The South in Rush to get Beer But it Still Forgets Bread
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Joseph E Cohen The South in Rush to get Beer But it Still Forgets Bread — ¦ M--..... Garner Turned Hit Back on His Political Past to Get Repeal—But He's Still Deaf to Real...
...Mint Julep ma/ not yet be ripe— but the foaming lager is...
...Having such a good time on tie beer wa,-,< n. the Democratic leaders may not see what they are crashing into...
...All of which therefore requires actually applied energy, and a full possession of physical ss well as moral courage...
...Now the Democrats are catching up and entering into their own—four years late...
...He had s pleasanter time of it, especially sines his antagonists were worthy of nis barbs, while I have since discovered that my irritating opponents were Just a lot of free-lunch, fourflushing self-announcers who never got as far as Washington Square of the Village in the praiseworthy trek of the Communist marchers to Washington...
...Your talents, your genius, you learning and your wisdom are aorely needed...
...And most of them have independent incomes that preclude their doing economically useful work...
...Now that the cocktail swiggling cynics of the college campuses of 192.1-29 have ceased to swiggle and snicker at the American scene, they have joined seriously in L.I.D...
...But, above all, he must be hardworking...
...But they had better look ahead...
...Thi* is coupled with wayes no lower than at present...
...Writers, artists, poets, philosophers and the rest, you are all welcome to come In and join in the great work before us...
...Failing to do that, the Democrats would be responsible for a railroad strike, should it come, and Inevitable industrial chaos...
...The balances that nature usually provides for her finer creations are peculiarly lacking In these scrivening saviors...
...Intellectuals have always been the bane of any militant movement...
...An intelligent, sincere and hardworking member of the far Left has my respect at all times, even If I differ with him utterly...
...Ho must be willing to take the full risks of bodily injury, imprisonment and persecution for his ideals...
...All this is niggardly and too low for aristocrats of the intellect...
...The unions ask for the thirty hour week...
...Far lie It from them to exchunge any of their exclusive-discussion at-home evenings or their nights at the theatre, going to meetings of branches, arranging lectures and mass gatherings, writing pamphlets in the language of the common people, and organizing their distribution...
...They have the turn of phruce and the witty counterpoint...
...Tongues parched for wide-open bottles of beer—or even kegs—will soon be moistened—if the South has Its way...
...They have more than a smattering of real knowledge...
...These be not parlor Bolsheviks...
...These be penthouse fire-eaters...
...Far be from these erudite, critical dispensers of political parlance really to join in a militant, everyday campaign to educate the masses, organize them in the shops, build up political units and lecture before the Jimmy Higginscs...
...Action they have nil...
...Should Congress get drunk on beer and forget its duty to the masses It will only be guilty of driving those in distress to despair...
...Garner Turned Hit Back on His Political Past to Get Repeal—But He's Still Deaf to Real Relief...
...Ability, mentality, learning, leadership...
...Garner's antics 'the nation might imagine the depression is really over...
...You Just cannot spout violence and revolution against dtTie system through the French windows of a Washington Square Apartment, and then call the Japanese butler In to furnish the boys and girls a new round of highballs...
...But it is a poor dodge...
...Most of them never really had to work for a living...
...Meanwhile labor ha» put itself on record for the thirty hour work week...
...And what goes for the Communist lip-servants of the liberal liternteurs goes for those milder lsds and lassies who wunt to be counted in on kaffee-klatches snd banquets of our own movements as a sort of decorative fringe...
...All the jibes of Voltsire wouldn't have amounted to the pricks of pin in a hippo's hide without the work of the organizers of the French Revolution and the surge forward of the sans-culottes...
...The committee in charge of the discussion announces that they are prepared to receive the names of those who want to participate in the discussion following the main speakers, in order that the discussion might be properly organized...
...Member* Voting to Mutualize W.F.F.I.S...
...The change will give the members certain legal protection that will enable the members to insure their homes ss well as their furniture, a change that will be of great benefit to the members...
...There is work to be done among the groping ones who are sadly enough still emotionally connected with the impatient Left...
...Such is a picture no artist could paint...
...And when I say "Intellectuals" you just have to understand clearly what I mean by that term...
...This lip service filet-mlgnon Just drips with a sickly rid gravy...
...Even these ferocious ones who have actually joined up by name and principle with the Communist cause have msde a sorry gesture at best...
...In a way, Jim was trespassing on my private preserves...
...All it remembers is that the campaign four years ago was fought presumably at the enln nee to a brewery...
...He was rushing as fast as he could away from it...
...The supper will be held at the Rand School, and will begin at 7 P. M. The speakers will be David P. Berenberg and Haim Kantorovich, editors of the Quarterly, and August Tyler...
...Lest anyone get unusual palpation of the heart at Hairbreadth Harry, it should at once be said that the South is not giving up its customary <ase except to get beer...
...However the thousands may be ready to bid a final, if not affectionate, farewell to Prohibition, millions are still hungry, shivering and miserable...
...Congress can and snould follow the A damson law to slash the hours still further...
...will be discussed at a discussionsupper December 17th, when the American Socialist Quarterly will celebrate the completion of its first year...
...Sic obit Mencken...
...all of those are ssdly lacking...
...Or, since there is glory enough to go around, if the Democratic Party In the Lower House can arouse the senile Senate to have its lame ducks go wet...
...From H. L. Mencken down to the rip-roaring eunuchs of the Kremlin Harem . . . these latter lately recruited out of the Nation and the New Republic . . . there is a long, thin line of accomplishment for the cause of Socialism that traces itself wavering between futility and despair...
...But as workers in the cause first and for all time...
...Karlin f oUe 121,351 The official canvass of votes cast in New York City reveals a vote of 121351 for William Karlin, Socialist Party candidate for Attorney-General...
...It now remains for the American Federation of Labor to pack its economic punch for these imperative measures where it will tell most in Covgrees...
...By intellectuals then, I mean these ivory tower untouchables who ascribe Freudian reasons to Socialists and radicals and gave long and clever explanations why we who go about ths.practical Job of t«mnkk>g.the world nearer U. Hs desire sre messiatnc, and just mean little madmen sprung from the brow of Jehovah...
...It is his remark as to foreign debts: This Is not my baby.'' The Democratic party has already forgotten the forgotten man...
...While they, they are the anointed and chosen of all wisdom who see through our messy foibles, and are privileged to point out to a world about to deluded and robbed, how silly It would be for it to follow our lead...
...Verbiage they have aplenty...
...The present session of Congress stands between our monstrous industrial breakdown and the first step to recovery...
...The South, having led the people into the Prohibition desert, is now straining its eyes to find an oasis...
...Quarterly Celebrates Its First Anniversary "Whither American Socialism...
...And think you have done your duty by Joe Stalin and the Five-year plan...
...Forgetting the Depression The Democratic party Is trying the hardest it knows to forget about depression...
...But it is not...
...But there is no escape...
...And when one of our good comrades raised hearty objection to his roundhouse swipes at the deep-thinking worthies of the literary left, strangely enough I stood up for the boss in no mean fashion...
...Vice President-elect Garner, as speaker of the dying lower house, is going to risk breaking his neck in dashing about to put legislation over...
...The change in organization will be effective when 76 per cent of the members vote approval in the referendum...
...But it is exceeding the speed limit in trying to rush new laws through Congress...
...The Democratic party may think it can keep the unemployed from hearing the rumble of their empty stomachs if they can imagine good beer going down their throats...
...That step is shortening of hours and building up buying power for labor...
...And my quarrel with them lies not so much because of what they say, but rather on what they do not do...
...and National Student League groups...
...Before February the relation of the railroads to its men will have to be faced...
...With the Democratic party in power, and casting its shadow over the lame duck Congress, it may well wish that it did not have to do something about the depression...
...The members of the Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society, about 62,000 In number, will soon vote upon a referendum that will, when carried, convert the organisation from a membership to a "mutual" basis...
...I'll There'i Alwayt PUnty of Work For the Intellectual Lade To Dolt They'll Only Co To Work By S. A. DeWitt JIMMY, my boss, who nomedeplumes himself "Autolycus" auoss tbe way, to .k • swat out of the Intellectuals last week, while I was busy with some scatterbrained lads who termed themselves "Communists Hunger March leaders...
...A Pretty Kettle All this fuss and feathers about a kettle of beer...
...too much for soft fingers and weak-ankles . . . too lowly for Himslsyan minds...
...Just picture the South tumbling over itself to make work for the unemployed by wiping out child labor, cutting hours of adult labor and boosting wages up to a decent standard, even compared with the North...
...Garner was not running to solvo the problem of the nation's industrial crisis...
...Therein lies the secret of their lack of poise...
...All over the land flaming youth has ceased to flicker at night clubs and jazz parties and the torch-song crooning throat is training for the difficult chords of the "Internationale...
...In 1980, running for the same office, Karlin polled 08,747 i' "¦ H...
...From this it may be sensed that the South has by no means surrendered all claim to leadership...
...And not a word about the depression) From Mr...
...Already Its Presidentelect has found a deep and significant statesman-like thought to give the world when confronted with any outstanding problem concerning the welfare of the millions in despair...
...But It Is for you to carry them along to Socialism as a tribute given stintlessly and selnessly while yon carry on in the great, practical task of making It eometrue, .to...
...And no change ever came about by just being vocally nasty about the i.t.-iho...
...QNCE it was thought the South is slow...
...They have the liquid gift of gab...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 24
