The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1934, Page 5

i eo || CHANGE ——THE—— | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN WELDOM have we been provided with a more revealing self-portrait of the official mind of the capitalist gen- darme of the U. S. than in a letter sent to the editor of the Daily Worker by the superintendent of the Missouri prisons, a gentleman named V. T. Adamson. Despite the fact that Mr. Adamson courteously defied us to print his letter, saying that “I know you haven't the guts” to do so, we are hereby offering it as a valuable social study. So here goes: * * * “I Say, Mr. Editor” Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 8, 1084. “Editor,Daily Worker, 34 50 E, 13th St, New York, N. Y. “Sir: “Your publication, “The Daily Worker, has been drawn to my attention in such a peculiar amd (since I have perused a copy of a recent issue) a most fitting manner, that I am sure you will be interested in details. “Intrigued by a most unusually vicious and destructive cartoon of President Roosevelt appearing in this sheet, I recovered a copy from where it lay, along with other trash and filth, in the gutter of 8 street of this city. I quickly decided that a prone posture in this selfsame gutter would be the correct position amid ideal surround- ings for absorbing the contents of this publication. I might add that sinee then, I have consigned the paper back to the gutter from where, T'm sure, it must have sprung into existence. “The English Language hols no single word adequately express- ing my opinon of your ignoble sheet. However, having nothing better in my vocabulary than the following word, let me assure you it is ‘lousy’ Furthermore, Brother Editorvitch, or whatever you call your- self, when I say lousy, I refer to lice. Lice are those minute para- sites which, existing in filth, do little damage other than annoy, but draw plenty of attention to themselves nevertheless. “Never before have I read anything so Un-American as your publication, However, I am not surprised at the Sheet’s policy con- sidering the scource. From the initial, embryonic struggles of these United States of America to the present period, history records the treasonable actions and utterances of your breed. Driven out as undesirables from your mother country, crying persecution instead of the truth, prosecution, you have formed great scabs of foreign humanity on the otherwise healthy face of our nation. Here, instead of giving thanks for a refuge and turning every effort towards becoming Ameri- canized, you remain loyal to the country that kicked you out. Mean- while, your howls rise louder and louder, your struggles and curses become even stronger and, like the aliens you are, you continue to ‘bite the hand that is feeding you’ until that hand is ripped into a mass of raw bloody ribbons, You pray for justice? Your prayers are answered. Justice is here. That poor mangled piece of flesh, hardly recognizable as a hand, is slowly tightening into an avenging monster, an iron like claw of sinew and bone, which, with one mighty blow will sweep all alien dogs back into that mother country of their birth, “I say, Mr. Editor, if you don't like the N. R. A., if you don’t like our. president, if you don’t like the good old U. S. A., get out! Go back where you came from. No, you can't and I'll tell you why. Should you step a foot from the soil of the country that protects you, you'd find yourself rotting in the depths of a dungeon. That’s what your mother country thinks of you. She doesn’t want your kind and neither does America. “I will not attempt to take issue with you on any particular depart- ment of your paper, be it the warped, one-sided statements slyly appearing here and there among the news articles, or the vicious, illogical arguments set forth in your editorial column, or yet the numerous audacious pleas for money for the cause, for the paper in its entirety stinks to high heaven. “My heart bleeds for these poor, deluded, American-born workers who so much as for an ingtant pause to listen to your demands for money. Let me tell you, Mr. Editor, there may not be a law to curtail treasonable utterances in the Press, but there is a law against exploit- ing human beings, I hope you find that out to your sorrow. “In closing, let me say that I know you haven't the ‘guts’ (do you understand that typically American word?) to print this letter in the pages of the Daily Worker. At any rate, you may count on me to bring your yellow sheeted publication to the attention of Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, our beloved president, who, I hope, details General Hugh Johnson, and a picked squad of Honest-to-God Americans, to tie you down on a bundle of your Daily Workers, and by placing one of your own bombs underneath, contrive to blow you into that particu- lar hell, where you belong. “Yours, “V, T. ADAMSON.” * * 2 Gen. Johnson’s Double | bie you have the viewpoint of Gen. Johnson expressed in its crudest form, and it would seem logical for the University of Cali- fornia to award a Phi Betta Kappa key to Mr. Adamson, who, judging by his letter is a man of culture as well as energy. The letter from this prison superintendent is so eloquent that it scarcely requires comment. It might be well to point out, however, that this is the kind of creature who decides what books and maga- zines prisoners of the type of Tom Mooney, J. B. McNamara and Angelo Herndon should be permitted to read. Mr, Adamson tells the editor of the Daily Worker that if he doesn’t like the N. R, A. or President Roosevelt of “the good old U. 8. A.” that he should get out, go back where he came from. I consulted Clarence Hathaway on this point and he informs me that if he went back “to where he came from,” his destination would be @ little township about 12 miles from St. Paul, Minnesota, which I understand, is still in the United States. Since Mr. Adamgon’s venom is so great when Hathaway functions in New York—can it be that the prison superintendent would be more relieved if Hathaway emigrated back to Minnesota? Mr. Adamson’s political “philosophy” is not new, although his prose style is rather piquant. But underneath his vulgar ranting, you find the same class viewpoint that is held by more soft-spoken supporters of the Rooseyelt-Wall Street regime. “Go back where you come from” is the program of Gen. Johnson, it is the program of the San Francisco Industrial Association, and of the California Vigilantes, * * . Blood-brother to Hitler c IS part of the drive to separate the native from the foreign-born workers, an essential element in the program of American fascism. It is the program that reaches its finest flower in the present bar- barism in Nazi Germany. ¢ Mr. Adamson’s wild braying may have its comic aspects, but it is ominously akin to the mouth-frothings of those Nazi vandals who ‘weit. bonfires for the great literary and scientific classics, who have yauled and murdered some of the finest scholars and writers in mod- ern Germany. The “Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories,” pub- lished by the National Society of Penal Information, contains some illuminating information about the nobility of Mr. Adamson'’s own activties. “This is the only institution in the country (Missouri State Prison) where representatives of this society have seen women wear- ing a ball and chain.” What a great, big heart Mr. Adamson must have when it can “bleed for these poor, deluded American-born workers who so much as for an instant pause to listen to your demands for money.” What 8 sensitive, altruistic, high-minded people these prison wardens are! ES _. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934 Workers Arrested On Coast Kept In ‘Drunk Tanks’ (The following letter from a worker jailed in the Sacramento “Red raids” was received by a member of the Workers’ Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League in New York.— Editor's Note.) City Jail, Sacramento, Calif. August 7, 1934. Dear P-—; If you will recall, in my last letter I told you of the raids that were going on in this State and that our headquarters was most likely to be raided also. Well, it happened and here Iam. Talk about fascism, we've got it and it’s here. The comrades here are determined as hell that its life in this State be as short as possible. ‘We were arrested on July 19, about 26 of us. The damned. cops and the authorities are trying to make it as tough as possible. We were thrown into a concrete room, called the “Drunk Tank” which’ is about 25 x 30, which can decently accommodate about 15 people. In this room there is a hole in the wall where one may naturally re- lieve oneself, one water spigot and three wooden platforms. At night we are compelled to sleep on the platforms and on the cold concrete floor. Not only are we confined to this “tank” but they continually throw in drunks. One Sunday night, there were exactly 92 men in the tank. We made certain of this figure. Some men, they say, can hold their Hquor well and others can’t. Those that couldn't, well, they just vom- ited over themselves and others. Other drunks were so helplessly drunk they couldn’t walk to the hole in the wall. Ventilation is very poor and between odors of the body, the vomiting matter and urine, I experienced the worst headache of my life. We have only one cup to drink from. All types of men are here, such as perverts, syphilitics, etc. One's health is always in danger. As for food, every morning we get a chunk of bread with cheap black coffee. This is without exception. For our mid-day meal, we get beans, bread, tough boiled beef with either macaroni or rice, and black coffee. Lest I forget, we also get, that is once a week, beef-stew, bread and black coffee. Never do we receive sugar or milk for our coffee. We are fed twice a day and the above is our menu. Naturally we put up a fight against such terrible conditions, so they moved ten of us to cells, I was one of the fortunate ones to get a cell. We stayed there about ten days. The other comrades stayed in the tank all this while. Yesterday we stood trial. The judge termed us as “high class vags,” therefore it is necessary to have a special prosecuting attorney, costing this city $500 for his fees. The case is nothing other than a frame-up charge. We are defend- ing ourselves and are now select- ing the jury. We all are under a bail of $1,000 on the vag charge. We are also charged with “criminal syndicalism” and our bail has been set at $3,000 each. On this mat- ter I will write to you again in greater detail. As soon as the trial ended, we all were led back into the tank again and here we must stay, I suppose, until the end of the trial. At one time, while in the cell, I took very sick. My left side around my heart felt very heavy and I felt a severe dull pain. Comrades thought I had contracted pleurisy and I was indeed frightened. The doctor felt my pulse, asked me what I was in for. and then said, “You take this pill, go to sleep, you'll be O.K. in the morning.” I still am suffering from something that I'm ignorant of. There is one thing that is very gratifying. In all the time that we have been confined, not one comrade fell down, and our spirits are high. The comrades realize that we are in a fight, and we are determined to fight every inch of the way until we win. With such determination and confidence, we've got to win, J—. TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘WJZ—Johnson Orchestra WABO—Enzo Aita, Songs 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano ‘WABC—Belasco Orchestra 1:30-WEAF—Martha Mears, Contralto WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Jewels of Enchantment— Sketch, With Irene Rich ‘WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:45-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WOR—To Be Announced WJZ—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Madriguera Orchestra ‘WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny En- semble 8:15-WABC—Emery Deutsch, Violin 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra. WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WdZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone ‘WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone; Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Arden Orchestra; Mixed Chorus; Jerome Mann, Impersonations 8:45-WJZ—Oft the Record—Thornton Hastbahon pti! Allen, ae nage M er smiths Quartet; Hayton WOR—Foot 8 WJZ—The California Vigilantes—Ar- thur Garfield Hays, General Coun- sel, American Civil Liberties Union 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orchestra WJZ—Duchin Orchestra WABC—Broadcast to Byrd Expedi- tion; Warnow Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas—Edward ry Orchestra; Harry Rich- man, Songs ‘WABC—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Mixed Chorus; Symphony Orch. rr Orchestra WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs 11:15-WJZ—Robert Royce, Songs WABC—Little Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—The Housing Program—James ‘A. Moffett, Federal Housing Ad- ministrator WOR-—Berrens Orchestra WSZ—Bestor Orchestra WABC—Little Orchestra 11:45-WABC—Dailey Orchestra 12:00-WEAF—Dance Music (Also WOR, Wiz, WABO) By MICHAEL BLANKFORT In Vermont there stands a farmer, eyes uneasy on the sun. This hour, he says, I'll put aside and sell what I have done. This hour belongs to Herndon. And said, I guess I'll have to wait for another one this time. And said, I kuess I'll have to wait for avother one this time. This one belongs to Herndon. Around Santa Clara valley, Tuscaloosa, Sante Fe, The pickers grunt and bend aga. This time it is for Herndon. in, and bend again and say, San Pedro stevedores stopped to ask with doubled fists and red; Fur workers with their wives and kids, the jobless still unfed, In Chicago, in in Manhattan thi This much belongs to Herndon. e clerks and teachers said, Muscle-minted out of slavery, from farm and mine and mil, Workers, white and black united, paying ransom at the tif. Paying ransom, buying freedom, , Striking hard until . . . The world frees all the Herndons. So. Carolina Socialist Leaders Tell Why They By SID TRENT | aig a huge sign proclaiming “The Socialist Party,” we en- tered the convention headquarters at High Point, N. C. I had come to this convention with much curiosity. Scarcely a year ago I had been one of these socialist or- Fear United Front jturned toward themselves. They were afraid and refused to join jin a united front struggle against war and Fascism; for release of all |class war prisoners; support of | workers’ strike struggles; for un- employment insurance and old age |pensions; for immediate relief to ganizers in the south. I had seen | impoverished farmers, and in sup- the Socialist Party leadership's | port of the struggles of the Negro Policy of spiitting workers, jim-| People against lynching and dis- crowing the Negroes, and spouting | crimination and for equal rights! a lot of radical words. I left it to} Now at a time when Fascism is join the only true working class|not only a world menace, but is Party—the Communist Party! raising its bloody fist over the heads Yes, it was the old crowd. Same |°f us American workers, these So- old boys I’d known a year ago.|Cialist leaders continue their policy There was Alton Lawrence, state | Of splitting the ranks of the wozk- secretary, who comes from New/|ing class! They are afraid of a York. There was Jack Fies, the | United front! financial backbone of the North| And why do they do this? Be- Carolina Socialists. Fies has in-| cause they are afraid to oppose the vestments in Alabama. His uncle | capitalist bosses in a real struggle is one of the big coal barons of |}for the workers; because, as their Birmingham where the coal miners | own chairman put it, a united front have been waging such a fierce|with the Communist Party would struggle against police clubs, gun| “put them on the spot!” thugs, National Guards and star-| But the Communist Party still ex- vation! Dividends from this Ala-| tends the united front invitation bama murde> pen help finance the |to ali sincere rank and file Socialist North Carolina Socialist Party! workers, We urge them to unite We went into the office. I in-| with us in common struggle against troduced our Communist District Organizer, Paul Crouch, a native North Carolina mountaineer. His people were among the first pioneers to break dirt in these southern hills. I thought of our Y. C. L, Organizer, one who went through the Gastonia struggles, one who has always known the drab music of spindles and looms rattling in a southern cotton mill. And my own background was quite similiar to these, of native mountain people, Scotch-Irisn mixed with Cherokee Indian. Our other organizers— native born mill workers and share croppers, Negro and white. But the Socialists had cried “Outlanders!”, repeating the stock phrase of the capitalist bosses, “No,” they told us, we couldn’t present our united front proposals to the body of the convention. It was so hard to get any “intelligent action” from a body of people! (Lawrence later referred to th southern workers as “dumb brute: That bought a mighty bad personal reaction from me, because I re- membered when in the mountains we would have beat an “outlander” up for less than that.) Cy Base E WERE told to come back in the afternoon and present our proposals to the new state execu- tive committee. We did come back. The Committee had already met, discussed, and of course decided, on our proposals. the motion of discussing them again, I noted the membership of their new state committee. Not a single Negro. In this state of such large Negro population, the Social- ist Party hasn’t a single Negro on its executive body! There. was Lawrence, the polished New Yorker, and the other college-carved faces. I couldn’t help but compare the difference between this white col- Jared group of petty bourgeois pinks with our own District Committee. I remembered our last meeting, Tobe, the giant textile worker with bent shoulders and gnarled hands, John, the keen eyed Negro cropper, and the other Negro and white work- ers — all of them hard fisted and toil-lined, fresh from the milis and fields! Well, these Socialist misleaders hemmed and they hawed. They seed and they sawed. They wiggled and twisted—trying to crawl out of a tight hole, trying to frame some excuse for not joining us in a united front. Finally their chair- man, maybe a little hair-brained or in a forgetful moment, blurted out the real reason why they did not want the united front. I quote his exact words: “To be frank about it,” he said, “it would put us on the spot!” Lawrence said: “It would come out in the capitalist papers that the Socialisis were united with the Communists.” That would put the Socialist leadership on the spot! The capitalists hate the Commu- nists so intently, because they know the Communists are really leading the workers against their oppres- sion! The Socialist leaders are afraid of having any of this hatred But we went through | our common enemy. The Commu- nist Party knows that many rank and file Socialist workers are eager |to join hands with Communist | workers for this united struggle! \Its a standing invitation. i} | Artists Are Invited To Participate in John Reed Club Exhibition NEW YORK.—An exhibition of | murals, paintings, drawings, sculp- ture, lithographs, woodcuts, etch- ings and posters, will be held at headquarters .of the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave., from Novem- ber 9 to December 7, 1934. All work submitted must be not larger | than 50 inches by 50 inches, frame included, and must be delivered October 24, 25 and 26th, shipping |at the expense of the artist. Ex- hibition fee is 25 cents. The jury of artists will include two non-mem- bers of the club. In connection with this exhibi- | tion, the following statement has been issued by the John Reed Club Exhibition Committee: “The year 1934 has brought tre- |mendous growth to the revolution- ) ary movement in America, — the strikes on the Pacific coast, Milwau- |kee, Toledo, Minneapolis, Alabama, |New Jersey—the entire United States is scething with the strug- gles of the American working ‘people to hold their own, for the | right to organize and to grow to full stature as the future governing class of America. “The artist is a worker. As a worker or as an unemployed work- jer. he is part of this great’ move- ment. A rapidly increasing num- ber of artists, in literature, in the theatre, in music and in all the arts, are becoming aware of the impact of these events on their lives. “The development toward fascism is forcing upon the artist the will of a desperate capitalism—obedience and starvation. The C. W. A. jobs impose the demands of the capi- talist government on the artist as regards subject matter, at the same time battering down his living | standard to a new low. The only answer for the artist as for the working man is the militant strug- gle for their common needs, “The living material of art is be- fore our eyes. In the lives of the Negro and white workers and farm- ers and their children, and in the heroism and solidarity of the Amer- ican working class, the future is being forged, This is the real American scene. It is on this front |that the sensitive and powerfui (artist belongs. “The John Reed Club invites all artists to exhibit who feel them- selves participants in this move- ment, “JOHN REED CLUB, “EXHIBITION COMMITTEE.” Further details about the exhi- bition may be obtained by com- municating with the secretary of the Exhibition Committee, John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave., New York City. WHAT 7S ON KEEP Sunday, August 26, Open! Daily Worker Picnic at North Beach Park. Splendid program being arranged. (ign ates Wednesday SACCO-VANZETTI Br. I.L.D. important membership meeting at 792 E. Tremont Ave. Discussion on Sacco-Vanzetti case, All members must attend. Thursday FILM Showing, New Theatre and Film & Photo League on “Kameradschaft.”” “Soviets Sing and Dance,” and Charlie Chaplin in “The Count.” New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th St. Showings at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Adm. 35c. THE Strike Wave in America and Con- ditions and Tactics in New York, Forum and discussion at Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 2st St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15c. VILLAGE Musicale and Dancing Part 30 Gansevoort, bet. 12th and 13th SI west of Hudson St., 8 p.m. Beethoven ' Quartet, refreshments, drinks. Adm. 15c. Auspices: Greenwich Village Br. American League Against War and Fascism. Be re JACK. STACHEL will review Lenin's “Left-Wiig Communism, an Infantile Disorder” on Friday, Aug. 17, 8 p. m. at 50 F. 13th St., 2nd floor. 'Auspices of Workers Book Shop. Adm. 25¢, or by pur- chase of $1 worth of literature from Workers Book Shops. SHOW BOAT CRUISE up Long Islend Sound on “SS Ambassador” Friday, August 17, 8 p. m. Entertainment — dancing, Leaves Battery Park, Pier 1. Tickets 65 cents in advance, 90 cents at pier. “SNIPER,” Soviet Movie; “America To- day,” workers’ newsreel, ‘chalk talk by “Del” at entertainment and dance of N. ¥. Red Builders, Sat. August 18, 8:20 p.m. at United Front Supporters Hall, 11 W. ath St., 3rd floor. Adm. 2c in advance, at door. Obtainable from Red Builder, a Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th Bt., Daily Worker Office, 35 E. 12th St, a Portrays Decay in Russia of the Czar Reviewed by TOM BRANDON tase tens of thousands of followers of the Soviet Cinema in New York and throughout the United States will be glad to know that another Soviet film has been re- leased. “House of Greed,” based on a section of the novel about the decay of a family of feudal ex- ploiters in old Czarist Russia, is being presented in New York as the first of a whole crop of new Soviet sound films, which will come as an oasis in the desert of Hollywood movie creations. First-day audi- ence at the Acme gave the film and its magnificent cast a hearty welcome. “House of Greed” follows in the distinguished path of earlier Soviet historical films (Czar Ivan the Terrible, Village of Sin, etc,) with the same fullness of characteriza- tion, the same honest depiction of historical relationships; reminding movie-goers in the capitalist coun- tries that only in a society owned and run by the workers and farm- ers can history be honestly, accu- rately and vitally recreated. “House of Greed” with its ruthless por- trayal of the life of a whole gen- eration of decadent, feudal para- sites who lived by exploiting the Russian peasantry, is in sharp con- trast to the violence committed against history in the capitalist “Queen Christina”, “House of Roth- child,” ete. (How fitting would the title “House of Greed” have been for a real portrayal of the “House of Rothchild”!) In the role of Profiri Golovleff, the “bloodsucker,” who expropri- ates his relatives and drives them to Siberia and suicide. V. R. Gardin gives a memorable performance that reminds you of his masterly portrayal of the old non-Party worker in “Shame”! One cannot help feeling that his art and the direction of his art stem basically from the fact that he can release himself for a creative portrayal of the “bloodsucking” feudal exploiter unhampered by “Legions of De- cency,” Will Hays or Wall St. movie magnates; that such art as his, like all other forms of art, can really flourish only In a land of Soviets where the “movie-audience” decides whether or not it can “take it.” Cee seat INDER the direction of Ivanov- sky the film effectively pictures decay and degeneration of a feudal family. The method, however, is more descriptive than analytical. Such dynamics as the film lacks are due to insufficient use of the new rising merchant and manufactur- ing class and neglect of the spo- radic peasant uprisings of the period. It is by magnificent char- acter description that “House of Greed” succeeds in becoming a vivid portrait of the Golovleff family as symbol of feudalism in decline. To this end, the Soviet conception .of film casting is ad- mirably realized: the cast is not chosen as “actors” in the Holly- wood sense, but as “types” who in physical apparance, mannerisms and in creative abilities can best reveal the characterization. That is why the entire cast from Jardin (the Soviet Emil Jannings) down to the musicians, police, and din- ner party roues actually come to life throughout the entire film. “House of Greed” unquestionably merits and will receive enthusiastic reception. Workers who have al- ready shown that there is a great mass audience in America for Soviet movies should rescue their shop- mates and friends from the Holly- wood desert and bring them to the “House of Greed,” forerunner to Alexandrov'’s “Herdsman of Arau,” Pudovkins’ “Deserjer,” Ekk’s “Nightingale” (in colors) and to the other coming films which will deal with the new human relationships in Soviet Russia today. cage * HOUSE OF GREED. — A Soviet sound film produced by Soyuz- kino, in Leningrad, presented by Amkino Corp. at the Acme Theatre, Union Square, New York, with English title. .Directed by A. V. Ivanoysky, scenario by K. N. Derjavin and A. V. Ivanovsky, musical score by A. F. Pas- cheko based on Saltykov-Shed- rin’s novel, “Gospodin Golovleff.” ree had 3 | Greed’’ | Angelo Herndon’s Baill p.,,.,, ? S LABORATORY AND By A New Weather System This month witnessed the intro- forecasting in the United States. is believed to be an unusually ac- curate method for predicting weather changes. The method of air-mass analysis was first employed by Norwegian weather forecasters during the war when the network of weather re- pean countries broke down. The fisheries of the peninsula were de- | pendent upon some sort of weather prediction. To satisfy their needs | this methed of gauging climatic changes by vertical rather than horizontal observatories was devel- oped. Air-mass analysis deals with the great air masses which move in fairly regular directions. Appa- rently the major changes in weather are due to interaction of air masses | of polar and tropical origin. The air masses are formed by the earth’s air circulation system, and are from one to eight miles high and from 500 to 5,000 miles wide. Although they south, their prevailing movement: is eastward. The earth in rotating from west to east gives them a sort of boot in this direction. Accurate weather anglysis de- pends upon knowledge of the char- acteristics of these air masses and especially upon their point of inter- action. When the meterorologist knows what they are like ‘and where they will run into each other, then he can forecast weather changes with a high degree of accuracy. The old system of weather fore- casting provided only for predic- tion at ground level. The new method gives a vertical as well as a horizontal picture of the weather, thus providing invaluable data for airplane travel. National air-mass analysis takes reports from weather bureau sta- tions, and from Soviet, Canadian and Mexican stations. These re- port the speed and direction of the aim-masses which are moving over them, and other essential facts. On the basis of these reports which tell the sizes and shapes of the air- masses, the central weather bu-| reaus make their forecast. And | according to government experts, their forecasts re correct to a| hitherto unbelievable degree. pe rer 'HE importance of this new method for transportation, farm- ing and industry, if it is as success- ful as its sponsors claim, 4s incalcul- able when you consider the im- portance of weather conditions. But it is significant that this method, which could do so much for man- kind, and which to a considerable degree depends upon the interna- | tional cooperation of experts, has from its initial stages been inextric- ably bound up with war and war preparations. | The aerologists of the U. 8. Navy have been using this method for | some time, especially the dirigibles of the lighter-than-air division. They were interested in air-mass | analysis chiefly because in time of war the big airships would be de- prived of reports from the ground observation stations for fear of re- vealing their own ‘position to the enemy. Therefore, there was the need for weather forecasting from their own isolated, vertical observa~ tions. / It is known that the Akron very definitely had some experience with | air-mass analysis at the time that | it was destroyed in a storm. The inquest brought out the fact that the airship’s own aerologist had forecast the storm correctly. The crew was lost because the com- | manding officer insisted that the) ship could ride out the storm. With further refinements the method became so valuable to the fighting services that the Boston Herald has revealed that it was “seen by the Navy as perhaps the most important addition to the Navy's fight- | ing power since the advent of modern scientific gunnery. Naval officers wished air-mass analysis to DAVID RAMSEY duetion of a new system of weather | It is called “air-mass analysis” and | porting stations from other Euro-| sometimes move north and| | gions, SHOP be kept secret or confidential bee | cause it gave our fleet absolute as- |surance of choosing their fighting | weather to the discomfiture of an adversary.” . THE same source also reveals that the Navy tested the new system in several eruises and in non-step airplane flights. Two of the big- gest air transport lines routed their planes by the same method. The close tieup between the avii companies andthe military services made this inevitable. Besides, ex- cept for special refinements in technique, the method could not be kept an absolute secret, since it is employed in the Scandinavian coun- tries and to some extent in the Soviet Union < SS Both the Army and Navy are using air-mass analysis, not only for weather forecasting, but for dis- covering the most faverable at- mospheric conditions for firing big guns. It is known that air con- | ditions have a decided effect on the |range and accuracy of heavy artile lery fire. | Dr. Willis R. Gregg, head of the U. S. Weather Bureau, believes that within five years there will be two great weather networks in the world, one covering the northern, }and the other, the southern hemi- | sphere. These would incorporate jall the national weather systems {into an international system, sup- plying the whole world with neces« | sary climatic information. What- lever progress may be made in this | direction will be destroyed the moment a new imperialist war is launched. This important devel- opment towards accurate weather forecasting, and regional atmos- |pheric control could probably go \far toward preventing drought and | flood stricken areas—if all scien- | tifie advance under capitalism were |not bound up with destruction. The |full benefits and potentialities of jthis discovery, as is the case with so many others, will come only un- der socialism. * * © | A Droughty August Predicted | The rest of August will be hot and dry in the central drought re- according to Charles D. Reed, senior meterorologist of the Des Moines Weather Bureau. Suf- fering crops and livestock do not | have a particularly consoling pros- pect for relief. It is becoming more and more evident that the criminal agricul- tural policies of the Roosevelt re- gime are responsible for the human suffering and the crop losses (which will run far higher than the gov- ernment’s estimate of $5,000,000,000). The administration has minimized the ravages of the drought from the start. Most of the suffering could have been avoided by prompt large-scale actions; but the A. A. A., like the drought, the chinch- bug and the boll weevil, is the enemy of the poor and tenant farmer, since destruction, and not relief, is its major objective. Te we Scientific Dignity Bourgeois scientists like to prate about “scientific dignity,” which they claim is “outraged” in the Soviet Union, where workers attend scien- tifle congresses. The best answer to this bit of fiuff is contained in the story that the first Weather Forecasters’ Convention, sponsored by L. Bamberger & Co.., will dis- cuss sun-spot magnetic cycles and other weather theories in relation to “the planning of retail merchan- dising.” The New York Herald Tribune says that “obviously it would be helpful for a department store, when buying skis, fur coats and woolen mittens in August, to know whether the following Janu- ary was to be a month of blizzards or mild and temperate.” It is dignified for a scientist to devote his life to finding out whether Park Avenue will wear silk or woolen panties next winter, or to advertise that Dromedary Cigarettes give you a ‘scientific pickup.” But it is “undignified” to devote your scientific energies to building a new society. STAGE and SCREEN “Dodsworth” Reopens Next Monday Night At Shubert Walter Huston returns next Mon- day night in “Dodsworth,” Sidney Howard's adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel, which reopens at the Shubert Theatre, The Max Gordon production will have the original members of the company, including Nan Sunderland, Fay Bainter and Maria Ouspenskaya. H,. M. Harwood’s comedy, “Lady Jane,” is announced for the Ply- mouth Theatre, opening on Sept. 10 with Frances Starr in the principal role, Others in the cast include Lila Lee, Frieda Inescourt, Paul McGrath and Reginald Mason. “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” At Rivoli Today Ronald Colman’s new picture, “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” will open today at the Rivoli Thea- tre. Others in the cast include Loretta Young, Warner Oland and Charles Butterworth. The Trans-Lux Theatre is show- ing this week a new Clark and Mc- Cullough comedy, “Odor in the Court,” “Screen Souvenirs,” and a cartoon comedy, “A Royal Good Time.” “The Woman Who Dared,” with Claudia Dell, and “Sorrell é& Son,” with H. B. Warner, are now show- ing at the Jefferson Theatre. “Dames,” a new Warner Bros. musical picture, will have its pre- miere today at the Strand Theatre. Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Zasu Pitts head the cast. “Adventure Girl,” Joan Lowell's trip through the jungles of Guate- mala, is now playing at the Rialto Theatre. Henry B. Walthall will play a role in John Erskine’s “Questions and Answers” Feature Beginning in Daily Worker Soon will appear regularly on this page. This feature comes as a result trade union policy, etc. and Answer Box,” Daily Worker, In a few days a special feature called “Questions and Answers” ! of continuous requests from read- ers who ask a variety of questions dealing with the Soviet Union, the Communist Party position on religion, the crisis, Negro liberation, Readers are asked to address all questions to “Question and 50 E. 13th St, New York. AMUSE MEN T'S GREED ‘The fight against capitalism and religion. ACME Thea., 14th St, and First American Showing of Soviet Talkie! HOUSE OF x. BASED ON FAMOUS RUSSIAN “GENTLEMAN GOLOVLEV” By SALTYKOV-SCHEDRIN With V. GARDIN (OF “SHAME") ENGLISH TITLES Union Sq. — Always Cool—————— ot ; ;-New Theatre & Film & Photo Leagu present 3 films ‘**KAMERADSCHAFT” Pabst’s stirring anti-war film @ “SOVIETS SING AND DANCE” @ Charlie Chaplin in ‘THE COUNT’ New School, 66 W. 12th St. Thurs. ‘yo showings: st 7 and Aug. 16 "9:30 P.M. Adm. 35 cents. Tickets at Workers Bookshop. 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