The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-16
"X" Marks the Spot

A Marks the Spot
Say, Paw" asks the young hopeful OF ths
editor of the N. Y Mirror" what caused tbs
depression, paw"
Jaw, bunch Of red agitators from all over
the world met at Moscow in July, 1928 at what
they call the Sixth Congress of the Communist
International, and decided that capitalism
should have a crisis, laundering big crisis So
we got crisis. See?"
Gosh Paw; but them reds must be clever
How did you find it out about them making the
crisis In Moscow"
"Oh, Jesuit priest, Father Walsh, he found
1t out and told the Fish Committee"
But, Paw How did Father Walsh find II
out? Did God tell him?"
"Shucks, no. The Communist International
printed it in what it calls the Thesis on the
World Situation and Tasks OF the Communist
PARTIES"
Then the Communists printed the crisis ana
sent it all over the world?" Is that why Jimmy
Walker can't pay the cops2 1t that why Johnny
Smacker's boss laid him off, Paw? How do the
reds publish crisis, Paw"
"Oh, dry up! Not even the reds can print
crisis. What they did was to print the news
that crisis coming before it came"
"Gee whillikins! That's more than you can
do in the Mirror, eh, Paw? But what did they
say2
"Oh, lot of things; that capitalism was on
the down-grade, with another big war coming
for colonies and markets war on Soviet Russia,
Unemployment, busted banks, and so on; and
what the Communists should do about It, But
why don't you read the Mirror and quit both
ering me2"
Jaw, Paw! I've been reading it. That's why
I'm all mixed up. You didn't say anything
about raping women. Was raping women in
that Thesis and Tasks Paw"
What the devil are you talking about, sonf
Who's been raped? A good rape will sell hun
dred thousand papers! A gang rape will sell
two hundred and fifty, properly headEnedl
Who's been raped?"
Hold yourself, Paw! It's already in the Mir
ror. The Tuesday, January IL, edition That's
a bum headline, though And the storys played
down like as if you didn't believe it yourself,
Paw. Did that navy officers wife really rape
all them Hawaiians, paw"
We'll maybe, son. Navy officers wives In
the tropics. >. But, confound you, you brati
You're getting me all twisted up. No matter
what navy officers or their wives do, our policy
is always to say the natives did It,"
"Uh, uh. But this story says the red did It,
No. not exactly. Let's see. 1t says that
japanese Communists, inbued with the doc-
trines of Leningrad, melted Hawaians to attacks
on white women Gosh, that's worse than the
House that Jack Buitp Why not the doctrines
of stalingrad, Paw? DO only Leningraders rape
women?"
kid, you don't know newspaper work. why
don't you. :"
But, Paw; here it says that the Communists
went to all that trouble to export doctrines from
Leningrad to the Japanese. The Japanese reds
handed them around in Hawaiian, and white
woman who never was raped before was "at-
tackled In order to, let's see -. it says until
warfare between the two dominant races Is
precipitated' Gosh what lot of trouble to 60
to. Amt them reds got any better way OF STIR
ring up trouble? Strikes? Unemployment?
Paw, did Father Walsh tell you that one, too?
I thought you said the Communists think war
3 coming for colonies and markets, not for
x4ate women? Did their Sixth Congress. :"
Look here you young scoundrel Don't you
know that * marks the spot? The spot where
Soviet agents and Bolshevik agitators' wera
seen by somebody, anybody. What if it Is al
hooey? When the japanese troops raped Man.
churia didn't we say that the Soviet was back
ing up the Japs' Then when the Chinese fought
back, didn't we say, The Reds Supply Chinese
with Arrns?' The Reds smly HAVE to be be-
hind it. And if some navy officers wives rape
Hawaiians. Dang it, / mean If some
Hawaiians are raped by navy officers. For
the love Of heaven leave me Ilonel Just re-
member ONE thing THE REDS DID TIT
No matter what it is, THE REDS DID TIL Now
get out!"
IAN ENGLAND FIT FOR HEROES: That
was what Lloyd George, war time premier pro-
missed the British workers. But that during this
war. Now, after it's past, and new one Is COM
ing along, the following incident told in Uni
ted Press dispatch of Jan 5, shows what kind
of England the soldiers really got.
Near Weymouth, orcyclist, riding along
the main road, heard a voice calling from a
ditch Can you oil my knee ioints?"
The cyclist stopped, hunted around and found
an ex-solder who alphabetically told him: @Ivs
got artificial legs and they've got 20 stiff from
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