and Stripes in any real controversy.
He is a Jeffersonian liberal in poll
tics, an anarchist in philosophy, bo-
hemian in his pose, free lance kid
ding the authorities and abiding by
the status quo; a trusted citizen who
raps the Declaration of Independence
and fights for free speech. Could
there be more perfect popular phil
osopher" for the middle-class intel
lipentsia with its fear of machine civ
ilization and the working class?