SOCIALISM AND MATERNITY

...Smith, Hoover and the other presidential aspirants have their wealthy 'angels...

...Rather a bizarre illustration, to be sure, but it has its own logic, especially in relation to the recent order of the Radio Commission which threatens the existence of 162 radio stations...

...If the powerful economic forces that lead to this centralization, which of itself is an enormous handicap for the smaller stations, has the additional support of the Radio Commission by throwing the weight of the government in favor of the big oligarchs, then we have an economic plutocracy supplemented by government oligarchy...

...The old reactionary looks upon war as the school of courage for men...

...what you can get for it...

...A medieval court could not have done better...

...The citizen who for some reason was unable to meet his air bill when it came due was carted to the cemetery...

...In all these countries the figures show the same stationary quality...

...Nor have we yet such Inquiries as will give us the reasons for the lower rates in Italy, Holland, Norway and Sweden and the higher ones in Germany, Ireland and Switzerland...

...It Is st the entrance to life that the toll of death is heaviest...

...The Fatwads are already- on the scene with their money bags in both camps...

...British labor women have already put forward such I scheme...

...In every country where awakening social Instinct has led to the development of Infant welfare work through the Public Health departments, the reduction of infmntiip mortality has been mainly In the later months of the first year...

...In somewhat a similar way childbirth was thought to be the crown of a woman's bravery...

...There has been more bunk in the tariff as -a' political issue in this country than any other issue that has been raised...

...Its sponsors could frankly say that it would practically subsidize capitalists and also permit them to extensively exploit women and child labor...

...Death in child birtr...

...Mbst through the woods, trenches,' flats* sit trees, the Americans drove in heat J* them the Europeans...

...It is stupid to think they do...

...The worker and farmer who squeals because he is being swindled may be told with more force than ever to get out of these parties...

...Small stations give way to large ones or are drowned out...

...Most of the Republican Senators are poodles of the power gang but the gang also has its Democratic Senators...

...Exacting nothing in return, that BBS back to the Middle West, where they *• met on the porch by their mother, IB* spirit of American democracy, sad S* inserted shade of Lincoln...

...It has given access to the air to organizations and views which find it difficult and often impossible to use the more powerful stations...

...The class character of the order is obvious...

...angel . This has been a slow evolution in American politics...

...They have no illusions as to the social sentiment which lies behind those facile words when" danger threatens, 'Women and Children First...

...WEVD, the Debs Memorial Station, is included...

...There is the further fact that in the mechanic trades which were not affected by the tariff, wages remained higher than in the tariff-protected industries...

...the cab...

...In the last-named 1.532 mothers died in 193S-26 leaving 5,073 motherless children, including 7S8 new bom babies...

...Some are higher, notably U. 8. A. and Canada where it is over 6 per 1.000 births...

...Scarcely a week passes without evidence of it...

...Attacking the Problem With regard to the first two causes it is clear that a much more far-reaching policy than can...

...Had it been passed the United States would' have become a medieval oligarchy...

...The lesser stations alone await the axe...

...There is need too for better hospital provision for all difficult and dangerous cases, a provision which is also required where housing conditions make the birth of a child at home unsuitable and dangerous...

...He says: "If our children are aMaJ to go to the pictures, and If tht aft* is not counteracted elsewhere, they sfl grow up to think of the baited Stats as the land of heroes...

...In November 1926 H. V. Kaltenborn of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, one of the very best broadcasters in this country, declared that the current tendency of the radio was the development of the machine mind, that it influenced "public opinion by what it excludes even more than by what it gives...

...When Maretts A. Hanna took charge of McKinley in 1896 there was a big howl...

...A decade before 1844 this alliance had been developing but it was complete in the period mentioned...

...As a hiatter of fact the factory magnates followed a policy of importing workers from abroad in large numbers to beat down wages when stressing the "pauper labor" argument...

...They know from experience that in the general social wreckage that Capitalism has created, it is women and children who are in fact the first, not to find safety, but to stagger under poverty's assaults...

...He added that "It is doing more than any other agency to develop the lockstep in public opinion...

...The acquirement of mastery of the air by this crowd is a part of the economic trend toward concentration of power into a few hands...

...At last he ih(l*B« war, invoking the blessing of Ood, «* Abraham Lincoln, the Southern 0aBte> eracy, and the Middle West "A vast American Army invaded BJJope...

...Two Poodles and One Keeper JTROM the years 1844 to 1856 the Democratic and Whig parties were organs of the great slave interests of the South...

...The only large industrial country which has put this into operation with any sort of completeness Is Germany...

...European figures tell much the same tale...

...1. Lack of medical and ¦ansae ears hef era, at the time ef...

...The limousine and flivver industry *T pends on maintaining a used c*r If President Sloan of General Motors W his economics on straight, and tks ¦J of parking space on Main Street BBP cates that he very probably has...

...Their attitude is not only more scientific but more moral...

...If the reader wants bunk he will find a large cargo of it in the tariff...

...Today millions of the herd type of voter have become reconciled to government of the people, by the professionals, and for the capitalist class...

...Comment on this would be to assume that the reader is incapable of figuring that the sum of two and two is four...

...But'on the other side there is need also of better training both for doctors and mid wives...

...ssssw^ .eswaaassa) .BreJaw^rff^* •^r*** /is to be found in both mother and father and also amongst doctors, midwives and nurses...

...It is in no sentimental and romantic spirit that Socialist women approach this subject...

...From the time of birth to the slow decay of old age Jt is the tender bodies of infants that pass most often from the beautiful movement of life to the stillness of death The surest Index of poverty is the rise or fall of the death and sickness rate of babies, and the next surest is that of young children...

...awe where brave men are found and BM deeds are done...

...Do you ? The Tariff Bunk JWH.IP SNOWDEN, former Labor Chancellor of the British Exchequer, recently declared that the economic situation in the United States may soon compel a modification of American tariff policy...

...Only there's one thing I dent at* I don't like anything, picture, BW»" * otherwise—anything that is fonWW **• everlastingly holding up wholessk BBBe* er to our children as heroism, a» BSsW thing for them to be proud of SB* l» emulate...

...Woodrow Wilson, whose only da was to do good to everybody uaijibB* found his efforts thwarted by s enM of people in Europe...

...Moreover, the commission issues its ukase without giving the doomed stations a hearing...

...Give the guy that hasnt any "*W or job a chance to get sutusBfaBW BBS...

...That's all right as far as I B» *** cerned...

...If it were impartial some of the large stations would be included...

...A similar alliance of Republicans and Democrats in support of King Capital has been negotiated in the past twenty years...

...No working class votes were available to answer this argument...

...What it has been doing with colleges, universities, newspapers and educators is now common knowledge...

...If the Radio Commission desires to write itself down as frankly favoring a policy of suppression of broadcasting most minority opinions it can do so by suppressing Station WEVD...

...Hanna (was the fint to make the presidency a capitalist to the Senate to look after the interests of his class...

...This is the issue involved in' the Radio Commission's decision...

...This Is a degradation of a natural function which should be carried out with the happiness of good health...

...He voted to whitewash secretaries Fall and Denby, went to the bat for the sainted Newberry, declared Doheny and Sinclair persecuted "patriots," made a report defending Harry M. Daqgherty, and then was retired by his beloved constituents in 1924...

...It informs each of these stations that "public interest, convenience or necessity" are not served by renewing the licenses...

...This week certain Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Committee on Public Lands selected former Senator Thomas Sterling, a "lame duck," as special counsel to investigate the Salt Creek oil leases...

...infants have become monsters yet they are still feeding at the tariff bottle...

...For Socialists it offers an excellent opportunity...

...The question of maternal deaths has recently been much discussed, especially in Great Britain (where a Labor Minister of Health caused the publication of the first Important report in 1934), in the United States, Canada, Australia and ew Zealand...

...When suffrage was being extended to the workers the politicians abandoned the old argument and then claimed that tariffs were intended to protect workers from the "pauper labor of Europe...

...B WW av casioned by a quarrel between Woods* Wilson and a lot of nations lirtnf to laope...

...Rise of the Fatwads NOTABLE phase of the capitalist parties since the end of the...

...The first four weeks remain the critical time and obstinately resist the general downward trend...

...The Dignity ef Motherhood" We'have got to recognize that public opinion even amongst women is not fully awakened...

...For women at work the provisions of the Maternity Convention at Washington laid down general principles of very great value...

...There are even those who hold that to' the agony of birth fa) due the strength of maternal love, as though women who had borne their children with less pain had been less ardent in their affection...

...It is therefore a fundamental question which Socialist women will consider at the Women's International Conference at Brussels in August this year when they deal with the Socialist demands of the political Labor Movement for mother and child...

...But I must walk block after block...

...To Socialist women these ideas do not dignify but degrade the act of motherhood...

...It was originally adopted as a policy when workingmen were disfranchised...

...5. Lack of income at the time of birth which means bath great anxiety for the mother and failure to get sufficient nourishment, warmth and hygienic comfort for herself or the baby...

...save up for his old age...

...There's no heroism in the niSJS-OWJSW called modern war...

...The super-power Senators prevented a vote on the Boulder Dam bill...

...They know what they are doing and to whom they are doing it...

...The Democratic McKellar fillibustered against the Shoals bill and the Democratic Senators Hayden and Bruce won high honors in fighting the Boulder Dam bill...

...Corporate Mastery of Radio MANY years ago Socialists had their little joke by way of illustrating the ultimate consequences of capitalist ownership of industry...

...In the days of peace it was common to hearegrets at the deterioration of the nation's manhood which had not been called upon in that generation to kill and to be killed...

...They want returns on their investments...

...On the other hand the tariff was an issue between the rising capitalist class of the North and the slave owners of the South...

...The open servility of the old party organizations to the big banks and corporations at least has the advantage of presenting a clear photo of what is going on...

...A politiccal revolution was required to break it and this was accomplished by the organization of a new party and the election of Lincoln in 1860...

...Some of them could be eliminated and thus make room for stations with a lower wave length to move up...

...They consider that the community should be so organized that every preventive case of pain, sickness 3r death should be eliminated from women's task in carrying on the race, that the health and happiness of the well sorn child are largely dependent upon Ate mother's freedom from sickness and anxiety...

...He is the nearest approach to a Romanoff American politics has produced...

...Under the title of Home-Helps, this provision has been constantly advocated by working women's organisations in Great Britain so far with some little success...

...Detailed reports however, are few and the statistical methods not yet sufficiently Internationalised to give exact comparisons...

...For while the conservative strives uncomfortably to keep to the path of the present with one foot dragging in the past, the Socialist reaches out always from present to future, to the goal of his forward march,—the superman of the to-morrow...

...Voting for Fatwads isn't fighting for themselves...

...Led by the nose by our ruling Fatwads, the farmer and worker get what they vote for...

...Whether it is Smith or Hoover makes no difference...

...We shall stress it in the fight to save Station WEVD...

...Super-power succeeds low power and multi-station hook-ups replace single-station programs...

...As a competitor in the world market our capitalists cannot' expect to find low tariffs abroad and maintain high ones here...

...It may be conceded that some of the smaller stations would have a hard time of it to justify their convenience or necessity, but Station WEVD is in a class by itself...

...He is the gentleman who, at the close of the World War, worked for the most drastic peace-time sedition act ever designed...

...A final consideration is the fact that the greater stations are interlocked with the super-opwer interests, the most powerful aggregation of corporate capital this country has ever known...

...The tarff argument then turned to the necessity of protecting "infant industry...

...Maybe we can't appreciate Staple or he us—one-half the world mm ad izes how noble the other half fa—B* at that, he has no right to laugh By...

...They first occupied Francs, esae the French people supplied a eaBBC s> ment by selling clgarets, waving As*, and by talking French, a rldlcutooa hap uage forming a joke in itself...

...They may be broadly summarised: t L General asawBtsaw ef poverty leading to peer health, bad h—tug and siisessii z. Uaheattky cendittoas of work hi adslesernne and laser, —•endtUeas which affect both BaoCaor and father...

...kt sleeve at us like this...

...The sugar growers of Louisiana even in the days of slavery were tariff hounds and rolled up big votes for the Whig party...

...be brought under the special terms of reference we have given must be found, but with regard to the lack of medical and nursing care, the subject Is to be attacked from two sides...

...However, we would like to know if there is one who reads this who can reconcile the facts with the view that the two parties are not members of one family and fed by the same hand...

...On the one hand there is the difficulty that the average working-class mother has in paying for proper attendance and the lack of provision she now suffers from in most cases is the lack of ante-natal advice...

...Coolidge strangled the Muscle Shoals bill with a pocket veto...

...And as the ivy hides the rock So I must hide from folk like these My DANGEROUS propensities,, h And walk along each bourgeois street ^*tto say ottt* foot r« raootl^^ We Deserve It, Stephen (STEPHEN IE ACOCK, the OSBsSa humorist, doesnt seem to skt Si idea that we real and only Aasrfcsa won the great war all by onashv at for ourselves, judging by the way to trying to get funny at the txpsea « i our altruism, heroism and wall kssa I modesty as It is i rpesssei m oar saw- 1 movies...

...Rebel Off Parade A dull Dutch town of pious folk, Who surely* d throw a fit and choke If they but knew that one like me ' Besmirched their fair vicinity...

...The Great War appears, at it fan a three different pictures recently sh»» as the Great American War...

...Imagination must picture those homes wllth the widower and the lineared children and also the 764 babies who died with their mothers, to complete the picture of social loss...

...The latter sold large quantities of cotton abroad and imported much of their supplies...

...but more is needed for the provision should be extended so that on essential points all working-class mothers axe provided for and not only those who work for wages...

...Round It clustered all the old sentimental phrases of the women "who go down Into the valley of death to give life," who "face peril and agony that their sons may be born...

...I like funny things frost tsaW men...

...Who is Sterling...

...Fatwads do not market candidates and foot the bills of political parties in order, that farmers and workers may * obtain the legislation...

...Get B ser*~ then get rid of It as quick SB pal •* If you can't beat the UnMndtsI *5 press to the R. R. crossing, the* J** the lizzie anyhow and sell the JOB...

...If 70*^ •J be an altruist, then be an utiBBt 9 . a two-car man, or better stul, S car scooter—one for the wife, oat Tgj affinity—limousine*, of course sad **J| fa tinhenry, for yourself...

...has been treated as a natural event and women themselves have been ready to accept danger and ill health as a usual consequence of maternity...

...World War is the resignation by a large number of voters to office-holding by powerful bankers ahd capitalists and open marketing of presidential candidates by the rich...

...When liquid air became a fact the speaker pictured a capitalist corporation gathering in the oxygen and storing it in huge tanks throughout the country...

...Lowden has piles of cash and is his own...

...This is the gentleman selected by Republicans and Democrats to investigate another oil scandal...

...Socialism And Maternity A Problem For Progressive-Minded Workers By Marion Phillips ' I 'HE fundamental problem of Socialism, the acid test of all its policy, is the healthy birth of the next generation...

...CnroananUc Figure* But the figures of maternal and Infant death rates show another unromantlc fact...

...It took many forms, but it always had reference to extension of capitalist enterprise over the air...

...Meantime industry is developing rapidly in the South and the Democrats have turned to a tariff policy...

...War Isn't the only thing.worth «** in history and there be finer heroes Is si the tribes and nations than thOB* *** waded through slaughter to tbronet marshals' batons...

...Under this same heading comes also the need for assistance to the working woman in looking after her home...

...This assent will not continue forever and the rebellion of the western fanners against the class government represented in the Coolidge veto of the McNary-Haugen bill is a symptom of a coming change...

...Come on, BtsoBBV laugh at us if you want to—we 4—TW» —but for Cod's sake let's try B» **F the gold-braided Strutocracy off tte **• while we are at it...

...The whole "raiaon d'etre" of the economic theory of Socialism is to be found, not in a negative spirit of revolt against suffering, but in a constructive demand for the development of a finer form of humanity, of nobler and more powerful men and women...

...Keep things moving...

...Therefore, do something for TOUTS**** try...

...Throughout, the long history of tariffs in this country the workers have been swindled and the capitalist class has been nursed by Republican administrations and since the days of Wilson by the Democrats...

...But the big stations are not considered as contributing to the congestion...

...This was followed by selling air meters to our noble freemen which were attached to the throat and through these instruments the citizen obtained his oxygen at a rate fixed by the corporation...

...If it does so it will also do more...

...Certain definite causes however stand out very prominently...

...Naturally, the slave owners were free traders...