The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-11

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Copyright, 1925, by Upton Sinclair,


In truth the land Of the pilgrims
I pride no longer existed in its place
was the land of the millionaire's
glory. When moving picture star
went East, with or without a para
mour, she always left by daylight,
and her publicity man saw to it that
the newspapers published the time
and place. There would be shout
ing thousands, and policemen to
hold them back, and cameras click
ing, and armfuls of flowers to let
everybody on the train know who
was who. There would be crowds
at every station, calling for a
glimpse of their darling; and if she
had an oil prince travelling in the
same compartments that was not a
scandal, it was romance.
And when they got to New York,
there was another crowd, conjured
into being by the efficient publicity
machine of Sohwolsky-Superbs. At
the hotel there were people waiting,
and more armfuls of flowers, and a
dozen reporters demanding inter
views. And with all that free ad-
vertising for the hotel, was any Of
ficious clerk or house detective go
ing to concern himself with the ques-
ton OF whether or not the connect
ing door between the two suites was
Kept locked? And with parsonage
of such manifest authority as ]. Ar
onld Ross travelling along, and
beaming his approval on the situa-
ton? Dads face was as good as a
dozen marriage certificates at any
hotel in the land!
For the old man this journey was
just peaches and cream all the way;
vicarious jag, with no Hangover"
the next morning. He insisted upon
paying all the bills; and he had his
secretary along, so everything just
happened by magic-train accommo-
dations, hotel suites, taxicabs, flow.
ers, candy, theater tickets-you he'd
only to hint wish, and the thing
was there. What more could there
be to add to mortal bliss? Only
that Wee would have liked to eat
square meal now and then, and to
have spent the morning in bed, In
stead of having to keep an appoint
ment to reduce" at gymnasium!
They saw the world premiere of
"Come-Hither Eyes, Possibly you
have never been to college in Amer
lea, and do not understand our lively
ways of speech; so let it be ex-
planned that sometimes the eyes OF
"co-eds" have been observed to pos
sess, whether from natural endow-
ment or by practice acquired, a GER
tain quality suggestive to the male
creature of an impulse to proximity,
A delicious title, you see; and de.
licious picture, transporting tired
and bored millions into that very
same world of glorious money-spend-
ing to which Wee and Bunny had
been lifted up. The mechanic who
had been screwing up nut number
S47 in an automobile factory all day,
the housewife who had been wash
ing baby diapers and buying shoddy
goods in five and ten-cent store
these were placed in the same posi-
ton as Dad, enjoying a vicarious
jag with no hangover the next
morning.
The scenes at the New York pre-
miere were the same as in Angel
City; the crowds as great, and the
cheering an enthusiastic. And Wee
and Bunny, sitting up in bed in their
silken garments, while black-clad
robots silently and mechanically
served breakfast on silver trays
Wee and Bunny read the accounts of
their triumph, and who had attended
and what they had worn. And then,
turning over the paper, Bunny read
a despatch from Angel City-ten
thousand oil workers had walked
out on strike, and the industry was
tied up tight. The operators an
nounced that they were no longer
willing to recognize the oil board,
and issued new wage scale that
was to be taken or left. Trouble
was feared, added the newspapers,
because it was known that radical
agitators had for some time been ac-
tive among the men.
Continued tomorrow