The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1927, Page 6

Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $ six months $6.00 per year $8.50 six months ths $2.00 three months Peron — ia mail and make out checks to 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Ada all THE DAILY WORKER, Editors BERT MILLER ‘Business Manager = snlbin —— 7 Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Il, under the act of March)3, 1879. 'e eed sedate sean $2 ENS Er 290 Advertising rates on application 7 . . Who Is Fighting Wall Street? 4 With protests into Washington from all sections of the | country istration a an policy of the Coolidge admin- (even mits this fact), the so-called progressives in the house of representa- tives and the senate are making a miserable showing. It is a sham fight that they are putting up and in the meantime the Wall Street- Coolidge \ with marines and gunboats have taken complete control of Nicar and laid the basis for war on Mexico. It is now recognized that the present crisis is an historic one in that it is marked by official endorsement of a policy of open inter- ference in the internal affairs of Latin-American mations in con- formity with the new theory of “peculiar responsibility” of the United States in Latin-America enunciated by Coolidge. There have been many acts of aggression before, but this time they are com- mitted as part of a deliberate policy publicly announced. Speaking of the marines now in Nicaragua, the Tribune’s Wash- ington correspondent say They are back and probably NEVER AGAIN WILL BE WITH- DRAWN, tho the force undoubtedly will be reduced eventually to a detachment of 109 FOR OSTENSIBLE PROTECTION OF THE AMER- ICAN LEGATION but really for PRESERVATION OF ORDER THRU- OUT THE COUNTRY. With our armed forces established in Nicaragua guarding the route of a second interoceanic canal.... and with the president proclaiming the doctrine of “peculiar responsibility” of our nation in the Caribbean the United States resumes ITS OCCUPATION OF THE STRATEGIC POSITION IN CENTRAL AMERICA. (Emphasis ours.) The Wall Street government is in Central America to stay. It will lose no opportunity for extending its control to the north and south. The workers, farmers and large sections of the middle class are opposed to this policy of open aggression, but those who are sup- posed to voice their protest in Washington are extremely meek. They have not tried to organize popular opposition but to direct it into harmless channels when mass pressure has.forced them to dis- play some activity. We have made this assertion a number of times during this crisis and now Norman Hapgood, Washington correspondent for the Hearst pr a pointed observation to the same effect. Writ- ing on January 14,,he said: In the decision likely to be historic in its consequence, about the extent to which American money is to rule in Nicaragua, Mexico and £ therefore all of Central and South America, the LEADERSHIP OF THE i DEMOCRATS AND PROGHESSIVE REPUBLICANS HAS BEEN SO ; FUTILE that it is difficult to describe it adequately. 7%’. SENATOR BORAH NOT ONLY GAVE THE ADMINISTRATION EVERY CHANCE TO FILL THE COUNTRY WITH BOLSHBVIK TALK . WHILE HE MADE NO MAJOR EFFORT, such’as the progressive chairman of the foreign relations committee was expected to make. He actually tried to get the DEMOCRATS TO TAKE THE°LEAD. Moreover, he tried to have a democrat take the lead in showittg up the improba- bility of the story told by Kellogg about three reputable and well-known correspondents. They were summoned by Mr, Olds, Mr. Kellogg’s former law partner, and ASKED TO FILL THE COUNTRY WITH A BOLSHEVIK SCARE WITHOUT LETTING IT BE KNOWN THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT PUT THEM UP TO IT..... BORAH, requested to look into it, ASKED TO HAVE A DEMOCRAT TAKE THE LEAD... MEANTIME ALL THE DEMOCRATS, except Wheeler, in the sen- ate, HAD THEIR TAILS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS. In this emergency apparently both the democrats and Borah waited for the water to reach the second deck .... (Emphasis ours.) The cowardly elements described above are the ones who pose as saviors of the American mass Confronted with the open dan- ger of war in behalf of Wall Street, they have contented themselves with verbal protests after having tried to evade the struggle com- pletely. i These elements typify the middle class. Weak and vacillating, caught between the workers and the powerful capitalists, they join with the workers only when their own interests are directly threat- ened and desert them at the first opportunity. In the present situation the representatives of the middle class have made no real struggle against imperialism and they are both mnwilling and unable to lead such a struggle. The facts of the present situation prove this. What is to be done? Deserted alike by the official leaders of the labor movement, who in St. Petersburg, Florida, direct their attacks upon the left wing of the labor movement and remain silent about imperialist aggression and the danger of war, and the so-called progressives in congress. the workers.and farmers of America, drawing the chief lesson from the present crisis, will by their strength and determination begin to build a mass party of their own—a party speaking directly in their name and drawing a clear line between undercover agents of imperialism, like the trade union officialdom and the “non-partisan” congressmen and senators. In the meantime the cry of “Hands Off Nicaragua, Mexico and Latin-America!” must not be allowed to die down, The main task, as we said a few days ago, is to DRIVE into the struggle against the Wall Street policy, ‘the so-called “spokes: men of the people” whose cowardice gives to Wall Street a free hand. The “pr s<sives” and trade union leaders must either fight “Wall Street or acknowledge their fealty to it, eS. What happened to the anti et prophets who used to predict the fall of the Soviet regime in their new year interviews? Tt looks like passing t the hat for them this year. |Marx Asked to Again Head German Cabinet BERLIN, Jan, 17.—Chancellor Marx tah gC gp arate ras been asked by President Hinden sk under the | burg to form a new German cabinet. bi | Marx has formally accepted and is of Agriculture | | oy attempting to reconstruct his Addresses DY| government which collapsed several | Bankers Ass’n Head Speaks to Farmers | SURBANA, Ill, Jan. at. More than | 000 [linois ie annual farmers’ spices of the Colles the state universit yin A, Tayior, president of the Wabes 6h. ner Bankors’ Association, and | Minister Curting, whe was Sretiask _ Tenny, acting chief of the| ,, o teke over the government when of agricultural economies, de: } the’ Marx cabinet fell, tailed to ob- tain enough statoamen te A cabinet posts, vrigulture,.wete to be features of the meeting. THE DAILY WORKER j arrival of the new British minister to such imperialist sheets as the Chicago Tribune ad-| CHE DAILY WORKER (NOTE: . The following is a special lispatch to The DAILY WORKER from the bureau of information of the department of foreign relations of the, Canton revolutionary government in China giving our readers direct in- tormation on the situation in that country.) *-. CANTON, Dec, 20—-(By Mail)—The * China, Miles Lampson, has elicited a great deal of comment thruout the country. So far the new minister has made no definite statement of specific | policy, limiting himself to generalities | of good-will, but it is understood from | | London press reports that he has been | igiven full discretion by the British | | government, He is proceeding to Han- | | know, where he will try to see Eugene Chen, minister for foreign affairs, or | | other members of the nationalist gov- | jernment, and it is learned from au- | thoritative sources that he has been empowered to make a_ temporary agreement with the nationalist govern- | | ment, recognizing it as the local de facto government of southern China. | The coincidence of these reports | with identical suggestions made this week by L. M. Leefe, on behalf of the ;China committee, before a London | meeting of members of the house of | | commons and house of lords is looked | upon as significant here. | Won't Consider Split. The nationalist attitude toward this suggested plan of splitting China in two has already been stated many times by nationalist spokesmen and has been restated in the nationalist press this week. It is a plan which cannot even be considered. Everything is proceeding in accord- ance to plan in the removal of the na- |tionalist government from Canton to Wuchang. Reports have been receiv- ed by military headquarters from the government party now in Kiangsi on its way overland to Wuchang, stating that there has been an enthusiastic welcome accorded them all along the line and that everywhere there has been found a ready co-operation on the part of the people with both civil and military authorities. Begin Reconstruction. Conferences have been held at Nan chang and Kiukiang, the first dealing mainly with specific reconstructive measures for the province. Plans for the unification of the currency, the repairing and building of public roads, the reorganization of the railway, the adoption of a new land policy includ- ing an investigation into mines and forests were presented and passed upon, The province is getting ready to settle down to reconstructive work. | Hankow Incidentd, | The storm of protest which has broken out in the foreign press in China over the situation in Hankow | the previous opieaaeiee military rule, ind the demands foy wages a little higher than the inadequate pittance ing a starving existence, also for bet- ter living conditions and more humane treatment, have been made the pre- text for a cry for intervention in the Seek Further Intervention, Indications seem to point to this as another effort on the part of imperial- ist privilege and industry to create a situation in which such intervention would seem plausible. There has been a‘concentration of naval forces in the of being ready in case of emergency Mes DAY, the world-wide prole- tarian holiday; originated in the United States; «The trade un- ion movement began in the United States long before organization of the workers started in most Eu- ropean countries: ’. Some of the greatest strikes in the history of world labor occurtéd in’ this coun- try. The eight hour strikes, rail- way strikes, coal strikes, Ludlow, Cripple Creek, Homestead, Law- rence, the Mooney strike—are only a few samples of the struggles of the American workers that have assumed a place of importance in the tradition of the international proletariat. Along with the martyrs of the Paris Commune and the revolution- ary movements in Hurope since the war, the Haymarket heroes of Chi- cago stand in a high place in the hall of proletarian honor in every country where there is a worker's movement. The tradition of Par- sons, and his fellow fighters of the eighties is appreciated less by the workers of their own country than by any others. "pee building of the great “Amer: ican Empire,” the leadership of U. S. imperialism in the capitalist world and the phenomenal and rap- id growth of the talist system in this country, ices upon the working-class of ‘America tremen- dous responsibilities.for the future. It is impossible to.participate witb full powers in the revolutionary working-class moyement of this country without tempering one’s outlook on events of today with a complete knowledge of the great struggles of the pasr: During the eighties of the last proves to be based upon incidents which have been grossly exaggerated. | The inevitable formation of labor un- ions, which had been banned under | century, the labor movement of the entire world looked to that of the United States for_ leadership. It HEN Sarah arose to go to her room, I asked her if she ever felt | lonely alone. “Sometimes,” said she, | “when the man dat war hung comes round.” “The man that was hung! A dead man, Sarah?” | “Yesum, the man that war hung here in Red City on the big oak fo’ the court house.” “Hung here, on an oak before the court house, Sarah?” “Yesum, I seen em do it,” replied Sarah. “You saw them do it, Sarah?” I ask- ed, horrified. “Yessum, I jes crowded in ’til Ise got right under the tree; I seen his legs kick, an’ his tongue hangin’ out, my golly, didn’t his eyes pop pow’ful.” Sarah was getting excited over her picture and so was I. “Go on,” I cried, “even if we get no sleep tonight.” “Ise tole ye all I knows,” said Srah, “You asks Amos Green, he ell yo mo; he war thar lookin’ on, n’ all de white folks in de city.” “Horrible, horrible. I cried, “go to ved Sarah and may the dead man’s chost haunt you all night. In the early morning, as the sun was thrusting its yellow spokes up over the rim of the earth, and the sil- ver dew was cool upon the grass, J A Lynching Affair - “They said,” here "amos paused, and again repeated, “they said that the poor Negro insulted a white woman.” “That was a wicked fact. ” I replied. Amos Green lifted mp his head proudly; he had a mags of white hair and in his solemn black eyes there was a world of scorn. “A wicked act,” he repeated after me, but not true, said Amos Green. Then he seemed to hesitate ere he spoke again. “It done no good, white lady, toe take Club Jackson from the jail an’ hang him es the oak tree.” “Did you witness this lynching?” I asked. “Sarah tells me that she saw it all and that you could tell me of it better than she could, for you made a powerful plea for the Negro.” “T seen it, the whole of it an’it war pow’ful hard to look ‘on.” “I believe you Mr.’Green,” said I. “But why did not thé’ law interfere, or the respectable people of the city?” Amos Green threw back his head again and with withering scorn in his eyes he cried, “Ah! Wah! Ah! Yah! You doan know all.* It war the re- spectable peoples dat’done it an’ de law looked on an’ said nothin’.” “T never likes toe say much "bout it for’ I has cole chills when I does, but yosso mighty anxious I tells yo.’ “Chub Jackson funs in toe the woods an’ tries toe hide, but the of- crept cautiously around to the little vine covered cabin, where the old preacher, Amos Green, slept and ate. I found him making coffee for his breakfast. He was to chop wood over in the pine tract and got ‘round early. “Mr. Green, will you tell me about the man that was lynched from the big oak last year?” T asked abruptly. Amos Green grumbled. “You wants toe shere "bout dat murder pow'ful toe come fo’ breakfast. I wants my coffee, Ise feelin’ powerful weak.” “Oh, I will wait right here on the steps, have your breakfast, Mr. Green.” As I spoke I dropped onto the low wooden steps before the door and looked around, Roses and roses. Thousands of the wild white chero- kee running riotiously over trellises, decorating the fences, hiding unsight- ly Walls. Roses and roses, enriching the air and beautifying the sight. I put my - questions immediately on Amos Green taking a seat beside me on the steps. “What did the poor Negro do that the people should lynch him? Did a. Green not) Know that such work was against thé law?” 4 ficers with the dog® runs him down an’ shuts up Chub Jackson in the jail. The white peoples hears 'bout cotch- in him an’ how hes the jail house, an’ they goes down tells the jailor that they mus’ have Chub Jackson, or they burn the jail down. “What fo’,” said thé jailor. “Toe hang him ‘til hes dead,” said they. “But that’s the law’s work an’ not yourn,” said the jailer, “Fotch him out,” said they, we'll come in an’ fotch him.” “The jailer never sai dno, but wid a big key he onlocked the do of the room whar Chub Jackson war, an’ fotches him so the peoples sees him. “Chub Jackson's face war as white as yourn ma’ an’ he tremles an’ tremles, He had the hand cuffs on do he could do nothin’ desprit, I tell you’ twar mighty solemn to see Chub stan thar a shaking, an’ them dogs a-leapin™toe get at him, thar red tongues alikin’ the air. I tries toeyget clos to Chub toe speak a_ religious word, fur I knows what war ’. But the peoples drive me “Let an’ say: him go toe hell he b'longs. “or upon which labor had been maintain- | foreign press. i Wuhan area with the avowed purpose | for the protection of foreign lives and property, but there seems. to have arisen no real need for such protec- tion, The violent disturbances antich | pated by the foreign press have not taken place. A general readjustment |of labor difficulties is reported in the | past few days. The North Hesitates. Chang Tso-lin and Chang Tsung- | chang, who at the recent Tientsin con- | ference which Sun Chuan-fang also at- tended, came out with brave an- nouncements of an immediate drive to eliminate the nationalist forces, seem now to be hesitating. The promised advance of troops into Anhui and | Kiangsu has not materialized. The American Workers Have a Glorious Tradition will not be long before the workers of the world will again be looking to American labor to participate in the final struggle against capital- ism, the strongest representative of which is the United States. Militant workers owe it to their movement and themselves to be- come thoroly acquainted with the glorious traditions of labor strug- gles in the United States, HE Chicago Workers’ School, will, among other subjects, de- vote special attention to the his- tory of the American Labor Move- ment. Beginning next month, a class in this subject will meet for serious work every Friday night at the school headquarters,.19 S. Lin- coln St. The course will continue for eight weeks under the direction of Samuel Haber. The lecture method will be used to only a lim- ited extent, the class participating directly in the development of the subject which will cover the entire history of the movement from pre- colonial times to the present, with special emphasis on the growth of the modern movement following oe Civil War. OMRADE Haber is special fitted to conduct this class. A thor» training in the subject under Com- mons and Perlman at Wisconsin University has been supplemented in Comrade Haber’s case by a Ymowledge of Marxism and a con- sideration for the facts of the class- struggle so conveniently subdued or ignored by his professors, Enrollment in this, and other working-class courses, can be made at 19 S. Lincoln St. all during the rest Of this month. All workers are invited. There ‘are on restrictions. All that is re- quired is sincerity and willingness to study. Doan’ yo’ waste any of yo ole pray- ers on him.” Then I tries toe pray alound whar I war, reckonin’ Chub Jackson might cotch a word toe take with him. “But the peoples scritch so mighty loud I couldn’t doe nothin’. Then I tries toe come away, but it war toe late, the rope war ’roun’ Chubs’ neck an’ two mens war haulin’ him up. Chubs’ face, twitchin, purple, swung ‘roun’ toe mg, His legs war flying up an’ down an’ doin’ a heap of kickin. I couldnt stan it no mo, an’ I jes drop ped on toe my knees an’ prays. “O, Lord,” I cries, “speak toe this po’ creature’s heart in the midst of his dyin’ agony. If he have wicked- ness in that heart let it be taken out. Remembers no sin against him, O Lord O Lord, on Calv’ry thy blood war spilled fo’ Chub Jackson, an’ now O Lord, carry long thy work toe his salyation. The law of the state has bene vi'lated in this murder, Chub Jackson should have been tried by the courts, O Lord! An’ eye fur an’ eye the Ole Test’ment say; but you say ‘A new law I gibs untoe yo’ that no lubs one another.’ The peoples say that Chub Jackson done that wicked act, but, yo, O Lord, knows better, an I knows better. If Chub Jackson have rum in him an’ he act- ed as if he war wicked, please O Lord, forgive him for that; White mens have done worse an’ never hung for it. Never yo forgits, O Lord, of this black man’s ignorance, de ignorance of his father an’ mother befo’ him, the ignorance of them way back in slave- ry days, an’ long befo’ in black Africa. Member, O Lord, that they comes not by demselves but war brot here in chains, an’ kept in chains ‘till that day of ’Mancipation. “The white mans am a murdering Chub Jackson we knows O Lord! He should have been tried in the courts “the same as the white mens am, Twar Chub Jackson rfght as a citizen of these United States. None ob de white people here hab any sym- pathy wid Chub Jackson, they all be’ leve de Me tols, but thy sympathy O Lord, am mighty to save. O Lord, forgive them pussons dat am com- mittin’ dis awful crime, but above all save Chub Jackson thet am a comin’ into thy presence dis very minute.” The old preacher stopped, he had learned the prayer eer pel he was in the right ple who were gh an Canton Spurns British ‘Friendship’ Offer “Reports from varioug centers indi- cate the reasons for this seeming change of mind and spirit, Their Finances Low. The financial situation in. the north is a powerful deterrent, according to Peking reports. A new issue of feng- piao has been put out, it is reported, with a correlated fall in value and groans and protests on the part of the Fengtien masses. The Peking gov- ernment plight also seems to have come to a head over financial diffi- culties, In the recent telegram of re- signation sent ‘by the Wellington Koo cabinet ‘to all the “allied” generals, it was stated that the ‘finances of the Peking government have reached such a pass that some fundamental meas- ures must be adopted promptly, if a complete breakdown is to ‘be averted. Behind in Payroll. According to Peking reports, the clamor of government and school staffs for longarreared pay goes on. Government offices have not paid their staffs for months. Schools are now on'strike with teachers clamor- ing at the cabinet doors. The police salaries are long in arrears, The scramble for funds goes on. From Peking sources, it is learned that foreign banks are undertaking a mortgaging of government’ bonds, which may or may not be the basis for the repeated reports of a £5,000,000 loan to Chang Tso-lin on the condition of immediate ‘drive against the south. This report brot out a flood of protest and, altho it has been denied, it still persists. People Hostile. Other important factors in the vacil- lation of the northern warlords seem to be the loudly-voiced hostility of the people of Kiangsu, Anhui and Che- kiang to the proposed southward movement of Fengtien and Shantung troops. The general feeling in Shang- haji seems to be that last year’s taste of northern contro] was enough, Feng's Troops ‘Progr In addition to these factors, the Fengtien and Shantung chiefs are be- ing given pause by. the continued prog- ress made by Feng Yu-hsiang’s, troops thru Shensi, and the expectation that they will join up with loyal national- ist troops. in Honan. This danger to the Fengtien-Shantung forces from the western. front seems to be further en- hanced by the shifting of allegiance of the last three of the important gener- als under Wu Pei-fu’s batinér—Chin Yun-ao, Wei Isan and Tien Wei-chun, who are reported to be negotiating with the nationalist. authorities at Hankow. At the same time, the na- val forces of Shanghai and Fukien seem to be ‘affording the:snorthern chiefs little cheer. They seemvto ‘have been maintaining an attitude which, from the point:of, view, of the north, could be at best viewed ag neutrality. Reports from Shanghai and» Fukien show that it has not beempossible to swing thesé naval forces) into. any ef- fective hostility against ‘the popular forces of the south. Story By Ellen Wetliagell were wrong, Amés Green- raised a ragged sleeve and wiped his steaming face, “It am pow’ful hard toe.go over that scene,” he said. The tropical sunshine was falling. hot thru the interstices in the heavy foliage. A mocking. bird was trilling an aria, on the rosebush just beside me. Away up among the fleecy clouds a flock of buzzards were dip- ping their wings to the morning breeze. 4 I turned to Amos Green. “Was any one arrested and tried for that mur- der of Chub Jackson?” “No ma'am,” said the preacher. “All the white folks say, ‘Sarved the nigger right’. Dear’ Comrades: Two two letters published in a-recent issue of your Paper encourage»me to add my quota of praise to the splendid effort you are making to. provide the: American working Class’ with a medium a ex- pression. The letter from Mr. Masso of Brook- lyn, New ‘York, almost hit the nail on the head in saying that if’ one wants to start the day right he should read O’Flaherty’s column. Still since he spoke in terms of food, 1 believe it might be better said if he describ- ed O’Flaherty’s column as the intel- lectual grapefruit of The ©DAILY WORKER; Engdahl’s the pigs’ knuckles and ‘sauerkraut and Dunne’s serials as the table d'hote menu for | those who can afford to take time with their reading and do not merely snatch a erties while hanging on to a strap. 4 Of course, Upton Sinclair's story is also worth commending, tho frankly, I read the Manager's Corner first, tho I am not a member of any political party. You would do well to publish letters of the kind that appeared a few days ago. Why not have read- ers’ column? Your paper is good, but needs more pep. Respectfully yours, Anton ne Chicago. The American Worker Correspondent 1118 W. Ww. Bivd, % (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) Then a painful thing happened. There was a newspaper publisher in a western city, one of those old pirates’ of the frontier type, who had begun life as a bartender, and de lighted to tell how he would toss a silver dollar up to the ceiling, and if it stuck it belonged to the boss and if it came down it belong to him. By this means he had got rich, and now he owned a paper, and he got onto this scandal of the oil leases. There came to him a man who had some old claim to part of the Sunnyside lease, and the pub- lisher made a deal with this man to go halves, and then he served no- tice on Verne that they had to have a million dollars. Verne told him to go to hell, and the result was this newspaper opened up with front. page exposures of the greatest pub- lic steal in history, And this was no obscure Socialist sheet; this was one of the most widely read news- papers im the country, and copies were being mailed to all members of congress, and to other newspapers —yes, it was awful! Dad and Verne and the rest held anxious confer- ences, and suffered agonies of soul; in the end they had to give up to the old pirate, and pajd him his mil- lion in cold cash—and the great newspaper lost all its interest in the public welfare. When Bunny was a youngster, he had read the stories of Captain Mayne Reid, and he remembered one scene—a fish-hawk capturing @ fish, and then a swift eagle swoop- ing down from the sky and taking the prize away. Just so it was in the oil ‘game—a world of * human hawks and eagles. VII, Bunny no longer felt comfortable about going to the monastery. But Vee would not let him quit, she ar gued and pleaded; Annabelle was so kind and good, and would be so hurt if he let horrid political quar- rels break up their friendship, Bun- ny answered—he knew Verne must be sore as the dickens; and imagine Verne being tactful or considerate of a guest! When you went out into society and. refused to take a drink, you caused everybody to begin talking about prohibition, In the same way, when you did not join in denuncia- tion of the “insurgent” senators in Washington, you caused some one to comment on your sympathy for bomb-throwers. The little bunch of “reds” in congréss were interfering with legislation very much desired by the rich, and they were denoune- ed at every dinner table, including Vernon Roscoe’s. The great Schmol- sky said, what the hell were they after, anyhow? And Verne replied “Ask Jim Junior—he’s chummy with them.” Annabelle had to jump in and cry, “No politics! I won't have you picking on my Bunny.” Then, later in the evening, when Harvey Manning got drunk, he sat on Bunny’s knees, very affectionate, as he always was, and shook one finger in front of Bunny’s nose and remarked, “You gonna tell ’m ‘bout me?” And when Bunny inquired, “Tell who, Harve?” the other re- plied, “Those muckrakin’ friends of yours. I aint gonna have ’em tell on me! My ole uncle fines out I get drunk he'll cut me out of his will.” So Bunny knew that his in- timacy with the enemy had been a subject of discussion at the monas- tery. There had been a series of vio- lent outbreaks in Angel City. The members of the American Legion, roused by the “red revolutionary raving”, had invaded the headquar- ters of the I. W. W, and thrown the members down the stairs, and thrown their typewriters and desks after them. Since the courts would not enforce law and order, these young men were going to attend to it. They had raided bookstores which sold books with red bindings, and dumped the books into the street and burned them. They had beaten up newsdealers who were selling radical magazines. Also they were taking charge of the speak- ers the public heard—if they didn't like one, they notified the owner of the hall, and he hastened to break his contract. - John Groby, one of Verne’s of] as- sociates from Oklahoma, was at the dinner table, and he said that was the way to handle the rattle snakes, Groby may not have known that one of the snakes was sitting across the way from him, so Bunny took nod offense, but listened quietly, “That’s the way we did the job at ho! we turned the Legion loose on ‘em and cracked their heads, and they moved on to some other field, You're too polite out here, Verne.” (Continued tomorrow.) ay