The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

ing with baited breath to be al
lowed to participate in what is
rapidly taking on the proportions
Of an American Stavisky scandal.
The difficulty of gaining admit
lance to the trial is also worth
commenting on. The capitalist
press has been assiduously trying
to create the impression that the
whole world is making a desperate
attempt to steal a look at the
greatest hero Of modern times" "
and at the greatest criminal" etc,
etc. The purpose of this is nothing
but to try to justify the barrage of
news-opium and capitalist hero-wor-
ship that the press is numbering at
the American workingclass. Ac-
tually. anyone can get into the trial
who is willing to be at the Court
House at o'clock in the morning
and wait the three hours or so I'M
til the Court convenes.
Symbolic OF System
But most important of all that
is being distorted by the capitalist
press is the truth concerning the
profound scandal that is imbedded
in the kidnapping and murder Of
the Lindberg baby. 1t need not be
repeated at great length here that
the scandals of the capitalist class
are completely unimportant to Com
munists except insofar as they prove
the contention of Marxists that
capitalism is inseparable from the
most deep going corruption and
hypocrisy, and that one has scarce
ly to put ones finger on a typical
incident involving capitalists to I'M
cover the corruption that has helped
to make CAPITALISM hell on earth
for the working class. In addition
Communists know that Lindbergh's
popularity with the masses is being
consciously utilized by leading i'm
perialfsts to further their class
aims, so much so that Lindbergh
himself, at the request of the late
Dwight Morrow, Morgan partner
who was his father-i law, re-
quested libraries throughout the
country to withdraw from circula-
ton the anti-war book which Lind
berqh's father wrote. Even the
N. Y. Public Library, in the heart
of American civilization and cul-
ture." acceded to Lindbergh's re-
quest by taking the book out OF
circulation until storm of protest
forced the library officials to put
it back on the shelves.
1t is this universal attempt or
the part of the capitalist press tc
preserve the illusion of the Amer
lean masses that the noble and
heroic" Lindbergh is model fol
American youth. and that any
American boy who emulates him
can become a great" man by be-
coming an associate of j. P. Nor
CAMS, which Lindbergh has become
that is most characteristic of the
accounts that the capitalist press
is reporting. No touch of scanda.
must be allowed to tarnish the rep
utation of the model American who
waves the flag Of imperialism ir
his numerous flights. The Hearst
papers in particular, which defamt
Lenin, the greatest leader of the
worlds working class, and there
fore of humanity, who ever lived
and which make that great Boil
shevik out to be something between
fanatic bomb thrower and a Ger
man-Jewish spy, are fighting, al
this trial in Pennington, to preserve
the image Of Lindbergh as THE
great man whom every honest youth
must emulate.
Preserving Myths
1t is because of the necessity TO,
the capitalists of preserving thi,
myth, that the capitalist press as q
whole is refusing to report the com
plete account Of what is happening
here. For the complete account woulc
prove what everyone in Pennington
knows and what it is the duty Of
a Communist newspaper to report
that the Lindbergh case is exposing
some of the basic corruption Of
capitalism to its very roots and that