The daily worker., 1924-10-06
BLACK JACK"
TO LEAD WALL
Streets ARMY
Now On European Trip
''to See His Son"
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Especial TO Ene DAily WOFNSEb
WASHINGTON. Oct. ST.
General John Pershing Is slated
or the Job of secretary of war
n the next republican admInis-
ration provided lots of funny
hings don't happen.
This information was secured
,y the DAILY WORKER cor
respondent from a quarter that
never suspected it would leak
out. But oil is not the only
thing that leaks in Washington.
Today's papers carried short news
item, stating that Pershing, now a
civilian, left for Europe on the Levis-
than, to visit his son, who is attend
ing school in Switzerland. A son is
a very convenient excuse If good for
nothing else. Even Harry Daugherty's
son finds a place in the movies TAX
ing the part of rich man in his d.
It's.
But your reporter is reliably in
formed that "Black jack is not going
to Europe merely to see his son. He
will see other people besides.
It is an open secret in Washington
that war between the United States
and Japan is no longer possibility.
or probability. 1t is certainty
Heavy war preparations are on foot.
OF course, the public will not be
frightened before election time. ST.
lent Cal must be returned to the
White House. Then
Head Too FIeshy.
John w. Weeks, the STOUT headed
secretary Of war, is a royal supporter
of the capitalist system, but as a mill
tary man he is a darned good bank
err Moreover, he has blundered on
Mobilization Day. Canny Calvin had
to step in and allay the public anxiety
by calling it Defense Day" But it
is not well to make explanations. Mis-
takes are easily made, but hard to
mend
'Black Jack" Pershing is another
myth like Silent Cal. He is almost
as silent and as stupid. A new idea
would feel so i'll at ease in his head
that it would cause a revolution. And
BLACK Jack" hates revolutions. He
is a favorite son Of Wall street. His
first bid for fame was the chase after
the Mexican bandit Villa. Like an
other famous general, he led his army
up one hill and down another and
finally returned home while Villa had
to take body messages to take the
soreness out of his ribs. They were
sore from laughing at the great mill
tary genius Pershing. But the CAPT
talist papers made up in publicity
for what Pershing lacked in military
genius.
Another Myth.
Pershing is a republican in politics,
but when the world war broke out,
Morgan picked him to lead the expedi-
tionary forces to France. Tho he
stayed away from the front as all
good respectable generals do, he won
quite reputation. II was the "Si-
lent Cal" myth over again. He won
the war in much the same fashion
that Calvin Coolidge broke the Bos-
ton police strike-after the Germans
were licked by the Russian revolution.
VIII Be Silent Clam.
However, as secretary OF war, his
job will be to take Wall streets or
ders and keep his mouth shut. He
knows how to do that It is Calyin's
ambition to have a cabinet that will
make a deaf mute school sound like a
boiler factory. He is on the road to
success, unless the expected happens
and the voters give Silent Cal a kidk
in the jeans next November.
No doubt, there will be denials that
Pershing is slated for the war depart
ment job. But sophisticated people
will pay no attention to those denials.
All For the "Jack."
When Pershing retired a few weeks
ago, from the active list, every CAPT
talist paper in the country sung HIS
praises. Even the comedians were
called on TO drop their caps and bells
for the moment and make patriotic
cracks, to Black Jacks advantage.
Mobilization Day" was the work OF
his brain. The capitalists need him
to turn the United States into q mill.
tary robot factory. They have q big
job in front Of them. They need men
like Pershing.