The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-25
Told You So

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
~ has burst into the limelight again
with bang. Nick is one of those
fellows who needs no introduction.
for where is the man with ears so
deaf who has not heard of Columbia
University? Because of his OPPOSE
ton to the prohibition of booze-not
the prohibition of free speech on the
campus-Butler is known among the
irreverent as Nick the Bartender.
He is a republican of considerable
standing and his name has been fire.
quently mentioned for the presi-
dency. Nick is against the substitu-
ton of fusel oil for whiskey and a
mixture of T. N. 7. and ditchwater
for beer. He is also against war
with England and perhaps France,
but not so that you notice it against
war on Nicaragua.
NICK'S latest bid for public atten-
Az ton is letter to the New York
Times, in which he berates Hoover
and the republican party for their
evasive attitude on the Volstead act
and Hoover's sponsoring OF a navy
that will command respect" AS a
member of the Carnegie peace foun-
dation, Nick objects to this. Now
that Gene Tunney has disarmed and
made an alliance with the Carnegie
peace millions, there is no good rea-
son why the United States should
not turn its gun cotton into bathing
suits.
REPUBLICANS say that Nick's
Az blast against Hoover doesn't
mean anything; the democrats say
that it means much. Nick's next
move will be to walk down Broad
way arm in arm with John J. Ras-
Eob, who is busily engaged making
the democratic party respectable.
John will have nobody around him
who is not worth at least a million.
Democrats are going to be as scarce
in the democratic party pretty soon
as Negroes in the Ku Klux Khan.
JUST the same Nick pulled off a
dirty trick on the Rev. DR. John
Roach Straton. Roach was having
the time of his life, breaking into
the front page daily, until Nick
showed him over into the want ad
section. Now, it will take the dis
covery of brewery in Calvary Bap-
fist Church to win him back his
rightful position in the news. Of
course, our readers know something
of the fit-throwing fundamentals,
but perhaps not all of them have
heard of the recent purchase of a
hotel by Roach for $4,000. And,
shucks! What did a blackguardly
reporter do but purchase a quart of
whiskey in the place and invite
Roach to have snifter. Roach did
not blame the devil, but he blamed
Al. 1t was dirty trick, anyhow.
BECAUSE the war department
u plundered a Washington dog
pound for subjects on which to test
new brand of poison gas there is
considerable Indignation among the
members of the Animal Rescue
League and other humanitarian or
CARNATIONS. A deaconess of the
House of Mercy had a friend who
wanted a dog, her husband pre-
sumably being congressman. The
lady of mercy went to the dog
pound and picked sadfaced little
terrier. Her kindly nature took pity
or him and she thot he would be just
the kind of little animal to counter
act the atmosphere created by the
other member of her friends house,
hold.
RUT the deaconess was informed
that before she could have the
dog she must present the pound
, keeper with papers signed by
notary public giving assurance that
, the animal would not be used for
vivisection or otherwise subjected to
, cruel and unusual punishment. When
the lady returned with the papers,
fancy her embarrassment when she
was informed that the war depart
ment ordered the terrier and the
other dogs in the pound sent to
Maryland, to be used in experiments
with poisonous war gases. Perhaps
the members of the Animal Rescue
League are of the opinion that with
so many unemployed around there is
|, no necessity for the war department.
to pick on the dogs.
DIGIT on the heels of the Kellogg
II pact for the outlawry of war,
comes news of the renewal of the
entente cordials between England
and France. Of course the Kellogg
treaty is about as effective an instru-
ment for the prevention of war as
; the incantations of medicine man
against the ravages of an epidemic
+. of cholera morbus.
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