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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28


 test questions? Turn to last page for the answers? 1. Tn the spring of what year did the battle of the Monitor and "Merrimac" occur?
 2. What is snow? 8. Where was Buffalo Bill. Cody born?
 {. Under which president was Franklin MacVeagh the secretary of the treasury?
 5. Where is the island of Guernsey?
 6. When did Washington and his troops cross the Delaware river?
 2. What is the name for . passage in a drama in which . per- son speaks uneonsciously aloud either alone on the stage or with others keeping silent7 g. Where, in the mouth. is the palate?
 2. What is coeducation2 2 10. What was the full name of Boettcher who was Kidnapped In 1sSs?
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 Q.,Do turtles have sex? What ia the proper way to keep them and what kind of food should they be given? z A. Turtles have sex like ali other vertebrate groups. If the tuRtles are of the fresh water variety. q shallow pool filled with plants will suit; if they are land turtles,. an enclosed grassy area. with shallow dish of water and a diet of worms and raw beef tor carnivorUus spe- cies, and vegetables and fruits for the herbivorous ones. will be needed.
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 Q. What is the plural of phes nomena?
 A. Phenomena is plural and th4 singular form is phenomenon.
 o. Is "Laddie," by Gene Stfats ton Porter, fiction?
 A. Yes.
 o. Has Switzerland a navy?
 A. No.
 o. Who owns the SueZ Canal?
 A. It is owned by private cor- poration and no nation has direct authority over 1t. The canal is owned and operated by the Suez
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28

Tonight is the night that you get even with time for the hour you lost last spring. Slip the hands back tonight and you will be all set on the straight road to standard time once more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28
I@als,,,.,. D.ils Merry-Co-Round POST OFFICE CRACKS DOWN
 ON OCEAN MAIL SHIPS
By DREW PEARSON and RoI

Washington Sept 28-It has not leaked out yet, but the post office department is quietly applying the scourge to oceanrna contracts Prong from the sad experience when aira contracts cancelled this crackdown is less spectacular but eicacious.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28

TO-DAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, "The book was mutually chosen by John and Ethel"; say, "JOhn and Ethel together chose the book"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28
T est Y 0 UT Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to Last page for the answers?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28

o. Who owns the Suez Canal?
 A. It is owned by private cor- poration and no nation has direct authority over 1t. The canal is owned and operated by the Suez
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28

Q. Who is Blossom Seeley? A. A vaudeville comedienne.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28

If you want a copy of our new booklet BRIDES BOOK, write to Tine Waterbury Democrats Wash ingtOn Bureau, enclosing ten cents (1Oc) for postage and handling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26

with economic and political activ-
ity. In 1899, at the age of eighteen,
he became a Socialist. He reached
this decision because of a speech
he heard at a street meeting, at
the corner of Broad and South
Streets in Philadelphia. He re-
ceived a leaflet at this gathering,
on the cover of which was car
toon showing huge muscular
worker cringing under the lash of
a puny capitalist. Foster still
speaks of this picture, which pow
erfully engraved on his mind the
sense of the latent strength of the
organized workers.
He labored ceaselessly to free the
workers from the lash of the capi-
talists, In the Northwest, he fought
to lead the Socialist Party out of
the slough of opportunism onto the
road of militant working class ac-
ton. Failing in this, he Joined the
I. w. w. In 1908, at the time of
his arrest in connection with the
fight for free speech in Spokane,
Wash, he was SO severely beaten
across the face by the police that
he was almost totally blind, and
was in danger of losing his sight
for several years afterward.
Foster left the I. w. w. in 1912,
because he disagreed with the pol
icy Of complete withdrawal from
work inside the A. F. of L. unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26

raised to SITS in the second year,
and to 50 per week in the third
year.
A Hard Childhood
There was no day-dreaming, no
sweet sadness of youth in Fosters
adolescence. The round of jobs
was endless: a type foundry, then
paper mills, chemical factories,
fertilizer plants, the White Lead
Company (where most of the work.
ers died of chemical poisoning be-
fore they could earn enough to pay
for a coffin. At nineteen Foster
was qualified stationary engi-
neer and steam-fitter-and, broken
in health, threatened with con-
sumption.
Told that he would die if he re-
NAMED in the North, he went to
Cuba in search of work. A little
later he was employed in a fertilizer
plant in Tampa, Fla; then as a
laborer for the Armor Company in
Jacksonville; then North again,
where he secured work as a brake
man on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The next fifteen years were a
saga of changing jobs: motorman
on the New York street car lines;
then a lumber camp on the West
Coast; then three years before the
mast on square-rigger; then many
years of railroad work.
Became Socialist
But these years were also crowded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26

He called this policy "a process
which simply results in stripping
the old unions of their militants
and leaving those organizations in
the hands of reactionaries." Per-
haps Fosters greatest service to
the working class has been his clear
insistence on work inside the old
unions, his persistent vision of the
possibility of developing within
these organizations powerful rank
and file movements of mass
struggle.
Meets Tom Mooney
In 1912, he entered into CORE
Spondence with a young left-wing
Socialist in San Francisco who
agreed with him on the urgent need
of militant organization inside the
A. r, of L. This was Tom Mooney.
The two men first met in 1914, at
the home of Lucy Parsons, wife of
the legally-murdered Haymarket
martyr.
When Mooney and Billings were
framed in 1917, Foster was one of
the first to enter the long fight for
his release; he organized the first
mass meeting ever held in protest
against Moneys arrest.
The Great Steel Strike
Fosters greatest and most spec
tacular fight took place in 1919: his
magnificent leadership of the great
steel strike is a matter of history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26

Oliver Smith, Tenor
BOO WEAF-Ben Bernie Or
chestra; Adolphe Menjou,
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Sketch
WJz-Clevelsnd Orchestra,
Artur Rodzinski, Conduc-
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WABC-Jones Orch; Grace
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neutrality-suspicious.
News
WOR-Michele Orchestra
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nette Hanshaw, Songs;
Walter O'Keefe
~ To- WOtt-Current Events
H. E. Read
1880 WOR-Wallenstein Sin
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WJz-Little Congress; Dis
cussion, McGrath Foreign
Policy Bill, by Secretaries
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WABC-Capt. Dobbsie's
Ship of Joy
MISUNDERSTANDING
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1l;l5-WEAF-Robcrt Royce.
Tenor
WOR-Moonbeams Trio
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Jane Adams.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
NOreAIDOgHt' Lad yNaacIDetll'

chorus of the exiled stirs the
imagination"
IN the sixth of February, Mr..
" Henderson wrote that the opera
had Theatrical intensity and other
excellent points the music of
Shostakovich is free and unconven-
tional his score is filled with
rhythmic force and insistence
it is rich in orchestral device and
the use of instrumental solo pas
sages for decorative effects
transitions from moments of melo-
die charm, to others of Grass ugli-
ness -. there is also the pressure
of force and unrestrained impulse
the whole atmosphere of
Wozzek." He admits, however, that
"the style is different the i'm
preston left at the close of the long
work is that the production had
been well worth while" 1t took sew
eral days for the learned gentleman
to change his mind and call it a
"bed-chamber opera"
We may concede that there were
moments on the stage as well as
sounds in the orchestra which might
be offensive to our conservative
friends, but the fault lies with the
producers who were obviously anx-
ious for sensational effects - in
short, the bed chamber opera" was
fabricated in America.
Mr.. Pitts Sanborn in the Evening
Telegram: Lady Macbeth of
Mzensk' is a genuine music drama
it is the expression of vigor-
Gus talent which shows, moreover,
a sure sense of the theatre the
music is fresh stalwart music in
its energy and free stride music
stark and unashamed Acts III
and " are engrossing the last
act is singularly vital and moving
I. unquestionably, this Lady Mac
beth is one Of the most important
operas to reach the local stage in
the last twenty years"
Mr.. Liebling Of the New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26

American finds: "Arresting novelty
with realism and sarcasm side by
side :. melody and poetical lovely
lyrlcizing orcheStration master
ful . effective in the highest de-
gree this Saskatchewan is a ire
mendous craftsman with a vital
message"
The greatest living conductor. Ar
turo Toscanini was deeply i'm
pressed by the musical poetry" OF
the score.
In justice to Mr. Sanborn and
Mr., Liebling, we wish to record that
their acceptance of this opera as an
outstanding work was unqualified.
WE may mention, at random, some
" of its musical values, when, for
example, in the first act, the whole
mood Of Katerina's hopeless situa-
ton is established with the one
phrase "but I am idle, filled with
ennui all alone sit and brood"
The long, sustained lines of Kat
erina in the second act are imbued
with lyrical beauty and pathos. The
chorus and quintet, in the second
scene Of the first act, can be likened
to the best pages in Verdi's "Fal-
staff, and Wagner's "Meistersing-
ers." Shostakovich has not initiated
these composers, resembling them
only in form.
The quarrel between Katerina and
her husband before the latter is
strangled, is a gem of musical dia-
logue. The short scene between So
netka and Sergei deriding Katerina
is stark in its callousness.
The last aria of the heroine, the
song of the old prisoner and the
final chorus, have melodic line,
breadth and emotional depth. The
composer symphcnically enfolds the
drama, compelling the listener to
follow his thought, from the first
note to the last. All this he accom-
plishes with fluency, simplicity and
in places with the economy and re-
straint Of a master
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
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chestra
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WABC-Lyman Orchestra;
Vivienre Segal, Soprano;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
BY SERGEI RADAMsKY

NARL SANDS, in the Daily Worker
Y of Feb. IS and 10, has definitely
exposed the baseness and mislead-
ing judgment Of the musical critics
of the New York press, in regard to
the opera, Lady Macbeth" by
Dmitri Shostakovich. Not only is it
the opinion of the outstanding musi-
clans Of the world that this is the
most important opera produced in
the last twenty years, but the critics
themselves, while trying to confuse
the issue, have admitted as much.
Mr.. DIN Downes of the New York
Times says: ut has been many a
year since such a large and brilliant
audience has been in the Metropoli-
tan Opera House" and that sit had
an immense success with the audi
ence." But Mr. Downes cannot &C
count for the gales Of applause that
swept through the house"
Mr.. Downes wishes us to trust to
his personal taste and knowledge
against almost every one else of the
three thousand people gathered at
the Metropolitan that night. After
all, operas are not written Just for
musical critics, and those for whom
it was intended have acclaimed it
here, as well as in the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Downes continues: What
would happen with few repetitions
of this work would probably be diff
ferent." How then account for its
unabated success. with the public in
Moscow and in Leningrad, many of
whom hear it over and over again?
I, for example, heard thirteen per-
formances at the two different
opera houses, and found my interest
growing rather than abating. Mr..
DoWnes admits that "the music has
its lyrical and melodious passages
=. Katerina's Lament arouses some
emotion 4. The music seldom fails
to emphasize the doings on the
stage The crashing brass chords
. :. are effective rhetoric The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
Not Heard From For Three Months

Ds'T ret, CITY Dis'5 TSt, city District city
L, s: '1s E$s w.
South Bend Ias Ind Il I E'1 S.s. ESg Kan e.
Not Heard From For Four Weeks or More
E Pro. S.S,. B Hammer IND San Antonio
s!t Island III s s:@sS II Mn. S 5sss n II:
T.F ssa.. PssS \ 81 F. F., s% As
Indianapolis, 10 Helper Utah " ss mitchell s. D.
Ind 26 Hecla, S. D.
A glance at the above list will show basic in
dustries well represented Gary Ind. is one of the
biggest steel centers in the United States Steel
is produced at Hammond and South Bend also.
Wikes-B Barre where big strike is now going on
Springfield, Ill. and Fairmont, w Va. are major
mining regions Other mining towns on the list
are Middlesboro KY Terre Haute, Ind, Gallup,
N. M, and Helper, Utah Rock Island, Ill, is an
important railroad center Providence and New
Bedford textile cities which played big roles
in the general textile strike last fall In Moline,-
Ill., situated huge agricultural machinery plants.
The tremendous Singer Sewing Machine factory
is in Elizabeth N. j. At Trenton there are numer-
Gus metal and machine plants as well as some tex
tile factories.
But the steel workers. the miners, the railroad
men, the textile workers. in these cities are not
being touched by literature No doubt the
comrades in these cities are encountering great
difficulties III their work But do they think they
organize these workers, do they think they can
carry on their Party work without lterature7
When literature distribution is considered a task
in Itself then the result is what above. With
multitude of tasks and duties to be taken care Of
literature gets lefS by the waysde. But if litera-
ture distribution is considered an integral part of
the task of organizing the steel workers in the A.
A. and the Party and preparing them for struggle,
then not only will our Party literature be put into
the hands OF the workers but the organization work
among them will show more lasting results
The list of Weak Spots will soon be published
again in this column See to it that your name is
not it.
How to Prevent Reaching the Millions
There have Just been published FIVE agitational
pamphlets for use in the campaign for 1nterna-
tlonal Womens Day. These are for widest mass
distribution. Here are some of the orders We got:
Philadelphia-25 What Every Working Woman
Wants" two cents IS Women and Equality
two cents, Is The Position of Negro Women
two cents, and 20 Women in Action" 1.-TWO cents.
New Haven-5o what Every Working Woman
Wants." so Women and Equality" 80 "The Posi-
ton OF Negro Women" and 80 Women in Action"
Milwaukee-25 Mother Bloor' (three cents), SO
What Every Working Woman Wants" so Women
and Equality IS The Position of Negro Women
so Women in Action
To date Feb 23) the following districts have
not ordered these pamphlets: Seattle, Minneapolis,
Bismarc'-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
More on the Labor Party


Question: How will the workers recognize the
difference between genuine labor party and
reformist party, especially if the reformists go in
for using revolutionary phrases?-P. NJ
Answer: Because the reformists will try to con-
ceal their class collaboration policies with "revou-
honary" phraseology and speeches, the Communist
Party proposes that the candidates Of the class
struggle labor party shall not conhne themselves
to stumping the country making speeches The
Communist Party strives for a labor party which
together with its candidates will continually and
genuinely fight for every need and demand Of the
workers.
It is in these struggles which vitality concern
the welfare of the masses, that the masses will
learn just who retreats and betrays their fight.
The test as to who is genuinely striving for the
interests of the workers can only be carried out
in actual struggle The workers will soon recognize
the candidates and the party which carries their
fight forward to the realization Of their demands.
The victory of the policy Of furtherng the class
struggle as opposed to class collaboration, must
come from the actual experiences of the workers
as they distinguish between the phrase mongers
and those who actually lead them in class battles
Question: When the Communist Party brings
forward the idea of labor party, does that mean
that it does not want to build a mass Communist
Party?-J. L., Newark N. J.
Answer: MOI Communists wish to build up
mass Communist Party which will lead the work.
ing class and its allies to the revolutionary seizure
Of power. 1t is to reach the objective of a mass
party that Communists support the building Of a
labor party as means of speeding up the break
ing away of the workers from the old capitalist
parties.
The labor party is a means Of bringing the work.
ers under more class conscious political leadership
and of leading them to revolutionary struggles under
the guidance Of the Communist Party. A class
struggle labor party will serve as a bridge over
which millions of workers who, at present, do not
accept the program Of the Communists, will go
over to the Communist movement and the full
acceptance Of its revolutionary principles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
Literature
10 the Masses
Weak Spots on the Literature Front

In the weekly letter sent by the Literature Com
mission to the districts and sections there is Sec
ton entitled Weak Spots on the Literature Front"
In this section listed those districts and sections
which have not been heard from as far as literature
is concerned) for four weeks or more and for three
months. Here is the latest list:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on the feature
page. All questions should be addressed to "Ques-
tiOns and Answers" c 70 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street, New York City
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-05

returned from a visit to Grenora, N.
ID. on Wednesday.
Miss Bmma Wollen came back
"Wednesday from her summer vaca-
ton spent in Chicago, ILL.,, and
Brandt, S. ID.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walt Kohler and
daughter of Minneapolis arrived
here Friday.
Mrs. Dan McFarlane and daughter
Beatrice, and Robert Tooke OF Tur-
ner, Mont, visited Wednesday at
Sven Sybergh's. They left Thursday
for Antler. N. d. Marjorie and Dor
othy Sybergh accompanied them
Mrs. Carol Hendriks and daugh-
ter from Zahl, N. D., are visiting at
the Vim. Goodlaxon home.
Mrs. Alvina Seaberg and daughter
Mrs. Charles Seaburg, and Mr.. Rose
of Red Wing, MINI, arrived Wednes-
day to look after farming interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Sandon from
North Dakota are visiting at the N.
]. Nelson home.
Mrs. z. A. Schruhl returned from
Chicago, I'll, where she was called by
the serious illness Of her son.
Miss Della Chaffee and Wallace
went to Westby on wednesday.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-05
Students At RedstOne
Register Monday
Special to the Herald

Special to the Herald
REDSTONE, Sept 5.-The Red
stone school started Monday. The
teachers have not all arrived yet but
we're expected the last OF the week.
Ruth Loucks Is substituting for Miss
Levy. Miss Botten and Mr.. Campin
resigned. Miss Colliton is teaching
the upper grades until the new
teacher arrives. Mr.. Post alone has
charge of the high school until the
new teachers arrive. Sixteen pupils
entered the freshman class.
MORE REDsToNE NEWS
Mrs. Dallas Watkins, Misses Lu-
ellie and Develda Hansen and Loris
Bey took Sammy Skordal and Don
aid Title to Fort Peck where the
boys resumed their work.
MI. and Mrs. AL Hardy and family
were Redstone visitors Monday.
MI. and Mrs. Carl Smith and
daughters were county seat visitors
Friday.
George Stringer and Bert Daley
were Redstone callers Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Daley were Wis
itors at the Schlag home the last of
the week.
Hugh French was a Redstone
caller Friday.
Mn. and Mrs. AL Losing were
county seat visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Smith and
daughters Irene and Phyllis attended
the Wanso Lutheran Ladies' Aid
Friday which was held at the home
Of Mrs. Bin White.
George Smith was a Redstone call.
er Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant OF
Outlook were Redstone visitors Sat
urday.
MI. and Mrs. Guy Wigmore enter
tanned a number of friends Saturday
evening, the occasion being Mr.. Wig
more's birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Wigmore
and daughter OF Wheeler arrived In
Redstone tho last OF the week
Linden Pfieffer was able to leave
the hospital last week and his condi'
ton is much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs Burke, Emma Sever
SON, Mrs. Cecil Garneau and son
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-09-05
Recipe Brings Recognition
For PlentYwood Woman

Mrs. w. f. Stegner of Plenty
wood, has just been awarded a Ger
tificate of Recipe Endorsement by
Better Homes & Gardens for her
recipe, Orange Mousse"
This certificate which brings ma
tional recognition to Mrs. Stegner,
is given by Better Homes & Gardens
only to distinguished recipes which
pass its testing kitchens tests for
dependability, excellence OF taste,
and family usefulness.
In addition to the signed certifi-
cate, Mrs. Stegner also received six
copys OF her endorsed recipe, each
bearing the Better Homes & Gar
dens stamp of recipe endorsement,
which she can give to her friends.
In awarding these certificates, II
is the magazines aim to provide
proper recognition for the creative
work done by women in their OWL
kitchens, and also to raise the
| standard of accuracy and depend
ability Of recipes as a whole. Nc
| other magazine or institution gives
/ this personal recognition and ser
vice to its subscribers.
Mrs. Stegner's endorsed recipe
follows:
Orange Mousse
/ cup sugar
Grated rind OF 1 orange
Y cup water
" tablespoon gelatine
2 tablespoons cold water
* cup orange juice
3 tablespoons lemon Juice
u cup chopped pecans
2 cups heavy cream, whipped
n cup chopped meraschino cher
| ries
Place the sugar, orange rind ant