davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-06-26

O. How can rubber rain capes be
preserved?-S. W.
A. Rubber goods deteriorate rapidly
in heat and sunlight, therefore they
should be kept in cool, dark place.
Where two thicknesses Of rubber are
likely to stick together. they should
be wiped as dry as possible or hung
to dry, and busted with talcum pow
der.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Reviewed by
DAVID RAMSEY

THE publication Of this booklet and
its subsequent sale in the tens Of
thousands mark another ballyhoo
triumph for the hustling Messrs.
Simon and Schuster. For weeks be-
fore it appeared, the financial pages
ran special cables from London dis
cussing its representations. When
the prophecy was finally published
here. the Wall Street brokers bought
it by the thousands and sent it to
all the suckers on their special lists;
Scripps- Howard syndicated it
throughout the and; and a lecture
tour has been arranged that will net
Major Angas a pretty mess Of pen
MES.
Now Major Angas. to put it mildly,
is about as much of an economist as
that other great discovery Of Messrs.
Simon and Schuster-Will Durant-
is philosopher. So the fuss that
has been raised over the booklet is
not due to the keenness Of its au-
thor's analysis of the developing
crisis. In fact. Mr.. James Warburg.
the Well-known Wall Street banker
has listed long series Of misstate-
ments and contradictions in the
booklet which even a bourgoise eco
nomist could not overlook if he
wanted TO give realistic evalustion
Of Major Angas' competence.
Behind the private little boomlet
fabricated by Messrs. Simon and
Schuster is the stagnation Of the
stock market throughout the sum-
mer. With production and business
activity falling more than the usual
seasonal amount, the market was in
the doldrums. waiting for Roosevelt
to give an infationary signal for
prediction speculative boomlet !
Partly because of the internal fight !
within the ranks of the bourgeoise
as to how much social dsmagogy
should be ladled out to the work
ers, Roosevelt did not resort to the |
major inhationary steps demeanded |
by the spectators.
IN this situation, Major Angas step
ped in and applied the first law
of gambling; convince the suckers
that they can't lose, and then you
get them coming and going. First, |
you sell them tip sheets, and then
you cash in on the money they lose
by betting on your phony tips. Ac-
cordingly he announced towards the |
end Of July that new boom would |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Monday

CLASS in Club Organization under the
auspices of the Associated Workers Clubs
at Workers School begins today. Students
may still register today at II w. 18th St.
and in the evening at the school, room
POS. Glass begins at pm.
MASS Meeting, 41O9 18th Ave. Brooklyn,
pm. Ella May Br. LID. to protest dis
charge of two Jewish nurses from Israel
Zion Hospital and arrest of four young
workers. Prominent speakers. Adm, free
IMPORTANT Meeting Exec Comm. Film
and Photo League, IL z. 18th ST., $50
pm. sharp. Members present without fail.
CANCELLED, Lecture by George Siskind
on international Importance of Stain 6
Foundations of Lcninism" Tickets will
be honcred at any Of subsequent lectures.
Please take note of this. Take advantag
Of 20-50 per cent discount sale now going
on at all bookshops.
ESPERANTO CLASS for beginners will
be started tonight from to 0 in tho
Hungarian Workers Home. $50 E. aIst St.
the International language in IL weeks
course with enc lesson every Monday
REGISTER at Mosholu Progressive Club,
$3.50 cambridge Ave. t207thl for classes.
Principles of Communism and Political
Economy. Instructor c. Elstein of Work
ors School. Registration nights-Sept. 10
to 26th $3.50 to 1000 pm.
REGISTER for courses a Workers Dance
League. ia w. 18th ST. 3rd floor moved
starting at once. Fundamentals Of Glass
Struggle Especial course for dancersl.
CLASSES begin today at Workers School.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
TUNING In

200 P. .-WEAF-Baseball Resume
woR-sports Talk-Ford Prick
WJz-Amos n Andy-Sketch
7:i5-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-5ketch
woR-Comedy; Music
WJz-Martin Orchestra
wABc-Just Plain Bill-sketch
7:3o-WEAF-ArIene jackson, Contralto
WOR-Mystery Sketch
WABC-Paul Keast. Baritone; Orch.
:45-WEAF-Frank Bucks Adventures
wOR-Dinner Music
WJZ-Mario Cozzf, Baritone
WABC-Boake Carter, Commentator
800 -WEAF-Himber Orchestra
WOR-Senator Kean Campaign Talk
VIVIAN CARRIER Supper Club
WABC--Mountaineer Music
l5-WOR-Wallensten Sinfonietta
WABC-Edwin c. Hill. Commentator
$780, EAF-Symphony Orchestra; Gladys
swarthout, Soprano; Margaret
Speaks, Soprano; Frank Chapman,
Tenor; Fred Hufsmith, Tenor
WJZ-Kings Guards Quartet
WABC-Grace Moore, Soprano; Con-
cert Orchestra
s:45-WOR-Gorodensk Orchestra
WJz-From Schooner Seth Parker,
on Panama; Sea Chanteys
0-wEAF-Gypsies Orchestra; Frank
Parker, Tenor
wOR-Dorothy Miller and Charles
Massinger, Songs
WJz-Minstrel Show
WABC-Lillian Roth, Songs; Edward
Neil Jr., Baritone; Dance Orch.
o:30-WEAF-Joe Cook, Comedian; Donald
Noyis, Tenor: Frances Langford,
ContraltO. Voorhees, Orchestra
WOR-To Be Announced
WJZ-Off to Buffalo-5ketch
WABC-Gluskin Orch; Block and
Sully, Comedians; Gertrude Niesen,
Songs; Chiquito, Songs
945WOR-Jane Froman, Songs
Observation-Disclosures Orchestra; Lullaby
Lady: Male Quartet
WOR-Frank and Flo, Songs
WJz-Concert Orchestra
WABC-Wayne King Orchestra
o:15-WOR-Current Events-H. E. Read
o:30-WEAF-Other Americas-Edward
Tomlinson, Author
WOR-Variety Musicale
WABC-Care and Feeding of Hobby
Horses--Music and Sketches
10: 45WJz-The Republican Viewpoint
Walter E. Edge, Former Amoassa-
dor to France
II 0WEAF-Danny. Malone. Tenor
WOR-Wocdworth Orchestra
WJz-Bestor Orchestra
WABC-Fats Waller, Songs
II: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Orchestra
WABC-Gray Orchestra
II -WEhF-HofI Orchestra
WOR-Lane Orchestra
WJZ-Fields Orchestra
i:4s-WABC-L.ent Orchestra
2;oO-WEAF-Dance Music ALSO WABC,
WMcA- WOR. WIZ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
National Negro Theatre
Plans Plays Of Struggle

fight to materialize the Proclamation
Of Emancipation, and the 18th, 14th
and 18th amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States, into
living, breathing fact.
To date the N. N. T. has organized
N. N. T. clubs in most of the sub
urban com munities surrounding
New York City, williamsburg,
Mount Vernon, New Rochelle. White
Plains, Yonkers, Paterson. Newark,
the Oranges, Jersey City, Staten Is
land, Jamaica, several clubs in
Brooklyn and dozen in Harlem. In
the suburban communities the clubs
are being developed into cultural
centers with the theatre as only part
of their activities. There will be
classes in Negro history explaining
the cause for oppressed national
minority groups in the present social
system. Plays, lectures and cultural
activities of every kind will be ro-
tated over this wheel Of clubs. Lang
ston Hughes "Scottsboro Limited"
and Mother and Child" are at
present being rehearsed by two of
the Jersey clubs.
Negro playwrights, who have here
tofore written for the Broadway
theatre, have now grasped this op-
portunity to work on plays that will
be a militant contribution to the
fight for full equality of the Negroes.
To help finance these various &C
tivities the N. N. T. is giving an all
Negro recital at The Town Hall, on
Saturday night, Oct, 9Th. at $50
pm. This is an attempt to smash 2
certain type of Negro discrimination
in the theatre, in that we have
chosen the best of the Negro talent,
and have invited the critics and pro-
ducers to show them that the talent
of the Negro is more than equal to
any demands, that the opero, thea
tire, or the concert stage may make
on him.
Immediately after the concert the
N. N. t. will begin rehearsing full
length play, "Turpentine," by Gus
Smith, author Of the play, "Louisi-
ana" and the picture, Drums Of
Voodoo."
This play, based on the life and
death struggle Of the Negroes in the
Florida turpentine camps, will, no
doubt be the first revolutionary
play by Negro to see production.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Stage and Screen
"RHddigOre," To Be Offered
By DOyIy Carte Opera
At Martin Beck Thea. Tonite

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Com
pany, the English group presenting
Gilbert and Sullivan's repertoire,
will present "Ruddigore" at the
Martin Beck Theatre this evening.
The operetta will continue through
Wednesday. On Thursday the Lon
don players will offer Princess
Ida" which will continue until Sat-
urday night, inclusive. Leading
players in the operas include
Eileen Moody, Marjorie Eyre, Mu-
riel Dickson, Dorothy Gill, Martyr
Green and John Dean.
THE Distaff Side" by John Van
Druten, an importation from Lon
con, will open Tuesday evening at
the Booth Theatre with Sybil
Thorndike, noted English actress,
heading the cast. Other principals
include Estelle Winwood and Viola
Keats.
Small Miracle" melodrama by
Norman Krasna, is announced for
the Golden Theatre formerly The
Royale), opening on Wednesday
night. Joseph Spurin- Galleia, Ilka
Chase, Myron Mccormick and Rob-
ert Middlemass head the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

THE first recorded case Of Negro
1 discrimination in the theatre hap
pened about 1921, in the city OF
New York. 1t was then that Negro
company of players directed by one
known as Hewlett, first name I'M
known, gave a series of Shakesperi-
an plays in theatre situated at
African Grove, at the corner of
BECKER and Mercer Streets. The
annals of theatrical history report
that 1t was brilliant season, with,
Richard the Third" as the out
standing performance.
But such histrionic triumphs on
the part of Negroes was altogether
too illuminating an example of what
the Negro was capable of if permit
ted free development of his talents
The good city burghers were shock
ed. Such display of ability threat
ened to explode the white superior
ity myth. The entire cast was
hauled before the authorities and
released on the promise that they
would never perform Shakespeare
again.
Since then the Negroes have been
forced to play only those roles in the
theatre, movies and on the radio,
that would contribute directly to the
white superiority hoax In fact,
were ones knowledge of Negroes de-
pendent upon the theatre, movies,
or radio, one could not but conclude
that the Negroes were all menials
and buffoons.
Thus the history of the theatre
has proven conclusively that as a
cultural weapon in our present So
cial system, it is employed by those
whites and Negroes who profit by
the super exploitation of the Negro
in the theatre, to further the white
superiority myth, chauvinism, lynch
terror, segregation and discrimina-
ton, not only in the realm of the
cultural life, but also in the social,
economic and political life of the
Negroes.
Against this chauvinistic, cultural
weapon, the N N. T. has been forged
into a weapon, composed of Negroes
and whites, that will fight against
the oppression of national minority
groups; and fight for the full eco
nomic, social and political equality
of the Negro people, as well as to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

they finished, the clothing of the
Army resembled a mosaic of all
shades of blue patches. Other wom-
en-, girls and men had made cloth
shoes and straw sandals so that no
man might go barefoot. So the
Army walked easily, shod in sandals
or soft shoes.
The peasants had woven the
broad bamboo or straw hats with
conical crowns that hung down the
back of each mana protection
against rain, snow, or the sun. The
tailors had made a coarse sack for
each man, and the Peasant Leagues
filled these sacks with five or six
catties* of dry rice, two catties of
salt, and a handful of dried vege-
tables. And the people of Leiyang
had seen that each man had hand
towel, and some covering for the
night-a robe or a blanket of some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
'COmingAmericanB0Om'
Is Sucker Bait for the
Wall Street Brokers.

I begin before the end of the summer
Of 1884"
Major Angas had nothing to lose
and everything to gain. II he pre-
cipitated a boomlet, then as a spec
ulator he would benefit. And if the
bubble did not materialize, then he
could cash in on the sale Of the
booklet. lectures, etc. Messrs. Simon
and Schuster have taken care Of
the latter alternative, 50 that the
Major has earned plenty, although
his boom is already some three weeks
overdue and shows no sign Of app
psaring for quite some time.
The motives behind Major Anga5'
forecast are fairly evident. His eco
nomic illiteracy is just as manifest.
But he makes several points which
are significant, since he voices the
viewpoint OF that section Of the
bourgeoisie which desires immediate
and drastic imitation.
IN the first place, he points out that
l Roosevelt's program is not merely
a series Of haphazard actions. It
represents carefully planned
scheme to restore profits 10 the cap
italists through imitation. Secondly,
he emphasizes that this imitation
policy has not failed CThe unpre-
cedented increases in profits since
the new DEAL was launched attest
to this fact) He says that "the
truth is that it dnhation) has
only just begun. 1t has, in fact,
taken year to prepare the ground
work for the great and necessary
expansion Of credit which is now
being Unanswered"
In this last statement, Major An
gas is correct. The Roosevelt regime
is inevitably headed for imitation in
its more violent forms. The govern
ment debt today totals over 81 bill
lion dollars. and will be in the
neighborhood Of 80 billion dollars
by July l. 1885. Already govern
mental expenses federal, state and
municipaD amount to between IS
and 80 per cent Of the national in
come of the country. These deyel-
oping factors must lead sooner or
later to the printing press stage Of
imitation.
How long it will taken before this
last stage is reached depends upon
great number Of factors. But we
must remember that already Roose-
welt can at any time, without even
going through the motions of asking
further authority from Congress.
issue around six billion dollars in
paper notes.
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by the government. in conformity
with the policy of Matchmaking all
big property, including land.
The working class dictatorship
makes a complete separation Of
church and state as soon as it comes
to power. 1t abolishas not only the
direct methods of its connection
with the state but the thousands OF
indirect and concealed ties. All di-
rect an d indirect subsidies { 0
churches are abolished. All educa-
tional institutions and processes are
taken out Of the hands Of the clerics.
Churches are not forbidden to OPP
crate. II their congregations wish
to continue to support their pastors
they are allowed to do so. But un-
der the prcletarian dictatorship min
listers of thousand and fifty-seVen
varieties of religion have no social
standing. They are deprived Of the
franchise. under certain special
conditions this restriction might be
relaxed for individuals but the prin--
ciple would remain0
The Communist Party at the head
of the proletarian dictatorship car
ries on a continual effort TO substi-
tute science for religious supersti-
ton. AS this basic cultural task
proceeds, the more or less forcible
measures taken under capitalism to
instill religious superstition into the
minds of the masses have been
wiped out, the economic basis for
religion having been destroyed, re-
ligion itself and all its accompsny-
ing superstitions which developed as
result of mans fear Of and at
tempts to explain natural phenonle-
ma. tends TO disappear The hber-
ated masses no longer feel the need
for such narcotics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
Mass Struggle" Held OUer
For Second Week At Acme

MASS Struggle" the Soviet talkie
produced by the First Odessa
Comsomol Studios, is being held
over for a second week at the Acme
Theatre. The film, which is in four
a n ~ a e s-Russian, Ukrainian,
Jewish and Polish. is a gripping
story dealing with the 18th century
struggle of the Ukrainian serfs
against the Polish and Ukrainian
landowners. The Daily Worker, in
its review, calls it "a film epic of
the Ukraine" The picture is
enacted BY many well-known screen
and stage artists Of the Soviet
Union
Petersburg Nights the Soviet
talkie based on Dostoyevski's ia
nous novel white Nights" is now
in its third week at the Cameo
Theatre Directed by Roshal The
picture tells a graphic story of Yego
Efimov, a serf on an estate in old
Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

young writer's by older ones, what
their advice was to young prole-
tartan American writer's.
Let them stop worrying about
being different and Just do a lot of
hard thinking about how they are
going to really present the true pic
ture Of the struggle and the emo
lions that exist around them"
said Leonoy.
Give them as little advice as
possible" said Babel Let them
find their own way and judge them
by the results"
And in this connection one might
quote Radek's speech on Western
literature: I'VE say to our friends,
the foreign writers: the best help
you can render is to walk side by
side with the working class of your
countries, with the revolutionary
minority for the struggle against
all the dangers which have taken
the binders from your eyes and
deprived you Of aesthetic quiet. The
writers who do not understand this
will inevitably turn out to be in
the camp OF fascism :. and E.
there never was period in our
literature when such bad works as
fascism produces were possible. I
speak of the artistic value Of these
works. =. When a writer can have
positive attitude toward reality
he is able to give a truthful pic
ture of this reality"
THE congress was long and thor
L ough 1t had its main sessions on
writing in general, then ended with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

He does not agree with Wish
nevski, another popular writer on
similar themes, that with five
sixths of the world still hostile to
us, the time has not yet come for
writing about moonlight and flow
ers." Flowers" said Babel, and
writing about flowers, had their
place even in the heat of the revo-
luton. Perhaps I don't write any
more about flowers than does Wish
nevski. So somebody else will have
to-"
AN example of the divergence Of
a opinion on purely stylistic mat
ters that can exist is shown in the
replies of these two well-known
writers to a question asked them by
the American delegate, Ben Fields,
known to the readers of the Daily
Worker and New Masses by his
stories of American farm life.
What do you think of the Ameri-
can writers?"
Both Babel and Leonov fixed at
once on Dos Passos, probably,
Babel said, because he is beauti-
fully translated"
Il like Dos Passos," said Babel,
and his influence is growing"
IT don't like Dos Passos," said
LeonoV 81 don't like literary tricks.
And when a writer comes out in
public, I think he should have his
clothes buttoned up; he should
have thought out his ideas"
I asked, since the congress made
much of help, training, to be given
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

kind. Some of the men even had
cups, and few of the older revo-
lutionary soldiers carried flashlights
for rare occasions.
There followed series of con-
fused pictures of battles on the
mountainsides as the Red Army
fought its way to Chaling. The stu
pid, terrified faces of Kuomintang
troops and the hard, cruel faces
of their officers became mingled
with the rattle of machine guns.
Through the confusion sounded the
steady crack, crack of Red Army
rifles in the hands of sharpshooters.
They wasted not one bullet. From
behind stores, trees, walls, grave
mounds, they fired with careful,
deadly precision The voices of To-
cal peasants attacking the Kuomin-
tang troops with them sounded:
Kill! Kill" The shouts of Red
Army men sounded clearly as they
Se0AANN w VIC CAlCAllJ
Running dogs of the landlords!
Running dogs of the militarists and
the imperialists Shame! . . We
are poor peasants and workers! T.. .
Land to the peasants and soldiers!
Pay no debts! Pay no taxes!
Pay no rent! Eight hour day
for the workers! -"
THE enemy troops heard these slo-
gans, more deadly than bullets.
What kind of war was this? they
asked one another. They had been
sent to destroy bandits" but in
stead they found themselves fight
ing peasants and workers in every
village or town, and an army of
guerrilla fighters made up of work
ers and peasants. Themselves poor
peasants who had joined the army
to earn their rice, they heard the
cries, Land to the peasants and
soldiersw They had been sent into
war which they thought to be like
all others-they would not shoot
to kill, and the enemy would not
shoot to kill. But here they faced
an Army that fought with deadly
earnestness, every bullet finding a
man. Such war had never been
heard of by the ears of man! Sui
lenly, confused, they obeyed the
command Of their officers, but fear
fully they looked at each stone, each
tree, each hut, each grave mound
Some fired into the air to make a
noise that would please their land
lord Officers. Some just picked up
their rifles and bullets and went
over to the Reds, and others ran.
Yu-kung recalled the bitter COM
plants of these captured or desert
ing soldiers, and the complaints of
the men who had deserted from the
transport troops" of the enemy.
Look at me, SEE Yu-tang," one
of the transport troops" had said,
II am Changsha man :. a peas
ant. One day soldiers and one
officer came to the market. They
pointed their guns at us and cap
tured us :. roped us together,
many tens of us. They drove us
away to carry their bullets and their
rice A neighbor of mine tried
to escape but they shot him dead
and left him lying by the path
he worried about his family I
worry about my family! =. have
walked thousand Ii, a prisoner ;.
Now I bring you some of their bull
lets-I will carry them for you and
help you fight the Generals :.
rape their mothersl"
Ito be continued.)
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Questions and AnsWerS

This department appears on
this page twice week. All ques-
tons should be addressed to
Questions and Auswerc," CO. IS
Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New
York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24

MASS MEETING and send-off Of Phils-
delphia Delegation to Chicago Anti-War
Congress. Speakers, Maxwell S. Stewart,
Foreign Policy Assn; Mary Winsor and
others. Y.M.C.A. Building, 1925 Arch St.,
Tuesday, Sept. IS. 3 pm.
PROVISIONAL COMM. organizing Work
ers English Chcrus. Purpose of Chorus to
encourage, teach and lead masses in pro-
leta-ian songs. Membership open to work.
ers and friends, barring no race, creed.
color or political Affiliations. knowledge
Of music is not required. First rehearsal
tonight 8 pm. Monday at 329 Pine St.
BROADWAY Arena, Broad and Christian
Sts., has been engaged for Scottsboro-
Herndon-T haelmann meeting Oct L. This
historic meeting will be addressed by An
gelo Herndon, Mrs. Ida Morris, mother Of
Clarence Norris, scottsboro boy, and Rich
ard Moore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
AFFAIRS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER
NeU HaUeR, Conn.

DAILY WORKER Affair at 222 Lafayette
St. Saturday. Sept. 90 az USrainian Hall
Pro1ra.r, Banquet, Play by Unity Players
Grcu0. Darn cc-c,-c- Bill Taylor. Of
Hartfc"d, A17plccs, New Haven c.P. and
Daily Worker Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
(HHNA'S RED
ARMY MARCHES
sBy AGNEs sMEDLEY

The following are selections
from Agnes Smedley's dramatic
book, "China's Red Army
Marches" published by Interna-
tionaI Publishers, 3s1 Fourth Ave.
Editors Note.