Evening star., 1925-11-15

eoout in the papers these days.
Not he continued as he lifted
up the hood, spat on his gloves and
gave the carbureter a terrible blow
with his hammer. that I don't be
ueve in Joining things as a general
rule.
But" he added as he took out his
pliers and carefully bent the gas line
into knot, II make 1t a rule to see
what l am going to get out of what
I join.
Now I been a member of O. lot OF
Things off and on during my life. 1
am Elk and a Red Man, a Wood
man of the World and a Maccabee.
Besides being Mason, 1 joined UP
with the Knights of Columbus, the
knights of Pythias and the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine.
u was sounded out not long ago on
joining the kluxers, but q fellow don't
have to tell everything he's member
OF and besides that l been having
quite good time lately down to the
Young Mems y ebrew Association.
Il always make 1t a point. though,
70 do little quiet looking around
nrst before I sign up with anybody
and maybe that is because / am, as
my Aunt Sallie always said. of a
pernickety nature. Some of my mem
oershtps gives me a button, a badge,
a banquet or a boat ride. From some
of the others I get a grip and a pass
word. | got a fez to home and
mighty snappy sword. I can go on
a, automobile tour with one of my
lodges in the Summer time. and when
l die 1 got it down on paper that 1
get good burial with three limousines
guaranteed.
Careful of What He Joins.
L always been a joiner, you might
say. but 1 been careful about what 1
Joins. So the other evening when a
young fellow handed me a ticket that
read The eighth anniversary Of the
Russian revolution will be celebrated
by the Workers Party Local. District
OF Columbia, at pm. at the Play
house, 1914 n street northwest I
thought to myself as maybe I had
missed something which l might join
up with. So 1 put on a collar and
goes around to the Playhouse.
The fellow at the door took my
ticket and said 'Eet will be 25 cents
blease, these ticket and being no
inside.
AS l was going In the door he
called me 'comrade' and 1 turned
quick and tried him on q half a dozen
high signs. but he didn't savvy none
of them so 1 let him be and got my
self a seat. 1t was after o'clock
and the place was pretty well flied.
The card had said IT was the Work
ers' Party, d. c. Local, that was Civ
ing the party SO I looked around at
the men and women sitting in the
place as l am a worker, too, but
couldn't swear as there was any
workers in that gang. What I call a
worker is man with maybe his
finger nails not so clean and his
hands rO1IQl, hJlf a e>nnI nd
between his shoulders and enough
backbone to hold 'em up. If there
was any workers in this bunch they
hadn't showed up yet. The most of
the ladies and gentlemen were either
the kind that comes around here and
says oh what IS the matter with my
car 1t wont run and when l look
find there amt any gas In their tanks,
or else they was men and women like
You hear saying celery 10 cents-cel-
cry 10 cents-celery 10 cents down on
Seventh street
Up in the front of the room they
was some noisy kids, some of them
dressed in red shirts and others dolled
mp like Liberty and Democracy and
the like judgin' from the signs they
had hung around their necks. 1 didn't
Ike the looks of the guy that was
sitting next to me because he didn't
have any forehead or any chin, only
a lot of upper front teeth. and l re-
1nembered seeing a picture in the
paper one time that looked like him
and over it there was some writing
that said Threw Bomb so l easel
over a couple of seats and got req dy
20 listen to the man just getting UP
on the stage.
They Sing Internationale.
This fellow they called 'Comrade
chairman whenever they spoke to
him and he opened up the meeting by
saying De men In de back of de hall
will bleaSe come front and be zeated'
and when the place was quiet he
said, Comrades and friends we have
gathered here desc evening TO zele-
brate de eight anniversary of de rev
olution in Russia. Dis is de workers
barty local D. c. which IS bart of
de workers: harty of de United States,
which is de United States section
Of de Communist Internationale. We
VIII now stand and sing de Interna-
tionaIe
We'll everybody stood up and about
len or twelve people knew the words
and they yelled, but none of them
could touch the comrade chairman be-
cause he was some shouter and he had
rhe advantage because he knew the
tune.
man said little comrade whose name
/ do not know and couldn't say it if
did would now play selection on his
violin. He did 1t and the less said
about that the better. because when
q. violin is old and tuned and some
body Is on the bow end that knows
how to work II, there ain't no sweeter
music, but otherwise. as | said, the
less said about it the better Another
little comrade female, was then called
TO the stand and said a piece of poetry,
but she said it SO fast 1 couldn't say
.fust what she was talking about ex-
cept that Mike, a Catholic, and Ike,
Jew. have been fighting each other
ever since the world began and the
reason is that the big fat capitalists
have been sitting back and laughing
at them and keeping them fighting
because they don't want Ike and Mike
ever to get together. for If they did,
it would the dickens to pay for the
big fat capitalist, or something like
that. I don't know whether that's
so, because I seen a Jew and Irish
man fight and a cop come along and
said Beat it, youse guys. or I'll run
The both of ye in and the cops. &C.
cording to one comrade who said a
piece, Is only tools of capitalism, so
IL the capitalists didn't want Ike and
Mike to get together, why did their
tools stop them from fighing?"
Little Girl Scared.
Mr.. Isadore Kelly paused a moment
20 take out a bandana and wipe the
perspiration from his face before
chipping the porcelain carefully off
two spark plugs. Then he continued:
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