The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 4

nse nemenraneeeamennentit seo Sa et a Nicaragua and prevent American imperialism from establishing i a base for a future bloody war upon the peoples and republics to Page Four THE DAILY WORKER — Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 88 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail-Cin New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months | $2.50 three months $2.00 three months "Address all ‘mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 | J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } gi WILLIAM FP. DUNNE (cttttttsstrssssseees Editors Sas eretesk ss Manager BERT MILLER Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under} the act of March 8, 1879. } Advertising rates on application. ——<— The Most Dangerous Weapon of the People’s Armies. Sun Chuang-fang’s forces have been found susceptible to the same arguments,which left Wu Pei-fu without an army when the propaganda machine of the Peoples Government of China went into action. The imperialist press holds this method of warfare to be espe- | cially damnable and if they had to choose between the use of | poison gas and the dissemination of the doctrines of Dr. Sun Yat/| Sen by the Peoples Armies would undoubtedly choose the latter as less deadly both in its immediate and ultimate effects. Poison} gas merely disables or kills while the conversion of enemy troops} by the propagandists of Chinese national liberation leaves them | in fighting trim but with the direction of their fire reversed. Since the Russian Revolution it is becoming more and more apparent that the hazards encountered by imperialist armies fighting revolutionary troops are of a kind for which the im- perialist general staff has not been able to devise a defense. This| is especially true when the imperialist nations are compelled to! use soldiers of the same race or nationality as the workers or colonial peoples which they are trying to subjugate. The disaster which has overtaken the forces of Sun Chuan- fang south of Shanghai is additional proof of the weakness of the political position of Great Britain and the other imperialist pow- ers in China. Similar proof was given by the simultaneous re- fusal of the Peoples Government and the generals of the reac-; tionary forces to agree to the Coolidge proposal for the “neutrali- zation” of Shanghai. Great Britain especially has been proceeding on the theory that there is no such thing as a united national sentiment in China and this has led her diplomats into grotesque errors—errors which show that the bankruptcy of British diplomacy is just as far ad- vanced as the decay of the empire. Even Chang Tso-lin, while he accepts support from the Jap- anese, is forced to follow a policy which makes some pretense of national independence for the provinces under his control. Unity with Chang Tso-lin, as in the case of Wu Pei-fu, has, because of his orientation to Japan, proved disastrous to every militarist whose troops have faced the People’s armies. | The Chinese masses, altho the northern minority is still mis- led by treacherous militarists, are united against imperialism. This | is the one big fact which the imperialist powers will disregard only to make this unity more solid. We believe it is no exaggeration to state that the bombard-| ment of Shanghai'or thé actual launching of a land offensive by} Britain against the People’s Armies will mean the desertion of | Chang Tso-lin and Sun Chuang-fang by decisive sections of their forces who will then fight under the banner of the People’s Gov- ernment. The People’s Government (Kuomintang) is the organized) and militant expression of Chinese nationalism and its program has a wide popular appeal. In the face of imperialist interven- tion the militarist leaders will be swamped. The beginning of the latest phase of this process is the break- up of Sun Chuang-fang’s southern army. The War on Nicaragua Continues The Coolidge government certainly is giving Service to that section of the plunderbund which has investments in Nicaragua and to the general interests of American imperialism in Latin America. Almost all of the ships of the Atlantic fleet are in Caribbean waters; a number of them are patroling both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Nicaragua. ll available marines are either on their way to Nicaragua or already there. Admiral Latimer has been kept busy establishing “neutral” zones in order to prevent the popular army from sweeping. Diaz into oblivion and establishing the Sacasa government on a firm foundation and now the state department appears to be preparing to declare the whole country a “neutral” zone and outlaw the liberal forces. The ease with which the poorly organized and equipped popu- Jar army has defeated the Diaz forces, in spite of his support by the American state and war departments, exposes the Wall-Street- Coolidge-Kellogg conspiracy against the liberties of the Nicara- guan people in all its nakedness. Diaz, it is evident, could not last 24 hours without the backing of the United States govern- _ ment. It is fortunate that the logic of events has disproved the lying assertion that the U. S. forces have been sent to Nicaragua to preserve order. This excuse is without weight and in itself is no justification for the role the state department is playing, but it might serve to beguile elements who think that it is the duty of the United States to police Latin-America. ; As it is now the fact cannot be concealed that the only élements of disorder in Nicaragua are those sent there by the United States and its puppet Diaz. f The popular forces have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they represent the vast majority of the Nicaraguan people. This is precisely the reason why the Wall Street government sup- ports Diaz who, contrary to the desire of the masses, is willing to give Nicaragua to Wall Street for a canal zone and a military and naval base for imperialist operations against Mexico and Latin-America. . There is no longer any doubt that, lacking powerful protest from American labor, Wall Street government intends to continue its aggressions in Central America. Speeches of middle class representatives in congress and the senate are all very well; they focus attention on the rape of Nicaragua but they do not stop it. The workers and farmers of America, their organizations, alone have the power to force withdrawal of armed forces from the south THE BAILY WORKER, New YORK, SATURDAY, re uiCAN Ww, verry a oy ee RI THE RIGHT WING’S BIG BROTHER ~ WILUAN Sieger RIGHT WING:—You Left Wing Garment Workers are going to be expelled! LEFT WING:—Who says so? RIGHT WING:—Me and the boss and President Bill Green! VII The upshot of the debate was that no one of them was sure the enterprise would be a success, but all the young ones were willing to pitch in and help, if Bunny was determined for a try. And Bunny | said that he had already been look- ing about for a site, with good land and plenty of water, somewhere about fifty miles from Angel City; he was going to make a first pay- ment on land as soon as he could get the cash, and meantime they would work out the details. He would give his own time for three years to getting the institution on its feet, and if it proved possible to develop the right discipline and morale, he would make the institu- tion self-directing, and furnish whatever money could be used ef- fectively. They would need teach- ers, organizers, and business man- agers, so there were jobs for all. And meantime, Bunny must go back to the interviews with law- yers, to try to save as much as possible of the estate. It meant long wrangles with Bertie, for their affairs were in a snarl, and getting worse every day. Verne insisted that Ross Operating must have funds to meet its current expenses; and did they want him to assess the stock, and force the estate to raise the money, or did they want him to buy the lease to the Ross Junior tract, the only asset of Ross Operating, except the claims against the insurance companies? Verne could ‘do what he pleased, because the directors of the con- cern were himself and his trusted young executives. He was propos- ing to form another concern, the Paradise Operating Company — with other trusted young execu- tives as directors, and sell himself the lease which had twenty years still to run, and was worth nobody could tell how many millions of dollars,,for the sum of six hundred thousand! All right then, said Verne, let the estate do better. Bertie took up the challenge, and exchanged long cables with her husband in Paris and went out among her rich friends—to make the embarrassing discovery that people who have six hundred thousand dollars in cash do a lot of investigating before they spend it, and then want to hog the whole thing for themselves. Bertie spent much worry and hard work—and what made her most furious was that she couldn’t do it for herself alone, but had to do it for the whole estate, giving the in- competent Bunny and the infamous Alye the benefit of her labors, She got a proposition; and then the lawyers of the infamous Alyse turned up with another proposi- tion; and Bertie declared they were bigger thieves than Verne. And then Ross Consolidated needed money, and Verne was go- ing to assess that stock—meaning | ANEW NOVEE uy Upton Ginelair to drive the estate to the wall and plunder it of everything. Present- ly he made a_proposition—there was the Roumainian oil venture, into which Dad had put a million and a quarter in cash. Verne of- fered to purchase this back for the same amount, and the necessary papers were prepared—the heirs all had to consent to the sale, and they did so, and then the court must ap- prove the proposal. This meant delay, and meanwhile the estate was delinquent in the assessment on the Ross Consolidated stock, and this stock was to be sold out. The money from the Roumainian deal was to save it, but to the con- sternation of the lawyers, the court refused its consent to this deal, There were technical points in- volved— the court questioned the authority of Mrs, Alyse Ross’s law- yers, and demanded her personal signature, attested in France. In short, the estate couldn’t get money in time for the sale, and it was Vernon Roscoe who bought the Ross Consolidated stock at a bar- gain, Oh, how Bertie raved and swore —the veritable daughter of a mule- driver! Verne, the filthy swine, had put that trick over on them! Not content ‘with having stolen Dad’s papers, he had diddled them along like this, and got one of his crooked judges to hold up the or- der, so that he might grab another plum! Bertie threatened to take a gun to Verne’s office and shoot him down like a dog; but what she really did was to abuse her brother, who had been such a fool as to make a@ mortal enemy out of te most powerful man they knew. | sentimental | happy shore and this new state of | bliss, with angel’s wings and the It taught them a lesson. They would get themselves out of Verne’s clutches, get rid of every- thing that he controlled. Dad had put nearly a million into a concern called Apglo-California, which was to develop the big Mosul conces- sion; and the lawyers of Alyse got an offer for that stock, but it in- cluded time payments, and Bertie wouldn’t agree to that, and the lawyers wouldn’t agree to Verne’s cash offer, and Bertie was in ter- vor lest Verne would do some more hocus-poeus—organize an Anglo- California Operating Company, and lease the Mosul tract to do it, and swipe all the profits! Amid which wrangling came a letter from Alyse to Bunny. She was sure that he would not let horrid money troubles come be- tween him and her, and break their sacred bond, the memories of dear Jim, Alyse had gone to consult her favorite medium, immediately upon her arrival in Paris, and at the third seance Jim had “mani- fested,” and ever since then Alyse had had his words taken down by a stenographer, and here was a bulky record, big as the transeript of a legal trial, and tied with blue ribbons of feminine ‘elegance. Alyse | hoped that Bunny had not failed to | consult a medium, and would send her whatever dear Jim had had to say in his old home. Bunny went through the record, and it. gave him a strange thrill, There were pages and pages of rubbish about this musie of harps, and tell my dear ones that I am with them, but I am wiser now, and dear Bunny must know that I understand and forgive—all stuff that might have come out of the conscious or sub- conscious mind of a sentimental | elderly lady or of a rascally me- dium. But then came something that made the young man catch his breath: “I want my dear Bun- ny to know that it is really his father who speaks to him, and he | will remember the man who got all the land for us, and that he had two gold teeth in the front of his mouth, and Bunny said that some- body would rob his grave.” How | in the name of all the arts of magic was a medium in Paris to know about a joke which Bunny had made to his father about Mr. Hardacre, the agent who had bought them op- tions on ranches in Paradise, Cali- fornia? By golly, it was something to think about! Could it really be that Dad was not gone forever, but had just disappeared somewhere, and could be got hold of again? Bunny would go for a walk to think about it; and through the streets ef Angel City he would hear the voice of Eli Watkins booming over the radio. Eli’s Tabernacle was packed day and night, with the tens of thousands who crowded to see the prophet who had been floated over the sea by the angels, and had brought back a feather to prove it; all California heard Eli’s voice, proclaiming the ancient prom- ise: “Behold, I shew you a mys- tery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” (To Be Continued). Another Student Kills Self. ELMIRA, N. Y., Feb. 18—De- spondency was believed today to be the rea8on for the suicide of Miss Edith M. Stewart, 21, of* Tuxedo iad N. Y., a student of Elmira Col- lege. The girl declared she could not face her parents if her suspension from college, which was not even con- templated, was ordered. Almost im- mediately afterwards she swallowed some strichnine tablets which she had taken from the infirmary office. Anna Pavlova, Dancer, Now Ready to Return To the Russian Stage MOSCOW, Feb. 18—Anna Pay- lova will soon visit Russia for the first time since the revolution, Pavlova was the star ballerina in the old St. Petersburg imperial bal- let. She will return home to find that her former colleagues who re- mained in Russia are taking her place, . In this city Madame Gelser is dancing the leading roles. Madame Krueger, who also was a star be- fore the revolution, remains in the forefront, FOOTNOTES il By EUGENE Lyons Liberals.—They are fair to everybody and everything. The capitalists, communists, fascisti, politicians, clergy, etc., etc. They | have open minds on everything. The fear that sometimes some- how they may have judged harshly or spoken sharply gives. them nightmares. And so they change their views twice daily, impede |action, do tight-rope stunts, and generally get in their own and ether people’s way. It doesn’t matter that they are wrong on the whole, so long as they are just and considerate in detail. If only liberals could cure themselves of their paralyzing fairness they would be quite tolerable. But then they wouldn’t be liberals, They would be useful conservatives or radicals. | ; TO TXE | NEWS | Swiss Justice Smells Like Swiss Cheese-—Ivan De Jus tacked the Hungarian premier in Geneva, has been sates by bay court to 24 days in prison, ten years’ exile and 500 francs fine, The court of the same country acquitted the murderer of Vorovsky. De Justh probably realizes that his mistake was in not killing the premier outright, —Drawn by William Gropper. COURT CLOWNS. THE SYSTEM AND ITS ‘ A Suggestion to the Nation.—The Nation the othe; dinner at which Ruth Hale, Lorine Pruette and Freda util pie teet the thesis that woman is superior to man. The girls made a brave ar- | gument. They left the only male speaker, John Macy, no more than two legs to stand on. But the men and the audience who had forked over $2.75 for the dinner of some female companion felt that there was some- thing fishy about the argument. In justice to the speakers, a customer of this column suggests that in future meetings to establish the supe- riority, or eveh equality, of the female of the species,’she be compelled to pay for her own meal. It will make the thesis more convincing. | Judging from the amount of | fiscated by the booze-sleuths, revival of religion in this land. sacramental wine being con- there has been a very decided Presenting a Sonnet That’s Rather Rough On The Cops, The | Spelling and Even The Sonnet Form, Entitled “Soliloquy of a | Mounted Cop.” Yeh gotta treat them goddam strikers rough. | They’re louzy dagoes, shcenies, slays and rooshians; | Don’t give a whoop in hell for constitootians, Law and order—-all that sorta stuff. Goin’ around there, giving scabs the guff! Makin’ trouble, these reds, and revolootians! Breakin’ our laws and sacred institootians! We'll show those goddam gteasers soon enough. They stand right at the gates, disturb a feller, That’s trying hard to earn his honest wages. They boo and yell at, him—they’re that damn yeller. Yeh gotta treat them rough. Why it’s outrageous; A guy can work in any place he pleases, ‘ Accordin’ to Gary, Adam Smith and Jesus. —NUDNICK. How the World Reports a Lenin Meeting. “Some time ago,” A. B. Magil write Lenin Memorial meeting. van ae ae New York World, which, as every “you may recall there was a Ming Js you think happened? The d el ows, is the t li paper of the United States, sent a reporter to Matec Beckie pesbedat or maybe it wasn’t a reporter. Anyhow, the next morning, gazing over my favorite family journal, I spied the stoxy trying to sneak around a corner of the second page. It éonsisted of about two paragraphs, The story recorded the fact that there had been a Lenin Memorial meeting and that more than 20,000 Communists had been present. (This must have been heartening news to the comrades who are trying to build up a strong party in New York.) It also said that speeches had been made. but it forgot to say who made them and what they were about, And it ores 4 wie a sey tt oc ane writing by saying that 50 police- ler and lis ie na) f <r lc ing mes of the sergeants in command of the “This struck me as a swell idea, de ti hing, bio drid eee ae World carry the dda: tat ter Depeche consistent. y not have Woolcott and Chotzinoff give th kas y Lcraadl the man at the box office and ale detitor tn aie ae “ack : fe an musical reviews? The program and the performers don’t —eeelnenpeinnantery “Women Hold Most Phone Stock,” says the headline financial item. We don’t know about phone stock, but they Mactstuly hate 34 phone booths, especially when a fellow needs one badly. He signs himself “Young Sweeney” and writes to us “as one to another.” But his is not the pleasant job of conducting a pticioage ed works on a rapid transit line, works on it all night long, cheerfully answers a lot of questions, and is paid next to nothing by a company which made a million dollars more this year than ever before. (The information comes to us in rhymes.) And now he asks a question in turn: + rad “Now what I want to know 5 “Is where does all the money go?” The answer is too easy. As Young Sweeney grows out. Or maybe he’s only teasing us. Maybe he knew Pgh ail the mo ro Big aty, ecto e Sweeney and his fellow-workers on the ral welcome to t even less than they. Give you pe eke nh Tt Sek canary me pee ——$___ We lament the decline of pornography. Post~ realism sided kind of romanticism) has done ek. "That realism finde ite popular expression in the picture papers and the nude revues, The world’s becoming shock-proof. Crude, thick, vulgar, obvious stuff has dulled the taste for such things. The only way Rabelais could ' get any attention for his work in New York today would be to hire a go-getting publicity man who in turn would get after Sumner to get, afte police. stuff—in a novel or a divoree court action or a play—is as conventional as the happy gnding and as little satisfying. Of finesse and subtlety there is ah none, Maybe that explains our plight. A scribe who shall remai : named some verses with the assurance that thay are te graphic, A diligent search in, to disclose the thrill. companying charts is intended, between and around the lines fails Nothing short of a picture postcard with ac- will be recognized nowadays, alas, for what it into its other departments to be 2 ae