Show I I. I I I i OTHERS oTHA x VIEWS tr J MR lUR WATTERS ANSWERS VERS LAST LETTER WRITTEN BY MR HOLLENBECK HOLLENBECH Dear Editor Mr Hollenbeck in a letter inthis in inthis inthis this column last week says Socialists Socialists Socialists So are militant They insist in every way of forcing their views onto the public I I I would like to know if anyone I has been more militant in forcing views onto the public Mr Hollenbeck himself especially inthe in inthe inthe the last political campaign when he turned his editorial contributions I into Democratic propaganda despite the fact that The Record is at least a nonI nonpartisan nonpartisan non- non partisan newspaper In this country there is no such thing as a Social Democrat parI par par- ty There is a Socialist-Labor Socialist I Labor party but it is not large I and I dont don't think they ever exceed exceed exceed ex ex- votes in the nation at any time Socialism is different in the various various various var var- ious countries according to the needs and the conditions of the I times rimes In this country Socialists do to not advocate socialization of land and It has never been in the platform And Socialism in the States is what the plat plat- form of the Socialist Party of America says it is nothing more nothing less Mr Hollenbeck says that Socialists Socialists Socialists Soci Soci- do not agree among them them- selves How about the people who believe in capitalism We have two capitalist political par par- parties parties ties and they are always at one another's throats And at that you cant can't tell which party a man belongs to by the nature of the bills he introduces or how he votes on other bills The newspaper newspaper news news- newspaper paper has to tell you what party 1 they belong to else eIse you never would know Mr Hollenbeck says Norman Thomas knows what he is talking about I agree That's why I voted for him in the last election Mr Thomas says in What Socialism Socialism Socialism So So- is and Is Not these words It is as impossible to bea be bea a Comm Socialist Communist Socialist Anarchist as It is to be a Catholic Agnostic Agnostic- Buddhist 1 Will Mr Hollenbeck please quote references to the contrary if he has them I Yours J. J O. O WATTERS I |