The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 2

SO ang MEXICAN MASS MEETING SCORES U.S, IMPERIALISM Yaquis Ready to Quit War on Government MEXICO, Jan. 25—Joseph Gutierez speaking before a mass meeting of workers under ‘the auspices of the) Regional Conference of Labor accused | the United States government of seeking every pretext to invade Mex-| ico and bring all Latin America under) the heel of American imperialism. { In opposing the march of Ameri- can imper' m, Gutierez said that) Mexican la would have the sup-| port of the thruout the world. The uprisings which were featur ed with such prominence in the new from the United States are flicker-| ing’ out rapidly. | Blame U. S. Imperialism. | The sense all the ‘speeches at| the labor meeting was, that ‘“Mexi- | co’s present economic crisis and rebel | disturbance: aused by Ameri-| politicians wi the object of| mperialism to all the} America.” “Liberty, justice, democracy, | which the American imperialists | cackle about,” the speaker declared, “are empty phrases to disguise their thirst for rapine and pillage.” workers of can extending their weak peoples of The clergy and other traitors that| cess production, 20,000,000 went to} were acting as the tols of American| England above the normal foreign) imperialism in Mexico were de- nouneed by the speakers: { e308 Hold Peace Conference. } MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25. lious Yaqui holding a peace council of their owns! considering possible terms of render to the federals, accordir a message received by the war office} | 2 ! here from Sonora. {s under The council is being held the tribe’s traditional rules requir- ing all the members of the tribe to| speak through one spokesman. It} before | reached by may be three or four wee is an agreement council, i s Latimer’s Mission To Diaz WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25— Admiral Julian L. Latimer, com- in Central American waters is ing Manaqua for a conference} with the puppet president Diaz who! was put in office by United States mar'nes. The overwhelming major- ity of the people are against him} and in favor of his liberal opponent, | President Sacasa. There is a ten-} dency here to believe that the ad-| ministration would like to locate} some other puppet rather than Diag} who has been thoroly discredited in the United States as well as in Nica- ragua. r. T, S, Vaca, Washington rep- resentative of the Liberal Govern-| ment of Nicaragua declared that the president of Salvador sold 1,000/ rifles and 1,000,000 rounds of am-/ munition to Diaz. It is believed here that the Salvador president was only a middle man between the United States Government and Diaz. eee Urge Arbitration With Mexico, CHICAGO, Ill, Jan, 25.—Method- ist ministers of Chicago adopted a resolution urging arbitration of the differences between the United States and Mexico and expressing hope that the dealings of the govern- ment with Nicaragua would be “free from every appearance of sel- fish. interest.” MUST OUST LEWIS TO FIGHT BOSS (Continued from page 1) clareq soft coal to be “the worst functioning industry” we have. Too Much Coal. That problem may be visualized in these figures; The soft coal industry can casily supply 700,000,000 tons of coal a year and with slight mechani- cal and ph duce a billion tons, ne only a little over 500,000,000 year, and that figure declines constantly due to the efficient com-/ bustion of coal and the wider use of water power and oil, Nevertheless and more mines are opened, becoming a more s pus problem. | Expansion is proceeding most rapid-| tor more with over-production ever ly in Kentue nd Virginia, wh of Am finest soft coal is pro- duced, Lewis and his crowd have euttled the union in West Virginia. Operators there have not only high | grade, but low cost coal, with mar-| L. Lewis, the United Mine Workers kets readily available at low freight rates in New England, New York, the Atlantic seaboard, the cities of the eat Lakes and on the Ohio River. Use Starvation, Competitive union-mined coal of Pennsylvagia and Ohio is slowly be- ing shut out of these markets, while} Contempt of his rank and file and export, while 40,000,000 tons went irito storage. Added to this storage | figure a3 the carry-over from 1925) eoners, Stenographers’ & Account- and the excess left by more efficient Rebel-| use of coal in locomotives, boilers) the last meeting, as interested in the Indians today were/@nd furnaces, so that on December} problem of organization confronting 1 the total in storage was estimated at 60,000,000 tons, Stering Ammunition. This is far above the usual e. And why? The expiration of the Jacksonville agreement on March 1 leaves the probability of a strike of union soft coal miners on April 1. The coal trade, therefore, has encouraged the re- the| secumulation of a huge surplus in| an effort to break the strike. With West Virginia, Kentucky and half of Pennsylvania in non-union hands,| the operators and industrialists hope to take care of all normal demands by duction in the non-union territory Treachery In Fight. Thus the Miners’ union must deal not only with the treachery of Em- peror Lewis, but with the critical re- sults of his criminal policy in allow- ing the operators to take West Vir- ginia, key to the national coal situ-} ation, away from the union. Two startling examples of the coal production from a union to a non- unjon basis are given in two traffic reports, i Shipping Significant. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1920 ran largely through union coal terri- tory. Then it carried 17 per cent of all the coal transported in this coun- try. Now it carries but 9 per cent. The Chesapeake & Ohio runs through the very heart of the non-) union districts. In 1920 it carried 15) per cent of the nation’s coal, or less than the Pennsy did. Today it carries) 27 per cent. All so-talled southern roads which carried but 40 per cent) of the country’s coal in 1920, now; transport 63 per cent. The southern territory includes West Virginia, Kentucky and states to the south. | ‘The other example is Detroit. In} 1919 the auto city drew two thirds of! its coal from the southern field. To- Independent Fist of Tron Foreshadowed (Continued from page 1) now control the danger area, to re-) move as best they can all, possible | sources of friction. Demand Cantonese Recognition. Great pressure is being exerted in congressional quarters and by private citizens to have the government com- mit itself to an independent and more conciliatory attitude toward the Chin- ‘These influences want the adminis- tration to make this move in all sin- cerity and not use it merely as a ges- ture with which to smooth over the present difficulties, Coupled with this movement is a demand for the recognition of the Cantonese government. American recognition at this time, it is con-| tended, would give the Cantonese the moral support they need to hasten the day when they will gain complete con-| trol of the country and carry out! their promise to restore peace and| ‘order. | BRISTOL RUSHING TROOPS. | LONDON, Jan. 25.—Plans of the/| British war office for despatching troops to China matured rapidly to- day, “The liner Minnesota arrived at Portsmouth at eight o'clock this morning to take on a thousand mar- ines. A score of ship's carpenters immediately boarded the liner to make the necessary preparations for the troops. The troop ship is scheduled to sail with the first tide tomorrow morn- ing for Shanghai, going via Hong we of the troops for will proceed steadily from! tomorrow as fast as the troops are equipped and transportation made ready, A meeting of the cabinet has been called for tomorrow to consider the China situation. Indulge In Mild Criticism. Both liberals and laborites are in- dulging in mild criticism of the “man- ner” in which the government is con- ducting the Chinese campaign. Ram- say MacDonald talks of the govern- ment making the state “the play- thing of the military,” rather than the military being the tool of the state. When Ramsay MacDonald was premier, a British naval flotilla made @ hostile demonstration against Canton. MacDonald was acting sim- ply as a tool of the capitalist state just as Stanley Baldwin now is, with the difference that Baldwin is serv- ing the interests of his own class while MacDonald is not true to thet workers he professes to represent. The left wing of the British lsbor movement and the Communists par- ticularly are carrying on a vigorous propaganda campaign: against inter- vention in China. Australian Workers Protest. SYDNEY, N. S. W., Jan. 26,—-The workers of Australia are emphatical- ly opposed to intervention in China, A meeting of the Seamens’ union held in Melbourne voted not to carry soldiers, munitions or foodstuffs for use against the Chinese. The Aus- tralian Workers’ union has begur? a “Hands Off China” campaign. The federal labor party declared it would oppose any action seeking to commit Australia to a foreign war. Reports that the federal govern- ment through Premier Bruce had of- fered troops and cruisers to the im- perial government for use in China could not be confirmed. ‘ { al expansion could pro-| i c But the country| tonnage in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and adjacent leadership intent on organizing West re most| Virginia, | Keckelman, Cowl, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1927 SMITH, MELON | day 95 per cent of all the coal that ‘stokes Detroit’s huge motor plants! | and auxiliary industries, comes from | the non-union south, | { Operators Aggressive. | This entire problem is summarized} in' the action taken by the Toledo} conference of union coal operators) January 19. Representing all union) | Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, they {demanded a flexible sliding scale of wages to “assure competition with | West Virginia.” If the union scale is not cut 20 per cent or more below the Jacksonville scale of $7.50 a day,} | they will shut down their mines on} | April 1, they threaten, A union under resolute pro-union eould easily choke this threat down the operators’ throats, | Will Fight Hard. Crippled as it is by the pro-oper- ator “leadership” of President John | will fight on bravely. But the dele- | gates realize the plight of the union,! | precipitated by the thoroughly rotten] {administration of Emperor Lewis, There will be, not one showdown, but! a series of showdowns day after day on the convention floor which will) leave Lewis exposed utterly to the) the union miners are either driven] out of the coal fields or starved out slowly by unemployment. Softecoal production last year was 578,000,000 tons, or 60,000,000,000 over the mark for 1925, Of this ex- the American labor movement as an agent of the non-union coal operators jof West Virginia. B,S.& 0, Officials in Drive to Eliminate All | Active Union Members Ignoring the sentiment of the Book- ants’ union, which expressed itself at the office workers, the union officials jure making their first disruptive ef- | forts to eliminate all active members who disagree with their methods. This | \is being done by raising a charge of “Communism.” | Several members took the floor at this meeting and stressed the need { for intensive organization. They were | attentively listened to by the general membership present and a recommen- ion was adopted for the establish- nt of an active organization com- | mittee to develop plans for this work. | | The committee was formed of the, following: Sisters Bennett, Barish, | Danze, Gerjoy, | Heim, Kessin, Lyons, Greenberg and | Brothers Littman and Schaap. | Rall in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. ‘Reactionaries Join at Indianapolis (Continued from page 1) ; member Sneed, always a representa- tive in District 12 of Lewis. Reaction Closes Ranks. But progressives here regard the present open alliance between Lewis and Fishwick as partly the result of the menace to them both through the growing strength of the progressives, Lewis’ regular presidential report made the usual gesture against wage reductions, the international presi- dent saying, as he always in the past has said before consenting to wage reductions, “there must be no backward steps.” He announced the proposal of the Toledo conference of coal operators for a sliding scale ten percent higher than the wage in the non-union fields, and said: “The standards of living of the miserable coal camps of Southern West Vir- ginia and Southwestern Kéntucky, in the non-union fields, shall not dic- ‘tate those of the union miners of America.” West Virginia and Kentucky were union fields but have been lost dur- ing the last three years of Lewis’ rule. Opposing Toohey. Contests over credentials have al- ready started—the machine objecting to the seating of Powers Hapgood, Pat Toohey, and nine others. The chairman of the credentials commit- tee has the first chance to object to delegates. The protests will be ar- gued out during today and tomorrow. No Enthusiasm, The convention meets in Tomlinson Hall, and has about 1,500 delegates attending. The place is lavishly deco- rated with flags, a band is in use, and the stage is crowded with local preachers and labor officials, Lewis’ supporters, shouting “Up-n Up,” trial to stage a demonstration for Lewis when he took the chait, but applause was meager. Besides Fishwick for the wage scale committee, Lewis appointed solid reactionary leadership for the other important committees: P. T. Fagan, president of District 5, and Perey Tet- low, of West Virginia are on the reso- lutions committee; Wm, Turnblazer und G, W. Savage, secretary of Ohio district, are on the appeals and griev- ances committee, and Fagan is also with Fishwick on the scale committee, Contrary to expectations neither Secretary of Labor Davis, nor Wm. Green, President of the A, F. L. came. Reign of Terror in A¥bania. BELGRADE, Jan. 26,—Twelve hundred workers were arrested and| thirty of them hanged, following the. recent revolution in Albania, It is also reported) from Seutar that more death sentendes will follow, BATTLE RENEWED OVER POWER GRAB New York Governor for Campaign Contributor | ALBANY, Jan. 25.—The battle between Andrew Mellon and the Gen: eral Electric Company over water | power w renewed in earnest yes- terday evening, when bills providing for the creation of a state water pow- er authority were introduced in the state legislature by Senator Downing and Assemblyman Bloch, Democratic floor leaders, Governor Smith is not as zealous in his new effort to buck the re- publican ‘representatives of Mellon’s aluminum. trust as he was last year, when his bill was flatly rejected by the republicans at Albany. Under the terms of the new bill, the state power authority cannot exercise all of its powérs without the consent of the legislature, A republican bill providing for 2 commission to investigate the advis-| ability of state development was in- troduced by Assemblyman Sargent several days ago. The fight between Governor Smith and the republican machine will center about these two bills. Governor Smith’s real position is revealed by his anxiety to have Owen D, Young serve as chairman of the proposed state authority. Owen D. Young is vice-president of the Gen- eral Electrie Company, which is an active participant in the power grab. He was a prominent contributor to Governor Smith’s campaign fund, Gunman Implicates Lewis in Assault (Continued from page 1) the progressives for the first time are fairly well’ organized. No one has been more active in creating this unity of purpose and co-operation among the anti-administration dele- gates than Powers Hapgood, phich explains the assault made upon him. Patton Implicates Lewis. He was snared into a hotel room by three men, two of whom are on the organization payroll: Wm. Patton, vice president of District 5, Western Pennsylvania, and ‘Joe Angelo, an international organizer stationed in the union territory of Ohi.. They had the assistance of another thug. Angelo had a revolver, which he was not able to hide when the police! broke in, attracted by the noise of combat, after the affair had gone on for twenty minutes and Hapgood was at the point of exhaustion. | When all four were jin the police} station, Hapgood overheard Patton | begging the officers to call up John| Lewis or Phil Murray, international vice president, “as they had arranged the job.” Although still under a physician's care today, Hapgood is able to con- tinue his duties as a progressive dele- gate. Discuss Wage Scale. The reactionary officials continue to talk in a guarded, non-committal way, of revising the wage scale when the contract expires April 1. Rumors from the operators’ camp are being circulated. One is that the companies will sign a three year contract with the present scale for the first year, and arbitration machinery for the second and third year which shall have power to change the scale. President Coolidge in his message to Congress has advoeated such an agreement, and it is well known that Lewis aspires to the office of secre- tary of labor, and with this purpose in view supported the Coolidge cam- paign in the last elections. Some- thing happened, and he was double crossed, but has never expressed any resentment over it. No Arbitration. The “Save The Union” program on which Brophy ran for president of the union declares against long term con- tracts as well as wage cuts and com- pulsory arbitration, Another rumor around town is to the effect that the operators will ask for a sliding scale of wages, based on the price of coal, The progressive theory is that if a sliding scale is consented to, it must vary in accord- ance with the cost of living. Ready For Mexico? ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 25,—Marine guards with the mails are being re- duced and marine detachments are being concentrated at the Quantico and San Diego bases, it was learned at marine headquarters today. On Extra-Territorial Rights. WASHINGTON, Jan, 25. — The United States would abolish extra- territorial courts in China under a resolution introduced today by Rep. Somers (D) New York. Young Workers of Brownsville to Give Concert and Dance A concert and dance will be given by the Y, W, L. of Brownsville Jan. 29, 8 p. m., at 63 Liberty Ave., Brook- lyn. Admission 85 cents. y —— Roll in the ube The DAILY | | union. Lewis Does Not Serve Miners’ Union in Role of Tail Tip to G.O. P. Kite By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. RESIDENT Coolidge has suf- fered another disastrous defeat at the hands of the senate. By a vote of 49 to 28, or nearly two to one, his. efforts failed utterly to carry out a ‘political bargain with Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.), to have | an agent of the railroads, Cyrus EF. Woods, of Pennsylvania, ap- pointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The struggle over Woods’ ap- pointment revealed a clash between the union and non-union coal fields, with the senators from the four leading “open shop” soft coal States,—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee—leading the fight against the Coolidge-Mel- lon-Reed selection from Pennsyl- vania, But there was added interest in the fact that John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers’ Union, thought he was serving the | interests of the coal diggers by joining with the Coolidge-Mellon crowd, on the presumption that Pennsylvania is a unionized state, | and the best way to protect the interests of the miyers’ union is to side with the northern coal barons. Oe oe This is merely a reflection of the policies carried out by John L. Lewis, who is now fighting the best elements in the coal miners’ It is this policy of fawning on the coal barons, instead of de- veloping the miners’ union as an in- | dependent class power of labor, | that has not only lost for the | miners’ union the organizations | that prevailed not only in Tennes- | see, Kentucky and West Virginia, but is even crippling and destroy- ing the union jn \Pennsylvania. John Lewis labors under the hal- | lucination that hig friends, Cool- | edge and Mellon, after getting the favorable transportation rates they desire for Pennsylvania coal, in competition with the more south- ern fields; will in some mysterious way that Lewis does not gay, turn a favorable eye on the miners’ union. Of course, even now, Lewis does not recognize the coal barons as an enemy class, nor the capital- ist. government at Washington as the bosses’ weapon for maintaining the working class as an® oppressed class. He actually believed that he executed a clever maneuver in sup- porting thé Coolidge-Mellon effort to put the hireling of coal and steel capital in an important gov- ernmental position. o- 2 @ In the meantime the coal and steel capitalists, altho they have lost out in the effort to place Woods, may well chuckle up their sleeves at having tied Lewis to the tail of their kite, dangling him about at their own sweet will. There is some consolation here for. President Coolidge, in the hour that he suffers what The New York By MARGARET LARKIN. T won't last a month. We'll all be ack in little old New York in a couple of weeks at most.” In this fashion the “newspaper boys” from the capitalist papers of New York predicted an early and un- serena ending for the Passaic Sometimes I see them now, and they say to me wonderingly, “It’s still going on,” incredulous that so much courage could exist in a world that languages. Times calls “his worst defeat,” to know that he has the head of the nation’s largest labor organization sitting on his back doorstep ready to take orders. That can only Weaken organized labor. es ae It is declared that Coolidge nom- inated Wood in an effort to pay a “political debt” to Senator Reed, ot Pennsylvania, This seems to be the only method left for “Silent Cal” to maintain ‘some semblance of support, It was the way he bought off Senator Nye, in North Dakota, by permitting tne western senator to appoint the United States marshall, But this effort at political backscratching is a big indication of the weak, hold that Coolidge has, not only on the sen- ate, but in congress generally and the republican party machine as a whole. o*o* It is significant that the attack against Woods was not directed so much against his corporate connec- tions. This was the case when the senate twice turned down, in March 1926, Coolidge’s nomination of Charles Beecher Warren for the at- torney generalghip, At that time Warren’s trust connections were exploited-to the limit, Woods has been an obedient “dollar diplomat” in the past, notably to Japan, and it was announced that there would be no objection to returning him to some important foreign post. It | isn’t so great a crime today, in the eyes of congress, to be a lackey of great business. ‘ It can be taken fer granted that the Pennsylvania senators and their masters will-not be worried very much by this temporary defeat. The big keystone state coal inter- ests have already bought heavily into the non-union West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee fields. It is here that the coal barons have non-union coal mined to compete with the union coal taken out of their own mines in Pennsylvania. Instead of tolerating officials like John L. Lewis, who feel com- fortable in the company of these ‘coal barons, who are forced to ac- sept the union in Pennsylvania, but re doing their best to undermine it even there’ with the strength they get thru their non-union mines, the coal miners must develop the strength of organization thru bring- ing the unorganized into the-union, - Instead of playing with the union operators in Pennsylvania, in the hope of using them as a foil against the non-union operators, the miners’ union must organize the unorgan- ized in every field and thus devel- op a formidable front against all coal capitalists, This is the major activity of the “Save the Union’ union campaign that should re- ceive considerable support at the mine workers’ convention now be- ing held in Indianapolis. _ PASSAIC FOOLED THE NEWSPAPER MEN; GAVE THEM ‘MANY SURPRISES; FEW THRILLS ‘these workers high-spirited for a year | of strike, | A whole year. The strikers of Pas- ‘sale would be amused if they knew how some “newspaper boys” in New York are puzzling over that phen- omena, They have become used to the idea that their struggle is en- | couraging and leading other workers. Russia and Germany and China know their story and that the word | “Passaic” has entered many foreign I am sure they do not for them is peopled with Brownings know that they ha’ and Queen Maries and Bum Rogers’ however abate a Ngo Rap and gold Wiggers and prize fighters! “newspaper. boys.” and scandal mongers and politicians and “everybody has his price.” “It’s still going on,” they say, and to all of us comes the vision of great, patient picket lines, marching in too thin clothes and too worn shoes, with wily Jack Rubenstein “giving the Captain an argument” and getting the line by the police cordon, or Pan- e singing out in his thrilling, half Italian, “This pick’ line means bread an’ butter, fellow work’.” They were hardly aware of what message they were spreading to the whole world about Passaic, these re- porters who predicted its early end. They wrote of police attacks, of hun- By and cold strikers’ families, of Trame-ups of the stubbornness of mill officials because they saw these things with their own eyes, Yet if you had told them that they were writing of the class wee, of militant struggle of workers against their masters, that Passaic as they saw it was to become | a symbol for workers freeing them- selves, they would have been indig- nant and unbelieving. In spite of the power that they felt and that im- pressed them in the earnest mass meetings, slow moving, black lines, the patient groups in strike flinchi in court and police station ; gf moneeth hae Misa os Bal? go ps and nee 4 n at the “reporters” and used to characterize ‘is toe and that one as “ignorant” when it was dis- covered that he had never worked in a mill and didn’t understand the pro- cesses. Some of this “ignorance” was dispelled by the Passaic struggle. A hundred newspapermen in New York the labor movement of, their work in Passaic, They com other labor struggles to that pny petee They find similar situa- tions in New York and interpret them See dived beter veer they learned a government rkers, unions in New Jersey. me A hundred reporters isn’t many. Maybe it doesn’t matter what they think or whether they are ‘ignorant’ or not of the t mass struggles of workers to tala thet Eee in indus- try. Maybe the capitalist press doesn’t matter, Maybe it does, /& —. Will Fight For This. WASHINGTON, Jan, 25—Amer ican investments in Mexico total $1,389,061,000 on December 15, 1926, the state department announced to- day, basing its figures on the reports of consular agents in Mexico, = Properties led the led | sidered it a sevi Page Two Senate Debates Arbitration Of Mexican Crisis Continued from page 1 of Diaz.” A warning to arbitrate or “take tor Robinson (D) of Arkansas. Two alternatives faced the Amer- ican government if arbitration is re- jected, he said. One would be with- drawal of recognition of the Calles government and removal of the arms embargo, and the other would be “armed intervention to police areas |in Mexico, which means war,” Denouncing “selfishness which as- serts itself in a time of crisis,” Rob- inson added, “those who are quiek to stimulate international animosities and those who are arrogant in the assertion of arbitrary contentions, rarely if ever, sacrifice themselves or their resources when their country goes to war.’ CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) lattack made on Powers Hapgood, a | young anthracite miner, by thugs of the John L. Lewis machine in an In- |dianapolis hotel, Hapgood is a dele- gate to the miners’ convention, and has taken an active part in the Brophy campaign against Lewis. The reactionaries are not accustomed to resorting te argument to defend their position, The thug’s blackjack and the gangster’s gat are their fav- orite arguments. Thuggery will fail in the long run and the attack on Hapgood cannot help but rouse the delegates to the miners’ convention to the necessity of overthrowing the Lewis regime and restoring the un- ion to the membership. ° 'N old man sixty-two years old was found starving in a room in this large and wealthy city. <A preacher was released from jail after spending two nights in a cell because he was behind in his alimony pay- iments. A strange case indeed. What | kind of a clergyman is he that does not bring people who have a craving for salvation flocking to his temple? ; The poor devil must come across with seven dollars a week or his beloved wife will land him in the hoosegow again. A woman lost $41,000 worth of jewelry that disappeared, not un- aceountably, after the police visited her home hunting for a criminal. She is now suing the insurance com- pany. <A. brewer by the name of Ehret left an estate worth $25,000,- 000 when he passed beyond to chase the deer in the happy hunting ground er smoke his pipe under some celes- tial cherry tree and quaff his flow- ing goblet. Ehret left a lot of his money. to religious institutions and ® request to his children that they continue in the brewery business. This story got a big head. The story Ps ee same front page because it happened to fit a small space. Why did not Ehret subsidize the anti - saloon league? He might be alive yet and making good beer. * * * HE big’ feature on the front pages of the New York papers these days is the “Peaches” Browning case, the story of the sexual animadver- sions of an old millionaire dotard, a real estate operator, who is so wealthy that half a dozen mothers with marriageable daughters, aided by hordes of lawyers have not suc- ceeded in forcing him to starve in a garret. Perhaps the poor fellow who was found dying of hunger had some intelligence. In all probability he is not the kind of a man that would throw nurses and nurseries into con- sternation when he hit a fown. Viv- tue is its own reward, say our mor- alists. Perhaps, but quite a number of virtuous people would give almost. anything for a hot meal when real hungry. * * e b ‘HE New York American has at least six star reporters covering - ‘They have heard that the workers of |the Browning trial. They are feed- ing the popular appetite for slush. Every line about the trial will be ex- amined fof traces of suggestiveness and veiled filth. Important matters affecting the lives of hundreds of millions, in China, in South America, in Europe and in the United States are relegated to the inside pages while the moron mental fodder is splashed. on the front page. Com- munism would destroy the home and the family, the masses are told by the owners of those bawdy capitalist sheets that wallow in putridity to jack up the circulation and bring in more revenue, ; * * * ECAUSE a New Jersey family re- B fused to permit agents of the so- ciety for the prevention of cruelty to animals to examine'their cattle the agents, with the aid of state troopers, invaded their home and fatally wounded a female member of the family. It seems that those warped mentalities that make a business of straightening the moral sfine and ex- uding sympathy for animals while ig- noring the cruelties inflicted on human have not the slightest hesitation in ‘taking human life, # Regie < consider Speleicts anybody who disa; with them. ‘There wad a time when the Puritans of New England con- crime for a per- » It is quite fon to smile on Lossible that before long agents of go the road to war” was issued by Sena- | of the starving man was used on the -