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Evening star., 1934-11-25

last night, living there!
Mates loyalty and boyish sense of
the fitness of things had been terribly
affronted yesterday, when Pop had
come downstairs clad in the store
suit he'd bought for Maw's funeral a
year ago, and announced to Nate that
he-Pop-waS going to Valleyburg and
marry Matte Boone, the woman who
kept the boarding house.
True, Pop had explained heSitantly,
he'd known Matte ever since he and
Nav and Matte had gone to school
together; she was a wonderful cook,
said Pop-and he felt that he and
Nate needed woman around the
place.
Well. reflected Nate bitterly-Pop
could have this woman around the
place if he wanted her! Nate was
going to be loyal to his own Nav
poor little Nav, who'd been sickly
ever since Nate could remember, but
gentle and kind and uncomplaining.
Last night, when Pop and his bride
had come from town, Nate had
crouched in the loft and listening to
their voices. Pops happy and excited
as (under Mattie's direction) he car
ried in bundle after bundle from the
wagon, two new mattresses and boxes
and boxes of home-canned fruit and
vegetables which Matte had brought
along. Nate knew what was in the
bundles because Matte had called out
the contents of each box and bundle
and suitcase as Pop brought them in.
Nate had buried his head in the
straw tick and ragged bed clothes
which composed his bed in the loft
to shut out the happy commotion be-
low He'd thought with dogged devo-
ton about Maw-whom he couldn't
remember without thinking Poor
Maw"-and determined that he, at
least. wasn't going to accept this new
woman.
Early in the morning, before Pop
and his bride wakened, Nate crept
from the loft. went to the barn and
patted the horses "Good-by," called
his mongrel dog and started of. In
knotted bandana he had faded
shirt. three marbles, dried rose from
Maw's funeral flowers. All the things
he owned in the world besides Rags,
the dog!
He had started out determinedly
enough, but after half-hour's walk
down the trail he had circled back
to his old lair" under the scrub pine.
Nate came back to see what that
woman" would do on her first day in
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Fidelity Chapter, announces at the
meeting December 6 officers will be
elected. A banquet, for the members
of the chapter only, will be given at
$50 pm.
The Home Board will meet at a
luncheon served by Mrs Sladen. Mrs.
Totten and Mrs. Merritt December 4.
at the home of Mrs. Sladen. 100 Elev-
enth street southeast, at 1890 pm.
The matron will entertain her off,
GERS and committee chairmen with a
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Scot
tish Rite Masons. held business
meeting last Tuesday evening at the
Cathedral. James A. Wetmore, who is
moving to Coral Gables, Fla. was ten
dered a reception and resolutions were
adopted expressing regret.
Robert de Bruce Council, knights
Kadosh, held a special meeting the
same evening to confer the twenty
first degree. The council next Tues
day will confer the thirtieth degree.
Junior Warden Harold s. Higgins,
general chairman. announces plans
have been completed for the ladies'
night by King David Lodge Thanks
giving night at the Masonic Temple,
Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast.
President Charles E. B. Holland an
nounces the next meeting Of the Fel-
lowcraft Club of King David Lodge
will be held tomorrow at the lodge.
Federal Lodge will hold its grand
visitation Tuesday evening.
The Fellowcraft Club invites all
members of Pentalpha Lodge to be
present December for the annual
election and installation of officers.
After the close of its meeting on No.
vember 26, members Of StanSbury
Lodge will visit Silver Spring (Md)
Lodge.
Petworth Lodge will hold Thanks
giving party and ladies' night Novem-
ber %.
The convocation of Mount Horeb
Chapter, R. A. NJ, Tuesday evening
will be of especial interest to past high
priests. Several line officers Of the
Grand Chapter will be present.
The members of Temple Chapter, o.
E. S., will be the guests of Gompers
Lodge at 8 pm. November q.
Master Maurice A. Goldberg OF
Samuel Gompers Lodge announces a
stated communication Tuesday at Ma
sonic Temple at 1880 pm. After
short business meeting the members
will retire to the banquet hall. when
the lodge will entertain the members
of Temple Chapter, o. E. S.. with an
entertainment and refreshments.
The religious services at the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home will be con-
Quoted today at 3 o'clock by William
r. Singleton Lodge. Rev. William G.
White will preach the sermon.
Evening star., 1934-11-25
HIS MOTHER
Nate Determined He Never Would Tolerate Another
Woman in His Dead Mothers Place.
BY MARGUERITE TINsLEY.
Mates home.

Mates home.
Bright and early
Pop and she began
carrying things
out Of the cabin.
Matte sorted them
carefully.
Maw's few pitt
full clothes she Ell
ther washed or
a ir e d, handling
them gently and
(Nate felt) regret
fully. Nate swal-
lowed convulsively
and tried to keep
on resenting Mat
ties presence. But
his distrust and
resentment W e r e
oozing away as his
interest in Mattie's
cleanup campaign
mounted.
She had Pop shut
up the chickens
and the pigs. after
mending the barn
yard fence. She
had him rake the
Evening star., 1934-11-25

MATE dug his
" bare wn
toes into the
leaf mold and
squirmed uneasily
in his sheltered
lookout under the
low boughs of the
mountain pine. 1t
was getting hot in
here and the sun
was fully three
hours high in the
bright blue ky.
But curiosity--and
some other emo
ton - seemed to
keep him chained
to the spot.
He was watching
a strange woman
do strange things
to the cabin which
had always been
home" to Nate.
Now - of course
1t could be home
no longer. Not with
that woman Pop
had brought home
Evening star., 1934-11-25
GROUP Of MAS0NS
HONORS WETM0RE
Lodge of Perfection Notes
Removal of Member to
Florida.
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
Blue Lodges.

MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
Blue Lodges.
Monday-D wson, visitation;
Stansbury, business; Joppa, E. A.
Tuesday-F deral, visitation;
Acacia, visitation; Gompers,
social.
Wednesday-Harmony. business;
Harding, business; Chevy Chase,
M. NJ: Justice, business.
Friday-Mount Pleasant, special,
and Barristers, visitation.
Royal Arch.
Monday-Mount Vernon, r. A.;
Anacostia. P. M.
Tuesday-Mount Horeb, business;
Potomac, business; Woodbridge,
r. A.
Observation-Disclosures Naval,
P. and M. E.
Communicates.
Tuesday-DeMolay, business.
Observation-Disclosures, busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Tomorrow Tribute by Everett
Schlinkert. reveals the destitution left in
demanded weekly sum for protection
and drove a poor tailor to robbery.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

dinner December 8 at one of the cafes.
The matron will also entertain the
Officers Society at the same place
that evening. Mrs. Florence Berry,
man and Karl Bergman will entertain
their mother, Mrs. Fronie Bergman,
December 10 at 8 pm. at l105 Six
teenth street with a going-away party.
Mrs. Fronie Bergman will visit her
son in Hollywood, Calf.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Grand visitations this week are Co.
lumbia Chapter, November 26, $50
pm; Friendship Chapter. November
27, $50 prn.,; La Fayette Lodge Chap
ter, November %, $3.50 pm, and Joppa
Lodge Chapter, November 30, S:l5
pm.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

nual dance, following a short business
session, Wednesday evening.
Gavel Chapter met Tuesday night
and paid honor to the past matrons
of the chapter. Badges of service and
flowers were presented to each past
matron.
At the meeting December 4 will be
the annual election of officers.
Mrs Snnhic . roL;Il ,>,,f~o~ -
Evening star., 1934-11-25

special purchase and we've too many. Finely
built from finish with l8O oilempered steel coils,
deeply cushioned layers of pure felt Covered with heavy
bue.andwhite wovensrped ticking famous for its wear,
tightly tufted and aped and generously ventilated Single,
threequarter double sizes one on display.
QOmthEo Heehc Co.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Mrs. Sophie R. Cahill, matron of
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Federal Lodge will hold its grand
visitation Tuesday evening.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

Petworth Lodge will hold a Thanks
giving party and ladies' night Novem-
ber 30.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

The Fellowcraft Club invites all
members of Pentalpha Lodge to be
present December for the annual
election and installation Of officers.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

The members of Temple Chapter, o.
E. S., will be the guests of Gompers
Lodge at 8 pm. November 27.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

The convocation of Mount Horeb
Chapter, R. A. NJ, Tuesday evening
will be of especial interest to past high
priests. Several line officers OF the
Grand CHAPTER will be present.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

President Charles E. B. Holland an
nounces the next meeting Of the Fel-
lowcraft Club of King David Lodge
will be held tomorrow at the lodge.
Evening star., 1934-11-25

After the close of its meeting on No
vember 26, members Of StanSbury
Lodge will visit Silver Spring (Md)
Lodge,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Friday


JACK STAoHEL will review Lenin'a
'Leftwing Communism, an Infantile
Disorder" on Friday, Aug. II, ?. m. at
so E. 18th St. 2nd floor Auspices Of
workers Book Shop. Adm. 25e, or by pur-
chase Of 81 worth Of literature from
Workers Book Shops.
SHOW BOAT CRUISE up Long Island
Sound on ''SS Ambassador" Friday, August
II, 8 p. m. Entertainment - dancing.
Leaves Battery Park Pier l. Tickets IS
cents in advance, 90 cents at pier.
"sNIPER," Soviet Movie; America To-
day." workers newsreel, chalk talk by
Deli at entertainment and dance Of N. Y.
Red Builders, Sat. August 10. $50 pm.
at United Front Supporters Hall, IL W.
18th St. 3rd floor. Adm. zoo in advance,
25c at door. Obtainable from Red Builder,
and Workers Bookshop, so E. 18th ST..
Daily Worker ONCE, IS 8. i2th st.
THE RED Spark Club Outing to Camp
Nitgedaiget Leave elubroom 10 am. and
2 pm. Saturday, Aug. 15 at 81 Second
Ave. Outing to include meals, nights
sleep and transportation. Registration now
going on at above address.
MooNLTTE DANCE - Festival given BY
Brooklyn Sect. Associated Workers Club al
Franks Inn. 1907 E. 92nd St.. bet. Ave.
pm. Ben Posner and His Music. ANTI
] and K. Canarsie, Sunday, Aug. 10, 1890
War Track and Field Meet. Workers Lab.
Theatre in Great Marriage" TIRES
Witches" Hitler in Person" Easts.
drinks, best. Fun Galore, BM.T. i4th St.
Line to Ave. K. Canarsie. Adm 25e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
"CIeOpatra," Opens At The
Paramount Theatre TOniqht

Cecil B. DeMille's production of
cleopatra" will have its premiere
this evening at the Paramount
Theatre. Claudette Colbert, War
rem William and Henry Wilcoxson
play the leading roles. Following
the run of Cleopatra" the Para
mount will present "She Loves Me
Not" a new film with Bing Crosby
and Miriam Hopkins; Now and
Forever" with Shirley Temple and
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch, Z"
with Pauline Lord.
John Dos Passos is now in Holly
wood working on his story, Caprice
Espagnole,' Marlene Dietrich's next
picture for Paramount. Josef Won
Sternberg will direct.
"Lovetime," a Fox film based on
the life of Franz Schubert, the
famous composer, now nearing COM
pletion, will have Pat Patterson and
Nils Asthe- in the leading roles.
Imitation of Life" the new Uni
versal film, based on Fannie Hurst's
story, will have Warren William and
Claudette Colbert in the principal
roles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

I Question: What is your reason for
opposing Judge Seawel2
Answer: Judge Seawell was tbs
Judge who sat in the trials Of Rena
Mooney and Weinberg. He saw iu-
ries acquit these so-called conspira~
tors after the frame-up Of Fickert
and the public utility detective,
Martin Swanson, was exposed. He
knows that if Rena Mooney and
Weinberg are innocent, Tom Moo
ney and Billings. convicted before
the exposure of the frame-up, are
likewise innocent; yet he particle
pated in the hypocritically and ma.
liciously dishonest decisions of tbs
Supreme Court refusing to recon-
mend pardon for Billings.
Question: Does your definition Of
Americanism include fighting for
free speech, a free press and free
dom of assemblage2
Answer: I recognize free speech, a
free press, and freedom of assem-
blage as nothing but illusions, in.
tended to deceive the workers into
believing that they really manage
the government. In times of crises
these so-called liberties are abro-
gated by the authorities as has been
demonstrated here in San Franz
cisco the last few weeks. We must,
however, fight for these privileges,
otherwise we surrender without a
struggle to fasciSm. which is gov
eminent by terror by the capitalist
class, no longer able to control the
workers through the forms Of de.
mocracy in the epoch Of finance inn
perialist capitalism.
Question: Have you ever known
a period in recent United States
history when the ruling class was
more brutal in its attacks on the
workers?
Answer: The history of the United
States is history Of bloody sup
preston of the working class when
ever they have organized to inn
prove their economic condition. At
the present time the brutality used
against workers is more open and
widespread because the threat to
capitalism is greater than it has
ever been before.
Question: Do you find the ma
jority Of capitalist judges sympa-
thetic to the workers?
Answer: The majority Of judges
before whom I have tried cases
have betrayed bitter animus toward
workers and have been unable to
disguise their bias and prejudice
Question: When and how can
members Of the working class get
justice?
Answer: There is no possibility Of
perfect justice under a class So
ciety Only at time when classes
have been abolished will it be pos
sible to have system Of laws which
will actually achieve fair measure
Of justice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Gallagher, Workers
Nominee, Gives Views
On Court Justice"

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-The
ruling class in San Francisco IS to-
day attempting, in Judge Theresa
Meikle's court, to convict Louise
Todd, Communist Party Campaign
Manager, and Ida Rothstein.
woman Communist organizer, on
trumped-up charges of "vagrancy."
Leo Gallagher, world-renowned de-
fender of militant labor, is defend
ing them.
Gallagher recently defended Har-
ry jackson, Pacific Coast organizer
Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, against similar charges. Due
to the anti-working class spirit
worked up in Northern California
by the strike breaking capitalist
press, Jackson was convicted and
sentenced to six months in jail. His
case is being appealed.
Gallagher was interviewed by a
Daily Worker correspondent on his
opinions on the pending "vagrancy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
TUNING In

hoo p. M.-WEAFCBaseball Resume
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
wJz-Stamp C1ub-Capt. Tim Healy
WABC-Belasco Orchestra
T:I5-wEAFLGene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy: Music
WJz-Martin Orchestra
wABC-Wayside Gotta ge-Sketch
7:3O-wEAF-Danny Malone, Tenor
WOR-Talk-Harry Hershf1eld
WED Lowry, Comedian
WABC-Cliff Edwards, Songs
7:4b-WEAr-Irene Bordoni. Songs
wOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
wJZ-Frank Bucks Adventures
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
o-wEAF-vallee Orchestra; soloists
WOR-Little Symphony Orchestra;
Philip James, Conductor; Charles
Massinger, Tenor
WJz-Grits and Gravy-Sketch
WABC-Kate Smith, Songs
s:15-WABC-Current Topics-Dr. Walter
B. Pitkin, Author
s:3o-wJz-Gale Page and Charles Sears,
Songs
wABC-Studio Concert
e:oo-wEAF-Capt. Henry's Show Boat
WOR-Rod and Gun Club
WJZ-Death Valley Days-Sketch
WABC-Bar x Days-s&etch
9:15-WOR-Della Baker, Soprano; william
dargraVe, baritone
:30-WOR-pauline Alpert, Piano
WJz-Goldman Band Concert, New
York University Campus
WABC-Tito GUITAR, Tenor
9:45-WOR-The witchs Tale
WABC-Fats Waller, Songs
CONGRATULATIONS Orch; AL Joison,
Songs; Helen Jepson, Soprano
WJz-Canadian Concert
WABC-Forty-five Minutes in Holly
wood; Music: Sketches; Interview
With Claudette Colbert, Warren
william
0:l5-WOR-Current Events-H. E. Read
0:30-WOR-Stuart Orchestra
WJz-Archer Gibson, Organ
45-WABC-Playboys Trio
i:00-WEAF-Your Lover Songs
WOR-Dantzig Orchestra
WJz-Bestor Orchestra
WABC-Sosnik Orchestra
1;15WEAF-Berger Orchestra
WABC-Grofe Orchestra
f:30-WEAF-Tulsa Symphony Orchestra,
Carlo Edward. Conductor
woman Duzer Orchestra
W1R-RAnAs Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Film Photo League
Protests Expulsion
of Hughes from Carmel

NEW YORK.-A wire of protest
to the Mayor of Carmel, Cal, pro-
testing against the Illegal and fss-
cist-like attack on Langston Hughes
in an attempt to drive him out of
Carmel, was sent by the Film and
Photo League in the name Of the
National Board of the League, of
which Langston Hughes was a
member, along with Margaret
Bourke-White, Sidney Howard,
Ralph Steiner, and others.
The National Organization Com
mittee called upon branches
throughout the country to forward
protests demanding interior
ence with Langston Hughes right
to stay in Carmel, and to rally
writer's and followers of the Film
and Photo League to protest
against this attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

something to say, something to
which the class conscious workers
and the progressive intellectuals of
all countries listened because it
spoke their thoughts.
WHEN Minor, following the logic
" of his entire development, Joined
the Communist Party in 1921. many
of his friends in the world Of arts
and letters were chagrined. It was
pardonable for an artist to be SYM
pathetic to the proletarian revolu-
ton; but it was, they said, crime
for him to become an active fighter
in the vanguard of the working
class. He was selling his soul, they
said, for a mess of pottage. Poll
ticians were a necessary evil; an
artist should be above them. These
arguments, heard so frequently in
the past few years when the eco
nomic crisis has been pushing in
tellectuals to the Left, were current
a decade ago, too. Similar situa-
tons produce similar ideas.
But Minor never does things by
half; he has never been content to
be fellow traveller; from the
day he understood the meaning of
the proletarian revolution he has
given himself to it without reserve.
The dilemma which faced him upon
joining the Communist Party was
very much like that which con-
fronted John Reed: how to co-ordi-
nate art and revolution For a
while Minor was active in the Com
munist movement both as cartoon
iSt and as politician.
Still young in the movement at
that time, and still too much under
the influence Of aesthetics, I was
among those who was pleased by
this solution. I take the liberty of
citing letter I wrote to Minor in
1923 only because it typifies the
problems which confronted the
artist and writer in the movement,
problems which Minor, because of
his unusual gifts, dramatized for
us.
"I was delighted" I wrote to MI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Writers To Protest
Terror on Coast at
Meeting on Friday


NEW YORK.-Heywood Broun,
Prof. Bernhard j. Stern, Milton
Howard, Orrick Johns and Will
liam Browder will be the speak
ers at a meeting to protest the
terror in California and the per-
secution Of revolutionary writers.
The meeting, arranged by the
John Reed Club, will be held this
Friday evening, Aug. IT, at $50
at the Clubs headquarters, 430
Sixth Ave, near 10th st.
Following the lead taken by
the New York organization, John
Reed Clubs throughout the
country are rushing kilograms of
protest to Gov. Merriam of Cal
ifornia as well as local officials.
protesting against the terror.
Wires have also been sent TO
Carmel, Cal, authorities de-
nouncing the expulsion Of Lang
ston Hughes, noted poet and
novelist, and president Of the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16
Soviet Masses To Celebrate
Chekhov Anniversary Soon

The Both anniversary of Anton
Chekhov's death, which falls this
month, finds the inimitable master
Of the short story enjoying stead
lily increasing popularity, not only
among his fellow countrymen, but
also among discriminating readers
in all parts of the world.
Considering the perfection of his
technique, this is comprehensive
enough. But even in the Soviet
Union. which has set itself to root
out the very philistinism which
Chekhov above all else portrayed,
the reasons for his hold go beyond
his purely literary excellence.
Though the Soviet reading pub
lie has ever accorded Chekhov a
front place, it is only a few years
since the fashion of the literary
critics was to underrate him. They
represent Chekhov as a lacfry-
NOSE author, preoccupied with the
theme Of futility.
Today there is increasing recog-
milton that Chekhov's work was
saturated with social meaning, al
belt unknown to himself. The petty
cringing people he described, those
struggling actors and close listed
merchants, stand as q monument, it
is realized, to Chekhov's adherence
of incipient Russian capitalism. His
Three Sisters" with their dream of
moving to Moscow, and "Uncle
Vanya," with his fearful deploring
of the disappearance of common
decency among his fellows, ex-
pressed the dissatisfaction with
which Chekhov himself viewed the
growing power of capitalism and
the harm it wrought to human be-
ings as SUCH
Chekhov's Epigrams
One of Chekhov's much-quoted
epigrams is that the business of the
artists is to pose problems, not to
solve them. This answer to the ever
recurring What is art?"
had its roots surely in Chekhov's
own failure to see a way out of the
surrounding social and moral chaos.
Not that there were no signs of q
way out. Even as Chekhov dragged
out his last painful years, the storm
was gathering which burst with
such force in the revolution Of
1905.
AS regards the outer facts of his
life, there is little to tell. Son of a
small trader, he studied to become
a doctor, but did not practice long.
His first stories. written under the
influence of the satirist Saltykoy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

Schedrin, appeared In various lit
erary magazines and were quick to
win attention for their author. Hav-
ing lived to see his fame rising, he
died from consumption at A.
The most prominent features of
his literary methods are his COM
pactness and use of detail. The two
are well exemplifled in a remark he
once made that a gun should never
be mentioned in the first act of
play unless it goes off by the time
the curtain falls. Today, when the
struggle for better writing occupies
SO much of the attention of Soviet
men of letters, these aspects of
Chekhoy's technique are coming in
for special attention.
Crocodile" and Chekhov
A curious token has been paid to
Chekhov's memory by the humor-
GUS magazine, Crocodile" which
has issued a special number devoted
to the Both anniversary of his
death. The picture on the cover
shows the writer in the center of
group of young Soviet workers. He
has evidently been expostulating to
them, when one reminds him that
once he wrote that after some two
or three hundred years human life
would be a grand thing.
well, what of it?" Chekhov is
made to explain. 81 simply failed
to reckon on Bolshevik Tempo
Crocodile" takes the titles of
Chekhov's books and stories, as well
as number of his best known pas
sages, to provide material for car
toons. sketches and short stories,
and 'Literaturnaya Gazeta," in its
commemorative issue did the same.
Chekhov's humor and sarcasm are
made to scourge contemporary de-
fects-in "Literaturnaya Gazeta,"
contemporary defects in the literary
scene.
Of special interest is a parody by
Michael Koltzov on the writer's
famous notebooks. Adhering to the
style and peculiarities of the note
books, Koltzov lampoons the kind of
person that Chekhov, were he alive,
would surely have put in his books.
Here is one entry:
Anxious to learn Dos Passes
technique, certain writer studied
Spanish, spending considerable time
on this. Only on having mastered
the language did he discover that
Dos Passos is an American. The
writer in question had not an idea
what to do with his Spanish"
From Moscow News"