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both q good writer and q specialist IN
some field of study, the relief regula-
ticn was swept aside. And in other
instances, literary standards went by
the board to allow the inclusion OF
men and women on relief, but with
no published work and with little or
no writing experience.
VET even with lowered standards.
= only half the 1000 workers are
writer's, would-be writer's, or even has
beens. The other half are librarians.
map-makers, architects, geologists,
school teachers, historians and . host
Of other men and women who merely
studied in some field Of human culture.
Every one Of these workers is de-
pendent upon the good will OF the
community in which he lives for the
gathering of assigned material. It Is
more an American Guide by all the
American people, civic associations.
clubs, Chambers of Commerce, rail-
roads, educational institutions, and
every other kind Of volunteer con-
sultant 'in the know" All are asked
to aid and advise the American Guide
workers. Il Is admitted that they may
become an encumbrance upon the
Nation at large. However, there u
hope Of patient cooperation since the
Guide VIII have pubxcity value for any
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Varied Writing Talents Cover Capital for American Guide

village or metropolis recorded on its
pages.
"a thing of this kind ideally should
be done by trained experts of the
highest order" Cronyn says. But
these people are not on relief. And
we must use the writer material in a
given district whether it Is good or
bad. However we're taking every pos
sible step to prevent errors and we
can't 60 terribly far wrong"
He revealed that rs per cent Of the
copy" turned in by writer's in the
District Of Columbia must be rewritten
and checked for accuracy. Qualified
persons are asked to pass on sections
IN which they are experts. The ma
terial is then rearranged in corrected
form, If necessary. The director noted
that "even when that's done you don't
know whether it's true or not"
Every State in the Union, New York
City, and the District Of Columbia,
have a group Of directors, essentially
"rewrite men" whose task 1t is to con-
dense and clarity the corrected field
notes compiled by the field workers.
Among these directors are such noted
writer's as Wards Fisher, Jay Du Won,
Lyle Saxon, Prof. H. G. Merriam,
Burton Kline and Edwin Bjorkman.
CONTINUED % Tenth Page.l
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By John Jay DAILY.

r IFE In big city would be
mighty drab unless people got
together for purposes of play,
- or study or merely social inter-
eoMse-to talk things over, to iron
out the little roaghness of living.
Hence, the community center.
At present, the community center
Is playing an important part in the
lives Of many Washingtonians. From
an humble beginning, with a small
appropriation from Congress, the COM
rnunity center has grown until it
encompasses nearly all of humanity's
activities, except birth, sickness and
death.
Even at that, man may pury him.
self in community center activities.
Say, for instance, ne wants to
aearn Spanish-or to dance the Span
Ssh fandango. All he has to do is
search out the nearest public school
and there, after the pursuit of knowl-
edge has ended for the day, somebody
Is likely to have a class In Spanish:
or q dancing class, where they glide
over the floor to the strains Of q
Spanish come-all-ye.
Let us say that the man wants to
take up interior decorating, having
decided that here is a nice way to
make a living; rearranging other
peoples furniture. He. will find a
kindred soul at one of the community
centers in town. The two of them
get their heads together, talk over
the advisabihty Of starting class
in interior decoration, and. like that,
the class begins. The powers-to-be
even dig up teacher. Next thing you
know, people are having their homes
G&ne oyer--by graduates Of the CON-
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?
Schools Converted
Into Clubhouses in
Which Living Goes
Hand in Hand
With Learning and
Play.

q theological seminary. What he does
Is 60 to the community center. The
directors look over the field and find
a good Psalm singer. They get the
two together. A choir master turns up.
Then a Bible student. First thing you
know the classes have started. AL In
the interest of the community.
ON THE other hand a man might
have an ambition to enter the
prize ring-to be the heavyweight
champion of the world. He can find
plenty of sparring mates in the various
community centers. They are all there,
from fyweights up. So all he has to
do is enter the club houses-they call
them club houses after school hours
and throw up his dukes. Somebody
will step in front Of him, give him
good workout, spot him on the button,
and send him either to the dressing
rooms or to the pugilistic arena.
There are, too, those who want to
become short story writer's. This seems
to be the open field. Everybody wants
to be a short story writer. So every
one with an urge to emulate o. Henry
or Guy de Mauppesanr or Katherine
Brush need only walk over to COM
munity center and enter the lists.
Experienced teachers of short story
writing hover around the community
centers. Head of the departments Is
J. Philip McBriarty.
Another thing: A man might want
to become an actor. The community
center offers him a stage, any number
Of casting directors, and plenty OF
plays-ranging all the way from COM
edy to tragedy.
Mrs. Thelma Graf teachers dra-
matics to the children. So does Helen
I: Burton, who recently staged and
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Widest Variety of
Human Activity
Encomp passed in
Daily Program of
Games and Class
Work.

nsment save those who, played parts
In the one-act comedies and skits.
Later, however, as the theater started
slipping from its age-old moorings,
the one-act play tournament took on
q new significance. Local dramatic
critics were called in to judge the
merits of the plays and players. The
newspapers publicized the events.
Parents turned out to see their on
spring declaim. Out Of all this ac-
tivity came some of the finest amateur
actors and actresses in the city. Some
outrode their amateurishness and
went on the professional stage. Sibyl
Baker at that time was director Of the
one-act play tournament, along with
being director Of the community CEN
ter. She was the second woman to
take command. The first was Cecil
Norton. Now the community center
has for director Mrs. Elizabeth <.
Peoples.
CERTAINLY after all these years
the community center mas proved
itself valuable adjunct to Washing
ton life. 1t flourishes in all sections Of
the city. Each night, after school
hours, the class rooms are aglow with
light and people from all parts of the
town gather to follow their natural ar
tistic or practical bent. It may be
that one wants to study Typography,
fine printing; another horticulture;
still another may be interested in ORR
entail rugs. Temparaments vary. So
do the interests Of the various COM
munity centers. You can find almost
every sort Of activity If you search
for 1t.
While the Board Of Education, De-
partment of Schools, keeps an eye on
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directed Shakespeare's Tanning Of the
Shrew" at Roosevelt High School audi
torium. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest
teaches dramatics to adults. Occa-
sionally outside talent is called in
and the community center has at all
times the advice of such well-known
local thespians as Denis Connen and
Maude Howell Smith.
AS q matter of unvarnished fact the
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Q) Georgetown Odeon Players in rehearsal at Gordon
Community Center for their forthcoming play, "Just
Babies" ( pins.pons champion in action at Macfar-
land Young Mems Club. 3 Saturday night checker game
Southeast Recreaonal Club. ~ Community orchestra
of the Southeast Recreaonal Club (5) Mrs Elizabeth X.
Peeples director of the Community Center Department
ef) debating letter to her secretary, Miss Helen We'd
ding. (6) Acrobatics at the MacFarland Young Mems
Club. % Georgetown Odeon Players in rehearsal for
their play "Sght of the Blind" ) Boxing instruction
Macfarland Young Mems Club and wrestling team in
action (9) the club Photos-wilkinson
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Community Center of Washington has
done a great deal toward holding up
the torch of the old theater-a torch
that was rapidly falling to the ground.
what with the onslaught Of the movies.
Some years ago the community CEN
ter started an annual one-act play
tournament. Then the American the
ater was in the height Of its glory. Nc
one paid much attention to the tour
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wv buildings rise upon sites Of
old mansions to rejuvenate
and stimulate the face and spirit Of
the Nations Capital, q squadron Of
writer's on the Federal writer's relief
project scurry about, outlining for
posterity the lines Of traditional Wesh-
ington and the --latest wrinkles" Of the
modern metropolis. Their work viii
become part Of the American Guide.
that planned encyclopedia survey Of
America, which promises to be, in the
words Of contributor TO it, Tasting
memorial to the depression"
Every corner of Washington will be
scrutinized and studied, from the wild
flowers that bloom in Rock Creek Park
to the surviving specimens Of its early
architecture; from the names and &C
tivities of the clubs and associations
that hum In the Capital City to the
titles on the groups Of bronze statues
that stand in the Capitol Railways.
And over the country 1000 other
writer's, directed by 100 or more super
visors, will catalogue their own dis
tricts, until by July, lSs6-coms no
Higression or delay In this Government
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munity center interior decoration
class.
Or a man feels the secret urge to
become an evangelist. He cannot take
off time from his regular job to attend
Evening star., 1935-12-01
By Nal J. Stuart.

" YHILE new bridges are thrown
across old rivers and new
wv buildings rise upon sites Of
old mansions to rejuvenate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Chicago Revolutionary
Theatre School Opens
Second Term on Sunday

CHICAGO.-The second term Of
the School of Revolutionary Thea
Ter, sponsored by the New Theater
League OF Chicago, will open Sun
day, Feb. IT. at 20 East Ontario
Street, with an informal reception
to meet the teachers. Prominent
theater professionals of the middle
west will offer trai ing in all phases
Of the theater arts to an enlarged
student body Beginning its first
term last fall with a curriculum of
three courses and an attendance of
IS students, the School of Revolu-
tionary Theater now offers six
courses to young workers who wish
TO equip themselves for the theater
Of class struggle, and expects to
double its student registrations.
Ralph Schoolman, now playing
the lead in Judgment Day at the
Jewish Peoples Institute Players,
will teach a class in acting. Mich
olas Tsoukalas, well-known dancer,
will instruct in body movements.
Louise Hamburger, professional dra-
matte reader, will offer voice train
ing. William Heitler of the John
Reed Club will teach playwrighting
and Henry Lyons OF the Theater
Collective will lead laboratory
class in makeup. George Mann,
former star of the University of
Chicago Dramatic Association, now
writing his masters thesis on A
MARKHAM Approach to the Theater,
will lecture on the Social Basis of
the Theater This last is a required
course, which every student will
take. Tuition is rs cents per course
for a IL weeks term. For further
information, or registration, COM
municate with New Theater League,
sos S. State Street, Chicago, phone
Webster 4122.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
BY HARRY KERMIT

NEW YORK-Failing oversight, fatering hand
and the lack of governmental concern for the aged
have sent 84-year-old Alexander Rudolph to the
Harlem Hospital in starving condition. For the
past twenty-five years the old man had supported
himself by repairing furniture in the cellar which
is his home at los West land Street
In recent months the aged worker found he could
no longer earn his living and neighbors brought
food to him to keep him alive. Harassed by their
own needs the neighbors forgot about him for sew
eral days. Finally the old man. too proud to beg for
food crept upstairs to the fat of another worker
to ask for matches for his stove The latter noticed
his emaciated state and summoned an ambulance.
In the hospital it was said that he was seriously
undernourished
The city authorities have promised to place Alex
ander Rudolph in municipal home-if he RECEIVERS
CHICAGO nL-Frederick Dinkelberg Just another
poverty stricken old to his neghhors died here
several days ago in dingy tenement fat It was
characteristic capitalist tribute to one Of the
worlds famous architects.
Dinkelberg was the architect of Americas first
which he designed, still stands in its grandeur at
Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, in the heart Of New
York City.
The aged architect-he was 74-had been on
the relief rolls Of Chicago for several months before
his death. Completely destitute his wife informed
the police she had no money to pay for his funeral
The ill-ventilated and squald fat in which Dnkel-
berg died was ironc contrast to the sllnlit and
soaring buildings which his architectural genius
created.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
When Thieves Fall Out

DURING the first world war, Hearst was originally
~ pro-Kaiser. He used the mask of snivelling,
hypocritical pacsm to cover his sympathes for the
Kaiser who was his personal friend. His economic
interests were also involved in Germany.
But when j. P. Morgan and Ambassador Page and
host of bankers and businessmen tied up with the
allies made Woodrow Wilson see the light and the
George Creels inamed with lies and atrocity stories
the mind of the American masses fooling some,
and backjackink the rest Dirty Willie made quick
and nasty flop.
He became a super patriot overnight, and the
most rabid German-baiter and lyncher of them all.
His newspapers were peppered with hundreds of
American flags. His hired brain prostitutes, includ
ing the oily Brisbane turned out RATS of hate-ed-
torials, shriekng for the blood of Germans.
What disgusting exhibition of bald-faced hypoc-
rsyl 1t was at this time that the New York Herald
Tribune probably for competitive business reasons
printed series of exposures of Dirty Hearsts rec
ord, entitled, "C-c-coiled in the Flag Hearst" He
was cartooned as a venomous rattlesnake coiled
IN the American flag to hide his face and splitting
poison and betrayal on the American people
When capitalist thieves fall out, they often tell
the truth about each other.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

WABc-Johnson Orchestra:
Edward Nell. Baritone:
Edwin C. Hill, Narrator
00-WEAF-Csptain HenryH
Show Boat
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Death Valley Days
Sketch
WABC-Gray's Orchestra:
Annette Hanshaw, Songs:
Walter O'Reefe
gao -WOR-Little Theatre
Tournament
WJZ-Cyrll Pitts, Tenor;
Ruth Lyon. Soprano
WABC-Waring Orchestra
1000 wEAF-w hitemsn's
Music Hall, Helen Jepson,
Soprano, and others
WOR-Sid Gary. Baritone
wJz-String Ensemble
io;l5-wOF-Cu Current Events
II. z. Read
:5o-wOR-Eddy Brown,
Viclin
WIZ,-Taxa Harold
Buttenheim. Editor, Amer-
lean City; Professor Carl
Shoup, Columbia Univer-
sity
WABC-steyens Orchestra
Kennedy
WOR-News
WHISKY Orchestra
WABC-Littls Orchestra
l1:15-wEAF-Jesse Crawford,
Organ
WOR-Moonbeams Trio
WJZ-Brosdcast From
Schooner Seth Parker
1l:30-WEAF-Dancs Music
ALSO on WABC, wMCA,
WOR, WEVDl
WJZ-Affairs Affecting Ex-
Service Neutrality-suspicious.
tive william P. Connery
Jr., Of Massachusetts,:
James y. Van Zandt.
National Commander,
Veterans Of Foreign WI
q. 6. Navy Bard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
The British Labor PartU


Question; What are the differences between the
British Labor Party and the labor party which the
Communists propose to the workers?-E. o. B.
Answer: The British Labor Party is under the
leadership Of reformsts. They practice class cole
liberation, and in every way hinder and SABOTAGE
the class struggle Of the working class.
These rsforis leaders are in the forefront Of the
fight against the united front Of the workers They
attack the British Communist Party and its efforts
to develop united working class actions. Within
England and internationally, they block the fight
of the workers against the developing menace Of
fascism and war
The Communist Party will do its best to keep
the movement for a labor patty here from being
side-tracked into class collaboration by such REFORM
ist leaders. It will fight for labor party with as
broad a base as the British Labor Party-the trade
unions and all workers mass organizations.
But in the very fight to establish such party to
conduct independent working class political action,
we must defeat the Glass collaboration ideas Of the
refornists We must keep them from putting them
selves at the head Of the labor party and steering it
into safe" channels. BY stressing class struggle
principles, by participating in every class battle Of
the workers, the militants including the Commu-
nsts can lead the workers to a labor party which
will not produce the American equivalent Of RAM
sey Macdonald.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Reviewed by
DAVID PLATT

THERE are plenty of anti-Semitic
touches in Gaumont British's
impressive if gruesome rendering Of
Feuchtwanger's book. Here is
film, interesting as it is, that subtly
confirms what the Nazis are always
saying about the Jews being the
real powers behind the throne.
Joseph SusA whatever the inten-
tons of the producers or the authors
were in creating him, is a character
ization Of an over ambitious power
mad Jewish financier that cannot
help but provide fuel for the rage
of the Black and White shirt bri-
gades against the Jews they hold
responsible for wars and crises.
Suss, very cleverly played by Con-
rad Veidt, is puffed up as an heroic
example of the brotherhood of the
ghetto type of Jew, when he is Moth
ing, as the picture reveals through
out, but the worst kind of enemy
Of the Jews, A staunch pillar of
shaky empires. Suss is convinced
early in the film that he can best
serve his race, can best show the
world that the Jew can rise above
the ghetto, by maneuvering himself
into increasingly higher positions of
power, from where, at the tip top,
it will be simple to lead his people
towards the promised milk and
honey. And it is through Suss's
eyes, glaringly trained on position
and power, and away from the needs
Of the people which to him are
spiritual, not material necessities,
that we are asked to study mid
eighteenth Gentry ghetto life in
Germany.
Naturally the picture produced is
the typical cinema version of Jews
with unkempt boards, waving hands,
heavily accented speech and a
money-grabbing menace to the gem
tiles. Only Suss is free from these
defects because later on he has to
find out that he is a Christian, not
a Jew. All these things the pro-
ducers tried to counter balance by
showing certain gentiles in their
true color but not sufficiently to
leave at least neutral impression
of the Jews as a race.
Power" is well-made film. This
much we can say. 1t is impossible
not to be impressed with the bril-
liant acting of the Gaumont British
players, or with the power of GER
tain individual scenes in the film.
But as whole, the film is colored
with anti-Semitic sentiment Of the
kind that will send Nazis and anti
! liberty lovers en- masse to see it.
However, this is not meant for the
reader to stay away from the pic
ture, but it is warning to watch
it carefully and not be taken in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14

On Sunday, February 18th, the
high point of the season will be
reached. The League, to aid the
Daily Worker in its drive for funds,
is giving a gala performance of its
outstanding dances at the Center
Theatre at Rockefeller Center. This
affair is arranged in CONJUNCTION with
international Theatre Week, and
the Eastern Council held by the
League that weekend. The solo
dancers, Miriam Blecher, Nadia
Chilkovsky Jane Dudley, Sophie
Maslow, Lilly Mehman, Irving Lam
sky, Add Bates, and the New Dance
Group, The Dance Unit formerly
the Theatre Union Group, and
Tamiris' Group appearing for the
first time with the League), are
presenting their finest works. The
Workers Dance League feels this re-
cital will show the tremendous prog
resS the organization has made in
the brief period of its existence, and
on the strength Of these performers
and performances will broaden the
plans for the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
TUN Nc IN

6:45-wEAF-Billy Bachelor
Sketch
WOR-Tslks and Music
WJz-Lowell Thomas, Com
mentator
Observation-Disclosures
Brainard
6:55- WABC-PresS-R Radio News
100 WEAF-Recovery and the
National Budget. Ro-
land Hartman of National
Economy League
WOR-Sports Resume-Stsn
Lomsx
wJz-Amos m Andy
Sketch
wABc--Myrt and Marge-
Sketch
7;i5-wEAF-Jaok Smith,
Songs
WoR-Lum and Abner-
Sketch
WJZ-Concert Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill
Sketch
7;3o-WEAF-Minstrel Show
WOR-The csreet Singer
WABC-Nick Lucas. Songs
i;45-WOR-Comedy; Musci
WJz-Nichcls Orchestra;
Ruth Etting. Songs;
Speaker. Lawson Robert
son. Track Coach, Univ.
Of Pennsylvania
WABC-Boake Carter, Com
mentator
S.00-WEAF-Vallee's Varieties
WOR-Little symphony Or
chestra; Philip James.
Conductor; Gertrude Nit
lehman. Piano
WABC-All-Girl Orchestra
and Chorus. Direction
Phil Spitalny
S.1S-WJz- Traffic in Arms
Sens tor Gerald P. Nye, of
North Dakota
6:s0-wJZ-Red Trails; The
Fsngs Of the Wolf
EkAtnh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
"NEWsRoYn EN CHICAGO

"NeWsboy," outstanding revolu
tionary play which won first prize
in the national competition last
spring, will be presented in Chicago
by the Theatre Collective at work.
ers "Chauve Souris" at Peoples Au-
ditorium, PAST w. Chicago Avenue,
on Saturday, Feb. Is.
Stanley Burnshaw, prominent
revolutionary critic, has said of the
play: After having seen it six
times, this reviewer still can find
fresh meanings and what is more
.remarkab le-increased pleasure with
each performance AS produced by
the Workers Laboratory Theatre in
New York, the play thrilled all
workers who saw it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-14
Is the Communist Party Retiring2

Question: Is it an admittance of defeat by the
Communist Party to retire from the field in favor
Of Labor Party?-Sympathizer
Answer: The Communist Party is not retiring
from the field a political party. On the con-
trary, by participating in broad labor party with
a class struggle program, the Communist Party
will be able to spread its influence and principles
among millions Of workers, and lay the basis for
winning these to its own revolutionary posi-
ton
As Comrade Browder has pointed out, we cam
not win millions of workers directly into the Com
munist Party overnight. But the time is ripe to
launch labor party that will fight for the imme-
date demands and interests Of the workers. In
the struggles around these immediate issues. the
workers will soon learn from their own experiences
that it is the Communists who carry these struggles
forward in the interests of the workers
They will come to understand that in addition to
fighting for the realization Of immediate demands,
they must organize and prepare for the overthrow
Of capitalism the only real solution for their
problems. Their experience and activity, in the
struggles around the class struggle issues raised by
the labor party, will lead them to the Communist
Party and its program, the only way out for the
American working class