The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-27
Current Evemts
By T. J. 0'FIaherty

THE millennium is about to arrive
and unless the wicked Bolsheviks
shoe it away we may he saying chow
do you do?" to it in a few weeks. A
headline in one of our capitalist pap
ers informs US that Geneva is sold
on the non-aggression proposal re-
Gently made by Poland. This would
mean that the league would permit
no wars between member nations eX-
cept those waged for defensive pur-
poses. Not since mediaeval days has
there been war Of aggression, ut
least a war which all the belligerent
powers agreed was due to aggressive
action by one of them.
AS civilization advances honesty re-
IA cedes. In olden days it was an
honor to start fight but in this
era of our lord, each party to a war
is continually pulling off Sharkey
and crying foul, hoping thegcYY 60
win the favor of the fans, and the
league will decide which is the ag-
gressor in a war on the basis of the
IllbCIC0LO VI GIlO0S JItGlI nave GIlG OOlll-
ipant voice in making the decision
Lovers of the manly art of mass
murder need have no fear that the
endorsement of the Polish proposal
will bring about the complete elimi-
nation of war. There are plenty of
colonial peoples still available for
target practice, tho we admit there
is not as much thrill in slaughtering
defenseless Nicaraguans for instance,
as there would be in sinking few
dozen British battleships.
WE are decidedly of the opinion
that world peace it not even a
decent dream as long as the present
economic system exists. For those
who like wars, unemployment, abject
poverty at one end of the social pole
and extreme affluence at the other,
this is the best of all possible sys-
TENS. Those who would prefer a
social system where the wealth pro-
Iuced by workers with hand and
brain would be equitably shared by
all producers and their dependents,
WhSIS SOilpSIlIlOh 1OI IOOuJ ClOtulIlS
and shelter would be eliminated, and
wars automatically abolished, will en-
list in a movement that aims to de-
stroy the capitalist system and to
build the socialist society in it's stead
Since the workingclass are the chief
sufferers from the capitalist system
and its by-products, war and pow
erty, upon them rests the main re-
sponsibility of getting rid of it. This
can only be accomplished by strug-
gle and no matter how much the capi-
.alists may babble about peace the
workers must prepare for war with
heir only enemy, world capitalism.
INDIANAPOLIS may not have con-
tributed as many presidents to the
country as its neighbor, Ohio, but it
IS racing neck to neck with it's sister
state in the nonstop contest for es-
,ablishing new record in filling jails
with political grafters It is true
The "Ohio Gang" in Fn~aa;ing's cabi-
net hung up some worthy trophies
but they kept out of the can. Indi-
anapolis has not yet begun to fight,
out already she boasts of a governor
Just out of Atlanta, a Ku Klux Klan
grand dragon serving a life term in
neighborhood penitentiary and a
mayor convicted of graft, for which
ne drew $1,000 fine and month in
Jail. Let other states please copy.
cMILING in the face of danger is
sometimes harder on the face that
cracks the smile than on those that
supply the danger This is one les
son learned by Louis Bemax, Jr.,
the Bronx haberdashery clerk, if he
ives to enjoy the fruit of his expert
ence. Two trade-marked bandits
walked into his fathers store and
requested the clerk to submit some
shirts for their consideration. Chang
ing their minds suddenly, they sug-
gested that Mr.. Bemak, Jr., ignore
The first request and take an order.
1t was to point his mitts to the cell
ng. The young counter jumper gig
gled at what he considered a goo6
Joke in the Bronx where humor al
FAys pldyS Seconu Iluule TO business,
>AgOW, in the profession of banditrg
Was in public speaking, there is moth
ng more damaging to the prestige
If those engaged in those callings
han to be treated with easy famili-
arity. A public speaker can outlive
well-directed brick provided it does
,ot land on his tongue and a bandit
.an survive bullet that does not
strike vulnerable spot, but neither
IAN affort to be laughed at. So
when Bemak Jr., turned the hee haws
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