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Your latest item about myself is headed "No. 43" [TIME, Oct. 5] and you say: "Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California." You are nearly a decade behind the times. The item should have been headed...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
...Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help groups; to exempt from taxation the first $1,000 assessed valuation of homes and farms occupied by owners; to repeal the State sales tax, substituting income and increased bank and inheritance taxes. Having done the best they could to make EPIC palatable to the rank-&-file of the party, Messrs. Creel...
Professor Wilson is trying all three possibilities, with variations. His work tied in with self-help co-operatives which sprang up during Depression for barter of goods and exchange of services between unemployed. There are today some 340 of these organizations in the U. S. Since last summer Federal Emergency Relief Corp. has made grants of working capital to more than half of the total, has helped them to establish co-operative industries. As such industries were needed to supplement the incomes of Director Wilson's subsistence homesteaders, the two movements interlock...
...plays the young queen (TIME, Feb. 19), Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels issued a pro- nouncement: "Non-Aryans who had disappeared and who had apparently, for the most part fled abroad, are again appearing in German theatres. ... It must not come to this, that the public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner in particular. When the picture opened, there was a mob of uniformed Nazis in the street outside the Capitol Theatre. In the lobby...