The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-08
Plotting the American POgroms
WHO Paid Viola IEna's Way to Nazi Germany?
By JOHN 1. SPyAK
By JOHN L. SPyAK

where did you get the money
to carry on your work?"
81 got $500 from Arthur Gar
field Hays, Anne Morgan and
Christopher Morley" she said fin
ally. 'These people had given me
money for my magazine Modern
Youth which finally went under.
1 raised about $1,000 for the Con-
gress and there were some $500
left over"
"That was in August. You have
to live. Where did you get money
since then?"
''There seems to be a great mys-
terry about where I get money.
There isn't any," she said petu-
lently. 81 can get money when
ever I need it. From my father
or mother" Her parents are mu-
sic teachers and Judging from the
very modest apartment, not very
well-to-do.
Glow much money do you
need ?"
"Well, one of the things l need
is $150,000 to start another maya
zine"
you've been travelling around
a great deal recently. Where did
you get the money for that?"
Again she was evasive. Then
she said: ct told you 1 had $500
left from the Congress. I used
that"
GAIL of your activities are ac-
tuated by a patriotic desire to do
something for American youth ?"
"That and only that" she as
sured me.
ct see. Are you an American
citizen?"
! Certainly" she said with a
note of Indignation.
"Born here?" ] continued.
4 "No, I was bern in Mainz, Ger
many. I was three years old when
I came here"
cts your father citizen"
"No, my father is a Swiss citi-
zen, but my mother is an Ameri-
can. Born in New York. But ]
am citizen"
eff YOUR father is Swiss citi-
zen then you must have gotten
naturalization papers?"
"Why do you ask me that? What
has that to do with the move
ment ?" she exclaimed irritably.
Nothing except that you said
you were actuated by patriotism
yet you are not even citizen
Didn't Arthur Garfield Hays try
to get you naturalization papers 2
"He did mott" she said sharply
ooh, Pm sorry. He told me he
did"
arthur said that! Well-yes
he got them for me-in 1881 o.
'32."
"Hays says that he was unsuc
cessful in getting them for you,'
I said quietly.
arthur did" she exclaimed a
gain. "I can't understand that"
"Then you are an alien?"
'The status is still-the who'll
question is-there is no answe
one way or the other at the mo
ment," she floundered. cts one O
those damned situations that's al
involved.
ct was afraid that one day thi
would come up. That's why I wa
in Washington. I saw all the pap
ers. Must this come out?"
ct don't see how it can be a
, voided. You are public figure
, actuated only by patriotism. Yo'
: are twenty-four years old now ar,
; only since you returned from Ger
, many did you suddenly try to ge
| your citizs nship status establishe
, ="
eft would be God damned lous
: for me Just now if it came out,
I she volunteered glumly.
, "Whv did you tell me you wer
; a citizen ?"
: "Oh," she moved restlessly j
z her seat. "Don't you understand
} I didn't want it to come out"
r "Look herew she leaned toward
me, her really attractive eyes al
| most yelling with tears. eff vo
t publish this you'll just crack u
!, the whole thing I've been worlin
for. Thank God my father wa
f. not born in Germany or the Who'll
| thing would look lousier than
T already looks. Butt don't sc
: whv it is necessary to publish tina
l am an alien"
|, "It wouldn't be, normally. as
sure you I have no desire to hur
: you needlesslv. Before I fins
5 asking you these questions. per
] haps yoU will urderctsnd why
is necessary to publish the far