While the Government Acts As Doctor for the Railroads
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Joseph E. Cohen While the Government Acts As Doctor for the Railroads How About Workers, Farmers, Unemployed, Half-Employed, and the Rett of Us?—Does Business Want a Nunc or a Doctor? JN...
...We orly swerve From tinsel gods to gods of cheaper stuff I Thun tinsel ever was, and brag, anc bluff j And on our knees, grubbing in muck and mire Prate of intelligence, and ancestors Not all fat porkers...
...Atterbury is proposing is *h»t tho units of capital in the struggle for control be lumped Into Ugger masses...
...Teuchers have been unpaid for over year...
...For ndesd...
...A big dent has been put nto th-"doctor's mandate" in Britain and France...
...T'e total income of this country for last year was h',i per cent below 1929 The Reconstruction Finance Corpora :on has spent its th.c...
...billion dollars in trying to fatten jp i Uing business, thereby exhau.-iting it-f-elf without stopping the decline...
...Walter Edwin Peck...
...It should consolidate the roads into very few systems...
...Nurse and Doctor Each wants only such intention as will make it fit to figM again...
...Mount rifle, ride—we are a feeble crew And used to easier living...
...Fit medicine the tope, And ho an end...
...we are dumb...
...A thorough cleansing by heavy taxation, restricted diet without profits, then plenty of exercise with democracy ir industry alone can put the nation right...
...Quarters, halves and dollars will save the building and its meaning for-us...
...sinking patient, along came doctors from abroad to inject interna lional complications against recovery...
...On that score, no poor cobwebs will gather in Government offices...
...How much they will weep for the woes of the Fox la another matter, . . Well, here's wUning yoa good luck, Upton, If only for the cause of bigger and better reading among Congressmen...
...But now it is sick, very sick...
...which knocked him out...
...hus not been kindly received elsewhere...
...Hell have me whooping for it if hs keeps up the barrage...
...Small competitors ruin each other or are swa'lowed up by bigger business...
...Weekly my mail -sceives some sort of note about how the book is taking In the sticks...
...the stopgap of Rooseveltian liberalism will do . ome-thing to keep the barricades from springing up all over the i land...
...Perhaps there is a poetic prophecy In that constant smile of 'Gene's...
...Doctoring capitalism Is ,iew a full-time job...
...What Mr...
...For the price of individualist industry is self-destruction — or change into a more trustified form of capitalism...
...It could refuse to stop until their marvelously productive labor It fully applied to the vast resources of the land to provide all with growing abundance...
...WHOSE IS THAT SHADOW BROODING IN THE WOOD...
...Medicine cannot help at y too much because the patient keeps 1 doing the very thinj...
...Conscience, or mind, or power, and to all art Save of finance (why save it...
...Office help are in like straits...
...Fit targets for an Aristophanes We croak a Harlem tune, nod thus and thus, Or snore away the time...
...From the sickroom there is a continuous call for hot wa'.e.- bottles, i pills, poultices, purges, broth, sleeping potions and oxygen...
...It wanted to be left alone...
...And now let's go and cool Our throats at Jake's new place, stop at Loree's And take a whirl—she has a radio-That song last night, say, Tom, Itow did it go...
...This week's effort ia really interesting...
...Pretty Low...
...A people sunken, calloused, grown Quite numb To linnet's cries and children's...
...And still this I is just the moment to keep ourselves well in hand, and our ' revolutionary standards alpft, I The Hand School of Social Science is in grave danger of financial collapse...
...The depression has depressed the ueager resources of that have loyally and unstintingly furnished the wherewithal to keep it going through the yeari...
...I Upton, with his-usual nose for the appropriate In piopa-ganda, writes the librarfan that he is sending ever^ Con| gressman and Senator a copy of the book...
...It so happens that Class I railroads lost more than one hundred and fifty-three million dollars last year...
...I Are hardly to be found among us, free J hi soul, faithful to Liberty...
...Who can hope Or who prescribe...
...We'd hang him, « we could, Over again—the wild, ungoverned fool I W'ftO;0ot the necktie party...
...Gorged with unearned billions, the system ;s tied up in a knot...
...Now it is even ready to wipe out its own debts hy inflation...
...Time is still too shy to be with us...
...The octopus May yet consume us—we will not resist...
...So it is throwing itself right into the lap of its dear paternalistic Government...
...Until the Government has a mind to be so complete in its treatment there will be a Tig and groaning and suffering...
...Come, comrades, it is our common fight...
...If a pheasant whirs Sudden above the wheat, if start art bright Or dim, we mind not...
...T'HK revolution still refuses to appear around the corner...
...Foreclosure, bankruptcy, and all the other pretty ogres of our system .cer at the portrait of 'Gene Debs in the Debs Auditorium, and hit smile of hope and courage still persists...
...Just when it seemed rottK-thlng might be started here to prop th...
...The me real valuo I expect out of this generous act Is that our aw-makers may go out on a reading spree...
...and they mind not us...
...JN these day's steady jobs are so rare that those who hold them are described as "the new rich...
...Everybody should help...
...Its hillf are not being paid...
...And yet the work of the school could do kept going on, were it not for the money-lenders who demand their piece of mortgage flesh...
...He would have the Governme'.' control wages as well as lates It should assist in long-term financing...
...At once the countiv slid out of bed off the gold standard If the consultation in different languages did not help here, there is the satisfaction that it...
...By Joseph E. Cohen While the Government Acts As Doctor for the RailroadsHow About Workers, Farmers, Unemployed, Half-Employed, and the Rett of Us?—Does Business Want a Nunc or a Doctor...
...There Is no greater defeat our cause could suffer than the loss of the School...
...That would be o shining example for business to forget its obligations to the Government or to meet them with easy mrney...
...Perhaps the hundreds of thousands In the land will respond to the present campaign for $17,000 to save the school, and the Rand School will > granted a new lease of life for its precious use to Socialism...
...It bribed the old political parties to keep the Government, out of business—except to take care of tariffs, corporation laws, anti-labor legislation, use of the military and court action...
...When capitalism was engaged in riotous living, it would have nothing to do with thj icdical profession...
...But in that respect other business is no better off...
...Atterbury asks for plenty...
...Without heart...
...For its part, the Government ha-been handling industry in its charity ward...
...So wherefore fuss J Over this bo...
...Actually, of course, industry prefers the Government to be its pretty nurse and not its frowning physician...
...At our school j They taught us that...
...The Congressional Library at Washington complains that the book fs so much j In demand that a few more copies would be welcome...
...What each business occupying a hospital cot i." after is to be got ready to take another whack at every other competitor who is anywhere around in the building...
...Our Government' could begin with and for them...
...We cannot afford to allow this institution to become * sorry casualty in the bitter struggle...
...So to you, Poet unborn, adieu We must renew Our cards at Peter's—there the wine is good And beer it better, and he gives nt food...
...Pitch in, heav,e ho, everybody 1 . . . Send your contributions to ths Emergency Fund of the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street, New York City . . . today...
...And it should appoint a coordinator to handle the whole situation...
...No, poet, die in the womb, unwanted birth In this dank burial ground, this swale of earth Men call America, where apes ind loons Shoulder with swine, and buzzards and buffoons Cumber the ground, and darken all the sod ' I With their broad bulks...
...Sinclair Makes the Solans Read By S. A DeWitt ADVICE TO AN UNBORN POET TPH/S is an age, dear child, that will not serve * A poet for his public...
...Upton Sinclair is the persistingest fellow on his 'William Fox" book you ever heard tell of...
...Speaking for the railroads, Mr...
...That were too tedious A labor...
...Meanwhile the Government i ia quite neglecting the real v'ctim« of the evil practice of our economic system—the thirteen millions of unemployed, the mtllionn more working on short hours, the millions of Impoverlsted faimers and the millions more of other pursuits in uncertainly and distress...
...We don't mind—away with us...
...LOOKS LIKE JOHN BROWN'S...
...THE CHATTERBOX Now Is the Time tor All of Us to Come to the Aid mi the .School...
...Sure enough, that is just abou' what the administration has been thinking—and will get done...
...One Ruch thrown against another means worse clashes and greater damage to the nation...
...They feel very low...
...Many mlckels make a muckle...
...at I've remarked here before, the book certainly allows itself to be read...
...A doxev men, by God...
...But that would not be enough to make the patient well...
...For the Federal authority, at least, there is a permanent job in doctoring business...
...There's not a man among us can clench fist...
Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 19
