The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1934, Page 5

it tema CHANGE -THE — WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD “ANE usually has solemn thoughts walking up and down Von the picket line. I did some of this thinking last week on the line of the Macauley strikers in New York, the first strike in a publishing house. To begin with, there are cops around, unfriendly, hard-boiled cops with an automatic hate of sttikers, even though the police forces always has some economic grievances of its own, and in at least one American city, Boston, once formed a trade union and went out on strike, These cops glare at one. They are armed with blackjacks and guns, and unlike most human beings, really enjoy slaughter. This is because they feel secure most of the time, since they are going up against an unarmed enemy. So they glare, inviting a disturbance of any kind. This makes one think a lot. It is really an education. But I was not thinking of that, but of the fact that some fifty authors were Parading up and down on the sidewalks, draped with placards, and inging strike songs. American authors were showing their solidarity with the stenographers, bookkeepers and office help who had struck against the brutal sweatshop methods the notorious Furman brothers were using in publishing “literature.” An Attack on Authors \NE of our unesteemed contemporariés, Westbrook Pegler, the col- umnist for the “liberal” World-Telegram, has taken the occasion to utter his customary comment on thesé authors who went picketing. In effect, he says that most authors are self-inflated, vain folks, lower in actual technique than newspaper reporters, and that they should be grateful to the publishers who have invested money in them and boosted them to importance. Mr. Pegler doesn’t care for authors, and he doesn’t like strikers, but he sheds a bitter tear for the poor publishers. He has done this kind of thing before. His sympathies are in- variably on the side of authority and power. A man who works for wages and is more tender of the interests of his employers than of the rights of his fellow-workers is of the true scab material. * * . There are Authors and Authors UT it isn’t true that all authors are snobs or pompous assés, always anxious for publicity. It isn't true that a hundred authors walked the Macauley picket line out of personal motives, as Mr. Pegler seems to believe. There are authors who are all that this columnist claims, bu they are probably the ones he knows best and with whom he fraternizes. Authors suffer from many occupational diseases forced upon them by the conditions under which they must work. Many of them are Bohemian, irresponsible and vain, as are many actors and newspaper- men, but that is because they have no secure status in a capitalist order. They alternately starve or feast; for years they are kickéd around like homeless dogs, then perhaps a day comes of “fame,” and then the slide downhill again. Give a man who has béen starving for weeks a square meal and he is liable to an attack of dizziness and light-headedness. Many authors are newly rich and this is what makes them such vulgarians, But what is happening today is that authors, like millions of other workers in America, have become socially conscious. They are shedding painfully many of their old trade diseases. They are march- ing in picket lines. They are not too proud to fight for the rights of the stenographers and bookkeepers who help publish their books. And they feel closer to these workers in their industry than to pénny- squeezing, semi-literate speculators, like the Macauley bosses, who are the entrepreneurs of their talents. It is the first time in American literature that large groups of authors, young and old, have been feeling this way. It means a great deal for America and its literary future. Like newspapermen, actors, enginéers, architects and other professionals humiliated by the depres- sion, the authors are beginning to realize their manhood. Books will be different after a few more years of this; and Mr. Pegler won't like them either. Investing One’s Life g° THESE were some of the thoughts I had on the picket line. I was thinking also. of the strike itself. Many ignorant, comfortable and prejudiced people like Mr. Pegler like to picture every strike as a kind of schoolboy lark, or the expres- sion of a bunch of bellyachers and soreheads. To him and his like it seems like an irresponsible whim that he cannot understand. But every strike is a most serious affair, a matter of life and death. The people who engage in it live on wages, have children, have dependents, responsibilities to carry. They strike because they are pushed to the extreme. They endanger their lives and the lives of those they love only because they have been forced to. No worker ever enters a strike lightly. Bosses invest money in an industry. But workers invest their lives. And it is these lives than mean, cockroach chisellers and big corporation chisellers tread underfoot like so much dirt. The Macauley bosses, it is obvious, have a great contempt for those who run their profit-machine for them. They begrudged electric light to their slaves; they put in a speed-' they cut wages when- ever they thought they could get away with it. Even a union contract meant nothing to them, They signed the contract, as a result of an earlier strike, and then in a few months fired the active members of the union. These included a girl who has been their faithful book- keeper for six years. It offended them to feel that they had contracted to treat their workers like human beings. Didn’t they own the business? Wasn't their money invested here? Why shouldn't they be able to kick anybody out overnight if they cared to? Who were these union people, anyway? Only workers—workers who would starve to death without a job. But the strikers are putting up a brave fight for their union. They know what a union means. It means the first step in a human status for workers. And this is the first, white-collar strike in New York, which is a city of millions of white-collar workers. It desetves the hearty support of every worker and professional who values human beings above greasy dollars. But Mr. Pegler sneers at authors who sympathize with such a strike. His job, evidently, is secure forever, if he can stave off the cirrhosis of the liver which usually finishes careers like his. Mr. Pegler looks down on such authors as Malcolm Cowley, Louis Adamic, Kenneth Burke, Matthew Josephson, Edward Dahlberg, Tess Slesinger, Gilbert Patton, Albert Halper, Isidor Schneider, John L. Spivak, all of whom, and many others, have picketed in this strike, Mr. Pegler is a superior newspaperman, he says. His colleagues will not thank him, however, for such a defense. Many of the Newspaper Guild members have also been picketing along with the authors, They know there is no real conflict between two sets of workers, but that authors and’ newspapermen have a common front and a mutual enemy. Wait and see, Mr. Pegler, FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION By R. PALME DUTT “Every reader of the Daily Worker must read this books to un- derstand the most important political tasks before the whole work- ing class."—HARRY GANNES But “Incomparably- the best book on Fascism that has yet been written."—JOHN STRACHEY 296 pp., $1.75 Available in Workers Bookshops or direct from INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 FOURTH AVENUE (Write for a full descriptive catalog) NEW YORK DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 934 Who Are the Real Criminals Behind | The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case ? Kidnapping Flourishes | in Social Soil of Capitalism By Si Gerson N THE night of March 1, 1932, the infant Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was taken from his crib by some person whose identity to this day is unknown. From the Lindbergh home in the Sour- land Mountains, near Hopewell, New Jersay, there spread of thread of investigation which raveled it- self about thousands of miles across the United States, spanned the Ocean and is unwinding itself in Leipzig, Germany, and the Bronx County Cotirthouse. More ink has poured over the printing presses on this case than on any other criminal case in re- cent history. Whether for good or bad the Lindbergh case has be- come of gocial significance and must be discussed from this view- Point. The facts of the case, briefly, and in chronologital order, are: 1, The child was kidnapped on the night of March 1, 1932, from its bedroom in the Lindbergh house. The nurse discovered that the child was gone at about 10 that evening. A ladder néar the bedroom window and a ransom note were the only clues left by the abductor. 2. Upon notification of the police @ man-hunt the like of which the country had never seen began. The New Jersey state police, the Fed- eral Department of Justice, the New York city police and the gen- darmerie of every state in the union went on the trail of the kidnappers. 3. In despair the fruitless efforts of the police to recover the child, Lindbergh on March 5 hired two well-known underworld characters, Salvy Spitale and Irving Bitz, as- sociates of the notorious “Legs” Diamond—since hastened to his rest by rival gangsters’ bullets—to ne- gotiate for the recovery of the child. Al Capone, emperor of gangland, offered his aid, a by no means in- considerable factor. A seemingly unbeatable united front was formed. 4. Dr. John F. Condon, known as “Jafsie,” a retired Catholic teacher, entéred the case at this time, serv- ing as the go-between, making con- tact with the kidnappers. 5. On the night of April 2, Dr. Condon and Lindbergh went to St. Raymond's cemetery in the Bronx where Dr. Condon delivered $50,000 to the kidnapper and was informed that the chili was on a ship off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The baby was, of course, not there. 6. On May 11, the body of the infant, in an advanced state of de- composition, was found by a local Negro worker in some trees near the Lindbergh home. 1. After months of tracking down clues and using a veritable army of police agents, $14,590 of the ran- som money was found a few days ago in the home of Bruno Haupt- mann in the Bronx. An investiga- tion, the details of which are now commonplace, is under way. The issue has become the most talked- of of the day. Press, radio and movie vie with each other in pub- licizing the cause celebre. See a8 'E COMMUNISTS do not pretend to be amateur Hawkshaws and will refrain from offering any solu- tion to this particular case. Nor are we condoning the crime of kid- napping. What is far more im- portant to us—and, fundamentally. to the working class—are the social roots of the crime of kidnapping, its social implications and some of its immediate social and political effects, The old Italian criminologist, Enrico Ferri, one of the first to be- gin to apply Marxian ideas to the question of crime, once said very well that “Every social condition which makes the life of man in society insincere and imperfect is a social factor contributing toward crim- inality. The economic factor is in evidence wherever the law of free competition establishes the rule; YOUR DEATH IS MY LIFE.” Here in a nutshell is the funda- mental root not only of the Lind- bergh kidnapping but of the tre- mendous rise in kidnappings—and for that matter, of all types of crime —in the last few years. Here it is not necessary to cite figures. The great increase in crime, particularly property crimes involving a larger percentage of youth than ever be- fore, are too commonly known to require elaboration here. Kidnap- ping is simply on of the most lucra- tive of all the cimes. Hence its popularity. Its social roots run deep in the present capitalist society, a society divided into two great classes, owners and propertyless. The grow- ing misery of great sections of the population—expressed partly by the upward curves in insanity, suicides and prostitution—finds expression also in crime. A certain section of the working class becomes de- classed. It becomes, in the death- less words of the Communist Man- ifesto, “the ‘dangerous class,’ the social scum (limpenproletariat) — that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old so- ciety.” From among this section of the population, whose conditions of life from the very cradle itself are such that economic security is virtually unknown, is the army of gunmen, gangsters, kidnappers and racket- eers of all sorts drawn. These ele- ments by now have become inte- grated in the repressive machinery of the capitalist class and are only molested by the police authorities insofar as they go outside of the bounds set for them, or whenever they are so small as to be useless to the ruling class, The relatively high degree of success of those elements emboldens other elements in the community, whos: existence is none too secure, to follow in “Have You’se Seen a Little Chubby, Golden-Haired Baby?” (This cartoon by Burck appeared in the Daily Worker at the time of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, when the police weto 5 for the ebild in workers’ neighborhoods.) This tendency is speeded up bd | hundredfold by the fact that the very warp and woof of the fabric of capitalist morals is rotten, It 4 common knowledge that grafting | in high places goes on. A decade | of sensational exposes, from the} Teapot Donie scandal in the Hard-| ing regime to the bus franchises | of Jimmy Walker in New York, has | helped to feed the idea in Amer- | ican cuture that to commit a crime | ican culture that to commit a crime | and be caught is bad. From their kindergarten days | the American child is taught that | the profit system is the best of all | possible worlds and that the jungle | law of “dog cat dog,” and “devil| take the hindmost” is eternal, im- mutable. He sees a world in which} hundreds of thousands of working- class children ‘are kidnapped and murdered by poverty, where youth | grows up without the prospects of work and social security. Is it a} wonder then that in this decaying | capitalist order thousands of peo- | ple—and particularly young people —in their struggle to live turn to Stealing, robbery and kidnapping? These thousands whom capi- talist society terms criminals and for whom the solitary cell and the electric chair are fashioned, are | the doomed children of capitalism, those whom the conditions of the capitalist order constantly nourish but cannot destroy. eee AT ‘is particularly evident in} the present phase of the Lind- bergh case is the tremendous ef- forts of the hypocritical ruling clas: and all its agencies of mepaenciie| to convince the toiling population—| whose faith in the “impartial” and| benevolent character of the govern- ment every bayonet thrust of a Na- tional Guardsman into a striker’s body helped to shatter—that the government “protects” the home and Wednesday GENERAL Membership Meeting. Friends of the Workers School, 116 University Pl. (8th St.) 8 p.m. Lecture by I. Begun on “Blection Campaign.” All invited. No ad- mission charge. SOVIET RUSSIA “Five Weeks Ago,” lec- ture by Isadore Lhevinno, author and lec~ turer, 600 W. 113th St., Apt. 9-B. Auspices: J, B. McNamara Br. LL.D. Subscription 5c, 8:30 p.m. JOSHUA KUNITZ, editor New Masses, lectures on “‘Artists in Red Uniform,” at Webster Mahor, 125 E. llth St., 8 p.m. Adm. 36. FORDHAM Prog, Club, 1993 Jerome Ave., near Burnside Ave. Round Table Discus- sion of Current Events. Checkers, chess, bridge, before discussion. All welcome. Adm. free, MASS MEETING to protest the discharge of two Jewish nurses from Israel Zion Hospital and the arrest of four workers for distributing leaflets, 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyi, 8:30 p.m. Prominent. spea | for Edwin Seaver, New Editor of Soviet Russia Today. Liston N. Oak, Retiring Editor. Friday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., at Roger Smith Grill, 40 E. 41st’ St. Subs. $1.25, SYMPOSIUM at P. 8. 63, East Third St. | between First Ave. and Avenue A, held by| Fraternal Federation for Social Insurance. | Candidates of all parties to present views on Unemployment Insurance, Monday, Oc- tober 8, Adm. ree. MOVIE-SOUND ‘ ‘Road to Life,” also “Browder-Hathaway” talkie. Office work-| ers Union Hall, 114 W. 1th St, Pridey, | Oct. 5, 8 p.m, Adm. 25c. single ticket; 81 series of 5 pictures. Auspices: Workers Lab. Theatre. Proceeds to Daily Worker. MAX BEDACHT speaks on “The Life and Teachings of Karl Marx and Frede- rick Engels,” Saturday, Oct. 6, 2 p.m. at Friends of Workers School, 2nd floor, 116 University Place. Get free tickets by ‘buy- ing 7c worth of pamphlets at all Work- ers’ Book Shops. FRIDAY Forums, opening lecture; Oak- ley Johnson speaks on ‘Youth and Crisis,” rs,| Boro Park OQultural Center, 1280 56th St., Auspices: Ella May Br. LL.D. Adm. fr SOVIET Film Satire “Marionettes.” New Singer Theatre, Stone and Pitiin Aves., 1 p.m.-11 p.m. Adm. 10¢ daytime; 20c eve. Arranged, Brownsville School Dist. I.W.O. Thursday MAGS RALLY in support of Marine Workers Strike. Irving Plaze, 15th Bt. and Irving Place, 8 p.m. Speakers: Roy Hudson, Earl Browder, Jack Stachel, Ed- Russel, Hays Jones. Adm. 25c, Aus- Comm. for Support of M.W.LU. IENTIFIC Psychology in the Soviet Union,” lecture by G. Casey. Hotel New- | ton, Broadway 9th to t., Adm. 15¢, unemployed Auspic U. West Side Br. Brooklyn, Oct. §, Olms Br. LL.D. RED PRESS Mass Conference of all downtown workers’ organizations, Sunday, Oct. 7 at 11 a.m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Member of Daily Worker staff will speak. “Earl Browder-Hathaway ‘Talkie!’ will be shown. Boston, Mass. LECTURE by Merle Colby, “Capitalist and Workers Press," 451 Cross St., Malden, Sunday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m. Benefit Daily | Worker. Subscription 15c. Philadelphia, Pa. ANGELO HERNDON, Mother Ida Norris and Richard B. Moore will speak at the Mass Meeting of the LL.D. on Friday, October 12, Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian streets. OPENING Dance, Saturday, West Phila. Workers Club, 1130 N. 40th St. Excellent Bend and \Entertainment, Adm. 35c, inc. wardrobe. Binghamion, N. Y. BANQUET for the Daily Worker at the Lithuanian Hall, 315 Clinton 8t., Oct. 6. Detroit, Mich, AFFAIR for Daily Worker arranged by et 2 OP. at 3113 Lycaste St., Saturday, et. 13. 8:30 p.m, Auspices: Harry | | Pr * GREET the New York Daily Worker. Delegated Mass Mceting, Sunday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m., Contrel Opera House, 66th St. and 3rd Ave. Clarence Hathaway, James Casey, James W. Ford, Louis Hymn, Charles Krumbein will speak. W.L.T. and W.LR. Bend will perform. Adm. 25c. NEW THEATRE will present “Can You Hear Their Voices," by Newark Jack Lon- don Club, Lillian Shapiro in a dance, “Good Morning, Revolution,” and Esther Hall and Abbie Mitchell from “Stevedore,” at Civic Repertory Theatre, October 7. Matinee and evening. Reserve seats now. Ic to 9c. RECEPTION—Farewell Dinner and Dance Oct. 6 by TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Danny Malone, Tenor WOR-—Sports Resume—Ford Prick ‘WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch ‘WABC—Mytr and Marge—Eixetch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—William Larkin, Tenor ‘WJZ—Mildred Batley, Contralto; Robison Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Our Overwhelming Tax Prob- lem—Percy H. Johnston, President Chemical Bank & Trust Compan? WOR--The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 7:45-WEAF—Prank Buck's Adventures WOR—Studio Music WSZ—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—The Church M With Mary Pickf WOR—Lone Ranger- WIZ—Lead Close: 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian WOR Hysterical History—Sketch WJZ—20,000 Years in Sing Sing; Werden Lewis E. Lawes WABC—Nino Mar! telanetz Orehes! 9:15-WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—John McCormack, Tenor WABO—George Burns and Gracie Allen, Comedians 9:45-WOR—Variety Musicale 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orehestra WJZ—Dennis King, Songs—Ketzman Orchestra, WABC—Broadcast to and From Byrd Expedition; Warnow Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Byents—H. E. Read WdJZ—Beauty—Mme. Sylvia The Munitions Investigation ator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota WOR—Varlety Musicale WJZ—Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich- Tenor; Kos- H win ©. Hill, Commentater 3:00-WBAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Fooilight Echoes man, Songs WABC—Mary Erstman, Scprano; these golden paths WJZ—Lanny Ross, Tenor; Salter Concert Orchestra Orchestra 11:00-WEAY—To Be Announced WABC—Evorett Marshall, Baritone; WOR—Dantzig Orchestra Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto ‘WJZ—Comedy Sketch Saturday, | ry Desth Stops an Alibi—£icetch, With | the hearth, the wife and the kid-| diés, This noxious stuff springs from | every well of modern communica-| tion at an oil-gusher rate. Pres: radio, mov’ all are one in sing- ing the praises of the police author- ities (who still have no convincing | proof of the identity of the Lind- bergh baby’s kidnappers) as the pro- | tectors of all that is holy in Amer- Jican life. These people said not a single} solitary word about the progressive | growth of pellagra and rickets| among the children of the Southern | textile workers, Not a peep out of them at the fact that millions of s| Children had neither milk nor suffi- cient clothes. The “law enforce- ment” agencies moved not a muscle | to defend the rights of the textile workers, fighting for a little more food for their children, but on the contrary, did everything possible to} break the strike, And yet they speak | of the need for bringing to justice | the kidnappers of one child! And yet Attorney General Cummings can Say that “the American people have reason to feel that the prestige, the power and the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies is on the | inerease and that renewed faith and confidence in these agencies | is justified.” | The monumental hypocrisy of it! | The “law enforcement agencies” have just gotten through breaking the textile strike, Strikers’ biood| has hardly dried on the bayonets | of the guardsmen—and Mr. Cum- mings wants the textile mill work- ers, slaving for $11 a week, to respect the agencies that broke their strike for better conditions! But Mr. Cummings has a Political | objective. He wants to strengthen | the Department of Justice, a force} that will aid in the drive against the Communists end all other sections ; of labor. Commenting on this mat-| ter, Robert Allen and Drew Pearson, | in their syndicated column, “Wash- ington Merry Go Round,” of Sept. 27, 1934, write: “Because of the success of the Bureau of Investigation in captur- | ing Bruno Hauptmann and kid- | nappers, it is almost inevitable | that the Justice Department will | ask for an increased crime-detec- tion appropriation from Congre.s next session.” eas 'LASS-CONSCIOUS workers wil! patiently explain these funda- mental factors involved in the Lind- bergh case. A discussion cf this par. ticular crime will uncover the great- est criminal of all—the capitalist ruling class and its system. Only a revolutionary workers gov- | ernment, the only gove:nment which | Will provide economic security for | the masses, will do away with the fundamental reasons for kidnap- pings and most forms of crime. In | a Soviet United States there will be |no Lindbergh kidnappings. Workers who have jobs, whose standard of living is constantly on the rise, whose children are fed, clothed and educated well—such people do not provide any social soil for the dis- | eased plant of kidnapping to take | root. All of Edgar Hoover's hozses and all of Edgar Hoover’s men will not abolish kidnapping or crime, Only a socialist society can do that. | Some one is skeptical? Look at | | the Soviet Union, my friend! There | you will find the answer. There you will find that since the capitalist class was overthrown in 1917 there | |has been a constant decrease in| |property crime. There the working | {class has taken the road to When the Amezican working clas: will have taken that highway, }—and only then—will the | bergh case” and all kidnappings be solved in the only fundamental | way possible—by the destruction of | the social basis for kidnapping and crime. | system of photo. | space at }room into a darkroom for deve! | has finally been isolated by Dr. Aris- | “Mr, Page Five | LABORATORY AND DAVID By FACSIMILE RADIO Micro-waves the means of Stalled by means of | and letters can be pro, igh spet The facsimile r ne ments prove the quality of |A pins point of li key greys As the beam of light ross the face of the pict fon in the light are pick an amplifier. Then ut on the air. the process is ring beam of actos S another revolvin: drum upon hich is wrapped ei a piece of photographic bromide paper or a photographic film. As idly as the picture is received and completed, it is passed through a hole in the walls of the opera’ ment. While this operation is being com- pleted in the radio room, a monitor device “paints” the picture in an- other r . Instead of a beam of light there is a tiny nozzle which sprays ink on to a revolving piece |of paper, while a tiny shutter op- jerating across the mouth of the nozzle deflects the spray in accord- ; ance with the incoming radio im- | pulses that compromise the picture. The radio trust is looking forward to tremendous profits as it extends the new means of communication to | sending messages and letters by fac- simile radio at monopoly prices. Thus under capitalism the re- searches of hundreds of scientists will be utilized to make profits for a handful of parasites. | ELEMENT 91 ISOLATED The heavy element proactinium tid Von Gross of the University of Chicago It is the first chemical element to be isolated in the United States, although several other »| elements, among them illinium, ala- bamine and virginium were dis-| covered here. Proactinium is the second heaviest jelement. Its atomic number is 91 and it weighs 231 times as much as! SHOP KAMSEY hydrogen, the lightest of the ike uranium and ra of $5,000 he o! m of pure two as birth ise to ae aS he treatment of 's announcement element y an isotope (a varias nd not a new med by Professor to bring bility halfe etween norn ep and coms plete anesthesia. Drs. E. H. Volviter and D. L. Taber reported on their s into the powers -of. rugs to the recent meet= merican Chemical Soe Derivitives of barbituric acid have been used to produce drugs of the neobutal type. They are widely. used in hospitals before an operan tion and before the administration of a total anesthetic. Such drugs when given in proper doses produce a relaxed condition in the patient. without causing complete insensi- bility. While under the influence of this half-sleep, the patient can- be given ether or other anesthetics, and can still cooperate with the surgeon, Desired insensibility comes quickly. and lasts only a little longer than the time required for the operation itself. This decreases the possibili= ties of subsequent complications. An important phase in the use of, barbiturate drugs was the increase in the margin of safety between an effective dose and a fatal one. The safety margin is associated with.a certain arrangement of the atom groups within the molecules of the drugs. Drs. Volviler and Taber have studied the properties of other sub- stances in which the margin of safety is unusually wide. They found new preparations which have increased our knowledge of hypnotic drugs, but as yet the scientists feel that these new compounds are not ready for clinical application. Calverton and Eastman Analyzed In International Literature No. A long article by A, Stork on Calverton and His Friends” is a distinctive contribution to In- ternational Literature No. 3, organ of the International Union of Revo- lutionary Writers, The article opens with an attack against Calverton’s “Cultural Com- pulsives” theory, which holds that “no mind can be objective in its interpretation and evaluation of social phenomenon.” “Thus Mr, Calverton disposes,” writes Stork, “of ‘Origin of the Family and Private Property,’ rep- resenting the result of the collabo- ration of Marx and Engels on the remarkable investigations of Mor- gan, which has become an inval | able heritage of modern social sci- ence. Lenin called this book ‘one | of the basic works of modern So- cialism, every phrase of which one can trust, because each phrase was | not written at random but on the | bass of a tremendous amount of historical and political data.’” Stage and Screen “Stevedore” Returns to Civic’ Repertory Theatre Returning to New York's thea-| trical scene for a month before tak- | ing to the road, “Stevedore,” last | spring’s smash hit by Paul Peters| | and George Sklar, reopened Monday | night at the Civic Repertory Thea- | tre. Several important cast, changes | include Abbie Mitchell for Georg- | ette Harvey, Canada Lee for Rex | Ingram, Thomas Coffin Cooke for! Dodson Mitchell, and Martin Wolf- Son for Neill O'Malley. At the first | performance, Hilda Reis played in| place of Millicent Green, who was ill with tonsilitis. | Bs | | | Barbara Petter and Tom Keene in a scene from “Our Daily Bread,” which starts its run at | the Rialto. Stork draws from an instructive passage in Marx's thesis on Feuer= | bach: “The question as to whether objective truth is compatible with | human thought is not at all a theoretical, but a practical question. Man ee prove in practice the truth, i. e., the reality and power, | the ‘carthiiness of his thinking. Controversy over reality or irreality of thought isolated from practice: - is purely scholastic.” Besides a surxey of Calverton’s vulgarized “sociology,” Stork also analyzes Eastman’s “Artists in Uniform” series. a Other contributors to this issue include Boris Pilnyak (A Story Without a Title), F. C. Weiskopf, D. S. Mirsky (Dos Passos in Two | Soviet Productions) and drawings-~ | by Bela Uitz, | There is also the full text of the replies of American writers to the questionaire of the International-- Union of Revolutionary Writers on, the occasion of the recent Soviet | Writers’ Congress. | Amusements | ONLY 4 WEEKS to see. The Most Thrilling Play in N. Y. 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