Young Socialists Magazine 1913 July Dec.pdf

u. THB YOOG aOou.LIlft' .... QAImzTHE YOVNG SOCIALISTS' JlAGASDJE 1.\play about on our first snow fall .They are very happy as they ftyAbout and dip into the whitenessns if they were fisher birds dip ..ving into the waves. Or they flyup into the branches and delightin shaking down the pearl fromthe elm tree twigs, and see thf:'tiny blizzard they stir up. Theyare happy because they have 110fears. Nature taught them howto get fOQd and how to keepwarm in spite of the anow.A yellow canary had been keptin a little cage for many years.Always it dreamt of freedom.Its cage hung near the windowand 'it could look out upon thefirst snow r.n and envy the happysnow birds. One day the cagedoor WIS left open and the canaryflew out and far away. It dashedup into the air and fell downwith great speed till it touchedthe snow and dipped into it as thesnow birds had done-on becauseit was 10 happy to be free. Thenit grew hungry, but it did notknow how to get food. It hadbeen a litle slave so long. it hadforgotten. All day it Aew aboutbut could see no food ~d thesnow birds made no attempts tohc:1p. At night the snow bird~all disappeared and the canarywas 10nMome and ha.d no placeto go to, to hide from the bitterwind that arose. It hid betweena twig and its branch,-but wasvery cold. Next morning it laydead on the ,now and eonle mo re!lnow came and c.overed it up.The first, second, third, Ilndfourth snow had fallen. It wasChristmaa Eve. A poor wretchedmother with a baby in her armssat on the closed door step of a&Teat establishment on the busiestcomer of Broadway. Pt..'lde 1I1e alld heavC'd a dctpAnd there. in the camp of famille.In wind and cold and rain,1>peak, whereas. what i" the horror h,,\\ llrt'd .111tcaJl, whate\'er may be lhe cause ofthe war. People who would nottake one step to rendcr a service totheir neigh bors, workers like themselves,march hundreds of miles inorder to get killed for the masterswho sweat tlrem.-Gustav Herve.When is a newspaper like a delicatechild? - When it appearsw~kly (w~akly).taught to sec in its vastne s~ o r pity:." it deserves.""1 envy the man who believesthat superstition aoollt Friday,"~a id ~Jr. Growcher."1 consider it depressing."" Not at all. A man ought to bemighty comfortable who can feelsure there's only one unlucky day inthe week."emply l)t)tt!cpccial ty of .. pring in; eternal inthe human breast. As he was carefullyexamining each bOUle by hold ­ing it to the light. the Illini~tcr sawhim. and called out:"They arc all dead one s, Pat.""They are. are they?" replied theIrishman. "\\·ell. there's one goodthing aboJut il. Ihey all had the ministerwith them when they weredying."