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Goods and Chattels

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by Laura Benet

The Forum, December 1, 1928

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    January 1928 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Havelock Ellis, an Appreciation by Ben B. Lindsey, p. 1
    2. Marriage To-Day and To-Morrow by Havelock Ellis, pp. 2-13
    3. The Infant Jesus of Prague by Molly Anderson Haley, pp. 14-21
    4. Are We Debauched By Salesmanship?---A Debate by Stuart Chase, pp. 22-34
    5. II---Twelve Cylinder Critics by Roy S. Durstine, pp. 35-45
    6. Our Wiser Daughters by Warwick Deeping, pp. 46-48
    7. The Citizenship of the Pope by Gino Speranza, pp. 49-57
    8. "Slater's Pins Have No Points" by Virginia Woolf, pp. 58-63
    9. Your First Short Story, p. 64
    10. Is Life Worth Prolonging? by Henry Dwight Chapin, pp. 65-68
    11. Ku Mung Moans the Passing of His Years by Paul Eldridge, p. 69
    12. The American Credo by Agnes Repplier, pp. 70-78
    13. Canyon Country by Howard Cook, pp. 79-83
    14. Are Heroes Heroes? by Fitzhugh Green, pp. 84-94
    15. Christian Unity by S. Parkes Cadman, pp. 95-96
    16. Prayer by Leo C. Robertson, p. 97
    17. Three Puzzles in Natural History by H. Munro Fox, pp. 98-107
    18. Do We Need Regional Governments? by William Bennett Munro, pp. 108-112
    19. Beauty in America by Harvey Maitland Watts, pp. 113-119
    20. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian, pp. 120-124
    21. What Are Ideals?, pp. 125-126
    22. The Modern Current in American Literature by Paul Elmer More, pp. 127-136
    23. Disraeli by Andre Maurois, pp. 137-149
    24. Our Rostrum, pp. 150-164
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    February 1928 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. The Critic and American Life by Irving Babbitt, pp. 161-176
    2. The South by Corra Harris, pp. 177-180
    3. Is Protestantism Declining?---A Debate by Herbert Asbury, pp. 181-189
    4. II---Protestantism Stands Firm by S. Parkes Cadman, pp. 190-197
    5. Lonesome Water by Roy Helton, pp. 198-199
    6. The School of Wisdom by Count Hermann Keyserling, pp. 200-208
    7. Modern Geometry by Joseph Auslander, p. 209
    8. Your First Short Story, p. 210
    9. The Glass Eater by Don Marquis, pp. 211-221
    10. Sanitation at the Sword's Point by Katherine Mayo, pp. 222-228
    11. The Leaven and the Lump by Alfred James Lotka, pp. 229-239
    12. An Apotheosis of the Horse by Hunt Diederich, pp. 240-243
    13. Was Darwin Wrong? by William McDougall, pp. 244-253
    14. Will Our Age Leave a Record? by William Martin, pp. 254-260
    15. The Eyes by Nadejda de Braganca, p. 261
    16. Bertrand Russell Catches the Tortoise by Bertrand Russell, pp. 262-263
    17. You After Forty by Abraham Epstein, pp. 264-270
    18. The Disappearing Daily by Oswald Garrison Villard, pp. 271-279
    19. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian, pp. 280-282
    20. What is Race Prejudice?, pp. 283-284
    21. O, Jerry, I' Faith by Kirby Hawkes, p. 285
    22. The Escaped Cock by D.H. Lawrence, pp. 286-296
    23. Disraeli by Andre Maurois, pp. 297-311
    24. Our Rostrum, pp. 312-322
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    March 1928 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. His Excellency Mr. Franklin by Bernard Fay, pp. 321-334
    2. Should Government Ignore Superpower?---A Debate by Frank Bohn, pp. 335-342
    3. II---For Government Monopoly by Norman Hapgood, pp. 343-350
    4. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson, pp. 351-358
    5. Machinery, the New Messiah by Henry Ford and Fay Leone Faurote, pp. 359-364
    6. Mother Goose-Step for Children by Stephen Leacock, pp. 365-369
    7. The End of the Borden Case by Edmund Pearson, pp. 370-380
    8. The College of Captains by Robert P. Tristram Coffin, p. 381
    9. Noise by E.E. Free, pp. 382-389
    10. The Family Tree of the Skyscraper by Fiske Kimball, pp. 390-405
    11. Simon-Pure Athletics by Heywood Broun, pp. 406-410
    12. Fathers of the Republic by David Saville Muzzey, pp. 411-418
    13. Roots of College Evils by Robert Cooley Angell, pp. 419-426
    14. Protestantism Looks to the Monasteries by Rollin Lynde Hartt, pp. 427-435
    15. Thomas Hardy's Fifteen Novels by William Lyon Phelps, pp. 436-447
    16. What is Genius?, pp. 448-449
    17. Hill Country (Continued) by Ramsey Benson, pp. 450-456
    18. Disraeli by Andre Maurois, pp. 457-472
    19. Our Rostrum, pp. 473-484
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    April 1928 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. My Philosophy of Industry by Henry Ford and Fay Leone Faurote, pp. 481-488
    2. When the City Sleeps by Virginia McCormick, p. 489
    3. Springtime by Zona Gale, pp. 490-502
    4. Are We Victims of British Propaganda? by William Hale Thompson, pp. 503-509
    5. Propaganda for Peace by P.W. Wilson, pp. 510-515
    6. Collecting Friends by Clemence Dane, pp. 516-518
    7. Self-Education in College by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, pp. 519-526
    8. The Comic Strips by Sarah D. Lowrie, pp. 527-536
    9. The Bible To-day by Frederick Keller Stamm, pp. 537-547
    10. Blue Blood and Green by H. Munro Fox, pp. 548-556
    11. Puget Sound by Richard Bennett, pp. 557-561
    12. Democracy's Dilemma by Oscar W. Underwood, pp. 562-573
    13. Poems about Peter by Lysbeth Boyd Borie, pp. 574-578
    14. Choosing One's Children by A Young Mother, pp. 579-586
    15. Over the Hills to Spain by Signe Toksvig, pp. 587-593
    16. Pittsburgh Has a Plan by McAlister Coleman, pp. 594-601
    17. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian, pp. 602-605
    18. Nize Baby Catches the Tortoise by Winthrop Parkhurst, pp. 606-608
    19. What is Democracy?, pp. 609-610
    20. My Secret Journal by John Jay Chapman, pp. 611-617
    21. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson, pp. 618-631
    22. Our Rostrum, pp. 632-644
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    May 1928 Issue = 26 Articles
    1. Sequence by A.L. Rowse, pp. 641-644
    2. Can a Rich Man Be Convicted? by Arthur Train, pp. 645-652
    3. II---Justice---Bought and Paid For by Upton Sinclair, pp. 653-657
    4. Machedruc by Henri Duvernois, pp. 658-663
    5. Shall They Go to Sunday School? by Montgomery Major, pp. 664-669
    6. The Decline of Aristocracy by Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., pp. 670-675
    7. Nervous Liquidation by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 676-681
    8. Character and College Education by Irwin Edman, pp. 682-689
    9. An Elegy Written Near a City Freight Yard by Stephen Leacock, pp. 690-693
    10. Intuition by James Henry Leuba, pp. 694-704
    11. Can Organizations Have Souls? by Burton Alva Konkle, pp. 705-707
    12. Small Town by Elizabeth Lindsay, p. 708
    13. Pygmies in the Earth by Elwood Mead, pp. 709-716
    14. A Visit to the Zoo by Silvia Baker, pp. 717-722
    15. Really, My Dear by Christopher Morley, pp. 723-735
    16. The Jews in America by Elma Ehrlich Levinger, pp. 736-743
    17. Sleep, Part I by D.F. Fraser-Harris, M.D., pp. 744-753
    18. For an Efficient Congress by George Frederick Henshall, pp. 754-755
    19. An Old Kodak of My Wife by William Goddard, p. 756
    20. Modernism and the Novel by Sherlock Bronson Gass, pp. 757-763
    21. Horoscope by Joseph Auslander, p. 764
    22. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian, pp. 765-768
    23. What Is the Scientific Attitude?, pp. 769-771
    24. Science in the Trinity by Henry Pratt Fairchild, pp. 772-775
    25. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson, pp. 776-789
    26. Our Rostrum, pp. 790-804
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    June 1928 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. The International Irritant by G.K. Chesterton, pp. 801-808
    2. Al Smith and a Catholic Party by Stanley Frost, pp. 809-816
    3. II---The Pope and a Catholic Party by Michael Williams, pp. 817-821
    4. III---Political Suicide for a Catholic Party by William Bennett Munro, pp. 822-825
    5. Old Daddy by Henri Duvernois, pp. 826-831
    6. The Pleasures of Fear by Frederick S. Hoppin, pp. 832-836
    7. Prayer Book, Priests, and Protestants by Walter Russell Bowie, pp. 837-843
    8. Tennis by Helen Wills, pp. 844-853
    9. Glands and Growth by H. Munro Fox, pp. 854-862
    10. Twelve Men in a Box by George W. Martin, pp. 863-866
    11. To an Aviator by Daniel Whitehead Hicky, p. 867
    12. Education for Sanity by Stewart Paton, M.D., pp. 868-876
    13. Three Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley, pp. 877-880
    14. Sleep, Part II by D.F. Fraser-Harris, M.D., pp. 881-890
    15. Bed-Time Stories for Grown-Up People by Stephen Leacock, pp. 891-895
    16. First Fruits of Dayton by Donald Davidson, pp. 896-907
    17. The Fifteen Finest Short Stories by Edward J. O'Brien, pp. 908-913
    18. Lucifer by Joseph Auslander, p. 914
    19. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian, pp. 915-918
    20. What Is Important?, pp. 919-920
    21. A Prescription for Mrs. Higson by M. Curtis Brown, pp. 921-927
    22. Our Next President, pp. 928-935
    23. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson, pp. 936-949
    24. Our Rostrum, pp. 950-960
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    July 1928 Issue = 29 Articles
    1. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    2. Is Companionate Marriage Moral? A Debate by Bertrand Russell
    3. II. Marriage and the Home by William McDougall
    4. Let the Band Play Dixie by Roark Bradford
    5. Poincare: The Man Who Saved the Franc by Andre Maurois
    6. The Humanism of Irving Babbitt by T.S. Eliot
    7. Heroines by Stephen Leacock
    8. Jury, Democracy, and Efficiency by Pierre Lepaulle
    9. Aquatics by Aileen Riggin
    10. Jazz Is Music by George Antheil
    11. Why We Grow Like an S by H. Munro Fox
    12. Epitaphs for Living Lions by Jerry Cruncher
    13. The Junior College by Marion Coats
    14. Jugoslavia by Clare Leighton
    15. Thrills, Common and Uncommon by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    16. Caste in America by Count Hermann Keyserling
    17. Russian Aeronautics by William Mitchell
    18. Psychoparalysis by Edna Yost
    19. Wing Mu Si Speaks of the Vanity of Man's Illusions by Paul Eldridge
    20. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    21. What is Evolution?
    22. Our Next President
    23. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson
    24. Our Rostrum
    25. Forum Bookshelf by Donald F. Rose
    26. Opinions About Books by Stewart Beach, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Joseph Jastrow, ...
    27. Browsings Among Books
    28. Canda by Lewis Stephenson
    29. Downtown by Donald Rea Hanson
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    August 1928 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Has Aviation a Future? - A Debate by Captain Alfred Charles Dewar
    2. II. Facing Aviation's Critics by Commander Richard E. Byrd
    3. Old Lonely by Walter Jones Harmer
    4. Genius, Talent, and Intelligence by Mary Austin
    5. Who Sets Our Styles? by Paul Poiret
    6. The Young Empress Is Bored by Paul Eldridge
    7. Saving the Sunday School by Roland G.E. Ullman
    8. Czechoslovakia by William C. White
    9. Paternity by Warwick Deeping
    10. Hell and Heavens by Carl Sandburg
    11. The Dangers of Being a Boy by H. Munro Fox
    12. The Earth-Dwellers, Part I by Andre Maurois
    13. Eating for Efficiency by William Childs
    14. Play by Wharton Esherick
    15. Companionate Education by Joseph Jastrow
    16. The Republic of Greenland by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
    17. Jazz Is Not Music by Sigmund Spaeth
    18. Oriental Sketches by Laurence Adler
    19. Loyalty and the Editor by Oswald Garrison Villard
    20. Nocturne by Leo C. Robertson
    21. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    22. Two Poems by Mary Austin
    23. Hill Country by Ramsey Benson
    24. What Is Poetry?
    25. Our Rostrum
    26. Take It or Leave It by Donald F. Rose
    27. Opinions About Books
    28. Browsings Among Books
    29. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    30. Downtown by Donald Rea Hanson
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    September 1928 Issue = 31 Articles
    1. Is Capital Punishment Right? A Debate by R.L. Calder
    2. II. The Futility of the Death Penalty by Clarence Darrow
    3. The Raid by George A. Birmingham
    4. Western Magic by Mary Austin
    5. American Women and Religion by A. Maude Royden
    6. The Giant Burrajong by Percy Waxman
    7. The Stillborn Art by Pare Lorentz
    8. The Gnat Catcher's Nest by Samuel Scoville, Jr.
    9. T'ang To Answers His Old Pupil by Paul Eldridge
    10. The Earth-Dwellers by Andre Maurois
    11. The Cow by E. Merrill Root
    12. Eating Aesthetically by Alice Foote Macdougall
    13. Brazilian Drawings by Nicolai Abracheff
    14. The Amateur Investigator by J.B.E. Jonas
    15. The Turkish Woman of To-day by Rosalind Toynbee
    16. Lavender Lilies by Carl Sandburg
    17. The Centre of the Earth by John Hodgdon Bradley, Jr.
    18. The Great American Editorial by Donald F. Rose
    19. Bits from a Brittany Village by Viola Paradise
    20. The Catholic Spirit in American Literature by Michael Williams
    21. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    22. Ben L. Taylor Passes the Tortoise
    23. "A Thing to Do" by Elizabeth Stanley
    24. What Is an Ideal President?
    25. Our Rostrum
    26. Take It for Leave It by Donald F. Rose
    27. Opinions About Books
    28. Browsings Among Books
    29. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    30. The Indian and Spanish Southwest by Howard N. Cook
    31. Downtown by Charles F. Speare
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    October 1928 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. Rabelais: A Biography in Three Installments by Anatole France
    2. Should the Civil Jury Be Abolished? A Debate by Russell Duane
    3. II. The Jury and Democracy by F. Lyman Windolph
    4. The Second Egg by Elise Jean Jerard
    5. Green Coat by Hortense Flexner
    6. Poems About Peter by Lysbeth Boyd Borie
    7. The Myth of the Soul by Clarence Darrow
    8. Business and Ethics by John T. Flynn
    9. Celebrities by Rose Macaulay
    10. Marriage and Divorce by John Haynes Holmes
    11. Old Mexico by H. Glintenkamp
    12. The Youth of Dickens by Andre Maurois
    13. Dreams by D.F. Fraser-Harris, M.D.
    14. Success by Henry Ford
    15. To Know Silence Perfectly by Carl Sandburg
    16. The Wardens of the Shoals by William McFee
    17. New York, The Nation's Prodigal: A Forum Survey by John Bakeless
    18. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    19. The Cheerful Liar by Henry Addis
    20. What Is Education?
    21. Our Rostrum
    22. Take It or Leave It by Donald F. Rose
    23. Opinions About Books
    24. Browsings Among Books
    25. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    26. Hybrid Hong Kong by Walter Havighurst
    27. Downtown by Charles F. Speare
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    November 1928 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. Baiting the Ballot Box by Charles Merz
    2. Marching Feet by Leslie Gordon Barnard
    3. Should the Criminal Jury Be Abolished? A Debate by Edwr Allan Poe
    4. II. Experience vs. Experiment by Martin W. Littleton
    5. Coddling Children by Leonard Hill
    6. Why I Believe in Progress by Henry Ford
    7. Query on Reaching Middle Age by Virginia McCormick
    8. Does England Dislike America? by C.E.M. Joad
    9. Iron City by Gustav Davidson
    10. What's Wrong with the Laity? by Gordon King
    11. Dickens as a Novelist by Andre Maurois
    12. Manhattan Markets by Barbara Latham
    13. New York, the Nation's Prodigal: A Forum Survey by John Bakeless
    14. The Passion of Our Brother, the Poilu by Marc Leclerc
    15. Smith, Hoover, and Prosperity by Roger W. Babson, Henry Ford, and Spruille Braden, ...
    16. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    17. Experiences Facing Death, Part I by Mary Austin
    18. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    19. What Is Religion?
    20. Rabelais: A Biography in Three Installments by Anatole France
    21. The Light that Never Was by Henry Tetlow
    22. Our Rostrum
    23. Take It Or Leave It by Donald F. Rose
    24. Opinions About Books
    25. Browsings Among Books
    26. The Ibero-American Exposition, Seville by M. Haidar Bey
    27. Downtown by Donald Rea Hanson
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    December 1928 Issue = 29 Articles
    1. The Gutter---And Then What? by Granville Hicks
    2. Are We Happier Than Our Grandmothers? - A Debate by Dora Russell
    3. II. Antiquated Happiness by Corra Harris
    4. Intelligence Tests for Voters by William Bennett Munro
    5. High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes
    6. Can the Lower Animals Hear? by H. Munro Fox
    7. Blow the Trumpet! Beat the Drum! by Don Marquis
    8. Experiences Facing Death by Mary Austin
    9. Friends of Mine by John Hodgdon Bradley, Jr.
    10. Does France Hate America? by Pertinax
    11. Afloat by C.A. Wilkinson
    12. Our Pressing Naval Problem by Thomas Pickett Magruder
    13. Goods and Chattels by Laura Benet
    14. The Babbitt in His Warren by Bruce Bliven
    15. The Day After Christmas by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
    16. Our Muddling World by Salvador de Madariaga
    17. Escape and Pursuit by J.B. Priestley
    18. Footpath and Highway by The Pedestrian
    19. What Is Progress?
    20. The Return of Christ by Arthur Davison Ficke
    21. Your First Short Story
    22. "---And He Shall Have Abundance" by Altha Gray
    23. Rabelais. A Biography in Three Installments by Anatole France
    24. Our Rostrum
    25. Take It Or Leave It by Donald F. Rose
    26. Opinions About Books
    27. Browsings Among Books
    28. Barcelona, City of Merchants by Grace Lockhart
    29. Downtown by Donald Rea Hanson
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