The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
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By t. J. o'FLAHERTY.


~ fenced to serve three months in
Jail for his refusal to answer ques-
tions asked by the senate. l am just
looking at his picture taken with
his attorney Martin Littleton, noted
authority on patriotism. Littleton
is one of those fellows that believe
all radicals should be shot first and
tried afterwards. He gurgles with
love for his country and regrets
that there are not more than about
ten ell magnates who are willing to
go to Jail for it. Sinclair and Little
ton are smiling and the story under
the picture tells us that Sinclair has
appealed the sentence.
CINCLAIR may spend few months
in Jail. There is an election APP
preaching and it may be politically
inexpedient for the Coolidge admin
istration td let the impression go
out that the boon companions of
Fall, Daugherty and Jess Smith are
immune from punishment. But Sim
clair will retain his responsibility,
even in jail and his dividends will
continue to flow even as his oil.
While the senate considers Sinclair
more or less of crook the capital
list system will see to it that his
slaves stick to their jobs.
MRS. COOLIDGE is conducting an
IVA active propaganda to help return
her husband to the White House.
Mrs. Coolidge is not saying much.
Like her husband, she has very little
to say and does not say it. She APP
preciates the virtue of silence. She
is shown in one picture visiting the
headquarters of the Army Medical
Corps in Washington. She tastes
their food and observes: Really, not
so bad" Now, really, not SO good
even for Mrs. Coolidge.
THE day of spinach is nearing its
eve according to DR.. Alvarez of
the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Min
nesota. The fact is we never thot
spinach would outlive figs, carrots
and onions as a health-diet. Of
course it may come back into its
own again, on the heels of new
advertising campaign. Still, there
is something to what DR.. Alvarez
says. He assails the dieticians who
stuff their victims with health-foods
which their victims strongly resent.
"The time will come" declares DR..
Alvarez, "when spinach viii retire
into the background, and milk toast,
custard and calf's foot jelly will
again appear on the tray of the in
Valid Good for the doctor. He is
probably all wrong but not more so
than the rest of them. There is
nothing more conductive to national
apathy than to have truth get by
with murder any longer than de-
cade.
THE New York Evening Post states
quite correctly that the most in
teresting place to observe war is on
a painted canvas. This profound OBJ
servation was inspired by looking at
the Pantheon de la Guerre" in Mad
ison Square Garden. This picture
was imported from Paris, no doubt
for some commercial purpose. There
are six thousand characters, with
the statesmen and outstanding gen.
erals standing out in bold relief.
The common soldiers who did the
fighting are represented by
smudge. And in the section devoted
to Russia's part in the war the Gar
gets the laurel wreath and right in
a corner is a picture of a peasant in
the act of hurting torch into the
picture. When Napoleon said that
history was a fable agreed on or
words to that effect he knew what
heNwas talking about.
CAPTAIN Lindbergh's feat in making
Y the NONSTOP hop to Paris has
driven the Mississippi flood off the
front pages of the capitalist press.
The people are more interested in the
spectacular accomplishment of Il new
. aviation stunt than in the misfor-
Ntunes OF oUO,OOO ueStltuJe 4lOou VIC
fins. And the capitalist papers
always concerned chiefly with more
nrofits thru increased circulation and
more advertising revenue ignore the
necessity for focusing national at
tention on the Mississippi victims.
CALVIN COOLIDGE is opposed TO
Ucalling special session Of congress
to consider ways and means Of re-
lieving distress in the flood regions.
Coolidge fears that some hardy
wight might throw some light on the
the great congressional pork barrel.
colossal graft that has flowed out OF
Appropriations for rivers and harbors
has been velvet for our lawmakers.
Most of this money has gone INTO
the pockets Of contractors and there