The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-13
Laugh with Sid Smith
at Race Of Andy Gurnp
for the White House
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


TODAY the business of eIecng president of the United
States has become comedy, insofar the capitalist
candidates sport of comic strip
artists who enter their udcrous characters in the race
for the White House. They have the nation laughing at what
the 100 cent payoeers excted refer to the high
est office in the land"
thing that supposed to be serous especially such i'm
poran buwak of the American capitalist system the
achievement OF every American youth
"Budv Fisher the creator of "Mutt and Jeff" only in
duges performing of his pen with sporadic
spus for the White House. Between having them act alter
natey presidential candidates, he them sparrng
partners for Dempsey boon companions OF the Prince of
Wales outstppng the world filters with their feats
Before "sIent cav Coolidge can work up enough
ton take offense Fishers comic surs at his job Mutt
the doctrine of serve labor either Of Jeff serving Mutt or
the other way around Perhaps that is Fishers way OF Co
But Sidney Smith, who has given ANDY oump"
Chester" and min" to the World has hurled his hero
ANDY" into the presidential ring with seriousness than
any comic artist has yet attempted.
There is almost whole page OF stuff in the Chicago
staid Tribune ITSELF pictures and articles,
all join in laughing at this exalted job called THE Pres
idency.".
The story told Of the great celebration when Sidney
Smith invited all his friends to the unwilling OF bronze
of "his candidate" heraded by other than
than CAL"
The unwilling ceremonies were held at of the
comic artist the shores of Lake Geneva the border
between Illinois Wisconsin. comic
artist for the capitalist press Radical and revolutionary
artists do have beautiful lake shore villas They usually
have hard time finding where the next meal FROM
But the space given the unwilling of the bronze statue
of ANDY Gunp must now take its place with the wide
race participated in by Barney GOGGLES Spark Plug the
premier attraction of the Hearst comic pages.
appropriate that Richard Henry Dck" Little, the
the friends of his One of Dck LtIes greatest
Of William Randolph Hearst, was sending to Chicago the
perverted and false of the great strike of the
Michigan copper miners some years ago.
This making fun Of the esteemed things in the capitalist
social ORDER indicates rotng at the foundation of this
Leonid Andreyev the Russian dramatist, in his play,
in mind when he has sriquet the manager of the circus
protest to e the Clown against the liberties the clown
taking with his audiences
"Rut they laughed, nevertheless" protests "Hep
pleasure pleasure"
right same-they like you"
interiects with orchestra laugh"
getting older clown,
bu the galleries did, because they looking at the orchestra get
ting slapped"
adds already begun angry"
The clown "He" getting under the skins of the
respectabes in the hghprced orchestra seats with his
cynical humor They the butt of his shafts OF wit
Andreyevs clown "He" intellectual from this
upper Glass; driven by his domestic troubles to
the role of mth provoker in the saWdus And he
knew his class and could therefore the better poke
fun at it.
We do not doubt that Coolidge Davis and La Toilette
suffer mental witches of agony being entered in the pres
idena with Andy Gump, with Mutt and Jeff, and
with Barney Google before this campaign is
Yet why should they? oump Mutt Jeff Google ard Utilize
the Toe much part of this social system as the
presidency which CAL John Wall Street and "Bobca Bob
aspire
Imagine the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia
fusing take seriously the high offices in the Workers
Republic Such thing could be. Imagine the
Iuonary artists under Soviet Rule pokng fun at the
who occupy the most important positions in the
land That could happen. In Soviet Russia the whole
struggle of the mutudes is in building the order 1t is
serious business from the most prominent to those who
the least because of their limited abilities.
In the United States in the period of the decadence of
capitalism artists and writer's their best brains pokng
fun at the nations popular idols The most active press
workers the conventions of the capitalist parties the
okesths the funny coumnsts and the humorous sketch
artists.
There only candidacy being serious
y in this presidential struggle That is the candidacy Of the
Communsts-the only the doddering capitalist