THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Th* General tiectne Probing the Company appears to b* Power Trust tha big sun in th* super-p o w • r world around which the lesser satellites cluitar. Great stakes art being...
...We are suffering because of "government by calumny and Billingsgate" which threatens to become "institutionalized...
...And there aren't too many windows...
...Whtt gazing at his tea-kettle never suspected that in mastering steam he conjured a power that would transform the world in the nineteenth century and lead to a Treaty of Versailles in the twentieth...
...The Socialist movement in all countries has reason to be proud of our Vienna comrades and we congratulate them upon what they have accomplished under such trying difficulties...
...Applying this view to the United States in his "America as a World Power," he pointed out that we grabbed the Philippines as a base from which to participate in the trade with China...
...Fortunately, the great mass of Vienna workers had been won for the Socialist movement and the latter acquired sufficient power to go forward with a program of reconstruction...
...JINGOES AND JAPAN WHAT is behind the increasing jingo propaganda of the past few months we do not know...
...One ^onafltation we have...
...o-¦ The real reason why we have done S» little toward filling in with our own cl«< sical effusions is that we are running this little column as a sort of sieve for all tht poetry and wise fractures that chut* tote the editorial office of a Socialist newspaper, and when the supply of thoroughly tin* verse fills up our files, we must do the decent thing by publishing what has paste* muster...
...Greater fortunes would be siphoned out of these new powers and capitalism would become more bloated with workless incomes...
...oFrom a local Communist school comes a number of circulars announcing It* spring courses...
...Sink them all into you, For to love and caress in your depths...
...The sea -hall but look at his love: Never, never to touch her...
...Teaching evolution in tbe public schools is barred by a statute signed by the Governor who declares evolution is st "utter variance with tbe Bible story of man's creation...
...By all odds the mq*t injter-The Fading eating news from Europe Mussolini this week is the-story of Mussolini's illness...
...The Bolsheviks, with the inspiration of Deadwood Dick, called for riots in the name of revolution, terror instead of social engineering, suppression instead of creation...
...e i The Sea and the Lighthouse The sea fell in lore With Ihr l"!ithouse, slender and fnf, But a roc' tood between them...
...What if there is no air for the baby...
...It is likely that the war brought a paranoic to the front as its greatest contribution to the politics of modern Italy...
...This point of view is confirmed by that part of the report dealing with political prisoners in Russia...
...It appears to be a curious compound of sympathy for the Bolshevik re gime, tempered by s eriticsl attitude on many Insttsr* that leave the reader wondering whether emotion or fact is the chief bails of judgment in each question considered...
...The new powers are capable of driving the machinery of the world at well as to heat and light offices and homee...
...Information relayed from Brooklyn states that Jake Livingston, leader of that province of unterrifled Republicans, will ask every Republican voter to contribute 25 cents to the Republican mayoralty campaign...
...However, this quarrel between the Republicans and Hylan is a test between the higher aristocracy of city capitalism and a vulgar political machine serving the same capitalism...
...Felix Cordova Davila, Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico in Washington, had written President Green of the A. F. of L, asserting that Senator Santiago Iglrsiss is a Bolshevik snd that the Socialist Psrty of Porto Rico is affiliated with the Communist International...
...Nor cover with murmuring tides' Vlsdimlr Ksrapeton...
...Prospective students are informed that they "must have knowledge and the power that" eOirfes from know I edge," but the course in breaking up meetings is not listed...
...Scientific missionaries should be sent into this southern cultural vacuum and save its inhabitant* if possible...
...in the'potency of dull and ! ponderous "theses," thinking that ' "revolutionary" resolutions could : raise funds, plant wheat, give work to the starving and reconstruct industry...
...offering on the Coolldge-Warren incideaTia half, and made so empty our thanks to tat various cuntribs, liks Leone, KarapetZ Stamen, et al., whose poems ye editors ram...
...What the Party has passed through has been the longest period of pessimism it has ever witnessed...
...It is general throughout the nation...
...Never, never to touch her, Never, never to kitt her...
...The Entente program had for its main consideration the restoration of capitalism and establishing mastery of Allied capitalists and bankers...
...Or not quite enough From the stylish space-saving closed eoatv yard That shuts out the Sun and the Sky' It's Progress and cheap for the owners) Man, Think of it—dirt cheap...
...And long ages will pass, But I still in my sorrow shall weep, Beating my arms 'gainst the rock...
...Feeing slow death from cancer, afflicted with partial paralysis of the face and with S brain that does not alwaya function clearly, Mussolini will be succeeded by another Fascist chief...
...In vain did the sea break and foam...
...o ¦ ¦ WORK OF VIENNA SOCIALISTS ,0 PECIAL attention of our readers ^\ is directed to the article in this issue by S. Ivanovich on what Socialists have accomplished in the dty of Vienna...
...Well, we have no objection to the doughty Admiral and his associate jingoes going abroad to fight, provide ing that only the jingoes and those having "material interests" at stake do the fighting...
...This atomic pewer has vast potentialities for good, la uaton with th* newer gener eted by waterfalls, both may briag a revolution la industry as potest as the industrial revolution that changed the world af the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
...The a«-calist candidate will have Wjg amusement in dealing with the slogaa coined by Koenig and Company ,-,-.———oeae^ THE Chatter-Box Spring Complaint Last week, oh fellow cui.tribs and states, ing public, the editorial department ween, ea a rampage through oar preserves eat *S the bull stunt to our Dresden China Bboe Just in order to cram in an editorial on tS a childish question at Child Labor, with*** fell twipe they slashed Comrade Sumta...
...become a nuisance with his ballyhoo...
...That "glory" has departed ,to make way for a City Beautiful in which workers can live...
...Aseff wee sentenced to death by the revolutionists and wat hunted for years...
...Until hills shall descend in tht tern And high mountains rise from the depk...
...Coal mining weald certainly go into the discord, together with the miners' organizations in each country...
...Two methods are contrasted in this article, and which one sane men and women would choose is obvious...
...They believed...
...In the following year Russia and England came to an agreement regarding their respective appetites...
...Meantime Mussolini sppears to rule ia aasee only, while the Fascial castes ,*** to sise the bludgeon that will drop f roars is lifeieet hands...
...Claims feV this new energy to be released by the magic of Icienc* forecasts a power that Will mike Niagara a puny gesture by comparison...
...The awkward squad of G. 0. P. generals, led by that profound thinker, Sam Koenig, have been bowled over twice by that other great thinker, Mayor Hylan...
...The fighting and the dying are reserved for those who do not know what it is all about and who have nothing to gain...
...Here he admits that the condition upon which he obtained a visae to his passport was that he was not to discuss politics in this country...
...In tub recent speech at Columbia University he observed that "the greatest material interests cen-tre-around trade with the undeveloped peoples of the Far East, especially China...
...It was while the United States faced war with Spain that the Western Powers pounced On China...
...A Glutton for Punishment News Item: President re-submits Won ren's name to the Senate after they reject his appointment as Attorney General sns once again Warren is rejected...
...Iglesias has never made any attempt to conceal or deny his connection with the Socialist Party of Porto Rico" and that the A. F. of L. principle of autonomy concedes to Porto Rican workers the right to organize politically If they so choose...
...A hole in the street cannot be repaired without Hylan raising a sign, "Repaired by Mayor Hylan," or a stray-dog taken up without this delightful near-wit advertising himself...
...There is a historical significance In this contrast...
...Great stakes art being played for and tome mew bera of Congress have been curioua to learn to what extent General Electric dominate* the field It wai this curiosity which prompted the paaaing of th* Norrif resolution to investigate tbe power trust and now the Supreme Court intervenes with a decision that will probably prevent an investigation...
...President Green's letter is given a prominent display in the editorial columns of the Sari Juan Times, together with a satirical editorial at the expense of Davila...
...This earlier visitor was a rebel against the feudal and monarchist reaction that dominated Hungary...
...Since its organization nearly a quarter century ago there have been certain years when the organization has lapsed from its labors, but in the following years work was always taken up with renewed activity...
...France obtained a big slice of Chinese plunder...
...Japan, because of her proximity to China, has had the inside track and has become the chief boss of China...
...It Is reported' that a majority of the Commission is opposed to an investigation as useless under this decision...
...Let it be understood by sll Outlawing snd sundry thatinTennessee Evolution evolution is barred by law...
...But in the rase of the power trust—well, the Government is very csreful how it treses gentlemen...
...Will they do it...
...Not they...
...Rear Admiral Fiske is one of the most blatant of the propagandists...
...Vienna was the most pathetic city on the Continent at the end of the war...
...This is important...
...The agents of the lsw would simply walk in and drill the saf* and take what they wanted...
...There were some mistaken practices in the pre-war period which experience shows should be abandoned or modified to enable us to take full advantage of our unfolding opportunities...
...Now it has been decided that the Koenig regiments shall march forward to the slogan of "civic decency...
...What haa for years been Azeff, the a mystery in Bussisn Matter Spy revolutionary circles haa been cleared up by the discovery that AsefT who helped to kill a Russian Grand Duke and a Russian Premier, died in Berlin on April 24, mis AsefT was a spy of the Csar and worked hia way Into ft* executive committee of one of th* revolutionary organisations, betraying prominent terrorists while at th* same time carrying out plots to kill high Russian officials Aseff was run down snd his dual role of treachery exposed by Vladimir Burtseff...
...Political prisoners in Caucasus seem to be Worse treated than in Russia," reads the report...
...ii March, 1898, Germany obtained her 99-year lease in Shantung...
...aalde' of statutes that commanded belief in this and prohibited belief in that However, it ie a significant fact that it is in the southern States, where illiteracy is more widespread than in any other section, that this tendency to support or to suppress beliefs by law Prevails...
...It was while a Russian wat search ing in Social Democratic archives in Berlin for material in a new work on Karl Marx that documents were found revealing the death of Azeff in Berlin under an assumed name...
...We have travelled so far from that position that a man cannot come from a country that is bespattered by the bloody deeds of murder hands and defend himself against those bands and its, ruling chief, Horthy...
...The Porto Rican election crooks are desperate in their attempts to prevent an honest investigation of the November election...
...The former waa welcomed even at the risk of war with Hungary, while the latter is attacked by a feudal and monarchist reaction, and hjs lips are sealed by Washington...
...The picture drawn of such prisoners in Russia is on the whole favorable, but we do not gather from the Herald excerpt just What prisons were visited...
...It is apparent that many members and branch organizations have been waiting for some decision that would be satisfactory to them and the recent national convention has evidently given it...
...Mussolini's Fascist bands are divided Into two faction...
...How futile and foolish...
...A question of science that has received the support of the richest scholarship of the world is decided by a vote of men sent to the Legislature by the hill billies of Tennessee...
...Naturally, the question occurs, Why should Davila raise the cry of Bolshevik now when he was willing to cooperate with Iglesias in the matter of this reform...
...The American State Department came to their aid with the announcement .of the "Open Door...
...Have 'em cut to save spare— It cuts the expense of the owner's • If the rooms are small, And the walls flimsy...
...he was thrown out wnfc such force that he landed in the gutter...
...President Green answers Davila by saying that "Mr...
...The moderate Fascists fear that with the passing of Mussolini control will pass to Farinacei and that his harsh policy will bring a wide revulsion of feeling...
...Break them up on a tide...
...So is Karolyi...
...In vain did it pound the rock And throw angry spray in the air...
...and besides, tho mechanics tool and hardware jobbing business that we running as a sort of side venture to this column has been rushed with spring orders, and besides, there is the call of the rosd, the tennis court, the baseball bat...
...The State Department ties his hands and gags his lips, while his enemies pursue him with malice to this side of the Atlantic...
...0Now if Karolyi had been one of those Romanoffs marooned in the Philippines a few years ago the Government would have been glad to include him among those who received a trip on one of its transports to San Francisco instead of receiving a muz-ale while here...
...If it were a matter of seizing the records of a workers' educational institution like the Kand School of Social Science, of course there would be no difficulty...
...Its main weight is directed against Japan...
...and besides—well, why enumerate all the thousaoe and one things that make an old man* fancy tgrn in the spring to all other this|» ssve—work ? _ S. A. DE WITT...
...Nearly twenty years ago Professor Latane wrote that the primary object of diplomacy is the extension of trade and the maintenance of markets and that to attain these ends "armies and navies are mere accessories...
...Warn do editors know about literature, anyway} If ever again such an invasion take* putm we shall immediately resort to the court* for heart balm, and to the business nsasggS for sn incresse in our already swoQta salary...
...Picking himself up, the poor fellow shook his head and dubiously ventured: "I really believe they don't want me in there...
...CIVIC DECENCYVS...
...Come, O sea, here are easier loves— Take these ehipe with their cargoes odd wien, Take these hamlets of fishermen bold...
...oOde to the Templet of Mazutna Big department houses...
...That program is in marked contrast with the program of the Entente usurers for Austria is a whole...
...Should the Commission decide to make an investigation we may be surs thst sn injunction will prove a handy weapon of the power interests...
...It is known that certain prisons ire maintained as "show prisons" for foreign visitors...
...Never, never to kiss her, ¦ Nor cover with whispering tides...
...The New Leader will give consideration to these matters in the coming months and it urges the importance of all party organizations seeing to it that every member becomes a regular reader of their paper...
...Admiral Fiske and the other jingoes want to oust Japan in order that the "material interests", of our capitalists may be served...
...GAGGING LIBERATORS PROBABLY the last, chapter in the gagging of Michael Karolyi by the State Department has been Written in Karolyi's interview in the New York World...
...It is certain that if Hoi sherlk* execute Socialist workers and Send others to die in Siberia they are not likely to treat political prisoners in the Soviet jells in general with any more humanitarian considers tioni...
...Leah Kaufman...
...Unfortunately, political education has not advanced sufficiently to predict a puncture of the sanctimonious balloon floated by Koenig and there are thousands who will rise in (fee name of "civic decency...
...The letter was written by Davila for political motives, hoping that by placing the Bolshevik label on Iglesias he would prejudice the demand of Iglesias for an investigation of the election outrages in Porto Rico...
...Hylan's methods shock the refined crew lined up behind Koenig...
...England followed by forcing China to sign the lease of Wei-hai-Wei "for so long a period as Port Arthur shall remain in the occupation of Russia...
...A few weeks ago the New York Times carried a dispatch from Vienna depicting Vienna's "shame.' Its "departed glory," the glory of its speculators, usurers and exploiters, was deplored...
...From excerpts thst appear In tha London Dally Herald and a review appeerlng in tht London New Leader we are able to get some idea of the report, which is to appear in book form...
...The masses having the votes and using their voting power intelligently would not care two hoots in Hades which of the two machines obtained the contract for governing us...
...The Utter had difficulty in convincing revolutionists of the facts...
...Controversy over the British Labor character of the report On Russia, of tha British Trade union delegation t o Russia continues...
...We have travelled a long distance since the day when the United States sent a warship to bring another Hungarian, Kossuth, to this country and he was welcomed by a Secretary of State...
...Of course, Hylan ha...
...It will be observed that this increasing activity is not confined to any locality or section of the country...
...President Green scores an effective blow by telling Davila that he had cooperated with Iglesias in October of last year "in an effort to secure a reform of the organic1 law of Porto Rico...
...oTHE PARTY REVIVAL THE most, casual reader of the Party page of The New Leader must be impressed with the increasing news of Party activity that has been reported the past few weeks...
...And closer together...
...It ie a striking fact that many British trade union leaders represent a queer blending of Christian sentiment, trade union ideals, pacifist philosophy, nationalist outlook, international sympathies and Socialist striving...
...lessly sheared off from our galley pmS and remanded to tbe over-matter pane...
...From our Porto Halting Senator Rican correspond-Iglesias ent we learn that Mr...
...The admission that his mind is affected affords some clue to the psychology of the man, his strutting imitation of Napoleon, his insufferable ego and his brutality...
...Atomic power as sn agency in war also has possibilities of destruction that may well fill us with terror...
...The manager, tiring ef hit antics, ordered the house detective to throw him out bodily...
...Time was when the European rebel could obtain funds by popular appeals and speak openly against reaction in Europe...
...Asked if he would answer hia detractors if the gag was removed he answered, "Certainly...
...How this program was worked out may be gathered from Ivanovich's article...
...A few weeks later Russia obtained Port Arthur...
...It is a difference between coarse and unlettered service and the refined cunning of experts that is presented to the voters...
...The Vienna program kept in mind the necessity of serving the workers of the city...
...From Paris it is reported Mastering thet French scientists will '''Atomic soon realise the dream of Power breaking the atom and that a gram oi toal will eventually do the work that tone now do...
...The offense of the South is more glaring than ths offense in other ages considering the fact that knowledge has expanded since the days whsn beliefs were enforced by the police...
...We suggest that a course be added instructing women how to squeal and the male gender how to be perfect ruffians...
...Each differs as to how financial and capitalist corporations shall rule at City Hall but they agree that these corporations snail rule...
...BALLYHOO ANXIOUS New York City voters who have waited for a message by the Republican machine for the coming city election now have it...
...To socialise all powers of production in a Socialist world based on human welfare becomes more imperative with every passing year...
...Build 'em bigger and bigger...
...And then, again, wo have been busy on * festure story about Macfadden, the Physlctl Culturist, which is gracing the second pst* of this issue...
...Our capitalists with "material interests" at stake found that they were rapidly being excluded...
...oA drunkard went into a hotel, whereupon the management ejected him became of his condition...
...M. E. Stamen, Washington, D, C. Madrigal To the shepherd hog who guards the ileip / give my lonely heart to keep— fur hearts are lost too oft to tell...
...Therefore, a jtatute settles the matter...
...Two criticisms of the Vienna Socialists have been made, one by the capitalist statesmen and newspapers and the other by the Bolsheviks...
...Japan, Great Britain and the United States are the chief competitors for this trade...
...Tho' I rise as a flood to the mountain tops, Tho' J take to me all that it lovely on serfs, And even the moon to my depthl— / shall still be at hungry for love For my lighthouse, slender and tall, With her bright, furtive eyes...
...Now that evidence of renewed enthusiasm is abundant in all parts of the nation it is important that we should build on a firmer basis than ever before...
...The admission that the party isn't worth the traditional 30 cents must be very humiliating...
...When the long hand of Mussolini and Horthy can reach to these shores and punish Tresca and Karolyi, employing American Government agencies for this work, we have reached a despotic stage that may well sober those who think that all is well with the world...
...It is the most remarkable record of achievements in modern times...
...He persisted In coming bark, and every time he did so he was forced to leave...
...their conditions lesve much to be desired, and, it it stated, differ very little from those which were in vogue in Czaritt Russia...
...The Court decided that the Federal Trade Commission can only examine the books of a corporation proceeded against under the statutes the Commission is charged to enforce...
...Civilization is a record of sweeping...
...Its economic, political and sanitary problems were so grave and complex that its people excited the pity of the whole world...
...Like sheep, they must be tended well Leone...
...Just to even up, we republish the eta-tribution of our Washington correspond** complete, even though Warren and tht Senate matter are as dead as the domt of Henry Dubb...
...One wing is led by the ferocious Fnrinacel who is said to be even more unscrupulous than Mussolini...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 13
