The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 7

cause when my body does my work the other part which is me does the yearning and thinking. No sooner do I go into the kitchen ] CALL it household philosophy be- than systems of life and happiness be-, gin to shape themselves within me. I, too, lay down rules for womankind. I write theories and draw conclusions. A kitchen is a necessity where one must spend the minimum of time pro- vided one can have some compensa- tion. In my kitehen I quarrel with philosophers. I admire some of them, am puzzled before others. To free herself from housework a woman must learn to cheat Duty. Many are the ways of stealing time out of a household. A working woman must learn to unlearn all along. She must try to disentangle the necessary work from the accessory one. She must learn the art to remain indiffer- ent over futilities. She must learn to look ahead and overlook. Never iron anything except the outer garments for children. Do not worry over the looks of the linen in the closets, but worry over the state of your intellect. Be hungry to learn and to teach. Not that any one will appreciate it. On the contrary. But hunger of wis- But if you succeed a little you have something which counts. If you have children prepare your- self to meet their questions. They will be your severest eritics and best judges. Shun the futile pleasure, vain dis- tractions and empty minds. Save your minutes like the miser his cents, and you'll grow rich and happy. De not follow the advice of kind- hearted moralists who want you to be good and spend yourself in a thousand ways, all unsatisfactory and wasteful. Be good only when you do not know Thow to be just. Never forget that charity is the grandmother who jpatches up and you are the youth who builds all anew. Beware of the charitable souls who want to enlist you in a benevolent piece of work. If you patch up you cannot destroy. Let kind souls do the repairing and women of vision do the constructing. Be strong. Be fearless. Go to the root of all human misery and take your place in the ranks of the soldiers who battle against the oddest ends. ‘The job is thankless but most gratify- ing after a while. It is easy to give money and claim a right to gratitude; try to explain to the slave the cause of his bondage and help him against himself. Whatever you'll do know that many will doubt your motives but do not! fret. The joy of destroying the walls of prejudice is the God within you. ‘This God approves. Eat simple food. Little souls have time for complicated dishes. Everyone could make a pie. The choosen few can work for the future. HOUSEHOLD PHILQSOPHY - Be clean, but do not convert ywour- self into a scrubbing tool. After two hours labor in the home iet the time be your own and loaf with the poets and rebels’ Act. Give a little to the truth which was given to you. The truth belongs to all. i Cater only to the health of those entrusted to you. You do not owe them more. By refining the unfinished product you become fit to be a leader of your own dear ones and others. Never talk and think kitchen except for the moment. Talk and think of your duties toward the unenlightened. Millions are living on crusts and peel- ings on this little globe of ours. Cakes and jams and goodies are necessary for your children. But if you help us build the kitchen for child- hood, all the little ones will have a pass free. Dresses. Cyrano: “Moi c’est moralement que thes elegnaces.” (I am elegant only morally.) Be as nice and elegant as you can on the minimum of time. Remember one hour more or less of cross-stitches on the bottom of your skirt will not win any victory. With whom do you compete in dresses? Try as hard as you can, you'll always be the looser with Dame Style. To be beautiful you only need taste and common sense. Embroidery and beads cannot turn the trick. ‘What joy is there to wear the latest hat or the latest coat? Today the sisters are wearing cast-off garments which date a few years all over Europe. Those who live to take in another day of Vanity and joy, remind me of By Mina Eskenazi |the man who catches the last branch jon the last tree when the floods are jrising higher and higher. | Fineries and beauty and art belong \to the few under the wage system. Be happy with the few joys the capi- talist cannot rob you of. Service, co- operation, self-expression and hard ac- quired leisure. They want you to be happy with a phonograph instead of the opera. They enjoy the country and send you the prints of their gowns in the Sun- day Times. Imitating them, you look like clowns, why not disdain the dic- tates of fashion and turn your atten- tion to the subtle ways of enslaving which are theirs. Think of Silk stockings for them and for you. For you it means more labor, more mendings, more indoor. A new gown for them. Remodeling and fixing and sighing for you. Why dance to their music? They can go far while you turn around yourself and fall dizzy to the ground. Give up the wild chase and give to youth its enthusiasm back. Fight the vanity within and disdain their leadership in fashion not by necessity but by choice. Feathers and gold and jewels and gowns are the ornaments of fairyland. Let’s all fight for the fairy land and find happiness by covering ourselves with an armor of indifference to the idols of the fashionable world. Do not waste your time, do not waste your admiration. You need the time for thankless tasks, love for the dispised millions of oppressed, and the admiration for the martyrs who rot in the jails for saying and doing what they mean. The Defeat of United States Agriculture these independents to appropriate this|States in world markets during the value and thus to limit the field of |considered period. By 0. PREEDIN. (Continued from last issue.) The rapid growth of “land values” during last decades shows in what de- ownership succeeded already to in-| troduce the new division of surplus- the United States. Certainly, “prethren capitalists” continue to de- mand from farmers the old contribu- Then vote for the Communists. exploitation of financial capital. ‘HIS is the most abnormal and un- INCE 1920 “land-values” were here in decrease: according to es- admissible thing under the rule of |timates of the United States depart- gree and how far established tand|financial capital. The results of the struggle for land |of plow lands decreased from $90 in rent, the plight of masses of farmers /1920 to $83.78 per acre in 1921; $69.89 immediately after the war-time boom /in 1922, $66.58 in 1923 and to $64.38 in show that financial capital succeeded |March, 1924. This decrease is a di- too well in these engagements with /rect result of a decrease of prices of farmers. Complete control of agricul-|agricultural products as called for by ture, power to appropriate all surplus- value produced in agriculture finan- cial capital can have and intends to reach thru complete actual ownership of all land. The growth of “land values” during |the last decade expressed the change lof relations in agriculture in forms adoptable to the rule of financial cap- ital. The farmer’s system, the old capitalism in agriculture of the United States was modified in an integral part of imperialism as in form so in substance. How the imperialistic holders. It can be increased on ac- count of wages of workers and on ac- count of profits of capitalistic tenants. Under certain circumstances land rent is a weapon for those actions what K. Marx called an “expropriation ment of agriculture average “value” re-established competition on world’s market, of which the domestic market of the United States is a part and will be a part disregarding of the tariff walls. OM a similar decrease of rents in the agricultural crisis of Euro- pean countries big landholders lost very much of their power and even their holdings. Contrary to that, thanks to the fact that centralized land- decrease of land rent from its posses- sions is offsetted for financial capital by imcreased area of possessions on account of bankrupted farmers. ported: “Many young farmers who had saved several thousand dollars during the prosperous years were induced to buy farms on contract at the price making small payments down, with provision for yearly payments of production of the overrented country |interest and the principal on pain of is uncomparatively higher than in ac- \forfeiture of all sums previously paid. cording foreign countries where rents|The sadly unprofitable year of 1920 are lower. these fine IS quotation gives us some con- ception about “annexation of small capitals” by financial rules. Trying to explain that the time, “the years” but not the bloody operations and murderers’ order which rests on such operations, “finished” thousands of “fine young men,” the secretary of agriculture states their losses, which were fine legal profits of financial capital on investments in landhold- ings. Here we can see that in the form of owner-farmers can appear for some time masses of “people with moderate means” whose real position and dependence is worse than that of tenants. The system of owner-farm- ers, as it existed before, maintained in form in conditions with established land ownership with the help of mort- ‘gases, represents in reality a system of expropriation of savings of small owners. ‘HE present agriculture of the United States in its real class re- lations, as an integral part of imperial- istic order, acting under heavy explo- itation of financial capital, cannot es- cape defeats on world’s market, be- cause development of its productive forces cannot always keep pace with the increase of the degree of exploita- tion. In these relations frustration of production on large scale is the only “natural” regulator of the degree of exploitation, if exploited classes do not know how to use their power. (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jane 6.—Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labor, has intro- duced in the Senate a resolution call- ing for the summoning of an interna- tional conference of the powers to dis- cuss the abolition of military con- scription. 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