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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES "I JUST CANT MAKE MY GUTS BEHAVE" Behaviorist Marching Sojax tpducate your guts, my boys, Train the unstriped viscera niL'a the only way «• ever will be...
...We only wish that a book as forceful and clear in the presentation yt Socialism would be written by another Laski...
...New York Henry Holt and Co...
...n Found guilty of proving himself crasy, Remus te exonerated for killing his wife and the courts sentenced him to a long and doeui red rest for hems...
...Bootlegging is, not the five million), and Ramus is jerked in court...
...Well, Congress, mill it over and let me know what you think about my ideas...
...Tbe whole country la going crasy...
...Question: What happens when a hollow «*i-tfng object hits a rock at the rate of thirty knots an hour T Correct Answer: Ask the rock...
...be ask:d...
...So, I say, lot's have an intelligence tost tor admirals, like we have for miners in Illinois...
...intestines, our lungs and their appendages such as the* diaphragm aad windpipe and our heart with its playmate, the arteries and veins, have been raising hob all the time, unbeknownst to us...
...The turn of the century and the first decade of the new century brought a revolution as profound as the overthrow of the cotton magnates in the mld-nlneteeenth century...
...Watson, founding father of the Behaviorist School of Psychology, in an •rode In the February issue of Harper's Magazine: "The good old Anglo-Saxon word 'guts* is one of DK simplest terms to designate that portion of our anatomy that moves—behaves—responds to emotional jtimuli...
...Labor's Dividends Under this arresting headline The New Leader, the Socialist weekly in New York, prints regularly the casualties suffered by wage-earners in the pursuit of everyday labor—a great deal of which...
...At tbe graduating exercises, the government of the United States presents millionaire Remus with a new suit of clothes and a five-dollar bill and be te turned out in the cold world to start all over...
...McAIister Coleman...
...Down to the middle eighties it had been the doctrine of American diplomacy not to protect loans and Investments of Americans abroad as It was "inconsistent with the dignity of the United States...
...But every year in this country some 3,300 miners are killed on the job...
...Dave never was on a ship, either, but he knows a lot about schooners and rescuing, being that he lives in Belleville and Is captain of the mine rescue crew of that famous seaport...
...Since then American imperialism has overthrown the republics of Haiti, San Domingo' and Nicaragua and Mexico has received orders how to treat American oil and other magnates...
...And the trick is to "condition" these gut responses so thai everyone will realize that the display of affection and the giving away of emotion is very bad form, indeed./ It gives one to think, or rather to set in action the particular ductless gland that "conditions" what we like to call thought...
...At the very time when the forty unfortunates of the 8-4 were dead beyond tbe most desperate hope, and the papers were still running columns on the story dally, the bodies of four miners were being removed from lethal caverns at Marion, Illinois, and a struggle on to save three still thought to be alive...
...But I Just now got it doped out Besides, I'm seriously thinking of killing a prohibition officer before long and when the Judge seas this piece, he'll find me crazy sure as -. Waff, there is nothing like preparedness, to there T...
...Take this man Remus for instance...
...You'll know that this Is just a low-down at~?Pt to upset~your viscera...
...Correct Answer: Because they've got to be wet on .both sides to do the work...
...that its own advocates would recognize that even an opponent can state them fairly...
...I'm not sure...
...Waiting's book (The Mexican Que...
...When gathered into a trust this "water" served as the basis for trust capitalization and often still more "water" was added...
...portrait he hadn't heard that'ttabther-love is *U hooey and is just the response to early petting...
...GROWTH OF TRUSTS...
...Listen to Mr...
...This philosophy became the creed of the ruling magnates and rapidly became the foreign policy of each administration at Washington...
...Many companies had been" overcapitalized by issuance of watered stock...
...By the side of the trusts grew powerful banking systems like the house of Morgan while a trust like Standard Oil also became a gigantic banking concern financing Its great business...
...That's all tuere is to begin with...
...It is possible to fundamentally disagree and yet pres* ent Communism for what it is and what its protagonists claim for it...
...You'll have to aak the technical meet" Q. When was tbe compartment air line connected...
...The first was a "gentlemen's agreement" of manufacturers to fix prices...
...Ramus, who knows lawyers, having been one himself, is sane enough to plead his own case and does it so successfully that the courts declare him crasy in spite of all that the son of a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States could do to prove him sane...
...I had hoped he would bring my letter to your attention in a special message, but he doesn't seem to have done so yet...
...Another thing he found out is that if you hold a baby out of the third story window, for instance, and pretend to drop it, this tends to .frighten the baby: 6* he concludes that, primarily, fear comes from two things, loud sounds and the loss of support...
...A prophecy which was fulfilled In the court decisions mentioned below...
...The Mexican Question" Is an appreciative account of the political and economic aspirations and accomplishment' of the Calles regime...
...But miners fighting for life against gradual approach of suffocation, deep in the blackness underground, do not receive pages in the press...
...The first ten chapters of the book which give the program and accomplishments of the Calles regime have been formally approved by the Mexican president...
...He declares, what is obvious to all, that no book on Communism "can hope to be impartial" but it was his ambition "so to state tbe Comunist 'theses...
...Recoiling from the horrible disaster of Provmcetown, made doubly hideous because of the stupidity manifested by humanity in allowing submarines to exist at all, one's mind reverts to these labor disasters...
...Further to admit that reason, will, intellect, imagination, the stuff that dreams are 'made of (ineluding Freudian dream) are anywhere in .the picture ''would be equally as fatal...
...So the "unconditioned stimulus," consisting of iue hampering of bodily movement, causes rage, finally uie stroking of the skin of a baby, pleases the baby and we have the "unconditioned response" that old-fashioned people call "love...
...a menace to society...
...We can't thank God, because He has been thrown out along with Intellect, will, etc., so we'll have to thank the testtubes in the Johns Hopkins laboratories that little K«-6.ts had his unstriped muscles functioning when he wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn...
...But most of all, Mr...
...He conferred with Secretary of State John Hay and with President Roosevelt and on the day set for the "revolution" American warships appeared off the coast, warning Colombia not to march troops into her own province of Panama to suppress the revolt...
...Question: Why do chickens cross the road...
...These accumulations in turn hac been enormously enhanced by the corruption of President Grant's two administrations...
...Watson,jguilty of heresy when he uses so unbehavioristic a word as "should...
...The total capitalization increased from $13,250,000 in 1869 to $3,587,777,000 in 1899...
...Watson has discovered by hollering "boo" at babies and making other unpleasant noises that babies are frightened by loud noises...
...So rapid was the transformation in the old form of capitalistic property in industry that the industrial age of the first decade of this century was as unlike the age of Lincoln as his age wis unlike the age of Washington...
...Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898...
...There were but two large combinations in 1869...
...He makes five million dollars bootlegging, which is against the law...
...And Knowing bow busy you all are, I made up one out of my own head...
...Now it can be told, boys and girls...
...etlll the people are no more than slaves...
...He shows the origin and growth of the Mexican Federation of Labor (the CROM) and the Labor Party, under favoring governmental auspices...
...I a wide OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS rtlAB Sirs sad Brothers: U Last week I wrote a letter to Brother CsJ...
...So I thought Td better write you direct before you vote that 360,000,000 bucks for a bigger and bunglier navy...
...When an aspirant can give 80 per cent correct answers as indicated by my questionnaire, he Is fit to be a 100 per cent admiral...
...but do you know anything about the catastrophes at Benwood, West Virginia, and Castle Gate, Utah, In which 119 and 171 were killed, respectively, many after long-drawn-out aaonv?—The World Tomorrow...
...It's the very latest scientific language...
...And when our young j*U«gians go out on petting parties, in the pockets j* their coon-skin coats they will carsy charts showeffect of stroking on the ductless glands...
...American sugar investors in Hawaii inspired a "revolution" in the island in 1893 with the knowledge of the American Minister and aided by troops supplied by an American cruiser...
...Walling is also concerned In the spreading of good-will toward Mexico 'In the United States, he is apparently more certain of the efficacy of facta and figures than of emotions...
...Panama was seised in 1903 and within three days the Panama "republic" was recognised...
...Other Powers were "forging link n link, by open force or politic bargain,'* be control of other peoples...
...Our territory had expanded o the Pacific and to the Gulf of Mexico...
...A revolution was effected In capitalistic property and as the great magnates assumed control of production and distribution a war for mastery in certain fields followed...
...The Sons: of Life," American History for Workers An Outline — by James Oneal The Imperial Revolution rpHE RISE Or THE KINGS...
...The program of the Labor Party Mr...
...and no matter which ±r* *Surehead—a President or King— *~* People are no more than common grass . *¦ make a few choice cattle fat and rich...
...One of the very few writers who has accomplished this Is Harold J. Laski (Communism...
...Fear, rage and love...
...A sane man has no Show anymore...
...Going Crazy...
...The trouble with everything and everybody comes down te one short, painfully Saxon word—guta...
...RISE OF A MILITARIST PHILOSOPHY...
...Not so many of them—in this instance—and a bit leas dramatic In stark tragedy...
...Since 1869 there have been 23 major coal-mine disasters...
...rm saying this because after reading the testimony of Admiral Brumby before the naval court of Inquiry into the sinking of Submarine 8-4, I have come to the conclusion that what this country needs shove all things is an intelligence test for admirals...
...ADAM COALDIOGER...
...Admiral B,: "I don't know that It was ever connected...
...It ?T not, exactly be what you would'cafc a gay life ¦* It will be scientific as anything: n Tte class will now come to order and we will take 2? we lesson of the day, to wit: "The relation of ¦nchael Angelo's diaphragm to the treTsfcoes in the ''"tke Chapel in the Vatican...
...So he gets indignant and kills the prohibition officers, which would have been the natural thing to do (we all feel that way) but no...
...Competition came under the control of the kings...
...P. 8—If Sub 4 is still where It was the test than I heard of it, tell Brother Brumby to wire Dave Stuart...
...The third type of pool attempted to regulate output, the fourth to divide the field among companies, the fifth—a selling pool —created a central agency to handle all sales, 'and the sixth was an agreement by which all parties to it shared its patents with each other...
...My Impression is the seven did all they could do...
...Tbe remaining section of the book dealing with Mexican-American relations and Mexican labor, would, I am sure, also have been approved by His Excellency if the author had seen fit to submit them...
...Because of difficulty in enforcing pool agreements the trust form of organization succeeded the pool...
...If they find him crazy they apologise for having suspected bis sanity...
...I -.So" It's going to be a rather curious world, boys and Jul*,, when the Behaviorists have their way- Every nay...
...And how fortunate tor us sentimentalists that ,when Whistler came to *> th...
...State a slave ship...
...The miners got a grudging Inch or two...
...Here it is: Question: Where was Moses when the light went out...
...The Constitution of 1917 is regarded as the basis for the social reconstruction undertaken by Obregon and Calles and is therefore presented in some detail as it affects the land situation, the church, and Industry...
...Question: What is the shortest distance between two given points...
...Correct answer: He was in' Egypt looking for a match...
...He ktue his wife for the commendable act of loving bar bunband's enemy...
...Q.: Why was not the salvage compartment line, constructed to send breathing air into the torpedo chamber, connected ? Admiral B.: "Well, I don't really know...
...Universal military training and conscription was a national good...
...in 1899, 157...
...To Be Continued Next Week) Book Review Walling on Mexico TPHROUOH Lindbergh and Will Rogers Ambassador Morrow has caused so many printed words to be written about Mexico that anyone may be forgiven for wondering whether the subject has not been thoroughly explored...
...h. DA VIES...
...and for the four decades, 181...
...The cards are all stacked against him...
...Question: Why don't wet stones float...
...Americans were getting soft and required tbe *>nic of the barracks and the drill master...
...Correct Answer: Because It has no Wheels...
...In fact, the presentation Is more clear and more forceful than anything we have read from the' hands of any English-speaking Communist...
...siitf 800160116 comes up and holds your arms by your ** while his friend socks you in the jaw, you won't "Had...
...Walling finds Is "undoubtedly Socialistic in a sense...
...Rarely have we come across a writer with such a gift of popularization, condensation and fairness of presentation...
...A protectorate was established over Cuba and Porto Rico was annexed...
...Correct Answer: Oh, do they...
...Laski on Communism agOST of the studies of Communism written by non-Communists betray a bias In presentation and interpretation that render them useless...
...As to details I cant tall yea...
...I don't know...
...Correct Answer: An able-bodied seaman taking his girl home...
...Watson, from his vantage-point high up in the advertising agency of J. Walter Thompson, where he "psychologizes" potential advertising for cold creams, compacts, and soap-flakes, has a keen eye for the novel, and to admit that anything of much significance had happened in the line of studying the behaviors of men and women before the honest-toGod, kosher Behaviorism arrived on the scene would be fatal...
...In th* new era of imperial property this doctrine was brushed aside...
...N. Y. Robins Press) will convince you that It has not...
...Having made these mill tons he naturally can't plead Insanity, because a man who makes more money than be possibly can spend, simply can't be insane...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES "I JUST CANT MAKE MY GUTS BEHAVE" Behaviorist Marching Sojax tpducate your guts, my boys, Train the unstriped viscera niL'a the only way «• ever will be free, jojumy Watson tells you joft now you can do it, tog* to tame the insides That are plaguing you and me...
...If the courts find him sane they hang him...
...Admiral Brumby: » "I Just cant be p ¦ attl ui^ **** nical people...
...Yet a work so obviously fair in its approach has been violently assailed In the dally organ of the Communist Party as have the books inspired by old Csarist sympathisers...
...It was certaimy good luck for those of us who love poetry that the guts of Algernon Charles Swinburne, for example, were in good shape when his viscera responded to U.e stimulus of Spring around 1865 and the first chorus in "Atlanta in Calydon" was the result...
...The BehaviorKt Pope, John B. Watson, has issued his bull...
...Question: What is a naval escort...
...But Adam, tent that Remus ease awfully old stuff to write about...
...Laski considers the Materialist Conception of History, Communist Economics, the Communist Theory of the State, Communist 3trategy and in a final chapter subjects the whole system of Communist thought and action to a critical examination...
...We tell them first that Mr...
...Walling is concerned with the governments "well-defined obligations to labor and the labor movement" as set forth In Article 123...
...Moreover, Investors and gamblers had received rich gifts of land and funds from national, state and local governments, especially for canals and railroads...
...W...
...If you'll tell me the names of the two points, I'll ask the filling station man nearest to them...
...And then he goes on and tells us that while we have been busy educating our striped muscles, (those in our arms, lees and trunk) the unttriped muscles of our stomachs and...
...So that's that...
...To which systems the' Behaviorist wiJ now supply the blue-prints, sic., "Society must make up its mind what it 'wants its members to be and to do—• then it's up to tab behaviorist to find Ore' methods and technic that will bring up the child in tbe way it should grow...
...He desired 'predominance over tbe seas of the world" by the EnglUh-speaking world, lefore the Spanish-American War (1808) *3e had urged American mastery of the Caribbean Sea as an approach to tbe Isthmus of Panama to expand American «a power and commercial Hnmiwfann In true Bernhardt style Mahan regarded European and American civilisation is an "oasis set in tbe midst of barbarism" which must be civilised...
...But if be can answer no more than 33 1-3 per cent of them, be is only good enough for a rear admiral...
...He Is in charge of all the submarine* on the Atlantic ocean, a-float and a-aunk, and what he doesn't know about bis job would make the Congressional Library look like a sale bill...
...We think that he has accomplished his purpose...
...In every way, we'll be getting gutter* and gutter...
...Admiral B.: "I am not fam4Har with the dataaVs as* the construction of submarines, bat those who were there thought the stops being taken were the prep at ones...
...Is of the moderate variety......The CROM professes an equally moderate variety, of syndicalism...
...Philippe Bunau-Varilla, former chief engineer of the Panama Canal Company, planned the "revolution" In New York, set the date' for it, wrote the Panama "constitution," while his wife made tbe flag...
...The second was a speculative pool to control prices which disbanded when the object was obtained...
...Q.:At the time the first diver went down on Bunday, December 18, and heard tappings from the torpedo room, why did he not connect up the sir hoes then...
...I'm going crazy...
...Out of this war came greater concentration of capital and alliances of the magnates for mastery of definite industries...
...Fetched up In Court again...
...So Remus Is sent to the pea tor bootlegging...
...In a more or less distant future...
...Can you blame us...
...Have we no right or no call to progress further In any direction...
...there were people who suspected that indigestion might have had something to do with the pessimism of Schopenhaure, and that Nietzsche's disease might have affected his attitude towards life...
...Not to mention other labor losses, You recall the 8-61...
...Finally, this naval and military power provided Christianity an opportunity "to receive into its own bosom and raise to its own ideals those ancient and different civilizations by which it is surrounded and outnumbered—China, India and Japan...
...How the revolution affected foreign policy may be observed by citing a tew notable events...
...In 1904 President Roosevelt announced that the United States was to serve as an "international police power" In the Western Hemisphere...
...The great magnates near the end of the nineteenth century fell heir to the capital accumulations of two centuries and rose like feudal kings as masters of American life...
...tlon by William English Walling...
...Is perpetually fraught with physical danger...
...An example is the United States Steel Corporation which had a capitalization in excess of a billion dollars, a bonded debt of 300 millions, and including in its orbit the Morgan and Standard Oil financial powers...
...Combinations first took the form of "pools" which were of six types...
...He knows...
...Stockholders of separate companies assigned their stock to a certain number of trustees and received trust certificates upon which profits were divided...
...every sane person wants on the ground that he is not crazy and falls because tbe son at the Supreme Court judge who had fallen down on the Job of proving Remus sane, succeeded at last tn proving him crazy...
...To be sure there was Spinoza who had''somewhat broadly hinted at the relation between intellect and organic actipn and Nietzsche, himself had suggested that the greater part of thinking might be connected with instinctive functions...
...Correct Answer...
...During this remarkable period of transformation an American Bernhardt appeared with a subtle philosophy of national greatness, expansion and conquest, fitting the needs, of the new ruling class...
...Tbe Spanish-American War of 1898 left the United States master of the Caribbean Sea and conquest of the Philippines gave us an Influence in the Orient...
...The Latin word 'viscera* is a bit more polite but less forceful...
...But Remus, who it aught surmised, had bootlegged that minion together to epead his declining years in peace, tranquility and rest, goes to caurt again and pleads release from f—«*l»««a...
...It is true that before Brother Watson began those famous experiments of his on the babies in the Johns Hopkins laboratory (and have there ever been experiments more widely advertised than those...
...However, Mr...
...This is one of the small volumes in the Home University series and the author is Professor of Political Science In the University of London...
...there isn't any more...
...Incidentally isn't Mr...
...He's been there before...
...ur nurseries will be filled with" the' hangings of ">«hine-guns, the crash of broken Onna, the thun*Kj'ngs of riveters, the sudden droppings of elevators «0 of infants, whilst our young are being trained to condition" their fear of sudden noises and loss of •upport...
...Eva A. Frank...
...Captain A. T. Mahan of the U. S. Navy expounded the "manifest destiny" of the imperial republic in terms of great armaments that were to cut their way through seas to facilitate trade Jid the export of capital for overseas Investment...
...The masses were to be taught "order, obedience and reverence" because these virtues were "fundamental conditions of military success.' If the Constitution stands In the way, "as sentiment strengthens, it undermines obstacles, and they crumble before it...
...The capital accumulated in the colonial period through land speculation,'exploitation of white and black workers, through smuggling, the slave trade and commerce, and the French-British and American revolutionary wars, had been added to by post-revolutionary land speculation, the slave trade, the factory system and profiteering during the Civil War...
...Sure...
...England, Prance, Germany and Russia woe partitioning China and the American Government proclaimed the policy of the "Open Door," that is, our great magnates must be guaranteed an opportunity to share In the plunder...
...The Admiral was asked whether he thought the Admiral B.: "There Is none hector anywhere, hat Falcon well equipped for rescue work...
...But then someone has always been nasty enough to suggest that ever so many, people have had dyspepsia, and that nevertheless the world is not exactly cluttered up with Schopenhauers nor do we find a super-abundance of Nletztcbes in hospitals devoted to the curing of venereal diseases...
...Arriving tn the bosom of his family, be discovers that during his enforced absence, the wife of bis bosom had bean ¦pending some of his millions galavanting about with the prohibition officers who had sent him to the penitentiary...
...in 1879, 4; in 1889, 18...
...We would welcome it despite any critical chapter so long as It Is also writen In terms so fair and sympathetic as Laski has used, James Oneal...
...A new class had appeared to rule the republic...
...Vulgar...
...Maybe a lunacy test would be better but I leave that to you to decide after you have read the following abstract from the testimony of Admiral Brumby: Question: Why did It take so long for air to be started into the compartment...
...There's a heap more good ones like that in my head and if you need anything in that line, just let me know for there isn't anything I wouldn't do to make our navy safe from the admirals...
...Although Mr...
...Also If you hold r. baby's arms close to its sides it wiH' get mad...
...Not a bit of it...
...Commerce, loans and investments abroad became the prime abject of American foreign policy...
...We all get together on election day and say, "Goody, let's have a lot more capitalists," and then we send the little ones over* to the Behaviorist Schools for gut training...
...Seventy per cent of the iron and steel industry passed into the hands of a gigantic organization "linked with scores of banks of great power, with railroads, and with numerous other corporate undertakings...
...I cant be positive about such, things,» Now, brothers, the man who gave this brilliant demonstration of the limitation at the human mind la an admiral...
...But the Socialism It professes and looks forward to...
...Personally, I am not so certain that a knowledge of the amount of capital In he hands of foreigners, the percentage of Illiteracy and such like facts will help much in a real comprehension of The Mexican Question without some background of the land and Its people, some vision, of white-clad Indians jog-trotting under heavy burdens, of sombreros lifted before a bloody image of Christ crucified, of desolate purple mountains and tropical orchid-dotted jungles...
...Private ownership of industry steadily gave way to corporate ownership as the business unit enlarged Individualist property was slowly supplanted by limited collective property...
...But neither Spinoza nor Nietzche.had gone the whole glorious, behavioristic hog and said flatly, that we are "(he creatures of steel-£veted<«mbtional systems...
...Between its covers you will find no> descriptions of enthusiastic, flower - throwing crowds, no details of bull-fights 3r ham-and-egg breakfasts...
...IMPERIAL FOREIGN POLICY...
...I easrt answer that question...
...Question: Why does water run down hill...
...A glance at Mr...
...tailing him to keep a weather eye oa the admirals on account of the way they bungled the raising of 8-4, in spite of the expert assistance of that garage man from Indiana...
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