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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
% IDA GILBERT MYER
Il Biography Of Capt. Scott, Who Died in
the Antarctic-Novels by Mary Roberts
Rmehart and James Boyd.

Another sort of management is functioning here
practiced hand is at work. A widely accepted
storyteller is providing new entertainment
tidy-minded inventor is imparting plausibilty
to the incredible. gooG builder is looking after
the ground plan, certain that this care will Sc
cure stability for the upper stories of the struc-
ture. The first object is to be sure, to produce
mystifying series of crimes for the sake of the
subsequent detective skill, and a thriller of adj
venture. You will agree I'm sure that this OBJ
ject has been gained. Certainly the last mo-
ment, the climax of the to-do is a sensation
A surprise so complete as to send one rather
dazed reader back to find the point at which
the real criminal began to show any faint symp-
tom, even, of the malady that was taking pos
session of him. That is looked upon I'm told.
as good test of adroit management The un-
DERIVING idea Of the invention is to make clear
the element Of chance that enters, not only into
the criminal act itself, but that takes charge as
well of much Of the subsequent course of events
shielding the criminal, turning suspicion upon
the most innocent, diverting the forces of the
law into wrong channels and so on
Though lavish with her stock of crimes Mrs
Rlnehart, the careful manager, holds to a mar
row and seemingly open field of operations
Had she been extravagant in boutwell,, but she
wouldn't have been. So single family serves
the purpose-one family with its outlying In
laws and household staff of servants People
of more than the average intelligence and
standing. Again, going to the bottom OF things
this author makes money, an unfair last will
and testament. the root of the matter Very
simple very plausible, very well contradictory
mystifying and engrossing. What more can the
detective-story addict" ask?
THE CHIMNEY MURDER. BY T. NJ Channon.
Boston: Little, Brown q Co.
A GRUESoa1E story of murder whose OBJ
jective is sensation, recoil and shock. And.
in the main, it misses its mark by reason of
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psychology of habits unimportant start its
repetition and recurrence, its growth, finally to
the complete domination of its victim. This
habit is that of drink-of making drunkard
out of man. Rather hard reading. For Mr.
Glover has created a likable and intelligent
fellow, who Is coming on in his profession very
gratifyingly to all of us and to himself We
like him. Then comes trouble shock of dis
appointment to him. And he goes under-not
in a minute, but completely at last. You are
certain at this point to blame him, to call
him a sentimentalist, to deny him nerve to
discount his earlier promise. WELL he is a
sentimentalist That's nothing new He is
romantic in his dreams of love and youth and
union. Many are. That, really, is not the
point The point is the course of this man
under the new conviction that life holds Moth
ing at all for him. Here is where the hard
reading begins. He is very real. He is very
near. Following along, one instinctively puts
out hand to keep him from this door or that
one, where he is sure to drink up the place A
most communicable matter, wherein the reader
takes an involuntary part about once minute
Some of the Story makes its gloomy way in
Cuba. but it does not brighten there. That
comes later. A romantic novelist who has
written here in the motif of love- crossed and
who, still romantic, brings a climax to his
psychological study by way of the ultimate
requirement of that first adventure in young
love. One wonders If the romance, as such, is
not in the nature of veneer. Wonders If the
writer's true concern is not with the intensive
and trained study of the human mind under
the stress of desire and the ultimate formation
OF an almost memorable habit. Whether this
second wonder" be right or wrong, it Is with
that part Of the matter that the deep interest
Of readers is sure to rest in most anxious and
personally perturbed state of mind, in an
actually partaking share in the tragic course
OF his human experience
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Books ReceiUed

NY FRIEND THE BLACK BASS; With STRAIT.
tegy. Mechanics and Fair Play. BY Harry b.
Hawes United States Senator. New York:
Stokes.
PEOPLE OF THE SMALL ARROW. BY J.
H. Driberg. With drawings by Pearl Binder.
New York: Payson q Clarke.
THE NEW WORLD OF PHYSICAL DIS
COVERY. BY Floyd L. Darrow author
Of THE Story of Chemistry" ETC. Illus
trated New York: Bobhs-Merriil Co.
FIFTH AVENUE: Twenty-eight x-rays of q
Street. BY Fred Rothermel. Illustrated
by the author New York: Harcourt Brace.
PRACTICAL LETTERING; Modern and For
eign. BY Samuel welo. Chicago: Frederick
J. Drake.
THE AMERICAN RHYTHM; Studies and Re-
expressions of Amerindian Songs. BY Mary
Austin New and enlarged edition Boston:
Houghton Miffiin.
BIRDS FLY SOUTH. BY Ethel Hueston au-
thor OF The People Of This Town." etc.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-MerriN
LORETTO: Sketches Of German War Vol
unteer. By Max Heinz. Translated by
Charles Ashleigh New York: Horace Liv-
eright
BLOW, WHISTLES, BLOwI BY Sarah Athef.
ton. New York: Payson b Clarke.
VAGABOND DREAMS COME TRUE. BY
Rudy vallee. New York: Dutton.
YOUTH IN REVOLT. BY Shmarya Levin.
Translated by Maurice Samuel. New York:
Harcourt, Brace.
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SO Ways the World mn Rogers

" IELL all know is just what read
in the papers. When q man
I'M comes around to our House now
~ adayS or you get a letter you
don't know il its q Census Taker
Poll Vote or Bootlegger This is the wear Of
the census. We take a tally. That's what we
used to call it when I was on q ranch and we
counted cattle. In other words we run EN- by
US and see how many we got. Well Uncle Sam
takes q tally every ten years and its a good
thing not that 1t means much to anybody to
know how many other people there are but
Its an Old Spanish Custom, and it does give
work to the ones that count and that's what
we got to do this year Is to do something that
VIII give everybody something to do.
California Is sure excited over this census
Most places just take 1t as a matter of fact
but not out here. These Babies take it as a
business. They don't want you living here un-
less the world knows it. They have instructed
every one OF US on just what assumed names
TO give to the different Census takers, and
when we have registered under every name we
can think OF then not to forget to even use
our right one. That's how far they are gong
out here. They are all excited over the fact
that the more votes we show We have the more
Congressman we win be allowed in the next
Congress
Well Of oil the silly areumentsl Who wants
more congressman? But they seem to think
the more We have the more loot we will get
from the National Treasury In the way Of an
preparations Then the more we can advertise
that we have out here the better they think It
VIII make US. don't know about that. There
amt much quality In numbers. But there IL
not an Editorial out here that don't tell us how
valuable 1t is to register all we can.
The prohibition poll is causing a lot of talk.
Its staying wet q little longer than I thought
That might be on account of the most of the
drys cant write. But / think when the old
back country gets going good they will throw
the thing the other way. It's given the Preach
erS something new to talk about anyway They
are getting out now and working like it was
regular election. I just heard q Couple of
them over the Radio tonight.
Well its funny thing that q so called busy
Nation can take 50 much time to argue all this
over something that cant be changed now no
matter what happened. This il no election
time. and all this talk will be for nothing. But
we are that way. We can get more excited
over something that cant be done anything
about The Bootlegger Is with US and IKE the
Sunday automobile accidents. it just looks like
both will be with US for some time.
The old Conference over In London is being
slipped Oxygen between gaSps. don't want TO
brag, but when / went there and heard the
King make his opening and then come home,
why think dident miss a thing. Here ID all
these poor newspaper men over there all this
time. There was fOur hundred visiting COR
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Admce.

advice TO the lean-'Dont eat fast Advice
b the fat-Dont eat, fast"
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Breaking Ont.

whats the lump on the front of your carp
"Oh, the radiator just had q boil"
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loose workmanship and an absence of the saw
ing grace OF sensibility on the part of the au-
thor. Motive for the crime is too trivial for
entertainment, save by lunatic or moron Plans
for carrying it out, for concealing the victim
for covering the tracks of this malefactor are
OF the jig-saw puzzle type, bearing not even a
faint resemblance to any human foresight of
procedure. There is the small-town pattern of
outlook in the general setting of the crime in its
handling by the community at large, in the
thin bucolic humers that cape and comment
upon the grizzly affair To be sure, there is
deal OF slack work offered as detective story
entertainment. This may be due, in part, to
the fact that crime fictionists feel excused from
real effort because of the generally avid interest
in any sort of human errancy And in a de-
gree this is true. But, on the other hand there
IS, once in long while, a carefully imagined
crime story which is genuinely reconstructed
crime in motive in method, in pursuit In de-
lection and logical outcome. Not many of
these. The Chimney Murder" does not belong,
In the Judgment of careful readers, to this small
class OF skillfully projected stories c. crime.
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EXCLAMATION: A Novel. BY Edward r.
Glover. Philadelphia. Dorrance g. Co.
HE title suggests a Government project
Brings to mind the picture OF some arid
expanse of desert which has thirsted itself to
death and utter unfruitfulness- unless, maybe
waters that are running away can be diverted
to serve its need. to restore to it fecund and
useful life. In one sense this Is that kind of
story-save that here is man who, nearly
destroyed. finds last-minute means of succor
ana retaining. 1t is the story Of young doc
l, pfomisne' successful Then comes the
moment Of trial. with rs defeat and the seouence
OF failure that ensues In the outer movement
OF the novel this is, in reality, study Of the
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REV|EM[
CAPTAIN SCOTT BY Stephen Gwynn. Ney
York: Harper & Brothers.

E was a great hero, the man who
died in the Antarctic SHOWS, slow.
ly freezing to death, his two COM
panions dead beside him. Writing
words of confort-"Don't be IN.
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THE DOOR. By Mary Roberts Rinehart
author Of THE Circular Staircase" ETC.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart
-FOUR murders and three assaults of murder
Gus intent. such the substance Of this novel
Clearly. expert accounting Is due in this par
tcsaiar mystery matter. Otherwise it would be-
come nothing short Of q massacre. No danger.
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ELL all know is just what read
in the papers. When q man
comes around to our House now
adayS or you get q letter you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
HOLD WISCONSIN
COW.
To Rally w kers
Behind Party

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - On Sun
day, July q at Liberty Hall, the
Nominating Convention of the Wis
consin Section of the Communist
Party was held. The Convention
which was attended by As delegates
representing rs workers organiza-
tons and many spectators, was OPP
ened by Bill Clark, election cam
paign manager, with the reading of
the convention call.
Raymond Hansborough, candidate
for us. Congressman presided at
the convention. After election of
all convention committees, Section
organizer Dave Mates, reported on
the Communist election platform.
Fred Bassett, now serving 1 year
for his leadership of the March 6
unemployed demonstration and his
struggles for the working class, was
nominated for Governor. Max
Kagan, now serving six months for
participating in the March dem
onstration was nominated for State
Senator, Twelve other candidates
were nominated by the convention.
Lieut.. Gov. - VIM. Clark, Sec. of
State-Edward Nehmer, U. S. Sem
ator - VIM. MARTHA of Superior,
Wis, U. S. Congress - Raymond
Hansborough and John Kasun, State
Senate - Donald Burke and James
Burgess, State Assembly-Lee Tai
ton, Jack Schwab, Henry Pirk, and
Herbert Fredrichs. For Sheriff of
Milwaukee county, John Mueller.
After reading the acceptance
speeches of the two militant work
ers from Jail, the other candidates
made brief speeches, pledging to
carry on an intensive campaign in
behalf of the Communist Party.
After a considerable discussion of
the Party election platform, resolu-
lions were unanimously adopted and
an election campaign committee was
elected. The convention displayed
the militancy of the American work
ers and concluded with a spirit of
determination to continue the strug-
gle for the platform of the Com
munist Party against capitalist sys-
tenn of exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
BUSINESSMEN ON
Penn. S. P. SLATE

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.-The
socialist party completed it's Penn
sylvania state ticket by selecting 10
real estate brokers, wealthy doctors
and dyed-in-the-wool A. F. of L.
takers to run forsthe State Legisla-
ture and Congress from Philadel-
phia.
With characteristic reformist
treachery, among those selected
were two men, posing as workers.
This was done the better to deceive
the workers of Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania.
The redoubtable labor faker,
James H. Maurer, aged Reading
councilman and chief of the state
social fascists, was selected to run
for governor.
The very wealthy and "substan-
tial" citizen of Philadelphia society's
Main Line, Miss Mary Winsor, was
chosen to run for lieutenant-gov-
ernor.
Out of total of twelve candi-
dates only two are possibly workers
A goodly number of the twelve
socialist candidates are high salaried
officials of the various A. F. of L.
unions, such as the Musteite United
Textile Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05

Reports in the capitalist press
in this country give some details
of the sharpening economic and poll
teal crisis in Germany. Kendall
Foss, New York Times correspon-
dent in Berlin, in a dispatch to his
paper aug. 81 admits the stagger-
ing growth of unemployment. He
says:
"The most serious factor at pre-
sent is the steady increase in the
numbers seeking unemployment re-
lief at a season of the year when
unemployment usually reaches its
lowest ebb. The 2,774,000 who were
hunting work on July Is represent
ed an increase of $4,000 since June
30. Reports from England indi-
cate only a slightly better state of
affairs"
Of course, the official figure of
2,774,000 greatly underestimates the
fact. There are at least 100000
now unemployed in Germany. Foss
further on in his dispatch says that
capitalist economic observers admit
that the official figure will jump
up to 100000 this winter, which
portends an unemployed army in
Germany of around 100000 to
100000.
In the July 25 issue of the Analist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
UNEMPLOYED ARMY IN
GE r MANY GROWS AT
A TREMENDOUS PACE
Boss Economists Admit Figures Will Show
100000 Without Jobs Soon
General Electric and Chrysler In Germany Lay
Off From 10 to $3.50 of Workers

there is an article by Emil Lengyel
entitled "Germany's Critical Econo-
mic Position Matched by the Crisis
in Government" which gives some
more details of the worsening crisis.
He shows the rapidly developing
fascism, aided by the social-dem-
ocrats. "There is a cry for dictator
ship even among the fairly moderate
elements" says Lengyel.
Many big plants are laying off
thousands Of workers. A recent dis
patch to the Journal of Commerce
from Berlin says:
'The German General Electric
Co. and the Siemens & Halske
concern, the two leading electric
al enterprises in Germany, have
given notice of discharge to ten
per cent of their employees
"The Chrysler automobile fac
tory has given similar notice to
rs per cent of its employees"
Thus unemployment grows apace
in the leading basic industries. These
two companies, especially the Ger
man General Electric Co. employs
tens of thousands of workers, and
their drastic lay-offs will effect
thousands and considerably add to
the ranks of the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
YOUNG WORKERS
FIGHT TERROR
Increased Activity Is
Answer to Police

New York, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
Dear comrade-Again the bosses
have come out openly and have
shown their true fascist role and fear
of the workers to learn the truth
about conditions. They broke up
an open air meeting Monday night,
which was being held by the Young
Communist League of Coney Island,
at East 7th st. and Brighton Beach
Ave.
The meeting had been going on
for about 2 hours with police head
quarters permission. While ques-
tons were being asked of the
speakers by the workers, cop on
a horse rode right into the large
crowd and threw the platfrom over.
But this did not dispose of the
crowd. We stood on the corner and
spoke in large circles to the workers
who also stood around and listened
and argued against the cops.
"Where is their democracy ?"-
"Where is there freedom of speech ?"
The answer is-"it isn't" The dem
ocratic club around the corner IN
derstood that we meant business and
meant to organize the workers into
fighting organizations against them
selves, the bosses. They understood
and thought they could stop US by
breaking up our open air meeting.
But they think wrong. 1t will
take more than a cop on a horse or
a whole troop of cops on horses to
stop us from speaking to the work
ers and organizing them.
The workers of Brighton Beach
have not heard the end of that in
cident. We, the Young Communist
League of Coney Island, will fol-
low this incident up with literature,
mass meetings and open air meet
ings on the same corner We will
fight for the right of the streets to
the last if necessary.
And there won't be any last until
every worker is shot down dead, and
that will never come, not even in a
revolution. Well do some shooting
also, then.
Comradely,
J. K.-Y.C.L. Coney Island Unit.
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GROUP SPEED Up.
IN PIERCE ARROW
HAR D 0 N M { N
Workers Want To Be
Organized
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dul1dlO, Ne l.
Daily Worker.
Dear Editor:
1 am one of the slaves at the
Pierce Arrow in Buffalo. The big
slave driving sweat and blood suck
ers have specded up that burg 100
per cent. They put forth the group
system, which is only another game
of put and take with the big fat
tened up bosses doing the taking.
New Speed Up.
They explained we will make as
much as we ever did, so we figure
the amount of work accordingly, but
our figures and theirs is always diff
ferent. They brag that they are
making more this year than last
year. You can bet we won't deny
that. Who is the loser? We, the
pluggers who get one third the pay
we drew last year. They told US
we will make as much as ever. Yes,
just about if a go per cent. reduc-
ton doesn't make any difference.
Fire All the Time.
They fire men for no reason at
all and when you demand some sort
of explanation they have none to
offer. Of course we know every
time a man is let go we will get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
|, |. D. LAUNCHES
WAR CHEST DRIVE
Defense of Class War
Prisoners Needed

"The National Executive CONT
tee of the International Labor De-
tense will launch, beginning August
18th, a concentrated three months
War Chest Campaign for the de-
Tense of the three major cases now
being fought-the six "insurrection"
cases in Atlanta, the Unemployment
Delegation in New York, and the
Imperial Valley prisoners in Cali
fornia, according to a statement
issued yesterday by J. Louis Eng
dahl.
"hese prosecutions" the Interna-
tional Labor Defense points out i
its announcement today of the War
Chest Campaign, "have deprived the
working class movement of some
of its foremost leaders in all parts
of the United States. 1t is the
duty and the responsibility of every
worker for whom these men and
women are suffering prison sem
fences and the possibility of lynch
ing or execution, to give help in
the defense that the release of the
heroic working class fighters shall
be secured"
he Unemployment Delegation has
been in prison for four months with
out sentence being determined,
though the usual course is a deci-
sion after three weeks.
The Imperial Valley defendants
are in prison for AZ years unless res
cued by mass protest. heir crime
consisted in their efforts to organ
ize the exploited workers of the
fruit growing districts.
The Atlanta defendants face
death because they tried to hold an
unemployment meeting. heir crime
is that they courageously dare to
advocate social equality of the
Negro and white worker in the COM
mon struggle against exploitation.
And the hate ridden South is clamor-
ing for their death!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-05
CALL MASS MEET
IN CAST0NIA FRI.

GASTONIA, N. c., Aug. 3.-Ten
thousand leaflets have been issued
for the meeting that is to be held in
Gastonia on August 9. The meeting
will be held on the old union lot,
where the thugs of the Manville-
Jenckes recently burned up the old
Union Hall.
Mills here are running half time,
and nine mills have recently closed
down for an indefinite time. The
bosses have announced that within
the next few days, the mills will
open up and run on full time, but
the wages will have to be cut 10 per
cent and the workers whose wages
now amount to goose-eggs after the
boss deducts for the rent, grocery
bill and coal, after the 10 per cent
wage cut, the workers will be owing
money to the mill owners after
working &C hours week.
The workers know that they will
have to form a solid block with the
rest of the workers in order to fight
back the attacks Of the bosses and
the miserable conditions under
which they are forced to slave.
This meeting held by the Southern