The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 2

mereneineecieasiee THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927 AIMEE CHASES DEVIL IN MANHATTAN; KNOWS HER ONIONS; GETS THE KALE Personal Feminine Charms Thrown in for Good Measure as Boobs and Sophisticates Gurgle in the Slop By NAT Snow and sleet, influenza and pneumonia may be in the air; thousands | may be pondering a choice between of the steel market may drop to the happiness is just around the corner where Aimee McPherson Aimee and Tex Guinan Have Swell Time Kidding Idlers of the Metropolis By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. One of the figures of fame i little old New York is Texas Gui- nan. One of the bright lights of the Pacific Coast is Aimee Sempee McPherson. Aimee is now in New York, and among those she visits Tex. The other night she paid a visit to the 300 Club where Tex relieves the un- comfortably rich of their surplus bankrolls. She was received with open arms. One of the customs of the 300 Club is to introduce from the floor all the famous people who visit her elub, Such folks as Harry K. Thaw, hootleggers, actresses, actors, crooks, and then some, have had that “honor” conferred on them. And folks, tet it be understcod that Aimee is no stepchild! She | was introduced to the wicked people who she wants to save from hell (and cop their bankroll, inciden- tally). When she leaving the club, Tex shouts: “Give the little woman a hand,” and the booze hounds stand up and cheer for “il’ Aimee.” Tex reciprocates.. She takes her chorus and visits Aimee’s taber- nacle. And why not? They are both in the same graft only Tex gets one group of suckers and Aimee an- | ether group. Undoubtedly they recognize that | they are “sisters under the skin” and therefore feel comfortable in | one another’s company. Tex is at least honest. But Aimee—well—. Roll in the Subs Vor The DAILY WORKER. AIMEE SPLURGES SALVATION CASH | ALONG FIFTH AVE, Syracuse Godders Don’t Want Her There Oppositi day by Mr notorious evang revival meetin this week. A dozen ministers and representa- tives of several religious organiza-| tions have telephoned to her at the Hotel McAlpin esking her to eancel| her Syracu trip and warning that) she will receive no cooperation from ountered yester- ple McPherson, t, to her scheduled in Syracuse, N. Y., them, Aimec said. “Nothing can induce me to remain away from Syracu: she asserted. | “{ will be there for three days and} will give two sermons each da: if they to close the arena which j} T have e ged, I will speak from the | street corners if necessary.” {Save you,” © | power. KAPLAN. the river and the army; the bottom accompaniment of lamentations—and of Broadway at 235 W. 33rd_ street s staging return bouts with the Flesh and the Devil. i es Happiness, salvation, musie, thrills and living proofs of the perennial {truth of P. T. Barnum’s adage may | be found in the pine-board tabernacle where 2,000 gaze at the titian-haired spell-binder, while hundreds listen in via an amplifier in the basement. Wants Us On a Stretcher. | “Only the four-squared gospel will| Took Quarter Million | Wallace of Plentywood, chairman of | meet the needs of the people today. | This sick old world, like the man with y be put on a! stretcher four square, and carried to} the palsy, needs to god. We need the four cords when we get there to let the people down to Christ.” All this in a husky contralto, in precise, staccato sentences, explaining that the four cords are baptism, sal- vation, the spirit of the holy ghost and the second coming. Those seated in the gallery take up the choruses of the elect on the main! floor. “Yea, Lord,” “Glory be to God,” and “Hallelujah.” This is swelled by the rumbled response of those who are listening in via the} basement amplifier. Mrs. P. T. Barnum. A maudlin crowd, except for those who come as students of Showman- ship to see this lady minister who! plays upon the heart-strings of her hearers with the deft sureness of a Duse, Fiske or Bernhardt. i e@ you, Jesus will es an old lady, during an interlude. “Our preachers need the old time The church or the minister who tries to get along without the holy ghost is like the automobile | which you try to run without gaso- The chassis is there, the wheels | line. and the fine paint, but what you need to get is a gasojine station.” They swallow this raptly—the metropolitan booboisie as well as their yokel brethren. Especially when Aimee emotes in her inimitable wistful way, as ap- pealingly as an experienced pan- handler or Jackie Coogan in “The Kid.” Gurgle, Gurgle. “People ask me how I ¢an conduct meeting after meeting. Well, have youever seen one of those old-fash- ioned watering carts? The cover is opened up, a tap is turned, it is filled | up and goes forth again to water the dusty roads. “T am Jike that watering cart. reach up and turn the tap of faith and gurgle, gurgle, I am full. The Lord fills me up and renews me day by day.” Stuff like that hits the weeping | brothers and sisters like~a slug of Father John's or Lydia Pinkham’s. Then Aimee calls for hymns like |“The Hand That Was Wounded For Me” and “Shall We Gather At The er,” and goes downstairs te pray th those who have been listening She follows this up with a piano in. selection of an old hymn, kisses and| prays over any youngster that hap- pens to be near and calls it a ses- sion. Legs And Breasts. Beneath the long white tobe she invariably wears, set off by a dar blue or black cape, a generous view of her grey-clad neatly-turned ankles is offered. And when she leans far over the reading desk to drive a message} And/ home with an all-embracing gesture | there is more than a “aint suggestion of the outline of her breasts. A large, mobile mouth, as red- Lure of a shopping tour along Fifth | lipped as any you will see along Avenve proved too strong for Aimee | Broadway, and amber-colored eyes, and she delayed her departure from|are her most dominant features. Her New York to permit a grand spending | marcelled amber head is as aggres- spree with money contributed by New, sively poised as that of any front-row York’s gullible. | chori Accompanied by threefwomen sec-| Y Aimee knows her onions, and ret s to the city, she| jaded city editors are sure of front- made the rounds of the shops and! page copy as long as Aimee stays also took in the usual sights that at-| around town, which will be just as tract tourists. «long as the souls she hopes to save upreme Court Voids | Americanization Law | For Hawaiian Schools | | | WASHINGTON, ° Feb, 21:—The| | supreme court today held unconsti- | | tutional the Hawaiian legislative act | | regulating alien language schools. | The Hawaiian act was passed for the express purpose of reducing | Japanese influence in the territory’s | public schools, and compelling the | | teaching of English and American} customs to foreign children. | | INSULL REFUSES — TO SAY WHO GOT - POLITICAL CASH | From “The Till” | WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Samuel | Insull revealed, today to the Sena- torial Investigating Committee that | he had spent out of the tills of the | | companies he controls, $237,925 in the| Illinois primaries alone, but refused | in general to say who got the cash. | He persisted even when Senator Reed | threatened him with contempt pro-| ceedings. | Standing by Insull in his refusal to! assist the investigation of charges of bribery of candidates in the primary | elections for U. S. senators in Tlinois last year, was his personal attorney, | and political handy-man, Daniel F. | Schuyler. Schuyler was threatened | along with Insull with contempt charges. } Insull Power King. / Insull is the super-power and street! railway king of the middle west, and according to his own story, has heavily subsidized the “right sort” of | candidates for public office there. He and Schuyler admitted that Insull} gave Robert E. Crowe $5,000 to sup-| port Joseph P. Savage, candidate for county judge in Chicago, and Schuy- ler admitted handling $14,000 in cur-| rency, but neither would say who it| went to, except to local candidates. | Insull owns up to handing Frank L.} |Smith’s supporters $125,000. Smith! is in trouble over it now. Insull admitted giving Chas. V.! Barrett $10,000. Barret had previous- | ly testified he received it. Handed Out Money. The public utilities magnate also agreed with the committee that his political expenditures included, aside from the above: $125,000 to Col.} Frank L. Smith, $82,925 for anti. world court propaganda, $15,000 to} George E. Brennan, $10,000 to Roy O. West. Barrett and Savage were local | republican leaders in Chicago while | |Brennan was the democratic nominee | for the senate. | Insull startled the committee by) | volunteering that the money was just’ |“taken out of the tills of the com- panies” that he controlled. He swore ‘to drawing from his own account a! single check for $190,000. He would) not say who the check was made out | to, but insisted it was for money thus | “borrowed.” | ‘Sablin Boasts That He Plots War On Russia! (Continued from Page One) sible amelioration of the internal situ- ation in England, following and as a result of the rupture of relations with Moscow, but adds that at the bottom of his heart he himself does | not believe in the possibility of a radi- jcal change in the situation in Eng-| iland in the event of an “expulsion |of the reds.” | Suspected Nickolai. In the same document Sablin deems | it interesting, and points it out, that there are rumors spread in certain | quarters that Loecker-Lampson’s anti- | Soviet campaign is financed by Grand | Duke Nikolai Nikoleivich. (A mem- | ber of the Romanoff family). | n his report of the fifth of Janu- jary, 1927, Sablin produces the con- | tents of a memorandum received by ternational Anti-Comintern League, headed by Aubert. | Consulted “Diplomats.” }on all moneys and credits. jthe British government from the In- | MONT, FARMERS | p.. Propagandists Against IN CONVENTION | the Revolution in China Have Hard Time of It By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. VOTE PROGRESS. | Demand Reduction of | Interest Rates (Special to The DAILY WORKER) PLENTYWOOD, Mont.—The first state convention of .the Progressive Farmers of Montana was attended by about 40 delegates from all over the state, largely from the eastern and central counties. The delegates drew up a.state constitution, passed sev- eral resolutions on progressive sub- jects and elected officers for the coming year. Wallace Opens Convention. The meeting was opened by P. J. | | | the National Directory. He was fol-| lowed by William Bouck, former mas- ter of the Washington State Grange and now national director of the| Progressive Farmers of America, | who told of the work in recently es- | tablishing a national office at Min-| neapolis and of the strides the move-| ment was making thruout the whole| United States. _ Organization work | was proceeding especially rapidly | thruout Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota | and neighboring states. } Several significant resolutions were | passed by the convention. It was re-| solved that the Progressive Farmers | of Montana demand the Montana le-| gislature work jor the passage and| enactment into Iw of a bill that will | reduce the maximum rate of legal | interest from ten to eight per cent | Other | resolutions were passed on the pro-| posed merger of the Great Northern | and the Northern Pacific systems in| Montana, a resolution favoring the | Farmer-Labor Party, another favor- | ing the retention by the state of all | natural resources and the taxing of | all existing water power corpora-| tions on a Hydro-Electric Tax Plan, | the revenue therefrom to be placed | in a general school fund. | Oppose Imperialism. The Progressive Farmers of Mon-|} tana also stated they were not in sympathy with the administration’s attempted military dictatorship in} Nicaragua, Mexico and China, and} demanded that the United States, armies be withdrawn from Nicara- | gua and China. Copies of this reso-| lution were mailed to the senators | and representatives in the United States Congress and to Secretary of tate Kellogg. * State officers that were chosen at} the convention as follows: State director, Chas. i Daniels Coun- ty; Field Manager, Hans Harderson Archer; Secretary, Hans Rassmussen, Plentywood; Educational _ Director, | A. N. Wankel, Dooley; Treasurer, | Nels Madson, Dagmar; Chaplain, Lu-, verne Hamilton, Mussellshell Coun- | ty; Guard, M. Joslyn, Avondale; Shepherd U. G. Barnhbduse, Comer- town; Sheperdess, Effie Adams Roose- | velt; Purchasing Agent, J. A, Blod- gett; Matron of Junior Councils, | Mrs. J. Ostby, McCabe; Representa- | ive on the National Directory, P. J. Wailace. | The Plentywood Council of the or- ganization gave a big banquet for) the delegates and visitors, after which they all marched down the street singing songs of the Progres- sive Farmers.+ National Job Swindle Discovered; But the Crooks Are Protected CLEVELAND. » A. national job swindle gang has been unearthed in Cleveland. This gang includes a Cleveland, a Los Angeles and a third | man in Chicago. It appears that the group had a big suite of offices in Cleveland, and advertised for sales distributors and branch managers for the sale of an anti-auto theft lock. $25,000 is said to have been | cleaned up on this deal. | Had Protection. | But it appears also that the men {had protection, so much so, that Common Pleas Judge Weygandt has if Rater New York Sun concludes an editorial with the observation that, “In China the pen is still far more deadly than the sword”. It does not say whether it ex- pects that power to be overcome by the growing invasion of the armed forces of the imperialist robber nations. It does not mea- sure the might of hundreds of bat- tleships, thousands of marines and tens of thousands of soldiers being rushed to oriental waters by the governments at Washington, Lon- don, Paris, Rome and elsewhere. That is no doubt an editorial re- servation. * * * It is true that the Chinese gov- ernment, that has now established itself at Hankow, is using the printed word as a powerful propa- ganda medium. Where newspapers cf large’ and national circulation are utterly lacking, where the Chi- nese workers, like those in Mexico, are too poverty stricken under foreign exploitation to buy a daily paper if they are able to read, the small leflet, or the wall poster becemes the medium of communi- cation that wreaks havoe with the armed forces of the enemy. The New York capitalist daily says that: “In the great Cantonese drive of last summer, which cleared out all opposition south of the Yellow River, letters, proclamations and promises were showered upon enemy troops with the intention of shaking their allegiance to the northern alliance. In this the paper bombardment succeeded to such an extent that there were defections when the time came for battle, and occasionally whole commands are known to have gone over to the scutherners”. Commenting on the present ap- pearance of the Kuomintang armies before Shanghai, this sama publication declares: “Something of the kind appears to have been tried with equal suec- cess in the drive upon Shanghai. It-is reported that for a long time Sun Chang Fang, defender Shanghai, had been paying $690,906 per month to Chang Tsung-Chang, war lord of Shantung, with the understanding that Shantung troops would undertake the defense Of Shanghai whenever called upon. In the recent fighting these reinforce- ments were urgently neosded, but they were not forthcoming. * * . “Another and even more striking illustration of-the skill of Can- tonese propagandists was disclosed within the seaport city itself. Searcely had the news of the defeat of Kiangsu forces in the south reached there when the red badge of Canton appeared as by magic upon the streets. Operators of streets cars, of the water works of | and of other utilities at once went on strike. Members of the sea- men’s union quickly joined the demonstration, * Co * “Hands at the local factories and even clerks in department stores quit their jobs and began parading the streets, cheering for the Can- tonese. Thus, so far as internal defenses of the city were concerned save only for European, Japanese and Ameriean defenders of foreign concession areas—notice was serv- ed upon the invaders they could ex- pect not opposition but support”. Then the Sun reaches this con- clusion: “Unless the northern allies are able to find some good propa- gandists of their own it would not be surprising to see them emerge from the struggle with decidedly the worst of it.” . * * * But triumph rests on the stand- ards of the propagandists who speak the will of the masses, The Russian people were ready for the overthrow of. czarism, contributed to the success of the Bolshevik propagandists, who have no doubt passed on many of their ideas and methods to the Chinese. In China the masses everywhere | eager to struggle in support of the revolution. It has not heen diffi- cult to infuse great multitudes of the followers of the subsidized northern war lords with this spirit. The result has been the Hessian armies sent in by the foreign im- perialists have met with little na- tive support, and whatever of this | existing is fast dwindling. ra Workers in the United States might well take an example from the Chinese. Labor in this country has a war of its own with a bat- tle front in evéry shop, mine and factory, and on every railroad in the land. The DAILY WORKER exists to- | day as the only English-language, national daily in the land. But it is not possible to reach millions of workers with “The Daily”, at least not immediately. But it is possi- ble thru the spread of leaflets, thru wall newspapers, thru shop papers, thru living newspapers, and similar propaganda mediums to reach immediately great masses of , workers, with explanations of the issues in which labor is vitally in- terested and to which the workers will respond. One does not need to be a member of the Workers (Com- munist) Party to thus function as the appetite amiong workers for the great propaganda organ and organ- izer of the working class, The DAILY WORKER. Take this lesson from the Chinese, NEW MASSES IS TABOOED INN. J,3 TO DEFY ARREST ‘Ruth Stout Courts Jail ‘At Meeting —— The business manager of the New at Newark Wednésday evening. Her arrest will follow her violation of a ukase issued by District Attor- ney Smith which bars the New Masses from the fair city of Newark. Dis- trist Attorney Smith has decided that the New Masses is lewd, lecherous, lascivious, obscene and sacriligeous. Masses, Ruth Stout, will be arrested | Aimee had all the time she wanted, for the train which will take her to, Syracuse, N. Y., for more revival| meetings, did not Jeave until after midnight. She will return to New York in a week to arrange for a trip} to Florida. She is leaving for her up- state tour after four days in the city. SAVE MARCH 18th FOR THE NEW MASSES) Bail . Pe ae ;come across substantially, But we still see the Devil around | his old haunts—or was that Adolphe Menjou? Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. |Working Girl Killed . In Rooming House Violet Granpeer, 22, a White Plains working girl living in a furnished room at 326 East 156th Street, died yesterday from injuries sustained when she either fell or was pushed down a flight of stairs in an alterca- tion with a man in the hallway of the building where she lived. The man, Victor Fischer. is being questioned to determine whether he is in any way connected with her death. The authorities are also inter- ested to know the cause of the alter- cation. From that report it appears that|told Prosecuting Attorney Stanton: there exists, attached to the league | “What the judges *want to know is | Besides he doesn’t like views, its political ‘Born In America, She | Finds Herself Alien Unable to Re-enter | Beeause you were born and bred in New York doesn’t mean that you }are an American citizen, entitled to return to America,-if you should leave, according to our immigration laws. Mrs. Louis Savio Riva was horn at | 67 Park Street. She attended Public School 23, and lived in New York City until seven years ago when she | went to Ttaly with er husband an | unnaturalized Italian. Deserted by her husband, Mrs. Riva attempted to return to this country. She faces deportation on the ground that she “lost her citizenship” when she married her husband. The fact that she has on friends or relatives in Italy and \hat she has two brothers and sisters in New York City doesn’t eut any ice with the im- | nigration officials. which | have shown that they are ready and | a labor propagandist and develop | a special Russian center, evidently | |directed by white guardists and hav- | ‘ing close relations with “diplomats” | of Sablin’s kind. In the report: Sab- lin unfolds a scheme of anti-Soviet work for the white immigrants ubroad, He points out the necessity of carrying on constant propaganda among Europeans prevailing upon them not to grant credits for exports to Russia, nor to contract any long term deals with Soviet organizations. Churches Agree. | Sablin points out very big achieve- ments in the caus eof approachment “nd cooperation of the orthodox and anglican churches. Big sums of money have been collected and transferred to Russia. | Sablin emphasizes that though at the given moment there is no hone of | & rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations, the ‘anti-Soviet campaign in England will be continued with unremitting energy. Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! there are two kinds of Cle nd and Cuyahoga County, one for the wealthy and in- uaual and another for the desti- tute and friendiess.” It has been said that bribes as large -as $5,000 were offered to “whitewash the leaders of the swindle ring.” That is the way “justice” goes to- day. You must have at least $5,000 whether before you can talk to “official pro-| tectors.” As there is talk of ap- pointing a special prosecutor, it would appear as if the District At- torney is close to the “official pro- tectors” of this swindle gang. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Uruguayans at Malaga. MADRID, Feb. 21.—Major Larre- Borges and his fellow Uruguayans, who are attempting a flight from Italy to Uruguay, arrived at Malaga today from Alicante. . WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! The pure-minded Smith, and his! ukases hold no terrors for Ruth Stout, | who will appear at Scott Nearing’s | lecture Wednesday evening with a. bundle of New Masses under one arm| and her attorney, Morris Ernst, under | CLEVELAND, Feb. 21.-1¢ is con the other. i ‘LEVELLAND, Feb. 2i.—It is con- Rath secur is a Quaker—at Jeast | Stantly being reiterated that there hep awa iis Smith has stirred | ¢re res bheeeck hii in peice er ting blood. ' v. re, about ie “y fon ¥ brings a big squad of sweatshops of "New Jersey, which j¢ops.” she told the reporter of The have just been published, are ampli- | DAILY WORKER in an exclusive in-| fied by reports on children in indus- |terview, “These pious souls get my | try in Ohio, | goat.” (Ruth Stout is a frail little) The Childrens’ Bureau of the De- | woman and she calls everyone dearie,) }artment of Labor, Washington, D. |, The battle between Newark’s de-|C. has just issued a report dealing fender of sweetness without light and with child labor. in the United States. Ruth Stout promises to overshadow As fat as Ohio is concerned, it notes ee peroe | lee eh gerne | vee bse ll ee pte in | y.”" e bout will start at » working in-in ry, suffering sharp at the Newark Labor Lyeoum,| loss of 54.943 days. Three chil- 14th St., and Springfield Ave, dren were killed, 27 suffered perma- | nent disability and 20 had some mem- Read The Daily Worker Every Day ber amputated. This study covered NICARAGUA ! ATLANTIC STORM TAKES 25 LIVES; RESCUERS DROWN ‘Millions Damage Along Sea Coast | At least 25 persons had lost their | lives today and many millions of dol- \lars in property damage had been |done by the terrific storm which | swept the Atlantic coast from the | Delaware capes to northern Maine |over the week-end, accompanied by | the highest tide in 50 years and by mountainous seas which wrecked small craft and carried away docks, breakwaters and hundreds of -bunga- | lows and houses. The death list was headed by the names of eight coast guardsmen who lost their lives when the CG-238 was pounded to pieces on Outer Pearked Hill Bar, off Provincetown, Mass. | After pulling its anchors in the gale, | the small vessel broke up in sight ‘of | hundreds of helpless watchers on the | beach, who were unable to launch a | boat in the raging surf. Three persons died in New Eng- land of exposure, and one due to an | accident caused by the blinding snow | Storm. Five deaths were reported | from Pittsburgh and one from Phila- | delphia, while in New York City two | persons were killed when they slipped | and fell on icy streets, 50 Are Injured. Another sea death occurred when | the second officer of the barge Tal- j boy was washed overboard outside | Ambrose Light. More than fifty per- | sons were reported seriously injuved. | Thrilling rescues were “reported |from various sections where coast | guardsmen and volunteers put out in |.small craft to take off persons aboard stranded vessels being pound- ed to pieces in the surf, The heaviest property damage was along the New Jersey and Long Island coasts, where several towns estimated losses of $1,000,000 each. j Leviathan Afraid. The gale and its accompanying angry seas delayed, almost every | vessel due to arrive in this port. The | giant liner Leviathan, due to leave Boston this morning, will not ven- | ture out on the stormy sea until to- | morrow, it was learned. | The most pitiful scenes were en- jacted in Long Beach and Staten | Island, where marooned persons, hun- arg of them, waited in the biting cold, Reaches Littered. Dawn today found the beaches all along the coast littered with the wreckage of homhes and the battered hulk af small vessels, that were picked up when the seas swept the shores. At the Battery the waves rose five feet higher than they had ever be- fore, and it was only due to a sud- den change in the tempestuous tide that lower New York was not fooded more seriously. Eighty-one fires kept the fire de- partments in the five boroughs busy. | Engines were driven over slippery | streets with ingenious skill. In a blaze at 1821 Second Avenue, Pat- rick O'Keefe, 80, was burned to \death,. and his mother, Mrs. Julia | O'Keefe, 50, seriously injured. An | exploded kitchen stove caused the | fire. } Phone Service Disrupted. Telephone service in the Metro- |politan district was more severely handicapped by the elewents yester- day and last night than at any other time since 1914. Buffeted for three days by the hur- ricane off the Atlantic coast, the Ward Liner Siboney arrived from Mavana 24 hours late, with an in- | fjured list ‘of 14 passengers and crew, | Roll in the Subs For The DAILY” WORKER. Call Booze Confab. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 21.—Alarmed at the increasing death rate from al- coholism, Dr. Matthias Nicoll, Jr., state commissioner of health, has urged the United States surgeon gen- eral to call a national health confer- ence to fight “this menace to the health of our country.” [AUURE MANY OH"0 CHILDREN WORKING UNDER LEGAL AGE IN FACTORIES; GOVERNMENT REPORT eee a period of only 9 months of 1926. Of the 2763 accidents, “1891 oc- curred in manufacturing establish. ) ments, 500 in commercial occupa+ tions, 81 in mining, 17 in agriculture. Of the total number of accidents, 618 were caused by machinery.” 13 chil- dren under the legal age were in- jured while using emery wheels or abrasive oy polishing machinery; 3 under the legal age were running ele- vators; and 2 under the legal age were working at night. Nearly half of the injured children had no work* certificates.” | In the greatest country in the world—the country that has to fulfil! ‘its “god-given mission” to 5 “civ- ilization to the colonies!” | | } |