The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 3

Authors

D. E. Shepardson
Rolland Dewing
David S. Lindsay
C. Roger Lambert
T. M. Parssinen
Dale J. Schmitt
Phillip Appleman
James Cole
Philip Dacey
Tom Dorrien
Charles Edward Eaton
Jack Flavin
Albert Goldbarth
Chad Walsh
Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

American Policy in Asia: Tenacity in the Pursuit of Folly

The Limits of Economic Expansion

A Universal Approach to Political Philosophy

Slaughter of the Innocents: The Public Protests AAA Killing of Little Pigs

Bellamy, Morris, and the Image of the Industrial City in Victorian Social Criticism

The Welfare Dilemma: A Colonial Case

VERSE

Darwin on Fourteenth Street

Savior

The Hand

Poem for My Legs

Ode

The Quicksilver Loaves

The Stone House

Bread and Cheese

An Interview with the Oracle

Tidings

And So From Bed

Abstract

in this issue. . .

SPRING hopes eternally. We misquote with deliberation, thinking our rearrangement of Pope's line no less true to human nature and considerably more cheerful, whereupon we ask ourselves whether our springtime mood borrows any color from the contents of this April issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY. Despite the foreboding subtitle "Tenacity in the Pursuit of Folly," there is a guarded optimism in the conclusion made by D. E. SHEPARDSON to his study of American policy in Asia, and ROLLAND DEWING might be said to be determinedly hopeful about "The Limits of Economic Expansion." Deploring the ethnocentricity of the American approach to political philosophy, DAVID S. LINDSAY proposes to acknowledge that the Chinese, for example, have not only been around a long time but have also done some valuable thinking in the area of political science. C. ROGER LAMBERT tells a wonderfully absurd story about the slaughter of little pigs amid warnings of divine vengeance, T. M. PARSSINEN examines the image of the industrial city in Victorian social criticism, and DALE J. SCHMITT reminds us that "The Welfare Dilemma" has been with us for a long time. We remain cautiously hopeful.

A MIDWESTERNER like ourselves, Donald E. Shepardson is an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. His B. S. degree is from Eastern Illinois University and his M. A. and Ph. D. are both from the University of Illinois. Before assuming his present position, he served four years in the United States Air Force, then taught at Western Illinois University, Macomb, at Bowling Green (Ohio) University, and at Virginia Polytechnic. His major field is in modern European history, specifically European diplomacy, on various phases of which he has published or delivered addresses. Shortly before this issue appears he is scheduled to chair a session in modern European history at the Missouri Valley Historical Convention.

CONTRIBUTOR Rolland Dewing is likewise a Midwesterner, born in North Dakota and now teaching and serving as chairman in the social sciences division of Chadron State College, Nebraska. His B. A. and M. Ed. degrees are from Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, and he holds the Ph. D. from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He has published a number of studies devoted to educational and ecological questions, and has a new article, "Malthus Reconsidered," in the January Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal.

BACK in October, 1970, we published an article by David S. Lindsay on the financial mechanics of political parties. We welcome his return with an article of equal timeliness on Chinese political thought. Another of his articles, "The Monopoly of Choice: Independents on the Ballot," appeared in the November, 1971, issue of National Civic Review. Aside from that, Professor Lindsay has no fresh news about himself, and we can only repeat our earlier notice that he has a Ph. D. in government from Florida State University and teaches at Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg.

OUR NEXT CONTRIBUTOR is likewise from a neighboring state. C. Roger Lambert took his M. A. at North Texas State University and his Ph. D. at the University of Oklahoma. He has taught at Wichita University and at Del Mar and Angelo State, and since 1966 has been: at Arkansas State University, where he is an associate professor in their history division. A glance at brief titles of some of his publications, "Hoover and the Red Cross," "The Drought Cattle Purchase," "Want and Plenty," and "Texas Cattlemen and the New Deal'' would suggest that his interest in surplus piglets is no new thing. His publications and most of his research as he himself has observed, do "concentrate on federal surplus and food relief programs."

FOR OUR FIFTH contributor we turn eastward to Philadelphia. T. M. Parssinen received his Ph. D. in the history of ideas from Brandeis University and taught at Grinnell College, Iowa, before joining the history department of Temple University. He has published several articles on English political history and is now working on a history of popular science movements in early Victorian Britain.

THE AUTHOR of our sixth and final article, Dale J. Schmitt, became interested in American colonial history while attending Yale University on a National Merit Scholarship. A native Kansan, he then chose to return to the University of Kansas for his M. A. and Ph. D. degrees. Since 1969 he has been an assistant professor of history at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City. His study of colonial welfare problems grew out of extensive research in the primary records of colonial Connecticut, and he is presently engaged in a number of similar research topics which will help bring the seventeenth century closer to our own times.

AMONG old friends and poets, we are happy to welcome back PHILIP DACEY, CHARLES EDWARD EATON, JACK FLAVIN, and CHAD WALSH. Asked for fresh news about himself, Philip Dacey tells us that his poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in Esquire, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and a number of other journals, as well as in a textbook/anthology called New Voices in American Poetry (Winthrop) edited by David Evans. . . . Charles Edward Eaton comes again with the April issue (along with Daffodils and Early-flowering Tulips, if the printer is punctual, otherwise with Cottage and Darwin types), his most recent poem having been in the April issue of last year. . . . Jack Flavin was last with us in the October 1971 issue. . . . Finally, Chad Walsh is almost too new to the QUARTERLY to be called one of our old poets, since we had the pleasure of publishing his "Tapepoem" in our issue of January last. Meanwhile, another good poem having come our way .

NEW to the pages of the QUARTERLY are poets PHILIP APPLEMAN, JAMES COLE, TOM DORRIEN, and ALBERT GOLDBARTH. Poet Appleman, a professor of English at Indiana University, has published a first novel, In the Twelfth Year of the War (Putnam, 1970), has read on the campuses of many American universities, and has won a number of awards from literary societies. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Antioch Review, Arizona Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, The Nation, New Republic, and many others, as well as in Best Poems of 1967 (Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards). His first volume of poems, Kites on a Windy Day, was published in England by the Byron Press, University of Nottingham, 1967, and a second volume, Summer Love and Surf, by the Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. . . . James Cole writes that his poem in this issue is from a collection on Irish subjects he has recently completed, titled Black Head. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, went to school there, then received an M. A. from the University of Washington, studying along the way under such distinguished poet teachers as Karl Shapiro and Theodore Roethke. Since 1963 has taught at the University of Wyoming and has spent alternate summers in Ireland. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Dublin Magazine, Encounter, The Journal of Irish Literature, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other periodicals in England and Ireland as well as at home. . . . Tom Dorrien is a young man of twenty-five, part Ojibwa Indian and a native of northern Michigan, who now lives in Marquette. He has a degree in English but dropped out of the graduate program to take a job as a newspaper reporter. His work has appeared or is about to appear in such journals as Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, Commonweal, Inscape, and others, and he is at work on the first book-length collection of his poetry. As "influences" he acknowledges Thomas, Plath, Kinnell, Sexton, Bly, Ignatow, and in fact "everybody I read" . . . Albert Goldbarth has had work published or accepted for publication in Poetry, The Nation, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Ohio Review, Epoch, Massachusetts Review, Kansas Quarterly, Field, Minnesota Review, Salmagundi, Poetry Northwest (Theodore Roethke Award, 1972), as well as in the forthcoming anthologies The Young American Poets: 2nd Selection (Follett) and New Voices in American Poetry (Winthrop/Prentice-Hall). A collection of poems, Under Cover, has just been issued by The Best Cellar Press. In a recent note he writes that his first full-length collection of poems, The Feces Fruit, has been accepted for publication in mid-1973 by New Rivers Press. He is currently teaching creative writing at Central YMCA Community College, Chicago.

THE BRIEF REVIEWS in this April issue are by the editor.

Recommended Citation

Shepardson, D. E.; Dewing, Rolland; Lindsay, David S.; Lambert, C. Roger; Parssinen, T. M.; Schmitt, Dale J.; Appleman, Phillip; Cole, James; Dacey, Philip; Dorrien, Tom; Eaton, Charles Edward; Flavin, Jack; Goldbarth, Albert; Walsh, Chad; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1973) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 3," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 14: Iss. 3, Article 1.
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