A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES LOST; A SENSE OF SIN rr 0 hotidays have left us a bit-groggy. But not the way you think, boys and girls. We are referring l§ the effects upon our alleged and...
...The recurrent stupidities, the sloth-like intellectual progress and the criminal selfishness of most people give me chills and fever blisters all over...
...And all you have done to keep the microbial hordes doing a dizzy dance while you boll your serums, and pound the anti-toxins is a thrilling movie from which I never want to get up and leave...
...This year two more works of a similar character come from the Nevlns' workshop, one a volume containing selections of American press opinions from 1785 to 1927, which-we shall notice later, and the other The Diary of John Qoincy Adams...
...and pesky little devils gives me the torrential tickles...
...totter along as best J ran without any sense of sin whatsoever...
...Every Sunday we got it straight from the shoulder that we were * low-life outfit who were skidding along the road to a*U unless we made a definite detour heavenwards...
...If you are a giant, Kotlkokura, you must not rise to your full stature in public, or else the others will become weary of craning their necks to see you, and sooner or later, Uiey will chop your head off that they may equal you in size...
...But weys and girls let's go into the future with our heads These same scientists have announced that it takes "**¦ hundred million years for our particular universe PJ rotate...
...That's the question...
...Remember E. A Robinson's warning: Talk ? He is Eldridge at it...
...the deliberations of the men of science who oegQ assembled in various conventions in New vant this past week...
...J. O. "Lese Ma jest*" in Yugoslavia In Sarajevo an old woman named Magdalen* Leonardic was sentenced to a year's imprisonment because she is said to have used insulting language concerning the parents of the King In 1927...
...To be ¦ere the Episcopalians muttered every Sunday someBring about the things they had done and left undone...
...Blessed, forever blessed, be the name of God...
...He squirmed and stuttered and apologized and denied and explained...
...And I'm afraid I've been a bit cocky about having as complete a conviction of sin as anyone around...
...It is my aim to please...
...The only reason why there is some resentment in me over your discovery on longer living spring...
...But here the superiority ends abruptly...
...I was Janght that the wages of sin are death...
...A fierce determination took possession of me...
...Could Communism present a better example of its own fanciful and grotesque mentality...
...Like the other booklets In this serial this one carries an introduction, almost a third of the volume, and written by Alexander Trachtenberg...
...William Lea...
...The result is a dual portrait of Debt that is not only absurd but an insult to the dead...
...are the hardest "VCY First Two Thousand Years," by George Sylvester Vie reck and Paul EMrldge (Maoaulay, 82.50), purports to be toe autobiography of the Wandering Jew...
...From my own observation of almost forty years, it appears that the older we get, the more, useless we become to the progress of the world Something happens in the mental processes, that just stultifies everything the heart and spirit started hi youth It is here that science is not so hot...
...Nothing like that for us Presbyterians...
...are those "which seem of the greatest permanent worth, giving emphasis to the materials which throw light on the social backgground of the period, on J. Q Adams' character, and on the more dramatic political and diplomatic events of the time.'' The first entry of the diarist in this selection is dated June 3, 1794, and the last one March 13, 1845...
...Physically, I have suffered little in the last twenty years...
...Last year appeared The Diary af Philip Hone in two volumes, a digest of 28 quarto volumes of the original manuscript of a delightful old aristocratic New York Whig merchant...
...This is the gentleman who writes his own biography in the introduction and ascribes it to Eugene V. Debs...
...For example, this same Congressman declared that "if the aboltianists of the North would preach insurrection to the southern slaves, he would retort upon them by preaching insurrection to the laborers against the capitalists of the North...
...I always strive faeep my clients abreast with the most recent develPheat* in the .fields of science, the arts, belle lettres 5~~ cat-breeding...
...Professor Harry Eimer saraes of Smith, who rises up to state that we have pi get us a brand pew religion and a different sort af God and sense of sin...
...gere ts a friend of ours...
...If there's anything that troubles P* in connection with any of these subjects just drop |hae to Yours-for-tne deener-tMngs-of-Ufe McAlister Coleman...
...Sometimes he is not quite fair as when he refers to Benton as a "liar of magnitude beyond the reach of Ferdinand Mendel Pinto" and yet many of his characterisations come very near the mark...
...Science would do the rest of the world little good by Just lengthening their physical lives in self-centered existence...
...Scanning The New Books John Adams Seen Through His Diary By James Oneal QNE of the most diligent workers in the field of social and cultural history is Allan Kevins who, aside from several other historical studies, has edited a number of volumes that are invaluable for the student of American social history...
...The interior working of the machinery must be foul...
...Count this here gazabo as your pal and backalapper all the time...
...If |*» were to be suddenly magnified it would turn out f«at we were long distances apart from ourselves, if *¦> get what we m»an...
...But what of the forest, and what of the bill Their1* was a glory: yours is a swill...
...Calgary and Edmonton get 89.20, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver $9 and most of the rest 88 « day...
...The heroic Trachtenberg in New York became a pitiful figure before the Senate politicians...
...Now, understand me please, you old bewhiskered lads and microscope-peering lads, I'm not poking any levity at your serious and Important endeavors...
...He fought a good fight and that can be said of tew men who go to Washington today...
...One of the most profound observations to be found in the diary is that of November 9, 1822, when the peace of gentlemen that had been reached between old Federalists and Jeffersonians began to be disturbed...
...to rescue my body from the claws of the- Inquisition, flared up with primordial intensity...
...I So the scientists have wished us a happy New Year "without any sense of sin and the alluring prospect that this time next year we may all-gp^ ant...
...In Novi Sad (Neusatz) the gardener Michel Ragy was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for having used insulting language about the King...
...He detested the whole tribe of editors, "They are a sort of assassins who sit with loaded blunderbusses at the comer of streets and fire them off for hire or for sport at any passenger whom they select...
...Is he, less deft than Cabell, offering would-be tit-bits to purchasers of polite pornography...
...But like most *lges these are not real wages...
...it is my solemn conviction that the whole thing Is a rather feeble hoax, perpetrated by two men who have run the gamut of history in rapid reading, not in lingering life, and have snatched from the passing parade a few book-pictures they would here palm off on us as aching fragments of real days...
...It was a yellow performance, and certainly a Humiliating one considering his actions in New York...
...He would not watch until the sun died in darkness, and go out to see crows pecking the next morn, a body which the Jews were given permission to remove and'bury before sunset He would not speak to a Greek of the figure of a camel going through a needle's eye, in ignorance of the fact that the "needle's eye" was the pcetern gate of a walled town—or presuming on the Greek's ignorance thereof...
...books, has brought out the ninth booklet in the series entitled Vetoes at Betees...
...But I have gotten off my subject, which is the loss of tae sense of sin...
...WINDSOR, Ont.—(FP);—Union plumbers in Windsor and Saskatoon lead other Canadian locals with a $10 daily wage...
...and entry after entry is made in the diary in the succeeding years till December 3, 1844, when the rule was finally repealed by a vote of 180 to 80...
...Otherwise I'm just another case number 204 for a p3y*boanalyst's note-book...
...It isn't enough to say to myself that it was a mere psychological dislocation which started me on that party...
...That fives me the idea that I'm a broth of a lad, hell-bent...
...the difficulties of travel In the United States: the poitics of slavery in the South, of land distribution in the West, and of manufacturing capitalists in the North: imprisonment for debt: journalism and the editors who practiced the profession...
...Our Presbyterian ¦sat rose in temporary revolt...
...His views of certain politicians are masterpieces of portraiture...
...This is the Debs he gives to the Socialists...
...It is, as more than the names of the two writers indicates, spurious...
...Where the days lay sprawled And nights rolled down...
...Besides the American people do not Ike the name "Superman...
...Here was a hill with a tree-topped crest...
...We are referring l§ the effects upon our alleged and enfeebled intellect ¦f nertinr...
...JfOt^that it seems to have done any good...
...But they have probably done their best in the matter...
...If we go the other way we will be Supermen...
...Adams had been reading Walpole's Memoirs and found much in that work to remind him of politics at that period He wrote: "The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored...
...Whereas they know all about ants...
...For several reasons, as we say, this man cannot be the Wandering Jew...
...But on the street, they are duller than stone And all the drowsy silences men kneu Before the tones and roadways grew So hard and geometrically neat Sou viander by, sorrowful and spent Or in an odd bewilderment And none can find a poem in a street Science declares with the New Year that life can fc* prolonged indefinitely...
...Montreal which recently absorbed the dual catholic union is gradually rising to the normal union scale...
...While you are crushing, snorting, braying...
...And, even if a program note Instruct us that "the Freudian theme of the repetition compulsion" is the basic motif of the 500 page movement, surely so experienced a man as the Wandering Jew would have found more varied ways of presenting the same fundamental idea...
...Why should human beings be allowed to live any longer than they do now...
...Folks tell me that 1 play a better game of tennis, and run further distances than ever before...
...You can go right ahead, ladies, and select P**8 new curtains for the bed-room confident that in Ptte of the fact that they are in reality just strung Ps*th»r holes, they may see you through the year...
...Originally a Federalist, he was not captivated by the rough democracy of the Jacksonian period and yet he could not endure the aristocratic arrogance of New England Federalism or the philosophy of economic bondage expounded by Calhoun and other representatives of planter politics...
...As a member of the Socialist Party in 1919* he proved to be the dual character which he ascribes to Debs...
...Clamorous hammer, and you, the uncouth Huge beast with the four-pronged tooth...
...gja, says Prof...
...He would know some, at least, of these matters of the days that were pressed most vividly on his memory by the burden set upon him...
...I know that in every election of national and executive committees and of delegates to national conventions not only my own local but hundreds of other locals nominated Debs for these party honors...
...Mankind, he says, is at the cross-roads of time "one way leading to a civilization of antlike beings and the ether to a society of more wise and equal men...
...In 1833 appeared his American Social Enstery as accorded fry British Travelers, a volume containing selections recording the first-hand views of English observers from 1789 to 1922...
...With a great soft breast...
...And the timid dawns crawled Right up to the crown...
...All our life we have been going around enjoying the Calviniatic agonies of a mighty healthy sense of sin...
...Is the Wandering Jew currying favor with the readers of our more violent magazines...
...Now the writer of this notice was a member of the party In Terre Haute from 1897 to April, 1915...
...Did he favor the Soviet form of government...
...from an inate cynicism about humanity in general...
...All his life Adams was walking between "burning ploughshares" because he could never be kept as a docile member of either the upper or the lower herd...
...We think not...
...Even so solid a body as Bishop Manis just a hole like you and ire...
...1831, when contemplating the intrigues, rumors, prevarications, calumnies and ambitions of the politicians he recorded this in his diary: "I walk between burning ploughshares: let me be mindful where I place my foot...
...Now that Harry Barnes has performed his major operation and I don't have to worry shout that any more, I feel strangely empty...
...The first entry in this long fight against the "gag rule" is dated January 4. 1836...
...He presents Debs ae^-the...
...And in football, I can still outwtnd most of the younger ones...
...loner/ man if he were to enter the upper1 class pontics of this period of sham and pretense...
...For judging from the results of the last election, the ants would win by a huge majority...
...the religious beliefs and prejudices of the period...
...If we fa one way, "the human race will become patterned after the model of the ant-hill or the bee-hive with a large number of workers of stunted mental growth sup.ajrtmg and supported fay a small aristocracy of best Maaa set aside for the creative functioa—creative, hat is, in the spiritual sense...
...THE CHATTER BOX City Streets Poem does not rise jrom the street All the silences men knew Before the rutted roadway* grew Hard and wide and Geometrically neat, Wander about in odd bewilderment...
...Ponderous tower on tower, where once A grain field lasted under the sky, And a languid cloud led a shadow by, While a crow cawed high...
...And why then shall my physical yean be extended ? Unless, of course there be a way of shooting ones dreams full of new light and faith...
...There are grey hairs aplenty on my mind...
...This section is a compound of falsehoods and halftruths in which the author makes of Debs a fool...
...Crawford, he wrote, "has been a worm preying upon the vitals of the Administration within its own body...
...Why all that you build is so quick to crumble . . . ? I stand mute while you growl and crunch...
...Ain't you ashamed of yourself, a great, big, grown-up man like you acting tkat way...
...a man "with a tincture of aristocracy—an amalgamated metal of lead and copper...
...Clay is, "like almost all the eminent men of this country, only half educated" and if elected President "his Administration would be a perpetual succession of intrigue...
...He was fundamentally a great propagandist, certainly one of the greatest the world has ever known, and executive work has was always Irksome to him...
...This is a selection from the twelve volumes edited by Charles Francis Adams...
...Surely the Wandering Jew would not have pictured the scene of the Crucifixion without mention of the other two crosses...
...Salome, paying no attention to my explanation, toyed with the tiny figure of Li-BiDo, an obscene god, long forgotten, even in the Celestial Realm, and carelessly tossed the others aside...
...The atoms that ¦ak" vs up aren't packed in close like folks in the Wcway so that there are great gaps between us...
...John Qumey Adams would be a vary...
...I hope that we don't have to vote on this subject within the next ten or tweny jtears...
...I'd •mch prefer to feel that it was the devil himself...
...one hand ss a courageous, inspiring, uncompromising working class agitator who belongs to the Communists: On the other hand he presents Debs lacking in the courage of bis convictions, an easy mark for cunning Socialist "politicians,'' permitting himself against his own wishes to be excluded from committees and conventions of the Socialist Party, and a doddering fool in general...
...Adams was a cultivated man who saw much of life abroad in the diplomatic service, a voracious reader, a disciplined worker who subjected himself to a rigid routine of dally labor, rather cold and forbidding, something of a cynic in politics, independent in his convictions, painfully conscious of his austere and frigid manners which he could not amend, yet keen in his judgments of men and with a courage quite in contrast with the greasy opportunism of other notable political figures of his age...
...When man and women have passed that goal without seeing the ideal of Bociallsm there if little need for them any longer...
...How will you hear when your work is done 'What the dungeoned earth says to the sun 7 And how can you learn with your senseless jumble...
...Here a vale, and in it a stream Giggling away on a credulous dream How the sun and the moon and itself were three Eternally...
...Then he was called to Washington to attend a Senate investigation of Communism...
...Debs always declined and any person who knew Debs st all knows why he declined...
...Iran and stoat, where once a garden lay In summer lush...
...I went quite deeply into this sci"tuff because so many of my readers have been iyiaining of late that I do not deal with "the deeper P*P of life...
...The Communists, however, give currency to the falsehood that Debs was a weakling who permitted "politicians" to exclude him from these honors and Trachtenberg passes it on hi this booklet...
...Thus on January 14...
...Science has definitely (pockrd sin for a loop and the old idea that we are tnstrs all is Just so much boloney...
...The passages presented, writes Professor Nevins...
...And if I were a scientist, the first thing I would work on would be the methods of keeping people below thirtv in mind and body...
...I knew I had it all right, but I didn't know what to do with it...
...For myself, this longer life promise carries little kick The skepticism that often palls my thought and distorts my dreams is a sign of mental weariness, In no way related to the fiesb...
...Of course, the great distinction of Adams lies in his long fight in the lower House for the right of presenting antislavery petitions...
...is the last sentence of the record for that day...
...But it was a wow at postnortrmsIt usually came around about nine o'clock in the sawning with a lot of gloomy stuff about, "Now look at what you went and done...
...The way you have "Seen robbing Dr...
...They are just the *sges you might get, if you worked steadily...
...They look on it as something brought over here from Germany and it is alien to their psychology...
...It was a sort of dishnction to feel that of all earthly sinners we Presbyterians were by all odds the most conscious...
...Old age is si- disease...
...It is a libel on Debs and the creature who is capable of it becomes of interest to us...
...When are you going to settle down and take on all these responsibilities that have been hanging around for so many years ? Are you a man or a ant-mouse?'' Speaking about chit-mouses another one of these science sharps has been saying that we are soon to face a choice as to whether we shall be giants or ants...
...Many entries show the class antagonism between the planters and northern manufacturers...
...Furthermore the ant party .would njdoubtedly receive the unanimous support of the A. F. of L. And most of the American Liberals...
...True, there's a tower where once stood a barn And a glittering town instead of a tarn...
...Pan cannot live in a petrified city: The earth is marrow: the woodland, bone, And nymphs in a grove so lavishly pretty...
...For eight years the gallant old man carried on this struggle amidst intimidation, cowardly evasions, threats, obstructions and misrepresentations and finally was awarded with victory...
...i One parting shot they took before retiring into their Pbaratories was to the effect that this seemingly solid •trta is mostly "hole...
...Van Buren was able but he "pursues enmity as if he thought it might be one day his interest to seek friendship...
...Barnes, is out...
...More power to you all...
...It is only when I come among the Ylpeel* and their kind that something of my own youth tingles and glow* within...
...It never functioned when it was" really needed...
...Or in more popular terms, about the length Pftime that it takes a Rotarian to get a new idea...
...1794-1845 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co...
...1848...
...I* trust you all appreciate what a liberal education P» column offers...
...interesting views of politicians and parties and expressions of opinion which often arrest the attention of the reader...
...Through this diary the reader often observes a brilliant flash thrown into some corner of a world that is now vanished, the caucus of office-holders who named presidents...
...Stratoa and the rest of the helmsmen to Paradise of their pet little Jehovahs...
...We are what the pessimist sees "the dough-nut...
...And we listen, Thereby discovering much we knew before...
...P*der these circumstances there is no immediate cause Pr worry...
...Views on Slavery As early as 1820 he observed the unfolding of the philosophy of slavery through conversations with Calhoun and although he had a high opinion of Calhoun's abilities he had an extreme Aversion to his slavery views...
...Science would Indeed liberate the earth if it found a way of keeping life eternally st the age of dreams and ideals...
...although there are scattering entries in the original publication till November...
...Can such a man be the Wandering Jew...
...And consequently, whatever I say and do about my hope for Socialism suffers with these symptom* of old age...
...One might continue, save that good sense bids one fear wreck...
...That . observation holds good of bourgeois politics today and it has been the theme of s number of books on American politics in the past few years...
...Debs Dishonored 'iins International Publishers, chief agency for publishing Communis...
...But it never seemed to us that they took it as seriously M we did, they being a rather top-lofty folk who had Is read their confessions out of a fancy prayer-book...
...A jolly pwwd...
...A Penetrating View of Polities Now and then a sentiment is recorded which epitomises the character and the life of the man...
...For a fleeting moment we suffered pangs of regret m we read sin's obituary notice...
...Gland* can be monkeyed with, the cell can be re-tinned and tinkered and with a proper service department, we can all be overhauled like so many flivvers and set to renewed sputtering over the highways of existence...
...This one conststi of selections from the speeches and writings of Eugene V. Dens, a scanty collection and carefully selected to give the impression that Debs shared in communist eccentricities...
...His example is an inspiration in these days of the political trimmer who Is all things, to all men...
...4----|Now to be an ant without a sense of sin and *wtly hole at that is not our idea of a good life...
...Of a South Carolina Congressman in 1837 he declared that his speech was "repeated from Calhoun, upon banks, banking, and the bank, of South Carolina nullification, of slave-driving autocracy, and of ranting radicalism...
...It was Bke a spiritual appendix...
...And it is here that I demur and mutter...
...the practice of duelling...
...The letter would decide that the time is not ripe for any Superman party...
...S. A. de Witt...
...Who is Trachtenberg...
...wherein the spent Winds dallied through the day Tickling the hedge and the staid trees With whispering gossip and old drolleries Riveted girder, granite and bronze...
...If instead of merely having a Ja> for some good healthy sinning, it now turns out that the business began when I was a small child and •seated at arithmetic because of a teacher-complex— Jwdl that may be science but is it art t f However Harry Elmer Barnes knows an awful lot had about every other day we writes a new book on "war guilt, so I suppose I'll have to...
...And you with the long, thin square-ribbed necks Roofing the earth with a hundred decks: Girders, granite, bronze and steel, You, all of you, how can you feelHow can you know of a seedling spreading Its laboring form on the soft loam bedding" How can you hear what the earth is saying...
...Somehow I miss those depressing morning conferences...
...Science being logical ought to commence with that aspect first...
...The Wandering Jew could not and would not have written such a volume...
...Is he seeking repute among those who peruse popularizing volumes of the world's best thoughts, condensed and simplified for rapid consumption...
...In that year he was urging in the party support of the Communist program with its advocacy of secrecy, armed insurrection and other imbecilities...
...Surely the Wandering Jew, wherever his languages beyond the trap6 of heaviness of style, his philosophies beyond the reach of trite truisms, and his mythologies beyond the need of weak inventions...
...I hate the rhyme in your gluttonous grovel-A river for tea or a mountain for lunchTrue there's a temple where once was a hovel...
...Yet Adams appointed Clay his Secretary of State...
...The desire to Ave...
...In the first place, there is an introductory part of the tale which, if this were genuine autobiography, would be a preface and not part of the story, telling how Isaac Laquedem is met and put forward his claim to that man on whom the Christ laid his solemn seal...
...Unless these rejuvenation tricks carry with them the miracle of giving youth's quick to the mind, all the elixirs and potions and waters from magic fountains aren't worth a hoot in Hades...
Vol. 7 • January 1929 • No. 55
