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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25

accused workers had to be acquitted
on the charge of having killed q
National Socialist.
Unforgettable-when the attorney
Hans Litten collapsed weeping in
the midst of his congratulating
friends, when the word came that
he had won out and saved from the
death sentence the nine young
workers from Charlottenburg.
A few weeks ago brief item ap-
peared in the fascist press of Ger
many, that the former attorney
Hans Litten had been removed
from the police hospital to appear
as witness in a trial, but had re-
fused to testify on the ground that
he was suffering from deficiencies of
memory as a result Of severe in
juries to his head. An ailing, broken
man-not yet 80 years old!
Hans Litten is one of those who
soon saw the necessity for going
together with the workers. AS son
of a Nationalist university professor
of law, he learned to look behind
the facade Of legal structure. The
revelations of the hollowness and
class subservience Of handed-down
legal concepts became crushingly
apparent to him, engendered wild
opposition, and drove the scion of
a bourgeois family to anarchism.
This man became dangerous: his
immense legal knowledge enabled
him to lay bare what had been going
on under the cover Of shadow. to dis
member stubborn witnesses in court.
whether they were ministers, high
officials, Or even Chancellors. and
to force them to reveal the truth in
spite of themselves-al this made
him suspect to the rulers of Ger
many. His moral seriousness and
the flowing irony, his philosophical
superiority and the political ag-
gressiveness of his speeches forced
even his enemies to recognize his
calibre. The personal integrity of
this ascetic, whose round, pale face
radiated so much gullible childish
ness and fanatical devotion. could
not be doubted; in order to defame
him personally, his enemies had to
resort to the hypothesis that he ives
mailman.
The day after the Reichstag was
burned he was arrested together
with his legal associate, DR.. Bar
basch. During those days Storm
Troopers bore placards through the
streets Of Berlin with the inscrip-
ton: Down with Litteni" He was
dragged off to Spandsu and from
there to the Sonnenburg peniten-
tiary which seemed to the fascist
masters very well suited for con-
centration camp.
Criminals had at their mercy the
incorruptible lawyer who had fallen
into their murderous hands. Days
and weeks of despicable tortures
passed before Litten's friends out
side could even learn where he was
being kept. After a desperate at
tempt at suicide. Litten's case was
taken up by foreign journalists, and
Nazi States Attorney in whom
some feeling for human diguitv end
humanity still survived - -he
broken man bronri7t
hospital where Hans Litten now
waits for the hour of his liberauon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Stage and Screen
Gypsy Blood" At The
Lyric Theatre Tonight

Gypsy Blood" modernized YER
sion Of Balfe's operetta, The Boz
hemian Girl" will be presented at
the Lyric Theatre this evening by
the American Civic Opera Company.
Leading players include George
Trabert, Isabel lie Henderson, Gloria
Vera and John Hendricks.
Ruth Weston will play leading
role in 'The Red Cat" a continental
drama by Rudolph Lothar and
Hans Adler which A. H. Woods will
present here early next season.
Jessie Ernst translated the play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
To the Stormy Petrol
For Mother ella ReeUe) BIoor On Her
Recent Birthday
By HENRY GEORGE WEISS


Three-sco twelve is but a drum
For her dauntless spirit to beat upon
Beat the surge of the Marseillaise
The laundering roar of the barbados,
Beat the shouting and quick football
Of the workers rallying to her call,
Singing the Internationally
Three-score- twelve is but a day
To the Stormy Petrol, cleavng the way,
Spreading her wings in the face of the foe,
Bearing the flag that the workers know,
The blood-red flag of the working class,
the Hammer and Sickle of Communism.
Three-sc twelve old, but as young
AS the day she first to the conflict sprang:
Eternal youth and courage and song,
Sweeping the Revolution along!
Youth incarnate, with youths elan,
At seventy-two leading The van.
Three-score- twelve-ho, Comrades, toast
Drink to the leader whose strength is a host!
Drink to our leader, the Red Stormy Petrol,
Whose clarion call inspires to battle!
Drink to our leader the youngest of ALL
Who places the ladder and breaches the wall!
Drink to her, Comrades-long may she lvel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Chicago Opera To Offer
"TannKduser" Tonight

The Chicago Opera Company,
under the direction Of Alfredo Sala-
maggi, will present Wagner's Tam
hauser" this evening at the Hip
podrome. George Fassnacht, Jr.,
and Charlotte Ryan will sing the
leading roles. Other operas of the
week are: Faust" Tuesday night
with Ryan and Power; Carmen"
Wednesday night with Angelau and
De Muro; "Trovatore," Thursday
evening with Buska and Lindi;
Barber of Seville" Friday evening
with Otero and Power; La Clio
condo; Saturday evening with
Palermo and Granda and "Otello"
on Sunday evening with Garrotto
and Lindi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
ATTORNEYS
DR.. Ernst Eckstein

Through fearful tortures DR..
Ernst Eckstein, lawyer and one of
the founders of the Socialist Work
ers Party, was driven to commit
suicide in the concentration camp in
Breslau Edmund Heines, Hitler's
Police President of Breslau, him
self convicted of political murders,
gave out the laconic notice: DR..
Eckstein had died of "incipient in
sanity"
DIR. Joachim
Because he committed the crime
of defending Social Democratic
workers in the courts of the German
Republic, the young Berlin attorney,
Dr.. Joachim, was literally beaten to
death over a period of several days
in the Storm Trooper Barracks
known as "Ulap." A dying man
whose face had been mutilated
beyond recognition by blows, cuts,
and kicks, was delivered to the
police hospital, and shortly after
wards died, in horrible pain.
Others
Among the forty-three who have
already been "shot while trying to
escape" in the Dachau concentra-
ton camp near Munich, are four
lawyers from Munich and Nurn-
berg. From Essen, Dortmund, Dues
seldorf, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, and
Koenigsberg are reported murders of
lawyers, to whom the profession and
name of attorney-at-law meant
more than an empty decoration.
DIR. Hans Litten
Why many men in Germany
gladly and as matter of course
relinquished every chance of
career which would bring them
wealth, and = in the eyes of the
bourgeois world-honor, may be ex-
emplified by the life story of an at
torney who is now held captive in
concentration camp, an infirm,
broken man. He is Hans Litten. In
trial against young Berlin work.
er who had slapped the face of Herr
Zoergiebel, the Social-Democratic
Police President OF Berlin, Litten,
the youthful defender of the
prisoner, stood up and accused the
high official of having instigated
murder il tl1irty-three cases by his
decree ordering the Berlin police to
shoot on May 1st, 1929.
Unforgettable-the excitement in
the Felseneck case which filled the
columns Of the newspapers for
weeks The court made every =
tempt to exclude from the trial
this embarrassing attorney who had
exposed the brazen, malicious bias
of an ambitious States Attorney.
Litten's objections and motions
were rejected in court, he was in
suited, police spies were sent into
his office Storm Troopers lay in
wait for him and tried to put him
out of the way-but in the end the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
WHAT'S ON
MOnday

LABOR DEFENDER Chorus now being
organized. Additions held every Monday
night at Finnish Hall, Is W 12sth St
Hall B. at 7:30 pm. Free training in
sight singing. Conductor Boris Dubrov.
DO NOT Make any agements for
July if you do not want to miss the An
nual Picnic Of the Communist Party. New
York District. to be held at North Beach
Picnic Park, Astoria, L. l. Sports, Games
Theatre, Dancing. Lots Of fun.
2O-50so Discount sale at Workers Book
shops begins Friday. June 22-ends Sat
urday, July 7. Join Circulating Library,
so E. 18th St. N.YC.
PICNIC Of Bronx Workers Clubs Pleas
ant Bay Park, Sunday, July l. Advance
i5c. Gate Csc. Tickets at Prospect, Bronx.
Jerome. Allerton, Middle Bronx Clubs En-
tertainment. Dancing. Sports. Refresh
ments
OPEN Membership Meeting. Speaker.
Ann Burlak, National Sec. Natl Textile
Workers Union. Auspices; Ann Burlak Br
LID, 400 18th Ave, Brooklyn, $50 pm.
Free adm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Brains Behind Barbed Wire!
A Collective Report Persecution in Nazi German,

Today he-the aging scientist
cuts peat. And when he isn't cut
ting peat, he is forced to stand at
attention or go through military
drills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25

being received daily. The head
quarters is open day and night to
handle the rush Of campaign &C
tivities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Reviewed by
EDWIN ROBERTS

DOCKS ike Agnes Smedley's
u Chinese Destinies, and A Chinese
Testament are effective in changing
the notions of China and the
Chinese people advanced in such
romantic novels as those written by
Pearl Buck.
A novel like Chinese Destinies re-
yeals the tense revolutionary situa-
ton in which China exists to-day
and draws clear pictures Of the life
of the various ruling castles, the
intrigues Of military generals and
political gangsters, the life Of the
working class and peasantry, and
scenes Of strikes and revolts.
A Chinese Testament, written by
s. TretiakoY, author of Roar China,
as told to him by a Chinese student
who was his pupil in Leningrad,
is the story of the son of a revolu-
tionary lieutenant Of Sun Vat Sens
during the time of the bourgeois
democratic revolution in China.
What I have written in this
fashion" S. Tretiakov says, "is
really an interview But as this in
terView embraces more than twenty
six years of a mans life, it might
be called "Bio-Interview."
The story is related in a very clear
and simple style. Through the in
diyidual events in Tan Shi-Hua's
life, the social phenomena which
shaped his life are gradually re-
Yealed.
THE early chapters describe a boy
1 hood which, despite differences
in custom and traditions, is remi-
niscent of Tom Sawyer. Only this
Tom Sawyer grows up to be a revo-
lutionist.
The growth of the revolutionary
student movement in China almost
parallels, and has much in common
with, that of the student movement
in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Activity among Chinese students
and teachers grows out of their re-
sentiment against retrenchment in
educational facilities, the poverty Of
the student and teacher, the corrupt
financial dealings of the ruling
groups, the designs of imperialist
countries upon their native land.
The exciting chapter on the 4th OF
May, 1919, describes the day on
which students throughout China
organized and participated in a
strike against japanese imperialism
and boycott of japanese goods.
Tan Shih-Huas interest in Kro-
potkin and Tolstoy lead to an in
terest in the Russian language and
literature and sympathy towards
Bolshevik rule in Russia. His inter-
est in the Soviet lead to the study
of Marxism. A group of Tan Shin
Hua's fellow students organized
student groups for the study of
Marxism. Workers are invited.
"Rumors about the students club
spread from one coone to another
and new faces began to appear. :.
Later on walters and other res
taurant workers began to appear.
Some printers wandered in, two
well-dressed workers from a power
station and finally even several rail-
road workers. I know that the
first revolutionary coolies and the
first organizers of trade unions were
born in the smoke-flled silence of
our little house"
I'm the midst of our propaganda
work our circle for the study of
Marxism outgrew itself-a Union of
Socialist Youth was created. This
was the high tide of student life
in China. Ir the spring of 1921 the
future Communists, the men of the
following years, we're being built"
TRETIAKOV remarks concerning
the Shanghai days of 1925. 1T
was evident that the revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
A RED BloOded American Citizen" Talks

Americas greatest
sites (boys hardly Communism wanted to
strikes They went to sone they talked TO
strikers police, rancher couple Of boys went to sheriff in
agricultural fields
and conversation asked gently But Mr. Sheriff
you twenty hour American standard OF g
agiators!" shouted the Sheriff you
belong dirty bunch! Well, we find agan around
here we'll gas that isn't enough we'll vomiting
gas enough we'll bullets I'm red-booded
enforce law and order and
any you out in that pace-he meant the
area-I1 right back and put in the Jug
to their college and asked their economies
their journalism pofs and their sociology pro why
they things Didn't know those thngs?
innocent boys.
the shamefaced teachers blushng I'VE
can't teach them We're not allowed to-
At the end this University praised
the Freedom of Institutions of Learning his
back home their university and founded
a O National Students League.
you ought to keep all hefs deputies and State
Highway muzzled You don't know how fast
hey breeding Communists in California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
VIII.
DR.. Richard Schminke*

DR., RlCharQ ScnmlIlKe, LOT
instance. He came from a peasant
background. He began his medical
work as a ledger in tiny furnished
room in Wedding, working class
section of Berlin. The problems OF
this class conscious district of Ber-
lin became his problems, his pro-
gram. He investigated the misery
of the workers tenements, con-
cerned himself greatly with ques-
tons of housing and children's
hygiene. He associated himself with
the Communist movement. In 1923,
on the basis of his accomplishment
in social hygiene, he was elected
municipal doctor for public health
in Berlin Neukolln another famed
working class district. His first act
was to introduce the eight-hour day
for the entire hospital staff. The
first Bureau for Marital Counsel Cd
in Berlin was his work. In the great
Calmette trial in Lubbock, against
the doctors whose irresponsible ex-
pertinent resulted in the death OF
more than fifty children, DR.. Rich
ard Schminke testified as expert
There he said: 1.-The responsibility
of the doctors is great, but is the
real guilt not on the government
and the administration of the city
of Lubbock which fought tuber-
culosis with vaccines and serums
instead of seeing to it that housing
and nourishment were improved,
and so getting at the root OF the
evil?"
DR.. Schminke suffers from Sc
rious and painful eye trouble.
During the last few years he has
been forced to undergo various
operations.
And what is his condition now?
Today it is more difficult to get
news of those who are sitting be-
hind the walls of prisons and con-
centration camps in Germany, than
news of the natives of innermost
Africa.
DR.. Alfred Kantorowicz
We know, though, how DR.. Alfred
Kantorowicz. the 54-year old pro-
fessor of the medical faculty of
Bonn University, is forced to spend
his time,-he digs peat in a concen-
tration camp in Mecklenburg.
Professor Kantorowicz is known all
over the medical world as the foun-
der of the Bonn System" of dental
care in schools. First in his field,
he recognized the necessity of
Systematically caring for the teeth
of children of school age. He
wrote the most widely recognized
text book of dental science. He
made his clinic the dental clinic of
Germany.
But Professor Kantorowicz was
Jew, and a Socialist. Moreover, he
showed keen interest in and I'M
derstanding for the social hygiene
efforts of the Soviet Union.
Dr. Richard Schminke has been
released from concentration since
these lines were first written in Ger
man.
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Tuesdou

NATIONAL Negro Theatre Midnight
Show at Lafayette Theatre, ls2nd and 7th
Ave, Tuesday night Reserved seats 75e
and 81 at Workers Bookshop, so z. 18th
st. General adm Soc Splendid program
Of features. Harry Hershfeld, Master Of
Ceremonies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
The Price of purple Lounging Robes"

ER HALE in the Saturday Review Literature
vi himself about Radicals straiJackes Max East
unomsae laces them into straitJackes
with the monkeys in the Tennessee
Monkey fundamenasts mo Change He never
his article shows signs of it. He
materaism is Scripture.
Well it Of with that of great
surgeon country said recently 1.-THE
permanent thing today Change Mr. Hale thinks this
thinks writer's all their lives at all
should write the novels of Jane Austen say
poetry think he that But that's
He is condemnng the
artists change and
should change and should change what they write about
artists should write Victorian novels light
either vital important
millions readers audience
will interpret the tremendous forces which
moving report truth will when
those of his who him
best his what they want him TO
it all when told meeting Detroit You
know gentlemen hard to tell the truth at fifty
cents paid by Saturday
Evening the sdest lies that Of
Hale takes columns that he wants
stay therefore those writers artists
titanic that
honestly frankly clearly creavy and who will
nothing be condemned rdicled and called
Jackets they strait jack-he strait
o ther-Truth
Saturday Evening the capitalist press
purple Longing lies hypocrisy Hale
young the paid integrity
for purple oungng already price
nothing left respect
only robe, and maybe black beet thrown in
Famous Last Words
Dyou if you it in the paper isn't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.

JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle
for Negro Rights and International Labor
Defense, Sunday, July l, at Burnholme
Park.
FILM and Photo League Of Phila First
still exhibition Men at Work" opening
Friday. June % to July at John Reed
Club, 1876 S. 9th st. Week days: u am.
to pm.
THIRD ANNUAL Picnic of Communist
Party Of West Phila. takes place Sunday,
July 1, at SIND and Parkside Ave. Fair
mount Park. All sympathetic organiza-
tions requested to keep this date open and
help us carry this affair through success
fully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25
Wednesday

OPEN Meeting Of Film and PHI
League, IL E. nth St., $50, followed
showing Of latest newsreels. No adm
sion charge
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A M u S E M E N T S

Stop depending for news and in
formation on the capitalist press
that favors the bosses and is against
the workers. Read the Daily Worker,
Americas only working class news
paper.
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n Chinese Testament
Describes Development
OfYOu11g ReUOIutiOnist

A Chinese Testament: The Auto
biography of Tan shih-Hua. As
Told TO S. TretiakOv. Simon g.
Schuster. $500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-25

DR.. Richard Schminke has been
released from concentration since
these lines were first written in Ger
man.
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say you it in the paper it isn't
Evening star., 1934-06-08

Peep under a female one. The male
ones have hinge or flap at the end
of their dome, from which they es-
cape in the Spring. Under a hinge
less one you will find the shrunken
mother, who died after she laid 40
to 100 tiny white eggs.
The strengthening little houses are
made by the insect in his last expert
ence as a creeper. As the youngster
grows and draws his nourishment
from his host. there exude from his
body fine threads of wax, the founda-
ton of the scale that is to protect
him. The molted skin of the insect
is added to the scale.
The adult males leave their homes
and court the females, who never
leave theirs The abode of the male
Is much smaller than the one in
which the female resides.
Sprays filled with decoctions OBJ
jectionable to baby scales "tummy'
will be your method of approach to
getting rid of the pest
I014O
Evening star., 1934-06-08

by the smaller people, especially the
other Frogs. So now that he was
awake, many fastened to pay their
respects, but in doing so they were
careful not to come too near. You
see they not only respected his age
but they respected that great mouth
of his. It was whispered about he
had once swallowed another Frog al
most as big as himself.
But one there was who paid him
no respect. This was his cousin, Old
Mr.. Toad, who was quite as old if not
older.
"Chuga rum! Chuga-rum!" said
Grandfather Frog in that deep voice
of his.
so" said a voice. "you are alive,
after ALL There a short distance
away sat Old Mr. Toad
"Chuga-rum! Why shouldn't be
alive?" retorted Grandfather Frog.
The surprising thing is that you are
alive"
"And why shouldn't I be alive?"
demanded Old Mr.. Toad in his turn.
Because any one without sense
Evening star., 1934-06-08
Scale Insects.


TINE trials of an orchardist are
many, scale insects being
among the pests that make
life one insecticide after an
other in order that the grower
may have a successful crop and We
may enjoy the fruit he has labored
so hard to save.
The most determined scale insect
and the one that is very well known
Is the San Jose scale. DR.. Comstock
described it in 1881. At that time the
pest had just started its career and
was known only in Santa Clara
County, Calf. Even at that time its
actions were such that Comstock felt
that it would go far and do much
harm. Today this insect has at
tanned more notoriety and been the
cause of more legislation here and
abroad, done more damage to the fruit
interests of America and Canada than
any other insect.
Ornamental trees, various fruit
trees and shrubs are attacked by this
pest. The bark, leaves and fruit of its
hosts have reddish discolorations after
the insect has passed that way.
You can distinguish this scale from
others. The scale of the female is
fiat and circular. At first it is gray
in color, except In the center, which
varies from pale yellow to reddish
yellow. The scale of the male is
black and rather elongate.
The oyster scale is the next in i'm
portance and devotes itself to over a
hundred of our well known trees and
shrubs. 1t is so named because of its
shape.
This pest has worldwide distribu-
ton. Its entry into America was at
an early date and it was introduced
into the New England colonies. About
1894 Enock Perly wrote of the pres
ence of this insect and noted at that
time it was doing considerable dam
age to the apple trees of Cumberland
County, Me. About 1860 the oyster
shell scale reached the Mississippi
River. At present every State domi-
Giles this destroyer of trees except
Texas, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
No doubt there are some in these
States getting along quietly and
spreading unnoticed.
The next in importance among the
scale insects is the scurvy scale, an
American citizen, and without a par
asite foe. While many trees are trou-
bled by the scurfy, the apple and
cherry trees are her favorites.
The interesting thing about scale
Evening star., 1934-06-08
Contract
BY p. HAL SIMS.
conservatives Aggressives
+12oo

n HR. AGGRESSIVE, sitting in
M the East position, dealt to-
IVv days hand, and put up
1 L some rather risky bidding.
East opened the bidding
with one club. He has just a trifle
above a minimum, borderline opening
South (Mrs. Conservative doubled
Her double cannot be classified ex-
actly, but 1t is more strategic than
anything else. She has a biddable,
five-card diamond suit in the hand,
and some support for anything her
partner may bid. She also felt that
If the preponderance of the strength
lay East and West, she might be able
to put crimp into the bidding.
Mrs. Aggressive passed, and North
properly took out with one spade.
Mr.. Aggressive, at this point. made
the foolish bid of two diamonds. He
should have realized that If South's
double is distributional, he may be
hurt badly at that contract. or in a
rescue bid of three clubs. Moreover,
it doesn't look as If the opponents
have game in anything
Mrs. Conservative, feeling very
well satisfied with Mr.. Aggressive's
second bid, passed. She didn't dare
double, but she anticipated a set of
one, or two on vulnerable opponents.
To her further joy, Mrs. Aggressive
also passed. Then Mr. Conservative
upset the applicant by bidding two
spades. This was passed all around