The producers news., 1927-03-18

"Well just so Miss Riggs and so
when the mayor pastes Him one IN
the eye He turns the other eye to
him and so through the rest of the
strike He is shut up in His hotel
room. But that don't matter because
he bankers and the business men
AXE charge anG they gets out the
ollege-bOys and smashes the strike
ivh clubs and brick-bats and law and
o der is safe. And when the Govern
g.. sees that it is all over He gets
.ut a rslsing proclamation in which
says that He is determined to
put down law-breakers and of course
hat tickles the newspapers they
spread it all over the front page and
Ire public that don't know it is over
.hey goes wild because you know
how it was Miss Riggs a few years
ago we was in the middle of smash
i~ the Reds and shipping them back
% the country where they come from
! seeing they don't like this one. And
of course the plain people was scared
out of their wits to realize that the
Bolshivikis had been so clever because
if Irish Catholic policemen goes Red
who would there be left to stay
/ white?"
81 remember reading about it,"
says, ''now that you tell me and
know l was scared myself"
Exactly and this Strong Man He
was the One that had put down the
revolution so when the next party
convention come off and the pOliti-
clans was looking around for some
body for Vice-Spokesman why here
He was and the convention goes wilC
and He is nominated in a whirlwind
And how is anybody going to know
that the Old Spokesman is going tt
die and leave this scared little Office
boy the job of telling the American
people what to think ?"
"Well Mr.. Edgerton," / says, d"
see how it is now of course and
am very much obliged to you for ex
planning and of course l will do tn,
~es5 can" l says, because what
cveI happens we nave got to hole
them Reds down. OF course | hav,
got no use for labor unions that i
.ust a bunch of leaders looking for
chance to wear white collars an,
what do they care if they call
strike and the wives and children ha
got to go hungry at home?"
THAT is it exactly" he says, "you
ecVld common sense as usual and j
looks as if there was some NOR
strikes coming ana they will try T.
put them off on the Spokesman, am
you will be the little girl that vii
know what to tell Him to says abou
it."
Well we are walking home and
am nearly there and | tell him h
had better not go no farther becaus
we don't know what his wife may
doing and we have got to be carefu
so we shake hands and parts and
climb up to my hall-bedroom and
forgot to tell you Nom my landlad
has give me an embroidered splash
er that has got a red lily on it [
hang on my wall and it is a Lowell
decoration she done that because "
have got to be friends since she we
there when Mrs. Edgerton come
see me and insulted me. Well it
4 good thing to be friends with you
landlady because some time when
l get stuck for my rent for few day
she will be more polite with me.
p S. Well Nom it is the next da
and have just got back from tt
lite Beauty Parlors and my God
, have sure had a time l don't kno
l will ever go back because "
''"ve had a strike and who do yo
: think was the leader of it of all PEI
= pie in this world your own Nam
: Riggs and what do you know abol
> that? / will stell you the story rigl
= eff.
= = 1t was Florabelle that begun it
! ! call her Floradumbelle hut she is g
y rood business sense all the same al
{ she says to Hattie Schoenstein, 'N
: lanGlady has raised the rert on n
: a dollar a week and what am | g
: ing to do must l go without n
: lunches" And Hattie that | ha'
y called Hotaire she says, "And Il
y madame has raised the price of
y manicuring twenty-five cents b
=. what good does that do u.s." Al