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The daily worker., 1933-08-12
Roosevelt Bankers and Professors Discuss purchasing Poaver

not live except by selling its labor
power to the bosses.
When Professor Clark speak about
"the present chaotic system" he
means the anarchy of production
Stating the problem correctly lays
the basis for its solution So long
as capitalism exists this anarchy
will exist. In fact, it will grow worse.
Capitalism as it grows, as long as
1t lives, produces a relative surplus
population that is doomed to starva-
tion and can prevent greater starva-
ton only by struggle. Only the
overthrow of capitalist relations, the
overthrow of the capitalist state
power as preliminary to wiping
out the class basis of capitalism, can
solve this contradiction CT the anar-
chy of capitalism producing wealth
for the 10 per cent and misery and
starvation for the 90 per cent.
THIS situation Roosevelt can never
! solve, as Prof. Clark indicates,
even if he shoots half the popula-
tion. Neither can he solve it by
talking about increased purchasing
power. He can talk about increas-
ing purchasing power, but his inten-
tions, policies and actions work to
the contrary-to reduce wages and
increase unemployment.
| Proof? Here is some from very
authoritative capitalist source, the
Annalist, foremost economic organ
of Wall Street. In its July 28th
issue we read the following:
"The new deal proposes TO set
prices which will absorb not only
the rise in the direct costs of all
production but will also assure
producers Of a profit. Prices con-
strued as fair in the sense con-
templated by the various indus
tries, will put a premium on ef-
forts to lower cost Of production
for the sake of much larger pro-
f1ts.'
Before we go further, let's analyze
this. Under the new deal the bosset
will increase prices, in order to make
a profit. But they will not be salts.
fed with mere profit but wan
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

-ployment. The United States is
not overpopuIated. The country
lis capable of supporting easily
some 50,000,000 more people. Yet
under the present chaotic system
we would have just as much un-
employment with half of our pop
uIation."
This is somewhat at variance with
the economic wiseacreS of the Ma
tional City Bank. They all get them
selves entangled in HOPELESS confu-
sion in trying to explain to the
workers why millions starve in the
midst of plenty.
-
PROFESSOR CLARK touches on a
A poipe r1at', cleer by K"Tl NJ,
in 1867 in his mastery work on
capitalist society, Capital" At that
time the theories of certain NAL
thus were very popular, as they still
are in some quarters Nautilus said
starvation is the lot Of humanity
and always will be. Why? Because
population grows faster than the
means Of supplying life, food, cloth
ing, etc. Marx smashed this argu-
ment to bits, showing that capital
ism has its own laws Of overpopuIa-
.tion. He said it is true that every
time there is crisis in capitalism
there is relative overpopulation -
THAT is more people exist than is
needed by capitalism. There are not
more people than can be fed. There
are more people than the capital
!. lists can put to work profitablv
4 Therefore they. as we'll as those
who do work starve Overpoprlstior
is not due to the shortage of fooe
or because of the scarcity of good,
of any kind. 1t is not due to thu
I fact that too many people exist il
relation to the available food ant
other means of life Gas Prof. Clarl
in 1888 testifies). But it is due tt
the fact that capitalism cannot con
tinue production at profit, ant
renders 100000 superf1uous on tn,
basis Of capitalist relations = th
ownership of the means Of produc
ton by the capitalist class, and tn
.existance of proletariat who can
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

policies of their respective national
bourgeoiSie.
It is only with the foregoing Com
munist principles and program of
class struggle that the workers can
defeat the efforts of the capitalists
to find a way out of the crisis through
more unemployment, wage-cuts, and
mass starvation, more Fascist ter
rorism and the unleashing of devas-
tating war.
Under the leadership of the Com
munist Party and following out its
class struggle policy, the workers can
defend their interests here and now
and they will ultimately traverse full
the revolutionary way out of
crisis by overthrowing capitalism and
establishing a Soviet system.
From Comrade Fosters book
Toward Soviet America" published
Z in 1927
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

much larger profits" To attain this
they will lower costs of production.
Costs of production in the very first
instance refer to wages-the greatest
single item in the cost of produc-
ton. In short, to make much larger
profits they will lower wages.
THE same article goes further and
i shows how this lowering of costs
Of production, under the new deal,
will lead to greater unemployment.
"This will be done by investing
more capital in order to increase the
productivity Of labor and NAV very
well result in new and revolutionary
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

organized attention that now marks
this field of work. 1t must be made
the business of every Party unit,
every Party Committee and Buro,
every Party fraction.
On the 14th Anniversary of the
Party, We must take up more seri-
Gus study of our history, precisely
in order to give especial stimulus to
Y RECRUITING AND TO
WORKER CIRCULATION.
Let these two questions be placed
first on the order of business of every
group of Party members every time
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

ity to produce more? Not at all.
Capitalism never has ana nNTar
can use its productive machinery to
full capacity. So long as production
does not throw millions Of profits into
the pockets of the 10 per cent, the
majority Of the 80 per cent must
Starve. e. =
AS sidelight on this question we
learn tho Follourin~ fro'71 orcf -eor
Harold F. Clark of Columbia Uni
versity:
There Is no excuse for unem-
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

The Daily Worker Is making good
advances in getting closer to the
workers and presenting revolution
ary issues in mass terms. But we
all know that there is still lots of
dead matter; dull, formal treat
ment; slowneSs to react sharply and
imaginatively to every turn and de-
velopment of the situation and its
significance for the workers. These
are the weaknesses we all need to
fight.
All comrades, all synpathizerS, all
readers of the Daily Worker should
combine to help the editorial board.
We need more letters from the big
industrial centers, letters with a
revolutionary proletarian swing, let
ters that will demand with fierce
insistence.
More kick. More life! More fight!
And in plain terms that every work
er can understand. With all the en-
enies of the workers conf
dence and belief in the revolution
Let every line and item breath
revolutionary enthusiasm. Mobilize
the readers for cooperation.
A. WILLIAMS.
The daily worker., 1933-08-12
Can't Raise Purchasing Power of 80 Per Cent
of Population, Says National City Bank, !.
Overlooking Main Obstacles

duction (because profits we're drop
ping) caused more n .sery and un-
employment. Capitalism does not
produce to raise the standard of
living"
Capitalism goes even further. Be-
cause it has produced more than it
can sell at profit, regardless of the
facts that the masses starve, it pro-
ceedS to destroy not produce. i.
With 350,000,000 bushels of wheat In
the graneries and millions of bales of
cotton in stock, Roosevelt deliberately
orders wholesale destruction of wheat
and cotton. Is it a question of abil-
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

technical Developments"
Translated into the language of
the shops, the New Deal in prac-
tice, as the bosses organ says, will
mean to increase speed-up, getting
less workers to do the same amount
of work done; increasing the use
of machinery, with new and re-
volutionary technical developments
driving more workers permanently
out of the factories without, at the
same time, affecting production.
So, when listening to Roosevelts
lessons on economics, remember
The daily worker., 1933-08-12
BY C. Z. RUTHENBERG

Editorial Note: The following ex-
cerpts from an article written by
comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, in De-
cember, 1926. is timely in connec-
tion with our Party Anniversary.
One of the central tasks in cele-
brating the 14th Anniversary of
The daily worker., 1933-08-12

from Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman
and others of the New Masses.
Congratulations on your plan TO en-
large the Daily Worker.
READER.
Evening star., 1933-04-01
Everyday Psychology
Anger.
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

Anger.
When you start to account for an
emotion, such as anger, you get into
deep psychological water. Anger is a
feeling, of course. But a feeling of
what? Certainly not a feeling of
state Of mind. For the so-called state
of mind is just a name for something
we can't explain any other way.
If you analyze the feeling of anger,
Eou finally get back to a group of
tensions coming for all we know, from
every muscle and tissue in the body.
When angry you have feelings which
seem to come from the heart. And they
do. At any rate, the heart is working
faster. Some more of the anger feeling
comes from the lungs. At any rate,
you breathe differently Also digestion
stops. There must be some feelings
associated with that suspended activity
And then there are other feelings which
no one can describe which must belong
to the increased glandular activity. Per-
haps, when angry, you have felt your
eyes protrude and your hair stand on
end.
Taking everything into consideration,
the feeling of anger is but the sum-
mated feelings of your entire body get
ting ready for fight or hight-usuaily
xcopyrixht. 1sssl
Evening star., 1933-04-01

7 T was the night before April Fools
day. Unc' Billy Postum didn't know
that. OF course not. None of the
i little people of the Green Forest
and the Green Meadows know any
thing about this day or any other spe-
cial days. Even If Unc' Billy had known
it. it wouldn't have meant anything to
him. Although he is a great joker
himself, for playing dead as he does is
really nothing more than great joke
on those he fools, he isn't at all sus-
picious that others may play jokes on
him.
So all through this night he wan
dered about with but one thought in
his head and that was to fill his stom-
ach. A good meal was the most i'm
portant thing in life to him just then
and he didn't care much what 1t was
or where he got it. AS for jokes, no
thought of one entered his head or
would enter it unless the appearance
of an enemy would make it necessary
to try the one joke he knows how to
play.
OF late he had been thinking of eggs.
OF course, he shouldn't have been
thinking of eggs. But along about this
time Of year he always does think
about them: You see, he is very fond
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any of his feathered neighbors are
welcome whenever he can get them,
but most of all he prizes hens eggs.
They are big and satisfying and so
much to be desired. AS for stealing
them he has no guilty feeling at all.
He considers that he has Just as much
right to those eggs as has Farmer
Browns Boy, who collects them every
day. If they belong to anybody, they
belong to the hens that lay them, Unc'
Billy reasons.
"If those silly hens don't want their
aiggs, and they don't because they
done tell everybody when they lay
them and then go and leave them. All
done got just as much right to them
as anybody All reckon" says Unc' Billy
Thinking of eggs Just naturally led
him to prowl around where eggs were
likely to be, and that was Farmer
Browns hen house. OF course. That
was where the nearest flock of hens
lived and of course that was where
the eggs would be. But Unc' Billy had
discovered that it was one thing to
know where the eggs were and another
matter altogether to get those eggs
He had tried and tried again to get
into the hen house. but in vain. Farm
er Browns Boy isn't careless. Every
night those hens were shut up and no
chance left for any one to get in where
they were.
Now Farmer Browns Boy had found
certain tracks around the hen yard and
recognized them. "Unc' Billy is get
Evening star., 1933-04-01
Conquering Contract
BY p. HAL SIMS

therefore, cannot help shading the re-
quirements for this bid, to some extent
unconsciously and always with the best
intentions. When the partner rebids
the minimum three no trumps over your
bid of three in the suit, you can now
make the mild slam try Of four no
trumps with the satisfaction of feeling
that there is safety margin in your
eventual contract, inaSmuch as you have
underbid your hand slightly and thus
allowed your partner some leeway for
his opening bid.
When Your Partner Tends to
Timidity.
On the other hand when your part
ner'S tendency is toward extreme cau-
tion or pessimiSm so that he is always
fearing the worst and dreading double
in high contracts, you may expect his
opening two no trump bid to meet in
full measure every requirement that I
have laid down and you may also have
reason to fear that he will undervalue
the support you bring him unless you
are somewhat dictatorial in driving the
bidding forward and upward. In these
circumstances, make your immediate
jump raise on the lines advocated in the
last few articles. Leave your partner
no room for doubt or hesitation when
your hand justifles the immediate jump
takeout and you have reason to fear
that an eventual loss is more likely to
result from too low contract than from
optimism regarding slams
Let My System Be Your Servant.
System is no substitute for Judgment.
In my own game I have horror of
rigidity and wooden submissiveness to
text book tyranny when there may be
some advantage to be derived from in
Producing little elasticity into the
situation. I want you to do the same.
Take the standards I have given for
these responses to two no trumps as the
normal ones by which slam or near
slam hands can be safely and reason
ably bid as an operating unit of 26
cards toward or to a slam. If you feel
you have reason to shade them on the
conservative side to allow for partner S
weakness in bidding or play, the system
will still serve you and work for YOU
faithfully. You are the navigator, the
ships master on the bridge-not the
| figurehead on the PROV.
Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1933-04-01
Pointed Paragraphs

Says the old bachelor: Marriage is
a means of grace-when it leads to re-
pentance."
The more business ability man pos
sesses the harder it is for him to
whistle popular air correctly.
Weather was probably invented by
his Satanic majesty so that people
would have something to growl about
when there was nothing else at hand.
Married men get a lot of wireless
messages from their wives.
Some men can't make good I'M
preston even with rubber stamp.
A woman would rather spend two
dollars for dry goods than one for
groceries.
The more a woman argues the more
she is unable to convince herself.
1t is as bad to be wrong at the right
time as it is to be right at the wrong
time.
An uptown youth who is learning to
play on cornet is otherwise so pop
ular that the neighbors permit him to
live.
Some ofius have more ups and downs
In this world than others, but when we
get to the cemetery we will all be on
the dead level.
(CopyriEht. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-04-01
A Little Saturday Talk.

N Id April Fools day rolls around
again and with smiling good
nature we try not to let any
~ one fool us.
1t seems to me that April
First is not such a great day as it
nSed to be, but perhaps that is because
] am not so young as I once was. Dur
dng my boyhood / felt that l must be
ton my guard all day lest some one fool
hne, but during recent years the folks
Rround me have made little effort to
Eio SO.
remember one April Fools day
(which caused me great worry, but
Sortune saved me from trouble which
might have been much worse than it
was.
chum of mine, named Herbert,
walked with me along the shore of a
lake to visit the home of another boy,
manned Vernon. Winter had departed
and stretching up from the lake was a
great field of dry grass. Within 10 feet
of the lake was a clump of tall, dead
weeds which had stood through the
Winter. Herbert spied the weeds and
shouted:
Lets play fireman."
agreed. and the weeds were set
afire. They made a great blaze, but
we delayed too long before we started
to put it out The fire spread to the
dry grass When we beat it with drift
wood or threw water on it, part Of the
fire would be put out, but other places
would start to burn.
We were close to Vernon'S home and
ran there for help The boys mother
telephoned to my home and talked
with my eldest brother, telling him
about the fire and asking him to come
to the rescue.
"Ho. ho!" he replied. you can't fool
ynel This is April First"
1t was no joke TO the boys who had
started the fire. We secuted for help
Evening star., 1933-04-01
SPRINGTIME
Early Flowers.
BY ID. C. PEATTIE.


TINE month of April is, by actual
count, about so times more
Towering than March. IN April,
L for instance, every one of our 20
violets Is in bloom, or II you
count the perplexing hybrids between
species the number comes to 40!
Some of the violets bloom in the lat
ter half of the month; the earliest are
two of the whites and two OF the pur-
pies and our only little yellow violet.
Yellow, in fact, Is rare color among
Spring flowers, common one IN Au-
tumn; but it turns up again in the trout
lily, now nodding in bloom above its
silver r-and-speckled leaves, in the golden
groundsel, a jocund weed of the open
woods and fields, and the little golden
star, that lies almost fiat upon the
ground, smiling up at the passerby with
its simple countenance.
There is a great deal more of blue in
the April flowers than at most other sea-
sons. Blue phlox, blue phacelia and
nyctalea, blue violets, grape hyacinth,
bluets, wild comfrey and speedwell make
a fine showing. Most Of the plants that
are called blue in Summer and Autumn
are in reality purple or lilac, like the
asters.
A true red is actually a rather rare
color in the early Spring flora. But 1t
comes in our only species of wake robin
or trillium, in the flowers of pawpaw, in
the wild red columbine, while our only
brown flowers are jack-in-the-pulpita and
wild ginger, which has long been a ia
vorite plant of mine, and I am particu-
larly fond of its old-fashioned name OF
Asarabica (the meaning of which don't
know and of the rustic title of monkey
Jug. This latter I easily understand;
the flowers, on the outside, have red
dish brown, hairy, fleshly texture that
suggests a monkeys hide; the jug" OF
course is obvious, for the flowers are
distinctly pot or jug shaped. Their par
ticular quaint charm lies in the way
they have of blooming right on the
ground itself; often the stem is COM
pletely covered by the soil and there is
not even visible f1ower-stalk: the flow
ers appear to have sprung from the soil
itself and to be still inseparable from 1t.
At times, indeed, the flower rs so COW
cred by old fallen leaves on the floors
of the forests where it grows, that 1t is
quite covered up, like truftie and Is
only discovered by digging for it..
And how in all Gods great open
spaces does one know where to dig?
That instinct for the places to find a
plant, or an animal Of you're geologic
ally-minded or trained) comes with
practice; it comes from love OF ones
subject and concentration, thinking
about it all the time" as Newton said
in explanation Of his intuitive and rea-
soned discoveries. good amateur bot
anist can smell" plant even If 1t Is
actually odorless. as truffle dogs track
subterranean truffles by their fair.
Evening star., 1933-04-01
A Sermon for Today
Practical Religion.
BIZ REV. JcaN r. GUM.

"Pure religion and undefiled before
God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their af-
Fiction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world. james 1877.
The apostle James believed in a prac-
tical religion. He had no patience with
a profession of religion where Its prin-
ciples were not put into practice. Faith
without works is dead" BE ye doers
of the word, and not hearers only" IF
any man among you seem to be relig-
ious, and bridleth not his tongue, this
mans religion is vain" These are
some of James characteristic sayings,
in which he insists that religion, to be
worth anything in the world, must be
vital and aggressive.
The text is in line with his general
insistence upon practical religion. Here
he sees religion expressed in a two
fold direction First, in practical char
ity, and second, in practical piety.
ITO visit the fatherless and widows
in their affection" There you have re-
ligion going on mission of charity. 1t
does not stop with ministrations to
orphans and widows What it does
here is only typical of what it stands
ready to do wherever there is human
need. Religion that does not express
itself in practical service and helpful
ness is not worthy to be called relig-
ION at all Another word might be
quoted from James: eff brother or
sister be naked, and destitute of daily
food, and one of you say to them, De-
part in peace. be We warmed and filled;
Notwithstanding ye give them not those
things which are needful to the body;
what doth it profit?" And we might
add what nrofit Is there In religion
that takes that attitude?
ITO keep himself unspotted from the
world" Here you have religion going
out into the world, taking a hand in
worldly affairs and yet keeping itself
pure and spotless from the worlds evil
Practical piety. Not pety that has to
be protected and shielded, that can
stand only behind the defenses of re-
ligion's sanctuaries: but piety that is
able to stand its ground on the battle
field of everyday life. The religion
that will not mix the world without
becoming contaminated, is as good as
no religion. :.
Evening star., 1933-04-01
YOUR BOY AND YOUR GIRL
BY ARTHUR DEAN, sc. d.

3. Should a boy meeting his mother
on the street (call "Hellol", lift his
hat, pass without greeting)?
4. In eating soup do you dip the
bowl of the spoon Coward yourself,
away from YOURSELF?
5. When eating meat do you (cut of
and eat one mouthful at time, cut
off many pieces before eating, cut up
all the meat before eating)?
6. Do you say eyes, Mrs. Brown"
"Yes, ma'am," 'YeSO?
7. Do you (break off small piece OF
bread before buttering 1t, butter
whole slice at once)?
s. What do you do with coffee spoon
Qeave it in cup, put 1t in saucer, lay
it on table,?
9. Should asparagus be eaten with
(flpgers, fork)?
10. Is layer cake eaten with (fork,
fingers. knife)?
II. When visiting does child who
Goes not like his food (say so, leave
it, eat it)?
II. In entering a restaurant does the
lady (precede, follow the gentleman)?
49, In entering the theater does the
lady (precede. follow the gentleman)?
IA. When eating one meal in the home
of friend do you (fold, leave unfolded
the napkin)?
Music on Baby's Ears.
My baby is months old and for
almost two months we have noticed her
attitude toward music 1t distresses
her greatly when I sing. even softly,
and play the piano. She has never
failed to cry when she hears music.
She stops crying Immediately the music
stops.
We've had four generations of musi-
cal people on her mothers side. Could
this queer attitude toward music sig
nifty anything? Mrs. E.
Answer.-My dog howls at radio
crooners. but see no significance in 1t.
1 shouldn't assume that your singing
was so bad that it upset the baby. Very
likely the child's eardrumS are sensitive
to the vibrations.
(Conyripht 1OqoN
Evening star., 1933-04-01
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

and before long we must have had q
dozen persons out there beating the
fire with brooms, shovels and whatnot.
What alarmed me most was the dam
ger to a house about 700 feet from
the point where the fire had started
to spread. The wind was blowing in
that direction. I beat the fire with
all my might, but as it spread farther
and farther my heart sank so far that
! 1t is wonder it remained inside me.
At last, just as the flames were about
to reach the house, we put the fire out
I could think of little else for many
days to come. I started to write a
book about 1t when was 13 years old
but finished only one or two chapters
Would you like to join our 1893
Scrapbook Club? 1t is not too late and
we shall welcome you as a member.
Inclose stamped return envelope and
ask for leafiet telling how to make a
! Corner scrapbook. UNCLE RAY.