The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17
Red Rays

! Holm ID. WALKER, president of the
y Illinois State Federation of Labor,
was member of the delegation that
William Hale Thompson of Chicago
led to Washington to intercede with
the government in behalf Of the vic
tins of the Mississippi floods, and in
cidentally to help Thompson to
more advantageous position on the
political map, in line with his presi-
Dental aspirations. Walker is great
humanitarian now, tho he used to be
radical, and radicals cannot be hu-
manitarians in the broad sense as lar@
as a section of humanity exploits
other sections.
WALKER favored congressional ac-
" ton regardless of expense, be-
cause no written law should interfere
with the higher law of humanity to
prevent the recurrence of such
catastrophe" Walker knows very well
that the only law recognized by CAPT
talist governments is the law of
profit. Billions of dollars have been
expended on the Mississippi, but most
of it went into the pockets of con-
tractors to whom senators and con-
gressmen owed political debts. Walk
er is associated in Illinois with gang
of politicians that would steal the
sheet off corpse. Should congress
grant relief, the poor farmers along
the banks of the mighty river will
get little of it.
0TILL, it is worthy of comment that
a government that can afford to
spend millions protecting the in
terests of Wall Street bankers in
Nicaragua and in China cannot af-
ford to give a dollar to the victims
of the flood. Coolidge was not legally
obliged to call a special session of
congress to give him the necessary
authority to send marines to shoot
down the people in Nicaragua or to
sanction the massacre of hundreds of
Chinese by the guns of United States
warships, moored in the Yangste
River. There is a reason. 1t can be
found in the answer to the question:
who owns this government,
THE police are taking the usual pre-
cautions for the protection of
Christmas shoppers by announcing
that any criminal caught inside GER
tain area is liable to be arrested on
sight. After the Christmas holidays
our best criminals can roam the city
at will without fear of molestation.
This edict will give them chance to
work the Bronx, Brooklyn and other
sections that are usually scorned when
their field of operations is unlimited.
Our department store magnates must
be saved from embarrassment during
the Christmas rush.
DESPITE the general use of meats
~ and other foods considered fatal
by our best vegetarians, people live
longer nowadays than formerly, ac-
cording to DR.. Emanuel Baruch, who
has just returned from Europe. The
doctors age is not given, but he is a
handsome looking brute, sporting a
small hirsute forest under his nasal
appendage that might we'll excite the
envy of Ludwig Lore, or Alexander
Trachtenberg.
NEW discoveries are being made
~ every year, said the doctor, which
contribute to longevity. Even the
rascally liver that caused more trouble
than all the other organs put together
may be harnessed and compelled to
drop its evil ways. A Viennese doctor
discovered substance in the liver
which will stimulate to action a heart
that has ceased beating. The doctor
was good enough to try it on frog
whose heart action was stopped forty
five minutes. 1t worked, but we are
not informed what happened to the
frog, except that inside of seven
minutes his heart was beating more
strongly than ever before. The DR..
makes a good picture which fits in
nicely in three column yarn.
nR. John Roach Straton the funda-
mentalist preacher and publicity
expert who claimed that he was an
noyed by atheistic literature sent to
him thru the mails by Charles Smith,
president of the American Association.
for the Advancement of Atheism, has
now succeeded in annoying Mr.. Smith
by essaying to heal the sick by the !
laying on of hands. Mr.. Smith seeEs
to have DR.. Straton arrested as a
common quack, under the law that
prohibits practising medicine without
a license. There is little likelihood
that the district attorney will lift a
finger against the religious mounte-
bank, but had he been a helpless
chiropractor he would be locked up I
inside of twenty-four hours.
1.-TWO Bankers Jailed" is the annaz-
L ing headline in a New York even
ing newspaper few days ago. 1t
appears that the convicts took an
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