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The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
Insanity

a CRIME has been committed and
! the law seeks TO punish the
criminal Immediately the defense
makes the claim that the prisoner
Is insane and therefore cannot be
punished by the law but should
be placed In an Institution for
mental patients
Falrmlnded people have no desire
10 see an insane man or woman
punished by hanging or lmprlson-
ment, nor. on the other hand. do
they want 10 see a prisoner who
Is not insane escape the just punish
ment Of his crime because n clever
lawyer is able TO bolster up a de-
Tense by various circumstances. H.
lustratIons and comparisons
What Is insanity anyway
When We think OF how judges,
lawyers and Juries wrestle with
the problem OF what Is and what Is
not insanity. Il Is not easy 10 give
full or complete definition Of just
what must be found about an In.
dividual before he should be called
insane.
However In a general way II may
be said that every one OF US Is
born with certain instincts, prin-
cipal or first instincts they are
called. such as love, hate. fear, Joy.
These are part Of Us, ourselves In
fact
II. then, you love, hate, fear any
body, or anything. that Is your own
business; at least that is what one
would usually think. And II this
love. hate or fear does no harm TO
anyone else. no one but yourself
knows that you possess It.
II. however, this love. hate, or
fear so affects you that you want
TO do things that are not considered
right by the community and by the
laws OF the land. then fight goes
on within you. conflict" as II is
called, because these primal In
stincts are forcing you. on the one
hand, TO do these wrong" things.
and your moral training and the
laws OF the land are. on the other
hand, fighting back these instincts.
II we think about some cases we
know who have become mentally
unbalanced. we find that they didn't
want 10 mix much with others.
wanted TO do things differently.
weren't much interested In other
people. even friends or family: In
fact, didn't want TO be bothered or
''hemmed In" by regulations.
What are our mental specialists
trying to do about this type of men
tai unbalance or imbalance7
These physicians recognize that
human beings will always be born
with these primal instincts-love,
hate, fear-sO that to prevent in
sanity, every boy. girl. man and
woman must be taught that the
good of the community should al
ways be the first thought.
Copyright. l-wNC Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
Presidents Daily
Mail Is Huge Task

propaganda ietters--ietters obvious
ly inspired by groups OF orEaniEa-
tlons and bearing upon some bin
or administration project These
are easily recognized by the similar
lty ot their wording. Incidentally.
they are virtually the only letters
coming TO the white House which
are not really read.
The Letters Acknowledged
The rest OF the mall is read
really read. for the President has
always maintained that a personal
letter. not from the head OF a great
corporation or a statesman or a
fnancler, but from the farmer or
miner or little shopkeeper or clerk
who honestly expresses his convic-
tons. is the most perfect Index 10
the state OF mind OF the people.
About three-quarters OF the mail
can be handled directly by the de-
pArtment 10 which 1, Is referred.
Some Of the writer's are Informed
from the mall Office that their let.
ters. by direction OF the President.
have been referred 10 certain de.
partments Every letter Is read
and disposed OF by some one quail
fed 10 discuss the subject OF the
letter. and more letters than you'd
think, out OF such a large mail.
come either directly or indirectly TO
the attention OF the President him.
self"
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
That Body
Of Yours
First Symptom of Heart
Failure
By
JAMES W. BARTON, NJ. ID.

a S STUDENTS IL was our custom
4 Il TO listen TO as many cases OF
heart disease as possible. and try
to tell whether the murnur came
with the FIRST beat, with the second
beat. just before the FIRST beat. and
the quality OF the murmur.
Then with this worked out In our
minds We tried 10 tell just which
valves were affected and gave the
disease It's particular name. What
10 we fnd our instructors In medl-
cine teaching the students now
about heart dl,ease7
While they have not done away
with the names OF the diseases ar
fecting the heart. they attach very
little Importance 90 them. because
they have or try TO have all heart
ailments down 10 a practical work
Ing basis.
What are the practical polnis1
First. has the heart enough pow
er TO do the work OF the body when
the body Is ni resti Second. what
amount OF reserve has the heart
when work. extra work, is demand
ed Of ~
II the heart cannot do the ordi-
nary work demanded. and cannot
DO a little extra work at times. then
that heart Is failing" In It's abll.
lty 10 work. and we have what Is
called heart failure"
What are the signs that the
heart is not doing its work prop
erly. or Is not strong enough 10 full.
all the usual demands on III
II the failure Is severe or has ex.
listed for some time the heart will
be dIlhted. and there may be
dropsy.
But before the heart becomes
such a complete failure what is
the hrst sign that ls noted by the
patient hlmselff
BreathlessneSs on effort.
Remember everybody gets out Of
breath II they work or exercise
hard or long enough. But II work
that they have ordinarily been able
10 do without getting out Of breath.
now makes them breathless. the
FIRST thought should be 10 have the
family doctor examine the heart
thoroughly that is lying down sit
ting up. standing up. exercising.
Immediately after exercising. two
minutes after exercising. By breath
holding tests. and other methods.
However. an obstructed nose. n
heavy meal. or being already tired.
may cause hrcathlessness after ef-
fort. even when the heart Is normal.
Remember. then. that the irst
symptom OF heart failure Is breath.
lessness on slight effort.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
Tourists to Find Welcome
in Many Lands.

Washingtou---wIth the coming
% summer Europe opens her doors
thousands of then-to the youth
o. The world says a bulletin from
the National Geographic society
Prom Alpine valleys 10 Norwe-
gian fi0rds. from villages o, cen
tral Europe 20 the rocky Hebrides
young wanderers Will End youth
hos;els' waiting 10 welcome them at
the end % long day on the road
Thsre FOR the price o. shilling.
franc. or mark. IS Kitchen
where one may cook supper. and
Ind friendly group of campers
around a Ore. and best % all a com
Portable bed
~Rncksack and weary feet are a
certain passport The young trav-
eler also must have a membership
in one ot the national hoxielE nsso-
Gallons; bot this Is easily ob.
tained and dues are only n dollar
q year. Whether u is the Relchs-
verhanf fur Deutsche Jugendher-
bergen. Ia LIque Francals pour les
AuberEes De Ia Jeunessc. or the
Gaelic An Olge % the Irish Free
State matters not AZ all Reclpro-
cal agreements between the various
countries entitle any member 90 the
Csc of foreign hosiels
Win Welcome.
"Ail the associations are alike In
their Ideals of international democ-
racy and simple living There are
10 distinctions o, race. creed. or 80.
clal position. Youth and slender
purse Win hrs; consideration In
fact. 10 Bavaria. 20 one over twen.
y. save the leader of q group. may
use the hosielE LuekIly FOR many.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
American Films Triple
England's Home Output

London.-Nearly three times as
much American movie films as Brit.
Ish was registered here last year.
Or. Edward Burgln OF the board
OF trade told the commons that reg.
istrations OF British films amounted
TO l,2o2. .l9T feet including 69.TT7
feet made overseas In the British
empire.
Films OF United States origin to-
tailed Ass. .42S feet while other for
eign films totaled 190.067 feet
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29

Daniel Frohman smiling at a
group of friends. g. He and Oliver
Herford seem to be the last Broad
way adherents of the choker collar.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
Saloon Wood for Church

Hamburg, Ark.-The walls that
housed the old Senate Club saloon,
landmark OF Hamburg. soon Will
house the Presbyterian church OF
Mist, eight miles from here. The
saloon is being razed and the ma.
terlal hauled to Mist to construct
the church.
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29
Lights of New York RL L STEVENSON

Meanderings and medltatiOns:
Colorfully clad gypsy women stroll
Ing Fifth avenue. Their snap
ping black eyes seem TO take In
every detail OF the glittering win
dows. A man with long gray
hair threading the dense traffic
and giving a lot OF drivers
heart failure. Maybe some
day | will fall and buy one OF
those S14-shirts or a $5-pair
Of socks. The fash Of the sun
ON the chromium final OF the
Chrysler building. Always do
get a bit OF a thrill out OF that.
The Grand Central procession
OF taxicabs with eager red
caps ready to pounce on their prey.
A postcard peddler whisper
ing his filthy wares. A recent
confiscatIon caused a shortage Of
books that come under the ban OF
the law. A discharged printer
told. Razor blade peddlers
even on side streets now.
West Forty-second street still the
happy hunting ground of pitchmen.
Two detectives watching an out
of-town newspaper stand.
Crooks buy papers to read about
their crimes In other cities.
Missing persons also purchase home
town newspapers. So the vigil
lance is constant. Forty-sev-
enth street with It's many restau-
rants. Am invited to that new
Chinese place that's moved up
town. Real Chinese food.
Not the American kind and
there's a difference. Wonder
what's become of all those yaude-
Williams that used to loaf in the vi
cinIty of the Palace? Idlers
there now seem to be mostly un-
employed musicians. John Null
holland. the magician. who Is editor
of the publication of his craft F..
and worries whenever he finds a
magician out of a job. Was
that Sinclair Lewis? at any
rate. like Work Of Art"
almost as much as "Babbit"
Daniel Frohman smiling at
group of friends. He and Oliver
Herford seem to be the last Broad
rrau adhnranfs of the chnkpr cnllar
The Coolidge examiner., 1934-06-29

Sparrows hopping about in
Times square. Wonder II the
redbIrd returned. .. Calves liver,
Ga cents a pound. (. Used to be
dollar. But that was when
liver diets were popular +. Amer
ican Legion men collecting sigma
lures for some kind Of petition.
Armistice day Is now legal
holiday In this state. Those
uniforms make me think Of Paris
IA years ago. When everybody
was trying to get home. Now
a lot OF folks wish they could go
TO Paris Can name at least
one newspaper man. Drug
store crowds lined up waiting for a
chance TO pay telephone booths
and a woman In each onel
John McElligott, fire commission
er and fire chief. Still has his
headquarters down at Great Jones
street. Spent $1,000 of his
own money to fit up living quar-
ters there. The city pays him
S11. 900 year +. and he has to
work only "a hours a day
seven days week Usual
ly Is up and around until midnight
and rolls out 10 early morn
ing alarms. Under the Tam
many regime, the fire commission
er drew S13.390 a year and
the chief S11,365 so under the
present arrangement, the city saves
$13,655 and John Kenlon. the
retired chief, draws pension Of
$4,000 a year. What curl
ous accent that blond young wOm-
an has. She's an Icelander.
the first I've ever seen or heard.
Miss Mary Toylar, whom Elsa
Maxwell, the social arbiter, has pro-
nounced New York's most beautiful
girl. Dull gold hair. challeng-
ing gray eyes and sensitive face.
Busy selling tickets for that
benefit for the Body and Mind
foundation. She's studying for
the stage and hopes some day
to be seen on Broadway. Real
ly a serious matter with her.
Has refused Hollywood contract.
Because she wants to get by
on ability and not mere beauty.
G. Bell syndicate.-wNU seryjca
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
.S.F.StrikerS
Fold
Sell0utPlan
HUGH JOHNSON, GOVERNOR
MERRIAM GET HEADS TO-
GETHER, KNIFE LABOR

SAN FRANCISCO, July l9.-
General Strike went into effect
Tuesday at l o'clock. Organized
labor issued its ultimatum to
the bosses.
Phe bosses imported hun
dreds of troops and modified
thousands of police and spe-
cial deputies. They promised
terror to the strikers.
Tuesday night, the bosses
were gradually breakin g
through the tie-up by getting
permits for restaurants, in
creasing them little by little,
obtaining permits to have
trucks hawl special food for
the rich into the warehouse
under huge police protection.
They cried about the price
of gas, which jumped to 4C
cents a gallon with many sta
lions without supply.
Street car service, halted
Monday, resumed its schedule.
Hugh Johnson and Governor
Merriam were comforting about
the proposed arbitration and
the use of more troops.
In desperate attempt to
stop the militant program of
the Communist Party, the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union,
Western Worker and the In
ternatiOnal Labor Defense all
offices were raided with hun
dreds of workers reported ar
rested.
San Francisco strikers are
puzzling over two arbitration
proposals which will end the
strike.
/. Sell-Out proposal that both
sides accept arbitration, thus
ending str Ike Immediately,
breaking organized labOr's back
in Western America.
2 Sell-Out proposal Ringing
on waterfront unions failure to
accept mediation, thus forming
excuse for reactionaires and
misleaders in other unions to
attempt forcing all ather rank
and file back to work.
Consideration of arbitration
by Central Council delegates
Tuesday night was branded by
Harry Bridges, militant long
shOremen's leader, as "a g-d-d
railroad"
The Bay Region remains
more tightly in the grip of
general tie-up than ever before,
as strikers swing into cOOrdi-
mated action against sell-Out at
tempts and physical violence.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Mass Protest Must SAGE Thaernann AsZ No Hour Nears

lease of Ernst Thaelmann. A resolu-
ton against segregation OF Negroes was
drawn up as well as protest to the
governors Of Alabama and Georgia de-
manding the release OF the Seottsboro
defendants and Angelo Hemdon who is
imprisoned in a Georgia chain gang
for working class activity,
A committee of u was elected TO
carry on the work OF the conference
with Merwin Cole as chairman. IL was
also announced that conference is
to he held on July 30 at Mt Zion
Baptist Church to oppose the segrega-
ton of Negro workers.
August meetings here, and in other
Northwest cities, viii be part Of the
worldwide movement on this inter-
national day Of struggle against war
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Locals Add
Strike Votes
OverFakerS
MWIU RAIDED AS LICE
ATTEMPT TO QUASH MAIN
BOSS OPPOSITION UNIT

SEATTLE, July l9.-With en-
ployed workers pushing toward
a general strike, bringing forth
their own demands and express
ing their unity with the strik-
ing longshoremen, the police
terror and attempted Red
scare" intensifying the struggle.
Central Federation Of Labor
officials continue attempts to
discourage the move toward O
general walk-out, but the rank
and file workers are demanding
that vote be taken In their
unions.
1900 pickets are again estab-
lished before dock gates at pier
II, and nothing moves in or
out from now on
BOilermakers', flour and cereal
workers and machinists unions
have returned majority votes
for walk outs.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Portland ARM
Thug Says Close
ChiIdrens Camp

PORTLAND, July 19-With
such questions as Have you
ever handled any fire arms? If
so what kind? And have you
ever handled any gas bOmbs?"
An open Fascist band of eX-
army officers and misled sons
of petty bOurgeoise are organ
izing the Citizens Emergency
League"
The league is reported to be
under the leadership of one
Colonel Arid, former war Off
Ger. Arid has gone so far as to
recommend that action be taken
to break up the Young Pioneer
neer Camp now in operation
near Tuallitin. Here about
forty working class children
are preparing themselves to
become future working class
leaders.
Woman Beaten BY Cops
When Ada Muir, militant
woman worker and cook for
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union strike relief kitchen, re-
fused to get In an officers
car when he ordered her there
without excuse, she was badly
bruised and arrested on charg.
Continued on Page 4, col. /
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
"'''''; 2sS..s.~...e,

He is former minister of Justice for
Prussia
He was chosen by Torgler and Thael-
mann as defense attorney but cannot
return TO Germany because the Nazis
have taken away his citizenship and
the privilege of practieing law in Ger,
many.
Nazis have cOnfisticated all his
personal belongings, he has been threat
ened with arrest and been imprisoned
in concentration camps but escaped and
fed to Paris as a refugee.
He will share the speakers platform
in Seattle. August g. with Eneurin
Bevan, British member OF Parliament
and militant anti-FaSciSt.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
ORGANIZE PROTESTS
AGAINST TERROR !

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, TO ALL
MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
TO THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE, AND TO ALL UN-
EMPLOYED
COMRADES, FELLOW WORKERS:
A reign of terror has swept West Workers
murdered in cold blood by police state troopers and vganes
Working class headquarters have been smashed in San Francisco
and in Portland All attack by the bosses and the
government in order o smash the maritime strike.
The workers the West have recognized that this
attack is not only against the maritime workers. but this
attack against the whole working class and the unity of the
organized and unpganzed workers support of the maritime
workers which growing daily Continued Page coils IS
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Central Council Action
Stopped Dead By
Duncan, Levine

SEATTLE, July 10. - While
rank and file delegates de-
nOunced the leadership for re-
fusing to take immediate steps
toward general strike, the Cen
trail Labor Council beaurOcrats
voted down Il proposal Tor u
strike strategy committee.
1t was proposed that each
union elect five of their rank
and file members to the strategy
committee.
Duncan and Levine both de-
nounced the plan proposal as
foolish and a Communist meas
ure.
Now is the time to choose
between the sane dependable
leaders and the Communist"
Duncan said.
An liza delegate raped both
Duncan and FredericksOn, who
are on Central Labor Council
Committee to cooperate with
LA.
Delegates asked who was on
the committee and no one knew,
not even the LILA delegates.
The delegates exposed this
committee of five which has
been cooperating with Mayor
Smith. One of the members has
been sitting on Smiths advisory
board.
These are the men who have
been working with Mayor Smith,
trying to drive the workers over
to accept Smiths program. These
are the leaders" that Duncan
and Levine would force the rank
and file members of the unions
to follow to a complete sell-Out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

BrOckway left for the lila
Hall, where he addressed the
rank and file on mass protest
of Daffron's murder and dis
elimination by relief hoods
against workers engaged in
Organizational activity.
About 4:30 a welfare official
hurriedly knocked at the
.BrOckway front door, and pre-
sented Mrs. Brockway with
the food voucher, with apollo
gies for the delay.
The relief burOcrat hesitated
shivered a bit, then said, Was
Mr.. Brockway going to get
violent IL he didn't get his
voucher?"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
KURT RoSENFELD, NAZI REFUGEE
SPEAKS IN SEATTLE, AUG. 8

SEATTLE, July l9-Ernst Thaelmann's
chosen attorney, barred by Nazis from
returning to Thaelmann's defense,
speaks in Seattle and in Portland the
second week in August
DR.. Resented, Hitler victim and
refugee. just arrived from Paris, ac.
cOmpanied Ernst TOrgler when he went
to Berlin police to protest charges that
TOrgler had burned the Reichstag.
DR.. Resented. is an internationally
known labor defense attorney, having
defended RakOwski in Budapest, and
Rosa Luxembourg Karl liebnecht
Kurt Eisner, Max HOeltz and Eugene
Levine in Germany.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Membership In UCL Coca
Food Voucher Insurance

SEATTLE, July 19-HarOld
Brockway, militant UCL chair
man, downtown section, has
been "terrorizing" welfare
authorities.
Brockway walked into his
welfare station last Wednesday
to draw his weekly food YOU
cher, and was met by Agnes,
chief witness against Brock
way in the sOupline workers
strike in May. Aymes asked
him what he wanted.
Il came after my voucher.
"Broekway explained.
You're off relief and you're
not going to get any more"
Agnes snarled.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
MwIU Raided

SEATTLE, July BIN an at
tempt to prevent the Marine
Workers Industrial Union from
participating in the strike ac-
tivity, police yesterday arrested
James Archer and Walter Stack,
two militant members OF the
union, and Catherine Carter, q
militant young worker, while
they were walking up Main st.
from the Marine Workers Hall.
Two hours after the demon.
stratiOn for Archer and Stack,
about sixty police raided the
Marine Workers Industrial IN
ion Hall arresting two workers,
Fox and Backe.
Fox was one of the committee
that interviewed Chief Howard
demanding the release of his
two fellow marine workers.
The police squad then visited
the Communist Party headquar-
tiers. Finding it locked no at.
tempt was made to enter it.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

he says, get the hell out!"
Except for these two speak
ers, one for the workers and one
against, the words general
strike" were not mentioned and
no speaker proposed any con-
crete action whatever to aid the
men on strike. All of them,
from the politicians Meisener,
Horr and Zioncheck, through
the labor leaders" King, Nor
rlis, Gill, Shorter, Rox, to the
preacher, Shorter, were silent on
the real issues at stake.
Strikers gave these do moth
ing" people a startling answer
when they stormed pier Al yes
terday.
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|TheFRONT
LINE ALAN sT MAX
1919 GENERAL STRIKE
Il n
WHY 1T FAILED

In an effort to prevent the
General Strike from spreading
to Seattle and other West
Coast cities. the newspapers
carry on campaign to prove
the futility of general strike
action.
mo general strike has
ever succeeded"
I'm the British General
Strike of 1926, England gave
the world a demonstration
of what a great self
respecting community can
do in the face of such a
threat"
THE collapse of the Sc
attic general strike of 1919
in the face of public disap-
proval, must be a lesson to
organized labor that it has
more to lose than to gain
by such action"
But the newspapers and,
along with them, the A. F. of
l.. leadership. are naturally
silent on why the Seattle gen
eral strike collapsed"
Strikes do not collapse" of
their own weight. Neither
does 'public opinion" push
them ver-any more than
public opinion" can compel
the capitalist class to repent
and institute Socialism.
The Seattle general strike,
like the British general strike,
was sold out by it's leaders!
The A. F. of l.. leadership
duncan was president of the
Central Labor Council, Doyle
business agent was entirely
against the calling of the gen
eral strike in the first place.
Like the present general
strike in San Francisco, the
leadership was compelled to
keep a jump ahead of the
militant rank and file in order
not to be brushed aside by
strike movement. When the
strike was finally called, many
of the leaders unsuccesSfully
tried to set the date when
the strike should end.
The solidarity of the work
ers had never been greater
in tn history of the Amer.
lean labor movement.
The strike began on a
Thursday. The tie-up was
complete. Saturday, with the
spirit of the strikers mount
ing, the executive committee
of fifteen, with only one dis
senting vote, recommended to
the General Strike Committee
that the strike be called off
that night!
The only excuse given was
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