The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-30


them by ancestors that conquered a
city by marching a horsefull Of armed
Greeks into it. Since the Greeks were
entirely surrounded by horse the de-
tenders of the doomed city did not
know what they were getting until
they got it in the neck.
I AM reminded of this ancient myth
by the announcement that the Greek
section of the Workers (Communist)
Party is about to launch daily pa
per. It will see the light on July LIST
and its baptismal name is "Empros."
i The christening will take place next
Friday evening at Bryant Hall and
the Greek workers have issued a
blanket invitation to as many as can
be accommodated in the hall to come
and say "hello' to the baby. Here is
a gift for the Greek workers in Amer
lea that they are sure to appreciate.
We cordially greet it.
THE old saying "as safe as bank"
! does not mean thing any more.
Two Los Angeles bankers are &C
cused of embezzlement in a petrole-
UNI deal. Of course this is not so
bad at that. The bankers simply took
advantage of their positions to
swindle the public thru the issue of
fake stock. Bankers usually plunge
their arms to the elbows in the
treasures and make themselves
scarce. Sometime ago there was quite
a movement thruout the middle
west for the organization of vigil
antes to protect banks from hold-up
men. But the bankers got nervous
and the movement did not develop.
CALVIN COOLIDGE is in the grip
of a South Dakota heat wave. The
s. d. sun must have its nerve. Look
ing at the presidential face in the
shade of that ten gallon hat we
should think that the sun would need
an electric blanket to keep from
freezing. If this sultry condition
continues the Coolidge slogan that
rendered good service in the last
national elections will be useless in
the next. Instead of keep Kool
with Koolidge" it will be "Vote For
Coolidge and Get Skinned"
BECAUSE of low wages and still
y lower tips, three employees of a
Fifth Avenue millionaire are said
to have destroyed quarter of mill
lion dollars worth of art housed in
that gentleman's luxurious apart
ments. Judging by the names of the
alleged vandals arrested by the pol
ice, charged with the destruction, they
are of the catholic faith. So far they
have not been charged with harbor-
ing "subversive" ideas. The only
mitigating circumstance that might
be offered in extenuation of their
act is the consumption of large auan-
titles of liquor which they apparently
located on the premises of their en-
ployer.
ROCHESTER police are taking a
~ kindergarten course in literature
as a result of the theft of several
rare volumes from local bookstores.
The police found in the vicinity of
$1,000 worth of literature in the home
of Donald Gothals, so they immedi-
ately assumed that only thief would
be liable to have such a well stocked
library. The police admit it is the
toughest assignment ever handed to
them. The chief however is keeping
them well supplied with aspirin and
bromo settler.
CIXTEEN year old evangelists are
y now the rage. We thot that Aimee
Semple Mcpherson was knocked for
row of Elmer Gantrys by Uldine
Utley, who made some of his trouble
for Rev. DR.. John Roach Straton
But Aimee came back by proxy. One
of her husbands forseeing squalls
ahead bestowed a child on her. This
child Roberta, has now become filled
with the holy ghost and is on the
way to filling the maternal Golfers
with dough. She is now in Chicago
with a novel theory that should make
Cicero go to bed for year.
INSTEAD of taking her text from
the scriptures, the youthful usher
of the lord picked up an old gag
that was ancient in Pullman smoking
rooms twenty years ago. It is "two
is company, but three is a crowd.
We never thot that this prosaic tru-
ism would be turned into cash, but
here is where we were mistaken. The
Chicago correspondent of the New
York World, himself filled with the
holy spirit or. Italian red, gives
Roberta Semple credit for "convinc-
ing logic. Lest you might think we
are kidding we will let the sixteen
year old explain it in her own way.
"Two who make company are god
and yourself. When the devil
comes in he makes three, and it is
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