The daily worker., 1925-02-18


as honesty is concerned. 1t is very
doubtful if pickpockets would make
as good showing.
THE MORNING POST of Great
1 Britain publishes story to the
effect that his holiness, the pope,
would shortly start on world tour
We are of the opinion that when the
pope leaves Rome it will be on one
way ticket. The pope placed all his
eggs in Mussolini's basket and when
that monster meets his Waterloo as
he is destined to, soon, his spiritual
ally in the Vatican will go down with
him.
COVIET RUSSIA is spending
- $4,000. 900 for food relief, accord.
ing to news dispatch from Moscow.
The government is providing the peas
ants with sowing material for the next
harvest. This must be another dia-
bolical plot on the part of the Com
munists to seduce the peasantry.
This, however, is the kind of seduc-
tion the peasants like. The czar would
have sent his cossacks to shoot them
down, instead of complying with their
requests for aid.
THE craziest forgery of the many,
| recently sprung on the reading
publiesjs that published last Sunday
in the Chicago Tribune. 1t is alleged
to be secret order from the Com
munist International to the Workers
Party Of America, concerning the dis
bursement of funds for painting the
United States red" and instructions as
to how to go about mobiIizing the
masses for that purpose. The various
paragraphs contradict each other and
the entire document is written in the
best Spolansky or William ]. Burns
style.
THE forgery business is now -four
ishing in Europe, particularly
since France recognized Soviet Rus
sia. The fake document which the
lying Trib. was only too glad to pub
lish was stolen from the files of the
Soviet embassy in Berlin according
to the Tribune Berlin liar. What it
should be doing there, was not even
made a subject for speculation. No
doubt this yarn is on a par with that
about "Bill' Haywood being in Trebi-
zond, Armenia on his way to Leaven-
worth prison. The capitalist editors
are too experienced to believe this
kind of bunk but they run it for what
ever propaganda they can get out of
1t. Many people will take it without
question at its face value.
IT should not be forgotten that the
| fake "Zinoviev" letter sprung in
the British elections by the tories
helped considerably to defeat the la
Dor party. Similar forgeries have re-
Gently appeared in France and in Ju-
go-Slavia. Premier Herriot of France
is now suing Liberte, a reactionary
newspaper, for publishing false news
Of Communist activities in France.
Not that Herriot wished to protect the
Communists. His object was to mini
mize the strength of their propa-
ganda, he being blamed for the rapid
Communist growth during the past
seven or eight months.
N c. BEDFORD, the chairman of
~ the Standard Oil company, de-
clared recently that the churches are
losing out in the competition against
the movies. AS many people go to
see the movies in one day as go to all
churches in one week. AS a rule
movies are not up to much, but once
in q while, screen drama succeeds
in slipping by with some of it's original
virginity intact, granting that it ever
had any. Most movies are designed
for intellectual paupers, but at least,
topics of the times and various fea-
lures that usually go to make the
main attraction bearable, are worth
looking at. So much cannot be said
for the church.
EFT 1t be clearly understood that
l. we are discussing the relative
merits of church and movie purely
from the point of view Of interest.
rhe capitalists support the church as
matter Of business, but as Bedford
points out they are losing PROPOSE
tions, Not one in a thousand now be-
lieve the silly rot that fossilized
preachers give forth. The preachers
do not believe It. Science has knocked
religion into cooked hat long ago.
Even nan who believes in hell now
.::ays-is congidered oidfashioned.
The best the capitalists can do with
their immense church property is to
invest Il in movies. They have plenty
OF material for good actors in their
priests and ministers.