U Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. M*'W YORK. WET>\ t FT . APRIL 20, 1927

The Chinese War DE PINEDO ‘ DOES' NEW ORLEA NS[ West Chester Normal 1 < >, -o By WM. PICKENS. School Fight FOOTNOTES^ making progress, according to war-makers are ——■— THEthe reports of today (Apr. 7th). The northern j reply request for im- EDITOR’S NOTE:—In to a de- j Chinese general, whom the British and American [ on fight that is raging in the AN ALL-STAR embassy tailed information the AMERICAN REPORTING TEAM. perialists seem to favor, has raided the Russian West Chester, Pa., normal school, The DAILY that he by Now that Prof. Will Durant, put a into philosophy, in Peking,—and “report has it” was assisted WORKER has received* the following statement of , who kick has been “report” is engaged by yellow sheets report Snyder “British soldiery.” Whether this latter true issues involved and the facts which indicate that certain to the murder trial, we Tso-lin, prophesy Mrs. Ruth Snyder, if she gets away it, or not, it is clear that Chang if he can arouse the two professors and ten others were kicked out that with will be signed up him, at the lor a series of philosophy. In fact, put her at Russia to enter the war against will same of the faculty because the munition makers and articles on we would the head for entering of our team. and time furnish England with a good excuse other war-mongers objected to of the Cool- all-star American reporting The line-up, by subject re- criticism porter the war against the southern or Cantonese faction in idge-Kellogg policy in Nicaragua and Mexico: best suited to cover same, would be something like this: necessary because , on the plea that it is made INVOLVED. PHILOSOPHY—Ruth Snyder; Judd Gray, alternate. the other side. ISSUES Russia has entered on Refusal of Board of Trustees to renew the contract MURDER—-Will Durant. People the world today that the 1. are so foolish in teachers, 3 9 women. Two of the men, LABOR—Elbert H. Gary. be good to start a new world of 12 men and “red” excuse would a one Dr. Robt. T. Kerlin and Prof. John A. Kinneman, state FOREIGN AFFAIRS—Jackie Coogan. If only England Can say to the people at home: war on. j they were fired because of their political beliefs, RELlGlON—Clarence Darrow. have entered this war if it had been left that “We would not and They are fighting to obtain a SPORT—CaI Coolidge. factions, but when enters on radical tendencies. to the two Chinese Russia hearing the Board Trustees, all 12 being fired THEATRE—HeIen Keller. then Britain has to enter on before of the side of the Cantonese, without warning or a hearing. POLlTlCS—Ringling, or any other circus impressario. the other side to save China and the world from "bol-; principal, prohibits LITERATURE—Big Thompson. * * * 2. Dr. Andrew Thomas Smith, Bill shevism.” signing petition presenting it to DlVOßCE—Cardinal Hayes. that human race can be so students from a and It is hard to believe the the asking re-instatement of the two teach- FINANCE—Bert Miller. can begin a war but trustees, for 1 dull to learn a lesson. Anybody RADIO—Any phonograph manufacturer. what will the end of that war. If you ers. nobody knows be I prohibits The Club, a student it, ex-Kaiser; up Czar 3. Dr. Smith Liberal WASHINGTON NEWS—The city editor of the Gopher Prairie don’t believe ask the or call meetings. Franz in the ether world and organization, from holding Gazette. Nicholas or old Josef 4. Dr. Stone,” a student tell you the of war may Smith prohibits the “Green Other suggestions for an all-star reportorial line-up will be welcomed by ask them. They will that END weekly referring to this fight in any its beginning. publication, from this department, with due credit to the suggesfor. As soon as a perfect team be altogether different from way, command the paper not pub- anybody else wants an Asiatic and his that should be is picked, we shall approach Otto H. Kahn to finance a paper for them. If England, Russia or any longer. States ought to stay out of it and leave lished war, the United FACTS. it to the of those who want it. But we are not THE pleasure 1. fight started year (a previous but out. We are bundling our marines in large The this abor- staying off attempt year to to MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS Asia, getting so “entangled” that tive was made last induce Dr. Kerlin j numbers to ourselves Wesley Long, the us in resign), by Samuel Commander of ! 1927. when the calamity falls it will involve the ruin. send- * * » Bernhard F. Siegel Post of the American Legion, | to Fisher, an official Sacco and Vanzetti— England is anxious, imperialists, to see ing a petition Governor asking for like all other investigation into the activities, loyalty, etc., Lib- No murderers you. force fail, because those Cantonese rep- of the are South China Long been, and my the workers, the scholars, and eral Club. Mr. has to the best of But worse than mere assassins, resent the revolutionists is an If China succeeds, the day of big busi- knowledge still is, employed by or agent of Mr. That judiciary crew, of China. South DuPont, or Dupont robbery will short. IS. the de Nemours E. I. Powder Co.' ness In China be recently Mr. S. Grim, black-robed and stony We have helped to educate those Chinese leaders, but I He has circulated literature for Pierre DuPont. It is also alleged that he was employed in the Like their Plymouth rock; we were hypocrites: we did not mean to make full- The trans-Atlantic flier, Francesco de Pinedo, who is making an Secret Service during the Killing guiltless grown men out of them. We thought, as men have often fascist U. S. war. workers tour of four continents interest of regime in , before, we indulge in mis- air in the Mussolini’s Agents of DuPonts. By thought that somehow could City,” , electric shock. teaching, and at touched the first at the “Crescent “the 2. Mr. Long’s second in command is Dr. John A. Far- sionary zeal and Christian brotherhood forgot.” He there from in his plane, the “Santa These judges hang together same time continue to be the “superior race.” city care flew rell, a member of the Knights of Columbus and the the Maria,” is shown pictured above on the Mississippi at New Orleans. They ought to hang—by God! We proclaimed it from the housetops that we were which American Legion. educating Chinese students, but when they got educated The objection made to the Liberal Club and the two These foul birds of a feather and showed it by demanding to be on a plane of equality Never Left Home teachers is the fact that the President’s and Secretary Smell worse than putrid cod. with us, we were ready to shoot them for it. They are Kellogg’s policies in dealing with Nicaragua, Mexico and Oh land of boasted freedom My Country Tis of Thee were of “radicals,” “bolsheviks,” and anything else hard to pro- China severely criticized at meetings the Lib- Whence liberty has fled, not quite understood. *•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•: eral Club, the inference being that the Knights of Co- nounce or your justice I met twenty generals of Feng’s army in . They By NAT KAPLAN. • lumbus, desirous of American intervention in Mexico on It seems that even many scholars, »*e*«*>*<*e*«*e*«> fY' : j behalf of the Catholic Church, and the DuPonts Pow- cock-eyed or * # # * * R. Is drunk dead. were all splendid fellows and were sev- ### ******* * * eral speaking good English,—some educated in the best j der Co. don’t want anti-militarist propaganda in a teach- •*•*•*•*•*•* —ADOLF WOLFF. schools of America. If we are against their aspirations Chimes From A Broken Pitcher ■'» ers’ school. \» • » » • in and the Spring Song. i, eg.-' 3. Certain Ku Klux Klan sympathizers, who are not for human equality their own country in 1. Kk \ • • • • »•■. • • • • nr world, we were hypocrites when we handed them their I chant the song of verdant Spring, v coming out openly but keeping under cover, object to diplomas. Awakened from her sleep, the two teachers because they oppose race discrimina- Let Young Poets, With Nothing To Say, Stop Writing As They war, Os Nature free, of birds that sing, and If we are saved from another world it seems that tion against the Negro, one of the teachers is Please a Little. we- cannot look to statesmen for the salvation. The Os woodlands, cool and deep; ; charged with having entertained two Negro Principals prospective “cannon fodder” must do it. | of Negro Schools at his home. (With the customary apologies to Eli Siegal.) I weave the tale of reborn sprites, 4. Miss Isabel Darlington, a lawyer, whose sister is Bold, world, • • • bold in this The virgin kin of Pan, the wife of Congressman Thomas S. Butler, chairman of dance and writing boldest; HITTING FORD BETWEEN Who play thru starry ‘ the Naval Committee in the House of Representatives, And their damndest and nights, and * advocating a lot new ships for Navy, a young poet nothing, nothing • • • of the U. S. And with absolutely say thinks • • • j to THE EYES Far from the haunts of man. and who is the aunt of General Smedley Darlington of destiny or something; thinks (?) of this in a smoke-laden, who ***** Butler, is now commanding the American forces It may add to the joys of Henry Ford in these j in not I sing my songs, through mirth and ! China, the low-ceilinged dive in Greenwich Village; and wonders who *•• • • • secretary trying days that “THE FORD WORKER,” the militant is of the Board of Trustees. Col. pain, ***** A. M. Holding, a corporation lawyer, spends will pay his check. paper of the Ford industries, is celebrating its who most shop | When comes the vernal sign, of his time practicing before the Public Service Com- And he down next a young woman and tells her he’s a poet. first anniversary, but to the workers the fact is an out- greet sun, rain, sits I the I hail the mission as attorney for various corporations, including standing achievement. At line. Can he write, though; can he, though. He’ll say so! I two bits per each the United Gas Improvement Co. of , is the have to write, edit and print their own * * * The young poet muses; while hands are clapped. un- To been able President of the of Muses of shop paper, which has kept them in touch with their I Board Trustees, and the dominant Notice member of Worth, treasurer written sonnets; of verses free and unrestrained. Does he fellow workers’ problems, has exposed the profit-mak- it. Herbert P. the of the Not so long ago this errant Board is Vice President of the muse though. -machinery of the system, and to built Farmers and Mechanics ing Ford have scrivener was stranded in and to 10,000, Trust Co., President of the Board of Trade of West the circulation of their paper around this is j with less than two bits. A hobo, that Does the young poet worry about what the young woman tells a to the sponsors of Chester. creditable accomplishment The | day discharged from the local ja.il- him? Does he, though? (Does he?) Ford Worker. Gang Accused of Graft. house, approached him on St. Cath- 5. years ago graft Tomorrow young poet with nq’Xing to say will rise wearily; Exposes Myth. ■ Some a scandal was started the Ford erine street and asked for the price against Relentlessly, sometimes critical and sometimes satir- the administration of the Normal School, charges think of what the young woman told him; he will go to his of coffee. We shot the works at j being alleged that Steward Dr. Phillips, ical, Ford tears to pieces the “humani- Johnson and “eating shoppe” in the Village; young poets with-nothing to The Worker : Thompson’s, then hoofed it to Del- Principal, were involved forms tarian” myth which has been built around Henry Ford, in various of petty graft- say young nothing son and hopped the cars to Cham- j ing. Prominent business men, students and do this; let poets with to say stop writing the man. Taking Ford at his own argument as printed where to former jplain, we parted. We hate pupils of the school are now alleging that the same as they please a little even if they are hell out of luck, or in the Detroit Times, saying: “The money I have accu- if former road or boast—but our com- similar conditions are now existing in the school; it is aren’t they, though. (Who knows?) mulated is not the product of downtrodden, underpaid, ; panion reads The DAILY WORKER alleged that Bursar John R. Hollinger gave the con- blood-sweat labor. It is clean money.” The Ford ; this is to let him know of our pres- My, though, how the unsavory, acrid aroma of stale coffee hovers struction of a new building, said to have cost approxi- Worker reminds Ford that it is just that, and every ! ent affluence. At this moment our mately $525,000, to an out-of-town firm, to own per- over the head of the young poet with nothing to say. bit of “downtrodden, underpaid, blood-sweat labor,” wealth consists of twenty-six cents his his sonal enrichment; that this building is already in bad Let young poets, with nothing to say, stop writing as they please which Ford has made use of to accumulate fortune. (cash) and four cents (postal condition, although Urges not finished, having been constructed a little, young poets who go to eating shoppes and poetry Auto Union. stamps). of * * * The call of the wanderlust the cheapest material, in it, Recognizing that a shop paper must have a con- cracks appearing al- salons, and wiho, somehow, go to them every evening (or it never has gripped Henry P. though it has not yet been in use; that is structive basis, The Ford Worker devotes much space Also this note of obligation to the photographers, Bergman, although living who take photos of the students, to pay com- every evenin?) to point out the necessity for an automobile workers’ genial station-master at Rousse’s who, have 26% mission to Mr. Hollinger; that potatoes, and Even though, presumably, they are hell of luck. union. The Worker editors urge upon every reader, the Point who furnished us with food at on a paved highway only five vendors of out other food supplies have to pay him in the Ford industries, up own a nearby lunch-wagon lodging miles from Fort Wayne, Ind., commissions; that What would existence be without young poets with nothing to workers to write their and in firms selling text-books, and other shop pen of the Custom’s never has been outside of his supplies, also have to say; you experiences and to have it published in their own the detention pay to him; is financially do know? paper, The response has been very headquarters—direct all sightseers to home county during the 76 years tribute that he also benefited The Ford Worker. when and artists give Hell, no, let young poets with nothing to say stop writing as they gratifying shows that the paper only read the scenes of our notable visit. Some his life. He pictured celebrated musicians other enter- and is not of is “see- tainments at the school, and in general, please a little; earnestly but that the workers actually realize the ; day when we find time we will head world” business men ing the through an atlas. allege that before they can do business with the though—even though—well; though value of a shop paper. \ for Rousse’s Point in the Rolls-Royce school Even even we have to put ! or the students, they first have to “sugar” wager the the Ford Worker will ! which we purchased after signing Mr. Hollinger, together; We that activity of as they express it. them all do more toward bringing about the formation of a with The DAILY WORKER. Board of Education to Together, together—and drow n them. * » * Mr. Hollinger was a poor man he the T union all the promises of William Green, and we when took posi- than tion of business manager or bursar at the Normal —PUNCHINO. to bet our last dime, that Henry realizes above is advance copy. Use Movies in Schools School are also ready All of the some years ago; he is now reputed to spent past be well-off and this much himself and that he has in the We are going to incorporate it in an the owner of two hotels in Atlantic City. in hunt down “America, Oppor- A series of nation-wide experi- and will spend the future more funds to address: Land Os 6. Principal Smith threatens to expel Ford Worker and its correspondents, tunity,” to be delivered for the next ments in visual education will be all student the sources of the members of the Liberal Club if they continue in their CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW than he spent on his last spring suit. Ad Men’s Club meeting—if we are made this fall in four public schools in each of twelve cities of the United I “rebellious” conduct. —FRED HARRIS. invited. 1 * * • States, through the co-operation of * * * I. of Education. On “Harvester Worker,” April, 1927. In The News Boards April one-time light 21 and 22, a conference will be held paper just the Paul Berlenbach, Daily Another shop which is on hand now is heavyweight champion, is engaged, in Rochester to consider the matter. The Symposium April issue of the Harvester Worker, pub- written and according to the rumor. In view of By September, at least forty motion lished by workers of the International Harvester Com- his earlier retirement from the ring, pictures for use in the fourth, fifth "" Conducted by pany, Cyrus plant. Coincidentally we EGDAMLAT. McCormick’s this latest venture suggests that he and sixth grades in geography, ele- copy Council, also have a of the Harvester Industrial is hopping out of the frying-pan into mentary sciences and hygiene will THE QUESTION organ the company union, contains the | Are you in favor of a mass protest in behalf of Sacco the of which the fire. be ready. These will be shown in * * * and Vanzetti? minutes of the company union meeting. four public school classrooms in New We are therefore in a position to evaluate the merits judge recently granted York City; Newton, Mass.; Atlanta, THE PI 4CE judgment. The organ A Fourth avenue between 14th street Cooper Square. of both, and to render H. I. C. a lady a decree of divorce because Ga.; Winston-Salem, N. C.; Detroit, and brings the message that representatives of employers her husband struck her after she Chicago, Kansas City, Lincolrt, Neb.; THE ANSWERS and employes met and discussed their mutual problems, overbid a bridge hand. More than a Denver, Oakland, and Henry Weber, 326 East 23rd street, plumber: “Yes. for instance: “A suggestion was discussed that poldi few bridge addicts we know would Rochester. I don’t believe they got a fair deal. They should be steel be substituted for stellite in machining tractor render a verdict of justifiable homi- given a new trial. I have faith in their innocence.” main frames. Investigation showed poldi to be superior cide in a similar case carried to a Spring Flood in . * * * to stellite, etc., etc.” more conclusive extreme. WINNIPEG, April 19.—Thousands Anthony Paresi, 126 First avenue, street cleaner: what One may easily understand from this excerpt, * * * of acres of grazing land have been in- “Yes. A general strike might induce Governor Fuller part company union and its publication plays in to investigate the the a Sunday passes by without undated by floods in Western* Canada case. lam sure that an unbiased jury working Not bringing about better conditions to workers. appearance of some speaker at and heavy damage was reported to- could have never convicted them.” to to the ad- the * * * It proves itself be an appendix bosses’ K of who testifies day. the C Bortnick, ministration. that the Bolshevik are in conrol of Spring farm work has been halted Morris 46 Stuyvesant street, artists: “Yes. revolutionary We therefore lay the precious pamphlet aside and Mexico. And Brooklyn, in its own in many places. It is the duty of the American workers peruse the Harvester Worker and our face brightens somnolent way, seems to say: “Well, to come to their defense. Sacco and Vanzetti are in- up instantly. Here we havo vigor and daring, a smash- what of it?” I will probably refuse to renew “Tex” nocent—they have been framed for their radicalism. We er of shams, tearing the Sunday school argument of • . . Rickard’s license when they discover must do all in our power to save them from the gallows.” » * * McCormick about "reconciliation and employe repre- Parkes Cadman favors the that ho once played marbles for Dr. S. Kelly, sentative plan” to pieces. It enunciates the class strug- formation of a protestant Holy Name keeps. Thomas 191 Third avenue, laborer: “No. It gle and tells the workers that they must rid them- i Society. We would like to be around *» * ■ would be more effective to have the state selves from any and all illusions of class collaboration. | when the good preacher plays the (All of the above may prove that legislature force. Governor Fuller to investigate the It advocates the establishment of a strong workers’ game of his native heath and is brevity is the soul of wit—but brev- case. Personally, I believe both Sacco and Vanzetti are union, and to demand higher wages and an eight-hour stymied. ity never did fill a column. Spring innocent." * * * * * * workday. is very much in evidence . . . Na- Many contributions are sent in from the workers in j When McLaughlin' leaves his job ture is arrayed in its latest garb, Jack Davis, 76 East 4th street, chauffeur: “Yes. I the shops which gives the paper q real proletarian with the police to go to some girls are beginning to demoth- don’t believe they had a fair trial. Because they are character. Thus by giving the workers a means of ex- the Postal Telegraph Company here’s ballize their spring furs—which radicals the government tries to get rid of them. I am pression many brutalities by bosses and foremen are hoping hat he furnishes the mes- should interest you and mo while we sure they have been framed up.” * * exposed and will result at least in protecting the work- sengers with flivvers—or aeroplanes. try to figure how we can scrape to- * Chauncey M. Depcw, former U. 8. senator from New York, chairman of The Harvester Worker is * * * gether enough jack to get that fairly Sol Mirk, 837 East 181st street, pharmacist: “Yes. the board of directors of the New York Central railroad since 1898. ers from future attacks. birthday He will already in its second year and by now has a circulation If the New York boxing commis- wearable light suit out of hock. There is every reason to believe that their conviction celebrate his 93rd on April 23. 6,000. persists efforts to elevate Spring is here, and what the hell of has not been reviewed impartially. A general strike Depew has gained prominence as an speaker, of more than •ion in its after dinner lonir hrina* —F. H. the cauliflower industry, the solonsi it?) I might persuade Governor Fuller to intervene.” the pet delight of Babbits all over the United States.