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BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR.

BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.
A IL you good people who want
N to see hunt races will have
n to leave your native bailivicks
henceforth until Fall, we are
exceedingly sad to announce. The
Maryland and Virginia season Is over
now and unless you have the time
and train fare to get to Pennsylvania
and Long Island, you might as we'll
put the field glasses and seat stick
back in cotton batting and get out
your linens and smoked blinkers for
the horse show season.
With Drinmore Lad en- route to
England and Troublemaker in hero's
grave, Indigo fell heir to the timber
crown of these United States all in
mere week. The fiawless victory over
a strong field Saturday at Warrenton
proved that the son of Stefan the
Great can outrun and outjump any
thing now in training. Thems strong
words in view of Hotspurs perform
ance in the Maryland this year, and
Capt. Kettles great reputation as
"lepper," but We firmly believe that
Indigo. like Mr.. Brisbane's gorilla,
could lick them both.
1t is doubtful, however. that the
clever grey ever will have a chance
to prove his superiority over the
Meadowbrook, Monmouth and other
noted courses. What with brush rae
ing and the last two seasons in the
timber game. Indigo has put on a
few years He also has bowed" in
both front legs at one time or another,
and Charlie Hicks. the trainer for
John Schiff, told us some time past
that he expected the pride Of North
wood Stable would 60 into retirement
after the Spring season.
The sound beating handed to such
good ones as Laguna Secca, the
hitherto undefeated Chatterplay.
Sieve Lune and others of great re-
pute naturally made Hicks and Schin
quite high" on their horse, but the
chances are they will take it out in
talk. Should they decide to give the
veteran one more years work, we
trust he will be seen In action in
both the Meadowbrook and the
Maryland Hunt Cup within the next
IL months.
Evening star., 1935-05-07

Totals. SO 1O27 is Totals. 33 7'26 8
two out when winning run scored
Georse Washington 900 Ol9 UUl-4
Davis -Elkins O30 600 OOU-j
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for planning an attempt on the
Tsar These we're Lenin's early
direct experiences of the revolution
airy movement.
THE father Of Lenin was an in
spector Of schools. The two
sons and four daughters all studied
deeply, and were all revolutionaries.
Alexander, the eldest, was the last
leading representative of the old
pre-Msrzist revolutionary orgarizs-
ton, the "Narodnaya Volya" or
Peoples Will, which sought to over
throw tsarisn by individual ter
rorism.
Lenin honored deeply the memory
Of his brother and of the old rev.
dictionary fighters of the Narodniki,
who had bequeathed heroic tradi-
ton. But he saw that these meth
DDS did not avail to overthrow
tsarisn. He sought earnestly the
answer to the problems of the strug-
gle for liberation. He found the
answer in Marxism.
From Marx he learnt the scientific
approach to the laws Of social de-
velopr1ent: that the power Of the
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essential to grasp in order to under
stand how the ground was prepared
for the development of strong, I'M
distorted and victorious revolution
airy Marxism in Russia before all
other countries.
Despite the late appearance Of the
industrial proletarist in Russia, the
ground was from the first more fully
prepared in many respects for adj
vance than elsewhere. The first
translation Of Marks Capital into
any language appeared in Russia In
1872, five years after the original
issue of the work, in an edition Of
1000, which was almost at once sold
out. The first French translation
appeared in 1888, the first English
in 1886, or fourteen years after the
Russian.
The first Russian Marxist organ
ization was that of the Liberation
Of Labor" founded in emigration by
Plekhanov and others in 1898. It's
second program, issued in 1887, pro-
vided the foundation for the pro-
gram Of Social Democracy in Rus
sie
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LABORATORY
and SHOP g. David Ramsey

I confinement - one Of the Simple"
customs Of the region. TWO babies
had already been born, and a third
was making its appearance. with
the help Of two neighboTs VINO acted
as midwives, the other babies vera
delivered. The mother was in a
state Of severe shock; but the doctor
first baptized the babies since rs
was afraid they couldn't live. Hs
then wrapped the babies in REM
nsnts Of cotton sheeting and old
napkins, and for the first TINS
turned his attention TO the suffering
mother.
Her condition vas bad. When she
didn't appear TO recover, the doctor
began to worry about her soul Il
was his duty" he tells US. to get
a priest, since no one else was svail-
able who had a car. With that
brutality that only superstition
breeds, he hurried away to get a
priest, although he says that she
presented the appearance Of dying
woman" When he returned, after
travelling FIVE miles back and forth,
Mrs. Dionne had fortunately recov-
cred. No comment is necessary upon
the conduct Of a physician who
leaves a patient in serious condi-
ton to get a priest. For this Cod
like conduct the doctor received the
acclaim Of the Church and the
state. AS yet no medical society
has commented on the ethics" Of
saving soul at the expense Of a
human life, although many Of them
have condemned such things as So
cialized medicine and the teaching
Of birth control as being "unethical."
A great many things could b
said about the case and all that
IL symbolizes. There are comments
to be made about a society which
fosters religious superstition. which
condemns poor women to life Of
horror In the name Of the Lord.
Or one could speak on DR.. Dafoe-
q scientist who puts the fetishes Of
the Church above service to human
ity. But somehow the facts speak
50 loudly that they drown out all
commentary. In conclusion, there
fore. let us cite DR., Dafoe's closing
remark He thanks the government
for supplying the family with food
and clothing. something that the
average worker doesn't get since he
has not brought distinction to his
country; and he hopes that the
children will be credit to their
family and their country
P. SIT Is rumored that Mrs.
Dionne is pregnant again. The
run1or has not been denied. Hone
life under capitalism!
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Bourgeoisie Grants Concessions To Preserve Its
Class Rule; These Reforms Cannot Lead
TO Revolution, Says Stain

should be utilized. I cannot object
to your postulate that the present
system should be attacked in so far
as 1t does not ensure the necessary
order for the people.
And, finally, you are wrong If you
think that the Communists are en-
amoured with violence. They would
be very pleased to drop violent
methods II the ruling class agreed
to give way to the working class
But the experience Of history speaks
against such an assumption.
Wells: There was a case in the
history of England, however Of a
class voluntarily handing over power
to another class. In the period be-
tween 1880 and 1870, the aristocracy
whose influence was still very con-
siderable at the end of the eigh-
tenth century, voluntarily, without
a severe struggle, surrendered power
to the botrgeoisie, which served as
a sentimental support of the mon
srchy. Subsequently, this transfer
ence Of power led to the establish
ment Of the rule Of the financial
oligarchy.
Stain. But you have imperoeptibly
passed from questions of revolution
TO questions Of reform. This Is not
the same thing. Don't you think
that the Chartist movement played
great role in the reforms in Eng
land in the nineteenth century,
Wells: The Chartist5 did little and
disappeared without leaving trace
The Chartists
Stain, I do not agree with you
The Chartists, and the strike move
nent which they organized, played
great role; they compelled the
ruling classes to make a number of
concessions in regard to the fran
chise. in regard to abolishing the
so-called rotten boroughs," and in
regard to some of the points of the
Charter" Chertism played a not
unimportant historical role and
compelled section OF the ruling
classes to make certain concessions
reforms, in order to avert great
shocks.
Generally speaking, It must be
said that of all the ruling classes.
the ruling classes of England, both
the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
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proved to be the cleverest, most
flexible from the point Of view OF
their class interests. from the point
Of view Of maintaining their power
Take an example, say, from modern
history: the general strike in Eng
land in 1926
The first thing any other bour-
geoisie would have done In the face
of such an event, when the General
Council of Trade Unions called fol
a strike. would have been to arrest
the trade union leaders. The British
bourgeoisie did not do that, and il
acted cleverly from the point OF
view of its own interests. 1 cannot
conceive of such a flexible strategy
being employed by the bourgeoisie
in the United States, Germany. CT
France. In order to maintain their
rule, the ruling classes Of Great
Britain have never foresworn small
concessions, reforms, But it would
be mistake to think that these re-
forms were revolutionary.
Wells: You have higher opinion
of the ruling classes of my country
tfst1 I have. But is there q great
difference between q small revolu-
ticn and a great reform? Is not q
reform 2 small revolution?
Reform and Revolution
Stain: Owing to pressure from
below, the pressure Of the masses
the bourgeoisie may sometimes con-
cede certain partial reforms While
remaining on the basis Of the ex-
isting social-econotnic system. Act
ing in this way, it calculates that
these concessions are necessary ir
order to preserve its class rule. This
is the essence of reform. Revolu-
ton, however, means the transfer
ence of power from one class to an
other. That is why it is impossible
to describe any reform as revolu-
ton. That is why we cannot count
on the change of social systems TAX
ing place as an imperceptibls transi-
ton from one system to another By
means Of reforms, by the ruling class
making concessions.
Wells: 1 am very grateful to yor
for this talk which has meant 9
great deal to me. In explaining
things to me you probably called tt
mind how you had to explain the
fundamentals of socialism in the
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illegal circles before the revolution.
At the present time there are in
the world only two persons to whose
opinion, to whose every word, mil
lions are listening: you and Roose-
welt. Others may preach as much
as they like; what they say will
never be printed or needed. I can
not yet appreciate what has been
done in your country; I only arrived
yesterday. But I have already seen
the happy faces Of heslthy men and
women. and l know that something
very considerable is being done here.
The contrast with 1920 is astound-
ing.
Stain. Much more would have
been done had we Bolsheviks been
cleverer.
Wells; No, If human beings were
cleverer. 1t would be good thing
to invent Five-Tear Plan for the
reconstruction of the human brain
which obviously lacks many things
needed for a perfect social order
Gaughter.)
Stain: Don't you intend to stay
for the Congress of the Soviet
Writers Union?
Satisfied With Talk
Wells: Unfortunately. have vari-
Gus engagements to fulfill and
can stay in the U. S. S. r. only for
week. I came to see you and !
am very satisfied by cur talk. Bit
l intend to discuss with such Soviet
writer's as I can meet the possibility
of their sffiliating to the P. E. n
Club. This is an international or
ganization Of writer's founded by
Galsworthy; after his death I be-
came president.
The organization is still weak, but
it has branches in many countries
and. what is more important, the
speeches of It's members are widely
reported in the press. 1t insists upon
this = free expression Of opinion
even of opposition opinion. I hope
to discuss this point with Cork. l
do not know if you are prepared
yet for that much freedom here g.,
Stain: We Bclsheviks call it self
criticism" 1t is widely used in the
U. S. S. r.
If there ID anything I can do to
help you I shall be glad to do So
Wells: Expresses tf1aflks.)
Stain: Expresses thanks for the
visit)
NOTE: This complete inter
view will appear shortly in a
pamphlet published by Interna-
tional Publishers.
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THE DIONNE oUINTUPLETs

THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
The case Of the Dionne quintuplets
illustrates the brItishness and super
stition that characterize our present
social order in almost classic form
The birth Of the babies produced an
Outburst Of ballyhoo that is usually
achieved only by a juicy murder
Every intimate detail was played
up by the daily and periodical press
The fertile womb Of the mother
(Which excited the envy Of Musyo-
linD; the simple country physician
DIR. Dafoe; the gracious Canadian
government, all came in for their
share Of adulation In the hubbu1
no one mentioned the crime COM
mitted against Elzire Dionne. the
mother Of the babies. by the church
and capitalist society through their
ignorant instrument - the country
doctor.
The details of the case are given
by Or. Dafos in a recent issue OF
the Journal Of the American Medical
Association. He tells Of the poverty
stricken lives Of the Franch -Canadi-
and whom he attends. To live, hard
work is necessary" and actual
money IS noted for its scarcity" The
brutal idiocy Of existence is excused
by tire worthy doctor. 1t is because
the folk "have been unspoiled by
civilization" Their home life. he
tells us. is remarkably pure 1t IS
not unusual to find families Of from
fifteen to twenty,
These poverty-ridden farmers and
workers are told that It Is sinful to
practice birth control and conse-
quently they continue to bring chill
dren into = hungry world at the
risk Of the mothers lives Mrs.
Dionne is only twenty-five, but looks
forty. She was married at sixteen,
and had six full time pregnancies.
All the children are living except
one. Her pregnancies were never
reported until she was in labor. Con-
seuusntly there was no prenatal
medical care. She was out of bed
five days after the birth Of child.
This our simple doctor calls living
close to the soil F"
Since the doctor. good Catholic
that he Is, does not believe in race
suicide" the Dionnes were not given
birth control information. For the
Glory Of the Church and Country
the quintuplets appeared. The his
tory of the pregnancy as reported
by DR.. Dafoe contains too many
details Of her suffering to be re-
peated here.
On May %, 1894, the doctor re-
ceived a hurry call. When he ar
rived at the household he found that
no preparations had been made for
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T u IN C. IN

700 r. .-wEAF-Religion in the News
walter Van Kirk
WORKSHOPS Resume-Stan Lon1aK
WHITE Romance OF the wheel
Drama Depicting History Of Trans
portation
wABc-one Dollars Worth-Sketch
7;l5-WEAF-Vsriety Musicale
WOR-Ionians quartet
WOR-Levitow orchestra
WABC-Arden Orchestra; Glady
Baxter Soprano; walter Preston,
Baritone: Beauty-Kay Carroll
.oo-WEAF-Ccncert Orchestra, Sigmund
Honaberg. Conductof-ccmposef
Byron warner Tener; Helen Mar
shall. Soprano; William Lyon
Phelps, Narrator
WCF,-orshn Recital
WJz-The Modern City-Cseh Secrsst
ana Julian Noa.
wABc-Pozy Revue; Concert Orch;
Mixed Chorus; soloist
s7o-WJz-Grsoe Hayes, Songs
s5o-WoR-Denny Orchestra
wJz-olsen Orchestra
s45-wABC-Mery courtland songs;
Arnhruster Orchestra; Male Quart
e:oo-wgAF-Rose hampton, Contracts;
scrappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot,
Songs; ShlkTet Orchestra
WoR--Hillbilly Music
wtz-Rsdio City Party, With John
3. Kennedy; Black Orchestra
wABC-Green Orchestra; Mary
Eastman. Soprano
9:30-WEAF-The Gibson Family-Mus.eal
Comedy, With Conrad Thiosult.
Baritone: Lois Bennett, Soprano
wOR-Blaine Orchestra
WJz--Nationsl Barn Dance
WABC-Himber Orchestra
10 DOW oR-Wintz Orchestra
WA3C-Concert Band. Edward
d'Anns Conductor
10: 3O-WEAF-Cugat, Goodman and Murray
Orchestras until 1.30 A. ~
WoF-Riehard5on Orchestra
wJz-Ccleman Orchestra
WABC-Variety Musicale
1ioo.wOR--Nsrs
wJZ-Dorcey Orchestra
WABC-Michaux Congregation
Ii: ls-wCFAFsroinando Orchestra
II wJz-Dancs Hasic tAlso wOR,
wABC, wBCAl
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Question: Where does the express
sion "A depression Of a special kind"
occur? Does it mean that the eco
nomic crisis IL over?-Student.
Answer: The expression was used
by Comrade Stain to characterize
the present stage of the crisis. l.
signifies that the capitalists were
able to better their position at the
expense Of the workers by increas-
ing speed-up and at the expense oil
the farmers by continuing the pro-
cess Of impoverishing them. tStelin's
Report to the 18th Congress of the
Communist Party Of the Soviet
Union. international Publishers
It does not mean that we are in
the midst Of an ordinary depression
which will lead to recovery. The
capitalists were able to emerge from
the lowest depths Of the crisis to
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Questions and Answers

a depression Of a special kind by
lowering the living standards Of the
masses: but this in turn intensifies
the general crisis of capitalism and
prevents the operation Of the "nor-
map capitalist solution The eco-
nomic curve has followed a zig-zag
course. every upturn being followed
by a severe reaction.
Factors such as mass unemploy-
ment. chronic underconsumption and
the growing intensity Of the general
crisis Of capitalism all point to in
evitsole downward trend Of the eco
nonic course Of development. They
are the economic basis of the grow
ing offensive of the capitalists
against the living standards Of the
masses, and their preparations for
another irnperialist war as the only
csuitslist wsy out.
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The Betrayed Middle Class

THE purges in Naz Germany not
Hitler would like them o sound.
Many of those being buchered
archsts and Catholics of the old school, dsuoned
the middle class.
The middle class led believe
making social revolution Like the
end Milo Renos in this country swallowed all
believed in promise made them prosperity
But few short months after power he
dissolved the strongest Of
backed him. the that had agtated the
and big department stores He dissolved
murdered Ernest Rom and others who their
this Rohm though the foest butcher
based his personal ambitions the middle
fell with them Hitler speaks for Thsn
ndusrialist however Now he moppin the
! This is the meaning of the
The lover mddecs hocks fascism
training 1t believes the monopoly capital
ism destroyed and small capitalism restored the
The reoners and progresves
earswth their Popust reenbak Single
under leaders like Bryan and Teddy Roosevelt
failed must fail Socialism only way end monopoly
capitalism Until the mddleolass
it is destined be betrayed the
Couehlins.
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existing regime could only be over
thrown, not by individual action
but by mass action, and that the
leader Of the future victorious rev.
olution must be the industrial work
ing class. Lenin studied Marks
writings with extreme thoroughness
so far as it was possible to get
hold Of them under the conditions
Of every great difficulty.
At the same time he continued his
studies, and took his degree in law
at Petersburg in 1891 For over a
year he worked as assistant to a
lawyer at Ssmars. Both at Kazsn
and at Samara he took part in
Marzist circles. the first forms Of
Socia1-Demoeratic groups before
any party existed. He wrote his
first work in 1893 bearing on the
peasant question. In the autumn Of
1898 he came to Petersburg. From
then his leading political activity
began.
The first task was to clear the
political line Of Social-Democrscy
and to begin the organization of the
workers on the line Of Social-De-
mocracy, with view to the forma-
ton of a Social-Democratic Party.
This task was accomplished in the
years l894-8.
4 GREAT confusion Of outlooks
n and tendencies existed at the
time in the field Of revolutionary
and semi-reyolutionsry thought
and activity of a socialistic type.
On the other hand. there we're the
Nsrodniki or surviving representa-
tives Of the pre-M arxist movement
Ctheir outlook later passed to the
Socialist Revolutionary Party who
idealized the pessantry, denied the
necessity Of the development Of
capitalism and machine industry in
Russia, and saw in the village COM
f1une the basis for socialism.
Against them we're ranged the
MarXlSts. But among the MarXlsts
were many Of professional or non
revolutionary lsgalist type 1egal
Marxisn1), who embraced the eco
nomic analysis Of Marxism to fight
the sentimental idealist anti-csp-
italist conceptions, but in practice
tended to draw back from the rev.
olutionary organization Of the work
ers and subordinate the workers to
capitalism, and thus became in
reality propagandists of capitalism,
as the subsequent evolution of their
leaders (Struve, Tugan-Baranovsky)
to liberalism revealed. Finally,
there we're the revolutionary Marx
lists, Of whom Lenin rapidly after his
arrival in Petersburg became the
effective leader, with Plekhanov as
the leader in emigration.
CTo be continued
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Advance or Perish

PUT why should there be them? This is
- fsscm that perhaps psychast
There be class in that homoxas prosecuted
end DECEASED modern society usually of the
abnormal capitalist environment AS they hate and dp
society usually ready the that
the fascist offers They usually superior
also with strong afecaon of the asocrat They hate the
ing class, Of them like Hitlers offering
chance to their sadsm at danger
giving them feeling Of superiority the working
tursly attract of them.
But perhaps it best to leave the matter this: disease
Of capitalism those pathological
The world is faced with return to fascist barbasm dgency
II it does not hasten to build world
choice presented to us--advance perish.
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BY r. PAINE DUTT

THIS unique character Of the rev.
olutionary movement in Russia,
its long training in practical rev.
dictionary work. in revolutionary
sacrifice and heroism, its profound
theoretical character, and its I'M
riyaled international background is
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CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

THE purge continues in Naz land. Over hundred had
been murdered, the papers reported this week. and
1000 arrested in attempt to crush the revolt in
the Storm Troops
The Weltbuhne, liberal German weekly, something
like Republic and Of editors
murdered imprisoned that printed exls
that 23o buchered
But Nazi paper the charges that all srocy
stories" by prolific only
really they honosxual
Of the Storm Troops
few ago Troop
arrested the admitted This the beginning
moral campaign that will purify Hers movement they
Ernest the Troops
Soth with his utenan also charged Hitler
With being degenerate.
Goeng proved municipal
to have been morphine end maniac who term in
asylum and Hitler bachelor whose aversion for women is noor
his Chaplin mostache suddenly boldly for
normally
No will be permitted
the the boards unfortunate Jewish opkepers
To smash the teeth Of Socialists and Communists to castrste nog
torture hang and drive to insanity the thousands of and In
teectuals held the pures
Of young Storm