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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES HOW TO CURE WORLD UN RES! CLARENCE LILY PINKPUTTY Philadelphia, Pa.—fiorente Lily Pinkputly dilettante, perfume expert, ami social light son of George Pinkputty,...
...develop good men...
...Ryan's Comrades and 'riends have therefore arranged to take over the Garrick Theatre for a series of benefit performances to be given by the famous Theater Guild...
...Up in Timet Square the other day a dismal object was teen propped "up against a lamp-post...
...Education, according to Owen, should be universal and compulsory...
...it is useless to expect isolated happiness...
...Today man it lurrounded by eonditiont that encourage selfishness, ignorance, vice, hypocrisy, hatred, war...
...Instead ef which oil was found ea their lend, and new they get oodles of jack with which they build houses that make ?harUeSehwab...
...So it seems that^Capital is still a little superior to Labor in tatto of the noble sentiment» by good old Abe...
...Nor did the business suffer as a result of these innovations...
...Thomas, has achieved th* distinction of being mentioned in I...
...Miss Dale, and was induced by her to visit her father's cotton mill in New Lsnsrk, Scotland—a mill which h? snd his psrtners sfterwards 1 bought for $300,000...
...They are Freda Hegan and her d*d Dan...
...I'm just from Oklahoma...
...But happiness cannot be obtained individually...
...It seems to us that ever tinte he got into the column he hat been e bit distrait...
...Child labor in a most pernicious form had increased manyfold...
...Theft, drunkenness and other vices were prevalent among the mill hands...
...But they came from Arkansas...
...He was soon taken into partnership, but later resigned, and became associated with another well-estabI lithed Msnchester house...
...Of the results of Owen's social experiment...
...Just imagine having to get up every week end reeding seme such diary confessional ..from Norman as this: "Did hav...
...But I kept on reading in the same book, which happened to be "Lincoln : Labor and Slavery," by Herman Schleuter, end when I got through I would have mede an ideal mourner at a poor farm funeral, hut as a Labor orstor on thi "Labor omnia vinci" order I wes hopelessly ruined...
...Is there anything I «an do Cor you...
...In designating all days as Capital Day, unless otherwise spec'tied, let it be understood thet all "sturai «nd unnatursl persons (omirjr under that t*rm shall be permitted to follow their regular iceupations in the usual manner, and shall receive 'he full product of their labor without subtraction, t-Juctiert and rake-off...
...Walker, has placed him in he»d financial straits...
...The industrial revolution had completely transformed British industry, greatly increasing the wealth of England, keeping high the coffers of the manufacturers...
...The mills made money for the owners as never Sefore...
...There It ene nativi of Oklahoma who knows the difference between Nietsche and nitrogen...
...Oklahoma Norman Among the Algonquins Bourgeois Bed Time Stories NOW, boys and girla, gather around teacher, salute tha flag, and heten while he tells you some interesting facts about the geography of your United States (God's own country...
...Here it goes: 1. "Wherever certain human btings devote thoir v ' toe* Mid- thought mainly to okaying and serving I ei*»» «gniifi teints...
...If this Hor*c* Greeley and that eld slave Senator have ladled out tht right dope than what tre we fellows anyhow but slsves...
...Owen wat a rationalist, and at tuch declared that the caute of the unhappiness of hit day could not be found in, the human will— lince raaton, not will, wat tha prime mover in human action—but in toma •oarer ia belief...
...Not that thtt serves to differentiate the poem...
...B? it further ordained: That on account of the scute tufaring that may follow under the new ditF'nsation by which Capital receives all and no mere thin it creates, that all right-minded^ well-meaning snd eharitablt inclined citizens promote soup kit«#•» end flop houtet in which poor but deserving «•Pitalitts msy find food, shelter, snd such other wmforti as ?re usually accorded to the unfortunate...
...sr.d what that old bo> had to say about us froc-born sons of toil is enough to tske the stsrch out of a Labor Day orator that had more in his head besides a "silver tongue...
...All thence to the Tip-toe Inn for a bite of talami,'after which to the office* of Nevy Mir...
...The performancei will be given on the eveningi of September, 16,16,17, II and '-'1st, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday eveningi...
...Give* under my hand and aaal...
...I finally found the wellworn quotation from Abe Lincoln : * • * • » I "Labor it prior to, and independent of, Capital...
...In 1818, the yesr of his new partnership, he published the first of the essays which contained his social philosophy, "Essays On the Formation of Character," and continued to elaborate his views in four esssys on this subject during the succeeding two yesrs...
...W* see that our candidata for Mayor, Nor mar...
...For the workers, however, it meant unemployment, misery and starvation...
...but I'll be domed if it don't look that way...
...4. "Where opportunity to lsbor is obtsined with difficulty and is so deficient that tha employing clan may virtually prescriba their own terms and pay t* th* Ubsror only such sture si they chooss of the proejuet, thara is a strong tendency to slavtry...
...Tht price of a Governor in Oklahoma la a n*w house, a six cylinder automobile and a butler imported from tha East...
...On Labor Day T WAS ransacking my library in search of I material for my Labor Day speech...
...Though in eager student, he hid little schooling, and at ten years of age became an apprentice to a Stamford clothier...
...and the 149th year of °Ur glorious independence, by the powers granted H atyeelf, by Adam Coaldigger...
...stand .School, 7 East 16th street...
...But they have sens...
...Read 'em and weep: "Our slaves sre black and of an inferior race...
...Our slsves do not vote...
...Ryan Walker at a time when Ryan was seriously ill in a New York Hospital...
...placa on Riverside Drive look like an snthraclte miner's sheck...
...At any rate, the inferiority complex it developed in me is something to brsg about...
...He is Burton Retcoe, but he once wrote a pitc* about Oklahoma la the Nation and new the Chamber ef Commerce won't let him com* back, Two other retfdonti of Oklehome City can read end write...
...in Jim On?al and Eddie Levinsen, ead did make for them sweet musick upon my jew'sherp...
...Each individual should strive for happiness, both individusl and collective...
...A benevolent Government stuck them up on eome untlllable land in th* north ef th* State, hoping they would dia without any further fuss...
...During tho depression of 1808, when tht United Statai had placid in embargo on cotton from America and hit mill had to cloit down, Owen started an almost unheard-of precedent of paying tha wages of hit workers in full...
...If they knew the tremendous secret, that th* ballot box i* stronger then sny srmy with bayonets, snd could combine, where would you be...
...The plsy will be the first Theatre Guild production of tht new seeson...
...All .'f this we can stand...
...Griscom, who spent some timt there, wrote: "There it not, 1 tpprehend, to be found in any part of the world a manufacturing community in which so much order, good government, tranquility, and rational happiness prevail...
...Woellcott and the rest, end you can't Meme him for being a bit of a llt'ry chap...
...Owen, spurred on by his former success, decided to give attention not only to the technical equipment of the mill, but also to their human equipment...
...M ' The richest people ii Oklahoma happen) remark* ably enough, to be the most attractive as well...
...Owtn't Early Life: Robert Owen wst born May 14, 1771, in North Wales, the son of a saddler and iron worker...
...P. A. ?bovt what a rotten time the it hiving...
...He Transforms New Lanark: Following the purchase of this mill, and his marriage to Miss Dale, Owen and his bride moved to New Lanark, and, on January 1, 1800, started his work as superintendent of the newly bought mill...
...I Delivered in my best spread-eagle style, that quotation would have made a crackerjack opening or closing beng and perhaps landed me among the immortels...
...It's a pretty dull day when Dorothy doesn't write* tor...
...CLARENCE LILY PINKPUTTY Philadelphia, Pa.—fiorente Lily Pinkputly dilettante, perfume expert, ami social light son of George Pinkputty, th* billionair*, writ** a comprehensive and learned eteay on "Th* Errors *f Radical Thought" fot thi* month's Vanity Bag Magasine...
...We ere beggars for punUhment, but diaries sre our limit Let Normen start Ana* ing a diary written in the etyle of Ye Old Radie Shoppe nnr1 we are off him for life...
...They are the Osage Indian...
...The '** nration w*a already mapped out in my head...
...The partneri complained of this and a a new partnerihip wat formed...
...The next thing that I stumbled across in thtt bek wgs a definition of slavery by Horace Greeley, (that should mean a fortune to every one of us if there is anything ir the old saying "The meek shall Inherit the Earth...
...The old personal relations between master and worker had been dissolved, Labor wat being brought together in great maisei in factoriei and mills, and in consequence, economic and political Labor groups were springing up on all sides...
...A kind he»ited stronger approached...
...He established stores from which the workers could get their supplies st cost—a reduction of twenty per cent from the former chsrges...
...Whors it it deimsd mora reputable to live without labor than by labor, so that a gentlemen would rttkir ba aahamtd of his descant from a blaektmith then from *n idler or mere pleasureseaker 'here ia a community not far from llsvsry *n*—-" But, Great Scott...
...from a poem, by Dorothy Parker in which she wishes she were deed...
...How would you like us to send lecturers to aid, assist in combining, end to lead them...
...1 Thet will be all for today, boys snd girls...
...Neat week we will .' udy the geography of thet g orioua Stat*, West Virginia...
...Happiness the Goal of Society: Shortly after Owen assumed chsrgt of the New Lanark mills he begsn to show sn interest in the lsrger socisl problems...
...When the books of the second parte, nership were bslanced, it was found that the firm had made a profit...
...I. A's column In the New York Word a short way uowr...
...They S(e yeur equals in natural endowment and intellect, in the,majority, they are the depositories of your political power...
...The act of admitting Oklahoma will go down in hiatoi y a* a tragic mistake Th* population of Oklahoma it 2,000,000...
...They all sleep out en t.»e l*wn or In the outhouses end have a perfectly corking time driving eround In high-powered cara and marrying thtlr children off to good-looking bat busted Yale graduates...
...Ryan't long Illness, throughout which he neverthelest gave the movement hit full resources, followed by tht death of Comrade Mrs...
...It wss a lank, green-gray wreck of time, with a drooping, walrus mustscho and a look of abject mtotry...
...What it the cauta ef thit ceadition...
...But to go on with Norman, now that be, tee, is among the Algonquin!tes...
...He built decent houses...
...There it a mtan temperature In Oklahoma...
...However, many of Owen't proposait meant the expenditure of large turni of money...
...Lr.bor it tha superior of Ospitai and deserves much the higher consideration...
...Wa shouldn't ba lurprised if som* day he butt right eut with a poem, or took up harmonica, playing, or nourished s secret passion for croquet or whatever is smart right now smong our Forty-fourth Street eternescienti...
...As a result of these reforms, a remarkable transformation took place in the life of the workers, and the New Lanark .community soon gained fame for its temperateness, cleanliness and intelligence...
...In the town of New Lanark there were 1,800 to 1.400 families and several ¦ hundred pauper children...
...Indeed, there is no reason to doubt that at this early age he was the first cotton spinner in England, a position entirely due to his own capacity and knowledge of the trade...
...It was while on a business trip for this firm that he met his future wife...
...and the only contest smong men then will be, who ehall tha most succeed in extending the happiness of his fellows...
...The primary and necessary object of all existence," he declared, "is to be happy...
...Wt will ftrtt ron*id*r Oklehoma, th* last of the forty-eight States to b* admitted to the Union...
...Most of the families lived in one room, and conditions were most unsanitary...
...The play to be given will be George Bernard Shaw's "Arms snd the Men," ont of the great drtmatiit'i finest plays...
...Philip Moeller has staged the play and Lee Simenson painted th* scenes...
...Of course, I wouldn't sdmit for a minute that I am a slave ef ilavet, being that I am working for ycu...
...Oklahoma it called th* "Sooner State," Thle nam* it derived from an axprestion Commonly heard on the lips of visitors, "I'd sooner be in Hell then in Oklehoma...
...These organisations, in turn, were causing grave anxiety within the governing classes, who had visions of a repetition of a French revolution on British soil, and who re-, sortsd to severe repressive rather' than remedial legislation at tht best method or preventing open revolt...
...e e e * There ere 11,000 inhabitants In Oklehome City, th* ospite...
...He would be filled with fine tolerance snd good will snd would desire to do good to sll mea A Chance to Aid Ryan Walker COMRADES and friends of Ryan Walker, one of the bast-loved run rades in the Socialist movement, will be glad to learn of an opportunity to give Ryan some assistance to tide him over his j reaent troubles...
...Evil eonditiont breed «vil men...
...Vary mtan...
...next morning if they have any...
...Yours do vote, end, being Yeur slaves are white and of your own race...
...If we didn't know him so we'l, we would . think he was getting high hat...
...this thirty •?eond day of August, 1025...
...of the State, end ef this number twenty Ave have read e book other than tht telephone directory...
...In fact, Owen claimed that "any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most tniightentd, may he given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application ef proper m?aps—which means art te a great extent at the oommand and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men...
...Tickets, selling from $1.65 te $2.75, may h? obtained et th...
...Be )t further ordained : That in consideration of the valuable service -«ndered by these persons, the fi I'M Sunday after the second Fourth of July of aseh end every calendar year be designated a* Super - Capital Dgy, on /which persons coming under the definition of capitalists s! all he permitted to march is parades, dance on grass, see ball games, sack r»ees and priae fights, eat pop-corn, peanuts, and i hot dogs end drink pink lemonsde at their own ex pense ind peril, provided that they show up st 'heir j J...
...What happened wai thit...
...e • • • • Oklahoma it proud of the, fact that so meny eg he native sons got shot up in the Great War...
...I. ''Where human hsint/s exist in such relstions that * part, because of th* position they occupy •nd tha functions they perform, are generally consid?re»" «n infermi class to thoia who perforin 1 other function., or none, there (I think) is slavery...
...If God ahould will It that Providence, by fire or flood, should wip* out 1,909,000 Oklahomans tomorrow, obvillsation in th* United States would be immeasurably enhanced...
...Thit it utterly falie, for a man'i character li a product of the circumstance* in which he is born, Uvei and workt...
...The cast will include Robert Warwick, Lynn Fontsnne, Alfred Lunt and Philip Travers...
...the Forward Office, 171 Eaat Broadway, and up-town at the Bryant Book Shop, 71 Weak 4lt h atreet...
...guy that is the trouble with sentiment* in fonerei./They are like dinner bells: they sound allright' but you cant eat 'em...
...Aa it ia wa just say to ouraelvss, "Well, Norman Is now in the in;.er circle with Konrad Berkovici and Carl Van Vechten and Alex...
...At the end of his apprenticeship, he connected himself with seversl concerns | in London snd Manchester, where I he did exceptionally well, and at the ' age of nineteen had become superititendent of a large Manchester cotton mill, which employed some 500 men...
...formstlon of these qualities, he had not the means of preventing...
...Readers of The New Leader will remember our story two week* ago telling of the tragic death of Mrs...
...Fortunately for the Abolitionists, to whom chose ' word* were addressed, the Civil War came along and prevented the South from tending agitators to the free ttatat (heavy on thn fret), and by the time the Northern proletarians had freed the black slaves they had fergottep/lll shout their own slavery...
...In the coming sgt, "to produce hspplness will b* the only religion of man: tha worship of God will consist in the practice of useful Industry, in the acquisition of knowledge, in uniformly speaking* the languag* of truth, and in the expression of the joyful feeling which a life in accordance with Nature and truth is ture to produce...
...He established kindergarden» for the children of the operators and developed a general educational system...
...man can, therefore, have but on* real and genuine interest, which it to make all ef hit race as ptactful In character and happy in feeling as the original organisation of nature of each will admit .. . then will they be occupied in promoting to tht gresteit limit, thtlr own individual nappiness...
...At this juncture," wrote Freder* ick Engels, "there came forward as a reformer a manufacturer, a man of almost sublime and childlike simplicity of character, and at «the tame time one of the few born leadort of men...
...All I needed yet was a few highJglutin quotations to put the frothing on the cake, so to speak...
...It should begin by teaching children the principles of brotherhood, industry, and character building...
...Capital is only the fruit of Labor end could never I have existed if Labor hed not first existed...
...enough net -o live In these houses...
...Further disagreement arose, snd in 1813, Owen, backed by William Allen, Quaker, Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher, and other stockholders who were willing to take five per cent on their investment, bought the firm out st suction for $770,000...
...good condition...
...If a new world if te be born, the first thing that mult he done ii to ipread the truth concerning the formation of character, namely, that mtn's character ia made for him, not by him...
...He leg* "it would be unspeakable cruelty to deprivo th* boot people of the leisure to indulge that diteriminating tasi* and subtle peroeptibility that is tho etelusive birthright of the** who ar* born in th* soulzone of refieme A." He defies th* leading radical thinkers to anewer his arguments, and assorts ihat "the only cur* for unreet is to teach the common people to roar their children in a highly perfumed atmosph?re of luoury end refinement...
...Being so trained, the child would reslise the folly "of being angry with an Individual for possessing qualities which, ss a passive being during th...
...Tie Asaerteea People Robert Owen and His Age THE HISTORY OF SOCIALIST THOUGHT By HARRY W. LAIDLER, Ph.D THE Timet of Owen: This, then, was the setting of the activities of Robert Owen, manufacturer, Utopian, cooperator, "father of British Socialism...
...in the previous four'year*, excluding five per cent paid on capital stock, of about $800,000...
...See how that tuiti you : . i Sovereigns—Greetings : Whereat, an all wise Congress hai tot aside the first Monday of September at Labor Day, be it ordained: that .<11 portoni doing uteful labor observe Labor Day at a da;,' of lsbor, and that all the ether days of the year be dttignated as Capital Days on i which only capitalists shall be permitted to labor...
...You may go, but don't forget to salute th* flag on your way out...
...Are you lick, my friend...
...Compared with th* stata ef culture ia Oklahoma, Arkansas loomt lik* Athene, Greece compared with New Athens, Illinois...
...Court Jeeter t* Hi* S*vere<S" Majesty...
...So I doped out a happy ending to thit Jeremiah whine, that if more in line with the noble sentiments expreited by old Abe...
...why go on...
...His employer fortunately had a wellselected library and young Ow?n spent much time reading...
...At least that Is all the oil interests peld for Jack Walton, tha Farmer-Labor Governor, and it ia the consensus of opinion that they got stuck at thai There ia one newspaper in Oklahoma City that can be road by an intelligent person without a severe attack of nausea, and that ia the Leader, bat it is »o poorly -upported thet it Jiai had te chsng* ?rom a daily to » we«kly...
...And tht belief that j is in error It that which teachet that ' man makes hit own character...
...No," rnsponded the abject, "I ain't tick...
...He greatly restricted drinking...
...He mede s record ef the conduct of his employes, which were used as a basis of promotion...
...In these and other esssys Owin took, ss the basis of his socisl philosophy, the thesis of his friend snd business associate, Jeremy Bentham, the aim of human society is the greatest happiness to the greatest nuntber...
...Twelve yetrt later, after further dissension in the ranks of his company on account of his unorthodox religieus views, Owen finally left the businets...
...in this mill town, an American traveler, Mr...
...In 1816 Owen brought to compilation his educational plans for his null operatives with the opening of the New Lanark institute...
...Power ef Education: By education the inhabitants of a community could be trained to live a perfect life...
...h arar ter It Made fer Men: However, there are now but few happy individuals, while happy nstiont ara unknown...
...all must partake of it, or the few will never enjoy It...
...It became the Mecca of students of social problems, of statesmen, and even of royalty, among them Nicholas, afterwards Czar of Russia...
...3. "Wherever the ownership of tht soil is so angtosssd by s smsll part of the community that th* far Urger number ar* compelled to pay whatever th* faw may s*s flt to exact for occupying and cultivating th* earth, there is something vary like ils very...
...Well, temebody it always taking the joy out of Hfe, and if I didn't put a little of it back again then thit world would be all the vale of teart boyt lay it it...
...Here, foe instance, is a part of the speech delivered on the floor of the Senate in 1868 by slave Senator James H. Hammond of South Carotins...
...and this not because tkoy «keet* ta do .so, but beeauiathey mast, tbsrs (I think) is slivery...
...But here is our warning to Norman: he loses our vote if he ever go?e te keeping e diary...
...where, with mu-'i talk ef Sigman and che stoppage, the time sped merrily enough, and eu to Mar McAlister Coleman...
...The principal industries of Oklahoma are (a) selling wild-cat oil stock to Eastern suckers, (b) exploiting miners snd railroad workers, (e) taking the shirts off tenant farmers, (d) politics, (a) bootlegging, (f) forming Rotarles, Civitans and Kiwenises (g) boosting Oklahoma, (h) lynching innocsnt Negroes and Mexicans...
...Children were working long hours Bnd had no opportunity for education...
...Tht acceptance of thit truth will lay a foundation for a change in circum•tancet that will product goed characters...
...He enforced strict sanitsry rules...
...The goods manufactured by the mill soon commanded s 50 per cent advance over regular "market prices...
...It ia usually around HO degrees, but the officisi therm .meter it kept in an ice-box and even then It regularly registers above SO...
...Someone took a good leek at the Oklahoma outfit ana said, "Put that bunch up in the front line trenehei end dont ever sty I never dont nothing for my country...
Vol. 2 • September 1925 • No. 36
