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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Concentration Policy Is
Not Always Based on
Intimate Contact
BY JACK PARKER

THE draft resolution for
4 the Y. c. L. National Con-
vention has the following to
say about the work of the 7.
c. L. amongst the Negro
youth:
Any underestimation or
neglect of the struggles for the aid
of the Negro people effectively
gives aid to the white chauvinists.
The League must lead the fight
for full political and social equality
for the Negro youth and against
every act of discrimination. The
League must help build up the
broadest movement of Negro and
white youth for Negro liberation
through the building of the LSNR
and the Young Liberator clubs as
youth sections. ="
With this, the writer is in perfect
agreement. However, it is necessary
to point out that in one section of
the Y.CL. Of District 2, at least, our
task Of modifying the Negro youth
in their struggles together with the
white young workers is not based
upon the correct approach indicated
above.
What Is Concentration?
Crown Heights in Brooklyn is
the concentration point Of section
3 Of the Vel. and Party. The con-
centration of the Y. G. L., so far.
has consisted of the organization of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

american Young Communist League
Has Obligations to the Youth of Cuba
How Has the Vel. of
the U.S.A. ShOuIdered
It's Responsibility

EDITORS NOTE: The fol-
lowing article in which the gem
eral secretary of the Young Com
munist League of Cuba discusses
a vital question confronting the
Y. c. L., U. s. A., is not Tlouo
Of great Importance because of
the problems raised by it but is
also especially timely in view of
the recently concluded and highly
successful convention of the Y.
c. L. Of Cuba.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

in the world revolutionary youth
movement for concrete assistance
of district of the Y. c. L. in the
strongest imperialist country to the
Y. G. l.. of a (smalD semi-colonial
oppressed land.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Flame Of the Border
By VINCIE E. ROE
Copyright. Doubleday. Doran Co.. Ino.
WNU Service

I'll take your advice. / am a little
tired"
She rose and entered the deep house,
a cool place, its walls laid up of fiat
stones chinked with adobe mud. Its
bare floors bright with Indian rugs.
Sonya Savarin loved her brothers
house, his wife, his child. and him.
self best of all. For five years she had
lived with them In this lone land of
cactus, sand. and sunlight, and 1t
seemed as IL hand tugged at her
heart whenever she thought Of leaving
them.
She had thought of that gravely the
last year. or New York and Rodney
Blake and all they stood for-conven-
ton and affluence and what the world
called life. 1t had been a year. on the
nineteenth OF next month, since she
had promised to marry him. Rod was
the soul OF galantry and had made
three trips to Arizona In that time,
always urging her to come away with
him. to give up her work. and always
she had put him of little longer. Not
that she wasn't fond of him. Who
could fall to be fond of him with his
good looks. his smiling good-nature7
And he was Serge's closest friend.
Dated from college days. But how
could she give up her work here among
the people whom she had learned to
love and who needed her and her skill
so badlyl Wasting herself. Rod said.
II she must practice medicine, why
not do 1t where the results were valu-
able. among folks who counted. where
she could make career for herself In
her chosen field1
These thoughts passed through her
mind as she Invested herself Of her
dusty riding clothes and bathed In the
low pool In one corner of her room
where the living waters OF the spring
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

public buildings, and those allocated
by congress to the Reconstruction
Finance corporation.
But every senator and member OF
the house knows that the idea Ia q
part of the whole Roosevelt scheme.
Those who privately dislike this In
crease In power for the executive
maintain that it is just an entering
wedge-that the President would real
ly like lump sum appropriations for
every governmental function. with
complete power lodged In the execu-
tive to move funds from one appro-
priation to another
The President would probably admit
this II attacked publicly, and provided
he could not turn the whole subject
with joke, which probably would be
what he would do. He would contend
with considerable force that no one
can look into the future clearly
enough to know whether this partIcu-
lar million dollars would do more good
II employed for relief or for highways
or for public buildings.
This particular time he has very
good justifyng reason for his request
for the lump idea. The point Is he
hopes very much that the whole need
for relief will have passed by Christ
mas. but that he knows no one can
really tell what 1t will be, say In Oc-
tober.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
DID NOT "SWAP"
WIVES THAT DAY
Old Codgers Unable to Make
Satisfactory Decker.

Zed Peavy and 81 Dismuke met at
the corners the other day and they
at once started to dickerlng togeth-
err. This pair of worthless had made
many a dicker In the past and The
odd paFt-ofait Is that each one had
always claimed that the other one
had cheated him. So each one was
keener than ever to put one over on
the other. After they had talked Of
swapping their pocket knives, their
cows, their chickens, their dogs, their
moving machines, their flivvers and
their farms, Zed drew himself up to
his full height and suggested prop
osition which was intended to be a
crusher: "How about swappin'
wivesTe
"All right" answered ST. How'll
you swap?"
"How about you givln' me your
best COW an dozen chickens to
boot7' asked Zed. In order to feel
his way little.
why, you old skinfiint.' retorted
81, "you can't afford to have 1t said
that you picked wife who wasn't
wuth as much as the one I picked.
I think you ought to give me some
thin to boot-say that ten cords of
stovewood | see you have piled up
In your back yard"
Dear me suz," exclaimed Zed, Il
never expected TO see the day when
a neIghbor o. mine would underrate
his own wife the way you do. I'm
almost ashamed to dicker with a
man as mean as that"
"Talk about befn' mean" ex-
claimed 81: what led you to offer to
swap wives unless you Intended to
be generous7 I'm very we'll satisfied
with my wIfe-and yet | wouldn't
mind maxim change-especlalIy II
/ was dealin' with decent man who
would treat her right. My wife is
sound In every way and is good fer
many year yet. She haln't got no
bad habits an you can trust her to
do q full days work even when you
drive to town. I hear your wife Is
always skedadHin' and you're anx-
ious to unload her on somebody else.
But you want to make me believe
you put a high valuation on her.
Now, this is your chance to make
good dlcker. S'pose we say you
throw In FIVE cords of wood, one calf
and ten bushels of apples-seein' |
ain't got any this year.
mo. stree, | won't give you
thing to boot said Zed, I'D ruther
put up with my wife than swap her
off II / have to part with anything
valuable In return. I'm turrible
sorry not to accommodate you. but
I'm disappointed In you. didn't
think we had such close, tight-tist-
ed man In this county as you have
showed yourself to be. Think 1t
over an Ii you change your mind
any time let me know. Remember,
your wife ain't what she was-an'
old age Is beglnnln' to tell on her.
n you walt till next year won't
offer you so much
Jaw, / wouldn't swap wives with
such man as you be even Ii | could
get an even swap" declared 81 as he
walked off In dlsgust.-pathfinder
Magazine.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

The answer to the question Of how
much President Roosevelts power
over congress has really slipped will
come with the votes on the new ap-
preparations just asked In his budget
message. The particular test will be
on one point. whether congress is
willing TO grant the President such
extraordinary blanket powers as he
has demanded for using money appro-
priated for one purpose for another
purpose.
The demand was made very shrewd
ly. II will be noted that 1t runs large
ly one way. He can transfer funds
from two sorts Of appropriations to
relief. He does not ask permission to
use money voted for relief for any
other purpose, and he does not pro
pose to transfer money voted, for ex-
ample, for the navy. or for T. Y. A.
to relief. The only funds he wants
the power to transfer are those for
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

ran softly through and out under the
wall In a pipe. A treasure, this in
door pool. A blessing II would be hard
to leave, along with Darkness, her
horse. and Lila and little Babs.
Yet she had come near as breath
to leaving them three hours back and
had not given them thought There
had been no thought In her when she
flung her body out of the arms OF the
man who held her and over the edge
OF Lone Mesa--only the age-old terror
OF conquest, the high. fierce fare OF
white-hot fury at deiilement which has
filled the heart Of woman since crea-
tion.
She had essayed death as Instructive
lv as she drew her breath. and had
done 1t on the instant. The man, the
tall, lean vandal OF saddle and spur,
who had ridden her down TO the mesa 8
edge and lifted her bodily from Dark
ness back, came back In her vision,
as he had come again and again on
the ride home, In the patio with Rod.
She could see the long blue eyes of
him, Wild with inner fire under their
sleepyiook. They had large pupils under
their hronze-colored lashes, and they
were fierce and cruel. swift eyes that
could change In second from one
vital expression to another.
hc Ma ,An IL,
when she looked up after the sliding
fall over the rim, the joting catch OF
her clutching hands In the plnon roots.
From that promising, sleepy wlldness
to wide shock. Had seen them liter
ally sober themselves from halfdrunken
dementia to angulshed sanity. Strange
eyes. Beautiful. even In their beast
like cruelty. There had been no
mercy for her 10 them. A wave OF the
cold terror OF that moment went over
her, followed Instantly by burning
flush OF anger.
I'll take my pound OF flesh from
him for this" she told herself through
tight lips, IF 1t takes me the rest Of
my natural life. Ii free citizen OF
this country can't ride In safety I'll
know the reason why
Then she finished dressing and went
out to where Lila, dark Serge's long
haired, golden wife, put the finishing
touches on the table for the evening
meal They were a striking foil for
each other. Sonya and her sister-in-
law. one 80 tall and dark and vital,
full-lipped, full OF brow above her
dusky eyes, sinuous In her movements,
the other small and fragile as flower,
fair thing to look at, to know. They
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Record Price for Stamp

A penny red" MaurltIus stamp
was sold In London recently for S12,-
600. at par exchange, the highest
price ever paid for a stamp In Eng
land. Its face value was 2 cents.
A MauritIus 2-penny blue stamp
brought $500.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Reduces the Pull

The answer of the congressional
DIRECTORS Is very simple. also, and very
logical. though 1t would not appeal 80
strongly to the country as the Pres
ident's logic But In effect this pow
er, granted to the President, would
go long way toward curtailIng the
individual influence OF members OF
the house and senate. 1t would mean
that their decisions and their votes on
public buildings. for example. would
be much less important.
1t gets back to the old question OF
the Public Works administration. Un-
der normal circumstances, II new
post office Is put up In Squedunk by
the federal government, 1t results
from bill passed through the house
and senate. The congressman from
the Squedunk district can claim to
the voters of Squedunk and suburbs
that 1t was his untirIng efforts which
resulted in putting the measure
through the house. Usually he claims
that 1t was his influence which put
the measure through the senate also.
Sometimes, of course, the senator's
from the state claim share of that
credit, but these claims really do not
conflict politically. No one Is done
any particular harm by them. The
senator's and the congressman usually
manage to capitalize them quite salts
factorlly.
For example, the claims OF Repub-
lIcan member of the house from the
Norfolk tVal district few years back
did not bother either OF the Demo
cratic senators from the state, except
that naturally they wanted Demo-
crat elected from that district.
But II the newspapers print copious
articles about the fact that after duly
weighing the merits Of proposal the
administrator of public works, Secre-
tary Ickes, has decided to build this
or that In given city. there Ii much
more difficulty on the part OF the sem
ators and members OF the house In
convincing their constituents that they
were really responsible, and that
therefore they are men who deserve
reelection so the interests OF that
community will continue to be served
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

It II estimated more than million
operations are performed In the Unit
ed States every year.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Didn't Want Lands

President Roosevelt will certainly
have the laugh on the conservatives
in the senate who voted for separate
commission instead OF the Federal
Trade commission to regulate the
stock exchange, II he appoints James
lands at the head OF the new COM
mission.
Because while the motive inspiring
Senator Carter Glass In proposing the
separate commission was entirely DIFF
ferent, most senators voting for sep
arate commission did SO to get this
regulation away from the Felix
Frankfurter boys" OF whom Lands
In, to their minds, perhaps the most
pernicious.
The conservatives thought the
stock exchange should be regulated
by some one with more kindly attl-
tude toward business In general and
the stock exchange in particular than
Is quite general In the Frankfurter
camp. They knew, OF course, that the
President was quite apt to appoint
''more OF the same" But they were
gambling on the chance that on the
particular day he made the appoint
ments to the new commission he would
be leaning a little to the right.
The probability Is they were wrong.
for no matter what action the presi-
dent may take on given issue, his
general course Is quite definitely to
the left. IT always has been. 1t has
followed quite definitely and clearly
IL viewed over any given period and
not Judged by one point along the
course-the line he showed when he
was governor. with reference TO pub
lie utilities. and the acceptance speech
Mt Chicago when he criticized business
so sharply for its failure to divide
profits with workers. customers, or
even stockholders during the boom
days.
However, the senate has an ace In
the hole on the stock exchange regu-
lating commission. 1t has the power
Of confirmation Of appointments. II
showed what 1t could do very recent
1y in the matter OF refusing confirma-
ton to Director Willard L. Thorp Of
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce. There was no really salts
factory public reason for the failure
of Thorp to make the grade In the
senate. 1t was very deep stuff, as a
matter of fact. Really 1t represents
personal dissatisfaction on the part Of
some very important senator's on the
question OF patronage.
Copyrlght.-wNU Service
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
SEEN and HEARD
around the
National Capital
by CARTER FIELD

Washington. Subsistence home
steading, an important part Of the
New Deal outdoors. has had more
than its share OF bad publicity be-
cause Ii got Off on the wrong foot.
The notorious project at Reedsvllle.
w. Va. where the government is busy
converting portable houses into homes
with sun parlors3 for ex-coal miners,
was only the first of 35 projects. sew
eral of which are now approaching
the construction stage.
Bitter protests from private indus
tries has died down somewhat since
congress refused to permit the Post
Office department TO put up an equip
ment factory at Reedsville. The town
has not exactly retired to rural SOM
Violence, for great many visitors
have been attracted by all the pub
llcity. But there Is an opportunity
now to appraise the subsistence home
stealing program as whole. This Is
much bigger than the West Virginia
project although administration off,
Gals admit ruefully they learned a
lesson there.
The chief trouble Is that residents
of subsistence homesteads can't live
on the fruits and vegetables they can
raise. There has to be factory to
provide part time employment so that
they will have the cash necessary to
buy clothing, and certain foods, nota-
bly, sugar, coffee. tea, and perhaps
some red meat. Presumably they can
raise their own chickens and eggs.
With the government factory Idea out.
with congress standing guard against
Its return, private industry must be
induced to spread itself over the coun-
tryside. But In locating an industry,
factors other than contented labor
must be reckoned with. Availability
OF raw materials, access to market.
capital required and other considera-
lions have interviewed to Illustrate the
search for Industries to transplant
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Tough Problem

This problem has proved so Insur-
mountable that the subsistence home
steads division of the Interior depart
ment has about given up the Idea OF
resculng stranded Industrial popula-
lions. 1t has been able. with some
philanthropic backing, to transplant a
little bit Of Worth street youngstown
town New York to Hightstown, N. T..
where, with the cooperation of the
needle trade unions, the Workmen's
Circle and other organizations will put
up $4,000 to build and equip fac
tory and the government will loan
100000 to provide homesteads for 200
families. Each purchaser must put
In a nest-egg of $500 under contract
requiring amortization over period
of 20 years.
The Hightstown project can per-
haps be called demonstration In In
dustriai decentralization, although 1t
has merely created another producing
unit financed by noncommercial inter-
ests. 1T differs from all other home
steads projects for white collar and
Industrial workers In that they are
located near cities or Industrial plants
where the residents of the new gar
den homes are normally employed
Another objective. which failed OF
attainment In the movement, was to
xrtr 10 rfr ~ tr3
trial independence. A choice of Jobs.
The difficulty here was that nearly all
locations otherwise favorable and per
hitting the acquisition of the sub
slstence farm sites at reasonable fig
Hre were just naturally not Industry
communities.
One Of the original purposes also
was aid to farmers who have been
putting up hopeless struggle on
wornaout land. The Idea here was not
only to rehabllltate sub-marginal
rural population, but to prevent the
trek to cities from offsettfng the de-
Capitalization sought by inducing city
folks to move out to the country.
In Jasper and Putnam counties, Geor-
gIa, a rural project Is under way
to house on fertile plantation land
800 families scattered over the wasted
land OF the lower Piedmont. But with
little or no outside employment, the
homesteaders simply must have a cash
crop. Which Of course complexities
the cnrtailment plans for that nar-
ticular crop and brings trouble with
the Agricultural Adjustment admin
istration.
And people don't want to novel
1.-THE more I see Of this the more
! think people must be given some
kind of economic adjustment where
they are" said Director Hopkins.
ave have investigated every strand
ed population In the country and the
more see of 1t all the more difficult 1t
becomes. You might say they cannot
ha ruovnd acroeS gtotn linpg -
Evening star., 1934-03-06
GROUP TO OBSERVE.
65TH ANNIVERSARY.
Adas Israel Congregation
to Celebrate Tomorrow
at Synagogue.

An elaborate celebration of the
sixty-fifth anniversary of the Adas
Israel Congregation has been planned
for tomorrow in the synagogue at Sixth
and streets. .
District Commissioners Melvin c.
Hazen and George E. Allen and Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, former director
of Public Buildings and Public Parks,
have been invited to participate in
the ceremonies, which will get under
way at 8 pm. Invitations also have
been extended Representative Herman
P. Koppelmann, Rabbi E. Margolis
and other notables.
Adas Israel Congregation was
founded March 7, 1869, by an ortho-
dox group of Jews who separated
from the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation due to the refom movement
which was sweeping the synagogue.
First services were held in tiny room
above store at 452 Pennsylvania
avenue.
Seven years later, after shifting
about from place to place, the congre-
CATION purchased property at Sixth
and G streets, remodeled the building
and dedicated 1t as the Sixth Street
Synagogue.
Ofhcers of the congregation are Jo-
seph A. Wilmer president; Herman S.
Robin, vice president; Abe Shelter
man, secretary; Falk Harmel, finan-
cial secretary, and Joseph Blumenthal,
treasurer. Trustees are Isadore Freund
and Joseph Mazo. The committee in
charge OF the birthday anniversary
program includes:
Edward Rosenblum, chairman; Mrs
Jack Weak, co-chairman; Eve H. Bern
stein, co-chairman; Oliver Atlas, Joe
Blumenthal, Isadore Freund, Leo
Freudberg. Morris Gewirz, Fred S.
Gichner, Henry Gichner, Paul Har-
mel, Falk Harmel, Alexander Koplin,
George Levy, Samuel Livingston, A.
Mendelson, Rabbi Solomon H. Metz,
Cantor Louis Novick. Moe Gutenberg.
Max Ostrow, Leon Oppenheimer,
Charles Pilzer.
Max Rosenthal, Herman S. Robin.
Louis Rosenberg, Sol Rosenthal. Leo
Schlossberg. Abe Shefferman, Jacob
Spund, Herman Schrott, Charles
Stein, Morris Stein, j. B. Stein, Julius
NCluUClS. Will vVC14pCiSs SOoCPAA
Wilmer. Morris Within, Max Zubig,
Mrs. Morris Gewirz. Mrs. Merlman,
Mrs. B. Danzansky, Mrs. Maxwell Os-
trow, Mrs. Herman Weiss. Mrs. George
W. Levy, Mrs Charles Gordon. Mrs.
Alexander Koplin. Mrs. Joseph Blu
nenthal, Mrs. Falk Harmel. Mrs. H.
Garfinkle. Mrs. Charles Pilzer and
Mrs. Morris Stein.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
81 PCT. OF MORELOS
DIVORCES HELD ILLEGAL
Americans Declared Victims of
Mexican Ring Issuing
Bogus DEGREES.

By the Associated Press.
CUERNAvACA, Mexico. March g.
At least 81 per cent Of the divorce de-
crees obtained in the state Of Morelos
by Americans in the last six month
are fraudulent and legally WORTHLESS
q high American source said yestel
day.
Eighty-three American couples are
known to have been victims Of mail
order" divorce mill in that time, it was
said, and further investigation Is ex-
pected to reveal others.
The informant asserted it was likely
many of those who thought themselves
legally divorced have since remarked.
Members Of the ring were reported
to have obtained the bogus DEGREES by
inserting duplicate and triplicate
blanks under sheets containing rec
ords of genuine divorces which were
signed by the proper authorities.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
prems Court yesterday in declaring

prems Court yesterday in declaring
that an insurance company was not
liable to double indemnity because Of
the death Of . golfer stricken by the
sun.
The case involved the claim of the
widow Of Thomas L. Landress, Chat
tanooga. Tenn, that she should be
paid under the double indemnity
clauses In the policies carried by her
husband In the Phoenix Mutual Life
and Travellers Insurance Companies.
He was overcome while playing golf
IN August, 1880. The insurance COM
Evening star., 1934-03-06
Beahan in Bankruptcy.

LOS ANGELES, March 8 R.-
Charles Beahan, playwright and now
elist, filed q voluntary bankruptcy Pc
tition yesterday, scheduling debts Of
$13,2 3,2s2 and assets of $11, ,648. He said
he owes the State of New York $615
and the Federal Government $1,9l5 In
income taxes.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
WEEPs At DIVORCE

Esther Ralston in Tears as She
Gets Decree.
LOS ANGELES, March 6 R.-
Divorce has ended the eight-year-old
marriage Of Esther Ralston and
George Webb.
Amid a storm Of tears. the blond
actress testified in Superior Court
yesterday that Webb, publicity writer
and her manager, had grown weary Of