SO MY PREDICTION IS-
Coleman, Mcalister
So My Prediction Is — By MCALISTER COLEMAN OSCAR AMERINGER was once asked to write a column predicting what would happen during the coming year. It was a time when the Barricade Boys were hinting...
...A Lallapaloosa Ahead My prediction is that 1944 will be one lallapaloosa of a year with all hands going a little more screwy than in 1943, if that indeed is possible...
...Now they print a picture of you which should be captioned 'Wanted for Murder.' From now on, old Sourpuss, count me out...
...I predict that the writer of an advertisement of the Standard Oil Company in praise of "free enterprise" will come home On the night of July 3, 1944, look at himself in the mirror of his bathroom, and take out a straight-edged razor and cut his throat...
...I will trail with both prrodicshons for this coming year and proceed to throw in a couple of my own for good measure...
...Oh, he just sits around the place and growls all day...
...It is my measured conclusion that 1943 has been perfectly awful, and that if there is any change in 1944, it will be for the worse...
...And our dog is a Socialist...
...So I redict that my naturahV atrabilious aspect will grow even more so during 1944, and that by the time 1945 rolls around I will be flourishing on a diet of worms that will be the envy of an Indian fakir...
...The proletariat will uprise at 6:30 a. m. and run at full speed through the cold, gray dawn to stand in line before the checkers, time-clocks, and time keepers...
...When they asked the farmer what were the politics around his house, he answered, "I am a Republican...
...My nine year old daughter Ann, who is running her own newspaper these daya, has made her own predictions on her own typewriter, the key board of which she is now mastering, in a manner of speaking...
...Coleman's Measured Conclusion I predict that the sovereign people of these United States in the solemn hour of selecting from among the two old party candidates for the Presidency the . one better qualified to lead this nation through the "most critical period in its history" will be edified by a campaign in which the participants will dish out enough dirt to replace the tonnage excavated for the digging of the Panama Canal...
...I predict that John L. Lewis will be more popular than ever with the rank and file of organized labor and more unpopular than ever with the officialdom of the CIO, the editors of The New Masses arid PM, and the National Association of Manufacturers...
...I predict that by the end of a year in the Army a teen-age gal in Cheyenne, Wyo., will say, "Frank Sinatra...
...I predict that any attempts to organize ak independent political party of liberals and progressives will be booed at by the New Republic and The Nation as being tantamount to the tactics of disunity and subversive of the war effort...
...I have for some time followed your writing with no great enthusiasm, to be sure, but none the less followed...
...I predict that Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will heave into the hoosegow for from 18 months to three years those of his political opposition caught spitting cn the sidewalk and that the White House will preserve its wonted equanimity in the face of the protest of indignant Civil Liberties fanciers...
...There will be a great uprising af the American workers in this coming year," wrote Oscar...
...I'm swooning to know...
...My prrodicshon is," writes Editor Ann, "that Hitler will comit sueside becaus of fear...
...How do you know your dog is a Socialist...
...That Sourpuss Photograph That is the mood that I love to impart to my hopeful readers...
...You can tell that from my picture which first appeared in The Progressive a couple of issues back...
...It was a time when the Barricade Boys were hinting darkly of revolutionary surges among the masses...
...At the sight of it small children of our subscribers'were thrown into a state bordering on sheer panic...
...Who's he...
...I wish you all a happy New Year...
...I predict that the Defender of the Faith Franco will soon be hailed as our latest glorious ally, and that the FBI will be pinching anyone brash enough to refer to, not so distant massacres of Loyalists in the bull rings...
...That's interesting...
...My wife is a Democrat...
...A man out West wrote reproachfully, "So that's the way you look...
...I predict that if-the present Rush to the Right continues, Roosevelt will recall old "Blood and Guts" Pat-t<3n to act as head of Social Security, and send to the battlefield in the General's place, "Eat-em-before-breakfast" Harry Hopkins...
Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 52
