Archimedes and the Soldier
Archimedes and the Soldier MOTION made and seconded that we are a bunch of nuts. All thoae in favor of the motion aay "aye." Thoae opposed to the motion are morons, which means more than nuts,...
...We can fly like birds, swim like fish, travel faster, hear farther, talk farther, and raise more crops than any creature that ever infested the universe But what are we doing with our opportunity...
...The weapons were crude and simple...
...And now conic- the (|uestion: Why...
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...WELSH, M. P. ?lHh...
...Schnapps in his'beautiful Nordic accent, "that we got it here s fine country, and if any trouble makers should come around raising boll they should go back erhnell where they cows from...
...jiftt'1 being burled fctlvs* for nin> d^ -but »H effort a ln h ihothei 17 faV'i JAMS...
...Worst of all, the professional saber-rattler and cut-throat by choice is no longer cliniitute.l 9 war by the blessed process of natural selection This'kind, constituting the commanding and'directing snd of the> armies, is usually found so far in the rear that the missies of the enemy rarely reach them...
...and in Voltaire I came upon what seemed to me the cruelest sentence ever penned: "Letters to posterity seldom reach their destination...
...fering under tho impression that the moving jtlc-ture star on the top deck was .throwing kja.se* n,t him and whu was getting . lite nil aiojiltd |li« eara about it...
...but as a matter of fact you And that the most solitary old Ogi has somebody, a faithful friend, o» an old housekeeper,, or even a child, whose approval he craves...
...Reginald Yawp, the English playwright who put in a busy three days lecturing at the Kitz, said, "I am astonished at the evidences of the prosperity that I saw on all' sides during my three days in your country...
...ST...
...We aik: What are the laws of Ogi, his hand and his eye and his brain...
...THE LABORER AND HIS HIRE By UPTON SINCLAIR LITTLE by little we now begin to note the outlines of Ogi's art code...
...Unseeing and unseen, Two children tityyuiy ut her ikirt* That wrapped her body lean— A body lean with days of grief And all thai grief nnyht menu...
...You may say for me that |Wr choice of Mr, Coolidge is entirely aceep«|blp,to the people of the Hriti-di Empire...
...lilVKN IN PUTl.tl'ATK undir »» hind tind th...
...We just passed through the most destructive war of all the ages...
...Surely I do not have to prove the proposition that Ogi cannot produce r beautiful and inspiring worki of art while Mrs...
...For, please get it into your noodle that these modern wars are not to be compared with the retail killing fests of bygone ages...
...The front is thousands of miles long...
...stood ulont iimill the crowd...
...Destruction breaks into the pit And steals the lives of men...
...They inspire lympa-tsy and often deep affection...
...But as lurk would have, It, we . ou'dn't get te Buffalo and had to content ourselves with seeing the Leviathan off for K.urope...
...There is room for everybody...
...e* - • • •"".;.,»•» Friends and credfton of Mr...
...Here-oil the while these benighted fiinlsiiin ¦¦fifcfs thinking we spoke English, And you could go over nn the Leviathan and not hear a, word of enythin»-but Riverside Drive harlsuialnerxodmarx...
...IiiiiI Oeeuts Sestets** eS Staler* Bedtime Stories for the Bourgeoisie SORRY to disappoint ail you beyi and girls...
...Nature is no longer the enemy of men, if it ever was, which I doubt...
...snd this lady love does not often share his interest in the imaginary lady loves...
...Ogi paints the thing as he thinks it ought to be...
...Aside from the educational features of ths trip, we had a journallitie purpose in making the Great Adventure...
...But look at man...
...n# IhiiuisnS n'rie aenervl sad Iwteiy.Sve...
...to hoast or make a public parade of our charms but the lady was really throwing bar kiises at us...
...And believe me, boys, this is some world...
...the linen on her table mutt be embroidered by hand, because, if it is done wholesale, by machinery, it is not "art...
...have been as various as the souls of artists...
...The rain falls...
...Not long ago, I read about a Greek guy by *he name •f Archimedes...
...t Somehow the ides of feeding thr headi of dead Ashes to cowi fascinates us...
...romplM ivith Sertluo On* i.'i ,*i¦ i m, i tiv»nty-flvc 1,1 III* HI'K'll i ......t a'llHl I..i* sud 'list ll IS rtlMol.'.d...
...The war lord of Germany entered the late struggle with six sons and got out with all six intact and ready to rap for Holland...
...A beautiful world at the mercy of jay-bawkeri and hill billies of ths Stone Age, srmed with earthquakes and poison bliszards...
...We Anally learned to sing and talk around the world and we employed the new marvel to broadcast jaxi, political bunk, and Pollyanna junk...
...while young and rebellious artists produce for a dream public in the future...
...saw only the sun liny flood Break from its hidden den, A* some black monster of the not Id Leads death's battalions when...
...Modem science in the hands of fave men...
...Tho man next to ui was carrying * ajgqjw^th,, the pretty sentiment on Ut "Boa Voyage, .Wot* Katxl" and next to him w»» a fellow who ws| suf...
...Ltaitway, I can't imagine that St...
...Ogi's meat in the fashion her-social position requires...
...many elegsnt...
...Ogi is railing ructions 'in the cave...
...The Artist's Soul Struggle So comes the great struggle in the artist's soul, a struggle which has gone on for three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three geners-I tions, and may continue for ss many I more...
...And if Heaven is all that it is crscktd up to be, then our chancel of getting there are a little less than ndthing...
...Thus one of the finest minds that •as ever blessed mankind was destroyed by s bone-,»ssd who did not know any more about astronomy than a hog knows about gastronomy...
...And men rushed here, and men ranked thtif, Hell's fear within their heart*, A raging fever in their blood That goaded them HI,e tUirt* To greater efforts, an men strive Till hope itself depart...
...We ifound fertiliser in the air to feed the hungry soil and we used it to make deserts of smiling fields...
...This fellow lived about 2,000 years Sgo and yet he knew all about algebra and trigonometry and geometry and the movement of the stars and Bow.little Joshua knew when he commanded the sun *° stand still, and a whole lot more stuff like that which » "till Greek to you and me...
...Not unmindful of our duties, we went about among the passengers taking down notes for tho Social Editor of The Mow Leader, but as be WtA having tea at the Automat when we got back me will have to print them hers...
...And slow their effort* teemed to be— At leatl they seemed to her Who stood among the falling rain Amid the rush and stir That brave men made to save the hf< That meant so much to her...
...The sofl brings forth its fruit...
...Well, what', this all about T Just this, brother- This is the belt little world you and I and the rest of us nuts ever got into...
...She stood, life s dumb accusutor Mute uilnett in her pain Of all the criminal practices Of mocking godt of gain— Two orphans tugging at her skirts Amid the falling rain...
...The sun shines...
...M Mil...
...No sooner had we tried our wings than' we used them to drop bombs on sleeping cities...
...s.i.l of office ft th» isesli stereury of S'st...
...Ai soon as we heard about this, ws were aioss anxioui to get this interview...
...Under these circumstances, war was really s blessing in disguise because it automatically removed the most undesirable element of the human race...
...i raj Looking over the paistngers aboard the beat/ we had to laugh thinking what a shook it sWd he to the Europeans when they landed...
...Archimedes and the Soldier MOTION made and seconded that we are a bunch of nuts...
...Men cannot do such work'without leisure...
...Are such decisions matters of accident or whim...
...The employees of Mr...
...i tsV But to get down to the educational fcahlres of the Leviathan, wo mustn't forget to tell you that it hss a regular swimming-pool oh It Yes, sir, and on the voyage before last the boat lurched a bit and a clothing sslesman front Rochester fell in *c-cidently and got all wet...
...It is just a nautical term for another place to bo seasick in...
...Of course, it was a perfectly brainless, aimless, and purposeless war, as all wars are...
...And to ; what extent...
...Do you get the scientific signi/lcsncs of that...
...Which shall it be...
...hss besn (lied In this nOAre Mi - il.iy, anil '!,»¦ It ,,:¦,>-.n« lh.14 from thst »wli t orporaflon hit...
...Well, stupids, iodine euros goiter and it ia estimated that four out of every Ave Democrats in this country am goiter sufferers* At least, that is one of the aid.is that was hamksdi out after the recent election...
...We were to interview a man who feeds the heedi of dead flshei to cows...
...He died that dividend* should mar In mountains to the sky, fhnrn in the darkness of earth's cove* Where other brave men die-He...
...SavoraL-of...
...No sooner had we learned to swim like fish than we turned ourselves into sharks and devoured our own kind...
...Thus it ie that the pacific are exterminated while the pugnacious escape to breed their miserable kind...
...nd 42 ini'iei * *(ip ni tombed, FMvi- w»' r# «ubtt Quontly rwcuffl...
...Two negative propositions we may consider as clear: Ogi does noj paint the thing as it really is...
...Ws a rent so good at throwing kbee* around ai we once were, but we chucked a couple back that' had plenty of smoke on them-' and felt- sort .of romsntie snd dreamy all the rest of the afternoon until We met up with one ofjthese dfcuf* f^>Mp*tr photographers who said the'lady hai A«iKtlrfiV|n| kisses for the cameramen, just as the fans get up and cheer for the movies before the World Serin begin...
...it is the means of serving Mrs...
...Archimedes and the soldier, that's it...
...There are others whom he despises, but whom he knows the public will acclaim and pay for...
...Its only distinction was, that, armed with modern science, we could scatter more hell in a day than military maniacs like Alexander, Hannibal, and Tamerlane could broadcast iA their whole careers...
...vast numbers of j dream children are born there, and j he must select a few of them to be nourished and raised up to reality, while ho sentences the others to be starved and buried...
...It is as high as sn airplane can fly, as wide as the wind can carry poison gas, and as deep as man can crawl or divf...
...She...
...So we may set down the I following ss one of the fundamental | art laws: i The balk of the successful artists of sny time sre men in har-| mony with the spirit of that time, I and identified with the powers prevailing...
...Schnapps will make a brief stay at his birth-place, Schnapps-am-Mstns...
...Now you iee what s gold-mine thst Buffalo man has hy peddling hi* milk to the go-goiteri south of ihe MaiM and Dixon line...
...Sodolpolsky wss as safe as though he stood on dry Isnd they burst down and wept piteously, * . « e e * i ,*i.t I hsve been aiked to keep the fact that among the passengers was one Pols Negri, who has something to do with motion pictures, a secret...
...A sacrifice hie life hud been Unto the god of gam, A crime of which the seven teas Could ne'er wash out, the stain— A stain that could not be erased Hy all ihe falling rata...
...A greedy collector of dead metals, and a cheerful distributor of bid ncwe and black eyes...
...Yenz has business in Scotland with the Haig Brothers...
...also, the lady herself wants a little meat— and more important yet, she wants it served according to the best tribal conventions, those to which she is accustomed before she nn away and married an artist, The tribal law decrees that the glass on her table must be cut by hand, even though it ii cut crooked...
...I know that you will respect tHs confidence Imposed on us by Miss Negri's press agent and we Will keep it just between our readers snd readers at ths World, Times, Herald-Tribune and American, i N. Schnapps, President of the American-Americans, whose organization has done so much to keep down the Reds in this country and preserve untarnished the fine traditions of the founding fathers, was sailing for a short visit to his friend, Admirsl Horthy...
...He hud not died a* brave men should, With (Sod* sun on hi* face...
...The armies of Grant, Lee, or von Moltke, the cider, equipped with the weapons of their age, would be as useless as tin soldiers confronted with the srnrnients of the late war...
...and he does not paint the thing as he sees it...
...food for everybody...
...On the American side, not a sin-lie officer above the rank of colonel was killed...
...With God's free air upon hi* brow ]n peaceful death* embrncr-}lc died that dividends should he Piled high to hide love's luce...
...ia vno of liir iMllgl . • i a v m Of fli;in>ji of ibo dofad...
...The answer...
...Among the children of Ogi'i { brain, are some he dearly loves, but who will not "sell...
...The former he could not do, for he does not know what the thing really is...
...Even an artist on a desert island will be thinking that some day a ship will land there...
...Redding By JAMjsJ.C...
...McALlSTER OXU* On B*pt»tnbe>r !'tth...
...to deviie new formi, and arrange millions of musical notes or words or molecules of paint in s complex design—sll this requires interne and persistent concentration...
...died without a parting word, Without a Inst goodbye...
...hor full time laden doyn and tnyht* Amid the cold and rain, With Borrow gnawing al her heart And mind that ached with jmii.., With, sodden clothes and dripping hair She stood among thr rain...
...Of course, not...
...We had a friend at Columbia who woo his Mt A. degree by writing a thesis on "The effects of ire* pyrites on the intestines of female pigs.** As we recall it, the effects were esiremely su...
...Peter, or whoever .nay be in charge of the pearly gates, would permit a herd of cattle like you and me to make a pig pen or a slaughter house out of Paradise...
...I There is no birth control movement in Ogi's brain...
...And for how long...
...Tickle Mother Nature ever so little, and she pours forth her wealth...
...To feel other persons' emotions inteniely and reproduce them according to tome coherent plan...
...There is Hell, for instance...
...Well, one day while this Archimedes person was quietly sitting in his...
...ADAM COALDIGGER ON LITERATURE Ths great,poems, Shikeipeare'i included, are poisonous to the Idea of the pride snd dignity of 'he common people, ths life-blood of democracy...
...ri As a matter of fact, we'elOn'i likn...
...The models of our litsrsture, si we get it from other lands, ultramarine, have had their birth in courts, and basked and grown in caitle sunihine...
...The place of the small professional army is taken by the nation in arms...
...But, manifestly, these conditions are not the moit favorable for the birth of masterpiece...
...The "ayes" have it, and ¦o ordered...
...Y«wr roglly couldn't have done better...
...study trying to dope out the whatfor of the Milky Way, or some tiling, a soldier broke In snd knocked out his brains *Hh a spiked club...
...Ogi has taken this maxim literally, and got out a fancy line of trade-lies...
...And best of all, the armies were composed of professional hi-jackcrs, volunteer cut-throats, and impressed jail-birds...
...Herman Sodolpolsky, of 1010 Fifth Avenue, came in a body to the boat,to* bid their beloved chief a fond farewell...
...If the late butchery proved anything at all, It is that another one like it will wipe out the so-called civilized world...
...deaiinaT wiUi tho i (a at tbo Mln...
...J Ogi must have an audience...
...This indeed is a land of plenty and I congratulate you nil on having as your President so fsr-visioned and noble-spirited a man as Calvin Coolidge...
...What forces determine that he shall present his "reality" in this way and not in that ? The first thing to say is: Don't ask Ogi about it, for he cannot tell you...
...v Also the word "saloon" which you iee, sll over the boot doesn't mean a thing...
...The poor devils who are exterminated in modern wars are the peaceful counter-jumpers, clod-hoppers, and job-hunters who- are in the war only because they did not have enough guts to tell the draft board to go to hell...
...Having become a professional, living by his work, Ogi is under the necessity of finding an audience that will feed him...
...pat ws didn't get to Buffalo...
...noying...
...Assuredly not...
...We shall find that the fellow has been almost too shrewd—he has contrived a set of pretenses so clever that he has fooled, not merely his public, but himself...
...It seeml he feeds them to COWS SO that they will have Iodine in their milk...
...There may be other worlds...
...To develop an art technique requires decade's of practice and study...
...I myself did allniy early work from that motive...
...So, I in his selecting, his idealizing, and I his other varieties of feigning, he has always before him the problem: I Will this please my public...
...Armies were small then...
...Theoretically, it is possible for sn artist to produce his art-works for the approval of the imaginary Muses...
...We shall see how through the ages there have been hero artists and martyr artisti, men who hsve produced what they believed to be the best, In the face of obloquy, ridicule, stsrvstion, even, the dungeon snd the stake...
...Nature Craates, We Destroy If you want to know what the likes of us would do lo Heaven, you only have to find out what we have done to this dear little earth of oura...
...Ha was able to complete his experiment...
...But from ell I hear, it is a hell of a place to live in...
...many learned, ill S"JPJ# Bo*» touched by the national test or wed by the standards of democratic personality, «fcat.-Walt Whitman...
...them asked anxiously if there were any .chance of the boat's linking, snd on being informed thst Mr...
...It ia so novel and in a way we are like tho Greeks, "always seeking some new thing...
...Then there is Heaven...
...Science and invention have made the struggle for existence a side-line...
...t They blew the whistle just as we got this 1*8 bit, so we had lo get niT or tie dropped, off wfui the pHot...
...After visiting the Admiral, Mr...
...or, more commonly, he paints the thing as he thinks other people ought to think it to be...
...for human psychology has its laws, which we can leani -to understand...
...t the <:itv of -in', this il I i Sev at r*»n-iiiary...
...What il he...
...Thoae opposed to the motion are morons, which means more than nuts, and therefore have nothii g to say...
...having chosen his subject, does Ogi idealize it according to one idea, and not according to another...
...If we were Persian cats, cottontails, or canary-birds, there would he some sense in making us immor til Cr'tters like that i.re good company...
...And remember, it is not merely the three chunks of aurochs meat per day, and three more for Mr...
...They arc •Jajful, entertaining, amusing...
...He who would produce a great work of art, said Milton, mutt first make a work of art of his own life...
...A bundle of emotions and passions...
...So much so, in fart, that the victims of those sclentiAc researches organized 'and insisted OS aa eight hour day...
...What's more, why should an all-wise Providence seek to litter up Heaven for all eternity with the likes etf us...
...My friend, however, was able to convince the authorities at Columbia that the strike was sub* versivs and caused by outside agitators .and by importing scab lows from Alabama...
...We found bottled sunshine in coal and we converted it into T. N. T. for the destruction of human beings and human habitations...
...Ut.d*r-aroi id...
...i But all this is changed in modem warfare...
...Of workers of a c«rtaln sort we have, indeed, plenty, contributing after their kind...
...and the second he would consider bad manners, bad morals and bad taste...
...A chosen few delve into the mysteries of Nature and extract her secrets and along comes a pack of 1»..-legged hyenas and converts them into meant of raising seventy different kinds of hell...
...For you must know that tho Leviathan now sails under the glorious Stars and Stripes (stand'up, you low livss, snd cross yourselves) and never, never shall Old <ilory again float over an open saloon, as we once heard William tanning* I perorate...
...But you And him denying this with.passion, and picturing himself ai a solitary soul dwelling in an ivory tower, galloping through the sky on a winged horse, visited and directed by heaven-sent messengers and wooed by mysterious lovely ladles called Muses...
...The battle front rarely exceeded more than a few dozen miles...
...1?H Rwddinc Colliery, twar Ka1 kirk, wai flooded ^ i. „ tht brcakinK of n ha ¦ rifr...
...I vant you should write it down In your paper," said Mr...
...Harry Yens, ths popular young bootlegger of South lies Moines, Iowa, were on hand to say "an rcvoir" to their idol who wss Handsomely attired In a double-vented cutaway and fawn .-pats...
...Ogi is not at all what ho thinks he is, and he does not produce his works of art from the motives he publishes to the world...
...And what the murder devices of the next war Will be, only the devil himself an knew...
...neither can they do it while they are despising themselves for doing it...
...At the same time, however, he wants at least one lady love who is.real...
...It is perfectly plain that the artist ii a social product, a member of a tribe and swayed by tribal impulses...
...U P. fc.r tb« < otUbriflga tflrtaloo of !.»!¦«¦ ia known »¦ th* Minor Poet" Hla <,*• » iivet iiovt>l...
...e e e e • * But lo get bark to the man in Buffalo and his fish heads...
...all smells of princes' favors...
...On the contrary, she is accustomed to point out the brutal fact that Ogi wants three good chunks of aurochs meat every twenty-four hours...
...WSMH...
...beauty, joy, love, laughter for all of us...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 13
