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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES with YOUR help. "_g fUVS just received what wa MDm M ha m Jr" |—of tadctac aaaigmateato frtm Tj- af tlit o*4 Hw Turk ••Sua" tlVrft^;*^-. MS''aflaer." Qklshoms...
...15 at 8:30 p. m. in the BrownsviBe Labor Lyceum, 219'Sackman Street...
...The furthest he would go was to suggest the control of Industry by technical experts, by engineers, by "a soviet of technicians," as he put it...
...To go down with you in the dark...
...The Instincts that are 'genertcauy ha* man" are the "parental," the llistluiil of workmanship" and "kOs eurteSBp...
...Hadrthtir way and left their mark...
...We have made great efforts to organize the workers so that they can force the capitalists to improve the level of living tJp and sideways, and we know that better wages, shorter working days and plenty of leisure do not necessarily make people satisfied with capitalIsm, or mentally less alert or less inclined to demand still better conditions...
...He over*T# Mm §am dm t**di$ of mp$etting the orthodox oconomUU . . . From him comet I ths Iwioiloetuof timidity that km steered our young ecormmUti into blind nUzys of mere eHtieitrnJ* A Sketch of His BluillaEW Theories and Am jfcjfc mate of Their Imprafj on Otrrettt TTiosAfltt looked the immanllj for a aaaaaajt af social control, the formulation Of a paaeT of the distribution of wealth...
...the establishment of peace and good will among the nations...
...Even when our capitalists went to war, they had to draft the whole nation...
...AU the constructive Socialists wui belong to it The American Federation of Labor and the progressive farmers win be in it...
...However, Veblen never became a Socialist...
...Such as he and others I * Bnght mention, you know are your people, talking 'Tour language, dreaming your dreams, companions • down the long road to the dawn...
...Perhaps too it would ha boat to wits* Uu thieves tots of tuck aad s longer Hto to abate gaaai While wo prepare to stop ia whan the jig (g up...
...8. H. SociaBsm's View of Capitalism (Crathnei tnm rare Vrar) ' THE <'""":f CHATTER BOX Peasant 'Woman • '.1 _____ | jgj Under the subway stairs you stand, „ A swirl of lace in either hand...
...The instalment business in the United States runs Into billions every year...
...A civil war like the American would have boosted the Socialist strength over in Europe, whereas here it dissipated the social rebels aad added new causes of division to those which already split the popular vote...
...On Monday at noon Vladeck spoke to s gathering of prominent Cleveland liberals at the Hotel Hollendon...
...Tkh is the Conference for Progressive Labor Action etsch of course had its origins in the attempt of the tauric en Federation of Labor to kill, Brookwood and wgka, as I have often said here and elsewhere, I beam ta at a moat hopeful aad worthwhile undertaking...
...Not many there are whe can lay claim to so sweat, so beautiful a heritage 1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTBB That was a very quiet affair twenty-five man age in Berlin, when at the iaspbaSorTrf Mrs...
...C. Vladeck, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, In a twoday visit to Cleveland addressed five meetings starting with a banquet Monday evening at which nearly ts.000 was pledged for the Declassed Russian Jews...
...On the other hand, aside from Baa rr'ng money out of the common people's labor, the American capitalists and their governments haven't bothered the masses much, aad taxation here has never been as heavy as in Europe...
...Time sad again his black and | waits drawings hare been compared with those bitI lag indictments of the great Frenchman, Daumier...
...Veblen's real vogue, however, cams s little later...
...If oae is so convinced of his or her faith aa the question, that it becomes a tenet of canwarnat sad life, then it were highly proper to go about through a world of darkness, sad hi true rnaaitSag spirit give forth light and direction as a —attar eg mmp...
...Leslie's bequest to Mrs...
...though unable to attend the silver anniversary, in her greetings to the Congress from New York recalled the risks taken by those pioneers when they set up the banner of 'Votes for women' in the very citadel of reaction...
...Bequests for copies have come from all parts of the country...
...But the time has come when I can say our spirit is reviving snd the Socialist movement in America is on the road to virility...
...The Socialist and labor movement must have some vehicle to prepare young people for Intelligent service...
...Victor L. Berger ALITTLE over two montits ago Victor Berger was in New York...
...Deeper than sorrow, sharper than race...
...lute fraaaa «W»watsv , . m 4 Up aad am tka saBMgju ' reMtmdattyaaBas...
...Everything but the heads of the American people," I said, "and a new generation is coming up that hasn't even begun to think about such things...
...tabor, aad not Just money profit...
...That friends and comrades everywhere will cherish his memory until they themselves shall Join him in the Great Beyond...
...Says be in newspaper reviews, given out as P—Ha for an Impending private financial venture between him and Mr...
...But the three should cooperate aad not isolate themselves...
...And so would most Socialists everywhere...
...The next presidential campaign will do stfll more undermining of this sort A third party is sure to take the field permanently and to capture second place in a short time...
...And the government opera was given for thetr pleasure...
...His "Instinct of Workmanship" was published in 1914...
...Active in it are your people and my peons was speak our language and understand what So•naBs ia after...
...So have we all...
...National Convention „ Miss Tone—on, program director for WEVD, has agreed to give' three periods on Saturday...
...t _ - - But here, I'm getting sentimental again and that •win never do...
...At the last the most you know, Is utter silence bereft of woe...
...It was a great public occasion with posters upon the street corners and officials anxious to do It honor...
...bays and girls, that this is the gl*' I*r you to trail with...
...V* Tka suchars feed the atargiaa, Aad star** *B*a,gg»vea ag stssjtoj see There la so much truth and ao' little pastry ta Sty doggerel this week, that oas might hear wtth saase prosy lingering over the subject...
...By actual comparison, the stick-up man ia ths least reprehensible...
...Eg - jp Be got his pretty, pretty, preposterous young men i precisely like all the thousands of others that make our advertising pages such desolating affaire and we horned our lesson that one note of realism in modem advertising makes the whole world of commerce I faQ tn convulsions...
...wondered my cowboy friend...
...Now we have the philosophers puBing heavy dough out ef a sex-discussion in the sanctified name of intellect And Bertrand RuaseU at that . . . Socialist I guess I'm thin-skinned...
...Those who have names or want information should communicate with Samuel H. Friedman, 7 East 15th Street...
...easy money without labor...
...Tickets were forced upon peddlers and small merchants at five dollars each...
...14, at 8 p. m...
...It . m lliT— that this good fortune came our way ^tfla we eater on this task with some misgiving...
...Industry exists for bull mas, not business for industry...
...For they have no time 3 ytMra which affect the average American worker g-8** They are so busy looking at Moscow that .°»y cannot see Milwaukee...
...They may rather indicate debts...
...And in most instances, these same parents are mighty old-fashioned along those lints Which is as it should be...
...or as we called all bells and dancing affairs fa those years . . . "rackets...
...He overthrew the ^PBV nomie maa" of the old ecenoanats wtth hto actions based upsa pleasure aad pata...
...asked my cowboy friend...
...Is that be is too radical...
...Be made a profound impression upon ths younger economists and sin Milisjlils by the daring of hto thinking and the bread I h of his knowledge...
...Bat surely the haaaMta on Broad and Wan, and their middle class victims are tn ae mood to accept such a preecrlption...
...But, we who have known him off the platform, who worked with him in committee rooms, shall miss his geniality even more than his leadership...
...e * That Suffrage has helped to make women socially minded to certainly true...
...Germany and Austria still had their laws forbidding women's participation in politics and no national suffrage organization could lawfully be formed in either country...
...You old son-of-a-gun," said my friend...
...it was, whe first pointed ant in modern terms the discrepancy between production for use and production for profit, between industry and business.' Certainly Karl Marx knew the distinction but he did not express it in that way, because he was chiefly concerned with the exploitation of labor...
...AI Capons, Gyp the Rood...
...For there is mischief afoot beyond our poor mlnde ta encompass...
...Ths brokers who sit In at the books gad rehs ta the commissions are the lowest in the rune oi eUudal balances...
...an ale of working men and women in this ^P*** aad that the chief function of a labor leader is 9M* bust around in Pullmans making speeches to "^_**tt«8 it has wasted no time in sending its l"**y*tivas to ths front line ef the labor strugw ™**y—the Southern textile sector—whore they Meuhtad themselves ably...
...I Ifs true...
...Yea, long before the world had come Into the glad estate of Comrade Russell's philosophy...
...Maybe not" I granted, "but then there wfll be a third party of workers, farmers and progressive middle class people of an aorta "Well, I hope you're right" said my cowboy friend...
...Your wares before the crowds that peas...
...It was only the other day that g sjsa who has spent yean working for the Brotherhaass said to me that there la more need than ever fsr the carrying through of Debs's original idea of S. todustrial union for all the railway workers...
...htnk that within less than three months memorial services would be neia for Comrade Berger himself...
...Subscriptions are one doner a year and fifty cents for six nasi Ins...
...rtfja* aaw^V .. - fc> A. «Jft JOOmc...
...to YipseU' delegates to the national convention...
...That made it easy to keep down and dissipate radicalism over here...
...They depict OH history of commerce from the days of the Paoesjsisas to our own sad they are a luualag history •f the rise of capitalism I - lb —>ualiig upon them yon see how all the ages long I the chief end of man has been to swap something, 'oaths walls which Boardmaa has made colorful sad I sits is the complete oonfirmstion of the theory of' apo—ante determinism, though it is doubtful if many I PlUsuurg shoppers will see it as such...
...Thorstein B. Veblen did more than any other man of our time to turn the new generation of economists away from the classical economists with their defense of the states quo but he also did Just as much to Justify it in remaining aloof from Socialism...
...Of course, no ban was ever hired, aad no dance ever took place...
...It may be like the British Labor party, or it may be a party on the model of the earlier American Farmer and Labor parties...
...And that is why I say that a plague take all great men, pv:'.osophere, giants of intellect aad the rest who c'.'.sw themselves to be bruited about as protagonists of sex-Indulgence ht public forums at so much per seat I'd rather Bertrand the Brilliant would All his breast pockets with pictures of nude women aad brothel scenes aad as— them furtively to crowds of pasty-faced boys on Fourteenth Street That might be aa errussbaa way of averting poverty...
...Wrote Defence ef Socialism Veblen's main contribution to economic theory has become so commonplace among radical* and reformers that they have forgotten the source of their fundamental tenets,—one is tempted to say, of their pUtitades Veblen...
...Jesse James, All Baba's forty thieves and all the ttuftasa between Sing Sing and San Quentin comprises*, tsrta singular entity would have all the mieraaooatc importance of a flea's whisker against the moninyiaataj "racket" of stocks and bonds these mad days...
...a suffrage society had been started and there wereisngftbers of jhte *eeiety scattered through Ocjnamy...
...And it would leave no more for any capitalist but wages of management, no profits...
...Aad just when we have almost succeeded in establishing some faith tn the doubting populace as to our righteousness...
...At this convention plans will be made for an intensive organization drive and for the preparation of new literature which will especially appeal to young workers and students...
...Boss" Tweed...
...CUiis!sue- Yteeest The Cleveland Yipsels are at present "HM—1 in working for the relief of tbe Marion striikrs...
...He had since youth been somewhat of an expert on Scandinavian literature...
...Little did we who were •h.r...
...Gosh, I've sweated for hours under a street lamp before hundreds of quibblers and hecklers to disprove that canard...
...He wss, indeed, the greatest of our near-Socialists...
...This wfll be the rallying point for our new period of activity and growth...
...DORIS KIRKPATR1CK...
...Aad ta most cases the stock bag changed a good number ef times more than gay kypothetical figure of eighty...
...of women was destined to bring this great gift to mankind—the end of war...
...He came to believe that improving technology would be the cure-all for our ills...
...Silence that only a peasant feels...
...It was a colorfully impressive picture, this mingling of the women of the Orient with their sisters of the Occident, and the picture became almost impressionistic ss the feminine raiment of the Far and Near East was set off in relief against the more abbreviated women's wear of the Western democracies...
...You must be hard-boiled, realistic and disagreeable aad 111j mannered as hell In order to persuade Americans [ that they want a Revolution in which you will be M«Pdog...
...It is all based upon the primal urge under a system like ours...
...while unannounced, as her homeland appeared, a representative of that country stopped into the circle of light aad aaaka tar her onarneArtots...
...He risks more, and shows...
...Prosperity and Socialism "Do you think that the general standard of living for wage workers and farmers is really middle class compared with the European," my friend pursued his Inquiry...
...We can't say any more than that...
...New ZZr*9' U wp*l« IktTt, you cab get all the 1 "-"* *nout membership...
...kaav that it can be accomplished if you will cams M aad ante...
...Be then went on to Johns Hopkins and from there to Yale, where he received his Ph...
...McAUaam- Cula—BtB Thorstein Veblett: Neiir-Sbciaiist H»« Academic Career oi the Great Se^mltifMt "The Leisure QmT ami Other Books ' By Louis swjm*'^--: OK- August 1 there <tod to> Celt fas' atov at the sue of aevaa^-taw...
...I would rather progress towards a higher and more just social order by way of rising standards of Uving than by way of catastrophes...
...then followed "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution" (1915...
...MB * p Buaiifman has done these things of beauty far the I wbOs of a Pittsburg dapaiUaaul store...
...Hto Theory ef gasfcnp . Veblen's approach has weB saa8>'g0Bf institutional...
...The circulation of the Young Leader, official organ of the Cleveland Y. P. « L., is reported to be Increasing steadily...
...Hto last work was a labor of love...
...in the Rend School, 7 East 15th street...
...HI., regarding representation at the convenUon...
...Without a powerful, agressive trade union movement, the Socialist Party is weak snd ineffective...
...Offhand, one might expect that such a group would condemn drinking, petting parties and other forms of godlessness, perhaps pass .a resolution in favor of peace, and then disband with prayers on their lips...
...fuller courage...
...And destruction feltorws Ut toe wake of all lusts...
...Already my old friend and comrade, Harry T. Smith if Baflfev L. L, has sent me two human interest anecg-jpj about 'Gens and scattered throughout the county rsare must be countless more that should be preagfssj ia permaneat form...
...That ¦^Bptke wild boys shun it so...
...Each is fed from the same source...
...From baa ossaat the krtaueetual timidity that lata steered our heterodox young aeeaasatots late blind alleys of mere criticism...
...They have ae 2JTB**'ita the cringing attempts of certain scyJT i**d*ri to ingratiate themselves with the bosses...
...F. Louis Hade presented the flags of all the nations and of the scene at their acceptance she says: "Young girls, carrying the flags of the nations came toward us...
...It works along the same subtleties aa those that fill our cities wtth bandits, and our jails with proven criminals...
...if yau will send along what you have to me in -p, af The Mew Leader" I give you my pledge as a causes that anything you forward will be scrupujapsW copied and returned and if used in the final hak, met full credit will be given...
...The correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following: "One of their number, Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt...
...The national director of the Y. P. S. L. will be happy to work with comrades in the Socialist Party who realize what a strong Y. P. S. L. means to the future of our movement...
...Subscribers alone cannot pay the expenses of a daily paper nowadays...
...In conclusion Comrade vladeck noted thst intense activity snd s holiday spirit had marked his visit to Cleveland...
...Why, if you are right there may not be a national Socialist ticket in the field in the next presidential election," exclaimed my cowboy friend...
...We still bops that the women who are socially minded today, will become socially cenIsetMu t«aav»**rewTher* Is a difference...
...They eould no longer accept the classical theories that bad been banded down to them, put with mare subtle logic then of old, to be sure, but untenable nevertheless...
...I find here active workers in the Workmen*' Circle, the Trade Unions and the Socialist Party...
...If the Y. P. S. L. will merely indicate the Socialist atu.uae „n social questions these young people will soon have a more realistic attitude towards those questions...
...y . V9 and down tka asaaway...
...The matter as it appears ta my Bronx flat reaotvaa itself into a question . . . How long win the brakerg be able tb milk the great American cow...
...This year the Congress met again m Berlin and this time with representatives from forty-five countries and with suffrage for women won in three-quarters of the countries of the world...
...The Engineers and the Prince System" (1831...
...It's what the lawyers call the Incorporeal heridltaments" that we have to look forward to in the shape of friendships founded on a aonunoa philosophy, warm, deep and precious beyond any dollar and cents reckoning...
...Fine as dew hung silver grass...
...The...
...I ssa writing this up at Brookwood Labor College whan I bays just succeeded in spraining my ankle at the taenia courts ia the midst of making a shot afcka, if it had come off as I had intended, would am made Til den look like a novice...
...aaTvI*" M De*a *mw that this sort of compromise EST ***** t0 wikrUity and death...
...L "aty God," he exclaimed, "That's the real stuff...
...I don't think so," I declared...
...We look forward with great enthusiasm to our coming convention in the Rand School in New York City, on Dec...
...The Place of Science in Modern civilisation," a collection of his early articles, which shew ths evolution of his thinking (1930...
...Wfll we stfll be deadlocked in this country...
...And while Baaa of ths newspapers has whispered a ward about ft, It seems to me that the big boys an the Basking Board are secretly discussing the matter aad are doing their worst to discourage further trading on a speculative basis...
...Aside from the top layer of the wen paid Industrial workers in the American Federation of Labor and Railroad Brotherhoods aad farmers, the American workers and farmers live from band to mouth, debt-ridden, insecure, helpless...
...Armies, navies and air forces will be helpless against this new power...
...Poor health kept him inactive for a number of years but in 1891 he was appointed a fellow in economics and finance at Cornell University upon the recommendation of Professor J. Laurence Laugblln...
...An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of :u Perpetuation'' (1917...
...There's the riddle still unsolved, while European Socialists are reaching out for the control of their governments...
...27, 38 and 29...
...Socialism is the only sensible solution for aa etdarly transition from ths fevered State of this society kite strength and health...
...That's it Ton can forget the freaks and selfseekers sad fanatics that swarm into the movement when you have the privilege of rubbing shoulders with a man like Robinson...
...What would the Communists say if they found anyone interested in a new order Of f society giving way to human emotions...
...All the sessions were crowded, and over-flow meetings had to be held to take care of the audiences at the public events...
...A social will follow the meeting...
...Whatever its name, it will have co-operation writ large over its platform and will socialise the trusts, including the federal reserve banks...
...And from the Congress messages of rejoicing and congratulations went to Margaret Bendfleld, member of the British Cabinet...
...e ' We took the above from the "Weekly News" published by the New York League of Women Voters...
...They benefit "the iiiiatelying population,'* the masses of farmers aad workers, not merely the "kept classes...
...THE AMERICAN RIDDLE a, . A Socialist And A Cowboy-Veteran Tackle the Problem of America <Oi»ilslil> Maybe it is partly due to the fact that the feudal aristocrats aad the capitalists kept on tgtettBg each other long after feudal conditions had given way to capitalist ways of living...
...And Comrade Berger dreamed a beautiful dream...
...Most artists are nwtlnctlvely radical But they are cautious enough ' to cover up...
...Meta Berger, the women of the socialist movement extend their heart-felt sympathy and love in her hour ef bereavement We ask her to take solace in the fact that the death of her comrade and husband is mourned the world over...
...Then were women from every continent, and each voiced the same hope that the enfranchlsemec...
...In fact, the church was severely castigated on no less than eight counts...
...huge square of fire biasing the name of a drink against the black heavens...
...3653 Wathlnton Boulevard, Chicago...
...Aad wtth the Federal Reserve Board to help buying aad selling through a prolonged period, with boosts aad scares, they alone will cqrae out af the moss with untold millions stolen from fools . . . and Am eric aa citlasas...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES ABOUT BOARDMAN ROBINSON at X kefi for Terre Haute under the spell of a series ? _f augnincaat moral painting* by Tlnsnlmsn BobX aswa which Ihed ssen Just before my departure...
...Sample copies may be obtained from I. Parker, Prospect-Fourth Building, Cleveland, Ohio...
...L F. HAWKINS...
...This is the Important task of the Y. P. 8. L The Socialist Party locals throughout the country can render invaluable aid by' taking an interest In existing Y. P. S. L. circles and by organizing new circles in districts where none exist...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A department •( a*wt and ri«w« at mirtteaUr interest t* the weaua •* the laker aevaaent...
...The main topic of the meeting will be the agenda for the national convention All Yipsels are requested to attend...
...No one then dreamed that Germany would lead the cations tn the number of women in its city councils, its State parliaments, its Reichstag.' Mrs...
...The man is a radical...
...The Answer To The Riddle "Well, where does that get us with our American riddle...
...All of the secrets time reveals...
...Our Party," he said, "to going through a period of revival...
...Make money without actually working for it The thief stakes his freedom and his life for a payroll...
...University sad after a lsese to the University ef Missouri, sherii Professor Davenport gave him refuge after he had gotten into difficulties in California...
...All sessions had overflowing attendances and the discussion was sharp and interesting at all times...
...The Reichstag itself was given for a session of the Congress and the speakers were women elected to the parliaments of their own lands...
...Ta hba fata tka osedtt of upsetting the srthiawr inans ntics of the universities...
...When worst comes to worst *ad the typewriter keys dick out the same old plataudes the thing to do is to bop a train and go f**mewhere and see people and swap ideas instead ef merchandise...
...We need his ability ta make socialism popular in America...
...i *______—_—-—__¦_—¦» r Beat week m tell you something about what's doisg in Terr* Haute aad along the Wabash...
...but by Oat time the Russian Communist party win have simmered down to the seme constructive policies which the moderate Socialists of Europe represent...
...Bare at Brookwood where there is a real labor ataoapeere and one lives, moves and has his being in tht aridst of labor's concerns, the visitor has a chance to look at the Socialist Party from a unique standpant Also a sprained ankle gives one to philosophize t at aad there ia a matter which I would like to dwell «far the remainder of this column...
...You have heard that before when there was no revival— but not from me...
...it came to us unsolicited but tkere ia gjtkkf ta an the»worki we would rather do...
...Neither does a higher standard of living prevent Intelligent people from working for social co-operation in place of dog-eat-dog individualism...
...We shall miss all this in Comrade Berger...
...It ta really hard to any too right ttstaf...
...Great economic and political progress in Europe, political stagnation in the United States, a great awakening In the Near aad Far East...
...Socialist Sunday Schools Yipsels are urged to cooperate In the establishment of Socialist Sunday schools In various parts of the city...
...V But to gather together a thenar—d er mere ef horribly perplexed souls and pour forth into their timid ears "a frank and free" expression ef *-»*s love" is at best a murky performance...
...But It will soon become evident that the Socialist governments will stick together much better than the capitalist governments did...
...Bkgssa, toe stepped short of atortaltom...
...It is a group of builders rather than ¦•akara...
...Incidentally, the Congress Just concluded has contributed one of the most notable International social occurrences In Berlin's spectacular post-war rally as a world metropolis...
...But this group of young churchmen and church women discussed various' phases of the modem scene, particularly the church, with something more than pious platitudes...
...This *itTM'gt't has done much to lead the younger economists to abandon the apologetic economics of their teachers...
...We need his courage to stand back of the things he believed...
...The Socialists got the benefit of that Aad than the European militarism hammered discipline sad solidarity into the Socialists...
...They passed us, they rose above us, bearing aloft their banners, a token tbat the youth of the world will carry forward the work that to but begun...
...Por Mrs...
...Because there is always before me the dread of being bawled out by outraged parents, who would usually write In some such manner as this . . . "and I have a daughter fourteen years old who reads your newspaper because I have recommended it to her as a relief from the usual dailies with their smut and social dirt . . . and now you come and write this suggestive Junk about a subject that is better left alone in a journal professing social ideals and cleanliness...
...What win happen, then, suppose that the Socialists control the governments In Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Austria, and so forth...
...Chicago made It into Big Business...
...I gave them to him...
...a-w^**' the headquarters of the Conference for Proma...
...Such are the tricks of fate...
...Haven't we always domed In full vehemence the gross accusation that Socialists believe tn free-love...
...Cleveland Visit Keeps Vladeck Busy (Br a New Leader CerreeBendent) CLEVELAND.—B...
...And what he thinks about the present system is ^a-plenty.__ Tm not an art critic nor the son of an art critic bat I am here to eay that in my very humble opinion, Boardman Robinson is one of the greatest artists -at our day and one of the finest personalities it has aver been my privilege to know...
...Powys, in the form of a debate, that infidelity during the marriage relation is O. K. Jt helps prolong the union . . . and some other sash observations, as have long been proven through practise among the privileged upper classes...
...In no other country have so many women been elected to sovernment as in Germany itself...
...Comrade Vladeck made such an Impression that arrangements sxe being made to have him appear before the City Club in September or October, In the evening two union meetings were on Vladeck's schedules...
...Or maybe, I'm really a whopping Dpa Juan at boot-bottom without the decent courage ta expose my true self...
...Boardman is Just simple enough to ' say what he thinks in terms of pencil and brush...
...Another chastised the church for supporting an occasional missionary In foreign land*, while the poor at home suffered from bed housing...
...The margin gam* bier places his life savings and ths welfare of his family against the chance of clean-up...
...Tammany in New York aad the Philadelphia Vare Republican machine are two fine living examples of how "legitimate racketeering" can build for a permanence tn pontics...
...The trouble with Robinson, the bourgeois critics wQl tell you...
...Aad we are thankful for that...
...These three great movements have one aoul...
...aBan'iT** *** ^u*t b*a*un- If ywu are a trade-un?"* mtarested in seeing your movement grow, this • "n tigia to ret off your thirl sad bop in...
...Neither can succeed alone...
...That's a nice name "racket" It springs fraza, the piking times of Kid Twist aad Johnny Spanish...
...along comes the famous Comrade Bertraad Russell . , . philosopher, Fabian, outstanding factotum ta Socialist history . . . and calls us aU a lot of hype critical, swindling fakers on that score...
...A third party will be formed...
...They risk nothing...
...in his tones warm African sunshine transmuted Into song...
...He found this out during the war when be refused to draw hoopla cartoons boosting that bloody mess...
...BJa youth was spent on the farm...
...The these have not yet caught up with the dream that BeM arsamad back in 1893...
...Birth aad death and primal things, Wsflpi much of earth and little that sings...
...sL1**** Xction are at 10* Fifth Avenue...
...City Activities General Membership Meeting A general membership meeting of the New York City Y. P. S. L. will be held on Saturday, Dec...
...After all, I suppose that's the way you get your ', rewards In this strange adventure called "radicalism...
...Cat*, the International Women a B**~fi*!^™ *» that time in OeVmany it was against the "*« to ban any kmd of a sun^age orSaization...
...Compared In mere currency, it would look that way," I replied, "but compared to the productivity of American labor it doesn't...
...The Higher Learning in America" (1918...
...We emptied the revolver an that Organization Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young People's Socialist League 21 Essex Street, Boston, Mass...
...We Socialists have long given up the idea that people must be driven to desperation, before they win take up Socialist ideas...
...We need his long experiences, his sane judgment, his knowledge in all matters pertaining to the party in particular and to the movement in general...
...A car, a radio, or even a house or a farm, don't indicate prosperity...
...Refusal to buy meant dumped over carta, smsailed tot show windows, aad even a blackjacking...
...The Berlin government, the Prussian ministry of state, the Reich Itself entertained the delegates...
...All any one among us would have dared predict was that some day women would enjoy equal suffrage and equal opportunity...
...The American capitalist will try hard to bend the European Socialist governments to his will, especially through war debts, reparations, credits and concession contracts...
...A Socialist preaching free-love Cor meaey...
...I Aid sow that be has taken up the new medium of i —era—, doubtless the art fans will again celebrate...
...Here we are, with Wall Street firmly In the saddle and no real party of the people to take care of us, to contest that rule, and to steer things our way...
...where, as fortune would have it, he studied economic* with Professor John Bates Clark, destined to Become the leader ef orthodox economics in the United States...
...Under the price system money ia mads by shrewdlyStaklng advantage af than price .-change* that are produced by ths maladjustments ef the industrial system...
...j Lines like iron-engrave your face...
...We know that out oa toe fields and in ths shops .,4 a* the rattreads aad in the offices of the oounaxSberasre maay of you readers of this column whs 3%a ksst treasured some priceless anecdote, some tafS^m alt af manuscript connected with the life of ^gj...
...Another dramatic occasion was that public peace meeting under Miss Ruth Morgan's committee, where the audience crowding the great theatre sat in darkness...
...4j»asy the C. P. L. A. has proved its worth...
...i|sai particularly anxious to get information about ha early days whea Debs was with the firemen ^nd jajsr wkea ke began to build the A. R. U. It seems v ski that ths public as a whole knows all too little ¦mat the constructive side of Debs but thinks of him say at an agitator...
...Whan his benefactor went to the newly organized University of Chicago, Veblen accompanied him, There his thinking was stimulated by contact wtth men like R. P. Hoxie, H. J. Davenport, Jacques Loeb and...
...To say that we shall miss him is to put it mildly, indeed...
...BLi r^T* * auaeh...
...How many more City Trusts, Clarke Bros, aad suastry small banks will go boom, how maay mors bank toilets and cashiers and the like will steal and go to jail, how many homes will bo wrecked, how many lives will be last, in this systematic looting of the greed blinded public...
...Veblen must have owed a good deal to Marx and the Socialists...
...The Vested Interests" (1919...
...Many of you cannot Realize the bitterness and contempt with which the (treat majority of people retarded woman's suffrage in thst dsv: she said...
...Without an intelligent Socialist movement to direct and inspire the trade unions, no progress is made...
...Outlines of the different countries were thrown one at a time upon the sanaa...
...Bow, it is the task of the Young People's Socialist League to show these socially awakened young people that tbe church is no more, or less, responsible for corruption and bad housing than is any other institutltion that condones our present system of production for profit These young people, like thousands of others, are acutely aware ef the abuses of oar present social system, but are at a loss to place the blame and <=r,'' -he remedy...
...And surely the amashup of capitalism may coxae about through a heaped up culmination of the speoulaUvs frenzy that is rampant today...
...He expressed the opinion that any movement which could keep a guest so busy Is giving signs of real life...
...Sooner or later, within this jre-eration, one of the old parties wfll die, probably the Democratic...
...Yet the majority voted for Herb Hoover and Al Smith...
...But If it has changed eighty times, its value has had to carry one hundred aad sixty ocanmlawtona, and even if the standard commission to sons whore about one-eighth of one per cent, than the stock hag paid twenty per cent of its own value away to tht parasitic brokers...
...The Republican party has already blasted the Democratic solid south...
...In 1913 he found a more congenial home at the newly established New School for Social Research, New York City, where Professors James Hsrvey Robinson, Charles A. Beard and others gave him welcome...
...No high standard of living can save class rule...
...You're too late," I laughed...
...He was to speak st the commemoration of the death of our late Comrade Meyer London^ But instead of speaking himself, he asked SomraoTHoan to speak for the Wisconsin delegation...
...He did the cutters as they were, skilled men in shirt sleeves intent ¦ ansa their delicate knife work, and a hundred and sae other details of the everyday life of the modern When we took the finished sketches to the manu| sbcturer I thought the little man would drop dead...
...They placed the blame for certain ewils on what was nearest home—the church...
...One should net tell the other how to run his organisation...
...Wilmington Circle Word cranes from Wilmington, DeL, that a new Ylpsel circle was organised on Dec...
...In addition, old clothes and other articles are being collected to be aent to tbe strikers...
...He became obsessed with the technical deficiencies of our present industrial system, which arise from the practice of creating profits by limiting output or what he calls "sabotage...
...Why don't they get together and do something ? Isn't everything ripe for a change...
...reetiags from Terre Haute from McAIlister Coleman...
...When all the rest ef' the conservative classes are hotsy-totsyiag it to jaas music, keeping sugar-babies, and performing aQ the breaches of the conjugal code, it behooves us to remain sane, restrained, and behaved...
...Share seems to be oven a few Socialists who misBatorifaml aa to what this C. P. L. A. is all about hate think it is simply a collection of disgruntled Marital who want to get jobs away from Green and WBl Of course that Idea has been sedulously culatated by spokesmen for the A. F. of L. Others think !•» aa attempt to revive the old and usually fatal tui unionism " Others say, "Oh, it's the same old awed aad you can't get anywhere by fighting the £r.ef L." 1M - ————— _*aw as a matter of fact tht C. P. L. A. gives every •WmUkizer with labor's cause and especially with **> bauatng up of a militant and progressive labor kaswssmt in America his or her chance really to get fear action...
...Catt...
...Bat for the men Robinson is pretty strong meat ! | jhsil never forget the time when I urged upon a garment manufacturer that he use drawings by BrM""** in his advertisements instead of the usual saejehties of the "commercial artist" It was my lass to have Robinson go to the factory and make fiatnrea there showing the actual operations on the . aseiiliiisn was aroused by the scheme, the manufacturer was finally won over and we went to work, asbmeon stalking through the plant, which waa an - eseeptionaliy well run one, busy with pencil and - paper while I went ahead digging up subjects which I thought Interesting...
...Though brief, it does, nevertheless, help us to visualize the Congress and its significance...
...The finsj address of the busy guest was made to a group of active Socialists...
...a Strang* opportunity to test our capacity for laaiarahlp api ra» telUgent power...
...expert in money and banking, who recesmtoed the sbility of the dishevelled youth...
...For six years I have refrained from making say pother about sex in this space...
...Catt, that gave the ammunition for the closing suffrage «nmpaigna in the United States, sent a twenty-fifth birthday gift to the Congress...
...stein a Veblen, the greataat ef the American nsar-Socialists...
...Woman suffrage was already known in five states of the United States but it did not exist anywhere else in the world...
...Two Thoughts Forgotten Stars Nightly the main streets of the city are obscene with color: Cigarette ad— it burns green, red aad yellow...
...Truth Is that In spite of all our professed mental breadth on the matter, radicals who are responsible parents of adolescent youth are pretty much concerned as to the morals and sex-cleanliness acquired in growing up...
...In your eyes the calm of years...
...That's probably what people mean when they say this is a free country...
...Las Angeles Circle The National office of the Socialist Party announces that a steadly growing Ylpsel circle is thriving in Los Angeles There are now more than fifty members...
...It is difficult at this point to make any definite figure on just how many times, lot us say, a share of General Motors has changed hands since its rise into dlagy finance...
...rrwtty settle wMbbjb..v< s»: * i...
...In ths broker-a ataa* * V - Xv a* There she attd a-yulsm, There toe stead* aftaaaa, Making aastsaey awaaasf V;'-,-;,' ***1*mmWM*mf ' Monkey with the iMMMMa1...
...So our big bankers and trust lords keep things going on an expanding scale of credit Anyway, I don't count the middle class level of American lift, no matter how much It may still expand, as an Obstacle to Socialism, neither > in ecenomics nor in pontics...
...Silence, the final stark decree, Rooted In earth as any tree...
...On the ether hand, it has given them the-opportunity to excuse themselves from activity In the social struggles of our day, until such time that enough Investigation has been carried on and sufficient technical efficiency attained to warrant doing something...
...We de not oven aggatsag the government-tax...
...Pete Collins, and the rest ef peat eld baiters of our creed forgive us an we base aatt ha the past about you...
...Hs took on the sir of a seer, whose business it was merely to analyse, although la fact, his analysis was motivated by the injustice he felt at seeing "absentee owners," "the leisure class," enjoying the good things of life to the point of conspicuous waste," because they owned aroBarty, because they had "vested interests...
...They aren't thinking fbeut themselves and their own little affairs all the " twenty-four hours of the day and they are looking a bit beyond their own front yards...
...PluaWgpj ttrotaBkeBa asaesBV "t \^ sfJairy'l OHOJStKg BgBjsajBai, <¦ Mary* dewing saoefes...
...1 . -'¦ Or*Aw> sfsffa susses...
...That's why it is so easy a matter to get me twitching with irritation on the subject Or maybe I'm just one of those impotent frigid persons to whom sex is a source of intangible concern...
...Our big business men have begun to understand that they can't afford to have so many unemployed and such low wages that this credit system collapses...
...Thee* " petty larceny knaves used to run fake dances...
...Veblen accepted the then saodern phychology, founded uapn msttapts The instincts, he **id, take form ta bs»staisl activity through institutions...
...The National Director will sum up the events of the convention on WEVD on Sunday, Dec 35, at 4 p. m. Circles should report immediately to th» National Director...
...But then I think as ths chaos, ths cruel passions, the helter-skslter af reasoning, and above ail the utter unpreparedaess of the workers to handle the situation...
...It baa y^'My- within a very abort time indeed, roused the "¦Wsk hierarchy of the A. F. of L. into a defensive JSjft***- It has reminded the high cockalorums at TPAIagton that they are supposed to represent the z...
...Silence that ends a life and seals...
...LILLIAN S. KAPLAN EDITOR Published Every Week by The New Leader for die Young People's Socialist League National Activities Meaning Takes Office Prank j. Manning arrived in Chicago last week to take up his new duties as National Director of the Young People's Socialist League...
...The American plutocracy will find out that it is up against a new power which protects the people, not profits...
...And the American riddle win solve itself on the whole in just about the way foreshadowed by the moderate Socialists...
...But patience on our part will perhaps arias...
...Hard times may cause more unrest, but hardly more Intelligence...
...We have never had anything like that over here...
...Then, too, the old parties don't bother their voters between elections, whereas the Socialists are after them all the time, especially with requests for money and free organization work...
...To his life-long companion and comrade...
...There be taught until he retired from '. BBs I Mat a. 1 Osapat ;Dssrkag all these years af atasaaln BJa veblen was busily writing, sAtaekmg the isna amiss of ths apologists far ths raginnn system, skstshlsaj the euttfaae* af aa talirfsimunn of bis own but never suite freeing himself from the reapsotskmty of his aradamki foundations Barry artistes af bis in the learned Journals bud down hto Brat principles- In ISM appeared The Theory ef the leisure Class" and ta 1904 "Ths Theory of Business Enterprise...
...I find ^bat while travel may not broaden a man's mind it *atpa his copy a lot...
...Sometimes aa anarchistic imp in me shouts out, "Aw shut up and let the system smash itself...
...Is there only wisdom In the stars ? II...
...Yet people are grumbling about the sen-out of the two old parties...
...They run the gaev bling house and take a share out of every pot, Tfcsf* win, heads, they win, tails...
...Catt spoke of the day when the Btomarekian precept 'Kinder, kuche...
...A very large number of people buy such things on the Instalment plan, and the American credit system is much farther developed along such lines as the European...
...aevaa eeuntrtoa ia all were raarsaoated, aad the Berlin members of the Hamburg society were the German representatives...
...Stoically you close your lips, ¦¦ Aad fold your old arms on your hips...
...It is important that the national office know the names of the delegates...
...They born as the artist looms among his ami contem_' * gssae day America wfll discover Rebtneoa even as I fast Pittsburg store-keeper discovered him sad there a ejfj be a great rush to buy bis works...
...Tooth Institute The Institute on "Problems of Youth" held last Saturday and Sunday was most successful...
...meet important of all, John Dewey...
...Ohe of them blamed the clerics for the "remarkable failure of the people to abolish graft and corruption in the city's government at the election...
...c a By law they are allowed to seeks a brokerage from seller aad buyer oa the earns transaction...
...we were all shocked beyond words . . ." etc...
...8. Samuel Silver was elected chairman...
...I ban never fooled myself about our weakness In ths unfortunate period from which we are now emerging...
...The predatory Instinct is the basis far the accumulation of private property...
...p Hot that he Is by any means unknown among real I art lovers at present...
...Nathan Fine in BrownsviBe Nathan Fine, research director of the Rand School, will address a jont meeting of all circles in tbe Brownsville, East New York and East Flatbush sections of Brooklyn on Dec...
...Why even Sam Qompers used to say the American Federation of Labor would stay In the field, until the workers would get all that is coming to them, the full product of their labor minus taxes...
...It is highly legitimate, protected by lews, courts, administration officials and bishops of the church...
...Urche,' which In a leas euphonious rendering means 'children, cooking, church.' categorically circumscribed the Hausfrau's legitimate realm of activity...
...With the growing realization of the necessity for the development of the Young People's department and the great Increase In the number of young people joining the party, we have good reason to express confidence In the future...
...Psycho-analysts have been coming bank balances out of unbalanced lads apt laaaea through scientific pornography...
...D In philosophy la ISM...
...In 1S80 ha was graduated from Carle ton OoUsge...
...The schedule of sessions may be found in other columns of the New Leader...
...Every public divorce orgy has had its two-penny commentators spill gallons of that sort of ooae aB over the front pagea...
...Qklshoms leader:' dc-am to tka jot with "Tka New Leader/' oat sssignmsnt ia to write a life of IJugens pgog...
...Editorial Two hundred young men and women, representing fifty churches and ten denominations, came together in New York City recently for their annual conference...
...It would upset the whole structure upon which their own business is reared...
...But the "racket" idea worked wonders for the thugs...
...THE CHATTER BOX Wall Street N-wry m%yw* r-mmom taa mm mm...
...Comrade Manning issued the following statement: "The Young People's Socialist League looks to the Socialist Party for the fullest cooperation In Its efforts to organise American youth...
...We had not Boaaeat ea ear philosopher____ S. A. eta win...
...Of course, the worthy sentiments displayed in such denunciations are not indicative of any considerable vision or insight into social questions But it does show that these young people are conscious of such problems and are grappling about for a remedy...
...It win share the fate of the British Liberals...
...monstrous theatre sign winking its thousand eyes...
...Greed is a passton as powerful as any of its lustful brethren...
...He made a masterful sketch I ef a girl at a machine which caught in a few strong strokes the whole hurrying spirit of human beings m the grip of mass production...
...In fact tbe sob sister columns on all the flafnaa have been hinting at that sort of mush for 'years...
...Now in 1835 he published a translation from the Icelandic of the eleventh century "Laxdaela Saga...
...Anyway, this has been a great conversation, m write to my bey about it and tell him to read your books...
...As socialists we can pay him no greater tribute than continue to work for the realization of his dream, the dream of a happy people—of mankind tree...
...Tnitlarts which further the satisfaction of human wants ar* good or "gwaarteeSy heman...
...Let us again kindle the fires of oomrades?Bp...
...Marked by the burning rut of tears...
...There would ha little value ta revolution of this sort...
...Bat for my advertising, nix...
...Maybe the irreconcilable ragged edge of the radical movements will stay out of it and dream of a Bolshevist world revolution...
...He was bom in Mlnaaettg of Scandinavian immigrant pareats whs ware pioneering in the Northwest...
...jnat this group is in any way a Socialist-conT**1* body, its immediate concern is with the everyJfIW*loma of trade unionism, here and now...
...It's a consummation devoutly to be mulled eves...
...Heaven sad the teller know that you don't get them at the bank...
...And nowhere was it taken seriously except by that devoted little band of early suffragists who were laying the foundation of this treat world movement...
...And now Wall Street, the financial gangster of the land has gone In for national racketeering...
...After a century's heritage heals...
...It has been used by the churchmen to keep their flocks away from the "despollers of maidenhood" aad "destroyers of the home...
...These murals are big as Robinson Is big...
...The head of the British delegation came from her recent triumphant campaign as an independent candidate, the only independent member elected to the House of Commons...
...The Leslie Commission, the depository of Mrs...
...Singing Nigger Brown man singing at his work...
...In cooperation with the Young Circle Club, they are conducting a raffle, the tickets for which are selling fast...
...A, aa euee, w» realize that there are a manner ef -ifaahe whe could do a better job than are caa...
...Bbaaass of Urbaneky...
...When the American people see that Socialism is a success and able to stop the capitalists over there, they will not quietly submit to being sold out any longer by the two old parties...
...They see no llTnf i° oespair because of the apparent apathy of Sjiitot , **q fil«- In other words they are not "tired E^* There is life aad plenty of it in them still...
...It is just this phase of stock gambling that baa been buzzing about my .dumb ears...
...voice of a race soaked full of sunshine until it is in their heart's blood from generation unto generation...
...In 1906 Veblen moved en to Leland Stanford Jr...
...I want something fsetty...
...aj^*»»tter of fact, in its latter-day way aad after t» iavf*r' tt* C' p- L- *¦• "imply carrying oa ia Tr, r WOrld the spirit that animated the entire awZ ** Its members look with disgust upon $m.saw***111 <tof«*tissn of those who would speak ***** ta ike high places today...
...Capitalist dallies and magazines can make money with advertisements, the Socialist papers fight the biggest and best paying advertisers...
...He always speaks sympathetically of Marx and la a reply to Herbert Spencer in 1892 m—cnt« a keen defense of the Socialist theory af the nationalization of industry tint has been overlooked by Socialists, fa 1800 he translated for the International Library, a Socialist enterprise, "Science and the Workingmen," Ferdinand Laaaalle's defense of himself before the Criminal Court of Berlin en the charge of having invited the unpropertled classes to hatred and contempt of the propertied classes...
...We need him now more than ever...
...and "Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times'' (1898...
...We shall this* his cordial smile, his friendly handshake—his comraoesnip: To socialists, the only reality to their dream...
...Roger Baldwin said to me the other day that if he had his way he would go way out in the country SOOMwhere and canoe and hike and watch the birds and read a lot And when I asked him what was holding him to the hundred and one activities which crowd every moment of his active life In the radical movement, he said that there were two things' that kept him at it One was that there were not enough mlks to go around to afford the losing of one soldier b» the battle for freedom (of course he didn't put it hi Just that hifalutin' way) and the other was that he found men and women at their best when he found them in the movement...
...Xh the free city of Hamburg, rwwever...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 2
