ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE
about The PROGRESSIVE ...and the people who make it THE PROGRESSIVE has been following the American flag into liberated areas of Europe and Asia. Scores of copies go each week to GI and officer...
...ROBERT LEWIS went overseas in 1943 and joined the Eighth "Golden Arrow" division...
...As a platoon leader in the Battle of Brest, he displayed the heroism—despite bullet wounds in both arms, Lt...
...Chamberlin has written for The Progressive on CO's, Canadian politics, and "isolationism...
...Mac" is now an editorial writer for the Madison Capital Times...
...LT...
...The cony I ran into was interesting, informative, well-edited, and purposeful...
...I had the writer's itch...
...His last book, Men and Coal, was nationally acclaimed...
...He was wounded three times during combat, led a platoon that captured a Gestapo headquarters, and was a military governor of a German city...
...McALISTER COLEMAN, who thinks you can be interested in labor and politics and have humor too, is working harder than ever on Martha's Vineyard to complete his book on the contributions of the "common man" to American history...
...MILTON MAYER, on the staff of the University of Chicago, has just returned from his lecture experience in Cazenovia, N. Y. He reports that He had only five hours sleep a night (M.M...
...He edited the Wesport, Conn, Town Crier for a while, and now he is on the foreign desk of the New York Daily Neius...
...When the first blizzards blew, our camp had to fold up, and I was out of a job...
...He had been lunching in a Chungking restaurant, it seems, and picked up at a neighboring table a copy of the May 21 issue which excited him no end...
...Lewis dragged wounded men to safety under heavy machine gun and small arms fire—which won him the Distinguished Service Cross and the French croix de guerre...
...No comment in this letter...
...Scores of copies go each week to GI and officer subscribers now stationed in Austria, Italy, Germany, France, and Greece, and to men in liberated areas of China, not to mention the Philippines, India, New Guinea, Guam, Iwo Jima and other areas previously liberated from Japanese arms...
...He is famed for his South American reporting, and he also has a first-hand knowledge of the Near East, Russia, and Asia...
...I said I didn't want wages, just a bed and a bite...
...Chamberlin has lectured at Harvard and Haverford, made a score of nationwide lecture trips, written four books, and appeared regularly in national magazines...
...An authentic Gentleman of the Press...
...CHARLES- A. BEARD is the dean of American historians...
...WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN is distinguished not only as a foreign correspondent—he represented the Christian Science Monitor for 15 years in key European and Asiatic posts—but as an unusually well-informed and alert student of American and Canadian affairs...
...Ernie hates New York—all cities, for that matter—and spends as much time as he can in Westport, where he has a small house, six acres, a wife, two children, chickens, and uncountable kittens and puppies...
...His only hates that we know about besides cities are sham and maybe Westbrook Pegler...
...NORMAN THOMAS is the Socialist leader and author of What Is Our Destiny . . . WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE is on leave from the University of Wisconsin's department of history and is teaching at a "GI university" in England...
...Indefatigable Mr...
...Cranston's remarkably accurate prediction in the July 16 issue on the outcome of the British election...
...Racial injustice is one of his causes and he has studied and fought for better race relations...
...He was once editor of The Call, has written publicity for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and has contributed to The Nation and Common Sense...
...I had a folding cot-bed that I used to set up nights next to the press...
...likes 10 or 12 hours) but a wonderful time, ran into many subscribers to The Progressive, and was royally ribbed on the numerous—and typical—photo shots of "your servant" Mayer in a recent issue of Life...
...JAMES S. HAMILTON knows the film industry inside out from his 25 years of work in various connections with it...
...In 1935 Ernie went to New York, where for six years he wrote a featured column, "As the Crow Flies," for the New York Post...
...And several years ago Cpl...
...I worked there over half a year, loving it...
...In 1941 he balked and broke with the totalitarian liberalism of the paper's new owners...
...So they talked it over and took me on as typesetter, pressman, job-pressman, mailing clerk, reporter, columnist, and keeper of the fires in two pot-bellied cast-iron stoves...
...13 issue...
...He described that part of his life in the book Hey Yellowback (sorry, it's out of print...
...Romer won first prize in The Progressive's "If I Were Editor" contest...
...Still another letter from China came on the notepaper of His Majesty's Forces—a request for copies from a British flier in the South East Asia Air Forces...
...Since 1939 Mr...
...JANE STAFFORD is the top medical writer for Science Service, a non-profit agency...
...They said the paper's circulation was 250, the ads were mostly taken out in beans, cordwood, and coal, and they couldn't afford to pay wages...
...World famous for his incisive interpretation of American history, Dr...
...Beard has written, among other books, American Government and Politics and The Republic and, with his wife, Mary, The Rise of American Civilization and A Recent History of the United States...
...only a request for sample copies of The Progressive, of which he had been "hearing so much...
...He wrote a column and was an all-around newspaperman for the Madison Capital Times...
...SAMUEL ROMER is a former labor newspaperman now in the Armed Forces who has made a special study of Japan and the Japanese labor and socialist movements...
...JOHN HAYNES HOLMES is pastor of the Community Church in New York City, chairman of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, and editor of Unity...
...Each copy going overseas seems to do multiple duty, for virtually every officer and GI who writes us makes it clear that his copy is read by anywhere from three to 20 or 30 others...
...The paper was printed on an old-fashioned Franklin hand-press...
...After the first month had passed, the old owner and his son had a solemn conference...
...While some of the Forum letters more than hint that Mr...
...He wrote Things and Ideals, Natural Laws and Human Hopes, and The Human Enterprise...
...he can collect a roomful of professors, newspapermen, artists, radicals, and just miscellaneous and somehow coalesce the conversation...
...MAX C. OTTO is chairman of the University of Wisconsin's department of philosophy and is renowned as one of Wisconsin's greatest and most loved teachers...
...So I lit out for the nearest town, which happened to be a village named Warden, population about 300...
...MILES McMILLIN joined The Progressive's staff shortly after finishing law school and was an Assistant Editor whose special fortes were public power and the cooperative movement...
...I am on the staff of the 14th Air Forces in China and I've been everywhere in Free China for the past year, working with and for the Chinese...
...From now on,' the old man said, 'we'll pay you $5—a month.' " After that, Ernie knocked around the West for two years— in jobs as a surveyor, brush-cutter, cook and dishwasher in Seattle (where he met the famous Sato)—and then he came back to Wisconsin...
...Readers will recall Mr...
...Chamberlin writes nothing that isn't "anti-Russia"—which he isn't and, by the way, he married a Russian—other readers will recall the articles Mr...
...Once I'd had a poem printed in a Milwaukee paper, you see, and craved the mantle of Milton...
...Lewis is a former editor of the Daily Cardinal, student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin...
...ERNEST L. MEYER is pretty much the sort of person you'd expect from his writing—mellow, warm hearted, genial, with iron in his spine on moral and political convictions...
...I had been working as flagman on a surveying crew in the desert of the eastern part of Washington state," he recalls...
...One day last week we received a letter from Chungking, from an American Army Air Forces captain, who wanted to know about the price of six new subscriptions...
...Right off I was interested in a tiny, two-room shack which housed a weekly newspaper called the Warden Herald...
...He loves people, all different kinds of people...
...When I asked for a job, they just laughed...
...you've done pretty fine work, and Chester and I have decided to put you on a salary.' "My heart went bumpety-bump...
...Beard, whom someone has described as an American eagle in appearance, lives very quietly near New Milford, Conn, with no telephone...
...Then the old man came to me and said solemnly: 'Ernie...
...An old man and his son were running the paper...
...He was a CO during the last war, a stand for which he took a pounding in more ways than one...
...He loves to tell stories and pun and have fun, and he has never been afraid to fight...
...CARLETON BEALS has traveled over, and reported from, the high tension spots of the world...
...ANOTHER letter from China, this one from a captain in the 14th Air Forces, contained a money order for two subscriptions and this note: "Bravo...
...He had never heard of The Progressive before, but was struck, to use his own words, by "the astounding honesty of reporting" and the "courageous leadership" which characterized the publication...
...I said I wanted to be another Horace Greeley...
...I want them...
...So he wants six subscriptions, no less...
...Chamberlin at the moment is sweating out" his recovery from a broken arm and miscellaneous bruises received from a fall on a New Hampshire mountain—and still writing...
...He has written 18 books and plays...
...I hope this edition is the harbinger of equally progressive issues...
...He's a lovable guy, and his wit and whimsy and sense have won him thousands of devoted readers...
...Ernie grew up in Chicago and Milwaukee and began his newspaper career back in 1912 when he was 19...
...Everyone calls him "Ernie...
...MAURICE CRANSTON is the London correspondent of the Worldover Press, for which this was written...
...Gratifying...
...Perhaps the briskest new overseas business for The Progressive has developed in China, and if it continues at the present rate, we may be looking for office space for a Chinese branch soon...
...ILhad never before seen The Progressive...
...He directs the National Board of Review, a citizens committee for the improvement of film standards...
...The Progressive regrets its error on the middle initial of Milton M. Gordon (we called him Milton A.), who wrote the fine article, "Propaganda and the Polls," in the Aug...
Vol. 9 • September 1945 • No. 36
