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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
SHADE IS WELL FIXED.

Dave Shade, veteran middIeweight,
has had 40 fights, and he's saved his
money, 90 he won't have 70 sell apples
some Winter. He has both town and
country homes. tive New York Oats and
o California ranch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
HARVEY, FIELDS 0KAYED
Commission Reverses It's Decision
Lifts Ban on Jackie.

Lifts Ban on Jackie.
NEW YORK, February IS R.-A
bout between Len Harvey, British mid
dleweight champion, and Jackie Fields,
Los Angeles, former welterweisht king,
viii be held In Madison Square Garden
March 20.
Fields. suspended last week, was re-
instated yesterday when he presented
evidence before the State Commission
to show that Jack Kearns was not his
manager. Kearns is In disfavor with
the commission. At the same time the
commission reversed its previous de.
ctsion Withholding approval Of thu
HarVey-Fields match.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
E51zS|s

There is definite trend, nowadays, toward that
informal type of personal car whose lines fittings
and special equipment follow thesport mode. Just
such a car has recently been added to the ChevrO.
let six-cylinder line, and is now display in
our showrooms: the netU Chevrolet convertible
cGbri0Let.
In this model, something entirely in smart
ness and individuality is brought the price
field. The Body by Fisher has long rakish lines,
enlivened by rich colors and many nodish new
style effects. A spacious rumble seat gives the
car fOur-passenger capacity. Landau irons,
window and windshield frames, radiator grille
and cOwl lamps, all finished in sparkling chrO-
MUM plate, emphasize the custom character of
this model.
In addition, the cabrioIet offers the advantage of
being convertible. The top be conveniently
raised or lowered to make it either q snug en-
closed coupe, a dashing open roadster.
You are invited to come in and be one of the first
to look this latest addition to the current
Chevrolet six-cylinder line. In common with all
other Chevrolet models, the cabriolet combines
unusual comfort, dependability, endurance and
performance with price that makes it an OUT
standing value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Brought Old Army Game.
That did this bring about?"

What did this bring about?"
THE So-called old Army game, where
the first batter tried to reach first, the
next sacrificed and the third, If he
couldn't score the runner, at least at
tempted to place him on third. Teams
tried to start the first inning with q
run. II only one, that was enough be-
cause the other team had TO make two
runs to win. Place and forearm hitting
was at its zenith"
Don't they do that now?"
"Once in while. Some of them can
bat both ways, but more of them can
not. The forearm hitterS now are in
the minority. Some of the players who
try to swing should be batting forearm,
because they are never going to make
free hitters. Babe Ruth, Gehrig, Sim
mons, Fox, Wilson and other batters
have the faculty of timing the ball well
and FASTING 1t over the heads of the out
fielders, but how many batters can hit
the long distances that those fellow can
hit?"
do you think ball players viii go
back TO forearm and placement bat
ting?"
yes. when they can't hit the
pitchers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
SINGLES.
MEMS DOUBLES.
MEMS SINGLES.


william r. Coll, winner Of the Toronto
15-mile swim last year, viii give an
exhibition tonight In the Ambassador
Hotel pool at o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
New low prices q

Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet $6lS
Roadster 47S; Sport Roadster with rumble seat 94oS;
Phaeton $50; Standard Coupe $685. Coach Standard
FveWndow Coupe &S4S; Sport Coupe umble seat $575;
Standard Sedan, $685. Special Sedan, $780, Prices b.
Flint. Michigan Special equipment Low delivered
prices and easy TERMS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
FIGHTERS WILL INVADE
Four From Philippines to Sail for
America on March RI.

MANILA, February IS LP.-Four
leading Filipino boxers will leave here
March q for an invasion Of the United
States.
They are Young Tommy, fyweight
and bantamweight champion OF the
Orient; Varias Milling, featherweight
and Junior lightweight champion;
Young Uzcudun, light-heavyweight and
heavyweight champion, and Young Fir
20, outstanding contender for Young
Tommy's two crowns.
The boxers will be under the man.
agement of Pepin Javellana. . local
promoter. and will make Los Angeles
their first stop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Team Standing.
Season Records.

High team game-Braves, 625
High team set-Isherwood A. c., 1,655.
ll1-l6.
High individual game-Auth, 1853.
High individual set-B. Womersley, 3S9.
High strikeS-B. Womersley, Is.
High spares-Keith, ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

A CRISIS is at hand in the hectic
" District League pennant strug-
~ gle. Important battles will be
fought tonight, tomorrow night
and Friday.
The leading King Pin team tonight
will invade Hyattsville. II the subur-
banites manage to get away with three
games they would assume the lead with
an advantage Of half a game.
Tomorrow night HyattSville will in
wade the Northeast Temple. strong
hold of the present runher-up, and on
Friday the King Pins will visit the
Rendezvous.
Here's how the leaders stand:
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AIS GIRLS TAKE GAME
Prove Much Superior to Sextet
From Annapolis.

Ais A. c. drubbed Annapolis Vaga-
bonds, 26 to 6, last night In a girls
basket ball game at Wilson Normal
School gymnasium.
Ais have booked q game with Hagers-
town A. c. for Saturday night on the
Wilson Normal court.
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Had a Wicked Swing.

What is your lifelong experience in
batting?"
IT began to play when I was a boy
IN Massachusetts,. The batterS did not
know anything about bunting or drag
ging the ball or tapping it, or placing
1t. They swung and they had q wicked
swing in those days. In my youth
got job to catch in the major leagues.
At that time they were still swinging
free at the ball, but the new way Of
batting was beginning to creep in.
John Montgomery Ward denounced
the free swing and said there was no
science to 1t. Ward preached forearm
batting. He was right from his stand
point because he was self-made batter.
You know he didn't hit much when he
was q pitcher, but while he was pitching
he practiced batting morning and aft
ernoon. He couldn't hit like Buck
Ewing, who was q natural batter. Ward
was q forearm, placement hitter"
did he turn the minds of all ball
players to his ways?"
HE certainly had something to do
with it. Pop Arson used to SCOT at
Wards theories, but Arson frightened up
his infield when Ward came to bat, Just
the same. Keeler, McGraw, George
Davis, Latham, Brodie and others came
along and the first thing any one knew
the free batting swing had mostly gone
out Of base ball and batters were trying
to rap the ball to certain place on the
field, between runners and flelderS."
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SKATERS REVERT
TO FREE SWINGING
Scientific Hitting of Old Army
Game Rarely Seen
These Days.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

A NY comments that Connie
~ Mack, the dean of major
4 \ league managers, makes
about base ball are always
interesting. Just now, as the So
year-old manager Of the cham
pion Philadelphia Athletics pre-
pares for the annual training
period in Florida, he has some
thing pertinent to say about styles
In batting. He has observed them
over a period of so years spent in
active participation in the ma
tional game.
IT think" said Connie, that one
change has taken place in base ball
that has been more overlooked than any
other''
what is it?' he was asked. do you
refer to the home run epidemic?"
mo, that's too obvious" replied the
lanky son of New England. The style
Of batting has been turned upside down
and we are going back to the days of
my boyhood. I don't hear much about
that. hear q lot about pitchers who
can't cope with the batterS and I have
Q few batters on my own team who, I
hope, win punch the pitchers wickedly
this year. Personally don't care how
many home runs they make but II they
hatted like the players did in 1895. you
wouldn't have as many home runs"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

ate. Today. in the face of tremen-
dous difficulties, the Soviet Union
mas been able to reduce this Hit
eracy by many tens of millions. In
1880 alone, ten and one-half million
were taught to read, write, and
cipher, and this year, twenty-five
million more will receive this train
ingl BY the end of 1881 four-fifths
OF the rural population will be lit
crate, and all but small fraction
OF those in the city.
BY the end OF the Five Year Plan
there will be universal literacy. This
is an achievement unequalled in the
worlds history, and one made Dos
sible by the leadership and direction
given by the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union TO the tremendous
enthusiasm OF Russia's $50 millions
OF toiling population intent on build
ing socialism and furthering their
own development.
The more than five million toilers
in the United States condemned to
illiteracy under the rule of Wall
Street will learn this lesson. as well
as others, from their Russian BROTH
ers. Down with Illiteracy," in order
to be achieved, means Away with
Capitalism" and "Up with the
Sov1etS"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

States is tenth on the list of ma
lions having the highest rates of IL
hteracy In the world. What if more
than 100000 toilers' children are
always out of school 1aboring in the
fields and factories. ignore such
facts as that in this richest country
on the earth, there are thirty times
as many illiterates Gin proportion to
the population) as in Germany and
Denmark. Middle class native whites
OF native parentage, thank god, are
well fed and college-bred. Some of
them are even able to spend months
OF analysis on a problem and write
book which is well received in the
academic world-but which is SUI
perficial farce from beginning to
end.
This book offers another glaring
example of the utter bankruptcy of
what passes in capitalist-run uni
versities as social science. Only
Marxisr and it's dialectic method
can furnish a genuine analysis of
such problems as illiteracy; only
revolutionary workers and farmers
government can remove this, along
with other burdens from the shoul-
ders OK the toiling masses. Soviet
Russia is demonstrating this. In
1919 under the rule of the car,
three out of every four Of her popu-
lation on the average. were illitar-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

c1atter of traffic came the shril1
voice of a newsboy. Red Riot at
Capitol. Police Club Hunger March
ers." Mrs. Marvin wished she had
been there instead of begging at the
Charities. Better to die in the quick
excitement of fighting than this SLOW
agony of starvation
There was knock at the door.
She hurried to it. Maybe the Char
tiles had realized her need and were
sending her something tonight. But
she was mistaken. It was only a
boy trying to sell a Liberty Maya
zine.
The knock had wakened Eva and
she began to whinper now for some
thing to eat. Mrs. Marvin brought
her a glass of water, but after a
swallow she pushed it away.
There now, hush, darling, go to
sleep and tomorrow we'll have some
thing to eat" But Eva kept up her
whining.
joey was still awake. He said,
Keep still, Eva. I'm hungry too.
Mrs Marvin went into the other
room and closed the door. She walked
back and forth across the floor, STUFF
fling her fingers in her ears to shut
out the sound of Eva's crying.
MY God! I can't stand this. I'll
go crazy. I'm always telling them
tomorrow-tomorrow. And I can't
go on living off the Straubs-him
working only two days week. They
haven't enough for themselves. Why
is it--I'm strong, able to work, will
ing to do anything - and yet I'm
helpless. There is no work, but
everywhere people trying to sell
something"
She stopped for a moment and
took her hands from her ears. Eva
was still crying. She clenched her
fists and pounded them against her
ears.
For Z. long time there had been
no sound from the next room. Sill
ence everywhere save the ticking Of
the big alarm clock on the shelf
over the sink, and occasionally the
faint rumble of the elevated a block
aW2V The roo,,a vr7os ,oId a..S A.
Marvin had sat huddled in her chair
so long she could scarcely move at
first. She had put battrobe on
over her dress for extra warmth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13
Proletdridn Cultural Clubs
Confer to Form Federation

leading force in every field OF espres-
sion, and in that way, win oyer the
nradicalized workers as well as tbs
Observation-Disclosures, artists. 'scier-
lists, students, teachers. chemists,
engineers, etc. vi
The motion pictrlrc Is q powerful
propaganda medium. The cost Of tbs
silent film is comparatively cheap
and within the means Of many ors
CARNATIONS which could proddes rey~
dictionary working class films a fed
GRAFTON can help to exhibit such films
on wide scale.
The same applies to victros rec
ords Of workers songs, to proletar1an
literature whose publications can be
made possible by subscription, and to
exhibitions of proletarian art which
can be sent to all clubs and oegan-
izations fTecc
This will at the same time stinnu-
late the individual writer's, artists,
musicians. drarnatists and others to
create for the revolutionary move
ment. -..cgcc
Definite programs can be plsnned
for national and international con-
tests and socialist competitions can
be arranged in every field Of cultural
work. aiA@
1t is impossible in tbs space of q
short article to discuss in detail all
the advantages that will be derived
from the federation. The conference
tomorrow is only q beginning: the
federation will undoubtedly within
short time expand into s,national
organization, embracing the nearly
100000 workers who are engaged in
some form of cultural work and car
rying its activity into the ranks Of
the hundreds of thousands, n1ors who
are in the grip of the churches, the
YMCA,s, sport clubs, and other bour-
geois cultural agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

loroletsrian writer to the Red Capital
Cork intends to take up permanent
residence in the USSR in order to
enable him to have q wlole-hearted
and active personal participation in
the great socialstic Construction.
The name of Cork lin Russian this
Eord means "bitter'') is Of course
household word throughout the world
His writings which are universally
recognized to be masterpieces of Gre
alive. effort breathing the spirit Of
oppressed millions who once groaned
s2nder the iron heel of the cursed
strtocracy are read and known in
every corner Of the earth. Cork Is
essentially fitted to portray the mis-
cry, ignorance, superstition and des-
titution that prevailed among the
Russian peasantry Of czarist days.
He himself is q son of the people and
sprung from its. lowest and poorest
stock. Born in q poor working class
family and raised in the family of
his grandfather among numerous rel
stives, living in the utmost sqlIalo-.
he was subjected to untold cruelties
at the hands of his uncles and aunts.
From his very infancy little Maxim
tasted the bitterness of life.
Later, Cork, Still at an age waea
boys should be at school struck out
for himself Fse shipped down the
Nolga as gaIley-boy, and then over a
period Of years was dock-laborer,
baker, painter, watchman, boot-mak-
er, railwayman, craftsman, lawyers
clerk, reporter on various provincial
papers and finally he took up writing
rs a profession.
He went on foot from one end OF
the country. to the other and in many
respects was a tramp pure and simple
but with this vast differnce that all
he observed, the sufferings he saw.
the terrible. miserable hand-to-hand
existence in The struggle for life that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13
BY Buhck

what at dinner5" III. 20,
"Coffee and bread"
Supper" Supper is the miners
big meal.
BREAD, soup, beans, sometimes
meat" they said. "a
A similar quizzing of the adults
brought out the same answers.
There isn't enough" said many
of the children. 1--WE go withoutifood
for days sometimes" said the adults
They looked it, 49,.
Most Of the miners carry a lunch
bucket of water to work, instead OF
food" said others. o741
Well, against such conditiorsa there
are 400 miners striking at Horning
Against such conditions thousands OF
miners march into the teeth Of dep
uties, state police, coal and iron po-
lice, They have shed the blood from
their emaciated bodies already. They
are putting up a noble fight They
will win if they can get relief. Their
local relief committees canvass the
! immediate neighborhoods. Their dis
trict strike committee formed at its
last meeting, Wednesday, a, district
relief committee, with delegates from
II sections of the strike. Tuesday,
June Is, thousands of jobless' and
starving miners will march ifasMash-
ington county, to demand relief for
both from the government there. But
all the strikers must have relief. Send
all possible funds, hold mass meet
ings, form united front Committees
in the cities, collect funds and send
them to the Striking Miners Dis
trict Relief Committee, Gil Penn
Ave, Room SIT, Pittsburgh. It is {.
strike against starvationl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13

No the family had had nothing
to eat that day. They hoped to get
something to eat at night, if the re-
lief committee sent out to gather
food i'll the surrounding neighbor-
hood was lucky.
That was all there was in that
room. Up a narrow dark staircase,
we're two rooms. One had an old
army cot in it with q bed tick SO
old that when you lifted one end,
whole hatfulls of stuffing came out
of holes that tore with each move
ment. A pile Of rags lay on it. My
boy sleeps here" said the man, point
ing to an eight-year-old boy. There
was a rope cornerwise across the
room, with worn overalls and shirt
hanging on it. There was nothing
else in the room.
The last room had a bed, bigger
but just as fraiL and here there
was one chair. Here too there was
a rope, on Which hung an apron,
and some miners Clothes. A miners
cap hung on a nail. There was moth
ing else.
All the rooms were dark. All wers
small, about IL by IA,
That's the way they live in Horn
ing. The company furnished the
house, but the man himself had to
buy the furniture. He even had to
buy the stove, and the coal for the
stove, only now there was no fuel,
for the company refuses to sell to its
strikers even if they have money,
which they don't.
This is a typical home of Horning,
and Horning is typical of hundreds
of mining camps all around over this
part OF the state. Some are little
better; miners assured us some are
much worse.
Now this is why human beings live
this way Before the present strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13
Maxim Cork Returns to
Workers Russia to Stay

he came up against during his tramp
ings were analysed dissected, weighed
and stored away in his heart and
mind. These experiences and obs7rva-
tons were later BY their simple, Gre
alive, sincere intensity to shake the
whole world to realization Of the
Undesirable hellish conditions and
slave-like existence of the Russian
toiling masses.
At a very early age Cork became
associated with the young but grow
ing revolutionary movement in Rus
STA; first among the student move
ment and later with the workers.
His creative efforts express that
period of gigantic social changes
when the capitalistic elements had
overthrown the feudal landowning
structure and w1len on the social
arena appeared a new class-the Pro-
1etariat.
While he was preparing for entrance
to the KaHlan University (this he
never succeeded in dolog) he organ
lied underground political circles
among the student body of the uni
versity. In 1892 at Maikope, in South
Russia, he was arrested for organ
izing Cossack rising; and again in
1901 fell into the hands of the Ok
hrans (secret police in st. Peters
burg Geningrad). where he had es-
tablished contact with the Russian
Social Democratic Labor Party, for
writing a Criminal and treason
able Manifesto to the Sornov work
ers.
Continuing his political activities,
Cork was delegated in 1907 to the
Fifth Congress Of the f. S. D. L. P,
held In London. In the following
years of reaction after the 1905 rev.
olution, he settled on the Island OF
Capri (19oS) where he founded a
school for Russian worker propaganda
lists.
In 1910, Just after the publication
of Mother" and Enemies" two
epoch making books of the 1905 Rev
olution, Lenin wrote Of Cork thus:
Maxim Cork is, without doubt,
the greatest representative Of Pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-13
BY VEIN Smith.

We went into Hornlng, Pa, where
the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, has
its Mine No 4. One side of q dingy
gully is the mine, and the house
Of a boss. The miners dwellings,
company houses, extend up the side
hill across from the mine. They are
square, implanted, rough board, and
ramshackle. The streets between
them slant 1engthwise and are full
Of holes. A curious odor from lack Of
proper sewage hangs over the
patch" ...-
At the first street corner is the
house of a Negro miner, his wife and
child. It IS just like the others; and
Negro and white miners and their
families. poor and hungry, lean
against the sides and look down at
the company's fat mules on the mine
side. --
You're from the National Miners
Union? Yes. then come right in"
The first room contained rickety
bed, with clean but ragged bedding.
1t stood on a worn board floor, IN
painted, like everything on the
miners side Of the ravine. There
was a chair, kitchen chair. There
was a brave attempt at beauty, some
pictures from the photo gravure sec
lions Of Sunday paper, pasted on
lie wall. There was an ironing board
leaning against the wall. There was
nothing else,
The second room was the kitchen.
An ancient stove. a wash tub on a
.ow box, table, a cupboard. In
the cupboard we're a couple of dozen
Clipped dishes. They we're very
clean. In fact, the whole inside of
the cupboard was clean-unhealthily
so. There was not one crurnb of
iood, not enough to feed a cockroach.
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rates Of illiteracy. Child labor as a
factor in illiteracy Is not even
touched upon.
While in the population as a whole
one in every is to II persons can
not read or write, among the Ne
groes, one in five is so handicapped
and among the Indians, one in every
three. In Porto Rico, Haiti and
other colonies one-ttird to one-half
are kept in this extreme of enforced
Ignorance. In the Black Belt, where
the overwhelming majority of the
population are exploited Negro peas
antry, every third person is Hitter
ate.
Yet the author, ignoring such
facts, concludes page 79), that as
the older generations die off, "even
if no further efforts were made to
reduce the illiteracy and provided
conditions remained the same, it
may be assumed that the illiteracy
rate for native whites of native par
entage would approach one per
cent"
In other words, In the natural
course Of events illiteracy will
practically" disappear. Only one
million poor white farmers and
workers and three million Negroes
and Indians will still be illiterate in
ten years tifnel There is nothing
to worry about What If the United