The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10

method Of protecting war 8
but how, one may ask, car
following request to editors be ia
preted?
Sporadic epidemics may brea'
in some Of our training car
would be most unpatriotiC
credence to exaggerated act
such inevitable mishaps. ."
Is the failure to give dral
in the training camps woolsI
wear and winter uniforms
ev.table mishap"2
What is more, the CreeI &C
tee and the entire capitalist
undoubtedly considered il
triotic to report other stories
might weaken the conahin.
against Germany" such as, for
ample, graft in departments, b-eah
down Of efficiency as a result OF
corruption, fl J1~e of supplies, whole
sale thieving by the "doEar-a-year'
men.
Creel brags about the activities -
his Division Of Films in Russia j.
1917. In various parts Of Russia, he
says, his agents showed a film cal
culated to persuade the hungry, bare
foot workers and peasants to continue
freezing in the trenches, instead Of
supporting the movement for separate
peace with Germany.
The name of the fiIm was "UncIe
Sam, Immigrant" but C-cel ccnfdes
that "it was shown under the camou-
flaged title Of "An fer Peace"
Other films were exhibited, too,
which showed the war industries of
the U. s., the launching of bate
ships, the building of aeroplanes, etc.
This recalls this anscdote: One eve
ming, after the showing Of one Of the-e
films in a Russian village, a peasa-t-
solder arcse and said that since the
er'kentsi" have such ample SUP
plies, that there's no reason why he
end the other Russian soldiers
shouldn't go back home.
Who is this George Creel upon
whom Mark Sullivan in his book,
"Over Here, 1914-1918" heaps such
lavish. praise, 'Exuberance.
pugnacity biting sarcasm =.
creative spirit an artist"-these
are some Of Sullivan's phrases.
Born in Blackburn, Missouri in
1876, Creel worked as a newspapers
man on the Independent" in Kan
sas City. Here he became 8 protege
Of Frank P. Walsh, who later became
Wilson's campaign manager in the
west. Creel as liberal democrat"
came in for some publicity as a
"muckraker" while employed by the
Denver Post (1e09-10) and By the
IRcc,;y Mountain News d9l1-13).
Creel, it must be noted, IS. ut a
mere publicity man; he is also what
is known as creative writer" being
the author of "cuatrains Of Christ, .
wilson and the Issues" and other
works.
Recommended appar emily, b.
Walsh, Creel helped carry on ad
vertiging publicity for Wilson'S cam.
raign, and when war was declared
Wilson put him in charge Of tn,
COMMITTEE on Public information
During the early war days Creel wa
, one of the few who always had easy
access to the president.
TIE 'TiHerclism' Of Wilson ended
with the inperic,ist treaty of ver-
sailles. One OF Wilson's liberals"
in the cabinet was the Strords-
burg tPa.) lawyer, A. Mitchell
Palmer, who conducted the noto-
rious cred Raids" in 1920.
The drains of war are throbbingi
once mo-e--t.,is tinnc under the
iirecticn Of ire ma '-r-dcmo Frank
lin De.2no Roosevelt
"-r-tt's,,ei r>@f,-,-s Week y nrocisiried
by Roosevelt for February 1922. will
be utilized by the warm kers to re-
vive the frsnz cd hyeteria of 1918
The machinery for war is vel oiled
and geared. Munition pants are
working fsverishly In anticipation Of
the cay when workers will be s'augh-
tered on the battlefield and steel
sto"ks will shoot skyhigh.
Workers: let the Wall Street va
makers know that they can't
awcy with it againl Let II
instead tremble at the prospec
what may happen to tfese