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...Socialist Club is affiliated with the League for Industrial Democracy which has branches in many of the American colleges. Norman Thomas, chief executive of this organization and prominent Socialist will probably address the club sometime during the year. Hey wood Broun is also being sought for in this connection...
...Eaton, formerly of eminently tasteful Sportsman, could easily fill his publication with photographs supplied free of charge by tourist bureaus, articles by press agents. Instead he gathered about him for his first issue contributors of fame, among them: Sinclair Lewis, Ellis Parker Butler, Berton Braley, Corey Ford, Heywood Broun, Stephen Leacock, and Artists John Holmgren, Adolph Triedler, John Rae, Tony Sarg...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
Wrote Editor Howard: "It had been our boast that . . . few Scripps-Howard editors had gone to jail and [none] . . . to Congress. . . . Broun's nomination constituted a threat. But a hasty survey is reassuring. In the last election the Socialist candidate in the 17th District polled some 1,600 out of something over 60,000* votes cast. . . . That Broun is running on a so-called Socialist ticket seems ... of no importance. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism ... as unsound and impractical. But . . . the Telegram has no fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas...
Next day Colyumist Broun replied to his boss: "I am tired of hearing all this talk about how the honest average citizen should get into politics and not leave it to the machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...