﻿Competition In Flower Is War 
By T-BONE SLIM 
 
Every time one of Roosevelt’s children goes for divorce ‘ FDR goes fishing. Bravo! He’s got something there! 

Genius has been so scarce in the United States that you can count them on one hand, even if you have lost some of the fingers—Burbank, Edison, Foster, and Poe. Hollywood speaks touchingly about genius, 

Things are picking up! Only 10,000 s stormed Neark airport for 1,500 jobs. 
The storm also helped the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation. It’s up to Brewster to say whether or not the 10,000 were “extras.” As for myself, will say that trifling with love is a serious offense. 

Hoover, busily engaged in taking up collections to buy the long-suffering Finns ice cream sodas, etc., was horrified to see a great American Irisher get up and say, “the Finns need shilalahs.” That’s the Irish of it. 
They believe modern times will not let even a Finn eat his ice cream in peace. 

Investigation of Mdviani plus Pacific oil-fields is in order. 
Disorganized economy, disorganized mind — brains do not thrive in a crazy world. 
You don’t believe this? 
Look across the pond, pal, and then tell me who’s crazy now. 

Abrogan couple, Andrew, 69, and his wife Annie, crippled, 74, lived five days and nights on the sidewalk with their furniture—in New York. 
Home Relief passed the buck to their married daughter—also practically “busted.” 
Business world, this New York City ! 
Recently a man died in a cab while the taxi driver was looking for a cop to O. K. his entrance into the hospital. Hell of it was, the man was one of the hospital’s own working force. 
To date, the hospital rules committee has not been hung and Dr. Coldwater is in fine health. 

Britain claims her blockade is busted if she is not permitted to rifle United States mails. Mebbe so, Brother Jonathan, but why not read the Industrial Worker and let US run THIS country? There I go again—Isolationist. 

All right, all right—”competition is the life of trade” and “competition between states makes for a fuller life” —as we see in Europe and elsewhere. 
Finland’s and Russia’s competition abaft the Mannerheim graveyards are “hokey doke” even so as to the match between England, France, and Germany in Western Europe—competition brought to its ultimate and final flower. 
According to that, the class struggle comes within the sanctified purlieus of competition and shares in the blessings thereof, hey? 
To illustrate: 
When a labor union squawks for a “closed shop” it is promptly denounced as subversive of the high ideals that is the United States; but when the industrial oligarchy runs a “closed industry” and raps over the knuckles those that attempt to break into business, it is hailed far and wide as “Americanism”—competition. But let me tell you, no matter how many times Rubel trades horses his economic condition shall not improve—and finally he’ll eat the nag. 
Much has been said about government entering business. In view of the “closed industry” who else wonuld have the power to do so? 
Industrial oligarchy brought it on itself and now they cry-baby, “private enterprise.” 
If “enterprise,” why the nurse?