The daily worker., 1926-07-21
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BY THOMAS J. o'FLAHERTY

CEVERAL American missionaries are
~ under siege at Sakfa, Shesi pro-
vince, China. Fears are expressed for
their lives. Now is the time for those
divine agents to show their stuff.
They have made fat living owing to
their alleged pull with the almighty,
but it seems that when they get into
trouble their god is completely forgot
ten. When the pope gets sick he calls
in the best available physician and tho
Mrs. Baker Eddy was the leading ex-
ponent of the theory that illness or
death existed not, it is reported that
she had no objection to the ministra-
tions of a physician when her physical
machinery went out of gear.
TNHE next time you hear a funda-
mentalist threaten to consign all
sinners to hell, put on your bullet
proof vest or fee, if you are a sinner.
The fundamentalists are getting mill
tant, and they are quick on the draw.
Why not? If they are justified in
their contention that all those who do
not agree, that the male Of the species
is minus rib because of the scarcity
of mud when the deity finished the job
OF creating the first man. are
menace to society, 1t seems to me that
they are justified in resorting to vio-
lence.
THE Rev. ]. Frank Norris of Fort
1 Worth, Texas. is the winner of
enviable notoriety in religious circles,
because OF the ferocity he exhibited
in his threats against all those who
differ with him on the religious ques-
tion. He adopted Billy Sundays vo-
cabulsry and got good press in New
York when he delivered a sermon in
which he said that he would give the
evolutionists hell from the first word
10 benediction. He also aided William
Jennings Bryan in that worthy's fight
against Scopes in the famous Dayton
trial. His latest bid for fame is the
man who expostulated with the clergy
man over the latters attacks on the
mayor. Norris whipped out his re
volver and packed the lumberman off
to eternity.
ME published story recently about
W a miner employed by the Beth
lehem Steel Corporation, who loaded
over 500 tons of coal in IL days. This
was so much more than the yearly
average loading for European miners
that We slapped it in with the rest of
our jokes in the staff Column" The
average loading, even in the United
States, is only something over 700
tons. Now come two New York brick
layers and lay 10000 rough bricks in
sixteen-inch wall in seven hours.
1t took four men to keep the two pace
makers in bricks and mortar. The
names of those two should he re-
corded They are Samuel Faticato
and Tony Iannello.
THIS is an afterthought. 1t oc-
CURED to us that we dropped the
Rev. Norris without doing him full
justice, and fortunately at the same
moment clipping giving some quo
tations from James J. Davis's sermon
on the beauties of old-fashioned reli-
gion hit our eye. Surely even the
most enthusiastic fan for a treat-'em-
rough gospel cannot ask for more
in the way of results than the accom-
plishment of the noted fundamental
ist There is nothing too old-fash-
ioned for fundamentalist A few
words of appreciation from our secre-
tary of labor would no doubt be ap-
preciated by the gallant divine before
he goes thru the formality of a trial.
A CCORDING to a story bearing
- Cairo date line, published in last
Sundays Tribune, things are going
from bad to worse with the interests
Of the British empire in Africa. The
writer seems to get quite kick out
OF recounting the agonies of British
Imperialism from Cairo to Cape Town
Not only are the Egyptians ready to
confer the royal order of the boot on
British rule but practically every bit
of imperial real estate in Africa is
seething with discomfort and Premier
Hertzog of South Africa, the bible
pounding Dutch-African, Is prepared
TO find something In the good book
that will Justify breaking with British
rule. Needless to say, such news is
not displeasing to us, tho capitalist
reporters are inclined to exaggerate,
usually, however, in favor of the i'm
peralists.