The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1924, Page 10

Pe Tackling a Juicy Mellon #*:am “THE ingratitude of tac world is getting to be somerhirg fierce. Not only have we attacked the benevolent oil king who out of sheer sympathy with the burdened people | took the heavy teapot off their shoulders and made a number of million dollars for himself as a great service to his government, nut tonly have we abused the fat attor- ney general who in all sincerity aided himself and the greatest crooks that have ever raised the banner of patriotism in America to | save her from the pitfalls of honor and decency, and not only have we assailed the sacred instilution of graft and bribery by the, imperti- nent ousting of the flag-wavire idol of the navy who Isguity and prop- erly cennived to give away freely the people’s property in return for much honest. boodle to himself, but now we proceed to tackle the very lord of the money pile we have dragged together by our rictous living. x “Andy” Mellon Appears. Andrew W. Mellon was not one of the ordinary pikérs who looked for a job and a meal ticket wien he was prevailed upon to make the su- preme sacrifice and accept the menial position of secretary of the treasury, : Honest Harding, who slipped by the immigration officer at the gutes of heaven before his record and fin- ger prints had been scrutinized and O. K.'d by the careless St. Peter, | had, according to unrcliavle and false testimony, mach difficu‘ty in persuading Mellon that h2 was not the man for the job. Mellon had almost everything else -—in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York-—so why shouid he be deprived of acquiring what he might have set his innocent heart on in Wash- ington ; Mellon had been able to show the world everything except his own self-sacrifice, The golden opportun- ity had come. Never had it knocked at the door of the humble Mellon and not been let in. It should not have its locks wet with the dew of the night outside his door now. There were big hindrances and obstacles in the way—such as would have discouraged .almest any ordi- nary coward. Careless and almost righteous lawmakers had placed on the statute books of the nation cer- tain unwise laws that forbade poor men to have their hands beth in the tills of prosperous_corporations and in the United States treasury at the same time. It is these almost righteous lawmakers that. cause so much trouble to small thieves. What's a Law Nowadays? Lookit their laws: “No member of the Federal Re- serve Board”—of course, that would include secretary of the treasury— “shall be an oificer of any bank, banking institution, trust company, or Federal Reserve Bank, nor hold | stock in any bank, banking imstitu- tion or trust company, and before entering upon his duties as a member of the Federal Reserve Board he shall certify under cata to the sec- retary that he has complied with this reqiest.” Mellon was the largest stock- holder in the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh; Mellon was the larg- est stockholder of the Videlity Title JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chicago, Ill. UNCLE land. Trust Company of Pittsburgh; i largest stockholder of the National | Bank of Commerce of New York; president and director of the Mellon National Bank, the largest bank in’ Pittsburgh; stockholder of the | Aluminum Company of America; of ‘the Gulf Oil Corporation; of the ' Standard Steel Car Company; of the ' Overholt Distilling Company, and of many other too numerous to men- jtion, as the farmers say on their | auction bills, In order to serve the government our hero gave up several of the | directorates and sold millions of idollars worth of stock. Five of America’s most crooked lawyers as- sured him he need not sell the rest. But he is said to have threatened to do violence to their advice. Then came the most ticklish point in the game. Mellon was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, and of Western Pennsylvania Hospital and other charities of that kind where he was very inactive. His attor- neys assured him in spite of his con- scientious scruples that he might remain if he would promise never to attend to any of their business. Vive la Overholtism! To explain away his prosperity in connection with the Overholt Distilling Company took many pages of the Congressional Record. The session that dealt with this spirited part of Mellon’s exploits is “Said to have been the dryest in the last seven days. The stock ic the Ovcr- Morgan Supplying the Funds After Us—the Deluge! next time you want vexation get up early and step into Mellon’s treas- ury boots and walk a mile in this ungrateful world, which cannot ap- preciate the self-sacrifice of a man who gives up almost. a part of his thirty million dollars a year to ac- cept a job that pays him twelve thousand, and. then kicks if he wants to get up a tax law that exempis him from forking over his share of the government's board bill. Who are we low cogs to yelo at this giant among philanthropists? We are not fit to be served by this greatest of humdingers, Rossini Gets Kind Words fom Our Musical Advisor &By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Rossini’s “Stabat Mater’ and Had- ley’s “Resurgam” were presented at Orchestra Hall Monday night, by the Apollo musical club. Rossini's ora- torio, dealing with the sufferings of thé mother of Jesus after the cruci- fixion is rather unique amon; ora- torios since the music is lyric rather than dramatic. Rossini was of the favored and lucky of the earth, and his philosophy of life and religion was a happy one. So when he pro- duced an oratorio fitting solemn Latin words to joyous and life loving music, the wiseacres of his time raised their pious hands in horror and brayed shocked disapproval. But holt warehouse and in Mellon’s cei-|the intensely lyric Rossini has sur- lar has not been given away exccpt when so!d at fancy figures cr served to liven up congressional mectings. But the ingratitude of his best friends among} the pvohibition agents has made him sulky. If he gives freely of his Overholtism they talk too much, if he is stingy with it they talk more. Do you know what grief is? You have tried to ploy with a plow that won’t scour, have you? Well, WIGGLY’S TRICKS vived, and the wiseacres are dead and buried. Women Ont-Sing Men. Of the singing that of the women soloists was more impressive than that of the men. Alice Gentle, so successful last week with the San Carlo opera, repeated her success in the quite different field of oratorio. It takes a singer indeed to sing Car- men one night and the Stabat Mater the next and make successes of them MP ata ee nae A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN Straws of Alfafa By JOEL SHOMAKER | Ye Olde Hay Editor YES, WE ARE WEARING OUR OLD CLOTHES TODAY. I WAS walking DOWN MAIN store street, IN OUR county seat. town, WHEN I met two men, FEEDERS AT the public crib, AND. ALL dressed up, THEY KNEW me, BUT DID not speak, AS THEIR elbows touched BEHIND ME in silence, AND THEY thought I COULD not hear, ONE OF the chaps said: “That’s Ye Olde Editor Wearing his old clothes.” THEN THEY laughed. I BIT my lips AND WENT on my way. MEN WHO makes clothes, ARE TELLING the world, ‘THAT HALF of the men IN THE United States, ARE WEARING their old clothes. MANY FARMERS and families HAVE NOT seen much of ANYTHING NEW in their homes, BUT BILLS, notes and mortgages FOR THREE years past. AND THEY do wonder HOW LONG they can endure, MISFITS IN public places ALL DOLLED4UP in POLITICAL ROBES of sin, WHO PROTECT the rich AND NEGLECT the poor YES, WE are wearing QUR OLD clothes today FOR WE have no money THE TAILOR to. pay. CE EE ese eee Se See both. Leah Pratt, the contralto, sang the famous solo “Fas ut Por- tem” with a voice of beautiful quality, and style of considerable ly- ric intensity. William Phillips, bari- tone, sang well, but he was struggling with-a bass part that was too low for him. Walter Wheatley, the tenor, showed a voice of fine quality, but there was always a sense of strain in his interpretation. The excellence of the Apollo club chorus under Har- rison Wild’s direction goes without saying. Hadley—Big and Dramatic. Hadley’s “Résurgam” (I shall rise again) is a great contrast to Rossini’s work. There is no lyric quality in the music, it is all big and dramatic. The orchestration is modern, and hence more sonorous than that of the Italian composer. The oratorio is in four parts, Birth, Life, Death and Re-birth, calculated to show the guiding hand of God thruout - all stages of existence. The end, a huge climax in organ, orchestra and voices, is a supreme testament of the beantiful side of religious faith. 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