The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-02
A 26 per cent Liar

Dear Jorge:-You are the only one to whom
I can appeal in my plight. Either my arith-
metic is gone on the blink or else Knickorbocker
of the N Y Pest mixed up his lies while strv-
ing for another Pulitzer prize.
I'm his article in the May % issue of the Post,
1 read in the first cilumn, the following:
C. the Soviet Unions share in all Neither
lands imports rose from ST per cent in 1929 to
nearly per cent in 1881 for the March
quarter.
I'm the 9Th column of the same article. Knick-
erbocker, apparently forgetting what he wrote in
the first column, or perhaps thinking that the
level of intelligence of Post readers is SO low
that they will swallow everything, goes on to-
spread the scare thus:
"What really large place the Soviet wares
have won recently in the Dutch market can best
be judged by the fact that in the period under
consideration Russia contributed more than 90
(66G) of all the wheat Holland imported 93cc
of all rye, 1870 of all oats. GO of all lumber
999o of all pupWood, 94c6 OF ell manganese and
so on down a long list of products including
40 of the more important Dutch imports of
which on an average Holland took from the
Soviet Union more than 30 per cent of her total
requirements from abroad"
How come that four per cent turned into thir-
ty per cent between the first and the sixth col
umn? Such we gather, is what the comrade
wants to know
Well, you see that -Four Per Cent Menace
is not much of menace. But the demands of
the N. Y. Post (Which admits in the same issue
the charge of worker-"That in America you,
the editors of the Post, are ready to take the
leadership in the ant-Sovet campaignsO is for
something more than Four Per Cent Menace.
So, like an obedient prostitute Knickerbockers
had to multiply the percentage in order to null
tiply the menace
So he took such things as lumber land who'd
in hades would expect Holland to raise any luIn-
Der or to use great deal, eitherD and points
with alarm" to that "6496 of all lumber" and
SO on Then, making "an average of five such
commodities named adding in thirty-five which
he don't name, he simply asserts without offer
ing any proof, that this average" is more than
80 per cent" of the imports
More, he dstorts the truth into lie by say
ing that this supposed 80 per cent includes "the
more important imports" when the fact alreadyN
mentioned by him clearly proves that they are
positively not the important" important, or how
could they rise" to nearly four per cent" %
the total and no further than four per cent? Il
This same four per cent also contradcts ths
1907 of her total requirements from abroad, s.
the total requirements" here being used deliber
ately by Knickerbocker to multiply the four per-
cent menace" to thirty per cent When caughp
in this lie, he will say that "Of course, meant
the total requirements of the wheat, lumber etc.
But the distortion was clearly done deliberately
to deceive, to create menace that don't exist
incidentally, besides the Pulitzer prize sue
lies about Holland will, without doubt recei'
private "honorarium" from Sir Henri Deter
ing the Dutch oil imperialist who has fnan'
many such liar.