Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor A FINE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE NEXT WEEK! "T"IIIS week we carry a general survey of the various kinds of fascist '* and near-fascist...
...helps us to carry on for a larger and butter New Lender...
...Heil Fothergil Montmorency Wiggle...
...Don't like that, either...
...California I The comrades in California are going ahead with their sub drive and are doing something more...
...Really, this is embarrassing," he said, as he flicked the ashes from a cigarette...
...Each would enjoy planting his heels upon the necks of millions while he sups at a rich table provided by those who are dictated to...
...The Iaw„must be vindicated...
...John is assured of a "fair" burial...
...What a perverse generation not to appreciate the great minds now governing capitalism...
...Great...
...The descendant of the famous Wiggle family will soon draw upon his vast store of knowledge for the benefit of our readers...
...Each is an abnormal product ol abnormal conditions...
...Then scattered from New York City through the Middle West and to California no less than IB liranches send from C to 7 subs emh, and there are dozens of others who are sending in from one to four...
...Or is the Admiral standing on his head...
...Watch for this article next week...
...A Peculiar Alliance IT is a curious fact that Communists have succeeded in effecting a united front with the lil>eral bourgeois crowd through their organs...
...We'll try to locate his valuables in the exchequer of some big exploiter...
...You said it," said Fothergil...
...Workmen'* Circle Drive We have reported in a previous Issue of the work of the Workmen's Circle branches throughout the country in getting subs...
...Being "poor," the United States took over those nations before they could take us over...
...our representative asked...
...Here is one," said Fothergil, pulling out a battered wallet and extracting a picture...
...The company union is good company for the corporation agents but we prefer good union company just out of spite, so there...
...Don't like it...
...Cheer up: "prosperity" is returning...
...Yes, I am a self-made man," Fothergil replied...
...Observe that I carry with me the scientific equipment which has been so helpful in solving problems...
...Just what is meant by a "quality of life and imagina-" tion" we do not know...
...Plow under cotton so that prices will rise and workers will find it more difficult to buy clothes...
...The New Leader representative inquired...
...Branch 1 of New York City heads the list with 10 subs since the last report, and Branches HI and 14!> come in with 10 each...
...A New Leader representative found Fothergil sitting on a log angling for a mud turtle after having consulted the zodiac in a patent medicine calendar...
...The famous remedy has reliable testimonials as will be seen by the following facts...
...It declares that the "Communist parade had a qWality of life and imagination that the Socialists lacked...
...An editorial in the Nation on the May Day demonstration in New York is typical...
...It is my favorite...
...The Admiral reads them a lecture in the columns of the Herald Tribune...
...Do we have our history right or does the great Admiral stand history on its head...
...number 7«i0 arrives with !<, while numbers 21 and 1,'!8 deliver S each...
...Depression Blues FV» you liave that depression feeling...
...Each would never have been hea^rd of in a normal period...
...Each wants to dictate to others but does not want any other to ¦dictate to hint...
...it is said that Chile reduced her freight rate on Bolivian munitions 50 per cent since the war began and that Argentina has been supporting I'araguay...
...The ( reole Petroleum Cor|>oration and affiliated companies reported for 1933 a net profit of $4,100,099 alter taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization, canceled and surrendered concessions, minority interest and other charges...
...Comes Here Fothergil...
...He was so earnest and he spoke with such profound conviction that our representative was visibly affected...
...Please locate that guy who once owned a home, an account at the savings hank and a car and who was afraid that Socialists were going to make him "divide up...
...Self-made," he repeated to himself...
...This is like a man living a dual life, bearing one name and posing as a godly fellow during the day and at night following the profession of a burglar...
...Each wants to "save the nation" and each has his own colored shirt, his ritual, slogan,.flunkies, half-wits and banner...
...Can you give us the low-down on the depression...
...The "poor" and "weak" United States has had some troubles with Haiti, San Domingo, Nicaragua and other Latin-American nations...
...Yes, Fothergil is modern...
...Woodrow Wilson once said that the "heart of the world" would break if the League was rejected...
...TTIfE League of Nations' commission cm the war between Hoiivia and I'araguay is said to have completed its report which brings out an important phase of the struggle...
...Eventually he ends his career as a Corsican exile or he dangles at the end of a noose prepared by his own followers when they become normal...
...Dictators /VJT in the states the ape-like faculty of imitation is a fad...
...I understand that you have been added to The New Leader staff," our representative observed...
...a little Creole Petroleum, gently applied to the afflicted region, is guaranteed to give instant relief...
...NRA caught a peddler selling a banana under the established price and he was sent to the hoosegow for ten days...
...An Admiral Speaks j^i:ar admiral BRADLEY a. fiske, u.s.n., Retired, is very much disturbed because of the large number of clergymen, peace societies and students who have pledged to resist war...
...Here is a region •where this type of monomania has taken hold of quite a number of people and is encouraged by prominent reactionaries...
...Of course, Socialism would reduce us all to a dull level so we suggest that the jobless and the homeless throughout the country take this subject up as an educational topic...
...We have received the following letter from W. Scott Lewis, chairman of the State Executive Committee: "At the meeting of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of California, held April 14-15, 1934, a motion was tarried designating The New Leader as the official paper of <he Socialist Party of California until such time as a state paper ' an he published...
...Too often the youth have drifted away from the ideals of the labor and Socialist movement, becausfe they do not care to read non-English publications...
...When this thing seeps into city and county buildings and public officials display its literature...
...Well, don't plow it under and let prices remain so low that it doesn't pay farmers to plant...
...The last we heard of him was in Louisiana, where he had pitched his tent on the edge of a swamp...
...To get your dividends doubled in one depression veil should certainly cure the depression blues...
...he smokes cigarettes with an abandon that marks him for the care-free philosopher he is...
...I understand that you are known as a genius," our representative observed...
...Its members now sell arms to warring nations, inflict wounds and then turn doctor...
...I haven't checked all my data yet, but all the evidence so far seems to indicate that it is due to an act of God," Fothergil replied...
...Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin are dictators so we have candidates for the same role...
...L'XTRAI Fothergil Montmorency * Wiggle is on his way to The New Leader and we expect him any week...
...This equaled 59 cents a share on «>.974,35f> shares of $5 per capital stock and compares with $2,075,403, or 30 cents a share in 1932...
...Do you mind if I send a photo...
...Our "faulty human nature" forbids us going into this any further because we are getting dizzy...
...Whoops...
...For War and Peace...
...John Proletarian awaits deliverance by the NRA...
...They wanted to "wrest material" advantage from this country...
...He was communing with the silences, preparing himself for the great work of instructing our readers fftom week to week...
...It is a fine effort, one of the best that has yet been made, and we hope that it will inspire others to go and do likewise...
...Fothergil looked grave and thoughtful when our representative introduced himself...
...Fothergil blushed furiously, stammered, then got a grip on himself...
...It is important for members of the language branches of the party and of sympathetic organizations to have The New Leader come into their homes...
...Sensation...
...As for us, we have no desire to become dictator...
...In 1935 he is reduced to baled hay and pants for another pair of pants...
...Next week we will follow this up with an article by Murray King on the development of fascism in Utah and that section in general...
...Well, the Workmen's Circle branches are coming across fine in this drive...
...In any event, liberalism is attracted by the romantic and spectacular in this movement, it lias a "quality" all its own that appeals to liberali-m...
...Our latest word is that Fothergil may arrive next week...
...It makes clear that the war would not have dragged out so long were it not that nations affiliated with the League "were not selling arms to Bolivia and Paraguay with one hand while trying to mediate with the other...
...It is part of our faulty human nature that poor and amhitious nations wrest material advantages from richer and weaker nations," he writes...
...In 19.34 he still has no job, he is down to the last pair of pants, and he gets $1.97 a week, to keep up his courage...
...You have had an interesting life," said our representative...
...That is the most original interpretation of the causes of war that has ever been presented...
...when the Chamber of Commerce and army posts, some churches and even individuals who at one time called themselves "progressive" or "radical" are enlisting in this ioul offshoot of decaying capitalism, it becomes a serious problem...
...NRA message of good cheer...
...T"IIIS week we carry a general survey of the various kinds of fascist '* and near-fascist organizations active in this country...
...Other ^expressions are of a similar character...
...Colorado The party branch of Fort Collins is using the series we are running on the basic principles of Socialism as a text for a study class which is conducted by B. F. Bickerstaff...
...There is a suggestion for other party branches...
...That was their 'faulty humaa nature" and we must remain armed to prevent the miscreants from gobbling us up...
...Tell your readers I am on my way and will soon be in New York to give them the results of a lifetime of study...
...The NRA announces a code for the undertaker business...
...Just as normal human beings on a raft at sea go mad from lack of food and water, so the dictator and his followers become unbalanced...
...We give it up...
...Thanks I'or this confidence in The New Leader, comrades...
...It may be "literary" or possibly "impressionistic...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 20
