The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1924, Page 6

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.60....6 months $2,00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 months PP ee a TAP a eee Address all mail and make out checks to THE. DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Illinois PER 8 SAR ANAS Te AE J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ) gee sun Bditors WILLIAM F. DUNNE) “"""" MORITZ J. LOEB. ..Business Manager $6.00 per year ee ESS Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. i > 290 Advertising rates on application. i ooo” Enemies of June 17th Another name has been added to the list of enemies of the June 27th National Farmer-Labor Convention at St. Paul. It is the name of “The Chicago Tribune.” This sheet has sent its. polit- ical writer, Arthur Evans, into the northwest, and like all loyal and true scribblers for the Tribune, he discovers many and strange things. He has found, as -he claims, growing sentiment for Cool- idge in Minnesota, and a tendency toward a split in ‘the Farmer-Labor movement. Evans reports that it was all a mistake that Governor Preus was defeated for the United States senate by Magnus Johnson. Preus was Preus. Coolidge, is Coolidge, and will have better luck. This, he claims, will be considerably aided by. “an ambition on the part of the Communists to kidnap the third party national convention, which is to meet in St. Paul, June 17th.” He does not say why the Communists should desire to kidnap the June 17th convention, or what the Communists would do with it, after they had kidnapped it. But The Tribune never did trouble about deta: And it never will where it desires : to deceive. The Tribune is the organ of the biggest exploit- ers, the landlords, the bankers and the most powerful open shop industrialists. It would like to see Coolidgism and Preusism firmly enthroned in Minnesota, and thruout the northwest, ruling with an iron fist for the benefit of the steel trust, the railroads, the grain speculators, the banks and the landowners. It is against these robbers that the Communists, most of all, desire a united front of the workers and farmers. And the Com- munists, most of all, will be against any kind of a split in St. Paul, June 17th. There is only one kind of splitting that Com- munists will advocate at St. Paul, and that is the splitting away of all workers and farmers from the old Wall Street parties, from the republican and democratic parties, into the ranks of the class nenepeennemen Fares babes. party. That is the kind of splitting that brings unity into the ranks of the workers and farmers, and victory .to their standards. The Klan an Issue There is no disputing the fact that the Ku Klux Klan will be an issue in this year’s presidential campaign. Even without the decisions of the re- publican and democratic national conventions hay- ing been made, it can safely be said that the Koo Koos will provide one of the big factors in the national, state and local political struggles. Tt was the Klan that recently nominated the republican candidate for governor in Indiana with 2 35,000 majority over five other candidates. It has won similar victories elsewhere. The Klan therefore becomes a source of worry for the old parties. ‘There will be republicans and democrats both for and against the Klan, at Madi- son Square Garden, in New York City, and at the Municipal Auditorium, in Cleveland. Underwood plans to get McAdoo’s scalp on the Klan issue. Among the broad masses of the workers and farmers there should be found only opposition to a the hooded night shirts. i Edwin J. Clark, former Grand Klug, Dragon and Titan of the Texas Klan, told a senate com- mittee the other day why the Klan is in politics, and why it selects certain types of candidates. The committee was investigating the election of Senator Mayfield, democrat, of Texas, and was informed that H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, wanted a senator elected from Texas, who could “get in touch with the big business interests, especially the railroads, and could even approach Standard Oil.” That was the basis of support going to Mayfield. He was that kind of a candidate. He was already a mem- ber of the Texas Railroad Commission. . No one has ever heard of the hooded gentry giving militant support to the working class. very worker and farmer recruited for the vile purpose of the cowardly Kluxers is a dividing and weakening of the’ranks of labor. There must be no division in the rising class Farmer-Labor movement on the Klan issue. Loyal- ty to class-should be the only loyalty of city and land labor. Any other loyalty is disloyalty. Let the Klan get support for its fascisti purposes from the oil, railroad and other big business profiteers. But let the Klan get no support from the working class. Without support from labor it must wither and die, because the employers will then have no use for it. Let it die. Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, will surely envy Sigman’s dictatorship in the Boston Convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. We wouldn’t be surprised if Ben cabled to Morris, “How did you do it?” And Morris could cable in reply, “Ask Abe Cahan.” And the anti-Communist alliance is established, Cee nel cn THE DAILY WORKER. Extreme reaction has been kicked out in both Paris and Tokio, These developments in France and Japan are supplementary to recent events in Germany, that gave 4,000,000 votes and 62.reichs- tag members to the Communists, and the lifting of a labor government to power in Great Britain. The Communists are credited with 26 members elected to the chamber of deputies of France, This was the first parliamentary struggle in which the French Communists engaged. The party had not yet been organized in 1919, when Poincare won power, The members it has had in the chamber of deputies were the few that came over after the break with the Socialist Party over the question of affiliation with the Communist International. It is conceded that with their 26 votes the Com- munists will hold the balance of power between Poincare’s “national bloc” and the so-called “so- cialist bloc,” made up of a motley array of parties calling themselves radicals, radical socialists, re- publican socialists and socialists. Only the.so- cialists, with 91 members elected, have any affilia- tion with the Second (Socialist) International. All the others are professedly bourgeois parties. The whole tendency in the socialist movement, now as always, is to over-emphasize, if not actually misinterpret, the significance of parliamentary election results. The victory of the British labor party was hailed as the millenium, while “The Leader,” official expression of American socialism, is satisfied with the recent results in Germany, where the reichstag strength of the social-demo- eracy was cut in half. The trend of political development in Europe, as elsewhere, since the war has been from reaction, thru mock democracy in some form, and then into fascism, the forerunner of the social revolution. Italy and Hungary are the classic examples of this development. Horthy and Mussolini rule on the ashes of bourgeois democracy.. The Ludendorff demonstration at Halle, last Sunday, with the con- sent of the Berlin government, would indicate that Germany is rapidly drifting in the same direction. Communism is the only power that can save France and England from a Mussolini or a Horthy. Under Communist standards the fight against capi- talism in these two countries has only just begun. The “socialist bloc” in the Versailles, at Paris, can no more lift France out of the capitalist chaos, into which the war plunged it, than the MacDonald labor government can usher in a new social order thruout the British Empire. What the French “socialist bloc” and labor rule in London can and may do, is to so disgust the workers and farmers with the “democracy” they had been lured into supporting, that they will un- wittingly turn about and give their allegiance to a fascist dictatorship. Socialist leadership has not, and will not learn the lessons of the rise of fascism to power in half a dozen European coun- tries. Only Communist leadership, teaching the masses the real functions and limits of parliamen- tary action, inspiring the workers and farmers with their own historic mission—to achieve their own emancipation—only such Communist leader- ship can saye the oppressed under capitalism from the terrors of a fascist dictatorship in France and Great Britain, the dictatorship of the exploiters that has claimed the blood of tens of thousands in Hungary and Italy. Wiza this realization comes the conviction that the fight for liberation has only just begune Against the paralyzing bosses’ reaction march on- ward the forees of the social revolution. The French elections in France mark a step forward only if the workers and farmers of France rally in sufficient numbers to the Communist Party and principles, and the same holds true for.every other country. Under the Red Thumb The red thumb of Moscow has gotten the edge By C, E. RUTHENBERG. Those persons who still believe that the Conference for Progressive Polit- ical Action will at its July 4th Convention form a political party and carry on an independent political fight can learn a lesson from the action of the C. P. P. A. in the state of California. The situation which exists In the state of California is the following. The old Farmer-Labor Party, the Non-Partisan League, the Socialist Party and the Workers Party have united in a call for a state convention to be held May 30th and June 1st for the formation of a state Farmer-Labor Party. \ OUR BOOK REVIEW SECTION A Great Adventure By ESTHER LOWELL, Since Leaving Home, by Albert Wehde. The Tremonia Publishing Company, Chicago. i ARM MR NG RA This call is having the support of all the workers and farmers of the state of California who are for inde- pendent political action by the work- ers and farmers, At the same time there exists in California a state com- mittee of the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action, which has the backing of the conservatives and re- actionaries in the Califorfiia labor movement. This state committee of the Conference for Progressive Polit- ical Action has just issued a call to all the local unions of the state of California, urging them to organize local groups of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. In this call there appears the fol- lowing paragraph: “Attention is called In this con- nection to a call recently issued for the formation of a new political party in California, to be known as the" FarmerLabor party. The | convention of the American Feder- ation of Labor, by a record vote of 25,066 against 1,895, rejected a res- olution favoring the formation of a new political party. The same American Federation of Labor con- vention urged the organized work- ers to be partisan to principles and not to be partisan to political par- ties. The last convention of the California State Federation of La- bor also voted against the forma- tion of a state Labor party, but ap- proved the formation of the State Conference for Progressive Polit- ical Action. The state building trades convention, which met re- cently at Sacramento, resolved to, do likewise.” The California Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action is frank. It plainly states in the paragraph quot- ed above its opposition to partisan political action by the workers and farmers. It is for the policy of Gomp- ers, to reward the friends and punish the enemies of labor. It even goes so far as to quote the decision of the American Federation of Labor con- vention against the formation of a Farmer-Labor party in the state of California. Same for the Nation. What is true in the state of Cali- fornia will be true on a national scale for the Conference for Progressive Political Action. The Conference for Progressive Poltical Action on July 4 may indorse LaFollette for the presi- dency, but will form no party to sup- Truly, this is the “story of a great adventure,” as the sub-title reads; but rather of great adventures than of a single stirring experience. It is a volume from which could be drawn this country. The reason why the Conference for Progressive Political Action cannot Bien: eer, Sanu aie: Olds Renee. 8 tales for a thousand-and-one nights quite clear.. The leaders of this group Fane t alfthe: dhe have too many intimate relations with Sn tereamnmen ts mag ot Republican and Democratic politi- cidents are hung on the life thread of cians, so-called “progressives,” who | man, the author of this unique refuse to break with the old parties, | #¥tobiography. for them to form a new party and to|, Ralph Chaplin, whom Wehde met make a clear-cut fight against the|{ Leavenworth, characterizes Wehde Republican and Democratic parties,| Well when he says: “In an age which There are too many friends of the| 4s for its ideal the meaningless pur- leaders of the Conference for Progres-|Suit of meaningless wealth, Albert sive Political Action still in the old] Wehde has séen fit to follow the shin- parties fr them to take this straight|ing road of adventure—lead where it course and to organize even a third | might.” party which will make an indepen-| From the -beginaing, when the dent political fight against the Repub-|youngster in Germany valued most lican and Democratic parties. among the treasures of the family Will Not Break Clean. chest the reminders of three uncles While the third party will have its|Who had met death far abroad in their expression in the Conference for Pro-|TOmantic venturings, Wehde was a gressive Political Action, it is not|Testless, eager seeker after the dis- likely to be organized as a party and ;tant places of earth and from then on carry on a fight as a party. It is|led a life of hazard and uncertainty, characteristic of the hesitation and|almost each day bringing startling vacilfation which is part of the ideol-|events. Startling events to any but ogy of the petty bourgeoisie repre-|the dare-devil, carefree descendants sented in the Conference for Progres-|of the spirits of the old explorers and sive Political Action that it is unwill-| buccaneers, soldiers-of-fortune in the ing and unable to make a clean break | better sense. and make a clean fight even in its} The more melodramatic parts of own interests. It will continue to|Wehde’s life would make corking vacillate and compromise with the/yarns for “Adventure” magazine. old political parties. They are fascinating in the condensed This development in relation to the|form which the autobiography com- Conference for Progressive Political| pels. But the most interesting inci- Action is but another proof that the| dents of the author's career to class- June 17 convention, with a clear-cut /conscious readers are those which Program of independent political ac-|/qeal with his early life as an immi- tion in the interests of farmers and| grant to this country. Wednesday, May 14, 1925 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY The Ku Klux Klan has not m much of an inroad on the employes the Pullman Company. Else his ow: ers would not allow Edward F, C: to accept the title of “Knight of St. Gregory” from the Pope, We are not informed what privileges go with the title, but a picture showed one of the honored ones holding Cardinal Munde- lein’s hat while some flunkey was kiss- ing his ring. We hardly think the Pope ‘will “knight” John Holmgren, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen who is leading the strike of the Pullman slaves for a little more of the good things of life. It would be interesting to know how much the Pullman Company paid his Holiness for the title. s. The new Cardinal had much to say about everything but the workers. He had honors for the lieutenants of Big. Business but not a word about the. i} “meek and lowly” that the meek and lowly Nazarene liked to be with. ‘e are not so sure that Jesus of Nazi ie was such a pacifist at that. Our opi. ion is that he was a fighting he-man, who got as mad as a hornet if he saw workers, is the only hope that the farmers and workers will be repre- sented in the political struggle this presidential year. There is no ques- tion about what the June 17 conven- tion will do. It will nominate candi- dates independent of the old political parties in the national election. It will advocate and support the forma- tion of state Farmer-Labor parties in every state of the union to nominate candidates on the Farmer-Labor party tickets. Will Clear the Air. The action of the California C. P. P. port his candidacy. This policy in the| A. will help clear the atmosphere. It state elections: will be the policy ad-| will help to prove to the farmers.and vocated by its California units. It| workers of this country that their slo- will support “good men” on the Re-|gan must be “On to St. Paul!” and publican and Democratic tickets.|“For a class Farmer-Labor party to This is the brand of progressive polit-|fight the political battles of the work- ical action which this organization|ers and farmers,” and “For the work- will offer the workers and farmers of!ers and farmers’ government.” - SALUTE THE FLAG! By KARL REEVE. It is well known to the old time vau- deville actor that the use of the American flag at the end of an act is a sure sign that the act is a failure. It is as if the booking manager said, Your act is rotten, but we will have a tableau at the end, showing « big American flag with colored light ef- fects, and you two singing, ‘Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue.” ‘Then the poor hicks will have to clap; on the white thumb of Paris, in exerting pressure upon the German government, and members of the Soviet Trade Mission arrested in the raid on the delegation’s offices have been released. It was certainly a spectacular manner in which the Berlin slaves of the Versailles Peace sought to rattle their chains to reassure their masters in Paris, that they loved them more than Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Rule in Soviet Russia. How willingly Ebert-Socialist rule lent itself to the purpose of French imperialism, in an effort to frame up evidence intended to shatter the Russo- British Conference in London. But, as Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party, pointed out, “They found nothing because there was nothing to find.” Under further pressure of Moscow’s | red thumb it may be expected that Berlin will surrend- er to other demands of the Soviet government: compensate all who have suffered and dismiss and punish not only all German officials who took par in the raid, but also those who organized it. The attack on the Soyiet offices has proved a boomerang in every way. In Germany the work- ers are given another look at the anti-labor char- acter of their government. In Russia the work- ers and farmers again rally in huge demonstra- tions to the support of their government, And all the time there is nothing so unstable as capitalist rule in Paris and in London. The power of the red thumb grows. In its issue of May 2nd, the Kern County, Cal., Union Leader publishes the Gompers’ publicity attacking the Communists, at the same time, how- ever, using its entire first page calling on the work- ers and farmers to boost Hiram Johnson and Wil- liam Gibbs McAdoo in the republican and demo- cratic primaries, We are of the opinion that we couldn’t choose our enemies any better. Let that stand. if they don’t they are unpatriotic.” “My country — right or wrong,” is the tradition taught in the school- rooms. Follow the flag at all times— show it respect no matter where it is or what it represents, even if dis- Played by a bunch of ham vaudeville actors. And we out in the audience have learned our lesson well. When a small group go down into Mexito to steal all the oil they can get their hands on, if their acts are done in the name of the American flag, out of patriotism, we must givé them all the support, possible, and be a party to the theft. .The American Legion is a small handful of cowardly rowdies, who, since the war, have endeavored to keep themselves before the American public at all cost. Their act. has not been going lately—they have sunk to the level of the three a day. Today, therefore, the American mn, de- generated to a bunch of ham actors, have taken up the old gag. ‘The Le- gionaires are hiding id the Amert- can flag. Relying on the’ phrase, “I pay allegiance to my flag,” which has been stamped into the American youth since childhood, they have fash- foned the American flag into pretty petticoats which at the same time make an attractive display, and pro- tect their flabby virtue from any dis- concerting attack. « The ruling of the Northwestern Uni- versity officials, therefore, that the students were within their rights when they dared to hiss a corpulent and overheated Sunday school teach- er while he was singing the “Star Spangled Banner’ and - frautically waving a huge American flag, was against all traditions, and formulates & new set of rules to govern stick- lers' for precise patriotic etiquette. The American Legion rowdies, led by this Sunday school clown, from force of habit, tried to turn a brilliant} and dignified address by Brent D. Al- linson into a vaudeville show. They soon learned however, that the intel- ligent Northwestern University stu- dents present were not interested in wn “amateur night.” Both the - ing of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and the Legion show as a whole seems to have fallen flat. The audience started leaving before the act was over. The most hopeful sign of the con- The lad came with a cousin to St. Louis in the early eighties and fell prey to the many fakers of that rough-and-ready day. (The fakers are still with us, more suave, more glib, better-financed). The under side of the young industrial America was not the smooth, golden road to a high position that it is painted by others. ‘When his puritanic uncle cast him out, the young lad fell among thieves, party ticket and to fight for their elec-|8°Me respectable on the surface and tion. It represents a clean break with |Totten beneath, some kindly inside the old parties and an equally clean|#24 hardened only as tife made them break with the Gompers and C. P, P,|Steal to live. The boy wandered down AZ policy of rewarding friends and|the Mississippi and found the life of punishing enemies of labor on old|# Migratory worker in the south more precarious than ever, involving com- petition with the Negro. Exotic Central American Exploits. Wehde’s Central American exploits were as exotic as the countries in which they took plate. They reveal the ready interference of British im- perialism in the affairs of the theatri- cal little republics. They are packed full of the jungle atmosphere, achiev- ed by keen-sensed description. They range from prospecting for gold to participating in revolutions and to searching for ruins of ancient civiliza- tions. All of them wonder-tales. For fourteen years in the middle of his life, Wehde lived quietly with his family in New York and later, Chicago, learning and working at |jewelry designing. Then the 1914 war came and the long-latent German feel- ing combined with the lure of daring, the unknown made the man offer himself as a secret agent to the Ger- man government. His work in the | Orient was nearly all made futile by the power of Britain over Japan, Chi- na, and the neutral Holland and Unit- ed States. _ This country’s entrance into the troversy over allowing pacifist stu-| WaT came while Wehde was returning, dents to express their opinion {s the ;after China’s severance of diplomatic fact that the college students are wak-|Télations had blocked the chances for ing up. The writer, for brief periods, has attended four colleges and uni- 'versities in this country. He recalls with no pride how the Harvard, Tufts, and Boston University students so willingly acted as strikebreakers in the Huston police strike; how college students tried to break the railroad and coal miner strikes. After listen- ing to a flag-waving polftician, called in-for the purpose, practically every student body in the country voted overwhelmingly to support the war. All that was needed in this action was 4 little flag waving demonstration. “No matter what your intellect tells you, or what your personal belief may be, the flag is in danger, and now is the time to rally to its sup- port,” we were told. Afraid of doing anything that might be interpreted as “bad form,” the students gave up their intellectual integrity to flock by the him to continue his work. On his ar- rival in Honolulu, he was arrested and brought on to Chicago, where he was railroaded to Leavenworth before that eminently self-righteous old wolf- in-the-sheep’s-garb, Judge .Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Finger Prints Can Be Forged. Prison disgusted the man who had endured innumerable hardships im- posed by adventuring, and the only al- leviating circumstances were his friendly relations with some of the I. W. W. political prisoners, among them Ralph Chaplin, There, too, he and a political prisoner who was se- cretary to the head of the Bureau of Identification, wrote the now deposed William J. Burns that fingerprints could not be forged, altho Wehde had many times proven to himself that they could be. Prison officials would not allow them to admit the discovery wholesale to the support of an unjust slaughter, “in the name of the flag.” ‘The students of Russia, France. and | Prestige. Germany, covered themselves with| The outrageous practice of buying glory as the leaders of the new revo-|Pardons became common knowledge lutionary movements. They were the |to Wehde and he knew well the high- first on the barricades, and were al-|handed manner the Inspector of Pris- ways willing to lend a hand to the|ons, Rev. Heber Votaw, brother-in- revolutionary workers. This is only |ldw of President Harding, disposed of natural, The students worshipped sci-|cases, by “intuition.” Of these evils, entific study. They arrived at the|as of other injustices he met in his same conclusion from a sciéntific|long career, Wehde writes always study of sobiology that the workers | with fairness, with eyes open to those arrived at from personal experience. |injured by official wrong-doing, by a It is a hopeful sign in these days of|wrong system of government, empty-headed American youths, that] In the end, after his release, when at least some students have cdme to|he remembers, “it is the cark hours the conclusion that if they must fol-|that seem the sweetest now; the low the flag, at least they have the|times when I was penniless; and col right to take a good, long look at the|rain was falling, and I knew not fellow who is carrying it. where to sleep; when I was lost and broken by panic in the forest; when the DAILY |death touched my sleeve or my Then get a new sub-| cheek.” In the end comes most clearly the Wehde had made for fear of losing Do you want to he WORKER? soriber, the Prince of the Church parade with soldiers and military display thru the streets of one of America’s principal slave cities. But Jesus, like many other martyrs, is dead and cannot de- fend himself against those who claim to be his followers. see William Dever, mayor of Chicago, humbly knelt and kissed the Cardi- nal’s ring in token of submission. Bow- ing the knee to a Prince. This will get our Nordic Protestants boiling mad. What is this republic of ours. coming to? Well, the fact is whether our crazy Ku Kluxers know it or not that Big Business knows, the Catholic Church is the only religious institu- tion that can effectively supply a spir- itual police force to the capitalist class to keep their slaves in submission. It isn’t for nothing that James Farrell, president of the Steel Trust honored Mundelein with a banquet, for “his services in the Chicago steel district.” The Pullman Company ‘and the Steel Trust and behind them both, J. P. Mor- gan who is the Vatican’s financial agent in the United States. ** @ The tremendous power wielded by the Catholic Church is not realized by, many radicals. Wise capitalist govern-) ments no longer fight Rome. They compromise with it. British govern- ments for a long time fought the Cath- olic Church in Ireland. But during the premiership of Pitt, that wily states- man, granted a large sum of money to that Church to build Maynooth Col- lege, a Catholic seminary for training priests. Richard Lalor Shiel, con- gratulating the government in the oc- casion of the Maynooth Grant of 1845 said: “You are taking a step in the right direction. You must not take the Catholic clergy into your pay, but you must take the Catholic clergy un- der your care... .” Is not a large standing army and a great constabul- atory force more expensive than th® moral police with which by the priest- hood of Ireland you can be thriftily and efficaciously supplied?” Well said and just as applicable now as then. Two red hats are a tremendous as- set to the American ruling class. They increase the prestige of the Bishops and their value to their masters, the capitalists. Ul a, a News dispatches tell us that soci- alists marched with the Fascisti and the monarchists in the Halle parade that wound up with the murder of several workers and the injury of scores. This is not surprising. Seven- ty-five per cent of the former mem- bership of the Socialist Party of In- diana joined the Ku Klux Klan and the writer met a man in Ohio, who was a member of the Socialist Party for nine years, who anonunced that he considered joining the Klan as it stood for things he always believed in. The collapse of the Socialist Party in Ger- many and the rapid rise of the Com- munist Party is about the best news for the workers of Europe that has broken for many months. “8 od Raymond Poincare has decided ~ quit. Like William J. Burns and M. Daugherty he stuck as long as he could. Poincare was certainly a will- ing tool of French capitalism and the international bankers. He sae a nice little engagement with Ramsey Mac- Donald but now somebody else will take the trip. How ungrateful the French people are? The man who sac- rificed himself for “French honor” by sending troops into the Ruhr, thus helping enslave the German workers, is now a tin can on the political dump heap. The prospects of recognition by France of the Soviet Republic are much brighter with Poincare’s fall, —_ recognition of the evil or tnings as they are. There is not the deep anal- ysis of one who has long studied life, but the keen seeing of the farce and the perplexity of him who has lived hard and then suddenly asks, “Why?” Wehde hears the working mi asking for “Peace” and then: “Ii here or there an articulate voice rises, it is snuffed out like a candle disturb- ing the work of robbers in the night.” He has written a book rich with life, a personal record that pushes no person too much on the stage; a book to read, to remember; and a book to live: unpoisoned, unprejudiced, @ Square account of a full life. a eer smaeeennnnnnes ncaa p. } j