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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
MAKE ARMY CHANGES
Four Officers Designated for Service
in France and italy.

in France and Italy.
Mai. L. w. Mcintosh. Air Corps, at
the War Department, has been assigned
to the command of Crissy Field San
Francisco. effective in October; Maj.
r. r. Fuller Infantry, has been trans
ferred from the University of Idaho. at
Moscow, to Fort Mcpherson, Ca: Lieut..
Col. P. H. Worcester, Coast Artillery,
from the War Department to the
Philippines; Lieut. Col. j. G. King.
Cavalry, from Fort Sam Houston to
Fort D. A. Russell. Tex; Capt. G. E.
Carothers. Infantry, from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, to
Hawaii; Capt w. j. Burke. Coast Ar
tiIlery. from Fort Monroe. Va. to the
University of Kansas, at Lawrence;
Capt. c. B. Cox, Cavalry. at Fort
Humphreys, Va, and Capt. J. G. Wat
kins, Field Artillery, at Fort sill. Okla
to the Cavalry School at Pinerolo, Italy;
Capt. j. c. Cody, Infantry, from Fort
Smelling, Mimi. to st. Louis: Capt.
M. N. Greeley, Quartermaster Corps,
from San Juan, Porto Rico to Brook
lyn. N. Y; Capt. w. F. Dalton, In
fantry, at Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind, and First Lieut.. L. o. Paquet, In
fantry. at Fort George @. Meade. Md
to Paris. France. for duty with the pill
grimage of war mothers and widows.
Sergt G. A. Summers. 10th Cavalry,
at Fort Huachuca. Ariz., has been
placed on the retired list on his own
application after more than 80 years
active service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
EdisOn's First Wish
Is Good Health, He
Tells Reporters
Will Not Retire After End
of Rubber Experiments,
He Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 29.-If
Thomas Edison were told that he could
have any one thing in the material,
mental or spiritual worlds, he would
choose good health" he told news
paper reporters here.
He scrubbed the word answer to
a question on this subject, while visit
ing Harvey Firestone, rubber manufac-
turer. here last night. He has been
here two days visiting the Firestone
rubber gardens in Miami Beach and
other points OF interest.
Edison said the fields of chemistry
and physics were ones in which there
was great need for new inventions and
discoveries.
The inventor said he had one or
two old experiments nearly finished"
He wrote a one-word answer to a
question as to whether he planned to
retire after completing his rubber ex-
periments. It was No
He said he did not think he would
live to be 100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
NO0NAN PLEADS GUILTY
Brother of Film Star Admits Re
ceiving Stolen Goods.

LOS ANGELES, March 20 tP).-Jack
Noonan, brother of Sally O'Neill, film
actress, pleaded guilty in Superior
Court yesterday to receiving stolen
property. The theft involved furs,
clothing and jewelry valued at $4,000,
taken from the apartment of Ted Lewis,
orchestra leader last July.
Noonan, who has been under mental
observation since his return here from
New York. where he was arrested sew
eral months ago. filed an application
for probation. A hearing was set for
April IL.
Two co-defendants, Joseph Burbridge
and Sherry TanSey, previously pleaded
guilty to burglary charges and were
granted probation Most of the stolen
goods were returned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
SIXTY TRAINED VOICES
TO UNITE IN CONCERT
Combined Glee Clubs of Richmond,
Ind, College to Entertain To-
nigth at w. C. A. Hall.

Singing without instrumental accom-
paniment, the Combined Glee Clubs OF
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
consisting of so trained voices, will pre-
sent a concert tonight at Barker Hall,
Young Womens Christian Association,
Seventeenth and K streets. under the
sponsorship of the Washington Co
operative Young Friends Group.
Under the direction of Prof. G. A.
Lehman, former baritone soloist and
assistant director of the famous West
Minister Choir, the choral organiza-
ton will be heard in a program largely
of sacred music. enlivened by several
collegiate numbers in Rossini's In
f1ammatus" from "Stabat Mater" with
no instrument accompaniment. the or
gan effect is achieved by the humnling
of so voices. Both the mems and
women's glee clubs will also be heard
separately, and there will be solos by
Robert Taylor, tenor; Theodore Kirk
patrick, basso. and Lloyd Outland, vio-
linist The clubs are on motor tour
of the East. appearing at many cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
Leads in Marriages.

PERUGIA, Italy (H).-This region of
Umbria saw more marriages in pro-
portion to the population than any
other in Italy during the past year
The figure per thousand inhabitants
was 7.48 per cent, and the ceremonies
totaled 5,135. The rich northern prov
ince of Lombardy came next. with 4,03a
weddings and a TAI percentage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
BANDIT TRIO GETS
$4,000 FROM BANK
Drive Employees and Depositors in
Vault and Escape in
Automobile.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press,
WATERTON, Conn, March 90
Three unmasked young men yesterday
held up the Waterton Trust Co. and
escaped with about $4,000 in bills and
currency.
While one swept harvest from the
counters of the tellers in the cage. the
other two stood over the banks staff
and seven depositors, who had been
driven into the vault and made to lie
on the floor. They escaped in an auto
mobile.
Telephone wires in the building had
been cut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

SO great was the attendance at the
exhibition in London of pictures sent
from Italy that the time of exhibition
had to be extended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Benefit performance. Journeys End"
American Association of University
Women, Polls Theater, Monday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Good fellowship meeting. Franklin
Lodge, No. 2, knights of Pythias. Pyth-
ian Temple, 1912 Ninth street, Monday,
3 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TO-DAY.

Meeting International University
Club, Y. M. c. A. auditorium. Eight
zenith and @ streets, $3.50 pm. Speaker,
DR.. Erich Kraemer.
Lecture, auspices of the League for
the Larger Life, Hay-Adams House,
S:15 pm. Lecturer. Senator Brook
hart of Iowa. Subject, Cooperation"
Presentation of three-act play, fol-
lowed by dancing. Federal Chapter, No.
80. o. z. s., Masonic Temple, Eighth
and streets northeast, 8 pm.
Gard party, Woman's Benefit Associa-
ton, club house, 1850 Massachusetts
avenue, $3.50 pm.
Dance, Commercial National Bank,
garden of the Mayflower Hotel, tonight.
Lecture, Jewish Community Center,
Sixteenth and @ streets, $3.50 pm. Lee
turer, Alexander GoldenweiSer anthro-
pologist, formerly of Columbia Uni
verSity. Subject, 1.-THE Psychology Of
the Russian People" of the series, Are
Nations Born or Made?"
Dance, Star Points Association of
Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chapter, No.
Al, D. z. S., Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, Phoenix Club, Masonic
Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast,
$50 pm.
Gard party, CranchTyler Parent
Teacher Association, Walker Hill Dairy
$50 Seventh street southeast, $3.50 pm.
FUTURE.
Card party, Ladies of the Blue Veil
of the District of Columbia Chapter
American Red Cross, U. S. Naval Hos
pital, Monday evening.
Meeting Daughters of Union Veter-
ans of the Civil War, Mrs. Ellen Spen-
Ger Mussey Tent, No. /, Arlington House
tomorrow, 8 am.
Meeting American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers Cosmos Club, Madison
place and H street, Monday, 8 pm.
Good fellowship meeting. Franklin
Lodge, No. 2, knights of Pythias. Pyth-
ian Temple, 1912 Ninth street, Monday,
3 pm.
Benefit performance. Journeys End =
American Association of University
Women, Polls Theater, Monday night.
SO great was the attendance at the
exhibition in London of pictures sent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Meeting, American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers, Cosmos Club, Madison
place and H street, Monday, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Meeting, Daughters of Union Veter-
ans Of the Civil War, Mrs. Ellen Spen-
Ger Mussey Tent. No. l, Arlington House
tomorrow, 9 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Gard party, Woman's Benefit ASsocia-
ton, club house, 1850 Massachusetts,
avenue $40 nm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Meeting, International University
Club, Y. M. c. A. auditorium. Eight.
zenith and G streets, $3.50 pm. Speaker
DR.. Erich Kraemer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Presentation of three-act play. fol-
lowed by dancing. Federal Chapter, No.
SO. o. z. s., Masonic Temple, Eighth
and 2 streets northeast. 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Gard party, Cranch-Tyler Parent
Teacher Association, Walker Hill Dairy,
$50 Seventh street southeast, $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

FUTURE.
Card party, Ladies of the Blue Veil
of the District of Columbia Chapter
American Red Cross, u. S. Naval Hos
pital, Monday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Engaged by social leaders to
love one beauty
He breaks the hearts of three.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-29

Dance, Commercial National Bank.
garden of the May1ower Hotel, tonight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01

ers must be organized for solidarity
with the workers and peasants of
the Soviet Union. Through the or
eanizatioa of:ths. F. s.:U,, a steady
and relentless agitation- must be
carried on against the .imperialist
enemies, who though divided on the
question of the strength. of their
armies and navies. are united in the
common aim, and are rushing at
top speed the preparations for an
armed attack on the Soviet Union.
May First, the day of historic
struggle of the workers.; opens the
campaign to build the F. S. U. mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
Demonstrate May Day For
The Defense OF The ..
Soviet Union!
Friends of Soviet Union Issues Call to All
Workers in y. S. A.

I world against the working class,
with the aid of the social democrats
and reactionary trade union leaders,
is only a pretext for war against
the Soviet Union.
Here in America, the imperialist
government, with the aid of Mr..
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, the arch-enemy
of the working class, has organized
the American Lagoon and other
patriotic societies to demonstrate
the First of May their readiness to
make war against the Soviet Re-
public, and against the working class
as whole.
1t is no accident that these strike
breaking organizations have joined
with the white guards-the bloody
hordes of the former Gar, who have
caused many a pogrom in Czarist
Russia and have slaughtered, in cold
blood, thousands of workers during
the revolution. These white guards
will march together with the Ameri-
can Legion, under the banner of
democracy"
The American workers still re-
member the sending of American
troops to Northern Russia and to
Siberia in 1918, in an attempt to
overthrow the First Soviet Republic.
We urge all workers to raise their
voice in protest against these Fascist
maneuvers. May First, the day of
solidarity of the working class, must
be made day of solidarity of the
workers of the world with the work
ers and peasants of the Soviet Union
against the war plotters, fascists,
and all other enemies of the work.
ing class.
Our slogans must be:
Every Worker Behind the Work
ers and Peasants of the Soviet Union
in Defense of U. S. S. r. Against the
Threa4 ened Attack of World Imper-
ialism!
Down With Capitalist Oppression!
Down With the Betrayers OF the
Working Class!
Long Live the Working Class
Solidarity Throughout the World!
Strengthen the Organization of the
Friends of the Soviet Union!
Join the Friends of the Soviet
Union!
Long Live the First Workers
Republic!
Friends of Soviet Union. United
States Section, IT'S Fifth
Ave-, Room 511, New York,
N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01

Here is a letter from one who
signs himself can American Peas
ant:
81 am dirt farmer and would
like mighty well to help the Rus
sian workers at socializing the land.
But l have no money. So l am en-
closing only a dime, for which send
me your literature on the Five Year
Plan, the Continuous Working Week
and The Religious Issue. Do you
know what is the greatest drama
On earth today? It's the Five-Year
Plan, the race Russia is running to
realize her theories, to make a
prosperous example of herself be-
fore the imperialists can intervene
and destroy her experiment Should
Russia lose, the world would be set
back maybe a hundred years. Rus
STA does not need to propagandize-
her sheer example is enough to put
the skids under the capitalists.
And that's just how she is terrify-
ing the grafters all over the world!
All power to the Soviets and the
old hammer and sickle!"
Here is one from a Baptist min
lister: "Your pamphlet on the Trac-
tor and Truck Campaign received.
Judging from conditions in the
United States, the workers of this
country will soon have to ask as
sistance from the workers of the
Soviet Union. Stranger things than
that have happened!r
We could go on quoting indefi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
By HARRIET SILvERMAN

Secretary F.S.U. New York Dist.
The F. S. u. has the task in this
country to rally the workers in shop,
factory, mill and mine to defend
the gains of the Russian Revolution
and to organize an iron resistance
to every move against the Soviet
Union. Through the F. S. u, we
must help clear the air of poisonous
propaganda, sent through the chan
nels Of the yellow press. Through
the F. S. u, we can bring before
the broad masses of workers the
practical achievements of the Soviet
Union and the steady progress to-
wards higher and better life for
the workers.
The Five Year Plan must be made
a living picture before the workers
an indictment against the chaos of
capitalist production with it's speed
up system and naturalization, which
yields only want and hunger, the
chronic disease of unemployment,
misery and oppression for the work.
ing class, while the exploiters live
in luxury. The collectivization pro-
gram in contrast with the dispos-
sessed and bankrupt tenant farmers
of the United States, the housing
program of the Soviet Union in
contrast with the fire-trap tene-
ments, the schools to wipe out il
literacy in the Soviet Union, the
system of social insurance from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
The Task of Building Up
Socialism In The
Soviet Union
Success of Five-Year Plan Is Challenge to
Capitalism
Rockefeller spend their vaca.

the workers that in order to import
machinery they must pay in gold,
or in products; the Soviet workers
know and understand the reason for
the scarcity of butter, eggs and
other products in which the Soviet
Union is so rich. However, they
also know that every success
achieved by the U. S. S. r. means
success for them and for the
working class throughout the world.
Every improvement in the Soviet
Union means an improvement in the
life of the workers. decentralization
in the Soviet Union does not throw
millions of workers out on the
streets, but means shorter working
hours, increased productivity bene-
fitting every worker, and better
working conditions.
American workers must show
their solidarity by participating in
the Five-Year Plan. Our slogan
must be MORE TRACTORS AND
TRUCKS FOR THE FIVE-YEAR
PLAN. Every worker should COL
lect in his shop, factory, and his
union from his neighbors and
friends, and do his utmost to par
ticipate in the task of building So
cialism in the Soviet Union. We
must give our pennies and nickels
to the Soviet workers to aid them
in their efforts to build socialism.
Those who work must make it
their business to put aside at least
one dollar a week for the FiveYear
Plan. Those unemployed should
speak to their friends who are en-
ployed and solicit donations for the
Five Year Plan.
Send all contributions to
National Office
Friends of the Soviet Union
IT'S Fifth Avenue Room 511
New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
By EDITH RUDQUIST.

One of the most interesting and
remarkable phases of life at the
present time in the Soviet Union is
the collective farm movement.
Century old customs and tools are
being cast aside for the most modern
implements, for machines and tech
nical equipment used in large scale
farming. The collectivization pro-
gram has revolutionized the Russian
village. The consequences are far
reaching; everything old is being
discarded for everything new. When
one considers the difficulties under
which this is being carried on, the
backwardness of the Russian peas
ants, the primitiveness of their life,
their fear and superstitious hatred
for anything new, only then does one
fully realize the significance of the
change, of the tremendous force that
has been let loose, the enormous
latent vitality that is now being
capitalized for the benefit of the
Proletarian State.
What Is Collective Farm?
A collective farm is organized
upon the initiative of the peasants
themselves. Briefly, it consists of
the pooling of the resources, land
and equipment of the peasants. In
stead of millions of small individual
holdings there will be large collec-
tive farms, were machine and tractor
farming is carried on. The ire
mendous saving of labor and
materials, and the corresponding
greater output of grain of these col
lective farms makes l. possible for
the peasants to increase their
standard of living. This vital factor
brings the peasants into the collec-
tive farms.
=" Peasants All Into the Collective
Farm"
This is the slogan, the demand of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
UNDER 5 YEAR PLAN

! 900, i. e., by rs per cent. The adj
dition, 10000 new travelling libraries
are being organized.
The press-all newspapers in the
Soviet Union are workers papers
will be increased threefold in five
years, or eight times the pre-war
level. The circulation of the news
papers will be increased from 1,700,-
900 in 1929 to 100000 in 1882
SO. The publication of books will be
more than doubled and the issuing
of mass literature will Re increased
five to skiold.
The movies are recognized in the
Soviet Union as a cultural force Of
tremendous power and the Five Year
Plan provides for a great increase
| in the facilities for showing films.
Moving picture equipment will be in
creased from $500 to $4,000 (of
which $4,000 will be for schools),
growth of about 500 per cent.
Eighty per cent. of all clubs will
have movie equipment and there will
be at least three movie theatres in
every district.
Radio is also looked upon as =
mighty cultural force and is making
rapid progress in the Soviet Union.
The Five-Y Year Plan calls for 20
times as many radio sets in 1928
as in 1929, or 100000 instead Of
/ L.
workers dwellings and 100000
peasant houses, as we'll as all the
workers clubs, people, houses, read
ing huts, schools, barracks, collective
and Soviet farms and Red corners,
will have radio sets by 1928.
We see that the cultural revolution
is reality in the Soviet Union; and
under the Five-Year Plan it IS
marching forward with giant strides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01

nitely from such letters received.
They are constantly pouring in re-
questing information about the
Five-Year Plan, the continuous
working week and every other phase
of Russian life. Numerous individ-
uals have also been calling at the
F.S.U. office offering to deposit
money in a Soviet Bank. One such
applicant has $4,000 which he
would not entrust to any but So
Wet bank. Unfortunately we have
no such department connected with
our organization.
Hundreds of letters are also re-
ceived daily from all over the United
States from workers representative
of every industry and profession,
expressing their desire to go to the
Soviet Union for permanent resi-
dence and do their bit towards the
establishing of socialism. The re-
quests have become so numerous
that it became necessary for us to
take this matter up with the U.S.S.R.
with the object of establishing a
Bureau for Technical Aid to the
U.S.S.R. in connection with the
Friends of the Soviet Union.
The following are few examples
of such letters received:
"Please inform me if Russia is in
need of mechanics. l have had wide
experience in machine tools and
toolmaking work, and I have a
great desire to help the cause along
this line. For many years l have
been working in the U. S. Govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-01
BY A. B. MAGIL.

One of the most significant phases
of the upbuilding of Socialism in
the Soviet Union i. the cultural re-
volution by which millions of people
who, under the car, could not read
or write, are being raised not only
to the plane of literacy, but beyond,
where they become participants ii
the mass cultural activities of the
Workers Republic.
In 1918, out of 100 persons in
Russia, 1856 were illiterate. By 1928
90, as a result of the intense educa-
tional work carried on by the Soviet
government, this figure had been
reduced to 46 out of every 100 per-
sons. The Five-Year Plan, which
includes complete program Of
cultural and educational work, pro-
vides for a speeding up of the cam
paign against illiteracy, and by the
end of the five-year period 1928
only Is out of every 100 persons will
be illiterate. In the most important
districts of the country illiteracy will
be completely wiped out and for the
youth (12 to Is years. the aim is
100 per cent literacy by 1928.
(At present 100000 youths are
being taught to read and write. }
In the towns SO per cent. of the
population will be literate.
Elementary education is being ar.
ranged in such way that .by the
end of the five years all children OF
the Soviet Union from eight to
eleven will attend the elementary
schools. AS a result, the elementary
schools will be attended by 17,0O0,.
600 children as against 100000 in
1929 and 100000 in 1914.
In no country in the world is there
such a widespread, organized cam.
paign against illiteracy as in the
Soviet Union. In the United States
which prides itself on its educationa
system, thousands of workers, par
ticularly in the South, are unable tc
read or write. In education, as il
other fields, Negroes are the victims
of discrimination, being either deniec
educational opportunities or segre
gated in separate schools where faci
lities are inferior to those in the
white schools. In the Soviet Unior
on the ether hand, all nationalities
have equal educational opportunities
and complete cultural autonomy.
One of the features of the cultura
life of the Soviet Union are the read.
ing huts that are scattered through.
out the country, where workers
gather in their leisure time to read
books and periodicals. Under the
Five-Year Plan these reading huts
will be increased from $4,000 to 49,