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soul, almost worried to death.
When I slipped out the back
door, I climbed over the hedge
in the rear like a cat, crossed
an alley, slipped through a
neighbor'S lot, and got to the
next street, then walked to the
street car line, stopped car,
sat down on the edge of the
seat, and held myself together
till could reach the one spot
in the world that I wanted to
see.
The one place where I could
get the only thing that meant
anything in life to me-dope!
The flowers in such sweet pro
fusion, in the beautiful rooms I
had deserted, the luxurious
couch, and the beautiful chairs,
and the rugs, and mirrors, and
pictures, the, silken draperies--
what did they all mean to me!
Not a thing in the world.
The long, broad, white, shin
ing, winding road, I had found
it, I had followed it, and it led
me where I wanted to go.
The Road to Dope
Not to the orchards, that
crowned the hills with golden
glory. not to the fields gay with
California wild flowers, not to
my own beautiful home with
my own devoted mother, and
my handsome husband-these
things meant less than moth
ing to me.
That road led me to dope"
And dope was all I asked of
life or death or times, or
eternity, for that is what it
is to be a dope slave.
That telephone number led
me straight to a Chinese ped
ler, and addict.
The only money I had was
the dollar my mother had
given to me at the sanitarium.
But I had my wedding ring
which was studded with small,
but very perfect diamonds.
My husband paid $500 for it,
when we were married.
I got plenty of dope, and
after my regular shot the
peddler persuaded me to take
a smoke with him.
In Poppy Land
When my mother and the
police located me, "a hours
later, they found me in the
drug sleep of opium. and be-
side me in an opium stupor, too,
lay the Chinese peddler I had
called on the telephone from
my mothers home.
The police arrested the COM
panion of my opium debauch,
not only for possession and sale
Of narcotics, but for stealing
my wedding ring. He was
wearing the ring, when the
police found him. I don't
know whether he took it off my
finger after I fell asleep. We
were in one of the lowest dives
in the Chinese and negro Sec
tion near the railroad track in
Los Angeles.
And that is what dope did
to a fairly intelligent, fairly
well-educated, perhaps a little
more than fairly attractive
young, American woman, who
was making $4,000 a week. and
was possessed of a beautiful
home, a handsome, successful
husband, a wide circle Of pleas
ant friends. and devoted
mother, when she started to
walk the dreadful road, Of dope
addiction.
ITO BE COntinued)
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she couldn't sleep yet, there
was so much to think about.
Cinderella and the Begsa.'
Maid of King Cophetua- She
felt like both of them rolled
into one. Tomorrow. tomorrow
she faced the reverse side of
the fairy tale fabric. Tomor-
row she faced a certain unreal
ality.
II have to think of it," she
told herself, las my job. Just
my job, that's all. have to
give it everything in me. I
have to see it through. Fol-
her sake"
And so she slept, look,ng if
one could have discovered her
dreaming. more like the Sleep
ing Beauty than like Gin
dercl'a.
Continued Tomorrow
Copyright. 1881. by Faith Baldwin
Distributed by King. Featurs
Syndicate, Inc
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?

Answsrs To TOdGy's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
1. Distillation Of wood tar.
2. From Latin. meaning to
walk crookedly. 8. Geometry
of three dimensions. 4. Okla
homa. S. Japan. 6. Bee. 7.
Heaven. 8. Tread. 8. Faith.
10. Laborer. IL. Native nurse.
r. Tolerate. 13. Charge for
transportation. IA. Abettor. Is.
Signify.
Copyright. 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-02-26
THE BEAUTY
BOX

There is a beauty epidemic
right now Of blue-green eye
shadows. Pretty dreadful and
spreading fast. With jet black
brows and lashes and greenery
eyelids a gal looks more than
scenic. Orchid shadows are
fascinating. Especially when
laid over a foundation Of vase
line.
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Life, Love and Adventures
OF a Modern Cinderella
What Has Happened So Far

Thrown her resources Mary Lou
tul and vvaciOus orphan, seeks position. Noticing
companion for semiinvald Larry Mitchell reporter and
Mary LOUIS friend shows TO- Mary applies for
position the palatial Of WestmiI
Conn.
She told the ad should have read male companion the
semnvad LOrrimer Mrs LOrrmerS Shot down
imprisoned while World aviator type of
Mary about enters
ezeS his calls Delight" and
Lorrmer explains Travers claims married
England named Delight Hartford Obviously
nearly her double Travers thinks her his missing
Mary Lou remain at good salary,
Hartford" temporarily, the role
wife regain his state of mind
and health, Finay MaryL
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In yesterdays installment,
Alma Rubens relates how, she
Schemed to make her escape
from the sanitarium. She OBJ
tanned a steel tube from the
bathroom. Stealing from the
building, she Sneaked up on
Fred, the chauffeur, placed the
cold end of the steel tube
against the back of the drivers
neck. He thought it was a
pistol. Alma then ordered him
to drive her away from the
sanitarium.
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Fashion Fancies

Don't Lose Gloves in the riot
Of new accessories about us for
the glove is still important. One
smart shop is showing gloves Of
brown antelope with embroid-
cred bracelets of turquoise
beads.
The Washington times., 1931-02-26
Times Daily Health Hint

If you wish to live to be a hundred you can.
But take care of your body and mind and check
disorder in the making
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Age-OLd Custom

bottle of sherry is presented to the clergyman
preaching on Sunday morning in st. Paul's Ca
thedral, London. The custom is centuries old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14
WHEN WAR COMES

mencement of hostilities everything that will
mould the theology of the population at large
will be set into motion; definite steps will be
taken Ito work up public opinion
But extremely important is the fact that the
social democratic parties and the reformist I'M
ions will take up their place in this apparatus,
will form the backbone of the agitation and pro-
paganda that will be undertaken; in a word
they will form the political department" of the
bourgeois war offices. They will leave no stone
unturned to urge and maintain the civil peace"
with their bourgeoisie and mobilize all the forces
of the workers to fling back the "treacherous
enemy"
They Will place the entire apparatus of the
reformist labor movement (Which in some coun-
tries is pretty extensively and all their expert
ence in befogging and diverting the workers at
the disposal of the General Stats and the Ad-
ninistrative bodies of the country modified for
war
One of the most important tasks that these
centres of imperialist war will charge them with
will be to struggle against the revolutionary
labor movement, against any sign Of protest OF
dissatisfaction Springing up among the working
masses.
Glass Struggle Sharpens
But apart from all these serious difficulties
and obstacles, the development of objective con-
ditions will make inevitable an intensification
and extension of the class struggle.
AS we already pointed out there can be no
rapid conclusion to the wars of the future.
Should the forces of the warning groups be
equal every effort would be made to mobilize
and take advantage of all poss- 5ilities and re-
sources, and the great leading trusts be directly
interested in prolonging the war, it will lead to
complete exhaustion
The new possibilities of striking at the vital
centres of the enemy with the help of aviation
and chemistry will not change this position Of
things as many military experts contend but will
only make the struggle more bitter than ever.
Besides this will be war that will embrace
in actual fact the whole world, a war in which
there will not be-and cannot be-any neutral
countries.
AS Engels wrote in 1887: mo war is now pos
sibe for Prussia Germany other than world
war. And this would be world conflagration
on an unprecedented scale Between and
million soldiers will be set at each others threats
and will devour Europe as no swarm of locusts
could. The devastation caused by the Thirty
Years War-but now compressed within period
of two or three years involving the entire con-
tinent with hunger, epidemcs and the utter
debasement Of the troops and the peoples, caused
by the general poverty and the complete break
down Of our artificial system of trade, industry
and credit will end in general bankruptcy; the
old governments will come topping down and
all their political wisdom will not~avail them; it
will be such a crash that dozens of crowns Will
roll in the gutter and no one will be found to
pick them up
-t-- ITO be continued
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By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.

By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
WHEN all the private charity ballyhoo has
blown over and all the current drives" are
ended it will be found that private charity agen-
cies, community chests and Hoovers emergency
committees have contributed about 20 per cent
or less of the amounts expended for relief this
winter
Last April a report by Glenn Steel of the U. S.
Children's Bureau showed that in rs cities ex-
snlined, the municipal governmental budgets
had covered Y per cent Of all the relief eXpendi-
lures. And Russell Sage Foundation study of
434 public and private relief agencies in 81 large
cities showed that in the month of August 1881,
n per cent of the total amount expended
s1o,13s oOo-ca1ne from public agencies and only
% peg cent from private charity,
Tbs percentage coming from municipal and
county treasures will be larger this winter,
due to the relatively smaller contributions from
The rich whose dividends and profits have fallen
during the past few months.
The burden then, of unemployment relief
such as it is-falls on local taxation. This is not
taxation on incomes and inheritances. 1t is not
taxation of the rich 1t is based primarily on
real estate and is thus tax that is passed on
to the consumer. In other words the working
class, including those who trade at the poorest
stores and live in the darkest tenements, pay the
bills. This is the type of taxation that delights
the Hoovers the Melons and the other repre-
sentatives of Wall Street who fight every form
of federal unemployment insurance.
To throw the burden of unemployment relief
on "local responsibility" is thus to shift it from
the rich the big incomes those whose tribute
pours in from industries scattered all over the
country and the world. The big bankers and the
capitalists are not touched by these local taxes.
Hence they fight for this form of relief and
against national taxation to provide national
unemployment insurance for the workers re-
gardless of where they work or live. And the
bankers are loyalty supported in their fight
against the working class by the officials of the
American Federation of Labor. President Green
of that organization sits on the national Hoo
yer Hunger Committee" and endorses the Hoo
yer policies of sparing the rich and soaking the
poor.
SO much for the methods used by the Hoovers,
the Giffords and the Greens to guard the in
comes of the Is per cent of the population in the
United States which owns 80 per cent of the
wealth of the country, especially of the per cent
that owns at least so per cent of the country's
wealth. n.........
How about these private relief drives in which
prominent capitalists, who have thrown tens of
thousands OF workers out of their plants get
their pictures in the press for now throwing
few thousand dollars into the private charity
bot? The money the most generous" Of them
give Is but tiny fraction Of the wages lost by
the fired or staggered" workers. 1t is esti-
mated conservatively by the New York State
Labor Department that $l,5oo,oo0000 has been
lost by the workers Of this state alone since the
tall ID 1929
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Article 3.


The following is the third series of articles
jcompied by the Social and Economic Depart
ment of the Red International of Labor I'm
ions) which give in clear outline, the forecast
Of what war will bring, the conditions that will
ensue and the historic developments that VIII
mark the transformation of the capitalist war
into civil war, developments in which every
worker will find IT necessary to act as an agent
of that transformation. Let all understand
then, that the developments which are today
bat forecasts, will tomorrow be grim realities
which must be faeed-Edtor.
Despite the seeming plan and system of the
war economy, capitalist contradictions will be
multiplied and intensified during the war with
lightning rapidity in, so to speak, geometrical
progression.
The most important task facing the revolu-
tionary labor movement during each imperialist
war is to defeat its own imperialists,
The peculiar features of the military appar-
atl1s during future warfare touched upon above,
open up many possibilities of preventing or at
least tnterrupting the smooth running OF the
war machine the strategical points mentioned
in the foregoing being especially Vulnerable,
which may well bring the entire apparatus to
s. standstill. The very development of capital
ist contradictions will from day to day loosen
the whole structure, and the purposeful action
Of the organized revolutionary vanguard viii
therefore prove the final and last blow to a tot
tering system
OF course, it would be absurd to underrate the
difficulties, to close out eyes to the obstacles.
How formidable they really are is already clear
today. From the moment war is declared the
entire industry and the whole economic life OF
the irnperialist countries will be militarzed and
subordinated to the military dictatorship. All
the peace offerings Of capital all the cant about
democracy, all their prating about the freedom
of the press and the right to combine will be
swept aside All agitation against war every at
tempt to resist it, will be firmly and ruthlessly
suppressed with all the brutality habitual to cap
ltaltsn.
With the declaration OF war the revolutionary
legal press viii be shut down; the legal apparatus
of the revolutionary parties will be smashed. A
great espionage system will be established at the
enterprises and in the working class districts.
Every economic strike, every attempt of the
workers to struggle for their minimum demands
will be considered treason. In this connection
the imperialists will act deliberately consistent
Iy, and from their own point Of view, correctly.
In view of the foregoing characteristics of war
economy every economic movement of the work.
ers irrespective of the wishes desires of the
participants, viii become political fight under
raining the very basis of the imperialist war
machine
Prepare theology For War
But the imperialist war apparatus will not only
make use of repressions From the very COM
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No Room, That's All

Some German speaking comrade writes in ask
ing why the Daily Worker didn't say more about
the case of Ludwig Lore, editor Of the New
Yorker Volkszeitung" who went south with num-
erous and considerable funds entrusted to him
as official OF the Socialist Relief Society,"" Are
we sheltering Lore?" he asks. Hardly.
We had long article; still have 1t. But there
were such a lot of more important things, more
alive than Lore that we just left 1t out Also,
the Communist paper der Arbeiter' dealt with
1t completely, and German speaking workers
should look to der Arbeiter' as the voice of the
Party in matters especially interesting them.
We understand that Lore made speciality
OF getting away with inheritances, quite priest
ly trick, though the only god we recall him
acknowledging was Leon Trotsky.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14
Just A Human"

From worcester, Massachusetts, "A Human"
writes in, saying he is mot pro nr anti-Commu-
nist-it Is an unknown quantity tc. me. But I am
very deeply anxious to help somebody have a
wonderful Xmas to look back on" So he wants
to know what we suggest he should do about it.
Also, it would appear that some Worcester
comrades have cast cold and fishy eye at this
Human" because he complains:
why is it that you fellows regard with sus-
pcion well-dressed fellow who is not Com
munist, but who would help tremendously an
unfortunate individual of the workers. / know
I feel human misery keenly yet unless belong
to the Party, unless wear seedy pants, Il will
be person to supect. Wing
Darned IL we know. We have done our bit
trying to st,cw your folks that they should go
a bit deer-1r than clothes in estimating what
their attitude should be toward someone who
comes around and wants to be friendly. Some of
the worst spies we ever saw were regular dirty
buns and others went all the way up the scale
of dress.
OF course, great masses OF workers are poorly
dressed by necessity. But though we respect the
revolutionary worker no matter how ragged he
may be, we certainly intend that the workers
shall dress better under Communism than they
are able to do under capitalism. We lead strikes
for better wages right now for that end too.
some individual great Xmas. We would be
stumped to make any nomination, in the first
place. And while we don't wish to curdle the
milk of human kindness, we must observe that
this feeling of personal patronage is derived
quite naturally and in this case unconsciously
of course, from the charity" IMPULSE of the
master class that salyes its conscience tand
protects its property by favors to knee-crooking
members of the slave class.
To revolutionary workers this charity is replu-
sive because it is given as from master to slave
and not in the comradely solidarity of their own
class. We do not ascribe quite this attitude to
this comrade Human" of course, as his letter
generally makes clear that he has some social
feeling and COLLECTIVE sympat hy--which is
something
q But while he is waiting for Xmas and we hope,
learning a bit about Communism, we suggest,
since he SPEAKS of Harlan, that he might con-
tribute, not to charity, but to the soup kitchen
of Harlans women and children of the fighting
miners. And anything he may send through us
to that end. will be placed right in the hands of
the miners intact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14
Mother Is All W et

The YCL, and long may its banner wave, has
issued handbook" An interesting and, we
hope, an authoritative book In it we ind:
Applicants pledge: (Extract) To further do
all in your power to learn and become con-
scious leader amongst young workers"
However, if you want to go to the Workers
School, you better forget this part. Then there
are some other juicy chunks
TT is necessary to be flexible with new and
undeveloped members, upon whom strict disci-
pline cannot be forced. In the League,
every member accepts discipline vollm
tarily because he is convinced while in the s.3cp
it is forced on him.
However, we are reminded by the following
letter of YCLer who wanted to learn journal
ism in the Workers School, given only on TIE
unit meeting night, promised to work all other
six nights for the unit if he could learn and
become a conscious leader" in this field but got
turned down at first. Then we tried. but here
is his letter
II thank you for interceding in my behalf in
the question of going to school Wednesday
nights However, I'm sorry bothered you for
I'm afraid that even your typewriter proved i'm
potent when pitted against District forms SIN
The official decree is-"Attend unit meetin-r.
Well, I guess Mother Knows Best"
OF course. we could hesitate to guarantee that
this particular comrade would make an es.-
cellent Communist journalist, but we doubt that
those who denied him the chance to try, had
any substantial evidence to the contrary.
Well, Discipline begins where conviction
ends" but It's the conviction Of the crocodile
that this sort Of stiff-necked business Injuries
the League however much 1t may save the faces
Of the functionaries who might suffer the loss
Of bit Of worse than-useless vanity.
There are not three League members who can
write worth cold hot dogs. The Daily Worker
has broken its neck trying to develop volunteer
Communist journalists. The League is the most
promising source. but that promise is not lived
up to-
If the League can afford to be smugly sat-
isfied in flying in the face Of the Party and the
League general policy Of developing new cadres
merely to confirm the formal authority Of rigid
rules and the present none too trained cadres
then our guess is that Mother is all wet
Why Play Hooker: From the "lttle RED
Schoolhouse" started by the Trade Union Unity
Council OF New York? 1t started out a month
ago with about SO pupils. but 1t dropped TO hail
that We asked why, and were otld that OF the
unions which were asked to ELECT students
from membership meetings the Shoe Workers
officials said that the workers didn't want to
co.; the Food Workers officials APPOINTED
students, and only the Marine Workers union
membership elected them Elected students at
tend appointed students play Rookie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14
by BURCK

All war funds for the unemployed!
Support the struggles of the Italian workers
against fascism
Fight against imperialist war and for defense
of the Soviet Union!
UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE,
Communist Party of U.S.A., Young Com
munist League, International Labor Defense.
Anti Fascist League, Anti Imperialist League,
Trade Union Unity League, Unemployed
Councils, Council for the Protection of For
eign Born, League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, Workers Ex-Servcemen's League.
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b. taxed on their incomes and inbertances to
provide both immediate relief and nemploy-
ment insurance for the jobless workers
Every employed worker, therefore. should boy
colt the charity drives now in progress To really
help the unemployed give your support to the
hunger march, sending funds to the Workers
International Relief. 799 Broadway. New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
1000 Detroit Unemployed
Demand that EVictionS Stob

was no law written in the statutes
Of the law books Of USA, the state
Of Michigan or the City of Detroit,
stating that the workers are COM
PEELED to starve and can't do any
thing about it. But nevertheless,
thousands of workers are starving
here in Detroit.
When the committee came out
after there was no action taken nor
contemplated to be taken by the
Mayor, and reported this to the 1000
workers present, the workers booed
the Mayors actions and openly
shouted out that the elections are
very near, and they will not vote
for Murphy as they did in the last
elections, but instead will vote for
John Schmies, the Communist can
didate for Mayor, and also for An
tonic Gerlach, VIM. Novel;, Joseph
BillupS, and Nellie Belunas for Coun-
cilmen.
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In that way they will have the full
support of the Mcdonald misleader-
ship of the masses, which might be
lost If the Socialist government it
self carried thru the hunger attack,
in the face of mass resistance. BY
withdrawing Macdonald at this time,
the bosses hope to be able to prevent
the total establishment of the
masses, and to use him again per-
haps in more acute situation.
The three capitalist parties, con-
servative, liberal and labor, are I'M
animous in their fear of an election
at this time, because of its unset
Ting effect on the economic situa-
ton. But the British capitalists
may find that 1t is the least dds
turbing" and costly thing to do.
The parallel between the British
Socialists" and their German COL
leagues is striking. When the Ger
man Socialists we're on the verge of
losing the faith of the masses, they
were replaced by the Bruening gov
eminent, only to support thsi fascist
government from the outside. Nc
Donald and Co. may have to follow
the same course They will continue
to help the British bosses nj or out
of the government.