A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OR EXCLUSIVE FEATURES PITY THE DUMB REPUBLICANS W^ZThoy and girl*» the horrid truth is out ¦ rtordtog* to statementa of Republican leaders in B^gNew York districts, ths reason the...
...I eg we are greatly upset over this unfortunate turn g& stain and we have a few suggestions to offer the Ijeed Republicans...
...Or to photograph with all its damnable damage the attempts of the defense to set up falsehoods of their own against the State's perjury...
...I !Wf aright rig up a row of cuckoo clocks above the U _ gf the Republican1 candidates and then the voter K^Tbe sure he was all right because if the little birdM j^.t come out and holler "cuckoo" after the lever E* pulled, the voter could claim he had spoiled his Ejgt sad had voted Socialist and begin all over again...
...Whitrldge'a smooth-flowing pages, that Dr...
...notion that it is not just the thing to congratulate a personal friend with too loud or long a phrase ever something he has in all honesty done surpassingly wen...
...I To the list may be added two more ! which appeared near the close of the ! campaign- In The American Party Battle (The Macmlllan Co., $1,501 Charles A. Beard has added a valuable little book to the series known as the World Today Bookshelf...
...And strange, too, when we analyse, we find only one idea traced through Its ramifications...
...Minor, for example, endeavors to explain Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian Democracy on the theory that Jackson may have been acquainted with the writings of Jeremy Bentham...
...And long, long after, the tale and its telling linger in your being with all the tune and rhythm of a song you have forgotten to remember, and yet cannot quits ever forget...
...game *™t «ee how I could take on both offers, unless T«d time and a half...
...rapid sketches of prominent figures 1 in the political life of the last forty years...
...In to the voting...
...his arrival at age as an artist in literature...
...Just as around the production and sale of petroleum another economic mass has sprung up whose sway Is felt to America, in Europe, to Asia...
...Within the larger truths there are always a lot of other truths that no one sees til] the radical dares to investigate and brings them to light- Sir Joshua calls these the fluctuating, as distinguished from fixed, principles...
...here and there, in such small corners of the earth, and the world was ready again to show these measly little butt-ins to mind their own business or take the consequences...
...he fires to no immediate flam* of fury at life's wrongs...
...A real artist ts also a rebel...
...with the intense version of a poet, has written a book about America...
...If man were drunk forever on sodas, [Mre and pop, I'd drink my blasted head off and nevje...
...Sinclair crowds into his canvass aa infinitude ef detail, a legion of character and motive, and builds la all the colors and shades of the New Fagland background...
...in and out of the Happiness Stores Km days, but it wasn't so when we won the Great ¦fir at a Sergeant in the U. 8. Engineers, I Of coarse now and then we would get sort of wild lad go off on a chocolate fudge sundae jag...
...There is a drawl in the soul of Art Tonne...
...Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours...
...The leading chapter on the "Nature of Political Parties" amply disposes of some popular and academic notions regarding the origin of political parties, including the theses of Lord Macauley, Brander Matthews, James Bryce and others...
...Ajslessaxfsa £g^gMg4*jflgflgBglg^g...
...against the thread bare battalion of the outraged...
...indeed, a spirit-portrait of Art Young...
...The book is abstract, abstract with peculiar Gallic intensity...
...There was a choked snarl and a gulped sob...
...The fact that a few accepted or basic facts reveal themselves In all art from the primitive to the rltif*'—1 is not more important than that the iconoclast shall have his day...
...It3»—what Is the secret of the certain charm...
...His best work outside of direct propaganda is probably In the grace and fancy of the recent "Trees at Night" But I am interrupting my quest of Ar' Young...
...He over Idealises American civilization...
...The Idea is expressed thus: "Mass economics gives civilisation today a beauty and a grandeur without compare: the beauty of swift, intense life, of strange immeasurable force...
...And I want to say right here and now that from that R* until the present I have never touched anoth? ptaeapple soda, Ijfctt's what army training does for you...
...Into the chair that burns death through the flesh...
...uarantee protection for anyone who wants to °°t and defend the Constitution and they offer to ^"dangerous radicals" for a ride, for a price...
...We are beguiled by the illusion of stability and changelessness...
...Whoopee...
...Massachusetts asserted her stubborn rights as a sovereign state...
...James Oneal...
...Frank Kent is credited with two...
...He comes to be Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.1 Arnold was well aware of this difficulty and tried it In a variety of ways...
...THE CHATTER BOX JPOR eight years we have been getting abort bits of fact and long stretches of agony oat Of IfiaiiitJii setts and her two Christ...
...Take it unto yourselves, dear readers, this work of mankind drawn and quartered and wracked by oar own Inquisition...
...Henry Minor has attempted to write a history of the Democratic Party to his Story of the Democratic Party (The MacmOlan Co-, $4-50) and as a narrative of the origin and varying fortunes of that party he has provided a servlcable book for those who may not have Prank Kent's work or the two volumes of Stanwood on the Presidency...
...then...
...When a man criticizes a woman for her faults, she cries...
...How so Inveterate a propagandist as Sinclair could have reached into the ether of untrammeled art ia also within the range of wonder...
...By all the rules of human chemistry, this would be quite impossible...
...forth clearly the fact that his heroes were definitely established aa "directaction" terrorists prior to their arrest...
...Which brings out the Judean legend, the fact that ia all the old world of men and women, only twelve remained to remember and carry on for a faith that was nailed and hoisted against the night nineteen hundred years ago...
...With the coming of "Oil" and "Boston" a new phase of the man LJtues forth...
...But It is pertinent to his life-Journey to point out that, at three-score, the best work of his career Is being done...
...I do not exist...
...The book is too suggestive, and filled with too many broad generalisations, to be treated in the compass of a review...
...learn how great men are just rag dolls stuffed with shavings, and all their deeds less even than sound and furious bluster...
...M- Romler, being a reporter, has the reporter's gift of becoming a protagonist of that which he reports...
...It does not approach the scholarship that is evident in the work of Beard and It is lacking to that deep insight into the economics that is the basis of American politics and political rivalries...
...enough to act aa catalytic agent and instrument during the experiments of narrative...
...The world III at our feet...
...It forced the alignment of prostituted learning...
...What do I care...
...The barrage from their howitzers >^'~1~< and deafened the selfcentered citizens...
...The remaining chapters take the reader through the Important Schoolmaster Arnold \XBY,' **y* Charles Lamb, 'are wo never quite at our ease in the presence of a school-master...
...Then came the editorials of a few liberal newspaper and jinlniTIi BSS These brought Into the fray all the sullen strength of patriotic bulletins, orders and agencies...
...he seems rather to know that anger but raises new wraths and hatreds, that pity, even amusement, are more appropriate emotions than love...
...It senses and reproduces the awful momentum and compulsion of the materialistic machine of which we are a part- U n handicap ped as he is by lack of knowledge of American background...
...A Century Ago TT WAS the Brock Illustrations—for the period is more living in me because of his black and white sketches for the Essays of Ella—that drew me to the Dutton reprints of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and "Sense and Sensibility," in the English Idylls Series (82 a volume...
...He fears that American civilization, will proletariat the world, that is, subject all humanity to the machine...
...Read through the first trial, and let the patriotic passions drive you on into condemning the two lonely Italians on just the sort of flimsy evidence with which twelve men good and true, sent them down the corridor of seven years torture...
...I Bet os the dawn of the third day I said to Jake: i-Uter all, my boy, this is going- a bit too far...
...Family life is threatened- The whole moral fabric is crumbling...
...the class war victims from death...
...He works with such a mature surensae, that neither foe nor friend can deny to him his high place amongst the master novelists of our time...
...It is within the organization of these masses and In their relations with each other, than the new mass of society finds tto basts...
...I (»taw they could have pictures of the Republican Legates with buttons in their noses and the voter BgjTpush the button and the picture, with a phonoEqk attachment, such as they have in the new cigEctn slot machines, could say: "Thank you, you will WZtm your change from the Republican watcher outI soaking of cigarettes we are glad to find that our Limy boy friend...
...He falls, too, to report any of the> counteracting forces in ^m«»r1**-Tt life, as though the labor movement, and the less popular but more thoughtful groups Of Intellectuals Politics and Economics rpHE recent political campaign was the occasion for publishing a number of 1 books on American politics and political j parties...
...Perhaps the root of the man is his unpretentiousness...
...This chapter Is devoted to the theme that political parties and party struggles issue 'out of the economic conflicts in society...
...from the days when the law- j yer of his home town threatened to ' beat him for a satiric portrait: through j his trial for his work In The Masses, I to the break of this year's spring In his Bethel home, the smiling observation ol -j Art Young richly fills the pages...
...Our captain came in and Inked at us and broke down and wept openly and was H away by two soda jerkers and our little sister stood ¦ Idas with her face against the pane, singing...
...in short In being creative...
...J Julius Cae^° • ride in my Hlspano-Suiza.'' thtt doesn't strike me as being so hot to a Frigidalre, too...
...As i*rite« used to say, temperance in all things,' or Fjar, "post hoc, propter hoc.' Let's remember that are those who are looking for us to go over there M do the right thing and put our bayonets into a lot ? Germans, and try and brace up and be men...
...On My Way" is...
...Sinclair eegeajders to me by his book, is the hasty manner tn which he passes over the palpable ghoulishnese of the Q— saj ists, who used the grief and horror stirred up by the outrage to collect large sums of money in the name ef defense for the victims, and put the funds so collected to their own party uses...
...And yet ha my own joy over ' Boston" as a thing of finished and balanced perfection, I can almost overcome the convention...
...I And besides there is a swell picture of Bob all dreesMt up with enough medals on that he could probably E: |180 for at Feinberg/s "Old Curiosity Shop" next Kor to us on Third Avenue...
...yd, of course, it's easier to throw a paper ballot I ^ sewer than an entire voting...
...Prof...
...But they liiftyi put us in the guard-house for that and wrote I cat to our families saying...
...Art la a country lad...
...Lucky Strike ^•endorsing racket seems to be one of the best That's something I might consider seriously...
...Tradition, for all its accepted truisms, is the enemy...
...such glimpses of men's ways aa "When a woman criticises a man for his faults, he smiles...
...What is there in the man that se engages us...
...Arnold stood...
...He hardly ever stopped to consider that behind all the cloak of idealism and dream, the wheals and gears of human baseness and vanity, grneaed and t reeked with Indecent discords...
...The building of his little art gallery at Bethel...
...Brother, don't Pak no more today, for I'll have to go home and tell ¦wPopper and what will the old man say...
...Ibow, to get back to this General Bullard...
...He believes the coal miner has closer Interests with the coal owner than he has with his fellov worker, the carpenter has closer Interest with the contractor than with the railroad fireman...
...5*** fr^t been over what I need and have decided s^T" Um* being to endorse the Hispano-Suiza autok»*!l7rltt*n uu* °n* o«t...
...the capture of Emerson in the phrase "serene lightning...
...Though M. Romler sees the American spectacle vividly—perhaps more vividly than any contemporary American—he sees its dangers, too...
...There is In Art Young's vision, no line drawn between art and hfe: and the "fluctuating principles" he discerns are limned by sympathy...
...I tritei the General: "An Army man must keep fit I web for a Lucky instead of a sweet...
...There is little righteous indignation In the work, or the character, of the man...
...So here's our endorsees...
...The flux, the commotion, yet the adhesiveness, the standardisation, it is not likely that an American could have written this book, for Americans are haunted by memories of an older and now unhappily defunct Individualism...
...I rn never forget the time that Jake Mahoney and I mA on a regular riot in Huyleris In Washington...
...Let it just be said that in only a few moments through almost eight hundred pages of a two vohif work does bis judgment sag and his pen blur...
...He is awkward and out of place in the society of his equals...
...In this setting, and In the mood it evokes, these novels, read In much earlier days, renew the leisured spell of adolesence...
...Mass economics Is a phrase employed by Romler to describe corporate civilization...
...it seems that in addition to endorsing the jjjjjwtton, the General is endorsing...
...Felix Frankfurter gave as the first chapter of the gospel...
...It Is mass economics as opposed to indrriduansm that is "»«""g the sweeping changes in life and morals...
...I suppose Upton Sinclair is by this time so hardest¦< to blame or praise that nothing said here win roues him to resentment or pleasure...
...That civilisation will triumph which will deproletarlze humanity...
...Liverlght, $4), hold, this rambling, unhurried eye-cast over the field outside the window as he writes, or over the field of a life-long activity, shifting casually from the consideration of the World's Pair of IMS to discussion as to how the world fares In...
...each a drawl as may mark the Yankee trades man building bis best bargain, or the western badman drawing his victim to the shot: the deliberate withholding of a man who knows what Impends, before he traces the final blow...
...Politics, he finds, is taking a secondary place to industrial problems and conflicts...
...one a history of the Democratic Party and the other a study of political behavior...
...All the...
...Like all his other work...
...One right after another...
...Professor Beard displays a mastery of his subject and a courage that is rare in exploding some political fictions...
...Yet It Is vivid, moving...
...Professor Myers provided a hlsI tory of the Republican Party which provi ed that an educator can be dull without | much effort...
...it was for this blending that w» come to feel, as we read Mr...
...Yet here it is, two volumes of history...
...And told with Just enough pretense at invention to give it the glow of imaginative creation...
...Sinclair over his praise for certain men and women who appear in the book as pure p rotes tan ts and genuine geniuses, Nor would my differences be solely based upon opinion...
...In Its defence against the charge of Samuel Butler the book becomes special pleader rathrr than expositor...
...And then, of course, I would ^ overtime...
...many many specimens of his t drawings...
...This In turn Is checked with certain necessary reservations and exceptions to account for variation: of the fundamental principle as applied to individuals and the necessity of compromises by parties which are required to hold the allegiance of a number of economic groups whose interests do not always agree in important matters...
...For the rest of this work there ia only wonder and ado* lation...
...Though this is good as an offset to much unhealthy criticism of the home-brand, it gets us nowhere...
...Boston," the latest novel of Upton Sinclair, and issued under the imprint of A. and C Bool, is the nearest thing to an impartial history of the Sacco-Vansettl case within human possibility...
...He is simple in attitude and taste: **L dont mind tinkling a little in this Bedlam called popularity, but my real desire is to ring true"—then modestly he adds "as nearly true as I can get...
...He asks, "of all the existing civilizations, which one possesses sufficient moral and physical vigor to adjust Itself to mass needs to impose itself on the rest of the world...
...we were slow to enter the war, but in, the nation so bore Itself that forever after the world will beware our entrance into a quarrel.'' The righteausnees and holy might of American sainthood are thus avowed in terms of the florid oratory of the days of Webster...
...Why is he a radical...
...In the ramblings of this vital caricaturist through his years, whatever comes Into his mind goes onto his pages...
...We are made to feel that these things just wait off stage...
...By sheer storytelling magic the book carries you en until you bats to leave it for the nonce when dbxaar calls, or a visitor arrives...
...live among 'Wops'* whose humble decencies make you love and revere them...
...I roc tn army general this isn't so bad...
...I It was a terrible scene...
...quotations from Randolph Bourne...
...One of the few regrets that Mr...
...It remained for some gatherer of fact, and foible te tell the whole story without passion and without strained effect...
...We were young...
...gar voted for us instead of Al Ottinger and the I tA irhst'i more these same Republican ahbters say B* mujrt be so because tn districts where paper ggL...
...party struggles and party issues to the present period...
...The author has made special use of the published proceedings of party conventions but aside from this the volume has no special value...
...In color, he is equally happy In his choice of subject and handling, and he gives Jane Austen's work precisely the setting it requires...
...William Bennett Munroe ! junked a large cargo of hokum in a little j book on the invisible government and : William Allen White provided a delightful survey A politicians and presidents j which the Daughters of the American I Revolution will certainly place on the j blacklist...
...Lieutenant General Robert Lee Kurd, has come out with a little poem endorsing ¦ jtij Strike Cigarettes on the ground that they keep In nice and thin...
...two thousand volts tore the quick out of Saeco'a clay, out of Vanxetti's tormented flesh...
...Or to portray with dehcats accuracy all the criss-crossing, double crossing/, and Inhuman bickering among the defense interests...
...See the whole silly background of pride in family and station setting itself against the underdogs...
...Those ' who would know his secret might not be far from the trail If they pronounce him, cockney-wise...
...Particularly to one who has pell-mell ed his emotions through the case for eight years and with only the intent of saving...
...Production and consumption are what count above all...
...It is a sweeping review of the rise of political parties and of American political battles, certainly an excellent job of condensed statement r within the compass of 150 pages...
...levers...
...Changing sex habits, he finds arising also at the dictates of mass economics...
...A powerful thing...
...the history of Saoeo and Vansetti against Massachusetts justice, and not a tirade against Communist tactics...
...They knew nothing of Bentham and their claims to power had been formulating for years because the Jeffersonians and Federalists had learned to sleep in the dune bunk...
...Knowledge is power," and power is good when blent with character...
...It takes no too practised reader to discern bow difficult it was for him to bring...
...The road from "The Jungle" on into these years has been one of exceeding trial and financial error for the prophet who had forsaken bis gifts as a story teller In order to set the world aright...
...In short, M. Romler Is a JRotsrian, though he is also a poet of commanding force and sympathy...
...The theory cf the class struggle disrupts this unit...
...rest, family, nation, religion, culture, science, imagination, assume more and more an accessory role...
...Around the manufacture of Roquefort cheese is ranged an economic mass which extends from the Shepherds of Causae* or of Corsica to the commission houses of New York...
...And in the game, she can not neglect the use of her most powerful weapon, seduction...
...Woman Is now subject to the pitiless laws of competition...
...Even If that were true it would not explain the mass movement of small farmers and the newly enfranchised mechanics of the cities who swept Jackson into office in 1828...
...go through a strike to New England with all its bell...
...There is the mischief of love, whether It be the rhapsody on the human leg accompanied by the drawing of a ludrlcous pair (Is It accident, that a most graceful pair is print-pressed behind this...
...All the drama, the tragedy, the outrage and the heartbreak of the two "Wop anarchists" have torn at the souls of so few...
...Two reservations occur...
...I Bit Utile did we care...
...He is didactic, at timet, tn his volume, but with a frank kindliness that holds no note of condescension...
...Here and there the author also indulges In an occasional spreadeagieism that reminds us of the writings of Bancroft...
...DrArnold of Rugby" by Arnold Whitridge (Holt, $1), is the great-grandson's tale of the influence of this educator on the school system of England...
...His most effective series of cartoens is unquestionably that which he has, with high consistency, produced for The New Leader on the IMS campaign...
...It Is an admirable introduction to American political and party history...
...G*neral wrote me once would I Uke to get in *" racket, as it was quite profitable, but I wrote "•jand said that I was considering an offer to hitch Scar-Face Capone in the dry-cleaning...
...maend pujled the wrong...
...Oil," Sinclair's last novel revealed to the world ef letters that the propagandist had evolved into aa artist...
...get about ths financial intriguers who brought us into the war, and then used the peace for a greater accumulation of wealth...
...As we recall it, * General and I have had considerable correspond^General, we believe, is in the patriotic society* * and a bunch of other patriotic racketeers are In to defend the Constitution...
...but we must thank the man who introduced half-yearly examinations and monthly reports for recognizing that one function of the school is to teach—not information, but—how to learn...
...Make no mistake about It Lucien Romler's "Who Will Be Master" (Macaulay Company) is a tremendous book...
...Most of the American Christians hardly know what it has an been about- Those who do, hardly gtve a shrug to the matter...
...that if that sort of thing ¦aawned again we would be withdrawn from the draft lai sait right back in disgrace...
...machine...
...Which might be valid for the novelist, but surely Inadequate for the Socialists whe> sacriflced so much and received nothing- but the wrench of pain when the switch was thrown in...
...the grandeur of Immense number of souls, who to survive must dwell in a more complex and flexible harmony than they have ever enjoyed before...
...Teaches I" to be a man...
...The jazz pace of our period will have none of them, but for those who care at times to saunter along poplarlined tow-paths, thinking idly of the days when these canals were busiest highways, when even love could dally, nor seek only speedy goal—these volumes will awaken forgotten (6r never known) memories, and bring an olden fragrance quietly to please...
...William Lee...
...A caricature or a cartoon is the final blow of Art YoungThis is hardly the place for a consideration of Art's technique as an artist, nor am I equal to that task...
...Join in the first frail attempts at arousing public opinion, become a parader, and through the last agonizing hours sit with the two lost lives and forget their agony and your own, as they calmly con verse on an things save their brutal fate...
...The Industry Is the unit...
...Profound and lasting happiness does not consist of consumption, but in higher values: being able to invent, construct, fecundate, conquer matter...
...A PAGE OR EXCLUSIVE FEATURES PITY THE DUMB REPUBLICANS W^ZThoy and girl*» the horrid truth is out ¦ rtordtog* to statementa of Republican leaders in B^gNew York districts, ths reason the Socialist ¦T^ai so heavy this year was because a lot of WtL Republicans came rushing...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...The class struggle splits up the mass...
...m McALISTER GOLXMAN ScanninG The New Books Art Is Forever Young By Joseph T. Shipley Vr/kT do we an love Art Young...
...For such adds and gases as this horror brought forth, there can be neither mind, nor flesh, nor marrow strong...
...were used the Socialist vote, was not so heavy...
...Romler sees the dynamic character of our mass civilisation...
...brief criticisms of other artists...
...Mars In Motion By M. H. Hedges FRENCH RoUrian...
...It is through these revelations that the booh becomes cruelly fascinating...
...And the greatness of his work is all the more shot with brilliance because he had his own bias and philosophy to struggle with, while he planned and performed at his task...
...It may be in ¦jeinny they do pronounce fit, "swit" or vice versa...
...Thus he declares that in 1884 the Democratic Party placed Grover Cleveland "In the Presidency to be a light unto the nation and to all succeeding Presidents- and on page 448 that "The United tSates under Wilson followed the Shakespearean adage...
...unchanged by his sixty years...
...This is not all...
...Heart Young...
...What does his life-tale ("On My Way...
...I It Is, we confess, a bit of a surprise to us to learn Kit nldlers go in so heavy for candy...
...sever stop...
...I for three days we sat at the counter drinking nothBc but pineapple sodas...
...Now that I've got ^¦Wgidaire...
...There is an all-embracing love, whether it be ol the sweat-shop child he pictures, or the half dosen varieties of leaf he draws, the sunset or the executed anarchists he writes of, in bis work...
...The class struggle Js obsolete, because "humanity has improved the facilities for happiness", but more, because, Romler, by implication at least, is a syndicalist...
...The teems somehow familiar to us...
...Set yourselves down for a story whose reality is haloed with a romance of courageous living and still more courageous death...
...Eyes that found keenness In the open fields, that watched the habits of farmyard creatures, with an interest not too absorbed bat kindly, turn the same dear gaae upon crowded ways and human occupations...
...The answer to this apparent slip might weS be that he was writing...
...or the cover drawing of an Important—Art Young...
...I Xsjte a younger and more effete generation of soll:«i go reeling...
...Don't l&k no more of them pineapple sodas...
...I might also disagree violently with Mr...
...There is In the book no description ol machines, skyscrapers, gargantuan cities, crowded apartments, gorgeous hotels, congested streets...
...A creature was found to pull the switch at two hundred and fifty dollars a, throw-to...
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