The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 3

GERMANY CANNOT PAY DAWES PLAN SUMS, SAYS HEPP Hasn’t Begun Yet and Never Can Begin (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, July 16.—Germany cannot meet the demands of the Dawes plan, declares Karl Hepp, president of the German Agricultural League in an in- terview. He says: “We are still in the first period, or ‘breathing spell’ granted Germany in her paymonts, which the Dawes plan calls the period of budget moratorium. In spite of this, economic conditions are characterized by an unprecedented agrarian crisis, by steadily rising na- tional debt, by bankruptcy of large industrial concerns and a multitude of individual businesses, by widespread unemployment and a passivity of the trade balance. Complete Collapse Coming. “This situation confirms with ap- palling clearness that in the estimate of Germany's future economic possi- bilities, and in the technical economic solutions proposed, the Dawes-com- mission acted on erroneous pre-suppo- sitions, The closer we approach the normal Dawes payments of 2,500,000,- 000 marks a year, the more the pres- ent German business depression will become a complete collapse. “Owen Young in January. this year characterized the assumption that Germany could really make the pay- ments of the Dawes plan as absurd, A Dilemma. “The Dawes plan declares it to be self-evident that ultimately Germany can pay only from her export surplus. The Dawes creditors, however, are one in preventing German exports, “Contrary to the definite assurances made by Woodrow Wilson when Ger man laid down her arms, the treaty of Versailles and even the Dawes plan ‘are based on the mistaken notion that a single nation could pay the cost of the greatest war in history, and that billions could be extorted from it for an indefinite period.” **. © Mark Buyers Stung. WASHINGTON, July 16, — Huge losses will be sustained in widespread speculation now going on in the United States in bank notes and bonds of the old German mark issues, the German embassy warns the American public in a statement. The paper mark cur- rency, after having lost its value, was abolished altogether by Germany, the ambassy explains. German Socialists Ask Aid of U.S. Be Given French Franc (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, July 16. — The United States was attacked as “the Shylock of Europe” in an editorial today in the socialist paper, Vorwaerts, comment- ing on the. financial debate in the French chamber of deputies, The so- cialist paper remarks that it is in- credible that the United States re- fuses to grant its ally, France, pro- tection against inflation, while grant- ing it readily to her vanquished enemy, Germany. ABOUT LENIN By A. LOSOVSKY, Sec’y. of the Red International of Labor Unions, LENIN, THE GREAT STRATEGIST. A portrayal of Lenin in tion as a Marxist, logi revolutionary strategist nd letarian statesman. Best jown of all booklets on Lenin, 15 Cents, LENIN AND THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. The intensel; Interesting of the development of the of Lenin during his thirty is conclu. e trade union movement, 25 Cents, SUFFER PILES When a few PAINLESS treatments will permanently relieve you. Twenty years of experience curing PILES without cut- ting, burning or disability. Write for free booklet or call on Don C. McCowan, Ex.Surgeon U. A. GR. |. 17 Kimball . m, 25 BL Papen nett eh he nee | Plan Baltic-Black Sea: Link | The rivers of Poland may serve to unite the Black and Baltic Seas If a Project now under consideration by a special committee of the league of nations materializes. . Poland feels ‘that Great Britain may be willing to finance the enterprise, which will nece: ate the construction of several canals, in view of the fact that thereby Polish coal could be shipped directly southward and no longer compete with England in the northern markets. The league of nations seems to fall in with England’s wishes! NAVAL TRAINING PUSHED IN U.S. COLLEGE UNITS Added to the Present Military System (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 16, — Naval training is following military training into the universities and colleges of the United States, under federal guid- ance. Six big schools—Harvard, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the Univer- sity of California and the University of Wisconsin—have been picked out by the secretary of the navy as the trial units of a scheme for establish- ing many branches of the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, The four-year course of study in the naval training units will be in- stituted in these six schoolg this: year. The units will be the naval acade- mies of the naval reserve. - Graduates will.be made ensigns. in the volunteer naval reserve, . ” This imitation of the military train- ing propaganda in colleges is -offi- cially declared to be based on an act of March 4, 1925, authorizing the crea- tion of an R, O, T. C, for naval re- serves. Students will be provided with uniforms patterned. after that worn by cadets at Annapolis, and the instruction will be similar. The navy department will pay the cost of equip- ment. As an attraction to college students to enroll in this course a summer cruise is promised. After completion of the first two years of the course students will be given $15 per month ration money. Two naval officers have ‘been as- signed to each of the six universities where the initial courses are to start this fall. If you want to thoroughly un- Imperialist Rivals All Demand a Share of Tangier’s Booty (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 16. — The “Tribuna,” semt-official organ of the fascist gov- ernment, declares that Italy will in- sist on being treated on “a basis of equality” with France, Great Britain and Spain in any eventual “settle- ment” of the Tangier question. Tangier is a section of the seacoast on the extreme northwest corner of Africa. It was “internationalized” by a@ protocol signed by the imperialist powers of England, France and Spain in July, 1925. The war in Morocco has made all imperialists seek for control in Tangier. The Spanish king deeply desires Tangier and is at pres- ent in England trying to get Brit- ain’s consent, while Primo de Rivera is doing the same in France. Italy’s bid for a share of colonial loot in Tangier sets a new rival against the others, Soviet Protest at Smuggled Immigrant Trade by Bulgaria MOSCOW, July 16. — Commissioner for foreign affairs, Georges Tchitch- erin, has dispatched a strong note to Bulgaria in protest at the smuggling of persons from Bulgaria into the Soviet Union. The Bulgarian government is said to tolerate the open traffic in persons seeking entry into Soviet Russia by officers of vessels, without seeing that such persons have passports visaed by the Soviet government. Tchitcherin claims that among those smuggled in are many white guard Russians who are active enemies of the Soviet Union. Office Workers Donate $10. SPATTLE.—(FP)—The Seattle Of- fice Employes union has sent $10 to the locked out British miners, The derstand Communism—study it. | painters sent $25. Quakers Hold Meet — New York Employment in Ocean City, N. J.} Sharks Mulct Workers By a Worker Correspondent, OOCBAN CITY, N. J., July 16.—The Quakers are holding a general con- ference here amidst luxury and wealth, The present day Quaker is far away from the Quaker who lived in the rev- olutionary age of Cromwell and who shared the dungeons and prisons with the revolutionists of that time. | But a tradition still remains with them— an absolute stand against war and imperialism, ‘ At this conference the voice of la- bor is being heard and a number are testifying to the decay of present-day society. As it always happens, the labor mis- leader gets first say. This time it was Mr. Sidhey Hillman of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America. In the fashion of a minister he told the crowds that strikes are very un- civilized methods and that labor has dropped them. It is gratifying that even the petty bourgeoisie assembled felt the insin- cerity of Mr, Hillman, Dr. Jesse H. tiuimes spoke on “The Fruits of Imperialism.” He told the audience that the present system of society leads to destruction of human life, and appealed to the young people to wash away present-day Society, He protested against the idea that all liberal and radical ideas are sup- ported by Russian money and de- manded that the Soviet Union be recognized and America follow the bxample of Russia, ? WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Wo»! By JOHN NEVA (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, July 16.—The city of New York ds spending thousands of dollars to welcome princes, cardinals and parasites—but not a thought do these “kind” municipal fathers give to the housing or unemployment prob- lems. What do they care for the common workers when they have princes and such parasites to greet and possibly get the benediction of the Cardinal Bonzano himself? If you are out of work, take a walk from 18th street along Sixth avenue to 50th street. You will see dozens and dozens of employment agencies advertising “Best Jobs Awaiting You.” Here are specialists for do- mestic help, hospital workers, restau- rant, ete. Unless you have money enough to pay the employment agency and enough to live on for two weeks at least you are out of luck. No job awaits you. The worker {is forced to pay for a job in order to work, Not only that but the employment agency will send five or six workers out after the same job. Last week one manufacturing plant called up one of the agencies for a porter, Inside of an hour there were six workers sent from the same agency for the job. Each of the workers sent were fore- ed to pay §8 for the “job.” This practice has become quite customary with the employment sharks, They refuse to return the money, MURDER LOSES GLAMOR IN CHI; VOTE QUIZ ON Election Burglars ‘Are Caught with Goods Chicago’s batting average of a mur- der a day is taking a back seat as material for eight column streamers, to the quiz into election thievery, in- stigated by those whose gunmen fell down on the job in the recent Cook County primary élections, The great American voter like Napoleon’s god is always on the side of the heaviest*battalions, at least in Chicago. Do they count the votes in Chicago? Let mobody answer “nay” ‘cause they do, In fact this city takes the cake for counters. What might be a long story is ab- breviated by ‘considerations of space but suffice it to say that almost 250,000 crooked votes: have been straightened out to date in the investigation headed by County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, nominee to succeed himself. An outstanding figure in the vote fraud is our old friend Robert BH. Crowe, laborhating states attorney. Allied with Crowe are Messers Bar- rett, William ‘Hale Thompson and Ed- ward Brundage, the latter who as states attorney for Illinois led the jackals of the Illinois chamber of com- merce in prosecuting the Williamson County miners for the riot arising from the efforts of scabs to operate a struck mine, The Crowe-Barrett-Thompson-Brun- dage faction was opposed by the Lun- din-Small-Deneen faction of the repub- lican party. Both sides employed gangsters recruited from the under- world, Independent Politicians! It is an open secret that there is an understanding between the Crowe republicans and the George Brennan democrats in Chicago. What is a party between friends? Those boys divide up the spoils of office and only the lads who fail to land the soft spots raise a, yelp for an investiga- tion. Such a disgruntled element exists in the Chicago democracy, It is headed by William O'Connell, leader of the Dunne-Harrison .faction and former spokesman for William Gibbs McAdoo in Illinois, O'Connell ran a son of former governor Dunne in the prim- aries. But the Brennan crowd could not see why the voters should be per- mitted ‘to hurt/themselves because of their lack of political experience, so Brennan watchers counted the votes as they thot they should be cast. It is to snicker at the way our 100 per cent American is handled. What an eagle he is? He has an emotional hemmorhage every time the American flag is thrown on the theatre screen’ at the end of a bum show, but he runs into a corner when @ gunman sticks a gat into his gizzard and tells him how to vote. Or if the gunmen should be having a drink with the cop in the nearest coca cola and root beer emporium, a judge or a clerk will do the right thing by him when the counting takes place. The investigation is disclosing so much ballot corruption that those in- volved—and every capitalist political faction is involyed—talk of returning to the great unsolved mystery enti- tled: “Who killed MacSwiggin and Why?” Who and what was MacSwiggin and also why may be told later in The DAILY WORKER if space permits. They promise the worker another job. He hangs around the employment of- fice waiting until he is sent off on some job where he is able to work but a day or two. University of Chicago “Loses” Soviet Letter (By College Correspondent) Independence of thought in spite of its millions of capitalistic endowment is the proud boast of the University of Chicago, But this freedom appar- ently is suspended temporarily when Red Russia comes into the discussion. Recently a letter came into the pub- licity office of the south side school from one of the Soviet commissioners of education. It requested information about latest educational methods and technique, with a view to improving the Russian schools, A young and inexperienced assistant pounced upon the letter and wrote a press dispatch stating mildly that the University would aid Soviet officials with advice about their school system, Then he submitted the story to his chief and sat down to wait for results. After a week or two he mustered up the courage to ask what had become of the article, “I guess it’s lost,” he was*told, “Any- way don’t you think it might create a bad impression on the trustees to say that the University is helping the Bolsheviks? WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Open your eyes! Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. it! Send it inl Write as you fight. '” : CUMMINS SAYS HE WAS ‘MISQUOTED’; FARMERS CORRECT IN KICKING DES MOINES, lowa, July 16.— Ssenator Albert B. Cummins stated here he had been misquoted in an interview In which he was reported to have said that President Coolidge would not be a candidate for re- election In 1928, Senator Cummins said today he had no opinion in the matter, and added that he did not know what political action Mr, Coolidge con- templates In the future, His defeat in the primaries by Smith W. Brookhart was laid by Cummins to the administration's stand on the farm relief question. The farmer, said Cummins, had a kick coming and his defeat was the best way the farmer could register that kick. BORAH TO TOUR NATION; SPEAKS ON FRENCH DEBT Favors Recognition of Soviet Government By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, July 16.— General Borah, chairman of the senate com- mittee on foreign relations, thinks that the demonstration staged in Paris by war veterans against the American debt settlement is a politi- cal frameup by men close to the finance ministry. “There are certain things that stand out in the French debt situation,” Borah said. “First, France is now the most prosperous country in Europe, “Second, the American debt settle- ment is on a basis of 50 cents on the dollar. “Third, Caillaux himself has said that the trouble with the French is that they refuse to pay taxes, “Fourth, Syria was promised com- plete independence when the peace conference was on, but now France is spending more to hold control of Syria than would pay the American debt instalments, “Finally, there is not enough money in America to keep France going if she continues her present imperial- istic policy. “In view of these facts, the French war veterans should find some object of protest other than the American taxpayer.” This statement, which Borah thinks he will enlarge upon when he speaks in various states this summer, may be taken as a reply to the demand of the promoters of the Paris parade that France reject the pending settlement and refuse to agree to pay except as she collects fantastically large sums from Germany. In his speeches in Washington and Oregon, Borah intends to take up also the question of Russian recognition in connection with Pacific trade. Some of the. most influential republicans in the Pacific Northwest have joined the advocates, off recognition and have suggested that Borah talk about it when he comes there. The Idaho senator has contended for the past five years that the league of nations was organized to give per- manent control of the world to the chief allied powers, and incidentally to conduct a political blockade of the Soviet republic. He has pointed out that French militarism was one of the chief instruments of the league in its scheme of preventing any changes in the boundary line drawn at Ver- sailles and the boundary lines after- ward drawn by Poland, Mohammedans and Hindus Clash Over Religious Parade CALCUTTA, July 16.—¥Four persons were killed and more than fifty in- jured in rioting between the Hindu and Moslem populations. The. riot started when a Hindu religious proces- sion filed past a Mohammedan mosque, National Guardsmen to Practice Art of Modern Warfare SPRINGFIELD, ‘Ill., July 16.—Adjt. General Carlos E. Black left for Camp Grant, Rockford, to prepare for the reception of Illinois national guardsmen who will start a period of intensive training at the camp July 31. Six thousand militiamen will drill in this camp. 18 Burn to Death * oy. . in Twilight Inn Fire HAINES FALIA, N. Y., July 16, — With twelve bodies recovered and six other persons still missing, the death list in the fire which destroyed Twi- light Inn, exclusive Catskill Mountain summer resort, was set at 18. Burned beyond recognition, the bodies, recovered from the ruins, lay in @ barn a short distance from the ina, Get your friends to subscribe to tiie Amerioan Worker Correspondent, The price is only 60 cents a year. —teeeneeien— Page Three % aA ANEW NOVEL : plo Giaclair Vwi ees secietieclatinnen— { (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) oT * WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, ofl operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his thirteen. to Beach City to sign a lease for a new oil fleld. Meeting se Hound,” Ben Skutt, in a hotel he goes to meet a group of small property owners whose land he wants for drilling. But other off concerns have been intriguing and the meeting breaks up in a row. Bunny meet Paul Watkins, son of a Holy Roller, who has run away from home. They become friends but Paul leaves for other parts before their acquaintance is very old. Dad begins to drill in Prospect Hill near Beach City. He needs the roads fixed d smooths the paim of a city official. in short order his first well, “Ross- No. 1,” Is begun. Dad spends busy days in his little office and Bunny with’ him—learning about oil. Bertie, Bunny's sister, comes home ing school on a vacation. She is very snobbish. Her Aunt Emma has been trying to make a lady of her. Bunny tells Bertie about Paul. Bertie doean’t like Bunny to know such “Horried Fellows.” In the meantime Dad is getting along with his well. With many careful and tolisome mechanical operations, Ross-Bankside No. 1 is ready to drill and by noon the next day has filled up the first tank. In a week Dad had several more derricks under He was working hard with everything coming his way. Bunny asks his to take a rest and go quail hunting over in the San Elido valley. Dad 8 that it’s too far away and is told that that’s where Paul’s family is and they're up against it and Bunny wants to help them. Finally Dad wae persuaded, They get their camping outfit ready and the next day arrive at the Watkins ranch. The old man welcomes them and with little Eli and the three girls tagging behind show them a place where they can camp. e e we se How was he to find that tract? That was Bunny’s dream! He had lived the adventure in a score of different forms; he would be digging a hole in the ground, and the oil would come spouting up, and he would cover it over and hide it, and Dad would buy the land for miles around, and take Bunny into part- nership with him; or else Bunny would be exporing a cave in the mountains, and he would fall into a pool of oil and get out with great difficulty. There were many different ways he had pictured —but never once had he thought of having an earthquake come and split open the ground, just before he and Dad were starting out after quail! Bunny was so excited that he hardly noticed the taste of that especially delicious meal of quail and fried potatoes and boiled turnips. Just as soon as Dad had got his cigar smoked, they set forth again, keeping their eyes on the ground, except when they lifted them to study the landmarks, and to figure whether they had taken this opening through the hills or that. They had walked half a mile or so, when a couple of quail rose, and Dad dropped them both, and walked over to pick them up, and then he called, “Here you are, son!” Bunny thought he meant the birds; but Dad called again, “Come over here!” And when the boy was near he said, “Here’s your oil!” There it was, sure enough, a black streak of it, six or eight inches wide, wiggling here and there, following a crack in the ground; it was soft and oozy, and now and then it bubbled, as if, it were still leaking up, Dad knelt down and stuck his finger into it, and held it up to the light to see the color; he broke off a dead branch from a bush and poked it into the crevice to see how deep it was, and how much more came up. When Dad got up again he said, “That’s real oil, no doubt about it. I guess it! won't do any harm to buy this ranch.” So they went back. Bunny was dancing, both outside and inside, and Dad was figuring and planning, and neither of them bothered about the quail. “Did Mrs. Groarty ever tell you how much land there is in this ranch?” asked Dad. “She said it was a section.” ‘ “We'll have to find out where it runs. And by the way, son, don’t make any mistake, now, not a word to any one about oil, not even after I buy the place in these here hills. You don’t have! to pay much for rocks.” “But listen, Dad; you'll pay Mr. Watkins a fair price!” “Tl pay him a land price, but I ain’t a-goin’ to pay him no oil price. In the first place, he’d maybe get suspicious, and re- fuse to sell. He’s got nothin’ to do with any oil that’s here— it ain’t been any use to him, and wouldn’t be in a million years. | And besides, what use could a poor feeble-minded old fellow lke that make of oil-money?” “But we don’t want to take advantage of him, Dad!” ‘Til see that he don’t suffer; I'll jist fix the money so he can’t give it away to no missionaries, and I'll always take care of, him, and of the children, and see they get along. But there’s surely not a-goin’ to be no oil-royalties! And if any of them ask you about me, son, you jist say I’m in business—I trade in land, and all kinds of stuff. Tell them I got a general store, and I buy machinery, andlend money. That’s all quite true.” They walked on, and Bunny began to unfold the elements of a moral problem that was to occupy him, off and on, for many years. Just what rights did the Watkinses have to the oil that lay underneath this ranch? The boy didn’t say any more to his father, because he knew that his father’s mind was made up and of course he would obey his father’s orders. But he debated the matter all the way until they got back to the ranch, where they saw the old man patching his goat-pen. They joined him, and after chatting about the quail for a bit, Dad remarked: “Mr, Watkins, I wonder if you’d come into the house and have a chat with me, you and your wife.” And when Mr. Watkins said he would, Dad turned to Bunny, saying: “Excuse me, son—see if you can get some birds by yourself.” And Bunny knew exactly what that meant—Dad thought that his son would be happier if he didn’t actually witness the surgical operation whereby the pitiful Watkinses were to be separated from their six hundred and forty acres of rocks! (To be continued.) 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