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DEAR EDITOR THE FUND I was forced to pause in my Thanksgiving0 preparations to write you this note of appreciation for the articles on the Fund for the Republic. You seem to be the only magazine...
...People who pretend to be champions of the animals on the humane level--I say most such people--ought to wake up to the appalling business of animal slaughtering that goes on for human food consumption...
...Monterrey, Mexico Frederick E. Lowell...
...Philadelphia Waltkr R. Storey PRIZE May I suggest that a prize be given each year for your most timely and brilliant article...
...Every so often, I read one that seems positively inspired...
...My 1955 choice is "Appeasement's New Face," by Moshe Decter [NL, February 7...
...A vast amount of social engineering must be carried on to meet the urgent needs of our economically rejected aging population...
...And in this time of the year we have the licensed hunting and slaughtering of animals and birds in the fields and woods, which is also a disgrace to our society...
...In Pennsylvania, the maximum relief grant for a single person, even if he must eat in a restaurant, is $64 a month...
...Sutherland...
...The man for whom the Christian religion is named never indulged in this repulsive habit...
...Torture is the order of the day, and cruelty...
...They will greet with open arms a new opportunity to resume friendly relations with us and as soon as they let down their vigilance we will knock them out...
...This means that the bulk of our working population faces serious job discrimination if they ever lose their present positions...
...Technological changes, mergers and company reorganizations make job tenure uncertain...
...In this speech he forecast that a time would come when the Communist world would launch a spectacular peace offensive aimed at enchanting the bourgeoisie to cooperate complacently in its own destruction...
...Pasadena, Calif...
...We will make electrifying and unheard of concessions...
...You seem to be the only magazine in the United States that has the information, the staff and the guts to present the truth on the Fund and Robert Hutchins...
...The stupid and decadent capitalist countries will then complacently cooperate in their own destruction...
...No intelligent, humane person would eat the flesh of an animal, a bird, or a fish...
...Mr...
...Portland...
...A study similar to Mr...
...All the non-Communist newspapers echoed this skepticism with phrases like "we shall see" and "if they are roses they will bloom...
...My choice for 1954 is "Old Fellow-Travelers Never Die," by Louis Jay Herman [NL, March 1...
...In 20 or 30 years," Manuilsky is quoted as saying, "we shall spring a surprise, and since the surprise is an essential element for our victory, the bourgeoisie must be put to sleep...
...Ruth Haefner John A. Sessions's attack ["A Misleading Guide to U. S. Communism," NL, October 31] is on Professor Arthur E. Sutherland's competence and integrity...
...This appeared in its October 15 issue, when most of the world was looking to the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference with great hope, and consisted of excerpts from a speech delivered in 1930 by the then secretary of the Communist International, Dmitri Manuilsky...
...And since in the light of the Geneva aftermath so much is being said about the urgency of making an agonizing reappraisal of our foreign policy, it might be wise for the leaders of the entire free world to note Manuilsky's forgotten prophecy...
...I never fail to get enjoyment, and a real lift, from Dr...
...It cannot be said that humane killing is the procedure usually followed in our slaughtering establishments...
...To meet these requirements, killing of a certain number of animals is necessary...
...or productive work must somehow be furnished for the elderly...
...I would be surprised, but pleased, to hear that Louis Bromfield and Joseph Wood Krutch take no part in the eating of animals...
...Since I had nothing to do with this study at any stage, I may perhaps he permitted to say that I regard it as a pioneering work of great value...
...Let's pinpoint this human misery...
...Look into the matter, and find out for yourself...
...But it should be done in a humane manner...
...It is fine as far as it goes, but it does not go nearly far enough...
...So might economic pressure from older people as they become aroused because certain banks, public utilities and factories have thrown them on the industrial scrap-heap...
...I am delighted to find that the American people are really fed up with counsels of despair and cynicism...
...I earnestly hope the page continues for many a year...
...First, there is the compulsory retirement of workers at around 65 years of age...
...by insinuating that the bibliography on Communism requires the Fund for the Republic to defend itself against the charge of "anti-anti-Communism...
...New York City Girolamo Valenti AGING WORKERS Wo need an analysis and suggestions for solving the problem of discriminatory employment practices against older people comparable to E. G. Shinner'a "City Slums, Challenge to Free Enterprise" I New Leader, December 51...
...What has he got to say about the horrible business of killing animals daily on a tremendous scale for human food...
...I have just returned from a five-and-a-half-month visit in Italy and can reliably report that no Italians, from top Government officials down to the most humble citizens in all political parties--excepting of course the Communists and their allies--had any illusions about the outcome of the confab between the Big Four heads of state...
...Bohn's weekly page in The New Leader...
...Maybe the single greatest weakness of the liberal front is that its contribution usually ends after stating valid negative advices, seldom daring to venture into the more difficult field of affirmative hopes and objectives...
...People who eat animals may write beautiful books on humaneness toward our lower brothers, but the fact remains that they encourage the bloody slaughter of helpless creature...
...We will start by launching the most spectacular pacifist move of all time...
...industry welcomes them...
...There are two phases of this pressing issue, which is heightened by the fact that modern medical progress is causing a greater proportion of our population to be middle-aged and elderly...
...The fortnightly magazine Political and Social Information of Rome, an anti-totalitarian publication closely allied with the Committee for Cultural Freedom, went even further: It warned the Italians to beware of the smiles of the Kremlin leaders by exhuming a Communist prophecy made 25 years ago...
...I realize that our complex, technological society just could not function, and many of our human comforts would not be possible of realization, without products which are made from animal sources...
...Drastic action is needed to insure that they will have enough income and education to enjoy their enforced leisure...
...Why hasn't he the courage to say so, instead of lining up with Fulton Lewis Jr...
...New York City Morris L. Ernst RED PROPHECY Now that the "spirit of Geneva" has completely evaporated and the Kremlin hierarchs have resumed the cold war with all the virulence, the invectives and big lies characteristic of the Stalin epoch, your readers may be interested to learn that of all the free world, Italy was probably the only country which was not inebriated with the celebrated "spirit...
...Some demagogue or the Communists may find these unfortunate millions fertile soil for agitation and action...
...Philadelphia Robert A. Heckert 'UTOPIA 1976' One great advantage of freedom of the press is that even book critics can differ among themselves...
...Commenting on Manuilsky's prophecy, Political and Social Information observed that "his remarks in 1930 are so suggestive today that it would pay to follow closely the movement of the thermometer of relaxation and watch in what direction the spirit of Geneva is blowing...
...Many Social Security or unemployment-compensation recipients receive only slightly more average income...
...Local and state FEPC laws insisting that qualified persons be hired regardless of age may be a solution...
...Second, the larger and better paying firms prefer to hire young people...
...It is the older people, living on the margin of our abundant economy in low-paying jobs or on inadequate Social Security or public assistance, who are demanding either the right to work, or the right to be supported at an adequate living standard if a livelihood is denied them...
...Many persons at that age are mentally and physically lit for several additional working years, but they are suddenly deprived of gainful employment...
...Increasingly one is considered too old for many positions at the age of 30...
...After years of following Granville Hicks's writings, I am convinced that when I see a glass of wine half full he sees it half empty...
...They rather looked upon the proceedings with unreserved skepticism...
...Shinner's would be a start in that direction...
...I am looking forward to selecting my favorite for 1956...
...I don't expect everyone to agree with my dream for our republic, but I am unashamed to ask support for my Utopia 1976 [NL, November 211, because dreams are potent makers of history...
...Young people today aren't economic and social rebels...
...Such a habit is wrong and quite unnecessary...
...Robert M. Hutchins President, Fund for the Republic SAVAGE SOCIETY I have just read William E. Bohn's piece on "A New Deal for Animals" in the November 21 New Leader...
...Sessions knows enough about the operations of foundations in general and of the Fund for the Republic in particular to know that the bibliography shows nothing whatever about the Fund except that it had, and has, confidence in Mr...
...Let's have many more of your interesting articles...
...Can he contribute substantially to the purchasing power of the community...
...Can a human being live on $2 a day...
Vol. 38 • December 1955 • No. 50
