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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
TROPICAL STORM MOVING

A tropical weather disturbance. CEN
tering between Porto Rico and the Vir-
gin Islands, was moving northwestward
today, the Navy Department was adj
vised in an Official dispatch.
The message. which was given extra
priority satd the storm was of small
diameter a. probably e moderate In
tensitY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported 10
TIE Health Department N the last "a hours
Thomas y. and Marie Paoilno. boy
William ard Ethel y. Davis, boz.
Harold W. and julie ScrTilL boy.
Robert and Mary Powell girl
Der and Jeanette Hartig. girl
Charlie 7. and Ada B. DnYal girl
John =. and Karest!ne Gray, boy
James r. and Edith r. brown. Sirl
William N. and Pieeoia 81 Hinor. coy
Willie J. and Lillian l. Rlg5S SRI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
GREEKS PLAN CEREMONY
Program Honoring Athena in Com
petition for Cups.

The District of Columbia Greek Com
munity viii present ceremony in
honor of the Greek goddess, Athena, in
the Isatern Festival Friday night in the
Sylvan Theater on the Monument
grounds. The event, entitled PIMA
thenea,'' is one of four competing fer
two silver cups offered by the Com
munity Center Department. the once
of Public Buildings and Public Parks
and the National Capital Civic Fund
Fifty persons viii participate, accord
ing to James B. Males. director. Au-
thentic costumes, dances and music of
ancient Greece win be embodied In the
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
COMMITTEE to Dine Tonight,

The TJnlic Order Committee of the
WsshnsStea Beard OF Trade will hold
it, August dinner meeting at $50
O'Clock tonight at the Washington
Country Club, Giebe road. Arlington
County. odell Smith, chairman Of the
COMMITTEE, will preside at the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
Man, So, Hurt when Hit by Auto.

Leo Wade. 50 years old. Of TOO sixth
street, received a fracture Of the left
"a yesterday wfltn struck at Minnesota
8enue and Hunt place southeast by
"a automobile operated by Arthur h
ClotVg12 zoo block Morse street noftheast.
Wad0 YES treated ct Casualty F1oenitaA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17
BOY, IA, HELD IN THEFTS
Alexander Bnndy Arrested After
shop Entry Atsempt.

A 14-year-old eolored boy, Alexander
Bundy. s1I Florida avenue, was n4ld
for investigation ct the Receiving HoniA
today following his arrest for an al
legged attempt to enter the MadrffIcn
Pastry shop, 1912 @ street.
Questioned BY the police. the boy is
said to have admitted having stolen
property from several stores in the past
lev week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
FRANK SPECTOR'S STORY OF THE
IMPERIAL VALLEY STRIKE

ers, the past sell-outs Of the fake
labor leaders, and finally the coming
of the Trade Union Unity League
and how the workers flocked under
the banner of that militant organiza-
ton. .....
Then came the raid on the hall in
Ell Centre, when so many of the work.
ers were arrested and herded into
huge trucks, chained like wild beasts
and lodged in the local jail Spector
tells all these things and of the trial
that followed, the deportations Of
many Mexican workers, the frame
up, and the appearance of Lieutenant
Hynes, the famous red hunter, at the
trial with many stool-pigeons as wit
nesses against them and the convic-
ton and sentence Of eight workers to
terms of up to AZ years in prison.
The continuity of Spector's life as
a militant in prison and the writing
of story so realistic and detached
from his personal wounds as pris-
oner, facing a life sentence, is the
best symbol of the new and great
revolutionary movement that is grow
ing in the United States. This PAM
phlet, written in prison, is another
evidence that we are entering a new
period in the. militant movement
here, that is reality to the core.
A movement for a general amnesty
Of all working-class prisoners is TAX
ing root now and will shortly ex-
press itself through mass move
ment sponsored by the International
Labor Defense. John Dos Passos. in
the introduction. OF the pamphlet
says: This situation must be faced.
A decade of protests has not been
enough to get Billings and Mooney
out of their. California jails. The
workers of America must be made
to feel that each !, time the bosses
pitch an organizer into Jail, the next
time the frame7up is that much cas-
ier." That is exactly the task that
militant and wide-awake workers are
now undertaking. In the past under
the leadership of the liberals, the A.
F. of l.. and soft-hearted pacifists,
the Moneys remained in their pris-
ons. But now, the workers in Amer
lea are ready to fight and DEMAND.
They are not begging. Now through
mass action they. speak a language
that is very well understood by the
bosses in America, and feared. And
this is the only method I laow that
will bring back to us, on the OUT
side. tho militants who are n prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

hoarsely Il don't believe in Santa
Claus anyhow. It's all lot of bolo-
ney."
His voice broke in nervous eXpeCta-
ton of a counter attack. But the
silence that followed left him even
more tense.
Il don't care" he went on breath
lessly ard hoarsely. Il don't care if
you send me to the principal. I don't
care .. You can do anything to me.
There amt any Santa Claus :"
And then, suddenly seized with fear
that he wouldn't be allowed to go on,
he began to tumble his words and
skip parts of sentences in order to
pour out as completely as possible all
the bitterness and hatred that was
crowding within him for the first
time in his life.
- Il have just come from the armory
We went there to get food for
Christmas. We got up at night .
1t was pitch black, and outside was
wet My hands got froze and my
feet hurt like anything and the baby
was cryin' and had to hold him
when mas hands got tired My
pas been out of work all the time.
He said to me last night: You gotta
play Santa Claus to me, son. Help
you ma bring Xmas dinner
SO we stood out there on the street
for ever SO long The cops kept
pushing us all the time Then
they gave us a bag with some cans
in it and some toys =. And when
we was goin' home and my hands
were hurting me something awful,
seen a Santa Claus walk out of a
store with toys and lights, and every
thin. But I know there amt no
Santa e. because because :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Waiting in Line on Neav
Years EVe for a Hand>out

II don't know. Subway"
Some were we'll dressed. A few
were unshaven. Many were sunken
eyed and tense.
The army truck arrives at eight.
What is all the damn delay? Are
they just standing us up here for adj
vertising purposes2 Well, what can
we do? 7o,- ,,.,-,..
A limousine comes along with the
"big shots" The coffee urns are set
in place The paper bags are being
filled. The line. moves few inches.
The cops are trying to form single
file. The radio plays a weird air
from Tchaikowski. Now shove from
the cops gloyed hand and you are
getting your coffee. 1t is good hand
out for a bread line; three sand
wiches, sugared doughnut, an
orange and an apple, a piece OF
mince pie. A woman in velvet coat
stands near the truck supervising the
distribution.
Not only have the people bread;
they also have cake!
A heavy barrage of charity has
been laid down this Christmas, to
stem the unemployed revolt. But
here and there in the crowd can be
seen men reading the Daily
Worker"
The group is breaking up. A red
motor cycle with side-car sputters
by. A man with a frayed suit, hold
ing a box half full Of chocolate bars
that he has been, trying to sell all
day remarks: .o.O
Gees, did you see the cop with the
machine gun?" .s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Something Funny, En-?

jumped UP and shouted in broken
English: I've seen people stay here
for over two hours and sleep. You
didn't put them out. It's alright
I'll fix you yet. I'll fix you yet.
And shaking his fist at him he left
the room.
All the neat, bespectacled men and
smartly-dressed, lipsticked co-eds
turned from their books. What's
this? Such loud talking, such yell
ing in the library? Condescending
smiles and contemptuous smirks
glided over their faces. Some were
amused; some were indignant.
One tall, mustached man rushed
over to the attendant: "Over there in
the corner is another one. He's been
sleeping there for two hours" And
the attendant rushed over to the des-
ignated corner to continue his sacred
duty to culture.
The lovers of learning shook their
heads! Horror of horrors! Those
unkempt, jobless creatures, they dare
to invade, to pollute our sanctum of
learning, to disturb us in our ex-
ploration of the higher things" of
life. Those horrible creatures, ugh,
they are so material. All they think
of is eat and sleep. But really it was
rathah amusing, don't you know?
So, you genteel, educated people,
you think It's quite funny when a
jobless man is kicked out of a place
because he snatched some sleep.
Something funny, Ell? You we're dis
turbed in your pursuit of culture, ehI
But that's only a minor disturbance
Wait-one Of these days you will
really be disturbed" by us and that'n
be something funny, eh2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Folk Song in the Soviet Union

from the original of their musical
art-folk songs.
These Eastern national composers
not only teach a technique Of melody
composition but also how to entrench
music in the very depths of life and
how new musical methods can ex-
press human experiences. The Kirgis,
for example, sing at the most serious
business meetings, they establish a
betrayer by a special song; their fun
eral songs are a clear major and
separations are portrayed in dance
rhythms.
TIC Turkmen, Uspensky relates,
listened to their singers, in small
crowded hut standing from six in the
evening until at night. Their at
titude to music is reflected in their
saying: Singers hasten on galloping
horses to a happy people, to an I'M
happy people the car comes with
soldiers" One Turkmen singer re-
fused his honorarium for singing with
the words: 81 Sing-this is my gift
to the people"
THE musical culture of Georgia and
Armenia grow on large Euro
pean scale but with unchanged ties
with folk songs. In Tiflis, the Geor-
gian Opera has developed splendidly,
(y1yolI- Hy1nuyr1 tTnrlyc ~ hr-o1 rteI,, will
PaliashvilD, the Conservatives are
graduating well trained young must
clans, the Tif1is radio station is pro-
pagating music by broadcasting and
there are several village choruses in
Tiflis which collect and rework songs.
The well known blind Armenian
composer Nicolai Tigranov is still at
work and the gifted composer Stsen-
darov, pupil of Rimsky- Korsakov, re-
Gently died, leaving his opera cal
mast" and an orchestral reworking
Of Armenian folk music. Gifted Ar
menian youths have already come to
take the place of the old workers.
The national minorities do not lag
behind in the tempo Of musical de-
velopment. The Chuvash, Tatars,
Lower Volga and Crimean peoples,
the Bashkirs, already sing their own
songs. have music notes, musical
schools and choruses. The Tatars in
Kazan have form ! "a c..eia theatre
IN conclus Al 1t is necessary 10 point
! or t,ie development of musical
culture OF separate ualities is
not an isolated ,~x>u~ue -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

the peasantry. The exchange of song
materials between city and village
is very typical in modern Russia.
Such composers as the well known
symphonist Andrea Pashenko, Lenin-
grad, Davidenko, and many others
in Moscow, gladly make use of White
Russian song material and form, for
their mass revolutionary songs and
instrumental compositions.
THE workers of the cities have be-
come very fond of peasant Choir
uses with soloiSts, the orchestras of
national instruments, the balalaika
and harmonium. The former melan-
choly melodious village song has CIV
en- way to the popular "tSchastushka, -
a rapidly sung couplet very often
composed from city waltz motives,
polkas or pure peasant songs. The
text is of four lined rhymes, composed
as they go along, with absorbing
merry tunes. The propaganda of this
form of vocal composition is success
fully carried on by the able Leningrad
chorus.
The process of collection, propa-
ganda and reworking of the musical
wealth is most intensively found in
the Ukraine. There is the splendid
chorus the "Dumka," we'll known in
Western Europe, and in Kiev is found
an ensemble of singers, restored from
the 18th century, who play the many
stringed kobe"
A large group of youthful composers
in Kharkov and Kiev are continu-
ously furnishing from the material
of folk songs, operas. balletS, cham
Der compositions and symphonies. A
similar process, slightly less forceful
is found in White Russia, in the cap
ital Minsk. There, too, state choruses
with cymbal accompaniment have
been organized.
or unquestionable novelty in the
world of musical culture is the re-
birth of the national music OF the
Soviet East, especially of national
tiles which prior to our era had a
finely developed melody culture-the
Arabs and Persians. The Arabian and
Persian colorful music has been pre-
served in even greater purity of COM
pick melodies and rhythms by the
Azerbaijan Turks. The latter have
now o-ganized their own opera Il
Bal;u and have their own cc'iser-
ries, brt they have not departed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

serve a continuous exchange by
means of visits of national choruses.
instrument players, opera troupes
and exchange of music notes. Radio,
and there are radio stations in all
the Republics of the Union, carries
the songs of the nationalties over
the entire Union.
The time is not far distant when
there will be sound music, sound
photography of the peoples of the
U. S. S. r. on gramophone records
(many are already SO registered), and
with the development of the tone
film, there will be sound pictures. 1t
will then be possible to listen to the
songs and instruments of the diff
ferent nationalities and witness the
dances and games Of the peoples of
the Soviet Union. This will furnish
material not only interesting for
cinema pictures but valuable scienti-
fic material for the scientists, musi-
clans and social workers. 1t will re-
place the costly expedition and will
be book of live national creativeness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
The Socialists
Begin the
Neav Year

Mental concentrations is the latest
activity of the Socialist Party's own
representative here on earth. He
says so himself THE New York
Telegram: Wednesday, December 81,
1881. Haywood Broun has now de-
cided to cut out all speeches flor the
Party's benefit, of course) and "tO
brush up on my poker" In addition,
he outlines for the workers just what
he will do for them in 1881 to carry
on his traditions as their god and
protector: 81 shall have to go to more
night clubs. Speakeasies deserve a
large portion of my time. In other
words, 1881 is going to be for me a
year of great mental. concentration
and less waste motion"
After such heroic efforts in behalf
of the 100000 unemployed workers in
New York City of whom one in eigh-
teen gets a handout of weak soup
and dirty coffee, there is no question
of the great benefits which this great
benefactor will do if he carries out
his word when he says, my chief
resolution is to be much more lazy
How can any freezing worker, who
watches his children bullied in the
Salvation Army breadline daily, be-
lieve that Broun will not do a great
deal of good during the next year.
for Broun. Broun for Broun says
Broun. The Socialists for the So
ciaIists, and let the workers starve
until next election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Review BY MYRA PAGE.

OVERTURE" the play by William
Bolitho, now running at the
Longacre Theatre, deals with in
cidents which supposedly occurred in
1920 in Herfeld, small mining town
in western Germany, In the revolu-
tionary upheavals which took place
in this region during that time.
The workers, rejecting the demand
OF the bankers and mine owners that
"for the good Of Germany" they ac-
cept twelve-hour day and a cut OF
so per cent in pay, drive their rulers
from the territory and set up their
own local government. However, in
stead Of following a Communist lead
ership and plan Of action the workers
allow themselves to be misled by a
Captain. Ritter and his hangers-o on
one of whom is editor of social
democratic paper. Ritter, a former
captain in the Kaiser's imperial army
has been led by his postwar dis
illusion with the old order and his
schoolboyish romantic idealism to
desert his own class and champion
the cause Of the workers. This cap
tain, whom Bolitho makes the hero
Of the hour and through whom the
author evidently speaks, is a confused
sentimentalist, whose compromising
wavering tactics inevitably lead the
workers to defeat.
II correctly handled, the subject Of
Overture" has both great politica
and dramatic possibilities. But the
authors treatment is not that Of 9
clear-eyed revolutionist, but of 0
muddle- headed liberal who, like Rit-
ter, has been shaken loose from hi:
old moorings by postwar develop
ments, and trembles before the grow
ing conviction, that the choice now
lies between fascism and communism
The play is like despairing plea tt
the capitalists, "See what you're
heading for, and compromise while
there's time" and to the working
class" Realize the price Of revolu.
ton, before it is too late"
In other words, the play, In fina
analysis, is a counter Revolutionary
one. Moreover, since the author chose
to write about men and events Of
which he obviously knows little, 1t i,
also very poor product not only ir
! . political sense. blt from thu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

dren rolling on their seats with
laughter. But today the class was
disappointed. Fernando looked sui
IenIy at the floor and did not an
swear.
Take your seat, Fernando Rodri-
guez, and you shall explain to me
when school is over"
Fernando shuf1ed his feet deliber-
ately, and dropped himself upon the
seat with such ferociouS determine
ton that the wood creaked with a
pitiful moan. The children burst into
laughter.
Fernando Rodriguez" yelled the
teacher in evaporation. IF you don't
come up here this minute and apol-
ogize to me, you shall go to the prin-
cipal, and you shall not hear the story
about Santa Claus"
With malicious curiosity, thirty-five
pair of eyes focused on the seven
year old villain.
II don't care to hear the story
about Santa Claus" said Fernando
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
BY JOHANNA REED.

ALL you could see was his head and
IA arms lying heavily on the long,
book-laden table. All around him
neat, bespectacled men and smartly-
dressed co-eds were porting over
books and jotting down notes. The
library attendants we're striding i'm
portantly through the room to main
tain quiet-a condition necessary for
the delicate thought-process Of the
gentle readers"
And so he lay, his dirty-blonde
hair covering the frayed collar of his
lumber jacket, his arms encircling a
ponderous book. He lay for several
minutes unmolested, sleeping as he
had not slept for days, oblivious to
the gnawing Of his stomach, to his
Keeling headache, to his burning
eyes. But this delight was short
lived. A library attendant, looking
Just like a teachers pet who always
does the proper, dutiful thing, came
up to him and shook him.
The head leaped up from the table;
and the small eyes blinked at the
librarian repentingly. He grabbed
some paper and pencil, which he
stuck in his mouth, and with his
bandaged fingers began laboriously
to scribble notes from the opened
book which had just served as his
pillow.
But the library attendant did not
leave. The unemployed worker went
on scribbling notes for all he was
worth. But still the attendant did
not leave. The attendant scrutinized
the man suspiciously. his rumpled
hair, his unshaven, hollow cheeks, his
peaked chin,' his torn lumberjacket
and his bandaged finger.
What was he doing here, anyway,
in this sanctum Of learning? His
dirt and rags were an insult to these
refined, supersensitive souls. Such an
outrage. No white collar, no tie
What did he want with books +?
He's here to sleep, not to read. He
thinks he's sly, thinks he'll deceive
us, Ell? Well, out with him.
The thin-lipped attendant bent
over the mans shoulder and whis-
pered instructions to leave. The man
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
REVOLUTION WAS NEVER LIKE THIS!

characters and episodes with few ex-
ceptions, do not carry the conviction
of reality. This applies especially to
his delineation of Maxim, the Com
munist workman who is member of
the workers leading committee of
which Ritter is chairman. Maxim
does not take the part of real Com
munist, but acts as the author, from a
safe distance, imagines Communists
must think and actl In one respect
alone has the author been true to
lfe:-Maxim is shown to be dom
mated by one great purpose and
ruthless in his furthering of the
workers cause. (The contrast Of
Maxim's surety to Ritter's indecision
is one of the few good spots in the
play. But what Maxim really stands
for is yelled in obscurity. Furthermore,
the author makes Maxim a passive
creature who is content to drift along
with events, disagree with Ritter's
policies in committee, and let it go
at that. Maxim has no organic re-
lation whatsoever to the other work
ers on the committee or to the
masses.
1t is obvious that Maxim is not a
life and blood Communist, as ever
seen on earth, but simple device
of the author, mouthpiecing a few
revolutionary ideas, land. incidental
ly, mouthpiecing quite few ideas
that are anything but revolutionary.
The character Of Maxim is made
even more insufferable by the actor
who plays the part in the Longacre
production. This man acts like a
Broadway dilletante who wanders
around the stage in bored and aim
less fashion, and successfully muffs
his lines so that the occasional sparks
which might light the performance
are smothered under wet blanket
Of stupidity. Another tribute to the
deep conception which the Long
acre producers and cast has Of rev.
dictionary events is portrayed in the
scene where the working masses
break into the council chambers OF
to protest aaginst the twelve-hour
day and cut in pay. These desperate
masses, on the verge OF revolution
are content to express their fervor
by footing horns in the cQupcillors'