The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
BY THOMAS }. or.


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+ ~ ENERAL LINCOLN C. ANDREWS,
- assistant secretary of the treasury
in charge of prohibition may not re-
sign his position after all. When he
offered his resignation originally, the
general had promise of remuner-
stive position with an eastern corpo-
lration. 1t has since been withdrawn.
Andrews did the same thing to his
resignation. One of those anxious to
take the generals salary is Wayne B.
Wheeler, head of the Anti-saloon
League. Wayne has as much chance
Of getting the job as frankie Lake,
the Chicago millionaire bootlegger. A
few months in Andrews job and
Wheeler could afford to go to Europe
and drink himself to death.
TTHHE government is experimenting
4 with new and swift-acting poisons
on Industrial alcohol in an effort to de-
nature It so that its consumption will
punish the guilty offender against the
Yolstead law without putting the gov
eminent to the trouble Of taking legal
action, We are of the opinion that
Mexico should intervene and help the
United States enforce its laws without
having to resort to assassination.
r EST the sensibilities of President
~ Coolidge might be affected by the
presence Of bootlegging in the vicinity
Of his summer residence 200 prohibi-
ton sleuths were concentrated on the
liquor canal at Malone, New York. Be
fore long the price of Scotch went up
from IS to So a quart and ale from
rs cents quart to $1.25, At the same
time Scotch that came via New Jersey
was sold within whispering distance
Of tho president for S. a quart. The
appropriation for the enforcement OF
the prohibition law was one of the
s4eras that was saved when Coolidge
ven TO work with the axe ON the
l937-192S budget This should help
keep the Anti-saloon lesgue safe for
the G. O. P.
THERE are 100000 lunatics in
: China according to an Associated
Press dispatch. That is not such a
baa showing for country with the
tremendous population Of 400,000,o00
The population of the United States is
only 11O, goo 900, but if one is to judge
~ the v6se cast eer the Democrat and
republican parties every four years,
the number of mental detectives in
tho u. S. is twenty times the Chinese
quota.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE assured
the general manager OF the Fed
Grated Fruhs and Vegetable Growers
that he favored more elastic credit for
farmers in general Perhaps you did
not hea5 the story Of the elastic check
for over $4,000 that was issued to a
race track winner by the Illinois
locker club. When the lucky winner
tried to turn the check into cash il
rebounded so violently that it almost
Knocked his eyes out. 1t was elastic
So is the kind of relief Cal would give
the farmers.
TIME New York Times rebukes the
i British miners for putting theiI
own leaders in a very awkward posi-
ton" The latest crime committed by
the miners is their refusal to accept
the settlement proposed by church
lenders. This is where the miners
were wise. Here is more proof thai
all wisdom is not lodged In the brains
of leaders. Perhaps it might be more
correct to attribute the wisdom of the
miners to the fact that they are the
people who stand to gain or lose b,
any settlement that is reached.
THE mine leaders made another mis-
4 take when they agreed to, commit
themselves TO arbitration in future dis
putes. They declared they would
agree in advance to abide by an.
award so made. This is something
that even the reactionary leaders O
the United Mine Workers of Americs
dared not openly accept, tho they
have slipped it over stIrfeptitiously il
the last anthracite agreement. The
leaders of the British miners have
fought well, despite tremendous oppo
sltion but It is consoling to know tha
a. the first sign Of weakness the ranl
and file step in and strengthen theil
backbone. .t. s8
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A LOUD wall has gone up to heaven
"A or where heaven is supposed t'
be. from the headquarters of the Anti
GIaKthu ~ thu