New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-29

The Shape of Your Head
Reveals Your Radical
Tendencies

the Norman Conquest. No materials
are at hand to enable me to state lust
how much anarchy took place in Russia
during these earlier times, but I
imagine that there was much more
than in England.
Scotland was long backward coun-
try. Civil wars, border raids, plots,
conspiracies, turmoil and unsettled con-
ditions are encountered frequently
enough in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, but all this is different from
anarchy, and / do not find the word
anarchy used at all by historians as
applicable to early Scottish history. It
seems rather that they Always Kept to
group or clan formation. The organi-
zation of the whole was broken into
parts, but the organizations remained
and the lower orders always followed
their leaders. The history of Scotland
shows that 1t was not merely because
Russia was a backward country that
she INDUCED in so much anarchy.
"Sweden, q good example of Nordic
country, shows no periods of anarchy
during these centuries. General dis
content and suffering, disorder, relig-
ious and personal warfare, misfortune
and poverty, lethargy, and even ma
tional humiliation, are some Of the de-
scriptive phrases picturing the dark
aspects of Sweden's history, which oc-
Cured from time to time, but never the
word anarchy.
Denmark in its history is nearly
free from anything approaching ex-
IRENE lawlessness. We find only dur
Ing the interregnum, 1533-'34, civil
wars, violences and cruelties. The
same may be said for Holland. Party
struggles, prosecutions, financial ex-
cept for the brief period, 1747-'51,
characterized by internal commotion
and some uprisings, there were no
lapses on the part Of the Dutch from
the maintenance of organized govern
ment
"Also, Prussia has scarcely ever be-
fore known the meaning of being with
out recognized and ordered govern
ment During most of her history it
has been her fate to be under strong
monarchical leadership. There were
only two distinctly weak Hohenzollerns
from l415 to the death of Frederick
the Great in 1856. Under George Will
lam (1619-'40), during the Thirty
Years War, the nation was brought to
bankruptcy, political dissolution and
i internal lawlessness.
"1n this question Of anarchistic ten
denotes as shown in history, France
presents an Intern ediate position be-
tween Slavic Russia and the strictly
Nordic countries just described. The
| anarchy of the French Revolution is,
Of course, enough in itself to place
France below the Nordic countries in
record for good behavior on law-abid-
ing grounds. There were not many
periods Of anarchy earlier than this
unless we go back ages earlier than
are here considered. Subsequent to
the middle of the fifteenth century
there was at least one time during the
reign Of Henry III when bands of law
less adventurers overran the land
Thus a. survey of Anglo-Teutonic
history from the middle Of the fifteenth
century to the beginning of the nine
teenth brings out the fact that Nordic
races have not been appealed to by an
archstic temptations. The racial ele-
ments in the makeup of Russia are
mainly Slavic. They are Of the Alpine
or brachycephalic type. The true Rus
slams constitute nearly three-fourths of
the population of Russia; the rest are
! chiefly Letto-Lithuanians, Poles, Jews,
Firms, Turco-Tartars and Mongols.
They have INDUCED in much anarchy in
the past.
Historical evidence strongly sug-
gests that there is something inherent
IN the temperament Of the Sav caus-
ing him to yield much more easily than
his Nordic neighbor to the temptations
OF mob violence. Let US hope that
now is another time when nature will
assert itself as stronger than nurture
and that Bolshevism will find itself
deIlmlted on the Anglo-Saxon from
tiers"