The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24

had made up his mind, and Bunny
answered that he had. "But l hate
to tell you, Dad, because it's going
to make you unhappy"
what is it, SOM" A look Of
concern was upon the old mans
round but heavily lined features.
"Well, want to go away for a
year, and take another name, and
get myself a job as a worker in one
of the big industries"
ooh, my God" A pause, while
Dad gazed into his sons troubled
eyes. what does that mean?"
"Just that | want to understand
the working people, and that's the
only way"
"You can't ask them what you
want to know"
mo, Dad, they don't know it
themselves, except dimly. 1t is some
thing you have to live"
Good Lord, son, let me help
you'll I've been there. 1t means
dirt and vernin and disease
thought | was saving you from it,
and making things easier for youp
Il know, Dad, but it's a mistake;
it doesn't work out as you. thought.
When young fellow has every
thing too easy for him, he gets
soft, he has no will Of his own.
know what you've done, and I'm
grateful for it, but l have to try
something different for a time"
"You can't possibly find any
thing hard enough for you in the
job of running an oil Industry"
II might, Dad, if / could really
run it. But you know l can't do
that. It's yours; and even if you
gave it to me, Verne and the oper-
ators' federation wouldn't let me
do what I'd want to do. No, Dad,
there's something vitality wrong
with the oil industry, and l can
never play the game with the rest.
| want to go off and try something
on my own"
"You mean to go alone?"
There's another fellow has the
same idea, and we're going to-
gether. Gregor Nikolaieff."
"That Russian! Couldn't you pos
sibly find an American to associate
WITH"
"Well, it just happens, Dad, that
none of the Americans are inter-
ested."
There was long pause. "And
you really mean this seriously?"
eyes, Dad, I'm going to do it,
"You know, son, the big indust-
ries are pretty rough, most of them.
Some of the men get badly hurt,
and some killed."
Eyes; that's just the point"
Its pretty hard on father that
has only one son, and had hopes for
him. You know, I've really thought
lot about you--it's been the main
reason l worked so hard"
81 know, Dad; and don't think /
haven't suffered about it; but | just
can't help doing it."
Another pause. "Have you
thought about Vee?"
Eyes"
Have you told herr"
mo, I've been putting it off, just
as / did with you. l know she won't
stand for it. l shall have to give
her up"
"a man ought to think a long
time before he throws away his
happiness like that, SON."
Il have thought, all l know how.
But I couldn't spend my life as an
appendage to Wees moving picture
career. | should be suffocated with
luxury. have convictions of my
own, and l have to follow them.
want to try to help the workers,
and first l have to know how they
feel" 80
1T seems to me, son, you talk
like one of them-I mean the red
ones"
maybe so, Dad, but l assure you,
it doesn't seem that way to the
redsp
Again there was silence. Dads
supply of words was running short.
81 never heard Of such a thing in
my lifep
1T is really quite an old idea
at least twenty-four hundred
years" And Bunny went on to tell
about the young Lord Siddharths,
in far off India, who is known to the
Western world as Buddha; how he
gave up his lands and his treas
ures, and went out to wander with
beggar's bowl, in the hope of find
ing some truth about life that was
not known at court. "The palace
which the king had given to the
prince was respondent with all the
Injuries of India; for the king was
anxious to see his son happy. All
sorrowful sights, all misery, and all
knowledge Of misery were kept
away from Siddhartha, and he knew
not that there was evil in the world.
But as the chained elephant longs
for the wilds Of the jungle, so the (
prince was eager to see the world,
and he asked his father, the king,l
for permission. to do so. And