The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1934, Page 7

vd } me CHANGE -—THE— By MICHAEL GOLD OR commercial and political reasons, the Soviet Union has been recognized by America. At the same time, as the masses turn leftward under the steam-hammer blows of the depression, fear and hatred of Communist ideas increases among the American ruling class. This may be seen reflected clearly in at least one mirror. For be- sides the vigilante and Ku Klux brutalities against workers, there is also a pogrom going on amongst the bourgeois intellectuals. It seems as if most of the book reviewers of New York have re- cently enlisted in the crusadé. A stream of lying anti-Soviet books has just appeared, written by ex-countesses deprived of their caviar and moujiks, white guard generals who now must work, and American newspaper correspondents who happen to have married princesses and are sycophantically loyal to their new aristocratic relatives. Escape from the Big Bad Soviets is the general theme of these thrillers. Many of them are ghost written. Most of them contrain internal evidence of fraud, which a careful check would easily expose. Mr. Chamberlain, loyal husband of a white guard lady, says there has been a famine in the Soviet Union in 1933. The New York Times correspondent say there has been no famine. Max Eastman says Boris Pilnyak and other Soviet writers are persecuted. But Pilnyak calls him a fifthy liar, and testifies again what he said while in New York; he is a Communist, and his life and heart and brain belong to the Communist cause. But a ton of evidence will not cohyince the packed jury of the New York book reviewers. They hail every anti-Soviet book as though it were gospel truth. These are the same people who once fell for Joan Lowell’s sea adventures. ‘The hoax this time is more serious, however; because it means that a propaganda for war against the Soviets is being started again, and the book reviewers are gladly doing their bit. Millions of people will have to pay in blood and death for these new atrocity-fictions of the oil magnates and dollar imperialists who profit by such a war. ° * * Escaping Historic Vengeance 'T is noteworthy that the reviewers will devote columns to any inferior piece of anti-Soviet propaganda, but will ignore a fine piece of original reporting such as Leon Dennen’s, “Where the Ghetto Ends,” recently published by Alfred H. King. Why this studied silence? The book is written by a first-rate observer and scholar with a keen and lively style. I am sure that any objective critic would place it mountain-high in literary value above such wretched concoctions as the recent rehash of the atrocity-fictions by “Countess” Tolstoy. (The giant father tried his life long to escape the hateful title, stained with the blood of peasants; the pigmy daughter clings to the title, though it is meaningless now, except to sycophantic American intellectuals.) The books of the escaping countesses have no new story to tell. History paid them off at last, as it once did the French royalists, and the Kaiser, and the American slave-owners in ’61. What is left for them but to nurse their wounded ‘souls,” and long for a resoration of the old slavery? What can they tell us except “human-interest” lies to win our sympathy for their cause? The millions of people they and their fathers flayed tortured, oppressed in order that they might converse in fluent French and do other parlor tricks in luxury, are convéniently forgotten. Why are these people escaping from the Soviets? It is because the Soviets represent the historic vengeance of centuries of afflicted human beings. An American book reviewer who can sentimentalize about the sorrows of these aristocrats, and not speak a word for the masses who were their victims, is well on the high road to Fascism. * * * A New Jewish Race | Rassia Dennen’s book really tells us something new about the changes wrought in the Soviet Union. Russia under the Ozar had a race problem as frightful as our own Negro problem. The northern Russians were the conquerors of a gréet empire, which they ruled with the brutality of our Southern lynchers. Tartars, Caucasians, Ukrainians, Tadjiks and other small nation- alities, of whom there were over 100, were denied the right to their own language and culture. They were looked upon as racially inferior; in.the case of the Jews, their lot was no better than that of the Negro in America. And Czarist intellectuals, like our own American “thinkers,” could prove that all this was rooted in biology, and nothing could ever solve the race problem. But the Soviet Revolution solved it. Dennen lived in the old Russia, and is a Jew. He went back to see what had happened tovhis people under the Revolution, He stopped off in Germany on the way, and reports some of the horrors that. come to minority races under Fascism, the same kind of thing Negroes may expect in this country if the Fascists as allowed peacefully to take control, In the Soviet Union, however, he found a new Jewish race in the making. The Revolution had wiped out all shopkeeping and trading. This had been the accursed occupation of the bulk of Jews, forced upon them in the middle ages, But now the young Jews were farmers and workers. They were driving tractors, they were working in steel mills, they were soldiers in the Red Army, So unself-conscious of race differences have the Russians become in a generation, that Dennen often found it hard to tell who were the Jews or Tartars or other nationalities in a factory group. He visited some of the Jewish collective farms, where masses of the ancient race are pioneering. These strong, gay, sunburned men and women were among the best of the new Soviet peasants, proud of their work and determined upon the victory of socialism. He worked with them, danced and sang with them at their parties, talked to them. He presents a gallery of types of the new working- class Jew. Anyone with a sense of history must surely be impressed by these men and women, free at last of the chains of the Christian centuries, In Germany it is a crime to marty or even be friendly with a Jew. In the Soviet Union it is a crime to preach or act anti-Senitism. The Nazis needed a scapegoat for the sins of capitalism. They are trying to save capitalism, and have no other way of protecting it except by this colossal lie. - In the Soviet Union, capitailsm has been destroyed, with all its brutal oppression of races and classes. Therefore no scapegoat is needed. And it is obvious that any lingering anti-Semitism is really a veiled attack on the Soviets. We are seeing the same thing in America; those who hate the working class often try to. disguise their program by professing to be anti-Semites. In the Soviet Union there have been open trials of anti-Semites and anti-Negro baiters. Dennen reports several such trials, remarkable pictures of a new world. * . . The Freedom of a People took a Soviet Revolution to create a national culture for all these minorities. Jewish literature and art has begun to flourish; the Soviet Union has more Yiddish theatres and books and newspapers than may he found in any other land, including the first Hebrew art theatre in the old classic language of Palestine. The Jews, also, now have their own autonomous republic in Biro- Bidjan. They are at last free, in every sense of the word, and yet the Jewish bourgeoisie attack the Soviet Union. It is because they care more for their own property than for the emancipation of their race. : “Where the Ghetto Ends” is a fascinating, colorful and important book. It should be head by everyone, whether Jew or Gentile. Anti- Semitism is one of the problems that every revolutionist must learn to understand and meet. The Fascists are making it one of their weapons m America. Dennen’s book is an answer to their lies, and shows the simple solution of the so-called Jewish problem. If the reviewers of New York have failed to give this book much attention, it is because the woes of a countess move them more than the freedom of a people. “YOU HAVE TO WIN” When George Kucharik of Chicago sent $1 last week, it was with @ real spirit of sacrifice. “I took it from a sum I have been saving a whole summer for my winter suit,” he wrote. “Well, it’s not so cold. I can wait but the ‘Daily’ can’t—and you have to win your $500 quota.” Delores Babie . -$ 50 A Friend .. wterees 5:00 WAG ec cchca yc 1.60 Carl Offord +e. 837 Hungarian Miner . 25 Total 11. 10. 34 . Total to date .. denen ee ene nena teeteees WORLD! | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1934 ee ee | | i if | LEON DENNEN Author of “Where the Ghetto Ends,” discussed by Michael Gold in his columnstoday. ‘Short and Snappy ‘Stories Mark Nov. ‘Working Woman’ Street, New York City. Price 5 cents. Reviewed by CLARINA MICHELSON MM the lovely Soviet Girl Worker on the cover, to the back page appeal to American workers to write in about their lives at home and in the shop, the November issue of the Working Woman, just off the press, is alive and interesting. The articles and stories are short and snappy, and the whole maga- zine has a much more attractive make-up than formerly. A marked improvement is the change from the scattered, rather uninteresting let- ters printed formerly, to the depart- ment headed, “In Factory and Of- fice,” with letiers coming straight from the mills and farms, factories and offices, “I work from 2 to 10 p. m. Its a crime to slave on four machines for so many hours for $13 a week... We almost go blind on the dark warps... Mr. Bard, the president of the company, gave orders to close the plant tempo- rarily and reopen with white work- ers...” These are the things we want to hear—the pulse of the workers’ lives, and we want to know what to do about these wages, this speed-up, about this discrimination against Negro workers, There should be more news sweaty from the shop, more discussion by Negro and white workers and housewives, and more suggestions on how to solve prob- lems. Pot aes ASHA SMALL, editor of the Labor i Defender, takes some more healthy socks at the rainbow-hued dope magazines, which peddle sex, loneliness, sunsets, success and 1-0-0-y-e to keep the workers’ minds off these same wages, hours and evictions, while Esther Lowell in her article knocks out any illusions workers may have about the bosses newspapers. Hutchins, a piece by Ann Barton, on the thousands of homeless and Case and the Scottsboro Boys,” are other articles you will want to read. We hope the “Household Corner,” started in the September issue, the column by the “Medical Advisor,” and the “Fashion Letter” will con- tinue. They are all subjects of in- terest to women, and improve the magazine. More aboui care of chil- dren, and brief comment on the movies could also be added. A contest is started in this num- worker who says she would like to get active in meetings and organ- izations but her husband won't let her. What can she do? Prizes will be given for the 16 best answers, received by denuary %, 1985. Pe eer Workers—What Next?,” an article by Ann Burlak, young textile leader, brings out some in- teresting facts of the terrific ex- ploitation of women mill workers, in sharp contrast to a story by Vern Smith, “Smirnova Becomes a Red Director,” which shows the position of women in the Soviet Union, where 22 per cent of the engineers, chemists, and highly skilled spe- cialists in the rubber industry and garment trades are women. Ann Burlak's article tells us how in the recent textile strike, 8,000 workers faced drawn bayonets, in Saylesville, R.I. The strikers hesi- tated. Suddenly a 16-year old girl leaped forward: “They can’t stop us from picketing,” she cried, “let’s go!” No, they can’t stop us. And the Working Woman is helping to show the way. PIONEERS, ATTEN-SHUN! Little Lefty has a complaint. ‘What happened to all the “Help Lefty” activity in New York—to raise pennies, nickels and dimes for the Daily Worker drive? He's a tough job, up against seven sky grown-ups like Burck and i “You're Telling Me," the. pithy | regular feature conducted by Grace | jobless women, and the “Lindbergh | ber, following a letter from a woman | | The subject matter of this course | I want no peace. Not yet am I ripe for it, And if, or a shadow of it, Come now, I shall turn on it tooth and nail I ask strength to do this: When I take food, Let me take of hunger also; As long as it exists Let it be always with me, For can I quench my appetite While there remains one appetite unquenched? And do not let The blankets that cover me Spread lies of universal warmth Upon my flesh. Let me for awhile Throw them off And lie in the cold of For in it are wrapped a million comrades. And let there be no sentiment in this... I am no savior ...I am a man, And not a wolf in the Who would dine On the flesh of his wounded kind. I say this with a hate As cold as the north wind in my teeth; | And I back it with a love As gentle and flexible As a breeze from the South. I WANT NO PEACE _________ By WALKER WINSLOW WORLD of the THEATRE JAYHAWKER—A play in three acts by Sinclair Lewis and Lloyd Lewis, | produced by Henry Hammond, | Inc., at the Cort Theatre. { Reviewed by | LEON ALEXANDER AM still trying to figure out, | | hough in vain, to what purpose the two Lewises (unrelated) wrote this play of the Civil War. It is not| | because they have so completely dis- torted history that I am puzzle; but | because I can see no point to the mutilation — unless it was com- mitted to provide the authors with |an easy way out in the third act, | “Jayhawker” might have been a good play. It is that for the first act and and a half. There is gusto in the speeches, in the conception |of the characters. In this first half |of the play, the Lewises have re- | | created the flavor and the spirit of | the period. They build it out of | something more than the clothes | |the actors wore and casual refer-| Jences to Lincoln, abolitionis | slavery, etc. The rhythm of exist |and the emotional temper of the} | time are there. | But the play grows feebler and | feebler as it comes into closer con- | tact with history. Upon the solid |foundation of the first. two scenes, |the two authors raise a castle of the night, pack What’s Doing in the Workers ..o.222 "9 Sort Schools of the U. S. DRIVE INTENSIFIED Despite the fact that the New) York Workers School was closed} Wednesday to enable students to} celebrate the 17th Anniversary of| the victorious October Revolution, | and the poor attendance Tuesday} because of the election, close to $100 was contributed last week to the Daily Worker National Train- ing School Drive. The students, recognizing the drive as an im- portant phase of their training for) the class struggle, have intehsified | their efforts in the Socialist Com- petition and are determined to 80) over the top of the quota before} the drive ends December 1st. The| Shock Brigade Class of James Field in Poiitical Economy C is still in the lead with a total of $36.95. | One hundred and seventy have already registered for Max Be-| dacht’s course on “The Growth of} the International Proletarian Class Struggle as Expressed in the First, | Second and Third internationals.” | is very interesting and timely and} with Comrade Bedacht as instruc- tor will prove as valuable and in- | structive as the short-term course | in “The Economics and Politics of Fascism and Social Fascism” just completed by Comrade Hathaway. se & IMPROVED ATTENDANCE AT N. Y. WORKERS SCHCOL. The average daily per cent at- tendance of the entire school for the first six weeks of the Fall Term | Students the Fall of this year, 8S dynamo of energy. Elected on a is 86.77 per cent, a marked in-| crease over the attendance during | the same period of the fall term) of 1933,: The class with the hiches' attendance had an average daily} attendance of 97 per cent (Prin- | ciples of Communism No. 24, R. J. Kenton, Instructor). The lowest, 76 per cent. Israel Amter, Communist candi- date for Governor in the recent) election, will speak on “The Results | of the Recent Elections and Its! Significance for the American Workers” this Sunday. November 18, | 8:30 p.m., at Workers School Forum, 35 East 12th Street, 2nd floor. The Brownsville Friends of the | Workers School have arranged a_ lecture by John L. Spivak on “America Faces Pogroms” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Friday, Nov. 16, at 8:30 p.m. eae ae RECORD REGISTRATION AT CHICAGO WORKERS SCHOOL The Executive Committee of the} Chicago Workers School is proud to announce that as a result of its persistent work and its expansion program it is able to record 750 | student body, with the improvement | | whipped cream which slowly collap- | ses into a formless mess. puted an authority on the civil |war, have rewritten the history of | | the period into the story of Asa | Burdette, liar, lecher, rough-and- | | ready orator, wily politician and compared with 300 the previous | yy, semester, 400 of the registrations | swept Kansas in the struggle to keep 4 Ze oe ae headquarters at 505 slavery out of the state, he drives Me ut is pend. the vest in the the country into the Civil War to Sohne ane abnor keep in well with his constituents. der the influence of t the Commas | ae re egg ean : oe uate ripe! are very poorly represented at | psd polities, dictates a Lincoln, the school. The majority of the | r ri rmies, students in the Central School are | Rory ger he 44 this sig of young people, eager to learn, and le ‘by the reading | train themselves to participate more ee pera lists, he “il | effectively in the class struggle. comes determined to put a stop to The instructors of the Chicago ‘hi He conceives the plan Workers School at their last meeting | fn reared War-by ariel Teport with satisfaction that the| the two armies of the/North and the classes are interesting, that the stu- ' South for a march on Mexico to dents are eagerly reading the ma-| drive gut the emperor Maximilian! terial, and have great hopes for the The plan fails in the third act, [okra ele esses egal e Of not of its own ineptitude, but be- The Arstumbsting of the Btident | cause a rabid abolitionist reveals it | to the newspapers. And Burdette, Council corifirmed the enthusiasm | +, save his political skin, becomes | of the instructors. The delegates | sgain the fire-eater, the bitter-ender were eager to accept school duties, calling for the destruction of the all committees met immediately and South. outlined work for the remainder of | ghia ye the term. iT is not enough to say that the Outstanding among the decisions | “ authors have failed because they of the Student Council was the one | do not understand the forces of his- oe eeree pe? in the Dally Worker | tory. They fail also because they ive. |are satisfied with a cheap, easy, The student body will participate | creaky, undramatic solution of the actively in the celebration of the | play that does violence to the truth 10th anniversary of the Interna-| of their characters as much as to tional Publishers by selling more| the truth of history. One gets the books and increasing the reading | feeling that the playwrights got of Marxian classics. The Student tired of their play before the be- Council has decided to organize a/ ginning of the third act; that they for the Zaed. of December. On this |thar ‘chotke, like two" supereilious r the 23rd of De . their cheeks, like two supercilious date a huge celebration will be held | tyros, If that is the case, we have under the joint auspices of the|a right to be offended at the au- aoe pact bese a er | thors’ bad taste, for it comes after icago Workers chools. e some rather serious scenes which feature of this event will be the| had stirred a genuine emotion in new $8.00 edition of the Lenin set | the audience. just issued. | © 5.2 ah P| With the great enthusiasm of the | IKE the playwriting, everything else, acting and direction, fails He cd postage Meas romney Seed bs the third act. Fred Stone had mittee has the perspesiive of doub- | fret ‘wor acts, “tne transition from ing the number of students during | the blustering Jayhawker of act one the Winter term beginning Janu-| into the war-weary Senator of act ath ie Sr alice udzaal two, he had accomplished uiseg ia ‘ ~ | pathos and with convincing force. In Pee Waeeeee Gobet ie x the third act, however, henge by ft r the broa' ferd, Ti, the second largest indus- ad gen 4 hae eee of trial city in the State of Illinois, has |Vanievifie been called for the December 18/ pay! Guilfoyle, as the rabid young i ppg ae ter eee abolitionist, is a little wooden and so many people will be conducted by the Student | 3,01, 0n® Piece, ts 80, meny, beanie Council. The first speaker will be| ward McNamara contributes one William Weinstone, District Organ- Sop cles. of-eete izer of Detroit, and his topic is| Of the most effective pieoes of be “Growth of Fascism in Europe, and| ie in the play. As Luke Kildare, its Labebew for easton.” pe, and | Burdette’s secretary and factotum, The Gary Workers ” School has | Be Repu ired 1 ta Ban § | brains, strength ai lance, Just completed its conference and wthout bitterness, and without per- Will open about the 15th of Novem-| sone] ambition, a perfect, though ber. critical satellite for the jayhawker. Miss Carol Stone is a charming and ave of pro-abolitionist feeling that TUNING IN 1:00-WEAF—Gould and Shefter, Piano WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Hirsh Orehestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Regionalism and Local Gov- ernment—Professor Phillips Bradley, Amberst College. WOR—William Larkin, Tenor WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles Sears, Tenor; Concert Orchestra WABC—Jack Smith, Songs 1:43-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WOR—Dance Music WAEC—Boake Catrer,Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestre; Phil Duey, Baritone WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian WJZ—Lady Blackheart—Sketch WABC—Coneert: Orchestra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Hazel Glenn, Soprano 8.30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Variety Musicale WdZ—Queens Mario, Soprano; Orpheus Club Chorus; Concert Orchestra; John B. Kennedy, Narrator WABC—Lyman Orchestra; Vivienne 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read } 10: decorative ingenue. ' | The direction of Mr. Losey, | smooth flowing in the first two acts, turns into a series of aimless risings and sittings, crosses left and right in the last. But not the most her- culean efforts of the greatest di- rector could have accomplished any- thing with that last part of the play. Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orchestra WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin ‘WABC—Bing Crosby, fnngs; Sisters Trio; Stoll Orchestra 9:15-WdZ—Story Behind the Claim— Sketch 9:30-WEAF—Ed Wynn, Comedian; Duchin Boswell Page 7° PLOTTING the POGROMS | A Historical Distortion | AMERICAN This is the last instalment of the seventh article by John L, Spivak in the series “Plotting the American Pograms,” appearing weekly in the New Masses. In the former articles, Spivak exposed the widespread, organized anti-Sem- itic activities, closely linked with Nazi Germany, of organizations and individuals such as the Order of 16, Silver Shirts, Congressman L. T. McFadden, Ralph M. Easley George Sylvester Viereick. In the first part of the present article Spivak interviews Viola Ima, of vague citizenship, organizer of the Youth Movement, whose attempt- ed. congress of youth organizations last summer was defeated by the united efforts of radical and llb- eral groups. Miss Iima spent some time in Germany before the Con- gress was organized, and Spivak s attempting to prove that the young lady’s expenses were paid by German agents-in this country | and abroad. By JOHN L. SPIVAK it. correspondent for the G News Bureau. He is the youched for Kurt G. W. L who was in the United S orxespondent for the Deu’ kischer Beobachter, a vic: semitic Nazi paper. Luede result of Sell’s vouching gained admitta lery and the ferences where the quently says things off the rece Luedecke has already confessed to being a Nazi propagandist.’ “I never heard the name Kurt G. Sell,” she repeated. “Very well, let me read you the notes I took of a conversation 1 had.with your hostess, Miss Margery Watson, on Oct. 24, 1934, the eve- ning you had a meeting at her apartment.. There were two people listening in on extension wires.” ISS ILMA stared at me as I read Watsen?” “Is Miss Ima in?” “No, but I expect -her about 8 here then, I assume she is out to dinner.” “She’s doing nice work, isn’t she?” “Oh, marvelous! Iam so happy with what she is doing.” “Has Ambassador Luther's sec- retary called yet?” “No, but Kurt Sell has called a number of times and you know he is quite close to the German Embassy.” “Yes, I know. Do you expect him tonight?” “Well, I don’t know but he said he would drop in almost any time.” Miss Iima jumped from her seat, “Margery couldn't have said that! I don’t- know the man.” “’m sorry. I am only reading you the notes of the conversation I had with her. listening in, Now on Nov. 3, 1934, I telephoned. her again in Wash- ington. Two people Ii: ed in on this, too. I'll omit the introduction and establishing of the voice as Miss Watson's.” *“Viola’s visit was so fascinating,” Miss Watson said. “She and Mrs. Roosevelt had quite a nice talk.” “Is that so?” “Yes, and she’s to see Mrs. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, too.” “Did Kurt Sell get in touch with her?” “{ don’t know just what they distussed but I do know she got in teuch with him and they had so many plans, It’s marvelous what a girl she is.” “Yes, she’s sure marvelous.” “Ys this Mr, Becker?” the voice suddenly asked. “No, it isn’t. I’m sorry.” “Oh,” the voice grew a trifle cold, “I'm sorry I talked so per- sonal, I’m sorry. Gooa night.” . 2 Mss Tima rubbed an ivory hand across her eyes. “T can’t understand Margery say- ing this.” “You did see didn’t you?” “Yes,” she said slowly. “and a lot of high’ officials—like Secretary Wallace, for instance?” Mrs. Roosevelt, tone. “What..did. you discuss with them?” Miss Ilma ‘walked over to me. “I know what's on your mind. You think T’am a Nazi agent. I am not! I am interested only in the Orchestra WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Henry Street Visiting Service—Mrs. August Belmont WABC—Jones_ Orchestra; Fray Braggiotti, Piano 9:45-WOR—Burnett Orchestra 10:30-WEAF—Operetta—Hit the Deck; with Jane Froman, Contralto; John Bar- clay, and Others. WOR—Keller Sisters and Lynch, Songs WJZ—Sea Sketch, Cameron King, Narrator WABC—Gray_Orchi Annette Hanshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe | WYO critic will point the finger of scorn at Messrs Lewis and ac- cuse. them of having distorted the history of the Civil War for pur- poses of. propaganda. But then, I believe, neither will anyone. ever be able to explain why they have written this insane burlesque. Jay- hawker adds little to the gaiety or the excitement of a season that so far, but. for Mr. Rice, has been aj; dull one, and I for one cannot see why Mr. John Hammond has ex- pended so much effort in its produc- tion. By this time, he probably doesn’t either. Nurse and -WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Tim and Irene, Comedy WABC—George Givot, Comedian 11:00-WEAF—Coleman Orchestra WOR—News Bulletins WJZ—Campo Orchestra UNCLE JOHN IS CLUBBED DOWN AS HE Porice PROCEED “To CARRY OvY THEIR INSTRUCTIONS THAT SHE EVICTION MUST BE CARRIED our I/ FRIENDS ATTEMPT To HELP UNCLE JOHN AND SKEY oo ARE RYTECKED //- Heroes Are Made—! Youth Movement. If you can’t keep out the fact that I am an alien, IT DEPENDS ON YOU In his intensive scientific re- search, is it-possibie for Comrade Ramsey to discover some potent means whereby Daily Worker readers can keep him in mind during the days when Lab and Shop are out of sight? The ful- fillment of his $250 quota ap- pears to be in the dim distance, unless some enterprising follow- ers show same speed. CAN You WAN “ars Th! BERT iv? MUG | SocKkeo. WPTH MY HIST'RY BOOK il “VURT G. SELL is the Washington j o'clock. There's to be a meeting | with two people | “Yes,” she said again in a low| another well ovef an alien; lone about ion f elt! it?” her Roosevelt. b is to write what-t ima could communi« sevelt and the id ask The New not to publish it,” ggested hopefully. “Well, I don’t know what I could do abo ” I said hopelessly r demanded, represent besides t The New Masses,” I assured We are ru ig a series of articles on the growth of anti-Sem- itism in ‘he United States, the propaganda carried on by Nadi secret agents.” ‘My daughter is no Nazi agen outed. “If she were a Ni T would break her neck my- ight here while you looked on.” ts under ‘no obligation té answer anything. I explained that | to her. This is not a court. But she is a public figure, organizing a Movement that has -all the ear- Ss of a Fascist organization. has made some anti-Semitic statements——” | “Mow could. I,” Miss Ima ex- cla‘mei.. “Why, Arthur Garfiela Hays is my la rand he is a J “Your daughter is moving in the highest political circles of the land. | She organized the Youth Congress | after she returned from a trip to | Germany. She had letters of intro= | duction from .a ‘man suspected of | being a German agent during the | War, The letters were to Nazi offix \cials. And she will not tell who paid | for her trip to Germany and her jould she tell who paid 8?" “There should tell me.” “Is this a Senate inquiry?” “No, just a New Masses one.” “Suppose I say I gave her the money.” is no reason why she “I know you didn’t.” turned to Miss Tima who was by this time a little pale. “Do you realize that if you refuse to tell where you got your money | to go to Germany to meet the lead- |ers of the Nazi movement just be- | fore you came here to organize the Congress, that you are open to grave suspicion?” “I can't tell!” “Why not? What is there to hide if you got it from a legitimate | source?” “I can't tell,” she repeated, biting her lip, “You realize the suspicion—=—" “I can't help it, I can’t tell.’~~ “If you got it from some oné 68 the level, why can’t you tell?” “T'll tell you who I got it from!” she exclaimed suddenly. “You understand that I'll have to quote you?” “Yes.” . “You realize, too, that I shall check it?” “With the man?” |. “With his bank. I shall want to know if he withdrew that sum from his bank on or about the day you say.” “The bank can’t tell you that!" | her father exclaimed. +s | “TI know, but I can marfage’ to | find out. Now, will you tell me.” “The History Society paid -my | expenses,” she said in a low voice, “A little earlier you said that | they did not.” | “You can check with them.” ~~ “Very well.” | As I rose to go, I said: _ “Miss Ilma, you. are making a grave mistake in refusing to tell who paid your expenses to Ger- many. I know it was not the His- | tory Society.’ - “No, it was not,” she said in- low voice. z “Will you tell me Who gave you | the money?” “No!” she shouted. “I can’t tell. | I can’t tell!” V Net with this, I think, ends the Viola Ilma Youth Movement, with all its menacing Fascist ten= dencies, which the alien Viola Ilam | organized after she went to Gers many with money from a mysteri« Ous source, and with letter of in- | troduction to Nazi leaders. After the above story had been written, Arthur Garfield Hays’ of fice, at the request of Miss Viola | Ilma, stated that it had investi« |gated her status at Ellis Island as | well as the law governing her status as @ citizen, According to Mr. Hays, Miss Ilma became a citizen when |her mother resumed her citizenship following her marriage to an alien, and therefore, Miss Ilma today is ja citizen, Mr, Hays, when asked | why Miss Ilma travelled on a Swiss | Passport, said, “Well, I guess it wi due to bad advice.” : i! Next week Mr. Spivak will tell of the German exchange students who are secretly organizing Nazi ! cells to carry on anti-Semitic propaganda in the colleges and , universities here as well as the { secret ‘etpionage crganizstion or- ? ganized in the colleges by. men working with secret Nazi agents > and anti-Semitic propagandists, > devageson painene