A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

A PAGE of EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE ABC OF EINSTEIN ^g^jB-ajer from Bridgeport, Conn., named Hodgins, A—llai-" "Can you give me a simple explanation of ^wr~T*lMt*1" theory? My niece, Arabella,...

...Hodgins, but, ssar an, times change and we oldsters must keep up sK lbs procession...
...McAlister Coleman...
...The first real charge of Mr...
...We bad a little salt but no sugar and the salt made it taste fairly good...
...This was a corporation hospital and there was a week's pay ($4.25 which they took for the week's treatment in the hospital...
...I have Zjsbt that after meetings of the Fish Window-DreasSf^jsociation, Inc., of Southern Connecticut, you aa...
...Broad points out...
...Men who have hunting lodges in Canada and fishing camps off the Carolina coast may not care for this book But men who know the lifelong horror of company shack towns where splendid woods and streams once were, or the dreary round of dally travel "from places where one would rather not live to places where one would rather not work," will find power in its pages...
...Outdoors Is Life" Outdoors is life, MacKaye reminds us...
...How every wage worker and farmer whose net income has doubled please laugh...
...Admitting that Joyce is " a very jreat writer, with a more complete command of English as a literary medium and i. more profound wit for Aristophanic and Rabelaisian comedy than any (he means 'any other ".) writer since Shakespeare," he CONCERNING WOMAN A department of news and virus of particular interest to the women of the Labor Movement...
...Then he shows the glacial current of mechanical civilization, this ugly, inhuman metropolitan scheme of things, rising like a doom to overrun the peaceful village, to reach out tentacles along the highways, and to covet the very mountain peaks as we retreat toward the mils...
...Ask "821" for two copies—one for yourself, one for your doctor...
...Then they told me that I must go, for there wss no more money to pay the doctors or for the medicine...
...ttat we have cleaned up this proposition of **Bna for you, the rest can be summed up very •VWhea Doc Einstein had put out his first the•BHB left behind the pressing problem of the cormJt the Space-Time field with the fact of atom^ *ais involves, of course the Quantum theory...
...The soundness of this remark is today self-evident: but Mr...
...Tune is allotted for discussion on each subject...
...jjat asa that Euclid has gone, you ask, "What shall ¦jat ia his place ?" Like you, Mr...
...But as we had no matches we bad to wait till the gas was burning in the hall, then take a piece of paper and, after lighting it, carry it back and put it in the stove with the newspapers...
...By getting up before daylight and before the family were up, I managed to sleep there with Mary for nearly two weeks before I secured work, when we both hired a room between us...
...In Great Britain the grant last year (or work similar to that done by our state departments of health and the Children's Bureau was over $5,000,000...
...If you ask us what Socialism means you wm get some idea of it when we say that it does not mean war, injunctions, imperialism, bankrupt farmers, jobless wage workers and multimillionaires...
...TT is possible for two people to live two weeks on four pounds of rice...
...It was the time Jake Delaney asked mm ArfcBSb, "How could Euclid have answered the aaaSsK To the arms of an angle and the two lines dates trisect the angle, trisect a transversal of these CrQbtj said be reckoned Euclid could^have answered jat sB right...
...jPawjou get it, don't you ? They got Frenchmen in WFbssUi army and Englishmen and Scotchmen and a "•items to the English army...
...They would only let the room to one at the price...
...S. A. de Witt's "The Mote in the Moonbeam,*' intended for "The Chatterboxv will be iound on page four of thja iaapev...
...If the Newton bul does not pass, all the aid to state boards of health from the Children's Bureau will stop...
...Lilith M. WUson, Chairman of the National Women's Committee...
...Later on, Mary hired a room in a private bouse, which room was off the kitchen...
...Swartz's report...
...About 550 delegates from all over the country were present...
...Do it to-day...
...I went up there three times but could not get any that day...
...I could not oat at this wage so I gave up all idea of board and took a room at $1 per week...
...They cannot rob us of our faith without sbhg sj something in which we may believe...
...As you may know I am a window-dresser KEajB store and Just now am very busy planning a fSar ttiTM1<T1rr display of Spring shad...
...I remained in bed all day and then, at night I gathered newspapers to burn and to warm some Quaker oats...
...Over 12,500 resolutions passed at meetings in every state in the Union were turned in to the Executive Committee of the conference...
...This means however that stjil 100,000 little babies die every year in this rich land...
...Before the year ends the pries of thinking in Massachusetts will be listed as stock on the exchange...
...Sometimes whan they wars sold out they would put up a sign saying "Will have more bread and will be back soon," but when I want up again at four o'clock another sign was tacked up saying "Closed for the day...
...I got home st ten that night as the job was far away and all I had to eat from morning till ten at night was the oat-meal...
...They had a sign on the window which read only two loaves to a customer...
...Their contents • w«taent...
...Compared to it, all the work of Proust, Mr...
...At this moment we offer our thanks for her contribution...
...About Novels and Life of Today ¥>RO VOCATIVE as are its companions is "Scheherazade, or the Future of the English Novel," the contribution of John Carruthers to the Dutton Today and Tomorrow Series ($1...
...Before taking Mary as a partner I had a severe sickness and spent a week in the hospital...
...Fascism, industrial action, and so forth...
...And by the way it was BPmasd lucky day for the British when they took pCaaic Fringera in...
...to quench my thirst, but when I would wake up and reach for some water both were frozen bard...
...Get your friends and neighbors to do it...
...I t may be just an electron KKy* ist this stop you from going right on with E[ u * -dressing...
...Carruthers' is catching...
...Too bad that baKy sannot be placed on tbe Socialist doorstep...
...Hodgins, I think that in a few minutes iea»s»ake everything clear to you and Arabella and aa» other of my readers who seem a bit perplexed by St after all, is a very simple proposition...
...As long as you and I and AraBP* the readers of this column are practically the SJ°P*a in America who have a good grasp of the |B!*eo*y, let's keep it a secret from the flshp^BBblic...
...The only existent under SaBnasB is this whole, which is composed of scientific •asa bound together in a characteristic unity by a asho-temporal relation...
...though we may not be in fun accord with his prognosis, he sets us, and keeps us, thinking about the novel, and about life today...
...EiniHaadl give you Space-Time...
...Benton MacKaye raises this and scores of other troubling questions in his volume The Mew Exploration—a Philosophy of Regional Planning," issued by Hareonrt...
...The old exploration of our ancestors showed how the wilderness of forest and bill and un bridged stream could be tamed to the uses of homes...
...Other restaurants charged but ten cents, but no amount of argument would do any good so I bad to pay, also ten for tbe car fare and bad to go without any dinner and I nearly fainted two or three times that afternoon I was so weak...
...So I haven't S-tkoe to go into Einstein...
...how the remaining mountain wilderness can be safe-guarded by trails and camping sites and by organizing of then- promotion with a community pride...
...Withit that be is surely lost in the dark swamps of a sorSl atateriatism...
...They take all the stale bread to this central place and sell it...
...He looks at modem American city landscapes, mine villages, ranroad yards, gas and tire advertising signs posted along scenic highways, and he quotes feelingly the essay of H. L. Mencken on "Hideous Steel Towns of Pennsylvania...
...Mary fixed it up with a lot of onions, so as to kill the smell, but even at that we did not try to eat it as we were afraid of it Mary went out and picked up all the old newspspers she could find in refuse barrels which we used for a fire...
...He pictures the gracious valleys and streams and mountains of New England, of the Middle States and the West, and quotes stout old Thoreau...
...There is talk in Chicago of a Committee of Safety representing business men to take over the city government because government has broken down...
...No action taken is binding on tbe constituent organizations until ratified by their respective Executive Boards...
...4, • We are glad to publish a brief report m the Conference' concerning the cause and cure of war, recently held in Washington...
...Its reach—for into what fields does not our fiction go?—may be indicated by the following political side-swipe: "Consider polities...
...Hodgins ? Ready, Arabella...
...Anyone who J^mm to ss many committees as you do, must be more Mass S man of leisure...
...If you have not already talked with your congressman about this, or written to him...
...Their contribution to the progressive yanking about war in their communities la difficult to estimate, but it must be cjonsldsgahle Tbe Conference voted to meet again next January and during the year to interest their communities and organizations in the Inter-American Treaties of arbitration and Conciliation...
...I used some of my "salary" that night to get a loaf of bread...
...Even now, when the erase appears to be safely over, it is difficult for critics to keep a cool pen...
...If you roll newspapers up tight and have enough of them it is quite possible to get beat from them ss they burn for a few minutes...
...Yet vigor is one element of enthusiasm, and Mr...
...Hodgins, all is not lost...
...The program should bring a large gathering of women wiio are Interested to know what women are doing in other parts of the country...
...Swartz was a delegate to the Conference and is a member of its Executive Board...
...W be expressed by saying, "If you don't quan*T-antum...
...At s very interesting meeting of the Executive Board, several matters of importance were transacted...
...No rushing of to work the next morning...
...The Brooklyn Dairy Eagle declares that Norman Thomas is wrong in saying that prosperity is a myth...
...Tbe restaurant charged 15 for tbe oatmeal and my protests did no good...
...But there is such a mob around tbe store that it is impossible to get anywhere near the entrance, even if one has tbe five cents for a loaf...
...Of course, I don't mean spaM*»-existent...
...I went to this room and lay in bed warm...
...From MacKaye's pages rises a name of Indignation that the splendid powers of modem science should have thus far been cheated by commercial greed, so that we do not live finely, but are tossed about on a muddy current of ualy makeshift...
...Broad's snappy chapter called, rtjrfological Conditions of Sensations, and the *S»*1 Status of Sens a." It's quite a sensational > Stands like the "Evening Graphic" at times...
...I lived for two weeks on one package of Quaker oats...
...ahrve in destroying anyone's faith, even if it existence of shad in Bridgeport...
...A PAGE of EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE ABC OF EINSTEIN ^g^jB-ajer from Bridgeport, Conn., named Hodgins, A—llai-" "Can you give me a simple explanation of ^wr~T*lMt*1" theory...
...These resolutions were presented to the respective Senators by the conferees representing their States...
...This will be told by Mrs...
...Of our own headlines...
...If you soak rice long enough it don't take so long to cook it and this was the reason we soaked tbe rice the night before...
...Finally when I secured a job I borrowed 35 cents and thought that I would go In a restaurant and have oatmeal for breakfast, which would leave fifteen cents, ten for carfare and five for my dinner...
...we are told that the novel must overtake them...
...How cities can be turned away toward scientific adjustment to the needs of human breathing-space and outdoor recreation...
...To begin with, a general meeting of all women party members is to take place on Saturday evening, February 2nd ac the Rand School Studio...
...How many in Inglaad except Members of Parliament and their political agents now believe very serioasty in tbe House of Commons...
...The Story of Two Working Girls By Nell (The following has been tent %s by a correspondent m Lowell, Massachusetts, who took the story down "word for word" from the lips of one of the two girls...
...and novelists, backward and complacent though they are, cannot remain unaware of it much longer...
...and Answers on the Newton Bill...
...Politics In the narrow seme no longer attracts more than third-rate intellects, since nearly everybody has found it oat for the sometimes degrading and generally silly game that it is...
...A veritable second Renaissance in thought is in progress, here sad now, under our noses...
...Eliot, Mr...
...The aV army is full of cognac and the British full of B» If you were to describe them and were to talk ttaa two different organizations as substances that (side by side with the soldiers, you would be talkPBaamse as Prof...
...We can take our time while discussing matters of Importance to us, and to the future of our organization...
...I know every word is true,'' our correspondent writes...
...One day they were all sold out at 2 o'clock...
...This is nearly twice as much as our federal government and all our state governments combined appropriated Have you seen the pamphlet just issued by the National League, "Question...
...The meeting, being held on a Saturday night, should prove a most successful one...
...A Job Obtained...
...IS Downing St...
...Tbe women have grown tremendously in the past four years in their understanding of the economic and imperialistic basis of all wars...
...Back To The MTU...
...There need be nothing to go with it All you need do is to put It to soak at night with plenty of water...
...Members of the National Executive Board who will be in session here on Saturday and Sunday will greet the women st tlas meeting...
...Why, Mr...
...Conrad Aiken, Mr...
...Oenothera final point is also part of bis attack on the radical writers of our time...
...Carruthers affords an instance of the difficulty his last sentence states, in his slurring of Marcel Proust and of those who have found Proust's writing valid, and in the completeness of his attack on Joyce...
...elaborately organized hierarchies...
...pitcher with fresh water...
...Joyce, Mr...
...He sets up "indigenous environment" against "metropolitan...
...But in order to earn our livelihood in a wilderness of machinery, and in order to assist our flight from this wilderness to the peace and beauty of the apen country or the unspoiled seaside...
...tS make it still easier, Prof...
...It it concise and clear...
...tear no...
...Every morning I would eat some ice and throw the water down the sink and fill the...
...Women's Sec tie r# Meets ]t"EW York Woman's Section of the SoI v cialist Party is slowly but surely forging ahead...
...Psycho-analysis became for a time an appalling craze, and writers either succumbed to it, as to an epidemic of Influenza, or reacted against it with blind and ridiculous enmity...
...S^atgsod cheer, Mr...
...It says that "The man whose net income is doubled laughs at Thomas...
...Brace St Oo...
...It is up to every one of you to see to it that this meeting is well attended...
...dozen to get that fifteen cents...
...In New Zealand the rate is 39 per 1,000...
...If he is trying to convince us that the writers be names, doomed to be outmoded, might as well be discarded, why not dump into the ash-heap all their predecessors, still more antiquated and obsolete in their philosophies...
...Shall we retreat step by step urrttl this machine civilisation has overcome all the face of the country, until we stand on mountain tops besieged by hotels and gas stations and screaming amusement concessions...
...Long words he brings in, to condense his argument...
...Let the novelists of today once realize this, and realise, besides, all the esthetic significance that lies behind the alternative philosophy now being presented to us in one or another of its aspects by Professors Alexander, Lloyd Morgan, Whitehead, J. S. Haldane, McDougall, Reenter, Koffka, Eddington, and Rutherford—and EnglHb and American fiction will be transformed...
...SHALL we and our children retain the right to live, or shall we simply exist— conquered by the wilderness of mechanical civilization...
...Plans that nave been formulated by the Executive Board of the Section wiJ be presented and discussed...
...Postpone your other appointments for the week following...
...Rice does not make one feel strong, as a rule, but it Is said that tbe Chinese eat it and why not tbe daughters of tbe working class...
...Carruthers against the current novel is succinctly put: "Few English novelists had paid j much attention to academic psychology, unless in a desultory way to the writings j of William James, which were always so much easier and more illuminating to read than the later novels of his brother...
...The meeting will begin at 8.30...
...Sherwood Anderson, and Mr...
...Change your dates which ?ou have already made...
...It must be thin enough to swallow when there is no milk...
...One may cry long life to the new king, without damning the old...
...Broad gives us an expan, "The French and British armies," says he, "are •a...
...Bread is marked down to half price when it becomes stale...
...Suppal we, turn to the works of Professor C D. Broad, SBMtfcne Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Pro- - ftasr at Philosophy in the University of Bristol and JaaaT *f "Perception, Physics and Reality" and "SciataV Thought.'' saw, are you ready Mr...
...Oley said that Euclid was one of the aanlait little Greeks that ever ran a restaurant and ajBBOW what did Jake mean by jumping on a man when Safea dead...
...Baldwin's and President CooUdge's into No...
...At night I had a pitcher and glsss of water by my bed...
...Maybe its future eruption can be averted, if action follows exploration...
...Scanning The New Books Shall We Live, Or Merely Exist...
...L^B*1 that Read this to Arabella won't you ? As j^R** effects of the Einstein theory on the condiSfws Bridgeport fish market go, I should say that ¦F" non-existent...
...Some of us have lone it...
...I am speaking, Mr...
...Many is the time wa bought a loaf only to sat rt before we arrived home...
...Though, I must say, that nonpjsMeaa geometry doesn't seem to have improved the sssbssb of the young folks much...
...What, then, of tomorrow...
...A Week In The Hospital...
...This new exploration, led by MacKaye the forester, regional planner and social philosopher, begins the conquest of our mechanical and greed-spoiled age to the service of the finer human values...
...Being without food for so long it tasted good...
...B Pete's place in Herrin, Illinois, over Euclid»» fwjsattry...
...do communicate with him at once...
...fas boys have sat around chewing the rag over atsryowa experience I remember an awful row that start...
...Here's what Profa* Broad says: ""ben we talk of the properties of physical Space - Spi an are simply enumerating certain very general anaxsral characteristics of that spatio-temporal whole ass*, is the physical world...
...A very honest effort is made to place a subject from several angles before tbe conference...
...An Englishman baa brought a mechanical man to the United States which moves, answers questions and gives signals when rightly handled...
...When England and America cannot contrive to put any better brains than Mr...
...The consequence was, however, that when tbe works of Freud and Jung, Ferenczl and Adler, reached England and America in translation, novelists seldom had the necessary training in scientific method or the necessary acquaintance with psychological principles already established, to receive the new hypotheses of the unconscious with critical discrimination...
...I Sg*"lua' relatively...
...It is a plea for a return to organic unity, on the basil of tbe new achievements in science, which have, he announces, calmly and quietly wiped out the possibility of the materialistic conception of Ufa...
...It must, therefore, be clearly underthat, when we talk of the geo-chronometry of •-Time, we are simply describing certain very gen**d abstract structural features of that whole [¦the physical world...
...Tbe doors open at one o'clock but there are people standing there from II, each with a nickel...
...and the White House, is H surprising that most of us should either become contemptuously indifferent or take to preaching revolution, red or black...
...Hodgkins, IMB* the four-dimensional concept of parallelHhJU ulte everything else since Einstein, are not aaafe"1* *e*ra- The next time you look a dead shad j^PJJ^remember that...
...That's just nonsense...
...And," he *atfcer crossly, "it would be the same kind of noni*e is talked by people who imagine Space-Time to V**wt«nt substance which pushes and pulls bits •ttar about...
...This past year tbe conference has carried on a campaign for the Brtand-Kellogg Pact...
...After all, a two cent stamp and five minutes of your time «ill put you un record...
...fpfast to Arabella, won't you, so that she won't waste Saf iar precious time in the Bridgeport High-school IJjjfJag the old-fashioned geometry- In a way it's a iff teas* tbe old custom going...
...Anything would taste good...
...We use railroads and motor cars and steamboats, yes...
...Hodgins, the Professor has sim•b wiptd old man Euclid right off the scientific map...
...It is our night of leisure...
...Hundreds of these women come from several communities all over the country and belong to very conservative organisations...
...IBs idaa of Space-Time is ludicrously simple...
...On Cause and CuPe of War By MAUDE SWARTZ (Compensation Advisor to Working Women and Vice-President Women's Trade Union League...
...They seldom have the opportunity to hear even one of the speakers present at such a conference...
...This must not be...
...She represents the National Women's Trade Union League of America...
...I had no room and, being out of work, could get none...
...Of course one feels discouraged when things are down to this point but what could be done ? There was no work and no way to get anything...
...o • When it comes to protesting against injustice American workers register 100 percent but when it comes to voting, less than one per cant register In tbe right political party...
...So long as they, poor ignorant souls, |H§V4ng shad there is no use disillusioning them...
...He presents many pages of maps and diagrams showing the advance of the metropolitan against the indigenous, the local-grown and Individual environment...
...Sir/be last Thanksgiving we were without fire and that was about six weeks ago...
...I finally got in debt nine weeks in my room rent for I had to eat something and had to eat also on Sunday, when there was no work...
...Washington...
...defender of the right of human beings to live in friendly contact with the good face of Mother Earth...
...As for Washington and the American Constitution, they have become two of the world's best standing Jokes...
...I made fifteen cents a day by sewing Tt...
...The least we can do is to let our representatives (?) know where we women stand in so far as this bill is concerned...
...He should be enrolled in Tammany Hall...
...This was the fourth meeting of this conference which is composed of ten National Women's organizations working mainly to educate their membership on the multifarious causes jf war and what methods can be used to abolish war...
...Carl Sandberg, is merest trifling with antiquated themes and methods...
...Lord Grey of Fanedon may continue to proclaim his faith in democratic representative government...
...Carruthers intends to point out that the artist is frequently a bit behind the scientist in his philosophy, it may be argued that the philosopher is ss often behind the artist...
...I take it, however, that ^aJaase plenty of time on your bands...
...since the former is composed of FrenchK sad the latter of Englishmen and Scotsmen and a ¦wsanai from the Celtic Fringe...
...Just show Thomas how little he knows about you and those big incomes you are pocketing...
...We did not have much to be thankful for but we did manage to get a half pound of hamburg that day, which would be very nice If we could eat it...
...As MacKaye any*, our Industrial Eastern states are, socially speaking, a highly volcanic region...
...calls "Ulysses" a colossal failure to be the masterpiece of our day and generation.'' What he neglects is the wealth that this book holds for future writers, tbe flexfbilUy and increased power that will rise, out of all ear extremist experimentation, for those who ultimately find, or blaze along, tbe Bttddle trail...
...jap*, tell me that you and Arabella and the folks in mjgmvt don't know what Space-Time is...
...How futile all those arguments seem now f'tkf fight of the recent discoveries of Doc Einstein, faaaan yon see, Mr...
...No thought for the morrow...
...In a later Issue of the New Leader, we will elaborate on Mrs...
...aWat, really...
...That would be sheer nonsense...
...One word led to another and pretty ajs) (*sy wars rolling around on the floor, with Jake assanT a good tooth-hold on Oley's left ear...
...jirts it for granted that you and the rest are well aajsita the principles of Euclidean geometry...
...And no wonder academic psychology in English had been mainly ignored, since, apart from William James, It had always been rather poor stuff...
...Our death rate for babies under a year old has dropped from 77 to 69 per 1,000 since the Sheppard-Towner Act has been In force...
...From the League of Women Voters weekly bulletin we quote this item of Interest: THE NEWTON BILL The Newton Bill, which will permit the federal Children's Bureau to continue the educational work done in the past six years under the Sheppard- Towner Act to save the lives of mothers and babies, is now before-Congress...
...W remember that their contents are different...
...Hodgins, I feel Hf inn moat have some concept of a geometry...
...If Mr...
...Lawrence Todd...
...Address at the House of Representatives...
...Finally we fixed it up so that I could get into tbe room with Mary, which could be done only when all tbe folks had gone to bad...
...Hence the violent reactions in Communism...
...If you are still un•¦•t read Prof...
...e e With a peace wreath in one band and more cruisers in the other Uncle Sam may help to dissolve world peace into pieces...
...Tbe leading thinkers have quietly killed the mechanistic materialism, and pssssd on...
...Or can the flow of our machine-made enemy be diked, controlled, even in time subdued to serve the purpose of a race determined to really Hve in harmony with Mother Earth...
...Euclidean geometry an food enough for you and me, Mr...
...When I got well I got work in the mill, sewing up under garments at the rate of two cents for a dozen pair...
...There must be something to which man chug...
...Elements', ny dear Hodgins...
...art let me catch you going around talking about as though it were a football player .shoving •¦ing...
...Four women, members of the participating organizations discussed Big Navies, War Airplanes, War Chemistry, and War Publicity...
...flax two, three and away we go...
...In nine years 125 persona have been killed in gang wars...
...No mora tin Monday...
...But he shows, too, the lines of better defense...
...A Socialist orator was fined five dollars in Boston for speaking...
...I had a room at the time for which I paid $1 per week...
...most of ns respect him for sincerity bat decline to share his faith...
...All these belong to some other system and you are entitled to one guess as to what it is...
...So please sit down and write rfaaar OObtmn what Einstein baa been up to and bow '™T\tTj will affect tbe fish business in Connecticut.'' Swaf, Mr...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...The seams were felled seams and I had to sew them twice...
...My niece, Arabella, has ftl^out it and is constantly asking me to make it 18...
...lell j"our women comrades about the meeting, and come with them...

Vol. 8 • February 1929 • No. 3


 
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