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By virtue of his economic positionthe worker can justly considerhimself as the only trueinternationalist in society today.In his' capacity as a wage sla\'che pays tribute to only one master,. is subjugated by only onepower. and recognizes only onefoe: private property in themeans of life.In capitalist society the numericallysuperior class of wageworkers is stripped of every remmmtof property, and also of allconceptipns. traditipns, and customsdosch- identified or interwonnwit'h ownership. Th ~,yorker is a proletarian in thetruest sense of the word: he ispropertyless and dependent upon. those who wi ll utilize his physicalor intellectual ability to work.for their personal aggrandizement.He is compelled to offer"hims

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SOCIALISM AND WAR(CoDtinued (rom Page 2)The workers' struggle, therefore,assumes an international aspect.Much as the capitalist classesand their respective governmentsmay be at variance with eachother on questions of markets,fie1ds of investment, etc., they,howe,'er, all agree in onc respect.namely, that private pro~rtymust be upheld and the workerremain a slave.The capitalists are restrainedand fettered by the national interestsof their class or gro.uP intheir respective countries. Thewar in Europe is conclusive evidenceof this contention. And itis not at all an exaggerateq generalizationto state that this greatwar, in its last analysis, is butwaged in order to decide towhich national capitalist classth~ privilege of extorting the largestshare of th~ surplus value,prOOuced by the workers of theworld. shall fall. The Englishand French capitalists are fightingfor the maintenance of thes~tus quo, which places them ina position to reap the lion's shareof labor's product. And Gennany,aggressive and militant imperialisticGermany, is struggling for·a place at the through of surplusvalue which will enable it to consumethe largest portion. An ofthese capitalist governments arestruggling with only one objectbefore them: to win for theirrespective oapitalist constituentsthe power to dispose over theproducts of the disinheritedworking class.Truly ~e workers have ' nothingin common with the fatherlandloving phrasemongers, whounder the cloak of nationalism 'conceal their greedy desire forTHE. YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEprofit. The worker as a propertylesswage slave has no country.boundaries, traditions, andconventionalities to defend. (Zapitalismhas developed in him itsinternational grave digger. .consequentlyall Socialist!! whoplead the cause of their respec ...tive capitalist governments onthe strength of defending nationalinstitutions. etc., are seekingto defend something which theworkers have long ceased to pOssessand are directly supportingthe ambitions of their capitaliste..xploiters.To regard this war as a struggleof democracy against despoticmilitarism, or cultureagainst barbarism, is another\'iew flowing from fau lty reasOning;a reasoning that fully ignoresthe economic causes ofthis conflict and also t.hc wageslave's economic position 'in society.This method of deduction ..is largely indulged in by E nglishand French Socialists. Beforewe occupy ourselves more fullywith t.he effects produced by assumingthe sponsorship over De,mocracy against the onslaughtsof Prussian militarism, let 1I'iagain emphasize the following:This struggle, as stated before illthese pages,' is primarily a struggle of full-fledged capitalist countriesfor indush;ial and financialsupremacy. Russia's fervent pleafor Constantinople and her firmdemand on her allies to recognizeher claim, convincingly indicates the awakening of industrial,and mode!:n agrarian Russiato the necessity of well organizedmarkets. Therefore, the strugglefought in Europe does not implythe subjugation of modern capit,alistnations for the purpose. ofwantonly eradicating their institutionsor traditions, but ratherfor the purpose of exterminatingtheir respective' competitive influencesin another part of theg lobe. For instance, Germanimperialism ambushed behind).fohammedan prestige in theOrient. This struggle is an imperialisticwar, a war of nationalcapitalist interests fOf internationalsupremacy; it has its ori ginin the capitalist profit systemand seeks its perpetuatibn upona higher plane.A DAMPERThe I late Prof. Lounsbury, otYale, was a foe to the purist andpedant.On his summer holiday the professorgazed out across the lakeone gray amf sultry afternoon, andremarked:"It looks like rain."A pedant was seated in a rockingchair near by. ."What looks like rain, professor?"he chuckled. "H a, ha I I'vegot you there. What looks likerain?". "Water," Professor Lounsburyanswered coldlr.-Tit-BU.r.PUSSY KNEW"Has Reggie come home fromschool yet, -Mary?" asked Reggie'smother.l'I think so, ma'am/' said Mary."The cat's a-hiding in the coalhouse." .M r9. Dents (at the balJ game,e..xcitedly) : Isn't our pitcher perfectlygrand, John I He hits thed ub nearly every throw ITO THE CHILD OF AREVOLUTIONISTBy ~uis UntermeyerChild. y04 were 'born 'with fightingin your blood,Your first breath was a struggle.sharp and swift:Yet from the tumult and the darkeningflood, '{:hild, you must li ft.Splendid it is to hurl against thestrongRulwarks of ignorance a strongerstuff;Splendid to challenge prejUdiceand wrong-But 'not enough .•Yes, when your angry faith defeatsthe foe,And when the last, deep, thunderinggrowl is stilled,\Vith the same anns that stabbedand brought them low,Child, you must build!Yet you shall hear the sOundlessbugles caU,And there shall be fresh warsand 1;10 release, 'And you shall fight the hardestfight of all-Even in peace.There shall be little rest and greatdelightjAnd struggling still, your bannershall ascend,Battling for beauty,-that exaltedfightWhich has no end.A BAD TURNDr. B-Johoson has done themeanest thing I ever heard of. Hecame to my house the other night.ate a big dinner, got indigestion,and then went to another doctor tobe cured...THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEINTERNA TIQNAL · NOTESConcerning a Dec1aration oiPrinciples.The Declaration of Principlesof the Young People's Internationalhas received the endorsementof the Executive Committeeof the Swedish and NorwegianNational Organizations, of, partsof the German group, so far asthey have received the communication.and by the Canadianorganization.The Danish Young People'sorganization, in general approvedof the declaration, but proposes anumber of changes and also ashortening of the whole. OUfanish comrades propose the iollowing:I n recognition of the fact that- in accordance with the developmentof social conditions in thisage of capitalism and imperialism-a closely related internationalunion between the working c1nssis necessary. if the proletariathopes to overthrow its capitalistmasters, to abolish capitalist conditionsand substitute socialistmethods in their stead, the InternationalUnion ' hereby resolves:1. To work toward the organizationof young \vorkers in allcountries, in separate organizations;to disseminate socialistideas. to carry on an energeticcampaign against militarism andnationalist prejudices, to bringthe direct influence of the youngpeople of the \'Iorking class tobear upon the government, tostri ve for effective protection ofthe younth of the proletariatagainst capitalist oppression andexploitation, to train the youngpeople of the working class toparticipation in the class strugglein all its various forms.2, To recogni ze the necessityof proletarian action in case ofwar between the nations, and toencollrage the labor parties of allcountries to demand disarmament,to call upon the labormovements of all countries tounite upon definite action in caseof war.3, In case where the jU\'enilemovement of any country meetswith particular diificulties. togive them the g re:uest possiblemoral and financial support.4. The organi zations belongingto the union of Socialist YoungPeople's Organizations herebypledge themc;elns to carry outthe decisions of the reg\l1ar :11.:­credited representatives to thislInion . and shall be entitled toaffiliation with this union on ly solong as they carry Ollt thcfie decisionsunder consideration ofthe conditions in the differentcountries.5. The Secretariat shall drawup a constitution which shallcover al1 further details concerningthe regular duties and privilegesof the international union.In the Social DemocraticYoung People's Organiza"tion ofDenmark.Ernst Christiansen.Military Inspecting Officer.- 'Now, sergeant, what precautionsdo you take against infectedwater?Sergeant.-\Vc boil it JOfficer.-Very good.Sergeant.- Then we filter it.Officer.-ExceJlem !Sergeant.-And then we drinkbeer.

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEDc YOIBg SOClaIlSiS' magnll. Socialism. the only American I'nstitutionOr, •• of 'h, A •• rio •• Sooi.lilt SaDdI,s.ooI. eed yo .... " ,.00 .... F ...... tlo.Eatered at Second-Cia .. Mail MauerJaDe 2. 1911. at the po~t office at NewYork. N. Y •• under the Act of March3. 1879.Pubfi.hcd Monthl, atU Spruel StTMt. New YOI'lLb, tbehd.Uatlc Co-opend.,.. Publ Ag'G.John Na .. cl, Pree. O. Knoll. ~c:'.,.E. Ramm. Trea ..~Advice to Conscientious Objeeto~The Bureau of Legal First Aidof 1\cw York is informed thatthose persons who registered inNew y ork on June 5th and fee lthat the cards bearing their signaturescatry statements whicharc either if-complete or contra;yto their intention will now havean opportunity to correct theirregistration. \Vhile it is notpossible to alter registrationcards already ' made out. additionals tatemen~ s which ' the reg·istered person desires to make, ifsent in writing, will be attachedto his card, duly returned to theAssembly D istrict in which reg.istration was made and be conside~edan integral part of theregistration.It is ~ uggested that similarpermission might be grantede~sewhere, if requested of the lcrcal registration board.The Bureau of Legai First Aidadvises everyone who desires tosee his registration thus correctedto avail himself of this,offer a~ the earJiest possiblemoment.A fter all, the~e isn't so muchdifference between nations. Theruling class is the sam'!, the worldover; only it took the wa r to makesome of us realize it. How familiarthe story of the Boston CommonIncident, where a peaceful,Qrderly anti·war meeting of S0-cialists and. Jabor organi z:!.tions,held on the site that has stood, in.the annals of American liistor.yfor liberty and revolutionary spiritwas broken up by a mob of soldiers,must sound in the ears' ofthe Russian who lived in the Empireof the Czar in the 'palmy day~of Cossack rule. The Gennan.who came to this country to seekpolitical freedom, the right tospeak and to write according tothe dictates of his conscience,feels far-off memories of Prussiandemocracy arise within him,when he reads that the AmericanSocialist, the International SocialistReview, and the Philadelphia Press. active figh ting organsof the Socialist movement, havebeen suppressed by that self-orda_inedDoard of ' Censors, the.United States Post O ffice. Theyo ung Englishman, who has jl1S~succeeded in shaking the dust of atoo-soli citous fatherland from hisshoes, finds his new home too.hastening to pave the way for l\system of public · registration suchas has given to the autocraticrulers o f Gennany, Austria, andold time Russia a most effectivemeans of combating growing re­"olutionary movements.\ Ve 3re making the world S:fefor democracy-by splitting. theheads of people who ask forpeace.\Ve're maki ng the world safefor denlOCracy~y suppress:,",newspapers th.1t have but exercisedtheir right of cri ticism andprotest.But after all the spirit of democracyand freedom is not soeasily killed. It lived in Russiaunder the knout of the Czar andthe sword of the Cossack.It Jives in Gernlany, and willlive long after the House of Hohenzollernand all it representswill have gone down the ill-starredpath of history's tyrants.For it lives wherever men .al1'\women rdm=e to submit to th ~tyrant rule of a master c1a3s.drunk with power, be they theJunkers of a E uropean absolutism,or the money lords of a republicthat has sold its bir~hrightfor a mess of pottage.The overwhelming Illajorit\·with which the majority resolutionwas passed by the Socialistparty m~mbe r ship proves, ifproof was still necessary. that ourmovem~ nt has remained true tnits international principles. andstands ready to fight the war to afinish, as the bitterest. most dangerousenemy that liberty and democracyin any nation can have.T he fact that in every. ,-'Orner ofthe country thousands of m~n anclwomen are joining our movementplainly shows that we ha\le, bythis vote, taken the only stamiconsistent with the mission w:have to perform. For, while tht'socialist parties of Europe thatfe ll before the sudden onslaughto f thc war into the arms of nationalistprejudices, have beendriven back, step by step. wc' willgrow, in spite of the frantic effortsof our war-mad rulers to'Slljlpressus.For to-day, the "un-American"Socialist mov~ment is the only"Amencan" institution in America.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEAtTER THE BATTLEWar Sketch by Frederick KrafftAher the baule. Bodie ~ and parIS George. Be quiet. m)" boy. \\'e laughs derisi,'e1y. gradually blendingof bodies lying around and danglingfrom treu. the latter almost bare ofmay get over it if hell> comes.Henry: \Vhere are you? Who artinto sounds of fear an(\' terror.) GoodGod. help me-help -set', they cOlliebr:!.nches. Gl immering and burning you? (Tries to crawl toward George.) -with, ut arms-without legs_with_timber, smoke anil th e. scene lit UI)· by George: l'm George A l b~rts, and out heads-their brains spalleringtheirbowel,:; dangling-ah - (fallsa red glare in the distance. It isnight. Cries of agony are heard a3 ~~u t~: ~U~~lI~; ~~~I~ e;o~eo~r j~l~f~~ forw:lrd with bloo'd·curdling shriek,curtain rises. This continues for severalminutes. the only actio n being Henry: J guess so. 1 have a dread­( I~enewed criC'> of agony all arou nd.)pany. Are )'ou hurt much, my boy? clawing the ea rth ill his frenzy.)the contortions of the suffering. ful pain in my side. I am sure I am 1st Soldier: Water-oh. my GodolllyCries and gr·oans must be reduced to going to die. J feel it-GOd knowsa drop of watef-pianissimo wh! le characters speak. 1 always tricd to Iud a good, pcaceful2d Soldier: Oh, my Iluor wifl"-IIlYlife.-Oh, my poor mothet-l was \lOor ~h ilclr e n-her only support. (Weeps.)Henry: Great God. sa\·e me-spare: HENRY WILLIAMGeorge: There is no use of crying me. don't let me die!now, any more than Ilu:re was wh en Geof.8"e (after a Ilausc): Poor Roher!.he has lost his reason, like thou·, ROBERT GEORGE ·we left our dear ones at the railroadstation. And why fear to die now and sands of others in this war. Andbe finished w ith our mi sery and suf· thousands in neutral countries whofe ring? If we live and our people find are clamoring for war arc lusi ngGeorle (llwakens gradually :\n,1 us we will only have 10 go through their!> a.lso. 1\1)' God. it seems aslooks about himself): Almighty God another such a terrible da)t. if we are though a plague of madness has-dark-qre-where am I-(touches well enough to be PUt into the fight. seized the human ract". (Drags hims~1i toward Henry who hall by thisa dead bod)' and utters II. cr}' of terror.)My God!-Am I alive?-( Lolld Henry: Don't say thM-for God's time nearly rea ched the cenler fro ntThe sooner we are dead tbe beller.groans ar~ heard). \Vhat was th;!t ? sake; don:t say Ihat. 1 t may be worse of the scene.) Hundred" of conilieting thoughts rush through my con­(Starts to rise. falls back.) Oh. oh. after death than what we have li veiloh. my leg-oh-oh-through here.-Oh, oh, It hurts me fused brain every hour of the day.William (whose arm is pinioned by to talk-oh, oh- 'Perhaps I :lIn insane wilhoul kn owingit. since most of the til1le I al1l ina burning rafter, shrieking): 0 11. my Georle: 'Vhat? Can you imaginehand is burning-my arm-oh. what a worse hell than this? Ten thousand doubl whether I all1 awakc or dream·a pain. Help. help. hel~m y arm.­ devils could not devise worse tor_ ing. One minufe I would like 10 doser ca n't stand it....:..oh-ki ll me-kia lIle lures. horrors and slaughterings, nor my eyes fore,·u, and ill th t' nt'xt 1-oh. won't some one kiil mc-this is in\'cnt greater hypocrisies and lies (:;\ 1101 suppress the longing t o 1;\·1.'.-awful-oh, my God-my God-this is Ihall those under which we are now . To li\'c?! Whilt for:-Oh-my legoh! Confound it. what's the lI ~ e ofawful-suffering.. Henry: Oh, must I die? My God, Firat Soldier: \Vater. water-give living in sllch pain and 1l1lser~':nlUst 1 die? I am so young.-Oh. me sOllle water. (Others take UI' Ihe Henry : Oh. how glad I am to he:mother-mother! Does no one hear Cf)'. Outside cries of terror arc near a li\'ing person among all theseme?-Must J di e-oh~ must I die? heard approa.ching.)dead with their glassy. starin.: t'yes.(with a loud shriek) My God. I ki1!ed Henry: My God. it's that in sa ne their disfigured (aces all!1 :illlhle:slino one-I\luSt I' die? Forgh'c me­ man coming back.-God hell) us 1I0W.hodies. Don't say we ought to heGod. forg-h'e rn~let me live-GOd. George: Well. then. if you ,·alue g lad to die. We must li,'e.let me li\·e.your liie so much lie down and dou't George (with suddcn inspiration):William: Ki ll me. oh. will no one stir. No tcmng what lie lIlay do ncx t. Yes. we must U\' C' and gel ;l\"ay froUlkill me? Oh. my God-this painthis_ pain (shriek in g) oh-oh, thi s ror): Stop! Stol)! Don't kill me-IRobert (rusht's in. in a mortal ter­all this horror. The world IIIl1St learn1>1Iin- .somelhing of this hel l hefore otherssurrender! I have a wift' and famil),. arc dri\·en into it .Robert (who was sitting with a Spare me, spare mel (Crouches in Henry: Oh. thank you for ~he sehlank expression): Ha, ha, ha.-Thls abject fear. After a few mOlllenu words. We shall live. We shall li,·(,!is ·great fun. \Vbat arc you all holleringahout? (Shoots W illiam from fooled )'011. Ha. ha, hal I am a ting up again. Lie quiet.lau'gils hysterically.) Ha. ha. ha! 1 George: Pst! See. Rohert is get­where he sits.) There, you'll shut up neutral nation-l do not supply alllmunition.ha, ha, hal (Looks hea\'ellfied.finally begills to sing.)Robert (sitting up 1\5 though stupe­now. Ha-ha-ha.-Arc there allymore of YOUl (Shoots sevcral?) Ha, ward.) Hey. God-God damn them We will rally round the ilag, boys,ha. ha.- ( Rises. picks up a sword.) ali-Don't you hear me, God?-l am Wc'lI raly ollce again-1 am the co mmander-in·chief. Forward.damn you. forward. Shoot hal Don't you believe me?-l am the(Shouts) Hooray!the Kaiser-I am tlle Czar-lta. ha,them down ·Iike. dogs. (Runs off right King-I am the P resident-ha. ha, You say my wife and c'hildren arewith exultant yell.) Shoot to kill, hal-You know, you're on our sidC'­ starving? Rau!-To hell with them.boys, shoot to kill-ha, ha, hal you're fighting with everyone of us. Ha, ha. ha!-(Shakes a corl>se.) Hey.Henry: My God. will he kill me? (Looks back.) There they cOme get up.-Are you {Iead?-Sure, youOh, my God, J did n.ot want to go. I again. Help, jesus Christ-help mel are.-Serves you right. you damnedalways felt war would be like this. (Runs to left front. After a pallse ' fool. You're nothing but a I)OOr

10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE'UC~('f, anyway-ha, 1Ia, ha.-Therich make the wars and the poor filbtthem, ha, ha. halOeorae: Hi. shattered brain '~ Ddsforth a truth at old as civilizationiu~If. ·Henry: Don't let him hear you.He! i. liable to become violent again.('Dawn approach~s a, Robert remainsmo t iolll~ss. staring into vacancy.)Georlc: t b~gin to feel tired anddiuy. Com~ to think of it now, Imust ha\'e b~en unconscious for ncar ~Iy a day, from faticue and pain, as itwas about noon-tinle when I fell, andnow we are approachin" daybreak.Henry: I wish I could say thc"m~, but I was awake all the- timesince I fdl wilh a sudden pain just-below my Slomach. This was aboutnightfall. Hundreds paued Q"er mybody, but only one stepped o n myhAnd, which I harf,lly f~1t because ofhe oth~r pain. I will ne\'er be ableto describe the sensations which.eized me to se~, on all sides of me,men ' b~ing slowly stamned or groundto death by m~n , horse' and wagon·s.-Under ordinary circumstances 1would hav~ fainted at the sight. butthe dreadful death which threatenedme quickened my nerve •.Georce: Then it certainly was ablessing for me that I did not se~,did not feel any of thi •.Henry: No wonder you a re calmerthan J am. My God, if 1 . hould livea hundred years I could never forgetthe intense mental and phy.icalaiPny which 1 endured among thewounded and dying when darknesslet in. (Weeps.) My God, what haveI done to suffer 10? Oh, those long,endless hours of an eternal nightl­The silence of the dead around mewas e\'en mare gruesome tban thecries of the suffering.-My eon stantpain kept my head awake, whichthreatened to burst with all tbechanging emotions from horror toanxiety; now callill8' upOn God inprayer, then torturing my brain withquestion. as to the why and wh~rt~fare of all this mad carnage, andthrough these all my vision was riv~eted upon my past life and assodations.-Ne\·erberore did my mothera~pear 10 angelie, my ra ther as solicitous,my friend. so kind, my borne10 in\'itina.-Qh. why, oh why did I1i11 ~n to thOle who enticed me. wholed me to belie\'e that was is a divinein.titution ; who fairly forced me intothis from which there is no es·capC'? (Weeps.)Oeorce: J feel no pain while I seeyou suffering like this. Come, boy,cheer up. While tbere il life there i,hope.Henry: Hope! H ope? No, no!Thi. niaht has opened my eyef-buttoo late-too late. I lee it all now.Th~re will be no end to these horrorsas long as the masses can b~ taughtthat they are fighting for theirhomes, for their familiel, for their. country's honor, whatever is mC'antby th at, when in reality all tho,e rottingin the lun or lying in lIam~leSlg rave., alt of us, crippled and dyins.we all have sacrificed our lives forthe benefit of those who have obtain~dpower and dominion overtheir fe llowmen by all the arts ofh ~ II .-0 h , there is that pain again_oh-to remind m~ of my folly. I seeit now. Oh, oh-too late-too late.Gcor.e: Come. , top talking, it excitesyou. It will do you more harmthan good just now.Henry: No, let me. My oyer- 'erOwd~d brain mU5t vomit th es~ oppressivethoughts. That will bringrelid.-Oh. this pain comu and goes.-There, ill letting tip apin.~Hbwoft~ n did 1 hea r p~ople denouncingthe rich and powerful I I felt likeclloking them lor th~ir envioushatred. that 1 deemed it to be. \Vhenth~y prot~lted against war, I consideredthem cowards, worse-trait_ors. O h, if I had only li stened tothem, if all of us had h ec'd~d th~irwarnings we would not be here now,forsaken by God and man. ( Excited.)The thought that I was such a foolwill drive me crazy also. Oh, ",hyoh-myGod-I can't breathe-J~h I(Falls bacS')George: Come, calm yourself. Itwilt pass o ... ~r. H~re comes h ~ lp.Thank God, here co m~ s help. (Criesof help me, 53 \'e me, water, are heardo n all sid~1 al members of Red Crossappear.) Thil way. For God's sak~.hurry up.lit Red Cross (bends over Henry):He'. a goner. His int~ltinu arepierced.2d Red Croa: Conle on. No timeto lose.(R~newcd cries of help.)Robert: Shut up your noise, you'llwake my children.-Where are mychildren? (Searches on the groundand 'in his pockets.) 1 am sure mychildren were here just now.lit Red Cro ..: Ano\hc:r one gonenutty. Poor dnil!2d Red Cros.: L~t's act .way fro mhere. \Ve've had enoueh troubl~ withthese ldnd of case5.Robert: Hold on there! Give me tback my children.lit Red. CrOll: That'. all right, myman. Go over to the hospital. That'sa good boy.Robert: But I \Vant to see mychildren.2d Red Croll: There they are!Looking at the fire O\'er there nearthe hospital.Robert: Fire! You threw them iotathe fire. Yes, I saw you do il­My God, get them out. There th~yare, look. (Shrieks.) Give me backmy children. Ha. ha. ha 1 S~~ themthrow away th~ir arms and legs.Look at the blood 'spurting fromthem. The blood is coming thisway. There, there, look out( we'l\drown in it. Ha, ha, ha, now it isdrying up-the fli~s are drinking it.­Hurry up, we must put out the firewith blood.-There'S no more blood.-Give me your blood! (Rush~s atfirst Red Crosl, who jump. aside andRobert stumbles and falls. S~condR~d CrolS shoots him 35 he falls.)2nd R~ Crop) Sa\'~d you just intime-Oh, what brutes we ar~ forcedo be, even in our vocation of mercY!lit Red Croll: It certainly was aclose shave. (To G~org e:) What'.th~ matter with you?Geo'l'e: My leg-(Red Cross cuts op~u bis trouserleg and examines.)l i t Red Cro ..:You're not hurtmuch. Bullet . truck your leg at atanJent causing simply a painfulswelling of the muscle. (Saturates abandage.) Here, wind this bandag ~neatly around your Jetr and W~ willlet you later, if you can't limp alongby that time. We mu.t att ~nd to themore serious cas~s first.• (Th~y cary off another woundedperson.)'George (bandaging hims~If ): ByJove, many .would call me luckywithout reAecting that J only escapedtbis time to be patched up for anothers l aught~r in which J may b~finished off.-Quch! (Starts in afrightfrom Henry,) Ah !-My n erv~s aresurely going to pi e c~s.-I thought Isaw H enry moving, (Rail~s Henry'sarm and drops it.) He's dead, poorfellow, and he certainly dung to lile.And he looks p~aceful . as thoughnothing is disturbing him in theo ther 'world beyond. (Henry uttersa groan causing George to shudder.)Almiehty God, can it be possible heis slm living.-Henry, Henry, do youhear me? 00 you (e~ 1 anything?Open your eyes if yOU do.-Ho li\'es(To be concl ud~)NEW YORKFOURTH MEETING OF STATEBOARD OF CONTROLHeld at S. P. Headquarters. S8J MainStreet, Buffalo, N. Y., SundayAhernon, June 17th, 1917M~~ting called to order at 1.30P. M, by State Secretary E. Kaise r.Comrade Edw. Kaiser acting ac chairmanand Bertha Vossler as secrelary.Followine members pr~s~nt : Edw.Kaiser, Buffalo; Axel . Berggren,Jamestown ; Harlan Whitmore, Rochester; Bertha Vossler, Rochester.Comrades Brooks . and SwanSOn ofBuffa lo were absent. .Communication read from RochesterLeague to the effect .that ComradeHarlan Whitmore had b~en e l ~c t e..!to filJ the un expired term of ComradeGlickman on State Board (ComradeGlickman having left Roch~st~r). anaComrade Kaiser report~d that BuffaloL~ague had e l~ct ed ComradeGlenn Swanlon to take the place ofComudF' Kaiser on Stat~ Boa rd(Comrade Kais~r now b~i ng StateS~e retary) .Upon motion Comrades Whil mor~and Swanlon were duly accept~d asmembers of the Board.State Secretary r~port~d that onlyRochester, Albany and Buffa loLeagues had advised the Slate Officeof thdr approval of State Board'saction at last n\eeting. in eketi"gComrade Kaiser to fiJI the unex piredlerm of E. C. Bautz as stale s~cretary.It may be assumed, h owev~r ,that the action m~t with general approval,as no word of ob j ~ct i on washeard.State secretary reported that communicationhad been rec ~ i ve d la stmonth from New Jersey Slate F~derationasking New York Stat~ Officeto send fraternal . deI~ga t~ s toth~ir State Convention held May13th. State secretary accordingly appointedComrades Tishler and Glickmanal r~pr~senti.ng up-state (boththele comrad~. being in N. Y. C. atthe tim~ ), also Comrades Pollock andD~ Young of New York to repr~se ntdown-state. Of these Comrad~s T ish- .ler and Glickman attended the Convention.Minutes of New Jersey State Conventionwere read by state s~c r~taryand ordered placed on file for referfnce.•THE YOUNG SOCIALIStS' MAGAZINEOUR OWN "AFFAIRSState sccrt:tary reported he ballcommunicated with Comrade Bertha~tai1ly of the Rand School regardingthe Scholarsh ip Contest matter,which had been. neglected by pre\T jou sState Scnetary Bautz. No reply wasreceived, h'owc\'cr. from the RandSchool. consequently, owing to latedate, the mattu was dropped en·tirely for th e present.State Secrelary Edw. Kaiser reportedon' the matter of bondinghimself, stating that for personalreasons it was very incon\'c nicnt forhim to secure bond locally. but he offeredto furni sh a personal promissorynOle instead. which would coverany shorlagc in state secretary's accQunt, which might be found at theexpiration of his term of office inScpt~ mb ~ r , 1917.Upon motion Ih ~ Board acc~ptc(1Comrade Kais~r ' s notc! in place ofbond. The n O t ~ was drawn up. dulywitne!s~d by thr~e lI1~mh~rs of th~Board, also a notary public. .,ndplaced in the safe-ke~ping of ComradeVossl~ r . Copy of nOte beingplaced on file at State Offic ~ .Comrade Vossler r~por l ~d she hadcompiled Ihe State cOn.!ititution andgotten same into prop~r 5h3p~. sothat state secretary now holds thr~~complete copiu.Upon motion state 5~cre tar y wasinstructed to have sufficient copies ofthe Constitutio n made for the USe ofdd~ga tu at Sept~mber Con\·ention.State secretary reported that Ihetotal "ate all National Refer~ndumdated February 10, 191 7, was as follows.for the state:To change Artide 6, Sec. 1-260Yes, 6 No.T o insert Sec. 2-211 Yu.61 No.Upon motion is was d~dded th atthe State Board of Control go o n recordas favoring and endorsing the:candidacy o f Comrade Will. F. Kruseas National Secretary of Y. P. S. L.,owing to his 1110st efficient work anduntiring efforts in this capacity in thepast.Upon motion state secretary wasinstructed 10 urge all Leaguu to takea more liv~l y interest in the NationalChampionship Contest. now beingrun through National O ffi ce.Upon motion state secretary wasinstructed to urge all Leagues to u.list in securina .ignatares to th e petitionbeing circulated from NationalOffice for th e repeal of the ConscriptionAct.Slate secr~tary reported as followsOn fiullncial statuI of state :February 25, 1917, to June 17th, 1917.Gen~ra l receipt!, ' $159.05. Gen~ralCl5hu r sem~nts f 119.1O. Cash balan .!~June 17. 1917, $39.95. Reccipts on as·.!iessment stamps to dat~. $9.50. Totalcash on hand Jun~ 17, 1917, $49.45. -Outstanding mon~Y5 to dat~. $189.4 ...Cash ba l a n c~ $39.95. Total worth a!Siale Office $229.39.Slale Board reported t h~y had dulyaudited slate s~cre t ary ' s books an

.IZTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE•THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZIN E 13thing :.hould he done to Ih't''' things tidlCS. camp., boatina: partin. bath·. up. State s~crdary reported fbrlher in, partin. lawn .ocwa; amOle forthat he had communicated with Com· various nature trips, visits to mU.rade Samuel Falkow of Albany., dep· atums, parb and otlier points of in.ull' organizer. instructing him to terest and educational value; organ."is!t the abo\'c·mentioned LealSPcs at in bueball teams; have your fieldthe tJC:pense of State Office. and do days. etc.whal'C\'cr he found nect!osary to rOUSe In (act, make arran,ementa fOf athe Lugue! alit of their apparent variety of prognms that will mainslateof inertia.tain League interest. throughout theState: sccrttat), r-cported he had no- summer. .....lined Manhattan, Albally ahd Buffalo' This i. not a time for suggestingLug-uu to elect dl'puty organize.u educatlonal or indoor atrain, but Ifand had bel'n ad\'ised that Conlrade possible it would be a splendid ideaSamuel Falkow had bt':l'n elected from for Le:aI(Ue:s to arrange for intro·Albany and Carl Bautz from Buffalo. League debates, mock trials, a make-To date no notification of actiOn has believe loap-box evening at a park,be~n reCl'i"C'd from ~hlnhatt a n. etc., etc. Yo'u l';tn surely th:nk ofSUl.te secrelary reported thM the something to suit your needs.Lugues are very lax in sending in the And finaUy, an Lnaues shouldmonthly report cards regularly, some carefully heed the various requestsleaiuu having ignored this matter and IUglestions by state secretarye lltir~ly, so that it has been impos- and the Board, as contained in thelesible fo r the s tate secretary to COIll- minutes. It wi1l help us all in ourpil. a co.nlplet~ and propl'r membl'r- work. .ship list with standing. h is oi 111_ We know that many of themost importance th:u th ese reports Leagues have already adopted resobeSe nt in regularly by Lugues from lutions clearly declarinl their standnow o n, in order that state secretary in the present world conflict, and aslIlay be able to make l)ropC'r nle.mber- the Ba..rd of ConlTol, we caU uponship repo rt · 3t COII\'t:ntion. Unless Leagues of the Stat. to stand firmlyLeaguu throughout the State lh·tn by these_ splendid and detennlnedup generally dulling the ntxt few resolutions, reaffirming their alleg­IUQn ths, inc.reasing their good stand- iance to the principles of Intemaingmembership. etc., the' represe.n- tionaliam and Working Clan Solitation at coming Con\'~ntion will be darity. We urge those Leagues whosmaller than in 1916.have not yet taken such action, to\'arious repo rts of state secretary follow the splendid work oE theirwert duly accepted.comrade organizations.And in closing, the State Board ofControl wiJ.hes to repeat what ourA WORD TO THE LEAGUESComrade Kru!le has said: This is aFROM THE STATE BOARD-timo for COOL HEADS ANDOF CONTROLWARM HEARTS.Meeting adjourned at 6.10 P. M.Board to c.om'eue again August 5th,1917, at Buffalo.Fraternally submitttd,Bertha \'ossll'r. Secret:lry.Edward Kaiser, State Sec'y.The State Board reali.J:es that now,and durinl the present critical andtryinl times, the Leagues lenerallythroulhout the .tate .howd maintaintheir activities and the interestamonl members at the hi,best possibledeeree. A feW of the Leapesseem to be doinl thiJ work well, butother Leagues, judginl from StateSecretary', report, are apparently inactive.The Board of ContrOlItron,ly Ure" all Leapes to do theirutmost·to uphold their activities now,and if possible inc:reaae same, so thatyour present membe:rs may not seat·ter and lcave the ot'J'anization, but onthe other hand. that the old member~may be retained" and new onespined.. The Board offen the· followinlsuggestiona for au.mtlIer activities,moat of which are no doubt familiar:•. Don't allow your me.tabus to IC&ttel"durin&" tbe .wnmu;Pta.n DUrinP. pienics, bikes, hayquarters in Lincoln Hall,. Y~ s, weare expanding. •Ci rcle Z is g rowing as e"~r.Circle 3 hM JUSt settle.d down t'otheir usual earnest and sincere workin a cozy hall at 1132 WashingtonA\'~., just of( 174th 51.In a general meeting a committeeof five was elede'iJ to arrange tht'New York State Con"tnlion 'of 1917of which the Bronx has the honor ofbe.ing the host. Committees wereelected and the work is well btgun.CIRCLE I, QUEENSThe Young SocialisUi of Circle 1.Queens, are always busy helping LocalQueens, Socialist Party, foldinglea'fI ets. distributing literaturc anddoing c1~rical work, also in holdinggood anti-war, business and educa.tional mectings, socials, entertainments,going on excursion tri ps.hikes. picnics, outings, and last, sup ·porting and furthering the interest3of the " Young Socialists' Magazine."The Yipse.ls of Qul'ens know the im_portance of this periodkal as the officialorgan and mouthpiece of cxpressionfor the Young People's Soci"listLeague!! in the United State:..What is your interest in regards tothis periodical, as an individual and aCircle? Have you any interest in itat all? Wha!.is your answer?At our last business meeting. heldJune 1st, and during the month ofMay the following most importanttranspired:First-The league members had thepleasure of ha\'ing two party memobers deliver an oration, asking andte.lling the league members to keepup their good work in the future asthey have done in the past. Theleague members assured thf: party. members of same as long as theflame of enthusiasm keeps on burning,by taking another good step indeciding to co-operate" with LocalQueens, Socialist Party, in holdingBRONX NOTESfuture anti-war DlUS and peacemeetings, etc, A me.eting will be heldIf you ha\'en·t read about us some time in the near future, withBronxitu lately its because we Socialist Assl'mbtyman A. I. Shiplaha,'ebeen so blUY.coff as the main speaker.Bronx Circle 1 has mo,·ed to new Second-The league. members ha,'eheadquarters in th,e Hunts' Point already arranged for summer pleas­Palace Casino at l63rd St. and ure in the form as stated previously,Southern Boull!\'ard. The house Third-A.s I stated previously inwarminl was celebrated by an apron reprd. to showing an interest toandnec,ktie party which will brighten wlrds the "Young Socialiats' Magaourthoughts for many days to come. zine." by the leal{Ue. On May 18th theAt ils business meeting this month statements holds good, aecording totwo dollars were donated to . the the fol1owinl:-On May 18th theYoung Socialisu' Magazine.lealue held a May 0.)' .acial andCircle" will also mo\'t to roomier dance.. Tbe proceed. of this .ffair,'Imounting to ' the sum of fjAO.were turned o,'er to the Magazine .The Jeague members .have not stop." ped at this point, but ha\te gone further.Up to the month of May th cCircle has always ordered twenty_fi \te Magazines; from June 011 th eCircle will receh'e thirt)·-fi\·e. ACircle directory "ad" will also beplaced in the Magazine. Last of all,the league members will hold a min_strel entertainment and dance all thetwentieth day of June. Most of theIlroceeds of same will be turned o\'e rto the i\hgazine. Ha\'C you as :\n indi­\'idllal or a Ci rcle taken a sim ilarinitiative step? Does 1I0t the "YoungSocialists' Magazine" lIIerit the sUllllOrtof us all?Fraternally submitted,Peter Knopf, Press Agent.BUFFALO Y. P. S. L.At a regular' meeting of th e Youi'gPeoplc's Socialist League of Buffalo,N. Y., held May 24th. th e followingresolution was introduced and a illationunanimously adopted:"The Young People's Soc ia listLeague of Buffalo knowing andun derstanding that all wa rs arecaused by the commerciat and rlllan_cia l rivalry and intrigue of th e capitalistinterests; knowing - also thatwars bring suffe ring, death a nd ~dellioralization to the workers. bc ittherefore"Resohted, that the Young PeOI)k'sSocia list League of Buffalo, in th ispresent crisis, does hereby reaffirmits alll'giance to the principles ofInternationalism and working· cla~ssolidarity."On June 3d, the "big" hike of theseason will be held to Springbrook,N. Y. In thc past fe w years thishike lias been a bauncr e,'enl. Thccountry to be entered is of exceptionalbeauty. and much pleas urewill be afforded those who journeY011 foot. . ,An order· of 500 leafl ets on " War"has been recei\'ed from the NationalOffice. These le~ft e t s are being distributedby Yipsels and the goodwork is continued on hikes, and allpersons met with are asked to"read it."The purchase of a Victrola hasbeen authorized, which prb\'ides foraftl'r-meeting dances when membersof ··piano-playing ability" are not in\·Ogue.One hundred assessment stampswere r~ce.ived · from State Secretaryfor the convention of the. Y. p, S. L.Fede.ration, New York State. to beheld in New York, Sept. 2d and 3d.Many of these stamps have been soldand it es expe.cted all will · be disposedof sho rtly.Comrade VV. F. Kruse was nominatedfo r National Secretary of theY. P. S. 1..Circle Two rl'port3 a continuedconstancy of it s members, . and aca mpaign is being made to secure alarger membership.O n June 1st. a musical and dancewi ll he held in tht ir new hall. 275Austin Street\. a nd for Jun~ 10t h Iht':Circle ha s ' (' t:ll11hi ned forces withBranch Two of the Socialist Partyfor a Hiv cr Party 3nd Picn ic. \\Ia lt erl\lurphy is orga nizcr.Gltn A. Swall:lon . .P ress Ag ent.ROCHESTER YIPSELS ARESTILL ON THE MAPAlthough th e Roc hester Leagut':was not heard from in the YoungSocialists' Magazine during the pasttwo months, wc have n t\'e r t helc s~bee n doing things.Our educational meetings for pas twe"cks have beell especially good;there bei ng large attendance at eachrn.te ting, and in fact, on several occasionswe had to turn people away.our hall being overcrowded. " h i .~was due to th e fac t th at wt wtre ahlt.!to secure some "ery intcrestin g Sl>eak.crs locally-Uni\:crsily of Hochestcrprofessors! elc., who always draw agood attenda nce and lIIillIy o ut S id er~.Following arc sOlli e of the lectttrcs:Prof. Moore: o n "Dialec t I{e adin g~. "P roi. Forbes (I n "Psychology."P rof. Jacobstein on "Can a RadicalFavor the Entr-ance of t'he UnitedStates Into the Present \Vad"Prof. Chadwick on "What GeoloJO'H as 10 Say Concerning the Future ofthe Human Race."Wm. Pidgeon, Jr., on ··The Respon_sibility of Possessing Truth."Rabbi Wolf 0 11 " Pre-j udice."Questions and general discussionfrom the floor, of course, always followth e remarks of each speaker.Another noteworthy fac t is that weusually recei"e considerable prus notice,from .local capitalist I>apers,both before 311d after nleetings of thiskind. Only recently two local paperssaw fit to publish ill ful! the first andlast verses of our song, ';\Var-whatfad," as we usually open al! ourmeetings by singing this and otherSocialist longs. and the pal)ertermed the song an "unpatriotic"one..·\ side frOm th e Anllual League MayWalk and O utillgs, League mel11 berspresented on May 25th. with greatSllccess, Ca th erine, R:.nd Stevens'pla y. "Our Incomes." Dancing followedth e !)e rformance and the entireaffair was a Sl)lendid one fo r theLeague. ' \ Ve arc making arrange_ments to present ,! ··')ther play in thel'arly Fa ll.On Sunday. JUlie 241h . we all el1 -joyed a 1ll0!Ot interesti ng "isit \0 theMuseu m at Hochester Uni \'trsity.Proi. Clladwick. who .spoke for li Sd)l ring the mOllth, ha d offered 10 takeII ~. and we aU consid ered il quite atrrat.Wt· suffcn·d. in May, th e loss ofanoth er one of our worthy, will ingand able workers, in that ComradcIsatlor Glickman. Our (onller o rganizer.left Oll r city to ta ke up new workand Stud ies in New York. We havemissed hi s sillendid comrade spiritand his good WOrk with liS. He ca r­ritd with him fo r all time t)ur si n­cerest best wishes fo r success ill hislIt'w endeavors, al so o ur comradegreetings and good cheer. antI we arelooking fo rward to tlte lime wh en wecan welcome him homt again.\Ve expect Comrades Isido r Tish lerad Garson )'rcnller wil1 join us SOOIiagain. fo r 1\ lime, and to bl' sure itwill ue: a joyous reunion for us all.Herth a Vossler. PrcSs Agent.Uochester Y. P. S. r.,.SYR~CUSE, N. Y.Tlte Yipstls ha \·e: not been heardfrom SOllie timc. BI11 this do('s IlOtlIIe:11I th;tt we are not acti\'e III thework fo r th e 1\10v emttll. althoughha\·ing lost two of the active mem_lJ ... r~. Joe Surreno and Henry C'n.glt·ie h. who are doing 3l·ti\'c Socialisticwork elsewher.... \\It ' h,we hcenhil S), both with the Na tional CO lll estand ou r educational work. The Syra.cuSe Yipsels have t" ken hikes. twoof which we re he ld ill co-operationwith the Syra cuse Social ,ScicnceSchool. Th ~ interesting part of oneof tlH~s e hikes was at Greenlake,Cla rk's reser\'ation, wh'ere the heau1i ­iul scenery and particles of anillialsseen ifl the stolles were kee ~ l y elljoyedby the members o f bo th organizations.The Syracuse Yipsels 31"eready for the fall campaign and fo rthe big demonstration wh ich is to ~)eheld on the Fourth of July by thcSocialist [larty. The Sy racuse Yipselswill hold a boat ride lome time in thenear future.C. Karlik, Jr .• Organizer.

"Tbia pale i. conducted by the NewJeney. State Committee of the YOUIlIpeople'. Socialist IM.pe. AddrePaU COrffllpoadence to State Secn:.tarY. Lou" Cohen. 10 Twelfth Ave.,Paterson, N. J.STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT­TEEGefteral O...,u.or-Rudoolph A- Koller.145 Fifth St., EUabeth.A._nt Orpnber-Ben. Hincbon,100 Vnlori St., Trenton.Secretary-Louis Cohen. 10 TwelfthAvenue, Paterson.Financial Settetary·Tre •• urer-jcan.nett. Heller. 519 Berron. Street,Newark.Educational Director-Solomon E£·frein. 524 Henry St.., South ~boy.FOREWORDThrough the courtesy of the You'nsSocialists' Magazine's managenH~ntthe state office of the New J cncyY. P. S. L. has been permitted theuse of this page for news exclusivelyon matters pertaining to the statemovement, both official and otherwise.•The Jersey Yipsels in general andthe local league officers in~particul:ltought to appreciate this kind offtring.It will undoubtedly redound to theirbenefit. providing their co-operationis assured.l;lereafter the league officers arerequested to send their monthly reporuto the state office promptly. thepress agent his bit of "Our Circle is.has and intends to, etc." on time. andthe rank and file Yipsel his bit in orderto make tbis column measure upto the usual 'Terley Yipsel" progressiveness.report accepted.The best expression of our thanks'to'for their kind (avor, is our auuranceto strive to make this page one ofinterest: tbat it may in part be a smaltcontribution to the growth and prosperit)·of the National Y. P. S. L.STATE COMMITTEE MIN\lTESNEW JERSEY Y. P. S. L. 'June 3r

16 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEWhat Kind of Food You Should .EatON THE FIELD OF HONoRA dead fa~e ' turn«!d up' to the moon·What foods and how much docs gely waste, with the exc.eption of the !iaht, -the body need? These .are que,tions mineral salts mentioned above, but ·' ~A white man's face; he well might bewhich e"ery man and wOlllan should ' yOu Jlccd the bulk and the waite my brother ......be able to answer,- but very (ew these .foods supply .fQLth,e.. eiJeu. O~L H!I uniform? ~ ~I~~ ~t e r ; ieel hispeople on do so. Most nll!n eat wben your bowels. H these organs do not Ilngers. . .h3ve a certain 3mount of waste or No gun·barrel made them caUo\ls;:~ :~.~ ~nun!~~te~~~ q~~ri:ft~att~'~~~ bulk to work upon, they become 'twas a hammer. rlaney or appetite may chose. 0,. flabby. and constipation and ' what A hoe. a trowel, They are like tnythey are compdled by a w~H-meanin"peoPle 'often -call "stomach trouble" ., fingers. .but misguided hotlsewif~ to suc~ rnulls. So ,erious does this situa- Why is he here, dead. with a gun be.·cusions of POt roast, corl1~d bed and lion become in ce'rtain people that ; neath him? .cabbage. rh~atpi¢ o.r some other dish. sometimes docto rs pl"tscrihe for These lips, pale as they are, still hintThese: things may be good in them. them biscuits made of such tbings as good-humor, _selves. but the body d~mand !l a sea-wC::ed or bran which have no food Theie glaring eyes would twfnldt!"aric,ty as well as a quantity of tood. value but which are ejl.ten because were he living.The following kinds of food will tbe» furnish bulk for the intestines. Such.looking men llum tunes whil esuggest what you should ~at: If a man eats large quantities of. they are working1. The body ne~ds water ' every lUeat and neglects thOSe foods which And stretch a step to miss a caterfurnishheat and enersy, or the min- pillar.clay, in o rder to keep the digestion.rirc.ulation. etc., in order. You will eral substances so much needed. his Why is he here, in fighter's cloth(s,understand this n ~~ d if yOU r~m~mb~rthat thne out of five parts· of the he will suRer from a weakened di. This hair. still thick and glossy indid is one-sided and sooner or later .' all bloody?. body ar~ water. Almost all food"! gestion; this may lead to many the moonlight,contain some wat~r: milk and fruit disc::ases, among which is lubercuJo· 'Vas rumpled by a 10"ing wOUHln'shave a large part waler. You need sis. To keep well and strong. and to fingers,six. or eight glasses of water ~ve ry a"oid disease, you must eat a nried And this cheek. with ItS wCl·klyday. If you have milk. skim milk or and balanced dieL-Labor Press growth or stubble,buttermilk to drink, you will not Sen·ice. Has rubbed against the tenderneed quite so much wal~r.cheeks o f chitdrent.'fhe body needs min~ral sub· THEIR BITJust like my kids!-and tickled themslMces to supply . nlaleria! fOl "An outraged citizen;)', thirstingto laughter,,ltrowth of bones IR chl ! ~hood and to for war, wr~ck~d enough china madebelp r~gulale tl~e functions of tI~e in Germany to equip all the restaubody.Tht~ mlllerall 3r~ found III rants in Manhattan bit night. Themilk, the gr-ains of wheat and oats. scene of the batHe the Union desetc.. the yolk of eig, in fruits and Arts booth at the fe~ta in Macdougalvegetables. There are very small AII~y was a shambles of shattered,uantities in anyone of these: sO it teacu~lS and cake plates.IS well to h;\\'e as g rUt a ,'anety o~ "\Vheli it was over a score orthese foods as possible. mo re of men of ge ll e r~u s girth and3. The body needs food to supply non-conseriptive age, Smil ed grimmaterial for building the body tilsuc but sati.&fied smiles as they contem-(muscles. etc.). T,he flesh of animal)< plated what they had done for theirOf e"enings when the fellow's workwas over.But now-a dead face staring at thenight sky.Look over there! another, andother- .Whi~~wfa~:~yi!1I the m~onlight, sc.:O h, murder! murd~r1 Just God. whohas done this?Badger Clark.the,...cheesy part of milk. the white of country." . Percy Ames"wno is just back fromegg •• parts of pea.s, beans, whe.at. (New York Tnbune, June 12.) the warring side or the world. say..s ad'MS' and. other ~r~ IIl S and nutl gIVe mustering ,offic~r-a sergeant-metus the tissue bUII~lIlg food. ~ on the street of an English coast vil-4. The body needs food to furniSh Maldn, Jobs Ad Ablurdum lagea strapping, upstanding y'pung~heat and ~nergy to mOve. about' and \Vorkmen still object occasionally ster of twenty-oQC or th ~reabo ut s.10 do work. Sugar and molass~l; to labor·saving machinery and olh~r Th ~ non-com. hailed him :the starchy part of flour, cornmeal. means of increasing output, and some- "See ~re. my lad," he ~aid, '

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THE4itOUNG SOCIAUS1:S' MAGAZINE~wmaawma~THE DAY OF THE YOUNG. PEOPLE."That the fight against war and militarism in everynation of Europe has rested to so great an extent uponthe young people and their young Socialist movement,i'J not merely accidental. It is an establisl1ed fact, andis brought about by a number of perfectly naturalcauses. In the first place the young people everywhere,being tile first to be called to the' front, feelmost keenly the real meaning and significance ofmilitarism. Furthermore they have. in their greatmajority, received their Socialist training daily andhourly in their own homes, from personal contact withmen and women who have spent years of s;lcrifice inthe movement. Brought up without the prejudice ofcapitalist society. accu s~med to think and to' act as. members of the working class, they are the naturalbearers of the radical action of ·their class in times ofwar.The amazing success of our Party during the fewmonths that have passed since the conscription lawfirst went into effect shows that in America, too, historyis repeating itsel f. For by far the greater parto f our new members are you n~ people who joined a~a protest against the militarization of the UniledStates. And their fighting spirit will render valuableservice to the movement, if we will accept andutilize it.What could be done to protest against co n sc ri p~t ion in meetings and ,demonstrations has been done.This week more than a million of young men aiehaled before the military boa rds for physical exami ~cation, thereby automatically lining up with the mili·tary forces of the country.But action against war cannot and must not SLOPnow. It has only begun, and must be carried on witl}increasing intensity and determination. Step by stepeach reactionary measure of the powers that be mustbe fought by the dass-wnsciol1s proletari at- iollghtto the utmost.Will our young people prove equal to the grea[ta"k that awaits them? We believe it. For in everyother belligerent nations the prisons are filled to ave;·flowing with the brave young men who preferredimprisonment for their ideals to war a.ga.inst theil'fellow-workers in other countries.~1IQ1IQ1Im~1IiW~. .\. We, Who Are Aboqt To Live. Salute You!. ,"\Ve are the children not yet born,Children of \ sorrows and wildregrets.Restless we lie in ollr mothers'wombsFearfully awaiting our appointe{1.time.O ur fathers lie on a trodden ficltlTheir staring eyes are wide in,death. ":Their white bones mark the trailfor us.:\I ust we follow, where they haveled?\Ve will come 111lwelcomed andundesiredSuck our milk from shriveledbreasts.Learn agony and lustful hate1 nstead of the love that shouldhe o urs.l"naided we will strive to li veOn an' unfruitful co~ ntry ravaged.and gray.Ol1 r feeble bodies against _ theplow .. \Vin make soft furrows of nogre~t depth.In the cnd will we be cannon'sfeed?\·\Pill we, too; lie 0 1\ the troddenfield?Oh, better for llS to have neverbeen\Ve children of aggressive wars.O ur cries will sound to' theworld's far ends,O llr hate will live, when ''fe toodie.But you who know-Oh pity us l\Ve, t he children, n o~ yet born!Margaretta Schuyler.

ITHE YOUNG SOCIAUSTS' MAGAZINET HOUGHTS AND IMPRESSIONSBy Alfrn, i ~ aperson who protests aga inst conditionsthat are bad and strives tooverthrow them. I'll tell you abo~tthat revolutionist," he continued.His son leaned forward on hisseat, waiting leagerly for the storyhis father proposed to teU him."Long years ago," he began,"there was much misery on thisTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEIN AFTER YEARSBy Joseph Brandonlie, in those days the workers did110t own the machines which theyused to produce wealth with. Anotherperson who possessed a documentwhich declared him the legal_ow ner of the machinery, reaped allthe profits."What are profits?" interruptedhis son.uProfits," answered his father,u were that part of the wealth producedby the ",vorkers which theowner of the machinery kept forhimself. You see if a man workedfor an employer and produced $5a day in wealth, instead of rece i ~­ing the value of $5, he received, letus say, $1.00 from his employer.Therefore, the employer made $4on him alone. In those days anemployer sometimes hired as manyas a hundred thousand men, and ashe took $4 from each you canreadily imagine the wealth thatfi lled his cafte.rs after a day's workwas done. Now if a hundred menworked on one machine one dayand the next day a machine was inventedthat could do the sameamount of work with only one-halfthe number of men, naturally fiftymen ' would lose their employment.With men out of work who areanxious to get employment the employercould reduce the sum hegave his workmen until there wa ,~barely enough to exist on. Thereforeevery invention that was intendedto be a blessing to thehuman race became instead a curse.When this system had been inoperation fo~ some time, ~rtainearth. Machinery was just beginningagitators arose from the ranks ofto be developed and as each.machine was introduced, the conditionsof most of the people becameworse and worse. You see, Chartheworkers, who realized the positiont~e workers were in, but stilldid not know enough to remedy it.But during one crisis there arose aman who laid bare the whole causeof the workers' misery. He pointedou t that the reason why the work~ers were suffering so lIluch was becausethey did not own the meansof producing wealth and that theonly remedy for the evils was toabolish private ownership of thethings essential 10 production Thatman was Karl Marx, the first manto completely analyze the systemof that day. He soon collectedsome followers and they began topropagate for Socialism; that fs.a. system where all tools of produCtionwould be owned socially. Justas in 'the case of every other greatmovement, the people who opposedSocialism were the very Ol1es whomit would benefit most. Naturally itwas very hard for the followers of:Marx to rcach down into the veryheart of the labor movement, butafter a while the condition of theworkers became so unbearable thatthey were re¥iy to listen to thelogic of the SociaJists. At firstIhere we re all kinds of radicalparties on the political field, butthese soon gave way and left thefield for one party to be the ~[osesof the working-class. The worker ~were organiz~ in the industries inwhich they worked, and after therest of their brothers recognizedjust whe re they belonged, theyelected their party to office. Thenthey abolished the politic.al stateafter constitutionally declaring that.all property used in the productionof wealth was to be owned by allthe people. And would you believeit, my son, it was the first revolutionin the world's history that wasaccomplished without any blood~shed. The workers were all pre.pared and the employers recogniz~

the futility of fighting against themaSKS • .tlTha*,- picture, my SOD, is thepicture of a man who rendered agreater service to humanity thanany other tnan wilo ever lived. Therevolutionist's names may be for~gotten but their deeds shall foreverremain in the minds of the peopleas the deeds of men who gave thebest tbat was in them to liberall!their fellow-men without seekingfor individual glory. That picturerepresents the most noble and gloriousset of men that ever set footon this earth. Remember, thoughmen may come and men may go.they wiU go on forever."His father finished and lookeddown upon the smiling race of hisson."Father," said Charlie, "theywere indeed great men,"Prof. John Dewey, of ColumbiaUniversity, advises that :flIt would be a long step .backwardin the tradition of the -Americanpeople and of Americaneducation to i'ntroduce rifle practicein the public schools. It isundempcratic, barbaric, and scholasticallyunwise.". .. ... fI' '.Dr. George L. Meylan, medicaldirector of the Columbia Universitygymnasium, opposes thedrill in the schools. He says:"In my opinion, we should havephysical, but not military trainingin the schools. 1 am convincedthat military drill is notthe proper beginning, that itwould not accomplish the desiredresults. It would be neither realphysical training nor adequatemilitary training. It is not feasible,in any event, 'because of theequipment, time, and expense."THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINElake the World Safe for Democracy-America firstBy Joseph S. TuvimThe President of the UnitedStates has asked us to make theworld safe for democracy.Enlist, is the pass-word. Join thecolors, Fighting in France, Dowliwith German autocracy, arc mottosthat c.1n be read on bill-postsigns, streel cars, trains, etc.Politicians yell the same. Graf~ersshout their ecboes. Those wholend money to the government underexisling securities. those wht)increase thei r sales in munitiol,l,those who hold monopolies on foodstuff, those who have cOntrol ofthe coal industry, those who are illfavor o f universal military training,conscription, yell for democracy.Those who stand for til\:raising of prices on all commodities,for anti-labor laws, for strikebreakers,for thugs, are alignedwith the great men of this nationto ma.ke the Gennan world safe fordemocracy.America is unsafe, German Kaiserismmust be abolished, yell thecapitalistic newspapers, but nevet'a word of the American autocracy,American imperialism, AmericanKaiserism.The Socialists say: "Make theworld safe for democracy, but letus begin the work in America."Their motto is: II America first."When we bave in this great andfree country one-fifth of thewOlllen workers employed in factories,stores and laundries wh"earn less than four dollars perweek and one-balf that earn les.,..than six dollars per week, and onthe other hand thousands of womenlhat are members of the capiEalistclass' who perfonn no useful service,and have the best of food,clothing and shelter, can we thensay, "There is democracy for these:workers," who cannot even exist ontheir wages. .According to the Industrial RelationsReport we have in this country44 families whose incomes are$l,()(X)j()(X) or more per year and64 per cent. of the workers withincomes less than 21 dollars peryear, and almost 31 per cent. of theworkers that .earn less than 500dollars per year. If we were to investigatethe living conditions ofthese families we would find howmuch democracy exists in this. country. .The children of the rich have theuse o f private schools, high schochand collegesj while one-third of thechildren of the poor complete thegrammar s~ool course, and lessthan 10 per cent. finish high school.We can now strengthen our voicesand shout: "Make America safefor democracy I"j Keep the world safe for democracy,but women must not be allowedto elect or choose rtpresentativesin the legislatures of America.When women paraded with bannersinscribed, "Governments derivethe powers with the consent .of the governed," they should bethrown in jail.In America, onehaJfof our adult citizens have nota' right to vote, and we should nowinvade another country and make itsafe for American democracy.In a democracy and especially aWilsonian brand, there is no roomfor these evils, for an East St.Louis massacr~ a ColOrado disaster~d Boston riots, nor is there anyroom for the dep.1fting of any classof workers, who strike because oithe hellish industrial conditions. Ina free and patriotic democrac)'WAR NEWS"Summoned to court to-day inYonk~r5, a ccus~d of mutilating anAm~ric:an Aag, ~hs. Otto Frolichput the blame on a pet dog. CityJudge William Walsh dismiss~d thecomplaint a£t~r Mrs. Frolich ~xplaiDedthat h~r dog had playfullytorn up th~ banner. Miss Laura Nosbad seen the dd~lldant swe~p uppi~C~5 of the Aag and put th~m in thegarbage can, which led h~r to maketb~ chara~." .(N~w York Call. ]un~ 10.)oTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEIn Interesting New Orleansthere cannot be the muzzling of thepress, the. suppression of fteespeech, and assembla&-e. but stillBy George Rossour government demands that theNew Orleans is situated on the .1ence are the messages the mindyouth ot this nation enlist andMississippi river, just · tw~enty miles receives.make lhe world safe for democ·from its mouth where the watenlracy.However, when you leave th.::empty into the Gulf. From theThere is but one solution forconfines of Canal street, and wanderthrough most a n~ of the nar­semi-circle formed about th~ citythis problem of democracy. It isby the river, New Orleans ha~organization on the industrial androw streets and aUeys that branchearned th e name of "The Crescentpolitical field. The workers whoout from it you leave behind theCity."city of noise and smoke, of wealthfight for democracy are organi zedin a political organization that is The Chamber of Comlllerce, and learning. of skyscrapers andopposed to the profit system. Commercial Clubs and Booster organizationsall boast qf the amenidernity,of twentieth century civil­theatres, in short, the ~It y of mo­The Socialist Party is the pol iticaJorganization that pledges ittiesof the city in order to attract ization, and enter one filled withself -to abolish child labor .. occupationaldiseas~, low wages. exces­the homeseeker, business man or the. awe of age, their air of conservatismand the story of history.tourist. Its climate, scenery andlocation make it an ideal health or New ·; rleans has passed successivelythrough the reign of thesive hours of toil, unsanitary conditions.improper and adulteratedpleasure resort, and the city has alwaysbeen a close contestant. for Spanish, F rench, Colonial andfood. It pledges itself to take overe.xposition honors However, at the Confederate Governments. Monuments,churches and narrowthe privately owned machinery,top of all its claims, New Orleansfactories, workshops and all otherprides itsdf on being in part a most streets breathe the spirit of Newsocial necessities and run them formodern city, up-te-date in all respects,while on the other hand, it remaining today the largest marketSpain. The old French market,the benefit of all. And only undera system of society where COIllisan old historic conservative of the South; Absinthe Cafe, tht!.modities will be produced for usecity, filled with antiquities and notorious rendezvous of the earlyand not for profits can we have ahistory.Frencllmen, and the names of theworld safe for democracy.city's streets such as La. Moyne,Let us all join in this great fight. As a modem metropolis one lberville, Carondelet, and Thibedoiux,are iandmarks to the daysLet us all enlist our services. Let needs but visit the beautiful colleges:,tenninal stations, municipal when Louisiana was under Frenchus join the colors and help in thiswar. The war between Capital bwldings and hotels, aU of which rule. The prejudices of the peopleand Labor.are in lhe business section 0 f the are sufficient evidence to showJoin the "labor ranks"! Become town_ Canal street, that long and the visitor on which side Louisianaa battler I Join the Young People's broad thoroughfare with six pairs stood in the War of the Rebellion.Socialist League. Join the SocialistParty. Fight for democracy! the modern idea of avenuesj neces­to narrower confines, the Cabildo,of tracks running parallel, denote.! As though to corner its hi storysary to meet the ever increasing at present the state museum oftraffic. St. Charles street, the Louisiana, contains in relic, manuscriptFifth avenue of the South, riv

the deed \\'as sign¢ transferringLouisiana to France, and againlater on fr:om France to the UnitedStates. Along the walls are th t:portrait p:t.intings of the Gover·. nors frolll the first Spanish Regentdown to the last politician tha ~bribed his way to the gubernatorialchair. Spanish stocks andprison cells for minor offendehare on the ground floor and basement,and as a shudder creepsthrough your spine, you wonderwhat means o f torture a regularcriminal underwent.In the French gallery is :to~ronze death masque of Napoleontaken when the Emperor breathedhis last. After the sculptor hadmade a bronze Olasque from theoriginal one of plaster of Paris,the latter broke. so that only the.bronze onc remained. The sculptorpresented it to the people ofLouisiana in the Ca~ldo. on th~spot where it now lies. Severaledicts and proclamations signedby NapOleon enable one to realizethe \"'a.5t control of tit

nl Yelll SlGlinsts' •• IW.I0 ..... or the A •• ri ... s.a.u.t s...a,1Moo .. aM You., Peop .. •• P~HEntered u Second-Class MaU MauerJne 2. 1911. at the poltoffice at NewYotk, N. Y .. under the Act of Mardi3. 1819.Publbbed Month1, at .IS Simace StnMt. N .... y.,,-.by tho •lod.aU.tic Co-operatl.. PtibL Au'ILJohn N •• el. Pre:L O. Kaoll. ~.2. Ramm. Tuu.-e;'Thoughts and Impressions(Continued from Page )2)lacking in asociation in the present.For the most perverted ageshave noble spirits who seek toright existing wrongs. So withthe past and present he is linkedin an indissoluble chain of nobleendeavor.There is related an old legend ofa monster whose fiery breathblighted everything within its pale.The present capitalist system isjust such 3. dragon. Because of i&sbaneful breath it blights evenwhere it intends to nt urish. Court3and penal institutions are for theostensible purpose of correctingand adjusting. But' instead ofchecking crime, they aggra~ate anddisseminate it. In confinement theprisoners mutually suggest and inculcatecriminal and immoralthoughts. which unde,( ce rtain circumstancesfind e,xpression inovert acts. Such circumstancesa re created by the same institutionsof correction. Men and womenare kept in imprisonment throughthe summer and when fall amiwinter arrive they are liberated.They have no funds nor friends.A court house with its offices'and. its jail is a ' fitting emblem ofmodem civiliz.1tion. It is impos-THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINERUS.SIA IN TRAVAILing in its exterior structure, but isrotten at the core.The industrial condition of Russiaand the international politicalsituation made it clear from the beginningthat the Russian Revolutionwould have to weather severestorms before it reached a havenof safety. U nlike China, wherethe chief enemy of the revolution isthe monarchial reaction, Russia hasbut litile to fear from the over­-thrown Czarist government and itsfollowers. The old regime was sothoroughly di scredited. so rotten toits very core, that its rehabilitationis inconceivable. The danger forthe Russian Revolution threatensfrom an entirely different source,a source much more dangerousthan. the powers of monarchial abwlutism.To understand conditions inRussia today it must be rememberedthat the political life andideals of the Russian people are ageneration in advance of its industrialconditions. The brutalautocracy, while it hindered th edevelopment of capitalism, plowedthe ground for the seed of revolutionarysentiment in the hearts o fthe mas ~s, plowed it so deeply andso well, that today the downfall ofRussian absolutism reveals the forcesof capitalism and revolutionarySocialism pitted against each other,fighting for supremacy.Eve n under ordinary circumstances:the path o f the revolutionwould have been no easy one. T hesituation created by the war hasbrought to the fore difficulties thatare daily more insunnountable.The revolution in its whole conceptionwas a protest against war,an international manifestation inthe highest sense of that word.And yet the men and women wholed the revolution to its triumph.the \Vorkmen's and Soldiers'Council, found themselves facingthe necessity of carrying on thewar in order to sa\'e the fruits oftheir victo'!.I t is almost impossible to tell today,what is going on in Russia.Censorship is st ill rigidly enforced.and it is not possible to get a singleSocialist paper from Russia, frol\1which one might get a clearer i n ~sight into the matins and intentionsof the various groups of theRussian Social Democracy.But this much is certain. Whatevermay be our opinion of the wi s­dom of the line of action taken byComrades Lenine, -Leon Trotzk),.Alexandra K ollontay and thei:supporters, it is our duty as Socialiststo oppose the lying stories thalarc spread by the American capitalistpress, who hate the ideals andthe spirit of the Russian Revolutionfrom til(! bottom of their reactionaryhearts. Lenine and hi s fol·lowers are as little pro-German :t!,arc the Socialists in this countrywho ha,"e pcrsistemly opposed w .. lrand demanded peace, in spite of til{'cry of "pro-Gennan" raised bythese same purveyors of capitalistopinion. They see in peace, in immediatepeace, the only hope forthe Russian Revolution. -And, inaccordance with this view the),have acted, trying to force peac..:through mass action of the people.To the Socialist there can be butone criterion. Neither denunciationo~ the press, nor the "pro-Ge r­man" cries of hi s opponents mustbe allowed to hamper him in hi ~activity, The highest interests ofthe international working classalone, can detennine th~ actions ofthe Socialist proletariat.AFTER THE BATTLE(Continued from Page 7)Eu&ene: If we succeed in escapingto a neutral country. are you thenwilling to face imprisonment andperhaps death, if that country shouldenact laws forbid dinK agitationaga'inst preparedness and war?George (solemnly): Bs the sacredmemory of my noble mother whofixed this upon my mi nd in childhood: Dare to do right, no maHerwhat the consequencu Illay be.Eugene: Good. H ere. my hand.Put it there, j:omrade. A man ..... 11{)lives up to such maternal advice maybe safely depended IIpon. and Wl" Pget away from here if yO Il feel your·self able to O\'ercOllle your suffe ring.George: That's a go. But how willyou manage to evade the vigi lance ofour own sentries? Be sides, remember, if we fall inlo the hands of ou rcnemies ou r chances will not beworth that-(snaps his finge rs).Eugene: Ordinarily that would betrue, but lu ckily fo r liS I worked inthis locality several year~ ago andkn ow the surrounding country I)rellywe ll. You say the Red Crosspromised to take yOu later?George: Y cs.Eugene: Good. The nu:t timethey come around you tell them thatyou think you are able to limp to thefi eld hospital and that yOU prder torest where you are. Then graduallycrawl in the opposite direction forabout-let's see-well, in your conditionit may take you one or twohours to do it-although it is an or~dinary five-minute walk. You willreach the edge of a deep ra vinedensely covered with young timber.George: And where will you meetme?Eugene: I 'll manage to crawl aboutten or twenty fe et ahead of you allthe way. Once we get there 1 willcarry you as much as I can fo r aboll ta mile in a dense fores t whic h extendsSOme distance beyond the bor·der. We will thus escape unseen.George: Can it be possible?Eugene: Depend On it . If you canget to that ravine, the res t will beup to me. In the w.oods we will findplenty of cool springs. and with theaid of some' herbs I'll reduce theswelling.George: Ob, how often I have regrettedit, and hundreds of otherswith whom I have spoken since, thatwe did not listen to the SocialistsTHE YOUNG SOCIALI~TS' MAGAZINE"hen they protested against war. W ewould not be cannon-fodder now. .Eugene: Then it is your duly whenYOU eve r gel among men again toag itate against war and against tho~erespolisibl e for il .George: I solemnly ~we ar here. inthe presence of tb e dead and of thesuffering, that I shaH devote my en.tire life to the cause of tru e human.ity, wbich has fO r its aim the aool.ishment of war.Eugene: ?\'O l only the abolishmentof war, m y friend. hul the abolishmentof the causes leading to wa r.I don't know how yO Il feel about re-. ligion, but let me assure you tllat aslong as the church upholds emperorsand kings and moncy·lord s. so longwill there be wars. I know this offendsa great many chllrch-ptop!ebut has any o ne heard o f the churchdenouncing Ih e war or the war lords.or make any determined effort 10prevent war?George: Ne"cr fear, comrade, I\:tme call you thaI, this war has set Ill ethinking. The represe ntati\es or allreligions han bles~ed and still blrloSthe instruments of death aud de.struction. that ha\·e made SCl'IWS likcthis. That is -enough for lI1e. I UOIl'understand that. as in the past. rdil{'ions degenerate. and tha t rl'ligionsare regenerated by those who th·.nounce and rebel againH their til'­ge ncracy.Eugene: You ha\·e ca ught Ihe truespirit, may it l1ever forsake you. Ma ywe be spared to describe to the outsideworld the horrors which \Hha ve experienced. Let us prove tothe people that the newspapers ofeve ry government lie like hell, thatthe governments inspire these newspapersand that the churches ofeve ry bclid not only know thesefac ts, but are cither sil ent, or whatis worse, even defend them.George (noticing Heury moving):Pst! H e is ~ t irring again.Henry (looking arountl bewil.dered): Where all'l l? Mother!Thelma !-Goodbye, George. I feci J3m dying.- Oh. where will I go whenJ am dead? Tell me. I ne\'er harmedany one.. T o sec others happy-mademe happy. Oh. God-I nC\'cr wallte'lto kilt-Tell th is to everybody_What wi ll happen to me after r amdead?Eugene: Nothing!Henry: Nothing? Kothing! (Aftera pause.) Blessed are the peacemakers.-Yes-:ldivine trulh.-Loveyour enemies. Do you believe Ihal?Eugene: I I mcan_ : L"ndenlandYOur enemies and you Call1101. willnot hate them.Henry: Yes, lo\'e. underuand yourcnemies.-They are human-all ofone blood-friend or fOt!. Sec. allblOod is red.-Ah, why must I dienow that r understand?Euge~e: Your death will makemany oth ers unders tand that war ishl'll. .Henry: Will they? Will Ihey?­Then I can die happily.-Dut my silu-who will forgi"e them?EUlene:cannot sin .Henry (slowly):mankind cannot sin.He who Ions mankind.He who lovesHenry: \Vho-[ove.,-mankind .. 'lO\'es--loves (grasps his side, gasps)(Sillb back dead.)They lower him gently to thf:ground. look meaningly 3t eachOther and clasp hands o\·er his bodv.Frantic energy was the true qual_ity of a man .. ' The lover of violencewas always trusted, and hi,opponent suspected. He who succeededin a plot was deemed know_ing. but a still greater master incraft was he who detttted one. Onthe other hand, he who plotted fromthe first to have nothing to do withplots was a breakerup of parties anda poltroon who was arraid of theenemy. In a word, he who couldoutstrip another in a bad action wasapplauded, and so was he who encouragedto evil one who had noidea of it.-From description by Thucydidesof the Itate of Greece durin.g the Pe_loponesian war.WOMEN HAVE NO SENSE OFHUMORWuhington, April ll.-"Offici.lWashington is smiling broadly at thetelegraphic correspondence betweenRepresentative Medill McCormick,of Illinois, and a woman pacifilt ofChicago." 'We eJected President Willon tokeep us out of war,' she wired, protestingagainl t any action againstGermany.. .. 'McCormick answered with aone-word me""ge. The word was:.• ·Stung.'''N. Y. Tribu?e, April 12.

~10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEREVIEW OF THE MONT,HIncrcU'cd activities on the part ofthe Yip.els wert quite noticeableduring'july. While carrying on theirregular educational and propagandawork, the Yipscls took ad\'antage ofthe warm weather and engaged in, '.rioul outdoor activitiu.Oueens Yip.cls were active" in antimilitaristand other work. yet foundtime to help this ma,uine. Connecticutand Pennsylvania Yipsels heldlarge social events, while Brooklynstqpptd in with a new ed ucationalfeature.Just nOw the New York State Yip!.sels are busy with their coming convention,and young Socialist journal.ists from everywhere arc waiting toband themselves together Inlo a cluh.The young Socialist mO\'emellt illtaking on a new lease of life. andincruses in membership are beingnoted. It i. to be hoped that theleagues will continue their good workand make August 11 Dlonth of stillgreater achievement!.\Vhat is gointr on in Yipseldom canbe seen from the reports of 1ll,lIlYcities. which are published in this deparlment.. YIPSEL JQURNALISTS PLANPRESS CLUB. Plans :are under way for the organizationof a Young Socialist PressClub to conlist of all Yij)5els en·gaged in Y. P. S. L. publicity workeditorsof Young Socialist magazines.conductors of Y. P. S. L. columnsand circle pUblicity agents.The announcement in the Y. P. S.L. Column of the Sunday New YorkCall that Such a club would be orl:anizedbrought many replies fromleOll'ue members engall'cd in Yipse!publicity work."A Young Socialist Press Club isjust the thing," M . Kornblut. publicityagent of Ci rcle 6, Manhattan-.wrote. "Put me on the list as one ofYPSELDOMthe members. More publicity, andwatch the Y. P. S. L. grow."From Alexander Jaunwiksna. circulatiOnmanager of the Young SociOlIf.cu· Magazine. came anotherinspiring message: "Regarding theYoung Socialist Press Club, you han~nw heartiest cooperation." -'Harry Wautein. publicity agent oftilt: New Ha\'en, Conn. league, wrote:"Enroll I\le as a member of thil organitation.that I Olay do my parttoward making it a succeli!."A letter from Ellie Knepper, prell!a,ent of the Hudson County, N, J.tleague, stated : .. Like your idea of aYoung Socialist Prus Club. Let ,usknow more about it."Peter Knopf, prus agent of CircleI, Queens, wrote to say that he is infal'or of organizing a Young SocialistPress Club, and asked to be enrolledas a member. David Gi lbert, publicityagent of Circle 9. Manhattan, alsoasked 10 be enrolled. and added thathe thinks a Young Socialist PressClub is a \'er)' good thilig.The idea of a dul~ of young Socialistsengaged in publicity work isspreading very rapidly. and a successfulcareer is assured. A meeting toorganize tht club wi ll he held in NewYork City carll' in August. Thosewishing to attend should write immediltel),to Louis Le\·ick. 441 HopkinsonAvenue. Brooklyn. N. Y.Any member of th e Y. P. S. L. whois in charge of a Young SocialistMagazine, conducts a Y. P. S. L.column or is engaged in other h:alucpublicity is eligible to hecome a memberof the Young Socialist PressClub. "One need not necessarily live inNew York Cit)' to be a member; wewant the Yipse! publicity agentl ine\'er}- state to join. At the first meetinga plan of orpnization will beworked out and arrangements madeto provid e for meetings for ;'111 membersof every ci ty. ,NEW YORK CONVENTION, SEP­TEMBER 2nd TO 3rdBronx Yipsels Prepare For StateGathering-Banquet to be Givento DeleptesBronx County, N. Y.The annual state con\'C~ntion of theNew York State Federation ofYoung People's Socialist Leagueswill be held this year in Bronx Co ..New York Ci ty, on September 2ndand 3rd.The Bronx Yipscls will welcomethe delegatts on Saturda)' evening.Septtmber I. in th e palm garden ofEbling's Casino, where a banquet willbe held in their honor. Ludwig Lore,Editor-in-Chicf of the Young SO-.cialists' Magazine, and many other,prominent Soci.lists will address thedelegates and guests.Only a limited number a( tkkctsfor the dinner can be sold. Yipselswishing seats l11u st. therefore, maketheir reservations now by paying infull or by deposit to the delegateselected by their leagues to cooperatewith the central convention commit:tee of the Bronx. 1f your league hasnot elected a delegate, scnd money toEUa Rapport. 325 Eut 16Jrd Street,New York City.Queens County, N. Y.At a busintn meetin g held July 5.Circle 1 of this county elected twodelegates to represent the league atthe next annual state conl'ention pfthe New York Y. P. S. L. Federation.Buffalo. N. Y.An appeal issued by Edward Kaiser,Y. P. S. L. state stcretary, callsupon a1\ league members to helpmake the coming state con\'ention asuccess."The only way to make sure thatlhis convention will be a. SUCCl'!lS,"says Kaiser, "is for each league tosell all of the special stamps it can.""Call a special meeting of yourleague SO that every- member willhave an opportunity to buy a stamp,"he advises. "Put a punch into yourwork. and send yOUr money to thestate office as soon as you ha\'e soldsome of the stamps."Syracuse, N. Y.The Syracuse league has decidedto hold an Ice Cream Social to raisemoney to cover the expenses of thedel egates to th e next New York StateY. P. S. L. Convention. The affairwill also be used as a means of gettingnew members, and the Yipselswill at the same time try to get backinto the league the old members whohave left the organization.EDWARD KAISER ENDORSESRAND SCHOOL PLANNewYork State Secretary AsksLeapes to Raise FundsOfficial recognition of the RandSchool's plan to hal'e the Y. P. S. L.of the country raise $1,000 to decoratethe audito"ium of the school's newhome is contained in the fonowingletter, sent by State Y. p, S. L. Se-cretary Edward Kaiser to everyleague in New York:Dear Comrades:\Ve are all very much interested inthe Rand School and are "cry glad tohail the ~good news that they arcabout to purchase 3. building of theirown. ,This office hopes the leaguesthroughout the entire state will lelilltheir moral as well as fi nancial supportto the Rand School in th is undertaking.A number of noteworthy artist

12 THE 'YOUNG SOCIAL1STS' MAGAZINENEW YORK CIRCLE ACTIVECircle 6 of Harlem. New YorkCity, with. good .tandin.. member.ship of 60, is now one of the threebest circlet in the M.nh.tt&n It.aue.Meeting. art held tvety \Frid.y tven~ing in the spacious headquarters ofthe 26th Assembly District brancb ofthe Sociali.t Party, at 1538 MadisonAvenue,An efficient ptOaram committee,recentty elected. is doinl( rt:"'rcbworilj on radical literature and cduca.tion.1 subjects . . They have a ache.dule of work arrangt:d and at eachmeeting a number or members arc."ianed to take part in the literarypro.,-.m two weeki bence. In thisway cooperation is establiShed, spiriti, sbown and the meetings becomebetter manifestations of the Yipselspirit.The meeting. art devoted to thewritings of authors, .uch as WilliamMorti. and Jack London. Outingsare being held every other Sundayand baseball games are played everyweek.During the put few months thecirde has held several mock sessionsof Congress, hu held a l uccesdut entertainmentfor the benefit of the26th A. D. Socialist Party and hasbougbt a bond of the New York Call,TALENT EXCHANGE STARTEDBY BROOKLYN YIPSELSBrooklyn, N, Y.The Broo~IYll league has establisheda Talent Exchan,e. A tabulatedlist of aU singers, dancers. speakersand other entertainers in tho leagueis kept.\Vhene\'er a circle desires to arrangea literary or social program,and hasn't enougb local talent, itsends a call to the exchange, whichimmediately furnishes whatever kindof fntutainers are needed. The bureauis capable for an elaborate entertainment.At present the talent exchange isendeil\'oring to organize a leagueorchestra.PLANS TO LEADBrooklyn, N. Y.\ Vith the election of an entire newadministration and the pledging ofreal comradely cooperation betweenmembers' and officers, Circle 2, whichonce was the greatest circle inBrooklyn, is once again coming tothe fore as a luder in New YorkCity's Yipseldom.The circle meets every Sundayevening at Socialist headquarters,1571 Pitkin ,,"venue. Meetin&'s aredevoted to businns and literary programs.Through .. system of democraticmanagement, every memberreceives an opportunity to act aschairman, as critic and to appear Onthe program.More will be beard from this circlelater. Meanwhile aU committees andofficers are busy planning activitiesthat will once apin make Circle 2the glory of the h~ague .PARENT DAY IN PITTSBURGThe North Side Pittsburg cir'c1eheld a "Parent Day" on Saturdaynight, July 23. It was one of the mostenjoyable events held by the circle.Invitations were sent to the parentsof all Yipsels.The program consisted of speeches.recitations, piano and vocal selections,reading and dancing. Lunchwas served to 'all free of charlrt. Over200 attended, and all enjoyed themselvesimmensely.HELP WE MAY NEEDI n these days of war and oppres­. ion, when Socialist publications arebeing suppressed almost every day.it is only a Question of time beforethose papers that have not yet beenmolested will be barred from themails.The Young Socialists' Magazine,because of its adherence to InternationalSocialism and its propaganda:lgainst militarism. may easily fall avictim to the censors tbat are tryingto control the thought of the nation,If this should ever happen, we willstilt continue to publish our magazineand distribute it to our many readers.Vipsels all over the country will rallyto our support and wilt gladly heJpspread the propaganda of the V. p, S.L.The following letter from tbeYoung People's Socialist League ofElizabeth, N. J.. is an indication ofthe .pirit of the young Sociali sts ofthe country:Editor, "Young SQ.cialists' Magazine,New-York City.Dear Comrade:We hereby beg to inform you that.in the event of your publication beingdenied the use of tbe mails, our teaguehas volunteered to distribute the"Young &oc::ialists' Magazine" to yoursubscribers in this locality, if forwardedto us by express or ot:herwiseAssuring you of q,ur sincerity inour efforts to advance the cause forIibt;,rty and enlightenment, we are. Fraternally yours.Young People's Socialist League,Elizabeth, N, J.WORK THAT COUNTSOueens County, N. Y.O n June 20, Circle I, Queens,held a minstrel entertainment anddance {or the benefit of the VoungSocialists' Magazine. ) The affairwas a great success, b(,th morallyand financially. The greater partof the procl!eds will be donated tothe Y. S. M . •MAGAZINE REPOJ;usy time! for ChicagoYipsels. There are thirteen leaguesin the city alone and steps a~ beingtaken to form do state federation, Thecity'" federation is doing good workand the Yipsels want to extend theirboundaries. -Almost every night there is somethingdoing. Speakers from the SocialistParty are being sent to alleducational meetings, a debatingtournament has ' just been concludedand several leagues have transferredtheir educational work out of doorsto take the form of street meetingsat which Yipsels make the speeches.Entertainment is now in its fullestheight. E,'ery week half a column inthe local edition o f the AmericanSocialist is taken up with announcementsoi the league's !ocial doings.Beach parties. basket picnics, marshmallowroasts. danccs, lawl1 partie!.steamboat excursions and manyother activities are now on the list.Three leagues arc occupying permanentheadquarters in conjunctionwith the Sociali st Party, while onelIas headquarters of its own which itrents to the party and other organi..lations when they want to holdmeetings.The principal social activity of this! Ummer is the Yipset Camp, com.prising elnen acres on the shores ofbeautiful Fox Lakc, fifty miles fromthe dty. The grand opening tookplace on July 22. Ten auto truck·loads full of young folks and fifteensmaller machines load cd to capacitymade the trip. while a considerablenumber went out by train. Altoge_ther there were clOSe to 500 personsat the fes tivities.As soon as the trucks arrh'cd agreat lunch was spread and de\·oured.Everybody thought to call upon thecamp's "tock of canned beans andspaghetti to help out the supply. Afterlunch there was speaking by 50-dalist and Yipsel olficials.Then came a baseball game inwhich, in the interests or democracy.not more than aile mem.er fromeach ~eague was allowed to play uponthe same side, Following the baHgame there were running and swim·mingraccs and a tug of war, ' VhenTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEmost of the hands were well bli!tercdthere were the city league boxingag,d wrestling championships to belMided.Then, with the whole crowd sc=atedin a grcat circle 0 11 the grass, call1{'the main event, the "Trial for Life."in which Capitalism was charged withdivers and sundry crimcs. Just beforethis the Yipsd Juniors surprisedthose present with SOlli e lIew songsand yells and a neat little sketch."Mister Greed." The trial then pro.ceeded. A jury was chosen,' theprisoner arraigned and witnessescalled. The verdict was "Guilty"; thesentence, to be burned at the stake.The young Yipsel who had obliginglyplayed the part of the arch.criminal blanched just it bit-this wallgoing a little too far. They rodehim on a rail, then into the dormitoryand when they came Ollt again he wasburned to ashes. The "bloodthirstycrowd" then realized that it was olllya dummy that had been burned andthey did a war dance around theblazing rem ains.H omeward bOllnd, the trucks lur.chcd down the road and tunes fromukeleles, banjoes and drums Iloatedthrough the air. About twO dozenYipsels remained behind to begintheir vacation at the caml>.But aside from education and fUll.the real acti"ity of the Y. P. S. L. oiChicago is political work. There arcsC "eral wards in this city where auactive Y. p, S. L. means victory, asleepy one defeat. When the AmericanSocialist was barred from th"mails the Yipse!s were immediatelyappealed to. The paper was deliveredin person by league memberll toevery subscriber ill the city-solllc10,000. One le'lgue ha s been con·ilucting all AllIuican Socialist sub·scription contest, with a din ncr to beiurnished by the losing team. Morethan 500 "subs" ha I'e bcel! handed illalready.1n the organization of the People'sCouncil the Yipsels helped mightily.They distributed 50,000 handbilLs andsold 500 tickets for the first audita.rium meeting, and afterwards hadcomplete charge of al! ushering andcollecting in that great house. Thepromoters of Ihe meeting said theybad nner seen anything handled sodficiently in all their li "cs.The Yipse!s were to do the samewith the great mass meeting sc heduledfor Cub's Ball ParI.:, On four daysnotice they got out 50,000 handbills,only to find that the location had tobe changed and to be forced to getOUt 25,000 more on twelve hours' 110·li c~·. as well as to shift 3. crowd of15,{H)O IlerSOIlS from Olle p:lrk to allothcr.It wa s done sllccessfullY andiu addition a collection o{ $397 wa ..tOlken up.The Y. P. S. L. hOl~ aboul fourteendelegates 10 the local people's COUnciland is \'ery active in its ranks. Aboula lioun of its members and officenhave been hailed hefore the Federalauthorities at \'arious times a ll chargt·~'.Hying from putting :I rowdysoldi('r off a d3.nce fl oor to conspiracyto ddeat th e draft. O nly two haveIIt"cn actually charged, aile heing ac­(luitl('I1. the other fillet! $100, whichth e league railled.~Icll\bcrs are flockiTlg 10 the leaguehy the hu ndreds. Party of Ii cia Is adlIlitthat there was once :I tillle whcntllt"\· didn't think much of the Yip..~cl; ~lId called thcm ")'OU II,I{ pUllS."hut they have lost all inclinatiOn todo so of late. E\'erybody is workingahead 10 make this the forC1l\(lsl Yipsc:lcity of the land and to he a realCT(,liit If, lhe world-wide 111I),'('l1Ien lof whil'h Ih~· Chicago Ie~glle i~ a part.Buffalo Y. p. S. L..It,. se rits of educational and social1IJ('etings h,we sllccessfully I\('en heldduring the IlaSt weeks, and the programfor the future reads e{lually asilllere ~ till g. That the spirit for ·'do·it'in:nes ~" is rapidly h~collling allpow('tiulis evinced by the return o f:l larg-e 1111lJ\ber oi Comrades who atOlle lime were actively ~ngaged in thefurth('r:. nC I' ann weif:or(' of theLl·agllc. Thnc :'1rc also prospectivememhers in no small quantity ..... hoshortly wi1i become recruited into theInfantry of the Reds!!l1ter(,5ting addr~sses have beenmade by pioneer comrades of LocalBuffalo, on the va lu e of Yipse!s andtheir organization and many valuedsuggestions were received . .M. D, Horn, D. C, delivered a scientifictalk on "Chiropractic" and ex.plodcd with ease the germ theory!Other lectures are being arrangedfor,Tbe Sunday! of the past have beenspent in enjoyable manner and withthe wearing of the red Y. P. S. L.sleeve bands much interest has beenaroused in vicinities in"aded. ComradeKruse's leaAeu on the Y. P. S.1... have been distributed generouslyand arc doing effective work.For August 12, the League hascomhined forces with Branch 7. S. P.l or a River. Party and Picnic, l'I'hic::hpresent Illans and indications I)r~dicta huge success.13

14 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEA LETTER FROM THE INSIDE.Note:: The following letter iswritten by one of our Yipsel comrades,f~rmerly the secretary of theNorth Side. Pittsburgh. Pa., league,now in the County Jail there forhdpi~g in the Westinghouse Strikeof last Spring a year ago. It is ahuman interelt docufIlC!nt of rarevalue and is reproduced here just aait came from the pencil of the writer:Prisontrs in the jail arc allowed onlyone letter a week, and this can consistonly of ont small sheet of coarstyellow paper, which must be writtenon in pencil, and which is first readby the officials in charge. One ofthese precious Ictttrs has betn sentto the National Secretary of the Y.P. S. 1..., and throuah him. to ourmembership, Many more of our n1l~1llbersmay 'soon be writing under thesame conditions, so the letter will beof especial interest to them.Dear Kruse:How are you getting along thelledays? I SuppOSe you've got yourhead and hands full of work. Say,it's good to be alive in these ('pachmaking day~you can just hur that"Dull thud, that crackling deep anddreadful" that sienities the breakingup of that system which began midthe shouts of "Libel'ty. Fraternity,Equality," but which can realize itsbeautiful ahstractions and ideals onlywhen the workers of the worldachie,'e 'their rightful mastery.TO·ll1orrow. four months will haveelapsed since we returned here, andcounting in the time we sen'ed lastsummer it will soon be fi\'e.From the information 1 receive theNorth Side Circle is doing excep·tionally well, as also is the wholeIllo\'emtnt in this sec:tion. In onc: ofthe local papers I noticed an item tothe effect that our league had adopt.ed conscription, but on reading fur·ther I found that it was o nly to cleanthe hudquartus and wash the dishes.E"en here r beHtve, with Billy Ma·5On, in the "olunteer system.I ha\'e been doing a c:oniiderableamount of ~.ding , but not as muc:h.. 1 expected. havinl' found it difficultto concentrate my mind on absfractsubjects. You know, Bill, the CIIvironmenthere is so depressing, and.11 {acilities {or study are lac:king.Possibly it is otherwise in other institution~Imust omit details.How d~s the Yipse! movementnationally? A condition like this isCORRESPONDENCEuseful in that it shows the workershow helpless thty really are, and onthe other hand, were they properlyorganized, how powerful they wouldbe. Reports would indicate thatWillie is to lose his head in JUStabout the same way that Nicholaslost hi~there is still hope for theU. S.It seems that consc:ription will hitthe Yipsels pretty hard. Our charge,not constituting a felony, makes me:subject to consc:ription. That meansthat I'll have the opportunity, nay,the privilege, of being forced to fightin this wonderful war for Democra.·cy. It's suc:h a pity thOSe uncivilizedTeutons won't appreciate "Libert)'"when :it's handed to them on thepoint of a baY)riC't. Fortunately steelbars and prison walls fasdnate memuc:h morc than would shell torntrenc:hes and as yet I know of nothingto changc my viewpoint in thisregard.Kruse, I hvpe you will steer clearof the jails. The priso n experiencemay be beneficial to a certain extent.provided one can take it optimistic.ally. On the long rUn, howe,.t r, itis better to be on the outside looking 'in. I don't believe that I'll ever rt .gret having gone t.hrough this wholeaffair, but I wouldn't advise anyoncto tackle it JUSt for the experience,it don't pay. However, when a principleis at stake "ery few of OUf Yipselswould balk at the clang of aprison gate, and lew at the rustle ora gall

16 THE YOUNG SOCIAUSTS' ",AGAZINEExplano.tion : U a monthly reportcard is teeth'cd on or before the 1stday of the month, 1 point is awarded:if on the Stb, 5 point!!. on the 10th,10 points., etc., covering all the day.of the montb.3. The contcst begins August ht,basing the first returns on the Julyreport, and concludes May lst. 1918,basin .. return. on the April reports.4. A yatuable set of books to beawarded to the winning eircle.Motion: That in \'iew of thepresent situation relative to the Conscriptionissue as it afred! our mem­~r s of military age, we ask the SocialistParty of New Jersey to assistany member of the y , p, S. L. whomay unjustly suffer imprisonment.etc., from the hands of the authori.tic!; when such cue is in accord­:lnCI! with tbe provisions of the resolutionpassed at the last S. P. conventionof New Jersey.The meeting of the S. E. C. of theSocialist Party held July 8th, tookthe following stand on the abovemotion :0.n the question of legal support toY. P. S. L. members who might bearre!tcd. :\ motion was madl'! that thl'!Statl'! Executive Commiul'!e shall nottake up any CaleB o f me9"bers of tbl'!Y. P. S. L , unless the action forwhich they are arrested htl been..endortedby the Socialist Party localwhere the members live. CarriedCircle Elizabeth is i>lanning theformation of an Athletic Club. ComradeJohn Gilbertson has been electedto take chaTge of the Club. Necessar)'alterations are being nladein their headquarters to provide gym_nu tic equipment and other athleticparaphernalia. The Bohemian Clubof this city hal volunteered to furnishthe gymnasium equipment andthe Y. P. S. L. members of the dubwill furnish the instantaneous psheater for the shower baths. SomeSplash-h.Any N. J. league not ' ~ ttinl theY. S. M. for its membership is asleepat the switch. Wake UP. lest youperisli.For the September page the StateOffice is compiling some statistics onthe membership status of the Stateaccording to the individual circle re.­ports. Also a brief mention of What'awhat in the leaaucs. Watch for it.The Hudson County ConventionBy Elsie Knepper,Preu Agent for Hudson Co. LeagunThe Hudson County Y. P. S. L.met in semi-annual session Sunday,July 8th, at the Socialist Party headquartersat Jersey City.ming, hikeing, canoeing, baseball andother jolly out-door sports tend toincrease the good fellowship of theCOunty Yipsels.Hudson County is proud o f its re:' .cord during th~ last six months. Butit is going to try and do better duringthe next. Watch ua work.CO~I~~y m~~~~!iz~~~S l~~ e:edfe!y :!II~ CORRESPONDENC~chosen remarks he reported on the (Continued from Page 14)good work accomplished by the murderer, which really is traitorousCircles during the past six months. to our ideals and convictions.of their many interesting social and I believe that it w,ill do us far moreeducational events. their growth in good to assemble and discuss how tomembership and in general the in- keep our organization intact andcreased acti\'ity displayed. more ac ti~e. rather .than co~mit it toThe Entertainment Committee re- such a SUICidal policy as thiS resoluportedthat they had helped to pro- t~on suggests. I believe in m,ore conducetwo plays at va rious o:ccasions !lIstency, and I, th~ref~re, beheve thatand have cooperated with the Social, the next best thIRg that 01!r goodist Party in all its affairs held. New York comrad~s can do I'. to re-The Treasurer reported a balanc.e to ptal that resolUtion, a~d msteaddate of $40. adopt ~ document tha~ Will b~ bothThe Huds.on CountY.l:eagues w~1I ~~i::~~;~:aa':/~~g~~~~~~~~~ w~~ :;cooperate ~1It~ th.e S~lahst .Party 1ft refer you to.the same iuue of the Y.a system~tlc dlstflbutlon of ht~ratu~ e. S. M., to a resolution adopted by theA commlU ~e of five representmg dlf· New Jersey Y. P. S. L. conventionferent sections of the country ~as held at Newark on May 13th. (SeeeJ,:cted to work out a .plan. of action. Resolution on War, page 12.) I thinkComrade Samuel Fenlowltz, frater· that the program of action as outnaldelepte from the State league lined in that resolution is the safestaddressed the convention; complimen- and most consistent course of actiontin~ the Hudson County Circles u~ o n that the reVOlutionary youth of Ametheirgood work and asked the CIrC- rica can follow during these timel.lea to cooperate with the State Office Trusting that this tetter will beto the fullest possible extent. brought to the attention' of the NewThe con,'ention went on record as York comrades with the utmost hopeendorsing the "Federated Union for that they will endeaVOr to repeal this'Democracy," "People's Council,'" inconsistent resolution, I beg to re­" Emergency Peace Federation." and main,the " American Union Against MiIi- Yours for more consistency,tarism," urging the members to ar- Abe Lunde. Paterson, N. J .filiate with one o r more of thesegroups. Ir was learned that membenof the County League.. were instrumentalin organiting a branch of theJUDICIAL SANCTION"CapL Tucker of the 47th Infantryasserted in Brooklyn Special Session&Federated Union for Democ-racy in yesterda.y that 'My men are co'n­Hudson and Bergen County. At a 'tantly insulted and thiDCI are occasionallythrown at them.':!~~~ne~ .w!:~ee a ~;e~:~e~~~s~f~Hw~~! "But why don't you order yourarrested, which of course led to increasedactivity in the Yipsel ranks. nay them?" said Presiding Justicemen to sboot such persons wh.o all­At the present time there is a McInerney. 'We .are at war. ItCounty Study d ass in vogue. It . w4;luld be justified.'''meets e"ery Friday night. at the JerseyCity S ocialist headquarters. It(New York World, June 6.)is well attende4. The members de-' Let Not Your Ricbt Hand Knowvote their first hour to reading the , ." The Du Pont Company to-day de..Communist ' Manifesto. the second c:1ared a ,pecial dividend of 1 per1\OUr to debat~ . On Sundays hikes cent. to help the Red Croll Warare taken to Bloomer's Interstate Council's $100,000,000 fund. The ac.~Park. The)'

«ITHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEOUR INTERNATIONAL DA YA Y oung People's Socialist League in RussiaThe detailed report of the meeting of the ExecutiveCommittee of the International Federation of YoungPeople's Socialist Leagues at Stockholm last May hasjust appeared in pamphlet fann. Among the importamquestions discussed was the organization of the youngpeople of Russia. It was unanimously agreed withthe sa nction of the Russian and Finnish comrades whowere present to select a committee to immediately bendtheir (,,"'ire energy to this end. :\[any comrades. includingComrade Alexandra Kollontay, gladly offeredto assist them. The committee began the work withoutdeJay. At the close o f the meeting Comrade llild.Secretary of the Young People's O rganization o f Norway,went direcdy to Russia and attended scveralmeetings of the newly o rgan ized leagues in Petrograd.H e sent a completc report to the International Secn:­tary in Zurich. Several back numbcrs of the " J ugcnd­Intcrnationale" were translated into Russian andd ist l'ibuted in great numbers. According to the latestreports about SO,(X)() young people attended the mcetingsand demonstrations of the young people, By o rderof one of these meetings Comrade Hi\d was asked tosend the International Organization and all it s federatedleagues, through it s secretary, the heartiestfraternal grcctings of the Young Social ists of Russia.Those who were present at this mceting assured ComradeHild that thcy would work for the growth of Iheo rganization with all their might and energy and thatthey hoped soon to have a league in every city andtOWII. The secretary o f th e Intcrnational Organi zationth en publishcd the following pamphlet for generaldistribution in Russia as a reply to the fratcrnal greetingso f the Hu ss iall comradcs,k'agues IIlCt in )'Jarch, 191 5, in Bern, kmg hcf,)re the(onferenecs of Zinunerwald and Kiellla!. Since Ihatday the young Social ists of all count ries h:t\"c .;lol.){1 illbitterest revolutionary opposition to tho ,"')!l tirll1:tliollof the war, Iheir g-Q\"erlllllent and tbc "'llial p:lIriut .. (Iftheir countries" )..Tumbcrless arc the :-;teritil"l'.. hmughthy these young rc\"ollllinni,.ts eluring Ihe ~l' ~·car .. ! InIta I\" and fo'ran\.·l' a" wcll as GCf mam' and :\I1 ~lri ..l;urldreds o i our comr;\dc" were illlprlsnlll'ci hy thl'irgu\'erlllllent or ~nt tu the trenches as a plIlli .. hLlll'lll.E\"en .though the Irnpcrialists. to incTt.';\ .. e their profll;;,'-("!lei millions to Ill' ,.!aughtt'red in ilaUil' ;\1\(.1 proft,:;,;to bc deadh- ("lIemics to each otlwr. tfrl'\' stu liduuited in thcir oppo .. ition to re"ollltinn:lf.\" Socialism.:\~ international as capital, as irll efll;lli"llal a .. its methods,a~ international a,; hungcr and the "lItfl'rings ofthe workers, SO intcrnalional are

2 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINESQI~ to-day. )'OIwg Socialists of Russio, to join 0''':dClllo"slratiolls (wd our fedcratioll 011(/ alr-brote Illeseby large . i/JIftrrsm " ~ 11I('(fiJlgs all till' saDm' of ScI'-;1{'I11[1(',.. CiIlSft yOllr I/(urd i" Ollrs, so that the rillg of'rl't'ofutiltlwry Socialists cllcircling lit e (,llrt" may h('rom"li-ten.Our cOllllllon Cau~c. the stnlgglc of the young So·cialists. il\~ pircd by the idealism of yotlth. IlH!';t ·;tIC-Enid, the third largest city inOklahoma is one of the most illl.portant in the state, if not till'middle west. Its population i~about JO,(XX) and has been ahl1o~t:;tationary for the past ten years.Recently, howc\'cr, the re ha n.'!Iccn !'l'V(:ra\ ind i rat i o n ~ pu intingtowards a rapid inCfC;t

2 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINESQI~ to-day. )'OIwg Socialists of Russio, to join 0''':dClllo"slratiolls (wd our fedcratioll 011(/ alr-brote Illeseby large . i/JIftrrsm " ~ 11I('(fiJlgs all till' saDm' of ScI'-;1{'I11[1(',.. CiIlSft yOllr I/(urd i" Ollrs, so that the rillg of'rl't'ofutiltlwry Socialists cllcircling lit e (,llrt" may h('rom"li-ten.Our cOllllllon Cau~c. the stnlgglc of the young So·cialists. il\~ pircd by the idealism of yotlth. IlH!';t ·;tIC-Enid, the third largest city inOklahoma is one of the most illl.portant in the state, if not till'middle west. Its population i~about JO,(XX) and has been ahl1o~t:;tationary for the past ten years.Recently, howc\'cr, the re ha n.'!Iccn !'l'V(:ra\ ind i rat i o n ~ pu intingtowards a rapid inCfC;t

.. THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEHt' was a bo rn Fighter. In hisve ins ran the red blood of generationsof Fighters, thousandslipon thou'sands.Th'c Education which beganw ith his infancy. taught him 31-wars to fight ; the Religion whichsurrounded him, taught him alsoto fight i both hi s friends and hisenemies. urged him to fight, andhis instincts told him the same.H e was to fight with T emptation;to fight the Devil; to fightthe Desire to Sleep and the Disinclinationto Study; he was tostri\'c with Difficulties, to attackProblems, to overcome his Competitors,to w restle w ith the,"Varld in General.'When he was ill, the doc to!"came and foug ht with his dis_ease.\ Vhen he was well , the ministerstrove with the Old Adamlhat was in him.For playthings, they gave himtin soldiers, a nd in his game~there were always combats, thejoy of victory on One side, theshame of vanquishment on theother,In his babyhood he fought~vith other babies; in boyhood hefo ~ght with other boys; and inyouth, with other youths; and hisBeautiful Ideal was the Profe~·! ional F ighter; strong, brave,and shining with the Ethics ofthe Battle Field,,Courage was the first of hisvirtues, Ability to take Punish~ment, the second, and never toAdmit Defeat, the third,He was taught tha t life was astruggle, from the lowest fo rm~to the hig hest, in all this world;THE ONLY HEROBy Charlotte Perkins Gilmanand that in the wor1d above, Godand the Devil fought always overhuman souls,Grave men of science dis·coursed to him on the Strugglefor Existence and the E fficaciousActio n of CooRi ct Stim41i,He heard the music of fife anddrum, the stirring march, thesolemn dirge, the chant oftriumph, he saw pictures of gloriousbattles and crowned kings ; inall history he read of conqueringkings. and in every town andvillage he saw monuments tosoldiers,A rt and Literature, Song andMusic, Science and History, Educationand Relig ion, Environ~tr.e nt and Instinct, made him afighter, and in the flu sh of hisyoung' manhood he came out intothe world to fight his way to thetop,But w hil e lime stood still in hisup-bringing, something had happenedto the 'World, It hadmond as !lC had not.He came out eager, elert, smiling.looki ng fo r the Foe, andfound o nl y the Friend."'Where is the Battlefield ?" heasked ; and they showed him theCorn Field_U\Vhere is the place of com,bat," he demanded, and they tookhim to the\\'ork Shop,"Dring on the enemy)" hecried ; and they brought o n fellowworkmen, shop mates andcomrades... I am a good fighter," he said," I am brave, and able to beatpunishment, and I never admitdefeat, Let me fight the goodfight!"';There isn't any," they sait!'And they looked at him a"though he were a dactylosauru;o""Fight what? Fight who? \~' h atfor?" said they,"Fight the foc !" cried he,"There isn't a ny," said they,and shook their heads OVC r hissad case,But his mag nifi cent cllergicsbubbled up within him , and h.:=fell to fighting, that bei ng hisnature, H c fOllght in the COr nfield with the tall standing corn,and laid it low, He foug ht in theworkshops with t hc buzzing ma.chin(·s a nd laid them low. Hefought with wind-mills a nd withclothes-dryers, and with anythingthat would stand IIp tohim ,'Tome and fight with me," hl'rrietl, " I can o \'erc('l11 ..: ally tiln.'l'of you r'Hilt they only a nswered, "I

~for his eloquent speech anti gal.lant way, the delegates are soproud. sprang up to speak. :\Iac·donald to support the Ocr·1Il0ndsey . resolution! This, indeed,was the culmination oftheir p?easure. for it has alwaysbeen a fact that their affection forMacdonald has only been abatedby his caution. Even so, the en·thusiasm s ubsided, 3S it becameclear that Macdonald was not asupporter of the resolution. Heargued that if the Socialists hadno remedy but to take action afterWar was declared: if they couldnOt stop thc outbreak of \Var,they would be hopelessly beatenwhatever their subsC{I Uent coursemight be. He cried with passionthat if the llermondsey resolutionwere worth thc paper it was writ·ten on we should have anotherbig War. "These clever debaters"who had supported it, why didthey not put forward proposalsfor preventing war? Hc said thatthe alteOlativc to the BennQnd·sey resolution was to set up ;'directinternational relationshipsbetween the peoples." O f course,as son as they had an opportunitythe advocates of the resolutionprotested that this was not analternative but an auxiliary.Political wisdom was something.said Macdonald, for which th C'supporters of the resolution~ared nothing. It was to hethrust a!'ide a:-; of no importance.But he said : "YOtl can't go to thl'~cou nd rels with which one has todeal and sa\': 'I'm an innOl'e ntIllan; chop ;IlY head Qff, becauseI wallt to g-o to heaven:' Thisresolution gave a maximulIl op'portunity for prejudice and :\minimum of usefulness. H\Vithinthree hours of its passage inNewcastle it had been misunderstoodby men as honest as your-THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEsclv=t lw a;hi,ahllity "f .'r!-('lIIllLlI.t.:: 'Illtly.Iuh, Wllhill tl"' IT rL"pc,·tilc Clr

TIll YOBli SIClllIsls'lDagazll.Orin of the American SocialistSunday Schools and Youn&, People'sFederationEntered as Second·Class ~1:l.il MatterJune: 2, 1911. at the )lost oHice at NewYork. X. Y .• under the Act of Ma rch• J rd, 1879.~li$hed Monthly at]5 Spruce StrCt'l, New York,by theSocialistic Co-optrati\,c Pub!. Ass'n.J ohn Nagel. Pres. O. Knoll, Sec'yE. Rallll1l, Trcas......The nations begin to understandthat the magnitude of a crime cannotlessen it!' wickedness; that. iiit is criminal to kill one man, thekilling of numbers; cannot llc regardedin the light of extenuation :that. if it is !'halllcful to stC;! 1. itcannen be gloriOll S to lead invadingaml)'. Let liS proclaim thci'c ausolutetruths: let us di shonor thenacne o.f warl-Victor Hll~('i .Our o ppositiol1 to war anll millt:lrismlIlus t 11('\'l'r l'I1"~C, \Vl' sho uld .. Itr ~sol\' e to d o Ollr little ~ h:i'n' to Illako.:oU r o rganizal to n tht' hl'S( t'\'l'r. Ourcause is the cause o f youth IlItl;' rila.tionalism can on I}' be n'alized whellthe workers of any COuntry rdust' 10s laughtcr their fell ow-workers of ahyOther country.This world-wide war, with ::I ll itshorrid attendants. is the greatest indictmentof the capitalist s),stCtll.The war cloud seems to be o'er tiS,Capitalism and militarism arc aboutto sacrifice the youth of Amcricaupon the attar of g reed. This shall, not bc. .. it must not be. Then letus join hands. brothns and sisters.and stri\'c to IIp]l,'r Hronx.l.a st y.-ar Lirrll' 4 \\";1_ formel1 in tht',·a ~t\.'r1\ PUt oj the B'lrongh. and that("omplc tt· s the '11101a Th o.: ("irdes aret,"llllt\ togethl"f h." a COULlty Com111ithcwhich h ; l~ Ujl01l it Ih,' 11\ost act.vcIIH'mht"fs ..,f the four ci rdes..\uJ

10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINETHE NEW YORK STATE CONVENTIONBy Louis LevickComing at a tim~ when all the forcesof re;.ction nrc busily at work plottingThe program of the COIl\'C'lltioll willbe a s follows:"ention shall be suspend cd. and tht'.eon,'C'ntion s hall proceed to the electionof o fficers,and planning to deprive the people of Saturday, Septembt:r 1st. G.30 P. ),f.C\-ery right allli privilege guaranteed -Banquet, Ebling's Casino, l5Gth I I. A Chairman shall be entitledthem by the constitution, the FifthStr~t and St. Ann's Avenue. to the pri\' ilege of voting, same a.sAnnual Convention of the New York Sunday, September 2nd, 9.30 A. ),1. held by other delcg':Ites.5t2tt Federation of Young People's Sociali5tLeagl.lts will strike an important Auer bach's Casino, 1315 Boston ORDER OF BUSIXESSto 12.30 P. ~r.-Business Session,keynote: in the hi slory of Ihe American Road.1. O l)ening of Convention by StateYoung Socialist movement.Sunday, S~tember 2nd, 2 P. 1\1. to . Secretary.Militarism, war, conscription and 6 P. i\1.-Afternoon Session,2. E lection of T emporary Chairman.c\'cry other buming question of the day Sunday, September 2n d, 7 P. 1\1.­will be discussed and acted upon at this Lawn Social, F ranz Siegel Park, J, Elet:lion of T emporary Secretary.com'ention. No topic of illll>ortance to lOOth Street and Grand Con •the Y. P. S. L will escape notice. Plans course,4. Elt'ctlon of Credentials CO lllmit·to combat military training in the high)I ond a~', Scptember 3rd, 9.30 A. )1. tl'!t'.schools will be adopted; campaigns of to 10 .-\. .l\1.-BusillC'ss Sus ion 5. l{ecess.org.mization and education will be outlined,and cn~rything else possible will )Iondar, September 1rd, 10 A. )1.­ i. Election of Permanent Chair·continuC'd.u. St"lIt in g of Delegates.be done to build up a bigger, beUtr and Elel:tion of OfficC'rs and Adjournmellt.Sergeant-at-arms and assistants,man, "ice-Chairman. Secretary.mightit'r Young Pwple's SocialistLeague in the state.RULES8. Election of Committees: Education,O rganization, Resolu-This year's ~Ia l e COI1\'enlion will be1. :\ Chairman and a Vice-Olairmanheld in the Borough of Ihe Bronx, Newshall be elected at the beginning of {'aeh lions, Constitution.York City, on ~ptembtr lst, 2nd andday's session.9. Rellort of State Board of Con·3rd. For a long time Ihe Bronx Yipsc!s:!. A permanent Secretary, and :lll trol by State Secretary.had been wailing for Ihe opportunity toa ~s ista11t, who may be chosen from outsi{lethe body of delegates, shall be 11. neport of Fraternal Delegales.10. Report of Leagues.act a~ the hosts of a slate conventionand they c1aiRl that they will make thiselected for the entire cOin-ention.year's gathering the fillC5t ever held.12. Report of 'Committees: Resolutions,Education, Organization,J. :\ pennanent St'rgunt-at-armsTwenty-two delegates representing and an a ssistant shall he elected.Constitution.fourteen leagues will attend the rom'ention.There will a lso be fraternal dele­1~ elrcled; each committee to consist of 14. Kew Business.4. The following Committees shall IJ. Unfini shed Business.gates from the National Y. P. S. 1... Office.New Jersey League, Massachusettsrive deleltatr~; membership on commit- 15. Good and Welfare.1t"1.'S to Oc limi ted 10 not more than than 16. Election of Officers.Y. P. S. L, Rand ~chool, New Yorker two delegatC's from the same league: Ii. AdjournmC'nt.Volku.eilllng. Socialist Party State Committee on Education, Committee onConlmittee, Pennsylvania y, p. S. L., Organization, Committee on RC'solutions This / state con\'ention come'S duringNew York Call and Young Socialists' ad Committee on Constitution.a time when it takes great effortMagazine.S. Di sc lI s~ i o n shall be limitC'd to five and extraordinary courage to keepThe con\'ention will he opened with minutes for each speaker.alive the Young Socialist movement.a ballqurt in honor of Ihe delegates and 6. Olairmrll of committees shall have The progress of the Y. p. S. L. thatguests to be held at Ebling's Casino, 20 minutes to report. No delegate to will be celebrated at Saturday's banquetlS6th Street and S t. Ann's :\\'enue, on speak a second time until al\ desi ringwas due in no sma1\ part to theSaturday e\'ening, Septembtr lst, beginningto use their time shall havC' had an op­offic:e rs who ha,'e so faithfullypromptly at G.3O P. M. Charles portunity to speak. Fraternal delegates served their league.'V. Erwin, Managing Editor of the NewYork Call, and Ludwig Lore, AssociateEditor of the NC'w Yorker Volkszeitung,will address the delegates, and spC'echesshall speak only on subjects relating tothe organization which the)' reprC'sent,except by special ru li ng.i. The sessions of the conventionO n behalf of the Young Socialistmo\'ement for which they ha\'e sog ladly given of tht'ir time and en erg)"the Young Socialists' Magazine take!by rep~sC'ntati\'es o f the different shall be from 9.30 A. M. to 12.30 P. M. this oppor tunity of extending itsleagues will follow. :\ musical programwill be gi"C'n hy Paul JdenC'k, 8. Roberts' Rules of OrdC'r shall be state secretary, and to the membersand from 2 P. M. to 6 P. M.sincerest thanks to Edward Kaiser.pianist, and other professional talent,u~ed, with the excC'ption that wIlen the of the State Board of Control­Al1>ther I feature of the com'ention Prel"ious Question is called, 01lC' dele· Glen Swanson, Bertha Vossler, H.will be the lawn party to be held at gate on each side may speak for fi,'e ,V hit more, H. Brooks, :\. BerggrenFranz Siegel Park, 169th Street and minutes; also that the previous queslionand Darwin Sherman-who have 50Grand Concourse, on Sunday evening,may be called by a majority ably guided the destinies of theSeptember 2nd. All Yipsels arc invited ,'ote,leaguC'. It also extends its heartiestto this affair. There will be an interesting9. Election of Officers shall be by grCC'tings to the representatives of thC'and entertaining program, follo ..... ed majority vOtt'.Xew York Young Socialist move­by dancing and singing, Refreshments 10. On Monday, September 3rd, ment o n the occasion of their fifthwill also be. served.at 10 A. :'II., all business of the con- annual convention.THE,,"OUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE \IIEDITED BY II * 1 YIP S E L DO M II *11 LOUIS LEVICK ISTATE BOARD COMPLETESNEW YORK CONVENTIONARRANGEMENTSBuffalo, N. Y.Final official arrangements for thestale con\'C'ntlon of the New York StateFederation o f Young People's SocialistLeagues were completed and last details settled at the fifth and last me~tingo f thC' S tale Board of Control, whichwas held in this city at Socialist head­Quarters. fI83 )[ain Street, On Sunday,August 19th.The convention will be held in theBronx County. New York City, onSeptemllt"r 1st, 2nd and ::lrd. Twentytwodelegates and nine fraternal dele­~ates are scheduled to attend thesessions.The state constitution states that eachleague shall be entitled to one delegatefor every SO members in good standingand major fraction thereof, and in viewof the circumstances the Board ruledthat one delegate be allowed for every500 dues Slamps purchased during theyear and major fraction thereof.A set of Rules and O rder of Businesswe re drafted for the convention in:~~t~~~n~~'a;~t~i:~:5 s~~t:e\~:r~~t~~:~~~1~mendations which will be brought up atthe convention,OthC'r important businC'Ss of theleague was also transacted at this finalmeeting or the Board of Control. Thestate secretary reported that he hadvoted in favor of having Wm: F, Kruse,Chicago, Miss Lida. Ron, l,linneapolis,and Walter OIs~I, St_ Paul, representthe y, p, S. L. at the People's Councilmeeting to be held at Minneapolis,Minn., from SeptC'mber lst to 6th.lie also reported that the AlhallYleague had beC'1l practically reorgalli r..:d .and that it has o rdered !'ta11lps all,1supplies ami seems to be Ih'ening 1111He stated that he ha(1 sent Ollt a formleiter to the ll'agues on Jilly 12 eudor-­ing the Yipse! Fund for the I~alldSchool and ·anothu circular 1~, ttC'r illformingthe le3gues oi the allproxilllatenumber of cOI1\'\'lItiol1 d.:legate~.Accordi ng' to the tinanclal rel)OTt ofthe state St'Crelan' til': total worth ,,{"tilestate office at pre-sent i~ S:!9·t}·I. Of t hi~$179.-14 is ollbt.andin~ and $114.itl i~ theamount of cash on hand.The st a~ secretary al so reported thatkagul's hac! been very 1;lx in sending' intheir monthly report cards, hence a detailedand complete report 011 ilHli\·idualleague membership, financi,,1 standing.etc., cOllld not be prepared.The matter of arri \';ng at the numberYIPSEL STATE CONVENTIONof delegates each l C'agu~ is entitled IN MASSACHUSETTSto was taken up at this mccting of theBoard. (hving to the fact that allLawrence, :'II ass,leagues had not sent in complete reportPlans fo r conducting a strenuous cam­cards, covering their good standing paigll of prop:lganda and educationmembership, etc., thC' Board was forcedto ascertain the number of delegateseach lel1gue is entitled to on the ba si~of stamps purchased during the year,since the last convention.among the youth of this state will uediscussed alld acted upon at the nextstate con\'ention of the Young Peoplc'sSociali st League of :'Ifassachusttts to beheld at this city on Sundar, Seillelllber~nd.-DelegatC's representing enr)' ci rclein the slate league wi ll assemble at theconvention ball, 184 Broadway, near til':north station (B. & 11.) 10 transact th o:hllsiness of the Massachusetts YoullgSocialist mo,·ement.Two sC'ssions will be held; olle in themorning, starting promptly at II A. :'01.,and another in the afternoon. If fotlndnecessary an evening se~~ion will beheld, but this is not e.,xpected, so theYipsels of this city have arranged aUIlK Srwiali'h have under-1

1% THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEOnt: of the fea tures in the auditoriu mwill be a tablet ertdw as 3. t ribute toY. P. S. L.·cnergy and COurage in thepresent world crisis.NEW HAVEN AWARDS PRIZEIN ESSAY CONTESTNew Hum. Conn..'\1 a hif[ltly successful nlceting of theleague held retently, Si lik Polayu. or.!;aniztr, was awarded the prize of thecircle's essay COlltCSt for his article on"Conscitncc', Appc:al to ReaSQ.l:'The league has bought a bond of theRand School alld is doill g everythingpo~sible to make the campaign for aunh'Cfsity of Ihe workers :1 !lItteu,The educational committee has at·ranged a new program fo r the nextth ree months and one will be !cnt toany Yipscl upon applicatioll to S8 HoweSlr~t. The dramatic committee ismaki ng plans for a play :tnd a dance 10he given in one of the largesl halls ofthe city.1'\elV officers have l>een eleckd asfollows. Silik Polaye~ . organ iter : BellaBlellller, recording sec retary: Vera Set~BROOKLYN AT THE FORE INSTATE ORGANIZATIONBrooklyn, N. ·Y.With over SOO Il1cmbers in goodstanding the Young People's SocialistLeague of Brooklyn is recognized todayas one of the leading leagues in thestate. Offieers for the new tenn have~n eI~ted and the)' are rccei" ing theco-operation of the members in a campaignof organization and educationwhich will take the young ~ocia li stmovement by surprise.The new organizer, Alexander Gottlieb,of f!l Grafton Street, is alreadybusy planning ways and means to in·crease the membership of the league andto systematize its reoords. He is bt:­ing assisted by the other office rs, whoare: Theresa Shul\.:in, assistant organiz.er:Bertha ~Iooney, financial secretary,and Gussie Lipschitz, Ireasu~ r.) Iany l('aglle e,'enB arc beingplanned. chief among them being apicnic to be held in Septcmber and ahall to take plan! in two or threemonths.NEW OFFICERS ELECTED BYJERSEY CIRCLE\ \'est Hoboken, N, }.No ..... that the Slimme r is :llmost o,'crprep:uations are being made by the\ Vest Hoboken \,il)5('\" f(lf a reSl1IlIplionof real :lcti"ities in the line oi organizationand pro paganda work. At arecent meetiug of the "arl Ha\'licekCi rcle o fticcrs for the next six monthswere elected They a re: R. Texel, Jr.,organizer : JMellh Janacek. :118 Pate r ~wn :\\'el1\le. \ \-est Hohoken, corre­~ponding secretary; \\'. Eichoff, recording~ e c ret:lr y; AI Brezo,·sky. finan~ialsecretary: Leopold Zaparka, t reasurer;A. Ko\·ak. addsory chairman, and A.Textl. caretaker of circle properties.Henry Janacek was chosen dr:llllllicdi rector in the Bohem ian language 1111.1low, financial s«rctary: J o~ eph Hurowith,treasurer, Mid 1'\ath;1.I1 ~Iillcr,publicity agent.These a re the new committees: Harry\Vatstein, D1Ulie1 \Vcinstcill and Il ermanPeter Colla director in the r-:nJ::li~h language.and the}' were in~tructe(1 t o fir e·Jacobson, educational: Daniel pa re two or threc plays in each lan­Weinstei n, Joseph Hurowitz and Lulu )(uage for the coming ~uson . Va r iol1~Thornberg, social: Ida Rafsin, AbrahamAlderman and Herman Jacobson. elected.delegates and l'onlluittees we re al soeditorial : August Thoml>erg, MarionDelford and Lulu Thornbers-, dramaticcommiuee.The ex:ecuti\'c committeI' will consistThe circle deci(led to dOllate ·omemoney to the Liberty Defense FUlld andalso appoin tcd a comrade to solicit do·lJations !rhm the members and theirof the officers. the chairmen of the friends. At the next l1Ieeling, to bestanding eommittcc~ anri thc fo llowing hehl Saturday. Sel)\cmber Blh, a K)'mna"ticsill: member~: Katc Takott, I~racldirector will be elected :ind theMillcr. Mari"n Del ford, S.,·h·ia Weinclein,Leo Zimmerman and Lulu Thornberg.ci rcle will once llIore go in for g)'1I\.1l3stic~.:\t the ta~t meeting an active and en·Ih\l ~ ia stic a rrangements committee W:iSelected to work in conjullction with theell:ecllti\'e committee in formul:llingplans for the monster Fifth Anni,'ersarycelebration \\'hich will be held eilherOctober 20th or 27th, Details will bepublished in ne;o.;t month's nlaguine.The ci rcle will also hold a social anddance on Wednesday, September 12th,at Nepivoda's lIall, 420 Spring Sireet.The work of the Hudson.and BergenCounty branch of the Federated Unionfor Democracy has been endorsed andall membe rs are urged to join and hell)huild a real democracy in America.Subscription lists for raising money forthe decoration of the new Rand Schoolauditorium hne been distributed andthe members a re asked to get Ihemfi lled as soon as possible, Seven membershave each taken a year's subscrip~lion to the Young Socialists' Magazineand t he circle receh'es a bundle ofcopies e,·cry month, ..... hich :ire sold tothe members.During the ~ uml1ler months little wasdone in the line of educational worlt.hut a few social entertainments wereheld. E"cry Sunday 20 to 2:1 membersand thei r friend3, in a hotly, go toInterstate Park, N. ].. fo r a day's fun.Swimming, canoeing, camping antiother sports are indulged in. As theresult of the c01l1radt'ship shOwn 3t theS!!outings, quite a few new Yipsel ~cruitsha\'e been obtained. The Karl HavlicekCi rcle has a good record ill the .:ountyand hopes 10 be eonsiderell one of thebest in the near futurl.'. R. T" Jr.TRENTON YIPSELS ENTERFIGHT FOR FREEDOMTrenton, N, J.Circle Trenton has entered into thefight for Democracy at h01l1e, Re ~n l u­tions have been drawn up condemningthe action of the Post Oflice authoritiesand ha\'e been published in the localprss, as we.ll as sent to the president andthe local congressman.A committee has been elected to lightconscientious objector cases in coun ifne>:c~sa ry, and a SCI of resolutions ha ~been pass'ed and published in the new s­papers of this city, condemning theBoslon scandal.T he memhC'rs ha\'e distributed 2 ,5{11)copies of "The Price We Pay" and2,000 copies of The American Socialist.A few weeks 3g0 the league boughta bond of The Ne::w York Call to helpalong "the only paper in the Eastwhich tells the truth." The membershipof the organization is increasing :;tead·ily a nd t he educational work is proceedingas usual.On August 121h the T renton ci rclewill attend an outing given by the Yipsdsof Philadelphia :ll1d Camden a tNorth Burlington Park. They a~ goingto make this affair a reunion of theNorth and South and will discuss plansof bettering their org3nizations. NorthJerix weeks they h3\'estoud solidly tOl{ethe r, demandingtheir righ"- but the wives and kiddieshack home arc watching the trainsand w"mit-ring whrn (.lalla will comernornin/o:" fou r thol1~and miners wererounded lip in the kill park at thel)Oint of high'I)OWl'rnl riAt,s,h,lck. The women arc writing theirAt leaSI three hundred of these husbands 10 "all ('('me back in aminers ow ned their homes. Many hody as you left."of thcTll had li\"t~d in the district foryears a nd the)' had many fri endsE\'er)' Ilig I)lurness house for mile'!around is running sbort-handed inamong the tOWIl people. The gUll order to supply ,,'ails but the bestmen visi ted the stores of trades, they ca n do h 22 cars of "gob" orpeople who were knowll to he s)'mpathizerswas te per d:ly. The: normal output iswitlJ the strikers, and told around 230 (ars of orcdail),.13,.

14 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEThi' pale i. conducted by the NewJersey State CommitWe of the YOURIPeople'. Soci, lil t Leal'll!:. Addressall torrnpondenec to State Secretary.LoW. Cohen, 10 Twelfth Ave.,Paterson. !i' J.----ST AT E EXECUTIVE COMMIT­TEEGeneral Or, anizer-Assistant Orp nizer-Ben. H inchon,100 Union St, Trenton.Secretary-Louis Cohen. 10 TwelfthAvenue, Paterson.Financial Secretary-Treasurer-JeanneUeHeller, .519 BetiCn Street,Newark.Educational Director-Solomon E f­frein, 524 Henry St .• South Amboy.A Word of PraiseIn full recognition of the worthyendeavor of the Rand Sc hool of NewYork to pun'hast a large and suitablebuilding to be 11tilizcd exclusivelyby the labor and progressive1lI0Vl"nH:nU in t he interest of worldwidept'BCt' and (Iemo

10 T H E YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEProgress of Socialist Thought Amongthe CollegesA Review of the Work of the Inttr~collegiate -Socialist Society duringthe college year 1916-17In no yur in the 'history of theIntercoU'cgiate Socialist Society hasthe Society been more successful illcarrying il, musage of Socialism tothe college world than during thecollege year 1916-17. just cnding.From November. 1916, to April, 1917,lUore than 42,000 students in 93 collegeslistened to that message as expoundedby Harry W. Laidler. J ohnSpargo. Rose Pastor Stoku and IrwinTucker.Hcginning with January. 1917, theSocitty established an office in Chicago,with Irwin Tucker, formerlymanaging editor o f the ChristianSodalist, as Middle Western o rganiZN.Mr. Tucker visited during theSpring numerous coll eges in IliinOi!,'Visconsin and Missouri, organizingand strengthening underg raduate alldalumni chapters. The reception accordedhim in many . of the collegeswas most cordia l.Garner L. Harding, author of"Present Day China" gaxe nearly twoweeks in January to the work of the1. S. S. in the colh:ges of Ma ssachusettsand Connecticut. Mr. HardingdevOted his talks chietly to an inier_esting discussion of "Sociali sm andSocial I{eform in the O rient."Morri.s Hillquit also spoke thisSilring bdore an exceptionally largeand interested gathering at the Collegeof the Ci ty o f New Yo rk. OLlthis occasion more than 600 studentscrowded the hall, while a simil::arnumlu~ r found it impossible to gainaccess.It was fou nd by the lecturers thatth e international crises had had theeffect, in many instances, of stirringthe students out of their pro\';ncialattitude of mind .•The drift in Europe toward StateSocialism; the Russian Re\'olutionand the other democratic lIlo\'ementsled hy European Socialists; thesteadily increasing cost of li"ing . inthis country; and the growing realizationof the economic causes of modernwarfare have made the studentsmore keenly alive than e\'er before tothe challenge prutnted by Socialism.Among the. most active of the Society'sChapten this year are thosein the Collele of the City of NewYork. Ya l~. Vassar. the Unh'rrsity ofIllinois. llarnard, n~rkeley Di\.initySchool. Oberlin, Valpariso; whilethose at Columbia. Radcliffe, theUni\'ersity of Pittsburgh. Harvanl,Indiana. Howard, Heed, Wisconsin.Ca rneg ie Institute of Technology.and others ha\'e done much eff('cth'ework.Among the ::alumni chapters. theN. Y. AluLLlni. with more than 300members. has continued thc mos t active.Its semi-monthly e"ening meet_ings and Salurd::ay afternoon "cameraderies"h::a\'e pro\'ed most stimulat.ing. The Chi cago and St. Loui:!Chapters l, a\'c been rece ntly reorg::al1-ized by Mr. Tucker and promise anacti\·c seallon next yea r.The Quarterly of the Society-TheIntercollegiate Soc ialist (SOC. a year,15c. a copy), has been steadily growingin interest and "alue. TheSymposium o n "Socialists •. and theProblems of 'Var," appearing in theApril-Hay issue of the magazine, andcontributed to by twenty-sevenprominent Socialists and radicals, ha~attracted wide attention.The Society's research work hasbec-n going steadily fo rward. The I.S. S. ha s published during th e yeartwo ('xcellent supplements in connectionwith T he IntercoUegiate Socialist,• olle gi\'ing a. splendid sun 'ey of"Municipal Ownership in the UnitedSt::atcs" by Evans Clark. of Prince ·tOn. and one. a comprchensi\'e ideaof the extent o f "Cooperation in theUnited States" by Cheves West Perky,of the Coopehativc League ofAmerica. "Stale Socialism-Pro andCon." a sourCe book on public ownershipin various countries. edited byWm. English Walling. Harry \Y.Laidler and o thc-rs is about to issuefrom the press.The Society is now completing it,program for in Autumn Confc-rencewhich will this year be held in Bellport,N. Y .. a beautifu l spot on thesouthern coast of Long Island, (romSeptember 18th to 24th.The genera l subject of the con_ference is .. Problems of DemocraticReadjustment during and after th e\Var." Peace proposals. universalservice, freedom of speech and of thepreIS, maintenance of labor standardsand socialization of railroads,•fo od supply. etc .• will be di scussed.The mornings and e,fenings will begiven over to addresses and discus_sion and the afternoons to rtcreation-walking, swimming, boating, etc.An exceptionally interesting groupof speakers promise to be present.All desiring further informationconcerning the COnference should addressthe I. S. S., 70 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. City.An important departure in thework of the 1. S. S. during the comingyear will be a more definnite attemptthan h::as been made heretoforeto schedule its lecturers beforehigh school audiences. whereversuch scheduling does not interferewith lectures in the colleges. Thelectures of a number of the 1. S. S.speakers this year in high schoolauditoriums before the student bodyhave met with a most co rdial re,­IlOllse. No endeavor, howe'·er. wi llbe made to organize the high schoolstudents into 1. S. S. Chapters.The Society hopes also to pr"sc­CUte its Research \Vork evenvigorously than ill the past.Diet and DiseaseDr. A_'Vily do YOIL always lIlah·slIch pa rticular inquiries as to whatYOllr Il3tients cal? Does thai a5S;styou in your diagnosis?Dr. B-Not that, but it enables 1lIC'to ascertain the ir social position andarrange illY fees accordingly.T he Ncw York Evcllillg SU/l ina recent issue said, "Democracy is.all right so long as you keep itaway from the lower classes."This, doubt less, explains thelatest attempts to crush democracyamong the lower classes inthe United States by suppressingtheir newspapers and magazine:'.b reaking up their meetings ;tndparades. hold ing up their petitions.to congress, and in various otherways curtailing the rights of theminority.Perhaps when we are fighting­" to make the world safe fo r democracy"it is this .~o rt of democracythat is meant-democracythat is not fo r the lo wer classes.but democracy exclusively of, b)~and for the upper classes.LEAGUE-DIRECTORY"'~ -f't--CUcIo - __ No. 4, LIacoIa 1_ Hall. ... lue 11_ _... lido -.oj 10. ~1301 _ It.,JIroo'" -~.~.,.. •• Y.NATIONAL OFFICEWID. P. Knuo, as W. _ .~.ChIcqo, DLOhioY. P. I. L., CLllVELAND-_CIIdo__ ....... da7 at La .... L,c_ 5610 _A_NewY ....Y. P. s. L. BRONX COUNTYCircle ' No. r, Hute Poiat Palace_IUrd I~ .... 80. _ II ......... ..., .rIda, .............. ;..CIrcIa No. 2, LattIab Hall, 371 WiIIIaA. • .:' KIdiDa' ....,. ~ .....CUcIo No. !, JawlaIo, C1rcI.. 1721W.-- A .... ... 174tb ILII .......... ..., Frida,.,.... ~~ CollUDlttee ....... atI. P. H..-mn. 1167 B.,­--...-~.Y. P. a. L, BROOKLYN, N. Y eClrde No. 15 JDeetl .. ery Saturday....... at Sodaliat Hoadq_167 Tomp1dna AYe.C1rde No: 1. Q~ m .. ta .. ..,m,t ad third Tbunday of tb.moDth at the Queaaa Cown, La.bor LrceaD1.Y. P. S. L. SYRACUSEMeet. at 8oda1ist Party H .. dquarten.No. 124 E . Geoewe St., evee)'Tueada-, everlin,\ . Orpnber isCbarlc. KarUck. Jr.CONNECTICUTY. p. S. L., ANSONIA"em replarl, at Headquarten.r .. OrlazUnr is Jac:k Hochen, No.393 Maln St.. Anaonia. Conn.

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TH'YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEThe Future of the MagazineBy Wm. F. KruseThe Young Socialists' Magazine has passed throughsome stormy limes in the past few years. Almost con~stantly has it been run at a deficit, always met throughthe untiring efforts of some of our New York COIllrades.They' felt that the Young Socialists' movementof this country had to have an organ in which to expressitself, so they kept it goi ng against greatest odds.More clearly than any of the other comrades theycould foresee the arrival of a time when the Y. P. S. Lwould be a well-knit organization in this country andagainst this time they worked and planned-they dideverything they could to keep the Magazine a floatuntil the Y. P. S. L. was strong enough to take it over.OW iAg to war conditions which make their own taskharder than ever before it becoll1(!s impossible forthose who have bome the burden so many years toshoulder it any longer. . While the Y. P. S. L. ishardly quite strong .enough to withstand any consider~:.ble deficit on a publication, it is strong enough to gi\'eit suffic ient support to make th e paper sclf·sustaining.\Ve have over 7,()(X) memhers in our organization.while a subscription list of 3.500 would easily pay ;\11our bills. It it certainly not to the credit of the leaguethat the total circulation at this time fluctuates betweentwo and three thousand.It is not that the Young Socialists do not want thl'MJgazine. They are not entirely sati sfied with it. itwould be impossible to satisfy every opinion and idea.but they have been constantly striving to improve it,and the management has been very amenable to SUJ::­gestions. Each of these sugges.tions thus far has onlymeant an increase of the expenses. The time has comewhen the league must take it over. The present managementha\1 almost decided to sllspend publication

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEGermany's Socialist Women SpeakThe following manifesto hasbeen issued by German Socialistwomen :-"Sis ~ers and Mourners :- 'Wethank you for all the labors of thepast twelve months to spread the• propJ.ganda of en1ightenmentthroughout Bavaria, S3:I(Ony,\ Vurttemberg, Baden and Westphalia.On the eve of a new yearwe ask you to consider for whatpurpose (-he voices of Rosa Luxemburgand Clara Zetkin were raisedin the hope of mitigating yoursufferings. It is to save yourhomes from grief and your sonsand brothers from the cru~1 sacrificeand continued scourge of thisneedless war. For what purposeha\'c Dr. Liebknecht and ComradesHaase and Ledebour dragged themasks from the selfish vill ai ns inBerlin, who, manipulating Austria,Turkey, and Bulgaria by corruptmethods, have steeped the Fatherlan,1in blood ? It is because thelove of truth and honor of a smallminority in the Reichstag and theirhatred of hypocrisy knows nolimit and cannot be bought bygold or material gain:"For what purpose arc thewage-earners and their childrenreduced' to want in raiment andsuffering privation in food? It isbecause the Kaiscr and hi s ~[inis~tcrs from the first day of the warha\'e purposely deceived the na~tion with falsehoods and continueto withhold the documents (alreadypublished in the press ofneutral states) which stamp theP otsdam conspirators with indcl~ible infamy."Believing that the AlliedPowers have no enmity againstthe German peoples nor desi re toviolate the territory 'of our States,we apPf;al to you, in the name ofthe brave men who have fl~ngthemselves to death at the biddingof miscreants, to Tedouble yourefforts in the coming year to bringabout the cessation of this devastatingand unnecessary struggle..... \'Ve are persuaded that whenthe German armies have evacuatedBelgium, Russian, and Frenchterritory, it will be possible to terminatethe ruin and suffering ofthe present conflict."KRUPPISMCrowned on the twilight battlefield,there bendsA crooked irotl dwarf, and delvesfor gold,Chuckling: "One hundred thousandgatlings sold."And the moon ri ses, and a moaningrendsThe mangled living, and the deaddi stends,And a child cow-crs on the chartlesswold,Where searching in his safety vaultof mold,The cobbled Kaiser cuts his dividends,\Ve, who still wage his batties, arehi s thralls,And dying to him homage; yea,and giveDaily ollr souls to be enticedInto his power. So long as on war'swallsWe build engines of death that he, may live,So long shall we serve Krupp insteadof Christ.-Percy Mackaye.THE HUMAN EYEThat the human eye and thephotographic lens are very muchalike in design and operation is awell-known fact. I f you lookthrough a photographic lens youwill see nothing dearly. To perceiveth e image, says the Octoberissue of P opular Science Monthly,a piece of ground glass or a plateof film i ~ necessary A plate is apiece of plain glass which acts asa support for an emulsion. Thisemulsion decomposes when stmekby light, and the decomposition ismade visible by a process calleddevelopment. \"'ith an ordinary. photographic pIate only one stichimpression, or image, can be obtained.'With the motion picturefilm, however, a fresh piece of filmis continually exposed to the len",Just such an arrangement existsin the human eye. An emulsioncalled visual purple acts as a filmof great latitude, renewing itselfas soon as it is struck by the lightand discolored, It adapts itself tovarious intensities of light, protectingthe retina from too brilli:l.I1ta glare at all times.This from "Ally Sloper": Sevenconscientious objectors were orderedto the guard room, wherethe contents of their pockets wereremoved. One of them asked ifhe might not have his ·Bible back.The officer in command, aftersome hesitation, consented, withthe proviso that he should onlyhave it for an hour a day. "Rememberthis, my man," he added,"too much Bible is as bad for aman as too much whiskey."He knows nothing, and he thinkshe knows everything. That pointsclearly to a political career.­G. B. S.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis BonaparteA Dig.rst 01 the Book by Karl Marx"The Eighteenth Brumaire ofLouis Bonaparte," by Karl ~larx .translated by Daniel De Leonand published by the Charles H.Kerr Co., Chicago, at 25 cents, isa very interesting history of thebeginning of the movement of theFrench proletariat.l'The teachings contained inthis work," says the tr:lnslator inthe preface, "are hung on anepisode in recent French hi story.On the 18th 'Brumaire (Nov. 9)the post revolutionary developmentin France enabled the firstNapoleon to take a step towardthe imperial throne. Fifty andodd years later his nephew took asimilar step with a similar result.""Hegel says somewhere that a\lgreat hi storic facts and personagesrecur twice," says KarlMarx in the opening of the brilliantmonograph. "He forgot toadd once as a tragedy and againas a farce."A striking difference is noticeablein the way the two rC\'olutionsoccurred. In 1848 to 185 1only the ghost of the old revohltionwandered about. Instead ofsociety improving, the change setback progress a generation bybringing back military despotismand smothered the working classaspirations.Finally appeared the adventurerLouis Bonaparte, a nephewof Napoleon whose power shatteredand struck the last blows atthe decayed feudal system ofEurope and helped in establishingthe bourgeois social systemof France.There were three periods in thesecond revolution, the Februaryperiod, the period of establishingthe republic, and the period oi theconstitutional republic.The government of the firstperiod was temporary, followingthe overthrow by the rebell iousmiddle class and working class ofthe regime of Louis Philippe. theBourbon king who was on thethrone. 111C: constitution theyformed provided for a legislati \'eassembly and a president 01 anassembly with equal power, thepresident to be chosen by vote oial l Frenchmen over 21 years ofage. The ign orant, out of sympathyfor men of the first revolution,chose LOll is Bonaparte, theadventurer, as head of the republicanassembly.The assembly was a jumhle ofcontradictions, says :'Iarx. It ill~chIded royalists, liberals representingthe middle classes,agrarians representing the landinterests and re\'olutionists of allshades. These Louis first triedto control but failed. Among' themost rebellious were the Socialists,the first to be represented inany government, elected underuniversal suffrage which wa:,granted before Louis had control.The assemblv and the nationwere afraid of 'the revolutionistsand so played into the hands ofthe imperialist intriguers whowere advisin g Louis. UnderB1anqui and Barhes the Socialistsstrove to transform the socialsystem but they were not strongenough, although it was the industrialmasses, who electedSocialists to the first co n st itu ~tionalist assembly and also to thefirst legislative assembly, whomade the revolution.Three years after his choice aspresident, when the delegate::; refusedto extend the constitution!'>o that he cou ld be re-elected,Louis dissolved the assembly, althoughhe had no right to do so.lie succeeded in suppressing theuphold ers of the constitution byioree. formed two legislati vebodies, the Chamber of Deputiesto he elected and a Senate, themembers to be appointed by thepresident of the repUblic. Louishad intrenched himself for an c.,'(tended term.In une year Louis had sufficientpower to ha\'e himself proclaimedas t'tTlperor under the name of.:'-iapolton IlL by the Senate. T'hevotc of the people confirmedthis.His regime lasted eighteenyears, the increasing streng-th 01the Soci:llists being marked byJ,!"rowing confl ict between theclecteti Chamber of Deputies a ndthe Senate :lppointed by the EmperorLOllis embroiled the nationin se"l'ral wars, and in September1870, following the disastrousFranco- Prllssian war, the imperialgovernment was overturnedIn comparison with the recentRussian revolution and its phases,the chronology of the secondI'-rench revolution, as given by1\larx, is interesting'.The first period of threemonths, fu llowing the overthrowof Louis Philippe, Marx calls tlte"universal fraternity swindle."The second period, in wh ichthe republic is constituted andthe constitutive national assembly,for the next month, consistsof the strugg-le oi all the classes

against the proletariat and theterrible June days, in which theworking men were defeated.Then came the six months die·tatorship of bourgeois republi·cans and the drafting of the constitutionwhile the state of siegewas hanging over Paris. Theelection ' of Bonaparte ended thedictatorship_ Then followed thefive months' struggle between theconstitutive assembly with Bonaparteand the united ' party ofOrder, a group of cotlserv:l.tivcrepublicans, which resulted inthe destruction of the assemblyand the downfall of the republicans.The third period c1l1br:lccs thethree years in which Bonapartetriumphed completely and madehimself emperor, defeating- successively the s mall traders' democracy,the parliamentary middleclass and causing- the deathof the national assembly,"The Social Republic appearsas a mere phrase;' says ~ l arx, "asa prophecy on the threshold ofthe February revolution ; it wassmothered in the 'blood of theParisian proletariat during thedays of 1848; but it stalks aboutas a spectre throughout the followingacts of the drama,"The democratic republic nextmakes its bow; it goes out in afizzle on June 13. 1849, with itsrunaway small traders; but, onfleeing, it scatters behind it allthe more bragging announcementsof what it means to do,"The parliamentary republic,together with th~ bourgeoisie,then ' appropriates the wholestage; it lives its life to the fullextent of its being; but the secondof December, 1851, buries itunder the terror-stricken cry ofthe allied Royalists: 'Long livethe Republic I'THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE"The French bourgeoisie rearedup against the' reign of theworking proletariat;- it broughtto power the slum proletariat,with the chief of the 'Society ofDecember 10' at its h ea~ , It kept"France in breathless fear over theprospective terror of ' Red Anarchy'; - Bonaparte discountedthe prospect when on Dec. 4 hehad the Icading citizens of theBoulevard ~ I o nt ~r ,LTtr e and the13oulc\'ard des I taliens shotdown from their windows by thegrog inspired army of Order... I t made t he apotheosis of the~a br e ;- now the sabre rules it.It destroyed the revolutionarypress ;-now its own press is an4nihilatcd, It placed pllblic meet4ings under police surveillance;­now its own salons are subject topolice inspection. It disbandcd thenational guards;-now its ownna tional guard is disbanded,"As far as the Socialists wereconcerned, they were wiped outin the early fi ghting of the Junedays when Blanqui and Berbestried to capture the constitutiveassembly at the head of a host ofarmed workingmen, The consequencesof this Marx sums up asfollows:"The defeat of the June insurgentslevelled the ground uponwhich the Bourgeois Republiccould be founded and erected;but it. at the same time, showedthat there are in Europe otherissues besidcs that of " Republicor :'lonarchy.'"It revealed the fact that herethe bourgeois republic meant theunbridled despotism of one classover another, It proved that withsuch countries the republicmeans only the political revolu4tionary form of existence, as inthe case of these United States ofAmerica. where. true enough, theclasses already exist, but havenot yet acquired permanent character,where the modern meansof production rather compensateand finally where the youthfullife of material production has sofar left neither time nor opportunityto abolish the illusions ofthe old."GOOD PARTNERSDavid Grayson says in the OctoberAmerican Magazine:"The best partners of solitudeare books. I like to take a bookwith me in my pockct, although, beit here confessed, I find thc worldso full of intcresting thingssights,sounds, odors-that often Inevcr rcad a word in it. It is likehaving. a valued friend with you,though )'011 walk for miles withoutsaying a word to him or he to you;but if you really know your fricnd,it is a curious thing how, subconsciously,you are aware of what heis thinking and feeling about thishillside or that distant view, Andso it is with books, It is enoughto have this writer in your pocket.for the very thought of him andwhat he would say to these oldfields of pleasant trees is everfreshly delightful. And he neverinterrupts at inconvenient moments,nor intrudes his thoughtsupon yours unless you desire it."Whoever produces anything byweary labor, does not need a re" c­lation from heaven to teach himthat he has a right to the thingproduced,-Robert G, Ingersoll.It is the tame elephants who enjoycapturing the \Vila ones,-G,Bernard Shaw.Not only is Bernard Shaw frequentlyat hi s best in a little playcalled "O'F1ahcrty, V, e," publishedin the August number of"Hearst's Magazine," but hI!:touches upon topics of li vely int.erestjust now, In the first place.the ardors of recruiting are rehearsed,O'Flahcrty, with a freshlywon Victoria Cross pinned onhi s coat, has returned to meet hi .:;mother, and is chatting with GencralSir Pearce :Mad igan, (h:­scribed as "an elderly baronet inkhaki, bcaming with cnthusiasm."'This is a portion o f the initialdialogue:O'F1aherty (relaxing) - I'mthankful to you, Sir Pearce; but rwOllldn't have anyone think thatthe baronet of m)' native placl!:would Ict a cOlllmon soldier lik e mesit down in hi s prcsence withoutleave.Sir Pearce--\Vell, you're not ;lcommon soldicr. O'Flahertyyou'rea very uncommon one; andI'm proud to have you for Illyguest hcre to-day.Q'Flahertr- Sure, I know, "i r.You have to put up with a lot fromthc like of me for the sake of therecnlting. All the quality shak("shands with me and says they'rcproud to know me, just the wa}"the King said when he pinned theCross on me, And it's as true asI'm standing here, sir, the Quecnsaid to me: "I hear yOll were bornon the estate of General :\'fadigan,"she says, "and the General himselftells me you were always a fineyoung fellow," uBedad, Mam/' Isays to her, "if the General knewa1l the. rabbits I snared on him, andTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZI NEO'F'f.,AHERTY, V. C.By George Bernard Sha\\all the salmon [ snatched on him,and all the cows T milked on hi m,he'd think me the finest ornamcntfor the count y jail he ever .:.cntthere for poaching."Sir Pearce (Iaughing)-You'rewelcome to thcm all , my lad. C(,nlc(he makes him sit down again onthc garden seat), sit down and cnjoyyour holiday. ( lie sits down onO I1 C of the iron chairs ; th c onc atthc doorl ess side of the porch).O'Flahcrty- Holiday, is it ? 1 '(\givc five shillings to be back in thetrenches for the sake of a little n: ... tand quiet. I never knew what hart!work was till I tnok to recruiting,\\'hat with the standing on my lcgsall day. and the shaking hands. andthe making speeches, and-what' ...worse--thc listening to thcm, andthc calling for c11ee rs for King andcountry, and the saluting thc flagtill I'm stiff with it, and thc listen ,ing to them playing "God Save thcKing" and "'Tipperary," and thetrying to make Ill)' eycs look moistlike a man in a picture-book. 1'111that het that I hardly get a wink ofsleep, I give you my \\'ord, SirPearce, that I never heard the tuncof "Tippe rary" in my life till rcamc back from Flandcrs; and alreadyit's drove me to that pitch oftiredness o f it that whcn a poorlittle innOCCll t slip of a boy in thestreet thc other night drew hi msclfup and salutcd and began whistlingit at me I clouted hi s head for him.God forgive me!Sir Pearce (soothingly)-Yes,yes; I know, I know. One docsget fed up with it; I've been dogtiredmyself on parade many atime. But still, you know, there'sa grati fyi ng side to it. 100. Afterall. h(" is onr King-: and it's ourown country, isn't it?O'F1aherty-\\'dl. sir, to yOllthat ha\'c :Ill ('state in it, it wouldkl'1 like your country, Rut thedevil a perch of it evcr I owncd.:\nd a s to th c King. r.od help hi m,my mot her woul '\ han.' taken the"kin ofT my hack if I'd evC:!f Ict ont(, hther ! \Vhat areyou clrcarning alllJlll, U'Flahcny?:\ Ill" ... t I, 'yal wo1110l1l. :\1\1';1)'5 III O

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEwhelmed. (Turning . and facing Sir Pearce-How?know it's my duty to my King andhim.) Are you-are you joking? O'FJaherty-By bringing me up country to kill them," I says.O'Flaherty - If you'd been to be more afraid of running away "That's right," he says, 4

an. YoUli Slelillsts' IOllaZll.0 ;,.11 of the American SoclallItSunday Schools and YOWl. People'aFederation.Enttred as Second-Cia,s Mail MatterJune 2,191 1, at the post office at NewYork, N. Y., under the Act of March3rd. 1879.Published Montbly at15 Spruce Street, New York,by theSocialistic Co-operative.....Pub!' Ass'n.John .Nagel. Pres. O. Kn oll, Sec'yE. Ramm. Trca!I."If I were to buy a revolvercosting several pounds, in order toshoot my friend with a view tostea ling sixpence out o f his pocket,I should be thought neither verywise nor very virtuous. But if Ican get sixty-five million accomplicesto join me in this crim inalabsurdity, I become one of a greatand glorious nation, nobly sacrificingthe cost of my revolver, perhapseven my life-to secure thesixpence f or the ho"or of myco rmtry!" - Bertrand Russell, in"Why·Men Fight."Look at fashionable society asyou know it .... A horrible pro.cession of wretched girls, each inthe claws of a cynical, cunning.avaricious, di sillusioned, ignorant.ly experienced. foul·minded oldwoman whom she calls mother,whose duty it is to corrupt hermind and sell her to the highestbidder.-G. Bernard Shaw.Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim.An' don't let anny wan giv thim toyeo A right thot is handed to yef'r nawthin' has somethin' the mattherwith it. It's more than likelyit's on'y a wrong turned in side out.-Mr. Dooley.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZI NEOur State Conventions and Their MistakesThe New York State Conventionof the Federation of YoungP eople which was held the firstthree days of September was ofsuch magnitude that it well de·serves a word 'of comment andshould prove of interest to theYipsels of every state. The banquetgiven in honor of the delegates wasattended by 195 guests. A prcrgram of classic music was renderedby artists for whom a special grandpiano was hired for the evening.In fact. neither pains nor moneywas spared by the committee tooffer th eir guests the best thatcould be had. At the lawn partyheld the following evening at apublic park about three hundredpeople were assembled to makemerry. In fact the entertainmentfurnished was so well planned andcarried out on such a large scalethat to those who have been at thefour previous New York stateconventions, the conscious cffortmade to outdo all records seemedlike "Keeping up with the J ones."By May R. SchockenNow let us turn to the workingprogra m of the convention. \Vhatdo we find? Alas I the same argu-'ments, the same hair-splitting, th ~same wrangling, the same mistakes.Yes, the Sify bl1il dings, toob. machineryand raw material, or slichval l1es whi ch do 110t gi\'e 1I10re\":Il lIe than i ~ plus Va lue ill Political Ecoll. adu:l.ll y contained in'11l \', , ., ". , thcm or expelltkd 111 thl.'lr produc-Every busllless transact lOll IS a tion,pure exchange transaction. \\ hit hSlimm ing U]l the aforC'llIC'llliolled.fact-. regarding the origin of profitor surplus v;illI l.'. \\' 1.'means, receiving th e same alnoun!of val ue in one form of good-, foranother form of goods of tbl.' samevaluc that has oeclI di !'posl" ri o f).Iorc val ue cannot be obtainedfrom any article than the il1l10Ulltof va luc it posses

10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEWHAT A SOLDIER THINKS ABOUT W ARMiles Mal1eson, author andplaywright, saw the slaugther atthe front. His book of plays wassuppressed, and when he laterwrote HBlack Ell," that, too, cameunder the ban of the Britishauthorities. Malleson is a militantanti-militarist and is doing heroicwork in the cause of peace."I'm nOt going back. I am g0-ing to stop at home and say it's allmad . . . . I'm going to keep onsaying it-somebody's got to getsane again. It's all filthy-foullanguage - foul thinking - andstinking lots of bodies all about.Young men knocking the life outof men of their 'own age and oldmen feeling noble about it .... thewhole world gone mad."Miles Malleson, late private in aterritorial regiment, was tellinghow he hopes to fight fot peace. Aman of letters, he employed hi sfirst leisure when invalid alit o fthe amly to write his hard-earnedknowledge into two plays-a bookwhich the British go\·ernmentpromptly suppressed."it's all muddled-the beginning--out of our trellch into theirsthemen (:oming at you-their facesquite close-the shooting at them-the hellish n o i ~e and shoutingourmen with bayonets j somebody"sscream as cold steel went right intohim. The man made right at tllCiusta ~rey thing at first; I hadn't ashot leit and hit him with a knifein my hand- hit at hi s faceagainsthis teeth-and my handcame out with a lot of blood andthings. \Ve clutched and fel1-Iright on top of him-and the knifein my hand went right in hi sstomach-right in, I looked at hi sface-he was just my age-put myhand over the part that wasAn Interview with Miles Matlesonsmashed, and saw how good-lookioghe was. Then I raised myselfand took the kni ie out and he beganto scream. Oh, it was awful!I tried to kill him- it was the onlyway to put an end to it! I put myfingers round hi s throat andpressed and pressed (he could notstruggle much). and watched thelife die out of his eyes. Just beforeit died out altogether he put up hishand, 110t to take my fingers away,but to undo a button to find alocket. His fingers clutched roundit and suddenly, quite beautifullyand low . he spoke a girl's name.Then the pain all went out of hi seyes and he looked loving andlonging and hopeful. If only Iknew hi s name, or where he lived.I might go over after the warnnd tell his people it wasn't myfault. It isn't a soldier's job toget killed; it's his job to killandkill."They prate of 'fair fight I' Ifdvilians only knew what warmeans-all fighting is foul! Recruitersorate about 'repulsingcriminals.' 'protecting homes andwOlllen,' and the like, shout that 'ifyOll are attacked you've got to defendYOllrself.' D'yoll know, whenI heard all that last ? In theirtrenches. I was lying out all night,quite close to the German trenches.and I heard them laughing andtalking just as our chaps do, jokingabout things they're goingthrough, knowing that they mustclimb out next morning and notstand a dog's chance of being aliveat night. Great God, they're fine.all of them! Do you think theywould be to each other, monthafter month, if they did not boththink they \\;ere right-and theother wrong?muddle.Ifs all a bloody"There was a man in the Germantrenches-a Socialist-talkingagainst the war. They all gotfurious with him. They talked justas our chaps do--how they wereafraid of Russia and Franoc andEngland all against them; hownow that war had come they Illustprotect their wives and children.their homes and country. They toldeach other stories to prove whatbrutes we English were-stories ofwhat the Russians had donefilthythings-and the Frenchtroops. I don't know if the storiesare true, but they were just thesame stories we tell about the Germans.\Vho makes everybody believethat it is somebody else'sfault?;'Therc were two men in ourcompany from a dirty little streetout back there. 'What have I everdone for them before the war?\.vhat has this whole street of bighouses done about the beastlylittle streets just at our back doors- miles and miles of them--exceptto pretend they aren't there? It'sthe same in all other countries,But when somebody wants war weput expensive weapons il')to thehands of men we forced to live inugliness and tell them to go andkill one another. They do. That'sthe horrible part. They do it. \Veput them in uniforms, and yell'Form fours' at them until theywill do anything I All the youngmen in the world and the workingpeople who did not have anythingto do with starting the war aretearing onc another to pieces inscreaming agony. It ought to bestopped. . aren't there enoughsane people in the world to find away of s:topping it?~THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEI EDI'fED BY II $ 1 YIP S E L D 0 M II $11 LOUIS LEVICK IRE PORT OF THE NEW YORKSTATE CONVENTIONThe fifth annual convention of theNew York Sta te Federation ofYoung People's Socialist League s,held in the Bro nx September I St. 2ndand Jrd, was by far the most impo rt_ant s tate session of the Empire StateYi l)Sels. Plans of o rganizatio n andeducation were adopted which, ifcarried out, will greatly increasc theefficiency and strength of the NewYork Ic;ague.Nineteen delegates representingthirteen Y. P. S. Leagues andabout as many fraternal delegates attendedthe sessio ns o f the convention.The following are the delegatesthat were seoned: Albany, EdwardSmith : BlIl1alo, Edward Kai serand \Valter Murphy; Bronx, Is id oreDicker. Ella Rapport and LeonardJuster; Brooklyn. Samuel Stark. MaxLieberman and Louis \Veil; Jame~town,Axel V. Berggren; Manhattan,S imo n Herma n. Robert Spector andJ:u:k Duuillsky; Queens. W i\1i :lmPaul; Rochester, Mrs. Rose Suskindand Darwin B. Sherman; Syracuse,Jack Walters; Utica, Spcncer Williams;Watertown, David Berkwitz.The following fraternal delegateswere seated: Kew York State SocialistParty. Samuel Orr; LocalBronx Socialist Party. Max Schmerler:Pe nnsylvania Federation, S. T.Friedman: New Jerser Federation,Benjamin C. Green and Louis Cohen:The New York Ca1\. Jack Shornick:The Volkszcitung. Selmar Schocken :nand School. Bertha .. t ~lailly;Young Social ist s' ~ I agazi n e. JosephJudich, May Reinhardt Schockelland Louis Levick.The following committees wereelected: Organization and [ ed uca 4tion; Leonard Juster. Louis \Veil,Jack Dubinsky. Samuel Stark. SimonHerman. Edw=\Td Smith. I sid oreDicke r; ResolUI1Qns Co mmittee: Ro_bert Specto r. Max Lieuerman. Mrs.Rose Suskind, Darwin 13. Sherma n.William Paul. Congtilutio n Committee:Edward Kaiser. Jack \\"a1ter~,Axel \V. Berggren. Da\·id Berkwitzand Walter Murphy.The com'ention was o pened with abanquet. held at Ebling's Palm Garden,o n Saturday evening, September1. About 200 Y i ~ s els and Socialistsattended.The firs t business session was he ldS .II,day morning, September 2nd.The session was opened at II o'clockby S tatc Secreta ry Edward Kaiscr.who said in part:"The opening of the fifth annualconvent ion of Ihe New York StateFederation of the Y. P. S. L. finds U~at a IllOSt critica l time due to theworld war. A lthough the hour becritical, it is most opportullc for ourwo rk. but we should procee(l withcalmness and careful delihnltio n inall that we do."Ella Rapport. of the Bronx. wa~elected chairman for the day's ~essi o llwith Hobert Spector. of :\lal1hallall.as vice-chainnan. Louise :\,· us ladt.no t a delegate. a member of Circle 1.Bronx. was c hosen permanent secretaryof the cO Il \'elltion.The con\·enlion, in COllllllnn withthe Sociali st party oj America. reaffirmedits allegiance to the principk~of Intetllationalism and declared itsunalterable opp')sition to a ll warlohased lI]>on uatinn;JI a~>:ralH!l l l;llll"ntill' th e unanimous adoption o j a re so_lutiou opposing war aud conscription.Three re s () l lItion~ wrore adopt\'d althe afternoon session, o ne praisin.'!an{1 pledging sUPI,or t to those whohave been sent 10 jail for their COil·vietions; another reaffirming theirhelief in alld pkdging" th eir ma rll andfilla nrial Sllppo rt to woman _uITra",c.and the last indorsing the SocialistPany·s stand as promulga ted Ity the:SI. Louis con velilion and denouncingthe draft.The lo ngest and 1lI0st heaterl discu~sion was aroused h}' the war an,!conscription resolulion. which wasadopted. It rcads in part a s follows··'In common witil the SocialistT'art\· of America. we rl'affirm our allegia·llceto the principles of internationalismand \\·orkin~ class solidaritythe world (.'ver. and declare ou runalt erable .... I)positiou to all warsbasc:d upon national aggrandizement.commercial ri\·alry o r imperialisticdesigns.··The entranc..: of this count ry inthis war to make the world safe fordemocracy has be(1l marked bygradual and sinister encroachmentsupon :lnd curtailment of the basiea nd fundamen tal rights of freemen,sUllposed to be held in\·iolate by thefe:d eral constitution."The suppression of peaceful meetings.the a rrests and convictions of~I'cakers . the ,-urtai!ment and destruction o f our ratlical press, ha!llI:lde us COIllC to th e realization thatour vaunted J:mocr:;.cy is but illlIockhy. 1lI0uthld fo r the puq)OSe ofcu \·cring a multitude of crimes com··lIlilled in its name.··I~eali7.ing th! injusticcs wroughth)' the conscription :.cI, by the suppressionof fn,\·t!o m o j speech. ofpress and a B~ lllhlil~\·. \Ieterminedtha i cOlIscriJltiol) of hod iI's shall IlOtmean conscription of mi nds, Wt:, theyo ulig S o ciali s t ~ . pledge oursd\'e5 tothe foll o wing- course of action·"I. The full indorsement of SocialistParly's s tand. as promulgatedloy the, St. Lo uis convention of 1917.··2. :\ co ntinued propaganda aimingat {he restorauon o j a press freefrom ce ll sorshiJl ant! ~pcech freeirom supprc s ~i')II.3. Oq,ranizati!lll and support 01groups wo rking- for the npeal of theconscription :ICt.··4. Cn~·ieldinK oppositio n to thenoy S ~·O llt 1II0 \·,·lIIcnl, Ihe l

12 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEKEYSTONE STATE REPORTSGREAT ACTIVITYAI the reports from the differentcircles come in. tfSults clcarly showthat great acth·jty is on throughout theentire state of Pennsyh·ania. ComradeOtto Gornert. of Philadelphia,was elected as State EntertainmentDepartmt:nt' Director to 611 thevacancy made by Comrade Levinson.Comrade Edward Schum. ofPittsburgh. was elected State Organizerto !ill the vacancy' made byComrade Ploeger, who recently fC­,igned. Comrade Harry M. Ge r­rish. o f Philadelphia. was elected asPhiladelphia Local Secretary to succeedComrade L Pcrkess.The Philadelphia circles a rc "cryacti\'c along the linl::i of propagandaand are seen working in harmonywiththe Socialist Party of that city' Wilkes-Barrecirclt is holding a lawn social,tht receipts of which will go towardsthe Yipsel fund fo r the NewRand School lluilding.North Side Pittsburgh circle iscarrying on a membership campaignwhich looks to I>e vcry succc,;sfui.Pittsburgh English and Jcwish circlesare increasing their IlIcmbershipright along and arc keeping in ,'cryd ost louch with the State Office.Most of the McKeesport Yipse1sare busy working in harmony witht he Socialist parly in tryin·g to bringabout a Dayton-like victory. Th reeYipsels a rc candidates for school directorson the Socialist ticket.Scranton circle repOrls very acti"ework. In Reading all Yipse1s arcworking in harmony w ith the Socialistparty in s .....:uring 1000 new subscribersfor the New York Call.Greenville circle reports interestingeducational me~tings. A new circleh

14This pile i. conducted by the Newjene,. State Committee of the Youn,People', Soc.iali.t Luaue. Addre" .all correspondence to State Secre-­tary, Louis Coben. 10 Twelfth Ave.,Paterson, N. J.-'--STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT­TEEGeneral Orpniser-Allistant OrpMet-Ben. Hinchan,100 Union St., Trenton.Secretary-Louis Coben. 10 TwelfthAvenue, Paterson.Financial Secretary-Treasurer-Jean.nette Hellet, 279 Belmont Avenue,Newark.Educational Director-Solomon Effrein.524 Henry St., South Amboy.Our Comr~de Yipsel s~-The fan season is fast approaching:l nd we must plan fo r lectures. conductstudy dasses and hold sociablesand entertainments.These thinKs among others 3fC a,\,jla\ part of your organization li feand a source oi unmc3surablc goodto yourselves and those who 3fC interestedin attending your fall andwinter affairs. \Ve wilt grow stronge-ras we do things in the- prope- rway, and the proper way to do thingsis to have every member do his o rher share of the work.At present this office, in cooperationwith State Educational DirectorSolomon EHrein, is making preparationsfor the state-wide inter-cirtledebating contest and lecture course.This work requires a great deal ofattention. To make it the successit ought to be, the coope-r:t tion o fe-very circle IUUSt be- had. You willsoon rece-ive word on this work fromComrade Effrein. Kindly give himyour immediate- attention on all matte-TS.I n all your transactions re-iativeto Educational \Vork, address Mr.Solomon Effre-in , 524 He-nry St., S.Amboy, N. J.The next mee-ting of t.he StateCommittee w ill be ht:ld Sunday, October7th, at 3 P. M., at the headquartersof the Elizabeth Y. P. S. 1-,635 Elizabeth Ave., Elizabeth, N. J.Yours comradely,Louis Cohen, State Sec'y.The State Efficienc:y Contest duringthe first month of its operationhas shown good results. The StateOffice get.! the monthly reports frommost of the leagues :tnd is thus en ..THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINENEW JERSEY ACTIVITIESabled to keep accurate records andto compile the status of the Statemove ment accordingly. Nothingsucceeds like c:ooperation from theCircles.The interest displayed by the circlesin their efforts to capture thepennant can be seen from the recordof the July 1917 returns as follows:Circle Passaic:. I point; Circle I ,New:trk, 1: Ci rcle 3, Newark. 1; Elizabeth.1: Ka rl Havlic:ek (West H o­boke-n), 1; Linden, I ; Kn rney, 1;T renton, 1; Guttenberg, 7; J~rseyCity. 2: p:J.t~rson. 13; Circle 2, Newark,15 ; Penh Amboy, 31; P lainfield,31, and Circle I, Camden, 31.S. E. C. MINUTESThe- State- Executi ve- Committeemet Septembe:r 9th at the NewarkL'\bor L yceum, Bertha N. Bader, o fNewark. in th ~ chair.Tht minutes o f the pre\'ious mee:t·ing were approve:d as read.Bills amountin g to $2.25 wefe o r~tiered paid.Communication: From R udolphKolle-r advising that the- typewriterust"d by the state: organize-r be- repaire-dat cost o f $15, ordered concurred;from Jeanne-tte Heller, ad­\'ising on di"bandme:nt of Circles 4and 5 of Newark; 11I0t;011. that werleclare- the charte-rs of these twOleaguse to be null and "oid, carried;from Lo uis Lnick, editor of the y,P. S. L. column in the N. Y. Call .announcin g move of the New YorkY. P. S. L. convention held lecently,to de-vise ways and means to takeover the Young Sociali sts' Magazineand that a committee of two each beelected from the New York and NewJersey Leagues to decide in whatway the l\lagazine can be taken over:motion, that we reassut our standfor a national owned and controlledoffie-ial organ, in accordance with thepress resolution as passed at our 1917convention and that twO d e l ~gates be~Iected to attend the conference. carried. Commi ttee nlen elected: SamuelFeilowitz and Louis Cohen.The State- Secretary reported: thatduring the month of August. 12 outof 15 leagues sent in their monthlyreport cards for July, no nominationsw ere reeeived for the office ofstate organizer, membership accountfo r /uly stands: on roU 196, goodstanding 593, in arrears 203, result ofthe vote for N,tional Secretary, with7 leagues voting gives Wm. F. Kruse,96; and Albert B. Wt:iss, 38, Orderedreceived.Motions: T hat election o f a StateOrgal,1 izer be refe:rred to State Committee; that the matter of startin g acard index system be deferred indefinitely;that the advisability of join.ing tlle People's Council in a body bereferred to State Committee; that thefo llowing amendment to the stateconstitution be rderred to the StateCommittee for endorsement. to submitit as a rderendum to the membershipof the State organization,carrie-d," That the State Executive Committe-eshall ' give Ilarticular atte-ntion tothe work of organization throughoutthe state. The Ge neral Organize rshall appoint a Deputy Organiz e-r foreach county whe-re a league has beenestablishe-d and officially recognized.The Dc-puty Organizer wheneverpossible shall be- a member of theState Executive Committee and apportionedto the county of his residence-.They shall do everythingwithin the-ir power to faci litate thebusiness of the Slate League in mat·t eTS within their jurisdiction andshall always be und e- r the instructionof the Ge- neral Organizer and theState Executive ommitte-e."Motion : That we recommend tothe State Co mmittee that F rankHellttle be dropped from the StateExecutive Committe- e- for failure toa ttend two successive meetings with­'Out submitting an e-xcuse. carrie-d.Louis Cohen, State Secretary.West Hoboken Yipse1s will holdHawaiian Costume BanThe Karel Havlicek Circle of WestHoboken has made all arrangementsfo r the monster Hawaiian CostumeBall to be held Saturday evening,October 27th, Nepivoda's Hall, 420Spring Street. Tickets will be 25c.,A Hawaiian Orchestra has beensecured to provide dance music andthe h all will be given a Hawaiian ap·pearance.Every member is working hard tomakethis affai r one long to be re·membered, Prizes and souvenirswill be dnstributed. All Yipsels andfriends are asked to attend and enjoythemselves, A circular letter hasbeen sent to all leagues and Social·ist auxiliary bodies, so Quite a largeattendanceis expected. Ten per centof the proceeds will go to the CountyTreasury and the rest will be tlse&for other educational purposes and tobuy literature.The circle also decided to buy anddistribute 1000 copie-s of the leaflet,"The Price We Pay."The only Bohemian Socialist paperin this vid nity, the "Obrana," afte-rbeing twice Su ppressed was finallydenied second dass postage rates.The circle members will distributethe " Obrana" to the subscribers inlJiudson County e\'ery wee-k.An essay contest will be held onthe History of the Karel HavlicekCircl e. All wi ll be read at a literarymeeting to be- !leld October 10th, andthe winners will be decided by theaudience.The members nlso col lected $7.00fo r the People's House. I t was decidedto have a gymnastic mee-ti ngnery \Vednesday, beginning September12th. Frank Patak was eJectedgymnastic director. Hereafter thccircle will also ha ve- one social amonth. The Fifth Annive-rsan' Celebrationwill be held some-ti~,e inDecember. O n Sunday, September9th, a ba nquet wa ~ held in honOr ofComrade V. Vanura, the Cirde's formerDramatic director.A renewed effort will be- ma de tosecure subsc riptions to the Y. S. ~r.Alexande-r T e-xcl was ele-r:ted Re-­cording Secretary ill place of \ V.Eichoff, who has resigned from theleague.The members of a local ill a subur·ban section were di scussing preparationsfor dection. One- Italian co m­rade of long standing membershipsaid that for years now, he had tiredhimself out visiti ng the polfin g placeswhic h were widely separated and hethought that this year the pa rtyought to hire all automobile- for th e­day. Several of the e-omrades agreedwith him, but suggested that it wou ldbe unnecessary to hire- a car as ComradeX had one and would probablybe wilJiJ1g to loan it. The mover ofthe scheme objected, however, sayingthat it ought to be a la.rge car. forfou r or five people. On being told bythe others that the car in Questionwas a Ford and seated 'five, he s~ id ,"Ob, it's a regular Ford?" Thisbrought out a laugh from the gather.ing and so by way of explanation headded, "Y' know, dere's a half a Fordwhat's got only seats for two."THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEG1IReport on People's CouncilBy William F. KruseBy vote of tlle National Committeeof the Y. P. S. L. three de lega teswere- chosen 10 rtprese-nt the Y. P. S.L. at the meeting of the People'sCouncil scheduled to be held at !o.IinneapolisOn September lst. T o economize on our expe-nses the localsecretaries of :Minne-apolis and St.Paul, and the National Se-c n·tary.wh o had to make the Irip anYII .1}' tJattend a National Exe-cutive C011lm itte-eme-tting, were chosen as d('I "l:'a tesArrangeme-nts were- made for a Y. P.S. L. organization me-eting of IheTwin City Ie-agues for Aug. 31 st. andI left Chicagt) the night before. afte-rspeaking at tl\'O me-etings that sa mee\'e-Tling, to get to Millneapolis ontime.Meanwhile- big things we-re happe:n_ing. Special trains he-aring hundredsof delegates from al l over the coun ­try were on the way. But the- Go\'­elnor of ~finnesota, overriding~fay o r \'an Lear's welcome andpractically suspending the state ('o n.stitution ,forbade the mee tlllg'.T housands of ~o ldiers swarm('d onthe stree-ts of U inn(';l.po lis. and e-ye r},­thing ready to spring the trap. TheGOvern or of Nortll Da kota invite(tthe coun cil to come to his state. anin l'italion grntefu ll}' receil'e:d amionl), the J,!rcnt distance- to he tra\'f'l.ed preventing it ~ acce-ptance. MayorHoall of Milwaukee n('xt invited theAll circles are reminded to keepOctober 27th ope- n and to gO to theWest H oboken Yipscl's HawaiianCostume Ball.Council meeting to hi ~ citro and itKEEP THIS FROMsecme:d that Ih e Governor of "Visconsinwould interpose no ohjection. AnHENRYFORD('fi'ort wa s thereupon made to hol (1the m('e-ting in Hudson. \Vi scon~in.riR'ht acros; the state line fmlll Min­II~ SO t.1. and wi thin commuting rli~.tance of th e T win Citie-s. But Hu'!·SOn has the reputation of heing therougl1est, toughest tnwn in threestate- so It has a prize fighting ring inwhich a!J ba ttles too rough andbloody fo r any olher city are pulledoff in perfec t safety. When the com.mittee made a trip to inspect con­"ention facilities they were met by ariotous mob of "patriotic" roughnecksand ",ere fo rced to return. Anall day session was held by some- ofthe early arrival5 at Minneapolis. andthe decision was made to get togetherwith the £alltern delegates then approachingChicago, so as to finallydetermine the convention city. Thetrip to Chicago was made that nightwithout furth er eventAt Chicago a Convention was heldwhich was attended by over 500 accrellite-dde-legates. It call1e- to orderas originally sc he-duJed, sa\'e that theloca tion hall bee-n s lig htly shifted.Plans for teillporary organizationwefe- made, :t nominating committeeelected 10 chOOse a tcmporary exec_,uil'e cOlllmittee of de\'ell (w hichl:t!er wa s increased to sCI'cnteen)SOllie short specches delil'ere-d , andthe org'aniz;ttioll well started. SeymourStedman 01 Chicago wa s chair_man. while jallll's H. Maurer and JobIlarriman were made vice.chairmen.~carcdy had the lIleeti ll g gone wellunder way Ihat about a hundred polireoftieers, In 1I1lifoT111 allll plaincI,) thl'~, cllt('Ted the hall and upOn in _:>Iruc lions frOIll the go\'c:rll or orllt-reuth e meeting to disperse. T hevrdl'r was complil'd wilh.\\'ilhin the !lext twenty-four hoursthe political si tu ation here made itpossible to hold another session. TheMayor oruered the police- departmentto protect the meeting as long as Ihelaws of the land were 11 0t be:ing \'io-1;ltcd, and demanded to know by whatright the GOI'crnor commanded thel'Ity's poliet· force. The Gove rn or'sreply was the despatch oi fOur companiesof militia under the commandor Adjulant-Gl'lleral Dickson, st raight{rolll Springtield by special I r:UII. atrip of ti "e h o ur~. ).!eallwhile theconvention was meeting. a constituti'lilwas .1dOple-(\, a statement On th e"Terms oi Peace" was concu rred in,o ther committees pro"ided for. andtill' organizatio!1 was pe-rfected to~uc h a degree that 110 further interruptionswould destroy th e workdO ll e. Each state delegation llJel~e llarately and elected two of it3numhcr to ll1('et with the cxecutil'eboardshou ld suc h action becomenecessary. E,"cry train brought inrH'W de- legates, until we had almost1.500. In the place of the two localsecretaries designated by ('lIr Na_tional COlllmittee. Samuel H. H oIland. a young attorney and memberof the Northwest Y. P. S. L.. and~Ir s. A. W. Kruse, Ci ty Sec retary o fthe Chicago Leagues, secve-d asYipse:! delegates. I was one of thetiro delegates chosen to represent thestate.The convention adjourned with iumost pressing work done, and immediatelythe hall was turned Ove rto a Jewish wedding party th:tt hadbeen awaiting possession for the pasttwo hours. Our delegates dispersed15

16 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINI!. and wlnt'about their work, and (orty_five minutu lattr the fou r companiuof infantry, with the intrepidAdjutant-General at the bud, raided-the wedding I The people were verymuch excited aDd not a little aggrieved,but the only casualty wuthe loss of General Dickson's goldbat cord which one of the brides..maids stole as a !I0UVen,lf.In the meahtime. committee meet.ings were being held and a paper waspublished, and all of the work was• finished ah\10st as well as it CQuidhave been in open mcr:ting. In factthe suppression helped unite radical!of every sort whose path of actionfor the lime being lay along exactlythe same road. Until liberty of expressionand action is restored 'inthis country "cry little can be donetoward the complete emancipation 01the working class. The detectivesergeanthimself is said to have remarked that "These people camehere a scrapping, back-biting mob,they left a united organized body."So much fOr the externals. As tothe inside doings of the Council, weneed only say that 110 provision hasbeen adopted that in any way con­Biets, to my mind, with the principleof international Socialism, or of theY. P. S. L. Its statement o f war aimsare the people's aims, stated in termsthat best suit the exigencies of theoccasion. The People's Council hasno t endorsed the Socialist Party, orany other party, or the y, P. S. L ,or any other specifiC orl\anization.The People's Council has, however,succeeded in establishing a war-timeunion ground for ali radical forces.and a program that all call wholeheartcdlyendorsc.If there be an)' doubt of the succusof this gathering, representingove r two million peop\e, we need butcontrast it against the performanceof tbe so-cal\ed •. American Alliancefor Labor and Democracy" whichheld its cOllvention (originally intendedto counteract ours) in Min·neapolis, after we had been drivenaway by the forces oi "law andorder." \Vhere we encountered everyconceivable governmental opposition.they had their way pa\·ed. but wberewe had the solid backing of massesof the people. they had but a coHectionof erstwhile leaders whose formergood work ::llld ~utation servedonly to emphasize the masses' repudiationof their betrayal. Thegathering at Minneapolis was anawful frost, they had 270 delegatescheerlessand discouraged. At theSTeat Auditorium seating 1,200 people,their first mass meetinr, with SamuelGompers, John Spargo a nd WinfieldGaylord speaking, only 600 peopleshowed up. At the next meeting,w ith two other erstwhile Socialistsspeaking- Charles Edward Russelland J. Stitt Wilson, only 800 peoplewere present, whil e at tbe last meeting,with Gompers and ClarenceDarrow as the attractions, the placewas hardly half lilled. It lasted onlythree days, but that was plenty, afrost absolutely, showing the utterfutility and uselessness of any numberof big names if tlley are notbacked up by o rganized masses. Itproved how far ahead are the massesin comparison with those who weretheir self-appointed leaders.The People's Council meeting wasa great success. The very ruthlessnessof the go\'ernment in suppreSllingit proved vne of the g reatestsources of cohesion and fightingspirit. It will not bring about themilleniullI, it will not in Ol)' opiniondevelop into an all-conquering politicalparty, but what it will do is tounite at least for a time all radicaland progressive clements whose positionon the war and on the preservationof political democracy coincides.In so doing it wil1 accomplish a valuableaid to a clearer understandingof prescnt conditions on the part ofthe American people.Supplementary Report on the People'sCouncil to the Y. P. S. L .By William F. KruseA report has already been given onthe main sessions and no doubt allour nlembers are fam iliar with theconditions that surround and whatled up to the meting. Suffice to saythat although we practically fin ishedour main work so far as the delegateswere concerned, there werenevertheless some further detail s tobe straightened out, and this workwas done by chosen delegates and bymembers of various committees electedby the convention.This further meeting was held"somewhere in the United States"and lasted three days. I attended.not as delegate of the league, but asrepresenting the Resolutions Committeeof the Council and as Staterepres~ntat i "e ~ I ected by the e n tir~Illinois delegation fO r that purpose.The sessions were highty interesting,but aside from the better satisfactionof the delegates and the electiOnof part of the Ex~c uti ve andGen~ r a l Committ~es there was: verylittle p ra~ ti ca l result. W e were auccessfulhowever in securing ScottNearing as Organizing Chairman andin making our plans for future work.In the main this work is to consisto f bringing pressure to bear on Congressand the various State Legislatureswhenever a crisis arises. Thiscau be done throug'h a w~lI O)'ganizedlegislative department a t Washingtonfunc tioning through the o rganizationheadquarters at New York andin the other large cities and their\"arious divisional headquarters.Ther~ ar~ many members of Congresswho really do not know justhow the plain fo lks back home feelabout public questions, and a few lettersand personal visits from some ofthem may have a very 11~lpfu l effect.A p~rsistent effort was made bysingle-taxers and others of rather indi,·idualistic: bent, to put ov~ r a newconstitution embodying proposedprinciples of democratic managementwhich while "ery fin~ sounding intheory seemed a very dangerous experimentfo r our stormy petrel... mong organizations, the People'sCouncil, to embark upon. The Conventiondecided to refer it to thenewly ele~ted cxecuti\'c committeefor consideration, and to have itacted upon at the next ConstituentAssembly. By that tIme the need foremergency mc.lsures will probablyhave passed

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEAnother Me§sage on the MagazineBy William F. KruseJAn ap~1 has been sent out to all leagues and individualhustlers, calling upon them to send in subscriptionsand other support to the Young Socialists'Magazine, pending the time it is taken over by theNational Office. As this issue goes to press nofurther news can be reported since the NationalExecutive Committee of the Socialist Party, on whosedecision the question finally rests, has not since held ameeting. In the meantime, however, many leagueshave begun circulating their subscription lists, andquite a number of new subs and pledges have beenturned in.publication of a magazine is. This appeal for helphas surprised many of them.We arc meeting with a loyal response. Everywheresubscription lists arc being circulated. In many platesthe leagues are running special benefit socials for themagazine. In many others promises have been madefor all kinds of help.The only way to convince the National ExecutiveCommittee that the Young Socialists' Magazine mustbe kept alive is to act NOW. Send your subscription!to the National O ffice-three thousa nd new subs andbundle orders will make a mighty impressive argulIlent.If you nm a benellt social, be sure to send inThe troubles of this magazine have been, from it:!inception, mainly financial. 1t is not subsidi zed by Lhe money you make AT ONCE. Promises andthe big business interests to teach youth to be meekand submissive to the demands of our industrialmasters. Our purpose is to make young rebels thatpledges of future support arc all very .encouraging,and fine in their place, but what we need now isACTION.will put an end to the capitalist system. So while almostIf all the Yipscl enlhusiasm is coined into action,any boys' or girls' or Sunday School paper canget all the advc;:rt ising and endowments it desirestheYoung Socialists' Magazine must depend on itsand all our whole-hearted promises arc turned intocold cash, there is no doubt but that the magazinewill begin the most successful part of ils whole career.own readers for all the support it gets. Its readers But results must be shown very quickly, else there wiltare young people--young radicals. They are not be no Young Socia li sts' Magazine left to save. Thepossessed of much money, and what little they have Young People's S6cialist League ha s undertaken someis daimed and called for by many agencies. Our pretty big things in the past- it has never failed (.Illyoung readers are full of the joy of life, and most of any undertaking. It is going to make the biggest andthem do not quite realize what a serious business the best success of all this lime. Just watch our smoke.The Time i. Ripe. andRotten Ripe. lor Change.The time is ripe, and rotten ripe,for change;Then let it come; I have no dreadof whatIs called for by the instinct ofmankind.4t. us call tyrants tyrants, * • •For' m~ in ~rnest have no timeto wasteIn patching fig leaves for the; nakedTRUTH ...•.New times demand new measure!and new men;The world advances, and in timeoutgrowsThe laws that in au: father's dayswere best,And, doubtless, after us, somepurer schemeWill be shaped out by wiser menthan we,Mad~ wiser by th~ steady growthof TRUTH.. -J';"" Russdl Lowell.Justice should remove the bandagefrom her eyes long enough todist inguish between the vi cious andthe unfortunate.-Robt. G. I~rsoli.\Vhen perfectly civilized one ofthe necessities of man's life will bethat the lives of others shall be ofsome value to them.-IngersotI.Liberty is the air of the soul, thesunshine of life. Without it theworld is a prison and the universean infinite dungeon.-I~gersoll.

tTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE"And No One Shall Work for Money"It is usually put forth as aknockdown argument that if mendid not have to work for bread andbutter they would not work at aU.It is a.ssumed as a matter ofcourse that money is the representativeof the only universal motiveof human energy, and that if allwere assured a good living nobodywould tum a hand.I do not believe this. I believethat money is not a legitimate motiveat all. To i11ustrate, let usimagine that state of the world, towhich we will come some day,where wages exist no more.Let us suppose we have so developedthe state that every childis assured of care and due training.No ignorant, unskilled, or criminallydefective beings are broughtinto the number of independentadults. If capable of decent lifeon arriving at manhood they aretaken care of in proper institution,.-Let us suppose also that everyperson is fed, housed, and clothedby the state. No man or womanneeds to labor to make a living.The entire motive oi subsistence iseliminated.Instead of this resulting in theparalysis of all energy, it would bebut the beginning of progress. AsMoryh Sheridan says: "When ourexistence is comfortably assured,the battle of life will have begun inearnest."Men, with their present stock ofideals, would of course droop intoidleness under such circumstances;but men now differ from men thenalmost as much as a hog differsfrom a man. It is frankly to beadmitted that altruistic feelingsand ci\'ic conscinence must begreatly strengthened. Condition.1l0w are the only practical ones forhalf-barbarous creatures such aswe are at present.But let us be specific. What motivesprec:iseJy will supersede personalgain?Instead of work for money therewiU be craftsmanship for the joyof it. People now love to make,do, and manage tiiings, for fun,when the things are what they enjoydoing. The problem of civilizationis to change labor into craft,and thus into play.Machinery is more and more replacingthe drudgery of hands.The steam dredger does the workof a hundred hand shovels; carrythat on a hundred years and imaginethe vast amount of disagreeableeffort that will be tak~n from men.There will be the enthusiasm ofart, of music, of letters and science.Even now the best work here is notat all for money and is poorly paid.The joy of home making is nota money-paid pleasure. The wivesand mothers of the future will beas busy and as happy as now.\Ve are all sensitive to publicopinion. The scorn of our fellowsis a sharp whip. As we progressit will grow sharper. Men will beASHAMED TO BE IDLE. Humanbeings work as hard to avoidcontempt as to get money. To havethe esteem and praise of the communitywill move men as powerfullyas to make gain.]11 a. wage-free democracy weshall not only have ),letter poemsand paintings and scienti~c discoveriesand music, but street carswill be run better, groceries andmilk wi ll be of better quality andbetter distributed, meals will bebetter cooked, clothes will be bettermade, and all the little, n~rywork of the world better done, becausealways a large part of thepeople can do these things and cannotwrite poetry nor . composemusic.You remember Tom Sawyer'sgetting the boys to whitewash hisfenoe, when he made it SEEMFUN to them?That is plain human nature.And I believe all men will do moreand better work when they shallwork because it is fun to them, andwhen not to work will only meanthe conbempt of their fellows.And, take it now, the people whonever have to care for bread orclothing are about as energetic asthe farmhands, with, of course,notable exceptions among the pervertsof society and of "society'S"hangers on."Our government is based on theagreement both tacit and implied,that the minority shalt always havethe rights of free speech, of freeproess, and of free agitation, in Ofderto convert itself if possiblefrom a minority into a majority. Assoon as these nghts of the minorityare denied, it will inevitably resortto secret meetings, conspitacie"s andfinally force. In times of stl1CSS, itmay be extremely embarrassing forthe majority to be hampered inquick, decisive action by an obstinateminority; but nevertht-Iess therecognition of the right of the minorityis our sole bond of unity."For this reason, I repeat thatany attempt to interfere with therights of free speech and free pressis a blow at the very ioundations ofour govemment."-Franklin H.Giddings, on the Espionage Bill.Nobility is a question of character,not of birth.-Ingersotl.Labor must open the door ofNature's storehouse before it canbe free.Common sense is very uncommon.-HoraceGreeley:THE YOUNG SOCIALISt'S' MAGAZINEABOUT BANANAS}(mong the many eXcellentBy Marion W rightbac~ard to the early days when split down through the middlethings which came to be generallyonly hand implements were used with a sharp knife when it isaccepted in the United for farming. About 1855 the abou t eighteen months old, itStates during the Nineteenth Cavendish, or Chinese variety will be found that the bunch isCentury may be listed the yellow,mellow: banana, along withwas introduced into the islandsand proving much superior tvalready formed within the stem.That is, if it happens to be atomatoes and Socialism. the wild variety, was adopted plant that will bear. Some bananaAt the beginning of the centurya tomato was called a "loveapple" and was considered poison.for culture . • A[ the close of theCivil war in the States a smallexport trade had been worked l· Pplants do not bear fruit.Proper tillage and care determineat a very early age the sizeAfter some fifty years the by Hawaii. As the Central and number of the flowers whichtomato was finally accepted, but American and West ]ndian are first to blossom on theSocialism, by its present name, planters did not begin the culture" bunch" before the frtlit forms,. was unknown. Those who professedof the fruit in earnest until and like flowers, li ke fruit. Afterits prindiptes were consideredsome twenty years later the the flowcr forms no power underfit subjects for the gal­Hawaiian planter had an excel­the su n can increase the numberlows.lent opportunity to capture the of bananas on the forth-comingThe banana made its bow to banana trade, but he did not do bunch. The planter ca n see thethe public much later and under "0 for the reason that at about size of his crops many months Inl11uch more favorable circumstances.this time the introduction of ma­advance, fi guring out th e lossesUnlike the tomato it chinery made the production of from disease, insect pests, etc.gave off a seductive, pleasing sugar on his lands much more llanana plants grow from 15odor, and unlike Socialism it did profitable than bananas. It is to 20 feet high and the leaves arc.not "hurt" business. When our the same in our other island possessionssometimes a dozen feet long bygrandparents were ~ttle folksto a great extent. The two feet wide. Thc stem poV!!they did not have any bananasunless they lived in a seaportgreater profits arising from theculture of sugar causes the bananaout of the stalk. sometimes th reeon nne tree and turn !'; dow n sotown. It was not until 1870 thatbusiness to be neglected and Ihat when the fruit forms theone Capt. Baker nosed aroundthe island of Jamaica. in his twomastedschooner and brought offa cargo of the fruit. Like Adamlittle scientific study has beendevoted to its culture.At the present time there ispractically no selection of plantsbanan as arc pointing up insteadof dow n.After the ba nanas mature thest::1Ik grad uall y dies down andm .th his apple, the American with a view of multiplying then a ncw shoot comes up trompublic nibbled its banana and plants whose heredity is good. the roots. The fruit is pickedfound it good and the bananabusiness sprang into being atPlants are selected indifferentlyfrom those which have producedgreen for export and stowedaway in the holds of ships oronce. Today we import around large bunches and those which dark warehouses where it ripen!!!.4S,OOO,

cellent eating and figure foryourself how it must taste rightoff the tree.And it is not alone as a fruitthat the "banana is used by thepeople in its native land. Whenthe fruit is puUed green afl'Oproperly dried an excellent flour;s made. which is used for ahoutevery purpose to which wheatflour is adapted. This is not anarticle of commerce, but is usedextensively by the natives.There are red bananas and bananasfive times as large as anyseen in the markets, to be seen inthe home ports of the fruit. Butthese varieties are so perishablethat they cannot be shipped. 1nfact there are about as manyvarieties of bananas as there areof potatoes.Some agitation is being carriedon now in the Hawaiian islandsto have the governmenttake hold of the banana industry.Some lands unsuitable Cor sugarcane would produce the Cruit andwith a trade built up with PacificCoast cities Hawaii "Iould havea great market at her very door.At present the growers oC the islandsare unorganized and theyare at the mercy of the com mis- .sion merchants of the coast citlesto whom they ship their product.The banana is a rich article offood as well as a toothsome fruitand its use and culture should beencouraged.They are not religious; they areonly pew rpnters.-G. B. S."The nation. that has the schools,has \4e future."-Bismarck.Peace or War? Why shouldn'tthe ~ple .decide?He 19ves his ~untry best whostrives to make it best.-Ingersoll.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' IoIAGAZINETHE MARSEILLAISE(A new version for English singers written to fit the French tune)Ye toilers of the nations,Both serfdom and misery shallStand Corth in every land.vanish.No longer foes or strangers,Raise Freedom's banner high,But comrades, hand in 'hand- Her day is drawing nigh.But comrades, hand in hand. March on 1 march on 1Joined in this noble purpose, Hearts brave and strong.From want and hunger to free March on to liberty.The children of humanity,That goodness and happiness mayflourish.Raise Freedom's banner high,The Day is drawing nigh.March on I march on IComrades of all climes.March on to liberty.Too long with sordid tyrantsYe patient ones have borne,'Who have your faithful serviceRequited with poverty andscom­Requitedscorn.withpovertyandEndure it now no longerJ oin in a world~wide band,Resolved that out of every landFreedom of Criticism(From Report of U. S. IndustrialCommissi~n)I t is axiomatic that a governmentwhich can be maintained onlylly the suppression of criticismshould not be maintained. Furthenuoreit is the lesson of historythat attempts to suppress ideas results only in their more rapidpropagation.Not only should every barrier tothe freedom of speech be removed,• • • but every reasonable opportunityshould be afforded forthe expression of ideas and thepublic criticism of social institu~tions.Ye valiant Sons of Morning.Spring forth to win the way;And Daughters of the Dawning\Vith song shall greet that day­Shall greet that glorious dayWhen nation shall join with nationTo shatter OpPl1eSsion's might,Bring in the reign of truth andright,And justice and fellowship tocherish.Raise Freedom's banDer high;That Day is drawing nigh.March on I march on IComrades of all climes.March on to liberty.H. Tompkins.A Londoner who was staying inScotland recently had need of legalassistance. He went up to a sensiblelooking man in the street andbegan: "Pardon me, sir; but areyou a resident of this t9wn 7""Wed." was the cautious reply,"I've leeved here a matter 0' fiftyyear."If Ah I then perhaps you can helpme," went on the visitor. "I'mlooking for a criminal lawyer.Have you one in this town?"The Scotsman dr'opped his voioeto a confidential whisper as heanswered:uWe hiv, but we pinna ~ ableto prove it ap'in~ him.let. He'sower iharp."THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEWHAT DO fHE SOCIALISTS WANT?It is far ~asioer to understandwhat the Socialists do want afterone understands what they do notwant. The contrast between thecapitalist system and the new orderproposed by the Socialists-tlliscontrast helps immensely in securinga clear understanding of whatthe Socialists want and also whythey want what "hey want. Butbefore I tell you what the capitalistsystem is, in its chief outlines, leIlIle state in simple propositionssome of the leading result ,: of thecapitalist system:First.-Lapitalism splits socid1into two industrial classes, namely,the class that, as producers, usesthe industrial foundations of societyand receives wages, and theclass that owns the industrial foun·dations of society and takes profits-takes as profits the total annualindustrial product except just sufficient(called wages) to keep theworkers in tolerable working(producing) conditions. (Rent andinterest are different names forprofits.)Second.-The industrial interestsof the two classes are in funda·mental conflict; and this conRictcannot be closed, or "adjusted," or"composed," or " harmonized" inany way whatever as long as capi·talism lasts, because one class, theworking class, sells labor JX)wer forwages, and the other class, the capitalistclass, buys this labor powerand pays wages for it. Now, theinterests of the buyer of a thingand the interests of the seller ofthat thing are never the same andcannot be harmonized. Apply thisprinciple to the purchaser and tothe seller of a pound of sugar or aton of coal. Apply this principle toBy Prof. George R. Kirkpatrickten hours of labor power---carefully.Third.-The capitalist class understandsthis capitalist systemand, perfectly aware of its advantagesfor themselves, they make useof every social institution and ofevery pol itica l party (except olle)to protect the capitalist system, toprotect the capitalist class, whilethey fleece, boss and Aim-flam theworking-class.Founh.- The working class donot understand-are not pennittedto understand-this capitalist system,and, being ignorant of thepower and cunning of the system,the workers accept their fate underthe capitalist system 'withol,t comtlai"togainst tile system-just asIllany chattel slaves attributed theircondition under slavery, not to thechattel slave system, but to the individualmaster they happened tohave unde r the systelll.No\\' let me tell you what arethe foundation and lh e method andthe purpose of capitalism.First.-The foundation of capitalismi ~ th e private ownership oflhe industri al foundations of saciety-ofsuch things as mills,mines, quarries. forests, railroads,and so forth-the things the workers,as producers. have to use orstarve. This is the real secret ofthe employers' power over theworker.Second.-The method of capitalismis the private control anddespotic management of the industrialfOWldations of society.Third.-The purpo!e of capitalismis profits-profit! for the capitalistclass-profits for the specialbenefit of the c1as! that owns theindustrial foundations of society.Capitalism is an industrial systemfor the special benefit of a rulingclass as much as chattel slavervwas an industrial system for th~special benefit of a part of society.Now, the one politica.l party in allthe world that is against this capitalistsystem of industry is the Socialistparty; and every crownedparasite, every dollar-marked employer-aliof them Illark the Socialistparty as the ODe politicalparty of and for the working class.And what, now, does this Socialistparty propose as a substitutefor the capitalist sy:.tem?First.-Tlle new foundat ion:The social ownership, that is, thepublic ow nership, of the sociallyusable, industrial wealth-that is,the public ownership of the chiefmaterial means of production.To illustrate: We propose theprivate owuersh ip of whatever isnecessary for the proper degree ofprivacy of life-such as the home.the piano, the automoltile for per­SOllal lise, etc., but we propose th epublic ownership of the forest andquarry and JIline material s, and ofthe factories and machinery usedin making such things.Second.-The ne\\' method: Thesoei:.! cont rol. the democratic managemcnt,of the socially usablemeans of production.The new method will be themaximum practicablc ckgree ofdemocratic management of industry-which is the only true line ofescape from the present despoticcontrol of the industrial life of theworkers.Third.-The new purpose: Theproduction of goods will be primarilyfor soc ial se~lce-- for all

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS" MAGAZINE•the people-instead of profits for service is anarchy or communismpart of the people.or atheism or free Jove.Fourth.-The new deal:Theself-employment of an who arewilling to work-by means of theoint ownership and joint controlof the th ~ngs the worRers mustuse collectively in productioD, eachto receive the product of his laborundimin:shed by rent, interest andprofits.This is the heart of the Socialistplatfoml. This is the core of theSocialist program of reconstruction.This part-the four propositionsabove-wiU never be "stolen"or "appropriated" by Bryans, LaFollettes, Roosev.e1ts, Progressives,PopUlists, Independents, Citizens'parties, or "Radicals." NothingJess than this would free the workingclass, and nothing less than thefreedom of the working class willsatisfy the Socialists. The Amen­C!).D Revolution of the eighteenthcentury freed the American coloniesfrom the political control ofthe British Empire. And the quiet.peaceful revolution p ~oposed bythe Socialists is to set the workingclass free from the industrial cOntrolof the capitalist class. No otherpolitical party for a moment proposesthe freedom of the workingclass.This mutualism in industry willnot interfere with private affairs,such as religion and the family life,any morc than the mutual ownershipof tl-e public library now interfereswith such private affairs.This ' mutualism in industry willnot be a "dividing-up scheme" anyrnore than the rnutualism of thepublic park is a "deviding-upscheme."This mutualism in industry willDOt be anarchy or communism oratheism or free love any rnore thanthe mutualism of the postofficeThis mutualism in industry willleave an enonnous amount ofwealth in private hands as strictlyprivate property.Caution: Public ownership aloneis not Socialism. To illustrate:The railways in ru~ia are publiclyowned, but the capitalist class is inpossession and control of thepowers of government, and, naturally,the railways of Prussia aremanaged for the special benefit ofthe class in possession of thepowers of government The teachingof public ownership should alwaysbe accompanied by the teachingthat so long as there are twoclasses, the publicly owned propertycan be managed and naturally,inevitably, will be managed for thespecial benefit of the class that haspossession of the powers of government.Hence the necessity of the S0-cialist party. A party with whichto secure possession and control ofthe JX>wers of government for andby the working class. the classwhose interests would be served bythe overthrow of capitalist despot.ism and by fh~ new deal, by the reorganization,the reconstruction, ofindustrial society-to secure peace.plenty and justice for the workingclass, for all who are willing toto get what they want by employingthe peaceful and legal revolutionarymethods and means of aneducated, organized. class effort inindustry and politics.The Socialist party is the meanswith whic!l to educate the workingclass as to what capitalism is.With which to toditcate the workingclass Cl.$ to what the Socialist'spropose as a substitute for capitalism.With which to organize theworking class for the inaugurationof the program and policies ofSocialism.More About SeIf·ControlUnder a tree in India lies :lfilthy, aged, wrinkled man whomthe passersby regard with much respect.He holds up one ann ; heholds it steady ; and the day goesby, and still it is raised; day afterday it is held up. He has kept itin that position for years; the armis stiff and useless; it is like an armof wood or stone. The man is afakir (I.-keer), .nd the peoplegive, him money because they thinkhim a 1I0bie character. Do youthink so? No, indeed. The fakircan control his body in a remarkableway; but the control is of nouse to him or to anybody else in theworld.work.Think of the Swiss guides whoWe have industrial despotism. lead travellers . up and down the'We want industrial democracy. snowy Alps. They can commandRemember: if political despot • . their limbs SO skilfully that the footism is all wrong, then industrial never slips on the ice or on the nardespotismcannot be all right. row ledge. In 1894 an old guideThink it allover-what we have named Anderegg retired fromand what we ought to have. .work; he had met with no accident,George Washingtop. Alexander though he had climbed the loftyHamilton and their famous fltVo- mountains for forty years. Thislutionary friends did not like what self-control was useful to himself;they had, ~ they organized an and it was useful to ihe touristsanny to get what they wanted with whom he guided; they could trustsword. rifle and cannon.him amid the steep rocks and onThe Socialists, however, propose the rough ioe of the glaciers.To the Imperial Military Board:I am in receipt of your order ofSept. 6, commanding me to reportfor military service on Sept. 17.This is not the first order of thiskind I have received. Nor haveI more reason, to-day, to complywith it, than on previous occasions.On the contrary. The reasons thatlead me to refuse to render militaryservice for Gemlany haveincreased with the months thathave passed.But even if my determination,not to comply with your order. i,;unalterable, my ideas concerningmy attitude toward this order haveundergone a change.In the past years I ignored similarorders because I looked uponwar as something in which 1 hadno interest and, therefore, wasnone of my business. To-day Ilook upon this idc=a as one of brutalegotism. The terrible sufferingthese three years of war havebrought to all people and particularlyto the working class of allnations, the loss of millions ofyoung human beings, the senselessdestruction of glorious works ofart, the devastation of ancientforests and fruitful fields, andabove all, the terrible political effectsof the war, the unfetteringof blackest and most heartless reaction,the bloody persecution andoppression of freedom that alonecan become the basis of a last ingpeace; the increasing exploitationof my class-comrades in every nation,the growing employment ofwomen and children, throwing myclass back for a decade in itsstruggle for better conditions-allof these things have brought to methe conviction that it is not sufficientto ignore this war, that it isTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEif LETTERrather the duty of every honest andhumane Socialist to fight with hiswhole strength and energy againstthis war, for peace. In the pastyear I have striven to act in accordancewith this realizati(ln.am using the opportunity that you rlatest order offers, to declare thisopenly before the world.The reasons that have led meto refuse to do military service inGermany are the outgrowth of mypolitical conceptions. I will refrainhere from defining the Socialistidea of fatherland. If youare even slightly familiar with S0-cialist literature, it mu st be familiarto you.I desire to emphasize particularlythat neither ethical nor pacifist argumentshave led me to refusemilitary service. I do not by anymeans roundly refuse participationin all wars. On the contrary. ,can conceive of wars in which rmost emphaticall y would do mypart: wars agai nst old, decayedforms of government that hamperthe progress of civilization, revolutionaryuprisings, which aim tobring about economic equalizationthrough a .Socialist social state.If I, therefore, refuse to renderservice of any kind in the presenlwar, it is because nowhere, noteven in Germany, it is be ing foughtfor greater freedom, for democracy,for higher culture; becauseit serves simply and only the defenseand the increase of capitalistintere~ts. In 1914 this opinion wasridiculed as an empty phrase of irresponsibleSocialists. To-day it isopenly admitted by all seriousstatesmen and economists. Theworking-class is' as little interestedin the defense and increase of capitalistpower, as the sheep is interestedin the welfare of the wolf.The greater and the more gloriousGermany's victory in thi s war willbe the heavier will be the . weightof oppression that will crush theGerman working-class. This is afact that can ' be easily proven.1813 brought to the Gennan peoplenot freedom, but the terrors of :lblack reaction beforc whose onslaughtsmen like Jahn. Arndt andot hers fell. 1870 brought the Socialistexception laws to the Germanworking class. 1914 has pbcedthe whole nation under military·taw, and each new military victoryhas meant new reactionary measures.The recent conqucst of Rig.lhas resulk!d in the complf'tc suppressionof even the most modestdemocratic and parliamenta ryrigh ts. Perhaps Ihey may again berev ived if things at the front cometo a stand still. But it is certainthat the last breath of freedomwil l be stamped Ollt, if Petersburgfalls into the hands of the Germanarmy.You can find countless similarexamples. I desired only to proveto }'Oll with the few facts I havementioned, how diametrically opposedthe interests of the workingclass, of democracy, of progress~re to those of Imperialists, Generals,of war. And since I have ;1\,ways stood, with all my heart, onthe side of the former, you willunderstand that I will not fightagainst myself by accepting yourinvitation.Furthermore, it is not unimportantthat, in my opinion, the Germangovernment bears the heavyresponsibility for the outbreak ofthe war in 1914. I know that theeconomic and industrial causesr,CoIItilll.ed 00 p.ce 9)

• THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' WAGAZINBnun .. SlCIIUs,s' llllZll_Or.... of the AmorIc:aa _.Slulday Schoo .. Ond YOIIlIC Poopl ...P-. .....Entered at Second·Ou. Mail MatterJune 2, 1911, at the po.t orfice at NewYork, N. Y .. under the Act of MarchJnI. 181lI.Publisbed Monthly at15 Spruce Street, New York,• by theSoci.llistic Co-operative Publ Ass'n.John Nagel. Pres. O. Knoll. Sec'yE. Ramm. 'Freas.Cbas. E~~ . Ru_1I and theSocialists13'y Eugene V. Deb.Charles Edward Russell made aspeech at Madison, 'Vis., somedays since, in which he is reportedas saying that the Socialists whoare opposed to the war are "dirtytraitors, and that they should bedriven out of the country," We as.sUme that :Mr. Russell is correctlyquoted as it is not probable that hewould be misrepresented by hisfriends, the capitalist newspapers,and for the further reason that thelanguage above Quoted is ~ nearlike that used by him on otheroccasions.Now, when 01arles EdwardRussell came out in favor of war,we did not denounce him as atraitor. A few Socialists were bit­~r in their criticisms of his action,but they did not ew.n question hismotive. We are not going to de-10unce him as a traitor now. 'Weare simply going to leave him totime and to his own conscience.When Mr. Russell denounces hisfonner Socialist comrades, 9S percent. of whom did not agree withhim, a.s ';dirty traitors," and whenhe suggests that they should be"driven from the country," he isscarcely less severe than he was afew short months ago in denouncingthe crowd with which he is nowtrailing. It is only necessary tolook over the files of the ComingNation when Mr. Russell haddlarge of its editorial columns, andsome of his magazine and newspaperarticles, to see that he denouncedas crooks, grafters andthieves these very men.No one attacked Elihu Rootmore fiercely as a Wall Street tooland a public enemy than CharlesEdward Russel1, but now Mr.Russen receives him with openwhich furnished the motives forarms, and jointly and severallythese twin darlings denounce astraitors those who are for peace,and want them driven out of thecountry.Charles Edward Russell has thesatisfacHon of knowing that he isnow welcomed by those he once sofiercely assailed as pirates andplunderers as Elihu Root himself.His every word in slandering hisfonner comrades is heralded in theplutocratic press, and he is editor~ially eulogized by the "kept press"he was once so fond of castigating.Poor Russell I He will pay dearlyepough before he gets through.To-MorrowIn the land of To-morrow, nearthe entrance gate, two newlyemancipatedhuman soul s met faceto . face. They had just arrivedfrom a region called the Earth.For a moment they stared at eachother wonderingly, as though bothhad a vague remembrance of h av~ing met somewhere before.One was a strong and beautifulspirit, with shining garments and avisage that was radiant with light,peace, and contentment. The otherwas shabby and puny, her facewrinkled, pinched, and grey withgloom, and she cowered andtremble

10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEso there remains for me but onepossibility for effective anti.militaristic propaganda, the openand absolute refusal to do miUtaryservice.I am confirmed in my decisionby my activity during the lastyears as International Secretaryof the Federation of Young p~pie's S~ialist Organizations. Inthis capacity I have issued a1lumber of manifestos and resolutionsto the young workers ofaU nations, which have led theyoung Socialists in America aswell as in other countries to refuseto participate in the pre·sentwar. My political friends inRussia art fighting even to-dayagainst every offensive, againstevery war-measure. To my mindit is impossible for a man who ishonest in his political convictions,to be for peace to-day andfor war to-morrow, to extend theolive branch to-day,-only tothrow the hand-grenade to-mor~row because circumstances havebecome more fa vorable. Such apolicy is possible only in a nationthat safely escorts revolutionarieshome to the country: ofthe enemy and throws their po~litical friends into jail at home.Such a policy is possible only ina government that can speak ofpeace without annexations whenthings go wrong, only to rant of"freeing" Riga when the si tua ~tion turns in its fa vor.lt cannot be my duty, that Iam sure, gentlemen, even youwill understand, to support ordefend a government, a governmentthat tramples upon themost elementary rights of my 'class. On the contrary. I canhave but one duty, to fightagainst such a government withevery measure that lies in the in ~terest of the international work~ing proletariat. And this, as itWhat of the NightEven yet .they will not know it iswarlCripple Creek-Calumet-Trinidad-speakin vain.Yet though battles and bloodshould not, fainWere we to think they might readportents as plainAs to the elder-world the terribleBlazing Star tAs when the heavens hang on thebreathless verge of storm,And even nerves of beasts are tensewith the strain,So ere wars and tumults-throncshatteringQlange-Ever the human emotions give thealarm,Breaking forth into forms grotesqueand strange.Then the warrior paints his skinand dances the danct; of death ;11len the faith-frenzies rage, andthe great brute throat of lustLooses the roar and blast of hisfurnace-breath.And though for better things theheart of mankind we trust,'Ve know not what comes on asthe swift hours roU,The expropriation of the peasantfrom the soil was the basis of thecapitalist system.-Marx.The land shall not be sold forever.-Leviticus.has been in the past, shall be mylife-work.Zurich, Sept. 15, 1917.Wilhelm Munzenberg,Secretary · of the InternationalFederation of Young People'sSocialist Organiutions.Or whether it be but a step to thebarricades in the streetAnd sound 01 the grinding 01swords and lilt of the carmagnole. . . •If it comes with less or more ofstrile and blood,It will come-and beautiful on thehills its feet;It will come-the Day-with itslight like a golden Hood,The Day to seers and singers of oldmade known,When Man, ah Man, at last shallcome into his own.Though the light of its splendorousrising I may not hail,And little it be I know of fate'sdecrees,And little it be of trust in gods Iknow,Yet I know-the Morning cometh IIt cannot fail.The great unresting tides thatthrough Time's eternity flow,The stars in their courses that everAnd the ultimate Wilt of Man, willhave it so.EI"abtth Waddell."00 you think the Englishtongue will ever become a deadlanguage?" "Of course it will. It'sbeing murdered every day."Courage without conscience is awild beast. Patriotism withoutprinciple is the prejudice of birth,the animal attachment for piace.­Ingersoll.The landlord produces nothing;he renders no service and is entitledto nothing, yet he is allowedto shut the door of Nature's stonehouse.I had never worked in a factorybefore and I was afraid that theforelady would instantly recognizemy superiority. I dimly rememberbelieving that this superioritymight count ~gainst my getting ajob. Therefore I hid it under as·sumed humility as I mil:de my waybetween the whirring machines tothe being at the far end designatedas Her.God made Heaven and earth inseven days. On the eighth He madeforeladies. They are a specialcreation."Do you need any help ?"I had modulated my tone to theproper shade between indifferenceand respect. I expected her to un·derstand. I don't know whatjustto understand. Instead shelooked at me. She looked at mefor centuries and all the time shewas looking I was sliding, down,dow n to a bottomless abyss. Whenshe caught the last faint echo ofmy plop at the bottom of that incalculableabyss, she moved hereyelids."Green ?"I shrank between two dust motesin that dust-laden air.She shrugged. "Wait here." Sheannihilated me to an unencumbered~JX>t in the ether and di~appeared.I waited. Giant wheels toreround. Belts whirred throughmysterious holes in the floor andceiling. The floors trembled andthe walls shook. The huge toftstretched on and on across theearth. Small boys ran about withgreat crates of white stuff on littletrucks. And the ai r was filled withfine gray dust. It was all alive,quivering. All except the hundredsof girls, bent forward at their machines,thei" eyes fastened to theTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEF O&R E LAD I E SBy Adriana Spadoniflashing points of the needles.There they sat all bent fonvard atthe same angle, each feeding theThing before her. They alone weremotionleS$. Like the dead kings ofEgypt, rigid 01\ their stone throne!,they sat before the living machines.I wanted to turn and run. Realfear of those human machines,those motionless women, seizedme. Rivers of white cascaded fromthose glittering needles. I felt unableto move, to make my wayacross that vib rating floor, amongthose moving belts. I felt that Ishould stand there forever, befinally engulfed in that silent riverof white. The smal boy with thebig crate on the little truck shriekedfor me to get out of th e way. Likea volcanic eruption long ends ofwh ite trailed from the whitemountain. The small boy wasquite lost.Then suddenly she reappeared.She came from behind a partitionand walked straight down the aisletowards me between two rows ofher stone women. A few feetaway she stopped and beckoned mewith her eyelids. At the far endof the loft we stopped before anempty machine. W ith her eyelidsshe indicated a place on the wallfor my hat. , :Vhen I returned shewas sitting before the Monster.The gnome dragging the whitemountain came and upset themountain beside her. She liftedone end of many miles of cuffs andfitted it under the foot. Then withher heels she pressed on the treadleand the Monster began to gobbleits food. In a moment it had swallowedyards. She pressed with hertoes and it stopped. She rose andindicated with her eyelid that I wasto try. I sat down. I fitted thecuff under the needle. I pressedwith my heel. The whole factoryrose and came at me. With a demaniacalsnort the Monster torethrough the white goods.Stop. Press with your toes."I have wished since that I hadlooked up and c~ ught the look Ifelt in the middle of my back. ButI lacked the courage. I extricatedthe mangled cuffs and waited.Again she sat at the machine andshowed me with an insulting patience.I wonder whether she hadbeen born a forelady, whether shehad never mishandled the Monster.' ·Vhcn I had stitched several milesto her satisfaction she. left me.I arranged the first link in theendless chain of cuffs. I pressedwith my heel s. The creature beganto masticate quietl y. I forgotev e r)'thin~, everyth ing except tokeep feeding it evenly. steadily,hour after hour. Twice the girl immediatelyacross the table glancedup at me. She Illust have been veryexpert or sile would not have daredto move her eyes from the needle.I did not Ii ft mine, but I felt hers.Iron bands dosed about myhead. A sharp knife buried itselfjust below my shoulder blades. Mywooden wrists gu ided the supply o fcuffs. My ('yes came to the veryedge of their sockets. Once I shutoff the power and pressed themback again. The only living, conscious,thinking things were myfi ngers. For a long time before Ibecame conscious of nothing at all.I watched them. They were separate,Quite apart from myself.They guided the cuffs so skilfully,just to the edge of the movingneedle. I know now how engineerscan sleep at the throttle. Howmothers wake at the slightest 010-II

12tion of their babies. The only thingthat penetrated the frozen Dumbnessof my aching body was thetightening of a thread, the leastchange in the motions of the Monster.Then I was all alert soothingit by personal attention until thenumbness in me conquered againand I we"t on feeding it mechanically.At twelv.e o'clock the machinesstopped' with a final roar. Thefloor, the walls, contracted in oneconvulsive spasm and wefe still. Ina moment the loft was deserted.Only at the distant end, the forelady,aloof and superior, movedtoward the special peg reserved forher hat and coat. There they hungon the empty expanse of a sidewaH, as if the entire factory hadbeen designed for this particularnail."Well, how did it go?"If! don't know," I said stupidly;"I'm too tired to think,""Ain't used to power." For thefirst time she became human. in thetremendous scorn for my powerlesspast. "You'U git used to it." Withthat articulate eyelid s~e consignedme to an etemit)' of pressingtreadles, guiding small white ' ob·longs under a flashing needle.Long before the end of the weekI believed that she was right. Foreverand ever, through all theaeons to come, I should sit there~t i tching cuffs. The only differencewould be in the color of the cuffs.Now I was ma.king bright yellowcuffs with purple lines.She had been right. My backno longer ached. The knife hadgone from under my shoulderblades. The. muscles at the backof my neclc had petrified to Permanentinsensibility. She: was right.I had gotten used to it. SO · usedthat I no longer even FELT thehuman beings about me.. The pitytor their 1iIent. rigidity .... II"'M.THB YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEI alS

14 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS"MAGAZINEIU', Allegany. Steuben. Yates. Schuyler,Chemung.Tlt.is Distric:t includes Jamestown,Buffalo and Rochester Leagues.Central District will comprise thefollowing counties:Cayuga. Tompkins. Tioga, Jefferson,O.weao. Onondaga, Cortland, Broome,St. Lawrence, Lc.wit, Oneida, Madison,Chenango, Herkimer, Otsego, Franklin,Hamilton, OhitOR, Easex and Warren.This Distritt includes Syracuse, Watertownand Utica Leagues.Eastern Division will comprise thefollowing coucties:Fulton •• Montgomery, Schoharie, Delawere.Saratoga, Schenectady, Albany.Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, \Vuhington,RV'$lelaer I Columbia, Dutchess. OrangeRockland, Putnam, Westcheder, NassauSuffolk, Bronx, Rkhmond, Kings andOueens.This o;strict includes Scotia, Troy.Albany, Manhattan, Bronx,Brooklynand Oueens Leagues.UPOn regular motion, the Board proceededto Nominations for Deputy Or·ganizers for the various districts, asfollows:IV Isler" District: A. Berggren,Jamestown ; A. Marshalky, Buffalo; C.Tompkin. Rochester ; H. Suskind, Ro·che.ter; Carl Bautz, Buffalo.CtfttrGl Dismcl: G. Stieler, Syracuse;J . Roth, Syracuse: W . S. Williams,Utica; j.Serreno, Watertown; D. Berk·witl, Watertown.EMtl". Districl :Edw. F. Smith, AI·bany: E. ~uts( h, Bronx; S. Stark,Brooklyn; 1... Juster, Bronx; R. Speetor.Manhattan.Election of Deputy Organizers will beconducted by State Organizer shortly.and Deputy Organizc:rs . ....-111be electedby Refe~ndum vote of the Leagues inthe three Districts.Matter of Touring Field Organizerthrough State ....... s taken up. Upon mo.­tion it was decided that we endeavor tosecure the services of Comrade StephenMahoney of Buffalo for this work.Comrade Kaiser was instructed to interviewComrade Mahoney in this reg3rd,reporting back to State Organizer.Matter of League Direeeon' Club wastabled for a later meetin,.Upon motion it Wall decided thatState Organizer correspond with variOUIS. P. Locals in State in citieswhere Leaaues are in existence, urgingthe S. p. Locals to co-operate with theLeagues in organization of SocialistSunday Schools and Junior Y. P. S. 1...Matter of Young Socialist Maplinewal taken up. Upon motion it Will decidedthat we indorse the action of NationalOfl1ee Y. P. S. L., in endeavoringto take over the Y. S. Maguine as aNational Yiplel Orpn. State Organberwu in.tructed to urae all StateLeaaue. to co-operate with ComradeKruse in this work.Upon Motion decided that the Officersof the N. Y. State· Federation ~ listedin the Y. S. Maguine Directory, a.follows :y, p, S, I.NEW YORK STATE FEDERATIONState Secretary. Bertha Vossler, 66Hooker St., Rochester, N. Y.State Organizer, DarwinSherman..sao St. Palll St., Rochester, N. Y.State Treasurer, Edward Kaiser, 583Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. Socialist PU4ty Headquamrs.AU Leagues in the State are furtherurged to make application to ~ listed inthe Y. S. M. Directory. We understandthe charge is $2.00 per year.Upon motion it was decided that theResolution on War, as adopted at theConvention, be printed up in leaRetfonn. 10.000. leaflets to be printed.These to be sold to Leagues at reasonablecost. .Upon motion State Secretary was instructedto write the New York Officeo f the People's Council of America, ap..­plying for membership in the name ofthe State Federation of Y. P. S. L. Weunderstand the membership charge fororganization is $5.00.Rand School Scholarship Matter wastaken up, and State Secretary was instrucledto correspond with ComradeBertha ~hilly in this regard. Upon receiptof proper information, State Organizuis to ci rcu larize Leagues in Stateand do further work to get Contest, etc.,under way.Mlltter of Debating taken up. Suggestedthat Leagues proceed during thenext month or two, to organize andhold Debates within their own Leagues,with the idea of preparing themselvesfor the Intro-LeagUe Debates which theState Office plans to run during thewinter. State Organizer will take thismatter up with various leagues..State Organizer was instructed to secure from the University of State ofNew York at Albany, information regardingthe use of Lantern Slides,furnished by the State.Shlte Secretary instructed to writeComrade Kruse instructing him to notifythe International Secretary atBerne, Switzerland, as to activities ofY. P. S, L. of U. S. in celebration ofYoun, Soc.ialisu' Day, Septem~r 2,1917. Also sending him copy of Reso.­lution on War and Conscription.State Treasurer reported u follow.on State Treasury:Cash Balance on hand Sept.1, 11911 .................... $1_Reeeipu .inee Sept. 1, 1017.For Convention Asaeaa--ment Stamps •••••••• $IO,GOFor Due Stamp. •• •• •• 18.00For Supplies sold •• .. • • 2.6088.110.. , $211.86Disbursementl since Sept. I, 1917.For Duel StaR;lps purchased...•..•. , • , .•• $20.00For G'eneral P ostage •• ..50For Telegram to Conventionsand expresscharges .. . •..•.....•• 2.90Expenses of Board membersto meeting at Rochester,Sept. 21, 1917.. 17.61$45,01Cash Balance on hand October21st, 1917 .. ... . ............ $172.35Above report duly audited and accepted.Upon motion it was decided that thepurchase of two Bonds for Brownsv illeLabor Lyceum be postponed fo r present.State Secretary was instructed to haveher signature certified before NotaryPublic, this to be forwarded to BuffaloBank. in order that she may properlycountersign all checks issued by StateTreasurer, per order of Convention.State Treasurer was instructed tobond himsel f to the extent of $500.00, assOon as possible.Upon motion Comrade Kaiser was instructedto have ]000 each letter headsand envelopes printed for the use ofState Officers. (The old supply beingabout exhausted.)State Secretary to attend to printingof War Resolution leaRets.Constitutional ehangu were taken upas per Minutel of Convention, and StateSecretary was instructed to have Re.ferendums printed and setn to variousLeagues. League Seeretades shall seethat these referendums are mumed toState Seerctary Bertha Vossler not laterthan Decem~r 15, 1917.Matter of outstanding monies wastakm up, and State Treasurer instructedto endeavor to collect balance due onBautz account The Ort1and accountshould also be kept in mind.Meeting adjourned at 9 P. M.To meet again latter part of De.eember1917, on call af State Organiter.Fra~maJlY' lubmitted,Bertha Vossler, State Secretary.PROVIDENCE, R. LOne of tbe mo.t important eftGtIof the month wu the forminl" of •Glee Club. A. comrade, who II •mu.ic teacher, .. olunteered to teachUI mUlic and already aood propellhal been made. A.bout 20 membenbue alr-eacl7 joined the club.OWfirat appearance ... at tIM xu.Richard. O'Hara meetiq .... faElk> Aucb1bri_ .0 Oct_ Nbefore a larp aa4fea~THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEDurin, the month we had two lec-dled together in the caves, but whentu res. One on " What Socialism they saw the fire bdow Ihe cavesMeans to Me," and the other on they left them and tan away in terror"How Socialism Will Come About." as t~ had always done before, theAfte r each lecture the meeting is men and women carrying the littlethrown open fOr five minute discus· children who could not run. Butsions and the members give their there was one man who did not runviews On the subject.as far as the others.Plans are now under way for a He was a young man and strangelyHalloween's Party and Dance, which different from the other folk. Oftenpromises to be a success.he would sit fOr hours on the riverbank staring into the water, and hewould tell the folk strange tales ofTHE MAN WHO FIRST USEDFIREfishes that ate smaller fishes. and ofothers that ate the green leaves atBy Jame. Paulden. Bolton School ~~~ b:rtl~~, ~~~e~f tS:~:t!~att~~m~:~T he old man who first carried thewa ter had long been dead, and eventhe youngest child at that time hadlived its life and also died. But thepeople still lived in the caves, andthey still carried water in the coconutshells, for they had never forgottenthe adva ntages of that discovery.They had not increased in number,fo r though many children were born,many of them died before they grewup, and of those who did g row up 10be men and women, many were killedby the wild beasts, or died of illness.They kn ew of fire as some greatand terrible tbing that sometimes be·gan mysteriously in the forest andbu rned thousands of trees and theybelieved it to be an evil spirit. Whenit came they always ran away ingn~at fea r just like all the wild creaturesof Ihe fore st, and they werealways glad when it vanished as mysteriouslyas it (arne. They knewthat it burned all the trees where ithad been, and that it only left lumpsof black burnt wood that they couldcrush between their fingers, in theplace of tbe hard white wood of thetrees and all the green leaves andplan ts wbich grew there. They alsoknew that the green leaves soongrew again, and that fresb treessprouted, so that after many rainyseasons the forest grew again as itwas before, More frequently, andusually in tbe rainy leason, fire flashedfrom the sky and made fearfulnoises much louder than the roar ofhundreds of lions. and sometimesthis fire would come down and burna tree.There wal a tree that grew by it4self between the caves and the riverwith no other treu anywhere near,and on one day when the fire flashedsuddenly I from the IIq, neG. thauahthere 'WII no rain, thia tree caught!he fire aDd bepa to btIfD. The folkIn the cayU wen Itartled by the Ilcyfire: and tbe noi .. aad the,- fim hudthatflew over it. Once he caught asma Ii fish and brought it to the cavesin a coconut shell, but it soon jumpedout and dicd. After that he tastedit. and the folk learned that fi sh weregood, but it was seldom th at theycould clltch any. He lik ed to walchthe animals and th e birds, and evenat night he would stand before thecaves fearless of both the darknessand the wild bra ts, because he likedto look at the little lights in the sky,and the big light which both changedits shape and came and went. Hewas called Ab after his father, whow3s named after his father, and hisname was the same as his father, whohappened to be the man who discoveredhow to carry water.Ab stopped when he reached thefringe of the forest, and looked backat the fire. and he saw al once thatit was not sprea ding to the othertrees and following him as it haddone before. This caused him tostand still, and Ihen he noticed thathe could not feel Ihe hot breath ofthe fire spirit as had always happenedbefore. Thus his fears grew less, andat last his g reat curiosity urged himonward to the fire that Rared up tothe sky. He stopped when he couldfeel the fire's hot breath, but when hediscovered that still it did not hurthim h e advanced stiU nearer. He noticedthat the fire ate the wood, andthat burning branches fell all aroundthe tree trunk: At last he picked upan old branch and held it to one ofthe burning branches whicb hadfallen farthest from the tree. He didthis timidly, and to his lurprise thefire began to eat the branc.h he held.Soon it went out, but be lit it again,this time placing it on the groundand placing other branches over iLHe discovered that the 6re Irewwhen he put more branc.bu Oil it.and thus it happened that hi. 6re wa.bumine wbe.n the t~e 6·re bad cone.Th'e folk watched in areat terrorfrom the fore.t, but· their terror rrewless when they saw that nothing hap4pened to him. At last they respond­~d to his invitations by advanc:lngslo ..... ly and timidly to it. Later theystood round it after being taught byhim to ,I\'oid the smoke, and laterstill Ihe bold est of them ventured toplace branches on it. Before the daywas O\'e r Ihey happened to gather abig pile of branches from the forest.and 50 the fire was kept bu rning. Asthe day was closing, Ab pondered'deeply, for he knew the fire would gounless fed with branches, and he didnot want to lose it. But he wasbrave, and bringing out his clubs andSpUrs. he decided to watch his firein spite of the darkness. the wildbeasts, and the fact that all .the folkleft him to huddle in the caves asthey had alw::lYs done.That night lhe fire gave a lightthai enabled him to see all art'l:.tnd,and he SOOIl noticed that though hecould see the beasts in the distanceand could hear their howls none ofthem ventured near. At last he re.membcrcd that they were afraid ofthe fi re, even as he had been. Andthen hc rcjoiccd, for he knew that heand all the folk were safe, and thathe could in safety walch the twi nkling lights above.J hale that drum's discordant sound.Parad ing rou nd, and round, andround.To thoughtless youth it pl easureyields,And lures from cities and from fields :To IIlC it talks of ravaged plains,And burning towns, and ruin'dswains,And mangled limbs, and dyinggroans,And widows' tears, and orphans'moans,And all that misery's hand bestows,To fi ll the catalogue of human woes.u-Scott.In this old world, the funniestth ingE ver seen outside of a circus ringlr the man who strikes for a littlemore payAnd votes for oppression the verynext day.-Exchange.Give fools their gold and knaves theirpower,Let fortune'l bubbles rise lind faU,Wbo lOW. a field or trains a Sower,' Or plantl a tree il more tban all-j. G. Whittier.

16 THE YOUNG SOCIAUSTS' MAGAZINE"A Fool There Was"(By Thomas \Vortb-Apoloaies to Kipling)A fool there wa., and he had no job.Even al YOI,l and I.And he lacked the nerve to .teal androb,Even a. you and I.And sO each day (at be thinner grew)He tightened hi. belt (a hote 'or two)Till the darned thinl cut him 'molt·in two,Itven as you ud I.Re hUDted for WOrk day after day,Even .. you and I.Sometime. he'd curse, and sometimespray,Even as ypu and I.~is shoes wore out, and with bleedingfeet, .He searched for a chance to work and.. ~But wherever he turned, he met de~feat.Even as you and I.His lut dime went for a can of beer,Even as you and I. .And his soul was filled with blackdespair,Even as you and I.For h~ knew at last that his questwas vain,And the knowledge gave him anlning pain,But-He vo~d the lame old wayapln,Even as you and If (1)The fool was a "patriot"~o .bethoulht,Even as you and I,Whose dad in the Civil War hadfought.Even as you and I.I'The train stopped in a prohibitiontown. A man thru.t his head out ofthe window and excitedly cried out:"A woman has fainted in here; hasanyone any whiskey?". An elderly-looking man put hishand in his hip pocket and reluctantlydrew forth a bottle half full andbanded it to the man at the openwindow. To the astonishment of all,the man put the bottle to his lips anddrained the contents. A. the trainMgan to move, he caUed back: to thebewildered onlookers:«It alwaYI did make me nervous tolee a womap,1 faint"They fed him up with "The grand oldBag,"And he marched and whooped-for abit of rag,And afterwards-beJd tho empty baC.Even as you and I.He loved hi. wife an'd he loved hi,"home"E;en as you and I.But he had a solid ivory "dome,"Even as you and I. (?)And he never knew that his votewould fallLike a blow on the heads of hi.loved ones all,Or enter his Cami!y life at all.Even as you and 1.Oh, th e blunders we make and theblows we take,And the mess we make of tifelOh, the joys we kill and the gr;lveswe fill,And the soulless, senseless strife!We whirl along in a devil's dance,And throw Our lives to the gods ofchance,Because we haven't the commonsense,To vote for the kids and wife.But it isn't his votes that makes UIsore,(ThoUih it gets our goat.-a.nd keep.UI poor,And we don't admire the brand.)For the truth mutt be told-andthere's the rub.It', the fact that the fool was i­NHenry Dubb,"And never could understand!As long as workers hear the clinkOf bue ignoble chains.As long as one detested linkOf capitalist rule remains;As long as of our frightful debtOne smallest fraction's due,So )onl, my friend., there', some.thing yetFor Working Men to do.-Ex.It i. unendurable that great incrementswhich have been formed bythe industry of other. should be ab­.orbed by people who haTt contribut,ednothing to that increue..-JohnModey.REALISTIC REPORTINGThi, is bow the Chicago "HeraJd',"man reported the bayonet practice ofthe student o£6c:cn at Fort Sheridan:"Four dummies were c:on.trueteclURdu the direction of Major Cave.n3ugh to-day and hung up north ofthe main barrack •."The reserve officer candidates ex.pc:rimcntcd with thele dummiel, theobject being to find out which ismost like an enemy soldier, a bagfilled with lad, with excel.ior, withwood sbavings or with woodeDblocks, ."When this question is settled 250of these dummies will be ordered andIct up for practice."It brings the war ncarer home tosec the student officers plunging theirbayonets into these dummies. Routemarching through Lake Forut anddouble· timing to mess at Fort Sheridandoesn't do much to Quicken thepulse or make you visualize the jobthat lies before the nation. But whenyou see those four swaying dummies,which at a distance look very muchlike live men, being jabbed throughand through by Auhing bayonets,you can't help but have some loberthoughts u to what lies before thelemen and the soldiers of the new nationalarmy in lome not very distantday in the future."The Michigan~Wi5coDlin contingentdetailed men to-day to experimentwith the dummies. They ltuckthem through the heart and rippedopen their lungs and tore out theirItomachs. The green STUs wal gorywith excelsior and sawdust andwooden shavings...It was the CODsensus of opinionthat excelsior bOUnces around morethan an exhausted trench soldierwould do, but the bag filled withwooden blodC!, while it acts moresolidly, rel ists the cold steel muchmore than a flesh and blood bodywould do."A man who had seen serviceabroad tried the dummies andthought the . 'od bag felt almost assquashy and trembly as a real bumanbody did, but its failure to send outa geyser of red blood when a bayonetwu plunged into it made it fail ingiving any touch of realness to thepractice,"It is easy to be independent whenall behind you agree with you, butthe difficulty comes when m of yourfriends thing you wroDc.-WeadellPhillips.NATIONAL OPPICE•VB DIRECTORY-"- ..-W .... ~ IOJ W ......... ~.~m.O,HIOY. P. L L., CLEYBLAND_IIdoClnle __ _.., .. Labor L_ .10 _A_NEW YOR1'. P. L L. BKONlI: COUIITYa..a. .0.1, H_""", ~_ .........._11_... - PrI9u-

\"Revolutions are vast upheavals.They arc the periodic puri­(yings of civilizations. They ariseand cleanse them out as did themighty Hercules the Augianstables of old.Naught can stay them. Resistlessthey sweep. Great bloodoceanswhose tides engulf all.Revolution.Throug h it so unds the tcrrilJ\ o.:cry of the slave as he rises tosmite the mighty that was.Through it sounds the exultingshollt of hllman~ who have lainbeneath the heel till with a vasteffort they arose. Through itsounds the triumphing yell of thenew mi ghty as it crushes the oldmighty Revolution. An expressionsplendid and t~rrib l e ofchoked desires and wants. .\realizing of strange portents ando mens. A chaos of oust andblood a nd ideas. J~ turning of thewheel. A rising of the yeast. :\storm fearful, vague. and witi1l' r'ing.Revolution.Men arise with \'ast, sympatheticintcllects, who say thht itshould not be-that it should beaverted. As well say that acyclone should not be-that theoccan should not engulf a ship inits fury-that an apple should notrot-that a world shonld not wearaway. These are the phi losopherswho know fear. They fear thefine move and hurtle of Destruction.They would stay the whirlingof the world.The mightiest intellect that hasever analyzed cannot nullify thelaw that compels a stone to fallwhen it is cast into the air, Afire wouJd destroy the greatestTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEThe Logic of RevolutionBy Batt Kennedyworks of man. A sword w011 1dslay Buddha.P hilosophy avails not againstthe unknown laws that governmatter. It is at best but man'sdeduction from what he sees andcomprehends - and he neithersees nor comprehends all . There·fore does his logic pe rish on absoluteoccasions. The ph;losopherwithers berore the flami ng fireof events. One revolution willo\'crride the c;t\clliations of ce ll ­turies.Hcvolt1ti on is the prelude toch'lI1g-e. A powcr glo rious andterrible. Thc linking betweenthe broken. illimitable harmonyof Being. The moulding tool ofthe first Cause. It has leu lllanupward till he becomes a god.Since thc first two atoms met inspace and fo rmed thc beginningof the wurld, progression thereonhas moved along the li ne of Revolution.It is based upon the log ic ofclimax. Throughout nature a\lthat rules is climax. Suddentransformation. ~lan springsfrolll his mother's womb-theflower, with a hllrst of bud,opens its beauty to the li ght-tho.!crater instantly belcnes forth­Hoods ovcrwhelm cities- ci\'ili zations die abruptly.Even in the hea\'ens occurredrevolutions.Lucifer defied God.Again it is coming. It is approaching.The dust from thewheels of its frightful car is to beseen in the distance. The horizonis beginning to 'be illumined withthe reflection of its awful, eatingfire.It is coming.A nd who knows? O n one sideis the ignorance of fatness, andgorg-ing, and 11Ist, a nd oppressionOn the other sidc is the ignoranceof leanness, of stan 'atio n, of dirt.of slavery, of the endeavoring toape the oppressors.Hilt lire. Do(:s this eating thingof bl ood pluify? Docs this thingwith mi ght)', roaring voicecha;"len ? Fire! 1)0 yOIl holel withinyOll r terrible sclf a jewel inestimable?\\'e shall sec. It may be well.it may be ill for liS all. Wc maybe plunger! into a deeper blackness,or we may emerge into gloriollsli ght.Bllt come.A ll hail. Revolution! All hai lto thee. Change ! Thou transmuter!Thou fine thing ofmagic! Power that creates theglistening gem, that opens paths,that makes worlds!Let 115 pledge to thee in thismij:!hty coming fire. Let liS allplcdge to thee- worker, slave,oppre .... sor. a ll. \Ve are all men.Red is the blood of us a ll. \Vearc humans-vital things thatposse:,:> I he wondrous power ofgeni us. Remember that it is menwho COnqUf'· ·d even fire.\\' e ha\'e conquered the ocean,the world, the air, and the thingstherei n. Aye, men have strange.grand powers.So let us be bold and resolute,Let us fear not. Nay, let us exultand face with bold brows thisfrightful coming change . .

,IntroductionThese treatises are to be a crit·icism of the Capitalist System ofProduction. In order to familiarizethe readers with the Socialistcriticism of capitalism, it is essentialto elucidate the lawse..xisting under this system.To . be able to have an intelligentconception of the economicand political life, we must obtaina knowledge of the laws that governit. We often engage in protestsagainst high prices, lowwages, excessive taxes, politicaloutrages, but seldom do we findthose protesting in a position totrace their protest to the fundamentalcauses. Therefore, rightat the start, it is impossible forthem to take a correct position tocounteract these evils.A sound perception of Cap it al~ism produces effective tactics forits resistance. To renaer enlight.eltment in this direction is _theobject of these treatises.On DefinitionsIn Science, and especially inEconomics, certain things havetechnical names, just as in Mathe~maties, Chemistry and otherSciences. These things have acertain meaning and do not inter~pret anything else.The readers should always becareful that the characterizationcoincides with the scientific definition_Wh ~ n we speak of labor, laborpower, surplus value, profit.wages, exploitation, ete_, thereaders should first ascertainwhat our opponents understandby the same_On my agitation tours, I haveoften asked Socialists the follow·ing question: "How is it that theTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEA CRITICISM OF CAPITALISMBy Karl Dannenberg(Tn.nsl;,ted from the German by EJsie Seidel)worker, receiving the full value ofhis labor power, is neverthelessexploited ?" Seldom have I receiveda correct answer. \ ¥hy?Because the people do not knowthe difference between laborpower and labor (crystallized laborpower). They have notgrasped the meaning of the truecharacter of labor power.1 f the readers, after completingthe reading of this treatise, wereto place the same question tocomrades, they, no doubt, willmeet with similar surprises.Therefore, before using certainexpressions, one must first understandthe meaning of the same.On Capitalist System of Pro·ductionSystem of Production means anorganized plan by wh ich food andother articles are produced.The present System of Production is known as the CapitalistSystem of Production, becausethe articles produced benefit Capital.To be ab le tn produce in ourpresent society, we require :'hl!means of production. The meansof production form the Capital ofCapitalists.Under means of production welist Land. Raw Material. .;\Ia·chinery and foodstuffs.The Capitalist System of Productionis based on the pri\·ateownership of the means of pro~duct ion, which means, the pro~ducts which are socially neededare not socially owned, but privately.Through private ownershipCapital originates.The private ownership of themeans of production devides Societyinto two classes, namely.the class of owners and the clas!of producers.The worker is forced to servehis master, the owner of capital,and solely in the latter's interest,because the products that are essentialfor the maintenance of theworker, are owned and controlledby the capitalist.Thlls originiltes the Capitalis~System of Production, which illturn creates a \ \" orking Class anda Capitalist Class.All the worker owns is his la ~bor power, which he sells dailyIn the market and for which hereceives in turn a reimbursementcalled wages.The Wage System is thuscreated, and labor power becomesa commodity. 'Vage slaverycomes into existence, and out oithis manipulation arises Smphl:'Value.As buyer and seller of laborpower, as owner and non-owner.as exploiter and the exploited,these two classes have entirelydifferent interests, which cause .1ceaseless struggle.The abolition of the ClassStruggle will exterminate the twol!xisting classes, will eradicate thecauses of the class struggle andthe private ownership of themeans of production.The great social question willbe solved with the abolition ofthe private ownership in themeans of production, the classstruggle, and the political state.Socialism\Vith the socialization of themeans of production, the sellingof labor power will be abolished;there will be no necessity for oneman selling himself to another,as the means for subsistence andproduction will be available toall.Wage slavery will be abolishedand the only solution of theproblem will come into existen~e,namely Socialism.A Socialist System of Produc·tion is a system under which themeans of production are collec~tively owned. Collective owncr~shi p is a social ownership of thetools of production. Privateownership ceases.Only through the abolition ofthe private ownership of themeans of production and the se ll ­ing of labor power will the workingclass be emancipated, andonl y then will the workers re ­ceive the full product of theirlabor... Capitalistic ProductionThe production of necessitiesin our present Society is basedon the private ownership of themeaus of production.This pri vate ownership rests inthe hands of a few, who composethe class of Capitalists.The Capitalistic Class does notproduce to satisfy the socialwant, but merely to draw profits.Profit is the motive of the prcs~ent production.The process of producing takesplace only at the time when theCapitalist is able to see a profittherein. Articles are not producedfor use, but for sale.H the Capitalist cannot sell hisarticles, then production is at astandstill, and a dull time sets in.This period the Capitalistterms over-production, but it ac·tually is under·consumption:­the worker cannot buy back whathe has produced.How does profit originate?Does it originate in the sellingor producing. of articles?THE Y~UNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEMarx gives a convincing exampleon this question in '·Capital"on page 125, 1st volume:-"A may be clel'er enough to get theadvantage of B or C without thei r beingable to retaliate. A sells wine worth£40 to B, and obtains from him inexchange cOrli to the value of £SO. Ahas converted his £40 into £SO, hasmade more money out of less, and hascon,verted his commodities into capital.Ltl us examine this a little more dose­Iy. Befo re the exchange we had £40worth of wine in the hands of A, and£50 worth of corn in those of B, atotal value of £90. The value in ci r ~culation has not illcr-eased by one iota,it is on ly distributed differently betweenA and B. A her the exchange we havestili the same total value of £90. Whatis a loss of value to B is surplus-value10 A; whal is "minu s" to one is "plus"to the other. The same change wouldhal·e taken place, if A, without the ro r ~malilY of all exchange, had di rect lystolen the £10 from B. The slim of the\'ailles in circulation call dearly not be;wgmcn ted by any exchange in theirdistribution, any more than the quant·till' of the I)recious metals in a countrylIy It Jew selling a Queen Ann's farthingfor a guinea. The capitalist class, asa whole, in any counlry, C:UlIlot o\'crreachthcmsclvc

,4 • THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEIntolerance in EducationA new chapter in elementaryeducation was started recently bythe Board of Education in theCity of New York. Certain to beextinct within only another fewweeks, this Board took it upon itselfto make its authority felt inno uncertain way.- Up to'the present time teacherswere practically free to hold anyopinioh on the problems of theday without being molested, solong as they did not let their personalview interfere with the curriculumprescribed. This attitude,observed also by the presentBoard of Education whose termof office expires with the cnd ofthe year, was drastically changedimmediately after election day.W hether the election result.with its tremendous Socialistvote and the defeat of Jingoism.was in any way responsible forthis change, we know not. Neitherdo we know whether the enthusiasmaroused by the Socialistcandidate for Mayor, :MorrisHillquit, in the mee"ting of theTeachers' Union and ~he cold, almosthostile reception accordedto the mention of the name ofMayor J . P. Mitchel, had anythingto do with the procedure ofthe Board of Education, appointedby the present Mayor, againstnine teachers whose case wewant to bring to the attention ofthe Young Socialists and allfair-minded students in the HighSchools.Most of the readers of theYoung Socialists' Magaz.ine wi llprobably be acquainted with thefacts. A number of teachers ofDeWitt Clinton High School we resubjected by Dr. Tildsley. Superintendentof High Schools, to amost vigorous inquisition intotheir personal views on mattersThe Song of the Storm-FinchBy MAXIM GORKYThe .trong wind i. gathe.ring the. .torm-clouds togetherAbove the any plain of the ocean .0 wide.The .tonn-finch. the bird that re.embles dark lightninl',Between cloud. and ocean is loaring in pride.Now aki~g the waves with hi. winC', and nowshoorinl'Up, Inow-like, into the dark cloud. on hil'h.The storm-finch is c1amorin, loudly and .hrilly;The clouds can hear joy in the bird', fearle .. cry."'In that cry i, the yearning, the thint for the tempest,And anKer', hot mi,ht in it. wild note, a heard;The keen fire of passion, the faith in sure triwnph­AU these the clouds hear in tho voice of the bird •••The storm-wind is howling, the thunder i. roarin,;With flame blue and lambent the cloud·masses ,lowO'er the fathomless ocean; it catche. the lightnings,And quenches them deep in ita whirlpool below.Like serpents of fire in the dark ocean writhinl',The lightnin,s reBected there quiver and shakeAs into the blacknea. they vanish forever,The tempest I Now quickly the tempest will break!The storm-finch soars fearleaa and proud 'mid thelightnings,Above the wild wavea that the roaring winds fret;And what is the prophet of victory saying?"Oh, let the stonn bunt! Fiercer yet-fiercer ydl"of state, and as a result, threeteachers we re sllspended, awaitingthe decision on charges preferredagainst them, and six moreteachers were transferred toother schools. The main reasonfor this acf on seemed to be theirunwillingness to accept the truthof the statement made duringthe " interview" by Dr. Tildsleythat the P russian system of education,the inculcation of thespirit of instinctive, unquestionedobedience to Hconstituted authority"is to b~ preferred to the generallyaccepted American policyof usi ng your own judgment underal) circumsta nc~s.But whatever the outcome ofthis issue-the Teachers' U nionhas taken lip the gauntlet thrownto th.em by the Board of Educalionin a wo nderfully prompt andvigorous manner-there evolvesone sacred duty upon all Yipselsand friends of human progressamong the student body of theHigh Schools :Remember always that the followingnames of High Schoolteachers are on our honor roll:Thomas l\1 ufson,A. Henry Schneer, andSamuel Schmalhausen,who were sllspended, and theseteachers who were transferred:Morris Barash, to CommercialHigh school; Joseph Jablower toNew Utrecht High School inBrooklyn; Israel Mirsky, Boys'High School, Brooklyn; CorneliaV. Cleveland, Bryant HighSchool ; Charles Ham, StuyvesantHig h School ; Michael Kurz,Boys' High School.Show them your utmost respect,and influence your schoolmatesto do likewise.In this era of great accumulatedwealth on the one hand, and ofl}overty on the other, one ma~ 'become a g reat ce h;brity at thesante rate as one's fortl1n ~ grows.The number of enemi es' scalpsindicated with some savage tribesthe degree of glory attained by ahero. T he number of millions ofdollars stamps the hero of COIllmercialculture. T here is a cer'tain relationship between the tWI).for the hero of finan ce must earnhi s glory by cuttin g the throat ~o f his competi tors and of man)'a lamb before he can boast ofhaving arrived.The life stories of this brand ofheroes, as heralded by t he highclassmagazines, fi lls one wilhdisgust. One feels inclined to interpretthe Darwinian motto oithe survival of the fittest to meanthe survival of the biggl's tgraft cr. \V hoevcr .docs not car,'to have hi s children especiallytrained to become champions oflegal thievery. will not insist ontheir reading the "biographies"of our multimillionaires.THE ~ YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEJOHN B~WN, 'THE FIGHTERByMax Baginakyand took the 2O,C:XX> weapons itcontained. Harper's Ferry was aj>lace of S,C:XX> inhabitants, situatedat the confiuation of theShenandoah and the Potomac.John Brown, aided by hi s sixteenwhite and five b lack cOl'pra

,THE. YOUNG SO.CIALISTS' MAGAZINE•aided by all the authorities aqd LIEBKNECHT Authority Intoxicatesmost of the clergY"""7'he did not. consider that anything extraordi­By Gus Anderson Authority intoxicates,And makes mere sots of magis­nary. He thought it inevitableand simple from the moment thathe was' convinced that only byforce of arms could the dealers inhuman flesh he despoiled of theirtrade.Significant of the character andthe ai{I1s of Jo hn Brown is aproclamation submitted by him toa convention of Abolitionists in1858. One of the articles of thatdocument proposes commonownership of all property. 1treads thus:II All expropriated and confiscatedproperty and all theproperty that is the product ofthe lahor of the members of theorganization. as well as that oftheir families shall be regarded ascommon property of the whoi(',; body. to be used only for thecommon welfare. . All thegold, jewelry, and other valuablestaken from the enemy should bedevoted to the war fund.'John Brown's rebel spirit, hisidomitable courage will never beforgotten.'t ask you to think with me that thewont that can happen to us is to enduret~m('l " the e\'il~ that we s~: that notrouhle or turmoil is so b;ld as that:Ihllt th,. nect"nrv de~*rllction whichrf'("nn ~ trnction hur< with it must belaken calm ly: that everywhere-inStale. i'1 dwrth in the hou

"UI fl ... SlcllllSts' .llIzl ••Orpn of the American SodaIi.ttSWlU,. Schoola and YOWII hopl.,.Pec!eratioa.Entered IS Second-Clasl Mail MatterJune 2. 1911, at the post office at NewYork, N. Y., under the Act of MarchJrd, 1879.Published Monthly at15 Spruce Street. New York.by theSocialf'ltic Co-operative Publ. ASI'n.John Nagel, Pres. O. Knoll, Sec'yE. Ramm, Treaa.~Among EnemiesThere the gallows, rope andhooks;And the hangman's beard is red;People round and poisondJ looks,Nothing new and nothing dread!Know it well . from fifty sources.Laughing in your face I cry:Would you hang me? Save yourforces !Wh'y kill me who cannot die !Beggars ye 1 who hate thetougherMan who holds the ~ n v ied tot;True I suffer, tru ~ I suffer­As to you-ye rot, ye rot Ir am breath, dew, all resources.After fifty hangings; why 1Would you hang me? Save yourforces !\-Vhy kill me who cannot die!-Friedrich Nietzsche.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGA'Z1~EOur 'Sunday SchoolsBy May Rembard Scboc:kenLast week I.met'the 57. varietyof Socialist or radical, if youwish. His particular grouch oridiosincrasy consists of a generalobjection to all Socialist SundaySchools. The sad experience oiseeing the children of good andsince re comrades indifferent oreven antagonistic to 'Socialismhas taught the absolute necessityof good ~unday schools, And inorder that you may be preparedto assist and defend this mostessential phase of Socialist propagandaand llIay be prepared tomeet such an argument, I willbriefl y review some of them.It was asserted that the veryidea of having Sunday Schools isan adoption o( the methods of ollropponents. \Vhat. if it is? \Vearc surely not objecting to themethods of our opponents per se,especially if they are efficientJohn Ruskin said: "Follow whatis good and true in all thoseabout you, and your own faultswill fall from you li ke dead leavesin autumn." Moreover, there isa ,·ast difference in Our schoolsand the general religious Sundayschools. \Ve teach truths. Oursociological history is hased uponfacts and the best that scientificreseach can give us. The economic principles, based upon thematerial interpretation of histor.v,as formulated by Karl Marx,have never been refuted and havebeen accepted by most of the leadingeconomists.I asked my opponent why thisknowledge shoulu not be given tothe children as soon as they pos­Nothing is more disgustingthan the crowing about libertyby slaves, as most men are, andthe flippant mistaking for freedomof some paper preamble likea Declaration of Independence, or sibly could grasp it.the statutory right to vote, bythose who have never dared tothink or act.-Ralph WaldoEmerson:The replywas that we were biasing mindsnot yet mature enough to reasonfor themselves and were therebydenying the children the right offorming their own OplntOns.Comrades, such an argument hasno weight. No child grows tomaturity without being influencedand biased in some way oranother. Are we not then justifiedin turning the child's thoughtjnto the channels or truth? Surely,the person who has the scalesof blindness concerning the fundamentalprinciples upon whichthe present-day society rests re ­moved in his youth, can do moreto mend hi s ills during his lifetimethan he who gropes blindlyamong distorted facts and ishampered by a system of reaso llingfrom fal se premises, until hebecomes mature.Let us not forget: Socialism i::>not merely the adoption of a systemof government, based oncommon ownership of the meansof production and distribution ofthe necessities of life. PoliticalSocialism, in order to be a suc·cess, mllst be preceded by psychologicalSocialism. In otherwords, the human family mustlearn to think socially, instead ofindividually as it does now. \ Vemllst learn to question, whetherthat which is best for ourselves, isalso best (or the community. Theearly advocates were forced intothis attitude through sufferingunder unjust laws. Our childrencan acquire this habit of thoughtin the Sunday school if we havea s ufficient number of teachers .0assist them in their studies.I also reminded my opponentof the fact, that one of our idealsis solidarity. How can the childrenof Socialist parents acquirea feeling of solidarity or comprehendthe meaning of the word"comrade" if they are surroundedby people in school and on thestreets who scoff at them andtheir parents? Will they in theirchildish minds no.t perhaps getthe idea that their: parents; atoneare queer? These handicaps tothe spread and growth of Socialismcan be overcome only whenthe children whose parents areSocialists become acquaintedwith each other so that the namecomrade will be founded upon atrue friendship. This can bedone only in the Sunday School.The workers (the bone andmuscle of a country) build everything,burrow in the bowels oithe earth for metals and coal,raise crops and make the natio ngreat; yet they get the least portionand live mostly in a state ofcontinual hard-upness. 111e middleman,the exploiter, and theemployer of labor grow fat andri ch on the work of the toilers.T hey arc the true parasites ofsociety. Is it so or not ?Who says Socialism would destroyall in centive in man? \ Vhatincentive? The only incentiveSocialism would destroy is thatwhich adulterates food; producesshoddy clothes, builds fire-traptenements, exp(oits children infactories and shops, makes sla\·csout of working men and women.causcs wars and makes veritableinfernoes out of the IllOst f('rtilecountries on earth.The world does not need anyincrease in opportunity. Thereare opportunities cnough for all,but the private owners of theearth keep them under lock andkey.It seems to Socialists that itwould be a lot better to let thenation own the trusts than to letthe trusts own the nation. \ Vhatdo you think about it?Every heart bas the germ of someflowers within, and they would openif they could only find sunshine andfresh air.THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEo THE WORKERS' UNIVERSITYOne of the finest in stitutions inthe American labor lIlovement hasbeen opened this season. T hroughthe sacrifices Qf hundreds of thousandsof the men and women ofthe working class, the RandSchool of Social Science has bee nable to establish itself in a buildingworthy of our cause. The " Workers'University of America," nowin its own beautiful home, ThePeople's House, 7 East 15th St.,just off Union Square, command sa position among leading educa·tional institutions in the UnitedStates.Scarcely had the announcementof courses been publ ished whenthe number of applicants was sogreat that in many of the coursesclass after class had to be started.Every session find s the large classroomscrowded to th ei r utmostcapacity. Therc are now fiveclasses comprising marc than 500students in Soc i;alism, two classesof about 200 studcnt s in PublicThe full-time class also far outnumbersall preceding classes, COIlsistingof 35 men and women, comingfrom all parts of the UnitedStates. Many of th ese have beenenabled to come through thescholarship fund s raised by va riousSocialist organizations and devotedSocialists. Many of these scholarships we re given to comrades whohave already shown a particularaptitude in certai n activities of ourIllovemcnt. Thl! '> the Estelle Feigenbaumscholarshi p was won byollr YOllng Comrade Nerma Berl11;)n,a typi cal produ ct of revohltion;\ryRussia. Two scholarships,rai scd by the "Socialist Encampmentof Northwestern Pennsy lv a­nia," sent liS two able comrades.Il enry Gykis of Pittsburgh andEva Sturtevant of Ilazelhurst, toNcw York. Four comrades could:I\·:1il themseh'es o f th e oportunit ytn study Social ism through thescholarshi p given by Comrade.\Iorris Herman. They are Julius~. ~mith. Jack Ilaikin. SamuelI.icbcl"lnan and Ilenry S. Kolteck,all of ACW York and all encrgeticyOllng men who havc shown thcirability in the p;ut)' and YOtlngl\:qplc';; Socialist '\IO\·elllent.Sarah Zllckcrm;II,r1. E~the r Galldelillanand B('s~ie Sc l:l rofT arcSpeaking. The demand for instructionthree acti\"e trade u lli onist~ whoil] Engl ish made it neccs­sa ry to form numerous classes indid not wait for the vote, to dotheir share for the emancipation o fthat subject. B ut not only the thcir class. They too won scholarships.scientific subjects covering history,economi cs, civics, labor legislation, Comrade Zuckerman will­ni ng that of the f"1I1I+TII11C Class ofstatistics, etc., arc so well attcnded, 1916- 17. 'The scholarship of theth e popular lectures on art. literatureand problems of the day areso ovcrcrowded that many willhave to be repeated to sati sfythose who could not be admitted.More than 1,500 students are enrolled··American Socialist" wcnt to MorrirK. Friedman of South Be nd,Ind., the Goliath of the class. TheGerman Language f"ede ration ofthe Socialist Party sent Leo Mittellllcier,of Eric. Pa., and anoth e~·for the different regular full-time ::>tudent from "M ittel­classes.europa" is Selm ar Schocken, formerlyconnccted wi th the "NewYorker Vo lkszeitu l1g," who wasawarded the Gundlach schola rship.White House picketing is illgrc.1t favor in the class, sinceElizabeth Stuyvesant and NinaSome rodin, the pride o f the school,joined the FuU-Time(s. The col-

"10 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEored Socialists have one of theirbest men there in the person ofComrade Lovett Fort-Whiteman,dramatic editor of the "Mes_senger." AJmost as many nationalitiesas stated in the Union are rep_resented in this class. RevolutionaryRussia Jags not fat; beh ind the. United States in the number ofrepresentatives, according to theclass statistics of Dr. Arner, about45 per' cent being Americans.Esther Sillanpaa, of Norwood,Mass., is a fine type of those Finnishworking women who nowhold the reigns of their nativeland. Massachusetts sends us alsoSadie Rosenberg.The Lithuanians have fine representativesin Joseph Brukas. JennieKunder and Anton Filipaitis ofChicago. Nicholas Horn of Paterson.N. J.. frolll good Hungarianstock, has already earned a namefor himself as one who kllow~where to dine. But do not let any~body get the idea that those "whocame with the Mayflower" arcmissing in this full ~ti 1lle class.Anna G. Gorton, of Liberty, N. Y. ;Lilith Martin, of Indianapolis;Edward Maurer, of ~orth Yakima,' Vash.; David Cohen, . o f\¥ashington, D. c.; Emil Limbach.of Pittsburgh; Ira Kornfeld.l.ouis \Vanl and Henry' Fruchterwill teach you a lesson about theold Indians and how they used tolive in this ~ou ntry ,Two recent acquistions a re COIl1~rades Hertz and Bennowitz, andHyman J. Cost rell, of New Haven.Alex. L. Carlin and Leon Covelloclose the list for the present.though a few more young Social·ists have announced their intentionof attending the full-time course.Tl~e fuU~time students have al·ready seen the Zoological Garden,the Museum of Natural History.and Thanksgiving was celebratedin the New Hungarian \Vorkers'(The Survey)ERASING THE COLOR LINEThe Supreme Court Decision on Negro SegregationThe LTnited States SupremeCourt, in declaring unconstitutionalthe re::,idential segregationordinance of Lo ui svi ll e. Ky., hasmade void sim ilar ordinances inRichmond, Baltimore and 51.Louis, and has put to an end agi~tadoll in mam' ot her cities whichhas looked to'ward the sante spc­('ioll s "solution" oi the lIrban:\egro problem. At the sametime, the decision ha!' hcartenl.'uNegroes throughout the counlry.as it is a reaffirmation of the fa('tthat the colored citi zen is on a Ilarwith hi s white neighbor in theeyes of the fun,lamel1tal law ofthe land e\'en if prejudice at timcsand in places rises to galJ his ice l ~ings and to make him the victimo f gross injusti..:e!'. \Vhether thedecision i::: a long step toward theday when the conception of publicrights will 110 longer be rest rictedhy the plausible qualification offurnishing equal accommodationsand privileges, it is not for a lay.man to predict. Yet it does seemlogical that if a Negro is now sus·tained in his right to buy, sell anduse property-and therefore to reside-wherehe will, he ought alsoto have full right to choose hi s ow nseat in a public conveyance. Thenwould end the o,'ercrowded, filthyJim Crow car with empty whiteCoodlCS behind, and with J imCrowislll would end one of thegreatest indictments against theHome, East 8 1st Street, in a fineinternational spirit, with ComradeBertha H. ),1ailly at the head of thetable, leading as to.1St master inter·national revolutionary songs andSocialist Tllanksgiviog addresses.By William H. BaldwinSouth's tre:atll1ent of the Negro.What that would mean must beconsidered in the light of th e newsense of value which has come toevery individual as the result ofwar' production. economy andfinancing, and which is accentuatedin the Negro by reason of the greatcmigration from the South.But that is all speculation. Therecent dec ision of the SupremeCourt is a distinct end in itself.The title o f the ordinance in ques~tion is: "An ordinance to preventconflict and ill~fceling between thewhile and colored races in' the cityo f Lo ui sville, and to preserve thepllblic peace and promote the generalwelfare by making reasonableprovisions requiring as far aspracticable. the usc of separateblocks for residences, places ofabode and places of assembly bywhite and colored people respec~tively." By its provisions it wasmade an offense , for a person ofcolor to move into a house on anyblock where the majority of thehouses are the homes of whites,and. conversely, t1\e same restriction:-were placed on the movementsof white residents."This drastic measure," says~Ir. JU'st ice Day, who wrote theopini on, " is sought to be justifiedunder the authority of the state inthe exercise of the police power. Itis said such legislation tends topromote public peace by preventingracial conflicts; that it needs tomaintain racial purity; that it pre·vent s the deterioration of propertyow ned and occupied by white peo~pic, which deterioration, it is con~tended, is sure to follow the oc·cllpancy of adjacent premists bypersons of color. 1tJustice Daypoints out that "in the slaugllterhouse cases [the first to come tothe Supreme Court under the fourteenthamendment] it was recog~niled that the chief inducement tothe passage of the amendment wasthe desire to extend federal protectionto the recently emancipatedrace from unfriendly and di sc rimi ­nating legislation by the states." Tothis reiteration of an earlier de~cision the justice adds the f ollow~ing words which undollbterlly willbe quoted by future tenllS of thecourt in rendering yet more pro~gressive opinions:THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINE"That there exists a serious anddifficult problem arising from afeeling of race host ility which thelaw is powerless to control, and towh ich it must give a measure of.... onsideration, may be freely ad~mitted. But its solution cannot bepromoted by depriving citizens oftheir constitutional rights andprivileges."In other words lIlunicipalitiec; aregiven notice that whereas they ca nexperiment with zoning systems toprevent encroachment of certainkinds of business upon residentialsections, they will have to findother methods of solving rac ialproblems. And the decision comesat a time when several northern industrialcenters are becomingrestive under the great influx ofNegroes from the South, for resi~dential segregation seems an easyway of meeting the situation. Inmaking such a quack cure·aIJ ii,legal, the decision will bring citiesNorth and South eventually toreaJize that the problem and its solutionlie deep in a healthy spiritwhich sees all urban problems ascommunity problems and whichseeks their solution through the co~operation of the best elements,both black and white.10 more than a score of citiesthis work is already beiog accompJj.§hedby committees of white andcoiored men and women, which areaffiliated with the National Leagueon Urban Conditions among Ne~gracs. The program is to educatecity officials and social welfare organizationsinto working for thewhole city without regard to color:lIld one of the 1110st importantphases is see ing that th e standardsof sanitation. housing and poli ceprotection are not allowed 10 sagwhere colored reside··ts arc in ~volv ed. \\' hen they do sag. andsag they ine\'itably do wherc\'erth e Negro is con fined to ce rtaindistricts by law or strong popul arfecling, the resuit is a di stinct l o w~ering of the health , mo rality andorder of the whole ci ty: for o nl yth e most fanatical Negrophobehas any idea of advocating segre'gation in the fields of bu !'incss andindust ry and especially o f c1ome s ~tc service. As for the argument ofracial purity, advanced by the defendersof th e segregation o rdi ~nance, it is uncolllrovcrtilJle thatmiscegenation is directly inverse tothe jealousy with which the wholecommunity protects th e good nameof colored women.There remains then only the per ~~ n a l antipathy of most white peo'pie to living in close proxim ity toNegroes. with the subsidiary consideration of unsettlement ofproperty values. Anyone who ex~pect~ an immediate inundation ofhi s residential 'section by hordes ofNegroes as th e result of the SupremeCourt's decision forgets.first. that the great bulk of coloredpeople is among the poorer c1asse~in the United States and. second.that those Negroes who commandthe necessary wealth to live comfortably are' just as proud as theproudest white. and have no int en~tion of forcing themselves in wherethey are not wanted. What theydo seek is to live in as de~nt sur·roundings as their incomes permit.and not be forced to li ve with thelowest members of their race insome di strict which the whiteauthorities condemn through Uti (' rindifference to reek in neglecter!fi lth. With segregatio 'n fact or a~a threat no long-er available, thchest thing a city con do if it is set(In keeping the races apart is to ~ ecIn it that the Negro sections arekept dean. well·ordcred :1Or\ atl ral'­ti\'(' places in which tol i,'e.A word should he sait! in closinga ~ to the tllle work which the Na·tiona! A .."

tJfl i~ ; - -I,Under Socialism all men andwomen will be workers. Let thereader consider this statement inits full significance. That al1 menwill be workers under Socialism i;readily accepted by all who beginto understand Socialism ; but thatall women will be workers also is arevelation to many. The wildestconfusion still prevails in mallyminds in regard to woman's futurerelation to labor. Many ~ rsonsassume that under a higher socialorder women will be entirely r C4leased from the neces'sity of working.Others hold that women willdevote all their inte1l igence andabi lity to a more perfect performanceof their purely feminine anddomestic functions; that they willagain limit their activity to the~e rvice of the family and. the ho me.Both assumptions are fal se, be·cause they are directly opposed tothe t rend of development. Both ar.efalse because they are not in keel>'"ing with human evolution, btltwould mean the return to a lowersocial order.If, under Socialism, womenTHE YOUNG, SOCI~LISTS' IoIAGAZINEHUMAN WORKBy Meta Stem Lilienthalabili ties; it would 5.1crifice theirsocial l,sefulness. and maintainthem in economic dependence. Itwould not mean freedom; it wouldnot mean equality ; it would notmean opportunity. It would onlymean an old slavery in a new garb.Moreover, it would be. impossiblefor the women of the future tolimit their activities to the homeand the family because there wouldnot be enough work to keep allhealthy women usefully employed.Already the home is stripped ofmost of those industrial occupa.tions that used to k.eep Ou r grand.mothers busy from morning tillnight; already the education ofchildren has become largely a so.eia1 function. As progress marche ..on all industries will be socializedmore and more, and public educationwill become e\'er better andmore highly developed. W oman';:work has moved out o f the horneinto the store and the factory, theoffice and the laboratory. theschool and the uni versity. It h;'l5ceased to be woman's work andhas become human work. There isnot enough work left in the hometo--day to keep all women in it:Ihere will be l e s ~ in the future. A ..insignifant group of useless mem·bers of society, the parasite women,whose very uselessness and selfindulgenceleads to childnessnessand degeneration. W ho arc thewomen who work? All women exceptthe parasites. In office, storeand facto"ry, in school, college anduniversity, in kitcher- and nursery,on the field and in the fann·yard,in public and private life all womenare working. Not only are almostall women working to-day, but allwomen have worked since the dawnof human existence. Women wereworkers before men. They werethe pioneers and originators of allindust ry. T hey were producers,makers of things, at a time whenmen were only fighters. destroyersof things, Woman and labor havebeen in separably lin ked throughoutIhe ages of social evolution. Howcould we beli eve that th is unbrokenline of evolution should suddenlybe interrupted and reverted by sorational and wholesome an orderof society as the one proposed bySocialism ?'Women of the future wi ll workwould be entirely rcleased fromas su rely as women of the past andthe necessity of working, it wouldpresent. They only will work differently,just as men will worknot mean progress but the worstkind of retrogression. It would surely ;'IS the machine will never differently. Their work ·will bereduce all womanhood to tlle level again be exchanged for the manual lighter, more pleas.1nt. more rational,more condusive to humanof the harem woman. It would tool. as surely as thc,. electric lampmake Socialism impossible, or- if will never again be discarded for hcalth and happiness than the workit were possiblc--it would lead to the home·made tallow candle, so o f the majority of people is at present.A society resting on the rethe speedy degeneration and nlti· surety will women never againmate extinct'ion of the Imlllan race. abandon her larger social life for ognition that labor is the most importantand honorable function ofIf, under Socialism, women would a narrow domestic one. To assumeagain devote all their energy and Ihat women will not work under human life, since all life dependsskill to the family and the home it Socialism, or that they will be lim. upon labor, wi ll supply work forwould place them exactly where ited to any sptciaJ kind of work. all, and will adapt its methods ofthey have been before the age of i1nplies a grave misunderstanding work to the needs and requirementsof all. T here will be no menmachinery, steam·power and d ec· of the logic and the natural ap·tricity. It would cut them loose plicability of Socialism.and women out of a job. Therefrom public lite; it would suppress Who are the women who do not will be no men and women de·all their manifold interests and work terday? They arc a small, prived of the necessities of life belcause their labor power is notwanted. Neither will there be 111enand women aged before their time,broken in health and spirit, ulllitfor social usefulness and for anonnal perpetuation of the race bythe dull grind o f incessant drndg·ery. The workshops and the toolswill be socially owned and, there·fore, will be conducted, not for theprofit of the few but for the benditof all. \Ve may well picture thefactory of the future, th e pla\:cwhere socially necessary labor i!)performed, conducted lik.e the pub-­lic school of the present time, theplace where socially necC!l:.aryknowledge is acquired. T he SChOllIand its implements are publiclyowned to--day. Therefore th~:.chool is not conducted for priv:lt l:gain !Jut for public benefit. Thewelfare of the pupils is the mainconsideration. Sani tary cOlldit iunsare assured ; hours of study arclim ited according to hygienic re·quiremellts ; there is lime for workand lime for play, and the child'sphysical as wel l as menta l develop·ment is taken into consideration.The same principles could bereadily applied to the publicly·owned factory. The welfare ofthe wo rkers would be rhe mainconsideration. Sani tary co n diti o ll ~would be assured ; hours of \\'orkwould be limited according to hy.gienic requirements, and eachworker would find hi s life rational·Iy divided into time for work andtime for amusement, self-cultureand a free, l>crsonal c-xistence. fnsuch factories, soc ially-owned andsocially-directed, men and womenwill work as naturally, as content·cdly. as boys and girls study in thesocially-owned and conductedschools of terday.£iTHE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEOccupations will be even moreva ried and diversified than they areat present, because human needswill increase still further with increasingcivi li zation, and human!1-ki ll, ingenuity and genius, set freeby economic security and whole·~O Ill C conditiolls of life, will can·tin lle to di scover, invent and createwithout limitatioll. Instead of re·stricting indi\·id uals or groups ofindividual s to any delinite kind ofwo rk, the development o f individ·uality will be given full play. It hasbeen sai d that in present·day so·ciety many a genius may pcrish un·knowll beside a machine. Duringthe ages of woman·s subjectionhow many geniuses among womenmay lla\·oC perished unknown be­~ i d e their fami ly altar, the cOuking:-.Io\'e ? L:llder the present systelllfew people have the freedom ofdlOicc. COlll1tlc,;s abilities, talL"nt,;alld lufty aspirations are sacrilicedday by day in silent trag(.'{lie ", he·cause the la sh of hunger and thegrind of to il frequentl y make thedevelopment o f talent s and th

".1 4 THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINENATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPCONTESTNovember lit. 1917ORGANIZER'S DIVISIONFirat PrUc: SUi)[ H. Poiayq. NewHaven, Conn.Second PrUe: Paul Shaven. Newark(No. 2). N. J.ThU'd PrUe: Rose Su.ldnd. Ro-~;,tetb~~;;': J~~eK:~~\:~='N.Y.Honorable Mention: L P. Scbudhardt,Terre Haute, lod ROle Sa­.anowsky, Northwest. Chicago. AxelFranton, Jame.town, N. Y.EDUCATIONAL MANAGERS' DI·VISIONFirat Prbe: Darwin B. Shennan.Rochester, N. Y.Second Prise: Samuel Blauner,~::::w::~t~~C:I.°' L!~fsIl&iShe=::FeUowahip. Chic,co.Tbird Prize: Leo Zimmerman, NewHaven, Conn. Henry Knonwitz. An.Ionia, Conn.ENTERTAINMENT MANAGERS'DIVISIONFint Prin: Simon Wanhoflky.Rochester, N. Y.N.S~.onc:.r~'\v'lit]y.RTtch~~Y~:~:::Ind.Third Prize: I. Markus, Northwest.ChicICo. Rose Berry, FeUowahip.Chic'eo, Florence Erickson. Jamestown,N . Y.CALIFORNIAComrades: Frisco Members Are-Railroaded to JailAppeal by Stanley J. Worris,R~p, International \Vo rkers' DefenSC!League,District Attorney Fickert. representingthe United States of California, hasonce again shown hi s power. Twomembers of the y, P. 5, L, of SanFrancisco hue ~en hastily railroadedto jail on a trumped up charge M-causethey were vi lal witnesses in the case ofIsrael Weinberg; one of the defendantsin the now world-famous bomb trial.These victims arc two brothers, DavidJay Smith and Hennan B. Smith. Da­\·id had evidence of Weinberg beingover a mile away from the scene of thebomb explosion, He claimed to have'met him and taken a ride in the jitney.This sort of evidence might have hadvital effcct 011 the whole trial so Fickenplayed his card, as always he has played-DIRTY.Bob Minor says: "When San Franci¥'Qwas in the terrible condition o rterrorization immediately after theOUR OWN AFFAIRSMooney arrests, David Smith was thefirst to offer himself at headquartersfor the defense, David had personalknowledge that the men were inn~m.having met 'Veinberg on t he street onthe afternoon of that crime. Hence lltbecame a vital witness.'''Because of this, Ficktrt had him arrestedon a fake charge of running afake "suit club" concern. This was tooflimsy and had to be dropped,"The \\'einlmrg case was coming upand something had to be done to getrid o f Dave It was Il'arnl'd that Da\'l'for thrC"C days had bl'l'n a !lominall1lelllb~r of a Pacitist or~al1izatillll,rrhereforc, when Daniel O'Colllldl,President of Ihe America!! Patriots. arH]others were indine(1 by thl' Ft't]I'ra.1Grand Jury, Fick~rI Sl1cC'Ct·Jetl in hav ­ing the two boys included by au ohligiugUnit{'d States distri.:t attoml'Y."Comrades, th{' hays were cO r1 vict l'din sJlile of the fac t Ihat Iht'rc wa" 11('\the least bit oi c\' idl'nc~ again,,1 tht'll,I,Each reccived a !>cntellfe o f Olle year,It is our iight a:-. well as tlwirs, so whalare you go ing to do about it ? Theycannot appeal their cases ~causc of thelack of funds. As yet, I do not knowif our DcCellse LcagLl~ will aid them,Money is needed AT ONCE. WILLYOU CONTRI BUTE? Bring th~ matterbefore your next l1l~eting and votea donation. Make a pcr,onal contribution,anything, large or s~naJI, All COIItributionswill be acknowledged in TheNew England Leader and by personalletter. "O\'~ r the top" comrades andwe will have our fellow workers wherethey belong.Stanley J. Worris.2'JO Vine St" Cambridge, ? Parly has formed a class in ('1'0-nomics, wilh C. ).1. O·Brien. formerlyof Canada, as teacher, and this class iswell aUeuded by Ylpsels. and thereforealfl'ady preparillg for the ((llllrnt:; calllpalgnVery si ncerely yOllrs,for the Great Cause,Clla', Tl'mkin, Asst. Organizer.NEW JERSEYN~wark, N. J.Fnter Circle ~ewark. No, II AI­Ih.Hlgh Iht's,· col u1l111 ~ ha\'e not beenkeJlI hot wilh IlI'W S of durl1gs wilhin thenr,·lt,-it IS nevl'rtlwlc

16 TH E YOUNG SOCIALISTS' MAGAZINEis the c.ry of the Socialist movement today;war is II. ~ remnant of barbarismwhich engenders hate and mistrust Inpepple which is onecof the great ba.rriersto pr,ogress and international un.derstanding.With best wishes for the Socialistmovement in Newark,Yours fraternally,D. Cranstown.West Hoboken Yipsels Plan ActivitiesThe Hawaiian ball of the Karel HavlicekCircle of W. Hoboken held recentlyprovw. to be a grand SUtoess.Many new recruits to the Yipsel movementwere secured through this affair.A few of the talented members havejoined together and formed an orchestra,so now the circle can holdsocials w i th~ut '(he expense of hiringoutside bands. There are now about 45members, most of whom are in goodsianding. Meetings arc also oong hetlerattended and the circle is attractingthe attention of outsiders.On Feb. 6, the circle will debate withthe West Hoboken Circle at Harrison,and on March 16 and 17, will debatethe Fraternity Club of Guttenberg. Willal so debate the Comrade Club in t henurfuture.The essay contest wi ll close Decem·her 5, at which meeting the Circle willhold a debate. The next bq.siness meetwing will be held December 8, and Elec·tion of Officers for the next six mon~hswill take place. The dramatic commitwtce is working hard to stage sonle playthis season.R. TOHIOLeagues have been launched atHamilton, Akron. Sandusky and Lowrain, making a total of 11 Leagues inthe State.Ohio Yipsels hne taken ad\'antage 01favorable conditions :tnd on Decemberlst and 2nd, they will assemble at Lowrain 10 form a State Federation.All Leagues are to send a delegatefor the first 50 members or fractionthereo f and one additional delegate forevery additional 50 in good standing ormajor fraction thereof.The expenses per delegate willamount to about $3.25.This is a nliler startling admissionfor such a paper to make.It might be added' that this conditionis not new. It has existed evcr sincethe capitalist s1stem began to ruc:h itaacute stage and the probability of beingable. to earn a good living, or beingable to rind a job at all. began to beprecarious.Lorain Yipse!s will furnish accommo·dations to delegates and as many Y. P.WISCONSINMilwaukeeResolution on. the Freedom of FreeThought., Free Speech and the Free.cfom of the Pre.S. L. com rades as possihle. Paper and -other incidentals will be furnished by Whereas. T he cancellation of thethe Lorain League. A banquet will be mai ling I)rivileges of Socialist papersgiven in honor of delegates and visitors. throughout the United States: such asA social program has been arranged in the Masses, the New York Call andconjunction with each League toward chieRy our local Socialist daily news.same. Declamations, instrumental andvocal selections will feature this event.Sandusky League Orchestra willcertainly be heard from.All arrangements have been COIIIplctwand everyone is pushing to makethis a long remembered event.The committee has arrauged for lIu.'following program:Saturday. Oeccmberl. 7 P. :\1. : Ball­(Iuet tendered in honor o f ddegatesand visitors. Social program in conjunctionwith this featuring leaguetalent.Sunday, Dettmher :.!, 9.30 A. :\1.:Opening Session. Sunday. 12 ~I.: Picturesof delegates and visitors taken.1.30 P. ?-"I.: Afternoon Session.8 P. M.: Evening Session . Fare ..... ell.ORDER OF BUSINESS1. Opening of Session by Secretarypro tem.2. Election of Temporary Chainnan.3. Election of Temporary Secretary..1. Election of C r~dentials Committee..5. Recess.G. Seating of Delegates.7. Election of Permanent Chairman.Vice·Chairman and Secretary.8. Election of a Constitutional, Edu·cational. Resolutions and Organiw7.ation Committee.9. Report of Leagues.10. Rc-ports of Fraternal Dc-legates.11. Report of Comm ittees: Constituwtional. Educational, Resolution,and Organization.12. Eltttion of Officers.13. New Business.14. Good and Welfare..15. Adjournment.also wish to infonn you that theY. S. M. is entitled to a. fraternal dele.gate and would be obliged if you wouldimmediately 1I0tify me in regards toyour action On this matter.Thanking you in advance fo r yourfavors, tremain,Comradely yours,H~ Ungleich..paper, The Milwauk~ Leader, by thePost Office Department, was effected atthe deep regret of the liberty lovingmembers of this organization, andWhereas, It is our honest belief andcontention that these rulings are CODwtrar), to the expressions as contained inthe United States' constitutiona 1l1t'IHI1U~'lItreading:"ARTICLE I.Coulo;rcss shall make no laws rew~ 1 )eetillK a ll cstablishment of religion orprohi iJiting the exercise thereof; orabridging the freedo m 'of speech, or ofthe press ; or the right of the peoplepeaceaiJly to asscmble and to petitionthe go\'crnment for a redress of grievwances," andWhereas, The expressions of the Milwwaukee Leade r arc the expressions ofthe wurkillg class as a whole andthrough the revoking of said mailingpermit the workers arc left without achampion to fight the master claS!.therefore be itResolved, That we, assembled thiseleventh day of November NineteenSeventeen at the City Con'lJ~ntion of 1116Young P~oul~'s Socialist Cluus of t1l~City of Mi/"WOuku, hereby pledge ourmoral and financial support to the Mil·waukee Leader to again win the priviwleges of the mails for ou r voice: in thecause of free thought, free speech andthe freedom of the press, and be itfu rtherResolved, That a copy of these reso·lutions be entered in the reports of thisconvention and a copy be forwarded tothe following: The National Secretaryof the Young People's Socialist League,The National Exc: