DON'T GET DISCOURAGED
Blumenberg, Ben
DON'T GET DISCOURAGED Vanity Fair Offers a Solace; For Every III * r'S By Ben Blumenberg TW7HENEVKK the workers tire of news " and comment about strikes, lockouts, unemployment, and "the sling*...
...The millions that- will go to this brood can be easliy saved for the city itself to pay its thousands of employes higher wages and give them shorter hours...
...or they are not, and yet appear to be...
...It is loaded with material for Socialist sermons of which the Socialist Party will take advantage in due i tune« Meddling in the Porters Union ^BOUT the most contemptible piece of work Communists have been gtrilty of is their attempt to interfere with the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters...
...Bear About Those Nails NOW don't Jump to the conclusion that you are ready to step out, for you're not...
...Things either are what they appear to be...
...Of course, be said, be might have had the cash if tt hadn't been that the old woman got down with the chills Just about cotton picking time last fall on account of not having any screens on his house, ss that foot doctor said...
...Such a body takes for granted that social services must be exploited by investors and serve as reservoirs for private fortunes...
...A word to 0*> efc* Dont be a cheap sport, If yea gat **Always take in the most casket** ate* That is, where the hooteh ant aw* charges are the highest and when) S» the depth of bad form to tompkd* <ha you have been bilked or short-ekawjst Be a good New Yorker, net a piker, **» oh yea...
...You say everybody is organised against the farmers...
...And Freedom's star is soaring to thy breast...
...Agriculture as a more primitive economic effort seldom gains the political favors freely given to the industrial interests which represent the rise of a more complex social-economic order," writes Professor Craven...
...Yes, the kind that led the Furriers and Cloakworkers to ruin, the kind provided by the Communists themselves...
...Porters...
...l heard that sad story-of your* all oyer the wheat, com, cow and sow bette...
...the purpose of carrying on a campaign among woman In behalf ofdBto SoctaBst ticket such groups is be • organised through the National Office of the Socialist Party by circularhmtton of all Local* sod Branches, and through sohcttation by the Socialist Other lasottfMM will be held after the meeting of the National Executive Committee, at Baltimore, July 8th...
...Epictetus has the floor: "Appearances to' the mind are of four kinds...
...Them fool fellows wouldn't get me again...
...If you find that reading the ada doet not satisfactorily put you hep to conversational possibilities, you may take ¦ c«urse in "Social coaching, smart society conversation taught...
...You cant trust a farmer...
...But there is hope, Farmers must cast their lot with the wage workers of the cities and consider themselves as part of the working class> Together both groups have the power to wrest the government from the control of their despoilers...
...Whether they will get a few meaningless promises from the sharpers who control the convention and whether the farmers accept or reject them will make little difference...
...It's so much easier than to walk In...
...I waat to see them", he says, retain* -the MeNary-Hangen baa, "undertake, wader their awn management, the marketing ef their prodaets under saah o—drttom as win enable them to bring about greater stability to prices aad has waste in markettag, bat entirety wtthta unalterable economic taws...
...Planning for the City ^HE report of the City Committee on Plan and Survey represents a two years' study of the needs of New York City and it presents comprehensive recommendations that are , more or less valuable...
...Now, if yeaW attain that you are "tailored la a SaxaaT that bespeaks the gentleman,'' yea bee "what one does...
...A glance at the ads in these two periodicals should convince the proletarians, in the language of the wobbliea, that the working stiffs are not de regeur when tt comes to knowing what's what...
...The proposal for a permanent Planning Board to cooperate with other planning agencies is valuable and many of the specific recommendations are worth while...
...The Communist grafters have waited for a crucial moment when the Porters have reached a crisis in their long efforts to establish themselves as a union in the railway service to inject themselves into the affairs of the union...
...That Locals and Branches elect women's committees' and organise other women's group...
...But you ksjew what happened Well, sir...
...O poet, thou art holden with a vow: The light of higher worlds is on thy brow...
...Expose AnU-Lahor Prosecutor's Record Chtcaao.—Thc record of state's attorney Robert B" Crowe, bitter antt-taboi Chicago lanaariilnr, to falling to convict criminals la startsticaTlT exposed in a report by the TBI now...
...that It's a pretty good world after all—for some people...
...Arrangements were made to print and distribute five leaflets on subjects of special interest to women...
...And then to pre** that his heart was la the right place, he dipped his pea in the Ink and signed the bill sabsMhdng the Shipping Trust...
...Or perhaps you rather entertain in your cooperative apartment, the one with fifteen rooms and six baths, costing you *85,5O0...
...Anyway", be continued, by the time we got Into our cotton the rains had mighty nigh spoiled It and what the rains didn't ruin the speculators took, being that they bad entered some shenanigan business with the U. 8. Department of Agriculture for the purpose of' beating down - the ootton farmers, which they did...
...Till blind oppression cease...
...Go, be a dauntless voice, a bugle-cry In darkening...
...Those present were: Helen Oilman, New Haven, Conn.: Jessie W. BJugbsn...
...If you do anything that aeesteaswi squaring yourself with the partaer • your fortunes, why not toss her a easw offering In the shape of s shjjag * pearls,—from $300 to $11M...
...the following ad will kegat you: "You discover the Partes* os*» that expresses you...
...Instead of shooting a nickel for The New Leader, the purchase of an occasional copy of The New Yorker or Vanity Fair would go a long way towards proving that things are not so bad...
...When capitalism was weaker than it now is and agriculture was a stronger power in the South than it now is in the West, capitalism conquered the South...
...They always drop in...
...Bar* the sBfj saw sent around...
...Descend with faith into the Human Deep, < And ringing to the troops of right a cheer...
...Dont say you eaBBOt siford one when a bargain i tarsi pa h the face: "A second-hand Bulb saas for sale by a family which owe* Bat cars of that make: $s£M, a kit aa than one-half the price of a see sat* Or you may avoid the subway Jan W hiring "a Packard for $5 aa Jafsr M four hours or less...
...There Is no better way to wise up than to peruse the Journals of the smart sophisticates, the cogniscenti, the esthetes, the pursy intelligentsia and the Jaded...
...Western agriculture faces the same fate whether in alliance with one of the capitalist parties or in opposition to it...
...Recommendations were made to Locale and Branches, as follows: That women be placed on Local Committees, nominated for office, and given an active part to all party work, as a means of arousing their interest and giving them the necessary experience In political work...
...Hall a sweet melody floats out into Fourteenth Street...
...one, that all the other farmers met crooks, the second that they are all damn fools...
...The farmers have maintained an alliance with the capitalist politics of the East and they have been paying a fearful price for it...
...Blow battles Into men—call down the Are— The daring, the long purpose, the desire...
...But not any more...
...These are now being prepared, and will be submitted to the National Campaign committee for Its approval...
...Well, as I said, tms farmer neighbor dropped to at my bouse and then he dropped in a chair and then started dropping remarks about the hard hoeing the farmers have in this neck of the woods...
...Olvany has the floor: "I know nothing of a political society called Tammany Hall...
...Some kind of a taw that will reheve us from each other...
...Always we are having to choose between being pear and honest or rich and prominent And Farmer Calvin spoke wisdom when he saw, "I do not choose...
...The recommendations for new streets, tunnels, pier facilities, bridges, underground footwalks, garbage incinerators and so on also mean fortunes for Tammany leaders...
...that two rooms may be rented for $3,600 per year, that if one becomes the "client" of a oartain firm, cravats may be bought for as low as $7 and shirts from M0 up...
...How do you auast"1 distinguished foreigners...
...Not If I could help it...
...Feaee Comas Big* '' Now for the rounds of the night *M* While you may find that the issstn* turns by the celebrated artists sad artistes are no worse than LosWl of SdOrt the hostesses made In the awn* «at saS, and the old third rail of Boawy saw poured in the same kind ef botes* *** is a difference in the Joints you B» af tag to take In,—a difference » Ss prices charged...
...If you really want to cut down the coat of living, Insist on going to a firm which "sponsors", (setts, verkauft, you hick), a gown for as low as $310, "including the train...
...lastly...
...If they do wc should raise'no less than $100,000 for our campaign...
...The fact is that the farmers face the prospect of becoming peasants...
...Yes," I replied a tit tie pnrily...
...Many of them are interested in contracting and other corporations and this planning program with capitalist proprietorship as its central principle...
...It is interesting and pictures**, *J the way...
...Are you shod by a firm which serves "the bankers and brokers...
...After all, these respective positions of the two parties have been continuous throughout their history after the passing of Jacksonian democracy...
...The ghost of Epictetus appears in the background...
...Loose, from $10 to _WMsw Why not 'phone for a ptet or twM . m And...
...For Every III * r'S By Ben Blumenberg TW7HENEVKK the workers tire of news " and comment about strikes, lockouts, unemployment, and "the sling* and arrows of outrageous fortune" to which they are subjected, consolation and satisfaction may be gained if they would pack their troubles and make an effort to learn how the other half Uvea...
...For sports wear, mere are any number of Inexpensive little things which map be bad for about $s per square inch...
...It calls attention to the isolation of the railroad brotherhoods and their separatist policies and then goes' on to denounce the "craft isolation" of the "present leadership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...The users na and the pitchfork are In the dose up, the oM horsewagon and the hay...
...Well, then...
...And that* why w* need that farm relief...
...This is a compound of malice and stupidity...
...No, sir...
...Just as if screens could keep out chills, which, as everybody knows, are carried by bad night air...
...that very n»oap(jl Ijui went up to ten dollars on the bale, showing now them poolers cheated me coming and going...
...No peace for thee, no peace...
...To High-born Poets There comes a pitiless cry from the oppressed— A cry from the toilers of Babylon for their rest...
...Why, Just from the ads, I learned frtastance, that a refreshingly unconventional dinner may be secured In New York for a "prlx fixe" of $5...
...They would find that things are not so had— for some people...
...Does the manicurist ft* St nails of the members of the tuoitj % gem-like, radiance...
...M you certain that your couturier bat s *> mtele made up only of "smart aasdcalnes...
...The period following the Civil War did not change the respective positions of the two parties, except that the Republicans made sufficient tariff concessions to wheat and wool growers in the West to make the farmers allies of the capitalist class of the East...
...And the only reason why he didn't dust his own ootton was because the cost of poison was all out of reason and he wasn't going to be held up by a lot of blasted bloodsuckers like them merchants up town...
...In the North Whigs represented the leading banking and capitalist interests while the Democrats were the custodians of the lower middle class which feared the increasing power of bankers and mill owners...
...Olvany Explains...
...resSJ are always more beautiful wtth *** pearls...
...P* And, tbusly, you see, It's a pretty **** world after all: a world to Wbttb a m are wtotng to consume aad eve* ***¦» m order that the many may hsto.waBr Blessed be the name of the posatssl *¦*• ornlsts for ever and ever...
...A body of professional and business men in this country cannot possibly conceive of a city becoming master of its own municipal services...
...And he IM tt regardless ef the "unalterable eeoneeale laws" which say that "Somebody cannot get something far nothing without assasaewj laettag nothing for something...
...The Democratic party is the representative of the lesser capitalist interests and '?specially the utility interests of the large cities where it controls, and when in power at Washington it carries out the program of the higher capitalism...
...Through ft aa, however, his bean stffl bleeds far Ms ex-fellow workers on the farms...
...Piute urai or president or proletarian, be or do what we will, there "alnt" no happhwaa to oncomfortableneaa...
...ki£k ' > "And now., brother, if you'don't mmd dropping out of the picture...
...AQ at as tt should be on the oM heme farm...
...And few of ua there be who can stand the strain, for there Is no thing so uncomfortable as onoomfortsblenaae...
...And speak to toll-worn nations from a tower— Take down the horn wherein the thunders sleep...
...He has been placed In charge of this work and hi bow cooperating with those states where such help is needed...
...Mary Winsor, Haverford, and 141lth M. Wilson...
...I long for the days before I left the log cabin, quit slopping the piggies and started out, poor but honest, to weed my way through this world of Teapot Bosses aad Temptations...
...Beading, Fa...
...National Socialist Women's Committee Makes Campaign Plans The meeting of the National Women's Committee of the Socialist Party was held at 7 Bast 15 th Street, New York...
...Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here...
...I alnt for farm relief myself...
...Vanderbilfs favorite brand of cigarettes, she may get rash and send to the Jewelers for the cunn ingest Jeweled cigarette lighter which may be bad for $3,000, and I really mean tt...
...Well, they held my cotton all right...
...The only alternative would be for the Porters -to wait till the brotherhoods consolidate and take in Porters and that would be to wait till the present generation of Porters and their grandchildren are dead...
...They were to hold everybody's cotton in a pool and not sell it until we got what we thought it was worth...
...The e*» ***• "Better dress, but not obuaatory.* *** that's a real concession to aaaNMaSr Ism...
...A sardonic grin at Olvany...
...the farmers can get relief la to help themselves...
...Capitalism is the supreme ruler of this country...
...Stow sad tt Is that we cannot keep on being what we started out But as the old Negro philosopher said, "It alnt no disgrace to be poor, but if s mighty onoomfortable...
...Make known the Truth of Man in holy fear...
...Be yourself...
...AD at rural, peaceful, prosperous and toe affecting for anything...
...The Socialist Opportunity ^TTH Andrew Mellon, one of the wealthiest bankers in this country, the acknowledged power in the Republican convention, that party is frankly the representative of the great capitalist and banking interests of the nation...
...There the wife can indulge in swank conversation about "perfumes" and "poudre beige" and the "artistic and scientific permanent wave that only Charles can give...
...to know that there ar#sfJ some individuals who ride in tba anewIf you ever adopt that means at oav veyance...
...One of them dropped in on me last evening...
...Far from the LttUe Oraen Bowse an X street, eat where the moo eons are mooing and the bay and reveon gin the simple life...
...Esther Friedman, Mary McVicker, New York...
...JR- Olvany on the stand before the Senate Committee investigating campaign cash...
...I used to be...
...This perfaa* B "to arouse the delicate sensPaMMf "ef Ss intimate associates with whom ice stogie" Of course If you've never ****** with intimate associates, yea *• *** tinue to inhale garlic and lulgat ***» like the roughneck that yon an...
...I know, however, of a patriotic society of Tammany or Columbian Order, of which I am Sachem...
...Aeacesatton for Criminal JasUoe dealing with the Jury system fg times a* many criminals won theh freedom through conscious -and perhaps unconscious toopnoiee to the state's attorneys ssntosi as were aogultted by Juries the show...
...Here rve read two numbers of The New Yorker and my French is still fsettj...
...Hence aid to capitalists is "American" and to farmers "un-American...
...So emybody does them and when nobody does them they do each other...
...That means independent political action...
...The report has the merit of showing the difference between the Socialist attitude toward city planning and the Babbitt approach to the problem...
...Bui ¦ £~ happen to be temporarily djaanps* aa the theatrical folks say wharf Snr are hitting the bricks, dont dkssga Hearken to the words of the past ' J It's not the eonvohtnbns to ssy S«ata That MMers say feat aad asaBS* *Bf , Fanners Facing Peasantry *J^ITH the delegates of the party representing the higher capitalism in session at Kansas City and droves of farmers enroute to this gathering, all evidence indicates that agriculture has reached a turning point in its development...
...Bow about a taffleur a droit-salon...
...But instead of the price going up, it went down and that's how they cheated me out of my hard-earned money...
...Saturday, June 2nd, and plans were outlined and work started to reach and Interest women in the present political campaign...
...I almost forgot...
...The Whigs, forerunners of the Republican party, were the custodians of the wealthiest planters in the south and the Democrats represented the slave owners with smaller estates and fewer slaves...
...The stones cry from the walls, Till the gray injustice falls— Till strong men come to bu(Jd in freedom-fate The pillars of the new Fraternal State...
...Then the scattered character of the rural population and its individualist outlook places market control in the hands of middlemen who do not fear farmer combination against them...
...Unless decided changes come," declares Graven, the farmer must in the end "accept the status of a peasant as his lot...
...My neighbors cured me...
...As t sane on the pastures the tears oome to nry eyes, and X. too, become a sob sister...
...Their devotion to the cause of the Porters is a record of years...
...or they neither are, nor appear to be...
...Distribution of a circular at the meeting of the Porters last week denouncing the leaders who have spent years in building up the union is the work of fools...
...However useful and important the numerous suggestions may be, the report as a whole has one important characteristic...
...They ha vent got sense enough to stick together...
...ft seems that no matter Sow farmer* differ politically, religiously or foolishly they all agree on two great fundamentals...
...That Settles That That goes a long ways in solving one's pnabsaaai in a world.In which one cannot do without the necessities, can one...
...The reason for this is obvious...
...If organisation is such a good thing for the other feubwa, why wouldn't it be a good thing for you farmers...
...Are ffS fB* to offer them the little courtesies ***» their doe...
...We wonder whether Socialists and their friends realize the wonderful opportunity which the utter degradation of the two capitalist parties offers...
...And the reason he didn't buy his boll weevil exterminator from Smears and Doebuck was because they always demanded cash with the order and be couldn't see why they couldnt carry their customers until ginning time as all decent merchants did...
...The oM tog cabin, where all ear janSMenM and phttociato ware kern, la implied if mvkdble...
...A Socialist vote will count more for their welfare than all the promises they have accumulated during the past fifty years...
...I'll go to bed and get a little farm retffnysiffZ .. ¦ .ii^^jjsaw.^-eManB ? CostftaawfV...
...It is based upon the assumption of the continuance of capitalist proprietorship of various utilities and functions that are essentially social in character and this was to be expected...
...Wilson as chairman of the ncenmHtse poosided, and Bather Friedman acted aa secretary of the swanan iu...
...battle when the winds are high— A dear, sane cry wherein the God is heard To speak to men the one redeeming word...
...When the Porters want to disband they will accept the leadership of these grafters and they will be sure that the wreckage will be as complete as the Pullman Company may wish...
...It seems last year the boll weevil got most of his ootton because he wouldn't pay them airplane ootton dusters five dollars an acre to have it dusted...
...It is the prospect of a group who looted the treasuries of the Furriers and trie Cloakmakers and almost wrecked these unions that gives us concern...
...Then, if you are one of those with "sophisticated senses," you may dine where "music provides a soft undertone for conversation...
...After having listened for an hour or so to the woes of this drooping, dropping agrarian, I says to him: "Why don't you fanners organise like them other fellows do...
...Be knows what he Is talking about when he declares that the only way...
...They even lean up against a lean-to...
...means the greatest gold mine which the Tammany vulgarians ever had access to...
...Tammany^I repeat, plays no part in politics...
...Let trifling pipe be mute, Fling by the languid lube: - Take down the trumpet and confront the hour...
...I had signed ap for Ave years In that pool, but when I picked the next crap I sold it to a ootton buyer right off the bat...
...It isn't promises they want at Kansas City or Houston...
...It is intelligent party action in alliance wtih their allies of the cities...
...after ail...
...The document itself is stupid...
...Don't talk to me about organising farmers", he replied with a distant resemblance to near-energy, "ain't I tried It more'n twice Once I signed up to deliver my cotton crop to the Ootton Growers' Association...
...Can you humor the* whims with exotic flowers...
...As she puffs 'Mrs...
...It is an old game which they have played with unions of white workers but their attempt to - sow dissension among Negro workers at a crisis in the career of the union is criminal...
...These farmers down there are the droppin'est critters I ever saw...
...But don't let me seas back to Cal...
...The opportunity is unparalelled and our contributions should be equal to the occasion...
...Send forth thy spirit in a storm of song, A tempest fJinajgggc fin upon the wrong...
...Relieving My Mind On FROM Relief pABMBR OaWB) CoaDdga at back ts the pictures again...
...As Shakespeare Bays, "Ay, there's the rub...
...If the brotherhoods are separatist in outlook how is it possible for the Porters to organize except as...
...Professor Avery O. Craven is probably the leading authority on American agricultural history and he has reached this conclusion in the January number of the American Historical Review...
...Randolph, Crosswaith and other leaders of the Pullman Porters need no defense...
...The farmers for the past six or seven years have paid a terrible price for this but many of them apparently want still more experience at the hands of banker Mellon's party and Mellon is willing to give them more...
...or they are, and do not appear to be...
...Of course, the Communists want "a militant, class conscious leadership...
...Socialists and sympathisers la states where they need help la collecting: signatures to nominating petitions, or who have other difficulties la this work, are urged to immediately write to Julius Oerber, 81 Union Square, New York City...
...The farmer gets little from tilling the soil and he can expect little from the increasing value of land...
...They're all right so kaaj.ee they base eanellilag to lean on...
...Over in Tammany...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 26