The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-16
III

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All this near the end Of the strike and also it was whhe
America going to So the exctements Of
mingled in Bunnys mind with those of patriotism The two
standards You might not come back So made less difference
what you did in the meantime The girls found their hearts
sofened towards the boys and the boys ready snatch
bit of pleasure before it was too late
Bunny too young first draft but he went to
drilling at school, which the military halo about him There
high school provided with old rifles of the milf
ing Hep hep Hep hep! Squads right Squads left?tread
ing on one another toes but keeping the grim look their
girls Of the nurses training Boys and girls met school
Iassembly, and sang patriotic with fervor.
Yes it whole of cargo vessels were taking
supplies England and France and bgades engineers
labore the for the army The President
of evil men, the Huns who had risen threaten
civilization and the might of democratic America going
Ito them down. When this job had
be end all the worlds troubles the duty every patriot
to his part this all wars-the
War for Democracy Statesmen big little took
the newspapers echoed million copies hour and host
of -four minute were trained to go into factories and
heaers and wherever crowds gathered America
for this crusade.
family like other families and listened
and argued Bunny the young deast swallowed every
of the propaganda exactly what he wanted believe
quietly dubious father course Dad would say
win the had to win any into. But the
future WELL would be time decide about that
Ito it. First Dad occupied with getting the strike
and after that with selling oil constantly rising
There no giving away because government
wanted wells drilled they financed
unless the product paid for? The paying
generously and that patriotism enough
the spoutng of his wells and leave the other
Ispoutng to the politicians.
Aunt Emma considered shameful way to talk to a.
boy and she scoded vigorously according the privilege
n-laws. Aunt Emma would the clubs listen
patriotic adyorators telling about Belgian babies with
hands and munon depos blown up by spies
and she would home blaze of miarism.
worse young jazz-partes
active Of the defense societies.
Of all the German Southern California the vanes
hey pannng BERTHE full of dark hints and
IF awful responsibilities
You could tell how this excitement going
lit For example could have imagined
perfectly respectable seventy
ranch supposed wrapped up in painting in oils
would suddenly blossom Hun sympathizer?
randma who declared had no whatever for this
the Germans than of the other people
oncerned they all stained with blood and all there
he atrocy stories and rubbish make people
nemy But Grandma wasn't going hate anybody
much Emma and BERTHE and the rest might pro-
eeded show her defiance by painting picture
in odtme costumes drinking beer out Of painted
he wanted to hang this in the dnnroo and there
with Aunt Emma and BERTHE trying persuade
id it,
was part of Bunnys education; he listened and
armed From his quiet steady old father to
naby the fobe of human nature gathering
the dollars Talk all right but after ALL going
win the bullets and Shells and to get them
aeed you had to have transportation The oil that Dad
brought up of the ground driving big
carrying munitions up to the 'front.' moving the biggest
ana Iaest and the swift desroyers that
ectng them lubricatng the machinery factories
and and being called
Dad proceeded to contracts with the
and to put down dozen wells the Paradise
thing that troubling him he not
and times as many
wells the big fellows who controlled the banks let
him have enough moneyat least unless he would
with them and let them hog Of the profits That
eren kind of going right home and there
of its being ended by presidential speeches
explain that to Bunny a limitations in the
"ideaism' of a business mani
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