The Moving Finger

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 41, 15 December 1911, Page 8

The Moving Finger

The "Lotto Hand" for December is a Chrisunass number, very • strong in meritorious verse, not the least noteworthy , - of the eleven piep-es be:ng JDulcie Detainer's haunting lines. Hugh McCrae and Arthur A. D. Bayldon assay the higher flights and almost reach them. Of the three articles,- "The Mystery of Oil," by 0. A. , Jeffries, is gracefully and peculiarly interesting. "Rehmark and. its Strike/ by Ronald Finlaysoiij is an informing descriptive sketch with much of fruit and little of strike. The stories are readable. Norman Lindsay illustrations abound. Altogether a surprising sixpen'orth. ♦ -'■ *'..'■#■■ We note with interest that the January "Lone Hand" will be printed in better style and under the control cf a new editor. From. other sources we learn 'that "the. new editor is' Bertram Stevens, who follows Arthur. H. Adams here as he followed him on the "Bulle- - tin" Red Page. We are also watching that page.—it has never been so brilliant, and withal appetising, a,s under "A.G.S." - . ' .. : - « * * "Voters of this country, especially working men, be under no delusion. Militarism is the natural foe of democracy : do not be seduced by its glamour. Its plea of advancing th© humanities by preparing for that which, has been well described as the negation of all virtues and the sum of all villainies is an hypocrisy gross and palpable as the lies of Falstaff." This is the climax of a weighty conclusion to C. R. Ford's "The Defence Act: A Criticism," a New Zealand pamphlet on sale at 3d, or from this office a"t 2s 6d per dozen. We hear that Mr. Ford is preparing a pamphlet on ; 'The Yellow Peril." It will be a timely utterance. * * * We devoted an evening last week to accumulated reading, and found ourselves admiring recent numbers of ihe "Social Democrat" on account .of some excellent contributions. Scott Bennett's terse and trenchant article on the On© Big Übioiv .made us again feel that Bennett ougllt to use .his pen more ; than lie does. Then the president of the Laborers' Union, P. Fraser, had a slashing review of the laborers' strike, • with the most convincing indictment of . sub-contracting we had perused. The article was arrestive in its lucidity and its expressive imagery. -" . * • ■• : ' •' That striking cartoon of unique audacity and daring conception reproduced in" last week's issue from the Auckland "Social Democrat" appears to have made a.hit. It 'has found a place in "Chicago Daily Socialist/ "Coming Nation," "Industrial Worker," and "Emancipator," all of U.S.A., and we also saw it in a recent Sydney "Worker." X * * ' Should any "Workerite" desire Lafargue's "Sale of an Appetite" same could be procured for such by either the Auckland or Wellington book depots of the respective branches of the SP It is published by Kerr, of Chicago, at 50, cents. Send 2s 6d. By the way, both Wellington and Auckland Socialist parties run exceedingly creditable literature departments, the secretaries being R. H. Gaiiick and E. Jensen. As. profits go to propaganda, money spent with the Socialists serves a twofold purpose—it brings what you want as cheaply as possible and it swings along your cause. ' " •-■■••■■» - * :.»... When the editor was in Auckland the able literature, secretary of the .Socialist party delighted, as befitted his literary enthusiasm, in showing his wares . —and among his wares were advance copies of three of the latest and best Kerr pamphlets, viz., "Industrial Socialism" (W. D. Hay wood. and ,F. Bohn), "Shop Talks on Economics , (Mary'E. Marcy), and "The.. Strength of the Strong" (Jack London): We observe that supplies of the three are now to hand, and copies are on sale at 6d apiece. We advise students not to miss the chance of obtaining the trio. It would be hard to obtain a, better selection containing the, true economic, gospel in brief compass. Jib true London's virile- storoyette isn t economic exposition, but it . glimpse*. . that philosophy which has"emancipated*economics. "Industrial Socialism is clever and concise explanation of the interrelation of Socialism and industrial organisation, and is quite modern in indicating how Socialism has had to become Industrial Unionism We have already panted a sP«» fs od Mary Marcy's "Shop Talks is iust the thing for the hard-worked toiler anxious to comprehend Marx. We reprint, one. of its brief chapters. • c •.' Loaiing round the Wellington. Public Library the other day —and our public - libraries are distinctly worthy institutions —we were invited by the expert chief librarian, Mr. Baillie, into hie office and there shown a copy of "War —What For?" We congratulate Mr. Baillie on his The book is to be * placed on. the shelves, on which also are stocked Charles Edward Russell's "Why I am a Socialist", and Jane. Stoddart's "The New Socialism." The last-ndmed. is a useful volume, occupying iieSy'ground among English books dii Socialism. It surveys the world-wide movement during the last teii years, and instructively outlines Socialist thought of ."different . schools upon the "vexed questions" of the times. The section oii ;.V 'Revolutionary Syndicalism" gives ! iiii6rniation all too.v scarce, though-the owe -opinions ,are to, be Vf:ell $Ifaken befwi taken. . ■'_~.. ..V '~ \-,^ r ']. ' .:•[-"■