The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-27
You Can't Buffalo these Boys!

When it comes to Americanizing the Conmu-
mist Party, all bets are off. If you were born
and brought up in Brooklyn, your name may be
Stone or Stein, and you may have heard Of the
badger game" but you don't know whether
badgers grow on trees or whether they are to be
peeled before eating or served on the half-sheD.
New Workers are the most stupidity provin-
cial people. They know nothing and care to
know nothing about America as a whole, its
history, traditions, culture geography anything.
This superiority complex naturally seeps into
our Party, and we are suggesting that the Work.
ers School set up course in the flora and fauIW
of these United States.
Something has to be done because it Is get
ting dangerous for chap who knows America
to be wandering around loose. F'rinstance:
Consider our crocodile The varlnint knows "tae
sticks" as those who are Second Avenueish con-
temptously refer to the rest of the country But
poor old Krock risks his neck when he makes
use of his knowledge. Here's an example,
A comrade wrote in about Party unit 10
Gated {. we'll, somewhere between the Texas
panhandle (there's another for you to chew onD
and the Canadian line west of the Mississippi,
and we write it up. Not the Mississippi, but
the unit.
And not wishing to name names and things,
we referred to it in a Spark we published on
Nov. IL as being "out in the buffalo grass coun-
try and having been guilty of misconduct but
not in the sense of Judge Jones of Kentucky.
All, the plot thickens That is, the grass-plot.
No sooner had the paper reached Buffalo, N. Y,
than q counC il-of-War was called among the
leading functonaries. General HOMO could be
no more warlike. The dimnutive Chief Of Staff
ratified his saber and breathed death to the croc-
odile The crocodile must be killed and his skin
made into $12 suitcases!
Z rs Frnr, rt,,FFo tho
Secretariat, the Org. Dept. and OF course upon
Red Sparks:
g. scurrilous and lying statement about
a Unit in Buffalo not one iota Of truth :. >.
stupid attack on our district ISLANDERS from
provocateurs clownishness reckless
ness -. /! . :" wrote the Org. Secy, Lead
ing the charge at the head of the troops.
The DO, maintaining degree of calm for
which we praise him in view Of the fact that
there are in the 48 states exactly % towns
called Buffalo demanded: Where did this
case actually happen; in Buffalo, New York, or
in Buffalo of western state?" Thanks, COM
rade; We'll explain:
We said 'out in the buffalo-grass country"
Now we quote from a good dictionary available,
we hope, in the local library
Buffalo grasS:-A common name for several
low grasses very prevalent upon the plains east
of the Rocky Mountains"
So dear comrades, "curfew shall not ring to-
night" for good old Krock.
What can you do about this? We were sort Of
"raded" the other day by Red Press Squad 7
not from the police-o, dear, mol But from thu /
Pioneer group calling themselves THE Commun. {
ards" This RED Press Squad" is sort OF SHOCK
brigade" to get out bulletins for schools they
want to work on, to me- up wall newspapers"
and report to all the Communist press on events
OF interest to working class Riddles. And they
want land need someone in New York who has
typewriter no matter how crippled up it is, to
donate it to their work. Whoever can spare
typewriter, just tote it right down to Dixie"
at the National Pioneer Office sixth floor, IS
East 18th Street
Symposium: Said the F.S.U. ad. But what
the devil is a symposium" some sailors asked.
%" we replied that is just one way Of keep
ing workers away from a mass uneetinrs