Two years ago, the leaders of the U. S. Socialist* Party met, decided to found a propaganda weekly (TIME, May 28, 1923). "There is a reaction to reaction," then declared Eugene V. Debs, their five-times candidate for President. The weekly is not yet.
Last week, in Manhattan, far from Broadway, the Socialists celebrated once more. Nearly all the veterans of the cause were there: Victor L. Berger, Socialist U. S. Congressman from Milwaukee; Morris Hillquit, suave and literary lawyer of Manhattan; James H. Maurer, labor ora- tor of Pennsylvania; onetime (1915-19; 1921-23) U. S....
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