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GOOD NORMING WELCOME TO
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL
Economics III ... MY NAME IS
FORTESBOTTOM ... P. O'RILEE
S.B.O.T.H.O.M.
REMEMBER IT. (1)
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1960 University Daily Kansan
THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULTY!
COOKING, IT CAN BE FUN.
WE WILL SALT OUT BUT
HAVING IN TOWARD A
BIG WORD THERE ON THE
SUBJECT WHAT I TAKE THE
HORSE OR PHILOSOPHICAL
ECONOMICS WILL BE FUN"
IN INK. OF COURSE,
OR TYPED.
THE SEMESTER'S WORK WILL
CONSIST OF SHOTGUNS EVERY
TUESDAY AND A DOO-WORD
PERSONAL PROGRESS EFFECT
EVERY SECOND THURSDAY,
ON WEDNESDAYS WE WILL HAVE
SOMETHING I THINK YOU'LL LIKE...
A FIELD TRIP TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL
LIBRARY "" IN GOOD WEATHER,
OF COURSE ... (A)
YOUR TEXT WILL BE
YOUR TEXT WILL BE
PETERBORGHAM'S GUIDE TO THE
HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ECONOMICS.
HAVE IT TOMORROW.
FEDAY WE'LL HAND IN OUTLINES
OF THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS.
EXTRA CREDIT WORK,
OF GUILD, IS AVAILABLE
TO ANYONE WHO WANTS
IT...
Eaton
By Calder M. Pickett
Associate Professor of Journalism
Though "The Titan" appeared in 1914, it was not a novel of the Progressive era so much as one of the Gilded Age. Like the other novels by Dreiser, including "The Financier," which preceded it, it was a landmark in literary naturalism.
THE TITAN, by Theodore Dreiser. Dell Laurel Books, 75 cents.
In "The Titan," Cowperwood has moved on from Philadelphia, where he had been put in prison after his successes in "The Financier." He goes to Chicago, then booming in the years after the great fire of 1871. He marries his former mistress, Aileen, aspires to and achieves financial greatness.
THE STYLE IS as murky as that of the author's other writings, and the story has that same curious mixture of socialism and materialism, a denunciation of wealth combined with an admiration for wealth and success.
But in his success there is emptiness. The society of neither Chicago nor New York will admit the ruthless parvenu Cowperwood, with his history of skuldugery and scandal.
"HOW WAS IT, he asked himself, that his path had almost constantly been strewn with stormy opposition and threatened calamity? Was it due to his private immorality? Other men were immoral; the mass, despite religious dogma and fol-de-rol theory imposed from the top, was generally so. Was it not rather due to his inability to control without dominating personally — without standing out fully and clearly in the sight of all men?"
Cowperwood is said to represent Charles T. Yerkes, the traction financier of that era. It seems interesting that Cowperwood almost alone is unable to achieve both social and financial power in Chicago. State Street merchant princes, meat barons, bankers, newspapermen, farm implement leaders — all these, all representing historical figures, become successful.
YET HIS METHODS seem little different from those that the Muckrakers were describing a decade before Dreiser wrote "The Titan." Carnegie, Rockefeller, Harriman and Morgan — these, too, were "titans," and achieved success along the routes of a Frank Cowperwood.
Here is an important work in 20th century American literature, available in a paperback that provides an introduction to Dreiser by Alfred Kazin. Few people read Dreiser because of the beauty of the language; he remains a powerful figure in our literary heritage whose work rises above the poverty of his style.
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"The dynamic parts of American society are the nation-wide organizations of all sorts and the mobile middle class which moves too much to get rooted in a community. These groups are both under-represented in American politics and insufficiently controlled. Their needs, problems and abuses evoke only apathy, suspicion or obstruction from the individualistic conservatives who dominate the legislatures. To the average politician, the complex problems of the nation and the world, the intricacies of life in the network of corporate and federal bureaucracy, are incomprehensible if not irrelevant or antithetical.
"American elective politics are still largely rooted in the local community and are dominated by an anachronistic class of small-town lawyers and businessmen together with equally backward city machine politicians. These people are primarily local in their interests and when they do give attention to national affairs, they are hamstrung by formulas a century old. The cities and the states and the men they send to Congress are obsolete. All the pious intentions of the White House and Congressional conservatives to turn government responsibilities over to the states cannot give rural-dominated state governments either the power or the desire to deal with complex nation-wide economic and social problems.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—(UPI)—The Nashville Banner, in an editorial yesterday, noted that Atlanta is 1,050 feet above sea level while Detroit has an elevation of only 585 and Elizabeth, N.J., only 21.
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"Localism is the reason for the great failure in the realm of thinking about national or public purposes — the failure of the major political parties. The proper function of a political party is to offer the public its alternative of a national purpose -a party purpose, in effect - which may be accepted or rejected by the voters. We have not had any such firm sense of party purpose, let alone a real political philosophy, since the days of the New Deal. Everything since has been emergency problem-solving by people who intellectually have never left the 19th century. The Eisenhower years represent the climax of political irrelevancy, with a President who doesn't believe in anyone being a real President."
Our Yoke of Localism
In view of this, the newspaper suggested, the phrase "down south" should be changed to "up south."
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(Excerpted from "Do We Need a National Purpose?" by Robert V. Daniels in the Sept. 5, 1960. New Leader.)
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