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The Washington times., 1934-04-23
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

time to be a consistent sinner.
That is why a man who is
busy making a living or a
career and a woman who Is
busy making a home and bring.
ing up a family are always the
best matrimonial bets.
BY the time abrilliant woman
has succeeded in convincing q
man that she has his number
and can beat him in an argu-
ment, she has usually succeeded
in convincing him that he
doesn't love her.
The faster a mans pace, the
more likely he is to be tripped
up and roped in by the wrong
girl.
In these days, the only de.
pendable chaperone that will
keep a shy young man safe
from being kissed by the wild.
bold gals, is passion for spring
Scallions.
Nothing seems longer than
waiting for the traffic lights to
turn from red to green-except
waiting for a man to discover
that he's in love, instead Of
just suffering from spring fever.
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will wrinkle.
P r o b a b ly
you'll h a v e
r h e umatiSm
and have to
wear falls e
teeth. ou
may even be
b e d ri d den.
One ca n t
CO u n t on
things, like.
But you are
sure tn a t
there are two
things ou
can count on.
YOU WILL
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The Human Side of the News
April Is Eventful Month-Gallery Gods
RI Ed1yi11 T.. Hill
Bv Edwiv1 C.. Hill

This month of April stands
out on the calendar of American
history. For it was in April,
II years ago, that the Congress
of the United States declared
war against imperial Germany.
Patient for more than two years
against repeated provocations,
President Wilson, in one Of his
most dramatic appearances at
the Capitol had reluctantly cast
his gauntlet as the leader OF his
people, and Congress sealed his
decision with it's Constitutional
authority.
With that decision and that
declaration, made just II years
ago, our country entered another
phase of it's existence, one which
was to transform it for better
or for worse, and only the com
ing years will tell. It was also
in April, Is years ago, that
Comdr. Robt. E. Peary stood on
top of the world. For 20 years
the indomitable Peary had
struck out for the goal that ad
venturers had sought for three
centuries, the North Pole itself.
Peary's Victory
The thrilling tale has been
told many times, by Admiral
Peary himself, by his stalwart
lieutenant, Capt. Bob Bartlett,
and by others, but it never loses
it's romantic force. Planting the
American flag at the spot from
which all directions ran south,
Peary had the whole spinning
earth under his weary feet. And
then he turned about and drove
his dogs back through snow and
ice to the rim of civilization, and
it was not until five months
later that the world knew he
had won.
He had been fortunate as well
as brave. He had had the breaks
in luck denied to so many who
had faltered on the long road,
or who had given their lives to
the romantic quest. One of the
greatest of all these was the
Englishman, Sir John Franklin,
who headed in to the Far North
in 1845, with two ships, and with
1874 chosen officers and men.
Not one Of them ever returned.
Their whitened skeletons were
found many years later, but the
two ships were missing, the
whole a battling mystery.
But here is strange fact.
The British brig Renovation
passing through an immense ice
field off the Banks of Newfound-
land, some so odd years ago,
sighted at three miles away, a
huge berg. Upon this floating
mountain Of ice, lying not far
apart, were two stout, three
masted wooden ships. One
was on her beam ends, with only
stumps of mastS and bowsprlt
intact. The other, well on the
ice, stood upright, intact, with
every appearance of having been
stripped and abandoned.
The ice field was too danger.
Gus to penetrate, and the Reno
walton went her way, her people
firm in the belief that they had
seen two ghost ships, the lost
Erebus and Terror, Of Sir John
Franklin.
OF all the puzzles and mys-
teries of the frozen North, this
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e disappearance OF

} tale of the disappearance OF
Franklin and his whole company
and of his two ships that went
out to sea on a mountain OF ice
is the most intriguing and en-
thralling.
Not without humor is the
situation of Benito Mussollnl;
sweeping the italian elections
and then going to the opera
the next night to hear an au-
dience boo the performance off
the stage with not the slightest
regard for the presence OF II
Duce in a stage box. His word
is law. His very froWn is a
ukase not to be disregarded.
But even he must bow before
the thunder of the gallery gods.
And bow he did, for the news
from Rome is that by his COM
mand the opera by Luigi Piran-
dello called "The Changeling,"
is not to be presented again in
Italy. The reaction of a Euro
pean audience to performance
which it dlslikeS must be seen
to be appreciated. Not even
our English cousins take it
quietly when they are dissat1s-
fled with an entertainment.
Gallery Gods Win
In fact, the English movie
goers won't even sit through
the picture. If they don't like
it, they raise such a storm
that the only thing to do is
to take it off and put on a
substitute, or give them return
tickets for another show. This
is not the first time that the
gallery gods have turned
thumbs down on the 67-year-
old Pirandello, who is pretty
much the Bernard Shaw Of
Italy, both in his beard and
in his writings.
He's been doing ultra modern
istic stuff for the theater for
the last Is years, and the best
known of his works "Six Char
acters in Search of an Author"
was acclaimed by his Irish pro-
totype as the best play Of all
peoples of all time. A few
years ago, Pirandello launched
another piece in Berlin, which
he called Tonight We Play
Extemporaneously." The ac-
ton called for a group Of &C.
tors planted in the audience
and this group was to voice it's
disapproval, walk out and bang
doors.
Within 20 minutes the Gus.
toners were heart and soul
with the planted actors, whist
ling, stamping and shouting
until the leading lady swooned
in her tracks and the stage
manager rang down the cur
tain as he shouted, "impudent
mob" across the footlights.
A historic case Of a cool re"
ception to a great work was
that accorded by an audience
in Paris on March 3, 1875, when
George Vizet'S opera Carmen"
was performed for the first
time. Bizet died within three
months, and it was said that
his death was haStened by his
disappointment over the way
his work had been received.
And yet, Carmen" was soon to
take its place and hold it iu
the verv front rank OF 0oeraCle
repertoire.
copyright. 1884. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-04-23
Will You Become A ''White
ZOmhi2"

You know you will get old
some day. You know your hair
will turn gray and your flesh
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In
II D.. O.
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It requires energy, effort and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
A N E DIT o RIA l.

enemies for the representatives of the capitalists
for the strikebreakers, for the expoiters and the
enemies of the trade unions.
And the A. F. of L. leaders, who are at the head
Of the trade unions, and who supposed to be
defending the interests Of the workers. did every
thing in their power to help the representatives
of the bourgeois parties the representatives of the
bosses and the strike breakers, to carry through
this nationwide cheating Of the workers in the
elections.
DUT now, only few weeks after the elections are
over, with Roosevelt and the Democratic Party
carrying off the victory, is 1t not already much
easier to recognize the truth Of what We Commu-
nists told the workers before the elections?
What do they see, the workers who voted
for Roosevelt in the belief that they were voting
against the bankers against the monopolies, against
the ke-breakers7
What Do these workers see nov who voted for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
Chinese Students
Ask Help Against
Chiang's Terror

In q desperate call for help
against the vengeful terrorism
exercised against them by
Chang Kai-shek at his COM
plete failure to crush the Chinese
Soyiets, the students of Pekin
and Marking have sent a cable
gram to San Diego, Cal, it was
announced at the New York Of
flee Of the National Student
League yesterday. Briefly and
tensaly phrased, the wire reads:
Please inform N.S.L. in New
York by air-mail. Many students
arrested in Pekin Nov. rs, caused
by students protecting one stu
dent charged with Communism
from two detectives. Inform
League Immediately Mr.. Shen-
Kuo-Kwang arrested as Commu-
mist Nov. 90 and being removed
to Marking. Five more students
arrested as Communists, request
immediate action. American
students help
In view of the terrible mass
slsughters perpe,rated against
the brave Chine-c students by
the butcher Chang Xa.-shek
from the very BEGINNING of his
dictatorship in 1927 to the pre-
sent day, National Student
League spokesman declared,
these students must be saved
from the certain death which
menaces them.
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c 0 Il SEU NJ
is DENIED
COMMUNISTS
Attacks Inspi ire d by
House Com mittee
and Hearst Campaigns

CHICAGO, Dec. 10. - Following
the fascist Indictment sounded
against the Communist Party by the
Hearst press and the Dickstein
Committee now investigating Sub
versive" activities, the corporation
owning the Coliseum here yesterday
refused to grant permission for a
Lenin Memorial meeting ON the
grounds that "it was against the law
to hold Communist meeting any
where"
The Coliseum returned the deposit
which it had originally accepted for
the meeting which is scheduled for
Jan. 20, despite the fact that the
Communist Party has for years been
renting the Coliseum for its meet
ings.
This attempt to throttle the meet
ings of the Communist Party is
evidence of determined attempt
to carry through the latest attacks
on the Communist Patr with the
purpose Of abolishing it as a legal
political party as demanded by the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce several
days ago.
The recent h 90 dunn attack
against the Chicago Worker 5chool,
directly instigated by the incite-
ments of the Hearst press, was the
opening of this reactionary reign
of terrorism and suppression.
The organized character of this
latest drive against the Communist
Party is to be seen from the fact
that the American Legion leader
ship is preparing an anti-Commu-
mist parade on January 4.
The District Committee of the
Communist Party calls upon all
working class organizations, work
ers from the shops, Negro people, to
elect delegates to the city-wide cleo
ton conference to take place jan
uary 18th, 10 am at Mirror Hall,
1885 N. Western Avenue, which will
not only be mobilization Of the
working class in behalf of the Com
munist Party candidates, Karl
Lockner for mayor, S. t. Hammers
mark for city treasurer and Herbert
Newton for city clerk, but also
against the growing fascist attack
upon the working class movement
in the city of Chicago.
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WAR NEARER
AS j AP A N
SCRAPS PACT
US Competition for
Power Freed from
Last Restraint

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - The
long prepared race by the Roosevelt
government went into high-speeo
today on the pretext of the Japan
ese remuneration today of the Wash
ington naval treaty. This ster
brings much closer the whole ques-
ton of inperialist war for the domi-
nation of the Pacific.
Foreseen long ago by American
imperialism and provoked by the
vast naval building schedules of the
United States, the scrapping of the
treaty by Japan is only the formal
answer Of the japanese to the ag-
gresive intentions of Washington
particularly after the passage of the
Vinson Bill months ago.
Throughout the session of the now
abandoned London naval parleys
the Japanese military authorities
with the aid of the British, struggled
for equal naval power ratios in vain
against the determined insistence
Of the United States that both her
imperialist rivals stick by the terms
Of the old naval treaties.
A total of 1870 war vessels. the cost
Of which runs into billions of dol
lars, now feverishly being con-
structed in American navy yards
provided the lever which led Japan
csc industrialists to scrap the 1922
treaty in mad scramble to com
pete in naval construction with the
United States.
Fertilization by the Roosevelt
regime of island possessions in the
Pacific Ocean has been under way
for years. Aviation flights, test
cruises through the Panama Canal
naval maneuvers embracing the
entire United States fleet held IN
the Pacific area, have placed the
present administration in the first
line of imperialist preparations fol
war. Millions of dollars have beer
set aside for the secret building OF
hidden naval and air bases along
the coast of Alaska and throughout
the Aleutian Islands, within 1,50C
miles of Japanese territory.
That such Notifications for wal
purposes we're being constructed
long before Japanese denunciatior
of the treaty is never mentioned
here. All capitalist newspapers are
cloaking the terrific pace and ag-
gressiveness of naval building and
general war measures of the United
States by attacks upon Japan fol-
abrogation of the treaties. Al
though the now abandoned treaties
of 1922 and 1880 have not bsen
completely renounced, such renun-
citation is formally expected to take
place Dec. 81.
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The Latest AntiLabor Drive and the Recent Elections

the jobess remain empty, the attacks against the
unions are becoming sharper all the time.
Everywhere, the local governments are levy
ing new taxes the masses, like the Infamous
sales tax in New York and Cleveland.
The bosses and the bankers say to them
selves: If it was possible to cheat the workers in
the elections with sweet phrases and empty prom
ises, then it is still possible to use the stick on
them still harder.
Yes, today, the capitalists taking the conf
dence which the workers unconsciousiy gave 70 the
representatives of the capitalist class in the ,cst
elections as a proof that they can so 2loa1 With
new attacks against the workers and all tole-s.
1t has always been this way in history L The
bourg 'osie, the capitalists. see that tie working
class is not yet united, independent class fc-cc,
able to force the hourgeoisie to make concessions
Continued on Page p
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Roosevelt in the belief that in this way they were
voting for social and unemployment insurance for
higher wages for the right to organize and strike,
and for all civil liberties?
Today with the election hardly over, the Wall
STREET bankers and industriastS, all the very people
who led the United States, especially the workers,
into this terrible crisis, holding meeting
after another to dictate to Roosevelt just what they
want him to do for them.
Now they speaking out more brutally, more
cynically, than before the elections
And what is Roosevelt doingP His flood of sweet
phrases continues. But only to hide the fact that
his program is becoming more and more openly a
program against the workers program of betrayal
OF all the sweet prediction promises about social
security unemployment insurance, and "distribu-
ton OF income"
Today after the elections, the pay envelopes
sre becoming less and less weighty, the pockets Of
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fascist leaflets pamphlets daily being Struggled
directly the poisoned CT Killers
factories in Hamburg Berlin and other cities while the
Investigation "Un American Activities"
this immediate growing danger in order to IN anti
an-workng Printed Eng
portions which the
conditions Germany
political verify
brutality be unparalleled anywhere
will find the superintendent of
his work for the
butcher Hers cutthroa all militant workers who
Stupid contradictions Haunted truths such
approving persecution of
Statistics that the dominated the
other hand denying that single had been
working militant
throughout This the character
which the Dkstein Committee
fuses % recognize s sweeping the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20

IN hundreds of meetings in our press and in our
speeches, we Communists have told the workers
the truth in the elections And this truth was:
you workers elect Democrats Republicans or can
didates of any of the other bourgeois parties then
you are strengthening not your power, the
power of the working class but the power of your
enemy, the Bosses the capitalist class and their
capitalist government.
We have told the workers, you must vote as
you strike. Your vote must express the spirit
that is expressed in strike against the employers,
the spirit of class struggle for the interests of the
working class"
But our voice was not yet loud enough not con-
vincing enough. Our organizations were not strong
enough to break through the flood Of lies preju-
dices and trickery Of the capitalist parties, to
vince the workers of this truth.
Millions Of voters did not vote they fought
the picket lines. Many workers let themselves
be cheated and they voted uuconsciously for their
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ROAD OPENED
IN WAR PLAN
Especial to the Daily wOrker)

SHANGHAI, Dec. 10 (By wire
less) The new strategic Japanese
reailroad, starting at Tsitsihar and
pointing directly at the Manchu-
rian-Soviet frontier, was opened to-
day in the presence of numerous
representatives of the Japanese
authorities.
The Japanese Telegraph Agency
openly admits that the new line,
1870 miles long, possesses "extaor-
binary strategic Importance" The
completion of this purely military
road is recognized here as the be-
ginning of new series of Japanese
inspired provocations upon the So
Wet Union.
The new military airdrome re-
Gently constructed on the outskirts
of Tientsin remains unexplained by
the japanese officials there. News
papers state that the japanese re-
fused to give any written answer to
the local Chinese authorities con-
corning the construction of the air.
drome but limited themselves to a
verbal statement that this is not
an airdrome but simply a sta
dunn"
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GREEN AIDS
STRIKE TRUCE

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. 10
President Roosevelt today declared
that he is hopeful of an early
agreement for truce in the
steel industry. Roosevelt's state
ment followed his meeting with
William Green and Michael Tighe
of the American Federation of La
bor, together with representatives of
all the major steel companies and
members o. the Steel Labor Rela-
lions Board.
The chief aim of these .1agotia-
lions, on which Roosevelt, ne en-
ployers and the American Federa-
ton of Labor officials are all
agreed, is to preyent the strike
movement which is growing among
the steel workers, to extend The
truce" in the steel industry, and
to drive the growing rank and file
movement out of the American
Federation of Labor steel union, the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers.
Roosevelt declared today that
final decision on the proposals made
at Yesterdays conference will be
made when proper language for The
agreement is decided upon.
Yesterdays proposals, which we're
agreed to by Roosevelt and the steel
companies representatives, were
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DAVIS URGES
AID TO |. D
BY BEN J. DAVIS, Jr.
Editor, the Negro Liberator

All honest and sincere people in
terested in justice and fair play
have for three and a half years
clenched their fists in protest and
indignation at the bloodthirsty
frame-up of the nine innocent
Scottsbo-o boys by lynch class of
the South. The innocence of these
boys has been repeatedly established
by the relentless and militant de-
Tense struggles waged under the
leadership of the International
Labor Defense. Only this world
wide mass protest has halted the
lynchers' hands.
Why, then, are these boys still
languishing under death sentences
in the Alabama prisons? Clearly, it
is because the slave-driying land
lords and industrialists of the South
are determined to use the charred
bodies of these boys as examples of
terror to the oppressed Negro
Masses. It is because the lynchers
of the South intend to brutally
crush every effort Of the united
Negro and white workers of this
country to save the lives of the
Scottsboro boys and to win the COM
fTorfss3uod M pno1 Cl
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Communist Vote Gains
In Colorado County

DURANGO, Colo. Dec. 19-The
Communist Party vote, although
numerically small in La Plata
County, showed high percentage
of increase in the last election. Mel
son Dewey, Communist candidate
for Supreme Court Judge received
rs votes as against nine cast for
the Communist Party in the pre-
vious election. Salazar, candidate
for Lieutenant-G Governor, received
II votes.
The Socialist Party vote here de-
creased by half The leading So
cialist candidate receiving only 100
votes in the last election as COM
pared with a vote twice that size
in the previous election.
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Workers Bill Ballot Campaign
Lays Behind Sweeping Crowth
Of Support for the Farley
Only $3.50 Votes forBiIl
Sent in So Far in Drive
for a Million

Only $3.50 ballots in the Daily
Worker campaign to obtain one mil
ion votes for the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill have been
received at the office of the Daily
Worker up to 10 am. yesterday, the
management committee announced.
Under the schedule which must be
fulfilled if the drive is to succeed,
the total number should have been
$4,000.
At the start of the drive, the Daily
Worker announced that at least 40
coo ballots must be returned to the
New York office each day to fill
quotas. Later. because of the small
returns, this figure was raised to
$4,000 daily. Today, however. 10000
votes must reach the Daily Worker
each day to complete the drive by
Jan. /.
Paltry Returns
The New York City sections I'M
5srtook to collect 250.000 votes in
the campaign. Yesterdays returns,
the management committee pointed
out indicate the total lscll of seri-
BUSINESS with which this pledge is
being fulfilled The Unemployment
Councils brought in 30 ballot the
Friends of the Soviet Union, 4; Red
Builders, 80; Section /. Unit IS Of
the Communist Party II; Workers
Clubs, 30; and individuals brought
in 48-a total of 1877
Since the drive was started on Dec
10. returns each day have been as
follows:
Dec. 10, 26; Dec. II, 100: Dec IL
1853: Dec. 10. SAT: Dee. Il. $50: Der.
Is. SO: Dec. II, BIS: Dec. 10, 1882.
IN individual c2ses. thu manage
ment committee reported splendid
results where real spplica lion TO the
drive had been made. In the Meltzer
Shop, which is completely organized
under the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union, every worker in
the shop voted in favor of the Work
ers' Bill on the Daily Worker Ballot.
The Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, which is undertaking
real drive to obtain ballots, re-
ported to the Daily Worker yester-
day that votes for the Workers Bill
have come into the union head
quarters from unorganized workers
in the industry and from storekoeD-
ers who are enthu3ias in their en-
dorsement of the Workers Bill.
The management committee Of
the Daily Worker yesterday called
upon all sections and districts to
speed the campaign for the ballot
ing. Less than two weeks remain
to complete the drive. To garner
every vote possible, the management
committee urged that polling places
be established in every section; can
vassing and the collection tag days
for the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance be made to
serve the double purpose of support
ing the National Congress and COL
lecting votes: votes be taken into
the shops, into every meeting; into
the relief stations. c. c. c. camps
and transient bureaus; and that de-
tailed daily reports be sent to the
Daily Worker, so E. 18th St., New
York City.