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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

the radio also.
A little girl in a kindergarten had a
mother who scolded and beat her.
When her fellow students discov-
cred this, they decided to do some
thing about it. Each night the
spanked child was taken to diff
ferent classmates home, while the
committee elected by the kinder
gartners took up the matter in a
very serious way with the school
and the parents council. That is
the old way, from the Tssr's time"
they explained. 1--WE do not beat
children any more" The mother
received a careful explanation of
the evils of beating children, and
promised not to do it again.
WHAT kind of children are these?
w Surely they are different from
the children we know.
And they are different.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
CHANGE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

BOSTON, MASS was in the hall of the Marine Work
Industrial Union, here the Boston waterfront
talking with of the Dusk coming on;
and the dark, lit only by lantern, since the
electric light company had closed off the juice My back
to the window that faced the street
IF that window" laughed
the organizers surprised We've got
them worried they around other night with Of
these love letters We've started to break their racket and they
think they u.s."
looked at the did have neat bullet hole
through IT, the other through which brick had crashed
One the showed his hand The palm had deep
wound in it, had been stabbed He sleeping in the
hall the night before and in the morning heard noise in
the hallway leading the He and found thug
there carefully planting bomb The grappled
with visitor knife and stabbed him and got
Maybe it's the cmp maybe it's the labor takers maybe it's
here Lambert organizer
parasites
which means, of course that we're success"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
By MARTHA CAMPION
Editor, New Pioneer

VOLODYA is a pupil in Kharkoy
who likes to monkey with ma
chimes. He designed an electric
driven automobile, but needed an
electric motor to experiment with.
So he went to the Commissar of
Heavy Industry, Comrade Ordjoni-
kidze, and the Com1nissar had a
motor sent to Volodya from the
Kharkov tractor plant.
The pupils Of the school in Stains
old home town decided to write a
letter to their former townsman.
Dear Comrade Josef Vasilievich, +"
they began chummily, and then
proceeded to describe to him the
conditions in their town. The school
books weren't entirely satisfactory
it seemed, and they wanted very
much to have a radio.
Stain answered their letter, as
sured them the matter of school
books would be taken care of, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

woman who must get her fits and
turns and make a mess of herself,
but woman with whom he's been
all the same.
LIES Ludington man. All winter
IL long he worked for $25 month.
He's getting $45 now. Cant get
rich on that. But it amt so bad.
You got your grub. You got a place
to sleep. This boats about the best
on the lake. Shippers good guy.
He says, Please He don't boss. He
says the whole crew is like a fam
lily. We got lots of fun. You got to
take it. Hell, there was a deckhand
on board who couldn't. He'd be
grabbing about conditions. He'd be
standing up and you got behind him
and just bump him back of the
knees. He had to come round, else
he wouldn't feel so honey on the
boat"
He spits into the lake. The curly
mat of hair on his crest pushes
through his open shirt. "Deckhand's
about the dirtiest job. You amt got
no time for yourself. Your watch
is from 6 to 6. You're liable to be
called on duty any time"
He knocks his hat back. unions
pretty strong. Everybody's in it ex-
cept deckhands They amt supposed
to be in it. They amt skilled guys.
That's what one of the union fellers
said. They got to keep by their
selves. When the afterend's found
trying to get chummy with an Of
f1cer, there's a kick in the pants
for him. One of them was fired"
A sudden heel on the stairs lead
ing from the deck. The Waterman
sinks into the shadows. The trucks
creak stacked among the shadows.
The officer does not come down.
THE Waterman moves back again.
There's tattoo on his arm of a
girl hanging on to a storm tossed
cross. Works kind of hard. Be-
fore a fellows fast asleep he's up
again. But Z been lucky. We come
into Ludington and sometimes get
some one to stand watch for me.
We get in o'clock and get out II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Experience in Practical Life Goes Hand in Hand
With Accumulation Of knowledge

work? Kids don't like school. Given
their own way, wouldn't they choose
the easiest" teachers, double the
recess periods, and generally raise
hell?
Naturally there was this tendency
in the beginning. Students accus-
toned to a rigorous and imposed
from-above discipline, when this
discipline was removed went wild
for time. But children are not
naturally" anarchistic. They tend
to anarchy as reaction from
autarchy.
Naturally" children are curious,
intelligent, inquisitive, quick, clear
minded. They want to learn. They
want to know. Intelligently guided,
they will accumulate knowledge at
the same time that they follow their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05

1.-THE future belongs to the youth, +"
once wrote Lenin, but for these
children the future is the present.
Where else in the world have
children ever been so healthy and
happy, given so many opportunities
to express themselves and discover
their talents, been able to grow up
with so much self-reliance, initia-
tive, self-respect?
Even in the hard times, when the
young Soviet Republic was strug-
Cling to rebuild a country torn by
civil war and to ward off the at
tacks of the imperialist gangsters,
even in those barren years when
there was shortage of food and
lack of shelter and clothes for the
builders of the new world, the chill
dren received what there was to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
A CHANGE IN RAmRoADING

A ChANGE IN RAlLhOADlNG
Competitive pressure from buses
and airplanes has finally compelled
the railroads to begin carrying out
innovations in railroading that
have been possible for years, but
which we're held up to protect
vested interests. Among the changes
that are beginning to emerge is
the use of giant diesel-electric
locomotives that are faster, more
powerful and more economical than
the present steam-driven engines.
At the Cleveland meeting Of the
National Academy Of Sciences,
Charles F. Kettering, head of the
research division of General
Motors, discussed recent work on
diesel engines in railroading. He
told Of new $500 horse power
diesel-locomotives that are six
times as powerful as the engine in
the well known Union Pacific
streamlined flyer. The new giants
operate at an efficiency Of So per
cent which makes the steam loco
motives very uneconomical by COM
parison.
The diesels are travelling power
plants. They generate their own
electric power, and equal in eff
cheney the steam turbines that are
used at generating stations. They
have not only made the old steam
locomotive obsolete, but have made
unnecessary the further electric
cation of railroads along old
fashioned lines.
The new diesels use injection
pressures that are five times as
strong as those used in other
diesels. They utilize $4,000 pounds
pressure to the square inch instead
of the usual 5000. In the diesel
engine the fuel oil is injected into
the cylinder where the heat Of COM
pressing the mixed vaporized fuel
and air explodes the mixture with
out the use of spark such as is
necessary in gasoline engines. No
matter what the viscosity of the oil
that is used, the pressure breaks it
up into a fine vapor that can pass
through the -thousandth-inch
holes that lead to the cylinder.
These diesel-electric plants have
the possibility of revolutionizing the
entire industry. But they are being
used mainly for show and adver-
Using purposes in opposition to the
publicity of the airlines. and not
for the standard work of the rail-
reads. The diesels will only be gem
orally introduced if the government
subsidies their purchase by the
roads. Otherwise. since they threaten
the watered stocks of the railroads,
they will not be widely used, despite
their advantages in speed and eco
nomy of operation.
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natural inclination for a life Of
practical activity.
In these schools, the separation of
theory and practice such as we find
in bourgeois life is thing of the
past. knowledge connected with
life-that is the keynote. So the
schools in the Soviet Union, run in
part by the students, could well
serve our progressive" schools as
models of discipline.
1T WOULD be wrong to think of
the children as the pampered pets
of the new order. They are far
from that. They prepare themselves
to be good citizens of the Socialist
state-those on whom the RESPONSE
bility for the future welfare of the
state rests.
But they do not simply prepare
for the future. They play a very
important part in the life-social,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
BREATH MEASUREMENT AND
SOCIALIST COMPETITION

With a thermocouple as fine as
a Woman's hair" DR.. F. G. Bowman
Of the Carnegie Institution has been
measuring variations in the human
breath. The instrument would be
very useful up at the Daily Worker
where the competitors in the social
list competition gasp for breath as
one or the other FORCES ahead. At
the moment the breath measure
ments Of this columns opponents
would record such violent fiuctua-
tons that the thermocouple would
no doubt be ruined.
The other competitors are sour
with envy as Lab and Shop climbed
to 70 per cent Of its quota. This Isl
no mean feat, since it did not stoop
to doing intellectual cooch dances
or passing out samples of art work.
The column rested upon the dignity
and prestige Of science. confident
that truth was on its side, and that
victory would be achieved DESPITE
the ballyhoo and wild claims of the
rival forces.
one more EFFORT, comrades, and
we will fulfill the quota that the.
column set for itself. Let the others
resort to tricks. We shall conduct
an honest campaign. confident Of
our inherent superiority.
Incidentally, the column is still
offering a fine book on modern
science to the highest individual
contributor, and lecture to the or
ganization that raises the most
money for Lab and Shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
MIKE FALLS.

Although Mike Colds competitors today
this imposing list of contributors there's
got today the per
above the literary ana leads the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
Crinps in a Frenzy

THE Boston well be proud OF their union which
militant the eastern coast
group leaders, filters who know the
the the beach, and fight tessy and negeny
for them
The reason the crmps frenzy
sight victory the relief situation AS the result
mastery the relief authorities to
the power the the unemployed by
clothing food and shelter TO the that do
humlate them the hands of racketeers
always been amongst the most exploited of work.
centuries theirs really status they kid
mapped street. they logged and murdered by the
word Their stolen their
food salt pork and mody biscuit.
took the several generations of organizing to
attain Of the ngy rights given other in capitalist
At treahery the A.
raketeerng leadership the depression conditions
slavery
century.
the of the Workers Industrial Union has put
to all that Not only has this union become powerful in its
right but has the sympathy the rank file in the other
shown the strike the coast and the
strike in February the coal boats in Boston
the young the hall had just out of Charles
Street jail He had been arrested for distributing leaflets
1ongshoremen who members of A F. of L.
police chased him. and he vaduct At the
other another coming jumped
of the vaduct 80 feet to the ground and then lodged through
railroad
Later the Jail, the told of his fellow
ongshoremen, all A. l.
the fact that of their oopgon that they all
but driven him off the waterfront He nobody
will talk to him. except him ongshoemen
the Redbaing of their acketeerng leaders, think deal
Of the socaled Red" union thing they
All through the days
Is becoming
another for the r. A. and their labor leutenants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
A Swarm of Parasites

THERE used to be old that went something like this
Strike up band, sailor
Cash in his hand just off a whaler,
Stand a go,
a cinch every a
And it still true that along waterfront there
parasites waiting step they may
fasten him. a hard grueing trip
relaxation
him. Prostitutes gamblers
shopkeep booeggers and the they
in when with
go until he is cleaned out
The crimpS about the probably theirs legitimate
racket Boston, they with shipping
corporations to the
through the lodging houses
sell liquor and clothing to don't
places your them you Job
The procedure to let bill at these
and then give him job trips
Then the cimp collects his debts right pay
fires the victims
in other places and the constantly
get job 1t is really form debslav
the Southern sharecroppers mining
of the sailors described these crmp lodging
to The sailors have nicknamed the
it crowded and foul wedged
small cots into single they
There this fretrap shack
the have to walk two miles
expensive and live the
perfumed wives.
The union making its
of Centralized Shipping Office by committees
elected by the themselves
This would the they Several of
agtaing for this shipping
get job the Boston
hall undoubtedly part Of the
the however for their hatred these boodscng crmps
shipping support intense to be nued
out by few cowardly bullets.
continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
LABORATORY
and SHOP b. David Ramsey

I rapidly from the fourth to the
twelfth month after birth. During
this formative period, the brain It's
sues are most delicate and easily
damaged DR.. Todd pointed out
that "the lesson for laymen is a
simple one. Guard very carefully
the brain Of the infant during the
first twelve months Of its life"
Translated into concrete terms
this means that the babies Of the
unemployed require proper food,
shelter and medical care. Capital
ism which denies adequate relief
and unemployment insurance to the
jobless worker protects its profits
at the expense Of the ruined lives
Of babies.
DR.. Todd's work has an important
bearing upon the pseudo-scientifio
claims of the eugenicists. They
claim that intelligence is entirely a
matter of heredity. The research
Of DR.. Todd indicates that like pei
lagra. ricketts, and tuberculosis.
feeblemindedness may in many
cases be due TO poverty and NAL
nutrition. Consequently while
heredity plays a role in determine
ing intelligence, the larger imme-
date problem is an economic one
to progressively raise the living
standards of the population as is
being done in the Soviet Union.
This item is based on material fur
nished by the Science Research
Committee of the Pen and Hammer,l
MOONS STUFF -"r
Scientists Of the Carnegie Institu-
ton Of Washington declare that the
moons surface is made of volcanic
ash and pumice. The reflected sun
light from the moon is not polar
lied. Hence the scientists conclude
that it does not come from dark
dense rocks which polarize light. IN
stead it must be composed of light
translucent rocks like the stuff
found around the volcanoes on the
earth. The scientists also claim
that the rapidity with which the
moon drops in temperature when it
IS swept by an eclipse must be due
to the fact that the moons surface
is largely made up of silica pro-
duced by volcanism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
POLARIZED LIGHT BURSTS
PLANT CELLS

DR.. Elizabeth S. Semmens has
been studying the effects of polar
lied light upon plant cells. This
light, consisting of one-Way waves.
causes certain cells on the surface
Of leaves to burst. She concludes
that the polarized light changes the
starch grains in the leaves into
sugar, and this causes so much
water to flow into the cell that its
walls cannot stand the added pres
sure-so it bursts.
Polarized light is light that has
been passed through a special crys-
tai in such a way that all the
wares vibrate in one direction. and
do not spread out in all directions
as is the case with normal light.
DR.. Semmens reports that in many
cases she has found that polarized
light changes wet starch into sugar,
both in plants and in Living
solutions.
A NOTE ON FEEBLEMINDEDNESS
Feeolemindedness may be caused
by injuries to the brain during in
fancy according to a report made
by Professor T. A. w. Todd of West
ern Reserve University to the recent
meeting Of the National Academy of
Sciences. After several years of re-
search on one thousand human
brains, he came to the conclusion
that poor food, disease and bad liv-
ing during the first year of an in
fant's life can produce permanent
mental deficiency.
He found that those regions of
the brain which function in reason
ing, memory and the like grow most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-05
CLIMBING THE LADDER

AAA1 AAODLh
Not only has Little Lefty al
most caught up with Cannes in
total contributions, but he is
second to Mike Gold in popu-
larity today, having received
S61.10.
Associated workers
Clubs .............................S 1900
Lubercff .........,.... LOO
Musurale ............................ 1.50
Richmond, Ind, Unit / 1.60
Section 5 ........................ 1900
Previously received ..... 265.74
AOtnt .s-sss.....'.s...sss.ssss. tsss. go~usc1
Del will present a beautiful colored
portrait of his cartoon characters
every day to the highest contributor
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I'd to be an old song that went something like this
Strike up the band here comes sailor,
Cash in his hand, just off whaler
Stand in row, don't let him go,
Evening star., 1934-02-18
Status of Bills
D. 6. Legislation Of
Civic Interest Is
Reviewed

THE congressional status Of Dis
i trict bills Of interest to WASH
ington citizens associations Is q
follows:
Old Age Pensions: House.-Norton
bill ordered reported with amend
ments. Senate.--In District Com.
mittee.
Alley Clearance: House.-In District
Committee. Senate.-Passed at last
session Of Congress.
Merger Of Washington and George
town Gas Light Companies: House.
On table. Senate.-On calendar.
Bill to increase gasoline tax from
. to cents . gallon: House.-In Dis
trict Committee. Senate.-Unintro-
duced.
Bill creating special commissien 10
settle District Virginia boundary dis
pute: House.-Passed. Senate.-In
District Committee.
Proposed amendments to liquor con-
troll act: House.-In District Commit
tee, Senate.-In District Committee.
BIN to safeguard releasing and re-
cording Of deeds Of trust: House.
In District Committee. Senate
Passed.
Bill changing name Of B street
southwest 70 Independence ayenue:
House.-In District Committee. SEN
ate.-Passed.
BIN authorizing sale Of old Potomac
School: House. I'm District Commit
tee. Senate.--Passed.
Bin to broaden general powers Of
the commissioners: House.-In Dis
trict Committee. Senate.-On cali
endar.
Bin to license and regulate real
estate business: House.-In District
Committee. Senate.-On calendar.
Bill to legslize amateur boxing:
House,-Ordered reported. Senate
On calendar.
Budget estimates for 1885: Hear
ings to begin tomorrow before House
Subcommittee on Appropriations.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
1884 C. OF C. PROGRAM
TO BE DRAWN UP FRIDAY
Chepy Chase Trolley Of 9Os
Delivered Food or Medicine
Times Change and NosO Citizens Seek
to- Alleviate Inconrenience of
Present Transit System.

Back In the pioneer days Of Chevy
Chase, the skipper" Of the trolley
that ran periodically through . tract
Of wilderness to the snug little colony
Of four residences just north Of the
like viii never be seen again, oldest
inhabitants lament for that was In
the. good days Of the early o0s
before hurry and hustle became CON-
tagious with Wsshtngton's fastest-
growing suburb.
The arrival Of the daily freight" |"
with its cargo Of market baskets and
parcels from the city. obligingly de-
posted at your entrance gate by this
unusual motorman, was an event Of
real importance to the little COM
munity. Equally accommodating In
Evening star., 1934-02-18
NORTHEAST UNIT SEEKS
NEW ENTRANCE TO CITY

Members and ofncers of the North
east Citizens' Association would like
to see some Of the public works or
other Government funds used for the
completion Of one Of their pet"
projects-the extension Of Maryland
avenue to connect with Defense High
way, and the creation thereby Of
another entrance artery to the city.
The association has urged this i'm
proyement for years, and win renew
IT. efforts this Winter and Spring to
hEing about tts completion Evan II.
Tucker, president Of the group, ex.
plains the Improvement VIII alleviate
traf1c jams at present Northeast en-
frances to the city, beGides providing
. moro direct highway route to
northern and eastern points. ~
The Northeast group fought for the
extension Of New York avenue. only
recently completed, for 30 years, Sc
curing the viaduct over the railroad
yards several years before the District
government built the highway to
utilize the coucrsts-and-steel overpass.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
LINCOLN PARK PLAN
BOOSTS MEMBERSHIP

Perhaps the most novel and many
sided method evolved this year for
promoting interests OF a civic body
here has been evolved by the Lincoln
Park Citizens Association.
Within a brief period after the
scheme was selected, the association
had gained "a new members, con-
trived means to publicize its activi-
ties throughout the community In
which it is located and familiartzed
virtually every business house in the
area with the organization.
The method employed was the ap-
pointment Of q Publicity Committee.
headed by Charles w. Gwinn, and
with G. Leslie Schafer as vice CHAIR
man, which could promote the publi-
cation of q year book. Planning to
list in the book the officers and COM
mittees for the current term, the con.
stttution and bylaws Of the associa-
ton and the name and address Of
every member, the committee mem
bers called on individual residents and
business concerns throughout Lincoln
Park. To the latter they sold the
idea that advertising In the year book
would be q profitable move, but re-
quired each advertiser first to become
q member Of the association.
Then. In quoting advertising rates,
the regular annual dues Of the group
were included In the cost per page.
When the project Is completed the
booklets viii be distributed to every
member Of the association.
As n ress,It of the carnnaicy, <r,or.
sored by the Publicity Committee
membership at the regular meetings
has increased considerably AMI rela-
tions between the association and
persons operating businesses in its
territory have been strengthened, Of
flcers Of the group report.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
COMMUNITY CHEST
DATA IS REQUESTED

Publication In Washington news :
papers Of q general statement OF ex--
penditures made by the Community
Chest, itemizing all salaries Of 81 500
or over year, was requested by the
Burroughs Citizens Association ct It's
last meeting.
Being sincerely interested In the
aims and success Of the Community
Chest, and since the Community Chest
is financially supported by public con,.
tributions, the public Is therefore en-,
titled to more detailed account Of
expenditures than has heretofore been
given, the resolution stated. =
The resolution went on to point out
that the expenditures Of the Com
munity Chest annually, especially as
regards salaries, Is made the subject.
Of gross exagHeration and rumor each
year to the great detriment Of the
whole cause Of relief and welfare work.
In this city.
The resolution further suggested
that the Community Cnesr urge its
member organizations to publish SINH
lar data, claiming this to be Of public.
interest also. Copies Of the resolution
wero ordered sent to all Washington
newspapers and to ElWood Street,
director OF the Community Chest and
the Federation Of Citisens' Associa-
tious.