Behind theScenes in Washington

...Yes, every Christmas we hear them again...

...Shabby Generosity After his visit with Daugherty —an amazing episode, incidentally, with Debs permitted to travel alone and without guards from Atlanta to Washington—*be Attorney-General sent Dabs paper* for a pardon...

...The truth is that there wasn't much to kill...

...The warden felt under obligation to him because of the restraining effect Debs' gentle and kindly spirit had on the other prisoners, making easier the task of maintaining discipline and morale in a walled city of criminals,, some desperate and dangerous...

...To Pacify Business There is good reason for putting the ofcV NRA'out of sght and tucking it away safely under the arm . of Secretary of Commerce, Roper...

...Harding, the warm-hearted, did warn the remark about wanting "Gent to eat his Christmas dinner wtt his wfe...

...But Sullivan see* nothinc incongruous in that...

...One dam doesn't even have a lock to let boats through...

...speaking branches of that WW...

...The profits in war stock, soaring high...

...IN arguing the Tennessee Valley * Authority case before the Supreme Court, Government counsel was compelled to take a hypocritical position in an effort to get inside constitutional lines...

...When the, spaces filled in, when the whole story » told, it does not sound so nobis...

...Let's shed some light on our own...

...It consists of the human waste product of American industry, human beings with the wolf-stare of hunger in their eyes, deprived of work and dependent upon the hated alms bag to keep them alive...

...Harding himself hated war...

...Goodwill towards Men...

...Aside from that* he showed himself to be a very"poor sport...

...Dam" the Issue of T.VJk...

...The Consumers' Division was transferred to the Labor Department...

...Forbes, of course, was a crook and Jess Smith was a boob...

...Daugherty, writes Sullivan, recommended that Debs' sentence fee commuted to expire December SI, 1921...

...Harding was net^ • bad man...

...of the Workmen's Circle, in additWa to "taging a New Leader dance and celebration in ceIIDed.ion with its 15th anniversary, has pledged itaelf to add at least 1...

...Daks came, spent a day with DaughnSy in the Attorney-General's office," Mr...

...witll Ute party' and acaiut tIw, .pUtters...

...Either that or admit that they do not know what they axe talking about except to get votes...

...Sullivan's intimate knowledge of what he writes about, and his care in checking up his facts, have given his books a leputation for reliability...

...THE UTOPIANS IT can be safely said that the Socialist movement in new •a countries repeats the Utopian phases of its history...

...It is now reported that the Senate Munitions Committee will have access » these documents and to others from J. P. Morgan «' Company, the fiscal agents for the British Government...

...Workers of the nation...

...OF ACE on .Earth, Goodwill towards men...

...These Jeffersonian ideas fitted into the world Jefferson knew, but they are entirely out of place in our modern world...

...When a movement like ours in the United* States is renewed in organization and members both are certain to repeat this history...

...Then Mr...

...Such use, h* said, transcends mere power development and enters wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, afforestation, elimination of marginal lands, distribution and diversification of industry...

...T^EACE on Earth, Goodwill.towards men...

...The "Happy Warrior" of 1928, the "progressive" who spoke for...

...Before the Presidential campaign closed, however, Smith was heard in Xew York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in support of the Roosevelt ticket, and there was every evidence of joy on the part of the Roosevelt campaign managers...

...That department is one of the few administration agencies which is still on speaking terms with the ¦business world...

...One is reminded of the last**1 judgment of Alice Long*mrJ^» daughter _of -Theodore JUk**** and an intimate of the Hntmm household...

...So tht President-elect, twoweeb before his maugurathh, told Daugherty "he wished m have Debs released...

...himself having very little brainsjfend taring nothing for reforms^He speaks the language of the businessman and dreams the dreams of the shop-keeper...

...The ancient pronouncements of dogma and creed, But when shall we see the heroic deed That brings goodwill and peace from the skies To dwell in men's souls and hearts and eyes...

...Daugherty, on becoming Atom-ney-General, went through informalities requisite to the uw-ance of a pardon...

...Sullivan knew Harding intimately, and he knows Daugherty well, and while he admits that neither man was supremely fit to hold the office he .nore or less adorned in the early 20's (no man, he says, could ever have been as great a Senator as Harding looked), he tells a story so plausible, that one begins to wonder if all the Harding scandals, and the Ohio Gang revelations were not, after all, just a -ypographieal error...

...I will not admit it by signing an application for a pardon.'' "Gene Debs would not save the face *t the Ohio statesmen even to win release from prison...

...GLADNESS glows in the gambler's eye, As he shares with, the broker, brisk and spry...

...Daugherty had a high code of ethics and his devotion to Harding was one of the great friendships of history, ranking with Damon and Pythias, Marx and Engels, Park and Til-t"ord and Van and Cortlandt...

...I It is hinted that this material is likely to show the cash ties between our American exploiters and the great '^rooral crusade," as President Wilson described the world butchery...

...If the Jeffersonians really want to go back to Jefferson, they should advocate the destruction of machinery and great industrial plants and revive the hand-loom, the spinning wheel and handicrafts in the home...

...And for that reason it is interesting as well as important to record something about his latest volume, "The 20's," which has just appeared...

...and then he ordered km to report to Washington bsfsn going home, and it teat sat tan* two days after Christmas thtt Terre Haute gave the Prisoner */ Atlanta the welcome heme of • conquering aero...

...The Division of Review and Division of Business Cooperation and the Advisory Council, as constituted by an executive order issued last June, together^ with all their officers and employes, files, records and equipment, were transferred to the Commerce Department...

...The Sullivan story seems to make sense, and it adds to the noble characters Sullivan appears to be creating for Harding and Daugherty...

...The braadt 18...

...In other words, how much caith can the reader or student nave in any work in which preiu-dices, misstatements and half-truths are known to appear...

...All glory to God on High...

...toy in Wall Street ^HHH^ -—--a_ ti 1 -?39 By atari** A. Lindfeeroh...

...aSl the* they acted like a couple of mmw politicians...

...These words, or to think of the "Holy Child," Of the "Prince of Peace" and of "Mercy Mild," Or to praise the wonderful "Christmas Star" In a world of hunger, injustice, and war...

...This is the basic law which accounts for the unfortunate situation in the Socialist Party of the United States...

...But millions are jobless and helpless still,— But women and children are crying for bread,— (We send them a "Christmas basket" instead) And offer to men and their eager cry For work the insult of charity...

...zation, has launched an in*,'*S drive for New Leader wubf- .jSf members are to be urged^e As a starter seventeen menjbj not yet New Leader sobeem*"* CUM/TmA/ 1955 e OR ACE on Earth...

...It must be primarily an aid to navigation in order to be constitutional...

...Not a "happy warrior," but just a bellyaching sore loser...

...Make it your agency for this purpose in the New Year...

...4 A billion shells that in battle fly...

...are aaaai...

...DEBS BRANCH PLEDGES 1,000 NEW LEADER SUBSCRIBERS ·DE BS Branch...

...in agriculture he wanted a nation of small farmers, self-producers who would also serve as small and regional governing units to check the overlordship of a big government bureaucracy...

...When the order was presented to the President for hit signature, he changed the date to December 24th, saying: */ treat him to eat his Christmas dinner icith his wife.'" That's all you read in the book...

...teAnother form of this immaturity is vagueness...

...He was opposed to capitalism and wanted to keep it on the other side of the Atlantic...

...It is therefore interesting to come to a chapter dealing with the Inside of a story with which I happen to be rather familiar: the release of Eugene V. Debs from Atlanta...

...SO this is the list of what they bug: An orphaned infant's feeble erg, A widowed woman's sob and a sigh, A field of grates where the dead mag lie, A shambles where thousands daily die...

...In many other countries revolution opened up the dirty secrets of imperialist powers...

...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...

...Debs and the Okie Gate...

...in a judicial system which three years later turns up an argument as to whether it was all illegitimate and which compels the Government, after millions have beer, spent, thousands of families movec and the geography of a whole region made over, to go before the highest court in the land and hang by it,s eyelashes on a legal fictioi in a desperate^ effort to save thu whole enterprise from being junked...

...Nothing so illustrates the poverty of thought that goes with immature thinking as this answer...

...Fascist governments have not yet succeeded in forming an alliance, although some of them are approaching it and ere the new year ends, that alliance of this barbaric phase of capitalism may wage war to bring all Europe into a fascist prison...

...Who shares with his broker, brisk and Spry, The profit in tear stocks, soaring high...

...It will be the seventh New Year in the depression period that forecasts have been made of the return to normal, and yet 1936 promises to be the same as the previous six years...

...And then me wonders how much of the "authentic" Sullivan history can ikewis« be corrected in the same way...

...There is something impractica...

...1 Roper gets all the meat and all the gravy left...

...The New Year begins with world industry and world trade still stagnant and tens of millions of workers unemployed throughout the world...

...interpretation, if such an expression is constitutional...

...The "new" is often so old that it is covered with dust of decades of history...

...But that was about all...

...All Europe is poised on a volcano which may explode at any moment and send millions of conscript* to their death...

...Miss Perkins just gets the smell, and not too good a smell either...

...I found him a charming personality with a deep lovi for his fellow man " This is Harry Micsiak Daugherty, hero of the Ohis Goaf and ^instigator of the Red Raid*," smasher of the railway strike, friend of Jess Smith, mmilli •/ Forbes, colleague of William J. Bums, sitting in judgment on Debs...

...At home the politicians in the seats of power continue to muddle through...

...He said the Muscle Shoals plant should be put to work in the service of the people, but that this was only a smal...

...It is made all the more acute because of morbid fears of war and fascism and the continuance of the most fearful depression in the history of capitalism into its seventh year...

...7 he New Leader Book Corner] DEBS IN ATLANTA PENITENTIARY O_ 11 Till 1___mJT B9 • « ' i» By William M. Feigenbaum J70R close to ten years Mark Softivan, editor and political commentator, has been publishing successive volumes of "Our 'rimes,'" a running account: of , nd commentary upon the exciting years through which he has lived and in which he has functioned as a highly-regarded newspaper reporter...

...new subscrihen to The New Leader...

...The author declares that there is much in contemporary history never found in books, newspapers and the other usual sources, and he illustrates with a detailed factual story of the events leading up to the astonishing nomination of Warren G. Harding as President in 1920, giving many sidelights and details that no one could ever have known without having himself been behind the scenes...

...and are eIltb--'-~.-.....L.-->.- , .rite New LNiIIer...

...It seems a pity to destroy this idyllic picture of the uwo warmhearted Ohio statesmen overflowing with sympathy for 'Gene Debs, but certain facts muslT be added to complete it...

...Representing- the Government, Solicitor General Stanley Reed acknowledged that if TVA had been set up primarily to produce power it would be unconstitutional...

...Socialism is your liberator from destitution and servitude...

...But bomb and machinegun are speaking again, And Christian nations are arming to fly \ At the throat of the "Fatherland's enemy," While church-men continue to pray and to cry, "Amen...

...How far the former New York Governor will go in the coming Presidential campaign has not been disclosed, but one thing is sure, he will no longer pretend to be against big business and for the "plain people...

...He is vague because he has not emerged from a Utopian stage...

...Our' leading Socialist writers were always precise...

...It was only after Harding was imp rawed by a gigantic petition signed by virtually every man and waaaa ia Terre Haute and Vigo CotartJ praying for the release ef D*J* that he ordered him freed...

...Is Al Smith a 'Happy Warrior' or Just a Sore Laser...

...Although, in anticipation of the constitutional point, phrases about aiding navigation were stuck into the law, the actual navigation that will be aided by it can be put in your eye...

...Smith fell out with President Roosevelt before the Democratic National Convention of 1932...

...THE NEW YEAR *T*HE New Year is an occasion for the usual drivel fore-* cases of a happy future...

...Sullivan apparently is stable to see the obscenity of a man like Daugherty summoning Eugeat V. Debs to discuss ethical and moral questions, for he quotes the Attorney-General as fellows...

...Nothing illustrates better than this the unreality of our existing procedure, and the need of constitutional reform of constitutiona...

...April 10, 1933, asking for creation of TVA, President Roosevelt mentioned practically everything except navigation...

...Sullivan Whitewashes Harding It is for that reason that Sullivan's virtual whitewash of President Harding, and especially of the notorious Harry M. Daugherty, is likely to carry more weight than any official whitewash from inside party sources...

...of Secialist Party .,.ben, and the...

...Rather of the famous flyer, gallant warrior against war l»l*J HFHIS is the war stock soaring high * That brings all the joy to Walt Street, This is the gambler, wild ef eye...

...Behind theScenes in Washington By Benjamin Meiman Our Washington Correspondent \ 'THI-: XRA, onceojhe, corner stone of Prt*ident Koosj.-1 velt's recovery program, the hope i of the unemployed and the pet i of the Xew Deal, was finally , sent to its grave Monday, when [ the President signed the ¦ Xa¦ tional Recovery Administration's death knell...

...Since the beginning of the depression a marked caste has been created in the United States, a caste as distinct as the untouchables in India...

...In short, he said the Muscle Shoals project lead...

...So Reed, in dead earnest, argued that TVA was primarily an agency to aid navigation...

...When shall our eyes be blest to see ^\ On the day we sing of the "Savior'f Birth" M\ Pease, justice, and honor at home on earth...

...Indeed, "Our Times" has come to be regarded as a historical source Irook and«'is so used in many schools and colleges...

...Very lew powers were left the XRA since the sick chicken decision emasculated the...

...Harding was honest, sincere, de- < ;ent and not very able...

...Under Roper's benevolent care the ghs4t of the blue eagle will not scare but amuse the timid and timorous chambers of commerce, and give them a chance to enjoy the previously promised "breathing spell...

...We talked freely for several hours...

...AT the beginning of this week Washington was electrified by i the announcement that Al Smith ¦ Is to speak at the dinner of the American Liberty League here on January 25...

...the masses against the classes" when he was a candidate, is now joining hands with the most conservative of the "Black Republicans" to defeat Roosevelt because he is too liberal to suit big business...

...blue eagle...

...In his message to Congress...

...J3EACE on Earth, to Men Goodwill...

...a complete river watershed involving many States and the future, lives of millions...

...JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY THERE are Democrats who shout, "Back to the principles of Jefferson" to end the depression,-but they say nothing about the economic philosophy of Thomas Jefferson...

...He has fairly well been unmasked...

...DEACE on_Earth, Goodwill towards men...

...Roper always had very little love^ for the "brain ' truster" and the "reformer...

...He was bitter to the extreme following Roosevelt's nomination...

...There is not a single "new" idea offered by our present Utopians that is not old and some go back to the romantic period or" Marx and Engels before they founded the modern Socialist movement...

...which was sane, thing more than, and different from, a mere detail of tad Socialist creed...

...Of course, that is bosh...

...Tie not so easv to sing again...

...But he kept it a *ap secret...

...part of the potential usefulness of the Tennessee River which could be made available...

...That bring all the joy to Wall Street...

...It tTa he New Leader duce will be held at the People~'-o 7 t 1-5t1t Street, Jaaaary 30th...

...Not so with the Utopian...

...When shall we be able to breqthe "Amen...

...Or in any work in which such prejudices may creep unknown to the reader...

...EIGHTEEN years have passed since the United States entered the World War and there are documents gathering dust in the government archives at Washington that may tell an interesting story...

...Dangherty ordered Debs released from Atlanta to go to Washington...

...Recently, in answer to a question as to what a Utopian meant by "extra-legal organization" his answer was—"cooperatives...

...In ¦ ether words, Harding, lb* Daugherty, talked big...

...Sullivan gives the surprising information that Harding "shared the deep compassion which Debs had for the underdog," and tells us that "the frail and aged Dobs eking out his last'years behind the somber walls of prison was distressing" to the Marion humanitarian Of course, Harding had no ssav pathy with Debs' political nomic views, "but Debs had gmt to Jail because of his hetmfl and loathing of war...

...One aspect of this utopianism today is the offering of something in the belief that it is something "new" whereas it too often turns out to be something very old...

...His opposition to early capitalism as he knew it was because poverty and corruption followed its development...

...With these social objectives in mind, the proposal was debatec and enacted by Congress and con-I struction begun — almost three years ago...

...He would have manufactured articles imported and have these imports supplemented with articles produced in the home...

...TVA is a vast social project designed to provide plentiful cheap power, to serve as a yardstick, and to bestow the blessings of the electrical age upon the population of seven States in the Tennessee River basin...

...That brings all the joy to Wall Street...

...It is also true that new members go through some Utopian phases before they become thorough Socialists...

...He wws only a aleh ? The# whole Debs story, as** as the story of many other »w* ties of Daugherty that 8«BWS omits, would complete the pi<**J* But only those who knosiJw whole shabby episode can do tSS» How msny more of tbTj^M printed in our histories and aSlJJ books are told with as IS fidelity to half-truth M i» • story...

...Up 11'Il0l1...

...We old SeeiaHiti recall the blazing indignation that same from Prisoner 9663: "To ask for a pardon would impis that I have done wrong, aad that I admitted that I have done wrong...

...Marx and Engels, Bebel, Liebknecht and other famous Socialists also traveled the road from Utopia to science...

...But -even the shadow of it will be put into a coffin on January 1. Officially it was announced in the White House that the remnant of the NRA is being transferred to the Departments of Commerce and of Labor ,but actually Mr...

...To words so pregnant with prophecy...

...LET US HAVE LIGHT...

...Sullivan tells the story of the arrest and imprisonment of Debs, and adds (page 216): Debs in Ationto "In Atlanta, Debs had made a | quite extraordinary record — his presence, wrote one commentator, was 'like a breath of fresh air upon the men with whom he came in contact;' Everybody loved him: officials, guards, convicts...

...4— •' \at Branch 455 Starts New Leader d** Branch 466 of the WorfaadSf Circle, one of the many fig...

...Fall was a ¦ rascal, and King and Miller criminals...

...The TVA, he added, "should bt charged with the broadest duty oi planning for the proper use, con servation and development of tht natural resources of the Tennesset River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the genera, social and economic welfare of tht Nation...

...But corrected by facts nany Socialists know, Harding ind Daugherty appear in an en-;irely d;fferent light, as shabby »nd tawdry mediocrities...

...logically "tc national planning fo...