The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28

nected with the
taxlcab business are of the opinion
that the fourth deputy police COM
missioner is their man. No doubt
other business interests have
piece of him." as they say in sport
ing circles, but it appears that the
taxi magnates own the lions share.
MAURICE CONNOLLY, democratic
4" boss of the Borough of Queens
and successor of the late John M.
Phillips, king of the sewers, is car
rying his chin saucily, judging by
the pictures that catch the big pipe
and garbage man as he wends his
way to the court house, where he is
being tried for conspiring with Phil
lips to do the taxpayers out of
lot of money. Even if Mr.. Connolly
is found guilty one year in Jail is
about all they can give him. Catch
him get it. He is no petty larceny
artist.
I TITLE black books are as incrim-
- mating as little black satchels. 1t
was little black satchel that caused
a general suspicion at one time that
A. B. Fall, former secretary of the
interior, had profited to the tune
of 100000 from the leasing of the
Elk Hill naval reserve oil lands to
Edward L. Doheny, the oil magnate.
Albert said they were all wrong and
evidently he was right, for is he not
at large and very much so? Indeed
Albert was recently offered 100000
for the ranch purchased by him with
Doheny's oil dough. The reward of
honesty!
A little black book is figuring in the
"A misfortunes of the Philadelphia
police force which is being charged
with an alliance with the bootleg
ging industry to the great comfort
of the bluecoats and the mirth of
the mellowed population. Why the
police should be indicted for serving
such great and flourishing indus
try is not very clear. 1t is not fair.
The police are the servants of bust
ness. That's what they get paid
for. Why discriminate against the
malefactors of bad booze when the
other malefactors of great wealth
are treated decently?
pERHAPS the Hoover campaign
managers got their idea of wide
spread prosperity from reading the
income tax reports of the Chicago
bootleggers. The Internal Revenue
Collector in Chicago has tax liens
ranging from $1,000,000 to $780,
900 against Terry Druggan, frankie
Lake and John j. Nolan. Great pow
ers that they are, it is reported that
Lake and Druggan are treating with
government plenipotentiaries for a
compromise. q
M YOR WALKER has suddenly
=" come to the conclusion that some
churches are political institutions.
He would therefore tax church for
ums. The only thing the matter
with this discovery is that it is not
a discovery. With hardly an ex-
ception churches are supporters Of
the present social order and religion
is one of the strongest bulwarks of
capitalism. Walkers decision results
from the hippodrome conducted by
the mountebank Straton in his CAL
vary Baptist Church. Had Straton
confined his political raving to at
lacking Communism instead of All
Smith, the mayor would not grudge
the churches the money they save in
taxes at the expense of citizens who
would not give boot if all the
preachers in the metropolis were
fighting fleas in Bowery flop houses.
A cousin of Calvin Coolidge, who
"A by the way is president of the
United States, won the cow-calling
contest in Wisconsin. What politi-
clan the fellow would make if he
was as adept at throwing the bull as
at calling the COW.
BECAUSE as proven success in
= his own business affairs and