TIMELY TOPICS

...LefTingwell and, Mr...

...Capitalism is more than a means to an end...

...Some of them, like Mr...

...Verily, if the business manauthor is not the noblest work of God, he is not the least interesting...

...They rationalized their own acts in terms of patriotism and ethics, but the mainspring of those acts lay in the fact that they were bankers for the Allies...

...If the Administration wants the people to overlook the fact that its Secretary of the Treasury is closely tied up with the Morgan group it will have to show a greater zeal than it has as yet displayed In the proper revision of the income tax laws...

...The latter is a Cleveland manufacturer who believes that his experience qualifies him to write on employment...

...Prof...

...Some Business Posies By Ben Blumenberg BALANCED EMPLOYMENT...

...By Arthur U. Sehleeinger...

...Macmillan...

...Dwight L. Moody was roaring that "The Bible was not made to understand," and Bob Ingersoll hurled barbed shufts at devout believers...

...Some of them, like Mr...

...MaemiUan...

...So long as they or any other group of bankers are allowed to finance war or the emperialism that leads to war, sooner or later that group will find some slogan under which to make the sons of the workers fight to guarantee their investments...

...A committee, consisting of playwrights and dramatic critics, together with rank and file members will constitute the judges, and prizes will be presented to the teams that are first, second and third...

...It is the League, by the way, rather than any Monroe Doctrine or Pan-American Congress, which seems to be bringing peace between Peru and Colombia...

...He is another broad-visioner pleading for "economic personality": a sort of combination of Eddie Guest and Ivy Lee with an economic message...

...Go if you can...

...We were right about the War, right about the Peace of Versailles, right in demanding the recognition of Russia, right in denouncing the War Debts and Reparations, right in our opinion of the false prosperity of the Coolidge epoch, right about the general breakdown of the older Capitalism...

...Yet we find this firm of private bankers quick to take advantage of every way of escape provided by an outrageous income tax law which their influence had helped to make the unjust thing it is...

...Value," says he, "is a belief...

...It is an end' in itself...

...Every YPSL circle and Young Circle League club, Pioneer Youth, L.I.I), and Young Poale Zion club will be asked to enter...

...It makes the Govern, meat a partner in cultivating intemperance for the sake of profit The overwhelming vote for repeal in state after state is proof enough of the folly of prohibition...

...the field of public utilities...

...On everyone of his 320 pages he vociferously answers "yes" to each question that he raises...

...BOOKS IN BRIEF Two Changing Decades By James Ones...

...Members of the group will be required to write a one-act propaganda play to last not more than fifteen minutes, and the group will produce it themselves...

...Income Tax Laws IT is a monstrous thing that at the precise moment * when we have testimony showing the ease with which the rich evade an income tax law drawn for their benefit the Administration should give its blessing to an income tax which increases the basic rate and thereby decreases the spending power of those of moderate means who cannot creep out of tax paying by ownership of tax exempt bonds or by writing off capital losses after the fashion of big financiers...

...Gilbert, have gone straight from Government service to its employ...

...The crisis of the relief situation lies ahead rather than behind...

...Out of the religious ferment emerged Ethical Culture while the old proletarian Baptist sect was being seduced by the lure of wealth...

...By Norman Thomas TIMELY TOPICS Every week Norman Thomas writes in his pungent style his own comments upon the salient events of the moment The Truth Comes Out IT is, perhaps, part of ie silver lining of the dark cloud of this terrible depression that it has created a condition under which we can find oat something' of the doings of those who have been chief among the real rulers of America...

...Its partners supposedly have been patriots and leading citizens...

...Those who employ him as a guide will not regret it...

...A striking contribution to an understanding of the unemployment situation is made by the author in the form of a chart which totals the "the undesirable unemployed who do not want and would not work if they had the chance without making trouble...

...Bills offered by the three Senators have been presented in the Senate to provide for the expenditure of a billion dollars, if plans now under consideration by the authors of the bills and the Secretary of Lsbor can be agreed upon...

...These performances will be arranged for by the local party, YPSL, W.C., Unemployed or Trade Union organizations or combinations of all of these...

...KitMiller...

...namely, the extent of the power of the House of Morgan ir...

...For more of this evidence, as it affects not only the House of Morgan but other private bankers, we may confidently look...

...We Told You So...

...The changing atatus of woman and the family, education, religion, journalism, letters and the arts are the main themes treated, and one who has lived through these two decades will be impressed with the author's skill in recreating a vanished world...

...These financiers were not conscious hypocrites...

...They might be increased even in the lowest brackets to avoid a sales tax, but only after the loopholes for the rich have all been stopped and after the surtax rates have been sharply raised...

...Business...

...It, and the interests it symbolizes, were the leading forces that put us into the World War...

...That means to build up organization and to push the Continental Congress...

...They let in their friends on what was or what they thought was a good thing like any shyster broker...

...It is very well for the United States to agree, in carefully guarded terms, to consult other nations, upon what action should be taken against an aggressor nation...

...In si American program for sound international relations, settlement of the war debts, lowering of tariffs, disarmament and the recognition of Russia are all more important than joining the League, But if we are going as far as Mr...

...Popular sects like the Baptists abandoned their contempt for wealth" and in 1890 "the Indiana state Baptist convention 'thankfully recognized the rich blessing of the Great Head of the Church in the recent gift of Brother John D. Rockefeller to the Baptist Seminary in Chicago.'" One Chicago clergyman conceived of heaven as a glorified Palmer House while many laborites regarded the current religious output as "a sort of capitalistic soothing tyrup...

...the exuberant wets: Blanket repeal is net going to solve the liquor problem...

...The book is a fine addition to our social and cultural history and the author, like a guide, leads us into so many niches of the changing social order that it is Impossible to follow him everywhere In s review...

...I do not know a better way now of building up organization than to make the Socialist Summer Schools a big success...

...They did not discriminate between political parties in picking friends who might be useful to them...

...Nevertheless, let me warn...

...Four more will complete the series...

...Not even Mr...

...Value is an activity," a few more posies plucked from the author's economic nosegay...

...Incidentally, their judgment of what might be good things was no better than the judgment of some shyster brokers...

...H70RLD events ought to offe^ a good cure to any " Socialist who may be suffering from an inferiority complex...

...Hence the necessity for us to press on...

...Not the use but the misuse of capitalism is what ails the world according to Mr...

...It is bad Set cialism and bad sense for Socialists to cheer for blanket repeal as if they had no different principles than Al Smith...

...is a cooperative effort of men in relations...

...TO END RACE DISCRIMINATION DOINTING out that under the * present system of Unemployment Relief Negroes are victims of widespread discrimination throughout the country, the National Urban League has asked that liberal-minded citizens address their Representatives and Senators urging the enactment of legislation designed to prevent racial discrimination in the distribution of relief funds made available by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...

...Roosevelt himself would find it politically safe to stop this inquiry too openly...

...WHEN business men start writ . ing books on economics, ghost writers throw their typewriters away...

...Despite the allotment of some two hundred million dollars by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for material and emergency work relief, Negroes especially in the South, according to a recent investigation by the Department of Industrial Relations of the Nstional Urban League, are undergoing Intense suffering and want because of racial prejudices which prevail in that section of the coaatry...

...A Liquor Tax ATAX on hard liquor to be laid as soon as the repeal amendment pases* is aa unworthy beit for repeal and will be a very undesirable substitute for an income tax A liquor tax is a sales tax ef a peculiarly undesirable type...

...Preventing Wars •"PHKSE are daya when lovers of peace must not * jump to the conclusion that peace can be bought at a bargain price or that sentiment can be substituted for good hard sense...

...that is, a nation which invades another country...

...A meeting of groups desiring to participate will be held in the Rand School Saturday, June 3, at f. Social directors are urged to be present...

...Even in its details the portrayal is adequate for thousands of small cities in those two decades, as every reader who has lived in that section will concede...

...There is an undercurrent of economics in the interpretation and here and there a flash that vividly lights up some aspeot of the scene...

...Two informing chapters are devoted to the changing South and West and one on the Changing Church is one of the best that has been written of the period...

...Watch for notices...

...How well the author has recaptured that age and placed it before the reader ia evident on pages 62-68, where he recovers the MidWestern urban community, selecting Xenia, Ohio, as typical of the period...

...Chadwiek has the edge on bromides and cliches...

...This House has always surrounded itself with an air of most eminent respectability...

...Under socialism the wealth that is in London, New York and Tokyo will disappear...

...Lamont, have been patrons of the Walter Lippmann type of liberalism and have served among the models of that "disinterestedness" which he so ramntically praised in hij "Preface to Morals...

...Get well qualified comrades to go...

...Income taxes are better than sales taxes...

...The winning team will be toured through the Eastern States and appear before audiences of workers...

...KixMiller...

...If we are going to come in to consultative pacts for dealing with aggressor nations it would be better for us to join the League of Nations under proper safeguards, ss that we could at least participate in a forum of the nations which has some constructive functions over and above the last-minute prevention of war...

...In most cases it will be far safer for us to refuse to finance or to supply with munitions both belligerents rather than to try to pick the aggressor...

...The average man's religiour beliefs differed little from those who lived in the late colonial period but they were imperiled by Darwinism, Biblical criticism and studies in comparative religion...

...Roosevelt is apparently willing to go in the matter of a concultative pact it will be hard to give a logical reason for staying out of the League...

...But because their friends, like Senator McAdoo and Newton Baker, lost more than they won does not make their transactions right...

...He warns that unless his plan is followed, confiscatory laws may be enacted...

...Neither will the liquor problem be solved by forty-eight states vying with the Pedersl Government for profit out of it In the controversy between wets and drys the Socialist proposal for control of liquor by monopolising its manufacture under a Federal nonprofit making corporation i.nd its sale under state non-profit making corporations is the only proposal in which much hope is to be found...

...THE RISE OF THE CITY, 18781898...

...And it is the League -which finally rendered t tie moral judgment of mankind in the case of the undeclared war of Japan against China...

...It will be criminal folly if we think we can get peace by simply guaranteeing existing .frontiers...

...Yet, however far the inquiry may go, it will not be directed to the gravest harm the House of Morgan did to America...

...It is not in the realm of ideas but of organization that Socialists have cause for humility and searching of hearts...

...Drama Contest Planned Tho Socialist Party of New York, together with Rebel Arts, is planning a drama contest in September, 1933, in one of New York's largest auditorium, to arouse interest among Socialists and sympathetic organizations in the cultural side of the movement...

...Even if the Public Works Bill passes it will not bring enough aid or bring it promptly enough...

...Forced leisure time is against the rhythm of the system: it will not forestall chronic unemployment...

...The criticism of Roosevelt's plans is either that they point toward state capitalism or that, as in the case for relief of unemployment, they are pale copies of Socialist plans and do not go anything like far enough...

...In bis solution he sees nothing that may lessen the income of the capitalists...

...Macmillan...

...I mean, of course, the House of Morgan...

...There is not a single intelligent measure which does not justify our diagnosis A the situation rather than anything the Democratic Party ever said...

...He observes that capitalism is for American business men just as the violin is for Kreisler and that Chicago is the most progressive city in the world because politically it is the worst...

...A letter detailing the situation has been sent to T. Arnold Hill, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the National Urban League, to Senators Robert F. Wagner, Edward P. Costigan and Robert M. LaFollette, and Congressman Oscar De Priest...

...No government can enforce a law concorning personal habits in the face of such contrary opinion among Its citizens...

...Jack Altman is in charge of arrangements for the Rebel Arts snd Socialist Party...

...CAN BUSINESS BUILD A GREAT AGEt By Wm...

...Indeed, his plea for a shorter workday is made to "industrial leaders...

...Less sensational than the evidence about income tax and the list of friends of the Morgan partners but more basically important is the evidence confirming what we long have suspected...

...KixMiller writes the bulkier book of the two, but Mr...

...4 THIS is another volume in the History of American Life series, this one being the eighth...

...By Lee Sherman Chadwiek...

...Schlesinger is mainly concerned with the social and cultural changes of these two decades and devotes only one chapter to political factors and forces...

...Within the twenty-year period it covers, the old agricultural order waa passing and corporate capitalism was emerging...