The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-01
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BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
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industrial and social system which
awakening is inevitable sooner or
later-they will turn to the most
radical Of Bolshevism, and we shall
witness a revolution compared with
which that which has taken place
in Russia will appear as child's
play. Qui vivra verra!"
Not so bad
IGNORANCE handicaps man in life
4 but it is no handicap to a catholic
who is concerned with nothing else
except getting to heaven. A learned
catholic is as incapable of understand
ing the dogmas and mysteries of the
catholic faith as an ignorant catholic.
We have the authority of catholic
publication for this. And we defy any
intelligent reader to make either head
or tail Of the following question and
answer;
70 is there not vast difference
W. between the faith of learned
and an ignorant catholic? A. Both
believe the same, inasmuch as both
believe on the authority Of god reveal
ing, as witnessed to infallibly by a
divine, authoritive teacher, speaking
in the name Of Jesus Christine
catholic church. The trained theolo-
gian may know more facts, have a
better grasp of principles, and be bet
ter able to defend catholic doctrine
than the average catholic; still, the
self-same dogmas must be believed by
both under penalty of ex-communica-
ton" Now you tell one!
URINE is on the increase in Russia,
~ according to a story in a capitalist
news service. Various causes are Civ
en- for this. alleged condition, includ-
ing "the high cost Of living and IN
employment" but perhaps the cause
considered most responsible is the
leniency of Russian courts to defend
ants who are industrial workers or
peasants, or whose early environment
did not give them chance to grow
up normally. This humanitarian way
of regarding crime is frowned on by
our christian capitalist apologists.
OF course the most ardent support
~ er of the Soviet government will
not claim that all crime vanished
within twenty four hours after the
Red Flag was raised over the Kremlin.
The population that was brutalized I'M
der the czarist regime is still there
And the economic conditions that are
largely responsible for crime and
criminals are only in the process of
being eliminated. AS l am writing
this a headline in Chicago afternoon
paper catches my eye. 1t reads
twelve murder trials on docket for
October court" That's not so bad.
It has been worse. American news
papers hunting for crime records need
not go beyond their own doorsteps.
DECENTLY while having a cup of
~ coffee in a restaurant with two
acquaintances, the latter began to
argue violently over some trifling mat
ter. What they were disputing could
not be proven without recourse to an
atlas or map. But still the battle
ragged. was reading newspaper at
my leisure and happened to light on
the following: Usually the only man
that is sure OF a fact is the man who
knows only one thing about the sub
ject. People argue most over things
they know least about" This stopped
the boys for a while but one of them,
wiser and younger than the other
after thinking severely retorted: you
should know enough not to believe
anything you read in the capitalist
press"