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...One clause condemn* acquisition of territory by "a non-American power," this being explained a* expanding the Monroe Doctrine into an all-American agreement What of an American power—the United States, for example...
...Instead of bacteria and buck breaking furniture...
...y^titt W* undaratand now what the eie« alogan of the Republican party '"''i-p...
...Latin-Americans had better lock up their valuable* when Uncle Sam offers anv of his ".deal.am...
...A few days ago protest meetinga were held in several cities of Italy, with the usual attacks made by the Fascisti...
...alary, $18.00...
...0 The New York State Assembly has voted in favor of installing voting machines in every city having a population of 175,000 or more...
...Say* he, ths artist* and poet* have migrated to outlandish parts, and the coarse bourgeois hai moved in—making for Philistla oat sf Parnassus...
...The same tendency in the matter of land and power-machinery in agriculture would be repeated...
...ft would lit— / 1 5« we both eadly planned, Like m lost memory, pike a vanished land...
...This issue will carry at least sixteen pages and possibly more...
...It would not...
...Probably the Republican clique reasoned that grade crossings would be abolished for Democrats by the Smith plan while Republicans would be left to the mercy of trains...
...One table gives the figures of arrests in 100 cities for the fourteen-year period of 1910-1928...
...Hungarian can come to this country and speak against the one surviving relic of the Middle Ages that is smeared with blood and that maintains its power .by torture, exile and occassional massacres...
...The spell of the exotio— And then you crash On the rock* of familiarity...
...Mussolini knew that his head was endangered and he had a few of hia faithful assassins imprisoned to ward off suspicion from him...
...soma other American "patriots" must be proud of having pinned a rose on Mussolini...
...Apply 8 a. m. ' of them have overjieets...
...The other gives the record of eleven year* in 800 cities for 1913-1923...
...Karolyi said what every well-informed person in this country knew he would say if he had been permitted to speak...
...Only a capital levy will aave the situation, and French capitalists and bankers not only ar* oppoied to the levy but are investing funds in foreign securities...
...Who drinke the early dewdrops on avood-violet*— i ¦ , Whose breath the drowsy bees rtvivti Who make* the earth to come alivel April it a fairy child With a warm wet mouth.- . , . Leon* ¦ -o——— The Lorelei "Com* with mtl" ; You follow...
...Meantime the reaction ia not a solid unit...
...It is this atrocious regime that has reached across the Atlantic, that has paralyzed the State Department, and that silenced Karolyi...
...Unlet* some unforseen chsnge should occur in the next few days the alignment and issue for the election on April 28 are now clear...
...In any event, it I* interesting to observe how petty thieve* are caught in the meshes of th* law by hundreds of thousands, whr|ejkhe great offenders break through to Safety...
...Simultaneously with the announcement of these conventions comes the news from Uruguay that Dr...
...Certainly Gary and...
...Just what is meant Expanding the by the thirty drah Monroe Doctrine convention* for cojli...
...He hated factory production and the stinking cities that, grew around the factory and waa firm in hia belief that capitalist production made the working class vicious and corrupt...
...For a few days Premier Herriot Wavered on the capital levy, but later advices indicate that he will demand the levy as the only way to avoid the financial abyss that yawns and that threatens France with bankruptcy...
...porary critic confrere, Herr Mencken has taken a wallop at that Windmill of aH Quixotic windbag- puncher*—Greenwich tR...
...In other words, the earlier history of capitalism in industry would be repeated...
...He wmsi over Kreymborg's bald head and Income from his now successful mandoluting aad his present respectability in having arrived at one legally married wife...
...It seems to be a sort of religious Wit...
...It is divided into the extreme monarchists who desired von Hindenberg and th* moderate conservatives, who want no return to monarchy, but Who fear the increasing strength of the Social 1st...
...o--, April April is a fairy child With a warm, wet mouth...
...Kreymborg's "Troubadow " an autobiographical novel that hi naajf very interestingly review* th* Village f« almost two decade...
...A man may become intoxicated for a reason not related to a desire for drink, and allowance must be made for this in accepting the figures...
...The Cool id ge Administration has sunk to lower depths than any other in our history...
...De Monzie ia also opposed to severing relation* with the Vatican and Harriot ha* had to compromise on this issue...
...fReaaon—Want ad...
...Anti Fascisti are secretly circulating the document, each person receiving it being requested to copy it and pass it on to others...
...Leah Kaufmss...
...Many were killed and injured and still others were driven from their homes...
...vember meant...
...shows that arrests for all offenses, except intoxication, have steadily increased for the entire period, but arrests for Intoxication alone showed a marked variation...
...Election Dr...
...As there will be a big demand for this issue we urge our" friends to order their extra copies in advance so that we will be able to serve all...
...The class struggle followed by a Socialist movement are its special products...
...Herriot has inherited the sins of the Poin-care clique and he face* an almost impossible situation...
...Of course, it would be folly to trace these arrests to one factor alone...
...It appears that Radek ha* been denied the right to participate in the Communist International, or to interfere with the German Communist, movement, and ha* been, censured for violating the discipline of the Russian party...
...If the trial to recover the naval oil lands that passed from the Government into the hand* of the oil magnates should go against the Government, the last chapter will be written in the' looting of some rich national property...
...Then there axe those who favor monarchy, but would not support any foolhardy challenge to a majority of the nation who are recorded in favor of the republic...
...There are more real poets, novelist* and artists inhabiting the environs ef Washington Square than ever before in re* variegated history...
...Nowhere has the antagonism between Catholic and Protestant been more bitter than in Ulster, particularly in Belfast...
...One of the victims will be an old man when he Is released, if he does not in the meantime die of hig confinement...
...Tret, the garrets have been turned into $209 per month studios, the Purple Pups into prosaic Coffee Pots, with cleanliness and comfort...
...W« daresay the Kreymborg's novel, "Troubadour," written as it wss on a full stoma* and a head free from creditors, is a splendid piece of literary effort as compsred t* the aching, troubled stanzas composed during the garret, pot-boiling days...
...The utter silliness of trying to organize a secret revolutionary league among young men who volunteer to serve in the army would warrant nothing more severe than a hearty laugh at the expense of youngsters who propose it...
...Now if we can throw out the Tammany and Republican machines everything will be lovely...
...In these respects Jefferson resembled William Cobbett who grieved at the passing of the power, prestige and traditions of rural England and fought to the day of his death the hanking and capitalist cliques and the enclosure measures that transformed agricultural England into ragged beggars...
...t As the record now stands by official ukase of Washington no...
...He had to let his Finance Minister go and appointed M. de Mohsie as a sop to the Right...
...I these be signs of the mutability of American literature—then let us have more of It...
...Rhythm pretty bad, but the rhymes csW" found In "Loring's Rhyming1 Lexicon...
...Would Karolyi's story have injured anybody or anything in the United States...
...Should Radek prove obdurate it will be necessary for Communist movements in all countries to revise their opinion* of Radek, a* they did of Trotsky, and probably add another "counter-revolutionist" to their gallery of notables...
...Send your order now...
...Owea D. Young, fhairmas of tho Board of the General Electric Company, urges this for New York State, and he estimates that 1,000,000 horsepower will be sufficient to electrify the 193,db0 farms In this State...
...By their action tbey stimulated the curiosity of millions regarding Karolyi, and his message...
...The starving poets and Bohemians of a decade ago are the successful business men, playwrights, novelists aad publicity men of today...
...W* beg to acknowledge, with thank*, «tf of "Loring's Rhyming Lexicon," from * P. Dutton * Co., which we find to be oow an excellently arranged compendium f rhyme for all dabblers in the Homeric «* We heartily recommend it to every *mWP onic Byron, Swinburne, Poe and irm Berlin, aa a distinct aid toward immoruu-ity...
...A bulletin of the Com-The Booze mercial News of San Problem Francisco carries two tables of figures which apparently show the relation between crime and the liquor problem...
...Pretty hard, fellow bards, a. tim"JJ get the swift elusive rhymes, eape«»»J when April's hoyden wink lures you •*¦» from where you sit and think...
...o——— KAROLYI SPEAKS AT LAST the terrible truth Is out...
...When North Ireland sends Tht Ulster three Socialists to the Election Ulster Parliament the hope for working class progress is not a barren one...
...In each table comparisons are made between wet years with saloons, wet years with regulation, and the dry years of the Vol..tend Act...
...W* should have known, ¦ Who have lived love en...
...For a few days it was uneertain whether the combined reaction would accept former Field Marshal von Hindenberg, who waa ready to throw his hat into the ring if he received any encouragement...
...Prominent representatives of the trade unions and the Socialist Party will contribute to this number which we plan to make an attractive and notable one...
...No writer on the popular theme of "How to Succeed" has yet used this as a theme to inspire ambitious youth, although it has proven a sure road to bliss in the great land of dollarocracy...
...8. A. DB WITT, j THOMAS JEFFERSON THE Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, preparing for a nation-wide celebration of th* 182d anniversary of Jefferson's birth on April 13, offers a glowing eulogy of the author of the Declaration of Independence...
...It it the Lorelei, The call of th* unknown...
...One young American soldier in Honolulu has received a sentence of twenty-seven years' imprisonment and another one forty years because qf some foolish attempt to organize a revolutionary league...
...Molina of Chile, in a public addreas in Montevideo, said that Latin-America I* skeptical of Pan Americanism because it '* corrupted by th* commercial tendencies of th* United State...
...nXCTMFTWG FARMS POSSIBLY one of the great devel-opmenta of super-power will bo to electrify farming...
...Power machinery, aa it improved, would become too costly for the poor farmers and the tendency would be to reduce the small farmer to the status of a wage worker...
...TWO SAVAGE SEsfTEHCES MANY who thought that the brutal sentences assessed against war offenders during tha World War were the product of an abnormal aituation may now contemplate what our bureaucrats are capable of doing in peace time...
...As a revolutionary for whom tradition had no appeal it will be interesting to observe professional 100 percenters paying tribute to his memory...
...e •' e * e If* press reports are reli-Itndek to able, the Cheka has exe-Follow cuted thousand* since the Trotzky Autumn revolt in Georgia and the population lives In aetata of terror...
...Jefferson was a revolutionary in jthe sense of throwing off British rule, but not in the sense of transforming the old order and bringing a new one...
...That it can coolly ally itself with Horthy and his murderous bands is significant of the drift nf American capitalism and a warning to the American masses to he-ware ef chain* that will eventually bo forged for them...
...On the whole, the data confirms the Socialist contention that tha liquor question is * social and economic problem, not a moral one...
...Yet, Jefferson, despite his broad tolerance for all views, really belonged to the old order...
...We hear that old boy Eddie Mayer, of the sworn aged oyr-coat, hag been spotted in dear old I.unnon, ylcnow—top-hat, soup and fish, can* and all—only a month or so ago, a calm flans turned Firebrand, so to speak...
...Words fail us in expressing resentment at this revolting cruelty...
...Worl...
...Meantime, a document is being secretly circulated in Italy which traces the murder of Mstteotti to Mussolini himself...
...He believed that agriculture wa"> the basis of a virtuous and enduring social order...
...What he could not say here he has said across the Northern border...
...This uprooting of a class and its transformation into dependent wage workers is not considered by those who propose to electrify farms...
...But now it lies A told naked thorn* . To our own frightened *ye*~ Since April earn...
...But our military junkers can only take advantage of it to glut their appetite for cruelty...
...To build tombs of * ton*— And not out of now...
...It appears that both soldiers had become impressed by Communist propaganda...
...He ia now th* candidate of the Right...
...And to wax dogmatic for a moment, thst only proves the Socialist contention that, given a world of creators, each en* fr*J from economic stress and stomach jurn-ings, creation would bsargeon like a |ird(n in the win and rain...
...In our own vehement manner may m suggest that such is not the case...
...Jefferson lived long enough to know that manufacturing was displacing agriculture as the dominant force in American life, bat there is no indication of his full acceptance of the new order...
...most °'' « looked chilled in the penetrating AP1 morning air...
...The former Finance Minister consulted the House of Morgan, th* heavy loans of the latter making it an upper Diet for .France...
...he review* Alf...
...A nation of farmers apparently was his ideal to the day of his death...
...An amazing feature of the financial crises which th* Government face* Is that J. P. Morgan A Co...
...It will be representative of the progressive trade unions and the Socialist Party and will include special matter Sppropriate for Labor's international oliday...
...We now know what Karolyi would have said had the American Government not muzzled his lips...
...a Hall," in l.sfr Sunday...
...The Socialists insist on a capital levy of 10 per cent...
...OUR MAY DAY NUMBER OUR readers will be interested to know that The New Leader will issue a special number on May Day...
...Nothing could be more stupid than to make this a party issue...
...The document appears to be a record kept by Filippelli, a Fascist editor, in which he records incidents and conversations relsting to the murder of Matteotti...
...These verdicts are compounded of hate, ignorance and military foppery consistent with a society in a low stage of civilization...
...The Nation of April ,8 carries a translation of the document...
...The Italian struggle for Mussolini's emancipation from the Assassins rule of Mussolini's morons continues...
...with moat of ua that UteteAorev rrraajrfjU art find greater impetus and Are in 41th and poverty...
...The results in both tables are strikingly similar and the second one will be considered...
...a sharp and continuous increase of arrests...
...Hi* complaint seems directed against th* personnel that make* up what i» comma*, ly termed th* Village today...
...One comment on this proposal is that it would also check the tendency of farmers to move to the cities and that it will tend to relieve farming of much of its drudgery and long hours...
...Another tendency would be the development of large farms and the appearance of the absentee capitalist owner...
...Tbu* a legal technicality intervene: against prosecution on these indictments...
...Great stuff—this ING KOOL WITH KOOLIDGF...
...The pity of all this is that Belfast has some big capitalist industries and their owners and servile politicians have fanned the fires of religious hatred and kept the workers divided to some extent...
...Thanka to a technicality, Oil Gang the oil indictment* against Victors former Secretary of the Interior Fall, Edward L. Doheny and Dohany, Jr., and Harry F. Sinclair have been quashed by Justice McCoy or the District Of Columbia Supreme Court./ It appears thit the indictments were nhrown out because an agent of the Department ef Justice eras improperly before, th)* Grand Jury wham the indictment* were found...
...In a few places the Fascisti broke up meetings, and wherever clashes occurred people were injured...
...Arrests for all causes, including intoxication, show a still more marked increase during the Volstead era...
...The contest ia now between him •ad Marx...
...Moreover, the Washington politicians are revealed as-stupid blunderers...
...Cobbett lived long enough to know that capitalism had come to stay and the last decade of his life was devoted to supporting the claims of the workers of both rural and urban England...
...Had these young chaps offended the former Prussian military caste the worst they would have received would have been a year or two in a prison barracks...
...He wanted to preserve the simplicity of rural life, the dominion of small farmers, but without foreign control...
...In the latter city only a few years ago this bitterness culminated in brutal mobbing of Catholics...
...ification of American international law ia difficult to fathom...
...0 ' ii W« aea by tha paper* that oar eontejv...
...In Russia proper it is reported that Radek has followed Trotzky Into retirement, thus narrowing the struggle for control within the dictatorship to Stalin and Zinoviev...
...WiiHelni Marx will be supported for President of the Weimsr Coalition, which In-I dudes .the Socialist, the Center and the' Democratic parties...
...must have at least I years' experience...
...This was accomplished in the recent Ulster election...
...This is probably true, but it would also serve to develop capitalism in agriculture and produce a large wage-working population in rural areas...
...Probably another technicality may be found to serve thi* purpose...
...Shipping CM needed...
...Production and trade have declined, price* hav* soared enormously and economic condition* in general . are bad...
...and thai even Max Bodenheim has been seen with* new suit, hat, and briar pipe...
...Persons*—200 or so lads (roffl " years to 46, all trying to crowd into * **V way...
...On the other hand, no nation I* permitted "for any season whatsoever, directly or indirectly," to occupy "even temporarily any portion of th* territory of an American republic in order to exercise sovereignty therein, even with the consent of said republic...
...honest, Industrie" well recommended...
...THE NEWS OF THE WEEK France faces another The Crisis erisi* and Harriot may in Franca be out of office any day...
...This transformation would make for the development of a Labor movement in rural life with strikes aad struggles between owners and laborers...
...His democracy also was not of the militant type that demanded the extension of the suffrage to the working cUy»s, It was largely theoretical...
...In the meantime, Millrrand, the arch-enemy of Herriot, has been elected to the Senate, and that reactionary will fight for all the reactionary classes...
...From this it appears that Mussolini not only . knew everything regarding the plot to kill Matteotti, but that he also received papers of Matteotti as proof that the job was accomplished...
...Nevertheless, the charts confirm tha general experience that booze not only retains its lure but that drunks steadily increaie in number...
...The election of three Socialists is a good example of Labor solidarity and is a forecast lof fraternal relations between Catholic and Protestant vorkers against their common enemy, the capitalist exploiters, of Ulster...
...Thousands of post-war profiteers have become rich out of the reconstruction of northern France, and this new rich gang seek evasion of taxation by foreign . investment...
...But de Monzie ia opposed to a capital levy which Herrlot has urged to save the sinking franc...
...You think you have found it at last-1 Love: It in not Love...
...o One of- the items in Governor Smith s program fought by the Republicans and which they finally conceded was a plan for abolishing grade crossings throughout the State...
...The wet years with regulation show a marked and continuous decline of arrests for Intoxication, but with the passage and enforcement of the Volstead Act there is...
...The Commercial News claims that the charts are accepted as correct by the Anti-Saloon League...
...He now speaks to many more milliffns in this country from his Canadian forum than he could have spoken to here...
...Moreover, he is warned to keep out of the affair* of the German party or he will be . excommunicated...
...Even he, Mencken, the past anti-boob, founds hia whole contention si that superstition of the boobs...
...The United States haa occupied Haiti and San Domingo and has denied any intention of exercising sovereignty, yet its might has reshaped these little nations to serve American bank...
...Premier Craig has had his majority cut in Parliament, but not sufficient to prevent him from carrying on...
...8 a. m. Place—4th avenue and street...
...e • e " • • The Cciman electoral The German situation has cleared...
...all of them » newspapers and hungry looks...
...appears to be running the French Government...
...The worker at handicraft ia the small shop or in the household saw his hand tools displaced by the machine and the latter pass into the hands of the capitalist owner...
...We do not believe that the most reactionary monarchies of the prewar period ever handed out auch savage sentences as these...
...They are to be considered by the International Commission of Jurist* thia year in Rio Janeiro and are supposed to expand the Monroe Doctrine end to prevent wars among American republics...
...At th* same tha* Mencken spills ten buckets of eellgkrfdel tear* over the passing of the old landscape, bemoaning in his own faahion— when at* the blokes of yesteryear...
...lege- In an article under the headtac "Hiring...

Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 15


 
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