The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 12

“Sure, Sure” Story and Drawing by ROSE PASTOR STOKES URE, SURE!” “America is the greatest country in fhe world!” “Sure, sure!” “The riehest]” “Sure, sure!” “Where c’n ye get a working class ? be W well off? Only in Americal” “Sure, sure!” “Why, there : isnt anybody out o” work—sept lazy folks.” “Sure, sure!” har little eyes danced. better’n they ever lived before in them’ furr’n countries, Even a basement’s better*n they ever had over there.” She looked significantly into the eyes of the yes-woman. For a moment the ttle woman's eyes stopped dancing ay if they were got a job at a hundred a week, they |’ wouldn’t.” “Sure) sure!” matter of-¢ourse Mrs. Ummerican ac- cepted lt After all, what sensible Mrs, Ummerican shifted her heavily- laden market bag to her left arm and put a foot on tha first step up the stoop. After all, this was an almost daily occnrrence. ‘Thera’ll be plenty Wop in the basement, “Aw nobody should get it into his head that this country ain’t god’s own couniry. It’s a democratic country, where everybody has a equa] chance, an’ if they don’t ‘like it let ’ém get the hell out o’ here!” Mrs. Ummerican smiled down -at Mrs, Furriner, Mrs, Furriner was sure that there was a world of meaning in her words, in her smile. ~ Mrs. Furriner smiled up to Mrs Ummerican: “Sure, sure!” She descended the three steps to her basement. ... . e s a * e the dark room a little Hand at the empty market bag. A wail went up—of disappointment—hounger. rer TE pe ee poised for a new movement. For now again they twinkled merrily, “Sure, sure!” What if she did refer to her, she can’t afford to quarrel with |- an American, living im nice large rooms on the first floor! “With electricity an’ all. ... They never seen such things in the old country!” Mrs. Purriner’s lips formed the habitual word. It was her habit some- times not to utter it—just go thru the motion. But her head went just as mechanically up and down, Her eyes danced just as merrily, her mouth spread in the same broad smile, “An’ look at the wages the work- ers’re gettin’! Why every worker c’n own an automobile in America.” “Sure!” “If he didn’t spend it em elo’s ove good time!” “Sure, sure!” Her eyes even teared a Httle—with laughter, for she had to wipe them with the corner of her for- eign shawl. It was cotton, but gay, colorful. A keen October wind did not cut into its gayety, at any rate. “An’ I say again, anybody c’n get a job. Anybody. Them leafers sittin’ avound en the park benches is just lasy folk. /They wouldn't work if they She thrust the hand aside and hurled the child from her, “What you want? My Blood? Here, drink! My flesh? bedy was home, , . . I couldn’t bor- TOM Ee. Se Oe See ey eres give for nothing! The child wailed in a darker corner of the dark room, Mrs. F. sat down near the window , , , to think , ,. and think, * ° *. . + “QIURE!” said Mrs, Ummerican to A her little girl of twelve, home from school, “we'll make a good American out o” that wop in the basement yet!” Here, eat! No- COLD LIGHT: of opportumitieS to talk to this new |a cold light that was made by man? Have you ever seen No, Nor has anybody else, Every- thing that marr uses to give light is intensely hot. At present we can only produce light as a by-product of heat. We brn a wax candle producing heat, and incidentally a little light. In every case over 90 per cent of the energy used goes into useless heat, and only the remnant—the few odd r cent—go into light. If a means were discovered of producing light without wasting most of the avail- able energy in heat—in other words, a cold light--the saving in fuel and power would be enormous, Cold light does exist in Nature— the phosphorescence of rotten wood, ete., and of the sea, the .glow-worm and firefly, the luminous deep-sea fish. In the case of the wood, the light is due to the chemical decomposition caused by bacteria. In the sea the phosphorescence is due to millions of timy organisms in the water which give out light when disturbed. The animal light (firefly, fish, ete.) is pro- duced by the interaction of two sub- stances of unknown cémposition with- im the body. It would be worth mil- lions to humanity to learn the glow- worm’s trick, se. @ HAIL: Hail occuts together with thunderstorms. Different opinions ex- ist as to its cause. In a general way it might be said that falling rain passes thru a cold layer of air and frozen and continues to fall in of lumps of ice which we hailstones. ‘Hailstomes vary the size of small peas to sizes than big oranges. “A typical one has a smowy center, sur- rounded by from one to a dozen coats of alternately clear and snowy ice, arranged like the sking of an onion.” oF : aie world, $7,000,000 of cotton erops and $14,000,000 of corn crops annually in the United States, THE TINY WORKER A Weekly. — Vol, 1. you curled, HOLY CATS! the water, and whirls this mill rent ae teas a _ And playswith rich children on top | veryb a aval of that nil.” cont. poi cme office could nentty .* / Sth hse aan elieve e Friendly Barth, tell’ me, ta. tt 4 thing special f ae a eee there wheat fields’ that nod? , poser pecs Zen = Soa Are there rivers that flow? November 13 the Swe aon aor No! for cities, mills, wage frat’ special ineue SUNDAY WORK- ery's tho styler rc “eT | tor Grand Rapids auinen thinam No bea om [oe n , me Holy Cow and a net iniea, oe A one We make you so great, yet our power | SA, £0, to sleep small, on his face and We tremble te erganize, World, at ail, | dronm about what Wasreted Edited by Morris Grudin, Los Angeles, Cal. = Johnny Red, Assistant. Saturday, October 30, 1926 “THE GREAT WORLD” (With apologies to Lilliput Lectures) Great, wide, terrible, miserable world, With the terrible sweatshops round With greedy parasites om, your breast, World, yow are robbed of your best. The foul-smelling air is over me While the wonderful wind is shaking the tree, it walks o’er Yet, when I thought of tomorew, 4 whisper Inside me soeined to mar FIGHTING INSECT PESTS: Every countryyhas its own insect' pests that devastate its crops, and generally some more or less successful method ,of coping with them. has »been:devel- oped. ‘But pests imported accident- ally from abroad are often veritable scourges. This is largely due to the fact that they have been imported without their natural enemies. Na- ture has given tremendous fertility to the lower orders of life, counting on | the fact that only a small percentage of the eggs will ever hatch and reach maturity; the rest serve as the nat- of the hundreds of other of life that prey upon them. an insect pest ever happens to be Arash without its natural ene- day has dawned for the farmer, its terrific multiplication receives no check and it spreads like wildfire. A case in point is the Japanese beetle, which hag been devastating crops in and around New Jersey. Etf- forts to exterminate it failed. The government then set about discover- ing and importing its enemies, with the result that the pest is now being brought under control. One of the en small fly—operates by its eggs “upon the back of the beetle, so as to assure them of food. The eggs hatch into grubs, which proceed to make a meal off the beetle, steadily eating their way in- side. der) and dies in a few days,” but the grubs have a grand time and emerge as flies in the spring ready to lay more eggs. The other enemies of the beetle are parasites which op- erate in a somewhat similar fashion. ~=—N, S. EXTRA! man’s back. And they, let's or- “The beetle gets sick (no won- —