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Imperial Valley press., 1930-10-16
Wilcox Resigns
State Service

+. Il. Wilcox, specialist in the
University of California Agricultur.
al Extension Service, mas resigned
to accept the management Of the
National Pecan Association, accord
ing to announcement by Prof. Il. II.
Crochcron, director Of the service.
Wilcox has left California for Jack
son, Mississippi, where he will lave
his headquartcr,- He has visited
Tie valley several times assisting
with the farm cost account work
being carried ON by the local farm
advisor 5 office.
The National Pecan Association
is a cooperative marketing associa-
iton set up under the plans Of the
federal farm board to sell the pc
cans Of the growers Of several south.
ern states. Many Of these already
have cooperative sales organizations
and these viii join in the new CO.
operative association. Wilcox will
have the title Of general manager
of the cooperative.
Wilcox came to the University Of
California as a graduate student,
from the Cta;' Agricultural College,
where he took his degree of bachelor
of arts in 1925. While student
here in 1927, he became interested
in the farm management studics Of
L. II. Fluharty, Of the Agricultural
Extension Service, and joined him
in his work. He also has been for
the past year an associate on the
Giannini Foundation of Agricultur.
al Economics in the College of Agri.
culture.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-10-16

The Hood River, Oregon, Apple
Growers Association has 800 per
sons in its eannery putting mp Bart
lett pears. The run viii consume all
of September,
Imperial Valley press., 1930-10-16

f. J. W, Hearty, Medford, Orc
gon, recently shipped - cars of
Newton Pippin apples to Egypt and
another has sold ten cars of apples
md nnars in Athens Grnnrn
Imperial Valley press., 1930-10-16

The finest dat hacking plant in
TIM, country has .iust been finished
II Phoenix, Arizona The mcchani
cal part was designed and installed
bv Robert H. postlcthwaitr, Coa
rhella. CnlifnrniA.
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Weasel was so scared he sucked
himself to death. Octopus Rugged
himself to death. Black Bears army
scattered, and Black Bear hid in q
tree. Red Bear bent the tree into
the sea, and Red Bear aquaplanes,
the Flying Dolphins, ducked Black
Bear into the sea, giving him the
last bath of his life. The Butter
flies tried to get into their cocoons
but the world never moves back but
forward. The Hog and Sow lost
their sense and roasted themselves
in the flames Of their pigsty.
The Lion found his tail in the
Black Bears stable and the Porcu-
pine found his needles in the sewing
room and sewed the tail on again.
The Dolphins brought up the false
teeth Of Black Bear. Kangaroo ham,
mered them into a horn. Ant-eater
with his tongue Of musilage pasted
it back on the Rhino's nose. The
Horse brought the Three Bears a
bushel of oats, and the Honey Bees
found their Honey in the Haywood
Bruins chambers. "'Tis the final
conflict" they all shouted.
The Lark sang:
"Let us pool our labors together
As we pulled our sabres together
And what we earn in common
Belongs to each and all"
peace and breadl
"Peace and breadw
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vigorous vitality of life. 1t becomes
thinned into lyrical allegory and
fails as an effective medium for
the dramatization of the class
struggle
1t is to this type that we are forced
to assign Jim Cooperkop." We feel
that not the process of capitalist
naturalization has here been dra-
matized, but the concept of that
process. In this drama of the class
struggle at it's climax we see no
clear cross section Of social life. The
scene, though nominally America, is
America only by virtue of Aaron
sons admirable settings. The scene
of the drama itself is but a vague
No-man's land called America.
Similarly, the time of the play is no
def1nable period that we can call
today, that we can associate, let us
say, with the present crisis, with I'M
employment, with government bru-
tally, with war preparations. The
play is framed in no specific period,
but in the abstract idea of the late
capitalist era.
What is true Of scene Is likewise
true of character. And here we
speak less of stage Interpretation
than Of authors delineation, since
the first Is fundamentally determined
by the second. The characters of
this drama of the heightened class
struggle fail to convince us that they
are alive. We see before us abstrac-
lions, BRAIN children who walk, talk,
live. and die more like shadowy
creatures than robust human beings.
The capitalist is like no living CAPT.
talist anywhere. He is an idea, a
spectre, like the red spectre of the
Communist Manifesto whom he seeks
to Danish from off the earth. And
where there Is no actual capitalist
there is no actual proletariat. The
workers in the play, even the Com
munist leaders are anaemic types,
mconvincing as rebels, as breakers
of a system.
The structure of Jim Cooperkop"
scarcely makes amends for the error
in conception. The plot is COM
plexity of scenes without a sequence
OF situations, effective in themselves,
but left unwoven into the texture
Of the drama.
Yet, notwithstanding these de-
fects, the "Artef Players" have with
commendable efforts mounted q
spectacle that is genuine achieve
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"March of the Red Bear"

The Black Bear has sent his hench-
men spying and working against Red
Bear and his followers. Red Bear has
caught the Haywood Bruin, the Black
Bears Jester, spying on him and has
called in the wood he has slain Preach
err Polecat for binding the animals.
o! says Red Bear, is what keeps the
march against Black Bear from be-
ginning. o! is a link in the slave-c chain.
Get rid of these links and the chain
breaks. The thing to do is to fight
together and win all the animals over.
Now We Go On:
Each day animals were won to
the side of Red Bear against Black
Bear. The first day the barnyard
folk enlisted. An o! burst from
the chain. AS it fell, the Weasel
sucked the chain together. Neither
he nor Black Bear saw the one link
less meant one o! less and so many
comrades more. He thought to re-
patch was to re-chain exactly as
before. Score: One-Oni
The second day the lake-fish
Joined. A second o.! popped from
the chain. Score: Two-Through!
The third day the mountain ami
mails signed up. A third o! went.
Score: Three-Free!
The fourth day the animals of
the valley. Another o! Score: Four
Soar! Weasel sucked the chain to-
gether again. Red Bear grew.
The fifth day the sea fish. An
other o! Score: Five-Strive!
The sixth day the animals who
bore into the earth. The Red Ants
lined against the Black Ants and
defeated them. Stool Pigeon tried
to tell Black Bear but the Bat
swooped down and laid Stool Pigeon
low. Score: Six-Get Ready to Mix!
The seventh day the sea fowl
Score: Seventeen Make Earth
Heaven!
On the eighth day the Eagle and
Condor. The Condor spoke with can.
dor: "I'll get the vulture!" The
eighth link popped. Weasel saw but
two links left and ran to tell Black
Bear. Black Bear waos too sure OF
himself to listen. The buzz the
silly Butterflies made him feel gay
Score: Eight-We Have Not Long
to Wait!
Nivhth day: the birds Of the land
and the leaping animals Of the jun
gle. Score :Nine-Get in Line!
Tenth day: one o! left. Use it for
chain in Black Bears nose The
ed Bear Army and the Red Bear
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, individual and therefore to his rev.
olutionary usefulness. Boorov fees
and puts gun to his head. He does
not matter. Young students and
workers such as Sonia and zoya
whose deep affection for one another
is the living reality of this book live
on to play their part in the building
of the new world. 1t is they who
are defining the morals in the new
state.
Listen to the youthful Sonia in
Dog Lane: Twisting the meanings
of words, the bourgeoisie always
tried to throw dust in the eyes of
workmen and of peasants, by claim
ing that Communists do not believe
in a moral code. That is a lie! We
know that there is a Communist
moral code and that Communists
are moral! From the point of view
of our class-the only correct point
of view-everything that weakens
our will to build new world. every
thing that interferes with our
search for truths immoral.
Control over our desires, fighting
the bare sexual instinct, comrade-
like attitude toward the woman you
love-these are the highest Commu-
mist standards of relations with
women! 1t is the foundation upon
which rests our moral code, which
is as far away from the morals of
the former rotten bourgeois society
as the sky is from the EARTH"
Yes. as far as the sky from the
earth is the Soviet Union from cap
italist America. Capitalist America
ties incompatible people together
forever if they cannot afford to buy
a divorce from the corrupt courts.
Capitalist America brands for life
child which is born out of wedlock.
Capitalist America squeals of the
sacred ties of the family, but it cam
not hide the houses of prostitution
that line our streets. 1t ignores the
fact that proletarian families are
disrupted because mothers must
leave their babies and young child
rem must go into the factories in
order to scrape up a bare living.
In the Soviet Union the sexes are
given equal rights, the cruel dis
ordinations against "so-called" il
legitimate children are removed and
information regarding birth control
is disseminated freely. Young
people may come together and part,
and prostitution, concomitant Of
the Sacred" bourgeois family, can
be swept away with the other cor
ruption of the bourgeois state.
RUTH SHAW.
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WORK OR WAGES'-A SHORT PLAY
ON A REVOLUTIONARY THEME

A Revolutionary Play in Three Scene:
The many workers organizations
which have been requesting just
such propaganda material as
Work or Wages" will welcome
this short play. Each Of the three
scenes, of which we publish the
first this week, is really complete
in itself, and could be presented
singly as well as together, at mass
meetings or other revolutionary
affairs.
There Is a great dearth Of short
stories and plays which deal, in
a Communist way, with the class
struggle In this country, yet the
need of such material is very great.
There is only one place from which
1t can come--from those active In
the struggle. We hope therefore,
that others will take the hint and
write down, just as you would tell
1t to your shop-mates and friends,
some of the stories of working class
life that you meet up with, every
day. We don't expect to develop
Gorkis and John Reeds overnight.
But we do know a beginning in
this direction can and must be
made. EDITOR.
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DRESSER AND OTHER WRITER'S
DECLARE FOR SOVIET UNION

my duty to be vigilantly watchful
that the U. S. S. R. be not touched,
materially, politically, socially, mo-
rally. And shall know how to per-
form my duty"
Egon Erwin Kirsch and Liam
O'Flaherty decide for enlistment in
the ranks of the Red Army. The
former says: "In case of war against
the Soviet Union-threatened, from
the beginning of its existence by
the priests the aristocracy, and the
capitalists-the writer will be found
on only one side, that of the Soviets.
For myself, I can imagine no other
post, in case of anti-Soviet war,
than a place in the trenches of the
Red Army"
Liam O'Flaherty, Irish author,
affirms:
eff capitalist Europe declares war
on the Soviet Union / shall fight
against capitalist Europe with all
the means at my disposal. During
the world war / had to suffer as
an instrument of British capital
ism, and it would be a pleasure
to me to avenge myself or all that
l had to undergo"
There is also Bernard Shaw's
pirouette: "My position in case of
war? They will hang me-" And the
diplomatic answer of Wells: 81 have
always been vehemently opposed to
any enmity toward the U. S. S. R.
and 1 advocate sincere and friendly
relations"
Stefan Zweig: "Any interference
in the business of another country
is criminal and corresponds only to
Individual, private, commercial in
terests, not to the sentiments of the
masses"
Roman ROLAND, Bella lilies, Mar
tin Andersen Nexo voice similar
opinions.
The Soviet Union can be con-
graduated on this significant &C
ton in consequence of which a
host of writer's of the first rank,
without being Communists, rally
to the side of the Soviets when
confronted by the possibility of a
conflict.
In reference to this QUESTIONABLE
Karl Radek states in the columns
of "Izvestia:"
at is difficult to find a better
touchstone to prove what the pre-
sent literary world represents. The
answers of the proletarian writer's
are clear: They would fight on the
side of the Soviet Union, in the
ranks Of the international prole-
tariat. Many have declared their
readiness to enlist in the ranks of
the Red Army. We do not doubt
the sincerity of these declarations.
But, for that, we would say to
them: If you wish to use the gun
you shall do so when you like.
We hope that you will handle it
better than you have handled the
pen hitherto in the battle for So
cialism and the Soviet Union.'"
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placard on the wall courageously)
Here he comes, landlord, bootlegger,
and mighty ruler Of this town. Christ!
Tonight 1t will be fight to the finish
with your faithful and obedient SER
want, the robbing landlord. -"
LANDLORD: enters, a sly fell
low of about 40, beaming of face,
light fat cigar, observes crumbs on
table, shouts victoriously.) Forward
America, business is good! Let us
keep it good!..." enquiries COM
mandingly) Where is she?"
He: Do you own her too7
Landlord: (challengingly) I own
everything around here! I am, the
landlord I own the property. You
are here only tenant. You don't
pay your rent regularly. The law is
on my side.... In fact I am the
law. 80!
He: Furiously) I know 1t. Il
But, I built this house, and thous-
ands Of others like it, and I intend
to live in it! I am out of work, but
I do not intend to starve! This is
most elementary law Of every liv-
ing being! Much more Of man who
lives amidst plenty. III Gin the dis
lance the song Of: Solidarity" is
heard family and the landlord rises
in fury. The two struggle desper-
ately in exact pose like two giants
on the red placard on the wall.
Landlord, about to be conquered,
draws revolver from hip picket and
fires wild shot which strikes the
light. The house darkens, except for
red placard on the wall which re-
mains Illuminated family red. The
song in the distance has now reached
its climax and breaks off abruptly. .
In the door on the left two stalwart
cops appear. Protected by them the
bootlegger-landlord rolls out. Out
side his voice is heard believing VIC
toriously: Forward America, bust
ness is good! Let us keep 1t good. d. . .
Ha, Ha, Hal Silence outside,
below, rumbling and mass shouts are
heard: Work or wages! We shall
not starve amidst plenty! Work OF
wages!" The placard on the wall
grows bright red now. Working man
silhouetted against bright red pla-
card in heroic pose looking hopefully
down into the rumbling street. In
the distance a shrill alarming whistle
Of a cop is heard. Marching men
and women with flag and posters,
carrying such slogans as Against
the Speed-up," vote Communist, u
Demand the passage Of the Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill" are seen
streaming by the window.
Abrupt curtain.
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Navy and the Red Bear Air Forces
and the Red Bear Marines are drilled
and ready. Score: Ten-When?
NOW!
BY now Red Bear was ten times
the size of Black Bear who did not
know how strong the Red Bear was.
The Black Bear was deceived by
his own noise into thinking he had
large army behind him. But he
had only his few henchmen, and
two of them-Skunk and Stool
Pigeon-were dead and the Black
Ants destroyed. The Gnats were
making SO much hum the Black
Bear thought he had a million fight
ers.
The Red Bear forces moved for
ward. The Lark sang:
"War On the palaces,
Peace in the cottages.
With brain and Drawn
Stoutly drawn,
lHOuBHt ana HeIU-
Left-left-leftw
The Black Bear sent forward his
Rats. Red Bears army Of the land
and the Bats of the air forces quick
ly defeated and routed them. The
Condor took sharp dive and
bounced on the Vulture leaving
nothing in the air but the floating
feathers. Swordfish saw Crocodile
about to swallow the Sea Bass, and
weeping as he was doing it. "I am
doing it for the good Of ALL" sale
Grove the Crocodile. "Why is Grove,
wailin'?" called the Swordfish
slicing the Crocodile in two and saw.
ing the Sea Bass.
The Red Bear Army pushed the
Black Bear Army back. Beave,
wept bitter tears as he moved back.
ward. The Lark sang:
"The busy Beaver has no spunk,
He sold his birthright to a Skunk
And who with Skunk can sip 4 tea
Just as much a Skunk is he"
The Beaver nibbled on a hemlocl
tree and died Of poison.
The Weasel's spy, the Worm
skunk by, he was seen by an Eagle
eye and that was the end Of the
Worm.
Red Bear doomed before Blacl
Bear. Black Bear turned white from
fright. He became a White Beal
cold with fright. The tread Of Rec
Bear was an earthquake to him
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town." The old religious prohibi-
tons and state regulations concern
ing marriage have been abolished
and sex relations placed on higher
and freer plane by the Soviet Gov
ernment's new regulations. This
forward step Immediately gives rise
to the question Of whether sexual re-
lations shall be merely the outcome
of physical desire and as casual as
going to a movie or whether the
union of two people has more to
offer than so transitory a satisfac-
ton. pog Lane deals with the ques-
ton frankly, revealingly, and with
none of the sickening pornography
or sentimentality of present-Gay
bourgeois fictior
The hook is a product of transi-
tional period in the Soviet Union,
which ended in 1925-a period of
uncertainty and pessimism among
certain student and weaker political
elements. One outgrowth of this
period was a Temperance of the
old bourgeois bohemianism in sex
relations among some of the youth
This remnant of decadent bourgeois
morality was given the veneer of
"materialism" and used to debase
the purpose of the proletarian revo-
luton.
"Dog Lane" is a powerful polemic
against this misconception and il
sets forth the new proletarian NOR
atty which is developing. Horohorin
the student is an example of this ten.
sency. He shows an utter lack OF
Communist evaluation of the
sssio-political Importance of rela.
tions between men and women. on g
higher basis than was possible under
capitalism.
Although a member of the Young
Communist League) Horohorin says
that love "is a bourgeois business
and it hampers our cause! Coco
health and efficiency; regular eat
ing and drinking; regular hours Of
work, rest, and recreation; regula,
relations with women-that is thu
most important" However, wher
he becomes entangled with a CIR
who eludes and torments him hi
finds that the sexual appetite is les.
easily appeased than pangs of thirst
and hunger, and he goes the dire
way Of sexual abandonment which
the young teacher Borrow had fol
lowed before him. He cannot work
he cannot teach, he cannot study, he
becomes a useless member of So
ciety.
Horohorin lives to conquer his
physical desire in work. Not sc
Boorov who commits suicide anc
murders the girl to whom they were
both so disastrously attracted
Boorov cannot adjust to a world
that gives freedom but which de.
mands discretion If one is not to be
engulfed In the swamp Of sexua
laxity which spells disaster to the
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Where all good, great and pious
men get theirs. ... Only I haven't
their courage to rob as much. An
act, for which, if caught, would be
imprisonment for quite a long while.
1t is not public Oil land, you know,
but, loaf of bread for wife and fam
lily. (To the children, cheerfully.)
Arise, We, prisoners of starvation!"
Now, to the feast! (They sit around
the table, he cuts a thin slice of
bread for each child, placing a tiny
fish on it. He gives the woman the
same portion, taking none for him
self. All eat rejoycingly, PARTICULAR
the children. He reads red-covered
magazine): My dream. . Thousands
OF new factories, schools, towns and
cities,-a new world is being built, for
and by the working class! The work.
ing class its own masterl My eye
gazes across a turquoise sea, and I
reach out my hand to them, even far
beyond the sea. To the east where
the sun is rising! A chain of working
class solidarity, from continent to
continent, for new life!
CHILD: PA, can I have some more
bread?
WORKINGMAN: ,3-: :z-.1S5.yy) 81
can dream, and I can realize my
dreams! have the strength, I am
one of the millions Of the oppressed.
The beginning has been made. Rob-
bers, beware! We are rising! (Out-
side marching election band strikes
up with all its familiar fanfare. The
children run to the window wall
Street is out to elect new set of
bell boys to take the place of those
now at the city hall. Ironically
Hurrah!, my fellow citizens, rejoice!
CThen, bitterly The Romans are roll
ling in wealth while eight million
starve. But there's going to be an
end to this. The working class is ris-
ing. This year the working class has
put forward its own demands and its
own ticket. CAS- band noise dies down
and orators voice begins, MY dear
fellow citizens" Workingman strides
forward, raises fist and exclaims,)
Vote Communist, that's what the
workers will do, and fight for work or
Wagesw
| "a knock on the door is heard.
Workingman starts nervously.)
OLDEST LITTLE GIRL: alarm
ingly) ooh, mother! I think it's
that nasty man again that was here
last night and tried to kiss you. i. L.. &.
1 wish he wouldn't come no more!"
WORKINGMAN: Notices her
eyes still lowered, exclaims with rage,
comforting herr ooh, it's nothing
new, dear. They have owned us
and abused us for centuries!. E. d. They
will no more! "'Tis the finale. :"
WORKING WOMAN: (RestIessly,
shows him an eviction order.) "It's
six months rent we owe"
WORKINGMAN: How foolish you
are! We have been paying rent for
twelve years, hungry. starving, but
paying rent! Rent! Unearned blood
money of the whole accursed lying
bourgeoisie! Why, the place is al
most paid for, and am still tenant
1 shall not move from here! I have
paid for it with my sweat and blood
WORKING WOMAN: eyes, but he
has the deed. CA louder knock is
heard. He instructs older child to
open the door. She and children re-
tire)
CHILD: (Goes to the door reluc-
tantly) ooh, but I hate him. :"
WORKINGMAN: approaches red
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ment. Under the direction of Benno
Schneider, this pale spectre-play of
Shin Godiner has been galvanized
into dynamic performance. There
are scenes which attain real mastery,
notably the prologue and the metal
foundry scenes. Especially impress
Sive are the decorations by Aaronson.
The present production of the ar
tef" is by far the most noteworthy
step this talented group of prole-
tartan players have made toward a
repertory centered around the funda-
mental issues of the class struggle.
". JEROME.
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Sex and Morals IN the Soviet Union

DOG LANE, by Lev Goomilevsky,
New York, The Vanguard. $500.
When the Russian Revolution
overturned the old Tsarist state of
exploitation and terrorism, new
world was opened up for Russian
workers, students and peasants.
This world is now in the making,
and Dog Lane gives fragment of
the picture of what is happening in
it.
Russian youth, especially, rebelled
against the old sham and shibboleth
of the decaying bourgeois world
which had tabooed sex and made
birth matter of storks and safety
pins, and Dog Lane is the story of
their revolt as it happened in "our