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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
New Sketches of Chicago by
the Author of Union Square

ON THE SHORE, by Albert Halper,
The Viking Press. 81.
Reviewed by WALLACE PHELPS
THE praise of Albert Halper's
Union Square by the Literary
Guild and by most liberal review
ers, and the very sharp criticism
Of the novel by Mike Gold and
other MARKHAM writer's is still fresh
in our minds. On the whole 1
think Union Square deserved the
harsh criticism for its fippant
treatment Of Communist workers
and Of the revolutionary cause.
Since Halper is personally sym
pathetic to the revolutionary move
ment, it was expected that he would
bite deeper into its core in his next
book. From this point of view,
On The Shore, a collection of short
stories, is disappointing; but this
may be because many of the stories
have been published before in
magazines, and may have been
written before Union Square.
On The Shore contains a number
of f1ctionized sketches of Halper's
boyhood and young manhood in
Chicago, up to the last sketches
which take him to New York. The
writing is uneven, due evidently to
his having written them at different
times, and at different moments of
intensity. But several of the stories
are subtle and effective, in melli-
f1uous but sinewy prose. The
sketch which gives the book its
title, On The Shore, tells of the
warm but delicate and insrticulste
attachment between Halper and a
young Negro who worked beside
him at a post Office. Going To
Market describes the stabbing of a
Negro by two white men working
with him, as seen through the eyes
of young boy presumably
Halper) who is left in wagon
while his father and brother do
some buying at the market. We get
a glimpse of the false antagonism
between Negro and white aroused
by the Chicago race riots. The
mute horror of the boy and the
Impotence OF his father and
brother who do not know what he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
First 48-Page Quarterly Issue
Of the 'NeW Masses appears

NEW YORK ~ The first New
Masses quarterly issue, an enlarged
edition of As pages, appeared on the
newsstsnds yesterday.
The Quarterly, which will appear
once every three months at no in
crease In price, contains the first
act Of new play, "In New Ken
lucky by Samuel Ornitz, review
of the taxi strike by Joseph North,
a Letter from England by John
Strachey, a short sketch-review by
Michael Gold, and, in the book sup
plement, articles and other features
by Earl Browder, Granville Hicks,
S. D. Mirsky, Joshua Kunitz and
others.
The play by Samuel Ornitz is
based on the life and struggles of
Kentucky miners against the slave
conditions imposed by coal oper-
stors, The first act is in seven
scenes and is illustrated by Phil
Bard.
The book supplement, 1s pages
long, contains in addition to re-
views of hooks, an article on "Revo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

has seen are presented with con-
siderable insight Another inter
esting story, The Feud in the
Rotunda, is set in the stamp-sell-
ing division Of the post Office. The
installation Of an automatic stamp
selling machine evokes bitter, per-
sonai hatred toward the machine
in the clerks who fear for their
jobs. Halper is most successful in
painting the atmosphere Of senti-
ment in q situation and in adjust
ing the emotions of his characters
to it; but he usually fails to build
up the more vital personal and
social implications,
The rest Of the sketches trace a
chronological development Of Halper
to his present status as writer. He
approaches his characters with
good deal of sympathy and insight.
But neither the experiences nor the
light in which they are presented
are very arresting The petty
bourgeois Jewish Family, struggling
to squeeze living out of a small
store, the young, sensitive boy and
his rowing adventures, the stern
hardworking father, the senti-
mental mother. the climbing sons,
and the impractical writer are
familiar, almost trite subjects.
Halper has not developed his
material with sufficient intensity.
nor has he approached it adequately
from outside. That is, there is
too much of the young writer re-
collecting (my emphasis, w p
Chicago without enough Of the
social perspective which Halper
must have arrived at by now. A
clue to this psychological state in
Halper may be found in his intense
consciousness Of himself as a writer,
In the last sketches of the book.
Though Halper has touched the
people and the politics Of the revo-
lutionary movements at several
points, he is still very much on the
fringe. Should he plunge into it
in his next work. we can expect. I
think, that he will bring to revolu-
tionary literature a fine sense of
individual portraiture and human
sentiment, and, in turn, his writing
will receive the power and expan-
sion of outlook which it now lacks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
By JOHN sPTvAK

TULSA, Okla.-In this, the
wealthiest city per capita in
the world" as Tulsa proudly
calls itself, four cents a day
per person is all its unem-
ployed get for food.
One out of every six persons in
this city Of about 100000 population
depends for his days bread upon
charity. Many children do not have
anything to eat at lunch time in
the oil center of the world" How
many more than are aided by the
charities are hungry and destitute
no one knows. These figures I have
given are only for those receiving
relief in the form Of food supplies
from the Family Service, an affih-
ate Of the Community Fund.
Five dollars month is the max
imum Family Service gives to a
destitute family. One dollar and q
Quarter week. -Four and q half
cents day per person.
How can family live on s1.25
week." I asked Mrs. Emil Solo
mon, executive secretary Of Family
Service.
That is all we have" she said.
Before the depression started We
had less than 1000 people asking
for every kind of aid. Today we
have $1,000 Just unemployed and
destitute-just four times as many
as ordinarily had. And no one
knows how many have not sp-
pealed, those who are living off
relatives and friends.
For 1928 We needed about
s550,000 for all charity expenditures
after having cat our budget to the
bone. We got pledges for s275 900
and actually collected only s242 900
LESS than half of what we needed.
For 1933-34, putting faith in the
governments work relief promises
for this city. We tried to raise only
$3.50, 900 and couldn't get that,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Fifth Agenne
Parade

On Sunday morning you can see
them
Strolling down Fifth Ave.
The spats above the glistering shoes
Blend into the faces
Sinking at honest mud and toll
The silk top-hats reflect,
The glow Of cunning, shrivelled
brains.
The flowers in the hutton-holes
Show the CLEAN of nature
Denied to millions crowded
In tenements, in vern1in-filled
Shacks-the women trip
In fancy dresses dyed
With the sweat-shop blood
OF other women fiayed and robbed
BY brutal masters-limousines
Stand in garages, and our masters
Condescend to walk, reveal
Their arrogance, their clothes
Stolen from the sweat, the muscle
OF our lives, each Sunday morning
On Fifth Avenue-raise arms.
One Sunday morning they'll be
gone,
Maxwell Bodenheim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Reviewed by A. G. BOSSE
GUARANTY is undoubtedly the
~ cleverest writer and best re-
porter in the pay of the American
capitalist press. He has until Bull
lifts appointment been looked upon
as q substitute for the lacking
American ambassador, 50 auth
oritative had he become. But any
one who had followed his dispatches
for the past dozen years knows that
he Is one Of the most dangerous
writer's on the q. 8. S. r. He
digtils subtle poison, the worse
because 50 heavily perfunned at
times.
Tuekerman has made very poor
selection, if one regards the book
from the point of view of survey
of Soviet Developments, though a
good one for a disciples tribute to
Duranty. There is scarcely men,
ton of the great economic triumphs
of Soviet technic Dneprostroy,
Magnitogorsk, Stalingrad, Soviet
science, military achievements, the
great sabotage trials, etc. The five
years, 1924-2S are virtually skipped
over. On the other hand, much
space is devoted to his pet hobby,
religion, to philosophizing on Rus
sian folkways and Marxisrn.
There is some fine writing on the
famine and on Lenin's death and
the mass reaction to it, probably
the best section In the book, There
is also an excellent characterization
of Stain, made in January, 1923,
before the outside world knew much
about him; g. One of the most
remarkable men in Russia and per-
haps the most influential figure
here today during the last
year Stain has shown Judgment
and analytical power not unworthy
Of Lenin."
On the other hand Tuckerman,
with Duranty's consent, very signi-
ficantly onits dispatches such as
those of Nov. %, 1881 CeThe Boil
sheviks, even under Lenin, we're I'M
able Immediately to get free from
this old heritage" (Red Imperial
ism, as against Poland in 1920 and
China In 1920, or dispatch of
June IA, 1881 which was headlined
Red Russia of Today Ruled by
Stalinisn1, Not by Communism; He
tStalin--A. G. b Has Reverted to
Autocracy of Early Cars" The
famous fable of two millions starv-
ing last year is also omitted, as
are many other boners or vicious
falsehoods
The book is filled with asseyera-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
WILT. Shock Troupe
On Tour To Chicago

NEW YORK.-The Shock Troupe
of the Workers Laboratory Theatre,
winner of the Eastern section of
the National Theatre Festival, be-
gins its tour to Chicago to COM
pete in the national finals, on Mon
day, April 2, The tour includes
performances in Lakewood, N j.
april 81 Youngstown, Ohio april
~, Detroit, april 81, with a book
ing at Columbus, Ohio on the way
back. Further bookings may be
arranged. The League of Workers
Theatres is giving a Good Radiance
Party to the Shock Troupe on Sum
day night at the W. L. T., AZ e.
18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Stage and Screen
"BoIerO" At The Jefferson
Theatre TOdaW To MOndn4

"Bolero," with George Raft and Carole
Lombard will be the screen feature at
the Jefferson Theatre today to Monday.
second hlm, The Crosby Case" with
W7nne Gibson and Onslow Stevens, is on
the same program. Tuesday and wednes-
day the program will include This Side
of Heaven" with Lionel Barrymore, Una
Msrksl and Mae Clarke; also "The Big
Shskedown" with Charles Farrell, Betty
Davis and Ricardo Cortez. On Thursday
and Friday the Jefferson will present
Coming Out Party" with Frances Dee
and Gene Raymond, and "Thundsring
Herd with Randolph Scott and Judith
Allen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Fatal Accidents Less

ALBANY The New York State
Department of Labor yesterday an
nounced that fatal industrial acci-
dents for February totaled "a. The
average for February for the past
five years has been 1856 deaths. A
total of 80 dependents, including A
widows, 40 children and five de-
pendent parents survive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Form Clarion Council.

CLARION, Pa.-Four hundred
unemployed workers damned the
Venetian Hall at the last meeting
of the Unemployment Council on
March 18th, The Council, which
has over 800 members, has unani-
mously endorsed the Workers I'M
employment Insurance Bill III. r.
1890
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Philadelphia To HI e ar
Pettis On Soviet Music

PHILADELPHIA. - Ashley Pettis,
music editor of the New Masses,
will lecture Sunday at s:l5 p. M,
at Radio Center, 22nd and Walnut
ST., under the auspices of the John
Reed Club His topic will be "A
Musical Sojourn in the Soviet
Union" and will be illustrated with
piano selections. In addition, the
Pierre Degeyter String Quartet will
play the works Of modern Russian
compOsers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

luton and the Novel" by Granville
Hicks. and an article on Joyce and
Irish Literature" by D. s. Mirsky,
This enlarged issue, which has the
popular bulls-eye cover, is on sale
at all f1ewsstands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Garlin To Speak On
Dresser At John Reed
Club Forum Sunday

NEW YORK. = Sender Garlin,
feature editor of the Daily Worker
and eo-editor Of Partisan Review,
will speak on 1.-The Evolution of
Theodore Dresser" Sunday at the
John Reed Club, 43O Sixth Ave,
at $50 p. m.
A discussion in which the writers
and artists of the John Reede Club
are expected to participate will
follow the lecture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Chicago Youth Section
of Internat1 Workers Order
Opens New Headquarters

CHICAGO. - The International
Workers Order Youth Section has
opened permanent headquarters at
the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 West
Chicago Ave, where every Thurs
day evening at 8 p. m. and every
Sunday morning at 10 a. m. young
workers are invited to participate
in gymnastics.
MORE HUM0R IN THE DAILY"
I would like TO suggest that you
try to add some more hunor to the
contents Of the Daily Worker. So
far the only humor is that which Is
added through efforts of Del and
Chopper. Both now are indispen-
sable, they are as much q part of the
Daily" as the Change the World
column and DIR, Luttinger,
A good column for humor would
be Red Sparks or Bright Say
ings." We should take the solemn
expression of the captains of in
dustry and ridicule them. There are
enough heard every day to make
quite an interesting survey, and at
the same time to expose them. You
known biting sarcasm is pretty eff
fective as weapon
For example in this mornings
Times there is an interesting state
ment by P. H. Johnston, as to the
cure of speculation. He says that
the only way out Is to change the
human being. That sure is a pretty
good solution for the probleml OF
course the joke of 1t Is that he
offers solution which he least of
all is likely to take. Well, we have
a better solution, just take it all
away from the capitalists so that
they cannot gamble with our lives.
MIKE FRIEDMAN,
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Walter Duranty As Seen
By a Communist Reviewer

DURANTY REPORTS RUSSIA, by
Walter Duranty, edited by G.
Tuekerman, N. Y, Viking Press,
1884. S2.75.
Evening star., 1934-04-03
Exhibition Games
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Cleveland (A). g. New York (N). 2.
Philadelphia ca, 6; BROOKLYN
(N0, /.
Boston CND, s.; st. Louis (N), 4.
Philadelphia (N). 4; Newark Il.
L.. o.
Pittsburgh (N), S; Chicago (A), 3.
Detroit (ND, 4; Cincinnati (ND, 3.
New York (AD, 4; Baltimore Il.
L., 2.
st. Louis (A), 6; Buffalo Il. L., 3.
Today's Schedule.
At st. Petersburg-Boston (N) VS..
House of David.
At Orlando-Brooklyn (N.) VS.. Bos-
ton (AD.
At Clearwater-Cincinna (N.) VS..
Newark Il. L..
At jackson, Miss.-New York (N.)
VS.. Cleveland (A).
At Winte. Haven-Philadelphia (N)
VS.. Detroit (A.).
At Yuma, Ariz-Pittsburgh (N) VS..
Chicago "a.
At Atlanta-New Yor.. (A.) VS.. At
lanta IS. A..
At Jacksonville-Philad (A.l
VS.. Baltimore q. L..
At West Palm Beach-St. Louis
(A) VS.. Buffalo Il. L).
Evening star., 1934-04-03

are trying to hammer it out of shape.
Against this. in the last few months
the same Loughran has beaten
Sharkey and Hamas and has Travelled
Is rounds fairly close to the heavy
weight champion of the world,
although outweighed by some 80
pounds-which is almost another
fighter.
Numerous letters have come to this
department from friends of Tommy
Loughran asking us to advise him to
retire and call of the Neusel battle.
In the first place, after more than
few years Of existence, ! have never
seen any one who likes to get any
advice. AS a sporting sage once wrote,
THE closer the natural-gaited human
being gets to the persons who make q
business Of telling him he is wrong
the tighter he snuggles to the idea he
is right"
You can pack this in for 100 per
cent net.
There must be a time to quit. But
Tommy Loughran happens to like the
fight game better than anything else,
and If he should quit what would be
his next move?
If you quit one road there must be
another to take. Rabbit Maranville
might have quit several seasons ago,
but he waited % years to crack a
leg, and he has no idea of quitting
after the bone has mended.
The Rabbit never has had any
Evening star., 1934-04-03
Bucky and Connie Differ.

T TITLE need be said about Bob
L. Grove, who is expected to have
big year. Nose has been going
along rather easily, but he shows
flashes of his usual brilliance. Rube
Walberg is working with new enthu-
siasm. Connie Mack's disciplinary
methods of calling for pitches is much
different from that of Harris. who
permits his men to work out their own
salvation during a game.
Rube has habit of trying to beat
the batter at his own game. Instead
OF pitching to his weakness, Walberg
likes to pit his skill against the batter
by serving up balls he likes. This has
not worked so successfully in the past.
With eight southpaws to work on,
Harris points out that the addition
OF Red Rolfe and Jack Saltzgaver in
the Yankee lineup gives the Nc
Carthy tribe five men who hit from
the offside OF the plate. Ruth, Gehrig
and Earl Combs all bat that way.
After disposing of the Yankees.
Bucky turns his attention to the
Washington team.
Joe Kuhel Buddy Myer and Heinie
Manush are rs per cent of the Sena-
tors batting strength" says Harris.
Johnny Stone is supposed to be able
to hit any kind of pitching, but We
Will see about that. The idea that
left-handed hitters like to bat against
southpaws is incorrect. Van Alta, up
for the first time last year. had good
success against the Senators, and
look what Carl Hubbell did to the
Washington hitters in the world series
last October"
Evening star., 1934-04-03
Stomach Ailment Gone.

VYIEAVER says that he is in finer
" trim than ever because he has
overcome the stomach ailment
he feared for a time would drive him
from base ball. After the world series
last Fall Monte resumed the medical
treatments that had relieved him in
July and was under physicians care
until shortly before coming to train
ing camp He now follows a careful
diet, one not meager. but nicely bal
anced. and says he is improving
steadily.
II should grow stronger as the sea-
son progresses" Weaver declares, "and
I'm stronger. much stronger, right
now than I was at any time last year.
You know, was very worried over my
condition last Summer. l hadn't been
able to do any pitching for the club
and I seemed to be getting worse right
along. In desperation, I was trying
about every remedy recommended
Nothing helped until I went to a New
York specialist, who quickly dag
nosed my case and the corrective
measures he prescribed certainly did
work.
II wound up the season pitching the
best base ball 1 ever had" Weaver
points out. land I'm ready to take up
where left off. If I don't make a
success in my work this year, it GER
tainly won't be due to lack of physical
condition. don't believe I could be
any better"
Evening star., 1934-04-03
Farley, Connosser of Courage, Calls F. D. King Camester
s

They tell one story Of Farley
and his interest in boxing that
completes the picture perfectly. 1t
was the night Roosevelt's nomina-
ton seemed to hang in the balance
at Chicago. The convention hall
was in an uproar. In the press
benches writer's pounded their
typewriters frantically, some Of the
top men just arrived from the
Sharkey-Schmeling hight, and its
disputed decision, in New York.
Into the hall strode Farley, the
President-maker, and the uproar
died. Perspiring. worried looking,
he shouldered his way toward the
press seats. The writer's waited
breathlessly. The whisper raced
around.
Here's Farley. Something big's
happened"
He finally reached the side Of
famous sports writer. doubling in
brass. He leaned down, whispered
hoarsely.
Tell me, Damon. Did Sharkey
really win that hght?"
Evening star., 1934-04-03
Infeld Not Substantial.
THE Athletics and White Sox have
plenty of right-hand titters

THE Athletics and White Sox have
plenty of right-hand hitters.
But Bucky does not expect
much trouble from those teams. He
has lot of respect for Mickey Coch-
rane and his Detroit Tigers, but as
Mickey, Rogell and Charley Gehringer
are right-field hitters Harris expects
much help from the Tigers in downing
his other rivals.
There is no doubt that Bucky has
a corking good staff of moundsmen.
But his pitchers will have to get some
help in the way of runs. Then again,
the Red Sox inf1eld does not look so
hot. When balls trickle through a
messy infield they sometimes spell
runs that win ball games.
While Bucky is picking weak spots
in other teams. rival managers look
over Max Bishop, Chalmers Cissell,
Ed Morgan and Billy Werber and see
much to be desired in an infield with
pennant aspirations. Not only does
it look loose and unwieldy. but little
hitting power is manifest in it.
Eddie Collins and Tom Yawkey
gave Harris plenty of pitching talent,
but the other departments of the
team don't seem to measure up to the
same level.
Evening star., 1934-04-03
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

ADVICE TO A BAFFLED WORLD.
We only lipe so many years
Upon times fast. revolving gears
That hurry;
Why Wdste so much in sighs and tears,
In udin regrets and haunting fears
And ,Dorry?
We kno,D that life is full of sin,
We knoD that only teW can Uin
From sorToD;
We knoto each road must haze its spill,
But Why not tDdit to cry until
Tomorrow?
We knotD fate has a poisoned dart
All set for each red human heart
ForeUer:
And this goes for the high and lou,
The rich and poor, the dumb and sloU,
The cleDeT::
There isn't any use to duck,
You can't escape with skill and luck,
Old tellou;
You're got to take it-uin or lose.
Pick any color you may choose
But yellotD.