The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-09
Red Rays

oftlclo, at the legal murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti has returned from an
lcognito visit to Europe. Coincident-
ally with his return it is announced
that the ruling classes of Massachu-
sets will take steps to amend their
( criminal law so that it will be i'm
possible for workers convicted on a
framed murder charge to dodge the
chair for six years. They will see to
it that Sacco and Vanzetti have not
died in vain!
! I IBERTY, a weekly magazine, of
December 10th, carries a letter
from person by the name of Earl
j. Brennan of Los Angeles, which
| sounds as if Mr.. Brennan belongs to
the stoolpigeon variation of the hui
man species. He claims that Sacco
and Vanzetti were kept alive for six
years so that the chat could be passed
and repassed." This fellow claims
that Moscow "sent over here, raised
over S350,000 and took it back to
Russia" Mr.. Brennan claims that
he was con the inside" What's the
lowdown on this bird Or is he just
nutty like the great majority of Los
Angelians?
THE big contest for the publicity
I championship of the world is now
in its last lap with the field reduced
to George Bernard Shaw and E.
Haldeman-Julius. Shaw is a tongue
ahead of Julius as these lines are
written, but the Girard whirlwind may
pull off an illegitimate story at any
moment that may have Shaw skulking
among the want ads.
&HAW has fesorted to many schemes
to get the Irish mad with him, but
despite his efforts he was not
emlnently successful until last week.
1t is true that he irrltated many of
them by taking sly digs at the pope,
but the great majority of the Irish
are decidedly anti-papal and privately
rellshed the dramaClsts' castigation of
the holy man on the Tiber. Shaw is
getting old, and fearing that he might
die without getting the entire Irish
race on his neck, he made last bold
fling for success and brought home
the bacon.
4E charged the inhabitants of the
~ Irish Free State with being in
corrigible and incurable beggars. This
blanket charge took them all iny
atheists, anti-clericals, catholics, So
cialists, laborites, intellectuals, petty
bourgeois and bartenders. The come
back was like the reaction of a tenn
peramental mule to the tickling of
his heel. George is good for the front
page for at least month, or until
all Irishmen who need a little pub
licity find the newspapers closed to
their anti-Shaw fulminations.
Y HALDEMAN-JULIUS got most
A' of his publicity, until recently by
purchasing full-page advertisements
in the big dailies. He has been SELL
ing his "little blue books" with zone
more week only" slogan for the past
five years. After all, man that
must pay for his publicity has some
thing wrong with his style. Taking his
cue from Will Durant, who wrote
book about himself and his wife and
child, julius decided to marry his al
legged daughter to one of his en-
ployes. In order to give the affair
standing he branded the thing a
"Companionate marriage"
LIE made the grade, but he was not
"A satisfied. So he decided to marry
his wife a second time. This was
good for few more sticks of type.
but it was not enough. His next stunt
was to declare that his alleged daugh-
ter was illegitimate, born six years
before his marriage to Miss Halde-
man. And this is just where he
wrecked himself. A Kansas miner
whose daughter the girl is, went on
the war path in defense of his dauSh-
ter's honor and julius is now leaving
Girard, Kansas for Freeport, Illinois.
Shaw wins. 1t is better to be cursed at
than laughed at.
THE end of all poverty is near, says
Dean Dexter S. Kimball, of Cor
nell University. Har, Har, Dean and
Cheerio! You have lifted a heavy
load off our chest. Somehow things
are looking brighter now; indeed a.
this moment the sun has just emerp ,ed
from a cloud or cloud floated,, bv
the sun. Anyhow the sun is shayninsr
and we smell food.
THE Dean does not think a 1evolu-
ton will be necessary to abolish
poverty. The big-hearted capitalists
will accomplish this worthy aim. o,=-
productive capacity is developing &c
fast that there will be plenty for
everybody, so what excuse can there
be for poverty? This is the way it
looks to the Dean. But drat it, if we
are not full of skepticism, since we