The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-03
Told You So

THREE cheers and a fifty dollar
coffin for the remains OF. Maggie
Fleming, former maid in the employ
of Mrs. Oliver Hartman, who left
her life savings of $4,000 to the
millionaire lady. The meek and
lowly are surely turning the tables
on their betters. Instead of being at
the receiving end of legacies they
are now biting the bitter by putting
the ruling classes in a humiliating
position. Mrs. Hartman is now
travelling in Europe and Maggie's
legacy may enable her to make a
deposit on new wrist watch.
CECRETARY of state Kellogg is
ready to recognize the Marking
regime in China, now that the Kou-
nintang party has deserted the revo-
lutionary policy of Sun Vat Sen and
is an open and avowed foe of Soviet
Russia. But there is cockroacb in
the Kellogg chop suey. Almost coin
cident with the announcement that
the United States would recognize
the Marking regime comes the report
from Geneva that the League of Ma
tons is planning to saddle "Dawes
Plan" on China. This means more
calluses on the Chinese back and
less rice in his bowl.
THE revolt in the Anglican church
in Great Britain brought on the
resignation of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, primate of all England.
The skypilots are quarreling over
the revised prayerbook. It is too
radical for some of the boys. l do
not know whether the rival factions
have donned the armor of battle
over the virginity of the BLESSED
Virgin" the immaculate conception
or the existence of three gods, ANAL
gamated into one, but still maintain
ing their autonomy. The prayer
book was referred to parliament and
parliament gulped flagon of ale
and threw the prayerbook out the
window. 1t was too far to the left
for most of the members. Things
are coming to pretty pass in Eng
land when even the infallibility of a
prayerbook is questioned.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, of En-
" poria, Kansas, who is now on the
Hoover publicity staff, is doing some
heroic sniping at Al Smith. Picking
up the red light flag where Teddy
Roosevelt dropped it, White tried to
make a glorified pimp out of the
Happy Warrior" But Al is more or
less sacred in New York editorial
sanctums. A candidate with Gen
eral Motors as manager is not to
be sneezed at with impunity. So.
whatever the reason is, the gallant
White retreated with drums beating
but leaving the flag of prostitution
lying bedraggled on the field.
1T APPEARS that this fellow White
makes a speciality of placing his
pen at the disposal of whoever has
the dough. When he launched his
attack on AL Smith, the Smithson-
ians went to their files and dug up
the evidence to show that in 1912
White was saying nasty things
about the vice-president candidate
on the G. o. P ticket, Mr. Charles
Curtis. White said Curtis's condust
was iniquitous. But now he is puri-
fled by the heat waves that flow
from the political anatomy of H.
Hoover. Still, William Allen white
is only scribbler making his hay
while the sun shines.
IT'S tit for tat between Hoover and
Smith as far as labor is con-
cerned. The members of the execu-
tive council of the A. F. of L., now
sojourning in Atlantic City, appear
to be peeved over the appointment
of John j. Raskob, multimillion-
aire open-shopper as national chair
man of the democratic party But
Smiths friends point out that Henry
]. Allen, author of the Kansas in
dustrial Act, is head of Hoover's
publicity department. Of course the
fat A. F. of l.. boys are only spool
ing. They would not give a hang if
both campaigns were managed by
two strikebreaking detective agen-
cies as long as they got theirs.
THE assassin who pulled the fatal
trigger on Oregon made con-
; fession in which he absolves Mo-
rones, chief of the GROIN of all COM
plicity in the murder. The killer
was a Catholic fanatic and while he
tries to shield the church there is no
doubt but Gales knew what he was
talking about when he blamed the
clergy for the inspiration of the
deed. Reactionary elements in the
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