Poet & Publisher

On Memorial Day

the paunches of the bourgeoisie

sway gently in the sun,

bend over,

place wreaths upon

the graves of those who died

that the paunches of the bourgeoisie

might sway

gently

in

the sun.

--A. B. MAGILL in the Daily Worker

Verses in this vein, appearing in the Communistic Daily Worker, induced one David Gordon also to write a poem. He called it "America," and in it, by crass terms, described the Goddess of Liberty in New York Harbor as looking down upon a land where liberty no longer thrived. So vile did three New York judges think the boy's phrases, so indecent his imagery that they would not excuse his adolescence. Last week they ordered him to the reformatory for 13 months. Three other judges had already sentenced Editor William F. Dunne of the Daily Worker to 30 days in the New York workhouse and a $500 fine for publishing the lines.