The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-03
By Upton SincIair


longer waited things seemed to get the
Dad had been he would dohe had let himself be
ockeyed Like water seepng underneath dixie subtle cur
skepm creeping through the freshman classes IN
Southern Pacific University which taking Modern His
tory a."
Mr. Irving wasn't supposed discussing the peace
ference ALL he supposed to be seeing to it that hts
of battles and commanding generals In the
But theme led easily to the other
and difficult to keep the soreheads qulet rms same
thing happening in other class and In other parts OF
exposed to dangerous thoughts Before long the for
being voiced and after that they
the whole country million ideas like Bunny woke
up the cruel fact that their dolly stuffed with
sawdust
Yes was irving time to be alive in the world An those
golden promises had made those bright hopes
had cherished All the blood of the young that had been
shed three hundred thousand of them dead wounded France
the allied statesmen GRIM cruel old sitting
the councabe and putting the world right back where had
been before Perpetuang all the old hared all the old nu
tices-with thousand the Tearing
Germans from their land and giving them to French
men, giving Austrians to Italians Russians to ON thru
long list of bunders condemnng millions Of people live
which they feared and dspsed and thus making
certain they would revolt ana throw EUROPE INTO uproar again.
Men could not realize these things all at once they got them
little by little details of the negotiations leaked out Every
ing about its own selfish interests and President Wilson was in
the midst of the being pulled and hauled about this
and that quite poweress good proclaimed
picture of got to America spread
disgust had been known before.
then the president home
mination of all peoples he giving the German Rhineand
France Africa Britain and the German Tyol
mandate Amenia Also he had made perpetual alliance
with France and Britain whereby bound ourselves to main
sefdetermnaton foever When this program
had thoroughly realized of hilarious yncsm became
the thing among the young nteecuals of America
fashionable young decevng husbands in
the of chastity and college boys began ong hpocke
TASKS out Of loyalty to prohibition.
thing particularly upon Bunny had
to to Paradise in while and face to face
with Ruth and explain how sedetemnaon for the people Of
hold bayonet calculating this singular
atom Bunny became almost kfu tckster If he had
month he managed it. while the Germans dragged
TO Versailles and made to sign agreement to dem+
nifty vast that 1t could not be named
Then day letter that made his task all but impossible
1t was an innocentlookng letter. written in crude hand
some sheets of cheap paper posmard Seattle and addressed
to 'Mr. Bunny Ross, Paradise, California" 1t said:
Dear Bunny: don't know me / a returned
soldier that used to punch cattle in Salinas valley Paul Wat
kns said should write you get
invaldded back dissenterry
bleeding the bowls three you your
hands good when have read this letter. because
disease to catch am in ssoon and this will be smugged
for Gods sake don't let have they would
me in the can But Paul said your father might do something
get us boys out he knew what hell was Mr. Bunny what
we doing in that place and why do have to stay?
forty below zerow most OF the winter and big storms lot Of the
time and have to do sentry duty and the
toes big flies and where they bite the blood And the
aps take shots at u.s. they suppose to be allies but they
are sure grabbing that country There supposed be
seven thousand but there seventy and why did take them
there? Our boys allowed side
aps have got bayonets and have only fists We have
that supposed to control but the Japs win keep
Of them and have them out with machine guns lined
up and have to have with them Siberia
will be lot of boys staro And
them Russian refugees and officers that orders help
heard colonel give them money to
ment and they bust and that night have pun them
out of sporting house. They have idea which
all the workngmen they get hands the
and they torture them Mr. Bunny things that would
sick to read them From General Graves down
on this Job and of them gone crazy there has been
more than twenty in regiment and has been
sent home in strait Jacket But the people at home
lowed to know nothing there boys regiment
had line from their folks in half and they crazy
with Why do have be there when
you know wish you would tell said not to ten
his sister, because it is bad for himself they