BEHIND THE SCENES OF TWO DICTATORSHIPS
Price, M. Philips
BEHIND THE SCENES OF TWO DICTATORSHIPS The first Secretary of the third International Writes har memories Relieves Mussolisi Was Agent-Provocateur ; Ry M. Philips Price TAKEN as a whole the...
...Listen to this gem of "scientific" interpretation of a significant economic fact: The Investigations showed that of the approximately 14,000 persons' 65 years of age and over studied by the Civic Federation, 44.7 per cent of men and 52.9 per cent of women carried no life insurance whatsoever...
...It ^bad...
...Thus the Manhattan mveettgatbr comments: "among the aged Ukar/ to become dependent, there were encountered none with gambling tendencies,—ao dabblers at cards, pool or stocks...
...A few days after the decision the whole story was out in the Italian capitalist Press...
...As Cavanaugh reached it and seized a bag to stay it, another mass of jnuddy earth fell, striking both him and' Murtha, and half blinding them "both...
...the South and Centre and the industrial captains of the North...
...It's an right, hoys,'' he kept saying...
...Tee Buffalo Investigator discovered that "tin manual laborers of the survey age war* not found to be to ao fortunate a •*¦**• Their average salary is 818 a week" 988...
...fire have a larger per centage of uatetates than Germany—which has the low art of any nation—France...
...There was a mad scramble about the door, floating timbers and bags interfering with many, and then, just as it seemed as if all would reach safety, an iron roof plate overhead, loosened by the breaking of plates beyond, gave way, felling one man in the half-open doorway of the lock and blocking and pinning it in such a way that it could be neither opened nor closed...
...At the same time McGlathery...
...Holy Mary...
...She was born of a cultured and wealthy family :ta Russian middle-class surroundings...
...Before they had proceeded far with their researches, Mr...
...This- includes "married couples,' who if they had Joint property worth 11,000 were counted twice by the Civic Federation, or as "two persons having $1,000 each (p...
...Colomba and the River - By Theodore Dreiser (Continued From Last Week) -•cssst...
...By this time Balabanoff bad been appointed on to the staff of the Italian Socialist Party's organ, the "Avanti...
...WW} her family she frequently visited the ! watering places on the Italian Riviera, j and in other parts of Italy also she saw , for herself the dreadful conditions pre- vtiling among the Italian working j classes...
...In proportion to the degree of the safety of their possessions...
...They are on every block" (p...
...For trade unionists and mem'ben of the Social Democratic parties of {these countries know a certain amount •stout the different schisms in the Rusjsisn revolutionary movement or about f the role played by the Italian Socialists I'm re-establishing the International durjtag the war...
...Then little by little Balabanoff describes how she began to notice something strange about his behavior...
...Quick...
...Mot so the city workers...
...Facts alone mean little to them...
...According to the Civic Federation's findings an even greater percentage, namely 32.9, bad incomes below that sum (p...
...A sound like tbe blowing off of steam...
...It was finally agreed to accept, but Mussolini refused to see any of the Germans who came' over to carry on the negotiations which were of a highly confidential character...
...The St...
...it's" your only chance...
...To these turbulent elements the Italian industrial chiefs now turned in order to draw off the masses from the Socialist leaders...
...41) The actual facts presented In the National Civic Federation's Report not only reveal the same extent of dependency which the different state commissions discovered but in some instances they show an even greater degree of poverty, especially when we remember that most of the interviews of the Civic Federation were carried on in 1926—the most prosperous year in our national history...
...Therefore they employed for the work these same men, who by this time had lost' all bearing and all sense of shame> (To Be Continued Next Week) WHEN BATS SEE LIGHT The Civic Federation Proves The Facts Are Not For Fools Ry Abraham Epstein ¦tw7hen a body of biased and blind opinion strikes a body of taresisV.we facts there is an inevitable crash...
...As he glibbered and chattered, the others screaming about 'him, some pulling at the dead man, others pulling at the other door, the still eye of Cavanaugh outside the lock waistdeep in mud and water was surveying it all...
...Such types cannot stand the strain of" such a terrible' ordeal as the anti-war proletarian parties had to stand in the early 1 months of the war...
...But all measures, even those of a paUtteal adventurer, u good enough to postpone the day...
...a rforal coward" A little later there was another Incident with Mussolini...
...Thus three out of every four men and nine out of every ten women questioned carried either no life insurance or were insured for less than $1,000...
...Note the "scientific" prophecy drawn from this economic phenomenon : "Life insurance," they comment, "has greatly increased in popularity during the last decade and...
...Into the lock...
...But what' could he do ? he asked himself...
...Towards the Italian Socialist movement I feel this duty all the stronger, for the tragedy of a class which finds itself robbed of all its accomplishments and of its freedom ia far greater than for one which has never experienced this, like the Russian...
...126) while in Newark...
...41...
...Through with ye...
...silent, unable to answer a word* of put...
...To be sure, had the Civic Federation not been so contemptuous of the intellectual faculties of its followers, it would have shown a far more delicate regard for their sensibilities...
...The Newark and New Bruntaia* Investigator found that "57.7 per euntef those Interviewed had less than «3"« in property...
...and 1929, When Italy was rent With strikes, agrarian risings, and the occupation of factories, outbid, the Italian Socialist Party, by putting before the Italian' masses ever" more extreme demands...
...Actually there were animal roars of terror...
...came his voice in rich, heavy, guttural tones...
...hfcGIaihery, hesitating by his chief's side, fearful to move lest he be Ki'W...
...Never mind us...
...German agents, and amongst them the "Social Democrat" Sudehum, used to come to the "Avanti" oihoes and offer articles trying to prove that the Kaiser was the most Pacific man in Europe...
...They actually hired an honest Investigator—Edmund Cogswell—formerly of the Massachusetts Commission on Old Age Pensions, to direct the studies...
...Mussolini always tried to avoid seeing them, and made Balabanoff take on the nasty job of interviewing them and refusing their articles...
...It's awful...
...I'll never get out of this...
...they stand for factions taken, struggles fought or lost, I achievements made or marred...
...the' general conclusions...
...She decided, therefore, to • leave the family fold and devote her life to the working-class movement...
...Balabanoff teDs how she was surprised that Mussonln os not-put m sri 'appearance ht- the- nrst meeting, giving an excuse that he was ul Six boora after the first meeting the Swiss and Italian anti-Socialist Press gave fun particulars of the conference, the number of delegates, who they were, and the subjects they were discussing...
...In Italy it was not the case of a country sunk deep in the culture of the middle agee, as many people think Tees gives ah entirety 'fish* lawpreaslon of the eaese of the Italian working cites defeat...
...All thai X propose to do is to encourage the States to make a drive on illiteracy by improving and enlarging their educational facilities...
...The world crisis and toe SMaapse of Russia have upret t he confidence of Che propertied classes in its stability, to have- recourse to Fascism, safety or lack of safety which It feels in is ready...
...he called, and then seeing McGlatbery, who was now near it but waiting for him, added, "In...
...We must bear to mind that at 65 the expectancy of life is still about 12 years and even an annuity of $300 a year requires at least a capital of from $3,500...
...Murtha scrambled away for* his life...
...Quick.' Quick...
...And then to the ethervioutslde with him, "Can't ye stand still and wait...
...125), the percentage of the same group in New York rose to over 50 per oept (p...
...The names of Serratl, , Balabanoff...
...Vet she is convinced to this' day mat be was a genuine Socaillst originally, but he was, contrary to the usual belief sedulously propagated by himself,'' a weak man without any moral backbone...
...And.there you have Mussolini* career in a nut-shell, as Balabanoff gives it us from her personal and most -Ultimate -experiences...
...He sat there glum and...
...There simply could not be any poor old people hi the United States...
...Was he not now to die this way, after all ? Was hot his patron saint truly deserting him ? It certainly appeared so...
...Of course, the knights of the Civic Federation knew the facts before they embarked upon their study...
...Blessed be the bund...
...For a time'all went well...
...And those planks there—stand them up...
...Coiumba...
...Foremost amongst those pressing,for acceptance was Mussolini...
...of illiteracy was practically unknown of until recent immigration...
...Who had neglected the •sfr...
...B»V now it seezjtojf to him:"once more that be had been guilty of that same great wrong to his forenian which had marked his attitude on the previous occasion—that is, he had not helped htm or any one but himself...
...Can't we git him in, boys...
...Of course, the money wfll be useless unless you provide the votes, but as you have been very kind in this respect the brokers will expect you to he prompt as usual...
...Cavanaugh called to him, while he himself held his ground...
...He was from a stone mason's family in a small Italian town who bad fled Italy in order to escape military segtlsa- He was at times silent and morose, at others explosive and fiery...
...BEHIND THE SCENES OF TWO DICTATORSHIPS The first Secretary of the third International Writes har memories Relieves Mussolisi Was Agent-Provocateur ; Ry M. Philips Price TAKEN as a whole the American labor and Socialist movement is not well ' acquainted with the Continental revolujtenary and Socialist movement The appearance, therefore, of a book by An'ssjfca fialabanoff,* even if it were transJsted into g"g"g>y might not arouse much kinterest...
...House of Gold...
...That is worth a good deal to the Federal Government—as much, at least, as good roads...
...The general staff was perplexed and faced with a real dilemma...
...Tearing off bis coat and vest and shirt as commanded, he beg aw pushing them into the opening, calling to the others to do the sgma...
...Into the lock...
...This leelewei haa learned at least ess...
...Burger Demands U. S. Vote Funds to Wipe Out Illiteracy WASHINGTON, D. O—Federal aid to States for the purpose of reducing illiteracy Is proposed in a bill totfodnced by Representative Victor L. Berger, Mor clalist, of Wisconsin, tt provides that the' Federal Government appropriate $2,000,000 annually for the next six years, that appropriation to be apportioned among the various States in proportion to their per centage of Illiteracy, but subject to the requirement that each Btate match the amount appropriated by theFederal Government...
...He had certainly hoped to oby« anything like this this time...
...Is not ours the most pr-r-rosper-r-rous country on earth...
...Everything was primed and calculated...
...If I** wish to...
...The plate across th*e dead man was too heavy, and besides, the ooze was already pouring over him into the lock...
...This, in spite of the fact that life insurance has spread beyond aO proportions in this country and regardless of the innumerable Insurance agents constantly coaxing and soliciting the public for this insurance...
...When the last man was through Cavanaugh himself plunged after,' wading knee-deep in mud and water...
...It was, however, during the first months of the war in an exceptionally favorable position for helping to reconstitute the International...
...29.8 per cent could do light Jbfes only, while 28.8 per cent were totally disabled (p...
...The latter, dumbfounded, was helpless...
...Mussolini was a fervent advocate in the columns of the ''Avanti" of the party policy of strict neutrality in the Great War...
...It m not only unfortunate, bat unnecessary—since we claim to be the richest nation on earth— and can very wen afford to also make it the most Uterate...
...he began to pray, "what shall I do now...
...band of adventurers of the Mussolini type...
...W. SO...
...In Germany Ludendorf and Hittler were phenomena of the inflation period and are no longer taken seriously, and while the constitutional still, there Is every prospect of the walking class new being- able to light its way to psau by constitutional methods...
...Quick, Dennis...
...of reckoning...
...She became acquainted about this time with a, man who had risen from humble origins...
...Balahanoff is of opinion that this same Fascist danger threatens most of the countries of Europe...
...What could be do...
...own weakness but by the most unnatural coalition of the most heterogeneous elements that have ever been got together, even in an epoch of civil war...
...They were convinced that the various state commissions which studied the problem for many years did not present the true facts...
...4,1...
...5 Angelica Balabanoff has in this book ; written a part of her autobiography, and gestae*-doubt- a romantic story', full j.of "f^bft^v of undying devotion to the 'cause of the Russian revolution, and of tbe International in the darkest days of the war, of hopes raised and dashed by .intrigues behind her back, of treachery, ; of Idealism, and of courage...
...Berger, in a statement he iseaed, said: "It is unfortunate that the United States, which was one of the first nations to make opportunities for an esrmentary school education generally available, should now be trailing other nswaaaa which started later than we did...
...As be argued, if only the gap in the door could be closed and the compressed air pushing from the tunnel outward toward the river allowed to enter the chamber, it would be possible to open the other door which gave into "the next section shoreward, and so they could all run to safety...
...be* The Investigators of the Civic Federation also found that only 44.8 per cent of the men Interviewed were fully able, to work...
...once more realizing that his Nemesis, water, bad overtaken him and was likely to slay 'him at last, was completely paralysed with fear...
...Such a tragic collision occurred when Messrs...
...Tower of Ivory...
...Ralph Easley and Tecumseh Sherman of the National Civic Federation, renowned apostles of - peace between capital and labor by WOLLutionizmg the latter, set out on a factfinding hunt for the amount of old age dependency In the United States...
...How can there be poverty aifd old age in this land of radios, automobiles, labor banks and labor insurance copmanies...
...Balabanoff describes a memorable session of the Italian Socialist Party Executive, the last at which Mussolini took part...
...Ton, McGlathery...
...Newark on the one band and Williams* port, Pa., and Markkas, Conn, etluSn, other hand, are lumped *"g-*rrt- fee...
...in addition 33 per cent 1 of men and 40.6 per cent of women had less than $1,000 life insurance—just about sufficient for burial (p...
...It was the cry of a frightened and yet courageous man at bay...
...All at once Chvanaugh, who was jpst outside the ,Pwt tunnel indicating to McGlatbery and another just where certain braces wefe to be put, in order that the vPDot tunnel migh be pushed forward s few inches for the purpose of insfcrting a hew ring of plates, heard it At a bound he was back through tt»5 pilot hub, his face aflame with wj|f and rage...
...More Insurance Urged The report then enlightens us with this piece of profound philosophy: "The large number of dependent widows found in this survey emphasises the fact that the carrying of life lnsuranc by more married men in the future would reduce the percentage of dependent aged widows...
...Had not the National Civic Federation preached the gospel of equality and brotherly love for decades...
...Tsaiisnt was a. phenomenon Which arose out of the pssirtlar Iriassaii social and sessksaei euneWtfcaia...
...The Carnegie Corporation of J New Vork generously offered to provide | the sinews of war in this crusade and outmarched the Civic Federation's army of investigators to gather the facts...
...She worked in the Italian Socialist Party and toon, became collaborator with Turati, ; Lassari, Perri, and Labriola...
...She acquired j a great admiration for the Italian Soclai¦ ht movement...
...Not so to the "experts" of the Civic Federation...
...Gate of Heaven...
...And tt will also be worth a good deal to the States, to have a uterate population.'' Be patient friends and those who finance the two capitalist parties will again St up the money to float two presJdea4 tickets...
...Is |ta«aanltek> 12 Assembly Districts were taken as fibs field of operation but no tnkang la given' of the number interviewed in asen district and no attempt fa made to rtoaalfr the dat* by these localities...
...They may be comln' hack In time...
...The Civic FederaUcn significantly falls to tell how many of these scrapped workers it found to have been living on industrial pensions...
...without appearing to support the Central Powers arid at the same time to fight the battle of the workers...
...Grimm, Martoff, Tchernoff, "Luxemburg convey ideas...
...But the pressure on Italy to join the Entente became greater and greater...
...What was that...
...N. J, and Bridgeport, Conn., it amounted to practically 55 per cent (pp...
...There *•» sot only fear, but disappointment J tt...
...The conference was held at Br leg in September, 1914, and was the first attempt to re-establish the International after the disaster of the previous month...
...Have ye no courage at ael...
...The first experiment ia occupying factories on March 16, 1919, at Dalmihe in the province of Bergamo was not only welcomed by the Fascist Press, but Mussolini, who had by his treachery lost all hold on the masses following the Socialist Party, and who wanted to become popular with than again, went specially to the seat of action In order to encourage the workmen to extend the factory occupation...
...Her experience of Italy makes one realise that she speaks with authority, bat for this reason possibly she is inclined to see Italian conditions elsewhere...
...Mussolini's "Strange" Behavior ; The Italian Socialist Party was now facet, with a most critical problem...
...Cavanaugh and others who, came up after were shut out...
...It would appear that a compromise was reached, by having Mr...
...Georges of the Civic Federation set out determined to slay this menacing dragon...
...The question arose, should they accept it...
...The Italin SocaUlst Party Executive sent him and Balabanoff to Switzerland to summon a conference of anti-war elements in those Labor and Socialist Parties of Europe who were able to come...
...Maybe ye can do something for us afterwards...
...On the other hand, the Klan never did make any headway in Wisconsin, where the per centage...
...Easley pointed that out in letters to governors and legislators...
...Gradually she began to think for herself 'tad toe herself from the mental atmosphere In which she was brought up...
...HoweverVWe Manhattan Investigator admits that parsons Interviewed to this Borough "toetose an aristocratic old banker of 90 still awn-, aging his affairs single-banded and ruthlessly dictating to his several sons...
...uncertain this time whether to leave his chief or not, was seized by Cavanaugh and literally thrown through, as were others after him, the bunding ooze and water choking them, but placing them within range of safety...
...moral to preach from this report: Saey the convictions of grandfather...
...Weak though the Italian propertied classes' were (for tb>y only, rose to any degree of class con-sciousnt s« during the war), this amount of insight they did have, for they realized that thelr interests...
...Poverty of Aged Revealed A general staff made up largely of insurance heads interested in the selling of private old age annuities was quickly mobilized...
...The menace of illiteracy ia especially threatening in a democracy, where so much depends upon the people's ability to read and write...
...gave yereelves first...
...Dennis...
...This is the product of the transition period in which we are all living...
...The Massachusetts Commission found that 30.4 per cent of the persons it interviewed had annual incomes of less than $300...
...Of the single men 62.4 per cent and of the single women 43.3 per cent had properties valued at less than $1,000 (pp...
...But in this emergency, and unlike his previous attitude, be and several others on the inside seized upon the dead man and tried to < draw him in, at the same time calling to Cavanaugh to know what to dp...
...could not permanently be supported by « band of' adventurers, but that an era of unbounded and unforeseen possibilities, was opened in which a catastrophe such, ss another world war was not excluded...
...Cogswell present the facts and Mr...
...From the twitchings and misinterpretions of the collected data one can surmise the consternation and painful agony which these discoveries must have brought to the Federation's headquarters...
...They bad got as close to him as might be, still trying to draw upon the sustaining force of* bis courage, but moaning and praying Just the same and Ipjojrtng at the lock...
...My bul does not shift the problem from the States to the Federal Government nor does It deprive the States of soy of the rights they now have...
...At the same time the men ip the lock, conscious that although they were partially on the road to safety they were still ip danger of losing their lives, were frantic with fear...
...It would, •therefore, be not out of place if a' way j equal be found to publish in English :, Balabanoff's book which, without any1 exaggeration, brings the reader behind the scenes of the Russian revolutionary movement and of Fascism...
...Rape stlB...
...About and behind him were a dozen men huddled' like sheep, waist-deep to mud and w*ter, praying' and crying...
...The Tragedy of italy "The tragedy of the Italian people grows and deepens," she writes, I have felt it my duty to make clear to the working classes of all Europe the meaning and nature of Fascism...
...It was Mussolini who during the so-called 'Bolshevik era in Europe' in till...
...And 68 per cent of the men and 45 per cent of the women interviewed were married (page 31...
...Ia France, Germany...
...Only half of the men who formerly were engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries were discovered by the Federation's investigators, to be so employed at the time of the interview (P- 45 >• ^ut parsons in other occupations were at work to the same business to a considerably higher extent...
...Sherman their interpretation...
...per cent of the men aad about one-half of the women were already receiving aitf from children, relatives, friends and puff' lie and private charities...
...A little ove¥b...
...It must be obvious therefore even to the gentlemen of the Civic Federation that persons with properties valued at less than $1,000 and Incomes of less than $300 can be anything but independent in their old age...
...Aaf with yer clothes, quick...
...Arr ye all crazy...
...Yis...
...Take aff yer clothes and stop up the doorway...
...In both Germany and Prance the capitalist class is sufficiently strong to keep its head up without calling In the...
...Before the close he slunk out and was not seen again...
...Austria, 'sad other European countries of the Con,'uoent, the name Balabanoff would have •meaning...
...lip a case for himself...
...stop the leak...
...35, 36...
...He wag a horrible coward...
...The collected information bears oat farther the truth of the aphorism that no matter how liars may try to make 'statistics, statistics alone never lie...
...Thus the Massachusetts Commission on Pensions found in 1924 that 30.7 per cent of the persons 65 years of age Interviewed had no property amounting to $1,000...
...But its Manhattan investigator In an unguarded moment confides: "It is only now and then that one encounters the former Industrial employe with pension...
...The Civic Federation's carefully edited, report does not give a complete deaprtor Uon of the nature and characteristics of the populations seasctsd for the investigation...
...But Meje a moment before had been a hdl*rjthat might have been stopped wjthdi bag of sawdust (and Patrick Sgflfta was there attempting to do it)A»es now a rapidly widening gap thisMgh which was pouring a small niag-fra o?: foul river 'water...
...But never go out to prove taw • tfuth by scientific facta...
...and realizing the hopelessness of it and his own danger, Dennis thought to run past, but was stopped by the downpour of water and mud...
...Us existenee as the bulwark of world reaction hindered the working-caasa nsbveeaents of other countries, bat never dferecUy threatened them It is different with Fascism...
...and among the 452 par eats hiving ho assets of any kind.« per eata had no personal income from any ssafas (P...
...England, Wales, Scotland, Sweden...
...Mussolini's career developed quickly after this...
...to $4,000 for a single person and from $7,000 to $8,006 for an aged couple...
...Holy St...
...But even the Federation's investigators, despite all caution, somehow could not resist the shares of the Reds...
...129...
...Where Illiteracy's greatest, as in the South, there such movements as the Ku KIux Klan and other mob movements are able to get their start and make headway for a whOs...
...Just as they only got the Italian working class to tolerate the war by corrupting the editor of the "Avanti," so it was equally tine after the war that they could not Induce the Italian working classes to give up their demands for their rights by having recourse to normal methods...
...I More than a year ago, James H. Maurer, President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Chairman of the Pennsylvania Old Age Pension Commission, publicly protested to Matthew wou, President of the National Civic Federation, that the letter's local investigators were being instructed to gather only such figures as would disprove the findings of the Pennsylvania Old Age Pension Commission...
...exclaimed McGlathery of a sudden, awakening at last to a sense of duty and that something better In conduct and though] t which he had repeatedly promised himself and his saint that he would achieve He had been forgettbag...
...And the same thing, to a less degree perhaps, applies to Faanes, Ba^abanpff's sidelight, on MnssoUnl/s career goes a long W*7 to explain how it was that Fascism defeated the very powerful Socialist movement in Italy...
...Listen to me men...
...What a brilliant kka to interview Chauncey M. Depew or John D. Rockefeller, Sr...
...What the hell is this...
...Quick...
...Mr Cogswell was Incorruptible...
...became thus her second Fatherland, and here she lived and worked until the pm war...
...Laubscbe ;v«rlsfsl«lCBiUinajung> Berlin...
...McGlathery, who had just entered and saw it, could do nothing...
...Hurry...
...Our Father, who art in Heaven...
...Balabanoff u^jgjecame his colleague on...
...Italian Socialism was not defeated by its...
...ooze and slime...
...Columba had promised him, to be sure, but was not this that same vision that he had had In his dreams, that awful sense of enroaching ooze and mud...
...The Italian working class, j the felt, were among the most truly class: conscious workers in europe, and party "wort was carried on with a thoroughness which was not even second to that of the German social Democratic Party, hah...
...The study had been too well announced to be suppressed...
...But even the greatest generals are sometimes fallible and one minor detail was overlooked...
...to ftght for the neutrality of' Italy ;S""trtnnerunaen und Brlebnlsse...
...Into the lock...
...The percentage found by the Civic Federation is given as 37.9 (p...
...Of 2,154 man studied 4tJ petf cent, or almost half the number, had, been with the same employer lof 20 years or longer (p...
...Only thus could a fair analysis of the data be mads Cities as varied in rise and sonar job as New York' and...
...was about to exclaim, but seeUig a wide breach suddenly open and - jf*1 pour down in a swift volume, jsf spirit sank and fear overcame * men...
...The conference was held in strict secret, and none knew but the delegates and those who sent them...
...man but the Utter was not go essay shaken...
...Education remains a matter for the state to deal with, and the States continue to exercise, that right ss to the past...
...Industry's Tragic Victims The facts presented by the Civic Federation also bring out the pitiful tragedy of modern industry which ruthlessly scraps the old worker as it does worn-out machinery...
...Say yer prayers tf jf know any, and uon't be afraid...
...WoU made no public denial of this charge...
...the party newspaper*- This * man w** none other than Benito Mussolini...
...Facts are aet tt for feela...
...Germany was not in a position to supply Italy with the large amounts of coal and other raw material in which she was deficient, and the tendency towards the Entente became stronger...
...Mother of God...
...on the subject of the* security hi old agel) , Indeed, only the Investigators wheat individual comments could not be Interpreted;' or "ttiXttar give a frank kka of what soma of the facts actually dav cjoaad...
...Old age dependency In the United States was only a fiction created* by Socialists and Bolshevists whose insidious doctrines somehow permeated even the highly respectable state commissions delegated to study the subject...
...from the present trend (no evidence at all k submitted In support of either statement) It aeons Uketj that an investigation made ten yean front new regarding ti»e amount ef life insurance carried by elderly persons would then show a much higher percentage ef insurance than was found in the present stady...
...Even when counted twice, the Federation's own figures show that the conditions in the really Industrial centres are not even as rosy as the report tries to picture (bent...
...the results are: shattered nerves, bruised feelings, the hurling of epithets and stupid accusations...
...One daju however, according to Balabanoff, the German Social Democratic Party offered the Italian party, which was in financial straits, some money...
...She had' known him first and helped him n Switzerland when he was a penniless journalist trying to gain a few pence by translating into ftauan some works of Karl Marx...
...The facts presented In the Civic Federation's report en Tllg EXTENT OF OLD AGE DEPENDENCY, stripped from the epithets and magical explanations offer the greatest evidence of the prodigious amount of oM age poverty to these United States...
...The Italian Socialist movement • was then developing, and moreover was .t-legal movement, and so she was able [to dji more active work for Socialism here than in Russia, where the move'Tneht was entirely revolutionary and unIdecrround...
...tht elderly gentleman of 101 years ao active both In business and socially that (to appointment to interview him bad to at made" (p...
...And what delightful antics this gentleman performs with them...
...TMs class Hew of them believe that by Fascism the "Red danger" it going to be removed for good and an...
...Among those facing possible dependant*, the fear of The Island' surmounts that of the call of the Oreat Reaper...
...ills voice, commanding, never quavering, even in the face of death, subsided...
...Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, or Denmark...
...STcOrathery who had been-out in front of the fatal tunnel with others, now came staggering back horribly frightened, scarcely knowing what to do...
...He saw very clearly and sadly that very little if anything could be done...
...breach* ; "Come now...
...Ark of tbe Covenant...
...I don't like to do it," McGlathery kept crying £o his for...
...In a twinkling, bundles were made of all as well as of the sticks and beams afloat in the lock,' and with these the gap in the door was stuffed, sufficiently to prevent the air from escaping, but shutting out the foreman ahd his men completely...
...She had no doubt as to his sincerity in working for the cause and' his diligence led the party Executive to appoint, him cbAfc#ditpr of the "Avanti...
...Nothing was apparently top extreme for this demagogue then...
...Kor Christ's sake, can't ye see what's happenin...
...To an ordinary student this Is a sufficiently striking and deplorable fact...
...Bejasus, it's a tight place I'm in now...
...38.3 per cent of the men were completely without oceupettorja (p...
...ij* was not Mussolini that saved Italy from dlawrdey, but the fact Is that after be' had met with fiasco in his attempt to be taken up again to the Italian Socialist movement after, the war and after, bis revolutionary demagogy had failed to attract attenion, he offered himself to the ruling class of Italy, the great landlords of...
...Then at last it was dear to ner that Mussolini was contemplating treason...
...Moral weakness is 1 always the handmaid of cowardice, and ' cowardice the handmaid of treachery...
...Thus, while In troy, N. Y., only 36 per cent had no property shove $i.ooo (p...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 9
