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velt's plan to construct a navy
second to none" and for dotting
the clouds with thousands Of Army
and Navy long distance planes cap
able of flying to and returning from
the Far East.
Without even touching upon the
S316, 228,991 War Department APP
preparation for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /. 1884, or on the
Nays S2e4, 65S,799 more millions,
called deficiencies, will be added at
the end of the year,, the War and
Navy Departments have already
been given 81, 1888, 670,718.
Compare this with the $114,OOo, 900
appropriated in 1916 typical pre-
war year, for the purely military
activities of the War Department
and the $37000,000 appropriated for
its rivers and harbors use. Com
pare Rousevelt's 1851, 1871 ("Pub-
lie Works plus the regular appro-
priations) with the $152,ooO,ooO ap-
propriated in 1916 for the Navy De-
partment.
Add the $50 900, 900 received by the
War Department from the sale of old
clothing, which is to be used for new
clothing and equipment, and we
obtain the staggering total of ST.
372,670,718 as a mere introduction
to the war building now being blue
printed. Such as the acknowledged
war bill IS. 1892, favorably re-
ported to the Senate by the Com
mittee on Mines and Mining, which
would set aside a fund Of 100000, :
600 ITO provide for the purchase of
the surplus copper, heretofore mined
and processed in the United States
:. for the Use Of the United States
in constructing military and naval
equipment and :" Or, among
the hundreds of war preparations
bills brought before the House Mill
tsry Affairs Committee by its Chair
man and member of the War Poll
cies Commission, John j. McSwain
of South Carolina, the proposal for
the establishment of separate air.
plane f1otilla of 1000 war planes,
the addition of 400 officers and $500
men at a cost Of about 100000, 900.
Or, among many other war plans,
the enlargement of the Army and
Navy personnel.
These figures are necessarily con-
servative because it is impossible to
estimate how many millions Gun
itemized) under c. w. A. dts funds
came from P. w. A. control went
to the reconstruction of Army forts
Chose around Niagara Falls, for
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appropriations for military pur-
poses conclusively demonstrate the
war character Of the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration-the instrument which
at the same time reduced the
standard of living of the majority
of the workers and erected huge
government strike-breaking appar-
atus.
Roosevelt, up to May 7, 1894, al
lotted $747, 950,775 or more than %
per cent, OF the S3,300,000000
Emergency Public Works fund for
direct and indirect war prepara-
tons, exclusive of the $248, 1866, 900
given to the War Department en-
gineers for rivers and harbors and
flood control, a substantial part Of
which goes to seacoast defense for
channefling and dredging and sur
veys of the ocean floor for sub
marine operations in addition to
serving to supply military engineers
with continual war training. This
is also exclusive Of the S50,000000
allotted to the Tennessee Valley
Administration, the greatest part Of
which is involved in the construc-
ton of the worlds largest integ-
rated electrical power production
system. obviously a huge power re-
serve for war plant operations.
This % per cent plus is also
separate from the $585, 1888 APP
propriated by Congress, before the
creation of the P. w. A, for the
military activities of the Army and
Navy for the current fiscal year
ending July l, 1884. Nor does this
STAT ,950,775 total include the $40,-
100000 (allotted from new P. w. A.
funds) which Roosevelt got for two
heavy and twelve light destroyers,
and six submarines authorized by
the Roosevelt backed Vinson Bill, a
measure which gives the President
blank authority to build, above and
beyond the program already under
way. an armada of about 102 war
ships and 1874 war planes. This
Vinson Bill program, incidentally,
also authorizes in general terms the
Of all over-2Ge GO
years old OF over) warships under
the terms of the naval treaties.
This means that authority has been
given Roosevelt to build an en-
tirely new fleet of IS battleships at
a minimum cost of $4,000, 900 each,
since all the U. s. battleships are
either average or nearly so. The
$40 100000 war slice brings the
Public Works" warship total to So
an eloquent forerunner Of Roose-
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NRA Boosts Var Chemical
Firms Dividends Ouer 5000
BY A. B. MAGIL

DETROIT-Proits of the Chemical Midland Mich.
materials
country per during the
cording of the This with
50 per for the previous year.
the peacetme earnings history of the
the states Evidently the Blue Eagle has
laid result of intensified
preparations.
The of the profits Of Chemical
shortly after the death plant killed
mysterious chemicals Low peedup and failure
vide safeguards the workers the
company jacks profits.
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tensified terror, the decisive major
az :oo@nd 4hn faScistS' lists,

tensified terror, the decisive majcr-
ity rejected the fascists' lists.
II was this workers movement
which stimulated and gave the
foundation to the broad movement
of resistance to fascism among MD
dle-class elements. expressed IN the
churches, among the peasantry, and
even among the lower ranks OF the
Brown Shirts-the fighting forces
whereby Hitler achieved power =
under the slogan of "the second
revolution" which for them meant
relief from the class policies carried
out by Hitler on behalf OF Krupp,
Thyssen and the landlords.
Revolutionary Forces Grow
1t was in the midst, and as a
result of this situation that the
events of the past week took place
In this light it is clear, not only
that the original Communist anal
ysis of German fascism was correct.
but also that the breakup OF the
fascist regime and the rise OF the
forces of proletarian revolution is
proceeding with seven-league boots.
The persistent heroic work OF the
Communist Party in the factories,
in the fascist trade unions, among
the Storm Troopers, among all the
strata of the exploited population
against the Hitler dictatorship,
against the demagogy, against the
detestahe anti-semitism which is
the Csrman counterpart of the
stink Of the slave-market that is
constantly stirred up in this country
against the Negroes by the white
ruling class-these things were and
are tremendously important factors
in the beginning of rebellion by the
masses deceived by Hitler.
We Communists, who never in
the darkest days lost our heads,
who at all times foresaw and
foretold its inevitable and early
breakup can now confidently as
sert that our German Communist
Party, with the help Of the world
proletariat, will more than ever
give leadership and organization
to the rising revolutionary up
surge, will meet and overcome the
tremendous difficulties that still
lie in the way, will finally cut
through the jungle of fascism.
Just as the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, under the
leadership of Stain is victorioulsy
building new world of Socialism,
overcoming all obstacles, so the
Communist Party of Germany,
under the leadership of Thael-
mann, fer whose freedom we arc
fighting. will smash the old world
which in Germany shows its final
and most detesiablc form, and cs-
tablish free Soviet Germany.
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of the small local farmers have
pledged their support of the strike.
These local farmers are robbed and
gypped by Seabrook who increased
his large holdings at the expense
Of the smaller farmers. At present
he is buying up delinquent tax
claims in order to be able to seize
more small, ruined farms.
The United Farmers League, with
def Dahl, organizer, is active in
uniting the farmers FOR the support
of the farm workers strike.
More than 400 workers are in
volved in the strike which has for
its main demand the maintenance
of the 80 cents an hour rate agreed
to by Seabrook in a contract signed
with the union in April after sue
cessful strike.
Many Negro workers are on the
picket lines and take a prominent
part in the Strike Committee of Is
which was elected by the workers
to lead the struggle.
The workers live in miserable
shacks on the landlords ground
for which they pay high rents.
Child labor was rife, the children
getting cents an hour. Seabrook
wants to restore the old II cents an
hour scale for the workers.
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'How Long Can Hitler
Hold Out and Who
VIII Succeed Hinl?''

''Purging'' Will Not Strengthen Hitler, Nor VIII
His Regime Collapse Automatically; 1t Will Be
Overthrow By the Workers and Their Allies
Led By the Communist Party
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NEW YORK.-Pointng out that the recent butcheries
of Adoph Hitler could not be compared to the Mateo
der in Italy Of 1924 c. A. Hathaway editor of the Daily
Worker central organ of the Communist Party, declared
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NEW YORK.-Before thousands of workers gathered
Madison Square Garden in this city, Earl Browder Cen
era Secretary of the Communist Party the United States
explained the Communist position the recent events
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Hitler Murders Ordered
ByKruPp, Thyssen; False
NaSi Unity Is Shattered

Fascist Split Proves Communist Analysis; ''Rise
# the Forces of the Proletarian Revolution Is
Proceeding with SevenLeague Boots
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The War Set-Up in Washington h si}%8"'

instance) or to segregate the &C
tusl war millions which went into
such enterprises as the c. W. A
P. w. A. War Department construc-
ton of Fort Lewis, near Tacoma,
Washington. This Fort, which has
little if any strategic value, is OBJ
viousiy being prepared for con-
cenra ton camp.
Following is the way Just few
floors of the Blue Eagle slaughter
house Gncluding funds for hospitals
and cemeteries is subdivided:
DIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS
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Lawson
With Libel in Ala.

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DIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS
las Of May :, 1881
A-War Department from P.W.A.
Air Corps tairpisnesl $500 900
Seacoast Defenses 1000 600
Insular Affairs 1900, 600
National Guard 2.25S,264
Ordnance tammunitionl 5000 600
Signal Corps l76,l70
Quartermaster Corps: Housing
and Technical Construction so, 1852, 765
Mobilization 10000 900
National Cemeteries 5e2, l5l
Funds from c. W. A. part OF
P. w. A. fund.- IS, 600, 900
Total s12o .2os, 72o
B-Nsvy Department
Aeronautics 1900, 900
Engineering III, 500
Ordnance $50, 225
sscretsry's once machine
tools 1850, 900
Supplies and Accounts eos, $50
Yards and Docks Physical
Improvements Including
Construction at Shore sta
tions and Storm Damage 2J.l5O. 5s7
Naval Hospital Phile d.lpnai 1850, 600
Navy statutory - for CON
struction OF 20 wsrships
ordered, by President Roose-
welt 2ss, 900 900
Total ss7Io9s, 924
C-National Committee for
Aeronautics s247,s44
TOTAL DIRECT WAR
PREPARATIONS 1897. $50 $50
INDIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS
from P.W.A.
Emergency Conservation Corps
Purchase of land s2a. 325. 900
Current Expenses 3Ol. 0S7 SIS
Panama Canal 1000, 900
Coast Guard 2503iS72
Total S35o,3e4157
DIRECT WAR PREPARATIONS FROM
OTHER SOURCES
Amount already appropriated
by Congress for military
uses CT Army and Navy $685., Tie o43 /
Army receipts from sale of old
clothing to be used for
purchase OF new clothing
and for transport 80. 900 900
Total s624,7l9,943 |
SUMMARY:
0irect War Preparations
P. w. A. 1897. 555 5ss
Other Sources GA, us, 943 |
Indirect War Preparations 35o,394,1s7
Grand Total sl,372, $40, 71S |
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Bullets, Tear Gas,
In NJ. Farm Strike

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Evening star., 1934-11-15
Aiding Home Building.

From the Cleveland News.
A new phase of home building opens
as the Government announces plans
for the refinancing of existing home
mortgages and the insuring of those
issued for the construction of new
residences.
The tie-up here effected between
Government-which is merely lending
on good security, not giving anything
away-is basically sound.
The economic and social benefits to
be gained by stimulating home owner
ship among Wage-earners Is well
known. Individuals who have a finan-
cial stake in their respective COM
munities are better citizens for it.
The employment angle also Is i'm
portant.
Henry I. Hartman, president Of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
believes that $4,000. 100000 of private
capital will be poured into the building
industry within the next 10 years.
He estimates that each new house
would provide the equivalent of two
mems labor for a year. If 100000
dwellings were put up annually, 1,500,-
O0O now idle men could be put to work.
In addition, there is the increased
work made available to concerns which
furnish building materials; the essen
tial durable goods industries in partic-
ular would be helped.
Lowered interest rates and definite
assurances by the Government that
banks and private lending concerns
financing homes would be guaranteed
their money should prove powerful
factors in getting home building on its
feet.
Evening star., 1934-11-15

among the first to give grateful ac-
knowledgement Of the privilege which
has been his to serve his church and
his country through so long span.
His gratitude must be all the more
compelling when he realizes, as he
may without presumption, that thou
sands wish for him continued years
Of service.
1t was fitting and proper for the
university to pay tribute to the pres
ent dean Of the Catholic hierarchy,
as it did to his well-beloved prede-
cessor. Cardinal Gibbons, fifteen years
ago. The church, with all its insti-
tutions of education and charity,
draws strength from the genius of its
leaders, and it is good that formal ex-
preston of its homage should be
offered. Moreover. the Nations Capt.
tai is, above all others, the ap-
propriate place for such honor to
be paid to "a benefactor Of national
life"
The event has passed into history,
but the Cardinal and the love which
multitudes feel for him remain-the
one force supported by the other.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
When the Upswing Comes.
From the Roanoke Times.

from the Roanoke Times.
There are lot of reasons for ex-
pect1ng a real business upswing, writes
the representative of one of the lead
ing business magazines in the coun-
try. And he proceeds to mention a
few:
l. In 1882 and 1888 we produced
only 100000 cars a year: in 1884
only 2,500,000 cat the present rate)
Compare these figures with the very
conservative estimate Of requirements
needed-3,000, 900 a year!
2. The other day, the president Of a
locomotive concern said that when
the railroads start buying again. his
concern will be busy for 20 years to
come just replacing worn-out engines.
not to mention the requirements Of
ordinary railroad expansion.
3. And think of the dearth Of home
building in the United States-prac-
tically no real building for five long
years! Are people in America never
going to replace houses? Will they
live contentedly in rack and ruin for
many years to come?
The foregoing reasons for expecting
q business upswing are sound and
practical and are entitled to careful
consideration. Some people are say
ing there will never be another boom.
But these are the very same people
who were saying only six or seven years
ago that there would never be another
depression. The depression came,
just the same, Unexpectedly to most
of us. Probably the upswing will
come pretty much the same way.
Those who were caught mapping
when the crash came in 1929 owe it
to themselves not to permit them
selves to be caught mapping when the
upswing starts.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Leading All the Rest.

Mr.. Berryman's cartoon today illus
trates one of the brightest spots of
the Community Chest campaign to
date-the fine and generous response
of Government workers to the Chest
appeal. A few comparisons may be
interesting.
In the 1881 campaign, the Govern
ment Unit quota was $l,000,000. The
campaign in the Government depart
ments was held in advance of the
campaign for the remainder Of the
community and produced s1,034, 4,403,
or 10344 per cent of the quota. The
conduct of the campaign produced
criticism of the apparent over-zealous-
ness of some of the Unit chairmen,
and the Chest, in no way responsible,
was to suffer for it later.
In the 1882 campaign, the Govern
ment Unit quota was $685. ,488. The
campaign in the Government depart
mentS, which was part of the reg
ular campaign, produced s521, $40, or
1898 per cent of the quota. The
blight of the pay cut showed its effect.
Last years campaign set the Gov
eminent Unit quota at $756, ,78465 and
produced s422, ,897.48, or $3.50 per cent
Of the quota. A new administration
had come in, and, in addition to
changes Of personnel and continua-
ton of the pay cut, there was uncer-
tainty and anxiety among Govern
ment workers as to what additional
changes would accompany the next
session of Congress.
This year the Government Unit
quota has been set at $57O,5OO. On
yesterday, the third day of the cam
paign progress report, the Government
Unit had contributed 1886, ,931 SO, and
had passed the so per cent mark to-
ward reaching its goal. On the third
day of this years campaign, the num-
Der of contributors in the Government
service surpasses the total number Of
contributors on the ninth day of each
of the campaigns of the past two years.
And the Government Unit is leading
all the rest.
Government workers are an integral
part of the community. Community
problems are their own. They do not
fail to assume their share of COM
munity responsibilities.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
"Cotton Ed" Objects.
From the Charlotte Observer.

EROm tnc CudflOtLe observer.
Senator Cotton Ed" Smith of South
Carolina ups and says he will demand
the repeal of the Bankhead law in the
next Congress because it has been o
"heart-breaking disappointment"
Interesting, if true!
We wonder whether the Senator Is
speaking In response to the protests
Of constituents in South Carolina who
are pouring their plants in his ears,
or whether he honestly believes that
this mandate is poor excuse in the
way OF saving the South's cotton
farmers.
Senator Smith has been engaged
himself in this business of saving the
cotton farmers of the South for many,
many years, eloquently indorsing
pretty much any movement or or
ganization that came along looking to
their redemption, but somehow or
other, as good as they aimed, none Of
them ever achieved what was origi-
nally intended in the way of getting
the cotton raiser on top of the pack.
And the most important point of It
all is, If Senator Smith finds that the
Bankhead bill Is mess, what suhSti-
tute does he proposed in order to keep
the farmers of the South from making
two or three times more cotton than
the world wants every year they 60 TO
the fields. and In the Fall take the
punishment for such folly by selling
at price that does not reimburse
them for expenses?
Evening star., 1934-11-15
Pedestrians Blamed
For Ignoring Lights

To the Editor of The Star:
I see by the paper today that United
States District Attorney Leslie C.
Garnett attacks our speed laws, char
acterizing them as unreasonable and
unenforceable. I hardly think that
this will be accepted by the pedestrian.
In view Of his difficulty in dodging
them, he thinks that the autos come
fast enough.
But one thing I do think repre-
hensible, and in every way unreason-
able, is the way in which pedestrians
ignore the signal lights. In this re-
spect Portland, Greg, could set them
an example. In visit of three weeks
I saw only one pedestrian go against
the red light, and I attributed this
one instance to absentmindedness.
I asked an officer if it was against
the law to ignore the lights. He said
that it was not so far as the pedes-
trian was concerned, but that when the
traffic lights were first installed Off
GERS were placed at all important
crossings, and that the people had
learned their lesson.
Apparently they have not learned it
in Washington. wonder if eventually
We shall not be forced to make
ignoring the red light by the pedestrian
q finable offense.
A. H. THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1934-11-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

| chance of doing damage. even If he
had SO intended, which 1t does not
appear he did.
The raised feelers of his antago-
mist, held stiffly before 1t, help stop
| him short of a mark
The antagonist usually backs slight
ly, then bristles his high extended
dorsal, and clashes his feelers back
| and forward few times.
He then makes a forward rush.
Perhaps as many as a dozen Of
these charges, first by one and then
by the other, may be made before one
fish decides to call 1t a day.
Now here comes the interesting part.
The defeated animal, much as il
his bluff had been called, turns tail
squarely and runs into a corner
The uninitiated observer would
think this would prove the very
chance the winner wanted.
The enemy in retreat stands with
unprotected tail grandly waving.
Surely II these fishes were human
beings, the victor would give him
ooA4 pull, az lCdoI.
Here, however, the code of honor
Of Angel fishes comes into play
AS long as the defeated creature
stays with its head in the corner the
triumphant fish will not molest him.
The Angel code OF honor calls for
war only when the enemy is looking.
I'VE fight only head-on," they say,
as plainly as If they put their actions
| into words.
The observer will wonder how these
small Amazonian creatures, gathered
from the headwaters Of that mighty
South American river, ever arrived at
this curious code.
1t Is probable that the fancier's
specimens never saw river, but only
tank in some breeders establish
ment in New York, New Jersey or
Pennsylvania.
Did this code originate in river or
aquarium?
Wherever 1t began, 1t is never vio-
lated One may watch these mimic
displays of valor by the hour, If one
be a real enthusiast, and never see
outrage done to the loser. so long as
he stays in his corner.
Let him once issue forth, however,
the battle is on again.
1t may be that this time the for
mer loser becomes the victor.
Then the former winner goes into a
corner, and stays there until he, in his
turn. gets his breath, or whatever it
Is fish needs to get before deciding
! on more fighting.
This strange code of the Angel
fishes might serve as model to
human beings.
There is incorporated in it one of
humanity's best sporting instincts, not
to hit man when he's down dn
this case in the corner).
But these flnny fellows have gone
mankind one better, some will think
in refusing to hit Tin this case bite
when the other turns away.
The loser simply stops the battle
when he turns tail. Perhaps that is
why he does it. 1t may be in Nature
he would find no such convenient cor
ner, that in pool or river the Ptero-
phyllum scalare has no code at all. In
the home aquarium, however, he is
every inch the grand gentleman, re-
fusing to fight unless eve to eye,
head on, and may the best fish win.