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APPEAL TO REASON, GIRARD, KANSAS UOD3 or tour or more, six chains, Weekly, one dollar per year smmnnimnnmnnnnnnnimimininms nsninnnaaisininim Europe the Europe that Lloyd George says cannot survive a much further continuance of the Russian Revolution, and all that it stands for 0 Sinclair's Page nyms: Big Business, Wall Street, The Empire of Business, The Invisible Government, The Trusts, The Wage System, The Profit System, Capitalism, Capital and Labor, Mammon, etc, signifying thereby the nation's essential industries productive and distributiveconsidered as a whole or as a single unit. The basis for a New World Order, Upton aiimnmninnnmnniniffliinmHiiinmim Hard Times As you may know, I wrote a book about the domination of the American public opinion by the prostitute press. Nevertheless the complete mastery which this press holds over the lives and thinking of the American people remains to me a source of constant and never-ceasing daily wonder. It is, I think, one of the most amazing spectacles in the history of the world. They can do absolutely anything to us, and there is hardly a whisper of protest.

We don't even know what is TirflTeR L. we UUIl even iwiuw imi, la i tn. Thprp rraptie.Jpllcatlon: that is to say, he has praised happening, to us. lnere is comDarison w5th th. rontrr in it in co'mparison with the country in I I i'ai 1" Jrr V- Doift Send Mo One Pcnr I Am Coins To Mail You a Pt.lrat Latest-Style, Extra-La rn.

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Or. if yoa go to the moviea once in awhile, yoo can take aeat away in the back end of the theatre to avoid the glimmer of the light and you will be pleaaed to notice that even the amaUeat worda and plctnrea on the acreea, look juet aa clear and aa plaia to yoa though yoa wen litting right In the front row. with the aid of these latest-style, atgit-l a eviag pectecioe. Seeing Is Believing Now I realise that it may be hard for yoo to believe that these kueet-style, a le-ia) proving aoaet. elea will again bring back to yoa the absolutely perfect sight of yoor younger daya.

But yoa know te oii earing "Seeing is believing" and 1 positively will aot aceeot one aingle aolf tary peeny from you ont.l yo have Been these lateat-styls spectacles and have foond thorn more ekrM-improving to your own eyes tbaa but it reaches into Asia and Amer ica. How long will the Russian Revolution last? George Wheeler HJnraan, business expert, puts it in the financial columns of press, and asks: "Will Europe survive? Will Europe come back? If so, how soon? And meantime, what will happen to American trade?" Mr. Hinman, business expert, whistles to keep up courage and says that, contrary to the expressed prediction of Lloyd George, Europe will survive, together with the rest of the world; that the Russian Revolution will run its course possibly- five years or so more, and then collapse. When the Russian Revolution started and startled the capitalist world, capitalist politicians and capitalist editors gave it frojn 90 days to six months to run its course; now, after several years' running, it has" five or so more years yet. As we are all entitled to a prediction, the writer predicts that it will never stop the Russian Revolution will go while humanity remains on earth.

It is the supreme effort in the long process of human evolution. It marks the appearance of a new order of human beings. Nor is this new order confined to Soviet Russia. It is here and everywhere. It is constantly and rapidly increasing.

The Russian Revolution will become the World Revolution. The new order of human beings has awakened to a realization of society as it is, and society as it can be made to be. The new order cf human beings is the Russian Revolution. The new order of human beings is the World Revolution the Revolution that will last for years and years to come, slowly but 6urely building a new and better society. Advancing, retreating, only to advance again and further on.

On towards industrial democracy. On towards knowledge and culture. On towards universal peace. On towards health and sanity. On towards a kindlier humanity.

On towards a civilization vastly different from that recently depicted by Arthur Brisbane in the Hearst papers1: "Morvich travels surrounded by every care. Food to which he is accustomed goes with him. His shoemaker, his -own servants accompany him. His car carefully routed, travels so swiftly that only a millionaire's private car could have done better. "Morvich is a race horse, not a scientist.

His shoemaker is a blacksmith. He had five kinds of hay and especially chosen oats and bran. Water to which he was accustomed was brought in a thoroughly sterilized (. new milk can. That is what we do for animals on which fools bet their money and by which gamblers make their fortunes.

"The contrast of that race horse traveling as only a millionaire in his private car could travel with another picture, that of a harassed, poor mother, arrived from Europe with five or six children only to be turned back at the door of freedom, will tell future generations all they care to know about our civilization." In the civilization that the World Revolution will build no one will be turned back. The "door of freedom," existing now only in the minds of hypocrites, will be a reality. A reality for all. Freedom to labor, and freedom to each one to have and use the products of their labor. No freedom to exploit.

The old civilization the civilization that cares for the gambler's race horse Before you answer that question GJM any apecraeiea jxm neve ever oodeqi aoywnere at tag yoa to fill eat and mail me the coupon below, guia-uu'-a purm ino iKtcai-aiyie. extra-iarve. roana-eye. eigirl-imetravlwa; spectacles, by mail, all charges prepaid to try fatly 1 days on year own eyes your own now wunoui cent is Cut Out this Coupon on thin Lino or world peace, does not consist of freedom and democracy In politics only, but in the spheres of industry, religion and sex also. They are the basic factors in our civilization, auch as it is, always have been and always will be, the nature of those institutions depends upon our ideas regarding them which are subject to change.

By a Religious Democracy is not meant religion in a bible or a church sense, but as to the problem of man's origin and destiny, which is still an unsolved problem a Democracy in which infidels, atheists, agnostics and all schools of religious belief and disbelief would be represented. By a Democracy of Sex is meant briefly the application of scientific principles to the breeding of a new race, and all the problems connected therewith; the rights of the unborn as to their physical, mental and moral character and potentialities; the rights of those of the age of puberty and upward who may not wish, or may not be fit or able to become parents; annihilation of sex diseases; limiting the population under certain conditions; originating new types; encouraging the propagation of the fit, discouraging that of the unfit through appropriate legislation and so on. The institutions of Government, Industry, Religion and Sex are social in their very nature and affect every individual, they form the foundation and groundwork of society, are closely related and should be coordinated and unified into a single Government as Head of the Social Organism, with duly elected representatives, cabinet, advisors, etc. Society is a very lowly and a very poorly developed organism if it requires a Head (Freedom and Democracy) in politics only and not in the greater and more important institutions of Industry, Religion and Sex. In such Head, if it was wise, the idea of using force and violence, jails and penitentiaries, battleships, bombs and poison gas, as a remedy for society troubles and making people good, would occupy small space would seem as unreasonable and as ridiculous as would be kindness, friendship, goodwill, love, comfortable homes, pictures, music, automobiles, for making people wicked.

Reason and common sense, as well as experience, would teach it that right and wrong, good and bad, pain and pleasure, in relation to individuals and their environment, are relative and not absolute such by comparison only and contain within themselves their own rewards and their own their own pains and their own pleasures. What is needed in every nation is not armies and navies but a wider outlook, a new point of view a New Heredity and a New Environment better bred people, of every race, better and more comfortable homes, more and better food, better clothing, better tools and machinery, better music, better pictures and more freedom and leisure and comforts of every kind for the masses of the people of every nationality. Yours very truly, C. M. DYER.

878 N. Fair Oaks Pasadena, Calif. How Long Will the Russian Revolution Last? BY H. M. TICHENOR.

How long will the Russian Revolution last? this i3 the question that stared the representatives of the capitalist nations in the face at Genoa. The question would not down. Arthur Ransome, when in Russia in 1919, asked this question of the Soviet officials. Some answered 50 years. Same 100, The question not only affects all AMERHX1 SPECTACLE HOUSE, Dep't.

5 members of the leisure class, untouched by any taint of radicalism, and they rose up in their wrath and accused the two brothers of having maligned their country in a foreign land. "You have not said one good word about England!" cried one of the ladies; and in my well-known role 01 peace-maker, I got up and tried to please both sides. "I think that Mr. Hardyman's critics are mistaken," I said. "He may not have praised his country directly, Dut ne has certainly praised it by im- which we sit this afternoon and listen to his address.

He has complained that the doles given by the British government to the unemployed are continually diminishing in amount. Perhaps that is true; but at least the British government has recognized the obligation of the community to provide work for men who wish to work, or in the absence of work to provide them with food and shelter. But we live in a country so low in the scale of civilization that it makes no acknowledgment of any such obligation, and makes no pretense of any duty to support those who are willing to work and cannot find work." I continued: "Mr. Hardyman has told us of British army officers, wearing upon their breasts the Victoria cross, the highest decoration which the British army can give to any man, standing upon the curbs in London playing a hurdy gurdy or selling matches for a living. And when Mr.

Hardyman tells that story, he praises England; because England allows these men to stand on the curbs and play the hurdy gurdy and sell matches, and thereby England expresses its gratitude to the officers who saved it from the Prussian peril. But if any man who went across the seas to make the world safe for American capitalism were to put his war decorations upon his coat and try to play the hurdy gurdy or sell matches on the streets of New York City, what would happen to him? We all know what would happen. He would be clubbed over the head by a Tammany policeman. "Yes, the British government has fed its unemployed returned soldiers; but what has the government of New York City done? Where in England could it happen that a humanitarian and, idealist would appeal to the pub lic, find raise money to buy doughnuts ana conee to ieea starving men winter time, and when he gathered these men together in a public square to serve the food, mounted policemen would charge among them and club them over the heads and drive them in rout and scatter their doughnuts and coffee in the mud? That happened in Bryant Park, New York City, and the newspapers of New York City reported it; and did the population of New York City rise up in wrath and rebellion? If they did, the newspapers have so far managed to keep the fact secret; none of us out here in California are aware that New York City is in the hands of Soviets of the unemployed." So, after hearing this, the leisure class English ladies shook hands With the young English radicals1 and agreed that England was a verygreat and noble and beautiful country after all! -it A Warning to Socialists James A. Strachan of Atlanta, writes me that a man calling himself J.

Dunley" has been passing himself off in that city as an intimate friend of mine; also a 29th degree Mason and other unusal things. He had with him a wife and daughter, and when he left he carried off a Fora car which did not belong to him. The Tern Weeks uentiemea: i nave reaa year noeraj oner ana want yoa to send ms ay mau all charges prepaf 1 a handsome HMcarat gold 'Oiled pair of yoor latest-atyle. extra-large, ro and -eye. ore spectacles complete with an up-to-date leatherette spring-back pocket-book spectacle-case which ye I re offering on ten days absolute free trial.

I am going to try them oat for reading or looking af off in the distance, for far or near, indoors or outdoors and In every way yoo hare naeatiooed seeve, and if I find them all yoa claim them to be after a ten daya trial, I will pay yoa year advertising rHe 15.86 and no more. I want yoa, however, to diatinctlv understand that if I do not And tbem to be qp-to-dato in every respect or if they do not restore the absolutely perfect vision of my younger owe. and even then I poaitively will not pay I prire of 12 which yoo are aaklng for ti Bo Setre) te Aamwoe tio FoUewleg and even then I poaitively will not aev FeUewtea; 1 win mw iim yon wunoui scvni 01 vmw mm 'tore HotBold an you? Am iWamtX better than any epeetacieo I have ever need before leaa 1 consider them a bargain at the advertising will have to take my ward aa anal in this matter. County JVil Offle. Rural Routt Box No.

Absolutely t-reeoi charge in the above headinv. Notice Ceir i-o and ahai wearins ripht now. Notit-9 th rvtra-lft mar bm wearing apertaclca. The are oa aro aa renin a mw 1 for aaia at erres. any price Deiore.

I oat la tne reaaoo why I am eiy and I will immedintely eand yea handsome aavance or even a reierenes. 55tii Dorchester Awe, CUcazo, FL for therm oe uvn i iniena to seep tnem omens tney ere antMa them, and yew Saeatieeja a How many yten hmv you used glosnW any) Ans Stats. A.a.aTf will last all through the constructive process; which is, as far as the wisest can see, to the end of time. Construction is evolution it never ceases. How long will the Russian Revolution, and all that it stands for, last? Just ko long as there is any obstacle standing in the way of its consummation just as long as there i3 another step to be taken in the advancement of human society towards "peace on earth, good will to men." Get a Club of Subs for the Appeal.

Walker shown harm 1 with tne trenchant eaitonais my state license number of this car ia 54392, Georgia, 1922. I wish to warn readers that I have never heard of this man, and if he should appear anywhere. Comrade Strachan should be notified. Will Force Correct Evil? Warren G. Harding and Charles E.

Hughes, President and Secretary of State, U. S. A. Dear Mr. Harding and Mr.

Hughes: How do you like this for an argument: As there exists in society a potential cause of war (war as the logical end) in the slightest and most trivial differences of interests, opinions, beliefs, purposes, in our political, industrial, religious and sex relations, by individuals, groups and nations, likewise just as strong a cause of peace, friendship, good-will, even love, when those interests, opinions, beliefs, purposes, are identical, is not the office and duty of the state and of statesmanship plainly that of head of the social organism like the head in relation to the body of the individual, in order that the antagonisms and evils in society may be discovered and removed? Otherwise how can society be an organism When all the factors in any problem are present the solution necessarily inheres in the problem itself. In international differences each nation is doubtless right from its own point of view, but as in the very nature of things national boundaries cannot be final, we must seek for a wider generalization, a new point of view. The widest generalization the generalization of all generalizations, the abstract of all abstractions as you doubtless know, is consciousness with its two aspects or poles of subject and object the individual and the environment in which the individual lives, moves and has his being the ego and the non-ego. The anarchists magnify the importance of the individual, the Socialists emphasize the importance of the environment, but the two terms are interchangeable, according to the point of view, as I will prove: For example, from my point of view, the individual, I am the subject of consciousness and you and every other individual and thing external to me in the environment are the objects of consciousness; from your point of view you become the subject and I and'every other individual and thing external to you become the objects of cdrfsciousness, consequently the individual and the environment in which he, she or they exist are one and the same consciousness, one cannot exist apart from the other even in thought. And this necessarily applies to every individual, man, woman and child.Vgroup and nation, without regard to time or place, age, sex or nationality.

Groups and nations, in a sense, are but magnified individuals because their interests, purposes, opinions, -beliefs, harmonize in some direction or in some degree, else they could not exist as a group or a nation. Ancient wars had their roots in religious antagonisms, rivalries, customs, beliefs, ceremonies, in contests for power, when Church and State religion and politics were one and the same institution. Modern wars have their source in economics in business, industry, commerce, exchange, in national rivalries for trade and markets. The same war, in a modified form, is going on daily within each nation itself in strikes, boycotts, blacklists, lockouts, as a result of antagonistic interests in wages, hours, working conditions, between the working class and the capitalist class. The business game, as it is being played, for power and plunder, is known under various syno For Below are ten names cents each.

State 10c in allv no public opinion, other than the opinion wmcn tne capitalist newspapers choose to make up in their editorial offices, and hand out to us in daily or hourly doses. Just now, for example, we have several million men in our -country out of work. Nobody knows how many, apparently nobody care3 how many, and there is no way of finding out. There are many more millions of women and children dependent upon them. What is happening to these women and children nobody knows, nobody cares, and nobody can find out.

This unemployment has continued for nearly a year. We have passed through a bitter and terrible winter, the savings of the people have been exhausted, their credit at the little corner grocery store has been exhausted, they are slowly perishing of undernourishment and the diseases which undernourishment causes, and nobody knows, nobody cares, nobody can find out. From all over the country there come to me stories of most dreadful suffering and of the most dreadful predicament of people of all kinds: a family of farmers who have burned their corn for fuel and whose home is being sold over their heads to pay the interest on the mortgage; a family of cotton planters who were millionaires a couple of years ago, and who now Bave not a dollar in the bank to meet an emergency. And lately there is hardly a single issue of the daily papers I read in which I do. not find one of the regular of bunk Things are going to be better, things are actually beginning to get better! Some stout banker re- fiorts that trade is improving; some ively secretary to some Chamber of Commerce reports that America is now once more on the up-grade; and all our people believe it they have nothing else to believe, and nresuma-bly they must believe something.

The organs and organizations of protest against starvation in the midst of plenty or of change or response to the people's needs and demands such organs and organizations simply do not exist, and apparently nobody knows how to make them. Never since history began has the thought and the will of a great people been so completely paralyzed and an-nilated. A few days ago I attended a gathering in the home a friend to listen to a talk by two young Englishmen. They were two brothers, Hugh and Malcolm Hardyman, members of an English leisure class family with traditions of university education and auch things. They had both served in the British army during the war, and were seeking escape from general unemployment and depression in Great Britain.

They had worked their way to the United States, and walked all the way across the continent as they said, to meet me! To this gathering of Americans they talked about conditions in England, and they drew a very black and terrible picture. In-eientally they had a lively time before they got through, because there were three or four English ladies present, Vigor Of Youth In A New Discovery Science Produces a Vitalizer Superior to Famous Gland Treatment Magic Power of a Bark From Africa. Have you lost your youth, vigor and Does life seem dull and work a grind? Don't worry. Science has discovered a new vitalizer superior even to the much discussed "goat gland" and "monkey gland" treatment. Anyone can now quickly and easily regain the vitality and eagerness of youth and do it in the privacy of the home.

The principal Ingredient Is an extract from the bark of an African tree. It is said to be the most amaziner in-vlgorator ever discovered. Combined with it are other tonic and vitalizing elements of proved merit. In most cases the compound produces marked improvement in a day or two, and in a short time the vitality Is raised, the circulation improves and the glow of health is felt in every part. The laboratories producing1 this new vitalizer.

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rt1 a full 2 treatment of Re-Bild-Tabs win be mailed. On deliTprr. pavthe po: man only $1 and postal. If not delighted wlrii the results at th enl of a work, notlfr the lnbcratorles and your money will be rffnnll ia fall. Po not neiltat about acororine tt-fs oo.pr.

ns it iufnllv guarantee. Get Oar New Lowest Prices paint, are tori rom factory at factory No middlemen's profits. k.tiV?yc,umon'3r We canglvevou t.hr$ua,,ty nd important reduc- to the loat drop. 20 years TRIAL OFFER AND PAINT GUIDE FREE yen oat Painting Guide." a valuable t''" eiracuve rolor eem-wnatjona and instructions for doina- iSIJ TRICES. Wntt tod it for ree trial offer and painting rati.

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The age of exploitation and war will be laid away in the same grave with the age of cannibalism. Above that grave will be constructed the age of Socialism and peace. Not in a day, not without mistakes being made and rectified, for constructive processes do not proceed that way. Construction is a process of time and labor. The revolution bo sore to look at the cartoon by end itverywacre- in every Jmoc, together 1 CALL nroiB Ryan Clubs of Ten! Tikis Is a picture cf the average man or woman who read the Brass Check Press, owned Vy the" Masters of the Broad, and naturally always playing up end expressing- tho acts, words and views of fae teachers, politicians and other public "RepresantatiTes," who, in return for small portion of the lunder, aid the masters In skinning yen.

i The sad thought Is that you pay for the poisoning of your own mind by buying the Brass Check PrstSs lust the same aa If yen handed a' knife to aa enemy with which to stab yon. JUST QUE DAILY PAPER If AHEMCA Which ts run on the principle of giving yon the FACTS, and helping you to do your own thinking. Thai The New York Daily CalL Printed every day in the year. stop poisoning voon orjfj nm Step giving aid and comfort to the papers that In every time of crisis suppress, distort, ef mfilfali the workers' side of the controversy. Even If yon live as far away aa California, it is your duty to subscribe to The Call.

Better the truth day or two late, 4han a He ahead of timet Yon can subscribe for Just the daily, or Just the Sunday edition, or both daily and Sunay Magazine section always Included with the Sunday edition. Ryan Walker's famous cartoons, and David mt aaaeaa earn e.e.e If you will send us at least 10 new names right away we will put each name on the list for 10 weeks at the rate of only 10 cents per sub. That will mean only $1 for ten names. Will you pin a dollar to the blank below, fill in ten nanies and address (all new names, not renewals), and rash it to the Appeal? Will you do this to show the Appeal you approve of its great work for humanity? Here Are My Ten Names! It Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kans. tCartners brilliant "Here and lnere 1 Uf MM.mm.mM lamea al Vsu Aries Yv a-rfsB v4-e wHei sr Enclosed find for ten weeks at the rate of ten HERBS THE SUBSCRIPTION BLANK USE IT TODAY! TO THE NEW YORK Name Address City State 111 I I I II I I III I II 1 1 I I Bex S3, Station New GTy.

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