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The Washington times., 1932-05-10

dig and burn and plow and haul
in the same wilderness acre.
Then, after the days chores
we're done, the right to lie down
and bear her baby as best she
could, often a hundred or more
miles from the nearest doctor.
Yes; and rights to bundle all
ner babies into a prairie schooner
and strike out for herself when
her man was dead. AS brave
Katie Wolpole had done-she
who married that John Nance
Garner who was grandfather to
Sarah James Jack.
Frontier wives and mothers in
the SOS! They earned their
titles, then. No place on the
Texas plains for winners. snivel-
lers or sentimentalists. No time
to wonder if you were express
ing yourself when you had to
do the expressing for a tired.
hard-pressed man, and for a pack
Of youngsters coming along as
regularly as the sweet potato
crop.
Precious Tike
Lively youngsters; stick out ears
scooping up every hint of mis-
chief; freckled nose sticking into
every speck of danger.
Young Jack, for example.
There was a handful! Tough
little tike. Always hell raising
Eating hard. Playing hard.
Fighting hard. Working-well,
maybe not SO hard. But what
boy ever did? Particularly the
kind of a boy that gets himself
elected to be captain of the
Blossom Coon Soup Hollow Base
ball Team.
Those Blossom Coon Soup Hol-
low baseball fights! A chuckle
comes out of the old rocking
chair. But it wasn't always a
chuckling matter then. when
young John showed up with his
shirt slit and a pants leg almost
missing. Shirts and pants didn't
grow on bushes then. Everything
came hard. Clothes, food, hous-
ing, schooling, doctoring, life
itself-everything came slow, and
hard, and high.
Terrific Cost
Everything you had, everything
you were, you worked for; Sweated
for; near died for, many a time.
The Washington times., 1932-05-10

And sometimes, Strengthening up
to ease your aching back, you
wondered for a minute or so how
it would all end.
How it would all end
The old chair rocks, rocks.
From the yard comes a tangle
of young voices, the dance and
gleam of opening leaves.
Across the sheen and laughter
there comes a sound that she
alone can hear-the voice Of a
man in washington, a sturdy,
red-faced man whom the world
calls mfr. Speaker"-a blunt,
direct voice.
what lies behind that voice?"
says the world.
Old Sarah Jane Garner, sitting
there in Texas. IN the land which
she helped make. knows what lies
behind it. wilderness trails. Will
derness perils. Days when a man
bought his citizenship, literally,
with blood and tears and sweat
and prayers. Camp fires. Skulk-
Ing savages. A baby'S grave on a
wind-swept prairie. Corn pone,
'lasses and turnip greens. A bare
foot boy with a toothless grin,
and a bloody nose, and a dream
forming inside his hard, touseled
head.
How it would all end
Mr.. President
They're calling him "Mr
Speaker today. Will they be call.
ing him "Mr. President" tomor.
row?
The little old lady rocks, and
mods, and thinks.
The years drift slowly by. Light
The Washington times., 1932-05-10

yer, again darkness studded thick
with stars; silver, blotched deep
with orange from the evening
fires.
Clatter of iron lids above a
venison stew.
Murmur of older voices and a
baby'S cry.
The sleepy grunt of oxen in the
nipping GAVIN.
The shouts of men.
The straining creak of tires md
crack of whips.
Pink dawn. across a prairie
bubbling with larks.
White heat, and circling buzz
yards, and a bleaching skull.
The sudden, laundering rush OF
buffaloes.
Coyotes HOwls
At midnight, a coyotes yam
mering wall; or, shriller and
more wolfish. Indian yellS.
And then, at last, the sound
OF axe anu saw
A clay-chinked cabin, growing
in the wilderness.
Rocking, old Sarah scans that
other scene, and feels, still gnaw.
ing. that young gypsy urge, and
with it q girls heartache, as the
home ties break. Youth! Youth,
in 1852!
A laughing girl flashes past in
a yellow roadster; shining, mar
Celled curls flying in the wind;
carmined, manicured fingers
gripping the wheel; silken toe
pressing the accelerator; forty,
fifty. sixty miles an hour.
Sarah Jane Garner. Shrewd old
eyes appraising, watches her go.
Rights Negative
Thinks she's doing something,
doesn't she, the young gad-about!
What can she know about doing
things, sitting so safe and soft in
expensive machines, stepping on
gas her dad pays for? What
can she know about the cost OF
things, and the risks girls took
in 1852? ..,
Real risks, then. Risks that still
warm your blood in the re-
membering, and spunk up your
pride, even though you are 30
and resting in a rocking chair,
with your work all done.
Work? It was never done, In
those days. Danger? You were
never rid of it. Always some
thing more to do, something more
to tackle with your bare fists and
your bare heart.
A girl growing to won1anhood
ir the SOS; womanhood, wife
hood, motherhood-that meant
something, then. Meant plenty!
Right to Share Perils
"Woman's rights-is that what
they call it now?" The old
mouth twitches into a grin.
Well, maybe they'd be surprised,
these young ones, if they knew
what rights women had then!
Equal rights to share all the
dangers and hardships with a
man. Right to break the same
broncho, skin the same bob cat,
shoot the same Indian prowler,
The Washington times., 1932-05-10

and shadow; joy and sorrow; life
and death. A babe turns in her
arms. A youngster stanos by, her
knee. A man strides from her,
out into the world.
A man? No; still her baby.
MY son john" she whispers,
softly. Then again, as though she
called MY son John!"
Will they call him Mr.. PreSi,
cent" tomorrow?
The Washington times., 1932-05-10

And II they do, will he hear
their cheers, their bravos-
Or viii he be listening, across
the miles, to another voice; hear
her whispering:
MY SON JOHN!"
ITO be Continued Tomorrow in
The Washington TimeS.I
Copyright, 1892. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-05-10
ChAPTER IL.
"My Son John"

A little old lady rests in a rock.
ing chair. Leaf shadows splatter
the porch floor-young leaves,
bursting into another spring.
Laughing voices tangle in the
yard-young voices, breaking into
another life.
Like a bright, eager tide swirl.
ing about her chair comes the
sound and sense of today-a
puppy'S excited yipe; sharp
smell of Spaded earth; sunshine
Spangling drying sheets, blowing
in clouds above the greening
lawns; thick, warm fragrance of
lilacS.
Down street, a motorcycle roars.
Far above roofs of lie, CORFU.
gated iron and machine made
shingles, the western air mail
drones by.
Smiling, old Sarah Jane Garner
mods and rocks.
Her shrunken body rests, leaf
light, in her chair. A man could
span her tired shoulders with one
hand. Her thin, gnarlsd fingers
gently beat 10 some ola tune.
Whit She Sees
AS through a dream, her dim,
ming eyes look out
Above the buStling street
Beyond the busy town
Across the years
Nearer, clearer than the frag'
rance Of lilacS, she smells the bit
ing yellow dust Of the long trail
Sees canvas tops lurch white
against a hot, blue sky; loom sill
The Washington times., 1932-05-10

Behind eUerv nldn-d tDontGn.
KnotD that tDomGn and you
tDiu discoDer the making and the
inner meaning of the man. In
her you tDiu find the reason for
the thing he Is, or the dnSiDer. to
the thing he DdntS. In either
case, she Is the expression OF the
mans secret ndture-thGt nature
NTH tohtch you must ultimately
deal.
DoUn In the little totDn OF De,
tToit, TerdS. lUeS an old DonIGn
ioho Is the reason for John Nance
Garner. She is his mother, Sarah
Jane Corner. Eighty years ago
she tDGS born, tDhen Oklahoma
DGS Indian Territory and they
called it "The Nation"
Sarah Gamers story is the
story Of her country. The same
things that shaped her character,
shaped the people sOhonl her son
notD SerUeS as Speaker of the
House. From that same untitled
wilderness soil, from those pioneer
privGtionS and aspirations. has
come the soul of America.
QuGintly she refers to her boy
as my son John" More than
mother loue speaks in that phrase.
Like calls to like. America
speaks to America in a simple,
sturdy language that. God for
OtOe us, some of us hGue almost
forgotten.
John Nance Garner may mean
much to his country But his
mother-Gu such ntotherS-t0iL
Glt01yS mean more. They made
America possible.
The Washington times., 1932-05-30

Ornamental will be of bronze aluminium cast iron
wrought depending the of work the location The
interior stair rang ratings for main portcoes and metal work
the will be of aluminium Metal gres will be
either depending their location Bronze
will be used the first floor hollow
steel doors all other floors.
All will be insulated against heat and cod either by fiber
insulated applied the structural roof slab and under the
insulating material applied under
space between the roof slab and the suspended ceiling below
certain places both of these methods will be employed
The walls of the lobby and other interior stone work.
generally will be of limestone with honed finish The
floors the corridors the first floor will be of dark marble
the base being light marble The floors of the corridors
the typical floors will be of terrazzo laid off in two foot squares
with foot border by of brass division strips
offices will with rubber te the
assembly will partly tile and partly
arped The floors for the large committee will be of oak
laid in mastic. "
The Washington times., 1932-05-30

On December 1884, contract in the amount of $527OOOO
into with the Consolidated Engineering Company of Ba
Maryland for the construction of the New House Office
Building be constructed the bounded by South Capitol
Street. New Jersey Avenue and Streets S. E. This project is
due for completion May &c. 1993 but the contractors anticipated
date for completion January 1888 The Architects for this
building the Allied Architects of Washington D. c. Inc
The building will contain PSI sutes each consisting of
office private office and toilet such
file bookcases warrbes storage cabinets and safes
built and included the contract There will be five large
committee each approximately 80 by so feet and nine smaller
committee An assembly to seat $50 is provided
The exterior walls including terrace walls will be faced with
granite the level of the first floor above this level they will
be faced with Georgia marble The walls of the interior court will
be faced with Indiana limestone the walks baurad seats
the court being Of sandstone The backing all exterior walls will
be of brick the interior partitions will be of hollow tile
The Washington times., 1932-05-30

The woodwork in the offices including DOORS trim and buin
will walnut The woodwork the corridor will be
white pine painted The woodwork in the committee will be
white painted excepting the doors and the rostrum counters
which will be walnut The windows will have white pine frames
and sash and will be glazed with B in. plate glass
will four mail hues and four package Each
office will equipped with large steel storage fe bun safe
and number of steel letter files
The building will be heated by system, the steam for
which will be supplied by the Capitol Power Plant Radiators in
the offices and corridors will be concealed brass radiators Exposed
will be the portions of the build
automatic system of temperature regulation will be installed
thermosats each office suite and in all principal
of the structure is 900 completed and half
the interior pastered and such rapid being made
every indication that the building
will ready occupancy the latter part of this
months in advance of contract time.
The Washington times., 1932-05-30

The Allied Architects,
Washington, D. C..
Consulting Architects
The Washington times., 1932-05-30

j
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
Scottsboro on the Radio
BY BuRCK

Diamond Exchange. The meetings
at Delft and the Hague were un-
precedented.
The response that swept over
Friesland, the northern agricultur-
al district of Holland, however, was
revelation. F'riesland was one of
the seven original free states of
Holland. 1t is one-eleventh of the
country with 100000 population. AS
an independent free state it was
the first to recognize the indepen-
dence of the American colonies fol-
lowing the war of independence
against Great Britain, 1776.
AS an indication of its gratitude
the new nation sent a tablet
which still rests in the wall of the
capitol of Friesland, at Loeuwer-
den, bearing the inscription:
Memorial of Gratitude from the
United States of America to the
State of F'riesland for Its Recogni-
ton of the Independence of the
United States, 1885"
The Scottsboro issue will be rails
ed in the Dutch Parliament by the
two Communist members, David j.
Wynkoop and Louis De Wiser. The
parliament of Queen Wilhelmina's
government, headed by the Catho-
lie Center and its coalition of
Christian parties, contains a So
cial-democratic opposition of 26
out of 100 members. 1t will be fore
ed to take an open stand on this
issue.
1T is significant that many of the
meetings in Holland were organ
lied by Negro workers now living
in Holland, but who had come
from Surinan, the Dutch West In
dian Negro colony. A native of In
donesia, the Dutch East Indian
colony, also spoke at many meet
ings, thus bringing forward the
bloody oppression of colored peo-
pies in the colonies of Dutch i'm
perialism.
The Scottsboro Mothers visit to
Holland conceded with the wave Of
Indignation sweeping the working
class masses of the country over
the police murder of the agricul-
tural worker, John DeYonge, dur
ing a demonstration against wage
reductions for agricultural work.
ers. DeYonge was first wounded by
the police and then fatally stabbed
through the heart by a police sa-
Der. Out of a town of 1000 popula-
ton more than 5000 came to the
funeral, with delegations from
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Harlem,
and other cities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08


stratiOn before the Home Relief
Bureau recently.
Welfare Island, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
In the fangs of capitalist Justice
the Daily Worker remains our only
source of news from the battle
front of the class struggle.
Without the Daily we would be
lost, because we cannot commune
cate with anybody from outside.
We are here, a group of COM
rades, torn away from our activi-
ty and work and thrown into a
place in which pigs should not be
kept. Some of our comrades who
have been here pretty long are
almost forgotten, even though
they were the best fighters on the
picket lines, as, for instance, Com
rade Morartis of the Food Work
ers Industrial Union and Comrade
Zaliski of the Downtown Unem-
ployed Council. Nobody comes to
visit these comrades, nobody writes
them even line of hope.
What is the matter with our
comrades? Since when do we for
get our class fighters?
We here from Jail appeal to the
workers to help save the Daily
Worker by giving more and more
money, not only because the Daily
Worker is our only means of con-
test with the struggle, but be-
cause it Is the leader of all of us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
PRAISE FOR ECLIPSE REPORT
New York City.

Dear Editor:
I congratulate the Daily Worker or
its true MARKHAM report about the
eclipse. The article about the eclipse
is a wonderful example Of how
MARKHAM Journalism brings the Sun
down to earth.
The same day that this article APP
peared in the Daily Worker, the
New York Times contained the fol-
lowing headline: "Sees Peril to Man
in Own Inventions. Sir Alfred Ewing
Tells British Scientists the Human
Race is Ethically Unprepared."
1T is impossible not to ask" Sir
Alfred said, whittier does this ire
mendous procession tend? What.
after all, is its goal? What its prob
able influence on the future Of the
human racer"
Himself giving a true picture Of
the cursed capitalist system Of So
ciety, Sir Alfred nevertheless finds
not a word of criticism against the
system. His reported speech fully
proves the soundness of the analysis
given in the article about the eclipse
as to how science and the scientists
are serving capitalism for its own,
benefits at the expense Of the.
workers in the way Of speed-upS,
and unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
Mr.. GREEN'S "Solemn'
Bnrlesque

THE Labor Day Speech of William Green head of the
American Federation of Labor filled with solemni
ties. He soemnly" warned" against wage cuts He
soemny demand however, that what work there is be
divided upwhich wage cuts down to low levels
Green also solemny" announced that the A. F. of L.
would draw and legislation insurance
What precise provisions the
much how little
would that unemployed
men would entirely
eminent or stolen from the wages of the employed
RUT matter speech merely
~ Solemn" L.
poyment insurance and has intention making
the speech pressing"
the Child Amendment
A
been fighting" for this
through
ta politicians themselves
Neither does Green the
tans and their
Party and the Trade Union Unity
ane" So all workers, particularly A.
should the bug
of remorse but the serpent Of deception.
entire Executive F. of L
driven A.
L. membership the appeal leadership of the L.
opposition
A speech
solemn unemployment
workers will have fighting united front A. of L.
'ouonary workers together and Of members will have
dr a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
Illinois Miners Struggle
Faces Great Danger

THE trdstrict conference of miners representatives
Illinois, Indiana and Northern Kentucky which met in
Gillespie on September decided to form union to be
known as the Progressive Miners of America The
ference originally called at the suggestion of the Rank
and File committee of the miners to unite and extend the
fight of the miners against the wage cut forced upon them
by Lewis and Walker.
The rebellion against the wage cutting policy of Lewis
and Walker and the formation of union expresses the
will of the rank and file miners break with policies of
the bureaucracy which has done untold harm to the miners
The miners have expressed their desire to repudiate wipe
out the policies of Lewis and Walker We greet the revolt
of the miners and the formation of union as step
forward in the struggles Of the miners We support the Of the
theiT nterds union Oh 0' owl" capable OF HsA's mif'n7 for
But the must keep
of of the progressive" the
powerful instrument the fight against wage cuts
and dting fight against op-
orators, and thus to bring about the cut
THE decisions of the con-
ference The information
ence decided to discontinue mass pketng which initiated by the
rang ana me miners themselves Inc information we have at hand also
a That the conference decided not only to organize conference
in breaking the backbone Of the struggle The miners and the nq non
would be in position ask
If the mass petng continued and the strike spread In order to be
miners the operators must that the miners fighting and that
abandon the fight for the District which the
present number and strength
main miners
Of the newly formed miners union must be the
the fight the Illinois and Indiana miners
is
form in pit in sub district broad
of the
of
the leaders the organization and spreading the
test policies
information of
october
which constitution
adopted Within there
the
the
militant
Walker with
sent the militant program which the union adopt
The miners
their
by deeds will disrupt their ranks from within through
policies that the miners back where
the connection it must be
experience with
reacheous work of the decaying
THE
movement how the policies
ment
shall
the militant strikes Pennsylvania Ohio Kentucky
their immediate winning against wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
party LIFE

best or the first medium with
which to approach shop workers.
8. Daily Worker Committees in
the Sections are not necessary. One
comrade will do the job.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Let us take the first question:
Does the Daily Worker reflect the
struggles in the neighborhoods?
Certainly it does. Look over at
least a few recent copies of the
Daily Worker and they will find
full pages of news. Also the COM
rades forget that the Daily Worker
is a national paper and cannot con-
Germ itself exclusively with New
York news.
APPROACHING THE
SHOPS
Can we approach shop workers
with the Daily Worker? To this
experience gives up only one an
swer, that if some comrades did
approach workers in the shops, and
did not get results, the fault lies in
the way the comrade made his ap-
proach.
Let us have nc illusion that this
is an easy job. 1t is very difficult.
Only by persistent work, day after
day, will we be able to develop the
sale of the Daily Worker in the
shops. We have begun this work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
Nv JLOUIS ENGDAHL


HOLLANDS radio audience is
III served by two broadcasting sta
lions. One of these is V.AR.A.
Omitted Labor Radio Association
controlled by the Dutch Social
Democrats. 1t was far cry from
the Scottsboro meetings forbidden,
broken up by the Socialist police in
Germany, to the Socialist invita-
ton to Mrs. Ada Wright in Hol-
land to speak over their radio.
Thus the Scottsboro appeal was
broadcasted through the air for the
first time in Europe.
TRY TO
CLAIM CREDIT
1t was clear that this maneuver
of the Socialists in Holland fol-
lowed closely on the heels of the
lead given by the chairman of the
Second Socialist International,
Emile Vandervelde, in opening his
arms to the Scottsboro Mother in
Brussels, and his heart to the case
of the Negro boys facing the cleo
trio chair. Suddenly the columns of
Het Volk CThe People,, central Or
gan of the Social-Democratic Par
ty Of Holland began to burst with
Vandervelde publicity, as if the
former Socialist premier of Belgi-
um's King Albert had taken over
the ScottSboro campaign. Het Volk
featured the Scottsboro case with
pictures but omitted mention en-
tirely of the International Red
Aid. In the news report of the
great Amsterdam demonstration
instead of using the initials
"IRH." international Roods
Hulp), Het Volk deliberately uses
the initials "IA.H." international
Arbeiter Hilfo, the German name
and not understood in Holland.
How deliberate this actually was
became crystal clear with the
translation of the Scottsboro
Mothers appeal over the radio,
when the social democratic trans
later provided by the station itself
and who had been given an adj
vance copy of her speech, declared
that it was the Socialists who had
come to the aid of the Scottsboro
Negro boys and were defending
them and once more emitting all
mention Of the International Red
Aid.
SEE MASS
SUPPORT
The basis for this campaign of
deception was to be found in the
tremendous mass support of the
the Scottsboro campaign in Hol-
land as revealed in the demonstra-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08

The Daily Worker will regularly
carry column on Party Life.
Party members, particularly from
the lower units, trade union frac-
tions and fractions in mass or
CARNATIONS are invited to con-
tribute to this column. We espe-
cially urge the membership in the
factory units to write of their
work and problems. The column
growth of the Party IL the expert
can be made living force In the
ences in the practical mass work
will find expression in It. Ad-
dress your contributions to Party
Life Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-08
BUILDING A MASS BASE FOR THE DAILY

The section Daily Worker commit
tee should be the co-ordinating
group for all of the units and mass
organizations in its etrritory. 1t
should check up and see that the
numerous opportunities for bring
ing the Daily Worker in front of
the workers are used. 1t shall see
that the units follow up every
reader and draw him closer to the
revolutionary movement. 1t shall
assume responsibility for shop
survey of its territory and see that
the units carry on Daily Worker
activities at these shops.
GROUPS
This calls for every Party men,
Der taking responsibility for the
building of workers groups in the
mass organizations, A. F. of l..
unions, on neighborhood basis,
etc; to support the Daily Worker.
To be able to interest workers in
these groups means that we must
correct our own attitude on the
Daily Worker first,