The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
CURRENT EVENTS
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soling. 1t seems that those who were
most active in putting over the dry
amendment found remunerative posi-
lions enforcing the law. And they en-
forced it for consideration. Our
bone-dry senator pulled down the tidy
sum of $4,000 for using his influence
with the prohibition director to secure
permits for wine dealers at so much
per gallon. Those wine dealers had
to be rabbis with congregations. But
some Of those rabbis bore such Hebrew
names as O'Toole and MacFiggin and
got away with it because they handed
out the coin.
THE scorn that was once reserved
= the liquor dealer is now hurled at
the Anti-Saloon League. 1t has come
to the point now where a prohibition
list is looked on with as much. sus.
picion as a christian in Turkey. At
least l once heard nationalist (who
was everything but that tell story
of visitor to Turkey who, noticing
that the Turks did not lock their doors
expressed his surprise to his guide.
Don't you fear robbers?" he asked.
Why no." answered the Turk, "there
is no need for taking such precau-
tons. There is not christian within
lima I,,pdraJ ~.f1oo 49,.
! CTILL it is funny to see George i.
~ Brennan, waging his campaign
from hospital cot and waging 1t very
well. George is no Apollo. He is the
living personihcation of beer barrel.
Had George faced the voters, in all
probability they would have turned
around and voted for the Andy Gump-
chinned Frank L. Smith. Fat men are
not in style any more, and Brennan
has more chins than you could count
on the fingers of both hands. But the
funniest thing about the bed sheet
campaign is that (according to rumor)
it was Brennan's wooden leg that got
scratched. If that is the case and
George is elected, there may be a
plague of wooden-legged candidates In
the next elections. Anyhow 1t is more
pleasant to talk to the voters In your
nightshirt that climb the front porch
to get them.
THE queen OF Roumania is out Of
luck in Canada. Even the coyotes
Of Manitoba do not howl for her. The
reason is that Canada has seen every
thing in the aristocratic line from the
prince Of Wales to J. H. Thomas, polit-
ical secretary of the National Union
Of Railwaymen. If the queen wants to
see human beings doing the snake act
in earnest she had better come to Chi
cago quick. Our four hundred are
ready to wiggle down Michigan boule-
ward on their bellies to show how low
they consider themselves in the pres
ence of queen. Glorious democracy!
THE three readers OF The DAILY
WORKER who vowed they would
read It no more because they thought
we did not do the right thing by our
Aimee, should repent Of their hasti-
ness now. II anything ever hung by
hair 1t is the evangelist's reputation.
The religious confidence woman lied
her way brazenly tho not successfully
thru lengthy trial and as II her god
was nodding when he should be watch
ing over the fortunes OF his child, a
trunk load OF wearing apparel that
was toted around the country by her
radio operator was seized. The Hearst
press did not have so much fun since
It ran the diaries OF Peaches" one for
and the other against Daddy" Brown
ing. They spread pictures OF pajamas
and kimonos all over the papers. II
there are any evangelists left that
have not been caught in some naughty
actions let them come forward and
clear 1hemselyesl