The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-10
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
7 he
By SENDER GARLIN


" and airpanes the doughboys in France fought the
safest great in history?
Yessiree this fact is put down in black white in
a recent issue of the Readers Digest, little magazine
popular with Librarians and social science teachers in the
colleges The Readers Digest has condensed article
Saturday Evening Post, Newest
Toys which the ht just how safe the mperia war
had
criminal deructveness OF
the military conflict dor profit just bit aam and oh
exaggerated you and figures? The
author of the article is right tap with evidence sufficient to bowl
the skeptical
I'm the MeuseArgonne with OOoO
Mr. Thomas Phillips $4,000 killed in 10 days of hard fighting
engaged Whereas
Gettysburg battle the Civil 1884 from
the Union Army killed in three days of fighting with approx
may $4,000 engaged or about one out Of each 81 day.
"Take Any War
MAYBE you think
m rather about the Revou
onary War of 7S right storm
ing Bunker HILL one
history
26 c. 10000 Romans army lay
Cannae fighting
single day"
The explanation simple according to Mr. Phillips for in the
cashed in handtohand combat
resulted death of the other Nowadays however
ofntmes possible for soldiers machine FIRE In fact
this happened!
Strange naive people "as have improved
they have, Ike warfare, deadly"
this historian Of declares comforngy that 'the
population better than the soldiers Much better
Chinese who attacked 700 by the
Saturday Evening chdes those write
with that the next will destroy civilization
This absurd he points out because since the World War; anar
craft guns have been immensely improved Mr. Phillips also has little
sympathy whom bomb become
points with admirable ucdy "a bomb exactly
the thing shell but dropped and the other is fired
with voies to 5000 feet second Really nothing fear
Bigger Bombs Did the Trick
JINGLE SAM Department interesting
experiments which everybody according Mr.
Phillips Army, experimental bombing of
in
pound left 1t passabe"
discourage Uncle s Army. strong
enough enemies" doesn't take
either Finally" the everoptimc Mr. Philips 100
pound to span"
sympathy chicken-hearted
let Scientists frghten them with
of n gas For If YOU knew the real facts you'd feel entirely diff
things Phillips that most military
smeed before they strong enough to be harmful Garlic
battle indicates mustard The
musty Lewiste sweely
aromatic, like Chinese incense"
you sensitive dlatng noss the difference
between the smell of and musy hay and Chinese incense
you really trouble
Moreover your little deficient you
pertubed Phillips apparently
the
categorcay that limited that its mpo
deatdeang instrument be judged by the American
hospital statistics of the World War 1t seems that only 10000 soldiers
were hospitals gases
deaths amounted to only 1899 really inconsequnta number to
PhilIps
The proceeds by saying
World War military
discovered And they been discovered
have been perfected that they render all military
harmless"
Phillips his analysis prediction
will be by the of
with his Cali bayonet
the end gunbut is knife just the used
the warriors Of 5000 years ago."
"Only" 100000 Were Killed
mperaist safe Mr. Phillips, what killed
soldiers capitalists
nations? And the RoosevetWa Street find
$eo0O0OoO the Navy
excluding the millions Bill P w. A,
brings the total to s2OOO000OOo?
nF
contribution toward aayng of impending conflict while
capitalist millions dollars preparations
grand piece apologics mperast
mongers!
At the time is well to bear mind that Marx and Enge
great teachers of the working class pointed that the develop
of modern military technique while it strengthens
capitalist
industry action the behind the
munion plants and centers of food suppcan cripple
by the hands of its working
capitalists finding very guns
themselves
This alone do with the desructvness of mpeia
warfare and not the heferdu schemes Mr. Thomas Phillips
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