The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-12
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! HtHICAGO is located on the eastern
- outskirts Of the great open spaces
and in a city Of he-men. with more
caliuses on their hands than on their
heads. The mayor of Chicago comes
from Massachusetts, but his ancestors
did not come over on the Mayflower.
In fact it is rumored that the mayor,
at one time in his life worked in
tannery. Which does not explain why
he is mayor of this wealthy city. His
tory does not record the story of a
tanner who could afford to quit poll
tics and sojourn for period in the
alleged Holy Land merely because he
was tanner. Whether Dever is going
to Palestine to cater to his Irish or
Hebrew constituents is not stated.
DE that as it may, as the profess
- sional humorists say the queen of
all the Rumanians that are not in Jail,
is coming to Chicago this week and
our capitalist politicians have been
listening at the ward keyholes recent.
ly to gauge the intensity of the ANNA
ton inside the political cerebrum of
their reason for existence. French
scholars use more polite language,
particularly those who have patron
lied q Berlitz academy. What the
politicians have heard in this proleta-
rian city has convinced them that they
may lose nothing in the way Of pop
ularity by being out of town next Sat
urday, when the queen gets here.
A NEW YORK mayor never stopped
a to think what Gotham citizens
might do to him in the next election
because he garglsd his throat before
receiving a queen. Jimmy Walker
spends more money in Manhattan
cabarets in one month than would
keep the queen of Rumania's husband
in chewing gum for year. And it
appears that the natives OF our me-
tropolis are more surfeited with repub-
Iicanism than the Irish, Polish, Lithua-
MAN and Bohemian Americans that
make the Windy City the most Amer
lean burg in the United States. There
fore Jimmy Walker, mayor of New
York can ignore his constituents while
Mayor Dever must receive the queen
with finger nails unmanicured unless
ne wants to spend the rest Of his life
ia a political limbo
+ AsT sunday the Chicago Fedora
II tion of labor took crack at royal
~ and the reverberations reached City
Hall. Tho Mayor Dever worked in a
tannery he is not hidebound. or politi-
cally muscle bound. fear that the
democratic soul of our mayor might
be sufficiently corrupted to allow him
TO kiss the queens hand unless fear
OF losing votes acts as deterrent.
The mayor compromised with the
south of the yards" folks and decided
to appear before the queen in an Eng
fish walking suit Tho the mayor is
OF Irish descent he does not carry
blackthorn stick OF smoke an under
siung pipe.
GO Chicago alderman Will receive
~ tho queen OF receive her not as
the case may be, with the reception
depending on the political precocity of
the ward inhabitants, plus, what is
left OF the original honesty of the pol
iitlcians and their ability to follow
ths urgiDgs of their inner selves with
out being compelled to send their
wives and daughters to work in the
srockyards as retribution. No doubt
the average wife of an American pol.
hician (perhaps it should read the
wife OF the average American poll
clan" as this is a homogeneous country
would rather osculate the queens mitt
than accept a cake of ice from Red
Grange" not because the queens pull
ehritude is superior to that of the
famous football player, but because
queens are rarer than athletes, even in
America. And we know from our
study OF economics that the value Of
any article is determined by the So
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