The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-24
PARENTS REVIEW
SONS THEY WILL
KILL FOR PROFIT
Citizens Training Camp
Prepares for War
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

CAMP CUSTER, Mich, July 23.-
Proud papas and mamas fairly burst
with paytriotic pride yesterday in
Watching their youngsters in full mill
tary panoply march in review. The
parent-profiteers looked on without
the last conjunction at sending their
sons into the service of Mars, be-
cause their short-sighted eyes did not
really see beyond the drill field into
the turbulent future when some Of
them might feel more keenly the send.
ing of their strong young men to car
mage and slaughter.
Fat fathers pulled about the field
while their offspring, stuffed with all
the militarist-capitalis propaganda,
given in redawhite-and-blue coated
pills, marched sturdily thru the drills
the End and 9Th infantry regiments
and the 14th cavalry and the 9Th tank
corps, all of the regular army and sta
toned here for the summer, were
given the once over, too, so that papa
in-his-swivelchair and mama-making-
sox-for- buddy will know just what
kind of death-dealing devices their
sons are playing with in the next war.
"see the Pretty Guns"
There was complete array of wea-
pons exhibited to help the parental ed
ucation: sabres, pistols, machine
guns, French artillery "75," the tank,
etc. When mother gets the news from
the battlefield, she'll know just what
kind of a shell did the dirty work with
her son.
The reserve officers here have COM
pleted the course in community mo.
bilization, which is supposed to have
taught them how to form local COM
panies and begin preliminary drilling
Sin the event of a national emergen-
cy." In other words, when Morgan or
one of the other big capitalist-impe-
rialists needs American troops to help
him push his foot into some choice
field for exploitation.
No Talk OF Wars Causes.
OF course none of the real causes
of war are talked about here. The
camp is the place for military tactics
to be studied without the questioning
the why Of wars. The students are to
assume the truth of the school bun
combe about defending the nation
from the huns" or Saving your
mothers and sisters" or making the
world safe for democracy" or what
ever slogan the big bosses will get up
for the next war. Maybe it will be
"avoid the yellow peril" or save us
from Soviets." It's a safe bet that
anti-revolution dope will be injected
into these young sons of Mars whom
their parents would sacrifice at mo-
ment's notice to profits. The army is
training the country's youth not alone
for wars of foreign aggression, but for
use against the rising working class
in strikes and in revolution when that
time comes.
Tell Them About ProfIteers.
1t is imperative that the Young
Workers League and the Workers
Party members use every possible
means Of convincing these young SOL
Hers that they are only being trained
10 fight somebody else's war; that they
are being used by the oil and finance
capitalists to compel resisting nations
% toe the mark; that they are going
o be used some day against the mill
ant working class, who will bring
ZEAL freedom to this country and to all
f, others.
Remind the youngsters of the bonus
light in the last war, the difficulty the
var vets had in getting jobs when
hey came back, the careless way the
government handled the disabled
rets; anything that you can think of
discredit capitalist wars and then
hammer home again that the boys In
he trenches got lots of lead and darn
title gold while the profiteers who sat
t home raked in the gold at fabulous
ums and sent all the lead to the op-