The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1418 W. Washington Biyd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 Nn enna SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to } THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois ae eect ni) WILLIAM F. DUNNE {* | Business Manager MORITZ J. LOEB... Satered as second<class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, IiL, under the act of March 3, -1879. The Alignment at Locarno » “Pole and Ozech New Hurdle For Security Pact,” says the Ohioago Tribune’s headline over the dispatch from Locarno on Octo- ber 12. It can be said with certainty that this hurdle is of a height that not even the agile leaping diplomats of Francé, England and Germany will be able to surmount it without injury to the robber interests they represent. All observers at Locarno appear to agree on one point: That Germany will not concede to a guarantee of the existing Polish and OCzecho-Slovakian frontiers and on another point there is also substantial agreement, i. e., that if Foreign Minister Strese-] mann should make such an agreement his government would not last until his return to Berlin. The eastern frontiers established by the Versailles treaty and | allied conferences since that time are matters of life and death both to Germany and the little countries in the “cordon sanitaire.” For France, their revision means the loss of her prestige in eastern and southeastern Europe. Poland’s existence depends upon her control of the direct route to Soviet Russia. Dispatches state that the diplomats are seeking a “formula” | that will overcome the objections of the nations affected but no verbal | formula can eradicate the underlying national antagonisms which force the question to the fore. The only formula that will solve this problem is the military formula—cannon, troops, airplanes and poison gas. At Locarno, in spite of diplomatic verbiage, is seen the funda-. mental alignment in the world today—the Soviet power against world capitalism, the Communist International and the millions. of work-| ers and peasants under its leadership against world imperialism. The intensification of the conflict shows itself all the more clearly since it hurls itself into the discussions without the Soviet Union being represented officially. | An open breach may not show itself at Locarno. The mighty pressure of American finance-capital to which all the nations there) are indebted may prevent this, but the weaker powers will be sacri-| ficed to the stronger and the smouldering flames kindled by friction of warring interests will balk any real solution. Hearst’ s Political Rasheagtcs The failure of the New York agents of William Randolph Hearst to find a candidate to ryn in ‘the mayorality campaign ‘tifider the| Hearst banner has national political significance. Hylan,-tle present mayor, defeated by Tammany in the recent primaries, wad the crea- ture of: Hearst, but thru a combination of political cireiimstances had the endorsement of the Tammany in his previous’ campaigns. When it was definitely established that Hylan was out of the game, Hearst endeavored to find a suitable candidate that could de- fend the policies he represents. Hearst, thru his chain of powerful papers in the east, is the political leader of the petty-bourgeoisie—the small industrialists, shopkeepers, real estate sharks and strata of professionals not bound by economic ties to bank capital. The first choice of this political adventurer was Florio H. LaGuardia, former ‘republican congress- man who was re-elected on the LaFollette ticket last year. LaGuardia stands high in the councils of the third party forces in the middle west and had just returned to New York after playing an im- portant role in the campaign that sent young Bob LaFollette to the United States senate to take the seat of his deceased father. For a number of years Hearst has been endeavoring to bring under his domination someone with sufficient prestige among both the sordid petty-bourgeoisie elements of the east and the farmers and small businessmen of the west to forge the link that will unite THE DAILY WORK ER ei What Saklatvala Symbolizes - ARTIC L E LY; HE Chicago Tribune with its vici- ous denunciation of and the left wing of British dabor per the quotation with which the ‘third article of this series ended, speaks for the middle western capitalist class. | Its sentiments are echoed by the New} York Times, however, ington Post and pretty generally by |* the metropolitan’ press as a whole, | spoken of the is among his pedple without American imperialism naturally were united against’ the bill (a bill granting government aid to work- ing mothers—W. F/ D.) which was Communists| defeated, in spite of Mr. Joshi’s mov- ing speech. HE 150,000 mill hands mentioned are on strike as’ this is written and British imperialism is delighting in another terroristic orgy with the and the Wash- | strikers as the victims. But Saklatvala would not have terrible conditions speaking not greatly concerned over the decay{ of the anti-imperlalist spirit—that tre- of British industry but its interests|mendous new development in Great/are revolts of colonial peoples from as a part of world capitalism will not Britain—among the, British working allow it to contemplate the rise of the | Class in spite of their middle class British working class with anything | leaders, but fear and hatred. UST at present American imperial- | of MacDonald, who, Saklatvala is a Communist and he would have related the refusal when in the office ism is striving at Locarno for an|f premier, wrote to the Indian people agreement among the foremost Eu- the most cold-blooded and threatening ropean capitalist powers that will fum}letter ever sent by a British govern- stabilization of The proposed visit of Saklat-| ther credit. industry and} ™ent, to form a united front with the Communists against, British imperial- vala would have injected a jarring| ism and who opposes world trade un- note into the, on the surface, amicable | |ion unity with the same arguments relations between America and Great| Used by Baldwin, Britain. The Dawes plan was the first step| towards this stabilization but without) it cannot make} It is| political guarantees for any kind of permanency. only now that the workers of Ger- many, Holland and Switzerland are be- |ginning to understand clearly that the Dawes plan is a slave plan. In Ger- many already it has lengthened the working week in practice from 48 to 51 hours, in Holland to 50% hours, in Switzerland to 52. In all these cases the lengthening of hours has been ‘accompanied either by a reduc- tion in money wages, in real wages or both. The workers. are rallying again, urged on by bitter need. AKLATVALA could and would not have spoken about the oppression of the Indian workers without point- ing out the world wide character of |imperialism and its’ ceaseless attacks on the workers of all countries, He would have told us, for instance, of the statements of N. M. Joshi, rep- resentative of Indian labor at Geneva, before the Indian legislature: If there is a hell on earth it is in the city of Bombay . . . of the 150,- 000 mill hands in Bombay 95 per cent live in one room dwellings. According to the figures publish- ed by the labor office of Bombay the mortality of children under one year of age in these’ tenements is 828.5 per thousand. Children are born there only to die. ‘The correspondent of the London {Daily Herald who -gives this report | states that Joshi’s statements “were greeted with laughter”—by the repre- ACDONALD says that if the Brit- ish labor party were “to toy with revolution it would rightly forfeit the confidence of all who, had heads to think and minds to, gontrol action,” but Britain faces a revolutionary sit- uation and refusal.,to. prepare the working class for it is.support of the imperialists. Ramsay MacDonald .does not like Saklatvala because Saklatvala is for the destruction of the slavehdlding British empire and it is noticeable that the American press, in dealing with the Saklatvala controversy and the swing of British labor to the left, is careful to speak kindly of the Mac- Donaldites in the labor party. AKLATVALA might have quoted Lord Parmoor on British war ex- penditures, a substantial portion of which is for the purpose of equipping the colonial punitive expeditions and armies of occupation which British im- perialism maintains in Africa, Egypt, China and India. Said Lord Parmoor on Sept. 25 in an yarsrwiow to the ; Press: “f For expenditure, on past wars and to provide for future was, Great Britain is staggering Under the an- nual charge of 540,000,000 pounds. How can constancy of industrial prosperity be expected under such a burden? Now comes the threat of war with Turkey, which cannot be disassociated fromthe general questions that arise between the East and West. > ORD PARMOOR di@ not but Sak- latvala would re pointed out the real basis of “the general ques- sentatives of British and Indian capi-| tions which arise between the East tal.. He adds: Thus the government and tHe cap- italists, both European and Indian, and West” is the robbery of the work- ors and peasants of the East by the imperialists of the West. Britain’s attempt to grab-the oil de- posits of Mosul and enslave the Mo- hammedan tribesmen there cannot be separated from “the general questions that arise between the East and: West.” In Mosul is another danger spot for British imperialism and Sak- latvala would have said—and truly— that the Mostl question is not entirely a matter of oil. If Turkey gets Mosul she will get Mesopotamia and the British land route to India will be > cut in two. No, in this day ahd age, When there the Riff to Shanghai and when the beginning of a liberation movement can be discerned even in America’s precious Philippines, imperialism, | whether it be British or American, wants no Sakltavala running at large, UT the closest-knit unity between | America and Great Britain ig found in their actions towards the Soviet Union. It is so obvious that it seems scarcely necessary to call attention to it. It is fear of working class support of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia that drives the imperialists to such open violations of their bourgeois-democrat- ic legalities as the exclusion of Sak- latvala. This is to be found in the attitude of the American capitalist press to- [fey Purcell. He was treated as any other fraternal delegate to an A. F, of L, convention until-he urged world trade union unity with the All Russian unions as integral part of the trade union international. Then the floodgates of capitalist wrath were opened and beginning with President Green every toady of Wall Street has denuonced him as “aw enemy of la- bor and society.” ‘EAavices imperial- ism is never so righteously indignanat as when it finds someone trying to teach its hand-fed labor movement a little class consciousness and if in addition to this the offender speaks a good word for the Soviet Union, he must be cast into the outer darkness. HIS is, in fact, exactly what the Washington Post proposes to do with Purcell. In a recent issue it has this and more to say of the chairman of the International Trade Unions: Purcell is an advocate of world revolution. He represents the agi- tators who have led so many Brit- ish workingmen into the toils of Communism. Whether Purcell is i wittingly an agent of Moscow or whether he is merely a tool of the destroyers of organized labor/ does not appear, but his own writings show that he is working to stir up { @ world revolution for the over- throw of organized governments. In the August number of Trade Un- ion Unity, of which he is-joint dei- tor, he wrote: Federation of THE FINAL DAMNATION ‘AVE after wave of. damnation from the official ecclesiastics of the Protestant Episcopal church rolled over the head_of the Right val William Montgomery Brown, bishop of Arkansas, during his various trials for heresy. The final, the culminat- ing inundation swept over him last week during the sessions of the house of bishops at New Orleans, which re- affirmed the judgment of two prev- ious church courts, adjudging him an heretic, The original trial instituted against him because of the publication of his these two elements preparatory to a drive to create a third party in whose councils he:could play a leading role. LaGuardia refused to permit himself to be experimented with in this manner as he probably knows full well that the Middle West petty-bourgeoisie, befuddled as they are, at least know enough to _ keep clear of any alliances with such an unscrupulous scoundrel as Hearst. ‘ The labor elements interested in the third party movement, tho they endorse the most shameless betrayals of the working class, un- der the guise of collective bargaining, could not accept Hearst, in view of his recent record as a strikebreaker and. scab herder. This political sidelight on the New York elections does not mean merely the elimination of Hearst; it also indicates the improbability of a revival of the third party movement. 1,885,870 People—44 Political Parties .. Forty- four parties took part in the recent elections in Latvia. Twen- Geix of these parties succeeded in electing candidates to parliament. Latvia has a population of 1,885,870 and an area of 25,000 square miles. In Holland, with a population of approximately 7, 000,000, some 26 parties took part in the last elections. What does the mushroom growth of political parties in these Uittle countries mean? Simply that’ capitalist democracy there has broken down completely—has become a farce. Latvia exists solely because she offers a convenient battle ground for the contesting forces of the working class and world imperialism—controlling the best trade routes to Soviet Russia. The Latvian government is a creature of British imperialism. It is a dictatorship, the Communist Party is outlawed, and legislative man- dates having no meaning, the elections become comic opera affairs with every shade of personal and economic interest having its own The name is trié largely of Belgium, Holland and other “neutral zones” set up by, the great powers. The fate of” Belgium ix decided by France and Dngland and its bourgeois and petty: bourgeois parties must orientate themselves towards one or the other. Latvia must choose between Soviet Russia and western impérialism. The class struggle in Latvia is so sharp that the franchise is meaningless—even the issue of wages and*hours between the workers and peasants and the rulers can be settled ag he“ atruggle. book “Communism and Christianism,” which yas based upon, the slogan: “Bansih gods from the skies and capitalists from the earth!” resulted in a sentence of deposal from the house of bishops on March 31, 1924, A court of review on Jan. 15 of this year upheld the previous conviction and it was ratified by the house of bishops last Thursday. Today (Mon- day, Oct, 12) the venerable ecclesias- tic is summoned to St. Paul’s' episco- pal church in New Orleans where the ; presiding bishop, the most Rey,,Eth- elbert Talbot, will formally excom- municate him from .the church, HO the recipient herctofore of what passes for honors in the church, this act of excommunication is the highest honor that has been be- stowed upon Bishop Brown or that can be bestowed by any church upon any human being. To be damned by an aggregation basing its very exist- ence upon a lie, to be excommunicated from a set of creatures in human form who pollute the minds of chil- dren with the filthy, obscene and slavish doctrine of the christian relig- ion, to hé reviled by these capitalist lackeys who bless with pious words the capitalist butchers of the worl@ for every blood-bath administered to \the working class is an honor. ‘To be ex- cluded from association with the bishops of.the Protestant Episcopal church, that harbor as one of their leading lights such an intellectual at- avism as the cathe@ral builder, Bishop William T. Manning, of New York, is to be distinguished before all people possessing even a modicum of what passes for intelligenge and the fun- damewtals of modern education, UT, in considering the unfrocking of William Montgomery Brown, erstwhile bishop of Arkansas, one question inevitably arises: Why did he continue to associate himself with that the whole thing*was a hoax and that the doctrine they»teach a mon- strous lie? s Again: Why did hé,‘at New Orleans, .|on the very eve of his final excom- munication, painfully ‘and with falter- ing steps bearing his more than three seore and ten yeafs; march in the medieval parade of bishops and even in Christ church, participate in the communion services,"Which every per- | son on earth knows is’ #urvival of can- nibalistic ritual, when mankind in its infancy actually ate the body and drank the blood of savage gods? Why did this heretic of the church who claims to embrace Marxism and Darwinism so degrade himself as to grovel before the altar in a church when he knows that that church is merely the survival of the sheltering structure of the tomb and the altar a survival of the tomb itself, of the dead ancestors of savages? PERUSAL of the book for which he was tried reyeals the reason for these contradictory ‘actions. In this book Bishop Brown heralds a new church and a new religion. But tho im theory he repudiates the mo- tive for the practice. of-religious mum- mery, he desires to, maintain it in Practice. The hi sacrament, of which he partook, with the bishops that were about tg excommunicate him, symbolized to, them the drinking of the blood and eating the body of Jesus; to him it symbolizes an act of reverence to humanity. But to him, as to them it represented symbolism, unreality, the mummery of religion. They worshiped Jehovah, the god of the slave masters, le his god rep- resented humanity, ,, In-a speech befgre the Labor De- tense Council at Cincinnati, Bishop Brown said: “1 banished the, gonscious person- al gods, not excepting the christian god, from the skies as realities, tho | still retain them there to be used as symbols of the real god.” ANY sentimental evolutionists, in their naivete, imagine his book, with its propaganda of a new symbolism, based upon the ritual of the old christian “symbolism, is ex- tremely revolutionary and adopt it as a text book for themselves, or a Propaganda tract for prospective “converts,” by . These comrades) do not percieve that the result df ‘accepting such a doctrine as that'd Bishop Brown means to perpetuate @ clergy, a ‘thes@ vultures of capitalist ecclesias-| church and all of relig- ti after he became convinced| ion,“even tho that ubstitutes: sea a humanity. in place of other gods, Such an attitude is certainly not worthy of one who calls himself a revolutionist. The revohitionist needs no numbling ‘of litanies, no obla- tions “to any sort of god, no. Socratic worship of the “good, the true and the beautiful,” no soft, sweet formu- las to guide it on its road to emanci- pation from capitalism. The one thing required, is, to quote the words of Antonio Labriola, “that accumulation of energy, that concen- tration of force and continuity of re- sistance” necessary to sweep the capitalist class from power. NE may: read Bishop Brown’s book in vain for any semblance of that determination to creete a mighty pro- letarian party, a revolutionary van- guard of the working class, totally de- void of any abstract sentiments, such as worship of humanity, a party that is determined.to take up the struggle for power, not by persuading ishops and other lackeys and scullions of capitalism that our cause is just, but by relentlessly scourging from the earth every vestige of the power upon which that class rests, The church and the clergy are in There is only one solution to the problem of war, just as there is only one way to secure a uni- versal one-hour day, to say noth- ing of the six-hour day that may be possible when industry. is con- trolled by the workers. Tht -way™ is the positive militant interna- tional unity of the organized work- ing class, consciously directed to the overthrow of capitalism. In that way alone can we defeat our selves against capitalism's pres- ent world offensive. These-are the words of Lenin and ; Trotsky, repeated by Purcell. What is this Communist doing at a meet- ing of the American Federation of Labor? How did hé smuggle him- self into the United States in vio- lation of the law excluding Com- munists and agitators of Commun- ist doctrines? What is: the bureau of immigration doing that it permits a Communist to violate the act of June 5, 1920? What about. it, Mr. Commissioner General Hull? REEN, since his‘attack on Purcell, has become the’ angel flaming sword guarding the Eden of American capitalism, Purcell is not a Communist but he is a fighter for “thé positive militant international unity ofthe organized working class consciously directed to the overthrow of capitalism.” He too is a danger to British and American imperialism but he is not a Communist like Saklatyala. More- over, even British imperialists are not yet desperate enuf to brave the storm his exclusion would have aroused. Had he said no werd in favor of the Soviet Republics and the unions which are its foundation, he would have been left to.go his way in peace. have said before that Saklat- vala and Purcell in America at, the same time was more than Britfsh and American imperialism could stom- ach, They want no such exposures from the lips of a ‘colonial subject in America as is contained in Lansbury’s Sunday Worker for September 27, while the chairman of the Amsterdam International urges unity with the Russian unions from the platform of an A. F. of L, convention. British fm- perialism still has work for Ramsay MacDonald to do and it does not want his usefulness in misleading . both American and_ British worker de- stroyed, | SAAT ALA would probably have told his ment audiences of the agree- entered while occupying, as a representative of the workers, the office that Bald- win now holds. The following quo- tation from the-Sunday Worker, con- tained in a storyvouched for by its correspondent, sheds a glaring light on the efforts:to ‘keep out.of the Unit- with the|* into with Bulgaria | against Soviet Russia by MacDonald ! By William F. Dunne ed States a frierid of the Soviet Union against which every British govern- ment, including the MacDonald gov- ernment, has plotted with ameriegn assistance: In September, 1924, Mr. J. Ram- Say MacDonald) labor prime minis- ter of Great Britain, was the chief British delegate to the league of ria tions assembly at Geneva. A rep resentative of the Bulgarian gov- ernment was also present, and he sought the opportunity of a private conversation with Mr. MacDonald. It w posite to reveal the im- pressions which Mr. MacDonald gave to that representative. At the outset, despite the fact that the Zankov government had *come into power by the murder of Stambrlisky Oeleithat murders of its political‘ opportents were even then almost’a Waily occurrence, the labor prime ‘minister was expansive towards Zankov's representative. The British: labor government, he said, was disposed to come to an agreement ‘with Bulgaria.. The Bulgarian delegate had put forward some’ of Bulgaria’s de mands, such as an outlet on the Aegean Sea, a settlement of the minorities and reparations ques- tions, and’a larger army. Then he turned to the “Bolshe- vik peril,” 6n which subject the Bulgarian delegate had been. skill- fully insistent. The British labor prime minister assured the repre- sentative of the Zankov government of his personal support, and that of his cabinet, in the fight against this “Bolshevik peril.” He explained that it was the object of ‘the British government to build a barrier be- tween Soviet Russia and the rest of. Europe. Therefore, a few weeks after- wards, Kalfoff was able to assure the Bulgarian cabinet of British support, and to urge that it should go confidently forward with its cam- paign of repression by imprison- ment and murder of the Commun- ists and should keep up its demands on the allies for a larger army. It was not until after the Sofia bomb affair, last April, that the per- mission for a larger army was giv- en, temporarily, and it is true that Mr Austen Chamberlain was then atethe foreign office. But the en- couragement to Zankov to continue on his bloody path, which led to those /horrors of the spring and summer, was given directly from the mouth of Mr. Ramsay MacDon- ald. And it was given in order that this butcher Zankov might be used as a the’ tool for preparing “a bar- ‘ ‘net the workers’ repub- lie of Russia. That was the deed Hs Britain’s first labor prime min- ister. (To be continued.) dire straits before the rise of the pro- letarian revolution and it is this revo- lution that has shed a few rays of its light into the mind of the former bish- op of Arkansas. Just as there were princes of the medieval church that gave religious sanction to the rising bourgeoisie in its struggle against feudalism, so we have the spectacle of churchmen trying to reconcile relig- ion with the proletarian revolution, But while every other class in the de- velopment of society had need of re- ligion, the victorious working class will find no place for it for the simple reason that, as Marx pointed out, when there is no need for illusions, all forms of religion will disappear. 10 advocate preservation of the rit- ual of religion without its sub- stante is just as anti-Marxian as’ to embrace the whole creed of orthodox religion; and the religion of the “son of man” is, as Marx emphasized, in reality the esence of capitalist relig- fom o£ “For a society. based upon the production of commodities, in which the producers in. general enter into social relations with one ‘another by treating their products as com- By H. M. Wicks modities and values, whereby they reduce\thelr individual labor to the standard of homogenous human la bor—for such a society christian: ity with its cultus of abstract man is the most fitting form of religion.” (Karl Marx: Capital, Part |, Chap ter 1.) And certainly it is rendering a @ub- ious service to the revolution to try, as does Bishop Brown, to turn Marx- ism, itself, into a religion of human- ity. He does not thereby strike a blow at capitalism, but at the revolu- tion by vitiatiig the very fountain- head of its theory, While we do not place Bishop Brown in the category of his enemies —the Mannings and ‘others of ~that type—who assail with their ignorant vituperation the struggles of the work- ing class, we must not refrain from reminding this nice old gentleman that there is such a thing as killing one with kindness and we will not permit him, even with the best of in- tentions, to entice the revolution into the stagnant swamp of a religion of abstract man or befog the minds of the workers with any kind of super- stitious nonsense, pA SESE TEE ARRON ODT i i A aha RT rena ee ae AN Re le _ A Review “Desire Under the Elms” 2 4 5 . Pictures New England By H, M. WICKS. The long heralded Eugene O'Neill play, “Desire Under the Elms,” reach- ed Chicago tast night and was dis- played at the Princess Theater. It is not a play that will be enthusiastically acclaimed by the ku klux klan, and other halfwit advocates of the suprem- acy of white, nordic, protestant, native-born 100% Americans, for it shows one of the units of this tribe vegetating on a New England farm, worshiping Jehovah with puritanic fervor and incidentally stealing, com- mitting adultery and butchering a baby. A delightful family, When old Epbriam Cabpt returns home after a “whoring” expedition (to use the terminology of one of his sons), the two eldest of his, three sons hot-foot it for the gold flelds of “Cal-- for-nia” leaving the youngest, Eben, to inhabit the family homestead with the bride and groom, The new wife and stepmother is young and as vivacious can be, Her first hus’ - drunkard and loafer and her second is ran old, hell-howling, bible-fumbling despot whose best days have been spent digging rocks out of the—soil and converting them into fences sur- rounding his property so that he could raise crops on the cleared land. Cer- inly not a romantic mate for a young widow. But there is ‘yourik Eben, the son of old Ephriam. The new wife seduces him, When ‘the child comes the old man thinks’{tis his. A hilari- ous New England hoe-down is ar- ranged to celebrate the new arrival. The whole feighborhood attends and enjoys itself at the expense of the old buzzard who struts with pride, considering it an achievement, at his age, to become a father, But every- one knows of the “affair” between the wife and her step-son, The dizzy aftermath of the party causes young Eben to question the her devotion she kills the infant, ites the butchery the son mistakes her frightened story and thinks it is the ais man she has murdered, and {s erjoyed, When he learns. 1@ facts he rushes for the sheriff, ie returning he repents his rash “act tid wants the with him when ae Se The old man returns from the barn where he has been holding commun- ion with the cows “who are more human,” and blames the whole affair on his god in the skies, While the play bears the customary O'Neill crudities, reminiscent of the mejodramas of the past generation, it has moments of character delineation that are impressive and the setting, the plot and ‘the acting give one glimpses of the ‘real New England— the Down Hast of Calvin Coolldge, of Cotton Mather, of Professor Elliott, | and a host’ of ‘other luminaries, The acting of Mr. Walter Huston, who plays old Ephriam magnificently, saves the play trom becoming at times ludicrous because of the O'Neill technique (or lack of technique). Mary Morris, the only woman in the cast, ‘plays the difficult role of the wife with a sustained emotionalism that love of the woman for him. To prove| Places her among the best on the American stage, By all méans if you want a hearty laugh at down-east Teeneran barley see “Desire Under the Elms,” foie eh meddlesome creatures who por Plays in Chicago and in gen- eral interfere with other people's morals—because they themselves rot A none to bother about—stert their! crusade to rie its performance,