The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
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tcOpyrlEht. 1875. By Upton srnolair1


The sun went down and it was
his getaway first had dinner and when he thru
his napkin neck, and leaned back in his chair with
sigh Of conten and while he was unrong his cigar from its
gold foil he fixed his srewd upon Bunny across the table
Jim Junior I'll tell you what's the matter with you
can right" said Jim Junior receptvely.
You're a kid you're too god-damn serious. You
hardyou your old both You got to get
little fun as you go along and know what you need You got
Not right now said Bunny bushing a trne.
II thought You need to take and cheer
up Mind YOU don't of these azzbabiesget girl
that's got like Annabele. You know Annabele
1--WE never met her. I've seen her, OF course"
Dd you her Madame Teezee'? By Jees that's what
call pcture-Ony made money Of by the way
Well that girl takes of me like motherh she'd been
here wouldn't drunk all that beer bet! You up
lmy time Annabeen find you grots of EN-
up there with the ginger EN- too and she's regular little
ch-makernever so happy as when she's pairing EN- off
two little love-bhd in Why don't drive back with
I've got to go college the day after said
Bunny
That's what he needs too gr-Pve told him a times
You got girl yet jim? By Jees blush maid
bust the rougepos in cheekshey old skeezks? And
the great man who had been getting out OF his chair as he dis
things like that that made you know Vernon Roscoe
had big heart He seemed to have really taken fancy
Bunny and concerned that he should learn enjoy life
You some time kddo he said he loading
himself into his big limousine Don't you forget now,
III show what country place be like and you make
the old man get one too And Bunny said all right he would
come and the engine began and the rolled off in the
moonlight and the big laughing voice died away among the hills
$50 long, kiddo",
Bunny back house. followed Dad into HIS
study and shut the door Dad you really going put up
that money with Mr.. Roscoe?"
why sure, son. got why Dad looked genuinely
suprseda he always did these You could be
how much of acting sly devil and
not above using his arts those he loved.
Dad you're proposing to buy the presidency the
well son, you can put it that way"
"But that's what it is Dadp'
well that's way say it. Another is pro
ectng ourselves against rivals that
ness we don't take of politics. Wen up
the East have put of millions put Leonard
Wood across Are you roofing for him?"
Bunny understood that this rhetorical question
did not answer it. TITS such dirty game Dadr
81 know but it's the only game there is Of course can
the shelf SON. 'U'-' l''N -
we just run our own business Dad? It was YOU
may remember, question Bunny had asked before
There's such thing, son-theyre ist crowding YOU all
the time They block the renee they you at the
markets they block you in the banks tell you much
ABOUT IT, because it's troubles but there's st place the
ness world for the little Teller any think I'm big
Teller because twenty million Verne is big fell
Ter because he's got fifty but there's Excelsior Peehy or
forty companies, all working onethats billion dol
against And there's Victor four hundred
million and all the insurance company resources
behind the-what chance Independents got? Look at
this slump in the price Of right newspapers YOU
gut that's all rot-what makes the gut bnt tbe
Big Five dumping onto the market little feers?
Why they're jist wiping EN- off the slater s...
But how can public officials prevent that?"
There's thousand things that son-we m
land the first waoprght at the sound How do we
get pipeline ghto-ways? How get terminal facilities?
got this development hadn't paid Cofey? Where
would Verne and be right we didn't sit down with
II are right! AND now-whats the difference? J this got
bigger were payin the game scae-thats all "
Verne and me and Pete oRey and Fred orpan get the
tracts we got our eyes on well thereH be the Big Six Big
Seven or Big Eight in the oil that's a-and set this
down for sure son. Wen be dom what the fees done
from tne DAY hat petroleum came into fifty years ago.
Ito be contnued0