MENCKEN EXPLORES THE SEWERS
Oneal, James
Mancken Explores the Sewers The Civilized Minority as a Ferce for Social Progress By James Oneal SOCIAUSTS Who hare otistaisjg hto. M- Ie bf*—hsa ssa*XhtoS beurgme* Wei* dad Amarto** toakway*...
...Whether this is his tot*ptlon I da aot knew, but that tola deetraetien 1* to* effect et hi* Work to certain...
...It baa no more justification la reality than many of th* quackeries of Rotary...
...The customs, habits, superstitions aad prejudle* bound up with th* present social order form a powerful barrier against human progres...
...The novel tells how Ed Martin, trekking westward after gold, had been forced to stop here in mid-America by hie wife's illness...
...suck tanSung m...
...with three decaying middleelans houses on one side, and twekre slum hovels on the other...
...Aad finally, to tSgl...
...Marx had all thi* in mind when he referred to "the idiocy ot rural life...
...Depicts the Struggle and Wreckage of the Current American Scene— Comdemnatior Without Propaganda By Clement Wood THE most distinguished flrtt novel that we have ever encountered is "Backyard," by Gloria Goddard (M...
...Indeed, in one of the civilisations accepted as great by the entire world...
...Practically an of them were taken In aa easily a* Jeff Peters Bold Brazilian diamonds to rustles in toe West...
...Still more do they need re Interpretation In the light ef actuay events since the war...
...Detail* about it* suspension and its future plan* win be found to the flrrt issue...
...vteee eg the waU-fcasum ftotoay Club AU taxem wtebtoa tototo oar **> gantoattom aketibt eeene to aur Mat T***£ •aaatofc'sapi^ *Tm « Bsanagwaw...
...He .point* out, truly enough, that democracy is a matter of to* spirit, but he does net tell us how the right spirit can be established...
...and It 1* reassurance of a sound substratum ta th* American people, phlebotomised spiritually as they are by adulation ot Budies and Trudles...
...He sees fav democracy a process of government hy conference, a method which, of coax**, hn* weak* nesees, but la certainly to he pre...
...This top* at society developed meet rapidly to toe north ot Italy...
...The law ae tt exist* I* a horrible incubus en civilisation i One of the worst expression* ef the ratten economic system...
...Mencken"* prejudic...
...genial 1* ta Billy Sunday and rely en good, solid brick* which trash through a prejudice or a taboo...
...He remarks i "The Germane forcing the Tcbech* to learn German before toe war may have been quite a* wrong ** the Tchecha are now when they ere compelling the German* to us* their mother-tongue, but there 1* One difference indeed...
...This would-mean Increases et $10 to $31 a month...
...Cooperation and Politics The Co-operative Movement in Italy as It Has Been Effected by the Changing Winds of Political Ideas—How It Has Fared Under Fasciam By Cedric Long IN GIVING a meet detailed picture of co-operative production and cooperative agriculture in Italy and ta neglecting almost entirely consumers" co-operative aad co-operative credit Mr...
...It 17 and kept all ef the organisations, whether consumers, producers, or credit unified until l»tp...
...In the early day* to*** societies seat many reverses and often were unable to compete with private contractors...
...Mar* not only the labor power ia organized co-operatively but ala* the ownership ef great manufacturing plant* and the marketing at their products ta competition with private manufacturer...
...Mencken must be credited with betas the first of bis tribe to make ua laugh at the stupidities et th* droll numbskulls who bar* been marketing "American civilisation.- He ha* beep saying what away believe, but who have never had to* courage to gay It Tim* after time he baa march** tnto th* temple ot th* bourgeois gods aad left th* floor strewn with rubbish...
...it 1* a social document ef great valu...
...It la net aa independent and **Tt-*uA•teat tore* capable at directing events ta a parted ot **cte...
...Tale University Frees...
...That man, a* a political animal, la —eesptlhl* ef a vast am**** •* ImpiKsmiwt by adueottea...
...Bonn's re...
...The editor or manager may be seen by appointment only...
...Mencken la never careful et hi* facte and whoa he turn* to th* socialists he to vulnerable...
...Tou'U find th* beak it**U to* beat answer...
...Addreaa: 781 Riverside Drive, Mew •eJork...
...To the extent that he destroy* th* defence mechanisms of modern capitalism we rejoice...
...Lloyd not only tell* about to* work they do, but explain* to us to great detail toe Intricacies of their organisation and administrative problem...
...to* Italian Syndicate ot Co-Operative* waa organised aa a central federation under Fascist control, to make to* debacle complete...
...Te complicate th* matter still -farther, th* eat.Servtoe Men very soon thereafter ato* organised their ax-seidlers **¦ operative federation...
...There 1* so condemnation of th* social system...
...W* cam* tot* conflict with tolkway* which, in, the hands ft Woedraw Wllsca aad hi* intellectual **a*erlpto...
...mattress making, etc...
...What giv»* value to hi* hook is his analysis of th* rc**na* for thai situation...
...Lloyd glratmeny vary tateesstto picture* et the drama tie work don* bp the** vartoa* type* at co-operative*, jt ts impossible bar* to dasarfb* the remarkable children's **ba*l* and experiments to workers' edaeattea developed by many ot toe** larger organlsnticn*, Th* weakness et this hack Is in its failure to show the power of the consumers' societies before Mussolini's coming to power and to* benefit* which th* workers derive* from them, as wall as from their producers' co-operative...
...Rat tag*to msa-Siiinhii it...
...parties war* aligned ta to* support of th* co-oaorntiv* groups—the Republican party rapporttag th* peasants and to* Socialist party th* manual laborer...
...Praia* For Reich's Workers Dr...
...It i* a aloosay though n«t a hopeless picture which Dr...
...thay ware Sat to Stan* and promptly bt*W Up...
...Meanwhile, to Sicily aad other part* ot toe south th* pennant* themselves were organising to free themselves from th* exploitation ot absentee landlord* who owned most of the agricultural landa It was Inevitable that theee tw* types of agricultural co-operation should ultimately deah...
...Large number* Of these Socltlss term regional and national federations through which they procure the eel rlaas of expert technician* and the large amount of capital which is essential for their work...
...PargtoaaApsari-gTay.l suaeat *h*li»> aad toaifc...
...The aristocratic family to to* lowest ef the three bourgeois house* has petered down to Us sen* with a washwoman's daughter across th* allay, te selling its h*u*eheld chattel* t* th* antique man, aad to to* end to wealthless extinction...
...Bat toetead at relying ** aa totoitectaal mate ta rata *od*ty sttof th* prajudioe* aad tabee* go to the toak h**p w* weald have this lower ernes rto* to powar aad •aaert it* ctouaa...
...Measured heaide to* slim halt desen beat American nevele, "Backyard" loss* none of It* Impresslveneas...
...when the majority, at a national convention, voted to ally (taclf with the Socialist party Immediately all of toe Catholic societies withdraw 4* torna thate own federation...
...sanctioned by every tradition and retain advnntnnaa of pew** nnd prestige to to* • inner wMob he beliovoe te be neither Mlueery wcjv wmHi "sTwrgi'y*" «H loll ii His Sandburg Singer of Prairies By McAlister Coleman triad *at*rte ihTSgiilsa em«« taaj sauss...
...Prte...
...but we have never had th* balance ot poverty crescent to wealth, as ariatoeracy depresses te to* gutter, as far aa I can recall...
...He devotee his chief attention to three: types of co-operation: Co-operative tabor societies, co-operatlva societies and Industrial production, and co-operative agricultural soeletle...
...I recall - her* th* moat conspicuous •n* at our "Civilised .minority," Clarence Darrow...
...an ass mameat tapuseatottva et to* •miviagad sMssMW w**' *am* w a* and sakfaaSMdl te to* St, taut* atoato* ration...
...When Mencken *p**ks of Socteltet* who "always succumb te sense ether and w*ree MftTX...
...Has Mencken accomplished anything In disturbing the folkways...
...Th* sunset theme run* through an of hia beet work, softening it* sometime* unnecessary coarseness, giving It a nasnpalllng wlstfulnes* and banntlng baaaty...
...but Mis* Goddard writes sxjqateltety at all time...
...tecrea to the theory of practice and violence which wan incarnated and various dictatorship* continue...
...and by th* •ppltestte* ef hia Intollltenee to th* adapt** tton at th* condition* *f life te fci© fc^gjfc^w* f)6Gag)aV t 9^^q^^&lft p%0^ WORKERS' SPORTS Th* Soccer team dhrtefam of th* Pr*grteslv* Sport Club defeated to* Hagibor Soccer club laat Sunday by a acorn of J to l. Th* Pmsr***lv* Sport Club will seiehmt* wtto a dance on o*t t at CUotoa Man...
...In spits ot these serious internal differences, however, to* reclamation at waste toad by rural co-operatives has been remarkabi...
...Mencken to warn htm not to adopt a vice that belongs to too Babbitt* and to Babbitts alone...
...Backyard'' does ae muck...
...Per many people It is almost impossible to reason about the** thing*, bat wheai aa increasing number begin to tough at (hem there 1* hop...
...There are too** vrh* profess to find aa poetry M Sandburg...
...The writer ot tola get a, "kick* cut at fct* stab* and enjoyed tt aa much he he he* the Mencken Owato at Rotary and other American - id lootes...
...if to hie lataratto te aatoah pr*jadice* Mr Menafca* masimmny toaeree history, he aotoattehto stos aa another •core...
...He has contributed some remarkable article* to1 th* American Mercury and tor a generation waa the moat conspicuous anti-war man to the United State...
...By It* mean* the dead hand ef the past ****** he*v- Ily en to* I Wins P recent, and man- , hind am m*aa*l*d by fitters f»rg*d by their brutal *w*s*ter...
...Democracy Europe...
...His eon, a land speculator, had given place to a dilettante grandson...
...PMaat to a. Par* aSaitoiWiS it Sato aat aaaaa aajsma* th* reaku at ssaa-' bM...
...toe gaming propagandist, to toe peat who wrote "Prairie," "laughing Corn," or "Good," Night" Plenty at ether America*,' poets eaa damn with gusto th* bcrrnra off toduetrtsiteaa- Pew can bring • hi seeing ever th* wonder and Irony aad todaeab at Bis to to* real America *• ausoaesfuMy tote prtot as can Sandburg...
...Iliad Sam suamdp...
...What happened to that "dvUtosd minority" tar wham Mr...
...Th* treatment |s even more ems zing...
...how his bouse had grown-to be a mansion, and his com field to be the microcosm of a narrow alley parting bougeoia and proletarian...
...toer* to rtodbs *w baaevlag that th* **toto* d*toss at th* »a*» hitt* er* being effected bp to* ttpafSry hrlCka that have been kurtOdept than...
...Bu£ "Backyard" establishes that her first immediate major ranking has been earned aa an epic fictional chronicler of the American scene...
...It 1* th* epic Of America, told almost from the alteration* ot the burdened clothes-lines ta the backyard*: the sort Of thing that only a woman could have aeen aad don...
...The panorama of American life, from tk* Civu war through th* world War, Is given h«r* aa intensive objective depiction, With the emphasis upon the theme mentioned...
...The men who /are analyzing those events at least prepare the way and present to us In orderly fashion material for our own thinking...
...Mia study of to* type gad to* Uteretare at "Rotary" and similar orgealsaUoaa *h*w that Babbitt la bsstmtng conscious of the fact that hs i* being toughed at for Hi* feeterlca...
...Clarence Darrow has gjj^^&gyk**»'btotery '¦a...
...by Inebrwrttoa...
...There 1* not the broad sweep ef almost melodramatic realism of "MeTeagu*," nor th* auav* unfolding ef Cahan's masterpiece, not the palpitant introspection ef "The Red Badge ot Courage";, but the objective woman'* backyard viewpoint ia quite a* Invaluable a* the beat ef these...
...Zealand "Worker...
...lwW*teA OMar^aML fit >W ^T^^ m by to* staysapi at RRfggg ptosr aa ttor...
...era] •aught ap by Cart Ssbdkurs to his 'wasaaaps Pasxa*" (Baraourt...
...And b*r* wa *aato te pa* *f Mr...
...Th* Crisis of European D*m*ere*r...
...I think sc...
...Par tote unsiisssad pat omnipresent theme...
...can Mercury ha* usdoubtodty *en* Wbtttod to to* laaptovtS s1)M|iPm et this* SiegsHas* TfcreewW...
...What e...
...P*rm Co-Opomtlon Co-operative working *t agricultural holdings baa developed tram tw* directions: The social trad* union* I aad urban co-operative spctette* first organised to Ten** large holding* ef agricultural toads s* that ta werteds ef unemployment th* city workers could find employment to toe country...
...The best we can hope la that this literature of analysis will pave the way for later constructive writing —and working...
...Baaders of The New Leader are familiar with her solotlllant'aook reviews which have appeared in its pages, and with bar occasional poems...
...Th* editor ot to* radical health magueies...
...Her* evolution is impious, Bryan ia a saint, a cool glass of beer la the Devil's bribe, thinking to a misdemeanor, and Calvin Coolldge ia a statesman...
...AS upper cteaa comes sowa aad a tower etoas goes up...
...It Is the political aspect ot co-operation in Italy that is *a tater eating and instructive far th* workers of other countries...
...She ia int>:' *tod in/th* whole human revue: i much to to* cheap landlady with her souse of » husband, or the immobile bourgeois spinsters m tot middle house, or th* stolid Polish children, as ta ton toora significant social upsets of to* Martin-Cennell groups Beebe write* exquisitely at time...
...Brace dr...
...W* have always been critical et ouraeivee aad every Socialist can recall aam* incident or •erne program adopted by aom* •pottos et the movement that ha* contributed to our oc li action et Curio...
...We s*p*t akto* aad I da **t r...
...Thi* 1* demonatratod by what he consider* * forceful indictment of us to hi* contribution to The World ea August *. Thi* h*« reference to Socialists aad the war...
...Moreover, to* press of that ported xdver ceased to charg* as with th* Impious crime at ad*pttog th* St aVeato rtoelpttoa...
...Hie Vuln«r*W* Sped, But there ia danger to hi* method...
...I think, poo*ib*», h* exaggerate* this utter point, aad Z am cult* sur* that hi* book suffer* from hi* failure adequately to consider the impossibility of establishing genuine democracy while preserving th* profit system...
...Lloyd gives aa a unique book (Co-operative Movement to Italy, by a A Lloyd: International Publishers...
...We never enter th* front yard*, to* houses, th* introspective universes ot th* character...
...Xe believes that Socialist* eutfer tram aa *%v*rwhelming **mpul*ten to beUev* what Id sat trad.*' Perhaps Xtotory atom) can giv* th* final answer, bat whoa he subscribe* to the "civilised minority" a* aa *adurtog toelal tore* he ha* an "overwhalmtag campubUon te believe" what 1* in conflict with all history, it is a prejudic* which he win have to abandon...
...By Dr...
...We think it better to leave the dirt dad th* Sa...
...Mencken, but tt It ma*n» anything at an tt must Include too** who are emancipated from the tolkway*, these who at least understand th* tradaof the Wilson...
...R arrived cm August * wacaw to Th* M. T. World wt that date, hi devoted Ms column to Socialists aad Bsejallsm...
...Mencken as often speaks 7 It is a vague phrase and it has act been denned a an Its aspects by Mr...
...delists may net like Dr...
...Some of our enthusiastic friends of small nationalities may net Ilk* this observation, but tt is none the lea* true...
...ivirhul et a gad**% tt arms)** *aj ddthaB) *bsaubL*MSlaasbj - ' •m g*TbuajtTlga>> '*'¦"* SJaaJk llgbts SSd Pb*Sm...
...Sample copies wQl basest tree to new reader* upas iroqvce* wham ready...
...On* hi* only td turn to such magazine* ^u^h^i^^t*--^-^* fA**Am*ri...
...Both democracy and Socialism got their great Interpretation in times when men thought In logical terms with little knowledge of psychology...
...At this Juncture to our history nobody seems able to reveal to us this secret of social salvation...
...eemvbarbariaa malic*, but w* did sat take to the eewer...
...r ^Tvr...
...Industrial producer** societies are net nearly no numerous and have »roved to be le*e uniformly successful...
...ayay told tistobaai Amsricn...
...la abort ha resorts to something lih* the trick known a* Babbitt* g*e*teat exponent of culture, Billy Sunday...
...price, $1.76) on toe co-operative movement in one part of Europe...
...ft to a*to gejjPto ^S^BBUaisB^JBBlb A*> ^*haJjh^^^^s^ •^sjpsav^'aas'W^a vj*^ f^awW 9 'v^l^aaw^'FwwJv •aak> satoiitty wtthaat aadh Aa ''to...
...to like manner, certain Guild So...
...et sentimentality and Rotary blether, et th* long alow poisons ot warped thinking and superstition...
...A novel like "The Death of a Nobody," by Jules Komalna, that study of mass thinking, created Its own method, and earns enduring place thereby in the development of fiction...
...Wages have stood still since the cuts that followed the loot strike ef 1111...
...to* raw rat* at blast turxacaa •tea at night from team windows, ta*' btosa at n*ons beettegdnnn on nldeona litu* mate ¦treats, aad th* mornhur •aa *n vst* must sea* hp kitchen doomSat far aft ory sympathy with at* t*votuil*a*ry vt*np*iat for an my a*-, miration et ten) spirit hi such poems sa "At to* Gates at Tmaasy- "smoke and Steel," ar "Th* Maysr at Gary...
...Cut off from the Martin money for this, the inept couple return to live beside Polish families in the slum-hovel* ef Martin Alley...
...The novel ia masterly, both in theme and treatment p* theme ia the growth and decay of social classes in America...
...The most successful of those factories are for th* production of win* bottles, tanning of leather, wood carving, printing, gplaatug ot cloth and too menutoeture *t oloth...
...Individual sins generally teak th* sanction of public opinion, and experience prove* th* happlnee* derived from them ten* bach cm* ntentary nnd Illusory...
...The co-operative labor societies are probably the moat interesting at these three...
...Rival eontral' federation* of co-operatives followed...
...her eon, QUte, become* the Martin chauffeur, and elopes with the spoiled petulant Martin girl...
...They were area eac*f»asaS to to* extent fkat they war* given publicity in th* press...
...Practical!* all toe more eminent Socialists of th* United States took to the eewara in 1»17," he writes, and add* that Debt seat Bscdalbybr* whw b**fe toa eejppat he nvawuoo* aw» bdj scutate* :sci, at* Osjgvra at two hand...
...dred members...
...M* to half-ashamed of himself, often admit* that h* hsa bee* aa tosuttmat* ass an* secretly tn*f*gaa* to a JoMWladaje ot Mencken aad ike American Mercury...
...a mare statement of the wreckage that It undulatlngly create* la condemnation eaough...
...Social Decay in Fiction Gloria Goddard, in a Remarkable First Novel...
...T-: Robert M. McBride * Co., (2.00...
...IH Clinton street Two silver toying «ups will aa • warded t* to* stub* sesst represented, w* have aiaft sssurid the *er...
...The scene is the Martin Alley, topped by the hillside Martin mansion...
...Howaver, after several year* of experimentation they became well organised and disciplined and did remarkably fine work...
...D* thay ato* have prajudtoe* aad toheos7 They da, and to- tod astoat that Mencken kelp* t* ramajto them he atrve...
...So much...
...B*nn points to th* obvious hut neglooted fact that toe crisis to European democracy Is a crisis in European life add that toe dictatorships of Europe have not gone ahead of democracy ia providing happiness for the people...
...to*sa tv ass* bbgst saisf tulty *» wok* thai toisai...
...After 1MI th* agricultural aooletlec ot manual labor*** Incurred th* open hostility of to* peasants, and within thro* years strong politic...
...Then maswbd the X*» ttoasl Party asd it ssj sat aurvtv*j*a* eaough t* nomtoate saaitastss ia * single ilictlsa...
...Tbey wars act melaetst to thi...
...ink...
...Rational Living, Dr...
...Bonn ha* mad* an Important contribution to too literature of social analysis which 1* characteristic of our time...
...Meanwhile, an impecunious Irish contractor...
...Stirring to* "Yokels" The custodians ef the folkways are to* pompous generals...
...They tall you that hi* slang grata* *a town, that his choice ot subject* to offensively vulgar, that his touch ia heavy, and that there 1* ao music ta the man...
...1^ wast i* *tia SMS* tajpdrMjat.msjtt: wpc tort -e had a to** has* to th* attempt t* dhyatoss ss-PR ssdtheP ap» gantoatlcn...
...B. Liber, has Just returned from abroad and will resume the publication of the Journal within a abort time...
...Old sabaerlbMs are requested to notify us at one* to case of a change ot address...
...allatlo eemmenta on vocational Parliament- Aad seme ether Socialist* may quarrel with him tor dwelling as toe degree to which employers and wag* workers in Germany have discovered a community ot interests at the expeas* Ot to* consumer...
...Th* Fascia* Attack la to* web* of the murder eaeTptibhpa that raged among the ee-opurstt***, tola Paaatot federation developed eeaatoerabl* power and to* strength at tk* aid National League beg** to wane, until to IfiM tk* N»ttaael lisngsas ta completely dissolved and only a weak Catholic federation and a still weaker ear Service Men's feredatten are left to dispute to* field with tk* central ae-operative organisation which I* *—*t*B*g hp th* swr...
...Nor doe* he give nearly enough attention to the cooperative banks...
...Beinterpretetlon Needed In spits of tale criticism, t should aap that Dr...
...M- Ie bf*—hsa ssa*XhtoS beurgme* Wei* dad Amarto** toakway* knew that to*ir tor* weubt scene...
...The former forced toe latter to become partners, up willing partners...
...Bonn ma****a to gtv* astaguisrly lucid and objective statement of what has been happening ia afar*** to the democracy for wWA Woodyow Wilson waa going to have aa saelm the world safe, no matter hew many people we killed ia the prssss...
...Thi* is Mate achievement and to the extent that Msaakhn o*atributo* to to* prsceee ef elvntatag th*** Itttl* bar* barton leader* at Atoertoaa **xdtoil*m h* la doing a ueeful aervloe...
...Moriti JuUua Bona...
...tRara torn ksssi lis *g warn...
...as poet she Is represented ta Bralthwalte's lit* Anthology of Magazine Verb* with three of th* moat enduring ot to* poems in the volume...
...OCEAN-GOING MECHANICS WANT WAGE RAISES Twenty 'big steamship lines have been served with a written demand by the Ocean Association ef Marine Engineers for wage raises bringing engineers' pay to Shipping Board standards...
...Th* social •Ins ef modern Iff* *r*i on th* sthsr hnnd...
...Mencken la a destroyer et the folkways that careen aad protect a ruling class, th* meet vulgar lh the history ef civilization...
...Th* aovel la an exquisite classic tat pro...
...Before considering ate column ot smash** tet us concede bis merit...
...Met that ere are immune from criticism...
...Tk*a* ft tkts tpp* wb* Mast •erve Wjhkm ss-sttsr hap> naaRtoRto •swam to iHf «* «u*td Mr...
...He teat the sort ot poet yeu eaa be a bit neutral about BKher you reject him or, aa ia to* can* with this reviewer, make htm *o much a part of you that, looking through hi* cares, the whole American aeene shift* tor ye* aad you cannot walk out aato aa Illinois prairie at night-fall or go along th* *tge*t* ot a mid-West city stashed by evening rata, without recalling some lino of Sandburg'* that gives color and musing ta to* event...
...We have splendid books, ilk* "Th* Rto* of David fcevlnaky," which show to* ugly flower wealth arrogantly springing out of th* mire of th* slums...
...This ha* been th* law at history whether we tike tt or net...
...The method ef "Backyard" ha* d*0nltel| ostarged to* craft at fiction, hy furahtotng ft wtto a saw tort...
...Men ace usually mere complacent In their social than their individual •ins...
...Th* chiei obstacles ta the way ef great sue**** for toes* societies seem to be difficulties to raisingaiargs anwunte of **p"tttt and the failure to compete successfully m to* competitive .naarkat* ot capitalism...
...The constructive valu* ot toe book is not great...
...I tars from SbSdbBrS...
...It ia almost unbelievable that ao considerable novelist, in any method, baa preceded Mia* Goddard ta thi* theme...
...toe bitter are cutting them oft from the world at large and are forcing them to participate in a cultural system which has little chance of ever being anything but local...
...Duncan Atoawp to to* September Harper* has as toteretotog article ok to* current tread ameng th* Babbitt...
...Th* tolkway* are pocketed most securely to our vast rural area...
...Th* naval is purely rtswtiva, a pdsmma at toa top/ backyard* eonatdored...
...After'the war, a third group ot ex-Service Men'e agricultural asoperative* developed to complicate th* aituatlon (till further...
...Council, has pushed up from the hovel* to secure the Job of demolishing the Martin mansion, aad and* in a fair way to being wealthier than th* Martin* aver were...
...They need reinterprete...
...Chang...
...Mencken'* Shaft coining* However, that is a matter Of taste, but w* fast that wa owe a duty ta Mr...
...Instead ot the "civilised minority" assuming dominion its rank* always split, one section going over to the lower class, on* to the upper class, aad a third "taking to th* »ew*re...
...They organised top Sdaiai DemeertttgsVesdrna and ft a*v*r recruited over a hundred or two has...
...N*w...
...Ta ha ¦a^Nsj tasvtf* aj^a oteMaf colors on gj^ paiatto...
...Depicts a Human AntMM Tet tt is almost unfair to th* story ta call thi* It* theme: tor Gloria Goddard write* with the aloof detachment of a Beebe, studying, instead of tropical aad oceanj* fauna aad flora, to* doing* of'a human anthill...
...We waver T*MW*t tt aad •ur dadmies never torsat it Ta am sort that to* "mere eminent SMtallate" *f tola country -teak to to* •ewers" •imply doe* sat *o,u*r* wtto to* toot...
...heaien ft may have before thi* change t* deetroyed bp toe conflict et classes wkas the *h*ag* is being ettortod...
...Among the proletariat is aa impoverished widow named North...
...We d* aat wast kfca to wants any bttoks aad wa *r* wintog to kadd so*** to kfca froat tone to ttote to throw at tk* wtadawa Oa**Atoa*Jsy k* throws rubber has* that return opto to hit ana...
...In toe light of German experience he examines some of th* problems of racial minorities...
...They take contraeta for the building of bridges, railroads, large municipal buildings, laying out of highways, and performance of other huge Industrial undertakings...
...Illiterate politlaiana, servile editors, drooling pastor* *f to* business cede, and that large variety et realtors and professionals that Mencken embraces in "Rotary...
...The book establishes • too author at first appearance aa one of the most significant figure* in fiction that America has produced...
...It th* author 1* less Aeschylean than to* author of "Ethan Frome," aha ta more Olympian, more aloof, more truly scientific in her Impassioned creation...
...Corner West Iddth Street, eabway station Broadway arm 187th Street) Telephone W*d*> worth Ittj...
...Ledg**, Burleson* aad Mtrdlng...
...Bonn tat developing hi* them* pays a tribute to the derma* working tsiass as the saviour of democracy ia that country...
...They are composed ot group* et manual workers organised to control their labor power collectively...
...Mail addrete: Box t> P. 6. Station M. Mew York...
...Mencken 1* net acquainted with tola lore er be would be able to bar] * few brick* our way that would be effective...
...He deee a genuine service in showing the haven which has been wrought by toe injection et* political issues into th* co-operative movement...
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...with long whisker* and dirtier flngemaiia...
...Ben* •raws...
...imM-myattoai ***** that bangs...
...Crisis ByNormanThomas IN * little less then * anndred pegs* Dr...
...Here ye* bava Sandburg at hia beat and bis worst...
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...tlon in, the light ef our modern knowledge of psychology...
...Rebecca "West, the English novelist attempt* a refutation at this criticism to bar suave but not altogether understanding Introduction ta thU Srat e*U**tiea et Sandburg's poem...
...Mencken makes us laugh aad th* folkways wither wfcsn they encounter humor...
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...The national League of Co-Operative Societies .was -organized in...
...i Meantime, we share the fun that Mr Mencken ie having with the intellectual Infants of the interior...
...he substitute* a bag tor'* brick- I suspect that Earwig'* beard compared fairly well with Marx's and from toe fact that Darwin experimented tot twenty yeer* with earthworm* I imagine that hi* fingernails accumulated more dirt that Man's did...
Vol. 3 • September 1926 • No. 36
