Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR LITTLE ROCK I should like to express my thanks and deep appreciation for Carl A. Auerbach's excellent article, "Little Rock and the Law" (NL, September 30). The New Leader would be...
...The New Leader would be rendering another invaluable service to the forces of civilized progress by reprinting the article in a brochure and distributing it, especially throughout the labor movement...
...Eastman says that Dewey was defining the truth...
...New York City Frank R. Crosswaith KANTOROWICZ I was surprised at the section of Melvin J. Lasky's "The Flight of Alfred Kantorowicz" (September 9) which reads: "I met him briefly on his return to Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich...
...These materials give the researchers and historians of the labor movement an opportunity to bring forth in a more fundamental and accurate way the true significance of the past as it relates to the future...
...There is, for example, a rich collection on the Russian, Polish, German and American Socialist and labor movements...
...EASTMAN In his "Lincoln Was No Pragmatist" (NL, September 23), Max Eastman mentions John Dewey as if to imply great familiarity with the man and truly critical insight into his thought...
...This does not mean, as Eastman suggests, that Dewey equated truth with "what works...
...Las Vegas, Nevada M. M. Doner In 1945, Communists were still being accepted by the U. S. Army without discrimination...
...The Archives have recently received important materials from the Russian Social Democrat Gregory Aronson, from the well-known American writer and thinker Max Nomad, from Max Shechtman, from the historians Boris Nicolaevsky and David Shub, and others...
...Dewey avoided metaphysical speculation of this sort...
...The Archives also collects materials relating to organizations and movements which have in some way influenced the Jewish working masses...
...It seems to me that an observation in passing that U. S. Government agency was Communist-infiltrated is not justified and unbecoming to responsible weekly like The New Leader...
...Edmund B. Feldman BUND ARCHIVES I think your readers would be interested to learn that the Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement, dedicated to Franz Kursky, is continually receiving new materials on the rise and development of the Jewish labor movement all over the world...
...Several of them, serving Military Government in Germany, were exposed (with full documentation) in The New Leader during 1945-46 and subsequently moved on to East Germany.—Ed...
...I think Eastman is deliberately misreading a philosopher who deserves more honest treatment...
...Happy outcome" has nothing to do with the truth of an idea...
...value from among his belongings to the Archives, including several hundred books and periodicals in various languages...
...When Dewey says "effective working," he means effective working without the benefit of Eastman's peculiar explication...
...I have grown tired of seeing this vulgar error in print and did not imagine that Eastman would fall into it...
...Our address is 25 East 78th Street, New York, N. Y. New York City David Meyer, Director...
...To accuse without documentation or offer of proof is far below your otherwise high standards...
...Not so...
...The family of the late writer, Socialist and thinker, Dr...
...In the quotation in question, he is clearly concerned with the nature of the truth of an idea...
...But Eastman's logic is pathetic...
...Any individual or organization possessing such material is urged to turn it over to the Bund Archives, where it can serve a useful purpose...
...He came first to Bremen, with the help of friends (read: comrades) in U. S. Military Government...
...In fact, many students from Columbia University, who are now working on a large-scale project on the Bolshevik and Communist movements, are frequent users of the Archives...
...He quotes Dewey: "The effective working of an idea and its truth are the same thing, this working being neither the cause nor the evidence of truth, but its nature...
...I. N. Steinberg, gave many things of great The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Pitcairn, Pa...
...When the consequences of an idea are effective, i.e., operationally predictable, the idea is true...
Vol. 40 • October 1957 • No. 41
