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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEAltMES A SWELL MYSTERY STORY T ' inM gaining; gently down on the spacious rf^Ttnat rollod about the broad verandas of the ^*^*TCountry CTub as Mr. and Mrs....
...The center of gravity creeps upward, with the highest layer of society always in some hazard of toppling back into the mass...
...no one craves it—under the best of circumstances...
...By means of a large amount of material Brockway shows that it is chiefly social and political conditions—unemployment, poverty and want of education—which are responsible for most crimes, and that then, when the prisons are full, the further injustice is committed of condemning the offenders, without regard to their physical or mental ailments, to live under hard, sometimes even inhuman conditions...
...At any rate the headlines did their work This time Comrade Hillquit smiled and had your pals looked up for criminal libel...
...These same conditions win keep him or her dependent for the remainder of their lives to most esses...
...And so...
...The idea of monarchy, barred in turn from civil, religious, and political fields, has broken through as confidently as ever In industry, and our captains of business and finance are as truly tyrants, tn the Greek sense, as the Medici or the Mathers were in their own age and in their own way...
...Why Old Age Pensions...
...Sooner or later the end of everything we know as civilization will go down in destruction, should this Frankenstein, science, uninformed with moral sense, break from our control and in sheer horror of its own fiendish aspect strike blindly to left and right...
...Then let's call him a thief...
...The rooms are bleak, cheerless and overcrowded...
...It is a book which Socialists may read with profit...
...Of special Interest is the chapter on youthful offenders...
...The death penalty has an entirely harmful moral influence both on those who carry it out and on society at large...
...This is an old controversy, and Dr...
...asked Mr...
...Socialist Leader Steak Workers' $150,000," over the columns, and sat back waiting for the District Attorney and the cops...
...On Socialism He is no less critical of the smug religionist who accepts things as they are...
...He contends that it is not possible to maintain and increase production under State control because the Incentive which has stimulated capitalist enterprise would be lacking...
...Old age...
...It is difficult to review the book and for that reason I have quoted USese exof the author's thought and the universal democracy which inspired him The United States certainly has suffered a big Iocs in the passing of the author of "Liberty in the Modern World...
...and repression, though it may drive the tifnid into silence, has always fired (the brave or the reckless to rebellion...
...The following bit of vivid description taken from a recent report concerning conditions on the Island gives one an idea of what old age under such circumstances must mean to the men and the women who have not lost their power to reflect and to think...
...And I don't moan maybe...
...Yes, something just had to be done...
...MeAIaster Coaeajaana Scanning The New Books A Critic of Socialism A Bevhrw ay HBIf 8NOWDIN, M T. ThR...
...Siswrybody goes to that great detective Woodlock keaai sad lays the case before him...
...Shad well's arguments leave it where It was...
...or the Failure of Wortaltam...
...It is an unusual and agreeable experience to find a critic of Socialism dealing with the subject in a reasonable way...
...A-B aa, Us all Big Executives, was wont to leave the sty details of Ufa to his subordinates...
...In full agreement withmodem psychological research BrockyeCyreduces to a minimum the conception of "born criminals" and takes the view that under favorable conditions, and with educational and medical guidance, the young offender in particular can be led to adjust himself to the social order...
...However, they got it together in scone sort of peculiar sequence, shoved a screaming headline...
...Shadwell is not opposed to public ownership, nor does he think the community is...
...Who exnpoae shot Mrs...
...You...
...Life—to most of us may be dull, hard and on the whole uninteresting...
...Jas was one of the most promising junior partj-tbe advertising agency of Dopem, Hokum and 2 was be who had thought up the wonderful j bhadfolding thirteen iron-workers and having the world their favorite brand of lip-stick...
...Such liberty can be degraded to serve as a mere stepping-stone to power, only to be flung away when it has served its purpose...
...Housing tor all is of the dormitory type with 28 or more persons to one ward, with no privacy for the individual and no provision for the retention of any personal possessions, and with no right to enter their dormitories during the day...
...And between me and you, a few years in the pen won't make revolutionary heroes out of them for any of us...
...Well listen then...
...And yet we all cling to it God knows why, but we do nevertheless...
...IIUUL on how generous your response Is...
...th*t'* wa*t 1 c*u* pretty promf^fftr one ot these here detective stories that ¦J*"* -mos are so ardently concerned with these (SjtSS""" > * '„ you go, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, j^ftjttl broker—everyone has bis nose buried In IJ*J*^rninf, Mr...
...Illness, accident, the breakup of the family, with old age approaching, have to the majority of oases led to the shipwreck of the Individual's independence...
...None of these bills are what they should be...
...One does not have to read more than a dosen pages to realise that when Logan passed into the shadows humanity lost a rare friend and fundamental democracy one of Its ablest proponents...
...These thoughts came to me when on a visit to Welfare Island, where the city cares for its homeless aged...
...They thought of me, no doubt, but knowing my own immunity to the thousand and one names they have already called me, and also my habit of running off for a fishing trip when I get too sore for anything, they passed me up...
...came from the cautious one...
...And it is because suet institutions are not what they should or could be...
...And now I'm not so sure...
...Of Socialism and the Socialist movement he has an interesting paragraph...
...That ¦tjas statue of Bishop Manning, that is Grant's ST who la Grant's Tomb ?" asks Jerry who Jt-T** of good parents in Mamaroneck during a ^¦¦rs ConvenUon and knows very little of the his^•erty Persia...
...The ideal lives, whUe the institutions and the classes once embodying it fade and pass...
...Jerry'" ¦*ye Woodlock slightly annoyed, ^^•aad read, "Pioneers of Freedom,' you would -sa.Jv* Grants Tomb was one of the Hayrnarket Now let us get back to our muttons...
...Hillquit...
...until it tasted like a Diamond Dick Brady thriUer out of the early days of Street and Smith, Ine...
...A leading chapter, "The Meaning of Liberty," serves as a general Introduction to his views and in the succeeding chapters he considers liberty in relation to Law, Thought and Expression, Government, Work, the Historic Setting, Science, Humanism, and Religion...
...they wfll tarn out in a body on March 13 and help make this undertaking the big success it deserves to be...
...Brockway is fully conscious that a satisfactory solution of these problems will only be found by a transformation of social and political conditions...
...History affords the spectacle of the alternation of reaction and progress with the same persons too often playing conflicting roles at different periods...
...The readers of The New Leader should try and find out which of the ten bills is the one they could support and then act to its behalf as a unit, with all the power at their command...
...If they do...
...to the vast majority it means nothing but strife and struggle: often poverty and hunger, sickness and misery—a listless, joyless life...
...pane, came, Mr...
...Now, Joe, doesn't it sound plausible that aU this really happened...
...I know," he shouted happUy, "Orov.Z*1*1j** "Tch, tch," admonished Woodlock, sUghtisa?**4 at the man's innocence, "try again, my ^ •** the words, "my man" Jerry held up his ^*Jj»*W, "Fanny Brice," but that was wrong too...
...But get busy...
...Their lives were thoee of members of working class families with self-sustaining homes, with normal opportunity for determining the use of one's leisure time, with the average amount of privacy and of opportunity for social intercourse...
...Meals are served in two large dining rooms, at long tables with long waiting lines readyto burst in as soon as the doors of the rooms are opened...
...The branches have still an opportunity to show whether they really believe in a women's movement within the Socialist party...
...This awakened public Interest in the fate of prisoners...
...THE CHATTER BOX The Internationalist Though +a*ns of jeering pelt with hissing sneers...
...Jim Oneal they were afraid of, because he has a way of*-digging up historical facts out of the Renaissance thatvwould bewilder even a Past Grand Dragon of the Pretzel-makers Nuclei...
...Together with good accomodation and food prisoners should have the possibility of performing suitable work, and being*-paid for it...
...How Many Tickets Hare Yea Sold...
...But scourges turn to tongues of glory yet I His back is bent Kt'ift folly of the world...
...your pals cooked up the queerest sort of a financial boracht...
...111HEKE are no -less than seven bills a dealing with old age security before the New York Legislature...
...Tki'tUDd of Mr...
...to do was to call some Socialist a murderer, a crook, a bum, an illegitimate son or something right out in the front page in headlines of eight inch letters, and just get locked up on a "criminal libel charge or something...
...But be thinks that State ownership does not necessarily Involve State management, and that the Socialists Should think out more clearly the problem of management of publiclyowned concerns...
...There might once have been some force in Dr...
...Several thousand men and women, with whom life did not deal kindly are there, sitting, Just sitting—and watting for death . . . homeless, friendless, alone...
...It is "carried today to as fierce heights as ever the worship ot the church or of chivalric honor was borne in days past" and It "cannot but be in perpetual conflict with the elemental rights ot the citizen...
...For...
...They are tow priced and the play is an excellent one—"The Good Hope" with Eva Le Gallienne to the title role...
...A government interested in seeing the declining years of its aged toilers end in peace and happiness would find a way...
...So that crime was passed up for the moment...
...To-day, however...
...For hours they sweated and moiled and pondered...
...Thongh ut'wrfr of creeds their raucous bluster shout...
...Why not Hillquit...
...10,000 Beg for Jobs Clearing Snow in Boston BOSTON.—An army of jobless men begged for a chance to earn a few dollars the other day shovelling snow in Boston, but was turned away...
...And because the whole story is so plain a tissue of bunkertoo, i won't even stop to tell you how it all ended...
...You see when the deficit grew big enough to even make the "tovarish printer" and the "comrade editors" worry about ever getting paid, and since there was no "Sacco-Vanzetti" business to call protest meetings and coUect the easy money for "propaganda,'' and since most of the class war prisoners were either free or just "bourgeois pinks," and since . . well business was just slack in the "protest" line all around, something had to be done...
...A Correction We regret that due to some oversight the article which appeared on page 7 of The New Leader last week enritled "An Introduction to O'Neill'' appeared with the name of the author omitted...
...Destinies croud and bou: before his plan,And Dawn, that kindles in his eyes, illumines The rising temple in the heart of man...
...And where in all the literature in behalf of a nobler order will one find a finer pasage depicting the historic process than the following: Since the radical reform of yesterday becomes the convention of today and the vested interest of tomorrow, the man who stands precisely where he stood twenty years ago, or where his grandfather once stood, may find that he is no longer a revolutionary but a pillar of society or perhaps a bourbon...
...However, not one of these is likely to become law when the legislature adjourns...
...This way lies madness," he wrote...
...He writes, not as a Socialist, bat as a student of political and social movements...
...a Union Building, and some mysterious documents thrown in...
...lee*a out the window and says, "Where are we ~- Is not that the statue of Bishop Manning...
...There is such a thing as keeping idtots out of harm's danger even for their own sweet sake...
...A-B decides, in ¦ esdsrrs manner, to call in the police but they are *h Florida at a prize-fight and all they can do is to ¦qtoat to "town to keep right on the case until it ' dssrai up...
...Let's call him a kidnapper right on the front page...
...and though there is much in it with which socialists win disagree, I must admit that from the non-Socialist point of view, it is a thoughtful and instructive survey of the post-war developments of political and economic Socialism...
...Especially sure was I of your neglect when their ripsnorting English daily started to cry "Dough, more dough or we quits . . ." Says I, at last the old daddy at Moscow was through...
...There is among the present inmate group, conservatively estimated, to be about one third of thoee interviewed, who began life with trade or professional training, whose normal adult working life was that of a trained craft worker—carpenter, painter, woodcarver, cook, gardener, or the wives of men in this group—with the earning capacity and standard of living common to this group in an American community...
...The sincere and high-minded reformers," he observed, "would have us believe that spiritual things are' on a wholly different plane from the material, but in divorcing the affairs of Caesar so completely from the affairs of God they give to any potential Caesar the rulership in this world and place religion in a position of silent acqulesence in despotism and misery...
...Boosing the People But there was sound reason for this It was necessary to rouse the proletariat to a sense of their wrongs, and to reach Socialism as a sytera which would Justly distribute the national product...
...went on the irrepressible go-getter, "let's holler he croaked Rothstetn...
...by Arthur ShadwelL X. P. Dutton...
...Whom sullen raining cannot pierce nor 'soak...
...And the last page in the book returns to his ideal of a reorganized world where our present "repressions and injustices and stupidities" will be mastered, "a freer world than that which any previous generations have been born into" will be "ours for the effort of attempting it...
...It was a ringing out, Mr...
...After the War The breakdown of existing political systems in many countries after the war, and in some countries where there were no great constitutional changes, brought Socialism forward as a great political force, and the Socialist parties were faced by the task of government, and with the responsibility of applying their propaganda advocacy to actual practice...
...It is always hateful -eoN^ie oligarchs, old and new, whether they depend on the reasoned allegiance or the affection and sentiment of men, because clearer and freer thinking endangers their control...
...Suddenly, one of them pounded on the table with a shout of "Eureka, I got it...
...A-B and pin it to a two dollar **• (JoQ*r hUl, If a two isn't handy, or any •J?**6 a couple of grand for that matter) and St-s^** to ua in care of The New Leader, maybe ¦TJT' aBd maybe well keep you in the dark jl^s/7"^* *nd worrying...
...If the house is not sold out it will be the fault of those who have not given their full hearted co-operation to this undertaking...
...aJJ**1 yo« ah excited and don't you think we ^ JBSrtlandy detective stories ? What do you supjy, -T,**01* was that Woodlock whispered Into Jerm*Z ^ wr,te 001 your aolution to this and ten us S^uunk shot Mrs...
...The disparity between our material and moral culture Logan finds aptly dramatized in the uses to which modern science has been put in war...
...asked Mr...
...Nor does It make the promiscuity of present aimhouse conditions and the almost total inability to order one's life in an individual fashion less irksome or humiliating...
...The four last chapters to Chernechefsky's "What's to be Done" makes for more lucid understanding...
...The author is Mr...
...The book is so compact and covers so wide a range of observations and conclusions that it is not easy to record his philosophy in a review...
...Work centres should be created for released prisoners where they may always find employment...
...The result is one of the most appealing and convincing books written by any American in years...
...A-B," responded Nicholas light-nrtten Mttrads at once...
...Joe, if you send them one plugged kopek for that "relief fund" you're not the levelheaded guy I know you to be...
...Mountains of speculation were leveled and nary a mouse of project ventured forth...
...Woodlock leaned over and Ethe name of the man who had shot Mrs...
...Though gales of all derision howl about,— He stands in windy storming—stands alone...
...rooted m his faith, he calmly dons This darkened tempest like warming cloakl His 6rotf is ftoughed by bitterness of men...
...if it will tickle the cope what chance have we got for being locked up . . and getting locked up is our main idea...
...It would have been ineffective to talk to people about organizing production unless we had shown them how the results werexto come to them in the distribution of it...
...Wave alter wave of revolt has risen out of the darkness, won victory, ruled, been absorbed into privilege, and then in turn been dethroned and replaced by newer, fresher forces of revolt...
...Therefore, "in all conscience, let us have done with the shame of ecclesiastical or theological systems that put form before truth...
...It order to solve the mystery, Mr...
...Repression and Revolt He notes the rise of the religion of state worship and regards it as "the recrudescence of barbarism...
...s»t was that, Nicholas...
...Shadwell deals at length with what he describes as the failure of Socialism in countries where, under a Socialist Government, they had to make attempts to put their theories into practice...
...Murder...
...Fraternally yours, S. A. tie) W«iS...
...dumbeU...
...In time a new aristocracy, new privilege, and new vested interests take shape, until the grandson of the revolutionist is apt to confront his own generation as a sentimental stand-patter...
...ShadweU's criticism of Socialists for neglect to emphasize the importance of production, and especially the importance of managerial functions, but that is not true today...
...It Is a amaU book and deals with the future of Socialism in the light of the political changes which have been brought about in many countries since the end of the war...
...Jgi** again," chuckles Woodlock without raising • wUk*™01 the absorbed contemplation of the dom7 t"Mm...
...And when they had thought a bit, and mulled around some more, the majority were in favor of holding a protest parade against the Cruiser BiU and take a chance stirring up a little fuss in front of the Stock Exchange to get pinched...
...Sooner than you think, we shall •fraasai the miscreant who did in your wife...
...Clothing is institutional, the wearers having no claim on their apparel beyond the period of the week for which he wears it...
...Says the report: 'Present treatment of almshouse inmates is practically identical for all those who come there (the only outstanding exceptions being in the necessary difference due to the physical handicaps ot the blind and of the very infirm or crippled...
...Of the capitalism dominated by the great magnates he writes: "They have become the inheritors of those irresponsible powers over men's lives which in other days belonged to the barons, the ecclesiastics, the kings, and the great statesmen...
...And it Is lmpossble to doubt, from our present point of vantage that somewhere In this chaos, hidden perhaps in a muntain of chaff, lies the grain of truth that win some day prevail...
...There is no more finality in Socialist theory than there is in science and religion...
...For a while the boys mulled about as to which Socialist to select for the job...
...Arbustie-Whiskers with a ^*eln»g-ehot?» J...
...Brock way's book, in virtue of its vivid descriptions and the wide insight with which the problems are exposed, will provide a strong stimulus to the discussion of these important questions...
...A New Way With Crime COMRADE A, PKNNER BROCKAWAT, Secretary of the British Independent Labor Party, who was imprisoned during the war for refusal to perform military service, had ample opportunity to become acquainted with the sufferings ot prisoners from his own observation^ This led him to make, immediately after the war, an investigation into prison life in England, which he conducted together with S. Hobhouse...
...Brockway published a book in England which presents a vivid picture1 of the twofold injustice of which society is guilty towards the criminal...
...their ways will we find the, road to liberty but with the masses below, however inarticulate may be their speech and however blindly ^theymay follow wrong paths...
...Oh," said the New CapJk* »a abet ringing out" So the party proceeded to St sasws^orgnette where, to their surprise, they disgorei that Mrs...
...And so they went along until they came upon Morris HUl quit...
...And so it was quickly decided that the most classconscious, revolutionary, and inspired tMng...
...something about bank stocks, a $150,000.00...
...We must get puUed In on a real service to proletarian advancement- Something we must do that will shock the world into Hallelujahs fo...
...I got it...
...Of course, under different governmental administration, the care of the aged would not present such a picture...
...But protested the others, the "yellow Socialists" have been called enough names, everything from arsonites to "blood-bathers," and never had they winced enough to even answer, let alone sue for damages...
...T< *ft*r Jerry had guessed Jay Lovestone and w^Mnrray BuUer and Cardinal Hayes and had E * m an three...
...Joseph Stalin, Moscow, U. S. S. R. Dear Tovarian Joe: It's been a long time since I wrote to you about your Union Square pals, I thought you knew all about them from my last letter, and when I watched how their "hot-dog" dailies were falling out with the general public, and even their bow-wow-wowing against the skyscrapers wasn't getting a lifted eyebrow from Clancy the Cop, I imagined you had taken my tip and just let them go busting up their own empire as long as they had a mind to...
...The chorus went on, "That's out...
...He points out however in his book a practical method by which the criminal procedure could even now be greatly improved...
...tha ad...
...Go ****** Street and play with the lambs and leave *JthJ»g to Jerry sad L" fc Wbaffloch and Jerry start off in a Checker Cab ^l^soon they are passing Grant's Tomb...
...Banners of lision burn about word...
...I managed to get a paper that day and tried to read the story under the headline...
...Bound up with their fortunes," he declares, "are all the dumb forces rising from below, as they have risen for good or ill in every other crisis in history...
...pSW people interested in the labor movement or in social philosophy would be able to identify the late George & Logan, Jr., who died in December, 1937...
...Socialism may have its errors and extravagances but in "its larger sense, as the newest and jus test appeal for the rights of the many against the privilege of the few, for self-determination and equality of opportunity in the face of vested interest, is In process of becoming, a lever that win move the world...
...which he is studying, for on all his trips , "J"*** bis alert mind with something that will do . PWata "Pioneers of Freedom," for example...
...Send to the Dough" . . . and the like...
...w Je*!*** 1 Grmnt'" Tomb nor Cannon Sheaf e Chase 1^7* *• 8umner nor Commander Byrd...
...Arbustle-Whistard was missing, tkere can my wife be, Nicholas...
...No, that wouldn't do...
...Wtaflock calls in his comic aid, Jerry Bean, and Mkiax up from a book which he is always reading *i "Pioneers of Freedom," says: "Jerry, where *** J*» bean...
...SXmtmAi11"1...
...Let me hear from you...
...Holding up a bank, or busting into Macy's front window was a bit too counter-revolutionary, all such crimes being the direct result of capitalistic instinct and urge...
...Logan was a democratic evolutionist, sympathetic with universal change and resentful of the clammy hand of reaction no matter In what field it sought to smother thinking...
...taB* Artwhistle-Bustarda and their alluring daugh_ jpjggsae les"'"g on the strong right arm of Nich_ stsaaed Into the spacious ban-way of the Highgttsry Country Club, a shot rang out...
...Between ourselves, the quicker you liquidate the American Communist party, the sooner America will liquidate her distrust ot the Soviet government...
...The whole question of old age brings before one a rather sad picture...
...Though storms of sects and parties drench the land...
...Every movement of revolt that wins some measure of success," he writes, "is threatened with the same tragic cycle— a dogmatism of Its own, a hardening of the spiritual arteries, and in the end perhaps a new tyranny as unbearable as the one from which men had once been rescued...
...e ladies' telephone booth with a Japanese m the Highattery Club...
...Hfr we're off to a flying start...
...Present inmates are not 'all alike either as to economic and social background, as to present interests, as to sensibilities or as to response they make to different modes of treatment...
...Not with these masters and...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A department af new* and views af particular interest to the vomlb af the labor movement...
...fought for a long while and then his honest #«B~Jj*',«til...
...This is being done, and it is now realized that there will have to be ooraiderable flexity in the methods of management of production in order to secure in each case the maximum of efficiency and output...
...Socialists no doubt have learnt much since the war in regard to the practical work of applying Socialist principles to the solution of economic and social problems...
...that'll please the cops too...
...ShadweB's main point is and I think most Socialists with a long* experience of Socialist propaganda will agree with him to a great extent—that in our pre-war propaganda we laid almost exclusive emphasis upon the failure of capitalism to effect a Just distribution of the national product, and neglected to urge the primary condition of efficient production...
...Jail is a sanitarium at times for their like...
...I hope you axe all gjhM up by this time and nave figured out that It n Snivels who did the dirty work in the ladles' telefiitooth, ISwriii, that's where you get fooled because SnivsaV set bora in Japan at alL Be was born in West hath Iowa and consequently he will be our President W: • _ Tan for several chapters you win think it was Niches, who did it and you will feel pretty low shout this, sens* naturally you have taken a fancy to Nicholas, he pest-hearted lad with his bright ways and fetchSJ ¦saner with women, like a retriever...
...I Just adore this dainty mauve," !trf Mrtek F. McGuirk as he sat blindfolded on a •inter on the top of the Matt Won Life Insurance 2Jgf^Buading in Metuchen, N. J., "and I don't JJjtJe- its name...
...So, the "class-war editors" got together and wisely cooked up the idea of getting themselves locked up...
...A rtw rustle-Bustard ^*J"L grprHng- daughter, Imogene," boomed the (lias voice of Nicholas Cartwright, as Snivels, the J*i2».Bu«tards' chauffeur, leapt to the ground to *VSi*oor at the gleaming Cadillac...
...He insists that we cannot "dream of love and live unquestloningly in a world of haters...
...I learn now how good a business man even an American Communist can become when faced with a loss of his cinch...
...Chapel Hill, N. C. University of North Carolina Press, $2...
...Ardurod-Bustard, trained as it was inafjhg stuck decisions on the Street where he was ¦tag at J. P. Morgan, "Boom," did not fail in this • -.»>-- - ¦ ¦flare It," ha cried, "find someone who has been ¦gar around here with a Japanese sling-shot, tenth the servants...
...All are lacking in adequate provision for a comfortable old age free from red tape...
...Tickets can be had to the office of the Party...
...Get your tickets now...
...No more kush for the dear little ones who promised the Third International a sweet little Soviet of these here states all wrapped up in red ribbons and delivered freight prepaid to your Executive Committee...
...our act and at the same time shake up the Jimmy Higginskles into shelling out the kopecks in our defense . . ." It wouldn't take a brilliant cartoonist to pencil that group seated about their copy-desk, poking their knitted foreheads in the well-known posture of bottomless thought...
...Conditional sentences should be more widely given...
...We haven't decided yet...
...came from a brilliant part of the coterie...
...1 think you wfll And that she has been shot through m lead by a Japanese sling-shot and that her body rsow lying in tha ladies' telephone-booth, the door to rtaa ksa been securely locked since six o'clock last ^"answered Nicholas...
...lilt may not he a direct quotation, but it went ^ff*X Uke that and let ua get on with our story...
...The law must be "continually reinterpreted to meet new conditions and interests," he asserts while recognizing that the covert Impress "of a slave-owning caste, ot an imperialistic junto, or of the masters of the capitalistic system has been at different times considerable...
...But this dependence, much more often caused by economic and social conditions than by personal shorti comings on the part of the individual, does not change his subjective standards, nor make a return to his past mode of life less desirable to him...
...Liberty of conscience is always challenged...
...that we want to see the system of old age pensions established, so that when the end comes one may meet it under one's own roof among one's own kin and friends...
...Every social order has begun to court destruction at the point where it has presumed its own permanence, for there is no illusion of permanence without repression...
...A knowledge of the history ot the development of Socialist theory would protect one against the dogmatic assumption that our present ideas about Socialist theories and aims have assumed the final and irrevocable form...
...When you read these lines there wfll be only four days left to the theatre party arranged by the New York Women's Section of the Socialist Party for March 12 at Eva Le Gallienne's theatre...
...but it can also be guarded as a flaming strord flashing at need to rid the world of the tyrant...
...Each chapter is a brilliant essay revealing a wide knowledge of history, and a man with keen analytic powers and charm of appeal that are compelling...
...Of course, by the time they reached him they had disposed of all the easy ones...
...When all of a sudden the Eureka guy buzzes out again with "Marsellaise" fervor...
...He attributes this alleged failure, particularly in Russia, Germany and Austria, to the Socialists not having previously thought out and agreed upon a poBcy in regard to certain fundamental things, namely, the method of distributing the national product, and the necessity of maintaining and increasing production...
...There were at least 10.000 of them, a careful check-up showed...
...dear Joe...
...Day room provision consists of one large room for men and another for women, again with no provision lor privacy and almost none for occupation...
...Leave it with August Classsens if that is more convenient...
...offered the instigator, now with a bit of reserve...
...In the chapter on the death penalty interesting material is given concerning various countries, and it is pointed out in particular that the contention that the death penalty as a deterring influence cannot be maintained in the face of the fact that statistics fail to show in any country an increase of crime f murder homicide) as a result of the abolition of the death penalty...
...Harry Weinberger and our apology is due to him for the error...
...AxtwWetle**5fs»d their alluring daughter Imogens came up i^L tosa in a shining new Cadillac...
...Gee...
...This last grab at a straw ought to convince yea that the Russian Revolution can get along quite bappfly without the brilliant aid of Union Square...
...Same af the city yards were mobbed by men and boys seeking work...
...Of course, "The Worker" now had something to yowl about "Bete Save Class War Victims from Yellow Socialist persecution...
...Who takes his lashing for an epauletl A'of all the anguish nor the bitter tears Can challenge Time, as uhen his word is heard...
...When a little book bearing his name reached the writer he was curious because of its suggestive title (Liberty in the Modem World...
...Not all the thundering of all the guns Reverberates through ages as his word...
...LOUIS GINSBERG...
...And then something happened...
...Arbustardrfcfcot who like all great builders of American Busm fai|iiri was not easily to be ruffled...
...Return the money for tickets you have scud (if you did) not later than Monday, March 11...
...It is one who served in the World War who writes of his aversion to this cult of our official "patriots...
...Ooah, that's so...
...It was so mushed up that when half through with it, I could not remember whether Hillquit was a reporter for the "Graphic.'' or the $150,000 was next year's budget for "The Worker" from the Third International...
...Ardent faith in any cause is apt to beget a spirit of intolerance, and to create the belief that one's cherished creed is the last and full revelation of truth...
...But comrade, we must find someone he kidnapped...
...This shows how human Woodlock »*Jat in spite of all the many problems that he has m to solve and an hands laugh at this sally...
...Let's be brave...
...A-B, do not worry," says Woodax iaally putting his slender hand on the broad shoularoftbe financier...
...The Late George B. Logan A Review By JAMBS ONEAL...
...Don't wait for to-morrow...
...But there is still a great deal more to be learnt, and if any candid critic offers his suggestions in a reasonable manner they win not be rejected in a spirit of self-righteous perfection...
...Shadwell has undoubted qualifications to write upon this question...
...ARTHUR 8HADWXLX has Written anot»ser book on Socialism, (Typhoesus...
...Waif are Island gives one a feeling of horror—if not one of shame...
...We do not want to give up—even when there is no hope left...
...Prisons could be regarded and organized as institutions not for punishment but for cure...
...His new book is largely free from bias...
...Well then let's find something we can say he stole," the dauntless one offered...
...He bad something of the broad outlook of Emerson and Whitman but his democracy was also buttressed with more solid knowledge of history and the economic evolution of society...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 8
