The Washington times., 1932-03-09

crimes committed IN thy name!' Or, EulCoES Ol
the New Masses, who are about to die salute ye!
Far Too Noble
This premature courage with Calvin Coolidge still in
if things get serious, strikes excessive
little too much enthusiasm how the French aristo
Gratis died and much too little thinking on how they
might have avoided their noble but painful extinction
There is, of course, personal prejudice. When the
envable ones (as of midsummer, 1929 look about
their towers their and their stables and say
gamorousy, that it must all dissolve into thin air. and
ke this nsubstantia pageant faded leave not rack
behind, they are forgetting that lot of us, down be-
low aren't exactly eager for the show to blow up be-
fore we've had our chance at the best lines in it.
What About Us?
Good enough for them, perhaps to into passionate
farewell gestures, if they thinking only of them
Selves but they might consider and try to hold the
fort few years longer. They playing for the SYM
up fight and it begins to look if the middle classes
would have to rally around the flag and capitalism
for little while onger-ong enough at least to expert
ence the pleasures which the rich seem so eager to aoan
don-provided they can do it with their in the air
and sweet smile of resignation playing their finely
turned lips.
The Old Planners
think that the dazed and helpless condition of most
Americans today is due not to the loss of money the
loss of jobs but to the crumbng of that great protective
wall of big business brains in which put conf
dence We had always assumed that at the first sign Of
trouble they would protect themselves and protect
had pictures of cruel but intelligent bankers sitting
at conferences long after midnight planning planning ming
planning. and then rousing the President by long
distance and telling him how to the country. All
that has vanished. 1t is dsconcerting.
Capitalists, Unite!
Always patriot have done my share and in odd
moments have drawn up capitalist manifesto 1t didn't
go we'll at ALL to start with Ut begins of with
the end of the Communist Manifesto) The first SEN
tence easy because it requires thought-Karl
Marx did it all for and need only write parody:
"Capitaists of the World Unite" And it on, You
have everything to oseif don't" But that is too
Utopian.
Local Boys, Unite!
The whole idea that capital a great interna-
tonal organization has gone to pot and you have to
revise the beginning Capitalists Of the world
if that is asking too much, Capitalists of Sweden
France and America, or as minimum Capitalists of
East Eighty-sxth Street, unite!" That at least, is
practicable And to show the urgency Of the case
make it, 'Unite-while you've still got it!'
No Precedent
After this resounding and propitious beginning in
ject the thought that knows very much about
the dissolution Of capitalism because it has never hap
pened before. Then snap the whip with extremely
inspiring quotation from Maynard Keynes, which sur
prses everyone because he is radical economist but
does not believe that the revolution is either inevitable
or likely to I'm afraid that at this point the
manifesto goes rather deliberately in for hokum trad
ton children, indivduasm, and that sort of thing
The for this is that want to induce good
menta mood in favor of the present state to take the
place of gross sentmentaty about dying for good old
capitalism. .-. -- ..~..