TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas Way to the South? DOLZVZA and Paraguay are on the ** verge of war. Hoover's trtranpbal goodwill trip on a battleship proceeds apace; President Coolidge baa...
...MeCrcakey, a El Paso down on the Mexican aareer' Victor J. Favler, N. J. Seven subs and a bunch of trial inscriptions from Alfred Baker Lewis, so> ton...
...All who knew him loved him—honored him...
...An Young Circle Members will be interested in these two new activities of the League: Gymnasium—Every Saturday afternoon, begin nine Dee...
...I undertook to raise the money to finance a production of "Singing Jailbirds" by the New Playwrights Theatre...
...Two Varsity teams from New York University win debate: ••Resolved: That the American Jury System be abolished...
...It will be interesting to 3ee what sort of machinery, Pan American or League of Nations, the contestants will finally use to save their faces and bring about the peaceful settlement of their disputes...
...We call upon an to speak and vote against this military bin...
...S. "We unanimously are opposed to the hUl for the construction of fifteen cruisers, now pending in the United States Senate aa against the interests of Peace and against the spirit of the Kellogg Peace Pact Such naval construction win result in fostering a war psychology at home and antagonism towards the United States abroad...
...In a speech at Butte, Montana, in August, 1920, he boasted that the United States carried the votes of at least twelve Latin American countries in its pocket to be cast in the Assembly of the League of Nations if we joined the League...
...J. L. AFROS The following is a resolution adopted by Young Circle League members at a meeting held at the League's Bronx Center on Wednesday, Dec...
...Not a Socialist but a reti prorJeabj likely to build up a strong uigiurtlfceiS the two old parties," is the way * ss» subscriber, O. E. Reynolds of Menssnj speaks of himself...
...Be want* aa ass earaaa grew fat ck-ewJattea asaeag the aaasa...
...Elsie Behllng, whom X met when she was a very efficient captain of pickets, is in charge of the pants department but still keeps her deep interest in the strikers for whom there is not yet work and who keep up the fight on the picket line...
...MAIL, TELEGRAPH OR RADIO " 7 B. 15th St., New Tort Ckr...
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...After having disposed of the trouble-maker we win "shake hands with the fellows he wanted us to kill-and say, 'Let's sit down and talk this over.'" , In short, this is the plea of intelligent youth, especially the youth of working class families, and the yearning of the masses in all countries against the stupidity of fighting in wars for the upper class gentry who make war...
...THE "APOLOGY" Tg |(jjajn_ B. L. BasesSerg of nuataiiL...
...Two lights are seen in the horizon—one the fast fading marsh light of power...
...Did you notice the "our" m D* above paragraph...
...Perhaps she remembers her last terrible war in the middle of the nineteenth century when under the dictator Lopez, she fought till half her population was destroyed...
...They have put 305 workers back on the job, 90 percent of whom are earning 10 percent more than they did at Adler's under better working conditions...
...By turning an electric switch the new machine, the "teletypesetter", sets the type as news is received over the wire...
...On the other hand, we think the good sense ot Admiral Scheer also merits compliment...
...They were as destitute as were many who were driven from their homes by the Mississippi flood...
...For 33 weeks, or ever since last April, the strike has been going on without break in the ranks of the strikers...
...7 p. m...
...I roller deny myself material necesjihei tkm be deprived of the rich mental nov-^ ishment to be found in our par"' writes John Antisdel of Mkki*m...
...TWO voices are calling you—one coming from the swamp of selfishness and force, where success means death...
...Greetings to an the valiant who are working faithfully ** rl clples," is the message thatacosw*"^ a renewal from Mrs- Freneh, Debs' loyal comrades...
...We suggest the last line of Stevenson's Requiem for his inaugural text, "the hunter home from the hill...
...President Coolidge baa Just opened the PanAmerican Conference to work out a multilateral treaty for disputes between American states...
...Two other good Amalgamated men, Mike DiNovl and Louis Schultz, are what might be called personnel agents and help to pick the workers...
...Hence the peculiar responsibility of the United States...
...3. A proposal to build 15 new battleships for the U. 8. Navy...
...I am taking no royalty upon the play...
...This case involving probably $35,000 to $40,000, has been appealed to the higher courts...
...If sustained it will set an unwelcome precedent for bosses who like to collect damages from Danbury hatters and Boston milk drivers but not to pay them...
...looked renewing en ttaae...
...Paraguay is apparently in less belligerent mood than her rival...
...The operator and linotype machine are no longer necessary...
...We .will get rid of war when all of us get ss much good sense as the former Kaiser showed...
...It now appears that the hunter who hunted the Tammany boys and smote them hip and thigh is ~to make his peace with Olvany...
...Against the War-Makers QUR readers will be interested in the rsmarkable editorial in the Terre Haute Star which *we reprint on this page...
...FAY LEWIS...
...This story which I have had to tell briefly has all sorts of obvious but interesting morals—the value of a strong union, the great value of a Socialist Mayor and some Socialist spirit In a community, the blessing of friendly feeling between workers of different unions, and the like...
...Whatever it may be it la better that we should settle it by understanding aad agreement, even if we must agree to disagree, than that we should create a vastly worse situation for ourselves and everybody else by killing Young Circle News To secretaries of clubs: Please read the following at your next meeting aad let me know what your club decided: "The U. 8. Senate will soon have to decide on two questions dealing with war and peace...
...The only hope appears to be an appeal to the rest of the country...
...Their efficiency has won the high praise of Milton Straus, Manager of Hart, Schaffner es Marx...
...It is a mistake to think of these South Axner;an wars as chocolate soldier comicopera affairs...
...A competent Instructor will be in charge...
...Address the New Playwrights' Theatre, 133 W. 14th St., New York...
...These are questions, the answer to which will mean much to workers far distant from Milwaukee...
...Meanwhile be seadi * I and wants Art Young's earteena Orders for copies of Upton 5s* Clair's "Boston" continue to reO m W. M. Cargill, Kentucky, takes aimtage of the offer of the set and t year's sub to The New Leader for & he says, and my wishes art for $ greater circulation...
...What form of organization must the workers set up to do the Job...
...Not one garment has been finished in Milwaukee, though some have been sent out of the city, mostly to PfaVhvWprria, by the firm...
...A Different Sort of Christmas Card This timely quotation is selected from the writings of John P. Allgeld, former governor of Illinois...
...We will pass on his name to our children's children...
...We know also that the politicians who shout for war in Bolivia are a very small proportion of that nation of miserably poor Indian peasants, most of whom cannot even talk Spanish...
...From 3-4 p. m., the Gym will be open to girls...
...When sailors become aware of these facts they become class conscious revolutionaries, who utilize . their opportunities in the ports of the world to fight for the abolition of capitalism...
...Aknocking at her door, Cadging, to have Bfbtee seat To Inks Pinkapore...
...Wednesday, Dae, IP, };M p. IBV^Cfcsaera...
...Speaking of Christmas gift*, ** this valuable suggestion: Renew for the year lftt...
...If that is what you are, gentlemen, that is what you are...
...WWi Wm...
...at t p. m. . ""WjfliB Do Your Xmas Subbing Early CAMUEL OR*, New Yeeg...
...fr ear S-FW k> say wish...
...The police have arrogated to themselves the right to throw rebel workin*-men into jail at any time upon any pretext...
...16, at 1:10 and every Sunday thereafter the Glee Grab, under the direction of Mr...
...Lately, however, it has acquired value by the discovery of oil...
...Recently in a peak week they produced 1600 coats and 3300 pants...
...These economic disasters are just as worthy of attention as war, storm and flood but for the Red Cross to extend aid in industrial struggles would be to help workers in a struggle against masters...
...The audience win Judge the debate...
...They would have little difficulty in seeing that war is a stupid thing, and that good sense must avoid It...
...Nobody knows exactly...
...The facts are that I wrote Haiti's Constitution myself, and if I do say it, I/think it is a pretty good Constitution...
...The necessity of abolish•ng it would become manifest in the minds of statesmen;* 1 This comes frortr an organ which, during the World War, indulged is die pleasantry of an occasional ferocious editorial against Terre Haute's most distinguished citizen, Eugene V. Debs, a man who expressed similar views...
...This boundary dispute has gone unsettled for a hundred years without any particular trouble...
...Wilhelm, we think, is to be complimented on his good sense...
...To so act is a "phase of the class struggle...
...Although the productive power of the workers has been multiplied time after time their incomes have not been multiplied...
...Let's ait down and talk Una over...
...It is necessary to act at once, if at all...
...discussion on current events ^ Thursday, Dec 3Q._et 8-30 P-ft ja Dramatic Group wfli nwe* ¦ Uleno es coach...
...The latter firm places the ordess and markets the goods...
...In spite of the failure of Argentina to bring about arbitration ot this dispute during three or four months of effort, It seems inconceivable that there will not be enough pressure of our own government, of the Pan American nations and the League of Nations to avert war...
...The fastidious metropolitan critics find the production worthy of praise...
...Rockfcrd, Illinois...
...Which of these do you favor...
...there ia a World Court in Geneva and Bolivia and Paraguay belongs to the League of Nations...
...hkati ail ethers ia truth and facta...
...There a handful of non-union cutters work who are transported in «T»-f under guard of private cwtecttvoa of a Russell agency who are allowed under Wisconsin law to operate in Milwaukee because they were Mortised in another town after the city government had refused them a license...
...That was the day the parson came...
...Two ways lie before you—one leading to an ever - lower and lower plain, where are heard the cries of despair and the curses of the poor, where manhood shrivels' and possession 'Sots down the possessor...
...In the hope of stirring the sluggish-minded...
...What are you going to do about it...
...he has a soul), together, ae gaJ everything ia O. K." A SAGE 0™*»"»v*»»OBri Walter Sage of New Jersey, aaw "Please renew my sab ts year aaka paper...
...Our "boost-' •era" are • sensitive to outside criticisms they don't like the "wobbly" phrase, "California, land of Orange Groves and Jails...
...The actual management of production is in the hands of the union itself...
...A secret ballot win be cast and a majority vote win decide the winning side...
...The only problem in perfecting the machine is the problem of editing the copy which may require one linotype machine for every ten or twenty formerly used...
...They have been able through organization to wrest a fraction of the increase from the owners of industry but most of the fruits of increased production have gone to capitalists and increased the number of millionaires...
...The reason for this neglect is that the Red Cross dare not interfere on the side of labor in a struggle of the classes...
...The territory in question is mostly marshy jungle land, between two great rivers, inhabited by primitive Indians...
...In the printing industry the workers are now facing a revolution by the invention of a machine which will replace the linotype operator...
...But the teletypesetter displaces most of the machine workers by an electric switch tender and if this revolution is completed in the entire industry the shop democracy built up by the printers wilt be demoralized and probably destroyed...
...E. Oraa^afkJ town...
...Why does the Red Cross remain unmoved in the presence of strikes and lockouts...
...What that means may be seen comparing the situation in Kenosha where in the Allen-A hosiery strike involving less than half ae many workers there were up to the first week of December 660 arrests by the local police on the picket lines...
...Fred Whitcomb, MaaaachnasMa neaai Oh, yes, he sent two other yearn* a* it...
...Here are three observations from that editorial: If the aailors and other members of the crew did save themselves without regard to the fate of the passengers it ia to their credit...
...Light Needed On Columbia The benign influences from the battleship Maryland did not reach the workers on American banana plantations In Columbia...
...The printers have Chanced farther than, any other union in job control as the union over a number of years has gradually taken over the employer function of hiring and firing as well as nearly all other managerial functions of the shop...
...The latter is to be consulted regarding appointments and the hunting season is at an end...
...The Adler firm would have yielded long ago to the Just demands of the workers except that it has behind it the Employers' Council, a powerful body, which wanted to add this to certain other victories over the labor union...
...so perhaps yon will grant me space to ten your readen about the practical aide of the enterprise We who care about free speech con* front a difficult situation out here on the coast...
...Its hard sagging dashes Arkansas bine, bat The New »"T la a neosaaUy to aaa A Merry ^ mas and a ndlneo sab...
...The Socialist movement wu aba i pieces down here as a result of ssstg the war safe for hypocrisy but tha a* win soon be followed by other*," saja | J. Hoftpauir of Louisiana...
...He also seems to have been impressed by this prospective new role, it press stories are reliable Roosevelt is preparing himself for this new career...
...It raises some questions with answers not so obvious...
...A long editorial in the issue of their English organ of November 15 considers the disaster that came to the steamer Vestris at sea...
...Send far seme Sab Cards...
...and the other from the hill tops of Justice and progress, where even failure brings glory...
...Though Bob the Bookie shouted up, "Tour hone ran in the 'btng...
...Send far "Beaton (t veW, ssdsjean Sab, Ss...
...Tribute To Hlbben...
...UPTON SINCLAIR Long Beach, Calif...
...An those wishing to Join should come at 1 o'clock...
...1 of J Fred 8bulman, F2n*3f""«a kesC Brownsville Sunday SebooIjWie^j so "Debunking Early Americas at ISO McKIbben St, Saturday...
...The strike began as a lock-out of 760 union workers who refused to sign yellow dog contracts with the firm of David Adler...
...From the NEW LEADER MAILBAG Editor, The Hew Leader: Z have Jttst moat red by airmail dippings from several Mew York newspapers, reviewing a dress rehearsal of "Singing jailbirds'' in the Ptovmcetown Theatre m New York last Sunday evening...
...and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood...
...The New Leader: Pax ton Hlbben was one of the bravest souls who ever lived...
...In that day, if there is any violence employed It will be used upon the man who tries to make us quarrel with our neighbors...
...aaawl ^ looks the chance to aaear* a a* other one ttus weak...
...Though the territory may belong to Bolivia by the proper interpretation of a hundred year old treaty, access to it has been through Paraguay and Paraguay has usually exercised whatever authority any government has exacted...
...A vague rumor has It that certain British oil interests have sought title from the Paraguayan government to fields which automatically will be controlled by the Standard if Bolivia wins the disputed district...
...He is sure that ait will follow...
...4os Carrie, ja "OUsgow ForwaxeV...
...Debate...
...It la correctly naaaei...
...Were it not that many inventions produced new wants and increased the need for more raw materials the present system of production would have faced a crisis many years ago...
...Instead of going down with the ship under a storm of shell, he survives to enjoy a comfortable if somewhat unexciting old age at Doom...
...Some twenty years ago Roosevelt was that queer bird known as an "independent Democrat," one opposed to Tammany Hall...
...The executives there are not bosses but Brother and Sister So-and-So...
...Where Pity Is Not Awakened JN TURNING down a proposed endorsement of the Red Cross the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York has called attention to the peculiar ethics which guide the Red Cross in its activities...
...Such an act is a phase of the class struggle...
...As the theatre seats only two hundred persons, this barely pays the running costs...
...The members of last year's Glee Club win be there...
...The police even arrested members of the International Labor Defense who were collecting funds tor the striking mlnen of Pennsylvania...
...R, Deasse...
...M. Van Der Weyde, preakket the Thomas Paine Memorial Boom aaa in for a bunch of papers cantabuat aba AUister Coleman's article on Ton Ptaa He wants to know all about the ebflaaal book that Mac Is writing on that herbs fighter for truth...
...The attitude of >»t writer is the correct one...
...So be it...
...but even so, I was unable to raise more than half and the rest has come from my own pocket...
...Karl A Zeitner, Pennsylvania, k aaing to it that his friends are •epaM with sample copies...
...Which is simply glorifying the cowardice ot men who would abandon men, women, and children at sea in the face of death 1 The passengers are regarded as members of the "petty bourgeoisie" and are consigned to death by the eccentrics of Union Square...
...Can this adventure in Milwaukee prove the exception, not under unusual conditions such as now prevail, bat under more normal conditions ot competition within the capitalist system...
...Some died because the relief given by labor organizations was insufficient...
...Will the workers who have tasted better conditions ever want to go back to Adler even if the firm capitulates this side of bankruptcy ? The arrangement with Hart, Schaffner & Marx is, frankly, temporaary...
...When did the Red Cross ever do anything to help the striking miners," asked one delegate and thereby probed the class ethics of that organization...
...Labor and the Machine J^ABOR-DISPLACING inventions have increased the productive power of workers many fold and reduced the number of workers required to produce a given amount of service or commodities...
...15, a gymnasium at the Washington Irvbag Sngh School...
...Activities at the Bream Cesser, 1163 Sunday, Dec 18, 4 p. m_ Weekly Forum...
...Even the courts have felt the different atmosphere in Milwaukee...
...Wilbelm Hohenzollern could not see the necessity for such self-immolation...
...and from 4-6 p. m, to boys...
...UNCLE SAM PASSES BY "Uncle Sam passed my door when he distributed the winnings of ourbotst-' ed national prosperity, but I ctnnni be without the New Leader...
...Sunday...
...Of course the workers have much to learn about the problems of production but the encouraging thing is that they are learning...
...and Park *2l ofig> DnRoberto wul lecture oc^^i of JewUh Hottdays- *>L**°&l£m at 119 Summer Ave, Brooklyn, Dec 16, at 4 p.m...
...Already these workers are running the largest clothing factory northwest of Chicago...
...No decent man can be content by being told that all American lives have been saved, that the strike was the work of "agitators" and that It is being firmly dealt with by the Columbian government...
...The savings made possible by the machine will be reaped by the owners of the industry...
...Judge Gustavo Oehrz of the Circuit Court in Milwaukee refused to make his court the agency of the bosses who were rebuked when they had the gall to ask the Supreme Court to take original Jurisdiction over his head...
...The necessity for abolishing it would become manifest to the minds of statesmen...
...De«-»J ggal p. m, at the Harlem Workajsrs School, 104th St...
...Until last week I had two of them myself, and now Secretary Daniels has them...
...She backed a horse at ten to one— A favorite is no good To one who lays an only bob In chance of getting food...
...JEAN JAURES PAUL, for Le Cerele Victor Boro, N. T. C. WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN'S GOOD SENSE (The following remarkable editorial appeared in the Terre Haute Star of December S. See editorial comment on this page...
...A part of the funds which it receives for its work comes from the exploiters of humankind...
...His assistant Is Jerome Posner...
...Other inventions of recent years show the necessity of workers expanding their vision of shop democracy to industrial democracy for the nation as a whole, otherwise we will become robot slaves of the machine-owners...
...Be send* bt I pgJ^ a aewspaper clipping jrebw a eeemt of the aetinuea t tfc« ZmmW gaatsethwj...
...What we want to know is the events that led to the strike, the demands of the workers...
...The Minnesota Union Advoeaar tnot us with a sub...
...We would like very much to move the play to an up-town theatre, where burger audiences could see it...
...All this I saw for myself when X visited Milwaukee during the campaign...
...Of four factories only one containing the central offices la open ot has been open since the strike began...
...That the Red Cross has relieved suffering in war, storm, earthquake and flood is certainly true and no humanitarian would question the need of aid in such calamities and yet there are other disasters inflicting acute suffering which do hot invite the assistance of the Red Cross...
...The Arc Junior Circle ^"^TatJ Marco Juniors...
...Editor...
...The' manager of this Milwaukee factory is Hyman Isovits, a business agent of the union in Chicago...
...Louis Mlttlacher...
...A shawl about her uncombed hair, A tattered, greasy skirt...
...In substance it supports the opinion that if high government officials following a declaration of war are forced to "go into action with the fleets, orinto the first line trenches with the armies, the eXnrrplete and effective outlawry of war would be accomplished quickly...
...Singles from many others, asMng that, Miss Jessie Johnson, Canada, Hznj Herbst, New York and Daniel Post* Connecticut...
...So here is the Messiah who qualifies for leadership of the awkward squads, the former hunter of Tammany bad men and weak republics of the Caribbean Sea and Central America...
...Against such powerful opposition the Amalgamated Clothing Workers introduced a new element of offense...
...The self-advertised "revolutionary" is required to turn yellow and save himself while women and children drown...
...A OUR THRIFT SERieDS- ^ Save yourself annoyance.^ osw j postage by renewing promptly sen j in a sub or two with your own...
...The Gambler I watched her shuffle down the street To where the Bookies stand, The only shilling ahe possessed Held tightly in her hand...
...Posner, wtU meet at the Rand School, 7 K 15th Street...
...rJ1HE death of Admiral Scheer of Germany has given publicity to a story that in October, 1B18, he was ordered to make a desperate final effort to wipe out the British fleet...
...A Christmas gift of $1 and a ranreal from Mrs...
...Announcement of the event will be made later...
...Last winter thousands of men, women and children suffered extreme privation in the miners' strike...
...9 L. A Plan uter of Chtceaax kw«^ renew "to the brightest paper wo by aay radical inpveraemV* -. ¦ - t -G«ttfaar better with seek " **• ••••uO...
...Otherwise women and children may die like flies without awakening the pity of the professional "humanitarians...
...H. Btrehard of WhV> a, Z> as he has enoorh to keep easy (Jg...
...What is it we were supposed to quarrel about and why...
...Difficulties ot access to this field, however, are very great and the Stndrd's dventure, according to Margaret A Marsh, "has been well described as the greatest wild catting adventure ever undertaken in any territory...
...The history of cooperative workshops and factories In general and In America in particular has not been encouraging for a number of reasons well recognized by students...
...The working class must provide its own Red Cross...
...We are inclined to think that its_ records will show that some of the capitalists with investments in the closed mines gave liberally to the Red Cross while they were starving and freezing men, women and children in the mining areas...
...New members will be admitted...
...Judge Oehrz granted the workers back pay for the time they lost because they were locked out three or four weeks before the expiration of the agreement with the union...
...They opened up a factory in cooperation with Hart, Schaffner Sc Marx...
...Can a permanent arrangement for carrying on the workers' own factory and taking care of the marketing problem be developed...
...An Inspiring StrikeIn Milwaukee the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the firm of David Adler and some of its attendant circumstances make encouraging and instructive reading for us in days when too often the cause of labor seems to be marking tingr...
...His conscience eased by such sedatives as human nature knows well how to use, he is doubtless getting a good deal of quiet pleasure out of his declining years...
...He declined to seise the opportunity of ending his career in a manner like that, according to the traditional standards, would have been heroic if not glorious...
...The king's eyes on the shilling, too, Were clotted up with dirt...
...Circles are asked to reserve Sunday evening, January.37...
...Organiser Sutton of New Jersey, Sag five...
...and the other leading off to the highlands of the morning, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where honest effort Is rewarded with immorality...
...and the courts invariably sustain the action...
...Why should Wilhelm spare his life for a happy rustication at Doom, while the admiral went to a hero's doom, standing with arms folded in calm courage on the bridge of his ship—or however and wherever admirals stand under such circumstances...
...Glee Club— Beginning Dec...
...Such are the terrible privations endured by the miners and their families during their long strike and similar sufferings that have occurred and will continue to occur in many industrial struggles...
...Since then has come a very interesting new development...
...Another thing about the strike worth comment is the hearty support and sympathy the workers and leaders of the A. F. of L. unions In Milwaukee have given to this strike of an organization outside the A. F. of L. That is something worth recording...
...The play is to run for a month at the Province town Theatre, the bouse having been sold out at half price for the first three weeks to various labor organizations...
...Morris of Watertown, ft T, | buying extra copies of The Mew IsssE WE BLUSH BUT TOURS RIGHT "Please send your truth-tpreadtag, Sv erty-Iovlng gazette to Jos...
...A month or two ago e number of Communists were raided without warrant of law, and if it were not for the generosity of Kate Crane darts in putting up ball, a score of persons would be in Jail at the present time...
...In short, the human price of the bananas we eat...
...The Immediate occasion has been a clash between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops in disputed territory at the southeastern corner of Bolivia...
...Did the shade of Debs look over the shoulder of the editor who wrote this editorial...
...We know enough to be suspicious...
...After dealing with htm we will go and shake hands with the fellows he wanted as to kill, and aay...
...The "humanitarianism" of the organization is limited...
...It, 8:30 p. m. The Arte and Crafts win meet with Bnee tbmm aa Instructor...
...The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey having successfully crowded out British oil interests in Bolivia acquired the rights for the exploitation of Bolivian oil and has done some work in southeastern Bolivia, adjoining the territory under dispute, which has been under Paraguayan control...
...Roosevelt also has a reputation as a hunter In another field—Latin America...
...Chas...
...The Hunter at Home JTRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT will succeed Alfred Emanuel as Governor of New York and already some Democratic-leaders see in Roosevelt a man of messianic proportions to lead the unterrified to victory...
...You know I have had something to do with the running of a couple of little republics...
...At shop meetings all questions are taken up candidly for discussion...
...Once more it ia clear how little we know of the Intrigues that lead to war...
...J. L. Afros, director of Young Circle League, "How to Enjoy a Scrap...
...If it were required that in case of war all rulers—kings or presidents— and all secretaries of state and ministers of foreign affairs, together with diplomats and persons of like responsibility in the political sphere, should go into action with the fleets, or into the first line trenches with the armies, the complete and effective outlawry of war would be accomplished quickly...
...They were homeless and without food...
...Peon...
...Nevertheless, this hoped for oil in disputed territory is the likely cause of trouble...
...Moreover they have signed or are about to sign the Kellogg Pact...
...Yet the politicians In La Paz, Bolivia—the word Paz means peace—shout for war...
...If the crew of the Vestris did try to save themselves first they are to be congratulated for having done so...
...Under the Socialist Mayor, Dan Hoan, mass picketing is permitted and ia practiced without disorder and without any arrests...
...aba aoaaa eenahted fat tenewteg far % yeaav "Why cannot the worker wake as asks Jaa...
...Cowardice Approved y^E HAVE no desire to pay attention to our Communist "friends" in these columns but occasionally something happens that is so eccentric that it is worth passing on to our readers...
...The Star goes, on to observe that if the war-makers keep out of the trenches why shouldn't "the young men whose lives are potentially worth more to their countries and the world than those of their elders ?" Moreover, if in the future "any violence is employed it will be used upon the man who tries to quarrel with our neighbors...
...Irving Place and 17th Street, on the 8th floor, win be open to the Young Circle League members to New York and vicinity tor exercise aad games...
...It is said that the admiral refused to engage in the forlorn hope unless his Emperor would accompany him and take with him the chances of disaster and death...
...And if it be good sense for the rulers and statesmen to keep out of naval battles and land engagements, and to spare their lives for such usefulness and happiness ss the future may hold, why is it not good sense for the average citizen, for the young men whose Uvea are potentially worth more to their countries and the world than those of their elders...
...Chicago...
...And bad the heart to sing...
...It was Wilhelm's war—why, then, should the admiral or anybody else take risks that Wilhelm was not willing to take...
...These are: 1. The Kellogg Treaty and Outlawing War...
...Dont see how I can get eks* «**•* the paper, ao here's my renewal, w. Pate...
...Which do you oppose...
...We know, among other things, that Bolivia lies definitely within the American sphere of Influence and that her government is notoriously friendly to our government and our bankers...
...AU members are Invited, Tuesday...
...Its interest is enhanced by the fact that it appears in a very conservative piper...
...The budget was about onefourth what the play would have cost if done for commercial purposes...
...She let the baby drain bar breast...
...If mf* w our readers felt as they should ft&, that The New Leader is indeed Out paper,, our circulation would tt*double...
...and if any ot your readers will assist the enterprise, we will gladly give a lien upon the receipts...
...The United States has about twelve votes in the Assembly," he declared...
...Order a Snb for a friend...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 52
