The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
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promoter recently offered to pay the
Roumanian debt to the United States
If he could have the services Of the
queen of that country to boost his
business. He promised to return her
in any condition she desired. That
lady, however, was unable to accept
the offer as she was then engaged to
write a series Of articles on How to
wear crown" for the Hearst papers.
COON, members of Europe's royal
~ families will be as plentiful in the
United States as persons mistaken
for Martin Durkin, who defeated the
Chicago police department and was
obliged to go to the hospital to re-
cover from the strain of laughing
at the efforts Of the police to capture
him. An Austrian count married the
daughter of an oil king. The oil man
felt so peeved because his daughter
did not marry into royalty that he
threatened to disown her unless she
disowned the count. But the count
refused to be disowned until the oil
magnate raised the price of gasoline
half a cent gallon and gave half a
days proceeds to the perfectly salts
fed husband.
THIS particular count, Salm some
\ thing or other, is now in New
York, but is not making much head
way. He is working very hard,
nights, and never looks at the clock.
A fellow like him should get along.
But the competition is too keen. Why
should the daughter of a near beer
king marry a count of no account
when any steamer may come in laden
to the Plimsoll line with the monarch
ial output of Europe? And why
should dukes, kings, and other an
tiquities degrade themselves by mar
rying for gain, when they can earn an
honest living either at a circus or
drawing attention to a subdivision in
need of advertising?
| CALVIN COOLIDGE told New York
~ business men a few days ago
that American money saved Europe
after the war. The business men
must have gotten a deep feeling Of
satisfaction out Of such exalted
recognition of their generosity. The
papers tell us that they applauded
the president when he told them
they were lot of good fellows.
Next he told them that in future
business would suffer from no fool
ish restrictions, which hampered it
in the past Business has now been
purified, Calvin told them.
THE situation in Europe is fairly
= satisfactory to American business
now. After the war Europe's only
export trade consisted of penniless
aristocrats and missions in search of
loans. While the aristocrats could
be utilized to amuse the daughters of
the business men and the manufac-
turers had no objection to the bank
ers loaning the begging expeditions
money with which to purchase the
eproducts of American factories, the
European workers were dangerously
inear following the example of the
Russian workers and peasants and
getting rid of their robber rulers for
good. Our masters did not like the
prospect at all; hence their generos.
ity.
i THIS is where the American dollar
= stepped in. Wall Street is now
managing the financial affairs of Ger.
many, Hungary and Austria. Re.
Gently $10O,O00,O00 loan was grant.
ed to Mussolini to enable that assas
sin to stabilize his rotten currency
and to give new lease of life to his
still rottener government. France
and her ally, Poland, are on the
brink of financial precipice, but
Wall Street will put them on their
feet, temporarily, if they agree to
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time England is flirting with France,
perhaps limiting of an alliance
against England's only formidable
competitor in the capitalist world
the United States.
TT is rather significant that France
and England have made an "oily''
alliance in Syria and Mosul, against
the Druse tribesmen and the Turks,
ostensibly. But there is bigger fish
in the pond than the Druses and
Turks. Only few days ago Lon
don correspondent of a big Ameri.
can newspaper announced that war
had broken out between the Stand
ard Oil company and the British oil
interests. This is nothing less than
skirmish in the inevitable conflict
between the British and the United
States government.
! TT is plain to anyone with the slight
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