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The daily worker., 1934-12-29
SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE

NATURAL SCIENCE, by " A..
Tetyurev, Part ], As cents. Pa-.
IT, 55 cents.
BOTANY, by B. V. vsesvyatsky,
IS cents.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by L.
d. sinitsky, IS cents.
GEOGRAPHY, by L. G. Terekovs
and V. G. ErdeH, Part /, As cents.
Part II, so cents.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE U. S. s. r.,
by n. n. Baransky, IS cents.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE CAPITAL
IST COUNTRIES, by S. Var
zhsnsky and L. Sinitsky, IS cents.
(AIl these volumes are translations
Of textbooks used in Soviet elemen-
tary high schools)
THE rise and development Of mod
ern science is inextricably bound
UP with the ascent and decline Of
capitalism. Yet even when capital
ism vas progressing, no attempt
was made to spread scientific
method and scientific thought, as an
integral part of eyeryone's educa-
ton The fiction was maintained
that science was disembodied dis
cipline having no connection with
society or its problems. Conse-
quently only the devotees, the sci
entific elite, followed the develop
ments in the many fields of human
knowedge.
There was popularization, of
course, but it was in the form of
the wonders Of nature and the glory
Of God. The scientific habit Of
thought and science as an instru-
ment for the transformation of
nature and society were never pre-
Sented to school children or to the
mass Of the population.
Under capitalism the teaching Of
science in the widest meaning of
the phrase was largely an indus
try which turned out dry and use
less textbooks and teachers who
were ignorant Of the latest and most |
significant developments in their
fields. This was not due to a lack |
Of interest in science either among
children or among the masses. In
America, for example, we have
population which is keenly inter-
ested in every new phase of scien-
tific work. But it has no way Of .
getting to grips with the subject.
In the schools the subject is
taught as a series of unrelated facts
and experiments. At the beginning
where fundamentals should be
stressed, the young pupil is con-
fused with barrage OF sntiquated .
experiments and information that
has historic value only.
1T is common knowledge that stu
1 dents who go into advanced work
can carry out elaborate experiments
without any understanding Of the
relation Of their work to other
fields. And it goes without saying
that they have no comprehension
of the general principles underly-
ing scientific method.
All these faults flow from the
position of science under capitalism.
Essentially it was Upstream of
life, instead Of being the pace-setter
of social progress. Scientific de-
velopment was never fully inte-
grated with all phases of society so
that their constant interaction might
the progress of both. And
now, as capitalism decays, it has
even less use for scientific teaching
More and more the capitalists look
upon science as a useless luxury
The daily worker., 1934-12-29

ment, Daily Worker, IS East 18th
Street, New York, N. Y.
Question: Why does the Daily
Worker attack the Senate NUM-
tions Inquiry? Haven't their reve-
lations concerning the profits of the
munitions makers put crinp into
the plans Of the war mongers?
Harry K. S.
Answer: The facts brought out at
the Munitions Hearings are used
by Communists all over the world
in their fight against imperialist
war. But the motives of Senator
Gerald P. Nye, the chairman of the
Senate investigating committee, are
Of an entirely different nature. He
does not attack the war prepare
tions and plans of the New Deal,
which grow more oninous fr M
week to week, What he calls for
is q better organized war machine.
Under the guise of taking profits
out Of war (Which incidentally was
the slogan OF Barney Baruch, the
Wall Street speculator, for years.
he proposes an adequate national
defense"
But the plea Of an adequate ma
tional defense" is the slogan of the
war department and of the most
jingoistic sections of the capitalist
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
Most Powerful Farm Papers in World
Stimulate Soviet Peasants Development
P Peasants' Gazette
Has Circulation
of 100000

This is the last of four articles
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,
KolhoEnik, the Literary Gazette,
and is the American correspon-
dent for the Soviet Peasants
Gazette and the French "Voice of
the Peasant"
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
AS Necessary as Bread
An Unholy Crusade

FATHER COUGFN incipien
Fasm in America. That impression
hasty tour of the midwest
II examines the this radio priest
1t is almost exact duplicate of the
But millions of people the middle
Its vague revolutionary slogans Hitler
them abroad
En industrial workers petitions around
from factory TO factory unholy crusade
Do they want labor unions abolished Fascist
state? Do they want intensified imperialism world
war? Do they higher pces they really
wiped they against
unemployment
The American radicald but are not
The fierce white light of on the
buroarng Father There priest
Gapon He also reused the Russian seemingly
liberalism
At the gates of the Winter charged them
and over two hundred workers killed history
knows as Bloody Sunday Father exposed as
police Whom is Father working His te-up is
mere subtle undoubtedly but will Meanwhile eyery
worker who through ask his deded
followers why is Father Coghln unemployed? Where
does ne stand the question: Soviet Russia
and never Nazt Germany Fascist
tended striking workers they
poce Does he red scare
the universities? Why abolish child LAHORE
And there questions From making radio
speeches this father has
ment future the
the Middle West unless the working up menace
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
By BEN FIELD

IN THE struggle for prosperous
l cultural life the peasant relies on
the newspaper as one Of his chief
engines. There are all told about
1900 farm newspapers in the US.
SR. Every peasant has the op-
! portunity to rSad at least six
papers. First, the all-union farm
paper like Peasants Gazette, then
a national newspaper, the region
farm paper, the machine tractor
station newspaper, the farm paper,
the farm wall newspaper.
Every collective has wall news
paper. The huge state farms have
as many as so wall newspapers. A
wall paper in the forge, the school,
the apartment house, the commu-
nifty dining room, etc. The wall
newspapers are run by the collec-
tive farmers, mechanics, dining
room workers, etc. Everybody is
urged to write and make cartoons
and pictures for the wall news
paper. The wall newspaper offers
the most backward peasant the op-
portunity to develop himself by
writing what he has on his mind.
The peasant can criticize the
farm leaders, quicken the pace Of
collectivization by throwing down
the challenge to his comrades. The
wall newspaper becomes the peas
ants patient friend and helper. 1t
is sort of fair or market-place
where ideas are examined and ex-
changed. All letters must be an
swered. The wall newspaper be-
comes the collective farms sharp
eyed fearless watchman.
Every collective farm works hard
to run its own printed newspaper.
The Jewish collective farm in the
Crimea, established on virgin soil
only three years ago, printed the
first issue of its weekly in Septem-
ber. Chevka tea plantation paper
is printed in Georgian and Russian
zernograd's newspaper, Tractor"
has a daily circulation of 1500 It's
yearly budget is 100000 rubles. The
farm has printing shop employ
ing nineteen people. Type here
is still set by hand. But there is
corps of $50 militant farm cor
respondents.
These people are the leaders on
the farm. Through them the news
paper organizes the work, sets the
driving axle and flags, checks up on
results, puts the peasant on the
footplste with tremendous control
in his own hands.
100000 Circulation
The most important farm paper
in the US.S.S. is the Peasants
Gazette. It's circulation is 100000.
It's circulation would have rocketed
to 100000 if not for the paper
shortage. Peasants Gazette receives
100 letters every other day. It is
printed every other day. Editor
Uritzky Che looks more like a
farmer than an editor with his
heavy shoulders and big head has
100 editorial assistants and $1,000
farm correspondents. Lenin said
that a real peasants paper should
be run by five journalists and 500
farm correspondents. Here is a
paper that would have delighted
Lenin.
In the old, Czarist days when
there were less than 4.0o0 tractors
in all Of Russia (25o,O00 now, when
10 per cent of the farms. were with
out horses, there we're only a couple
Of farm newspapers. This helps
explain the few paper mills and
the shortage of paper. The Herald
Of the Village Owners had cir
culaticn Of 5000. This paper was
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

m CHICAGO street was it in Milwaukee, st.
Louis, Indianapolis Davenport, Iowa. heard
newsboys yelling sensationay, to the amusement of the
passersby, 'Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Sanity Claus Has Com
mitted sucide"
Touring the Middle West speaking tour that
twenty cities there that Enger mind
now that the dizzy routine Of catching beginning
There the old blacksmith Davenport example
wanted to know whether Floyd Dell
wh-a the author nqusve and the blacksmith
of his guides to Socialism Dell mentions
smith believe in his first novel, Neon Calf And he
the fesh still rugged and hearty, and Communist
happened
from the working class Thought the would be
day"
Il don't what's happened to him. comrade except
lives literary suburb" answered struggle
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
LABORATORY
and SHOP b. David Ramsey

which can readily be dispensed
with. In their attacks upon the
. educa tionsl system, scientific courses
a-e rapidly being discarded as exc
pensiye frills.
Under capitalism the working
class and its allies cannot study
science under the best Of circum-
stances. But it is important that
there be spread throughout ths
revolutionary movement the funda-
mental concepts Of scientific think
ing, and the realization that without
science the workers cannot build
socialism. And in turn those who
are familiar with scientific work
must learn the lesson that science
cannot realize its fullest potential
tiles except under socialism.
THE books under review are in
valuable for the purpose de-
scribed above. In the first place
they show and prove how in the
Soviet Union science has become an
integral part not only Of society,
but of the life of the whole popula-
tion. They do not describe science
as a dry collection of unrelated
experiments. They present it in en-
interesting way and as an indis-
pensable method for social progress.
The books are exciting reading even
If viewed ony from the point of
view of how Soviet children in the
elementary and high schools are
given scientific training. The read
er is Immediately struck by the
clarity of the presentation, and the
living character Of the material.
Every worker and scientific student
will find these Soviet textbooks
absorbing reading.
Those workers who are unac-
quainted with the fields discussed
in the volumes will find them ex-
cellent irtroductions. The scientific
student will find them valuable for
the manner in which the sciences
are placed in their proper social
setting, and for their lessons in
scientific method.
1t is the hope of the reviewer that
the readers will not be limited to
adults Every workers child should
be given one or more of these books
for proper introduction into the
world of science. They are espe-
cially suitable for children, since
they are handsomely illustrated, and
the geography texts have good
maps.
IN the limited space of the column
l it is impossible to discuss the books
adequately. Little more can be
done than to urge every reader to
buy and read as many of the vol
unes as possible. They are the first
of whoe series Of science text
books which will be distributed by
the Workers Book Store $50 East
Thirteenth Street. New York City,.
They make it possible for everyone
to begin making his first toddling
steps towards a full scientific edu-
cation.
Workers clubs and youth groups
will find in these texts good ma
terial around which to build dis
cussion groups. These latter could
then serve as the material basis
upon which the scientific education
of workers could be developed. That
is, they could serve as the fore
runners of elementary science
classes within the Workers Schools
in the country, and the publication
of small booklets in the various
branches of science in the light Of
Marxism. In the meantime there
is no better substitute for this
ambitious program than the read
ing and the collective discussions
Of the books under review.
The daily worker., 1934-12-29

In the following schedule Of Eng.
lish programs from Moscow, the
time used is EST. CEstern Stand
ard Time):
Is m.-12.0 mc.-l2.o0o kc.
Saturday: 11.30 A. M: Special:
Opera from the Moscow Grand
Theatre with announcements
and explanations in foreign
languages.
10 p. M: Talk: Prospects of the
new year in the Soviet Union.
Sunday: 10 A. NJ: Ditto.
50 m.--s.0 mc.-6.ooo kc.
Sunday: A. NJ: Ditto.
1880 A. M: Same as on 25 m.
4 P. M: A review Of the yeat
1884. Conclusion Of the social
ist competition between an
nouncers.
Monday: P. NJ: Talk: The old
year and the new.
Wednesday: P. M: Talk: The plan
for 1895. History of the Russian
l.svo.ution. No. 10.
Fridcy: q P. Nc Discussions: Free
dom OF criticism in the U. s.
g. r. Art and culture, No. B.
Our best Soviet novels.
Each of the above broadcasts in-a
cludes news and sometimes music
All Saturday and Sunday broadcast
include a review of the week.
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
Questions and Answers

This department appears as
daily feature on this page.
ALI questions should be addressed
to Questions and Answers Depart
ment, Daily Worker, IS East 18th
Street, New York, N. Y.
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
Paving the WAY For Fascism

ND the Milwaukee brewerles still their beer
A hor1etowners the Milwaukee still
Of them at meeting there than other
city spoke John Club there this all
meetings Socialist repeating the
Like the Socialist police of the Hitler period they
arrest Communists but shut their to and
This what Socialists when they democracy And this
the shetering
wing of the capitalist democracy going
to Jail for criminal syndicalism?"
But Jan Wtenber the Chicago artist twenty
for this nebuous of workers
held demonstration Hlboro Ill.,
The trial January Nothing happened
relief demonstration except that mob of pathoogcay
police r5hed the and their and hungry children
and beat and manned and clubbed them brutally.
There against Wttenber the
ants in the Hboro other present
ing But the has long filthy JAIL
and ce longer unless the working
Criminal syndicaism. 1t is law that passed
postwar red hysteria
publican and caught reading pamphlet by
jailed for good part of his life under this law.
It is Fascism practice
states labor leaders have also been framed this recently
Hearst wants to make it federal the
Father Coughlin may
The liberals busy worrying about the Soviet
asss5naon while here their academic
world of civil liberties is being
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
A Dangerous Subject

VOID OF cYH liberties Is being wiped cut.
Dangerous Subject
IN cities I speak Fascist
brought sufficient meeting place
canoeled at the
In Cincinnati the D. A. Legion
to break meetng.
My address to be the subject of
for the first time
he Yes, tear filtered the ivory tower
AS Necessary Bread
IN PITTSBURGH heard little story that
Facsn. 1t showed that here America
the SANDER Capitalists
ing c,ass will to better world
It thet unemployed meeting
for the Daily Worker present
They all relief, and hadn't
Out of these fifty eight Every
ielt had about it, motion unanimously
that next day to the
he she received donate this literally
necessary such spirit
vnuca
The daily worker., 1934-12-29
Tuning in the u. s. S. II

Every week we shall publish irr-
formation on the short wave radio
stations in the Soviet Union. We
do so fully realizing that the recep-
ton from the S. U. is erratic even
with the most expensive sets and
that. in many cases, results can be
obtained only with a lot of pa
tience and experience. If such
workers as succeed in pulling in the
S. U. will write 10 us, we will from
time to time publish summaries Of
their experiences.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Briggs
Announcement Tea TODAY

Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Mason
Briggs, who were married Wednesday.
April 25, at noon, at Holy Trinity rec
tory in old Georgetown, will receive
their friends this afternoon at a re-
ception given in their honor by Mrs.
Edison w. Briggs. 1863 Columbia road
Mrs. Vernon Briggs before her mar
riage was Miss Anne Marie Cox,
daughter of Mr.. Charles Robert Cox
Of Boston and Washington. Mr.. Ver-
non Briggs is the son of Edison W.
Briggs, builder and creator of the
Colonial Village of this city, and Mrs.
Minnie L. Briggs.
Receiving with Mr.. and Mrs. Yer
non Briggs will be his grandmother,
Mrs. j. Edison Briggs, and Miss
Josephine Sullivan and Miss Lillian
Sullivan. aunts of the bride.
Mrs. Florence Price, Mrs Clarence
H. Cochran and Mrs. H. Wade Sea-
ford will act as hostesses in the din
ing room, assisted by Mrs. Joseph
Katalinas, Mrs. Elynore o. Byrne,
Miss Josephine Cox. Miss Margarite
Lyon, Miss Christine Thompson, Miss
Pauline Cochran, Mrs. Daniel G.. Rice
and Miss Faye Marie Pyles.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Potomac School Lunch
Celebrates Anniversary

Miss Hattie Burdette. the we'll
known Washington painter, who at
one time headed the art department of
the Potomac School, will attend its
thirtieth anniversary luncheon We'd
nesday. May 9.
Among alumnae who are to be
present will be Mrs. Alan G. Kirk, a
member Of one of the early classes,
and her daughter, Miss Marian Kffk
Other former students who will attend
are Mrs. Gregg Birdsall. jr; Miss May
Stuart Birdsall, Mrs. Armistead Peter,
Sd; Miss Alice King, Miss Roberta
King, Mrs. John Greenhalgh. Miss
Betty Wall. Miss Katherine Whitford
Brown. Miss Alice Barry, Miss Kath-
crime Pearson, Miss Gertrude Pearson,
Miss Elizabeth Burke, Miss Elizabeth
Sabine. Miss Florence Merrill, Miss
Anne Underwood, Miss Sylvia Hackett,
Miss Joan King, Miss Patricia Morris.
There will also be present at this
luncheon the following members of
this graduating class: Miss Joanna
Huntington, Miss Betty Drayton. Miss
Edith Pearson. Miss Marguerite Rowell,
Miss Margaret Wilmer, Miss Betty
Grace Everett, Miss Edith Rathbun.
Miss Eleanor Hancock, Miss Nancy
Davis and Miss Charlotte Burchen.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Upper left: Mrs. Henry E. Sheriff,
who was before her marriage, Sat-
urday, April %, Miss Esther Jane
Carver, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
william A. Carver.
Center: Mrs. John Raymond Hen
derson, whose marriage took place
April IL In the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Henderson.
the Rev. DIR. John c. Palmer officiat-
ing. Mrs. Henderson was formerly
Miss Helen Henderson.
-Harris-E Ewing Photo.
Lower: Mrs. Chester A. Hogentogler,
jr., daughter of DIR. and Mrs. James
Robertson, whose marriage took place
April 22. Mrs. Hogent0gler was for
merly Miss ArabeIla Piatt Robertson.
-Harris-Ewing Photo.
Upper right: Mrs. James L. Snyder,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Robert Schultz, who was before her
marriage. April 6, Miss Bertha Flor
ence Schultz.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Book Sale Benefit for
Bryn Mawr Scholarship

Miss Olivia Phelps Stokes heads
the Committee for the Sale of Books
and Things" which the Bryn Mawr
Club Of Washington is holding next
week, beginning Tuesday, May 8, at
1922 H street. The purpose of the
sale is to raise 5000 which will pay all
the expenses of one student at the
Bryn Mawr Summer School for
Women Workers in Industry.
Helping Miss Stokes are Miss Caro-
line Thompson, Mrs. Eliot OHara,
Mrs. Edward Hulburt, who has de-
signed the posters: Mrs. Edward Nor
riS, Mrs. Clayton Turney. Miss Eliza
beth Wilson, Mrs. Joseph Harsh, Mrs.
Delafield Dubois and Mrs. Joseph
Cotton, who is in charge of flowers.
other members of the Bryn Mawr
Club who are busy collecting saleable
articles-everything but clothing
from their friends, are Mrs. George
Jameson. president; Mrs Charles
Bakewell, Mrs. William Culbertson,
Baroness Serge Korff. Mrs. Lawrence
Todd. Mrs. John Tate and Miss Emily
Storer.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

buttons. surrounded with crystals.
1t has a sheerness that gives it
the proper note of formality. The
tea jacket has three quarter length
sleeves. And the imported net is
non-stretchable. In navy. black
and Patou brown 1t is of the
tea time length that can be worn
under a spring coat" ERIE
BACHER'S, 1910 r st.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Hosts
To Bridge PLAYERS

Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Taylor of Silver
Spring, Md, entertained at a bridge
supper Saturday night at their home
on Sligo avenue. The guests we're DR..
and Mrs. Terence Mahoney. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Chick, Mr. and Mrs. C.
G. Hutchinson, Mr.. and Mrs j. Rol-
Inns, Miss Edith Jones. Mrs. r. F.
ODonoghue and Mr.. Lewis Jones of
Washington, D. c.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Conrad A. Voigts of Brookland. Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Kohler of Bethesda,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day of Takoma
Park and Mrs. Olga Robb of Silver
Spring
Evening star., 1934-05-06

tails" dancing. Tailored print
chiffon frocks tsome with Jackets.
treated with cool, crisp organdy
with light and dark back
grounds. They're new lovely
smart. A wide selection at
1855. Others S1895 up. Remem-
Der there's a considerable saving
because you walk up one flight of
stairs to this charming studio shop
at 1345 Conn. Ave.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Casualty Hospitals
Open House May IL

Mrs. Martha ]. Vaughan, president
of the Ladies' Board of Managers,
promises an interesting program on
Casualty Hospital day, Saturday, May
IL.
Friends, the public and former pa
tients are cordially invited to inspect
the institution, which will be open
to visitors al day
Program and refreshments from 2
to 8 o'clock.
This hospital has been faithfully
serving the public for nearly 40
years and is today better equipped
than ever in its history.
It has recently added one of the
finest ambulances in the city.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

lightful German atmosphere -
where enlivening beverages are
placed before you by singing wait
ers-at luncheon, the cocktail"
hour, dinner and supper. Herr
Happy Walker keeps you happily
dancing during the same time
and you can be assured that a gay
time will be had by all! "Sebas-
tian" is the master-mixer and
can concoct over 300 drinks with
nary a furry. Hurry in! Ma
TIONAL 2221.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
kstisssI A. ssAssi

beauties Of the countryside In the
Springtime! Why not take ad-
vantage of this wonderful class
and Join up! You'll be delighted
with the instruction-the fine
school-and its delightful director,
Felix Mahony. Send the kiddies
to the CHILDREN'S SATURDAY
MORNING CLASS, from 9 am. to
noon. Only SIS a month and
supplies for the entire year are
only Sc. All branches of all the
arts are taught at this school.
NAT. 1856.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

sters that come in glorious new
colors-stirring flashes of canary
yellow, or Brewster green or
French Gray. Get out into the
sun-put some tan on your face
and life in your veins! This smart
convertible roadster has stream
lines and beautiful appointments.
LEE D. BUTLER, INC, will de-
liver one to you for only 1855.
Imagine that! Honestly. you'd
expect it to be about $500 or s4OO
more! Stop by and see the models
on display e. PISS Champlain ST.
COLUMBIA $3.50.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

nomical to buy 8 pairs in shade
than one pair-because they'll last
you times as long! And with
Gold Stripe Stockings you save
even more-buying 3 pairs for
S270 instead of csc pair. Chif-
fon and service weight-they're
1907 pure silk-with greater
elasticity and stretch for longer
wear. JELLEFF'S. 1915 F st.
1921 Conn. Ave. 3409 Conn. Ave.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

around skirt is of the natural linen
crash. and there's reservsible.
detachable cape of both materials
s10.95. Seersucker evening
dresses of plaids and checks.
have criss-cross bare-backs, self
trimmed with bows on the shoul-
ders and slightly f1ared skirts.
Twill set you back but $10.95.
Stunning cotton frocks for morn
ing, afternoon and evening in
this delightful 3rd floor Cotton
Shop.