The daily worker., 1934-12-25
Supports Cap italists S
in Move to Keep
Workers Poor
BY ST Gerson

$1,000
Yuletide spirit yesterday. Those that
weren't seized by it simply didn't
go to the department stores, that's
all.
Or maybe they didn't go to Palm
Beach, the Berkshires or even to
the Junior League dance last night
These socially-minded young ladies
held, if we are to believe the society
columns of The New York Times,
"a supper dance in the crystal
room of the Ritz-Carlton. The
proceeds will provide gifts of food
and clothing for the destitute in
the Yorkville section of the city"
Who says capitalism has no heart?
Yea, verify, it has, and it bleeds
regularly every Christmas Eve for
the poor.
That Upswing
You didn't receive benefits from
the business upSwing? You poor man
you! Then the social agencies will
take care of you. The New York
Times says in that restrained and
decorous fashion for which it is SO
justly famed:
Public and private social agen-
cieS began yesterday to bring
Christmas cheer to those who did
not receive benefits from the bus
iness upswing that distinguished
this years pre-holidsy trade from
that of other years of the de-
preston"
The DemocratS-Who never forget
Christmas or Election Day-were
also pervaded by the spirit of the
rubicund old gentleman, San a
Claus. Over in the 18th Assembly
District, where the boys have been
having rather tough going of late
years what with the Seabury in
vestigation, the Fusion gang chisel-
ing in on them, the Communists
and what not, there was a little
party on Sunday night at the club
house of the George w. Thompson
Democratic Association, 498 Third
Avenue, for 500 children of the good
voters. "Toys and candy we're dis
tributed."
Republicans may have lost the
last elections but not their sense OF
dignity and propriety. The Ivy Re-
publican Club, 1900 First Avenue,
ran their Christmas party on Sun
day night to $500 neighborhood kids
which gives them something like
a to l majority over their Dem
ocratic neighbors in the 18th A. D.
Pride and Prejudice
Let no one dare say that those
who rule us have no feelings for the
finer things. Pride and prejudice
came in for consideration, too. The
Charity Organization Society began
to issue gifts of money in the last
few days.
I'm accordance with the policy of
the organization says the New
York Times with that delicacy and
tact that stamps it as immortal in
the halls of journalism, money was
provided to the heads of distressed
families to permit family Christ
mas as spontaneous and personal
as possible"
But if anyone thinks that the
residents of Park and Fifth Ave-
nues are going to be hoggish about
this business of credit, they simply
don't know our best people. There
may have been feudal lords in other
days who insisted on distributing
largesse to all the vassals and then
foot the bill themselves-but not our
patriciansi In order to make the
family Christmas of certain OF our
INDECENT citizenery who didn't pull
out of the stock market in time as
spontaneous and personal as pos
sible," the workers were permitted
to contribute.
Nor have the miracles ended with
the Immaculate Conception, the
Virgin Birth and the Resurrection.
The miracle of spontaneous good
cheer, we'll organized and not-too-
we'll paid was demonstrated last
night under every window from
Riverside Drive to Broadway on
106th Street by volunteers from the
drama division of the Bureau OF
Relief.
Over in Jersey City the Medical
Center's seventy-five foot Christmas
tree is ablaze with 5000 amber, blue
and white bulbs. The switch was
thrown by Mayor Frank Hague, a
gentleman with prowess for
throwing a lot of things, from
switches to elections.
Peace On Earth
Down in Washington the deadly
monotony of discussing civil and
mobilization plans will be
by city-wide homage
to Santa Claus. Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt will be particularly busy,
what with the Girl Scouts singing
Christmas carols under her window
and her appearance at the Central
Union Mission and the Salvation
Army to distribute toys and food
baskets for needy families.
There is little need to labor the
point, but we consider this one of
the most potent arguments against
Communism. What, we ask indig-
naotly, is Mrs. Roosevelt going to