The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
Roosevelt Halls
lingo Plans for
W ar Anniversary
Army Ordered to Give
All Aid to Glorify
Entry Into War
ARMY TO MARCH
Governors, Mayor Hail
War Celebration
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureaul

WASHINGTON, April A. =
Monster parades, reviews,
military exhibitions and the
usual fervid patrioteering
speeches will f feature the
seventh annual celebration of Army
Day, which will be held Throughout
the United States and its possessions
on April 6, the 18th anniversary
of Americas entry into the World
War, according to the current is
sue of the National Bulletin of the
Military Order of the World War,
the official organizer Of the "cele-
bration" Of the slaughts. of millions
of workers by rival inperialist
powers.
The leadership of Army Day, "
of course, is the War Department,
the Adjutant General of which has
already sent out instructions to
commanders of corps areas and to
commanding generals of overseas
departments for the celebration"
of Army Day. These commanders
are under order to give cordial
Army support" and are authorized
to provide for the celebration of
the day.
President Roosevelt, Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy under Wilson
and big navy man, wrote Lieut.. Col.
George E. Ijams, the commander
in-chief of the Military Order of
the World War, that the celebra-
ton of Army Day on April 6 each
year, commemorating as it does our
entrance into the World War, indi-
Gates, in part, the gratitude of our
nation to our army which so val
iantly has served this country in
its every emergency" The letter
is displayed prominently in the Bull
letin.
Corporation lawyers, railroad pres
idents, industrialiSts, bankers, gen.
erals, U. S. Senators, representa-
tives, publishers, former ambassa-
doris, judges, and other lights of
the ruling class comprise the Citi-
zens Committee, headed by Newton
D. Baker, former Secretary of War
and now prominent open shop pub
lie utilities and automobile lawyer.
These worthless, says the Bulletin,
have accepted their position in the
spirit Of nelpfulness and patriotism. "
1t is noteworthy that national
= - .Iry I.zfN
pose of the "commemoration." 1t
is also "an occasion when our
citizens should stop and take stock
OF what preparations are being
made to meet ANY emergency
chat might arise" Capitals the
BulIetin'S).
The organizers of the "commem-
grafton" Of the Day" that brought
so many millions to the Schwabs,
Morgans, Baruchs, Atterburys and
their ilk, so out of their way to
libel the memory Of Lenin, the giant
genius VINO led the workers to power
in Russia. In their crude, stupid
fashion, by way of commenting on
the presence in this country of
Emma Goldman, ayowed enemy of
the Soviet Union, we are told that
"like many other revolutionists of
the old order, she soon found the
bureaucratic oppressiveness of Lenin
intolerable." And in the lead OF his
story, the anonymous scribe injects
the anti-Semitic twist by character
ling Emma as "the sensational
Russian Jewish leader of American
Anarchisna"
Governors, Mayors, legislative
bodies and other councils, George
Ii. Dern, the Secretary Of War and
Chief OF Staff, General Douglas
Macarthur nave given their "en-
Gorsaments" to the celebrations, the
National Bulletin Announces.
Washington, Cincinnati, New
York, Kansas City. Boston, Chicago,
Wichita, Milwaukee, San Francisco
and other prominent cities will hold
outstanding demonstrations.
Nothing is said, of course, in the
Bulletin of Wilson'S st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, speech, in which the man
who kept US out of war" admitted
cater it was over that the war
TO make the world safe for democ-
racy" was commercial war;" that
is, war for booty at the ,pense
Of the workers.