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Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1927 Professional Patriots High-salaried officials of the Military Order of the World War and Keymen of America were the complainents against The DAILY WORKER | for publishing a poem entitled “America.” This pretext has caused the conviction of its editor and business manager on a charge of violating a state statute. William F. Dunne and &ert Miller are now in the Tombs Prison await- |‘ ing sentence. “Professional Patriots,” gathered as a re- sult of careful research by Sidney Howard and John Hearley, will provide the reasons for the zeal of the spies of the ‘‘patriotic” organizations. « + 8 Vi, “Our Washington Office has become the Mecca for al! those individuals and organizations seeking information vegarding activities of Radicalism in America. “We need money, however, to carry this work along,” | etc. “As a patriotic American will you not help us finan- cially in this work of defense of America by subscribing How They Work in the U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, May 10. (By Maily— A short time ago the Leather workers’ Union of U.S.S.R. des- 1 5,000 roubles to help the d out shoemakers of Norway. from the Norwegian Union, in Norwegian comrades expressed their gratitude and wrote: “Our present fight is a hard one. It has been going on for 10 weeks—| {and the end is still very far off, for the owners are stubborn in their de- mands. But the workers are abso- lutely solid, and if we can obtain a little more help we are sure that through united action the dispute will end in a victory for the workers. * * * * The Builders of Glianovsk (on the Volga) have been presented with a red banner by one of the Czecho- Slovakian organizations of building either for yourself or the business with which you may | workers, with whom ‘they carry on be connected, as much as you feel you can poss spare?” It remained for a newcomer in the field of professional patriotism, the United States Flag Association, organ- | pades, the Water-T. It yy ized in 1924, to thake the first all-inclusive appeal. says: “Some of us belong to a half a’ dozen or more patriotic societies but our mail-carrier who delivers to us every day our mail cannot belong to them, because he cannov meet their particular li cam he afford to pa tiation fees and annual dues which to him are considerable. and vourself, and Mrs. Vanderbilt and her cook, and Mr. Rockefeller and the man who sweeps the street in is ®, can all belong to the United States he big, demo patriotic associa- become TE GREAT AMERICAN ill be the great agency aching, for the building- tion, destined PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. It of the Nation, potent and far up of Peace-Time Patriotism.” High Pressure Methods, The better American Federation, though heavily backed to by corporations, goes after members extensively. The “red menace” appeal is apparently relied upon to pro- duce the best results. One pamphlet of exposés of the/guivig + * * - rthrow the government is entitled Ww. x radical plot tc “Behind the Veil though most of its material, where accurate, could be secured from radical publications for | Tr fifty cents. and blue is ev 2” itled “Are you an American or ineludes extracts from I.W.W. songs and quotations from radical journals, all in red ink, with a pledge at the bottom. The signer, who contributes to this employers’ body at the same time, agrees to “oppose all organizations or individuals who openly or covertly, directly or indirectly, give aid, comfort, or sup- port to the doctrines, practices or purposes of the Bol- sheviki, the 1.W.W. or kindred organizations, or who do not give undivided allegiance to our flag and the which it is the emblem.” When the business crowd behind the Better America Federation want to do a political job that might embar- rass that organization, they get up machinery under another name. The Citizens Committee of Ten Thousand {actually a few score) is one of them, devoted solely to ampaigning for the “right men” from Los Angeles in the legislature and Congress. A circular appeal from that committee to business ten in February, 1924, puts its job plainly: “Laws which are detrimental to business or injure you, the members of your family, or the community in which you live, can be prevente “You are being robbed eve losses running into the thousands, yes, probably millions of dollars yearly. You and your business interests are footing the bill. A California newspaperman who examined the Bet- ter America Federation carefully for an article on the teal purposes concealed in its patriotic pretensions, says: “Much of its pamphlet literature is used primarily for the purpose of gaining new members and subscriptions. Business men and old ladies,—any one with a conserva- tive bias, a credulous timid streak, and $10 or more to spare—are their meat. For instance, I know of one old lady who received a copy of the recent pamphlet, ‘Behind the Veil,’ with its ying exposure of rev- olutionary activities enclosed in letter asking her to join and contribute, which she did.” Down in West Virgini«, the coal operators behind the Americar Constitutional Association got out a letter of appeal, addressed to “members and friends.” It is taken fromthe court record in the case of a solicitor suing for commissions and is reproduy ° Szre in part: One of our Bluefield (W. Va.) memcvrs writes: “We have got to have something with PUNCH in it-- something which will awaken and HOLD red-blooded men, and make them sit up and take notice and keep on taking notice and get out and dig for our Association. Now then: Many of us feel just as do our member and his friend in Bluefield-—that we must do something; and when we see and read, as all too often we do these days, about the efforts of either those who seek to over- throw our constitutional Government or of those, who being falsely led, are working to the same end, we are ready for “direct action”—ready to fight. But This Association, as organized, is something wider and deeper than possibly some have thought. And while its officers realize fully the outrageous conditions which exist, and which must be changed, yet they also realize that better and permanent conditions will have to come by “peaceful persuasion” and not by force. One of our objects, as you have read, is to “inculcate’—not to drive—“in the minds”—not the passions—of our people, both native and foreign born, the true spirit of Ameri- canism.... Also, you have just read, “The American Constitu- tional Association is organized to preserve reverence for law.” And, here, what is meant is a respect—a rever- ence for Order, Symmetry and just Proportion as ex- pressed by what we call Law. ... Who can say there is any place for the “Closed Shop” here? And since we call upon “all Americans and American Organiza- tions to accomplish these purposes,” will not the un- American “Closed Shop” be automatically closed out when they answer our call?... Do you-~at least once a day, say to a friend or ac- quaintance, “Here, Tom, you must join The American Constitutional Association”? “But what is it,” says Tom. Associations” is your answer. “To do what?” “Briefly, to organize the American people—the pub- lic.” “For what?” And here is where you hand him the leaflet of our Object, and start the argument—starting doing your part. Get his application... . Time, patience, hard work and lots of money are re- quired—to merely offset the effects of radical activities which cost $500,000 a year in West Virginia alone. ‘Yours for constitutional wnment, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL ASS’N.? (To be gontinued.) K But your mail-carrier | | cations for membership; nor | USSR | | | |} send a representative to the forth-| Another money-getting folder in red, white, we | Comrade Libers, the Chairman of the | Hew Tree | gress. great principles of constitutional free government of | & ibly | regular correspondence. * * * On the invitation of Finnish com- ransport Workers’ ion of the U .R. is sending a delegate to the Transport Workers’ Congress in Finland. * * * The Cabinetmakers’ Union of the to the Cabinetmakers’ Congress in France. This Congress, which is con- vened by the Unitarian Federation, will take place in June. The Executive Committee of the Profintern has received an invitation from the Central Workers’ Committee of Trade Unions of Yuge-Slavia, to coming General Trade Union Con- gress to he held in Belgrade on June 12-14. The principal item on the agenda will be the question of a united trade union movement in Yugo- orkers’ Delegations in the U.S.S.R. At the Congress of workers of the ‘ailoring Industry in the U.S.S.R. ich has just concluded in Moscow, Belgian Delegation of the Tailors Union said: “During our sojourn in the U.S.S.R. we had the opportunity .of seeing many institutions and factories. We are convinced that since the time of the last Congress, at which we were present, you have made great pro- We took part in the May 1st demonstrations together with the Moscow proletariat, and we are con- vinced that the working class of the U.S.S.R. is prepared at a moment’s notice to defend the Soviet power. The workers of the whole world should learn from the Soviet workers how to fight for their own future.” Comrade Libers presented the Congress with an address from the National Congress of Tailors’ in Bel- gium, which took place in Autumn 1926. In this address written in Russian language, it says that the Belgian tailors henceforth will fight energetically for unity. Comrade Sclair, member of the Executive of the British Tailors’ and Garment . Workers’ Union, who was present at the Congress, said: “The knowledge of the Russian language gave me the lucky oppor- tunity of following the work of the} Congress from day to day. I have been convinced during this time that the work of the Soviet trade unions differs greatly from that of the English trade unions: your Congress took an active part in the solution of questions of economic construction and cultural work, which the English unions are not in the habit of doing (unfortunately they cannot at pres- ent). When I arrive in England I shall have something to relate. “As for unity between the English and Soviet tailors, I consider that it exists already and that no power exists which can break this unity. The Annual Congress of our union will take place next year, and we hope to see your representatives there. “We shall work together then not only for unity among the tailors, but for general unity among the working class as a whole.” The Congress greeted the foreign delegates with a stormy applause. - * * * * Children of Foreign workers At the forthcoming International Children’s Week (May 15-22) chil- dren’s delegations will arrive of Pioneers and school-children from England, France and Germany. . . * University of A.U.C.T.U. The Trade Unions of the U.S.S.R. will celebrate the 10th Jubilee of the All-Russian Central Trade Unions from July 11-17. The celebrations, connected with the at-| tainments of the trade union move ment in the U.S.S.R. during the last 10 years, will be carried out on a mass scale, * ° bd Unemployment Benefit. The Presidium of the AUCTU has confirmed the new regulations pro- 5 : | viding for the unemployed. “It is an association of all Americans and American| According to this regulation, quali- fied workers in case of unemploy- ment have the right to assistance re- |gardless of the length of time they have worked: highly qualified brain- workers also are entitled to assistance on the same basis, provided they have had paid positions in connection with their speciality, before becoming un- employed. Semi-skilled and unskilled workers (whether they are trade unionists or not) can receive assistance only if they have worked for 12 months he- fora heeaming unamnloved. (Accord- which the | has reeeived an invitation| {ing to the previously existing law,! | trade unionists of this category/ should have worked one year con-! tinuously, and non-trade unionists | 3 years). | | In the case of the average skilled | | clerks, members of unions must have | worked for 12 months during the pre-! | vious two years before becoming un-| employed, and non-trade unionists, | | for 24 months in the previous 3 years. } For seasonal workers (builders, | dockers, ete.) as follows: skilled workers 6 months during the previous, |year, for semi-skilled, 18 months during the previous 3 years before! | becoming unemployed. | To unskilled and semi-skilled work- | ers, and to all clerks, assistance will be given for -7 months in a year! (previously it was given only for 6 months); and to skilled workers | for 9 months in the year. j Fundamental assistance will be! | given as follows: first category| (skilled workers and highly-skilled | brainworkers) will receive one-third! | of the average wage for the given! | locality; the second category (semi- skilled workers and qualified brain-! workers), one-fourth of the average) | wage; and the third category (un-; | skilled workers and clerks of low | qualification)—one-fifth of the aver- | age wage for the given locality. | These changes, made in the pro- ‘ ( | | visions for unemployed, apply also to. Joseph Stalin, left, secretary Russian Com-| bi feuily engineers Hitherto pure munist Party, with Rycoff, chairman of the ily allowances have been given only| : , ; } in Moscow, Leningrad, in the Urals | Council of People’s Commissars. } }and White Russia. At present sup- | plementary assistance to the family) | is to be granted to all persons unable| to work and to junior members of the) unemployed family. For one member of the family will be given a sup-! 5 . | plementary allowance of 10 per cent} (Letter from the Ural Mining ichete ness! : |of the basic assistance to the unem-| One of the active leaders of the anti-Soviet campaign | ployed; for 2 members of the family,| in England is, as is well-known, Leslie Urquhart. In or- | 20 per cent, for three of more mem-, der to better understand the cause of his wildly ex- | bers, 30 per cent. | cited condition, we must have recourse to history. I Gininde od Before the war, in 1913, the entire copper-smelting | Fight Against Overtime Work. ! works of Russia turned out about 2 million 100 thousand | Overtime work is allowed in the/tons of copper. Of this total, the Urals works smelted | U.S.S.R. only in exceptional and par- about one-half, the Caucasian, one-third, and those of | ticularly exclusive cases, and each the Kirghiz steppes about 15%. Only the poorest works separate case must of necessity re-| belonged to the local industrials, Demidov and others. | ceive the special permission of the The entire Russian copper-smelting industry was monop- | trade union and the Defence of Labor |olized by English and French (particularly the former) organ. banking capital, which, in the form of five companies in In view of the violation of this!1918 worked 65% of the copper in the Urals, 88.5% of law in individual cases, the People’s that in Kirghiz, and 32.8% of the Caucasian. The re- Commissariat of Justice of the R.S.F. maining copper was monopolized by French banking cap- | S.R. has recommended that all public ‘ital, who were the owners of the “Bogomolov Mining-In- Prosecutors should prosecute all!dustrial Company” (in the Urals) and the “Caucasian persons guilty of allowing overtime Metallurgical Company.” work without the necessary per-| In the Urals of the five above-named English limited mission, and all persons guilty of in- companies was one, “The Kyshtimski Works” Ltd.,. of fringing the regulation regarding one! which Urquhart could honestly say: “I myself am the day’s rest per week for workers.|Company.” The Karabash copper-smelting works, the Prosecutions in these cases shall be|Kyshtimski Electric Refining Works, the Kaslinski cast- | | | | WORKSHOPS THAT DISTURB URQUHART’S SLEEP | IF HENRY GEORGE WERE A GERMAN, The State, by Franz Oppenheimer. Vanguard Press, Inc. $.50. Oppenheimer-is most of all a single taxer. The only thing that estab- lishes his superiority over the average “Little Lander” is the fact that he is also a scholar, and was a professor of sociology at Frankfort University at a time when Germany prided herself on hard and thoro investigation in the sciences, and on exact thinking. i True to this tradition, Oppenheimer gives a vivid, and on the whole, trustworthy account of the way in which certain states arose. He carefully analyzes and classifies types—the feudal state, normal growth on the vast plains, the commercial slave state, built on ocean commerce and piracy, ete. This is the best part of the book, and justifies its reprinting by the Vanguard Press. It is an old book (1908), and thru the clouds of controversy that have gathered around it since its first publication, certain historical facts have emerged, by which we can judge it with considerable accuracy. ” “ * Judgment is made easier by the reason that Oppenheimer was intel- lectually honest, He did not dodge any issues. He started with a definition of the state which is clear and distinct, and essentially that of the class con- scious worker: “The state, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of reg- ulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and secur- ing itself against revolt from within and attack from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors,” (page 15) Compare this with the Communist Manifesto, Chas. H. Kerr edition, p. 42, and with the Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State, by Engels, same publisher, p. 130. But Oppenheimer speedily brings in his two essentially false corqllaries: (1) The class state arises only thru war; the conquering tribe makes slaves | of the conquered tribe, and sets up the state by that means; (2) The re pressive State depends entirely on the existence of large landed estates. * * * Poor) t In regard to the first of these, Bukharin comments: “The theory of L. Gumplowicz and F, Oppenheimer, which traces the origin of classes from extra-economic force, overlooks the difference between the abstract theory of society and the concrete facts of history. In actual history, the role of the extra-economic use of force (conquest) was very great, and had an influence on the process of class formation. But in a purely theoretical investigation, this condition may not be considered. Assuming that we are analyzing so- ciety only, “abstract society,” in its evolution, we should find classes develop- ing here also (so of course the state, too, even according to Oppenheimer— V. S.) by reason of the so-called ‘internal’ causes of development mentioned by Engels. Therefore the role of conquests, etc., is merely a (very impor- tant) complicating factor.” (Historical Materialism, International Publish- ers, p. 285.) ‘ In other words, when the material development of peoples has reached a point where private property is possible and efficient, classes develop, by one means or another, and bring with them the state. Besides this answer of Bukharin’s we may show cases where states develop by other means than tribal war, and Oppenheimer’s theory will collapse. * * * There is much evidence (see Morgan, and others) to indicate that slavery, thru debt, and classes of nobles, grew up from other causes than tribal wars. Especially the Chinese have developed classes and states, even feudal states, out of primitive peasant proprietorship, out of communal proprietorship, even; and these trace to other causes than wars of conquest. But another refutation of Oppenheimer’s ‘first corollary is bound up in the collapse of his second theory, that about landed property. For Oppenheimer, with strict logic, argues that if no sufficient indigenous people exists to be conquered, as in Australia, New Zealand and North America, and if impor- tation of a slave class, or of homeless “free labor” is prohibited, as in Aus- tralia and New Zealand, or if creation of landed estates of great size is stopped, “as in Utah”, (?) then no state can arise. Accepting Oppenheimer’s premises, I see no way in which to escape his conclusion. His argument ie Committee of | made against both private unde: takings and the State institutions. * Ce Press Day in the U.S.S.R. Press-day, celebrated in the begin- ning of May every year, coincided this year with the 15th anniversary of the Central Organ of the C.P.S.C. —of “Pravda”—and was celebrated with particular enthusiasm. Practically universally mass meet- ings, reading conferences, press ex- | hibitions and book bazaars were ar- ranged. The press exhibition in Tiflis (Georgia) showed that printed and wall-papers are universal not only in the factories and workshops, but in |the far mountain districts and even | beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. in | Turkey. From Turkmenistan (Central Asia) we learn that the local newspapers, both in the Russian and the national languages, have a circulation ten |times higher than the newspapers published before the revolution in the territory of Turkmenistan. ye: Oe The Circulation of Soviet Papers. Fifteen years ago in Tsarist Russia the first number of the first legal | workers’ paper “Pravda” was issued. Now in the U.S.S.R, there are more than 700 workers’ papers. The Russian pro-revolutionary press in the zenith of its existence, in | 1914, had a little more than 2 million papers of the U.S.S.R. at present is almost 9 million copies. . * * “Pravda and the Pogroms.” In connection with the forthcoming trial in Paris of Schvartbarder—the murderer of Petlura (the head of one of the former Ukrainian counter- revolutionary governments), the ex- Minister for Jewish Affairs of the Petlura Government, Pinnos Krasny, has ‘published an article in the Kiev paper, entitled “Pravda and the Pog- roms,” in which he gives several new documental data. The attitude of Petlura in his “Cabinet of Ministers,” according to Krasny, wos not only passive towards the Jewish pogroms, but in many cases he was an active inspirer. For instance, in February 1919, Petlura categorically commanded the military {power of Proskurova: “Not on any | account to allow the railwaymen to | seize power, even if it were necessary | to murder half the Jewish popula- | tion.” “The organizer of the pog- roms in Berditchey and Zhitomir, Palienko, was freed by the personal order of Petlura, and the whole of the material in connection with the case was given into Palienko’s own personal keeping. a em The State and cooperative prepara- tions for the grain purchasing in April, despite the usual Spring slump on the market, went off successfully. readers. The daily circulation of the! good. But then, if since he wrote his book, the Australian, New Zealand and Utah governments begin to give such complete and irrefutable evidence of statehood as is found in suppression of strikes, prohibition of the importation of radical books, passing of anti-labor union laws, the shooting of Joe Hill, and all the other characteristics of a fierce class war—we have to conclude that something is wrong with Oppenheimer’s theories of “conquest” and landed estates. If his ideas about these two things were correct, Utah, Australia and New Zealand should be no states, but places of what he calls, “freeman’s citizenship.” iron works (essential as an auxiliary, to all. copper | works), and several other small factories, were all part lof the “Kyshtimski Works, Ltd.” The main factory of the “company” was the Karabash, constructed in 1905, inewly equipped in 1912, and from that time smelting ‘copper to the extent of 8,000 tons yearly. | * i | Tried to Get Old Works, When Urquhart recevered from the 1917-1918 years, he tried twice, in 1921 and 1926, to obtain a concession on his old works. He, at that time, broadly hinted that without his “cultured” help and experience, these works could not be restored. He knew, of course, that his |agents, on the retreat of Kolchak, had done all they \could to destroy the works. But the example of Kara- bash is a heroic page in the history of the restoration of Soviet economy: it worked excellently without Urquhart. Karabash is now one of the main copper-smelting works in the Urals. Step by step we are having to re- store those parts of it, which were wrecked by Urquhart’s agents. One by one the mines are being restored, fur- naces for smelting copper are being put into motion; three months ago the reverberatory furnace (for smelt- ing copper dust and foreign substances) was restored. The Kyshtimski electric refining works, which before the war refined Urquhart’s copper (and this refining includes. |the separation of gold and silver of which the copper of ithe Urals contains a high percentage), refined in the |course of the last year, 7,340 tons of Soviet copper— LITERARY NEEDLEWORK. 39% more than before the war. The Time of Man, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Viking Press, New York. Urquhart Annoyed. $2.50. But it is not only the excellent work of “his” factories This novel, which was mentioned for the Pulitzer prize and hailed by that infuriates Urquhart. The most painful thing for|80me bourgeois critics as “great,” suffers from too much literary excellence, him is the fact that instead of the old limited company, | !t is all beautiful writing minus the impact of life. the present monopolists of the production of copper in Consider the author’s material. Among the hills of Kentucky, isolated |the Urals (and of the whole U. 8. S. R.) are the workers | {Tom the rest of the world, there live semi-migratory, poor white tenant pee used to work in his factories, in the form of the farmers. Their life is barren and naked, a desperate struggle with the ele- Soviet Government. More than this: In addition to the| ™ents and with their fellow humans for a ‘wretched existence. These are the existing works, a huge Soviet Bogomolov copper-smelt-| POT white trash that industrial civilization has forgotten and that a benev- ing works is being built in the Urals, which will smelt olent capitalism remembers, if at all, only to help dig their own graves, An 10,000 tona yearly. This factory is not being built on| US8ly life, decaying, meaningless, with here and there some rigorous beautg the Urquhart pattern. If anyone on looking over his| *tt™uggling to bloom. . in é factories, and the living quarters of this Administration |and highly qualified fre he, staff, had asked Urquhart:|,, _And what does Miss Roberts do with this brutal ugliness? She poeticises y, “But where will the workers live?” he would probably | ‘ts she envelopes it in soft, soothing twilight colors and sounds, a mon n have considered him a madman; the question of homes | beauty, melancholy and resigned. She etherealizes her characters, diver, )for workers never worried him, But in the construction | them of the flesh and blood that are humanly unlovely, stained and by ‘of the Bogomolov works, the first thought has been given |2"4 she evades their emotions by simply talking about them from 44 safe to the workers’ homes. Last year 600 thousand roubles] distance where passion is distilled in a delicate mist. And all this % were spent on house-building, and this year one million| @tiven cruelly against the soil, is wrapped, sans fangs and claw: will be spent. Forty houses aro already completed, in-| Sheltering sentences, langorous beauty. jcluding several large “communal houses,” ‘The co-oper-|_; Beauty. I felt a little sick at the end, hungry for a large, jrfey slice of ‘ative buildings, the school, hospital, club and communal| Uliness to make me feel alive again. The bite of an incisive dining rooms are also finished. hurt, but it would draw blood instead of water. { Health of Workers to Be Safeguarded. Sa ne a i nf % | The smelting of copper in the new factories will be resianen Rapin na i author's material. Practically a virgin f carried on by means of burning sulphur, ore, whereby from a literary standpoint, peasants whose specch is as rhythmically bea sulphur gases will be given off. In Karabash, built by| 8 the peasants in Synge’s plays, a life more devastating and ironic in Urquhart, these gases poisoned the population for sev- implications than anything Thomas Hardy ever knew. eral miles around, But in the Bogomolov works, they] - wrist, wy consider what has happened to all this in “The Time of Mi will be collected for the production of sulphuric acid. Consider book's impeccable propriety, the propriety of lifelessness, \ And we can rest assured that the representatives of the in id ‘i Defence of Labor, who, in Urquhart’s days had to wink at much that went on (otherwise the factories would have been closed down), will see to it that the health of the workers in the new factories is safeguarded. The Bogomolov works are the last word in technique, the builders having studied the construction of American copper-smelting works, Ore, coke, and other materials, essential to smelting, will be supplied continuously by means of the conveyor. Very soon three of the works in the Urals will have an output of 21,500 tons of black copper. To cope with this increased output, the Kyshtimski works will be enlarged a and a new electric refining works opened in Sverdlovsk. * * * Like all single taxers, Oppenheimer saw the spread of “freeman’s citi- zenship” thru the breaking up of the European great land holdings, due, if you please, to immigration from Europe to America which he thought would reach the point where “two masters will run after one man,” “there will be no ‘surplus value’ for the capitalist class, because the laborer himself can form capital and himself become®an ‘employer.” (!) Perhaps we have been unjust to Henry George, who would agree with Oppenheimer as to the re- sults of breaking the land monopoly, but did not express any such naive program as to how to bring it about. There is no need to add more. Sundry minor points of Oppenheimer’s doctrine are consonant with his main arguments. He is certain that there is no such thing as unemployment «esulting from increased use of labor saving machinery (p. 283) and also that there is no danger of Malthusian overpopulation. He scoffs at Marxism as the proletarian overstatement of the antithesis to the bourgeois defense of private property, and considers himself, true liberal that he is, above the classes, harmonizing them, Above all things he is prejudiced against violence. —VERN SMITH. To me “The Time of Man” presents an interesting social and psycholog- f ical phenomenon, In its writing and treatment of its subject matter it is an almost perfect example of the conventionally feminine cast of mind, that cast of mind which remains a physchological vassal despite all more or lesa superficial emancipations. It is the sort of book which most of our women oe novelists will continue to write under a system of society which has exploited their sex until their minds have become tethered to certain weaknesses and evasions that they have come to consider as uniquely and inevitably “feminine.” “The Time of Man” is of a tiful literary needlework. piece with the writing of Willa Cather, beau. A. B. MAGIL, For this season 643,613,000 poods of| The one-time slaves of Urquhart, without his “cul- grain have been purchased, as against} tured” assistance, have managed not only to restore, but 587,428,000 poods for the same period 2 Ja hd the output and development of copper in the il ate re nc