The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1934, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934 5 et Page Sever ~ CHANGE ——THE——_ | WORLD! | By SENDER GARLIN EATURED in the current issue of The Saturday Evening Post is a two-page display extolling the merits of a familiar household product. Soviet students of American culture will no doubt find much to wonder at by an ex- amination of this literary masterpiece in the Post. Romance, adventure, the exuberance of‘living — all this is re- flected in this fascinating story called, “Strange Facts About Toilet Tissue.” No artist in uniform composed this stirring epic, you may be sure. For in it you find the sweep and splenaor which could have been created oniy by the most untrammelled, imaginative spirit. Prose as well as graphic artists collaborated in this feature in The Saturday Evening Post. In a swirl of colors, the inspired artist and advertising copy writer present the high romance of a hitherto obscure industry. Consider some of the “strange facts about toilet tissue”: ‘ “Twenty-eight round trips to the moon! One year’s production of Scott Tissue and Waldorf is so tremendous it would form a ribbon of toilet tissue that would reach from the earth to the moon and back 28 times.” Marvelous, isn’t it? But just read on: “Strange Uses for Toilet Tissue. A woman recently wrote Scott Paper Company saying she had found 264 practical uses for Scott Tssue in her home.” Among the other uses to which it could be put, she discovered, were: “as hair curlers, to wipe off eye-glasses, for wrapping up jewelry, to stuff shoes when packing, to wipe off tops of medicine bottles, as facial tissue, to wipe off razor blades.” Modern science, too, has been a boon in transporting this great product, it seems. For we read: “By Plane—by Mule Back... The most ancient and the most modern methods of transportation are combined in delivering Scott tissues to the interior mountain regions of South America. These famous tissues sell in 51 countries of the world! What is more amazing, “it takes a machine that weighs as much as 100 elephants to make the delicately soft Scott Tissue that goes into this roll that weighs only 12 ounces.” Admirers of Ripley will be interested to learn that “in every sheet. of Scott Tissue or Waldorf, there are millions of tiny microscopic holes—yet these ‘thirsty fibre’ tissues are so absorbent they hold three times their weight in water.” There are more facts and figures, including “A Strange Fact for Dealers,” to wit, that “toilet tissue is one of the few products some women shoppers prefer not to discuss. Actual tests in hundreds of stores throughout the United States show that when dealers offer Scott Tissue or Waldorf in floor displays which enable women to help themselves, their purchases increase 146 per cent!” Some ae 8 Broke? advertisement, and is an example of tiie shocking waste that is characteristic of capitalist society. Why this imposition on the minds of the millions of readers of the Saturday Evening Post? Because advertising is one of the accepted features of a rapacious capitalist system based only upon one principle: the piling up of profits. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly recently estimated that over a billion and a quarter dollars was spent annually in advertising in the United States. Stuart Chase has figured out that at an average wage of $2,000 a year (who gets that now?), it would involve the labor power, direct and indirect, of upwards of 60,000 workers. <8 fee HO has not gazed upon the jumping “spearmen” in the Wrigley electric sign and speculated on the expense involved in this adver- tising contraption? This electric sign in Times Square, New York, consumed $108,000 worth of current in a single year! This criminal waste of money is something which does not exist in the Soviet Union where capitalists and their parasite activities have been crushed out of existence like fleas. The millions of dollars that would otherwise go into wasteful advertising is spent for social services such as education, insurance benefits, vacations for workers, ete. Such a spectacle as one sees in the Saturday Evening Post, with | its acres of space devoted to wasteful advertising could never, of course, be found in a Soviet publication. ee ee Hollywood Just Loves the “Depression!” OME people, it seems, are tickled pink by the crisis. It’s hard to believe, of course, but one of the Hollywood producers said so recently, in an interview with one of the bourgeois press feature writers. “The motion picture industry would not be at all out of line if it murmured a few words of gratitude for the depression through which we just have passed.” These wise words were spoken by Irving Thalberg, one of the celluloid impressarios. Notice the past tense—‘the depression through | which we just have passed”! “Naturally,” continued Thalberg, “the benefits we received were of a sort of backhanded nature. Like every other large business, the film industry lost millions of dollars. However, because of the depression, We are now in a far better position that we otherwise would have been to go ahead and earn a profit.” Sounds a little baffling, doesn’t it? in detail. “Why? Because we have a world of talent which never would have come to Hollyowood had it not been for the depression. There are more fine actors in Hollywood today than in any other place on earth. No matter what kind of character is written into a story, we have an actor who can portray him capably. “Many of these players are here because the depression cut their other sources of revenue to such extent that they literally were forced to turn to pictures.” I.won't go into Mr. Thalberg’s cheerful “philosophy,” but there is no doubt that Eisenstein, Pudovkin and the other Soviet directors will undoubtedly be interested to learn that the Broadway theatre is so bankrupt that the finest actors in America have been compelled to migrate to California to participate in the creation of Hollywood products! But let Mr. Thalberg explain ede he * Vacation Problems of a Columnist 'VEN a member of the staff of the Daily Worker sometimes gets a vacation. But how to get a vacation when you've inherited a col- umn for three months—that was the problem! Well, solidarity among writers is growing just as it is among the rest of the working class. A touching appeal to a dozen or so writers brought forth prompt offers of support in the job of changing the world. Beginning Monday, therefore, 12 prominent revolutionary writers will each contribute a column, including Maxwell Bodenheim, Alan Calmer, Joseph Free- man, Albert Halper, Orrick Johns, Oakiey Johnson, John HoWard Lawson, A. B. Magil, Joseph North, Philip Rahv, Isidor Schneider and Ella Winter. TUNING 7:00-WEAF—Bacehall Resume WOR—Sports Resume wi@—Flying—Cept. A. L. Williams WABO—Description, Finals of An- nual National Collegiate Athletic Association Track and Field Meet, Los Angeles, Cal. 7:18-WEAF—Homespun—Dr. William, H. Foulkes WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield WJZ-—Pickens Sisters, Songs 7:30-WEAF—Himber Orch.; De Marco Sisters, Songs: Eddie Peebody, Banjo; Joey Nash, Tenor WOR—Hudson County American Le- IN WOR—Warren Orch. WJZ—Canadian Concert 8:45-WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 9:00-WEAF—One Man's Family—Sketch WOR—Freddy Farber and Edith Handman, Songs ‘WsZ—Variety Musicale WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Soprano; Kostelanetz Orch, 9:15-WOR—Dance Orch. 9:30-WEAF—Real Life Problems—Sketch; Beatrice Fairfax, Commentator Eee Orch.; Edward Davies, itone WABC—Detroit Symphony Orch., gion Band WdJZ—Bestor Orch. Direction Victor Kolar, from’ A WABC—Betty Barthell, Songs; Mel- Century of Progress 9:45-WOR—Studio Music 10:60-WEAF—Ray Knight's Cuckoos ‘WOR—Della Baker, Soprano; liam Hargrave, Baritone ‘WdJZ—Tim Ryan's Place—Sketch 10:15-WEAY—Lombardo Orch. WOR—Ourren: Events—H. E, Read 10:30-WOR—Organ Rtcital * Odeers Quartet }- WABC—Childs Orch. ‘WEAF—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Contralto; Bill Smith, Baritone; Stern Orch. ity Government Talk ‘WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Rich Orch.; Morton Dow- ; Mary Eastman, So- WJZ—Barn Dante prend WABC—Michaux Congregation 4:15-WOR—Al!: r Tris 10:45-WEAP—Siberian Singers WJ2Z—Bavarian Band 11:00-WOR—Weather; Osborne Orch. 8:30-WEAF—U, 5, Msrine Bend ‘ yivia Proos, Songs Buy Anyway! | HE Saturday Eventng Post was paid $22,000 for this doubie-page | Steel Institute Shown As Strikebreakers in Labor Facts Book II. | NEW YORK.—Back of the Amer- ican Iron and Steel Institute's des- | perate attempt to halt the steel | strike is a black record of anti-| labor activity, the Labor Research | Association reveals in its Labor | Fact Book II, just released by In- | ternational Publishers. Institute Directors, the Associa- tion shows, not only held the key Position of initiating the steel code but also bossed the code admini- stration. Their latest proposal for | |@ “neutral” arbitration board of | |three, vigorously rejected by the |strikers, fits into the regular pat- tern of strikebreaking through |N.R.A. arbitration agencies. Typi- cal strike analyses—the Weirton Ford, Budd and coal miners’ strike, for example—packed with damning facts and figures, clinch the argu ment. The book, which is a well-stocked arsenal of information for the | working class propagandist, has | chapters on workers’ conditions un- der N.R.A., their organizations and | struggles; fascism; the war danger; |the Soviet Union; the crisis, and the Negro worker's life and strug- gle. The book can be obtained from the publishers at 381 Fourth Ave., New York; from Workers Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York, or from workers’ bookshops and branches. * CORRECTION Labor Fact Book II, by Labor | Research Association is published in a cloth bound edition at 95 cents and not in board covers, as the Daily Worker recently stated. Artists Union Formed By J. R. C. of Detroit DETROIT.—At a mass meeting of artists called by the Artists Group of the John Reed Club on June 13, |the first steps were taken towards organizing an Artists Union in the city of Detroit. About 60 artists were present. Among the speakers were Frank Ruck of the Engineers and Architects Guild, Gilbert Rocke, | of the Chicago John Reed Club Art- ists Group, Maurice Sugar, of the Writers Group, and William Wein- stone, of the Communist Party. Nazi Govt. Officially | Abandons 40-Hr. Week| BERLIN, June 21.—While the Ministry of Economics, the Ham- burg Senate and numerous provin- cial and Reich authorities are urg- | ing workers under 25 years old to go to labor camps and surrender their jobs to unemployed heads of families, the government today or- dered the 40-hour week abandoned “because of a shartage of skilled la- bor.” The Daily Worker keeps you | informed of the world-wide strug- gles by the working class against | unemployment, hunger, fascism _ and war. The Daily Worker for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents. Send your sub to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York | City. Soviet “Mickey Mouse” Satirizes Bureaucrats a “Yozh” the Porcuping Soviet counterpart of Mickey Mouse, takes the bureaucrats of the railways for a ride. 'OZH (poreupine), the Soviet counterpart of Mickey Mouse, | cided to take as his hero a porcu-|lem, only faith, hope, passivity and has been born. Undismayed by the negative at- titude of the heads of the Soviet film industry towards the introduc- tion of the American “conveyor” system in the production of ani- mated sound cartoon films, Victor Smirnov, film director, Lucille Cramer, American technical con- sultant, and U. Popov, animator, re- peatedly proved the advantages of the system. Finally, after a year of argument they won permission to make a picture, which has just been completed, based on American tech- | nique. While director of Amkino in New York, Smirnov became interested in the tremendous popularity of Mickey Mouse, whose antics are enjoyed by millions of film spectators. Then he met Lucille Cramer of the Max Fleischer studios, where Mickey Mouse is created. Smirnov, recognizing the tremendous possi- bilities of such films in the Soviet Union, particularly in the sphere of political satire, discussed the subject with her. As a result arrangements were made for Lucille Cramer to come to Moscow to introduce the American system in the production of ani- mated cartoons. On her arrival she | found that the “handicraft” system was in vogue, whereby one artist, with two or three assistants, draws the picture from beginning to end. It needed a whole year of argu- ment, persuasion and cajoling be- fore she could convince the film authorities even to experiment with the “conveyor” system. Discouraging Results Obstacles such as crowded prem- ises, artists squeezing into odd corners to work, and lack of eauipment led to discouraging re- | sults. When Smirnov returned to Mos- | cow he applied to Shumiatski, head | jof the film industry for permis- sion to specialize on animated car- toons. Shumiatski has since shown great interest in the development of the work. In his first scenario, based on the |Max Fleisch Y system, Smirnov de- pine, a great favorite with Soviet | children. Bureaucracy, an evil against which the Soviet Union is fighting relentlessly, provides limit- less adventures for Yozh and ma- terial for pointed satire. The first complete film, “A Crazy Trip,” has attracted the attention of | the Sovict film world. When the new | film’ was privately shown a week ago it created a sensation among the film representatives present, and won the approval of the film authorities. A few minor improve- ments are necessary, particularly in the musical sounds, before the gen- eral release, which is anticipated early in June. Work on the second film is well advanced, and studio conditions have also improved. At present 27 artists are able to work in comfort and, as proper equipment is not lacking, the plan of a film every 30 days seems sure to be fulfilled. The 250 m. of film takes eight minutes to show and in this short time Yozh meets with an incredible number of . adventures. One of Yozh's experiences: Flirting with a fellow passenger's girl-friend in an airplane, he promptly gets kicked out and lands among a group of bulldogs practising military drill He cannot prove that he is a “pure porcupine, as he has mislaid his passport. The military commander i ts that Yozh’s grandmother or |great-grandmother had mixed blood; therefore Yozh must be tainted. |‘LittleMan, What Ren Davis, |Now’ Is Romantic ‘Picture of Jobless “Little Man, What Now?” ee + Iya a | Reviewed by | | FRANK WARD - | ITH every major film company | By DON WEST |" producing jingoistic and N. R.| HE white rulers of the south re- |A. propaganda films, Universal also gard a Negro as a lower type of | joins the parade with its contrib humanity. For centuries the black |tion of “Little Man, What Now?"| 1.3, has bowed his shoulders to | directed by’Frank Borzage who was |responsible for “No Greater Glory | sion. He has been trodden under |the latest pro-war film to hit the fot iynched, chain-ganged sph The Civil War was over. Still the | Taken from the novel of the same |. : : s Fallada, “Little man, | Neto was forced to bow ” purports to portray the master with “Cap, boss, yes unemployment problem of post war | Certain so-called Negro leader, 1 Germany immediately prior to the | those of the N. A. A. C. P., told Hitler regime. That the film fails |Negto masses that was the best way to reveal anything of the struggles | to get along with the white rulers! of the German working class dur-| Stay in their place. Be nice to the ing this period can be credited to| White boss. Bear a constant burden the unique capacity of the film|0f fear and grief, but don't offer to | studios for dissembling truth and| fight back. So the Negro masses | romanticizing reality to a nauseat- Stayed under the white rulers’ thumb. jing degree. | They were made to think the poor The prevailing note throughout | white workers were their enemy | the picture is one of discourage-| rather than the landlord and boss | ment, futility, despair and the hope- | class. |lessness of fighting against existing] But always there have been those | conditions. Struggle is never men-| courageous men among the Negro |tioned as the solution of the prob-| masses who dared face the anger }and violence of the white lynchers Unlike Fallada’s| Even before the Civil War there to love of woman. book which concludes on a militant|were slave uprisings led by such note, the film reverses his entire | heroic men. And when these leaders | position and decidés against any | rise from the Negro people they | militancy on the part of workers as | always find a following of workers @ way out. “ ;,, | Teady to learn what to do and do it Naturally there is an attempt in Among those we recall are such the Alnt to show. tie. ressods) for names as Nat Turner, Gabriel Ben unemployment. One scene in par- fark Vesey, and Angelo Herndon. ticular shows three workers in an | aren e a | office swearing to quit work if any | leaders of the Negro masses. one of them is fired. But the boss | " | overhears them and interviewing) REN DAVIS, Jr., native Negro lone by one induces them to break | leader of Georgia, follows in line | their oath. This is solemnly pre-| With those valiant men who have sented to suggest that workers are | dared fight for Negro rights against | selfish, cowardly and incapable of | the terror of a lynching white ruling | standing together during a crisis. | class system. Davis has always PUREE saenh known what it means to be a Negro in Georgia. His early life was a constant reminder of that fact. His father was one time a real fighter for Negro rights. Young Ben Davis, Jr. must have felt keenly the hate of the white man at such times as when his father’s home was riddled with bullets, when his life was threatened. Having early tasted the hatred of | HERE are many incidents in “Little Man” that recall the} other German film “Kuhle Wampe” produced by Praesens Film before | Hitler came to power. How dif- |ferently this film treats the prob- lem of unemployment! In Kuhle Wampe there is analysis and solu- | Hon. through organization and| | Struggle, not as in “Little Man”! | bear the load of southern oppres~ | | |through “faith, hope and wait.” In- |deed much of this film has been stolen from Kuhle Wampe, partic- | ularly the forest scenes, while the musical score seems to be a def- nite steal from Kisler’s splendid | score. | It is no accident that “Little Man” |with its emphasis on__ passivity | makes its appearance during a period of nation-wide strikes and | struggles. It is to steer workers |away from a policy of struggle and the white rulers against a Negro Negroes, Ben Jr. was not cowed or daunted in his courage. He was a southern Negro, but never did he have that subservient Uncle Tom approach to the white man. Early in his school life in Atlanta he saw how the so-called Negro leaders were cowed and afraid to struggle. Because of his militant leadership in college in organizing the students for struggles against sertain in- who dared fight for the rights of | A Fighting Southern Lawyer, Who ~ “Liberator” in Atlanta, Georgia. That in itself is an index of the courage of the man. A Negro lawyer in Atlanta has about as much chance for suc- cess as the proverbial snow ball in hell 1. A stru young Atlanta |lawyer, Ben Davis Jr. became ine terested in the Herndon case. Herndon was a Negro, a fighting young Negro. That was something to attract such a one as young he knew nothing of nist Party, the I. L. D, on the Negro simply interested in a young Negro who had dared, as Herndon did, to face a lynch mob and defy the white rulers of Georgia! hen a representative of the I. L, D. interviewed Ben Davis Jr. and explained the position of the ore ganization, he was glad to raise the question of Negro rights to sit on jury. He volunteered his services in the case, along with John Geer, another young Atlanta Negro lawyer. When the Herndon cas@ came to court Ben Davis, Jr. fought it with the fearlessness of one who knows what justice is and is willing to die fighting for it. Negro work- ers who heard ths fiery young Negro speaking in a white boss court with the same vigorous courage that he has always shown, marvelled at it. White workers were astonished. Ben never compromised an inch with the white court. He demanded that the court and the lawyers refer to Angelo Herndon as “defendant” instead of “darky” or “nigger. Young Davis was dynamite in that southern lynch court In studying the records in the | Herndon case. Davis became |familiar with the literature for which Herndon was convicted. He read The Communist Position on the Negro Question, Race Hatred on Trial, Self Determination for the Black Belt, and other literature which Herndon had been arrested for having. And in court he put up a fearless fight for these prin- ciples which he had studied and | began to support. It was no easy thing to do. His life was constantly | threatened, He was met in the | hall of the building where the I. L. | D. office was by Ku Klux represen- Reached and his life threatened. (In | that same building the Interracial Commission had its office, and never a time has it been molested. Once when W. L. Patterson was speaking in Atlanta, one of the heads said he would not go to the meeting because the police might not be themselves | On finding the passport, which proves his pure origin, Yozh is re- leased with thousand apologies for} his detention. Smirnov has as Popov, a talented artist of 28 Popov loves Mickey Mouse, whom he considers laconic and full of ex- pression, but Walt Disney, he says, | “is not sufficiently independent. He | takes his characters from fairy tales and books. We will take our char- acters from real life, which means | a never-ending source of inspira- | tion.” |to foster scab consciousness that films of this kind are produced and | released. To the question “Little | Man, What Now?,” workers must answer “Fight and Organize,” to build a workers society that will really abolish unemployment, misery and despair. his animator | | Stage and Screen New Soviet Film “In The Land Of The Soviets” Opens | At Acme Theatre June 26th’ Vint. Hermann Duncker MONG those arrested the morn- ing after the Reichstag blaze, was the man who, in the conscious- ness of broad layers of the German working class, probably personified most clearly the type of the man of learning—Dr. Hermann Duncker. With his lean figure, his benevolent blue eyes, and his mild face illu- minated by spirit, he was externally the type of the old time German savant; but his intellectual work is of the kind which followed that fundamental principle: “Theory will become material force when it takes hold of the masses.” More than a generation ago Her- mann Duncker studied under the economist Buecher and the phil- osopher Wundt. Philosophy, history, and economics, the three pillars which support the thought-struc- tures of dialectic materialism, the materialistic interpretation of his- tory, and socialism—all these led the young scholar onward to the Ja- bor movement. And in the front ranks of that movement he stood for more than a generation. As teacher, lecturer, and theorist of the old Social-Democratic Party of Germany, as instructor in eco- nomic history and economics at the Party School in Berlin, Hermann Duncker was privileged to instill the methods of strict scientific thought into thousands of workers athirst for the future. The transformation of theory into political practice was no problem for him—jt was the presupposition and the essential content of all his scientific work. What Hermann Duncker accom- plished during more than a decade as editor, teacher, and travelling lecturer, will never be lost. He was editor of the famous Marxist “Basic Books” (Elementar Buecher), which were spread in hundreds of thou- sands of copies in all German- speaking regions. There is hardly a city in Germany in which Hermann Duncker has not hammered with his tireless passion the basic theses of scientific socialism into young workers and students—in courses filled to overcrowding. The ambi- tious and impressive organization of the Marxist Workers’ Schools, at- tended by countless German work- ers, and unqualifiédly recognized in their importance to learning even by educators of -contrary political views, came into being largely as a result of Hermann Duncker’s in- itiative. In fascist states. fruitless specula- tion, metaphysical juggling with empty concepts, is the only form of humen activity which can be tol- erated. The persecution of ‘‘Marx- ism’—or whatever it is that the Nazis believe this name represents— began first of all against those very men whose thorough knowledge of Marx's writings threatened to con- flict with the vital interests of the| new rulers. One of these men was Hermann Duncker, Eyewitnesses report a scene which occurred in the Berlin police head- quarters on Alexanderplatz, the morning after the Reichstag fire. Herr von Levetzow—formerly a Corvette-Captain (naval rank) in the Kaiser's Imperial Navy, later made an Admiral under the Repub- lic, and now head of the Berlin po- lice for the Nazis—looked over the arrested as they stood Ined up in long rows in the corridors of the po- lice headquarters. “Stand Straight!” he bellowed at Hermann Duncker, sixty years old, suffering from heart dsease, and tormented by asthma. And since the posture of the sci- entist still did not satisfy the drill- sergeant eye of the police president, Hermann Duncker was thrust into solitary confinement, and kept there, eee eae Doctors 'HE puerile dogma of the superior value of the “Germanic” race has resulted in the inhuman prin- ciple that physical and mental weaknesses cannot be justified. For years past, among reactionary doctors, arose voices demanding a radical cancellation of all social in- surance legislation so that the state might no longer step in to regulate when the weak were in danger of being forced under in the struggle for life. Medical “racial biologists” called the army of millions of jobless “in- ferior” and explained that it would be in the interests of society if they were to die out. And in the same way, the basis was laid for the Nazi doctrine that the Marxists—Socialists and Com- munists—were “sub-men,” while the Aryan “supermen” were Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leaders, the leading captains of industry, and in fact all those who had got somewhere in this society—excepting only the Jews. University professors of social hygiene delivering solemn lectures on the occasion of taking up their work, assert that the task of their science was to determine how the government could cut down still further its social budget, without greatly injuring the condition of the people as a whole. Many thousands of German doc- tors who dared. desnite the petrified animosity of official medical teach- ing, to attack the slavery of medical science to pharmaceutical Big Beginning next Tuesday, the Acme} Theatre will present the American} premiere of “In the Land of the stices, he found himself “out of! there to protect him. Later he peaeeeiet with the administration, | called up the police to make sure and was expelled. Twice this | they would be there. Then he spirited young Negro leader was | went along too.). forced by the cowardly college offi-| Since the time of the first. Hern- cials to leave school. don trial, Ben Davis Jr. has become I have heard Ben tell how he| known as the outstanding Negro always chaffed under the open and | leader of the south. Coming to see brutal forms of race prejudice every | the correctness of the I. L. D., and where in the south. All the schools | the L. S. N. R., he threw his whole he attended in the south, were of| energy into the fight for Negro course, “Jim Crow” institutions. Inj rights. He assisted in the Scotts- the north where he went to Har-| boro case. He became the regular vard and Amherst, he felt the more | lawyer of the T L. D. in Atlanta, subtle forms of white chativinism | volunteering his services. found there. He was not satisfied.| As a leader in the League of Although he had been an outstand-| Struggle for Negro Rights, Ben ing student, a foot ball player of| Davis, Jr. is a real fighter. As the unusual ability, he was still treated | new editor of the “Negro Liberator, Brains Behind Barbed Wire! A Collective Report on Persecution in Nazi Germany Business, were fiercely persecuted. In all of the “Chambers of Doctors” | there were strong groups who open- lly proclaimed themselves as social- ists. Since the state public health care failed to provide for certain very vital needs, private organiza- tions |fight against tuberculosis, to bring | about sexual reforms, to care for eripples, and for other medicinal | and humane functions. After the Reichstag fire, hun- | dreds of doctors were arrested. The mere fact that a doctor in his pro- | fessional capacity had worked to |secure the physical welfare of the |destitute, or that he had fought jof the German statutes, was suffi- |cient cause for the Nazis to have |him seized without giving cause, and to drag him off to a prison or a concentration camp for an indeter- minate time. University professors of medicine were deprived of their chairs as teachers and their re- search laboratories. The results of their efforts were no longer con- | sistent with the social policy of the new rulers who held that the life of the individual was of no account. The offices of the State Sickness In- surance, under Nazi influence, re- fused to pay Jewish doctors for | professional services they had ren- dered to the members of the Sick- ness Insurance. Many thousands of existences were ruined. Suicides on the part of German doctors were frightfully numerous. And the number continues to grow. In other cases inconvenient doctors | were simply murdered. And at. the |same time in the hospitals of Ber- lin. secret wards were organized under the leadership of Nazi doctors, and there the victims of the medi- eval torture and terror methods of the Nazis were treated by “political- ly dependable” doctors. cigs ae ee ALLY, dozens of cases, sub- stantiated by documentary evi- dence, in which compliant Nazi doctors filled in the death cer- tificate with séme harmless sound- ing ailment as cause of death, when a worker, an intellectual, a Jew had been murdered by Nazis. Med- ical science has been degraded to @ will-less tool of an inhuman state system. For teh time being, a Nazi aim has been attained. Among those doctors who were arrested in Berlin immediately after the Reichstag fire were: Dr. Schminke, Municipal Doctor of Neukoelln, a section of Berlin; Dr. Klauber, head of the specialist doc- tors’ group; Dr. Felix Boenheim, pacifist, and eminent hospital phy- sician; and Dr. Max Hodann, expert in social hygiene, of doctors were formed to |against the barbaric Paragraph 216 | The crimes for Soviets,” a new picture from the U. S. S. R. released here by Am- kino. The picture will present the com- plete 1934 May Day Celebration in| Moscow—the first complete showing in America. It will give workers a/ as one belonging to an inferior race. wre: oe | Nees finishing his law course in Harvard, young Davis returned to the south to take up law practice | voice of the oppressed Negro masses jin America, he is certain to prove \the same courageous, far-sighted person that we have known and loved in the south, gilmpse of the largest turnout in | Moscow since the Revolution. Stalin, Molotov, Gorki, Kalinin, Voroshiloft AMUSEMENTS and other leaders reviewed the Red Army and the millions of workers | who marched through Red Square.| Other scenes show activities in| many parts of the Soviet Union.| It presents a graphic picture of life of the Kolhoz (the farm coopera- tives); the Chelyuskin expedition headed by Schmidt and piloted by | Voroni: visits to the Stalingrad tractor plant and the Gorki auto plant; the Snow and Ice Festival in| Leningrad and other important events of 1934. The Maxim Gorki film, “Mother” will remain at the Acme until Mon- day, June 25. AMKINO'S FIRST IN THE LAND OF Beethoven-Spanish ‘Program | To Open Stadium Season | Jose Iturbi has arranged 4 Beeth- oven-Spanish program for the ACM Ee Toa LAST 3 DAYS MAXIM GORKI’S “MOTHER” “1905” Directed by Pudovkin, with Bataloy, of “Road to Life” ——— Coming Tuesday, June 26th -———- AMERICAN SHOWING! THE SOVIETS-1934 ONLY COMPLETE SHOWING OF THF MAY DAY CELEBRATION IN MOSCOW 14th STREET and SQUARE ATRE UNION opening of the seventeenth season of Stadium Concerts at the Lew- — Advertisement - isohn Stadium next Tuesday eve-| ning. The eight week season will include five nights of orchestral music and two nights of opera. Iturbi will conduct the Philhar- | monic-Symphony orchestra in the following program: “Egmont” Over- | ture and Symphony No. 5 in C minor, by Beethoven; Aquarelles, Intermezzo from “Goyescas,” Gran- ados, and Three Dances from “The Three-Cornered Hat” by De Falla. The new seating arrangement at the Stadium will eliminate the last two sections on either side of stone | tiers. Some 8,000 seats will be priced | at 25 and 50 cents. Three sections | of 25 cent seats (about 1.000 seats) will be shifted toward the centre of | amphitheatre in order to give a bet- | ter view of the operas, which will | be presented on Friday and Satur- day evenings. CORRECTION A serious typographical error ap- peared in the article, “A Few Field Notes on the ‘New Deal’” which appeared on this page on Thursday. The sentence, “He runs an open shop, refusing even to allow the As- sociated Silk Workers, whose local membership, headed by Eli Keller, Lovestonite, recently put over a 3 per cent cut on its own member- ship,” should have read, “He runs an open shop, refusing even to al- low the Associated Silk Workers, whose local leadership, etc. AN OPEN LE to SENDER GARLIN and Dear Comrades: in the circulating library is 15c times requires a maximum dep opened several months ago. Shop if # workers. hi donate them to the libra: a minimum deposit. apiece and 3c a day if the book is ke present time all workers book cent Discount Sale which will have been cut Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. or ——RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—. SOth St. & 6th Ave.—Show Place of the Nation—Opens 11:30 A. M. DIANA WYNYARD CLIVE BROOK in “Let's Try Again” AND A GREAT STAGE sHOW which they were to atone consisted in having given more than mere lip service to the aims of their pro- fession. and in having attempted to | track down aad combat sickness to its very ultimate, social causes, (To be continued) of deposit is generally less than the list price. TTER “A Recent Student of the Workers’ School” The Workers Book Shop and Circulating Library at 50 2. 19m &. wishes to correct certain mistatements in a letter in yas- terday’s “Change the World” column: 1) The rate for one week , not 2c as stated, 2) The amount A $2.50 book some- 3) With over 290 hooks osit of $2. outstanding we have lost over 30 books since the library was Imagine the loss to the Workers Book books did not have sufficient deposits. 2 books which they do not use and if they would 4) Many would be glad to lend them out at The Workers Book Shop invites all workers and students to hecome members today, The fee is i8c a weele pt out for § days or less. Books by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and others; books on the Soviet Onion, War, Fascism, Labor Movement and the latest preietarian novels are ready to be read by members of the circulating Mbrary. MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL-— your column ‘and letter did not mention the fact that at the shops are conducting a 20-80 per lend at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 7. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals by International Publishers and various other publishers can be had at a minimum cost. Workers should get their summer supply of literature now while the prices Write for catalogue immediately to the Workers call Algonquin 4-6953, and best of all, visit us as soon as you can. Comradely yours, WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP [cpp THE THEATRE UNION Presents — The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit