Among The Magazines
AMONG THE MAGAZINES THE FORUM The most interesting article for Socialists in the If arch Forum ia by Norman Angell on "Labor and British Foreign Policy." In foreign relations British labor...
...The chapter on Lincoln and Walt Whitman gives the good grey poet's impression of the President, while the chapter entitled, "The Cooper Institute Speech," is a moving human document...
...she and her class must feel that way...
...Other works were a "Historical Compendium" and "The True History of the Human Race," the latter published in 1921...
...Further than that, while he * gaining in vehemence, Sinclair is M> longer wildly violent...
...The middle-class tight little isle Is sbout the centre and circumference of the universe...
...coolies 20 cents a day...
...A dispatch to the new York Times tells the following story of Comrade Clare's life: History was the old man's life work, and it won him world distinction...
...It is a survey of the industrial situation and labor conditions in America, Europe and the Orient...
...His "Illustrated History of All Nations" in fifteen volumes brought him a citation from Societe Academique d'Histoire Internationale...
...It ha* been/ on) the whole non-political,"* holding rigidly to It* Industrial program, It ha* been prevailingly conservative, Individualistic, and, in its official attitude, anti- Socialistic...
...The scheme in itself-is good...
...My mood after reading the new book is one of weariness and sadness...
...The American labor movement is dimmed up a* follows: "It is not concerned with a program for obtaining a new order...
...By Upton 8intlair...
...and there is tha larger background panorama of religious and other notion* and public events with due names and dates...
...There was a great coming and going of Romans —agitated Emperors appeared, built walls, and hurried off, and at last the noise of barbarians waa heard without, and Exeunt the Romans...
...WUl it ever be possible for the people to move out of the avenues carefully paved for them, out of the ways of poverty aad ignorance, with their quick response to prejudice snd fear and false antagonisms, to a fairer social order...
...Tr*tg not so.' And the eloquent lady from Tennessee explained the other purpose—if another war for liberty should be called, 'please God, we shall not send a soldier who cannot write his name' "I And in contrast with these, the reminder of one of the men who also sees and speaks his mind, of Anatole France: "The union of the workers will be the peace of the world...
...Yet his books are among the at rongest weapons in the fight against the ignorance that keeps things hs they are...
...Then, as Sinclair report* Superintendent E. Mandel, of New York, in an order for the inspection of history text books:''The question to be considered is not one of whether statements made in the textbooks are truthful and based on facts, hut whether propriety would be observed if they were included in them...
...Are those people the deliberate villains Sinclair implies...
...Resides her dubious idiot-philosophy, aelf-contradicted by the first and second parts ef her narrative, the author exploits a second cardinal error j/i trying to prove constantly thst there is'nothing new under the tun...
...Her own story largely disprove* thia hoary doctrine...
...Into this spectacle," he says in one place, "of blue Britons with tin - linings came Julius Caesar, of whom I thought I had heard in my Scripluro lessons, not knowing that it was not the same Caesar...
...Of course it was not Shakespeare but Macbeth, a low mur; dercr, who felt that way...
...He is fast becoming a myth and the real man is seldom seen...
...Eddy: "I csn't beat the men as I once did...
...I do not mean any disrespect to these people who cry out Humanity at large is entitled to cry out aad tear Its hair...
...it is pleasant to be relieved of plot...
...Brightly and gayly written for the most part, with plenty of light satire and laughter, the latest book by the •futhor of "Pottsrism" and "Dangerous Ages,*' is a running story of a middle class English family in it* various generation* from 1879 to almost the present day, and likewise a commentary on middle-class Eng> land with it* sects, politics and art spasm* during the same period...
...As the ; mouthpiece of the dejected middle I class, Miss Macaulay may, after all, > be right in her estimate of the meaning of existence...
...What adds to my sadness is the thought thst many of these narrow-minded men, hindrances to progress as they are, are good fellows, quite honest and sincere...
...One of th* English bosses told Mr...
...So they shout for the system on every occasion, proclaim that it is divinely established, that anyone who questions it is a traitor and an • tist (now they add Bolshevik), aad in their enthusiasm they sometimes manage to forget their own dissatisfaction...
...Rankin was a young law studentstn Lincoln'* apd Herndon'* law office and he has written in hi* old age his impressions of those early day...
...Only a human record of a very human man...
...Tke pretense breaks down...
...ISRAEL SMITH CLARE At the age of 77, Israel Smith Clare, one of the world's greatest historians and a Socialist of a retiring disposition, recently died in the Lancaster, Pa., County Almshouse...
...Whether these persons are trying te preserve whst they know to be Wrong, csring only that it leave them on top, or whether they are working in accordance with a natural unconscious attempt te preserve what they find best for themselves, there is no deubt that they control the schools, and that they use their power to preserve the existing order...
...you might call it history made easy by a clever woman talki ing over the tea-cups...
...Now the middle-class feels, suffers and wails through suck a book as thi...
...Ia closing my review of "Th* Gooee-Step," Sinclair's survey of ths manner in which Big Business controls the colleges, I ssid that I looked forward with "delight and fear" to "The Goslings...
...The campaign issue debated is "taxation with Secretary Mellon, Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr., and John Robertson Hunter contributing...
...The author went to India in 1B96 for tha Y. M. C. A. and spent nine years in traveling and holding evangelistic meetings among the officials of India, Japan, the Near East and Russia...
...There are 30,000,000 without schooling and 39 per cent of the children educated in India lapse into illiteracy within five years after, leaving school...
...On his recent trip around the world in 1922-23, he made an intensive study of labor in the countries visited...
...Occasionally, in cynical warning, comes such a voice as Samuel C. Blythe (of Saturday Evening Post fame), reminding those in power that the only thing that prevents a revolt in thia country Is the ignorance of 80 per cent of the people: "the bulwark of our country, at it it, is the ignorance of its people...
...Early in life he taught in the rural schools of Lancaster County, and as co-worker with Miss Anna Lyle of the Millersville .State Normal School faculty, he wrote and published a short history of the county that is now an authority...
...Poetry and minor articles on various themes round out whst ia a constantly improving magazine...
...The workers have been quite spoiled by this new movement...
...They have a simple answer: since education is the key to tha future, they control education...
...in every thousand, perhaps 100 really satisfisd capitalists...
...Published by the Author, Paeadeae, California...
...For more than a year the author studied the conditions of the workers in the factories and the povertystricken homes of the Orient, the homes afflicted by hunger add famine In Russia, the slums of Europe and America—all coming under hi* 'close observation...
...John Butler Yeats, the younger eon of the late John Butler Teats, has two pictures thst sre not in the usual style of Dial art, while E. E. Cummtngs has a caricature sketch of Mr...
...It has 'been a movement largely isolated and selfsufficient...
...It regards modern nations as interrelated...
...Anyhow the title i* l taken from him—"Life if a tale told i by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Rather obviously artificial I* the device of attributing aU religious fad* and fancies in turn, so a* to show them off, to pster families...
...Whether for better or for worse, we are in the midst of a period that will witness the birth of a new world of Labor...
...In the roar and dust of the driving machinery we saw the dull toilers plodding at their work...
...AMONG THE MAGAZINES THE FORUM The most interesting article for Socialists in the If arch Forum ia by Norman Angell on "Labor and British Foreign Policy...
...one period is the same as another in all essentials...
...Bert rand Russell writes a short article entitled "A Motley Pantheon...
...He is an example of the fate that often comas to men of real genius in the chance world- of capitalism...
...Meade Minnigerode, author of "The Fabulous Forties" which the Putnam* published on March 14,'is an American who has lived abroad a large part of his life and was educated in England and at Yale...
...Charles Spencer Chaplin that deserves to go down in the 'history of comic art...
...By Sherwood Eddy...
...WORLD LABOR PROBLEMS THE NEW WORLD OF LABOR...
...The author came upon a wealth of material for...
...they here long known what Blythe so carelessly puts into print...
...The surface of everything is -neatly skimmed and partly skinned...
...as a historical sketch this story has some substance, it refreshes the memory snd interests all who have lived through a good deal of the period treated...
...Future historians will welcome them, and will record their effect...
...TRUTH FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS A Review by JOHN B. McMAHON TOLD BY AN IDIOT...
...When P. T. Ram urn, "King of the Humbugs" was launching hia career, and the pigs roamed Boardway...
...This next of the tale, aha suggests, w*s not told by a mere idiot, cheerful or otherwise, but old ssaa Satan himself...
...So there is hammered home the tact that our educational system it ordained by those who are most Interested in the continuance of the present state of society...
...away, i. t , Christianity, humanism and liberalism, a rather vague interpretation of very real and material problems...
...It is universally declared that the salvation of the world depends upon education...
...Wolf son resigned, because he did npt "feel free to follow the intellectual habits of a lifetime," New York City Superintendent Ettinger declared: "I dissent most heartily from the basic thesis set up by Principal Wolf son that it is the function of oar schools to allow students snd teachers to express their belief freely, to meet argument with argument, and not either overtly or covertly to suppress opinions which sre held in honesty and food faith," More recently (with the political tide turned against him, and hit re-election or falure near) Superintendent Ettinger has said: "I do not consider it right for a person to remain silent while certain things are going en...
...There is a new spirit among the workers since Gandhi appeared...
...Philadelphia: Lippineott...
...Constantin Stanislavsky givea his "Recollections of Checkov...
...They are handicapped by tropical heat, hookworm, illiteracy, poor pay, bad housing and the low moral condition...
...Herbert Read'a "The Definition of Comedy," ia based on a review of the works of William Congreve...
...Bernard Shaw, taking tha British family arrangement as an example, saya that at 1,000 parsons aa imaginary 700, satisfied by the system, take it for granted...
...instead of giving the impression (as he used to) that he is overstating, he *ee*j* now even to be understating the apt palling case...
...Eddy does not approve of "the old unchristian social order...
...Prewar life was no Jest to the overage million* in England and elsewhere...
...It was a struggle with poverty, sickness and death...
...THE DIAL The Dial for March features "Death ia Venice," by Thomas Mann, the translation from the German being made by Kenneth Burke...
...Evidently something very important was harfpenlng among them, off stage, but what it' wa* I never learnt...
...Rebellious youth and so on always was and will be...
...Thi* book, in an erg ef high-priced book*, sells at a low price and is in reach of every New Leader reader...
...The working and living conditions hi China and Japan are frightful enough but nothing to compare with those of India...
...This is a book thst every student el labor and economic conditions should read...
...Also he cheerfully acklowlodges the few slips In the earlier volume...
...Beneath her gay raillery is sadness...
...There lies a baby of one of the working mother* asleep on the floor in the dirt, and dust What chance has this child in life...
...In foreign relations British labor does not follow the old Cobden Bright policy of noninterference or the modern imperialist balance of power theory...
...I don't see how a person as clever ss Mis* Macaulay could accept such a Jnotheaten idea...
...Unlike Ida Tsrbell's book, there is no effort to give Lincoln's ancestors...
...The Social world do move, even though in spiral or rigsag...
...The illiteracy is almost universal...
...The author ends all on a note of frank pessimism, for which she deserves credit...
...60 who see through the sham and inequality of it all...
...It has held prevailingly aloof from the unskilled, the Immigrant and the Negro...
...860 Babbitts, American Legiohites and Ku Kluxers...
...He believes thst Europe inherited three treasures and threw then...
...MOULDING THE FUTURE A Review by Joseph T. Shipley TIB GOSLINGS (A Study ef the American Schools...
...Meanwhile, I can register the tendency of current education no more accurately than in a few quotations...
...There it a long and sympathetic aurvey of the Reconstruction of Russia es well a* a review of the British Labor movement and also that of Italy, France and Germany...
...He tells us how Lincoln read aloud Whitman'a "Leaves of Grass," and brought out many of the beauties in the text undiscovered by Herndon or Rankin...
...A LINCOLN CLOSE-UP INTIMATE CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MAN, as seen by one who knew him...
...Though this law has been repealed, its spirit is evident in the continued assault on David Berenberg for the erime of being a Socialist...
...With s number of poems, book reviews, theatrical and music comment, the March issue will satisfy those within the sacred circle of Dial readers...
...Guglielmo Ferrero offers a second installment on why Europe hss not made peace...
...EVILS OF EDUCATION H. G. Well*, in a debate with E. B. Osborn, (Yea and Nay, Brtntano's) speaks amusingly of history a* it was taught in England during his boyhood...
...there she has to quit smiling and jesting, and soberly declares it was a hell of a thing...
...this period, while working on a novel laid in 1840...
...Perhaps 200 are dissatisfied, are failures according to the system, but are ashamed to admit it to their neighbors or even to themselves...
...therefore, they have the future locked away in their private strongboxes...
...Not even the Kaiser could reason more logically...
...Paul Morand contributes a Paris letter while G. Santa na tells of "The Sorrows of Avicenna," dialogue form...
...New York: Bool aad Uverigkt...
...Lastly, having been one ef those who read the New York chapters in manuscript, I know personally of the pains Sinclair takes to verify his statements...
...This delightful book it in reality a close-up of Lincoln and the pen pictures make him live and move as vividly as Herndon does...
...We have a splendid picture of the dingy old law office and the every day routine, and the gossip of the small town as it impressed young Rankin...
...He also contributed historical maps to Peale's edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and waa a member of the American Historical Association and the National Geographic Society...
...What value Sinclair's documents, and denunciations will have today is doubtful, because of this very throat-clutch he ia exposing...
...Thero have been many books written about and around Lincoln...
...Psychology recognises a universal tendency to "rationalise" our actions, to find eternal right and justice in those things that benefit us...
...her laughter sounds a little shrill and hollow...
...Caesar came from a place called Rome, of which I had also heard in church...
...more like tb* criminal insane...
...One of the Lusk Laws provided for the dismissal of any teacher "who advocates a form of government other than the government of the United States or of this state...
...His latest book is a study of America between 1830 and 1850 when Fanny Elssler, beloved of Napoleon's aon, danced in New York, when Cherlee Dickens was given a gawdy reception...
...The book has several photogravure portraits and h excellently printed...
...Next, his report of Charl 0. Williams, 1922 President, now life director and field secretary of the N. E. A. (the National Educational Association, the authorized national body of educational workers) making her welcoming'address St the first N. E, A. international educational conference...
...Someone has compared this'novel ; to Shukepeaie...
...It has withdrawn from making common cause with the labor movement of the rest of the world...
...Simply the niddl*class did not feel it very much...
...In the jute mill* of Calcutta, operated by Kngliahmcn | who reap enormous profits, unskilled men get $1.00 a week, women 85 cents, and boys 67 cents a week...
...By Baas Macaulay...
...Harvey Maitland Watts comes to the defense of Babbitt America in "Please Kick Me...
...Another debate is on the Indian question in which Flora Warren Seymour attempts to sweep aside the "sentimentalists," after tire fashion of Podsnap, who seek justice for the Indian.* Mary Austin has little difficulty in presenting the case of the Indian...
...She can't keep up her semblance of merriment when she arrives at the world war...
...they held aloof from the common Ufa, and pretended it was a very jolly world...
...He says, "the war seems to have marked the close of an epoch...
...Fannie Hurst and Anna Douglas Sedgwick contribute the fiction...
...For two year* I have not dared to lay hands on a man, If you beat one now, hundred* will go for you...
...British labor seeks an economic bill of rights ao far as it can be obtained in the present capitalist world...
...That was dangerous metaphysics on Shakespeare's part, and is no less so because apparently accepted by Miaa | Macaulay...
...By Henry B. Kan kin...
...to the delegates from China and Czecho-Slovakia, and other countries weary of the devastation of the war she spoke: " 'It has been thought by some that this meeting is wholly in the interest of peace...
...Is the overpowering accumulation >f evidence Sinclair produces, of rraft, favoritism, propaganda and -epression—can it all be true ? I repeat what I said in regard to "The 3oo*e-Step," that, despite individual irrors that may have crept in, there s a ring of stern truth about the iook that no unbiased reader can ioubt...
...RYAN WALKER...
...It haa sought no alliance with the intellectuals as In Great Britain and Europe...
...It may grow up to aspire to earn a dollar a week in this mill...
...it's the truth for them, whether or not for the rest of humankind...
...Most of the character* run true to prudish form...
...Psul Kammerer, the Vienna biologist, present s popular interpretation of his criticism of Darwinism under the title of "The Inheritance of the New...
...Caesar came and went, and I gathered that he said he conquered—but when ho want he left English history blank for nearly a century...
...When Dr...
...A widower, without relatives, with dogs as his only compsnions, he took refuge in a little old cabin in a local recreation park...
...The first, in Sinclair's words, speaking of a principal, who "boasts that he la ready at any time to place the entire student body of the Institute at the disposal of the police to break strikes...
...Where the old policies "sought to put power behind the individual nation, the new will seek id pet power behind the law...
...New York: George H. Doran Co...
...There is no plot The family'* Tom, Dick...
...But those in power need not be told...
...Vet the Teachers' Union is still tarred from meeting in school buildings, and shivers course along the ipines of many a teacher when some ion of a worker asks an innocent juration about Socialism or about Russia But most of the children ire ao well subdued that questions irise already framed from the proper point of view, at presented in "The )utlook," "The Literary Digest," and 'The Independent," or by the Doteys ind the doting disciples of the powers that be...
...It is a book of entertainment and instruction, whether in or between the lines...
...There he lived the life of a recluse until discovered by the local authorities, who frowned upon his mode of living...
...The ties that knit them together make the Cobden-Bright theory out of date while the balance of power idea is baaed upon strategy...
...The one man in a.thousand Shaw exempts ia strong enough to face the reality the 299 are shirking This situation is precisely that of society st Urge, save that the imaginary figures might be I' iter distributed...
...and Harry, likewise it* female members, each is exploited in turn for two or three pages with effect som«what kaleidoscopic...
...Sinclair, with the intelligence to see things clearly and the courage to cry out what he sees, has naturally been the target of much abuse and personal attack, which has, perhaps, made him find hypocrisy where there it only ignorsnce, The Babbitts who support the system are as much its victims aa the workers who struggle against it...
...In the midst of promised success and honor, a Chicago firm that was financing him in publishing his works, failed and left the old man penniless...
...They ordered him to move to the county charitable institution, and there he whiled away his last days of his life with his books...
...It has behaved worse than an idiot...
...In "Psychology and Common Sense" Thomas Craven proceeds to demolish Lawrence Buermeyr and his opinions on art...
...There I* hardly a glimpse of anything outside England in thi* tale...
...It is interesting to read Rankin's very beautiful tribute to Herndon, Lincoln's law partner and candid biographer, who once was so full of life and the love of living and who later became a recluse and aaid: "If you see my good friend Death, tell him I am ready and waiting for him and wish he would come soon...
...The author points out the universal use Of opium, even among children in India and tells of the Government refusing to close one opium shop in Calcutta because tome "2,500 people frequented it daily...
...Clare's own history is one of disappointment and suffering...
Vol. 1 • March 1924 • No. 9
