The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-24
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By THOMAS ]. o'FLAHERrY

By THOMAS J. OFLAhEHIY
THE latest report of the Aimee Nc
a Pherson episode Is that the grand
jury refused to issue any indictments
against the John Does" who are
alleged to have kidnapped the bathing
beauty evangelist and held her for
ransom. This is way the polite
Californians have of saying that
Aimee is a liar. California grand juries
are rather liberal with indictments,
particularly against radicals and trade
unionists, but despite Aimee's loud
bowls there was nothing they could
do for her
TT is very likely however that the in
L cident has served its purpose. A
government solicitous for the welfare
of those under its jurisdiction would
have Aimee arrested and indicted as
a public nuisance, for operating con-
fidence game. She has swindled more
people thru her bogus schemes than
many real estate operators who are
now behind the bars. The famous
financial wizard Ponzi. at least spent
some of the money he took from the
public in a royal reckless fashion. But
what Aimee spent is between herself
and that very convenient lord of hers.
THE Rev. Norris of Fort Worth,
L Texas, who slaughtered a fellow
townsman during the course of an
argument declares that he is thru try
ing to save the public. The public
should not be sorry over this decision
unless the divine uses less deadly de-
batting weapons in the future, provided
he does not spend most of his future
in a penitentiary. The ways Of the
lords anointed are hard to fathom.
Another clergyman was recently ar
rested during a raid on disorderly
house. His alibi was that he had a
seizure" and walked into this house
pending recovery. He was acquitted!
DY the time these lines appear in
- print 1t is likely that Herriot's
cabinet will have passed into history.
His successors are not likely to have
better luck until the international
bankers decide the time is ripe to
perform a little surgical operation on
the franc. II may be noted that
frances financial difficulties did not
hinder campaigns of determination
against the nationalists of Morocco
and Syria and it Is also worthy Of
note that the so-called radical Herriot
did not protest against those cam
paigns which cost millions of dollars.
THE death of Felix Dzerjhinsky re-
l. moves from Russian public life
one of the most powerful personal
tiles produced by the revolutionary
movement that led the Russian work
ers and peasants to victory in 1917.
The capitalist press overdid itself in
maligning this man. His position as
head. of the state political police,
which had a, difficult duty to perform,
enabled the dime novel ink-slingers of
the capitalist press to draw on their
imaginations for bloodcurdling and
fantastic stories calculated to make
Dzerjhinskys name a bugaboo among
the unknowing.
A S a matter of fact the deceased
"A was kindly man as everybody
who had the pleasure of having rela-
lions with him will testify. Under his
direction Russian prisons have been
turned into schools and no matter
what crime a prisoner may have com
mitted. its character is not permitted
to affect the attitude of the prison
officials towards him. A Soviet Off
cial speaking to a visitor who OBJ
served that Dzerjhinsky's name was
played up to inspire terror in Amer
ica said that on the contrary he was
kind-hearted to fault. When a pris-
oner was about to be released Deer
jhinsky invariably wrote to the prison
officials urging that the prisoner be
given money and that job be secured
for him. His death is great loss to
Russia and to the world.