The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
AS WE SEE
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

A RTHUR BRISBANE, literary adj
\ vertising manager for the Hearst
papers, has been congratulated by
Major General Amos A. Fries, chief
of the chemical warfare service, U.
S. A., for the prophecy that the price
of real estate in Los Angeles was only
beginning to rise and also that chemi-
cal warfare carried on from airplanes
would be vital factor in the next
war. Arthur is big real estate oper-
ator in Los Angeles and it looks as il
he owned stock in some airplane fac
tories.
GENERAL FRIES deprecates the
~ kind Of propaganda that would
draw lurid and horrible picture of
chemical warfare. In fact, the gem
eral tells us that there is no form
of murder half as pleasant as putting
the tin hat on an animated piece of
protoplasm thru the medium of chemi-
Gals To quote the mild and kindly
general: Chemical warfare is
cheapest, most effective, most hui
name; it is ignorance and pacifist
propaganda which has cast discredit
upon it, But while the effect of
chemical warfare may be made swift
and devastating, paralyzing an enemy
with incredible completeness, it is hui
name and in the end less deadly than
shrapnel and machine gun fire."
before we take leave of the gen.
- eral and heartily apologize to him
for our suspicious of the aims and
objects of his humane murder depart
ment, let him dissipate a few other
popular fantasies that have found
Judgement in the brains of the mass
es thru the wicked propaganda sent
out by "Bolshevists and pacifsts" in
order to make chemical warfare I'M
popular with its intended victims.
Listen to Major Fries again: ut is
only popular delusion that a gassed
man becomes easy prey to pulmonary
diseases. Before a congressional in
vestigating committee recently lead
ing scientists testified, that a soldier
gassed is less liable to become a vic
tim of tuberculosis, and if he does
because of being gassed, he RECEIVERS
more quickly"
THOSE of you who were in diff
culties about the selection of the
lethal weapon most conductive to
sending you off on the long journey
from which there is no return, should
be properly grateful to General Fries
and to Arthur Brisbane for giving the
general something to talk about. It
is not unlikely that. new schools of
healing will seize on Major Fries
statement and use it to convince their
clients that doses of tear, mustard
and laughing gas will nicely supple
ment spinal manipulations and rectal
electricity charges. Before long we
may have a chemical warfare depart
ment in every hospital.
IF liquid fire and the other products
of the war laboratory are so con-
ducive to good health why not let us
have wars often and conveniently To-
Gated so that even the poorest work
ers can afford to pay his fare to the
scene OF carnage. 1t might be pos
sible to have miniature wars during
the noon hour where the tired work
ers and even the tired business men
might get either rejuvenation or
death. The general did not say that
his pet poisons always cured. Some
times there are accidents and there
is fatality But people who live in
Chicago should not worry over the
mortality table of a war. The nice
general has taken considerable of the
sting out of death.
THE Chinese are still fighting and
knocking their pacifist reputa-
tons into row of discarded pigtails.
American newspaper correspondents
are lying like gentlemen and finding
Soviet generals on every corner. and
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