The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-07
Red Rays

TO use ones head is good business
precaution, but to use ones feet
is sometimes better. Dancing is an
exercise that cannot be too highly
praised, according to the owners of
terpsichorean parlors and publicity
agents for affairs such as The DAILY
WORKER Freiheit Ball, that will be
held in Madison Square Garden on
December 18th.
IT is not often that this column re-
sorts to boosting; it's chief
speciality is knocking. But there is a
nickel under our heel, and we hope
that there will be thousands of dol
lars in The DAILY WORKER
treasury after December 18th. (The
Freiheit can do it's own hoping) L hear
that delegations from distant cities
are coming to the ball and this
should be an added incentive to at
tend it. Of course, the big incentive
will be the desire to help the Com
munist press survive the SHOWS Of
winter.
TAMMANY HALL, the historic
headquarters of New York "demo-
cracy" has been sold for about three
quarters of a million dollars. The
wigwam will move uptown to the
more respectable neighborhood Of
59th Street. Perhaps Tammany has
grown too decent for the old-fashioned
burlesque house on 18th Street. Any
how, tiger may change his under
wear, but he never changes his char,
acter. The odoriferous political In
stitution known as Tammany, will be
as corrupt on 59th Street as it was
on 18th.
! WILLIAM J. BURNS is as clever at
I" producing an alibi that will stand
up in court as he is at jury-fixing. He
now contends that he is no longer a
controlling factor in the Burns Agency
and was not consulted about the con-
spiracy to buy up the jury in the
Fall-Sinclair trial This is just as
believable as if Henry Ford said that
he did not dictate the policies of the
Ford Motor Company.
GOVERNOR Smith has decided to
probe the suspicious circumstances
connected with the Queens sewers.
cannot think of a more appropriate
diversion for capitalist politician.
Should Mr.. Smith delve deeply into
the smelly recesses of'the latest NUM-
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perfumed for the presidential nomina-
ton when the time arrives for Wall
Streets two parties to pick their can
didates.
THE republicans and democrats are
playing a tit for tat game in this
graft business. A few weeks ago a
prominent G. 0. P. office holder was
charged with having misappropriated
over one million dollars of state
funds. At that time we predicted
that it would not be long until the re-
publicans got something on their
political rivals. The graft expose in
Queens is the reply.
| The foxy ArlStlde BRAND, former
socialist, seems to be preparing
an acid bath for the ex-socialist Mus
solini. Indeed it would not surprise
US to hear that Great Britain has
also been outmaneuvered at the re-
cent Geneva disarmament parley.
The rupture between France and the
Soviet Union has been healed and the
governments of both countries have
agreed to resume the debt negotia-
tions. The Soviet Union gained enor-
mously in international prestige thru
the peace program put forward by
Litvinoff.
GREAT BRITAIN is now the only
v big European power without diplo-
matte relations with the Soviet Union.
With the Soviet Union taking a hand
in the business of preventing the
small nations from being made the
catspaws of the schemes of the i'm
perlallst powers, Great Britain's
ability to use Poland, Lithuania and
Roumania against the U. S. S. R. will
be considerably lessened. Powerful
financial interests in Britain are
bringing pressure on the tory govern
ment to renew relations with the So,
Wet Union. The tories are stiffI
necked and proud, but the "nation If
shopkeepers" will swallow it's nT.;da
where pounds sterling are concevned
EUGENE TUNNEY the pugiltst who
boxes with his feet as well an
with his hands is developing rinto one
OF our most outstanding rotarians.
He believes that citizens should baths
occasionally, refrain from Z beating
their wives and practise other equally
homely virtues. Addressing an audi
ence of school children the great leg
man paid tribute to the quality Of
craftsmanship adding: "And the quail
ity that would place next to sports
In,