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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-12
Mission School Given
Commercial Credits

MISSION, July 12.-Notification
has been received here by school
authorities that the Mission high
school commercial department has
been accorded full affiliation by the
state department Of education.
This department was organized
last year, courses in Bookkeeping,
shorthand and typewriting being Of
fered for the first time.
c. ]. Munroe has charge Of the de-
partment.
Supt. Sid Hardin received the
notification recently.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-12
NIECE I'LL

SAN BENITO. July IA tele-
gram was received here Wednesday
stating that Miss CAROLYN Whitney
niece Of Miss Mary Cowgirl and OF
G. n. and Paul Cowgirl CT this city,
Is seriously i'll in a hospital in st,
Louis.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-12
PROUD SPINSTER DEAD

BRIGHTON, Eng. - Miss Jane
Dryer. who when 100 said she was
proud Of the fact she was unmarried,
died at 104.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-12
Vacation Suggestions

Would you enjoy some real Colorado
elimate7 Then spend your vacation AZ
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Mountains.
Do you like to fish? You'll find plen-
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Del Rio.
For golf, fishing and real recreation
try the hill country around Bandera'
Fredericksburg and Comfort.
or II you like to motor. start from
San Antonio, west to Sabinal to Frio
Canyon, to Uvalde. where there j. ex-
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Then continue down through the Winter
Garden to Laredo where you can cross
the International stream for a bit q
old-world atmosphere. Then north TO
Cotulla, through Pearsall to Medina
Lake for swimming, boating and fishing.
Then there's another wonderful motor
trip from San Antonio to Gonzales.
Cuero. Victoria and other Guadalupe
River points with Corpus Christi as the
objective for fishing, surf bathing and
genuine vacation enjoyment.
or still another trip can be routed
down through the Rio Grande Valley
with an opportunity for white wing
hunting and a fishing trip to Point Isa-
bel
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03

glass rhythms and sounds against any
intrusion of sharp emotion or idea. |
suppose that this qualities him for
the Job. He is refined and Sensitive"
if nothing else.
FITTING my own sharply dissenting
taste against his, I'll begin by
saying categorically that of the
fifteen poets included in Conrad
AilSens anthology, there are just
three of the first Importance: Emily
Dickinson Tin a small, intense way),
Edwin Arlington Robinson and 7. S.
Eliot. Dickinson has been dead many
years and doesn't belong in such
collection any more (less rather than
Whitman does Leaving just two.
Four other poets may be mentioned
as possessing genuine though highly
limited or uncertain talents; Robert
Frost. H. D., Edna St. Vincent Millay
and Maxwell Bodenheim. The others
Anna Hampstead Branch, Amy
Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, Alfred
Kreymborg, Wallace Stevens, William
Carlos Williams, John Gould Fletcher,
Conrad Aiken--are practically worth
less. Incidentally, three vastly sig
nificant poets--Carl Sandburg (the
only outstanding American poet who
has come close to the aspirations Of
the revolutionary working class,
Robinson LETTERS and E. E. Cummings
are entirely absent.
|
Modern American Poets does not
even reflect the interests and sympa-
thies of bourgeois democrat, but
rather of a feudal aristocrat. 1t is
characteristic Of certain contemporary
writer's, particularly the intellectual
list" group, represented in France by
Paul Valery and in England and
America by T. S. Eliot, that their re-
bellion against the dominant theology
of bourgeois society takes the form
of reaction, nostalgia for the ideals
tof the prebourgeois past and an at
tempt to rehabilitate the aristocratic
feudal view of art. But the trouble
lis that this nostalgia lacks faith and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENT
A Poetical Mopgue NesO Novel Written by Sam Omirz

naivete; it is withered by an intelli-
gence too acutely aware of the futility
of all efforts at escape, and is petri-
fled into a nihilistic gesture that be-
comes at times merely $ ark acid
whimper. And so we have T. s, Eliot,
the most profound, the most eloquent
poet of ois-intellectualist, aris-
tocratic-sentimental defeatism. This
defeatism is not a mere postwar phen-
omenon. 1t is an organic, even pro-
phetie expression Of the present stage
of capitalist civilization, the stage of
temporary sterilization rooted in de-
cay.
Returning to Aiken's anthology:
the case for American poetry may be
bad, but it is not quite as bad as he
would make out. Our poetry is not
always the at times lovely, the at times
intricate zero that it appears to be in
Aiken's mind. And even in this very
feeble, very "arty" collection there
are poems with the flesh Of humanity
on them. Of course, the class strug-
gle has been rigidly excluded. 1t
would be too much to expect our bour-
geois supercritics Of the arts to even
acknowledge that such thing as the
class struggle vitality exists or that a
strike is at least as important as a
few of their mildewy sanctities.
Poems like William Ellery Leonard's
"The Lynching Bee" Arturo Giovan-
nitti's "When the Cock Crows" writ
ten on the hanging of Frank Little
one of the really great poems that
have come out of America-or Mike
Colds "a Strange Funeral at Brad
dock" never find their way into the
ordinary anthologies.
"A. B. MAGIL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
Moynpons Help God" Keep
Negroes out of "Heaven

used to put it: II am neutralw
Well, Satan ost,-thenceforth to
be known as 1.-THE Devil" God won.
by the good help of the white folks,
no doubt. Therefore the Negro can
not become a real saint; he is still
somewhat neutral" He cannot enter
the Temple and he cannot go to
heaven. Yes, only one Negro has
been known to get into Heaven in the
history of creation, and he was the
Body Servant" of Brigham Young,
the organizer of Mormonism.
You see, this Negro was a good
servant and Brigham Young, like
all good white folks" was some
what partial to "his Negro" and in
fluenced God to let him in. This, Of
course, demonstrates the great in
fluence which Brigham had with
Jehovah.
From all reports this Mormon re-
ligion is very Convenient" affair
II you are member, in goods and
ing, paid up, you can do just about as
you dern please without losing your
sainthood.
One of the original principles of
Mormonism was that man could
have as many wives as he could sup
port,-or rather as many as were
needed to support him. That must
have been an inducement to persuade
men. to come out and people this de-
sert. Only some extraordinary in
ducement could ever have persuaded
them to cross the Rockies and settle
in these salts ard wastes.
And yet Joseph Smith, the original
prophet" Of Mormonism, said: This
is the only true religion.
THAT'S what they all say"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
A Ne1V American Epic

A YANKEE PASSIONAL. By Sam
uel Ornitz. Boni & Liveright. $3.50.
TO the rank of Theodore Dresser,
Upton Sinclair, Eugene O'Neill
and Sherwood Anderson new name
at last can be added, Samuel Ornitz,
author of "a Yankee Pasaional."
This is stark realistic story, with
an epic sweep. 1t tells how Saint
Daniel Matthews, a Maine Yankee,
was converted to catholicism, strug-
gled with fleshy sin in the form of
a hootchie dancer, conquered his
temptations, served his Lord, Jesus
Christ, as a plainsman priest, min
istering to the diseased and the
friendless, suffered in a score of diff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03

ferent ways, was martyred, dead
and buried.
Never before has such a tale been
told in America 1t is one Of the most
scathing attacks upon catholicism
ever written, yet it is not the book
of a heartless cynic. Ornitz handles
Daniel as tenderly as Name, the
hootchie dancer who would be a Vir-
gin Mary, cradles the child the
scared boy mystic gave her. In addis
ton to indicting catholicism, Ornitz
presents cases against the new Tam
many, the republican-democratic
graft alliance, and the capitalist sys-
tenn in general. He sees these as
mighty forces that twist children
with life-hunger and dreams into
cringing hypocrites, regular" in
religion and politics, cut-throat trad
ers, perverts, and all varieties Of
quacks.
The greater part of "a Yankee
Passional" is laid in the East Side
Of New York City that Ornitz, in
his earlier book, "Haunch, Paunch
and Jowl,' demonstrated he knew so
we'll. 1t is an East Side that has
hardly ever been portrayed in fiction
before saloon back-rooms where the
destinies Of great city are worked
out, brothels, fake museums, room
ing houses and Bowery employment
offices. When the story shifts to
Pittsburgh, an unforgetable picture
of those hell-holes known as steel
mills is given.
The portraits Ornitz drawB remain
in ones memory as if they were
etched there by acid: DR.. Liam
O'Hegerty, Irish patriot, dope-fiend,
and vbneral doctor; Orr Applegate,
extent show fakir who becomes head
of the Health Happiness Publica-
tions and tells millions how to gain
strength and sex appeal; Phil Miller,
the 'boy orator" who reformed
Tammany by making "Silent" Shee-
dy, once keeper Of one Of the city's
worst dives, its leader.
Sometimes Ornitz is too wordy,
too interested in recording all the
mental wanderings of his characters
And when he talks about internations
al politics, outside of the situation in
Ireland, he becomes unconvineing be-
cause he is at heart a pessimist.
But the book as a whole is one of
The most successful attempts at pory
traying the American scene that /
have come across in many years.
WALTER SNOW.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
IN the South
Is Discussed by a Liberal

thing he believes that the bosses are
sincerely trying to uplift the workers
He has swallowed all the propaganda
about their welfare work" and is
enthusiastic about their company
owned villages. In his praise of the
company house he goes to such alb
SUI dities as:
"They have as much light and air
as John D. Rockefeller, Jr. could
buy in New York with a princes
income"
He has no conception of the class
nature Of the relations between en-
ployer and employee. He tells how
the companies have fought unionism
(by buying up governments
churches, newspapers and universe
ties-by blacklisting militant work
ers-by spreading lies about union
organizers and about conditions of
workers in other scctions--by setting
one race against the otherl but he
can draw no other conclusion from
all this than that the employers do
not understand the advantages of
organization.
mo reform is possible until the
complacency (of the bosses) is de-
stroyed. The responsibility for
education in the direction Of inn
provement rests upon those college
trained leaders Of the New South
who know the difference between
philanthropy and justice. An
educational campaign would begin
most logically in expounding the
evils of the ten and eleven hour
day and the eleven and twelve hour
night. Beyond that lies the long
road of education for andrrprac--
tice of responsible collective bar
gaining"
With such piffle the author dis
poses of one of the most vital prob.
lens Of the present day labor
movement. Unless the southern fac.
tory worker is organized the north
ern factory worker is in danger Of
being crushed BY the masters of the
textile industry. The solution of tht
immediate problems of the textile
workers, as of the coal workers, lie.
in the South, in the organization Of
the vast receivers of unorganizeC
labor which capitalism is using tc
destroy the labor movement.
---CY OGDEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
LABOR IN SOUTHERN COTTON
MILLS. New Republic, Inc. Is
cents. By Paul Blanshard.

cotton manufacture is the oldest
of machine industries and one of
the most highly mechanical. The
worker is merely feeder of the ma
~hine and can be replaced with little
difficulty. The cotton bsrons have
utilized this in their attacks on the
standard of living of the workers.
Whenever a generation Of cotton
workers has raised its standard of
living it has been swept aside and
rs place given to cheaper labor In
his way the early American worker
Of the nineteenth century was re-
laced by the Irish immigrant, the
Irish by the French Canadian peas
ont. and the French Canadian by the
elav and the Greek.
The latest move of the textile
barons is the attempt to transfer the
industry from New England where
the workers have become class-con-
scious and have fought bitter strikes
against the employers, to the South
where organized labor has hardly
penetrated and where there is a mower
and cheaper labor to exploit. With
this cheap, nnorganized labor as a
club. the employers intend to smash
the unions Of the northern workers
and to take away from them the
gains they have already made.
In the present study Paul Blan-
shard describes the conditions of the
lispossessed peasants Of the South
ern mountains and the small cotton
farms who form the bulk Of the
Southern factory population. Their
hours of work are the longest and
their wages the lowest Of any large
industry in the country. Many Of
the factories run twentv-four hours
day with only two shifts. Women
as we'll as men are forced to worl
fthe back-brealting twelve hours Of
the night shift-often without ever
being permitted to take time off t.
cat night lunch. Many of the fac.
tories force workers into the night
shift by requiring each family tt
give a quota while others compel
new workers to work at night before
they can get on the day shift. Child
labor is general, laws forbidding chill
dren to work at night are winked at
while an eleven-hour day for children
Of fourteen is quite common.
Wages in the Southern Cotton
Mills are over fifty per cent lower
than in the North. Twelve dollars is
an average weekly wage although
Blanshard mentions instances of girls
working for five dollars a week ant
even less. It is necessary for the
entire family to work in order to get
a living wage and if the children are
still too young for the mills the fam
lily suffers many hardships.
Mixed with these sound observa-
lions Blanshard includes number Of
naive statements such as could only
]. be made by pollyanna liberal Of
the New Republic school. For one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
BY WILLIAM PICKENS

(Field Secretary, Natl. Assn. for the
I Advancement of Colored People,
We have heard a lot of excuses
made by the white brethren" for not
treating the colored brethren" as
EQUALS in their churches, but the ex-
cuse which the Mormons use and
which has just been communicated to
me in Salt Lake City, "takes the
cake"
"Are there any colored members in
the Mormon Church ?" we asked.
Every few" was the reply.
Negroes Not Good Enough.
To find out why, we inquired
further and learned that no Negro,
even tho he be a member, is ever con-
sidered enough Of saint" to be al
lowed to go into "The Temple" the
great semi Gothic structure which is
the head institution and the architec-
tural boast Of the "church."
And why are Negroes thus barred
from full sainthood and entry into
the hottest? Well, this is the cake
taking explanation: There was once
war in heaven, when one Arch
engel, whom Milton calls Satan, got
SO ambitious as to raise rebellion
to try to overthrow God and rule in
his stead. In other words, Satan set
out to raise hell in heaven.
According to the /Mormons, God
must have been pretty hard-pressed,
for he sought volunteers and allies
from every quarter Of the known uni
verse. The white people promptly
sided with God; but the over-cautious
colored brother, while not siding with
Satan, proclaimed, as Bert Williams
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
SPYING IN NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT STORES

vestigate. If she kept the buck with
out turning in receipt, l got de-
lection. Hope that baby's a slick
one. Pm losing my rep with the con
Germ. No matter how many buys
you're told to make, always rush out
to get the crew manager when you
get violation. The jane should have
called me back for my receipt"
We got back to the flivver The
crew manager got the news and he
started out for the store with both of
us at his heels. When we got to the
store he told us to wait at nearby
counter and to be ready to identify
the clerk. After waiting about ten
minutes he came back and told US
that the "jane was careless, that's
all. Gee, but we waste lotta time
on these damfool violations"
He started back for the flivver and
we for another counter. This time
we landed at the perfume department
Ny companion informed me that we
were about to make a Combination
buy" She picked up a bottle priced
at $3.50 and gave the clerk the bot
tie with the even change. While the
package was being wrapped she pick
ed up another bottle and delivered it
to the clerk as soon as the first was
given her. Again we hurried out but
this time we were called back to get
our receipts. The Combination buy"
is considered very tempting bait to
underpaid clerks. Most detections in
department stores are gotten this
way.
After various "buys" of this sort,
with no more violations or any de
tections" (much to the annoyance of
my instructress who had acquired the
real spirit of the company for whom
she was spying), we reported to our
crew manager and went home.
The next day we started out to "do"
the five, ten and twenty-five cent
stores.
We went into Kresges and made a
purchase for quarter. My heart
almost stopped beating when saw
the clerk ring up only five cents, for
| knew then that the system had got
ten another overworked, poorly paid
worker. My instructress rushed out
Of the store to get the crew manager.
He came in shortly after, got togeth-
er with the store manager and they
both went over the cash register re-
ceipts. The clerk had kept the twenty
cents and therefore could not say that
she had made mistake in ringing
up. l was told to go out, at this
point, and l waited outside Of the
store. A half hour later my two fell
low workers came out. The crew
managers remarks were typical.
Hell! What yarn!" said he. "She
tells me she's got kid to. support.
Maxim ten bucks per. What the hell
kin I do?" And that was that.
I gave up Investigating" the next
morning, much to the annoyance of
the woman in charge who said that
she had hoped to send me out on my
own in few days.
Again / picked up the Times and
again noticed an ad which read
WANTED, intelligent young women,
% to 80 yrs, experience unnecessary,
for investigating. $500 to start"
The ad still appears from time to
time. The offer is still $500 and
they still want Intelligent" young
women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
REDUCE TRANS-OCEAN PHONE
RATES.

LONDON, March 2.--Increased
usage. of transatlantic telephone
service was in prospect today follow
ing the reduction of the minimum
charge from SIS to $45. The new
rates go into effect Sunday. Ex-
tension of the time limit for calls I'M
til / a. m. instead of II p. m, was
also announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
SteriIiziug American
Poetry
MODERN AMERICAN POETS. Sell
ected by Conrad Aiken. Modern
Library. sos.

When the Modern Library decided
to issue a popular priced anthology
of the work of the best modern Amer
lean poets, they hunted around Il
suppose) for a qualified anthologist
and finally coralled--Conrad Aiken.
Now Aiken happens to be very
pious literary monk, who has in his
own poetry reared careful stained
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-03
PLAN HOSPITAL
IN Aqua PRIETA
TO START SOON

Within the next few months there
will be opened in Aqua Prieta a h0s-
pital to take care Of the needs of the
poor people who may have the added
misfortune of being sick, according TO
announcement made yesterday by Miss
Evan williams, president of the P. K.
L. club. Miss Williams was speaking
for the club following the completion
of the details which make certain, she
stated, of the carrying out of the am
bition of the club to do this as its
share in a public service work.
According to Miss Williams, the 2.
K. L. club, which has a membership
of 21 and of which the executive Of
ficers are Miss Williams, president, and
Miss Concha Peralta, secretary y-treas-
urer, has been given a tract of land
ample for use as a hospital site at
Fifth street and Eleventh avenue in
Aqua Prieta by one of the members
and it has been given assurance OF
not less than 10000 pesos, or about
$4,000 by the presidente of the town,
Louis Margallan, as the funds to meet
the immediate need in starting build
ing that will be ample for the i'm
mediate needs The club has saved a
fair fund which it raised by its eff
forts in giving dances and in other
enterprises and it proposed to continue
giving public entertainments which 1t
hopes will bring a patronage that will
mean increase of its funds.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-03
SOTO HEAD OF AQUA PRIETA
NCHAMBER- -OFFICERS CHOSEN
7TI' BANQUET ISPLANNED TONIGHT

The results of the balloting for the
annual election of officers for the
Aqua Prieta chamber of commerce
were made known yesterday and at
the same time it was announced that
the new officers and members of the
body will meet this evening at the
Curio cafe in Aqua Prieta for a din
ner and discussion of the work to be
done during the months to come.
Ygnacio Soto was elected president
Of the body A. T. Sammarcelli was
elected vice president; T. de La Cara
was elected secretary, and Fernando
L. Mendoza, treasurer. The board OF
directors as elected are, Y. Pank, P.
Prieto, Fred Girard, R. Breton, j. c..
Durazo, j. w. Tardy and P, Barreda.
1t is the plan of the chamber OF
commerce that the meeting this eve
ming at the Curio may bring together
all Of the members of the chamber
with the new officers for the purpose
of forming complete understanding
and outlining a constructive program
for the year. Reports yesterday were
that every member was planning to at
tend the meeting.