The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

Name terms. Write B. Ware
N. J."-Trenton Times.
l know Tuss Mcdowell, who
makes an uncertain but excit-
ing living with stunts like that.
He crashes motorboats, drops
with holey parachutes, bangles
from airplanes by his wrists, trans
fers from aquaplanes to autogy-
ros. He has left pieces of himself
on most fair grounds in the coun-
try. He broke four ribs in Elem
ington,
met him when he was down
and out and didn't believe half
the stunts he claimed to have per-
formed but as came to know him
and watched his act at one Of the
American Legion carnivals in
Queens, he became easier to under
stand. Tuss, himself, is not men,
Der of the American Legion, though
he could be. He was across with
the famous Organ division and
left two segments of an index fin
ger in the Argonne. He says he
was shell-shocked and when
asked how that fitted in with the
present state of his nerves, he said
he didn't know.
"I've gotten to the point where
l don't give a damn any more. That
must be it. I'd answer that Tren-
ton ad if I wasn't tied up. 7 like
driving. Used to make living at
IT,
All this is true but it's Just
leadup, as it happens.
It's a leadup to the statement
that the Daily Worker, like Tuss
Mcdowell, also lives from driving.
Unlike Tuss, we don't relish the
idea in the least. We're risking
more than an arm or leg in this
drive for $4,000. It has become
life and death proposition,
AS General Johnson would say,
the Daily Worker is "the one in
dustrial unit which cannot afford
to shrink with the depression. This
depression" which taps our main
source Of subsistence, the extra
nickels and dimes of the workers, is
the very condition which makes
our growth imperative. Stagnation
now would mean inevitable extinc-
ton.
Anyone who has watched our
progress since the first six-page
issue that August ID knows we
haven't been stagnating. Today's
issue is ten pages, but the pro-
gress has not been quantitative
only. This growth has been grand
adventure for those of US who have
helped to achieve it and whom this
achievement has helped. I, for one,
can say, that there isn't a thing
in the world I'd rather do than
write for the "Daily" There is
something gallant and valiant in
the life of this paper.
I spoke yesterday to an author of
best-sellers, S. Guy Endore, who
wrote the werewolf of Paris"
Each morning he buys copy of
the New York Times and the Daily
Worker. The Times has 80 pages,
sometimes more, but there's more
solid reading matter in the "Daily,"
Endore says, and he spends a great
deal more time in covering our pa
per. A thousand grateful, encour-
aging letters pour into this office
from places as remote as the Pan
anna Canal Zone and johannesburg
in Africa; more important, from
all over the coal and steel strike
front.
Here are two controversial let
ters, one of which states the
"Daily" is the backbone of the
Communist movement. The other
asserts it's the blood of the move
ment and as such needs circula-
ton. OF course, we need circula-
ton, but campaign for it is not
what the $4,000 are eminently
needed for. The money is the min
imum which will insure our daily
The depression" World Series
is averaging 10000 customers a
day and some of them are cough
ing up $12 seat. 1t burns you up
but there isn't very much you can
do about it. There is something