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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01
BY ANNA ROCHESTER,.

ONE Of the functions Of proletarian
" art is to interpret the experience
and thoughts Of the workers. and
to Make MY Bread, by Grace Lump
kin (Macauley Coz, is an outstand-
ing example, perhaps the sfirst in
the United States, of a Well-exec-
uted novel grounded in reality and
focused on the gradual develop
ment OF solidarity and revolutionary
ideas in group Of southern work.
ers,
The story moves in four distinct
stages, eacl, growing out OF the one
before it and yet each shaped by
changes in the material background
Of the workers. First, the life OF
mountain farmers, independent,
self-reliant in their poverty because
each family owns it's one-room
cabin and it's patch Of hillside and
yet held together by strong ties as
"neighbors and kin"
From this life they are uprooted
by the coming of a lumber company,
appropriation pushing them gu t
into the landless proletariat. They
go down from the mountains
dreaming Of comfort in the mill
villages where they will handle
money, but the dream fades into
the more desperate poverty of ex-
ploitation in the mill. They are
still neighbors and kin but the old
Social bonds of free mountain life
have been broken by slavery to the
mill-owners' machines and nothing
has taken their place. Empty, dead
~ routine; childbirth, sickness,
death; resentment against the rich
airt acceptance OF smooth words
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01

but were driven TO work with
whips while their teeth chartered
and their bones ached, and one
of the Mississippi camp, where
the warden liked to shoot into
gang of Negroes to see how fast
they could run with chains on
their legs
III, BUZzARD'S ROOST was as
" clean as an angels wings and the
guards as kind as a white bearded
saint to the South Carolina camp
from which he had escaped into
Georgia. In Buzzard's RooSt there
were verInin and stencil, cursings
and beatings and stocks, but out Of
Siatternville seventeen Negroes went
into the wilderness of the South
Carolina hills in floating cage, q
cage drawn by four mules, sway
ing, creaking, rumbling prison Of
thick wood with no bars or WINDOWS
for air on nights that choked you,
and hunks Of steel with rings for
master chains TO lock you In al
night. Bedbugs slept with you in
that cage and lice nestled in the
hair of your body and you scratched
until your skin bleG and the sores
on your body filed with pus. Meat
for the floating kitchen wrapped in
buriap bags, sinking meat swarm
ing with Inaggct5 and files, and corn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01
A Novel Inspired by the Struggles of
the Southern Workers

from the boss-paid preachers.
The third stage comes after the
war, when speed-up. mass dismiss
ais. and the deliberate efforts of
the bosses to divide the workers
bring the beginnings of worrying
class consciousness. Then a strike
unveils the lay.less brutality of the
capitalist class and the stronger
workers are ready for the long
struggle looking toward revolution
This is not the first book in
spired by the Csastonis strike
Workers who know Gastonis and
know southern workers saw that II
is the truest picture of the situs-
tjor pu4 ;fs i,,,,,,rta,,ce lice as,,e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01

xE Won ore vo,,no o,d howe bea,, in
aha,.. 49,. - - -. - -
49, - ,,,oe SOUS 80, Dolot0' you hIIo"
49, 81 1'a-, . 49, S'los ooil-
VIZ IT,, oaeA ~. ~ 49, 1lie SSG t,
r,,,o l1sd % haon ,ilo nain [o 80 04 s
- --''N 49, oAt eiii suns" t0A
,aa, o,S nv 49, " ~ 80 , .laS1I
whom the warden gave him as a
helper. And when the meal truck
arrived and the walking = boss
shouted, 'Lay 'en down. Come on
now. an cit vo' feedt" and Small
pox sat with David. he remembered
that Dee had said that to sleep with
a man was as evil in the ewes of
the Lord as sleeping with a beast
in the field. and turned to the lick
leader,
DAVID REJECTS
THE OFFER
"Whut YOU speckin'. Mistuh?" he
asked coldIy.
SMALLPOX looked surprised
whats de mattah?" he de-
manded. frowning.
'Iissen," David said quietly. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01

for natures needs. He had learned
in Snake Fork how convictS use it
for two minute rest when they
feel they are about to drop from
exhaustion.
"Gittin' out there!" the guard
agreed, pointing to low brush OIL
the edge of a field.
IN SATURDAY afternoons some
" bathed in a large pan, less for
cleanliness than for the cool feel of
water, and when they washed, five
or six used the same pan, for the
pump was in the warden's yard and
1t was too much trouble to Gerry
water for each man. Sometimes the
commissary gave them a yellow bar
of soap, but there were no towels
and bodies dried in the sun. Many
did not even battle on Saturdays,
for it was too long to wait their
turn, or because their bodies would
be more odorous for the nightly
smelling.
SYPHILIS
David watched q strapplllg Negro
with an Open sore the size OF q
dime on his left leg battle in water
already used.
Syphilis" the bather volunteered
indifferertly, noting the boys look.
"Ah tor de Cap'n bout hit wen I
fus' come an DR.. Blaine, he come
and looked me ovah an said hit was
syphilis, but he couldn't affohd to
buy me no injections an de Cap'n
said he couldn't affohd to SEN
strong niggah away Wen he was shy
O. convicts. But hit doan hut. Ain
no bother a-tall. Hitll go way in
a iii while.
yeah. De doctor say Whit de
hell do you think I am? Come out
heah an spen' mo- money on gas
an oil den de county pays me an
den speck me to pay TO injections
TO synthetic niggahs? Hill cost a
couple o dollahs treatment ev'ry
week TO long time an If ] staht
Wild dis one, whey l come of at?
Ev'ry damn niggah got syphilis ono
way or another, anyway. Transfer
him IL you rant to git rid 81 tlini's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01
INSTALMENT ~.

STORY FAR;-David Jackson youth
job when he picked
the chain While Bill taking
Roost David tries
caught beaten additional months
arrives at the 20pound spikes riyeted
The the chain building
Smallpox Carter his singing
that give the xhausng Davids spikes make
it difficult Now continue:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01
After the
EIectiOnS>>
Next Tasks
Resolution Adopted by Dist. 8, C. p.
(ConcIusioD)

Resolution Adopted by Dist. 8, c. p.
(ConcIusioD)
Organizationally, the c. P. dur
ing the election campaign did not
build itself, altho we reached humid
reds of thousands Of workers with
our leaflets. petitions, literature,
speeches, etc. We did not con-
solidate mass organizations nor in
crease the membership Of the Com
munist Party, and the reasons for
that was. that the whole election
campaign had too much of a gem
eral agitational character, confined
to experimenting instead of basing
ourselves upon developing struggles
on the basis of the program of de-
mands Of our Party. In the months
Of the election campaign in the
Chicago District, the number OF
workers recruited into the Party
was on the average below the nor
NAL growth of the Party of the
previous three months. We must,
not only in the election campaign,
but in all activities and struggles,
overcome this continual weakness,
which is no more a mere weakness
but a main obstacle for further de-
velopment Of the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-01
NEGRO SLAVERYT OpAY
4. John L.SbiVak's Stirring NoVef
GEORGIA MHGGER"


is
tho white ruling class term "n and to the oppression and nemrOqH
horrible conditions
10
teruso Of repc oil usEdicT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Addison, 10 miles southwest Of here,
and was struck by an Erie passenger
train.
The automobile, with many of the
occupants imprisoned in the wreckage,
was carried $50 yards down the tracks
and burst into flames.
The dead are:
Arthur Woodbeck, 80, Of Addison:
Harold Stamford, 81, of Tuscarora, and
and Floyd, s.
Mrs Ruth Woodbeck, wife of the dead
man, and two more of their children,
Harry 2, and Arthur, jr., S, are in
Corning Hospital, with severe body
burns and possible internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Justice irwin Untermyer dismissing the
s25 100000 action brought by Bob
against August Heckscher and others.
The appellate division ordered the
acton reinstated.
Bob charged that while he was alb
sent from the city the defendants
formed a conspiracy to defraud him OF
profits which he might have MADE as
a result of an agreement he had maze
with them.
The defendants, in addition to Mr..
Heckscher, are George F. Thompson,
Louis P. Jubien, Walter J. Melody,
George L. Johnson, Robert s. McClel-
Ian, J. P. Ronaghan, T. B. Barber. T.
F. Cole, Floyd de L. Brown, G. Maurice
Heckscher, Morris Talbot, Louis Freud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Is all mine" Hangers note added he
came to Miami 10 days ago to forget
his troubles, but had been robbed of
most of his money. He asked that his
body be cremated and that his posses,
sions be sent to his wife.
Hangers name is not listed in tn,
Washington directory and his wife could
not be located Washington police were
not notified of his death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
Cuban Prisoners Freed.

HAVANA, January Is R.-About
100 prisoners taken In the rebellion of
last August we're liberated yesterday
under the general amnesty order which
President Machado signed Thursday.
They were the last of the men i'm
prisoned for political offenses In con-
nection with that revolt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

A direct saving of s12,50o in lighting
and heating Is expected as result Of
the new hours in Londons elementary
schools, the afternoon session now
commencing at 1870 o'clock while the
lower grades will be dismissed at $50
and the upper at f.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Many rubber trees In the Netherland
East Indies are being felled and the
ground cleared for the cultivation OF
food products.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
BYRD BACKER WINS PLEA
IN S25, 900, 900 BATTLE
Bob's Claim That He Was De-
frauded of Huge Fortune Is Re
instated by Appellate Court.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16.-The ap--
pellate division of the Supreme Court
yesterday granted the application OF
Charles " Bob, banker, stock broker,
and a hacker of Rear Admiral Richard
E. Byrds Antarctic expedition, for
reversal of an order Of Supreme Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
CAPITAL ADDRESS LEFT
BY SUICIDE IN FLORIDA
Blame All Mine, Not Other Wom-
ans" Says Note, Explaining
Act to Wife.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
MIAMI, Fla, January 16.-A man
identified as Ludwig Leon Hanger, SO
years old, said to be former restaurant
owner in Washington, committed suicide
here today by inhaling gas.
He left a note saying his wife would
blame 1.-The other woman, but the fault
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
FOUR DIE, EIGHT HURT
AS TRAIN HITS AUTO
Three Near Death After Car
Crashes Past Gates Onto Railroad
Tracks at Addison, N. Y.

BY the Associated Press.
CORNING, N. Y, January 16.-Two
men and two children were killed and
eight others injured, at least three Of
them critically, early today when their
crowded sedan, in which they were re-
turning from a farm dance, crashed
through the railroad crossing gates in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

enberg and Banca Commercials Italiana
Trust Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

Because Of the popularity in India OF
secondhand clothing from America
many an Indian laborer, whose daily
pay is l8 cents, is wearing a morning
coat.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-27

of q cabaret which had brought ou
scores of Broadwayites, q master o.
ceremony began to call on the talen
for contributions .. Into the raucous
scene stepped an actor who went al
once to the piano and opened with
Debussy number. 1t was the vaude'
vile "stooge" -.
Still later group sat talking with
him at the table. Bob prodded him
for his story.
well, was considered something
of a composer abroad" he began. But
somehow my operettas never got pro-
duced. I was asked to come to New
York to write a music show. Times
were tough. worked on this produc-
ton and that, but somehow they
didn't get to the stage. I waited un-
til my money was running low. Had
to get a Job Along came chance
In vaudeville where I had merely to
sit at q piano and be mauled around
g. I took it, although music Is really
my life A man must live How
ever, there is one score have written
that you may hear It is going to
be produced .. I think, maybe. you
will like it -"
what is the name again." came
the question.
"Pokrass Samuel D. Pokrass!"
Y Y X
Some time toward fall, when the
try-out period is over, they'll be hear
ing from M. PokrasS hereaboutS-and
his day will come!
Meanwhile, this is just to illustrate
that New York iS-well, New York
where anything can happen!
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Advice From London

Amid all the dolorous forecasts
produced by the depression it is COM
forting to find a prominent London
economist urging English investors to
put money into American securities.
The present moment, this British
expert declares, offers IAN amazing
opportunity; increases in security
values of 300 per cent within a few
years, with corresponding yields, seem
to him very probable.
AS a result of this forecast, Lon
don newspapers are predicting 9
strong switch of English capital to
the United States in the near fu-
ture.
Whether or not this Englishman is
correct in his optimistic view is per-
haps matter for argument; but it
is at least encouraging to find thai
there is one economist who is not
moved to despair by the sight of our
present difficulties.
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A Prophecy That Failed
Duluth Herald)

When it became known that Min
nesota's nine congressman would have
to be nominated and elected at large,
there We're those who predicted that,
because Of their massed voting power,
the Twin Cities would gobble up most
OF the places.
Well, they didn't in the nominal
lions, anyway. 1t is true that Mime
apolis won two of the nine Republi-
can nominations-Nolan and Burn
qulst-but on the other hand st. Paul
lost its own member of congress and
has no man on the Republican ticket.
Neither did Northern Minnesota
lose out as many feared, for Selvig of
the old Ninth district and Harold
knutson of the old Sixth are definite
~ safe, and at this writing it seems
almost sure that Pittenger of the
Eighth has been renominated.
And as the districts that lost out
will have nine representatives to ap-
peal to instead of one, this at-larga
arrangement is not going to be as bad
as 1T looked. Though one term of it
Will be enough, and the state will look
to the legislature next winter to abol-
ish it by a reapportionment bill.
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very well with the fishwives, old gran
MES and the like. Anyway, If the
baby nurses or takes his food all right
you need not worry about the imag-
mary tongue-tie.
The Haw Haw Corner
Local news item from Hickville on
Hudson: Inspector --, one of
the most popular is a patient at
the -- hospital where physicians
are striving to ward off an attack of
pneumonia. The inspector caught
cold last Friday and was removed to
the hospital on Sunday"
Answer-Tou can see pictures of
people catching cold in any almanac
or announcement of the cold cure peo-
pie, but here is a rare one of physi-
clans striving to ward off pneumonia.
Superstition Still Rampant
After my sisters baby was born the
doctor shipped web under the baby's
tongue and said that would prevent
lisping Now my 4-year-old boy does
not lisp, but sometimes he does not
enunciate clearly and my sisters hus-
bands people say ought to have the
web under his tongue cut &c.
M. A.
Answer-Sheer superstition. Even
if there is web that is not there in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-27

, full substitute for tobacco in youth.
Activity. not dignified quiet and re-
pose. is the natural state and index of
youth.
Habit is characteristic of old age.
The senile are creatures of habit.
Every smoker, young or old, should
ask himself or herself regularly
whether he has the habit or the habit
has him. The only way to find out
which it Is, think, is to refrain from
smoking for "a hours now and then.
The smoker will find lot Of salts
faction in one smokeless day a week
or even one smokeless day a month.
It Is assurance that old age has not
yet crept upon him.
Employers, commanding officers,
teachers, executives have a substan-
tial reason for enforcing no smoking
rules while those under their direction
are at work or play. Tobacco invar-
iably slows down both physical and
mental activity. Not even the most
brilliant writer or painter or the most
skilled machine tender or cabinet
maker can do his best work while
smoking. Not even the fastest runner
! or the most accomplished pianist can
give his best performance while smok-
ing.
It is a sad day for youth when it
first surrenders to tobacco.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-27
Barbs

It's little wonder the nudist move
ment Is making such Roadway, con-
sidering the number of people who are
constantly talking about having lost
their Shirte.
X X X
How far is stones throw, asks q
reader. Well, if you've ever rented
one of those "stone' throw from-the-
ocean" cottages, you'd probably say
about two miles.
* X X
A Paris composer has been charged
with assaulting his publisher with
roll of his music. Just being sure
that his songs would make hit.
X X X
Suggested slogan for Patman: Let's
get the bonus army out of Washing
ton by Christmas.
X X X
A writer says that good story must
always have an ending that satisfies.
The trouble with that is that most
wives won't wait to hear the end.
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, Inc)
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NEW
YORK
var
MANHATTAN EPISODE

| MANHATTAN EPISODE
\ New York, June 27.-1n Toledo, O.,
not so long ago, opened musical ver-
sion Of "Cyrano de Bergerac" -.
You will recall, of course, that Cy-
rano was a poetic-souled fellow-a
sentimentalist, as quick with his ra-
pier as with his newest phrase
But with such a nose as even
"Schnozzle" Durante has never been
able to achieve He was, in the
modern vernacular, a "stooge" for the
FateS -.
In the tryout towns, critics of the
operate "Cyrano" were generous and
praiseful D.. Several gave particular
mention to the music of Samuel D.
Pokrass. a new name in the compo-
sition circles of Broadway 80.
X X X
Very we'll! Perhaps with things
as they are the wags are right and,
paraphrasing Shakespeare, "all the
worlds a "stooge" Within the
year the "stooge" has become the
topical form Of clown Phil Baker
had something to do with the origin
of stooges =. He placed one in a box
to shoot caustic remarks Ted
Healy carried a young swarm of
stooges who mauled each other mer-
cilessly about F.. Richly Craig, Jr.,
uses serious-faced fellow who stands
shivering in the spotlight AS Craig
explains it: Il hire him to be nervous
for me-"
X X X
"STOOGE" PLUS GENIUS
At any rate, during the winter
months the vaudeville act Of Pepper
and Salt added stooge routine. Bob
Coleman, the critic, called my atten-
ton to the number and added a few
interesting bits of background ..
In this act, grand piano was part
of the stage set After a bit OF
J dancing and clowning, a serious-faced
detected looking musician came on
stage and seated himself at the piano
A spotlight revealed an artistic
fellow, with eyes fastened rhapsodi-
cally upon space 80.
Softly he began to run over the
keys -. Through the opening notes
a Chopin waltz and Brahms con-
certo :. But he was never allowed to
finish single phrase =. For he was
"stooge" for the act. Each time he
would finger the keys, his fellow play
ers would pounce on him and maui
him about in the best stoogic fashion
ID. The more serious did the musician
become, the harder the audience
would howl and the more the team
fellows would tear him apart -.
Yet anyone with half an ear would
have known that here sat musician
Another symbol of a "stooge for
the Fates" -.
X X X
A STOOGE'S STORY
One early morning at the premiere
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WHY TOBACCO DESTROYS
YOUTH

Some persons insist that smoke
quiets the nerves. Now let's see what
that means. A normal, healthy young
animal naturally desires physical ac-
tivity, play. romp, run about, fight
A senile animal naturally desires rest
snoozing, day-dreaming, just sitting
around, negotiating.
Certain drugs have narcotic or Sc
dative or depressing action on the
That's what 1t means when a con-
firmed smoker says a smoke soothes
his nerves or quietS nervous tension
It dulls his natural desire for physical
activity, and enables him to take 1t
sitting or lying down when he should
be running away or fighting. It makes
the young animal for the time being
an old one.
Athletic coaches invariably forbid
even occasional use of tobacco by the
young aspirants under training. Even
the untutored youths who go in for
professional boxing know from expe-
rience that smoking lessons boxers
chance to win his bout. Diminishes
his resiliency, shortens his wind, low
ers bis endurance.
A great many youngsters whose
home training has been neglected
land I'll explain just what this means
presently begin smoking mainly fol
the sake of nonchalance or finding
something to do with the hands to
cover consciousness Of inferiority.
There are laws prohibiting the sale
of tobacco to children, but something
more impressive than a law is re-
quired. Every parent should exact q
pledge from his child at an early age
say IL years, against the use of to-
bacco before the age of Is years-not
81 years, for the ma jority of children
do not attain full development Of
adulthood until they reach "a and rs
years of age.
Exercise, play or work is the health
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-27

Statesmen alone cannot solve the
problems which arise in international
affairs. The nations must become &C.
customed to look to the organized sys.
tenn OF the expert report, which gives
a just and impartial lead to govern
ments and public opinion and should
be regularly accepted Just as judicial
decisions are accepted as a matter OF
course.-General Jan SHUTS, South
African leader.
Women frighten me-Charles Rog-
ers, former movie actor.
X X X
Every time the nation has needed
to be rescued 1t has turned to the
Democratic party.-Newton D. Baker,
Democratic presidential possibility.
4 X X
In America the owners of in
dustry have sacked the richest CONT
nent in the world, sold gold brick after
gold brick to the producers whom
they needed to grow the wheat and
the hogs. to drill the oil wells and run
the adding machines and buy the
F'ords and the stocks-John Dos Pas
SOS, novelist.
Unless the people take the matter
into their own hands and refuse tc
manufacture arms, transport mate.
rails or serve in the armies, they are
not likely to avert another disaster
DR.. Albert EinStein, scientist.