The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER; NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1927 A LIBERAL WAIL ON “EDUCATION” MODERN EDUCATIONAL THEORIES, by Boyd H. Bode. Macmillan. $1.80 HUMANIZING EDUCATION, by Samuel H, Schmalhausen. The New Edu- eation Publishing Co. 0. THE MEANING OF ADULT EDUCATION, by Eduard C, Lindeman. The New Republic. ‘ Among thos the medicine men of the academic p. who listen solemnly to the doctrinal pronouncements of steraft are some who like them but like them but understand them, and By V.-I. LENIN. 1 NOTE:—The following article, which was written by Lenin on the ist of | June 1915, criticises the political} On the Fight Against Social Chauvinism viously not. As is known, such an al peal will encounter a bitter (and for | the greater part concealed) counter- | action on the part of the governments | and will by no means receive their | Then there came the war, the very War which had been so plainly fore- seen at Basle. The official parties acted in the exact contrary sense; not as internationalists, but as national- Improvement From Germany “Sunrise,” First American Murnau Picture a Success at 'N his first American picture, Mur- nau, the man who directed the Times Sq. ROBERT HOLLIDAY don’t understand them, some who don’t : line of the Women’s Conference held! Soar eter Tuukesin: andanoe proletarian: “Lene Cunphe” anes ccd ane some who neither unde stand nor like t nong all sie Bee at Berne, the first international a ree Prereioasuithat aialene Ee tneiias Der aianaeten paCh Remar | Geis aden Har ondoesies the sodden Charlie Boys of the Departmer ously lapping cialist gathering after the outbrea tou the worketa, then. the avorkers (opportunist. “16 we say toltha wore | Gietheltimes Sduare mmeabey above up the nectar from the sewer pipes, thinking it the r Regurgi-| of the war. Today, when the out | ould eye he. edt They agid | ara: a divect Detraval of the cause of | Ath veh hi coe tated, their pronouncements will be lapped up by the sexless old maids and break of a fresh war is immediately Leider tat foe atte SE naunn de the |cocahiaa via’ Ween eomimitetad sation Seton Parca invertebrate old men who serve in the capacity of suck-paps and wet-nurses near, it is ne ary for every ( Ont | cage eR aE GRA an oreat DRRRE sin GHG teas edna: melee ates Beane erica | : me : munist to study the lessons of the! tne course of the social democratic|stroke all subterfuges and excuses, ing beautiful ‘ poy egnres Boo me 348 pages. It is a) fight of the Bolsheviki, under Len-| \oities is required, that an obstinate | all sophism a la Kautsky and Axel- photography, lav- | compilation of the boiled down stew of srmulations, by Pro-| in’s leadership, against social chau- fight against the opportunists and/rod. We point out quite clearly the ishly picturesque rs of Education, of current theories nt mental manipulation vinism in its open and concealed their centrist friends is necessary. |whole depth and strength of the evil; acnere Mende ades| in the ining schools of edu ckery. A few sample} forms, and also at the same time to) Rut the workers are now being lulled | we summon the workers to fight and quate acting, it pages afford a elous i ons why the bitterest pill] study Lenin’s criticism of the mis-} \i+) tof: wishes because people dis-|not to reconcile themselves to the proves one of the adolescents have to swallow is vhy educational institutions, such takes which even many revolution} qain acinedeuolEisiveand ielencly ‘his avi Hebcep! Un taenibas: as, let nter College, C. C. Y.U., and Teachers’ College are} ary internationalists made at tha aya Aiblioutwcombating: whic thease | sie eeaclutionse? theamatonity? pictures. | one ces they ate: po: * * * | wishes cannot be fulfilled. A Not a word of condemnation of The film is based ae = z . i , |"PHE diplomatic leaders, the origina-| the traitors, not a syllable on op- ae n_ original All of t more, would Mr. Schmalhausen wail. And wail he TH most interesting and latest tonenct thotahanwinisue, police in|portunism; a simple repetition of the | story by Suder- does—from c of the al tioned tome. The book is the material regarding this topical | the present social democratic party,|idea of the Basle resolution!!! As mann. It is not product of a soul, w i “radicalism” of pre-war] question has been supplied by the/ wil know how to make excellent use| nothing serious had happened,—it was essentially a aver vintage ¢ to e on the f s pan of official disapproval] Women’s International Socialist Con-| of the-weaknesses, the lack of firm-|in fact only a trifling accidental er-| one. Dramatic, | while the d providing fertil for the poppies in “Flanders| ference recently held in Berne. We ness..and definiteness of the resolu-| ror; it ‘suffices to repeat the old de-| - ™ ‘ overplotted, but) Field.” I in modern educational institutions, and he has| will deal here with one aspect of the'tion of the majority. As skilled|cision; a trifling difference of George with pleasing hu-| | found “cures,” and without a grain of a sense of humor he proceeds straight | question x parliamentarians they will divide the | opinion, not involving any principle O’Brien ee touches, _ it to the naive conclusion that use of “evil” must be sin, and the cure-all) Representatives of the momen Re mong themselves; the one—| has arisen, it suffices to patch it up!!! plicity of epee hehe’ te Plays an important role in “The is. then, ergo, re ion of “Our Tainted Ethi All of which demon-| ganizations of the Russian Organi & Co—will say: “serious”| This is a direct scorning of the de- tHe CEPA HERE OMY Wana ot | Desert Song,” Sigmund Romberg’s thor does not know what he lking about. Delivered, of this delicious nonsense the author reminds one t the a fearful outer 1 who, w strates th after thi of the pe ed down with the burden of the world’s sorrows, | | zation Committee, Dutch women from Troelstra’s Party, S s women from the organizations which the “Berner ; consideration, have not been investi- ‘guments have not been taken into ted—we wish now to place the dis- cisions of the International, a scorn- ing of the workers. The social chau-} vinists would in fact like nothing bet- the city comes into the life of a young | farmer to complicate matters. After many trials and tribulations portrayed musical play, which moves to the Gentury Theatre tonight. stood upon the dock and cried biliously, | Tagwacht” arply attacks on ac-| n on a broader basis. The|ter than a simple repetition of the} qyamaticall A wild scene at an amusement park, : 7 ¢ sft attitude, < ly, but with human warmth | “? 4 “Ah, we , Ah, Ah,” count of their too Left attitude, 2) others will say: See, were we notjold decisions in order that nothing|and with delicate touches of honest | With all the noise of the shouting, but who did not commit har and did not jump in. | French representative, who did not/yight when we said that there exist| would be really altered. That is, at| humor, the story comes to a happy, |cazefree crowd added to the beautiful = . « | wish to enter into any dispute on any profound differences of opinion,{ bottom, a tacit and hypocritically antorced logical end. night scenic effect, you are literally The third book is a first-rate liberal grunt, delivered after much pain- |important question with the official | | party (which, as is known, adopts a when the followers of the Troelstra masked amnesty for the social chau- “Made in Germany” is obviously thrown from your seat into boister- ous, crowded Coney Island. ful labor. We are now inclined to believe the author prepared for mena- ae Lencavitiat (eEaGpoint), uelish pare ie Ore geueeie: Sembet party Diapeiiralae Aes Ce stamped over the direction. It is Movietone. pause. The change of life is upon us. . . The book is, nevertheless, true to women who are hostile to the idea of! man Left? A . “» {more than competent. It is artistically! yyovictone is even mechanically of the New Republic, which means humorless espousal to be won by “salvation through knowledge.” For those the best traditions of academic c. ja clear separation “of pacifism from | A women’s conference ought not to there are a great many “amateurs” who would like to follow this course Yet it has also the faults well. intelligent. of forced theatricalism mére perfect than the remarkable i : i as 7 <ouuiaectil f i - revolutionary roletarian tact bhav i | $5 a 4 A eviction who believe th; umanizing knowledge” means humanizing life, the book |?” oP eee “Left” Ger- have’ helped Scheidemann, . Haase,| and to confine themselves to a few| George O’Brien, who contributes a Vitaphone syn 1 ree i , ; . Ae |they all united with the “Le 7el-| Kautsky, " Vandérvelde, Hyndman, |vadical phrases. These people have . light and sound it is nearly perfec: has its value. For those of us who believe that to be pious drivel, and that| Seer ich Teaeliei rae v 5 eB s 'p) capable performance in the leading | ;- ua haan : é z aoa 3 ~|man social democrats on a resolution. | Guesde, Sembat, Plechanov, ete., to|no business with us. We are follow- . Fé tion. No mechanical arshness 1S the answ o the latter lies deeper in the modern fabric of the economic, Ave ie fithe: Ww ea nae ae we} a A + r S. role, plods with overdone Robot-like Ad Ar SHNCa: ToaHnSUGRT He litical 1 social the book, along with the two others, is com- bes Represeniae weg .e e women's | Iujl::the avorking. masses, but should|ing another path and we shall fol- Sispusthrns mipat obi the iaicters He | Cv ent. An added feature a i er ama UTE ASS RO cg ae th se organizations of the Central Com-! have .declared determined war on op- | low another path; we wish to promote | has i program is the Movietone presenta- pletely useless. —VIVIAN ROSEN. PERIPATETIC EDUCATION FOR HOME GUARDS THE MAIN STEM, by William Edge. Vanguard Press. $.50. mittee of our Party dissociated them- | selves from them and preferred to re- | main isolated for the time being than to participate in such a bloc. portunism. Only then would there | have been the practical result—not | the hope of an “improvement” of the | above-mentioned “leaders,” but the the labor movement and the building up of the workers’ party by action, in the spirit of irreconcilability towards opportunism and social chauvinism. has neither the physique nor great talent of Emil Jannings to make this convincing. His performance how- ever, and that of Janet Gaynor is! compétent screen work far above the | tion of Mussolini’s Italian troops in maneuver. The sound of the horses hoofs is so realistic one can almost imagine the workers being ground 3} I is gence ‘rallying of fore for | 5 i junderneath them. And Mussolini ap- f The title is somewhat misleading. “Main Stem” suggests panhandling HEREIN consists the | ae we obras Te. es for the hard and! 4 part of the German women dele-| average. The supporting cast, €8-| pears to speak some inanities in both Bie (ait crstice Ck Open gare at ua Taka | peciallyeim, the) work ot Bodil Rosing Italian and English—introduced by the and mooching, and the book Mr. Edge has written is not about begging. “Main Stem” also suggests a far more migratory laborish sort of story than | fundamental and general political im-| Let us take the question of the gates were obviously afraid of a clearly outspoken resolution, out of is more than adequate. Scenic ef-! American ambzssedor to Italy—both i “ i A . violati ff the § a 2 ce . i 2 r he has written. portance has this differenc. | peaplaniene eae na Basle considerations relating exclusively to fect at eplendigt ara nie Photo-| sneaking of “international under- Edge was a run-away boy of bourgeois parentage who roamed about | Pinion? le whole’ ‘matlert PP’ Sts andl the rate of development of the fight|®7@P2Y String. e picture aS a| standing between nations” and what | At the first glance the “middle-| Let us face the | against chauvinism within a single, whole shows the hand of American | not. The Vatiean choir does its stuff. during the war from one Eastern faetory or big town job to another, work-| , oa» 4, . ey : “centrists;” th am 5 ! n fa i NC \ st Ea iaiiet of his time in a munition plant, in fact. He wrote a vastly better ie res ee He eaten rein reap SE ae that is to say, their own party. But ac ay a If you on Aede pe jane en ipti Kac’ vat sor i aS ia” al ch | OP. é : ‘di . EER such arguments were obviously out|,. “Idisplay of the black-shirts, there is description, at that, of exactly that sort of life than “Hobohemia” and such | y of, ra tobe very suitable and | tblomacy, | but | ion. d : t black > like works are of the real migratory ha st-stiff, or lumberjack, or general | pl a al y | of place and erroneous. For the in- the decided interest in the mechanical | correct. “Sunrise” has the added improving | | i construction worker life. He does describe the living and working conditions, the degrading and humiliating side of gang work the industrial centers of the East. He did move around enough to come into contact with men following the actually migratory trades, and to pick up a sort of surface impression of their life. Therefore it is a good book for the home guard, who knows nothing at all of migratory workers. * * * There are certain things, however, which such a reader should be warned against. First of all, like all travellers in a strange country, Edge sees more the peculiarities, the romantic things than he does of the matters of everyday life. For example, he is thrown into closest association with, and writes most about, a certain “Slim,” who was so constituted mentally that/ this will be the standpoint adopted by | “crime.” | he voluntarily gave up a career as a lawyer to become a hobo, There are such people “on the road.” But tho they attract attention, they are not the/ of the women’s organizations of the| ternational, proletarian, revolutionary rule, The average migratory becomes so by force of grim economic necessity.| Central Committee of our party for| spirit is quite plainly prescribed; so Or in plain words, even if he sometimes goes crazy, he does it because he has to hubo, he does not hobo because he is crazy. And very few migratories are crazy at all. When this kid finally got sick and went home, he marveled at the abundance of food and the cleanliness of bourgeois life. “Large pieces of meat. ... I had been accustomed to bony, gelatinous pieces in lamb stew.” “Fried eggs were strange.” “Fruit was strange; milk was strange; fresh vegetables were strange.” “The middle class live so clean they don’t need insecticide daily to spray their beds.” * * * Apparently a little out of touch with his world of ease, but never en- tirely away from it—you feel that he did not take long to re-accustom him- self to real food, warmth and cleanliness. He was an intelligent little man of the upper classes who had been lost for a brief season in the jungles. If the Vanguard Press had really wanted to have on record the more usual life of the migratories, as the selection of the particular title given the book by Edge suggests, they could. have done better by publishing a serial which ran in Industrial Solidarity in 1924, entitled, “Trailing the Job.” —VERN SMITH. COMMENT. Evidence that literary men do not go unappreciated in these United States is found in the fact that the New York Central has been reprinting, in the form of a quarter-page ad, in a number of the largest newspapers a rhapsodical essay by the professionally genial essayist, Christopher Morley. “It so happens that the composition is an ecstatic “appreciation” of the rail- ‘roads’s Twentieth Century Limited, originally printed in the Saturday Re- view of Literature. “We make our first stop at Elkhart... . It’s fine to see a squad of oilers and coal-passers leap at the engine almost before she has come to a stop and begin hostlering her. ... The sweet brown fields recede behind us. ...I guess there’s truth in what the railroad claims about the water level route; certainly the running is amazingly smooth. . . .” Literary prostitution? No, not exactly. But, as a shrewd critic once remarked: “The coincidence is entirely too happy to be fortuitous.” —S. G. BOOKS IN SOVIET RUSSIA. | ol A feature of the yearly “Press Day” in the Soviet Union is an intensive drive for new readers to the various workers’ publications and a wide dis- ‘tribution of books. This photo shows a scene near a street stand for “Gudok” (The Whistle’—organ of the railroad workers) at which books are also 7 ‘ sold at small cost, The war is recognized to be| FORESEEING the approaching war, ‘an imperialist war; the idea of defence as an unskilled laborer in| of native country is rejected; the! un, workers are summoned to mass) | demonstrations, ete., ete. One could) |believe that the only difference be-| tween it and our resolution was that | jours contained some sharper ex-| pressions such as “traitor,” “oppor- jtunism,” “withdrawal from the bour-| geois Ministries” etc. ; There is not the least doubt that those who will criticize the delegates | |having dissociated themselves from | the rest of the delegates. i NE only needs to consider the mat- | ter attentively and not to confine! oneself to the “formal” recognition | of this or that truth, in order to per- ceive the complete untenability of such a criticism. | At the conference there collided to- | gether two judgments of the war and of the tasks of the international, two | tactics of the proletarian parties. The | |one view is: There has been no col-| |lapse of the International; there exist | |no great and serious hindrances to a} return from chauvinism to Socialism; | |there is no strong “inner” enemy in! |the shape of opportunism, nor has ity committed any direct, indubitable and | open betrayal of socialism. Hence the conclusion: we do not wish to! damn anybody; we wish to grant an amnesty to the deniers of the Stutt- gart and Basle resolutions; we wish/ to limit ourselves to the advice, steer | |to the Left and summon the masses | |to demonstrations. | The other view of all these ques- | tions is the exact contrary. There is nothing more injurious and damaging | to the cause of the proletariat than the continuation of party diplomacy | towards the opportunists and social) chauvinists. The resolution of the) majority was acceptable to the op-| portunists and followers of the pres- | ent official parties because it is per- meated through and through with the | spirit of diplomacy. The working! masses who are at present led by the official social patriots will be duped by this diplomacy. The working masses will be given the thoroughly erroneous idea that the gresent social rdemocratic parties, together with the present governments, are capable of | changing their course and of adopting) ha correct course in place of the wrong! one. ae is not the case. That is a | | tous error. The present social demo: eratic parties and their governments are incapable of seriously altering |their course, ‘As a matter of fact, | everything will remain as before, and | the “left” wishes expressed in the! majority resolution will remain pious | | wishes (the followers of the party of | | 'Troelstra or of the present French | party leadership, with their correct | political instinct, realized this and) therefore voted for this resolution). : The summons to the masses to! demonstrations can acquire a practi-| cal, real, serious importance only with cial democratic party leadership. | Can one except such supp; | Richmond | foundry jraised all the prices 100 per cent. | been heard that they will give this new m profound and extremely danger | 2° the active support of the present so-| ginning to take on the aspect of a 2? Ob-}bad:that the workers are beginning the International met together and animously decided, in the event of the outbreak of war, to “accelerate the collapse of capitalism,” to work in the sense of the Commune and of the October and December revolution of | 1965 (that is the exact expression of the Basle resolution!!!), to work in; the spirit that, for the workers of one country to fire on the workers of an-| other country shall be branded as a! Here the line of action in an in- plainly in fact that it could not be expressed more plainly without over- stepping the bounds of legality. Letters From Our Readers | ternational resolution does not men- tion either the rate or the concrete conditions of the fight against social chauvinism in the individual coun- tries. In this sphere the autonomy of the individual parties is unchal-! lenged. It was a question of pro-! claiming from the international tribune the irrevocable breach with social chauvinism along the whole line, in the entire character of social democratic work. But instead of this, the majority resolution again repeated the old error, the error of the II In- ternational, which diplomatically cloaks opportunism and the diverg- ence between words and deeds. As we have said, we shall not follow this path. ——————————— i {a { Revolutionary “Who’s Who” Real Need. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: In talking over Labor events with workers in the shop and the street, I find many of them that ask: “What kind of a looking fellow is this guy you are talking about?” Or, “Is he an old or a young man?” Or, “Is he still alive?” These remarks show that the aver- age worker has only a hazy idea as to who the past and present leaders in the revolutionary movement have been. I believe it would be a good idea to compile a list of names and pictures of those who have really acrificed themselves for the work- g class: Théy could be published with a little history of each. I am sure such a book would find a ready sale among the workers. It might be called “Who’s Who’ of the Revolu- tiorfary Labor Movement of the World.”—-George Elson, Cleveland. Company's 3 Cent Generosity Cost Worker 5 Cents Editor,. The. DAHJY WORKER: -~ ‘The American Engineering Co., at and Cumberland Streets, are condueting a cafeteria for their workers. They have just iy used to sell a small piece of pie for 5 cents, now it costs 10 cents. The bowls of soup are now only half full. The moulders are very angry at this treatment and the remark has} nagement just one week to ices back to normal after which y may go in and clean out the cafeteria and the management. A Negro was employed in this cafeteria. Last week he was paid 3 cents too much and a letter came from Boston to Philadelphia manager, ying that in the next pay the 3 cents should be deducted, and also 2 cents additional to cover the cost of the p ge required for the letter. ~-H. Zakonnik, Philadelphia, Detroit Auto Workers Organizing Editer, The DAILY WORKER: © The auto industry in Detroit is be- Conditions are so feel the necessity for organization. The United Auto, Aircraft and Ve- hicle Workers, local No. 127, is carry- ing on an organization campaign in the form of meetings outside the fac- tory gates. And there is great re- sponse wherever these shop meetings are held. At the regular meetings of the local which take place every Friday night new members are join- ing and many of the old-timers are coming back into the union. Of course it is going to be no easy matter to build up a fighting organization as the auto barons are rich and well- organized, but we are getting the right kind of material into the union, and, in the end, victory will be ours. We will close the open shops of Ford, General Motors, and other slave driving outfits—Jimmie Higgins, De- troit. Why Not Sing? Editor: I just looked over the catalogue of the Workers School, It seems to me there is one important course they fail to give. This is the teaching of revolutionary songs. Our comrades can’t sing. They sing half bad the Internationale and the English Boat- man song, further they are deaf and dumb. The Frieheit Gesang Ferein does valuable work, But we have so ma) comrades who do not happen to be} born Jews and they simply do not understand Yiddish. But they can understand English. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: I wish to make a bellow of com-| plaint. The DAILY WORKER has, come to mean to me as much as my meals—that is, I want it to appear regular. I have not received any is- sue of The DAILY WORKER since! and including the Saturday issue. If) this is due to some mixup in the cir- culation department kindly straighten it out—BECAUSE I WANT MY DAILY WORKER!—Joseph Kalar. | gigantic Passaic. x | Keep Up the Sustaining Fund perfection that with the theatre, the |Hampden’s | to organize a strong union, feature of the Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment. This invention using sound to heighten certain effects gives greater dramatic interest. In a happy, |; movies and the radio takes its place as a great medium of keeping the workers filled with the right kind of vatriotic mollasses.—W. C. ae E Mats. Wed, & Sat. 2 SYNTHETIC SIN A_ New Pla by FREDERIC & F E HATTON With a Stellar Cast. ' H N in Ibsen’s comedy “AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” Thea., B'way at 62d St. L Evenings at 8:30. inees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30| WALTER with Robt. Halliday & Eddie Buszell | ith Month j 62nd St. and Central Park} West. Evenings at 8:30. Wed. and Sat., 2:30, Century Mats. National . Theatre, 41 St. W. of B National - ys aig, ats Wed. gaat The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—REX CHERRYMAN y| Dilan 2 Times Sq. wi The Theatre Guild Presents LITTLE | HELEN MacKELLAR y |& RALPH MORGAN ; [in ‘Romancing ’Round’ The LADDER POPTLAR PRIC. 2.20. CORT TH RE, 48th St. ¥ 8:30. Matle $2. B. of _B'way. vei and Sat. at 2:30, Best seats nees Wed. W. Fox presents the Motion Picture SUNRISE. ety, F. IURNAU By HERMANN SUDERMAN Symphonic Movietone Accompaniment Thea., 42d St. W. of B'way DAILY, 2:30-8:30 WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? Pe A | The NewPlaywrights Theatre | “The Theatre Insurgent” THE ONLY HOME FOR. LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA Announces a season of productions dramatizing the class war! OPENING OCTOBER 19 with THE by PAUL anda play by John An industrial play with an acetylene flame Other plays to be selected from The DAILY WORKER has purchased a special block ‘of tickets, 10) EO FC NS I BELT SIFTON, ‘ Faragoh 4 hn’ Dos Passos n Howard Build Elevator Operators’ Union Editor, The DAILY WORKER: Please take our thanks for giving and is heiping the elevator operators | The most effective way of helping | the clevator operators to organize ia for every worker to urge the opera-| tor of the eleyator in his building to! join the union. We must build a strong union and a strong Labor Party. -—-An Elevator Operator, N. Yer’, Without DAILY WORKER life ‘ Not Complete. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 16.— It is hard for a movement to grow | the Elevator Operators’ Union a!A worker at Grand Canyon, Ariz., lif it cannot express itself in song,|Wtite up in The DALLY: WORKER. |sends in his subscripti 7 ) s¢ n_ song. | 2 ‘ ;Ssends in his subscription to The Let the Workers School teach one| We see that The DAILY WORKER DAILY WORKER agent of Los more subject—teaching of revolu-|i8 the only labor paper which takes | Angeles. His letter reads, in part, as tionary songs.—David Berkingoff, ;20 interest in the workers’ conditions | follows: % “A friend pf mine used to send it (The DAILY WORKER) to me quite regularly; but lately I have not re- ceived any—and without a ‘DAILY WORKER?’ - life is not complete. Kindly wrap the paper pretty good, because this joint here is. conserva- tive and don’t like the slave eat ‘ver= boten’ fruit—’—L. P. Rindall, D. W. Agent.