BOOKS IN BRIEF
Oneal, James
Books in Brief By James Oneal 'The Father of Secession" IT IS a peculiar fact that seven decades passed into history before a biography of the "Father of Secession" appeared but this has...
...capitalist enterprise...
...A drive committee of twenty-five active Socialists was created to push the 1.000 membership drive...
...Part II, Free Education for Poor Children and Apprentices In New England...
...Capitalistic Harmonies OF THE few early American political economists only Henry C. Carey acquired much of a reputation in the science and he Is forgotten today...
...After many disappointments Rhett had his way and with the triumph of secession he became for a brief period one of the most popular men in the South and yet in tho organization of the administration he was to again be disappointed...
...With him passed the dominion of one system of property and the rise of another...
...ayette awmuv Brooklyn...
...His career reminds us of a "Great Engineer who but yesterday was expounding disappearance of poverty until the crisis of October, 1029, shattered his childish economics...
...A conspicuous member of the ruling class, his portrait reveals a dignified gentleman of the old regime...
...a student of logic, history, government and political economy, and a revolutionist, determined that the South should set up housekeeping for Itself with his class ruling the governing and social life of his section...
...Supporting Miss Stanwyck and Brent in "The Purchase Price" are Hardie Albright, Leila Efcnnett, David Landau, Murray Klnnell, Crauford Kent, Mat McHugh and Dawn O'Ray...
...Is being shown...
...The season of 1932-33 promises to be even more stimulating...
...The Century Co...
...Before the crisis of 1837 he anticipated the disappearance of poverty and the gradual rise of the workers in affluence...
...His "Pregnant Woman in a Lean Age" (Wm...
...The development of apprenticeship, the treatment of crime and poor relief, provisions for education, and the problems of race relations are treated with Insight and understanding...
...Membership In the Brooklyn Forum will entitle the member to attend without any additional charge the twenty Sunday evening affairs and also all special events which are being planned in conjunction with the Forum...
...Faro, N. Y.), however, cannot avoid that urge to true and full expression of self which seems the author's chleif impetus in life...
...Suffering from a cancer of the face, the Father of Secession retired from activities as his Utopia of slave property collapsed about him...
...He was denied a post In the Cabinet as well as any other responsible position...
...The Johns Hopkins Press...
...The Forum will again be conducted in the auditorium of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Laf...
...Membership dues are $3.00 a year...
...Gene Raymond, Marguerite Churchill and Irving Pichel...
...Here j In one volume are collected eight , essays on this theme which are , presented in four sections...
...The Purchase Price" 'is based on the Saturday Evening Post serial by Arthur Stringer "The Mud Lark," the story of a dance hall...
...If Rhett can peer through the veil and observe the descendants of the old planter class paying homage to King Capital We wonder if his sorrow does not overwhelm him...
...a thorough aristocrat, a Christian pietist, a fiery evangelist of the "mudsill" philosophy, active In the Charleston Bible Society and interested in poetry, music and art...
...Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee and Vivlenne Osborne are with the star of "The Mouthpiece" in his new political triumph which has been accepted unanimously as timely film entertainment...
...Earthly servitude for the Negro and heavenly bliss for his carcass after it had been sapped of values blended In a ruling class piety that comforted landed magnates...
...Unl- j verslty of Chicago Press, $3...
...and intermixed with the celebrations of sex as the sound basis of love and understanding between man and woman, are satiric pictures of two gossip wives, of "any individualist," of clothes as swaddling mankind into secrecy and repression...
...Perhaps not one member in a thou-' sand of our trade unions knows that his class has a history...
...I. O. Brooklyn Forum Starts Membership Drive Under the leadership of B. C. Vladeck, chairman of the Brooklyn Forum, organized last season by the Socialist Party of Kings County, a membership drive for 1,000 members has been inaugurated...
...Robert Barnwell Rhett was an Interesting human offshoot of a social order resting on the exploitation of black slaves...
...Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody and Vivlenne Oakland are In the supporting cast On Wednesday the double feature bill will be Ann Harding in her newest romance "Westward Passage" and "Fast Companions," a race track comedy-drama with Tom Brown, James Gleason, Maureen O'Sullivan and Andy Devine...
...He could not have anticipated that the sons of the ' 'sires would be guilty of this apostacy...
...Moreover, when the Provisional Congress came to an end his official connection with the Confederacy ended and as the new regime crumbled from the Impact of northern armies sentiment turned against the "Are-eaters" with Rhett the most conspicuous target of enraged critics...
...Colonial pastors, drawing their convictions and their salaries from planter funds, readily adapted the creed to the needs of the planter class, the latter standing by to see that the finished article was'as substantial as the tobacco and rice produced by the slaves...
...If Carey and Hoover ever meet on the battlements of the blessed there will be two souls who will be able to understand and sympathize with each other...
...He could occasionally turn demagogue...
...Through the changing economics of the capitalist system the author traces the ideas of Carey and presents an interesting analysis of his views...
...Books in Brief By James Oneal 'The Father of Secession" IT IS a peculiar fact that seven decades passed into history before a biography of the "Father of Secession" appeared but this has now been provided by Laufa A. White In a volume sponsored by the American Historical Association (Robert Barnwell Rbett, Father of Secession...
...For a number of, years he was also editorial writer for Greeley's protectionist Tribune and In 18S6 he joined the Republican Party and helped to give It Its protectionist character...
...Prof...
...The people of Brooklyn had an opportunity to hear discussions of vital contemporary problems confronting our society by men of outstanding authority...
...but as a rule he was always frank in stating his views and unchanging In his one purpose —a revolution that would release the southern ruling class from Its obligation to carry out the increasingly precarious bargains which slave owners had agreed to ¦en the framing of the Federal Constitution...
...The "harmonies" failed to emerge out of protectionist legislation and our economist became a Greenbacker In the eighties as he saw the capitalist class become fat and the farmers lean...
...J. T. S. Stanwyck and Brent in "The Purchase Price" Ait the Strand Theatre Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent are co-starred again in "The • Purchase Price," which Is now at the New York Strand...
...Free Poetry KALPH CHEYNEY, who with H. Conroy Issues every year the anthology "Unrest," the voice of the radical poets, and whose organization of the "Rebel Poets" and continued activity is doing much to keep alive social vision in American verse, has turned from general social questions to the matter of freedom and frankness in sex...
...the changing character of the southern slave system, the menacing rise of capitalism in the North and the increasing cleavage of ruling opinions in the two sections, Rhett is the one man whose purpose is clear and uncompromising...
...As an added feature "Dangers of th<t Arctic" In which Earl Rossman gives the low down on the top of the world...
...Lady and Gent'* at the Paramount...
...The Dark Horse" At RKO Theatres RKO Keith's 81st Street, Jefferson, Flushing and other Manhattan and Bronx neighborhood theatres are playing Warren William in the screen comedy landslide "The Dark Horse...
...Like some other economists, Carey Tried to reduce the economics of capitalism to the character of "universal truths—truth to whlchjino exceptions can be found" and to unfold the "harmonies" inherent in...
...He took consolation In religion and spent a few years writing a history of the Confederacy...
...These Studies embrace the en- • tire colonial period and throw | light on many obscure phases of , the life and labor of the working , masses...
...Public Poor Relief Systems...
...Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt wrote the original story, which Stephen Roberts directed, in addition to Bancroft and Miss Gibson, the cast features James Gleason and Charles Starrett...
...This new drama of modern standards of living and morals contains several importan...
...L. Sabloff, Max Haskel, Charles Dann, S. Sabetsky, Mrs...
...A cultivated gentleman of the old regime, Rhett was one of the first of his class to understand that the slaveocracy and capitalism could not continue to live under the same government and, beginning In 1828, all of his great abilities were devoted to a policy of secession...
...As for the indentured white laborers, a class that stood only a little above the black slaves, the author presents a brief though satisfactory view of the life of these workers in the colonial period and the role they played In the "primitive accumulation of capital" on this side of the Atlantic...
...In the tangled politics, varying and divergent hopes', fears and prejudices of the politicians...
...girl of easy virtue who, in desperation and necessity, marries a man with whom she eventually falls In love, only to find the ghost of her old associations threatening her new-found happiness and peace...
...Deprived of suitable furniture and his beloved books, wasted by fever, and shrinking from friends and neighbors, he declined to ask for a pardon-of the Federal Government...
...Today Carey is forgotten...
...Part , I considers the Economic and So- , clal Aspects of Negro Slavery and , Indentured Servant Systems...
...Our Laboring Ancestors ONE weakness of the American labor movement Is its lack of any historical culture and memories of class struggles...
...Goldberg, Dr...
...The book Is a substantial addition to American labor and social history...
...Mantis, Mrs...
...A. D. H. Kaplan of the University of Denver presents a study of his work In a small monograph (Henry Charles Carey, A Study In American Economic Thought...
...However, this book is something more than a biography...
...Part in, Free Education for Poor Children and Apprentices in the South, and Part IV, Types of...
...An individualist himself,—in the sense that he believes the full development and free expression of the Individual la the one true way for the general good to rise— Ralph Cheyney stands as one of our most courageous and stirring poets...
...His theory was au approach to more equity in posti ssloss by upper and lower classes b"t the crisis of 18)7 not only upset his "harmonies" but endangered the private fortune he had accumulated At first a free trader, he became a protectionist and among his intimate friends were James G. Blaine, "Pig Iron" Kelly and Joseph P. Wharton, steel master, who founded the school of commerce at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Like Wade in his life of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and Morrison In his life of Harrison Gray Otis, the author has given us' a study of the economic, political, social and cultural backgrounds of the subject of her study...
...Big Stage BiU Is Held Over "Lady and Gent," heralded in Hollywood as one of the outstanding pictures of the season, and the record-breaking-stage show headed by Harry Rlchman, Bert Wheeler, Jeanne Aubert, Mitzl Mayfair and Polly Walters, will be-the attractions at the New York Paramount starting Friday, July 15...
...Wednesday the new shows at these theatres will include "Forgotten Commandments" with Sari Maritza...
...Harry Kritzer, director...
...At the Richmond Hill Joe E. Brown has invaded Keith's Richmond Hill Theatre with "The Tenderfoot," his newest comedyriot...
...One of the most interesting essays is a study of the Religious Instruction and Conversion of Negro Slaves...
...P. Arnaud, Robert L. Bobrlck, Irving Goldman, Jack Altman, Joseph Viola and Joseph G. Glass...
...Brent made one of his first feature appearances opposite Miss Stanwyck In "So Bag" and since then his rise has been so rapid that his box-office appeal has practically equalled that of his feminine partner with whom he now receives equal billing...
...George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson portray, the title roles in "Lady and Gent," the story of a wasJted-up pug and a wlsed-up blonde who find themselves enmeshed in a series of situations as thrilling and human aa anything seen on the screen in months...
...The end came In September, 1870 He died still confident of his views In the year when Hayes was elected President and armed rule of the South came to an end...
...The past year's activity of Forum was highly successful...
...To such workers and to students of , the history of the American work- . ing class we commend the book ! of Marcus Wilson Jernegan (Laboring and Dependent Classes In , Colonial America, 1607-1788...
...Abe Belsky, secretary, and Jean Cornell, Roger Cornell, Sol Sholes, Herman and Sadie Rlvkln, Elisabeth Smith, Barnet Sokoloff, Emll Bromberg, Anna Weiss, Minnie Weisberg, Dr...
...Fleeing to his Alabama plantation, his debts were mount* ing and the crop was burning up...
...The following active Socialists of Brooklyn comprise the drive committee: B. C. Vladeck, chairman...
...The evolution of Christian views in the hands of the ruling class shows how religion, shaped by the economic interests of slave owners, was adapted to serve the material Interests of that class...
...scenes from De Mllle's epic "The Ten Commandments...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 3