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A MAGAZINE OF NEIGHBORLINESS
NUMBER
lGS ARE ENTIRELY FREE
FEB.RUA.RY 8.-PROF. EDWARD A. ST
innell College, Iowa, a man who has been
ized as "one of the best authorities in this
the subject of immigration," will come to
s time taking for his topic "The .lnter-'N
:nd and the .Inter-Racial .EJ'eart.'' Dr;
s born in Austria and lived and studied
: world before settling down to his pres~
>fessor of applied Christianity in a ·westeri:i
, has written one of the best books we
lstoy, whom he knew well, and he is full
wing of humour and of humanity. His last
our platform is still a glowing memory·
ke a big mistake if} ou miss out on thi~ Q~
f a symposium which
thing of its kind we
"Breeding lWen"
ning and DR. HUGH
WILCOX and REv.
·ee speakers who will
ct is "The Problems
x's" The Scourge of
. Cummings' "The
od." Dr. Cabot is
Josition he has taken
:ty of education in sex
!membered as having
.rnd advice from this
_
1form concerning health, happiness and
. Cummings, though now a minister:--tbe
Edward Everett Hale in the pulpit of
□ gregational Church-was formerly for 1
years professor of sociology at Harvard
that post by a protracted perio1 of b •
,el in France, Italy and Germany a?dtb;
,ter of1 residence at Tovnbee Hall IO •
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15
FEBRUARY 1, 1914
PRICE FIVE CENTS
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF SOCIALISM~
By ALBION W. SMALL
HE fame oi Ford Hall has gone.,
·abroad. and the reality is . so much
more impressive than the fame th~t
Ill the _
same state of mind I was m
I .reached home after speaking my
)lleee tn school. The folks asked me
1 trlghtened. •:p.frightened ?" I said,
YU only scared!" This is a reto type. (Laughter.) A man who
a thousand miles to address an au-eacht to be dead sure that he has
.•orth while to say. He must be
lie lmows what has been thought
I by his hearers, and that the
lblnks worth while have not been
by them. In Chicago I am conn4Ical. but here I suppose you
II me, '"You are tr:nng to
toboggan half-way down the
aa a!raid mv ideas would fall so
I wouldn't know in what del'lth or 18th century they had
aalde. (Laughter.)
IJ Colng to talk in plain fashion
dungs that are near my heart.
are things near the hearts of
Ila. I take it that yo u know
~ Socialism. (Laughter.) I
• have put my subject this
!'<.-egtected Commonplaces in
Thoughts about Social ProbII What I am going to talk
r. The first of these comlllat Other people besides SoPeople who are professors in
.Ye begun to wake up to the
.,_~_Deed to put our society.
~.., and t~ redistribute the
.._ ta or society. The second
Only People who are thorabc:,ut our economic system
LP •ho ~:; either Phenomenally
not a remedy, but more knowledge of the
principles of human relationships.
Those of you who are Socialists will see
without very much divination that I am not
a Socialist in the ordinary sense. I am a
Socialist in the sense that Socialism is each
and every movement which opposes our
present economic order from principle, and
in some form or other desires to substitute
the merit of services as the ground of income for the ownership of wealth. This includes Socialism, Anarchy, the syndicalist
movement. the I. W. \V. movement. You
notice I have not mentioned trade unions,
because they have never attacked our
economic order on grounds of principle.
They have sought under that order to secure
2. better distribution.
;\'Iy theory for all this difference of opin- .
ion is that it is largely due to a fact you
will not find · in any economic text-booksthat there is not one kind of capital, but
there are three kinds of capital. Tool capital is capital made by the worker himself;
it might be represented by a hoe he manufactures to dig the earth.
Management
capital is capital in which there must be
the partnership cif many other men or the
proprietorship is nullified; it might be represented by a grist-mill, ln which the owner
must ask others to assist him and to protect him in its possession. Socialists sometimes deny the value of management, but
certainly something is contributed by the
ability of the manager himself. Finance
capital is capital simply on deposit, in connection with which the owner does no work
at all; it is represented by every dollar in
a savings bank.
The problems of our economic system are
really all gathered around the extent to
which they have introduced this question of
'
new owner had thus taken an idle $15,000
to board, which consumed $900 of the
products of the farm before anything could
lJe thought of in the way of income for the
new proprietor. I am not saying that all
tinanciering is of that silly, impossible order. I a m saying that all our finance is
tending to approach that system of insolvency. The New Haven Railroad is an excellent example. Suppose we should begin
to operate a system to oegin to capitalize
the alphabet and the multiplication table,
and should arrange that everyone who used
them should pay a royalty to somebody every
time he used them, do yo u think the cost
of living wouldn't rise ? There is no more
reason for paying ro·yalties on the material
savings of previous generations than on the
spiritual savings. (Applause.)
Before I close, I might refer to my sub-'
ject, for the sake of formality. (Laughter.)
The strength of Socialism has been and is
and will be in its sagacity in pressing for
a nalysis of our social institutions until the
fallacies in their workings will be visible,
and more people will be asking the question: "How can we remove those fallacies?"
The weakness of Socialism has been and
io: and will be in its being more interested
in its scheme for reforming the system than
in persuading fellow-citizens that there is
something to reform. There is no persaud- ·
ing people before you convince them. If a
pure food commission were to draw up a
sanitary bill of fare , it could not compel
people to eat it. A Montana paper recently:.
said my· theories were "rot, because if they
were true the only escape would be Socialism." ·well, the conclusion doesn't follow
on the premise, but you see people are not
yet convinced; and the people will not
adopt a plan until they are convinced that
.-ho ,..o ic; ~nm0_t_hine- to '\":hir.h ~nm0 n l~n nr
r-the
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ly for
rvarcl
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and b
in th
r:iu;;;~·• "You are u~·1ng tu
~ b ~:.an 11a!f-way down the
o,.,.
·
• to afraid my ideas wou ld f a 11 so
~ . m I wouldn't know in what dea
~7th or 18th century they had
die aside. (Laughter.)
~ going to talk in plain fashion
::things that are near my heart
are things near the hea rts of
dtiiens. I take it that you know
about Socialism. (Laughter.) I
d have put my subject this
e Neglected Commonplaces in
' Thoughts about Social Prob. ts what I am going to talk
y. The first of these comla that other people besides So· n people who are professors in
e
have begun to wake up to the
there is need to put our society.
iger: basis, and to redistribute the
pd benefits of society. The second
to4ay· the only people who are thor' .tisfieg about our economic system
' eop,e who are either phenomenally
p
GI' p~enomenally selfish, or phenomlot]L The third is that not all the
·• ho are dissatisfied with our present
It Institutions are bold enough to
that dissatisfaction in public, and
enough to go ahead joining in
to try to see what can be done
Ma.ny of them think the system
lination of God, and they never
the idea of charity as a mitigathe future of the evils that have
in our present partially devel1mic institutions.
The fourth
"matter of realizing that there
to be solved and conditions
,ved is not a matter of rich
; it is not a matter of justice
stice-even these timorous
. justice i_ they can find out
f
is. Clarence Darrow said once.
the truth, I haven't any grouch
D. Rockefeller. My fight is
SJ'Stem that he represents." We
to· get rich men and poor men and
men alike to see whether the
Ch men have grown rich are the
to get incomes at all; and if not,
we ~n improve these ways for
• al~ke, for there will always
~
o! mcome. What we want is
-=aide•
and answers
C::,.
Ut:!LU:a
Ul~l.l .lUUl..lVil .
My theory for all this difference of opinion is that it is largely due to a fact you
will not find in all\· economic text-booksthat there is not one kind of capital, but
there are three kinds of capital. Tool capital is capital made by the worker himself;
it might be represented by a hoe he manufactures to dig the earth.
Management
capital is capital in which there must be
the partnership cif many other men or the
proprietorship is nullified; it might be represented by a grist-mill, ln which the owner
must ask others to assist him and to protect him in its possession. Socialists sometimes deny the value of management, but
certainly something is contributed by the
ability of the manager himself. Finance
capital is capital simply on deposit, in connection with which the owner does no work
at all; 'it is represented by every dollar in
a savings bank.
The problems of our economic system are
really all gathered around the extent to
which they have introduced this question of
finance capital, some phenomena of which
are justifiable, and some of which are not.
The bonus paid ' for finance capital is the
largest element in the high cost of living . .
I know a farm in which $15,000 was paid
for taking over the title, subject to mortgage to the man who took the money. The
THE PRAYER
We
acknowledge with grateful
hearts the growing determination of
men the Wo rld over to find a better
·
way to live. We rejoice in the great
leaders from all ranks of society who
have been raised up to blaze the way
toward a larger truth and a sounder
righteousness. Help us, 0 God, to
yield ourselves to this new spirit of
the age which will not believe that
poverty and disease and crime must
be accepted as a necessary part of
our every day life. Help us to trust
Thee that the way shall be found to
reduce these evils to a negligible
minimum. Give us, we pray, open
minds and stout hearts that we may
see the Heavenly Vision and commit
our lives to it. Make us all willing
to sacrifice present and personal comfort for the future welfare o! the
whole race of man. • Amen.
spiritual savings. (Applause.)
Before I close, I might refer to my subject, for the sake of formality. (Laughter.)
The strength of Socialism has been and is
and will be in its sagacity in pressing for
analysis of our social institutions until the
fallacies in their workings will be visible,
and more people ·will be asking the question: "How can we remove those fallacies?:.•
The weakness of Socialism has been and
i::: and will be in its being more interested
in its scheme for reforming the system than
in persuading fellow-citizens that there is
something to reform. There is no persauding people before you convince them. If a
pure food commission were to draw up a
sanitary bill of fare, it could not compel
people to eat it A Montana paper recently,
said m y· theories were "rot, because if they
were true the only escape would be Socialism." Well, the conclusion doesn't follow
on the premise, but you see people are not
yet convinced ; and the people will no.t
adopt a plan until they are convinced that
there is something to which some plan or
other should be applied.
I have said nothing whatever about
whether I think there is anything to do in
the· future to improve the crudities of our
present industrial system. I am not an advance agent for any scheme for reforming
the industrial system. They say this "{Orld · has only 15,000,000 more years to exist. We
want something to do during that short
space of time. It would be too bad if anyone invented some scheme to set things all
to rights before then. But there are certain outlooks for improvement that people
when they are convinced may move toward as an ultimate goal, and I believe I
can see some of those things_ I believe
that in the future every man in an industrial plant who is necessary to the workings
of that plant is going to be recognized as a
partner in it-not merely in the profitsharing sense, but as we are partners in
ca rrying on our representative political
system-in .theory at least.
I think the
faithful worker is going to have property
in his job, just as the buyer of a share of
stock has today. I believe that the partnership of society in all our industrial operations is going to be recognized. I believe
that the l)artnership of society is going to
be recognized in capital by income and
inheritance taxes and otherwise . . I • believe
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Are you, Mr. Coleman, going to let
Curley sell the Public Garden? (Laughter.)
A. (Mr. Coleman.) Evidently you were
not here last week when I said that that
was the first and last time I would ever
speak from this platform on politics. As
far as Ford Hall is concerned, I don't care
what Curley does with the Public Garden.
Q: Did you ever know of any rich man
or king who gave up his riches and privileges for the sake of the common good?
A: I have heard of a man who got his
name from this hall, out in Detroit, who is
doing it on a pretty large scale.
Q: What are you going to do about the
man who is unemployed, when all working
men are recognized as - partners?
A: There won't be so many of him; but
tl:.at will be something for the first few of
the 15,000,000 years to determine.
Q:
(Mr. Cosgrove.) Would you attack
the methods of Carnegie at Homestead and
of the Calumet and Hecla?
A: I said not to attack a rich man as
such. I don't -approve of wrong methods
by rich or poor.
Q:
Where did you get your idea that
Socialists undervalued management capital?
A: I did not say that all Socialists undervalued it, but some do. Tom Mann said
that to me personally, for instance.
Q:
(Same.)
Is it not true that the
Socialist party in this country at least has
got its vote today from its character as a
propagandist party?
A:
I repeat that no one has done as
much as the Socialists to inform the world
that there is need of change, but the influence of the Socialists has been limited by
the fact that they have insisted that the
change can come only through the collective ownership of capital.
Q:
(Mrs. Solomon.) Why should money
be given the same earning power as human
beings?
Q:
Yes, certainly.
What remedies have you for the exploitation of the people unler a profit system?
A : I distinctly said that I was concerned
not with remedies but with improvements.
Q:
(Mr. Victorson.) Cannot capital be
divided as Marx divided it, into standing
and circulating capital? Isn't finance capital one part of circulating capital?
A: It could be so divided, but it is an
entirely different plan of division.
Q:
(Same.) Why do you think that the
solution of exploitation lies in wrong
finance? Why entirely disregard the old
idea that it is surplus value appropriated
by those who did not earn it from those
who did earn it but do not receive it?
A : I meant to say only that the principle
of finance capital is the most fruitful
source of the trouble.
Q: In a Socialistic state, how would the
professional man be rewarded?
A: I hope some Socialist will tell us.
(Laughter.)
Q:
Couldn't we get along now without
finance capital?
A:
We could as a matter of abstract
theory.
Q : Have the workers to wait until the
capitalists make them co-partners?
A:
I think they will help bring that
about by adopting measures of their own.
Q: What is the attitude of the Socialists
toward religion?
A: That again Socialists must answer,
Q: vVhy couldn't the people become possessors of capital and make every one of
us a government employee?
A: Because we are not willing to make
life a personally conducted tour.
Q: What effect has Socialism on religion
and on free love?
A:
_.\.gain I must ask the Socialists to
tell us.
Q:
What do YOU think of Mr. Forrl ' s
A:
Q:
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servatism of churches and colleges and ·
favored classes, instead of the conse
of the working classes?
r
A: I think that _is true not merely
the Socialistic point of view, but in g,
Q (Miss Smith): Isn't it true that
capitalist class does appreciate the.,
cance of the Socialist doctrine, and is __
to throw dust in the eyes of the w, •
class by profit-sharing and bonuses
green trading stamps ? (Laughter and
plause.)
A: Yes, I think that is true, too.
Q (Miss deFord): You include ill
definition of the broader Socialism, S
ists, Anarchists, syndicalists and the..!
W. Do you not also include the b
those who are endeavoring to refoI_!II
present economic system by means
Henry George's theory of the single_.
land values?
A : Yes, certainly.
Q (Mr. Sachmary) : Isn't it possible
Socialism is tremendous in its strengtl
insignificant in its weaknesses, as ,II
denced by its position in Germany ?'
A: The Social Demokrats are tile
man ringers for the Progressive I'.:
that doesn 't prove anything.
:
Q: How are you going to stimulaij
duction unless you allow interest on
capital?
·
A : I don't think we can
induce people to lend their wealth
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
_·. .
Q: Under the present system, ~-~I
policy for a farmer to borrow moneY
prove his farm?
A: That depends on the farm:
Q : In view of the unchangeabl
human nature, how are you going to
the capitalists and millionaires to
their attitude toward the present
system?
.
.
A: Human nature is the most
able thing in the world.
.
Q: What is your opinion in regard
inheritance of wealth?
·
A: It is one of the most over-wo
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on
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such. I don't approve of wrong methods
by rich or poor.
Q:
Where did you get your idea that
Socialists undervalued management capital?
A: I did not say that all Socialists undervalued it, but some do. Tom Mann said
that to me personally, for instance.
Q:
(Same.)
Is it not true that the
Socialist party in this country at least has
got its vote today from its character as a
propagandist party?
A : I repeat that no one has done as
much as the Socialists to inform the world
that there is need of change, but the influence of the Socialists has been limited by
the fact that they have insisted that the
change can come only through the collective ownership of capital.
Q:
(Mrs. Solomon.) Why should money
be given the same earning power as human
beings?
A: It never should be; that is just the
point.
Q: Do you think rich people are as interested as the poor in getting rid of the
present system? (Laughter.)."
A: I am afraid a poll taken among the
rich would not result in as large an average; but I have associated with rich people
who were earnestly studying how they
might do something in their place to make
the world better.
Q:
(Mrs. Hoffman.)
Why are the
capitalists so jealous of the ownership of
the means of life?
A: They do not believe that collective
ownership would be effective.
Q: Until the public partnership is established, do you believe in trade unions?
A: I most emphatically do, and also in
better trade unions.
Q:
Do you think interest ought to be
done away with?
A: Not immediately, but we ought to aim
'-toward that.
•
Q:
If there is strength in Socialism,
how is it that the ministers of the Gospel
are the last among the people to co-operate
ill it?
.
A: I should want the implication to be
proved.
There are some pretty active
Socialists among the ·ministers of the Gospel.
Q: Isn't it true that the reason a larger
number of working men are not Socialists
is because of their ignorance of -vhat Socialism would do for them?
n,
(Laught er.)
Q:
Couldn't we get along now without
finance capital?
A: Vi' e could as a matter of abstract
theory.
.
Q: Have the workers to wait until the
capitalists make them co-partners?
A:
I think they will help bring that
about by adopting measures of their own.
Q: What is the attitude of the Socialists
toward religion?
A: That agaill Socialists must answer.
Q: Why couldn't the people become possessors of capital and make every one of
us a government employee?
A: Because we are not willing to make
life a personally conducted tour.
Q: What effect has Socialism on religion
and on free love?
A: Again I must ask the Socialists to
tell us.
Q:
What do you think of Mr. Ford's
saying that Socialism doesn't do labor any
good, and is it true?
A: I don't know if Mr. Ford said that;
if he did, I don't agree · with him.
Q: Couldn't the grist mill be worked on
a co-operative plan?
A: Certainly, that is a possibility.
Q: Why does Socialism grow faster in
foreign countries than here?
A: Because there are more abuses in
foreign countries. (Applause.)
Q: You say we need no remedies; hasn't
the literature of Socialism uncovered conditions that justify remedies of the most
drastic kind , as advocated by the extreme
Socialists?
A: Sometimes I have moods in which I
should use just such language if I allowed
myself to speak without second thought.
Other times, when I have had my second
thought first (Laughter) I don 't really think
soberly that we are making the most progress when we speak in those term!\.
"Remedy" is an unfortunate word to use.
Q:
Are there no t some people to inform whom we must say in effect, "Root,
hog, or die?"
A: I wouldn't stand in the way of any
of those forceful' measures.
Q:
Why don't tool and management
capital belong in the same class with
finance capital? The tools ,come down £6
us from past generations.
A: That is true, to that extent.
Q (Mr. Sullivan): lsn't it one of the
mistakes of Socialism to recognize the con-
··-•uiatt
C!ucuon unless you allow interest on
capital ?
A: I don't think we can for a lo
induce people to lend their wealth Ilg
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
Q: Under the present system, is lt
policy for a farmer to borro w money lo
prove his farm?
'A: That depends on the farm.
Q : In view of the unchangeablen
human nature, how are you going to 'the capitalists and millionaires to ref,
their attitude toward the present eco
system?
A: Human nature is the most
able thing in the world.
Q: What is your opinion in regard to
inheritance of wealth?
A : It is one of the most over-work~
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on the r,
of education, why do the colleges cha
much for their instruction?
A: They charge on the average
one-third of what the instruction costs.
student who shows real ability can get
instruction for nothing ill any first,'
college.
Q: Under · Socialism, what prot,
would the United States have if attacket
a foreign power? (Laughter.)
A: I am not the district attorney
the Socialist administration.
Q: After the public bas been pretty
erally persuaded that some change in
. society is necessary, what program ir,
you have for reforming John D. Rockef,
A: I would first of all keep Presi
Wilson in office for four years more. (
plause.) Then I think we should m
to think of a lot of more things that
prevent the growth of more John D. R,
fellers .
Q: Is it not a fact that finance ca
can get more than 6 per cent. on its m
in a year's time by re-loani ng it on
months' notes?
A: If a bank did that in Illinois it 'lfi
go t o jail. But a four months ' note .r,
pay only four months' interest.
Q: Wouldn't the co-operative syste111
England benefit this country? Six
dollars were turned back to the workers
year in England.
A: It would be fine if we would
adopt it. We aren't educated up to it ·
(Continued on Page 3.)
~!dance was immense
tbe discussion of it
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•ini5ters of
Greater B
K. Foster to give
be prepared for us o:
!gion Be J\fade Scientif
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of Bates College. L
-Re,. Charles VV. Gilk,
the audience last Su
President Milton G. E
logical Seminary, Phil
of our attentive liste
unday night I find some
tbe audience whom I
Ford Hall before. Mrs.
!tt of New York got her
Hall last Sunday, atten
,ernoon and the evening n
seem to appreciate
·e are trying to do.
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Dan Fisher of Dallas, TE
e weekly magazine publi!
Advertising League. It is
ttle sheet representing our
work that I find anywh
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Every Day Friends.
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them that life is worth liv i
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me never tire of the figl:t.
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servatism of churches and colleges and
favored classes, instead of the conserv:
of the working classes?
A: I think that is true not merely
the Socialistic point of view, but in gen,
Q (Miss Smith): Isn't it true that
capitalist class does appreciate the s'
cance of the Socialist doctrine, and is
to throw dust in the eyes of the wo
class l::ry profit-sharing and bonuses
green trading stamps? (Laughter and
plause.>'
A: Yes, I think that is true, too.
Q (Miss deFord): You include in
definition of the broader Socialism,
ists, Anarchists, syndicalists and the l
W . Do you not also include the bo~
those who are endeavoring to reform
present economic system by mearii
Henry George's theory of the single tu
land values?
A: Yes, certainly.
Q (Mr. Sachmary): Isn't it possible
Socialism is tremendous in its strength
insignificant in its weaknesses, as ~
denced by its position in Germany?
A : The Social Demokrats are the
man ringers for the Progressive Parl1,
that doesn't prove anythin~
Q: How are you going to stimulate
duction unless you allow interest on
capital?
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A: I don't think we can for a lobr
induce people to lend their wealth
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
Q: Under the present system, is I(
policy for a farmer to borrow money
prove his farm?
A: That depends on the farm:
Q: In view of the unchangeabl
human nature, how are you going to
the capitalists and millionaires to
their attitude toward the present
system?
A: Human nature is the most
able · thing in the world.
Q: What is your opinion in rega
inheritance of wealth?
A: It is one of the most over-W•
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on the
of education, why do the colleges
much for their instruction?
A: They charge on the average
one-third of what the instruction
student who shows real ability ca.II
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AS IT LOOKS TO ME
By
GEORGE
W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
courtes y and patience and good will provide the spiritual oxygen without which
some of the best that is in me would suffocate.
Some there are who seem to know me
through and through. They expect every
victory that comes to me and fully understand my shortcomings. Any time I turn
around th·e re they are right abreast of me;
there is nothing to explain, nothing to make
up. vVe start right in just where we left
off the last time, no matter when or where
that was.
Then there are the friends all around me
whose potential good will I feel notwithstanding that barriers of circumstances
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have shut off all intercourse. Those many
MUie licL. Atwood and :\fiss Minneighbors I do not really know, all those
A. No:res "poured cocoa'' at the supper clerks in the office I see every day, those
"Tollrs" last Sunday afternoon. This men in the shop, the "kids" playing along
a MY feature and it added much to the street as I pass by, the policeman on
,et. Mr. J. Adams Puffer's talk the beat, the postman at the door_ the
.
,;uidance was immensely in- street car conductor, the reporter seeking
the discussion of it very an interview, the salesman calling on me,
yes, even the solicitor of charity-they are
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all potential every-day friends. And their
inisters of Greater Boston active friendliness toward me is limited
K. Foster to give them only by my capacity for friendliness.
he prepared for us on the
If you think I have stretched the truth
on Be ~fade Scientific."
a bit as to those every-day friends of mine,
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try to imagine life without them. Suppose
f Bates College. Lewisjust for forty-eight ·hours I were to go
'· Charles W. Gilkey of
audience last Sunday through my regular schedule of life without
ident :'.\[ilton G. Evans any good mornings or good nights, without
ever a smile, with no handshaking, never
l Seminary, Phi!adelattenth-e listeners. a kindly ' glance, no inquiry after the sick
ght I find some old- one at· home, no interest in my affairs outlence whom I have side of business, no jokes sprung, no stories
11 before. ~frs. Fred exchanged. no jollying, no serious discusYork got her first sions of mutually interesting topics and, apt Sunday, attending parently, no desire on the part of any of
my associates to have any friendly interd the evening meetto appreciate very course with me. Could I stand it for fortyeight hours? Wouldn't I just as soon be
to do .
put into solitary confinement?
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To be stripped of all our everyday friends
magazine Publish 1 , would strike terror to our souls. Life
g League. It is . •~
wouldn 't be worth living; there would be
t t ~senting our or- no sunshine in our souls and we would have
t I find anywhere.
no heart to keep up t he fig-ht .
the meeting of the "Folks" last Sunatternc,on it was declared by several
the people who attend the Ford Hall
do not realize that their smaller
meetina occurring every third Sun•
afternoon° is open to all who wish to
its fellowship ·and share in its disThe attendance runs from forty
• but there might be just as well
that number. The little supper we
ether costs only 25 cents each and
a great deal to the sociability. The
·meeting conies February 15. Why
1t Jou send word to ~Iiss Crawford to
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on the list so that you will receive
, or eac.h meeting as it comes along?
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SOCIALISM .
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two funds will be created: one from which
loans will be made to enterprises that are
really for the good of the public, without
interest; and one a universal insurance
fund to provide for the sickness and old
age of all workers.
This world is not a grandfather's clock
which has stopped ever since the days of
Adam Smith.
It is a live, progressive
world, and it will keep on progressing all
through those 15,000,000 and may be 100,000,000 years.
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THE QUESTIONS.
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Q : Doesn't the government already practise Socialism in the parcel post?
A: If you want to call that Socialism.
Q : Do you mean to imply that the Socialists think there would be no occasion
for progress in the world after they had
a ttained their end?
A: No, I think they would want progress still.
Q: Do you think the single tax would be
an improvement?
A: I . think its principle is correct. I do
not believe in the single tax as an economic
system.
Q (Mr. Rea): Do you oppose a return on
property loans while you approve of the
banks' 3 per cent.?
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A: I oppose any recompense without a
service. It . is a question of fact whether
a service has been rendered in the former
case.
Q (Same): Is the division of capital
into three parts sufficient? Have. you recognized the value of man's thought as capital?
A : I was making a scale between kinds
of property in which there is a minimum of
social partnership and those in which there
is a maximum.
Q : · What do you believe instead of the
single tax if you believe in its princiole?
A: I think the tax on land vaiues is
good but I don 't think it should be the
only tax.
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A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OPINION OF
FORO HALL.
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one of the most over-worke(
f our soci~ty.
:ing of royalties on the r
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! charge on_ the a~erage
fwhat the mstr~?tlon costs,
! shows- r~al 3:bil!ty can get
for nothmg m any first
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nited S,tates have If attackel!
iwer? (Laughter. )
~ot ~h~ dist_rict attorney
(admmistrat10n.
'the public has been pretty
;i,ded that some change in
ecessary, what program 'II"
•reforming John D. Rockef
!Id first of an keep Pres"
lice for four years more. (
:en I think we should m
( lot of more things that
growth of more John D. R_
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not a fact that finance ca
! than 6 per cent. on its m
time by re-loaning it on
s?
mk did that in Illinois it"
3ut a four ·months' note "
• months'•interest.
":n•t the co-operative system
efit this country? 'Six
turned 1iack to the workers
and.
1ld be fine if we would
e aren't educated up to it
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one of our attentIVed IS en~r~sunda, night I fin some
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a clever way of using . all
;scrist for his little mill, and
. ; while he flatters one into
.. ~a message on some special
to his heart. The last subject
- to me was "My Every D~y
What r wrote for my advertlsin Dallas, Texas. is just as true
· t to my friends at Ford Hall
1 YID give you more of that very
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·;:. My · Every cay Friends.
'lire meat and drink to m y soul. It
of them that life is worth li ving.
· 11mshine of th eir lives that enables
po1r• . And it is their belief in me
me never tire of the figl:t.
these every-day friends may be
from me by the distance of ilie
or by a span of y ears. Never_'are in my heart and working
every day.
into my life one day and go
The name and face may now
forgotten, but they helped me to
U y and built their stone into ·the
tJaat I am rearing.
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try t o imagine life without them . Suppose
just for forty-eight ·hours I were to go
thr ough m y regular schedule of life with out
an y good mornings or good nights, without
ever a smile, with no handshaking, never
a kindly glance, no inquiry after the sick
one at home, no interest in my affairs outside of business, no jokes sprung, no stories
exchanged, no jollying, no serious discussions of mutually interesting topics and, appar ently, no desire on the part of any of
my associates to have any friendly intercourse with me. Could I stand it for fortyeight hours? Wouldn't I just as soon be
pu t into solitary confinement?
To be stripp ed of all our everyday friends
would strike terror tci our souls. Life
wouldn't be worth living; there would be
no sunshine in our souls and we would have
no heart to keep up the fight.
Then let us cultivate these friends by
being more worthy of them.
Ford Hall Folks
Edited · y Thomas Dreier.
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UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
'listribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more·
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will t oward men." It is the official
publication of the Ford Hall Meetings, which a re held, und er th e dire ction of George W. Coleman, every
Sunday c;yening durin g the months of
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashbur ton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
All budness communications should
be sent 1.o Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all comm uni ~ations intended for
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Service, University Press, Cambrid·ge,
Mass. Subscription Price: $1.50 for
26 numbers.
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Q (Same): Is the division of capital
· into three parts sufficient? Have_ ? OU recogni zed the value of man's thought as capital?
A : I was making a scale between kinds
of property in which there is a minimum of
social partnership and those in which there
is a maximum.
Q: What do you believe instead of the
single tax if you believe in its principle?
A: I think the tax on land values is
good but I don't think it should be the
only tax.
A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OPINION OF
FORD HALL.
President. Chase of Bates College, · Maine,
was at the Ford Hall Meeting last Sunday
and expressed himself as most enthusiastic
over the ,>'ork we are doing. "The mere
corning together," he said, "of so many
elements in society, t ends, when the meetings are held under such wise, kind and
firm care as here prevails, to do a great
dea l of good. Those who are embittered
can express themselves and because treated
with candor a nd given a kind reply often
lose their Litterness. Moreover, your movement is promotive of r eading and of the
study of serious social problems. This, in
turn, induces a moral earnestness that
leads people to wait a nd weigh metho ds,
and in many cases to discuss the true princ iple of progress and then to adopt them.
Tt:us imprcvement along lines which are
in harmony with the great laws of society
and human nature is substituted for illconsider ed methods that would turn out to
be aggravators of our difficulties rather
t han reme dies for them."
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ADVERTISING
A space of this size-one inch high and
two and one-half inches wide-can be had
for advertising purposes for one dollar per
issue. For information regarding advertising apply to Jacob London, Room 707, Ford
Building, Boston, Mass.
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the inside, not superficial.
One sp
Beginning with our next issue we are to alluded somewhat slightingly to the cl
have a column or so each week devoted to ter of the lodgers at the ordinary mumci
I ittle letters from the people.
Thus our ]edging house and queried the wisdom
friends at a distance as well as those who any measures for their relief. The
share the privileges of our meetings will
were quick and effective. One citizen,
have a chance to express themselves on the cut a nd well . groomed, both physically
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big questions which so deeply interest us, menta lly, related his experiences when '
all. It has been suggested that we consider circumstances over which he later
first the justice-or injustice-of present umphed forced him to accept the :
and pending immigration tests and a num- tality ( ?) of the lodging house. An,
ber of vital contributions on this topic are citizen passionately took to task .tlie
now in preparation. But any subject which tern which, aided by the saloon, b
offers a chance of interesting our readers about such conditions. But they all
may be discussed in this department. Write from the heart and. from a profound
on one side of the paper only; write not mate personal knowledge of the evils•
more than 150 words, as our space is lim- discussed.
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ited ; sign your name and address ( not necThe second measure was an order
essarily fo1· publication but as an evidence ing for the establishment of ev,
of good faith) , and mail or hand your com- centers in the schools, and was refe
munications to Miss Crawford so that she the Committee on Education, of
will have them each Sunday. Our paper
Henry Schnittkind is chairman.
goes to press very early in the week and
nothing received later than Sunday night
OTHER MEETINGS.
can be used in the following week's issue.
A FORUM IN THE PAPER.
One interesting thing about the Ford Hall
Meetings is that they unite families. This
is said to be true, also, of the automobile
and of the moving-picture show. But it is
peculiarly true of our movement because its
appeal and power lasts through the week.
What hap.pened at Ford Hall on Sunday
evening last and is going · to happen here
next Sunday evening is being animatedly
discussed, as you read these lines, in hundreds of households all over Greater Boston ! :Yirs. Eva Hoffman. our energetic Socialist friend , has once or twice brought her
"baby," aged seven, to the meetings, often
brings her other daughter, now in her second year at High School, eagerly discusses
what is said here with her younger son, who
will enter Harvard next year, and reports
with pride that her elder son, now a law
student at Boston University, has decided to
A TALK ON VOCATIONS.
join our Town Meeting debates for the reason that every kind of politics and party
Those who failed to come to the "Folks"
view will there be represented. Nor is the
·head of the Hoffman family without his meeting last Sunday missed a very intershare in our affairs. On a recent note- 'esting half hour. J. Adams Puffer, who
worthy Tuesday, he "did what he could for knows more about boys than almost any
Boston and our leader"-and he chanced to man in Boston-having worked with them
be the onlv member of the Hoffman family· as a teacher, a juvenile court visitor, a
who could- do just that particular thing. camp leader and a vocation counsellorThough Mrs. Hoffman organized, some time told us in illuminating fashion how to know
ago, an Alice Stone Blackwell circle for suf- the work into which· a child should be
frage work. she has not yet been able to guided-and then answered a volley of
questions from • is auditors. He advocated
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get herself ·a vote.
that a life purpose be put into the child as
Mostly, ·however, Mrs. Hoffman gets what early as possible and that hereditary talent
she goes after. She it was who led the re- be respected. He deprecated the "white
cent fight against the exorbitant price o! collar tendency" in the choice of work, dimeat .that resulted in a chain o- co-operative rected that "blind alley" jobs be carefully
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butcher stores ·b eing starte~ ~r the Jewish avoided and counselled that the possibilpeople; the one in Brockt,i'.ir is still in suc- ities of agriculture as a vocation be concessful operation bv reason of the fact that sidered by the very many-too many-who
local conditions in· that town are favorable now choose professional. It was a valuable
to advantageous buying.
and suggestive little talk and the Ford Hall
Helping individuals, though, is the thing, Folks ·are very grateful to Mr. Puffer for
which Mrs. Hoffman does best and coming out to give it to us.
most happily. She believes that nine out
of every ten people who become a burden to
NEXT SUNDAY'S SPEAKER.
society might have continued self-sustaining if intelligent individual aid had been
Prof. Edward A. Steiner. who will <::no~k
given at thP._ nrn n ar "'"',.. ....... ,.......... . a - - .,., • •
School of Social Science, Central
Union, and ·women's Trade Union)
Lorimer Hall, Monday, February 2;'at
p. m. ' 'The Truth About Calumet,•
Graham Romeyn Taylor, editor The _81
Joseph C. Cannon of the Western F1
tion of Miners; a representative of iht.
umet and Hecla Company.
Sunday Commons, Huntington .
Hall, Sunday, February 8, at 3.30 P•
Charles Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Thursday, Febrll
8 p. m., Style in American Architec·
Ralph Adams Cram. Sunday, Feb
at 3.30 p. m ., James Matthew Barri'
Writer and Dramatist, by E. ",'
Black.
Lowell Institute, Huntington b
day, February 2, and Thursday, Fe
at 5 p. m., Mohammedanism. by C.l
Hurgronje.
Monday, February .,
Thursday, February 5, at S p. Jil., Tb ·
of the Common Law, by Roscoe
Tuesday, February 3, and FridaY,
6, at 8 p. m., Sound Analysis, bY
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share in our affairs. On a recent note- esting half hour. J . Adams t'Ullt!r. "uv
worthy Tuesday, he "did what he could for knows more about boys than almost any
Boston and our leader·'-and he chanced to man in Boston-having worked with them
be the only member of the Hoffman family as a teacher, a juve·nile court visitor, a
who could do just that particular thing. camp leader and a vocation counsellorThough Mrs. Hoffman organized, some time told us in illuminating fashion how to know
ago, an Alice Stone Blackwell circle for suf- the work into which· a child should be
frage work, she has not yet been able to guided-and then answered • a volley of
questions from • is auditors. He advocated
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get herself a vote.
that a life purpose be put into the child as
Mostly, ·h owever, Mrs. Hoffman gets what early as possible and that hereditary talent
she goes after. She it was who led the re- be respected. He deprecated the "white
cent fight against the exorbitant price or collar tendency" in the choice of work, dimeat .that resulted in a chain of co-operative . rected that "blind alley" jobs be carefully
butcher stores -being started for the Jewish avoided and counselled that the possibilpeople; the one in Brockton is still in suc- ities of agriculture as a vocation be concessful operation - y reason of the fact that sidered by the very many-too many-who
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to advantageous buying.
and suggestive little talk and the Ford Hall
Helping individuals, though, is the thing, Folks are very grateful to Mr. Puffer for
which Mrs. Hoffman does best and coming out to give it to us.
most happily. She believes that nine out
of every ten people who become a burden to
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society might have continued self-sustaining if intelligent individual aid had been
Prof. Edward A. Steiner, wb-o will speak
given at· the proper moment. "I say that I to us next Sunday evening on "The Intermust save two persons a year from pauper- National Mind and the Inter-Racial Heart,"
ism," she confides, " and mostly I have been is one of the most interesting personalities
able to do that."
who comes to us. Dr. Steiner is no less
What a record for a woman . without renowned for his deep knowledge of i=imeans, who, in addition to caring for her gration than for his extraordinary fund of
He can. make you
large family, helps her husband ·by conduct- amusing anecdotes.
ing one of his two photograph studios. The weep, too, for like all great humorists, he
family home is connected with the Boston has a very tender heart and a iift for
studio, in the heart ·of Boston's Ghetto, and reaching the hearts of his hearers.
so Mrs. Hoffman, by night as well as by day,
THE TOWN MEETING.
is accessible to every poor immigrant who
lacks a friend. When an interpreter is
That the discussion in the Town Meeting
needed by some one too poor to pay for such
service, Mrs. Hoffman is called upon and an- will be from the heart is evident from the
swers the call. If money must be found to session of January 22. That thought struck
send a consumptive to California or to set hot from the heart is worth while· and will
up a deserted wife in a little candy business command attention is also evident.
Two measures were presented to the
it is Mrs. Hoffman who undertakes and carries through the job. She knows how it Town Meeting, both of municipal concern.
The first was an order appropriating
feels to be a poor immigrant in a strang.i
$100,000 for the establishment and mainland, for she came to this country from
Russia, an orphan of thirteen, and during tenance for a year of three municipal lodgher teens made her living as a garment ing houses, one in the South End and o·n e in
worker. She understands better than al- the Korth End, and one in the v\1 est End.
most any other person in Boston, too, the The amount was considered hardly sufpsychology of woman's nature. To hear her ficient and was raised by amendment to
plead· for her special interest at this mo- $375,000, and in that shape was referred to
That
ment, a poor woman who refuses to give up the Committee on City Planning.
committee, of which George B. Gallup is
to charity .the baby to ·whom she has been
a foster-mother-is to have vour heart- chairman, has already begun its investigastrings wrung! , But Mrs. Hoffma,_n believes tion. When that committee reports it will
in the coming o! a day when thinfl's will be have definite, concrete information to give
muc-h better ; and, somehow, as you talk with
which -will be worth listening to.
her, you believe iri_-!>_
- uch a day, to.Q.
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The·-:~is_ ussio_ was keen, intelligent and
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Graham .Komey11 1 <1y rn1, t:u1 Lur -1 he ~J_osepl~ C._ Cannon of the Western
t10n of Mmers; a representative or n..."
umet and Hecla Company.
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Sunday Commons, Huntington
Hall, Sunday, February S, at 3.30 p
Charles Fleischer, leader.
· 'Public Library, Thursday, Feblilalr
8 p. ·m., Style in American ArchitE
Ralph Adams Cram. Sunday, Fe
at 3.30 p. m., James Matthew Ba!iie,
Writer and Dramatist, by E.
Black.
Lowell Institute, Huntington Rall,
day, February 2, and Thursday, Feb
at 5 p. m., Mohammedanism, by c
Hurgronje.
Monday, February ·2,
Thursday, February 5, at 8 p. m., Tbt
of the Common Law, by Roscoe
Tuesday, February 3, and Friday,
6, at 8 p. m., Sound Analysis, by Da
Miller.
Friends Who Are Com·
Feb. 8-Prof. Edward A. Steiner,
Inter-National Mind and the Inter.
Heart."
Feb. 15-Symposium, "Breeding
Dr. Hugh Cabot, "The Problems
Education"; Dr. De Witt G. WiJCOI,
Scourge of Venereal Disease" ; Be
ward Cummings, "The Responsib"~
Parenthood."
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Boot!J,
Case for the Prisoner."
March I-Leslie Willis Sprague
cago, "Tolstoy, the Non-Resistanl"
March 8-Symposiu.m, on "Jo
A. J. Philpott of the Boston Globe an4
to be announced.
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "Tllt
lenge of Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. Frank 0 . Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Mary Church Terreli
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall
York.
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Grinnell College, Iowa, a man who has bei
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on the subject of immigration," will come to
this time taking for his topic "The Inter,
.1lfind and the Inte1·-Racial IIeart.'' Dr
was born in Austria and lived ·and studied
the world before settling down to his prei
professor of applie<l Christianity in a Wester
He has written one of the besf books we
Tolstoy, whom he knew well, and he is fol
flowi11g of humour and of humanity. • His la
on our platform is still a glowing 111emo .
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FEBRUAl{Y IS is the date of a symposium which
we think ought to be the best thing of its kind we
have ever had on otlr platform. "Breedi1tg Jlllen"
is to be the subject of the evening and DR. HUGH
CAOOT, DH. DE WITT G. vVILCOX and Rn:v,
EowAno CUMMINGS are the three speakers who will
participate. Dr. Cabot's subject is" The Problems
of Sex Education," Dr. vVilcox's" The Scourg·e of
Venereal Disease" and l\fr, Cummings' "The
Responsibilities of Parenthood," Dr. Cabot is
well known for the advanced position he has taken
in Boston ~oncerning the necessity of education in sex
matters, Dr. Wilcox will be remembered as having
once before gii1 en sane and sound advice from this
pla1form concerning health, happiness and
Mr. Cummings, though now a minister-the
of Edward Everett Hale in the pulpit of I
Congregational Church-was formerly for 1
of years professor of sociology at Harvard p
for that post by a protracted period of ~
travel in France, Italy and Germany and by
winter of residence at Toynbee Hall in tlie
London's Whitechapel district. He knowsi
the handicaps that environment often pme,_
secrated parent hood and seems fitted, in quilt
fashion, therefore, to set an intelligem )II
thetic standard for all fat hers.
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who, from being associated for many years with his
mother, Maud Ballington Booth, in her remarkable
work for prisoners, knows thoroughly the life,-in
prison and after,-of hundreds of men who have
broken Society's laws, will tell us about the problems
of Parole, of prison discipline and of rehabilitation
when the sentence has been served as they present
themselve's to his clear vision. "The Case for the
Prisone1·" is a recital which will -:ii,· '"'" tn +I,~
rnme of Ford Hall has !
broad nnd the reality is so 11
l;npresslve tha.n the fame
the same stale of mind l wa
r nohed home after speaking
lu school. The folks asked
frightened. "-F-frigllteued ?" 1 :
• only scared!" This ls i•
type, ( Laughter.) A ma'.1 .
tbousnnd miles to address ,u
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:worth while to say. He nnu
b knows what has been th o
by his hearers, and that
tblnkB worth while have not
b)' lhom. In Chicago I am
dlcnl, bnl here l s uppose
mo "You are try!llg
boggnn haH-way dowi~
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at. l wouldn't know 111 wha
11,11 01· 18th century they
aide, ( Laughter.)
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are· things near th e h ea i_
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ut; Socialism. ( Laughte1
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Thoughts about Social l
ta what I nm going to
The first of these
other peo11le beside
people who are J>rofesso
ve begun to wake up t
.11 need to 11ul our Sl
,bull and to redlslrlbut
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LIie only people who are
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who nro either J)h enotm
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FEB.RUA.RY 8.-PROF. EDWARD A. ST
innell College, Iowa, a man who has been
ized as "one of the best authorities in this
the subject of immigration," will come to
s time taking for his topic "The .lnter-'N
:nd and the .Inter-Racial .EJ'eart.'' Dr;
s born in Austria and lived and studied
: world before settling down to his pres~
>fessor of applied Christianity in a ·westeri:i
, has written one of the best books we
lstoy, whom he knew well, and he is full
wing of humour and of humanity. His last
our platform is still a glowing memory·
ke a big mistake if} ou miss out on thi~ Q~
f a symposium which
thing of its kind we
"Breeding lWen"
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WILCOX and REv.
·ee speakers who will
ct is "The Problems
x's" The Scourge of
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od." Dr. Cabot is
Josition he has taken
:ty of education in sex
!membered as having
.rnd advice from this
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1form concerning health, happiness and
. Cummings, though now a minister:--tbe
Edward Everett Hale in the pulpit of
□ gregational Church-was formerly for 1
years professor of sociology at Harvard
that post by a protracted perio1 of b •
,el in France, Italy and Germany a?dtb;
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF SOCIALISM~
By ALBION W. SMALL
HE fame oi Ford Hall has gone.,
·abroad. and the reality is . so much
more impressive than the fame th~t
Ill the _
same state of mind I was m
I .reached home after speaking my
)lleee tn school. The folks asked me
1 trlghtened. •:p.frightened ?" I said,
YU only scared!" This is a reto type. (Laughter.) A man who
a thousand miles to address an au-eacht to be dead sure that he has
.•orth while to say. He must be
lie lmows what has been thought
I by his hearers, and that the
lblnks worth while have not been
by them. In Chicago I am conn4Ical. but here I suppose you
II me, '"You are tr:nng to
toboggan half-way down the
aa a!raid mv ideas would fall so
I wouldn't know in what del'lth or 18th century they had
aalde. (Laughter.)
IJ Colng to talk in plain fashion
dungs that are near my heart.
are things near the hearts of
Ila. I take it that yo u know
~ Socialism. (Laughter.) I
• have put my subject this
!'<.-egtected Commonplaces in
Thoughts about Social ProbII What I am going to talk
r. The first of these comlllat Other people besides SoPeople who are professors in
.Ye begun to wake up to the
.,_~_Deed to put our society.
~.., and t~ redistribute the
.._ ta or society. The second
Only People who are thorabc:,ut our economic system
LP •ho ~:; either Phenomenally
not a remedy, but more knowledge of the
principles of human relationships.
Those of you who are Socialists will see
without very much divination that I am not
a Socialist in the ordinary sense. I am a
Socialist in the sense that Socialism is each
and every movement which opposes our
present economic order from principle, and
in some form or other desires to substitute
the merit of services as the ground of income for the ownership of wealth. This includes Socialism, Anarchy, the syndicalist
movement. the I. W. \V. movement. You
notice I have not mentioned trade unions,
because they have never attacked our
economic order on grounds of principle.
They have sought under that order to secure
2. better distribution.
;\'Iy theory for all this difference of opin- .
ion is that it is largely due to a fact you
will not find · in any economic text-booksthat there is not one kind of capital, but
there are three kinds of capital. Tool capital is capital made by the worker himself;
it might be represented by a hoe he manufactures to dig the earth.
Management
capital is capital in which there must be
the partnership cif many other men or the
proprietorship is nullified; it might be represented by a grist-mill, ln which the owner
must ask others to assist him and to protect him in its possession. Socialists sometimes deny the value of management, but
certainly something is contributed by the
ability of the manager himself. Finance
capital is capital simply on deposit, in connection with which the owner does no work
at all; it is represented by every dollar in
a savings bank.
The problems of our economic system are
really all gathered around the extent to
which they have introduced this question of
'
new owner had thus taken an idle $15,000
to board, which consumed $900 of the
products of the farm before anything could
lJe thought of in the way of income for the
new proprietor. I am not saying that all
tinanciering is of that silly, impossible order. I a m saying that all our finance is
tending to approach that system of insolvency. The New Haven Railroad is an excellent example. Suppose we should begin
to operate a system to oegin to capitalize
the alphabet and the multiplication table,
and should arrange that everyone who used
them should pay a royalty to somebody every
time he used them, do yo u think the cost
of living wouldn't rise ? There is no more
reason for paying ro·yalties on the material
savings of previous generations than on the
spiritual savings. (Applause.)
Before I close, I might refer to my sub-'
ject, for the sake of formality. (Laughter.)
The strength of Socialism has been and is
and will be in its sagacity in pressing for
a nalysis of our social institutions until the
fallacies in their workings will be visible,
and more people will be asking the question: "How can we remove those fallacies?"
The weakness of Socialism has been and
io: and will be in its being more interested
in its scheme for reforming the system than
in persuading fellow-citizens that there is
something to reform. There is no persaud- ·
ing people before you convince them. If a
pure food commission were to draw up a
sanitary bill of fare , it could not compel
people to eat it. A Montana paper recently:.
said my· theories were "rot, because if they
were true the only escape would be Socialism." ·well, the conclusion doesn't follow
on the premise, but you see people are not
yet convinced; and the people will not
adopt a plan until they are convinced that
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die aside. (Laughter.)
~ going to talk in plain fashion
::things that are near my heart
are things near the hea rts of
dtiiens. I take it that you know
about Socialism. (Laughter.) I
d have put my subject this
e Neglected Commonplaces in
' Thoughts about Social Prob. ts what I am going to talk
y. The first of these comla that other people besides So· n people who are professors in
e
have begun to wake up to the
there is need to put our society.
iger: basis, and to redistribute the
pd benefits of society. The second
to4ay· the only people who are thor' .tisfieg about our economic system
' eop,e who are either phenomenally
p
GI' p~enomenally selfish, or phenomlot]L The third is that not all the
·• ho are dissatisfied with our present
It Institutions are bold enough to
that dissatisfaction in public, and
enough to go ahead joining in
to try to see what can be done
Ma.ny of them think the system
lination of God, and they never
the idea of charity as a mitigathe future of the evils that have
in our present partially devel1mic institutions.
The fourth
"matter of realizing that there
to be solved and conditions
,ved is not a matter of rich
; it is not a matter of justice
stice-even these timorous
. justice i_ they can find out
f
is. Clarence Darrow said once.
the truth, I haven't any grouch
D. Rockefeller. My fight is
SJ'Stem that he represents." We
to· get rich men and poor men and
men alike to see whether the
Ch men have grown rich are the
to get incomes at all; and if not,
we ~n improve these ways for
• al~ke, for there will always
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o! mcome. What we want is
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and answers
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My theory for all this difference of opinion is that it is largely due to a fact you
will not find in all\· economic text-booksthat there is not one kind of capital, but
there are three kinds of capital. Tool capital is capital made by the worker himself;
it might be represented by a hoe he manufactures to dig the earth.
Management
capital is capital in which there must be
the partnership cif many other men or the
proprietorship is nullified; it might be represented by a grist-mill, ln which the owner
must ask others to assist him and to protect him in its possession. Socialists sometimes deny the value of management, but
certainly something is contributed by the
ability of the manager himself. Finance
capital is capital simply on deposit, in connection with which the owner does no work
at all; 'it is represented by every dollar in
a savings bank.
The problems of our economic system are
really all gathered around the extent to
which they have introduced this question of
finance capital, some phenomena of which
are justifiable, and some of which are not.
The bonus paid ' for finance capital is the
largest element in the high cost of living . .
I know a farm in which $15,000 was paid
for taking over the title, subject to mortgage to the man who took the money. The
THE PRAYER
We
acknowledge with grateful
hearts the growing determination of
men the Wo rld over to find a better
·
way to live. We rejoice in the great
leaders from all ranks of society who
have been raised up to blaze the way
toward a larger truth and a sounder
righteousness. Help us, 0 God, to
yield ourselves to this new spirit of
the age which will not believe that
poverty and disease and crime must
be accepted as a necessary part of
our every day life. Help us to trust
Thee that the way shall be found to
reduce these evils to a negligible
minimum. Give us, we pray, open
minds and stout hearts that we may
see the Heavenly Vision and commit
our lives to it. Make us all willing
to sacrifice present and personal comfort for the future welfare o! the
whole race of man. • Amen.
spiritual savings. (Applause.)
Before I close, I might refer to my subject, for the sake of formality. (Laughter.)
The strength of Socialism has been and is
and will be in its sagacity in pressing for
analysis of our social institutions until the
fallacies in their workings will be visible,
and more people ·will be asking the question: "How can we remove those fallacies?:.•
The weakness of Socialism has been and
i::: and will be in its being more interested
in its scheme for reforming the system than
in persuading fellow-citizens that there is
something to reform. There is no persauding people before you convince them. If a
pure food commission were to draw up a
sanitary bill of fare, it could not compel
people to eat it A Montana paper recently,
said m y· theories were "rot, because if they
were true the only escape would be Socialism." Well, the conclusion doesn't follow
on the premise, but you see people are not
yet convinced ; and the people will no.t
adopt a plan until they are convinced that
there is something to which some plan or
other should be applied.
I have said nothing whatever about
whether I think there is anything to do in
the· future to improve the crudities of our
present industrial system. I am not an advance agent for any scheme for reforming
the industrial system. They say this "{Orld · has only 15,000,000 more years to exist. We
want something to do during that short
space of time. It would be too bad if anyone invented some scheme to set things all
to rights before then. But there are certain outlooks for improvement that people
when they are convinced may move toward as an ultimate goal, and I believe I
can see some of those things_ I believe
that in the future every man in an industrial plant who is necessary to the workings
of that plant is going to be recognized as a
partner in it-not merely in the profitsharing sense, but as we are partners in
ca rrying on our representative political
system-in .theory at least.
I think the
faithful worker is going to have property
in his job, just as the buyer of a share of
stock has today. I believe that the partnership of society in all our industrial operations is going to be recognized. I believe
that the l)artnership of society is going to
be recognized in capital by income and
inheritance taxes and otherwise . . I • believe
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Curley sell the Public Garden? (Laughter.)
A. (Mr. Coleman.) Evidently you were
not here last week when I said that that
was the first and last time I would ever
speak from this platform on politics. As
far as Ford Hall is concerned, I don't care
what Curley does with the Public Garden.
Q: Did you ever know of any rich man
or king who gave up his riches and privileges for the sake of the common good?
A: I have heard of a man who got his
name from this hall, out in Detroit, who is
doing it on a pretty large scale.
Q: What are you going to do about the
man who is unemployed, when all working
men are recognized as - partners?
A: There won't be so many of him; but
tl:.at will be something for the first few of
the 15,000,000 years to determine.
Q:
(Mr. Cosgrove.) Would you attack
the methods of Carnegie at Homestead and
of the Calumet and Hecla?
A: I said not to attack a rich man as
such. I don't -approve of wrong methods
by rich or poor.
Q:
Where did you get your idea that
Socialists undervalued management capital?
A: I did not say that all Socialists undervalued it, but some do. Tom Mann said
that to me personally, for instance.
Q:
(Same.)
Is it not true that the
Socialist party in this country at least has
got its vote today from its character as a
propagandist party?
A:
I repeat that no one has done as
much as the Socialists to inform the world
that there is need of change, but the influence of the Socialists has been limited by
the fact that they have insisted that the
change can come only through the collective ownership of capital.
Q:
(Mrs. Solomon.) Why should money
be given the same earning power as human
beings?
Q:
Yes, certainly.
What remedies have you for the exploitation of the people unler a profit system?
A : I distinctly said that I was concerned
not with remedies but with improvements.
Q:
(Mr. Victorson.) Cannot capital be
divided as Marx divided it, into standing
and circulating capital? Isn't finance capital one part of circulating capital?
A: It could be so divided, but it is an
entirely different plan of division.
Q:
(Same.) Why do you think that the
solution of exploitation lies in wrong
finance? Why entirely disregard the old
idea that it is surplus value appropriated
by those who did not earn it from those
who did earn it but do not receive it?
A : I meant to say only that the principle
of finance capital is the most fruitful
source of the trouble.
Q: In a Socialistic state, how would the
professional man be rewarded?
A: I hope some Socialist will tell us.
(Laughter.)
Q:
Couldn't we get along now without
finance capital?
A:
We could as a matter of abstract
theory.
Q : Have the workers to wait until the
capitalists make them co-partners?
A:
I think they will help bring that
about by adopting measures of their own.
Q: What is the attitude of the Socialists
toward religion?
A: That again Socialists must answer,
Q: vVhy couldn't the people become possessors of capital and make every one of
us a government employee?
A: Because we are not willing to make
life a personally conducted tour.
Q: What effect has Socialism on religion
and on free love?
A:
_.\.gain I must ask the Socialists to
tell us.
Q:
What do YOU think of Mr. Forrl ' s
A:
Q:
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servatism of churches and colleges and ·
favored classes, instead of the conse
of the working classes?
r
A: I think that _is true not merely
the Socialistic point of view, but in g,
Q (Miss Smith): Isn't it true that
capitalist class does appreciate the.,
cance of the Socialist doctrine, and is __
to throw dust in the eyes of the w, •
class by profit-sharing and bonuses
green trading stamps ? (Laughter and
plause.)
A: Yes, I think that is true, too.
Q (Miss deFord): You include ill
definition of the broader Socialism, S
ists, Anarchists, syndicalists and the..!
W. Do you not also include the b
those who are endeavoring to refoI_!II
present economic system by means
Henry George's theory of the single_.
land values?
A : Yes, certainly.
Q (Mr. Sachmary) : Isn't it possible
Socialism is tremendous in its strengtl
insignificant in its weaknesses, as ,II
denced by its position in Germany ?'
A: The Social Demokrats are tile
man ringers for the Progressive I'.:
that doesn 't prove anything.
:
Q: How are you going to stimulaij
duction unless you allow interest on
capital?
·
A : I don't think we can
induce people to lend their wealth
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
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Q: Under the present system, ~-~I
policy for a farmer to borrow moneY
prove his farm?
A: That depends on the farm:
Q : In view of the unchangeabl
human nature, how are you going to
the capitalists and millionaires to
their attitude toward the present
system?
.
.
A: Human nature is the most
able thing in the world.
.
Q: What is your opinion in regard
inheritance of wealth?
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A: It is one of the most over-wo
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on
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Q:
Where did you get your idea that
Socialists undervalued management capital?
A: I did not say that all Socialists undervalued it, but some do. Tom Mann said
that to me personally, for instance.
Q:
(Same.)
Is it not true that the
Socialist party in this country at least has
got its vote today from its character as a
propagandist party?
A : I repeat that no one has done as
much as the Socialists to inform the world
that there is need of change, but the influence of the Socialists has been limited by
the fact that they have insisted that the
change can come only through the collective ownership of capital.
Q:
(Mrs. Solomon.) Why should money
be given the same earning power as human
beings?
A: It never should be; that is just the
point.
Q: Do you think rich people are as interested as the poor in getting rid of the
present system? (Laughter.)."
A: I am afraid a poll taken among the
rich would not result in as large an average; but I have associated with rich people
who were earnestly studying how they
might do something in their place to make
the world better.
Q:
(Mrs. Hoffman.)
Why are the
capitalists so jealous of the ownership of
the means of life?
A: They do not believe that collective
ownership would be effective.
Q: Until the public partnership is established, do you believe in trade unions?
A: I most emphatically do, and also in
better trade unions.
Q:
Do you think interest ought to be
done away with?
A: Not immediately, but we ought to aim
'-toward that.
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Q:
If there is strength in Socialism,
how is it that the ministers of the Gospel
are the last among the people to co-operate
ill it?
.
A: I should want the implication to be
proved.
There are some pretty active
Socialists among the ·ministers of the Gospel.
Q: Isn't it true that the reason a larger
number of working men are not Socialists
is because of their ignorance of -vhat Socialism would do for them?
n,
(Laught er.)
Q:
Couldn't we get along now without
finance capital?
A: Vi' e could as a matter of abstract
theory.
.
Q: Have the workers to wait until the
capitalists make them co-partners?
A:
I think they will help bring that
about by adopting measures of their own.
Q: What is the attitude of the Socialists
toward religion?
A: That agaill Socialists must answer.
Q: Why couldn't the people become possessors of capital and make every one of
us a government employee?
A: Because we are not willing to make
life a personally conducted tour.
Q: What effect has Socialism on religion
and on free love?
A: Again I must ask the Socialists to
tell us.
Q:
What do you think of Mr. Ford's
saying that Socialism doesn't do labor any
good, and is it true?
A: I don't know if Mr. Ford said that;
if he did, I don't agree · with him.
Q: Couldn't the grist mill be worked on
a co-operative plan?
A: Certainly, that is a possibility.
Q: Why does Socialism grow faster in
foreign countries than here?
A: Because there are more abuses in
foreign countries. (Applause.)
Q: You say we need no remedies; hasn't
the literature of Socialism uncovered conditions that justify remedies of the most
drastic kind , as advocated by the extreme
Socialists?
A: Sometimes I have moods in which I
should use just such language if I allowed
myself to speak without second thought.
Other times, when I have had my second
thought first (Laughter) I don 't really think
soberly that we are making the most progress when we speak in those term!\.
"Remedy" is an unfortunate word to use.
Q:
Are there no t some people to inform whom we must say in effect, "Root,
hog, or die?"
A: I wouldn't stand in the way of any
of those forceful' measures.
Q:
Why don't tool and management
capital belong in the same class with
finance capital? The tools ,come down £6
us from past generations.
A: That is true, to that extent.
Q (Mr. Sullivan): lsn't it one of the
mistakes of Socialism to recognize the con-
··-•uiatt
C!ucuon unless you allow interest on
capital ?
A: I don't think we can for a lo
induce people to lend their wealth Ilg
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
Q: Under the present system, is lt
policy for a farmer to borro w money lo
prove his farm?
'A: That depends on the farm.
Q : In view of the unchangeablen
human nature, how are you going to 'the capitalists and millionaires to ref,
their attitude toward the present eco
system?
A: Human nature is the most
able thing in the world.
Q: What is your opinion in regard to
inheritance of wealth?
A : It is one of the most over-work~
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on the r,
of education, why do the colleges cha
much for their instruction?
A: They charge on the average
one-third of what the instruction costs.
student who shows real ability can get
instruction for nothing ill any first,'
college.
Q: Under · Socialism, what prot,
would the United States have if attacket
a foreign power? (Laughter.)
A: I am not the district attorney
the Socialist administration.
Q: After the public bas been pretty
erally persuaded that some change in
. society is necessary, what program ir,
you have for reforming John D. Rockef,
A: I would first of all keep Presi
Wilson in office for four years more. (
plause.) Then I think we should m
to think of a lot of more things that
prevent the growth of more John D. R,
fellers .
Q: Is it not a fact that finance ca
can get more than 6 per cent. on its m
in a year's time by re-loani ng it on
months' notes?
A: If a bank did that in Illinois it 'lfi
go t o jail. But a four months ' note .r,
pay only four months' interest.
Q: Wouldn't the co-operative syste111
England benefit this country? Six
dollars were turned back to the workers
year in England.
A: It would be fine if we would
adopt it. We aren't educated up to it ·
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~!dance was immense
tbe discussion of it
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Greater B
K. Foster to give
be prepared for us o:
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the audience last Su
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of our attentive liste
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Ford Hall before. Mrs.
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Advertising League. It is
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work that I find anywh
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as grist for his little mill.
in a while he flatters one
a message on some spe
to his heart. The last sub.
to me was "My Every :
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Every Day Friends.
eat and drink to my soul.
them that life is worth liv i
hine of their lives that ena1:
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me never tire of the figl:t.
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m me by the distance of ·
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every day.
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servatism of churches and colleges and
favored classes, instead of the conserv:
of the working classes?
A: I think that is true not merely
the Socialistic point of view, but in gen,
Q (Miss Smith): Isn't it true that
capitalist class does appreciate the s'
cance of the Socialist doctrine, and is
to throw dust in the eyes of the wo
class l::ry profit-sharing and bonuses
green trading stamps? (Laughter and
plause.>'
A: Yes, I think that is true, too.
Q (Miss deFord): You include in
definition of the broader Socialism,
ists, Anarchists, syndicalists and the l
W . Do you not also include the bo~
those who are endeavoring to reform
present economic system by mearii
Henry George's theory of the single tu
land values?
A: Yes, certainly.
Q (Mr. Sachmary): Isn't it possible
Socialism is tremendous in its strength
insignificant in its weaknesses, as ~
denced by its position in Germany?
A : The Social Demokrats are the
man ringers for the Progressive Parl1,
that doesn't prove anythin~
Q: How are you going to stimulate
duction unless you allow interest on
capital?
·
·.
A: I don't think we can for a lobr
induce people to lend their wealth
profit. The question is, aren't we
too much?
Q: Under the present system, is I(
policy for a farmer to borrow money
prove his farm?
A: That depends on the farm:
Q: In view of the unchangeabl
human nature, how are you going to
the capitalists and millionaires to
their attitude toward the present
system?
A: Human nature is the most
able · thing in the world.
Q: What is your opinion in rega
inheritance of wealth?
A: It is one of the most over-W•
stitutions in our society.
Q: Speaking of royalties on the
of education, why do the colleges
much for their instruction?
A: They charge on the average
one-third of what the instruction
student who shows real ability ca.II
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AS IT LOOKS TO ME
By
GEORGE
W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
courtes y and patience and good will provide the spiritual oxygen without which
some of the best that is in me would suffocate.
Some there are who seem to know me
through and through. They expect every
victory that comes to me and fully understand my shortcomings. Any time I turn
around th·e re they are right abreast of me;
there is nothing to explain, nothing to make
up. vVe start right in just where we left
off the last time, no matter when or where
that was.
Then there are the friends all around me
whose potential good will I feel notwithstanding that barriers of circumstances
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have shut off all intercourse. Those many
MUie licL. Atwood and :\fiss Minneighbors I do not really know, all those
A. No:res "poured cocoa'' at the supper clerks in the office I see every day, those
"Tollrs" last Sunday afternoon. This men in the shop, the "kids" playing along
a MY feature and it added much to the street as I pass by, the policeman on
,et. Mr. J. Adams Puffer's talk the beat, the postman at the door_ the
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,;uidance was immensely in- street car conductor, the reporter seeking
the discussion of it very an interview, the salesman calling on me,
yes, even the solicitor of charity-they are
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all potential every-day friends. And their
inisters of Greater Boston active friendliness toward me is limited
K. Foster to give them only by my capacity for friendliness.
he prepared for us on the
If you think I have stretched the truth
on Be ~fade Scientific."
a bit as to those every-day friends of mine,
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try to imagine life without them. Suppose
f Bates College. Lewisjust for forty-eight ·hours I were to go
'· Charles W. Gilkey of
audience last Sunday through my regular schedule of life without
ident :'.\[ilton G. Evans any good mornings or good nights, without
ever a smile, with no handshaking, never
l Seminary, Phi!adelattenth-e listeners. a kindly ' glance, no inquiry after the sick
ght I find some old- one at· home, no interest in my affairs outlence whom I have side of business, no jokes sprung, no stories
11 before. ~frs. Fred exchanged. no jollying, no serious discusYork got her first sions of mutually interesting topics and, apt Sunday, attending parently, no desire on the part of any of
my associates to have any friendly interd the evening meetto appreciate very course with me. Could I stand it for fortyeight hours? Wouldn't I just as soon be
to do .
put into solitary confinement?
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To be stripped of all our everyday friends
magazine Publish 1 , would strike terror to our souls. Life
g League. It is . •~
wouldn 't be worth living; there would be
t t ~senting our or- no sunshine in our souls and we would have
t I find anywhere.
no heart to keep up t he fig-ht .
the meeting of the "Folks" last Sunatternc,on it was declared by several
the people who attend the Ford Hall
do not realize that their smaller
meetina occurring every third Sun•
afternoon° is open to all who wish to
its fellowship ·and share in its disThe attendance runs from forty
• but there might be just as well
that number. The little supper we
ether costs only 25 cents each and
a great deal to the sociability. The
·meeting conies February 15. Why
1t Jou send word to ~Iiss Crawford to
'
on the list so that you will receive
, or eac.h meeting as it comes along?
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SOCIALISM .
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two funds will be created: one from which
loans will be made to enterprises that are
really for the good of the public, without
interest; and one a universal insurance
fund to provide for the sickness and old
age of all workers.
This world is not a grandfather's clock
which has stopped ever since the days of
Adam Smith.
It is a live, progressive
world, and it will keep on progressing all
through those 15,000,000 and may be 100,000,000 years.
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THE QUESTIONS.
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(Continued from Page 1.)
Q : Doesn't the government already practise Socialism in the parcel post?
A: If you want to call that Socialism.
Q : Do you mean to imply that the Socialists think there would be no occasion
for progress in the world after they had
a ttained their end?
A: No, I think they would want progress still.
Q: Do you think the single tax would be
an improvement?
A: I . think its principle is correct. I do
not believe in the single tax as an economic
system.
Q (Mr. Rea): Do you oppose a return on
property loans while you approve of the
banks' 3 per cent.?
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A: I oppose any recompense without a
service. It . is a question of fact whether
a service has been rendered in the former
case.
Q (Same): Is the division of capital
into three parts sufficient? Have. you recognized the value of man's thought as capital?
A : I was making a scale between kinds
of property in which there is a minimum of
social partnership and those in which there
is a maximum.
Q : · What do you believe instead of the
single tax if you believe in its princiole?
A: I think the tax on land vaiues is
good but I don 't think it should be the
only tax.
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A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OPINION OF
FORO HALL.
Presiden t Chase of Ba tes Coll ee:r.>
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n the world.
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1is your opm1011 m regard to
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one of the most over-worke(
f our soci~ty.
:ing of royalties on the r
~. w~y tdo tt~oen;olleges cha
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! charge on_ the a~erage
fwhat the mstr~?tlon costs,
! shows- r~al 3:bil!ty can get
for nothmg m any first
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; Socialism, wh~t prot
nited S,tates have If attackel!
iwer? (Laughter. )
~ot ~h~ dist_rict attorney
(admmistrat10n.
'the public has been pretty
;i,ded that some change in
ecessary, what program 'II"
•reforming John D. Rockef
!Id first of an keep Pres"
lice for four years more. (
:en I think we should m
( lot of more things that
growth of more John D. R_
,
not a fact that finance ca
! than 6 per cent. on its m
time by re-loaning it on
s?
mk did that in Illinois it"
3ut a four ·months' note "
• months'•interest.
":n•t the co-operative system
efit this country? 'Six
turned 1iack to the workers
and.
1ld be fine if we would
e aren't educated up to it
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Theological Semm~ry,
one of our attentIVed IS en~r~sunda, night I fin some
rYin the ·audience who: I ~v~
- at Ford Hall before.
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all seem ·no- to do
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weekly magazine pub1 e
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e sheet representing our or■■111.-i• ittlwork that I find anywhere.
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a clever way of using . all
;scrist for his little mill, and
. ; while he flatters one into
.. ~a message on some special
to his heart. The last subject
- to me was "My Every D~y
What r wrote for my advertlsin Dallas, Texas. is just as true
· t to my friends at Ford Hall
1 YID give you more of that very
ge:
·;:. My · Every cay Friends.
'lire meat and drink to m y soul. It
of them that life is worth li ving.
· 11mshine of th eir lives that enables
po1r• . And it is their belief in me
me never tire of the figl:t.
these every-day friends may be
from me by the distance of ilie
or by a span of y ears. Never_'are in my heart and working
every day.
into my life one day and go
The name and face may now
forgotten, but they helped me to
U y and built their stone into ·the
tJaat I am rearing.
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:· more days in the week tl::.an are
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try t o imagine life without them . Suppose
just for forty-eight ·hours I were to go
thr ough m y regular schedule of life with out
an y good mornings or good nights, without
ever a smile, with no handshaking, never
a kindly glance, no inquiry after the sick
one at home, no interest in my affairs outside of business, no jokes sprung, no stories
exchanged, no jollying, no serious discussions of mutually interesting topics and, appar ently, no desire on the part of any of
my associates to have any friendly intercourse with me. Could I stand it for fortyeight hours? Wouldn't I just as soon be
pu t into solitary confinement?
To be stripp ed of all our everyday friends
would strike terror tci our souls. Life
wouldn't be worth living; there would be
no sunshine in our souls and we would have
no heart to keep up the fight.
Then let us cultivate these friends by
being more worthy of them.
Ford Hall Folks
Edited · y Thomas Dreier.
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UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
'listribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more·
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will t oward men." It is the official
publication of the Ford Hall Meetings, which a re held, und er th e dire ction of George W. Coleman, every
Sunday c;yening durin g the months of
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashbur ton Place, Boston, Massachusetts.
All budness communications should
be sent 1.o Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all comm uni ~ations intended for
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Service, University Press, Cambrid·ge,
Mass. Subscription Price: $1.50 for
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Q (Same): Is the division of capital
· into three parts sufficient? Have_ ? OU recogni zed the value of man's thought as capital?
A : I was making a scale between kinds
of property in which there is a minimum of
social partnership and those in which there
is a maximum.
Q: What do you believe instead of the
single tax if you believe in its principle?
A: I think the tax on land values is
good but I don't think it should be the
only tax.
A COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OPINION OF
FORD HALL.
President. Chase of Bates College, · Maine,
was at the Ford Hall Meeting last Sunday
and expressed himself as most enthusiastic
over the ,>'ork we are doing. "The mere
corning together," he said, "of so many
elements in society, t ends, when the meetings are held under such wise, kind and
firm care as here prevails, to do a great
dea l of good. Those who are embittered
can express themselves and because treated
with candor a nd given a kind reply often
lose their Litterness. Moreover, your movement is promotive of r eading and of the
study of serious social problems. This, in
turn, induces a moral earnestness that
leads people to wait a nd weigh metho ds,
and in many cases to discuss the true princ iple of progress and then to adopt them.
Tt:us imprcvement along lines which are
in harmony with the great laws of society
and human nature is substituted for illconsider ed methods that would turn out to
be aggravators of our difficulties rather
t han reme dies for them."
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ADVERTISING
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two and one-half inches wide-can be had
for advertising purposes for one dollar per
issue. For information regarding advertising apply to Jacob London, Room 707, Ford
Building, Boston, Mass.
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THE STORY OF
MRS. EVA
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sympathetic. ~,fore than that, it was
the inside, not superficial.
One sp
Beginning with our next issue we are to alluded somewhat slightingly to the cl
have a column or so each week devoted to ter of the lodgers at the ordinary mumci
I ittle letters from the people.
Thus our ]edging house and queried the wisdom
friends at a distance as well as those who any measures for their relief. The
share the privileges of our meetings will
were quick and effective. One citizen,
have a chance to express themselves on the cut a nd well . groomed, both physically
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big questions which so deeply interest us, menta lly, related his experiences when '
all. It has been suggested that we consider circumstances over which he later
first the justice-or injustice-of present umphed forced him to accept the :
and pending immigration tests and a num- tality ( ?) of the lodging house. An,
ber of vital contributions on this topic are citizen passionately took to task .tlie
now in preparation. But any subject which tern which, aided by the saloon, b
offers a chance of interesting our readers about such conditions. But they all
may be discussed in this department. Write from the heart and. from a profound
on one side of the paper only; write not mate personal knowledge of the evils•
more than 150 words, as our space is lim- discussed.
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ited ; sign your name and address ( not necThe second measure was an order
essarily fo1· publication but as an evidence ing for the establishment of ev,
of good faith) , and mail or hand your com- centers in the schools, and was refe
munications to Miss Crawford so that she the Committee on Education, of
will have them each Sunday. Our paper
Henry Schnittkind is chairman.
goes to press very early in the week and
nothing received later than Sunday night
OTHER MEETINGS.
can be used in the following week's issue.
A FORUM IN THE PAPER.
One interesting thing about the Ford Hall
Meetings is that they unite families. This
is said to be true, also, of the automobile
and of the moving-picture show. But it is
peculiarly true of our movement because its
appeal and power lasts through the week.
What hap.pened at Ford Hall on Sunday
evening last and is going · to happen here
next Sunday evening is being animatedly
discussed, as you read these lines, in hundreds of households all over Greater Boston ! :Yirs. Eva Hoffman. our energetic Socialist friend , has once or twice brought her
"baby," aged seven, to the meetings, often
brings her other daughter, now in her second year at High School, eagerly discusses
what is said here with her younger son, who
will enter Harvard next year, and reports
with pride that her elder son, now a law
student at Boston University, has decided to
A TALK ON VOCATIONS.
join our Town Meeting debates for the reason that every kind of politics and party
Those who failed to come to the "Folks"
view will there be represented. Nor is the
·head of the Hoffman family without his meeting last Sunday missed a very intershare in our affairs. On a recent note- 'esting half hour. J. Adams Puffer, who
worthy Tuesday, he "did what he could for knows more about boys than almost any
Boston and our leader"-and he chanced to man in Boston-having worked with them
be the onlv member of the Hoffman family· as a teacher, a juvenile court visitor, a
who could- do just that particular thing. camp leader and a vocation counsellorThough Mrs. Hoffman organized, some time told us in illuminating fashion how to know
ago, an Alice Stone Blackwell circle for suf- the work into which· a child should be
frage work. she has not yet been able to guided-and then answered a volley of
questions from • is auditors. He advocated
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get herself ·a vote.
that a life purpose be put into the child as
Mostly, ·however, Mrs. Hoffman gets what early as possible and that hereditary talent
she goes after. She it was who led the re- be respected. He deprecated the "white
cent fight against the exorbitant price o! collar tendency" in the choice of work, dimeat .that resulted in a chain o- co-operative rected that "blind alley" jobs be carefully
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butcher stores ·b eing starte~ ~r the Jewish avoided and counselled that the possibilpeople; the one in Brockt,i'.ir is still in suc- ities of agriculture as a vocation be concessful operation bv reason of the fact that sidered by the very many-too many-who
local conditions in· that town are favorable now choose professional. It was a valuable
to advantageous buying.
and suggestive little talk and the Ford Hall
Helping individuals, though, is the thing, Folks ·are very grateful to Mr. Puffer for
which Mrs. Hoffman does best and coming out to give it to us.
most happily. She believes that nine out
of every ten people who become a burden to
NEXT SUNDAY'S SPEAKER.
society might have continued self-sustaining if intelligent individual aid had been
Prof. Edward A. Steiner. who will <::no~k
given at thP._ nrn n ar "'"',.. ....... ,.......... . a - - .,., • •
School of Social Science, Central
Union, and ·women's Trade Union)
Lorimer Hall, Monday, February 2;'at
p. m. ' 'The Truth About Calumet,•
Graham Romeyn Taylor, editor The _81
Joseph C. Cannon of the Western F1
tion of Miners; a representative of iht.
umet and Hecla Company.
Sunday Commons, Huntington .
Hall, Sunday, February 8, at 3.30 P•
Charles Fleischer, leader.
Public Library, Thursday, Febrll
8 p. m., Style in American Architec·
Ralph Adams Cram. Sunday, Feb
at 3.30 p. m ., James Matthew Barri'
Writer and Dramatist, by E. ",'
Black.
Lowell Institute, Huntington b
day, February 2, and Thursday, Fe
at 5 p. m., Mohammedanism. by C.l
Hurgronje.
Monday, February .,
Thursday, February 5, at S p. Jil., Tb ·
of the Common Law, by Roscoe
Tuesday, February 3, and FridaY,
6, at 8 p. m., Sound Analysis, bY
Miller.
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·head of the Hoffman family without his
share in our affairs. On a recent note- esting half hour. J . Adams t'Ullt!r. "uv
worthy Tuesday, he "did what he could for knows more about boys than almost any
Boston and our leader·'-and he chanced to man in Boston-having worked with them
be the only member of the Hoffman family as a teacher, a juve·nile court visitor, a
who could do just that particular thing. camp leader and a vocation counsellorThough Mrs. Hoffman organized, some time told us in illuminating fashion how to know
ago, an Alice Stone Blackwell circle for suf- the work into which· a child should be
frage work, she has not yet been able to guided-and then answered • a volley of
questions from • is auditors. He advocated
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get herself a vote.
that a life purpose be put into the child as
Mostly, ·h owever, Mrs. Hoffman gets what early as possible and that hereditary talent
she goes after. She it was who led the re- be respected. He deprecated the "white
cent fight against the exorbitant price or collar tendency" in the choice of work, dimeat .that resulted in a chain of co-operative . rected that "blind alley" jobs be carefully
butcher stores -being started for the Jewish avoided and counselled that the possibilpeople; the one in Brockton is still in suc- ities of agriculture as a vocation be concessful operation - y reason of the fact that sidered by the very many-too many-who
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local conditions in that town are favorable now choose professional. It was a valuable
to advantageous buying.
and suggestive little talk and the Ford Hall
Helping individuals, though, is the thing, Folks are very grateful to Mr. Puffer for
which Mrs. Hoffman does best and coming out to give it to us.
most happily. She believes that nine out
of every ten people who become a burden to
NEXT SUNDAY'S SPEAKER.
society might have continued self-sustaining if intelligent individual aid had been
Prof. Edward A. Steiner, wb-o will speak
given at· the proper moment. "I say that I to us next Sunday evening on "The Intermust save two persons a year from pauper- National Mind and the Inter-Racial Heart,"
ism," she confides, " and mostly I have been is one of the most interesting personalities
able to do that."
who comes to us. Dr. Steiner is no less
What a record for a woman . without renowned for his deep knowledge of i=imeans, who, in addition to caring for her gration than for his extraordinary fund of
He can. make you
large family, helps her husband ·by conduct- amusing anecdotes.
ing one of his two photograph studios. The weep, too, for like all great humorists, he
family home is connected with the Boston has a very tender heart and a iift for
studio, in the heart ·of Boston's Ghetto, and reaching the hearts of his hearers.
so Mrs. Hoffman, by night as well as by day,
THE TOWN MEETING.
is accessible to every poor immigrant who
lacks a friend. When an interpreter is
That the discussion in the Town Meeting
needed by some one too poor to pay for such
service, Mrs. Hoffman is called upon and an- will be from the heart is evident from the
swers the call. If money must be found to session of January 22. That thought struck
send a consumptive to California or to set hot from the heart is worth while· and will
up a deserted wife in a little candy business command attention is also evident.
Two measures were presented to the
it is Mrs. Hoffman who undertakes and carries through the job. She knows how it Town Meeting, both of municipal concern.
The first was an order appropriating
feels to be a poor immigrant in a strang.i
$100,000 for the establishment and mainland, for she came to this country from
Russia, an orphan of thirteen, and during tenance for a year of three municipal lodgher teens made her living as a garment ing houses, one in the South End and o·n e in
worker. She understands better than al- the Korth End, and one in the v\1 est End.
most any other person in Boston, too, the The amount was considered hardly sufpsychology of woman's nature. To hear her ficient and was raised by amendment to
plead· for her special interest at this mo- $375,000, and in that shape was referred to
That
ment, a poor woman who refuses to give up the Committee on City Planning.
committee, of which George B. Gallup is
to charity .the baby to ·whom she has been
a foster-mother-is to have vour heart- chairman, has already begun its investigastrings wrung! , But Mrs. Hoffma,_n believes tion. When that committee reports it will
in the coming o! a day when thinfl's will be have definite, concrete information to give
muc-h better ; and, somehow, as you talk with
which -will be worth listening to.
her, you believe iri_-!>_
- uch a day, to.Q.
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The·-:~is_ ussio_ was keen, intelligent and
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Graham .Komey11 1 <1y rn1, t:u1 Lur -1 he ~J_osepl~ C._ Cannon of the Western
t10n of Mmers; a representative or n..."
umet and Hecla Company.
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Sunday Commons, Huntington
Hall, Sunday, February S, at 3.30 p
Charles Fleischer, leader.
· 'Public Library, Thursday, Feblilalr
8 p. ·m., Style in American ArchitE
Ralph Adams Cram. Sunday, Fe
at 3.30 p. m., James Matthew Ba!iie,
Writer and Dramatist, by E.
Black.
Lowell Institute, Huntington Rall,
day, February 2, and Thursday, Feb
at 5 p. m., Mohammedanism, by c
Hurgronje.
Monday, February ·2,
Thursday, February 5, at 8 p. m., Tbt
of the Common Law, by Roscoe
Tuesday, February 3, and Friday,
6, at 8 p. m., Sound Analysis, by Da
Miller.
Friends Who Are Com·
Feb. 8-Prof. Edward A. Steiner,
Inter-National Mind and the Inter.
Heart."
Feb. 15-Symposium, "Breeding
Dr. Hugh Cabot, "The Problems
Education"; Dr. De Witt G. WiJCOI,
Scourge of Venereal Disease" ; Be
ward Cummings, "The Responsib"~
Parenthood."
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Boot!J,
Case for the Prisoner."
March I-Leslie Willis Sprague
cago, "Tolstoy, the Non-Resistanl"
March 8-Symposiu.m, on "Jo
A. J. Philpott of the Boston Globe an4
to be announced.
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "Tllt
lenge of Socialism to Christianity."
March 22-Rev. Frank 0 . Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper Powys
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Mary Church Terreli
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Hall
York.
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April 19-Prof. Walter Rauschenb
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FEBRUARY 8.-PROF, EDWARD A, S1
Grinnell College, Iowa, a man who has bei
terized as ''one of the best authorities in thi
on the subject of immigration," will come to
this time taking for his topic "The Inter,
.1lfind and the Inte1·-Racial IIeart.'' Dr
was born in Austria and lived ·and studied
the world before settling down to his prei
professor of applie<l Christianity in a Wester
He has written one of the besf books we
Tolstoy, whom he knew well, and he is fol
flowi11g of humour and of humanity. • His la
on our platform is still a glowing 111emo .
make a big mistake if ) ou miss out on this
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FEBRUAl{Y IS is the date of a symposium which
we think ought to be the best thing of its kind we
have ever had on otlr platform. "Breedi1tg Jlllen"
is to be the subject of the evening and DR. HUGH
CAOOT, DH. DE WITT G. vVILCOX and Rn:v,
EowAno CUMMINGS are the three speakers who will
participate. Dr. Cabot's subject is" The Problems
of Sex Education," Dr. vVilcox's" The Scourg·e of
Venereal Disease" and l\fr, Cummings' "The
Responsibilities of Parenthood," Dr. Cabot is
well known for the advanced position he has taken
in Boston ~oncerning the necessity of education in sex
matters, Dr. Wilcox will be remembered as having
once before gii1 en sane and sound advice from this
pla1form concerning health, happiness and
Mr. Cummings, though now a minister-the
of Edward Everett Hale in the pulpit of I
Congregational Church-was formerly for 1
of years professor of sociology at Harvard p
for that post by a protracted period of ~
travel in France, Italy and Germany and by
winter of residence at Toynbee Hall in tlie
London's Whitechapel district. He knowsi
the handicaps that environment often pme,_
secrated parent hood and seems fitted, in quilt
fashion, therefore, to set an intelligem )II
thetic standard for all fat hers.
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FEBRUARY 22,-CHAHLES BnANDON Boonr
who, from being associated for many years with his
mother, Maud Ballington Booth, in her remarkable
work for prisoners, knows thoroughly the life,-in
prison and after,-of hundreds of men who have
broken Society's laws, will tell us about the problems
of Parole, of prison discipline and of rehabilitation
when the sentence has been served as they present
themselve's to his clear vision. "The Case for the
Prisone1·" is a recital which will -:ii,· '"'" tn +I,~
rnme of Ford Hall has !
broad nnd the reality is so 11
l;npresslve tha.n the fame
the same stale of mind l wa
r nohed home after speaking
lu school. The folks asked
frightened. "-F-frigllteued ?" 1 :
• only scared!" This ls i•
type, ( Laughter.) A ma'.1 .
tbousnnd miles to address ,u
ht to be dead sure that he
:worth while to say. He nnu
b knows what has been th o
by his hearers, and that
tblnkB worth while have not
b)' lhom. In Chicago I am
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mo "You are try!llg
boggnn haH-way dowi~
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at. l wouldn't know 111 wha
11,11 01· 18th century they
aide, ( Laughter.)
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The first of these
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