Those Jarred by the Election Have Some Tal Thinking to Do
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Joseph E. Cohen Those Jarred by the Election Have Some Tal Thinking to Do Millions Voted Against Something, and Now See What They'll Get,—to Save and to Spend,—Beer and Free Lunch. "THOSE...
...A. G. Breckenridge, Brooklyn, adds four to our circulation list...
...We will find it difficult to proselyte the bonue boys and their flag-waving wives intellectually for our program...
...GOEBEL HAS THE IDEA George H. Goebel of New Jersey says: "We are going to make a determined, ceaseless effort to make every real Socialist in the State a subscriber to The New Leader...
...Enough time must be left for all who sre in doubt to ask questions...
...I'm afraid we lost a lot of perfectly willing votes from the workers themselves this year, because Al Smith speaks their language, and we eppesr, and certainly speak, entirely "too smart" for them...
...It would not be economy...
...If those in office are to do something worth while they will have to borrow planks from the Socialist platform...
...Mouths seeking to devour, Miserable tomorrow...
...That's the answer they gave Norman Thomas . . . and what they did to the Communists doesn't make pleasant reading...
...And it is hard for the parties In power to give the people what they voted for, let alon what they did not vote for...
...The army of unemployed is increasing plenty...
...And the old parties are strong on economy...
...As a result of this blunder, he asked for bread and may get beer...
...Perhaps . . . in a high beginning . . J G. K. THE poet who sent me the above poem is evidently very young...
...Sorry, I cannot send more, but here are two subs...
...Some riots may ensue, there will be bloodletting, and tragic deaths, much emotional hubbub...
...Our Educational Work No lesder, speaker or comrade capable in any way of teaching and inspiring newcomers in the party can be so great or so busy that be or she...
...and the like, should be simplified...
...Albert Beatty, Ohio...
...Wm...
...Meetings for the factory folk must be arranged from time to time, In halls nearby, with locally known speakers snd a bigger nsme added for attraction...
...But how little it all comes to...
...To be sure he did not use his head as he should have...
...Tenth Ward Branch, Racine, 6. Frank Petava, of Little Falls, sends in 12 subs...
...Some of the locals are making efforts to place every member on the sub list of The New Leader...
...Taxes on the poor should be cut...
...And that work can be best done by our leaders, perennial candidates, teachers and lecturers...
...That was fifteen years ago...
...There is no reason why Socialists should depend in the capitalist press for information about their movement There is every reason for securing their information from the Socialist Party press...
...Our path lies along recruiting the youth of the factory, the shop, the office and the school...
...That once brazen boss ia running for cover...
...One is no good without the other...
...Somehow he has poured down his throat gulps of firewater and he is kicking up quite a fuss...
...There is the book which everyone could read with profit—"The World's Economic Crisis and the Way of Escape...
...No red flag, and no 'Intemationalley' for us, middle . we're Americans...
...And we failed to get them mentally when they were adolescents...
...There will be patching and painting...
...It applies especially to America...
...THOSE who have been hit amidships by the protest vote in the election are picking themselves up...
...There must come an end to all this...
...The World War, patriotism, and anti-red hysteria got them instead...
...But it may take some more years of being up against it for the voters to feel that it ia about time they were jarred out of the old parties...
...More power to ths greatest socialist paper fa the U. S." THE CHATTERBOX To Appeal to Young People, To Simplify Our Great Message— Thus We Will Win Our Battle By S. A. DeWitt Youth Despairs lilack pits yawn ahead...
...This we have discussed throughout our last campaign, and will continue to harp upon at all discussions...
...C. Kauffman, Secretary, Local Trenton, N. J., comes in under the wire with three more...
...But quite openly they shy off from us, because of their inferiority complexes...
...The branch meeting hall or headquarters of each assembly district must be visited with regularity by those of us who have become articulate...
...That is their only chance of floating along, even if they do no more than drift...
...They will be old men and women most of these, and like the bonus army at Washington will wave the flag, salute it, and sing the "Star Spangled Banner...
...LUNCHEON Under the combined susplcee of the League for Industrial Democracy and the United Youth Conference Against War, a luncheon-discussion will be held in the Hotel Woodstock) Saturday at 1 p. m. The subject for discussion will be "Imperialism in 1988...
...And he is throwing to the wolves every private in his army he can spare...
...The one-time mild and soft citizen is not what he used to be...
...Some job to keep it afloat...
...Those jarred out of office are the sober ones...
...Forums must be started in all sections, an intelligent and uninterruptable circle of lecturers arranged from headquarters, and all business meetings must shut themselves off at a given hour to allow some older and better equipped comrade to hold forth on some aspect of Socialism...
...Judging by the Socialist vote it is still far from harbor and safe landing...
...Dorothy Detser, executive secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...
...And no telling for how long...
...The price of Socialism in theae days is eternal diligence...
...But the old hulk is moving...
...Wayne Lees, student worker against compulsory military training...
...Loading up the ordinary citizen with taxes has stopped...
...Boris Fogelson, of Woodridge, sends in three...
...Statistics from all vital sources reveal that moat of our citizens above the age of thirty are fairly well advanced, physically at least, toward old age...
...definitely, see...
...Many of the organizations are sending in subs...
...Each Issue of the paper seems to be better than ths but one...
...As they clear the dust out of their eyes they are able to see that something has happened...
...Taking by Taxation Taking by taxation, and taking as much as can be used to give the hungry food and the unemployed work, would be pressing the button to start industry going full speed...
...By Joseph E. Cohen Those Jarred by the Election Have Some Tal Thinking to Do Millions Voted Against Something, and Now See What They'll Get,—to Save and to Spend,—Beer and Free Lunch...
...On this last matter, we ought to go about the job seriously of reaching workers in office, factory and shop, . . . Ypsels csn be used to inquire at noon-dsys, or after work, right1 at the factory door, as to conditions and availability for our purposes...
...can afford to take vacations or long lay-offs...
...Secretly they admire us perhaps for being Intellectually superior...
...There is in it all the bewilderment and pathos of youth faced by futility...
...In New York, Philadelphia and other large centers of political rottenness, padded government payrolls are being stripped of drones...
...To be sure, the nation did not vote for this...
...Sil more just csme in from the Finnish Branch of Worcester, Three more from Trenton, N. J. Three from the Cooperative Trading Co., Wauke-gan, 111...
...Instead of marking his cross in the Socialist column he missed and put one in for Roosevelt...
...All this is offered In the hope that we will get together real soon and work out a complete, unified program for the needful work ahesd...
...Individualism," "Imperialism and the Next Conflagration...
...So far, so good...
...Roger N. Baldwin will serve ss chairman...
...You cannot each an old man new vision...
...On this point of wholesale spending Henry Clay in his chapter says: "In the position the country is in today the only authority that can start a spending movement big enough to restore i appreciably industrial activity is the Government" This was said of England...
...Just watch the list of subscribers grow in Lansing," writes Seth Whitmore, Local Secretary...
...Caught with the lifted goods of swollen levies on the people the officeholders are reluctantly but effectively giving up regular spoils...
...For the ballots v. ere against the old mess without being in favor of a change...
...Socialist literature especially written for these workers must be printed by the ton and distributed sheet by sheet...
...What have you to offer To one who is young And so unknowing . . J Here are my hands . . . How shall I use themt And my eyes . . . Are they to remain unseeing . . .t There is a sense within me Quick to the pain and useless longing All around me...
...I am, for one, pretty well set on harnessing up all the splendid energy, enthusiasm and idealism that joined up with us since the party started coming back into Its own...
...But there will have to be new and plenty taxes on the big fortunes...
...Some mistake...
...And with the yoang folks we have so fortunately acquired to set as shock troops . • . well be on our way upwards...
...Non-members are welcome, D. W. McAlistsr, Ind., rushes In sn order far the Maurer meeting...
...But no free lunch counter...
...They did not vote for that...
...but no change, no revolution of any kind toward a new world...
...Without a Socialist pilot there cannot be good steering...
...The younger members, the Ypsels and Young Circles must be given work to do, such ss periodical distribution of literature, handing out throwaways for lectures, visiting enrolled voters, and arranging shop meetings...
...Anyway he stirred up the old politician...
...And m Socialist Primer, something on the style of Barry Laldler'e "Road Ahesd," brought up to the maturer apperceptions of the adult worker, would make for a swell five or ten cent pamphlet to band out or sell to the working masses...
...T. A. Blsson, of the Foreign Policy Association, and A. Fenner Brockwsy will participate...
...A discussion subject for each particular meeting must be picked with care, moot to the lives of the workers, Snd In most cases, to be specific and plain spoken . .. high sounding subjects like "The Philosophy of Socialism," "Economic Determinism vs...
...Yet just now there should be plenty of spending—the right kind of spending...
...New Haven is represented by George Ley, who sdds five new ones to the list LI.D...
...Inferiority Complexes . Count me with Heywood Broun on the subject of simplified titles, and high thinking through plain talk...
...For the depression is still battering away at the cracking bottom...
...Beer—and Free Lunch Beer...
...What the Government would get from a tax of three cents a pint on beer would be but a drop in the bucket To have a real spending spree there would have to be a big leap into the vast piles of idle gold held by the small part of ths people Who have cornered nearly all the wealth...
...And futility there surely is for most of our young folks wherever they sre snd in whatever pursuit they desire to enter...
...Those jarred loose are grabbing at any straw to save from sinking...
...And while Napeoleon'a armies, and all other military organizations, march to battle on their stomachs we have mighty little to hope for if an army of hungry and cold workers and farmera gather and march forward in protest against physical suffering...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 22
