ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE
about The PROGRESSIVE ... and the people who make it THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, as some of you may have guessed, is one of the most popular and avidly read features in The Progressive—and the staff's...
...The last 2 paragraphs in his article this week strike us as far too modest, for Mr...
...C. S. SEELY, retired, is executive editor of Navy News and the author of Russia and the Battle of Liberation, which hundreds and hundreds of readers of The Progressive have added to their libraries...
...Preference is given those who have a real point to make and who keep their letters short...
...COL...
...He is the founder of Yachting Magazine and was for many years publisher of the Nautical Gazette...
...The Editors keep a card catalogue of all Forum contributors, entering the date of each letter on the card...
...With next week's issue, OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD begins a new series of articles for The Progressive...
...Villard's ventures in journalism have extended into a quite different field...
...He is the author of The Tragedy of a Nation and, just published, The Child and the Emperor, and his articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
...HARRY ELMER BARNES is the eminent historian, educator, and writer whose books are literally too numerous to mention...
...Chase does have a program for postwar action, and he has been unveiling it, book by book, in his magnificent series of volumes for the 20th Century Fund under the general heading, "When The War Ends...
...Recently The Progressive received a request from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington for the 3 issues containing the recent TVA articles by David Lilien-thal...
...The headache develops from the fact that even though our Forum section is larger by far than similar departments in any publication we know about, it doesn't come even close to providing enough space for all the letters we get...
...The street address is published only when the writer grants express authorization...
...It helps if you use the typewriter, but this isn't obligatory...
...At 26 he assumed the responsibility for the publication of his mother's newspaper, the New York Evening Post, editing it until 1918...
...This dean of liberal journalism in America began his career as a reporter on the Philadelphia Press in November, 1897, as a youngster out of Harvard, and, except for those years during which he gave himself wholly to the editorship of the Nation, he has been connected with daily journalism ever since...
...Other facts about the Forum: Full names and the city and state of each contributor are required in every case, but these are omitted in publication if the writer is a member of the armed forces or a Civilian who has reason to fear that the publication of the letter will result in political or economic reprisals...
...For the past 12 years a contributor to a group of newspapers, he has of his own accord discontinued that service in order to lighten his burdens and give more attention to two books he is writing...
...Naturally, many of those whose letters are not published feel that we have discriminated against them because of their views...
...Sales of The Progressive abroad will be increasing soon, Mr...
...FRANK H. HANKINS, one of the country's outstanding authorities on race, is a professor of sociology at Smith College...
...PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE, Wisconsin's Progressive Governor for three terms, contributed many a challenging article to The Progressive before he volunteered for active duty immediately after Pearl Harbor...
...Who's Who In This Issue STUART CHASE, whose article on Page One of this issue is one of the most thoughtful we have published in many weeks, is one of the ablest and best known economic analysts in America...
...JANE STAFFORD is the featured medical writer for Science Service, a non-profit agency...
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...He has contributed to professional journals and encyclopaedies and is the author of The Racial Basis of Civilization and Biology in Human Affairs...
...In this country alone, among the "Digest" magazines, our articles have been reprinted in the Reader's Digest, Catholic Digest, Science Digest, Magazine Digest, International Digest, and Negro Digest...
...in other words, for every 20 or so we can squeeze in each week, about 100 are crowded out...
...The truth is we actually reject many more favorable letters than we do critical ones for the good reason that letters which denounce us and take positions contrary to our own are often much livelier "copy" than those which say "amen...
...The Smithsonian official who requested the copies refused to part with her own copies, saying: "I preserve my own copies of The Progressive for their historic value, for a historian grandson now in the Pacific Islands...
...Villard's long and brilliant career as a crusading journalist...
...During the past fortnight The Progressive has received requests for permission to establish agencies in South Africa and Cuba...
...PRINCE HUBERTUS ZU LOEWENSTEIN left Germany in 1933 and has since been lecturing in the United States and England...
...ERNEST L. MEYER is a lifelong newspaperman, now on the foreign desk of the New York Daily News...
...and the people who make it THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, as some of you may have guessed, is one of the most popular and avidly read features in The Progressive—and the staff's biggest headache as well...
...COMDR...
...Rodell has lived in South America, and readers will remember her outspoken articles on U.S.-S.A...
...A check of the card catalogue shows that less than 2 per cent of our subscribers have written for the Forum during the past 2 years...
...F. W. Oliver, an eminent British botanist, who is now working on the problem of stabilizing the dust and sand dunes in the desert west of Alexandria, Egypt, and needed the articles in The Progressive to help on^the assignment...
...Few men have had wider editorial experience or had a front-row seat at more historic developments...
...He was connected with the Nation in one capacity or another from 1897 to 1935, and contributed a weekly column for some time thereafter...
...Barnes is currently doing special work for a war agency...
...FRED RODELL is a specialist in tax and labor law now in New Mexico, on leave from teaching...
...MAURY MAVERICK heads the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is, incidentally, the originator of that fancy word, "gobbledegook," which KATHERINE RODELL uses in her book review...
...RICHARD L. NEUBERGER, an authority on the Pacific Northwest, spent some 20 months of Army service in Alaska and the Arctic...
...relations...
...Wichern informs us...
...MILES Mc-MILLIN is a young attorney and an assistant editor of The Progressive in charge of our features on cooperatives and public power, both fields where "Mac," who looks like Frank Sinatra, is a doer as well as believer____CAPT...
...HARRY PAXTON HOWARD lived in China and Japan for 25 years...
...WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE is a professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin and well-known to this magazine's readers for his articles as well as book reviews____MILTON MAYER, on the staff of the University of Chicago, is a brand new contributing editor of Negro Digest...
...NORMAN THOMAS, the Socialist leader, wrote What Is Our Destiny...
...He has had articles in Life, Harper's, and the American Mercury and wrote Woe Unto You, Lawyers...
...Watch The Progressive for a duel on the Atlantic Charter between him and Milton Mayer...
...He has risen from a captaincy to a full colonelcy and has participated in seven major engagements in the Pacific—at Papua, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the northern Solomons, Hollandia, Tanamera, and New Britain...
...The request from Cuba came shortly after one of the leading Cuban radio commentators quoted at length from articles in The Progressive...
...EDNA LONIGAN, now teaching at Brooklyn College, is a former specialist on employment and relief spending for the Secretary of the Treasury...
...They were wanted for Dr...
...Harold Wichern, our Circulation Manager, tells us that the states in which our circulation is highest are (not necessarily in order) : California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia...
...Two of them are History of Western Civilization and The Great World Revolutions...
...The Editors feel that they have never —consciously at any rate—rejected a letter because of its views—except if it were clearly libelous, in wretched taste, or seditious...
...This month marks an important milestone in Mr...
...Some contributors used to complain that they were deluged with mail if their full address were given...
...Chase's capacity for making vital economic subjects intelligible to the layman is without equal in the country...
...He has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in the New Britain campaign and holds a Presidential Unit Citation for services with General Headquarters in Papua...
...The Progressive, you may like to know, goes into every state in the nation and practically every foreign country on earth not now in Axis hands...
...He was the editor of China Courier in Shanghai and wrote America's Role in Asia...
...Articles in The Progressive are reprinted around the world...
...The purpose is to prevent the same person from appearing too often...
...Actually, we find it necessary to reject about 5 for every one we can use...
...They will appear fortnightly...
...He is giving several lectures at the University of Puerto Rico this month...
...Her book, South American Primer, is unfortunately out of print...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 15
