﻿U.S. Already Invaded, Says T-Bone Slim 
By T-BONE SLIM 
 
Failure of the over-worked doctors to farm out some of their practice (peoples’ gullibility and stomach aches) to their under-worked brothers, has created group plans among the semi-unemployed men of medicine—a condition of organized poverty. 
Note: I do not suggest that the semi-excluded doctors go into the army and let the grasping doctors work their heads off until they drop from exhaustion. 
This condition causes patients practically to move into a doctor’s waiting-room for days at a stretch, and the long wait—garnished with tales of neighbor’s misery—often accomplishes the cure and all the doctor has to do is lower the boom and lift his fee. 
When you’ve seen one doctor, you’ve seen them all. All good men, damn good men. 
Yellow Phenolpthalein, Aloin and Epsom Salts! 
By the same token, the unemployed workers should not mourn the hoggishness of the overtime workers. They should step out and organize that unemployment more fully and right—there’s a living in it, a damn good living. Let the workers work their heads off, and you bury the dead. 

High living costs. Huge profits. Docile labor . . . Remember way back in 1918 when wages were nine and nineteen dollars a day? How long did the money last after the war? 
You’re right, you’re absolutely right, it didn’t last. How long do you think your three, four, and six dollars will last after this war? 
Correct again. You’ll bankrupt the pooRhouses. 
Willkie probably was in England and not, as some pusillanimous skeptics would have it, “two other guys.” He has returned home with two reports—one for the press and one for the committee and one for the head of the house. That’s two, aint it, in full nieasure? 

Verily, the cry “invasion” and speculation thereon is a smokescreen to cover the fact that economic invasion of the USA is an accomplished fact; a completed operation. 
Pro-foreign elements (less than 20 per cent) have advocated the turming over to a foreign power of our navy—a good stunt, if they could pull it. Let the other guy hold our shooting irons? And we have listened. 
A girl that listens is already seduced. 
Being a United States, it is impossible to subdivide our navy so as to let a foreign power have the pro-foreigners’ share without infringing on the patriotism (dollars and cents) of pro-Americans. 
“If Germany gets Britain’s navy,” how the benighted disloyalists, “it I will be just too bad for us.” 
We have experience along those lines. We filled the French orders and Hitler got ‘em. If Britain intends to give her navy to Hitler, what is to prevent her from throwing in our navy for good measure—if she has our navy—as a bribe? 
We shall then have nothing to fall back on except our working class and a ring of steel mines around the states—but sufficient. 
With our navy in our possession, United States is now, and will be for some time, impregnable. 
But our economic system suffer a change, it is of the candle light era. It dates back further than I the horse and buggy, to the age of camel and dromedary, when Damascus was the Pittsburgh of the Old 

“Eleven years ago last week,” says Time “the Indian National Congress adopted a Declaration of Independence. Written by Mohnadas Gandhi himself and proclaimed by Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru, it said in part: ‘We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom . . . India has been ruined economically . . . Politically, India’s status has been so reduced under the British regime . . . Culturally, the system has torn us from our moorings . . . Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly in the presence of an alien army of occupation . . . We hold it to be a crime against man and God to subit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country.” 
India has been invaded economically, politically, culturally and spiritually by men, money, ballyhoo and an army of occupation. 
We have been invaded only by capital and ballyhoo (propaganda), but I expect the red-coats any minute now. 

In the matter of foreign trade an empire can allocate its trade to any one of its dominions at will, or to any country it chooses and therefore has within its hands both positive and negative power to disrupt and disorganize the economy of its dominions and neighbor nations at will and, by boycott or denial of trade, periodically. Further, it can allocate its trade to pro-foreign industries in any given country and thus subsidize them to withstand the racket, and break down the resistance of, loyal production. Peaceful penetration! It is like handing the other guy your razor so he can cut your throat. Better use the shive yourself. 
It has long been said that money “works so smoothly and leaves no scar”—only a dazed expression, that “economic invasion is superior to military.” 
USA is suffering such an invasion at this time (unemployment, national debt, and gold in the hills are the physical evidence of foreign influence in our pie— but, be it said, we walked voluntarily to the slaughter; insisted upon it.) 
Lend and lease without cash or price is the logical conclusion to praying to foreign deities and the bait, foreign trade. The irony of it! Asking help from one of its chief victims. 
You will note I offer no remedy; for who am I to try to dissuade my countrymen from committing national suicide. Several remedies occur to my mind, and I will place them right here under a bushel—if you care look for them.