The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
CHANG
THE
WORLD!
7 III:
By MICHAEL GOLD


I REMEMBER how anxiously we used to wait to hear
the bells ringing in the church roofs and the whistles
blowing at twelve o'clock sharp midnight announcing that
the calendar of time had completed one more infinitely
small unit of its progression We used to crowd to the
window and lean out and watch the
the hand moved to the looming bells
and all the whistles began blow Then somebody would
Happy New sheephy
philosopher would gone you'd
try to think where had of all the things
happened that year things
you could 90 and then you'd ut went fast didn't t'"
Lawyer
LII these sombe reflections
for the bells and the whistles blowing
1884 is gone the way of the rest of the calendar
haven't sent New
people to whom really making
myself liar know in advance that to the majority people
know the coming isn't going to be happy
On the other there
Years cards For example there's that lawyer friend His business
has been going excerent Today handling
ration He very successful
by dnng poor people for debts they owed furniture store and
estate corporations running
Of people by bbng few uymen sending boxes Of
lower court magistrates taking
other seespecting Today
number of suits his six pairs
OF SHOES including pair OF dancing pumps and lately he has
started read drugstore Hge-
shem in order cultivate taste literature and
Farewell
As corporation protecting big business
card Perhaps with little bit of poetry it like this:
May New Years bring bigger
Protecting private properties
And Writer
IN of the arts and sciences could of course find
worthy recipient two for greeting
Another gentleman knowing
since become Hollywood
studios His last production
as film drama really mpe play and which
he reeled off in the space few weeks In Hollywood writer
has to work fast and with the
The film the world thing patriotism
was and how noble it to die for the of
1t had little note of thrown
the action the film tragedy fact purely
unconscious You see in the film the hero part of platoon that
goes over the top The whole platoon
fire. but the hero of survives for the Medal
the
long time this writer dreamed of writing play
there in Holywoods given
him the long-tem contract At present
he makes should to six hundred writing
the kind of spoken has built
himself Spanish villa in Beverly Hills, butler
and his wife has her hair marceed her fingers
mink uch enterprise also deserves New Years card Some
thing more literary than the
of dialogue for example
Happy Year
B: I'll sell the rights to it for nifty grandl
And Liberal
RECALL just that another friend
4 educator and statistcan of unemployment
able Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler president
lege the Sage of Mornngside Heights
also been sending though the
Doctor has decided coming year
is definition of their just little note with
piece OF traditional brney something
in the mood of the times with the
the day
Doctor Butler has sent far and wide the following little greeting
for the to start his friends Journey
enttlen WIN appropriate gravity The True Liberal.
It contains the following heartenng
The effective protection liberty against
not force but moral principle
be openly declared strictly to continue
to exist Under other circumstance liberty pre-
cise this fact which makes the ofouoted o-fogoten
Magma Carta the Petition of Right the
tuition OF the United States particularly
men the Reform Bill and the legislation the
history of Great Britain significance at
the moment These great historical documents
liberty He who anv land
WITH CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS GREETINGS
A New Years Card From Nick
MUST admit that that's real enough to
destroy whatever little
United Liberal Party of sherry
or port With such definition arriving
the editors OF dozen spending
day doping The whole
and happier New Year
had simply inscribed the following
New Years greetings o you
From le-blue liberal.
The Constitution
And its Amendments,
Believe worthy friends
And in hust-funds subsidies