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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02
FOR RENT HOUSES

FOR RENTS acres nearly all
in alfalfa. Four-room house.
Lots of shade trees. $500 per
month. For further information
address Box 1868, CaleXico 2t7
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02
POULTRY FOR SALE

BABY CHICKS-Wh Leghorns, r..
I. Reds, Barred, Buff, VIII. Ply
mouth Rocks, VIII. Jersey Giants,
Australorps, Buff Minorca, Bron-
re Baby Turkeys, White Pekin
Ducks. High quality stock, high
INABILITY. j. Albert Liggett, Rt.
8, Phoenix. % w f m
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02
SPECIAL NOTICES

TILTON THE CAN CLEANER
At Wakefield's Super Service
4th and State Phone 1918
Washing, waxing, Simonizing
polishing, chassis cleaning, mo-
tor cleaning, interior vacuum
cleaning a speciality.
Rates for Cars by the Week
5th and State Phone 1913
HlGH-QUALITY SUNLAND MILK
now sold at NEW LOW PRICES.
2tf
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02

A close literary alliance between
a Republican and Democrat ended
with the resignation of Alfred e
Smith as editor of the monthly
magazine, New Outlook. of which
Frank A. Tichenor (above). is
owner and publisher. Tichenor.
an ardent Republican, is reported
to have disagreed radically with
Smiths editorial policies in regard
10 the Roosevelt ADMINISTRATION
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02

FOR SALE-15 cows, Guernsey and
Jersey; one Guernsey bull. This
herd was last T. B. tested 1884.
This is the third test in 3 years
and no reactors. fresh cows,
5 springers, 3 middle mixers. See
Wakefield, miles east of Holt
vile on Yuma highway and a
mile south. 2t3
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02

The federal government will spend
$1,000 on an experimental date cur
ing plant at Parker, Ariz.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE

FOR SALE Brown Swiss bull
calves for breeding. II mile
south of West Side School. a
mile west. Squirting Ranch. 2t3
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-02
Lodge Directory

B. p. o. E. Elks
Ell Centre Lodge No. 1926
Every Thursday 631 Main st.
FRED NEBEL-THAU. Exalted Ruler
HENRY SWANSON, Secy.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-12-07

Bedroom Suites x Dis
tinctive Chairs of superb
quality + Finer Secretar-
les and Desks 4 Chiffe-
robes y Exclusive Studio
Couches y Dining Room
Pieces u Corner Cabinets
v Dinette Sets u Superior
Rugs and Floor Cover.
ins of all kinds.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-12-07
WtftH
SIS to $40

Sewing Cabinets = Break
fast sets y Cribs and
High-chairs Is Smokers *
Mattresses and Springs *
Telephone Sets * Book
shelves = Lamps all kinds
y Desks = Occasional
Chairs y All types of
tables, smartly styled =
Magazine Racks X Week
End Cases and Glad.
stones.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-12-07
9 | 7 s
$50 to $50

Fine Wall Tables Secretaries Kitchen Cab
inets and stoves Tables: hand-carved and in
laid Desks y Chifferobes Better Chairs:
many Kapock filled Mattresses and Springs y
Luxurious Studio Couches with unusual cover.
ings Salem Chests Serviceable Rugs.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-12-07
@ | TT s
$40 to $40

Lounge chairs Chifferobes Dropleaf tables
and many occasional tables y Kitchen Cabinets
Cedar Chests Lamps Mirrors Refriger-
ators Sewing Cabinets Baby Carriages
Boudoir Chairs Mattresses and Springs y
Desks: KneehOle and Spinet Rugs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

WOR-variety Musicale
WJz-Lanny Ross, Tenor: Sslter
Orchestra; Kathleen Wells, Songs
wABC-Everett Marshall, Baritone;
Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Mixed
Chorus Arden Orchestra
9.Oo-wEAF-Fred Allen. Comedian; James
Melton, Tenor; Hayton Orchestra
WOR-Hnlhilly Music
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wABC-Nino Martini, Tenor; Koste-
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s:so-woR-Lum and Abner-sketeh
WJz-John Charles Thomas, Bari
tone; Concert Orchestra
wABC-George Burns and Oracle
Allen, Comedians
e;45-woR-Garber Orchestra
10 0-WEAF-Lombardo Orchestra
wOR-Literary Justice-Sketeh
WJz-To Be Announced
wABC-Broadcast To and From BYRD
Expedition
Events-H. E. Read
WJ1-Beauty-Mm Sylvia
10 so WEAF--One Mans Family-Sketch
WOR-Goldkette Orchestra
wJz-Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich.
man. Songs
wABC--MaFy Eastman, Soprano;
Evan Evans. Baritone
l1:oo-wEAF-Mixed Chorus
WOR-News
WJz--Coleman Orchestra
WABC-Belasco Orchestra
11:15-WEAF-Robert Royce, Tenor
woR-Moonbeams Trio
li:s0.wEAF-Dance Music (Also wOR,
WIZ, wABCl
ii:45-wABC-A Balanced Budget-or IN
hstion-Professor Edwin w. Ken-
merer Of Princeton University.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

in the crop" There are seven chill
dren, ranging in age from to 49,
Their monthly income is about SIS
The Prisoners Relief Department
Of the I. L. D. is their only other
source of income.
nPHELIA WILLIAMS keeps house
" in Chattanooga, Tenn, takes
care of six little children and goes
to school whenever she gets a
chance. Soon she will be IA years
old. Her mother, Mamie Williams,
is SO years old. i'll with a bad heart
and must stay in bed. The relief
lady let's them have about two
dollars a week for all of them. Since
her father died four years ago, they
struggled along somehow, but after
he died things got worse and worse.
In March, 1881, the oldest son,
Eugene, who was then IA, left home
to search for work with his friend,
Haywood Patterson. On March 25
he was arrested at Paint Rock, Ala
bama, and early in April he was
sentenced to death with seven other
Scottsboro boys. Ophelia has said
that she would love to 60 around
the country and help Go whatever
she can to set her brother free, but
with her mother sick and all these
little children at home that have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
BY SASHA SMALL

THE magic of the N. Y. Times fund
for the Hundred Neediest Cases
isn't working so well this year.
There's hitch somewhere. So far
only $116,657 has come in, $4,000 be-
hind last year. This magical sum is
supposed to rehabilitate families
100 exactly-that are completely on
the rocks.
The International Labor Defense
is in the midst of drive for need
lest cases too, at this moment. Its
Prisoners Relief Department is con-
ducfing Christmas Drive for Pol
itical Prisoners and their families
This drive makes no such modest
claims as the New York Times! 1t
knows that even a very substantial
sum of money and fine bundle of
clothes and shoes and food for the
destitute families Of the men who
are behind bars for their loyalty to
the working class, will not solve the
problems of these neediest cases. 1t
will take something much more far
reaching and basic than a Christ
mas gift to do that.
But the need of these families is
very great. They are practically
destitute except for the money they
receive from the Prisoners Relief
Department of the 1. L. D. How
ever their spirit is not broken
Their letters are filled with mieery
but not despair. Their courage is
inspiring-but it needs solidarity to
keep it from being crushed beneath
the burden of hunger, cold and lone
liness.
The Christmas Drive for political
prisoners and their families has as
its chief aim the raising of this SOL
idarity-this moral and material aid
to the victims of ruling class justice.
It's slogan, 'They Gave Their Free
dom, Give Them Your Support"
must be translated into reality by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

a flood of contributions, money,
clothes, shoes. books to the Prison
ers Relief Department, I. L. D.,
Room 61o, 80 East 18th Street, New
York City.
Below are few of the neediest
cases:
NILE COCHRAN is serving a three
~ year sentence in South Dakota
penitentiary. He was one Of the
pickets during the Iowa and South
Dakota milk war in 1893. They bar
ricaded the roads with logs, bales of
hay, anything to keep the mix
trucks out of the marketing center,
Sioux City. The Roberts Dairy Cor
poration was making 900 per cent
on every quart Of milk. They hired
the most notorious rum runners in
town, the Markets., who ran one
truck past the lines by shooting
their way through. Next time they
came, the pickets were armed and
returned the thugs fire. Cochran
was wounded, captured and con-
victed for "being an accomplice of
John Doe who killed Markell
81 am still trying to run a farm
without a husband" writes Mrs.
Cochran, "and it sure is hard at
times. We do all our work in the
fields except two months in the
yea, when we have somebody to put
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
BY BEN FIELD

The Peasant Guest Houses have
done much to break down the age
old antagonism between farm and
city in Soviet Russia. Every Peasant
House is not only a home for the
peasants when they come to town.
it is also club where they can
meet their comrades, the city work.
erS. 1t Is school, a museum, the
gear box where the peasants can
study as under a great tense the
swiftly moving different parts of the
soeialization Of agriculture.
There are 5000 of such Peasant
Guest Houses throughout the U. S.
s. r. Moscow province alone has
154. The Peasant Guest House in
the city Of Moscow has accomoda-
lions for TOO peasants. Here Cir
cassian Cossacks, Kslmuks, Tadjiks
Tartars, Uzbecks, peasants from the
farhung corners Of the U. S. S. R.
stay as the guests Of the Moscow
workers.
The peasants generally stay for
three days. Lectures, theatres, con-
certs. excursions to factories, etc.
are free. From 9 to 4, peasants go
on their own business. After 4 every
guest house makes it it's business
to entertain and instruct its farm
guests. You often see Cossacks with
cartridge belts and daggers or
Uzbecks with their skullcaps and
padded coats file into Moscow the
aires to be given the front row
seats or the boxes.
In the Moscow Peasant House
there are always o-date exhibit
lions. Here the peasants can learn
in the electric dollhouse how the ex-
cellent chan1pagnon mushrooms are
grown. They see sheaves Of rye
grown only since 1880 in Moscow
region. They study charts show
ing the progress in airplane SOW
ing. Almost 100000 acres of wheat
were sown in 1894. The peasants
can hop into the seat of tractor
from Rostov or from Chelyabinsk.
The average Soviet tractor gives
three times the service of a John
Deere or a Fordson. Here is a flax
cutter invented by a Soviet worker
cutting ten acres in eight hours.
There heaps of corn kernels with
advice as to seed selection. In an
other section of the exhibition the
peasants come across scenes in the
ramatic fight against drouth, which
the Soviets are fast conquering. The
Soviet harvest was only Q per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
: HE
By MICHAEL GOLD

WE LIVE in epoch of swift deepgong social changes
" All around is the chaos, the hunger and the be-
wilderment bred by the collapse of capitalism Our lives
the lives of people who walk along the edge of prec
pce We do not know whether tomorrow the world will
plunged horrible whether
morning jobless furniture
street facing
ton
There no security There is no feeling welbeng
spiritual al hunger world
lives u.s. people a nightmare 1t
nightmare peoped 1t impossible
believe times that people heads should suffer
people suffering
great many helpless been
years years graduates college graduates
The fairly All did graduate from
married little fun There
black nvbily Of the
believed that worked hard
sincere honest all would be we'll The
would impressed You'd Or you'd join the local Demo-
cratic Republican Club well with the district captain
This would the necessary political pull when you needed it,
something hard good student
passed the examination.
you textile mill learned and
of the understood each strand
thread said yourself worked hard and
wouldn't have to go Maybe get
the didn't have Maybe they'd get chance at the
life They'd the big cities They'd
public accountants and
easier life than you had
Everybody dreaming that life would be Life could
be only worked hard only didn't the
boss, if only were honest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
They Gave Up Their Freedom;
Now They Call for Your Support!

to be cared for and fed, she has her
hands full
EMMA BRELTIC is 40 years old
Ia and serving two-year sentence
in one of the Country's worst pris-
ons, Blawnox Workhouse, Allegheny
County, Pa. "Inciting to riot" was
the charge which sent her up on
the testimony of the Jones and
Loughlin Company's thugs. Her
actual crime was running a relief
kitchen in the Ambridge strike.
During the first few weeks of her
sentence she lost ID pounds, cut
there is no medical attention at
Blawnox. In addition to her two
year sentence there is a $500 fine
against her and 5000 court costs.
She has an unemployed husband
and two children, s and 9.
DILL FRANKFELD, young leade:
l of the Unemployment Councils
of western Pennsylvania, is another
prisoner at Blawnox. He is serving
two to four years for "inciting to
riot and obstructing legal process,
i.e., leading the unemployed in halt
ing the eviction of another unem-
ployed worker from his home. He
has been put to work in the rag
shop. where he spends all the hours
OF daylight breathing in disease
laden dust. He is allowed only one
letter and one visitor a month. His
young wife, Mary has just had a
baby.
He is a very sweet baby" she
writes. HE is good, he sleeps a lot
and he certainly can eat. He didn't
see his daddy yet, nor did his daddy
see him" Last time Mary went TO
see her husband, he said, when I
write to you I should tell you that
he is all right and he will be better
soldier and even more loyal to the
workers when he gets out"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
t u N N G. IN

;OO-wEAF-Piokens Sisters, Songs
wOR-5ports Resume-stan Lomax
WJz-Anos n Andy--Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-sketch
-WEAF-To Be Announced
wOR-Marion Chase. Songs
WJZ-Plsntatlon Echoes, Mildred
Bailey Songs; Robinson Orchestra
wABC-Jtst Plain Bill-sketch
3o.wEAF-Press-R sdio-An Experiment
In Public service-Dean Carl
Alderman, Of Columbia University
School OF Journalism
wOR--Levitow Ensemble
wJz-Red Davis-Sketoh
wABC-The ONeills-Sketch
7:45- wEAF-Uncle Ezra-Sketch
wJz-Dangerous Paradise-sketch
wABC-Roake Carter, Commentator
800 Play-Trigger, With Mary
Plckford, Actress
wOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
wJz-Sing Of the Scythe-Sketch
WABC-To Be Announced
I5-wABc-Edwin C. Hill. Commentator
s3o-wEAr-Wayne King Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

her parents we're visiting Moscow
theatres, she was being well taken
care Of.
Peasants Talk Freely
Our guide is young student who
with him Roman Rolland's
novel Jean Christophe." He brings
us downstairs to the courtyard
where peasants are sitting in the
sun talking. We talk to one of
the peasants. And here something
happens that helps again shove the
lie down the Threats of those who
cry there is no freedom in Russia,
that interviews with foreigners are
staged"
With us is young woman from
Oregon. Seeing the bust of Lenin
in the Peasant Guest House, she
had said, There must be Lenin
factories everywhere in Russia"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
The End of a Dream

AND today the whole dream has collapsed We know that
matter how well work. honest how sacrificing and
hardwokng doesn't matter of unemploy
men increasing poverty has taught that We have learned to
that the stacked against Our not
ALL belongs to the boss like the mill belongs to him.
the Office furniture jobs We don't anything
the right and hunger We the bottom of the social
ladder naeless obscure mon-strong mionnamed
class. Look at the millions of
oerS like lives like
drop water repeats the life of million other
We work at possible occupation Wherever there
thing be built broken ended there
will find the tenements the big cities the frame
in the mill towns the hack of mining the road
the the cotton fields by the river you'll lind
class Everything that's made Everything that's grown
Everything except the right to enjoy te products
of labor Except the right TO what have earned.
They buy sell like the block you
crowd of sevedoes standing front of the freight Officer
Have the boss picking out the biggest muscles
the shoulders the hundreds
in the crowd They used select slaves like that the block Only
they had to feed the slave and keep him during the winter
much cheaper for them this
have many of us as they want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Peasant Guest Houses in Soviet Union
CementBOnd Bet,Ueen City and Country
Coll ectives B e tt er
Than Former Deaf
Village Life

When our guide is called aside by
one of the men in the Office of the
Peasant House, she pricks up her
cars. Red tape. He ought to be
smashed in the face. I'll bet he's
afraid the pessant1l tell US too
much. That's why he's bawling out
the student"
The student comes back flushed.
Oh, nothing. He's been scolded a
little for not having brought the
Americans into one of the rooms in
side, taken several peasants with us
where we would all be comfortable,
be able to find out conditions salts
factorily, at great length. Not stand
ing on one leg, so to speak.
The peasant is an elderly black
bearded man with a stick He has
cataracts on both eyes. He leans
heavily on his stick. He listens
carefully. His answers are soft,
hesitant.
He is member Of the collective
farm Spark Of Paris Commune.
Does he know what the Paris
Commune was?
He considers for a second. He
shakes his head.
The student tells him.
He mods. No, he did not know
but he was one of the first to join.
He knows what the electric Spark
Of Paris Commune is. In the old
days he lived on a farm of three
acres Seventeen eaters in the
family. Every loaf was torn to
crumbs and every crurnb loaf.
They had no horse. Now his brigade
alone made 1000 pounds of wheat.
There are 100 COWS and rs working
horses on the collective.
The Old "Deaf" Village Life
The peasants are happy?
The peasants are happy.
In what other respects is collec-
Invitation better than working the
old way?
In every respect.
In every respect?
In every respect. There is moth
ing in which the collective is not
better than the old deaf village"
life. In every respect.
He has come to the city for a
month to have his eyes operated on.
He can not see well enough to do
his work.
How can he afford It? How can
he afford to leave his wife and chill
dren slone. travel to the city, and
spend month here?
His lids move softly over the
swollen gray-clotted eyes. Every
member Of the Spark of Paris Com
mune is insured against sickness.
The collective pays. His family
works on the collective while he is
away.
What would have happened in the
old days, in the old days under the
Gear?
Nothing.
Nothing?
Nothing, He puts his hands over
his eyes like binders. Nothing.
We wish him speedy recovery.
He shakes hands. He sits down
on the bench in his bast shoes. He
waits in the warm sun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

lower than last years record
harvest, while the American harvest
was the lowest in so years. Pic
lures of Michurin, the plant wizard,
after whom a city has been named,
whom Soviet Russia has given hun
dreds of thousands of rubles, hun
dreds of acres, assistants, students
to carry on his work of helping
transform Russia into a real Soviet
garden.
Every Peasant House has its din
ing room, room for women, room
for men with newspapers, books,
chess games, nursery. When we
stepped into the nursery the nurse
pointed to a cot. A little girl with
a cheek like a winessp apple opened
one black eye at us. She is the
only child of voting peasants who
are collective farm actors. While
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
John Reeds Famous
Book to Be Issued
BY Modern Library

John Reeds famous Ten Days
That Shook the World" the story
by an eyewitness of the Russian
Revolution, will be published in a
Modern Library edition in the early
Spring. Lenin's letter of apprecia-
ton to John Reed will be printed
as foreword, and the volume will
include facsiniles of some of the
all-impoTtant Russian manifestoes
of the period that changed the lives
of hundred and fifty million
people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Free Shows, Concerts,
Lectures for Guest
Peasants

This is the second of four ar
ticles written by Ben Field on the
life of farmers and peasants in the
Soviet Union. Ben Field recently
returned from a visit to the U. s.
S. r. where he made a study of
farm conditions, visiting many
collectives, as well as attending
the Writers Congress. He con-
tributed while there to Pravda,
Kolhoznik, the Literary Gazette,
and is the American correspondent
for the Soviet Peasants Gazette
and the French "Vcice of the
Peasant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

Reviewed by
HOWARD BOLDT
HERE are two little towns, Dew
ii maine and Colp, Illinois, pressed
down BY the misery Of the economic
chaos and resultant unemployment.
Ninety-five per cent Of the 313 fam
lilies in these two towns are on
relief; 10 per cent are Negroes.
Here is another small town, Van
eta, West Virginia. Starvation is
rampant and relief is spasmodic.
A glance at the monthly reports
Of the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration shows that relief in
Virginia during May the last re-
port available) was $500 a week for
a family; s153 a week in Ken5ucky;
50 week in Tennessee; s2.25 IN
Missouri.
Mr.. Ebert does not cite these
figures in his little book-he exam
ines into some superficial and out
ward causes of mass unemployment,
barely scratches the surface and
offers his panacea. Thus, he writes:
"Depcessions grow out Of a COM
plexity Of causes. A potent cause
is a defective monetary policy" and
cites maladministration in the Fed
eral Reserve Systeml
But any understanding of this
book, which, despite its title, de-
votes itself entirely to the question
Of unemployment insurance, must
necessarily turn upon Robert G. FL
bert himself.
He is a retired capitalist who calls
himself an economic free thinker
and realist" He has served as a
member Of the Industrial Advisory
Board, and is at present a member
of the Business Advisory and Plan
ming Council of the Department Of
Commerce.
AS EBERT warns up to his sub
"A ject, he touches lightly upon q
few basic causes of mass unemploy-
ment. And now he says, "a wide
gap between productive output and
national purchasing power is alone
a strong enough factor to bring on
depression, even under the best
monetary policy conceivable" And
further on, "the four cigarette COM
panies known as the Big Four
actually paid more to their stock
holders in cash dividends in the
year 1882 than the American tobac-
co farmer received for his entire
crop" authors emphasis0
Beyond doubt, Ebert has devoted
considerable study to the question
Of unemployment insurance. AL
though the slender volume takes
into consideration only a few Of the
plans thus far proposed, interspersed
throughout the text are references
that show that the author is quite
thoroughly conversant with his sub
ject
Briefly, the book outlines the main
phases Of the Wisconsin I'm
employment Compensation Act, the
Wagner-Lewis Bill, the Ohio Plan
and the model bill' proposed by
the American Association for Social
Security.
Briefly, it enters into a criticism
of each Of these plans. Thus, Mr..
Ebert says, 81 think the Wisconsin
plan contains about every possible
defect that it is possible to incor-
porate into an unemployment insur-
ance or compensation scheme" He
considers the segregation Of re-
serves by companies, as embodied in
the Wisconsin law, a fundamental