The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-06
Cn1Y9ntEUentS
BY T. ]. o'FLAHERrY.


AVA est John" Walker, alias weeping
Johnny" did not pay single cent in
income tax on the graft he is alleged
to have received in return for his po-
litical activities in behalf of the cleo
ton of Frank L. Smith, Samuel In
sull's successful candidate for the
United States senate from the state
of Illinois. Mr.. Walker, as president
OF the Illinois Federation of Labor
threw the weight of his influence on
the side of Mr.. Smith, and senator
Caraway of Arkansas, democrat, be-
ing practical politician and discount
ing the virture of honesty, made haste
to state or the senate floor that good
" sums of money were disbursed by
Smiths treasurer to help Mr.. Walker
bring his followers to the polls to
vote for Mr.. Smith.
INDIGNATION swelled within Mr..
Walkers altruistic breast and this
feeling was communicated to other
labor officials whose motives in sup
porting capitalist politicians might be
the target for popular suspicion UNI
less the ca!umny cast upon Mr.. Walk
81 vas buried beneath q mountain of
trade union resentment. Mr.. Walker
busted himself forthwith but only sue
ceeded in strengthening the impress
SION that Honest John" was explain
ing too much.
TIME is a great healer and months
after Mr.. Walker had recuperated
from the strain Of serving the working
class for the paltry sum of $500 a
year in addition to suffering severe
Soul-wounds from an unscrupulous en-
cmy, he summed up enough moral
strength to again write Senator Cara
way after Honest John" in proof of
his honesty-as if such proof were
needed-filled out his income tax
blanks as a good citizen and paid
shekels to the internal revenue de-
partment on just $500 a year. This
is where Honest John" had Senator
Caraway by the most tender part of
his public conscience and Mr.. Walker
was no slow to seize the opportunity
TO hnmiiiate 4 i5e and UT his own
name in the papers again, this time
minus a hint of scandal.
EAR. WALKER dictated letter to the
"a senator in which he reminded him
IF his original accusation and contri-
buted to the senator's sum total of
general knowledge the information al
ready alluded to- "Now" queried John
in effect, eff / had received money
for political activities besides my reg
ular salary as president of the Hi
nois Federation of Labor would l not
as an honest citizen tot up those sums
and pay taxes on them to my govern
ment." This appears to be unanswer-
able and so it is. Senator Caraway
came back with the reply that he did
not intend to reflect on Mr.. Walk
cr's integrity but put little gall in
Johns cup of joy by stating that he
never heard Of Mr.. Walker before the
time he mentioned his name in con-
nection with the slush fund scandal
Now that Honest John" has cinched
his honesty and is square with the
internal revenue department the trade
unionists of Illinois can go to sleep
with an easy conscience since their
leader is exonerated.
KING FERDINAND of Rumania does
not like to make his exit in Winter
evidently agreeing with the Irish poet
who sang: "Sure the earth is hard as
mortar; tbs a cold time to die" The
king is suffering from cancer tho
why monarch who has withstood
queen Marie for decades should sue
cumb to such comparatively harra-
less disease is not clear. In the mean
time rival groups of bourgeois graft
crs are ready to fly at each, others
Threats as soon as "Ferdy" draws
his last breath
THAT even professors do not always
know what they are talking about
is revealed by an article in the State
Journal Of Wisconsin by Chinese
university student who has taken is
sue with Professor II. l.. Russell Of
the University of Wisconsin on the
Chinese question. The professor spent
two months in China and considered
himself thoroly equipped to tell an
American audience all about the coun-
TRY. One Of the inaccuracies given
depression to by Mr.. Russell who does
not know a word of the Chinese Ian
guage was that there are several
different languages in China. The
Chinese student corrects the profess
sor stating that there is only one
written language for all China tho
there are several dialects. Perhaps
Dean Russell does not know the diff
erence between a language and dia-
lect" asks the polite student.
WHAT the Chinese student does not
W do to the dean is not worth put
ttno IN papar HoJ 4h;o man Ruo~a1I