Army and Navy Are Worried; Well, So Are the Housewives
Lee, Algernon
Army and Navy Are Worried; Well, So Are the Housewives By Algernon Lee THE Secretary of War r* alarmed. So is the Secretary of the Navy. Not by the news that Germany is re-arming, that Japan...
...The average mind is not altogether stagnant...
...Rouget de Lisle...
...On less than this, they declare, the men cannot be given enough plain but wholesome food to keep up their health and strength...
...Our Democratic state govern* ment has its share of responswE ity...
...forgetfnl of the sword aad torch and guillotine, which hsve made ^P^t^^y ^(^••^sTsj oX blood xft the eyes of nations...
...More than half a century later his nephew, Napoleon III, who feared the masses as much as his uncle had hated them, made the playing of the Marseillaise an offense against the Second Empire, and in its stead he adopted as the national anthem the sickly-sweet sentimental song, "Partant pour la Syrie" written by his mother, Queen Hortense...
...He was there" morning and evening As a son and brother...
...It was not explained why it would not pauperize a general, a judge or a President's widow...
...therex is no Secretary of Housewifery in the President's i Cabinet to force the thing upon the attention of Congress and get something done about it...
...This action was taken by the Federated Trades Council last wast on a motion introduced by Local 998 of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway aal Motor Coach Employees of America...
...The movement is provokingly slow, and it is no wonder you become impatient— but it does move...
...Social-democrat iq~ue.' Sunq in Other Lands And in England and Italy, Austria and the Scandinavian countries the Socialists thundered the Marseillaise at all their great demonstrations...
...Nazi stupidity is simply the old Junker stupidity bearing the swastika label...
...This is possible because the masses in general are not accustomed to subjecting the Long and Coughlin proposals to a critical examination...
...Hymn Brings Tears In this state of lofty inspiration he went to sleep with his head upon the instrument...
...The family loved the young officer and gave new inspiration to his heart in its-attachment to music and poetry, and the ladies were in the habit of assisting, by their performances, the early conceptions of bis genius...
...De Lisle lived to be 76, and he later published many songs, none of them important...
...They are in business solely for profit...
...A slight movement forward may be seen in the average mind's reaction toward old age pensions...
...Most people favor them now...
...At the first stanza the countenances of the I company grew pale...
...The chants of the night came upon him in the morning like the faint impressions of a dream...
...New York's Solas Tax Here in New York City our Fueion administration has played its part...
...This station has isfasai to sell labor time, bat has #ejp» mitted the Law and Order League to launch vicious attacks oa the organized labor movement pa an time...
...The 'bouse of Diedrich was rich at the...
...THE GOVERNMENT'S SILVER POLICY •"THE silver policy of the government should sober the <l money, Clanks who think that some solution of the "money problem" will bring satisfaction to workers and farmers...
...Its frugal table had always a hospitable plane for...
...Only a few years ago, their reaction was quite different...
...The Marsellaise is still, however, widely used by Socialists everywhere except in France and Russia...
...The wife I of the patriot mayor was not up yet...
...Both silver and gold are commodities, their values fluctuating the same as other commodities...
...Den Bakn, der kiihnen, jolyen wir Die una gefiihrt Lassalle...
...The Administration has deliberately set out to restrict agriasa tural production...
...The following interesting article appeared in the Los Angeles Social Democrat, a paper published by the California Socialist Party and edited bv Chester M. Wright, on July 12th, 1913...
...Let us not, for that matter, blame Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Lehman and President Roosevelt...
...At the same time, in admitting the human deficit of the millions of jobless, he hinted that the program of spending billions to get the unemployed back to work must eventually come to an end...
...But this right must be subordinate to "human rights...
...In many other cities and some states this same vicious tax at making their lot harder to bear...
...He sang altogether and wrote nothing...
...Except the reference to property, and that is safe for capitalism, one may read anything into the other words and phrases...
...The soldiers and sailors are not going to go hungry...
...Last year the government allowed 32...
...Don't Dame the Capitalists Let us not blame the capitalists...
...And, in fetfe it helps them far less than it hate, the speculators and dealers asm stand between the farm and tat city home...
...It frankly declaresKthstJ§ purpose is to force up the pries of farm produce...
...Not by the news that Germany is re-arming, that Japan and Great Britain are building battleships, that France ._ and Russia have IBaSpBi nearly d o u b led the size of their ^k 1 armies, that all |MR|a||jJ the little boys 1^0;**^^^ in Italy are bejJtm iRg drilled and •"**§ taught the mania| K^l ual of arms, so ^^^M' I that at the age '^eK-'^saiePB of fifteen they t^BL ¦ will be fit to go !^BB5BBES into the frontline trenches...
...Beef is now going up, they allege, at an average rate of a cent and a half each week The Women Know All About It Housewives who do their own marketing know about all this...
...i Let the mayors and governors, tat i law-makers of oity, state, and mV > tion, and the Chief Executive hiav < self, hear the victims' voices, est i in humble complaint but ia a chorus of clear and emphatic pretest and demand—let that indignant chorus spread and swell, sad it will be heard end heeded, and the price-raising policies will be reversed...
...He asserted that "many million more people" have work today than one year or two years ago, that every day "offers more chances for work" and that "unemployment remains a serious problem...
...The regulation not meant to keep the price dsstfl for the benefit of the urban eaSj sumers, but to keep it up—ostensibly for the benefit of the farav ers, but in effect injuriously %j them and very profitably for tin middlemen...
...But the appearance is deceptive...
...So little does the average human mind move, that is has the appearance of -a stagnant pool...
...The sales tax deesnfl affect feed, indeed, bat it daatjl feet clothes and shoes and hatagBJ kitchen utensils aad household fan*' nishings and all sorts of other necessaries...
...Rouget de Lisle, author and composer of the song, was born in Lons-le-Saulnier in May 10th, 1760...
...Over a period of years you can detect it...
...We cannot expect them to d* otherwise, unless the masses d*. mand it...
...All the revolutionary movements of Europe adopted the Marseillaise as their song...
...Likewise of unemployment insurance...
...De Lisle himself, proscribed as a federalist, heard it re-echo upon his ears as a threat of death, as he fled among the paths of Jura...
...Nothing is known of the authorship of the article: * * * Composing the Hymn JIOUGET DE LISLE was a young officer of engineers at Strasbourg...
...That is no civilized way, no heman e way, no honest way to hah) the working farmers...
...and makes the French man in bis exile cry, "La belle France...
...He wrote down the words, made the notes of the music and ran to Diedrich's...
...Unfortunately, many poor devils are lured by this precisely because any meaning can be read into Coughlin s address...
...Worst of all, however, is WSjl the Roosevelt Administration WU done on a national scale...
...Glory and crime, victory and death seemed woven in its strains...
...It actually pay* farmers for raising smaller crest and for destroying crops si ready grown...
...Of the jobless he said, "it is obvious that we cannot continue to create governmental deficits for that purpose year after year/* One gets the impression that this program implies one huge tug to pull the stricken economic system out of the ditch...
...So long as the mass** vote to continue the capitalist system, ! the profit motive will dominate tap business men's minds...
...He is also against Communism, Hitlerism, fascism "plutocratic individualism" and "immoral capitalism...
...Let us have it and we'll j drink to liberty and the country...
...It is simply an appeal to the emotions of human beings in distress...
...We state these facts foT your encouragement...
...We are not certain, but we rather believe the average person would also sanction socialized health service...
...He was cautious and avoided figures regarding the number of unemployed and how many he expected would be employed...
...THE NAZI BULLY " I "HE German ruling class throughout its history has * been especially apt in the art of stupidity, if it can be called an art...
...No one, until they themselves organize and make their protest heard in the highest quarters...
...It became the song of the First Republic, only to be outlawed by the first Napoleon...
...the black night flies," instead of "Behold their tears and hear their cries...
...If it does not revive capitalist production in general, if those who find jobs are sent back to the relief rolls when the public funds have been exhausted, what then...
...Its strring words, its flaming music, its glorious and unconquerable spirit, swept Revolutionary France like wildfire, and it soon became the most popular song of the revolutionists, quickly displacing for first place such songs as Ca Ira and the Carmagnole...
...The country is ca, pable of producing all the food the people need, and far more...
...La Marseilles," replied the peasant...
...You who suffer from the rising ' cost of living, the %-emedy is Is 1 your hands...
...The army allowance has been raised to 3TA cents...
...He relieved the tediousness of garrison life by writing verses and indulging a love of music...
...If what they do injures the masses, it's just to* bad...
...These statements are so cautious that his opponents will have difficulty in quoting them against him in the campaign next year...
...The young ladies applauded the proposal...
...And alas...
...Great Britain has attempted to follow a neutral course between France and Germany, and now Hitler's resumption of submarine building is like a blow in the eyes to Great Britain...
...He was a frequent visitor at the house of Baron de Diedrich, a noble Alsatian of the constitutional party, the mayor of Strasbourg...
...Other kinds of goods too are becoming dearer—not so rapidly, but enough to make the problem graver still...
...The editor said it was discovered by a Los Angeles resident in a book purchased by her parents 35 years previously...
...said to De Lisle, ia aad lafe^*':' -V»:.- ¦:«T,M53afitw^Si;i&'' serenity, "Plenty is not found at ; our meals...
...For them, buying in small quantities, the problem is much harder than i it is for the army and navy...
...He did not himself know which came first...
...You could tell them that retired generals, retired judges and widows of deceased Presidents got big pensions, that a general is of no more importance than a shop worker, that a judge is of no more importance than a farmer, that a President's widow is of no more importance than a workingman's widow, that those who do the useful work should be the first to be pensioned,' and that If anyone should do without pensions it should be the generals, the judges and the Presidents' widows who are well-to-do and do not need them—but, so askew was the average mind that the average man threw up his hands and exclaimed that an old age pension would pauperize a factory worker...
...There is no excuse for such a ' condition . It is not due to natural causes...
...A famine prevailed at Strasbourg in the winter of 17*2...
...at the second tears flowed abundantly at the...
...The average mind has abandoned that ridiculous position...
...Long in Des Moines and Coughlin in Detroit last week said nothing that could be reduced to a clear idea...
...Maybe you won't believe it, but that is exactly the species of absurd argument we had to meet, only ten years ago, when we were contending for old age pensions...
...But who is going to arrange things for the millions of housewives who are breaking their heads over the question whether to cut down the family's food supply or to let the children go without needed shoes or clothes or to forget the landlord and take the chance of a dispossess warrant...
...it endears the memory of She V.ne-dreseer*s cottage...
...By John M. Work IT is always encouraging when you can detect a slight movement of the average human mind— provided it is not a backward movement...
...He found his way to his lodgings, entered his solidary chamber, and sought for inspiration at one moment in the palpitations of his citizen's heart and at another bytouching as an artist, the keys of his instrument, and striking out alternately portions of an air and \ giving utterance to poetic thoughts...
...To force their prices up is to mac* it harder for the half-employe* and ill-paid masses of * ni I ha people to feed and clothe ftijfl selves and their children...
...it was impossible for him to separate the words from ! the music, or the sentiment from the words in which it was clothed...
...Whatever else was mentioned in this radio address, it is of minor importance compared with this vast human deficit which, if not wiped out, is likely to bring another financial catastrophe that will make the bank holiday in March, 1933, a pleasant vacation in comparison...
...One of its "great achieve, meats" is that of regulating ta* price of milk...
...He died at Choisy-le-raji June 26, 1836...
...Alas...
...Responsible officials say that the actual cost now figures out to 50 cents per man per day on land and a few cents ¦ more at ses...
...Naval officers say that meat costs more than twice what it did a year ago...
...There is always a way to arrange these things...
...It amounts to only a fewcents on each purchase, as a ruhw But it fans most heavily on tsgZ who have to purchase ia sssSaV quantities, and who can leeevjl ford even those few cents afS time...
...But that does not halfway meet the need...
...It has been deliberately brought about, either because . our Democratic and Republican officials and law-makers do not know any better or because they do not , care what the people suffer, if only they can serve the business interi ests...
...What worries them is the rise of food prices...
...The "Marseilles" was the liquid fire of the revolution...
...That carries with it the ownership of industries, banks, etc...
...One d*y when only some slices of ham smoked upon the lahli...
...Its notes floated like an ensign, dipped in warm blood, over a field of combat...
...He was born at Lonsle-Saulnier, in the Jura, a country of re very and energy, as mountains commonly are...
...De Lisle's head and heart were warm...
...The hymn of the nation w-as found...
...He would protect the masses from "greed" and "exploitation" and would secure to all the "application of the principles of social justice...
...Diedrich awoke her...
...Diedrich, his wife and the young officer cast themselves into each other's arms...
...By forcing up the price of silver the American government is bringing misery to China because Chinese merchants have increasing difficulty in obtaining credits...
...it does move slightly...
...Viva Republik...
...Bat farm prodaet means food and clothing materials...
...As if this were not had aMHK the Roosevelt "recovery plan" sat only permits but requires manufacturers, wholesalers, Jobbers) commission men, retailers, to organize for the purpose of pushing prices up and keeping them Bp...
...it was destined to become a -hymn of terror...
...And in Belgium the Socialists sang a Marseillaise ending...
...Just within the last four months, army officers tell us, ham has risen four cents on the pound,, pork and sausage five cents, veal six cents, bacon five cents, poultry eleven cents...
...Hence it took the name of the Marseilles Hymn...
...Only in France, where the Third Republic adopted the great revolutionary song aa' its official anthem, did the Socialists refrain from using it as their own, aad from France came the Internationale, by common consent considered the official song of the Socialist movement...
...Of course, it is not food prices alone that are going up...
...It distilled into the senses and the soul of the people the frenzy of battle...
...But, without blaming anybody, • it is possible to combat the Off...
...The Story of the Marseillaise POR three quarters of a century tlie Marseillaise, the national anthem of the Third Republic of France, has been sung by Socialists and played at great Socialist demonstrations...
...One of the young ladies played and Rouget sang...
...Mayht it has been done with good intention.-, but the road to hell is paSB with intentions just as good...
...Coughlin was only clear in supporting "the right of private property...
...He explained his program, the expenditure of billions of dollars to take the jobless from the relief rolls and employ them on public works...
...It was with difficulty that he escaped...
...Capitalism is commodity production and the basis of its money is gold or silver, both commodities...
...The German workers sang, as they were driven from their meeting halls by Bismarck's police, the Workers' Marsellaise, concluding with the words: Niekt zaklen wir den Feind, Nickt dig Gefahren alf...
...The shortage in millions of homes is man-made...
...But even during the Second Empire the Marsellaise was sung in the clubs and secret meeting places of the workers who prepared for the day When the tyrant would be overthrown...
...They brought the wine and continued to fill the glasses of Diedrich and the young officer until the bottle was empty...
...The outlook for peace in Europe IT DOES MOVE...
...What is this song- called...
...last a delirium of enthusiasm broke forth...
...cents per man per day for the purchase of food for soldiers, and 42 cents for sailors...
...Da Lisle Flees The old mother of De Lisle, a loyalist and a religious person, alarmed at the reverberation of her son's name, wrote to him, "What is the meaning of this revolutionary hymn, sung by hordes of robbers who pass all over France, with which our name is mixed up...
...of enemies arryund Germany, a chain more complete than the Junkers faced in 1914...
...And, of course, all these oSjM»V ists, big and little, do not mis* say opportunity to raise prices, especially on the prime necessaries of life, which everyone needs, which everyone must buy if be possibly can, even at the cost of al'MyB the comforts and modest luxuries and cultural good* that make lilt really worth living...
...Its members remind one of the thickhead bully who again and again makes himself a nuisance and expresses surprise in not being accepted as a nice fellow...
...X , The sew song, executed seme days after war d publicly at Strasbourg, flew from town to town through all the orchestras...
...Algernon Lee No, thst is not what disturbs our Army and Navy Departments...
...by a company of exiles or executed SJT a band of mmiriaas, w i thout fee> ing that it Is the pfbrnaoh af Hearst, MacFadden : Placed on Unfair lift By Milwaukee Labor MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The owes **• movement here has placed the Hearst and MacFadden publications ; on the unfair list because of their "Fascist and un-American sctivi¦ ties...
...Will it be a plunge into wild inflation, with its orgy of speculation as prices soar, and millions stripped of what little resources they have...
...The average man and the average woman are heartily in favor of old pensions now...
...In 1886, on the occasion of a monster demonstration in London, William Morris marched at the head of the hosts of Socialists and trade unionists singing the Marseillaise...
...THE PRESIDENT FACES TWO DEFICITS "COR the first time since early last January President * Roosevelt was heard on a nation-wide hookup last Sunday night...
...In the terrible year 1792 "eight hundred Marseillais who knew howto die," as Carlyle put it, marched into Paris with revolutionary fervor in their hearts and on their lips the song that" was worth more to the Revolution than an army corps...
...it does move slightly...
...Diedrich...
...The Mexican government has suspended the circulation of silver and India is likely to take some action...
...Nor esa «a* foreigner lists* to it sane...
...The resolution states that The Hearst Press and MacFadden Publications have been leading the attacks against labor and have bets propagandizing against all forms of liberal thought and academic freedom, which policy indicates the growing reaction which soon limits, restricts, and even abolishes Sat right of criticism of extant social political and economic institutiags and leads to dissolution and sappression of trade unionism aad Opposition to working class polities...
...with a supply'of is sip hi ail...
...A Socialist society will abolish commodity production and jHfTfihraot be troubled with the commodity basis of the exchange of goods...
...It was while he was an officer of engineers in the French army stationed at Strasbourg in the winter of 1792 that he wrote and composed the song, originally "The Song of the Army of the Rhine...
...It accompanied warriors to the field and victims to the scaffold...
...They called together some friends who were, like themselves, passionately fond of music, and able to execute the composition of De Lisle...
...The idea in this country ia to remonetize silver, but in doing so it is likely to demonetize it in countries with a silver standard, as it will be profitable to melt the silver and sell it aa a commodity...
...Not a case of "still waters run deep," for it is shallow...
...while the court composer, Jules Offenbach, cleverly bootlegged a few strains from the hymn into his operetta "Orieo," a political joke that was as much appreciated by the masses as it annoyed the tinsel Emperor...
...Each for all and a grunt for each" might -well be the slogan...
...They believe in capntaHaa and act accordingly...
...The unhappy Diedrich a few months afterward marched to the scaflbld at the sound of the notes first uttered at his own hearth, ffeom the heart of ms friend aad QseVoiee of his wife...
...Strasbourg will soon have a patriotic fete, and De Lisle must draw from these last drops one of his hymns that will carry his own j ardent feelings to the soul of the 1 people...
...Marseilles adopted it to be sung at the opening and adjournment of the clubs...
...Sum all this up and what does it mean...
...he inquired of his guide...
...But no matter, enthusiasm is not wanting at our civic I festivals, and our soldiers' hearts I are full of courage...
...HUEY AND CHARLEY HUEY LONG and Father Coughlin appear to have a considerable following...
...He found him in the garden, digging winter lettuces...
...parties and unemployed organisations...
...The public debt must reach a limit some time...
...The British version contains the words, "The day is here...
...The night was cold...
...There is no national air that will compare with the Marseillaise in sublimity and power: it embraces the soft cadences full of the peasants' home, and the story .clangour of silver end steel when an empire H overthrown...
...The necessary food will be purchased, and if this year's appropriations are exhausted, Congress will make deficiency appropriations...
...This action follows closely on s protest lodged by the Trades Council against the renewal of tie bcense of WISN, Hearst radio station here...
...beginning of the revolution, bat had now become poor -under the calamities and sacrifices of the time...
...The government has forced up the commercial price of silver...
...We have one 1 mere bottle of Rhine wine in the i cellar...
...Hi^aaciion means the forging of the final link in the chain...
...It was the song of patriotism, but it was the signal of fury...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 18
