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their request) and when Ad-
miral went into the pool for
his morning-noon-afternoon-and
evening dip, Jake went, too.
Sometimes it was Jake who
went first, with Admiral fol-
lowing. CWe mustn't give you
the idea that Jake was just the
weakling of the combination.
The two we're equally interested
in each other0
I am taking this all on the
word of the Zoo authorities, but
it is also said that Admiral and
Jake took strolls together around
the pen and discussed the latest
news from the South Polar re-
gions in a temperate, though
definitely intimate, manner.
So far as police can learn,
there was never a sign of per-
sonal animosity, never a harsh
word or an ugly look. There
was even some idea of chang
ing their names to Damon and
Pythias.
Then-like a bolt from the
blue-Something h pene d!
Whether it was something that
Admiral said. or something that
Jake didn't say, no one will
ever know. The fact remains
that, the other day, they def
nitely severed relations. No
braWling, you understand. Just
an agreement to disagree.
Admiral now takes his plunge
alone, and Jake waits until he
is through. Jake totterS back
and forth on his constitutional,
and Admiral watches from his
club window until Jake has fin
ished and then whips out for a
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from them so
far. All of
them boast
in g a b ou t
how t h e y
don't believe
in God or-to
hear t h e m
tell it-much
of anything
else.
All rig h t,
b VS. a n d
girls, go on
and boast, II
that pleaSeS
you. But as
for me I'm
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ment of Admiral's, Jake merely
said: That's what he thinks!"
In the meantime. the officials
of the Toledo Zoo are in guam
Diary. Should they put Admiral
and Jake in two separate pens,
or just let them work it out for
themselves? Sometimes these
things go on for months, and,
after all, Admiral and Jake were
hired as q team.
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
ddv and Thursday.
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that this GU
ri US lnSti-
tuition, too,
has probably
gone by the
b o a r ds;; at
least, I can
not find any
trace Of it;
but it existed
OAAN PAOOHSAON
d u ring the
early years Of
the Twentieth
century. and
it was a club
entirely COM
p o s e d of
lAu,~ nr@Nrt
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cratic party
leaders more
trouble than
h ey b ar
gained fOr r
when tn y
took up the
c u d G el for
their candi-
date through
. = II u = U f.
Byrnes, chair
man Of the
special Senate
elections COM
mittee.
F. oil lowing
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Many a man fails to become
a thinker for the sole reason
that his memory is too good
NietZSche.
I know nothing about it; I am
nv own Observation-Disclosures.
No man must be COM
pelled.-LeSSing.
The one thing the public dis
likes Is novelty. Wilde.
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quire a b O u t
the health of
M rs. M ary
Rumsey, head
of the Con-
SumerS' Advi-
sorry B o a r d,
who was in
jured W h e n
thrown from
d IlOI uOU
so long ago.
AS busy as
Mrs. Perkins
is these days,
she finds time
to make the
L ~
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hospital to see Mrs. Rumsey,
who is one of her few close
friends. And, strangely, Mrs
Perkins is one of the few persons
who is permitted to visit Mrs.
RumSey.
Although recovering, Mrs.
Rumsey is not permitted to see
visitors, with the exception of
Madame Secretary.
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FIVE VENUSEs-WH1CH DO YOU PREFER?
The sculptor Epsens Modern Venus, pictured here has
features has the oquenty dumb expression the
bottom of frying pan.
Now Broadway Moderne Hostess who greets visitors
to New York from the top Of building in Times Square with
q welcome in electric lights
And she, too has eyes, nose, mouth
We think this business of faceless females going too far
We may be oldfashioned but can't all the way with
this modern -moderne stuff.
We show you here in addition to Venus four charming
young who inspecting Mr. Epsens masterpiece
THEY not faceless you observe They not only have
faces, but making them.
Evidently modern though they are modern art does not
always appeal to them either.
All matter of taste, we suppose.
you prefer the Venus any of the other four
ladies, that's your privilege.
And it's all right with us.
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Words of Wise Men

Aye, sir, to be honest, as this
world goes, is to be one man
picked out Of 10,000-Shake-
speare.
Laboring to be brief, I become
obScure.-Horace.
In nature there is nothing
Observation-Disclosures.
No greater shame to man than
inhumanity.-Spencer.
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Hendrix Willem van Loon
ErstWhile Serene HighnesSes
Haze Day In the Sun

A dreadful fate for a spoiled
darling of fortune! For it
meant the end. Only one in a
hundred of these victims Of
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their own youthful foibles ever
returned to the surface of what
then used to be called society"
Once a year, however. there
was a great celebration. Once
a year there was a party OF
those adrift upon the uncharted
waters of an ocean they would
never learn to navigate.
Once a year, for single eve
ming, all these imperial, royal,
royal-apostolic, grand ducal, Sc
rene and plain. ordinary high
nesses, excellencies and right
honorables shed their white
aprons and their tuxedo dickies
and returned to their former
exalted state.
Once a year they gave a grand
and glorious party, and they ad"
dressed each other as the Lu-
theran pastor at the time OF
their birth had addressed them,
while reminding their 4-weeks'
old son of what the Lord Je'
hovah (Prussian, Russian or
Swedish version) expected OF
them.
Came the dawn, and their
imperial, royal, royal-apostollc,
grand ducal and serene high
nesses crept back into their
holes. Hey, Heinz! Where are
those hams that came In last
week? Mrs. Schmaltz wants
one-and be sharp about It'll"
Or, Waiter. that fish is not
half done. I shall have to talk
to the captain if you don't look
out"
so DIFFERENT
Last week trains and boats,
speeding through lovely Kent
(now drab and very earthenish
in its winter garb) and across
the Channel and the North Sea,
returned five score erstwhile
majesties to their boarding
houses in the less fashionable
suburbs of Paris and Berlin and
Copenhagen, where they eat the
boiled mutton and the Brussels
sprouts at 80 francs O day
wine extra"
Yesterday, they drove in glass
coaches and partook of the
Splendiferous hospitality OF
their more fortunate English
cousins.
Yesterday, they were ush.
cred into the dim glories of
Westminster Hall by titles they
had almost forgotten, since that
day when no sentinels any
longer presented arms while
they made their escape by way
of the servants entrance.
Yesterday, you and / were so
much air to them. Today, we
feel sorry for them. And isn't
that the worst that can over
take mortal man?
Lord, let me suffer all the
tribulations Of this earth. Let
me be poor Of purse and poor
of health. Let me be despiSed.
But Lord, in Thy great mercy,
let no one ever feel sorry for
me. Amen"
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1RO.)
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shop, acting as delivery boy, or
(if one were very lucky) as as
sistant night clerk in a fifth
rate hotel.
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Continuation Of the Chavez
Cutting election row in New
Mexico Is causing the Demo
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I am now speaking of the New
York before the war. Since then
so many things have happened
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Life and PurpOs(

Lie ana purpose
Don't know why, but this
seems to be Atheists Old Home
Week. Twenty seven letters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
Only the Communist
Party Leads Fight
of the Working Class

The Communist Party is the
only political party which leads
in the everyday fight Of the
masses Of the people for i'm
proved conditions; it alone offers
a practical way out of the ap-
palling misery and suffering
brought on by capitalism and
capitalist rule"
In the coming elections, "the
Communist Party calls upon the
workers to break decisively with
these parties of hunger, fascism
and war. 1t calls upon the masses
to defeat the Republican, Demo-
erat, Farmer-Labor and Social
ist candidates in the congress
sional elections. Elect Com
munist candidates. Send fight
ers for your demand, for your
class interests, to Congress!
1.-THE Communist Party calls
upon the millions of workers
and farmers, Negro and white to
boldly and determinedly take up
and broaden the mass fight for
the demands set forth in this
platform. From the Congress
sional Election Platform of the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25

urgently needed The Ma. ional IN
employment Council is the move
ment of all workers who are en-
gagged in and developing such mill
tant, mass action in hundreds of
cities and towns, in forty-one states.
The National Unemployment Coun-
Gil has led the two gigantic Ma
tional Hunger Marches to Washing
ton. We have ganized such
marches in many states, counties
and cities. Through the militant
struggles we have already waged,
the bosses and government have been
forced to expend hundreds of mil
lions on relief which otherwise
would hsve been withheld. We
have saved tens of thousands of
workers from eviction and from
death by starvation We have raised
and developed the present grow
ing movement around the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill.
The National Unemployment
Council is United Front move
ment 1t includes in its ranks
workers of all unions; workers of
Ill political and religious faiths
and affiliations. Hundreds Of local
unions as well as veterans, fraternal
and other workers organizations are
already affiliated. We must broaden
our united front. We must draw
into one mighty united movement
all who are determined to fight
against hunger in the midst of
plenty.
The tional Unemployment
Council calls upon every union
member and every union local to
join in this struggle. Together we
can and will stop the a tack of the
bosses upon our living standards.
Together we will win security by
forcing the enactment Of a system
Of genuine unemployment and social
insurance such as is called for in
the Workers Unemployment and
g77io' Jnsuranca Pill.
THE NATIONAL
UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS.
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N. Y; Painters District Council 1888
of Jamaica. N. Y; Central Labor
Union Of Albuquerque. N. M; Build
ing Trades Council Of Great Falls.
Mont; Trades Labor Assembly of
Sioux City, Ia; Painters District
Council IS of Los Angeles. Cal;
Central Labor Union of Gibson
County, Ind; District Lodge 81 and
the New England District Conven-
ton of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists; Central Labor
Union of Lincoln, Neb.; Central
Trades Council Of st. Louis, Mo. /:
Federation Of Labor Of Salt Lake
City, Utah Central Labor Union of
Great Falls, Mont; Central Labor
Union Of Spokane, Wash: Central
Labor Union of Minneapolis. MINI.
Central Labor Union of Newark
N. j.; Trades Labor Council of
Providence, r. l.: the Painters and
the Carpenters District Councils of
Kansas City Mo-. Central Labor
Union Of Danburv Conn. Painters
District Council Of San Francisco;
- "@-'t""' I"hor Union Of Allan
tic City, N. j.; and the Painters
District Council of Detroit.
Besides these endorsements of
the Workers Bill, individual unions
have backed the bill by the hun
dreds. In the Railway Brotherhood,
in addition to individual endorse
ments by lodges, delegates from $50
divisions representing 10000 mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Railway
Engineers, meeting at Midwest
convention in Kansas City. backed
the Workers Bill.
Cities Forced to Act
According to the records of the
Daily Worker, 48 City Councils
have been forced to endorse the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill and petition Con-
gress for It's enactment.
These cities are: st. Louis, Mo. !;
Milwaukee, Wis; Portland, Ore. !:
Minneapolis, Mimi; Buffalo. N. Y:
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who by reason of their experience
and resources as members of unions
should be in the forefront of the
fight. The unemployed union mem
berS have the right to expect that
the unions of which they have been
and still are members shall aid them
in preserving their economic rights
and very existence when they find
themselves jobless.
Councils Urge Support to Strikes
The N tional Unemployment
Council in conformity with it's prin-
cipleS and program calls upon all
unemployed workers to support
every strike struggle. We call upon
unemployed workers to join the
picket lines and help resist the at
tscks of scabs, police, deputies and
militia. We especially direct our
organizations to conduct vigorous
struggle to force local relief authori-
ties to provide adequate relief for
all destitute strikers. The unions
will assist us in carrying out this
essential program if they will help
build unemployment organiza ions
around the militant program of the
National Unemployment Council.
We call upon union members to
form locals of the Unemployment
Council in their own neighbo-hood,
industry, trade, market, or where
ever else they may find themselves.
Such locals operating according to
the program of the National I'm
employment Council can serve to
defend and advance the interests of
all victims of mass unemployment
everywhere
We urge all local and central bod
les of all unions to take steps to de-
fend the interests of their own I'M
employed members and of the
workers generally by setting up in
every such organization an unem-
rloyment committee that will act
on ~ grievances of heir unen-
ployed members. Such committees
can help advance the general struc-
gle for more adequate relief for
higher wages on relief jobs, against
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eliminate Whole sections OF the
workers from its benefits"
Loopholes by which employers can
pay benefits as low as one dollar a
week, and even refuse payments al
together are provided. It makes
absolutely no provision for farm
workers, domestic help. logging
workers, teachers, governmental en-
ployes, railway workers engaged in
Interstate transportation, all work
ers in shops employing less than
ten persons, and all workers who
in the year previous to unemploy-
ment earned $500 or more.
Disqualifying Clauses
Clause after clause disqualifies
whole sections Of the working popu-
lation from benefits. First. a resi-
dent clause-"An employee shall not
be eligible to receive benefits under
this plan on account of any period
Of unemployment, unless he has
been resident Of Wisconsin for the
two years proceeding the beginning
of such period of unemployment, or
has been gainfully employed in this
state for forty weeks within that
two year period"
Next, all workers who have been
totally unemployed for a year are
barred by the clause-"Any employee
may become eligible for benefits,
provided he has been employed for
a total of at least two weeks within
the twelve months preceding his
partial or total unemployment" BY
these two clauses are cut off those
who have been unemployed for long
periods-youth who have never held
jobs under the crisis, Negro, foreign
born and older workers who are de-
MED work, the present unemployed
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ployment insurance commissions
composed of the rank and file mem
bers Of workers and farmers or
CARNATIONS. Funds for such insur-
ance shall hereafter be provided at
the expense Of the Government and
of employers, and it is the sense Of
Congress that funds to be raised
by the Government shall be secured
by taxing inheritance and gifts, and
by taxing individual and corpora
ton incomes of $1,000 per year and
over. No tax or contribution in any
form shall be levied on workers for
the purposes Of this Act. In no
case shall the unemployment in
surance be less than $40 per week
plus 50 for each dependent.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of Labor
is further authorized and directed
to provide for the establishment of
other forms Of social insurance in
like amounts and governed by the
conditions set forth in section one
of this Act for the purpose Of pay
ing workers and farmers insurance
for loss of wages because of part
time work, sickness, accident, old
age, or maternity.
Sec. 4. The benefits of this Act
shall be extended to workers and
farmers without discrimination be-
cause of age, sex, race, or color,
religious or political opinion, or af-
fliation, whether they be industrial,
agricultural, domestic. or profess
sional workers, for all time lost No
worker shall be disqualified for the
benefits of this Act because of re-
fusal to work in place of strikers,
at less than normal or trade-union
rates. under unsafe or unsanitary
conditions or where hours are
longer than the prevailing union
standards at the particular trade
and locality, or at any unreasonable
distance from home.
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National Congress To Launch New Campaign for Workers Bill
Communist Party
Election Platform
Backs Workers Bill

Capitalist rule has to offer
only - hunger, misery, fascism
and war;
The Communist Party pro-
poses to the masses an energetic,
determined struggle for the fol-
lowing demands in the congress
sional elections:
For unemployment and
social insurance at the expense
Of the employers and the state,
for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill.
"2-For the repeal of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act; for
emergency relief to the impov-
erished and drought stricken
farmers without restriction by
the government and banks; ex-
emption Of impoverished farm
ers from taxation; cancellation
Of the debts of poor farmers;
for the Farmers Emergency Re-
lief Bill. Prom the Congress
siOnal Election Platform of the
Communist Party.
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forced labor, and for genuine I'M
employment and social insurance
as provided for by the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill. In order that these commit
tees may render such help they
should:
Affiliate to the nearest Unem-
ployment Council.
2-Direct the members of their
organizations in the work Of organ
izing nelghborhood, trade or other
Unemployment Locals and Relief
Workers organizations.
3-Help extend such activities in
other unions, trades and industries.
lead the fight to secure ex-
emption from dues payment of all
unemployed members. SO that these
may retain their membership in the
unions which they in many in
stances helped to build and support.
New Deal Attacks
Fellow workers. We are direct
ing this plan to you at this time
bSNodoO VIC PAASbb VI viz lllC1tl-
ployed masses becomes ever more
desperate. The army Of unem-
ployed is constantly growing. What
ever resources or credit we might
have possessed is now exhausted.
Millions Of us are being reduced to
pauperism. 1t is now clear that we
cannot place our hopes in the much
bally-hooed "New-Deap'. Congress
has adjourned without making nee
essary provisions for relief. 1t has
refused to enact the Workers I'm
employment and Social Insurance
Bill which embodied the only pro-
visions for preserving living stan
dards of all workers. The MIRA.
has served only to increase the prof.
It's OF the monopoliSts by raising
the cost Of all necessities. The P.W.
A. mountain of promised employ
ment hes turned into dung heap
of wage-cutting jobs for a few
thousand workers and huge con-
tracts for the munition makers and
other parasites.
United, militant, mass-action is
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broadcast possible delegations from
sll groups and organizations con-
cerned with the problem of social
security for the masses. The Con-
2ress itself will determine the con-
crete measures necessary in order
to assure such security. Thus, a
broad united front on this single
and paramount issue is made pos
sible. Thus, comprehensive pro-
gram can be developed by and in
the interest of those most imme-
diately concerned with the hazards
arising from the present industrial
and economic system.
Hold Preliminary Session
On August Both, preliminary
meeting of outstanding national
leaders and spokesman of workers
and professional organizations will
be held. This meeting will consider
the proposals Of the National I'm
employment Council and any other
proposals that may be submitted.
The National Unemployment Coun-
Gil will propose a National Congress
on Social Security to be held in
Washington, d. C. on the date
when the 74th Congress opens its
sessions.
The progress already made in
our fight for the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill,
the rapidly growing forces being
enlisted in this fight, the bank
ruptcy of Roosevelt's New Deal
and of all other measures that have
been brought forward as substitutes
for genuine unemployment and
social insurance at the expense of
the government and the employers,
and above all the redoubled efforts
of all militant fighters against the
hunger program of the ruling class,
will make this the biggest and
most imposing action that has yet
been carried out in the course of
the long struggle to win a greater
measure of security for the workers
who produce the wealth Of this
country.
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that the employed workers are in
creasingly realizing that they must
organize and strike against further
attacks upon their living standards.
The active support rendered by the
organized unemployed to thes e
strike struggles is proof of the fact
that the organized unemployed real
ize that every victory in the fight
for higher wages, shorter hours and
the right to organize Is victory in
the war against hunger which
threatens the entire workingclass.
The unions have, however, mani
tested too little realization Of the
fact that every struggle for higher
relief standards, against evictions,
against discrimination and abuse in
the distribution of relief, and par
ticulsrly the fight for Uncmploy-
ment and Social Insurance, has
direct bearing upon the wage
standards, working conditions and
living standards of all workers.
That the employers realize this is
to be seen in every instance when
relief Standards are considered.
Time and again they have forced
reductions in relief rates and in
wages on relief jobs because they
knew that they could not force
workers to work for starvation
wages unless relief and wage rates
on relief jobs were kept below their
starvation levels. This is one rea-
son why the administration hast
ened to liquidate the CWA jobs.
1t is necessary that every union
shall realize that it has the obliga-
ton to defend the economic inter-
ests of its own members and of the
workers generally whether they are
employed or unemployed.
Must Back Jobless
Unfortunately, none of The unions
have as yet met this abliga ion. The
A. F. of L. unions have not been
involved in this fight because OF
the trea cherous policy Of the top
leadership OF these unions. These
leaders, who have always treated he
unskilled and lowest paid workers