The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-16
THE LOW DOWN ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY,
AN INTERVIEW
By Jake, the Demon Reporter

By Jake, the Demon Reporter
Miss Liberty is tragic figure and insult intended.
Under her hard unrued surface there beats heart in
anguish.
Her career has been mistake from the beginnng-she
for the role Her instincts all the other
In her old agehe came to these shores exactly fifty
years ago and she chicken when she got herehe
friendless forgotten.
first time her long dull life she consented to lay
bare her soul reporter Hers case of wrong vocation:
the lady the pedestal meant the kind OF liberty that's
been tied her. On the contrary she got her notions in the
land of her BIRTH France and first put them into practice
in Paris
81 am shocked was her first remark 'hat anyone should
bother to interview Nobody cares"
But" your reporter who something of steepeack
tried reassure her he settled on her under lip
EYES, know know she interrupted. My picture is on
postcards the joker in the poker deck They've got
worked into ash trays, fancy needework the masthead
of the New York World and number OF trademarks and
advertising displays for candy axaves and what have you
know that my is mentioned average OF 34SbOO8
times annually in July Fourth, Rotary, Kwans meetings
and the like know that there vague reference to
liberal tea parties and the like But what about me
not my picture my name, but mysef?
"You mean" exclaimed your reporter, who has what
amounts sixth in delicate matters touching upon
female psychology.
Exactly" she calculated happily, 81 knew you would
derstand Have you been to Paris? Anyhow, what
mean honey is that woman after ALL jake tell them
out there that in the of liberty they have made
prisoner of Let them try to imagine, they can, the
horror of being stuck in the middle of the bay thinking
thinking, thinking while the breezes watt hither the
monogamy and other forms of entertainment Was it for
this came all the way the ocean-and travel wasn't
interesting then deare Nothing then to match the stolen
ships nowadays Sdre overhear things as the
big liners pass"
Then Why the reporter queried as he mounted higher
to observe PARKWAY dreamy look in the old girls eye
why did you Gomez"
Are you you keep secret, Jake? she asked
Before the ndhearted reporter could stop her. however
she told ALL Luckily it is unprntable, which saves the re-
porter who is getting thirsty, the job of writing it.
Paris She left indeed under asgood-szed cloud She had
carried her ideas Of liberty lot too far for Paris
mo no. she exclaimed sit wasn't the July Fourth brand
1t the knd-we its the kind the moral urptude clause
is all about conquer full of French wilesand look
what's happened to mel Oh hell it's just like Americans
to import something foreign and to misunderstood it
petely."
porter who luckily has nine of Them and asserted at
rate said
tits terrible terrible One must be made of iron to
stand it."
Of bronze lady, of bronze the reporter corrected her
gently and jumped into the bay.
principal savage
aren't grateful They what they're missing and don't sem
We bring them civilization golden they sniff
Take for example the situation Liberia There's the Fire
Africa The Department Of Commerce gives this picture of Lbqan
gratitude:
reasonable to suppose that thousand labores might u
tmaey be obtained for plantation work Practically ali their
meagr wants supplied by their initiative To indulge
considerable number Of them change fully their mode of
living would require diplomacy the of the employers
wishing their services.
"Ensagements of made, months,
beyond which period it is difficult the remain.
When therefore is borne in mind that only toward the latter
of their Of service do the abores begin
display aptitude for the somewhat specialized work they
often called to perform will be that the efficient dis
charge of their duties only be looked for during the latter
ton of their period the arrival of
again."