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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

under the bridge. These aims are to
be accomplished by having every
Utoplan pay So, then sit still and
stafye in his most polite manner.
Meanwhile a promoters utopia is
already attained. The field is so
green and the suckers are coming
SO fast that Shrine Auditorium is
packed five nights each week the
Utopian Society has frightened up
on its one-time liberal credit ar
rangement and the political con-
tact man Of the outfit is telling the
district chairman to send all Office
seekers to him.
1 can either put him in or keep
MIN out" says this political contact
man. His name is Alonzo Riggs and
ms Office is at 83l S. La Brea Ave
nue., the home of both the national
and local Office of the Utopian So
clety. He is round -bellied and
ofncious character with a fine rem
utation for drinking whiskey in
49, o. 4NoAtSibAco.
I heard about Riggs from a dis
trict chairman of the Utopian So
ciety. This district chairman has q
sense of humor about his work and
says that most district chairmen
share his point of view. He went TO
Riggs to complain of a poacher at
one OF his committee meetings. !"
Another district manager had tried
10 muscle in and get the IS per cent
commission on the membership
fees, and this poacher was a polit-
zeal ward heeler as well as a
utopian. Alonzo said he would lin
Vestlgate" and scrubbed something
on a loose sheet Of paper.
The district chairman COMPLAINS
tnat he has no way Of knowing
whether he is being cheated OF
not. The members he gets pay their
money directly to the organization.
Last week he got a check for SOS.
but the previous check was only 81
The checks were signed by ]. F.
Glendon and E. r. Mathisen. Glen
don was the speaker when Is 600
curious people gathered at Holly
wood Bowl, Saturday night. June
g, to heer the society's aims told
enc OF the incorporates Of the So
elety is man named Kennedy who
used to cid c. C. Julian ia his oil
promotion games. Kennedy now ex-
plains that he only worked there"
kNY Marxist who studies the pro-
"A gram of the Utopian Society can
see that fascism is written all over
1t, but its chief present concern is
with the money that is rolling over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
TUNING In

700 P. M.-WEAF-Baseban Resume
WORKSHOPS Talk-Ford Prick
wJz-Mario Cozzi, Baritone
7:l5-WEAF-Gene and Gleen-sketch
WOR-Larry Taylor, Baritone
wJz-Holst Orchestra
WABC-Nick Lucas, Songs
7:5O- wEAF-Shirley Howard, Songs Trio
WOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
WJZ-Wealth and Income-Dr. Virgil
Jordan, President National Confer
ence Industrial Board.
WABC-Paul Keast, Baritone; Orch
5-wEAF-Sisters of the Skillet
WOR-Dayothy Miller and Garfield
WJz-FlSnk Bucks Adventures
WABG-Boake Carter. Commentator
8:0O-WEAF- Himber Orchestra
WJz-Garber Orchestra
WABC-Kate Smith, Songs
-woR-Lucky and Lefty-Sketch
WABC-Edwih C. Hill, Commentator
800 neutrality-suspicious. Orchestra; Gladys
Swarthout, Soprano, and Orthers
WOR- Wallenstein Sinfonietts; Flor
ence Page Kimball Soprano
WJz-Lucy Monroe, Soprano; Igor
CORN, Baritone; Levitow Orchestra
WABC-Lillian Roth, Songs; Edward
Nell Jr, Baritone; Dance Orchestra
Simmons, Tenor
WOR-DaYis Orchestra
WJz-Minstrel Show
WABC-Eyan Evans, Baritone
I5-WABC-Looking At Life-Roy Helton
9:30-WEAF-Joe Cook, Comedian; Donald
Eovis. Tenor; Frances Langford,
Contralto; Voorhees, Orchestra
WOR-The Fletcher, Songs
WJz-Reasonable Doubt-Sketch
~.
Schumann. Piano
9:45-WoR-Jane Froman, Songs
10 90 Eastman Orchestra; Lullaby
Lady-Ruth Lyon, Soprano
WOR-Eternal Life-Drama
WJz-National Music Camp Orches-
ira, Interlochsn, Mich; Thurloy
Lieurance, Conductor
WABC-Dance Orchestra
o;15-WoR-Current Eyents--H E. Read
1890 WEAF-Gothic Choristers
WOR-Brogales Orchestra
WABc-Mary Eastman. Soprano; Con-
cert Orchestra; Male Chorus
10: 45-wJz-Democrat- Republican Series
l:00-WEAF'-Press-Ra Radio News
wOR-Weather; Kaha Orchestra
WJz-Lombardo Orchestra
WABC-Address of Welcome by Wal
ter F. Meier, Grand Excslted Ruler.
at B. P. o. E, Grand Lodge Con-
yention, Kansas City
1:05-WEAF-Stern Orchestra
11:15-WABC-Gay Orchestra
1:30-WEAF-Davis Orchestra
WOR-Stern Orchestra
WJz-Press- Radio News
11:35-WJz-Deny Orchestra
11:45- WABC+Light Orchestra
2:0o-WEAF-Dance Music tAlso WMCA
WOR, WIZ
WABC-Blue Monday Jamboree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
STAGE AND SCREEN

gram: LES Preludes," List; Piano
Concerto in E fiat, List, and SYM
phony No. ! in c minor by Brahms
Eugene Ormandy, noted young
Hungarian conductor of the Mime
apolis Symphony Orchestra. will
take up the baton on Tuesday
night, directing for a fortnight. His
opening program includes Webers
"Euryanthe" Overture; the Pro-
kefieff Classical Symphony; Ra-
vel's Alborado del Graciose and the
Schubert Seventh Symphony. On
Wednesday Sophie Braslau will be
the soloist under Ormandy. The
program: Overture in D minor,
Handel-Elgar; Symphony in G
minor, Mozart; two songs, Fate"
and 20, Thou Billowy Harvest
Fields" Rachmaninoff; Ell Amor
Brujo, De Falla and Daphnis and
Chloe Suite No. by Ravel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Escape from the Nazis!
: The Sonnenburg Torture CAMP

like flies. The courtyard is covered
with blood. In agony they plead
for help, invoking in the night
their fathers, mothers and wives.
The first one to fall to the ground
is Immediately commanded by the
warden to Get up, you dirty
swine, you're only pretending. !"
They kick him with their hob
nailed boots. If this brings no re-
suit, some of the other prisoners
are obliged to drag the limp body
to the water-pump. They hold his
nose closed under the pump and
douse him until he regains con-
sciousness and begins to cough.
And the order is repeated: For
ward run uptown up
down. p But this lasts for only
a few minutes. The wounded man,
bleeding copiously from his legs
and head, again sinks to the
ground. And agsin-and still again,
the process is repeated, until the
sadistic lust of the inquisitieners is
satisfied. When at length, late in
the night, the prisoners are ordered
back to their cells, they are in such
a state of exhaustion and terror
that many commit suicide.
THE most notorious of the inqui-
4 sitioners of sonnenburg during
the months of August, September
and October, was the Nazi Adrian,
who had formerly been leader of a
shock troop in the concentration
camp of Hammerstein from which
he had been removed because of
the assassination of several political
prisoners. He had been deprived of
his special uniform, but he remain
ed the same sadist, and with his
own hands inflicted the cruelest
punishments upon the prisoners
who were under his supervision. He
often said that he was unable to
sleep in peace, unless he knocked
down at least half dozen Com
lluHlSGS every uay.f
will cite here only few of the
methods the Nazi Cossacks used to
torture their victims. The prisoners
are ordered to crouch on their
knees until their legs are numb and
nerveless. Then they are COM
manded to hop into position, with
the result that they invariably
smash their faces against the cob
hle-stones of the courtyard. Often
while the men were in this position
Adrian and his fellow inquisitieners
pricked their buttocks and sexual
organs with pins,
Often the forward march
exercise was practiced
until half dozen bleeding. sweat
ing bodies lay on the ground. Since
the prisoners were accused of pre-
tending they we're left there for
twenty or thirty minutes. Then the
others who were still conscious got
on their hands and knees to carry
the unconscious men on their backs.
This was organized into a sort of
race, and the one who reached the
far wall with the prisoner on his
back first was excused from further
practice for the day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
~.
Torture Chambers

CONNENBURG has well-organ-
y lied system of torture for the
newcomers. The underground floor
of the east and west wings of the
prison have been divided into cells
called torture chambers" Each
prisoner must spend from two to
three weeks in this hell before he
has a right to an ordinary cell or
dormitory bed. Every day, five, ten,
twenty or thirty prisoners are
taken into these chambers.
I personally have undergone only
a part of the horrors described here.
But it still makes my blood run
cold to think of the scores that I
have witnessed, month after month.
Healthy young men are brought
in. Immediately they are dragged
into the courtyard where they are
kicked and beaten until they fall
from exhaustion. Then to the tor
ture- chambers, where their faces
and bodies are beaten with clubs,
with the butts of guns and with
fists until they stream with blood.
Usually they are locked up alone
and compelled to lie a. the bare
ground; sometimes the ~charitable"
Nazis throw them a bit of straw.
When the prisoner has recovered
from his wounds sufficiently to be
able to walk he is given a uniform.
The same young men who but
short time before had come to Son
nenburg, bright and healthy, are
unrecegnizable, their faces bruised
and bleeding, eyes blood shot, their
hair partially pulled out, or heads
bleeding or completely shaved
The next evening the military
drill begins. The prisoners are re-
quired to salute and execute march
ing formations until they are COM
pletely worn out. They are then
compelled to run interminable foot
races. The warden calls out, Sup
and down. :" The prisoners fall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Broken Shoes Coming
To Acme Theatre TueSda4

Following the run of IN the Land
of the Soviet" the Soviet film pre-
senting a pictorial closeup of life
today in the Soviet Union, and
which will end its three-week show
ing today, the Acme Theatre, will
present Broken Shoes" a Soviet
talkie, for a short time and limited
engagement.
Broken Shoes" which opens on
Tuesday, July II, was produced in
the U. S. S. r., is enacted by chill
dren whose ages range from three
to twelve. The film was directed
by Margarita Barskaya, who is di-
rector of the Children's Theatre in
MOSCOW. The New York Times,
in its review, stated that the film
was Superior to the famous Road
to Life"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
SGUe ThdeLmnnni
~ SOL BREWSTER

- BY SOL BREWSTER
In Maitland the brigand band
Demands the death of Thaelmann.
Shake the world and make the world
Save Thaelmann
Everywhere lead the cry:
Enough! Save Fhaelmann
Remember Popoff, Taneff, Dimitroff;
In factory in every mine,
SILVER the rock, prepare the stone
To smash the lock-SAVE THAELMANN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Three Jews Driven to Suicide

IN SEPTEMBER the Nazis tri-
umphantly dragged in Jewish
merchant and his two sons. The
father was about so and the sons
40 and 80 years old. Like wild-fre
the news spread among the Nazis.
Even we heard: Three dirty Jews
are here now. Well take care of
them. -" The pretext for the
arrest of the three men was that
they paid their workrnen below the
standard wages and that they had
not paid their social insurance for
four weeks.
In fear and trembling they were
taken to the reception hall" where
several prisoners heard the Nazis
tell them that there were some
pretty things in store for them"
These same prisoners can bear wit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
By TOM PATERSON

A BARBER in Los Angeles. with
n the insight peculiar to trades
men, has grssped the true signif-
canoe Of the Utopian Society.
He has written on his window the
symbol 2x8000, which means moth
ing to the vulgar, but which to
UtOpians means that within The
shop is good Hermit who de-
serves their patronage.
This Utopian Society of Los An
geles has lofty aims about plenti-
tude for every one, including Henry
Ford and the tramp who sleeps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
"SteUedOre" To Continue
At CiUic Repertory

"Stevedore, the Theatre Union
play at the Civic Repertory The
atre, which was announced to close
last Saturday night, will continue
its run at the Fourteenth Street
playhouse indefinitely. The play
celebrated its Tooth performance on
Friday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

Vow the Utopians are going to
IA change the system by loving the
capitalists when the capitalists are
armed to the teeth, slugging and
killing those who attempt to wrest
even partial concessions. is not ex-
planned, but says Glendon, BE as
sured, all points are covered"
But there is no assurance. Quite
the contrary. There is assurance
that the program Of the Utopian
Society. aside from being a good
racket, is the handmade Of fascism.
1t wants the exploited masses to
Civ up the only weapon they have
against apitalism-the weapon of
militant mass action. Meanwhile,
the capitalist class is arming for
fascism. One needs look no further
for proof than to the port strikes.
the Imperial Valley and the San
Joaquin.
THE Utopian Society" says Glen
don, will be the greatest force that
viii circumyent revolution
There you have it. Except that
Glendon is probably wrong. The
Utopian Society would like to be
great, but is in reality more nebul-
Gus than the late un-lamented
technocracy. Kennedy, Glendon
Riggs & Co., have q good business
proposition and in exploiting it as
such will probably make a political
Joke Of it before they get much fur
Their.
Meanwhile, the Communist Party
continues to fight for the immediate
demands of the exploited masses
Without illusions that there will be
peace and plenty" until the capi-
talist system is abolished, until the
workers and farmers actually take
over the means of production and
establish workers and farmers
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Hurbi S0IOist At Stadium
Tonight; Eugene Ormandy
Viii Conduct TUESDAY

Jose Iturbi will devote his final
evening as conductor and soloist
at the Stadium tonight. The pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
" H A T. S O N
MOnday

REHEARSAL of Labor Defender chorus
at Finnish Hall, is w. 126th st. p. m.
Free course in sght-singing.
MEMBERSHIP meeting Of the Friends of
the Workers School at IS B. 18th ST.. 3rd
ioer Comrade Markeff will address the
meeting
wood technical advisor and assistant, will
speak on principles OF Effective Cinema
at Film and Photo League, 10 q. 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
Wednesday

SAeCo-VANzETTI Br. l. L. D. open
membership meeting. Comrsde Leon
Blum recently released from prison, main
speaker. Topic. Status of Political
Prisoners in the U. S. A." at 7s2 e
fremont Ave, Bronx, p. m. Admission
free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16
FashiOning 'Utopias''
Is Good Business With
No Risks in California

its counters in amounts that are
obviously tremendous. but neverthe-
less hard to estimate. The Holly
wood Bowl meeting crossed more
than $4,000 There was a time when
a Hermit" could go through Az
four cycles without paying any
thing. although he was continually
prodded for a down payment. The
new policy is that he must pay 81
down and give a six months prom
issory note for the remaining 50.
For this dollar he gets a small
stamp marked US" to paste on
the back of his Hermit" card. The
district marlger gets 25c, if he
gets it, and the rest is gravy.
At one time the Utopian heads
were hard put to find good speak
ers and readers for their ritual.
Now the whole thing is put on cleo
trical recordings and ushers only
are needed.
In the midst of all this shrewd
business, showmanship and political
maneuVering, it is not surprising
that Thousands Of small business
men, Office clerks and a scattering
Of manual workers have been at
tracted by the roseate promises Of
the Utopian Society. Many at Hol-
lywood Bowl viciously resented nv
question Of how all this was to be
brought about Others sheepishly
admitted they we're just curious.
The most applauded remark in
Glendon's address at Hollywood
Bowl was his damnation of the
existing economic system" but he
fastened to explain that the
Utepian Society is not fighting this
system. It will gather all the peo-
pie into its fold cat SO per head
and then assist the government to
change the system by constitutional
means" Another statement: 1T is
possible to put the theory (produc-
ton for use) into operation without
single constitutional amendment"
All this is said il the midst of
flag waving and allegiance pledg-
ing that outdo Hitler in the DAYS
Of his glory. In one respect the
Utopians differ from Hitler. They
preach pacifsm, peace, obedience
and love Of capitalists who profit
by the system. This last is part Of
the theory that the capitalist is only
part Of the system and not at fault.
It is no matter that only man
willing to pillage and rob can be a
capitalist on large scale. Utopians
are supposed to wish capitalism out
OF existence but to leave the capt.
taiists alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-16

kNH Marxist who studies the pro-
"A gram of the Utopian Society can
see that faScism is written all over
1t, but its chief present concern is
with the money that is rolling over
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
BRANTLEYS HAVE
AUTO ACCIDENT
RETURN HOME FROM TRIP
MADE TO MANY PARTS
OF STATE

B. E. Brantley. proprietor of
the Busy Bee Bakery on Francis
street, Mrs. Brantley and two
daughters. Blanche and Bernice,
narrowly escaped death or serious
injury Saturday afternoon when
returning home from Tampa over
the Tamiami Trail.
The Brantleys had attended the
Bakers Convention in Orlando
and afterwards visited Tampa and
other neighboring cities. When
about half way the trail one of the
back tires of the car blew out
turning the car over and if Nh.
Brantley had not have brought the
car to a quick halt, they would
have plunged into nearby 16
feet channel, it is shown. Other
than few scratches on Mr.. Brant-
ley's arm, the entire party was un-
hurt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
DRAW JURORS in
CRIMINAL COURT
SUMMONED TO REPORT To-
MORROW MORNING AT
$50 O'CLOCK

Jurors to serve at the session
of criminal court this week were
drawn at a short session held this
morning with Judge j. Vining
Harris presiding.
Names of those comprising The
venire are: Samuel McClintock,
Emerito Gomez. Hugh Hinde. Ed
ward Fernandez. Malcolm Roberts,
Herman H. Bethel, William b.
Curry, John Walker. Angel Tor
res. Willis Brady, Charles A. In
graham, Owen Malone, Dario Gar
ella. j, B. Griffin, ]. w. Walker,
William ]. Pinder, Cleveland Saun-
ders and John Kline.
Sheriff's office summoned the
members today with instructions
to report at the court house $50
o'clock tomorrow morning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
Administrator OF FERA Unit In
Rehabilitation Program In Key
West Takes Charge OF Situation

Mr.. Duncan arrived over the
highway last evening accompanied
by Mrs. Duncan, their children.
Miss Emily Ann and Bob, Jr., at
present to live at the Hotel Colo
NAL while arrangements are being
made to secure home.
Other Arrivals
Other arrivals connected with
the FERA program are Mrs. Eu-
nice Whyte. secretary to Mr..
Stone, who will remain several
days assisting Mr.. Duncan in the
preliminaries of getting the plans
lined up and work started.
w. +. Hardness, state purchas-
ing agent for the FERA, is an
other official who came in for the
purpose Of arranging to have the
purchasing office at Key West
function along lines similar to
those in other regions. He ex-
poets to be here several days.
L. w. Griffith, secretary to Mr..
Duncan. came in with the party
and expects to remain indefinitely,
or until such time as he may be
instructed to return and resume
his duties with the State Road De-
partment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
BRODSKYS COME
HERE ON VISIT
ARRIVE OVER HIGHWAY YES
4. TERDAY FROM NEWELL,
SOUTH DAKOTA

Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Brodsky and
children, Mary, Edward, Virginia,
Ruth, Dorothy and Joseph c., ar
rived over the highway yesterday
from their home in Newell, South
Dakota.
This is Mr.. Brodsky's first trip
to Key West in Is years and Mrs.
Brodsky has not been home in
seven years. though they have
been visited by members of the
family on several occasions. She
was before marriage Miss Clarice
Roberts.
While in the city they will be
guests of Mrs. Brodsky's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Roberts,
at 317 Peacon Lane and her broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lionel I'll. Plummer.
On the trip the family stopped
at a number of interesting points
and visited briefly with Mrs. Brod-
sky's nephew, Joseph Plummer, in
Miami.
Mr.. Brodsky is we'll known in
Key West and has host of friends
who will recall him as first mu-
stefan in the Navy Band about is
years ago.
After spending a month in Key
West the Brodsky's expect to
leave on the return trip home, stop
ping at Chicago to visit the World's
Fair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
CORONER'S JURY
DEFERS VERDICT
PERTAINS TO CASE OF JACK
PEREZ IN STRAND THE
AFTER FIRE

Further investigation by the
coroner's jury into the death of
Jack Ray Perez, who lost his life
in the Strand Theater fire last
Thursday, will not be made until
the father is pronounced by his
physician to be able to appear and
testify.
Mr.. Perez was badly burned
while attempting to rescue his son
and would have dashed into the
fiery furnace had he not been
forcibly restrained from SO doing
by several friends.
Members of the jury empanell-
ed by Peace Justice Frank o. Rob-
erts are Fernando Cato, Fabio
0livieri, ]. P. Stickney, w. F. Saw
yer. G. NJ. Park and George E.
Mcdonald.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-09
With School OUer, Problems Of Cost
And an Adequate Curriculum Remain
Harried School Boards
Nay Be Aided By Recent
Development IN Instruc-
ton Methods

A RECENT development In high
n school instruction m g h o d s
promises to become major educar
tional factor as, with school over,
for the summer, school boards In
hundreds OF communities ponder
the financial problem Of opening
them again next fall and keeping.
them running with an adequate
curriculum through the winter.
Last winter. with hundreds Of
schools closed or offering curtailed
programs because of lack Of funds.
the Benton Harbor Plan of Super
vised Correspondence Instruction
was used in approximately 100 high
schools throughout the country to
provide an immeasurably wider
curriculum than they would other
wise have been able to offer. Cost
per pupil for correspondence In
structiOn was from q fourth to a
third the cost of regularly taught
high school subjects.
The Benton Harbor Plan was In
augurated by s. G.. Mitchell, Super
intendent of Schools, Benton Har-
Dor, Michigan. some years ago and
has since had a gradual but steady
spread to other high schools. 1t
consists of an arrangement with
recognized correspondence schools
or university extension divisions,
through which high school students
are able to enroll for courses to Mt
them for vocation, or to meet
their special interests. One student
or a score can enroll for the same
course. A member OF the high
school teaching staff is appointed
to supervise the work.
The International Correspon.
dence Schools have played a lead
ing part in developing the Benton
Harbor Plan, while the University
of Nebraska has adopted the prin-
ciples of the Plan to enable small
high schools within the state to
offer courses their funds would not