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accommodation Fright to supplement
tary floor space, reductions in rent
prohibition of evictions, etc). The
commission has a free legal consulta-
ton for scientists.
The central commission has paid
special attention to the position Of in
valid and aged scientists. For in
valids, beside the usual institutions
special rest homes have been organ
lied near Moscow, Leningrad and in
certain other places, and also sana-
toria in the Crimea 1.-THE former Gas
pra) and in the Caucasus. A total
number of 5000 scientists undergo
cures every year in the rest homes
and sanatoria of the commission. Two
hostels have been instituted for aged
scientists-one in Moscow and the
other in Leningrad
For scientists arriving in Moscow
on scientific missions a special hostel
has been organized where they may
get complete board for modest price
Scientists Houses.
or extreme interest are the "scien-
" lists houses" in Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Kharkoff and many other uni
versity towns In these houses clubs
are organized and there are extensive
libraries and reading rooms. At the
yearly meetings reports are given on
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The Intellectuals and the Soviet Union

tific work has proceeded so inten-
sively in all fields as in the u. S. S. r.
During the last few years the Soviet
regime has been paying special atten-
ton to rural workers Their position,
both In cultural and material re-
spect is, Of course, worse than that
Of. the towns. The economic and cul-
tural revival of the countryside has
demanded that particular attention be
paid to the rural intelligentsia. A
number of measures have been taken
in this direction.
First of all, the salaries OF village
doctors, agronomists and teachers
have been raised. Further, in order
to keep these salaries from dropping
below a certain minimum, system
of state subsidiaries to the local
budget has been established, i. e.. the
state has participated in the expendi-
ture on salaries for those workers on
condition that the remaining part was
paid by the local budget not below
minimum established by the state.
Material Conditions Improve.
MATERIAL conditions of service
4VA are assured by special DEGREES
supply of accommodation with light
ing and heating, travelling expenses);
privileges are given for the children
of these workers (for entering schools
md higher scholastic institutions)
W>ile periodical rises are given for
long service; there is also periodical
granting of leave for these intellectual
workers to perfect their knowledge:
finally social insurance in case of loss
If labor capacity, etc.
Thanks to these measures, the vii
ages are afforded greater possibilities
)f obtaining the development Of in
tellectual forces they need.
THE Soviet intellectuals are growing
L up in closer and closer unity with
The toiling masses of the U. S. s. r.
This process Of unity is proceeding all
the more rapidly as new cadres of in
tellectuals are coming from the ranks
VI bhC WI hCAo anu pGcJoduLS lu6ul-
selves. The workers and peasants Of
the U. S. S. R. are flooding more and
more not only into the schools but
also into the higher colleges. OF
course, the conditions of life and work
of the Soviet intelligentsia are still far
from being ideal. But they know that
the Improvement of these conditions
depends upon the successes of fur
Their construction. Therefore they
have bound up their cause with that
of the workers and peasants of the
U. S. S. R. The Soviet intellectuals
are becoming more and more flesh OF
the flesh and blood of the blood of the
workers and peasants.
In the U. S. s. R. the great dream
Of Lassalle of the unification Of
science and labor is being realized.
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On Venezuela.

Editor, The DAILY WORKER.
Dear Comrade; In an Interview Sc
cured recently by the New York Even
ing Enquirer, w. P. Bruce, a geologist
Of Boston, spills the beans. Mr.. Bruce
has been seeing the world, or rather
that part Of it which is permitted to
be located in Venezuela, and what he
has seen puts Mr.. Bruce fearfully in
the dumps What do you suppose
brings the brine to his dear eyes? Is
it the sight Of a martyred proletariat?
Has his heart been, touched by some
3 recalcitrant cry from the shambles of
liberty, where ghosts rattle their
chains? Has he been moved by the
sardonic misunderstanding of those
who put up innumerable monuments
to Simon Bolivar and put down with
iron heels the consequences Of Boil
vars passion? Was he stirred by the
realization that Venezuela, thru all
the days Of Gomez's dictatorship, has
been suffering an unending Santa
Marta?
No, not at all. Those things, some
how, didn't occur to Mr.. Bruce What
then? Well II is oil that afflicts Mr.
Bruce so profoundly-oil and the bad
state Of health Of that humanitarian,
Juan Vicente Gomez. Incredible? But
here are Mr.. Bruce's own words for it:
Eyes, General Gomez is failing in
NJ I lie 60 r. f,
said that he has Bright's disease, or
nephritis, and you know what that
means. However, due credit must be
given to him for the way he has de-
veloped Venezuela's natural resources,
especially her oil fields. What will
happen down there If he should hap
pen to pass out the future only knows.
I rather dread to think about It, be-
cause there is no one qualified at the.
present time to step into his shoes.
Just how capital views the situation
am really at a loss to understand, be-
cause all the oil concessions have been
granted by the chief executive him
self, and therefore are illegal under
the laws OF Venezuela and will neces-
sarily be subject to future revision.
Here Is a real problem confronting not
only American capital invested there,
but British as well / really see moth
ing but chaos ahead"
Il is perhaps bad manners on our
part, but what makes Mr.. Bruce sad
gives us uncommon joy. The ghouls
Of high finance and the oil hogs are
distressed their putrid play is under
the spotlight, and they squirm and
squeal at the unwonted Interruption
why can't those damned scoundrels
mind their own business?" they want
TO know Well, we simply can't. The
stencil Of their gluttony is too power
ful in our nostrils.
Imperialistic capital In Venezuela Is
coming TO an impasse, and II is aware
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Letters From Our Readers

Of the fact. 1t is confused, and
brought to confession. "All the oil
concessions have been granted by the
chief executive, and therefore are lille
gal under the laws of Venezuela, and
will necessarily be subject to future
revision" Indeed, they will be, Mr..
Bruce. And other things will be sub
ject to revision, so drastic a change
that afterwards no hogs and no mess
will remain. And on that purgative
day Simon Bolivar will return to Cara
cas-, to a new BIRTH
Fraternally,
Martin Feinstein,
English Secretary,
The Venezuelan Labor Union.
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For The Children.

To the Editor:-There is no doubt
that money is essential to The DAILY
WORKER at the present time. But
there is another essential which The
DAILY WORKER and all other revo-
lutionist newspapers need, and that is
children's column.
Those who will fight in the coming
American workers revolution are
probably the present stock of children.
1t is this growing generation which
must be taught. If they do not take
the lead in the struggle against cap
italism, it will be the fault of the
present adult workers and Commun-
lists.
The. best way to teach the children
OF the workers is thru a medium with
which they will come into contact
every day, and which will serve as a
reaction to the rotten capltalistic
teachings that are handed out to the
children in the first few grades. The
present media for this work is in
adequate. Allow me to suggest for
The DAILY WORKER a Children's
column in which stories that stress
workers conditions and the coming
revolution will be written in such a
vein as to be understood by the child
ten or twelve years of age. 1t would
not be a bad idea to have the children
themselves contribute to this column.
Hoping that you react TO this sugges-
ton fayorably | remain,
William Albertson, Pittsburgh.
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He Revised It.

The appendix to the book gives sew.
eral paragraphs which were omitted
by Marx from the first European edi.
lion Of the book. Marx re.read the
book as It was published In America
before the Hamburg publishers put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-11

into print, and found that some of the
statements made were not applicable
any longer. The present edition has
therefore these portions of a book
which are not available in any of the
later editions of the book. The book
also contains an index.
'The Eighteenth Brumaire," consid-
cred one of the most brilliant mono
graphs penned by Marx, and which
Engels declared to be "the work of a
genius" should be in the library Of
every MARKHAM student. Tho written
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-11
AT FIRST OPPOSED THE REVoLUTION-THE LENlN
COMMISSION TO CARE FOR INTELLEcTUALs
THEIR MATERIAL CONDITIONS I'M
PROVED-THE MOBILIZATION OF
SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES
BY NJ sEMAsHKo cOmmssa Of Health in the Union.

various scientific themes, and con-
certs, readings of compositions. even
ings, etc, given The scientists
houses are centers where the scientific
workers of various specialties come
into contact with those of other pro-
fessions and thus diminish the one
sidedness of their own speciality.
These scientists houses conduct ex-
tensive cultural-educational work
amongst the toiling population: the
scientists give lectures in workers
clubs, and broadcast lectures by radio,
etc.
Thus up to the present the Soviet
regime is continuing to display spe-
cial care towards the scientific work
ers in the U. S. S. r., alleEiating their
material and spiritual position
Wages Rise.
A LONG with the economic and cul-
"A tural revival of the country an
improvement in the position of the in
tellectuals is also to be noticed.
Wages in all professions, without ex-
ception, are rising. There is rapid
growth in the cultural demands of the
population and consequently also in
the demand for intellectual labor.
There are very few countries any
where else in the world where scien-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-11

seventy-fve years ago, the observa-
tions and deductions contained in the
book are as true today as they were
then. Only after reading Marks an
alysis Of the coup detat of Napoleon
the Little one can understand the early
background and the meaning of revolu-
tons and counter-revolutions.
How II Came.
Eden and Cedar Paul give the fol-
lowing account OF how THE Eight
eenth Brumaire" came to be published
in America:
This magnificent work was COM
posed under the most amazing condi-
tons. The least Of Marks troubles was
that Weydemeyer's scheme for a
weekly issue OF Revolution fell thru
for lack Of funds. A more serious mat
ter was that Marx was far from well.
Worst Of all, he was suffering from
the direst poverty. Writing on Febru-
airy a. 1852. he said:
For week | have been unable
to leave the house because my coat is
IN pawn; and we can no longer get
any meat, for the butcher has refused
further credit. Nevertheless, he was
able to send of the last pages of the
MS. on March rs. But even now. there
ieemed little likelihood that The
eighteenth Brumaire' would even be
ublished. and news 20 this effect
reached Marx when one ofhis children
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A Comic strlp7

Dear Editor:-We read The DAILY
WORKER and find 1t very interesting,
but we think that 1t would be more
interesting to US and others II there
would be a weekly comic In The
DAILY WORKER. For example: a
poor little girl whose father is a
worker in factory and how he
strikes, etc.
We hope you publish this with sue.
cess and without fail.
From two Young Pioneers of Amer
lea, Bernard Epstein. Ethel Jaffe-
Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-11
BY ALEXANDER TRAcHTENBERo

BY ALEXANDER TRAcHTENBERe
new translation of the great clas-
sic The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
Bonaparte, which willhearten all Eng
lish speaking Marxists, has just been
issued by the International Publish
ers, New York There has long been
wanted a new and careful translation
of this famous book which saw first
light In the United States in 1852.
Joseph Weydemeyer, a personal
friend of Karl Marx, who participated
in the German revolution of 184S and
emigrated to America three years
later, published this great piece of
historical writing in hts monthly mag
azine "Die Revolutions 1t wasn't I'M
til 1859 that the book was republished
in Germany, and since then it has
gone through several editions in the
original language and has been trans
lated in many other languages. All
the TRANSACTIONS, including previously
available English translations, were
made from the published German edi-
lions. The present translation. made
by the well-known translators, Eden,
and Cedar Paul, has been compared
with the original text of the 1852
American edition Of The Eighteenth
Brumaire, which Is available at the
Marx-Engels Institute. In fact, the
Institute is in possession Of photo
stats of copy of the manuscript of
"The Eighteenth Brumaire," which is
now in the Serge collection at the
New York library and from which
Weydemeyer published the original
edition of the book in German.
lntroduetionby Marx.
Besides the text ofo"The Eighteenth
5rumalre," the edition just brought
out by the international Publishers
contains Karl Marks Introduction to
the first German edition of 1869 and
Engels preface to the Third German
edition in 1885. Following the text
Eden and Cedar Paul have appended
a chronological table OF events of the
important periods of the French revo-
lutionary history from the great
French Revolution OF 1888 down to the
Paris Commune of 1871. A tremen-
dously valuable addition is a Glossary
OF terms, events, etc, used by Max
in his book, Eden and Cedar Paul
explain every important item which
Is not generally known thereby help
ing the reader to thoroughly appreci.
ate Marks argument. The Glossary
also includes biographical and other
notes about important characters men.
toned by Marx.
He Revised II.
The appendix to the book gives sew.
eral paragraphs which were omitted
by Marx from the first European edi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
DECREASE IN JULY
IN BANK CLEAR|NGS.
Business Here, However,
Still Far Ahead of 1926.
Other Financial Notes.
BY EDWARD c. SOME.

Bank clearings for July indicate
a mid Summer lulI In business in
the National Capital, total olearings
for the month reaching $121.511,514.9S,
according to the figures completed
by the Washington Clearing House
yesterday. This is a decline of ST.
063,954 from local clearings for July
a year ago, when Cancelled checks
reached the sum of $122,575,46S. 1t
is also uarked falling off from the
figures of June Of this year, when
clearing reached $12S,361,071.7S and
attained new all-time peak for this
city.
Clearings for the first seven months
Of this year, however, still show
substantial gain over the same period
last year, the 1926 clearings having
reached S817, 197,964, while at the
same time year ago they totaled
S7SS, 103,226. leaving comparative
gain for 1926 to date of $29,O94, 1913.
Therefore. in spite of the expected
July slump, business in the Capital is
still well ahead of last year and
promises to remain So
Clearings by the month so FAR TINS
year together with the comparative
totals for the same period In 1925,
are as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Total -. Ss17.1o7 .oe4 90 S7ss.1O3.22'
CHAPTER Makes Fine Record.

In reviewing the history Of Wash.
ington Chapter. American Institute OF
Banking, T.. III. McQuade says IN
Dollars and Sense" that the first
president was w. F. D. Heron, now
assistant treasurer, of the Union Trust
Co. He was followed in succession by
George w. White, George o. Watson,
Francis r. Dooley, John Poole, w.
NICK. Stowell, Z. Percival Wilson,
Arthur r, Claxton, Charles Fl. Doing,
jr.: Joshua Evans, jr.; Il. Il. Herrell,
r. S. Wolfe, +. b. Devereux, w. w.
Spaid, II. V. Haynes, Roy Is. Neu-
hauser, f. j. McQuade. v. B. Deyber,
Charles d. Boyer w. ]. Waller, w.
A. Dexter, J. c. Dulin, jr.; II. W.
Burnside, r Jesse CLANCY and T..
Hunton Leith.
Six past presidents of Washington
Chapter are present presidents or
banks, namely: Victor b. Deyber.
John Poole, George w. White, Harry
V. HAYNES, George o. Watson and r..
S. Wolfe. Maurice Otterback,
charter member OF the chapter, is also
bank president.
From the chapter have come 10
vice presidents, cashiers and treas
urers. 81 assistant cashiers and as
sissant treasurers and 20 other OF
ficials OF banks.
Southern's Record Half Year.
Definite evidence of continued
business activity throughout the
South is furnished by number OF
new high traffic records set by
Southern Railway. Figures for. the
first six months of the year include
the following traffic and earnings
records, in comparison with the cor
responding period of 1925:
Revenue tons of freight moved one
mile, 5000, 900 against 3.s24,533.
600: gross operating revenues. $76.-
23s, 900, against $70.999,000: net rail-
way operating income, $15,710,ooO,
against 14,592, 900 earnings per share
of common stock, S6.62, against $3.50.
Net operating income after taxes
and rents for June showed an IN
crease of 24.4 per cent over June,
1925, while gross operating reve-
nues increased per cent.
Trust Company Growth Amazing.
Francis H. Sisson. chairman of
the trust company division of the
A. B. A., said recently:
Trust companies have been In
existence a little over 100 years.
Twenty-Five years ago there were
but 300t trust companies with total
banking resources of $500, 900, 600,
Today there are 2,T00 companies with
resources of $4,000, 100000, showing
growrh and development during
this quarter century greater than
that in all rs preceding years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
JULY WHEAT HAS
RECORD ADVANCE
Five-Minute Furry Catches
Adventurous Traders Look
ing for Late Downturn.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July 31.--In a spectacu-
lar five.minute furry. wheat for July
delivery made a record.breaking ad-
vance today OF 1870 q bushel. Ad-
venturous traders looking for an end
of-the-month downturn in values dis
covered too late that contracts could
only be filled by handing over IN
stanter the actual grain or by pur-
chasing on q wildly advancing market.
An excited irregular finish OF the
days dealings in the wheat pit was
the result. with July wheat quoted
SIG to sc net higher, but with
other deliveries at NC to &c decline
as compared with "a hours before.
Corn closed &c to 1c down, oats I'M
changed to &c off, and provisions
varying from 15c drop to 40c upturn.
The sudden buying stampede in the
wheat market whirled into action al
most entirely without giving signs
that are the usual accompaniment OF
a big market fluctuation. About the
first indication of something out OF
the ordinary was q notice from large
commission house declining to be re-
sponsible for execution Of orders TO
buy or sell Just at the close. Other
houses quickly followed suit. and then
the market shot skyward. with official
closing prices outdone NC bushel
In some transactions overlooked in the
hubbub Latest official quotations on
the July delivery stood at Sl.56 to
$1.58z.
Profit-taking sales in September and
December deliveries Of wheat more
than Offset during the late dealings
an advance which those months scored
early owing to dry and hot weather
over the Canadian northwest. Be
sides, bearish private estimates regard
ing Winter and Spring wheat crops
in the United States were expected to
be issued here on Monday.
Further rains in the West and
Northwest eased down the corn
market. Oats felt the effect of the
impending movement of the new oats
crop.
Provisions we're depressed by ex
pected announcement Monday Of an
increase in Chicago stocks of lard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
EVERYMAN'S
INVESTMENTS
nv GEORGE T. HUGHES.
Hiding Money.

IAulflS
In the preceding article the risks
inherent in money of any kind were
discussed. 1t was pointed out that
danger was not eliminated by refus-
ing to buy securities and by bury
ing money in the ground or locking
it up in a safety deposit box. The
currency to which the hoarders
savings have been intrusted might
conceivabiy go the way OF the Ger
man mark or the way it now seems
possible the French franc may take,
or If he had used gold its purchasing
power might have been .cut In two.
Under both of these suggestions the
hoarder would have lost.
Now 1t is possible that instead Of
losing he would have won. Let us
see. Suppose he had put in the hole
in the ground he had dug British
pounds sterling just after the World
War when 1t was at a substantial
discount from it's gold parity. If he
dug it up today he would have more
real money than when he started
with
Now let us take the case of gold.
This generation Is familiar with
rising prices only. Things cost more
than they used to and we have ac-
quired the habit of thinking that that
is the normal evolution of prices, al
ways to go up. So we believe that
If we put aside a sum of money now
and let 1t lie idle for 10 years we
could not buy IS much with 1t then
as now. That assumption may be
correct, but there is nothing certain
about it.
Thirty years is short time in the
history Of nation or of the world,
and simply because prices have been
rising more or less uniformly since
1896 it does not follow that they are
going to take the same course in the
next 80 years. They may go down.
not up. If they do decline the gold
would be worth more, not less, and
the hoarder would have made money
instead of losing IT. Now the object
of this article is not to suggest that
the reader attempt an operation of
this kind. Rather it is to make 1t
plain to him or her that hiding away
money instead Of investing 1t does
not fully remove the speculative fea-
ture involved more or less in all
forms Of wealth. Speculation is re-
garded by many people as morally
wrong and by many others as invit-
ing almost certain loss. Perhaps
most spectators do lose, but some
of them win and in a free market
the price of any security of COM
modify represents the market esti-
mate at that time of the opposing
chances of profit or loss. Uncon-
sciously the hoarder of money takes
these chances in a slight degree, but
still takes them just as the investor
does.
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BEAVER DAM ASSISTS
FOREST FIRE FIGHT
Flood of Water Stops Flames When
Other Methods Failed-Animals
Win High Praise.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, July 2T-Because water
from a beaver dam enabled desperate
forest rangers to extinguish stub
born forest fire, new and stanch
friend has been added to the beaver
family's long list Of Minnesota adj
mirers.
Ranger Mike Guthrie told how after
a two-day battle his crew had subdued
a three-mile long fire, with the ex-
ception Of a. stretch along a ravine,
when the blaze showed signs Of again
escaping control.
Noticing the dam a short distance
above the burning ravine the rangers
ripped a hole in the embankment and
released a torrent of water that soon
made history of the fire.
The frightened family Of beavers
witnessed destruction of the. paradise
which they had labored months in
building. But the fire fighters had
scarcely gone when the industrious
little animals set to work to repair
the damage.
Now" Guthrie reported. ''the
beavers have patched their dam and
are none the loser for having lost the
supply OF water. This confirms my
belief that no beaver should be taken
except in extreme cases."