The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
Told You So

1ASIS 10 d ISNO1J III IlS IdslhS OF
the democracy" as democratic
leaders are in the habit of referring
to the conglomeration of conflict
ing alterations that struggle inside
the party of jefferson, Al Smith and
Tom Heflin. The revolt may not
amount to much. 1t is led by the
unterrified women of the South,
who may be expected in the long
run to accept a trip around the
world at the expense of Tammany
Hall in return for the internment of
their religious and spiritual
,scruples.
Mrs. Glen Shaver, wife of the fell
low who contributed to the defeat
of John w. Davis in 1924, did not
see any good reason why she should
not have place in the sun, so she
turned loose a blast against AL
Smith and the perfidious males of
Southern democracy who were lulled
into a sense of spiritual security by
the soft purring of the tiger at
Houston. Mrs. Glen cannot be
fooled so easily.
/ Mrs. Glenn did not take note of
the oninous silence of AL Smith
and his Tammany braves when news
OF the lynching of a Negro at the
gates of Houston shocked that part
of the populace which is still capable
of being shocked Her main obiec-
ton to AL is that he pays homage
and tribute to the self-styled pris-
oner on the Tiber and that he backs
the saloon industry rather than the
prohibition industry. Between the
Northern tiger and the Southern
dromedary the working-class have
no choice. Capitalist politicians,
wet or dry, have the same attitude
towards the workers. They believe
that they were intended by nature
for exploitation.
An international Spectator, re-
puted to be the richest man in the
world, committed suicide by walk
ing out of an airplane that was
crossing the English channel at q
height of 1000 feet. The result-a
furry on the stock exchanges of the
world and much publicity in the
press. The wheels of industry re-
volved as usual; the work of the
world went on just the same. This
genius" who made most of his for
tune by specializing and selling ma
terial tc the warning nations during
the great carnage, is less of a loss
to the industrial world than a street
car conductor. If all the multimil-
lionaires in the world simultane-
ously conceived and executed the
idea of humping themselves off they
would not cause as much social in
convenience as a housekeeper who
would elope without warning with
her favorite roomer.
Now that Calvin Collidge chooses
to fish instead of to run for Presi-
dent it does not matter so much
what kind of bait he uses as it did
last year when he sojourned in the
Black Hills of North Dakota. That
Cal is running for something is GER
tain. Perhaps for a vice-presidency
of one of Harry Sinclair's oil COM
panies Or the craftsmanship of the
U. S. Steel Trust. Or the editorship
of the Ladies Home Journal. Cal
is fishing, and he took along a bat
terry of photographers. He is pic
tured with six trout and in another
scene he is shown cutting a cake.
Verify, indeed, good provider and
a handy fellow around the house.
A United Press dispatch from
Moscow advises US that the freedom
of criticism enjoyed by the press in
the Soviet Union has fooled many
foreign capitalist correspondents in
that country into believing that the
government was confronted with so
many serious problems that its fall
was imminent. The Soviet press
hammers away at bureaucracy, in
efficiency and dishonesty wherever
found with vigor that would be
regarded as lese majestic in most
European countries and in some
would certainly mean indictments
and Jail sentences.
There is no country in the world
where the masses enjoy more free
dom of expression. When the enc
mics of Communism rage against
censorship in the Soviet Union they
have in mind the restrictions that
are imposed on the Nepmen, who
are permitted to operate until So
cialist economy is sufficiently de-
veloped to enable the workers and
peasants to dump them. The So
Wet press criticizes administrative
weaknesses and is encouraged to do
so by the Soviet government and
the Communist Party. Fancy the