Let Them Eat Cake, Says Henry
Feigenbaum, William M.
By William M. Feigenbaum Let Them Eat Cake, Says Henry Motor Genius Goes Under the Ether end Is Delivered of Some Lusty Ninepound Thoughts—Patient Doing as Well as Can Be Expected. WHY...
...But it happens that there are over 11,000,000 people "out of hire" milling around, and what with all the impressionistic artists and beachcombers and men who go to Forget It All and missionaries snd painted Isdies and bartenders snd novelists who are in those paradisical isles and all of whom write books about them, there isn't much room left for the 11,000,000 folks who are "out of hire...
...Goona Goona And so what...
...for there is nothing to do...
...Whoops...
...And that gives us an idea...
...There is no such a thing as heing out of hire...
...We are the pioneers of the electric light, the highpowered gang, high pressure salesmanship, Hollywoodiocy, tall buildings, Tammany Hall, airplanes, medicine shows, Billy SundayAimee McPherson "religion", Amos *n Andy and many other attributes of advanced civilisation...
...Ford, for he happena to own that road himself...
...It would be just great if the people who mill around the city streets and annoy Henry could go to a tropical South Sea island, where they could pick bananas and cocoanuts and listen to the murmurous wind through the tops of the cocoanut palms, and hear the surf beat on the coral beaches and see lovely brown-skinned lissom females do the hula-hula or the goons-goona or something in the moonlight—oh bobby...
...America has given the world a great deal...
...landlords are that way...
...Henry Ford das it all figured out...
...There is no such thing," said Henry a few weeks ago, "as being out of work...
...If soma one socks you on the head, smile, damn you, and say, "There's nothing the matter...
...What...
...What Is it the people cry...
...Suppose some of the Hunks and Polacks and Wops who can't get work with Ford took Ford's advice and went to the country on—let us say—the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton...
...Why don't they go to work...
...This daily was not a party organ, but a popular Left-Wing propaganda sheet, printed . in the Polish language, which served as a joint forum for Polish, Jewish and German Socialists...
...This poem illustrated with the wonderful drawing by Robert McGeehan will make the New Year number one of the best propaganda issues we have ever published...
...and then Henry could not go to luxurious hospitals to be* delivered of profound wisdom...
...and he wouldn't be interested in giving them permission...
...In bundles of 25 or more the rate is 2% cents per Copy, prepsid...
...But then then would be no plsce for Henry and his liszies...
...And that will fix it all up...
...And suppose, having eluded Mr...
...The chief organ of tn# Bund, however, has re-appeared after a silence of two weeks, when tha police seals were removed from tha doors of the* printing works...
...Even experienced speakers will find his series helpful...
...it simply hails confiscations of Socialist newspapers...
...All orders must be in the office not later than December 27...
...Or they might find themselves on wheatlands or corn land owned by people who hsvs been wailing and tearing their shirts because there ia already too much wheat and corn in the market, and who consider the abundance of corn and wheat a calamity...
...Send your order Without delay...
...Of man, the author observes, "The dirty wand of Mammon turned Iron gold, but gold has brought him famine...
...Let Them Bat Cake Marie Antoinette hflard the Ugly murmur of the crowd as it descended upon Versailles...
...There Is a big demand for such a manual...
...but there happens to be too much of that stuff around, too...
...A price is herewith offered for the correct answer to the riddle, the prise consisting of a neat red card, constituting membership ia the Socialist Party...
...In addition, certain district meetings orgsnized by the Bund's youth organization, "The Future," have not been permitted...
...Und so wetter...
...she asked, as the first faint strains of the Carmagnole sounded through the trees of the fairy woods...
...Dissolve civilisation snd go back to primitive life, each man cultivating his own patch and making his own goods...
...There's plenty* of work to be done, you know...
...He will like that...
...My salary was cut, yes, but it really wasn't very serious, and I can certainly still live pretty wsll...
...Other local papers of the Bund, such as the "Lodz Weker" and the Lemberg "Workera' Voice," have been prosecuted...
...That the cities are crowded with thousands of people "who should go somewhere else...
...The Press had been carried on for over 20 years in the same place, yet on October 5th, special commissioners appeared on the scene and discovered some "technical deficiencies" and because of these the press was closed down...
...We say "some technical deficiencies" because up to date no official document has specified what they were...
...Gosht That's greet...
...As if that were not enough, the authorities dealt a knockout blowt the Co-operative Printing Press, which printed the Bund's "Volksseitung" and the non-Party "Tageszeitung," was closed down...
...Carrying On By closing down the printing works, the Government silenced two Socialist newspapers, one com* pletely, tha other temporarily...
...Press Censorship Press censorship is in full swing...
...A friend sends us a page from4 a newspaper with a full-page "inspirational" ad headed "I'M THROUGH WITH BEING DEPRESSED...
...exclaimed the lovely Austrian consort of Louis XVI, "have thev no bread" "No, your majesty, they have not...
...Ford's hired men on the railroad, they get to the country—as per Mr...
...Not since Edwin Markham wrote "The Man With the Hoe" some thirty years ago have we had a poem with such compelling power...
...Even the purely anti-clerical publication, the "Socialist Freethinker," issued in October Inconnection with the Jewish Day of Atonement, was confiscated...
...The Bund Battles Reaction Of Polish Junker Rulers A CORRESPONDENT in Poland writes that the tyrannical persecution by the Polish authorities of the Labor Movement continues more persistent and barefaced...
...Henry says it Well, a lot...
...Another feature we expect to offer soon will present a program for Socialist education...
...It is in the form of a statement signed by initials possibly not phoney, and it begins: "For the past three years I have lived a horrible life...
...This will be a long poem by A. M. Sullivan, "Epoch's End," and illustrated with a beautiful border drawing by Robert McGeehan whose cartoon of the Dawn of Socialism in our issue of October 22 evoked general praise...
...the big bums...
...There has been nothing the matter with me except that I have been scared stiff...
...Why do they mill around here in the streets of Detroit where they annoy me while I think up hopeful things to say...
...Nurse, another shot of ether, please...
...Go ont "After three years of fright, during which none of the things I was afraid of happened, it is high time I changed and began to live like a normal human being ones more...
...Then why don't they tat cake...
...And then Henry went to the hospital and was delivered of a fine appendix...
...This feature will run for several months...
...Let them hire themselves...
...But in Warsaw, Lods, Cracow, Lemberg and many other towns in Polsnd, large and small, meetings and demonstrations organised in protest against war and in favor of peace have been prohibited...
...Why don't they go to the country, where they can eat cake" Or words to that effect Out of Hire They may be "out of hire," but there is plenty of work to do...
...Announcement of this will be made later...
...Ford's bright suggestion...
...It was for that reason that from the very first moment of its existence it was persecuted with the utmost severity...
...Oh Yeah...
...of them might, find quite by accident that they had landed on tlmberlands owned by Mr...
...there are unemployed because jteople aren't working...
...So let them go and do the work...
...Or they might find themselves in grasslands where the alfalfa grows...
...Now rush those subs and the bundle orders for the great New Year number...
...One of them, indeed, was forcibly broken up by the police with rubber batons...
...Epoch's End" presents the poet's vision of the travail of humanity over the ages, the conquests of humankind over a material environment, only to observe these conquests turn to ashes...
...Many of these prohibited meetings —in Warsaw, for example—were to have been joint peace demonstrations by the Polish and Jewish workers' organisations...
...We now add the greatest discovery of all...
...Proof of this is furnished by the following account of recent acts of violence on the part of the Government against the Jewish Socialist Movement led by tha Bund: The Polish Government talks a' great deal about Peace—In Geneva...
...literally, ens confiscation followed immediately upon another...
...Many new members are esger to lesrn the art of public speaking and we can say that August *——--Claessens has done sn excellent job in writing this manual...
...If you loss your Job and you can't pay your rent amile sweetly and tell the landlord that you have made up your mind not to worry any more...
...The press censorship, already unprecedentedly severe, reached its limit in its dealings with the Socialist dsily, "Pismo Codzienne," which appeared for the first time on September 21st snd for the last on October 9th...
...Tha Polish daily mentioned above had to cease publication under an oppression unparalleled even in Poland...
...If there is a national calamity, Just say it ain't so...
...WHY don't the eat cake...
...Next week we will begin the publication of "A Manual for Socialist Speakers" by August Claesaens, one of the best popular speakers in the party today...
...IN the windows of stores of an upstate city are placards with the 1 words: "WASN'T THE DEPRESSION TERRIBLE...
...Almost at the same time a second Jewish Labor enterprise was closed and kept closed for nearly two weeks —the big co-operative restaurant of the Jewish workers in Warsaw, the only one of its kind...
...Aad maybe some of them cant stand the tropical heat And again wo rise to remark so what...
...Yes, yes...
...The chief organs of the Bund, the "Tageszeitung"—and "Neue Volkszeitung" have been confiscated no teas than 40 times in the last few months...
...Suppose they realised that being out of hire doesnt mean being out of woik, and they began tilling the soil and felling trees and building houses snd pottering around like that...
...Oh," replies the man who is not employing them, "Oh...
...But since they have been "out of hire" they haven't money to pay their fare, and they will have to bum rides on the road, which would irk the good Mr...
...And that's a fine idea, that of urging the city folks to go "somewhere else...
...The New Leader is distinctly a Socialist Party paper published to serve the Socialist Party...
...And Henry sees a lot of people milling around in the streets unable to secure work with Packard or liuick, with General Motors or with Chrysler—or even with Ford...
...While recovering he communed with his soul and spoke on this and that, among other things saying: That Ameria is slowly returning to an even higher standard of living than in the boom years...
...The authorities have thought it more discrete not to commit to writing any reason for their arbitrary act The printing works have not been the only victims of the tyranny of the administrative...
...In order that the issue of a second edition should be rendered impossible, the editors wars not Informed why the first ediUon had been confiscated, and they were left to gueas that for themaelves...
...The fellers on the breadline wonld like to know more about that "I'm through with being depressed in body and souL From now on, see ray smile snd watch my dust...
...A couple of years ago clerks in a cabin of drug stores wore on their lapels huge buttons with the words...
...They aught even ask Henry to lend them some of bis idle ore ships for the ride...
...Ford, and they couldn't fell trees without his kind permission...
...The people are hungry, your majesty," said the attendant "The people clamor for bread...
...Notable Poem Feature of Our New Year's Issue TTHE NEW LEADER takes' pleasure in announcing an extraordinary feature in the New Year number to appear on December 31...
...and there they started to work, what then...
...Why is the world cock-eyed...
...You know— that same Henry who was going to get the Klders of Zion into the trenches by Yom Kippur, or something...
...They were not always clever enough to do so,and so it came about that the paper was confiscated twice and on one occasion even three times, in the ont day...
...They are staying because they are getting fed...
...It indicts the machine capitalism that has created beggars and sings the funeral dirge of the dying regime...
...Because they have no work In the city...
...Order a bundle now...
...BUSINESS IS GOOD...
...But it ia doing so nnder mock greater difficulties, having suffer*" heavy losses which still f*1*** aggravate tha handicap already caused by tha unemployment trm which Jewish workera are stiff** Ing...
...but since they can't eat alfalfa they would have to try to sell it to get money to buy food...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 25
