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"Was anyone with her? n so,
whom"
Boss know Messing
Gade fixed him with cold
stare, glasses vibrating. who
was with herr he numbered.
Boss, / sink-a ia Meestair
Weeckert. Yeh. !"
Every well. You served them
liquorg'
"weIl, does Meestair weeckert
he say, Pete he say, 'what-a da
chance for ia leetIe drink
Yes or no.
"Oh. yeh."
The examination went on. 1t
was established that Wickert and
the red-haired young lady had
arrived at Deep Valley Inn about
midnight and sizeable quantity
Of alcoholic beverage had been
taken to the private dining room
they occupied.
The two seemed friendly:
Wickert was in high spirits. They
had not quarreled in the walters
hearing. lie had seen no gun.
The last service was about 5
o'clock when a half dozen cock
tails were carried in. The witness
did not return to the private din.
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People with CUTS don't need.

People with CUTS don't need
money"
They're the very people who
do. They're more capacity to en-
joymore hungry for life. They
can use money Tina einAtiyely.
The poor in spirit should be poor.
Money ii useless To them.
s'But I read d story once OF q
couple who didn't have bean
and three children. They had a
gorgeous time. It's that thing
Corny Stratton wrote An Afneri4
can Idyl.' Why, they even went
to Europe. Pennilessi People
with imagination can live adven.
lures. Sunsets and mountain tops
don't cost money"
1T costs to reach the mountain
top
rs this your subtle way of adj
wishing me to annex Heinie?"
No. But IL it came to a
choice and you asked my opinion.
I'd say Heinie was the safest bet
for happiness. The wife Of Saxon
Rhodes won't have an easy time,
either enlotionally or financially
These young idealists make very
unsatisfa.:tory husbands.
They have such 8 mad dream
shout It all. No ONE woman can
ever Fill the bill.
jerry seized on a word. With
haIk.stut eyes she asked. fasci-
mated: rs Saxon an idealist?
With 4 thrilling dream OF women"
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No one had touched 1t; he had
called the nearest doctor and the
police.
Emily reached for her sisters
hand; the room began to blur
gently. 1t was. she thought, like
d painting over which. q wet
sponge had been passed. before
the oils were dry.
The proprietor stepped back
ana 4 doctor took his place. He
had examined the body about 8
o'clock and judged death had
occurred four hours previously.
The shot went through the heart.
No. it would have been impossible
for the deceased to have inflicted
such d wound himself: besides
there were no powder marks.
Their voices droned on; Emily
felt very weary. Now and then
the young District Attorney spoke
to the coroner; she guessed he
was suggesting questions to be
asked. Why? Many things they
said seemed unimportant to her.
What had they to do with Kit.
ten?
All these solemn persons-Al
Randall over there with his shield
cleaning, holding his cap 80
stiffly-what had they to do with
Kitten?
Something to be gone through
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[ Continued Tomorrow

DELIGHT, caught 1t, all achuckle.
Impudent. delicious kid--that little
Jerry king.
she turned. flushing, and hlir-
rfed after Maria,
In 3 hum, in q sweet, Qufvering
exciteniefit, she paused combing
her hair 20 wonder eagerly, -
this lover Yes yesl Does Il come
10 QitickIy7 Yes yes
Then she thought happily ssHe's
better than last night-even bet
ter than that.
Aloud to Maria, Eli wait for
you outside on the veranda
Crimson glow fading in the sky;
darkness thr0nging with still, In
tent busyness Night coming on
in beauty, in silence haunting AZ
music.
The girl. white. dark eyes dream
ing, moving through the shadows.
The trees voiced her expectanee,
her eager, inarticulate yearning.
NurmtIr of life, hushed. insistent,
sweet. She heard it vaguely-a
thing wild and lovely. urging
her on.
suddenly she was very alert
listening. A couple coming down
the path. The girl, d bit theatrical
with her loud, cultivated English
voice and her trailing br6cade
wrap. a young girl with reddish
blonde hair and quick vivaci0us
manner.
(Io ne Continued TomOrrCw.D
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What Has Happened So Far::

Suddenly she was sitting up with
4, start. Voices In the living room.
Maria had gone back therA. Many
people there.
Out Of the mingled sounds came
suddenly a laugh, chuckling.
throaty, sweet. Voice different
from other voices a hum in It, q
deep secret hilarity.
She got up and stole to the door,
pushing 1t ever so little She
picked him out easily--the strong
lift of his chin, eyes and mouth
eloquent with q hidden nirthful-
ness, the clean, breezy tan. A sun.
god on Olympus might have this
look OF Saxon Rhodes.
well said I1eine Ross. Is
that you. Jerry, or transparent
gl1ost?s'
The new man looked ur, light,
thrilling eyes, astonished rs though
she were indeed slim. wee wrath
Jerry laughed and pulled the
negliaee about her. She came pad
ding with bare feet ACROSS the
room. She stopped directly in
front Of him, impudent. joyous Il
thought ] was dreaming. You woke
me up with your laugh.
I'm very glad did Please to
meet YOU. You're rea! are your
Are vou-that's the question:
Afterward when she Enew 40
well that Saxon Rhodes was real
painfully and terribly reAl-4klie
could yet always vision him as he
appeared this first, sweet start.
ling night--laughing and with 4
mirth like sun god about him.
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This ha.,y has never had a days
sickness and never a cross or fret
full spell that lasted an hour. And
what do you suppose is responsible
for this healthy, happy condition.
Not diet, for he has eaten just
about anything and everything a
child could eat. Not drugs, for he
has not been dosed with opiates;
he has never had a drop of pare
goric. Nor has his sensible mother
ever made him taste castor oil, Yet
his nerves are sound and his little
bowels are strong, ana when he
does seem the least restless or
wakeful, or out of sorts-or likely
to be-his mother has him all
serene again in ten or fifteen
minutes!
The secret Of this complete free
dom from the many ills and upsets
so common to infants? Plain old.
fashioned Castoria. A million and
more mothers swear by Castoria,
and no wonder! A few drops and
an approaching fever, collie. diarrhea
or constipation seems to vanish in
thin air. Castoria is purely vege.
table; that Il why physicians tell
parents they may usS 1t freely with
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lieve in Kitten--the lurking fear
that he. would not--these twisted
through her, leaving her breath.
less and i'll.
The proprietor of the resort
was called: he knew Wickert and
had seen the red-haired young
lady with him often. There
never had been a gun on his
premises So far as he knew ex-
ceptinx the one he kept locked in
h.
He described the manner in
". ,dnd the body after
d Scllt;1-woman had opened the
door of the private dining room
and screamed. EIumped over the
table, arms out, blood running
down the rug.
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Care of Babies

children of any age-the youngest
infant. And how they love the
tastel
One word of warning; get the
pure, real Castoria. Fletcher's Cas-
toria is the original. 1t is the
kind doctors specify. And with
every bottle comes a book on
Care and Feeding of Babies that
is worth its weight in gold to any
mother or prospective mother. So,
remember: tell your druggist you
wish Fletchers Castoria.
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ing room after that. ''Meestair
Weeckert not Ikea he be inter
rup'," the man explained.
Proceedings were halted here ~
someone came in. A tall figure
moved along the room. leaned
briefly across the table. Sat
down beside the coroner, gazed On
the witness.
Blue eyes piercing now, lips
grave. Chin high very stern.
Emily looked away, refusing the
sight of Kent. She was shaking
from head to foot; her whole b..
ing was 4 battle-ground OF emo
lions. A heating, passionate hope
that he would understand and be-
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LIE looked very penitent, very
pleading, standing there with
his head down, nervously rubbind
che band Of his hat.
she went up and put her hand
1 an the lapel Of. his coat, saying
with an eager sweetness: But,
votl ought to be ashamed to need
booze. It's b terrible insult to
your own vitality IL you need to
be jazzed up with sin at the age
Of 30.
II know Pm not going to touch
III anv more. don't like it. But
everywhere you go, it's poured
on you. I'm through,
AZ I'll o'clock boy and d girl
Were going up the steps of = big
Mlnite house. The boy lurched,
pulled himself together. I'm not
drunk. Jer l1oneeh, I'm sober
Then stand still. And give me
your key
He fumbled in one pocket after
another began all over. Gesh
I'll hava climb in the winner
Jerry King rang the bell long.
Witheringly. To the bland Chinese
who answered she said: Please
zee him safe to he'd, Wong. And
somebody ought to tell his fool Of
d father to get on the boat about
Str
: Midnight. Maria moving softly
about the room. In dream.
she came to the girls bed. kissed
the lips that were parted. fresh,
dewily young.
Jerry lay very still, feigning
sleep. Her heart pinched ter
efbly.
Again and again before her went
The noisy tumult Of the recent
hours. Bud drinking; face getting
pasty; other faces srnndged with
red. Uninspiring faces. Nothing
thrilling in this. Not the world
one dreams about.
Deep in her though buried so
deep she was but vaguely aware
Of ft--were other images sons.
q dream, a lighted face he face
of man young. strong, beauti-
full. Being taller than she ana
finer. Taxing her hand and the.
two of them running inward To-
ksther onward and upward he
Nan Of Dreams.
She would never meet him
never in this shoddy world.
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HsHE inquest wasn't terrible IN

TIME inquest wasn't terrible N
the beginning.
Gruff old Coroner Gade behind
. table, witness chair placed
sfdewise before 1t. "A kitchen
chair, Emily noted. A stenog-
rapher riffled the leaves of his
notebook at the right.
few whom she didn't know
gathered in the small office; Kit
ten watchful-eyed. apparently
calm, but with her hands twist
ing.
Gade hung his glasses on the
end Of his nose and mumbled: a
dark young fellow who kept dart-
ing nervous glances about sat
down on the edge of the chair.
Your name is Pete Mercurio?"
"Yeh."
You're a waiter at Deep Valley
1nn?"
.'Yeh."
''The young lady over there, the
enc with red hair. you saw her
Mt the Inn night before last7"
The dartiI g eyes shifted; Emily
felt a CULVER go over her sister.
The man answered, "Yeh"
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CHAPTER .

Jerry awakened with q drowsy,
delicious feeling: memory Of
something that had happened. eK.
quisite, song echoinc
Like once when she was little.
some one gave her d kitten. For
weeks, even when she wasn't
thinking about ii, she felt d great
happiness. She would stop and
wonder what made her want to
laugh. Oh. yes, the kIrten.
She lay back on thu pillow now,
watching the golden ferryboats
weaving In and out Of the slips.
Radiant spring morning. With
out even disturbing herself she
could see the bay In vast undu-
slatink giimtner; see the Stands and
the Berkeley hills. she often
thought: ought is turn into
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To '.Make-a-B Book" Of "a pages, cut six
strips IA inches by inches. Fold these
like pages of book. Cut cover from stiff
paper inches by 10. Sew pages into cover
with big stitch.
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ness she heard Gade say sister;
then he spoke to her quietly.
.'Sit down, Miss Emily. This ID
all regular. Al few minutes now
She sank hack, covering before
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Jack Rabbit came by.
"Why do you cry?" he asked,
BILLY Goat is in the field
and he will not go home,"
said Billy Boy.
"Do not cry, Billy Boy"
said Jack Rabbit.
II will make him go home"
With a hoppity, hoppity hop
away went Jack Rabbit
to make Billy Goat go home.
tU. r. C. News Service. Inc
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the hurt they were to give. But
they asked no more direct ques-
tioTs; only bads Kitten give her
own story OF the night.
GT0 BE Continued Tomorrow
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What Do You KnOU?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions on Editorial Page.

Questions Editorial Page
Francis MariOn 2 1927 inches Revolution Golf Italy,
Hendrix Z Hague; ndia g. Napoleon; TO- Diam
eter; France Oasis; 49, New York; a. Kentucky; 49, Ala
bama Is, Oklahoma; H. Wisconsin
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Billy Boy and His Billy Goat

Jack Rabbit said,
"Come, go home, little goat"
Billy Goat said,
IT will not go home"
"But we must go home"
said Jack Rabbit.
Billy Goat said,
Catch me if you can"
and away he ran.
Jack Rabbit sat down
and began to cry.
7
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BABY Girls Are Popular

THOUGH ambition mothers from Biblical times down ns
Il ages appears bring IMAM child INTO me
grave believe that girl babies are no"
popular than boys.
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Britoas Encourage Flying

ECTUREs On flying practical demonstrations Dy Y
Ii light plane which will land play fields, are pens sS;
a British idea encourage IN the cnoOs
keenness for flying.
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Paste Mondays picture on the out
Of
IN
is L. Read story and NJ Genevieve Sylvester
pictures
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IA Gay Narrative Of Hot BlOOded Youth
BY the Author Of sChickie' and
Other Popular Stories
What Has Happened So Far:
Jerry king ioseabe smiling she
yielding hot caresses
enyed mothers hat
She thought Of Bydashng lmpetuOns
y They planned phoned Billy she was
teacher high school, has
followed contnuay
raining BUD Malone
dripping wet refused to out with him.
NOU Go On With The Story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
"WEVD BROADCASTING"
The Socialists and '|F1eedom OF Sbeech"

ing us as yellow socialists, then COM
ing here to use our radio, some damn
nerve, let me tell YOU
Garlin: did not talk on WFVD
thru subterfuge or MISREPRESENTATION
did I? 1 YVES the guest of the aRebel
Poets" and Reich, here, its director,
asked me to talk about Dave Gordon
Gerber: It's Just like you Com
munists, attacking US. and then
Garlin: Well, that's all right. We
attack the New York Times. don't
We? And we'd never turn dowr
front-page publicity in The Times. i
realize that Che socialist party. especi-
ally since the recent convention. has
more in common with The Times thar
we have. But the socialists have
never, I'm sure, turned down a
chance to get space in that paper.
Gerber: That's just it; the New
York Tines doesn't attack US in news
stories; it may IN editorials.
Garlin: Isn't that precisely what You
cid tonight? You let me talk. not
because Of any abstract love of free
speech, as YOU professed in your re-
marks to the radio audience after I
had concluded, but because YOU want
ed to show how virtuous you were
and how terribly bad we Communists
are.
Gerber: Would you let socialist
talk on your radio station, if you
Communists owned one?
Garlin: Well, we would no more
think of providing q forum for a soci-
alist, or j. Robert O'Brien, than we
would for any other enemy of the
working class. On the other hand.
it J. can use the facilities of station
WEVD for Communist propaganda,
why, Pm tickled to death to do so.
Gerber: That shows what kind of
ethics Communists practice. l could
have prevented you from talking to-
night, but since thru some nisunder-
standing on the part of someone else
connected with the station you were
announced, we decided to 60 thru
with it. could have stopped you,
couldn't I?
Garlin: l suppose you could But
you probably felt that you could come
eff better by letting me talk and
then boasting of your impartiality
before your middle-class audience
than by giving US a good chance to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
WHO ENJOYS
ART UNDER
BOSS RULE?

HINDER capitalism, talent is looked
upon as the private property of
its immediate possessor, and is re-
garded as means of enrichment. In
capitalist society, the product Of tai
ented activity is commodity which
can be sold for one price or another,
and thus becomes the possession Of
the person with the longest purse
A work of genius, a thing with in
finite social significance, and one
whose essential nature is that of
collective creation, can be purchased
by Russian named Kolupayeff or
by an American named Morgan, and
the buyer is then entitled to change
it or destroy it as fancy dictates.
If Tretyakoff, the famous Moscow
merchant, had one fine day made up
his mind to burn down his picture
gallery instead of presenting it to the
town of Moscow, there was no law
in capitalist society by which he
could have been called to account.
AS result of the private purchase
and sale of works of art, rare books,
manuscripts, etc., many of them are
rendered inaccessible to the broad
masses of the people, and these rari-
ties become the exclusive possessions
of members of the exploiting class.
The Soviet Republic has declared all
works Of art, collections, ETC., to be
social property, and it removes
every obstacle to their social utiliza-
ton. The same purpose is served bv
The DEGREES aiming at the withdrawal
from private ownership of great lib
raries, so that these also have be-
come social property. The Commun-
ist Party must see to it that the state
authority continues to advance along
such lines. Furthermore, in the in
terests of enlightenment, and in order
to secure for the widest possible
number of persons the opportunity
of visiting the theatre, all the the
aires have been nationalized, and
thus in an indirect way there has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-28
VITAL BOOKS ON US. S. R.
'Ulnstruted History ofRevolutiou Ready

ZEN years Of the establishment of
the Soviet government, and the
progress made in it's various depart
ments, are reported in the first vol
ume of the illustrated History of
the Russian Revolution ($2.50),
published by International Publishers,
381 Fourth Avenue, New York, on
April 25.
Hundreds of photographs of per-
sonalities and events, most of which
have never been published before,
are distributed throughout the book.
The background of the 1917 Revolu-
ton, beginning with the March Rev
olution, through the Kerensky period,
to the establishment of the Soviets
in November, 1917, is given in inter
esting accounts which are also pro-
fusely- Illustrated. The story Of the
Constituent Assembly, the flA,t for
peace, the period of Military Com
munisn, the Civil War, and the intro
duction of the New Economic Policy
by Lenin, are all related in the rem
iniscences Of those who took an active
part in establishment Of the Soviet
State. The book is altogether an I'M
usual souvenir volume, quarto in size,
containing much material hitherto
unpublished. Many prominent Rus
sian leaders elaborated in the pre-
paration Of this volume.
THE protection accorded to Russian
workers employed in industry and
trade is described in Labor Protec-
ton in Soviet Russia" by DR.. Geo.
M. Price, just issued by International.
DR.. Price, author of several stand
ard books dealing with factory sani-
tation and industrial hygiene, and at
present head of the Board of Scientific
Control of the garment industry, paid
a visit to Soviet Russia and conducted
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write some lively stories about your
backing down on the thing.
Gerber: Yes. that's what you guys
think. You think that we We got
nothing but bunch of morons listen
| ing in en- our programs. with con-
siderable heath: Fact is. some damn
nice people are connected with the
station. Lots of them have contrib
uted money to the thing. But you
Communists have been responsible for
keeping hundreds of worlers-iust on
the fence, neither Communists nor
socialists-from contributing cash.
Garlin: Well, 1 think that's a good
thing.
Gerber: (Infuriated) You've got a
helluva nerve coming here.
Why what's the matter with
Roger Baldwin? He's on our board
of directors. And that whole damn
Garland Fund, influenced by the Com
munists, voted to man not to give
support to station WEVD.
GarIin: (Surprised) Is that so?
Why, isn't Baldwin a member of the
Garland Fund; chairman, isn't he?
And did he vote against giving you
fellows rtney?
Gerber: Eli? yes, he voted with the
rest.
Garlin: Well, Baldwin is sure ad-
vancing.
Gerber: I'll be damned if can keep
up with your kind of stupid logic.
How about those notes, we need them
for the record.
Garlin: I don't think I'll give them
to you. I don't trust you I don't
know what you might transform them
into Your friend, Eddie Levinson of
the New Leader" I understand, fol-
lows reporters Of the capitalist press
around town with lowdowns on Com
munists who refrained from register
ing for the draft in the last war -.
Gerber: (sneeringly) Be sure and
write story about this in your dirty
sheet. And send me a copy.
CURTAIN
(P. S.--This is the story. The con-
versation reported above is substanti-
ally accurate in every Details. c.
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been achieved the specialization Of
dramatic, musical, and vocal art.
By degrees, therefore, all the
workers of science and art-which
were created in the first instance by
the exploitation of the toiling masses,
we're a burden upon their backs, were
7roduced at their. cost-have now
been restored to the real owners.
(From "Thc A.B.C. of Commun-
ism" Workers Library Publishers,
Ne1O York;
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Laying the Cornerstone
fyIFs,3ZS} 81
RlRIi4!.. y ..

participated. He was a powerful
pioneer who helped to educate thou
sands of workers to realization Of
their interests as a class in capitalist
society. He was the expression Of
proletarian revolt during the period
of expanding American industrialism.
For that reason his usefulness was
limited, when American capitalism
developed still further into its pres
ent imperialist stage, and he failed
to adapt himself to the fundamental
change which had taken place. His
erroneous views of the efficacy Of
the ballot, on dual unionism, and on
the socialist party, are expressions
of Debs' theoretical shortcomings.
Ruthenberg, on the other hand, was
the expression of the American revo-
lutionary and labor movement, in the
period of transition from industrial
ism to Imperialism. AS Lovestone
puts it in his Introduction, he "fol-
lowed the most consistent and logical
line of revolutionary development
throughout his participation in the
revolutionary movement" The pas
sages in the book on the Ballot Box.
Reformism, Election Campaigns, the
Labor Party, the United Front, I'M
perialist Wars, the national and in
'ternational political and economic sit
uations, all these indicate the line of
this development.
Ruthenberg's chief contribution.
with which he is most closely iden-
titled, is embodied in the slogan on
his lips when he died, "Build the
Party" His interchangeable emphasis
on this central aim is expressed in a
number of articles on the role and
aims of the Communist Party.
The book is a necessary part of
that substantial library of 100 per
cent American-Communist literature.
which we all need and which we are
expectantly looking forward to.