The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
Told You So

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Chlcago this year, opera is in for
bad season. In former years the
vendors of beer and booze were the
principal supporters of that form of
entertainment. But a prolonged war
Is a heavy drain on even the best of
gangs so the prohibition profiteers
who used to clutter the stage with
florial contributions to the stars and
the box office with their money have
spent so much money buying up the
government that there is not much
left to substitute higher forms of
art. The cost of burying the dead
is an additional burden, the gang
sters being anything but pikers.
A $4,000 coffin will bear the re-
- mains of Micky Schatz, Brook
lyn gangster to his last resting
place. By the time this appears in
print the pastor of the Church of
Our Lady of Peace in that borough
will have given Micky the correct
religious send-off and no doubt will
recall his may benefiencies to the
bearded patriarch in the sky. at
is an all wind that blows no good"
and whatever may be said against
the gangstering profession, it GER
talnly does not hurt the mortician's
business. What war is to the NUM-
lions manufacturer racketeering is
to the undertaken.
THAT was neat trick pulled off
by the Berlin Communists on
their ocial-democratic rivals. There
being a referendum going on
against the approval by the socialist
ministry of the building of several
cruisers, the Communists wished to
secure the use of the government
broadcasting station for the propa-
cation of their views. The socialist
| government decided that a Commun-
list was as dangerous on the air as
on the ground so a certain Herr
Schwartz, editor of the socialist pa
per Vorwaerts was given permission
to speak on world peace" Via the
cruiser route!
DESPITE prevalent belief to the
contrary, Communists are nothing
if not polite, so when an automo-
bile called for Herr Schwartz to
take him to the broadcasting station
that gentleman thot it was no more
than his station in life deserved
nevertheless he was profuse in ex-
pressing his appreciation. But fancy
his embarrassment when instead of
being taken to the broadcasting sta
ton he found himself somewhere
else. He was very much up in the
air so to speak.
INSTEAD of Herr Schwartz there
appeared at the microphone no
other than Karl Schultz, a Commu-
mist deputy, who after clearing his
throat proceeded to deliver speech
on the class struggle, putting forth
the Communist viewpoint of war
against the capitalist system instead
of the cant on world peace that Herr
! Schwartz was scheduled to deliver.
The listeners-in were amazed to hear
a person introduced as Herr
Schwartz denounce the socialist min
listers for putting thru a cruiser pro-
gram in violation of their pre-elec-
ton promises, but their amazement
turned to either amusement or an
ger when Comrade Schultz finally
introduced himself. Most of Ger
many is laughing at the joke. The
social-democrats are biting their
whiskers.
THE great German air-liner Graf
Zeppelin, is scheduled to start to-
day for the United States. No doubt
the monster gas bag will be given
great, reception on its arrival here
if it arrives. 1t is now more than
eleven years since the American
democracy under the leadership Of
the arch-hypocrite Woodrow Wilson,
went forth to save civilization from
the "Hun" and anybody who did
not agree that every German, man.
woman and child should be dis
patched with bomb or bayonet, was
liable to find himself in Jail or deco
rating the branch of a tree. The
patriotic gudgeon grease that was
injected into the white-co llared
American brain in 1917 Is now
washed away and the untenanted
cavities are waiting for another
boarder. The next time it may be
consignment of British hatred.
The next "Hun" is liable to be our
old friend John Bull. And what
fertile soil there is for Wall Street
bull against the good old civilizer
ally of 1918!
EVEN some liberal capitalist edi-
IL tors are not swallowing the KEEL
logg peace pact with their usual
alacrity. They fear that the reser-
vations made by the great capitalist
powers render the instrument more
or less null if not void. For instance
England makes it quite clear that
any measures of military nature
she may see fit to take in defense"
of her empire must be considered
outside the pale of the Kellogg "anti-
war" treaty. And ditto for the