Helping to Build
Helping to Build AT MILITARY PARK The regular Saturday meetings at Military Park In Newark are becoming rallies for The New Leader as well as for Socialism. Last Saturday more than 350 copies...
...Which...
...We need to be at work as never before...
...That seems to be the unspoken, yet ever prevalent question in the hearts and mind* at millions of our American youth...
...Just now, I graduation and commencement services art tragic performances at best...
...J Being an anarchist, he could not very well be a socialist...
...They are still grateful to the system of private wealth and power that gave them so many advantages and so much prestige . . . albeit at the expense of millions of more unfortunate fellowstudents and teachers...
...He has seen the Injustice and stupidity that are inherent in capitalism, and he has felt at times impelled to cry out in protest...
...Some one else always gets It after J get through, and I request them to pass it on...
...Darrow is quoted as remarking upon the strange situation t h a t n o w prevails, w h e n modern m a e h I n e r y would m a ke p o s s i b l e the production of the . w o r l d 's needs by one hour's work for eveafc^ a d u l t person...
...All under the magical aura of the Stars and Stripes...
...Move on and that's positive," he concluded...
...boldness in the other...
...Hurled into France and that's positive," he mused...
...Darrow was had In Chicago, where he dropped in orl the Democratic convention...
...Positive to what and negative to what...
...After four weeks the branch will sent out scouts to line the recipients up for subscriptions...
...Not a hint about the certain prospect of poverty, idleness, and the despair steaming up from gutters sand sidewalks...
...We wish there were such a paper out In these hills, too...
...Where do we go from here...
...Not a mention of the overcrowded, impoverished professions...
...Hurled out 1 of a job and that's negative...
...We wish there were such a paper out In these hills, too...
...Mention here is made about the depression as if i t were a cloud with a bright lining...
...Some one else always gets It after J get through, and I request them to pass it on...
...And boloney Is king...
...But his career also contains seme of the most shameful incidents of recent years...
...They, too, load up their sentimental solaces with statistical perversions, and deftly hidden doubts ushered forth in the robes of hope and aspiration...
...The cigarette burnt his fingers...
...The champion of the downtrodden has also been, the champion of Leopold and Loeb and of the Massies...
...Too Weak to Fight Darrow lacked the courage to cut himself off from the capitalist world and all its infamies...
...There Is more literary meat (aside fom the true facts) in one page of The New Leader than in a whole month's supply of other papers...
...j...
...But he has felt the lure of capitalist success, and he has striven to remain on terms of peace, with the powers-that-be...
...Turning to the World-Telegram he read that this paper will support Al Smith for President...
...u~The great God Success is a dead God now that the system over which It lorded all these brutal years is definitely dying...
...As Roosevelt loves to delay...
...Washington and Lincoln are trotted forth, and strange as It may seem, our dear old Comrade Charles Stelnmetx is offered as an example of the immigrant who came here crippled and poor, and through American Institutions of medicine was "cured," and arose as the head (sic) of the General Electric Company at a salary of (sic) $260,000 per year...
...And now that capitalism la dying, the least they can do in such a serious moment is be kind and generous to the old benefactor...
...THE MIDWOOD BOOSTERS The Socialists'of Midwood in Brooklyn have voted to mail 80 copies to non-Socialists each week, paying for the papers and postage out of branch funds...
...It was very comfortable and convenient...
...A COOLING BREEZE "Reading a page of The N*w Leader,'' writes a transplanted New Yorker in Los Angeles, "comes like a refreshing breeze on a sweltering day...
...At the college commencements, a kind of dignified fol-de-rol takes place...
...THE MIDWOOD BOOSTERS The Socialists'of Midwood in Brooklyn have voted to mail 80 copies to non-Socialists each week, paying for the papers and postage out of branch funds...
...FROM IDAHO "You are making it a fine paper," writes George F. Hibner, Buhl, Idaho...
...Clarence burrow Says He Wants to Lite No More in a Crazy World CLARENCE DARROW, the eminent lawyer, la sick of this world and would like t o die, according to a story sent over the telegraph wires Monday by the I n t e r n a t i o n a l News Uervice...
...Last Saturday more than 350 copies were sold at the meeting, with many speakers competing for the honor of being the beat New Leader salesmen...
...That's also positive...
...A band-out in the breadlines and a cup of java kept his physical machine going and a park bench served him for a bed...
...The sun will shine soon...
...And by the truth, I mean of course, that only m the co-operative plan of life will there be use and opportunity for the public school children and college graduates of tomorrow...
...He has waged, battles for personal liberty that entitle him to sympathetic consideration...
...MUST HAVE IT " I must have your paper to keep up with the Labor movement," writes J. W. Cannon, Coushette, La...
...But it is part of the educational racket and' the applause that greets the gentleman is enthusiastic enough...
...said the jobless man...
...The professors, the ex-college prexies, and the politicians that sit in such studious and learned posture on the stage know deep down in their uncourageous hearts, the lies that are spoken, and the tragic W i t h t i w r f s z e r - t i i w i r iraawtm...
...Their advice is laden with historical inaccuracies, and heavy references about success...
...of days...
...The contrast between the lives of Debs and Darrow is a contrast that is vividly instructive...
...and kow-tow is made before its pagan ugliness with gracious deference...
...And being a "philosophic" ana/chist, he did not feel that he had to do anything about his anarchistic views...
...Here are a hundred or so men and women, all ready to go forth with knowledge, spirit, and In many cases, a full experience of self-denial . . . Into professions that are already doors to the poorhouse, into commerce and industry, that now lie supine and bloodless, and offer less and less chance for a living, as merger after merger constricts the field and closes the office •rooms against the old trained workers and officers, let alone the applications of the newcomers...
...And the times plead desperately for boldness...
...of Abe living who will have to carry on when the old order is definitely done...
...Irresolution is ingrained in one...
...He was too clear-sighted to fool himself into believing that this capitalistic world Is- the best of all possibe worlds, but he was too weak to fight Like others of his wavering kind, he found himself a convenient label...
...Not a word of the machine age and Its devastating work on opportunity for work or business...
...MUST HAVE IT " I must have your paper to keep up with the Labor movement," writes J. W. Cannon, Coushette, La...
...Fifteen years ago he helped to hurl the armies of the Hohenzollerns back in defeat and returned home elated...
...Ex-college presidents stand up and ruminate about exercises in which they took part fifty years ago...
...Glad to have the opportunity of helping the Socialist Party and its press," writes G. Phillips of Hempstead, as he sends In two subs in response to the appeal of The New Leader to keep up an intensive drive for circulation up to election day...
...Kipling's poetry seems to mesh in with these dull sophisms about being "a man," and it is gushed forth thickly...
...He acquired the reputation of being a "philosophic anarchist...
...Hank pounced upon a halfburnt cigarette and lit it...
...Ignoramuses get up and speak as members of the local school boards...
...A "positive or a negative" candidate...
...On one hand, there is the unconcealed pride and joy of the paients and loved ones of the graduates...
...Not a word about the ones who will be compelled to seek jobs immediately, when there are no jobs...
...As yet, so few of the speakers at commencements have the courage of their inner convictions...
...Where do we g o from here...
...We wonder i f he did not envy Debs in life, as he now say's' he envies him in death...
...Hank was a machinist and a - year ago he was hurled out of the plant where he had worked for years...
...He turned to the want ad columns and read of the men and women who offer to work for no wages If given a, room and three meals...
...No lives can be sadder than theirs, Clarence Darrow knew and "admired the late Eugene V. Debs...
...It is difficult to see the faces of the assembled youngsters as this barrage of hooey spatters against their ripening intellects...
...Oh the other Wand, among the emerging children and youth, diplomas in nervous grip, a subtle mist Of fear against tomorrow twines and weaves about until a haze envelopes all of them before the Inner sight of a full understanding...
...The people can get the true facts from The Leader...
...FROM IDAHO "You are making it a fine paper," writes George F. Hibner, Buhl, Idaho...
...He has associated himself with the very forces that his heart and mind hold in contempt...
...Instead of which, says M r . Darrow, our w o r k e r s are compelled to ton unui m« i r o » i u u » u v , » .. Then the warehouses are glutted and we have unemployment and starvation...
...We need to be at work as never before...
...After four weeks the branch will sent out scouts to line the recipients up for subscriptions...
...Is a real thought, and a highly disturbing one In the hearts and minds of these maturer young people...
...The people can get the true facts from The Leader...
...The job is positive and the wage is negative," mused Hank, as a cop approached...
...Pollyanna croons to the highest...
...A new day and a new order must come In its place to bring use and opportunity for the learning and talents of the youth who come out of the universities...
...The man who is so) sick of this capitalist world that he would like to die has been careful to maintain his status as a "regular" Democrat...
...A Vivid Contrast There are many Clarence Dafrows in this world — men who see clearly and who use their clever minds to become sophists- because sophistry is more comfortable than revolt...
...One thing I never do is to discard the paper after I read it...
...Not a word of truth...
...One thing I never do is to discard the paper after I read it...
...You are now on the threshold of life" and all that usual hokum that precedes the admonition about obedience to parents, attention to one's own business and honesty as the best policy...
...The interview with Mr...
...Glad to have the opportunity of helping the Socialist Party and its press," writes G. Phillips of Hempstead, as he sends In two subs in response to the appeal of The New Leader to keep up an intensive drive for circulation up to election day...
...Not a thought about the grim hand of crime holding Its huge clutching fingers over millions of the slum children...
...Smith loves action...
...Possessing one of the most brilliant minds of our time, Darrow appears to have been suffering all his life from a double nature...
...A Fathetic State We do not know of a more pathetic state of mind than that revealed in the Darrow interview...
...Last Saturday more than 350 copies were sold at the meeting, with many speakers competing for the honor of being the beat New Leader salesmen...
...I t would not be uncharitable to him to say that he has suffered from a double nature...
...Clarence Darrow says that this world is hopelessly crazy and he feels that he cannot depart from It too soon...
...There Is more literary meat (aside fom the true facts) in one page of The New Leader than in a whole month's supply of other papers...
...Try it...
...The latest thing in puzzles Is to take the Republican and Democratic platforms, eliminate their names, and then ask your friends which is which...
...I've burnt my fingers so often I guess I'll vote the Socialist ticket this year...
...The under-dog has always aroused his sympathy...
...The puzzle was solved...
...There may or may not be much decency In such conduct For one, I am low enough to demand the truth in the presence of death, especially when It means so much for the happiness and usefulness...
...The graduates here too, are on "the threshold of life...
...And now, in his old age, It is no wonder that he feels he has no place in this world...
...Success is dragged out too...
...a huge leaden image,, polished up to simulate the sheen of precious metal...
...This Is the Season For Bunk and Cant Of School Orators TilH is the hour of graduation exercises in the public schools and commencements in the colleges...
...That's it...
...As certain as it is that some eyes are blue and some are brown, some men are negative and some positive...
...he read...
...Perhaps we had too many brainless days \then as we do now.' POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE HANK OKEY sat on a park bench with a copy of the World-Telegram in his hand...
...Move on '' said the cop, and Hank ambled across the square...
...During the World War we had meatless days and breadless days and now during peace we have the same kind...
...In Roosevelt and Smith we have the extremes...
...He has allowed his years to pass without doing anything to make his fellow-men see how unnecessarily stupid and brutal is the world in which they live...
...As Roosevelt generalizes, Smith is specific...
...Helping jgJJMW AT MILITARY PARK The regular Saturday meetings at Military Park In Newark are becoming rallies for The New Leader as well as for Socialism...
...I t was convenient enough\to allow him to become a Democrat and to enjoy political favors...
...A COOLING BREEZE "Reading a page of The N*w Leader,'' writes a transplanted New Yorker in Los Angeles, "comes like a refreshing breeze on a sweltering day...
...The result bias been the most amazing contradictions to be found in the history of one man...
...Debs knew happiness even in the years that be was imprisoned while fighting for the working class, and the sadness of his last days came from regret at being torn from the struggle for human emancipation...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 1
