The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 8

The Bolshevik Get Worse and Worse Si. W. GERSON, ot fhe star of Communism shines brightly in Russia despite all the journalistic hysterics, puk~ tugs und verbal flip-flops of our kept newswriters Is @ fact not unfamiliar to the discerning radical; but fhat the dread bogey man with unkept whiskers and bomb-stuffed pocket can be found in every single “story” on the political page of the Sunday edition ef one of the greatest American dalflies, to wit: The “New York World,” may not have come to the attention of all the comrades In the movement, In seanning the page entitled “Political and Bco- nomis Trends in the Capitals of Other Lands,” of fhe editorial sertion of the “World” for Sunday, No- vember 21, 1926, one’s ayes are irresistibly focused to fhe scarehead: “Says Bolshevism In China Is an Impossibility.” We peruse the article diligently, im an effort to discover who is the author of our ‘woes, and lo and behold, we find that he Js a certain Paul Myron Linebarger, now a Shanghai lawyer and a former judge the Philippine islands, (R was then that our olfactory nerves were assailed by @ strong aroma of a rodent). His Ex-Honor goes om to analyze the Chinese situation: “The Chinese™—so he says—“cannot become Com- miunistic, for to them their family is their all and their primal idea of statehood.” (Those dirty Bol sheviks, nationalizing the women, breaking up the family—somebody pass mea crying towel; this is ,to0 terrible). Then again—“There are no Chinese ‘who are rich in the Communistic sense (what sense is that? Or maybe iis nonsense), and the trouble with China has been that it has never known land tordism.” Nor tenement houses or cold radiators fm Jammary, nor some of the other blessings of mod- ern civilization. s “Then again, the Chinese know that Communism has failed in Russia and practically ceased to exist there. The Chinese will never be Communistic until the rest of the world has proved it a glorious suc- cess, which, of course, it will never be” (Huszzahs (Continued from page 1) ; was doing something which would make his name “sound and resound down the winding corridors of time.” Surely Luther was no better morally than the pope. In the conventional sense he was worse. If in doubt, read Bebel’s, “Woman and Socialism.” Luther, like Jesus, is honored but not recognized by his own followers nowadays. So his views on sex @re much more frank than those of the particular Pope who used to make the girls pick the chest- muts from between the lighted candles. | Sparks this is only a pardonable digression. It Is a long way from Luther's little church in Germany to the Philippines. But if protestants, had not taken the bible by the ears and claimed the right to go nutty over it, and if the rising capitalist class had not learned that intelligent workers produce more than dumb ones, perhaps the speeches of @hang-Kai-Shek of Canton, delivered in Hankow on fhe subject of the enslavement of the Philippines by the United States imperialists, might not reach us for one year and might never have reached the Filipinos. “Every system carries within itself the germs of its decay,” concluded the sociological seer. And when the capitalists endow technical colleges #0 that engineers may be turned out that wif help them to make more profits, they are also nourish tng thinkers who will, like the adder in the path of the biblical steed, bite the horses’ heels go that the rider falls backwards. This is not a defense of evolution. You cannot stop it anyhow. It is not & substitute for revolution because that ig equally tmevitable. = om . oO” last Saturday 110,000 people witnessed the army-navy football game. Probably one out of ten of those who witnessed the performance enjoyed &. They attended the game because the capitalist papers worked up the emotions of the people to the Point where they felt that enduring the cold, watch- thg twenty-two men kicking a piece of leather was the better part of patriotism. Now the recruiting sergeants are cashing in on the performance and we are informed that the game was a decided success from the"point of view of the recruiting figures. . ” ° ‘AT this writing it is not settled whether Ferdinand of Roumania is dead or alive. One news item informs us that the king’s mental faculties are con siderably impaired. Which means taking nothing from nothing. The imbroglio between the various court factions in Bucharest explains Queen Marie's In the W and cries of ‘Bravo! Bravo!’ from the fat boys; the My-whites appland at this until thelr palms blister; some of the aristocratic damosels faint and have to be carried out.) China, we learn, is not afraid of Communism but of Communists, “for the Communists always can find in a great-land of poverty, such as China, a chance to do some wicked work’—like teaching the coolies to work the factories and till the fields for the profit of the workers and peasants Instead of for dividends for some carousing lords and ladies in Merrie England. You are perfectly safe, our in- formant goes on. to say, anywhere in China, if you but smile. We're not sure about thet. Laughing until their back molars fall out won't help the for elgn capitalists and concessionaries when they are confronted by a nation of starving coolies’ demand- ing the products of their toil. The voice with the smile may win, but all it will be able to win in the pear future is the right to work and help the com- munity. Moving over to the next column, we are regaled by tales of horror and riots m the Dutch East In- @es—all of course started by the nefarious “reds.” “Two new-fangled watchwords have been current since Bolshevist agents sowed the seeds of revolu- tion among these islands’ dense population. ‘Java for the Javanese!’ and ‘Asia for the Asiaties!’” ... Vilest of profanity in capitalist ears. The plot which culminated in the assassination of two gov- ernors of two of the Dutch provinces iin the vicinity “almost synehronized” with the riots in Java—hence, of course, “Bolshevik agitators, through Chinese agi- tators.”: Shortly after a railroad strike, we are as- sured, “Communist agitators threw bombs and re- sorted to other acts of violence, constraining the Dutch authorities to take severe measures.” we note with pleasure, the Communists have not been charged with raping the Queen Wilhelmina or denying the theory of transubstantiation. There is hope yet, comrades .. . who Wére having a lot of fun fooling with an honest- to-god queen. Much more thrilling than exhibiting their shining domes to kieking chorus girls, who after all, have nothing to distinguish them from the rest of the female populace except a more varied selection of perfume, and scantier haberdashery. om e * ys King Ferdinand watches his step, by the time he actually dies nobody will believe him, and he may have some difficulty in getting buried. Of course, it is possible that he may be assisted in passing out of the picture. There is reason to be- Heve that Marie’s jnfatuation for “Ferdy has lost its point long ago, so it is up to the king to decide one way or the other. Still, if Marie loses Ferdy and the throne, there is still Harry Thaw. Harry is reported to be a very kint-hearted person and at least as intelligent as Marie. And there are enough thrones knocking around here to provide the queen with places to rest, provided she decides to marry Harry and favor us with her presence again. * es s SSOLINI'S noble mug is not impressive enough to maintain peace in the ranks of fascism. So violent were the disagreements recently that the z 4 ri ; ii H li So far, But what is that that greets our already ‘tear- rimmed eye! “Never Doubted Bolshsvik Results.” It seems that it is a paragraph from a review of a book of memoirs of some British officer. Waters (the author) seemingly never had any doubts as to the result of Bolshevism, “The advent of Bolshevism,” he says, “was from the beginning @ certainty to anybody, really acquainted with the Rus- sian people, but soldiers and diplomatists alike con tinued to believe that it was only a passing phase.” J the next and last story the words “Soviet Gov- ernment” are only mentioned once”and then not in a derogatory sense, for the Bolshevik government had handed out a concession in Siberia, and hence this story could find nothing really wrong. Thus it goes, The great masters have called out all the typewriter-banging kiyoodles from the jour- nalistic kennels and have commanded them to yowl long and plaintively. But the “kept” mutts might have been baying at the moon for all the harm the “efficient, hard-fighting Soviet government suffered. So it comes about that here and there we notice a calling off of the dogs; and now that there is a prospect of some cash business of no mean volume from Moscow, a few of the press-poodles are turn- ing fawning tongues on Bolshevik boots, and some of them may even be heard to emit soft, restrained whines of delight. Capitalist newspapers were ever thus, leaping up quite readily at the slightest whis- tle of the master class, ready to sink their fangs into anyone who threatened the dynasties of their wage- payers, or equally ready to fall all over themselves in haste when plutocratic enterprise or personage had to be eulogized. If the “kept” press makes any friendly advances to the only workers’ and peas- ants’ republic on the globe, it is not because they have seen the need for a new socal order—it is simply becausé“the masters’ whistles have come out clear and strong, ordering the yelping hounds to subside. Cash is still cash, even though it’s “red Russian gold.” = ake of the News hurried departure from our big butter and egg men~ gas, battleships, rifles and bombs bought with this money will be frittered away in naval engagements or on the battlefield. s * 7 men of the most ridiculous, yet amusing hoaxes perpetrated on the reading public in recant years ‘by the capitalist press was a Warsaw story of Pilsudski’s scheme to make the Soviet govern- ment back water on its non-recognition of Polish right to Vilna, which rightfully belongs to Lithuania, The story was that Pilsudski wanted to show the Soviet ambassador how he felt about the. matter, so the marshal! advised his minister for foreign af- fairs to throw a little party for the benefit of the Soviet ambassador. “Give him a good time and don’t spare the zlotys” Pilsudski is alleged to have said. This was done and while all concerned were guzzling, the door suddenly opened and Pilsudski appeared quite sober but angry. He made some nasty cracks about Vilna and disappeared. In a few days the necessary apology cama from Moscow. Outside of the fact that it takes a moron to believe it, the story is alright. ~ Down the Dark Road Down the dark road His feet he set R3 ae ralle E pertts tal Tia