The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14
Red Rays


- as the wife of fellow by the name
of Lyle Womack, celebrated Armistice
Day by returning from Europe and
flying into the arms of contracts
worth 100000. When the honest wo-
man was informed of her good for
tune she exclaimed, ooh, isn't that
nice" This frankness should immedi-
ately make Miss Elder the most popu-
lar lady in America; indeed she
should grab off the vacancy left by
Mary Picl<ford, Americas erstwhile
sweetheart
AM of the opinion that the people
4 are almost tired of Lindbergh by
now. In the first surge of excitement
over mis- flying feat, they were ready
to believe anything, but his repeated
objections to accepting money raised
doubts as to his sanity in the minds
of the sophisticated people of this
great country. And when he finally
landed on the Guggenheim payroll it
was learned that he had collected in
the vicinity of one million dollars
from various sources since his return
from Paris.
! THERE are thousands of manned
victims of the world war scattered
turnout the country in hospitals. Only
on Armistice Day is there any notice
taken of them. The great majority
of those unfortunates will be crippled
for life physically and many of them
are gibbering idiots. They were pa
triots. They saved country that
was in no danger from attack. But
more important they saved Morgan's
billions that were in danger because
they were wagered on an allied VIC
tory, a victory that was almost blown
sky high when the United States en-
tered the war.
# II those wrecks had the use of their
mental faculties last Friday it must
have been a great consolation for
| them to learn that all traffic was
stopped in this great city for two
minutes in honor of the glorious end
on the banners of the allied powers.
And it. must also give them a thrill
to read that General Motors, one of
Morgan's pets, declared another COL
ossal dividend. And when a New
York banker tired of amassing more
wealth decides to hire ship for a
tour around the world, our heroes
should feel happy in the thot that
they did not get crippled in vain.
THE efficacy of prayer that comes
from the fullness of the clerical
heart was demonstrated in Pottsville.
Pa, last week when under pressure
OF suppllcations from several hundred
tclergymen, sent up to heaven in be-
half of the coal industry, snow began
to fall and the temperature dropped,
An anthracite cooperative congress
was scheduled to meet in a few days
when boss and worker, the exploiter
and exploited would gather to devise
ways and means of getting the an
thraclte industry out of the trenches
before Christmas. Why can't the la
Dor takers and the operators take q
rest and let the sky-pilots pray the
business back to normally? The God
that lowered the temperature thru
mass prayer should not find a little
matter like stabilizing the anthracite
industry beyond his powers.
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| WE are going to have a merchant
marine naval reserve. This is the
reply of the Washington militarists
to the growl emitted by the British
war-lcrd, Weymss, in the house of
lords few days ago. The naval race
between the two empires is on The
purpose of the Geneva conference was
to see II some means could not be
found to obviate the necessity for a
deadly competition that will end in
the destruction of one or the other of
the two greatest naval and military
powers in the history of the world.
1 THE Geneva conference was a fail
ure. The conflicting interests be-
countries could not be reconciled and
the decision of the navy department
to recruit officers and men from the
United States merchant marine for
service in the next war is long stem
forward on the road to another in
ternational holocaust. The war to emf
war was eminently successful in paw
ing the way for another and more
frightful war.
WILLIAM J. BURNS was not .oo
" busy with his jury-fixing troubles
in Washington to attend to his duties
as chief stool-pigeon for the I. r. T.
at the mass meeting last Friday night
where efforts to organize the traction
employees were made by officials of
the Amalgamated Union. Burns feels
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