The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1934 Page Five \Counsel Exposes' Star Witness in | Victory Frame-Up | Editor’s Note: The following re- Port deals with the second day of Angelo Herndon’s SIEES Ss Story of Treatment | LABORATORY AND SHOP In Fulten Tower ca ome | (As told to Ben Davis, Jry | | By DAVID RAMSEY Notes on Science and Technology | would bleed to death. This remark | the lynch trial in Detroit of James | (Conclusion) M i aP ae able feat has been accomplished by | Vietory, Negro worker framed on | No outside visitors are allowed to | “0nopohes and Pure Science pa ae pa Sone Oe ae a charge of slashing a white see Herndon, although visiting of/ American universities are patent-|gency hospital of Moscow —the woman with a razor. The Inter- | other prisoners is indiscriminately | ing their scientific discoveries for|Sklifassovsky Institute. He has By ORRICK JOHNS national Labor Defense, supported | by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and other militant | organizations is mobilizing a mass made more than 100 blood trans- fusions from dead men to emeére gency patients without any ill re- ults to the latter. permitted. Any day white visitors | profits. Scientists who boast about alk bring in kages the ideals of “pure science” should ch apes ach es : re | take note of scientific institution: white prisoners. A Negro once went | that are exploiting vitally important d E county without a capitalist” nas been found! “Lt is Montgomery County, Illinois, generally regarded as a rich farming and coal-producing district, but State’s Attorney George A. Hall, of Hillsboro, the county seat, says, “there isn’t a capitalist in the county,” so it must be true. Five writers and artists went to Hillsboro from St. Louis, June 15, to try to see Jan Wittenber, Chicago artist, and ten other relief demonstrators, who are in jail at Hillsboro charged with “conspiracy to overthrow the government.” Their bail was placed at $5,000 each, on one charge, and $3,000 on another, and they are liable to terms of 10 years in the penitentiary. . We were refused an interview with the prisoners by Sheriff Seat- hoff, but we had the rare privilege of talking to Mr. Hall. The writer has met some state's attorneys in California, on similar delegations, but this one is really quite original. He has more tricks of innocence than a stage magician. For instance, he is full of sympathy. “Why, I’m a prolarian (sic) myself. I’ve got a wife and three little kiddies, and believe me, before I got this job I had to worry about feeding them. If this was just a case of poor men fighting for food for their families I’d agree with you 100 per cent. A man fighting for his family should have the whole- ‘hearted backing of every decent-minded American citizen. Yes sir.” Wasn't there just a little discrepancy between his proletarian sym- pathies and a charge carrying with it 10 years imprisonment for un- ‘employed yours; men? “They’re not all young and some of them have worked every day.” This is the way a “proletarian State’s Attorney” answers the really important question. But he continues: “You can’t expect me to agree with your ideas, you know. I'm ‘prosecutor of this county.” .. He “got the job,” in other words, so what's “proletarian sympathy!” . “Now there's Muste,” continues Mr. Hall. “He was in here last Sat- urday. He was sitting in the very chair you are in, talking to me.” , | He showed pride at having been visited by such an important man as A. J. Muste, who was arrested a few days later in Belleville and charged with a similar offense to that of the eleven Hillsboro workers. But Muste’s bail is only $2,500. “Muste wants a government of the prolar—er, prodelarian (sic)— by the prodelarian, for the prodelarian. Those are his words, But isn’t that what we got? We're all prodelarians here. There’s never «been anybody but workers jailed here.” It was at this point that he spoke about the “county without a capitalist.” __. “If there’s a capitalist in this county I ought to be in a position to Meet him. No, sir, we've never had any labor troubles here. We're Progressive Miner County, solidly organized—all one happy family.” * . . How the Story Got Twisted ERE three I.L.D, lawyers who were sent from Chicago to represent ‘rr 'the defendants driven out of town? “\ “Now that just shows how these stories will get twisted,” said Mr. Hall, “I'll tell you about that. It’s a little off the record, of course. These lawyers came to see me, and bothered the Sheriff unlocking and locking the doors of the jail, and all that. Then they went over to Nokomis. At Nokomis there’s a vigilante organization. Some of the ‘American Legion are in it, and farmers—the members of the Anti- ‘Horse-Thief Association. I don’t know what -happened—I guess they got. a hint at Nokomis—but the lawyers came back here and packed and left. town. Now you see how those things get reported. They were treated fine here, but people said we drove ‘em out of town, when it was Nokomis.” The system of “division of labor” was working perfectly. Nokomis, ter’ miles ‘away, gets all the blame for terror, while Hillsboro, with lily*white hands, engineers the frame-up. ® . Jan Wittenber “Wandered Away” ‘T counsel have the defendants got? “We assigned good local counsel to them.” (These local attorneys, agents of the ruling class, are the only People allowed to see the defendants.) : “Was Jan Wittenber beaten up while in custody?” .. “Well, that happened this way. Wittenber Was taken over to No- komis for a preliminary hearing in custody of the Sheriff. While he .waa there he ‘wandered away’ from the Sheriff, and the vigilantes got -him. He came back with his shirt torn off.” Hall didn’t mention two black eyes, and other evidences of a terrible beating. k ‘Have you any vigilantes here?” fo, only at Nokomis.” .- “Mr. Hall, isn’t there danger of those men being taken out of jail and Jynched?” «oe Here the State's Attorney in his zeal to defend Hillsboro, at the expense of Nokomis, forgot himself. _* “At Nokomis, yes. But not here; not while we have Sheriff Saat- hoff on the job.” ‘Wouldn't the Sheriff ‘wander away’ and let ’em get into the jail?” ed Joe Jones, St. Louis revolutionary artist. Mr. Hall laughed at that question and asked one himself: “I've never been able to understand why these organizations that ‘want to overthrow the government and constitution always stand on their constitutional rights. Maybe you can tell me.” ...>Maybe he sincerely couldn’t understand this. The “prodelarian _ State’s Attorney” revealed the fact that he doesn’t think the Consti- tution ought to cover all the people. It only ought to protect the com- fortable classes who have no economic needs to fight for. Some theory came up in the answer, though, and he admitted thag “our courts work against the dispossessed class. You call ’em ‘capitalist courts.’ ‘Well, maybe you're right.” ' “Will you prosecute this charge to the limit, Mr. State’s Attorney?” =~ “Of course. We'll convict them, I\think. We've got a lot more on Bese fellows than they have on Muste over at Belleville.” = . . * hey Demonstrated Against Starvation circumstances of the arrests were the usual story. There are ==, demonstrations against starvation, relief and suppression at Noko- and elsewhere, successful demonstrations forcing concessions. Three GBorkers are arrested. When they are tried at Hillsboro, there is a big ‘émonstration in front of the court-house. Tear-gas bombs are thrown, Tivo women are beaten, arrested and released. There is a round-up SF leaders taken at their homes. The usual charges, “vagrancy,” or ut” or “meeting without a permit,” are not considered sufficient. ed-blooded Americans are up and at ’em. They are to be indicted AiKder the “Treason Codes Act,” Section 265, of the Illinois Criminal This is the tsarist sedition law which Illinois with 33 other states, «passed in 1919 during the red scare directed against workers who were sorganizing to get some of the benefits of the war they had fought for “the bankers. Some citizens on the court-house lawn volunteer information in “defiance of the whole Sheriff’s force glaring at them from the window. : saw the demonstration,” says one, a keen-faced American dirt- . “It was peaceable up till the time the tear-gas bombs were Sthrown.” © “Ts the whole town against these prisoners, as “No, the working people are for them.” ~“Did they swear in a lot of deputies?” _“They deputized all the C.W.A. and P.W.A. workers, The C.W.A. _ «workers didn’t do much.” ~““They had to serve or lose their jobs?” “I guess they did.” . officials say?” ‘ ‘ ba t * Fs ae Save the Eleven Hillsboro Prisoners! : eleven Hillsboro prisoners are in great danger. It is clear that a concealed, perfectly-oiled system of legal lynching is prepared against them. They are to be horribly railroaded to long terms, an- sother Imperial Valley case. Tremendous mass pressure is needed at fonce for defense. Wire protests to State’s Attorney George Hall, Mayor "EE. Ludwig and Governor Horner of linois . : . ft . / defense for Victory, supplemented | by legal defense in the bosses | lynch court. * ee | By JAMES LINDAHL (Detroit John Reed Club) | DETROIT, June 25.—Before the brilliant cross-questioning of Mau- petence of Mrs. Agnes Kaye, the| State's principal witness, crumbled. | The woman’s phenomenal recollec- tion of every detail of the alleged attack grew fantastically improbable | even ordinary observation and ac- | astray by evident Negro-phobia into concocting a monstrously far- fetched story. This woman who could, so she said, see the missing teeth of her mysterious assailant, estimate his weight and age (‘39-40”), was con- fessedly unable to remember the movie she had seen that very after- noon, was unable to recall the hat that James Victory was wearing when forced to appear before her in both official and unofficial “show- up.” Maurice Sugar also brought to light facts which substantiate the defense’s claim that James Victory was unscrupulously framed: Mrs. Kaye was invited by the Conners Creek Station polic to come over and “look at a man who fits your description.” When James Victory appeared and crossed the room be- fore Mr. and Mrs, Kaye, the hys- terical woman was tactfully relieved of all. possibility of doubt by the presence beside Victory of the two policemen who had come for. the couple. To all purposes the subtle Suggestion was a complete success. Mrs. Kaye dramatically “recognized” him as the alleged assailant and meee fainted in approved fash- | ion, To clinch matters the police tact- fully suggested that the identifica- tion was “not exactly official” and would the lady be so kind as to| appear next day downtown and/ Pick-out Her “assailant” in the legal | manner. Mrs, Kaye obligingly did. She made a perfect score: out of twenty-five Negroes, whom she had never seen before, she cleverly picked-out James Victory as the been impressed on her in the private show-up of twenty-four hours pre- eed whose features had naturally lous. The second day of the trial con- cluded after three hours of un- paralleled examination by Maurice Sugar of Mrs, Kaye. The real facts of the case were clearly apparent to the public which had flocked to the courtroom. The supporters of James Victory were out in full-force, despite the now covert terrorism of the police. The defendant by his quiet conduct, his unquestionable evidence of honesty and innocence, left no doubt in the minds of the audience as to his being crudely framed by the fascist powers of Detroit. WHAT’S ON Wednesday OPEN Meeting of Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St., 8:30, followed by showing of latest newsreels. No admis~ sion charge. All members please be present, MUSICALE by Comrade Kurtz, 916 48th St., Brooklyn, at 8:30. Auspices, Harry Sims Br. LL.D. Refreshments. OPEN AIR Rally, cor. 170th St. and Grant Ave., Bronx, 8:30. Auspices, Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U. Good speakers. OPEN FORUM at Memorial Hall, 346 W. 36th St., 2 p.m. Auspices, Needle Trades Women’s Committee of American League Against War and Fascism. Anne Schultz will be present. All Needle Trades work- ers urged to attend. Adm. free. WORKERS. Book Shop 20-50 per cent discount sale ends July 7, Saturday. Take advantage now. Write for catalogue. Join Circulating Library, 50 E. 13th St. Many specials available. DO NOT MAKE any engagements for July 4 if you do not want to miss An- nual Picnic of Communist Party, New York District, to be held at North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, L. I. Sports, Games, Theatre, Dancing. Lots. of fun. REPORT will be given on Soviet Union, tonight at 7:30, 108 E. 14th St., Room 202, by Roumanian delegate just returned from Soviet Union. Adm. free. Thursday DANOE-Parewell Party to active mem- bers of F.S.U. going to Soviet Union. Speakers, Gertrude Hutchinson and Susan Woodruff at Irving Plaza, 8:30, Excellent entertainment. Delicious refreshments, Valhalla Club Orchestra for dancing. SOVIET CHINA—Discussion on current events led by John Phillips at Friends of Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. Room 12, Adm. free. Friday CELEBRATE Ninth Anniversary Inter- national Labor Defense at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. 4th St., Friday, June 29, 8 p.m. Film of Sacco-Vanzetti will be shown, Also Mass Pageant. Allen Taub, Carl Brodsky, F. Biedenkapp, John Howard Lawson, James Ford will speak. Adm. 15c. BUILD & Telegraph Messengers Union. Attend en masse gala dance-entertainment Friday, June 20, St Ofee Workers Union, Sunday PICNIC of Bronx Workers Clubs, Pleas- ant Bay Perk Sunday, July 1. In I~ vance 15c. AB gate 25c. Tickets at Pros- pect, Bronx, Jerome, Allerton, Middle Bronx Clubs. Entertainment. ‘Dancing. Sports. Refreshments. Philadelphia, Pa. JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle for Negro Rights and International Labor cee Sunday, July i, at Burnholme ark. FILM and Photo League of Phila. First still exhibition “Men at Work’ opening Friday, June 22 to July 9 at John Reed an 136 S. 8th St. Week days: 12 a.m. p.m, REPORT will be given on Soviet Union Wednesday, 7:30, at 108 E. 14th St. Room 202, by Roumanian delegate just returned. Adm. free. The Daily Worker gives you the truth about conditions in the Soviet Union, the truth about workingclass strikes in the United States and abroad. Buy the Daily Worker at newsstands, rice Sugaf, defense counsel of James |} Victory, the composure and com- |} as she revealed herself incapable of | | curacy. What indisputably emerged | | was the spectacle of a woman led |! SECRET DEVICE—Concealed spring distends the mouth in the | bright, Aryan smile on which the Nazis are now insisting to combat | “panic psychology.” —Efrimov in “Isvestia,” official organ of the Soviet Government. TO ALL WORKERS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS ee WITTENBER, prominent Chicago artist, is held in Hillsboro, Tilinois, on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the U. S. govern- | ment, under the old Criminal Syndicalist law. Together with ten || others, who were organizing the unemployed, Wittenber was arrested | on May 31 and beaten and dragged out of the court-room. | The prisoners are on the tenth day of their hunger strike in pro- ]| test against the vicious treatment and exorbitant bail. Three of them ]| are on the verge of a dangerous collapse. They will remain in jail till November, when the Grand Jury meets, || unless a protest campaign frees them. Telegrams and letters de- Mmanding their release should be sent at once to Sheriff Saathoff, || States Attorney Hall, as well as to the Hillsboro Journal and Mont- || |we inquiredg |licitor John a fanatile on | plain that |down to see Herndon on the “eol- | ored visiting day” but. the jailer | | told him:> “You'll have to come/lessly cut by the crisis after hours to see that nigger Hern- don,” although it is very obvious that if a Negro visitor is not per- mitted to visit during the regular hours that he will not be admitted after hours. Even when fruit is left at the prison for Herndon, the guards slice the bananas in halves and crush the oranges under the guise of preventing any weapons from being smuggled into Herndon.| However, the effect of this practice is to make the fruit unfit for use when it reaches Herndon. Either it is spoiled or too badly damaged. | * 'HE terror against Herndon also extends to his attorneys. The) jailer, Bob Holland, refuses to per- mit private consultation to attor-| neys, since the Supreme Court decision. When about literature sent to Hern- don, the jailer said Asst. So- Hudson hald§ taken it lal. § Asst. Hudson is ‘insurrect i\o n- ry” literature § and derives a fiendish glee from procuring indictments on this old slave law. It is very since discoveries, in order to bolster re- | manufacturers were turned down, F| development of search budgets that have been ruth- ous examples of these monopolies are the pat out by the University of Wi on the Steenbock process t vitamin D (of great importance in preventing rickets amtong ‘children) | s; | to certain foods, and by the Uni- |; versity of St. Louis on Theelin, tt female sex hormone discovered by Dr, E. A. Doissy of that institution, Since the University of Wisconsin is interested in the economic ex- Ploitation of its discovery, and not in applying its knowledge so that children of workers and farmers could be cured of rickets, it is not | surprising that it all but sold its discovery to several large cosmetic concerns anxious to put the sun- shine vitamin into their lipsticks. The cosmetic people, as well as soda water, chewing gum, and candy because it was thought that they were more interested in splash ad- vertising than in seeing that per- sons got their proper amount of vitamins, (!) This is but one example of the growing tendency of - American science to become a_ business proposition. It is a reflection of its need for funds, denied to it by decaying capitalism, that spends money only for war purposes. The the shopkeeper’s ideology among scientists is due in large part to the corrupt influence that capitalist civilization upon all social institutions. It is significant that while bourgeois scientists prate about the generosity of the rich to science, the actual burden of subsidizing scientific re- Bleeding victims of traffic accie dents and other emergencies were brought to the institute in such’ large numbers that the regular sup- ply of blood from live donors was not lent to save all of them. Judine observed that ith these patients the in- mbulances were bringing ms of heart attacks and who had died on the way. He hit upon the idea of using the blood of the dead men to save the living. Careful study by his associates and himself showed that the blood of these dead people remained germ-free and alive for eight hours after death. It was found that tests to determine the blood group and tests for-syphilitic infection could be made until four fours after death, On the basis of these facts Profes- sor Judine’s idea was applied to pae tients all of whom recovered with out any unfavorable reactions. The ‘institute has now systema< tized Professor Judine’s discovery. It now collects blood from dead men regularly for use in transfusions, The blood is taken from the jugular vein of the dead man and stored in large jars containing sodium citrate solution to keep clots from appear- ing. Tests for blood groups and syphilis are made, and the blood is then stored in a refrigerator at nearly a freezing temperature. It can stand two weeks of such stor- age and still be living and germe free. exerts | Some Summer Moonshine An example of the stupidity and futility that characterizes most of gomery News—all at Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois. Goy- ernor Horner should also be petitioned. NATIONAL BOARD, JOHN REED CLUBS Joseph Freeman Louis Lozowick Oakley Johnson Hugo Gellert Bernard J. Stern “Brains Behind Barbed Wire”-German Writers, Scientists Persecuted EDUCATORS 'HE Nazis never fail to take ad- vantage of every opportunity to proclaim pridefully that the “Revo- lution” which they have staged, will determine the German spirit “for centuries to come.” Hence it is su- perfluous to emphasize that educa- tion is an essential point of van- tage for their epidemics of altera- tion. * * Nazi Dr. Rust HE first official act of the Prus- sian Minister of Culture, Dr. Rust,* was to double the reading and lending fees of the great Prus- sian State Library in Berlin. Shortly thereafter followed the repeal of all those rules through which the republican school au- thorities had limited—though by no means eliminated—corporal pun- ishment in the German schools. Those articles of the German Con- stitution which directed that youth should be brought up in the spirit of international friendship and of peace between peoples, have now become mere platonic demands. In sharp contrast to the binding form in which these articles are framed, observing them has brought with it troubles of various sorts for pacifist pedagogues. The Rod and the Child N OFFICIAL article of the Nazi party pointed out that in the present situation, not the peda- gogue of wide learning, but the “drill sergeant” was needed in the schoolrooms of Germany. From then on the last remnants of a progressive pedagogy were stamped out in Germany officially as well as actually. The results of research in child psychology were termed un- manly and sickly drivelling about humanity. The application and ob- servation of the facts of psycho- analysis were termed crimes against the soul of the child. And the ob- servance of the binding provisions of the Constitution affecting edu- cation, has become national treason pure and simple. German schools have become military barracks in which youth is to be educated in the spirit of the Nazi chauvinism, to be made ready for the next World . | War. The bailiffs of the Third Reich by no means omitted the modern ped- agogues from their proscription lists the night after the Reichstag fire. All teachers who at any time drew down on themselves -suspi- cion of Marxist, pacifist, or even liberal attitudes were ousted from their posts under humiliating cir- cumstances. Thus, among otiiers in the jails of the Third Reich were incarcer- ated two practical school reform- ers who,’in their lives and profes- sions, had been travelling very dis- ferent ways: the Berlin Superior Director of Education (Oberstudi- endirektor) and Social-Democrat, Siegfried Kawerau; and the Com- * Dr. Rust retired from the Ger- man educational system on the ground of insanity. He recently announced that all teachers un- friendly to, or insufficiently en- thusiastic about, the Hitler regime had been expelled from, their posts. munist delegate to the Prussian Diet, Superior Councillor of Educa- tion (Oberstudienrat), Dr. Fritz Auslaender. * Dr, Siegfried Kawerau ‘AWERAU was the son of a fam- ily composed of pastors and scholars for centuries back. He be- longed to the prophets of the uni- fied schoo] (Einheitschule) in Ger- many. He became head of one of the biggest and most modern pro- gressive preparatory schools (Auf- bau Gymnasien) in Germany, To a certain extent he realized the idea of independent co-operative work by the students, and the non- authoritative comradeship in the re- lationship between teacher and student. He did not see the realiza- tion of the right of the worker’s child to advanced education corre- sponding to ability, though in his opinion this desiratum could be at- tained within the Weimar Republic. Higher education remained—in the Republic as in the Empire under the Hohenzollerns—reserved for the children of the upper classes of so- ciety. This was not altered by the existence of the little islands of modern progressive schools like whe one conducted by Dr. Kawerau. * en 8 * Dr. Fritz Auslaender HE path followed by Dr. Fritz Auslaender was, as we have said, ancther. Wis fight on behalf of the proletarian child he had to atone for with the loss of his position in the school system of the German Republic. Thereafter Auslaender influenced school policy frein the platform and in the commissions of the Legislature of the Prussian State. Under the Government of the Social-Democratic Chanceilor, Hermann Mueller, he conducted a fight for “Food for Children in- stead of Battle Cruisers for the Navy,” which agitated wide circles of the German people. What has happened to the two of them—Kawerall and Auslaender— in the darkness of their prison cells, can only be surmised. Friends who had an opportunity to see Kawerau report that it was impossible to talk with him: he remains silent even to urgent questions, and in- stead of answering chews at his underwear. . . . (To Be Concluded Tomorrow) Milwaukee Musicians Protest Imprisonment of Ernst Thaelmann MILWAUKEE—Twenty-six mem- bers of the Milwaukee Philharmonic Orchestra signed a round robin pro- test against the persecution of anti- Fascists by the Hitler government and demanded the release of Ernst Thaelmann and all other political prisoners in German concentration camps. JAIL FRENCH COMMUNISTS CANNES, June 25.—Four Com- munists have received sentences of six months imprisonment or less. for the disorders arising out of a demonstration by the Fascist Fiery Cross on June 13, it was learned today. Angelo Herndon the State has ‘been thwarted in its efforts |to have Herndon sent out to the chain-gang that it has brought |its chain-gang tactics into Fulton | Tower, Every possible means of | communication with Herndon from the outside world is very uncertain. His mail is arbitrarily held up; he receives nothing to read; his attor- neys are not allowed to consult with him as attorneys. | I asked Herndon whether he knew | of the tremendous May Day cele- brations throughout the United States. He stated: “I haven't read a word about May Day. They won't let me have anything about it to read.” | Courage Firm Despite Increased Torture I also asked whether he had any| suggestions about how to improve | conditions for him in jail. He re- plied that “every effort ought to be} intensified to establish a special status for political prisoners. I think that if a delegation could be or- ganized to come here and visit me, demanding that I be permitted to read literature such as I want, it} would help a great deal.” | Despite the increase of torture against Herndon since the Supreme Court ruling, he remains a sturdy, rugged revolutionary leader. Only twenty-one years old, he stands as one of the most remarkable leaders of the international working class movement, a type that only the working class could bring forth. His courage grows daily. He is objective to the most minute significance of his imprisonment—never whimper- ing, but always realizing that his case is but the monstrous attack of | the ruling landlords and industrial- | ists of the South on the Negro peo- ples and the working class as a whole, | FASCISTS, ANTI-FASCISTS CLASH IN ENGLAND BRISTOL, England, June 23.—A policeman was seriously injured and a number of minor injuries were reported here yesterday when anti- fascists and fascists clashed fol- lowing a meeting of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts. TUNING IN| 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Enzo Aita, Songs 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano WiZ—Result of Poll on ‘Roosevelt Policies—Sports High Spots WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Choosing a Career in Indus- try—Alfred P. Sloan, President General Motors WOR—The O’Neilis—Sketch Wdz—Jewols. of Enchantment— Sketch, With Irene Rich WABC—Jimmy Kemper, Songs 7:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—Joseph Mendelsohn, Baritone WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF-—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—The Out-Throat King—Sketch WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitainy Ensemble 4:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:30-WEAF—Dance Orchestra WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian Mail, Central Park wi Nino Martini, Tenor; Kos- telahetz Orchestra 9:30-WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WJZ—Cavalier of the Strects — Sketch, With Adolphe Menjou and Veree ‘Teasdale, Actors WABC—Looking at Life—Roy Helton 45-WOR—Dramatized News WABO—Emery Deutsch, Violin 10:00-WEAF—Hillbilly Music WIZ—Lopex Orchestra; Telk—Ed . Sullivan; Male Quartet WABC—Rebroadcast Byrd Expedition 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas—Bdward Tomlinson, Author WOR—Robison Orchestra WJZ—Denny Orchestra; Richman, Songs WABC—Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thibault, Baritone 11:00-WEAF—Ferdinando Orchestra WOR—Dance Orchestra Harry | from alcohol. |a prohibitive price. Mm bourgeois social science is given by search is borne by the working and | a. series of conclusions that Dr. Rex lower middle classes in the form . 5 of taxes and in the form of pay-| ford B. Hersey of the Wharton ments for the purchase of vital| School of Finance and Commerce, needs that are held in the grip of | has reached with the aid of the monopolies, from U. S. Steel down | latest social techniques. The pro- to Wisconsin Vitamin D. fessor “studied” American and Gere x : ;man workers and came to the fol< On the Scientific Front lowing conclusions: in the U.S. S. R. | 1) The German worker ts more |concerned with “financial” matters A young Soviet chemist, Basil) than workers in the United States. Sharkov, who is only 26 has re-| 2) The American worker derives cently perfected a method whereby |70 times more emotional stimulus a whole group of valuable sub-| from the weather than he does from stances including synthetic rubber | Politics. can be produced from ordinary; 3) Only 2 per cent of the Ameri- sawdust, can workers’ emotional stimu In the Soviet Union synthetic | Come from economic problems. rubber is produced on a large scale; Professor Georg Wilhelm yon German. scientists | Rutzlputzl, the eminent student of had discovered a new and econom- | emotional: stimuli, when confronted ical..way of, making alcohol which} with the professor's. findings re- the ‘Soviet government endeavored | fused to be quoted sbutcwas heard to buy for its rubber plants, but | to mutter—‘Hooey”—the sociolog- the German chemical trust asked| ical phrase that he has coined for In that won-| all forms of rubbledubble. derful spirit that proves that no -. 5 task is too difficult for a Bolshevik, |The Application of Scienee young Sharkov solved the problem | {g Social Problems and scored another victory for So- cialism. His process consists of] The United States is the land of treating saw dust with sulphuric|the most highly developed tech- lacid in the presence of steam at/ nology. But it is also the land fairly high temperatures. This | where about 80 per cent of the pop- produces a sugar which is then fer- | ulation are now living at, or below, mented to make alcohol, from which |a minimum standard of health and in turn synthetic rubber is gotten. | pn as fe a merece is rf d- | important for the capital run re gee PRET and down science, to claim that science culture, Sharkov did not monopolize | pesca paola «ee pee his discovery and sell it to a} whiskey trust or a rubber. girdle farmers. company. He turned his discovery! Bigshot scientists are drafted to over to the workers and peasants | bolster these false contentions. Only who are utilizing it for the good ia few days ago Dr. Irving Langmuir, of everyone, and not to make prof-| winner of the 1932 Nobel prize in its for @ few capitalists. Ten plants| chemistry (and one of the highly are being built which will produce | paid experts of the General Elec- 660,000 gallons of alcohol annually. tric Company) told the graduating Most of the plants will be located | students of Union College that sci- in Siberia where furniture and other woodworking factories will be established whose sawdust by- products will be utilized for Shar- kov's process. Death and Profits People who are fond of reaching they have headaches are running the risk of getting agranulopenia — a fatal bone marrow disease. Drs. Roy R. Krackl and Francis R. Parker of the Emory University School of Medicine have conducted experiments proving that certain well-known headache remedies bring on the fatal disease which has caused over 1,300 deaths in the United States in the past three years. The headache remedies are made from coal-tar derivatives whose chemical structure is changed in the stomach to quinone which is the poisonous substance that produces the bone marrow disease. Agranulopenia, it has beén found, is twice as common among women as among men. This is a significant fact, since women use headache remedies to relieve periodic pains as Wwell'as headaches. New Life from Dead Bodies A soviet surgeon is using the blood of dead people to save the lives of patients who otherwise for a high-powreed tablet every time | entific methods cannot be applied to our economic problems. He |claimed that in any economic cri- | sis, “the complexity of the problem | is so great and the amount of avail- | able data is so meagey that the value of scientific method almost wholly disappears.”. Dr. Langmuir is tak- jing refuge in the old bourgeois stall about the lack of data and the com- plexity of social problems. As a | matter of fact once the proletariat | sets -up a workers’ republic as in | the Soviet Union, the “insoluble” | social problem becomes amenable to. | scientific treatment. |, The building of Socialism implies |the applitation of scientific plan- | ning to society and its needs. Under | the Soviet system there is a “com- plexity” of problems, but they are all solved, because scientific method is actually applied by the working class to all its difficulties. It is under capitalism that the “value of scientific. method disappears” when. it is applied to the social |Scene by bourgeois experts. It dis- | appears beeause scientific facts and | profits are incompatible. The ap- plication of. scientific, methods to so= cial. problems. waits upon the real |ization of the victory of the work= ~ |ing class. 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