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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-19
WHAT'S ON

ALL THEATRE GROUPS are to meet
Thursday evening, pm. in the workers
Center, SO E. 18th st., to prepare skits
for the election campaign.
JOHN REED CLUB School Of Art Fail
Term starts October az. Day and evening
classes in life drawing, painting, fresco,
sculpture, poster, political csrtooning, Mth-
ography, under Minor, Gellert, Lozowick,
Refregier, Dibner and other prominent
artists. once open for registration this
week from . TO Pm. Address. $50 9Th
Avenue, New York Csty.
Thursday
'DIALECTIC MsteFisiism and Science"
lecture By David Ramsey at the Pen and
Hammer, ia W. alst st. An open forum
will follow the talk
ALL MEMBERS Of wLR band to re-
port at Webster Hall 18th st. and srd
Ave. 10 play for major election campaign
affair. Bring your instruments.
DLSCUHStOH on Trade Unionism at Pei
ham Parkway workers Club. gi7s White
Plain. Road q. $50 pm. Pelham Park
way Station.
Friday
MAX BEDAcHT VIM speak on youth
and the Crisis" Al Wilson OF the John
Reed Club vii give . chalk talk at Coop
Auditorium, $500 Bronx Park East
EDUCATIONAL Meeting of the Daily
Workg Volunteers win be held at the
workers Center, 81 u i2th St., Room 20T.
Edwin Rolfe, feature editor Of the Daily
worker, VIII speak. Adm. ioc. Volunteers
free.
JOE BRoDSKY win lecture on "Scosts-
ooro and Leipzig, A Tale Of Two Cities"
a. the Brownsville Youth Center, los Thad-
ford Ave, Brooklyn, at pm.
LECTURE by Susan B. Woodruff at Sun.
shine Lodge, Set Gate and Maple Ave.
Brooklyn, at $50 pm, on my Trip Thru
Soviet Russia" Illustrated with slides.
Auspices, F.s,U, Sea Gate Br.
DAVID LEVINSON will speak on the
Leipzig Trial and the Reiehstag Fire" at
the Williamsburg Mansion, 2sT s. 5th St.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-19
Detroit, Mich.)

REGISTRATION now going on for work
ers school. s2s Erskine st. at Brush Night
classes In Fundamentals Of Communism.
Political Economy, History of American
Labor Movement, Shop Problems. Negro
Problems, Leninism, Problems Of Youth
Movement, Russian. English and other
courseS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-19

o:l5-Littie Old New York-Harrisop Grey
Fiske.
8:30-Lone Star Rangers,
9:0o-Jack Arthur, songs; Gilman and Ar
den. piano duo.
9;l5-Meeting of Committee of 1000. Town
Hall; speakers, r. H. LaGuardia, Judge
Samuel sesbury and others.
10:00--Variety Musicale.
lo.l5-Current Events-Hsrlan Eugene
Read. So
10;30-Fhe Jolly Russians.
11:0o-Weather Report.
ll:02-Moonbeams Trio.
11:30-Childs Orch.
12:00-Robblns Orch.
WJZ-760 Kc
700 P.M--Amos m Andy.
7:l5-The Three Musketeers-Sketch.
T:3o-Msn OF Daring-Erancis sutton
Sketch.
s;oo-Capt. Diamonds Adventure Sketch.
8;S0-Adyeptures in Health-Dr. Herman
Bundesen. ..
8:45-Crooning Choir
9:o0-Death Valley Days-Sketch.
9:3o-King Orch.
t0:0o-Canadian Exchange Program
tG30-Archer Gibson, organ; mixed chorus,
1l:oQ-Dsmarco Trio, songs.
1l:l5-Poet Prince.
lI:3o--Scetti Orch
120o-Spitalny Orch, :,
1890 A,M.-Dance Orch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
and in agreeing that drastic remedial
measures are called for. One Lanca-

and in agreeing that drastic remedial
measures are called for. One Lanca-
shire member went the length of assert
ing that the living standards Of the
entire Western world are threatened by
Japan's low-wage and long-hour indus
trial system and limited at the desira-
bility of international action to counter
act it. A Conservative M. p, who re-
Gently won by-election on the Japan
csc issue, assured the government 1t
could go to the country now in a gen.
eral election on the same platform and
win the entire Labor vote.
Sir Herbert Samuel, Liberal leader,
warned Japan that If she continues her
unfair trade practices she may find
herself in economic isolation" just as
she has found political isolation in con-
sequence of her militaristic policies and
her attitude toward disarmament.
American interest in the Anglo-Jap-
anese trade controversy concerns mainly
the matter Of cotton supply. Japan has
threatened TO prolong her boycott OF
Indian raw cotton and transfer her
purchases to the United States. Indian
growers profess not to be alarmed, be-
cause they claim thu existing stocks in
Japan are sufficient oNty for another six
weeks, and the supply of American
short-staple cotton is not large enough
for Japanese purposes.
Thus trade-in the pursuit of which
all the nations today are engaged on a
more intensive scale than ever before
enters the picture in the Far East, to
complicate still further the problems OF
peace in that embittered part of the
world. 1ndustrialized Japan seems de-
termined to leave no stone unturned to
accomplish its objects, though the stern
attitude Of her former Western ally Is
designed to give her pause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
California and
Its Object Lesson
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
It Is most unfortunate that the Gov
ernor Of California and the State Of
ficials have prostituted their high Offices
with the hands OF youthful mob.
Youths, upon whom the community
services and the American Legion spend
hundreds of thousands Of dollars annu-
ally in what is designated character
building activities.
was drunk with liquor procured from
California speakeasies. II such be
true, it seems to me that the destruc-
tive forces of civilization are bringing
to naught our character building pro-
gram.
The crime Of kidnapping, like all other
crimes. can be eradicated II officials
charged with law enforcement will do
their duty.
The crime of Thurmond and Holmes
was the most dastardly in the history
OF our country, yet two wrongs do not
make one right Furthermore, law
lessness begets lawlessness. and who
knows but that the youthful and i'm
mature minds Of this country may soon
decide that bank directors who feign
honesty while robbing widows and
orphans Of their last dollar, are not fit
subjects for a lynching party; or that
industrial leaders who amass millions
by the exploitation Of labor, may be
deemed rightful fodder for the gasoline
can: or that the. bootleggers and
speakeasy proprietors. who corrupt our
youth, debauch our daughters and
break up our homes may not be deemed
worthy subjects for necktie party.
In other words, II the mob is to de-
eide who shall live and who shall die;
what crimes should be punished by law
and what crimes should be punished by
lynching. then the civilization Of these
United States Is rapidly headed for its
last roundup" EDWARD GLENN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Did you ever write a letter to Fred
eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any
question Of fact and get the answer in
q personal letter. Here Is q great edu-
catiOnal idea introduced into the lives
Of the most intelligent people in the
world-American newspaper readers. 1t
Is part of that best purpose Of
newspaper-service. There is no charge
except cents in coin or stamps for
return postage. Do not use post cards.
Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
@. Did President Roosevelt get his
Phi Beta Kappa key during his senior
year at Harvard?-R. M.
A. The President was made an
honorary member Of Phi Beta Kappa
by Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y, on
June 10, 1929. Later he was made an
honorary member by the Harvard
chapter.
| @. How many radio broadcasting
stations are there in the world? How
many in the United States? In Russia?
C. G. M.
A. There are l,426 radio broadcasting
stations in operation throughout the
world. Five hundred eighty-five are
located in the United States. Russia
ranks next to the United States in
number with 70 stations.
Q. To what country is the turkey
America. The domestic turkey was in
PRODUCED into Europe by The SpanlaTdS
early in the sixteenth century. and Is
the descendant of the Mexican wild
| turkey.
Illinois or Iowa that is said to be self
sustaining?-J. K. B.
A. Sidell Township in Illinois has
been said by economists to be the most
nearly self sufficient district in the
United States.
Q. How much money was taken in
at foot ball games in 1922. L.
A. In that year the gross receipts
were estimated at around $25 ,000, 900.
@. Would the Protestant churches
object to a calendar reform which
would include fixed date for Easter?
II. ON.
A. The Federal Council Bulletin says
that 1t appears that there are no OBJ
jections on grounds Of doctrine and
the ofhcials Of virtually all Protestant
bodies have expressed their willingness
to have stabilized date for Easter.
@. How is Glaumis Castle pro-
nounced?-T. T.
A: Glaumis is pronounced as though
spelled Claims
Q. When will next years 1000 mile
auto race take place in Italy?-M. G.
A. The famous Italian classic, the
Mile Miglia, will be run at Brescia,
April 7-8.
@. What Is the origin Of the express
sion. cat's-paw?-A. F.
| A. There is a fable in which monkey
used a cats paw to draw roast chest
nuts from the fire. This fanciful tale
gave rise to the use Of the term, cats
paw, for dupe or tool.
Q. How many grocery chains are
there in this country?-G. v.
A. The census of distribution OF 1890
indicated that at that time there were
In the United States 3l3 grocery
chains, operating 1880 units. The
number Of grocery chains with meat
was $50, with 40,l84 units.
@. Were the Maynower passengers
tea drinkers?-S. z.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
December.

December customarily is regarded as
one OF the least congenial months OF the
year. It Is the darkest, the dreariest Of
all the twelve calendar divisions, with
scanter allotment of sunshine than any
other similar period. At Saint Thomas
feast comes the shortest day and the
longest night Of the whole annual span.
And yet by curious accident of circum-
stance the deep decline of the solstice Is
followed Immediately by the high eleva-
ton of Christmastide. the one a cor
receive of the other.
Within the season Tycho Brahe the
astronomer, John Milton the poet,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
Finances of Newfoundland
Bring Unprecedented Step

process Of graft and greed which has
left few classes Of the community I'M
touched by the insidious influence
Financial mismanagement and political
corruption have existed since the war.
The home government hopes to clean
up the situation in q few years, but
not without imposing burdens on Brit
ish taxpayers" The Chicago Daily
News remarks that the receivership
proves again that 1t is difficult for
little countries TO repudiate their debts"
1T would not be surprising" remarks
the Providence Bulletin. eff eventually
Newfoundland would have to be alb
sorbed by Canada or given a new
status" The Bulletin recalls a historic
incident with the statement: "Rumbles
OF distress came from Newfoundland
back in 1882. when, on February II
the unemployed in St. Johns rioted
broke windows and furniture in the
Parliament Building, smashed their way
into a cabinet meeting and assaulted
the premier by banging a picture over
MS head. Another riot took place on
Apri! 5. The premier called a special
election for June II and the opposition
captured Is Of the 81 seats in the
House. The new government found
up difficulties"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
Anglo-Japanese Friction.

Seldom has stronger language about
q friendly nation been uttered in an
official quarter than the arraignment Of
Japan during House of Commons de-
bate on Wednesday, It was provoked
by the long-smoldering British resent
ment over Japanese underselling of the
Lancashire textile industry throughout
the worlds markets, including China,
India and other regions in the Far
East traditionally looked upon as in
alienable British trade preserves.
Mr.. Runciman, president of the
Board of Trade, Britains department
of commerce. bluntly charged Japan
with dishonest practices" The Lon
don government, he declared, is ready
to defend British trade to the limit
against her unfair competition" and,
if necessary, even the Anglo-Japanese
commercial treaty would be abrogated
Among the accusations leveled at
Japan Is the use of false trademarks,
to make it appear that japanese goods
.are of British manufacture. Japan is
also charged with taking illegitimate
advantage of the deprecated yen, low
'wages, long hours Of work and govern
nent subsidies to shipping and indus
trial concerns.
As evidence Of the growth of the
japanese textile business, the member
of Parliament for Manchester, which
feels more than any other British COM
munity the fierce competition offered
by Nippon. stated that Japan's piece
goods exports had increased from 1 AGO.
100000 yards in 1881 to 5000 200. 900
yards in 1882, and that japanese ex-
port trade in those goods had grown
forty-two per cent during the last three
years.
Other speakers, including representa-
tives of the government, minced no
swords r picturing the situation e po-
.ential ,rulnous for British ihaustry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01

Life continues in the garden, no
matter what happens outside.
Decisions of government. DEGREES OF
executives, are unknown to the plants,
birds and small animals.
Perhaps that Is one reason for the
beautiful gravity. the serene expression
on the faces Of the brute creatures.
Man Is the only living thing that
knows enough to worry.
There may be consolation there.
In the garden there is battle. but 1t
is not made disgusting by hypocricy.
Nor Is Nature divided of into Sec
lions, with one sector for insects,
another for fur-bearing animals. anoth-
err for birds. but all together make
the best of life as they find it.
Into this divine scheme-for 1t is
divine, II anything Is divine-fits the
Gardener.
He comes into the picture with as
much right as any-but no more.
n ~
This way OF looking at it is DIFF
fCult, II not impossible, for some minds
Such persons begin to take sides. u
perhaps in their youthful days. for and
against certain types OF natural life.
They become enamOred of the birds
and count all enemies Of the songsterS
as their own enemies, to be treated as
such.
Here is a man who puts out few
quail and becomes enraged because the
natural enemies OF quail do not I'M
derstand that they are special birds, put
out with different purpose.
Here is the owner of a small back
He becomes apoplectic when he dis
covers a blue Jay making dive for
one of his goldfishes.
He sWears determination OF all birds
which bother fishes. He wars to the
hilt against insects which bother the
young goldfishes.
He becomes very angry. apparently
against the natural scheme of things.
which was ordained so many countless
centuries ago that no man Is smart
enough to do more than guess at the
date.
The plain fact Is that all things have
they can against enemies, but abso-
lutely without getting red in the face
about them. In the human way.
The garden, therefore, Is a lesson In
tolerance to all of us, not that its
liberation Is perfect. by any means. but
that all recognize the right Of all to be
there, and that Is something. II man.
! kind could do as well it would do
better than Is had, some may think.
A garden Is nice little slice OF
Nature in the raw" despite the well
manicured look which the home gar
drner manages to give It,
Despite his pains, he cannot prevent
the grass from growing too long. the
shrubs from becoming 'leggy." the
limbs OF the trees from breaking of
from time to time. The incoming OF
squirrels and birds and cats and dogs
He cannot prevail on the cats not to
catch the birds and the dogs not to
chase the cats.
Each bird. each cat. must look out
for its natural enemies.
The squirrels, in their turn. must
keep a weather eye open for both cats
and dogs; many lovers Of things nat
ural pretend that cats alone chase
squirrels, but that Is not so; dogs
chase them clumSily upon occasion, and
would do it oftener If they had any
real idea they could catch them, for
squirrels are rodents and dogs are
among the greatest ratters in the world
r *
The expression Of the creatures is an
express cause for wonderment on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01

A. z. ]. r. G. Noyes says that
neither tea nor coffee was known as
a beverage to these people nor in their
world"
@. Please give some facts about Doro-
thea Week, star Of Cradle Song
E. W.
A. She was born in Davos, Switzer-
land, January 3, 1908 At the age Of
IA she met the poet, Klabund, who in
sisted that the child be trained in dra-
matte expression. At the Hellerau
Academy she studied music, dancing
and art. In her sixteenth year Miss
Week came under the supervision Of
Max Reinhardt. who sent her to the
JOsephstadter Theater in Vienna. After
year of minor roles she was engaged
at the Civic Playhouse, Munich. Her
first film work was a series of twelve
fllms. After these she returned 10 the
0pcretta and musical comedy stage. The
phenomenal success of "Madchen in
Uniform" established her success In
the films.
s. M. no" old Is the present r0pe'-
A. The present Pope Is Plus II, born
Achilles Ratti, at Desio, Italy, May 81,
1857. He Is now rs.
Q. Who received the 1888 American
Hebrew award?-P r. 4.
A. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait is the
1888 recipient of the American Hebrew
Medal for the Promotion of Better
Jew in Amefca be 3 Tacns snd
IN 1850, was Newton D. Baker, In
1881 the award was bestowed upon
Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San
H. Finley of New York.
Q. Who was responsible for the Mis-
sissippi Bubble scheme?-G. F.B.
A. The Mississippi Bubble was a
banking and commercial scheme pro-
Jected in France by the Scotch finan-
cler. John Law. during the reign Of
Louis XIV. Its object was to improve
french finances by removing some of tho
debt and disorder following the wars.
The project was to develop the resources
OF the Province of Louisiana and the
country. bordering the Mississippi and
to send the money to France. The
company was incorporated in hit and
5000 shares were placed on the mar
ket. which were rapidly taken up and
soon rose to enormous premium. The
increasing scarcity of gold and silver
In France, however, flooded the country
with paper currency and the crisis
came In July. l720. Law was Obliged
TO nee the country.
@. Which star on the American nag
represents New York State?-I. r.
A. No star in the union of the United
states nag represents any given State.
The forty-eight stars as a whole repre-
sent the forty eight States as a whole.
Q. How many cases OF amebic dysen.
terry are there in the District OF Colum.
bia?-P. T.
A. Twelve have been reported.
Q What are atlantes?-G. r.
"A. AtlanteS, in architecture, are COL
umns cut out Of stone or rock and
sculptured in the form Of male figures,
used to support entablatures or the like,
so called by the Greeks in reference to
Atlas, the god condemned to support the
vault OF heaven. The Romans called
them telamones.
@. What is the remarkable story told
about the Princess Margaret Rose in
regard to muSic?-H A D.
A. She Is said to be quite musical.
At the age Of months her maternal
grandmother heard the baby hum
strains from 1.-THE Merry Widow Waltz"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
D. C. Residence Qualification.
Il Congress- decides that The District

of Columbia liquor cOnifol Id" Is W
be based the principle of licensing
the private individuals and concerns
which make and sell liquor. one of the
important points to be considered Is the
amount of authority to be vested with
the licensing board. Without full and
complete power to issue and to revoke
licenses, subject, of course, to review
by the courts when matters of law are
at issue, no licensing authority will
amount to much, no matter how strict
the regulations of the liquor control
act itself.
Another important point is that the
licensing authority shall be composed
OF actual residents of the District of
Columbia and therefore responsive to
the wishes of the local community.
In the proposed control act prepared
for the Commissioners, on which hear
lngs are to begin soon, the Commits
sioners are given authority to APP
point "a board of three persons,
at least one of whom shall be a woman,
to be called the District of Columbia
Alcohol Beverage Control Board, each
Of the members of which shall be a
citizen of the United States and a resi-
dent of the District of Columbia for at
least three years immediately preced-
ing his appointment and none OF said
members shall be interested. directly or
indirectly, in the manufacture or sale
OF alcoholic beverages"
The residence qualification proposed
for this local liquor board is not as
strict as those for the District Commits
sioners or for the two civilian members
Of the Public Utilities Commission.
The two civilian Commissioners Of
the District of Columbia shall, at the
time of their appointment, be citizens
of the United States, and shall have
been actual residents of the District of
Columbia for three years next before
their appointment, and have, during
that period, claimed residence nowhere
else"
In the case of the Public Utilities
Commission, mo person, other than the
said Engineer Commissioner Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. shall be eligible to
the Office of commissioner Of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission who has not
been a bona fide resident Of the Dis
trict of Columbia for period of at
least three years next preceding his
appointment or who has voted or
Claimed residence elsewhere during
such period"
The important limitations concern
ing "a resident Of the District of Co.
lumbia" are that the resident shall have
claimed residence nowhere else, and
that the resident has not voted in the
preceding three years.
Such definitions of resident of the
District of Columbia" should certainly
apply to members of the proposed
licensing or control board. If there is
any agency which should be kept free
from the entanglements of political
patronage, and remain answerable as
far as possible to the wishes and the
sentiments of the community it will
serve. it is the proposed licensing board.
The tightening of the residence qualifi-
cation section of the corporation
counsel's bill should be one of the first
amendatory actions of the Commits
sioners when they, with the assistance
of interested citizens, begin the exam
ination of the proposed bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-12-01
Recovery Plan Is a
Reliance on Miracles

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t strikes me that the attempts and
devices that are being used by this
administration for the promotion Of
business activity are based not on rea-
son, common sense and experience but
on the childish belief in miracles, or
that wonders can be worked by the
simple device Of rules, regulations and
statutes and that habits, customs and
institutions that have been built up
through hundreds of years, not to say
thousands. can be changed in a few
months; that human beings belong to
the same order Of development and
classification as do the ants and bees,
which so many communists and other
half-wit theorists take as their criterion
OF all the false hypothesis SO far set
up by this administration for the res
toration Of business activity, the theory
of currency imitation is by far the most
destructive of the end in view.
AS one who has been born in this
country and has lived and grown up
with its developments and progress
through 60 years. through good times
and bad, through imitation and def1a-
ton, and has experienced the vicissi-
tudes of fortune which these periods
entail want to say that the system
that has brought us so far on the road
Of progress and development, whatever
its defects and shortcomings may be
or have been. is still the best that 1t Is
possible to have.
Progress and improvement do not
come from tearing down or overthrow
ing or violent changes and upheavals,
but rather through the slow but sure
method of evolution; any improvement
must come from the inside and not out,
this natural law is manifest through
nature.
With 40 years experience in BUSH
ness to back my assertion, I can say
that efforts of the administration have
and still are retarding business recovery,
however well meaning they may be in.
tended. W. G. EISINGER.