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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
By ELI B. JACOBSON.

The prosperous American bour-
geoisie is like a golein-a huge,
well-stuffed sinewy body but hous-
ing a disproportionally low level of
intelligence. Resting comfortably
on voluminous check book cushions,
it can afford to play about with
Culture" and the soaring things of
the spirit" and the soul" With
regard to things intellectual it is q
sophomore and its Great God Soph-
omore is Eugene O'Neill.
1t is no secret that apart from
its official and public professions of
faith, the god of the bourgeoisie has
always been and is especially now
adays-money. Likewise it is not
secret that the greatest producer of
money is the machine-driven by
electricity, by the dynamo. 1t
would be consequently quite to the
point to say that the real god of
the bourgeoisie is of course the
dynamo. Which is the truth, and
requires little mental exercise to
grasp.
But O'Neill, the Great God Soph-
omore, takes this very sensible
theme and stands it on its head, with
the result that he becomes ludi-
crous, but not Intentionally. No
sophomore ever takes himself ludi-
crously.
Bright Thought.
In fact, O'Neill is struck by a
wonderful idea. Jehovah, Christ
and other such gods we don't wor-
ship any more. Science and what
he contemptuously calls material
ism have dethroned them. Electri-
city has practically displaced them
all. And since man simply must
worship, since man is governed by
"a primitive religious instinct" driv-
ing him on 'to find meaning for
life" and especially Ito comfort"
his clears of DEATH" O'Neill decided
to do something "big" and sat down
anu WIOlS OyudiuS WIZ
which O'Neill admits deals with a
"big subject"
The big subject is of course the
attempt to find the meaning of life
and nothing less. Until that
meaning is discovered all other
subjects are merely "little" and
hardly scratch the Surface of
| things" Sacco and Vanzetti? A
petty ephemeral subject about two
wops. Cold blooded murder of hun
dreds in India. A trifling affair.
Misery, poverty, disease, exploita-
ton, legal robbery, social revolution
-immaterial, transitory subjects as
unreal as the passing wind.
Wants a Soul.
So O'Neill decides to initiate
Andreyev and knock at the gate OF
knowledge-and presumably with
equally lamentable lack of success
/ O'Neill decided that fundamentalism
is all blah- blah. But atheism isn't
all there either. For instance, how
will atheism explain the spirit, the
soul, the longing for beauty, the de-
sire to lie on dewy night-grass and
stare at the enigmatic moon face
And besides, what is this electricity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
WORKERS ARE
MISTREATED IN
CITY HOSPITALS
Food, Treatment Is of
Worst Kind
(By Worker Correspondent

(Bg q Worker Correspondent
recently visited a friend who is
patient in Lincoln Hospital, New
York City.
The above city hospital is located
at 141st st. and Concord Ave. in
the Bronx.
l asked him how they were treat
ing him. Every poorly he
answered, "the patients, who are
poor, are neglected. They should
have some specialists here, but the
city wants to save money. The
wards are overcrowded and un-
sanitary"
The food is poor, and my friend
told me that he could eat little of it,
it was so bad. Ir private hospitals,
patients who can afford to pay high
rates, get the best of treatment, food,
etc. They also get entertainment,
etc. But only workers come here.
l asked my friend if they at least
gave the patients in Lincoln Hospi-
tai some kind of entertainment.
Nothing at ALL" he answered.
"We who are patients in public
hospitals are workers." he said.
when we get sick or are injured,
we are forced to go to public hospi-
tails where we receive the worst
possible treatment"
My friend, who is a union man,
said that the hospital workers are
overworked, have long hours, and
are poorly paid.
The hospital is an old one, and
should be demolished and a modern
one put in its place. When / left
my friend and l took elevator down.
Altho it is supposed to hold 80 peo-
pie, the operator closed the door
when there were eight in it. This
is all it can stand" he said. While
going down, nurse said to him,
IF you took few more on the eleva-
tor we'd all be in the hospital-as
patients"
This is another example Of the
city saving money at the expense of
the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
MINERS HURT IN CAGE CRASH

ROTTERDAM, England, (By
Mail).-O 80 miners narrowly es-
capped death when a pit cage crashed
at Treeton Colliery, to the bottom
of shaft All of the miners were
injured, some critically. Carelessness
Of the company is blamed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19

everybody will get to work and
change our society little. Maybe
little calculus, geometry, pencil
and five sheets of paper in the
hands of the future Einsteins will
without our knowing it, and quite
automatically and "drily" and
"unpoetically," reveal to us life's
secret. Maybe we shall never know
it. Meanwhile there's work to be
done. But O'Neill prefers to play
to be sure, with ideas, to be sure,
with borrowed ideas, but play he
prefers. 1t is much easier.
The third act, though placed in
a most realistic setting, the dynamo
room, transforms the characters of
acts one and two into shadows of
symbols. AS one lady next to me
said: ''This is very deep and great
play. I don't understand it at all"
The actors are superb when
O'Neill gives them chance. Es-
pecially Claudette Colbert as Ada
Fife and Dudley Digges as her
atheist father. They surely do
struggle heroically against the pa
thetic poetry. And they actually
succeed in preventing US from
laughing at their symbolic cutter
ances," which is no mean compli-
ment to them and no fault of
O'Neill's.
Shakespeare would have called the
play much Ado About Nothing"
TIFLIS, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).-
A floating hydro meteorological sta
ton has been established on the
Sevan Lake, Soviet Armenia, where
research work is being carried on
with the participation Of the Acad
envy of Sciences. The station has
! been equipped with instruments
automatically registering the amount
of rainfall, the force of the wind, the
temperature and humidity of the
air and the evaporation Of the water
surface.
This is the first attempt to estab-
fish floating hydro meteorologica
station not only in the U. S. S. R
| but anywhere in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
Eugene O'Nell-GYeQt God
SObhOmOye-Gets Ridiculous

anyhow? What causes it, makes it,
what does it consist of? At least,
his simple-mind hero, RUDE Light,
is greatly worried about it. So wor-
ried, in fact, that he performs all
sorts of antics, kneels before the
dynamo, prays for it, in true An
dreyev fashion, literally begs to it
to deliver up its secret to him, but
the dynamo merely huns and wars
on like the hairy ape and leaves our
Reuben as baffled as ever.
The Temptress.
Meanwhile his sweetheart wishes
to marry him. His flesh aches for
hers. Not only is our hero simple
minded but he is also single tracked
He must have no other interest but
that of probing the secret and mean
ing of life. His sweetheart wakes
quite Mephistophelian and tells the
dynamo that she and not the dynamo
will succeed in having him. And
she is right. So right that our hero
fires three mortal bullets into her
alluring body, to put temptation out
of the way. Then he jumps on to
the dynamo, embraces it, but cat and
snake that it is, the dynamo stings
and kills him. Like the Master
Builder (Ibsen) aiming too high, he
is destroyed.
1t is hard to determine what is
more childish, the theme or the pa
thetic poetry in which it is couched.
Chants and ecclesiastical hocus
pocus are all right in a church. But
to transfer solemnity and awe to
room wherein electricity is gen.
Grated, only deep thinkers" are ca
pable of accomplishing.
Have Other Troubles.
Personally the meaning of life
troubles me very little. There is too
much misery and too many great
things are happening that are far
more interesting and truer. Maybe
life's meaning will be evident when
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
LAY OFF MANY
IN salem MILL;
WAGES ARE CUT
Misleaders Sell Out the
Fighting Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

SALEM, Mass, (By MaiD.-I
read in your paper a lot about the
speed-up and wage cuts in various
textile mills all over the country.
want to tell you something about
the mill where l work. l work in
the Naumkeag Mill of Salem which
produces Pequoid sheets and pillow
eases. The company now employees
2,100 workers. Almost all are or
III zed in the U.T.W. Local SO.
Now the bosses are planning to re-
organize the whole on speed-up and
wage-cut basis. They say they are
not making enough profits so we
must accept big speed-up to give
them more profits. In the last quar-
ter of 1928 they paid out only"
$4,000 IN dividends.
Under the reorganized plan there
will be only 1900 workers. The
other 800 will have to go elsewhere
(where I suppose the same thing
is going on, or starve. Here is how
run II looms will have to run 20
looms. Other weavers now running
Is looms will have to run p looms.
In order to put that over they try
to bride the weavers by giving them
a measly raise which amounts to
nothing considering the pace at
which they will have to go.
Take the car room for instance.
There are now employed Al in the
department getting S16.95 a week.
The plan calls for cutting down the
department to % and will pay S18
a week. In the spool room there
are now working men in each
group getting S2130 a week. There
will be s men in group getting
S22.30 per week. The plan is even
better illustrated in the calendar
room of the bleachery. Men are
employed in this room now and are
getting $3.50 a week. The plan
calls for employing girls at the rate
of SIS week. From this depart
ment alone they plan to fire so
workers.
These are facts, not gossip. They
were part of the proposals to the
union made by ]. Foster Smith, the
agent of the company.
The first local meeting of the
union to consider this rejected it
unanimously. At the second meet
ing business agent John B. O'Con-
nor of the United Textile Workers
began to intinidate the workers by
tellirr them some workers will ac-
cept the cut and will not fight. In
this way he covered up his own re-
fusal to fight. He asked that the
Executive Board be given full pow
ers to act and got what he wanted.
Now, what have they done? The
first thing they did was to call in
an arbitrator from Philadelphia.
They call him a union engineer"
[ believe the real name should be a
''sell out expert" They split up the
workers into departments and are
having meetings with them trying
to break down resistance.
From what | know about the SEN
timent Ct the workers, they don't
want such an inhuman speed-up and
will fight against it.
The same leaders who sold out the
strike in New Bedford will now try
TO sell out the fight in Salem. A
group of us got together and we
are thinking of calling in a real
union into Salem-the National Tex
tile Workers Union. We know they
are good fighters against the bosses
and for the workers. We are sick
and tired of the leadership of the
United Textile Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19

ALBERTA PRINTERS GAIN
CALGARY, Alberta (By MaiD
Commercial shop printers have "
an increase to 81 an hour. The
rate was 90 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19

Kaye is unusually good as the pri-
vate detective who solves the mys-
terry. Other members of the cast
are Frank Fayne and Bertha Bel
more.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

flashes rapidly all the colors Of the
rainbow in succession.
Tho Little Dog Star. Procyon. Is
to tho left Of Sirius and slightly
higher. One cannot fail TO find
this bright star, for 1t forms an
equilateral triangle with Betelgeuse
and Sirius. Above Procyon 10 the
rectangle Of Gemini. the Heavenly
Twins. which contains the twin
stars. Castor and Pollux.
Still higher is the five-sided fig
ure Of Auriga. with the great gel
low star Capalla In its upper left
corner. Capella has the same color
as our sun. but 1t is a larger body
than the sun and would appear fiji
ty times brighter II they were both
at the same distance.
The star in the lower right cor
ner Of Auriga really belongs to
Taurus; it is the tip OF his upper
horn. The head Of the Bull is
marked by a conspicuous v of stars,
with the red Aldebaran as his fiery
eye. Above in his shoulder are the
familiar Pleiades. or Seven Sisters.
OF the fifteen brightest stars in
the heavens one-half are in this
small area OF the sky. 1t is as
though nature had tried to make
amends for the feeble winter sun
by decorating the night skies more
attractively than at any other sea-
son.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
DR.. Caldwell's 3 Rules
Keep You Healthy

DR.. Caldwell! watched the results
Of constipation for ~ years. and be-
lioved that no matter how careful
people are of their health, diet and
exercise, constipation will occur
from time to time regardless OF how
much one tries to avoid it. OF next
Importance. then. is how to treat it
when it comes. DR.. Caldwell al
ways was in favor Of getting as
close to nature as posi- lie, hence
his remedy for constipation, known
as Or. Caldwell's Syrup pepsin. is a
mild vegetable compound. II can
not harm the most delicate system
and is not habit forming prcpara-
ton. Syrup Pepsin is rleasant-tast-
ing, and youngsters love it. It does
not grippe. Thousands Of mothers
have writer us to that effect.
DR.. Caldwell did not approve Of
drastic physics and purgcs. He lid
not believe they were good for hu-
man beings TO put into their sys-
tens. In a practice Of ~ years he
never saw any reason for their use
when n medicine like Syrup Pcpsin
will empty the bowels just as
promptly. more clcanly aid gently.
without gripping and harm to tho
syst en-.
Keep from from constipation! y
robS YOUR strength. hardens your;
arteries and brings on premature old
ago. DO no; let a Gay go by without
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
CLAIMS OVERTIME WORK
AFFECTED HIS REASON
l.. T.. & c. Emrloyc Applies for Com
pcusaton But Commissioner
Rejects Claim.

The compensation claim against
landers Frary &; Clark mI1e by
Joseph pankc"l<i and john J. Smith,
cons"rNator. both of Ncridcn was
dismissed 10y Ccmrls ioner Fred
"rick II. Williams of Waterbury who
lard til" case in the absence of
Commissioner NocnaA. Dank owSki
c'aj,nnd that b rIu,e Of overtime
work in preparing q report on wages
and being ohig d to assist in tle
running a cut in Wages, HI became
worried aud mentally unsounn and
that because of his his condition
VAS cantper atibi,. ol1misSioner
Wiillanls' dismissal vas based on the
grounds that there WAS lack of evil
'!"nce to show that DankoHski's con-
clifton was due to his employment.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
LARGEST PLANE BUILT
INDICATES THEORIES
90 Passenger Cabin ship OF Unusual
Desiga Makes Successful Test
FtshtS

Newark, n. j.. Jan. R-The
largest airplane ever built In this
country. 4 :0-passenger cabin plane
Of unusual construction. today had
indicated the theories OF its 34-year
-old designer.
The plane made four test flights
yesterday. one carrying Is passea-
gers. And after another week of
tests it is planned to fly the ma
chine to Washington and then
across the continent to San Francis
CO.
The designer is Vincent J. Gurgen-
ELI who planned the craft to MIMI
mize the drag of the fuselage. The
body is twelve feet wide and has its
two motors set side by side in the
nose and fully enclosed. The contour
OF the fuselage Is streamlined. as al
so is the wing section. TO convert
the usual drag unit into an airfoil
with considera bl. lifting Qualities.
Construction OF the plane was H.
nanced by Paul W. Chapman, New
York and Chicago financicr. 1t Is
planned to put it in passenger SER
vice as the first OF a fleet Of twenty
or more.
The plane has full! capacity OF
1000 gallons and can rake c,4o0
miles at cruising speed OF lis
miles an hour. 1t has wing span Of
90 feet and Is ~ feet long. 1t is Of
all metal construction.
The cabin interior is luXuriously
furnished, including running water,
kitchen and steward service. There
are twelve upholstered swivel
chairs before the windows and two
center lounges. The walls Of the ca
bin are soundproof to lessen the din
of the exhaust.
On its first flights yesterday, the
plane was operated by Lieut.. Leigh
Wade. one OF the pilots on the Army
round the-world flight OF 1924, who
row Is a test pilot for skylncs,
owners OF the plane.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
Would CUT COST
Of SNOW REMOVAL
CITY viii Ak Connecticut Com
plny to Share Elpsse

Officials OF the Connecticut Co.
will be invited to confer with the
board OF public works at its next
meeting on the proposed plan OF hav-
ing the company share with the city
OF New Britain expenses incurred by
the removal of snow from the streets.
Engineer Philip Merriam announced at
the board meeting last evening that
he had prepared a schedule OF prices
which he will submit at the confer
,nce next Tuesday. He also stated
that he believed that the Connecticut
company realizes that present day
traffic calls for clean streets and he
expected that the company would be
willing to cooperate with the city.
Petitions for street lighs on Spring
street. and at the corner of West Main
street and Corbin avenue we're grant
ed. Permission was given the Bea-
con Oil Co. for transfer Of its gaso-
line station situated at Hartford
avenue.
A petition for a sewer on Corbin
avenue from Somerset drive north
$50 feet was laid over to the next
meeting. A hearing was ordered on
a petition requesting the acceptance
OF Eddy-Glover boulevard from
Pennington avenue TO McClintock
street. Petitions for the removal OF
two dead trees at 265 Elm street
and the acceptance Of Harding street
from Monroe street to Shuttle Mea-
dow avenue, were laid over.
The engineer and chairman we're
given power TO act on petition by
Louis Nair asking for permission to
install an Illuminated sign in front
of his store at ZIG Lafayette street.
\ petition from the New Britain
Real Estate and Title Co, asking
that the grades on Coolidge street,
Harding street and DAILY avenue be
accepted. was laid over. Acting OH
complaints by residents Of Park
street that the conditions in front of
the property at $40 Park street are
intolcrable because Of the dirt that
is washed down on the sidewalks
during storms, the board voted to
write letter TO the owner. order
ing him to keep the walks clear.
The monthly bills were read and
accepted, The 1929 budget will be
discussed at the next meeting or at
comc other time in the near future.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
Lexington Lodge /. 0. 0. F.
Officers to Take Chairs

District Deputy Grand Master
Harry NJ. Chapman and staff will in
stall the officers of Lexington lodge.
]. Q. Q. r., at tho weekly meeting
Thursday evening. The officers are:
Noble grand. William Rickert: vice
grand. Charles Fletcher; recording
secretary. r. E. Croker; treasurer.
w. W. Bullen: trustee for three
years. Claence Bacon. Lunch will be
served after the installation.
Comstock k.ncampment No. %.
Will visit Andree Lodge No. ~. We'd
nesday evening for the purpose of
arouslng interest in Patriarchal Odd
Fellowship and to secure new MEM
bers for Comstock Encampmcnt. The
guest Of the evening will be August
H. Simonson, grand junior warden.
of South Manchester. All patria rchs
arc invited to attend this meeting.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
HOSPITALS FOR Vets
y ror Sic 900. GOA VIII ~ Pushed.
i;rp. Lnrc Says-Hcar;ncs Within
Two Weeks. l'lan Of Hackers.

Washing on, Jan. = R-Rcprr-
sentative Luce. republican. Massa-
clusetts. said yesterday every effort
would be made TO obtain passage Il
this session of the ton million dollar
specialization bill for tho Veterans
Bureau.
Hearings on the bill, which Is a
committee measure introduced X
Luce. proba bly, will be held before
the committee on the World War
veterans legislation within two
weeks. Luce said.
The measure would prov ije for
the construction Of fire proof build
Ings to replace temporary strur-
lures at veterans hospitals and to
establish additional hospitals.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

ct Mars now appears near the tips
OF the horns Of Taurus. IT Is dis
tinguished from the stars by Its
more vivid red color and Its stead
Ter light. Mars is now receding
from the earth and becoming faint
er. but during Janpary it will still
remain one of the brightest objects
in this part OF the sky.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

office and 300 police were unable to
control them. Fighting ensued witt,
casualties on both sides and the
troops were called.
Tho, peasants we're protesting
iect which they claim would fioo'i
hundreds OF acres Of paddy fields.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

Orion which points downward to
Sirius and upward to the V-shaped
head OF Taurus.
The great red star in the corner
Of the rectanyle farthest to the left
il Betelgeuse. 1t is a giant star,
having a diameter OF 250.000,O0o
miles. Yet the most powerful tele-
scope shows 1t only as a point Of
light, so great IL its distance from
US.
Sirius. the Dog Star. came into
view at o'clock in the evening on
the first of the month. 1t is a white
star and the brightest Of the stars
But when it is not far above the
horizon on clear. frosty night it
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
u. S. Wins First Tilt
In Suit Potash Trust

New York. Jan. 3 R-Fed-
eral Judge William Bondy
yesterday denied the motion of
Paul Claudel. French ambas-
in the suit brought by the DEPART
ment Of justice to dissolve the al
legged French and German potash
monopoly and to enjoin it from vio-
United States.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

bowel movement. DO not sit and
hope, but so to druggist and get
one of the generous bottles Of Syrup
Pepsin. Take the proper dose that
night and by morning you will feel
like different person.
Get bottle today. at any drug
store and observe these three rules
Of health: Keep the head cool. the
feet warm. the bowels open.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
Infantry Called Out
In japanese Unrest

Tokyo, Jan. 3 R-Three compan-
les Of regular infantry were rushed
to Namoru. a village near Gifu, to-
day when Japan's smouldering rural
unrest flared up momentarily.
Two thousand peasants marched
In q body on the local government
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

professor Of Astronomy. University
OF Illinois
Crbana. ILL.,. Jan. . R - The
brightest cons llations in the whole
sky are displ: cd above the eastern
horizon in tn, 'arly evening in jan
uary. They y the winter constel-
lations, so-calIed because they arc
visible throughout the winter nights.
rising in the east In the early eve
ming. southihg at midnight and
sinking in the west at dawn.
Orion is most brilliant Of all the
consultations and, next to the Big
Dipper. the best known. 1t has the
form Of a rectangle with three stars
in line in the middle. the Belt OF
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

II YOU don't like politics. you'u
like Herald Classified Ads.
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

Many a thrifty housewife recon-
nlen1s Herald classified Ads
New Britain herald., 1929-01-09
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Stomach
and Bowels

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New Britain herald., 1929-01-09

It was officially reported that tire
peasants were still kather'Ls In the
neighboring districts and arming
with bamboo spears.