The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-07
tcOpyrIsht. 1925. By upton slnoIalr1


The elder Ross had of information to
world affairs besides his morning and afternoon newspapers ana
his His associates in the oil were thinking
vigorously subject and they held long conferences and
reports They dissatisfied with the
diplomacy Wsonnot because he wasn't making
the world democracy but because he wasn't making
oil operators In the territories being taken from the
enemies were petroleum regions untold here in
imbece name ideasm permitting France and
Britain to grab this treasure while all we got was the job OF keep
ing the Turks off the Armenians
So far as Dad personally was concerned
Excelsior Pete and Victor Oil and the rest of
the big Five which reaching for foreign concessions
they got prizes the price of oil home might drop
good chunk of Nevertheless he took the
patriotic attitudes the country needed OIL and was our business
get you Dad also idealst and it vexed him
ideasm little appreciated by his
He becoming university blame,
No matter what Bunny might was this education bust
ness that was unsettng his mind and spong MN TO deal with
practical AFFAIRS Several times Bunny reazed hat the seWd
old probing his mind there must be some older person
influencing Bunnys thought and the suspicious fact
Bnnys failure to mention such person Bunny realized that
later the of Daniel Webster Irving alias Daniel
Washington Irving bound to into the he hit
get his insructorfriendl
would be possible for Dad whom he had
received in his home
dad bring my teachers up the field"
Dad delighted would bring bit of culture
his world him his mental life
cause nnn to becoe ashamed If his Ignorant old father Yes
it. hgh-brow fellows crazy enough
tend tot
Mr.. Irving teach school, but he had
days between and Bunny suggested that he might like
Paradise weekend the young accepted
with pleased surprise they out morning June
in that sunshny weather which Southern Cali
orna forget all about it. On the way they talked about
in Russia Siberia the progress
Denin and Admiral Kocha the desperate efforts of the Boil
shevks to organize red army and the hope of the German
ruling class back responsibility by serving
against the Russian revolution Also Bunny told Irving
idea about this visit Dad must be allowed to do most of the
talking, and Mr. Irving should voice only such opinions
proper for an elderly oil man to hear
They arrived Paradise the instructor duly in
stalled in the Spanish which Dad had
erected the for the guests
was built around the four sides court with fountain splash
10 0atn OqOc and D1op
shoots from the bouganvlea vine starting ucco
walls There Japanese who function of
butler and cook and boy who combined gardening with dish
washing while Ruth had been and
general boss There were six guesooms and when fhe e
ecutves and directors biologists engineers Ross Con
sodaed the they always Dads guests
green right after supper and start
playing poker they would pull off their unhch their
suspendes and for the Jap bring cigars and his
key and soda and they would fill the with blue smoke and
move from their seats until the small hours of the morning
was an amusing Illustration OF the double standard
that Dad was glad his preferred to his and
and not hear the stories which the oil would
But there gambling this time-ths was to be high
referring his The naivey proud to have
professor visiting him. and to show refinery and the
score that drilling And Mr. Irving behaved beautifully
ney talked TIL midnight and he answered hundred Dads
questions about world affairs told seen of relief
work in Greece and of diplomacy in France
The young instructor had in high posions
so he knew things the inside they with what Dad
knewyes awful the way things being bungIed
Ny God here st telling the Japs to help themselves to
Saghaen that had oil perhaps than the rest of the
world and the British of getting work to repair
ne at Baku and at Mosul they had field
and the French were getting into Persia British and the
same III Syria and where your Sam Vernon Roscoe
@ raising he'll because he had had Bau
and what was the use of kicking out the Bohevs and putting
IN the Ango-Dutch? Roscoe said this country prac
teal man for president and not a college professor
Dad stopped afraid that he had break. but Mr.
irving laughed and said Don't worry Ross am not an
titled to that high honor expect ever to make e.
Dad went on with Roscoes trade the by goy had had
their lesson and going to get together have
say about the next election And Bunny his Bosbev in
structor exchanged the fanest glance and
he
bright young fellow It's pleasure talk man that nm
derstands affairs like him." 1850 'a' IN
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