The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-30
Str0ngarm Man
Founded Group
By CHARLES B. DRIscoLL.

NoHiteu freSS StdH rreSponueut.)
New York, Jan. 27.-Perhaps it's
just as well to call them Sparts.
Just when we were learning to say
Bolsheviki, and were learning to give
It about as universal an application as
we used to give to camoufiage before
that sorely-tried word was officially
entomber by the Society for the De-
cent Burial of Hackneyed Words.
along came these Germans. with their
Schdecklichkeit and head cheese, and
sprung Spartacus on US.
That was right in line with their
other unfair tactics, gas. flame throw
ers and gingerbread saloon-fronts.
But now that we have Spartaeus
with us, what are we going to do about
it?
The Spartacus group was the
name the German ultra-radicals adopt
ed when they first hung out their shin
gle in the blood-letting business But
that sort of name never would do
So, we have the papers in their ex-
tremity. aEuding to them variously as
Spartacides, Spartacans, Spartacites
and Spartica. Objection is made 10
the aforementioned designation be-
cause it is very close to homocide, sui
eide. regicide, fratracide, insecticide
not lacking considerable party which
claims that spartacism is all of that
and more. But, the ending-cide, from
the Latin. Caedo, TO kill, always kills
whatever it is added 10. Kills what
it goes after .as it were. A homocide
is a killer. a suicide is a self
killer, and an insecticide is an insect
killer. So, Spartacide would be a
Spartacus-killer. And that isn't what
we want to say at all.
In the same way a Spartacusser
might be accused OF heapine profane
invective upon Spartacus and all his
works. and Spartacan might be sus-
pected Of being mere subtrafuge for
tying a can on one end OF Spartacus,
and you can see vedy easily how a
Spartacrat might be MIXED up with an
aristocrat.
Maybe it's just as we'll to cal them
avoid complications
The sparts take their name from a
certain Mr.. Spartacus whose initials
have been lost somewhere in the shuf-
fie. He started life as a modest shep-
herd in Trace, perhaps somewhere in
what recently was European Turkey.
during the century just preceding the
birth of Christ. Think OF going back
that far for somebody to name your
political party after!
The young Mr. Spartacus, firing OF
keeping the night watches over his
sheep became robber chief, tie
chronic,ers say. They do not specify
whether he stuck up banks. checked
hats or head packing company. Any
way. he became a robber.
A Roman army, in the course of one
of its boundary-rectifying expeditions,
happened upon Spartacus and took
him to Rome. The sport fans decided
to match him against much-touted
gladiator recently imported from Asia,
azd for that purpose put him in
training camp for gladiators. He es-
capped as soon as be had learned the
fundamentals of glad;ating and issued
n vi AHutptHucHCr, dH-
serting that all slaves were thence
forth free. Whereupon every gentle
mans slave began to put on sirs, re-
fused to pull the corks or polish the
car any more and. in short, started
revolt.
Under the leadership OF Spartacus
the slaves captured most of Southern
Italy, and held out for nearly three
years against the best forces the Ro
man government could send against
them. But at last they were beaten
by an army under Lucullus. just as
they were about to seize all the ship
ping boards ships and dash back to
Thraee. Spartacus died with his men,
leading a charge. Such was the gen
tleman whom the German radicals
have chosen as godfather of the reyo-
luton.