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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-22
BY LENA DAVIS

THE composition of the delegates
. l to the District Convention of
our Party showed very clearly that
while we accept theoretically the
decisions of the 14th Plenum of the
Party in connection with turning
our face to the shops and mass
work, that practically we are lax in
putting these decisions into effect.
This clearly has been seen from the
fact that the Industries that we are
supposed to be concentrating upon,
especially marine, metal and trans
port, had the smallest number of
delegates, land that, as a whole,
comrades active in unions or mass
organizations were not delegates to
the District Convention. This, in
spite of the fact that in the direc-
tives that went out in preparation
for the Convention, we specified ex-
actly the type of comrades that
should have been elected to the
District and to the Section Com
mittees.
Is this an accident, or is it due
to a certain attitude that prevails?
Let me give a few concrete exam
pies of what happened at the Sec
ton l Convention prior to the cleo
ton of delegates to the District
Convention.
Solid Contacts With Masses
At this Convention, 1 brought
forward the decisions of the 14th
Plenum of the Party, where it
stated, Eve must develop solid,
personal contact with the worker.
Comrades who work in shops or
mass organizations are certainly the
ones best fitted to develop this per-
sonal contact with the workers. 1
stated. In many instances, this
statement was interpreted in
formal manner, and comrades who
are office workers took it in a per-
Sonal light, and in the spirit that
there is no room at all for people
like themselves in the ranks of our
Party. This, of course, is an abso-
lutely incorrect approach to the
whole problem. and shows a lack of
understanding. of the central task
of our Party. What were some of
the opinions expressed at the Sec
ton Convention? Here are some
of the points that l consider of
major Importance.
One comrade stated, "his is old
stuff. We have said it a year and 2
years ago." Another comrade said
the following, what is the diff,
ference who is on the Unit Buro,
shop workers or Office workers?
The trouble with our work is main
ly that we have no definite tasks.
If we had definite tasks, then the
work would be done Only then
will the Party be able to get out of
this hopeless, chaotic situation" A
third comrade stated, I'm Russia
it was not the workers in the shops,
but people like Burshkovskala who
developed and led the struggles of
the workers"
,i's4 A Party of the Masses
These statements very clearly
show that there is lack of faith
among many Party members (espe-
cially the old Party members) in
the ability of the workers to pre-
pare, lead and develop struggles.
1t shows very clearly that these
comrades do not understand the
decisions of our Plenum, and do
not grasp the central point of the
Plenum resolution, and that is that
from a Party for the masse" we
must become Party of the Masses.
In my opinion it shows that we
must begin to carry on the work in
the shop, not as separate iso-
lated group from the workers in
making demands for them with
out consulting them, but together
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-22
cLDL HAS RAPID GROWTH

TORONTO.-The national office Of
the Canadian Labor Defense League
reports the formation OF new
branches in important areas and the
creating of a new district in tina
Saskatchewan area. Canadian work 1
ers are responding to the attack Of
the Bennett regime upon the mill !
tant workers by joining the CLDL IN
ever growing numbers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-22

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:
4. Equal rights for the Negroes and
sef.determinAt lon .foEs thD. lIask
Be- !, ,.Es1s%vtas $%-vkE. Z
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
S1,251 IN FINES
IN COUNTY

The Montgomery county police
court at Rockville took in $1,251.50
in fines and costs in May, says
the report of Judge Charles w.
Woodward, submitted to the
County Commissioners by Frank
I. Davis, clerk of the police
court.
Of this amount, $576 goes to
the Commissioner of Motor We
hicles in Baltimore for automo-
bile violations, while $25 will be
turned over to the State Game
Warden for fish and game law
violations.
The commissioners announced
that the Hawkins Creamery
Road in the Twelfth election dis
trict, would be closed Immediately
from C. v. Duvall's farm to the
Damascus Woodfield Road be-
cause of improvements being made
to the road.
It was also announced that
the State Roads Commission will
improve Brooks Avenue in Cath
ersburg from the Frederick Road
to Goshen Avenue with a ma
cadam surface.
The contract for the construc-
tion of a 30-inch REINFORCED
storm water sewer through Lot
IL, block 8, of Chevy Chase, was
awarded to F. Irwin Ray, of Beth
.eSda.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
UPHOLD USE Of
HANDOUTS

Prince Georges County Police
man Ralph Brown was justified
in placing handouts on Phillip
Love, a Montgomery county
farmer, when he arrested him near
Hyattsville last month, it was de-
cided yesterday by the Prince
Georges County Board of Com
missioners at Upper Marlboro.
According to Browns story, he
had stopped Loves truck near
Hyattsville because the license
tags were obscured. Brown said
Love resisted arrest so vigorously
as to necessitate the handouts.
Love was never arraigned be-
cause friends met the two men on
their way to the police station
and asked Brown to release him.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
FETE AT BANCROFT

The Bancroft School and Civic
League held strawberry festival
at the Community House last
night. Funds derived from the af'
fair, will go to the building fund
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
COUNTY HEADS
WILL Be ASKED
To ACT
Residents Feel That Section
Has Been DeSpoiIed by
Trash From D. c.

Arlington county residents,
aroused over the influx of
trash, waite and refuse, from
the District of Columbia, will
seek ordinances doing away
with all dumps in the county
other than those for clean
dirt, it was learned today.
Many citizens feel that the
gateway to the South" has been
turned into wholesale dump for
District refuse, and will seek &C
ton by the county commissioners
at the next regular meeting
scheduled for Friday at p. m.
Sheriff Howard B. Fields says
that his police force has been
compelled on many occasions to
stop fights among the many rag
pickers and floaters who congre-
gate about the dumps. He said
that the dumps, from a law en-
forcement standpoint, were a
detriment to the county.
1t is pointed out more than 20
years there have been burning"
dumps in the county, and that
these have been considered by
many a nuisance. 1t is also said
that until dirt from the Federal
building excavations were dumped
into the swamp lands little was
accomplished in filling the
ground to a sanitary level.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
10 GRADUATE
At BALLST0N

One hundred and ten students
were graduated last night at the
Westinghouse High School,
BallSton, Va. 1t was the largest
class in the history of the school.
More than 1,50O persons attended
the affair.
The invocation was by the Rev.
E. H. Puryear, pastor of the
Arlington Baptist Church. The
school glee club sang several
selections. DR.. F. w. Collier, of
the American University, prin-
cipal speaker, admonished the
graduates to build for character
and not for fame" Announce
ment of scholarships and honor
awards were made by S. P.
Vanderslice, principal. Fletcher
Kemp, superintendent of county
schools, presented the diplomas.
Pupils receiving medals and
scholarships are Rosie Kennedy,
Parent-Teacher Association medal
and the American Legion Auxil-
iary scholarship; Helen Campbell,
Parent-Teacher Association medal
and recommendation for the Will
liam and Mary scholarship; Mel
son Erickson, mechanical drawing
medal; Mary Yardley, the George
Washington scholarship; Henry
Coe Curtis Mcdonald and James
Horan, University of Virginia
scholarships, and Charles v.
Smith, American University
scholarship.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
Builder of 8 Houses
BqlkS at $6 for
Permit

Lack of finances is no OBJ
stacle if you want anything
badly enough, according to G.
A. Adams, Prince Georges
county building inspector.
Adams says a resident of
the county applied to him for
a permit to build a house. The
applicant told the inspector
he was. going to build a row
of eight houses Immediately
and that the least expensive
would cost $4,000.
Adams wrote the permit and
asked the applicant for the
permit fee of Sc. The man
answered that he hadn't known
there was any fee and that as
he had only 81 he guessed the
houses would have to wait.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
AIR RACES HERE,
SEEN LIKELY

A three-day program Of aerial
acrobatics climaxed by the start
from here of the Eastern division
of fliers racing to Cleveland for
the national air races will be
available to Washington if con-
firmation of the application for
the event of the Washington
Hoover Airport is approved, John
John S. Wynne, general manager
of the local airport, has an
nounced.
Through the cooperation of the
Greater National Capital Commit
tee of the Board of Trade the
local field has been able to meet
requirements for the starting
point of the Eastern races to
Cleveland. The national sweep
stake races will be held late in
August.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
TAKE CARE IN PULLING OUT FROM CURB

Do not draw out from the curb
or from any parking space with
out giving a signal is the tip
today from Safety Mike" mill
tant safety crusader. And he
further wishes to impress upon
all motorists to be on the alert
always when parking or leaving
a parking space in the vicinity
of schools. Many accidents to
children could have been averted
if drivers had followed this rule,
he says.
Safety Mike" again goes back
to the regulations and quotes
through his creator, F.. L. Bins
wanger, of the Traffic Bureau,
the following from section 6:
"The driver of any vehicle
intending to draw out from the
curb or from any parking space
shall indicate such intention by
unmistakable signal, and shall
not draw out in such manner
as to interfere with moving
traffic approaching from the
other direction.
Before turning to the right
or left to leave a highway and
before turning around or stop
pNg thereon, or before pulling
out of line, the driver shall
give "a timely warning signal
by extending the arm beyond
and straight outside the vehicle,
holding same in such position
for sufficient time to appraise
approaching drivers Of his in
tentiOn to change his course or
stop, as the case may be-"
And again he adds: Watch out
for school children.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
II. r. Hampton Gets
Engineering Degree

Horace Richard Hampton, son
of Col. Thomas Hampton, secre.
tary-treasurer of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, has been
awarded a degree in civil en-,
gineering from the University of
Maryland.
In 1928 young Hampton was
awarded a bachelor of science de-
gree from the College of Engineer
ing of the University of Mary
land. He is now an engineering
assistant of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
100 Are Graduated
At County School

''The Interdependence of Peo-
Piles Through Junior High School
Subjects" was the theme of the
entertainment furniShe by
junior high school graduates of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School last night at the gradua-
ton exercises.
One hundred students were pre-
Sented certificates of graduation
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
Only z Arrests in May
On NeU Boulevard

Only seven arrests were made
on the Mt. Vernon boulevard dur
ing May, Capt. P. J. Carroll, of
the Park Police reported to Capt.
Doyle o. Hickey, superintendent
today.
Four of the persons arrested
were fined, the remainder sent to
Jail with sentences ranging from
80 to 80 days.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
Maryland Gas Tax
+ ShOUs Biz Increase

ANNAPOLIS, June st h e
State comptroller's office reports
gross gasoline tax returns for
May of $616,652.87. This figure
is an increase of $82, ,45224 over
May, 1881, and makes the total
collected since January l $3,006,
2O9,74.
The Washington times., 1932-06-08
APPOINTED AS ZONERS

Turner L. Funkhouser, of Mt.
Rainier, and Dwight B. Gault, of
Hyattsville, were yesterday reap
pointed to the Prince Georges
county broad of zoning appeals by
the county commissioners at Upper
Marlboro.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

at George Washington University,
leaves tomorrow for her home in
Wheeling w. Va. to visit her parents
over the midyear holiday.
Mrs. Gerson Jacobson and children
of Larchmont, N. Y. are the guests OF
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Levy
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Wolf of Beverly
Court have been in Atlantic CITY 1or
a week.
Mrs. Edward Kohner leaves Wash
ington this morning for New York TO be
the guest of her son-in-laW and daugh-
ter. Mr.. and Mrs Edward Deutsch and
children for a week and will be joined
by Mr.. Kohner next Sunday.
Mrs. Jack Rosenthal was hostess on
Thursday at a bridge luncheon at her
home on Woodley road in honor OF Mrs
Abe Liebman. Covers were laid for
eight guests.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz leave
today by motor for Florida to spend
several weeks.
Miss Lillian Kahn is at home for the
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. I. Kahn, coming from GoucheT
College. and has with her Miss Frieda
Wineberg of Staunton, Va, also a
Goucher College student.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Weinberg are on
a motor trip to Florida to be gone
several weeks.
Mr.. Jerome L. Ullman Of New York
is the guest Of his cousins, Judge and
Mrs Milton Strasburger Of Ontario
road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wilmer held a
reception last evening at the Shoreham
from $50 to l o'clock in honor of the
confirmation of their son Jack.
Mrs. Gus Erlebacher and Mrs. Louis
Simon of Woodley Park Towers gave
a dinner Tuesday January &c, aboard
the S. S. Reliance, in honor of Mr.
julius Cohen, dramatic critic of the
journal Of Commerce New York Herald
Evening star., 1932-01-31
Member O. E. S. of District
Reception for Grand Matron

Members Of the Order Of the Eastern
Star OF the District of Columbia at
| tended In full force a reception Friday
evening at the New Willard Hotel in
honor OF Miss Edith A. williams, the
| newly elected grand matron of the order
| In the District, and Paul B. Cromelin
recently elected the grand patron. The
grand matron and the grand patron
| headed the receiving line.
The reception was given Jointly by
| Columbia Chapter, No. IS, Of which
Miss Williams is a member, and by
Lebanon Chapter, No. 25, which is Mr..
Cromelin's home organization.
The details Of the arrangements were
in charge of very efficient committee,
of which Mrs. Tillie c. Chauncey, past
grand matron, was the directing head
Dancing followed the reception.
In the receiving line were Mrs. Paul
B. Cromelin, worthy matron Of Lebanon
Chapter, No. 25, and grand marshal of
the Grand Chapter; Miss Edith A. Will
liams, worthy grand matron; Mr.. Paul
8. Cromelin, worthy grand patron; Mr.
| Reuben A. Bogley, most WorShipful
grand master of Masons and a past
grand patron, and Mrs. Bogley who is
past grand matron; Mr.. William H
Duvall, right worthy associate grand
patron Of the General Grand Chapter
and Mrs. Duvall; Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes,
right worthy grand secretary; Mrs
Flora E. Campbell, right worthy grand
treasurer, and Mrs. Alcena Lamond,
right worthy grand treasurer emeritus,
all of the General Grand Chapter; Mrs
Elizabeth Pitt, associate grand matron;
Mr.. F. Frank Kimmel, associate grand
patron; Mrs. Rose A. Yost, grand secre-
tary; Mrs. Lille Mckenzie, grand treas
urer Mrs. Mamie L. GreenStreet, grand
| conductress; Mrs. Helen F. Brashears,
associate grand conductress; Mrs. Elva
L. Howard, worthy matron of Columbia
Chapter; Mr.. Roscoe E. Magne, worthy
patron of Columbia Chapter; Mrs
Marie w. Murphy, past matron of
Lebanon Chapter; Mr.. Herbert H
Mitchell, patron Of Lebanon Chapter;
Mrs. ]. Paul Chauncey, past grand ma
tron; Mr. william G.. Betz past grand
patron, and Mrs. Betz, past matron of
Evening star., 1932-01-31
OF Personal Interest
To Washington Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Burgunder OF
Baltimore were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert jacob of Connecticut avenue
| for several days last week.
Mrs. Joseph Lang returned on Sunday
to her home in the Ponce de Leon from
several weeks visit in New York,
where she was the guest of friends.
Mrs. Sidney Selinger is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Block, IN
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Newmyer of the
WeStChester have as their guest Mrs.
F. NasSel Of Birmingham, Ala.
Mrs. Robert Meyer, with her daughter,
Miss Frances Meyer, are the guests Of
the formers brother-in-laW and sister,
Mr. and Mrs, Victor StraSburger, in
Norfolk, Va.
The Wednesday Bridge Club was en-
tertained last week by Mrs. Herbert
Guggenheim at Wardman Park Hotel
for luncheon and cards.
Mrs. Rosa Lion, who was the guest
of her sister, Mrs Cecilia Michaelis of
the Embassy, returned to her home in
Baltimore Thursday.
Tomorrow afternoon the Sisterhood of
the Eighth Street Temple will hold it's
annual rally and tea in the vestry rooms
at 2 O'Clock, with an interesting pro-
gram. Mrs Samuel Pack has charge
of arrangements. Mrs. Reba Cohen of
Charleston, W. Va, will give a group Of
original sketches The Howard Uni
verSity Glee Club will give q program,
followed by a talk on disarmament by
DR.. Abram Simon. Mrs. Harry Lewis,
president of the sisterhood, will preside.
Mrs. B. Erlebacher has returned to
her apartment in Woodley Park Towers
from an l8 days cruise to South Amer
iCa.
Miss Beatrice Strasbtrger, Barnard
student, is visiting her parents, Judge
and Mrs. Milton Strasburger.
Mrs Samuel Revness is spending 10
days in New York with Mr.. Reyness.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon TObriner left dur
ing the week for Hollywood, Fla, to
spend several weeks.
Miss Beatrice SOndheim. a student at
the Marjorie Webster School, left for
her home in Reading Pa, Thursday
for the midyear holiday
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Goldnarner and
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l. Kaufman left yes
terday for Hollywood, Fla, to be at the
Hollywood Inn for several weeks.
Mrs. Albert j. Goldsmith of Phila-
delphia came to Washington WedneS-
day and is the guest of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kronheimer of
Woodley Park Towers, until today
when she will return to her home. Mr.
Goldsmith joined her here for the week
end
Mr. and Mrs. Milton King are now
located in the Westchester, where they
have an apartment.
Mrs. Fannie Fantl of Baltimore is
the guest Of her niece. Mrs. Sidney
Wollberg of Allison street.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Kaufman left
Wednesday for Atlantic City and are
at the Claridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Wolf are in
Miami, Fla, and will be gone until
April.
Miss Louise Meyer, who is a student
Evening star., 1932-01-31

Friendship does what perfunctory char
ity never can do.
MOT every woman can easily enter
the homes of the poor. The first
two visits are stiff, uncomfortable af-
fairs. But chocolate bars all round
work wonders, and at the third OF
fourth call suddenly everything Is
friendly and adjusted. And this, fol
the visitor, is a real adventure in hap
piness. She comes to love "her family,
and their affection rewards her ten
thousand fold for doing only one-tenth
of what, as a woman who believes In
God, she ought to do anyway.
1t is into the mouth OF the Greatest
Teacher of them all that the poet puts
these wonderful words-not quite ac-
curate, but near enough:
Not what you give, but what you share,
For the gift without the giver is bare,
And the holy supper is kept indeed
In what you share with another's need
Who breaks his bread with his guest
feeds three,
Himself, his needy neighbor-and Me"
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-01-31

street" are just such persons. Their
Shabby, dark-eyed, eager boys and girls
are going to be the doctors and mer-
chants and political leaders of tomor-
row. That has been our history for
300 years; it is going to be our history
forever The old injustices that for
bade such children education and op-
portunity are gone forever; they are
rising from slums and tenements every
where-Writing our songs, managing
our theaters controlling our great in
duStrieS.
X x
GO let these hard times end once
~ and for all for you the fattering
delusion that there is any essential diff
ference between you and the less
fortunate folk who need your help now.
We be CT one blood. We can no longer
help with kindly superiority, with occa-
sional generous recollection of their
need.
What We need now is sense of COM
plete brotherhood. If We enter their
homes, it must be with willingness
to understand their problems, their one
ness with curselves-yes, and even their
StupidneSS and prejudice. The older
members of the group may continue TO
like closed windows; the children will
know of the value of fresh air The
Evening star., 1932-01-31
Bridge-Tea for Bride
OF Early February

Mrs. James Lee Tracy entertained at
the bridge-tea yesterday in her apart
ment at the Kennedy Warren in honor
OF Miss Esther Murray, whose marriage
to Mr.. Joseph H. Mccain will take place
the early part of February. The other
guests were Mrs. George Grau. Mrs.
T. F. Donahue, Mrs. G. Meredith W}n-
ship, Jr.; Mrs. Merritt A. Greely. Mrs.
]. Morrison, Mrs. Gordon DaisIey Mrs.
J. Cline, Mrs. R. Nash, Mrs. ]. Booth,
Miss Elizabeth German, Miss Ruth
Murray, Miss Anne Mannix and Miss
Dorothy Mannix, Miss Helen Mccain,
Miss Mary Mccain.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

best, to the brave" says Mr.. Brown
ing. Suddenly-or not suddenly, but
after a few years-that family rises in
the scale. One or two of the children
reach the age when they can help; con-
ditions improve. wages go up, and the
little stream OF constant kindneSSes
from the luckier neighbor creeps in
like the canal water into the Panama
locks-so little of it, so weak looking
and limp and vet it lifts the great
ships higher and higher, and they go
on to new levels.
This system of individual handling
of problems works miracles. These
cases never are "permanents," like so
many of the organized charities cases.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

mother may continue to whine about
social conditions; the children are
studying political economy IN the union
high school. The family meals may
still be underdone pork and doughnuts,
but the rising generation will begin
presently to suggest bran bread, baked
apples, bean soup
They will somehow manage a radio,
they will see most of the movies, they
will perhaps spend the rent to have
the children's pictures-and what pic
turesl-taken. What of it? So would
you and I, in their places. We have
to take our bread and circuses as we
find them. II they are to be helped to
a little higher level, it will not be by
criticism and scorn.
SOMETIMES one wishes that instead
- of quite so much card cataloguing
and district visiting by salaried work.
ers we could have a new, individualized
type Of extending such help for the less
fortunate as we can spare from our own
bread-and-butter and rent problems.
Ii each woman, who could, would
take just one unfortunate family-juSt
one-and lift it off the great sum total
of the dependent or suffering how diff
ferent the world would be! To see that
family every week, befriend it, bring
the children into ones own home oc-
casionally; manage blankets this week
and visit to the dentist next week
quite simply without superiority or
patronage, win that one family's friend
ship, share its problems-and to have
one million rich women doing it, every
Where-and the whole national prob
lem would be solved.
For suddenly the worst turns the
Evening star., 1932-01-31
COMMON SENSE AND
COMMON KINDNESS
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS.

persons
a
You and be in exactly their
shabby
political OF
history 800 history
could would take famil
everywherend the whole
Evening star., 1932-01-31

America are quickly made, and quickly
dissipated, and that every national
movement toward taxation still further
reduces the injustices Most of US can
look back and marvel at our pioneer or
immigrant forefathers - the empty
hands and courageous hearts with
which they began life, the chances that
were against them, the successful out
come.
Many of the families that you, today
vaguely consider as the poor" or
those foreigners down by Factory