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approved as trained to merit the title.
II their policy resulted in the creation
Of privileged caste Of high brows, /"
that was but the negative aspect Of q
condition the positive values of which
were undeniably great. They produced
specialists, and each specialist knew all
there was to know about his speciality.
Had the tendency continued without
interruption. education might have
been entirely divorced from the masses
Of the people, but 1t would have been
exact, competent, fixed, reliable and
socially useful The worldwide slump
has turned the tide the other way.
Education now becomes an amateur
affair. The pedagogues regret the acci-
dent which has interfered with, their
program.
But perhaps they are unduly alarmed
1t may be conceded that there is no
special virtue in amateurism as SUCH
A little knowledge is dangerous thing
and there are too many individuals in
the world who are madequately trained
for the work they are attempting to do
Self-taught performers are apt to be
inaccurate, limited In view and faulty
in method and technique. An amateur
pianist, for example, is by general agree
ment nuisance and an aggravation,
and an amateur surgeon or pharmacist
might be positive danger. In fine, 1t
would be impossible to defend the no
ton that self lf-education is to be pre-
ferred to the more formal and more
vigorously controlled alternative offered
by academic foundations. 1t Is bromidic
to say that an educated person must be
self-taught OF course, he must be self
disciplined, but the two phrases do not
mean the same thing.
The net gain from the present diff
Guilty may be that the thousands who
today are striving to improve their cul-
tural equipment by the exercise of their
own unaided talents may derive from
their experience a new perception OF the
larger values of the sciences and the
arts in which they are interested. a
refined and cultivated appreciation OF
the values they are glimpsing but which
they cannot grasp without professional
help. II the depression should result
In q more general comprehension OF
the growing need for particular knowl-
edge, for special training, the current
fears of the pedagogues would be shown
to be baseless There are many In
dications that this, indeed, may be the
outcome. Self-education may serve to
raise the whole cultural level OF the
Nation, and the universities and col
leges In that event would be benefited
rather than injured by the desire for
further training which the people had
developed for themselves.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

A definite assumption by Hitler Of
credit for having settled an old question
Of school debate is indicated by his un-
compromising reliance on the PROPOSE
ton that fear of punishment is more
powerful influence than love of reward.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

Intimations are not wanting that the
administration will in the course of
time lose influence with Congress. How
ever, it cannot be denied that SO far
there have been a remarkable number
OF prominent predictions that did not
come true.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

It Is always easy to think OF new
measures of safety that are needed as
civilization advances. One Of them is
more thorough system of inspection OF
airships before each trip.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

A visit to Hollywood cast G. Bernard
Shaw in new role when he was
seated at luncheon with q group OF
movie players and expected to admire
the extraordinary cleverness Of their
conversation.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

The open door in Manchuria is ap-
parently to become as much thing of
the past as the Great Wall OF China.
Treaties and physical barriers are being
candidly superseded by a line OF
soldiers.
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Professors and Doctors Prominent i'm
"NeW Deal'' Roosevelt Administration

Dickens immortal Mr.. SQueers. You
remember he asked his pupils how to
spell window" and when they replied
"W-i-n-d-e-r," he answered, Correct
Now 60 and wash 'em"
Copyright, 1933)
Evening star., 1933-04-02
The Rabbit Sign.

From the Nashville Banner.
A Missouri farmer claims the depres-
sion Is over because rabbit ran through
his yard and nobody was after 1t. It's
a hopeful sign, at any rate.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

The present consideration most
prominent Is that of giving employ
ment to those who need it. Discrimi-
mating comparisons as to meritorious
service will come later.
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Economy and Sport.

From the Albuquerque IN. Mex) Journal,
The Poughkeepsie regatta was aban-
doned this year because some of the
colleges didn't seem financially able to
paddle their own c1noe."
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Mild Epithet.

From the Keokvk Daily Gate City
public official in Toronto recently
was called lobster. indicating that
political accusations in Canada are still
In their infancy.
Evening star., 1933-04-02

A familiar experiment was conducted
by the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton in trying to run a business with
all expenditures and no receipts.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Safe Recollections.

From the Ashland Daily Independent
There was this about being Methuse-
lah: Along toward the last there was
no way OF checking UP on his older
"reminiscences.
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Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
10 the use for republication Of all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication OF
special dispatches herein sre also reserved.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Gambrinus.

Gambrinus was a genial myth
Whom many once consorted with.
1t now appears with figures long
To chronicle thirst SO strong.
That taxes 1t will soon relieve
And give no further cause to grieve.
Complacently he grins because
He thinks that he Is Santa Claus.
when a mule balks," said Uncl
Eben, "he attracts more attention dal
when he works. Maybe he jes' nat
urally gifts tired o bein' de forgotten
mule"
Evening star., 1933-04-02
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Mr.. Book Agent.
MY dear Mr Book Agent, as you present
New works for my mental improve
ment
I wish in your kindness that you would
consent
To q new intellectual movement.
You've handed us Shakespeare in gen.
erous style
And others with genius prodigious
Who gently draw near with a tear or
q smile
Or perhaps with reminders religious.
As your subjects you choose from the
turbulent news
While we're striving to live and to
learn, oh,
More sweet Pollyanna I wish you could
choose.
And not so much Dante's Inferno.
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Pilots.

When men who seize a ship of state
Sometimes steer on with manners
rash
1t seems no wonder very great
That little things like airships crash.
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Just as Good.

Just as Good
Have you any new facts about eco
nomic conditions?"
NO" answered Senator Sorghum
But I've got what's just as good for
magazine purposes new way of stat
ing the old ones"
Jud Tunkins says when you get past
the First Of April you wish in vain
that this one day could render the rest
Of the year foolproof.
Evening star., 1933-04-02
Relief.

"The plans for your relief are being
elaborately worked out"
I'm reading EN-" said Farmer Corn
tossel. They're like a doctors pre-
scription. The language doesn't clearly
name the ingredients, but I'm sure
they're going to do me good"
"Only those should seek to look down
on the world" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, who are willing to climb
to the mountain top where it Is cold
and lonely"
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Rate by Mail-PayabIe In Advance.
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Connecticut bears with honor the name
of Schuyler Colfax, former Speaker anc
Vice President on the same ticket with
Gen. u. S. Grant
Representative Ulysses s. Guyer Of
Kansas is named after Gen. Grant.
Representative James G. Polk Of Ohio
carries proudly the name Of James G
Blaine.
Representative Cleveland Dear OF
Louisiana was named after Grover
Cleveland. but couldn't have the entire
name because there was another young
American born in the same neighbor-
hood at the same time so their re-
spective parents had to divide that IL
lustrious name, and the other baby be-
came Grover.
1t was william Jennings Bryan him
self who suggested that the promising
young member of the House, Repre-
sentative Jennings Randolph Of West
Virginia, should be named after him
and Randolph seems to have inherited
the oratorical talents Of THE Great
Commoner."
Representative Marion A. Zioncheck,
representing the first district Of the
State of Washington, has wandered
far from his birthplace in Kety, then
In Austria and now in Poland. and has
made remarkable progress during the 80
years of his eventful life. His father
was a tanner by trade, and his first job
In this country was in the stock yards
of Chicago. Following the call Of the
West, the family went to Seattle when
Marion was years of age. There the
father was employed in packing houses
and the mother took boarders. The boy
sold papers for a time and during an
epidemic of rats. caught them at q
bounty of 10 cents per carcass. Mounted
on a pony. he herded cattle for SO cents
a week. He also sold fish-as did Al
Smith-peddling salmon in a wabbly
two-wheel cart, after catching them in
the Duwamish river He worked as a
jewelers. appre during high school
days. getting 10 cents an hour, and
later as whistle punk" in logging
camp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Texas Lynch Gangs
X Organize Man Hunt
\ For Negro Suspect"

ALVIN, Texas, Dec. 26.--Instigat
ed by the authorities, lynch gangs
are securing the neighboring coun-
try in a man-hunt for Negro,
suspected Of connection with the
axe-slaying of Roy S, Lapham, So
year-old white recluse truck farmer,
in the dingy, earthen-fioored howell
where he lived.
Sheriff Jim Martin of Angleton
charged the crime to an unknown
Houston Negro" who he claimed
had been negotiating with Lapham
in an attempt to sell him mule.
Lapham's body was found by
Cioid ]. Jackson, white neighbOr,
who, together with o. F. Burns,
another white neighbcr, knew that
I.apham HAD received some money
from his sister, Mrs, Ben G. Ken
neriey of Braden Castle, Manatee,
Fla, on Christmas Eve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Opens Fight Today for
Political Status for
Glass War Prisoners

NEW YORK. r Opening its cam
paign to establish the political status
Of class-war prisoners as distinguished
from criminals, the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners has organized a delegation
70 visit Sam Weinstein. framed fur
niture strike leader now serving q
two-year sentence in Sing Sing.
The delegation is composed of
Granville Hicks, literary critic and
author of The Great Tradition;
winifred 7. Chapel, secretary of the
Methodist Federation of Social Serv-
ice; David and Ruth Hall, school
teachers, several students of the
Union Theological Seminary and
other professionals. Allen Taub, one
of the attorneys in the Weinsten case,
and now Assistant Secretary Of the
National Committee. will join the de-
legation when it leaves this morning
flor OSsining.
Il r. National Committee viii or
u similar delegations to visit AM
10 Herndon, in the Fulton Tower
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Resolution Calls for Drastic improvements in
Concentration in Packing and Opposition
Work in A. F. of L. Unions

come SO and it is striving toward
that direction.
Nearly 100000 Chicago workers
are members Of the A. F. Of L.,
which embraces the transportation
workers, such as street car men,
elevated lines employees which are
100 per cent organized in the A. F..
of L., the majority of the city en-
ployes, building trades, ne d e
trades and other light industries. It
is true that the A. F. of L. is not
entrenched in the large industrial
plants in the city. But it influences
the workers as whole. In spite of
this, the Party is not factor, as it
can be, among the masses of work
ers in the A. F. of l.. There are
all kinds of excuses advanced by
some Party members why we should
not work in the A. F. of L., such as
Cal Workers in the A. r. of l.. are
reactionary; (b) With the growth of
unemployment we will reach the
workers through the Unemployed
Council activities, therefore no need
to work inside the A. F. of L.; (c)
Because there is no democracy in
the A. F. of L. and it is under gang
ster control, nothing can be done.
The work of those comrades who
are in the A. F. of L. is not we'll
organized. Only recently steps have
been made to change the methods of
work--to organizationally discon-
meet the opposition work inside the
A. f. of l.. from the T.U.U.L. City
Executive and to establish a sep
arate organizational center Of the
rank and file opposition movement
inside the A. +. of L.
Building Opposition Groups
All this work can be done success
fully then only when we viii be
able to ideologically convince the
Party membership that work in the
A. F. Of L. is Of decisive political
Importance and must be carried, or
as in the words of Lenin, Not to
work within the reaetinoary trade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Minneapolis Lynch
VerdiCts Smashed
Mass Pressure Saves
Two Negro Youths

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec. III
Murder charges against Hardiman
and Johnson, Negro youths who de-
Tended themselves against q lynch
mob, we're dismissed today as the re-
suit Of the mass defense movement
organized by the International La
Dor Defense, which defended the two
young workers,
They were arrested several months
ago when the leader of a lynch mob
chasing several Negro youths was
shot and killed by one of the youths.
Despite the fact that the shot had
been fired in self-defense, the state
attempted to railroad the two youths
to the electric chair, although it had
no proof that either of the two de-
PENDANTS had fired the shot. In the
first trial, Hardiman was convicted,
but the I. L. D. Immediately appealed
the lynch conviction and by mo-
bilizing mass protests against the
frame-ups has now won a trenen-
dous victory.
The I. L. D. succeeded in gaining
the support of scores Of Negro Or
CARNATIONS and churches, as well as
many organizations Of white workers.
Hardimen and johnson will be re-
leased in a few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

by the district program of concern
tration, it Is necessary to under
stand that this work can be carried
if enthusiasm for it will be aroused
in the broadest possible number Of
Party members and not only the
leadership. Every Party member
must have initiative to do the work.
There must, of course, be individual
responsibility for the work, COM
bined with the collective work Of
the Party units, sections, fractions
and the district committee.
In the course Of this activity, re-
cruiting into the Party must Be con-
sidered as one of the most important
problems confronting US. We can
not be too busy" working In the
A. F. Of L. and in the shops, with
out building the Party and Young
Communist League, and circularize
among these workers our paper, the
Daily Worker.
Building Of T.U.U.L
While we are laying the emphasis
on work inside the A. F. of L., which
is Of such tremendous Importance
for the Chicago Party organization,
we cannot underestimate or neglect
in any form, the building of the
revolutionary unions in the basic in
dustries of Chicago, namely, the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, the Packing House Workers
Industrial Union, and other unions
affiliated with the T.U.UL. The basic
program for the steel. metal and
packing house industries is after
all to organize the decisive section
of the workers in these industries
into the unions Of the T.U.U.L.---s
those workers who are at the pres-'
end time unorganized, this work
to be combined with work in the res
formist unions.
Alreadyla month has passed since the
District Committee meeting and
only negligible steps have been made
to improve the basic work of the
Party. This calls for an immediate
change in the work, for immediate
drastic steps in every unit, fraction,
and check up on the decisions. That
is. in the words of Stain, TO ask
ourselves a question:
Have the decisions bssn carried
ont in reality, or have they kssA
put on the shek"7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
BY BILL GEBERT

Resolutions are written, direc-
tives sent out, but no one goes
thru the trouble of asking him
self how things stand in regard to
carrying out these resolutions and
directives. Are they being carried
out in reality or have they been
put on the shelf?"-STALIN.
The District Committee meeting
of District 8 (Chicago), on October
2Sth and 29th, after thoro exam
nation of the work of the Party
since the Open Letter and District
Plan Of Concentration, adopted by
the District Party Conference July
18th and 18th, re-emphasized once
more that ''In the entire work of the
Party we must strictly adhere to the
policy of concentration. We must
not be carried away by events"
In accomplishing the above as
the basic orientation of the work of
the Party in District s, the District
Committee fully realized that de-
spite some progress in the work of
the Party since the Open Letter and
District Plan of Concentration (such
as, leading some strikes in light in
1ustries and the first strike in Calu-
met steel region since 1919--the
Standard Forging, strengthening the
unions Of the T.U.U.L. in the light
industries and even increasing the
number of shop nuclei to As and
having 10 per cent of the total men,
bership of the Party in the shop
nuclei, that the work of the Party
was not strictly adhered to the poll
icy of concentration. 1t is also neces-
sary to mention that in the course
of the work, we have been carried
away by events, and that in the
work of the whole Party there was
no persistent, driving policy toward
the points of concentration, the big
shops in the basic industries of con-
centration, steel, mining, packing
and railroad, and toward work and
building the trade unions of the T..
U. U. L. and work within the A. T..
of l..
Being conscious Of our weakness
is not sufficient. 1t is necessary to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28

volt Of the packinghouss workers,
with whom as yet we have only very
narrow contact
At the city-wide functionaries
meeting, which was attended by APP
proximately 500 comrades, during
the strike, the whole question of
the stock yards and work in the A..
F. of L. was raised. In the course
of the discussion, with the exception
Of the comrade directly connected
with the yards, the rest Of the Party
functionaries had nothing to say.
Neither was the question of work
in the A. F. of L. sufficiently dealt
with by the comrades discussing the
problems. This signifies the fact
that politically, not only the lower
ranks of the Party membership, but
the leading cadres are not fully
aware of the Importance of devel-
oping work inside the A.. F. OF L.
and the Importance of the beginning
of strike struggles of the yards
workers. .se
Work in the A.F.L. r.
However, it must be stated that
this reflects the weakness of the
District Buro in giving leadership
and mobilizing the membership for
work in the A. F. of l.. 1t is also
necessary to declare that in the Dis
trict Buro itself there was a ten
dency to minimize the Importance of
the A. F. of L. in the stock yards.
The fact that the A. f. of L. main
tanned nucleus of its organization
among the skilled workers for the
last few years, that in the present
situation it grew to some extent,
that it has more workers organized
than any union in the yards, was
not taken fully into consideration.
We saw that their main activities
were around the small packing
plants, but not in the big, and there
fore we minimized the A. F. of L.
in the big plants. While it is true
that the A. F. of l.. is not factor
in the big plants, it can easily be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Graft and Politics
Control CWA Jobs
In Fort Scott, Kan.
Different Pay Rates
Apply on Same
Jobs

FORT SCOTT, Kansas, Dee 81
In Fort Scott and Bourbon County,
Kansas, the whole Of the relief prof.
ects are controlled and run by little
bunch of corrupt politicians for their
own political gain and benefit.
Controlled by c. of G.
This ring is, of course, controlled
by the Holy of the Holes, the Cham
Der of Commerce, and its secretary
Marion webb, has put on the Fed
eral aid roll as foreman, etc., broth
ers, nephews and other relatives of
members OF this famous shrine and
institution.
Veterans and aged workers suffer-
ing from T. B. and other disabilities
are given the hardest kind Of work
and if unable to hit the ball are fired,
which means they are cut off from
all other forms of relief, facing sheer
starvation. In order to further divide
the workers, different rates Of pay
are made, all for the same kind Of
work.
The latest insult to the workers is
the creation of Roosevelt flophouse
known as q home for transients,
which is the last word ia forced
labor, and complete Generalization of
the unfortunate workers who happen
to be unlucky enough to get into it.
School Graft
Another Of the brilliant exploits of
these shysters was to tear down a
bunch Of homes to provide a site for
a new school in q place where it
isn't needed, while the workers and
their families are compelled to live IN
shackS and novels not fit for human
habitation.
troyed were mostly owned by Martin
Miller or morgaged through him. This
man is a former Mayor of Fort Scott
and through his political connections
he was able to get away with this job
/ TO his own advantage. Miller is al
this time credit man of the Federal
Loan, his brother law, l.. Huss, one
of the appraisers and Attorney Jane;
Comfy is investigator. All these wor.
thies are in the ring.
| County Commissioner Sam Ridge
Court During Frank Harlow have al
proved to be enemies of the workers
by showing favors to relatives. poll
tical friends, etc, who are not ir
need OF help.
Another star Of the first magnitude
George Woods, the poor commits
sioner, the big noise in the court
house here, has been responsible fol
the most humiliating treatment Of tht
workers and his name is hated b,
almost every worker in Fort Scott
He has put back the big graders OF
the roads displacing lot OF hant
! labor, and how this work is beinl
charged for we can only surmize.
If an investigation Of conditions i,
this town was made, some STARTLING
results would be achieved and we ar
also convinced that this bunch coul
not face a public audit into tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-28
Phila. Unemployed
Hold United Front
Anti Hunger Meet
Elect Delegates to the
N a ito n al I'm M
ployed Convention

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Dec. 2T.-The
Unemployed Convention here, with
1876 delegates representing SO organ
izations with q membership of 14,742,
has decided to send forty-four dele
gates from the organizations repre-
scented to the National Unemployed
Convention in Washington, D. C.,
Jan. Is.
The Philadelphia convention in
Guided II delegates from nine A. F.
Of l.. locals with a membership of
2S27. This was after the Labor Rec
ord" a socialist paper, warned the
A. F. Of L. locals that this is "Com-
munist Plot" and they should stay
away from the convention. There were
also delegates from 3 independent
unions, nine Trade Union Unity
League unions, and Is Unemployed
Councils.
The reports showed that Philadel-
phia has employed to date only 1895
workers with very uncertain prospects
Tor the $4,000 unemployed of the
city. Only SIS relief month is given
to those lucky enough to get relief.
+ IA city Unemployed Council was de-
cided on, with one delegate from each
organization of one hundred members
and two from organizations over one
hundred. Each union is to establish
an unemployed committee, and on C
w. A. jobs, job committees are to be
organized and as soon as possible, a
c. w. A, Protective Association.