Charles A. Dana: Revolt And Conservatism
Scanning the New Books Editted by LAWRENCE ROGIN Charles A. Dana: Revolt And Conservatism The Famous Editor in m Biography By James Oneal OF American editors, Charles < a. Dana may not...
...As the matter of Australia being run down by Socialists, is mentioned everywhere, may I suggest you give us some light on it...
...And, his associates happening to be mainly of the extreme wing, and Russians, he found himself a Communist Invited to Russia, and pleaed with what he was permitted to see, the young and sensitive artist became confirmed to his opinions...
...to Bahson the Great And to paraphrase that <tm tear spurting ballad of the Gay White Way, don't...
...He had i an editorial pan that cut like s < sword when wielded against an I opponent Charles J. Rosebault 1 draws a vivid portrait of Dana in i his recent hook (When Dana Was the Sua...
...Bridget Us cops eadangor our s r - T v urn* we go out And an them reds like •S^1,jm, Baynes Holmes sad Rabbi Wise do, W^vvaai sad criticise us...
...with the big beeser, was stuck in the Wfm ether dsy...
...Little , or no use is made of the precedi ing analysis, and in the chapter • dealing with general developments ; to recent industrial history he is : content with merely mentioning ; the important problems...
...The Evolution Of Economics THIS book, "Industrial Evohi- 1 tion...
...Us is a relief as matt nudists we have met have MS a particularly humorless crew, like vegetaria and usilliisBsfS Whenever I fell in with a aeh of them, they immediately suggested going swimming, ala Adam and Eve and if I feebly •rested that a *h1ig suit might not come • t o la a swimming pool in plain sight of the p a road, I was pooh-poohed as a sissy...
...J- P- this is the depression that you and Ltatch of high-binders on the Street started in Cur 1929...
...1 8"* classes getting the sUver and i I-" ^ * Ule soup...
...Only by such consistent propaganda can the causa of true Justice aad fairness be aided...
...We ought to make them awafie: tow an their long spsochss about "prosperity for* ever," under this system...
...i i .• • • • sUffLtoJTef*z ***4 elay an Idea...
...The first hundred pages, aad A S bast hundred pages art) concsmsJ with a clossJfirsttou by stages of our industrial history from the Middle Ages to the jinssnt...
...prominence to the economies of > the centralized shop which, with ' the Invention and introduction of I machinery, becomes the factory as we know it today, i In the remainder of the book, I the author is concerned with a I brief history of the Inventions in I the iron and steel, shoe, chemical, •- and electrical industries...
...The book is written with restraint and humor...
...I .uriiad I am a t your Ignorance," said the *L apho-der of the majesty of the law, "an MrTl m a place where Eyetalian gangsters b s t " Leer* terribly pained to read that none other Cant Master Mind J. P . Morgan, the son of P L xr...
...I have studied his case a good deal, and I have requests from friends of mine to write you in his behalf...
...Grant was4 surrounded by scoundrels, aad Dana coined the phrase "Turn the Rascals Out" It was as though a trusted butler had stolen hia silver spoons and Dana would have nothing of such JtoUnisstj...
...If...
...To shrug them down and gaily make a bolt For greens of laughter and the groves of I8BJI But being sadly sane, we keep In mind The grievous ruin we would leave behind...
...Only to drop them later on...
...The originality of this section lies fat his applying new names to rather familiar historical material...
...and he has made broad, obvious sweeps upon his paper...
...Bo ww stand sad sad sane before the manifold scenes of despair, and hopefully present to worker sad oapt* talist alike, a way out of this chaos...
...Con Uf*Xtoomec by Italian...
...It la to such minds what some call the intelligentsia that we owe the vogue of the novel-to-wood-cuts, and now this "Alay-Oop" (CowardMcCann...
...Until the work•Hh the idea to be their own ' ' • * * ? " ' * ""Pi**11* the idea that their ^ _ ^ » B B > sJswsljl...
...The big men of the nation would yet save the causa and set us an back upon the ways of prosperity...
...Emiie Vaadervelde presents the Socialist position quite wau...
...m author shoots to pieces many of the tabus pisairstitions that have made life hideou-, for _****7 adolescents and by way of good measure m***' out acme mighty good advice on marriage...
...These...
...nat pride be read it aloud to his wife and M^JLiber...
...But one Is something mors than Ju*t...
...The 'present volume affords a pleasant initiation into the task of creating AN intellectual surplus...
...T "1 We ought to talk to them, a s did the Soviet rap* resentattve at Geneva, Lltvtooff...
...Well you Mgt -shots, you workers of wonders, you supeimsn, wfeag . a lot of measly wash-rags you turned out to be...
...blame it all on Herble Hoover...
...His father was a < failure aad a t the age of twelve, Dana was a clerk in a general ' store at Buffalo, and before he 1 was twenty, ha read a paper on early Fjigltah poetry before the Coffee Club...
...Education is, they say, compulsory la this land, but no one...
...and on the last page of this book the author reveals the same desire...
...attended largely by Socialist Party members and sympathizers, and representatives of friendly u n i o n a Thomas' denunciation o* the present unplanned economy and his plea for action and more action were received with approval...
...In the meanBsBhT "* "r - - t h a t v o u r Uncle Mac is doing his • J " « e p t : yju boys and girls au courant which • " * * eourse, cognoscenti...
...S3) all made of drawings by William Gropper...
...If they were n o t they c set a bad example before the mudi sills...
...Any evidence of revolt i against this creed evoked his fury, e At the same time the ruling geni, try and their political agents in " office should be honest and clean in - their work...
...The situation is due not to any Labor Government but to the' prostration of Hut capitalist system, which the Danish editor defends...
...His early drawings (mainly in the Dial) were economical to technique, and economic in implication...
...toother book along this general line which we jus: read ia called, "Generations of Adam", •8tot by Dr...
...I know you win use your own good Judgment after carefully reviewing his case...
...t o sud that his trip abroad was purely a pleasKgnxv • the report goes on...
...Traube nd Hart—not only as a means of the massage of the play available to a larger audience, but also in order to allow, spectators to aaa it to eeaafort during the Summer months, the tiny Province town Playhouse having been discovered to be too hot and airless for warm weather...
...It became an obsession with him...
...Of course, it win take soma time tor the shears* lambkins, and the busted business men to see tha light Old religions die hard...
...Dictatorship WITH the growing use of dictatorship as a ••FHNL of government It was only a questior of time before some amMtiout editor and equally ambitious publisher would issue a symposium on the subject We have not bam disappointed...
...than just polite attention from our own people...
...Under Bfc?**' '-he triumphs of man In his march •F*i rathf"" 0 m o d e r a civilization are ending B P torn** : e f e 4 t 0 1 t h t V M t majority to obtain B|^r-a>&ditioas and comforts as were possible H^ttgj^j favorable economic conditions...
...The really nasty work was performed by a group of volunteers, who called themselves—The Sacred Legion...
...The general articles on ' dictatorship are somewhat better...
...and all the retolf of the gambling board melting away in value UkAj an ice-cream cone to a July sun, it looks like thejf magic of the olden wizards is Just sc much moral Wt™v"™ for history to mark, t ag and place awmy> In its morgue for perished beliefs...
...With U. S. Steel now below par...
...O h is one of the most interesting and sensible Ohrhntiocs of the whole subject of sex we i M t o e upon in years...
...What ! this meant is vividly and movingi ly portrayed by Hauptmann in I "The Weavers...
...For a few years, therefore, Gropper has been addressing his drawings to the worker...
...This is an there is to the story of the "ruin" brought to Australia by the Labor Party...
...L B . "Precedent," Based on Mooney—Billings Case, Moves to the Bijou After six weeks of suocsss at the Provtncetown P l a y h o u s e, "Precedent" the play that so ably has dramatised the outrageous Mooney-BiUmgs case in California, is now''being-moved to a larger theatre on Broadway—the Bijou, on West Forthy-flfth Street This move has bean decided upon by the producers of the play—Harmon...
...T With those words, the panic-drunk legions cama| back into settled formation, and carried through, I . The Republic was saved...
...The world breathed easier...
...That crusade is now being repeated in New York City by reformers who are crying, a "turn the rascals o u t " i AB this is not brought out in 9 this biography but it is the logical ', interpretation of Dana's life and ; work, a hint of it being found here t and there in Rosebault's interest-' a lag tome...
...G. •In * • • • _P * _ ? ''" **»i n U P f°r discussion as it was in • S S A ^ H H A J * ^ L I K * T H E was one of BSAPJATTRT...
...But none OF the articles are Inspiring, none of them would have been seriously missed if the book had never been published...
...A heavy drop in wool and wheat exports brought distress Just as the decline in the price of American grain has afflicted our farmers with* poverty...
...Theodore, the Minister of Finance, is a Socialist...
...It is not difficult to place Dana...
...fist k probably the depression the ship news Lstd si tt""1 There is yet another depression C | a perpetual.- And that is the depression that K^rter me and a lot of other fonts every time Etoat of you and your famous dad...
...8&-7S...
...edited by Otto Forst De Battagila sad published by Hare curt Brace aad Co...
...He has sought to capture broad, obvious, social lessons...
...Three rousing huzzas for the CJj Morgan...
...1 The Russian Socialist Soviet Republic has • brighter burnish on Its escutcheon at haesmer aael sickle, and there is toss harshness fr-'t** throats...
...1% added that application of the Lang policy to overseas debts would result inevitably in trade reprisals against Australia sad in- other ways would lead to flnaaptol chaos aad to increased unemployment among the people...
...For, like other sensitive artists, Gropper saw that this is, to put it mildly, a rotten Vorid...
...i forming account of Dana as an t editor and a man whose persona ality made fast friends and lasting II enemies, but its chief interest for S us IS Dana as an interesting - product of the revolution that desf troyed the old regime in the South c and made capitalism the successor t to King Cotton, se the ruler of the t republic...
...Nor Is he obsessed with say ssttvf importance...
...The banquet wss...
...All our resources ouffhtj to set along those lines, snd concentrated to a aottfll month of such endeavor...
...the scattering forces of Moneydom with that -ow* famous battle cry . . . "150 for a mill ion shares a f | U. S. Steel Common...
...E g the Nudists", by Frances and Mason Mer•uhlished by Alfred A. Knopf, with a i muaIftt pictures are a bit of a disappointment sah we did like the one of three rather charmI naxed '.adies going around with a nude horse...
...the "swinger" remains a friend of the growing family when the singer's dreams don't come true...
...A team of- acrobats is parted by a tenor...
...Despite this it is possible to Justify the writing of -the book...
...The front pages of the world bulletin* prtef and discuss snd give groat prestige to his word* and the land he represents...
...And yet the book Is among the bettor" examples of ''popularization without vulgarlza- In order to realise this, It is only necessary to outline briefly the contents...
...tV P . H. C b h v / Labor in Australia Pasadena, Calif Editor, The New Leader: A certain California Danish language publication has recently held up Australia, as a terrifying example of what Socialists will do if given a chance: It is stated that Mr...
...The author gives an in...
...We ought to be human — w*» t* stand upon our platforms sad shout . , . "We tokS - you so...
...Wmm the power of striking has no threat unlaw u tm backed by mass writing on the ballot For Socialists and for Socialism, those are days} of dilemma...
...Twenty-two essays by eminent leaders OF modern thought" have produced "Dictatorship on Trial...
...The story is simpler than Abie's Irish Rose...
...Wood row Wilson and his I loyal buglers warred against Prusi sian autocracy, wrested it from ! the Gorman ruling classes, and disi tributed it to us in raids, deportat tions, censorship, conscription and ) espionage legislation...
...Just when Dads changed his views is not apparent in this study but all indications are that it was during the Civil War...
...but almost always details of background are neglected for the central point and sometimes a smudge instead of a line obscures even that: when the tenor is presented with twins, I defy you to tell whether he is delighted 01 dismayed...
...IJ_fg_a-araidg -Ttorib tuhnee...
...It was not so vary long ago, when an of us ft* farter and naturally unfit folks wars treated to th* heroic drama of "Saving America...
...Formerly a friend of Grant be turned against him when* the gwtfng orgies became public" property...
...His categories are an Improvement' over thnps employed by Bucher in that they are less ambiguous sad suggest the characteristics of the respective stages...
...He know* the Ills that beset tha resf of the world, nor is he ignorant of the troubles tlHsl harass his own government He does not '•^ritirj he is driven to no exasperated name-caning, ssssf yet with incisive probe sad slice ho gats under tb*j thick hides of confirmed die-hards, and makes th*aj| fool as weS as see the truth that nhimtoes bis ow*| eyes...
...and the "rush" tempo that determines our civilisation breeds movie - minds and tabloid Intelligences...
...Fundamentally he was a gentleman aristocrat who regarded his early radicalism as an impressionistic escapade of youth...
...He made strenuous efforts to keVp it going but without result Then association with Greeley on the "Tribune," the revolutions of 1848, and the future editor of the "Sun" in Europe, looking over these convulsions...
...Hence, Dana's cry of "turn e the rascals o u t " I t waa only when b politicians messed their official - berths that he turned reformer and b his program was to clean out the i upper floors so that the odor would - not offend gentlemen, leaving the t mudsills in the basement to stew • in poverty...
...But, 1st us forgot thorn s moment There a s* some 'one hundred and twenty million of folks 8* this land we have more serious bmunees with rtgh* now...
...His handicraft trade assumes more the form of an avocation than a vocation...
...Interest in the fate of the two Innocent man who still languish Is prison on false charges after fifteen years, has Been 10 moused...
...Like A few of our Socialists during the World War, who recanted and enlisted in the army of reaction, so Dana became a fanatic in his war against any movement critical of the capitalism that destroyed slave property...
...Many of these statements I doubt but am not sufficiently well posted to answer them...
...you Itscw about this later...
...Hunt Urges Rolph To Release Tom Mooney * SAN FRANCISCO.—Popularity of the growing demand for the pardon-and release of Tom Mooney is strongly demonstrated in the daily mail now being received at Sacramento by Governor Rolph...
...Every dictatorship except Russia's is described by s a ardent partisan and Russia's is described by a White fanatic...
...That is the Berengaria, the P which His Highness was returning from IL, «sj stuck in the mud of New York harbor...
...Scanning the New Books Editted by LAWRENCE ROGIN Charles A. Dana: Revolt And Conservatism The Famous Editor in m Biography By James Oneal OF American editors, Charles < a. Dana may not have been < as influential as Horace Greeley, i whose "Tribune" was a bible for < hundreds of thousands of farmers ' and mechanics, but Dana developed a paper, the "Sun," which 3 was unique among dailies...
...to repeat , Utvtnoff spoke Mks s •srssfll 1st who has behef is democracy.: **#;*_* worses listened seriously " «;** s* 3d ii Wk...
...The Australian cabinet almost split over a proposal to defer payment on loans due in December, and the premier managed to Issue a conversion loan...
...As even he presented a clear analysis and a pro-i gram for relief out of the international mesa, ww| can make effective presentation aad receive mora...
...oughly absorbing play—a play that would have been dramatically interesting, even If it were not based J.P.Morgan and The Nudists M ^ Y o r * policeman returned Morgan and j ( I tfudists M ^ Y o r * policeman returned borne the other _ fine fettle...
...The value of all this depends, manifestly, on bow it is done...
...It is in this province of New South Wales that the Labor Party has had some difficulties...
...Bat you played King Canute too ronf...
...M IT ' " rB| agato...
...Confiding men and women held on to their stock...
...If ever organised labor wffl loan the need N f distinct political identity, it must learn now...
...Dana was in New York at the time, where he married and the couple returned to the West Rax bury Utopia...
...He had spelled out a • J . a* "Evening Graphic" reading...
...This symposium includes assays dealing with all phi sea from Dictatorship and Love, to Dictatorship to Ancient Rome: Such well known authors as Aadr* Marois and Albert Einstein are Included However, the writer finds the book ON* of the moat futile symposiums ever presented to the public FuBy onehalf of the bohk, t h a t part describing the earl sting dictatorships, must be called entirely valueless...
...Gropper was a sensitive young artist with a good sense of line, and a neat satiric turn...
...mortal, who persists sa we do In our faith...
...Dana's ideal s was a submissive class of farmers I and workers looking up to their t gentlemen exploiters with pious t humility...
...Not only Is "Precedent" strong, honest and sincere propaganda, but It Is also a skilfully-contrived aad thor...
...I P**Jtoe has written a book in which all the •J"*** f e neither golden-haired heroes nor •~*"toag»c villains...
...Besides, if this thing gets Bsshat 81 America, as it seems to be in the parts •shops visited by the authors of the book, what mkappsa to our comrades in the Amalgamated •sBg Workers Union and the International Lad• Garment Workers Union...
...but carried into the mere story of "Alay-Oop", it makes it no more than a novel in cartoons —and makes us wonder whether, by not being a bit of a philosopher Gropper is not in danger of ceasing to be an a r t i st Joseph T. Shipley...
...Then the fatal fire In 1846, and Brook Farm was almost A heap of ashes...
...We ought to find the iiisii|nmsst for the distribution That ought to be our Jotej from now on I Much will be made by the American riiiniiiiiidst*] of all shades, out of Utvtaoff aad his sptandUji speechmaking at Geneva...
...Such action, it held, would not restore stable economic conditions and 1 place man back at work, but on the contrary would aggravate the condition...
...Thus the • book is another illustration of a i serious defect in economic thought r This defect was aptly expressed by ! F. H. Knight when he wrote that "To a large degree we find one group of students (of economics) in posseseioa of the problems aad another ia possession of the problems and another in possession of the data aad the two living a separate universes of discourse...
...However, the independent.status of the artisan is change_} to one of dependency when, for various reasons, he becomes indebted to his entrepreneur...
...I win appreciate it if your attitude towards his release Is favorable...
...If an the harried and Hssttd youngsters who are wandering around Wb» and ignorance could get bold of this book, V*add have far healthier generations of Adam in Vmrs to come...
...Striking caricature replaces subtler satire...
...But this industrial form gradually evolves itself Into "Retail Handicraft," which in turn gives way„ to the two phases of "Wholesale Handicraft" The independent phase, the first subdivision of the third stage, is socaUed because the handicraft worker ia a n independent master who usually carries on his labor in conjunction with farming...
...We have the man wts*§ can write such leaflets...
...In the elections In October, 1929, the Labor Party obtained a majority in the lower house but in the Senate the party had only seven of the thirty-six seats...
...The success of this play, about a frame-up of two prominent labor leaders, has-been altogether surprising."Precedent" opened on April 14, to the accompanlmant of, warm approval from the metropolitan newspaper critics, aad has had a steady aad mounting patronage ever since...
...I Kj^d bs proud to be on the force,, such a K J r t * * they are," replied Bridget "But K T r a t what is this ehdomen...
...to m? alow and painful scale of toss and bankruptcy...
...Nearly forty years later when Dana was opposing Bryan aad Populism with the fury for which ho was noted, Benjamin R. Tucker, American philosophical anarchist reprinted this article In pamphlet form with some caustic comments of his own...
...He suffers from no inreriecttjf compMcatiOBs...
...Such technique may, in general, serve for Soviet proparanda...
...and securities...
...With the contraction of the debt the independent I master loses his economic equality I and is obliged to accept the terms I of his entrepreneur-creditor...
...New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., $3.75) which en- i shies us to better understand this i g n a t journalist, Dana runs true to the popular • American idyl, the poor boy who made) good...
...We are tempted for the moment to bold t h* Fords, the Hoovers, the Schwabs, and the Mbrgta* in the stocks of public derision...
...Due to the general prostration of capitalism an over the world, Australia has had financial difficulties...
...We recall Efctttse'- the foundations of your fortune rest Ka om af the slimiest deals ever put over, when mm tossguiahed ancestor sold a lot of phony Km St a tremendous profit to the Federal troops Eos/ as Civil War, from the fighting ranks of Ees 8a name of Morgan was conspicuously H • Ha to the fact that we have been speaking about Bar&u a week, we are a bit behind in our home HgT We should long since have mentioned...
...Old gods keep writhing a bit before they pass out Maybe the worker* wffl see things clearly first Proxy Groan of th* A. F. of L University is actually threatening tej-j stop the wrist of Moneybags with a strike or so, I f j . wages are towered...
...Gov...
...Thomas spoke at Chicago University chapel and a t a demonstration on International Good Will Day...
...Rather than support CleveI land, he supported Ban Butler, the Granger candidate, although ButI ' ler as a delegate to t he DemocraI tic convention in Charleston, in • 1860, had voted for Jefferson : Davis, thirty seven times' i As a gentleman aristocrat • Dana, although opposed to slavery, i accepted the "mud-sill theory" of , the old Southern ruling class, i Wrested from that class in war, he i carried .it into the new order of t capitalism, applying it to farmers ' and laborers...
...in the and the two men go their sordid ways, and the woman trains her twins for the circus...
...Here also social, economic, political and religious radicalism directed the searchlight on civilisation...
...He was sympathetic with the views of Proudhon, and from abroad he wrote an article for Channlng*s "The Spirit of the Age," In which he said, "The history of the past and the examples of the present instruct us t h a t the privileged and powerful, by whatever name they are called, do not yield their privileges except as they are compelled...
...Millions of leaflets carrying a plats story of ooPi troubles snd a simple statement of our programJ should be handed out right now to hand to han*l and door to door canvas...
...Whan a Communist talks Uh*>> a Social Democrat he can make think...
...Among the customers of the store were Indians, and to better trade with them the youngster learned to speak their tongue...
...reverential report in the New "Mr...
...Unfortunately, Professor Gras is throughout predominantly ' a historian and only incidentally ! an economist That is, the major portion ia devoted to description sad exposition, and there Is only the miaimum of analysts and evaluation...
...by Norman S. B. Gran 1 Harvard University Press, 8X80), 1 belongs to the field of economic history...
...The Governor of Arizona writes thus to Governor Rolph: "We have many people in Arizona who believe that Thomas J. Mooney should be pardoned...
...Lovingly yours, I McAlister t o l e m a n. __kw_y*iUt sy»tem of production and exchange KftT?,' 1 curse upon us all, and is fettering • a t f c^V^ f p a e n t °* t n a human family...
...C. 80reason...
...hence I am impelled to write you...
...How corns, is it possible that you have an forgotten that splendid day to autumn, luBfc whan the laytaasnUtt-* of the House of Morftmj stalked through the frenzied Bsnhaag* and reined...
...It was for this form of industrial enterprise that William Morris and his followers felt an intense nostalgia...
...By bringing before the public the authentic facts of this flagrant ease of injustice...
...It seems Ms that you ought to be allowed to take your l a as you like i t It shouldn't be compulsory • everyone to strip the moment that he or she Bvta m the country...
...Dana could not visualise a gentle: man in the role of hangman, even ; when actuated by a high sense Of • duty...
...Eventually he turned up a t Brook Farm, that Fourierist experiment that engaged the attention and interest of intellectuals whan Boston was the Hub...
...He's toasted just like the E^u the Lucky Strike ads...
...A. L. Wolbarst and published by • Hewiaid PRESS, New York...
...has yet learned bow to enforce understanding...
...Two hundred pagas of good paper gone to waste...
...wages to fight about Folks that are Just out of1 work, gat very little wages Aad people who ar* working in these dreadful days are secretly gted MI gat whatever is offered to them, union or no unto*| And the end is beyond sight This oustosa* of raw warding your friends and punishing your arjacua* is a thin whisper against the crashing thunder ssT ruin...
...His opposition to a moratorium Incensed a large section of the party in New South Wales, led by J. T. Lang, the premier of that state.' | | The Worker, of Brisbane, issue of April 1, gives the latest information regarding this conflict between New South Wales and the party, as a whole...
...What a thrilling memory...
...We can raise the usuaay) for the printing...
...I may be old-fashioned • puritanical and it is true that I am no Adonis • t o node, but still there should be a little mysm Isft in this world...
...human being withal...
...What depression is mW...
...While you were getting tanned with E_«_Mahcp of Canterbury six to seven million I L , -«re getting canned by the bosses who Cfer yon sad your lousy bank...
...True it would need no magic but revolt Over the burdens we have borne so long...
...Other radicals of his period made the change and put on the livery of the new ruling class...
...i Ws ought to say to them loudly...
...You know an about i t Because my sympathies have been with Mooney, during the last campaign my opponents used it as a campaign issue against my re-election...
...Ini deed, the author declares that the i reason why Dana could not aupI port Cleveland, was because the i latter was once Sheriff of Kris I County and with his own bands . had hung a condemned murderer...
...He cruised In EZftterranesn with the Archbishop of Canter_L« Us guest...
...The artisan is his own boss, regulates his working conditions, and enjoys an economic equality with the entrepreneur...
...For the Illiterate ? 1 7 8 mod no Jacket blurb ("so Tf simply told that you don't even have to know how to read"), to know that the new wordless novels" appeal to the sophisticated illiterate...
...He apEj to be in excellent health and was very a L_* goody...
...Morgan arrived In the tosxopied by the Prince of Wales...
...M B my list la a biography of "Stalin" by my haac Don Levine, published by the CosmoH*a Book Corporation, • f a n s to Heaven this will turn out to be better ^ • " n u biographies of Lenin I have read reOJaJust why sane folk should go ga-ga at the pwought of anything or anybody on whom the PJ* «f the Kremlin has fallen Is beyond me...
...Perhaps tasy haw*' It coming to them...
...Not all the stuck horses, or bitten fingers of p * | 1 iceman, or bashed to heads of comrade* la aB thtl riots, parades and •demonstrations held by Coraanl nists here or elsewhere could scoompbah to a thou* sand years of such procedure, what one earuast •8*] able emissary did with his democratic tactic s*m simple eloquence at Genera, the other day...
...before the iisssjlsl I 1st league of nations...
...In this period the household is the economic unit self-sufficient and producing only for its own consumption...
...The Danish editor is somewhat muddled about the Labor Party in Australia...
...And rightly so...
...men today when they speak of th* «*v«rt* throaBB* out th* world...
...Wo ought to tanks tBoaff wriggle and mass about hi the mire paw of thst* own greed snd stupid srroganca...
...But the domestic I system must surrender its place of...
...Here a t Brook Farm, "Well-brad women scrubbed floors and scraped plates, and gentlemen and scholars hoed potatoes and cleaned out stables...
...The whole show St "busting" wide open, and the silly works are pretty poor stuff.-as such gadgets go...
...It is useless to go into his case...
...S Clay gods an of them, from Andy Melton dowaV...
...Of questions on unemployment Emresnon, Mr .Morgan threw his hands In Esr tad laughingly replied, T don't know anyKg shout any depression...
...Chicago Socialists Are Enthusiastic at Success Of Thomas Banquet CHICAGO — (FP) — Increasing activity of Socialist Party members and the necessity for unions to work through a political party were stressed by Norman Thomas in Chicago at a banquet given in his honor by the Socialist Party of Cook County...
...In the United States it is expected that the deficit of the Federal Government will reach a billion dollars in June, and other governments are facing deficits...
...The ocean oaf circumstance didn't fall for your bluster, it tost swept to on your nice big aand pie aad tf yon dOat watch out you'll get more than wet foot out of tad* foolery...
...Goethe says somewhere that one who is not acquainted with the last twenty-five hundred years of our history must live a hand-tomouth existence...
...It is curious to note i that the World War had similar i results...
...The general enthusiasm pervading the large crowded hall indicates the revival of activity sad energy among Chicago Socialists...
...As matters stand mow, there are mighty Btt...
...Daniel Creamer...
...I do not seek now to dispute—but they involve (as Gropper's friend Mike Gold reiterates) the conception of all art as propaganda...
...A special federal convention of the party met in Sydney, late in March, and adopted the following resolution: "That the New South Wales Labor Executive, having refused to acknowledge and accept the Federal platform and constitution, and having flouted the decisions and authority of the Federal Executive of the A. L. P., the existing executive of the New South Wales branch of the A. L. P. ii hereby declared to have automatically placed itself outside too Australian Labor Movement" The party has established a provisional executive in New South Wales and the convention declared against the Lang pronouncement to refuse deliberately to pay the interest obligations on loans raised from the general public in Australia and in Britain, which is contrary to Labor policy...
...Gras coins the word "usufacture...
...that the Socialists have run Australia for a number of years and, of course, run her on the rocks...
...Charming might call it a "republic of lovable fools" but these men and women were in earnest Dana contributed to the "Harbinger," and also established that intimacy with Greeley, which later brought the former to the Tribune...
...J. H. Scullin became Premier, and E. G. Theodore became Treasurer in the Labor Cabinet New South Wales was lost but to October of last year, it was recaptured by the Labor Party, which obtained-fifty-four of the ninety members of the legislature...
...The Chatterbox More Sonnets There is no solaoe to a thwarted and To us who could have found futthuvent twast And that is why it it so hard to bland The spice of love with bitters of defeat gay what we will in philosophic grace Against the ache—for having failed to shv Yst words are flapptogs in an emptied space, Against the symphony that might have been...
...Only a close check-up upon LirrtnofTs 88BBBM and substance before Geneva, aad the usual oaaj duet and spsarhlfyiwg of tha Workers' Party hersi at public gatherings win bring strange contrasts tfl At Geneva, the Soviet Russian Government ham a man of mtettsct a thorough master of wmMJ economies, sa excellent speaker, aad a temperate...
...To describe the first stage, Mr...
...Graft and graftingfiaro vulgar, a stain upon the rule rtsslrsittij > aristocratic gentry...
...But partly perhaps because he was an artist Gropper was not a philosopher...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 21
