The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-15
Little Thots on Great Men

some gulch in the wide open spaces
and seriously tell the world that my
client was spending his time think
ing, and would have his say when
he thot the time was ripe. This
would have the nation developing
brain fever and the aspirants for
presidential honors in COP. ranks
would be tucked away in their re-
spective madhouses by them. He
would have the nomination by de-
fault.
PRESIDENT Harding was not noted
for mental animation but he was
dignified and only H. l.. Mencken and
other stylists poked fun at his Eng
lish, tho he broke into the diction-
airy with a sound word. 1t was
Harding that made "normalcy" what
it is today. Harding was going
strong when he died and we did not
know that he shot craps, played
poker and cavorted emotionally out
side the beaten track until the book
"Revelry" appeared. Then we Won
dered that he did not take a job as
bartender. But tho he may have lost
his dignity on occasion he did it
privately and among his peers. The
eyes of the masses whose minds are
filled with bourgeois prejudices don't
want to see their great men go around
with hanging shirtails. 1t simply
won't go at the polls.
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A MAYOR in great industrial city
"A has a different proposition on his
hands. Practically every mayor in
New York and Chicago for several
years have been good singers. Johnny
Fitzgerald of Boston rarely made q
political speech except when quoting
the bible against Jim Curley and the
latter was worshipped because he
would sing "That Dear Little Mother
of Mine" coming home from picnics
And in those days picnics brought
forth song. The mayor of New York
is more famous for his composition
will you love me in December as
you did in May?" than for his knowl.
edge of geography, and in all proba
bility if he cares to be mayor again 6
great proportion of the metropolitan
population will give it to him for the
song,
MAYOR Hylan was popular for diff.
:" ferent reason. He got strangle.
hold on an issue that was invulnerable
against an ordinary foe but what
could Hylan do against Jimmy
Walker, the ambulance man? Ir
Chicago Mayor Dever was dignity
personified but he was elected be.
cause all the other candidates were
more dignified. But when William
Hale Thompson returned from Cali
fornia with his cowboy hat and g
hand that could slap a back two
blocks away, Chicago went wild fol
him. Perhaps it was Bill Thompson's
hat that gave Calls publicity man the
idea of rigging his entry out in a
whole suit.
WOMEN are supposed to be un.
usually sensitive-ahother bour-
geOis delusion. But a sutton who
would approach his woman oozing
garlic and onions would not be more
reckless of his immediate future than
the presidential aspirant who would
give an exhibition OF vocal discord at
a rotarian stag party or allow him.
self to be snapped taking off his
trousers in a Pullman.
THE business of being president of
the United States is a nerve
wrecking one. If Coolidge had to GO
thru four more years of rapid-change
acts-from fisherman to farmer and
from cowboy to Indian-he would be
in line for job as a painted wild man
at a side show.
NEEDLESS to say Coolidge did not
~ decide that his days in the white
house were numbered merely because
he ran out of costumes. | have al
ready given my best guess as to why
he withdrew his headgear from the
ring. He was convinced that he could
no more carry the west than he
win out in Leningrad. His Geneva
stunt that would enable him to APP
peal to the taxpayers with money
saving platform was knocked for a
row of torpedoes and the third term
tradition did the rest. Still there is
something in Coolidge making a
clown out Of himself in South Dakota.
THINK OF THE SUSTAINING