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

” * Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per y i] $2.50 three months $2. (outside of Chicago): ar $3.50 six months 0 three mouths Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 0 VO os na eaitieatieaia , J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. a MORITZ J. eretgsecneresente OItOPS .. Business Manager 3 mail September 21, 1 o, Ill, under the act of I , at the post-office at Chi- arch’ 3, 1879. Entered as second-c Advertising rates on application. RP 290 Words of ic Slikeiaen | thank you, Mr, Root, for what you have sald, but if | have been able to render any seryice it. has never failed to find Inspiration and guidance in your achievements and counsels. I think we are here not so much to do honor to Mr. Hughes as to thank him for having done honor to us. There is no better test of the character of a people than that afforded by knowing what kind of man they honor and trust. —Mr. Elihu Root. —Mr. Charles Evans Maughes. These sentiments resounded thru the highly ornate and com- modious ball room of the Hotel Astor in New York during the course of a banquet given in honor of former Secretary of State Hughes. Mr. Root, who served in a former republican cabinet as secretary of state and whose most recent performance was helping formulate the principles of the world court of international justice, was the second honored guest. Gentlemen and scholars, both. The fulsome flattery the two statesmen accorded each other is further evidence of why the words of American diplomats are the jests gf European courts. Compared to old world statesmen they are pigmies. Tho one cannot impute to them a very high degree of intelligence, the banquet served the purpose of furthering the Wall Street cam-; paign in favor of this country entering the world court. It is not what the exquisite gentleman, Mr. Hughes, said of his esteemed pre- decessor, Mr. Root, or what Mr. Root said of Mr. Hughes, but what both these very polite gentlemen said of foreign relations that divulgés the motive of this affair at the Astor. It was staged as a political counter-blast to the campaign of Senator Borah against this country’s participation in the world court. One thousand politicians and ward heelers, described as “townsmen” of Mr. Hughes, were in attendance. Their job is now religiously to propagate the sentiments expressed there. At the coming session of congress the question of the world court will be the major problem of foreign policy. Wall Street is inclined to look with suspicion upon the Locarno conference as leading to- ward the creation of a grouping of European nations preparatory tos devising a means of resisting the steady inroads of American finance-capital. Tho unquestionably initiated by the British foreign secreta », Austen Chamberlain, in the hope of creating a “secur- ity pact” against the Soviet Union, the private conferences between representatives of al] the nations at Locarno seriously considered means of combating the extension of the Dawes plan for European nations according to opposition papers in Europe and such spokes- men for industrial capital in this country as the Chicago Tribune. Since the Locarno conference was called and future conferences will be called under the aegis of the league of nations it is necessary for the United States government to enter the league, even tho they enter, as Senator Borah says, thru the back door of the world court in order to prevent a European coalition dominated by Britain against the United States. Another noteworthy feature of the banquet was Mr. Root’s en- dorsement of Mr. Hughes’ policy in relation to the Soviet Union. The Hughes bogey of resising Bolshevik propaganda was praised as |’ an act‘of superlative statesmanship. Both Mr. Root and Mr. Hughes serve the Standard Oil company, which desires to crush Russia. It was in the interest of the Rockefeller combine that the famous Root mission, including the renegade socialist, Charles Edward Rus- sell, was sent to Russ The report was an oil report. And upon the basis of the report of the Root mission Mr. Hughes based his “policy” on Soviet Russia, and with the usual hypocrisy character- izing baptist statesmen, declared that Russia had an “immoral” form of government which the government of Harding, Hughes, Daugherty, Fall, Denby, Hoover & Co. could not deal with. But the real motive of Hughes was OIL, just as it was the sordid corruption of Teapot Dome that determined the policy of hi® co-worker, Mr. Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior. Hughes, as the good and faithful servant of Standard Oil, op- poses Russia because Rockefeller interests want to wrest from the Soviets the rich oil wells of Baku, and for no other reason. He favors the world court because he thinks that combination of international banditti can be used as a stepping stone toward the conquest of the revolution and the pillaging of the natural resources of that country, and because it may serve American imperialism against other European nations. The victorious revolution in Russia will, with its invincible arms, smash any conspiracy against them the day it is hatched and the Communists of this country and the world will do their part in destroying the effectiveness of imperialist ventures against the Soviet Union, including the world court. A Bryan University Dayton, Tennessee, the scene of the Scopes evolution trial, is to have a memorial university in commemoration of the late William Jennings Bryan. Speculation is rife regarding the curriculum of the university. It is taken for granted that nothing will be taught . there that has the remotest semblance of scientific knowledge. The late Bryan was the foremost apostle of ignorance of the past century. A garrulous old blackguard, he roared maledictions against every- body that publicly displayed the slightest knowledge of the facts of science or history. A true representative of the petty bourgeoisie of the middle west, he was the embodiment of all the vicious stupidity of that class. He presumed to talk about everything under the sun. Lack of knowledge never deterred his dogmatic harrangues. The less he knew of a subject the more he dwelt upon it. His latest quarrel with his ancestors made him the butt of ridicule of the whole civilized world. It is appropriate that the fundamentalists of Tennessee who placed a law upon the statute books forbidding the’ teaching of the most commonplace scientific facts should subscribe to a fund to erect a monument of infamy—name it after Bryan—and call it a university. But not forever can the inhabitants of even that «state dwell in the black night of fundamentalism. The time will come when the offspring of the present inhabitants of Tennessee will revere their ape-like ancestors of the pleistocene age much more than their more immediate ones. ne) 0 Pe A Get a member for the Workers Party and a) fey the DAILY WORKER. aca . * EDITOR'S NOTE:—This artitle was received some weeks ago, but owing to pressure of news and party mat- ters has not been published until now. T is seldom that a seemingly pure military matter engages the atten- tion ‘of the average mind as has the mis-named “Mitchell” episode. There are countless conflictifig speculations and a multitude of unbridgably di- vergent theories as to the meaning and outcome of the air-service con- trovers Yet there is a certain com- mon characteristic—they are all cen- tered around the personality of Mitchell. He is viewed as the. sole cause, the instigator and likely, cul- minator of the affair. The fact is, while the demoted brig- adier-general is circumstantially _ap- pearing in a principal role in the mat- ter—he is but a temporarily magni- fled cog of a machine. It is with the purpose of shielding from the’ public ye this machine and its plan to loot the public treasury for the extension of a ion, that attention is mislead- ngly focussed upon Mitchell. N attempt to get at the bottom of the air craft situatiow and its xccompanying entanglements ‘by’ a mere study of Mitchell’s publicly ad- vertised connection therewith—is to see*the “fat lady” and assume her to be the whole circus. Mitchell is made - conspicuous by publicity and the “ lady” by her poundage. Still, she is but a part of a_ circus, of which there are many side shows, all dominated by the “big tent,” for there in the big tent are found the principal actors as well as the man- ager and owners. The “big tent” in the “air circus” is Washington, D. C., the principal actor, the government, and the man- ager and owner, American capitalism. HE United States government like any other government is charged} with the duty of protecting the in- terests of its ruling class. Since the well-being of the ‘American ruling class rests upon the exploitation of the bulk of its own people, as well as commercial supremacy over those foreign capitalist groups, who com- pete with it on foreign soil—it be- comes the duty and task of the gov- ernment so to arm itself.as to enable it to subdue the potential enemies of American capitalism, both at home and in foreign spheres. For more than threeyears has the military eye of the goverfiment look- ed with jealousy and anxiety upon the threatening development of military {aviation of France and England, and | 80, to safeguard its master, American | capitalism, the government has. deter- ‘ided him with a forum/tn the shape vf the Coolidge air-board; The “go- asy"” attitude of the administration owards Mitchell is accountable by he following considerations: While Mitchell is shouting loudly for a “sep- wate” air service he is not less nolsy and persistent about an “adequate” ir service. ,The saying goes: “If you like the sow, you've got to like her litter.” Since the administration's goal is an “adequate” air service, and Mitchell advocates that, it allows him to speak of a separate air service, even tho it is not fully in accord with the latter proposal. Then theré is the pressure of the airplane interests, among. whom Mr. Henry Ford could be counted; they are for the Mitchell idea of a separate air department, because they see in its establishment the first step to- wards the discarding of the Philadel- phia naval air craft factory, as well as the engineering air-craft division | of the army, thus placing the produc- tion of military planes entirely into private hands. By removing govern- mental competition trom the fleld of plane production, the private produc- ers will be enabled to raise prices to their hearts’ content,. » A separate air serviee department, being free from army and particular-| ly from naval: restriction, which is now the case, will develop more rap- dly both in its efficiency and quantity ise of planes. A well-developeg mili- vary aviation will encourage and give moment: to civil ayiation-—all of which will mgan increased profits to the pro- ducers, No wonder they favor Mitchell, whose platform is: A “sep- arate” and “adequate” air service. The air service controversy is ad- vertised as a clash of opinions on the part of military heads and nothing more. While it is true that high mili- tary men differ in their opinions as to the administration of the air craft service (the reasons for which will be explained) the conflict is in real- ity between the ship building and steel interests on the one hand and the aviation interests on the other. it is easy enough for the administra- tion to disposé of disagreements be- tween military heads, by administer- ing a “silencing” spanking. But it cannot spank powerful financial groups, who are encouraging. and utilizing the conflicting opinions and traditional conservatism..of military and naval heads. E see that the military advocates of a separate aif service become the natural allies of afr plane pro- ducers. Their common desire is, a rapid and unckecked ‘development of aviation. The naval Officers’ and ship | mined to build up its own aviation to a point of being second to none. It is in this process of building its aviation that the government is com- pelled to consider and cope with a (number of factors, and it is this that | provides the Mitchell and other less | conspicuous side shows. HH administration must remember | + the next election. This demands a |gesture at economy. It is deemed | politically inexpedient to expend \large sums for military purposes, | without first paving the way for such jextravagance. To meet this problem, |that of not driving away votes, be+ cause of large aviation expenditures, |the administration has set out to |mold a favorable public opinion to- | wards such expenditures. This is done by a wide-spread propaganda in favor of air craft extension. Of this, the attempted propaganda trip of the | Shenandoah was a part, as well as jthe Hawaiian flight and the much- |heralded Mitchell affair. | NDER ordinary conditions “insub- ordination” or, “conduct unbe- coming an officer and ‘gentleman’ ”— of which Mitchell appears to be guil- \ty, is quietly disposed of by a court martial, because it is not conductive to military discipline to make a hero of an insubordinate, or a virtue of disrespect fo superior officers. Why, then, this about-face of military tra- dition in the case of Mitchell? Not only is there no attempt to silence Mitchell; on the contrary, a large sec- tion of the press is “front-paging” him, and President Coolidge has pro- builders’ interests also have a certain commonness’ of purpose; "to each for reasons of his own. Thé high naval officer of the old school, With its con- servatism ‘naturally views a new arm of service with skepticism, this is supplemented by 4 fear ‘of aviation developing to a height claimed for it by its proponents, ahd ‘thereby great- iy minimizing the impbrtance of the navy and hence the’ préstige of its officers. The high naval" officer par- ticularly, is fearingly mindful of the fact that an excellent military plane could be had for $20,000, while the cost of a modern battle ship reaches several million. It is up to the naval officer to prove that a three or four- million dollar battle ship could not easily be sunk by a $20,000 plane. This they are trying to,.do by not allowing aviation to show, up its ef- fectiveness to full advantage. Testi- mony to this may be had from the fact that during -the Hawaiian man- euvers commanded by naval officers, planes were not permitted to bomb ships from a normal height. A separate air service department will become a sort of free agent with a reputation of its own to make and maintain, even tho it be at the cost of naval growth and reputation. The naval officer is not against avi- ation as such; he merely wants con- trol of it, and to limit it, particularly when it threatens to surpass the navy in importance. That is why the naval officer is against a separate air serv- ice. The ship building interests view a CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS INCREASE IN U. S. S. R. WHILE NUMBER OF PAPERS DECREASE MOSCOW—(Tass.)—Nov. 12.—The total of newspapers in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is now 31.8 per cent less than in 1918 (586 against 859), but their daily circulation exceeds the pre-war figures by 10 per cent, having reached about the first.of January the total number of 7,356,263 copies daily, The daily circulation of the largest pre-war newspapers as the Russkoe Slovo, the Kopeika, and the Birjeyye Viedomosti used to issue about 700,000; the circulation of modern newspapers ¢————__—. as the Pravd&, the Izvestia, and the Krestianskaia Gazeta (Peasants’ Ga- zette), has gone over 1,500,000, The circulation of Soviet newspa- pers has grown almost six times com- pared with the figures of the second half of 1922, and every year it ap- proximately doubles. Workers’ Papers Lead. Before the revolution, the newspa- pers were divided into papers .con- taliing “Publicists’ Airticles, com- ments upon politics and literature,” newspapers “for people and the army” and “church” newspapers. Now they fall into groups according to separate social stratas they serve. Workmen's newspapers “are! 85 in number and hold the first place in circulation (2,814,087) :, Peasants’ papers are the most numer- ous; there were four of them before the revolution. Of the total number of newspapers appearing in the na- tional language 60 are peasant papers. National newspapers now peach the figure of 139 against 5 to 6 before the revolution, Besides, there are stveral small groups of papers; economic, co-operative, komsomoj (Communist Youth Union), children, military and miscellaneous papers, totally amount- ing to 110. Newspapers are being published ex- clusively by state, party, trade unions- co-operative and public organizations, Wall “Newspapers.” At every factory, mill, every insti- tution, large co-operative shops, al- most in every villags every school, club, military de and even in many large houses thus to justify the, replacement of the dirigible. This is, another reason for the appointment of the airboard as well as the investigation of the naval board. A third, and chief reason, for the creation of the board is: After the attention of the people has been prop- erly concentrated upon that commit- tee’s doings, the latter in due time— after the manner of such hand-picked committee, will with a great emphas- is show the dangers that lie in the meagerness of “our” air service. It is quite likely that this board will of- fer an elaborate plan for aviation ex- pansion, and it may even venture a plan of administration. GE nN Oawas PLAS < separate air service with suspicion; they see in it the ascent of aviation and the decline of the navy, and therefore, of their profits. Here we see the commonness of interest’ be- tween the naval officer and the ship builder, they are both for a limited development of aviation, one fearing the loss of profits and the other the loss of importance. { The Role of the Coolidge Air Board. The appointment of the Coolidge air board was motivated by the need of a forum for the advocacy of avia- tion extension, upon which, thru the press, the public mind could be di- rected and favorably impressed, not only by Mitchell’s insistence for ade- quate aviation, but by other witness- es appearing before this board, who, while differing as to how such an air service is to*be conducted, are at the same time in full agreement and speak loudly for aviation expansion. The disaster that befell the Shenan- doah on her aviation propaganda tour could not be passed up without some attempt to vindicate the guilty, and gazeta” (wall newspaper) being pub- lished commenting upon questions of interest to the particular organ- ization or locality. The total num- ber of such papers is over 30,000; they are being edited by local circles | is usually written Ly hand or a typ writer, supplied with hand drawings, mostly cartoons and pasted to the wall in a conspicuous place. Wall pa- pers are highly popular and have great success, Worker Correspondents, Voluntary correspondents from fac- tories, villages and institutions ‘are~ also contributing to large newspapers and magazines: The number of such correspondents affiliated to papers reaches one hundred and fifty thousand workers. Their task is by means ot their paper to throw light upon the life of the factory they work in. By disclosing faults, cases of negligence and crimes, the worker correspond- The Flying Colonel as Agent of Imperialism of correspondents. Such a newspaper |- oa terests could master in the house and senate. 1B all probability a new cabinet of- fice will be created under which the three distant arms of service will function, giving the air service great- er independence than before. The de- velopment of aviation in France and England will have its influence upon the next congress and the manner in which it will dispose of the air sery- episode. As to Mitchell, he will in all probability be retained Inpthe ervice. Should he resign of his own accord for reasons of persecution or demotion—the airplane interests will take good care of their invaluable spokesman. HE ‘above propaganda road that the administration is following will enablé it to appropriate money for aviation extension and at the same time will take ¢are of the “vote” aspect of the affair. The people will have been adequately propagandized, and in all probability the seventieth congress will be called upon to ap- propriate a large sum for the build- ing of aviation, as well as to formu- late a plan of administration. The fight is plainly between manu- facturing interests rather than be- tween military and naval heads, and the method of administering the air service will depend solely upon the number of votes those conflicting in- Now for the Fréneh Replica ofthe Dawes Plan. ‘| WORKERS CELEBRATE FOR RUSSIA BY HELPING SAVE DAILY WORKER Returns-are beginning to come in from the various cities in which meet- ings were held to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution; showing that workers realize that their best wishes for the Soviet are ex- pressed in the form of aid to The DAILY WORKER. When returns are com- plete, it is expected that almost a thousand dollars will be added to the rescue fund. In addition, the Jewish Dramatic Club of Cleveland sent $71.00, the pro- ceeds from a play recently given, which brings today’s total to $238.00, dis- tributed as follows: Freiheit Dramat Guzengs Ferein, Cleveland, O. Finnish Br., W. Street Nucleus 2, Pittsburgh, Pa. | Springlfield, Mass. (Soviet cele- bration) J. Dendur, Chicago, Tl. Slovak Br. 7, W. P., Newar!l 20.83 (by Paransky) ... 00) NJ. 10.00 Street Nucleus 1, Pittsburgh, English,N. S., W. P., Chicago. 7.00 8. Pa. ... nae 2.00 ‘lav , a Uniontown, Pa, (Soviet anniver- ere 7 pair Wak eee sary celebration) 12.00) minnish W, P. District 8, Chica- Newark, N.-J. (So go (Soviet celebration) esveineeee 5500 tion) Lee Holton, Granite City, IL Albert Grove, Seattle, Wash. English Br., W. P., Seattle, Wash, ... Total to date AID THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE BY SAVING THE DAILY WORKER! By Jack Bradon ents thus take an active part in building new life in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics. ’ Method of Extracting lodine, MOSCOW,—The Russian engineer Constantov has discovered a new means of obtaining iodine by means of electrolyte,,from ofl borings, The question of jucing fodine on the Apsheron tc is now being dis- cussed, “ + PRESS R”