The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-18
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You DIRE d sweep EhAs ehAt0 olND WNJ
you face your own nature, and honest
" confess what you find there, shows
in you the beginning of a first-class
mind. We can never get anywhere In
life by ignoring reality, or by being
hypoerites. Don't let anyone make
YOU feel ashamed of wanting to be
like Marlene Dietrich. 1t is the nor
NAL biological impulse for girl your
age. Most boys seem to want hero
ism and adventure, but most girls
want love and dresses.
Both of these longings, for hero
ism and for love, are not trivial, but
the deepest desires of the human race.
Nature provided that this should be
so. for without heroisrn and love the
race could not survive. They have
been called romantic impulses by the
dried-up liberal professors like Joseph
Wood Krutch. He even has written
book to prove love and heroism no
longer exist in the world. But no
Communist would write such book.
For Communism is the voice OF
the great mass of human beings who
do all the work and receive none Of
the rewards under capitalism. This
enslaved mass has been deprived of
love, heroism and romance by the
capitalist system. Is there anything
more terrible than to see the youth
whitening away in mine, factory and
field? One finds as much genius IN
the working class children as in any
other class. But these children never
receive an education: they must go
to work at hateful Jobs, they are
driven and exploited for proffS. And
in twenty years they are gray plod-
ling beasts of burden, with binders
on their eyes, and no hope Of hea1ty
left in their hearts,
Communism Is ths bshbeY cry of
This mass for freednsn and light,
Communism is the greas romance Of
our day. Just what yon feed IN your
letter, is what the nririons OF work
ers feel everywhere. and tbs world
sum and total Of their feelings Is
what we call Communism.
ut demands for each member OF
the human race vz1a3 yog want tor
yourself as an individual 4ore and a
beautiful free world.
What n Renamed
"Of course, Julia sf1Ss q nos enoagh
of an answer for what yo9 fesi your
personal problem You warrt some
thing definite a lover, beautiful
dresses, the kind of existence Marlene
Dietrich seems to lead in the movies,
If you were Russian girl of the
same age, you would have the same
biological impulses, but they would
find a different expression. You
would have been educated by your
environment to want to do something
heroic and good for your fellow-man
and the community. Even your per-
sonal love would be affected by this
powerful wish. For instance, YOU
would want boy as your lover who
was good worker and Communist
and you would know beautiful dresses
and lackered pink nails alone would
not get him to like you, but your
Communist devotion would.
And you wouldn't fear the future
with a worker as your lover no, it
would an seem simple and beautiful
TO you. And Marlene Dietrich would
seem evil and affected, with all her
vampy poses and rather commercial
lied ex-charms.
But, Julia, you have been corrupt
ed by bourgeois America. What
SHOULD be simple and beautiful has
gotten mixed up with HOLLYWOOD
Propaganda. You have been dazzled
By something unreal. Marlene Diet
rtrzh and the rest of those people are
vulgar, greedy and ignorant types of
humanity. You are a much finer hui
man being than most of them, if you
but knew. Ask anyone who has been
10 Hollywood to tell you about some
OF these folks. You have seen ONLY
the false mask they present in public.
NO, the true romance of life is
not to be found in the Hollywood pic
lures. What they really present is a
propaganda for money-making, and
you have fallen for it, little Julia.
You have begun to fear, for example,
that you will have to marry a poor
worker. This frightens you, and it
may grow into a fear that will keep
you constantly unhappy.
For you will never associate with
rich people, any more than most of
us. So do not spend your life dream
ing of some accident by which like
Cinderella you will meet and marry
a millionaire prince. Tt will doubtless
never happen. If it does happen in
one case out of million 1t still
doesn't mean happiness. Look at the
case of Rose Pastor Stokes, who mar
ried a millionaire, then discovered
her heart was really with the work
ers, so she left him.
1.-THE Hollywood films are mostly
based on the Cinderella theme. It is
a lie and it makes girls despise their
own working class brothers and
sweethearts. What a folly this is, to
give up something real and true for
false shadow on a screen.
mo, Julia, the true romance is In
your own neighborhood, among your
own friends. There you are sure TO
find, if you will look, some young
intelligent working-class boy, who
studies at night, who, perhaps, soap
boxes for the Young Communist
League, who has within him all the
poetry, heroism and love you will
never meet in ten years at Holly
wood. Face the future with him
bravely-this is the real romance of
life. Study, learn, grow.
Don't Ruin Your Life
II repeat, don't ruin your life BY
giving up the glory of reality for
something which doesn't exist.
Come down to earth, you will find
more beautiful dreams here. You will
lind that Communism is not only