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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

Ouch visit to the Lions Club at
Richmond. Ind. recently. resulted in
the clubs purchase of especially con-
structed spectacles for the youth. His
eyes bulge and are the only feature
which detracts from perfectly nor
NAL. rather handsome. and exceed
ingly calm countenance.
Its typewriter was presented to
IL him by the Elks' Club at Lo.
gansport.
During the vacation periods at the
school he always returns to his home
accompanied by his parents. Then
they have all the joy that comes to
any parent who has children away
at school.
Professor Pittenger is wary about
drawing any general conclusions
from the iston boys case. but he
does feel that it has been demon
strated that many difficulties are en-
monumental. rather than hereditary.
Our bad habits are formed
through our senses and our worries
come to Us because Of things we have
heard or seen. or Otherwise expe.
rienced through the Senses" Dr.. Pit
tenger concludes.
"7ero IS a youth of l6. who has
not had the normal experiences Of
other youngsters. due to bis tremen-
do,,s hand;cans and rone>ou.r,1,, -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

borhood barber shop.
counting their steps.
and learning the dis
lance of a block.
From this a miles dis
lance was built up in
city blocks. The great
distance OF 20 miles
to Terre Haute soon
became quite clear to
him.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

said hi. FIRST word. 1t was 'am." Most
amazing Of all is the fact that he actually spoke
the word. That was his FIRST year At the school.
But due to his advanced age. hope of teach
ing him to use the power Of speech to any great
extent had to be abandoned. This il explained
by Professor Pittenser a. being due to the fact
that deaf-mutes are taught to talk largely by
watching the facial expression Of their teachers
and learning the method Of controlling the lips.
They practice speaking before mirrors. These
avenues Of visual instruction were Of course
closed forever for the little blind boy.
GO he has to content himself with the sign
~ language for the deaf.
He has demonstrated his proves in disital
talking to such an extent that he j. really adept
at public speaking. His public usually cannot
understand his lectures until they are interpreted
by hi: teacher. for generally his speeche. are
demonstrations before teacher group, and well
fare gatherings.
He has appeared on the platform at general
sessions of the Indiana teachers institutes. which
draw the largest attendance Of any educational
gathering in North America.
Lately he has gone with Dr.. Pittenser to
various luncheon club meetings in Hoosier cities
and expresses great enjoyment at the oppor-
tunity to appear in public.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

him as most handicapped
children are cherished. at a
loss to know how to aid his
development.
So the boy was brought
to indianapolis and started
his career at the school.
Then. as in the case OF
Helen Keller. the blind boy
who cannot hear came into
contact with a great teacher
and self-sacri6cing friend.
Turing the last eight
= years Miss Nettie New
ell has devoted her life to
him. She gave up her deaf
classes at the school and be-
came the boys constant COM
panion. as well as teacher.
The following item from
Miss Newell's diary gives
some idea Of the beginning:
Il could not get his inter-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10
Sketches BY
PAUL KROESEN

.One OF the most fascinating ex-
periments proved to be the tracing
of steam pipes to their source at the ra-
diator and learning that they can be
cold. warm. and intensely hot.
Today the blind boy can go any
where in the group Of seven buildings
at the school and about the many-acre
campus unassisted. Oftentimes his
teacher will send him from the second
floor classroom down to the superintend-
ent's Office with a note for Mr.. Pit
tenger.
None of the young lady assistants.
who guard the entry to the inner sane
tum Of the superintendent Office. ever
gets a hand on that note. 1t is only
surrendered to the superintendent after
Jesse has fully established prope, iden.
tity through his highly developed sense
of touch.
uERE is what Superintendent Pit
IL tenger says of the boys progress
since the date Of the diary entry quoted
above:
1.-The lad as we know him today is
a very happy boy. He knows that he
comes 10 school for a purpose. and he
is eager to learn. His horizon grows
larger very slowly. for his progress de-
ponds so much upon his personal expe-
riences.
His sense Of geography began with
a trip we made with him to Tene
Haute. Ind. He had his first under.
standing Of distance in miles after thi:
trip from Indianapolis.
miss Newell brought the idea oil
distance home to him in the following
manner:
First they walked from the school.
room to the chapel and counted thei1
steps. Then they walked to the neigh.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

intendent. give him the typewriter
and have him take it away in his
automobile for repairing so that he
could use it again.
Weather. time and dates all seem to fas-
cinate the lad immensely. He has an alarm
clock by which he tells time through feeling
out the position Of the hands
ON fine days he spends much time basking
~ in the sunshine with his hands stretched
forth to get the feel Of it. as his teacher
explains.
Early in his instruction he learned to say
1T is raining" OF 1T is not raining. 1T is
showing" or 1T is not snowing." and similar
expressions.
Again he forcibly demonstrated his logic
when he went to the washroom and rushed
back to Miss Newell and spelled out frant-
cally:
1t is not soaping!"
In other words. the soap was gone.
Jesse lives with the other students in the
boys dormitory and gets along well with
them. All use the sign language and he car
ries on conversations by feeling their hands.
Seven years in school have changed him
from restless, nervous, never quiet child to
a poised and happy little gentleman Miss
Newell relates with just pride.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-10

Superintendent 0. NJ.
Pittenger. Of the indi-
ana State School for
the Deaf Uho
says. Today Jesse is a
very hapfy boy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
CapitalistNewspapermenPaid
by Bankers, ShowninC Congress

An open accusation that writer's Of
the capitalist press have been in the
direct pay of Wall st. bankers and
brokers was made before a Senate
Committee on Banking and Currency
by Representative La Guardia of New
York Tuesday. La Guardia brought
cancelled checks signed by Wall st.
publicity agent, Plummer and paid to
the financial authorities of the New
Evening Post of New York, the Wall
York Times, The Herald Tribune,
Street journal, the new merged
Evening Mail and Financial America.
These impartial writer's of the paper
that prints all the news that fits to
iprin" and he other dispensers of
knowledge free from propaganda"
we're paiC for booming socks in the
years before the crisis made booming
impossible.
The total paid out by this one
Plummer only amounts to $2s6,279
but it is an inkling of what other
agents may have handed out in the
interests of the banks and the brok-
ers, 1t is interesting to add that this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
.SCOTTSBORO TAG
DAYS MAY 6, 7, 5
IN NEW YORK,
LID. Needle Funds tc
Carry on Defense
of Negro Boys

Enormous difficulties have to be
overcome by the I. L. D. in con-
nection with the Scottsboro appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
Thousands of dollars are required
for legal expenses in order to prop
erly present the Scottsboro case to
the United States Supreme Court.
Tag Days are being arranged
throughout the entire country for the
collection of funds so that in this
field the Scottsboro case will not be
lacking.
In New York all organizations are
expected to participate in the COL
lections Stations already arranged
are as follows:
Brooklyn-136 18th ST.; 46 Ten
Eyck; 1918 Pitkin;s 524 Vermont; 1873
G3rd.
Manhattan-799 Broadway, No. 41o;
BAT E. 72nd St.; $50 East 81st St.;
Is West l26th ST.; East 116th st.
BronX-2800 Bronx Park East, Sec.
V; l400 Boston Road; 1857 S. Blvd;
$50 Prospect Ave.
These stations will be open on
Saturday from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m.
On Sunday there will be open from
IL a. m. to 8 p m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
Spirited May l March
in Paterson Answers
Daisy Mad Socialists

PATERSON, N. J.-Three hundred
fifty workers demonstrated in a
drenching rain despite police efforts
to smash the May Day parade here.
The demonstration held after the
parade, completely blocked the traf-
fic. Speakers addressed the work
ers from low roof. Posters and Carl
catures with the slogans Free Tom
Mooney" Defend the Soviet Union, F"
Demand Unemployment Insurance"
Free the Scottsboro g." Defend the
Paterson 5" etc., worked in harmony
with tumultous cheering and singing
in the parade led by the National
Textile Workers Union Band. A re-
volutionsry program and concert was
held in Turn Hall at night.
The militant demonstration in spite
of a heavy downpour. calling upon
the workers to struggle against bosses
war, to defend the Soviet Union, and
to fight for Unemployment Insurance
and against wage cuts, served as a
revolutionary answer to the Socialist
Party. The S. P. has issued a leaflet
in the Jewish language which told
whoever read it that May Day was
Natures Day, when the workers
celebrate the first rosebuds, welcome
the poisoning flowers" and other
such claptrap. The leaflet was signed
addition to the Socialist Party and
the Associated Silk Workers by the
Purity Cooperative Bakery, the bosses
Of which are mostly owners Of silk
mills, and also members of the So
cialist Party.
The workers in the Purity Co
operative, who had Joined the So
cialist Party because they had been
misIead into believing II would
avoid them wage cuts, we're handed
Is per cent slash a few days
before May 1. On Saturday before
May Day, the workers struck.
The Socialist Party stands exposed
through the strike of the workers In
Purity and through the comparatively
huge May Day demonstration. The
attempts OF the Socialist Party TO
drag down the tradition of May Day
es a day of struggle into q mere
holiday to greet the flowers goes
hand in glove with that Of the bosses,
who through the New York Times
printed an editorial on May Day also
gushing forth beautiful words about
May Day, Natures Day"
The fact that the workers were able
TO march through the STREETS Of Pater-
son without having their parade at
lacked by the cops is in itself VIC
tory for the workers and their leader,
the Communist Party, for since the
last strike every large scale demon
stration has been attacked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
City to Cut Wages
of All Home Relief
Workers, 1t Is Said

NEW YORK. - All Home Relief
workers are to take one day of each
week, it was announced here. This
will amount to a wage cut of $500
for some workers and of $500 for
others. The cut will go into effect
tomorrow.
Mayor Walker had all Home Re-
lief workers take one day off last
week to celebrate the Washington
anniversary, and now he compells
them to do the very same thing,
without pay of course, to pay for
the saturnals of the high city graft
ers.
All Home Relief workers and rank
and file employees of the emergency
work bureau are to be transferred
to the city payroll. The Emergency
Work Bureau is to be entirely closed.
Many workers will be fired tomorrow
as incompetent" It was stated
The lay-off has already affected
many emergency workers in the pub
lie libraries and other institutions.
1t Is estimated that 2 or 5000 girls
have been fired recently in the public
libraries of New York.
The food budget OF the workers
has again been cut down.
The City Social Club will have a
mass meeting Wednesday, 1880 p. m,
In the Labor Temple, 14th Street
and End Avenue, to take up the
problems Of these workers and put
up fight against the wage cuts and
the lay-offs. All Home Relief work.
ers and employees of the Emergency
Work Bureau are urged to attend
this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03

Plummer, surely no an angel, was al
lowed to continue his activities until
he started to write an expose Of the
methods he has used and others are
using in influencing the press. Then
he was Immediately last January ar
rested and indicted. This action being
an indication that it wasn't a few
hands" of the press but powerful
men in the financial structure of
America who were mixed up.
Recently the president of the New
York Stock Exchange, Whitney, was
witness before the same Senate
Committee. His testimony was in
tended to prove that organized short
selling and the publicity methods
used we're minor matters and that
those responsible for initiating stock
market prices were the purchasers of
the stock. LaGuardia's testimony
counter -acted this.
An example of the extent of pub
hcity which a few dollars from Wall
Street brought is the case of the
Savage Arms Co. Here Cos stories
appeared in 22s newspapers with a
circulation of eleven million in 157
cities The money was not paid di-
rectly. La Guardia. said that "AN of
these checks were made out to cash
and given to the pay-off man who
gave the money to financial writers
who were ticklish about taking
checks.
The bribing Of the financial writer's
is only one instance in the prostitu-
ton of capitalist journalism. The
whole truth of the innocent looking
newspapers which are active prop
uganda agents of the ruling class will
never be exposed by these capitalist
politicians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
500 PASSAIC, N. J.
WORKERS OUT ON
MAYDAY, SUNDAY
Negro, White Workers
Pledge to Defend the
Soviet Union

PASSAIC, N J. 49, In spite OF a
ground still wet from heavy down
pour of rain, and storm clouds
threatening overhead, 500 workers,
Negro and white, came out for the
outdoor demonstration. 300 marched
and hundreds filled hall at night
for a revolutionary program.
The rapidly growing influence OF
May Day among the Passaic workers
was seen in the response from hun
dreds of workers who lined the
streets and joined in the cheers that
greeted shouted slogans of: Hail
Workers May Day, international
Day Of Struggle against Bosses War,
Defend the Soviet Union, the
Workers Fatherlsnd", Fight for I'm
employment Insurance, THE Botany
Has Just Finished a second order
for army cloth for another bosses
war, Fight Against Bosses War!"
etc., etc.
Scores of children joined the Pho
neer section and joined readily in
shouting 1--WE want milk!", 1--WE want
free food and clothing in the schools"
Give our parents work, let the city
support US. Many young workers
joined the youth section of the par
ade, marching and singing under
huge signs and carricatures.
Answering the yellow socialists OF
Paterson, who had distributed leaf
let, calling May Day Natures Day"
Cit rained), and which described the
beautiful flowers and rosebuds,
hearty approval greeted every reso-
luton for the freedom of Tom Moo
ney, Scottsboro boy, the Paterson
five, for the fight of Unemployment
Insurance, for the Defense of the
Soviet Union and the withdrawal OF
foreign troops from China, and
showed a m1litancy that bespeaks a
day of struggle, not only holiday,
Marching to the music of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union band,
500 Negro and white workers paraded
through the working class sections,
shouting appropriate slogans in the
different working class neighborhoods
The parade ended up in Garfield
across the river, where revolution
airy program was held,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03

While the delegation was trying to
see the three State officials, 500
Hunger Marchers were lined Zip on
the Common and separated by a line
of mounted and foot police from ten
thousand enthusiastic workers. A.
Daniels attempted to speak but was
prevented by the police.
When the delegation reported that
the Governor. the Speaker and the
President of the Senate had declared
themselves against social insurance,
which they characterized as dole"
the marchers and the workers shouted
their slogans, 1--WE demand Unemploy-
ment Insurance" and I'VE will con-
tinue to fight for unemployment in
surance."
Then the marchers, together with
about 1900 to 1000 Of the workers,
joined the march to Municipal Hall,
where some of the Hunger Marchers
who went to Blackstone Park were
invited to return in order to hear the
report of the delegation. About 5000
workers marched along the sidewalks.
When they attempted to enter the
Municipal Hall, many hundreds man
aged to get in, while the police pre-
vented the others from entering.
State Hunger March Conference Held
The State Hunger March Confer
ence took place here last night. A
presidium was elected representing
all the cities and towns in the march.
Two additional demands were forrnu-
lated: first. a demand for $40 per
week as immediate relief to all single
unemployed workers; second, de-
mand for the abolition of the New
Bedford Poor Farm"
A resolution was passed this MORN
ing denouncing the local capitalist
press for the lies published on the
Hunger March. kilograms were sent
to Edith Berkman and Tom Mooney
pledging to support the struggle for
their unconditional release
A huge mass meeting is taking place
now with hundreds OF workers pres
ent. Daniels is reporting the answer
of the Governor to the demands. Of
the unemployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03

are responsible for the Supreme Court
confirming the decision of the lower
courts Of Alabama. This is a lie
Only those who have shown them
selves to be open enemies of the
working class--the bosses, the A. F,
of L. leaders, the Socialist" party
and the misleaders of the N. A. a
G P, not only in word but in action
dare make this statement
We declare that the mass action
organized only under the leadership
of the Communist Party, the Inter-
national Labor Defense and the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
has thus far saved these boys from
burning in the electric chair, and
only further organization and broad
er, more militant mass action will
eventually save them from the bloody
hands Of the boss class of this
country.
In New York demonstrations will
be held in all sections Of the city.
Particularly in Harlem, the workers
will mobilize andd emonstrate. These
demonstrations must be mass as
Semblage of white and Negro workers,
determined that they will fight for
the release of the nine Scottsboro
boys.
We call upon all white and Negro
organizations that wish the Scots
boro boys released and are ready to
come out in struggle for their release
to mobilize their forces for these dem
onstrations so that the bosses will
know that any attack upon the Negro
INTERPRETATIONS, denial of relief
persecution, jimcrowism and segrega-
tion-will have to cease. This is the
beginning of a big campaign to put
an end to lynching in this country
The workers of New York are deter
mined in joined ranks, shoulder tc
shoulder, to fight to put an end to
this terror against the Negro people
All out Saturday, May 18th, for the
release of the Scottsboro Negro boys!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03

unions, the fight for Negro and
against lynching and, above all, the
struggle against imperianst war and
for defense of the Chinese peole and
the Soviet Union-these are the tasks
which are one task.
This can only be done by the Or
ganization of the revolutionary unions
in the shops, by the building Of the
revolutionary oppositions in the reac-
tionary unions, especially the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, by building
up the Unemployed Councils Of en-
ployed and unemployed workers, by
drawing in native and foreign-born,
white and Negro workers into the
struggle.
Tom Mooney and the scottsboro
Negro boys, Edith Berkman, Jack
Schneider, must be saved from the
clutches of the capitalist class.
These tasks can be fulfilled only
by the building of the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League. The building Of the Commu-
mist Party and the going into the
election campaign with masses Of
workers. employed and unemployed,
supporting the candidates and pro
gram Of the Communist Party, will
be the best guarantee that May Day
is not merely a demonstration Of one
day, but is leading to the building up
of the powerful revolutionary move
ment in this country under the lead
ership of the Communist Party, Do
your revolutionary duty - join the
Communist Party.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03

There is no hope in justice for the
American workers, and particularly
the Negro workers Only the mass
organization and mass action Of the
workers will save the nine Scottsboro
boys, as that alone will save Tom
Mooney from a living death in San
Quentin penitentiary,
May It'll must ring all around the
world with the challenging demand
by the workers of this country that
the nine Scottsboro boys shall not
die.
This cannot be accomplished mere
ly by demonstration. But the dem
onstration on May Tth must be the
beginning of organization in every
shop, union and neighborhood, build
ing up of the International Labor
Defense and the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights so that the boss
class of this country will know that
neither they nor the white and Negro
misleaders of the National ASsocia-
ton for the Advancement Of Colored
People supported by the Socialist
Party will be able to send these boys
to their death.
The enemies of the white and Negro
workers declare that the Communists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
Dressmakers to Meet
ri
in NY. We'd, Thurs.

NEW YORK.-The Dress Depart
lnent Of the Industrial Union has
decided to call two section member
ship meetings in order to organize
the workers against he attempt Of
the bosses to put through wage cuts
and organization work during the
present short summer season.
A meeting of all dressmakers work.
ing and living in the Bronx will take
place on Wednesday, PM, at
Ambassador Hall, 1915 3rd Avenue.
A Brownsville meeting will taks
place on Thursday, pm. at 1918
Pitkin Avenue.
The dressmakers working or living
in these sections are called upon to
come to these most important meet
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-03
War Vets Halls May
Day Parade AS the
Greatest Big Parade
New York

New York
Daily Worker:
I am one of the ex-servicemen
who marched in the big May Day
parade. At 1890 in the morning
the bug1er sounded the call to fall
in, We all fell in as in days of old,
but our march was not like in the
old days; it was different kind
of march-this time it was a
march against capitalism, against
the Wall st, bankers and against
war.
The more it rained-andit rained
hard-the louder we shouted our
slogans for full payment of the
bonus and for defense of the
Soviet Union. The more it rained
the more discipline we had.
I'll never forget this May Day
parade. 1t is the most important
parade was ever in.
A Veteran.