The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1934, Page 7

sit. i CHANGE i. a WORLD! es - —— By MICHAEL GOLD te A CHICAGO street — or was it in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis or Davenport, Iowa—I heard some newsboys yelling sensationally, to the amusement of the passersby, “Wuxtry! - Wuxtry! Santy Claus Has Com- mitted Suicide!” Touring the Middle West on a speaking tour that covered some twenty cities, there were many such items that linger in the mind, now that the dizzy routine of catching trains is beginning to wash out. There wes the old blacksmith. in Davenport, for example, who wanted to know whether I ever saw Floyd Dell. He had known Floyd whi the author was a young, inquisitive groper, and the blacksmith was of his guides to Socialism. Floyd Dell mentions the black- smith, I believe, in his first novel, Mcon Calf. And here he was in the flesh, still rugged and hearty, and a Communist. “What's happened to Floyd?” he boomed. “Seems to have drifted away from the working class. Thought the boy would be a help to us one day.” “I don’t know what’s happened to him, comrade, except that he lives in a literary suburb,” I answered, “far from the struggle for life.” Paving the Way For Fascism ND the Milwaukee brewerles still reserve their best beer for the horetowners, and the Milwaukee cops are still in evidence. There were more of them present at my meeting there than at any other city I spoke in, The John Reed Club there says this is true of all their meetings. These Socialist cops are repeating the crime of Germany. Like the Socialist police of the pre-Hitler period, they persecute and arrest Communists, but shut their eyes to and even protect Nazis. This is what Socialists mean when they say “democracy.” And this is the way Fascism always comes—it grows under the warm, sheltering wing of the capitalist democracy. Who ever heard of a Fascist going to jail for “criminal syndicalism?” But Jan Wittenber, the Chicago artist, faces twenty years in jail for this nebulous charge. He was one of a group of workers who had held a demonstration in Hillsboro, Ill., for unemployment, relief. The trial comes up early in January. Nothing happened at the relief. demonstration, .except that a mob of pathologically-inflamed police rushed upon the miners and their wives and hungry children, and beat and maimed and clubbed them brutally. There is no charge against Jan Wittenber and the other defend- ants in the Hillsboro case, other than being present at the sicken- ing scene. But the group has served Iong months in a filthy jail, and face longer terms, unless the working class prevents the crime. Criminal syndicalism. It is a law that was passed during the Post-war red hysteria. Anybody who doesn’t vote Democrat or Re- publican and is caught reading a pamphlet by Karl Marx can be jailed for a good part of his life under this law. it is Fascism in practice, here in America. In Oregon and other states labor leaders have also been framed under this law recently. Hearst wants to make it a federal law.. So does the Chainber of Com- merce. Father Coughlin may be heard from next. The liberals are busy worrying about the Soviet answer to Kirov’s assessination, while here, under their academic noses, their whole world of civil liberties is being wiped cut. * . A Dangerous Subject IN THREE cities where I was dated to speak, local Fascist forces brought sufficient pressure to have our leases for a meeting place cancelled at the last mmoent. In Cincinnati, the D. A. R. and American Legion made a front Page hullabaloo for several days, and there was talk of tear gas bombs to break up our meeting. My address was to be on the subject of modern literature, and for the first time I was-made to feel. how dangerous a subject that can ke. Yes, tear gas has filtered into the ivory tower. * . . As Necessary as Bread E PITTSBURGH I heard a little story that was an answer to all this Fascism. It showed that here in América, as in Nazi Germany, all the slander and terror of. the capitalists will never destroy the work- ing class will to a better world. 4 Is seems thet en unemployed council held a meeting to raise funds for the Daily Worker. ‘There were some fifty men and women present. They were all on relief, and hadn't seen any cash for years. Out of these fifty neople, only eight cents was collected. Evezy- one felt had about it. So a motion was made, and passed unanimously, that next day everyone present was to sell a loaf of the relief breed he or she received, and donate this to the Daily Worker, which literally, was as necessary as bread to them. You cannot murder such a spirit, you capitalists! An Unholy Crusade | aad COUGHLIN has become the chief bell-wether of incipient Fascism in America. hasty tour of the midwest, If one examines the program of this radio priest, one finds that it is almost an exact duplicate of the Austrian Catholic, Fascism. But miliions of people in the middle west are being taken in by its: vague revolutionary slogans, just as Hitler and Mussolini fooled them ‘abroad. , Sven industrial workers take thé fake father’s petitions around from factory to factory, and get members for his unholy crusade. Do they want labor unions abolished, swallowed up in a Fascist | state? Do they want an intensified imperialism, and a new world war? Do they want lower wages and higher prices? Do they really care to see free speech and civil liberties wiped out? Are they against | unemployment insurance? Of course not; but obviously they don’t see that this is Coughlin’s program. The American masses have been radicalized, but are not yet sufficiently developed to see through this dangerous demagogue. The fierce white light of exposure must be made to beat on the bull-roaring Father. There was once a priest in Russia named Fether Gapon. He also roused the naive Russian workers with a seemingly vadical program and led them in a march to petition the Czar for liberalism. At the gates of the Winter Palace, the Cossacks charged them, and over two hundred workers were killed. This was the event history knows as Bloody Sunday. Later Father Gavon was exposed as a police spy. Whom is Father Coughlin working for? His tie-up is mere subtle, undoubtedly, but will yet be exposed. Meanwhile, every worker who sees through Coughlin should begin to ask his deluded followers; why is Father Coughlin not helping the unemployed? Where dces he stand on the war question? Why does he attack Soviet Russia, and ‘hever Nazi Germany or Fascist Austria? Why has he never de- fended striking workers when they are so brutally attacked by the police? Does he approve of Hearst’s attemnt to start a red scare in the universities? Why does he attack the bill to afolish child labor? And there are dozens of similar questicns, From making radio speeches this “father” has now begun to organize a political move- ment, a future army. And the shadow of the swastika looms over the Middle West, unless the working class wakes up to the menace. Fer the First Time in English LUDWIG FEUERBACH The classic exposition of dialectical materialism, for the first time in complete, ungarbled English transla- tion. It includes other material by Marx and Engels on dialectical ma- terialism. Lenin recommended Feuerbach as “the hand- book of every class-con- scious worker,” rating it with the Communist Manifesto. INTERNATIONAL 381 Fourth Ave. International Publishers 381 Fourth Ave, New York, N. Y, Gentlemen: I am interested in your publica- tions. Please send me your cata- logue and book news. Name Address PUBLISHERS New York, N. Y. ————— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 239, 1934 Most Powerful Farm het ® Peasants’ Gazette Has Circulation of 1,800,000 This is the last of four articles written by Ben Field on the life of farmers and peasants in the Soviet Union. Ben Field recently returned from a visit to the U. S. S. R., where he made a study of farm conditions, visiting many collectives, as well as attending the Writers’ Congress. He con- tributed while there to Pravda, Kolhoznik, the Literary Gazette, | and is the American correspon- dent for the Soviet Peasants Gazette and the French “Voice of the Peasant.” «28 By BEN FIELD IN THE struggie for a prosperous cultural life the peasant relies on the newspaper as one of his chief engines. There are all told about 12,000 farm newspapers in the U.S. S.R. Every peasant has the op- portunity to road at least six papers. First, the all-union farm paper like Peasanis’ Gazette, then a@ national newspaper, the region farm paper, the machine tractor | Station newspaper, the farm paper, the farm wall newspaper. Every collective has a-wall news- paper, The huge state farms have as many as 50 wall newspapers. A wall paper in the forge, the school, the apartment house, the commu- nity dining room, etc. The wall newspapers are run by the collec- tive farmers, mechanics, dining room workers, etc. Everybody is controlled by people who farmed the peasants—the nobility, priests, urged to write and make cartoons and pictures for the wall news- j paper, The wall newspaper offers | the most backward peasant the op- | portunity to develop himself by writing what he has on his mind. | | The peasant can criticize the farm leaders, quicken the pace of | collectivization by throwing down the chalienge to his comrades. The wall newspaper becomes the peas- ant’s patient friend and helper. It is a sort of fair or market-place | where ideas are examined and ex- changed. All letters must be an- | swered. The wall newspaper be- | comes the collective farm’s sharp- | eyed fearless watchman. | the fields. Jandowners. The work of Peasants’ Gazette is three-barreled. It raises the peas- ants technically, politically, cultur- ally to become prosperous farmers. It prints diagrams of new machin- ery, articles on new methods of sowing, on building of silos, etc. It helps the peasants by explaining new policies of the government, by urging his participation in the elec- tions of deputies to the soviets, by examing the role of the Communist Party in the countryside labors. |It helps culturally by sending out to the villages movies which are shown during harvesting out in All through the Writers Every collective farm works hard | Congress it printed reports and to pelle own printed newspaper. | SPeeches. It helps with the build- The Jewish collective farm in the | in of schools, libraries, radio sta- Trimea, established on virgin soil ions, organization of collective only three years ago, printed the |*@rm clubs and theatres. | first issue of its weekly in Sepiem- | ‘We Run the Country ber. Chevka tea plantation paper Petsants’ Gazette differs from is printed in Georgian and Russian. | POWerful farm papers printed in That is the impression one brings back after a . Zernograd’s newspaper, “Tractor” | other countries chiefly in that it has a daily circulation of 1500, Its | yearly budget is 100,000 rubles. The | farm has a printing shop employ- | jing nineteen people. Type here is still set by hand. But there is a corps of 250 militant farm cor- respondents. | | These people are the leaders on | the farm. Through them the news- paper organizes the work, sets the driving axle and flags, checks up on results, puts the peasant on the ;footplate with tremendous apntrol | in his own hands. 1,800,000 ‘Circulation The most important farm paper jin the U.S.S.R. is the Peasants’ | Gazette. Its circulation is 1,800,000. | Its circulation would have rocketed to 8,000,000 if not for the paper Shortage. Peasants’ Gazette receives 1000 letters every other day, It is {printed every other day. Editor | | Uritzky (he looks more like a jfarmer than an editor with his | heavy shoulders and big head) has {100 editorial assistants and 15,000 farm correspondents. Lenin said that a real peasants’ paper should |be run by five journalists and 500 | farm correspondents. Here is a paper that would have delighted Lenin. | In the old, Czarist days when | | there were less than 4,000 tractors | in all of Russia (250,000 now), when : 10 per cent of the farms were with- : out horses, there were only a couple ,of farm newspapers. This helps :expiain the few paper mills and | ; the shortage of paper. The Herald of the Village Owners had a cir- culation of 3,000. This paper was ‘Workers Music League Offers Special Music | is actually run by the peasants, It receives from its 15,000 regular cor- respondents and from thousands of other peasants 1,600 letters. Only about 100 of these letters can be printed. The general staff of 100 assistants study the other letters, Each member of the staff works Questions This department appears as a daily feature on this page. All questions should be addressed to Questions and Answers Depart- ment, Daily Worker, 35 East 12th Street, New York, N. Y. Question: Why does the Daily Worker attack the Senate Muni- tions Inquiry? Haven't their reve- lations concerning the profits of the munitions makers put a crimp into the plans of the war mongers? —Harry K. 8. Answer: The facts brought out at the Munitions Hearings are used by Communists all over the world in their fight against imperialist war. But the motives of Senator Gerald P. Nye, the chairman of the Senate investigating committee, are of an entirely different nature. He does not attack the war prepara- tions and plans of the New Deal, which grow more ominous from week to week. What he calls for is a better organized war machine. Under the guise of taking profits out of war (which incidentally was the slogan of Barney Baruch, the Wall Street speculator, for years) he proposes an “adequate national Papers in World Stimulate Soviet Peasants’ Development Relaxation on a Collective Farm | The huge state grain farm Kosior in the Odessa region has fitted up a special entertainment car which goes to the farm workers in the field and gives shows during rest periods. This car carries a radio, movie equipment, a phonograph, etc. jowe fifteen letters, to determine Peasants’ Gazette, having the from the contents and tone of the juse of twelve airplanes, can easily |letters the needs and wishes of the | send out its staff to investigate the |Peasant masses. Each editorial as-|complaints. The director may be |Sistant is as sensitive as a gauge | Teprimanded, cautioned, fired. This |tieedle to the power seething in his |spark sets the peasant afire. Here | letters. is a paper that is his friend, that Editorials and articles are written |is really his, He becomes a regu- based on the letters. The drive of |lar correspondent. He begins to the peasants as gauged by the let-/|feel more respect for himself. He | ters is relayed to the People’s Com-| takes a more active part in the |missariat of Agriculture, to the | new life around him. He develops Party and the Government, to/|into a real Soviet citizen. |Stalin and Kalinin, And action Most Powerful Farm Paper in World |follows. Thus peasants in remote Peasants’ Gazette whets up so- Siberia are right when they say |cialist competition among collec- |they have their hands on the wheel | tives. Tt prints reports regularly {of the revolution: “We run the|to show how the competition is country.” For through the Gazette | running. It exchanges letters be- |their softest complaint may be/tween the competing peasants to megaphoned to the Kremlin, their|spur them on. It announces re- ideas tested, adopted, and spread | Sults, it analyzes. It shows why |back over the vast country. | the defeated group was left behind Peasants’ Gazette, written simply, | like turtles. It shows how next forcefully, reaches the most back-|year the same group can become |ward regions, “deaf villages” where |an airplane collective. “Why can’t | Peasants have not even seen a bike.| you introduce the same methods Now when such peasants have their | On your collective? It is true that leters read, studied, and printed in|one of the peasants on the col- |the millions of copies, a great lective of the victors invented a {change is bound to come over them. | new machine which helped tremen- They may have been bucking some|dously. But you have heads as inefficient, bossy director or official | good as theirs. Your hands are | whom the peasants fear. Their let-| Just as strong. Wait, next year ters are referred to the department | you shall win if you take the right in which the director or official | steps.” works, | Sometimes the most backward of jthe peashnts become bullheaded. They reject a new method of test- |ing seed, they will have nothing to do with sowing while snow is on something left, over from the days when the Czarina could say that class. The war department also is |one drop of the Czar’s blood was anxious to have a more efficient| worth more than the lives of a fighting mechanism, and for that | million peasants. Then to the peas- reacon calls for the conscription of} ant new methods were naturally labor and the guarantee of profits, / connected in his mind with autoc- | Nye’s formula of government Rers {regulation would mean huge sub-! ey. soon mec ne large | siding fav the “oe is ,estate was not used to make life munitions makers,/ any easier for the peasant but to who would be paid by the govern-| doubie-bit him, to speed up his ment. The facts brought out by! work, to keep him in time with his committee have been used bythe ‘machine. Every American | | the Roosevelt regime to pave the! farmer knows how scientific agri- way for the introduction at the! cultural methods like butterfat tests ; coming session of Congress of bills! and milk refrigeration are used to that ere really plans for mobiliza-| crush the small farmer and drive tion in the event of war. {him off the land. Peasant’s Ga- ‘ | zette, therfore, had to show the Senator Nye directs his attacks | ™ 2 only against the “inefficiency” of | Peasent how science under a work- the present war preparations, He ers’ and farmers’ government is an if 3 instrument to raise the productivity has never made a direct attack! o¢ land and stoc! life upon the Roosevelt war program, | ler, easier, i j - healthier, easier, m which is an integral part of the fe igh-clas: -e0.. hole oN Deal. 9 ach », for high-class horse whole New Deal. His “defense”! the sweating peasant masses. pleas cover up the Preparations for| §o here is a great engine whose the world offensive of American editors can be found in field and imperialism. He plays an important| barn with the peasznts who have part in these war preparations by| their hands on its levers. Here is| spreading illusions among the an engine that has gone through | Masses about taking the profit out/all storms without an inch of tar-| ,of war, when his own program | paulin on it, Here is a real peas- | Would mean even larger profits for; ants’ gazette, the most powerful the munitions makers, Unless we/farm newspaper in the world. | and Answers |the ground. This bullheadedness is rae eae LABOR and SHO SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE NATURAL SCIENCE wy Vv. A. Tet v, Part I, 45 cents. Part Tt, cents, BOTANY, by B. V. Vsesvyatsky, 85 cents, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by L. D. Sinitsky, 85 cents. GEOGRAPHY, by L. G. Terekova and V. G. Erdeli, Part I, 45 cents. Part II, 60 cents. GEOGRAPHY OF THE U. 5. §. R., by N. N. Baransky, 85 cents. GEOGRAPHY OF THE CAPITAL-| 5 IST COUNTRIES, by 8S. Var- zhansky and L. Sinitsky, 85 cents, (All these volumes are translations of textbooks used in Soviet elemen- tery high schools.) HE rise and development of mod- | ern science is inextricably bound up with the ascent and decline of cepitalism. Yet even when capital- ism was was mac ‘al part of ever: The fiction that science was a disembodied dis- cipline having no connection with society or its problems. Conse- quently only the devotees, the sci- entific elite, followed the develop- | ments in the many fields of human knowedge. There was popularization, of course, but it was in the form of the wonders of nature and the glory of God, The scientific habit of thought and science as an instru- ment for the transformation of nature and society were never pre- sented to school children or to the mass of the population. Under capitalism the teaching of science in the widest meaning of the phrase was largely an indus- try which turned out dry and use- less textbooks and teachers who were ignorant of the latest and most significant developments in their fields. This was not due to a lack of interest in science either among | children or among the masses, In America, for example, we have a population which is keenly inter- ested in every new phase of scien- tific work, But it has no way of getting to grips with the subject. | In the schools the subject is taught as a series of unrelated facts and experiments. At the beginning where fundamentals should be stressed, the young pupil is con- fused with a barrage of antiquated experiments and information that has historic value only. FEN SON iT is common knowledge that stu- dents who go into advanced work can carry out elaborate experiments without any understanding of the relation of their work to other fields. And it goes without saying that they have no comprehension of the general principles underly- ing scientific method. All these faults flow from the | position of science under capitalism. | Essentially it was a bystream of) life, instead of being the pace-setter| of social progress. Scientific de velopment was never fully inte-| grated with all phases of society so/| that their constant interaction migat accelerate the progress of both. And now, as capitalism deeays, it has e¥en less use for scientific teaching. More and more the capitalists look upon science as a useless luxury, tion. was maintained ATORY| By David Ramsey which can readily be . dispensed with. In their attacks upon the tem, scientific courses ate rapidly being discarded as exe pensive frills. Under capitalism the working class and allies cannot study science under the best of circum< stances. But it is important that there be spread throughout the revolutionary movement the fundae mental concepts of scientific thinke ing, and the realization that without ce the workers cannot. build socialism. And in turn those who iar with ‘scientific work must learn the lesson that science cannot realize its fullest potential- ities except under socialism. its 'HE books under review are ine valuable for the purpose dee scribed above. In the first plece they show @nd prove how in the Soviet Union science has become a) integral part not only of society, but of the life of the whole popula- hey do not describe science a dry collection of unrelated experiments. They present it in en inter mg way and as an indis- pensable method for social progress, The books are exciting reading even if viewed ony from the point of view of how Soviet children in the elementary and high schools are given scientific training. The read- er is immediately struck by the clarity of the presentation, and the living character of the material, Every worker and scientific student will find these Soviet textbooks absorbing reading. Those workers who are unac- quainted with the fields discussed in the volumes will find them ex- cellent introductions. The scientific student will find them valuable for the manner in which the sciences are placed in their proper social setting, and for their lessons in scientific method. It is the hope of the reviewer that the readers will not be limited to adults. Every worker's child should be given cne or more of these books for a proper introduction into the world of science. They are espe- cially suitable for children, since they are handsomely ilustrated, and the geography texts have good maps. om IN the limited space of the column it is impossible to discuss the books: adequately. Little more can be done than to urge every reader to buy and read as many of the vol- umes 9s possible. They are the first of a whoe séries of science tex! books which will be distributed by the Workers’ Book Store (50 East Thirteenth Street, New York City). They make it possible for everyone to begin making his first toddling steps towards a ful scientific edu- cation. Workers’ clubs and youth groups will find in these texts good ma- terial around which to build dis- cussion groups. These latter could then serve as the material basis upon which the scientific education of workers could be developed. That is, they could serve as the fore- runners of elementary science | classes within the Workers’ Schools in the country, and the publication of small booklets in the various branches of science in the light of Marxism. In the meantime there is no better substitute for this ambitious program than the read- ing and the collective discussions of the books under review. TUN TN-G IN 7:00-WEAF—Religion in the News Van Kirk WOR—Sports Resums—Stan Lomax | WJZ—John Hérrick, Beritone | WABC—New Leases on Life—Sketch 7:18-WEAP—Variety Musicale WOR—Ionians Quartet WJZ—Dorsey Orchestra 7:30-WOR—Levitow Orches WABC—Analyzing a Voice—Dr. E. 2. Free vJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs Walter | | | | | T:45-W d’Anna, Conductor 10:30-WZAF—Cugat, Goodman and Murray Ozehestras (Until 1:30 A.M.) WOR-—Richardsen Orchestra WIZ—Kemp Orchestra WABC—Variety Musicale 11:00-WOR—News WJZ—King Orchestra WABC—Michaux Congregation 1:15-WOR—Russi¢n Musicale 1:30-W3Z—Dance Music (Also WOR, WABC, VIMCA) 1 1 ' Appreciation Courses defense.” | expose his real motives he will lull, WABC—Modern Methods of Crime The Workers Music League an-| But the plea of an “adequate na-| the messes into a false sense of tional defense” is the slogan of the security, and permit the war pre- war department and of the most parations to go forward at an | | | Tom Mooney Interview | Sataee io ord eagrettacee jingoistic sections of the capitalist A course in Music Appreciation which will include the study and discussion of music in its historical and political setting. The instructor will be Carl Sands, music critic of | the Daily Worker. The course will take place at 47 East 12th St., on! Mondays, 8 to 9:30 p. m. i A course in Music Criticism in the form of round table discussions. Theoretical and practical study of {the place and function of Music Criticism. | The discussions will be led by Ashley Pettis, music editor of the New Masses, Carl Sands, and o!her-. The course will take place at 47) E. 12th St. on Monday, 9:30: to a 1p. m For further information inquire: , 789 Broadway, Room 531, STuyve- sant 9-6633, Wednesdays and Fri- days, 6 to 8 p. m. Ith Anniv I send revclt nary greetings America! Name HAIL THE DAILY WORKER! ersary and Lenin Memorial Edition SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 +++. Street. (All greetings, which must be accompanied by cash or money order, will be published in the Daily Worker.) With Angelo Hernde: In Labor Defender, acceler ted pace. | | Angelo Herndon, heroic young | | Negro leader of the working class, | | free on $15,000 bail pending appeal | | against his conviction of 18 to 20! years on the Georgia chain gang, interviews Tom Mooney, :n the Jan- uary issue of the Lapor Defender. No worker can afford to miss this ing conversation wihin the wells of San Quentin prison hbe- tween the two most famous political priscners in he United States. Another important feature in th issue, “It Happened in 1934,” a chronicle of terror, actions and vic- heaves | tories of the working class, compiled in concise dramatic fashion, is a | document of information that all readers of the working class press to the Daily Worker, the o- -.. State. Detection—John H. Wigmore and| Leonardo Keeler of Northwestern University 8:09-WEAF— Romberg, Concert Orchestra, Sizmund| Conductor-Composer; | m Warner, Tenor; Helen Mar- shall, Soprano; William Lyon | Phelps, Narrator | WOR—Organ Recital ‘WJZ—The Modern House—Cecil Secrest and Julian Noa WABC—Roxq Revue; Concert Or- | chestra; Mixed Chorus; Soloist 8:20-WIZ—Gri 8:30-WOR—Dei WJZ—Clson 8:45-WABO—N “ Courtiandt, r ucter Orchestra; Quartet Songs; | Male Bempton, Co! is; Black WABC—Greie Stueckgold, Kostelanetz Orchestra 9:20-77EAF—The Gibson Family—Musical medy, With Conrad Thibeult, Baritong: Leis Bennett, Soprano WOR—Ferdinando Orchestra | WJZ—National Barn Dance WABC—Himber Orchestra 10:00-WOR—Wintz Orchestra | WABC—Concert Band, Edward Little Lefty | WANT Nou-to GRow Into & REAL AMERICAN — BY GOLLY, IF COMMUNISTS DON'T LIKE [7 HERE THEY OUGHT 10 Go BACK WHERE Hey CAME FROM / SAN! WE REDS || WE'RE “THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE LIVIN'UP TO “THE REVOLUTIONARY TRHOITIONS OF THE COLONIALS- WHO NOT ONLY WOULD NOT LEAVE ~TH' COUNTRN - g AN - BUT EVENTUALLY “TO0K IT OVER Tuning in the U.S. S.R Every week we shall publish irte formation on the short wave radio stations in the Soviet Union. We do so fully realizing that the recep= tion from the S. U. is erratic even with the most expensive sets and that, in many cases, results can be obtained only with a lot of pa-= tience and experience. workers as succeed in pulling in the S. U, will-write to us, we will from time to time publish summaries of their experiences. In the following schedule of Eng- lish programs from Moscow, the time used is E.S.T. (Estern Stands ard Time 2% m.—12.0 me.—12,000 ke. Saturday: 11:30 A. M.: Spéeial: Opera from the Moscow Grand Theatre with anno and explanations in ‘fe languages. p 0 P. M.: Talk: Prospects of new year in the Soviet Union, Sunday: 10 A. M.: Ditto. _ 50 m.—6.0 me.—6,000 ke. Sunday: 6 A. M.: Ditto. 11:30 A. M.: Same as on 25 m_ 4 P. M.: A review of the 1934. Conélusion of the ist competition between nouncers. Monday; 4 P. M.: Talk: The year and the new. eS Wednesday: 4 P. M.: Talk: The for 1935. History of the Ri @evorution, No. 10. Fridzy: 4 P. M.: Discussions: dom of criticism in the Uy ©. R. Art and culture, No, Our best Soviet novels, “a Each of the above broade cludes news and sometimes - All Saturday and Sunday ac include a review of the week. If. such ~