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position, "Ballade FantaSque,
for cello and piano. will have its premiere this
Summer on the Continent when 1t will be
played by Hans Kinder on his European tour.
which he will close in tine to assume the lead
ership of the National Symphony Orchestra in
the Fall. &
The Parthenon Male Quartet sang last We'd
nesday evening for the Rotary Club at the Will
lard Hotel. The quartet will sing on the radio
tonight at 7:45 O'Clock, over Station WMAL.
This group is composed Of H. A. Martin, tenor;
H. B. Leef tenor; Howard Moore, baritone,
and Thomas N. Leef, bass. Mrs. c. E. Burn
side is the accompanist.
Lucy M. Boyer will present her pupils In
piano recital at the Women's City Club on Fri
day evening, at 815 o'clock. Those who will
take part include Elise Fisher, Janet Guess,
Josephine Mereman, Jean Daugherty, Caroline
Feller, Helen Large, Irma and Rita Halloran,
De Witt Thorne, Grace and Yolanda Contristan,
John William Lohr, Bernice Wilett, Margaret
Lustig Webster Adams, Robert Montgomery,
Elenora Schweitzer Mildred Doerner, Kenneth
Broderick, Leonora Raboy and Dorothy Kluge.
Mrs Charles Wotz, soprano, was one of the
guest soloists the musical program given
last Sunday by Edith j. MacCartee, at the Con-
gregat:onal Home. Other soloists at the open
ing musical services at the home included Cath.
crime Lightburn, contralto, assisted by Mrs. VIII
liam L. Evans at the piano.
Warren F. johnson will give an organ recital
at the Church of the Pilgrims at 1880 o'clock
this evening He will play Matthews Final"
(Bach's "Memento'D, Widor; "Rhapsodie No. l."
Saint-Saens, and "Fugato" from FIRST Suite"
by NJ W. Couturier.
Edith B. Athey presented her pupil Mary
Ellen Kettler, pianist, in a recital last Friday
at her studio.
Mary Jane Sterling 11-year-old pupil of Eta
Schmd Wells gave an interesting program of
pianoforte music before the Esmu Club last
Wednesday. Mollie Schwartz will give her pro-
gram of eight selections next Tuesday before
the club.
The Peter Pan Troubadours, r. B. Chopin
Keith, councillor, will give musical hour on
Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock, at % Jackson
place northwest. Assisting artists will be Mar
garet Eva Lewis and Ruth Mary Quinn.
OF interest to the local music world is the
announcement of the marriage of Louis Bertrand
Thompson and Miss Iisette Elizabeth Follmer
on Saturday, November /, at Charles Town,
w. Va.
The Washington Musical Institute gave q
Junior recital Friday evening" May %. This
was the tenth program of the year, the next
important event being the commencement res
cital and exercises, the date of which will be
announced later.
A musicale was given recently by the Felicia
Rybier Music Club, at which Frederick Philip
Stief Of Baltimore played selections on the
theremin, Mrs. Eva Blum gave a reading on
Chopin and Eleanor Blum and Felicia Rybiex
played few piano selections. The next meet~
ing Of the club will take place on Tuesday "a
$50 pm.
A Spring festival of music will be given bE
Continued on Eighteenth Page
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Kinder uho travelling abroad for the
finding be used by the National Symphony Orchestra
left Fedn recats
Club and or Eleanor Blum the lady "ho recently
the Curtis Scholarship
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HEREWITH is nominated for the local music
hall OF fame Ann Sugar 11-year-old
pupil Of Felian Garzia, who outwitted and OUT
played many Of her senior rectalists during
the past week in recital at the Arts Club last
Thursday. Miss Sugar proved herself not only
young artist with prodigous memory (she
played the Beethoven Sonata, OPP. 2, No. l."
the Mendelssohn Concerto, G Minor" and
other selections by Bach, Handel and Chopin,
but she showed no trace of hinching, nor any
thing but complete ease and naturalneSs Of
playing
What seemed most astonishing about this
extremely youthful pianist, whose technique
has been polished to a rare degree by Mr.. Gar
Ma, was that she took infinite pains with her
pianissimo and legato passages-playing these
with real feeling and a colorful sense Of their
Value-a most unusual virtue for so young an
artist Very delightful, in fact, was the
and equally effective was the "andante" Of the
Of complete accord with the more mellow
harmonies is coupled with speed, accuracy and
Verve in the most difficult of the fiery" passages
one may say, indeed, that here is young lady
who, in time, naay be counted among the lights
Of the piano virtuos At present Miss Sugar
has not quite the necessary volume for the
bombastic sequences Of some Of the Chopin
works, but that, no doubt, will come in time,
as will the obliteration Of other minor dis
crepancies. In the meantime all one has to
do is to watch Miss Sugars right shoulder
blade and elbow to be certain of the fact that
she is not just child-a prodigy-but . serious
musician In her own right
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A S a sidelight to all this comes the following
story from Berlin where Leopold Stokow-
ski has been alternating: He is quoted as hav-
ing said that leading musicians all over the
world should band together in protest against
Benito Mussolini's action in keeping Toscanini
under surveillance at Milan, Italy. Mr.. Sto-
kowski said he had just come back from Russia
and had learned for the first time of the Incl
dent at Bologna a fortnight ago when the
famous Italian-American conductor was slap
ped by Black Shirts for his refusal to play the
Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," before his con-
cert. The Fascists will kill that man yet"
Mr.. Stokowsh is quoted having said. He
CToScanini) is SO sensitive that he will never be
able to stand the shock The Philadelphia
Orchestra leader further stated that Signor
Toscanini was entirely right" in declining to
play the Fascist anthem. You might just as
well expect a painter to wave flags before the
pictures in an art gallery. There is no place
for politics in the atmosphere of the concert
hall"
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~ waters Of the Atlantic as well IS the
Mediterranean and other foreign
bodies is whether not o famed
conductor should succumb TO the
dictates Of another when he Is So
journing amidst, let Us say the pines Of Rome
or Bologna-aS was the actual case. To play
q national anthem, or not to play it. That 10
ewered It one way. Demonstrative people have
answered IL another. The result has been no
anthem, q series Of physical and mental
bruises, and complaints apologies and refuta-
tions which have come in landslides down from
every mountain.
Toscanini, as far as the oracles can discover,
meant no harm in what he said. He was merely,
as a nrst-class musician, hurt that he should
have to muSS up his program by beginning with
something that evidently crashed into the men
tai mood which he was DESTROYS of supplying
his audience with. If, for instance, KousSe-
vitzky came to Washington on the wings of q
Beethoven festival and told as he was
preparing himself for the Seventh Symphony"
to play The Stars and Stripes Forever" be-
cause it had recently been voted the District
of Columbia's private anthem he might very
easily swell with indignation and cry an in
dignant mol" To stride onto the stage to
play an anthem, to have his audience stand at
attention with frozen faces of patriotism, and
then to ask them to sit down and mediate
over delicately soothing evening of Beethoven
might easily veX such maestro to the break
ing point. ToScanini broke only part way. He
didn't tear his hair or beat the gentleman that
told him he was to play the Fascist hymn. He
merely said I'm sorry can't" And didn't.
Now, after a siege of beatings and boots and
catcalls from an ungentlemanly public, he must
be debating within himself whether not his
refusal to acceed to public wishes literally
worth while,
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THERE is certainly a great deal to be said in
favor of Stokowski's argument. While many
people explain that in Englznd no performance
of any kind ever dares to omit the strains of
God Save the King" should remember
that these strains come as postude and not
as a prelude. vast difference can be found
between the two. One is sending the people
home with q comfortable pride of their king
and their country and the other is advertising
a government which does not want to wait to
be recognized until later in the evening.
The question at the moment seems to resolve
itself into which is the more sensitive, country
or great musician? Both of them have sat
back and sulked, both of them have said very
definite words Of annoyance. And yet in null
ing things over it seems as though Mr.. Tos-
canini had acted with rather more dignity
than his country-and as though the latter had
taken its music q trifle overseriously.
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QUESTION which has rufied the
waters Of the Atlantic as well Is the
N Mediterranean and other foreign
bodies Is whether or not o famed
conductor should succumb TO the
dictates of another when he Is 80.
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Musigraphs

AIRY HOWE, prominent Washing
n a ton composer, is spending FORT
~ ~ ~ night ~as guest artist at the
MacDowel Colony Peterborough,
" N. H. Mrs. Howe's new COM
nosition "Ballade FantaSuue,"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Southern Landlords
Try to Murder Negro;
Labor Defense Acts

Houston, Texas Mass meet
ings are being held turnout this
section by the International Labor
workers to the defense of Barney
Defense to rally negro and white
Lee Ross, % year old negro, sem
fenced to death on the charge of
attacking a white woman in Dan
gerfield.
Ross was tried four days after
his arrest and sentenced to the
electric chair after a two hour
hearing. He was allowed no
chance to prepare a defense.
Lynch mobs were Immediately
formed and Ross has been shifted
from Jail to jail. The LID has Sc
cured lawyer to demand a re-
hearing for him, and has set its
legal investigation committee to
work securing witnesses and tes-
timony with which to prove him
innocent. The LID labels the Ross
trial "another Scottsboro case, in
line with the terror projected a.
gainst poor negroes and whites by
southern landowners and bosses
who fear an uprising due to star
walton, unemployment, and misery
among workers"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

returned to them for their own
use.
u. S. Farmers Show Nothing For
Years of Toll.
The important fact about this
deposit is that after years of toll
in these United States thousands
of Finnish farmers, naturalized cit
liens of the U. S., who want to
leave this misery to go and aid in
the building of Socialism in the So
Wet Union are "UNABLE TO DIS
POSE OF THEIR PROPERTY OR
S ECURE THE NECESSARY
$780," This Is their reward after
decades of strenuous toll at CAPT.
TALIST farming. It is for this
reason that they want to go to the
land of the workers and farmers
soviets where years of work under
SOCIALIST farming mean ever
greater benefits for the masses
that produce and not for a gang of
robber parasites, bankers, railroad
capitalists and spectators as live
off the farmers and workers under
capitalism
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

ne would return when the other
member of the board arrived.
A committee was sent out to call
up the other member of the biard
who is banker about Is miles a.
way. The county agent and Lang
er had already called him and had
Informed him of the militancy of
the farmers present-so when the
committee called he was ready b.
come.
Mr.. Lund, the banker-member of
the county committee, also did not
know of any worthy applications
which had been disapproved of by
the committee. That made two
members of the board, or a quor-
UNI, who did not know of the ac-
ton which had been taken on the
applications. Mr.. Lund was then
asked by the chairman whether he
would not approve of the applica-
lions which had been previously
disapproved. After trying to evade
the issue as LANCER had done he
finally agreed and proceeded to
the rear of the stage where he and
LANCER wrote letters to the Grand
Forks office approving the applica-
lions of every farmer who was
there.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
HYDE REFUSES
TO EXTEND TIME
FOR APPLICATIONS

Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
refused to permit fifteen day ex-
tension to the time the farmers of
the northwest had for filing appli-
cations for livestock loans. Many
farmers, especially in South Da,
kota were having difficulty" in
getting waivers on prior mort
gage liens before Nov. 80, when
the time for application ended.
Hyde, in his refusal, said that it
"was necessary to close the books
now in order to prepare a report
to congress" Hundreds of farm
ers will get no livestock loans be-
cause Hyde has to get out a report
for the hunger congress. To him
his report is more important than
the farmers about whom he is re-
porting and who are to him no
more than miserable statistics for
his report.
This hypocrite stated that the
farmers SHOULD apply first and
that then ample time would be
given for the waivers" This was
said on November 29-the last day
for filing applications and report
ed by the capitalist press ION De-
cember 1, when it was too late to
file applications.
This is the answer of Hunger
Hoover to the farmers of the north
west.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
TENN. POLICE
PERSECUTION
ARREST, TRAIL, SEARCH NE
GRO AND WHITE WORKERS

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Negro and
white workers are being arrested,
searched, and trailed by plain
clothes detectives as they leave the
International Labor Defense office
or the Trade Union Unity League
headquarters here.
Dan Brooks, southern district
organizer for the T.U.U.L. de-
clares that he has been Swallowed
for days by plain clothes men, one
of whom he recognizes as a thug
who trailed him while he was help
ing organize negro and white min
ers in Harlan county, Kentucky.
All Chattanooga is being combed
by police to stop activity of mill
tant workers. This city is the GEN.
ter of the National Miners Union
in the south, of the southern dis
trict of the International Labor
Defense, and the place of publica-
ton of The Southern Worker. A
veritable reign of terror has been
projected against workers in these
activities, especially when they are
negroes
Three negroes seeking aid from
the Internationl Labor Defense
were arrested as they were leav-
ing the office on Nov. 20, taken
to police headquarters, searched,
grilled and finally turned loose be-
cause they possessed no literature
and would give no information.
The LID charges that this is a
part of a "drive on the reds" arts
ing from the growing fear on the
part of the ruling whites of the
south. The anti-red drive is timed
to intimidate workers just as 49,
600 negro and white miners are
set to call general strike in east
ern Kentucky coal fields; sixteen
miners go on trial for their lives
on framed murder charges in Mt.
Sterling, KY, and the Scottsboro
case is re-opened.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
GET COAL FOR NEEDY
FARMERS

During the course of the meet
ing another committee was sent to
see the county commissioners to
demand from them coal for all
those farmers who needed it. The
commissioners agreed to give each
farmer who needed it six tons of
coal.
Since many farmers could not
attend this meeting the County
Seed Loan committee was persuad-
ed by the United Farmers League
to meet these farmrs on the fol-
lowing Tuesday. On Tuesday, De-
cember 15t the county feed loan
committee met again with a num-
Der of farmers with a committee
of the UFL present and approved
all the applications that were pre-
scented to them. Mr.. Zeidler, the
member of the committee who had
not been present at the previous
meeting and therefore was not ac-
quainted with the fact that the
United Farmers League was the
active force,in the action, tried the
old habit of the committee-to dis.
cuss the applications of the farm
ers individually with them so that
they could be rejected. One of the
other members of his committee
soon informed him as to how they
had to act and they did so.
These farmers had previously
either had their applications re-
fused completely or had been cut
in their loans. The mass pressure
of the farmers present under the
leadership of the United Farmers
League forced them to approve the
applications.
Every single step for the farm
ers which the county committee
has made has been done under the
pressure of the United Farmers
League which will not rest now on
the feed loans until the farmers
get the feed they need for their
stock during the coming winter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
COMMITTEE MEMBER ON
TRIAL

After he had finished with his
testimony the member of the
county committee present, LANCER,
was asked for his defense. LANCER
thought he could crawl out by a
policy of know-nothingism. Altho a
member of the committee he did
not know what applications had
been turned down or why they
had been turned down. After
much cross examination by the
chairman, Rodney Salisbury, Mon
tana state organizer for the UFL,
by the farmers present and by
Charles Tayolr, organizer for the
UFL for South Dakota, LANCER
finally agreed to meet with an
other member of the board and APP
prove such applications as were
qualified. He and the county
agent then beat a hasty retreat,
but not until the chairman had ex-
tracted a promise from him that
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
DEMAND CUT IN
HIGH SALARIES
REFUSE FARMERS DEMAND
IN IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN

About a week ago, the farmers
in the Ironwood section of Michi-
gan organized a few UFL meet
ings in the Marengo territory.
Farmers from the surrounding
territoy attended the meetings in
which set of demands for the
Ashland county government were
drawn up.
The farmers were so militant
and aggressive that the demand of
a 2O% reduction in pay for all
county officials was agreed on.
All the other demands were dodg-
ed in the usual faker fashion thru
pointing out it is illegal" to re-
duce taxes, give relief, stop evic-
tons, etc. According to the county
boards remarks one could say
that they had all the power in the
world to help rob the farmer, but
none to give him any help.
However, these high paid off,
cials were not satisfied with the
20%o reduction in pay. So the fol-
lowing day the county lawyer to-
gether with other county officials
made a demand that this not be
put into effect. With a vote of Is
to IL the county board decided to
investigate further in the matter"
with the intention of carrying
out the officials demands.
The lawyer was smart enough
to avoid a scandal thru pointing
out that this promise does mot 90
into effect until 1888. This caus-
ed lot of fighting between the
board and the officials, for, the
board is looking forward to the
next elections. The officials are
looking forward to their wages.
But, they can still unite together
to rob the farmer.
FARMERS PREPARING FOR
STRUGGLES
The farmers, in answer to this
fake maneuver of the county Of
ficials, are organizing strong
groups of the United
Farmers League, and are prepar-
ing to fight against the evictions
and starvation facing them. The
promises of takers, county Off
Gals, and all social fascists are
not feeding them or keeping them
on their farms.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
Red Cross Hiiackers
On the Job Every Day

Charles Ashley, general mana
ger of the Armour company. West
Fargo, N. D. plant, TO-DAY for
warded a check for 1854 to Rev.
X. Z. Crouch, Moorhead, county
Red Cross roll call chairman
staplng it is the contribution of
Armour workers residing in Moor
mead and expressing the hope it
will aid in alienation of distress
This is fine example of good
craftsmanship on sthe part of the
Armour employees" said Rev. Mr..
Crouch today.
We wonder just how this par-
tlcuiar piece of hiiacEing was ac-
cOmplished by the Red Cross IN
c G. with the Meat. Packing
Trust.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18
CAPITALIST MURDER

Sidney, Mont.-Walter Kits, n,
laborer, committed suicide here
Saturday night by placing the
muzzle of a double barreled shot
gun in his mouth and blowing of
his head.
Kits had been in and out Of
Sidney for about three years. BE
had been employed at the Holly
Sugar factory but had been out Of
work for some time. It is belieV.
ed that the fact that he had been
drinking for the last three weeks
illness andmemployment prompt
ed the act.
A coroner's jury returned ves'
dict of suicide.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-18

satisfied with the results of its
plans. Mr.. Mccormick said: eve
are highly gratified at the large
number of boys and girls who
have taken part in this contest, and
the high quality of their reports.
We entered this project to make a
practical contribution to agric-
culture, and we are highly pleased
with the results and the far-reach-
ing influence which these good
boys and girls are now exerting
In their respective communities
and which forecasts great useful
ness for them when they complete
their college careers"
The practical contribution to
agriculture" that the harvester
company made was receiving these
boys and girls as to the future of
the farm masses under capitalism
and using them as a means for
spreading this deceit among the
farm masses, after they get out
of college and get jobs as county
and such like agents of the bank
ers. This is the purpose of the
"far reaching influence which
these boys and girls (under the in
fluence of the harvester trust) are
now exerting in their respective
communities"
The vicious hypocrisy of the a.
wards to the farm youth by the
harvester company can be seen in
the interviews given by some of
these boys and girls, under the di-
rection of the harvester trust. TO
capitalist press.
These interviews contained in
part, the following:
I'D rather be a successful farm
er than anything else L guess.
1.-THE fresh air, good food and
work on the farm keeps you
healthy, too"
What Marian believes about a
number of present day topics of
general interest is tabulated be-
low.
Farm life versus city life:
Farm folk can have most all the
advantages city folks have. We
can have electric lights, electric
sweepers and washers, running
water in our houses and other con-
veniences. Hard roads lead everv-
where. We can have just as much
fun, live more independently and
have better health.
1.-THE depression: It hit the farm
or first. But we weren't having
any harder time than the citv
folk"
What the farmer needs. More
cooperative units, diversified
farming, larger rather than small
er farms"
Agricultural colleges: If more
farmers had gone to agricultural
colleges, there wouldn't be anv de-
preston on the farms. They would
nave learned the law of supply
and demand cannot be broken"
Under capitalism prize contests
are a mockery of the misery in
which the vast mass of the toilinp
farm masses find themselves. IN
Ter socialist agriculture outstand-
ng achievements in production are
: guide to the increased benefits
mat the masses in the cities and
IN the land will enjoy.