The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-14

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BY T. }. o'FLAHERTV

THERE Is fellow by the name Of
Westbrook Pegfer, who reports
sporting events for Chicago news
paper Recently he commented facet
iously and acidly on type of human
animal that holds all those who live
hilariously to be destined for oblivion.
But the world series knocked this
position for a row of cracked baseball
bats. The two biggest buns in base
ball happened to be the two outstand-
ing heroes. They are: Babe Ruth and
Grover Alexander Not that liquor
did the trick. 1t just happened that
way. And it goes to chow that pro-
phets are always wrong.
TIME queen of Roumania will be
L popular in America, says fellow
by the name of vopicka. former
American minister to the Balkans
He is from Chicago which accounts
for good many things. Vopicka has
the distinction Of having once tickled
Marie in the ribs when the poor girl
had At, saying: Now, little girl,
don't cry, there will be stars in the
sky by and by" In return for this
good service 1t is said that Marie
turned fearful org on vopicka, hence
the bturb.
TODAY'S hot tamale goes to Brother
4 James oneal, editor OF New York
socialist paper. James IS precocious
lad, tho born in Indiana, where the
socialists turned klsagles when it be-
came evident that the pope was due
to live few years more. Oneal made
the mistake Of publishing fake story
Of an alleged speech delivered by
Joseph Stain and sent out over the
Hearst service. The speech threw
the hooks into Gregory Zinoviev, but
TOO much. So much so that it was
an obvious fake. Oneal published it
and took the consequences Which
were:
HNHE DAILY WORKER cabled to
l. Moscow and secured an authoritive
denial of the alleged speech Then
The DAILY WORKER passed the in
formation along to Oneal with the re-
quest that he do the right thing by his
publication and print the denial. But
you see, it is very hard for public,
man to come out and say that he
made fool of himself. So Oneal did
not. He stayed put. Now Jimmy, try
Ing to save his face, says that either
The DAILY WORKER falsified a
cablegram or else Stain did not tell
the truth. What can you do with
fellow like Oneal? He refuses to be-
lieve anything unless it appears in
the capitalist press.
TNTIE franc continues to fall despite
L the fact that PoiAcare is premier
and those who know anything know
that Poincare is a reactionary and
therefore according to capitalist ex-
perts, he should be q life-saver for
the franc. When he returned to power
the papers told us that the franc
would become healthy and surprise
people. Poincare pulled OF several
tricks, such as stopping tourists from
eating roast duck, with squad on
toast-oflcially. But the franc did
not recover. Now, that French poll
~ LII
Is more or less forgotten but one Of
these days the franc will again APP
pear in the headlines and Poincare
will get another vacation
T,HE big news Of the day is taking
4 place In China. A few days ago
we were told that Manchurians were
fighting the Japanese. 1t was fake
story. The, DAILY WORKER did not
know, but limited as much. Manchuria
is run by Chang Tso-Lin, who is a
Japanese agent. II the Manchurians
we're fighting the Japs II would have
meant that Chang had broken with
Toxic and was on some other pay
TOll, DllIlnH OI AHcIlCdu. hObL likely
British. In all probability the basis
for those stories was a revolt of the
Koreans on the Manchurian border
against the japanese.
HoW many times during the past
IL two years have we been told that
the revolutionary forces OF China we're
defeated? Yet today, the armies OF
the Canton government are marching
northward and are having a hard time
trying to locate the forces OF WI Pei
FL, the favorlte Of the American Inn
perialists An American correspondent
tells us that the Cantonese troops who
are investing Wuchang, treat non
combatants with courtesy, while WI
Pei-fu's brigands shoot everything in
sight except the enemy Soviet Rus