Fireman's Freeman

Well remembered by radicals is the "old" Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock. It kept a circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton, N. J.).

Last week squarejawed, short-haired Editrix Suzanne La Follette, cousin of the Wisconsin dynasty, concluded that it was "only fair" to let her 7,500 readers know the plight oi their year-old magazine. On the back cover she announced: "... It may shortly be numbered in the depressing category of lost causes. ... Its founder. Dr. Peter Fireman, expected to be able to finance it until its income was sufficient to cover its expense. The depression has impaired his resources, so that he finds himself unable to bear the full burden. . . . We earnestly hope [that readers] will be moved to contribute to what we believe to be a significant journalistic enterprise."

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