The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-02
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BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY


IIENRY FORD is looked on as the
u big butter and egg man Of the
automobile industry. Did he not
make a $500 a day wage universe.
in his factories when such pay was
considered high? And now he comes
out with the announcement that he
will put his plants on f1ve-day week,
eight-hour day basis with six days
pay for FIVE days work. OF course
the catch in Santa Fords benevolence
Is that those workers who cannot pro-
duce as much or more in five days as
they did In six will be shown the
way to go home.
OUR special Ford edition will give
- the low-down on Henry's philan-
thropy, so about that more anon
What led me to comment on Ford s
generosity is news item in yester-
days paper which tells Of Ford's eff
forts to recover a specially CON
structed touring car which he pre-
scented to a Baron G. Frederick e.
Won Krupp, Jr.," alias George R.
Gabor, who is not baron at all but
is now quite barren of funds after
he sold Henry's gift limousine. Oh,
Henry is wise alright. He is an in
ldustrial wizard, but he mods occas-
honally. SO did Homer for that mat
ter.
> d ABINDRANATH TAGoRE, the
AOnoted Hindoo poet, is philosopher
who talks considerable nonsense if
we are to believe the press. In Ber-
lin he predicted the collapse OF
western civilization and the sur
vival of the Oriental. you western
ers who possess all material wealth
are starving yourselves intellectual
lly" he said. 1--WE who have nothing,
believe we have sensed the myster-
4es OF the infnite.'' This is the kind
of philosophy that makes hit with
people who are too lazy to think or
hire incapable. Also it makes the
philosopher who holds the natent,
rich Toolosophy. intenaed for fools.
ETHE difference between the occiden-
4 tai mind and the oriental mind is
disappearing amidst the husd Of ma
,chinery and the chatter OF machine
igun fire The Hindoo, who sat on
his launches decorating piece OF
pottery and the Hindpo who is direct
ling the speed of several spindles are
two entirely different Hindoos tho
both may worship the hump on the
oxs shoulder and sneeze when they
see a Mohammedan. The penetration
OF capitalism into the Orient and the
growing consciousness on the part of
the masses that they are being ex-
plotted is RELOCATING spiritualists like
Tagore to a back seat, In fact those
cultists must now go west for an
audience, as the Orientals are pick
ing up their trusty rifles and permit
ting the Tagores to sell their squirt
cans full Of mystic perfume to the
wealthy parasites of the\ western
world.
ILTDSTERN civilization Is not crumb-
w ling, but the capitalist order is.
This will be almost as bad for the
Tagores as for the royal parasites and
the less royal but Weather monarchs
OF industry. A new and better civil
ization will arise on the ruins Of the
present social order and when the
people of the Orient throw off the
yoke of foreign Imperialism the east
and west shall meet but not until then.
A FEW hundred years ago the ma
"A tives of certain parts of Africa
that would turn up their noses at a
boiled mackerel would lick their chops
over the prospect of outlet from the
body of fat missionary. Today they
prefer fish because experience taught
them that the misisonary's flesh was
no better than his preaching. Thus
the wheels of progress roll along and
bughouse philosophers roll under.
THERE will be more queens than
Il drones in the American social hive
when Marie Of Roumania arrives here
on the Leyiathan. Should the queen
OF Roumania, like her namesake in
The bee hive, sting her discarded
American admirers her visit may
serve a useful purpose. Republican
America knows how to receive royalty