A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES Wisconsin's "Research Magnificent'" . xHIN, bespectacled man with the brow of a A scholar and the flashing eyes of an enthusiast, rfflod up before the members of...
...On a River Boat...
...Market Booming Leader '.i OOME one sent me a copy of your paper and I am enclosing check 'ot a subscription...
...birds never sing so blithely: our acquaintances are never so gracious as when we are friends with someone...
...Which also announces that Congress ia calling me from somewhere in the Bronx...
...A SUBSCRIBER TODAY MEANS A SOCIALIST VOTER IN NOVEMBER...
...Now suppose we set up an experiment in teaching young Americans to think and think about the light things during those first two years...
...He says that from the time of his birth, a little matter of 80 years ago, he was raised a Republican, but that he is for Socialism until gehenna is converted into a skating rink...
...The "Mob" cannot be trusted...
...Were you my love's dear semblance—or my love...
...have been lost...
...You rested like tall corn stalk in the calms Late summer nils with promise of the reaping...
...that every defective quality to a friend gradually severs the links that bind them, dissolving that which once gave such ineffable joy...
...Suppose, for example, we encourage them to study two important ^civilizations as a whole, rather than taking piecemeal courses in physic and metaphysics, economics and chemistry...
...Another one from Wilmington, DeL, sent in by Morris Goodlevege...
...If it should have its way...
...The Mob The "Mob's" not educated And can't be made to see That things were all created For Wealth to hold in fee...
...We should find no aufnculty to coneoundins thai Mate of friendship with love, that is conjugal love, if we but remember that the latter derives moat of Its bliss from presence...
...I can't read the blah-blah in the bagnio press for fear that I too will become an ass...
...The amazing Russian turnover had fired the imaginations of such young romantics as John Reed and his followers, who declared that nothing short of a violent overthrow in this country was worth bothering about, and who marched out of a Socialist convention to form a new "proletarian" party, modelled on Soviet lines...
...Aaron Panken, Ida Yavner...
...had hitch-hiked in true Yipsel fashion from New York...
...Them Yipeels as well aa many others bad participated to the Passaic Tag Day and In the New York Tag Hay ccadacted fey the Y. P. S> L. THE CHATTER BOX Heilige Nacht rpms night yon were, all virgin, in my arms...
...But whatever your doubts or quesr*™«b you cannot but cheer at the end for such a gal¦j* achievement...
...THE OFFICE BOY And now that vacationing is over, dear con tribe, get back to work and help make my own job here lighter...
...hjd the rare courage to fight for them, until today bt as seen them put to actual test on the campus at Mart**"" for a year now some 120 Wisconsin freshmen have been living together in a hermit-like dormitory in an ajnsnpt at collective thinking about significant things...
...Every Jg* and then all of them would come together to talk over Be things they were digging up with some specialist from ~* faculty of the regular university, or to put on the «°u<to" of Aristophanes or to play "The Klectra," or to P into the workshop to dye stuffs or to weave things or fonake sketches...
...This latest of ejections has only served to convince me that we ought to stop flirting with the liberalized iatelligentaia...
...We doubt that we bestow upon our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine habitation...
...of Chicago says that he wouldn't get along without the N. L. With his renewal comes a $1 bill for the campaign fund...
...Broun from the hip-can, and fling him out into the cold world of economics...
...The official count, however, gave Mitchel second place by the narrowest of squeaks...
...To be sure it runs JWnter in many respects to all the accepted standards of ••poatized education and in departing from them, much 5*5...
...Nothing is being left undone to make the Norman Thomas meeting a big success...
...We reach the divine through someone, and by dividing our joy with this one, we double it, and come In touch with the Universal...
...But there was no such easy solution for the troubled two, east of the slopes of Mornlngside...
...In spite of his recent avowal for Gin and Smith, I still have faith in his essential honesty...
...A short time afterwards he was killed by falling from an airplane while practicing for oversea service...
...While they did not elect their Mayor, the Socialists sent their assemblymen to Albany, and had representatives hi the Aldermanic Chamber of New York City...
...I must have The New Leader soon...
...Gremin Zorn, Sol Portnow, Lucia Trent, the Office Boy and Bud Shipley have pitched in right early...
...WHAT ARE YOU SUBHUSTLERS AND NEAR-SUB-HUSTLERS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT...
...There are in New York today many shrewd poll tiical observers who maintain that Hillquit ran a good second and defeated Mitchel by thousands of votes...
...And because I have great respect for devotion in any form, there will be no attempt here to wean Mr...
...When Progressives and Socialists first came into political 8J*w in that State and the 'Wisconsin Idea" took form, ¦e University received unusual attention from liberal"jnded men and women the country over...
...Flatly he refused to register, or to have anything whatsoever to do with the whole war business, and forthwith he was thrown into Jail, leaving Thomas and Wood to carry on the work of the Civil liberties Bureau...
...F. Fold...
...Lester Shahnan...
...A man who had donated money for children's dolls cut short his gift because of Thomas's "dirty part flan," Contributions for milk for babies suddenly stopped...
...The "Mob" should pay its taxes And never mind the rest...
...I might volunteer but my own procurer has the most awful stuff...
...Prohibition has sharpened their styluses, angered their wits, and given wings to their judgment...
...He saw his brother Evan beins drafted off to jail as one of the leading conscientious objectors, and from Evan and Evan's friends be obtained much of the material about the brutal treatment of the C. O.'s which he was later to put into a memorable book, "The Conscientious Objector in America...
...We'd have to quit—disgusted— And go to work some day...
...He waa the guest of Frank Manning, and left the following day with Pankln for New York via the Yipsel Limited...
...Yes, we almost forgot...
...Because he dared to express it, in season and out of season, at Amherst ffhen he was President...
...Your prow churns the muddy jade of the river into milk that blotches in aimless spots beneath the surface...
...And spoiled the game we play...
...They are just one step lower than the ad writer...
...After the bad weather and the photograph Julie Umansky came tramping in...
...And with no hesitation whatsoever, but with a heart that beat Quicker because of the fight that its owner knew was coming...
...So courageously did they and other HTllqutt supporters drive home their points, so clearly did they make it plain to the markers that this was indeed no war of theirs, that the old-line politicians in both parties were panic-stricken for a while...
...And all in all creates a case for the party of bis august rejection, that makes one wonder how he will rationally explain his pretty choice...
...1 I doubt very much if this happy result could have been Brought about in any other place than Wisconsin...
...He remained for the Thomas meeting which waa held In the evening...
...Idealists have said that friendship can exist only between men of noble character...
...Louis Hymen...
...Victor Jr-Jer and Zona Gale and such faculty members as John 2*nmons and Hoxle and Perlman and Saposs and the "hers who wrote labor history and made educational history, 2»1 not fail to respond to such a challenge as MeikleJ*a Posed...
...Heywood Broun, in this Tuesday's New York Telegram, makes a delightful decision by choosing to vote for Al Smith instead of Norman Thomas, just because it were better to lose out with one who is an opportunistic Progressive, than with one who has the puny hacking of character, principle and fundamental truth...
...in joy and fame he yearns for some aympatbettic heart, someone to whom be can reveal his innermost thoughts and desires...
...After a trip in a tin lizzie of 2,500 miles, Charles Brannon has reached NewOano, La...
...We know that some day we shall awaken as if from some dream to learn that the perfection of some friend existed only in the imagination...
...JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY...
...Stilled as spring dawn rhythmed as the ocean...
...Sweeten your dreamless slumber till the night . Grew restless with the new day's far commotion And one by one the startled stars took flight...
...In this essay we shall not be so dogmatic, but shall admit that the more delicate sort of friendship is likely to exist between men of spiritual rather than that of material stamp...
...As Jim Maurer, his running mate this year, says, "What I like about Norman is that when the test came he did not run away like most of the intellectuals, but came out and stood shoulder to shoulder with those of us who were in the heat of the fight...
...It is Professor Meiklejohn's somewhat quaint and certainly refreshing conception of education in this country that it should teach our youngsters how to flunk and give them something to think about...
...These habits transcend anything of universal interest...
...Three years of this petty sort of persecution, all the more vicious because It never came out in the open, and then at last the chance to go out and stand with New York's arch-enemy of war, the Socialist candidate for the mayoralty...
...Of course it raises doubts galore...
...Sept 2, the New York Ylpsel delegation invaded New Bedford...
...This worrying about the millenium of pre-war whiskey is indeed too much for even a newspaper man...
...In 1918, he definitely stepped out of church circles, and embarked on the perilous seas sailed by those few who dared actively to stand up against the warlords...
...He and McCurdy, and J. A. H. Hopkins, and Dudley Field Malone, none of them card-carrying Socialists, but all convinced that Hlllquit alone was a true spokesman for the inarticulate mass, went out night after night to face crowds, many of them hostile, and talk about bread and peace and freedom at a time when the war fever was at its frenzied height...
...o Paterson Tag Day A full dozen Yipeels went out to Paterson...
...There was no holy war far them, and by God, they would say no word from their pulpits to condone mass murder...
...Ruby Herman of Seattle, Wash., orders 100 for the State Convention...
...She also desires to thank the comrades for the expressions of sympathy sent to Emll Herman during his recent lDnesa...
...Hlllquit was talking to packed halls night after night, in English, Yiddish, German and Russian, and wherever his campaign car*appeared, it became the focus-point of a rush of enthusiastic workers, eager to 'assure their candidate of their support...
...The latter has at least published his dishonesty...
...There are many intellectuals who ask of politics "what's {¦* We...
...For his part, Thomas refused to take the exemption which was (for some unexplained reason) granted to all ministers, and told the authorities very frankly that he had conscientious objections to war...
...and in the golden hours of Friendship we often are surprised with shades of suspicion and unbelief...
...Crown Point...
...This Is Norman Thomas" 4—The World War a Turning Point By W.E...
...He went on the executive committee of what was one of the most hated and generally reviled organizations in opposition to the war, the American Union Against Militarism...
...When the Fellowship of Reconciliation decided that peace-lovers should have some medium for their message, Thomas was made editor of that militantty pacifist magazine, "The World Tomorrow...
...The "Mob" should pay Its food and rant And go to work and be content...
...We note that when a new local organisation ef Socialists is organized, sobs follow...
...Our schemes would all be basted...
...it was sure a big time in the old town despite the weather killing the Labor Day celebration, and it can be said that a good deal of the enthusiasm was due to the New York Yipsel delegation...
...From the Bronx to furthest Queens...
...Campaign time is on me, and I shall have much to shout forth against the street cars and Subway thunder, and so little energy left for scribbling...
...That they raised the merry devil as befits good Yipeels could be seen by the rousing reception accorded Norman Thomas when be arrived in town at 11 pa...
...or such as these the Experimental College at Wlscon3» «'irrefutable proof of what radical politics can do for ¦» liberation of the human spirit...
...but like seems to be attracted by like in friendship...
...Any univerg which has for its regents such women as Mrs...
...McAIistcr Caiman...
...Trusting your spirit's case to my dear keeping...
...I am with you until Gabe plays his hosannas," says C. W. Vliet of Glenwood Springs, Colo...
...if he la enchanted by the magic of summer skies and glorious sunsets...
...The quiet young men, with their orders from the Hall, did their work most effectively, and an obscure Brooklyn judge, John P. Hylan, who had soft-peddled the war talk, was elected Mayor...
...With the defection of these Hotspurs, and the betrayal of all their Socialist principles by such warshouters as John Spargo, William English Walling, Frank Bonn, Phelps Stokes, and others, the party seemed for a while doomed to rapid extinction...
...No sooner was the war ended than a brazen-fronted attack was made on the Socialists, sponsored by the notorious Archibald Stevenson, and his bizarre Lusk Committee...
...They were given a ¦endoff by over 500 strikers at the Labor Temple...
...Emll Is not yet out of the woods, so far as his health is concerned, but he continues to battle for the movement...
...Recommendations from our readers are in order...
...But I am getting to doubt the state of his health...
...How could one possibly reconcile the preaching of the Gospel of the Prince of Peace with the support of this thing...
...In*-, scores as usual...
...And they think they found it...
...Always there were rumblings against Thomas and McCurdy, and John Haynes Hofanea, and Percy Stickney Grant, and the few other ministers who refused to go crazy with the mob...
...They have the gift of typed gab...
...k the aha ef Harry FeUman...
...things for themselves...
...They told these stu¦mte, but few of whom had any knowledge of the Oreek ""page and many of whom did not know whether a "Tides was a sea-urchin or a lost tribe, to go ahead and "*athe oration of Pericles over Athenians killed in battle...
...Next Week:—At Albany: Tested in the Firm ef Hysteria...
...WITH THE COMING OF AUTUMN BREEZES SHOWERS OF SUBS ARE EXPECTED...
...I have at last gone into the Socialist Party heart and soot" so writes F. Phillip Haffner of Omaha, aa he sends in a sob...
...To be sure, the vast majority of parsons found an easy way out...
...He was fortunate in finding a freer atmosphere at Wisconsin than in arid New England and after teaching, there a year he went before the regents with this proposal...
...Jean Watklns and Ida Watkins...
...if moved to tears or laughter by some enthralling book, his Joy is never so great as when he can express his sentiments to another...
...What do you regents say...
...Now he was a full-fledged, card-carrying member of the Socialist Party...
...Thomas had remained within the official fold of the Presbyterian Church while be was supporting Hlllquit...
...And the miracle of the whole thing was that the regents after much soul-searching said, "Go ahead...
...Have been a Republican 53 years of my life...
...how consummate his talents...
...As modest as ever...
...If he is enraptured by the sublimity and beauty of natural scenery...
...Samuel Bookbinder...
...I am just wondering if Mr...
...Stevenson had conveniently extricated himself from real service in the army by undertaking the self-appointed Job of "general inquisitor of radicalism...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Teang resale's Sedans* Leagaa, tl Essex Street, JACK WASSERMAN EDITOR Pnhltshed Every Week By The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League Friendship By Melville Cohen j "The desire for companionship ia strong in every human heart...
...Veterans in the Socialist Party look back on that campaign in which Thomas wage-hie spurs as the high-water mark of the rise of Socialism in New York City...
...If the masses do not wake up soon, they will be in slavery...
...They may have been Marxian scholars, and dues paying Socialists in the dim saloon past...
...1 have said that it Is extremely doubtful if this sort JJ experiment could have been made in any other place ¦J* Wisconsin and I think the history of the University wn bear me out...
...Friendship is that state of mind in which the two are attracted not only by the bonds of congeniality, but by finding in the affinity that indescribable something which makes a mutual appeal in two personalities...
...The N. L. is so good...
...Finding that everywhere the constitutional rights of citizens were being stamped into the mud of militarism, Thomas—together with Roger Baldwin and Hollingsworth Wood—started the Civil Liberties Bureau as a branch of the American Union Against Militarism...
...Aaron Panken of Circle 2 Jrs...
...The correspondent who is an old man, writes, "This has been the hardest Summer we have ever ~>een in Mississippi...
...C. H. Owen...
...Pram the outset, "The World Tomorrow" and its editor received the most aamdaons attentions of the Department »f JistrJee...
...It has been said of a Freshman that he comes to college expecting anything can happen and of a Sophomore that he has discovered that nothing will happen...
...And "all is for the best...
...I for one of the Socialist Party have been kicked out of better places than Broun's Column...
...ftwn there on in groups of twelve under the advice hut ** the dictatorship of one of the faculty, they tackled the •nnomics and philosophy and politics of Athens...
...o • e Eugene Debs Morton, Blalrvule, Pa., renews and sends in 2 more...
...Finally one discovers, after wading through his labyrinthine reasoning, that Al promises gin, while Thomas offers only a few matters of unimportance, such as water power, old age pensions, abolition of the slums, poverty, social vice, etc...
...The first two years of college are pretty much of a waste of time," said the amazing man in effect to toe regents...
...It talks of antiquated Old stuff like "liberty," And thinks it ought to have a word In running matters—how absurd...
...The lover beholding his maiden half knows that she is not verily that which be worships...
...He had been the legal representative of the workers in many a hard-fought battle, and now he was to lead them in one of the most significant campaigns which the city has ever seen...
...For in final consideration, these Intellectual giants who sit on pedestaled peaks and pose for statues of "The Thinker" are just fleshly fellows with petty habits, likes and dislikes of their own...
...There is something akin to godliness in the aroma of hootch, for fine minds...
...with the LaFollette vote...
...This Job was an anchor to windward, and one very atcsptabat to aa outlaw parson with a large family...
...Yes A. H. Eager, Red Bluff, Cal, sends in a sub with a list of good prospects for the paper...
...able to make scientific evaluations, free of intolerance and prejudice...
...Ben Oft—*" Winston Dancia, Esther Milgram and friend, Michael ArconV Abraham Kaufman...
...He was Vice-chairman of that body, and most active in those feverish days when any expression whatsoever of dissent from the prevailing war mood rendered one liable to deportation or jail...
...They took back as guests with them three strikers, William Robinson, who has been here before as a guest of the N. Y. Yipsel League, his sister, Florence Robinson, Sane Neil and her sister who is not a striker, Emll Neil...
...And you cannot fail to render to the •JJParative political freedom of the State of Wisconsin *~* tribute for furnishing the atmosphere in which such Pa experiment can flourish...
...Thaaaaa Embraces the Came ef Peace Rumors of the huge vote that Hlllquit seemed likely to win ran among all the city rooms and political headquarters of the town...
...This was Morris Hlllquit, who had come to this country from Russia at the age of sixteen to work himself up, by sheer brilliancy of intellect and courage of heart, to a commanding position in the Socialist movement...
...He went to Washington to appear for this organization, before actively hostile Congressmen...
...Pictures were taken of the delegation by the newspaper men which was given publicity...
...bis was Alexander Meiklejohn, former President . Amherst College, now professor of Philosophy in Wisconsin University and director of the Experimental gjbge at that institution...
...S. A. de Witt...
...Friendship", said Kmersoon...
...Salaries for mums were cat off...
...Thomas sat down and wrote to Hlllquit, offering his services in whatsoever capacity the Socialists might designate...
...Many of them like their drinks...
...Here was the long-awaited call to action...
...but until then we would remain In delusion...
...They put him to work at once...
...Whatever you may think of the validity of his edu—thmaj ideas, you must admit that Meiklejohn has...
...tike the immorality of the soul is too good to be believed...
...Man has a soul which must be satisfied by the spiritual comfort of a friend's love...
...TODAY IS THE DAY TO SEND IN THOSE SUBS...
...N. J. to assist in a Tag Day for the New Bedford strikers...
...Hurry calls for contributions and workers were sent out...
...stayed a few days over as a guest of "Red Mike...
...Politics cannot touch man's spiritual nature or Intellectual development...
...No Brass Check Wanted "I must have The New Leader regularly...
...And besides...
...Does the mad ecstacy of the waters make you writhe your way up to lie In senseless bubbles on the surface...
...I almost turned Communist after a swig from his last delivery...
...They can write on any popular subject and make out any side with equal seemlinesa...
...They are cat-gut swiggling punsters and anarchaic anomalies today...
...He persuaded a publicity avid New York State Senator named Lusk to get up a snooping-committee, for which Stevenson was to be the investigator...
...It was the ex2*»fon of a marvellously clear orientation of an entire °*T »tate...
...DavM G. George, Campaaga Man*' agar, Richmond, Vs., keeps firing in orders for bundles of the New Leader...
...Perhaps a change of moonshiners might bring the lad back into the fold...
...Broun has made this momentous decision in momentary rebellion against his bootlegger...
...and that we must weep or shiver over any noted defection from our alignment...
...The delegation was composed of Samuel Isman...
...They bad read and digested well "The War of Steel and Gold" by Brailsford and all the rest of the antiwar literature on which they could lay their hands...
...While we—we grind our axes And know the land is blest: Our wealth it ever waxes...
...I care not what riches a man possesses...
...But in this state of friendship which is akin to worship, delusion, as long as it lasts contributes to happiness...
...Broun was a scintillant exception...
...This of course was a holy war, waged to end ail wars, etc., etc...
...They segregated the group in a men's dormitory and then Whout much warning plunged them headlong into an "tensive study of Greek civilization...
...Invading New Bedford On Sunday...
...It takes one to bear grief but to be glad...
...said Meiklejohn, "there are plenty i vocational schools for turning «out men with the minds of bankers and plumbers...
...He made himself very useful by entertaining the young strikers with his harmonica...
...D. Schlamm, Brooklyn...
...bow bright are his prospects...
...Coolidge's Alma Mater would have none of him and finally threw him out on hi* ear with as little grace as they would discharge a rebellious janitor...
...He praises the Socialist Platform...
...with the intellectuals . . . ." To question the strength of our party and the ultimate result of our endeavors, on such a picayune degression in the public press, is a sign of fundamentsj weakness foolishly displayed...
...Received first copy of the paper and enjoyed it very much," writes Perry De Marco, Jacksonville, Fia...
...WHEN, in 1914, the gray legions began to pour through Belgium, both the young rebels were brought smack up against the moat difficult problem of their lives...
...One day the headquarters of the Bureau were raided, its records destroyed, and Baldwin, who was on band at the time, was lugged off for a long third-degree...
...It meant social ostracism to be"'n with, (something which both Thomas and McCurdy regarded with extreme indifference) but it meant as well a thouand and one sneaking attempts to curtail their social work, to hold them up to their communities as slackers, in short, to make pariahs of them and all others who saw the war eye to eye with them...
...A short time later, Baldwin made his famous speech of defiance, at the time he was called up for the draft...
...This time ( sabs...
...anil the other ntiifrnfrinal and amateur snoopers who were as thick aa hraarflire at a hitching-rack in thorn days...
...Large and costly advertisements appeared in the papers prophesying the coming of a revolution, if the Socialists should win...
...And when they had read and digested this y...
...Looking back after ten years, this may seem to many a perfectly obvious and by no means arduous course to pursue...
...Again I call on our traditions to come forth and help dispel this silly notion that we must beg or borrow or entice votes our way...
...I dislike to miss in issue," says W. B. McNinch, Clnclnnatus, N. Y. * • * Eager...
...Tut . . tut and poof on such fears, old dears...
...Three dollars for sub cards and a renewal, $2, from Jos...
...Prohibition has forced many of our best thinkers into such a votive posture before the divinity of booze, as only the few surviving bartenders fully understand...
...The turquoise of the sky is never so in spring...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES Wisconsin's "Research Magnificent'" . xHIN, bespectacled man with the brow of a A scholar and the flashing eyes of an enthusiast, rfflod up before the members of Fred Howe's School ^opinion, at the Tavern-on-the-Moors at Sconset, Xiff the other night and talked in informal manner jkoBt one of the most interesting- educational expertthat is being carried on in this country today...
...Thanks, thanks to ye, my worthy friends for the aid so aptly given...
...I had always believed that Mr...
...In pain, in sorrow, in degradation...
...And while we clothe our Ideal with the virtues that he does not possess we consciously try to fulfill the ideas worthy of the transcendent qualities that we bam created...
...The bad weather prevented the Boston Yipgels from corning down as they intended...
...There was Thomas' man...
...Was it a dream I held the creature of...
...t w jn the present state of university teaching, this idea k nothing short of revolutionary...
...State Organiser Sutton of New Jersey will see to it that those who attend the State picnic are provided with New Leaders...
...many, but of course not all, of the youngsters had •pretty clear idea of the mental machinery that moved the uteeks...
...bow resplendent the fame he has realised, his life is a comparatively barren and commonplace existence if not illumined by a gleam of love or friendship...
...Woodward Author of "George Wasfchigloii The Mam aad The Image," "Bonk," "Lottery," and "Bread and Ctresmsea...
...Editors note: Melville Cohen is a New York Junior...
...They joined that pitifully small group of ministers who stood steadfastly against the war, while the drums beat outside their church windows, and everywhere the voice of the recruiting officer was heard in the land...
...Broun's desertion...
...Thomas gave great space in his paper to the reports of the swift developments of the Russian revolution, and he is proud of the fact that in his magazine there appeared for the first time in this country original documents, stating definitely the aims and purposes of the leaders of the Revolution...
...He came to the party at a time when its very existence seemed threatened by fierce internal row...
...Says that most of its planks will some day be enacted Into law...
...But now the time had come when it seemed no longer possible to stay with anjp organization which supported the war...
...John M. Gancz, Warren, R. I. « * * THE NEW LEADER - APPEAL FLOODS THE DARK POLITICAL PLACES WITH LIGHT...
...He was honored by the bitter comment of that bully-ragging postmaster, Albert Burleson, that ''Thomas is more Insidious than Debs...
...A sabscription for every saesaber ef the newly forated local in Jacksonville...
...At the campaign headquarters of John Purroy Mitchel, the Union League crowd and other "respectables" who hoped to reelect htm on a so-called fusion ticket, ran lound in circles, shoveling out money to canvassers and speakers in sums that opened wide the eyes of veteran campaigners...
...Again, I must repeat, that we are growing entirely too nice and parloriah...
...If they can come to understand, let us say, the Greek Civilization of the Fifth Century at the time of Athenian supremacy, one of the periods in the world's history when the human spirit reached its loftiest heights, and then understand and compare civiliiafioh In America in the Nineteenth Century, they may not turn out to be expert bankers or plumbers, out they may very well develop into literally educated men...
...This young snooper had, during the war, threatened Thomas and other officials of the Civil Liberties Bureau with jail sentences, "more in sorrow than in anger," as he kept assuring Thomas...
...As a matter of fact, while flags were being blessed in the chancels of the city, nd prayers offered up from the pulpits to the God of Battles to be with "our boys," it was by no means the easy thing to do...
...There ought to be a few places for the prevention of making everybody into plumbers or bankers...
...Your dreams—did they grow tremulous with dragons And I the hero daring unto death For rescue, and feat love, and spicy flagons Quaffed at the wedding-feast—or did your breath...
...ONLY TWO MONTHS REMAIN UNTIL ELECTION DAY...
...There is another respect in which the two differ...
...The story runs that Mitchel, who had vigorously supported the war, although he was supposed to be "liberal" in his philosophy, was so enraged by the result of the election that he stormed like a mad1 man as the returns came in, cursing his paid supporters and his most intimate friends...
...The drive netted $000...
...Henry Hiniicks is just visiting in Grand Island, but lost no time in scouting for sobs...
...Bte quite a daring thing to give over into the hands of ym teachers, who were by no means certain of their mrectton, the care of 120 young men around the ages of Wjenteen and eighteen and to assure the projectors of this magnificent research that the formal business of credits and degrees would be taken care of...
...There of course is one of the most moving summaries of •U that the Athenians were shooting at...
...Opposite temperaments often attract each other in love...
...Now on that issue, I will force no quarrel with the eminent intellect...
...In all...
...Tammany Hall, while not so spectacular in its outlay, sent word from Fourteenth Street to certain quiet-spoken young men who were not unacquainted with the use of blackjacks and revolvers that their services would be urgently needed to "watch" the Socialist vote on Election Day...
...Two subs from Luther N. Smith, Hancock, N. H. "I will try for more," he says...
...In other words they were living Greek 2™hatlon as nearly as it is possible to live it in Wlsin 1928...
...It will hurt us with the liberals...
...While now we get our little share of The ptandcr and axe "taken ears of...
...Abraham Wisotsky...
...Many of my comrades have already remarked bitterly on Mr...
...Meiklejohn and his ten •Jlkagues, many of whom had been associated with him JJ Amherst were looking for a representative cross-section of the American college student...
...Just as though Oa Picked 120 were attending regular lectures in the uniwatty courses...
...IU» is not to say that the 120 were selected from the audent body of two or three thousand either because they •we particularly bright or particularly dull or particularly WD prepared or illy prepared...
...I want to get back on the firing line while Norman Thomas is shelling the cohorts of capitalism...
...Suppose we make an abrupt departure from the accepted lectures, note-taking and examinations and let the young men loose to find out...
...S. Lerner, Secretary of the Socialist Party, Omaha, Ncb.t sends for a bundle of 100 and is preparing to start an intensive campaign for subs...
Vol. 7 • September 1928 • No. 38
