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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Our Thanksgiving Dance
Lecture

DR.. Nicholas Street, prominent
gynecologist, will lecture under the
auspices of the Medical Advisory
Board. The lecture will be given
on Wednesday, December S, at $50
p. m. at Irving Plaza. The sub
1ect is timely one: Sterilization,
Fascist Weapon" Admission is
Csc. The proceeds will go to tbs
$500 quota of the Medical ADJ
visory Board in the Daily Worker
Drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
IT'S STILL WINTER

IT'S STILL WINTER
The doctors friends are hard al
work, Judging by today's figures.
But the boys are still 40 per cent
below their $500 quota.
Add1 proceeds from DIR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Answer

YOU state that you have an EN-
l larged heart" or "murmur." The
two are not the same Murmu
may be present without heart dis
ease; but assuming the more Sc
rious of the two, i.e., enlarged heart
our advice is the following:
Your doctor advised you to avoid
competitive games or strenuous
sports, like rowing, running, noun
tain climbing, and any activities
requiring great effort. This is sound
advice for anyone, even if the heart
defect is very mild. There is no
objection to the less strenuous &C
tivitieS. Regular sexual intercourse
is not too much of a strain, unless
the individual is severely i'll with
heart disease. The question whether
a man having a heart defect should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
of Local Endorses Unemployment Insurance Congress

or should not marry has to be con.
sldered from other angles besides
the sexual. Definite advice should
be given only after careful exam
nation by a physician experienced
in these questions.
If you think of getting married.
now or in the future, it would be
advisable to consult either a heart
specialist or the Cardiac Clinic of
one Of the reputable large hospitals
in the city.
Our Thanksgiving Dance
IN addition to the appearance Of
l Yossel Cutler as a special attrac-
ton at the Dance, we will also have
a performance given by the New
Dance Group. Don't forget Thanks.
giving Eve NOV. 28) is the night
of our dance.
Tickets should be bought in ad.
vance, since we do not get any per-
centage of tickets sold at the door.
Tickets can be gotten at the Work.
ers Book Shops in New York City
so E. 18th St; Bronx. 500 Prospect
Ave, and Brooklyn, 369 Suffer Ave.
Ave; /;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
should Cardiacs Marry

question: am q linotyper,
Y % years old and single. have
an enlarged heart or murmur', but
otherwise 1 am perfectly we'll, This
heart defect was first noticed about
10 years ago in Germany. at which
time nothing was done about it.
"a few months ago, while visiting
a doctor, for severe attack of
poison ivy, l was thoroughly ex-
amined and the physician noticed
my heart ailment. We had a little
talk and when we came to speak
about marriage, the doctor advised
me not to get married, claiming
that marriage affords an easy OPP
portunity for sexual intercourse, and
intercourse, he claimed, was a ter
rifle strain on the heart, which for
normal individuals was of no eff
feet; but in my case it was diff
ferent. He also advised me not 10
carry heavy packages, not to par
ticipate in competitive sports, etce-
terra. In one word, not to do any
thing which requires great efforts.
Do you think the doctors advice
about not marrying and the other
things was sound, or should I dis
regard it--B. r., Bronx"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

The first three Lefty" hand
kerchiefs go to Leah Meisner.
Send your contribution to the
Daily Drive. If it is the highest
of the day, after the Lefty"
handkerchiefs are gone, you will
get = hand made collar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09

cradle fluctuations in our collective well-being
alterations Of prosperity and depression. To
reduce these TO a minimum We shall have to
assure a continuance Of mass purchasing pow
er even in periods of relative slackening of cur
economic tempo. This can be done in efficient
and civilized fashion only through the estab-
lishment Of federal social insurance-unem-
ployment, health and old age insurance
AL of this will require ample public funds
Those who absorbed an unearned and unjus-
tihable portion Of our social income In the
past have reduced mass purchasing power and
have brought us to our present lamentable
condition. They must turn back part Of their
bounties to aid in the desperate battle.
Higher income taxes in the upper brackets,
and a great increase in inheritance and estate
taxes are essential at once. If necessary,
capital levy may be resorted to. This is in the
interest even Of those from whom the capital
may be taken. Half hog is better than none
If prosperity is not restored, and that very
promptly. there will be no capital left to
anybody.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
INITIATION AND RECOVERY

DERHAPS the main danger in the current
i debate over money is that it makes us
forget more weighty matters which must claim
our attention if We hope to pull definitely out
Of the slump and to salvage the capitalistic
system.
The sensible way in which to regard the
whole imitation controversy is to recognize that
decisive relation is an incidental but indis-
psilsable item in a broad gauge assault upon
rugged individualism and the dominion of the
money changers.
If we wish to reform and preserve cap
italism for any considerable period, We must
concentrate our efforts upon assuring mass
purchasing power and upon conserving the in
eessts of the consumer.
Finance capitalism must be ended 1t is
tina common enemy Of all mankind-even of
the money-changers themselves in the last
ANALYSIS Industrial capitalism may be aided
and strengthened. but the new era of cap
itahSm must be one of consumer capitalism.
If the consumer is not armed with effective
and adequate purchasing power capitalism
must of necessity fold up-and that rather
rapidly. The profit system can not function
Nll4tSc EOONAS NdAl u SoAls anu Adk4tdA-
ism one can not buy goods unless he has
money.
To insure adequate mass purchasing pow
er. steps should be taken to prevent the &C
emulation and transmission of great fortunes,
the poSsessors OF which can not, and should
not. consume goods in proportion to their re-
sources
Public works and relief projects will have
TO be expanded and pushed rapidly, in order
that We may not collapse while the physician
is working over US Farm relief and reorgan-
ization must be successfully prosecuted, so
that some Il per cent Of our population can
once again possess the means of purchasing
their share Of the goods essential to life and
happiness.
Labor must be allowed to assist in pro-
viding mass purchasing power through COM
plete freedom to organize and bargain col
lectively. The government need not become
a partisan of labor. but it must remove the
disabilities and handicapS imposed upon it by
finance capitalism and a subServient judicial
system. The government must enter the Ia
Dor field at least to the extent of prescribing
adequate minimum wages.
No conceivable arrangement within cap
italstic system can provide complete stability
q the economic order. There win be consid-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
THE SUGAR MESSAGE

THE sugar problem is one of those on which
u wise men disagree and every suggested So
luton seems subject to some legitimate criti-
cism. The Roosevelt proposal sent tn con-
gress yesterday may be as good a theoretic
compromise as is possible. But we are not at
all certain that it would work as the President
hopes
There is danger that it will hurt the con-
sumner without helping the farmer. Since such
a hazard exists, the President is properly
cautious in putting the crop restriction and
processing tax provisions and the quotas in
experimental form.
To protect the American beet sugar grower,
the President would provide a quota of 1850,
600 short tons and then would bring sugar
under the agricultural adjustment act to pro-
vide a processing tax of Il cent a pound to
compensate farmers holding down production
to that quota level To save consumers from
carrying this tax he would provide that the
tax rate should not exceed the amount of
tariff reduction.
A quota of $4,000 short tons would be
given Cuba, 100000 to the Philippines $685.
600 to Hawaii and s21 900 to Puerto Rico And
in negotiating a new Cuban treaty favor
able consideration will be given to an increase
in the existing preferential on Cuban sugar
to an extent compatible with the join5 inter-
estS of the two countries"
It is questionable whether this arrange
ment would go far enough either in reviving
Cuba economically as a market for Our prod
uctS or in protecting the American sugar con-
sumer-
To classify sugar as ga basic agricultural
commodity" under the AAA when only about
21a per cent of our farmers are growers and
when that product accounts for less than
per cent of the total farm income, appears
rather far-fetched. The history of this Amer
lean industry is that large corporations get
the profits. rather than the poorly paid farm
ers and worse paid field hands, including chill
dren. In any event, it is hard to justify tariff
protection and processing tax subsidies for
2is per cent Of the farmers at the expense of
all city consumers and more than 81 per cent
of the farmers.
The President, in all fairness, states that
and resulting high sugar prices as follows:
The annual gross value of the sugar crop
to American beet and cane growers is approx
mately s6O0O0OO0. Those who believe Elm the
free importation Of sugar say that cents
> pound tariff is levied mostly to protect this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
Stop Those Lynchangs!

barious practice Of lynching that
oges on, particularly in the south.
People outside the United States
can not very we'll understand how
a country, dotted with universe
ties and colleges and having so
many cultural institutions, can
perpetrate such a horrible thing
like lynching without taking def
mite steps to protect the reputa-
ton of the nation.
1t must be admitted that while
America is a great country, it is
now the most barbarious section
of our civilization. When one
meets an American abroad, he
has good reason to be afraid of
him, because he may be tempted
to be as brutal outside his coun-
try as he is within. To roast
men and hang them to the limbs
of trees aand then dissect them
piece by piece, surely can not be
counted as good behavior within
any civilization.
The American is a contrast. He
is civilized, yet he is savage.
The stories that come out Of the
south prove this and the rest
of the nation ought to be ashamed
to allow this indictment to stand
because it doesn't mean we'll for
the white American people.
Every citizen should urge con-
gress to pass the Costigan-Wag-
ner i-lynching bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
CARTOONIST TELLS EN-

TT is time the art element took the often
sive."
Whereupon Will Dyson, famous English
cartoonist uses his pen for words instead of
pictures and there results Artists Among the
Bankers" Dutton), one of the best sustained
pieces of invective to roll off the presses in
months.
The bankers and the business men, to put
it in something less than Dyson's language,
are the cause of it all.
He leaves his drawing board for the type
writer with the obvious hesitation. Let me
say" he says that do not write as one am
bilious of writing-it is not my calling I
am a simple artist-one earning an honorable
pttance by defaming the great"
Like this:
The melancholy truth is that there is not
nor was there ever in our world-a marvel
that sprang from the business brain That
brain is one of the noncreative things Of the
world. 1t is a sterile brain. 1t has neither
pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity-itS
functions are the functions of the mule
IF we rely on Business Man in this crisis,
@NoNs ~0AANAAACHo
was, and never will he be, aught but a cipher
in the realities of the world. Historically he
is a liberated slave keeping the accounts of
mankind. and keeping them wrong To leave
our salvation to him is to invite him to ex-
hibit his incompetence and cruelty to lead us
further and further wrong"
But Dyson doesn't leave his drawing board
merely to crack down on bankers and business
men He has purpose. And that is to preach
the recovery doctrine of Major c. H. Douglas,
author of the social credit plan.
Business is a weak sister She is dying
in her failure to assist herself. Being no bust
ness man. claim doctors mandate in this
connection. =. There is only one thing that
can save it. That salvation can only come
through the sale of our surplus goods, as
damnation is coming through the nonsale of
them"
1t is a question of price with Douglas and
Dyson. The latter asserts that the bankers
and business men do not permit the circula-
ton of enough money to permit the purchase
Of the things business creates. He states two
laws that he says now exist: That more money
shall be returned to business than they have
to return distribute in finance; and that
business and banking shall be the sole dis
tributor of finance at large. These Dyson
says, make neither sense nor arithmetic"
The answer. apparently in Dyson's mind, is to
finance consumption.
Whatever one might think of the DYSON
Douglas doctrine, whatever one may think of
his sizzling indictment of bankers and bust
ness men, there can be no quarrel with the
statement that Dyson the artist is very eff
fective His book he illustrates himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09

ism, giving my name, city and street
address, believing that if he were
sincere he would communicate with
me.
Now it seems that the question
involved took Socialism and the
Constitution from an entirely diff
ferent angle heretofore thought Of
and proved to be the rock upon
which their old-time cut and dried
logic foundered Mr.. Maddox again
appeared in The Times with a TOO
word article in which he said every
thing and proved nothing, to which
I replied, stating my reasons for not
wanting to conduct the debate
through the press. (This letter, after
several weeks delay, is as yet I'M
published), and here let me add
that was a paid contributor to the
Scripps- McRae publications long be-
fore The Times was thought of, and
if one can not get the same con-
sideration as another I readily can
guess the reason.
It was not for Mr.. Maddox S
benefit I had in mind but he is a
perfect type to stand up before an
audience and overwhelm him with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
By Benjamin A. Osborne

By Benjamin A. Osborne
Another -lynching bill has
been INTRODUCED before the con-
greSS of the Unietd States. SINH
lar bills have been introduced in
nearly every session of congress,
but for some inexplicable reason
died for lack of support.
America is still the laid of dual
culture-that of a highly devel-
oped civilization and that of bar
barity. We have more churches
in the United States than any
other country of the world. We
have more laws than nearly all
1.-THE other countries of the world
put together. Taken by this stand
ard, it ought to be the most adj
vanced country culturally, but I'M
Fortunately there is another side
to American life, and that is the
barbariSm of certain sections
where men are lynched for the
amusement it affords the mob.
In the first four weeks of the
year there is a record of three
lynchings. The last one has taken
place in Florida, a state along
with Georgia, Mississippi, Ala
banla and Texas very famous for
this kind Of amusement. 1t is
true that each state of the Ameri-
can union has its own sovereign
rights, but the federal govern
ment ought to be able to do
something to restrain the bar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
FORGETTING 12.OOO.OOO

IT is not surprising that NRA has not solved
the complicated economic and social prob
LENS that revolve about the Negro in Amer
lea, The problems are as old as the nation
and go to the roots Of our thought and life
yet conditions today seem to demand that
NRA face the Negro problem more frankly
than it has so far and give further considera-
tiGn to the claims of those representing Negro
Workers.
.NRA is committed to the principle of re-
vtving business by increasing the purchasing
power of those who buy the products of busl-
ness There seems no good reason why it
should ignore twelve million Negro citizens as
potential purchasers and consumers Yet
where Negroes are included at ali in MIRA
codes the wages specified for them are uni
formly below those specified for white workers
and they are uniformly too low to act as
possible stimulus to business. Many a business
might flourish on the trade of these millions
Of customers if it we're given chance to do so.
If NRA does not feel able at this time to
decide that Negro workers should be put on
an economic basis with white workers, it still
could and should see to it that Negro workers
receive higher wages than at present under
the blue eagle.
When code revisions occur next MONTH
definite steps should be taken to build up
Negro purchasing power.
If the nation ever has courage enough to
make it possible for Negroes TO live on any
thing approaching standards Of decency. it
nav find many of its serious social problems
disappearing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
TRAVELLING GOVERNOR
SCORED BY READER
By r. d.

BY r. d.
What is the trouble with the Re-
publicans; are they dead? This
question was asked in your paper
recently.
I ma Roosevelt Democrat.
Please print this. The Republicans
are not dead. They are Just sitting
back laughing about our Indiana
travelling Governor and our state
house governor. Grenlee, and our
play-boy scout chief of police of the
city police force. The record OF
everything they have done was, and
is, enough to elect the Republicans
next time from the bottom to the
top of the Republican. ticket. We
can't elect a Democrat in the next
fifty years in Indiana.
But, once every twelve or sixteen
years. as usual. we get in q short
tsme-then out-but why just the
slime as we did this time. The men
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
A Woman's Viewpoint
: By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

with the problems of life rather
than with manners. The hill-billy
Holy Roller, indulging in his orgy
of emotional ecstasy, is more
pleasing, it would seem to me, in
the sight Of the most intellectual
Of gods, than any pseudo-refined
individual who pOStures for the
dedication Of men before some
brightly lighted altar.
A religion without zest is a re-
ligion without meaning. I wish
We could close up our great
churches for a while Nail them
shut with iron bolts and take our
selves for worship to the novels in
our cities where dwell the poor.
neglected and miserable. Our
prayers would have sweeter
SAVIOR if they we're said upon the
frozen earth where walk the feet
of shoeless children.
For our rituals are dead. They
have served their purpose and
there can never be a real revival
Of Christianity untal that good day
when We understand at last that
religion must consist Of social
methods as well as ideas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09

MYTH the world in its present
w unhappy state occasional
queries appearing in the column
of Mrs. Emily Post. high priestess
of propriety, come as a distinct
shock.
The prize one last week came
from woman who was distressed
about the proper procedure for
getting into her church pew. She
didn't know whether to take the
usher's arm or to follow him down
the aisle with her husband or to
have the three go in single file.
Mrs. Post replied with her usual
urbane wisdom, but one wonders
whether it might not have been
Just as we'll for the lady to stay
at home since it was so evident
she was more concerned as to her
behavior before men than with
her state Of divine grace.
r LIKE the much ridiculed re-
/ Igion Of the lowly and ignorant
better than a good deal Of the sort
we so often find in fashionable
churches. It has. at least, the vir-
tue Of sincerity. It concerns itself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
LADIES OF THE ENSEMBLE

THE chorus girl of fction-Rolls-R oyces
l. and ermine-and the chorus girl Of fact
five shows-a-day in the movie house at SIS
to s35 a week and too tired at night to step
out-both are appealing characters.
The latter makes the stronger bid for sym
pathy, however, because she seems to need it.
Fortunately she has eloquent defenders in
Eddie Cantor, who is member Of the Amuse-
ment Code Authority Of the NRA, and Mrs
Dorothy Bryant, secretary of the Chorus
Equity Association.
These two have just sounded the alarm
in behalf of the movie chorus girl, "the
hardest working, lowest paid person in the
theater," according to Mrs. Bryant.
The theatrical producers and exhibitors
are preparing amendments to the NFA code
for chorus girls, and according to the alarm,
these will ask that the wage scale do not
apply to those of less than two years ex-
perience, that the scale be reduced, that the
requirement of SO day during lay-ofs be dis
continued and that tryouts be restored at less
than full pay
Lay-offs occur on the road when engage
ments are not booked consecutively Before
the code they were made at the expense OF
the girls, no salary being paid during waits.
Tryouts before the code were paid for at half
rate and old timers recall acts which ran for
months and still were called tryouts. AS for
the two-year apprenticeship before full pay
starts, chorus girls first two years often
represent her highest value.
Thus argue the defenders of chorus rights.
We know the theatrical men have their
troubles. Show business isn't what it used to
be, if it ever was. Tickets sell for less, and
union scales for stage hands look high
Still We hope the chorus girls won't have
to carry the burden of box office deficiencies.
We hope the exhibitors can find way to pre-
serve the modest advantages in the chorus
girls code. They rehearse long hours, work
hard, don't earn much and do lot to make
the theater fresh and charming place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
FRIDAY FEB .. 1894
THE AGED POOR

Out Of vast program Of emergency relief
~ and social adventure one measure now
before congress stands out as neither costly
nor experimental This is the DnI-Connery
bill for federal aid to old-age pension states.
This bill. approved BY a committee OF both
houses last session. can be passed this spring
ifsthe administration adopts it as part of its
program. This would give hope and security
to those whose declining years are haunted by
the specters Of want and fear.
The r-Connery- bill allows federal grants
to states up to one-third of the total cost of
pension systems covering the needy OF sixty
five years or more. It would standardize PEN
sion systems in the twenty-seven states that
have adopted pension systems. And it would
be infinitely cheaper in dollars than the old
poor-house way.
It is estimated that when all states reduce
their requirements to IS years there will be
$4,000 pensioners. This would cost s133.OOO,-
00O a year. Of which the federal share would be
about s44OOOOOO. The United States bureau
Of labor statistics sets its estimate at s128.-
100000 for the total annual bill This is the
Ultimate cost. The immediate annual cost
would be not more than s1OOOO,OOO or Iz,OOO,-
600 for the next two or three years.
Since We have determined to treat our
selves to some civilization We should begin
With those who first feel the pinch. the grand
fathers and grandmothers of the poor