The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-13
Told You So

KING ZOGU THE FIRST of AL
:" bania, and we hope also the Last.
is reported to have embraced the
Catholic faith as a preliminary to
marrying the daughter of some king
whose throne is not about to be z
offered to the pawnbroker, Zogu
was Mohammedan, which was an
obstacle in the way of his marriage
to christian princess. The king
in true royal fashion put the inter
ests of his kingdom above that of
his spooky deity, so he shed his re-
ligious shirt and had a change, which
may be as good for the shirt as for
Zogu's skin.
pRIOR to his change of religious
raiment Zogu celebrated his con-
version to the Catholic belief by
Strengthening number of workers
and peasants who wanted a republic
instead of monarchy. This deed
should get him in good with the
Catholic god right at the start. Je-
hovah who used to advise the chill
dren of Israel to slaughter all the
men folk and the old women of the
beaten foe, but to save the virgins,
was a kindly god compared to the
christian deity, who sanctions the
dropping of bombs on non-combatant
areas in time of war and blesses
the efforts of his imperialist pro-
teges to put whole peoples to the
sword who insist on defending their
countries against the capitalist
brigands.
HERE is a chance for some big
A hearted i-millionaire to come
to the assistance of suffering scion
of the Hohenzollern family, Ernst
August, former Duke of Brunswick,
by name. August is not exactly
down but he is out of money. Being
a gentleman, he refuses to glut the
labor market with his presence so
he has decided to sell his art treas
ure to America for $4,000, 900. The
duke was darned lucky his mother
did not drop him in Czarist Russia
instead of in the former kaiser's
Germany. His art treasure would
now be adjoining a Soviet museum
and the duke would be massaging
nags in stable for a living or
otherwise trying to make ends meet.
THE social-democrats of Germany
were rather nice to the Hohen-
zollerns. Unlike the Russian Boil
sheviks they did not strip the fallen
monarchists. They stripped the
working class instead. This was
magnanimity indeed. They earned
the econiums of the capitalist world
who saw in their action a precedent
which might save their own hides
later on. But the German workers
who are now Shaving under the
Dawes Plan to pay the reparations
saddled on Germany by the victori-
Gus nations, have learned lesson
and the next time the tocsin of revo-
luton is sounded in Teutonia the
capitalists will not be left 18th art
treasures to peddle. They will be
lucky if they get away with their
necks.
John ]. RASKOB, the general util-
!" ity man of the democratic cam
paign committee has decided to set
tie the Queens scandal. This is a
hurculean task but not beyond the
power of the demon financier of
General Motors. There are five war
ring factions in the democratic or
ganization of Queens. Open sewers
are as conducive to factionalism as
to typhoid. Raskob's job is to de-
wise some way of dividing the spoils
so that each political sewer digger
may enjoy his share in peace. If
the christian democrats are we'll ad-
vised they will cover up the cata-
combs, otherwise the pagan repub-
licans may throw them to the lions.
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NOW that the supreme court of the
AZ United States has rendered a de-
cision sustaining the right of Can
adams to cross over to the United
States for daily employment there is
no reason why United States citi-
zens should not have the right to
cross over into Canada for their
daily enjoyment. 1t is said that
Canada is very hospitable to our
visiting firemen who migrate to,
quench thirst, but U. S. customs
officials are not so considerable to
the returning "smoke-eaters" who
would bring back some of the ex-
tinguisher for the benefit of smold-
ering thirsts on this side of the
! border
THE Rev. DR.. George Reed An
drews, secretary of the Church
and Drama Association, is of the
opinion that if all the clergymen in
the city opened fired simultaneously
on given Sunday against immoral
plays and vile language, offensive
drama and profanity would be driven
into the speakeasies. This would
merely make matters worse. 1t
would exalt the bootlegging industry
to place in society from which not
even the most affluent booze mag
nate would care to elevate it.
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