Again Deeds and Words…
Klein, Gertrude Weil
Again Deeds and Words... By Gertrude Weil Klein I HAVE; felt for a long Choc that if seme one would take the trouble to make a comparison between the protestations and manifestos of the...
...Reaction to the careerist means the beginning of a return to normal processes, but recovery brings with it conflicts...
...they remain suggestions, if not misdirected then still direcionless, as in the close ol "Study in a Late Subway" Speed welcomes us in explosion...
...Yes, appeals were made to everybody with almost equally poor results...
...like many men choosing out of the range of their sympathies (in subject and form—witness The Nation's prize to "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana") he swings to the far extreme- For there is power in these poems, and social indignation, even snatches of beauty...
...Three— Kerr tobacco act and Warren potato control act, usually considered as part of the AAA framework...
...The second is an appeal to the many to follow the President's banner against the "entrenched greed of the selfish few, who would gang up against the people's liberties...
...MUDDLED POLITICS AND AIMS AN upper ruling class is not always a solid combination and often it is divided for various reasons...
...Discrimination in treatment of belligerents only by Congressional authorization...
...These words might apply to the poems themselves, as well as to the suppressed throughout the world...
...However, once leadership is challenged by democracy, it is democracy that in the end wins because normal human beings cannot long tolerate the abnormal conduct of the careerist...
...WILLIAM J. ROBINSON WITH the passing of Dr...
...Their maternal parent bad a long and fairly vigorous career before you appeared on the sosae and the "babies" are well-nigh on to 40 years old...
...Of course, it does not look good to him nor to others like him, but it is, nevertheless, the star at hope on the horizon...
...We must girt them morning...
...AAA [Decision Stunning Mow ' te New Deal WHAT some consider the most important Supreme Court decision since the Civil War swept into the oblivion of unconstitutionality the best agricultural program in the history of America, and dealt a stunning blow to the entire New Deal...
...Last week I referred to the publicized attack on WEVB because of alleged Negro discrimination, and the very different attitude taken by the'leader of the attack (a "militant") in a case of actual Negro discrimination...
...Sycophants pay him disgusting homage and this fawning confirms him in the course he takes...
...Officials feared reaction of the three and a half million farmers who have received $926,000,000 from the Government and have been pledged $550,000,000 more...
...tants" fee the reasons---jsis3 would cooperate...
...The full meaning of the decision probably will not be realized for several days during which it can be studied in the light of the many Roosevelt reforms...
...To" be sure, it is an abnormal phase of an abnormal period of modern history, but few of us expected that when the crust of civilization cracked, so many monstrous creatures would break through to do such revolting deeds as are recorded in this book...
...he was a gallant warrior for social and economic justice, and his struggles for a rational public and private attitude on sex matters—a battle largely won —fixes his permanent place in the history of our times...
...but her "belief and blooming" have not yet grown into coherent form...
...President Condemns Political and Economic Autocracy •""THE annual message to Congress ¦ was delivered by President Roosevelt last Friday, in the evening, when radio facilities are at their best...
...Congress came to life again with blood in its eyes—a fight the first day, instead* of the usual back-slapping and hand-shaking...
...Not quite all at once, either...
...fly*I when no lodger "the evil night of our schooled minds is morbid with our dreams'' she may find a dear road, even into tbe aides of beauty and truth...
...When the conference adjourned two and a half hours later, no decision had been reached on an alternative legislative plan of procedure...
...We are pleased to bear it and we thank Mr...
...Labor Advocate...
...It sras known that they had decided to shove into the background the man who practically singlehanded had built and carried Rebel Arts, contributing not only hull time and energy but also money...
...of the thirty-three included so far, but one is widely known, and he—Hervey Allen—not for poetry...
...The individual is of first consideration...
...Now, sir, somebody is putting one over on you...
...Finally he challenges the "money changers" to propose repeal of the measures which, he asserts, in- 34 months have transferred control of the Federal Government from their hands to the city of Washington...
...He becomes insufferably arrogant and comes to regent any criticism...
...You see, the militants had decided that hereafter Rebel' Arts was to have mass-appeal Since I am primarily concerned here with examining deeds, I will not go into the detsdls of the outcome...
...Farm bloc leaders., launched plans for substitute legislation...
...And to defeat a clause which provided that a majority of the executive board must be Socialist Party members...
...William J. Robinson, who died the other day, another link with the glorious past of the Socialist movement is broken...
...Norman Thomas was quoted as having said that Roosevelt "stole his babies," meaning social legislation...
...What was the great revolutionary battle about...
...Supreme Court Decision Against AAA Stunning Slew to Heart of New DealPresident Condemns Political aad Economic Autocrats la a Complaining Message to Congress—Specie...
...This personal account of Hitler's hideous hells'and the low creatures who have been summoned to glut their hist for torture leaves one asking...
...Transactions with belligerents only at the risk of traders, should the President so decide...
...But he would not take orders from the "militant" caucus, aad sines the "militants" bad decided that Rebel Arts was worth attaching, he was slated for demotion...
...Blanket suspension of ail collections of taxes and payments under the AAA was ordered by the Treasury, after a three-hour conference of- counsel...
...Conn for the information...
...Men who deny it are mistaken...
...A few samples from the bulk...
...Did you ever hear Mr...
...My head began to swim and I caught myself humming an old songs with new Gilfilan words: / wandered today to the Hill, Maggie, And gazed on the 8c?Tie below...
...He is above the rank and file, one set apart, one who is immune from the rules, regulations and decisions which the members in general must respect and observe...
...However, I am in the course of a year's work, in daily contact with literally thousands of workers who do read the Forward, who like it and would not miss a single issue if they could help it, and who like even the features at which our intelligentzia twitch their disdainful nostrils...
...Party has any considerable influence, are the unions whose members were "brought up" on the Forward...
...One gets sick reading these accounts of revolting cruelty imposed upon helpless prisoners by sadist gangsters and they recall the theory of James Harvey Robinsbn that there are three layers of tWe human mind, the lowest belonging to our savage ancestors...
...I HAVE just returned to Washington and I feel as though I was caught in a maelstrom...
...If it is a fascist organization, we expect this ideology because "leadership" is the capstone of fascism, if the obsession obtains a foothold in a democratic organization it is certain to set up an individual whose views and actions will be accepted as extra-privileged...
...They hsvo per m-vi ted the common fault at sticking to the status quo in spits of everything to influence them...
...For a long time, Rebel Arts, about which I have written several articles in this space, has been struggling along with little support from any section of our movement...
...Doherty>croon...
...Donald D. Conn, executive vicepresident of the Transportation Association of America, said, "The political thought in America is gravitating without apparent restraint toward the principles of Socialism...
...This series, which "will include only such verse as seems to give the fairest promise for the future of American poetry," is a sort of macabre accolade, a medal of oblivion...
...To read that Henry L. Doherty, the utilities magnate, got $100,000 a year and that Bing Crosby crooned to the tune of $104,449 is to realize that the big brainy business men are finding their proper place at last, and why not...
...By Wolfgang Langhof...
...rade Thomas, tike "babies" are net yours...
...Of course they hated to give the President so many radio listeners, but there was nothing they could do about it...
...He becomes intolerable and reaction sets in...
...We ask them to open their minds and investigate—they will then freely and gladly agree with el that Socialism is the hope of OSS world...
...Books like those written by Langhof and Segar make no impression on these "revolutionaries," but a few weeks in the Hands of Nazi brutes would probably round out their education...
...When an organization reaches this stage it may pay lip service to democracy but its soul is gone...
...Two—Bankhead cotton control act...
...Socialism is the hope of the world...
...This six-to-three decision is so thorough-going that it left the Administration groping in the ruins for a substitute, and foreshadowed a similar fate for other New Deal laws...
...That Townsendism will be a factor in the political struggle next year now seems assured and the campaign will be one of muddled issues and aims...
...Such is the "culture" of the Nazi Nordic...
...felt for a long Choc that if seme one would take the trouble to make a comparison between the protestations and manifestos of the 'militants" an one hand, and their actions on the other, the essential dishonesty of their attack and their disloyalty to the party would be apparent...
...So says President Roosevelt, describing that role as one of well-ordered neutrality with a threefold arm—to do naught to encourage the contest, to-gave itself from embroilment through adequate defense and to persuade other nations to return to the ways of peace...
...He was a constant and valued contributor for the old New .York Call...
...The wheels of government are again spinning faster and faster...
...They have allowed their environment or their immediate economic interests te, bund them to the facts...
...Paul, reports the Reading (Pa...
...The Hope of tie World A RGUING against public ownership of railroads before the Minnesota Club at St...
...The government announces that there were about that many people who received salaries of at least that sura in the year just past, and that news means something...
...A WHOLE literature has- appeered about German fascism, and this book is the work of a German actor of Dusseldorf who was arrested, never brought to trial, endured the horrors of concentration camps, and was never given any reason why...
...His head swells to abnormal proportions...
...As far back as Rougb-RiderRoosevelt, these babies have been, fondled and dandled and otherwise used as showcase pieces by ambitious politicians...
...Langhof has done a good service in writing this book, but one must have a strong stomach to survive reading much that he describes...
...The "militants" came down, twentyfive of them, paid their year's does and proceeded to fight...
...The list of just a few of the $15,000 plus salaries, filling three columns of small type in a dairy paper, is only part of the picture, for the Fords, Hearsts, Dohertys and all the rest received many tunes as much in income than indicated by their salaries...
...ARE YOU ON THIS LIST...
...that took up the first part of his speech, or report, or message...
...Should this emerge as a political going concern, it will consist of the New Deal opponents in the North and the Talmadge folio wing- in the South...
...the AAA...
...Living Unalive By Joseph T. Shipley...
...Swept in the current of the day, editor Stephen Vincent Benat has chosen sociological verse...
...The organization must serve him, not he the organization...
...Embargoes on war materials to belligerents at the discretion of the President, over and above the normal amounts purchased by them...
...The speech, to be frank, sounded more like the loading of the campaign guns than like a message to Congress...
...Later, Heilmann "was made to creep on his hands and knees into this (dog) kennel and forced to smell at a little dog's hindquarters" and then to recite the following: / am as treacherous as a eat, Meow, meow, And I bark like a dog...
...Those who were active in Rebel Arts felt that it was logically entitled to the support of the younger elements in the party, since it was they who were more likely to be interested in learning to dance and sing and act and make puppets...
...but youth's bright lexicon today holds loftier wordsAll Muriel Rukeyser's "theory of flight" seems today a vague up-' ward urge: "Fly . . .'Sy...
...Robinson never was a member of the Socialist Party but he was a real and important part of the Socialist movement...
...Repeated appeals to the leaders of the "militant" faction brought no results...
...Invalidation of the farm law was so complete that Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, who a few days ago was prepared with a half-dozen substitutes in event of an adverse decision, had no immediate suggestions to offer...
...No transportation of arms on American vessels...
...No dealings in the securities of belligerents...
...CAREERISM AND DEMOCRACY WHENEVER one finds an organization afflicted with the idea of "leadership" we may be sure that it is diseased...
...Other projects held likely to suffer the same fate by inferential statements in the opinion are: One—Guffey coal bill...
...We hope that they will not have to take this postgraduate course enforced by rubber truncheons to convince them that esoteric isolation in the clouds is hardly a good preparation' for meeting the problems on the earth below...
...New York: Dnttons...
...Whatever yon may have been led to believe, Com...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington By Benjamin Meiman Our Washington Correspondent...
...Here are some of its provisions: Embargoes on shipment of war implements to belligerents, immediate and mandatory...
...And all that is very nice and shows that prosperity is with us, and what have the remaining 124,982,000 of us got to complain about...
...It also pains me to report that they have been pub-' He property for quite some time...
...When it becomes active, mankind reverts back to barbarism...
...For a long time the Jewish Daily Forward has been a center of particularly virulent criticism...
...A number* of side-shows—called investigations—p itched their tents on Capitol HiH...
...They are misguided...
...The "Constitutional Democrats" are talking of Al Smith as a candidate for President and the Liberty League may underwrite the ambition of Smith as a good investment...
...Harder Than NRA Slow THE^verdict was considered in mos* "quarters of even greater import than that of last May invalidating the NRA and killing the Blue Eagle...
...The Supreme Court lets its unconstitutional ax fall on the head of another Near Ileal'pet...
...Their trenchantly-worded minority opinion admonished that the "courts are not the only agency of Government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern...
...In fact they seem to have been more or less simultaneously born with the party that gave them birth...
...These readers tell me that the Forward publishes many articles of a cultural and educational nature, informative articles, theoretical articles, and they give credit to the Forward for having been their first and most important Socialist teacher...
...Even AAA amendments adopted last summer in view of the NRA decision were held unconstitutional...
...Tk® M@w L®a#@ir lB®@lk C@oa©ir Rubber Truncheon By James Oneal RUBBER TRUNCHEON...
...Certainly, it cannot be entirely an accident that the only unions in which the Socialist...
...We were the living who could not have their lives...
...There are differing economic issues within the class as a whole and these occasionally take the form of political conflict: This conflict is now apparent in the Democratic Party...
...Epicism, Longism, and Coughlinism now appear to have been largely displaced by Townsendiem with 40 votes in Congress from, 18 states, all but 14 coming from states west of the Mississippi River...
...It becomes the plaything of the careerist...
...Justices Stone, Brandeis and Cardoso dissented...
...Officials generally withheld immediate comment...
...Bow-wow, bow-wow...
...Evidently, what is wrong with the Forward is thru it seems to have mass-appeal...
...Heilmann, Social Democratic Deputy, "was so beaten up that he could only walk with difficulty...
...The demoted "captain" of Rebel Arts.did not resign in* huff...
...He limped about, holding his head back, his month open in pain...
...Sleep will happen...
...Translated into concrete proposals, this role takes shape in a bill introduced into both Houses of Congress while the new session is less than an hour old...
...Preparinq America to Keep Oaf of War IF the world must again face an * era in which peace is endangered by a mad scramble for colonial empire, the United States can play but one role...
...There wasn't a tongue that was 'sfill, Maggie, And gosh, how the wheels did go...
...t But Muriel Rukeyser may escape this weighted doom...
...Deleting Socialism While the "militants" attack the Forward for its "inclusive" policies, they did their best, in an effort to make Rebel Arts a "mass" organization, to delete the words "Socialist and labor" from the Rebel Arts constitution, and to defeat a clause which provided that the majority of members of its executive board must be Socialist Party members...
...Such is the burden of Muriel Rukeyser's "Theory of Flight," latest in the Tale Series of Younger Poets (Tale U. P. $2...
...For a long time It was known that' the "militants" had been "going over" Rebel Arts at their caucuses...
...The "militants" did not win out...
...The Republicans made a feeble, unwise and, unsuccessful fight against the unprecedented evening assembly to hear the President's report on the "State of the Union...
...Some of the salaries are fantastic, and some comical...
...of night: here is wrath and fortitude aad motion's burning: the world buries the direction less, until the heads are sprung in awarenesi or drowned in peace...
...After wheeling about a little Jewish lawyer for the amusement of the sadists, both "both were led to the latrine, given a spade and told, to throw excrement at one another...
...To delete the words "for the Socialist and labor movement" from the constitution...
...I cannot read Yiddish (neither can most,of the "militants") so I cannot write from firsthand information...
...In the latter case, publicity would have embarrassed Communists, so this staunch defender of Negro rights kept 'ilent...
...He warns the many against the "synthetic, poisonous fear, craftily instilled by small groups to bring about the restoration of their economic autocracy...
...The President reports on the "State • of the Union" which sounds more like a challenge to a dog fight than a report...
...r IFTEEN thousand dollars a year is a lot of money to W to get, and eighteen thousand people are a lot of people...
...The "we must give" carries a bit of presumption, from s hue of twenty-one...
...Raiding Rebel Arts Then came the meeting called to adopt a new constitution...
...With a fev exceptions, they did not . But all at once something happened...
...Smith is a good stalking horse for an upper section of the ruling class while another section will go to the bat as "Jeffersonians," Whatever form the conflict and issues may take, it will be a war between two houses of the ruling nobility...
...After some conferring between the "centrists" and the "militants," a compromise was reached...
...In clear, uncompromising language of an opinion delivered from memory by Justice Owen J. Roberts, six members of the court held the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, its processing taxes and its farm production control network are an unconstitutional invasion of States' rights...
...Efforts te Keep America Out of World imbroglio...
...The two chief points were: Strengthened neutrality laws to keep US out of the world imbroglio, caused by tbe political autocrats in many other countries...
...he was released...
...But it was expected that the umfli...
...President Roosevelt hastily summoned farm advisers to a White House conference, where the Supreme Court ruling was debated and analyzed...
...Incidentally, we" recall'^ "left" program of our Yipsels WhSch stated that in a conflict between the normal' type of capitalist civilization and this abnormal phase, it would make no difference to the working masses which side wins...
...He did not resign at all, btt accepted the compromise though it was not to his liking...
...2.50...
...In the course of his frequent prognostications in regard to President Roosevelt's re-election...
...It is good to learn, for example, that Mae West received salary checks totaling $339,165.65 for her contributions to American culture and elegance during that year, while William Randolph Hearst came up to see her salary, and topped it, receiving $500,00 in salaries from his employer, a fellow named Hearst...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 2
