The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1938 Ww HA T WORLD! By Michael Gold — Liquor and Prosperity OW that prohibition is over, where are all the spittoon philosophers who to tell us so sagely that the return of liquor would bring back prosperity? If I remember correctly, even that vaudeville demagogue and “friend of the pee-pul,” Al Smith, was one of the wisenheimers who seriously offered us this bit of economic wisdom. : But whisky, beer and wine are back, and the breadlines are just as jong, and the stockbrokers are still jumping out of penthouse windows, (mercy on their tickertape souls) and miners’ kids still go to school through the cold slush and mud without shoes this winter. Communists are not puritans about the good things of life. They have no prejudice against friendly drinking, or love, or comfort, or trips to Florida on steam tut they want these good things of life for every- body, not for just a few. They want them taken away from a few thou- sand senile millionaires who stole their money in Wall Street, and from merchants in poison gas and munitions, and Hollywood platinum-blonde hams, male and female, and fat bishops and rabbis and mullahs, They want all the romance of this beautiful earth socialized and free to all—they want it for the Alabama sharecropper, and the Chicago hog butcher, and the Pittsburgh steel mill worker. Why not? The workers of hand and brain have created all the good in life; it belongs to them; it is being stolen from them by a system of legalized robbery called Capitalism, What can capitalists create? Only war and famine and race hatred, the loneliness, heartbreak and death of innocent millions. Sometimes, as one contemplates this horrible system, one wishes, like Calvacanti, an early Italian poet of the time of Dante, that this capitalist world were contained in one form, that it might be ended at one firm and bitter blow. A Contrast in Pleasure AN cannot live by bread and work alone. He must loaf, cultivate his soul, grow spiritually and in joy. Contrast the forms of pleasure taken by the two classes—capitalist and worker. In the Soviet Union today there are great parks of culture and recrea- tion being built in all the cities and towns. They are different from our Coney Islands. One finds all the clean athletic sports for the youth—row- ing, football, field sports, tennis. In every park there is a quiet outdoor reading room, with a fine library and easy deck chairs to lounge in. There are lectures on science and literature. There are outdoor restaurants for tea and wine and chess and the eager conversation of friends and equals that is one of the really great pleasures of this world. Nobody gets drunk or pugnacious; nobody is out to see how much money he can spend. The atmosphere is like that of an Athenian plaza “in the great days of Pericles, when philosophic conversation and athletics and beauty-worship existed side by side in perfect harmony. But there is no slavery in the Soviet Union, as there was in Athens, where only a few thousand freemen enjoyed the spiritual life. The machine 4s the only slave upon which the Soviet culture is being builded. In America the machine has been used to enslave the workers, And those who profit by it showed ua in the boom period of American capi- talism the spiritual fruits of this system. Tex Guinan and her night club symbolized it all. She was the high priestess of capitalist culture, and men like Heywood Broun and others were her acolytes. Gangsters, gamblers, butter and egg business men, newspaper columnists, actors, and all the other racketeers of easy money mingled at this filthy shrine. Those were the dollar a drink days, when fortunes running in the thousands were squandered in a night by manu- tacturers, landlords and other exploiters. Broadway was like a mining camp going through a gold rush. No- body had really earned this money, it had been “found.” There were there- ' fore no values, no sense of proportion. Is it any wonder that some of us cannot sympathize when we hear of the suicide or death of some of these free spenders and racketeers? ‘There was mass poverty even during the boom days, but these people did “ not care. They went on their loud and boastful way, a gang of disgusting * “hoodlums in dress shirts, spending in a night on bad liquor what it took a thousand miners a month to earn im the dangerous depths of the earth. And when the bubble exploded, and all this easy money vanished, the bourgeois rats turned yellow. They forgot to laugh, they lost their Menck- enite pose of a superman, they began to whine. To hell with them. The world would be better off if all of them could be induced to jump in a mass into the Great Lakes. A Communist Chorine 'HESE are eventful days in America, and Communism may be found striking roots in the most unexpected places, always the sign of a national upheaval, For instance, in the Presidential elections, a philadel- phia paper taking a straw vote found five members of the Philadelphia baseball team of the National League who voted Communist. Even on Broadway, among the night clubs, one can find the class viewpoint expressing itself. There is a little chorus girl who writes fre- quently to the “Daily,” and who has taken up contributions for its fund drive. Here is one of her recent letters: ‘Dear Comrades: “The scene is in the dressing room of the pony chorus girls. We dance ‘m a night club that caters to senile newspaper men and tired business men, A few minutes ago the manager announced the death of Tex Guinan, queen of the night clubs. The ‘customers’ feel maudlin. The performers wear as much of a solemn expression as their pseudo-souls are capable of. “My pal, Kitty, is planning to get tight over the occasion. She is re- ligious, and afraid of death, Although Kitty and I are the end girls there exists no rivalry between us, I like Kitty; she’s been around, and her edu- cation is above that of the average chorine. “Lillian, a platinum blonde, repeats, ‘So Tex Guinan is dead.’ . “Tt; “Another bum gone the way of all flesh.’ “The girls are shocked. Kitty flames up: ‘What do you mean? Tex was a character. She lived to the limit, You're always talking about the . masses, Think of all the thousands of people that Tex made happy. Don’t that mean anything to you? Hard work killed her. The poor thing was tired. Tired of helping others forget their troubles.’ “The girls joined in; they were all on Kitty’s side. I had wanted to drop the subject, but now found it necessary to defend myself. I was painting my toenails like the others, but looked up and said: ““Tired, eh? What did she do for the hungry children to make her tired? Or for the men in the coal mines, or those poor Scottsboro boys? Bob Minor or Ella Bloor have 9/right to be tired, they've been fighting for many years. But they aren’t tired, they go on.’ “Kitty: ‘Tex made people forget.’ “I: ‘Forget what? Their cheap bourgeois hypocrisies, their dull exist "ence, their crooked deals!’ ‘ “Kitty: ‘You have no heart, and can’t be sorry when a fine woman is » dead. “And the other girls join in and agree vehemently with Kitty. I stop arguing and go on painting my toenails red, For a moment I am lonely in ~ this hostile camp. I am the only class-conscious worker here, Entertaining isn't a basic industry, bit like soldiers we are recruited from the prole- tariat. And pounding your legs is work, I can tell you, Why can’t the girls ~ see all this? Oh well, I think, even they will see it some day as I have come to see it. Nobody can escape the world movement, and tomorrow . afternoon I am going to a demonstration in Union Sq. where I will find Many comrades. * “So I go on painting my toenails in silence, and Kitty thinks she's Won her argument. Anyway, Mike, here's another dollar for the Daily Worker.’ “Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist ‘¢, @ompetition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: ei se “Musicians Urged to Join L.W.O. Symphony - pm, In the Frelheit Mandolin ghesira Hal, at 106 Bast lath worker © mass Sym-| semble. The I.W.O. office at 80 Fifth Ave., is open at all times to discuss the Orchestra with workers and students who are interested. FLASHES and| CLOSE-UPS The N.R.A. authorities announce that they are determined to “clean up” the movies ... “No more sex or dirt” is the slogan... . Which would do away with 75 per cent of American film production. - With 50 per cent | of former movie-goers keeping away | | permanently from “sex and dirt,” the | score would almost be evened up. . Mybe we're getting somewhere. . * 8 | We hear that Pudovkin’s “Deserter” | may be released in the U. S. after) all. ... This notwithstanding Variety's | hot air to the effect that Amkino| will not only not release that film | j here but is gathering in Soviet films| already released in this country | |to avoid offending the American pow- | jers that be with “propaganda.” . . Variety does, however, admit in the |same breath that “most films in Rus- | |sia during the past have been made | with open attention primarily to ea} ucation. These are what nearly en- tirely fall under the propaganda class rom the U. S. standpoint.” | 28, Oe “Seriously though—being happy is | the greatest design you ean have in! living. I'd rather be happy and broke | than miserable in a fur coat. But the fur coat helps.” —Mac West. ¥es, Mae, a fur coat might help a little. Also, maybe, a good pair of shoes, room rent, three squares and @ job? | e If the fact that Charlie Ruggles owns 102 pipes ain’ of world-shaking importance, what is? Well, how about the fact that Baby LeRoy will use no make-up in “Alice in Wonderland”! Or the fact that Claudette Colbert gained ten pounds on her recent trip te Hawaii! Or the fact that it took Jack LaRue only three days to grow a heavy black beard for “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen”! Or the fact that the Byrd Antarctic expedition has taken @ print of “I'm No Angel” along for thermal purposes! Eic., etc. . .. (What do you want me to do? Throw all these brand new vublicity releases away? Chorus: Y¥-E-S!!) « Supreme Court Justice Wasservo- gel has been asked by a stockholder of Universal Pictures to limit the Carl Laemmiles’ yearly salaries to | $80,000 and $25,000 respectively. . . . }As Durante would put, “We're ex- aggerated!” . , . Do they want the two boys to starve! ... Like steal- ing milk from babies, I tell you! . Why, & man couldn’t keep in Rolls: Royces and chorus girls on $80,000 a year, not to mention the less imme- diately essential needs of life... . Fir esos The weekly “free list’ of Warner Brothers theatres in Philadelphia to- tals 15,000! . . . a me | I predict it won't be long now be- fore all the censorship and other re- strictions applying to professional 35 | millimetre ribbons will be slanned | onto the 16 millimetre amateur films. |... The 16 mm, (the substandard | size used by amateurs and free from fire hazards and censorship restric- tions) field is being rapidly captured by powerful capitalist exhibitors who are trying to revive the old nickel- odeon method of projecting in small houses at a nickel top... .RCA has developed a complete 16 mm. sound projection outfit (screen, projectors, horns, etc.) to sell for only $460... . ‘The Hollywood monopolies are ready for the bloody battle that is bound to ensue to capture the field... . eo 6 e A worker writes from Holly-Hill, South Carolina, that the “Daily” is too polite with big Hollywood names in its blurbs and reviews and men- tions the case of Eddie Cantor, who is used both in the movies and the radio to spread the blackest brand of “don’t-worry- things - will - soon-get - brighter” propaganda. . . . “It seems to me,” he writes, “that our ‘Daily’ should not overlook or underestimate such men, but must expose them for what they are in our reviews. Re- member that Cantor's pictures reach hundreds of thousands of workers.” So recognition will prevent the So- viet cinema from expressing itself on certain aspects of American capital- ist society? Lend your ears: A Soviet picture called “Copper,” now in pro- duction, deals with the plight of a young American college graduate Whose invention is spurned because it constitutes a threst to the capital- . « . He rejects a million dollar offer to destroy his idea... . He is per- secuted. .. . He takes his invention to Russia where in @ non-capitalist controlled economy his invention is welcomed and fully apnited. eee It is a common occurrence in War- saw, Poland, for the police to raid a theatre showing a Soviet film, ar- Test everyone in the audience, and release only those who, after a thor- ough search and questioning, they are satisfied are pot Communists. eae ° Thee, looking over current plays for film possibilities in “Vartety,” calls “Peace On Earth” an excellent play, which, “although unlikely of accept- ance by regular producers, might be used by an independent film maker.” NEW UNIT SUPPORTS “DAILY” SOUTH ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Unit 24, recently organized, made a contri- bution of $6.31 to help save the Daily Worker. The workers here realize how much the Daily Worker is needed and will not lé& it go under, JIM MARTIN ABE X HAI BETTER CALL] I HAVE FoR mN THINKING (6 A HEADACHE, | or the Daily Worker. | The following section from “Mem- | ories of Lenin” by his wife and life- | long comrade, N. Krupckaya, is the | first of a series of six excerpts from | the second yolume of these engros- sing and instructive reminiscences which will appear on this page throughout the present week. We publish them in connection with the Lenin Memorial, which comes next month, . These memories give an intimate picture of the great leader of the | revolutionary workers of the world, who led the masses of Russia to the successful October Revolution and the establishment of the Dic- tatorship ef the Proletariat on one- sixth of the world’s land surface. The following excerpts reveal how thoroughly and inseparably the everyday thoughts and actions of Lenin were tied up with the strug- gles of the working class, Both volumes of “Memories of Lenin” are published by Interna- tional Publishers, and may be se- cured through workers’ bookshops PARIS (1909-10) |middie of December. On the 2Ist, & Party Conference was to take place with the Mensheviks, and Vladimir liyich was completely absorbed with situation correctly, to straighten out the Party line, to see that the Party remained a class party, the vanguard which even during the most trying times would not become isolated from the rank and file, from the masses, that would help them to overcome all difficulties and organize them for fresh battles. It was necessary to check the liquidators. Contacts with the organization in Russia were bad. The conference could not hope for considerable support from the organ- izations in Russia (the only delegates to come from Russia were two com- rades from Moscow; Baturin came from the Urals and on the second day Poletayev, a member of the Third |Duma, came from St. Petersburg). |The Otzovists organized themselves in @ separate group and were very excited. Be‘ore the Party Conference Was opened, the Mensheviks called g conference of their groups abroad in Basle at which a number of splitting Tesolutions were passed. The atmos- phere was becoming very tense. Vladimir Ilyich took only a very re- mote interest in the efforts we were making to fix up our new quarters. He had more important things to think about. We rented an apartment on the outskirts of the aity on the Rue Bonier, near the fortifications, & street adioinins the Avenue d’Or- leans, not far from the Pare Mont- souris. The apartment was light and spacious and even had mirrors over the fireplaces. (This was a special feature of the new houses.) There was @ room for my mother, one for Maria Tlyinishna, who had arrived in Paris, one for Vladimir Ilyich and myself and a living rcom. But this rather luxurious apartment did nat at all fit in with our mode of life and the “furniture” we brought from Geneva. The contempt with which the “concierge” looked upon our white deal tables, common chairs and stools was worth seeing. In our “parlor” we had only a couple of chairs and @ smal) table. It was not cozy by any means. The household cares immediately fell to my lot. In Geneva household affairs were much simpler; here there seemed to be a lot of red tape about everything. In order to get the gas connected we had to go three times to a place in the center of the city in order to get the necessary certifi- cate. Bureaucracy is rampant in France. In order to be able to bor- row books from a library, the land. lord had to act as guarantor, and he, | MEMORIES OF LENIN" Page Five Registration to Open, Today forWinter Term | MUSIC of N. Y.WorkersSchool| yyodern Composers Perform By N, KRUPSKAYA | Winter Term of the Workers School} NEW YORK.—Registration for the at New School Tonight We started out for Paris in the | this. It was necessary to appraise the | s - | mm Bar ep, flutist; judging us r furniture, | time. Then there was a lot of bother |in New York opens today, with prep: Picasrag in pagar ai ee entetee te so AP first we had {in getting books from the library, 1l-|arations to take care of a record 12 gages med Rape Ro 5 Tol of trouble Im kecvine Neuse | yich railed against the Ubrary and| registration. ‘Two additional rooms i Tandoe, Freed and Taki ae Py cae — Wace | against Paris, I wrote to a French | have been engaged on tHe oes Ha nae Pring or en Pid ich and Inno! re of a di .. | professor who in the sur r had|to avoid overcrowding in the cla: the New School for Social Re- opinio#, 1an- agement wer of jmy simple methoc Life was full in Paris. At that’ time Ku i drawn ‘to i his an e Paris from all +h spent vie would V. 1, LENIN it in the cafes until late in the night Taratuta particularly like to frequent the ¢: . Little by little, others were drawn into this habit. The Party Conference took place in December. After heated debates we managed to adont a common policy. The “Sotsial-Demokrat” was to be come the organ of the Party whole. At the ince of the C i Committee, which held after the Conference, # ne’ torial be was appointed consisting of Lenin, Zino- viev, Kamanev, Martov and Markhi- evsky. Eight issues of the paper were published during the year. Martov was the only Menshevik on the board end eften he would et his Men- shevism. I+ remember that onc Vladimir Dyich remarked with satis- faction that it was a pleasure to work with Martov, and that he was an ex- ceedingly talented journalist. But this was only until-Dan arrived. Within the Bolshevik fraction, however, the relations with the Otzo- vists became more and more strained, the latter wére ‘very aggressive in their opposition arid at the end of February relations. were completely broken off with them. For three years before the rupture we had been working hand in hand with Bogda- nov and his--foHowers—we did not merely work, -but-fought side by side. Fighting side by. side-makes people more intimate than anything else in the world. Besides, no one could im- bue others with: enthusiasm for ideals infect them with ‘his ardor and at the same time bring:ont the best in them as Vladimir Hyich-could. Every eom- rade working-with Ilyich seemed, it were, to be possessed of a part of him. Perhaps-that> is why they felt so closely drawn-to-him, The conflict within the fractioa-was nervo-wrack- ing. I remember once Ilyich came home after a heated debate with the Otzovists. I £6tild- ‘hardly recognize him, his face, Was so drawn and he could barely spéak. We decided that he must take a;week’s holiday at Nice to get the sun and be away from the noise and strife, He went and came back much the etter for it. It was very. difficult to study in Paris. The “Bjbliotheque Nationale” was far from Jwhere we lived. Viadi- mir Myich would generally cycle there, but riding a bicycle in Paris was not what it was in the suburbs of Geneva. It eritailed much effort. I- yich would get’ very tired from these rides, The library closed at lunch a TUNING IN | | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke ‘Te F, M.—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trie 1:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch ‘30—Richerd Crooks, Metropolitan Opera or; Concert Oreh.; Story of ‘Transportation—Harvey 8, Firestone Jr. %:00-—Gypsies Oreh.; Frank Parker, Tenor 9:30—Ship of Joy, With Captain Hugh Bar- rett Dobbs 10:00—Eastman Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Gene Arnold, Narrator 10:30—Secret Service Spy Story—The Signet Ring 11:00—Viewing the Amerig.n Scene—John Erskine 11:15—Jesters Trio 11:30—Russell Orch, 00—Olsen Orch. 30 A. M.—Sosnick WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 PF, M.—Sportse—Ford Prick ‘1:15—News—Gabriel Heatter 1: ids it tives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama :18—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songe Musicale yeas fartety 9: se tande ‘Trio 9:45—The Witch's Tale 10:18—Current Events—Har! 10:30—Alfred Waleinstein's 11:00—Weather ort 11:02—Moonbeams 11:80—Whiteman Oreh. 12:00—Lane Orch, lan Eugene Read Sinfonietta T CAN ALWAYS THINK OF Womka— Bur THIS~ UGA! We) Mba Wiz=760 Ke 7:00 . M.—Amos a’ Andy 7:15—Baby Rose Maria, Songs 7:30-—Potash and” Pérlmutter—Sketch 7:45—Engineering ‘Thrills 8:00—Morin Sisters, Songs; King's Jesters Stokes Oreh.; OM Soubier $:80—Father Finn's Choral Music 8:45—Red Davis-Sketch 9:00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Pasternack Orch.; Alden Edkins, Barl- tone; Michi#! Roeeaker, Violin 10:00—Ma: Or cel Rodrigo, Baritone; Littau 5 10:30—Henri Deeritig, Plano 10:45—Planned Recovery—Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins 11:00—Roxy's Gang” ° 12:00-—Bestor Orch, 1%:3¢ A, M.—Bikins Oren, oe WABC—860 Ke 7:00 FP. M.—Myrt afd Marge 7:15—ust Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30—~Travelers’ Exisemble 1:45—News—Boake Garter 8:00—Green Oroh.; Men About Towa Trio; Vivien RuthJ, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin ‘©. Hill 8:30—Bing Crosby, Songs; Hayton Orch, 9:00—Philadelphia Oreh., Leopold Stokow- skl, Conductor 9:15—Alexander Woolleott—The Town Crier 9:30—Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Connell, Pomedie: 10:00—-Wayne King-Orch, 10:30—News Bulletins 10:45—Deep River Orch. 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songs 11:30—Gray Orehs~ 12:00—Belaseo Orch, 12:30 A. M.—Lyman Orch, 1:00—Little Orch. e; Jones Orch, GOODEVEAING MR BRIGHT WE HQOF @-PROBLEM For % I SPLE, TUNG Too, Buy IT AAS US turmoil and bustle | 1°! Lulu Me-} a| conducted French courses in Geneva | rooms, and a number of additional asking him to recommend other good libraries. I received an answer imme- y with the necessary informa- tion. Ilyich made the rounds of the libraries recommended, but could not find a suitable one. In the end | {his bicycle was stolen, He used to| receive first choice of classes. Regis- tration is being taken now in the | leave it on the staircase at the house | adjoining the “Bibliotheque Nation- | jale,” and paid the “concierge” ten | |} centimes a day for this. When the bi- cycle was stolen the “concierge” de- clared that she had not undertaken | |to watch the bicycle, but merely to h to put it up wi e | to be very careful in rid- eyele in Paris and in the . Once on his way to Juy | Ilyich collided with an automobile. | He barely managed to jump clear but | the bicycle was smashed. | Innokenty, who had escaped from | yi | arrived. Zhitomirsky invited him to live with kenty arrived ver, 4 ‘0 exile the iron fet he wore had so chafed the flesh of his legs that deep wounds were caused. Our doctors examined Inno- | kenty’s legs and said a lot of wise about it, but could do nothing. Tyich went to consult the French fessor Dubouchier, eon who had worked in Odessa ng the 1905 revolution. Tyich was | mpanied by Natasha Hopner who had known Dubouchier in Odessa. When Dubouchier heard the queer | things our doctors had told Inno- | kenty he burst out laughing and said: ‘Your physician comrades may be | very good revolutionaries, but as doc- | tors they are jackasses!” Ilyich roared with laughter, and on many cccasions afterwards repeated the story. However, Innokenty had to) have medical treatment for a long | time. | llyich was very glad that Inno- } kenty had arrived. They were both | {hapnv that Plekhanov was beginning | to dissociate himself from the liqui- | dators. He had already announced; thet he was leaving the editorial | board of “Golos Sotsial Demokrata” | (The Voice of the Social-Democrats), which the liquidators had controlled since 1908. Later on, he withdrew his resignation, but his relations with the liquidators were becoming more strained and on May 26, 1909, when the first volume of the Menshevik symposium, “The Social Movement in | Russia at the Besinnines of the Twen- tieth Century” appeared, which con- tained an article by Portresov deny- ing the leading role of the proletariat in the bourgeois democratic revolu- tion, Plekhanov definitely resigned ‘rom the editorial board of “Golos | Sotsial Demokrata. Both Ilyich and iTnnokenty still hoped that joint work with Plekhanov would be pos- sible. The younger generation did not feel toward Plekhanov the same way as the older generation of Marxists in whose lives Plekhanov had played a decisive role. Ilyich and Inno- sophic front very much to heart, for both regarded philosophy as a wea- pon in the struggle. They were of the opinion that philosophy was or- ganically linked up with the question of evaluating all phenomena from the point of view of dialectic material- ism, with the questions of the practi- cal struggle in every field. Ilyich wrote to Anna Ilyinishna asking her to hurry the publication of his book. Té was nronosed to eall an enlarged meeting’ of the editorial board of} “Proletarii at which the question was | to be raised of completely breaking away from the Otzovists. “The sit- uation is a sad one here,” Vladimir Tyich wrote to his sister Anna Il- yinishna on May 26, “Spaltung (a split) is inevitable; I hope that in about a month and a half I shall be able to give you an exact account of it.” In May, Wlyich’s book “Materialism | and Empirio-Citicism,” was pub- lished, In this book he, as it were, | “crossed all the t's and dotted all the | i's” of this controversy. In Lenin's opinion the questions of philosophy were closely bound up with the ques- tion of the struggle against religion. | That_is why he delivered a lecture | on “Religion and the Working Class” at the “Proletarii” Club and wrote an | article entitled “The Attitude of the | Workors’ Party Towards Religion” for No. 45 of the “Preletarii” and an- other article entitled “The Attitude | of Classes and Parties Towards Re- | ligion” for No, 6 of the “Sotsial Dem- okrat."} These articles, particularly | the one in “Proletarii,” are applic- | able to this very day. In these articles Ilyich emphasizes the class character | of religion and points’ out that in the hands of the bourgeoisie religion is a means for diverting the masses | from the class struggle and for stulti- | fying their minds. The fight on this front, he argues, must net be ignored | or underestimated; but 1t must not be | approached from too simple an an- gle; the social roots of religion must be rovealed, the question must be taken in all its complexity. Even as a boy of 15, Nyich under- stood the pernicious character of re- ligion. He then ceased to wear a cross and stopped going to church. In those days this was not so simple a mat- ter as it is now. Lenin was of the opinion that the more subtle religions, those that were free from obvious absurdities and of j search tonight at 8:30. classes have been scheduled in the} The program includes the prem basic courses. The size of the classes will be strictly limited, so that the; tere performance of Wallingford Riegger’s Trio for harp, flute and uestion and discussion method of teaching will be practicable in all the} ‘cello, played by Mr. Barrere, Mr. classes. Students who register early| Salzedo and Mr. Britt, and the first American performance of Mr, Freed’'s Sonata, played by the com~ poser who has just returned to this country after several years’ stay in Paris. Mr. Salzedo will be | the soloist in his own sonata with |Mr. Kaufman at the piano, An orchestra of ten flutes, con- ducted by Mr. Barrere, will pre- sent Henry Brant’s Concerts for Flute, with Mr. Barrere as soloist A new arrangement of Carl Rug- Room 30, 35 B./ gies’ “Angels” will be played by | six flutists imstead of the original | Six trumpeters, First Distribution of | Funds by Press League CELEBRATE THE 10TH DAILY WORKER | NIVERSARY ON SATURDAY, DECEM-| ER 30 from 8 P. M. to 2 A. M., at the Bronx Coliseum. SEE AD FOR PROGRAM. | WINTER TERM WORKER'S SCHOOL Registration is now open, 13th St Monday SCOTTSBORO PROTEST MEETING at Queens Labor Lyceum, Putnuk and Forest Aves., Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M., Ridgewood Br, L an excellent | P: kenty took the struggle on the philo- | ‘TING of all Organ Eden Center at 288 2 igh Cost of living. ‘S$ must be present, | LECTURE by Comrade Sklarofl—“HIS- | TORY OF SOVIET UNION,” at Brownsville Br. F. 8. U, at 120 Glenmore Ave., Briyn. | 8:30 P. M. PLES—The Negroes rr by William L. t Friends of the} nese People. 123 W. 33rd St., 8:30 P. M.| Admission 15c. | SECTION REHEARSALS of Daily Worker Chorus, at 35 E. 12th St., fifth floor. Evers | member must attend. 8 P. M. Boston, Mass. | COME SEE AND HEAR TOM MOONEY | AND SCOTTSBORO BOYS at Convention Hall, 86 St, Botolph St. December 11th. Two’ showings, 7 to 9 and 9 to 10:90. Ad- mission 25¢. OOME AND HELP US MAKE THIS PROTEST SO LOUD THAT IT WILL | BE_HEARD FROM COAST TO COAST. Auspices Greater Boston Tom Mooney Coun- cil of Action. SCHULE PARTY NETS $15. NEW YORK.—A house held by the Brownsville Schule No. 4, netted $15 for the Daily Worker $40,000 fund. All other schules are called upon to do as well in the drive to save our Daily Worker. nicious than the rest. Such religions, he thought, were likely to exercise greater influence on people. He re- garded god-creating,t attempts to create new religions and new beliefs as such @ subtle religion, * To which all the contributors and others actually connected with the paper were to be invited in addition to the board.—Ed. +See “Lenin on Religion.” Little Lenin Library, Vol. VIT. t“God creators,” also “God seek- ers,” the name given to Bogdanov and his followers, Lunacharsky and oth- ers.—Ed. (Continued Tomorrow) ets $60 to the ‘Daily’ NEW YORK. — Organized last month for the support of the revolu- tionary press, the Press League raised $105 in November, which was dis- tributed as follows: $60 to the Daily Worker, $20 to the Harlem Liberator, $15 to the packers’ strike press, and $10 to the sharecroppers union press. Activities of the Press League in- clude membership meetings, with pub- lic debates and symposiums for broadening its appeal te friends and sympathizers of the revolutionary movement. A symposium on “The Role of the Press,” held recently at the New School for Social Research, was well attended and new members joined the League. Members of the League | make party | monthly pledges which go to the revolutionary press. In the first month of the League’s existence Pledges collected amounted to $65. The League appeals to all those interested tn establishing a sustain~ ing fund for the revolutionary press to get in touch with tts Secretary, Albert Blatt, at 12 Perry 8t., New York City. Organization of Press Leagues in other ctties ts also urged. Marx-Lenin Exhibit Now Shown in Chicago CHICAGO, T.— The Marx-Lenin Exhibit, now touring the country, if being shown in the Chicago Workers School, 2622 South Michigan Ave., on Dee. 10, 11 and 12. H. M. Wicks will lecture on all three days of the ex- hibit. Chicago workers are urged not to fail to attend this exhibition. AMUSE MENTS ‘THE THEATRE GUILD THEATRE Y OF EMPIRE THEATR MAR with HELEN HAYES ALVIN THEATRE EUGENE O’NEILL’S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN Stud St., West of Broséway. Evenings #06 Matinees Thursday 23 MOLIERE’S COMEDY WITH MUSIC THE SCHOOL ror HUSBANDS with OSGOOD PERKINS and JUNE WALKER Broadway and 4th Street, Matinces Thursésy & Saturday 2:40 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play MERIVALE MENKEN 52nd Bt, West of Broadway, Evenings 8:28. Matiners Thursday and Sa! GUILD Presents and Saturdey 9:20 70 ro. SCOTL PHILIP AND day 2:30, Last SH ADDEI FEATURE | SHOLOM JALEICHEM’S | SOVIETS SING AND DANCE 1 ACME THEATRE 1S BATS cnsseumeseunasnanan en “LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS” A Soviet Production ith St. & Union | Mtot pm. (Mon. to Fri.) Yo, ROBERTA ; A New Musical Comedy NEW AMSTERDAM Theatre, West 42nd St, Evs, $1-$8; Mats. Wed.&Sat.50e-$2.50, plus tax | Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE OREWS in | “Her Master’s Voice” Piymouth i Sam W, 45th St, Evs. 8.40 ‘The Anti-War Play Thur, & Sat, 2:40 at PEACE ON EARTH by! the authors of “MERRY-GO-ROUND” John Howard Lawson says: “It is the most exelting event of the season.” Civic Repertory Theatre, 14th St. & 6th Ave. E 8:45, Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 450, PRICES: 800 450 60¢ $1.00 $1.56) TONIGHT AT 8:30 Lectured by Wm. L. Patterson “TWO OPPRESSED PEOPLE, NEGRO AND CHINESE” Friends of the Chinese People 168 W, 23rd STREET (7th Ave.) external slavish forms, were more per- Just a Gang of Good Will Cementers! WE WISH TO CREATE G FRELING OF @ BETWEEN THE AND OURSKLLES—~ SOMETHING Admission 15e C00 WiLL WORKERS sda. FRUIT 0 TAINKING (N 4 RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL $0. & 6 Ave —THOW PLACE of the MATION: Direction “Roxy Opens 1:30 Am. JOHN BARRYMORE in “Counsellor At Law” 6 HUIS, #340, 4248, 724, 1O:0B snd an unaaual “Roxy” stage sow More primitive tham “GOONA-GOONA” "GOW: Adventure in the Protfic Isles (ao CAMEO Seana SECOND EDITION. THE ROAD By GEORGE MARLEN A Communist Novel Against Fascism - $450 REDSTAR PRESS P. 0. Box 67, Sta, D, New York GENTLECIEN- You | BUT NO STOCK OR AAVE THE] INSURANCE II FY 2 KNOw THEM TEMPORARILY STUMPED, 30 WE. THouGaT THAT WON'T Cosr MUCH IF AONTHING—_ You GEV THE (OF! FEW MINUTES | Too WELL! TOLLY PROBLE CY sey For MY GREAT