"THEY EAT IT UP"
Watson, Blanche
"THEY EAT IT UP" Our-Strange Fondness For Hokum By Blanche Watson 'B'wO eauiieula of noamn eater into * American life todays-two straight and narrow paths through wblch travel mfcarjii'ese...
...He has...
...What of the farmers of the West, the coal miners, the humble subjects of the textile kingdom, of the steel barony, and other regions ruled by our royal houses...
...How many gunmen, hold-up thieves and gay Lotharios, I wonder, had a background of these vicious, film plays...
...Thalberg: "Perhaps you have a Perfect policy...
...The tuatlon began to change during Lenin's .iness...
...Right on the heels of that came the "Beast of Berlin...
...The discussion became lively when Zinovlev followed jvith his list of errors of the Stalin 3overnment, including bringing on the Treach with Great Britain...
...The worry, the hurry, the grab and gulp method of living has shortened our cell-life and potency by the best part of twenty years...
...Above all see your doctor regularly anyway...
...splendid party nen like Vassilyev, Plshelev, and many jthers—the out-and-out opportunist racUon behind which there trotted in Ast year Chiang Kai-Shek, Peng Yu.islang, Purcell...
...Ethelbert Stewart, Bureau of Labor Statistics, says that it is safe to say that the output per man has Increased 60 per cent in the last ten years...
...That I remember clearly because a man I know took his two small sons, aged eight and ten, to see that picture...
...and poked for a few fearful moments...
...More than., a half hoUday on Saturday is needed for the week-end break in work...
...Cancer is on the increase...
...Why this terror of our latform...
...Rents are high, automobiles must be kept up with other appearances...
...With these admissions, it seems to us that the prize exhibit looks like a dirty and tattered doll...
...1 Illegal To Eat A sweeping injunction against miners in Pennsylvania recently prohibited them from attending enure...
...Trotsky: Under Lenin's leadership ic general secretariat played an al toother subordinate part...
...we are not quite ready for the sermon.....That, in good time First, the opening exercises...
...And being an average man, and being only able to afford the average doctor, I believe I'm a whole lot better off talcing a chance with a cancer, than offering myself -up for diagnosis to a fellow whose whole range of human knowledge lies between the queer ant.es of bis Buick car, a common skill in squinting down your throat, and pinochle...
...But what is meant by the "United States" ? General Motors is certainly mean' as well ,i...
...Petrowsky: "Contemptible Menshevik...
...Is the fact that wherever they are presented there one finds children, hundreds of them, watching eagerly the triangle love-affairs, the cheap talk and vulgar Insinuations, the almost monotonous featuring of violence in different Forms, and,—to say it all in one sentence —the subtle propaganda of things as they-ought-to-be...
...There were enough men and women, whose thought ran parallel to Upton Sinclair's, to start this splendid tribute to one who, after the fashion ot Garrison of old, would not equivocate, would not be silent, and weald be heard...
...And when people refuse to lie down in great numbers and play sick, business becomes slack...
...The love scenes, with all their salacious suggestion and downright vulgar actions, do not appear to move the younger children...
...Now the logic of the remark we are discussing if applied to the non-partisan political policy would be the following...
...The total wealth of a nation, no matter how much it may be...
...I know as every half-baked reader of books knows that cancer is aa undiscovered a province as the North Pole or the moon...
...No hymn...
...Tbe ibm nilua s present get • j and begm to go out...
...Eugenics, diets, cromt-breeding, non-Irritant articles of dress, and a hundred other matters have been theorised about aa ptevtaUtttves...
...Destroy the system that ages men before their youth span Is run, and you will take the first effective step toward the control of a demon that feasts on aged bodies...
...A dozen other theories cross and criss cross into a maze about the te>Tib'e disease...
...We make our own steel" says Ford...
...The lead of the O.P.U., Menshinsky, had illeged that the Trotsky organisation ncluded an ex-Wrangel officer, and Bukuuin had endeavoured to show that the rrotskylsts were collaborating with bourgeois intellectuals...
...The same economic forces ad political rule- which make life uncertain and precarious for all workers are as present today as they ever were in the United States...
...Cries of "Lie...
...The Socialist Revival THE National Office and The New Leader are receiving so many letters from many sections of the country revealing a marked Socialist revival that it is impossible to print them...
...Other figures presented are convincing that the United States is prosperous...
...Add to < .'-lis the fact that the hundreds of thousands of useful workers in the steel, glass, mining and automobile industries of Ford are not permitted to organize themselves for their own betterment and we get some comprehension of the parasitism ami tyranny spawned by our absurd industrial systemHere is industrial feudalism issuing out of American life, a feudalism as masterful as any -that condemned the bondman to the soil of England a few centuries ago...
...Or perhaps one sees a vivid picture which features a horrible leering Chinese, for the villain...
...The latter form of lying has become a popular sport which pays those who constitute the "L'nited States...
...and after that, the inoffensive laundryman on the corner has taken on something sinister and evil...
...There must be more relief I from this strain In Industry today...
...Small wonder then that a plague which affects the flesh only when it is fully on the way to uselessness can work such havoc with men and women who if measured in the term of years have hardly reached the prime of normal life...
...People surely die from that horrible affliction...
...You have forgotten tbe loods," "Idiot.'' "Young impudent," uied the Interrupters...
...Certainly its cure is beyond any present knowledge altogether...
...What is typical of practically all these letters is not so much the rejoicing over the victory in Reading and the excellent campaign and vote in New York although all writers refer to them...
...the introduction of volatile substances foreign to the chemistry of the human flesh...
...That prospect must also be stressed...
...The honseholder sits at home and takes what Is handed to htm...
...It was precisely because the governing powers of the state are in the hands of the corporations and are ruthlessly used against the miners that this conference was called...
...But why should an excellent man oft this type devote nearly four pages of The Nation to ^ fulsome eulogy of "Al" Smith...
...If it had been a success the Pittsburgh conference would not have been held...
...And they are "eating U up", believe me,—whoever they are and whoever their parents may be...
...The comparatively few learned and skillful men in the profession are kept busy by being in constant attendance on the rich...
...Suppose thek total wealth of a hundred men is a thousand dollars, u* he average for each is ten dollars yet fifty or sevqrity-five of the hundred men may have nothing andMhe total sum may be in the hands of the remaining small group...
...We mine our own coal" says Ford...
...I do realize that business has been pretty slow for the ordinary prescription scribbler...
...And a lot of us boobs will fall for tbe gaff, dig up, borrow or steal three, five or ten bucks, scurry over to the M. D. and get stetheoscoped...
...Tammany no longer follows the former methods of plundering because other methods enables it to make more money "on a much larger scale...
...After years of sacrifice in paying for homes Republican and Democratic officials in office are shifting taxation from the rich to the homes of the workers...
...tbe doctor must...
...Trotsky, following Zinovlev, complained that the Opposition had been lenounced as counter-revolutionary, and vsked why the "fraction" of the party low at the helm had done this...
...Its recurrence in the same spot .tor elsewhere Is certain...
...Socialist democracy will be the heir of the ages...
...It is clear, tbe terror of he platform is tbe terror ot the masses . . The present regime believes in ie omnipotence of force, even against s own party...
...Then Smith is a Socialist or a near-Socialist, but he doesn't know it...
...Your coal...
...Like every industrial change It is found in spots...
...1 f he did not mean this we do not know what he meantBut consider the logic of this attitude...
...Prosperous "United States" AN article in the Times last Sunday declares "America's Prosperity Reaches New Heights...
...Then I remember how the old plagues, fevers and ills have been trapped and miraculously halted by old fogy professors and bacteriologists...
...See your doctor at once, if you have an unusual lump, irritatirr, or what seems like an ordinary pimple anywhere on your body...
...This silver screen served a fine apprenticeship during the two yean prior to the entrance of the United States into the war...
...if makes its money much more easily, but on a much larger scale...
...The important fact about what little more is known is that the cursed growth seems to come to the human being just aa he has definitely started- to grow Old...
...But after consulting all statistics on medical matters I come to the conclusion that the doctors as a general rule are a lot of dull ignoramuses, and that ignorant medicine-men have killed a whole lot more human beings than cancer, and T. B. combined...
...And he said, in telling me of the Incident, "The] ate it up...
...A. ale Wilt* ;' NOW - Trotsky Is A Traitor The aaspate kctwean SUtisn and Trotsky has at last esdasmassd ks the expulsion of Trotsky and Zinevtev from the Basilar] Ceaaaaanlst Party...
...These changed methods of production mean great rapidity in motions...
...In a surIvey made by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the figures for 1026 (covering practically 1,000,000 workers show more than 6 per cent of all union membership in all the trades covered have a flat five-day week basis for the year around, while a very considerable number have a five-day week for several months in the year...
...Cancer is a malignant growth in the form of a tuberous sore that attacks tbe human flesh, externally or internally, and keeps growing as -the patient keeps pining and wasting away physically...
...The Manchester Guard tan" sstfcUsbes the following report ef the alsrasston which ended In the expafarion ef the Left Whig Group...
...Voices: A funeral march) I— which will not change tbe general course...
...Then as we get this added leisure there will be time for an appreciation of the arts and other beautiful things in life that the workers should have the time and strength to enjoy...
...Hasn't Smith a right to be nominated for the Presidency...
...Machine work, high specialization and increased efficiency methods have brought about increase in production...
...This dividend amounts to over $65,000,000...
...is no index to the comfort of the masses The total wealth of the United States could double without improving Ihe lot of the workers who produce it...
...Down With Him...
...At any rate, we are glad that the prize boy of Tammany escaped a fate that yawned for Debs and'Berger...
...What impresses us is the fact that our correspondents express their de' termination to organize the Socialists in their localities...
...And this is only skimming the surface...
...A long list of possible consequences might be cited...
...Tammany's Prize Exhibit £OUNT us among those whq concede Oswald Garrison Villard a useful institution...
...There are not two authorities on the subject who having given up their lives to its study can agree today on its actual cause...
...but, the secular scripture lesson s from Upton Sinclair, found in the Book of Oil—chapter forgotten—page 518...
...THE CHATTER BOX ALX...
...Uproar...
...Unlerhand...
...and I am sure, could I see him now, Jiat he would instance as an example 3t such, the inauguration of the Debs Radio Station...
...Ford did not create it...
...still, decent mothers and fathers continue to let -their children frequent these cheep shows,—when they do not send them deliberately to get them out of the way...
...Somebody once said that liars may be divided into three classes, "liars, damned liars and statistics...
...Experience alone makes basis for statistics that youth or.men who do not grow old physically are as yet immune to Its attack...
...Voroshilov...
...yea can listen but yoa cannot talk bock...
...But never mind...
...Apparently, he meant that as LaFollette was not elected such action independent of the two major parties is proven to be useless...
...3o,—we are on the way to circumvent the capitalist system, on one score...
...Skrypnlk: Menshevik...
...The Socialist Party is growing and will come back "with a bang...
...on Sunday f and even made it illegal for the United Mine Workers to give the strikers food...
...Others have an organic explanation based or...
...A whole day must be added to the Sunday of rest so that recreation will be enjoyed and the worker wlU not be "too tired" to enjoy the leisure that has been so well earned...
...No other conclusion can be drawn...
...We cannot give up political activity and the present form of action has brought a situation that is a menace to the unions themselves...
...Tammany "no longer waxes rich out of petty pilfering from prostitutes and gamblers and saloon-keepers and the criminals it licenses to prey upon the community...
...THEY EAT IT UP" Our-Strange Fondness For Hokum By Blanche Watson 'B'wO eauiieula of noamn eater into * American life todays-two straight and narrow paths through wblch travel mfcarjii'ese ills I km, Intolerance, subterfuge, chicanery and fear, together with a kmc line of leaser evils too numeroui to mention...
...I am not it all trying to detract from the serious consequence of a cancer...
...In that lies its enormous ¦sefulness to the capitalist system...
...So some go-getting booster hits on the idea of a "See Your Doctor If You Have Cancer" Week...
...And so the innumerable poor must content themselves with medical advice and treatment so inept and stupid that It borders on the criminal at times...
...jr\n the hokum about Smith's appeal to the "common people'', references to Andrew Johnson the tailor, Garfield the mule driver, Jackson the frontiersman," Smith's qualifications as a. "mixer", as plain people.' who can drink a highball, b*H a funny story and dance as well as any guy...
...To mention textile workers is to mention a group large numbers of which require alms to piece out a low living standard...
...the way the millions of our industrial serfdom have kept healthy at all...
...Through Enormous Increase of Industrial Output Since the War the United States now makes More money than All of Europe Together...
...Villard and other liberals were compelled to conless their terrible mistake and here he is chanting Abe praises oi the prize exhibit of Tammany Hall...
...Imagine then, that you are asked to mter a doctor's office, and submit your body for an examination to determine whether you are suffering from or are about to acquire an affliction that no one knows much about, not even the most intelligent, the most learned and the most conscientious of medical practitioners...
...The greatest danger that Inheres In the Moving Picture, at least so it seems to me...
...Having passed from the epic of up-from-thesidewalks to the career of "dangerous radical", we are introduced to the refined product of Tammany in another role...
...The average looks good but the reality is an insult to the disinherited...
...it is •bsmsfatl Trotsky continues to read from hb notes, but not a word can be heard amid the uproar, the whistling, t*» shouts of "Get down from tbe pk*" - form...
...That policy has failed in Pennsylvania...
...Socialists haven't learned to sing acceptably...
...referring always—amid protests —to the party leaders as the "traction": The Stalin-Bukharin fraction, which iss thrown and Is throwing into the nner prison ot the OP.U...
...Those injunctions against workers on strike always remind us thai election returns are sometimes lat> but they finally arrive...
...This machine civilization of ours is just playing the deuce with our bodies...
...Moreover, the next general industrial stagnation which is inevitable no matter whether Coolidge or Smith runs the concern at Washington will sweep the radio, flivver and home out of the hands of the workers...
...Skrypnlk: "He Is going too far...
...ill those with large investments in the concern for they share in that $65,000,000 dividend...
...Cries: Down with him...
...oul...
...Upoar...
...We may add that hundreds of thousands of farmers in the West spent thirty years or more setting aside just such a fund which finally found its way into the pockets of bankers and capitalists...
...In working with tbe levices of exclusion, deprivation of employment, and Imprisonment, tbe governing fraction Is allowing its blows to -am down on its own party...
...Do not listen to him...
...Interrupters: Menshevik...
...Yet...
...Even their farms and homes went the same way...
...We wish jua-'had more of him to help civilize the United States...
...but the occasional complete absorption, at such times, of some of the older ones, those who have been attending the "Movies" for several years, can but give one pause...
...Moreover,—I do not believe that all these are children of non-Socialists, either,—these children being fed on Intellectual drainage and refuse...
...The New Ford Car PULL page advertisements announce Henry Ford's new car and thereby hangs a talc...
...morning long, I have been giving myself a complete research...
...The newspapers have worked a whole week on my dread of cancer...
...Out with the renegadel Voroshilov: Enough...
...It will be hereafter he passes from the scene.Ford and a few other Fords are enriched by the social labor, thought and genius'of the race for thousands of years...
...eO the old stuff is here...
...Tcbubar: Bigger adventurerdom than yours cannot exist...
...Excellent...
...Trotsky claims to bo tke saskmnmi of the Left Wfcag which, aeeerdlng to Stalin sad the majority ef the Party, is sowing eJsraption which tends to weaken the party...
...Capitalism and cancer are the two major menaces of the human race...
...Frightful Trotsky: This fraction cannot stand >ur presence in the Central Committee -yen a month before the Congress...
...If this does not call for a declaration of independence and organization of the voting power of the unions in a party of their own then logic is not a guide for solving succh important Problem ____ THE FIVE-DAY WORK WEEK By Miss Agnes Nestor (Vice-President, National Women's Trade Union League) Within a few years the five-day week I has come into practice and it is now beI ing haled as the shorter work week to I be expected by all workers...
...Unless checked in its growth, the sufferer dies in short order...
...then came a certain very Intriguing film, the name of which has escaped me (not so the fact, however, that it was financed largely by a man who had invented smokeless powder...
...We make our own glass" •says Ford...
...And Smith "never protests publicly...
...What has happened In...
...it is a. mere atgmg-— (Jaraslavsky: A mam for Trotsky...
...Bourgeois Intelloetasks...
...Sometimes in the same industry there is a five-day week In some cities and not in others...
...Radium has been tried with scant result, Tbe Intricate application of this rare and hardly understood substance requires tbe most delicate and expert use, and then it only acts aa a temporary agent to a temporary treatment of a recurrent horror...
...One of the most distressing sights that come to me, and this thing Is to be found everywhere.—town, city or hamlet, these days—is an afternoon audience composed almost enUrely of children of various ages moved to hilarious delight by the brutal knockdown of one . man by a stronger, or, say, by a kick administered by the heavy boot of some low-browed but (to them) engaging villain...
...Give us a world where men and women will be allowed to study, and search and experiment without worry as to their economic future, and I warrant you, all causes and cures, for all human Ills will be promptly discovered...
...I this Industry is true of other industries...
...That is why Lenin, vhen he saw his retirement from work ipproaching, gave the party the final id vice "Get rid of Stalin, who may lead he party to schism and downfall...
...Skvoreov-Stepanov (editor of the IX/estia): "An old calumny!'' Thai berg: "You gossip, tale-tjearerl" Tries of "Shame...
...Underhand...
...Ws mderstand...
...If a strike fails of its objective the union should be given up...
...Utile node...
...Bven when it is checked, by surgery or radium rays...
...Nine affirmations of his Socialist faith of the vintage of 1919 are presented as more socialistic than any Socialist platform Villard can remember and if Debs or Berger had urged these things New York dailies would "have rent him limb from limb for his dangerous radicalism...
...So has Olvany...
...Therefore, we shall never follow it again...
...Working class resentment follows as a matter of course This situation prevails throughout the country and in a future issue we expect to enlarge on it...
...Kalinin (President of the Soviet Jnlon): "Petit bourgeois...
...If you fail to accomplish something in any field of endeavor never fry again...
...Today, for us poor dumbbells at least, it is . . ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if cancer don't get you...
...Now, understand me please...
...They ignore the fact that the home for the Worker is no more assured for him than the Farm is for the farmer...
...Socialists certainly show uncommon good sense, at times," rather guardingly admitted one who has earned the characterisation of "class-conscious capitalist...
...the grouping of Stalinists tn the irganlzatlon became independent of poItical directives...
...What with the thousands of young graduates that flock in'o the market, and what with the birth-rate falling, and ordinary diseases of the microbe variety being controlled through the unheroic work of silent chemists and microscope peepers, the outlook is not so cheery for the ever increasing army of men who live and prosper only on the ills and woes of mankind...
...Cancer is on the increase...
...During the time of this trend to the shorter week has come the mass production period...
...Those words are the text of my little sermon...
...The pleasant news is supplemented by the statement that General Motors has "declared the largest^ single dividend in the history of the world...
...Only those of us who have experienced a free day with no other obligation than to do as we please, can appreciate what it means in the life of the worker to have this full day off and to have it every week in the year...
...Trotsky: Violence can play an enornous revolutionary part—but on tbe xmdltion that it Is subordinated to a ust class policy...
...He is a creation of it and his mastery rests upon the consent of those who are mastered...
...Every mechanical principle anbodied in the automobile has its history in the nought, genius and useful labor of men for thouMids of years...
...Nothing new...
...Next to these incidents, the children seem most pleased if and when some woman is manhandled by this same villain...
...like as infant being fed through a tube...
...From a recent report on the steady Increase in the production of kraft paper we learn that Important economies in production methods have been developed in the Industry so that the consumption requirements in this country have by no means reached the possible maximum annual production and the industry stands in constant danger of over-production...
...The reasoning works just as effectively against the non-partisan jxjlicy of the trade unions and especially in Pennsylvania...
...Perhaps that judge wants to starve the miners to death just to show the rest of us who owns this country...
...Trotsky: Destitute of any class foot- ' lold the bureaucratic, centrist fraction dgzags to and fro between two class lines, proletarian and petty bourgeois...
...Get oat ef UN party...
...What are Socialists doing a propos of the-, silver screen,—as It affects their children...
...It reads as follows: The radio is a one-sided instrument...
...This logic would'require that the trade unions abstain from all political activity or proceed to organize their voting power independently of the Republican and Democratic parties...
...There is even less reason for it than there was fol Wilson, that darling of the liberals who, during his last administration, transformed us into convicts watched by guards and made *us march in the lock-step of George Creel...
...He retorted n Una...
...It can be cured if ca lght early, etc., etc., until I caught the fear and have been poking through myself for lumps, pimples and mysterious pains...
...They are not a part of the "United States" that is so prosperous...
...Really, we wonder if the editor of The Nation has not supped one of Smith's highballs...
...Oligarchs will no longer reap the fruits...
...The retrenched >fflcials, he contended, would be a foreng ground for any Opposition if allowed to be vocal...
...It b the basis apea which to build the greatest slave empire to history...
...Wilson's "too proud to fight" was being acclaimed on all sides...
...This report appeared in the "Bote Fshne," the Berlin Communist dady and was token from "Prsres," tbe official organ ef the Ceasmanfcd Party:— ine discussion was opened by Buk*iarin, the editor of the Pravda, with an argument for unity on the ground, unong others, of the retrenchment now iroceedlng in the Government service >f the Soviet Union...
...At times I have expressed genuine wonder at...
...How many of those who make up the appallingly long list of murderers but got a certain tuition In the Moving Picture theatre...
...I All of which adds to the strain of the j day's work...
...The general course is to the Right rhe latest manifesto was certainly s Leftward zigzag...
...My fingertips have been curious and carefully familiar with all parts of my body...
...We would not interfere with their right to seek the nomination but we would not favor them...
...One path leads to the ear the other to the eye...
...And since almost anyone who can write Ergliah may constiute himself as an authority on such a subject as cancer, why may I not put in my entry in the matter to edify a long suffering world on the subject...
...That was about the period when the song "I Old not Raise my Boy to be a Soldier", was carrying its welcome message from coast to coast: when Mr...
...It is for you...
...When they withhold their consent the mastery will crumble and the industrial empire of Ford will become a democracy of...
...We are sorry for Villard and even Smith must be chagrined that the caresses he receives in this article leave him so smudged that the portrait is not a lovely one...
...The choice of men by the sseetarlat...
...How many, both grown-ups and children, came out from seeing "The Birth of a Nation" without an initial or an increased prejudice resulting therefrom...
...So much for that unpleasantness...
...We are not deceived for a moment...
...What an insult to the Central Oommittee...
...Another age will look back upon this one and wonder at our stupidity in permitting one man or a few men to fall heir to all the experiments, inventions, thought and labor of the human race...
...cooperative ownership and control...
...everything old, as old as Amercian politics...
...Who are "we...
...He is organizing in his city and has visited the Socialists in a large steel center in the eastern section of the state for the same purpose...
...Sunday l&oroing the editions were just chockfull of warnings...
...The whole game is too raw a clam for even a simp like me to swallow at one gulp...
...Voices: Oravedigger of the Bsisalaon...
...He observes that in these cities the workers face the same situation which they faced in Reading...
...who read this to join the increasing hosts of organized Socialist workers...
...Without their wizardries, I daresay, our modern factory world would have so weakened the resistance of its slaves that literal millions would have peished from a wave upon wave of epidemic microbial Invasion...
...The one has almost a generation the start of the other: but the lead thus achieved is being rapidly cut down...
...It can be cured if detected early...
...Some affirm that it is • bacterteJ growth, with bogs go small that so mlerescope will ever be made powerful enough to see tham in action...
...But I" be, frizzled to an oyster frv before I go and consult a doctor...
...With poor Oscar Wilde, the average wage earner must live and die beyond his means...
...The "Rul" (the Berlin Mgar* of the counter-revolutionary snigres) says all that better...
...Here is a sample from the bulk from a veteran Socialist in Pennsylvania who has been inactive for eight years...
...Shame...
...Nine-tenths of all this stuff about "prosperity" is an opiate to stupefy the masses who are gouged and swindled as much as they ever were in the United States...
...Since the last epidemic, some ten years ago, the medical profession has suffered some financial reverses...
...u¦ i *t , JS...
...but how about the other...
...Give men and women a world and a method of living that will prolong their youth, and cancer will hold no fear for humanity...
...Getting to the five-day week we first won the half holiday on Saturday...
...ilenshevlk Traitor...
...Do you...
...In the same issue of the Tunes Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University, one of the most conservative economists of the country, declared that although the average income in this country is relatively high, it is not sufficient to enable some 90.000,000 jieople to set aside a small reserve fund for a rainy day...
...Independent Political Action FUST what was in the mind of the speaker at the Pittsburgh trade union Conference las* week when he declared that the support of the third party ticket in 1924 liad convinced him that this policy is a failure we do not know...
...From the time tliat our sliaggy ancestors crawled from their caves to the present hour men liave experimented and invented...
...And we shall omit the first reading, also...
...Empty ;alk," "You have forgotten the draught and tbe Crimean earthquake," "And the cattle disease," "Aren't you ashamed if yourself...
...Hicks, Ben Tillet— Petrowski: A disguising speech, a iCenahevist speech...
...That policy is an admitted failure in that state...
...So have the Tammany heelers who intimidate voters and steal elections...
...It would : here if Ford had never lived...
...Cancer is on the increase in this generation, first because the population has increased numerically, and secondly because a larger part of us are falling into the decay of age before our youth period is actually done...
...And this, be it said, in the face of the fact that many of the picture theatres are fire-traps...
...This is a social heritage...
...And the chances are ninety-eight to two that the fellow you can afford to see Is neither intelligent, learned nor conscientious...
...Within a period of 25 years that was established and it was the first break from the long work week...
...The factory, the mill and the shop the office and the uncertainty of existence in a cutthroat scheme of industry have turned the average forty year old body into a carcass ready for a toboggan slide into the cemetery...
...It has been assumed by many editors and politicians that the worker with his radio and a home either owned or partly owned is voting stock for capitalism...
...Tammany is guilty of "excesses and wrong-doing" and it must be also said that Smith "never protests publicly...
...speeded machines and monotony for the worker...
...There are some 7,000,000 unskilled workers in this country whose income falls much l>elow the minimum sum required for a family to live in a fair degree of decency...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 24
