Rumpus-On the Campus
Gambet, Adrian
Rumpus-On the Campus By Adrian Gambet "REVOLT ON. THE CAMPUS." B»Jame* Wrekmkr. 456 pane: Hgiv Yorhg! Covtei, Fritde. | rjNWSRSTANO that Mr. Wechs* ler wrote this book at top speed and it...
...This big set beck shows that with the minds of the Brain Truat conccntrated on the problem for years it has not probed the secret of getting the unemployed back to work...
...All the bankers came pleading, "Just write your own ticket"— Later on six judges said, "But tint is not cricket...
...Modestus Hocus-pocus: fiddle-de-wink— it alt depends what the judges think— You don't need a nasty revoluHon— It's so very easy to amend the Constitution— Never tio mind if it doesn't name your businessCause the Constitution's only xvhat the judges say it is...
...Let some one so much as disagree with him on tactics, even though agreeing on the end in view, and Mr...
...The President listed three main objectives of the law: Conservation of the soil through wise and propes land use...
...President Explains Farm Aet The goal of the new farm law is parity, not of farm prices, but of farm income...
...Wechsler deluges him in sneers and insinuations...
...INTERVIEWING Josef Stalin in Moscow for\he * Scrippe-Howard Press, Roy W. Howard quotes Stalin as saying that the Soviet Union never had any plans for a world revolution, that belief in this is due to a "tragic misunderstanding" and that "to attempt to export revolution is nonsense.** One is left bewildered by these statements...
...But then it is foolish to-saHfl - -much serious criticism to iocs « shallow book...
...Promises butter no bread and even bread still remains a luxury for millions of the working class...
...Society will always carry a surplus to guard against lean years but this surplus will not penalize the farmers because incomes will be guaranteed whether years are lean or large...
...In fact, an agent of a corporation could stand at the polls and not say a word to its employes as they pass into the polling booth...
...colleges in this country, drawing their student-bodies almost mutely from different social tgnSfl nomic strata and expects all ¦&> dents in all colleges to reaamH the same manner there is not Samp tc be learned from him...
...The com pany's rights are not invaded- be- ; cause it has no exclusive franchise for generating and selling power in the county...
...Likewise, Mr...
...Louis, Mo.: ¦ "This policy is almost the last step in Communism...
...Wechsler is extremely ir*^ accurate...
...That is the normal coarse of events on tax occasions...
...Corporation counsel is the highest rank in Law— Basic qualifications for the Supreme Court— Which is one degree below the American Liberty League— The exclusive secret order of the nation's legal minds— ¦* Mystic number of fifty-txeo members, and no waiting list— All-holiest and all-highest Guardians of—something— To which they have attached the ancient tag of "Liberty"— In sarcastic revelation of the method of legal logicServing the public by pre-announccmcuts of Supreme Court decisions— T.elling the xvorld in advance for the gchcral guidance— What the judges think the Constitution is...
...After two years there would be established a cooperative Federal-State cooperative system for soil conservation and land use...
...Wechsler is by_no means above stacking the cards and loading the diee...
...The legislation is intended to reestablish the ratio between net income purchasing power on farms and similar income in non-farming occupations in the period of 1909-1914...
...The drought wiped out surpluses and upset all calculations of - the AAA...
...You cant at the saA time defend every tactless, *reS cative move by your own sidi Ofj only reasonable result of whMj would be to inflame the opposRev and then complain if the oppo«it(nj retaliates in kind...
...INTIMIDATING VOTERS SEVERAL bills have been proposed in Congress to -penalize corporations and their agents who attempt to intimidate their workers as voters in elections...
...They and we have not abandoned and will not abandon the principle of equality for agriculture...
...Slaaffll was a member of the Fascist PBPT as part of his underground ajjH ties, he was accused of treasssa the judge who reminded him SB he had sworn allegiance government when he assume* jg post at the university...
...Riding at Anchor By Mr...
...The committee is the one S» po:nted last July to investigateftf] methods used by utility aad fM interests to defeat or promsjy passage of the Utility HokhSH Company measure containing tin so-called "death sentence.'* The committee reports that isleasing a* highly charged avmlands of propaganda, as done by dami ttee of Public Utility ExsesM and independently by the AsaodaV od Gas and Electric CompaS^S unwholesome and inimical to * public interest...
...AfJH Pesenti replied: ! "A membership card im|*s*fj under duress and an oath exfesM ed through the fear of unenrali"*| ment has no value whatsoeaMB a gentleman...
...Two events have thrown the regular budget out of balance...
...DOCTORING UNEMPLOYMENT AMERICAN Federation of Labor figures show that unemployment increased more in January of this, year than in amy January in the past five years...
...Says the Court: The county has the right to go into the power business for the welfare of its citizens...
...the cat and the moon— Whatever woke up tlwse judges so soon.' With the world wagging on, for a year and a day— Quite startled, the court said aloud, "It's no play...
...To capture for the railroads a larger share of the transportation business and thereby to increase passenger revenue...
...President Roosevelt said Monday in a statement accom1 partying announcement that he had signed the soil conservation and domestic allotment act, intended to replace the invalidated AAA...
...All of which mm: up to the fact that the book is K mature, shallow and somewhat S scrupulous...
...Nevertheless, I am confident that the farmers, cooperating with the Government, will work hard within existing legal limitations to achieve the new law's goal, which is parky sot of farm prices, hot of farm income...
...Farm Board used to b'uy up all the cotton, wheal and com— . v But the Constitution rolled over, and it isn't being done— So don't get excited and wrinkle up your phiz— For the Constitution is exactly what the judges say it is...
...the salaries high-bracket salary men" ag^H gets two things: that he hadfB hundred pages earlier J-nnt§W' the small salaries of pmfaajBf and the American Association a! University Brofessoi s for not 4am tng harder for its members (3 parently the AAUP sells o«^ members just as the A PL dealt and he omits to explain that aat: of the "high-bracket" raUrietsS' from specific endowments that tat Unjversity couldn't touch if_* ' wanted to...
...If he should Tef use to take care of those who, through no fault of their own, are unable to care for themselves, then we as a nation have been a failure...
...Some day 6*S4 munista are going te leara.iMt lesson—but then they wont at Communists any longer...
...Trade unions and Labor and Socialist parties .were split in all countries precisely because they did not accept the "export" of revolution from Russia...
...Findings of the court are Sent out to PWA attorneys to be entered in the record of 52 other cases in which utility interests seek to enjoin the PWA from thus advancing funds for municipal power plants...
...Wechsler forgets that Santayana has not been in the United States since the war and that his connection with Harvard ended some twenty years ago...
...the congressional scene is set again for tempestuous- times...
...Lowell's attitude was just the opposite to what he has represented...
...Pesenti retornstb Italy, he was arrested, tried bslM closed doors and sentenced ||B years imprisonment by the M| Fascist Tribunal for the OaftlM of the State...
...Of temE it must he noted that the' "party line" is pretty hard IJWh low...
...A Slight Victory " * ' Exponents of public power de- 1 velopments celebrate a victory per- , mitting, short of Supreme Court reversal, the use of Government ' funds to aid in the establishment ' of municipal power projects...
...For the bonus—120 million dollars a year for nine years...
...which Weehslii derwunS reactionary...
...Ownership of the opportunities of earning a living gives power over the minds and actions of those who do riot own...
...Here are the purposes for which the new revenue is to be used:— For the farm program—500 million dollars...
...The only thing comic about these assertions is Stalin s sweeping aside of seventeen years of history, but as Russian history itself is being rewritten to correspond with Stalin's orders the export of this historical method for American consumption is legitimate...
...It Wmm this congress that Luipi Antssie was the representative of lsAsTa the United States...
...The absence of production control may make impracticable the attainment of exact parity prices, as defined in the agricultural adjustment act...
...Lqwell for this period—surely pertinent sources for the author of such a book—he would know very well that Mr...
...Roosevelt as a longtime program for American agriculture...
...Sharks Oppose Housing Procjroin May the American Government build houses and rent, them as part of a program of re-employment ? Preparatory to argument on that question before the Supreme Court, the Public Works Administration and its opponents ftle briefs on which may hang the future of lowcost housing throughout all the years to come...
...Not a word aboeaH arrest, trial or sentence wasfflj Iished in the Fascist papers...
...Enactment of such legislation would be official admission that control of bread gives power to influence the action of voters dependent upon the owners of industry...
...No doubt many of my readers will be surprised to learn that the student L.I.D...
...Preservation of life is government's most important function, he said...
...Congress Against War...
...spirit remained unbroken...
...If H is carried to its logical conclusion, a third of the population will be Government tenants, probably free from local taxes...
...Of laws"—Hotc arc you to know which laws, two years afterward...
...He declared that if the government failed to care for the unemployed then "we as a nation have been living in hypocrisy for 150 years...
...All in all...
...w-e1' r A TRAGI-COMIC ERROR...
...When "Mr Wedair criticizes Yale for not incrtaakj or maintaining wages .at eooue janitors, scrub women "aajt^Hf workers out of...
...A large wheat crop is now desired at a price, that will pay the farmers but because of the factors mentioned above mere can be no satisfactory planning...
...In reporting the fact that Ernst Hanfstaengel was a marshal at a recent Harvard commencement, Wechsler makes it seem that the University had invited him, although it was made very clear at the time that the University had no-authority in the matter and th> invitation was the work of tht am cers of Hanfstaengel's class, 1 I^HamWIj's attitude was' J9 clear when President Conant ajil fully rejected Hanfstaengel's eX of a'scholarship...
...rj Professor Antonino Mario enti, who at the age ef tb eaSj| professor of political economy *t the University of Sessari sfeflH written many books, sost^H slipped out of Italy and aShSjB the Italian Socialist and...
...Nay, he adds that it was a "tragi-comic" misunderstanding...
...The Circuit Court of Appeals at * Charlotte, N. C, telle the Duke ' Power Company that it is not en- I titled to an injunction preventing 1 the Public Works Administration from lending or giving Greenwood County $3,000,000 to develop and distribute electricity...
...I must confess that I 4B' understand how any one cu te fess to write about the states^: higher education in America giving every indication ef WK completely ignorant ef FlesgjK brilliant work...
...No one at this hour, either at the White House or the Capitol,- has the glimmer of a notion what will finally emerge from the myriad of projects sure to be offered...
...Wechsler put down the shears and took up the pen, the style is identical with the bilious five-and-ten-cent store brilliance coupled with an unscrupu lous distortion of.fact which seemed to be required of every author who wished to break into Mr...
...Apart from tax proposals, inflation plans are certain to lead to a bitter controversy...
...For farm benefits already paid— 500 million dollars, this to be in place of taxes lost when the AAA taxes were invalidated...
...i Even more than industry, agriculture is subject to anarchy in production and distribution...
...Sending of *atgj| messages is a nefarious prsSSKg Then it recommends: Congress should enact a mniw requiring all lobbyists to liable, giving an account to CongrefB jt the money spent and the sow from which it is obtained...
...the President said...
...Hit'j says the committee, is not to stS} the privilege of lobbying, bet a show who the lobbyists sre SW what they spend the money fat -c Facing Prison Socialist Hits Fascist Cad From across the seas vteaJH ter from Pietro Nenni, exiled I# ian Socialist leader to Lnlgi AStonini, vice-president of the U#f W.U., comes a story ef *ajta| brave Socialist of the nnduiitaPj movement who has fallen into SM hands of the Fascists but...
...second, the passage of the Soldiers Bonus measure...
...Polities will, of course, bulk conspicuously in the tax tangle as House and Senate seek to unravel Ww ' ——— . • I - The regular budget for 1937 must be balanced, says the President...
...Now it appears, to be only a "tragic misunderstanding...
...Wechsler should really Isaa one thing before'he writes anetk* book (as I'm afraid he is sure a write one...
...Merely "looking them over" would be suggestive to the voter that his bread might not be forthcoming if he failed to "vote right...
...Only a Socialist cooperative society can introduce intelligent control in agriculture because price—a symbol of production for exchange—will no longer be a factor...
...Pesenti maintained a herekSB tude throughout the trial...
...As one who was a student m 6^Raaeaaar''*that Corliss JjE Iwas "leader of Harvard'sjH undergraduate idecia IMC""!, happened to be an .editor ef fH Harvard Crimson ?hy no tjgjKM red...
...The new law was described by Mr...
...First, the invalidation of processing taxes by the Supreme Court's AAA decision...
...The decrease in unemployment in Great Britain in this period was 24 percent, in Belgium 27 per cent, in Sweden 36 per cent, and in Canada 42 per cent...
...That is why collective ownership of industry means not only equality of opportunity but freedom of thought and action...
...Cheaper Railroad Travel Cheaper railroad travel is coming after June 2. It is assured by the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, in a 6to-4 decision, sets passenger fares at 2 cents a mile for day coaches, in place of the present 3.6 cents, and 3 cents a mile for Pullman coaches...
...Fares for travel on special trains may be higher...
...If the Government can engage in the proprietary' business of landlord, there is no business into which it may not enter...
...FORTY-EIGHT LITTLE AAA's QINCE the U. S. Supreme Court wiped out the AAA M. the new agricultural program provides for 48 Little AAA's...
...One bill would make it unlawful for a corporation agent to make a statement to any employe "intended or calculated to influence the political action of his employes...
...I also suspect that he compiice the two pages at the end to which Seme one has facetiously given the tit!e "Index** and which, since whoever...
...maintenance of farm income at fair levels and protection of consumers by assuring adequate supplies of food and fiber how and in the future...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington By Benjamin Meiman Our Washington Correspondent 1JOPES of a short and placid ** ses'sion of Congress, are pretty well blasted by President Roosevelt's tax program.* The sky is the limit nojjv both as to type of plans for raising the $1,137,000,000 of revenue that he calls for and the time needed to work them out...
...The currency expansionists (Patmanites and FrazierLemke backers) have repeatedly affirmed their determination to drive for the issue of new paper money in ease fresh - taxes are sought for bonus or farm benefits...
...Contends the PWA: Congress has the power, in spending for the public welfare, to condemn land and erect houses...
...F. R.'s special tax message will not be in the hands of House and Senate very long this week before some schemes for carrying it into effect will sprout in all directions...
...The new law authorises not mere than 1100,000,000 in any one year for Federal subsidies to farmers for diverting crop land to soil conservation purposes ox other ^^^B^^^^^t^^HBHBaSKaliBavuHlHHaHfl^BHHI "economic use of land...
...When the write naively preaches radieahsi*.*iH§ ¦ out even noticing the fact tag there are several different loadi at...
...For the frees I relief outlays, no offsetting revenues are provided...
...It probably wotdfB have seen the light of day JKjjl country of higher p u b 1 i li ill standards...
...It seems only yesterday that Moscow solemnly proclaimed the famous "Twenty-one Points" calling the masses to world revolution...
...Mencken'* magazine...
...The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make money grants to farmers for rest oration of soil fertility, preventing soil erosion, and better adjustment of crop production to market needs...
...When Uncle Sam was young he got Itis first suit of clothes— Cut to fit his thirteen members by the founding father teiilors— Four members never thought it reus a good fit —anyway— , So the tailors added ten patches right away-— Then Uncle Sam grew up and stretched that suit...
...was "merely a subsidiary of the Socialist Party" and consequently was hampered by "the failures and impotence of that party...
...In fact, the recovery of jobs in this country in the past three years reveals a poorer record than in Great Britain, Belgium, Sweden and Canada...
...The dignity and courage afa enti is an inspiration to SoowMf and lovers of liberty everyeSOjJ...
...It cannot allow the bread lines and soup kitchens of the old order to come back...
...Since 1919 the one unforgivable sin was refusal to work for that great event...
...One justice dissents, asserting that the duty of the court is to protect the company from injury...
...For instance when he reports a /conversation which he claims took place between George Santayana and President Lowell at Harvard in 1925...
...In the United States the decrease was only 19 per cent After nearly three years of doctoring the most terrific industrial depression in American history there is an appalling increase in unemployment in January and the New Deal has a less favorable record than fout other nations...
...The first section, a "Panorama** of American colleges in the 1920'?, was written chiefly with a pair of shears, a paste pot and files of the New York Times and the American Mercury...
...wherein Lowell expressed his belief in the bigger and better student body fetish, Mr...
...The rest of the book is written in that mournful drabness so familiar to all who have read the Open Letters with which the Communist Party aotfl Isbes its members...
...Judges think-agriculture-means just Georgia cotton roots— They don't know that cotton fibre is in the shells Mussolini shoots— In 'a few years we'll hazv judges with a new modern twtum— Who will hand you down quite a different Constitution— - * * * - * Hey-diddlt^diddle...
...Where Mr...
...The 'regular** budget mjpgjfe part which does not contain emergency expenditures...
...The uncertainty of drought and rain also add to its hazards as the past three years of drought only . too vividly show...
...Mews to Unmask Lobbyists To penetrate possible disguise of those seeking to influence legislation, a House committee recommends enactment of a lobby publicity law...
...Counting on a favorable outcome for the PWA, the American ?#d eration of Labor asks a law setting up a permanent Housing Authority ] armed with half a billion dollars to I promote aggressively the building i of low-priced adequate homes...
...Purpose of the change...
...did it was Completely unprejudiced by any knowledge of what an index should contain, destroywwhatevei- little reference »a*ne the book might normalrV-have...
...The increase in the number of the jobless was 1,229,000 in J^-.uary, swelling the total to 12,626,000...
...Wechs* ler wrote this book at top speed and it is such a sloppy performance that I can readily believe it...
...When Prof...
...Mayor LaGuardia of New York, as a guest at Washington's Town Hall last Sunday, said a mouthful...
...Of men"—Well, six old men have a lot to say about it— While lawyers tell their clients to ignore the lawsJust what would happen, anyway, that icould be so awful— // we should all lay aside legal "fictions" for a while.— Insist on getting government baek to a human . basisDeclare that eleven million people out of a job are important— At least as important as forty billion dollars idle in the banks...
...A big AAA or 48 Little AAA's cannot remove the anarch forces from agriculture which plague the farmers...
...Reply opponents, representing real estate interests who object to a $1.618,000 slum-clearance project at St...
...It took another dozen patches to keep him partly covered up— Every time he tries something new to keep up with his growing appetite— He strains the seams and fabrt\ of that suit of clothes.— Jobs that he used to handle with one hand— Now affect the strain and circulation of his whole huge bulk— Until the present garments of your Uncle Sam— Are largely made up of court plasters—and apologies— ¦* * * They say, it is a government of laws and not of men— Would a government permit insecurity for Lindbergh's Son...
...If he had ever taken the trouble to read the annual reports of Mr...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 10
