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That is an excerpt from an essay entitled "Confessions of a Drone," written in 1906. It is included in Pamphlet No. 45 in the Pocket Library of Socialism. It is to be found on most public library shelves, hard by the writings of Karl Marx. The author was Joseph Medill Patterson, grandson of the late great Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune. Joseph Patterson was then 27 years old, five years out of Yale, four years married, doing nothing...
Last week Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 55, returned to Manhattan from a well-earned vacation in Europe. He could not possibly call himself a drone. His income was many times more than $10,000 a year, but he got it by no hocuspocus. He no longer wrote Socialist tracts, but he was doing more in behalf of the working people than his tracts ever accomplished. All of which was due to the fact that Joseph Patterson was editor & publisher of the newspaper with the largest circulation in the land, the tabloid New York Daily News, which last year earned...
...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...
...pulpit in small Christian Assembly Church. He continued reading, through Genesis into Exodus. After four hours he stopped. A Mr. Slutz mounted the pulpit, went on where Mr. Dake left off. Two hours later a young woman started in on Leviticus. On & on the reading went, a monotonous drone which was broadcast outside the church with loudspeakers. Preacher Dake was putting on a Bible-reading marathon and wanted everyone to know...
...Republicans elected him to the 66th Congress. Then he began to kick up his heels in earnest. He adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when his colleagues left the clerk of the House to drone away hundreds of petty little bills to keep the folks back home happy, LaGuardia was usually pres-ent to object to the more flagrant bits of logrolling. He made Prohibitionist William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw's life a burden, advocated $150,000,000 enforcement appropriations to make the nation rebel...