LETTERS To the Editor
LETTERS To the Editor Loeb Cites Busbeys Record, Calls Congressman Tory From JAMES LOEB,JR. Executive Secretary, I'nion far Democratic Action To the Editor: Your Washing-tori columnist,...
...Seminar at St...
...Busbey was elected in 1942 by a margin of less than 6,000 votes out of ZZd.UOO cait...
...Like his colleague, Stephen Day, he sought to secure labor aupport by voting against the Smith-Connally Bill...
...Well put that one to PM'n editor...
...The answer is no, you wouldn't And of course Schappes didn't either...
...It practically demands that by any other viewpoint than its own It be labeled fantastic...
...I think you will admit that this is a dangerous criterion when used exclusively...
...Professor Lerner...
...I am afraid that he has allowed his opposition to Communists to twist his reportorial judgment so far as to see "liberalism" in any one who shares his point of view on Communism...
...Albert Deutsch'* article implies thst Schappes ought to be released from jsil because he is a 100 per cent loyal Communist...
...This "fission" was spontaneous and will ultimately lapse of Itself...
...Like the New Former From FRANK and MARY eRkELEUS To the Editor: We like the new format...
...Buchsnsn had no interest whatever in American politics, had little or no faith in a democratic war, claimed that social improvement was impossible because no eternal truths concerning social improvement hsd been evolved, and lastly admitted that the St John's curriculum might, and had indeed with one group in England, turn the group anti-labor...
...He was jailed for being a perjurer, for being such a good Communist that he violated th* oath he took before what happened to b* a committee of the Legislature elected, if you please, by the people of the State of New York, democratically...
...Of course, he voted to continue the Dies Committee and, as a good Republican, against the Soldiers' Vote Bill...
...tie wss tne oniy member of Congress from Chicago lo vote against the Fulbright Resolution and the UNRRA...
...The argument is interesting...
...Our sessions were a bitter struggle every step of the way between St...
...As might be expected, having intuited that all scientific knowledge is fantasy, Mr...
...Executive Secretary, I'nion far Democratic Action To the Editor: Your Washing-tori columnist, Jonathan Stout, went off base so far in his column two weeks ago, that a vigorous correction is in order...
...John's has organ. ixed a number of adult education groups, of which ours was but one...
...He knows that the environment is an hallucination and that our consciousness of ourselves as individuals is pathologic...
...Missouri...
...In addition, he voted to liquidate the HOLC, to limit policymakers in the OPA to men with business experience, against additional money for soil eonservstion, sgainst the President's policy of limiting salaries to $26,000, against sll the subsidy bills and in favor of all the reactionary tax measures...
...Deutsch does not challenge the fact that Schappes, under oath before a legislative committee, testified that the only Communist colleagues he knew on the City College faculty were four, two dead, one no longer on the faculty...
...What about it...
...Baltimore...
...tuition be the sole source of truth...
...if we attempted to relate Plato's ideas to his class position in Greek society, this wss dismissed as irrelevant...
...A Question to PM From JOSEPH NIEMANN To the Editor: PM the other week ran an agitational piece by an old fellow-traveler, Albert Deutsch, one of its staff writers...
...We are really "cells" of the "racial organism" whoss "dated fission" is the cause of individuation and culture...
...However, I am sure The New Leader would agree that it is sheer provincialism for liberals or labor to support a Congressman on the basis of a single labor vote...
...This is not s blind faith but one based on common experience and aspiration...
...It soon became apparent that all efforts to interest the instructor in present-day problems by naturally linking them with the problems of the Greeks were completely futile...
...John's College" in your issue of May 27...
...It is one of the few periodicals that represent the voice of a free America...
...pecially will they disregard such a view when it is based on a complete rejection of all symbolic effoits to interpret snd communicate experience and when based on the demand that incommunicable in...
...With this requirement of privste, nonverbal wisdom as the only guide for life, an originally suspect proposition is hopslessly removed from the realm of social debate...
...We, on the other hand, were certainly interested in Greek plays or Plato's Republic, not only for their beauty but always as points of reference...
...We have in Prelude to Sanity, then, a wholly gratuitous world-view and a disastrous political attitude...
...By 8. Greiner, Matter Publication...
...Your readers should be in* formed that every decent citizen in Chicago is working actively for the defeat of Mr...
...We thought this experience might 6e of interest to both you and to Mr...
...Greiner understands better than we why we must discount him completely...
...Deutsch wants Governor Dewey of New York to pardon Communist Morris U. Schappes who is doing time for perjury...
...Fantastic Fantasy By WILLIAM T.SANWICK PKBLLDE TO SANITY...
...He hasn't been jailed for being a bad Communist...
...Greiner is able to posit a private fantasy as the meaning of life...
...FRESH THOUGHT" From ADOLPH MOSER To the editor I chanced te pick up a stray espy of The New Leader...
...John's...
...Never mind the perjury...
...California...
...Busbey is part of the reactionary Republican delegation from Illinois, which is one of the worst in the House...
...John's neoacholasticism and realism...
...Fortunately, among our group were several persons who had been active in trade union and labor political affairs for fifteen or twenty years...
...If Plsto'a Republic seemed in spots like presentdsy Fascism, we made this point...
...I liked the diversified opinion and the clear-cut analysis en the economic aad en the political fronts...
...His argument runs this wsy: "Suppose you were in Schappes' place, snd suppose you did know other Communists on the fsculty snd knew they'd lose their jobs and livelihoods if you named them—would you...
...164 pag„ 13.00.° MIeN who devote themselves to the fight for a better world may well give a sympathetic audience to new criticism* of current ideas and institutions...
...Scott Buchanan, dean of St...
...It struck m* as something new and fresh, net a oneaided sheet with biased, lopsided opinion, but one of diversified thought...
...As you probably know, St...
...Come clean...
...Stout is not only misinformed...
...Is that really PM'i potitioni...
...If we cannot find our way to a sane world now in the midst of this colossal war of ruthless destruction and bloodshed—we, indeed, have no clsim as superior civilised people —not our intentions but our deeds will record us in history...
...Deutach offers only one ground for a pardon...
...Through a series of ten sessions, we finally discovered thst Dr...
...Greiner'i view is a possible interpretation of lifs of all common sense, cultural wisdom, and especially scientific knowledge are discarded...
...Hook...
...One can, in company with Mr, Greiner, allow the "primal sanities" to order one's life)—if one is as convinced as he ia that all of civilization is rotten...
...They cannot, however, bother overloog with a thesis which not only denies sny positive ?slue to attempts to remake the world but even asserts that all such sttempta inevitsbly sggravate social maladies...
...As far as the group was concerned, after all these sessions, we all felt rather despairing about "culture," and we now jocularly refer to the course among ourselves as our "fight for reality...
...Volet of Frag America From KEN M. NIKAIOO To the Editor: I eagerly look forward to each issue of The New Leader...
...Whst In the name of confusion does that have to do with...
...I am writing in b •half of a group of liberals and trade, unionists who laat year met in seminars under the direction of Mr...
...Keep it up...
...Sidney Hook's article "Ballyhoo at St...
...Then testimony was offered by three ex-Communist fscultymen thst there were about 60 and that Schappes knew them ss party members...
...Max Lerner, an amateur expert on law, morals, justice, fellow-traveling and most everythng else: "Suppose you were s Nszi in a fix like Schappes', and suppose you did know other Nazis on the faculty and know they'd lose their jobs and livelihoods if you named them—would you...
...To 'show my appreciation ia your paper, I am enclosing a year's subscription and hope that the other forthcoming issues are equal te the above in reading matter...
...I read It aad liked it...
...It ia juet such a newspaper as yours that we need in this befogged world in which the mind seeks a ray ef enlightenment and intelligence, so thst bewildered minda may find their way to aanity once more...
...Stout mentioned Republican Congressman Fred E. Busbey of Illinois as one of the three "Liberals" on the Dies Committee...
...On the other hand, one ran maintain a faith In a method capable of being subjected to public scrutiny and employed for the greater realization of publicly defined and desired goals...
...Johns-A Report on Adult Education in 'Practice' From EDITH GORDON Et-Secrelary, Adult Education Group To the Editor: We were greatly interested and impressed with Mr...
...as for the rest, it's just the best the country has to offer today...
...Any effort to do so was met with the rejoinder thst we were missing the essence of a thought or missing the beauty of a line or a passage and that we had not really read the book for its eternal beauty...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 24
