The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1933, Page 4

i ‘ { qf Page Four blished by the Comprodally Publishing Co. Lath St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone Address and mail checks to the Dally Ine., daily except Sunday, at 50 ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.” ne Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, oe “Science at the Crossroads” -- An Appeal from U.S.S.R. ; scientists -_meeti 1 versary Science appes world Comrade The Academy of Soviet. Union, devoted to t session of the Acader march ary workers of } The experience tur in our co’ that only find a way throught out o' which The again to unl ® new world ¥ CRISIS SHAKES CAPITALISM. The onomic cri Whole structu system. The able to use it ng tens of millions jobless paupers, it is driv nicians and engineers fr scientists from laboratories. It creating among bourg’ - gists and their sonower TS conceptions which of the highest danger to all ¢ cw This sinister ideologic a sign of the botiomle the general cu like, which f capitalist econo against machines and of techni primitivism goe in-hand & poisonou: ardent opti nted gives skepticism and flight the.irrational search for a synth degenerates into an appeal t ligion, that is, an illus: atthe price of capit scientific mind AS a Vv out of is proposed Bela, to exch machinery for Shovel’; in ec to handicrafts; in th done. with rational knowledge; avt,:to seck living springs in the youthful cultures of antiquity. Thi is-an unheard of cultural r ai appeal to ataism, sensele atthe same time utopian EREE TECHNIQUE OF ITS SHACKLE: We, scientists and technicians of the. Soviet Union, follow these symptoms of decline and degen- eration with the greatest alarm. ‘We .consider that the way out is notin annihilating these powerful into it to go back ory, to h: physical and intellectual from which c sed, but; in freeing these forces fro capitalist bond them. We cons out car backw ahead of capita’ We are history imperatively transition to a re technique, to super-] scale plan- Med production, powerful further growth of scien between theo: maigaty rise of Spiritual culture and pi all and material It is to this v ll you, physi- cists. and chemist: ogists and Fiologists, engin: technici- ans, agronomists and doctors, h torians and teachers. To this Call all intellectual workers, who the lands of capi dark de- Spair, are ready to seek their soul’s Telief in musty Bastilles, in mental hashish, in idealist and mystical iysions. The course of the histori events of which our country the-arena has s who are not b force.which can te the rapids of history and car it the masses is the prol CULTURE REVIVIF THE PROLETARIAT. Many ot s prejudices of own to all thos d that the only af ariat upon the pro- $ oncoming Huns, de ture and civilization. Hi: tory has shown, as it happens, t Opposite: capitalism is annihilating revivified by ariat, gic class, capable of enormous figes, 2 creative ganizing class Amid bloody battles, in a ring of Sabotage, intervention, blockades, in the tortures of hunger and epi- pre he sact constructive, or p of Party mim non-fer nse enters will yuil ‘The series of expeditions rowhout the famous electr id tech: railroads whole economic y has | THE MAKING OVER A PEOPLE xtent ction of all sci- proved to be on the e of its great the- gly demands a syn- thesis of all the sharply separated branches of learning. Unity of will S & action pr jpposes an unusual ty in worl outlook, making mon all the achievements ad- ing the new and in the On the f the re- idols and old, we do not hide the difficulties of the great ilding, nor the defects and aults which still REVOLUTION NOT WITHOUT PAIN The enormous biind, be- lieve that a revolution, whose equal has not been known in any of the preceding phases of historical de- out pain it, can be a process with- and harmonious in all its We are working to raise terial level of the masses, not in th soulle the ma- We do e to build a ation like the machine tion of America, where the toiling human being is an account ing unit and an appendage of the mechanical tem. On the con- we are building a perfected nnical basis for society, where man being is the master of m, not its slave, where the system is a means for satisfying gro) ing dema , whe it i, him from excessive basis for the appreach- | ming of al! brotherly The of “meleticy the highest of learning in Soviet Union considers with pride that our country is the basis for a new, socialist world. It re- ards it an honor to give its powers to the cause of socialist construc- | tion. We are surrounded by the girdle of talist states. asy conditions that back of us laws of thi hate and enmity of capi- do not work in But we well know are fundamental owth We of society, n, with and ada- logic, are tending toward of the rule of capital the victory of socialism. and SCIENTISTS GIVE PLEDGE We call you all to a firm and endly alliance with the revolu- letariat. you to active defense of et Union. au to strive against the cultural reaction, hanging over the capitalist lands We call you to join the ranks of the fighters for socialism. On our part we pledge ourselves | to accomplish ali that the prole- | tariat demands of us for solution | of the jon problems of | the Second ar Plan. | We assure the Central Committee of t leader Comrade St d the Soviet Government, | 1 e will not recoil by one step | from the solution of the problem: iked h the whole heroic epoch of the works of socialism ned) President of the Academy of Seience: A. Karpinsky. Vice-Presidents: Krthizhanovsky; K. Marr; cretary. V. Volgin, G. Defense of USSR Is Frank Writes in ‘Soviet biscgeos Today’ | [ALDO FRAN Help the Soviet Union } ome the foremost duty of ever elass-conscious worker hor intellectual, in an artic February issue of Soviet Russia To- days “The first child of the No- vember Revolution, the U.SSR., has instilled vision and a new will in the life of every honest worker of every field, in every nation of the world; The U.S.S.R. represents the heroie effort to create for the first finté’in human history, a enitiure which shall not be culture but a human culture munis must be the beginning of any cul- tures.properiy d human. To havebeen the le: r in this great ‘work ts the immortal honor of the Russian people.” Waldo Frapk goes on ta. state writes that to | th Fir irst Pats, Waldo ll sides by its capitalist | and that “the defeat of e program of the Soviet Union would be a world catastrophe.” Other articles in the February issue of Soviet Russia Today tn- clude “Soviet Trade Union,” by Pauline Rogers, “Shakespeare in | Moscow,” by Earnest J. Simmons, | “Old Naum Up the Fight” é Tienkov, “Am- Impe versu: 2,” by Liston M. Oak, a revie | Stalin's Repc n the Five | Plan, articles on Recognition and | tatements by Sherwood Anderson, John Calder and Curtis Bok. It is an extraordinarily good issue of | this interesting monthly pictorial | giving an accurate account of eyents ip the {iret workers’ republic, Adonis teen ame > | biography of Emil Nygard, Commu- | informative article by Ella Winter | to child and adult alike. | poem on the Scottsboro case, PARTY LIFE | | Bley Things in Myf Bey Puzz ling Me’! The following is written by a Negro comrade, a woman worker, Section 4, New York) {ERE IS something that F came a member | of f'the Party, and at is the role of the “leading comrades from down-town” their respective units. This cor rade that I have in mind, mak 1is business to monopolize whole meeting in Unit 422 giving us his proposals and recommenda- tions on how the party work should be carried out. He quotes Marx and Lenin to stress the importance of each member accepting his assign- ment. Nobody owed the floor much to offer suggestions for it seems as if to him nothing is im- portant except what he has to say. re doing work in. mass or- zations or in our unions that must be put aside in order to fol- S proposals, recommendations and assignments that are so mportant to carry out Since the work is so important to | ut and there is only one good | k way to carry it out and | this comrade seems to know this | way, naturally we ask him to accept | a place on the working committees. | No, that is not to be his work “down town is too important to | neglect in order to work in his unit.” Now, how does that affect the unit as a whole? It is a de- cided let-down. Immediately our work in mass organizations and trade unions becomes such that we can not accept any more assign- ments and as a result the whole unit meeting is spent listening to these unit members giving excuses as to why they can not possibly do any more work and of course lis- tening to our very dictatorial “lead- ing comrade from down town,” who cannot himself do any work but can only dictate. I sincerely feel that we need the political maturity of this comrade. We need him to guide us in our assignments, but I feel that he should keep himself in the back~- ground as much as possible and al- | low us to make our own suggestions, | proposals and recommendations. | When we are wrong or need guid- ance as to the line of the Party, then, I feel that he should come to | the forefront and help us. En- | courage us when we accomplish | something and do not minimize our | work, Spur us on to greater vic- make our unit more interesting | tories and in that way he will help | and will be developing those of us who are not as advanced politically as he is in order that each one of us may really become the van- guard of the working class in Ame- rica, FOR WORKERS’ CHILDREN —AND ADULTS Reviewed by EDWIN ROLFE. ‘HE February issue of the New Pioneer, reforces the opinion— that it is without doubt one of the best edited magazines in the move- ment. Painstaking planning and atten- tion to the peculiar and specific needs of its ¢hildren-audience have resulted in an achievement beyond the magazine's initial purpose: | adult workers, buying it for their children, haye themselves been so | impressed by the calibre of the magazine that they have become readers in their own right, and | . Spread it among their friends The February issue gives ample | proof of the characteristics men- | ticned above. Its feature story is the first installment of an auto- 1as be it the is tk nist mayor of Crosby, Minnesota, entitled “Our First Mayor.” It is an excellent story, written with the ismplicity that has in the past won huge adult audiences for many bourgeois * ‘children’s classics. TORIES Ike « “The Prize Winner” by Lillian Pollack, aged 12, “The March of Time,” by Sasha Small and “Playing the Game,” by Phil Wolfe adequately explain the wide- spread popularity of the New Pio- neer among children. All of them are written with a hand on the pulse of the magazine's readers. “What Soviet Children Read,” an who recently spent a year in the Soviet Union, should be of interest A long “Nine Black Boys” by Martha Millet, a 14-year old girl, gives evidence of real poetic talent, | There are the usual features, | “Our Stamp Club,” “Listening In,” | “Science and Nature for Johnny | Rebel,” “Dear Comrade Editor, etc. all as alive and stimulating as ever, And the drawings by Scheel, William Siegel, Lou Freeman, Phil Wolfe, Lydia Gibson, Juanita Pre val and—best of all—Mayra Mor- row, again prove that, our artists, given a proper outlet and well-de- fined purpose are capable of first- class work. In mentioning these older artists, all of them members of the John Reed Club, first, I do not mean to overlook the promising group of youngsters who-»regularly draw for the magazine and who help to give the New Pioneer its usual tone, FEBRUARY ISSUE OF THE | COMMUNIST IN DEMAND INUSUAL interest has been aroused by the February issue of The Communist, which contains a large number of significant articles. The contents of the issue include: “A New Victory of the Peaceful Policy of the U.S.S.R.”—Editorial. “The Revolutionary Upsurge and the Struggles of the Unemployed,” by I. Amter. “On the End of Capitalist Sta- bilization in the U.S.A.,” by H. M. Wicks. “The Revisionism of Sidney Hook,” by Earl Browder “Prologue to the Liberation of the Negro People,” by James 8S. Allen, “Technocracy -— A» Reactionary Utopia,” by V. J. Jerome, | Book Reviews, SAVING THE ‘DAILY’! How Socialist Leaders “Fight” for Unemployment Insurance By 1. AMTER 'HE Communists are accused by the socialists of misleading the workers and of charging the soc: ist leaders with crimes of which they are not guilty. We are told that we “misinterpret” the Social- ist position. We quote the New Leader, official organ of the So- cialist Party, issue of February 11 1933 “For decades Socialists have fought for unemployment. insur- ance and the shortening of the work-week by legislation. The trade unions disagreed. The de- pression caine. It has swallowed up 12,000,000 workers. ‘The trade unions ehanged. They now favor legislative action. “In many states these measures are before the legislatures. They will be fought to the last ditch by the reactionary interests. We must overcome this opposition. These measures care for the whole working class, organized and unorganized. “Cooperation between the So~ clalist Party and the unions should be effected in behalf of the principle back of these bills.” (Emphasis mine.—I. A.) What do the Socialist Party lead- ers, speaking through the pen of the editor of the New Leader, James Oneal, say? We will take up their statement point by point. 1. “The trade unions changed.” Changed in regard to what? Changed with respect to the 30- hour week “without reduction in l- pay,” which was adopted by the A. F. of L. convention in Cincir nati in November. What happened to the “no reduction in pay” when Green went to Washington to back up the Black bill? It disappeared, and when Green was exposed by | Dunne and Weinstock, he protested —but he still supports the Black bill, which is definitely and clearly for reduction in pay with. reduc- tion in hours. McGrady and Hush- ing, Green’s watchdogs, were in Washington to protect Green's honor from the onslaughis of the rank and file representative, Wein- stock, and of Bill Dunne of the Trade Union Unity League. But the fact remains that Green supports the Black bill. The pur- pose of this bill is to “provide work” for more workers. Hoover's stagger plan and the Teagle share- the-work plan also do it; but with- out a penny more of wages in the hands of more workers. In fact, Teagle claims that 5,000,000 more workers have procured work through the share-the-work, but the payroll continues to decline precipitately. | 'HE rank and file of the A. F. of L. and of the American work- ing class do not want the Black bill or anything corresponding to it in the state legislatures. “Bill Green played the demagogue, knowing the rising militancy in the A. F. of L. But when he got into the open in Washington, he showed that he had NOT changed. He is the reactionary tool of the bosses —how supported OPENLY by the Socialist leaders. «i Even more than that. ‘The So- cialists have introduced bills of this kind themselves. Socialist Senator Devold of Minnesota has intro- duced a 30-hour ill in the Min- nesota state legislature, the synop- sis of which'was in the New Leader. In the American Guardian, Social- ist paper, it is printed in full, and states in so many words: “Enactment of a law establish- ing the 6-hour day and the 5- day week in basic industries and transportation. The bill, intro- duced by Senator Black, of Ala- bama, being basic thereto.” ‘Thus Green has not changed— he is the same; nor have the So- cialist leaders changed. They both expose themselves as wage cutters, sponsors of Hoover's stagger, Teagle’s share-the-work plan. Open boss schemes! 2, There are other bills before the state legislatures—bilils for un- employment insurance. In 1931, unemployment insurance, in the opinion of Green was “un-Amer- ican,” “against the dignity of Am- erican labor,” etc, Owing to the { | FEBRUARY ISSUE OF } issue avalanche of discontent inside the A. F. of L, crystallizing in the sup- port of the A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance, Green “changed” his position. He became eloquent and demanded unemployment insurance for the hungry workers. When, however, the 30-hour week came to the fore, Green “forgot” about unemploy- Ment insurance. But as the New | Leader states, “In many states these measures will be before the legislatures.” What are these bills? Do they, as the New Leader says: “care for the whole working class, organized and unorganized?” To say so is simply to lie, © ek HAT are the features of all these bills, introduced in Wi consin and supported by the So- cial introduced in New York, and supported by Mr. John Sulli- yan, of the New York State Feder- ation of Labor; in Connecticut and supported by John Eagan, of the State Federation of Labor? They are bills which do not care for a sinele one of the 16,000,000 now unemployed. Let Me: O'Neal, Hillquit or Thomas deny it. The army of unemployed now tramping the streets and starving, will not get one penny of unemployment in- surance. Not all of those who now work part time or full time will get unemployment insurance if th: + are fired in the future. Work- ers in small shops are not coy ered; ricultural and domestic workers are not included. ‘The worker must have worked a cer- | tain period for the concern—from 26 to 40 weeks in a he must wait two to three weeks before be- ing entitled to insurance; no in- surance will be paid out until a certain fund is collected, in some instances from the payroll (thus being deducted from the wages, or both from the payroll and the wage envelope of the worker), In Wis- consin it was proposed to put it into effect in July of this year— but the governor is against it. In New York and Connecticut it will not go into effect till the crisis is over (1). These are the bills that the A. F. of L. leaders favor: these are the bills that the Socialist Party leaders support, on the deliberately false declaration that “these mea- sures care for the whole working class, organized and unorganized.” This is lie No. 2. e HIS partially explains why the Socialist Party has “forgotten” its own unemployment insurance bill. This bill was not intended “PARTY ORGANIZER” IS WOW OFF THE PRESS ‘HE February issue of the Party | Organizer is off the press. This contains experiences in shop in the most important sec- of the country, including re- ports of work conducted in the auto plants, steel plants, marine industry, railroad shops, shoe shops, needle, ete. ‘These reports of experiences, the conducting of partial struggles, raising of immediate grievances and partial demands, will help in improving the general content and methods of our work in the shops. These experiences are of value not, only to the Party in these indus- tries, but throughout the country. This issue will serve as an im- portant manual in our shop work, and in the pre-convention 'discus- sion. Orders for the Party Organ’zer should be sent in at once to the Workers Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York City. In view of the fact that this is @ special 96-page issue, the Party Organizer will sell this month at 10 cents @ copy. ‘TEACHERS GET NO PAY CLEVELAND, O.—School teachers i Bay Villuge, Parma, and Bedford, . have received practically no pay {ates the beginning of the school- term until this month. The first week in February the teachers in Bed- ford received two mouths’ pay; Bay Village teachers are to receive one months’ pay soon; Parma teachers, work tions unpaid since Oct. 1, will receive two 4 Cin ssriaiaaailll. for mobilization of the workers for struggle. It was a bait, which the Socialist leaders withdrew in favor of the present boss “unemploy- ment insurance” bills, which mean starvation insurance, if and when the workers receive it What is the motive behind the position of the Socialist Party leaders? This they state: “Co- operation between the Socialist Party and the unions should be effected in behalf of the principle back of these bills.” Two points stand out in this statement: 1. Some time ago, the National Com- mittee of the Socialist Party called for this cooperation. They did not méan cooperation with the rank and file of the trade unions, but with the burocrats. How could Dubinsky, Beardsley, Hillman, Zar- itsky, speak about the rank and file, whom they sell out day after Gay? Are they not the same re- actionaries &s Green and Woll, us- ing demagogic phrases to meet the situation in their unions? No, the Socialist leaders meant coopera- tion with Green. Woll, Morrison, Hutchinson and the rest of the re- actionary leaders. 2. The “principle back of these bills” is the principle of the bosses, who are determined that the care of the unemployed is the task not ot the capitalists and their goy- ernment, but of the workers still having jobs. If the workers must starve, it is none of their con- cern. The “principle” is J. P. Morgans’ and Norman Thomas’ block aid scheme, which was “de- mocratizing relief—take it out of the workers!” The “principle” is self-help schemes, promoted by the Socialist Party and Karl Bor- ders through the Workers Commit- tees for Unemployment, to relieve the bosses and the government of providing for the unemployed, and proposing gradual starvation for the workers. The “principle” means a complete sell out of the unemg- ployed and employed. ie BAe 1b these treacherous activities and in further betraying the workers, the Socialist Party leaders have further allies: The General De- fense Committee (I.W.W.) and the Civil Liberties Union are assisting the Socialist Party unemployment chief, Borders, in devising a na- tional sell-out organization. ‘How long will the rank and file of the Socialist Party tolerate such treachery? How long will the un- employed under the influence of the Socialist Party permit: such counter-revolutionary action? ‘Your task, workers, in these days of wage slashes and starvation for | the workers, with war staring us in the eyes; when social-demo- cratic leaders in Germany. openly support the fascist regime; when Spanish leaders shoot down the revolting workers and peasants; when Japanese social-democrats openly support the imperialist. at- tack on China—your task is to dump overboard the party which is betraying you, that supports bosses’ schemes in consort with the errand | boys of the boss class, the leaders of the A. F. of L. Now is the time when the most critical questions confront the working class. Unity in the unemployed movement, in the shops, in the struggle against war, is needed. This can be achieved only under the leadership of that party which is unifying the working class—the Communist Party. Achieve this unity over the heads of your leaders, March 4 is com- ing. This is the day when the workers of this country will re- mind Roosevelt of the “forgotten man.” On this day the Unem- ployed Councils are calling a Na- tional Day of Struggle for Unem- ployment and Social Insurance. The Socialist Party—true to its mission—is trying to defeat the unity of the working class. Dis- unity is in favor of the capitalists. Défeat this move of the Socialist Party and join with the rest of the workers in one unified struggle of the workers, employed and unem~ ployed, in the demand for Unem- 6 and fie Insurance at ‘9 expense of the employers She gureramens, ee eee a SUBSCRIPTION RATES: . By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, Yq, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canads: One year, $9; 6 month: Foreign ané $5; 3 months, $3. Iv. is difficult to describe my feel- ings at that moment. On the one hand, ten prisoners sentenced to death were pining away in the | Pavyak prison and their lives de- | | useful it was that you learned Rus- | | | | | pended upon the success of our | plan, On the other hand, in carry- ing out this plan we have to risk | the lives of an equal number of active and brave party members | and give Skalon the chance to | erect twenty gallows instead of ten. What if, after they penetrate into | the prison, they find themselves in | a trap, the gates of the prison closed behind them? Even if they | are well armed, they would be, | unable to escape as the jailers and | soldiers would be on their guard, | and at the first shot hundreds of | soldiers would immediately fill the | prison yard | ARSAW was under martial law | and detachments of soldiers | were stationed at every street cross- | ing, while Cossacks patrolled the | main thoroughfares every hour of | the day ‘and night. | Evidently “Anna.” was worried by | the same thought too. Her lovely face, usually beam- ing with a merry and cheerful | smile, was now clouded with sad~- ness. Always lively, with a cheer- | ful word for everybody, eagerly en- | quiring about everything that hap- pened in the district, she now sat brooding, barely acknowledging the greetings addressed to her. Having been released from all other work, we had no further busi- ness to attend to in the committee room, I rose to go. “Anna” started. ‘Where and when shall we meet?” “To- night, at your place, at eight o'cloc! I wanted to think over the whole scheme in solitude and was there- fore in a hurry to leave. | OUTLINE OF A PLAN As a matter of fact, “V's” plan | could not be called a plan, it was | merely the outline of a plan. We had to work out the plan, and to make provisions for every contin- gency. The first thing to do was to get the key to the whole plot the document signed by the Chief of Police. We were not a bit wor- ried on that score, Many a time had we affixed the signature of the Chief of Police to false passports. We were past masters in that art. But every document must bear the file number. The prison warder re- ceived correspondence from the Chief of Police every day. If the number on our document did not correspond with the current num- bers on the documents in his pos- session, it might raise suspicion; he would call up the police on the tel- ephone and the game would be up, all owing to a trifling oversight. I mentioned this to “Anna” when we met, “We'll get the file number,” she repeated cheerfully. “V” himself will find out what the number of the latest documents received in prison is. We will add an odd hun- dred and the number will be about right. I have my doubts about the expediency of another detail in our plan. I don’t like the idea of send- ing in the document beforehand. We must take them unawares, we must not give the Warden time to think. T have already thought out what to do. Now you will see how sian when you were in exile.” ob: ame te HE} young girl that 1 had left that morning sitting motionless and wrapped in deep meditation was now all aglow with activity aud eagerness to get into action. She was fairly transformed into a dif- ferent person. All doubts and hesi~ tation were one. “Anna” was once more the ardent, high-spirited re-, volutionary whom’ we always che-. rished as an extremely brave and energetic fighter. “T’'ve got it!” she exclaimed. “An hour before our ‘captain’ calls at the prison, you will instruct the Warden by telephone, in the name of the Chief of Police, to have everything in readiness, adding that the official paper will be de- livered to him by the captain per- sonally. This will clinch it,” she added in conclusion. We continued discussion of other details, 4 The following day “Anna” was to communicate with the represent- ative of the tailors and to mobilize the required number of experienced and reliable needle workers. It was much more difficult to select the persons who were to act as policemen, and particularly the man to impersonate the “captain.” ‘We were in when even per- Seca a |e By FELIX KOHN cidedly Polish accent. This greatly hindered matters, Finally we agreed upon a former officer. Tall and slender, with s military bearing acquired during several years’ service in the army, he seemed to have been born to play the role of a captain of gen- darmes. “T am much afraid, though, he won't take the job,” ventured “Ane na,” who had her doubts, as she knew him well. I visited him the next day, He started at me as if I were a lunatic seriously preposiag a triy.to the moon. “What's tne matter with you! Have you taken leave of your senses? It's foredoomed to be a failure. I don’t intend to commit suicide ..... not for anything.” . #8 IREATLY discouraged by this re- ply, I went to see another man, whom we had only casually men- tioned in our previous discussion, He was known as “Yur.” We were not much attracted to him. He was a sentimental, romantic nature, a typical representative of the dreaming intelligensia, poorly versed in the vital questions agita- ting the Party. The revolutionary wave of 1905 swept him into the revolutionary turmoil, but he was borne on its crest not by his own convictions, but merely by the mighty surge of the revolution. He ; Was floating with the stream. We were quite sure that as soonas the revolutionary wave subsided he would again settle down to wallow in the _petty-bourgecis mire. But just. now the Wave of revolution ‘was surging mountain high. “GOING TOO FAR” I told him briefly what the po- sition was. He got excited. “Ten men in danger, did you say? Awaiting death! How dare they commit such an outrage? ‘That's going too far!” T listened patiently to his excla~ mations, hoping that he would fi- nally get. down to brass tacks. But his imagination was caught by thé idea of the imminent execution of ten men, rather than by the plan to rescue them, He kept repeating: “Ten men . » «ten men,” as if in a daze. ‘The urgency of my call compelled me to press my point somewhat brusgely. I interrupted him. “They can be saved. Will you ag~ ree to help?” “I am ready, ready to do any- thing. Those damned scoundrels!” He vented his rage in some further imprecations against the court- martial, while I explained to him what role he would have to play. He raised no objections. “How is your Russian?” “Very poor.” He began to speak Russian. ‘The construction of phrases was more or less satisfactory, but his accent readily betrayed the fo- reigner. Still, as there was no more suitable candidate available, we had to be content with him. We named our newly commissioned “gen- darme captain” Baron Von Bud- berg! to serve as a plausible reason for his accent. I, the Party “spe~ cialist” in the Russian 1; was instructed to teach him the customary military phraseology and the mannerisms that he woulé have to employ while impersonat- ing the captain, +e E: and impressively such phrases an “Look alive there!” which has such magic effect dats: lower accustomed to ficials, fore their titled superiors. underwent the most comical tortions as he tried to si third syllable from the en @ good Russian. Finally, claimed in distress: “Confound all, I'll never be able to do it.” But his external appearance his demeanour me absolutely equal to the part. A scar on chin that might date back ing days, his well-ke; gold-trimmed spectac! culated to deceive anyone. him over, tae a! him blue uniform @ gendarme. would do, he was a good pick every respect. But it was time think of the “convoy,” and I went to see “Anna.” (LO BE CONTINUED) THE GOOSE IS DEAD WUPPERTAL, Germany, Feb. 16~ A Fascist member near found his fat goose bearing a red hammer Seven sickle, emblem of ae on Unable to remove ‘the. Rea egos hes ee WAS both funny and sad te watch him twist his u - ile : Bs ae claile see ! We