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CHANGE | —THE— | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD Y THE “Dybbuk,” that very fine and moving play of Jewish mysticism, there is an excellent little story told of a wise rabbi. A rich man came to the rabbi and asked him to reveal what mysterious ailment it was that was troubling him. “Go to the window,” said the rabbi. The rich man walked to the window and looked out. “What do you see?” asked the rabbi. “I see people,” said the rich man. “Now go to the mirror,” said the rabbi. The rich man walked to the mirror and looked in. “What do you see?” asked the rabbi. “I see myself,” said the rich man. “So it is,” said the rabbi. “In the window there is glass and in the mirror there is glass. But when the glass of the mirror is covered with a little silver you see only yourself.” * * . Jews Face Fascism WAS reminded of this story of the wise rabbi in reading the reply of another rabbi who is not so wise, to a symposium conducted by the Jewish magazine, Opinion, called “Jews Face Fascism.” In a previous issue of the magazine, Rebecca Pitts, upon whose article the symposium was based, had made this analysis of the posi- tion of the Jews in the face of threatening Fascism: that the basic causes of anti-semitism are economic; capitalism, in decay, is every- where resorting to Fascist means in order to maintain itself in power. These means inevitably include the persecution of minorities which serve as a convenient ruse to divert popular attention from the real issues at stake. Thus, the Jew, wherever he constitutes a recognizable minority, will be the victim of Fascist oppression. It is impossible, however, says Miss Pitts, to expect a united re- sistence on the part of all Jews against Fascism because of the class differences within the ranks of the Jews themselves. To fight Fas- cism effectively, therefore, the great masses of the Jews must recognize this class division and throw in their lot with the revolutionary work- ers. Only by doing so can they secure and maintain their freedom; only so can they attain cultural autonomy and function creatively as Jews. * * . Like the Rich Man 'HIS is the correct Marxist thesis of Miss Pitts’s article. Freedom of the Jews as a racial minority can be achieved only through the destruction of the capitalist order, only through the struggle of the revolutionary proletariat, only in the establishment of the workers’ dictatorship. The rabbi, to whom I referred at the beginning, is Philip S. Bern- stein, rabbi of Temple Brith Kodesh in Rochester. Like the rich man of the tale, Rabbi Bernstein has gazed into the mirror With a little silver on it and has seen only the Rabbi of Temple Brith Kodesh. He assures us, the Rabbi, that he is a peace-loving: man, one who abhors violence, one to whom human life is sacred. He advises Jews not to fight against the existing capitalist order for two reasons: the first, that this will only provoke the capitalist class into Fascism which might mean the ruthless destruction of the labor movement and the Jews; and secondly, he would rather suffer a wrong eternally in the hope that some day the wrong would be adjusted peaceably. Like the rich man, Rabbi Bernstein has gone to the window and looked out. Therer in the street he could see his people, oppressed and exploited in the sweatshops, despised and scorned, murdered and butchered by hordes of Brown Shirts, Jews who live in the ghettoes of democracy, the tenements. And then, the rabbi has gone to the mirror covered with a little silver and therein he has seen the answer to the Jewish problem; a portrait of himself, the peaceful, well-to-do pacifist, the voter for Norman Thomas, the timid, bewildered, soul- sick clergyman praying in a thunderstorm. ® = * The Culture of the Jews '0 WHAT can the Jews look forward? The rabbi looks at the world around him again. In Russia, the Soviet Government has abolished the economic basis for anti-semitism; it has made Jew-baiting a criminal offense; it has established the Jewish autonomous Republic of Biro-Bidjan. But the rabbi shakes his head. In Russia, he says, as many other. liberals, Zionists, and middle-class Jews have said, Jewish life is not Jewish, but Communist. Yiddish culture is not really Yiddish culture but the translation in Yiddish of Communist culture. But does the rabbi think that under capitalism Yiddish culture is not capitalism translated into the Morning Journal or the Day? And does the rabbi contend that the culture of capitalism in Yid- dish is a better culture for the Jews than Communism? The rabbi thinks in terms of abstract “democracy.” He sees an abstract “democratic” culture, and an abstract “democratic” capital- ism which is not growing into Fascism, but which Fascism attacks trom the outside. This makes for the confusion and contradictions in the rabbi’s thought. On the one hand, he can praise Communism as the prophetic ideal towards which the ideal of social justice is moving, and on the other hand he can maintain the superiority of “democracy” over Com- munism. In the same way, he thinks of Jewish culture as abstract, as a part from the living social forces and values of the dominant economic elass in society, Yiddish culture, where it is not revolutionary, is capi- talist in content today. It cannot be otherwise. In the Soviet Union, it is Socialist in content. Furthermore, the rabbi sees in Russia the destruction of Yiddish, In time, perhaps, Yiddish, and all the other minority languages may give way to one universal language of mankind. But if they do die, they only die the death of all that is unnecessary to man. Only that survives which is real and necessary to humanity, And with the Turkish pasha, the Catholic priest, the Mohammeddan muez- zin, with the landlord and the Czar, Hebrew, Zion and God have gone down into the limbo of history. But what man needs survives. and there it stands: the shining edifice of the first workers’ republic. CLOUDS ARE GATHERING! Michael is far behind his competitors in today’s contributions. To add to his agony, he’s in heavy danger of being replaced by Harry Gannes, who is only two per cent behind him. A recent contribution of $31 which was erroneously listed as coming _ fyom the W.LR. was sent in by the W.LR. Band. Dr. Vennesland Pen and Hammer, Pitts. . -$ 1.00 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934 WORLD of | MUSIC Shostakovich’s Opera Receives Ovation Reviewed by CARL SANDS RTHUR RODZINSKI conducted the Philharmonic through an all-Russian program last week, the most significant number being Shostakovich’s Two Entr'actes from the Opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk.” The two pieces were re- ceived with an ovation demanding a bow from the whole orchestra. Dmitri Shostakovich was born in Leningrad in 1906. Of the many Soviet composers he is the best known. “Lady Macbeth,” his second opera, was completed in 1932. He is working upon his Fourth Sym- phony and has produced much chamber music, music for the stage and for the films. “Lady Macbeth” is said to be the first of a set of three operas—a trilogy— portraying the develop- ment of woman under the three periods of modern Russia: the old regime, the revolution and the building of socialism, Shostakovich believes “that the highest purpose of musical art is to serve as a vehicle of social propaganda” says the program note by Lawrence Gil- man, continuing, “To what extent he has made his (work) an instru- ment of social doctrine is not quite clear—though he is said to have given a Marxian turn to the story by Nikolai Leskov whence (he) de- rived the libretto of his opera.” Some notes provided by Vladimir Lakond, now in this country, prove this to be quite the case. * . * 'HE first of the two entr’-actes follows the murder of Ekaterina Izmailova’s father-in-law. The or- chestral palette is grand, turbulent, almost turgid. It reveals the com- poser at about the stage of devel- opment of Stravinsky when that renegade composed the “Firebird.” Sometimes he is more conventional, sometimes more in advance of the “Firebird.” But always one feels a bigger sweep, a deeper emotional current than Stravinsky ever had. It is not so masterly as its models, Wagner and Strauss. Technically, it is distinctly grop- ing—at times the composer seemed. lost in the mazes of his own or- chestral writing. But it has a se- riousness that was set in clear re- lief by the “Petrushka” of Stravin- sky that followed on the program with its clear, happy, playful pre- war and pre-revolutionary non- chalance. ‘Shostakovich is perhaps the most promising young com- poser of our day. We can expect great things of him—not least be- cause he says he has and actually shows that he has a sense of the social function of music! The second entr’ acte follows the | discovery in a cellar by two moujiks of the body of Ekaterina’s husband, It is a magnificent composition, sharp, hard, fast like the Hopak, strongly in the spirit of Moussorg- sky, but full of originality and more up to date that the earlier entr’ acte. We shall have an op- portunity to know this work in its entirety when, on February 5th,| the League of Composers presents the opera itself. Freiheit Gesang Farein Scores Another Success ‘HE Freiheit Gezang Farein and the Freheit Mandolin Orchestra gave a joint concert at the Brook- lyn Academy of Music Saturday evening, Nov. 24th. The occasion was a special one for it celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Jacob Schaefer’s creative work in and for the proletariat. As such the program very justly consisted mainly of compositions and arrangements by Schaefer who is the conductor and animator of both organizations. The musical part of the concert revealed to us again the able choral writing, the warm, lyrical’ talent that distin- guishes Schaefer’s works, Project- ing these through his extraordinary mastery of the art of choral con- ducting, Schaefer roused a capacity audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. All of the city sections of the Freiheit Gezang Farein participated. Throughout the evening their sing- ing was magnificent—an improve- ment even over their impeccable standards of last year. The audience after tirelessly applauding the adult singers of the chorus, outdid itself when the outh Section of the Farein sang the lamented Davi- denko’s arrangement of “The Young Drummer.” The playing of the Freiheit Man- dolin Orchestra was of a slightly lower. grade owing to the tendencies of the concertinas to wander from pitch. They acquitted themselves best in Schaefer’s arrangement of Veprik’s Jewish Dance.” The whole concert was another marker in the achievements of the Freiheit Gezang Farein which is Jos. Tarasevich . 5 Mrs. McGwiney . 1.00 Previously received . 625,34 To the highest contributor ¢ach day, Mike Gold will present an autographed topy of his novel, “Jews Without Money,” or an original auto; users} bis “Change the World” column. " rcidie toe rans ee An Epic of Anti-Fascist Struggle By STELLA D. BLAGOYEVA The Nazis could not gag Georgi Dimitrov, though ‘ their noose was slung around his neck. Blagoyeva, Dimitrov’s friend and comrade for 35 years, has packed into her fighting biography all the drama in the life of the hero of the Leipzig trial. CLOTH 175 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 FOURTH AVENUE @ NEW YORK, N. Y. International Publishers 361 Fourth Avenue, New York I am interested in your pub- ications and would like to re- ceive your catalogue and book <On nz already head and shoulders above many of the best professional choruses in the country. It em- phasized again the exceptional and unrivalled work of its conductor and his commanding merits as an or- ganizer, conductor and composer. G. M. Little Lefty NLL SERVE “THE FREE LUNCHES ~YOpAY, MISS” 11M GONNA FIND OUT WHETHER IT'S 4RVE “THAT YOUR F000 SUPPLY 1S NOT ENOUGH! NO “1CKET, LITTLE GIRL? WELL,NO LUNCH / KEEP MOVING — Heroic Anti-Fascists | Rotting in Italy’s | Barren Exile-Prisons (Special to the Daily Worker) PONZA, Italy, Nov. 16.— The exile-prisons for Italian anti-fas- cists are numerous: Calabria, Sar- degna, the island of Ventote, etc., But Ponza is typical. Rocks upon which break the threatening waves of the Tyrrhenian Sea, a bit of land and a few ugly hills burnt by the sun, cactus plants, naked and full of stickers and symbolizing the hostility of the island, exiles and fascist guards—these are the out- standing features at a glance. At present the exiles number about 450. They are allowed to MOVIES An Open Letter to Richard Watts, Jr. EAR Mr. Watis —$__— | Please permit me to take excep- }long prison terms before here; there are some sent to exile for five years, without having been in your recent review of “Three Songs About Lenin.” You say that able to see their homes and/ Three Songs instead of being wildly families, after having served in} heralded by the radicals here and jail from seven to ten years, Half| in Russia should be looked upon by of them are ill and about a third are affected with serious diseases But what strikes one most in these workers and peasants, fighters | of their class in the hands of fas- cism, is not all this, but it is their attitude towards the enemy which surrounds them and_ scrutinizes them as to bend the dagger of their class spirit. In vain! In Ponza them with suspicion as being vir- tually counter-revolutionary.” Such an incredible assertion com- ing from a film critic who by his own admission once shouted out his “lonely enthusiasm for the high zealousness and grim sincerity of purpose that blazed forth from these vigorous cinema evocations of the Soviet dawn” is hardly believ- able, Island of L Can this be the same Watts who once hailed the genius of Potemkin, End of St. Petersburg, and Soil, and iving Death Trani, penitentiary for women anti-fascists move around within an enclosure of bayonets and black shirts 500 yards wide and a mile long. During the hours allotted for a walk on the only street that might be called such, the first thing which catches the eye is the variety of types and dialects. They, come, in fact, from all regions, for the struggle against fascism exists everywhere over the Italian peninsula, Puglie is not less represented than Piedmont, Tus- eany and Lazio rival each other numerically, and Venice compares with both of them. “ Ravages of Prison Life Powerful physiques, open and energtic, reveal majority of these exiles as the workers of the shop and land. Politically also their composition is varied. The mass of them are Communists, but there is quite a group of anarchists, a rep- resentation of republicans and of the Slovak national minority so fiercely oppressed by the caricature of Roman imperialism. Many faces impress one with the marks of deep suffering and phys- ical deterioration. This is because, apart from the hard life in Ponza, a third of the exiles have served By 'Y friend Joe Vittori who drives a taxi relates a simple incident to show how the New York Police Department taught his hackman pal, Shorty Morrison the strength of organization. Until then my friend Joe, who was an old Wobbly and belongs to the Taxicab Drivers Union, had been unsuccessful in his efforts to interest Shorty in the union. Joe was cruising up Eighth Ave- nue in hs hack one afternoon when he noticed Shorty emerging from the West Side Court. Joe pulled his cab up to the court en- trance and hailed Shorty, “What's wrong?” he asked. Shorty swore profanely in the di- rection of the court house, “Come on, spill it,” Joe said. “It’s not enough that as a hack- man I work practically for nothing for twelve hours a day,” Shorty said. “I also gotta battle cops.” . “What happened?” Joe asked. Shorty explained he was parked on Fifty-second Street and Fifth Avenue earlier in the day when a horse cop came along and ordered him off the corner. “I take his or- ders and move my cab into the middle of the block. The cop fol- lows me. ‘Where’s your license?’ he asks. ‘What for?’ I ask. ‘O, K. he says. ‘I see you don’t want to show your license’ So he walks his horse up to the corner, come back, steps on my running board and orders me down to the station house, ‘I’m going to lock you up,’ he says. So I tell him to walk to the station house. And he walked. ‘When we got to the station house I was booked for disorderly con- duct and hacking off a hack stand. Then they took me to West Side Court where the judge paroled me for a hearing tomorrow.” Joe nodded. “That's the way the bastards work it,” he said. “I guess it’s a ten buck fine,” Shorty said. “You need a lawyer,” Joe told Here Jeanie! “TAKE HALE i The Union Angle HARRY KERMIT whose visit to the Soviet Union last year was the occasion for stirring tributes in the columns of the Herald-Tribune? Is it possible that our once “lonely enthusiast” of the Soviet film has become so enam- oured of the world he lives in, that he does not recognize the incom- parable “high zealousness and grim sincerity of purpose” of “Three Songs About Lenin,” which to many of cinema, continuing and deepen- ing the tradition of the early great days of the Soviet film? Since when, Mr. Watts, is it counter-revolutionary for a film to attempt to reveal in a form finely suitable to the subject the great- ness of a leader who has become a | potent symbol of freedom for tens of millions of people; and whose | every word has been and is being | carried out in deed and action by | these same millions who are pre- pared to give up their lives for the new world, for which Lenin fought also till death. “In rapturous hysterical tones the film shrieks forth its adoration of its chieftain and cries out that he is not dead.” This, Mr. Watts, you know is an absurd exaggeration, not even shared in by your confreres, Mr. Sennewald and Mr. Boehnel, guards, carabinieri, etc., by orders} oth of whom experienced true of local authorities or the govern-| motion, not hysteria, in this film. ment, edges too close to the camp . ° . of the exiled and begins an attack|™MHESE are songs about a new of provocations and “ordinances”| I revolutionary world, Mr. Watts, that makes life impossible, one can| which was suddenly opened up for see the exiles closing their ranks] millions of enslaved workers and en masse, without distinction of| peasants who when they sing of political creed, standing firm and) Tenin sing of their own new found hard and reaffirming their read-|jiberty and happiness, and not, as iness to defend themselves in the} yoy intimate, of an abstract adora- Bete py eee, can under the cit-| tion of a chieftain which you us a i falsely compare to the period of It is a very high example that|the “foundation of Christianity.” our vanguard in the hands of the) “yoy can imagine that had the enemy gives us. We must rally| newsreel camera existed at the time around these heroic comrades of|of the foundation of Christianity our, agitating their cause, which is} pictures maintaining just this mood ours as well, in our places of work,| would have been taken and ex- in meetings, and at other occasions. | hibited in much the same manner.” We must demand for those in}in other words, Mr. Watts, you prison and exile, where all amnesty/ seriously doubt the power of Lenin is shut out and where sentences are| and Leninism among the masses; automatically renewed at their ex-| the camera in Three Songs has not piration, complete amnesty and! captured the reality of the Revolu- freedom. tion led by Lenin, at all, it has merely maintained a mood which is perhaps not inherently felt by the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. Is this not so, Mr. Watts? Three Songs is just another Soviet propaganda plot to bribe the masses? But to those of us who look upon Vertov’s film as a noble revelation of the great strides of the October Revolution toward a classless, free society, your assertions have had a very disconcerting effect, especially since we had recently begun to look upon your work as containing ele- ments with which we could prop~ erly sympathize. Please let me as- sure you, Mr. Watts, it is not Three Songs About Lenin that we shall look upon with “suspicion as being counter-revolutionary,” but remarks such as your which, whether made consciously or otherwise, neverthe- less tend to bear that ugly, indelible stain. DAVID PLATT. there are two enemy encampments, but instead of one facing the other, one is encircled by the other and they are thus perpetually divided. Prisoners’ Solidarity ‘When the circle of police, fascist him. “What do I use for money?” Shorty asked. “I'll fix it,” Joe said. * oe 6 HAT night Joe and Shorty visited the headquarters of the Taxicab Drivers Union. After Joe had ex- plained the situation to the union organizer, the latter introduced Shorty to an International Labur Defense lawyer. The lawyer lis- tened to his story and told him not to worry. He said to Shorty, “You just be in court when the case is called.” When Shorty appeared in court the next morning he was surprised to find Joe waiting for him. Joe said it was OK. and that he had taken the day off. The lawyer ar- rived a little while later. It was 11 o'clock before the court called the case. He asked the cop for his complaint. Then the I. L. D. lawyer presented Shorty’s side. It was evident there never should have been an arrest. The magistrate looked annoyed. He pointed a fin- ger at the cop. “You men on the force have a nerve clogging the calendar with such complaints,” he said shortly. Then he turned to Shorty. “Don’t let me find you here again,” he said grouchily. “Case dismissed.” Shorty, Joe and the lawyer left the courtroom together, Shorty thanked the lawyer but the latter said it was all right and that the union always took care of its men. After a while the lawyer hailed a street car. “So long,” he said. “So long,” Shorty said. Joe didn’t say anything and *ney both walked on. Finally. Sho:#y said, “You shouldn’t have taken the day off. You won't get a cab tomorrow.” “That's O.K.” “IT never got the union angle,” Shorty said slowly. Joe grinned. “I know you'd get it after a while,” he said, smiling. The light changed color and they crossed the street together, Richard Watts Replies IR. WATTS replied vaguely as follows in that Herald-Tribune of November 25: “My only reply to Mr. Platt’s elo- quent query is that the picture does treat of Lenin in a devotional man- ner that possesses, as does Mr. Platt’s letter, every trace of the mystical worship that is called re- ligion. Therefore, I think, either the Communists should admit to the possession of mystical, script- ural fervor for their chieftain, or they should denounce the film as counter-revolutionary in attempting to identify their cause with religion. Mr, Platt attempts to pin me down to a declaration that the picture ‘merely maintains a mood which is perhaps not inherently felt by the workers and peasants of the So- viet Union.’ I said or implied no such thing. I merely claim that if they do have this particular at- titude toward their leader, then it is an attitude that possesses all the outward signs of a religion.” All of which simply repeats what Mr. Watts stated in his earlier com- ment on Three Songs of Lenin, and does not answer the questions raised at all. A Liberal Education Git A LORD NIL ILL HAVE NO MORE OF YOUR IMPERTINENCE ABOUT MY NOT HAVING FED MOST OF THE CHILDREN! YouR SUPPLY “1S SUFFICIENT IF You Do'YOUR JOB ASI OID= WITH EFFICIENCY |! WORLD of the| coming | tion to some of the curious remarks | of us is a milestone in the history | SCIENCE UNDER THE NAZIS | Dr. R. A. Dutcher, professor of jbiochemistry at Pennsylvania State College, spoke on the plight of scientists in Germany, at a recent meeting of the Philadelp ection of the American Chemical Socie | He spent six months |the major universities, jand the leading scientists, jing Nobel Prize wi: | His observations includ- illuminate state of science and when they become as in the open jobbers for war .: For example, research work is mainly directed at di ing ways of providing cheap foods such as soy beans (formerly used as fodder for cattle) for the masses. The other emphasis is on producing the degraded | | | | | war purposes, | | In phi to cite another ex-| ample, theoretical training and re search are scorned as forms of Jew Jish degeneracy. The stress in t | field is on the physics of war, re- | search in ballistics and allied fields | being especially favored. The Nazis | in their anxiety to establish “Aryan mental supremacy” are repeating the most established experimen: The results are then published as | evidence of the superiority of “true | German science.” | What has happened to the stu- dents sand scientists has been just as catastrophic. Hundreds of pro- fessors and thousands of students were killed, exiled or imprisoned for being Jews, for being opposed to the Nazis, or for revolutionary activity. | The number of university and higher technical students was dras- | tically reduced from around 40,000 | to 16,000. Prior to enrollment the | students are forced to serve for two years in the “Arbeitsdienst” under rigid military discipline. This bar- rier and the steady elimination of women students will soon reduce the number of German advanced students to a small fraction of their former number. Thousands of Ph. D's and tech nical graduates are unemployed and spend their time and utilize their training by digging ditches for six cents a day and skimpy meals in the forced labor camps. There is no future for them, since the Nazi military program can utilize but a limited number of research workers, and these are taken from the ranks | of the fascist organizations. Those laboratories that are sup- ported by the Rockefeller Founda- tion have been allowed to function in a “normal” manner. To get around the contradiction of having | a few famous Jewish scientists still | working at such institutions, the | Nazis have granted “honorary Aryan | citizenship”. to such scientists as Warburg, the biochemist who is re- nowned for his work in chlorophyll and the pigments of the blood. BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE In their preparations for the next war the imperialists are stressing research in chemical and bacteri- ological warfare. The use of deadly Tillie Lerner’s First Novel to Be Published | Tillie Lerner’s first novel will ap- pear under the Random House im~ print next season. Tillie Lerner is the twenty year old girl whose first stories in the Partisan Review, bi- monthly organ of the John Ree Club of New York, attracted the at- tention, first, of Robert Cantwell, | and then of all the other New York reviewers. She followed with splen- did accounts of the San Francisco strike in the New Republic and Par- tisan Review, and by this time a dozen New York publishers were waving contracts before her eyes. 7:00-WEAF—The American Musical World Comes Into Its Own—Rupert Hughes, Author WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene end Glenn—Sketch WOR—Marion Chase, Songs WJZ—Plantation Echoes; Mildred Bailey, Songs; Robison Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Gould and Shefter, Piano WOR—Vecseq Orchestra WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 7:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra—Sketch WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Girl of the Golden West— Play, with Mary Pickford, Actress WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—14 Karat Lead—Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Variety Musicale chestra; Mary Scott, Soprano WABC—Alexander Gray, Baritone; Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto;|Mixea Chorus; De Wolf Hopper, Narrator 9:00-WEAF—Fred Alien, Comedian; James Melton, Tenor; Hayton Orchestra WOR—HiNbilly Music WJZ—20,000 Years ‘in Sing Sing— Sketch, with Warden Lawes WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Soprano; Kostelanetz Orchestra WELL INYWRY Now we KNOW WwHRY ‘FICIENCN MEANS/ LABORATORY. and SHOP all kinds of substitute materials, es- | pecially those that are required for | | woul | by WJZ—Lanny Ross, Tenor; Salter Or- | Page 5 By David Ramsey * gases and dead germs are on the jorder of the di and fascist the-< | oretit like Banse preach -the | at only the most ruth- rulent bacilli will en- ction of the enem: In a recent article a French medi- cal officer discusses the general echnique of spreading epidemics sstilence. His words aré of significance, since General jeu is the chief medical officer. of the French army He points out that a microbial- | toxin is a powerful weapon of ate. | since it reproduces itself ins itely There is no difficulty paring cultures of deadly ie= robes which can multiply in the tril day parit les typ is and quadrillions in a few Romieu pa: over the com- es like measr- smallpox and he use of those that are amen- ee of control. : easons he rejects those bacteria that are carried. by cts. They cannot be and may turn upon sing them. Theré= bacteriologist must according to Romieu ague, dysentery, These diseases germs that can Be” But the general istic about their use. “He. contends that the necessary vac- cination of troops before they stormed contaminated areas would be bad for morale. He is also dig-_ couraged becalise the spread of the diseases by way of the water supply Id be fought by chemicals and the boiling of all drinking water. The general is more impressed by” the possible uses of animal diseases like anthrax, glanders and foot-and- mouth disease. These could wipe out draft and food animals and cause general havoc. While the general seems to hayé eliminated most of the dangerous. possibilities of bacterial warfare for one reason or another, he admits r microbes able to some de; For “practic “coordinated the a confine hims: to typhoid, cholera and the lil are propagated cultivated easily. is pessim: jat the end that he has merely been, using verbal arguments. The secret brews of germs that are being pre- pared by all the military staffs have in all probability circumvented many of the difficulties that he raises, Furthermore, it must be obvious’ to the reader that from any viewpoint. the general's arguments are pretty poor. ae He pointed to the fearful horrors that are in store for us in order to justify the use of bacteriological techniques by the French army Having established this point; he: then tries to play down the danger minimizing effects of known germs. But the implications of his own presentation indicate that bacterial techniques have all the Possibility of spreading epidemics, and in this case as in other phases, of warfare, the offense has out«- Stripped the defense. In other words, the brewers of microbes- would always be a few steps ahead of those who were perfecting protec= tive vaccines, : WALKING ON AIR! With today’s contributions, Science jumps to third place, ahead of Burck, Del, and even the Medical Board. With his quota more than half done, Ram. sey is only a few points below. Gannes and Gold. be es AAA gi saab . Ave, St. John Group . N.Y. John Reed Club . Bill Haywood Br., LL.D. (Garlin Meeting) G, Ronde Workers Bookshop Coll, at Lecture Mrs. McGwiney .... Previously received ... Total... 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch “~~~ WJZ—John Charles Thomas, Bari. tone; Concert Orchestra WABC—George Burns and Gratie~” Allen, Comedians ‘ 9:45-WOR—Garber Orchestra WOR—Interviews with Gladys Shaw Erksine and|Harold Hedley, Authors WdZ—Business Conditions in Eur —Thomas J. Watson, President Ti ternational Business Machine Corp, WABC—Broadcast to and from Byrd Expedition; Warnow Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read WJZ—Mme. 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