The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
BY WESTBROK PEGLFR

ventionists," and while the mood !,
up l should like to propose fl,
oblivion some political stencil,
which have been used for years hn
the c%artoonists. First on the list !.
the symbol of capital, or the en-,
ployer, consisting of a fat and fat
headed Individual, feasting o n rar,
viands and exotic ~delicacies at
table laden with wine bottles,
which there is no objection, excen
the devastating facts that it is ali,
surdly incorrect.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., at tbe
height of his areer always mir,
tured as the champion monster
was in reality a scrawny dyseptic
who, during most OF his service
as a social and political symbol in
print, lived almost entirely on baby
food, never touched alcohol and
contributed heavily to the cam.
paign which brought down or his
fellowmen the scourge of prohibi,
ton. Henry Ford also is a tee.
totaler and prohibitionist, and old
sobbing Sam Insull-Whatever his
tastes may have been, of which |
have no knowledge-Was a runt
for size, as lean as the handle of ?
hoe and, in his co%untenance, the
direct opposite of the loose-lipped.
bug-eyed slob whose figure appears
year after year in the unimagin.
alive and, from the editorial stand.
point, generally incomplete publ,
cations of the extreme left. He
was sharp, harsh, arrogant and
cunning, yes, but he was no drool.
ing, overstuffed jumble-wit, and
any c%artoonist who so depicts that
fabulous creature labeled the
bosses is guilty of misleading his
clientele.
My acquaintance with captains Of
industry includes not a few who
command, if they do not exactly
enjoy, such volume of mass hatred
as these cartoons are intended to
express, and l must ray that those
who so regard them are underesti.
mating the enemy to a perilouS
extent. They are, in the main,
very alert, intelligent men who
drink seldom and not very much,
and their appetites as to food run
pretty well to steak, chops, stews
and hash. They are too smart to
fall into the habit of getting drunk,
and they work such long hours,
many of them having auxiliary Of.
fices in their homes, that nervous
tension makes them a little wary
of unwise eating.
AS to most of them, one impor.
tant reason why they are bosses is
that, from the very beginning, they
drove themselves harder at their
jobs and were smarter and more
able and resSurceful h ar their
contemporaries in the shop Or Of
flee, and an important reason why
they remain bosses long after they
have amssed enough wealth to
last as long as they may normally
expect to live is that the competl'
tive spirit is an important par OF
their makeup. The like a contest
and, in their later and wealthy
years, find themselves less in COM
petition with their employees than
with the rivals whom they have
known for a long time and delight
to outsmart in business.
The figure of the long-haired IN
tellectual or radical is equally mis-
leading and needs revision in the
interests of truth and of the people
who are supposed to form a mental
picture of the creature. The facl
is that, like the bosses, the intellec'
tuals of this group are OF no par
ticular physical type and may be
as bald as the sole Of your foot and
Indignantly bright in sophlstry'
The intellectual is more likely
than the bosses to overdrnk aha
raise hell with the waiter aoou
the condition Of the Camemperr
because he likes to fly around IL
space, and hootch or wine gets nun
off the ground. He doesn't have Il
get to the office in the mornlng'
and if he doesn't make the deau
line at the butchers paper maya,
zine with his 1900 words it mean
nothing to him to stand OIL 'ne
landlord or stick his dinner tap Vn
the spike at the basement tdDN
d'hote. But most of them shase
and many of them wash, ana 'ls
whole cult of them ave en]oyeg
affecting a civilized hair-do anu
crease in their pants Wlil4
causes strangers to tell them ua'
they certainly do not look the par"
cap and with his sleeves rolled up
The labor leader in the sq0al'
cap and with his sleeves rolleo u%
revealing brawny forearms, Is a.
most a total falacy, as a sNnlp|
at the national conventions Oh uH M
A. F. of L. and the c. /. y. WV
prove, and certainly llgGn
known as the worker himself, dNS
in square cap and with bare lU nst
arm, is no more typical thar 'ha h
of the anarchist or cor munlst wiz
bushy black whiskers and a DOW
ing-ball bomb. William z. foS!e-'
whose standing in the revolurIot
airy mob is to the left OF h"H-
Browder, looks like a Toledo ~
cop, and Browder himself nisit
be a suburban dentist and a pas.
president of his local KiWanls "
Lions.
These types need retyping II va
ious elements among us hope ~
able to recognize u favorlte e'e
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