The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-23
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Lunacy in Chicago
By JORGE

st have no doubt that at least one or two of
the candidates are psychically abnormal" says
DR.. George B. Lake, one of the psychiatrists at
tending the American Medical Association con-
vention in Chicago, referring to the Chicago
elections. "a pSychiatrist. we explain, is one Of
those guys who pass supposedly expert opinions
on whether a person is cuckoo or not.)
You see, there's city election ON in Chicago,
and though we got the psychiatrist report late.
we hope we can give some advice to Chicago
workers before the ballots are counted. The
capitalist papers talk as though there are only
two candidates. Looney Lyle and Batty Thomp-
son. But there's an escaped democrat whose
name we forget running around with bankers
psychosis whom they don't mention.
But besides all three dippy candidates, there's
one sane one Otto Wangerin, running for mayor
on the Communist ticket.
You see the rottener capitalism gets, the more
the lunacy comes out on the surface. And
Thompson and Lyle have the spotlight. Each
one accuses the other that if the other is
elected AL Capone will be the real mayor. And
probably both are correct So it looks like AL
Capone either way on that basis. And the dppy
democrat don't count.
For Chcagos sake, I hope the most compe-
tent of the lunatics is elected" remarked an
other psychiatrist, Dr. White, of Washington
D. C. And anyhow who comes from Washing !
ton ought to be an expert on lunatics.
There is no doubt that some of the candi !
dates show traits indicating lack Of mental bal I
ance" adds DR.. Barrett, psychatrist at the Uni l
versity of Michigan. He ought to know some !
thing also, about looney mayors, after watching
Murphy of Detroit.
The psychiatrists give these, opinions after
seeing the crazy stunts pulled by Thompson and
Lyle. Thompson leading another jackass labelled
Lyle through the streets. Lyle parading around
with machine guns, he says belong jointly to
Capone and Thompson. And lots more we can't
give space to. p
The Chicago 'News" tries to blame this lunacy
on the Masses and asks the question, IF Can
ddates are Crazy, Are Electors Sane?" And a
lot of jabbering is done to show that it is be \
cause the masses are dipped jim original sin or
something 4Ast loas8.a
Actually capitalism, being crazy system, pro-
duces insanity in otherwise sane people. Friday
an old civil service employee whose pension IS
threatened by the new economies" put over by
the capitalists with the help. of the German $50
cialists' tried to "assassnates the socialist
leader, Severing, in the Reichstag-but with
blank cartridges. He WAS crazy. Another Ger
man, an inventor, made small cannon and!
poking it out the window, bombarded the build
ings around, because, he said, it was the only
target ground he could get
From this, German journalists are asking IT
the whole country is not going nuts But we
see the same greatness here, too. And If the
masses are backward or ignorant, it is the CAPT
talist class which makes and keeps them so.
Even the psychiatrists in Chicago say that while
Thompson and Lyle are mentally abnormal /
yet-"most psychatric cases are very shrewd In
dviduals in some lines of thought
The shrewdness of these capitalist Iunatic5
lies in keeping the masses confused with false
issues That's not the masses fault. And only
one candidate in Chicago is sensible enough III
ask the masses to vote Communist as againVI
capitalism, the incubator of insanity. Vote icy
Otto Wangerin for mayor of Chicago!