The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-06


statute of the late Sam Gompers.
The funny thing about poor Sam is
that since his death the fund to rig
up separate corner in the league of
nations headquarters in Geneva in
his honor is not yet much more than
ninety eight cents. Unless one of
the members of the executive coun-
Gil has a sculptor in the family we
fear that marble will not experience
bull market as a result of the A, F.
Of L. decision.
GENERAL MOTORS would like to
= eat its cake and still have it. If
AL Smith wins G. M. will have a
latch key to the back door of the
White House and the prestige ac-
crulng to an organization that
motored a president into the execu-
tive mansion will be worth millions
of dollars in advertising. But in the
meantime, General Motors wants to
sell automobiles and lest fanatical
Republicans might turn to the lowIv
flivver, Mr.. Sloan, president of G.
M. warns its employees that the
name of the corporation must not be
used in the election campaign.
General Motors intends to remain
neutral even if one of the several
floors of the G. M. building is oc-
cupied by the Democratic National
Campaign Committee.
THE nation wide chain of Childs
restaurants has deserted the
vegetarian cause and has taken back
to its bosom the prodigal meats that
were banished by the founder of the
marble-tiled hasheries. Tho it costs
money to dine in those starched
emporiums one gets an education
thrown in with the meal. Childs dis
covered that meat was bad for the
human system and not so good for
the cashiers cage. Vegetables could
be purchased more cheaply than
meats and little propaganda would
make the patient like a vegetarian
dinner as well as couple of pork
chops or a sirloin of beef
pUT the COMPOUNDED customers
= would not be saved. After leav-
ing the best part of a dollar in a
Childs joint the diner went away
only partly satisfied and since
human nature is what it is it is
very doubtful if the people can ever
be converted to the idea that they
are better off hungry than with con-
tented tummies. A customer would
leave Childs with a crouch and re-
air to the nearest Nedick stand for
a glass of pineapple juice and a
shot dog" He would have his meat.
pUT the COMPOUNDED customers
y would not be saved. After leav-
ing the best part of dollar in a
Childs' joint the diners went away
only partly satisfied and since hui
man nature is what it is it is very
doubtful if the people can ever be
converted to the idea that they are
better off hungry than with con-
tented tummies. A customer would
leave Childs' with a crouch and re-
pair to the nearest Nedick stand for
a glass OF pineapple juice and "hot
dog" He would habe his meat.
THE Childs' restaurants began to
lose customers. The old racket
of Gathering dishes degenerated into
faint murmur. The starched
mattresses stood around listlessly
or, as soon as stray customer
made for the door darted to his va
cant place in the trail of the lone
some dime. Childs, a chronic
vegetarian thought things were go
ing alright. Being a fanatic he
would risk his stockholders fortunes
rather than haul down the cauli-
flower banner. But his stockhold-
ers went to bat and demanded that
the embargo on meat be raised.
They had not thing in the world
against vegetables, they insisted.
But neither had they anything
against meat, and if the customers
insist on pork and beans, veal stew
or small steak, why not let them
have it? So meat is returning to
the Childs' menu. 1t is marching
back with drums beating and the
pens of publicity men flying, in the
act of writing it's praises. A ire
mendous advertising campaign will
be carried on to sell meat to the
public who were led to believe by
previous Childs' advertising cam
paign that it just stopped of being
deadly poison. Childs has learned
from some mysterious source that
the use of meat is not the cause
Of all human ailments but the abuse
of it.
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