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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19

and culture IN Soviet Russia" he said,
is good. very good. The stormy rate
Of this development is understandable
and useful. We must and shall make
up for what has been neglected Tor
centuries. The chaotic ferment, the
feverish search for new solutions and
new watchwords, the Hosauna' for
certain artistic and spiritual tenden-
cies today, the cruelty them tomor-
rowl all that is unavoidable.
The revolution is hberating all the
forces which have been held back, and
is driving them up from the depths
to the surface. Let us take an eK-
ample. Think Of the pressure exer-
cised ON the development OF our paint
ing, sculpture and architecture by the
fashions and moods of the tSarist
court, as well as by the taste, the
fancies Of the aristocrats and bour-
geoisie. In society based on private
property the artist produces goods for
the market, he needs buyers. Our
revolution has lifted the pressure OF
this most prosaie state Of affairs from
the artists. It has made the Soviet
State their protector and patron.
Every artist, and everybody who
wishes to, can claim the right to
create freely according to his ideal,
whether it turn out good or not. And
so you have the ferment, the ex-
pertinent, the chaos.
fE1rf ~ rcffy-pn v9ra ,.a rsa,,..,-,.,-s
We must not put our hands in our
pockets and let chaos ferment as IL
pleases. We must consciously try to
guide this development, TO form and
determine its results In that We are
still lacking, greatly lacking. 1t
seems TO me that we too, have our
Dr. Karlstadt. We are much too much
1conoclaStS' We must retain the
beautiful, take it as an example, hold
on to it, even though it is old Why
turn away from real beauty, and dis
card it for good and all as a starting
point for further development, Just
because 1t is 'old'p Why worship the
new as the god to be obeyed, Just be-
cause It is "the new? That is non
sense, sheer nonsense. There is a
great deal OF conventional art hypoe-
T!sy in it, too, and respect for the
art fashions Of the West. OF course,
unconscious! We are good revolution
aries, but We feel obliged to point out
that we stand at the height of con-
temporary culture have the courage
to show myself a barbarian I can
not value the works of expressionism,
futurism, cubism, and other isnls as
the highest expressions of artistic
genius. l don't understand them.
They give me no pleasure"
Concluded Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
500 Writers Sign
Petition; Demand
|CWA Project Jobs

NEW YORK.-Five hundred writ
ers signing a petition for a C.W.A.
project for writer's are being called
to mass meeting of the Unemployed
Writers Association at Irving Plaza,
Monday evening, Jan. 20. Several
prominent writers have been invited
to address the meeting.
Suggestions on the project will be
taken up and committee elected.
Resolutions will be wired to President
and Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry L. Hopkins
and Colonel Delamater. The fight
for Robert Whitcomb, organizer of
the Association will be considerable
was dropped from the rolls of the
Board of Education project without
notice, and had no chance to be
transferred or to state his case.
Some of the clubs being asked for
approval are the Authors, Pen and
Hammer, Pen and Brush. P. z. N.
Literary Guild, Poetry Society of
America, John Reed Club, National
Writers Club, and the Fiction Guild.
Petitions cs7culaced by the commit
tee and signed by hundreds of writ
ers read, Artists under CW.A. get
sS5 a week and their own type of
work. Writers, when used, are classed
as clerks or laborers and paid for
less, We suggest a project to defend
writer's work as socially useful and
worthy of support from public funds"
Some of the writers who signed
the petition are Marguerite Wander
clock, Edwin Seaver, Edward Dahl
berg, Maxwell Bodenheim, John Wex-
ley, Scott Nearing, Edwin Rolfe, Leon
Srabian Herald, Robert Whitcomb,
Everett E. Hale. j. @. Grey, Kyle
Crichton, Ben Field, John Coffey, Al
bert Boni, Granville Hicks, Paul
Reeve, Paul Jones, Robert Lane.
Donald Macmillan, William Bruce
and Lorine Pruette.
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rotary, his most convinced eonlrade in
thought, the most experienced ex-
ponent and agent Of his views, as IN
firing in gaining friends and ad-
herentS for the master Of gcilius with
strength and wisdom, as in carrying
on propaganda among the working
class. Apart from that she had her
own personal sphere Of activity to
which she devoted herself with her
whole soul: the system Of popular
education and instruction.
It would be ridiculous, insulting 70
suppose that Comrade Krupskaya was
in the Kremlin as deputy for Lenin-"
She worked and worried with him,
for him, as she had done her whole
life, even when exile and the bitterest
persecution separated them. Her pro-
foundly motherly nature m a d e
Lenin's dwelling a home" in the
finest sense Of the word, and in this
she was lovingly supported by his
sister, A home not in the sense OF
the German Philistines, but in the
spiritual atmosphere with which it was
filed and which was the result Of
the relationships uniting the living
and moving human beings there. II
was clear that in those relationships
everything was determined by sin
certify, by truth, understanding and
nobility. Although at that time I was
not well acquainted with Conrade
Krupskaya personally, in her king
dom" and under her frieny are I
immediately felt at home. When
Lenin came, and, somewhat later, q
large cat appeared, gladly welcomed
by the family. and sprang on the
shoulder of the terrorist leader, y
finally settling itself comfortably on
his lap, could truly have wept to be
at home or with Rosa Luxembourg and
her cat Mimi" q historic personality
among her friends,
I ENIN found us three women dis
II cuSsing art and questions of educa-
ton and instruction. I expressed my
enthusiastic admiration of the titanic
cultural work of the Bolsheyilxs, at the
energy and activity of creative forces,
which were opening up new channels
for art and education. But did not
conceal my impression that there was
q great deal that was uncertain um-
clear, hesitating and experimental in
evidence, and together with the pas
sionate desire for new content. new
forms, new ways of cultural life there
were many artificial, cultural fashions
after the western model. Lenin inn
mediately entered with great uveli-
ness into the discussion.
"The awakening, the activity of
forces which will create q new art
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Matthew Vol Exposed
in Current New Masses

NEW YORK.-The current issue
Of the New Masses, out today, con-
tains among others an article by
Margaret Wright Mather entitled
"A Happy Birthday to YOU" which
tells how and why Matthew Vol,
third vice-president of the A. F. OF
L. undertook the leadership OF the
Presidential Birthday Balls to be
held throughout the country in
President Roosevelt's honor on jan
uary /; an article by Erskine Cald-
well on Parties Unknown in
Georgia" background story of
some unreported lynehings; "A
Handbook for Prisoners" by Arthur
Kallet, and Blood on the Lettuce"
by Michael Quin, a story of terror
Ia the California agricultural strike
area.
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Postal Worker Learns
Some Things About Ed.
tBy a Postal Worker Correspondent

tBy a Postal Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Thanks for your
front page article OF Jan. 10 In ref
erence TO the Recovery Champs "oa
agsin-off again-Finnegan" tactics.
Here's little fast one that typifies
his much-heTafded square shooting.
II he was in earnest about giving us
or anybody else a New Deal he
wouldn't aequiesce to Farleyis fig
ures (which are practically the same
abb as the old regime resorted to
in compiling the so-cailed deficit),
but instead he would can the notori-
GUS eXtortionate contracts which take
all the postal revenue and give II to
favored railroad lines favored AIR
lines and favored steamship lines.
RECOVERY RUBBISH
From Eds "ifs" and lands" NOD
butts
And platitudes anen& ON cuAs
We P. o. birds with empty gues
Are positively going nuts.
--CLKAW
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SOUtet Dancers To GiUe Second
Program SATURDAY.

The Soviet dancers, Vecheslova and
Chabukani, stars Of the Marinsky
Theatre, Leningrad, will make their
second American appearance tomor-
row night at Carnegie Hall. The pro-
gram follows: Waltz" Dulovs; MAS
querade," Drdla; "The Ocean Genie, .
Asafeff; Goldfish Dance" Punt: "Pas
de Deux, from the ballet 'Corsair' |"
Adam; 'Melodie," Gluck; "serenade, +"
Chopin, "LeSginka," Dolidze; 'cKacu-
Ca" Dunajevski, and Pas de Deux,
from the ballet Don Quixote'," MIN
cous.
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Below 200 Meters
BY I. s. NIILMAN

Last week the members of the
Workers Short Wave Radio Club had
a few interesting pick-ups on two
tube sets. We got Cuba and Caracas
in the early evening. They came
in with plenty Of volume. We tried
to get r v $3.50 meters (Moscow)
but met with little success. Com
rade Sobel, Bronx, picked up the
Moscow station one afternoon and
could hear it quite well. He used
homemade converter, about which
he will report soon.
Comrade Garfield, Brooklyn, has
something interesting to tell. He
picked up code station Sunday
morning, and heard the signal for
aid. He deciphered the code, and,
waiting until the message ended,
found the station to be Santiago de
Cuba at Sc meters. 1t was, APP
parently, operated by an amateur,
member of Workers Defense Corps,
who was calling Camaguey for aid
Garfield also picked up South Amer
lea and Moscow at p. m, but only
for a few minutes. All this was
brought in while using g two-tubc
battery set, made at the club.
We intercepted a call from Indo-
China to France. They were saT-
ing, "Allo! Allol MsrseElles" We
did not understand, since none OF
us knew French.
Below is a list of code stations
from the Soviet Union. Marmansk-
R w 70; kc 61o-kw 10 Petro-
zavodsk r w 20 kc 648-kw 10
Kiev X w 8; kc 722-kw 100 /.
Stalino r. w 26 kc 776-kw 10 :.
Simferopol r. w 70 kc S59-kw 10 ID.
Dniepropetroysk r w 80 kc 913 XIV
10 Gonael II w 40 Ike 959-kw IL
Odessa r. w I3 kc 963-kw 10 ~.
Tiraspol r w 81 kc 968-kw 10 I.
Tchernigov r w Sc Ike 1913 XIV 10 -.
Leningrad II, r. w 10 ke 1040-kw 10
Krasnodar r w 80 kc 1050-kw
10 +. Vinnitsa r w IS ke 1095-kw
10 ;. Kharkov r w 20 kc 1185-kw
10.
The Fourteenth Street Branch Of
the Workers Short Wave Radio Club
will have its next meeting and lee
tIIre at 220 E. 14th st., in the Work
ers Vegetarian Club, this coming
Friday, Jan. 18th, at $3.50 p. m.
The Cooperative Branch OF the
w. S. w. r. C. at 27o0 Bronx Park
East, will be open at $50 every eve
ming and will meet in the Radio
Room In the basement.
All workers interested In short
wave activity are invited to attend
and to join our club.
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Stage and Screen
mo More Ladies" Coming To
Booth Theatre THesdaU

A. &. Thomas' comedy, mo More
ladies'" is scheduled for next Tues
day night at the Booth Theatre. The
cast is headed by Melvyn Douglas,
Lucille Watson, Rex OMalIey and
Ruth Weston.
Ruth Gordon has been engaged By
the Theatre Guild for an important
role in They Shall Not Die" the
John Wexley play based on the
Scottsboro case, which is now in re-
hearsal
Whatever Possessed Her" the
Hardwiek NeYin comedy, Is an-
nounced for next Thursday night at
the Mansfield Theatre with Catherine
Calhoun Doucet in the principal role.
Others in the cast include Roland
Drew, Constance Mckay, Otto Hulett
and Pierre Watkin,
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Laughter Through Tears"
At Star Theatre Tuesddu

Laughter Through Tears" the
Yiddish tallzie from the Soviet Union,
will open in the Bronx on Tuesday
at the Star Theatre, 967 Southern
Boulevard. This will be the first
showing in the Bronx of the sholom
Aleichem film, which is based on his
famous story, motel Payse Dem
Chazens." The cast includes many
well known artists OF the Yiddish
stage and screen In Soviet Russia,
headed by Kovenberg, Silberman,
Cantor and Goritcheva. The film
was directed by G. GTitcher and has
music score by Sholom Secunda.
The picture was produced In the US.
SIR. BY Wufku and has English
titles.
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WJZ-760 Kc

i'g1 T. M.--Am0s m Andy
7:l5-Robin Hood Sketch
7:S9-Potash and Perlmutter
7.45-Cnild Laborers Who Need Protection
Now-Jane Adams of Hull House, Chi
Cago
S:00-Walter o'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel
Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch.
8:5o-Dangerous Paradise-Sketeh
9:45-Red Davis-Sketch
9:oO-Leah Ray, Songs; Harris Orch.
s:30-PhiI Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch
Male quartet Neil Sisters, Songs
lO:0o-The Iron Moster-8ennett Chapple,
Narrator
10:3o--Mario Co2zi. Baritone
l1:00-Three Seamps, Songs
i1:15-Orion and His Dogs-Dr Robert n.
Baker
11:30-Martin Orch.
l2:00-Lurcefo Orch.
1880 A. M.--Elkins Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Begun to Lecture at Forum
Of Harlem Workers Schoo

NEW YORK. - Issdore Begun Of
the Unemployed Teachers Assocsa-
ton win lecture GA "a New Deal
for Workers Children Sunday, Jan.
Il, at $50 p. m. sharp, at the Work
ers School Forum 200 ". 1S5th ST..
Room 3l4 A. Admission is free. and
the public IL invited to participate
In the question period and the gen
ersl discussion following the lecture
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Theatre Group Notice

NEW York; meeting OF fune.
tionarieS OF al workers theatres
groups will be held Sunday at II
noon sharp at a &. I2th St, for fur
ther preparations OF the New York
preliniinaTies to the National Fes-
tiYal in Chicago. All groups must be
represented at this meeting.
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WABC860 he

200 p. M.-Myrt and Marse
7:i5-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:3o-Trayelers Ensemble
T:45--News-Roake Carter
8:oo--Green Orch; Men About Town Trio
-Vivien Ruth, Songs
-News-Edwln c. Hill
a.3O--March Of Time
s.o0-Philadelphis Orch.
9.I5-Alexander weolleott-The Town crier
s:30-Melodie Strings
t0:oG-olsen and johnson, Comedians; Sos
nick Orch
Reports
1o:4s--MaEy Eastman, Soprano; CONCERT
Orch.
11:15--BosweIl Sisters, Songs
11:30-Jones Orch,
I2!00-Redlnan Orch.
1880 A. M.--Belasco Orch
1:oo-Hopkins Orch.
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Workers Lab Theatre ts
Present Lenin Pageant

NEW YORK.-In connection with
the Lenin Memorial celebration 90
take place at the st. Nicholas Arena
on Saturday, the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre is presenting a pageant
which viii dramatic the significance
of Lenin in the American revolu-
tionary movement. The pageant Will
employ q cast Of over nifty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Revolutionary Poets
to Hold Reading for
New Masses, Sunday

NEW YORB-Ths New Masses
Lecture Bureau viii conduct a read
ing Of revolutionary poetry at the
Allied Arts Studio. 15z ". 57th St,
Sunday evening, Jan. n. ct BIS.
Among the poets who viii take
part IN the affair are: Maxwell Be-
denheim, Stanley Burnshaw, Mar
tina Millet, Edwin Rolfe, Alfred
Hayes, and s. Funaroff.
Joshua KunitE viii be chairman.
Discussion will follow the readings.
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TUNING IN
WEAF-660 Kc

700 P. M.--Morton Bowe Tenor
7I5-BiIly Baehelor-Sketch %
7:S0-Circus Days-Sketch saI
745-The Goldbergs-Sketeh
9;0o-Concerb ORCH; Jessies Dra gonette
Soprano Male quartet
9!0o-Lyman Orch; Frank Mum, Tenor
9:30-Lee Wiley, Songs; Young Orch.
Sketch, With Maude Adams
l0:0o-First Nlghter-Sketch
l0:30-Pedro Via Orch.
ll:00-The Lively Ayts-John Erskiae,
Author
l1:I5-Dance Orch
11:30-Denny Orch
l2,00-Ralph Rirhery, Songs
1905 A. M.-Weems Orch.
12:30-5esnick Orch.
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WOR--71O Ke

200 P. M.-Sports-Ford Frick
7:l5-Pawn Of Circumstance-Sketch
7;30-Jack Arthur, Songs; Audrey Marsh
Songs -zs
8:0o-DetectiYes Black and BIue-1ysterg
Drama
8:15-Billy Jones and Ernie Hare Songs
8:30-MaYerick Jim-Sketeh
s:0o-Fo Be Announced
9:45-Robert McGimsey
10:00-Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty
Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet
i0:15-Current Events-Harlan Eugene Read
10:30-Milban String Trio
10;45--Jim and Don, Songs
1l:00--Moonbeams Trio
1t:3o-,-el-o1 Orch.
90 LIE Orch
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Baltimore

n. N. WICKS viii speak at Lenin Meet
ing az Lehmann's Hail, 800 Block II. Hoz
ard 81. At pm
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A Mountain Boy

ANOTHER Southern
done biographical sketch Don could
here in full to help of the North understand the
currents moving in the South,
Don born in Devils Hollow Glmer County It
30 miles from railroad community farmers
where old Muey grandfather
home containing
by with without panes
had been cut by Don ohers
Don began work regularly sxdong his
chores BY the time he fifteen
$50 pounds and had months
read great deal At Is
hills high school, miles Then his father
trouble with moonshner chose
with his children.
An uncle, Horace Mukey veteran got Berry
school, Georgia. ny in
his studies Don athlete
he left Berry because had exploitation
He lnesman for while
University in Tennessee
washing and laundry splendid showing
and study and outstanding leader in the YCA
social
And here too he against ruling For
he had suggested reforms that
mountain boys like himself Immediately expelled
Students and of the faculty banded together
He Vanderbilt University won scholar
ship study in Denmark and In Europe
working ass movement The following developing
into place In that leadership
and intellectual, Negro and white and build world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
The Great Awakening

MORE stirred
h sleep
generation native nteectua who beyond
prejudices Of the Southern bomgeosie.
They that the America, of the world
part of the class struggle
other mentioned the of Speed Southern
remarkable things the dangerous Of
a day.
geous the chief the International
labor Defense Alabama that state where rules
another these fine young Souherners the old
who have thrown themselves into the only that
I free the
activities establish with
This institution the workers
it, but travels them at their labor brings them
circulating library already libraries
More books magazines and needed send them
clothes machine printing typewriter
anything the they ask that
books Gathering Fielding
Gorys Mother"
spas Georgia Niger and Lmpkns ITO Make
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Chicago

ANNUAL BAZAAR Of the NT.w.l.U or
Jan, 26, a. 2s at Workers Lyceum, 7755
Hirseh Blvd. Dancing every night,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
A Southern Poet

THE published Don West revolutionary
paper honored by its presence
published
small They in the mountain dialect filled
and the rustic of in the sabbB
Xix eths out of
ories Such poets delight
their senSty also makes them feel
acutey bitter lot Of their brothers.
revolutionary, West has also travelled
poetry action He spent trying to
found effort blocked by
that both North and South.
he studying Marx and Lnn and organizing Negro and
that that will
surely all exploitation hatred and make world
Of beauty, al poets truthfuly hymn.
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The Pain of Transitions

II ISM en- easy evolution to have through
4 lifetime Conrade West had boot
straps from the of old defeasm provncias which
the Southern mountaneers
He had to work with his two big hands for
DON Then when he got it, it hard realize that shining
was just another tool Of upper-class oppression
Comrade West went people He tried TO
teach them and help that only
vast economic change could
Russia out of their poverty
Let not those whove through painful transitions
dare 10 creze It takes heroic mind
first revolutionary have spontaneous
his peasant He struggling mind
new philosophy OF life But he enduring
the class struggle will
tain morning and we will have revolutionary
who will sing of the Southern
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Cincinnati. Ohio

DANCE and Social At shoemaker Csntsr
lo4i Gutter ST. on Saturday, Jan. 20 al
pm. Auspices Workers Club OF Cincinnati
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ALL WORKERS will gather at the Bazaar
of the United workers Organizations Of
SO. Philadelphia ON Friday and Saturday,
Jan. 26 and 81 at Garrick Hall, 5o7 S.
sth st, Adm. 75c, both nights; 15c. ons
night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19

SCOTT NEARING will lecture on cap
italist Decline and the Intellectuar' on SUM
day at 2 pm. in the Griffith Auditorium,
sos Broad st. Auspices Jack London Club.
Adm 25c
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-02

upon Jews that worldwide pro tests resulted.
 It was a complete political revo- lution and von Hindenburg went along with it, but only as his posi- ton as executive head of the State demanded To the people he still was the symbol of German na- tional destiny that he had been in World War days
 He had been present as young officer of Prussia when Bismarck proclaimed the German empire at Versailles in 1871. He had gone steadily ahead in the old imperial army and reached the age Of re- trement when he was called from bis life of case at Hanover to ,stenl the Russian iavssicn of East Prussia in 1914
 Jes. Is Fact
 T believe your old man is going o become fam.us after all" he wrote jokingiy to his wife on the eve of the battle Of Tannenherg. Thus what was written in jest turned out to be fact. It was that oattle that gained for him the tile of Savior of the Fatherland,9 iwon for him 9 Field Marshals baton and as many honors as a grateful country could bestow.
 From that time on von linden surg continued to be a living refu- .et.cn of the fallacy that "a man IS too old at forty
 Ee rose to the supreme command lof the German armies during the l Wcrld War and with the conclu-
 iop of hostilities once more. ap- Ipalently with his lifes work ended <, sought the seclusion to which ht felt he vas. entitled.
 1 Six years later another emer- feeney threatened the future ot ! Germany. which in the meantime lned become republic. The deatf s- egledegich Ebert, first President ! o- the republic. caused grave con i cern among the proponents of that form of government. They, as wei las the conservatives, received witt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-08-02

consternation the an n uncement that von Hindenburg had consent ed to run for President
 Disappcints Die-Hards
 The old warrior, upon taking of flee and in a short time thereafter not only convinced the skeptical that their fears were groundless, but proved a disappointment to the nlonarchists and die-hards.
 As President von Hindenburg he was the type of man who appealed to patriotic Germans by reasons ot their belief that he embodied all the stern Germanic virtues-virile strength combined with an an swerYing devotion to duty ano great singleness of purpose. Il was said of him that not since the days of Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, had there been in Ger