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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

of whether the Christian church Is to
be free Of all compromise and commit
mentS and to be free to speak its mes
sage"
The Mission Board secretary also said
the nationalism of Mahatma Gandhi,
leader of the Indian revolt against
British rule, had gone so far as to con-
stitute menace to the missionary work
of Christian religion.
"Gandhi and his group have been led
so far that they are attempting to keep
the evil as well as the good of the old
nationalistic life" he said. "Gandhi
is contending that it is wrong for a
person to change his religion. The
editor of the Indian Social Reformer,
who is one of the six most powerful
men in India, has gathered Gandhi
ideas together and is appealing to the
Emperor of India to prohibit proselyt-
ing.
These extreme applications of false
nationaliSm\ are one of the major
problems that the church is facing to-
day"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
u. S. MISSIONARIES
EXPULSION SCORED
ChurChman Challenges Brit
iSh Action in India Against
Nationalist Sympathizer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, February
l9.-The British governments eXpul-
sion from India of an American mis-
Slonary because of his sympathy with
the Nationalist movement was chal-
lenged last night by Dr. Robert E.
Speer, secretary Of the Board of For
elgn Missions, in an address before the
congress on World Missions of the
States.
This case is of the greatest sig
nltlcance to the missionary movement"
Or. Speer said. "A young American
congregational missionary was sent out
OF the country by the order of a British
collector. The collector forced the
american Board Mission to issue a
declaration that it was unallied with
the Nationalist movement BY what
authority can a British collector send
out OF the country a man who has
violated no law? How can he require
the citizens of a neutral nation to de-
clare themselves on one side or the
other?"
DR.. Speer asserted cit is a question
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
Nanny Goose CAN'T Cough

pADIO people must be particu-
IN larly careful of their voices"
says Miss Malone, whose original
sketches and songs have made
NANNY Goose" household word
to thousands. "Huskiness or coughs
would just ruin a program"
That's why so many radio enter
tanners like to have Pertussin always
close by. They can rely on it to re-
ieve coughs quickly.
They like it, too, because it is en-
tirely free from narcotics and in
furious drugs and is pleasant to take.
These winter months are cough
ing months. Watch out! Take Per-
tussin. It's so safe, doctors have
prescribed it for children's coughs
for rs years. 1t gets at the cause of
the irritation. Stop in at your drug
gist for bottle today.
Hear Pertussin PlaybOys-MOn., Tues,
We'd S:l5 AM. Columbia Network.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

whales In South Polar waters. Using
two planes, aviators were able to count
the great blue bulks from the air. much
as submarines were spotted during the
World War. No estimates Of their num-
Der was given.
Under command Of Mai. GunnAr
1sachSen. famed Arctic explorer, the
Norvegia left Cape Town October 4
last, came abreast Of Little America on
Christmas day, two years after Admiral
Byrd landed, and completed the circle
February 7. 1t is now engaged in a
study Of the 1,000-mile ice barrier op-
poSite South Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
RETURNED FOR TRIAL

Earl Smith, 80 years old, OF Ocean
City, Md, who is under indictment for
alleged embezzlement Of $4,000 in bonds,
was returned to Washington from Sal
isbury, Md. last night by Detective B.
C. Kuehling.
The detective was accompanied by
the sisters who accused Smith of hav-
ing failed to account for the bonds
after they had been intrusted to him
for Sale-MiSseS Leila and Coronne
Sponseller of the KeneSaw Apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
$4,000 mile CRUISE
IN. ANTARCTIC TOLD
First Continuous Navigation Of
Area Yields Valuable Geo.
graphical Data.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February i9.-The
first continuous circumnavigation Of
the Antarctic Continent-14O 900 miles
and four months in a stout. stubby
whaling vessel-was recounted by the
New York Times today.
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, director Of the
American Geographical Society, has re-
ceived a cablegram from Consul Lars
Christensen, leading figure in the Nor
wegian whaling industry, describing the
successful voyage of his whaler Nor
vega into the waters traversed in part
by the Byrd expedition.
Valuable geographical information
was gathered, indicating that the Ant
arctic shore facing South Africa Is
considerably further south than sup
posed and that Nimrod Isle and the
Dougherty Islands. charted as lying
far to the north of Marie Byrd land,
are mythical
The most striking result Of the ex-
petition was the census" taking of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
A CLEAR COMPLEXION

Rudy cheeks - sparkling eyes
most women can have. DIR. F. Nj.
Edwards for 20 years treated scores
Of women for liver and bowel all
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These tablets are wonder workers
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II you have q pale face, sallOw look,
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all out Of sorts, inactive bowels, take
one Of DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
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Thousands Of women and men take
Or. Edwards Olive Tablets-n0w and
then TO keep fit. 15c, soc and Soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
Mass for Manresa Club.

The entire membership Of the Law
yers' Manresa Club of Washington, will
receive holy communion at st. Paul's
Catholic Church, Fifteenth and v
streets, at pm, Sunday. Mass will
be celebrated by Rev. Father Peter v.
Masterson. After the mass, breakfast
will be served in the Meridian Man
SionS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
SOAKING RAINS FALL
ON PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Storm Will Continue Today On
Coast-Aberdeen, Wash, Gets
3.15 Inches.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. February 10
General rains were forecast for the Pa
cific Coast today following storms that
yesterday set high water marks In sew
eral places and flooded some Easements.
Rushing down from the Aleutian Is
lands, the rain hit the Pacific North
west the hardest. At Aberdeen, Wash.
3.15 inches fell in 24-hour period. the
heaviest rain there in IL years. Olym-
pia received ATS inches.
In Oregon the storm left All inches
Of rain at Astoria. Portland and other
cities west Of the Cascades got o
soaking.
Into California the storm swept leav-
ing .88 of an inch at Eureka, ITO inches
at Redding and lesser amounts SOUTH
ward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

England imported $30O,oOO,ooo worth
of pork and bacon last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
ART EXHIBITION HELD
Work of H. D. Rogers Displayed at

Shaw Junior High.
An exhibition of charcoals, pastels,
oil paintings and water colors by Her
bert Daniel Rogers vas held last week
in the art room Of the Shaw Junior
High School, under the direction of
Alma w. Thomas His paintings on ex-
hibit included Study Of Back" THE
Fisherman's Daughter" Loading al
the Dock" and June Landscape"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

padding, in these mattresses hundreds of springy
inner coils, buried under soft cushoning Coils which
are always "alive." They can't pad down they
can't form bumps and holIows.
See the Beautyrest and Deepseep at any good
furniture store. Here is a new kind of comfort And
a small investment indeed, compared with the re-
wards of vitalizing rest
H. M. Johnson, Phi. D.-head of the Investigation
of Sleep at Mellon Institute-has written booklet,
Bodily Positions in Restful Sleep" Send for it!
Address the Simmons Company 222 North Bank
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19

Lengths from to yards In these
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
BY A. MARRIOTT.

AT one of the meetings of unit after spend
n ing two hours or more on selecting mem
bers for open air meetings, for distributing lit
erature, for getting signatures, and for similar
tasks, and when everybody was completely ex-
hausted at about 1920 or II at night, then
they announced that there was going to be a
discussion on the election campaign 1t seems
almost incredible that the comrades should not
think Of bringing in this discussion of the cleo
ton campaign together with the practical tasks
which the unit discussed for two hours To
them the discussion arranged by the section is
simply an abstract thing, separated entirely
from our practical work The result is that the
discussion remains barren, without any life, and
does not bring any results does not add to the
political development of the comrades.
Many examples could be brought to illustrate
the life of our units. 1t is therefore no wonder
that units attract very few new members if any,
and when new members do come in they find
the life of the unit uninteresting, they find the
Party too burdensome, for it happens all the
time that new member is Immediately taxed
with so much, work that all his evenings and
all his days Sundays, etc, are taken. Besides,
he does not find that interest that he probably
was looking for when he joined the Party
When new member joins the Party, he some
how feels that there he is going to get enlighten-
ment and Qualification on a great many ques-
tons, that in the Party he is going to find
different atmosphere than the one he was in all
the time Instead, when he goes to a unit meet
ing, he finds it lfeless and undressing He
does not understand the reasons for the tasks
that were assigned to him and so he is quickly
disappointed, discouraged, and leaves the Party
altogether.
1t is this Journalism, this mechanical approach
to everything that hinders the rapid growth of
the Party. sharp turn, an immediate turn
must be made in ths methoGs of our work This
must be done from top to bottom From the
district committees to the units and the shop
nuclei
The org department, the agitprop department,
must jointly overhaul the entire method and
form of our work. The unit meetings must be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
RIGID JOURNALISTIC METHODS OF WORK IN OUR
PARTY MUST GO

come sources of political development for the
comrades; the various tasks must be considered
from political viewpoint, and the~various dis
cussions that we have must be linked up and
interviewer with the practical tasks. Our atti-
tude toward new members must be changed We
should give our new members tasks commen-
surate with the length of time they are in the
Party. Each member, new or old must be given
definite functions, but they should be given
within reason, so that the new member will not
find the Party too burdensome, so that he can
find some time for reading and for further de-
velopment. The units must be given greater
freedom for initiative The instructions from
the sections and the district must not be rigid.
FleXibility in all our work is important In
other words, naturalization in the work of the
Party is essential, and together with the reso-
luton of the Central Committee, we must say:
only a conscious intolerant and systematic
struggle against every evidence of bureaucratic
methods of work by the entire Party will elm
mate this obstacle to the growth of our move
ment, and enable us to realize the tremendous
opportunities that lie before us in the coming
months to rouse the defensive, struggles of the
working, class give them firm organizational
basis and develop them into nter-offensive
against the offensive of the bosses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
A Warning Against
Ralph Spooner

The Daily Worker deems it necessary to pub
fish the following information about Ralph
Spooner, of Washington, D. c., but now "oper-
ating" from various cities in Canada.
About year or two ago this individual wrote
number of letters to the Daily Worker and
other organizations under the let:erhead of
World News Service Of Washington D. c., over
flowing with revolutionary phrases and order
ing lot of literature On check-up it was
found that this great World News Service was
only false front for Ralph Spooner's lone self
and nothing else. Then for while, nothing
more was heard from him.
Recently however, more of his bombastic let
ters have been received from Canada Sydney
Nova Scotia; Three Rivers, Quebec and Toronto,
Ontario, some under the head of Workers
Educational Association of Canada" Ralph
Spooner, Sec'y; and one under the head of
Canadian Civil Liberties Union" Ralph Spoon
er, Director.
Apparently he is sprouting new "organiza-
tons as fast as the printers can turn out new
letterheads
The underlying motive for all this is quite plain
from such passages in Ralph Spooner's letters,
as--"We have so many names on the list of those
ready for the d. w. and Communism. that we
need an Office force of twelve stenographers
Can you pay for such list of potential Com
munists in Cape Breton and Eastern Canada"
and-"Upon receipt of S1.OO we will send you a
membership card for the year"
Besides, of course, there arises the big uues-
kind OF mailing lists of names and
addresses Is Ralph Spooner collecting under his
various false fronts and to whom does he sell
these lists7i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
BY w. WEINSTONE

Except from the report delivered by COmrade
WeinstOne at the 18th Plenum, printed in full
in the October issue of the Communist
IN the United States we have not only to deal
with the A. F. of L, and the system of bour-
geoisie demagogy, with the clever system of
deceiving the masses by putting forward bour-
geois politicians who pose as progressives, who
employ anti-captalist phrases, who readily take
up radical slogans in order to disperse and de-
moralize the growing movement of the workers
Bourgeois demagogy constitutes one of the
strongest support for the retention of the two
party system in the United States. The fight
against bourgeois demagogy, combined with the
most energetic struggle against the Socialist and
A. F. of L. leaders, who support directly and in
directly these bourgeois progreSsves and ire
fornists" must be one of the central tasks with
which to smash the two party domination in
the United States and to free the workers for
independent working class political action.
In this connection, I wish to touch upon the
question of the lesser evil" Does this apply to
the United States? Indeed it does. 1t expresses
itself in the idea of good" and bad politicians,
in the non-partisan policy of the A. F. of l.,
in fact it is one OF the key weapons Of the
bourgeoisie to keep the masses tied to the two
party system by the idea of alternating the par
ties when one is discredited in office, with the
slogan that while the Democratic party may
have weaknesses as against the Republican par
ty, it is possible to get better results for the
workers by putting it in office, then to wait upon
some millennium to put parties in office which
have no chance to win. We must remember
what Engels stated-that the two-party system
is an integral part of the whole political system
of the United States and that many workers in
order to exercise pressure against the govern
rnent vote for one or the other parties, in order
mot to throw away their votes" on minor par
ties which have no possibility of directly exer-
cisng an influence on the practical events. The
comparison policy Of the AT. Of L. of reward
ing friends and Furnishing enemies" and which
is being undermined by the crisis, is one Of the
main channels by which the bourgeoisie carried
through this two-party domination Is 1t not
A fact that the miners who have conducted
pitched battles against the thugs, police, ETC.,
and who are one of the most revolutionary sec
tions of the United States, nevertheless sup
ported Pinchot in the last elections and still
retain the idea that Pinchot is good politician,
a progressive, and that in elections one can get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

these progressives and bourgeois demagogues, to
overcome the illusions deeply entrenched in the
minds of the American workers with regard to
good and bad politicians, to line up the rank
and file against the non-partisan policy of the
A. F. of L. to reward your friends and punish
your enemies" 1t is necessary to do this not
only in our agitation, but above ALL on the basis
of mass struggles, stripping the veil of progressive
phrases which conceal reactionary capitalist po-
hcies. 1t is necessary at the present time while
concentrating our attack upon the Hoover gov
eminent as the government in power, to increase
the fight against the Democratic party, whom
the bOurgeOisie will in order to keep the
masses tied to capitalism in order to bar their
way toward taking up independent working -class
political action, under the leadership of the
Communist Party. 1t is necessary to make
bitter struggle against the "non-partisan policy"
inside of the A. F. of L. and to shatter and
destroy this pernicious policy Of the capitalist
A. F. Of L. leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
For a Decisive
BY RALPH SIMoNs

This is the seVenth-and IaSt-article of a
series on, this subject, more than ever impor-
tant to all revolutionary workers.-EDITOR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Songs of American Toilers

The Young Communist League is compiling
song book-something that is needed, as we
have said before 1t has quite number Of
songs already, but it especially wishes to get
some more of an especial kind.
For example, Negro songs that tell of the
hard life of the cotton pickers and what thew
think OF the boss and SO on; songs or poems
10 which music can be written that express the
real native American resentment and rebellion
against exploitation something as American
favored as the ella Monster Route" or the
Portland County JAIL Something as native a.
Paul Bunyan or John Henry
But they must be working class and inspir-
ing And one thing they mustn't be-thev
mustn't be strained parodies of when the Moo..
Comes Over the Mountain" or such rubbish
And please don't send them to Jorge, but to
the Young Communist League, IS E. 18th St.
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
On the Carrying Out of the
18th Plenum Decisions
STRUGGLE AGAINST BOURGEOIS DEMAGOGY

more immediate results in the direction of The
alienation of their conditions by supporting such
a one as Pinchot?
Is it not fact that the workers in other in
dustries who follow the leadership of the Com
munist Party in their strike struggles during
an election campaign weigh the relative merits
of the respective bourgeoisie candidates and are
taken in to support alleged progressives on the
grounds of getting immediate results? There
is at the present time whole group of bour-
geois politicians parading as progressives, mas
querading as politicians opposed to the trusts
and bankers and working for the interests of
the masses-Pinchot, Murphy, Roosevelt, Sen
ator Wagner, LaCiuardia, Norris Borah, LaFol-
lette, etc, etc.
1t is necessary to expose this illusion of the
'lesser evil" to conduct pities struggle against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
&4:~.~
Thousands Hungry"
Nv JORGE

That's the way the headline began. But
then it went on to say in an Associated Press
dispatch from Vienna that:
"The Austrian Society for the Prctectio, of
Animals has chartered number of airpIanes
to convey over the Alps to Italy thousands of
swallows which are threatened by the snow,
Ice and hunger that winter will bring"
Which reminds us that only the other dav
the N Y Post, in an editorial spoke feelngly
OF the hardships of cats which are left behind
Wnen flat jewellers, stricken by the depression
move out of their living quarters. Not one word
ABOUT what the hardships Of the said flat
jewellers might be. But an urgent and heart
rending plea to give abandoned cats home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Revival of Work in the RefOrmist
Unions

The G. G. stresses the necessity for the most
energetic and systematic revival of work in the
refor1nist unions the conditions for which are
constantly broadening as a result of the grow
Ing struggles The Party must more system
atically counterfeit the policy Of the bureau
Gratis Of heading struggles in order to behead
them and more carefully expose the strike
breaking policy of the reformst leaders, par
ticularly the left reformsts. socialist left"
phrase mongers and the Mustetes All district
committees must be instructed within the next
month to report on methods and plans Of work
adopted in regard TO strengthening the work
in the reformist unions,
From the Resolution OF the 18th PIenum,
&C, C.P.U.S.A., ON the Main Tasks Of
the Party, published In the October
Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

In the United States the chief direc-
ton of our blew is for the breakup of
the positions of capitalism by means of
modifying the masses for struggle for
the realization CT social insurance at the
expense of the capitalists and the bour-
geOis state.' (FrOm ManuilsEy's re-
port to the 18th Plenum of the Commu-
mist International. Report published in
pamphlet form by Workers Library
Publishers.)