The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 10

Bite Bespin, Take an animal which is predatory, thick-furred, dark ‘brown, arboreal, long-tailed and carnivorous. Take an- other which is timid, wiry-haired, light grey, littoral, tailless and vege- tarian. Would any scientist proclaim that these two beasts belonged to the same genus and species? > * « A ferry-boat is @ small world— Gopher Prairie commuting to Zenith. There is more room than in a train, to move around, to listen in, and to observe the temporary population. I sit in the cabin of the ferry, and half a dozen conversations assail my ears. The sea-gulls whine without, and the sea-guilibles chatter within. * * ¢@ Whacher reading?” This is “Attaboy! “Oh, hello there, Henry. great stuff. Ever see it?” A book is passed. “Selling Your- self,” by Charles Q. Higginbotham. “Good, eh?” “You betcher. Ths bird’s got some- thing. Listen here: “Your only value to the boss is what you can persuade him you are worth. He gets his money by the amount of service he renders society, and you will get yours by the amount of service you can render him. If you want a raise, you must serve him better; just as if he wants a bigger profit he must serve the world bet- ter.’ “Pretty good, I'll say.” “Sounds all right. A little deep for me.” *¢e8 “Walter! Keep your hands off mama’s embroidery, How many times have I got to tell you? Do you want the big black man to get you?” “Want you to buy me some candy.” “You've had enough candy already. You'll make yourself sick. Walter! Come back here!” “I—want—some—candy!” “Mama said no! Naughty boy!” Loud sobs from Walter. “Ob, well, all right. Come on, I'll get some. Look after my things a minute, will you,” Mrs. Harvey? I simply can’t do a thing with that child!” s* ¢ “Oh, boy! Some party! So when we got to the beach, everything was closed. And I said to the dame, *‘What'll we do now?’ And she - said—” “Say, listen! Fellow I met the other day, told me he can get good stuff— good ‘stuff, mind you; I had some of it—at two and a quarter a pint. Fel- low he knows makes it himself—he’s got one of those electric things makes it twenty years old in two hours.” “Well, I was telling you. We didn’t get home till 4:30. And as soon as I opened the door the wife called out—" “You might listen a minute, Joe. What do you say we chip in together and buy us a gallon or two?” * *¢+ @ “Bertie made it for me. Isn’t it pretty? How that girl finds the time for everything, I can’t imagine, She’s learning to play golf now, and you know what a fiend she is for Mah Jongg.” “It’s awfully sweet. Well, Bertie doesn’t have much te do, with a Jap and two girls.” “Oh, but my dear, that big house! And you know how much it means to have two girls. Arthur says Bertie keeps two servants all right—one on the way to the job and one just leav- ing.” ee 8 “I have her in history. I can’t bear her. She’s awfully sarcastic, “Yesterday she said to Marie, ‘I hoped when you bobbed your’ hair you’d give your brain an _ airing.’ What do you think of that?” “I know; she’s just fierce. Edith changed schools rather than have her again.” be 3 ** * “Well, that’s all right, Dick, but there’re limits. I don’t mind being polite and all that, but_ when he comes right up in front of. everyone in the office and—” “Sure, I know all that, but that’s not the way to handle him. You just get hot and tell him where to get off, and what good does it do you? Now the next time he starts some of this smart Aleck business, you just go to the old man and tell him—” “Gee, I'd have a hot chance with that. The old man thinks he’s the cat’s pajamas. ‘Now, boys, if you were bringing in business the way Ellis is’—that kind of stuff.” “Now, listen; I know for a fact that his own brother is one of those wild-eyed reds. They say it’s a fact he served time for it,-up north, Now you go to the old man as if you just hated to do it, and just say to him, ‘Mr. Levy, I think it’s my duty to tell you the type of man you're employ- ing.” , > ¢+ @ “Oh, I don’t think you mean that, Mr, Saunders! I’m not the least bit clever—poor little me! I couldn’t do it in a thousand years.” “Go on, I guess I know what I’m talking about, This is straight—I know a fellow whose sister went to Hollywood and inside of three months Lasky’s were talking about starring -|PITHEGANTHROPUS NOT SO ERECTUS her. And you’re a dead ringer for her, in looks and everything.” “Well, everybody says I’m a screen type. But I’d never dare~I’d just die of fright when I got in frent of one of those cameras.” “Get out! You'd have ‘em eating out of your hand in no time. No kid- ding, now; why don’t you try it?” * * & “Well, sir, give me Ford. That man’s got a head on his shoulders. If we had a president like him—” “What's the matter with Hiram Johnson?” “Johnson’s too radical. Now Ford would run this country the way he runs his factories. Efficiency, that’s what we want. Standardized produc- tion in government.” “Well, I’m for Coolidge, myself. He’s handling a big job in a big way. Look how fine he’s aeting in this oil business,” Pa “I don’t know what on earth I’m going to do with Grace. She’s got the piano cluttered up with the queerest things—people no one ever heard of, like Ravel and Debussy, and not a tune in the lot of them. “I said to her, ‘Daughter, here you’ve been: studying music for twelve years, and yet you can’t play for your friends to dance. What's the use of all the money papa and I have spent on you? Do you want to grow up a regular high-brow?’” “You bet jazz is good enough mu- sic for me. They say the people who wrote ‘Yes, We Have No, Bananas’ have made a hundred thousand dol- lars out of it.” ® * 2 @ “You ought to join the Legion, man. What do you want to do, be a slacker when the war is over? Don’t you want to get in with your buddies and keep things going straight in God’s country?” “I never had it put to me’like that before. Sure, you can put my name in at the next meeting.” “That's the kid! It won’t hurt you none in the insurance game, either.” s. * “So I said to him, ‘If you think, just because you’re the only butcher in town, that you can charge me three prices for_a pork roast, you're very much mistéken. Mr. Gorham will bring my meat from the city ev- ery day, and then where will you be?” +3 “I tried that, and he just laughed. I think it’s awful. He knew Jim would rather never eat meat again than drag it out from the city every day.” “Well, he took fifteen cents off. By MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD him he couldn’t put anything over on me, anyway.” * ¢ @ “Yes, sir, I say you can see that town grow. Why, when I bought my first lot there, in 1904, there wasn’t a thing between Grant’s place and the station. And now they’ve had to put up a new telephone building to take care of that section. You couldn’t do better than. buy that place right next to mine.” *- ¢ &€ “But listen, I do care. won’t understand.” % “Yeh—it looks like it. Where were you when I called up last night? ‘Ruth’s not here—she’s gone out for the evening!’ That’s the way—out for the evening. Didn't you know I was coming over?” “What did you expect me to do— dream it? You haven’t been near me for a week. Yesterday I met Ethel, and she said, ‘Aren’t you going with Bob any more? I saw him with Myr- tle Bronson twice last week.’ Do you c-call that e-ca-aring?” “For heaven’s sake, Ruth, cut it! Somebody’ll hear you! Listen, I do— Ido! Why can’t you be reasonable?” *. * @ In anguish I gaze about me for one glance of responsive intelligence— one intimation of conscious thought. I find it. Two men; perhaps forty odd; rather loosely dressed; a pair of dreamy gray eyes and a pair of keen blue ones; pipes; hair a little too long for fashion; occasional words— } “That era is past; the time has come to look at the thing from the standpoint of .... Dunne’s speech at Portland was.... That was perfectly true under the Kerensky re- gime..... It needs de-bunking. +. +» The same situation obtained in 1870..... Sort of heaven of Jur- gen’s grandmother..... End of the peace to end peace....,. Clev- er thing Mencken said in... .” ~ * ¢ & You just Across the way from me, the _ lightly satirical voice of a lady. “Have you noticed those two over there? Do look at them! Aren't they funny? A mixture of garlic and Bolshevism!” E An answering masculine grunt. “Ought to go back there if they like it so much.” They return to the Hearst paper and The Saturday Evening Post. s ¢¢ " Either these entities around me are not human beings, or I am not a hu- man being. i As to which of these -theories is correct, I am overwhelmingly indif- “That's better than nothing.. I showed ferent. The Situation in Greece The class struggle in Greece has taken on a very sharp. character since the the militaristic government of Col. Plastiras came to power. The Greek masses disappointed after ten years of continuous war in Thrace and Asia expressed their dissatisfac- tion by throwing their guns away at the Asiatic Front nearly two years ago which resulted in the famous dis- astrous defeat. The Greek soldiers at that time not only refused to fight and sacrifice | their lives for the British imperia- lism, but were also seized by a real revolutionary fever which threthened to sweep off, all the bourgeois ele- ments who had thrown the masses into such unspeakeble misery, The soldiers were already singing “Bol- sheviki” songs as they marched back, threatening to enter Athens and avenge their tyrants. : No sooner was the revolutionary government established than the masses began to feel the oppression of Col. Plastiras, the man whom they backed to power. Plastiras was a Venizelist under mask and Yenizelist before. Class-conscious workers were persecuted, jailed, and often shot in the streets, like dogs. In the reecnt general strike, the unions were dec- lared illegal by the Government of Col. Plastiras. The union funds were confiscated; the whole country was placed under strict martial law; the the Communist daily was suppress- ed, and the autrocities of the “Revo- lutionary Government” were mani- fested openly in attack of white sol- diers upon the strikers. They could not go on forever. The dissatisfac- tion of the masses reached such a point that Colonel Plastiras had to give in. So he decided to have an election. What happened then? Mask Torn Away. The purpose of the Venizelist was to destroy the “Conservative” party of Greece which was under the ban- ner of Metaxes. The conservatives tried their coup’d’etat which resulted in their complete destruction. When one of the two major parties of Greece was uprooted the Venizelists The Communist Party of _ Greece did not keep aloof from this poli- tical struggle, applying Communistic tactics ‘correctly. The Communist Party of Greece had formed a united front with the organizations and put up some 90 candidates. Freedom of speech and of press was given just one week before the elections. The Communists were not allowed to de- monstrate. Numerous mass meet- ings were scheduled to take place with speakers of the working class explaining to the workers and farm- ers the political situation and the role of the party which was fighting for their interests, these meetings were not permitted by a Government order issued just one day previous to the elections. Nevertheless the workers gathered at the meetings “en masse” and the army was called upon to dis- perse them. Such is the liberty of Venizelos. Fattening the Calf, The workers of other countries are exploited by the capitalists of their in order to deceive once more the|respective countries, but the workers Greek masses divided themselves in-|of Greece are sweating and bleeding} We to two different parties: “Liberals” |for both, for Greece means a blind tool of|and “Democrats,” These two parties a before the “People” which Pho may to choose between European Imperialism. Under his rule the masses of Greece were sub- jected to an oppression unheard of the later of whom Greek and English capi-jist Party of By D. K. MINTILOGLI is a helpless victim of British Impe- rialism.. The revolution of 1821, of which Byron sings so enthusiastically and Webster speaks so eloquently, was fought solely for the interest of capitalism of England, France, and Russia, and it is to them that Greece owes her liberation for the Turkish yoke and her subjugation to allied capitalism. Ever since that time Greece has been merely a colony used by and for the protection of foreign interests. So it is today when British imperialism has spread to all parts of the orient. Greece owing to her geographical position, plays a great role as the guardians of foreign imperialism. And now, with Venizelos back in power, we can convincingly assert that there is another imperialistic war in sight, and that he was sent to Greece by Zaharoff & Co. to prepare the way for such an adventure in which the Greek workers will be at oan