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Story of The Masses Trial By Floyd Dell Art Young"s Pictures of It Max Eastman"s Speech r Morris Hillquit on the N e"W Espionage La"W John Reed Brings a Message Straight From Russia UPTON SINCLAIR'S A MONTHLY MAGAZINE: FOR A CLEAN PEACE AND THE INTERNATION , We appreciate that there are many magazines, Governor Hunt of Arizona put all his state in and that it takes nerve to offer you a new one. stitutions on our list. We have had letters of But several hundred people each week are finding appreciation from people so different in their it worth while to send for ours. points of view as Colonel House, Count Tolstoi, Louis Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor writes: Senator Williams, Congressman Baer, Eugene V. "If you were never to write another sentence worth Debs, William Allen White, David Starr J orda~l, the reading, your articles on a "Clean Peace" and William J. Robinson, Harvey J. Wiley, James P. "Internation" wtJuld justify your life work. 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Helen Keller Art Young 34 Union Square E'J,st, New York City Subscription Rates: Copyright, 1918, by the Liberator Publishing Co., Inc. 34 Union Square, New York. $1. 50 a Year. Half Yearly, 75 cents. F orei(!n, $2.00. Application for entry as second class matter at the post office at New York City pending. , Rates on Bundle Orders and to Newsdealers on Application. A Tribute from a Soldier The War: Springtime' THIS is a letter from a soldier to whom your new magazine by the way, was another welcome draft) .. '.. I didn't miss has come as a draft of sweet air in, say, a Methodist a line in a paragraph or a shading in a picture, and when prayer meeting, on an August evening. The reading tables I had finished, I wrote things in my diary with a renewed in barracks, library and "Y" huts offer many magazines, rang determination to find out all I can of this affair, and remem ing all the way from the New ,Republic to Snappy Stories. ber it, and add it up, and try to have something to say when (Ranging upward or downward as you may please.) They the last hymn has been sung and we go down the steps are interesting. So is the war. So might be the prayer meet which the trustees haven't repaired yet, and strike the open ing. In the usual publications as in the usual religious enter road which I can follow just as long as I darned please! prises and the cantonments there is material to think about, I'm a good soldier. I didn't wait to be drafted. My gang but so little encouragement! We in the army need encour is in a jam and I had to get in myself because, even if I agement because we know, better than any of you' know, don't see much that is noble in gang fighting, it is interesting, what a devil of a state civilization is in. and if I get out alive enough to tell about it no one can ever We are here for a variety of reasons. Some of us are in it accuse me of having watched from the side lines. I like to because it is the biggest thing that has ever been pulled and driV and sing and live a regular life, and it is all so significant we just naturally have to watch the process from the point that I don't find the restrictions terribly galling. of view of a cog. or a metal atom in a cog. The bunk does tire me, though. You don't find much of The army is intensely interesting, the most interesting it coming from the inside. It is thrown at us, not from us. experience I have ever had, barring a love affair with my The boys are all right. It is a splendid show to watch, wife. But occasionally it closes in on you. You look for but now and then we would like to have somebody open the thought among the men and there is none. You look for door. significance in their reactions and find it so rarely. You You have done that, Max Eastman. You let the few of look, now and then, at the world outside and it is all rush us who ar,e interested know that big ideas are current, that ing forward in such a torrent af physical purpose that you people are hopmg, as we hope, that the end is to be a bigger would like to get away into the woods and lie ~ your back stir than the war itself. My interest in the building of this and talk about common birds and extraordinary planets with big, paradoxical machine is whetted again. The possibilities your sweetheart and forget this man-choked camp and all of the recoil are so innumerable! It isn't going to drive right that it so unconsciously means. ahead to the avowed goal and stop there. We all know that. The whole thing is so discouraging if you consider it only Bigger things than making the world safe by agreement of intrinsically-just like the elder, droning away in prayer or a SCi:ore of men are going to sappen. The truly great ideas reveling in a debauch of testimony. You become impatient will find, in time, fertile ground in the army, and I for one for it to come to a close so you can get outside and swear or want to be in the service when the men realize what they sing and feel the night wind. ' have undergone, when they see that acquisitiveness has And then- some one comes' in, quietly and humbly and raised so much hell, when they come to know that nations: leaves the door open and August whiffs at you and you as we have regarded nations, can not endure in the old man breathe deeply and can take an interest in what's happening ner.... Understand me, it won't be mutiny or desertion or ... and know that when you are out in the night you'll kave any of the crimes classified in the Army Regulations. It will a wonderful time talking it tover, that you have learned simply he an \mderstanding, a waking up from a tense dream, something after all. and a turning to face the new problems of construction. That's what happened to me when my best friend, who So we hope. happens to be my wife, sent me the first two copies of THE THE LIBERATOR will be such a big figure! I hope you LIBERATOR. They are tucked under the blankets of my fold can keep right on with it.