The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
Curv9ntEUentS
By T. J. o'F'LAHEerY.

AN irate subscriber objects to some
"a Of the cartoons that appear in
this paper. One of the pictures that
made her see purple was splendid
sketch by Ellis Of worker with q
sledge hammer rolling up his sleeves
while in the act of starting out to
get new recruits for The DAILY
WORKER. The other was by Crop
per, and pictured a hideous collection
Of thugs rugged out in capitalist uni
forms on the way to slaughter the
Chinese people.
NOW, strange tho it may appear to
~ those who only read what appears
in this paper, we are neither blood
thirsty nor particularly disagreeable
human beings. In fact even the
members of the Bomb Squad that
came here to arrest our editor and
business manager almost turned
away when they had look at the
business office staff. Even the
slightly less refined editorial staff
did not give them the impression that
they were among savages. The truth
is that we are as human as we Dos
sibly can be. The only difference be-
tween us and other people is differ
ence in the way we look at things.
THE gentle reader whose blood
! churned intentionally at the ghoul-
ish monsters drawn by Chopper and
the wrathy worker pictured by Ellis
would feel more at ease had the
artists equipped their figures with
powder puffs and lip sticks and sent
them forth on their different tasks
bearing sticks of chewing gum to
their foes. But this tough business
of fighting for freedom or suppress
ing a fight for freedom is waged
more frequently with sticks of dyna-
mite and other means of destruction.
This is exceedingly regrettable, since
we all like a nice warm sand heap
by the surf with all the other at
tendant features that please the
senses.
GO let's hurry along with the social
" change that will enable us to en-
JOY having our ears tickled with the
sweet tones of a wild birds song
rather than the rattle of machine gun
fire and the hoarse words of COM
mand issued in battle. Our sub
scriber may see our point of view
better if she will take the trouble to
read in the capitalist press about the
subjugation of Nicaragua by the
Wall Street government and the
slaughtering of innocent people in
China by the foreign kmperialists.
This is the reality that our artists
picture. They cannot help it if
some of our people like to live in
FOOLS paradise.
NAIVE people who expected that
~ the United States government was
toting a pacifist around in the per-
son of Charles Lindbergh, our pres
ent national hero, will have shock
or two coming to them when they
read the speech he delivered (no
doubt it was written for him by the
war department) at the banquet
given in his honor at the Commodore
Hotel in New York last Tuesday
night. In his speech Lindbergh de-
parted as far from the line of his
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ardent propaganda for big air
fleet would desire.
NOBODY but a political sap would
~ expect that a young lad like Lind
bergh could resist the mighty pres
sure of the militarist forces that are
using him to inoculate the minds of
the American people with prepared
ness idea. Preparedness for what =?
And. against whom? This prepared
ness that our bosses talk about is for
the purpose of defending the in
4 terests of the rich here and abroad
and suppressing the exploited classes
when they seriously undertake to ex-
propriate the misappropriators.
HERE is an excerpt from what
IL Limbaugh said: "In the meantime
the mos Z important thing for US to
do is to develop the transcontinental
branch lines which we already have.
A commercial air service in America
gives a reserve in case Of war, which
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