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ican OCTOBER. 1926 5 LESS GARGANTUAN ? IN THIS ISSUE Many indignant letters have come to this office from readers who say the THE WRITERS magazine is too big in format. "Your damnable sheet is simply too unwieldy Edmund Wilson is a contributing for subway reading." "It cannot be editor of the New Republic. stuck into one's hip pocket for a canoe Joseph Freeman, one of the editors trip." "It is too obvious; its size is an of the , is now visiting advertisement to the world that one has Soviet Russia. taken to literary Bolshevism." These Y ossef Gaer is a young novelist and are some of the wails. story writer whose work is shortly to What do other readers think? We appear under the imprint of Frank­ are seriously considering cutting our Maurice. size to some less Gargantuan shape. The artists like the meadow-like spread Gene Cohn is a columnist and of white space in which to cavort, but special writer for the Newspaper En­ their case is weak as compared to the terprise Association. subway riders. Let's hear more on Jacques LeClerq, formerly an in­ this. structor at the University of Califor­ ¥ ¥ ¥ nia, is now living in New York. It would be impossible to print all Ewald Sandner is an Illinois miner, the letters that have come regarding until recently a student at the Brook­ the magazine. They arrive from wood Labor College. Peking, Peoria, Leningrad, Mel­ Don Ryan was at one time a movie bourne, Budapest, San Francisco, DRAWING BY XAVIER GUERRERO Mobile, Scranton, Prague and a thou­ critic and special writer for the Los sand other places where human beings WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! Angeles Daily Record. work and think and rebel. We have A MEXICAN LABOR POSTER Margaret S. Ernst writes for the covered an amazing amount of terri­ New Orleans Times-Picayune and is tory for a magazine which has no money chairman of the editorial committee of for advertising or promotion work. the Women's City Club of New York. And the summary of the letters is this: The NEW MASSES, in six months, has Ann Washington Craton is a direct built for itself a host of friends who descendant of the Father of His Coun­ love it and hate it quite sincerely. There try and was for a number of years an is little indifference. VOLUME OCTOBER, 1926 NUMBER 6 organizer for the Amalgamated Cloth­ The magazine is going to be a lot Sinarle copy, 25 ce».ts ing Workers. better. It is going to furnish fresh sur­ Subscription $2.00 a year in United States and Colonies, Canada and Mexico. Foreign $2.50. Slim Martin, a structural iron prises as more and more of the youth worker, is the author of It's a Hell of of America learn it is their organ. CONTENTS a Game, which appeared in the July Cover Design-by Louis Lozowick Page Our weak point, however, is the fact "W<>rkers of the World Unite!" A Drawing-by Xavier Guerrero . 5 issue of the NEW MASSES. that too few of our friends have the Albert W eisbord, A Drawing-by Hugo Gellert ---- 6 America Needs a Critic, A Review--by Michael Gold . - 7 Mary Heaton Vorse edited the faith in us to invest in a two-dollar sub­ Tenement Holiday, A Drawing-by Ernest ZiliUJk 8 Passaic Strike Bulletin. She is now dCription. We are selling too many The Bathers, A Drawing-by A. Walkowitz ----- 9 Representative Americans, A Poem--by Edmund Wilson . 9 working on a new novel. copies on the newsstands, and there is Poems from Soviet Russi~r-byJoseph Freeman - - . 10 Drawing-by Wanda Gag - · ------10 no profit in this. A magazine lives on Industrial Architecture, A Drawing-by Louis Lozowick - 11 M. H. Hedges, editor of the official advertisements and subscriptions. Stock E:rchange, A Drawing-by William Gropper · - - 12 organ of the Electrical Workers' Bud's Wife, A Story-by Yossef Gaer ------13 If you want the NEW MASSES to The Ups and Downs of Life, A Drawing-by Otto Soglow 14 Union, is the author of several labor The Great Gad Valefltino-by Gene Cohn - -- 15 novels. continue, you must sit down at once and Brit Homunculus, A Poem--by Jacques LeClercq - · · 15 subscribe. You must get your friends Mine Shops--by Ewald Sandner - • - - -- · · · 16 Mission Stiffs, A Story-by Don Ryan ------· 16 E. Merrill Root has contributed to subscribe. You are a piker if you Courtyard, A Lithogra?h-by Ilonka Karasz - - · -- 17 verse and criticism to The Liberator, is The Ten Commandments Retold-by Marf!aret S. Ernst - 17 do less for the magazine. No one Those Terrible Americans--by Ann Wash>ngton Craton 18 The Measure and other magazines. making money out of this magazine, Cement Plant-by James "Slim" Mortin • • - • - 19 Frenzied Effort, From an Etching-by Peggy Bacon 19 Hyperion Le Bresco is the pen name and no one is ever going to. It is as Pope Green, A Drawing-by Hugo Gellert - ---- 20 much your magazine as it is that of Weisbord's Farewell to Passaic-by Mary Heaton Vorse 21 of a newspaperman living in New Going Up, A Drawing-by William Siegel 21 York. the artists and writers who create it. Redmayne-by M. H. Hedges ------· · · 22 you want it to live-subscribe. The Worshippers, A DriYioing-by Hans Stengel-- - 22 If If Gus's Coffee Pot, A Drawing-by Otto Soglow - - · 23 The parables in this issue by Charles you don't want us, here's hoping you Jonathan Edwards, A Poem-by E. Merrill Root 23 Garland, who has devoted his inherited The Czar Bums Me for a Cigarette-by Hyperion Le Bresco · 24 get a Mussolini in America. The November Smoke Screen, A Drawing-by I. Klein · · · 25 wealth almost entirely to the service of Tlwee Fables-by Charles Garland - ---- · · · 25 the radical movement, are his first pub­ ¥ !J!. ¥ American Citizens, A Drawing-by Franz Hein:: ~ - - 25 Two Portraits, A Poem--by James Ro1'ty 25 lished work. THE POST OFFICE has finally Book Reviews ------· - 26, 27, 28 by James R<>rty, Harbor Allen, James Fuchs, E1'nest Walsh, V. F. Calverton is editor of the given us our second class mailing priv­ V. F. Calverton. ilege. In effect, this means we are no Modern Quarterly. His second book, longer obscene. We are not grateful Sex Expression in Literature, is being EDITORS: published by Boni and Liveright. for this belated recognition of our Egmont Aren~,Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, Jame4 Rorty end John Sloan. purity. We knew we were pure all EXEC11TIVK BOAilD: Ernest Walsh is one of the editors along-though a little off-color as to E~ Arens, Maurice Becker, Helen Black, John Dos Passos, Robert Dtmn, Joseph Free­ man, Hwgo GellertL Michael Gold, William Gropper, Parton Hib/Jen, Robert L. Lulie, Freda of This Quarter. capitalism. And we still believe some KirchttJey, Louis o11owick, James Rorty, Joh,. Sloan and ReJt Stout. anonymous official in the post office is Coxni•11TIMG EDITOllS: THE ARTISTS not the proper person to pass on all the SherfiJood Anderson, Co1'nelia Barns, Carleton Beals, Van Wycll Brooks, H-rd Brt~llaker, Stuart Chase, Glenn Coleman, Miguel Covarrubias, Stuart Davis, Adolph Dehn, Floyd Dell, new thinking in art, science, politics MGJt Eastman, Waldo Frank, AI Frueh, Artu1'o Giovanitti, Susan Glaspell, H. l. Glinten­ Ernest Zilliak presents in this Issue and sex in this country. If we must kamf, John Howard Lawson, Claude McKay, Lewis Mumford, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Ornttll, Elmer Rice, Lola Ridge, Boardtnlln Robinson, Rita RomiUy1• Carl Ruggles, Carl Sand­ his first published work. have a censor, let him come out in the burg, Upton Sinclt>ir, Genevieve Tapgard, lean Toomer, Louis untermeye,., Mary Heaton open where we can see him. No more Vorse, Eric Walrond, Walter F. Whste, Edmund Wilson, Jr., Ro/Jert Wolf, Charle4 W. Wood A. W alkowitz has recently com­ and Art Young. pleted a set of mural decorations for of this cheap sabotage, this petty perse­ BusiNEss STAFF: cution in the manner of the mosquito or Ruth Stt>Ut, Manager; Eva Ginn, Advertising Manager. the country home of A. Kaplan. Methodist. But maybe America is too Published monthlf by NEW MASSES, INc. Office of Publication, 39 West Eighth Street, New Ilonka Karasz, one of the founders York: Michael Gold, President; Earmont Arens, Vice-President; Ruth Stout, Secretary; James addicted to hypocrisy for anything as Rorty, Treasurer. of the M. A. C. (Modern Art Col­ frank as a censor. After all, the Copyright, 1926, by NEW MASSES, INc. Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawinis and text may not lection) is now in France. frame-up is America's contribution to be reprinted without permissioB. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Stengel is a staff artist of the international statecraft. Mooney, Sacco Hans Act of March 3, 1879. Herald-Tribune. and Vanzetti, Joe Hill-and many Subscribers are notified that no change of address can be effected in lese than a month. others have suffered at the hands of Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed return envelope. 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