The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | Daily, Except Sunday 82 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: Phone, Orchard 1680 | “Daiwork” BaD SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): | 68.00, per year $4.50 six manths $6.00 per years $3.50 six months | 0 three months $2.00 three months iil and make out checks to , 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ...WM. F, DUNNE ROBERT MINOR mail at the post-office at New York, N: ¥., wader the act of March 5, 1879. | | ng to Justify the Rape of Nicaragua aign being carried on by the Hearst papers | irst and foremost the Hearst sheets in Mexico who will be th the complete dispersal of the government of the annexation of Mexico to the United States. t institution of depraved journalism has gn to achieve this aim. I d upon the alleged support by the » liberal forces of Nicaragua is calculated on of that country by the gunmen of As Dr. Pedro Zepeda, representative in| zovernment of Nicaragua that was dispersed | d forees of American imperialism, said yesterday: evidently an effort on foot to create a false impression | \ an revolution in advance of the international | held in Havana in January.” | articular forgeries will be completely discredited be- | \ x of the Pan-American congress at Havana in srve their purpose today as the beginning of | ill grow in malice and intensity until the} Assured, because of the supremacy of its caragua, that all the alleged representatives | will sing paens of praise to Wall Street, the state | department has nothing to fear from that source. Unless there | Satisfied o1 that coun For ye about N conference t o be is a revolt staged at the Havana conference against the domina- | tion of the United States those who were chosen to speak for the | people of N sua will be barred from its sessions. | But t rave apprehension at Washington that Mexico’s | delegates will raise the in the southern republ whole question of American imperialism The influence of Mexico upon the other Latin can countries is feared because that country is re- garded initiator of a movement to create a united Latin Americ ment against the depredations of Wall Street. the Mexican people have been the victims of du- geries, provocations and even intervention by armed | of the United States without even a declaration of war. They know that the greatest enemy of their independent develop- | ment is precisely Yankee imperialism. Any government that | represents the interests of the people of Mexico must inevitably | take measures against that tyranny. As the nation that lies “nearest the United States and that endured the ongest series of ebus only the logic of history that its role should eventually | lidating the anti-imperialist sentiment into a for- | that will challenge the arrogance of dollar despo- | ympathies of the Mexican government are well known een with the duly constituted government of Sacasa £ and it is only logical that the state department at | uld anticipate a conflict at the Pan American con- ana between the forces of imperialism and anti- adroit maneuvre known to diplomatic confidence men Vv thing to be desired as far as defense of imper- 1 reaction is concerned. airman of the delegation ig none other than the former | te, Charles Evans Hughes, whose distinctive con- tribution to ‘ diplomacy” was his interpretation of the | Monroe Doctvine as an instrument of American imperialist ag- gression ag Latin America. One of the most astute diplo- matic sleight-of-hand performers, this man has been involved as | a cabinet member in the whole series of peculative scandals | tment of justice affair to Teapot Dome and Elk participation had never called down upon him on that overwhelmed a number of his associates. ext luminary in the galaxy of time-servers of imper- jalism is Henry Prater Fletcher, a Pennsylvania republican and one of the lieutenants of Andrew W. Mellon, whose most recent job was as amb: dor to Mussolini at Rome. Graduating from the military service as an officer in the Spanish-American war in Cuba and the Philippine Islands, Fletcher has had long experience in diplomatic service in Mexico and Chile and was chairman of the American delegation to the fifth Pan-American conference held in Havana in 1923. His experience with bribed tools of im- I ti ] a perialism will be invaluable in the preliminary work of perfecting alignments at the conference. The third member of the delegation is the well-known Tam- Manyite and roman catholic propagandist, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien. who is head of the “national committee for the protection of religious rights in Mexico,” and holds degrees from three cath- es. folic unive This organization has flooded the two con- tinents with acious propaganda against Mexico in behalf of | the land thieves of that country who are among the most ven- | omous tools of reaction. His experience and affiliations deter- / mine his role at the conference ‘ The fourth member is Oscar W. Underwood, democratic sena- torial leader from Alabama, who is notoriously an agent of the House o: organ and a defender of the most open imperialist policies Washington, including support of the league of na- tions and the world court because the House of Morgan desires | © use thoge organs of international banditry for its own purposes. As opposed to the policy of the United States there will be p nt at the conference the Mexican delegation which is said to be prepared to launch a general attack against the policy of the} United States in Latin America. Certainly the record of Ameri- | can imperialism in these countries furnishes the basis for one of | the most damning indictments ever drawn against predatory | avarice in all the history of international plunder, | Working class organizations of the United States and the} Latin Ame n countries should take a determined stand on the | side of Mexico and, the other anti-imperialist powers against the | policies of the Wall Street gang, and encourage in every con-| ceivable way the creation of a powerful bloc of anti-imperialist nations that will strive to free the southern republics from the menace of Yankee tyranny. ) ff <6 nei ee CAPITALISM GIVES TO THE RED CROSS —By Jacob Burck. (Continued from Last Iss XXIII. The Critic-Caste. 'VERY successful artist becomes host to a number of parasites, the crities who live by telling the public} what the artist means, and how and why he is great. The average person is unable to formulate a judgment of an art work; he knows what he likes, of course, but literature is a more serious matter, You have heard the | story of the little boy who asked his mother how it happened that all the things that tasted good were bad for you, while those which were good for you were so hard to get down. Literature, in the capitalist order, fession, and like other pro- is a pro. \fessions it is concerned to increase its own prestige and emoluments. Do will be « sted in order to line up all the forces of reaction ;not say that you have a sore throat, that ca ed, bought or intimidated to support the program | S4V the doctor; come to me and let of th tment. The personnel of the American dele- | me tell you that you have follicular pharyngo-tonsilitis, with leucocytosis |of the parenchyma and inflammation of the arytenoid cartilage and the lymphoid crypts. In exactly the same way, don’t say that the characters in | Proust’s novels are miserable sex- degenerates; get Henry B. Fuller, a venerable professional of American letters, to tell you that “Sapho and Urania appear as the twin patron- esses of Proust’s oeuvre”; or let Ana- tole France, a venerable professional of French letters, describe Proust as “aun Bernardin de Saint Pierre de- prave” and “un Petrone ingenu.” If you join the congregation of the Proust-worshippers, and read these interminable volumes, you will find that the aristocrats of present-day France, like all other decadent groups they give them, the costumes they con- duct of their idle and empty lives: the words they use and the accents they give thm, the costumes they con- sider proper, their manner of lifting an eyebrow at what they disapprove. And the farther the process of their degeneration proceeds, the more re- mote from reality and common-sense do their standards become; they have to invent finer shades of difference, because there are hordes of Ameri- ns, watching them, and having the solence to publish books of etiquette. And exactly the same s ails among the profess’ brows of literature and art. The stan- dards of these critics have no rela- tionship to beauty, kindness, or wis- dom; they are a code of artificialities, igned.to enable the critic to awe victims. They lay emphasis upon i since that is the aspect of stem pre- t person seldom thinks; nor indeed does the artist, until his powers have be- gun to wane. The sophisticated critic accumulates a vast complex of tech- |nical and historical knowledge; and overwhelms us with this apparatus of learning, and with his ability to| appreciate work in which we can see no se whatever. In the days of my youth it was the academic critics who were set yer me, and they put me to translat- ing Xenophon and Thucydides, Virgil and Plautus, Then “postgraduate work,” and I remember for two weeks having to struggle through a translation of Ariosto; I am sure I never spent an equal length of time at a more silly occupation. *¥ 4 nal high-| I went on to} Money Writes , The world war was only fifteen years, in ancient Erse; or maybe it is a explain this cryptic utterance. | away, and anyone but a moron could |} see it coming; and there I sat, duti- |fully reading elaborate and_high- (flown descriptions of the efforts of | mythological monsters to accomplish |rape upon the persons of beautiful jmaidens of the mediaeval Italian | nobility! And when J rebelled, and sought to find out about modern books, there was a learned critic, established in | the seat of authority, and equipped ‘to tell me about the living writers of Europe. James Gibbons Huneker was his name, and the august house of Scribner published his essays, in which he discovered a score of new French and Italian and Hungarian poets every year. [ don’t know how many years he worked at it, but to illustrate his method, let us assume that at a given date he has announced the arrival of one hundred new poets, and is writing an essay hailing num- ber one hundred and one, You then |read: “One Hundred and One has the athletic verve of One Hundred, and the vertiginous elan of Ninety-Nine, but is lacking in the elegant insou- |cience of Ninety-Fight, and the me- jchante diablerie of Ninety-Seven. He combines the technical expertise of Ninety-Six with the atrabiliar fuli- |ginosity of Ninety-Five, and the exo- tie flair of Ninety-Four’—and so on till you had got back, say to Number Sixty, where you stopped, because the poets prior to that number had |most of them died of delirium trem- ors since their discovery by Huneker ten years previously, and anyhow, old things are a bore. And if you think I am caricaturing a famous critic, just look up one of those old essays, |and see how many foreign names he |could manage to drag into one para- graph. You didn’t learn much about jhis poets, but you learned a great awe of the critic, and this was the effect the critic had set out to pro- duce. And now we are in the ivory age, and have a swarm of critics who base their judgments upon the Cabell thesis, that the purpose of literature is to find more varied and subtle ways of hinting at the approach of the male and female generative organs. These critics are learned in the lore of a hundred languages, living and dead, and they search the legends and inventions of all time, and compile jessays of vast erudition, which are |published in our most respectable iterary reviews, and it makes me \think of the ancient tale about the crowds of people who assembled to j marvel at the gorgeous new robes of | their queen, and all cried out with ad- j miration and wonder, until suddenly jone little boy exclaimed, “Why, the 4 een i " RTE tiber eathi ts lart concerning which the ordinary deen is naked!” A little boy critic is urgently needed now, to say, in plain, everyday English, “Why, this is just | copulation!” | The various schools of professional litterateurs constitute an aristocracy \all their own, a critic-caste. They are not content with looking down upon the common herd, they even affect to look down upon the rich and mighty of the earth, who have not been able to spend several years in the cafes of Paris, learning to pronounce the jnames of eccentric poets from two- seore nationalities, and to discover the hidden rhythms of the newest cenacle of free verse tricksters. Or maybe the critic has been to Ireland, and discovered a series of epics about Cuchulain, written by a modern poet commedia dell’ arte in Sicily, or a} |theatre movement in the ghettos of, Warsaw, or a painter of primitives’ from Tahiti, or of geometrical lines} labelled “Nude Coming Downstairs.” | Anything, so long as it is sufficiently | difficult to understand! Many years! ago I remember in the “New Age” of | London, a literary explorer returning from a tour of South America with a whole string of poetical scalps; a ;new culture, outdoing anything pre- viously known in the world, but un- j fortunately all in Spanish, and too exquisite to be translated! There lies before me a sumptuous | volume, bound in orange-yellow cloth: | “Emerson and Others,” by Van Wyck! Brooks. The public is invited to pay | three dollars for this work of the} bookmaker’s art, and apparently does | so, because it is one of the successes | of the critical season, the leading re- \not By Upton Sinclair As proof of my evil influence he con- trasts the labor movements of Amer- ica and Europe, The former, which has been exposed for so long to my writings, is weak, its members being “intellectual and moral infants,” while the movements in Europe are, “in comparison, strong . i the masses of individuals that com- pose them are, relatively speaking, intellectual and moral infants but instructed, well developed, re- sourceful men.” This essay was first published in the “Freeman” six years ago; and ‘at that time I supplied to Mr. Brooks the facts, which happen to be exactly the opposite of what he states. The novels of Upton Sinclair named by him—*King Coal,” Jimmie Higgins,” and “100 Per Cent,” have had very little circulation among the workers of America, but the “instructed, well ‘developed, resourceful men” of the . because | views all devote columns and pages to praising it. It’is a perfect exam- ple of the highbrow school, fastid! labor movements of Europe have de- jvoured them. These novels have ap- | peared serially in scores of Socialist, }ous and aloof, comparing with litera-| {ture as chiselled marble to the living | |body. Mr. Brooks fights the battles |of privilege with the weapons of dis- |dain; while at the same ti me; maintaining an elaborate pose of} liberalism, and a serenity so lofty! that it scorns to be aware of opposi-| tion. One of the other “others” in this |volume is my unfortunate self; my. ) novels are disposed of in half a dozen! devastating pages. I am the betrayer j of the working classes, because I: | tempt them into self-pity, and hatred} of their oppressors. Hatred of op-| pressors tends to place you more at} | the oppressors’ mercy, says Mr.) Brooks—but does not condescend to Communist and labor papers, and in book form have been best sellers in French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swe- dish, Norwegian, Finnish, Yiddish, Polish, Czechish, Slavic and Ukraini- an. Literally scores of editions have been published in Russia, they have toured the country as stage-plays, and moving pictures have been made of them. These facts I supplied to Mr. Brooks; and what attention did he pay to them? He waited six years, and then reprinted his false thesis without altering a single essential word! And that is what passes for critical authority in America! (To Be Continued.) Letters From Our Reade AY Editor, Daily Worker: I have read the letter of one Jo- seph ‘Payne, Jr., appearing in The DAILY WORKER under date of Uc- tober 14. \ Now that letter is a fair sample of what constitutes the American mind. I’ve lived here 20 years, and have long ago been disillusioned. When affairs of a general nature are discussed by Americans of this type --and they, sadly enough, are in the immense majority—a ‘most fearful |stupidity seems to peryade their \ words and thoughts, and one is ren- dered speechless at the crass ignor- ence of these supercilious scissorbills, Everything in Anglo-Saxon Amer- jica is contradictory and subverted. A }country that was founded upon jus- tice and freedom, now practices the most infamous tyranny and hatred of freedom, | A country that formerly granted refuge to the politically oppressed, now deports the friends of liberty while offering asylum. to the former tyrants such as the Russian emigrees, dual who has only just finished yelling against the German police system would gladly introduce the same despotism here, Instead of being a balanced man of thought and reason and @eeing benefit in a pro- motion of the general freedom, -his stupidity causes him to believe in racial superiority or inferiority, W. RAVENWORTH. Santa Cruz, California, @Editor, Daily Worker:— On this Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Social Revolution which ushered a new era of socialist con- struction in all phases of life, I cannot hold back my deep admiration and joy. The workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of the Soviet Union have proved to the most sceptic and reactionary its entire devotion for the happiness and welfare of the most humble in- habitant. The daily distortion of news of capitalist papers can no longer sway the masses and keep them in complete ignorance about this world shaking event. There are millions now organized throughout the world under the Com- munist banner, who are engaged in deadly struggle against capitalist and its enslaving regime, explaining to the workers the fundamental causes of our misery and oppression, the ‘periodic wars—vast slaughter houses for the working people. The October Revolution for the first time in history was led and re- mains in the hands of proletariat, and here we celebrate its glorious Tenth Anniversary. Our task is to continue for the suc- cess of social revolution in every country, against a combined capitalist attack on Soviet Union head by per- fedious Albion, and in this event turn it into a civil war eradicating thereby this exploitation system and for the benefit of working people. Long live the Russian October —JOHN SHAFFROTH Red Rays OHN H. WALKER, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, was a member of the delegation that William Hale Thompson of Chicago led to Washington to intercede with the government in behalf of the vic- tims of the Mississippi floods, and in- cidentally to help Thompson to a |more advantageous position on the | political map, in line with his presi- dential aspirations. Walker is a great humanitarian now, tho he used to be |a radical, and radicals cannot be hu- | manitarians in the broad sense as long ‘as a section of humanity exploitr |other sections. | * vo. favored congressional ac- tion “regardless of expense, be- |cause no written law should interfere with the higher law of humanity to prevent the recurrence of such a | catastrophe.” Walker knows very well , that the only law recognized by capi- |talist governments is the law of |profit. Billions of dollars have been expended on the Mississippi, but most of it went into the pockets of con- Peace to whom senators and con- gressmen owed political debts. Walk- ler is associated in Illinois with a gang |of politicians that would steal the sheet off a corpse. Should congress | grant relief, the poor farmers along |the banks of the mighty river will | get little of it. | * * * * * | |QTILL, it is worthy of comment that a government that can afford to spend millions protecting the in- terests ‘of Wall Street bankers in Nicaragua and in China cannot af- ford to give a dollar to the victims of the flood. Coolidge was not legally obliged to call a special session of congress to give him the necessary authority to send marines to shoot down the people in Nicaragua or to sanction the massacre of hundreds of Chinese by the guns of United States warships, moored in the Yangste River. There is a reason. It can be found in the answer to the question: who owns this government, C Pass Gag T= police are taking the usual pre- cautions for the protection of Christmas shoppers by announcing that any criminal caught inside a cer- tain area is liable to be arrested on sight. After the Christmas holidays our best criminals can roam the city at will without fear of molestation. This edict will give them a chance to! work the Bronx, Brooklyn ahd other sections that are usually scorned when \their field of operations is unlimited., Our department store magnates must: be saved from embarrassment during( the Christmas rush. * * * eee the general use of meats: and other foods considered fatal: by our best vegetarians, people live longer nowadays than formerly, ac- cording to Dr. Emanuel Baruch, who has just returned from Europe. The doctor’s age is not given, but he is a handsome-looking brute, sporting a small hirsute forest under his nasal appendage that might well excite the envy of Ludwig Lore, or Alexander | Trachtenberg. * EW discoveries are being made every year, said the doctor, which contribute to longevity. Even the rascally liver that caused more trouble than all the other organs put together may be harnessed and compelled to drop its evil ways. A Viennese doctor discovered a substance in the liver which will stimulate to action a heart that has ceased beating. The doctor. was good enough to try it.on a frog whose heart action was stopped forty- five minutes. It worked, but we are not informed what happened to the frog, except that inside of seven minutes his heart was beating more strongly than ever before. The Dr. makes a good picture which fits in | nicely in a three column yarn, | * * * DE John Roach Straton the funda- | expert who claimed that he was an- _noyed by atheistic literature sent to him thru the mails by Charles Smith, president of the American Association. for the Advancement of Atheism, has now succeeded in annoying Mr. Smith by essaying to heal the sick by J laying on of hands. Mr. Smith cae to have Dr. Straton arrested asa common quack, under the law that prohibit practising medicine without a license. There is little likelihood that the district attorney will lift a finger against the religious mounte- bank, but had he been a helpless chiropractor he would be locked up inside of twenty-four hours, + * * “WO Bankers Jailed,” is the amaz- ing headline in a New York ¢ven- ing newspaper a few days ago. It appears that the convicts took an active part in the famous struggle between ranchers in Owens Valley, California and the city of Los An- geles over the water that was being diverted by the city from the ranches, What they were convicted of however is embezzlement and falsifying ac- counts. They: must have supported the weaker side in the struggle. * * © J. C. THAW, nephew of the famous Marry, is being sued by his grand- * mot} y $600,000 which she claims she him because of undue influ- ence, ..s a matter of fact, says her grandson, she gave him the money out! of the fullness of her heart when she learned that he went to work after quitting college. This was such an un- usual thing for a Thaw to do that the old lady lost her balance for the mo-: ment, —T. J. O'FLAHERTY ‘ s — mentalist preacher and publicity |