The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-18

sWering a football players left
jab with a piece of Ciceronian
rhetoric when a body shift and
right cross was the retort necessary
never appealed to us. OF course, this
is not to say that the National Stu
dent League is to be converted into a
countrywide school of pugilisin, but
on the other hand it is certainly not
necessary for the boys to be a bunch
OF ultra-ChriStian other-cheek- turn
erS. Militant organization, based on
a correct program, which I believe
the N. s. L. has, is certainly not him
dered by the ability of the members
Of the organization, individually and
collectively, to stand up for their
rights against thugs, in and out Of
football uniform.
OUR above comment was inspired
v by Jerry Arnolds letter, which we
submit to you;
Dear 81:
Last spring, at the Columbia strike
Tor the reinstatement of Don Hem
derson, the gentlemen of the opposi-
tion,' as we called the -flinging.
tomato-Slinging, rib-crushing united
front Of football, baseball, basketball
teams, tried continually to break up
our protest meetings. They had
funny saying. They said they could
pick out any Henderson adherer by
his glasses, pale look, sickly COM
plexion and short, skinny stature.
cat the c. C. N. Y. strike against
the explosions and suspensions of 81
students for. anti-war activity, the
same SANDER was going around until
we trotted out the captain of the
1882 football team, who spoke for
the expelled against the administra-
ton Of the Umbrella Wielder and
the R. o. T. c.
"THE Islander campaign against
the National Student League,
the militant organization that led
these struggles of the students, is
enirely unfounded. Not only is 1t
untrue that we're short and skinny
in stature, with glasses and pale,
sickly demeanor,' but even those of
us who happened to fit that de-
scriptiOn gave pretty good ac-
count Of themselves to Judge from
the 'sfckly' appearance of those
husky hired he-men of the college
after the battle.
well, we're putting an end once
and for all to any whispering cam
paign to besmirch our fair figures.
At the last district convention of the
N. S. L. we voted to put athletics on
our list of activities. And we're
starting off on our right foot, think,
by forming basketball team. We've
already arranged for a game with
Branch 40 Of the International
Workers Order Youth Section, the
team that won the city I. w. o.
championship. you know. The game,
which incidentally will be followed by
swell dance, will take place Satur-
day, Feb 8, at Q pm, at the New
York University School of Educa-
ton Gym, Washington Square, one
Of the largest in the city. We're
charging only IS cents, which is GER
tainly within reach of all.
"And we want to make 1t real
game! No spectacle of hony knees
and Sunken chests! We've got ath-
letes, and we're gonna need them!
~ Asst year, when the N. Y. U.
IL chapter of the N. S. L., the So
cial Problems, entered intermural
athletics in that college, it was a
strange situation for the physical
directors at the Square. We were
scheduled to play the Celtic Juniors,
or something like that, and were
standing around waiting for the op-
posing team to show up. I guess we
made funny spectacle then-some
of us skinny, some fat, nothing much
like athletes.
"One Of the physical training
directors walked over and with
puzzled grin asked ms what team
we were.
"'SociaI Problems Club an
swered Sid Katz, one of the
Boney.