The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-03
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

airy ideas capturing the bulk of Amer
lean citizens, declared S. S. Mcclure,
north of Ireland Orangeman in a
speech delivered before the Execu-
tives Club in the Hotel Sherman few
days ago. The speaker is the pub
Usher of McClure's magazine. The
circulation of standard American
magazines is forty millions a month
he informed his hearers. while that
of "Red" periodicals is only 10000
Mcclure is much more modest in his
estimate of the number Of "red"
periodicals in circulation than the
the American Defense Society which
sets the figure at several millions.
Anybody with a brain adjusted to
read McClure's truth is proof against
radicalism. Absolutely
How little capitalists care about
agreements is again demonstrated in
the case of the milk distributors Of
Chicago. They recently made an !
agreement with the producers of Lake
County and the Chicago milk produc-
ing district to pay the farmers
$2.67h cents per hundred pounds for
their milk. They are living up to
that agreement, but-they are also
bringing in milk in large quantities
from southern Wisconsin and pur-
chasing it for $2.10 per hundred
weight Not alone are the milk dis
tributors violating the strike agree
ment but they are also violating the
health department regulations of the
city of Chicago in bringing in milk
without having passed inspection.
The health department. could stop
! this smuggling on the part of the
Bowman and Borden Dairy companies
if it was not partial to the trust as
was demonstrated during the milk
strike. Another instance of capital
list politicians favoring their owners.
His Holiness the Pope is getting
quite excited over the shimmy. So
great is his anxiety lest his celibate
agents should glide away from his
spiritual sezerainty to the strains of
jazz orchestra that he caused to be
published in the Osservatore Romano,
organ of the Vatican, an article en-
dorsing the recent stand taken by
Cardinal Begin, archbishop of Quebec
against the Jazz peril. If the Pope
suggested that his flock should use
their heads rather than their feet
some justification might be found for
his ukase but he fears that the use Of
either in any except forms supplied
by him might result in financial diff
ficulties for the great religious opium
joint on the Tiber.
The Ku Klux Khan is sure making a
record for itself as cleansing ele-
ment in American public life. A Ku
Klux Khan candidate was declared
elected in Texas short time ago.
His name is Earle B. Mayfeld 1t
now appears that he worked his cleo
ton just the same as John L. Lewis
works his. A recount shows that
Nayfeld's opponent George E. b.
Peddy actually received in one pre-
cinct 229 votes tho he was credited
by the Mayfield Kluxers with n
votes. The Khan certainly stands for
law and order and the constitution
Those of our readers who may owe
a friend a ten dollar bill and are
worrying their heads off as to how
they may be able to scrape enough
money to pay it back should take
heart from the fact that the United
States government, the richest and
most powerful on earth owes over
thirty billions. How this country has
made progress since 1912 is shown
by the fact that in that year the
debts of all governments in the u. S.
national, state, county, city, ETC., were
only $6,S14,955, 900. But do not
feel so bad about it, our bankers are
drawing over One and Quarter Bill
lions of Dollars year on it.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
changed her church after more than
a 81 year attendance at the fashion
able St. Bartholomew in New York.
She has applied for seats in st.
Thomas's another Protestant Episco-
pal church. The reason for the
change is the doubt in the mind Of the
rector Of st. Bartholomew Of the
virgin birth theory. DR.. Leighton
Parks, the rector, challenged Bishop
MANNING 70 Iry MN LOT nereSy. ne
ligion is a good deal like wine; it
grows better with age. No doubt
MRS. Vanderbilt likes her wine when
it is ancient, also her religion. She
bias the price so she can have her
choice.
Governor General Leonard Wood
has received from Pope Plus, the
medal of peace in recognition Of the
governors Services to humanity"
This leaves US somewhat up in the
air. What has the general done for
humanity aside from acting as the
tax master Of the American capitalists
in the Philippines? He tried to lead
an army into France to fight the
Germans and was diagnosed unfit by
U.oI H. G-A