The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-15
CurY9ntEUentS
By T. j. o'FLAHEery.

By T. J. O'FLAHEerY.
icon DAUDET, French royalist
leader, after having barricaded
himself for days in his editorial Of
fees and protected by small army
of followers, successfully defied the
French police to arrest him, finally,
magnanimously allowed his person to
be taken into custody, if such term
can properly be applied to the deli
cate manner in which the police full
filled the requirements of the law.
only a few days ago this column
commented on the difference in
treatment accorded Daudet, the
Royalist, and Semard the Communist.
The latter was uncermoniously
seized, and rushed off to prison with
out even being allowed the privilege
Of saying goodbye to his family. The
former was serenaded by project of
police and permitted to make
speech from the balcony of his office,
which exceeded in expressions of 10y
atty to France the most fervid ora
torical efforts of the super-patriot
Poincare. We presume the project
would have kissed him on the ear if
the law of gravity permitted him to
ease himself up for the oscalutory
effort.
nAUDET made terms with the ZEN
Demy" and his troops evacuated the
building with drums beating, colors
flying and arms glistening in the
sun. The New York Herald-Tribune
processes not to understand this
phenomenon. Tho not laying claim
to omniscience / can inform the
doubling Thomas" of the Herald
Tribune editorial staff that the ex-
PLANTATION of the leniency shown Dau
Diet in contradistinction to the sew
Gritty of the treatment accorded Sc
mard, can be found. in the fact that
Daudet is a bitter opponent Of Com
munism and a supporter of the
capitalist system while Semard is
just the opposite.
GENEVA is the proper place to hold
a conference on the question Of
over-crowding. Because we believe,
if there is such problem as over
crowding, the league of nations can
dispose of it by setting the wheels of
its war machinery in motion. There
is no simpler or more direct way to
reduce the population than to wave
half a dozen vari-colored flags in
front of the cannon fodder of half a
dozen of the most thickly populated
countries, serve them a hooker of
rum each and exhort them to gut
each other in the name of country.
0F course there are the usual draw
Vbacks to this method and it is quite
possible that the World Population
Conference may reject this sug-
gestion. Soldiers have a habit of
cutting loose in an enemy country
and tho temporarily there is a dent
in the population the slack is taken I
up when the new recruits begin to
come in. There is also the danger
that, owing to the effectiveness of
our modern methods Of conducting
warfare, some practical joker in an
airplane might circle over Geneva
and drop ton of high explosives on
the gentlemen engaged in the bust
ness of solving the overcrowding
problem from a safe vantage point
But there are hazards attached to
every plan.
EVIDENTLY hardening back to the
scriptural saying "A little child
shall lead them" the British govern
ment has refused passports to par
ties of British workingclass children
who were invited to visit the U.S.S.R.
with view TO seeing how the chill
dren were being treated in the
Workers Republic. Great Britain
will suffer her little children to
starve in her slums, for such go
Iuickly to the kingdom of heaven.
the children refused passports
under IA years of age. Evil
the government of the mighty
empire fears that on the
S return the story of what
in the Soviet Union would
isturbing effect on the waits
sh capitalism. But mighty
empire is, the little children
way of getting to Russia.
NE opportunity is presented to
Sc who wish to visit the Soviet
in the six weeks trip from
York to Moscow via Leningrad
IN is scheduled to leave here on
.-.ly 14th. Those who have suffered
from the nuisance connected with the
European frontiers can visualize the
superior comfort that can be enjoyed
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