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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
Negro PAPERS Write
on F0yd,s Candidacy
The Communist Candidate for Vice Presiden
Rouses Workers Enthusiasm
Capitalist Editors Admit Big Vote for Com
munist Full EQUALITY Demand

Negro throughout United
being forced by the intense interest
to take notice the candidacy
vpresdent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR.

Against Hoover's wage cutting
policy
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Lord Mayor of London Pays Only
$50 Yearly Rental for Palace

LONDON.-While the Lord Mayor OF
London is still one Of the highest-paid
mayors in the world today, with his
annual salary of $4,000 (at par), it is
doubtful whether any other mayor lives
in an official residence of such i'm
pressiveness, or for which so little rent
Is paid.
His home for his year of Office is the
Mansion House, erected in the years
1882, whtcl is situated at the hub
of what is k-,cvn as the City OF Lon
don. It has as immediate neighbors
the Bank OF England and the Royal
Exchange. From this center radiate
the most important streets of the city
and here is to be found some of the
most valuable land in the whole OF
che metropolis. There are even small
shops in the neighborhood where a
rental of $3.50 foot is asked and PAID
But the Mansion House, OF which
Sir Percy Walter Greenaway is the
newly elected occupant, pays ground
rent of only $50 year. although the
land on which it is situated is valued
now at fully S7,500,000
The site is not owned by the city
corporation, which pays the mayoral
salary and the ground rent, but by the
rector of the parish Of st, Mary Wool
moth, in nearby Lombard street. After
the great fire of 1856 this parish was
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Is Woman Free i'm Russia?

knuckles, who have come into contact
with the remarkable fertility of her
mind, call her the Isadora Duncan of
politics.
Despite the glamour Of the women in
the Kremlin, there are many other
types of Soviet women yet more inter
esting, who walk silently IN the shadow
of fear, human fragments of another
day and another civilization.
Once, in Moscow street car, I ap-
preached an old woman to ask a casual
question as to direction. She answered
in perfect English, with such sweet and
gentle accents that I was amazed She
was frail figure almost buried in a
mans burly, seedy coat A kerchief
that was neither black nor gray cover
ed her silky white hair. Dim blue eyes,
yelled as if in a dream, took on added
pathoS from the soft skin on which
time and care had drawn a myriad of
wrinkles.
Sacrifice in Vain.
I said to her, How well you speak
English!" She did not answer until
she was ready to leave the car. Then
she turned and said, once I, too, was
somebody"
Perhaps some of the bitterness har-
bored in the breast of this old woman
would have been lessened had she
reason to believe that the sacrifices
she has been forced 10 make have
added something to the happiness of
Russian womankind. But even that
consolation is denied her. EVERYWHERE
she goes she sees faces as careworn, as
respondent, as hopeless as her own
not only among the "declassed" ex-
aristocratS but among the rank and file
OF women throughout the country.
She no doubt must say to herself:
why has my wealth been taken from
me? So that the peasant woman may
bend yet farther to the yoke of farm
labor and in the end see the produce
OF her sweat taken by the government
to feed women in other countries
while We starve? So that the city
woman may have, in addition to the
burden of caring for a whole family
In one-room fiat, the privileges of
sweating in factory, making choco-
lates for women of other countries to
enjoy? So that the city housewife
might have the privilege of waiting in
line for hours for her ration of black
bread of seeing her husband parading
his mistress before her and her
friends"
Whether the sacrifices made by this
old woman and her sisters of the ex-
aristocracy will eventually find fruit
IN the creation of a new and free
woman is one of the great questions
OF the Russian experiment. Under the
Cars certain type of Russian women
throve on adversely. Breshkovskaya.
Vasilieva, Scharava, Ismailova and
Spirodonova attained greatness as
rebels. Will the Soviet woman of to-
day, under the different adversities of
communism. attain greatness as a free
woman? Or will she once again be
forced to find her highest expression in
rebellion?
Evening star., 1932-12-11
New Canadian Chairman
States Radio Policies

OTTAWA, Ontario.-In assuming his
new post as chairman of the federal
radio broaca sting commission in Otta-
va, Hector Charlesworth, Toronto news
paper man, promised that Western
Canada is to get a better break" in the
way of radio programs, that classical
music and singing will not displace the
popular kind and that mainly the aim
Of the new commission will be to pro-
vide amusement and education for the
people of Canada in typical Canadian
The commission will shortly sponsor ma
tional programs.
I'VE are not going to establish any
high h-powered stations for some time,
but We hope to get start through the
existing stations and linking up by
land wires" said CharleSworth He
pointed out that the commission would
curtail advertising over the radio, al
though not entirely eliminate it. I'VE
cannot shut out the United States sta
tions with their advertising so it would
be unfair to Canadian business men to
prevent them from using the same
medium" added Charlesworth.
Thomas Maher of Quebec, the vice
chairman of the commission, said that
the French-Canadian people do not
want religion or politics over the air
Amusement over the radio and educa-
tional programs we're what Quebec
wanted.
Copyright, 1932)
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Greek MilliOnaires
Give to Government

ATHENS, Greece.-American Million
aires lead the world in their gifts to
science and art and education, but
Greek millionsires have different ideas
on what to do with their surplus funds.
One man has given a whole street to
Athens, another donated the building
which houses the foreign Office and
third presented his gratified govern
ment with a battleship and two jails.
George Averoff is the man who gave
the battleship and the jails, all OF
which are still in use. The battlesnlp'
which is a 12,000-ton cruiser. was IN
strumental in changing the map OF his
tory when it helped blockade the Turk
ish fleet during the Balkan wars and
thereby prevented Turkish re-enforce-
ments from being sent to the Balkans
from Asia Minor. The ship Is named
for its donor and is still IN active
service.
Averoff's jails, like his battleship, are
both named for him. One is 1or men
and the other for women.
The four-mile road from Athens to
Phaleron, the finest boulevard IN
Greece. was built with funds given by
Andrea Singross, a Greek who made
his money in cotton in Egypt. Singross
when he died left funds which heip
maintain the road. Other upkeep costs
are met by funds raised through tolls
which every vehicle leaving Athens on
the road must pay.
Singross also left building to the
government which is used to house
offices. Several other government Of
flee buildings are gifts from wealthy
Greeks.
The Zappeion, Athens permanent
exposition building, was the gift OF the
Zapp brothers. ~
(Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Pacifist Inscription
On Memorial Mutilated

PARIS-Almost every town and
village in France has its monument to
citizens who died in the war, and most
of the monuments have been unveiled
bv government officials. There is one,
however that has never been officially
unveiled, because of the sentiments
carved on it.
1t is at st. Martin d'Estreau, small
town near Orleans. The town is strong
ly pacifst, and in place of the usual
patriotic notices there are the following
Inscriptions:
I'm time of peace prepare for war
is a dangerous motto. The motto OF the
future is, In time of peace prepare for
peace"
Another inscription reads:
More than 100000 dead; still
larger numbers of manned, wounded.
widows and orphans; countless billions
of wanton destruction; scandalous
fortunes built on human suffering; in
nocent men shot as traitors, guilty men
given rank and honors; frightful
agonies for the poor; tremendous debts
to pay: will war at last have produced
enough suffering and killed enough men
SO that men in their turn shall have
the intelligence and will to kill WARP"
And a third says:
IF all the labor and money expended
for the war had been spent for peace,
the lot of mankind would have been
different. Poverty would in great part
have been banished from the world.
Cursed be war and its authors"
The texts have been SO mutilated by
indignant citizens who do not agree
with them that they are almost illegible
In places.
tCopyright, 1932)
Evening star., 1932-12-11

combined with that of st. Mary Wool
church, and when the Mansion House
was erected, at the end of the eighteenth
century, the corporation agreed to pay
the rector of the joint parishes the
equivalent of $50 year for ground rent,
which is far less than many humble
cottagers pay nowadays for their tiny
bit of old England. The corporation
still meets this liability in two install
ments.
Two years ago much Of the interior
Of the Mansion House was done over,
including the Egyptian Hall. which is
80 feet long and 60 wide, and is the
scene of the Lord Mayors big banquets.
But these gastronomic bouts have not in
recent years been staged on the lavish
scale of 25 or SO years ago. when l6
courses were generally the rule. Now
the menu does not run to more than
six courses, a practice also observed
at many of the city guild banquets.
Despite his $4,000 salary, the Lord
Mayor is generally out of pocket when
his years hectic term of Office is ended
For although he does not nowadays
spend so much on winning and dining
home and foreign notables as did many
of his predecessors, he is called upon
to shoulder more charitable burdens
In numerous instances he must set the
pace of giving till it hurts.
(Copyrizht, 1927
Evening star., 1932-12-11

our personalities may reasonably be
said to be built up out of memories and
experiences accumulated in the course
of our lives. They are also delimited
by these. But if to these personal mem
orieS and experiences we can add the
memories and experiences of our FORE
runners, which lie at our disposal in
the records they have left us. we shall
have done something equivalent to an
immeasurable extension, at least in one
direction, of our own eXistences. In
stead of retrospect bounded by our
own infancy, we may command retro
spect to a far horizon dimly set in the
twilight of prehistoric times.
BY this vicarious prolongation Of age
and experience it should follow that we
must come into a wider consciousness,
into a deeper knowledge of humanity
and consequently into fuller poten-
tialities of usefulness to the race of
which each of us is a unit
While this Is by no means the only
ground upon which the study of history
may be advocated, it should at least
supply full justification for that study
and an answer TO any thoughtless con-
tention that the past is dead and should
be buried out of the sight of practical
men. In the life of the race the past
is one with the present and the future
The Norman Conquest Is as present in
the life of England as the debt con-
tracted yesterday is present in the life
OF an EngliShman of today.
Evening star., 1932-12-11
ADVANTAGES
BY BRUCE BARTON

T dinner sat beside man who manages two hotels
" in New York and two in other cities
n His conversation fascinated me-
He was born in Vienna and arrived in this country
he in his early teens He had no money; ne
could not speak the language For time he shared
Said he: 1.-THE plumber had glass eye: Whenever
broke he pawned the eye and we hVeo on tne
proceeds until found work again. .
Mexico. cap marked porter" which he put on
he met the guests at the train After drlVlng tneH
changed into another coat and became the
clerk At meal time he put white coat and was Ihe
waiter.
water supply in the town. At night when
the guests asleep he drove 10 miles TO the nearest
creek filled the water barrels for the next day.
other in Russia whose experiences similar Each OF
them now at the head of large business.
Now for the other side of the picture. .
rich and distinguished citizen went to consult MS
family lawyer
Il want you to tell what to do about daughter
and her husband They good young people, graduates
the best schools they have had every advantage Yet
they do not to be making progress IN the world
What ought to do?" ~
"Do?" exploded the old counselor do? You shouldn't
do anything. You've already done too much
From the beginning you have tried to make MAKE every every
every hardship unpleasantness from every
thing that would tend give them experience and self
You made them leaners: Fortunately,
alone swim by themselves. Compel them
to lead their own lives"
Emerson revealing paragraph the reason
successful seldom produce successful sons The
principal is that the SucceSS1u man tries 10 give MS
boy all the advantages" ,
sometimes think would be grand thing could
take after their graduation from school college,
and exile them to Russia for year.
let them back via Steerage and start from
Ellis Island be about the best place to start
tcopyright 1891
Evening star., 1932-12-11

present is generally perceived. The
prudent man, by his actions in the
present, labors to shape, as far as pos
Sible. his future. But the link between
the present and the past may be less
widely recognized. .
Yet Just as the present supplies the
cause to which the future will yield
the effect, so the present is the effect
to which the past has supplied the
cause. Now, cause and effect are mere
ly the two sides of fact. And if we
are to gain any sort of conception of
the fact of existence, it is surely a
primary necessity that we should see
as much as possible of both sides of it.
1t would hardly occur to any Of
those who regard the study of history
as futile to decry the study of geog-
raphy or even of astronomy. They
admit that 1t is of consequence to a
knowledge Of ourselves that We should
be aware of our position in space. But
if that is SO, then 1t is surely of equal
importance that We should be aware
of our place in time, which modern
philosophy is teaching us to consider as
a spatial dimension. L other words.
it is surely as imports to penetrate
as far as possible into - mystery of
what we are as into the mystery. Of
where we are. And the elementary
step to a study of what We are lies in
the knowledge history offers Of our
social growth and of the evolution Of
our very complex system of civilization
Evening star., 1932-12-11
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

GENEVA, Switzerland-The atten-
ton of the world is centered for the
moment on three great problems. They
are those of the war debts. the Far
Eastern controversy and disarmament.
Upon whether or not they are solved Is
said to depend the immediate political
and economic future of large part of
mankind.
The war debt misunderstanding is
angering both the United States and
Europe Rightly or wrongly. there is
feeling, 1t is said, on the European side,
especially in Great Britain and France,
Of injustice and betrayal.
The Far Eastern affair has demon
strated the breakdown Of the worlds
only existing peace machinery, namely,
the League of Nations Covenant and
the Kellogg pact.
Prolongation of the unsuccessful dis
armament talks is maintaining political
tension in Europe, which. in turn, re-
acts, 1t is pointed out, to undermine
confidence everywhere and prevent
economic recovery.
Both Views Extreme.
The time has come when statesmen
here in Geneva are beginning to en-
visage the alternatives, on the one
hand, of the disadvantages to each and
all of continued disagreement and, on
the other hand, of the benefits to each
and all If agreement could be reached.
Both views are perhaps extreme.
One is too pessimistic and the other
is too optimistic What is really going
to happen, doubtless, lies somewhere
between them.
Yet. in order to understand clearly
what is involved for plain people every
where in negotiations which at times
seem far removed and abstract, 1t is
useful to consider these extremes:
If no agreement is reached, whether
on disarmament or the Far East or
the war debts, the United States may
try to disinterest itself again from Euro
pean problems, develop some indepen-
dent Far Eastern policy. and despite
the depression. increase its armament
expenditures.
Great Britain, 1t is said, might dis
interest itself from continental security,
delay stabilization of the pound, ask
France and Italy to pay their war debts
and favor Japan more than ever in
the Far East.
France might try to hold Germany
to the disarmament clauses Of the
treaty of Versailles. 1t might fail to
to the Young plan and demand that
Germany pay, thereby blocking the re-
payment of private debts. 1t might
undermine the Washington and Lon
don naval treaties by refusing to agree
with Italy and it might favor Japan
in the Far East
Might DenOunce Treaty.
Germany might denounce the treaty
of Versailles. refuse to resume repara-
tions or to repay private debts. begin
to rearm and continue its agitation for
territorial revision.
Italy would continue its naval COM
petition with France. support the Ger
man revisionist claims and add to the
political agitation.
Japan. under a military government
and suffering more and more eco
nomically, might develop its Asian
policy and challenge the Washington
and London treaty naval ratios.
Russia would find increasing difficulty
in carrying out its five-year plan and,
Evening star., 1932-12-11

1t is not at all fantastic to regard the
individual as standing toward the race
of which he Is a unit in much the same
relation as that which Is borne to him
self by the micro-organisms of which
his body is composed, the living cells
that go to make up his being.
Just as each of these cells in its brief
moment of existence does its part in
the metabolism and katabolism OF his
body, so does he, in his brief moment OF
existence within the body of the race,
discharge by it similar functions.
But If we are not to toll as uncon-
sciously as. presumably, the cells of
our bodies toll, some knowledge of our
selves is necessary. and this is to be
approached only through such knowl-
edge as is available of the race to
which. In our brief passage through it,
we contribute something, however in
significant.
Cabined and confined within his little
hour of life, dependent upon dimmest
speculation for understanding of
whence he springs, what purpose he
fulfills and whittier he is going, man
hungers to widen his horizons. Every
creed invented since self-consciousness
emerged in man has sought to satisfy
this hunger. The study of history may
partly satisfy it by widening the hori-
zon, at least in one direction.
Our apprehension and understanding
of the present moment, our natures,
Evening star., 1932-12-11
THREE MAJOR PROBLEMS
HOLD FUTURE OF WORLD
War Debts Far Eastern Controversy and
Disarmament May Have Far
Reaching Effects.

for its own safety, would try TO play
France against Germany and Japan
against the United States.
Every one would suffer economically
and financI Ially, the depression would be
prolonged, many countries would re-
main off the gold standard. making
new tariff and trade agreements dim
cult: the peace machinery would be still
further weakened, treaties everywhere
would be threatened. and political ten
sion and armaments competition would
be increased.
IT, on the contrary, agreements could
be reached the United States might get
speedy budget relief, better outlook
for a satisfactory Far Eastern settle
ment and stability for the naval
treaties.
Britain Could Stabilize.
Great Britain could stabilize. make
new trade agreements. and better its
war debt settlement. Its naval superb
GRITTY would be safeguarded and the
political and economic strains on the
empire would be lessened.
France might receive better war
debt settlement. greatly increased Sc
curity in the form of general dis
armament treaty, a permanent control
commission and effective international
cooperation, possibly also with con-
sultation. the outlawing of force and
the strengthening of the Locarno
treaties and the League covenant.
Germany would finally be relieved
from the fear of reparations 1t would
be insured juridical arms equality I'M
mediately and real equality later, with
the way open for continued peaceful
treaty revision.
t,I, a;oLf haitian Lab
settlement, naval stability with France
and better hearing for its Colonial
claims.
Japan would avoid possible bank
ruptcy and revolution. 1t might get
financial help to stabilize its currency.
1t would be relieved from the pressure
of boycott and might receive friendly
aid for the peaceful settlement Of its
difficulties with China.
Everybody Would Benefit.
Russia would increase its chances of
recognition 1t could continue its series
of on-aggression treaties. find outside
| support for its five-year plan and be
| free from political fears both in the
| East and in the West.
! Everybody would benefit. Relaxation
of political tension would tend to re-
ultimate repayment of private debts in
| full would improve. A better atmos-
! phere would be created for the read
| justment of war debts. The Lausanne
agreements and treaties generally would
be safeguarded. Arms competition would
be checked, armaments would be
stabilized and the way would be
| opened for further reductions in the
| future. Economies in national budgets
would be possible. A general return to
the gold standard could be envisaged,
accompanied by tariff revision and trade
agreements. Increased international
cooperation would strengthen the peace
machinery. The world would feel safe
A great step would have been taken
toward getting out of the depression.
Such at least are the current theories
of responsible statesmen. But is there
even now real will to agreement? Are
genuine compromises possible?
These questions as yet can be an
swered by no one.
Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Crypt for Exclusive
Use of Children

LONDON-In the crypt Of St.
Mart n 's-in-the- Fields, the famous
church in Trafalgar Square. is a chapel
devoted to children. No grownup may
pass the iron grille which separates it
from the rest of the church. A notice
on the wall reads:
The children'S corner: Every part
of this church is open, but this Is a
special place where children can bring
gifts of flowers, read or look at pic
lures, and speak in their hearts to God.
The little chapel was once room
where gas meters were kept, but now
it has blue and gold walls curving up
to cherubS who blow gusts of gold Leaf
wind on a round sun in the center of
the dome. A miniature altar rises
above small gray chairs and tables,
and on it hangs a child's prayer. Round
the walls are placed tiny chairs spe-
cially designed for the private prayers
of a child, each being partitioned off
from the others by a wooden screen.
On the tables are picture books. collec-
tions of poems and nursery rhymes.
The chapel IS the creation of the
vicar. the Rev. Pat Mccormick.
(Copyright, 1932.)
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Negotiation With Japan
Sought by WI Pei.Fu

SHANGHAI, China.-A voice CRYING
in the wilderness is that of Marshal WI
Pei-fu, veteran campaigner now resid-
ing in Peiping. WI has addressed a
letter to the Emperor Of Japan and has
sent copy to the League of Nations
Manchurtan Commission deploring the
present chaotic Sino-Japanese relations
He blames the military element Of both
countries and points out that their
problems are susceptible of solution in
that they are really brother countries"
In his appeal he urges that hostile ac-
ton be stopped so as to avoid deepen
ing the enmity between the two people
and advocates conference between the
elder statesmen Of China and Japan.
WI Pei-fu has throughout his long
career been known as anti-Japanese In
sentiment. Having retired from the
military area, he has devoted the last
few years to studying the Chinese
classics. His Is the first voice raised
pleading negotiations with Japan
(CopyrtEht, ls32.)