The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-15
AS WE SEE 1T
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ting rid Of poverty. Every month
sees the living conditions of the work
ers and peasants improving, and the
first to share in this improvement are
the children. This, the lying Times
knows but will not admit.
WHAT about the thousands of waits
w who fit like ghosts thru the
alleys of London and Berlin? What
about the hundreds of thousands who
are on the verge of starvation in
every country in the world? Those
countries are not trying to drive
god out of the schools" but god seems
disinclined to shower any favors on
them. When there was great famine
in Russia, Irish priests declared it
was due to gods anger over the athe-
istic government of that country. Yet
few years later famine hit Ireland
the most priest ridden and spook-rid-
den country in the world not even ex-
Guiding Poland.
THE American workers should ex-
pect weird tales of hunger and
distress coming from capitalist liars
stationed around the borders of So
Wet Russia. Everything that appears
in the capitalist press concerning
Russia should be treated with SUI
preme suspicion. 1t should be con-
sidered guilty until proven innocent
England was flooded with lies about
Russia until the British trade union
delegation made its report. Since
then, the paid liars of capitalism have
had hard time trying to make their
lies stick. When the American work
ers send delegation to Russia to see
for themselves how conditions are in
the workers republic, and tell the
story to their fellow workers on their
return, the venal sheets of capitalism
here, will have harder shedding put
ting their fables across.
TINE great trouble with society to-
4 day, says a Jesuit priest of New
York, is the unholy freedom enjoyed
by the young people. He did not use
the word enjoyed" but we believe
! it fits. The reverend father blames
short skirts and other innovations
used by women with the object of i'm
proving the general outlook for a
good deal of the new tangled deviltry.
Why the holy man should be grieved
by such authorizations is a mystery,
we laymen being under the impress
sion, that priest sees only thru his
spiritual eyes. Perhaps it is case
OF avatism, or reversion to the good
old days, when the priests not alone
! partook of the cup that cheers
they do that now-but partook of
everything else that was going.
THE picture this Jesuit drew Of
4 America today will not be edi-
! torialized on in the Times. 1t reads
too darned much like the picture of
Moscow drawn by the Times cores
pondent. The priest says: "Our
homes are ruined. fathers and
mothers are not faithful each to each,
and the dockets of our divorce courts
are crowded, children are banded
about from one divorce to another or
parked as automobiles are, parentless,
in an institution" The cure for all
this rottehness, he said was self
sacrifice; a reaffirmation of the sane
tfty of life; a restressing of the dig
nifty Of human parentage; self-re-
straint." Which is all bosh.
| A MOTHER catholic priest warned
"A catholics against reading books
placed on the index by the pope, with
view of safeguarding their morals.
If catholic parents had the privilege
of listening to Professor Joseph Nc
Cabe, ex-priest tell of the merry ami
madversions of the popes of Rome
in other days they would think the
Decameron or the old testament
harmless books to place in the hands
OF their children. 1t is interesting to
note that such writer's as Nietzsche,
Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge and
H. G. Wells are on the index With
the exception of the first named, those
writer's fit very well in a spook gal
lery.
( CONSIDERABLE criticism was le-
- yelled against Governor Smith
and Mayor Hylan of New York, by
catholics, for their attendance at last
months ceremonies at the cathedral
of st. John the Divine, an episcopal
ian institution. For an ordinary cath.
Ollie to attend such service would
be a one way ticket to hell But a
dignitary of the church said that
Smith and Hylan were justified in
doing something thef would mean
damnation for an ordinary catholic.
II seems Roman congregation in
1882 permitted taking liberties with
the laws of the church where politics
were involved. A Roman law! And
yet Communists are accused of sedi-
ton for obeying decisions of the Com.
munist International! Who takes