The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-16
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

 Treat Elm Rough
 I was familiar with the well-known preparation so widely advertised called Rough on Rats." but for the sake of me couldn't imagine who and for whom and for what such a publication as I was handling was aimed at. turned through it's pages to find those 1 responsible for it's promotion and found that Arthur Guy Empey was the pub fisher with quite staff of celebrities. This in itself got my further attention and so I began to go through it's pages with care
 ''Theat Elm Rough" is a magazine for fighting men and their packers, for men with go and fight in them, the red blooded kind who are willing to do and to dare. For men first of all who are Americans through and through, live men and interested in play and work It is magazine that touches and ap- appeals to men in every phase of their daily life. Its editorials cover wide and varied range of subjects, business 1 sports, theatres, music, movies, cartoons, military and naval affairs, fiction, i'm dustral. economic and social movements; treating them in way to arouse the at- tention of men who do things. Treat Elm Rough" strives to take a Thew and inviting view of life by setting i out a feast of good things for men of widely differing temperaments. It is true 1 that when it entered the field it found
 fiction magazines, trade publications, po- litical periodicals and so forth, all ap pealing in a measure to men, but incl dentaIly or for business reasons; but it caters exclusively to the male animal l For instance, it has in the June issue l feature article, For the Mans Room" l as first thought that "Treat Elm l Rough" would reveal magazine de- | voted to a satire on femnism in which the "cave man" would get in his heavy work with a club. I opened it's pages expecting to find satircal verses, carl catures and leading articles making sport I of the modern woman who looks for nothing of the kind.
 1 While 1t is spicy, readable monthly, well printed on good paper and profusely l illustrated beneath its garb of attrac- | tiveness there runs a serious purpose and that is why I am giving it this mo- l tice, for it is a magazine of protest and is devoted to hammering home the vital 1 importance of combating the violently | radical movement known popularly as i bolshevism.
 1 It has the honor of having been singled | out by the newspapers of the I. W. W. and communistic socialists, for it's with ering exposures of their purposes and aims to undermine pure Americanism It rings a postwar note of patriotism in
 the hope that the thing for which men
 gave their lives, democracy, should not be trampled under foot by aliens who raise the red flag.
 | It is silly to try and blind our eyes to I the fact that the class war has reached America; there is no disgusting or, cam ouflaging it. Even while our nation was engaged in open warfare with an outside enemy, bolshevism was secretly at work gnawing at the vitals of our American institutions Yes, the imported parasite | as deadly to liberty as is the boil weevil
 to the cotton crop was eating away re- morsely and greedily within us It was a traitor then and does any sane man suppose that it has abandoned it's treason
 at the singing of the armistice? l You pick up your morning or after
 noon paper and casually glance at the word bolshevism and it hardly stirs your
 interest, but if you really knew it's men,
 ace, and how powerful and persstently
 it is engaged in it's underground machin- ations against the peace and prosperity of America, you would Wake up to the 1 fact that it is no academic question for
 social experimenters or college professors
 to discuss at pink teas, but calls for
 stern and vigorous repression before it
 undermines the foundations Of society
 But boshevism is no longer content to work under cover, but comes out boldly into the open, and has its paid agtators
 who abuse the rights of free speech, it's i.press which flouts decency, and make its
 appeal to the lowest and basest passions
 of mankind. There are approximately
 40 revolutionary publications in the city
 of New York alone sheets advocating
 bolshevism, acemmunism anarchy or has been aptly said. "any system of govern
 ment where scum sovereignty will ob- tain"
 | I have seen photographic extracts of some of their damnable utterances, and it is enough to make ones blood boil,
 and ] am glad that such a publication
 as Treat Elm Rough has been born
 to combat the insidious influence which
 are deadly growing bolder, and I hope it will have wide circulation and thereby
 be able to awaken our sleeping people to the peril which threatens them. Rus
 sian bolshevism may not be at menace
 at present in the United States, but how about American bolshevism? ss
 It has been pointed out that of far | fha q rortr ,f