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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES NEW SLANTS ON OLD SPORTS WITH so many folks busy these days putting tcgether the pieces which make up the puzzlepicture called America, it's a wonder that so...
...Rufus King...
...That didn't matter...
...When economics got dull, as economics often do, we could ride out and look between tbe play-ground bars at them...
...He develops a "purse-strings complex", takes to his bed with imaginary ills, as tbe built-up defensive armour against his humiliation, and only recovers when his father dies leaving Mm fifty thousand a year tc squander on satiny furniture, plush rugs and oils...
...6. What were the sources of tbe Issues of slavery and Internal Improvement* In politics...
...Some of my younger readers may have noticed that there are lota harder sights in the world to bear than a society young lady in a sports skirt...
...But he does, at certain heavy costs to his physical and mental health...
...We would rather have a department store man devote his energies to knocking the spots out of a golf-ball than knocking the hell out of his clerks' wages...
...McMsster, "History of tbe People of tbe United States", Vol IV...
...So It is that we find the character of Stanley blurred...
...The first of its four volumes, now issued by the Yale University Press, gives 730 pages (as against Rivers' 230 for the whole) to a consideration of the "man-land ratio", and to the industrial organization and the regulative organization involved in self-maintenance...
...When I grow old...
...I • • Those benighted countries of the old world axe-fkfPH ting more benighted every day...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...property...
...ever, shows up brightly...
...What was tbe accttinaJ reaction to the war...
...Well meant...
...Then as a concluding doxology and grand teals, . Christ is dragged to West Baden for, "Let us (tr U. 8. Chamber of Commerce) resort to the printt*7jVl of the Sermon on the Mount and be decent, ho4 aad thrifty in our contact with the rest of the worWr ] What bosh, rot and hogwash served with hypocrisy and Insincerity and woe unto a people as asslnhagw to suffer themselves to be led by ssses...
...capital, appropriation of energies, fire, animals, men...
...Exchange...
...James Monroe, another Jeffersonian Republican and Virginia planter, succeeded Madison In 1816...
...But then comes the attorney of George Remus, millionaire bootlegger, ex-convict and wife murderer, who also desires to look at Uk* flies of the Department of Justice in order to discover something that may aid In saving the precious life of hia client...
...The Rise and Growth of American Politics...
...T Quartan* had been purchased in 1803 which was followed by its admlsdon as a State in April, .1912, and In j June war was declared...
...The Invention of the cotton gin 1782 and Its Increasing use in the following decades made slave labor much more profitable and consolidated slave owner* in ouuusltlim to policies that encouraged northern capitalistic development...
...We have come to the conclusion that she wasn't up to her main job...
...the family scenes...
...Sports, they tell us, have reached their eminence in the American scene through shrewd newspaper ballyhoo rather than because of their appeal to the masses of the people...
...The agrio 'tural Interest "depended for It* prosperity upon the sale of its produce in the markets of the Old World while its advance guard on the frontier cherished imperial designs upon the neighboring dominions of England and Spam...
...His eccentric father refuses to finance Stanley's adventures Into luxury, and Stanley makes several unsuccessful attempts to get and hold jobs...
...READINGS Babcock, "The Rise of American Nationality...
...It's our idea that of the two, pheasant shooting is preferable to peasant shooting and if the former keeps the grown-up children diverted from more serious things, Qott sei Dank...
...The writer of this blurb for Dr...
...But today, it's getting harder to trail along with the Big Boys...
...Step right in...
...these incredibly fantastic communities owe their glittering existence to polo, hunting, golf and horse-racing...
...The chief American exports were farm products, not" manufacture...
...Purse Strings" by Edith M. Stern (Boni and Livertght) is a venture into clinical probing of the economic motive, and as such is significant—even important...
...If you will keep this dark secret, we will confide the horrid truth to you that we once worked for a progressive labor paper which got most of its readers from the fact that it printed the latest racing returns a few minutes before its rivals...
...Overwhelmed by the enormity of its public debt, the nation today is facing *—natal ruin...
...Oklahoma alone boa of 174 millionaires, all sprouted, since I hit that-1 in 1907...
...Missouri, a Slave State, applied for admission In 1819 and a struggle immediately followed to prevent slave interest* obtaining a majority of two vote* to the Senate by the •m«t»'—te.« of Mt'iourt The result was the Missouri Compromise of 1830 by which (1) Maine was .-ufanitted as a Free State to nasi nor the admission of Mtaaouri and...
...The third issue was the entrance of slavery into politics...
...As nationalists they urged war with Et gland and war followed In 1812...
...the fluttering, vernal love of the experienced Stanley and the novice Ella...
...So here's hoping • • • • • For an exhibition of prise boobery mixed with unadulterated gall, I recommend the meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce recently held in West Baden, the brain fag kuranstalt of big bis...
...The men1 who voted for war "represented the agrarian constituencies of the Ulterior rod their prime object was the annexation of Florida and Canada...
...But thank God I'm not one of them—not yet...
...The Stanleys this reviewer has known have been willing to change their troughs by marriage...
...Monroe lacked ens vote of being elected rsags»BaBSaai to 1880...
...The public bathing of naked ladies had been going on in our more select and refined circles since Ward McAllister was a pup...
...David is an unimaginative pig, and Stanley, with his soft, carnal, even aesthetic nature, has a hard time to swallow his pride, and to accept charity...
...The name was the thing and you could bet your Prince Albert coat that a rose with any other name than the right one would not . smell sweet at all to the turned up noses of those '*' snobs of yesteryear...
...A department store scion who didn't have a Chinaman's chance of making the grade any other way tried it not so long ago and today he and his folks and his yachts are all sprawled all over the Social Register...
...When X grow oad God grant that I may have some task _ Which must be done or someone fare the iinrBhfl That to some corner of the earth gpaginal wfll need my hand J When X grow oKU...
...Boms fasV era...
...It may be that the real road to freedom cut* straight across the golf courses of America...
...3. What influence did tbe French Revolution have to forming American pollUcal parties...
...the character of David...
...Why, certainly...
...and that all north of this line should be free soil...
...Of course your grandpapa might have been rum-runners, slave-smugglers and ail-around hi-jackers and your grandmas might not have been all they should have been...
...That would have taught them a lesson...
...Russian boishevism is also responsible for tan aad plight of England—I am quoting verbaton...
...Chap...
...Mississippi, Illinois and Alahams, five Slave and four Free States...
...the farming lands of Canada...
...7. What was the issue involved to the Missouri Compromise...
...Yearling colts hitched to cutfjvators also become more cultivated and succsssgsj i draft ho rasa than three-year-olds...
...Rivers' dozen lectures evidently did not anticipate the devotion of tbe associates and students of the tote William Graham Sumner of Yale, and the thoroughness with which Professor Keller has developed the organisation of Sumner's Ideas in "The Science of Society...
...Therefore, let the little ones come unto our muss, : factories and mines, and suffer them not...
...When I Grow Old When X grow old God grant that every child Will feel the youthful texture of my soul...
...Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indians...
...But we started out to look at sports from a social and economic angle and we've wandered afield...
...In the hour of his humiliation, develops into a free Independent spirit who refuses to live on her father's wealth...
...If you are a parasite what difference does It make upon whom you prey...
...The rise of the Hoiv Alliance to Europe sad its threat of over- 1 throwing the South American Republics brought tbe announcement of the "Monroe Doctrine" In 1828 which proclaimed that the Western Hemisphere was not subject to European colonisation and control...
...And so the lawyer of the honorable fellow citiasa Remus, departing from the office of the honornMa attorney general of these United States, announces gleefully and gratefully, that be has secured all ha wanted...
...3. What were the chief measures of Hamilton In Congress and what did they accomplish...
...if you take our advice, you will go out and buy a string of ponies...
...And will not turn away from me As from a shade or shrunken vine...
...She didn't know enough about economic motives, or didn't probe deeply enough Into them...
...So we are not tearing our shirts over the fact that 'last year a score of owners of racing stables dragged down two million bucks in prizes alone and spent God knows how much on their fancy nags...
...The imperialistic world had nothing^ do with the ruination of Imperial g^g'-~< Not ¦» thing...
...But all along we had certain reservations about the book...
...Sports are the thing...
...or stroll to D»c»'», 63 Washington 8q., So., N. Y. C Books always 20 to BO'/c off...
...In 1780 tbe Free States had 34 member* of the House and the Slave states 30...
...All through the novel, we were saying, "O, for a man...
...At the beginning of the century, the country list ansa to government In business, opening the gate for the spread of Communism and Socialism la tho nation...
...It didn't make much difference what you did with your kale so long as you flung it around free, wide and handsome and threw a tew monkey dinners and stuck dancing gals in giant pies...
...Then you can just gallop into our best society...
...In the West the pioneer agrarians were pushing the Indians back, occupying rich soil, acquiring the fur trade, and looking with longing eyes upr...
...But such is the perversity of rulers...
...Help yourself...
...The skeptical may {Joint out that he can call up from the links and tell his supers to give the hired hands a cut free gratis...
...Open eves...
...Birth control was dencounced as constituting sa obstacle to the free supply of work hands and cannon fodder...
...De Witt Clinton, Federalist, received 88 electoral votes...
...classes and rights...
...and practical politicians of today will probably never hear of this study of the beginnings of social organization...
...utatlon it gained under the administration of £ aflt-*—" Palmer and Harry Dougherty...
...Thoy^jbxjB...
...Not that you had to be any great, shakes, mentally, spiritually, morally or physically, but you did have to have a Name...
...Then came McKinley and Mark Hanna and the trusts and imperialism and your bank-roll was your pass...
...If the time comes when we find out that we can't get this gang off our backs in any other way, it might be a good hunch to buy them off...
...They were the victims of government la bur* ' Sure...
...xviL xvlii...
...There are 30,517 now...
...In other words It must become part of tbe mental equipment of every reader of this paper who is to play a serious part in government or Industrial life...
...Insisted on Stats action...
...FOB DISCUSSION What Influence did increasing population have on tbe Free States and the Slave State* m Congress...
...the government a*jV the stats or province, or whatever they call It ore* there, should hare kicked tnose miners out of company houses, thrown tear gas bombs into their mast > logs, knocked soma of their Mocks off sad killed * few of their women and children...
...Of all the nations today...
...Basse tt...
...Now knowing something about newspapers, it is inconceivable to us that owners and editors should devote so much space to a subject that promises little financial profit in the shape of advertising, if they were not thoroughly convinced that here was a central source of circulation and that many a paper rises or falls upon the strength or weakness of its sports pages...
...M. H. Hedges Society The Jacket of the volume on "Social Organization", prepared from the lecture notes of the late W. H. Rivers, states that "there can be "little doubt that this book will become the standard work on the complex and important subject with which It deals...
...Tn 1814 the secessionists held s secret convention in Hartford but an unexpected peace discredited them...
...that is sacred, including Billy Sunday and Aimse Mcpherson The Walsh resolution, asking that a committee Sf the United States senate be appointed to investigate big business, is resolutely resented as "another sign toward the invasion of the Inalienable rights of the people...
...But on with the dumbbell dance...
...Beard, "The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy", Chap*, vll, vttt, ix...
...Federalist, 24...
...It's a rotten shame, a rotten shame...
...German coal miners Just went back to work as •> result of an arbitration decision handed "up" by tks/ ministry of labor granting an increase 11* per rssa* ha wages, whereas they had demanded an Increase of only 9 per cent...
...Apd while we are great lovers of ani*".*1", we'd much rather see the whole pack in headlong pursuit of a red fox than a red union organizer...
...Calhoun, "Social History of the American Family", Vol...
...When some of our most alert economists are *aced with this phenomenon, they dismiss it by t9ttri"g about "side-liners", professionalism, commercialization, etc...
...Turner, "The Frontier to American History", Chaps, iv, v, rt, vll...
...There was a time in this country, from the 'Seventies to the late 'Nineties, let's say, when It was almost as hard to crash the gate into Boston, New York or Philadelphia society, as it is for an enjoined union coal-miner to get a kind look from a Federal Judge...
...lecelriug 128 electoral votes...
...while there's life there's hope...
...After that Massachusetts, than Florida...
...Bs received SI electoral votes and John Qntocy Adams of Massachusetts 1. In tbe eight years of Monroe's Administration three important matters were considered...
...A mere list of the subjects discussed indicates the basic nature of tbe consideration given tn this volume: Labor, specialization and cooperation...
...xxxii...
...For future volumes are left the wide fields of religion, of self-perpetuation, and of self-gratification, while a final volume will present further detailed cases, for checking up on the conclusions drawn...
...The American embargo on commerce, tbe decrees of Napoleon and the British Orders in Council so affected New England commerce that e'ederaUst politicians planned secession of the New England States and union with Canada...
...Stern handles certain elements of her material skilfully, i.e...
...The Gettysburg address might be rewritten to the effect that four score and seven years ago there was brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in plus fours and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created Varsity half-backs...
...In spite of being the most devoted devotees of birth control, the number of American niinionalrag has more than quadrupled since 1914 according to latest government reports...
...Apparently millionaires grow best on city Pew%> ments, Florida's high quota being explained by the fact that having aboUabed inheritance taxes W, bssna become a sort of sanctuary for tax dodgers, wheat, corn, cotton, cow and sow belts come 4 The coal belts are cruelly slighted...
...I sympathise and eety England the moat...
...The farmer later became noted »s the greatest philosophic exponent of tb~ economics of slavery in politic- while Clay, coming from a region bordering on the Slave and the Free States, became a powerful advocate of compromise measure* to reconcile the two regions as they grew apart...
...Oneal, "The Workers to American History", Chap...
...Hart, "Slavery and Abolition...
...QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 1. What significance does the Ordinance of 1787 have to tbe tustory of the public domain...
...and we find Mrs., Stern just a little too sympathetic with her central character, as though he were a portrait from actual life...
...In 1808 Madison received 123 electoral votes, Plnckney 4", and George Clinton 6. By 1810 a new generation of politicians were beginning to appear, the most conspicuous being John C. Calhoun of South Carolina and Henry Clay of Kentucky...
...The War of 1812 had Us or'^fn in agrarian imperialism...
...But no one can miss this work who hopes to understand the haia.ii of human society, who pretends to be building upon the structure of the past toward a better state that some day is to come...
...Adam Coaldtgger...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES NEW SLANTS ON OLD SPORTS WITH so many folks busy these days putting tcgether the pieces which make up the puzzlepicture called America, it's a wonder that so few have any understanding of the importance of the Renaissance of Sports...
...If you toted the monickers of Cabots or Brewsters or Lodges up in Boston, or Van Rennsselaers or Schuylers or Schermerhorna In New York or could claim kin to the Morrises or Biddies or Drexels in Philadelphia, youV were hunky-dory...
...labor" as that Hun ministry did...
...Pratt, "Expansionists of 1813...
...This compromise foreshadowed the struggle between the slave and the wage ayaieui* which was to be settled by civil war...
...Indeed, but why not keep the mliMadaT^ on the Job and use their earnings to give the works** an occasional vacation with pay...
...Then we are greatly cheered up by the fact that every now and then one of them falls off his or her horse and breaks his or her silly neck...
...In 1790 the population of the Slave States and of the Free State* was evenly hamnred In 1830 the Free States bad aea.ooc more people than the Slave States had...
...Manufacturing centers of the North and isolated region* of (be West desired Federal action...
...They might have blown some of that jack in support of the "Open Shop Magazine" or "The Nation's Business" or General Bollard's busy boys in the National Security League...
...That's OpT way we handle 'em In Pennsylvania...
...We doubt very much If Stanley, pampered son of a pampered father, would feel so keenly his dependency on his wife's people...
...The guns checked that for awhile' but now it is booming along again, so that a visitor from Mars might well think, that we were Indeed a nation passionately consecrated to the wholesale playing of games...
...The child labor amendment to the constitution that has already passed both houses of congress is sheer stupidity, contrary to human instincts and the law of self-preservation, 'because' nearly all of the siinnaga ful men of today have worked hard before they reached the aged of eighteen...
...Chaps, vii.viii.lx...
...CbarTte C. Ptnekney, his Federalist •opponent, had received 14...
...Before the War, we were well on our way to a huge sports movement which tended to sweep away a boot of other interests...
...Judge ought to issue an injunction to stop that sort of thing right now...
...Happy people, how they love your rights 1) Public ownership of public utilities Is <s»™«+4 as a part of the communistic wave sweeping out of Rsatsia...
...2) a vast territory west of Missouri and the Mississippi River to the Oregon Country was divided by the parallel of 36 dot...
...Now in our opinion, this is all to the good...
...f«^*un« was rsrswntnated and elected in 1812...
...The oil belt, cars...
...New York leading, Illinois next...
...It refused to open its flies to assist the attorneys of Sacco and ZansetU in saving these poor radicals from the electric chair...
...His daughter, under the bludgeoning of Stanley's discipline...
...Kentucky...
...We could have reservation play-grounds put aside for them, just as we do with the Injuns and they could have dandy fun trying to beat one another at tennis and golf, while we went ahead with a new order of society...
...But thereVs always a chance that he may get so fagged out trotting across the fairways that he will have no pep left for the bedeviiment of the counter-jumpers...
...He compromises and lives with his wife's people, allowing Ella's brother, David, to furnish the money for his household expenses...
...Hold your hats in your hands boys and girls, while we take you into the realms of high sassiety and show you what sports mean to our social betters...
...that Is, It would be a matter of inconvenience to him, yes, but, why a matter of pride...
...Self-maintenance, the main subject of this volume...
...Chap...
...The electoral rote was Monroe...
...SLAVERY IN POLITICS...
...Those who hope to find In "The Science of Society" a method of making vote-counting honest seek, quite naturally, to vain...
...Say we gave everybody with incomes of more than $100,000 a year a nice shiny new golf-stick, a tennis racket and a pair of ice skates and told them to run along and play, while the rest of us settled down to real business...
...Johnson, "Union and Democracy", Chap...
...Who knows...
...Mike...
...Why kid ourselves?* The average American's interest in sports of all kinds from ice hockey to galloping dominoes is deep and abiding...
...Includes—In addition to religion, man's purchase of peace from the natural powers—the two great divisions of industry and government...
...that men lire to work, whereas they work U» HvOTl * would be only too happy to live without work...
...Chambers, "Mississippi Valley Begin - togs...
...These two men were trdent agrarian nationalists at this perio-t the two economic systems not yet having revealed their incompatibility...
...This line became known ss the "Missouri Compromise Line...
...Rumson, Aiken, Meadowbrok, Myopia, Monterey...
...for of soqh millionaires are made...
...n, Chaps, viii, ix...
...QOOD CHEER COMRADES I Want to buy, sell, or swap books, bronzes, old china, clocks, curios, etchings, lamp*, paintings, prints, oriental rugs...
...Sure, birds of a feather flock together and we are all equal before the law...
...The Department of Justice is living up to the rap...
...Planter* of the South wanted Florida while tbe northern agrarians were more interested in conquering Canada...
...In 1914 the United States had only 7,059 mil Won aires...
...Millions are no more a novelty to our new society leaders than cut Scotch to a Greenwich Village bootlegger...
...Chap*, xxvlii, xxxix...
...Their ctizenry rotate from links to courses to courts in an amazing round of game-playing that consumes all their energies and enlists their passionate allegiance If you have a shooting-lodge, a string of pomes, a racing yacht, it doesn't make any difference If you do think that the Areopagetica is the name of a Greek restaurant and you get in even if your name ends In "owsky...
...4. What were the leading Idea* of tbe Federalist and Republican (Jeffersonian) parties...
...Instead of topping the "unreasonable demands as...
...Russia has flooded the British Isles with their anarchistic theories and ideas and plunged them lag debt beyond the very thought of their rulers...
...James Madison, a Virginia planter and Jeffersonian Republican, was elected President in 1808 Jefferson had been reelected in ISO*, receivfeag 169 electoral votes...
...With the close of the year 1819 nine new States bad been admitted to tbe Union, Vermont...
...Another thing, how is Germany going to pay oar Allies under the Dawes plan if it meets the "outrageous demands" of its miners by going them cast better...
...This enlargement of the agrarian area was a source of apprehension to northern merchants, manufacturers and commercial men.'' While the agrarian interest': were united against northern capitalist interest* the former were also dividsd into two sections...
...In 1830 the respective number* were 106 and S3...
...American Historv for Workers An Outline — By James Oneal V-The New Nation (Continued Press Last Week) WAR OF 1812...
...The two action* were evenly balanced in the Senate, but It is evident that population waa Increasing mote rapidly In the Free States ss their membership in the House was increasing faster than to the Slave Plates...
...Bowers, "Jefferson and Hamilton...
...Austrian Partv sy Bars Coalition Book Review Probing Man' Economic Soul STANLEY JACKSON, heir of the Jack^ son millions, marries Into the Martin famny...
...Turner, "Rise of the New West", Chaps, x, xL xxii, xlit...
...Rough-necks might have gasped at Bart Carroll's bath-tub party but that was old stuff to the real blah-blahs...
...administration of Justice, antecedents of the state...
...associations, government, fraternities...
...Tkrecent coal strike cost the nation over $2,000,000,05-^ and resulted In a Ipsa of life to many a poor workt__ man...
...Tbe second was the issue of "internal improvement*'' tn politics—shall the Federal Government build public roads, canals, etc., or shall these be left to each State...
...If in form tbe war on England was declared fcr commercial motives, it was hi reality conceived primarily in tne Interests of agriculture...
...Chap...
...This also explains why successful parents send thsjr children to stadiums with college attachments usgat they are twenty-four...
...5. What were the cause* of the War of 1612...
...More to accord with their practices would have been employment of strategems to secure a greater share to mama-ln-law's fortune...
...We mean polo ponies...
...with whom to contrast this pampered baby, not with a pig like David, but with a man who works, likes bis work, believes in work as a tonic discipline for men's infantile propensity to grow soft In luxury...
...The Federalist System", Chaps...
...Commercial and mercantile New England had io desire to support a war that *vouW ncrease the number of ag arian constituencies...
...Channlng, "The Jeffersonian System", Chaps, xv, xvL Ford...
...Whole communities who spend in one month enough to keep every member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in comfort for a year hava^been built up on the foundation of sports...
...RAMBLTNQS rpHE British rorfranwnt of the leleod of Malta feeWep * itself with an unemployment problem on hSjgjEj and solved it by ordering that all work formerly *ca**» by Tr-"**!— must be done by hand...
...Antagonisms and war...
...The South, devoted to agriculture by alave labor...
...30 1st...
...Sinclair Lewis sad his book, "Elmer Gantry," - was raked over the coals as slandering everything...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 24
