The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1927, Page 6

Borah Takes His Place with the Imperialist Foes of the Chinese Republic By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. oy the United States plunges toward actual war openly declared against China, the lip service friends of subject peoples rapidly fall away. This always takes Place. ‘The present situation, not only with regard to China, but also Mexico and Nicaragua, is no exception. * * * It will be remembered that prior to the world war, Newton D. Baker, of Cleveland, Ohio, had a reputation a8 a pacifist and liberal. Yet he became Woodrow Wil- gon’s secretary of war, one of the worst jingoes of them all. J. Mitchell Palmer, of Philadelphia, was a Quaker and pacifist, with a supposedly liberal twist of mind. But as Wilson’s attorney general, he led a reign of terror, antedating the deposed Attorney General Daugherty as red baiter and radical hunter. Now Senator William E. Borah joins the casualties including those turning against the Chinese masses. He strips himself of the last shreds of the anti-imperialist cloak that he has been wearing as a so-called friend of oppressed nations. * * . The stripping has been a gradual one for Borah. But it has, nevertheless, been effective. He has continually urged the recegnition of the Union of Soviet Republics. Recently when he was charged with having deserted his stand on this question, he reiterated his demand for che recognition of the Soviet Union. The crucial test, however, occurred when Samuel Gompers, the late president of the American Federation, an enemy of the Workers’ Republic, challenged Borah’s stand. The open clash came at hearings held by the senate foreign relations committee, of which Borah is chairman. At the crucial moment, when Borah was ex- pected to make an aggressive fight, he suddenly ad- journed:the hearings. His militancy on this question has dually faded, * * JS Borah’s failure to take a definite andeaggressive stand ie / against the open intervention in Nicaragua is of more recent date. In speeches delivered on Tuesday at Utica and Syracuse, New York, he revealed himself more than ever as drifting closer and closer to an open stand with the imperialists. On the Nicaraguan issue he said: “I object to the Nicaraguan situation not so much because our marines are there to protect life, but be- cause we recognized the wrong individual.” That is about as deep as Borah’s differences with im- perialism go at the present time. Borah, in the same speech, declared that he had been campaigning for the republican party ever since the campaign for Blaine and Logan, ,way back in the last century, which means that he claims to have always been a good republican. Borah has been an upholder of the republican party during all the time that it has been the political spokesman of the developing American imperialist empire. He has never broken with it. At Utica Borah declared that, “I think he (Cal Cool- idge) is entitled to the nomination (for re-election as president in 1928) and can have it if he wants it.” Borah k Coolidge wants it. To Coolidge in the United States is to sup- por. the creature, Diaz, in Nicaragua, of the imperial- ism that ps Coolidge in the White House. This ex- poses how sincere Borah is in lending lip service to Sacasa, the opponent of Diaz. This is the Borah that himself with a speech in the senate on the of dollar diplomacy’s aggressions in Central America, as if robbery could be committed “legally.” * + * Another shred of large proportions was torn from Borah’s anti-imperialist cloak when he meekly sur- rendered to the administration in its refusal to permit him to go to Mexico with other members of the senate | foreign relations committee and investigate conditions there for themselves. Senator King at least made an effort to get into Hayti, forcing the local stool pigeons of the Dollar Kings to keep him out. Not so, Senator Borah. At this time when Coolidge and Kellogg are trying to explain mysterious letters sent to the enemies of the Mexican workers, promising American aid and sympathy in sup- port of any uprising against the Mexican government, Borah is upstate in New York making speeches that are favorable if anything to administration policies. The least that could be expected from Borah would be an immediate investigation of these letters and a stren- uous demand that they be made public so that the work- ers and farmers of the nation could get a look at them and decide for, themselves whether they are forgeries. But Borah has lost his zeal for open diplomacy. He winks both his eyes at secret, dollar diplomacy. * * * But it is in his latest statement on the Chinese sit- uation, that Borah stands stark naked as an imperialist ally. No longer he parades as an anti-imperialist poli- tician, as “the friend” of oppressed peoples and subject nations. Wall Styget may be proud of the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee who says: “The United States government is simply protecting the lives of its citizens there (in China); the govern-| ment has gone no further and will continue to protect its citizens until the spirit of the revolution has passed away.” * * ” . No protest here against the wanton murder of 7,000 defenseless men, women and children at Shanghai. ‘voice raised against the assassin’s aérial attack on the quiet villages of Bias Bay, under the shallow pretense that they were the abodes of pirates. No indignation at the slaughter of workers in Shanghai, both by native Chinese exploiters and alien imperialist soldiers who now number approximately 20,000. One American has met his death at Nanking. It is ' shown that his slayers were the Shantung allies of the United States, France and other nations that continue as invaders in China, But Borah has closed his eyes to the actual situation. He wears the goggles of Wall Street and beholds the situation in China as presented to him by the gifted propagandists of Dollar Diplo- macy. * * * 3 All that is necessary now is fon J. Pierpont Morgan to step forward and pin Dollar Diplomacy’s most famed decoration, “The Double-Cross of Gold,” on Borah’s breast, heaving with love and admiration at the achieve- ments of the armed fists, the army and navy, in cruci- fying helpless peoples. Yet, even without this decora- tion, Borah is now branded, * SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their views on the issues con- fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de- velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 383 First street. New York City one No} | By Our Own Moscow Corespondent, | WILLIAM F. KRUSE. | | There are two lines of activity \directed towards coping with the, | problem of the not more than 125,000) | homeless children, and the approxi- mately 300,000 in homes and insti- |tutions of various sorts. Onesis in | the hands of the state organs direct- | ly, and the other is conducted by var- ious social organizations, by trade unions, by the Young Communist League, the Young Pioneers (Com- munist Children’s Movement), and| especially by a voluntary membership society of about two million mem-| bers, the “Friends of the Children.” | | All of the activities of all of these | organs are of course closely inter- woven and co-ordinated, for here cer-| tainly the state does not stand over {and above the social organs of the | working class. Voluntary Workers. It has already been pointed out | that about 60 million roubles a year} are spent in liquidating this post-war |and post-famine evil. Most of this jis futnished and spent by the vari- |ous branches of the government. It | may be well, though, to outline first |the social units and their work in | collaboration with the official agen- {eies. The “Friends of the Children” is a great voluntary society of the type of “International Red Aid,” “Society for Combatting Illiteracy,” ete., in which the masses of Russian workers who are not Communist Par- ty members, are actively engaged in political organizational life. These members pay about 15 ko- peks per month in dues, and thereby help maintain some of the childrens’ homes, labor communes, night shel-| ters, trade schools, etc. | In addition many trade unions are | directly connected as “patrons” over special clothing, holidays, gymastic equipment, ete., and the children from the union meeting, give little enter- tainment programs, ete. The rail- road workers in particular have pro- vided very extensively for the salvag- ing of the young “tramps” with whom they come into specially close | contact. | The “Friends of the Children” pub- lish a magazine, run lotteries to raise | funds, and employ specially qualified | agents who go about among the| young waifs to seek to persuade| them to abandon their vagabondage | in favor of the social arrangements | at their disposal. The Young Pio- neers, children themselves, do very valuable work in getting hold of the! younger waifs, in uncovering cases of mistreatment of children in which| event they teach the wronged child what its rights are and help him maintain them. The constant friendly influence of | the spic-and-span young Communist children is one of the most power-| ful means of drawing hundreds of children off the streets. Hand in hand with their government the workers, young and old, are exert- ing all energy to cope with this big and complicated problem. Activity of Soviet Government. The programme for dealing with these youngsters was laid down in the decree of the All-Russian Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Soviets on March 8th, 1926, and on| the basis of this decree the follow-| |ing measures are now being pursued | by the Soviet authorities: 1) Help the children get back to} parents or relatives. 2) Place these children with work- ing-class families, helping such fam-| ilies materially to care for them. (I| have seen many such children now liv-| |and they share every advantage open| to the children of that family). a) Placing the children in institu- | | tions run by the “Department for) |the Protection of Mother and Child.” | | 4) Placing the children in various | | children’s institutions run directly by | local government. 5) Placing them in hospitals and | medical institutions. 6) Placing them in industrial and| | agricultural productive enterprises. | 7), Material aid to children in their | own homes, | 8) Placing them in apprenticeship, | trade schools, handicraft artels. 9) General state guardianship over all children so aided, Spend Ten Times Over U. S. | At present the Soviet Government \is spending 46 million roubles a year | directly, to which must be added 9 jmillion spent by individual unions, | | voluntary societies, ete.; and other jitems on the medica} budgets which bring the total up to about 60 mil- lion roubles a year. The present annual appropriation available to spend through the Child- ren’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, amounts to $1,240,000 provided it is matched by | about an equal sum from the various and yet the whole appropriation is not used becaube some states refuse to participate, When the Children’s Bureau was first started, its appropriation am- ounted to $25,640—less than 1% of what is devoted to the same item by | the Young Workers’ republic. I have been able to find no record of appro- priations for those 10,000 Porto-Rican “bezprezhorny”—but plenty has been spent there on bullets for the U. 8. Marines. There are more than 3,000 child- vante homes, colonies, schools and | states—less than one-tenth of what | is being spent in the Soviet Union, | teachers and attendants look after 226,051 children, 55% are children of peasants, workers 25% and sol- diers and artisans 20% (Commis- sariat of Education Weekly), while out-relief is being given to 175,000 additional children, During the next three years, ac- cording to government plans, a “Len- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927 | What Russia is Doing About Homeless Children jother institutions, in. which 17,257 The Teachers’ C By JOSEPH KALAR. Teachers are in absolute swinish slavery. Their per- sonalities, and personality as the keynote of successful | teaching, are ignored by the politicians who formulate the educational code. A teacher is a machine, a curious and humorous mechanical contrivance to enlighten the pupils in mathematics, reading, writing, geography, and the like. That he be able to perform his duties in a mechanical way is the first requisite, but God help him if he attempts to use his own head! God help him if in Memorial Fund” of 100 million he tries to do any real cultural work, any work of real roubles will be devoted to the spec- significance! He is only a machine, an automaton— ial task of wiping out the last traces and must perform as such, and if he steps outside of of child homelessness. Since the his immediate duties he is dealt with as we deal with problem of vocational guidance is the a rusty machine, he is oiled back into shape, the oil in are being planned with an equipment that is to cost 11 million roubles. The Situation in Moscow. The capitalist press charges that there is a homeless army of 65,000 children in Moscow, with room in the institutions for only 2,410; that 8,025 were assigned to these institutions by the authorities and that half of these have escaped. Not a single one of these figures is anywhere near the truth. Below we give a list of the insti- tutions in the Moscow gubernia and the number of children harbored in them. I am told that there are not more than between 500 and 1,000 children, practically none of them na- tive to Moscow, still uncared for on the streets, and they are being gath- ered One by one, not by, the police, but by conscientious volunteer and professional workers among these children, The official census taken recently will give us accurate data. In the year from October, 1925 to October, 1926, there were 2,640 dependent and 612 delinquent children placed into Moscow institutions, a total of 3,252. Boys Will Run Away. As far as runaways go,.of course, there are runaways, but the number | (i.e. the proper scrap of paper).” | greatest, 590 new working communes |this case being threats. * * * In the first place teachers are not chosen for their | real innate intelligence, for their personalities, for their ability to teach. Normal School Training is the mill from which all perfect teachers come! A County Super- intendent of Schools in Minnesota sent a form letter to all of her dutiful slaves in which, among other things, she said, “I had to get rid of the best teacher I had in the county because she didn’t have the proper training Get that! The best teacher she had! And what is this wonderful normal school training that will convert the most sour of old maids into a perfect teacher? span, curves, poetry study (no wonder all school children hate poetry!), technique, observation—stuff that has |no more actual relation to teaching than Cal Coolidge has to intelligence. In other words a teacher that would frighten and revolt any child by. the severity of her physiognomy, a teacher that looks upon children as brats, and. very unruly brats, is yet a one hundred per- cent teacher because she has mastered (?) the purely mechanical aspects of education. After graduating from a normal school a teacher is castrated of all original intelligence, all personality, all humanity. He is a machine. * * * In normal school he is forced to attend a period set aside for chapel. During this period he must join his voice with the rest in singing HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, and must sit mute and submissive through a tirade of | pious vomit from some heavenly reverend. The scrap of paper he receives on graduation presum- ably fits him for the arduous moulding of the brats in his charge into his own image. And what is this image? running-away does not mean here!|idge, the Stars and Stripes, the close relationship be- what it does in ou: reform schools tween the president of the U. S. A. and God, white these homes in turn frequently ‘visit in the states, climbing down leader supremacy, anti-red, Longfellow, the Saturday Evening pipes and crawling over walls stud- | Post—that is the image in which, O Worker, your child ded with steel pickets and jagged | shall be moulded. | broken glass bottles. Thus far not a single one of the homes and other institutions locks | everyone except himself. His slavery, upon beginning to teach, is apparent to He is told what to teach, the children in or takes any meas-|how to live, how not ‘to live, what to read, what to be- wish. {ures to hinder their going if they |lievé, what church is especially ordained by God! An essential factor of the | instance if a teacher were so rash as to tell his pupils treatment these youngsters receive is that the World War was hardly fought for democracy to convince them that they are not|and that the Germans were not rapers of crippled chil- being shut off from their fellow-wor- | dren, he would go on the mat. Not so long ago during kers, that they are not being kept | National Education Week he was: even told to tell his against their will as though they were criminals. Money For Clothes. In one home I visited I found that | all the boys, about 50, had been fur-| nished work of one sort or another outside the home and that they kept their wages (after paying very low board) to-do with as they pleased, These wages did not go, as might be supposed, for drink and dissipation,— | the first possession the boys inves- ted in was a pair of fine shiny new “goloshes,” and after that came the wide-pegged riding trousers now considéred by the Russian youth as the acme of smart dressing. So running away here simply means the young vagabond holds out a lit- tle longer against the social influen- ces that surround him and that are bent on enrolling him as a useful member of proletarian society. Discuss Compulsion. This month the first home for “breaprezhorni” at which any com- pulsion is to be introduced will be opened in Moscow. This home will be particularly well equipped, with gymnasium, manual training school, specially qualified teachers, etc., to make it so attractive that if pos- sible the boys (who have run away | from other institutions in the past to run away—but if they do want to they will be prevented. This ig arousing considerable dis- cussion, A. V. Lunacharsky, Com- missar of Education, betng opposed to it. THe fact that so mild a meth- od, which so distantly resembles the police method of dealing with the problem, should arouse opposition of this kind completely shows how im- possible is this fairy tale of an Arctic exile, and all the other tales of “children’s hard labor prisons.” In Moscow there are almost 200 in- stitutions harboring about 25,000 children, About 80% of them came from outside of the gubernia during the great migration attending the! pupils all about the Red Menace (capitalistic definition), the Communist threat to religion, morals, etc.! That | was National Education Week! A very good friend of mine, possibly the only intelli- gent teacher I have yet met, once was so indiscreet as to read part of SMOKE and STEEL by Carl Sandburg to his pupils. Almost immediately a colossal caricature of woman rushed to the board and told them that he was reading indecent literature. She read an extract that presumably clinched her argument, and then said “There is a lot more dirty stuff here, but I couldn’t read it before all you men!!!” , We have the Anti-Evolution Bills. Science is a hated word among the plutocrats that eontrol the educational system. New discoveries in the “spiritual” line of sci- ence are usually taught a century after they have be- come commion property to everyone. In certain rural communities a teacher has to teach Sunday School (and most of them are glad to)—or get out. * * * "All of the history she teaches is a subtle propaganda for race and class hatred. Many pupils, upon graduat- ing, find themselves in possession of an inexplicable revulsion for the English people. Many of them have never seen a real Englishman, and yet they have that prejudice. The teachers are expected to teach that the Bolshe- viks are a menace to civilization, that they are aiming to destroy the very foundations of our government. Very well. But the teachers are not permitted to go into any detail concerning this chimerical foundation of our government, because if they did, the pupils would welcome the Red Menace! A teacher is not rated according to ability or intelli- gence. There are those poor pitied teachers who pos- ing as members of Russian families, before being sent here) will not want | 5°55 only a second grade certificate, there is the middle class, or those possessing a first grade certificate, arf the elite, the ‘professional first class. I have known a teacher who had only a limited Second Grade (or Class) certificate, and yet she was a perfect, if not over in- telligent, teacher. I have known another that belongs to the elite, and he is worthless. Yet the former re- ceives $70 a month and the latter about $150. * * . When such importance is placed on a mere scrap of paper, is it any wonder that our children grow up into Babbitts, into lynchers of the I. W. W., burners of Ne- groes, staunch upholders of the very class that exploits and brutalizes them? The very irony of it is that very few teachers care to teach evolution or know anything about it, very few teachers are class conscious, or intelligent. But what can you expect? To be able to teach they had to go through the whole educational cesspool, and very few High talk about eye-/| For | (By Nationalist News Agency) HANKOW, China, Feb. 20 (By Mail).—It is not only enemy armies that the nationalist forces of China are fighting and defeating today. There is another, even greater enemy —flood and famine. Nationalist China is putting up defenses in Cen- tral China today that will cheat the | floods on the Yangtze of ten million victims, : They came just in time last fall, Pro- videntially, the peasants say. “One month later, and we should have been | work feverishly under the supervi- }sion of the new Hupeh Dyke Com- mission of the Nationalist Govern- |breaks in the dykes caused by last | year’s torrents, which left the Yang- tze dyke system in such a battered | state that, it seemed, nothing but a miracle could prevent wholesale fam- ine in 1927, | No Urging Needed The Nationalist Government today \is urging the peasants of Hupeh on, but their words are scarcely néces- |sary. Seventy thousand peasants are working like mad men. They know, | better than, anyone can tell: them, | what is at stake. A chance of saving |their homes and their very lives: Was | offered them when the Kuomintang | forces came last fall. They need no | urging to help in the work of repair- |ing the broken dykes. | Last year there was the worst flood | Central China has seen in fifty years. |The waters came raging down from |the uplands, down the Yangtze and ‘the Han, and the dykes, which for | thirty years had been neglected by | the various warlords who had held |the region, broke in a score of certain homes, donating funds for is nowhere near that indicated. And|Let me tell you: the poetry of Eddie Guest, .Cal Cool- places. Thousands of acres of farm land were under water. Crops were ‘ruined. Hundreds died in the floods ‘or, later, of starvation. And when \in the early fall, the water subsided and the people came back to their land, they looked with dismay at the battered dykes, convinced that with the rising of the waters the next summer, nothing could save them. No Help From Wu Pei-fu | There really seemed no hope for the peasants late last summer. To save Hupeh, repairs on a large scale, with organized labor and expert su- pervision were needed. It meant money, and the peasants were penni- less, Late last summer, Wu Pei-fu seemed secure in Hankow. And the peasants knew they could look for no help from him and his subordinate generals in the matter of dykes. Wu had watched last year’s flood, as he had watched previous floods, without lifting a finger. All the money he | could raise went into his armies. For | years, the dykes had been neglected. | It is no wonder, then, that the peasants look upon the coming of the Nationalist forces to Hankow as a miracle. It meant that immediately money and men were thrown into the battle against the coming of the floods. Actually, however, it was a part of the Nationalist plan, The Kuomintang knew in advance all about last year’s breaks in the Yang- tze dykes. They knew that disas- ter loomed ahead for the people of Hupeh and Hunan. This was one of the things that urged the armies on. Every day on the way, the leaders knew, meant one day lost on neces- sary work of repair. Ten million people were in ‘danger of famine. No Time. Is Lost When the Hankow region was finally taken last fall, no time was lost. Immediately a commission was formed, the Hupeh Dyke Commis- sion, ‘coriposed of the head of the Ministry of Communications, Mr. Sun Fe, the head of the Ministry Finance, Mr. T. V. Soong, and General Chang Tso-pin. There was a hasty survey of the damage from last year’s flood, and a budget. Three and a half mil- vent the flooding this year of half the province, including the Wuhan cities, Hankow, Wuchang and Hangang. Mr. Soong raised the money, and the work began. The actual direction was placed in the hands of Mr. Wang Chi, a local Hupeh man, familiar with dyke problems. Under him were placed Chinese engineers. Recently, lost,” the farmers tell you as they | }ment to repair the unprecedented | lions were needed immediately to! mend the dykes sufficiently to pre-| China to Save’ Millions (thoussnd peasants are on the job at {that point, | The whole repair job this year will cost approximately three and a half { millions. The work will be done by | local, peasant labor, working at very jlow pay, twenty cents a day, just ‘enough for food. It is because the peasants and villages know what is at stake that it is possible to do the repairs for three and a half millions, Mr, Sun explained yesterday. The flood last year left the dykes in an appalling condition. There are a re or more places that must be repaired, 70,000 Volunteers On The Job But the call for labor has had an immediate response. Seventy thou- sand/ volunteers are now working in frenzied haste, knowing that the time is.short between now and the coming of the floods. Thirty thousand more are to be called, Mr. Sun Fo stated ‘yesterday, and they will be gathered | in.a day. “But even if we beat the floods, Hupeh will not be safe from the thréat of famine,” he stated. “These repairs are purely temporary make- shifts. The problem of floods along the Yangtze and the Han cannot be adequately solved until many times three .and.a half millions are spent. It | involves work on a gigantic scale, the regulation of the whole Yangtze river system. “But the present repairs will give us a breathing spell. The dykes will | be fixed so that they will hold until | we can start work on the big plan. | These repairs should have been done long ago. The situation has been be- looting more and more acute, The are right in saying we came just in time. This year would |have meant a disaster on such a seale that it challenges comprehen- | sion.” | Floods Due to Neglect | When asked the cause of the dis- astrous flood of last year, Mr. Sun | Fo said that it was partly the un- usual torrent of water that came down from the uplands, but it was | Partly due to neglect. Nothing has _been done on these important dykes ‘for years, except local tinkering by the desperate peasants. Adequate re- pairs meant money and organization, ‘and all the money and organization of the former tupans of Hupeh and Hunan have gone into armies. So year by year, the dykes, upon which the lives of the peasants depend, were allowed to fall into worse dis- | Tepair. | “This apparently meant nothing to | the warlords,” said Mr, Sun Fo, “But | it means a great deal to the Kuomin- | tang. Down in Canton last year, we knew of the flood on the Yangtze, we knew that. unless rapid repairs were undertaken, nothing on earth could save Hupeh and Hunan this yeer. ‘Flood is a more implacable en- emy than an army.” p “This is a part of the fighting front of Nationalist China,” he con- cluded., “To the east and the north, we are ridding China of the curse of militarism. | Here on the Yangtze, we are fighting to hold the devastat- ing floods at bay.” | peasants Michael Gold’s ‘Fiesta’ Has In Hortense Alden Actress Worthy of It Michael Gold, and the third produc- tion of the New Playwrights The- atre, boasts an unusually large and interesting cast. Notable among the younger players in it, is Hortense Alden, who enacts the role of Guadaloupe, a young orphan, a victim of the Mexican revolution. Miss Alden has had a long and . varied stage experience. Among the recent productions in which she has appeared are “Creoles” with Richard Bennett, “Ghosts,” by the Actor’s Theatre, “Arabesque” the Norman Bel Geddes presentation, and numer- ous roles with the Theatre Guild. Although Miss Alden the protection of the dominant male in “Fiesta,” in real life, she is by her | own confessiof, a “rapid feminist.” “I am very happy,” she admits, “to _ be living in a generation, in which women have come into their own, war and famine. Child- | People are able to get through the cesspool without re-|a foreign engineer, Mr, 0. J, Todd, ren |taining a little of the odor. By the time they had the |who has been in charge of engineer- haces bee pak riya be By ha Num- Quar- | 8°T@P of paper that gave them legal rights to teach they ing work for the International Fam- arts. Certainly on the stage, myc Kind of Institutions ber tered had become willing, unconscious slaves of the politicians | ine Relief Commission, was employed triumphs of women have been Homes of normal type 74 12,243 who run the educational system. . |a@8 supervising engineer. erous and so great that aa ea |Special homes, observa- “It is a close race, this race against | fay eclipsed those of the 3g ‘And on eae special | ioe ge a said Mr. Sun Fo) in recent years, some of the outstand | eae ) wayward 16 °2,415 Th r Bo in an interview yesterday, “but we ow Special homes for phy-, et e etter- x believe we will win. We have start- bd hite ‘have’ ‘been ‘written by by sically handicapped, * bene i ed late, but we are working overtime.) wy deaf, blind,, epileptics, Remember Ruthenberg in Alabama. _ | We must erect: temporhry barricades iy aor dhomay a Spr im nd feeble-minded, ete, 18, 2,788} Editor, Daily Worker:—I have read of the “passing before high water comes. . Half the gent and thoughtful plays. do Open-air forest schools, on” of my friend and Comrade C, E. Ruthenberg. We | Province is at stake and the lives of | 1o¢ come to theatres with 2 ete. 17 1,124 have had many things in common—yes. _ |ten million people,” ; bored attitudes, and are ap Isolation camps for Both of us joined the socialist party the same time. Both Save Rich Rice District. of the new and the stirring. we children with tuber- of us were disciples of good old Robert Bandlow—at that |, The region that is to be saved is “fiesta” in which she will appear, culosis, eye and skin time editor of the Cleveland Citizen—an idealist, a| the rich rice-producing district along opens at the 52nd Street | . diseases u 500 dreamer of the things to come. Many a time did we|the Yangtze, above Hankow, , and The DAILY WORKER bought 6: Dormitories for stand in wrapt attention listening to Max Hays explain | long the Han, the river that enters out the house for the week of April |_young workers 16 847 | his theories of socialism at the Square in Cleveland. the Yangtze at Hankow, and that 11, Tickets are now on sale at the lo-~ '7: Central and district Soon young Ruthenberg (we called him Ruthy then) | Bives the city its name. cal office, 108 Fast 14th Street, | workshops 17 4,487 |himself essayed the platform and often did I have the| There are two places which are be- | Phone- Stuyvesant 6584, |8: Working Communes 22 — 1,293 | pleasure to introduce him to the audience from the box.|ing given particular attention, Above | : Children’s overnight e I never became a speaker as so many of the boys did|the city on the Han, last year’s tor- : abalters Ag connected who “joined” at that time. ; ar broke thru the dykes built Old Watchmen Killed. w @ permanent We met and had a good talk for the last time in some| thirty years ago by the Viceroy, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 30, homes 1 100 | Jewish hall on E. 55th St., near Central Ave. in Cleve-|Chang Chi-tung. It is this break —William Gaskill, 72 years. old, land—the tall, handsome, frail looking boy of 1909 had| that threatens the city of Hankow.| watchman at a local coal yard, was 192 25,747 | become a rather corpulent man. Among other things |The second bad break is at the Chieh found unconscious during a fire in (From the official publication of | remarked on his physical condition—he smiled that wry|Wan Dyke, above Hankow on the in which @ small coal stove 'the Moscow Department of Educa- |indulgent smile. “| Yangtze, where _ repairs, ont med, He died at noon tion, 1926.) Dr. J. J. Scholtes, Huntsville, Ala, Twonty day | by } “Fiesta” the drama of Mexico by ©