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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
MANS FATE, by Andre Malraux.
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas.
$3.50.
Reviewed by
ISIDOR SCHNEIDER

MO ONE can leave this novel with
~ out respect for it. 1t is the work
of writer who brings to a broad
but sensitive understanding the COM
pleting gift of a beautiful and ex-
pressive style.
Intellectually this remarkable
novel is one Of the purest express
sions of the sympathizer not yet
completely won over that I have yet
seen. Because through the sensi-
tiveness of his perceptions he can
feel the sufferings of the decadent
bourgeoiSie, he comes dangerously
close to sentimental sympathy for
them; because through his intel
ligence he understands that their
actions are not always expressions
of their will but incidents in the
unavoidable destiny of capitalism,
he comes dangerously close to JUS
tifying them. Only in the last Sec
ton of the book, one of the most
eloquent perorations in contempo-
rary literature. is the danger def
nitely overcome.
In literary sense, Malraux be-
longs with the masters of the bour-
geois decadence, although he works
not in the manner of Proust or
Joyce, but in the manner of that
naive immigrant artist, Joseph Con-
rad But where Conrad travelled
among primitive people, Malraux.
also wanderer, travelled where he
could see dead and buried civiliza-
lions as in the sand-blotted cities
of ancient Arabia; or dying civili-
cations like Mandarin China. Soil
| tary travellers, as we can see in the
work of Doughty, Colonel Lawrence,
Conrad and now MalrauX, become
obsessed with the problems of per-
sonality, probably because their
own, as result of their lonely jour-
neys, is projected so sharply and
disproportionately against an alien
mass. 1t may even be that Malraux
has done this against his own con-
scious desire, but in his novels, SO
far, he has contained in the line of
the great bourgeois decadents who,
conscious of death, have concerned
themselves with the dissection of
personality.
THE story Malraux tells is one of
4 the most tragic and heroic
episodes in the Chinese Communist
revolution. In 1927 the Kuomintang,
invigorated and led by the large
groups of Communists allied with
it. had swept on to victory after
victory While Chang Kai Sick
marched his army toward Shanghai,
the revolutionary workers seizcd the
arae-als and police posts and held
the city for him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25


iShed his exposure The artists
in Russia, like everybody else, had
to be in the service of a new and
universally hopeful civilization.
I INCOLN Steffens is not in a posi-
Il ton to check Eastman's lies. He
Is ready to admit that much that
Eastman says may be true. Admit
ting that not everything in our lit
erature is satisfactory, Lincoln Stef-
fens tries to explain it by the hard
ships of the Revolution. However
admitting that Eastman's lies are
partially true, Steffens likens East
man to the passenger who had
missed his train because of his pre-
occupation with his baggage-the
old bourgeois ideas, to which be-
longs hero worship. But the Rus
SLAMS, Lincoln Steffens says, have
new democracy. They think that
no matter what happens -. the i'm
portsnt thing for them is to hang
together and not permit any more
heroes splitting them up" And
Steffens adds: ut seems to an old
politician like this reviewer, that
there is a scientific suggestion in
that. not a point to stab Stain
with"
We are not going to prove here to
Steffens that the so-called heroes
bewailed by the Eastmans are rot,
and that the Russian workers and
their Party have raised heroes who
help them build socialism to a pede-
stall unknown in history. We quoted
Lincoln Steffens' reflections merely
to show that even the elder gen.
Grafton of Americas radical intel
ligentsia, remote from Bolshevism,
and not even familiar with the facts
in the case, was able to discern
through the froth Of Eastmans
anti-Soviet SANDER, lackey Of the
bourgeoisie hiding his uniform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Gasoline from Salt Water


A FRENCH inventor. NJ. saheur.
n has announced that salt water will
supply a substitute for gasoline. The
we'll known fact that salt water is
always found in proximity to oil
deposits led him to believe that the
former is the initial element Of oil.
According to the inventor, oil is
manufactured from salt water by a
simple process involving the intro
duction of an unreyealed reagent
which transforms elaborated water
into gasoline. The salt water is
sent through collector feeding
several lines through which it is
Theoretically filtered on to soft coal.
1t is then carried to an electric oven
to be decomposed.
The oven contains three spools Of
insulated copper wire and central
tube pierced with threaded holes
into which are screwed tubes con-
tanning the secret reagent. Having
passed through this device the solu-
eASAA 10 eAAOWCO W SCbtlC anu ID kIAEli
run into storage watts.
The new fuel, known as Sahol, is
supposed to be nearly identical with
gasoline and costs less than cent
a gallon to produce. According to
the correspondent of the newSpsp per
lie Matin, M. Saheur will sell his
formula for two billion francs
(sl35, 100000 TO governments who
can utilize his invention for military
purposes. If the scheme is not Just
the crackbrained product Of the in
ventor's imagination it will no doubt
be bought up by the Standard Oil
Company or one of its international
competitors. 1t will, of course, not
be marketed even if it is practical
for commercial manufacture. The
oil trust that buys the invention-if
it does not steal the idea-wil use
Sahol as an economic threat against
its rivals. 1t will also receive an
exorbitant price from the govern
ment to keep the product military
secret, and probably be guaranteed
besides a monopoly of the right to
make Sahol for emergency use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
French NOUeIist Treats
Chinese Revolution with
Sensitiuity and judgment

Katov, the veteran revolutionist, is
shown racked by the torment of
obedience to orders that he feels
will lead to failure.
BY this, do not want to be un-
derstood as opposing psychological
analysis to fiction; but to point out
that its use here is in the manner
of the bourgeois decadents, and that,
to an extent, in covering mass &C
ton, the method is out of place,
and dangerous. For as 1 have
pointed out, above, showing one man
against the world leads to defeat
ism. Revolts are not made by
gatherings of hermits.
The characters on the other side,
the native bourgeois, and their
stools, and their masters in the
European concessions, are drawn
with the same conscientious details
1t is in the contrasts of these two
sets of characters, the men of the
revolution and the men of the coun-
ter-revolution, that Malraux re-
veals at their highest his stern and
keen judgment and his emotional
orientation. On the one hand we
have the devotion, heroism and
honesty of the revolutionary work
ers; on the other hand the cynicism,
the morbid sensuality, the sick pride,
and the futile deceits of the bour-
geoisie. Malraux leaves no doubt as
to the ultimate issue of the conflict
between these two sets of antago-
nists. The bourgeoisie is demora-
lized and poisoned even by its VIC
tories; the proletarist is disciplined
and strengthened even by its de-
feats.
ONE of the phases of the conflict
v is presented confusedly. The i'm
preston is given at one point that
the Communists, Chinese and Rus
sian, did not understand the situa-
ton, and the risks of their alliance
with the Kuomintang. The alliance
was unavoidable and the risks were
understood. The alliance was nee
essary for number of reasons. AS
it developed, Communist participa
ton in the nationalist revolt en-.
abled so effective an agitation thai
the movement not only survived The
reaction but laid the base for it,
growth to its present great heights
it established the Communist Party
as the only Party uncompromisingly
representing the interests of thu
Chinese people; and it smashed &
great obstacle to revolutionary &C.
ton in China, the spirit Of COM
promise, the bargaining psychology
The Chinese people today realize
how dangerous it is to go int
partnership with capitalism. The
have learned lesson in politica,
realism which their customs and in
stitutions had blinded them to, until
toe Kuomintang betrayal. Now the
Chinese class struggle is stripped in
this respect, as in others. OF the
checks and traditions of Confuciar
feudaliSm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
STAGE AND SCREEN
GOrkPs Home Life in Neu
SOUiet NeUsreeE at the Acme

On the same program with the
new Soviet film, THE Problem of
Fatigue" produced by the Russian
Academy OF Science, and which
opens today, the Acme Theatre will
present the latest Soviet newsreel,
just received from Moscow. High
lights Of the film include intimate
pictures Of Gorki's Home Life; Ma
tive Songs and Dances; Moscow
Children at the Zoo; Dolphin-Fish-
ing in the Black Sea; Lacemakcrs
of Vologda; Ambassador Bulltt in
Kharkov, etc. The Problem of
Fatigue" the main feature on the
program deals with fatigue in In
dustry and Nature, revealing its ma
ture and prevention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

do that, Mrs, Person." Pop said,
hesitatingly.
"At least if I could get the first
week in advance"
That's o. X. He works with me
in the same shop. I'll see to it that
you gets your money" Pop assured
her.
Il reckon your word is good, she
finally consented.
well, I'll be SEEM you" Pop
said and walked out.
Cliffs appetite was Sharpened by
the stsaming pots on the table. He
sat down to eat. He filled himself
up with hot chow and bread and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Forest Fires and the Drought

AMONG the more serious con-
n sequences of this years drought
are 6,973 forest fires that occurred
during the first seven months of
1884. This number, according to
the U. S. Forest Service, is an in
crease of 2,727 fires over an average
taken for the same period during
the past three years.
The area burned is estimated at
$4,000 acres, which is equal to
nearly one-third the area of Rhode
Island. The number of fires in
creases each day, especially in
Washington and Oregon, with their
huge stands of timber, mainly
coniferous, which has been one of
the two or three chief, and indeed
only, sources Of supply for construc-
ton lumber in recent years. Lack
of rainfall has make large areas as
dry as finder and new fires spring
UP continually.
The government shares respon-
sibility with the drought for this
waste Of national resources. 1t has
reduced the appropriations for the
forest service SO that the efficiency
of the lookout system has been seri-
ously reduced. And it has inaugu-
rated plan of fighting fires with
inexperienced C. C. c. boys. Lack
ing knowledge of the job. A number
of such recruits have been cornered
by fires and been burned to death
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
GOING EAST
4 Novel of PrOIet@i0m Life
BY DANIEL HoR WITT

Synopsis: Cliff Nfgan young worker hoboing
east looking for work. He stops in small
food and shelter and induced by Pop grizzly old worker
to apply for at the MacDermott Wire Works.
taken the labelling department He becomes friendly
with Lentz another young worker to whom boasts
adventures the road first day Of work is over)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
TUNING In

100 P.M.-WEAF-Baseball Resume
WoR-sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-stamp Club--Capt. Tim Healy
WABC-Charles Garlic, Tenor
7:15-WEAF- Homespun-DT. William H.
Foulkes
wOR-Danny Dee, Commentator
JZ-Flying-Captain Al Williams
WABC-Jones Orchestra
1880 WEAF-Martha Mears, Songs
WOR-Robert Bedell. Organ
WJZ-Madriguers, Orchestra
7:45-WEAF-Sisters of the Skillet
WABC-Mary Eastman, Soprano
Concert Orchestra
300 WEAF-Bestor Orchestra
WOR-To Be Announced
WJz-Rochester Civic Orchestra, Guy
Fraser Harrison, Conductor
WABC-Fats Waller, Organ: Besle
Street Boys Songs
s;1S-WABC-Dance Orchestra; Claude
Refs, Tenor
800 WEAF-Canadian Concert
WOR-Dance Orchestra
WJz-Northern Lights-Dramatic
Sketch; Major Leon Richardson,
Narrator
S4S-WABC-Modern Male Chorus
WEAF-One Mans Family-Sketch
WOR-Della Baker, Soprano; Will
liam Hargreave, Baritone
WJz-Variety Musicale
WABC-Dstroit symphony Orchestra
Victor Kolsr Conductor
30-WEAF-Chicago Symphony Orches.
ira, Henry Hadley. Conductor
WOR-Dance Orchestra
WJz-To Be Announced
1000 WEAF-Ray knights Cuckoos
WOR-To Be Announced
WJz-Pedro Via Orchestra
WABC-Variety Musicale
TO- 5-WEAF-King Orchestra
WOR-Pauline Alpert, Piano
WJz-Male Quartet
10:30-WOR-Van Duzer Orchestra
WJZ-Barn Dance
WABC-Michaux Congregation
:45-WEAF-Sihersn Singers. Direction
Nicholas vasilieff, Tenor
HOO WEAF-Lombsrdo Orchestra
WOR-Weather: Lane Orchestra
WABC-Sylvia Frocs Songs
:15WABC-Gray Orchestra
0-WEAT-whiteman Orchestrs
WCR-Trni Orchestra
WJZ-Martn Orchestra
11:45-wABC-Grofe Orchestra
16:00-WOR-Barnet Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

effect, and We may shortly expect
to see calf liver priced at a dollar
pound, despite the tremendous
surplus Of carcasses available
through the wholesale slaughter Of
cattle under the drought.
Rattlesnakes and Religion
THE bourgeois press recently 'front.'
1 PACED a Holy Roller preacher who
let a rattlesnake bite him twice, re-
fused treatment, and recovered
without medical aid, as a proof that
faith in the Lord is a sufficient an
titoxin. There was much talk Of
supernatural power and miracles,
and there were among the back
pages explanations by scientists.
The upshot Of the business was that
the preachers flock were convinced
that their local skypilot is one of
the Lords anointed, under the
special protection Of Jehovah, and
pretty much poison-proof. The
simonpure scientists who run the
radio racket fastened to hand the
parson a contract so that ne can
spill his own theological poison to
millions of listeners.
The event is an interesting ex-
position Of the social basis and role
Of religion The evangelical cults
like the Holy Rollers flourish among
the Appalachian mountaineers be-
cause of the theological isolation
and material rudeness and boredom
of their life, and especially because
of the unreheved. gray drudgery
which, with intervals of homicide
and alcohol, makes up most of their
existence.
Holy Rollerism, with its orgiastics
and emotional hogwallowing. gets
the back-country hillfolk. And in
the cities Of the seaboard and in
terror you can meet numbers of So
cially hopeless and world-weary
people who go in for Christian
Science, Theosophy, and a dozen
other mixtures Of the All, the Good,
and ethical culture" In both cases
the result is that the victims are
doped, shielded from unWelcome
contact with reality. And the social
effect is that the victims are
diverted from protest against the
capitalistic system, which rules that
reality, and makes it so anti-human
and anti-social, and are rendered
somehow content with their narco-
tiled lot.
The mountain preacher with his
crude method Of attracting notoriety
and radio contracts is kind Of IN
dressed demonstration of the actual
workings of preachers, high or low,
everywhere. Cardinals, popes,
bishops and rabbis, they exert
themselves in contests with imagi-
nary evils, practice the most con-
temptible demsgogy, and assume
high, heroic, and nallow poses in
order to win the applause and con-
tributions of bosses, on one hand,
and on the other to deceive and
befuddle their parishioners into
satisfaction and resignation with
the capitalist and religious racket.
The hokum has a different front,
but it is the same hokum.
incidentally, the way the rattle
snake business was played up by
the press shows how eager the capi-
talist newspapers are to promote at
every point the confusion which ex-
lists in many readers minds regard
ing the possibility of supernatural
magic existing side by side with
scientific fact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

IUFIEN the individuals whom he
w writes ABOUT win their individual
victories in the general triumph of
the workers, we see them without
elation, unable to rally into cheer
ing, celebrating tumults. They are
exhausted by their tensions, their
personal problems. Kyo cannot
throw off, even in the heat of &C
ton, the numbing misery of his
wife's casual end quickly atoned for
betrayal; Chin, the terrorist, who
blows himself up against an empty
car in which he believed Chang
Kai Shek was riding. is half-insane
from the death neurosis produced
by his first assassination; even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

meat He hadn't eaten a meal like
that for hell Of long time.
When he was through with sup
per, the landlady showed him a
room from which she has lust
cleaned out some storage. 1t was
small and ingy. The only light
came from a gas jet, hanging down
from the low ceiling, patches of
paper were torn off the walls. Here
and there q cockroach was scurry-
ing.
Cliff didn't mind. He was used to
this sort of lodging. He felt well
fed. The bedding was soft. His
bones ached from the hard days
work. He sank into sleep as soon
as he closed his eyes.
A WEEK passed and Cliff was still
n in Blackwell He didn't like the
work at the MacDermott Wir c
Works. The most he had ever done
was work on a farm couple of
days now and then. It felt stupid
to put in six days a week for twelve
bucks. Nine went to the landlady
for board and room and three dol
lars was left for butts and lunches
But he had plenty Of food and g
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

EASTMAN'S book is widely touted
Il by the American bourgeois press.
A chorus of scribblers who have nei-
ther relation to literature nor any
conception of Soviet literature are
glad to find material for slandering
the Soviet Union from a So-called
revolutionary writer. (Another illus
tration of the correctness of Com
rade Stains assertion that Trotsky-
ism has become the advance guard
of the international Counter-Revo-
lutionD. From these, however,
sharply differs the voice of Lincoln
Steffens, who came out in the liber-
al New Republic with an adverse
criticism of Eastman's book
Lincoln Steffens is veteran of
the radical humanitarian American
literature who 40 years ago began
to expose American capitalism. His
two-volume Autobiography is a re-
markable document of the history
Of the American intelligentsis. Hav-
ing read Eastman's book. the vet
eran suggests that it would be
better to go to Russia to learn
what the Russians can teach us,
to the end that we may get out
of our uniforms. We have to learn
-. to see them and see, too, that
art is a weapon. There is no per-
ception in Eastman's book that
artists in Egypt, Greece, Rome,
in middle-age Europe and in the
United States today, had to and
did put uniforms on their art;
and that they kept them on till
the artists themselves came to like
and hardly to notice it. In Holly
wood, where great new art is
being nodded to At the purposes
of our civilization, the friction
throws off hundreds Of stories
more ridiculous and tyrannical
than Max Eastman's citations
from Russia. And Stain did cast
out the tyrants there; he did it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

A Rcd Builder on every busy
street corner in tie country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

about the Eastmans. Let them rest
calmly on the other side of the
fence and play the role of poul-
tice drawing out all that is putrid,
which we do not need. However, we
shall yet encounter plenty of super
atition even among those intellec-
tuals who might join with the work.
ing class. In this regard, the fact
that Eastman, with his mental bag
gage, could have once been an in
tellectual luminary is something to
pause over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
LABORATORY
AND SHOP
BY DAVID sEY

liver was not seriously depleted by
the new utilization The new dis
covery no doubt will have q similar
effect, and we may shortly expect
to see calf liver priced at a dollar
pound, despite the tremendous
surplus Of carcasses available
through the wholesale slaughter Of
cattle under the drought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Lockey Without q Uniform:
A ppraisdI of Max Eastman
By Famous Russian Critic
Anti-SOviet ISLANDERS
Delight Bourgeois
Press

too, before our author had fin
iShed his exposure The artists
in Russia, like everybody else, had
to be in the service of a new and
universally hopeful civilization.
Evening star., 1934-11-14

Florsheim four
evelet oxford OF
black or broDn
suede NTH con-
trdstfnp . O m .
stitching, S7.S5.
Evening star., 1934-11-14

quently as pos
sible third-party candidate for Presi-
dent, Gov. Olson asserted that in the
event Of such revolt" he would be
: In the fight, but not as a candidate.
Revolt Is Alternative.
Il will predict one thing" he said.
"Either we get equality for agricul-
ture, or We get an agrarian political
g.: revolt in couple of years. All third
parties in the past have originated in
agrarian centers, and that's where it
will come from, If it does.
Yes, Ill be in the fight, if it
comes" Gov. Olson said, in reply to
0 question. Il would like to be the
campaign manager, rather than the
candidate-the fellow who throws the
bricks, rather than the one who ducks
them"
Price-Fixing Held Needed.
Price-fixing of farm commodities is
an absolute necessity to insure equal
ity for agriculture, Gov. Olson said,
predicting that the next step would
then pe consumers cooperative
movement.
The Federal Government should
build consumers co-operatives, he
said, and indicated he may take up
his plan with Federal relief admin
istrators in Washington next week.
He will leave for Washington Satur-
Gay.
A plan of using relief monies for
leasing of factories and sale of COM
,Fa NV lvy
ployed on the open market with the
funds so obtained for use of re-em-
ployment purposes, also was advanced
by him, working in with consumers
cooperative movement.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
SEVEN NAMED IN DRIVE
OF LYNCHBURG COLLEGE
100000 Is Sought for First IL
Months of 2O-Year Plan.
Meet Sunday.

Seven church chairmen have been
appointed by N. R. Robinson, chair
man Of the Washington zone, in the
drive to raise 100000 for the first
year of the Lynchburg College 20
year plan.
They are Mrs. o. B. Atwood, for
! the Columbia Heights Church; Miss
Gladys Thrift, H Street Christian
Church; T. T. Golden, Ninth Street
Christian Church; Mrs. Simon Nc
Kimmie, Park View Christian Church;
B. H Kaufman, Mount Rainier Chris
tian Church; Rev. j. L. Black, Rock
vile Church, and Mrs. Clara H. Gordy,
Magruder Memorial Church. These
chairmen will appoint committees for
the drive, beginning December 4.
All chairmen for the Capital region
will meet next Sunday at the Columbia
Heights Church at $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-11-14
HIT THAT
COLD
where IT LIVES
in the System!

Don't fool yourself about a cold!
It's nothing to be taken lightly nor
treated lightly A cold is an internal
infection that will quickly spread
within the system unless promptly
checked. The wise thing to take for
a cold is Groves Laxative Bromo
Quinine.
First of all, it is distinctly a cold
remedy and not a "cure-all". Sec
ondly, it is an internal treatment.
Thirdly, it does the four things nec-
essary. 1t opens the bowels, combats
the cold germs and fever in the sys-
tenn, relieves the headache and
grippy feeling and tones and for
tifies the entire system. That's the
treatment q cold requires and any,
thing less is taking chances. All
druggists sell Groves Laxative
Bromo Quinine, SOC and SOC. Ask
for it by the full name and reject
liza Observation-Disclosures.