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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934 Page Five | CHANGE | a || WORLD! ‘(German Notes: ‘From Diary of, a U.S. Seamen By an American Seaman | 'OMING up the Elbe River ap- “ proaching Hamburg we kept| Words for Marching Song For Anti-War Demonstrations By BARNEY CONAL War is murder of the masses. Fascists feed it, give it birth. Two New Vital Pamphlets on NegroProblem. IMPERIALISM DESTROYS THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA—by James W. Ford. Price 1 cemt. | LABORATORY AND SHOP Notes on Science and Technology jeffort to precipate the moisture in | the air. These attempts are still in @ very experimental stage. dissipation of fog The objective to be attained is a Tay 2 | . MaEY War’s the death-wage of the bosses, |THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND| By DAVID RAMSEY THE EMANCIPATION OF THE | Conquering Fog NEGRO PEOPLE, by Earl Brow- | HE chemical looking at the small villages that the river curved near. No signs of disorder as far as we could see. But By SENDER GARLIN : : Devasting life and earth. Em nko General John F. O'Ryan, Police Commissioner, New York City. Dear John: Let me congratulate you and Fiorello on the speedy and efficient (What a Banker Might Write te O’Ryan) manner in which you organized that rifle squad as a precaution against anything suchyas occurred on the Pacific Coast recently. We in the Union League Club feel that this is a splendid beginning, and will go & long way toward giving a real feeling of security against any possible labor troubles. 3 There are, however, a number of additional suggestions that we should like to make that may perhaps make more effective the pro- Sram we discussed when we met for lunch the other day. I do not want you to feel, of course, that this in any way implies criticism of what you have accomplished thus far. On the contrary, what we Propose is something which will make our campaign against dangerous agitators even more thoroughgoing. Now, John, that rifle squad of 1,200 men is a fine thing, and I am glad to see that you have already started drilling them. Moreover, your statements to the press are excellent. By insisting that the or- ganization of the unit had no connection with threatened labor troubles, you. suceeed in concealing its rea] aim. And, in asserting that the “unit is a good protective measure likely to demand respect from any group of agitators as soon as they appeared on the scene,” you are wisely following the lead of Mayor Rossi and Governor Merriam of California, who had such signal success in ending the recent unpleas- antness on the Pacific Coast. Some of the boys at the club had a number of additional ideas which I think you ought to take up seriously, John,.in following the rifle-squad plan te a logical conclusion, so to speak. Summarized briefly, they are as follows: That work be started at once with the view of digging trenches in strategic sections of the city, particularly where there may be grumblers against the relief that is dispensed by the city. This would, of course, not take in the entire city, but would perhaps include most of Manhattan (exclusive of the fashionable residential districts); most of Brooklyn (exclusive of the fashionable residential districts); most of the Bronx, and such sections of Queens as Long Island City, where there are a quite a large number of people who are either unable— or, for the most part—unwilling to take jobs. These trenches, I needn't tell you, General, would be extremely ef- fective in stamping out discontent and would serve notice on all the malcontents that they cannot trifle with the La Guardia administra- tion. Police could work very effectively from these trenches. Another suggestion: There is no doubt that the police rifle regi- ment which has just begun its drills will in the course of time have to be increased in size. While you have been extremely discreet in maintaining comparative silence on that point, we must all agree that gas attacks upon the grumblers of the city will have to be made from time to time in order to maintain law and order. Since the gas attacks will necessarily be directed against large groups in various parts of the city, there is a danger that innocent citizens on their way to business may suffer. This has already on one or two occasions. ‘We would therefore suggest that, just as you are planning to register all labor leaders—especially of the radical stripe—that you register all citizens of the city who are not likely to be involved in strike, demon- strations, and other disturbances. The registration completed, your flepartment could then provide each of these citizens with a gas mask so that in case of a city-wide attack upon the riff-raff, there shall be no innocent victims. What do you think of this suggestion, John? One or two more points: Have you made a thorough study of all of the methods used by Hitler and Mussolini? Perhaps you ought to give some thought to the formation of a “Schutzstaffel,” that is Picked Storm-Troops whose job it would be—like in Germany—to make short shrift of such seditious organizations: as cooperative societies, inflammatory newspapers (like the Daily Worker, for example), work- ers’ camps, libraries, schools, cultural organizations, film groups where Russian pictures are shown, etc. Also, General, have you thought of getting an aide, say of the Goering type in.Germany. A man of action, dynamic and ruthless in his dealings with malcontents. Certainly there are sufficient con- nections with the underworld to make it possible to make a contact with a man of the Goering type. I am certain, John, that the Nazis haye no monopoly on dope-fiends and degenerates, Or, perhaps, you could get a man of the Lawrence Dennis type who has a private fascist. group of his own, to take charge of publicity, after the fashion of Mr. Goebbels in Germany, who has charge of the Department of Propaganda and Education, In this activity we have, of course, the facilities of Station WNYC, and I have ho doubt that others of the major radio stations would be only too eager to arrange for national hook-ups. I was delighted, for example, to hear our friend Joe Ryan, President of the International Longshoremen’s Assn., lace it into the Reds when he spoke on the San Francisco trouble over WEVD last Friday night. (N. ¥. Times, June 28, 1934, early edition), On the whole, John, I don’t think you ought to feel a bit down- hearted. The organization of the Rifle Squad is a splendid beginning, and if you take up the additional suggestions I have given you in your customary energetic fashion, I am certain that you will produce excellent results. Remember that Hitler, who now holds the high post of Chancellor of Germany, was a nobody ten years ago. Moreover, while Hitler was only a house-painter, and, I understand, a poor one at that—you, John, have the advantages of army training. If these suggestions are carried out effectively—and I am certain that it can be done under the direction of a man of your calibre— the LaGuardia administration should have no difficulty in obtaining additional loans either from my bank or any of the other reputable institutions, Call me up some time, General, any time, Affectionately yours, (Signed) PIMPEL WINDSHIELD, Pres. Windshield & Windshield, Bankers. TUNING IN 7:00 P.M,-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Footlight Ech a Ww ts Resume—Ford Prick Ws2—Goldman Band Concert, on WABO—Enso ‘Alte, Songs WABG_Delrolt dynenens Oreh, 1:15-WBAF—Gene and’ Glenn—Sketch Vietor ‘Kolar, Conductor WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano 9:30-WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WABC—Vera Van, Songs 9:45-WOR—Dramatized News 1:30- lan Bucknam, Songs 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orch. Wo2_yevels of Enchantment — Wale betel ‘ ‘ABC—Broadeas' Sketch, with Irene Rich ( ra ee toin; 5 10:15-WOR—Ourrent Events—H. E. Read 10:80-WEAF—Other Americas—Edward WoR-Hobiton Orch. WJZ—Denny Orch.; Harry Richman, WABC—Mary Eastman, Soprano; WABO—Poul Keast, Baritone © of the Skillet WOR—To be announced ‘WJZ—Frank Buck’s Adventures ‘WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orch. 1:4: W)Z—Madriguera Oren. 4 Wabo-Manine, Songs; Spitalny En- 11:00-WBAP Moser Halted = semble Wwor— Kehn Orch. WJZ—Coleman Orch. WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs 11:15-WJZ—Robert Royce, Songs WARC—Little Orch. 11:30-WEAF—National Forum WOR—Berrens Orch, WJZ—Bestor Orch. WABC—Little Oren. [46 WaBO—Dalley Oreh, :00-WEAF—Dance Music (Also WOR, WJZ, WABO) 8:15-WABO—Emery Deutsch, Violin 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orch. WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WsZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone; WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone: Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Arden Oreh.; Mixed Chorus 8:45-W1%—OM the Record—Thornton Fisher 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian: Song- smiths Quartet; Hayton Orch, the New York papers a week before had prepared us for some trouble in Germany. In our ship’s Union paper we had stressed the fact that we must be prepared to sup- port a longshoremen’s strike in Hamburg.’ Our feeling, the crew of the ship, was that we were sailing into a tense, perhaps, revolutionary situation. Tied up to the dock, we still saw nothing. Men worked as before. Several of us took the ferry from the ship over to the left bank of the river where Hamburg lays. A hot sunny day, the harbor dead as usual, no shir@ing around, the great cement, ‘incly mechanized docks lying idle as they have for several years now. An elderly man sitting alongside me spoke in Ger- man, “Are you from the American ship?” “Yes, we're sailors on the ship,” I answered. “A fine ship,” he said. A few non-essentials then I asked him about the June 30th executions. “What executions?” he asked amazed. “Haven't you heard?” I too amazed. “No!” I told him about what we had read in the States, the ex- ecution of Roshm, Schleicher, etc. “We heard a speech of Goering two days ago. He said five men were executed in Berlin for mutiny. He didn’t say who they were.” On shore in Hamburg I verified what the old man had said, there had been no news about the exe- cutions save Goering’s speech say- ing five men had been executed for mutiny in the Storm troops, and no names given, and today was the tenth of July. Ten days after the executions. Party comrades on shore had some suspicions that some suspicion that something more was up. But the illegal Party press is put out by the lower Party units and deals mostly with local, neigh- borhood, town city problems and developments. But news had fil- tered in from Berlin that something big had happened. Three days later, July 13th, Hit- ler made his “great” speech, great mostly in time. People listening to the speech were amazed. Amazed and very much excited. A young Party comrade in Ham- burg spoke thus to me: “It is a matter of this month or next month, the uprising!” An older comrade smiled and said,.“A month. That is ton short a perspective. Say six months." A month . . . six months! The vanguard of the workers are characterized by this fierce leaning forward for the revo- lutionary situation to mature, for the barricades to be erected. The long months grinding out as the workers and middle-classes, poor farmers become more and more dis- illusioned in the Nazis. AALS: ON Wednesday FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCH) members meet at 4 p.m. at 106 E. 14th St. from. where we will proceed to the demonstration. OPEN Film & N } IP MEETING, Photo League, 12 E. 17th St., 8:30 p.m., followed by report on Case of Herman Blander vs. Cinelab and discussion of Nazi Persecution of Jewish jobholders in New York City. 9:30 p.m. No admission charge. All invited. JAMES FORD lectures on “Negro Prob- is." National Student League, 114 W. t., 6:30-8 p.m. Adm. I5e. W.LR. DANCING CLASS at Brighton Workers Genier, 3200 Coney Island Ave., 8:30 p.m, Auspices W.LR. of Brighton Beach. SACCO-VANZETTI BR. LL.D. member- ship meeting postponed for Thursday. All members attend anti-war demonstration, Thursday SYMPOSIUM—China Depicted in Cur- rent Fiction—A Political and Literary analysis of recent novels about China. Speakers: H. &. Chan, John Phillips, Con- rad Komorowski. Well-known writers have heon invited to take part in general dis- gussion, Auspices Friends of thi nese People, 168 W. 33rd St., Room 12, 8:30 Pm. Adm. 15c. oar ate OUTING TO CAMP KINDERLAND on Sunday, August 5th at 7 a.m., arranged for the benefit of Ouhan ¥.C.L. Register in advance, evening at 1662 Madison Ave., near 110th St. Round trip $1.00. STAGE and SCREEN Elmer Rice’s New Play “Judgment Day” Sept. 12) “Judgment Day,” Elmer Rice's new play, is announced to open on Sept. 12 at the Belasco Theatre, as the first of a series of three new lays he will produce this season. ‘asting for “Judgment Day,” which calls for 37 ers, will begin this week. The other plays by Mr. Rice, titled “Between Two Worlds” and “Not for Children,” will follow later. The American Children’s Thea- tre, a new group of professional actors who will stage plays for chil- dren, has taken over the Cosmo- politan Theatre for their produc- tions, which are scheduled to open in October with “The Chinese Nightingale,” a fantastic comedy. - Paramount To Offer 64 Features Next Season Paramount announces some 64 bert; “The Lives of a Bengal Lan cer,” with Gary Grant; “R. U. R.,.” from the Karl Capek play; “She Loves Me Not,” with Miriam Hop- kins; “Back Porch,” with W. C. Fields; “ Gilded Lily,” with Claudette Colbert; “Limehouse Nights,” with Sylvia Sidney “The World ves On,” a Fox film, will open today at the Radio City Music Hall. Madeline Carroll and Franehot Tone are the fea- tured players. : dane Wyatt will play an impor-. tant role in “Great Expectations,” a | sereen version of the Charles Dick- ens novel whieh Stuart Walker will direet for Universal. Henry Hull will star in the production Wake! Men and women, workers! Break! War and Fascism down! See, the fascist-profits gather! See, the murder-pact is sealed! Blood of child and hope of mother, Splashed across the street and field. Wake! Men and women, workers! Break! War and Fascism down! Poison gas and deadly vermin, Breed within the banker’s vault. Rise, you masses, men and women, Leap the guns and eall the halt! Wake! Men and women, workers! Break! War and Fascism down! Fascists are the bosses’ henchmen, Traitor-scabs to all mankind. Rise, you plundered men and women! Steel the heart and free the mind! Wake! Men and women, workers! Break! War and Fascism down! Stop munition shipments, shoremen! Close the death-shops, workers, free! Soldiers, turn against the madmen! The workers’ world our victory! the news headlines we had read in | der. Price 1 cent. Negro Problems Pamphlet issued by the Harlem Section of the Com- | munist Party. ITH Bolshevik thoroughness Comrade Ford rips the hypo- | critical mask from the agents of | imperialism. In his expose of the jreal conditions of the African | masses, particularly the Negro chil- dren, in the imperialism, at the “Save the Chil- dren of Africa Conference,” at Gen- eva, Switzerland, Ford shows these | oppressors and lynchers of the Ne- | gro people in tehir role, and the way | out for the oppressed nations. With | statistics compiled by the imperialist | governments themselves and ports from native Africans, Ford | paints the panorama of horror and cruelty of colonial exploitation. Reviewed by FORGE | | This indictment of imperialism | now comes to us in the form of a pamphlet. It is part of a series | of penny brochures just published | by the Harlem Section of our Party. |In its 16 small pages a wealth of material on this problem of world | significance is presented. It is of | great value to all revolutionary workers. But is indispensable to the | Communists in Harlem. Here we |get a clear-cut view of the world- | wide fight against racial oppression | of the Negro people and its connec- tion with the struggle for national liberation of the Negro masses in the United States. Simultaneously with the publica- tion of “Imperialism Destroys the People of Africa,” by Ford is issued another penny pamphiet in this series. “The Communist Party and the Emancipation of the Negro People,” by Earl Browder, is that part of the report of the Eight Party Convention in which Comrade Browder deals with the Communist stand on the Negro problem. Al- though it was no doubt read by most readers of the Daily Worker in the complete report of the Con- vention, in the form of this pam- phlet it make a forceful presenta- tion of the Communist position on | this question. Both these pamphlets should gain | widespread circulation among the Negro masses of Harlem as well as all Party members. They will do a great deal in raising the under- | standing of our main problem among our members and win many Negro and white workers to our correct position on Negro liberation. From the First World War to the Second IV. THE THANKS OF THE FATHERLAND During four and a half years the masses of toilers of every country sacrificed their lives and possessions on the altar of capitalist profit. During four and a half years they allowed themselves to be slaughtered and made into cripples, they allowed their wives and children to toil and rot in the hell of the armament factories, their fields to be laid waste and the basis of their existence destroyed. And all this happened during a period when the possessing class was pocketing rich war profits, “You are sure of the thanks of the Fatherland,” they shrieked into the ears of the soldiers at the front and those left behind in the country. Fif- teen yéars have passed since the ending of the World War, but the “thanks of the Fatherland” have not yet made their appearance, Where is the soldier from the front, war invalid, war widow or war orphan who can say, in what country can the working class as a, whole say, that they have been able to perceive and appreciate the “thanks of the fatherland?” When the masses of the workers returned from the front, they found the conditions of production and family relations at home undermined, the fac- tory gates closed and a general increase of priees and taxes. The war brought with it a tremendous intensification of the international class struggle. Tf, for the ruling class, the war was excellent busi- ness, for the wide masses.of the toilers it meant death, starvation, suffering and desperation. After four and a half years of unspeakable deprivations and death perils, the soldiers from the front re- turned home full of hate against the rulers. Full of hate against the rulers were also the wives who had been left behind, rebbed of their husbands and sons, subjected to the most shameless exploita- tion in the hell of the munition factories and left to suffer want and starvation. The question of revolution, the question of the political seizure of power by the proletariat, came onto the order of the day. The ruling class in those days would have been irretrievably lost if the leaders of the Second International had not taken up the historic task of acting as the “bloodhounds” of the bourgeoisie and crushing by force the struggles and strike ac- tions. In Germany and Hungary, in Poland and Finland, in the Balkans and in Czecho-Slovakia, the bourgeoisie answered the demands of the proletariat with mass terror and a mass blood- bath. In the countries of the victors, in whieh it was declared: “the enemy will pay #r everything,” the tribute payments flowed into the pockets of the French armament trusts and into the treasuries of the City of London and of Wall Street, New York, From 1919 to 1923 a serious economic crisis raged which, after a short period of relative stabilization, made way for the most intense of all economic crises which up to the present day pre- yails in more or less violent form. ‘The bourgeoisie in the conquered countries, who had been compelled by the Versailles powers to make heavy payments of tribute, shifted the pay- ment of the costs of the war exclusively onto the shoulders of the masses of the people. The res- toration of the damage inflicted by war was a new profit-making business for the capitalists of all countries. For the toiling masses, however, the burden of taxation had never been anything like what it was in the post-war period, In the victor- countries, the toilers waited in vain for the coming of a decisive improvement in their condition of life. The inflation wave swept over the whole of Europe and plundered the workers and peasants, the employes and petty-bourgeois masses of their last penny. The workers had to pay for the restora- tion of the capitalist production apparatus in the period of relative stabilization through rationaliza- tion, which subjected them to a murderous system of exploitation. In so far as the bourgeoisie had made concessions out of fear of the social revolu- tion, by granting the eight-hour day, social insur- ance and certain parliamentary rights, it now took these back again by means of a systematic, reac- tionary offensive. Mass unemployment became 4 permanent phenomenon, Some fifty million work- ers were thrown on the streets for years, cheated of work and bread, and put off at best with a “dole” which was insufficient either for life or death, The working youth on leaving school found the factory. gates closed. They could not learn any productive occupation and entered manhood with- out any prospects before them. Millions were con- demned to short time, millions were robbed of wages and relief. The bourgeoisie did not even halt at the scandalously meagre relief given to war pensioners, war widows and orphans, but system- atically robbed them of their support. soldiers and war invalids dared to demonstrate they were met by the bourgeoisie with police bullets. In the post-war period in every country the | toilers were subjected to mass suffering. Stones instead of bread, that is what the bourgeoisie pre- sented to the toiling masses. The “thanks of the fatherland” proved nothing but a bloody mockery. The more fiercely the economic crisis raged, and the more it caused the revolutionary wave to mount, the more desperately the bourgeoisie clung to their tottering domination. The moment ar- rived when the bourgeoisie could no longer con- ceal its rule behind democratic screens, but was compelled to pass over to open fascist dictatorship. The methods of bourgeois democracy became a hindrance for finance capital, both in the struggle against the proletariat and in the question of prep- aration for war and a new partition of the world. Fascism, which Social-Demoeracy had cultivated by its policy of the “lesser evil,” grew out of the body of bourgeois democracy. During fourteen years, Social-Democracy had characterized the path of bourgeois democracy as the path of the working class teward freedom and power. With the fiasco of this path, with the bankruptcy of bouregois dem= geracy, the mass influence of the Social-Democratic leaders began to wane, Thus, the ruling class found itself compelled to support itself, not primarily on Social-Demoeracy, but on fascism as well. If fascism has become, in the words of Stalin, “the most fashionable commodity among bourgeois Politicians,” the reason is not least of all because of its great role in the preparation of the coming war, Chauvinism and the preparation of war as the mainsprings of foreign policy, and terrorist suppression of the workers in the sphere of home policy as an indispensable means for strengthening the rear in the coming war, take a central place. in present-day imperialist politics. Just as the tran- sition to terror internally is a sign of weakness of the bourgeoisie, so is also the transition to the open policy Of war. The development of fascism has immensely intensified the general danger of war. The establishment. of open fascist dictatorship, the unleashing of an unheard of terror for the purpose of complete economic and political en- slavement of the toiling population, was the erown- ing achievement of the “thanks of the fatherland.” The heroes of yesterday became for the bourgeoisie the “submen” of today. Fascist dictatorship prevails in Germany and Italy, Poland and Austria, in the Baltie countries and Hungary. It has robbed the toiling masses of their last rights and established a mediaeval regime of terror. Under the sign of the executioner’s axe and the gallows, fascist dictatorship is attempting to save bourgeois class rule which has been shat- tered, to solve the capitalist eeonomic crisis at the cost of the masses and to find a way out through | war adventures. It is not from strength but from weakness that the bourgeoisie has been forced to have recourse to its last fascist reseryes at the moment of the revolutionary upsurge. The bloody mass terror against its own toiling people is for the ruling class the consummation of the past war and the prelude to the coming war, Such are the “thanks of the fatherland." very domain of| Te- | | 4 over small limited areas was; method that will clear paths for demonstrated by Henry C. Hough-| planes or boats. In general, scien- |ton @f the Massachusetts Institute | tists believe that to clear fog on |of Technology at the Reund Hill/a wholesale scale would involve Airport. Nozzles fitted inte a pipe, / energy in amounts that are as yet 100 feet long, poured a saturated | beyond the limits of human control. | solution of calcium chloride into a| Napier Shaw. the famous English | rolling fog which had enveloped the | Meteorologistfi has estimated thet {airport. Three minutes iater, build- | theoretically 1t would require a mil- j ings 200 feet away stood clearly re-| lion horse-power hours to clear a. vapor. | (a kilometer is about 3,300 feet). Calcium, chloride is one of the} Although the possibilities of cheapest -and commonest substance | Houghton’s method are still prob: known: to chemists. It has a marked | lematical, government officials are affinity for water even in solution. | already in touch with him, for ob- When the fog was sprinkled with | vious reasons. The effective dissi- drops of calcium chloride, these | pation of fog would be of great acted by attracting and carrying | importance to military planes. They down with them the tiny globules | could depart and return despite of water that make up the fog; BS And in bombing operations)” that is, the tiny drops in drifting | fog would cease to be a natural through the fog, condensed the | defense, as special planes would dis- spots could be combed with deadly vealed against solid walls of white | square kilometer of land from fog . water vapor and carried it to the | sipate the mist. so that strategic If the ex- | ground by.force of gravity. Fog cannot form in absolutely clean air. The atmosphere has to be filled with fine particles; these constitute the nuclei on which the | infinitesimal droplets form. In sea | fogs, these particles are invisible grains of salt tossed into the air by breaking waves. Houghton's experiment may prove to be effective for cleaning very limited areas of fog. If successful on a large scale, the method would prove to be very useful at air ports. The airplane pilot could be guided to his destination by radio beams, and then a “tunnel” for a safe land- ing through the fog could be cleared in a few minutes, It is beyond the seope of the method to clear an entire airport of fog, but it may be able to clear up the last 100 feet of the pilot's flight. 'HE problem of fog dissipation is an old one that has perplexed mankind for many, many years. It lhas become even more important with the increasing use of airplanes. Flying is either impossible, or very dangerous when fog covers the landing field. But even before the days of fiy- ing, scientists were endeavoring to conquer fog. Houghton's experi- ment is but the latest of the many methods that have been used to attack the dangerous mist. Electri- cal precipitation, which proved ef- fective in treating dust, smoke and ous water attracting dusts in the air, Electrified sand has also been used. At Philadelphia nayal scien- tists built elaborate machines for spraying electrified water drops into foggy air that caused the fog parti- cles to come together and fall. At Lyons im France; and at Pittsburgh, oil was placed on the rivers in the hope of checking evaporation and preventing fog formation. Sir Oliver Lodge protected his house from mist by precipating the fog with elec- trical discharges. To some degree all of these attempts were partially successful on @ small scale, but as yet, no fog dissipating process has been found that is practical on a large scale. Attempted rain pro- duction is but a variation of the fog dissipating processes. Electri- | fied particles are scattered in an fumes, was tried on fog in Cali- | fornia and England many years ago. | Aviators have tried sprinkling vari- | accuracy? - 8 8 |The New Leningrad Medical Center MEDICAL center of vast pro- portions is being built in Lenin- grad under the supervision of Pro+ fessor N.-I. Krasnogorsky, director of the Institute. of Experimental Medicine. It is part of the Second Five Year Plan to raise the well- | being of the workers to the highest level in the world. When completed, the new All-Union Institute of Ex- perimental Medicine, as it is called, - j will be-the finest instiution of its | kind, anywhere. It will have 8,500 |rooms, and a staff of 3,500 scien- | tific workers. The scientists in the institutes | will study every known disease, Pro- | fessor Krasnogorsky declares. In |the Institute they will maintain ;rooms kept at the temperature and moisture condition of every climate in the Soviet, Union, from the sub- tropics to the polar north, Rooms will be kept as outside conditions are at every Soviet altitude, and as they are in every important in- | dustrial factory. Patients will be | studied under all these varying con- | ditions, It is interesting that a | branch of the Institute will investi- | gate, not only the diseases of the | Soviet East, but will study, and con- | firm or expose, the popular remedies’ |of the minor nationalities of that | vast region. . eer 3 An Electron Mictoscope MICROSCOPE which uses elec- trons instead of light rays to “see” infinitesmal objects has been developed by Dr. E. Ruska. He re- ports in the Zeitschrift fur Physik that by magnification in two stages, he has perfected a device capable of magnifying the apparent size of things some 10,000 times. The maxi- mum magnification usiglly possi- ble with microscopes is 3,000 times. Whether electrons or light rays are used in a microscope they must be brought to a focus. For elec-_ trons, a magnetic field is used for this purpose, since the charge on the electron makes ‘it react in a magnetic field. Streams of elec- trons are bent (converged) by the magnetic field just as a lens bends or focusses light ‘rays. The devel- opment of the new microscope is an important advance for all fields dependent on micro-techniques. “Soviet Close-Ups’ Variety of Life Reviewed by DAVID PLATT HE imperialist conflicts among the ruling class which cylmin- ated in the World War also quick- ened the October Revolution. To- day, the 20th Anniversary of the World War finds five-sixths of the earth’s surface still crackling—but more furiously than at any time since 1914—with terrific unrest and revolt; while the remaining one- sixth, united under the rule of workers amd peasants, the Soviet Union alone, is peacefully busying itself building a new and revolu- tionary social order. The current Amkino attraction at the Acme Theatre, Soviet Close-Ups, a@ sort of inspired travelogue east to west, north to south in the Land of the Soviets, is indeed a close-up of the truly amazing work going on in this unique section of the earth's erust where unemployment is non-existant. Traveling with the camera from one part of the country to the other; from festive Moscow to work- aday Vladivostok; from the splen- didly built city of Kiev in the Uk- raine to the more primitive Baikal Lake and Calley Region of the Bu- riat tribes of Mongolia in the north; from the impressive ceremonies at- tending the return of the Chelyus- kin expedition, to the weird ani- mistic rituals of the elderly follow- ers of a defunct Lamaism in the interior of Mongolia, where the So- viets have introduced horse-racing for breeding (not gambling) pur- Poses; from the intensely joyous life of Red seamen with their familiar white caps and striped collars and sweaters, at ease on the shores of the beautiful, river, Amur, to the equally happy life of peasants on the “New Life” collective where modern steam bath houses and rest reoms have just been installed; from the extraordinary children’s nurs- eries that dot the Union; from the workers universities, the splendid Palaces of Labor, the rest-and-cul- ture Parks; from the heroic spirit of the shock-brigaders who make possible Five Year Plans in Three; from all this and more one receives ? at Acme Shows in Workers’ Land | indelibly an -imprssion of a living | social organism propelled forward by an overwhelmingly desire to | raise the level of life for the most | backward peoples up to the high- | est possible plane of existence. This is the revolutionary social order being built by a Workers and | Peasants Republic. surrounded on | the outside by an iron-ring of ruth- Jess enemies of the working class, | Twenty years after the greatest holocaust in history, the same gang _ of potentates who engineered the first war are hungering lustily for another, bigger slaughter that will wipe out a few more million wage- slaves. But twenty years after, also, the Soviet Union stands as a power- fuk bulwarks for peace; stands as. fearless and. experienced guide to. the workers of the world who are. fighting their way through the mur- - derous jungie of capitalist society. Seviet Close-Ups is well worth a visit to-the Aome. Like “Land of | the Soviets” it is weakly edited, but nevertheless, thoroughly enjoyable. The musical score is also commend- able. Comrade James Ford, of the Communist Party, again briefly re--~ views the role of the workers in the World War and closes with a stir- ring: appeal for a genuine united ~ front of Communists and Socialists, against War and Fascism, calling ~ for a real mass turnout of work- ers during the August Ist and 4th _ Anti-War demonstrations in New.. York City. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! ~ Amusements ———— TADIUM CONCERTS+——_——_ Lewisohn Stadium, Sym] SYMPHONY Sunday eileen Phursaey' Wiens, 8:30 Opera Performances with Star ‘Prices: 250-50c-$1.00(BBadhurst 2-2626). KIEV—The new capitol of MOSCOW—Prof, SEE hy TULA—Native I AMKINO Presents — First American Showing! “SOVIET CLOSE-UPS” Intimate Study of the Different Parts of the U.S.S.R, bisa ie eaten at the Ukraine tto Schmidt greeted by thousands and celebration or of Chelyuskin heroes dof the samovar KALKHOZ—Installing modern baths in remote villages, ete., ete. ACME Thes., 14th St. and Union Sq, — Always Cool————— Ly 53 Conducted by VAN HOOGSTRATEN | “Friday and Saiaeiag Nights at ‘ Conducted by s a