A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES AN INVITATION TO A DINNER . —_—.-„ jftfi^ boys and girls, here's one dinner you simply fgJjBT attend. it* goto* to be a real high-hat, hotsy-totsy affair. *v...
...is to act as Chairman ? And the speakers will ole Martin W. Littleton (a voice: "is that bird * jjjye...
...And why I want this poem in red...
...I understand that she and Mr...
...As black as the holes Where free men lie, Where poor men die...
...Bebel, Forel, Key and others, Calverton is much too verbose and rambling and the calm and more inclusive view of the social scientist is lacking...
...Even under a state of 'free love,' people may marry, bat their marriages may signify nothing more binding th^n enh-meral affections and alliances of a fortnight...
...j ScanninG The New Books An Apostrophe to Sexual Freedom A Discussion of the Future of Modern Marriage (A review of V. F. Calverton's "The Bankruptcy - of Marriage...
...jt would probably be something of a shock to Johnjfi great-great grandpop to find out what had happed to that document which he signed...
...That there 1 is a large or growing sentiment in that 1 direction is a matter of interpretation...
...But ¦ second thought we would rather spend the evening *tth Mrs...
...Bnt I forgot...
...the decided ! change ol attitude to and practice in i prenuptlal relations, the companionate I marriage and its limitations, the increas| lng knowledge and pseudo-knowledge in : the use of contraceptives without and j within marriage, the alarming growth of ! abortions and the troublesome problem i of illegitimacy...
...A still higher type of civilization must bring forth refinement of a much higher order and our natural impulses and desires must be guided tc serve the largest possible individual and social welfare...
...B's ^•eslist...
...That Is a fact which practically every psychologist has known, but has been nirwflttnc to declare...
...I fervently hope that all that he describes so vividly and the conclusions based thereon are the blessed truth...
...The Futile Morality of Bo| viet Russia" while the chapter Itself is | titled...
...And will we say to them instead: "The dawn can conquer the night with red...
...Monogamy has not proven a failure because of religious, traditional J or legal inhibitions and proscriptions...
...In the notices of the °**r sent to the press, next to E. Spencer Greason, **lraian of the N. Y. Junior E"-rd of Trade, we come *» the name of William Green...
...While we win plan and plant anew...
...pass^n dims and love fades either into indif¦ ferenee, dislike or devotion...
...If the - "new freedom" that Calverton espouses ' offers no other end but that of the re! moral of ail restraints to the gratification : of desire then it makes but little appeal ' to the more normal and pro-social per• • sons who recognize the necessity for lni [ dividual restraint to social wen-being...
...on "Coal and the Men Who Mine It...
...I question in friendly I vein whether the writer is not unduly I excited about the modern "necking™ and j "petting" as newer practices...
...The ancient traffic has I adapted Itself to the changing bootlegger | environment and our anti-vice crusaders are loud in their wailing regarding this fact I fear, friend Calverton is too prone | to rationalize on his main theme and that is the partial, and I surmise, a wlshedfor total eclipse in constant marital relations...
...biatory of labor in America may be called ^•Mne-pits to Olive-pits...
...Ob our other side we would like to have either iuuchi P. Healy, "Past Commander of the Cootie of tie U. S.," or Mrs...
...Then you don't know what sort of a j~hiovement we've got here...
...Both in his preface and in his epilogue, Calverton senses the possible and quite Just criticism that it is the modern style in some circles of thought to exaggerate the importance of sex in relation to life and he emphatically disavows this attitude In his prospective...
...And the tint wears off with the rub of- jrssrj...
...With woman, daw to cultural influence, no doubt more than to any other factor, the experience often is not ahedhr, and It to this disparity in reaction that Is additional cause of difficulty and conflict...
...The grim strong men , The fat cold men...
...Herein Calverton describes with great enthusiasm the economic and social emancipation of women, the assault on the double standard in sex ethics, the new legal status providing equality for both sexes with a tip of scales in favor of women, the remarkable sanity and humane spirit in their laws regarding sex education, birth control, abortion, marriage, divorce and illegitimacy...
...Now amid all this garbage we come upon one name ht looks vaguely familiar...
...Of course, many things are t possible fat this most Impossible world, ; and I sincerely hope that the Russians i have actually achieved all and more than r Calverton exalts in...
...I certainly have no quarrel with friend Calverton in his attack upon the old foundations of marriage, its utter indecencies in moral standards, its commercialization as an economic institution and its hypocrisy as a happy venture...
...torely this can't be that same Bin Green who once ¦s treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America...
...You don't know that he pushes forward when the flash-lights go off so that ¦JU loom up big in the picture and go home and John Edgerton called me 'Bill...
...Tentatively at least it may be stated as a nsycholo'rical law that, with const* ncv ef ran tact, the enjoyment ef •es-relatlonshlp decreases in inverse ratio to Its repetition...
...It is marriage as we know it, therefore, the marriage of modern monogamy, ef the binding-contract variety, our system of marriage...
...Primitive marriage was marriage also, but with divorce as simile as marriage, it wns based nnon nothing other than the theory of free contract...
...in fact is the very antithesis, of the binding-contract upon which modern marriage has been founded...
...This theory of free contract is an that the modern revolutlon'st or free-lover desires...
...You don't know that ''erage labor leader just swells up aad busts with 2 when he gets an Invitation to attend a spread J* by a bunch of Open Shop freebooters Uke this •^Discussion gang...
...jpl tbe things they belong to...
...V To sing its strength to a billion men, 7 Until they learn to sing this song . , ^ And into their blood and into the sun, I win pour my soul and dip my pen...
...So far so good, but in the further argumentation this caution seems to be lost sight of and in fine frenzy marriage, monogamy and the family are tossed into oblivion...
...While love only wears its painted veil To cover the cheap little tricks of desirs ..of* But I want this poem to drip with red, j To sear, to bum, to scream with red j Into every man's heart, jf Into every man's head...
...The disappearance of i the street walker and the flagrant red! light district does not mean the end of j prostitution any more than the closing [ of brewery and saloon meant the success I of prohibition...
...As an exposition of the feverish claims of "youtn revolt" this book is an ardent expression...
...j - <rao but our old naval-mate...
...But this attitude to a vioU'ion...
...Who hang with a phrase, And kill with a pen...
...Future or i Futile...
...relations...
...In comparison with the work of the older rebels and crusaders, Ellis...
...Till the lick of the Urns...
...We are a bit rusty on our Aztec and we ad forgotten that those boys were Big Navy sponsors...
...B. sate most of their bombs in the areaway of a Park lienue apartment assisted somewhat unwillingly to fcarre, by Henshaw Jevons, the Brosseau butler, who •apt complaining, "But I say, suppose the nawsty •>ap go off...
...II Calverton seem'.ngly ignores this fact, 'l Note the following:— "The very cor»ce»>tlon of monogamy presumes a eer*»in longevity if not per• mrnenee ef affection...
...This caution is excellent and imperative...
...oete, for example, is Johnny Calvert, President Gen0] of the Descendants of the Signers of the DeclaraJ0 of Independence...
...the fulfilment of the ideal of companionate marriage...
...But the pigment melts and the color runs...
...Abraham Shlplacoff will open the forum...
...McAIi-ter Coleman...
...K mutt be a real fascinating life to be a revolution's lie Urs...
...But the color runs with the touch of tears...
...Enduring devotion to another, or to a task, to a pursuit or to an ideal is one of the inspiring traits of mankind...
...These suckers are good for another shot, lou took them for a ride once...
...You don't often bump ato professional revolutionists these days...
...Whether that end is possible or desirable will be argued later but at this | point, it is pertinent to remark that tbe evidence submitted is too fragmentary to warrant sensational conclusions...
...He will be followed by McAlister Coleman who will speak on Friday, December 31, and Frt'ay, December 28...
...Yet there is Vvis between beast and man...
...A healthy scepticism is surely pardonable in the face of mu± of the false propaganda, pro and con, that is pouring out of Russia.- Furthermore, it all seems so utterly incongruous, that these same Communist dogmatists who have continued and in some measure improved upon Tzarist tyrannies, intolerances and repression of civil liberties . should have liberated sex from an fetish t and fetters...
...In the life ot the average adult the physical expression of sex occupies but a minute fraction of attention...
...Under a bright and thankful sun Such gardens as we may look upon Without a warder at the gate To spring the latchbolt of estate...
...Practically all the members of the orler which he used to command will be there...
...Sees Marriage Broken Down...
...Specially if * fisecvered that his lineal descendant was dining out lUa stoat everybody in town who thinks the Declaratjot it a lot of boloney and acts on what he thini™, And here is another, Johnny, John Edgerton, Presigat of the National Association of Manufacturers, dM tovea little children so dearly that he can't bear 3 tee them wasting their time playing around in the iekk and streets and spends all his spare moments taking up ways of getting them to do useful work a t nice cool factory...
...I want this to bo the anna...
...Thomas Will Speak In Brownsville Friday The Educational Center of the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 339 Sackman f H, Brooklyn, will open its winter seri...
...On fresh ploughed lands, on sapless saadk...
...After a vigorous ! fanfare foreboding the bankruptcy and end of marriage comes this apparent modification as well as a definition of terms:— "When we sneak of marriage today, and the m-vri'al Institution, it must not be thought that we are sneaking of marriaee in terms of historical evolution...
...I want these words to scorch the ink...
...There is a minority of souls, who are so I Id capable of compatabl'lty that any sort of constant relationship, sexual, social, ¦ vocational and otherwise seems to them i utterly hopeless...
...The exhilaration which we hare eaRed romance...
...The futility of their . existence is not merely sexual...
...Will you ever forget-him...
...Herein the adventurous spirit of youth through the brambles and thumbs its nose at old moralities, Conventions and standards...
...As dark as the room with screw and wrack...
...Of course tkre are a number of funny people hanging around Communist headquarters who call themselves that...
...Jimmie Wadsworth, who was Senator from these parts until he retired by request of the voters...
...He's ig « big navy, too...
...And a lot of others whose titles printed in full would mn up this column...
...Th-t nuurnethm which we have been in t*e ha*»tt ef describing as love U beautiful but brief...
...That this i change should or must result hi the abo1 Mtton of monogamy, marriage and the ' family to highly debatable...
...They're just beggars !st punishment In looking over the Honorary Committee, we think jut all things considered, we would like best to sit •est to William W. Mackall, President of the Aztec dab of 1847...
...of lectures this Friday night, December 7. with Norman Thomas speaking on the subject: "The United States as a Socialist Sees It...
...Revolutions, for example...
...The Future of Marriage...
...Only some of its characteristics are threat- [ ened...
...In the friendly ar~e.es of Abraham Cahan, after his visit to Russia, none were so refreshing as those treating with the Russian women, their changed status and newer spirit...
...For you "J expect to find a man who has come up from the * and file, by God, and has never forgotten that to be sitting around at dinners Uke this whooping * 'or big navies...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, Madame Schwim¦ert lawyer, has got something for you...
...of a dream Shot full of flame...
...The sun rides proud in a flush of fire...
...however...
...Contrary to Calverton, the future of marriage, monogamy and sexual morality is not so nebulous...
...With the attainment of complete economic, social and intellectual equality of the sexes a more sympathetic attitude toward pre-nuptlal as well as extra-nuptial sex...
...It is more remarkable that it has survived through aU of these artifices...
...iTo we remarked before, the inclusion of Wil^**en's name in this list must have been a big 0J7e- If it is, we know that he will hurry to cor* Publicly...
...The blood Of boasts and men is red, But the color dies when they are dead...
...Blood has fallen on seas and snows...
...It may and most desirably should come through that restraint nurtured in the ennobling of character and taught by the best, evidence of successful practice...
...But, Calverton out-writes all other observers in his Russian rhapsody...
...And now for the bone of contention, ¦ let it be said at tbe outset, tbe demand 1 for a radical change in our concepts of 1 love, marriage and sex life, is agreed to : by every intelligent person...
...The stride will be high, And the way will be red...
...And there is this for us at least, That a man may rise above the beast...
...A"r*OBrh it may be maintained that this is not all of the lore experience, it most be admitted, without referring to Freud, that it is its basis...
...And never would he go back on those courag*°en of the rank and file who had stood fast [weir union in good times and bad and so on, blab, •".blah, fc, Of course, there is some mistake here...
...Ton remember Will...
...and the Hon...
...However, she has never seen me and if I *8 her I'm Ben Gitlow or some other revolutionary Tnpathlzer she will never know the difference...
...More than mere freedom | from contract is needed in this sex revo| lution...
...This may or may not be achieved by institutional coercion...
...Marital love is quite Impossible without it but the satisfaction of sexual desire is only a constituent among many other factors that | hold ideal marriage intact...
...Sri the Presbyterian elder who came across for the A toys with a good, generous slice of perjury...
...Where aw you been since you lost that nice big libel suit Rotika Schwimmer brought against you...
...Moreover, the whole approach seems so woefully shortsighted and the conclusion—a sea of uncertainties...
...I respectfully submit that all these attributes of civilization cannot be dismissed as trivial sentimentalities in Soviet Russia or anywhere else...
...Good Heavens...
...Bat the press agent must have been cock-eyed when * sat that out...
...By August Qaessens rpHlS new work of Calverton is at once stimulating tn its frankness, audacious in its onslaught on tbe remnants of puritanical morality, and explicit in* its description of current sexual innovations...
...In these unhappy folk i the incessant pursuit for variety, their ! promiscuous sexual proclivities are moat ; often pathological...
...I would be seriously unfair not to mention, before I become more vehement in my criticism, that there is ever so much i in this book that every Socialist and radical win agree with, and much that should be shouted from all house-tops...
...In his early chapters, Calverton descrlbos the rough-housing our dear old morality is getting in this new age of jazz, post-yar chaos, economic change and tumultous youth...
...Philip Stephenson of North Carolina ays that the articles by McAlister Cole-i»n sparkle and remind him of the humor of one of the great humorists of a past generation...
...And what will rise and wave full grown, Will be our own, will be our own...
...time, Till the thud of the sod...
...Man and woman, liberated from industrial and domestic drudgery in a saner economic society, will possess the leisure that must enhance intellectual, vocational and artistic capabilities, enrich their personalities and improve their reciprocal relations...
...And the boot will be rude aa It tramples through The delicate gardens That bloom for the Few...
...Among them Fred R. Marvin, mcntive Director of the Key Men of America, Why, •red...
...The high spots in the book are undoubtedly the concluding five chapters that deal specifically with "The New Morality in Soviet Russia...
...The layman proves it by action and proverb...
...Until men yearn, until men think...
...In speaking of the bankruptcy ef marriage we mean the bankruptcy of modern marriage and tbe moral foundations nnon which it has b~en constructed...
...If this doctrine is held forth as the ideal and goal of sexual freedom, then I must insist that the gratification of the sexual desire is no more the sum and substance of love than the pleasing of the palate is nutrition...
...tt aayt that this is William Green, president of the •**fiean Federation of Labor...
...Some are too mad...
...Macaulay, $3.00...
...To sear, and burn and scream with red, Into everyman'a heart, Into everyman'a head...
...But the color pales, and the color goes...
...As black as the souls Of the dried old men...
...Now, which is it...
...What a pleasure to see you back again...
...Some thoughts are high and some are low...
...It hears in all challenges and sees in all changing attitudes the bankruptcy, decay and passing of old institutions...
...don't...
...There is sufficient data, analysis and theory in the sociological literature of the aex life to chart its course in the social revolution...
...Then Will H. Hays will be there, jr sari and all...
...As a guide to a more balanced and satisfactory sex relationship it is manifestly inadequate...
...In brief, the changes will include the following: through sex education the prurient aspect must ultimately vanish...
...Glow for tbe dawns and dye for the suae...
...A Remarkable Survival...
...Much news has come out of Rursia in recent years regarding these matters...
...And let them shake with the ague of dread] The smug, and the soft, and the surfeited...
...If we say that marriage has decayed, we do not mean that peonle do not still m->rry, or that they wi'I not marry in the future...
...I might find fault with the fact that he overlooks many other degrading elements in his limited analysis...
...Red is a passion, red is a pose...
...And if need be I want this song To live with me ten lifetimes long...
...I'm on Mrs...
...And in all seriousness, we should at the least recognize the fact that a goodly portion of the human race has evolved far beyond the animal stage of existence and that the concept of "love" denotes a multiplicity of sublimations, psychological adjustments and cultural refinements...
...It knows and cares little about tbe persistence of social habits and plasticity of human institutions, their adaptations to changing conditions, their retention of form over the pressure of newer functions...
...Friday evening, December 14, B. C. Vladeck will speak on "The Working Class in American Politics...
...It looks to us like Malachi was in the right place at 1 inner like this...
...You were yjtng out in Texas the last we heard of you and now raire back...
...It mart have been that Montezuma baby who started d this competitive cruiser building...
...Then as to the "obvious decline of prostitution" are the meager statistics presented really sufficient for such conclusions...
...I want this poem to burn with red, TUl it sears its way Into every man's head...
...Petroleum V. Nasby...
...May we not suggest a further caution to Brother Calvertion and to those who share his views and that is that marriage and monogamy are principally adult experiences rather than those of hot-blooded, indiscriminaocg and insatiable youth...
...Drop around t Hi office some morning and leave the |17,000 you lot in the case...
...The thrill ef discovery disappears, and what once wns gold-n glow fails even to glitter...
...Monogamy drives its roots into this soil and the blasts of sexual sensualists and eccentrics are wen resisted...
...Women In Russia...
...and tbe inten{ sincation of the element of physical attractiveness by artificial means and its demoralizing effect in the play of sexual selection—these are also factors that I bankrupt many a marriage and cause : moral decay...
...A song for me in an ugly world, ,** A place of grief, all-splotched with ghaaas M( And mired so deep in its sodden sins, ? That never a beautiful thing begins To lift its head, but a bludgeoning dht Falls Uke a sledge and crushes It in, I want this poem to live on and on And I want to live ten lifetimes Ions...
...the anti-social and beastly attitude of men towards women as merely instruments for gratification rather than towards them as fellow human beings...
...the solemnization of marriage by mutual love, understanding and cooperative effort—these are some of the changes so vitally necessary to a saner sex life...
...May these not be merely new names for age old i amusements...
...Hue for a pennon, blend for a rose...
...Alfred J. Brosseau, President Genail of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...This criticism may be met with other appraisals of this work and it is a product of the emotional storm now raging around some parts of the globe and which some of the InteUigensla vision as a more or less permanent atmospheric condition...
...It is bat Idle erosion te the eon temporary psychologist...
...B. they are in the Class X league...
...Gcd...
...Maybe, after an, i Russian asses are only mates...
...a more efficient probing of compatibilities: a hastening of the abolition of false feminity and the development of women to adult maturity...
...And we will plough and we win seed, ¦ And fear no blight of clutching greed...
...The^ excitement ef sex attraction gtves it sntrit and mom-ntT-m...
...Fully matured men and women disdain the narrow Interest in self and family and find their Joy in larger enterprise...
...1 Blood hi red for a Ions;, Ions...
...This quotation appears in Chapter XVI which in the table of contents is | captioned...
...S. A* do w its...
...Thus it is not marriage in its entirety that is bankrupts arid decaying...
...B. I expects she gets dogged by the secret *oae like every real revolutionist and has to wear ^at whiskers and make up trick names to throw km off the trail...
...Or is it both...
...W compared with Mrs...
...fst what we like best about tbe whole racket is the ^hrship of "The Honorary Committee" to sponsor dinner...
...The writer discusses at length the increase of divorce as evidence of the decadence of smug morality...
...Admiral Bradley A. mv...
...ars ago we heard this Green make a speech about * he had worked his way up from the pits by the **t of his brow and the breaking of his back...
...Till the spaces beneath And the voids overhead Are filled with scrawl of my songs in rod, - Ti Now the print that you read la dun and black...
...The excitement dlsipoeara with I the reneated realisation of the sex desire...
...Until they march to the ultimate war With the only reason worth dying for...
...a more intelligent appreciation of higher elements of personality and character in sexual selection in addition to the esthetic attraction...
...Roses, lilies . . . ? Let them die . . . The languid poets will have their sigh Just as tbe languid ones always do...
...One cannot think, and the other can...
...in other words, that has broken down, and today is bankru-t...
...Or better yet, Fred, pass the hat at je dinner...
...To mention but a few, there are the economic, social and Intellectual inequalities of tbe sexes bred in our social system and that prevent every prospect of marital concord...
...THE CHATTER BOX A Rhapsody in Red Rod is the stain of passion...
...Its very electri-ity snrins* frona the sexual impu'se...
...B. She and I have a lot to talk over...
...It is also brilliantly written, provocative in spirit and Impassioned in its insurgency...
...And what of the ashes, after the fire...
...Is Irretrievably lost...
...J* d°b't expect a man who is the official spokesJ for coal-diggers and brick-layers and carpenters J truck-drivers to be cheek by jowl with the crowd » sitting on these boys' backs and is now out to * "hem into another war...
...Althengh this ide»I mt monogamy may have b-ert er- | •BisUe Insniration to the Victor*-n poet...
...With this inevitable rhanjre...
...v admirals and generals and cotton manufacturers "V jjanje 0f this grand dinner is the "Naval Discus.^jvnner" and it's going to be held at the Hotel *V m the evening of December 18th next...
...some too slow, But of all the thoughts in a thinking head, I pray for the ones that dance in red...
...Red is tbe ancient fashion For the garments of desire...
...And where it vanishes, no on* knows...
...The Future Morality in Soviet ¦ Russia...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 51
