A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE CHATTER BOX lid Art flary "On Miif came to ^rtriew frcra saTl fjveright, liter, I w"-s Bflttn urged to K tfide for a ^Lft ever-ir.g, world '.a Eiiad...
...V One third of all Americans S yean of age and upward are wholly or partially dependent upon some form of charity...
...Now this particular crusade is done and yours is the triumph...
...Now I have to go and make a speech at Mohegan Avenue and 178th Street- These are the kind of jimdandy meetings that my managers arranged for ma...
...profuse illustrationa, reprints of Art Young's 'ketches and maturer work, are in themselves 7*j«e price of admission...
...I ask yon to anew the joy of fighting the battles of peace, freedom and plenty for yourselves and your 'children to the fellowship of those wbo believe than man can learn to manage the machinery he has learned to make, so as to bring a blessing and not a curse, U/e and not death to earth...
...It as said The Socialists cannot win and I don't want to throw away my vote...
...Do you wonder that Mr...
...Its benefit should be passed around to many, not kept by the few...
...Now he I. the Democratic Senator of New York and all he ever chaneea was his addresa...
...we shall nave to learn by careful study and experience the best method of public management of basic industries...
...They just lie in the twilight K between scandal and giddy gossip...
...w^nt to doss this altogether threadbare report | taportant event by hoping that most of you who J?f|jn*' for comfort, when the day's work and wor"id make dark to-morrow, or who are bored Wellectual moping, and cynical of life, take hold leaves between two cloth boards, spread out ^e&ried limbs and sense, and walk the mind's ^"w Art Young through his sixty years of adyen' And it may surprise you to know that for J*w> are happy in his friendship, his pace Is still tJlEnd- bis being still throws out toward them a "love and mirth and the fullness of useful living...
...This always brings the audience to its feet and I sweep the hail like a cry of fire...
...Only the Socialist Party is committed to the aboHtlon of mjanctlens...
...Only the Socialist Party sneaks plainly on those things, and has a clear cat program for winning peace and happiness among Nations...
...I am not saying that we Socialists have patent medicine prescriptions to work magic cures...
...Both Mr...
...Now I Bt read snd reviewed the first one of these, and K pven the latter narrative a fair perusal, and if ¦tut to accept my opinion for what it is hardly Bq, both of these autobiographies are neither literaK tor pennydreadf uls...
...It Is absurd to talk of freedom if power so essential to housewives in the borne, farmers and manufacturers is to be controlled by a monopoly which deliberately corrupts our democracy as the Power ^Lcbby has done, Mr...
...Bat unless we learn our democracy will become a farce, and we shall be governed by economic dynaatlss « o a o The stse of ev vote this year win greatly help In getting concessions foe farmers and workers whichever party stay wis, To Nonnan Tliomas 5IX months ago we wrote tlujt you were riding out on a crusade that took courage, intelligence and a high-minded devotion to what you believed to be true...
...Smith is reported as once saying that a "long hair" Socialist came hi the Assembly and Smith told him be would find free speech there...
...Art kept us giggling B 'oifinp all night, and honesty, I forgot to lock Ba watch . . ." It usually worked for marital calm ¦ pardon...
...Hoover cannot make the Republican Party honestly dry nor Smith the Democratic Party politically wet...
...Fair weather patriots may have left you in the heat of the battle...
...Those Ignoble wars arise out of the effort of an Investing class which has exploited the American people to get even higher profit by in vestment abroad...
...This condition should and could be greatly alleviated by a proper system of old age pensions, such as the Socialists have long advocated...
...bir bustoeas keeps two ears...
...We do not want any church, Protestant or Catholic to interfere with government by ecclesiastical pressure...
...I eaa appreciate the poor devila feeitogu...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE CHATTER BOX lid Art flary "On Miif came to ^rtriew frcra saTl fjveright, liter, I w"-s Bflttn urged to K tfide for a ^Lft ever-ir.g, world '.a Eiiad cruel am eold...
...When I spoke at a mass-meeting the other night about super-power aad how much It cost us a kilowatt hour I said "Are there any questions?'' And an old lady in the back held up her hand and said, "Meester, has this anything to do with electric lights...
...The people of the United States today pay at least two cents for every killowat hour of electricity In excess of what they ought tt they managed Power aa well aa de the people of Ontario...
...Including the Chatterbox...
...Enclosed is 830 for your campaign fund...
...The under dog should not have to pay for our mechanical progress...
...X mean "Doc" Co pel and...
...The Socialist was so stirprised that he had bis hair cut...
...I bad a friend once who had to write a dally editorial for the most blackly reactionary shoot hi Mew York...
...Immediate remedies, among them...
...His triumph came the day that General Pershing personally decorated a police dog...
...He has been a whole era of inBctual life in himself...
...Secretary Tom Austin reports'a 30 per cent Increase to membership since the 1S28 convention...
...Amy Lowell, John flu, tad so on through the gamut of greatness...
...But it seems that moat of his readers liked dogs and army generals so there was no controversy and he got a note from his managing editor congratulating him on bis editorial...
...Poe was what he was because he was Boated...
...Roar, Lion, Roar...
...Ulysses, the far-darting one, has just corns in from the print shop and wants a whole lot of those words right away so that you can all be educated...
...are so much gratitude to offer Art Toung and his ¦mi mil publisher for having afforded our filthflared reading public this glowing tale of mirth, of ¦tineas snd wisdom...
...Neither is rclirion property aa issue...
...We live In a world where the machinery and power at our disposal already enables us to banish poverty...
...S. A. do Witt...
...But writing for The Hew Loader is different...
...The time is coming when the Socialists will win...
...by their taefc of frsiliaT" They arc afraid toorgsashwjaad^as^ out thoar their farms or ttwsr"Jobs...
...But such public power development wul be at the mercy of the private monopoly unless we also control transmission lines...
...Herbert Merrill has ales been bald for many years...
...Thomas States Issues In Pithy Paragraphs gVEstY ^ctUm ewefct to k, a tfan...
...But when he tried to walk down from the fourth floor of Havemeyer Hall, he forgot that be was supposed to be upside down aad fortunately fell the entire length of the stairs, fracturing what remained of his skull...
...Long hair" of course implies the "foreigner," but that Sociafisfs ancestor* came here in 1635...
...a carefully planned program of public works In dull times...
...Beyond that there should be so tcystous test v. say sou...
...Napoleon reached great heights because Bti opacity in the great passion...
...Good-looking young ladles from the ages of 16 to 22, wbo are not residents of Sunnyside, will receive . auditions from the hours of ten to midnight...
...Interlocking device, grade crossing bell and wigwags...
...Copeland make a speech...
...We still have tragic poverty, widespread unemployment and no security for old age...
...And for this purpose be devised an elaborate plan of mirrors which he attached to the front of his face in the manner of blinders such aa a horse wears...
...X too have sat In front of a tynewrlter hours or and and nary a word cam* from my tevared bruin...
...la, tt«reaeei»--we think we live m a tonoeratte cetmtry because we hs*, the privtlece of voting but In every etoetton meet voter...
...and the five day week...
...One lady tells of a WpdM she bad with an ex-President...
...Our Nutley reader aays that this to part of the whispering campaign...
...The union claims jurisdiction over the installation and maintenance but not the operation of every kind of signal...
...In politics it does not matter how men p-r-a-y...
...Step heavy on the ''bigotry,** Gov'nnr...
...Bludgeoned C sod then Kwe teek the friend or Kftook...
...All Hi queer, or different, sub-normal or super in the deisms of love, and thus whatever happened in their Hi to happened...
...And we get out a hand-book caned "The Intelligent Voters' Guide...
...Ir it, a technical name for it in the catalog of fact most of the biographies of great folk that the market these days, all carry the innovation Miwiewing these celebrities along the processes of Boalysis...
...mm, on Art Young's way, we have the travelogue of fl* trust, a poet to the bone, a lord of laughter, and Bade man withal...
...In quiet method he works and his life In and about each picture, and like **dl*r genius with the pencil, the telling is unwith frills of verbiage...
...The weighted average has risen from 75c aa hour to 78c...
...Only the full one lm'**» stroke prevail...
...The progress we are making In reorganising oar Party this year makes that time draw near, see We want men, pathfinders and pioneers, not band wagon riders...
...politics...
...If you are ¦gained, they satisfy a certain suppressed craving...
...Hoover's -»"-" estimate is based on what has been shown to be an erroneous misinterpretation of figures...
...the other to the Democrat...
...I went to Columbia myself in 1909 where I was quite a distinguished undergraduate...
...We have a Senator in New York St?te who beran hh potlUcal career as *he Republican **** » Ann Harbor, irichlran...
...We propose specific...
...Before I forget it X want to render tribute to my distinguished opponent for the office of U. 8. Senator...
...Prohibition and the hypocrisy and corruption which a tend it are Issues but they are not property partisan tames...
...Hoover Is the apologist for the Power Trust, Governor Smith talks of developing Power under public authority at Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam...
...There are between four and five milBon unemployed...
...For some utterly unknown reason he wanted to find out how it would feel to see everything upside down...
...one for the boss and and another for the waste...
...The brotherhood has contracts w*.th every important railroad except the Atlantic Coast Line and the Great Northern...
...He used to walk high around the camptta seeing everything upside down...
...There ¦ uees in our ¦otett house Kjee when ra- ] E, run of ML kest give Wm little ¦.A for the K...
...For this be received a raise of salary and was promoted to be fun profeff sor of psychology...
...Private ownership and management for profit means both exploitation and waste...
...We salute you, Norman, proud to have been of your company...
...He has walked with pantamakers Bvith Presidents...
...Education to a wonderful thing hi spite of Columbia University, N. Y. U. and C C N. T. It was a Columbia graduate who said to me the other day, "You don't have no respect for your education...
...read through his book now, with its hundreds of Bpf anecdotes, the numberless observations on celema he has known as friend or fellow artist, and its mtj abeam of serene observations, is a perfect exm lot playing hookey from work, or play or anything I^And while it may not be just the proper publicity frt these boudoir-ridden days, I want to be honest B *rt Young's work, and say that but for^its pro¦w of the Socialist ideals, it would pass'the censorpot a Mother Superior in any conyeatfas fit reading f«r for her virginal charges...
...case of "On My Way" I am hampered by X except speech sufficient to convey to all radj^oelausu, and liberal lovers of good reading, the...
...You see when we started this column we were commenting on how difficult it to to think ot anything to gay...
...He was a t'red radical and was db'ng it for -f - -rife and kiddies...
...Few * that I have ever read about or known have been ***wsfttl to living, so certain in their service to the |*i ¦> delightfully necessary in so undelightful an '»la labor of love, that we sqmethr.es gulp down a 'criticism over the work of a friend when it is »% poor...
...The next President can dodge none of these hums, The Keftogg Peace Pact will never enforce Itself...
...But a K Btttt be reE*j when it is K a you for that Egjcgj purpose...
...Lipservers of Progressivism may have fallen by the wayside...
...There is a worthwhile dishonesty at ¦ la log-rolling a weak pup of a book and praising "mely to o;der to help a poor lad males some *t In a hard world...
...About his wholesome genialHud person, the old Greenwich Village burgeoned Bkwith artists and poets and dreamers, of the Civic B. or who else, that once told me, how all the stayBite husbands, and wives for that matter, used to B art Young as the standing excuse for arriving Btwith the milkman...
...Dirty old men with beards are constantly taking it up and listening to stories ot young and neurotic ladles who will pay them $23 a sitting...
...o o and negro and another far the citizen and white man...
...Governor Smith refers to our remaining water power sites as oar "God-given resources...
...Governor Smith truly criticises the Republicans for their failure, but on the basis of the Party responsibility which he preaches he cannot escape blame for the fraud, corruptions and constant vote thefts of Tammany HalL An Angel from Heaven could not re-make the old Parties...
...Income and Inheritances...
...We wish you all success...
...What are you ding banging out with them Socialists...
...As seen as a war breaks est, by aflent consent of all concerned, we temporarily cheerfully wallow in the blood and thunder and the eye-for-an-eye philosophy ot the Old TestamentH...
...The world is so full of a number of things that I'm sure we should be aa happy as Eddie Guest, who to our favorite poet on account of that grand hue he writes, "It takes a heap of living in a house to make a home," which to our idea of the furmleat Una In all poetry...
...copper...
...But to revert to the bustoeas of writing, whoever thought up this idea of stringing together a lot of words that are supposed to make sense and 9 be highly educational ? To say nothing of punctuation...
...Irxre is no attempt in the book at chronological conflty...
...Then when these adventuresome dollars get in trouble their stay-at-name owners call on us to spend our money and risk the Uvea of our sons and brothers as bill collector...
...o nothing ^ than cheoae between tweedledum ana tweedJedee...
...This is the crowning frmsness of the book...
...Another lass goes KrrV'T about the earth sculpturing big boys in Kalians...
...The evening time of Ufa does not bring them peace...
...Than I tell them about my campaign...
...You alone, of all the candidates, have had the courage to speak about those things which so sorely needed speaking about...
...I v. educated in psychology by a half-witted professor vo was dropped on his bead while a child...
...How the General could have impersonally decorated a police dog I do not know...
...In the face of the worst reaction which this country has ever known, with a labor movement sluggish, content and in many quarters corrupted, you have stood for the militant expression of the high ideals which once made that movement possible...
...fw wwiea eTovoranaient eaa hetp us hi the e saere netoe than sense to our no'ltteal emmpalrn...
...This is all I know about psychology, but X understand It is a .eiy interesting subject...
...Up From the Qty Street*" broadcasted in support of the Happy Warrior carried one item that was supposed to be amusing...
...were there, head up, lance lifted, ready to do battle for those things which you so passionately knew were right...
...We cannot be saved by a political Messiah but only by our own efforts and our own Party...
...Big bosineas insures In two Companies...
...see de Judges have the power to hwue injunctions which make the peaceful conduct mt strikers vrrtnafly sjepssnMa, Even the eld Parties talk about excessive Injunctions and the Democrats piously hope that "capital, labor and the bar" wffl get together on a ntan for dealing with the situation, which wffl happen when eats and mice get together in convention on the number of mice each eat eaa eat for dinner...
...Imperialism sooner or later lands to World War, as the result of the rivalry of world power and the resentment of exploited people...
...Even to k calloused sinner BneUmes, in life as in bis tale,/Art convicts himWu a failure...
...He ups and makes a Southern Senripeech, something like this, ajnd in his own peach ¦"ft1* "Ladles and gennum, ah takes my place K*-e of no man in mah regard for honesty, int-.jg'P»nd sobriety . . . But ah have neglected the great F* on which these hyar nation is resting . . . Wi more money, and still more of the self-same Ah therefore pronounce mahself a failure .." * ax who has lived as fully, aa joyously and as as Art can make that self-accusation...
...Bather than dwelling on particular Industries we Socialists ask you to think about the baste type of ownership In a country where one percent of the people own one third of the wealth...
...o Governor Smi'.n's proposal of regulating transmission by public service commissions and contracts has broken down the case of pnbUc utilities, no where more so than to his own State of New York...
...You know the Una, Just hke ar, jagg sjaaB They told him that he must not write about anything controversial 80 he had to write about the necessity for keeping Central Park dear of big bustoeas, why girls wear abort skirts and the pleasure of believing in Santa ciaua...
...Hoover to going to ha elected President of the United States next iussday 7" We are not supposed to let you fax on thto secret because an indignant reader from Nuttey, N. J., has written In saying mat we must not tell you boys aad girts that Herbert Hoover to our next president...
...D. W. Helt has been president since 1917 Helt and Austin will be re-elected by the oanven"tlon...
...It dates back to 1901 when signalmen at Altoona on the Pennsylvania organized and got a wage boost of 65 per cent...
...Sentiment of the delegates is practically unanimous for holding on to their members...
...And no matter what happens, on this sixth of November, 1928, yours is the very victory...
...This is called psycho-analysis...
...We cannot outlaw war yet have the little wars such as WOson, aiding and Coondge have curried on In Haiti, Santa Domingo and Nicaragua...
...Iron and coaL We must acquire possession of this riant power monopoly...
...In matters of foreign policy, education and the like...
...a Nation wide system of public no profit making exchanges...
...Kg*, this be an A of biography, ¦its biography, Hrkole peeking B'puia smut in Book-dom...
...They are sailed overflow meetings...
...These ar* called mass-meetings aad they are very educational...
...Railroad Signalmen Convene In Chicago 1 CHICAGO150 delegates, constituting the 19th convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, face an ultimatum from the American Federation of Labor Executive Council to turn over a large part of their membership to the clerical workers brotherhood or stand suspended...
...Gee...
...To remedy this we propose to socialize basic Industries and to establish a Just system of taxation of land values...
...After X get through running for V. S. Senator, I am going to grow a beard and start a psyche shoppe...
...By clearly hinting bow Musso¦ tried to do her dirt (or as the old vernacular bod ¦ ..didn't mean right by our Nell), everybody I K rpoken to says it's one "swell book...
...Our system of private competition for profit to the textile and coal industries produce not prosperity but misery and waste...
...McAIJSTaai COLiatAN...
...W. Yea MW'tms of aewsf«pers definitely hostile to Labor circulate orsry day because they are bought by washing saea who have aot yet acquired the habit of aaaaumg their money aa a friend laREADTNG, WRITING AND ARTHMETIC T ICR a fellow rwhiraniat the other day who told ton that be had sat for hours in front of his type a liter and was not able to oanjore up ana word...
...the wisdom and the full measured joy that wait J** Pleasure in this book...
...Neither of the old Parties seriously discusses unemployment...
...She mints a Hjitout of her wild oatmeal...
...Only the highly interesting method of sitting fli for tlx months and through a mellowed retrospect ¦fitter up day by day the threads of six decades and Bin them back into a tapestry of love for mankind...
...Three despondent poles, two Pitkin Avenue mid wives and a man whose wife la mad at him overflow into these meetings...
...a proper record of the unemployed...
...Ordinarily ft rides in the Republican car nationally but has the Democratic ear ready for an emergency...
...They are no more "Godgiven resources" than oU...
...He was suffering under the impression that psychology was a pure science...
...Hoover and'Governor Smith In varying degrees are dodging such burning Issues as debts and reparations reeorntti ti of Soviet Russia, our relations to China and Japan, ear attitude to the World Court and League of Nations and above all our stand on imperialism...
...In all the glorious history of the Socialist Party in America there is no parallel to what you have done...
...O!^.- General r.Iotsrs oifishl ;:rn to the Repabllcana, the other to the Dem...
...The brotherhood affiliated With the A P. of L. in 1814...
...The surest way to throw away your vote is to vote for what you do aot want and get K. The surest way to get what yea want , Is to begin to demand It...
...He is taking a firm stand against mumps, measles and malaria and all the wen people in the audience at the conclusion of bis speech send me campaign contributions saying, "We have Just heard Dr...
...Kg last Sunday Eg I sat me Eton the CogsKinn chair, and Km with Art E#t sixty years ¦ei splendid life...
...M matters profoundly how they p-r-e-y on their fellows...
...In truth you fought the good fight...
...But always you...
...At that time the brotherhood reported 8,000 members to the A. P. of L Ninety per cent of the men have received wage increases to the last two years...
...unemployment insurance...
...One Da Pont rrraa to the Republicans...
Vol. 7 • November 1928 • No. 46