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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
What
a
World
BY Michael Gold
Buried Alive.

In a manner few Europeans can
understand, most Americans get to
be fond of the grandiose insanity Of
this land. Discovering this truth and
playing on it made H. L. Mencken so
popular. We Americans like to be
crazy. We like our Aimee NcPhersons,
our Jimmy Walkers, out tree-sitters,
marathon dancers and six-day bike
racers. We enjoy being Swindled. We
enjoy paying some lunatic real cash
to do something obviously nutty.
1 can't figure it out, and neither
can you, Professor John Dewey. The
truth is, if one is born in America one
is born with this little peculiarly.
Let me confess it: I have attended
several dance marathons and enjoyed
them. I am sucker for those gam
bling machines where your chances
for winning are exactly 10000 to l..
And so forth: every native son has
some of it in his blood.
The other night found to my sur
prise that I actually enjoyed paying
fifteen cents to see a man who had
been buried alive for twelve days.
1t is new and popular racket
through the country, and has taken
the place of tree-sitting. But it
reached Staten Island only a few
weeks ago, and here in a tent by the
Hylan Boulevard we saw posters an
nouncing that the Duke" was on his
twelfth day, and was trying to smash
his own record of 81 days under
ground in Kansas City.
So I paid my admission, naturally.
It was a good show. They had dug a
big grave and stuck three large stove
pipes in it. Through the largest pipe
you could see the dark face of jazzy
young mantle Duke. He was lying
on pillow, listening to the radio that
had been installed in this modern
grave. He had several pulp love-story
magazines to pass the time, also, for
there we're electric lights, Buckets
passed up and down to give him
food and drink. He was quite coy.
But it got tiresome after the first
week, he was telling pretty happer.
And sometimes a drunken sightseer
would throw lighted cigarettes down
on him and set him aflre. That was
his biggest danger. But he was ma
tional champ having laid 81 days in
Kansas City. He expected to better
this record.
1 spoke to him next, and CHANGED
it in Yiddish. wee gayts?" asked
the living corpse. He shrugged his
shoulders, and said, "Nu, man macht
a leben" Zone makes a living.
So then 1 understood he wasn't
altogether nutty, but just another
American trying to get along, and
perhaps a lot saner than the dim,
patient dupes who still stand in
breadlines and wait for Roosevelt,
Hillquit and Mira to make revolu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
The Background of Events Germany Rechstag
Plot OF the Nazis; the New Era" Promised by Hitler
to the German Masses

posed by the Nationalist Cabinet mai
GRITTY; and finally it wanted some way
OF producing pogrom atmosphere to
justify the complete suppression of
the Communist Party in Germany.
Joseph Goebbels, now Reich Min
lister of Propaganda, conceived the
CHASTITY idea of setting fire to the
Reichstag as signal for unleashing
Fascist terror against the German
working class. Goering, Speaker of the
Reichstag and commander of the
Prussian police at the time, was given
the job of executing the fertile plan.
AS part OF the plan, DR.. Melcher, the
Nationalist Chief of Police Of Berlin,
was transferred to Magdeburg and re-
placed by Admiral Won Levetzow, a
loyal Nazi The Karl Liebknecht House,
headquarters of the Communist Party
which had been seized and occupied
by the police weeks before, was again
"raided" and planted material al
legedly discriminating the Communists
was suddenly found, although re-
peated police raids and searches dur
ing the weeks of police occupation had
previously failed to disclose any such
material. THAT was why Levetzow
took the place of Melcher as Chief
Of PoliceD
The details of the plan for burning
the Reichstag and how the Reichstag
was set on fire will be discussed In
later article. What interests lis here
IS how the Nazi arson plan bore fruit
followed the burning Of the
German Reichstag.
During the very same night that
the Reichstag was set on fire-while
flames were still spouting from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Found Roads Full Of
Wandering Youth
lBy a Worker Correspondent

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N Y
After IL days spent ION the bum"
having been bounded as "deserter"
and stoned by a railroad detective
for daring to snatch a ride on a
freight train, Gerald j. Clark, 10, a
native of Saratoga Springs returned
from C.CC. camp, a disillusioned
but much wiser boy.
Before being sent to camp east Of
Iewison, Idaho, the upper New York
state contingent of boys was sent to
the Plattsburg barracks for a "train-
ing course" in military drill before
being shipped to Idaho.
The camp in Idaho is situation in
a considerably higher altitude than
that to which the boys were accus-
toned. This resulted in severe nose
bleeds and congestion. Clark, who
had many nosebleeds in one day.
appealed to the company surgeon.
He was told that his tonsils we're
diseased and must be removed. How
ever, the company commander Or
dered Clark to continue working and
refused to give him his discharge
papers. Whereupon Clark, who was
feeling extremely i'll by this time, left
camp.
He met several other boys from
various C.C.C. camps, who were all
leaving because of the rotten food,
brutality of officers, etc.
When Clark arrived in Lewiston,
he was listed as a "deserter" by the
authorities and refused money for
carfare home. Accompanied by a
Trenton, NJ J. youth who had also
left a C.C.C. camp, Clark boarded
a freight train bound for Chicago.
After five days they reached Chicago
gaunt with hunger. The boys con-
tinued East and hoped a freight
bound for Toledo.
On the freight he found almost 10
men, boys and even girls who we're
all on the road trying to find some
means of subsistence in this way.
since they could not obtain any at
home. On this train he and the
others we're stoned by detective who
forced them off the train and ar
rested a few who resisted.
The roads, Clark reports, are full
of both girls and boys who 60 back
and forth over the country trying to
exc out their miserable existence.
Clark tells of girl who was killed
near Cleveland when she fell off the
freight train she had attempted TO
board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

and exclaimed to Won Papen:
This is sign given by God No
one will now be able to stop us from
crushing the Communists with an iron
hand" Then turning to the Berlin
correspondent of the London Daily
Express he continued:
You are witnessing great new era
in German history. This fire is it's be-
ginning"
What is Hitler's New Era. which be-
gan with the Reichstag Fire? More
than 5000 opponents of Fascism are
starving in the Nazi prison and As
concentration camps, beaten almost
daily, and always exposed to the dam
ger Of death at the hands of some
sadist storm trooper.
Fascist Terror
The Brown Book published docu-
ments and affidavits on scores Of
beatings and torture by storm troop
bands. 1t states that the International
Committee for the Victims of Hitler
Fascisrn has records of $3.50 checked
and verified cases, with physicians
certificates stating that II of these
victims are crippled or injured for
life. In 375 Of these 536 cases the
helpless victims we're forced to sign
statements that they were well
treated" by the Nazis. Many of these
statements. we're extorted while they
were still In the torture chambers.
Conservative estimates Of the num-
Der Of persons tortured or severely
beaten throughout Germany since the
burning Of the Reichstag vary from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Over 500 Murdered
More than 500 opponents Of the
Hitler regime have been murdered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Destitute Father
Carries Dead Child
5 Miles for Burial

YAKIMA, Wash, Sept. 21.-Don
Hopkins, hop picker, carried the
cold, dead body of his seven-week-
old son from Mckee to Yakima, a
distance of five miles. to the nearest
undertaken.
The Hopkins family live by berry,
picking, and they are so completely
destitute that Hopkins was forced to
walk in with the body when the in
FAINT died in its sleep.
There are over 5000 hop pickers in
the valley, who earn the starvation
wage of SIPS per hundred pounds.
Most of them are white, although
Indians, Filipinos and japanese are
also employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Civilian Corps Boys
Denied Vote; Grounds:
No Permanent Home

SELINGSGROVE, Pa.-Those young
fellows who are Camping" in the
Civilian Conservation Corps. have
been refused the right to vote.
Several hundred of these forced la
Dor campers marched down from
their mountain camp, and came to
vote. They were refused. The State
Elections Bureau held that the camp
ere were ineligible to vote since the
camps were not their permanent resi-
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

Nicholas Arena on Friday evening
Sept. 49,
Speaking at the same meeting will
be Henri Barbusse, world war veter-
an and noted French writer, leaves
France who Saturday on the Steam
ship Berengaria, according to a cable
received by the Congress Arrange
ments Committee yesterday. He will
arrive in New York on September %,
in time to address the public mass
reception and opening of the Con-
gress on the same night in st. Mich
olas Arena and Mecca Temple.
Browder to Speak
Other speakers will include Earl
Browder, General Secretary, Commu-
mist Party, U.S.A., A. j. Music, Of the
Conference for Progressive Labor Ac-
ton, Harriet Stanton Blatch, pacifist,
Devere Allen, Socialist leader and
editor of the World Tomorrow. j. B.
Matthews and Reinhold Niebuhr,
both of the Fellowship of Reconcile
alton, will act as chairmen at the
st. Nicholas Arena and Mecca Tenn
pie, respectively.
Farmers Join Congress
Delegates to the Congress nave
;,ean elected by the Holiday Assocl-
alton of Arcadia, Nebraska. a farm
ers' organization, Donald Henderson,
Secretary of the Congress, announced
Yesterday. Delegates have also been
elected by various organizations, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
FranCeCOnfersW With
Soviet Officials to
Get Soviet Business
Competition Is K e en-
Among Capitalist Ma
tons for USSR Trade

PARIS, Sept. 21-Eager to get some
of the trade with the Soviet Union
which has, up to now, been going to
Germany, France today entered into
a commercial conference with repre-
sentatives of the Soviet Union.
The sale of engines, airplanes, is
particularly desirable, French repre-
sentatives said. In return, they will
open French markets to Soviet oil,
lumber, and grains.
The competition among the large
countries for Soviet trade is growing
more intense as the crisis intensifies,
and the Soviet Union gets stronger
through her industrial and agricul-
tUral successes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
DOLLFUSS SETS UP
A FASCIST GOVT

VIENNA, Sept. 81. - Instituting
martial law and the death penalty
for acts against the state, Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss formed a fascist
government when he dismissed his
old Cabinet and selected a new one
made up of pro-fascist tendencies.
Dollfuss himself will be the Aus
trian Hitler.
This does not mean the abandon
ment of the fight against the Nazis
or against the Anschluss.
Dollfuss also appealed to the Social
Democrats for support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Guard War Secrets
As Powers Talk Of
Greater ArmamentS
Conflicts Grow Sharper
In Fight for World
Markets, Colonies

LONDON, Sept. 81. - mi-official
admission that Britain would oppose
anv system of prying into every mill
tary secret" was made here yesterday
after cabinet meeting discussing the
Geneva Disarmament" Conference
scheduled to open soon.
The two main points taken up was
the building of "a cruisers and war
ships by the United States under the
MIRA, and the re-arming of Germany.
The military secret" statement re-
ferred to maneuvres of French I'M
perialism for control of German arm
ament, with the British seeking an
alliance with both fascist Germany
and Italy.
So far as the Anglo-American ma
val arms race was concerned, British
officials stated "Great Britain might
not be worried should naval race
develop between the United States
and Japan, but in such case. Eng
land might be forced to participate
in the race" The imperialist powers
are preparing for new war for
markets and colonial plumber.
A huge increase in world arn1a-
ments, typif1ed particularly by the
$3.50, 100000 U. S. naval building pro-
gram, and the recent grant of mil
lions to the army from MIRA funds,
shows the necessity of speeding prep
arations for the Anti-War Congress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
NaZis to Redivide
States to Districts

BAYREUTH, Germany. - Plans to
DO away with all state boundaries
were disclosed by the Nazis at one
of their meetings. Bavarian Min
lister Schemun revealed that Hitler
plans to redivide the states along
the lines of the Nazi organization,
with 81 districts. This will enable
them to control more firmly the
activities within the given territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
ARREST WORKER FOR SUICIDE
ATTEMPT

NEW YORK.-John D. Earle, un-
employed, 65-year old worker, shot
himself near the heart this morning.
but failed at killing himself. He was
under arrest today at Unity Hospital
on charges Of illegally possessing a
weapon. Police said he would re-
cover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Praise Soviet Bonds AS
Safest Buy in the World

NEW YORk-It with /
learned that buy Soviet country
cent these troubled
about stock market fluctuations
by the full strength of the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Jugo-Slav Labor
Leader Murdered
in Fascist Jail
Was on Central Body
of Illegal Mexican
Communist Party

NEW YORK.-Chris Vidas, Jugo-
Slavian immigrant to the United
States, who returned to his native
country to help fight the fascist ter
ror there, has been murdered in a
Yugoslavian prison, the International
Labor Defense learned today.
vidas, who was also known in this
country as Vuk, came to America at
an early age, worked as a railroad
laborer in the west, and became con-
scious of the class struggle there. In
1921, he was deported for working
class activities, to Jugo-Slavia. His
activities in this country had been
largely exposure of the terror in his
homeland.
In 1924, the persecution of the
fascists, who came to power in Jugo-
slavia forced him to leave. He went
to Mexico, where he continued to
carry on revolutionary activity, and
was a member of the central COM
mittee of the illegal Communist Par
ty of Mexico.
As the fascist terror intensified in
Jugoslavia, he continued to expose
and fight against it wherever he was
and in 1881, returned home to con-
tinue this fight under illegal condi-
tons.
A month after his return. home,
he was arrested, along with his sister
and his sister-in-la'w. The other two
were released, but he was kept i'm
prisoned in zahech Prison, and tor
tured for two years, until he died
His mother died of grief when she
was told of this murder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
1.-The Most Criminal Frame>Ut in the Worlds History

This is the first of seriees of
eight articles by Robert Hamilton
on the Reichstag fire, the men and
forces involved, and the back
ground for what has been called
the most criminal frame-up In the
worlds history."-Editorial Note.
Editorial Note,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
'BARBUSSE, BROWDER, PROF.
'COLDSCHMIDT TO SPEAK AT
ANTI WAR RALLY SEPT. %
Nebraska Farmers, Jobless Organizations
Pick Delegates to Big Anti-War Meet

transformations in to the
Naz will described first
the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
"Pravda" Outlines
Maxi Aims in Trial
of Four Communists
Defeat Awaits Regime Requiring Such Means
of Protection" Editorial Declares
By VERN SMITH.

MOSCOW, USSR, Sept 81 by Cab"Defeat inevitably awaits
regime requiring "Pravda official
the trial. which the defendants the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

Write to the Daily Worker about
every event of interest to wo-'~---
in your factory, neighbor'
city. BECOME A WORKE
RESPONDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

On Saturday the Daily Worker has
5. pages. Increase your bundle order
for Saturday!
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
True to Type
STATE OF NEW YORK
RANKS ARTISTS
AS FELONS.
-By GILBERT SELDES-

"A COMPARATIVELY low opinion of writers and
"A posers has occasionally appeared in these columns,
suggestion that artists having control of publicity about
may be overvauing their contribution to the welfare
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
CLERK ADMIT is
. ENGINEERING
ROBBERY
Thomas Hankins, 10, Staged
Wild Saturday Night
With Stolen Money

An $IS-a-week shipping clerk,
Thomas Hankins, of the Clifton
Terrace Apartments, today con-
fessed to police that he was the
instigator Of the robbery at the
Palais Royal Department Store
warehouse early Saturday in
which Joseph Ashford, aged night
wstchman, was bound and gagged
and $500 stolen from a safe.
The 19-year-old youth. who had
worked for the store three years,
signed a confession duplicating
two colored men who allegedly
committed the burglary and with
whom he said he was to divide. the
loot equally.
From Good Family
Hankins. who came here from
Bluefield, w. Va, and is said to
be related to one of the most blue
blooded of Virginia families, gave
details Of the wild Saturday night
made possible by his $3.50 share Of
the stolen funds.
He told detectives he spent $12
for rye whisky and 81 at dinner
dance in a Connecticut Avenue
cafe, to which he was accompa-
MED by a girl.
The youth said financial diff
cultieS prompted him to plot the
robbery. He applied much Of the
stolen money on debts.
Still Had Hangover"
Detective Sergeants j. j. Tol-
son and Carlton Talley obtained
information which led to Han
kinS' arrest Monday while he was
still suffering from a hangover"
from his weekend.
The detectives said the youth
was uncommunicative until he
broke after six hours questioning
by TolSon last night.
Early today Grant Brunson, "a,
the 400 block M st. N. W., and
Daniel Adams, 26, the TOO block
r st. N. W., alleged tools Of
HankinS, and named as the &C.
tual burglars, were arrested at
their homes.
The detectives said Hankins sew.
eral times told Brunson, employed
as a car washer across the street
from the warehouse, that the safe
could be easily looted.
He Brought Rope
The night before the robbery,
Hankins, Brunson and Adams met
and Hankins agreed to leave open
a door. He also bought a rope to
tie the watchman with, police Sly.
Hankins told police he became
frightened and tried later that
night to find his accomplices and
call off the robbery.
It was carried out. Ashford
was tied up and could not release
himself for three hours and the
two colored men broke into the
safe with a sledge hammer, police
said,
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
Pair Who Fled After
Auto Crash SOlLght

Park police early today were
seeking an unidentified man and
woman in Rock Creek Park in
connection with an accident to
a taxi in which they were riding.
Kenneth B. Entler, %, of the
HOO block Ninth st. N. W.. was
treated at Freedman's Hospital
for cut wrist after the taxi
overturned on Beach Drive. His
fares fled before the arrival Of
police who found a jar Of alleged
liquor near the scene Of the
crash.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
B'nai Birth Officers
Installed TOniQht
Times Staff Photo

New officers of the Argo
Lodge, B'nai Birth, will be in.
stalled tonight at 8 o'clock in
the Jewish Community Center
by Sol Herzog, past grand presi-
dent of the lodge. The new Of
ficers are Assistant United States
Attorney Irving Goldstein, presi-
dent; Morton wilmer, vice presi-
dent: Alfred l.. Bennett, warden;
David Wiener, recording secre-
tary; Moe Gutenberg, financial
secretary; Morris Garfinkle,
treasurer, and Simon Weyman,
guardian.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
DIET OFFERS WIDE VARIETY

Today The Washington Times
is publishing a composite diet,
giving alternate selections of the
most beneficial and popular foods
offered in Artie Govern s series
of menus that accompanied The
Washington Times exercises.
On the basis Of this diet you
can vary your menus from day to
day, selecting the foods that ap-
peal to you and substituting for
them food Of approximate caloric
content.
What to Avoid +
Remember, as a final warning
to you reducers, to avoid the
foods that contain CARBOHY-
DRATES, STARCHES and FATS.
Eat as much as you can Of foods
that have the vital energy-giv-
ing qualities CELLULOSE, MIN
ERALS and VITAMINS.
If you want to add foods to the
diet, take those that aren't fat
producing. Stay away from pas
tries, sweets, pies, cakes, whole
milk, cream, cheese and candy.
Select additional foods from
the mountaineering groups: Fruits
fresh if poSSible-leafy vegeta-
bles, milk from the lower half Of
the, bottle and baked potatoes
with the skin.
Exercise Daily H..
Remember to do your exercises
every day, To attain a perfect
figure, you must burn up that ex-
cess energy or the food you take
in will go to fat. -
Don't stop with the last of
these articles. You have saved
your series, now go to work on
them-all over again, doing all
the exercises every day. If you
slip-and even the best, athletes
fall out of training once in a
while-don't be discouraged. Just
start your training over again,
harder than ever to make up for
the slip.
And your efforts will be re-
warded by a slender, graceful
figure. --.. .
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
PASSAGE
Of TRANSIENT
RELIEF
Fears Widespread Harm Un-
less Means Are Taken
To Help Vast Army

A youthful hobo army recruited
from the ranks Of the nations
unemployed boys and girls is in
creasing in proportion as eco
non1ic distress continues to de-
stroy family circles, Brig. Gen.
Pelham D. Glassford, former Dis
trict police superintendent, told
the Senate Manufacturers Com
mittee today.
At hearings on the Cutting
bill to create a Federal transient
service board with the disburse-
ment of $15,000,000 Of Federal
funds through State agencies.
Glassford stated that the army
was composed Of youths with sur
prising intelligence and spirit,
who, in the majority of cases,
had left their homes to relieve
their parents of financial burden.
Made Own Survey
Glassford has just completed
a tour Of the East, South and
Southeast to secure information
relative to the wanderers and told
the committee that on the road
from Cleveland to washington,
he counted rs boys who asked
him for a ride.
The youths travel by freight
train and highway and often go
as far as 1000 miles on a rumor
that work is available in some
distant city, Glassford declared.
Health in. many instances is
menaced by the lack Of care
which the boys are able to secure.
Glassford said, and told Of a
youth he picked up near Atlanta,
Ca, who had just left a hospital
following a major operation. The
boy was without money and had
gone for some time without food
and in that weakened condition,
Glassford said, he was hitch
hiking 40O-odd miles to his home
in Florida, which he left last
September in a fruitless search
for work.
Asks Passage of Bill
In his statement to the COM
mittee, GlaSsford said:
"The present economic Sys.
tenn is breeding q generation
of hObOes. Most of the men
and boys on the road come
from substantial families.
"The Cutting bill should be
adopted and the money ex-
pended to provide hOspitaliza-
tiOn and vocational education
for the boys. 1t also should
be expended to return boys to
their homes where it is posi-
BILE or to send them to places
where work may be available.
"The number is increasing
and States are unable to care
for the transients because of
insufficient funds"
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
MOtOrn1Gn Charges
HOLdlXp Gt Gun Point

Accused of holding up street
car motorman last Saturday, Kel-
ley w. Holmes, of the 500 block of
M st. S. w., today was held for
the Grand Jury under $4,000
bond by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in
Police Court.
Coleman H. Dameron, the mo-
torman, said Holmes robbed him
with a gun Of $50 car tokens and
IS in cash at Eleventh Street and
Maryland Avenue Southwest.