The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-28

AS WE SEE 1T
Ry Z. :. o'FLAHERTY.

HERE Is good deal OF dope
1 coming from the opium confer
ence at Geneva. where representatives
Of the great powers and Of the opium
growing countries are pretending to
thrash out the problem Of regulating
the drug trafic. All agree that opium.
when not used for medicinal purposes
is bad for the health, but while there
is profit in its production, all attempts
to regulate its production and distri-
button will fail.
HHINA has demanded the uncondi-
~ ditional departure Of all foreign
missionaries in that country. The
Chinese have learned that preachers
of religion have invariably proved to
be disturbers and agents Of capitalist
powers. The bible and the sword
are very close friends. The bible
usually precedes the sword. In China,
yohn D. Rockefeller's missionaries
and his oil cans went hand In hand.
The new awakening in China is a
significant warning for the imperial
list powers of the world. That awak-
ening is in no small degree due to the
beneficial influence Of Soviet Russia.
NOUNTS and no accounts in Ger
~ many consoled themselves for
the loss Of their former power and
affluerce under the kaiser's regime,
by indulging in the most depraved or
Ries. The scene of these debauch-
cries was the great castle Of Fuersten-
stein, the seat of the royal house Of
Plons. Several counts have been SEN
fenced to terms of Imprisonment. The
government made strong effcrts to
keep the news out of the papers. The
so-called republican government OF
Germany is always willing to shield
the monarchists but never allows pity
to stand in the way of the most Sc
we're punishment of the Communists.
THE United States government does
not intend that its agents shall
be altogether charitable factors Il. the
operation of the Dawes plan. From
the flood of gold which is expected
to pour out of Germany, into the cof-
fers of the reparations committee the
United States capitalists expect to
get their share. The American figure
may reach the t0tal Of S500,O0O,000.
Such a sum is considered exorbitant
by England. But the United States
holds the whip hand.
THE much advertised death ray, is
not what it is cracked up to be,
according to a statement by Brig-Gen.
Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical
warfare division. There is no evil
dence that any known ray can be d.
rected so that life can be destroyed,
declared this expert, and no scientist
is willing to predict that these rays
can ever be SO controlled as to render
their use in war likely. What
mentary on capitalist society, that the
ingenuity Of mankind is directed to-
ward the development Of means Of de-
Btruction, particularly destruction Of
life, rather than towards discovery Of
new ways OF making life more pleas
ant for the human race.
THE French government may con-
slider paying its four billion dollar
war debt to the United States pro-
vided the latter reduces its bill sixty
per cent. 1t is now learned that An
drew Mellon, secretary of the treasury
made heroic attempts to get some sort
Of a promise out Of France and Italy,
to come across with some cash. Both
nations pleaded gnIty to a slender
purse and showed most aggravating
unconcern over their liabilities. The
Italian and French governments claim
that while America was shipping over
dollars to win the war, they were
sending men to the front. France owes
four billion dollars to the United
NStates government. Quite tidy sum.
russia only owes s250,0OO, yet this
trihng sum is one Of Hughes argu-
menu against Soviet recognition.
THE RSitish tory press has again
placedAthe British labor party in
hole. After the recent election the
capitalist press OF Great Britain an.
nounced that Ramsay Macdonald
would find it hard to hold his position
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