The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD


L ried last week She is 22-year old Doris
Duke, daughter of the tobacco profteer.
Her daddy, when the famous leYeller
named Death called around left his poor
little rich girl the sum Of fty-th million dollars
I know an everworked clinic that doles out bottle
of milk every day to kids suffering from "manu-
triton" 1t could use some of this easy money.
But there it goes again. the mean, nasty jealous
spirit in which Communists look at the rich.
Doris the newspapers tell U.s. is not the usual kind
of a rich girl. She really has no use for all that
money Why iape or criticize? She does the best
she can
Says the liberal n Y. Post in hushed, admiring
tones: THE girl who could have had the fancest
wedding in America eschewed lace and satin, organ
music and crowds to be married very simply in
the presence of a few relatives
Thanks for that, Doris. And the groyelling
Post goes on: Gwen as 14-year old she mourned
the publicity that followed her. She wanted, she
said, to be left alone. She wanted nobody to pay
any attention to her. She wanted her friends to
forget she the richest girl in the world"
In $780, the Post continues Doris made her
debut in Newport. Only 800 guests were invited.
There we're hogsheads Of champagne and mountains
Of roast pheasant. Three orchestras and lot of
other fumdubbery ran the cost up into the thou
sands of dollars. This was one of the ways Doris
employed to help her friends forget she was the
richest girl In the world. Thanks, again, Doris.
Out of the Sweat of Workers
0H, HOW the big liberal heart of the New York
v Post beeds and bleeds for this poor little rich
girl.
Over million people in New York are on the
relief rolls which means that they must live with
their families, the average of 81 week Spa
gheti potatoes and tea is the normal diet for kids
and grown-ups, and the relief people grudge you
that
Nobody describe the suffering in New York
and America; the dull, daily, routine starvation
that goes on in millions of dark tenements. But
the New York Post knows it exists; it has written
editorials on the subject.
Where is its sense of proportion therefore in
asking its hungry readers Eyes, hungry if you know
what the word means to feel sorry for Doris Duke?
Her clothes are quiet, never stupendousIy ex-
pensiye. She travels in ordinary steamer cabins
passing up Presidential suites pretty girl, with
beautiful skin, she has a firm Duke chin and cor
respondngly she has a stern Duke interest in the
value of goods. She is known as a thrifty barganer
she lunched frequently at the Colony, danced
at night clubs, did most of the usual things She's
very good dancer. She likes to SWIM She also
takes serious interest in the responsibilities of
her wealth >. :"
But why go onP She did all the usual things,
and she has five enormous estates, with an army
OF servants, and her fifty three million dollars
comes out Of the sweat of white and Negro slaves
In the tobacco fields and factories of the Piedmont
I have seen the slums they live in. And now 1
know where the money goes to.
Watch This Young Mani
THE lucky bridegroom who paarried the fifty-three
millions and the girl is one Jimmy Cromwell
stepson of j. P Morgan partner, and another
youth who 'takes serious interest in the respon-
sibites of his wealth.
Watch this young man. He is smart and am
bilious, and with his ffty-three millions and other
connections may go far. He has put his feet on
the first rung Of the ladder of American fascisn
Cromwell is an intimate friend of Father Cough
I'm Recently the good capitalist Father quoted
Jimmy in one of his fake attacks on Wall Street
1t made little stir
Cromwell is an organizer of the Sound Money
League" He has written book on finance and
politics, called "The Voice of Youth" He wants
the Federal Constitution shelyed. He urges that
Liberal or Young American" movement be
started to put his ideas into effect
He attacks privilege" and wants youth" Or
sanized, and the constitution 4shelvedp How
famlilar all these ideas ring in the ear How thew
remind one OF the demagogic "radicalismp of
Hitler
mus, today, are the rich defending their robber
wealth by spreading fascist ideas 1t is the Father
Geughlns and his Wall Street allies like this Jimmy
cromwell, who are the most serious menace to the
life and liberty Of the American people. Thev
smear the bayonets with honey
THE young couple sailed at once on the Conte de
Sayoia for Italy. They had conducted their
eourtship through all the summer and winter re-
sorts OF the rich, said the papers Now they would
spend their honeymoon in Egypt
And when they return to cold hungry America.
Uaa tI,oEf SCI,
will be put to work to help Father Coughlin feed
his opium to the masses?