LESTER COHEN
ELEANOR COPENHAVER
GEORGE S. COUNTS
KYLE CRICHTON
COUNTEE CULLEN
MALCOLM COWLEY
BRUCE CRAWFORD
H. W. L. DANA
FLOYD DELL
THEODORE DREISER
CLIFTON FADIMAN
EDGAR FRALEY
WALDO FRANK
HUGO GELLERT
LYDIA GIBSON
MURRAY GODWIN
MICHAEL GOLD
BENJAMIN GOLDSTEIN
EUGENE GORDON
C. HARTLEY GRATTAN
PAUL GREEN
JOHN H. HAMMOND, Jr.
JULIUS HEIMAN
JOSEPHINE HERBEST
JOHN HERRMANN
GRANVILLE HICKS
QUINCY HOWE
LANGSTON HUGHES
MAXWELL HYDE

We have forwarded to you the following
manuscripts for the exhibition:

1. Granville Hicks, 2263 Burdett Ave., Troy, N. Y.
Manuscript of "The Great Tradition". Scottsboro statement.

2. Ruth Fitch (Mrs. Thomas) Boyd, South Woodstock, Vt.
Scottsboro poem in manuscript.

3. Miss Babette Deutsch, 3958 - 45 St., Long Island City, N.Y.
Poem: To A Friend Who Fears Revolution. Scottsboro statement.

4. Thomas Boyd, South Woodstock, Vt.
Part of projected novel called "In Time of Plenty".
Scottsboro statement.

5. Lewis Mumford, 4002 - 44 St., Long Island City, N. Y.
Manuscript: "The Task of Modern Biography".

SPONSORS

SARA BARD FIELD
EMILY JOSEPH
MARIE HATHAWAY SHORT
HELEN MEIKLEJOHN
ELLA WINTER
ALBERT BENDER
NOEL SULLIVAN
LANGSTON HUGHES
PROFESSOR MEIKLEJOHN
JO DAVIDSON
LINCOLN STEFFENS
BEN LEHMAN
MARIE DE L. WELCH
MRS. MARCUS KOSHLAND
MRS. CHARLES FELTON
KATHLEEN NORRIS

Everyday at 4 p.m. a description of the items
will be given with intimate stories of the donors.

WHAT IT IS

Many artists are not able to contribute to
causes they care about, or else have already
contributed funds and are tired of doing so.
So we asked them to contribute their work
for the benefit of the Scottsboro Defense
Fund to save the lives of nine innocent
negro boys in Decatur, Alabama.

They were glad to do it.
This is some of it.

And you may
buy it.

On the evening of February 28th at 8 o'clock
JAMES CAGNEY will conduct the Sale.

SOME OF THE ITEMS

Part of Ms. of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Essays by John Cowper Powys

Unpublished Poem by Robinson Jeffers

Essays by Bertrand Russell

Manuscript Poems by D. H. Lawrence

Poem by Archibald MacLeish

Drawings by William Steig

Nude by Jo Davidson

Paintings by John O'Shea, Stanley Wood,
Ray Boynton, Anton Refregier

Photographs by Edward Weston, Johann Hagemeyer,
Consuelo Kanaga, Edward Steichen

Music Score by Ernst Bacon

STATEMENTS

"After the bitterest emotional contest in civilized history Dreyfus was acquitted and created a Knight of the Legion of Honor. France to her eternal praise found men brave enough to reverse the engines of injustice.—Will the gentlemen of the South, the greatest gentlemen in the world, suffer their names to be smirched by perjury and false witnessing? Let the nine Scottsboro boys be saved by the gentlemen of the South for their Honor's sake. 'And the dwarf said 'Something human is dearer to me than all the wealth of the world.' '

—Llewelyn Powys

"I await with anxiety, the new trial for the nine Scottsboro boys who are under sentence of death in Alabama. I feel that not only are nine human destinies involved, but the entire nation is on trial along with these young Americans. Hasty and unfair trials for human beings in general must not be tolerated in America.

Hasty and unfair trials for negroes in particular, can only grind a very black mark into the face of America for tolerating any form of injustice against the Negro is one of the foul aspects of our national picture. I protest!"

—Fannie Hurst

"I earnestly hope that the Scottsboro prisoners will ultimately be acquitted as, though I have followed the trials carefully, I have seen no evidence that would convince an impartial person that they are guilty."

—Bertrand Russell

ITEMS

from the authors and artists named below have been received—they are still coming in. They include drawings, paintings, manuscripts, musical scores, etc.

Anita Loos

John Cowper Powys

Robinson Jeffers

D. H. Lawrence

Archibald MacLeish

Arthur Davison Ficke

Langston Hughes

Alfred Kreymborg

Margaret Fishback

Theodore Dreiser

Julian Huxley

Jo Davidson

William Steig

John O'Shea

Stanley Wood

Ray Boynton

Anton Refregier

Peggy Palmer

Edward Weston

Johann Hagemeyer

Consuelo Kanaga

Edward Steichen

Brett Weston

Carl van Vechten

Ernst Bacon

Wanda G'ag

Ezra Pound

Marie Laurencin

Charles Erskine Scott Wood

Ethel Waters

Sara Bard Field

Marie de L. Welch

Henrietta Shore

Claire Spencer

John Evans

Lincoln Steffens

Genevieve Taggard

Fremont Older

Em Jo Basshe

Louis Lozowick

Sherwood Anderson

John Dos Passos

Bertrand Russell

John Langley Howard

a day by theatre, dance, and
radio orchestras throughout
the world in America.

CLAude MCKAY, authoress of HOME TO HARLEM and other novels of Negro life, has been living abroad for the past ten years. Form North Africa he sends a manuscript of an old poem written before he left America in the days when he was associated with Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, and Mike Gold on the old MASSES.

Loren Miller

Daily Worker

Western Worker

Norfolk J. & Guide — P.B. Young
Hirsh — N. Y. C.

4190 Elroy Rd.

Afro

Amsterdam News — air

St. Louis Argus

Seattle?

Portland — Adv.

2. Scottsboro Donors
have appeared in HARPERS, SCRIBNERS, and other leading publications.
His most popular book is CONGAREE SKETCHES.

Countee Cullen, whose FAMOUS POEM attracted attention
before he had reached his twentieth year, is perhaps the finest lyric
poem the Negro race has produced in America. His volumes, COLOR,
COPPER SUN, and THE BALLAD OF A BROWN GIRL have gone into many
editions. Mr. Cullen lives in New York where his father is pastor
of one of the largest colored congregations in the country.

MIKE GOLD, famous detractor of Thornton Wilder, is the author
of JEWS WITHOUT MONEY, a study of New York's East Side life, which
split his own people into two groups as to his merits as a writer
and exponent of Jewish life. Mr. Gold is by now quite used to
being both hailed and damned. At present he is conducting a column on
THE DAILY WORKER, leading organ of the Communist Party of America.

LANGSTON HUGHES, lately returned from a year in the Soviet Union,
is the author of numerous books of prose and poetry regarding Negro
life. His first volume of short stories, THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS,
will be published by Knopf this spring. A manuscript from this book
is his contribution to the Scottsboro Exhibit and Sale.

Arthur Schomburg, whose collection of Negro book and manuscripts
is the largest in America, if not in the world gathered by a private
individual, contributes a signed phamplet to the Scottsboro Sale.
Mr. Schomburg is now curator of the Negro Room in the 135th Street
branch of the New York Public Library in the heart of Harlem.

W. C. HANDY, composer of the ST. LOUIS BLUES, is one of the few
Composers in Class A of the Musicians Association, his famous tune
*being played more than two hundred times*.

FILM STAR TO SELL FOR SCOTTSBORO

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

James Cagney, Hollywood film star, has consented to officiate at the Scottsboro Defense Fund Exhibit and Sale of original manuscripts, scores, and paintings to be held at the Western Women's Club in San Francisco from February 26th to the 28th, providing studio arrangements permit. At a preview of the material to be sold, held at the home of Noel Sullivan, millionaire singer and clubman, on Wednesday the 20th, Sara Bard Field, noted Western poet, Mrs. Sidney Joseph, Mrs. Alexander Meikeljohn, wife of the famous educator, and prominent society ladies acted as hostesses and presided over tea.

Among the rare and valuable manuscripts to be sold are a page from the original of Anita Loos' GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS, the entire manuscript of Gertrude Athernon's BLACK OXEN, a portion of an unfinished poem by Robinson Jeffers, whom many critics claim is America's greatest poet, and first drafts in their own hand from many other famous writers including Julian Huxley, Countee Cullen, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Claude McKay, and Sara Teasdale. There are pictures from Aaron Douglas, Steig, O'Shea, Lynn Ward, Julius Block, and others, including photo studies by Weston, Steichen, and Havemeyer. Mr. W. C. Handy, great composer of THE ST. LOUIS BLUES, has promised to send the manuscript of his new SCOTTSBORO BLUES. Miss Ethel Waters has contributed nine signed photographs of herself taken by Carl Van Vechten. The souvenir catalogue for the Exhibit is being prepared by Grebhorn, noted art printer of the coast. And a phamplet of the opinions of famous persons on Scottsboro will be issued.

This Sale has been arranged by THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, Northern California Branch, of which Dorothy Erskine is secretary. The manuscripts were collected largely through the efforts of Ella Winter, Langston Hughes, and other members of the Carmel John Reed Club. The NATIONAL COMMITTEE, of which Lincoln Steffens is Chairman and Rose McClen don is Vice Chairman, includes a number of Negroes in its membership: Wm. Monroe Trotter, Countee Cullen, Louise Thompson, Wm. N. Jones and Eugene Gordon among others.

Vol. II. No. 13. ★

# The AMERICAN SPECTATOR
## A LITERARY NEWSPAPER

EDITED BY

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

ERNEST BOYD

THEODORE DREISER

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

— EUGENE O'NEILL —

Published by THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, INC.

CATHERINE MCNELIS, President

HUGH WEIR, Vice-President

12 East 41st Street, New York City

RICHARD R. SMITH, Consulting Associate

The American Spectator is published on the twenty-fifth of each month and is circulated simultaneously in England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy. It is on sale on all the first-class trans-Atlantic steamships. Unsolicited manuscripts, save they be accompanied by fully stamped self-addressed envelopes, will not be returned. All such manuscripts must be addressed to the Editors, not to individual editors. The contents of this publication are protected by copyrights and must not be reprinted in whole or in condensed form without special permission. The price of single copies is 10 cents; annual subscriptions $1.25; Canadian subscriptions $1.75. Editorial and publishing offices, 12 East 41st Street, New York City. Printed in the United States of America. Copyright 1933 by The American Spectator, Inc. Entered as second class matter October 28, 1932, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

## EDITORIAL

WITH this issue The American Spectator celebrates its first birthday. The results of the past twelve months have been so gratifying that we are even more cheerful than we were a year ago, when the unprecedented success of our first issue sent us back to the press with new energy.

Carmel Section

Northern California Branch

Scottsboro Exhibit And Sale

Contributions received:

John Howard...................One oil, one sketch, two water colors. Ack.

Aaron Douglass...................One water color. Ack.

Countee Cullen...................Manuscript Ack.

Arna Bontemps..................." Ack.

Taylor Gordon..................." Ack.

John Dos Passos..................." Ack.

Ellery Leonard..................." Ack.

Arthur Schomburg...................Signed printed essay Ack.

Jack Conroy...................Manuscript Ack.

Alain Locke...................Man. & Photo Ack.

Sherwood Anderson...................Manuscript Ack.

Floyd Dell...................Statement (script) Ack.

L. Powys...................Statement "

Marie Welch...................Manuscript Ack.

Langston Hughes...................Manuscript Ack.

Edward Weston...................photo study Ack.

Grant Still...................score Ack.

Claude McKay...................Manuscript Ack.

Walt Stacy..................." Ack.

Thomas Boyd..................." Ack.

Lewis Mumford..................." Ack.

Babett Deutsch..................." Ack.

Ruth Fitch Boyd..................." Ack.

Granville Hicks..................." Ack.

II.

Carmel Section

Northern California Branch

Scottsboro Exhibit And Sale

<table><tr><td>Gardner Rea</td><td>Cartoon</td><td>Ack.</td></tr><tr><td>Graham</td><td>Original drawing</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Max Earnst</td><td>Lithograph</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Erskine Caldwell</td><td>Wire from Georgia</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Art Young</td><td>Letter</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>John Strachey</td><td>Manuscript (typed)</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>I.U.R.W.</td><td>Radiogram</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Jim Waters</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Mike Gold</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Ashley Pettis</td><td>Score</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Alfred Kyy Kreymborg</td><td>Typed Man, Signed</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Lynn Riggs</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Robinson Jeffers</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Carl Van Vechten</td><td>Signed photos of E.W.</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Ethel Waters</td><td>Statement</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Blair Niles</td><td>Signed Photos & music</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>W. C? Handy</td><td>Lithograph</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Stephan Hirsch</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Emjoe Basshe</td><td>Manuscript</td><td>"</td></tr><tr><td>Steichen</td><td>Photograph</td><td>"</td></tr></table>

["Delivered to Tom Ward, February 13, 1934, by Ella Winter", "1 water color...........John Howard\n1 water color........... \" \"\n1 oil.................. \" \" (framed)\n1 water color........... (framed)....Aaron Douglas\n1 camera study...........Edward Weston\n1 cartoon................(for LIFE)...Gardner Rea\n1 pencil drawing........John Howard\n1 17th Century drawing.(Piazetta)\n1 lithograph............Max Ernst\n1 pen & ink drawing.... Graham\n1 lithograph............ Stephan Hirsch\n1 manuscript............ (play).......Emjo¥ Basshe\n1 statement(script) and typed unsigned manuscript...E.C.L. Adams\n\"Why you Reckon\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"

Delivered to Tom Ward, February 13, 1954, by Ella Winter

1 water color..................John Howard

1 water color.................." "

1 oil.................." " (framed)

1 water color..................Aaron Douglas (framed)

1 camera study..................Edward Weston

1 cartoon..................(for LIFE) Gardner Rea

1 pencil drawing..................John Howard

1 17th Century drawing........(Piazetta)

1 lithograph..................Max Ernst

1 pen & ink drawing...........Graham

1 lithograph..................Stephan Hirsch

1 manuscript..................(play)....Enjo Basche

1 statement (script) and typed unsigned MS....E.C.L. Adams

1 manuscript (short story)....Langston Hughes

1 manuscript (poem)...........Langston Hughes

1 envelope--letters & statements--

(Signed statements by Fannie Hurst, Thomas Boyd, Granville Hicks, and others might also be offered for sale; as well as the signed letters of Steichen, Alfred Kreyberg, etc., whether sold or not, it might be well to display the best of these letters and statements.)

Carmel Section
Northern California Branch
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

Scottsboro Exhibit and Sale

ELLA WINTER--

<table><tr><td>Clarence Darrow</td><td>Letter rare booklet signed.</td></tr><tr><td>Theodore Dreiser</td><td>Poem.</td></tr><tr><td>Arthur Davison Ficke</td><td>Poem.</td></tr><tr><td>Louis Lozowick</td><td>Lithograph.</td></tr><tr><td>Archibald Mac Leish</td><td>Poem.</td></tr><tr><td>Fremont Older</td><td>MS handwritten.</td></tr><tr><td>Sam Ornitz</td><td>Act of a play.</td></tr><tr><td>John Cowper Powys</td><td>MS--3 handwritten published</td></tr><tr><td>Evelyn Scott</td><td>Poem.</td></tr><tr><td>William Steig</td><td>Drawings--two, 1 unerinted.</td></tr><tr><td>John Strachey</td><td>Page MS.</td></tr><tr><td>Edward Weston</td><td>Five photos, three portraits</td></tr><tr><td>Stanley Wood</td><td>Water color.</td></tr><tr><td>Lincoln Steffens</td><td>MS, two.</td></tr></table>

PAINTINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, etc., page 2.

23. Weston, Edward
5 photographs
"Robinson Jeffers", signed by Jeffers, inscribed to Scottsboro Boys
"D.H. Lawrence"
"Lincoln Steffens", signed by Steffens
2 Still Life Photographs, signed by Weston, inscribed to Scottsboro Boys

24. White, Margaret Bourke
13 mounted photographs

25. Wood, Stanley
Water color, 16" x 20", "The House at Cannery Cove"

26. Van Vechten, Carl
9 photographs of Ethel Waters, signed by Waters and van Vechten

27. Wilson, Barbara
Pencil sketch of a Negro worker, in a frame 18" x 21"

28. Young, Ralph
Photograph, "Line and Form"

29. Ward, Lynd
4 woodcuts

30. Block, Julius
2 lithographs

31. Kanaga, Consuelo
2 photographs, Negroes

32. Hagemeyer, Johan
Photograph, "Robinson Jeffers"
Photograph, "Hands"

33. Hagemeyer, Johan
Photograph, "Bust of Jeffers by Jo Davidson"

34. O'Shea, John
Black and White

35. Noskowiak, Sonia
Dunes of Oceano

MANUSCRIPTS

1. Gordan, Taylor, negro playwright
"Zigaboo Dream", typewritten script, 292 pages

2. Hicks, Manville, American critic
"The Great Tradition", first draft, April, 1931--Oct., 1932, typewritten.
300 pages, signed

3. Conroy, Jack, American author
"Rubber Heels", typewritten script of a short story, part of the novel "Disinherited"
26 pages, signed.

4. Mc Kay, Claude, Negro poet
"Cities", typewritten script with corrections, signed

5. Dos Passos, John, American author
"Passport Phott", hand-written script, signed, 4 pages--portion of a forthcoming
book "In All Countries"

6. Boyd, Thomas, American author
Original manuscript, typed, with corrections in handwriting, short story, 11 pages

7. Stacy, Walt
"Southern Mill Town" typewritten script of a poem, signed, 2 pages

8. Welch, Marie de L., San Francisco poet
Original script of two poems, signed--"Shanty" and "Harvests" 2 pages

9. Powys, Llewelyn
Original manuscript of a poem, signed. 1 page

10. Cullen, Countee, Negro poet
Original manuscripts of two poems, "Sleep" and "Sonnet", signed. 2 pages

11. Kroymborg, Alfred, American poet
"Red Chant", powm, typewritten script, signed. 1 page

12. Bontemps, Arna
"Saturday Night; Huntsville", short story, typewritten script, signed. 5 pages.

13. Anderson, Sherwood, American author
Original manuscript, 6 pages

14. Leonard, William Ellery, American poet
Author's manuscript of last section of "The Lynching Bee", signed poem. 2 pages

15. Boyd, Ruth Fitch
"Scottsboro, 1933", a poem, signed manuscript. 1 page

16. Mumford, Lewis, American critic
"The Task of Modern Biography", typewritten script of an essay, signed. 11 pages

17. Bynner, Witter, American poet
"Against the Cold", signed pamphlet of a long poem

18. Deutsch, Babette, American poet
"To a Friend Who Fears Revolution", typewritten poem, signed, 1 page.

19. Gold, Michael, American author and critic
"A letter to the Author of a First Book", typewritten script of a review. 4 pages, signed.

20. Waters, Jim
"Red Messengers", typewritten poem, signed. 1 page

21. Young, Art, American cartoonist
Original manuscript of a letter to the "New Masses", signed
1 page, "Inferno", signed copy.

22. Strachey, John, English author
"Fascism in America", typewritten article with corrections, signed. 7 pages
Also, one page of notes in his handwriting with corrections

23. Bontemps, Arna
Two poems, typed, signed--"Length of Moon", "The Return". 3 pages

24. Riggs, Lynn
5 drafts of a sonnet, "Yet the Earth", manuscript and type
5 pages

25. Locke, Alain, Negro critic
"The Poetry of Negro Life", original manuscript of preface to "Four Negro Poets", signed. 4 pages.

26. Schomburg, Arthur
"Juan Latino, Magister Latinus", magazine pages of an article, signed. 4 pages

27. Goates, Robert M., American author
"Yesterday's Burdens", a novel, complete typewritten copy, with author's corrections signed. 181 pages.

28. Halper, Albert, American author
"Chicago Side-Show", privately printed booklet, signed. 22 pages

29. Teasdale, Sara, American poet
Original manuscript of two poems, "Song" and "Sonnet", initialed. 1 page

30. Hoyt, Helen, American poet
"Apples Here in My Basket", presentation copy of book of poems, signed. 78 pages.

31. Gidlow, Elsa, San Francisco poet
"From Alba Hill", privately printed poem, signed
"Criminal Class", typewritten poem, signed.

32. Ornitz, Sam, American playwright and Movie Director
Original draft of the first act of a play, "In New Kentucky" 70 pages.

33. Older, Fremont, San Francisco editor and journalist
"The Pleasures of Commuting", original manuscript of an article, signed. 6 pages.

34. Dreiser, Theodore, American author
"Chief Strong Bow Speaks", typewritten copy of a poem, signed. 2 pages.

35. Scott, Evelyn, American poet
"Snow", a poem, original manuscript, signed. 1 page

36. Strachey, John, English author
1 page of the original manuscript of the "Menace of Fadocism". handwritten with
corrections

37. Fishback, Maggaret, American poet
"Shopgirl's Complaint", a poem, original manuscript, signed. 1 page.

38. Loos, Anita, American playwright
1 page of the original manuscript of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

39. Steffens, Lincoln, American author
"The Pines and the Borers", 3 drafts of an original manuscript, table, 12 pages,
including final typewritten script

40. Powys, John Cower
"The Tragic Nineties", complete manuscript of an essay, signed. 15 pages

41. Powys, John Cower
"Detachment", complete original manuscript of an essay, signed, 22 pages.

42. Steffens, Lincoln, American author
An original unpublished manuscript, signed, "It's All News". (published in "Partism, No.3" 5 pages.

43. MacLeish, Archibald, American poet
"Seafarer", a poem, original manuscript, signed. 1 page

44. Powys, John Cower,
"The Moon Over Megalopolis", original manuscript of a poem. 2 pages.

45. Ficke, Arthur Davison
"Nursery Rhyme", a poem, typewritten script, signed. 1 page

46. Schneider, Isidor
"A Night in Late Winter", original manuscript of a poem published, signed. 1 page.

SCOTTSBORO PUBLICITY

FIRST RELEASE: (Nov. 25.)

Statements DuBose Heyward, Paul Green, Fannie Hurst, Blair Niles. Full
Copy Fannie Hurst letter.

SECOND RELEASE: (Dec. 1)

Statements Hekovits, Clement Wood, Annie Nathan Meyer

THIRD RELEASE: (Jan. 11, 1934)

Statements---Jean Toomer, Llewelyn Powys, Thomas Boyd, Granville Hicks

FOURTH RELEASE: (Jan. 15, 1934)

Statement George Antheil

FIFTH RELEASE: (Jan. 21, 1934)

Statements Freemont Older, Clarence Darrow, Yvor Winters, Archibald Macleish,
Isidor Schneider.

SIXTH RELEASE: (Jan. 27, 1934)

Statements: Alfred Kreymborg, Ashley Pettis, Charles Yale Harrison.

SEVENTH RELEASE: (Feb. 3, 1934)

Statements: Julian Huxley, Sisley Huddleston, Charles Edward Russell.

Carmel Committee--National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.
for immediate publication.

SCOTTSBORO PROTEST POUR IN TO CARMEL ARTIST COMMITTEE

Among the famous artists and writers responding this week to the appeal of the Carmel Scottsboro Committee for aid in raising defense funds, the following have sent not only contributions or manuscripts or autographed books but have included in their letter strong statements of opinion as to their feelings in the case.

Alfred Krayberg, famous poet, has the following to say: "No man, artist or not, can rest or let his hands idle while such crimes as the Scottsboro mistrial infest our country. I am happy and honored to contribute what I can out of the best in me (which happens to be poetry)."

Ashley Pettis, well known composer, writes: "May the chorus of disapproval of the enlightened intellectuals and workers of the world swell into such overwhelming power, that even those indelibly stained with provincialism and deodence finally may be compelled to pause, in the monumental injustice of the Scottsboro trials, and change their course before more innocent blood flows, and before the South is forever stigmatized as a symbol of injustice and class prejudice in the history of mankind---is the fervent wish of Ashley Pettis."

From one of America's younger novelists, Charles Yale Harrison comes the following strong statement: "Because some of our people are lethargic in the face of the great social injustice are we forever to have causes celebres on our hands? In the past we had the Haymarket victim---Frank Little---Sacco and VanZetti and the scores of other martyrs who have been crucified on the crosses of class and race hatred. And now are decent Americans (I believe that in the main the vast masses of Americans are decent people) going to stand by and see eight Negro boys sent to the electric chair on the trumped up charges brought by semi-illiterate Alabamans and supported by an unfortunate but weak protracted? I do not think so. From California (where Governor Ralph has openly condoned lynching) to Massachusetts (where the Christ-like VanZetti and Sacco were done to death) a chorus of outraged voices must clamor for the release of the Scottsboro lads. All progressive forces in the country must unite on this fiery issue---this is no time for playtime partisan bickering. There must be active protests---there must be meetings in every city and town in the country---there must be an endless stream of protest telegrams and messages pouring in on the Governor of Alabama, on the Supreme Court, on President Roosevelt. And those who consider themselves the friends of enlightenment in America must support the movement to free these innocent boys with money---for appeals, counsel, and legal efforts of all kinds are costly. To my friends in California I appeal for a special effort on behalf of these desperate Negro lads. The most effective answer to

2.

Rolph's lynch statement would be a powerful Scottsboro movement. It is the duty of every American to stamp out lynching in this country---whether it be done in dead of night or in open court.

The Carmel Committee's plans for the holding of a large exhibition and sale of manuscripts, scores, paintings, and autographed books at both Carmel and San Francisco in February for the benefit of the Scottsboro Defense are rapidly nearing completion. Many of the items are expected to bring high prices.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CARAMEL ARTISTS AND WRITERS HOLD SCOTTSBORO MEETING

November 27: Last night a large group of Carmel writers, artists, and visitors gathered at the Girl Scout's House to hear Loren Miller, Negro journalist of Los Angeles, speak on the Scottsboro Case. From the meeting a petition bearing the signatures of Albert Rhys Williams and a number of other nationally known people was forwarded to the President at Washington urging him to see that adequate protection and fair trials be granted the nine Negro boys. A telegram to the same effect also went to Attorney-General Knight at Decatur, Alabama.

A series of programs, including a lecture on Pushkin by John Pittman, editor of the San Francisco SPOKESMAN, and a concert by the young Negro tenor, David Sands, are scheduled at Carmel in the near future for the benefit of the Scottsboro Defense Fund. An evening of proletarian poetry with Langston Hughes reading his poems on Scottsboro has also been planned.

-IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

FAMOUS PLAYRIGHT DONATES STREET SCENE TO SCOTTSBORO FUND

Carmel, Feb. 21: Elmer Rice has sent for the Scottsboro Defense Sale at the Western Women's Club in San Francisco, the original first draft in his own handwriting of the gem-idea or theme which later developed into his now famous stage and screen success, STREET SCENE. In sending this highly valuable original manuscript, Mr. Rice writes to Langston Hughes, "Because of my great interest in the Scottsboro Defense Fund, to which I have made frequent contributions, I am sending you a manuscript which for me has a rather sentimental value. It is the original theme or gem from which my play STREET SCENE subsequently developed."

Another very valuable contribution to the Sale has been sent from the South. It is the original paper for the sale of a slave dated more than seventy years ago, and extremely valuable to collectors.

SCOTTSBORO

3rd Release:

IMPORTANT STATEMENTS FROM FAMOUS AMERICANS POUR INTO CALIFORNIA
SCOTTSBORO COMMITTEE

"I am glad to send this money and with it the money

XX hope that at the next trial the jury that is selected will recognize
the inadequacy of the evidence against the Scottsboro boys that was
so patent as to move the judge in the last trial to set aside the
verdict on just these grounds."

Melville J. Herskovits
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Northwestern University.

Carmel Committee---National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.

-For Immediate Release-

FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITERS COMMENT ON SCOTTSBORO

Julian Huxley, famous English writer and scientist, in sending from London his manuscript for the Scottsboro Defense Exhibit and Sale to begin February 26, in San Francisco, made the following statement in regard to the now famous tragedy of justice in Alabama: "As for my opinion of the Scottsboro Case, it is that it is a blot on the good name of the United States."

Another famous English man of letters, Sisley Huddleston, now lecturing in America, writes to the Carmel Committee as follows: "I'm not sure whether it's in order for me to express my views on the Scottsboro Case. I'm a visitor. But you know them. It seems to me incredible that palpable injustice can be committed in civilized countries, but then I'm still naive and confiding and have never overcome my belief in organized justice. What can I say or do? I'm not a citizen. I'm only a human being and that isn't sufficient qualification in this matter."

And from North Wales, Bertrand Russell, world-renowned English philosopher, mathematician, and writer sends, with two valuable manuscripts in his own handwriting, his opinion of the Scottsboro Case: "I earnestly hope that the Scottsboro prisoners will ultimately be acquitted as, though I have followed the trials carefully, I have seen no evidence that would convince an impartial person that they are guilty."

"Of course, the Scottsboro case is just lynching, a new style," says Charles Edward Russell, great American writer and journalist, who continues as follows: "A mob or a jury that pays no attention to evidence and convicts before it enters the box, what difference? The point is the same, that the blind, implacable, jungle hatred of the Negro merely because he is a Negro remains the cause of the trouble, no matter what may be the instrumentality of death. It is well to protest with all our might and continue to protest and then protest again, but it might also be well to inquire into the springs of this hatred. To try to obstruct the stream without stopping the fountain is not particularly promising work. But so long as we have organizations and movements and propaganda that keep alive in the South the passions and the psychology of the Civil War, we shall have the hatred of the Negro of which lynching and Scottsboro are only expressions. This is the basic fact and it seems to me we shall make faster progress toward the ending of lynching when this fact is recognized."

SCOTTSBORO DONORS

CARL VAN VECHTEN, who contributes nine signed photographs of the famous Negro blues singer, Ethel Waters, has within the last three years developed into a portrait photographer of note. Long one of America's best known novelists, author of PETER WHIFFLE, THE BLIND BOW BOY, NIGGER HEAVEN, and a number of other books, Mr. Van Vechten took up camera work as a personal hobby, and he took pictures of most of New York's celebrities, his friends in the arts and of the stage and screen, from Julia Peterkin to Anna Mae Wong, Muriel Draper to Bojangles, the tap dancer. He became so fascinated with this form of character expression that he built a dark room in his town apartment. And one dark room not proving sufficient to his growing endeavors, he built a second one. Now, almost daily, he receives some famous visitor and with films, cameras, and lighting apparatus spread about his living room, he takes their pictures looking natural in a dozen different ways. Already his photographs have been used by VANITY FAIR, and have appeared in several books, biographies of his subjects and other wise.

AARON DOUGLAS, one of this country's best known Negro artists, contributes THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN to the Scottsboro Exhibit. Besides numerous paintings, Mr. Douglas has done the murals for the new library at Fisk University, the new million dollar Y. M. C. A. in Harlem, and the grill room of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. He has studied at the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia and in Paris.

R. J. L. Adams, perhaps the most famous collector of Negro folklore since Joel Chandler Harris, lives in Columbia, S. C. and on a large plantation near there. From this plantation come the amazing folk sayings and stories that he has put into his books, and that have appeared in H.