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...Upton Sinclair started his campaign with a running leap, announcing his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. To be sure, he was a Socialist, had run twice for Governor, once for U. S. Senator on the Socialist ticket. But he changed his party for convenience. Then he launched EPIC ("End Poverty In California"). He would pension every needy person over 60, every blind person, every widow with children at the rate of $50 a month. He would tax heavily all building land not built on, all farm land not farmed. He would exempt from taxation all homes and ranches assessed...
...Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty was a booklet Candidate Sinclair put out. Besides telling about EPIC it gave a list of all his books (The Jungle, The Metropolis, The Brass Check, Oil etc.). It sold for 2O¢. Politicians laughed at such campaigning. By last week he had sold about 200,000 copies. He wrote other pamphlets. He started a weekly newspaper Epic News, carrying advertisements, priced 5¢. Its circulation reached about 175,000. (Biggest vote he ever polled as a Socialist was about 60,000.) Rivals accused him of running not a campaign but a publishing racket...
What the late great Tolstoy's War and Peace did for old Russia, And Quiet Flows the Don attempts for new. Not nearly as long (755 pp.) as Tolstoy's epic. Author Sholokhov's novel is big enough to house comfortably over 50 principal characters. More typical of the traditional Russian novel than the Sovietized product, And Quiet Flows the Don hymns no paean to the Five Year Plan. Its ponderously simple narrative follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks from peace to war to revolution, leaves them in the midst of civil strife. Though...
...glimpses of the life conditions of the different classes, and brief accounts of various difficulties of the new program. While often disjointed and confusing it gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...
...this spring. Burrowing into the Badlands of Potwar, the party found five jawbones of apes, representing three new classifications, two of which more closely resemble homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...