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The Washington times., 1935-06-24
In the World of Science
By Hiram PERCY Maxim

pens when the source OF nght
is receding from us.
Were the galaxy approaching
us, there would be more waves
arriving per second, which
would shift the lines toward the
violet end of the spectrum. The
amount of this shift indicates
the speed of recession or ap-
proach.
The nearest galaxy is about
100000 light years away. Up
to last year the farthest we
could measure was 150,000,000
light years.
Last November. in the constel-
lation Bootes, there was re-
ported an extremely faint
galaxy. which appeared to be
receding at a rate of Is 900 miles
per second. This galaxy must
be of the order of 25O,000,000
light years away! 1t marks our
present celestial frontier.
The photographs of this re-
mote object, vague and indefi-
mite as it is, represents its status
25O,O00,000 years ago, about the
time the first living things ap-
peared here on earth. 1t has
taken the light from it all that
long time to reach earth!
MEASURE AND WEIGH
When the writer first became
interested in astrophysical mat
tiers, he had no idea he would
live to see the day when he
could look across 250,000,000
light years of space, and back
into the past two and a half
million centuries!
What the exploding cosmos
means we do not yet know. All
we can say is that we probably
are witnessing the evolution Of
a creation.
Physically, we men and wo-
men of earth are in a less i'm
posing position than that Of an
ant contemplating the erection
of an Empire State Building;
but intellectually, we are big
enough to measure and weigh
what we see going on, confident
that eventually we shall learn
enough to reveal it's working
principles, no matter how big
nor far off it may be.
Copyright. 1875. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject Of the
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subject, this
group Of men
a n d women
Sele C t t he
choice chairs
and listen.
So, " h e n
the doors OF
the Capitol
shut for the
summer, IuSy
m US t fin d
new places for
their media
lions.
When for
mer Assistant
The Washington times., 1935-06-24

sionally feel
t h a t you've
picked the
W on G per-
son" -th a t
sc ything
would be diff.
ferent If you'd
married the
Other. Man
VI U34O OVA4C4
Wonnan?"
Foolish ques-
ton Number
356,729! OF
CO u s e you
haVe-and do.
IF v0I1're hill
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parts, judg-
ing by those
which we can
see, are scat
tering at We
locities in ex-
cess of 10000
miles per Sec
ond.
S NC h an
a m a zing We
locity of scat
ter is signifi-
cant of some
thing very i'm
portant. 1t is
many times
~raofnp fnon
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K e n tuck y
colonies by
G. over n o r
r u by La T.
foon.
He S aid
that one re-
quirement Of
q Kentucky
Colonel was:
1.-THE first
thing in the
morning they
must have q
quart Of WhiS-
key, q dog
and a Steak!"
S o m e o n e
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There will be one group to
find extreme sorrow in Congress
SiOnal adjournment.
II is composed Of those heark.
enerS who sit attentively at
committee hearings.
Regardless Of the controversy,
unmindful of whether or not
they have any interest in the
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WISE WORDS

In extreme danger, fear turns
a deaf ear to every feeling Of
pity.-Caesar.
Soothing cometh not of wis.
dom.-Sidney.
Disagreeable suspicious are
usually the fruits Of 0 second
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
The Exploding Cosmos

The latest observations in as
tronomy indicate that the Cos.
mos is exploding. It's component
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VUOI 1CU'
what is the dog fOr?"
"Tawm" replied:
"TO eat the steak!"
Copyright. 49, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-06-24

Have you sometimes had your
doubts about this tricky business
we call Romance? Do YOU occa-
The Washington times., 1935-06-24

Loves Funny That Way
Love is the false alarm that
starts you off for the isle Of
Dreams" and lands you-at the
kitchen sink.
When q woman who has
reached the age when Life Be-
gins" marries again, her only
choice is usually between being
an old mans nurse and a young
mans checking account.
Love is that maudlin state
of mind which makes you fancy
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Articles by Mr.. Maxim ap-
pear each Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. The subject Of the
next one will be "Why Monkeys
Interest U.s."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

for ''excess baggage" and So for in
surance. He paid $241.15 for rooms,
at SIS a day, and for Is days at 1921
daily and then for 80 days at $3.50.
Valet service cost him 1880. The
highest he spent a day for meals
was S12, on March Is, and on three
other days his meals exceeded
$1,000; the total amount for meals
consumed by the councilman was
S3O4.65 lover 1000, Is cent meals
could be bought for this SUM.
He paid $3545 for taxls, but for
25 days, according to his expense
account, he must have walked since
he didn't use a taxi. One hundred
three dollars and seventy-four cents
went for telephone and telegraph
bills; on March 7th he spent $22.9O
for phone calls alone He paid
$l1383 for tips and incidentals.
Twenty dollars and thirty five cents
for laundry. On March is, the day
before he spent $12 for meals on
March 16, he paid SIS for stenog-
rspher service and spent a total of
$3110 for this service.
To Line Up New Dealers
The errand on which the coun-
Gilman hurried off to Washington
with $1,000 expense in his pockets
last January, was that of lining up
the New Dealers for finances for
repairing and constructing new
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
The Sky Is the Limit for New Deal Statesmen
TAXPAYERS FOOT BILL FOR coUNcnMANs uJNkEr TRIP

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 14.-The
sky is the limit when San Diego
public officials go off on junket
trips, that is if the expenses are paid
by the thousands of impoverished
working and middle class taxpayers
who foot the bill and who were held
up for tax rate of $500 on every
500 assessed value here this year.
Councilman A. w. Bennett made
a little trip to Washington, D. C.
last January to get RFC money for
Ell CAPTAIN and Hodges dams. He
was gone only 70 days. He has
waited nearly year before turning
in an accounting of his expenses on
the trip, for which he was advanced
$1,000 last January. Possibly the rea-
son he has finally decided to turn in
his expense account is that the
county Grand Jury has taken a
great interest in his visit to Wash
ington and has invited him on sew
eral occasions to tell them all about
it.
Bennett claims he is the loser and
that he suffered great financial loss,
as a consequence of his little trip
of 70 days. Although he actually
spent S2,11O on the trip, he says he
will charge the city only $1,16467
Of this expense, which leaves him
loser by $945.33. San Diego coun-
cilmen receive $500 a year salary
$50 a council session.,
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water projects. At the primaries.
last August, the voters of San Diego
rejected the councilmen's plans to
saddle them with huge bond issues
for financing these same projects.
Bennett, in explaining the reason
for some of his high daily meal bills.
gave out a tip to all prospective
Hunger Marchers. Bonus Marchers
and workers delegations who 60 to
Washington to place their demands
before the Roosevelt New DEAL
government. He said the meals ran
high, because, when contracting gov
eminent officials it was often easier
to meet them at the dinner table
than in their offices.
Then 1852 families (close to
1000 Individually on the SERA re-
lief rolls in San Diego county, who
during the last two weeks of Decem-
Der received as their Christmas
present from Roosevelt's FERA and
the state of California a distribu-
ton of rotten canned beef, windfall
and runty canned peaches, cheese
rice and sugar (msny on relief COM
planned they never received sugar
and many complained they never
received rice), are following the
Grand Jurys investigation of Coun-
Gilman BENEFITS little 74-day junket
to Washington with more than
passive interest.
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Socialist Party of winning the SYM
pathy of number of officers. I
have myself been told that a num-
Der of Socialist leaders are inclin-
ing toward our view of the dicta-
torship Of the proletariat."
why has the Spanish bourgeoi-
sic not set up q more rigorous fas-
cist dictatorship and why does it al
low the revolutionaries the possibil-
ity of semi-illegal activity" our
correspondent asked.
To this question Peri replied:
THAT is very simple. The bourgeoi-
sic cannot do otherwise. The gov
eminent already before the instr
rection was unable to solve a single
one Of the tasks it had set itself.
Now the problems are, of course,
much more difficult than formerly.
There are fierce conflicts between
the capitalist groups The agrarian
reform is combatted by the big
landowners. 1t has proved impos-
sible to form a bloc of the Right
wing elements. The government
does not venture to dissolve the
Cortes, the functions Of which, in
spite of everything, are a hindrance
to the dictatorship Of the bourgeoi-
sic. The revolutionary movement is
SO strong that it finds sympathy in
broad circles, while the bourgeois
cliques are quarrelling over the divi-
sion of the profits. AS a result, it is
impossible to introduce open brutal
| fascism."
Population Against Suppression
Asked by our correspondent to
give some examples of the sympa-
thy of the broad masses for the rev.
olution, Peri replied: Take Astu-
rias, for example. One can safely
say that the whole population, with
out distinction of classes, is against
the campaign Of suppression, espe-
cially against the abominable deeds
of the Foreign Legion and the Mo-
| roccan troops. The bourgeois in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
.l8 Defendants
AT Sacramento
Appeal for Aid
''WeWillBe Framed Like
Mooney" They Warn in
Call for Support

SACRAMENTO, Calf. Jan. IA
Just as Mooney and Billings were
framed eighteen years ago, so will
We be unless there is the widest
publicity to the true facts Of the
case, unless there Is immediate
mass protest"
This statement was made yester-
day in an appeal issued to the toll
ing population of the United States
by the eighteen workers facing long
prison sentences here under the
framed-up charge of violating the
California criminal Syndicalist law.
Their trial will open this Wednes-
day morning, after several weeks
Of vigorous struggle by the defense
against the packing of the jury by
the prosecution with vigilantes and
other anti-working class elements.
The defendants have already spent
six months in jail. If convicted,
they face maximum sentences Of
eighty-four years each, or total of
1872 prison years.
In their appeal to the toiling
masses, the defendants cite briefly
the labor activities for which they
were arrested and framed up:
"Our arrests last July 30, followed
Immediately on the San Francisco
General Strike and were part Of
the lawleSS vigilante rsiding of
workers headquarters and homes
throughout the state. Most of us
have been prominent in agricultural
strikes-strikes which gave exploited
field and cannery workers twenty
five to 100 per cent wage increases.
We have helped organize argicul-
tural and industrial workers, the
unemployed, farmers, students, pro-
fessional and white collar workers"
while Section IA Of the MIRA.
supposedly guarantees the right of
workers to organize to better their
conditions, the machinery Of the
federal and state governments are
directed to thwart this right.
through the National Run Around
arbitration policies of Roosevelt.
the use of troops to crush strikes,
and the frame-up of workers. as in
the case of the eighteen Sacra-
mento defendants.
THE chief tool behind the pro-
secution Is former District ATTORNEY
McAllister, whom the people repu-
dated at the last election" the de-
PENDANTS point out.
THE lineup of forces in the trial
explains all. 1t is finance-capital
versus labor. The prosecution is
backed by the Chambers of Com
merce, the banks, the Power Trust,
the Industrial Association, the As
ISOLATED Farmers. Inc, American
Legion heads and big business. The
defense is organized labor and all
the issues Of humanity for which
it stands, and all those who stand
for repeal Of the criminal syndi-
calist law"
Protests against the frame-uu and
demands for the release of the de-
PENDANTS and repeal of the Grim
inal syndicalist law should be sent
to Judge Dial M. Lemon, presiding
at the trial; Otis D. Babcock. Dis
trict Attorney, and Governor Frank
Merriam, all at Sacramento, Calf.
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district have genuine respect for
the exemplary leadership Of the
movement by the revolutionaries. At
the same time, however, they are
filled with indignation at the atroci-
ties committed by the government
troops. Under the pressure Of pub
lie opinion the government was
compelled to recall Doval, the friend
of Gil Robes"
1.-THE official communicates about
the restoration of order are there
fore lies?" said our correspondent.
'I am convinced" replied Peri, that
a fresh wave Of revolt will soon
sweep Spain. The most immediate
and important task that the Com
munist Party has set itself is the
organization of the revolution. Ev-
erything is being done in order to
strengthen the workers alliances
and to consolidate them on the
basis Of the factories. There still
exists one weak spot: the peasantry
The peasants are still under the i'm
preston of the defeat they suffered
in June (strike of the landworkers
and small holders but their misery
is so appalling that fascism has
been unable to build powerful
movement in the rural districts as
( it desired.
"In any case our comrades are full
of confidence. They believe that in
spite of all mistakes, for which the
false attitude of the socialists to the
revolution is responsible. the move
ment would have been victorious in
/ october if Conpanys had armed the
/ Workers Alliances, or If he had
only held out a day longer, for then
the movement would have spread tc
Madrid. Our comrades say: because
We have learned much, and because
the socialist workers in particular
have learned much and corrected
their mistakes, next time-and this
next time will be in few months
] we shall be victors."
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Continued from Page y
calls, emergency medical calls. were
not treated on the same day as the
call was made because of inadequate
telephone equipment, she declared.
She gave a vivid picture Of the red
tape that sick. unemployed worker
in New York City must 60 through
before he can get medical attention
from the richest city in the coun-
try. According to the procedure
she outlined, the client must first
call the relief bureau; the relief
bureau then calls the Borough Of
fee; the Borough Office then calls
the General Office, which then pro
ceeds to go all the way back down
the line.
Councils Brought In
The Unemployment Councils were
brought into the situation during
the testimony earlier in the day by
Mr.. Bogart. One of his difficulties,
he claimed in the reception room,
was the Unemployment Councils.
They stand around" he said.
What is this Unemployment
Council?" he was asked. Tell us
what you know about it,"
"Thev termed themselves as in
terested in the cases" Bogart an
Swered.
How often do they come in?"
he was asked.
They come in twice day. five
or six at time. They bring in
clients with them"
You have the choice of dealing
with them or throwing them out
with the aid of the police, don't
you?"
Yes" Bogart answered.
But you find it better to deal
with them, don't your"
Eyes"
How often were their complaints
justified?" the questioner continued.
i should judge about so per cent
OF the time. . Bogart concluded.
Other Bureaus Cited
A somewhat similar situation was
brought out by Miss Harriet Theo-
bold. Administrative Supervisor of
Precinct No. 30. Adams and Con-
cord Avenues, Brooklyn, which she
described as the largest in the
city, The same miserable eondi-
tons for the relief staff was re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15
Hans EisIer
Will Arrive
Here Jan. p

( The Anti-Nazi Federation has re-
ceived word from abroad that
Hams EisIer, noted German COM
poser, will arrive in this country on
or about Jan. ~.
This famous revolutionary COM
poser, who has been living in exile
in Paris and London since the adj
vent of Hitler, is well known both
in Europe and America for his
brilliant compositions, which in
clude "Kuhle Wampe," Hell On
Earth" "Comintern." 'Massnahme, :"
Tempo der Zeit," Rot Front, etc.
Despite his absence from Ger
many and the official banning of
his songs under the National So
cialist regime, records of many of
his songs are played in workers
homes throughout that country.
His arrival in America marks the
further extension of an interna-
tional tour which has so far in
cluded lectures and concerts in
Leningrad, Moscow, Copenhagen,
Brussels, Paris and London.
The Hams Eisler Tour Commit
tee, composed of representatives of
the Workers Music League, John
Reed Clubs, League of Workers
Theatres, Workers Dance League,
Anti-Nazi Federation, German
Workers Clubs and other groups, are
preparing for an outstanding re-
ception for this courageous revolu-
tionary musician and composer for
February 9th. Plans include an
informal reception and banquet at
the New School for Social Research,
concert which will present Eisler's
compositions in vocal solo, chorus
and instrumental renditions, and,
later, a mass meeting at which
Hams Eisler and others will speak.
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NaziS Set for Civil
War in Saar Basin
Continued from Page u

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appeared such falsehoods as that
Max Braun and Fritz Pford, re-
spectively, the leaders Of the So
cialist and Communist Parties Of
the Saar, had fled from the ter
ritory, that the anti-fascist organ,
Volkstimme, had been transferred
to France, etc.
to the polls. NikOlay, the Young
Braun and PfOrd. on the con-
trary, we're travelling from town
to town in an open car. conduct
ing the struggle for the status
quo. PIacards of the status gao
were torn down or dirtied and
nails strewn in the streets of anti
fascist quarters to hinder walking
to the polls. NikoIay. the Young
Communist League leader, was
brutally beaten by NAzls and In
many places revolver shooting was
directed against anti-fascists.
That the toiling population of the
Saar is very soon to taste full
measure Of the economies" of Hit
lerism is vouchsafed by Hermann
Roechling, chief fascist industrialist
Of the Saar.
Concentration Camps Ordered
"A certain number of Commu-
nists," Roechling declared, will be
sent to concentration camps" In
terviewing this economic represen-
tative Of fasciSm in the Saar. c. A
Lyon Of the London Sunday Express
confessed that for sheer cold
blooded detail of impending cruelty
and barbarism soon to be melted out
to workers of the Saar Roechling's
statement was unparalleled. These
are some Of the reforms" about to
be instituted, Roechling promised:
/. All the unemployed of the
Saar, numbering about 10000, will
be forced into German-type
forced labor camps.
2. "a few foolish clergy will be
removed from their ofEce-by
their bishops, not by MS"
3. Employees of the civil service.
to be reduced from a personnel of
1000 to 300. will hencefor$h labor
under conditions Of terrific speed
up.
4. OF the present force Of 500
police 200. known to be disIoyaI,"
will be dismissed.
5. All members Of the United
Front Of Socialist and Commu-
nists will be isolated" 1--WE have
promised not to do them any
harm, but we have not promised
to do them anv good" "These
men, HitIer's deputied butcher
declared, will be treated like peo-
pie with contagious disease"
The broad groups of the United
Liberty Front, including religious a.
well as trade-union groups, have
vowed that under no circumstances
will they yield to a fascist regime
They have announced that an in
tense struggle will be conducted tc
force the League of Nations to pre-
vent the return of the Saar to Hit
Ter Germany, whatever the doubtful
results of the terrorized plebscite
may be.
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To Hold Daily Worker
Banquet in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14.-Elab-
crate plans are now being made for
the eleventh annual Daily Worker
banquet to be held here Saturday
evening, Jan. 10, at o'clock at the
Cultural Center, 23O South Spring
Street.
THE Role of the Workers Press"
will be the subject of the principal
speech at the banquet by Lawrence
Ross, co-editor of the Western
Worker of San Francisco. Repre-
sentatives from all mass organiza-
lions are expected to be present to
give greetings to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-15

Chicago District Issues
Challenge to Cleveland
On Daily Yorker Drive

CHICAGO, H.. Jan. 14.-With 80 delegates from
Communist Party units and organizations concrring
the Chicago District of the Communist Party yesterday
challenged Cleveland to Socialist competition in the Daily
Worker circulation and subscription drive.
Chcagos quota is 1900 daily subs and $3.50 Saturday
subs Ceveands is 800 daily and 1920 Saturday subs
In addition to the free trip to the Soviet Union offered
by the Daily Worker first prize Chicagos second prize
in the subscription contest is free trip New York for
the May Day celebration.
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Anti-Fa scist
Booklet Cites
Work Methods
Workers Called Upon
To Flood GOering
With Protests

BERLIN, Jan. Am illegal
pamphlet which in the last few days
has been distributed in Berlin by
the thousands, and which every
German worker here has at least
heard Of, reveals the power of the
aI1ti-fascist movement and illustrates
certain methods of carrying on the
illegal anti-fascist struggle. Here is
the text:
Save Broede and Matern and all
other snti-fascists menaced with
execution
The Leipzig judges have now
confirmed the death sentence passed
on Friedrich Broede and Max Ma
tern, the two -fascists concerned
in the Lenk -Anlauf trial. They
were sentenced to death although
the judges could not prove that
they had fired at the two police
officers. Thus two more victims are
TO be added to the forty-three al
ready executed and the fifty still
waiting in the condemned cell.
Calls on Workers
None of them has committed
murder! They have been condemned
only because they have been and
still are unshakable -fascists.
Workers of every description
Prevent these new murders!
You Christian workers, the fas-
cists have killed and tortured your
leaders, Klsusner and Probst, and
many more Of your brethren.
You Social-DemocratS, they have
murdered, prosecuted your Fechen-
bach and numbers Of other good
and loyal comrades.
you, members of the Storm
Troop and Nazi opposition, whose
comrades fell on June 30.
you, non-party workers and in
tellectuals, from whose ranks came
Erich Muehsam, who was murdered,
and Ossietsky, who was tortured,
and many, many other victims.
you, Communists, the fascistS
have killed your John Scheer, Erich
Steinfurth, and thousands Of others
of your best, and are seeking to
murder your leader Ernst Thael-
mann
You women, whose husbands
and sons are in the clutches Of the
fascist murderers.
From all of you-your loudest
protestations!
Urges Postcard Campaign
only by expressing your protests
in a body against these new muir
ders will you force Hitler, Goering
and company to rescind the execu-
ton of the death sentences.
Save those who are threatened
r. with death! In every factory, in
every organization, in every house
either singly or collectively, write
letters or postcsrdS-even anony-
nous ones-demanding the repeal
of the death sentences and send
: them to Hitler, Goering and the
: Minister of Justice.
Send greetings to the condemned
. and to all political prisoners, show
ing that you are thinking Of them
. and fighting in their behalf.
do not wait Human lives are in
question: Save the condemned! Save
all victims Of the fascist terror"
The pamphlet is signed by the
, German Red Aid, Berlin District.