A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES CLEARING UP FOREIGN AFFAIRS save ban been very mue m uu ram nun snout ior¦m affairs. So I tbink it's up to mo to tell all you atrts bow things are going overseas....
...Sonnet i. /ugh skus at evening were not meant for you who walk the cooler ways of obscurity— you who know the depth of certitude, the blue secret of swift water's purity— bright suns make brittle horizons you say dispersed as glowing coals on winter ice...
...We have aroused the interest of the...
...they give us departments of hunger relief, and are doing the best they can...
...Page after page, arranged by the field of life touched in the remarks, stimulates to vigorous thinking...
...He used his weapon with charming skill based on no Utile scholarship and a vocabulary both extensive and richly quaint...
...windows that were never washed which made the shop even darker...
...The temper of Joubert is best presented by excerpts from bis work...
...Bat* be went to Cohrmbia before the Yanks got him pat are...
...If the lady in the front ¦Mfe kindly remove the crying baby, ¦ank yoa, Madam...
...jMoaure to watch this space next week...
...They used to live on Sutter J...
...But Louis is busy bawling out injunctions...
...You stm wefi go direct to headquarters as "we" have sal him as our "representative" to fix this matter afjaiarinfn up anyhow...
...For one I merely express regret that the HaWmah PUyers have been inveigled into something whoBy unworthy of their tradition and well-known ability...
...Bloch recalls these ideals, at weU as ton hto faith to us, we, who arc America, must acknowledse onrseffm is his debt...
...but we who have hungered much, know well what an empty belly will eat, and marrowless bone, dried to stone is soft to hunger, and sweet...
...It Is difficult after only one hearing to judge of the permanent musical value of such a work...
...These are the dregs that any society must have after the strainer has done its fine grading...
...ktoafflah was bom in 1892 and on February 20th, after the assassination, was declared Ameer...
...While the complexity of oar fife invalidates this remark, it to a sound rebuttal of Tolstoi, with his peasant Judge...
...But presently out of all this noise and confusion there emerges a different mood, the mood of Whitman's invocation "Oive roe again O Nature your primal sanities" An extended orchestral development Is begun...
...below and see the stow decay of flesh and bone, i have- heard the roar of vanity and learned that waste is cold and desolate and grim, still these are fears of a traveller returned who knows the curse of pretentious interim...
...hem-ever, that Ciechanowski has quit flat p* minister to the United States and we are __a_t...
...could exercise their much talked of "liberty" by work-, ing nights...
...I am convinced that if a group of intelligent, capable, interested, and devoted organizers were to comajo the South, not for a day or two, but (urnape...
...Morality is group morality, or force...
...H» Ad yoa pick...
...gee...
...In 1B33 Hurt gave lively battle to race prejudice in his sUnttlteting and devastating book...
...For stirred one was...
...Soma are still young, you will say...
...Haaaras the question that most concerns the chanrL- ai skat of debts and reparations...
...Wars were formerly fought for more territory, but now they are fought for Kultur, Democracy, or any other cause the ingenuity of the intellectual can devise...
...One MBya they don't mean anything, anyway...
...This plan is to sock Germany in the Jaw mtmmtt tar sixty-two years...
...MnOJlksT *a ^ man with a board and a lot of jjZwho looks as if he were going to a ban in Webajsrbt you don t know what a reparation is...
...We were afraid for jpSsthst Grover Wbalen might get the job and spoil ¦nag by axing a couple of foreign representatives EtjSaold toad to international strife...
...I am convinced that the women and the girls in the South will have to follow in our footsteps...
...A mere what...
...However if you "divide eight bun-, ¦sfflkm gold marks by sixty-two and amortize the » by funding the Ruhr, everything then becomes...
...in Polish., aa, "p.ebcles...
...Women and Politics By ELEANOR LE VINSON Women must come to realise that politics has sunk to that level where the term politician is used In derision and In the public mind is synonymous with a self-interested, self-seeking individual, devoid of social ideals or any social philosophy, who enters politics to get ss much as he can—providing he doesn't get caught...
...Barres, Kipling and D'Annuhzio...
...Ten, question of debts and re pa rations is one to Wjfkav* devoted many years of intensive study...
...Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching," "The Battle Cry of Freedom," "John Brown's Body," bugle calls, conflict, a fortissimo climax and a close filled with dirge-like lamentations...
...They would have an "equal opportunity" to work as long and as hard as the men do...
...With great acumen and erudition, M Benda culls the literature, history and philosophy of the modern world to show how thoroughly impregnated they are with political passions and the doctrine of force...
...Idealism is necessary for the purification of politics and I call on all women with ideals to join the Socialist Party as the only political Instrument capable or interested in effecting such result...
...As 1 f* ~p hafore this is writ educational and I don't khars yoa kept in the dark...
...You couldn't guess...
...We need men and women who, because of their devotion, would forget the past and only look to the future...
...men in the labor movement to the need of organizing women workers...
...Henry Miller...
...If we are to have government for pubUc service, government in the Interests of the people, government for the benefit of the many, instead of the few, if we are to have government which wfll maintain the spirit of justice, liberty and the rights of the people, we must first clean our political household...
...Strife always | afens the mind...
...Not to be confused PHptoKahn...
...And after an Schiller doss not speak our language...
...Unlike some other radical intellectuals, Walter's mind and character, being tested In the white heat of the World War, issarsd pure gold...
...His sparkling dialectic is in large measure directed against his fellow countrymen, the notorious chauvinists, Barres and Maurras, but in the course of his survey, he evaluates nearly all the great figures in the world of thought...
...We [J*3*** and Jan tried to cheat by palming the I always caught him at it and his em^-"gj* was most amusing...
...with a spirit that would inspire confidence and faith...
...His naming book...
...I ask women, who, perhaps, will feel that they cannot go all the way with us...
...We were in exactly the same position as are the working women in the South now...
...that women can stick to an organisation...
...In the field of philosophy our author shows how the Pragmatism taught by William James' and especially Bergson, by discarding the absolute Plato and Kant and Insisting that true reality lies in the particular and not in the universal, in the uniqueness of the moment and not in the changelessness of eternal things,—forms the perfect rationalization for the participation of the intellectuals in the time-spirit and political passions of the age...
...Unhampered by law, and as yet untouched by union regulations, they would enjoy the "freedom" of working unlimited hours...
...Only through an amazing abuse were a handful of man at desks able to snaesad In making humanity heIteve that the supreme values are the good things of the spirit...
...We had no legislation to regulate conditions...
...We are always given to believe that some portion of humanity is never good^tSr anythingsat all...
...this ranting of pain and shouting of grief, this poking society's plan...
...This has jpatth tae Manchurian situation which Is compllplbjr the assassination of Chang who was assassiM By one of his partners while playing Man Jong...
...The question of where to find such a leadership is an important one...
...JBMB aQ be relieved to hear that the rumor that p** was about to resign as King of the Hedjaz is r~ap*bunded...
...At first we thought of Gus ClaesE/atot Qus is busy bickering with Calverton about, qtasgaary Tun...
...Today humanity has awakened from this dream, knows its true nature and its real desires, and utters Its war cry against those who for centuries have robbed it of iself...
...It seems L — aow ail creditors instead of being debtors, a* TeQ that to your landlord...
...The theme of the anthem, which symbolises tiie Mission of America la woven into the entire symphony, building together aU this varied and divergent material...
...Scanning The New Books The Intellectuals Indicted A MASTERLY arraignment...
...that they are loyal, devoted, and ready for sacrifice when necessary...
...Where once the intellectual set up a standard of morality which chastened and spiritualized the passions of mankind, now he serves to abet and exalt tjhem...
...However, one could have hoped that Orpheus himself would not become a wild beast...
...These words of Walt Whitman stand on the title page of the current musical season's outstanding new work, Ernest Bloch's epic rhapsody, "America...
...2j> if that stni confuses your writs a letter to X P. spa neatly typed on one side of the paper only (and Zapfe> enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope), |ht wfll be glad to clear matters' up for you...
...women and regulation of sanitary conditions, the girls in cotton mills have no protective legislation...
...Don't pay any attention m Wahabis, Eddie...
...Perhaps it is that one bas been i deeply stirred only to realize in the end that the Millenium is still very far off...
...Berger of Wisconsin, introduced in the House test year a bill providing for federal purchase of forest tends in each state, for the creation of public forests that should safeguard stream flow, check soil wastage, and provide against a future Umber famine...
...But, this subject is too long to go into just now...
...Days spent in dark and dingy holes—called factories: long days...
...but none of us know how shrewd it is •to keep.us in single file...
...It begins with us being in RttgfBhis position of creditor nation...
...Here on the Bowery come those whom civilisation has used up for its profitable purposes...
...Maybe yon -agar what a chancellory is...
...We need a leadership imbued with the desire to see conditions improved...
...hwnp us to the Kellogg multi-lateral treaties...
...The intellectuals, more correctly called in French "ctercs," have cast aside then- transcendental devotion to absolute truth, beauty, things of the spirit, for the glorification of the interests of their fellow citizens...
...gaadoat have to go into that...
...From the above discription of conditions existing in Alabama, it seems to me that it would prove a deliahtfu...
...Dedicated to the memory of two great Americans, Lincoln and Whitman and annotated throughout with quotations from the author of "Leaves of Grass," the rhapsody is a paean to the ideal of universal brotherhood which is to triumph over this material age and on its ruins bufld the New Nation of the Future...
...Orpheus could not aspire to charm the wild beasts with his music until the end of time...
...Women must realize that even to the instances where able men have succeeded In politics they can do nothing bound as they are by an antiquated platform and hampered by the influence of those who helped to place them in office...
...So after he had been deWAtoaer, (A voice...
...Notice the topsy-turvy yet penetrant explanation of the following: "Those of simple life and character care little for aJmpHfity in art...
...Saklatvala has been arrested again...
...Stokowski, Koussevitsky, Damrosch, Stock and Herts and was given almost simultaneous first performances by seven leading orchestras, among them those conducted by the above named musicians...
...along with graciously measured bread, we listen to blessings and grace, blessing of god and a cross hung christ who smiles from the blank wall-space and none of us see in a second sight where tears have left their trace...
...If the A. F. of L. will really want to organize the women workers of the South it wiU do so...
...The humanists, Montaigne, Voltaire and Goethe, have been supplanted by the chauvinists...
...JOHN B. McMAHON...
...No, our hours were not limited either...
...It would be fun, just for once 1 |bm» r> and see what he did...
...And make her like it, Kfe something about "payments before maturity...
...Wages are reduced whenever the employers feel like it...
...THE CHATTER BOX A Ballad for the Bowery Mission Line TT£r?£ we stand what it left ef *r...
...They will have to form an organization of then* own if they are to get relief from the long hours and tow wages...
...R Y .Stuart, chief of the Forest Service, in his annual report to the Department of Agriculture...
...Chief Forester Demands More Public Ownership WASHINGTON — (FP) — Unless more forest tends are brought under government ownership to the eastern regions of this country, flood control in future will become extremely difficult, says MaJ...
...Good literature Those whose reading is more to them than the quickest way out of the Bronx, win enjoy reading Joseph Joubert, sad they win find no better volume of him in English than the "Pensees and Letters" issued by Brentanos ($4...
...He was ever a good friend and dear comrade...
...Joubert, who died Just over a hundred years ago, is one of the critics of literature whose writings are themselves literature...
...And then ordering his gta to shave and wear frock coats...
...I suppose it will be impossible ever to take a census of the countless ones whom pride aad wfll power keep from joining the bread lines...
...There are to be found men and women who wouldn't take work if it were offered to them...
...Its scope ls»so vast, so truly epic Its basic idea so tremendous ] that the music itself somehow falls short...
...We have shown that it can be done...
...no wash rooms, the common towel and the common dipper for drinking are the rule...
...It fea^tf*** father uxteresting monograph on "Hamol^^gtol the G. A. "R...
...Hence princes, kings, aad those of high station have a better instinct in literature...
...I call on all women to Inform themselves ss to the basic fundamentals of Socialism...
...Perhaps | this may account for the slight feeling l of disappointment one experiences at the ' close...
...Morrow and Co...
...We may cavil at the details of M Benda's analysis and point out that the ivory tower becomes increasingly impossible in the modern world, which the author admits...
...But I pooh poohed 'issWl toid: "Pooh, jaooh...
...f-OSBaiated mainly of running up a huge bill with fhbflt Shop-Keepers and putting the entertainers jpj in a nawsty mess...
...They will have an easier task than we have had...
...It was my great privilege to know Walter Hurt for two decades...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...we answered brightly, "Columbia ft Ssfcrig.'' He looked disgusted and then he said, has you heard, stupid...
...Women, as Socialists, could again become a militant power fighting for the dawn of a new era when wars win be unknown, and justice and humanity wfll Join in giving us our heritage of a more <-slorioiM...
...Those who are In the field today (with some exceptions, of course) are not fit for the job—especially where women are concerned...
...Testimony taken by the Senate select committee on reforestation in 1923, showed that because of the neglect of replanting the forest lands cut by private owners, the future timber needs of the United States are not being adequately provided for...
...We said...
...We must elect men and women to office who have an idealistic philosophy as opposed to the professional and selfish philosophy of the great majority pf our present officetfiolders...
...Ain't you/got enough trouble ¦sWotts...
...There are not many In the labor movement today, who possess the necessary elements which would qualify them for this kind of leadership...
...And still a fourth side says * Borah id a no-good, low life...
...Answer: "A H Afghan'' he began his policy of Westernization...
...We have awakened the public to the fact that economic slavery and politi«a frw iiimi onmot so on side fay aide...
...and you who walk untrodden ways will call me what deep love is sworn to penitence...
...Jan (that's his I jm^wae one of the best...
...y» bardly ever went to Washington wlthgy a can on Ciechanowski...
...Well...
...He pjat-to go to another conference and the Belgians •ftsstahn...
...Even the so-called j "good" men whose honesty cannot be questioned have shown no decided inter- ¦ est in keeping their own party clean...
...From the first bars it appears in root, dimly, slowly taking shape, rising, falling, developing and finally asserting itself victoriously in its complete and decisive form It is the hope of the composer that this anthem will become known and beloved, that the audience Vul rise to sing it...
...Having been PtTlJktte experience of giving Communists leave to MAbg they want, we win state that what Sak wftoo to shoot off his mouth about would not be 'WW would probably teU the Conference that the IB** are a bunch of yeUow dogs and that the only ? tor the oppressed proletariat is to read, "The p»Worker...
...low fears hke these 1 knew once long jaga , when you and tears at night were yet unknown, have heard black water pounding on rod...
...a more beautiful world...
...Every now and again the newspaper prints the story of a suicide, a whole family sometimes being wiped out, or some such gruesome event that faintly hints at destitution, loss of a Job, and the rest...
...Some' time 1' am goMte A book of memoirs about my Ufe...
...bp boys sad girls, here we are in Afghanistan ¦* they have just canned their king...
...jp BOW explain about them...
...Multi-lateral means manywk Aad there are many sides to these treaties...
...in fact it's ridiculous and I don't rwjto/tt aver got about, Eddie' Le vinson, who , ^jp* better, being in close touch with Wahabi ¦A told it to me last Monday...
...These men and women hate work, despise it when it is offered to them, and wiU commit any offense short of murder to escape doing useful labor...
...He could use the honey pot alone when the subject demanded...
...Both in appearance and in selection, this book Is a delight...
...the French, to make fun of them...
...And the whose uaTiaiaanei cruelly dragged out...
...The South- - -An Echo of Long Ago By Pauline M. Newman 64^0 limiting of hours for working ¦1 v, women, no ban on night work, no ventilation and bad lighting...
...A valid argument, even when extended to nations...
...But who can have other than admiration for a writer who sees so profoundly ant", so lucidly the the HiUmm* of modern morality and so beutifully if pessimistically sounds the call for a return to things of the mind and spirit...
...A magnificent poetic tribute to Debs was his...
...As a background .and prelude to this vision we ace shown the past and present of these United States in a series of musical pictures, the first of which bears the inscription "1020 —The Soil—The Indians—England—The Mayflower—The Landing of the Pilgrims...
...and cast into waters that strugglf with the tides, and i who look in a prudent sea for tears m- rexognize- this sad regression mf feme...
...THE WOMAN SOCIALIST a department of news and views of particular interest to the women of the socialist movement...
...jBptW the family...
...There are snatches of jazz2 and blues, a general Impression of mad, aimless, hectic turmoil and then disaster, "the inevitable collapse...
...The third movement begins with a picture of "Material Prosperity—Speed— Noise—Man, Steve of the Machine...
...M0...
...and be wrote much else of wit, interest and value...
...b** you don't care a damn about-this, but it's for good...
...But the world goes merrily on nevertbs less...
...Another m says mat they mean having a lot more wars...
...EWsjeen over that" So we went to bed and all skjaj we kept thinking who we wanted to see in pa hatting for us...
...McAlwter Coleman...
...counted, eyed, curious things, we shuffle in single file, for alms from angels of merciful got, and some of us even smile...
...tatter, skin ami hone...
...We had no union that' amounted to anything then...
...BpOy decided that our man would be Lou Gehrig...
...You remember how "we" |K Dkbrt...
...Sundays, too, we had w come...
...He dipped his blade alternately in two pots of ink, one tincttured with vitriol and the other with honey, and the play of light on his varicolored coruscating steel as he charged full tilt on the capitalistic dragon dazzled and delighted all spectators...
...for on that highway where the road divides one knowing the strong, the other, the old and blind, * these bitter hours are counted in the mind...
...There are Creole melodies and a lovely Southern ballad, "Old Polks at Home" and "Pop goes the Weasel," but soon we hear the echoes of war...
...We have come to accept Wall Street rather than Washington as the political center of the nation and clean government is impossible as long as private profit Is the , basis of pontics...
...Guggenheim has given Chili 9480,000 and I ___b» Chileans to take to their storm-cellars...
...Not only by the music but by the powerful social massage that can never be too often heard...
...The political passion is evidenced in the passions of nation, class, and race, and their evil fruits in war, Bolshevism and Fascism, anti-Semitism, and other race jingoism (Nordicism in the United States...
...millions like us, 'uhat be of us, skin and tatter and bone, strung together in scraggh lines, where each one shrinks alonr, waiting, whining, famished dogs, whimpering for a bone...
...solomon poktnow But Sksptoy the wise drama critic, knows how to pick the see -the opening at the Manhattan Opera Mottoa-mt*-w*> I Babimah Players, doing •Princess Turamtot," traratoawJ from the Italian, or was tt French, of carlo OohL and adapted by Boris Olsgona to the Yiddish mstoi ef AKurt By the foregoing one easily follows into what a sweat gargle of mlsh-maah became to most of us who crashed toLet me just sum It all up by saying that the ¦seairy waf moderntoUeaUy intriguing, the costumes devUtehly soy and expensive, the acting curiously ptff-peff-peuf, and the aiddish howlingly abominable...
...The old Greek adage, "Beware ¦toga&beims bearing gifts" still carries a kick...
...In the busy season we, too, would work from seven in the morning until nine and ten o'clock at night...
...Bloch's new National Anthem which "the People" are directed to join In singing with "deep fervor and enthusiasm...
...But we are at to know that our side In this reparations game is fag to be so well represented...
...At any rate that's all the Communists v**/at the Labor Temple and they have seven min¦ptee to say it in...
...but skivering alone, and waiting dogs, too spent to whine for e scrap, for a bone...
...It rMplor them...
...becoming thus an active and enthusiastic part of the work and its message of faith and hope...
...The subways clatter by with their load of selfcentered slaves all intent on boxing news, divorce scandal, and lately even on stock market Quotations, And with the exception of the Socialist movement, the world seems smug and settled "that they give us departments of hunger relief, and are doing the best they can...
...To us, however, this picture of conditions in the South today, brings to mind a picture of another day—an echo of long ago...
...No attention was given this measure by the major parties...
...The Scarlet Shadow, played its part in the historic proletarian victory of the Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone case twenty years ago...
...The prisewinning score in Musical America's recent contest it was unanimously chosen : from among the ninety-two manuscripts i submitted, by a jury composed of Messrs...
...I WALTER HURT Walter Hurt, who died in Chicago on Dec IB test, was one of the most brilliant and gallant of aU Americans enlisted in the once-despised ranks of Socialism and fought its battles with a swordlike pen...
...The blind-fold test shows kg, P. Morgan is our choice by fifty-one per cent teasers at the Ambassador Hotel...
...We have come to accept graft as one of the necessary evils of government to such an extent that ex-Secretary of the Interior...
...It is a noble and passionately sincere work, magnificently designed, brilliantly orchestrated and containing pages of memorable beauty...
...and when anybody is deaf, I am dumb...
...Until then the South will re-echo the conditions of the Bast of twenty years ago...
...to join us in demanding the social reforms we advocate, and I make my appeal to women because I believe such an appeal wfil not faU on deaf ears—I believe that women inherently strive for a more socially Just, a more civilized world, and that if they can be convinced that their help win bring this about they win give us ss unstintingly, as courageously, ss nobly as i have women of all ages...
...So Kan is p*» And that's that, mu...
...And on a cold winter's night the missions and flop houses on the Bowery aren't exceptionally delicate for our sight...
...while not being wage earners themselves, are, nevertheless, interested in conditions of working women...
...Whitman does, and his consecrating wordi must ariuse bi every heart the proud desire to be one of the builders of this glorious future to which "affection shall solve the problems of freedom" and every man can his neighhor comrade...
...His last name jpta, (He is one of the famous Amanullah Kans...
...And then we re¦pag that Louis Waldman is pretty bright and st «e bad funded our debt to him and perhaps he lit da...
...Once or twice a year Carnegie HsS : hears such a message in the test movement of Beethoven's Choral Symphony but It is usually too busy wondering ! how long the soprano can stay in tune to realise that they are singing of a,love that sban embrace the world...
...The protection which is given to the important watersheds where flood control and reclamation of idle and non-productive land is aimed at, cannot be secured as long as private ownership of forest lands is permitted to block a general policy...
...The laziest people, the moat useless folks, who curse this earth with their Bin of living In It are to be found in the brokers' offices to Wall Street, watching the little figures and the little names being marked up on long wide boards...
...The opening is simple and Impressive and the movement depicts for us the struggles and hardships of the lonely colonists, their homesickness in the midst of the virgin forest surrounded by their Indian neighbors, their memories of England...
...I don't know what to can it ex|Tl^**P»» ''My Dash to the Pole", would do...
...tost oppoaite Jake's place...
...charity's bone is a marrouless bone, to men who can earn their meat...
...Truth About the Jews...
...hunched together m a line...
...like the prophets of old the composer calls down wrath and destruction upon a generation that has turned its face toward false gods...
...j This must be done through an awaken- ; ing of the pubUc conscience and here wo- , men can play an important part...
...Peace to him on whatever star hat spirit is taking a' well earned rest...
...With such a leadership we could once more conquer the South—this time on the economic field...
...The result is, as our author finds, that whereas "formerly men practiced vice but honored virtue," now morality is indistinguishable from practice...
...or something...
...It bi M. Benda's thesis that the modern world has seen a huge growth In the political as against the less wordly passions of men...
...floors that were never swept— except once a year when the factory would close down for stock-taking...
...there are dogs in milady's home, frilled, and warm and fed . . . dainty things and ugly things, but these are higher bred, than any of us spavined homtds that flop on the mission's bed...
...It cornea under the eg...
...The pain of a dispute far outweighs Its uses...
...In these, both on life and on literature, his mind ranges with a pertinence and freshness comparable, says the introduction (that is in a sense a survey of French criticism), to the spirit of Anatole France, though his work brings to my mind rather the present-day essays of Alain...
...Not a very pretty poem any way you read this little offering, my friends...
...These have broken down in spirit and artificial pride because they were weaker in fibre than the old begrlzzled one* who have bean merely sapped out by industry until there was no more profit left in their bodies for business...
...Sak," as we will call him for the sake PS* Itoof-reader, if any, is always being arrested wm to conferences...
...I ask them not to be frightened by the bugaboos which have surrounded the very word but to find out TOT themselves what Socialism stands for and what it hopes to accomplish...
...Whoever wins, the tonght ptoyar come to the situation in China...
...knowing the bitter death of those who gaze at high skies, and you of cooler ways...
...vet quiet words said in a quiet way trenchant in the heat of sacrifice arc vague to me, and old, who hear them ail but sense disaster in their utterance...
...Much more has to be done along these lines...
...for a few years, the result would be a strong and permanent organisation of women workers...
...of the modern intellectual as a fomenter of base pasatona, breeder of wars, and...
...mat his partner were the last two surviving Man Bg slayers in the world and it just turned out to be aaWral of the fittest The latest from Mukden is at a government spokesman says that the situation Hal "hysterical and sinister...
...One of its representatives interviewed a number of women in Birmingham, Ala., women who...
...The Sophists have been declared* the victors over Socrates, and Nietzsche and Sorel have taken the place of Spinoza and Erasmus...
...Of course, organized Charity will hunch up its tight little back, like a nasty little cat and snarl back...
...In the blood of its own children the 'unity of a great nation was sealed," says the commentary and "My enemy la dead, a man as divine as myself, is dead...
...Every page of history Is replete with I the names of women who have taken part ! to the rebel movements of the world— women who were willing to sacrifice and spur their men on toward ever greater j achievement—and I call on all women in 'America-—of whatever class—to awaken politically and join the Socialist Party [In Its fight for a saner and more Just civilization...
...hi general, a servile creature faithless to Ins great traditions, is presented to a volume by the brilliant French critic Julien Benda, "The Treason of the Intellectuals," translated by Richard Aldington (Win...
...and finally, practice what they have been preaching to others—if they only would...
...You never can ten when such Inforna win come in handy...
...who are just stubbornly lazy, and rightfully deserve the bread line fate...
...And oar wages, too, were reduced as soon as the rush was over...
...gas jets that blurred the eyesight...
...it comes as no surprise to them...
...too, partook of the "common cup and the common towel...
...The modern Machiavelli, unlike the old, is a moralist as well as a politician...
...g tall yon aU about it...
...spot for members of the National Woman's Party...
...No doubt a number of the younger radical writers have profited by a study of Walter Hurt's expert performance...
...There are beautiful and powerful pages, pages fined with dramatic fire and with i moving tenderness, but the anthem for which all tins is a preparation is hardly ' worthy of the rest of the score...
...Skillful use is made of Indian material and a weirdly beautiful "Death Song" for clarinet and solo viola with an ostinato bass is particularly effective...
...One can find poetry nowhere unless It's tax oneself...
...So is our cook at ¦J/Bat she snaps out of it and we can all hope far fcjs...
...We made the light...
...Instead of waxing Indignant at the ruin of their dontination, would it not be more reasonable for these usurpers (if there are any left) to wonder that it tested so long...
...If the producers meant to buriesaae the original, they only succeeded in tiwnnbtng their noses at us with ineffectual Jocularity...
...The second movement dealing with the Civil War period is Introduced by Whitman's lines "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear" and opens in a mood of tranquil and Idyllic reminiscence...
...they come around to your house and j?W"sfl, Van Boskirk, who do you want to have ¦pat yoa at the Reparations Conference ?" Ifjon avnke °* 7°" weP* puzzled for awhile...
...The Bngliah are brought up to reverence serious things...
...Some day we shall have an opportunity to say what we think, feel, and know pertaining to this question- For today, it is sufficient to repeat the old word, "where there is a will, there is a way...
...We were ss bshuesa .then, ss are the girls in the South today...
...Turn your undying face to where the future, greater than all the past, Is swiftly, surely preparing for you," —culminating in Mr...
...A Symphony of the New Nation ernest block composes a paean to universal brotherhood by Blanche Bloch "fp| AMERICA, because you bufld for " mankind I bufld for you...
...And strange to say, we never find any of their wall fed faces, or hawk-featured visages on the Mission flop fine...
...In the words of the composer "the symphony is entirely built upon it...
...Hto work fives on...
...I only hope Johnny Sum• *** this...
...Albert Fan, was not even convicted by the public whose general attitude seemed to be that if they were similarly placed they would most probably have acted in the same way...
...Jan and I used to alt B'BfP1 chin-chinning -as the- Poles say in their ¦ ^mrsff8?** And fun...
...what a trite little thought this is, phrasing a dog and man...
...For the fervor and sincerity with which Mr...
...I remember the signs that would go up on Saturdays at 5 p. m., with the inscription "If .you wfil not come on Sunday* dont come to on Monday...
...This sentiment has so lowered the moral tone of our political life that men of accomplishment and idealism are no longer attracted to it, and that's few rare instances excepted, our candidates for public office have been chosen because of political pull rather than ability...
...I'll explain...
...always faithful to the good, old Blue and fSWbSB the feller came back next morning and said...
...What ¦ fhtak...
...Than there la the Spina...
...be was, like Montaigne, incapable of or opposed to the lengthy flight, the effort at sustained development, and his best work comes in the form of brief, almost epigrammatic, expressions which the French call pensees, (for remembrance...
...It is a mistake to think that because his sword was oddly engraved and beautiful tt did not pierce the hide of the foe...
...waft that made us feel pretty cheap...
...AU those "who once stood for other-worldly interests have committed treason, following the lead of the Church, whose changecg\attitude toward war is presented in detail...
...If they meant to produce a modernistic artistic, yidishistlc version of a clsasjc, they had aU of the intention perhaps, but nothing to abawfor it...
...jnronena...
...A ¦pat says that there ought to be an explanation of it jbs treaties mean...
...The above comes to us through the Federated Press...
Vol. 8 • January 1929 • No. 1
