A Page of Columns
BOHN, WILLIAM L.
A Page of Columns The Home Front By WILLIAM L. BOHN WHEN I first cleared a little apace before me and sat down at this desk, I had great ideas. I was going to be different. I wanted to be...
...AH Kinds—E very where niGHT here is our danger...
...All the states and provinces,' all the states, all the professions, all kinds of work are represented...
...I have just taken u trip through our mailing-list...
...This material is brought Overt in ships which have carried munitions, butter, .trucks, machine tools und a whole tire factory,to the Soviets...
...There is a lot of conjecture about the meaning of Henry J. Taylor's story out of Naples on Tuesday in the World-Telegram...
...Soon I came upon the cards of two professors, one at Harvard and one at Yale, nestling peacefully side by side...
...Taylor wrote that Mussolini tit Brescia was making "revolutionary" speeches and bad created "Soviets" in northern Italy by turning over factories to workers...
...Rubles tot Solo A FRIENDLY READER of this column sends ^* along an ad that appeared recently in the want ads column of the Herald-Trihune, with the comment, "Convinced at Last...
...The American Bookman," a new literary quarterly, edited by The New Leaders' Joseph T. Shipley,, will be out next month with articles by F. O. Matthiessen, Eliseo Vivas, and others...
...American citizens of Slav origin are urged to unite into one racial block within the Imrders of this country...
...They are not starry-eyed idealists...
...01 historians, scientists, sociologists or economists—I am sure that you would find a large proportion of them among our readers...
...It brings trade unionist*, farmers and intellectuals upon common ground ip a common cause...
...I see the North Dakota farmer—or his wife...
...The Hal-ushka mentioned, in this column the other week as labor editor of The Chicago Teacher, is Meyer Hal-ushka, not M. V. Haluahka...
...On each Thursday afternoon, as the last page-proof goes back to the printers, we breathe a sigh and say: "Wei!, it's happened again...
...The Russians have embarrassed the War Guilt Commission*, in London by asking- representation ¦ for I fi republics...
...Every story, item, article was to be something special...
...Most of my notions, of course, went the usual way of such dreams...
...But if we are to steer clear of some form of fascism, we must recognize that the middle-class groups also have decisive importance...
...The Farmer-Labor Association will remain as an educational body...
...Ideal New Yrur's Eve souvenir for night club...
...But now that we have taken on this magazine form, we must look to our ways...
...We are—we think—growing up...
...Hrruld-Trlliunc * * * Literati />USTAV REGLER, noted anti-Fascist, has pub-lished a book of poems in English and German, entitled "The Bottomless Pit'' The book, illustrated by Marie-Louise Vogeler-Regler...
...Next came a steel worker with an address near Pittsburgh...
...however, that the promise would be kept...
...also among those trapped into., the affair are James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, Carl vun Doron and others...
...This new form will allow us to display to better advantage articles which may have been overlooked on newspaper pages...
...The first-library I happened to notice was in a tiny town in Wisconsin...
...1 wanted every reader to think of the folks here in the office as friends...
...It is an exhilerating experience...
...The Scripps-Howard correspondent stated that Mussolini thus was making n gesture of support for Soviet Russia.' But that's obviously a phony...
...British-Dutch rubber Interests, fearful of the competition of synthetic rubber, have invited the United States to join the International Rubber Regulation Agreement, a fancy word for cartel...
...The largest edition, comes out, in-the Polish.'language and is known as WaUa PoUka, edited by u Polish woman named...
...This big business outfit is out to snare liberal economists and writers...
...We are more than conscious of our own shortcomings...
...Perhaps some of'them scan out paper just to keep in touch with happenings in the trade union world and in the liberal political world...
...John Dewey, who is one of our best friends, wants a better life for the people of America just as does any farmer, housewife or trade unionist From the top to the bottom of this list^-and I don't know which is top and which is bottom—the people agree roughly on.how to make things hotter...
...I have had a fine and exciting time...
...The third was a famous' Wash ingtou official...
...We are too few...
...What is the median line for such a variegated crowd...
...Our paper does net propagandize for any one group—be it trade union, political party or professional organisation...
...Leaders of 70 local unions m Detroit have broken away from the regular CIO Political Action body to launch a Labor Party in Michigan...
...A lot of enthusiasm goes into each issue...
...In the weekly newspaper form, what from the outside must have looked like a lack of care could be condoned...
...It...
...The American Labor Conference will, issue shortly the first number of a magazine called Post-War Problems...
...Often we get barbed letters which ask, "How in hell do you expect a workingman to reach such highfalutin junk as Professor So-and-So slings around in such-and-such an issue...
...A number of top CIO leaders have been hoodwinked into the outfit, including.Phil Murray, who has fought the party-liners within the councils of CIO...
...Our solution, so far as the staff is concerned, is to talk plain talk Ordinary people can understand it, and the professors never object <% it...
...We want him as a contributor, and we cannot be expected to give him a course in basic English...
...A Page of Columns The Home Front By WILLIAM L. BOHN WHEN I first cleared a little apace before me and sat down at this desk, I had great ideas...
...I am glad to see this change...
...Lauchlin Currie will leave the Office of Economic Warfare to return to the White House asr one of the President's anonymous secretaries, . * * * Local Politics THE Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the Minne-sota Democratic Party will shortly fuse with CIO Political Action Committee directing affairs...
...In between will hover visions of a sociologist at the University of Chicago or of an economist in some department down in Washington...
...Many of these men we know...
...Thousands of tons of printed matter are being unloaded^ in American ports on the West Coast...
...It is a challenge to us who are on the staff...
...How Shall Wo Write...
...Or, rather...
...We solemnly promise never to go high-brow By MURRAY EVERETT Inside and Out Tomorrow's Headlines THE Cooperative League is set to issue a strong blast against Harold Ickea' Petroleum Administration for War...
...The real snag is the problem of language...
...Opening the Commie Fronts WORKING QUIETLY through The Protestant...
...The truth is that they are as much concerned about building a better world as is the most devoted trade unionist...
...Will <Us»M* of an* million CiarUt mbl»» ,">00 It denomination...
...The sounder reasoning is that the Taylor story is calculated to scare some Allied vireles about what maiy occur in North Italy when the Allies move in, thus, reinforcing support for strict military .control or an Italian military government, For North Italy is'the center of Socialist and radical strength nhd strong Socialist1 padres have been built there...
...While war was going- on in Europe,: and before the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, this cartel kept' down the production quotas of rubber in Malaya and the East Indies in order to keep up the prices...
...We lack money, and because of this lack there is, too, want of equipment, of facilities...
...There were farmer* in Illinois and North Dakota...
...Russia is not interested in such ideological gestures...
...ILIKE to sit here and make a picture...
...They are with us because they belong with us...
...loathe Arpiy.'s Orientation Series on Russia, reference is made, to 11 Soviet Republics...
...As I continued I found the names of libraries in practically all the states...
...Our interests are in common...
...They are*'not sure...
...The picture "Jack London" that will shortly move into New York got panned heavily in the Washington Post the other day...
...The first card I pulled up bore the name of a miner in a little town in Pennsylvania...
...is printed on fine Malinchine paper and sells for only $1.50...
...new lay-out will, we hope, justify sharper attention and greater interest...
...They contribute articles, they write letters...
...a " party-line magazine edited by Kenneth Leslie, the fellow-travelers have snared a bunch of prominent laborites and liberals into n new front, The National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism...
...Leaders of right-wing unions in CIO here in New York are being urged to enter the city CIO Industrial Union Council with the promise that party-line Commissar Saul Mills would be dropped as council secretary...
...They want to do practical things, to move on step by step If you were to think of ten of the leading philosophers of this country...
...The printed matter from Moscow is in the form of newspapers which'- are printed in a number of > foreign .languages, and are destined* for* distribution - among various -workers k«).um.s.in this country...
...There are members of all the trade unions...
...They like their work and they like their paper...
...When Mussolini fell on July 25, the strongest agitation against fascism broke out in Milan, Turin and'Genoa...
...We may try to be too slick...
...Now we make our bow in a new form...
...The Coops had an option to buy an oil refinery at Coffeyville, Kansas, but the Ickes office stalled until the option time expired, . . . Hiram Motherwell, the foreign correspondent and author, has taken a publicity Job with the Committee for Economic Development...
...Lillian Hellman doesn't like the final version of her The North Star, which was hailed so enthusiastically by the Daily Worker...
...The organized workers and farmers constitute a force that must be mobilised behind any reform and against every new form of reaction...
...There turned up, of course, plenty of garment workers and millinery workers scattered clear across the country—a lot of them in California and in Canada...
...Now the professor may be a top man in his profession...
...If each issue is the occasion for suppressed excitement, you can imagine with what palpitations we await your reaction to the new New Leader...
...Wanda Wassielevska...
...The intellectual com mon denominator is not hard to find...
...There is a fight brewing in the United Wholesale, Retail and Department Store Employees between Jack Altman and President Samuel Wolchak...
...Joseph Grew . . the character of London is denatured almost to the point of the draw ing-room diletante...
...From Wartime .Washington by Helen Lombard: "Contrary -to the general impression, the ¦ United States is receiving reverse lend-lease from the USSR...
...Then comes the miner or the steel worker in Pennsylvania or a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Montreal or of the Amalgamated Clothing .Worker* in Los Angeles...
...Goyeacan, D.F., Mexico...
...So wc ask for patience...
...Wrote critic Nelson B. Bell: "The major purpose . . . seems to have been to establish Jack London.as « prophet of Japanese roth lessness and treachery four decade* or so in advance . of Ambassador...
...My colleagues here are great fellows...
...Although the official state CIO several months ago voted to endorse a third party move, it has reversed its stand...
...I see men and women unwrapping their espies of The New Loader...
...But—despite the fine stuff which it has carried—the paper has never come up to our ideal...
...Trade unionists, farmers, housewives, students, teachers, professional people The New Leader goes to all of them und belongs to all of them...
...too, the top officials of most of them...
...There are...
...The acting secretary of the group is one Leonard E. Golditch...
...Now the British Colonial Office, with the present agreement expiring this week, hns announced that it will seek the formation of ii new, "wider'' committee...
...We do our best, but our best is not good enough...
...try to imagine thousands of pictures...
...It is available through "DYN," the review of modern art, at Avenida Juarez 141...
...But in most cases, their presence on the list means more than that...
...if I judge by What t saw, I am justified in saying that we have for reading public nn impressive cross-section of the people of this country and Canada...
...Interviewed by the New York Times dramatic section the other week, Tovarich Hellman was quote/I thus: "Instead of the quiet and gentle beginning which she had envisioned the festival scene to be, she saw an 'extended opera houffe peopled not by peasants, real und alive, but by musical comedy characters without a thought or care in the world...
...Leaders of this pew third-party move are Emil Mazey and Paul Silvers of the U.A.W...
...We have the finest list of contributors any paper ever had...
...The new size and the...
...the Russians navy claim 16 Republics, including the Balflc and Polish areas that were incorporated in 19.19...
...These people are all interested in the same things...
...I wanted to be direct, personal, human...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 1
