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 <strong>Young</strong>P 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