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...Doctrinaire Upton Sinclair could get as much feeling of helpless human tragedy into his propaganda novels as Louis Colman gets into Lumber, Socialists...
Capitalists alike would take more stock in Upton Sinclair. Lumber is not recognizably propaganda, but it is a story of Labor, and if you can read it without being moved, you deserve to have the Wobblies...
...with its time. This is deplorable enough. But when matters progress so far that a good, honest hoax is cut off in the very blossoms of popularity. It is allowable that conscientious Americans should object. The baring of the art hoax in Boston yesterday, a mere three years after Upton Sinclair had told his small world of readers about it, is clearly a case that cannot be handled in town meeting. Progressive action is demanded...
...Upton Sinclair is ingenious but unconvincing. He has tried to show that a capitalist civilization bears within it the germ of its own death; but what he suggests is merely that civilization moves in cycles...
...Author. Like many a home-grown U. S. prophet, Upton Sinclair is not without honor in other countries. His books are well-known and admired by many a radical group in foreign lands; they have been published in 34 countries outside the U. S. Says he: "The thing to which this author is 'dedicated' is the promotion of social justice throughout the world. If, however, he were 'dedicated to a sense of his own importance,' it would not be so surprising, considering how many editors and critics are 'dedicated' to a sense...