Where the News Ends
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
Where the News Ends By Charles Yale Harrison "VLTBO was the greatest French ^author of the •* nineteenth century?" a visiting foreigner once asked a leading French literary critic The reply,...
...But it's still O.K...
...On the basis of the present increase in farm population, at least 2,000,000 excess children will grow to working age in the next ten years," testified Frank Lorimer, Professor of Population Studies at American University...
...Probably no previous years have witnessed such turmoil, changing conditions, collapse of moid ait social values...
...The Time of Your Life," he replied...
...Of course, but not only had Hitler long prepared to crush Scandivania...
...Louis Hendin, Sexafino Romualdi and Dr...
...All this ac-By counts for the J- f fact that some A^km» Amm of the labor VA/ ^X \ chief's- aides 7 '^BtJLS^-' were held in-•J^—^V' com municado ^W«*f)*C for eight to ^ft^^ky ten hours aft-»• er the arrest...
...Hence they publish such musical masterpieces as "Songs for America" under the auspices of the'Workers Library Publishers...
...Walter P. Cannon is leading the fight for real Spanish refugee aid...
...Rudolf Katz...
...THE NEW LEADER BOARD...
...We may wen hope that it will contribute much to ending the strife that is threatening ruin to all concerned...
...Organized twenty-six years ago, the union's history began with the outbreak of the World War...
...Gran'ma...
...But patronage by the government or any other semi-official body is not only harmful...
...it is downright destructive...
...eliminated) It's spreading thru every town...
...No medal, plaque or award can compensate for these...
...And so it is with our own William Saroyan...
...For those with the supple spines, there are rewards, honors and medals...
...on the West Coast Bishop Parson is in charge, and in Philadelphia the Reverend MacCullum has joined the spreading revolt against CP control of Spanish aid...
...This is anti-fascist weather...
...THE SOCIALIST PARTY GRIEVES 'J'HE National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party according to its statement "heard with profound g*i*j and anger the news of the Nazi occupation of Denmark aBO the attack on Norway" and balanced this with the H*** Communist formula that Britain shares responsibility fa this crime by having mined Norwegian territorial waters...
...All stories in P.M...
...And those who print his stuff help him do it...
...I asked...
...So isolated are the Stalinites in this sector that they have been reduced to having Doc Barsky, Ferdinand Smith of the NMU, Ray Kuntz of the Furriers Joint Council, Herbert Witt of the ASU, and David White of the Lincoln Brigade front for them...
...And so let us give an appropriate welcome to this latest manifestation of unmitigated hypocrisy by singing with our Communist friends the last few lines of their musical masterpiece: "Sister...
...It.will all be well camouflaged and timed for mid-summer to break at the height of the warring abroad...
...As a result, all free expression is choked to death by official ukase...
...Leon Goodelman...
...This, when in the same issue of the N. Y. Times carrying the story, there is also reported the testimony of agricultural experts regarding living conditions for youth on our farms...
...B. R. Crisler of The Times movie department...
...Meanwhile, led by Reverend Reissig, those who ejected the commissars from the Spanish Relief Committee have set up centers at all strategic points...
...We shook hands and after the polite literary compliments, he quickly seized the opportunity of telling me that he had just written another play...
...New York...
...eliminated) Be prepared for stormy weather...
...By no means an amateur in the art of self-praise, I was compelled to admit that at last I had found my master...
...As a leading exponent of Social Democracy...
...Is it a good job...
...Forger Anti-Fascism There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the 1940 Communist line in song...
...hell," he exclaimed...
...Nice going, Saroyan, nice going...
...A committee that adopts such a resolution lives jj* vacuum and is unable to understand the gigantic ^on**.r!\ are shaking civilization...
...I remarked ip honest admiration, thinking of the snail's pace at which I work...
...Dream"—thfe, at a time when 40% of the youth willing and able to work, can't find jobs...
...Nothing, of course, is further from the truth...
...These changes are so revealing as to the old and new Communist line that thy are worth quoting: "Now's the time to get together...
...American Youth Commission figures...
...Think of rt 1 Five days...
...This isn't the first time Dewey has rushed an indictment to grab off bold type...
...THE AMALGAMATED CONVENTION QREETINGS to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, which will open its national convention it Madison Square Garden next Monday...
...One important columnist reports that he knows the identity of the German and Russian agents devising the propaganda dissemination—which will be based on transmission belt technique...
...to attack the Bund, for even the German coiisul in America is incensed at the Bundist Bunglers...
...in Boston Br...
...he had also sunk hundreds of neutral Scandinavian ships despite these facts the N.E.C...
...If the laborer is worthy of his hire, so is the artist, whose work is more arduous than the manual worker's...
...may yet learn that what was done to Denmark and Norway was done to Austria, Czecho-Slovak...
...Dr...
...Alas, he is one of our greatest writers* I first met Saroyan at a party about a year ago...
...and Harold Green-waJd, whom we knew as Harold Patch when he was youth secretary of the American League for Peace and Democracy—is now at work and soon will pro-dace a special...
...A modern Tolstoi is no more: possible in the Soviet Union then a twentieth -century Goethe is possible in the Third Heidi...
...What do you plan to call it...
...Was it tough going...
...With an important Catholic auxiliary organization no* on record in favor of the Corporative State in this country, it will be interesting to watch its covert propaganda in responsible Catholic publications...
...With saccharine sweetness they are repeating the old myth of the "American...
...In fact, you'd better forget that you were once an anti-fascist...
...JpOR 1 7 years, from the very inception of The New Leader, James Oneal has served not only as editor but as s. steadfast and reliable guide, through every emergency ass] trying period...
...a visiting foreigner once asked a leading French literary critic The reply, barbed, witty and apt, was instantaneous: "Alas, Victor Hugo...
...After pushing the "Popular Front," Sinclair's reputation was hit by the pact, and -his stunt now is merely en attempt to erase his pre-August defense of the "line...
...But this, on the other hand, was carrying things too far...
...It's marvelous...
...We do want to express our profound and deepest appreciation...
...He leaned forward, placed his hand on my shoulder and whispered in my ear...
...Of course, payment in the form of a fee or royalties for a piece of writing or a painting is something else again...
...Poland and Albania, and that Hitler's "Mein Kampf frankly declares that he intends to do the same to all E»u*P» and the rest of the world...
...It is like some of the neutrsJ»j it will not recognize the yawning totalitarian abyss or* itfaJleik...
...substituted) They're shaking the sash off Hitler's mustache (eliminated) It's shaking the fat off Hoover's new hat (substituted) And the buttons off of Goer-ing'tf uniform (substituted) And the Bund right cart <arf- their uniform, (substituted) Oh, won't it make a great sensation When it hits a fascist nation, (eliminated) When it rolls across the nation, The democratic population Doin' the demonstration...
...A Statement by tht Board of Director...
...Splendid...
...Having got that far, the eminent members of the N-E-C-then added that "Events have proved that Hitler had leaf prepared his attack on Scandinavia...
...Innocent "anti-war" frontage will be extensive...
...This song was written in 1939, before the'' Russian invasion of Finland,' when the Communists were "hot and bothered" over Collective Security...
...I asked, holding my peace...
...Moreover, Britain and fr"*6* have not destroyed a single neutral, but they have tried *» make all neutrals understand that the totalitarian* intend *• destroy them...
...for his loyal service to The New Leader and for his forty years of devotion to net' labor movement, and to Social Democracy...
...The New Leader Board has ^designated its Editoral Committee, consisting of Dr...
...A staff of 75—recent additions to which are Tom Davin, formerly of the New Masses, Jimmie Wechsler of the Nation...
...to take charge until other arrangements are made...
...ALTHOUGH no formal an-nouncement has been made, George Backer has quiety assumed the editorship of the New York Post...
...WHETHER Olin Downes, New V York Times" music critic, and Richard .Watts, Jr., drama critic of the Herald Tribune know it or hot, they will be speaking under Communist auspices when they appear at the second annual American music festival of the Dorothy Parker Spanish Children's Relief Fund Committee, May-8, at Mecca Temple...
...will be identified by the writers' initials...
...When art is official, only the party hack, the time-server and the sycophant can survive...
...vv ¦I'm inclined to think that the simpering modesty of most writers is simulated and false, 8 .carry-over of the days when writers ate with the servants...
...So watch for CP...
...preview edition" for charter subscribers...
...John A. Lapp, leading liberal Catholic layman in the Middle West, is honorary chairman of the reorganized Chicago Committee...
...Every honest writer, I am certain, will agree with Saroyan that official awards are dangerous both to the recipient and to aft itself...
...All-too-frequently those who sit in the seats of the mighty are prone to look upon art as an idle occupation suitable only for social misfits...
...1*1 ALF genius, half mountebank, Saroyan has * * the uncanny faculty of being right in the most direct and telling mariner...
...substituted) Save your voice and good shoe leather For doin' the demonstration...
...Art is the transmission belt of the most profound emotions of which a nation is capable...
...A new CP...
...Inasmuch as they are always thorough in everything they do, they deemed it expedient to bring the words of the song up to date...
...Within a quarter-century the Amalgamated has pioneered in* many fields with success and it today faces one of the gravest problems of our time—the reunion of aM democratic elements of the labor movement in a greater federation"4k fight the totalitarian menace and to preserve the gains meat by organized workers in the past seven years...
...Jfea/id ok tUe Jdejjt By VICTOR RIESEL MEWSPAPERMEN around town have gotten wind of a Tinge fund for the broadcasting, via radio and the press, of a widespread "hate England" campaign which will coincide with anti-Allied drives in Europe...
...And, as Saroyan remarks, "it is the most important element in the identity of a people...
...The theatre has been waiting for just this sort of thing...
...Splendid...
...It probably was too expensive for them to issue an entirely new edition of the book merely be-"xause the words of one song had been revamped, and so the Young Gommunists were instructed to cross out the outmoded phrases and to substitute the newer ones...
...We cannot adequately express our regrets at the resif-nation of Comrade Oneal...
...Uncle...
...Its members, then largely immigrant in character, were misunderstood by native members of the United Garment Workers, of which the Amalgamated became an offshoot...
...The Patterson group came in last in the recent primaries...
...We are sure that all over the nation CIO and AFL men* bers will eagerly read the decision made by the convennei on this issue, knowing that the Amalgamated holds one of the important key positions in deciding it...
...I asked...
...I wrote it in five days," he said...
...These books are put into the hands of the Young Communists and fellow-travelers who sing their way to"victory...
...Hitler and Stalin think the same way and said so...
...Protagonists of democracy win fight all of them...
...The rewards in art, that is to say, the fundamental rewards, are inherent in art: the joy 'of a job well done, the supreme sense of satisfaction when obstacles are overcome, the feeling that order and form has been torn 'from the chaos of formlessness...
...Instead, shout that you're an anti-Hooverite...
...picket lines around those houses planning to revive the ancient film...
...The N.E.C...
...The story is featured, but no mention of A. Phillip Randolph's speech is 6een nor does his name and what he stood for appear anywhere in the columns...
...Originally he intended to appoint a well-known editor to fill the post vacated when Harry T. Saylor went to the Philadelphia Record with Dave Stern...
...Any victim of Hemingway's rancor can always find a friend in me...
...The CP's attempt to set up a new national organization to "aid Spanish refugees" has fizzled . . . although the commissars will tell you that a Provisional Resident Executive Committee of 27 persons was elected to head the new group known as the North American Spanish Aid Committee...
...Cousin...
...As the present phase of totalitarian aggression was getting under way in Europe last September, newspaper headlines obscured an important decision of American National Catholic Action when it declared that "a corporatire state, based on occupational grouping of electorates, with unicameral legislatures should be established in America...
...World Changed Unfortunately for the song, things have happened since the songbook was published last year, and- the Communists have been forced to adopt a new political line...
...Doin' the Demonstration" New York...
...Magnates Tell Jobless Youth To Work Hard From Daniel Bell To the Editor: A group of corporation executives are telling a bunch of college boys up in Rochester this week that all one needs for success is a willingness to "get your hands dirty in working...
...IOE CURRAN is preparing ** for strike upheavals on the waterfront, * * * A TTEMPTS led by Lieutenant-*¦ Governor Patterson in California to beat the delegation pledged to a third term and elect a slate which was ready to work with John Lewis' third party fizzled badly...
...If you turn to pages 62-64, you will find a "song called "Doin' the Demonstration" (inspired probably by the hit song from "Pins and Needles" called "Doin' the Reactionary...
...I felt rather warmly toward him from the start, if for no other reason that he had recently aroused the anger of Ernest Hemingway...
...And it may well- be that this directness and effectiveness is one of the attributes of great talent, uertainiy, his refusal the other day to accept the Pulitzer award for his play The Time ef Your Life, while smacking of studied iropishness and shrewd self...
...One of his functions was to spread international propaganda boosting Soviet movies...
...The primary difference between the first and second two brands is that the first is offered m terms of religious piety...
...A writer in "America," the Catholic weekly, declared that this decision was "comparable in historical significance to the Declaration of Independence...
...No-one denied the genius of the aathor of Les Miserable!, hut the man's execrable pubic manners and his colossal egocentricity were more than even his admirers could stomach...
...Baby...
...Father Coughlin's "Social Justice" has from time to tj»e carried material favoring this idea of the Corporative State, and his "Christian Front" ha* served as a Fifth Column t» recruit the faithful for its support...
...It's Dot only good, it's a great theatrical work...
...No...
...hustled along and snatched Scalise before the headlines could spotlight the Federal _ _ agency instead A^m\m\m of himself...
...It is for the -Corporative State of Dollfuss in Austria, Mussolini in Italy, and Franco in Spain, would tear up the Declaration and prohibit the circulation of all other democratic literature in thil country...
...It was shortly after some of the critics had panned his first play, nevertheless he was exuberant and self-assured...
...advertisement, was basically sound and praiseworthy...
...Leyda now supervises the editing of a new magazine called Films.- His chief associates arfe Lees Strasberg, Mary Loesy, and" Robert Stebbins, of New Masses notoriety...
...No more barbs at Hitler or Goering...
...These copies of Mr...
...As you are no doubt aware, the Communists - work not only through politics, but also through song and dance...
...A WASHINGTON Department **• of Justice squad was on its way to pick up the ex-budlding service chief George ScaliSe when ¦Dewey got wind of it, word from Washington reveals...
...U|UCH discussed for months, "* the new nickel afternoon picture newspaper P.M...
...The issue is not en* ** religion but of democracy and freedom against all brands of totalitarianism whether it be Catholic, Protestant, Atheist or Pagan, although the clerics will do what they cai to gloss it over with sanctimonious piety...
...IF there's any doubt that the * CIO officially is cooperating with sections of the Communist Party's recognized front apparatus, it is rapidly being dispelled by such tilings as the report of the National Negro Congress in the CIO News and bulletin...
...In Paris, London and New York, (eliminated) From San Francisco to New York, (substituted) It's taking the world by storm...
...tell you this in confidence, Harrison...
...CLERICAL TOTALITARIANISM QF the types of totalitarian dictatorship offered here sad abroad, the religious is the most disgusting...
...Even here in America, the various writers' projects quickly degenerated, in most cases, into happy hunting grounds for artistic incompetents and political racketeers...
...Thus even in method the clerical fascism is an imitation of Russian and Germs* totalitarianism...
...Such astounding self-confidence could only spring from the cheapest sort fef showmanship or from extraordinary talent Or both...
...will definitely hit the streets on the early forenoon of June 18...
...Dewey* Attorney General Jackson was much surprised and chagrined when the New York report came in...
...TPHE novel by Upton Sinclair * which some left-wing papers are serializing- ^-as "exclusive"— was- peddled free of charge to all takers, merely as a publicity trick...
...IF Nelson Rockefeller, of the oil * millions, will look sharply into his Museum of Modern Art, he'll find that his assistant curator of the Film Library—one Jay Leyda . —was formerly an important propaganda commissar in Moscow, where he worked on documentary films under the aegis of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Literature...
...Ingersoll's "new kind of paper" will not be Bold to the public...
...win the Negro campaign" will shortly^ be launched by the commissars' film front as the 25th anniversary of the motion picture Birth of a Nation rolls around...
...James Oiiajl has given the desired character to The New Leader, so that today it stands out as the leading periodical of Social Democrcay in America...
...In Germany, Italy and Russia all art comes under the heel of the dominant party—a sort of vast, all-pervasive Pulitzer board of trustees...
...c^Qe Hers —-f--——To the Editor CP Sings a New Tune/ Anti-Fascist Lyrics Out From 5. P. Rosenthal To the Editor: I have something before me which' may well become a historical document...
...We are faced," said Mr...
...He is dark, a little below medium height, and—if you like the type— somewhat handsome...
...Brother...
...The Manhattan D.A...
...The PrxXeSr tan type (Winrod-Smith) differs little from the Cathobx (Coughlin-Curran-Franco-Mussolini) type, and both -ea*l|r the despotism that is typical of the Atheist (Stalin) and Pagan (Hitler) brands...
...The few talented writers who were compelled to work on the projects were soon hamstrung by -political intrigue and chicanery...
...Lorimer, "With an immediate problem in the coming of age of, nearly 400,000 farm youth each year, at a time when there are already more people in agriculture than can be supported at a decent level of living without perpetual subsidy, in a nation which has not yet achieved the means of employing its natural wealth and human resources effectively in servicing the needs of its people...
...In refusing the Pulitzer prize, Saroyan has once again pointed the question of art and art patronage...
...declares that Britain «d wrong to mine Norwegian waters...
...If this' is so—and it is!—then it is the height of impertinence for a group of politicians or successful businessmen to set themselves up as a board of arbiters to pass judgment upon the work of their betters...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 19
