Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-14
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

ROBERT wilton gives a tull eSpla-
nation of what Bolshevism is and
what it has done in Russia in his new
. book, "Russia's Agony" just pub
lished in an American edition by L.
p. Dutton d Co. Mr.. Wilton, who
is an Englishman, has lived almost
all his life in Russia and was for
years the Russian correspondent of
the London Times. He was in Rus
sia all through the Revolution, wit
messed the seizure of the govern
ment by the Bolsheviki and remain
| ed in the country for months after
ward, IS narrative covering events
down to last autumn. The preface
in which he surveys still later de-
velopments,. is dated at San Fran
cisco, on the fourth of last Jan
uary, on his way to European Russia
again, by way of Siberia. In this
preface he gives a succinct explana-
ton of what Bolshevism is in a
short paragraph that condenses a
more detailed account in the later
pages of the book. In this paragraph
he says:
"Bolshevism demands an immedi-
ate application of Socialistic ideals.
Its protaSonists care not by what
methods or with whose help they
carry out their experiment. Bolshe-
vism recognizes no nationality, no
society, no family,-nothing but a
conglomeration of manual workers
governed by idealists' with the help
of Red Army. 1t is essentially un-
| democratic; it involves the forcible
subversion of all the laws and CO.
venants upon which human society
has been established"
The troubles which Canada has
had during recent years with her
two races and two languages. cul-
minating in the rioting in French
Canada against the Military Service
Act, have never been very clearly
| understood by the people of the
| United States, many of whom would
like to know much more than they
have yet been able to learn about
the causes and nature of the Difficult.
ties. The publication in an Ameri-
can in an American edition by T.. p
Dutton g. Co., of William II. Moore's
| The Clash: A Study in National.
tiles" will give them Just the clear
exposition of the subject which they
want. Mr. Moore is a Canadian and
has made a. very sympathetic and
! comprehensive study of the com
plcated problem, as he has also OF
| canadian history and of the radical
characteristic involved. and his
Dook shows thorough knowledge and
a broad and tolerant viewpoint. In
canada, where it was first published
| iast september, it has already gone
INTO lts seventh edition. For the
people or the United States it will
nave a double interest, not onlv that
| or dealing with i,,,,
lem in neighboring state but also
that its relation to our own land OF
many racial stocks.
FROM Vienna the other day came
a dispatch to a New York news.
paper saying that the prices of al.
cohonc beverages had mounted tc
sucn heights that drinking had great.
~ declined and that in CONSEQUENCE
there had been. according to the
Health Office, an astonishing de.
crease in the number of new cases
or insanity. The inebriates' ward in
the Vienna Lunatic Asylum had beer
closed owing to the lack of patients
ana there We're no more graduates
from 1t into the asylum. The item,
VIII remind those who are familio,
with Vance Thompson's brilliant
pook' Drink (E. p. Dutton & Co.
OF the chapter in which. after pre-.
senting many statistics showing the
dlrect connection between alcoho,
and crime and insanity he sums ur
dne result of the study in this way;
AND so enough of'statistics IL this
truth has been driven home: In.
sanity is the mad son of alcohol
1diocy is its driveling daughter
suicide is its despairing child. Upon
my word, that men who called drink
raclal cnrse-even he who called
pan-demic plague-spoke with.
out exaggeration and with measur
able reserve"