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ReMards" of
Genius Under
Capitalism
By HENBY.

YOU can't socialize geniuses or in
ventors."
This is one of the pet arguments
Of the individualists against the pos
sibility of a Communist state of So
ciety. They cling to the idea that the
creation of work of art, and the in
vention of new wonders in the realm
of science and mechanics, come full
formed from the brains of certain
god-like men and women.
Communists cannot change that"
say the defenders of the status quo;
and they feel confident they have
settled the matter.
So it is always interesting to note
proofs that, even in our present cap
italist state, inventions are actually
communal things, and that most of
our world-famous inventors have
gained their great regulations not
from their own achievements alone,
but from having credited to them the
discoveries of countless unknown
workers, great and small.
For instance, a few weeks ago a
New York newspaper printed story
in which it named Thomas A. Edison
as the inventor of the stock ticker.
Immediately they received two letters
of protest. One claimed that the tick
er had been invented by man named
Scott. The other claimed that the
ticker had been invented by one, Cal
laghan. The truth is that Callaghan
first patented the stock ticker, and
later Scott patented some improve
ments on it. Then about dozen
years later Edison came forth with
ticker which infringed on the for
mer patents, and he was sued by
Callaghan and had to pay large dam
ages. But he bided his time, and
when the Callaghan patent expired,
he slipped in with his own improve
ments and gained control of the pat
ent rights-and, that is more import
ant, control Of the market.
And like every other worker the
inventor in our present order is given
a minimum wage while he IL in his
prime, and is discarded in his old age.
The benefits of his genius go to man.
kind and the profits to the capitalists
who own his patents. Under Com
munism not only would society bene-
fit by the inventors labors, but r.
would get all the benefit and not
what the exploiters found it
profitable to give. Incidentally, the
inventor himself would be provided
for along with his other fellow work
ers.
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MEMOIRS OF HAYWOOD
Autobiography To Be Published Soon

Pettibone case, in which he, together
with the other officers of the West
ern Federation Of Miners, were
charged with the killing of Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho, of which they
were acquitted, his left wing fight
against the officials of the socialist
party in 1912, which led to his ex-
pulsion from the National Executive
Committee and later from the party,
his activities in the l. w. W., the posi-
ton he and his organization took dur
ing the war, the trial of the more
than 100 members of the l. w. W.,
his conviction and his joining of the
Communist Party, his life in exile in
Soviet Russia during the past seven
years-all these stages in his life and
activities in the American labor move
ment are intimately described in this
book.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
MAXIM CORK WRITES
TO ROMAN ROLAND

literature among the peoples of the
Caucasus, among the Circasians and
Osetins as well as among the Tartars
of Kazan. Yes, beautiful literature
flourishes and is developing today in
the Soviet Union. l am enthusiastic
about it, and regret that Europe pays
so little attention to this great liter
airy movement and takes no interest
in these creative forces; it is more in
clined to seek for sins, to show en-
nifty, not knowing and not wishing to
know the good which is there.
It's possible Il recognize it my
self that the good does not yet exist
as extensively as we should like to
see it; but one must not forget that
Russia is a country of 150,000,000
people, that only ten years have
passed since the Russian people sud-
denly began to live a cultural life
and began to grasp the idea of Gull
ture. There are already in the Sow
let Union villages which have only
lao inhabitants and subscribe to 80
publications. Newspapers, magazines,
pamphlets and scientific publications
are issued in thousands of copies.
am convinced that the hundreds
of writers in prose and verse who
are now functioning in the literary
field will within five or ten years be-
come brilliant stylists.
M. CORK.
P. S.-The Letter of Russian
Writer'S" which has created such
furore in the foreign press, has been
|repudiated by the trade union Of Rus
sian writer's. In the ranks of this
organization are all the writers of
all the nationalities in the Soviet
Union. With the exception of my
self, there is not in Russia, as far as
I know, a single writer who is not a
member of this trade union.
M. G.
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AmhSemltiSm
and the World
PYOIetaYiQt

ONE of the worst forms of national
" ennity is antisemitism, that is TO
saw. racial hostility towards the Jews,
who belong to the Semitic stock (of
which the Arabs form another great
branch). The Czarist autocracy raised
the hunt against the Jews in the hope
of averting the workers and peasants
revolution. "You are poor because the
Jews fleece you" said the members Of
the Black Hundreds; and they endea-
vored to direct the discomfort OF the
oppressed workers and peasants away
from the landlords and the bourgeolsle
and to turn it against the whole jew
ish nation. Among the Jews, as
among the other nationalities, there
are different classes. 1t is only the
bourgeois strata Of the Jewish race
which exploit the people, and these
bourgeois strata plumber IN common
with the capitalists of other nation
alities. In the outlying regions OF
Czarist Russia, where the Jews were
allowed to reside, the Jewish workers
and artisans lived in terrible poverty
and degradation, so that their condi-
tion was even worse than that Of the
ordinary workers in other parts Of
Russia.
The Russian bourgeoisie raised the
hunt against the Jews, not only IN
the hope Of diverting the anger of the
exploited workers, but also in the hope
of freeing themselves from competit~
ors in commerce and industry.
Of late years, anti-Jewish feeling
has increased among the bourgeois
classes of nearly all countries. The
bourgeoisie in other countries besides
Russia can take example from Mich
olas II. in the attempt to inflame
anti-Jewish feeling, not only in order
to get rid of rival exploiters, but also
in order to break the force of the
revolutionary movement. Until re-
Gently, very little was heard of anti
semitism in Germany, Great Britain,
and the United States. Today, even
British ministers of state sometimes
deliver antisemitic orations. This is
an infallible sign that the bourgeois
system in the west is on the eve Of
collapse, and that the bourgeoisie
is endeavoring to ward off the work
ers' revolution by throwing Rothschilds
and Mendelssohns to the workers aa
sops. In Russia, antisemitism was in
allegiance during the March revolu-
ton, but the movement regained
strength as the civil war between the
bourgeoisie and the proletariat grew
fiercer; and the attacks on the Jews
became more and more bitter in pro-
portion as the attempts of the bour-
geoisie to recapture power proved
fruitless.
From A. B. c. of Communism.
Workers Library.)
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Sorrento, January 20, 1928.
, Dear Friend:

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS,
4 who are preparing for publication
in June the memoirs of William d.
Haywood, who died last week, were
informed by their Moscow representa-
tive that the remaining chapters of
his manuscript had been dispatched
to New York.
The book, upon which Haywood has
been working during the recent years,
is photographed. Starting with a
description of his boyhood days in
Utah, he tells the story of his ap-
premiership to a farmer at the age
of eleven and his going to work in
a mine at fifteen, when he Joined the
miners union, Of which he was des-
tined later to become the leader.
The struggles in the western
states, the famous Meyer Haywood
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

the American propaganda machine
visiting the trenches and lecturing in
America.
Amundsen deals at length with the
flight of the dirigible Norge" and
the attempt of Mussolini and Mobile
to turn it into propaganda scheme
for fascism. To get the full impu-
dence of the fascist braggart Mobile
one must read the account in detail
at is now clear" says Amundsen
chat their offer was a deliberate eff
fort on the part of their government
to gain for the present Italian poll
teal regime worldwide adj
vertisement." In every way Mobile
showed him that he had modelled
himself on the arch-bully Mussolini
Tremendous in words, Mobile proved
himr + useless in action. Three
times he nearly wrecked the ship over
the Polar ice and only the interven-
ton of the Norwegian pilot saved
them. Meek as a lamb while there
was danger, Mobile became a lion
when the trip was all over and car
ried out his instructions of appropri-
ating the glory for fascism. In Sc
attic after the success of the flight
Amundsen says "The Italian consul
had evidently received instructions
from the Italian government to do
everything possible to make Mobiles
return a triumph, In this task his
efforts were ably seconded by the
local Italian fascist They had
succeeded in creating the impression
before our arrival that the flight was
largely an Italian undertaking and
that Mobile was, with us, chief ir
command of it." For the Italian me-
chanics who helped man the dirigible
Amundsen has nothing but praise.
The Norge" expedition marks the
close of Amundsen's career. The dis
coverer of the Northwest Passage.
discoverer of the South Pole, leader
of a flight from Europe to Alaska
over the North Pole, and collector
of wealth of scientific material,
Amundsen is unquestionably the
greatest living Arctic explorer, and
the most successful of all.
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Reader Praises
Burck's Cartoons
To Feature Editor:

To Feature Editor:
AS a reader Of The DAILY WORK
Err, was very glad to see that A. B.
Magil accorded Fred Ellis the recog-
milton which his splendid work de-
serves. / believe, however, he was
not quite just to the work of Jacob
Burck, who has contributed a num-
Der of excellent cartoons to the 1928
book.
Burck's cartoon on the st. Francis
dam break was one of the best that
the paper has ever run, believe, both
for political content and drawing.
Fraternally yours,
JOHN HAMBURG.
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to permit strike meetings in COM
pany-owned towns are "tyrants," ac-
cording to Hays. Massachusetts
judges, university presidents and
millionaire governors who sanction
the murder of two foreign-born work
ers are "intolerant."
Does it seem surprising, then, to
learn that Hays actually approached
number Of Pennsylvania business
men and lawyers pensioners Of the
former) with the proposal to form a
branch of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union in order to fight for "free
speech for the terrorized coal min
ers?
I suggest to Mr.. Hays that he turn
to Page 316 of his own book and read
carefully the following paragraph:
"SaccO and Vanzetti were real-
lists. They were not deIuded. To
most of us, the trial was a farce;
the result an atrociOus miscarriage
of justice. To them, it was logi-
cal outcome. They were victims in
class war;. 3"
= II am New York attorney. My
business chiefly centers in corporate
and commercial matters" page 1907
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
4 Craftsman
IN Fiction of
Nice Details
THE CLOSED GARDEN. By Julian
Green. Harpers. $3.50.
Reviewed by EDWIN RoLFE.

Reviewed by EDWIN ROLFE.
in this, his second novel published
within year, Julian Green defin-
itely proves herself to be a master
literary craftsman. Written with a
tireless realism that takes in the
most infinitesinal details, the minu-
tiae of it's characters lives, the book
attains in it's Wilderness a certain
power and dignity which places it
above the literarious n1iscarriages
which are continually flooding the
book market. Its style is straightfor-
ward and sustained, it's story simple
and complete. The author limits him
self to a definite narrative, and ex-
ploits the characters and situation of
that narrative to their utmost. He
affects no pseudo-esthetic poses; he
INDUCES in none of the petty meth
DDS of so-called modern sophisticates.
When the story ends, he does not
continue and embellish it in a weak
diminuendo. The bottle filled, he sem
sibly corks it, and leaves it complete.
The story concerns itself with the
depletion of the decay of an ordinary
bourgeois family in little town in
France. Adrienne Meseurat grows up
under the tyrannical surveillance of
an invalid spinster sister and a re-
tired self-satisfied father, who frus-
trate her attempts to make contacts
with the people around her. Until
her eighteenth year she bears the
burden of an inhuman solitude, that
finds its only expression in morbidity.
Then she falls in love with man
more than twice her age, whom she
glimpses from distance in the street
one day. Not knowing him, she sus-
tains this irrational attraction with
a thousand illusions. Discovering
this, her father makes her a prisoner
in the house. The elimination of this
comes when she accidentally kills her
father. Then, when she confesses her
love to the man and is told that it is
not reciprocated, she becomes COM
pletely mad
There is only one fault to be found
in "The Closed Garden" The char.
acters live in world completely their
own, unaffected and undetermined
even to the slightest degree by any,
thing at all except their own limita-
tons. This, actually, is an impos-
sibility. But the treatment of this
limited sphere is so excellent that the
author may be forgiven for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Propaganda For Schools
Federated Press)

Responding to hundreds of de-
mands from Schools" Standard Oil
has obligingly put the "facts of the
oil industry" into booklet which re-
Trains, however, from using oil as a
title. Petroleum" is mailed free for
use in schools, following the example
of National Electric Light Assn,
which sees to it that pupils have de-
sirable information on the power trust
and it's activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

LET FREEDOM RING. By Arthur
Garfield Hays. Boni & Liveright.
$3.50.
Reviewed by SENDER GARLIN.
INDIGNATION bOils my blood"
writes Hays, "at the thought of
the heritage we are throwing away;
at the thought that, with few ex-
ceptiOns, the fight for freedom is
left to the poor, forlorn and de-
fenseless, and to the few radicals
and revolutionaries who would
make use of liberty to destroy,
rather than to maintain, American
institutions"
The author of this book with it's
ironic title is a busy New York law
yer.* He files briefs for influential
corporations, supervises the writing
of last wills and testaments for aged
and wealthy clients, and negotiates
the transfer Of valuable real estate
in various parts of Manhattan Island.
He is quick-witted, fluent and per-
suasive. Also, he gets lots of pub
licity in the newspapers.
Let Freedom Ring" narrates some
half dozen cases with which Hays
happened to be connected between the
years 1922 and 1927. They include
the notorious Scopes Evolution trial
where w. ]. Bryan crooned his great
faith in obscurantism, made his heav-
emily valedictory and died several days
later; the murder trial of DR.. Ossian
H. Sweet, Negro physician of Detroit,
who shot in self defense following an
attack on his home by gang of Nor
die rowdies who objected to his NOV
ing into an exclusive" neighborhood;
the suppression of the play, "The
Captive" and the attempt to ban The
American Mercury in Boston.
Intense and dramatic are the chap
tiers dealing with the activities of the
coal and iron police in the coal re-
gions in Pennsylvania and the elev-
enth-hour attempts to save Sacco and
Vanzetti from the electric chair.
nays nalVely divides the world into
two classes: "tyrants" and '1overs of
liberty" He quotes copiously from
the Declaration Of independence and
the Bill of Rights, and ringing words
from the dissenting judicial opinions
of Justices Holmes and Brandeis.
The authors chief argument is
based upon the theory that "those in
power have SO little faith in our in
situations that they fear that Amer
leans would be corrupted by radical
propaganda to a point where they
would rush to overthrow their insti-
tutions."
Hays likes the capitalist system.
He complains ruefully that radicals
would make use of liberty to destroy
American institutions" OF the ex-
istence of fundamental class rela-
ton Hays seems not to have the
slightest suspicion, however. Coal
operators in Pennsylvania who refuse
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

YOU can't socialize geniuses or in
yentors."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
AND OTHER
CHARMING ILLUSIONS.

LET FREEDOM RING. By Arthur
Garfield Hays. Boni & Liveright.
$3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Reviewed by N. SPARKS

Reviewed Dy IN. OG AhhO
DOALD AMUNDSEN is the last Of
IL the true Arctic explorers, the hon.
ored list headed by the names OF
Henry Hudson, Sir John Franklin and
the other seekers of the Northwest
Passage, down to DR.. hansen
Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen him.
self and the conquest of the North
and South Poles. The Arctic explor-
ers have been a peculiar race. Neces-
sarily they were nearly all naval Of
ficers and fairly jingoistic, and their
expeditions bore to certaint extent
militaristic stamp. For the most
part, however, they were true scien-
fists, deep students Of the technique
of travel over Arctic ice, and physic-
ally perfect specimens, ready to en-
dure incredible hardships for the sake
of science and whatever honor they
could get. Air travel, however, and
the general decadence of capitalism.
have put an end to the line. In place
of hansen, Amundsen and Scott, the
heroes" of the present expeditions
are the upstart Byrd, a naval aviator
who knows nothing whatever about
the Arctic, and the fascist monkey
on-a-stick Mobile who knows still
less. Expeditions by such as these
represent little more than great adj
vertising schemes for their respective
military machines.
The present book seems to have
been written by Amundsen chiefly
with an eye to vindicating himself
before the American public after his
recent troubles, financial and other
wise. Here he tells how he came to
be an explorer, describes his appren-
tice trip to the Antarctic where he
served with DR.. Cook, and tells how
he finally realized the dream of CEN
turies (emptied by now of any econ
omic utility of discovering and
navigating the Northwest Passage
There is a short account of the dash
to the South Pole, of the airplane
flight with Ellsworth, and an ex-
tended ventilation of the difficulties
with Mobile on the dirigible flight
over the North Pole.
Amundsen takes the time to ex-
ploGe the myth of the Sportsman
ship" of the British ruling class. He
recounts how the prize of 100000
offered by the British Government
for the discovery Of the Northwest
Passage was divided between two
Englishmen, neither of whom had ac-
tually been thru it, and how Lord
Curzon (the author of the famous
ultimatum to Soviet Russia) publicly
sneered at his discovery of the South
Pole at a banquet in London.
The uninhabited wastes of the
North and South Poles support no
people that can be exploited, nor do
they contain any known natural re-
sources. Nor was Amundsen a naval
officer, and none of his expeditions
were sponsored by any navy or gov
eminent. AS consequence he had
a constant terrific struggle to finance
his expeditions, and had steady uphill
going, except during the war when
for time he became shipowner and
sat content to exploit the danger of
others, and then in 1917-1S when he
allowed himself to become a tool Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
UNCONSCIOUS 4 MONTHS.

CLEVELAND, May 25.-Helen
Puschmann, 10, sophomore at Lake
Erie College, gainesville, has been I'M
conscious for more than four months
as a result of injuries sustained when
struck by bus last January. Food is
being administered in liquid form.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
GREAT ARCTIC EXPLORER
Road AmumdSem Debates Some ByQggarts

RoALD AMUNDSEN; My Life AS
An Explorer. Doubleday, Doran &
Co. $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13

rich Indian merchant. who later be-
came her protector.
This man was set upon and murder
ed. and the girls beauty harmed by
slaShes in the face British officers who
were passing prevented her being kid
mapped as planned. beating Off the as
sassins with golf clubs. Murntaz re-
covered. her looks not SO greatly narred
after ALL married, and is now divorced.
With a burst of courage, l asked the
soft-voiced Maharani If she had known
the story before her marriage. For
answer, she merely nodded, and with
the gesture that now seemed character
istic she put out her hand and covered
her husbands with it. No words were
needed to tell that Nancy Ann Miller
could believe no i'll of her bride
groom.
BY the way. they speak always in
English. The Maharajah has little
French, his bride but smattering Of
Hindustani. although she is digging
away at it and is determined to learn.
she will learn it." smiled Nancy
AIMS husband confidently, IF she
makes up her mind to-
(Final article; Palace as Home of
Seattle Princess.)
Copyright, 1929 by North American News
paper Alliance.
-
A racing greyhound was recently sold
in Kent. England. for $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13
SEATTLE GIRL DEFENDS HER
MARRIAGE TO HINDU PRINCE
Former Maharajah of Indore Not Man
of Mystery, Says His Amer
lean Bride.

! Gangapur and Barwaha It seemed
almost as If the people sensed it. They
were so sweet to me. yet couldn't
even say word to them All could
do was smile
There were $4,000 persons at the
public ceremonies. They were under
marquee, big silk tent without
sides to IT, just canopy When the
marriage rites were over and we were
leaving people stopped and kissed his
highness' garments and hands. begging
him not to so. They love him. 1t
touched me more deeply than l can
explain. They implored lis to come
back
Does that look Nancy Ann added,
"aS though he were man exiled by
the viii of his people?"
She stopped and looked timidly at
her husband, as If to ask. Am say
ing too much?"
spoke. / got the flash that they we're
completely happy together To her
he Is a power and tenderness. To him
she is purity, submission, goodness-all
that man who lived longer and hard
er than his 81 years would indicate to
us of the West would want in a wife.
Has Son of Twenty.
remarked on the youthful appear
snce of the Maharajah. how had sup
posed him middle-aged. portly, and
with compromised waistline.
Fat and sensual-looking. he added,
with almost schoolboy grin We'll,
my son is 20, so l can't claim to be a
youth, exactly"
Nevertheless, cut in her highness,
'he is boy in everything but years.
with all boys enthusiasnls and ideals
I assure you!'
The Maharajahs son. Yeshuant, child
of the first Maharani. who, SO the story
goes, ran away leaving the boy behind
her. was divorced by Tokaji Rao. and
has since married again, is still at
Oxford from which his father was
graduated and Will ultimately rule
Indore.
AS every one remembers, Tokaji Rao
was forced to abdicate following what
is generally referred to as 1.-The Mumtaz
Begun AFFAIR." scandal concerning
Tokaji's favorite dancing girl and a