The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1934, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1 934 Page 7 CHANGE —THE— WORLD! ———— By MICHAEL GOLD ajfAXIM GORKY recently described the visit to his home “4 of a little ten-year old Pioneer who was the author of hundreds of verses, The little Soviet citizen stood up proudly before the great author, answering Gorky’s ques- ‘tions with a patient serious concern. He was neither modest nor conceited. He said the deepest influence on his literary creation came from Mayakovsky, the great revolutionary poet. Then Gorky, startled and delighted by this Pioneer and flourish- “fig poet, asked the boy what books he had read. Had he read Turgeniev? Oh yes, the poet answered, a long time ago. How long? asked Gorky. About a month, said the Pioneer. The Children of Socialism IME moves quickly in the Soviet Union, hundreds of years of human effort are compressed and overtaken in tens of years, and with the tempo and rapidity that a new world has grown up in the former empire of the Czars, a new generation unlike any other in the history of man has also sprung into existence. This ten-year Pioneer who wrote, according to Gorky, really talented poems that showed a correct and deep understanding of the social forces at work in the world today, was no startling and exceptional prodigy among the children of the Soviet. He was but typical of the new children the October Revolution has given birth to. They grow up in a world as remote from the life their parents led as the first cultivation of the soil was from the primitive animal exstence men fol- lowed in the dawn of the earth. They are socialist children; they are the generation brought up and schooled in teachings of Leninism; Socialism is their great mother. A Generation Without Memories VER them there hangs no dark cloud of terror and falsehood, of poverty and brutality, of the children of the capitalist world. They do not know the lives led by the generation passing its adolescence now in the nightmare of the capitalist crisis. Sometimes they listen in hurt bewilderment to the tortures and the horrors of child-labor, of the lives of children who spend their puberty crouched over a packing table in a great cannery, or buried in the sheds of cotton mills. Not long ago I saw a letter the Komsomolskaya Pravda, the of- ficial newspaper of the Russian Young Communist League, sent to the young comrades here in America. The editors of the Komsome!skaya Pravda asked the young workers of America to contribute articles and stories to the pages of their paper in order to vivify for the youth of the Soviet Union the conditions of the youth in the capitalist coun- tries. “Our comrades,” said the letter, “have never seen how capital- ist society works, They have no memories of Old Russia.” This is the new generation which is carrying onward the banner of Socialism, fighters for the classless world who have no old memories to haunt them like nightmares. Kolya and His Mother HEISE young Pioneers are developing new standards of human dignity and new mores of conduct. Reading the Moscow News, a typical instance of the struggle between two worlds, two ways of life, is sum- marized in the little story of the struggle between 11-year old Kolya and his mother, Anna Egorovna Shibaev, wife of a collective farmer in the Moscow region. Kolya caused his mother great pain. He wrote a letter to the newspaper of the Machine-Tractor Station in’ the Moscow Province complaining that his mother yelled at him and sometimes even beat him. And Kolya contended that beatings were only done in the Czar’s time and not under Socialism. Anna Egorovna was angered and enraged by the behavior of her “There's a child for you,” she exclaimed, “Eleven years old and Four of them I’ve brought up, I ought to son. he is looking for new laws already! and suddenly I can’t beat the last one when I want to! know by now how to bring up children!” Soon everybody on the collective farm was participating in the discussion about Anna Egorovna’s right to beat her son, Kolya. They wrote to the paper. “Anna Egoroyna, you must not beat children ‘! “T never yell at my grand-daughter. She will grow up and never an unkind word to me... .” say . The New and the Old N OPEN meeting was called to discuss the question. One hundred and thirty collective farmers showed up! They came from every- where, the question agitated all. Anna Egoroyna was also there, But she did not speak. The peasants spoke. This one grew up fatherless, to this day he curses his uncle for the beatings he gave him. That one beat his children from “want and misery,” from “ignorance and darkness.” But Anna Egorovna listened to all the discussion and said nothing at all. Two months went by. Then one day the newspaper received a letter from her. It bore the following heading, “Let Any One Say That I Beat Kolya,” “. .. Kolya has become better. Well, of course, I've stopped beat- ing and yelling.at him. After supper he sits at the table and recites his lessons to me. I go to my son, and he begins to tell me: ‘Mamma, they didn't teach you like this before. They-teach us better now.’ ‘Yes,’ I think, ‘I agree with you, my son...’” This is the last article of John |... % 5 5 L. Spivak’s series, “Plotting the | Milo Reno, Leader of Farmers’ Holiday Asso- American Pogroms,” which have re . 7 aa . “6 ciation, Told Mid-West Farmers That Jews appeared weekly in the New Masses, 9nd bave been reprinted Were Responsible for Their Troubles in the Daily Worker. In these articles, Spivak has produced overwhelming proof of widespread and organized anti-semitic ac- tivities in this country, closely linked up with Nazi Germany, operating under various disguises. He has uncovered the anti-semitic propaganda of organizations such as the Silver Shirts, Order of '76, “But there are others,” I mur- mured. “Morgan, Rockefeller—” “They are controlled by the inter- national Jewish bankers,” the farm- jer insisted. “The Jews have a world-wide conspiracy among them- ‘selves to wreck the economic sys- the Paul Reveres, and individuals | tem, capture all the gold in the like former Congressman Louis T, | world through their banking inter- McFadden, Ralph M. Easley, | ests and thus gain supreme control George Sylvester Viereck, Viola | of the whole world—” Iima, and others. In this last article, Spivak turns his attention to various farmers’ organizations, whose leaders are attempting to divert the discontent of the farmers by using the Jews as scapegoats. Jew profoundly of this race. Reno went through the farming area, particularly in Iowa, telling groups that the Jews were respon- sible for their troubles. The devel- opment of anti-semitism in Iowa, Nebraska and other areas in the Mid-West became so great as a re- sult of this anti-semitic propaganda, that Jews living in that area Pleaded with Henry Wallace (now Secretary of Agriculture) to talk to Milo Reno and explain that the Jews were no more responsible than the Chinese. developing hatred | ws this bewildered farmer was | telling me was what he had been told by those reading the | “protocols of Zion.” The farmer did | not know the protocols had been my THE latter part of June, 1933, proved to be forgeries. He was not | Wallace and Rabbi Eugene Man- an economist. He did not under- 5 | heimer of Des Moines met with the | ne» OC eran Manet | Farmers Holiday leader. Milo Reno | wrecked his prosperity, which told them vigorously that “the Jews | caused him to lose his land. The | invented ‘usury’ and were conse- average American, I found, does not | Sed *, ‘i 1 quently responsible for the farmers’ reason economically and when some | ” rf s+ | troubles.” The Jew, Reno insisted, one telis him of a definite entity | ;- 11, rs 5 e author of all that the farmer | which caused the depression—like ix satteeine feat today a world-wide conspiracy of Jewish e 3 5 taithen hélven#tiep at that What the present Secretary of : he : Agriculture did not know, what the Leaders of farmers, unless they | Des Moines Rabbi nor the farmers want to advocate the overthrow of | following Reno did not know, is that the capitalist system, must find | this leader had been working hand reasons to account for the farmers’ | jn glove with the anti-semitic or- plight, and many of these leaders ganization known as the American | seize upon the “international Jew” | Fascists, whose leaders seek to over- | as an excuse. These leaders wield | throw the government of the United | national power and influence upon | states by force as soon as they are | many thousands—leaders like Milo | thoroughly organized! Reno of the Farmers Holiday Asso- The American Fascists have an- ciation, for instance, | other name by which they are more Mr. Reno’s Congressional sup-| commonly known: The Crusaders porters, farmers in his organization | for Economic Liberty (or the White | and liberals who support this farm | Shirts) headed by the eccentric | leader do not know that he has been | George W. Christians, with head-| one of the foremost disseminators | quarters in Chattanooga, Tenn. | of anti-semitic propaganda in the | This organization, with a wide | country, his harangues against the | espionage system of its own directed | By JOHN L. SPIVAK L | FARMERS throughout the country, particularly in the South and the Middle West, are as bewildered by the crumbling of the economic sys- tem as the business men and the workers in the mills, mines and factories of the land. During the survey which I made for The New Masses this spring and summer I found that many farmers, in try- ing to understand the causes of the depression, placed the blame upon the “international Jewish bankers.” There was the Nebraska farmer who expressed the attitude of so Many others. I had asked him what he thought caused the de- pression and he answered promptly: “Tl tell you. It’s the Jews.” “I don’t quite understand,” I re- turned. “Your Jewish population in Nebraska is pretty small. How ‘do you blame the loss of your land on the Jews?” The farmer explained. He had lost his land for non-payment of taxes. The local banker in_his community was a friend of his, This banker assured him that he (the banker) did not want to foreclose. “My banker told me that if he did not foreclose a bigger banker in | Chicago would foreclose on him, The bigger banker in Chicago was forced to do that because still bigger bankers in the East—in New York —threatened to foreclose on him, And the biggest bankers are Jews!” He paused, spat a mouthful of chewing tobacco, and looked at me triumphantly. “Look,” he continued. “Who is secretary of the treasury? Morgen- \thau! A Jew! Who is the Gov- ernor of your state? Lehman! A Jew banker! Who is the biggest in- ternational banker in the country? Warburg! A Jew!” He motioned with his hands as if that settled the discussion. | (To Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two of the innocent Scottsboro boys who are condemned by brutal boss “justice” to die in the electric chair on December 7, and whom only mass protest can save.) (Reprinted from Western Worker) If the untold martyred Negroes rose From long forgotten graves; If the dark soil burst and issued forth Its hoard of murdered slaves; While two boys wait What for? Whose pockets bulge? Who reaps the And rule this wretched land If they marched their broken bodies past In ghastly black parade By keeping men in jShists espionage system. They Shall Not Die . « © By Michael Qu ‘The power plant is humming death To take the volts into their bones, Unless mass protest tells. Whose hand Sets fire to men, pulls lynching ropes Who profits by the death of men? Plotting the American Pogroms by C. F. Pulliam of Mi Towa, has been intensive in the dis- tribution of ar mitic propa- ganda, working all the while with Nazi agents in the United States. When Henry Wallace became Secretary of Agriculture he had too much power and influence for Milo Reno to oppose too open! and when Wallace called Reno's atten- | tion to the results of his “Hate the | Jew” creed, Reno decided to break | o away from the White Shirts and! their fostering of race hatred. Leon | Vanderlyn, Resident Secretry,| Northeastern Division of the Farm ers Holiday Association, New York City, under the name of the Asso- | ciated Liberal Groups of Greater | New York, spoke for Reno in the| discussions between the farmers’| leader and the head of the White Pray eee | T THE beginning of February, | 1934, Fulliam wrote to Vanderlyn | in part: | Do you really know what Fas- cism is or do you accept what all | avenues of publicity in the hands | of the enemies of the American | People want you to believe? Many organizations and movements are labelled Fascist that are no more | that than you claim to be. Fas- cism is modern nationalism. Fas- cism is not a foreign importation. It is a world idea, It is not even | a new creed. It is a new method. | Fascism is the modern adapta- [| tion of an old creed. It is the creed of all for each and each | for all. It is essenti: spir- | itual rebirth.” An “enlightening.” | Every Aryan world power today | is organizing its own type of Fas- | cism according to its needs and | the psychology of its people. It is the answer of the White Races | fighting to maintain their World | Supremacy and their Christian Culture and civilization to the In- ternational Financialism and the International Marxian Commu- | nism of the International Jewry which seeks to destroy white su- premacy. The entire world is a battleground and International | Jewry has no one to blame but themselves for what is happening, for they have industriously for many years been sowing the whirlwind of which they will reap | the harvest. Although now in | control of America in every walk of life, they must relinquish their control over us and recede from | the key positions that they now | occupy or suffer the consequence of their own action. Bearing in mind that the Secre- tary of Agriculture had warned him about fanning the flames of race and religious hatred in this coun- | try, Milo Reno instructed Vanderlyn | to break away from. this Fascist | group. : | (To Be Continued) . in in cells, gain of this? 9 chains? | that the problem is very | rei LABORATORY and SHOP By David Ramsey HOW HIGH CAN MAN RISE? The highest tude achieve man in a balloon was the strasto- sphere height of 72,000 tained by the gallant and il Soviet ballooni: How higher can man with balloons, and what the limit that can be achieved? The answers to such questions have | @ been computed by Dr. L man of the National Standards. He estimates 100,000 feet (19 miles) is the est that man can expect t present techniques. He since a balloon increases in weight And as the last has to be carried so that tl balloon and its human cargo may come back safely to the earth. In addition, at great heights in the stratosphere, the temperature gets warmer insead of getting colder and that further complicates matters. Dr. Tuckerman gives the follow- data on balloons d various heiz! To reach a 75,000 feet, a maximum height of balloon with a diameter of 179 feet is required and a pounds. Such a 3,000,000 2,100 pounds of ballast To attain a height of 90,000 feet the balloon would have to have a diameter of 278 feet and would weigh 11,960 pounds. Its ballast would amount to 4,200 pounds and its gas capacity would run to 10,000,000 cubic feet An altitude of .100,000 feet seems to be the highest that can be achieved. To reach this height, a balloon weighing 22,300 pounds would be required and its diameter would. reach 373 feet. The neces- sary ballast would amount to. 7,600 pounds and. the giant bag would have a capacity of 27.200,000 cubic feet. Larger balloons seem to be out of the question. There is first the gigantic size of the bag itself. Secondly, there is the increasing amount of ballast that must be on hand to check a too sudden descent when the pressure contracts the hydrogen gas and the warmer air still further robs it of lifting power. The few modifications that migt be introduced, such as carzying liquid hydrogen as ballast, and when necessary evaporating it within the | balloon to add to its buoyancy, and/ the use of silk instead of cotton for the fabric, might increase the maximum altitude another 10,000 feet. But if man is to venture higher than 20 miles, then he will have to take to some rocket device. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL HIGHWS The startling 12-hour ° flights across the continent and the round- trip dawn-to-dusk flight from New York to Miami are in great meas- ure possible because the planes travel on what is virtually a pre- determined highway through the air. The weather data that is available before and during flights enables the pilot to kno all through the trip at exact what altitudes the most favorable winds can be found. And he also knows at what altitudes the motors will give the best performance for given weather densities. If unexpected situations develop in the weather, then the plane is informed by radio and told when and how far to climb or descend to take advantage of the best condi- tions. Thus the mapping out of a three-dimensional highway is a complicated job of balancing per- formance against actual weather conditions. : The data according to the mete- orologists must be based not only on tail or head winds but also on cross-winds. The latter coming . | necessary t e can that is:so | The ni pe (variety) of ni« | torgen has a mass that is equiva- | lent to the mass of oxygen. Ordinary | nitrogen has a mass, 14, while the |new variety has a mass, 16. Dr. | Harkins made the isotype by bom- | barding fluorine with neutrons. He jassumed that the new nitrogen | would be radioactive and sponta- | neously disintegrate to ordinary | ual transmu CAP VIBRATES dikov, a member POLAR IC English scientific journal, that the | solid ice cap of the Chukchi Sea is in a state of perpetual vibration. | He states that the vibrations are | caused mainly by winds. | In addition to the vibrations due | to the Siberian winds, he also ob- served disturbance vibrations in the ice. They spread equally from the center—which apparently was the spot of the breaking up of the i6e jin different directions. On the | next expedition, s al ice seismo- |graphs will be set up on shore-ice to take observations on both types |of vibrations. The data, it: is be- | lieved, will be valuable in forecast jing ice conditions, and thus pre- | vent the kind of catastrophe that overtook the Chelyushkin NTHETIC GRAPEFRUIT Chemists have now made narim- gin, the substance. which gives | grapefruit its bitter taste, avail- jable as a commercial product. It is found in the white portion jof | the peel, and as commercially pre- pared forms fine feathery crystals, readily soluble in either alcohol-or water. The chemists state that the characteristic bitterness can be de- tected when one part is dissolved in | 50,000 parts of water. A NOTE ON THE STINGING BEE Dr. J. G. Myers of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad has carried out ‘experi- ments with bees that explode the old belief that a bee can only sting once, and then afterwards it dies. He .induced bees to, sting handker- chiefs, insects, and. {frog Even when the same bee stung sevétal times, the bee usually recovefed and its sting was none the worse for the experience. The only varia- tion in the experiment occurred when Dr. Myers was unexpectedly stung m a soft spot. Me jumped backwards so suddenly “perhaps be- cause it was unexpected and I acted more violently than our other subjects, that the sting was leff_in the wound.” The poor bee was crushed, of course, as the experi- | menter sat upon it in his surprise. | | SAVE HIM! * There's a wild light in Ram- sey’s eyes. He's not accustomed to $5 contributions yet. He needs a few more to get back to nor~ mal health. Pen and Hammer a Science Res. $ 5.00 received 86.23 Previonsly [sat aie a GENEVA, Nov. 22.—The Chaco war discussion in the Assembly of the League of Nations will be broad- cast at 5:30 p.m. New York time 8:20-WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs 8:30-WOR—Salter Orchestra WJZ—Olsen Orchestra 8:45-WABC—Mary Courtland, Songs; Arm= bruster Orchestra; Male Quartet 9:00-WEAF—Rose Bampton, Contralto? Before the men who struck them down Whose hand is sowing human skulls today. Maxim Litvinov, Commis- Scrappy Lambert and Billy Hill» And so the children give birth to different ‘mothers; the new re- makes the old. That fortunes might be made; Upon the earth like grains? sar for Foreign Affairs of the So- viet Union, will address the As- pot, Songs; Shilkret Orchestra WOR—Variety Program 5 WJZ—Radio City Party, with John B, Kennedy; Black Orchestra WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Soprano; That hand is white, but not our hand White workers will not kill The sea of lash-torn human flesh Rope-strangled throats, gouged eyes. sembly, pee uere Ly ESN 7:00-WEAF—Religion in the News—Walter Gold suffers a temporary setback today, having slided to sixth Charred bodies, bullet-riddled forms Their fellow workers, black or brown, Van Kirk, of the Federal Council] | Kestelanetx Orchestra Would shock the very skies. To do a master’s will. PP Big niece OO _Ford Frick Comedy, with Conrad Thil Ss ketch, Baritone; Lois Bennet place with only $3.75. 3 VABC—Schools and Schools i ¢ But still the lords of greed and gain Our martyrs lie with your brave dead h Arthur Allen and Parker Fen- W3z—Nationel Barn D ae. wets ; Orchestra i Would view it all with pride, In deep graves side, by side Sed 10:00-WOR—Richardson Orchestra 7:15-WEAF—Kogen Orchestra WOR—Maverick Jim—Sketch WJZ—Dorsey Orchestra 7:30-WABC—Jack Smith, Songs :45-WEAF—Floyd Gibbons, Commentator WOR-—Sid Gary, Baritone WJZ—Pickens Sisiers, Songs WABC—Administrative Tribunals vs. Courts Under the New Deai—| Thomas D. 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A com- plete handbook on the social, political, and economic problems of our day and an intro- duction to Marxism without parallel in American revolutionary literature. Here is the challenge bosses fling, At black and white alike: “December Seventh is the day, The hand of death shall strike.” Too long the trees of Southern hate Such bloody fruit have borne As Negroes strangled on boss ropes, For parasites to scorn. Too oft through balmy Southern air We joined our hands. We made a pledge. Sigmund | The awful, sickening smell, This was our battle cry: Romberg, Conductor - Composer: | 44 4 wa ia oe Syaiphoes t 2 yron W , Tenor; Helen Mar-| - —Portland Juni Of burning human Negro flesh We swore before our martyred dead, Bar wonrako; Willam fijon Ir ‘a: Jacques Gershkoviteh, Conductor THOSE NINE BOYS SHALL NOT DIE! Phelps, Narrator WOR—Orgen Recital WJZ—Theatre Art—Stage Design in the American Theatre—Cecil See crest and Julian Noa WABC--Roxy Revue; Concert Orches- tra; Mixed Chorus; Soloists 8:15-WOR—Veczey Orchestra Floats like the breath of Hell. And now the brutal master class, Puts by its rope and fire, And turns upon the working class ‘With copper chairs and wire. Let every voice, let every fist, Rise up, for we have willed To stay the murdering hand of greed: OUR SONS SHALL NOT BE KILLED! REWARD XYZ chose to credit his con- tribution’ to Del today “because he has succeeded best in merg- ing our agitation in the com- mon speech of everyday life?’ This brings Del to within 40 per cent of his $500 quota. Previously received That Settles It! 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