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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES NOSES, AMOEBAS AND CROWNS T»oNI AND LIVERIGHT, the publishers, announce J5 fttgi they are bringing- out a book tbia month w Charles Nessler called, "The Story of...
...Rawson also spent years In gathering old tools and utensils Identified with the work of the older generations, learned how they were used and for what they were used, and in a charming narrative she reconstructs the homelife of the people, the trades and arts, the costumes and furniture, the dyeing and baking, spinning and weaving, and other phases of the workaday life of a period that Is now past history...
...We will show how the amoeba got his nose by making snoots at scientists who describe him as "the lowest form of life...
...This, for example of the "Cupressus disticha" which "stands In the first order of North American trees...
...He has his loyalties, and idealisms, his fineness and his dreams...
...It Is true, that antagonists, bitterly battling, tend to take on like characteristics, and this Is one of the strongest arguments against making the class motive the main-spring of every revolutionary move...
...Why did the Marines travel three thousand miles to pop off those Nicaraguans...
...Then there will be a whole lot of chapters written in popular style such as "The Noses that Bloom in the Spring," "The Noses for News," "The Nose that Sunk a Thousand Ships," "J...
...The True American Escapes I find "Venture" a romantic, yes, a religious, conception of the war of the classes...
...1 But glory be...
...There...
...Thirtyone Illustrations of her curious treasures add to the value of the book...
...Did those five Nicaraguans have something the Marinas wanted...
...For it imparts a sense of change—tremendous :yclic turnover in human affairs...
...The reader almost envies the young botanist as he records his various finds, sometimes Indulging in rhapsody to express his joy...
...Upton Sinclair, Floyd Dell, and now Max Eastman—we find so little of social emotion...
...For my part I am thoroughly committed to thorough prohibition enforcement and like a good wot, 'I am willing to bear my share of a $200,000,000 expenditure, for it Is my firm conviction that nothing ' can kill prohibition save 100 per cent enforcement, As it is, sH too many people make their living and even fortunes out of partially enforced prohibition...
...The Bankers In Bolivia," by M. A Marsh...
...What do you think of that- Now we can go around king's crowning you boys and girls because we are a distinguished non-athlete...
...WHh a beard and a new Spring crown we ought IT **_°nite a sight...
...The sub-title, The Story of Early American Arts and Implements, aptly suggests the theme...
...The books will be of regular 12 mo...
...You don't catch us "fusing any crowns...
...If people won't come to listen speeches on the coal problem the way we look •WW, we ought to be able to turn them away with a n**t lute that...
...Naum Relchesberg died from apoplexy in his 61st year...
...The permanent wave is well-known to men who have married straight-haired gals...
...ou simply adjust your crown to the right angle, your beard and begin...
...Our views were probably totally opposite...
...On Jan...
...They JUet want you to send them some Jack...
...Why la it...
...The book will retail for $2.50...
...Crowns are as rare as jobs these days...
...it there you axe...
...And why, oh why, did um Nicaraguans shoot those five Marines...
...Then there was the suggestion of communal help In the employment of the "sheep-herd," the "swine-herd," the "cow-herd" and the "calf-keeper," whose duties are suggested by their names...
...Drys reject near thorough enforcement appropriation also...
...In spite of his complete association with Switzerland the Berne police refused him naturalization In 1922, a fact which was only known after his death...
...So the government of the country ,in the august person of a federal judge, padlocks the house of the Lord and the lips of the singing miners in behalf of the good and the glory of the lords of the mine...
...They say, "Aw, for God's sake...
...Either Forbes or Hancock...
...It has the drive, throb, and destiny of Immature fiction...
...But if there are not, I think we ought to drop the term "Socialism" from our vocabularies for socialists are only erecting another rationalization, a mask for the savage, egoistic desires, which lust to exploit and enslave...
...Multiply five dead Nicaraguans by twenty-five thousand dollars and you have the staggering sum of $260,000...
...We are busy writing a book called, "The Story of ¦ the Nose...
...y So the next time you^e* us, you will probably - ™»k we are the Kinf -M «*g"!m'i 11 wasn't for •as Beard...
...It should advertise the fact that there is more in economics and politics, than George Jean Nathan thinks there Is...
...The big catch in this process eontes in the word "permanent...
...These books are serious researches Into the nature of American investments abroad, and are as colorful as any travel books describing strange countries...
...Unsatisfactory Alternatives The reflective reader must wonder If society will choose either of the alternatives offered In this hovel...
...Even the women are romantic wraiths...
...So Bertram travels on and makes notes of trees...
...call now that all the pictures of the crowned ¦*•*» of Europe show gents with beards or goatees w mustaches...
...Search me...
...The price of this will be twenty-five dollars, which is mighty low considering the high cost of handkerchiefs these days...
...What, kill the goose that lays the golden egg...
...It cost fifteen wLgj, it takes about a day- It consists of a comujjrton of hanging your wife's hair on wires all over a shoppe that is usually run by a lady named yZLm (who addresses everybody as "Dearie",) and vT^burning her with hot irons until her hair begins rTjrt from sheer pain...
...But is it polite to drop bombs on Riffian lady shop- ; pers...
...The other morning we tottered down to the mail. box to find an advertisement for a summer camp, a night-club, a Keely cure, a little reminder from the Sheffield Farms milk company and a most impressive looking document -all covered over with crowns...
...And for what...
...L^kfc aU right, we'll grow a beard if necessary...
...But we feel ¦Uch levity is ill-timed...
...There is much of warmth, sheer joy of living and glowing courage in this novel...
...We do hot know what became of the young moras it Ir, but if be turned to land speculation, or in other ways accural* ted a fortune, he seats hily never lived as richly aa William Bertram, enchanted by the plumage of birds, recording some rare mesa, and marveling at the "perfection of the great Almighty Creator...
...What do they care •*«rt that poem, "Kind hearts are more than coronate and simple faith than-Norman Thomas...
...Breadlines lOTgttwmlng dairy...
...dxr^bomb...
...This is to certify that McAlister Coleman has been awarded the Gold King's Crown for distinguished service in non-athletic activities...
...This is sure to start a controversy and win give our advertising copy-reader a chance to ring • in that stuff about "A controversial work that is bound ' to create a furore...
...And he looks platitudes, and hypocrocles...
...In seeking to set up a more just order of society, revolutionists, in their zeal, seldom guard against setting up only another order of society...
...Why do respectable Christian coal operators employ "—twins to murder poor coal diggers...
...There is somet'iing of the poet in him as he eagerly records his treasures...
...And honest, I'm not Horace Kallen...
...Two and one-half of the "Lion Whelps" Are out of work, starving or near starving on doles...
...Though loving him, they refuse to burden him with their unwelcome presence—an act of renunciation scarcely conceivable In the predatory female of today...
...Three titles on press now and scheduled to appear early In the month of March, are: "The Americans to Santo Domingo," by MelTin M. Knight...
...Could not have France, the polite, send a shipment of Paris frocks to those Riffian market town* and thus separated the Riffian ladies and their providers from all they had, as Is dose in the fash ton- i marts of every civilized country...
...He speaks tumultously out of unconscious stores of truth...
...Until the end, it is not certain to whose vision Hancock will give his allegiance...
...All in a days work, as mirrored in a day's news...
...The attitude of the representatives of the Dominican Republic towards the revision of the PanAmerican Union shown at the Havana Conference is based on the peculiar relationship of Santo Domingo to America, the unusual details of which can be found in the first of this series, "The Americans In Santo Domingo," to be issued on March 1st...
...He (Hancock) waa drunk with the great things he was going to do, drunk with egotism...
...100% For 100% Enforcement La Guardia, swarthy Congressman from Mew York ' and wet as New York, rose in Congress demanding $250,000,000 for prohibition enforcement...
...and it is no wonder, for, though too long, Forbes's conversations are brilliant and bedazzling, and furnish quite the best reading in the book...
...7th, Dr...
...His fellow traveller, "not relishing the hardships and dangers, which might perhaps befall us, chose rather to stay behind, amongst the settlements...
...Well, then, why shoot men so truly patriotic as to voluntarily starve themselves, their wives and kids to reduce the over supply of coal...
...Four days later they had the shock of another unexpected grief...
...Book review Max Eastman's "Venture'9 By M. H. Hedges Ik/VAX EASTMAN has written poetry iT* of hard, bright color...
...That sounds promising...
...But we are no George Washington...
...But no, the energy of the Empire is expended on bombing planes, bombs and gasoline...
...And not crowned the way you think...
...Still—though I think these strictures serious—they do not mar the book for me...
...Two Deaths Sorrow Swiss Socialism (By a New Leaser Cormpeaseat) Berne.—The Swiss Labor movement has suffered two serious and sudden losses, one Immediately following the other...
...TJlnk of how big we will go when we start street2raWns* next Fall...
...I read and ponder...
...It is over-development and over-production that brought the coal industry to its present sad state...
...Judged by the vision of life reflected in "Venture", Eastman sees no place in the battle between the old and new orders, for the disinterested Intelligence, and the social-minded and disciplined public servant I know welt enough that a novelist has no obligation to put everything in creation In bis book, except what the frame demands, but it is my tnipraanrsi that the frame of "Venture" demands the presence of the social engineer...
...Xbey are ragged, barefooted and starving bandits, weiare told...
...New York: the Century Co., $3.50...
...In socalled social novels— in the work of...
...on ^<^°?%*J£7 Uakerous African tribesmen to get even with tribesmen...
...The delicacy of as color, and texture of its leaves, exceed every thing in vegetation...
...The workers of Berne 'prepared' an' Uiipresstve^ funeral ceremony In thanksgiving to their great teacher...
...Marines ahoot five Nioaraguaaa...
...and has written—often shrewdly—and always incisively about economic polity...
...What a criminal waste of soup bones and beans...
...Bartram was a i botanist and a lover of nature and the J book is his account of his travels from ' Philadelphia to Charleston, 8. C and 1 from there through Georgia and to nor- 11 Ida near the close of the eighteenth century...
...While In the South a young man who had accompanied him left Bart ram and his account reveals the old struggle be-, tween ideals and the economic motive...
...crocodiles, serpents, frogs, otters, crows, herons, curlews, jackdaws and Indians...
...or enough to suply a bowl of bean soup to each and every one of the four million unemployed In the United States of America...
...or by industry and frugality, perhaps establish his fortune...
...The cows are turned into hamburger for the delectation of African bus-, zards and Britain keeps on starving for lack of beef, and keeps on beefing about the decay of English trade...
...how many pairs of cotton pants those leaden beans would have bought if it is true that it costs 925,000 to kill a man, as statistics from the late world war indicate...
...Whilst I, continually Impelled by a restless spirit of curiosity, in pursuit of new productions of nature, my chief happiness consisted In tracing and admiring the infinite power, majesty, and perfection of the great Almighty- Creator...
...And it should hearten everyone who believes that a new order, a different order, of society, must eventuate out of the present jungle tangle...
...There will be a limited edition of this book, signed by the author and printed on paper made out of handkerchiefs...
...Now he has published a contemporary romance that has In it all three distinguishing elements of his work, poetry, criticism and political asseverations...
...Why spoil lnsa- i tiable lady shoppers with jagged iron splinters and thus loose them forever as customers...
...And Hancock under the Inspiration of Haywood, and Haywood's beautiful confederate, Vera, finally dreams of erecting an order of "selected democrats" upon unexploited masses...
...They quickly fermented And made elder inside har inside...
...Another, and perhaps the fundamental, reason whyprohibition, can not be enforced Is that for some reason or other Providence put alcohol into virtually - every plant that grows on earth...
...Think of the myriads of hamlet, village, town, city county, state and federal officials whose Inmiiuej as near prohibition enforcers far exceeds their legal and statutory incomes...
...Florida was a region little known at that period and the book is important as a source of information regarding, Its resources, and the life of the aethers and Indians...
...No, folks, there is only one way to abolish the prohibition nuisance and that is by 100 per cent enforcement, irrespective of cost, and nobody knows this batter than the dry brethren, themselves, hence their frantic opposition to thorough prohibition enforcement...
...Between mining camp and mine, stands an humble house of the Lord in which striking miners occasionally sing the praise of the Lord, much to the annoyance of the lords of the mine and also the strike breakera, who must pass the house of the Lord on the way to the mine...
...Of course you girls • knew who Charles is...
...Our Cuban Colony," by Leland H. Jenks...
...moss, flowers, roots, and herbs...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES NOSES, AMOEBAS AND CROWNS T»oNI AND LIVERIGHT, the publishers, announce J5 fttgi they are bringing- out a book tbia month w Charles Nessler called, "The Story of the Hair, nl Purpose and Its Preservation...
...Sidelights on History By James Oneal npo THE books on American economic and social history must be added one that probably was not Intended for this class, a work by Marion Nlcholl Rawson (Candle Days...
...and It seems the novelist's Intent to depict the consanguinity of the big capitalist and the masterful labor leader...
...Maybe you have to have a beard to wear a crown...
...This diploma reads as follows: "COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY King's Crown Non athletic Award...
...Senators of the good old U. 8. A. are still immune from injunctions—may still sing the praise of the Lord in the Land of the free and the home of the brave without fear of being yanked to ' the hoosegow for contempt of court, and four senators sing "Nearer My God to Thee" near the padlocked .house of the Lord betwixt mining camp and ~ mine in the free state of Pennsylvania...
...He was a Russian by birth but bad completely settled In Switzerland and was for very many years ordinary Professor of National Economy and Statistics in the University of Berne, one of the few Professors in Switzerland who belongs to the Socialist Party...
...If the waves that Charlie thought up are permanent then I am Horace • g^nen...
...he, a young mechanic on his adventures, seemed to be actuated by no other motives, than either to establish himself in some wellinhabited part of the country, where, bp following his occupation, he might be ehabled to procure, without much toil and danger, the necessaries and conveniences of life...
...But now that the outline business is going into new markets, having saturated the fields of history, philosophy, knowledge, art, science and ptomaine poisonjgfjGbarles Nessler's opus gives us an idea...
...There Is an interesting view of an- i other sector of American life presented in < The Travels of William Bartram, ed- 1 lted by Mark Van Doren, (New York: ' Macy-Masius, $2.50...
...Ntearaguans shot five marines Xnglieh aTutor...
...Unfortunately they didn't send the crown along *Hh the diploma, which causes hoarse laughter on toe part of our loving friends when we show them the wcament...
...What an insane mixture of piety, piracy and lunacy...
...Forbes, who more nearly approaches a creation than any In the book, dreams of erecting an aristocratic class upon an enslaved order of mushheads...
...Venture, by Max Eastman, Albert and Charles Bonl...
...Also an invitation to send ten dollars to the Sabbath Day Alliance...
...This brings us into a pretty heavy discussion of the Lamarkian theory as to whether the nose grew on the amoeba as the result of the stimulus, of the scientists or whether it just got there as the survival of the fittest...
...What is it all about...
...Unlike most pictures of capitalists in American novels, Forbes Is neither a caricature, nor a monster...
...J*araman Robinson looks all right in his...
...Karl Durr, the Secretary of the Swiss Trade Union Centre died from blood poisoning on Jan...
...Think of the millions of sleuths, dicks, snoopers, enforcement officers and prohibition lobbyists, who are lining their pockets on near prohibition enforcement...
...We hope to have it ready for publication this compgji -when the public becomes nose-conscious with the first approach of winter...
...They give themselves so readily to Hancock—a damnably fascinating man that—and they impose no conditions...
...He also was an Immigrant In Switzerland...
...Qoh, a diploma, like the kind we should have gotten In school if there had been any appreciation of true merit on the part of our teachers...
...The true American scene—the creeping paralysis of machine production, mechanised Uvea and phllistlne indifference to things of the spirit,—Is never captured, not even suggested...
...United States Senators visiting mining camp In *****9?™*** *** striking miners singing "Nearer My Ood to-Thee" to defiance of •Injunction...
...the "hog reeve" who looked after loose hogs, saw that they were marked and their noses properly ringed, and the "pound-keeper" who arrested stray animals, collected a fee from the owners or sold the animals at auction...
...England, too, has its unemployed problems...
...Not they, not they...
...Imagine the blacksmith often being called upon because of his physical strength to pull teeth, the barber to do the bleeding recommended by physicians, the footstove with its glowing coals ready to be carted to Meeting, the Itinerant shoemaker coming to your home to make the shoes and remaining as a boarder till the work is done, and the wheelwright making his annual rounds peddling his wool wheels to anxious dames...
...French aviators drop bombs on W^-^Jf* town disrupting business and Rifllana...
...Having met" an awful lot of Republicans, we have always figured that this was mighty tough on the amoeba...
...Dry Congressman Green of Florida, which is even wetter than ' New York on account of close proximity to Bermuda, Cuba and other moist islands, protests and La Owardie's motion is rejected...
...Toe first chapter will be called, "The Rise of the Proboscis" and will treat of the nose in pre-history...
...For Instance: "There was a young lady of Ryde Of eating green apples she died Within the lamented r...
...And .this structure brings me to certain other troublesome questions...
...They were striking coal diggers, of course, and being such they were the best friends of the coal industry, for are there not too many miners ? Too many mines and too much coal...
...It supplements reading In economic history and makes more vivid the social life, habits, customs and lOiKways 01 people woo uvea m toe |n* capitalist epoch of history...
...Then kill third La Guardia n>otton seeking $25,000,000 appropriation for not so near thorough enforcement...
...15 th, after a few days' illness...
...Perhaps I am laboring "under a delusion...
...Four millions of unemployed...
...If the dear little children «op throwing tin cans, this meeting will start...
...As a matter of fact I'll bet I can go to pretty nearly **y reputable crowner and get one made to order on ™* atrength of this award...
...On Imperialism Particularly timely, in view of the recent disturbing events in Latin America, is the announcement by the Vanguard Press of a series of studies in American Imperialism, under the editorship of Professor Harry Elmer Barnes...
...Think how many pounds of chili beans, how many pairs of reed mH'1...
...Venture" is about Jo Hancock, happy warrior, who enlists In the ranks for the duration of the class war...
...His leaving me, however, I did not greatly regret, aa I could not consider it a disappointment much to my disadvantage at the moment...
...A new breed of cooties, for instance...
...The book waa first published in Philadelphia in 1791 and was highly praised by Coleridge and Carlyle...
...size, well bound In attractive cloth of superior quality, printed on fine paper, and will sell for the very low price of $1.00 each...
...P. Morgan's, the Nose of a Century," etc...
...It's Rise and Fall Through the Ages...
...There's a firm near us TkiCh 18 caUed- "Melinowsky and Davidow, Rulers...
...What a dumb, crazy, hypocritical world...
...Would it not have been sensible to set some of these Starv- . ing Uonites at work making corn knives, butcher cleavers, milk buckets and cream separators to supply far off Africans with the wherewithal of getting more out of their cows in exchange for beef...
...For years the author has talked to old folks In New Hampshire, making notes of their reminlscenses of "candle days," days when blacksmiths and carpenters, shoemakers and tanners, and the women of the household produced the things which gave comfort to the people of the colonies...
...Think of the'billions of moonshiners, bootleggers and rum runners, who are fattening on near, prohibition...
...Oh, sure...
...Did they have a grouch against them...
...Dry vote against thorough prohibition enforcement—167, Wet vote for thorough * prohibition enforcement—89...
...Much of our source material comes from a monograph written last Summer by Morris Ernst, entitled, "Smells," and dedicated to the Department of Justice...
...It is nineteen years since we went to Columbia and our memory is getting a bit vague as to what we <Md to distinguish ourselves up there except write insulting editorials about Nicholas Murray Butler...
...Its majestic stature is surprising...
...This simple order lasted well into the nineteenth century, especially in the small towns and villages of New England...
...Multiply twentyfive thousand dollars by five dead marines...
...By making Jo Hancock a poet after a fashion, living in Greenwich Village, a friend of George Forbes, Wall Street financier, and a playmate of big Bill Haywood, Eastman enables the reader to see opposing principles in the class struggle...
...But for the benefit of my man *~~Tr j wUi inform him that Charlie is the author of the permanent wave...
...Oh, yes...
...Motion being lost La Guardia moves appropriation of $75,000,000 for near thorough prohibition snforos ment...
...As a rule you take your hat _t when vou make street speeches'but that can't ,ao for crowns...
...There are too many skeptical people in this world as it is...
...e^TJNhOEN,' nsaohin* gunning out gt closed car, kill "two striking miners...
...i When we opened the great big document,, what do you think we found...
...The French are a polite people...
...and on approaching it, we art struck with a kind of awe...
...And still they call men the crown of creation and prate, •bout Christian civilization...
...He has written an eloquent book about poetry...
...They probably supply their nijers with crowns or coronets...
...It is impossible to enumerate the many quaint and curious things to be found in this book...
...In 1003 he came to Basle as a German metal worker and very quickly won the confidence of his colleagues...
...a fir...
...Nearer My God to Thee" thou are, dear Senators - in Pennsylvania than in Washington, D. C. Behind rock and underbrush surrounding the hum boa house of the Lord, prowl armed mine guards, thugs,, sjsjd gunmen with nervous fingers on hair triggers...
...Prosperity bigger and better than ever...
...A good «own Would probably hock as high as 58.50 at a, place right around the corner from where we live...
...There will be a alight departure from the usual standardized Vanguard fifty cent price and format in these studies of Imperialism...
...OH, SHOOT...
...the sight of a Socialist speaker wearing oJ|"vn 011 the corner of Second Avenue and Tenth "J2»t Ought to be one of the big features of the campaign...
...Perhaps there are no social emotions, and no such thing as social intelligence...
...at beholding the- statehnees of the trunk, lifting its cumbrous top toward the skies, and casting a wide shade upon the ground, as a dark Intervening cloud, which, for a time, axelndas the rays of the sun...
...Sdt,$her big news of the week is what happened to as...
...Tou many not believe it, but we are now an official crowned head...
...And this is the spirit of Jo Hancock, and everyone eh* in the book...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 13
