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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16
FriGay

DEBATE Friday night at PM at Ire
mont Workers Club cots Clinton Ave,
Bronx. Subject: Policies and Methods OF
American Working Class G. a. Hathaway
vs.. A. j. Music.
LECTURE by Israel Anlter Friday $50
pm. at Boro Park Workers Center, Il0e
45th St, Brooklyn. Admission I5c Sub
Jeet: German Situation and Its Perspec-
tiyes" Auspices Boro Park School 2, Two
and Womens Council IS.
LECTURE by Eli jacobson, Friday at $50
PM at Union Workers Center, Sol Prospect
Ave. Subject: Culture in Soviet Union"
LECTURE by Grace Lumpkin on her book
| TO Make My Bread" Friday night 845
pm. al Cooperative Auditorium, 200 Bronx
Park East. Adm. Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16
SATURDAY.

CoNCERT-DANCE Saturday night pm.
at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 f. Fourth ST..
nine-piece Negro jazz band. Dancing till
dawn. Auspices Council OF Workers Clubs.
Admission 40 cents. With this ticket 25c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16
SUndnH

OUTSTANDING CONCERT OF SEASON.
Cello recital by Percy Such, eminent British
cellist at Pierre Degeyter Club frevolu-
tionary mustcians) SIS w. 10Th St, Sunday
March 10. Admission 35c. With this no.
tice Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16

in the New York World Telegram of
February y:
Rent at 995 Fifth Avenue. ..... $500
Chauffeur, maid, etc. ........... $50
Goyerness 125
Food for child, mother and SER
VanCS ......'..'...'s.'' ooV
School (tuition, etc.) ........".. so
Clothing Observation-Disclosures. 300
Storage Of auto and charges at
garage ....."..'.'' ''.'''..'' 1Oo
Laundry and cleaning for house. so
Electricity and telephone ....... rs
Gifts and "gratuities" ...~....... Is
Furnishings, upkeep Of apartment TOO
Travelling expenses ............. 100
French, flowers, dancing lessons,
books, drugs, stationery, medi-
cine "................,. SUI
Monthly total "..........s3 300
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16
Thursday

MEMBERSHIP MEETING Of Workers Film
and Photo League tonight at pm. at /;
West nth st. All interested invited
LIBRARY CENTER CLUB, I01 w. 41st
ST., corner Sixth Ave, invites all workers
to friendly meetings at this midtown center
open every afternoon and evening for in
teresting discussions and debates. No ad-
mission charge. Free instruction by Com
rade Cummings in chess and checkers. Very
reasonable rent for union meeting. Probe
tartan atmosphere.
REGULAR MEETING Of Branch 500 TWO
tonight at so E. 18th St., Room 204. Speak
er from TUUL will be at meeting to discuss
the TUUL, AFL and independent unions
and what the policy of the members of
these groups should be-
LECTURE at Pen and Hammer, iI4 West
2lst st. tonight. Subject; wall Street
Dictates Education" Speaker: Winifred
Chappell, Secretary Methodist Federation for
Social Service; $3.50 pm.
REGULAR membership meeting of Nat
Turner Branch, lid tonight at $50 pm.
at new headquarters, 1872 E. l69th St. Com
rade Birch Of Lower Bronx Section will
report on problems OF LID work. Sym
pathi2ers welcome.
REGULAR membership meeting tonight at
pm. at 4215 Third Ave, Bronx. Workers
Ex-Servicemens League.
LECTURE at Paradise Manor, II W. Mt.
Eden Ave, Bronx at pm. tonight. Sub
Ject. heath ana Education IN Soviet Rus
STA" Speaker: DR.. Elsie Mitchell who lived
and worked in Soviet Russia for six years
and taught in Red Army-recently returned.
Admission free. Auspices Mt. Eden Branch,
FSU
MASS RALLY being arranged by Section
IS, C.P. tonight at pm. at Ambassador
Hall, Third Ave. and Claremont Parkway.
Speaker: Carl Brodsky and Others
SECTIONAL PINGPONG TOURNAMENT
tonight at $3.50 pm. at Bye los That
ford Ave, benefit Daily Worker Auspices
Bye Sport Section and Red Sparks A.C.
Entry fee 10 cents. Prizes.
ACCOMMODATIONS Shoe Workers
mobilization for our affair followed by
a lecture by Biedenkspp on "Marxism and
Hitlerism," Thursday. March 10th, pm. at
l4s Suffer Ave. All invited, admission free.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
LIVERPOOL CLEANS HOUSE

IT is extremely interesting to read that the
city Of Liverpool in England, is about to
spend around s35OOOOOO to rebuild its
slums.
Nearly $4,000 ancient and insantary houses
are to be demolished and 10000 new ones are
to be built in their place, to provide homes for
some 10000 people
LiverpOOls slums have had an unenviable
reputation for many years. If they have not
been the worst in England they have been very
close to it; and the vice, illness, crime, and
general bad citizenship which they have bred
have cost Liverpool many times the sum which
now is to be spent on slum abolition.
Liverpools willingness to spend money on
that scale in time of depression might be a
useful object lesson for a number of cities on
this SIDE of the Atlantic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
WELCOME VICTORY

Nov Gar Wood holds the top prize of
motorbost racing by title so clear as
to be beyond any cavil and objection, and it
is an occasion for the warmest congratula-
tons.
King Of speed boat pilots since he brought
home the Harmsworth cup from England in
1920 he has been pursued by a breakdown
ink" Something nearly always happened al
though not to his boasts. His rivals one after
another were unable to finish, making his
championships a barren solo. routine.
1t climaxed in the controversy which
soured his 1881 race with Kaye Don, and when
Don came back for another try last year the
iinx halted the challenger in mid-career.
And now Woods Miss America X has gone
up against Hubert Scott -Paine's Miss Britain
Ill the two flashed together over the full
course to the closest finish in cup history, and
Miss America x won.
Gar Woods craftsmanship has been vim
dicated and Scott-Paine hopes to come back
next year with a faster boat. Who could ask
for more?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

TINE geography Of the places in
l. which we live constitutes a part
of our environment. Not only is the
topography of the land concerned,
but also the character of the soil,
the climate, the kinds and Varie-
ties of plants and animals that
grow.
Man seldom is satisfied with his
environment and always is trying to
change it to approximate it more
closely to what he believes to be best.
Most Of the experiments Of man
have been successful thus far, since
the life expectancy at birth has been
advanced steadily. Nevertheless,
men occasionally change their en-
vironment to conditions unsatisfac-
tory for health and growth.
Our civilization has been respon-
sible for a considerable number of
our illnesses. When mechanical re-
frigerators. first were introduced,
men did not count the possibility Of
poisoning through release OF the
refrigerating gases.
When, however, sufficient num-
Der of cases had occurred to de-
mand scientific consideration, steps
were taken to eliminate the use of
dangerous gases and to substitute
therefor some less dangerous and
equally useful.
To avoid drafts, people OCCASION
allv sit in crowded apartments, but
in the avoidance of the draft they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
AMERICAN TRAVELLERS

a AIERICANS don't know how to travel
They travel only to scott and be scoffed
at in effect said DR.. w Beran Wolfe, psychia-
trist, returning with 489 Americans who
rounded a good part of the world in the liner
Volendam.
Said Dr. Wolfe: Almost exclusively each
passenger carried into Europe his own home
town environment
The coffee they drank was not like the
coffee back home; the Oriental dancers
couldn't hold a candle in grace to the troupe
at the old Rialto; st. Peters-"We wouldn't
have anything so old fashioned in Jersey
City" the natives wore funny clothes" and
that stuff couldn't compare with the booze Joe
Smith makes.
They didn't see anything, said Or. Wolfe
Oh, they saw plenty, Doctor. Wait till they
get back home The old home town will pale
and the home towners with them before the
tall tae-telling is overl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
|M.E.TracySays:

! NOTHING of consequence works smoothly
IN Vigor means friction, especially If eXerteo
in the direction of change. Instead OF being dis
couraged by the commOtion that has arisen, we
should accept it as proving the vitality OF MIA
Such revolutionary program was bound to
involve differences of opinion even among those
selected to carry it out. Don't forget that con-
fusion and bewilderment made it necessary, that
/ it was conceived to save an industrial system
threatened with disaster for lack of leadership
Don't forget that it had to be formulated
quickly and that there was no time to work out
every little detail.
1t is easy enough to find fault with details
or envision obstacles which appear difficult to
hurdle but we must not get too excited about
/ that The important things is to get nation
/ back on its feet psychologcally as We'll as
financially to bring the application of age-old
principles up to date, to square machine age with
democratic standards, to rescue personal liberty
/ from a spider web of private and unofficial tyr
annieS.
TT is quite true that the new deal visualzes
L a greater degree of governmental supervision
but only as a substitute for the more malicious
forms of commercial and social supervision
which have grown up as a oy-product of
massed wealth and massed crusading on vol
untary basis
Modern industry has led up up to new
]
! terprises play the same part with reference to
/ government that great mobiles of the twelfth and
/ thirteenth centuries formerly played.
/ The average citizen of these United States
has not been free for generation and more
! to express his opinion. He constantly has been
confronted with the choice of supporting some
kind of organization, or the state has been
! torn by a ceaseless conflict of loyalties.
More often than not his job and his duty
have pulled in opposite directions. More often
than not ne has found it necessary TO obey
some private interest or obligation because it
meant bread and meat.
Republican government could not long sur
vive under such conditions, nor the industrial
1 system which they made possible.
A far as this country is concerned, the trou-
L n bic in which we find ourselves was due
largely to usurpation of power by private in
terests, organized minorities and voluntary as
socations devoted to the idea of putting some
thing over regardless of whether is was goes
from the standpoint of public policy.
The great objective of the new deal is to
restore the government to its rightful place of
supremacy and to emancipate the average citi-
zen from those obligations and associations by
which he could be and has been coerced.
/ The so-called laiSSez-faire regime had deyel-
oped enterprises, activities, and organizations
which dominated great blocs of citizens and
which, in many instances, represented a more
dreaded power than that of the state.
We are not going to rectify such condition
overnight or without disagreeable experiences,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
ANOTHER WALL STREET ALIBI

MYTH President Roosevelt and the Re
construction Finance Corporation APP
pealing to the American Bankers Association
for better cooperation in extending private
credit for industrial recovery, some bankers
seem more intent on destroying the new deals
mild banking reforms,
Among other things, they have started q
drive to modify the new truth~in- securities
law. Modify in this case means to destroy,
because the banking group succeeded in modi-
flying the original bill to the point where the
law as passed represented the bare minimum
of practicable federal blue sky regulation.
The argument against the securities law
parades in the cloth of patriotism. 1t is said
that the law has prevented nuch-needed
financing retarded the f1otation of securities,
and thus ieopardized national recovery That
is not true.
The chief business need obviously is short
term credit. That is not affected by the Sc
curities law Still the bankers refrain from
lending, despite the pleas Of the White House,
the r. F. c. and the NRA. Whether the
bankers are justified in this policy or not, the
situation has nothing whatever to do with the
securities act.
Railroad securities also are exempt from
the securities act, and yet new rail issues are
not being 1loated. The railroads are not even
taking advantage of the credit facilities for
maintenance and equipment available under
the NRA.
Municipal issues are another class ex-
empted from the securities law But defaults
continue, because cities are unable to re-
finance.
Apparently the capital markets can be re-
vived only through larger government f1nanc-
ing of capital expenditures for public works
While bankers hesitate to extend even short
term credits, it obviously is absurd to argue
that the mild securities law is to blame for
the absence of long term issues.
We believe with the administration which
enacted the securities law that it Is helpful
to real business recovery. If corporate Sc
curities can not be sold in the light of facts
regarding their value as required by the law,
then it is better that they remain unsold
Unsound stock issues can not speed business
recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
SLOWING UP THE PARADE

CPEED is the essence Of MIRA Anything
~ that holds it up is properly suspect.
Despite the wide lutter of blue eagle wings
under the temporary presidential agreement
many of the individual codes are being de-
laved. This holds off business recovery.
Surprisingly enough. most of the argument
and consequent delay, is not over the wage
and hour scsles-the main factors in boosting
purchasing power and achieving the purpose
of MIRA Most of the fuss, rather, is over
individual clauses. which in turn, brings in
some form Of price-fxing.
The statement has been made that of the
more than 500 codes all but four or five pro-
vide for some form of direct or indirect price
fixing. This means that the country, without
warning and for the most part without even
being aware Of the fact is being plunged into
something it never bargained for.
The dangers involved are clear enough. 1t
entails. in effect. a government guarantee Of
operating costs which in many cases can
mean a government guarantee for inefficiency
Instead OF creating a condition Of fair COM
petition. as provided by the law. it would in
many cases virtually eliminate competition
And experience shows that this is bad not
only for the average industry, but disastrous
for the consumer.
There may be exceptional cases. involving
nonreproducing natural resources. such as oil,
IN which some form of government controlled
price-hxing is essential to national welfare.
But that is far different from the method of
slipping unguarded price-hxing clauses into
most Of the codes.
The danger is especially acute IN retail
codes. Fortunately the cabinet recovery board,
General Johnson and the consumers advisory
board Of NRA see that danger. The con-
sumers' board takes the position that the codes
should be held up. pending very thorough
study bv government statisticians and econo-
nists Of the cost-plus and invoice-plus figures
presented by private groups. and Of the entire
price fixing policy.
But the rub is that the codes can not be
held up without sideracking the recovery
parade.
Under the circumstances, in justice both to
consumers and TO the larger interests of the
recovery program the codes should be signed
without the price control clauses, which can
be considered on their own merits and added
to the codes later. If justified by facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

parole system.
Mr. MacCormick now assistant director Of
federal prisons, is pioneer in prison reform.
His new position gives him opportunity to
demonstrate that the new methods are sounder
than the brutalizing routine common to most
county and state prisons.
The Wickersham commission two years ago
exposed the common practices Of prison tor
ture, overcrowding. political control, and in
humanity.
To the credit of the Hoover and Roose-
velt administrations, the federal bureau of
prisons is leading the way toward fundamental
reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
THE SHIP OF BLASTED HOPES

THE ship which Henry Ford chartered for
his famous peace party eighteen years
ago has been sold for junk. She was 10000
ton liner, built in England for Danish owners
Under ordinary circumstances, she would have
worked out prosaic salvation in the freight
and passenger service, going to the scrap heap,
unwept, unhonored. and unsUng.
The one great moment of her career, even
though it proved a fasco warrants more ex-
tended obituary notices than usually bless such
craft
This ship stands for the blasted hopes that
have buOyed up a distraught civilization dur
ing the last two decades. the fantastic dreams
and wild ideas by which ingenious minds
sought to circumvent reality.
Like thousands of others, Mr. Ford saw no
reason why Europeans should not quit fight
ing. Theoretically. he was right. Not one in
a thousand knew what the row was all about
But there was something powerful back of
the murderous psychology something that
would not PERM. sound Judgment to speak.
At the moment We Americans stood grand
" neutral, we'll satisfied with our ability to
resist the infection, and professedly amazed
that sane men could become so crazy.
Even after Mr.. Ford came back without so
much as obtaining an audience. we gave
Woodrow Wilson a second term, on the ground
that since he had kept us out of war up to
that time, he could be depended on to do so
until it was over
1t is a good thing to look backward now
and then just to recall how mistaken we were.
If Tor no other reason. Not the least astound-
ing fact in connection with this season of
astounding facts is the obvious inability Of
our best minds to comprehend the drift of
events
At first they thought the war might last
three months Toward the end they thought
it might last ten years.
AT one time We were assured that the re-
suit would be bad if either side won. Within
year or so. We were told that humanity was
headed for destruction if Germany were not
defeated.
Mr., Fords peace party was born of the
notion that We could and should remain neu-
trial. that the war meant little to us, and that
our real concern was 10 see peace restored
without victory.
His expedition expressed an ideal which
We had tried to preserve ever since the storm
broke, but which failed to harmonic with the
explosive psychology that brought it about
He made no impression whatever on rioting
Europe, but he did show a lot of Americans
how far they were from understanding the
forces which had started the rioting
10
tried to make ourselves believe that it was
sort of Fourth of July celebration which
meant little to this side of the Atlantic, save
as it provided interesting headlines and i'm
proved markets.
When it got too bloody. We thought that
peacemakers should interfere, and many of
us had little doubt that they would succeed if
they went at it in the right way.
We still are approaching some problems
with the same romantic optimism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
Geography Has Effect on Health

One Of the most interesting ways
in which geography affects sickness
rates is in relationship to occurrence
of goiter.
It has been we'll established that
simple goiter is associated with q
deficiency in the intake of iodine
for the human body. The chief
natural source of iodine is water.
A goiter map Of the United States
shows the greatest incidence OF
goiter in the northwest and in the
Great Lakes region, with relative
Iy small incidence Gndeed prac-
tically none by comparison) in all
southern states.
The taking of a sufficient amount
of iodine in the food will prevent
occurrence of simple gOiter in any
of these areas.
The common cold is practically
uniform in its spread throughout
the United States. Then again,
venereal disorders are found fire.
quently in certain southern areas
and in certain large cities and less
frequently in rural districts.
These are the reasons why the
physician finds it so necessary to
determine the derivation of his pa
tient, the length of time the pa
tent may have been in the city, and
other factors about his environment
before making a final decision as to
cause of illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
SATURDAY SEPT . 1888.


A s some millions Of school children all over
L n the United States are getting themselves
squared away for the coming year, their
fathers and mothers proftsby might spend
a little time in meditation about the present
plight Of the entire school system.
Few public services have felt The depres-
sion more than the schools Teachers have
gone unpaid. school activities have been cut,
some schools have been forced to extend their
holiday periods. others have had to close en-
tirely, nearly all have had to drop certain
courses and consolidate a number Of activities.
Nor is that the worst While all this has
been happening. there has been developing
an influential and vocal group which has in
sisted that the schools have been getting more
than their share Of tax revenues, even in good
times.
We are being told that our school system
IS far more elaborate and more expensive
than 1t need be. II is being argued not only
that the school budget must be reduced
drasticaIly during the depression. but that the
reductions must be permanent
ANY one who ever has paid taxes will adj
init that the SChOolS nave bFeil CN'bl4 ~
probably is true that many school executives
have become a bit self-importalit in their
claims for tax support.
Some towns have built school buildings on
a tOo-elaborate scale Some schools have
tried to include too many things in their cur
ricula.
Nevertheless. admitting that there has
been extravaganza and lack Of Judgment in
many school boards. one far more important
fact remains unchanged. II is simply this:
Our whole society is built around the public
school system and any drastic change in
the school system must have far-reaching ef-
fects on the entire nation.
We are committed to a political democ-
racv. and We now are trying to broaden it to
make it an industrial democracy as we'll To
make a go of it. We must have body of
citizens whose minds have been given all the
training. all the enlightenment which they
can assimiate The system simply can not
work otherwise.
Before We consent to permanent reduc-
lions in our public school services, we must
do some very careful thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

TINE woman who lives in the neat
il cottage down my street is
plunged into immeasurable sorrow.
Yesterday her husband was brought
home dead.
Suddenly without warning she
who was a bright happy wife be-
comes that most pathetic of all
beings. a widow-a widow with five
small children TO care for and
neither funds nor adequate quail
fcations for the job.
She always has been a good house
keeper. a person fitted by nature and
training for the making of a home,
and for mothering children Her
husbands salary. due to her capable
management, has been enough for
their needs.
But now-what will she do? She
has no business training. but has
followed her natural inclnations