LETTERS To the Editor

...and the actual nominee i* a man who haa voted right on every it-sue of importance to prog restive* except when he waa legitimately absent on the business of an important committee which ha* been exposing fairly affectively the attempt* of th* big corporations to bog all th* war contracts with a resulting detriment to the war effort...

...N„ »M could write as sympathetically snd as understanding^ about tho difficulties of youth unless ho actually apeak* to and for them garbed in their clothes, feel* with them, Uvea With them, love* them...

...It is pleasant and appropriate to in-veigh against those who might seek to force any now third party into the add doctrinaite molds...

...In some states like Michigan and Pennsylvania the Democratic Party ia beginning to take the complexion of a tabor Party...

...The Social Democratic Federation of the U.S.A...

...and chartered for those who are interested th* pathway to the heart of the child...

...Burroughs haa written a readable story of his own life, which i* indeed interesting...

...Being politically disfranchised — as a resident of Washington — and also politically unaffiliated, I am both naive and ignorant concerning the current pattern of ideologies and organisational structure among political groups on the left...

...I And about AO per cent of its comment each week is new, informative, and interesting...

...Men in Boys' Shoes fv JUOt JACOB PANIC* -BOYS IN MEN'S SHOES," t„ „ E. Burroughs...

...Certainly an extraordinary beginning for any group seeking to divorce itself from the social and political opportunism which characterise the existing major parties...

...Now the death of thousands in battle is commonplace news...

...I'd appreciate it if your staff could And tims to inform me more, so thst I might read with more understanding and also promote my enthusiasm for Tha New Leader among my friends with more clarity...

...Congressmen Dies, Stames, and Coatello, the reactionary Democratic triumvirate in the Die* Committee, have been defeated...

...Taken all in all this represents the most impressive record of advance in a progressive direction ever taken by any party in the short space of four year...

...But by tho same token the party must avoid tha pitfall of opportunistic vote gathering mt any pries...

...Of course, it is not true in every case, but too true in too many cases except where it affects the child personslly, and even under such circumstances there is no sense of real loss...

...but the Democratic voters did the job this year without the President taking any active part in the matter...

...nothing to be exercised over, nor anything that should touch one's feelings...

...Waldman cut his ties with the Social Democratic Federation because the Communists also had infiltrated into that old-world organisation...

...The declaration of principle* adopted by the MCF i* lignificantly tacking in any clearing formulated policy...

...To say that now is tho time for progressives to pull out is sheer absurdity, especially in view of the complete failure of independent labor political acton in the United States to date...

...In addressing the MCF's study group in Detroit last Mr rch, David Lewis, secreta.y of the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, stressed the necessity for arrivi.g at basic principles, and more important, the willingness to take defeat* rather than compromise principle...

...Tha arch reactionary and inflationist, Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina, was defeated...

...Children left alone, permitted to associate without stressing one religion as against another, one ract or nationality against snother, grow up in amity and live in harmony, both at children and later a* adulta...

...Not many adults can do that...

...Negroes voted freely in the recent Democratic primaries in Texaa and Arkansas, although some other Southern state*, notably South Carolina, have lagged behind the parade of decency ip thia respect...

...Often thst narrows their humaneness...

...Sheldon Gluock comma rite* the purpose of the volume, thu», "The trial and error method should be used in influencing youth...

...President Roosevelt...

...To the Editor: [The following letUr lu written to tho Editor Of tho World-Telegram] In the review of Louie Waldman'a biography, Labor Lawyer, written by George Witte, in the August 15th issue of the W»i Id Telegram appears the statement...

...Indeed, the program of thia new, grass roots radical party declares: "Details of ownership and control, the details of planning, and scheduling jobs, output, prices, working hours and finance are matters democratically established agencies can readily develop with study ind experience...

...The impact on the child's mind under these circumstances it terrific...

...The bitter end isolationist, Bennett Champ Clark, was defeated...

...hsd tried to purge him unsucessfully in l»38...

...The bringing together of children of all peoples, of varying religions, and ethnological background* to work, to play with each other is the road to the elimination of religious and racial prejudice and ultimately discrimination...

...Congressman Kleberg, who owns a whole county in Texas and ia th* largest ranch owner in the United States and a vicioua inflationist on meat prices, was defeated...

...That is both the thesis of the book and the achievements recorded by the method employed...

...Published by the MwtU Mi Han Company...

...Counter attacks by reactionaries in an attempt to prevent the rcnomination of Senators Lister Hill of Alabama and Claude Pepper of Florida were deefated despite the moat outrageous tub thumping by their opponents on the white supremacy issue...

...By 1944, Wallace had important bucking in the Democratic Party entirely apart from Roosevelt's support...

...Burrought aaid, referring- to the children, "They know only a world in which life it cheap...

...No doubt children of different rsrisl - origin and children brought up to accept various religioua tenet* and ideologies respond to the influences exerted upon them...

...In 1940, President Roosevelt was only able to secure his nomination as Vice-President by the mo*, strenuous pressure...

...It blots sensitiveness...

...Its value, however, is that he haa permitted us to glimpse into the lives of many hundreds of children who are symptomatic of all children...

...There are no Communists or Communist fellow-travelers, stooges, or innocents in the Federation nor could any auch persons infiltrate without immediate detection and expulsion from our membership...

...Eft LfWIS T» lbs Editor: Mr...

...The child, who cannot reason as the adult, accepts that as a normal condition...

...In normal times ten deaths from typhoid would result in the rushing of every scientific resource to the stricken district...

...Until I subscribed to it a year ago, I had aeon only occasional copies...

...Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, the nearest thing to an American Fascist in the United State* Senate, has had to withdraw from th* race for rcnomination to prevent a decisive defeat...

...In spite of the protests of the mixed-up economist* and others, it should be clear that any third party movement in the United states which ispires to be something beyond the libera' wing of the Democratic Party in the North, must be collectivistic, commonwealth, cooperative, or socialist—call it what you will— in general orientation...

...Tolerance is an attitude of the adult, not of th* child...

...In Minnesota the Farm-Labor Party joined the Democrats en masse...

...Sylvan Pollack's letter seeing the end of liberalism in the Democratic Party is more hysterical than accurate...

...The author of "Bay* m Mens m..,,,-write* with deep understanding, ,ft understanding which comas of his ei perienr* gained in his own boyhood, at* write* of the poverty that causes delinquency, of the hardship*, emotion*, maladjustment*, dangera, and heartbreak of underprivileged boys...

...The author might have titled his volume "A Man m Boy's Shoes...

...And I agree about 90% with your points o? view on controversial issues...

...Their attitudes towards others of different religions are influenced by what they are taught and in response to their environment...

...The case of Vice-President Wallace illustrates what I mean...

...in common with Social Democrats in all countries is a vigorous opponent of Communists as well at totalitarian* of all shades...

...Many children know only what ia going on now under war condition...

...The following year Mr...

...The attempt of reactionaries to foist on the Democratic Party a Southerner at the vice-presidential nominee, a white supremacy plank in their platform, and adoption of the % rule, waa so badly defeated that they could not even get enough votes to bring their platform proposals to the floor of the convention at a minority report...

...Waldman makes no such statement in his book...

...which blind adulta to the rights of othert and atimulate children to antagonisms and hatreds of othert...

...Another extreme reactionary, John New-some of Alabama, waa defeated in a runoff primary...

...The grownup has aome idea of valuea as they prevailed before the war, and is hopeful of a restoration of those values...

...This is utterly untrue and Mr...

...In Connecticut snd Massachusetts, attempts by reactionaries to foiat anti-New Dealers on the voter* as the Democratic candidate* for major office* have been defeated...

...Likes Lively Comment From WILBUR F. MI'KK \ To the Editor: I jike The New Leader immensely...

...Segregation in school, church, isolationism creates social attitude...

...One congressional seat vould be too gnat a price for the *kaadinm**d of that type of principle and program with-out which the MCF must aeon fall by the way...

...Lewis Cites Gains of Liberals In Democratic Party from ALFHtD 04...

...The war has had its impact upon the child as it has affected the reactions psychologically of the adult...

...Children tolerate each other...

...Meanwhile the primaries ahow that the Democratic Party ia rapidly clearing out it* worst elements...

...and at the same time stressed for us the need and tha way to the prevention of victimisation of man...

...A Note on the Michigan Commonwealth Federation From THOMAS WILSON To ibe Editor: May I add a tempering note to Miss Corey's rather enthusiastic progress report on the Michigan Commonwealth Federation...

...He does the children an injustice when he talks about toleration by children...

...moreover, grew*with them...

...and the road which loads to the salvage of these children who are victims of our economic and social tvtteir and their rehabilitation...

...Burroughs succeed...

...The truth is that progressive ideas are beginning to be native to the Democratic Party where before they had merely been imposed on the party largely by one man, President Roosevelt...

...Burroughs in his work has demonstrated that regardless of religious persuasion or racial origin, youth given sn opportunity to live together as friends, live at brothers, in sympathy...