The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18


And he named it Fordlandia.
Fordlandia
FoRDAND1A lies squae the Tapa River of the greater
tributaries
thirty miles distant and the Para hundred
miles away
Every afternoon, Fordlanda
sky though there aarcoc in the heavens
And when the rain stops the sun comes forth again and bazes with
tremendous heat The like volcanoes The
jungle swers But at night in the forests the cats howl and
the long great powerful lengths
around the trunks and limbs of ancient jungle giants
supplying details myself voyaged
Fordlanda
Fordlanda
did exist when the with the metallic
pleasant details of native life vanished Hnry
slencs the tigers The constructors
been converted into
may already have been damned in gigantic boilers
things yet expect
Fordlanda is doomed to become civilized
Civilization Comes to FordIanda
HOWEVER the brief Henry kngy
and carried the of his
have already wrought the native
The people of Fordlanda approximately four thousand in
number This large population but with sufficient time the
ppace will doubt to increase its and lift its
rates.
Henry Amazon, they
hut and they died Of insect poisoning and typhoid infected their
drinking waters and their morals good They
little clothing because the hot children
many rngieres
seaport
They sleepy goodnatred primitive and
little bit content with themselves and their lives
emissary fertile rubber
he knew that his kingdom Detroit his
soreIy of own order
have rubber for the tires of his ers 1t was costing his lord
earned dollars the rubber which
who had captured the rubber rubber
sold
Fordandia born. great changes the
people Of the Tapajoz River
Detroit In the Amazon
THERE Tapajoz spang up little Detroit
subjects
adobe hut but modern American four houses with baths
modern drainage systems telephones electric lights and little
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And when this DONE set of laws drawn for the
people Fordandia these laws was that
Sunday each worker go
one day week must he sleep with unmarried maiden
This the first commandment of Fordanda there is
breach of the up
the
baths and the electric light of Fordland Then back
into the and smoking jungle to live
And besides these Henry brought to Fordandia
movies jazz cafetera Boy Scouts and football
Now strange that when the ambassador Fordanda
and he the thousands of rubber trees full growth he did
Immediately begin to cut the trees and take from them their rubber
for Hnr tires Instead he down thousands thousands
these destroyed them laid
cleared thousands
with much useful rubber butchd Henrys ambassador
chief engineer plant
taxes ve or SIX years Tor good tree to grow and the market
price may be higher then.
grown up
of manufacturing rubber have created the product then Henry
will have his hands control of rubber field WI
able to food the market with his owpice rubber
brigand they Henry them? They
will sell cheaper than Henry And pretty
will lay-os and speedp and wagecu Then perhaps
Fodendian will primitive
paradise Then somebody will
declare republic. workers republic Then
Tapajoz And people happily
after.
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