The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

The army OF Baron Wrangel, the
gentleman who tried to overthrow
the Russian Soviet Republic in 1920,
with an army financed by the allies,
is now engaged In another form of
activity. It is saving wood in Jugo-
Slavia and Bulgaria. This inforna-
ton is supplied by the female para
site who styles herself the Baroness
Won Wrangel. The lady is in New
York, putting q kick into the social
life of the good-for-nothing of that
city's four hundred.
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Wrangel's army is not now ac-
lively engaged in overthrowing some
workers government. They are sim
ply acting as scabs and helping to
lower the wages of the workers of
Jugo-Slavia and Bulgaria. They
work for six dollars month, live in
huts built by themselves and are
ready to be shipped anywhere at
short notice. They have won the
reputation Of being excellent work
men, says the Baroness. When the
Bulgarian Fascist overthrow the
Peasant government of that coun-
try, Wrangels troops were used
against the peasants. They are ready
for any kind, the dirty work, the
dirtier the better.
We are informed that when Mr..
Asquith, the Liberal leader, finished
his speech supporting the no con-
fidence vote of the British Labor
party, two English princess leaned
over from their seats in the gallery
and smiled at the thought of the king
being surrounded by labor advisors.
The king may not be overburdened
with intelligence but the British rul-
ing class whose puppet the king is,
have no fear that the lackey Ramsay
Mac Donald is going to give his Ma
jecty any advice that would injure
the safety of his realm.
King Tut-ankh-Amen has a rival.
Another king by the name of Agile
made it snappy-appears to have
made himself tomb and now "Tut''
is playing second fiddle to Ay. 1t is
always thus. The public mind is
tickle. So long as "Tut" was the
only mummy in the valley, he had
the front page but he is now pushed
off the boards by his more easily
pronounced competitor. King "Tut''
was born in place where there was
nothing in the name, but vowels and
consonants.
Judge Lands, the $50, 900 per year
baseball jurist, friend of Samuel
Gompers and enemy of human pro-
gress is wroth over the release Of the
war prisoners by President Coolidge.
This judicial ignoramus is fond of
making threats of physical violence
against any American citizen who is
gifted with at least ordinary intelli-
gence. Speaking to a gang of rail
road officers he urged them to. 20 to
the polls and vote against all those |
aspirants to public Office who showed |
even the slightest leaning toward
common decency during the war.
Paste them one for me" was the !
final exhortation of Lands.
In the early edition of the Jan.
10, issue of the Chicago Tribune, the
Tea Pot scandal claimed the eight |
column headline. But in the mean.
time news of the latest amorous adj
venture of clergyman hit the edi-
tors eye and the love pirates
escapade crowded Daugherty, Fall
and Company into a corner. To give
the clergyman credit, they make good
newspaper copy. They give women
whose time hangs heavily on their
hands an opportunity to live dan
gerously.
What's the mater with the Riga
correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bune? Trotsky has not killed him
self, arrested Lenin, married a Bull
garian Princess, or made a trillion
rubles on the Bourse, for over
twenty-four hours. Perhaps the lips
of Riga's principal liars are frozen
by below-zero wave.
Another new record was estab-
4 lished in the growth of democracy
in Europe when King Albert of Bel
GUM, on his way from the hunt,
khopped on a street car and paid his
flare. The only surprising thing
about it is that he paid his fare. He
generally "bums" his ride.
The American Legion patriot"
who was obviously commissioned to
violate the laws the German Republic
in an endeavor to kidnap the wealthy
draft evader, Grover Cleveland Berg
doll and drew fifteen month prison
sentence for his failure is now the
object of tender solicitude from the
American capitalist press and the
idle matrons Of Chicago's Gold Coast.
1t is significant that comparatively
little interest was manifested in this
thugs welfare until few days ago.
It is rumored that the cause of this
sudden furry Of excitement is a
threat on the part Of Griffis to tell
the whole truth of the episode which