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Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
SHORT SKIRTS
DUE TO RETURN
SAYS STYLIST

NEW YORK, April 81. U.P)-In
1928, when women were wearing
short skirts, millions of them VOW
cd they d never wear long skirts
again because they felt so free and
comfortable in short ones.
Nov women are wearing long
skirts. Millions of them. looking
at photographs of themselves six
Years ago. say: Weren't they ri
diculous? I'll never wear short
skirts againl"
But they are wrong again-take
il from Miss Beatrice Matthew. not
ed Paris style reporter now visiting
in the United States.
Short skirts, il seems, come in
cycles like sun spots and depres-
sions.
Short skirts are coming back.
The feminine knee will be on
display again.
~ remember distinctly the night
in 1928 when short skirts were
launched in a big way she said.
Twenty of the foremost style re-
porters were in Maxine S in Paris.
We all swore We d never wear long
skirts again.
"But only last week u Of US met
for luncheon IN New York. And We
all said we'd never wear short
skirts again. -
However. snort skirts are coming
back because change is import
ant in our lives, according to Miss
Mathieu
"There IS a theory she con-
tinued, THAT women must have a
certain percentage Of their bodies
naked-say Is per cent. Necks
have been high and sleeves long.
There is bound to be reaction. 1t s
not that nakedness is as much an
elementary desire among women as
il is a fashion,
Desire 10 be different, Miss Ma
thieu said. influences change in
women IS styles. As an example she
cited the recent reaction from mud
iry on Riviera beaches.
"EIn America just now women
are going as nearly naked as pos
sible on the beach. But in France
il is not so exclusive to be naked
any more and women are wearing
linen boots reaching to the knee
and huge hats in addition TO their
swimming costumes. -
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
UNITED
DRY CONFERENCE
IN HOLTVILLE

Holtville will be headquarters
Monday afternoon and evening,
April 80 for united dry confer
enee under the auspices of the
county w. C. T. U. to which all
those interested in the cause OF
temperance are invited.
The afternoon meeting will open
at 2 p. m. in the Methodist church
of HoltVille with Mrs. Eva Craven
Wheeler, state w. c. r. U. presi-
dent. presiding.
A special worship service and
Bible message will be given by Mrs.
Anna Hauletts, county evangelistic
director
A playlet, Effects of Tobacco
on a Mother by Mrs. Lanear Web
ster will follow after which Mrs.
Milo Hogan Of Calexico will talk
on STORY Of Our Badge
A round table discussion on CAL
cohol and the Home' will be led
by Mrs. Sylvia Feldman, president
of the Holtyille women IS club Two
other speakers will participate.
Mrs. Pearl Kendall Hess, head Of
the state department OF scientific
temperance instruction, will talk
on Alcoholic Education; round
table discussion on the subject of
Temperance Teachings in the
Sunday School" will be led by
--.1rs Amanda Mackey; and anoth-
er, 1.-The Church in Action Against
Alcohol" will be led by Rev. w.
E. Malan of the Methodist Episco-
pal church of El Centro.
The evening session will open at
$50 p. m. with a dinner Miss Ed
ma Thompson will begin the pro-
gram with a piano solo; an essay
by Temple Robinson on "Anni-
versary of the Eighteenth Amend
ment' will be read and Mrs,
Wheeler will deliver an address en-
titled 1.-The Foam Brigade. -
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
MANY PRIZES FOR
EVENING PARTY

Ten prizes have peen secured for
the final evening bridge party TO
be given Monday night, April 30,
by the Ten Thousand club and
which viii take place at O'Clock
in the club house.
In addition to these 10 prizes
which viii be given to the winners
in Mondays auction and contract
games, the grand prizes for the
tournament will be awarded, as
well, this being the last event in
the series of three.
The party is open TO junior and
senior club members and their
friends. Punch will be served dur
ing the evening, and refreshments
after the card game.
These who plan to attend are
asked TO make reservations as early
as possible with Mrs. r. H Mad
dux, telephone 176.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
JAPANESE TO BE
SECTION HOSTS

International Relations History
section) members of the Ten Thou
sand club are reminded that the
postponed meeting with the Japan
ese women is to take place Sunday
afternoon, April %.
Members are asked to meet at
the home of Mrs. w. w. Apple. '673
Olive, at 2:30 p. m. and from there
go as a group to the japanese
church. where a delightful program
will be given. the section contrib
uting to this program as we'll as the
japanese hosts.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
PARTY YESTERDAY
AT PLASTER CITY

Mrs. William McClard of Plaster
City was hostess yesterday at a
charming luncheon and shower gi-
ven in honor Of Mrs. Delmar Up
shaw.
Those present uere Mesdames E.
Cline, John Wye, John Swenson,
Harold Price, L. T. Schwartz, F. E.
Ashcraft, / S. Elliott, P. Chiffon,
Morgan, Harry Randolph, R. Cole,
all Of Plaster City; Mrs. E. Beeson
and Mrs. G. Russell OF Dixieland;
Mrs. J. Potter of Seeley; Mrs. Price
and Miss Gladys Price Of Los An
geles.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
FIRE GIRLS
MAKE COSTUMES

Watenaguma Camp Fire girls
met yesterday at Wilson school to
make final plans for serving re-
freshments at the Junior Ten
Thousand club s French night club
this evening.
The girls spent the afternoon
working on their costumes which
are to be OF various types. They
also made looms on which head
bands will be woven.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
STUDIED
BY DELPHIANS

Delphians met yesterday morn
ing with Mrs. E. j. Mack on West
Main street.
Russia under the Czarist regime
and Russia today were discussed.
the comparison between the two
forms of government creating much
discussion.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
PEN WOMEN TO
MEET TUESDAY

The El Centro branch, National
League of American Pen Women,
will hold its final meeting for the
year on Tuesday, May l, at 3
p. m. at the home of Mrs.
Iva McFadden of Westmorland.
The program will be given by
Mrs. j. E. Harshman formerly gen.
eral curator of the Ebell club in
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
DESERT PARTY
AT VENDEL'S

Members of the valley ct 40
and 20 ct g are looking forward to
the steak bake planned for tonight.
The group will meet at $50 o.
clock tonight at Vendel's near
Westmorlanc. The ct 40 will sup
ply the supper, with the exception
of the steaks. each person bringing
his own, anC the 10 ct 3, will furn-
ish the drinks.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
PR)OlnL.
PnPlCPQpAr

Loyal Workers Of the State
Street Christian church are plan
ming an evening meeting for Mon
day. April 80. the meeting place to
be announced later.
Mrs. Ross T. Hickcox and Miss
Emma Skinner have returned from
a trip to San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27
Social Calendar
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Elementary schools program,
1880. Wilson school.
lie Club de Nuil. S. 10000 club.
Associated chambers of COM
merce, Z, Imperial.
8 ct 40 and 10 ct s. Wendell 5,
WestmOrland.
McCabe- Eucalyptus farm CEN
ter, 7:45. McCabe school.
j. c. CorG and Cotton dance,
Veterans hall.
TOMORROW
County achool trustees, 10, VIII
son school.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-27

1here are many different ways
of cutting tobacco.
A long time ago, it used to be
cut on what was known as a
Pease Cutter, but this dark
ened the tobacco, and it was
not uniform.
The cutters today are the
most improved, modern, up-to-
the-minute type. They cut uni
formly, and cut in long shreds.
The tobacco in Chesterfield
is cut right-you can judge for
yourself how Chesterfields burn
and how they taste.
Everything that science knoUs
is used to mGke Chesterfield
the cigarette that's milder -.
the cigarette that tastes better.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
.Olgin's Course
In Soviet History
Enters 3rd Part

NEW YORK. -Moissaye J. Olgin's
course in the history of the Rus
sian Revolution, now enters ist third
and final part. Having outlined in
the first term the history of Rus
sian social forces, and the history
Of the Revolution leading up to and
including the Revolution of 1866,
Olgin, in the second term Just COM
pleted, gave a survey Of the Revolu-
ton leading up to and including
the November overthrow.
In the last part of the course,
which extends over the Spring term,
Olgin gives a history of the Soviet
Union from the November Revolu-
ton to the completion of the First
and the Inauguration of the Second
Five Year Plan. He stresses the
development Of the Soviet State, the
Local Soviets, the Labor Unions, the
Communist Party, management of
industries, the solution of the agri-
cultural problem, the liberation OF
national minorities. the cultural
development in the U, S. 8. R. as a
whole. The Introductory part of
this course will be devoted to the
Civil War, (1e18-1921.
The third term can be understood
also by those who have not taken
the first and second term.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
New Works for Young People

ITEM of significance the despatch of this event
II that the occasion Of young peoples concert Last
adult audiences
performance and subsequent demand
patrons of the Philadelphia Orchestra that he ca his
performances Stokowsh declared that
presented audiences they
sufficiently listen without pe-conceved standards
statement brought and heated attack
in the daily headed by Dr. Walter Damrosch So
stent with Stokowss wknown views that the revolutionary
song sung those
still and flexible which not sodhed into forms
derived from false conventions and traditions
significant point the published dispatches
of the International the demand of Sokows that
French saying he had been unable to find English
version which did not distort the meaning"
season. Mr. Dovnes puportng to on
the subject Music the
of sprung
specifically
leise The inference be drawn from this article that
Nareae" produced by the revolution
International had its origin in the Russian revolution The
dates the Revolution having written
revolutionary Pierre Degeyter about 1870 originally
written inevitably translation consequently
the request of sokowsk for the original language
able It's universally of sentiments which
to mankind irrespective time place
condition servtud capable
inspiring to action and uniting the oppressed Of the earth
dispatches stated that after the
the orchestra broke forth into the strains of 1.-THE
Banner" and the Red incident" over! justly
seeming palae object by inclusion of the
national anthem stokowk did place just
aposion the universal and true with ngom hagwavng
The incident the reported
despatch of March famed
conductors announcement that the Red Anthem
the program" That NOT doubt We
Associated that
Banner "the Red incident over"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
No Sob Stuff in the Movies
For Children in Soviet Union

country against the unpatriotie
workers; the children organizing a
committee and brigades to assist
during the strike; the younger ones,
less than six years of age at work
on the garbage dumps sorting re-
fuse to earn few pennies from
swindling overseer; finally, the
demonstration and the police shoot
ing down the workers and killing
little Bubi.
Let it not be thought that the
picture makes Of the children po-
litical propa gandists. 1t is on the
contrary filled with actual life of
the children, their childish joys and
pleasures, their games and CONVEX
sations, but they too are part of the
economic brutality, the victims of
capitalism, and they function In that
struggle as little heroes. No longer
feeding them with the fantastic
melodramaS and pretty escapes of
a dream world. no longer the ex-
pression1st portrayal of grotesque
unrealities, but children, longing for
Joy and toys, and happiness, caught
up in the merciless exploitation of
world which thinks only in terms
of dollars, and their heroic answer
to the question, how will they re-
spond to fascist dictatorship
The Aim suffers from it's episode
character, the story not being equal
to the marvellous acting and posi-
bilities of these children, and the
director, Barskaya, is woman who
is more skilful as a teacher than
a movie director, yet considering
the many difficulties of working
with children, the worthlessness of
rehearsals, their change in voice,
their ease for distractions, one must
conclude that her accomplishment
is unusual But its more signifi-
cant aspect is that children can no
longer sit In the classroom or play
in the street ehlivious of the world
of their parents, as they never have
been. They, too, must become an
active part in the world revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
BY ALBERT LEWIS

THE Soviet Union does not forget
the education of its children, and
the latest picture of Mejrabpomfilnn
Is stirring example of the new
type of training that must be given
to the children of the proletariat,
actively engaged in a class struggle.
No longer the ridiculous sentiment
talities of Lord Fauntleroy, or the
romantic, idealistic caperings of a
Baby Peggy, or a Jackie Coogan,
but the realities of a life filled with
the needs of the fight for bread
and better living conditions.
The new picture is called, "Torn
Shoes" (Rvany BashmakD, and the
actors are for the most part chill
dren between the ages of one and
a half to thirteen years. The hero"
is lad of three and half. The
story takes place in some town in
Germany Gas have most of the
recent Soviet pictures, participat-
ing in the fight against Fascism)
in workers district. In one Com
n1unist workers home, we see the
three children, awaiting the return
of their father to sit down to din
ner. The little girl is joyous at the
prospect of meat, but when the
father comes home with the news of
the strike and future unemploy-
nent, the mother breaks into tears
at the thought of not being able
to give the desired meat, the child's
feeling of outlines at having
caused her mothers suffering. Then,
their school, the older boy, await
ing the return of the younger to
wear the same pair of shoes, as
his own are impossibly torn: the
groupings of the children accord
ing to their parents social state,
fascists and social democrats ranged
against the Communists; the teach
ers and their removal from the
class struggle; the children engaged
IN a terrific physical fight, when
the little fascist leader tries to tell
them that they must defend their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Second Issue Of
Partisan Review
Appears April 1

NEW YORK.-The second issue
of Partisan Review" the literary
critical bi-monthly Of the John
Reed Club, viii be OF the press
April 1 and available at workers
bookshops and newsstands,
The new issue contains a num-
Der Of stories, poems and articles
that show the advances made by
revolutionary literature in Amer
lea. "Ehe Iron Throat" a story of
mining life, introduces Title Ler-
ner, a highly talented young writer,
to the revolutionary movement.
TO Otto Bauer" a poem by Alfred
Hayes, summarizes in an effective
artistic manner the ignoble career
Of social-democratic leadership in
Austria, An outstanding piece of
criticism, "Partisanship or Propa-
ganda?" by Georg Lukacs, one of
the ablest Marxist critics in Ger
many, strikes a new note in the
controversy on art VS.. propaganda.
Among the other features in this
issue of Partisan Review" are;
Queen City of the Adirondacks,"
a biographical sketch by Sender
Garlin, feature editor Of the Daily
Worker; Theodore Roosevelt Hy-
man." q short story by Isidor
Schneider; The Death of a Ger
man Seaman" a chronicle by Leon
Dennen; poetry by Philip Rahv
and Fanya Foss and a number of
critical reviews of contemporary
literature.
Partisan Review" is published
at 430 Sixth Ave, by the John
Reed Club of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
CHANGE
%H 80
WORLD!
stokowski and the "InternatiOnal''
By ASHLEY PETTIS
Batting for Michael Gold

StOkOwski and the international"
THE newspapers of the
singing international" of the Philadelphia
Orchestra possessing elements which constitute news The
hymn proarat at the nsgaton Of Leopold
sokowsk of the orchestra recent young peoples
Concert Philadelphia.
When record of Leopold Stokowk the
interesting the International does not
seem astonishing surprising and indeed
have that archconservave Dr. Walter Dam
roh or say D. A. r. the singing Of this of
universal import
There are always eagerly mpute base motives
to unexpected procedure in the acts
of stokowk his attempting to gain pub
lcy undoubtedly be made But let for moment consider
his record.
many years Leopold sokowsk has been leader in the
presentation revolutionary musical works in America
many interesting experiments public concerts
attempt combine and music he has
Particularly led the presentation of significant
stokowsk being not only of
practical deologyst is thought translated into action
supposed instant that his actions in their long
spring false Interior motives from
vulgar Of ideas action; in the
prime height his he has given of his best
nreservedy the stimulation interest revolutionary c
left because of change the tide Of his
personal scramble to climb the band
deep conviction and true Of the reality
universal thought.
what be consistent with his record, and
midst changes universal nature than the
the International" the concerts Of the Phls
delphia Orchestral
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

tons that Communism and Marx
ism are religious, and that Marx
and Lenin are their prophets. It
reveals in declarations that the
Communist Party Soviet Union is
a Tammany machine, with Stain
it's Charlie Murphy, that the Soviet
Union land Stain is oriental and
Asiatic and you can't change its
human nature, that Marxism suits
the Russian temperament but not
the Western" Russia's new ma
tionalism," and the like. Duranty
is simply unable to understand. and
probably never will, that Russia is
so different because so many of its
peasants had been spared the in
fuences of capitalism and lived
communally. Like mumblinu
monk he reiterates such nonsense
as the following: The celebration
OF the Fifteenth Anniversary Is
especially impressive because It is
coupled with the mystic number
FIVE" This especially arant bit
occurs in the introduction and is
typical of Duranty's attitude gen.
orally.
He states Lenin's only great mis-
take was the call for world revolu-
ton after the workers had seized
power in Italy, Hungary, Bavaria,
ETC., saying that it melted inter-
yention. The implication is that
counter-revolution and intervention
would not have come otherwise,
either by the Allies or Entente. This
has been Duranty's attitude always,
and today he is especially vocifer-
GUS in declaring that there is no
danger Of capitalist attack on the
Soviet Union. After the references
above to red imperialism, 1t is
strange to hear him say Gust
few months earlier-June 25, 1881
that the Red Army is purely de-
fensive," and will remain 50 in the
future; "Europe's Nightmares OF 8
Red horde sweeping forward to
world conquest, are, in my opinion.
either anti-Soviet propaganda tout
court or atavistie bogies of Attila,
Tamerlane, and the Turks" Such
contradictions are the usual gyra-
tons of the liberal.
In his preface Duranty lauds the
N. Y. Times for the complete
freedom it gave him in handling
the news. He neglects to mention
the vicious headlines it puts on even
somewhat favorable stories, and the
mosquito editorials of Strunsky. He
does speak of the more imaginative
or less cautious correspondents" in
Riga, Helsingford, and Bucharest,
without seeming to realize that his
own N. Y. Times, that firm be-
lever in nothing but the truth, was
paying for this White Guard stuff
to complete his picture of the u.
S. s, r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
JObless in Tulsa Get 4
Cents a Day for Food

There are q great many de-
nsnds for chsrities-children the
aged, the travellers without home -
but all We wanted for actual food
relief was $4,000 and We couldn't
get il.
Bed as this increase in charity
applicants is. It is still much better
than the other areas I visited. T1ais
towns is chiefly an oil headquarters.
Petroleum is the very Hfe-blood Of
this town and other Oklahoma cities
and when. in the past four years,
there was more oil than the COM
panies knew what 10 do with, pro-
duction stopped virtually and rs
effects upon oil center cities were
felt Immediately.
Though there are quite few In
dustries and retail stores, the major
ity Of the population is bracketed
among the higher oil company en-
ployees. Though these, too, have
felt the effects Of the depression,
still IL was not so keen as the ordi-
nary worker who always lived from
hand to mouth. Many Of those who
came from the farms returned 10
the land and the depression hit
lower depths. thus reducing the city
charity expenditures slightly.
The development Of this city Is
recent. It had not yet attracted
great numbers Of workers for in
dustry like the industrial oenters of
Brockton, Charlotte and partly New
Orleans. Consequently, when the
depression became acute. those
thrown upon charity we're smaller
numerically than In q oentrsh zed
industrial area where most Of the
population are in the ordinary class
of workers.
1t is a commentary upon the
Saving wage paid oil workers even
in the boom days of the industry
that the moment the depression
was felt the increase in charity ap-
plicants jumped 500 per cent,
ITO Re ContinBed0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Greatest Mirror Cast

CORNING, N. Y,-Tne glass for
the largest mirror ever designed will
be poured here next Sunday in front
of a group of scientists interested in
this ss,000,0O0 project, The mirror
will be used for the new telescope
now being assembled for the Cali
fornia Institute Of Technology.
The mirror will be II feet across
and will weigh about 20 tons when
completed. The glass will be slowly
cooled in an annealing furnace for a
period Of ten months, The grinding
of the surface to perfection will take
three years, it is estimated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
TOscaHini to GiUe Three
Special Wagner Programs

The Philharmonic Orchestra announces
three special Wagner programs with SOLO
lists under the direction Of Toscanini on
Sunday afternoons. April IS, ~ and 40.
The first concert will have Gertrude Kap-
pei, Marion TelYs and Paul Althouse, Hans
Clemens, Richard Benelli and Emanuel
List are the soloists on April az. The
program also includes the services Of the
entire chorus Of the Metropolitan Opera
House
Herman and Miriam Kstims, pianists
will give Joint recital tomorrow night
at Town Hall.