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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
By GROVER sHoHoLM

OVER the subway grating in the
" sidewalk the line begins to form
before seven O'Clock. The lights Of
Times Square shudder fitfully in the
cold this Christmas Eve, Crowds on
either side along the sidewalks
gather to stare at the jobless men
who to get little to eat are stand
ing exposed to the gaze of everyone,
and exposed to the wind that cuts
across the square.
Foul air-buit is a little warm
rises through the ventilator shaft
from the subway.
st walked around this morning in
the rain and slush, and got my feet
wet Now they're cold"
A great tree rises before us, its
branches hung with lights of yellow
and green and blue. Beyond, the
moving sign on the Times building
crosses steadily, word after word.
A voice in the crowd says, II
worked three days for that overcoat."
Another says, II went to the War
Veterans and they gave me ticket
for meal, and two nights flop"
The Paramount clock shows a long
wait ahead.
"a guy got an awful shellacin'. He
was cumming on the Square here
and two dicks spotted him. He got
an awful beatin'. He could hardly
walk. They won't arrest you" Nav,
then they'd have to feed va n give
va a flop, in JAIL
The talk is of the various lines.
After all that praying and sing
ing, the beans were only half baked
or burned"
This morning and yesterday they
we're standing in the Thirty first st.
line in the rain at six o'clock in the
morning; waiting till ten for nickle
and a cup of coffee. What do you
think of men like that?"
ACROSS the street the florist shop
n windows are banked with flowers.
Cafeterias vie in a display of roasts
and pastries. The theatre crowd
hurries on. 1t is nearing eight.
"Why do we have to freeze here?
Couldn't they find some warm place
where we could waltz"
Its the publicity they want"
A woman's voice comes softly over
the radio. Into the hymn she puts
every seductive feminine appeal. The
remarks Of the crowd are not rever-
ent.
Sometimes a pasSerby will give
his pack of cigarettes to someone,
and they are passed around.
Old workers in the crowd, on the
breadlines now since industry turned
the moff, have come with the idea
that on Christmas Eve some kind
hearted person might, as happened
once before, pass out dollar bill to
each man. They are going to be dis
appointed.
The line extended entirely around
the triangular plot, three and four
abreast. They merge, one side turn
ing about to form a solid phalanx.
There is edging up to get better
places. Finally all are packed in a
dense mass.
Where you gonna flop tonight?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Bye S. BUGOSLAVSKY

USSIAN folk art was accessible in
! the past only to a limited circle
amateurs, learned ethnographers
ID poorly attended museums. Least
all it received attention and was
lued by its creators-the various
.tionalities. The building Of new
,ial forms, new life and culture
lich commenced after the october
,volution also affected the art of
peoples.
The independence of the national
norities. brought about desire for
ltural independence. Each people
severed in itself creative power;
powerful genial artist awoke in the
asses. A great fountain spurted from
source of the national folk songs,
lich it, had seemed was completely
hausted, The folk music of the
ople, the most emotional of the
is and SO closely interviewer with
lily life came to life from I'M
1ched dead archives, exciting the
ought apd emotions.
This was greatly aided by the
act that music plays a great role
n the celebration of proIetarian
,,oIidays land became component
art Of every demonstration, meet
ing and congress. 1t had been
theoretically cultivated in workers
Tubs and by the end of 1928 there
7ere OVER 10000 musical circles and
bout $4,000 such circles in the vii
lges.
There is a general tendency to col
It, register and Immediately turn
er to the masses the musical wealth
bred UP for centuries; to reflect the
J of freedom and deliverance in
W songs, also the new constructions
d life and to compose new sym
lonic, chamber, opera and ballet
Isle on the basis of the old musical
lture.
Museum collections, song albums
d styled reworking for the few"
no longer observed anywhere. The
ng has again become the truth
life as 1t was picturesquely defined
an old peasant womar of the Nov
rod district.
The White Russian people. who
It the characteristics Of their sound
-twe" an the cities, have neverthe-
y : mInenced to restc their rich
wealth which ned '''
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
By VALENTINE v. KoNIN

I IKE phantom mountains Of purple
~ smoke, New York skyscrapers rear
their mighty heads against the white
densenesS of the morning mist. Over
their pale, slender outlines, electric
lights simmer like drops of golden
dew. Wall street wakes up in the
morning with its nervous irresistible
throbbling. Office girls with painted
cheeks, wrapped up like advertise
ments in their imitation fur coats,
click their pointed heels over the
moist sidewalks. Bosses emerge Gom
their automobiles frowning and petu-
lantly pressing the turned-down cor
ners of their over-fed lips. The
streets vibrate with noise and hurry.
The blackened figures of cherubS
over the Municipal building soften
and partly vanish under the white
dust of the fog. The Municipal build
ing itself, like an obedient soulless
soldier of capitalism, with its out
stretched limbs firm and immobile
stands like a defiant barrier between
the lives of the exploiters and the
lives of the oppressed.
The streets change abruptly on the
other side of the Municipal building.
This is where the workers live. The
crudely woven structure of the ele
waited bridge, like a monstrous black
crocodile stretches its rigid belly over
the steep ,Eigzagging roads paved with
crooked cobblestone. Rusty rooftops
creep upon each other in sitting in
timacy. Trains roar over the windows
with broken panes. Pitifully-torn
clothes bang down from the fire es-
cspes With hungry eyes and salloW
complsaAsns, little kids in soiled over
ais soxtser over the cobblestone, like
starved kittens wandering in search
Of food.
In the school building that hides
behind the grey panels of the church,
> school teacher was reading a story
If Santa Claus to her pupils. Chill
iren sat quiet and tense, with their
zig burning eyes following every twist
II the old expressionless mouth. She
Fas reading them a story of Christ
mas dinner with plum pudding and
,ilded nuts; and the thirty-flve little
podies, most Of whom had left home
hat morning without breakfasts and
without coats, were living over with
childish wholeheartedness the warmth
md Joy of someone else's Christmas
Inner. The old woman had come
o a part where Santa Claus was
living out presents. Her sharp voice,
Inaccustened to naturalness with
children, was trying to reproduce
nth hypocritical sweetness the in.
onations-of Santa'S speech.
It was then that the class room door
! opened and Fernando Rodriguez,
he bad boy of the class, walked in
efiantly He was often late, and was
'lways dirty-and the teacher was
ccustomed to seeing him walk in in
ne middle of the lesson, with his
right black eyes shining impudently
trough the entangled mass of his
lack hair But today there was in
olence and grimness in his move
tents that was too obvious not to
ause interest. Children turned their
lads toward the door, and the teach
laid the magazine down.
why are you late, Fernando Rod
guez?" she asked in a provocative
me.
Fernandos customary resort to the
Iestion had always been one of the
any varieties of his facial contor-
ons which set the rest of the chill
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Sky>ScraberS and Breadlines

THE sound Of his own voice fright
ened him. In his confusion he lost
the thread of his thought and stopped
short. The old woman was already
at his desk.
Come here, young man." she said,
pulling him by his sleeve, you
shall be sorry for that"
Fernando drew back with sudden
ferceness. The old cloth of his shirt
tore at the neck.
You leave go off mel" he cried
in his usual high pitched voice.
You've got no right to tear my
shirt. can say whatever I damn
please. I don't care what you do to
me. I amt afraid of you anymore.
You are all lot of boloney!"
He was insensible to blows that she
was showering upon his head and
face. There were too many new emo
tons croWding within him this NOR
ming. He was now conscious only Of
the irresistible desire of rebellion
swelling within him, out of his ear
lier feeling of bitterness and hatred.
He kicked the old woman with his
knees trying to escape from the
clutch of her bony hands.
Suddenly his eyes fell upon the
wide-mouther face of Charlie DAILY,
boy much older than himself, and
the leader of the boys gang in the
neighbrohood Jack was dumb in
school He stayed away so much
shining shoes and selling papers, to
help out his mother at home. But
Charlie was a good leader and good
fighter. His was not only strength,
but organization as well.
Hey Charlie" cried Fernando, !
struggling with the old woman'S
hands, Let's show her that she is
not the boss around here. Let's show
herr
A wonderful feeling Of solidarity
communicated throughout the class
room. Boys jumped upon their desks,
and like monkeys let loose of their |
cages surrounded the old woman in
gleeful anticipation of their power
and revenge.
The old woman became frightened |
She was new in this neighborhood,
and she imagined that the boys were
going to kill her. She did not try
to defend herself.
"All right, boys, what is the matter
with you?" she said in a voice quiv-
ering with false friendliness. "Sit
down, and I won't do anything to
you. You may sit down too, Fer
nando."
Her face and neck were splashed
with pink stains, and she could not
control her breath. 1t was obvious
that the boys were victorious.
On her way home, in the after
neon, she 'recounted the episode to
a group of her colleagues. On the
street. shabbily dressed women were
from corner to corner. IN
shaven, sullen men we're hiding their
red faces in the upturned collars of
their coats. The massive chimney of
a closed factory cut with its black
ness the moist whiteness Of the air.
And in the distance, the skyScrapers
were fading into the sky.
you know, they nearly killed me"
the old woman was whispering indig-
nantly. You would not believe how
these kids stick up for each other
against us. Well have to do some
thing. Why, it was a regular riot.
Goodness knows what these children
will grow up into. Criminals probably,
or maybe even Reds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

STORY OF THE IMPERIAL VAL
LEY, by Frank Spector; intro
duction by John Dos Passos, In
ternational Labor Defense. Price,
5 cents.
Frank Spector is prisoner in San
Quentin, California, and known on
the ledger as No. 46868. He is serv-
ing sentence, along with seven
others, of from 3 to AZ years for or
ganizing workers in the Imperial
Valley, a terrible place to work in,
where the temperature rises to 100
degrees in tn shade.
In the past, when men, rebels, went
to prison and wrote, it would usually
be little poems about their own per-
sonal reactions to their own private
affairs. Or, men wrote autobio-
graphies, or fiction, but always about
things that would make them escape
reality. But when Spector sat down
on his prison stool to write, he con-
tinued his everyday life and the
struggles of the workers against CAPT
talism. AS he fought on the out
side with the Imperial Valley work
ers, so on the inside he is still bat
ting with them.
In this pamphlet, written in prison,
called the "Story of the Imperial
Valley" Spector has outlined in
simple, working-cla language the
background of that huge fruit and
vegetable factory. He tells how the
workers live in company tents
and shacks under intolerable condi-
lions, of race discrimination against
Mexican, Filipinos and Negro work.
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FIREMEN ELECT HEAD

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug: l3.-Car-
ter Bowser, FIT. Wayne, was elected
president Of the Indiana Firemen's
Association at the concluding ses-
sion of the fifteenth annual con-
vention today.
Election of other officers and Sc
lection of a convention city for 1882
were scheduled before adjournment.
A fight for presidency developed
between Bowser and Roy Knohlock,
South Bend, which delayed voting.
Bowser won by a margin Of ten
ballots
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RIVERSIDE FISH FRY
PLANS ARE COMPLETE
Riley II. Bradford Is General Chair
man for Community Affair.

Plans for the annual Riverside
Community fish fry and festival
have been completed, according to
Riley H. Bradford, general chair
man. The festivities will open on
Friday night and will continue Sat-
urday night at the new ball park,
Sixteenth and Harding streets.
Good entertainment has been OBJ
tanned for both evenings and To-
cal merchants have donated many
useful prizes for the large drawing
to be had each evening.
Carl E. like will be in charge Of
the huge fish fry and refreshment
booths Lieutenant Owen of the
police accident prevention squad
will speak.
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Anyg Let The Times Lost and Found Column Help You Find
HeIp Wanted Female

YOUNG LADY with secretariaI experience
Would prefer someone having had ex-
perience in a bank. Must have PERSONAL
itv that would qualify one 70 meet the
good education. Write. stating age. ex-
perience and domestic environment. Ad-
dress Box No. B-287 Times.
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THIRTEEN BABY
STARS CHOSEN
IN HOLLYWOOD
WampaS Beauties to Make
Bow at Los Angeles
Birthday Fete.

BIZ United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13.-An old
but neglected custom Of selecting
thirteen young actresses who ap-
pear to have bright futures in mo-
ton pictures has been revived this
year in Hollywood and the baby
stars" will make their formal bow to
the public during the 150th birthday
celebration of Los Angeles, Sept. 4
to IL.
Among those selected as probable
future stars Of the cinema armament
were seven with brown hair, five
blondes and one 'red-head."
For many years 1t was custom
Of the Wampas, or Western Asso-
citation Of Movie Publicists, to Sc
lect the bay stars and, through
adroit publicity, boost them into
stardom.
Then the brilliant Wanpas ball,
one of, the features Of the event,
was discontinued, and for the last
four years no baby stars we're
chosen. Rss%m
Thirteen Are Chosen
The thirteen girls, whom the
publicists this year gave rosy flu
lures are:
Joan Blondell, New York City;
Constance Cummings, Seattle;
Frances Dee, California; Sidney
Fox, New York City; Rochelle Hud-
son, Claremore, Okla; Anita Louise
New York City; Marian Marsh, Is
land Of Trinidad; Karen Morley,
Ottumwa, Ia; Joan Marsh, Porter
vile, Cal; Marion Schilling, Den
Yer; Barbara Weeks, Boston; Fran
ces' Dade, Philadelphia, and Judith
Wood, New York City.
One one Of the baby stars is more
than 20 years, the average age be-
ing 20 years. Judith Wood, who
was launched upon a career as a
commercial artist, is 25. Anita
Louise, who has appeared in pic
lures off and on for ten years, is
only Is, although she looks 10.
Marian Marsh, who is 10, got her
first big role with John Barrymore
because she looked like Dolores
OOoVC4AO5 Dali ylIlOLe WIFE,
Studied Law at Columbia
Sidney Fox was New York So
ciety girl, but her father lost his
money seven years ago, and after
a law course at Columbia, she en-
tered pictures. She is now 20 years
old.
Joan Blandell, who is q, entered
pictures through the stage with
James Cogney. Her father is Eddie
Blondell, veteran of Broadway.
Every one of the girls has an in
teresting life story and with the big
publicity drums" behind them to
go "boom-boom" every time their
names are mentioned, the publicists
predict all may reach stardom some
day.
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Deaths

Edward Swindeu, g.. Long hospital, car
Dorothy Barger. 70. Riley hospital. ap-
sarah Mabel Davis. "a. Methodist nos
pital. thyrotoxicosis.
Albert Liyengood, 4e. city hospital,
thyrotoXicosis.
Laura Saylor. rs. Methodist hospital.
hypostatic pneumonia.
Martha Jane Burns, 81, 49S6 west Nor
ris. cerebral hemorrhage.
Theodore Foust, Sc Christian hospital,
acute cardiac dilatation.
Hugh Francis Delaney, 3, Riley lospitai,
patrick O'Donneu. 81. $50 East Yer
mont, cerebral hemorrhage.
H. P. Hornaday, 81, city hospital. in
festival obstruction.
William Joseph Freaney. rs. 542S North
Delaware, cerebral hemorrhage. -
Robert James Cangary, 5, 6lJ. -Nclth
Gladstone. typhoid fever -,
David E. Lamb. So. 1902 North Illinois,
cerebral hemorrhage.
Maggie W. Bullock, 80, Central Indiana
hospital pulmonary tuberculosis.
4 Lawrence NJ Barr, 40. MethodlSt nos
initial, lobar pneumonia. -
Emma Brinkley. rs. 1917 Allison cere-
PIN Minnie S. Britton. 81, s4S Fayette,
rn john G. Skies g. 226 North New Jer-
sew carcinoma $50 -
horn. pulmonary tuberculosis.
Stanley Lockwo9,s woe ~------' - Me'l'ouls'
ho sath BrandOn 81 1926 North Meridian
0n E%iiy " roster g. Methodist hospital
'hI Ida A. Harris, rs. 2ll2 North Delaware
chronic interstitial nephritis.
Rohert CLARK. so. SIS South Belle Vieu
Mace. acute dilatation of heart.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS
Odlce OF the Clerk Of the Town of Speed

Sealed proposals viii be received in the
Office OF the Clerk of the Town of Speed
way Indiana. at the Speedway State
o. O'Clock p. m, Thursday. August 81,
1881, and. from day to day thereafter I'M
I'll sold. for. the purchase of $13 10000 of
bonds issued in strict compliance with an
act OF the General, Assembly of the State
OF Indiana, entitled. IAN Act to authorize
Cities. Towns and other municipal corpo-
rations to- purchase and acquire water
works. and to issue bonds therefor pay
able from the revenue and the receipts
OF such. works" approved March g. 1921,
and acts amendatory and supplemental
thereto. Said bonds are dated December
l; 1929, and draw interest from the date
thereof at the rate of per cent per an
mum, payable semi-annually on July 18th
and January 18th Of each wear. That the
coupons on said bonds that were due on
July IS, 1880, January Is. 1881. and July
IS, 1881, have been clipped from said
bonds and that the accrued interest on
said bonds will be from July Is. 1881. That
the number. denomination and when due
is as follows. tO-Wit.
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Legal Notices

NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS.
Notice is hereby given that sealed pro-
posals for the construction of certain
bridges on State Highways will be re-
ceiyed by the Director of the Indiana
State Highway Commission at his office
in the Statehouse Annex in Indianapolis,
until 10 a. m. Aug. rs, 1881, when all pro-
posalS will be publicly opened and read.
These bridges are further described as
follows
BENTON COUNTY-One bridge on Road
Al, approximately 2.5 miles southeast of
Earl eo1i Pags oyer the the G. e. O. ST. J. R. R.
grading approximately $4,000 cubic
Clinton coUNTY-one 40 bridge on
State Road No. 20.
ELKHART COUNTY-Three bridges on
Road 6, consisting of one 80 bridge ap-
one 80 bridge approximately 4.3 miles east
OF Nappanee. and one So bridge APP
preoXT sg6sy 6 miles east Of NaPpaanee
Road Ga, consisting of one bridge Of three
"a approximately / mile T east Of Mt. Car
each approximately ga miles west of
pToximstsly rs mile vest Of PTinesefon. q
Road 26, consisting of one go bridge ap-
and one bridge appr o. si5SVi 81
MARSHALL COUNTY-Three bridges on
Road g.. consisting. of one. 49, bridge ap-
proXimately Sc miles east of La Paz, one
72' bridge approximately l mile west of
Bremen, and one 40 bridge approximately
i mile east of Bremen:
PUTNAM COUNTY-Two bridges on
Road SO, consisting of one So bridge ap-
and one TO- bridge approx * rs
miles east of Bainbridge.
UNION CoUNTY-One bridge on Road
10l, consisting of three spans of 40 each,
approximately 3.5 miles south of Liberty.
The plans and specifications may be
examined at the office of The State High
way Commission, .Statehouse Annex. In
dianapolis or copies thereof will be for
Tarded upon payment to the Director of q
nominal charge. No refund will be made
Proposals must be made upon standard
forms of the Indiana State Highway
commission. which will be supplied upon
Each bidder. with his proposal. shall
file a corporate surety bond payable to
the, State Of Indiana in the penal sum of
at leasy one and one-half G12) times the
AMOUNT of his proposal, with good and
SUFFICIENT security to the approval of the
Director. SUCH BOND SHALL BE ONLY
IN THE FORM PRESCRIBED BY LAW
AND SHALL BE EXECUTED ON THE
FORM BOUND IN THE PROPOSAL.
For this bridge letting each bidder shall
NE his Experience Record and Financial
statement or,s mt, prior to filing his proposals..
some OF these, structures will be awarded
IN groups OF two or more structures.
Further information REGARDING the work
quest.
The right is reserved by the Director to
REJECT any or all bids or to award on any
stated combination of bids that is in his
augment most advantageous to the State
OF Indiana.
INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
7 7
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Said bonds will be sold to the highest
bidder for not less than their par value.
Public Service Commission of Indian. in
Cause No. 1852 before said Commission.
Bidders are required to state the num-
Der of bonds bid for and the gross
amount they will pay for the bonds bid
for. and accrued interest to date Of
transfer.
The right to reject any and all bids is
reserved.
o. R. MANN
FT-a --erTf- re-,
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StOre-Ofce Supplies
TYPEWRITER,
Coal and Wood

FRIEDRICH COAL co.
so1-S99 Beecher st. DR.. 1892.
WINTER IS AROUND THE CORNER.
BETTER COAL. BETTER PRICES NOW.
Best Island Creek and KY. blk fkd $50
Red Ash Pocahontas. smokeless, lp.. 800
UNION ICE AND COAL CO. DIR. 1921.
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Pets
Machinery & Tools

For sale cheap. 1000 gal per hour
Centriflcal Pump. tn Electric motor.
Meier Electric 4 Machine Co.
1925 E. Washington st. Ir. 1851.
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Studied Law at Columbia
Births



Nineteenth
Frank and Ruth Thompson. 1415 East
RAYMOND.
- James and kathryn Wilkerson. $50 North
Temple.
Hugh and Penelope stuI. 1916 Ruckle. '
man hospital.
Lawrence and Kathryn Smith. Coleman
Kearsiey and Media Urich. Coleman hos
pital.
Frank and Lois Mascara, 635 South Ala
bama.
Lawrence and Mary Jones. GIT Arbor.
Boys
John and Sophia Andrews. 1893 Richland
. Loran and Marian Armstrong. Coleman
hospital.
William and Gladys Byrd. Coleman hos
Edgar and Blanche Hauser. Coleman hos
pital
Virgil and Lucille LarAey.. Coleman hos
Edgar and Alma stratton. Coleman hos
pital.
Charles and Dorothy calkins, 221O
Twins
Carroll and Edith Henderson, sos South
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Help Wanted Male

statesmen
Don't let a $50 weekly income scare
YOU; our men are making SoO 70 $50
Our sales plan is right Just what YOU
have been looking for. Interview IL a. N.
Mr.. WALLS. 50 N. Delaware.
TWO men this locality INSTALL service
operate Photo-Electric Engravers: $50
weekly to start. Write qualifications fully.
Photo Electric Research laboratory Corp.
Power Bldg. Seenth Ave. at Forty eighth
street. New York City.
3 MEN for permanent route; must be hard
workers and willing to build a real in
come. Apply 405 n. Rural. to p. m.
MAE-To manage cleaning and pressing
store IN Brightwood; must be expert
enced. Address Box A-2l0. Times.
Situations Wanted Female
EXP. hotel maid,t colored, wants work IA
home OF hctele ca. 3t71sRn -.