The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-21
MY COUNTRY IT'S OF THEE
By NAT KAPLAN.
Wall Streets Confession Of Faith.

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TT was to be expected that Bruce Bartons discovery
of Jesus the prophet of profit would be followed
by extensive advertising campaign to sell the idea.
And, as ever, the Wall Street wolves who adopt the
garb of the gentle lamb of god have had difficulty
in gathering within their fold group of eccesiastic
press agents-as manly amasculated Augustan
priests honest Judas and Christ-ike as Mary
Magdalene's pimp.
Thru the church advertising department of the In
ternatonal Advertising Association comes expression
of the substance of religious faith held in common by
100 reverend gentlemen representing all Of the 81 or
garden varieties Of christian doctrine notably
travested thruout the worldan expression that will
please their masters because of the bland assurance with
which it attempts to save human suffering and ques-
tioning An excerpt follows:
Religion breaks down the wall partition between
class and peoples and fosters good will because it lifts
hand to god and reaches the other to man.
1t makes the spirit of human brotherhood mans domi-
nant social passion 1t gives true standard of
values It shows that "a mans life CONSISTENT in
the abundance of the things which he pOssesseth."
Metropolitan Note.
Significant is the nickname given the ~ Y Police In
dustrial Squad by of the rank and fie-"Picket-
sluggers."
Religious Humility.
Take glance at the controversy between the very
Reverend Monsignor Father Belford of Brooklyn, and
the gentleman from Alabama, Senator Heflin, duly
corded by the Brooklyn Tablet
Said Heffn from the Senate floor II could squeeze
his brains out between my thumb and forefnger"
Part of the reverend fathers included this:
Why we have bigger hogs right here Long Island"
Hail. Hail. The Gangs All Here!
Even Josephine Josephus Daniels ex-secreary of the
navy, has joined the foes of imperias-wth limita-
tons In his Raleigh News and Observer Daniels says:
"The purchase of oil we'll in Mexico does not carry
the right to warship from Uncle Sam to control the
government of that country They (the imperial
ists) determined that American investors in Latin
American countries shall dictate the policies of the
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put their dollars above the lives of young Americans"
And the Detroit News asks and answers pertinent
question:
Why complain if the canal our marines are guarding
in Nicaragua is not yet built? The blueprnts be
protected"
While the San Diego Union joins our merry party with
this sage observance:
Secretary Kellogg asks the colleges to do all they
promote Latin-Amercan friendship for America
But few of the colleges equipped with marines"
A Bourgeois Art.
The "movies"-what is their lure?
sign on Ocean (near H, Brooklyn, an
nounces its bill:
Shameful Behavior
An Hour Of Love.
The First Night.
Page Will Hays
Labor Hath Its Rewards
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr has joined the ranks of the
working class. He is employed feature writer
by the Hearst papers The doubts we had concerning
the authenticity of his authorship dispeled when
we recently invested in Daily Mirror. Not even a
tabloid reporter could do worse. The Woodworking
author receives $700 week for his column called Now"
vaguely similar to Arthur Brisbane's "Today."
Literary Note.
Denounce the tabloids you will, yet this observa-
ton bears the weight of axom-none of them can
hold scandal to theatrical gossip sheets.