The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-14
CugY9ntEUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHEsrY.

MALE sob sisters are telling US that
NA the Lindbergh flight across the
ocean and his visit to England helped
to cement peaceful relations between
Europe and the United States. But
there is no noticeable peace char
acter to the exercises that are being
conducted turnout the United States
in honor Of the intrepid airman. We
see him in a picture on the front
page Of the New York Times laying
a wreath on the grave of the "un-
known soldier" while surrounded by
soldiers with bayonets pointed to the
heavens.
WAR planes, soldiers, guns, police,
w battleships-this is the back
ground against which Lindbergh is
cast. People resent being told that
another world war is inevitable after
reading the peace mush that fills the
columns of the capitalist press. Ac-
customed tho we are to human guilt
bility the way the reading public has
fallen for the hokum peddled by the
press about Lindbergh has amazed us.
THIS is the day of the rotarian.
Here is a phenomenon he can under
stand. No superior intellectual can
tell him Lindbergh did not cross the
ocean. He knows he did. And since
three fourths of the news space in
our dailies are occupied with recount
ing the young mans deeds and his
homely virtues what chance has the
intelligent mortal who understands
what the bunk is about to convince
our rotarian that the object of all the
hullabuloo is not to honor Lindbergh
but to arouse the spirit Of patriotism,
the spirit that makes a declaration
of war easy for our masters?
THERE are other things to COM
ment on besides Lindbergh, Other
wise we might develop single track
mind. There is the news that Chang
Tso-Lin's fifth concubine has arrived
in Peling from Mukden, which kills
the rumor that Chang was to leave
Immediately and which indicates that
he will stay about one more week.
Had the balance of the marshall's
visible means of entertainment ar
rived we would fear that he intended
to stay forever.
CTRANGE that we hear no reflec-
tions cast on the marshall's morals
by his British, American and French
allies. 1t is true that the average
person does not expect the French
to generate much indignation over
issues of this kind but the British
and their American cousins" are
particular and Great Britain has
sent more than one expedition to
some benighted eastern country to
blast the natives on to the road of
true connubial morality. But Chang,
bandit and polygamist is as free from
criticism as if he were the head of
the Salvation Army.
THERE is a reason as the owner of
i nationally advertised and ma
tionally devoured breakfast food used
to say.
MUSSOLINI'S popularity is increas-
AVA ing so rapidly in Italy that nobody
can approach him now without being
searched for arms except his wife
and children. Having crushed all the
opposition parties in the country.
says writer in the New York World
Che ignored the existence of the Com
munist Party which is functioning
even tho Illegally Mussolini has
W on his hands a savage crew Of
rI-shirted patriots looking for
IS, offices and graft that are not
bic for them. So Benito must
he stiletto and threaten to con-
lgo-Slavia, France and build
scond Roman empire to APP
appetites of his followers.
duce" no longer appears at
meetings and demonstrations
che last attempt was made on
fe by a member of the Fascist
,zation, Benito has been living
state Of terror. The World
Jpondent says that the Fascist
.nization is seething with dis
,.lsfaction. Unless Benito gives his
ambitious swashbucklers war and
the glory they expected they will
have his scalp. There is no cementing
influence in this organization except
terror and the lust for gain and
GLORY"