The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-06
,HANdO~TS

Struggle for existence of the Amer
lean capitalist class is wildly pre-
scented by the announcement that the
Postum Company, Inc, makers of the
famous hay and molasses drink which
is supposed to taste like coffee, has
just declared dividend worth $780,
100000.
America is free country. Any
body who is Industrious can enter
business and work his way up to the
top. The Taggart Corporation has
just been organized on $25,000,0O0
basis to manufacture paper. Any
worker who wants to get out of the
ranks of the proletariat and is will
ing to work hard can compete with
the Taggart Company on fair basis
! if he happens to have $25,000,000 in
the bank.
How surprised the British leisure
classes will be when they wake up
some morning and find they have a
Workers government is suggested by
the fact that when John Hennessey
appeared before them to play tennis
for the Davis cup in pair of striped
flannel trousers they were unutter-
ably shocked. A few years ago an
other American player tried to take
the same advantage over his British
opponent at Eastborne and was re-
quired by the South England cham
pionship committee to change into
white trousers before the match went
On.
Cal Coolidge says he is undecided
as to what he will do when he retires
from office. 1t has been suggested
he get g. job as standing before a
cigar store as an Indian, breaking
in hobby horses or testing arm chairs.
Workers who for any reason have
slight lack of confidence regarding
American courts should be treasured
on hearing that Judge Allesandron!,
who last March absentmindedly sem
fenced Irving Cohen to a term of 81
years, yesterday admitted his mistake
and freed the man.
A picture of sport under capitalism
is painted in the following words of
Charley Paddock regarding the Olym-
pic Games of 1924:
at was suggested that the
American who drew the inside lane
that day, the moment that he was
set, should start running. The rest
of us would know what to expect
and could save ourselves. But
Abrahams, the Englishman, in or
der to protect himself would have
to go, too, expanding his energy.
Of course if the first American was
not called back he would undoubt-
edly win. But if he did not get
away with it, then the next Ameri-
can would try, and the next, until
each American would have started
twice, while Abrahams would have
had to start hard eight times. In
that many chances it was very
probable that one American would
get away. But if no one did, IL
would not make any difference, be-
cause Abrahams would be SO worn
out from his eight trials that an
American would win anyway"
Why didn't they just let him run
in a pair of rubber boots and be
sportsmanlike?
The real horror of transatlantic
airplane flight is at last revealed.
Miss Earhart during her trip lived on
Horlicks Matted Milk.
Yale University has received
81 ,OOO, 900 from Abraham E. Fitkin,
public utilities magnate. None of it y
will be used to teach workers the
class struggle.
Harry F. Sinclair, central CRATER
in the Teapot Dome corrupt political
financial orgy is slated to appear
again before an investigating commit
tee on charges of being involved in
shady transactions in the Salt Creek
Oil Fields.
There are two morals to this: the
first is, that Americas so-called Sin
vestigating committees" aren't worth
plugged nickel, insofar as real in
yestigation goes. The second is that
lin these glorious U. S. of Az you
can't keep a good CRATER from rising
to the ton of the financial world.