South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-08

or Ansricanisr1, since AuericanizatiOn became
latest American fad. Repression is invariably the
John the Baptist OF revolutions this whether Il be
in the nation or IN the home The best way to fight
boIshevfsrn. communism. socialism. anything else
with which you disagree is 10 out-vvit It. expose
i- substitute your ideas for Il. and appealing
reason and moral justice. make conversions 20 your
own cause.
That Is Americanism, and she highest type Of
Auericanisu Laws are justdable 20 combat con-
spiracles Any movement 10 overthrow the govern
ment by force that definite end in view, cannot OF
course be tolerated. and should the conspiracy
evolve into overt act OF governmental resistance
or destruction It should met with unfnching
sisanee. The difference IS OF action and OF talk
ing through ones hat What America needs is TO
learn what these various "isms' that terribly
dread. really mean and what they and then II
we don't like them. give their adherents something
better. and OF a intelligent and convincing
appeal.
One great trouble with majority OF Is that
not knowing what talking about what it is
that troubling Us. except that somebody is ad-
vocating a change. inclined instead brush
ing up on our own intelligence to resort to the law
and try TO have the heresy Lut out Of business
u can't be done that way. The only way TO meet a
thought Is with a thought and Mr.. Chandler per-
formed considerable service addressing the Cham
Der OF Commerce. by making plain; a
able service too because there is no class OF men
needing Of advice any than did
who heard him.
Furthermore IN spite OF ourselves. we arc un-
dergoing the revolution-cr evolution.-which Mr.
Chandler urged approach. with intelligence
meeting force. rather than by force greeting force
his dissertation Circumstance. and the laws OF
natural selection" the operation might be
cooperating to bring order out Of the chaos
with which we have been threatened We get
ting together. II seems. though apparently
drifting apart. The agonies OF war and the INDUS
trial conflict have done more TO cement the bonds
fellowship between and brother OF whatever
station. than all the humanitarian preaching and
phnosophizing Of many ages Distorted by incessant
quarreiIing it IS. this accession of fellow
feeling IS not very apparent but beneath the bick
ering and seeming hatred. indeed. underlying and
running through the quarrels. there is the con-
sciousness Of the spirit 1t is the hopeful
sign the times
The strikes that have followed the war that have
been natural consequence Of It. have taught us the
lesson OF mutual dependence. We have been made
70 realize that all our comfort, all our weIl-being
all lives. in fact depend upon the regular per-
Torrance OF duty by every cog in the great indus
trial machine The railroads must be kept running
starve. The railroads depend. again, upon the
faithful performance OF duty by some other cog in
the organization the coal miner. for instance And
that. turn. IT devolves upon persistent
plugging along OF those who produce food. and
less upon those others who make the goods
wherein traffic in order to be able to Iurchas2
the food that life.
Each his life to all the rest Of u.s. and de-
reelection OF duty the part of one group can soon
make living uncomfortable perhaps intolerabe for
all. Our civilization complicated that a very
small disiocation may easily ncapacitate or break
down the whole machine.
And so. It is not mere preaching Of humanitarian
ism any longer; It Is economic necessity that has
brought home the lesson 20 the world We have seen
anarchy. we have faced the probable peril OF bar
barisu. and know now that our civilization is not
the fixed and thing we have thought H. We
learned that # is be taken for granted
accomplished and Interchangeable fact-a stable
condition.
There have been civilizations before. and they
have gone down into the abyss OF oblivion II we are
to preserve It must be by constant vigilance
against the evils which have brought down our pre-
deeessors We make the nterdependence Of
ali Us more acutely discernible to every class OF
society. and make that knowledge OF dependence a
workable part OF daily business intercourse
Each must realize that he can make the whole
machine unavoidable and seeing his rover. must
use It TO keep the machinery going-by carrying on
carrying on. always carrying on.
A little more propaganda OF this order. getting
men 20 see and comprehend their dependent reIa-
ions 10 each other and then all classes living it,
capital and labor alike each cutting out their snop
iusistence upon autocratic dominance the
other. and you have conquered bolshevism. COM
uunisn socialism. etc, uprootng tie soil in which
they thrive. Social justice interigenty ascertained
and honestly applied things that need. and
need from above downward. well from below
upward. need much more than need more laws
the statute books or convict seditionists pris
pens
SIR Chandler. indeed. Americanization chair
man for this county. has struck a very righteous
gait and be should have @ more universal support
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