The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 7

| Buyin of THE DAILY WORKER. ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. Gxecuv= BOARD. OF A.FOFL. AT ST PETERS ~ ‘BURG IGNORES U.S. STABBING OF MEXICAN WORKERS BUT SPENDS ITS 7/ME DENOUNCING MILITANT Ney YORK LEFT WIAG LEADERS GREETINGS AND : =] FELICITATIONS, SIOHN ! In the Wake of the News headlines tell us that France has joined England to keep the im- pertalist grip on China. We do not always believe what we see in the headlines and tho we are quite well @ware that every imperialist power fe guided by what its ministers be- Meve to be the best interests of their raling classes, it is well to keep in mind that France and England are at Yoggerhoads, are constantly agreeing and constantly disagreeing. Capitalist powers are incapable of honesty to wards each other. The basis of the Present alleged agreement between France and England in China may be @ deal between the two countries in Syria or perhaps an understanding on the Italian threat to France. see rapidity with which the impe- rialist powers change their policies Qowards each other nowadays is an in- @ication of their instability. Today, @ermany is orientating towards ; tomorrow towards England. One day, England ostentatiously ghakes the hand of Mussolini; tomor- row the British foreign office attempts te block Mussolini’s aim to turn the Mediterranean into an Italian lake England has tried hard to bring about united action of the imperialist pow- ers against the Chinese revolutionary She cannot hope to crush nationalist movement unaided. Se the powers have only agreed ia that foreign interests tn should be protected but they their activities to pious wish fl y ae INTO 1T SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1927 A WEEK IN CARTOONS “ TAKE THIS, By M. P. Bales It WiLL BREAK YOU OF THE WHISKEY HABIT!” 20) WORLD OW. MAGNATES WHILE DENOUNCING ‘TAINTED’ RUSSIAN OL BUSY STEALING now it seems that the British goyv- ernment has succeeded in lining up France and the United States. What it cost England will be learned later on, provided the United States and France are not making mere dt plomatic gestures. Japan, it seems, has decided to curry favor with the Chinese by giving England to under stand that Japan does not believe in interfering in the domestic affairs of This was not Japan's position @ few years back when the infamous twenty-one points were promulgated, But China has more rifles now than then and the Washington agreement took place in the meantime which end- ed the AngloJapanese alliance. Jap an’s decision to adopt a policy of neu trality 2 China is due to a change in objective conditions and not to a change of heart on the part of the Japanese imperialista. es @ NK .1. SMITH, senator-clect from Illinois, whe bought his way with the ald of 200, dollars is determin jentials to the 235 s # 83 i F EF ; if ef a6 zi 5 z gas F : i PEE F H : | | E : gF : E F t 5 F 5 8 : F fi i Fa ro E E i ir. . quence to his tongue. Nothing pleas- es us better than to see crooks tell the truth about each other, unless it would be to see them shoot each other. e; 20 9 — Chicago politiciams who are quarrelling over the spoils attach ed to the office of mayor are turning out language that should please truth seekers. Edward Litsinger, a candi- date, charges Robert B. Crowe, state’s attorney, with diverse crimes and misdemeanors against the peace of the people. Hiring gangsters to steal elections is the least of these. Crowe retorts by suggesting to Mr. Litsinger that he deliver up his nephew to ju» tice, said nephew being wanted for stealing @ ballot box and a trifling im discretion known as murder. That should hold Mr. Litsinger for a while. ees is said that poets are borm not made. This seems to be unforte” nately true Prose writers are dis agreeable enough but the poets are impossible, all except that poets write te agitate the masses. Most poets la editor down to the printer's devil stays ap nights thinking new schemes to put the poet's merchandise into the of greatest number of per eal By T. J. O’Flaherty ed the poetry is not junk, as ft usuabk ly in. Ae 08 Dee chet, tee OG ore net geniuses but nuts. Poets. that waste good ink singing their own praises are pests, A proletarian poet usually turns in his stuff and hopes for the best. The lads with the point ed chin foliage who live om a few strings of spaghetti a day develop @ colic unless their rhyme is properly displayed, tho a proper disposition of most of it would be at the bottom of a spacious waste basket. There are more freak poets in the United States than there are chiropractors ia Los Angeles. Most of them have been ruined by radical editors. Once you | accept an amateur poet’s mental pro geny he develops a case Of intélee tual elephantisis and crowds the poo editor to the wall. The genuine like the genuine artist, ig a modes€ | and agreeable person, The freak poet is a darned nuisance. _ SSS SSS The Next Issue. The Saturday, January 29th, number of the New Magazine will appear from New~ York, All matter for the editor must hereafter be addressed to 33 E. | First Street, New York, N. Y.