The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1934, Page 5

i ( CHANGE he WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN ROM Winslow, Arizona came the news, a short time ago, of the arrest of Dillworth Sumpter, Socialist can- didate for Congress in the last election. Sumpter, ac- cording to an Associated Press dispatch, was seized “while attempting to rob the First National Bank during the night.” , : The A.P. reported that “Sumpter was equipped with a pick, shovel, drills, explosives, and a supply of water. He had hoped to be able to tunnel through the floor of the bank be- fore Monday morning.” The defeated Socialist nominee had begun operations Saturday night. Now when it comes to robbing banks, the capitalist press is, of ee r ition indeed to moralize, especially when you consider ae ledigtin gis gansta they are toward bankers like Mitchell, Har- timan and others who clean out the vaults without the aid of picks and shovels. But the incident in Arizona has some other interesting high- Nghts which are worth recording for the benefit of the future his- torian. Dilworth Sumpter, the Socialist candidate whose program con- @emned “violence” by the organized working class in the struggle against capitalism, was a popular figure in Arizona’s politics. The ocialist Party leaders in the East were proud of the new Lochinvar “of the West, symbolizing, as he did, the rugged pioneer spirit which would ultimately bring about the election of scores of Socialist lawyers to the Halls of Congress, and thus by the means of political Twilight Sleep usher in the Cooperative Commonwealth. The official Socialists were not the only ones to point with pride §@ their Arizona candidate. For we find that “The World Tomorrow,” organ of the Christian Socialists and Fellowshippers, in its issue of al 21, 1933, told of the “wonderful gains” made by the Arizona Boctalists, as indicated by the unexpectedly large vote for Sumpter. * * * * Whe Facts Of The Case A NOTE to the Arizona branch of the Labor Research Association brought me additional illuminating details which helps to round put the picture. “Dillworth Sumpter, recent candidate on the Socialist ticket for to fill the vacancy left by Lewis Douglas, who has be- ~@ome Roosevelt’s Budget Director, is a petty businessman living in Winslow, where he operates an electrical store. From the beginning ° Sumpter had the support of a number of prominent business men . in his race for Congress. He spoke over the radio, and made an ./ @pergetic campaign, particularly in Maricopa County, where his @fforts were spent among the farmers on the basis of ‘cooperative @istribution of agriculiural products’ according to ‘Rochdale prin- @iples’. Sumpter won considerable support among more conservative @ements, who of iccted to the ‘radicalism’ of Mrs. Isabella Green- way. A number o/ supporters of this ‘Socialist’ with whom the writer ” talked stated emphatically that Sumpter was one of the few office “*geekers in that state that stood squarely for the American Constitu- thon adopted in 1789, as well as the Declaration of Independence. Sumpter pledged his support to Roosevelt as long as he proceeded + along the program of the N.R.A., which will lead us to the ‘cooperative commonwealth’, according to oft-repeated speeches. “The Socialist Party, prior to the election October 3, had only small locals in Yuma and in Winslow. The local in Yuma, I am lormed, is very much under the influence of the Communist Party, ** preferring the C.P. literature and papers to the Socialist. « “Yam afraid that Mr. Tremaine, author of “The World Tomorrow which you sent me, is assuming when he states that the ublican Party has almost collapsed in the Southwest. It was a factional fight in the ranks of the Republicans which gave Sumpter his-large vote. The Greenway family is very closely linked with the Roosevelt's. The fortune inherited from her husband has made Mrs. Isabella Greenway one of the country’s wealthiest individuals. This wealth was gained from extensive copper mining activity, in Arizona ag well as in South American and African mines. The history of the Greenway fortune is very similar to the Douglas family’s. It is sig- nificant that Roosevelt finds very much in common with these two families whose life’s work has been the exploitation of ‘free American Iabor. The slave conditions in South Africa and the peonage of Tatin America are sources of profit shared by both the Douglases and the Greenways. “The particular brand of ‘Socialism’ preached by Sumpter was closely akin to ‘Coin’ Harvey's theories, coupled with Tech- y and the Rochdale ‘Co-operative’ stuff. During his elec- campaign he apparantly was well supplied with finances. |: “Sumpter polled 5,556 votes in the last Arizona election. At the * me of the last presidential election, November, 1932, the Commu- “fist Party’s candidates for the Supreme Court and for State Tax Commissioner polled exceptionally large votes. Florence Julius, who ~ gan for Justice of the Supreme Court, received between 4,000 and 5,000 Yotes. Frank H. Peterson, popular farmer of Mesa, Arizona, who was » the CP. candidate for State Tax Commissioner, polled almost 17,000 : votes, (See Daily Worker about December 1, 1932).” * @ Ore “Unity” That Appeals to Socialist Leaders GREENWAY, who defeated the Socialist candidate for Con- gress, when informed of Sumpter's arrest said, “I just can’t be- Neve it’s true. I want you to know that it is profoundly tragic, 1 don’t want to say any more because I don’t like to hit a man when he’s down.” “ Touching unity between the erring Socialist nominee and the widow of the late Col. John C. Greenway, millionaire copper magnate and a leading spirit in the infamous Bisbee deportations of 1917! _Never at a loss for a plausible explanation in-an embarrassing situation, the “New Leader,” official organ of the Socialist Party, in its issue of Feb. 3, 1934, announced blandly: “SUMPTER DERANGED BY LONG PRIVATIONS “His mind deranged by Jong unemployment and virtual starva- -tion, Dillworth Sumpter, Socialist candidate for Congress in Arizona Jast fall, was arrested in Winslow, Arizona, while apparently engaged in an attempt to rob a bank. He appeared to be trying to dig a In Workers’ ‘Schools of U.S. : OTE | (Material for this column should be sent directly to A. Markoff, School News Column, Room 301, 35 East 12th Street, New York, not to the Daily Worker.) Unie shares | BROWNSVIILE ruary 27th,” writes the Browns- ville Workers School, “gives an ac- jcount of the great difficulty that |the Cleveland school is having in the establishment of a library and | the collection of books for the li- |brary. Inasmuch as the Browns- ville Workers School was able to collect over one thousand books, pamphlets and magazines, with very little difficulty, we feel that our ex- perience will be helpful. “First, posters, placed in strategic |spots such as the section head- |quarters of the Party, announced | the opening of the library and the |meed for books. Second, appeals |for books were made at the Sunday |forums. Third, through the org. |getters to the units, Party and Y. |C. L. members were acquainted with | school library needs. Fourth, mem- |bers of a temporary organization | who represented mass organizations in our territory assisted in the col- |lection of books from their organi- | zations. Fifth, individuals who were | known to have good Marxist-Len- inist libraries were approached for |contributions. Sixth, comrades were ‘sent to the National office of various | mass organizations, which con- | tributed back files of their various magazines. For example, the Friends of the Soviet Union con- tributed complete back files of their magazine, ‘Soviet Russia Today’... “In order to buy the eight volume set of Lenin’s Works, a drive was | made in the classes to have each student contribute three cents. ‘At a conference last week, the |Friends of the Workers School set jitself as one of its main tasks—or- |ganizing the collection of more | literature.” | You tell ‘em Brownsville! | The Los Angeles Workers School |is already functioning! They have sent us a mimeographed announce- ment of courses from 224 S. Spring Street, Room 418. We note with jinterest that they have what they |call assistants for every instructor, and in the announcement they print \the name of the course, the in- | structor, and the assistant, like this: |Principles of Communism; In- |structor, Malvina Goodman; As- jsistant, Tom Patterson; Tuesday | 8:30-10. \ oe The Boston Workers School has \broken into the columns of the | bourgeois Boston Herald. It seems | that two of their students were ar- rested at a Socialist meeting for distributing leaflets which, says this newspaper, “announced a _ project |for a school to train students for ‘a | class struggle’.” | Saar ae i | The Workers School of Chicago, | which accepted a quota of ten new daily and twenty new Saturday sub- | seriptions in the Daily Worker sub- \scription drive, has already secured ; three new subscriptions for the daily ledition. They challenge all other | Workers Schools to Socialist com- | petition in the drive, pledging them- | selves to be the first to reach their quota, | The Workers’ School of Chicago is introducing four new courses in \the Spring Term, beginning March |12, registration for which is now |going on at 2822 S. Michigan Ave. ; (Phone: Victory 1001). These are: |@ course in Social Insurance. pri- marily for Unemployed Councils }and the International Workers Or- |der; a course in Imperialism; a course in Soviet Economy and So- \cialist Construction, and a course jin Agrarian Problems. We also | notice a course in Currents in Revo- |lutionary Art and Literature, to be /conducted by the John Reed Club. | Their Spring Term announcement |of courses is a very handsome, |modern-looking folder in grey and | black, and their Spring Term poster jis a drawing by the artist Limbach. | * FUNDS COMING IN FOR TRAINING SCHOOL We want to acknowledge che re- ceipt of five dollars for the National | Training School from our friend Margaret G. Thank you, comrade! Hathaway’s lecture last Friday netted almost ,a hundred dollars. Comrade Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party, speaks at the Irving Plaza, next Friday, March 9th on “Two Theories of Working- Class Unity.” All proceeds from this lecture will go to the National Training School. We may be able to get this school through the full ten weeks after all. If you have any donations to make, don’t hold on to them. Send them right in! tunnel under the bank in broad daylight. “Sumpter was arrested and told a story of long privation and inability to secure work at his trade as elecirician, or at anything else, He was examined and found deranged as a result of his priva~ tions. There will be no prosecution.” AMERICAN PORTRAITS Sumper, who was pinched while “apparently” robbing a bank, was not an unemployed electrician, as the New Leader would have us be- eve, but a businessman living in Winslow, Ariz., where he operates an electrical store. As for prosecution, the authorities in Winslow are aj s Pparently much more generous wtih Socialists caught robbing banks than the Socialist authorities in Milwaukee are demanding bread! for Glass Basis of Anti-Se fascist trends in the States, marked by the out- burst of lynch terror against the Negroes, anti-semitism of the newly-organized fascist groups at- tach a@ special importanze to “Len- on the Jewish Question,” a five- pamphlet released this week by International Publishers. Containing the core of Lenin’s teachings on the national question, work discusses national equal- ity; separatists in Russian and Autria; the nationalization of Jew- schools; assimilation; national A speech by Lenin in the civil war tells how “the damnable tsarist monarchy, living out its last hours, attempted to divert il- titerate workers and peasants into against the Jews.” ie appen’ contain the So- dix ; mitism Revealed by Lenin - in Pamphlet on National Question with militant workers arrested Viet's “Declaration of the Rights of the Natiofwlities of Russia,” the proclamation which freed national minorities formerly enslaved by the tsar’s capitalists. There is also a hitoric Soviet decree which brands pogrom-agitation as a counter= revolutionary crime. An important section of the his- torical introduction relates Lenin’s teachings to the Negro question in the United States. Revolutionary upheavals in the colonies point to the pressing need for a popular exposition of Len- inism in this field. “Lenin on the Jewish Question” meets this need. ‘The pamphlet can be obtained at workers’ bookshops or from the Workers’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York, N. Y¥. “ART” PATRONESS DAILY WORKER of Feb- . | April. the direction of 8S, Hurok, will return on DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1934 What's Doing Fascist Aims Revealed in Hathaway-Dennis Debate By SENDER GARLIN A well-groomed, soft-spoken potential murderer with an Oxford accent sought in vain Sunday afternoon at Mecca Temple, New York, to defend “intellectually” the bloody fascist program of Hitler, Doll- fuss and Mussolini. The man was. Lawrence Dennis, avowed leader of the U. S. Fas- cists, who for seven years was alternately in the service of the U. S. State Department in Latin America and of J. & W. Seligman, invest- ment bankers. He faced Clarence Hathaway, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and editor of the Daily Worker in debate on “Fascism vs. Communism.” More than 3,500 heard the debate, with hundreds of others unable to gain admittance to the hall. The debate was arranged jointly by the New Masses, first revolutionary weekly in the U. S., and the Press League, an organization formed several months ago to aid the workers’ press. Frank L. Palmer, director of the Federated Press, a labor news service, acted as chairman. The manager of the Mecca Temple volunteered the information that it was “the largest crowd that ever turned out for any debate.” Two days previously, on Sunday night, the hall was only half filled when Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, met Huey (‘Kingfish’) Long of Louisiana in a debate which the S. P. sheet had hailed as “the debate of the century.” when he quoted Stalin to the effect Statements by Fascist} Which Were Greeted With Derision | (By DENNIS) | “The people of every country are patriots—eyen the capitalists.” + 2 8 “The trouble with Karl Marx is that he never read Freud. He was @ great man, but he didn’t know what every psychiatrist, drill master and teacher knows about the formation of the behavior pattern.” . 8 “The national government which I advocate can mobilize the capi- talists as well as the technicians in a crusade for a fair standard of living.” * “Fascism proposes to set the eco- nomic machine in motion in the interests of human welfare.” See Se “The theory and practise of fas- cism is not far from Communism.” re aes “The fascists set up the state as the great unit of social organiza- tion, and set it on a given course under Tesponsible leadership.” * “Fascism denounces the use of the state for the domination and exploitation of any class.” eae hoe “As long as I draw breath, Fas- cism in the U. S—to the extent | that I have influence over its course —will be against anti-Semitism.” . 8 “Most of the capitalists are good | citizens of their. respective coun- tries, and are not incurable idiots despite their rascality.” Papen ene “Insofar as our position on war! is concerned, there is no essential | difference between Fascism and Communism.” . “Fascism in the United States would respect the rights of religion | —fascism would be Christianity.” | rane tice) | “Fascism would invite into its | fellowship all those who are patri-| otic.” Pits * “Fascism is opposed to all forms of race prejudice.” ace Tek “Fascism proceeds in a more orderly manner than Communism.” Siar ues “We do not attempt to put over | Fascism through terror.” Us ia “Fascism strives for the highest spiritual value of all people.” ine eae: “Most people in this hall are capi- talists—whether you're inclined to think so or not.” eet ta “Of course, any Economic Coun- cil must have capitalists to lead it, | because they are the most efficient.” | - | “Both Mussolini and Hitler came | from the working class — in fact from the lower working class.” ey ers “The rights of workers can be exaggerated into a great issue.” eo 8 “To classify people into classes is irrelevant and immaterial for the purposes of this debate.” Stage and Screen Howard Lawson’s “The Pure In Heart” Coming Te Long- acre Theatre March 14 “The Pure Th Heart,” John Howard Lawson's new play, is announced to open at the Longacre Theatre on Wednesday night, March 14. Leading players in the cast Include Dorothy Hall, James Bell, Tom Powers, Ara Gerald and Harold Ver- milyea. Eddie Cantor, musical comedy, motion picture and radio performer, will be starred ina play next seeson, according fo an announcement received from Sam H. Harris, ‘The play, which is due here in September, is the work of David Freed- men. Harvey Stephens and Clarence: Derwent will play important roles in “Races,” the Ferdinand Bruekner anti-Hitler play which the Theatre Guild will produce here in Theresa Helburn is staging the production, 5 Monte Carlo Ballet. Russe Returns Friday In New Bill The Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, under Friday evening for. a second season of four weeks at the St. James Theatre. The opening performance will have three new ballets not seen here before, including “The Three Cornered Hat,” with music by ‘De Falla. The net result of the mortal combat on Friday night was that the “Kingfish” left New York with $500 in his jeans. In-Sunday's debate, the only time Dennis was greeted with a storm of applause (which brought a look of pained surprise to his face) was letariat is based on violence against the bourgeoisie,” to prove that Communists were “inconsistent” in fighting fascist violence. ® | first and second Five Year Plan to | munist Party.” ‘* | tion, but which way is this trans’ that “the dictatorship of the pro- | Dennis sought What the Workers Mecca Temple Applauded (By HATHAWAY) “Between a Fascist and a Com- munist nothing can be settled by| debate. This issue will be settled on | the barricades. Dennis represents a putrid, decaying capitalist system. He represents the most reactionary } section of the capitalist class, He | represents the bloodhounds, the| murder gangs of the capitalists that has for its purpose the suppression of the working class, and which would force the workers to con- | tinue to live under a bankrupt capi- | talist system.” “The Communist speaker comes here as a fighting spokesman for | the new social order. History has shown that the struggle between Fascism and Communism will be settled only on the barricades.” | Come “Fascist leaders seeking power | promise to benefit everybody; but | in office they act like Mussolini | and Hitler. All the workers will get | will be prison, torture and murder.” | et Me om “Mr. Dennis says he seeks a work- | able economy. The Soviet Union} has a workable economy: it ,has| steadily moved forward with its| greater and greater achievements, under the leadership of the Com- * “Mr. Dennis says we cannot judge | Fascism now because it is in a) period of transition; well, so is} Communism in a period of tran: tion proceeding? Fascism is pro-| ceeding backwards, lowering the| standards of the working class, sup- | | pressing the working class, while| Communism is raising the living standards of the workers and pro-| ceeding to a classless society.” Peete eet “We don’t need any ‘elite’ to come | and tell the workers how to rule.”| iter alee “We see increasing discontent in| the United States—not only among| workers, but among farmers, in-| tellectuals and small business men | in revolt against capitalism.” | * * * | “The role of my opponent | (Dennis) is to help in the organi- | zation of the American Storm) Troopers by appealing to the most reactionary sentiments among the | masses; his role is to help organize | murder gangs against militant | working class groups.” ees oe “These Fascists must be driven | gathered that strength which will) enable it to take power. Against every fascist blow, a counter-blow | by the working class!” ae ee “The Communist Party will not, enter coalitions with the bourgeoisie | like the Social-Democratic leaders did in Germany and in Austria.” BPE Seow “We Communists alone can solve) the problem of the crisis.” mire ess 9 “The Communist Party dedicates) itself to mobilize every last man to; meet these people in deadly combat | with the intention of preventing) their taking power—and for the re- organization of the complete social system in the United States.” 6. ee “The Communists don’t take their hats off to anybody on the ques- tion of patriotism. We love this country as much as the fascists do. We have been here just as long as they haye—and some of us longer. And precisely for the reason that we care for this country, we are going to take it over.” Pere ear “The Fascist program will be re- jected by the workers—the workers will strive to mobilize the farmers, the Negroes, the middle class, for a war to the death against Fascism —and for a Soviet system in Amer- ica!” WHAT’S ON Tuesday HENRI BARBUSSE Br. LL.D. meets at 5 W. 91st St. Apt 3E, 8:30 p.m. Emanuel Levin, speaker. Milwaukee, Wis. JOHN REED CLUB Costume Ball, March 10, 9 p.m. Jefferson Hall, 2617. W. Fond Du Lac. Seven piece Negro orchestra. Tickets 250; at door 35c. “Ariane” Opens Today At The 55th Street Playhouse Elizabeth Bergner, the continental star who plays the ‘title role ‘in Catherine the Gre: has the principal role in Claude was produced in London and Paris and was directed by Paul Czinner. Percy Mar- mont and Warwick Ward are in the sup- porting cast. Katherine Hepburn’s new picture, “Spit- fire,” a story of the Southern mountains, based on Lulu Vollmer's play, “Trigger,” will have its premiere on ‘Thursday at the Anet’s “Ariane,” which opens today at the S5th Street Playhouse. The picture Radio City Music Hall, John Cromwell directed the film, | Proletarian music may have all the | | music, and many more, but it must and will express them by different |in America, Schaeffer, Adohmyan, | Swift and Sands. Naturally, the work of these men | | America, | many lof L. misleading and choosing “The Eyes of the Movie” THE EYES OF THE Bill Gropper’s cover for Harry Alan Potamkin’s pamphlet, “The Eyes of the Movie,” which will be | reviewed soon in the Daily Worker. | Proletarian Music Is A Historic Necessity By CARL SANDS ROLETARIAN music is a historic | necessity which will develop out | of bourgeois music by carrying on} and adding to its ive dencies, and by discontinuing gressive and decaying tendencies. | | worth-while qualities of bourgeois| means: with a changed content will come changed technical forms. Pro- letarian music will result from rev- olutionary tendencies persisted in over a considerable length of time. In these revolutionary tendencies (which may be listed among the contradictions of bourgeois music) the bourgeois musical critics are now lost. To them the musical world is chaotic. They do not see the contradictory and self-destructive | mature of these tendencies. They only sense the fact that something | is wrong. A few, drastic attempts | have been made to set things to rights. But they have failed. And it| is to be noted that these attempts were all made by composers, not by critics, who have invariably f: to understand even the reast the attempts. The critics only or fume while they wait for a great | man, a messiah, a fuehrer who will) lead them out of the chaos. .. .| But remember: from a proletari; viewpoint, not only is there no chaos but there is a clear path. | Many have alr t in Europe, Eisler, Arma, Shekhter, Davidenko, Biely and many oil may be expected at first to be cruder in technique than the work of the great bourgeois composers. 'The his- | tory of music shows that the young, new style is always cruder than the | old, dying style which it supplants. | The revolutionary critic will differ | from his bourgeois prototype, how- | ever, by regarding technique as a! sect lary matter: to him content must be the first desideratum in a} work of art. He must assume, along | with the revolutionary composer, that a olutionary content will] eventually lead to the perfection of | a revolutionary technique by means of which it can be expressed. Form | | and content, it is true, are Hera devendent, Ideally, they should de- velop side by side. But it remains} a fact: we have the content and we have not yet the technique. The | content is given to us in a hundred years of revolutionary literature and action. The music-revolutionary tendencies that should have been integrated with these have been | captured by the bourgeoisie and | withheld from the masses. The rev-| 11 music critic must aid in| olutionary | their recapture their recognition, and their iden’ ion with the revolutionary movement. The icono- clastic and revolutionary tendencies 3 out of existence by the revolution- | in the ying art of lary working class movement. We| bourgois music are, many of the m, cannot wait until Fascism has part of the continuity of this a: Al- that belongs by right to the re’ 3 lutionary movement as a wh ready the masses, even in backwar show a predilection for of the new seurces of | “modern” music. Their leaders, un- fortunat ze too often less pro- gressive taste and still try° to shield their lambs from the wolf of | modernism. Thi: yes us in mi the parallel of socialist and A. the “lesser evil.” Ber fom tionary Music “Criticism.” | of Mexico Hit Verdict | Against Scottsboro 9 | MEXICO, D. F, — Thirty well-| known Mexican writers, members | of the Mexican League of Reyolu- | tionary writers and artists, have’ad- dressed a protest against the legal lynch verdicts passed on the Scotts- boro boys, to the American ambas- |sador in Mexico, The writers are) artists signing the protest are: P. Mendoza, P. Zenteno Pine,} Leopoldo Arenal, Lyon Rouge, Per-| jfecto Palacios, Santiago R, Martin, M. Lebato ©., Enrique Navarro,| Ignacio Aguirro G., Victor Fabian, | Concha Michel, M, Arroyo, F. Diaz A., G. List Arzubide, J. Zavala, B. Banuelos, A. Hernandez, Leopoldo Mendez, Luis Arenal B., T. Correa, Jose Pomar, Nelly Morgan, M. Ser- vin, Julio Marin, Alicia E. Reyes, Gaston Lafarga, Jose Lopez, A. Avila, A. Dominguez, and R. Rames| Pedrueza. Performance ef Wexley Play to Aid Scottsboro Boys NEW YORK.—A benefit perform- | ance of “They Shall Not Die,” John | Wexley’s play based on the Scotts- boro case, produced by the ‘Theater | Guild, will be given for the Scotts- boro defense, under the auspices of | the National Committee for the De- | fense of Political Prisoners, on | farmers | ‘starting a rev- | 9:00—Philadelphia Revolutionary Writers | Page Five 5 Out of 6 Need Relief In Mississippi County By JOHN L. SPIVAK BROOKHAVEN, Miss umergency Re- doles croppers &mon¢ those _ inside Two had t Wives with th was are the who, |before the fed- icf, eral relie 3 olution.” Some JOHN L. SPIVAK still feel that the government is trying to do somethi for them} but the majority are restless. They have si all t millions the government is. s on cotton farmers has brou m nothing. | Only. those who their land partially benefittin: “The sums we give them,” said Miss Agnes Shi charge ‘of emergenc ief hefe, “depends upon the season of the year. Right now we have to give them enough for clothes. Most of them haven't a stitch of clothing left. were worn out during the years of depression.” TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS EAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P. M— Small, Songs 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketeh Z 7:30—Green Bros. Orch.; Arlene Jackson, Songs 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, Baritone 8:30—Wayne King Orch. 9:00—Bernie Orch. 9:30—Ed Wynn, Comedian 19:00—C: of the Seth Parker—Drama- tic Sketch 10:30—Beauty—Mme. Sylvia 10:45—Proposed Sugar Legislation—Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado 11:00—Talk—J. B, Kennedy ; Jesters Trio rris Orch. 12:00—-Vallee Orch. 12:30 A, M.—Denny Orch. | WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. Sports—Stan Lomax 7:15—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo 7:30—Musical Revue 00. rank Parker, Tenor | Band sicale Echoes nan, Comedian; Betty ; Rondoliers Quartet t Events idy Brown, Violin orts—Boake Carter onbeams Trio 1 Lane Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch. WIJZ—760 Ke. P. M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy —New York City's Business Activities —R. E. McGahen, Director of the Budget; Joseph D. McGoldrick, Deputy Controller; r Paul Blanshard, Commis- Eddie Alpert, Songs of Death — Sketch; Yor! 8:30—Adventures in Health+Dr. Herman Bundesen rian Band k, Soprano; Edgar Guest, 9:30—Duchin Orch, 10:00—Concert Orch.; Gladys Swarthout, Metropolitan Opera Contralto; Gale P: a emp Orch. BC—860 WA e of Exp 8:45—California M —Ruth Etting, Songs Minneapolis Symphony. -Orch, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor 10:00—Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs 0:30—Harlem Serenade 11:00—Charles. Carlile; Tenor Nelson Orch. 11:15—News; = Orch. A. M.—Pancho Orch, 0—Robbins Orch. and Clothes | ewhere § e T’ve bee about $65,000.” here we've |not need relief but who got it Just jthe same.” | “Why' “I don’t know. They were get jting it. That's all I know.” “Distribution’ is in the hands of | local. officia: You mean that po- | litical juggling on the part of those }running relief put a lot of people jon the relief list who did not need it?” Miss Shipp shrugged her should- ers and smiled wisely. It was ap- parent that if she wished to hold her job she could not talk about al juggling. But from other sources I gathered that politics was played here as in other places, with the bread the poor needed. Poli- ticians wanted to ingratiate them- selves with the voting farmer, and those who could have gotten along without relief were given with a lavish hand portions that were to have gone to the neediest, The poor lost out here, too, because they did not have enough to pay a poll tax and thus be a voting factor. The Federal Emergency Relief now handles only the absolutely destitute families, the families of | those croppers who cannot get work because their labor is not needed since not so much land is bein plowed. The Red Cross, a fe houses down the street, handle jother relief; the C.W.A., P.W.A |so.on also handle relief. Some 900 families, or about 0: Sixth of the total population getting F. E. R., now, hi the utterly destitute. Th Cross, too, handles the utt | titute, and the Red Cross that they were taking care 3,000 families. If, to these, y the number working on | Projects the estimate of | of every six families in this jare dependent upon federal | turns out to be accurate. Not one out of. every ten w appealed for aid to the F. bs was an independent farm o The F, E. R. list consists of € croppers, with Negroes predominat- iny z. Before the depression the land- | owner who had one or more crop- pers on his land used to make al- lowances to the farmer between March and August inclusive. These | allowances were either in cash or | on a charge account which were de- |ducted from the final settlement. | Since the depression the small land- | owner has himself been scarcely able to scrape together enough to | live on. So when the F. E. R. asks | the Jandowner why he no longer | makes advances, small as they were, since he has been borrowing money from the government. against -his | crop, the farmer invariably replies that he cannot. | “We have investigated these | claims,” said Miss Shipp, “and the majority of farmers in this area can just about take care of them- selves. At that, the share cropper jused to get only between $9 and $21 for the whole season.” Before the C. W.-A. was inaugu- jTated it took over those, chiefly voters, for whom work was being made. Those that could not get | work (Negroes and croppers who |had not paid their poll taxes) were | left. to the mercy of direct charity. So far as C. W. A. work is con- | cerned the Negro here has been vir- tually ignored in favor of the vot- |ing farmer. The Negro gets some measure of relief, but most appli- |cants are white, in much greater | Proportion than their population jtatio. The actual figures since the | depression—even for last year—are not available, “because there was {no system. Everything was disor- |ganized. Relief expenditures, though, have increased tremend- ously,” to quote Miss Shipp, (fo Be Continued) AMUSE MENTS THE THEATRE presents— JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE Royale 788 shW. ot Bway OYALE satinees Thurs. and Sat. EUGENE O’NEILL’s Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN Thea., 52d St. W. of B'w GUIL Ae peta tel MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ‘Thea., 524 St., W. of Bway Ey.8.20Mats.Thur.&Sat.2.20 IEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way & 50th. Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 Theatre Union’s Stirring Play LAST WEEKS THE ANTI-WAR HIT! PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea, UthSt.AothAve WA. 9.7450. Eves. 8.45. 9 (ye to $9 50 NO Mats, Wed. & Sat. 2.30, TAX Arrange Theatre Parties for your organl- zation by telephoning Watkins 9-2451 John Wexley Author of “THEY: SHALL NOT DIE” CHAIRMAN at NAT'L THEATRE FESTIVAL Sat., March 10, 8:30 P. M. March 26, it was announced yester- dé 3th AVE. THEA, *2 Si & Broadway | —-RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— 50 St & 6 Ave—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. } | WILL ROGERS | in “DAVID HARUM” |] And a great Music Hall STAGE SHOW i | { | RKO Jefferson ‘th St. & | Now | 3rd Ave. BORIS KARLOFF in | “THE GHOUL” also:—“JIMMY AND SALLY” with JAMES DUNN and CLAIRE TREYOR or TODAY The Natives Jew and Arab Sing; Dance; Demonstrate; Work in "THE DREAM OF MY PEOPLE” with Cantor Rosenblatt —SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE— “LOT IN SODOM” Featurette Extraordinary | ACME THEATRES SS sé ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by. JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Evgs. 8.40 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 'NjO MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELVIN DOUGLAS, LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO The: sth, W. of B'way. Evs. 8:50, Mats. Wed., Thurs, and Sat. at 2:45