| WORKERS?’ LIBRARY | Books on History, Science, Economics, from the Workers’ Viewpoint and at a Price Werke Can Pay vis, A thoughtful and log: homie and Poltical handbook Roe: inaine'are nota peculiar ‘race but a nece apitallam. ritten in 1818, dy which clearly. shows me events me n'for regulating peo- i What tne Ple's conduct 1 who, work Revolution and Counter-Revelution, Marx. A contemporary Bis iy goats Bonaparte, Marx. An economic tory of Germany during the revolutionary period of 1848. history of France through the closing years of one A study of the a ith other studies vaul Lafarge i ultimately destroy all life prtfiant ‘satlses on eaplta Conception of History Social an cat Studles, Lafargue. Dxplains the rea onisin'or'tive Meas of God, of goodness and of Justice. BEiliant Evolution of Banking, The, Howe. A i ‘4 man nrsian Social Revolution, The, Kautsky. Tn two parts, “Reform and who Knows modern bauking and also understands Revolution” and “Eke Day After the Revolution. short po Soclalism for Students, Cohen. A handy manual explaining the ation of Man, ‘The, Hoelsche, ‘The best jar hand: book of Darwinism, ein! ‘pany recently discovered facts. elementary princ ies of Marxian socialist, with references. Tiustrated. Soctallem, its 6 ind Bax, ‘The ori on of Property, The, Latareue. A vivid, colorful history nal Outline of Hi hittin tes of production | me that capitalist property fs very ew and very unstable the growth of Monte, A volume of br (Orgunie, Lewis. ‘Traces nd Socal Darwin the theory” of evolu n ‘from the ently Greek philosophers Feuerbach: The Roots of the Socialist Engels. 4 predicting. Sclentife, the Engels. alsaoiution A. great of book, capitals six crftenl easay’ inetd nmary of the principles of socialist on Germs of Mind in France. Evidence that so-called men. Philips, The, Russell, A dynamle biography ta fuetcteta tay be'cedey traced in mang plants Miostrated. of the great american orator, with dramatic accounts of Bs ex High Cost of Living, ‘The, Kautsky. A discu of rising prices, wilel Bad started even before fe world. War. ‘Struggle Between Selence and Superstition, The, Lewis, Tells fetasche. A brilliant study of human now against. tie’ new vullng elastes “have champloned ancient ignorance ihe harmful filusion of "ree Wil knowledge Taw of Hlorensis, Th, Moore. Shows Dow the unfolding mind CRM Many fa Roeluche. An tllustrated volume, Meee ne ae aera barenrvueraad reraxy. SAtiag teyetrlo kod Sunset fast ncestors. Value, Price and Proft, net, Marx. Sache A Shae short work SOS explaining ey the Life and Death, Teichmann, Sums up what sclence bas dlscov author's distinetive theory’ of “surplus. value eredregarding the ‘Beginning and end of lite in plant, ani ‘Ten Blind Lenders of 1 Blind, Lewis, A volume of lectures ‘and man, criticiaing Henry George, farisle, Kant Lombroso and others. Making of the World, ve how new suus and Vitat Problems in Social Evolution, Tewis, ‘Ten lectures, worlds come into being to dat auve died: cluding “The Materiaistie Conception of History” and “The Part Memotrs of Karl Marx, Liebknecht. An graphy of tne great economist bya cote. personal. fie Fee et Commune “World's Revolutions, he, Untermann. A Keen historical picture of Mars of past revolutions tn the light of the Marxian determinist theory study ‘These volumes are all well printed on good book paper and strongly bound in cloth, Most of them contain more matter than books issued by capitalist publishers at $2.00 to $3.00. We have now reduced the price to SIXTY CENTS EACH, POSTPAID Order direct from x from your bookseller, We will send the entire set of 40 volumes by insured mail or express prepaid on receipt of Ask for catalog. Address CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY 347 East Ohio St. Chicago | 2 Basket Ball Camel end Dance Friday Eve. at 8:30 FOR THE LIBERATOR Something New in the Field of Sports St. Marks Flashes College Settlement (Eastern Lightweight Champs) (N. Y. State Lightweight Champs) Novelty Game ° Blue Belt Girls ° Y.W. C.-A. (137th so Street A Silver Loving Cup for the Winning Girls’ Team New Star Casino 107th Street and Lexington Avenue Btdinission, 75 Cents Boxes, $4.00 a Tickets For Sale The Liberator, 138 West 13th Street Chris Huiswoud’s, 206 West 133d Street Chelsea 9300 te Morningside 8935 THE LIBERATOR, No, AS Published ty due Yibernton monthly magazine, Publiching March, Go a 5, No. 8, Seria matter May ‘Dost omce at New Yor tho ‘Act of Ne iste. Yi Hinterea Copyright, “ae wocond-class 1035, a U 5 Me — n 2 3 3 S. os a > g ° re 2 a a ° 2 Ai ‘a = a so a 8 Uae THE LIBERATOR Vol. 5, No. 3 [Serial No. 48] March, 1922 W anted, Pioneers for Siberia! By Michael Gold ‘ORMAL, plodding, contented people are the happy peo- homesteads, and been in free speech fights and harvest field ple, perhaps, ‘and the necessary. bulk of strikes through the West; and he is a direct deseendant of pioneers are the salt of the world, Their eourege, their stout~ the pioneer Calvert who founded Maryland. What would the hearted adventurousness, their generosity and faith, and Young Intellectuals make of him and his amazing new pio- Joyful, grim endurance of pain, these things may not be neering venture? Would they think it was neurotio, too? understood by flabby flat-dwellers, but they are the qualities For Calvert has returned from Russia to gather 6,000 other that have given us the arts, the scfences, the whole material American pioneers to retum with him to Siberia’ to settle and spiritual birthright that is called civilization, the country and lay down the solid foundations of the mod- Tt was the pioneers among the cave-men who developed em machine industry there, as his forefathers laid down the speech; it was pioncerswho founded Athens and Rome; pio- agricultural foundations of America. neers went to the stake for religious freedom and science in Lenine and the Soviets have taken off the concession ma- the Middle Ages; pioneers ventured into the dangerous wil- kets two of the most valuable properties in Russia, and have dermess of America and planted a nation here; pioneers, given them to the Kuzbas organization of workingmen and divine fools and gamblers, made the Russian Revolution. engineers to run on co-operative lines, It is a grant that ‘The pioneers have always led in the terrible, tragic, great staggers the imagination of one used to the small figures and passionately interesting march of Humanity; let us never written on a pay-envelope. A great industrial area in the forget that, heart of Siberia, called the Kusnetz Basin, about 150 miles Some of the group of American crities who eall themselves by 60 miles in size, containing coal, iron, railroads, steel ‘The Young Intellectuals, and who are at present. conducting mills, forests, rich farm lands, factories producing almost some sort of vague, windy warfare against another group half-a-hundred different industrial products, a small Siberian who are presumably to be known as the Old Intellectuals Gary-town with 11,000 inhabitants—and then the rich ore (Lenine is fifty-one years old) have recently worked out a mines in the Urals—these are the grants. psycho-analytic theory of America. America is essentiaily It is an education to hear Calvert talk of the plans for a neurotic nation, they say, and hag-ridden with inhibitions this new Siberian empire. One of the diseases of the Young Because it was founded by pioneers; and pioneers, according Bourgeois Intellectuals in the United States is their fear of to their formula, are all neuroties who cannot adjust them- machinery and the machine age. They have a mid-Victorian selves to society and flee from it. The pioneer tradition still horror of the din, the vulgarity, the crude, earth-shaking holds us in its grip; therefore we are anti-social, grim, sex- roar of the big machines, and the tremendous world they are ually morbid, and haters of joy and play and the sacred lazi- creating. The Young Intellectuals have not absorbed the ness in which art and science are created. fron of this age in their blood; they still hanker after sweet I wonder whether any of these Young Intellectuals have ness and light. They fear for art and culture; and do not ever met a pioneer. I think their respect for him would be see that Life can never be defeated, that it goes on, is inex- immediate and everlasting, even though he happened to be haustible, and throws up new forms and patterns ever richer one of their Puritan forefathers. They would find in him and greater than the old. ‘The world has not yet assimilated something not to be found in the books; an instinet for life, ‘tho great boon of machinery, and it is like a curse nows but an élan, an experimental courage, an artist's desire to grap: the proletariat is leading the way toward assimilation, and ple with raw chaos and fashion it into a world, machinery is to be the true Christ of our civilization. It will ‘Those of the Young Intellectuals who have not fled to the yet set men free. And it is part of the creative life of man. Doulevard cafés of Paris, there to sit and sip cocktails in a Calvert is a new kind of Young Intellectual. He speaks sort of noble protest against American Puritanism, should of castings, coal seams, fron ore, chemieal plants, stone try to arrange to mect Herbert Stanley Calvert, who has just quarries, conerete shafts, acid reservoirs, large scale farm returned from Russia with a grand message.