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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Escape from the Nazis!
The Sonnenburg Torture Camp
By AN ESCAPED PRISONER
Authors Introduction

By AN ESCAPED PRISONER
Authors Introduction
THE world has seen many scan
i dals, great public scandals, such
as the Dreyfuss affair, the murder
of Jean Jaures, the legal murder
Of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Reichs-
tag fire trial, all Of which are the
expression Of certain epochs and Of
certain social and political condi-
tions. But in the spring Of 1888
there began a scandal whose saw
agery surpasses anything that the
modern era has witnessed. We refer
to the persecution of the helpless
political prisoners by the fascist
German government in prisons,
concentration camps, barracks and
police stations For months and
months men and women have been
subjected to mental and physical
torture that may be compared to
slow vivisection.
Germany was once called The
fatherland of poets, scientists and
scholars. The country where
Goethe, Schiller, Wagner and Bee
thoven lived and created, where sci
entific progress was admired and
initiated by the scholars and scien-
fists of the rest Of the world, has
become the country Of whips and
gallows, where an internal physical
and psychological terror reigns,
where racial chauvinism is ram
pant, where Jews are prosecuted
and exiled, where every enemy of
Hitler is menaced by death at the
hands of the Nazis.
The greatest inventors and scien-
fists, some recipients Of the Nobel
prize, are driven out. The statue of
Heinrich Heine, the author of the
most beautiful German folk-songs,
is demolished because Heinrich
Heine was a Jew,
The tombs of Ferdinand Lassalle
and Kurt Eisner are RACED by COM
mand of Hitler and Goebbels, who
have even glorified the memory Of
the nlurderers Of Walter Rathenau.
Mr.. Goebbels, who once invited
the world to an "Olympiad Of the
Mind" burns in huge bonf1res the
greatest masterpieces Of German
literary and scientific works. Nazi
students collaborate with him in the
destruction Of everything not con-
tainable within the barbaric pro-
gram of the Brown Cossacks."
Brigands, adventures, dope
fiends, perverts of all kinds-these
are the rulers Of Germany Of to-
day. Men Of the calibre Of the
Lieutenants Schultz and Heines
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[Since slain by Hitlers orders
Ed. Motel traitors Of their own class
and murderers Of their own COM
rades, now have important govern
mental positions as Chiefs of Police
and as high state functionaries. It
Is no wonder that a Germany ruled
by adventures, incendiaries and
chauvinistic militarists, has thrown
into prisons and concentration
camps more than 10000 men and
women who are against the fascist
regime.
OUR fathers, mothers, brothers and
v sisters, flesh of our flesh, blood
of our blood, have been driven like
wild beasts into captivity They
have been herded into countless
prisons because they struggled
against war and fascisn, because
ideologically or racially they did not
conform to the mold of the Nazis.
Workers, doctors, lawyers, writer's,
Jews, pacihsts, Communists, Social
lists, even Protestant ministers and
Catholic priests, anti-fascists of any
tendency-alI those who refuse to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Knows Workers Plight Under Capitalism

IT is impossible to indicate in brief discussion the
restraint and artistry with which Langson
and white folks to life than
depth and of his stories OF Cora Unashamed
in which Negro vions
after being eight
for shaking the hand of white
give the full satc flavor evenaon Through
pathos of Little Dog"
The astnamed story by the shows clearly that
Hughes not trying categoze white oppress
He dieentates between the white
der capitalism and the white boss and landlord
between black ors and the black story pernated
by tender understanding
reveals Hughes approach essentially
approach, racial
what makes all fourteen stories intensely alive
sabnit is the authors intimate knowledge
OK ais own ard the white people but
America IN Tn their position
its roots cher economic position attempt
class to perpetua this safeguard wealth. it's
own social and economic political
ro social subugaon yncing the
lar degradation for the white
The Ways OF White Folks the book
writer and the working States may well
be the Lngston Hughes one of our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Summer School
at Cleveland

THE Summer Term of the Cleve-
L land Workers School has already
begun. There are classes in History
and Science, Dramatics and Illus
trating and Drawing for children
of Pioneer age. The children who
attended yesterdays classes were
enthusiastic.
One Of the main shortcomings of
the Pioneer movement in Cleveland
was its lack of organized training
of the children. Steps have been
taken to make these experimental
courses a permanent feature of the
Workers School here.
Registration will be closed at the
end Of next week, SO the Pioneer
Leaders should get busy at once
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-10
Summer Glasses for
Children at Harlem School

GENERAL members of the John
" Reed Club, have volunteered to
teach classes in drawing, dance,
sculpture, poster designing, ETC., to
the children of Harlem. These
classes will be held at the Harlem
Workers School at 200 w. 135th ST.,
during the months Of July and
August.
The Summer Lecture courses in
Proletarian Drama and Negro
History in the Harlem Workers
School begins this week. Students
wishing to take these courses
must register early.
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Father and Son

OUCH Father SON. the very last the book
ends with the senficted death of Bert Lewis Of Colonel
Norwood white plantation Coralee Lewis his Negro
housekper youngest
strongly resembling shade darker of skin than his
father He boy who sick Of white folks nigge sick of his
peoples Upon his the Norwood plantation he
refuses submit the degradation the slave behavior which is forced
the the After the death
attempts the but driven into the Norwood
residence where his white attackers woude
white until
aids him:
hide, painted. They're
They'll be coming the back They'll be coming
where got bullet left Ma It's mine.
Yes it's Go upstairs
bed and up you're gone
YOU chile.
Quickly they embraced moment his head rested
Then the white
Keep still, men, of the leaders
Where's that yellow bastard Of yours Cora-upstairsp'
Yes Cora said, Wait
Wait, hellP the cried Come boys, let's
"A shot out upstairs then knew
"'Go on said stepping mob"
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DO ?
: KNOW

country in many forms in spite Of
the law.
That the Socialists say that music
can tame the wild beast and ballots
the revolution.
That in spite Of the rigid Italian
censorship word seeps through Of
peasant uprisings against the fas-
cist oppression.
That Morgan, Rockefeller, and
Mellon don't want the revolution.
That when you are through
reading the Daily" you must
leave it in a prominent place for
others to read, thereby aiding in
the fight for a Soviet America.
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TUNING IN

700 M.-wEAF-Baseball Resume
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-Garce Hayes, Songs
WABC-Fats Waller, Organ; Beale
Street Boys, Songs
7;l5-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WJz-Jack Parker, Tenor
WABC-To Be Announced
:30WEAF-Brad and Al, Comedians
WOR-Talk-Harry Hershheld
WJZ-Saving the Cities-L P Mans
field of Prudential Life Insurance
Company
WABC-Vera Van, Songs
T.45-WEAF-The Goldbergs- Sketch
WOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
WJz-Amos N Andy-Sketch
WABC-Boake Carter. Commentator
8;oO-WEAF.-Reisman Orch; Phil Duey,
Baritone
wOR-variety Musicale
Widths Night Is Dangerous
Sketral
WABC-Concert Orch; Frank Mum.
Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano
8;30-wEAF-Wayne King Orch.
WOR-Dance Orch.
WJZ-GGdman Band Concert Pros
pect Park. Brooklyn
WABC-Lyman Orch; Vivienne Sc
gal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor
-WEAF-Ben Bernie Orch.
WOR-Variety Musicale
WJz-Alice Mock Soprano: Edgar
Guest, Poet; Concert Orch.
WABC-George Givot. Comedian
30-WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Michael Bartlett, Tenor
WJz-Symphony Orch. Frank Black,
Conductor; Doris Doe. Contralto
WABC-Himber Orch.
a;45-WOR-Eddy Brown. Violin
0O-WEAF-Operetta, Mile. Modiste with
Gladys Swarthout, Soprano
WABC-Confiict-D Sketch
0:l5-WCR-Current Events-H. E. Read
10:301WOR-Dance Orch.
Within Ryans Rendezvous
WABC-Melodic Strings
00-WEAF-Wireless Amateurs-Sketch
WOR-Van Duzer Orch.
WJZ-Berger Orch.
WABC-Party Representative
John Taber Of New York
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The Plague at Sonnenburg


| WAS one of the hundreds of
thousands of prisoners in cap
tivity under the rule of Hitler. For
seven months I wore a prisoners
uniform in the concentration camp
OF Sonnenburg (Neumark). Here,
behind thick double walls, about
one thousand political prisoners are
incarcerated. It was by a lucky
chance that I succeeded in escap-
ing from this place, which in Ger
many has earned the gruesome title
OF the "torture-hell of Sonnenburg."
l swear upon my conscience that
my descriptions are true to the last
detail, that nothing is exaggerated.
The memories I have carried away
from there could not be enhanced
even by the widest flights of the
imagination. It is a torture for me
now to think what my brothers and
comrades are enduring. But when
l left them, I solemnly promised
that the whole world would hear
their cry Of agony.
Sonnenburg was once a peni-
tertiary exclusively reserved for
mWderers sentenced to death or for
life terms. In the last decade, dur
ing which the penitentiary was in
active service, the total of deaths
and suicides there numbered $50.
Their graves, nearby, are silent wit
nesseS to this great human tragedy.
In $780, the penitentiary was closed
because Of the frightful sanitary
conditions. The official report at
the time stated that the poisonous
drinking water and the damp walls
were a latent cause Of epidemics of
dySentery and influenza.
The government of Hitler chose
this building as prison for politi-
cal prisoners: Communists, Social
lists, pacifists, Jews. The water Of
Sonnenburg is still undrinkable-its
use is even forbidden. Imagine this
alone, in camp where a thousand
men are kept locked for weeks, for
months for years.
Ito be Continued)
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By HESTER
That about 80 millions of people
now live happily under the Red
Flags of workers and farmers gov
ernments?
That Comrade Stain was COM
mitted to Siberia for his revolu-
tionary activities under the tar six
times and escaped each one Of
them?
That the crisis is in its fifth year
and that Roosevelt, like Hoover, is
still saying that prosperity is just
around the corner?
That two girls of about the age
Of 20 were seen shining shoes in
the financial district of this city?
That there are innumerably
more private beaches than public
beaches7
That 20 per cent of the banks
after the barr moratorium failed to
open?
That there is more democracy un-
der a Soviet government than any
other government.
That the Bible has the largest
book circulation in the world and
the Daily Worker is aiming to
surpass that mark and will?
That volunteer men, women and
children work without pay during
their spare time to speed up the
construction Of the subway in
Moscow?
That under the law it is a crime
for any man or woman, be she
rich or poor, to spend the night on
a park bench? ? -?
That 10 per cent of the people
have 30 per cent Of the wealth, and
80 per cent Of the people have 10
per cent Of the wealth.
That the International" was
written by a Frenchman called
Pierre Degeyter?
That the Socialists, Mayors
Hoan and McLevy protect the
bosses interest and not the work
ers as shown by the arrest of strik-
ers in their respective cities, Mil
waukee and Bridgeport.
That the Communist Party
fights for the workers against the
bosses in IS countries of the
world?
That the Soviet Union is the sec
ond largest gold producing country
in the world and that the workers
directly benefit from itP
That the paymaster in the Soviet
Union carries large sums of money
in a suitcase and carries 1t through
the streets unarmed and without an
escort? Hey, Dillinger9 ?
That child was arrested not
long ago by six-foot policeman
for digging hole in the park with
a 10-cent shovel?
That at an average of every two
days a person dies Of maInutrition
in the richest city of the world?
That dieticians tell us how we can
eat a wholesome meal for practically
nothing but not saying whether they
themselves live on such wholesome
meals? !? e?
That when Soviet America
has been declared food will never
be destroyed to maintain prices?
That in this land of liberty it
can be made an offense if you
gamer IN group OF three or more
with charges of creating nuisance,
blocking traffic, and disorderly
conduct? I? ? +?
That thousands of workers sleep
in the streets while thousands of
apartments are empty?
That under capitalism the
armed forces are given preference
TO culture as we can see by the
closing schools and libraries while
more warships are being built?
That William Randolph Hearst.
who owns the largest newspaper
chain in the world, owning news
papers in almost every principal
city of the United States is a die
tator in his own sphere in that of
his ability to mold the opinions of
millions Of readers to his own use.
That the fascist Pelley of Cali
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What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the Z. S.

and see to it that their groups at
tend.
Evening classes for adults in
Principles of Communism, Eco
nomics, History of the Russian
Revolution, English, ETC., are also
going on.
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Dayton, Ohio

Grove, four miles out on State Route No
az. on Sunday, July 18th from am. to
IL pm. Dancing-games-r refreshments
Free bus transportation from end of street
car line at corner of Leo and Troy Sts
Adm. 25c Auspices Joint Comm. of Work
erS, Clubs
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San Pedro, Cal.

EIGHTH ANNUAL IGOR" PICNIC. on
Sunday, July 18th, from 10 am. to 10
pm at Royal Palms. Dancins-eutertsin-
ment--games-Camp Fire Cabaret Adm.
2sc Transportation 1oc. Trucks leave
from 27oo Brooklyn Ave. every half hour
from 9 to II am
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Wednesday

HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL Summer
Lecture Course. Paul Peters on Negro
in Working Glass Theatre" 200 w 135th
ST., 7;30 pm, Adm. 25c.
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Keep informed of the worldwide
struggles by the working class
cism and war by reading the Daily
Worker. Buy it at the newsstands.
Three cents a copy.
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" HA T. S o N
Tuesday

SHORT TALK on New Soviet Moral
ity" Dancing to follow. 14ol jerome Ave.
cor. 10th st., Bronx. $50 pm Very cool,
free lemonade. Auspices Mt. Eden Youth
Br., F.SU.
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standardized by the swastika-sre
the victims of the Nazis.
Vera Figner wrote a book, Mem
Oirs of RevolutiOnist, in which she
describes the diabolic tortures prac-
ticed in prisons Of the old Tsarist
regime, But these tortures were
nothing compared to the invention
OF the Third Reich Of Adolf Hitler.
If in my account Of the tortures of
the Sonnenburg prison, I mention
but few Of the names of my COM
rades, it is because 1 dread the
cruelties that the inmates would
undergo as a consequence Of my
revelations.
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CHANGE
WORLD!
By EDWIN ROLFE

Il ANGSTON HUGHES possesses a very rare taent-the
ability to create living and altogether understandable
characters and situations in every subject his touches
He has done this for many years and in many forms First
in his volumes of poetry The Weary Blues and Fine
Without Laughter Very
frequently repoageread the Daily Worker will
published this than
ago. short stories The Ways of
Folks" CAlfred A. Knopf $3.50.
poets novels writer's all kinds Hughes
And their in his writ
his subtle and restrained stories his most delicate
sketches gives them real qualities the authenticity Of life so that
reading merely interesting but
absorbing experience
The fourteen Ways White Folks" the
inde feelings dongs Of
people struggles of his people
stories but the white people with
they contact whom they live which in the
majority affects their lives And
though norays the of his
figures epiomz symbolic
plight, direction, of great of people
The Struggles of the TOing Negroes
HUGHES very naturally Negro artists nteectuas
III the white bour
directs of artistic and intellectual
preston. wlor those
people considerable wealth wechmerz attempt to
and intellect by acting and
patrons and sycophants of the arts.
deeply his life with
the tong Negroes particularly the
the South shoulders
sei-feudal
systematic entire southern which depends for its
oppression the people
his southern
TONS living side with the white landlords subsent to them
1t depletion the relations these people,
their struggles aspirations tragedies that of his best stories
built
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-12
Sister Ma1ys Kitchen
BY MARY E. DAGUE NEA Service Staff Writer

Of all the deliciously simple and simply delicious connections in the category of summer foods, fruit granites come first. Chilled to the nth degree without the actual forming of ice crystals, granites are refreshing and decidedly cool ing.
 To make a granite a heavy spr- up is combined with fruit juice and water and the mixture Is half frozen. It always is liquid enough to drink, but so thoroughly chill ed that 1t just misses being an ice. Chill it until it looks white with frost and ice crystals gather against the sides of the mold.
 The combinations are almost countless for these granites. All the canned fruits and most of the fresh ones can be used singly or in combination. With canned fruit always available, one is not dependent on the local markets the drink. The combination of fresh and canned fruit produces many novel fayors that are de- lightful.
 Berry Granites
 Berry granites are seasonal and easy to prepare. Wash and drain one quart of berries. Put into a deep bowl and cover with 2 cups granulated sugar. Mash and cover with a clean towel. Let stand. two or three hours. Extract all the juice and strain through fine wire sieve, or cheese cloth. Add two cups of water, pouring it through the fruit pulp. Pour into a mold and freeze. Serve with a garnish of mint.
 All fresh fruits are used this way, the highly sweetened juice, diluted with water, is half frozen.
 Canned fruit must be cooked with additional sugar to make a heavy syrup, crushing the fruit as it cooks. Then the syrup is strain ed and combined with water as for fresh fruit.
 You can use jelly too,. Combine it with a citrus fruit juice. Orange, lemon. lime and grapefruit juices all are good and each produces a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-12

York at a moments notice without giving Marburg an adequate reason and Jane had no intention that Marburg gossip should lay hold of her name.
 But presently the opportunity came in an easy way. Old Profess sor Ellert was suddenly seized with longing for one last visit to the scenes of his student days in Ger many, one last pilgrimage to the Kaiserstuhl, the Hohentweil and the Eifel crater lakes, Eschbach and Oeningen, all the spots where he had so happily collected his first geological specimens, and 1t was obvious even to himself that he could not go alone. Naturally he turned to Howard. He would pay all expenses. He would make the trip short-that last apologetically to Amy-but he did want power fully to go and have his. young aide with him. It was impossible to refuse the old man.
 They rushed their preparations and sailed on the sixteenth of July, and Amy came to New York to see them off. It was a fiery steaming day, and when the ship had pulled away from the pier Amy did not watch it go down the river. She was tired from the stifiling heat, and distressed at this parting from Howard, for though she was used to his field trips, this was different. He was so much
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cussed the heat. Mrs Johnson evil dently felt bit conscience-strick- en, for she suddenly said: T sup pose you think Bill and Mary ought to have been in bed long ago, Doctor, but what's the use, when it's too hot to sleep?" "Ev- erybody in town seems to agree with you," I replied, "and I'm not sure I don't agree myself" But always thought you insisted on regular bedtimes and lots of sleep," Mrs Johnson sounded both sur prised and relieved. "So I do as a rule," said I, land it's every bit as important. for youngsters to have plenty of rest and sleep in hot weather as in cold, but after an exceptionally hot day like to-day don't think they're harmed by a later bedtime, provided, of course, they have good nap in the after noon." That's all very well, Doc tor" replied Mrs Johnson, "but how to get them to do it? The younger ones take their nap be- cause they're used to it, but Bill and Mary think it's 'sissie' to rest in the daytime" They wouldn't if they lived in the tropics" re- marked MT Johnson, and Mrs Johnson was on him like flash. That's an idea," she said; If you, Bill, would tell them about the way you lived on your South American trip, and how the daily 'siesta' was as regular as meal times, they'd be more likely to see reason" Exactly" l agreed; If during tropical weather we'd all have sense enough to live in a tropical fashion instead of sticking ob- stinately to cold weather ways. we'd all feel better than we do during the extreme heat.
 Mrs Johnson is quite right, of course, to be concerned about her children's sleep during the hot weather. It's impossible to say precisely how many hours of sleep child should have, since children differ so in their individual needs. But it's easy enough to tell if they are getting enough rest, for a well- rested, normal child will eat prop erly, gain weight pretty regularly, and be good tempered and happy rather than irritable. If these signs are not present, then it's time to adjust the daily schedule so that the children can get addi. tional rest and sleep without un- necessarily sacrificing the con- venience of the rest of the fam fly.
 NEXT WEEK: Picnics and Poison
 Ivy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-12
What The Doctor Says BY DR. s. J. CRUMBINE, GENERAL EXECUTIVE AMERICAN CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATION

REST AND SLEEP IN SUMMER One evening this week took a late stroll through the park. The day had been breathlessly hot and clammy, but with the coming of darkness a little breeze had sprung up. I was not surprised, therefore. to see how many people were still out and about. They filled every
 bench and overflowed on to the parched lawns. Men and women, boys and girls, even young babies were there. The grownups were mostly flaming themselves and talking quietly together. The boys and girls, more energetic than their elders, were running around. playing various games. The babies were mostly asleep in their car riages or their mothers arms. Up and down the road bordering the park went endless streams of au- tomobiles, carrying other families in search of a cool breath of air. As passed the movie on my way home the audience was just com- ing out. Again there were all kinds and all ages, and 1t was plain that they had appreciated the cooling system inside, for almost all of them exclaimed on reaching the hotter air outside.
 l was just wishing that private houses could be air-conditioned, when I heard @ familiar hail, and
 turned to find Mir Johnson, Bill and Mary. Been cooling off too, Doctor?" asked MT Johnson;
 "come on home and have an ice cream before turning in." So the four of us piled into the car.
 Mrs Johnson was sitting on the
 porch when we arrived, and while
 Bill and Mary went off to fix the ice cream, we three sat and dis