THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
The News of the Week The' rVerPa^^^L i 1^ Iuue Again Up\ be— nuatare enslismW*a^te»^a*y «* <**< State Water- Power Commission which Picpcsa* to teaee water power to art-, eat* corporation* tor...
...But wow night's darkest *p**a Fail*, night is don*, . To th* new day gives place...
...It is with a blush ef modesty such as our cheeks have not felt In a decade, that we publish th* following letter: Dear Mr...
...4*9 bis is not a."gold fleece flock" or "dM mood studded Jewry...
...Bullard added, "the National Security League is still needed...
...To which the Amsterdam Burean will doobtless say "Amen...
...BJj Witt knew anything of Dr...
...We hope that the organized ^workers oi^lhis country will understand its' sinister significance.' - INTERNATIONAL SPIES TH£ arrest of four young French girls as, spies in France'and the holding of three Englishmen arrested in December again calls attention to the spying5 system maintained by many governments...
...He quotes, the following opinion of "a profound aad accurate thinker": "As a means of attaining the greatest advantage, govern-" mental ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, telephones and similar 'public utilities now appears to -ma to be inherently inferior to the new...
...It Is estimated that there are 206,000 retail stores hi the United States, of which 40,000 are already in the chain ¦tore systems...
...profitable tn the utility field...
...However, there is a type of rebel in Mexico • that cannot be distinguished • from the ordinary bandit and assassin...
...BULLARD'S SECRET e GENERAL BULLARD, president of that collection of profiteers, bankers and business magnates known as the National Security League, told a group of this class the other day of a\"military secret" of the vintage of 1919...
...It waa spiritually stimulating, aad oompolled one to' get down to rock-bottom...
...It you mean fear of something to tbe mist Beyond the sens* perceptions, just th* God, They hammer in your brain with iron fist Of grey tradition—something with a face And form of larger size, to higher place...
...It te probable that Mussolini'* bravl b> the guise ot holy madmen win limit their activities to empty threats as long as their intended victim* remain under the protection of the British lion...
...y\il the services of...
...to be gone through, 1: ; • . . . ''" * ? •- q ' 7' - Foodstuff*ef the A BigOMerfeff ' satire nation art In Foodihtgim^ to eventually com* W9 under the control of a gigantic merger Just aaaeemead in Wall Street...
...to bear upon the miners, according to the view ef the coal hogs...
...It this scheme can be made effective tt win gladden the hearts of Americana selling such articles, greatly Increase Russia's output of foodstuffs and hasten the...
...The World War produced a number of* this type in this and other countries...
...Where are the words which may contain in meaning Tbe interpretstlpn of my heart...
...Dawn Sons of...
...the excuse that the strike was Interstate in its character...
...whom is • credited t*verm>rds, "it,now ummfrmjpr...
...This would make him a political ¦offender and death for political offenses is revolting...
...so something most be •done to supplement- this force...
...He informed them that Ole Hansen, mayor of Seattle during the general strike in that city, "was called up from the office of the Secretary of War...
...In view of the fact | that murder rarely goea unpunished te gngtend...
...Moraaver, the Commission Itself ceanplais* of difficulty In "securing adequate compensation" from private corporations bow enjoy In* cattail mlrffbgo* yet it propose* te permit other power grant* to such . corporations...
...Tear* sincerely* T LEONARD D. ABBOTT...
...Socialists and Liberals are holding protest meetings all over the Confederation and are warning the Federal council that freedom of speech is supposed to be guaranteed in Switzerland, even tor foreigners, and that the Swiss people will not stand for Its Infringement...
...The • Governor's alternate poncy closely follow* the bin introduced by Socialist .Assemblyman Waldmaa In 1>1S aad which found no favor with either Smith's party or ths Republicans...
...Extend this dirty system to any neighborhood in the personal relations between man and man and we get some idea of what it means on a world scale...
...All the compulsion is...
...virtues and 'our' superiority to the rest of the world that if universally used 'our* next generation would behave like an insufferable cad toward the rest of ibe worjd...
...With haloed saints and chubby cherubim— If this be God—then I am killing Him...
...Great indignation ha* been aroused to SVttserland at the complacency with which the Swiss Federal Council lias allowed itself to be made a tool of Mussolini and has notified aa Italian refugee named Angelo Tonello that if the Libera Stamps, the Socialist paper In the Canton of Ticino for which he works, continue* to "insult" the Italian government he will be expeUed...
...my mouth there lie* a stone petal...
...My heart 1s bursting to acclaim you, Walt Whitman...
...ot aH-j9 preachers of today he, surely, has att and overcome "temptation" to trasBS to the rich...
...That keeps the orbit* cm their separate ways...
...Torres was one of the leaders in the De la Huerta rebellion against President Obregon...
...American history would be a cinch, with only a few name* and date* to remember...
...Coolidge we write as follows: - - Dear Cal: ' Mr son David brought yon to mind test night, ae he peered up from his homework aad said: tte...
...All you hav* to de s* that I will know ths clothe* ar* yours te to enclose tn the bundle a picture card of the White House, " rm particularly anxious to sea how th* White House looks, la these day* of soft coal and Boot...
...And now that our open letter bacterid are working overtime within us and pushing our usually calm corpuscles to torrid temperatures, we will travel a bit higher in the -social scale than that occupied by our recent correspondents, and publish the following epistle to none other than the Honorable President of these United States...
...it MT...
...investigation into the circumstances of the deportation of Colonel Torres and his execution in Mexico...
...According to the latest budget estimate for 1925-26, the Russian army and navy coat 616,000,000 ruble* (at SI cent* each), or -.bout one-fifth of the year'* total expenditures...
...The Federated sPress reports that Senator Johnson of California charges *the judge with repudiating instructions he receded in the presidential primary in 192$ MoreoVer, it is said that McCamant helped the Spruce Corporation to take over a government spruce concern at the end of the World War and^under conditions that deprived the county where it was located of its taxes for a period of years...
...Labor Whelmed by th* night's dsspsJr, OuPtear* we shed...
...But...
...I want to hall you, vociferously, As you hailed me...
...From a cable to the New York World by President Calles it appears that Torres belongs to this type...
...1*teivv...
...My wife, who te paralyzed, likes them almost as much a* I do, and invariably ha* me read them aloud...
...An earthquake rocked aad 10 oh* tt still Destruction wrecks tt* awafnl wffl— Who ear** to Mv* tn a haunted bouse With a gloomy gbeat—who dares...
...What fools would dar* to kin or try combat— A great Invulnerable God—like that...
...that^aj ha* never Consoled slave owners," k*# ha* lashed them so severely that...
...The merger te Incorporated in . Maryland and is capitalized at 1,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and 1,0*0,004 Class B common and assesses at $200,000,000 by the State of Maryland...
...Jfl Rabbi -arte*—* reply by th* way «3 I hav...
...Made ineffectual by rapture and elusive speech...
...Saps out with death aad then refills with birth...
...It now remains to be seen what sort of a bill bis party associate* will sponsor and whether it contains any "Jokers...
...Wis* is the i**em| consists of'members, for th* most psM who hav* little worldly goods, aad «M most net to listen to "platitude*- bat afraid soul...
...in Washington and told that he must have backbone in meeting the crisis...
...The New Leader Mail Box that h* had wMttoa* th reply taJ| De Witt's s*e*Y...
...We win be fed by our Imperial masters if we hav* the coin and are willing to pay the price exacted by* them...
...Mussolini's efforts to ingratiate himself with the Pope seem to have come to naught, as Cardinal Gaspsrl, the Papal Secretary, in an interview in the Paris Eclair, divided U duce's talk about a new Roman Empire and *Jso said there was-no prospect of any change in the relation* between She Vatican and the Italian Government...
...Gee!**- Bo yoo ?*«*, old neighbor, no matter what those nasty, radical* and bolsbevists say about you...
...The vds* happen* to know that the Free SySM gogue of which Dr...
...Their very excess of ' zeal for things as they are is a defense mechanism that is so transparent that it deceives no 'one...
...On the other hand we know that American imperialist cliques are interested in Mexican adventurers who are willing to do dirty work in Mexico...
...It all depends on what yon call this God...
...If the latter believed the teed pi federal aid urgent, afyritcation lor it would come from nim...
...and Tm asking yon a* aa old neighbor to see If you can't scare up some costs, shoes sad things that you and Your family don't i aaUJ need aad do the same, if you are afraid that th* coal operators might learn of your generous impulse, rou nUght send the stuff her* to this office—by stuff I mean the clothes, of course, and I -wtil see that it gets to the proper destination...
...We do sot envy John Spargo to...
...Leonard D. Abbott, especially at this time white we ar* still breathless with tbe battle...
...It should noft be lost, .the miners must win...
...And strive for better—always asking—"When*r' Be thi* your god, then learn how went strive •To keep your worship in thi* god—alive...
...Another Moscow report tells of a plan to sell a lot of the Russian crown Jewels and similar treasures for money with which to buy enormous quantities of American plows, tractors and other agricultural machinery...
...Wont you please tell me wbers you got Itf It must b* ate* and warm and clean la your White Hons...
...New Tork, Jan...
...tne emiiaas* for sventaei affinatten by the Russians are Imp roving, * Him Ugh the usual amount of • "fa^-saYtea* will hav...
...By continuing to writ* Just aa yon feel yon win pi esse, amorffc others...
...THE TORRES EXECUTION L'ATE last week it was reported that Senator Moses might ask a Senate...
...Tour garment* striving to go Where your wild playmates would take, them, I stand, looking up...
...All of the big powers indulge in the practice while theii diplomatic representatives attend dinners and make pretty speeches about the "friendship of two great-peoples...
...The fir* resource of the mayor would be an .appeal to £he governor for aid...
...De Witt would . • know, Jj he knew anything of Dr% Wise...
...adding' that such unity can easily be effected it the Russian leaders will merely Indicate their desire to enter the I. F. T*„ V. It-tmntt be remembered that at the December meeting the General Council said it was ready te can on the dotted rte...
...D* Witt knew anything of» man be chaoses to vilify, he wefl know bow his voice bs* rung out «*9 and again te ta* cam** oX the d*jfl hexited of earth, so that be ha* aBjgf ated th* rich and powerful Jew*Jj9 New Tork who would otherwise tpfl been suprxJrrWa V th* work tM Is close to his^^rt...
...It Is explained that the Russian Government can only afford to keep a standing army of 600,060 men...
...Tear* vary s*s|»*» tfunj...
...At the mountainous pedhet...
...ttB, Jesus, he has had no place to lay aw head...
...Couldn't yen pis* si t*B them bow yea man**;* to keep so warm aad eteaa aad comfortable...
...It Is understood that packing plants,and* bakeries are also on tbe list for...
...All this year we've been studying Revolutionary and Civil wars, andL so far we've had, six com positions to writ* about them and their doings...
...when we correspond with Hon...
...For> tunately, the trade unions all over the country are raising funds to tide the miners over this crisis...
...One recalls with pity the "God-like" Webster in his Seventh of March speech making his peace ' with the Fugitive Slave Law and dying of a broken heart...
...I FiruOly, if Mr...
...That males us sorrow for the woe* of men...
...JOSEPH RESNICK...
...Don Stnrso, exiled 'leader of the Catholic Party, te also living in London...
...But even this.interference at least had...
...small business proprietor will become sv vassal clerkr.serving in the chain gang of the great, merger oligarchs...
...Wise, a* would know tSkSj publicity seeks him...
...I tell you this, so that yon might not feel sore when I •.ell you that I'm sanding a bale of old clothes to th* striking minora who are Just starving and freezing a little out there...
...We hope that every union in the country and all sympathetic organizations ''will strain their financial resources to aid the miners in this struggle...
...With passions—anger, scorn and ugly hats— Which only blood in sacrifice can sat*— A super beast, a lord of lower beasts Holding court with lesser lords and priests...
...The chief purpose to be subserved in teaching American his.tory is the inculcating of patriotism," he is quoted as saying, and textbooks should "instill loyalty to country rather than to class...
...It reminds us of Mr...
...S^ preach...
...I suppose...
...The Seattle strike was local...
...De Witt knew any-J thing of Dr...
...To speak-ef the ordinary 'Words corns in easy abundance...
...If Mr...
...you can count on the younger generation for.your popularity...
...cannot be anything else...
...He ought to Mmm known before publishing this eaetP that tor twenty years or more sM Wis* baa r reclaimed bis belief te 4g| moral aad ethical value of tbe tee*)*/ teas ef Jesus of Nazareth...
...Behold—the sun I LOCKOUT OF MINERS PRESIDENT LEWIS of the miners is quite right in his statement that the "controversy is no longer a strike...
...The Russians then say .they will continue to work untiringly for the creation of a single trad* union international...
...Where grain of dust or monster satellite An equal share ot gracious car* receive...
...Wise, he would not ask why a* S "so suddenly moved" to proclaim J*s9 as a great teacher...
...Tour advice and your ssnfling the clothe* above mentioned would help a tot.- Whatever you do 'or **y...
...the Florence profesppr now living in London, and occasionally Trtakin*- speeches about condition* In Italy...
...WssHMJ would know Uiat he is' not a prseSMM of a 6th v4reeu* institution...
...Dooley's advice to Hennessy: "Trust ivery wan, Hinnessy, but cut the c-a-a-rds...
...Harding and Coolidge...
...not yet ***¦ prteted *fX mmU^J^Jnm^r...
...The noble judge appears to" Kave'found his country in the Spruce Corporation and his recreation in poisoning history teaching...
...The main disturbance consisted of the hysterical antics of an assinine mayor who has since become thoroughly discredited...
...Governor Smith 'recommend* "the establishment of a State Power Authority, municipal in character, bavins* no stockholders, derivine* ita powers from the State and having th* duty specif - ically imposed upon It to prepare a plan for the comprehensive development of al^ our power resources...
...1 The president pi the Brooklyn Edison Company issues a neat reprint of his address before the Kentucky Public Utilities Association...
...Molds out the seasons, marks the nights and days, Pour* wine of life into the cup of earth...
...While some of the Army Drill in wildest champions ot Ruuian Colleges eom-utoory military training In American colleges are accusing their opponents of being subsidised by Russian gold, comes a dispatch from Moscow telling, bow the Soviet authorities have ordered that every student In *tbe higher'college classes must study military science two hours a week and spend a part of each summer In an army training camp...
...They want wages arbitrated but they do not want even any evidence disclosed regarding their profits...
...They did right...
...They became intimate evith American officers attached to the Cruiser" Pittsburgh and are said to have obtained important information frdm the latter...
...The miners were willing to return to work under conditions that differed little from what they were before the men walked out, but the mine owners have jnanouvercd for compulsory arbitration and this the miners rejected...
...It is reported that the girls were employed by the British...
...day when the American State Department will have to open it* eye* to fact* and officially recognise the Sovtat Qeverau^!^l^^^*^S^if!P^o^mte^r^snsT^iii^f^f^t^ff IW art te tat pnrettas* of Jit**, I I:.V '"'¦/ mmrkm...
...time going after the modern American historians...
...Whereon you stand, open breasted...
...We are certain that the imperialist Republicans are not really interested in political prisoners...
...THE CHATTER BOX The God-Killer A Prise :n •*m...
...And gives the brutal baaln its reasoning...
...We welcome the Oregon judge' to our collection of patriots...
...et ittt Mmnkt Urged ten critic* uf FaaBt'Feschti *•*» rtnmmf^* > 1 te te he added te conaecateon ef their ptupoaU mt home...
...I hop* that you win not allow your critic* to - - paralyse year pen...
...This Whole affair is all the sqofe contemptible considering that the Seattle strike was one of the most peaceful in the historyN of American labor struggles...
...Only th* few still strove Where hops'* star shows, Spending their live* for lev* Till life eta* pene...
...When we write to profound and intellectual people we . use a Thesauris, the Britannica and Webster's Unabridged...
...type of enterprise we are so rapidly developing, characterized by popular ownerahip, representative management and social regulation...
...haw* permitted thi* policy i* the Adirondack* bet whtoh waa defeated In a referendum vet...
...pop, those president* like Washington aad "Lincoln have made it pretty tough ^Tor ue kid* studying history...
...He had committed many assassinations of in. nocent persons, had robbed trains and put to death heartlessly many defenseless passengers...
...To Let, a Heart Who care* -to ttv* to a haunted bans* . With a gloomy ghost Inside, - Where storm winds tear round the rickety steer* And demons mt s**marte* aide...
...I thought your open letter to wise an uncommonly fin* bit of writing—and this apart from th* technical Issues it raised...
...I understand you are atiS getting hard coal for your boose...
...strike of 1894...
...unjust attack...
...He is a worthy successor to Silverware Lusk, Thaddeus Sweet, Archie Stevenson and Ole Hanson, who bled for their beloved country a few years ago...
...Saying, "Here I am Walt, here . . -" But in...
...Our readers will notice how easily we change our literary (sic) style to suit the people we write to...
...Judgtag rronran editorial in flmpero, a Bam* Fascist organ, hoping that "the Messed > hand of sestea help aaadaoas win Sad the means abroad -of closing tbte most shameful shop of treachery pith cold *t*eV* Said "shop ortreachery" te ttearsj* Salvsmini...
...My envy...
...Thanks for the information, General Bullard...
...Or lay too tired to care Among our dead...
...On the other hand the demand of the miners for a fact-finding agency to assist a conciliation board implied an examination of the , books of the mine owners and they want no such investigation...
...PATHOS THERE is no more pathetic creature ¥n . this world'than the professional apostate to any great cause...
...bu^pS'hav*^* sn-benftte^to^th^^ of the If, T.'TL With th* waatea- «* Communist teSitem* in Karopcaa labor organteattona, and the d*utleo» ot the prestige ef Gregory Xlntrvtef...
...Each power desires to avoid being at a disadvantage in any war that may develop with other powers...
...PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT i POR a fearless patriot Judge Wallace McCaraant of Oregon is getting considerable free advertising...
...He point* out that the Stat* te already engaged in producing eseetrlcal energy in the plants at Crescent Dam and Visscher's Terry and immediately formulates the issue by recommending the repeal of the State Water Power Act and that "the State Water Power Authority be set up hi the Conservation Commission...
...It has become a lockout on the part of the o-heratisg interests...
...the citejr absolutely essential to avoid ^acute suffering were continued...
...Aad all this because tm has with so nttle thought ef *^S*T7 .ever raised *hk vote* - as *a Sunday test for the striking nu*ss)"2 Mr...
...And build* and builds with ever chancing phaseCosmic constants tn a seeming maze...
...conquest as the new empire of food expands to the coming years...
...BuHard rejoices that the military arm of the Covrrnment, itf defiance of tile procedure outlined by the Constitution, proposedeto interfere in a local strike...
...Their action towards our own politicals some years ago is sufficient warrant for this assertion...
...H applied for...
...WteV* f**fl *t*%d for th* causa mf oppressed Lsfl X Pea as a member of the SoctS party, no leaner be silent, when al tribune of tn* people la so uajsjl attacked to.year Tg/nmm <*t9 begin with th* first charge* aesfl Dr...
...What is interesting in this affair is that the War Department took the initiative in instructing the mayor of a city involved in a, local strike and promising him the use of Federal troops to break tne strike...
...Our deepest ths tuts...
...It crave for Justice and Its hate for wrong...
...Because of his ' brave ciuaaf pionahip of th* cause of the poor, hp has never been aMe to have a ChasoA or Synagogue building *jn which...
...It's too bad all the president* weren't like Taft...
...X...
...3 JOSEPH A. stATBsL...
...Tteu^sJsMja** with jCTreats^mtjmetmm-omrn ram— w.w...
...We are net inclined to think that they would even leave the matter of an investigation of their books optional with any responsible board, to say nothing of conceding a compulsory investigation...
...states that Torres was executed without regard to his political offenses but because of his "having been responsible for crimes that merited this penalty...
...Disguise it as its advocates may, compulsory arbitration is Compulsory servitude and it...
...Turning to the February number of Harper's Magazine we find an article by Professor Faulkner on "Perverted American History" and again Judge McCamant appears in the limelight, this...
...that be baa n*w*fi ¦ought nor desired publicity...
...Attacking the lata Theodore Roosevelt as not being a "good American" he explains the opinion as due to Roosevelt having1 favored the recall of judicial decisions...
...A .lockout and starvation of jthe miners appear to be the program of the owners...
...It requires no stretch of the imagination to foresee tbe expansiop of this great empire untU tbe retail business will eventually be swallowed...
...At the same tune retail industry will be organized and systematized tor social ownership and control whsn we are ready to relieve the master* of then* mastery...
...The corporation would issue bonds exempt from State taxation "and secured by the revenues to be derived from the improvement* when mads...
...He and associated patrioteers in other organizations have agreed on % textbook which, in the words of Professor "Van Tyne, "is* so maudlin and sentimental about "our...
...BUT I feel Impelled to tell you bow much I like your spirit and how greedily I read your writings...
...He was told that the Army would back him up in whatever he undertook...
...President Calles...
...DeWltt: If The New Leader f* * mighty interesting paper nowadays, I think that TOU are largely responsible...
...Did he know anythasgM Eh...
...They cannot justify their conduct to others or to themselves, but in the attempt to do so tficy become more reactionary "than the genuine reactionaries themselves...
...He reoatt* the proposed amand*b*at to the ceauaituUoa Si m* which wonjd...
...The rival imperialist powers are compelled to ferret out the naval and military secrets of their -rivals...
...Coupled with this demand' by the mine owners was a demand that t*he mi, ner"#concede the possibility of a reduction in wages...
...The retail business ha* on th* whole remained a small business affair, except for the chain system, and has been regarded as the last retage of competition In industry...
...TuaUhe to hear, from you very sea*, sad with ppssosal rsgsi *s from .my family to your*, lam...
...axe concealed for use at any moment...
...Renaissance 1 have a body th*f« ***** of snow . 22** ¦»•*¦ touch *f the sea's teat glaw...
...Each one knows that all the others are spying but each is compelled to observe the custoniary hokum about "friendship...
...Th* combine te to include loop stores in 20 States' and wilj embrace many leading chain systems., yhe National . Food NProduct* Corporation, the nam* of the grsat merger, announce* that ft te organ teed similar -to th* recent "holding companies in the public utility field aad win apply* to the food trad* an idea which ha* been successful aa well as...
...Too- are like a breath of fresh alcJn a musty room...
...I am not anxious to participate in th* controversy In • regard to Rabbi Wise...
...They tell me those hundred I li sis—iiiif or so eosl-dhnrers ar* living tn cold, dreary test* *a ths .hills about th* mine...
...Each has the right hand extended to the others while the left, hand grasps a meat...
...It is well to keep in mind the distinction between the ordinary political rebel an3 the ferocious bandits who display no mercy towards innocent persons...
...He who turns from an unpopular cause to mingle with the despoilers ¦ of mankind and to, sing their glories has never been an appealing figure arid he never will be...
...peering deeper, be your God the thing That molds the spirit more than matter strong...
...The News of the Week The' rVerPa^^^L i 1^ Iuue Again Up\ be— nuatare enslismW*a^te»^a*y «* <**< State Water- Power Commission which Picpcsa* to teaee water power to art-, eat* corporation* tor a long term of rear...
...so do th* eurtalns: pad so do ear tang...
...remember, you have my prsaate* a*t to pat the coal mine uwueis wis...
...tt erouJd go to the President...
...Tot be your God th* aver conscious might That flow* through every fiber of the weave...
...I have never heard him speak, and I am not at all sore that I agree with your description of Christ aa "th* ONE great Lover of the .multitudes...
...I waa more than amused by your attack* on doctor* sad hospitals...
...What can I utter...
...My house looks grey sad sick...
...The three Englishmen are said to have been engaged in getting French military and naval secrets* Whether the French or the American officials will become tndignant regarding this spying remains^to be seen, but the British know that the, French and American governments also have their spies...
...But now my task te difficult...
...CaJ, *sy sincere- envy...
...Replying to the Rauiaru Reject resolution of the /. F. T. U. Terms se««™i council of the International Federation of Trade Unions in Amsterdam December '6, providing that no joint conference with the Russian trade unions can be 'held until these organisations express a desire to affiliate with the L F. T. U., the Central Committee of the Ail Russian Trade Union Federation, according to a London cablegram of February 1, has notified the Amsterdam Bureau that it stands by Its former proposal for an unconditional conference and "can add nothing" to it...
...Under the Federal Constitution, these matters are always left to the local authorities and when they feel themselves helpless, application is made, not to the War Department but to the President The one striking case of Federal interference without application for aid by local authorities was the sending of troops to Chicago by President Cleveland in the A. R.U...
Vol. 3 • February 1926 • No. 4
