The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934 Page 7 | CHANGE —§THE— | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD YRACUSE, N. Y.—Yellow Hearst is evidently planning a national campaign to help bring fascism to America. His recent editorial statement has already been commented on in the Daily Worker. It was not merely another academic blast from the poison-pen of the grand-daddy of all reptile journalism in America, but a declaration of war. Here in Syracuse the first skirmish was fought—and lost. Lost by Hearst, and the story is worth repeating, as an exampie of how such blackguards can be. fought. The Hearst paper here sent out two of its bright young men to get the goods on the university on the hill. The theory was that this was a hotbed of Communism, socialism, liberalism and dangerous thought in general. These two reporters, of that type of ambitious youngster who would betray his mother and father in exchange for an approving nod from the city editor, called on two professors with the provocateur’s lie that they were radical young students. They said they were sick of the conservative colleges they were attending, and wanted to know if Syracuse was more liberal. So the professors chatted with them and gave them the usual fatherly advice and help. In return for this, the young newspaper skunks worked up an amazing farrago of the usual yellow insinuations, lies and stupid in- ventions. Abysmally ignorant of everything in the books beyond the grammar grades, their attempts to grapple with radical ideas were pitifully awkward, as dumb and clumsy as the average police frame-up. The joke of the whole affair was, that these two professors, ac- cused of taking their ideas and money from Moscow, were the most innocent of liberals. One happens to be a Norman Thomas Socialist who simply hates Moscow and Communism, and has a reputation as a Communist-baiter. The other is a tired liberal who could prove he had registered and voted for the Republican Party in the last elections. There is a National Students League on the campus which is just a month old, and has some twenty members. Here it all is, the shaky foundation on which Hearst’s venal little boys and their red- light madam of a city editor built up a three-day sensation, * . . Hearst’s Faux-Pas ELL, Mr. Hearst and his two-for-a-penny sleuths thought they had done something big. The headlines were big, and like all such people, they hoped the newspaper sales would be big. For these fas- cist crusaders always remember to keep a weather eye on the dollar. They never permit themselves “ideals” that will interfere with money- grabbing. This is an important fact to hold in mind. This time their sensation was a financial dud. Sales began dropping off. Letters poured into the Hearst news- paper from outraged liberals, students, workers and business people. The college daily newspaper printed an indignant editorial against these intellectual gangsters who wanted to Hitlerize the university, and drive out every vestige of democratic culture. What is more, the college newspaper called for a general boycott of Hearst and his gutter press. The upshot of it was that the Red scare campaign stopped abruptly in mid-career. And the smart Hearst editor spent the next few days frantically telephoning college officials and pleading with them to hush the whole matter up. Hearst wanted no more of it. He would be grateful if everybody would forget his unfortunate faux pas. . . . Hit Where it Hurts Most HAVE heard since that the Old Maestro of gutter journalism has sent up another fascist trial balloon in Chicago, Here he has started a similar campaign, using the same type of eager little provocateur “newspapermén to gather ‘his information. The Workers’ School of Chicago is the target of the frame-up this time. There. has been no counter-offensive up to date, I believe. and this is a mistake. Hit the old Californian miser where it hurts him the most—in the pocketbook. Follow the example of Syracuse. A united front of all those opposed to fascism can make a big dent in Hearst's income. There is, I understand, a group of people in Chicago who detest the Chicago Tribune so much that they wear large buttons on Which are printed, “I Hate the Chicago Tribune.” If Hearst starts a Red scare in another American city, we can well assume it is to be a national drive on his part, and take steps accordingly. A new national custom of wearing I HATE HEARST buttons could act to stop the mouth of America’s ace producer of newspaper filth. . . . Neryous Millionaires EARST has recently returned from Germany, where he spent many hours with Hitler. John L. Spivak being in America at the time, it is hard to say exactly what went on at the conference. But one can guess. He returned to America to tell the ten million readers of his news- paper chain that there was no danger of fascism, here, but that the real denger was Communism. He claimed to be anti-fascist, and said fascism came to a country only in answer to the Communist menace. This is of course the familiar lie both Mussolini and Hitler put out to defend the horrible atrocities and mountains of corpses produced by their regimes. When Mr. Hearst starts a campaign against fascism, and exposes their plots here, we may begin to believe him when he says he is a worshipper of democracy. We can rest assured, however, that he will never do this. He will never print exposes of the Nazi plot in America such as the re- markable series by Spivak that appeared in the New Masses. For Hearst is a multi-millionaire, and has something to worry about these days. Taxes are going up, and the unemployed are clamor- ing for more relief. There is talk even of inheritance taxes, and special taxes on millionaires. Newspaper men are organizing, and in his other industries Mr. Hearst finds the workers restive. All of this makes up the total sum of the Communism which Hearst really fears. Hitler must have convinced Hearst that fascism protects nervous millionaires from the hungry masses; fascism crushes trade unions, starves the unemployed, destroys every trace of liberal thought in economics and politics, and is generally good for millionaires. Many liberals siill work for Hearst and take his dirty money. It would be amusing to ask Gilbert Seldes, William Soskin, Hendrik ‘Van Loon and some of the rest of the tribe what they think of such episodes as the Syracuse affair. Do they approve of Red-baiting and liberal-hunting? If they do, and they are free men, as they often tell us they are (not regimented Communist artists in uniform, oh, no!) let’s have their opinions in print on the subject of Hearst and fascism. And let’s also take up the counter-offensive, as was done in Syracuse. (Contributions to “Change the World” column will appear on Monday.) Now on Sale! at leading New York Newsstands and Bookshops THE ANVIL wo. o New Format 15 cents January-February, 1935 DON’T MISS “Sequel to Love” by Meridel Le Sueur “God Takes Care of Little Birds” by Marion Moss “Another Morning” by Tom Butler “Pier 40” by Leo Leopold “Sleep and Awake” by A. E. Clements ALSO: Walter Winslow, Frank Rudnick, Jack Rubens, Noah Fab- ricant and W. D. Trowbridge. Edited by JACK CONROY Author of “The Disinherited” Handled by Central Distribution Agency, also Distributors of New Masses. Lauded by Michael Gold, Erskine Caldwell, Granville Hicks, Orrick Johns and Isidor Schneider. SPECIAL SUB OFFER Eight Issues for $1 THE ANVIL Business & Editorial Office: ¢/o Will Wharton, 5431 Nottingham Ave. St. Louis, Missouri & Class Conscious Workers Must Back |Lenin’s Writings Are | Guide for Problems | of Today pressed in the outcome of every strike struggle in the N.R.A. era alone is demonstrating more clearly than ever that victorious class bat- tles demand something more than courage and conviction. They de- | mand theory—the knowledge of the | essential politics of the day-to-day | struggle; and not only a Marxist- Leninist interpretation of the pol- | itics, but a sustained and deliberate | infusing of Marxist politics into the | Marxist theory into the fabric of j the proletarian revolution in Amer- ica, To interpret and present Marx- ist-Leninist politics demands knowl- edge of Lenin’s works. And, in this connection, a significant contribu- tion to working class education in the United States is International Publishers’ tenth anniversary edi- tion of the Collected Works of V. I. Lefin in eight volumes—all that | have so far been tranlated in Eng- |lish—for $8.00. Some of Lenin’s | Shorter works contained in these | Volumes have been included in the Little Lenin Library. Study of these volumes consti- tutes no formal research into the | past, although they are undoubtedly | treasures of history. To read Lenin means to participate in the interna- tional polemics of the labor move- ment of the day, to follow the | gigantic class struggles which top- pled the Tsar off his throne, smash- ed tHe bourgeois republic of Keren- sky, and built up the first Workers’ State. Indeed, Lenin’s writings from 1900 on are increasingly valuable | as a guide to action today. The eight volumes of the new | edition reveal the method of Lenin- ism in its most concrete application. They teach Marxism from life. They every situation, thinking out the strategy and hitting on the weak- ness of each problem. These prob- lems are not “Russian.” They are world problems, They are prob- lems: for today. Contempt For Theory For instance: Who is not familiar | | with the contempt for theory which characterizes so many recruits to the working class movement today? The attitude which says: “Organize on the industrial field and let poli- tics take care of itself?” ‘This is the “Eeonomist” question which was agitating a section of the working class movement, particularly in Rus- sia during the 1900-1905 period. Against this theory Lenin wrote one of his most famous essays: “What is to be done?” This is in- cluded in “The Iskra Period.” This first generation of Russian Bolshe- viks, many of whom are now ren- dering great service to the workers’ state, were brought up on this bril- | liant exposition of the Policy and tactics of the revolutionary socialist movement, The growth of Marxism in that period was hindered by two weak- | nesses. “Economism,” the American ! |AVING just returned from Ger- many, two events remain very clear in my mind. The first event: I met the German comrade on the corner. I meet him on the first | |night each voyage of the ship's} arrival in Hamburg. A brief ex- change of how we each felt, then Max (of course not the comrade’s true name), with misty eyes spoke: “They got Miller.” . . tiny muscles in his jaw very rapidly tensing and loosening. “Got him?” My heart dropped into my belly. “How?” “The secret police have been watching all comrades whom they are familiar with for the last two weeks. Miller knew this so he stayed away from home. A young fellow, a courier, entered Millez’s home on Friday. The police nabbed him, They tortured him until he told that Miller was to meet one of the Party representatives from Ber- lin, Saturday night on the Reeper- bahn in front of the Alcazar cafe. Saturday morning the police caught Miller on the street. “They told him in jail that he was to meet a certain man at eleven o’- clock Saturday night in front of the Alcazar. If he wouldn’t they would shoot him now. Miller said no he wouldn’t meet anyone. Then ne said yes he would. . .” Max told me how they had found out what had happened in the jails: I can’t write here how they found it out for it would mean exposing a comrade, “NAILLER suddenly changed his mind and said yes he would meet this man at the corner at the appointed time. “Quarter to eleven Saturday night Miller was led out of the David- strasse jail, plain-clothesmen were Little Lefty THE strength and weakness ex-| | smallest or largest struggle, weaving | The Central Committee of the Communist Party, supported by the New York District, has called an open meeting to discuss “Revo- lutionary Theory and Class Struggle,” for Dec. 16, Sunday, at New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. The discussion will be led by Jack Stachel for the Central Committee; Clarence Hathaway, editor |] of the Daily Worker; Roy Hudson of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union; James W. Ford; Charles Krumbein, N. Y. District Organizer; Alexander Trachtenberg and A. Markofi, Director of the Workers’ Schools, A book bazaar will precede the meeting at 6 p.m. The special edition of Lenin’s COLLECTED WORKS, eight volumes, issued by International Publishers on the occasion of its Tenth An- niversary, to sell at one-third the original price. A campaign has been launched under the slogan: “Every Workers’ organization must start a Library with a Lenin Sct.” equivalent of “pure and simple trade | of the people whose low spirits re- unionism,” held that the struggle | flected the set-back of the revolu- _ Courage and Conviction With Theory Every Workers’ Organi- zation Should Own a Lenin Set pressure of impe: deas on the working class of an imperialist country. It showed, as Lenin ex- plains, how the bourgeoisie is en- abled to b: top layers of trade unionists through - ng them a e” in the sweated from e ensla peoples these id ing class movement? How can they be defeated? And Lenin as! | Spouters of Cheap Phrases | To repeat these questions indi- | cates they do not belong to the | past, they press for solution |day. The Leninist theory is more than ever necessary to equip the working class with the armor in the fight against social patriots. | These, like their predecessors in the Second International of 1914-18 and | of today, are ever ready to spout cheap pacifist phrases against the “horrors of war” and ever ready to cover up the class interests ani class forces which make war, not an unthinkable horror, a necessary feature of capitalist so- ciety. | “The Revolution of 1917” and | “Towards the Seizure of Power,” | (two volumes each) are a magnifi- | cent history of the Revolution and an analysis of the problems of its to-| | LABORATORY and SHOP SERUM FOR SPIDER BITE | A highly effective anti rum against the often the black widow produced by Professor of the University of Denve: tains the serum from rat » which has been treated with obtained from the spiders’ The black widow 5s been increasing at an a and are said to be a greater venom By David Ramsey marized by Tt disor 1 certain hea nei gic BENDING COSMIC RAYS Cosmic rays hi than rattlesnakes. These poisor spiders have been invading the ute, & DUE a at cities. They have been found in Professor Erich Regener, the famous |bedrooms, garages and similar | *uthority on cosmic radiation. The places, and deaths from their bites occured in the past few years. The new serum first proved worth when a vineyard worker who was suffering from a spider's bite was given immediate relief by the | serum, although he had been bitten | three hours before the antidote was | administered by a physician. The |new antidote gives prompt relief as long as three and a half hours after the bite. This is of great pr ical advantage, since it is peopl the rural districts who are mo - f results have an important bea on the question as to whe cosmic rays consist of electric particles, If the rays are electronic in character, then they should be de- flected by both strong reagnetic and electric fields. Such a deflec- tion has been recorded in magnetic fields, but scientists have had diffi- culty in detecting the deflection in an electric field. In this country G. Swann rofessor W. F, of the Ba Labor: quently bitten. S been conducting wor | The bite of the black widow is not ne lines. He has su painful. But after an hour a in bending cosmic *rays numbing pain spreads from the| Nearly half an inch with electric | bitten region and focusses in the ab- | flelds. gee dominal muscles, back and chest Intense suffering and spasms follow High fever, nausea, vomiting and WHY YOU SHOULD EAT The isolation of scientists from show Lenin painstakingly analyzing | of the workers to improve their so- cial position must be the main aim of the socialist movement. This hangover of “economist” ideas in America not orfiy limits the fighting capacity of thousands of class-con- scious workers. It plays directly into the hands of the conservative bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., the Greens and Wolls whose cry of “No | politics in the trade unions” is de- | liberately raised to prevent the nec- | essary introduction of working class | policies—while Green and Company ceaselessly preach capitalist politics of class collaboration, and urge the rank and file of the A. F. of L, to vote for capitalist parties. Allied with “economism” was the Objection to the oganization of a strong, centralized working class | party. The case for the party, the only guarantee of the proletarian revolution, is written by Lenin with his customary brilliance. He wrote in this period; “If we have a strongly organized party, a single strike may grow into @ political demonstration, into a Political victory over the govern- ment.” The party, he explained, was to eonsist of members “who shall de- | vote to the revolu#on not only their spare evenings, but the whole of their lives.” This brochure is included in the two volumes of “The Iskra Period,” | which contains Lenin's writings on | the formation of the Bolshevik | tion. And as always in periods of crisis and social bewilderment, came the groping for new solutions (to replace the “irksome rigidities” of Marxism) for the problems of life. Messiahs in Various Garbs While Leinin and the Bolsheviks perfected their theoretical equip- ment, tightened and overhauled the mechanism of the whole movement, messiahs in various garbs sought to corrupt the revolutionary intransi- geance of Marxism in the theoreti- eal and philosophical fields. offset this attack on fundamentals, Lenin, then in exile, wrote his mas- | terly defense of dialectical material- ism, the philosophy of the revolu- | tionary labor movement, “Material- ism and Empirio-Criticism.” Today this Leninist insistence on Marxist | fundamentals is of the greatest value to the working class, From capitalist crises spring new “solu- tions” for the evils of the world. , stages. Step by step we see how | Unconsciousness are other symptoms. |the Bolsheviks, keenly sensitive to| The chest muscles contract and | the moods of the masses, carefully | Make breathing extremely difficult. | appraising the objective situation,| ‘The venom of the black spider is shape the policy that leads the | more poisonous than that of the| working class and peasantry, first| rattlesnake. It is large and jet to bring in the democratic republic, | black with a large bulbous abdomen To | then to the workers’ State, the So- viet Union. “Towards the Seizure of Power” contains such classics as “State and Revolution” and “Will the Bolshe- viks Retain State Power?” The questions discussed in these works | are of the highest importance to- day. With what whips does Lenin courge those statesmen who reject class examinations of the state, who shrink from Marxist analysis of the State as “the executive com- mittee of the ruling class!” In “State and Revolution” Lenin re- | stores Marxist theory to its rightful Place as the key of proletarian revolution, Bourgeois pedants and social-demo- | cratic publicists alike attempt to “modernize’—that is, to castrate— Marxism into various revisionist patterns. In the fight against such revisionism, as rampant as ever in the crisis-ridden world of today, the student may find a brilliant teacher in Lenin and especially in “Mate- rialism and Empirio-Criticism.” The. Marxist defense of revolu- tionary internationalism, its smash- ing onslaught against social-patriot- ism is splendidly exemplified in "The Imperialist War.” The Second International, its morale corrupted Party in the years before the 1905 | upsurge. The year 1905. The Revolution. | | tunism, by the ideology fostered by oppor- cracked under the first blows of the war. But this op- | _ Included in this tenth anniversary | 8-volume set of Lenin are many jether outstanding writings such as “Tne Teachings Karl Marx"; | “Socialism and War”; “The Threat- | ening Catastrope and How to Fight It.” These classics alone make | Possession of the tenth anniversary set worthwhile for every participant in the labor movement. The suc- j.cess of this action will not only make it possible for International | Publishers to continue its fruitful | work of making Marxist-Leninis' knowledge available for the mas indisputably an important objec- | tive. The ;means a strongly, theoretically | sounder working class, a surer guar- its temporary defeat, despair and) Portunism reflected no mere defec- | antee for the proletarian revolution disillusion paralyzing whole sections | tion of individuals. It showed the! in the U; By an American Seaman German Notes --- ahead of him, behind him, flanking | drink a cup of coffee. I always felt through the Nazis. him mingling with the, evening | crowds on the street. “What Miller’s plans were we don’t know. How he must have been thinking at the moment to save the Party representative from Berlin. At the corner of David- strasse and the Reeperbahn Miller waited a moment for the traffic to clear so that he could cross the} street. Directly across the street was the meeting place, the Alcazar. “A big night bus came thundering down the street. Miller threw him- self forward. The bus killed him instantly. The police surrounded guilty about the coffee. They were| the “German Soul” existing in the/ his research, he was able to establish | existing so meagerly and I was taking from their tiny food supply. I'd mutter something about no coffee for me, and Miller would ask if I was sick, his wife would laugn and pour out the coffee and the They joked of | | forest soil beneath our feet; the| “Aryan Trees” surrounding us. | A dull thudding sounded through | | the forest. Down the narrow path | approached black uniformed men | | on horses, Evil they looked, coming | Success of this edition | |and slender legs. They were once | found only in country districts, but during the last two years they have invaded the cities. | MORPHINE SUBSTITUTE | A derivative of morphine has been | found which seems to have the | possibility of being non-habit-form- jing. The new drug is ten times as effective in relieving pain as mor- |phine according to its discoverer, Dr. Lyndon F. Small, research jchemist at the University of Vir- ginia. When administered as a substi- | tute for morphine, the new drug | satisfied the cravings of the addicts | and relieved the painful symptoms |that follow abstinence from the | drug. This indicated that it also | might be habit-forming. | | A decisive test is to be made on | this point. Patients who suffer from severe cases of cancer and ad- vanced stages of tuberculosis usually | become morphine addicts, because | the drug is the only thing that will| | kill their intense pain. Such , | patients will be given the new drug} to relieve their suffering. If after S| careful checks, it is found that they fail to become addicts then the new | | drug will turn out to be the long sought for substitute for morphine. | It not only would be a safe substi- | tute, but it could be employed in curing cases of narcotic drug ad- | diction. All these possibilities de- {pend upon the successful outcome of the experiment. A NOTE ON VITAMIN B | Dr. George R. Cowgill, a physio- logical chemist et Yale, has made a careful study of how much Vitamin B a man requires. As a result of @ measure which determines whether an individual's diet con- tains enough of this important food factor. A lack of Vitamin B has long been known to be the cause of beriberi which constitutes a boys would line up along the table. | toward us through the green woods. | serious medical problem in the far We would talk and they would tell me of the new developments. Miller had a guitar. He would play and we would all sing. But he didn’t lke the guitar, though it gave him pleasure to play and sing. For Miller said it was a “romantic” instrument. It was not a militant We said nothing walking to the jof the path as the S. S. Hii | Guards rode past us. | arrogantly down on us, laughing | and talking among themselves. What a poor lot of men they w | No young men among them. Middle- | aged, fat, faces like foremen in the crowd and attempted to search,/ mass leading musical instrument. | factories, the kind bos’n’s on ships but the crowd had grown swiftly to| He thought an accordion was more | haye. such pzoportions around Miller's | body that arrests in an attempt to| capture the Party representative | were useless. He got away.” Max} sat staring out the window, his face | 0¢ him. Goodness knows how many | grim and cold. Scar ce “WILLER gone... .! Miller. Six months ago I had first met him. Bringing illegal literature into Ger- many I sought a comrade with) close Pazty connections to give this | literature to and from whom I} might get news of the Party's func- tioning in illegality and copies of illegal Party newspapers. A proba- tion period and I finally was in- troduced to Miller. A slim well built man, not tall, medium height with a wry grin when he smiled. His wife a beauti- ful working woman, laughing and courageous, with her five boys, en- couraging Miller under the strains of illegal Party work. Whenever I entered the door whoever was at home, Miller, his wife, any of the five boys would click their heels, clench their fisis and greet me with, “Rot Front.” We'd laugh and shake hands and of this type, but he couldn’t afford to buy one. With what a fine feel- ing of strength I used to leave their little rooms. . . Miller gone. They other Millers, the finest blood and brain of Germany, of the German working class, the black murdering ruling class have killed. 'HE second event that stays in my mind is: On a beautiful Sunday morning on the outskirts of Ham- burg I met four comrades. They had packs on their backs, with food, and small canteens with coffee, We had looked forward to this hike in the country. The day was great, a soft summer blue sky, the woods green and smelling fine after two weeks of the salty sea air I had been sniffing. Hiking through the woods we talked. How bitterly critical these young German comrades were. With what clear young Bolshevik workers’ eyes they looked at what was going on in Germany. They jeered at the old brutish militaristic Prussian conceptions the ruling class was trying to foist on the young workers | Sitting their horses awk- wardly. Forty of them rode past. And the woods were silent again. We were quiet too. I couldn’t heip but think how those men would come riding down on us, cutting us | down when the barricades go up for | the final battles here in Germany. | Finding a quiet little place in the woods about a half mile off the path we lay our packs down and, stretch- ing out, rested. Hans started to tell us of an experience he had had in a cafe with some drunken Nazis. Suddenly through the woods came singing. . . very clear. As if an | electric charge had coursed through | us we leaped to standing positions. The voices were singing “Rot |Flegers Lied” (Red Flyers’ Song), finishing the song with Rot Front, echoing three times through the woods. I started to yell an answer- ing Rot Front, but Hans grabbed my shoulder, “Don't,” he cautioned. The black shirts may be close.” Kurt, from a limb of a tree he had climbed, called to us, “I can see them now. It is about twen young fellows and girls on bicycl now. I can see them.” They are riding over a little bee In the United States lack of They looked | vitamin B (common in the diets of the unemployed) is the cause of | various chronic conditions sum- TUNE NG 7:00-WEAF—Religion in the News WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJz—John Herrick, Baritone WABC—The Boston Tea Party— Sketch, with Arthur Allen 1:15-WEAP—Variety Musicale WOR—Maverick Jim—Sketch WJZ—Dorsey Orch. 7:30-WABC—To Be Announced 1:45-WEAF—Floyd Gibbons, Commentator WOR—Jack Arthur, Baritone WJ2—Pickens Sisters, Songs WABC—Selecting Our Judges—Gov- ernor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana 8:00-WEAF—Concert Orch., Sigmund Romberg, Conductor-Composer WOR—Organ Recital WJZ—The Impact of Modern Art— Cecil Secrest and Julian Noa WABC—Roxy Revue 8:20-WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs 8:30-WOR—Dance Orch. WJZ—Olsen Orch. | Correction | In the review of Edward New- |] house's book “You Can't Sleep || Here,” the price of the book was \| erroneously listed as $3 instead of $2, The book may be pur- || chased at the Workers Bookshop, 50 East 13th St., New York City. The Leaflet Blizzard ! by del EVERY MOTHER IN “THE NEIGHBORHOOD 1S DISCUSSING Migs GooowARTs DISMISSAL FROM HER Joo/ AENNWWILE. “THE FREE-Foop- FIGHTERS CLUB GETS RIGHT ON “THE Jos / ISN'T IT AWEUL? “THE IDEA OF FIRING R TEACHER JUST ‘cause SHE FEO HUNGRY CHILDREN wi iv’ a Shame! CRIN HAROLY geL! i My OWN PATSY, PEANUTS AND LEFTY GIVE OUT SO MANY LEAFLETS — social reality often makes them come to conclusions that have no | Practical meaning. For example, Dr. H. C. Sherman of Columbia University, in a recent book on “Food and Health” makes the rather obvious point that if you are fed properly, then your chances of Prolonging your life are enhanced. He says that man now has “the | option of a longer lease of healthier life, of more buoyant health throughout the whole life-cycle, as the result of taking a larger propor- tion of the needed calories in the form of protective foods. “By this he means milk and its products, fruits vegetables and eggs. Dr. Sherman believes that “at | least one half of the needed calories | (should) be taken in the form of these protective foods, he has con- ducted experiments which prove the need of these foods in every per- son’s diet. But here is the rub. Where are the unemployed and their families, or even the employed workers, to get money to buy these essential foods that improve the rate of growth in children and increase the itality of adults. Unemployment insurance and adequate wages are denied to the toilers as capitalism protects its profits at the expense of the lives of workers’ families. The scientific diets can haye no meaning for the workers wher they | cannot even obtain enough food to quiet the pangs of hunger. It is a severe indictment of the profit economy that it is withdrawing millions of acres from. production, when government statistics show that in 1933 there was a serious shortage of vital foods like milk, eggs and vegetables in terms of | what the Department of Agricul- j ture calls a liberal diet. Dieticians | must recognize that what is valid in their work cannot be carried out unde: capitalism. Of course, pseudo- | Scientific programs such as the | hunger diets that are drawn up for | the unemployed are utilized by our ruling class to cut relief. | TERSE BUT TELLING “Lab and Shop is going into the home-stretch in the drive, No contributions have come in for two days. We have the low- est quota—$250. It would be a jj Shame to allow this department to slip back from a near-victory.’, DAVID RAMSEY. Total to date ..........$204.14 I-N | 8:43-WABC—Mary Courtland, Songs; | bruster Orch.; Male Quartet | 9:00-WEAP—Rose Bampton, Contralto; Serappy Lambert and Billy Hillpot Songs; Shilkret Orch. WOR—Hillbilly Mui WJZ—Radio City Party, with John B. Kennedy; Black Orch WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Soprano ly—Musical Thibault, t, Soprano Dance WABC—Himber Orch, 10:00-WOR—New York Chapter, American Institute of Real Estate Appraise ers WABC—Concert Band, Edward q@'Anna, Conductor; egara Falls | 10:30-WEAF—Cugat, Goodman and Mure ray Orchs. (Until 1:30 AJ.) WOR—Wintz Orch, w. -Kemp Orch. | WABC—Variety Musicale | 11:30-WOR—News Bulletins | WJZ—King Orch. WABC—Michaux Congregation 1:30-WJZ—Dance Music (Also WOR, WABC, WMCA) Roar of Ni= | “Holy Smoke!” exclaimed Little | Lefty when’ he saw only $1.53 for | Del. “That ain't enuff to feed the dawg with biscits! Read my letter up there, and come to the lekture, and help me collect a lot of money for the Daily Worker.” Collection list .. | S. Dickman .. Previous!y recei