Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:49:57 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 4/18 CLARENCE DARROW 


Relative Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0418.htm

Text excerpts:

This is Darrow,
Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart,
And his drawl, and his infinite paradox
And his sadness, and kindness,
And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life
To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

             — Edgar Lee Masters, "Darrow," (1922)

APRIL 18

CLARENCE DARROW
Hard to think "saint" & "lawyer" together, but
Darrow defended
Debs, anti-work radicals & "the underdog."

ZIMBABWE: INDEPENDENCE DAY.

US: ALFRED PACKER DAY. Eatcher heart out,
Ronald McDonald:  Honors the only American to be
convicted on charges of cannibalism, 1854.



1792 - Vancouver "discovers" Vancouver Island, &
renames it for himself.

1817 - George Henry Lewes lives, London. Philosopher,
literary  critic, common-law husband of George Eliot.
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html

1839 - What is Today's Youth Coming To?!: French
decadent Charles Baudelaire expelled from college.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1301/

1842 - Rhode Island Reds?: Dorr's Rebellion: Rhode
Island citizens, disgruntled by property-owning
requirements, hold their own elections.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt4.html

1850 - Joseph A. Labadie. Labor activist, writer, poet,
printer, anarchist, lives, Paw Paw, Michigan. See “Daily
Bleed” Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LabadieJoseph.htm

1857 - American lawyer for the underdog Clarence
Darrow lives.

    "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children
    not to doubt."
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/darrow.htm


1879 - Viljo Tarkiainen (1879 - 1951) lives, Juva.
Finnish  literature researcher/critic.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tarkiain.htm

1879 - US: Trial starts in Standing Bear vs. General
Crook in front of Judge Dundy, arguing that Indians
citizens have the same rights to habeas corpus as
other U.S. citizens.

1898 - French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau dies.

1906 - San Francisco Earthquake destroys much of the city.

"I asked a man standing next to me what happened. Before he
could answer a thousand bricks fell on him & he was killed.
A  woman threw her arms around my neck. I pushed her away
& fled.

All around me buildings were rocking & flames shooting.
As I  ran, people on all sides were crying , praying &
calling for help. I thought the end of the world had come."
http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/usgs.html

1908 - The IWW poem “We Have Fed You All For A
Thousand Years” published in “Industrial Union
Bulletin”
            We have fed you all for a thousand years
            And you hail us still unfed
            Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth
            But marks the workers dead
            We have yielded our best to give you rest
            And you lie on crimson wool
            But if blood be the price of all your wealth
            Good God we have paid in full...


http://www.rounder.com/rounder/catalog/bylabel/phil/1076/1076.html

http://www.numachi.com/cgi-bin/rickheit/dtrad/lookup?ti=FEDYUALL
            http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/3671/fedyou.htm

http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/3671/iwwliter.htm
            http://iww.org/
            http://www.cyberbeach.net/~willows/cupw/local/site/music.htm

1912 - West Virginia coal miners strike, defend themselves
against National Guard.

1934 - First "Washateria" (Laundromat) opens, in
Fort Worth, Texass.

1936 - The singing cowboy, Gene Autry, records
"Back in the Saddle Again."

1941 - US: Bus companies in New York City agree
to hire black workers after a four-week boycott.

1948 - Kathy Acker lives. (1948-1997)

"Kathy Acker loved Miles Davis &, like Miles, she didn't give
a fuck, except about the things she gave a fuck about. She
gave a fuck about books (the ones she wrote & the library of
30,000 volumes she amassed over the years), about the
subliminal politics of everyday life -- where the brittle
edges of gender politics & class would come into sharp focus -
- &, mostly, about the power of  words to define the world &
shape our thoughts. Whoever controlled the words controlled
thought, Kathy knew. She set out to understand & liberate
words  (& herself) by direct action: She'd seize control of
language & reinvent it in her work.

     —  Richard Kadrey, author (“Metrophage; Horse Latitudes;
        Covert Culture Sourcebook; >From Myst To Riven”)

In the words of David Antin: Her works will answer for her.
They remain alive.
http://www.users.interport.net/~scrypt/RIP_Kathy.html
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/a/acker21.htm

1950 - J.D. Salinger's story, "For Esmé, With Love &
Squalor", opens:

   "Just recently, by air mail, I received an invitation to a
   wedding that will take place in England on April 18th."

1955 - Relative Death, more or less, of Albert Einstein,
pacifist, socialist, scientist, Princeton, New Jersey.

  Human society is passing through a crisis ... The economic
  anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my
  opinion, the real source of the evil...

The result of...[the concentration of private capital in a few
hands] is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power
of which cannot be checked even by a democratically
organised political society.

    ---Albert Einstein, “Why I Am A Socialist”, 1949
        http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/

       "It's all relative"
        http://www.westegg.com/einstein/

1958 - A US Federal Court decides since Ezra Pound is
incurably, permanently insane, he can no longer be held for
treason & can be set free.

As he leaves St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington,
D.C., 13 years after being taken into custody,
he reflects:

            "How did it go in the madhouse?
            Rather badly.
            But what other place could one live in America?"

http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/%7Ehishika/pound.htm

1958 - First march against nuclear arms, West Germany.

1963 - Henrietta Kreis is the third famous Wallenda aerialist
to fall to death.

1964 - American writer Ben Hecht dies.

1968 - Baaaaa Humbug?: US Army concedes that nerve gas
sprayed from planes, burned in pits, & released from 155mm
shells at its Dugway Proving Ground was responsible for the
death of at least 6,400 Utah sheep.

1969 - Stout Fellow?: Patrick Stout, a former Army sergeant
who had entered an atomic bomb crater in Alamogordo, New
Mexico to demonstrate that it presented no safety hazard, dies
of leukemia. Doctors attributed Stout's contraction of the
disease to atomic radiation exposure.

1970 - Flower Power?: 4,000 march in Seattle for peace in
Vietnam/SE Asia, escorted by Seattle police officers with
daffodils tied to their night sticks.

1970 - US: Native Americans start five-day sit-ins at several
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices across the country.

1971 - Howard Hughes, billionaire, dies. Lover of bugs,
germs & the great outdoors.

1977 - US: Native American activist Leonard Peltier
found guilty of murdering two FBI agents, despite
government testimony that he was not present at the
scene of the killings.

1996 - Lebanon: 100 refugees in U.N. compound killed by
intentionally targeted Israeli artillery, Quana.

1997 - Sweden: "Choose Life" Plowshares action at Bofors
weapons factory in Karlskoga, exporter of arms to Indonesia.

1998 - Chile: Labor organizations from across Latin America
converge on Santiago, in a mass protest of  Beloved &
Respected Comrade Leader President Bill Clinton's free trade
visit & negotiations there.


    "Strange that science, which in the old days seemed
    harmless, should have evolved into a nightmare that
    causes everyone to tremble."

    --- Albert Einstein

http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einstein_tongue.jpg

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
    world."


--Auntie-Nightmare 2001 or thereabouts