The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1934 Page 5 CHANGE — WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD ONCE prided myself on a theory I had invented to explain the popularity of those pseudo-scientific stories about flights to the moon, explorations to the center of the Earth, and machines that conquered Time. I used to read those weird and magnificent imagina- tions of the pulp magazines with tremendous fervor in my youth. They hurled me beyond the stars. They peopled space with grotesque and impossible figures. I used to devour the scientific imaginings of H. G. Wells. In fact, I would hazard that “The Time Machine” and “War of the Worlds” will outlast those other pompous treatises like “Mr. Britling Sees It Through” or “The Outline of History.” Mr. Wells’ reputation with the future generations will lie, I con- tend, on what he invented out of his dreams rather than on what he distorted out of history. . . * A Theory UT to return to the theory. My explanation ran like this: Scientific fiction is like geographic fiction; it arises out of curiosity and ignor- ance. In the seventeenth century, a writer named De Mandeville startled Europe with a book on the remote corners of the world. De Mandeville said that in distant lands lived people who had feet so large they used them as umbrellas against the equatorial sun. Today, in the science monthlies, and in the weird stories, you can read about shapes that travel across the sun that resemble interstellar dirigibles, Or on Mars live green people with enormous heads and little puny bodies. Or on Venus, surrounded with impenetrable clouds, lurk huge primordial monsters, like monsters of the youth of the earth. The popularity of De Mandeville and the popularity of Amazing Stories are results of identical causes. Man's ignorance, In the seven- teenth century they were ignorant of the world, of their own earth. Ignorant and curious. ‘ Today science is the great magic. Man is poking out into space. He is reaching out feelers towards the stars. He is dreaming of break- ing away and conquering the forces of gravitation that bind him to the earth. But since only a few men specialize in tkese mysteries, the rest of us view their researches with the wide eyes of an audience watching a magician. A few bowed intent bespectacled magicians are experimenting with splitting the atom or the nature of cosmic rays. The rest of us, ignorant of science, doubly ignorant under capitalism of even fundamental laws of science, read the Sunday magazine section of the New York Amer- ican or Amazing Stories. Truth, hard-fought-for, implacable know- ledge, we get wrapped up in the highly-colouréd papers of magic or fairy tales. . . . Science and Acrobats OW many of us know what the whole business of the stratosphere is about? The man, Picard, or the Soviet balloonists, risking life and limb to penetrate the mysteries of the air, appear to us in the same light as trapeze walkers or parachute jumpers. It’s a dare- devil trick. An exhibition. The newspapers deliberately pander to our ignorance. They play up. the sensational aspects of Picard’s climb into the higher atmosphere as though it were the dare-devil acrobatios of a tight rope walker doing a stunt on a rope stretched between two skyscrapers. They emphasize only the marvelous, the magical and the danger- ous. Man’s laborious effort to conquer space, to learn the truths of the universe that surround him, are presented by the papers like a side-show. They did this to Einstein. They kidded and joked about Einstein’s revolutionary conceptions of time and space. Headlines ap- peared, “The One Man Who Understands Einstein” like advertisements of the only man who chews iron and bites glass. The truth is, not that the people haven’t the brains to under- stand the latest in scientific advance, not that this is the way they like their science, but that this is the reflection of the attitude of our society to science. Two Attitudes to Science 14 ALL boils down to what Comrade David Ramsey proves week after week in his column in the Daily Worker. Capitalism has ceased to have a vital, living, interest in science. Science as magic still sélis extra editions; but science as knowledge, science as technical conquest of industry, science as a factor in the development of man, has be- come a destructive force so long as the capitalist system exists. I remember with what a sharp impact the different attitude to- ward science in the Soviet Union was brought home to me. I saw @ news-reel of a demonstration in the streets of Moscow. And among the banners carried by the workers, among the banners and placards against war, and for the five year plan, there was raised high one startling placard: Long Live Science! . * . Not Magic Under Socialism H bi bourgeois intellectuals can sneer at this. What ignorance, what naivete, they can say, carrying a banner for Science! But it is their own ignorance, their own shallowness that is reflected in their words, They, like the bosses, have turned against science in favor of the “higher intuition,” because the- logic of science implies their recognition of their own destruction. Science, by its nature, raises new and continually profound ques- tions about the universe. It is in constant motion. They are stagnant. ‘They do not wish to answer questions any longer. The universe has become a hateful place in which they see only their own small futility. But the Soviet workers are part of the living forward movement of science. They fight with science for the conquest of time and space. Between capitalism and science there exists the struggle of life and death: they are choking, strangling each other. But science breathes freely in the Soviet Union, it breathes the life of the living. Science is not magic to the workers in the shops and the factories of Russia; it doesn’t have to come wrapped up in romance and fairy tale; it is not a stunt to startle the jaded or the weary. It is part of the knowledge of conquest; part of the struggle to wipe out class differences among humanity, to lift the material plane of life to higher levels, and to subdue and harness the forces of nature for the benefit of man. THE HERO. Having reached 110 per cent of his $500 quota with today’s fabu- lous contributions, there was nothing left for Mike Gold to do—except the right thing by the Daily Worker campaign. Accordingly, he has increased his quota to $1,000, and by the looks of things, unless Burck performs a miracle, Gold will get there first! Needle Trades W. I. U. Cooper Union Col. .... Needle Trades W. I. U. Trades Board Furriers . 25.00 Needle Trades W. I. U. Staff ................5 9.00 . Brooklyn Athletic Culture Club .. 3.50 Brownsville Workers School 50.00 Y. C. L. Unit 2 Newark . 3.50 Leah Meisner 50 Jehn Higgins : 15 Trish Worker » 2.00 Arvid Olson seve 10,00 A, V. Shaw . wees 1,00 Previously received . 405.14 To the highest contributor each day, Mike Gold will present an autographed copy of his novel, “Jews Without Money,’ or an original autographed manuscript of his “ ¢ the World” column, WORLD of the’ THEATRE Building the Revolutionary | Theatre Arts | NEW THEATRE, published by the | Workers Theatre, Film and Dance Leagues, 114 West 14th St., New York City. November issue. 10 cents. Reviewed by HARRY STEVENS November issue of New The- atte tells an exciting story of the work the revolutionary theatre, film and dance groups are doing to supply the workers’ audiences with | revolutionary entertainment and counter, at the same time, the poisonous influence of the capitalist movie, theatre, press, church. An article Punch Goes Red by Louis Bunin describes how revolu- tionary puppet shows are given on street corners of New York by Ben | Yano of the Workers Laboratory | Theatre. These puppet plays have attracted, entertained and influenced hundreds of workers, who greet the delightful puppet skits and satires | with appropriate “boos” for the Blue Eagle and cheers for Puppet Punch who goes red and knocks President Roosevelt, Fanny Perkins and “com- rade” LaGuardia off the puppet | stage. Another article by Richard | Packby depicts the W. L. T. Shock Troupe In Action on the water front during the marine strike. “A show. The news spreads up and down the docks. A show! The word is a magnet. Soon where there were forty, there are 300 sea- men. The show begins. No house- lights dim; no ctrtain rises. This! is theatre in its first form—under | the sky ... The sailors eat it up. No movie hokum this. It’s about them. Their problems. What to do? Lustily, they boo Br. Mixemup, | the misleader who claims the ‘dog | house’ is really beneficial, and they | Jaugh and cheer when the hero ex- | poses the double-crossing ‘doc’. “‘Swell stuff, boy,’ one husky Sailor yells, ‘swell stuff.’ “One hour later the ‘Shock Troupe’ will perform on a crowded | Fast Side Street—at a meeting of | the Y. C. L. More powerful than the speakers is the message brought home by this revolutionary theatre group.” * * | THER articles, The New Dance Group by Edna Ocko, the Na- tional Film Conference by David | Platt describe how the dance and | film groups use their crafts to ex- plain to them in unforgettable terms the truths of Communism, the bank- ruptcy of capitalism, An article Continuous Perform- ance by Ilya Ehrenburg, the great | Soviet writer, illustrates how the bourgeoisie use the films to confuse and mislead the workers. In Holly- wood Sees Pink, Richard Watts Jr.| writes about Hollywood’s vicious caricatures of Communists. Other articles by Robert Stebbins and Jay Leyda discuss the Movies of the Paes in America and in the U. 8. | John Howard Lawson and Liston Oak of Theatre Union contribute an interesting controversy questioning the policy of “united front” plays. I am inclined to agree with Oak, and with the editorial comment that | it is wrong to demand that the char- | acters that represent the united ; struggle of workers—against war in Peace On Earth, against the op-, pression and for the freedom of | Negroes in Stevedore — must be “labelled” as belonging to a par- ticular political party or union. Such | plays have brought home their mes- ! sage of revolutionary truth and ac- | tion to approximately 300,000 work- ers, and have drawn many of these into the struggles of the working class for the first time. Nevertheless, Lawson brings up some real problems facing the revolution- ary playwright, and I, for one, will look forward to his forthcoming series of articles on the subject in New Theatre. New Theatre can be regarded as the barometer of rising interest in the revolutionary theatre arts. Since the recent improvement and en- largement of the magazine, circula- tion—the editors report—has in- creased from approximately 2,000 in May to 8500 in November. As Joseph Freeman writes “New The- atre is mature, vigorous and im- portant ... playing a major role in the building of the revolutionary theatre arts, and supplying at the same time valuable criticism of the | bourgeois theatre, film, and dance.” A close race today for Del's colored portrait, but the New York Workers Book Shop beats them all, thanks to the Wald- man Lécture, Placed in a con- spicuous spot on the wall, the picture should add to the grow- ing number of Little Lefty Sup- porters. N. ¥. Workers Book Shop, Waldman Leah Meisner . L. M. Schwartz L W. O. Br. 799 ne Ridgewéod Youth Club Brownsville Workers )Previously received . -$ 15.00 50 50 10.55 10.50 radio and | \ism, Red Banner By IRENE L. PAULL——— Leap forth, Red Banner, leap in flames of red! Leap forth you fiery symbol of our youth! Marx taught us life is change and change is truth. Change is our banner and we bear it high! They tell us that the poor are always with us; That Sacco and Vanzetti died in vain; That rich will always war and reap their profits, The poor to reap the death and debt and pain; That white was born to rule and black obey But Marx gave us our banner. Let it fly!! You cannot go on feeding hunger bullets. You cannot bayonet a cry for bread, Nor stifle anger with a tear gas bomb, } Nor murder hate—and if you club and kill us j Our banner flies above cur helpless dead! Fascists, your bloody victories are hollow, | You can’t hold back the tide with bayonets, Nor stop with guns the movement of the stars. You can’t crush revolution with a club, Nor brandish swords against a mighty flood. We still march on, a grim and endless horde No matter how you force us to retreat; And though you mow down millions as we come, You still will hear the marching of our feet. You cannot kill us even though we die. The more we die the redder flows our blood, And redder leaps our banner to the sky! Two Tragedies and a Moral By HARRY KERMIT ‘Resins es tragedies are daily occurrences in our pres- lent society which decrees privation for the many and plenty for the few. Most of them are too familiar for repetition here — the broken homes and suicides which the work- | ing population has come to recog- nize as its heritage under capital- Sometimes, however, these tragedies contain such pointed in- dictments of the mode of life en- gendered by the profit system that no workers’ newspaper can afford his father received for working as to ignore them. jan atténdant at New York Uni- Two such stories came to light versity. recently in New York City, both of} On Sept. 11 the youth disap- them receiving passing mention peared. The police were notified ,; When noticed at all by the capitalist /and they began to search for him. Press, One concerned a thrée- But the family knew he would not months old baby and the other a return, He had told his mother |Working-class mother. The indict- he would not be a burden on the ‘ments were clear in each case. \tamily for long, He had left his The baby starved to death. That overcoat at home and his mother was the diagnosis of the Home Re- worried about his facing the winter lief Bureau doctor who attended her without it. before she died. It was also the | One night she dreamed she saw diagnosis of the grief-stricken for- him shivering in the cold on a eign-born parents who were trying street corner. She began to have to feed and clothe their six chil- visions about him. The subsequent dren, provide fuel and gas and pay ,developments followed a time-worn |their rent with the $9 a week they course. Heartbroken at the loss of ‘received from the relief bureau. ‘her son, the mother began to ail. There was no hiding the cause of Several weeks ago she took to her death in this instance. Six calls bed. She lapsed into a coma a borkeragé house. It was the only job he had ever held since he be- came old enough to work and he was bewildered by his “economy move” dismissal after six years of service. From June until September of this year he looked for another job daily and unsuccessfully. He grew haggard and irritable and although his mother told him not to worry he knew the family of six could not live on the meager wages which Periodicals and Bulletins Reviewed by MURIEL RUKEYSER WORKERS CLUB REVIEW, No- vember, 1934, organ of Associated PHYSICS AND SOVIET Workers Clubs, 5 cents, AGRICULTURE Most of this issue is given over to| A striking example of the reprint of successful and familiar elation between science a Pieces. Here are Langston Hughes’ "3 one Good Morning, Revolution, John |‘ical life in the U. 8. S. R. is f Reed's account of November 7, 1917, nished by the important role which a Free Ernst Thaelmann play by L. physical research is playing in the Greenberg, and an interview with Stella Adler. If another magazine |. devoted so much space to old ma- nique. In a recent article, Acade- |\terial, its judgment might be ques- mician A. Joffe, the world-famous tioned, lication of the workers’ clubs it is a + . useful move, and will help to build peepee) stares as manatee |up a standard revolutionary litera-|‘scussed the various methods de jture. The rest of the magazine re- | veloped at the Physico-Agronomical ssi news, ae events, dramatic branch of the Institute, which are work among the clubs, and organi- es sitintal. Giscussion: helping agriculture to produce This issue announces the appear- |/@rger harvests. development of agricultural But in an official pub- physicist and head of the Physico- r ance of a printed Workers Club Review, to begin with the next number. With this advance, the {magazine will probably reach a |high level among club publications. He pointed out that mankind had long known the importance of leav- ing fields fallow for certain periods. The reason for this was: that the soil lost its original structure after | When the magazine has brought its material closer to the needs of its audience, it will be a much more effective instrument. As it is, it remains, one of the best. a succession of harvests, and was easily scattered as dust. The most common treatment for restoring the structure was leaving the land under grass. pes as But the Soviet physicists found | WORKERS’ REFERENCE BUL- that it was possible to “bind” the LETIN, Labor Research Bureau, jsoil together by using a special kind Chicago Pen and Hammer, No-|of physical “fertilizer” which could vember, 1934, 5 cents. be introduced with the usual chem- | This continues to be an ex-|ical fertilizers. A by-product of the tremely valuable reference publica- | Paper mills, viscosine, it utilized for jtion, whose style should be used as|this purpose. This increases the a model by labor research organi- | Period during which it is possible to zations in all states. Although most | “Ultivate the soil intensively. of its material is confined, and cor-| Another important factor that rectly, to Illinois, the general makes for good crops is the reten- ;monthly economic survey, and, in/tion of heat by the soil. The | this issue, a summary of lynchings, |blacker the surface of the soil, the deportations, killings, deprivations| more heat does it attract. But the of citizenship, etc. condensed from earth itself evaporates this heat, the I. L, D. material for delegates | especially at night. In tackling this ,to the Anti-War Congress, as well as | problem, the physicists found that a |a quarterly strike survey of the thin layer of bitumen, when scat- Illinois area are valuable nationally. |tered over the soil, raised the tem- Publications like this and the/perature five or six degrees and I. L. D. Educational Bulletins |decreased evaporation, This wes of | Should be available to all organizers, all résearch workers and students,|in the northern regions. Without and should be made a permanent |this technique thete would not be part of the reference libraries of sufficient heat for the plants to | organizations. | thrive. i —— | The scientists also succeeded in WAR AND FASCISM -. Research |attaining higher temperatures by Bureau, American League against perfecting a substitute for glass War and Fascism, N. Y. C. Com- which was fragile and expensive to | mittee, November, 1934. be used in hothouses. They made This bullétin contains supple- |* transparent film something like mentary material to the League’s celluloid but with much better | magazine, Fight, and is, in contrast to the Workers’ Reference Bullstin, jinternational in scope. It rer, ‘s |mewspaper stories of Fascist vances in this country, of Nazi in- sinuations into American politics, of |American and European war prepra— |tions, and of current events in the |j; hank: Shan eon avowedly Fascist countries. It is a tees hay Sane scale it is ShAAper jlively news digest for speakers and i), glass. parent than glass and transmits the ultra-violet rays which are so im- portant for plant growth. It is ireproof, absorbs very little moisture and is strong enough to withstand jwind, rain and hail. Yet it is so \light that a hothouse frame can be great help to the farming districts | qualities. The film is more trans- | were made to the baby’s home in 'two weeks by a local hespital .am- bulance but the interne in charge week later. On Election Night she qiscussion groups. One suggestion | regained consciousness temporarily ‘that might be made is in its source | to murmer her son’s name. She died material: War and Fascism uses Last year this film was tested in many places and found to be very successful. It would be possible to LABORATORY and SHOP By David Ramsey | BEHIND THE AIR RACES spectacular ve been capturing pages to the war prepa powers. Mi war. re a great gap in speed be e big bombers and the small pi anes This makes it the more dif+ ficult to repel attacks. The big bombers if given a slight lead are very difficult to overtake. And new methods of armi ave re- moved the blind spots t used to exist behind and underneath the fuselage of the bombers, so that now they are almost as effective from the angle of offense as the attack planes. As the planes grow bigger they develop new methods for destruction. A big plane carrying a squad of. soldiers could land them behind the lines unhurt through the simpie expedient of a mass parachute- jump. Such groups could cause an enormous amount of damage as they attacked and crippled the enemy's lines of communications. Today the great airliners can easily be converted into bombing. planes and troop carriers. In the United States and in Germany, the potential war strength in the air is concentrated in the commercial lines ;which are the auxiliary arm of the military forces. GASOLINE FROM PEAT |_ Soviet scientists at the Leningrad , Industrial Institute have found @ y of extracting gasoline from peat on a large sc: The peat tar that is left as a residue, after peat is used to generate gas, will now be jturned into gasoline and various fuel oils | The new fuel gives more than or- dinary gasoline, makes no smoke, let's engines run more smoothly and {costs only half as much as the usual petroleum product. There are tree mendous possibilities in this devele opment, since there are two billion jtons of peat in the Leningrad dis- jtrict alone. Soviet experts estimate that this will furnish as much fuel as the famous Gronzi oil fields, | Now that gasoline can be ob- jtained from peat, there will no \longer be the necessity. of shipping petroleum products all the way from | Transcaucasia The chemical and }@as generating plants that operate {on peat will soon be able to supply fuel to those regions that found it difficult before and in this way the ‘could not provide the nourishing {food which the infant needed. The doctor sent down by the Home Re- Hef Bureau the final day merely tating factor nevertheless, suggested tonic medications. So this These two stories were only iso- baby starved to death several weeks lated instances of the daily trage- ago and because a group of neigh- dies which take place in working- bors appealed to the authorities the class homes. As stated earlier, these city graciously provided the burial stories were mentioned passingly expenses and the relief bureau of-'when noticed at all by the capi-| ficials felt satisfied. talist press. None of the accounts | ee the following night. The family said York papers of the more she died of a broken heart, not the (CU New a | onsérvative kind. That is all right; medical diagnosis but the precipi- be . the most rigid editors let slip the best irony that’s printed. But ‘t/| seems too bad to limit world ma- |terial to the New York press. If a larger field of sources could be used, the bulletin would gain tre- mendously in power and effect. use this film in places where it is rie acietiydne eae relieved of a impossible to deliver glass, and it} . opens up the possibility of replacing A PERMANENT CREASE glass in houses. | Ralph E. McCabe has invented a The scientists also studied the crease for your trousers that will effects of light on plants. Sunlight enable you to jump into the river, is made up of various colored rays, | @fter your favorite girl, get your re- éach of which plays a part in the | ward, and still not losc the crease in life of the plant. They therefore; your pants. Mr. McCabe applies a experimented with colors that are fluid that he has patented to the ‘HE other story was somewhat more dramatic, It treated of a 23- year-old youth of solid Catholic— American parentage who lost his job as runner with a Wall Street 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—Pickens Sisters, Songs WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WdJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Marion Chase, Songs WJZ—Piantation Echoes; Mildred Bailey, Songs; Robison Orch. WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Gould and Shefter, Piano WOR—Vecsey Orch. WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch ‘WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra—Sketch WOR—Dance Musi WJZ—Dangerous Paradise—Sket: WABC—Boake Carter, Comment: 8:00-WEAF—Little Old New York with Mary Pickford, Actres: WOR—Longe Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Murder and Company—Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King ‘Orch. WOR-Variety Musicale Wdz-—Lanny Ross, Tenor; Salter Orch.; Willie Morris, Soprano WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone; Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Ra- chel Carlay, Songs; Mixed Chorus 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian WOR-—Footlight Echoes ‘WSZ—20,000 Years in Sing Sing— Sketch, with Warden Lawes WABC--Nino Martini, Tehor; Kostel- anetz, Orch. Attention Radio Ha Beginning on Friday a regula _] appear on this page. CQ CQ CQ || ANBDY? QSW? QTU? || DE USSR? BPL? PSE QSL, OM. 73. Dah Little Lefty Victory, DINNER | ASSEMBLED +0 CELEBRATE “HE DEFERY oF HE ATTEMPTS OF LAND- LORD AND Police, TO EVICT A NEGRO FAMILY / Peanuts’ FATHER HAS A FEW WORDS “10 Say] —MOREOVER IF IY WEREN'T FOR MHE COMMUNISTS WHO AROUSED “THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND ORGANIZED HE FISHY AGRINST MAKING US PALVPERS—WE WOULP HAVE BEEN HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE AT THIS VERY Momenr // I * \drew the inescapable moral which’ STUDENT REVIEW, National Stu- | TUNING IN a class-conscious worker's paper | draws—that it is necessary to or-| ganize society on a néw basis if such tragedies are to become things | of the past, | 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—John Charles Thomas, tone; Coneert Orch. WABO—George Burns and Gracie Allen, Comedians 9:45-WOR—Garber Orch. 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orch.; Pat Barnes, Narrator WOR—Sid Gery, Baritone WJZ—The N.R.A. and Its Puture Pol- icles—Donald Richberg, Executive | Director National Emergeney Coun- cil, at Grocery Mfrs. of America Assn. Convention, Astoria WABC—Broadcast to and From Byrd Expedition; Warnow Orch. 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. EB. Read WJZ—Mme. Sylvia, Narrator 10:20-WEAF—One Man's Family—Sketch WOR—Varlety Musicale WdJ2—Denny Oxch.; Harry Richman, Songs WABO—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Evan Evans, Baritone Bari- Hotel Waldorf- | dent League, December, 1934, 10 necessary for growth. Through the | use of colored electric bulbs they “|ports of the anti-Fascist student’ |THE NATIONAL STUDENT MIR- | cents. i uublished this of wheat and three of tomatoes on pain tie Biabent ene begins to 8M experimental scale. Since the take’ the place it should have had Consumption of electric energy is long before this. A new format Telatively small, it has been found jacks up its attracting strength; a practical to grow certain vegetables wider editorial policy, allowing the |in cellars and basements during the inclusion of stories, poems, some Winter. excellent reviews, and the most pro-; __ fessional articles on college life | (including a survey of philosophy; Myssolini Orders All in the universities and news re- - Teachers Uniformed; War Courses Start struggle), that we have had. The magazine has abandoned the heavy and rather sophomoric air in which it used to suffocate, and has become at once gayer and more alive, bit-| terer and more militant. Commanded by uniformed teachers in the elementary schools, and put through com- pulsory military “culture” courses by uniformed army officers in the high schools and colleges, chil- dren of Fascist Italy have now been completely coordinated into Mussolini’s imperialist war prep- arations, according to the latest dispatches from Italy. Men and women teachers have been ordered by the Ministry of ROR, National Student Federa- | tion of America, November, 1934, | 15 cents. The National Student Federation, |an organization which used to dis- \tribute intercollegiate news to col- lege papers and have conferences 11:00-WEAF—The Grummits—Sketch With “Senator” Ford WOR—News WJZ—Coleman Orch. WABC—Your Bank Account—Repre- sentative F. W. Hancock of North Carolina 11:15-WEAF—Robert Royce, Tenor WOR—Moonbeams Trio WABC—Belasco Orch. 11:30-WEAF—Dance Music (Also WOR, ‘WJZ, WABCO) ms and Commercials ir feature on short wave radio will WRKRS-HAMS. QRA? QRU? QSO QUA ANY WRKR HAM? HVE U QSL WHAT SAY YE HAMS ET CMMRCLS RE WRKRS | year on deciding how Right is Left dit dah, Education to appear in their classroom henceforth dressed in the uniforms of officers of either the Ballila organization or of the Fascist militia. Most of them fave already been forced into these organizations, but the new order requires them to wear their uniforms during school hours. Students in the high schools and colleges will not be promoted from class to class from now on, unless they have taken a required military course—“with profit.” Army officers in uniform will give these military “culture” courses, which were prescribed by Mussolini last September for all courses of study throughout {taly. levery now and then, is thinking; ‘about going left far enough to in- ‘crease the appeal of its magazine. | This attempt produces a controver- |sial contributors’ column, and a jcombination of articles by Upton) | Sinclair, H. N. McCracken, one on | munitions, one on medical eco- |nomics, and an editorial on frater- ‘nities. The articles are sound in! \their facts, but proceed gingerly to! |no conclusion at all. Obviously, the 'N. 8. F. A. is up a tree. If it adopts ‘a consistent editorial policy, it has the resources to bring out a good student magazine. If it spends, say, one year on fraternities, another ‘for it, it will still be up a tree— ‘indefinitely. i The Role of the Party! : by del “IE FIGHTING RGRINST EVICTION MERNS ONE 15 RED, THEN \VE BEEN & COMMUNIST ALL MY LIFE; |were able to gather seven harvests | inside of the crease, which is then preserved almost permanently. Mr. McCabe showed how much con- . fidence he had in his idea by site ting in a fountain in a Detroit park, He came out of this ordeal with his crease wet, but unspoiled. BROWNSVILLE SCHOOL COMPETES FOR LECTURE In contributing $25 toward Lab and Shop, the Brownsville Workers School has earned Com- rade Ramsey's services for a lecture. Line forms on the right and left! Leah Meisner Pen & Hammer, Science Committee .... Workers’ Book Shop, Waldman Lecture Brownsville Workers’ School eens A Riverside, California, Sympathizer Previously receiv 3.16 ++ 25.00 2.00 46.24 Total \J. R. C. Artists Win Prizes in Wisconsin Annual Art Exhibit MILWAUKEE.—Two of the three prizes offered in the First Annual State Exhibition of Wisconsin Art that opened in Madison on Noy. 15,. ;1934, under the auspices of the | Wisconsin Union, University of Wis- consin, were awarded to two artists of the Milwaukee John Reed Clui The total number of entries in-o’ water color and graphic arts num- bered 265. The Reed Club artists. had no entries in the field of oils. The first prize in water-color was awarded to Santos Zingale, who re- jcently figured in the Milwaukee trial of four Geuder, Paeschke Frey pickets, of which he was one. His water-color is titled, “Memorial Dey | Parade,” in which a parade is pass. ing and being watched by a World War yeteran who has ben forced by junemployment to sell ice-cream bars—he is looking cynically at all the flag waving, uniforms, etc., and. the attempt to whip up new war enthusiasm. The first prize for black and: whites was awarded to Alfred Sessler, who was recently fired from, the Boston Store for union activi- | ties. His drawing, called “N. R. Ai" depicts a group of unemployed? moving past a factory that has an; N. R. A. sign on one side of the. door and on the other side, “No | Help Wanted.” : The best known artists in | State participated in the exhibit Some with a national reputation (are