TO THE READERS OF "LA FOLLETTE'S" (AN ANNOUNCEMENT)
To The Readers of "La Follette's" WITH this number LA FOLLETTE'S becomes a monthly magazine of thirty-two pages. The low price of one dollar a year will remain the same. This change, in general, is...
...3 Editorials...
...Let Us Have a Democratic Army, if Any, by Herbert Quick...
...In these contributions I shall continue candidly to present my views of current political history in the making...
...Will each of you do two things today...
...To the Readers of "La Follette's" (An Announcement...
...Naming Farms...
...Home and Education will continue to keep our readers in touch with the line of educational advance, with the progress of women in the home and in the world, and give them a viewpoint of official life and experience at the capital of the nation...
...To lots of families it offers a priceless boon...
...The larger size of the magazine will also make possible the uninterrupted publication of features that are primarily entertaining—humorous sketches, cartoons, novels and short stories...
...Read Mr...
...Through the parcels post and better system of marketing a great movement is under way to bring producers and consumers into closer relationship to their mutual advantage...
...As public utilities and big business are brought within legitimate control and compelled to be satisfied with lawful gains, farming becomes a more and more profitable and attractive occupation...
...28 Puffs and Punches...
...22 Use Good English...
...Calliope Marsh has an adventure at a great women's convention...
...National and state governments are doing more and more to make farming practically and scientifically successful and are furnishing most valuable knowledge as to how to make the most of the advantages of country life...
...The contest between public interest and private control is being waged as hotly today as ever...
...Taking Stock of Our Resources...
...we are sure it will be pleasing and interesting...
...The letters of encouragement and good will that keep coming to us from all parts of the world, the generous help we have received from friends, the enthusiasm and approval of our readers, have strengthened our faith in the field of our magazine, and in its largest success...
...Farmers have constituted the bulwark of the progressive movement in Wisconsin, and had it not appealed to them as citizens the magazine would have failed in its purpose...
...10-11 Snap Shots by George Middleton...
...The Cotton Crisis...
...Getting Closer to Folks By ZONA GALE Here is one of the delightful Friendship Village stories...
...How is ?his...
...15 The Secret of Lonesome Cove (Novel) by Samuel Hopkins Adams 16 The Farmer's Forum: An Object Lesson in Erosion...
...Agriculture is the basis of all other human activities and its advancement is of universal interest...
...The department will differ from the ordinary agricultural columns and will be of interest not only to men and women on the farm, but to all who are interested in agricultural progress...
...No eminence of position in party or government shall protect a servant of the people from deserved criticism...
...Don't miss this story next month...
...In the larger size, LA FOLLETTE'S will find it possible to include, each issue, a greater variety of interests...
...And your continued loyalty to LA FOLLETTE'S has demonstrated that the day of the truly free press is surely dawning...
...12 European Cataclysm or Democracy—Which...
...More important, editorially, will be the added opportunity for investigative work and original discussion of current happenings and movements affecting public interest in community, state and nation...
...12 The West (Poem) by Douglas Malloch...
...9 Pageantry: An Indispensable Modern Art, by John Collier...
...This paper is in the fight—your fight and mine—to stay...
...4-5 The Roll Call: If Uncle Sam Operated Coal Mines...
...To maintain an independent and outspoken paper in these days when "business influence" is appallingly potent upon publications of every class, requires that citizens who prize a free press and honest journalism enlist their support...
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...There will be some economy in manufacture on the monthly basis, which will enable us to put more of our resources (limited because unsubsidized) into enlarging the scope and adding to the excellence of the contents, thus maintaining the publication even more effectively as a champion of Progress, social, intellectual and institutional...
...First, secure at least one more subscriber and carry the message into at least one more home (show your neighbor THIS number...
...18-19 Easier Money for the Farmer, by W. W. Powell...
...An Odd Convention...
...Will you not lend a hand in making LA FOLLETTE'S in the new—and, we believe, improved—form a still greater factor in this long and difficult struggle to achieve fundamental democracy...
...20 Foremost in Honor, by Elizabeth Glendower Evans...
...21 News Worth Remembering...
...1 A Supreme Folly, by Robert M. La Follette...
...14 How Uncle Sam is Disposing of the Public Lands...
...8 After the War, by Elizabeth Glendower Evans...
...Adams' remarkable article, which will appear in the December number...
...14 God—and Clod (Poem) by Berton Braley...
...And what you and your neighbors get from this voluntary investment is worth to you many, many times the amount paid...
...A PEOPLE'S paper needs the people's co-operation...
...Enlarging the size gives opportunity to specialize somewhat in the field of agriculture...
...There is pressing need for plain speaking and fearless writing...
...A Tribute to Babcock...
...14 Restoring the Land to the People...
...An English Recipe...
...Opening Alaska...
...LA FOLLETTE'S has established itself as a permanent publication...
...LA FOLLETTE'S has grown on its merits...
...by Samuel Gompers 13 Training Citizens with "Spunk" for Social Service, by Edward A. Ross...
...For one thing there will be a farm department...
...Faithfully, it has steered its straight course along the line laid out in the initial number, January 9, 1909, when in claiming its privilege to serve, it said: "This magazine recognizes as its chief task that of aiding in winning back for the people the complete power over government—national, state and municipal—which has been lost to them by the encroachments of party machines, corporate and unincorporated monopolies, and by the rapid growth of immense populations...
...LA FOLLETTE'S has held unswervingly to the cause in which it enlisted six years ago...
...You will enjoy her account of it...
...LA FOLLETTE'S will speak the truth...
...In this we shall have the free and generous assistance of eminent writers, specialists in various fields of thought and action...
...Schools to Celebrate Farm Life...
...With exceptional opportunity for survey, he will reflect the advance thought as it manifests itself in the books of the day, and will comment from time to time on the movements in art and drama...
...These qualities attract to the magazine an unusual and distinguished group of contributors who find here a free avenue for the expression of ideals and achievements...
...30 A Patriot, by Elizabeth Glendower Evans...
...TABLE OF CONTENTS Pago Nothing Vital Lost, by Robert M. La Follette...
...It is within your power to double and treble its effectiveness for public good...
...54 A Smile or Two...
...and its approval will be gladly given to all who commend themselves to it by brave and right action in any party or place...
...The Literary Editor, aside from the Snap Shots which will be continued throughout the year, will at times enlarge his field...
...29 Lay Down Your Arms...
...This change, in general, is prompted by considerations similar to those which caused Secretary Bryan's "Commoner" to be changed from a weekly to a monthly with so much success, and apparent satisfaction to its readers...
...Your steadfast interest and encouragement and patronage have made possible the progress of this paper—YOUR paper—in a very real sense...
...Because of our nearness to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and to the state government and the state University at Wisconsin, both foremost in promoting agriculture, we shall be able to make "The Farmer's Forum" an unusually interesting feature for all our readers...
...These are two of the fine features that will appear in the next number of "La Follette's...
...11 What to Do Next, by Zona Gale...
...9 Home and Education: A Visit to North Dakota...
...Its unfaltering standard and unique character have given it a definite and distinct personality in the magazine world...
...15 Community Concern in Better Housing...
...It cannot, and it should not, depend upon paid advertising for existence...
...Second, write us any suggestions you may have for making LA FOLLETTE'S more potent and influential than ever before in helping to make this a better and happier world to live in.Health to Sell By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS You can buy health in Wisconsin with dollars or with pennies...
...6-7 It's Only the Children Going to Work (Poem) by Hudson Maxim 7 Why I Wrote "The Clarion" by Samuel Hopkins Adams...
...Getting the Most from the Soil...
...Red Cross stamps are placed on sale on Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Eve...
...I expect to contribute to each number more articles and editorials than the pressure of public duties has permitted here-ofore...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
