The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-14

IlSIlJ OIL Jne
3Ss boat" business
he will clean up
t. j. O'Flaherty fortune unless
he mistakes a
prohlbltlon agent for a customer and
not merely a consumer. On ton of
his good luck in landing a lob it
is rumored that Miss Trumbull,
daughter of the governor of the
state of Connecticut, will soon make
the announcement that she intends
to marry the young. He doesn't
even have to esk.
WHILE on this interesting subject
of golden opportunities, the
whereabouts of Mr.. Osborne Wood.
son of the late Ivory Soap COVER
nor of the Philippine Islands may be
OF interest to our readers. While in
the islands with his father, young
Wood made millions of dollars on
the stock exchange. He had inside
dope of course and his conduct be-
came SO scandalous that congress
INDUCED in some wild language over
it. Wood came back to New York,
whoopeed himself into an asylum
from there to Paris and Monte Carlo
and returned almost pennfless.
RLOOD will tell. So young Os-
borne went to work at something
or other, according to his press
agent. Evidently he did not make a
bowling success at the business
since we did not hear of his being,
elected president or marrying the
daughter of the head of the firm.
A few days ago Osborne was dis
covered by the state militia of New
Mexico digging coal, so they took
him into their ranks and made some
kind OF a general out of him. You
cannot keep good man down in a
coal mine.
A NEWSP- PER reporters job is
"A not all beer and skittles as a
rule. But it is said that every rule
has its own exception and so it is
with a reporters job George Fe~-
rand of Bergen county, New Je-
city hall reporter for the de .ey
Journal of Jersey City, testified at
a hearing regarding the corruption
in Mayor Frank Hague's political
machine that he had been on the
city payroll for seven or eight years
at $3.50 a day. This means S33 a
week in addition to his remuneration
from the Jersey Journal" When
asked what he did in return for this
honorarium Farrand confessed that
he answered the telephone whenever
he happened to be around the office.
ONE could write columns on the OPP
v portunities that exist here for the
ambitious poor boy, who feels that
he can be president if he only tries
hard enough. Some say that acct
dent has a good deal to do with
progress along the road to high sta
ton. There are people who believe
that Calvin Coolidge would now be
defending bootleggers in Boston or
still collecting bad debts on a IS
per cent commission basis in Ver-
mont, had not Murray Crane, the
G. 0. P. boss taken an interest in
him. And if the Boston policemen
had not gone on strike in 1919 he
might never have been vice-presi-
dent. And had the late Warren
Gamaliel been a little more careful
about his shell fish, Cal might never
have gotten into the White House.
HOWEVER, we suggest to the four
"A million unemployed that follow in
Mr.. Coolidge, Jr.'s footsteps even if
they take them into the offices of
railroad presidents. 1t would be
great boost for the Hoover campaign
if the Coolidge iob-hunting success
could be repeated four million times.
"a job for every willing worker"
would blow the froth off Al Smiths
alcoholic promises. 1T as they say
in burlesque, "Well-what the ell?"
THE mystery surrounding the death
! Of William D'Olier, one of the
leading actors in the Queens Sewer
pipes drama, is deepening and the
plot is thickening. The experts are
in doubt as to the manner of his
death. The moral forces of the
sewerpipe borough, to wit, the
"outs," are of the opinion that he
was murdered. The inside boys are
of the opinion that he committed
suicide. There is clue, but it only
adds dye to the death riddle. His
clothing was torn when taken to the
hospital. Was it torn before he died
or afterwards? AS, that is the ques-
ton. The surgeon who examined the
body declared: 81 cannot recall see
ing any tears in the clothing when
I arrived there" We are willing
to bet that there will be many tears
shed before the real story of the
sewer scandal is known despite the
old adage: Murder will out"