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" “Jax” Plutes Stuff Lindbergh While Workers Hunger By a Worker Correspondent. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Noy. 4.— “There ‘he comes!” “That’s him!” “That's Lindbergh!” These and sim- ilar cries could be heard on every side as the auto bearing Chas. A. Lindbergh, the new “play-boy” of the capitalists, speeded thru the streets of Jacksonville at thirty miles an hour, The paraders were trying to keep. ahead of a brewing storm that drenched everything a few’ minutes later, The Lindbergh reception and cele- bration here yesterday was one of the most elaborate affairs that the city has ever staged. Thousands of dollars were expended on it, while at} the same time thousands of hungry | workers walked the streets looking for jobs, and a few in sheer despera- tion staged a couple of hold-ups dur- ing the day to get funds for food or tp get out of town on. Three Thousand Unemployed. The Chamber of Commerce, which sponsored the celebration, has over three thousand unemployed registered with it, to say nothing of the other thousands who haven’t visited it in search of jobs. Moreover, while the city had its thousands to spend on this semi-military affair, it failed to supply funds for this year’s school budget so that the city schools were compelled to open a month late. Lack of funds also forces the pupils of the junior high to furnish their own school books or do without them, not- withstanding the fact that many of the children have to, go hungry all day at school because they haven't money to eat at the school cafeteria or. food to bring from home. On Starvation Wages. Besides, all the Negro schools are crowded and many of them operating on a double shift plan giving the children only a half day at school. And if compulsory attendance was in vogue here they would have three or four shifts, While the poor colored teachers work long hours on starva- tion wages. And to top the climax the school board at the beginning of \the présent fall term cut the salaries of both white and black teachers from ten to fourteen per cent. Nevertheless, in the face of these conditions the city politicians and Paytriots staged a great banquet for Lindbergh at the George Washington Hotel=the new~ home-of. millionaire tourists — in the evening. At this gathering, the preparedness speeches of the orators were broadcast, while the papers the following morning gave glaring details of the gowns worn by the jewel-bedecked women on the occasion, Disgusting Exhibition. “To the class-conscious worker, the whole affair was nauseating. The . legion soldiers and sailors marching té the music of the Y. M. C. A. band; the twenty-five thousand boy scouts from all over the state marching to the rhythm of bugle and drum, while some rode on army trucks, all saved from the Naval League’s prepared- ness parades of 1915-16. Just an- other attempt to get the youth of the state familiar with the military reg- ime, and prepare them for the coming human slaughter fest that the Amer- ican imperialists are preparing in Mexico, China and elsewhere: In the face of it all one could not put think of the great need of or- ganizing the unorganized, and of more propaganda for the as yet un- class conscious workers in’ order to awaken them to an understanding of | their condition and need. When will the coming Labor Party break into the ranks of the solid “Democratic South’? Wealthy Couple Try to Kidnap “Perfect” Baby “WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. — A dar- ing attempt.to kidnap the 20-month- old “wonder baby” of Mr: and Mrs, George’ P. Kimmell failed today. The child was given considerable publicity because of his unusual physical de- velopment. Doctors had pronounced him “the perfect child.” “During the absence of the parents jast night, the baby’s nurse reported a Vikvulk-dreeued couple entered the home and sought to seize the child. Bothawore silver masks. They finally fled. TRIED IN FOREIGN TONGUE. wig Lee, Norwegian carpenter, peaks Norwegian and who was triéd-in-a language he did not under- stand=was found guilty of murder in the =first.degree last night in Judge McLaughlin’s court in Brooklyn. The verdict carries with it a sentence of death in the electric chair in Sing Sing. Lee was tried on the charge of killing, Mrs. Selma Lassen Bennett and-Miss Sarah E. Brownell, his land- lady, in.Brooklyn, July 10. ANOTHER TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHT LISBON, Nov. 4. — The German seaplane D-1220, piloted by Horts Merz, which will attempt a flight to the United States, took off for the Azores’ today. * Thesplane is making a‘ flight from Getmany to America by way of Lis- bon-and the Azores. peasant girls. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1927 HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE MASSES IN THE U.S.S.R. Upper left, a state university in Moscow; lower icii, the Institute of Phy It is for the education of peasants and workers that all schools and universities of every sort exist in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. = Right: two Culture. A COMPLETE library dealing with Soviet Russia is available for the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution among the publications of Interna- tional Publishers, 881 Fourth Avenue, New York. The history of the revo- lutionary movement, the establish- ment of the Soviet Government, the achievements in the various phases of the social and cultural life during the past ten years, are all represented in the books which have been brought out in order to acquaint the American readers with the Soviet Union. These books while taking up separately vari- ous phases of Russian revolutionary history before and after the Revolu- tion of 1917, give a complete picture of Soviet Russia to-day. Everyone interested in the Russian Revolution and its achievements, as well as its meaning to the world can find a com- plete story in this library on Soviet Russia. This library includes the following books: * * . MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST, by Vera Figner.—The author, one of the offést living revolutionists now in her seventy-sixth year, is a pen- sioner of the Soviet State in recog- nition of her service rendered to the Revolution during the formative period of the revolutionary movement. She joined the revolutionary struggle back in the seventies. Coming from an aristeeratic Russian family and brought up in the famous Smolny Institute, she early in her youth joined the revolutionary organization which later became known as the People’s Will Party. She was a mem- ber of the executive coramittee of this party when it arranged the assassina- tion of Tsar Alexander II. for partici- pation in this assassination of 1881. Vera Figner spent two years in the Fortress of St. Paul and twenty years in the Sehusselburg Fortress. In her memoirs she describes the beginning of the revolutionary movement in Russia culminating in the assassina- tion of Tsar Alexander II, and the life which she and the other revolu- tionists led in the Schlusselburg For- tress. It is a wonderful document of revolutionary history and _ sacrifice, whch should serve as an inspiration to all those interested in the cause of workers’ emancipation. Vera Figner wrote the publishers that she liked the translation of her book and that it was beautifully published. The book is recommended particularly for young people and those interested in the early history of the Russian revolu- ‘tionary movement. os) & MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO- CRITICISM, by V. I. Lenin.—This volume which has been published as the first of the Lenin’s collected | works deals with a phase of the Rus- |sian revolutionary movement after 1905, when some leading Russian | revolutionists wanted to revise some philosophic conception of Marxism, Lenin saw the danger in this philos- ophic deviation which was advocated at that time, and while he was in exile in Siberia studied the materialist philosophy and wrote this book in reply to the revisionists. The book is published in two editions and other volumes in this series are promised soon, , * ” * TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, by John Reed.—The author was an American contribution to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He died in Russia at his post as a revolution- ist, and the Russian workers have honored him by burying him beneath the Kremlin wall, where Lenin and other heroes of the Russian Revolu- tion rest. Ten Days that Shook the World is the greatest epic story of the Russian Revolution. No such book has been written or ever will be writ- ten again about the Russian Revolu- tion. John Reed was a great reporter and he was on the ground when the great rising occurred. He tells the story which Lenin considered as the best account of what happened dur- ing the days when Kerensky was overthrown and the Bolsheviks came to power. The book, which is now translated in almost every civilized language, contains a special introduc- tion by Lenin. . * . WHITHER RUSSIA — TOWARDS SOCIALISM OR CAPITALISM? By Leon Trotsky——In this book Trotsky, A Library on Soviet Russia contrary to some of the opinions ex- pressed later, believed that Soviet Rus- sia is moving towards Socialism. He examines the economic progress which Soviet Russia has made since the Revolution, and finds that Russia has made definite socialist achievements in building her economic life. oil combines of the world. Fischer BROKEN EARTH, by Maurice Hin- dus.—Little is known about what is lage. Hindus, a brilliant American his birth from which he was absent over twenty years and describes what has happened to the peasant, his wife church, the Soviet and various phases of the peasant life. The book has an introduction by Glenn Frank, formerly editor of the Century Magazine, and now president of the Wisconsin Uni- versity. * * * | OIL IMPERIALISM—THE “THRNATIONAL STRUGGLE FOR | RUSSIAN PETROLEUM, by Louis | Fischer.—In this book Fischer take: | up one of the most important of Rus sian industries and shows how the Soviet Government has made progress in developing it notwithstanding the obstacles put in its way by the great oil combines of the world. Fischer fgives a great deal oi interesting material of what the great British, | American and French oil interests are |doing in order to obtain the control of the market of Russian oil, The book is an interesting study both in imperialism as well as in Russian economic policies. * * * EDUCATION IN SOVIET RUS- SIA, By Scott Nearing —Scott Near- ing has been a teacher for over twenty years, and when he first went to Soviet Russia he was interested in finding out what is happening in the Russian schools. He tells in his book how the revolution has affected edu- cation both in the lower schools as well as the higher universities. The role which students and teachers play in the conduct of their educational which Russian schools employ are analyzed from the point of view of what it will mean to the Revolution when the younger generation will grow up. poe Oe LITERATURE & REVOLUTION, by Leon Trotsky.—Following in the line of other Marxists Trotsky takes up literature and analyzes the social implications of various literary forms and movements. Trotsky par- ticularly is interested in the influence jof the revolution on Russian litera- ture, and his brilliant book has be- come a classic in this field. * * * RUSSIAN POETRY—An Anth- ology by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky.-Here we have trans- | lated all the best poems of repre- sentative Russian poets from Pushkin down to the present day. We have here the classical poets such as Push- kin, Lermontov and ethers down to those who. have appeared since the Revolution, such as Mayakovsky, Demyan Bedny and others. The book has a complete translation of the fa- mous poem of Blok “The Twelye,” as well as a special introduction by the translators discussing the var‘pus schools of Russian poetry and it con- tains also critical and biographical notes of all the forty odd poets who have been collected in the book. * * * MODERN RUSSIAN COM- Music lovers who have been partic- ularly enchanted with Russian music have Jong been wanting a book which would properly present the various schools of Russia music, particularly such outstanding figures as Skryabin, Stravinski, Rakmaninoff, Prokofyeff, Myaskovski, Ryebikoff, and otherg. The Russian composer who writes in a beautiful style is here presented in popular form. An analysis of the contributions of various Russian com- posers, whose names appear contantly on concert programs here in America is also given. * 8 «© THE NEW THEATRE AND CINEMA OF SOVIET RUSSIA, by Huntly Carter—The famous English authority on the theatre went to Rus- sia and for some time studied the ef- fect of the Revolution on the Russian happening in the small Russian vil-| journalist, returned to the village of | IN- | work is described and the new methods | POSERS, by Leonid Sabaneyeff.— | theatre. He represents in his pro- fusely illustrated and very well writ- ten book the various tendencies in the Russian theatre from the realist to the old school as exemplified by the Moscow Art Theatre to the Revo- lutionary Meirhold Theatre. * * * RUSSIA TODAY: THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BRITISH TRADE UNION DELEGATION.—This report | by prominent English labor leaders is | still the classical report on conditions. |in Soviet Russia by foreign workers. * * a RUSSIA AFTER TEN YEARS: REPORT OF THE AMERICAN TRADE UNION DELEGATION TO THE SOVIET UNION.—This is a re- port of the first American Delegation which has just returned from Soviet Russia. The delegation headed by James H. Maurer, President of the Pennsylvania State Federation of La- bor, has presented a splendid report which gives the reactions of the |American delegation and what they | observed in the Soviet Union. This ook should be in the hands of every merican worker who has been propa- | gandized a great deal by the capitalist press and the reactionary labor leads ers against the Russian Revolution: |The Report by the American Trade |Union Delegation shows an honest | worker’s opinion as to what is actuall; taking place in Russia at the present time. * * * In addition to the above titles the International Publishers are now at work preparing for publication two volumes by Lenin which contain his writings during the periods of 1917 and which therefore deal with the March Revolution, as well as the No- vember Revolution. Another book which will be pub- |lished soon will be the INustrated History of the Revolution, which will be published in two volumes and will contain contributions by the most important Russian leaders covering the various phases of progress in the Soviet Union. A Guide to the Soviet Union con- sisting of about 1000 pages especially designed for all those who travel through Soviet Russia will soon be published. In the series of “Voices of Revolt,” some of which have already been pub- lished, there will soon appear a volume containing speeches of Lenin. A book is also in preparation deal- ing with the protection of the work- ers’ life and health in industry by a specialist who recently traveled in'86- viet Russia. Soviet "Celebration of November Revolution to Start Officially Sunday MOSCOW, Noy. 4.—Hundreds of visitors are pouring into Moscow daily for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevist Revolu- tion which put the Soviets in power. Already thousands of people have gathered‘ here from all parts of the entire world. The formal ceremonies will begin Sunday. There are many Americans in the huge throngs of visitors who are tax- ing hotel accommodations to the ut- most. _U.S.S.R. Employs Over 200 Foreign Engineers According to a survey of the Su- preme Economic Council, over 200 for- \eign engineers were in the employ of ‘Soviet industrial organizations in |June, 1927. The Supreme Economic |Council has given permission to va- ‘rious industrial organizations of the |U. S. S. R. to invite 187 more engi- |neers within the near future. Among foreign engineering author- lities engaged by Soviet organizations ‘are a number of American firms. The ,most important are Hugh L. Cooper |& Co., Stuart, James, Cooke & Co, Hugh L. Freyn Co. and Allen & Gar- cia Co. QUAKE SHOCK IN LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. — A sharp earthquake shock, the vibrations of which lasted three minutes, was felt here at 5:49 a. m. today. Pasadena, Glendale and nearby cities reported the temblor. Page Seven | BOOK R “STICK TO YOUR LAST?!” 'HE New Masses is not—and no one expects it to be- a Communist magazine. The New Masses, on the other hand, is not expected to be, but has shown tendencies }of becoming an anti-Communist magazine. The November issue illustrates this point. Issued as a special number for the tenth anniversary of the Bol- |shevik revolution, the magazine contains an attack on certain fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Max Eastman and an attack on the workers’ dictatorship by H. N. Brailsford. | If the New Masses posed as a liberal magazine, pur- porting to present both sides of the “Russian Question,” the situation would be different. It has, however, re- peatedly issued manifestos proclaiming itself a frankly “radical magazine of art and letters.” In carrying articles like Eastman’s and Brailsford’s lit has steadily tended to become less and less a maga- |zine of art and letters and less and less radical. It |has become a semi-political magazine and its politics ‘have often proved myopic and dangerous to the Com- munist movement. The publication of Eastman’s cleverly-written arti- eles are not only harmful to the general cause which |the New Masses aims to further, but are distinctly out- |side of the province of the magazine—unless of coursé the magazine has of late taken the whole world as its province. * * * | Eastman’s article is in the first place an attempt to |prove that Marxism (which he distinguishes from Lenin- ism) completely ignored the role of what Eastman calls “engineering” and Communists call “practice” and sat sublimely by waiting for history to unroll itself in the form of a Communist society, In the second place, Eastman attempts to prove that Leninism (which he distinguishes from Marxism) com- pletely discarded the theory of historical rnaterialism, holding that revolution is the business of a small group of intellectuals who by a mystical process draw it out of the thin air, Eastman perverts both Lenin and Marx in making an arbitrary distinction between “engineering” and _his- torical materialism. He does not choose to see that Marx like Lenin makes tactics (engineering) an integral part of his theory of class struggle; that Lenin, tho living in the age of imperialism instead of living at an early stage of capitalism, was careful, in facing the new problems which confronted him never to divorce action from theory; that Lenin in his more mature writ- ings made his “engineers” an integral part of the work- ing class movement and not a group of “professionals” directing revolution from above. * * * Brailsford’s article is less dangerous than Eastman’s because it is so palpably ridiculous. The Russian masses tolerate a dictatorship, he says, because they were il- literate, suffered under a czarist despotism and ex- perienced none of the blessings of British parliamentar- ianism. (Such, for instance, as the Baldwin govern- ment displayed in the Emergency Powers Act during the general strike, etc.) The effect of Brailsford’s articke is somewhat neu- tralized by the leading article by Joseph Freeman de- scribing the achievements of socialist construction in the Soviet Union in the ten years since the Bolshevik revolution. The article appears as a review of the American trade union delegation report. * * * Other features of the magazine include an article on John Reed by Michael Gold that does neither justice to Reed nor credit to Gold; an article on the Soviet movies by Ernestine Evans; an excellent cover design (a draw- ing of Lenin) by Hugo Gellert, and a clever review of the American Caravan by Genev‘eve Taggard. * * * The sins of the New Masses are essentially the re- sult of its failure to “stick to its last.” If the New Masses confined itself to social-literary studies of min- ing towns, John Roach Straton, the East Side, Calvin Coolidge, the Elks, John L. Lewis, etc., and to stories, poems and pictures, rooted in American life and dealt with from a radical point of view, it would not only be a better “magazine of art and letters,” but would be much more valuable to the labor movement (which, I understand, the New Masses wishes to serve). —HARRY FREEMAN. DISILLUSION AND DOLLARS. ~*~ DUSTY ANSWER. By Rosamond Lehmann. Holt and Co. $2.50. py Ow might write a book now, and make him one of the characters; or take up music seriously; or kill yourself,” muses Judith Earle on page 268. The modern young woman (Cambridge, England, graduate; idle rich variety) you see, is very, very blase. Miss Lehmann wrote her book, and it will probably create quite a sen- sation because it is the first fairly frank novel about life in a women’s college. One sees Cambridge co-eds drinking, smoking, sitting on the floor talking about sex, skipping classes and sneaking men into their dormitories, In other words the first thing the emancipated woman has done is to adopt all the good, bad and indifferent vices of men. The soul of poor little Judith is supposed to get a “dusty answer” “when hot for certainties in this our life,” as George Meredith says, on four occasions, She sees a handsome, conceited youth with whom she is in love marry another. Her best college chum abandons her to go off with a Lesbian. She is unable to get a childhood companion to marry her after she seduces him, and lastly when she is willing to be “the captive” to her college chum, who has become a hardened Lesbian, the said chum gives her a stand-up. With such a theme, Miss Lehmann will not be very long disillusioned about the financial returns certain kinds of novelists can get. However, it must be ad- mitted that many of Miss Lehmann’s observations about the relations between men and womer are very pro- found. The novel suffers greatly from the fact that it is only a record of Judith’s consciousness to life. Nons of the characters, except Mabel Fuller, the college brain- sucker, are actually alive. Miss Lehmann should have explained that her idle rich young men and women are so blase because they come from a decayed aristocracy, and because of inherited incomes need only twiddle their thumbs. But such a viewpoint would have meant scrap- ping her theory—that we are all blase. —WALTER SNOW. BOOKS RECEIVED-—-REVIEWED LATER Boss Tweed: Story of a Grim Generation, Tilden Lynch. Boni & Liveright. Latest Contemporary Portraits. By Frank Harris. Macaulay Co, ’ John Paul Jones. By Phillips Russell. Boni & Liveright. “We.” By Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Putnam, Up From the City Streets: Alfred E. Smith. By Norman Hapgood and Henry Moscowitz. Harcourt, Brace & Co. Communism. By Harold J. Laski. Henry Holt & Co. That Man Heine. By Lewis Browne. Macmillan Co. Henry By Denis Russian Poetry: An Anthology, Chosen and translated In- by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. ternational Publishers. Boss Tweed: The Story of a Denis Tilden Lynch, will be revie in the BOOKS column on Monday. priate in view of ction Day on Tammany Hall de: ndants of in a period of le: from the New Y: sey to the gullible EVIEWS | Tu POST MORTEM OF A PREACHER. HENRY WARD BEECHER: An Ameri Paxton Hibben. Doran and Co. 2NRY WARD BEECHER, the times known as t Sage of FE ject of a biography which leaves 1 s about the life of the reformer interested in a life that incidents in the hero’ little escapades not « material for stuffing a a big one rather than an intere Beecher’s chief bid to fame was hi which he cultivated from childhood. radical nor a conse are interpreted. He shocked the stai regular churchgoers by the frankness but non-churchgoers who liked to | flocked to his meetings. * * . He did not hesitate to probe h trifling Beecher’s hardly to write deals so a good speaker to the und vorld, not however, with the object of hailing the sinful inte cBurts or landing them in jail as was tt purpose and mission of the notorious Anthony Comstock, but rather to collect material for his sermons on the evils of submitting to the urgings of the flesh. It is not surprising that Beecher should make a success of the preaching business for there is an unlimited number of prospects for the kind of topics that can be gotten to the ears of the millions who are ble to sin, under the guise of serving the s which would never pass the moral ears of a patrolman should they be attempted on the stage, / On the question of slavery Beecher t blew hot and cold; j the same attitude he took in t 1 conflict between his god and his devil. He was »portunist like the great Abraham Lincoln, While William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Philips stood for the abolition of the slavery system Beecher was for getting rid of it by constitutional action, by appealing to the conscience of the slaveholders and by prohibiting its spread. * * * Paxton Hibben devotes considerable space to the al- leged love affair between Beecher and the wife of his close friend, Theodore Tilton. But the largest gational Council ever held in the United Stz the preacher a vote of confidence in the midst he tur- moil over his personal conduct. And th s the verdict of history as it is written, which is the important thing as far as dead celebrities are concerned. kind of a scandal on to Henry Ward Bee near as valuable to the posterity we are de as telling us what attitude he took in st tions. 0 is why such a vital and interesting pu the Labor Defender is not available on the 3 The monthly organ of the International Labor De the magazine has a broad appeal, reaching all el ments in the American labor movement. The November issue contains a large number of un- usual articles, including a graphic description of the brutal assault on the Cheswick, Pa. min (by A. Jakira, with drawings by Don Brown); a stirring narra- tive by Charles Yale Harrison, dealing with the attempt of Mussolini and his American henchmen to railroad to the electric chair Donato Carrillo and Calogero Greco, New York Italian workers, on framed-up charges of murder growing out of the shooting of two fascists during their Memorial Day parade here. The present number also contains an account of the case of the nine furriers who are facing long terms in Sing Sing in connection with the Mineola frame-up, All of the articles are illustrated with photographs and cartoons, * * * In Karl Marx: Man, Thinker and Revolutionist (Inter- national Publishers) is found much fa inating bio- graphical material. The book is a rema: collection of essays by Engels, Mehring, Luxemburg, V am Lieb- knecht, Lenin and Ryazanoff. The latter’s essay contains some private detail which reveal, among other things, just who among the great writers of the world Marx ad- mifed most. The following “confession” was obtained from Marx by his two daughters, Laura and Jen: “Favorite virtue—simplicity; favorite virtue in man—strength; favorite virtue in won ness; your chief characteristic—singlene pose; your idea of happine to fight; your idea of misery—submission; the 2 you detest most— servility; favorite occupation—bookwormi g; fave orite writers—Shakespeare, hylus, Goethe, and Diderot; favorite hero—S us, Kepler; favorite color—red; favorite dish—fish; favorite maxim— Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I regard noth- ing human as alien to me). “Obviously,” comments Ryazanoff, “in sions’ we must not take everything in dead framework is one of jest—but we shall s deal of the content is earnest after alli.” * * * ~ « A dramatic account of the collapse of the Brother- hood of Engineers banks and investment companies will be found in Wrecking of Labor Ban by William Z. F oster, an advance copy of which has just reached this office. This new book, issued by the de Union Edu- cational League and distributed thru the Workers Li- brary Publishers will be ready soon. It is an almost incredible picture that Foster reveals: wholesale robbery of the savings of the railroad work- ers; wild-cat speculation in the swamp-land: Floriday culminating in one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of class collaboration. In this wild adventure of labor officialdom that neare ly wrecked one of the biggest unions in the United States, $20,000,000 of the workers’ savings were lost. * * * A local wit once remarked that if the citizens of the United States were suddenly granted absolute freedom of speech, the first thing the uninhibited Americans would say is: “It’s a fine day, isn’t it?” This profound observation is recalled in view recent essays by Heywood Broun in The Natio; giving up a job which paid him $450 a week T confined himself, since he came to that dignified a. interesting journal, to the whimsical tho quite unimpors tant topics which Ralph Pulitzer said he liked so much — when he sadly accepted Broun’s resignation from the New York World. ~-SENDER GARLIN.