Where the News Ends

...And he certainly ought to cite as a witness for his defense the publisher who advanced the Goebbelsian proposition that publishers ought to comb over their titles and eliminate all books critical of the Soviet Union or of any of the Allied powers...

...What is an exceptional blunder under Roosevelt was the regular thing, under the Republicans...

...I am glad to see The New Leader publish several good articles arguing against this trend, and I wish to specially commend the cogent article by Alfred Baker Lewis...

...Last Sunday Mr...

...On the day after hie death last week, the editorial departments of our daily press united quite properly to do him honor...

...SACCO AND VANZETTI A LAWRENCE LOWELL was a great man, **>· a great citizen and a great college president...

...It was a nasty business, and the evidence plainly showed that Mr...

...But what is ominous about the case of the Kremlin Gremlin is that today such a large part of the world is in step with his ideas of thought control...

...Boal could have asked the White House to obtain the aid -of U. S. labor leaders in appealing for the end of the walkout at the tin mines...

...The sheet is just too inferaaay dull and badly written, even though the annouB**-Snent that it is published by the "Freedom of ?* Press Company" is funny enough to make the traditional wooden Indian in front of a cigar store laugh...

...I don't seem to be able to...

...Fortunately, there would seem to be little danger of this...

...He should never have made it...

...And he more than any other voices the spirit that unites Britain and America...

...He could have practised balanced intervention, if he felt that it was imperative to act without consulting President Roosevelt...

...MORRISON SPEAKS UP...

...Thpy invite comparisons, and for them comparisons are always bad...

...He reported to the Governor that the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti had been fair...

...relation to the state...

...He wants it preserved, "not just because it is British, but because it is good and will be better...

...The upper class groups were emotionally involved...

...If we come up* to this standard, a nation which but a few years ago was producing at a rate of 40 billions per year must turn out goods at the rate of upward of 165 billions...

...There was a general feeling that there was no conclusive evidence against them...

...by 40 ft...

...The strike was suppressed by the military...

...THE writer of this column spent the first days * of the New Year in New York, solaced with good fellowship and harassed with a racking cough, one of the maladies of the season...

...The new Washington column by Jonathan Stout packs a healthy and needed punch...

...Unless he withdraws it, the Senate has the plain duty of rejecting it...

...During the final days of that tragic time President Lowell was placed on a committee by the Governor to review the evidence and advise him...

...The expanded working force will, for the most part, spend more than an equal group of persons unemployed or only partly employed...

...India*" he said, "can have full self-government for the taking...

...He Wae the heritor of the best traditions of New-England culture and scholarship...

...One of the minor by-products of the trip was a better acquaintance with that stalwart American house-organ of the Third International The Dmag Worker...

...But- all of these Republicans — McNary, Willis, Bridges—cut a poor figure trying to make political ammunition out of this blunder...

...The screwball we have always wth us...

...The commercial press could be expected to handle Ryan's remarks as they would the proverbial "live coal" or "hot potato...

...Yet if we look back to the works which give' the most living and convincing picture of Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, it seems evident that those which best stand the test of retrospective reading are neither the more one-sided revolutionary propaganda exercises nor the spologies for the old regime offered by paid and unpaid stooges of the Tsars...

...So I end with an appeal to ? well-wishers and ill-wishers to send me *» future vituperative tributes of Sender Gerilj which I am filing under the special heading af "Asininiana...

...I am surprised, however, that The New Leader made no comments on the address which Monsignor John A. Ryan, also of the Catholic University of Washington, made at Cleveland recently...

...To the Editor: - The apparently growing tendency of certain liberals, progressives, and erstwhile near-Socialists, to doubt the virtue of Socialism as a better social order has perturbed me considerably...

...This was brought home to me recently when I encountered on a train a well-known and inveterate "fellow-traveler,' in the special professional meaning of the term...

...and the book defacer is a pathological problem that has long plagued librarians and police authorities...

...The burden of mounting taxes can be eased by improved payment plans...

...I can only conceive one means by which he could get under my skin, and this would W by expressing approval of or agreement wiA anything I might have written...

...It was an outstanding example of "obscurantism" and ideological confusion...

...Not one of these works could be characterised as "pro" or "anti" in relation to the existing Russian political regime...

...The total national production which' the President envisions .is enormous...

...Discusses Recent Sheen, Ryan Speeches From HERBERT M. MERRILL To the Editor: Probably Monsignor Sheen's radio sermon of January 10th deserves no comment in The New Leader...

...LOWELL...

...Only in a. wider system of political security," he proclaimed in his forthright way, "will the Commonwealth find its own salvation...

...Chicago...

...Despite his distinguished lineage, he was no conservative in the field of education...

...Flynn was in it...

...Items in the budget which are threatened with cuts are absolutely essential if food production is not to be reduced...

...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Comments Lewis Article on Democracy ancf Collectivism From ?. E. EDSON State Secretary, Florida S.D.F...

...What the expenditure of a hundred billion dollars in one year means to the average citizen is that we are all in the Army now, all in the war, that each of us must give and do every last thing to win the fight, and that we can have left for private enjoyment oniy the money and time and goods and strength that are marginal to this supreme effort...

...In the summer of 1927 two humble citizens, Nicola Sacco and Bartol-meo Vanzetti, were condemned to death by a Massachusetts court...

...He might well exchange telegrams of congratulations with the Nazi book-burners...

...But in the perspective of time it looks like the most momentous concern of his life...

...A large part of the achievement of Harvard University during the past generation is due to innovations which he conceived and developed on a grand scale and put into operation with distinguished executive ability...

...TIN TEMPEST ^4UR efforts to create an espirit de corps among all American nations has been hurt by this country's misunderstanding and frequent ignorance of the temper and traditions of our Latin friends...

...He speaks of an average civilian consumption of about $500.00...

...One of the leaders of this intellectual retreat is Max Eastman, with his misconceived doubts concerning the compatiblity of "Socialism and Human Nature...

...Robert Watt, fiery AFL international representative, is a committee member...

...Here is another example of th\ arrogating of powers by diplomatic officials...

...But the budget must be passed...

...He, as much as any other man, speaks out of the deep heart of England...

...Enclosed is a renewal of a subscription and two subscriptions for friends...

...Every dominion began as a dependency...

...In comparison with Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, President Roosevelt has set a high standard in his appointments...

...Sender Garlin, has been giving me so much publicity that, to a modest, unobtrusive persos) like myself, the situation becomes positively embarrassing...

...The simplicity of certain congressional minds has never been more naively revealed than in the suggestion that we save by cutting government non-war expenditures in half...

...I have seen ho evidence to indicate that democratic collectivism or Socialism in economics and industry, will 'tend to destroy liberty ^??* initiative any more than it has in...

...He greeted me with somewhat suspicious and oily cordiality and then began to ply me with questions about Russia...

...American education is deeply indebted to this man...

...Failure of this legislation to become law allegedly precipitated the strike which cut down the United Nations' supply of a scarce metal...

...According to the Associated Press report of Dr...

...When I told him that the books which I personally regarded as most valuable about Russia, or about any other subject, were not those which were written in the stymie of a eulogy or an indictment, but those which hewed closest to straightforward description of people and things as they are, the point just didn't sink in...

...WHAT THE WAR BUDGET MEANS IN his budget message the President did a * masterly job in placing emphasis where it belongs...

...I did my best to give him the information which he requested about books which would give an objective picture of Russia, ?? his first and last question about every author whom I mentioned was: Is he "pro" or "anti...

...democracy, and I maintained that not only was democratic Socialism possible, but wherever to the limited degree it had been tried it had not only had beneficial results, but instead of tending to destroy democratic rights and liberties, had fostered their growth and improvement.' Alfred Baker Lewis has demonstrated beyond question that instead of Socialism or collectivism bringring despotism, on the contrary every case of despotic collectivism was preceded by political despotism which simply made use of collectivism as 2 more efficient f????^??^?????/^' "4?d industry which despotism perverted to , its nefarious purposes...

...given carte blanche in Bolivia so that the South Americans will learn that the United States is a nation of good working people as well as of stuffy career diplomats and the mighty dollar...

...The country will immediately recall Daugherty, Fall and Brown...

...Morrison enlarged upon the statement of the Premier in such a way as to allay suspicion and greatly increase the confidence of millions both here and in England...

...Ryan's speech, the returning soldiers and sailors of World War II will insist on jobs and will "not be satisfied or fooled by the old claptrap concerning 'rugged individualism,' What a shock it must have been to our Coughlins and Cardinal O'Connell for Monsignor Ryan to bluntly assert his disbelief in "an economy dominated by the philosophy of free enterprise' The quality of the articles in The New Leader improves with every issue...

...For all of this the entire nation is endebted to this New England aristocrat...

...He could have appealed to the mine operators and the Bolivian government to negotiate with the miners and grant them part of their wage demands...

...It must be understood that the military effort itself requires enormous civilian expenditures...

...good work in that^or?ectlon...

...it can readily be imagined what dreary tripe we should have been reduced to if this super-Gremlin of the publishing trade had got his idea accepted...

...At that great moment when all the teachings of life were put to the test, A. Lawrence Lowell miserably failed...

...He is reported to have opposed proposed pro-labor legislation about to be passed in Bolivia...

...For a long time The Daily Worker has hat« launching a bid to attract me as a subscriber...

...Labor leaders were jailed, and it is feared that some of-them will die of ill treatment...

...IT is one of the characteristic features of our * age of violence and unreason that it often generates a type of mind that cannot think of books except as brickbats or lethal weapons...

...w? must combat this mistaken notion, and' The New Leader is doing...

...But we can combine forward policies of education with opportunities for native peoples to take a developing part in the forms of self-government" ' Mr...

...Its Number One Hatchetman and star columnist...

...Three of the most satisfying descriptive interpretations of Russia during the period between the abolition of serfdom and the first World War -are Mackenzie Wallace's Rueeia...

...I was strongly impressed by the recent incident (told in these columns by Matthew Low) of the individual who had set himself up as a volunteer agent of the OGPU in New York and fulfilled his functions by defacing and mutilating all the books on Russia in the Public Library which did not meet his ideas of Party line orthodoxy...

...This Labor man, this spokesman of the common people, is now definitely the foremost representative of Britain's war purpose and peace ideals...

...The herd instinct conquered the scholar and teacher...

...It is flattering to have a Boswell-in-reverse of this type, someone who knows a great deal mors about you than you know yourself or than to actually so...

...wisdom of putting Herbert Morrison in * the British War Cabinet is becoming clearer every day...

...Here is a Catholic educator who professes supreme contempt for what apologists of capitalism are so fond of lauding as "our free enterprise system...

...As fast as changes occur in the character of the war, there will be points at which expenditures can be cut...

...V EDITORIAL COMMENT FLYNN AND THE REPUBLICANS THE appointment of Boss Edward J. Flynn to be Minister to Australia and a sort of Ambassador at Large to the Pacific area is an insult both to Australia and to the United States...

...He referred sympathetically to Henry Wallace's recent speech, thus uniting British Laborites and American liberals in the same purposes...

...Boat's action is symptomatic of the intolerable practices of many of our officials, who lost in the obscurity created by the limelight on other fronts, misinterpret our policies and their duties to the detriment of the war effort...

...an article or even a book-review anywhere Without ^ having- Sender trumpeting away in fott chorus, repeating the old moth-eaten lie that 1 am a star contributor to the Hearst press (far which I have never written a line in my life) or bursting out in some such melodramatic apostrophe as the following: "William Henry Chamberlin is the blood brother of Neville Chamberlain, the area-scoundrel of Munich...

...His own energies went in part to governmental activities, and his reorientation of education was functionally directed so far as his class limitations permitted him to encompass social and political purposes...

...Instead of rising to the old moral tradition of New-England, he followed his emotions and went with his upper-class mob...

...Fancy Sheen associating Karl Marx with German philosophers responsible for Nazism...

...One of the most damaging blows to U. S. prestige among the Latin people was-Struck recently by Pierre Boal, U. S. ambassador to Bolivia, the nation of tin mines...

...Let us hope that the time is not too far distant when we can regain that level of reasoned objectivity in relation to present-day Russia, although an outright diatribe is probably not ? distasteful to people on the mental level of the Kremlin Gremlin as the soberly phrased, solidly documental work that hews to a line that is not necessarily the Party line...

...Boal undoubtedly was motivated by the need of our munitions industry for tin...

...Secretary of State Hull has appointed a commission to investigate the Bolivian controversy...

...I said that the failures of "Socialism" which Eastman cited were not representative, because they all lacked the most essential principle of true Socialism, viz...

...But if to every man and nation there maybe said to come one moment that tests quality and establishes status, it must be recorded that at this supreme moment A. Lawrence Lowell failed to live up to his high tradition and fell grotesquely below the moral level which he might have reached...

...all contain valuahU observations on the characteristics of the Russian people, on the nature of the Russian land, the special qualities of Russian historical development...

...Even if non-essentials are abolished, the cost-of-living in materials will be high...

...When low-down, politically-motiyated appointments are mentioned, the Republicans—if they are wise—will maintain a discreet silence...

...It is all good clean fu ? and I would venture to lay a bet that Sender doesn't imagine how much delight he gives me whenever he lets out a new war-whoop of hate and swings his little tommy-hawk...

...Under these circumstances we may be sure that Herbert Morrison speaks for a public that by far transcends his own party...

...Bearing it is a part—the civilians' part—of the common fight...

...We have experts on that great and now crucial area...

...Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu's The Empire of the Tsars and tit Russians and Harold Williams' Russia and the Russians...

...Now the President proposes to elevate him suddenly from the wards of the Bronx to the wide world of the Pacific...

...w "The Most Stimulating Paper In tbe Country" From LES#EM BRAUN ?? the Editor: For the small* price paid, The New Leader is far and away the greatest "bargain" in the liberal publishing field, The battery of writers assembled by The New Leader, their pungency of argument and cogency of thought make the paper the most stimulating in the country...

...The peoples of the Commonwealth will be quite unable to work out policies of economic welfare for themselves on the basis of exclusive cultivation of their own imperial garden...

...This, incidentally, cleared up a baffling mystery: the Binet-Simon level at which Sender must recruit most of his readers...

...When hardworking miners struck for higher wages and the end of a baronial system which would make old Harlan, Ky., appear a model village, Boal sided with the monopolistic tin cartel in fighting the stoppage...

...Inasmuch as neither America nor any other country has reached a stage of perfection where some measure of criticism is not called for...

...Morrison can see a prosperous and happy post-war Britain only as part of a world organization...

...This may have seemed a small affair to the man who secured more than a hundred million dollars for the Harvard endowment fund...

...Indeed, he might plead in his own defense that he was only carrying out on his own account practices which are taken for granted in countries inhabited by hundreds of millions of people, by nations with old and honorable literary traditions...

...Florida...

...Their health can be maintained only tf they have good food and clothes and medical care...

...This remark applies especially to our farmers...

...The New Leader does not blandly assume, as Senate Leader Barkley seems forced to do, that "those grand juries were honest...

...And it was titillating to get SB abusive threatening letter from someone who, ? the good old American phrase, was obviously "not quite bright," enclosing one of Sendert smear columns, which evidently possessed for him the authority of Holy Writ...

...Such an industrial effort has hitherto been dreamed of only by our most starry-eyed planners...

...The burden must be taken up...

...He has stated more forcefully and conclusively, but from a different point of view, the argument which I tried to express and which I feel Eastman evaded...

...The man simply has nothing that goes into the making of a diplomat except the cleverness and personal charm of a successful politician...

...Since their execution their case has been exhaustively studied by legal experts, and the conclusion always reached is that they were innocent...

...But when it came down to the hard brass tacks of laying out a subscription for The 0a«e» Worker, I balked after looking through a is* sample copies...

...the sphere of political governinenTf...

...At least six million more workers will be required...

...I don't know whether he believed he could convert me to his own seraphic faith that all was always for the best in the world while Stalin was in the Kremlin, or whether he thought he was acquiring some insight into the thought processes of a "counter-revolutionary...

...He deserves credit, also, for the emphasis which he placed upon citizenship, upon the function of education in...

...It is important that records be kept clear...

...The discussion had grown so hot that men could not read the plain record of the trial and act according to the evidence...

...Profits can be held down...

...The one by C. Wright Mills of Maryland was equally good...

...In making this appointment, the President was playing old-fashioned politics at the expense of the country's foreign service...

...Morrison gives a clear and sane and truthful account of the Empire...

...Every one achieved full self-government by the practical working out of democratic principles...

...All witnesses testify that party politics are adjourned in Britain and that the people are united as never before...

...As for some of the colonies, "It would be sheer ignorant and dangerous nonsense to talk about grants of full self-government for some time to come...

...Congress can do a great service by spying out waste...

...As the Commision's labor man he should be...

...But if this man were the best one to send to Australia, we could easily forget about enough chunks of granite to cover a space 35 ft...

...We know that a president must "play politics," but it is not necessary to inject ward politics into international affairs at a time like this...

...The aristocrat turned coward and denied the dictates of his intelligence...

...As a matter of fact, to keep a nation working overtime, we need every sort of service we have ever had...

...Never mind the paving blocks...

...Recently Prime Minister Churchill roused skepticism in this country by declaring that he did not intend to supervise the liquidation of the Empire, that Britain had every intention of "holding her own...

...Of all the qualities which the new representative should have, this man has practically none...

...Certain members of the House and Senate, mindful of taxpayers back home, say to themselves: "The folks at home are not fighting— so who cares what we spend on them...