The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-27

There was another charge the
prophet was said to be fond Of the
company of handsome young wona-
en-. That was a cruel thing to hint,
because Eli was strenuous in de-
nouncing foundations and adulter-
les, as much so as any Hebrew
prophet of the First Revelation.
Dad chuckled and specialized until
it happened one day that he and
Bunny took long drive, and
stopped at an unfrequented beach,
looking for a place for Bunny to
get swim. There was a cheap
hotel on the waterfront, and com
ing out of the door, whom should
they run into but Eli Watkins, with
an Individually handsome young
woman! The young woman walked
quickly on, and Eli exchanged
greetings with Dad and Bunny, and
then excused himself. Dad stood
for minute, looking after the cou-
pie and saying, "By golly"
Then he turned and went into the
hotel, and to the man at the desk
remarked, in a casual tone, 81 met
that gentleman, but his name has
slipped my memory-the one that
Just went out"
"That's Mr.. T. G. Brown, of Santa
Ynez."
as he staying here?
"He just checked out"
Dad began to glance over the
hotel register, and there he read,
as big as life, "T. C. Brown and
wife, Santa Ynez." And in the
crude scrawly handwriting of Eli
Watkins, which Dad had at home
upon several business letters! 1t
was all Dad could do to keep from
bursting out laughing. By golly,
if he were to tip off Tom Poober
TO the contents of that hotel regis
ter, he would knock. the Third Rev
elation as high as a kite!
III
President Harding died; and Dan
Irving wrote Bunny the gossip
from Washington. The old gentle
man had been reluctant to take the
oil mems money, so Barney Brock
way and his "fixer" had fixed
things for him---they had carried
an account" in Wall Street brok-
erage, a method whereby business
men make life comfortable for
statesmen. Every now and then
they would bring the old gentle
man a bundle of liberty bonds
which they had "won" for him.
And now his widow had found sew
eral hundred thousand dollars of
these bonds in a safe deposit box,
and become convinced that he had
meant them for another woman,
and was in such a fury about it
that she was telling all her friends,
and giving great glee to Washing
ton gossip.
And then the new president; a
little man whose fame was based
upon the legend that he had put
down a strike of the Boston police
men, when the truth was that he
had been hiding in his hotel room,
with black eye presented to him
by the mayor of the city. His
dream in life, as reported by him
self, was to keep a store, and that
was the measure of his mentality.
He didn't know what to say, and so
the newspapers called him a
STRONG silent man.
Bunny didn't publish much of
this, because Rachel didn't approve
of gossip. But they did publish
some of the inside facts about pro-
fessionalism in college athletics,
and when this was offered for sale
on the campuses, the athletic
students mobbed the "Ypsels." But
even the mobbers read the paper,
and Bunny was having the time of
his life.
In December the new Congress
assembled, and an alarming state
Va dLAdiAS was LSNCdicu, Itlc III
surgents" had the balance of power
in the Senate, and their first move
was to combine with the Demo-
Gratis and order an investigation of
the oil leases. This news fell upon
Dad and Verne like a thunderbolt--
their scouts in Washington had
failed to foresee such a calamity,
and Verne had to jump into his pri-
vate car and hurry to Washington,
to see what last-minute expendi-
ture of cash might do. Apparently
it didn't do much, for the committee
proceeded to put witnesses on the
stand and grill" them-a terrify-
ing newspaper phrase, but really 1t
was not so much culinary opera
ton as an explosion, with the de-
bris scattered all over the front
pages of the press.
The thing was too sensational to
be held down any longer. 1t didn't.
read like politics, but like some
blood and thunder movie. Secre-
tary Crisby hadn't had the sense to
put his oil money into liberty bonds
and hide them in safe deposit box
he had gone like a fool and paid
off big mortgage on his Texas