The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 6

Page Six World Banditry Strives| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 192’ Economic Notes SALT AND POETRY By MARGARET GRAHAM. ! riya y For Unity of Its Forces Against the Chinese People By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. RANTIC efforts are being made by world greed to develop 100 per cent imperialist unity in the war on. China. It is recognized, especially in London and Washing- ton, that only thru combined action is there any hope of defeating the growing military and political strength of the Nationalist government. ‘The reply of the Chinese revolution is that even the combined weapons of the profit nations will not keep China enslaved to the imperialists. Great Britain and the United States join in taking the lead in this furious struggle that has developed into one of self defense for the international banditry. * Conditions are not the same today as they were when “The Powers” gave the Chinese people a blood bath as a result of the so-called Boxer Rebellion. At that time the divisions within China, resulting in the weakness of the nation as a whole under the Manchu Dynasty, made it possible for the capitalist nations to indulge in the luxury of divisions among themselves. England and Japan developed their alliance against the spread of the influence of Russian czarism. Japan’s — was strengthened thru her victory over czarist ia in 1904-5, It was while her ally, Great Britain, was engaged in @ life and death struggle with Germany on the Euro- pean continent, that Japan presented her infamous “21 demands” upon China, the aim being to subject the young Chinese republic completely to her will. That resulted in Japan leaning less than ever upon Great Britain in seeking plunder on the continent, es- pecially in Manchuria and Korea. *. * Altho the so-called “open door” policy laid down by Secretary of State John Hay, for the United States, in 1898, resulted in raising this country somewhat in the esteem of the Chinese people, nevertheless, Hay’s note was dictated by considerations based on the econ- omic interests of the United States. This appears very i from the statement of W. W. Rockhill, a former Inited States minister to China. After referring to the grabbing of Chinese territory and the extortion of “spheres of influence” by the European “Powers” and Japan, which marked the end of the last century, Rockhill explained the reason for the “Open Door” policy as follows: “It became apparent to the United States that if it did not take proper measures to check the movement its trade would be wiped out, its religious and educa- tional interests restricted, and its influence and pres- tige reduced to naught.” . James H. Dolsen, in his book, “The Awakening of China,” declares it should not be lost sight of also that this principle of the “Open Door,” according to Over- lach, “recognized vested rights and special interests within spheres of influence, as long as a certain amount of opportunity for others is preserved.” is * * * * * * * a eg to ~“Dolsen points out: “The ostensible result of the acceptance of the “Open Door” policy was to place the- merchants and the in- dustrialists of all countries upon an equal footing so far as. plundering the Chinese was concerned.” T. V. Overlach says: “That the motive of the foreigners was money- misking or land-stealing the Chinese have fully discov- ered from an intercourse of over 100 years. They have also discovered that under the regime of extra-terri- torialty, of international settlements, leased territories, concessions, railway zones and control, Chinese sover- y, and Chinese rights were disregarded at innumer- times. and they found that the interests of the Chinese were never consulted, altho she had to pay the| bills.” (“Foreign Financial Control of China.”) * * * But China has awakened. The Nationalist govern- | ment of China is out to rid the country of imperialist robbery. This affects all the robbers, altho it may af- fect them differently. The United States and Great Britain, the fattest and richest among the bandits, hang together closer than the rest. London and Washington consider plans for “co- operation” to stay in China, fearing that unless they get together they may both be kicked out. * *. * * It is pointed out that France and Japan stand a little aloof. French newspapers ridicule the fraudulent propa- ganda of lies being spewed forth by the capitalist press of the United States and England. They expose these lies, especially the repeated lies about the alleged “dangers” faced by “foreigners” in China. - here were Japanese warships to be sure before Nanking, along with those from this country and Eng- and. But they did not join in the murderous bombard- ment it claimed 7,000 lives. * * * that the profit takers of France and Japan are less hungry than those of the Anglo-American they employ different methods to reach 1, and these methods create differences, * * * can easily see that while the imperialists to develop their unity, there is very little being done by the labor officialdoms in the different coun- tries to cement the solidarity of the working class in support of the Chinese revolution. : The Communist International and the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions sound the call for the employ- ment of every means available to give aid to the strug- gle of the Chinese people. ° > But the Amsterdam Trade Union International is silent, The Second (Socialist) International is not heard from. J. Ra 1y MacDonald runs away from Great Britain, planning a tour of the United States during the crisis. J. H. Thornas, another laborite who wears the yellow sivipes of reformism, also remains loyal “to king and country.” * . In the United States the William Greens and Matthew Wolls spend their time waging war on the “left wing” in the trade union movement. * * Surely it is a time for the masses of workers them- Ives to take inventory of their inaction while the Chinese workers are ei Hi and dying in the age-long struggle for the emancipation of all labor. It is no ac- cident that today’s fighting front of the revolutionary change thru which the world is passing, is to be found in China. It was a logical development. Let labor t! world over, which includes the United States, rally a! * By T. LOAF A “REVOLT” is growing in Wall Street against the “shackling” jof American bankers by the govern- ment in the business of foreign loans. | There exists notably an embargo jon loans to those countries that have not yet settled with the U.S. Gov- ernment the question of their indebt- “edness to this country. The ban re- fers chiefly to France which by refus- ing to sign the war debt agreement has deprived itself of the public loan market here. Of course, neither the state nor the Treasury departments could legally interfere with the plac- ing of a French loan, if that course were taken by the bank But the “international bankers” know very well the value of working in perfect j harmony with the Government that |comes to their support any time there |appears some danger of defaulting on payments to these same bankers on the part of some hard pressed | debtor. As it is, it wa secured about a th |loans floated in the |during 1926, while a, Germany that ‘d of the foreign American market France received | nothing, the rest of the capital placed | | abroad going chiefly to Canada and |Latin America. The whole of that |capital reached in 1926 the tremen- |dous sum of $1,354,824,670 and con- | stituted like everything else in this | country—with the notable exception of proletarian class consciousness—a “record” for the world. This year the foreign loan situation looks somewhat different and less favorable for the “international bank- ers.” The figures compiled by |; Moody’s Investment Service show |that the respective activity up to now. is considerably below that of 1926. Moreover there is being notice- able according to the same authority “a steady decline in the quality of such loans.” We shall deal some other time with the reason for this turn of affairs. At present let us note that the bank- ers are pressing upon the Govern- ment to remove the ban on loans to France whose issues were in the past conspicuously absent from this mar- ket. oe ee ‘HAT despite Washington’s ban money from the American bankers in an indirect way is a known fact. The bankers were buying abroad the “choice pieces” of French financing and locking the respective bonds in their vaults in anticipation of a change in the policy of the govern- ment. But Wall Street is not satisfied | with such indirect procedure. They |demand a free investment market, a | publie offering of French securities, instead of buying merely French | stocks and investing the money them- |selves. They complain that the Eng- jlish and the French as weil as the Dutch and the Swiss bankers are reap- ing now a gold harvest by getting the French loans that are yielding high interest rates. This at the time when the American surplus capital is yearning for profitable foreign in- vestments and the New ,York Stock Exchange is taking steps to make New York the great international market of the world not only for |bonds but also for stocks. So Wall Street is picturing to the Government the danger of losing its financial leadership to its old Lon- don rival. The pressure is not without some effect, as witnessed by the re- cent announcement of Andrew Mellon that the Government had no objec- tions to private offerings of French securities in this country. But the ban against public loans still remains, though the bankers are convinced that soon there will come an “adjust- ment” of this situation. It is not excluded that Mellon’s desire to see his sick daughter in Europe has some- thing to do with this belief, as there are some other problems of interna- tional finance to which he will have to attend in Europe. * * * HE enormous financial change that followed the World War and |made the United States the financial giant of the world has found this country—because of the rapidity of |the change—in various ways unpre- pared to utilize its new financial posi- | tion. The country has notably turned \from a comparatively minor holder | of the world’s gold supply to a posses- |sor of almost half éf the world gold | Teserves. The gold holdings of the | United States stand now (March '27) at the enormous figure of $4,585,787,- |G00 out of a total world supply esti- | mated at $9,603,759,000, or approxi- mately 48 per cent. This represents | ® credit base that’ calls all the time | for inflation on the one hand and for {gold on the other. However it is not the gold ques- tion that we want to speak of now. It is the matter of financial supremacy of the New York Stock Exchange. | | You see, the New York Stock Ex- | | change is still behind London as far | jas dealing in international securities | jand stocks is concerned. J.ondon| {quotes daily thousands of forcign | bonds and stocks. “We” are far be- | hind it. New York is now the credit enter of the world and gceupies the place that England held before the war. In 1913 England lent to foreign borrowers the sum of $987,635,000, whereas in 1926 she was able to ad- vance only $301,970,000 against the $1,354,000,000 lent by the United States. But the laws of the State of New York on the one hand and the rules of the, New York Stock Exchange on France has been able to obtain | ‘an outlet to other countries with less} {the other hamper at present the list- \ing of shares of foreign companies. | So it is proposed to change both, | whereupon a veritable flood of foreign shares may be expected to invade the |New York market. The industrial | stocks of several of the large Euro- | pean countries are already now, in | anticipation of this heavenly time, showing a considerable boom. The j orgy of speculation that will follow | this flood of foreign securities on the local market may be imagined. ‘ily Country "Tis of Thee By NAT KAPLAN. The Reactionaries Canonize A Rebel Although George Brandes was pre- eminently an aesthete whose most. no- table work was done in the fields of literature and criticism, the revolu- tonary turn of mind of the Danish Jew and world citizen finds ex i n many of his comments. Wer it not for his all-absorbing literary interests and a profound pessimism he might have been a political revolu- tionary. As it was his teachings were colored with a parlor-red tint. eae And now, “liberal” rabbis and other leaders of American Jewish thought | are attempting to adopt Brandes as ‘one of their own. In one week three New York rabbis extolled his Jewish- |ness. The man never denied his se- mitic origin—his name was George Morris Cohen Brandes—but it is es- | tablished that he never attended = | synagogue. And the “American He- | brew” of October 29, 1926 quoted him as saying: “Mine is the free- thinking point of view, not the Jew- ish attitude. My convictions are in accord with the concepts of Spinoza, who was reviled by the Christians and driven from the synagogue by the Jews. Thus, I feel myself to be a Jew only when abused as a Jew ” tbs en Unlike Spinozo who was upset sen- timentally by a formal excommuni- cation, it appears that Brandes made his self-willed separation clear. ee dees, In addition to his nonconformist | stand with reference to religion, he | was opposed to nationalism, asserting |that “nationalism characterizes our present age. The nations have fallen into the stupid habit of praising them- |selves. Almost every nation thinks | itself the first in the world. of * * * “The twentieth century has been a century of illusions. Europe entered it devoted to illusions. Our most fa- mous men everywhere believed what they wanted to believe. Herbert Spen- cer in England spread the doctrine that the instincts of humanity woule produce world peace at will. Dos- toievski in Russia preached the doc- trine of patience, while Tolstoi and Kropotkin announced their belief in the essential goodness of humanity. The peoples themselves had gone fur- ther. Good-will had been preached throughout Europe and America. As far as the masses of the people were concerned, all nations were peace-lov- be patriotic. Patriotism and world peace do not agree.” . * And now these “liberal” rabbis who rub impeccably-clad shoulders with other American paytriots patronize Brandes as one of their own. Which leads me to observe this with refer- ence to my people—they will celebrate anyone who happens to be a Jew and attains fame. Today some of them are hailing Jesus as a Jewish teacher, the madly exalted Nazarene who pro- |claimed universal brotherhood, the poor beaten Jew who was framed by Pharisees like those who now admit Brandes, the rebel, into their ranks. . * . They are making a posthumous at- tempt to bring Brandes into the fold, the man who incurred the hatred of the ecclesiastes by opposing woman suffrage on the ground that by giv- ing the vote to women the power of the clerical party would be increased because women attend church more often than men. They attempt to paint him as a religious man and Danish patriot while they forget that he was at one time driven from his homeland and consistently opposed ‘to religion and nationalism. * * . That he went no further in his teachings may be explained by a state- ment made last year‘at about this time: “I have given up all hope about {the progress of mankind. I find that \cruelty, hypocrisy and stupidity, in- ‘stead of diminishing, have beconfe un- ‘conquerable enemies which articles ‘and books are fightng in vain. . .” * . . One wishes that he had made closer contact with the masses and thereby gained a stronger faith and a more courageous spirit to help him in his fight. This much is certain: Brandes was and is far removed from the types of manhood and of intellect represented by the Jewish “liberals” who attempt to call him one of thei own. Auto Workers Enroll 600 in St. Louis ST. LOUIS (FP)—About 600 mem- bers have been enrolled by the newly formed union of automobile workers at St. Louis. The known as Lodge 1212 of the machin- ists, admits both men and women. | gone mad in memory of Artiom, the Miner. lly we decided to take him into our confidence. |shadowy figures emerged... HE train pulled into Artiomovsk at two in the morn- t ing. Artiomovsk meant four things to us, at least in anticipation. It meant a huge new industria] town with over half a million inhabitants, named after Artiom, the miner, for whom a weird statue had beert erected in the center of the town. It meant salt, for to one side of it lay the famous salt mines. It meant coal, for it | was the gateway to Gorlovka and the coal mines of the Don Basin. It meant mud, for we had been warned that |at this season of the year roads would be well nigh im- passable and a visit to the salt mines depended on the roads. Tt was raining when we deposited our half dozen suit cases, typewriters and steamer rugs on the station plat- form. he cobbled streets showed gloomy puddles in the flickering light of the station lamps. We were tired and not in the mood for hotel hunting at two in the morning in the ‘rain. The disreputable droshkeys with their sagging mud guards offered the only solution to our problem, even though the prices asked for a trip to the only two hotels in town were exorbitant. After some maneuvering, we took the lowest bidder and were off. The first hotel gave us a flat “no.” They were full. Another rouble took us to the second—only to echo the same answer. In despair we found ourselves confronted _.| With a huge pile of stone representing some strange uncouth giant keeping a lonely vigil in the center of a cobblestone court. It was a terrific sight. Futurism I suggested that we climb up behind him and try to find shelter be- neath the square gray blocks which had somehow been thrown up in the form of a man. But he was useless for our purposes. We went back to the station. It was three o'clock. Tea, and sandwiches took an- other half hour. It looked liké sitting up all night. We had plenty of company.. Workers came and went as {trains pulled in and out. From time to time the station |master with his engineers’ cap carrying the emblem of} (his trade, appeared and disappeared, He was a friendly looking youngish man and not averse to conversation. After all we were Americans and not unwelcome. Final- He left for a few moments and returned with a nod. We fol- two-room flat. He worked at night. We could have his bed. His wife and little girl could get along in the other. It was all arranged very quietly and graciously. A mattress on the floor for one of us . . , two of us in the engineer’s bed and the wife and child in the other. So at four we got to sleep. By the following noon it had cleared and we had ar- ranged with the Tyade Union Committee for a trip to the salt mines. Then we would take the train for Gor- lovka and coal. ; Fertile fields for all the world like our Middle West. Blue sky and golden sunshine, red soil and dappled cat- tle. Here and there a group of pottery chimneys. One of the machines struck a ditch in the road and all but capsized, but the chauffeur kept manfully on. We finally met again at the salt mine. It was named for Schebschenko, the Ukrainian poet. “Salt and poetry and the economics of production .. . what a strange people these Russian builders were! There were 9 salt mines in the section. All but three had been closed down and the three were producing as much as the nine had produged before the revolution. Machinery was the answer. ... They showed us the new machinery with glowing eyes . . . and even now it was only 50% mechanized. Yet they were able to ex- port to Latvia, Japan and Switzerland. We followed our guide to a square platform, were locked in and dropped.480 feet to the bottom of the mine. Set in a crystal corridor 90 feet high and almost as wide, the picture of the poet Schebschenko smiled at us under his fur cap. Walls of salt, vaulted ceiling of salt crystals, reflecting the dim lights with a thousand pol- ished surfaces . . . truly a palace for a poet. ‘Twelve hundred miners were at work in these huge corridors. The old workings, were being used as a the- atre. In another place there were lunch tables . . . in another stables where mine ponies were born blind and died from never having seen the light of day. Around a bend we saw lights set in the walls. Then miners. We called to them: “Greetings from your American Brothers”; they ihe: eves tn 1014: Th he dangerous, | 2% down curiously, faces shining in friendly welcome, it was sufficient for them merely to/ 6), stripped to the waist, gray haired, a tall lean, three gaunt figures, each with his miner’s lamp... . ghostly figure. He spoke to us for his companions. We grouped ourselves around him, watching his eager face. He weighed his words carefully, he was sending his message to his brothers so many miles away. “Brothers,” he said, “this is the story of the salt miners, ... What I say you can believe....I have been a salt miner 28 years ... and I know what we have gained since the revolution. This is our mine now...we have machinery ...we have shorter hours, only six underground ...we have steady work... 22 days a month ... we have one month’s vacation with pay . . . and our own houses rent free... with light and heat. ... We have our own clubs, and theatres and even our own gardens. ... Our hospitals and nurseries for our children.... ‘Tell our fellow workers in America these things. I greet them in the name of the Miners’ Union of Artemio8k.” We ex- changed good wishes. ... We shook hands. The three salt miners climbed back to their niches in the wall, drilling the holes for the fuses, mixing salt with poetry in the name of the Ukrainian poet Schebschenko, for the glory of the workers and peasants ... mining salt to be sent to Lat and Japan and Switzerland, know- ing that these things were now theirs, sealed with the blood of their comrades—-who fought and died for them in the glorious Revolution. TO STUDENT SUICIDE NUMBER-- Poor little thwarted stiident Looking for'your name In the goner roll Of the suicide statistics— Do you think you can stop the train By stepping before it? Climb on board with the crew And control it? j Between the bridge and the river Is room for repentance, But hardly If, when the boss bumps you off, You refrain from his ankles. Better still: Put your feet in the Factory And, while learning to march With the Masses, Find a future that’s well worth the living And well worth the dying. As the stydents of Russia discovered, And China, before you, They sweetened the soil With their sweat, And the fields of the future With red blossoms blow . From their going. is fair aA only a short circuit lowed him around the station platform and: into his little | ELMER GANTRY: SCOUNDREL, Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2. Had I been a religious preacher instead of a Communist and had a cop: |of Sinclair Lewis’s latest shocker gotten into my hands and its content into my head I believe I would jump into a.nice clean sewer, wallow in it: depths and think I was going thru a purifying process, so great would bi my disgust with the clerical profession. Of course this is presuming tha all preachers are not entirely devoid of a sense of decency and that thei brains are capable of normal functioning after a period of years in th: business of lying to themselves and to their customers. “Elmer Gantry” is the story of a rotarian preacher, the kind that woul make a successful insurance agent, quack doctor or travelling salesman He could carry his liquor like half a dozen men; had a good memory fo: little things and his conscience was as elastic as a pair of rubber gloves | Here is “Elmer Gantry” in brief: The scoundrel of the story is introduced to us in a state of blissful anc boisterous intoxication in a Cato, Missouri, saloon, whence he and his pa Jim Lefferts sojourned for relief from the droughty wastes of Kansas Both were students in a baptist college, tho it can be said about Elme | that his studies chiefly consisted in learning the latest wrinkles in the art | of seduction, the acquisition of fresh stocks of obscenities and occasiona skinfuls of booze. Elmer Gantry was designed for service in the baptist vineyard tho he felt more at home in front of a bottle or in the company of the ladies of pleasure who furnished him with fleeting solace when contemplation of 2 barren bible-pounding life drove him to despair. Aided by his atheist roommate Jim Lefferts, Elmer long resisted al! effarts to save him. But finally he was subdued by a giant Y. M. C. A secretary who was about as spiritual as an army mule. This brute-man got Elmer by threatening to knock his block off unless he came to Jesus. Elmer had an inferiority complex and this soldier of militant christianity soon had him hitting the sawdust trail. Jim Lefferts, the man of intelligence lost out to the man of bone and beef in the struggle over the soul of Elmer Gantry. The fact was, Elmer had no soul. He was all appetite. Next thing we see is Gantry delivering a lecture from a pulpit and plundering one of Robert Ingersoll’s famous speeches for the occasion. It was the atheist Lefferts that suggested the sacrilege. It got the morons going and from then on Gantry was on the upward trail with the exception | of occasional slips from grace when the flesh went down before the devil or ‘the smellers of baptist deacons scented on Elmer’s breath a strong odor of corn whiskey. Still, Elmer had a good pair of lungs, a glib tongue and car- | ried his ignorance with greater sang froid than the deacons. He got by. Elmer Gantry took to seductions as a duck takes to water, His first conquest was the daughter of the deacon of the first church to which Elmer | was assigned. Lulu Bains fell to Elmer like quail to the wandering Israel- \ites, But Elmer came near falling before old man Bains’s shotgun after a spurned rustic lover of Lulu’s, suspected that the spiritual activities of Mr. Gantry were going too far. This little incident ended in a victory for the preacher, who maneuvered the rustic into a compromising position and won the deacon’s apologies. It was a case of the survival of the fittest. Elmer got his big chance in a city with 300,000 people. But while on his way to his post he ran into a salesman who had a pint of Bourbon on the hip and‘the preacher went on a bat with everything thrown in, that lasted three days and was the means of getting him fired. He then turned his hand to selling farm implements and was a top notcher at the game. But the fire of soul-saving burned in his veins and when he had one look at Sharon Falconer, the pulchritudinous evangelist, the dead spit of Aimee McPherson, Elmer decided to save more souls, provided he could save Sharon from the respectable Oxonian Englishman, who taught her how ‘to read and write. Elmer won and lost. He won Sharon, saved many souls, advanced his salary and was doing big time when a fire burned the big tabernacle to the ground and Sharon Falconer with it. . * * After this Elmer had a few unpleasant experiences trying to make a living until he was given a church in Banjo Crossing and was inveigled into marriage when the chief owners of the church, father and mother, found Elmer consoling their daughter one evening as they returned from a walk. Elmer cursed and went thru with it. From then on he advanced at a gallop until he reached the pinnacle of his career in Zenith where he lined up with the wealthiest people in the city, scourged vice, infidelity, free thought and general intelligence, was caught by a female blackmailer and almost ruined, was saved by a wealthy churchmember who put a detective on the female seducer’s trail, who was compelled to sign a confession exonerating Elmer, in return for which she received her fare to a distant city, Elmer was cleared. The published story of the scandal was disbelieved and Elmer was received with thundering applause by his flock even as was Aimee MacPher- son after her return from the little cottage in Carmel-by-the-sea. * % * This is a synopsis of the story and by no means a complete one. It is a book of 432 pages, with something worth reading in every line. It is the most powerful popular indictment of religion that was ever written on this continent. It will be a popular book because Sinclair Lewis knows his Lulus, Elmer Gantry is not the whole thing. He is the trained ram that | Lewis uses to lead the clerical sheep to the slaughter. And what a slaughter — there is! One reading this book cannot but feel that an honest clergy- man in the midst of this aggregation of trained frauds would feel as com- | tortable as an ear of sweet corn in a barrel of cow dung, If this book has any weakness it is that Lewis proves his case only too well. It is a thesis and a novel jammed between two covers. es The author is refreshingly impartial in his treatment of all sects. There is a suggestion that the catholic church is a little bit more dignified but © equally dishonest. Lewis knows the ‘protestant factions better than the Roman opium joint so he only takes a couple of jabs at the pope’s main ‘ade * * * Lewis makes it quite clear that the preachers from the bushwacking evangelists to the scented mummers in turned back collars ate for the rich and against the poor with a few exceptions, so few that they barely prove the rule, This characteristic of the novel “Elmer Gantry,” I take it, is the reason why most of our allegedly liberal critics have gone thru this master- piece with microscopes at rest looking for grammatical errors and stylistic flaws. Damn those literary nits! “Elmer Gantry” is a great book because it turns the searchlight in a masterly manner on one of the greatest cess- pools in modern society. . i The time will yet come when poisoning the minds of the people -with religious dope will be considered as reprehensible an occupation ds pimping is today. If future generations may not have entirely succeeded in wiping out the scourge and religious bootleggers may still ply their nefarious trade to underground addicts, instead of using the lash, a modern father may read chapters from “Elmer Gantry” to an erring son, who may be drawn to the underground religious racket as adventure-seeking youths of long ago were drawn to the navy. * * * Every preacher and some ex-preachers in the United States are certain to see something of themselves in “Elmer Gantry.” They will say that Elmer is not typical. Nobody but a person of ill-balanced judgment would conclude from a reading of the book that every clergyman’s life is one darn | seduction after another. What is obvious, however, is that the church busi- \ness is a gigantic fraud, manned by the greatest collection of specialized hypocrites that ever lied themselves out of working for a living. 0 od T. J. O'FLAHERTY. / IMPERIALISM GLORIFIED. 4 The New Korea, by Alleyene Ireland. E. P. Dutton Co. 1926. In-these days when even “liberals” speak disapprovingly of it is interesting to find a volume which has nothing but praise for — rule of the Japanese in Korea, The reason for the author’s adi tion can be found in the introduction to the volume where he declares him) ful of the benefits of rule by the masses and in favor of “effici ” govern- ment by a “small group of trained officials” like that of aeasolnt in Italy, From this premise one can understand Mr. Jreland’s enthusiasm for panese rule in Korea where there is government by terror and violence di which has ola erin ney ald hie’ i ate EX. es chinery has ‘up for the sole purpose h e pao, The author devotes the test part of his volume to a