The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-19
The Black Sheep.

one Of the axioms of his philosophy,
1t were these considerations of what
he termed ideal won,an-hood which
compelled him in his efforts to make
his child as otbodoXly perfect as pos
sible. But we cannot teach a fish to
walk. neither can you make basi-
cally aggressive and radical brain cou.
scrvative. There is no perfectly safe
place for high explosives, and Ander-
son was about to learn it. His daughter
was an off type, and types cannot be
trained true to form. Since she had
first spoken of that hoy in jail, he
60 And business man like he blamed
The preacher for placing the girl in
the way of an object which had
Getonatei her radicalism Business men
frequently blame workers for the de.
ficiency in the material they supply.
Recognizing that the spring of her
power had been touched he decided
to make an effort to stop the eX-
Iloding process by removing what he
conceived to be its cause. He did not
know enough about high explosives to
realize that once they have caught
fire they are gone. You may rehabil.
itate some of the wreckage but you
will never recover the charge. 1t is
so with the radical mind types; you
may keep them away from truth,
and preserve them in world of Or
thodoxy, but once let them get sight
of it and away they go and nothing
short of death will stop them. Anderson
for once had decided to do the un.
doable.
Ho had decided to tell the Judge TO
release the boy and to see to it that
he got out of town as soon as possible
That seemed simple. 1t would have
been had he been dealing with ordi.
nary matters and mortals, but this was
not the case. He was dealing with life
problem and was therefore pitting
his poor business brain against
woman's sex intuition thing of
which he or any other man can know
nothing. because the faculty is that Of
woman, for womans purposes and is
possessed by man only in rudimentary
form.
No sooner had he left the house
that morning, than his daughter fol
lowed him secretly to his office, 10.
stead of going to school, This was a
thing she had never done before. She
hardly knew why she did it now. 1t
was not that she Instructed her
fathers word. She knew that when
he said that he would have that boy
released that there was nothing that
would stop him, and vet in spite of
that assurance she felt that she had
to be present, lest something might
go wrong. And what was there that could
go wrong? That boys freedom was
all that she wanted, she would have
resented any insinuation that she even
wanted to see him again. Still there
was that in her mind which stirred
deep laid emotional surrcnts which
alternately thrilled and frightened her,
she was in the grasp of the cosmic
urge which swept her on with the
rnsistless power of a Niagara. Olive
the woman was dominant, and hope.
lessly routed Olive the bourgeois
Under the influence of the biologlc
Crge heredity triumphed over envir.
onment The ghost of Eric the Red,
arose in the body of the choir girl.
The woman wanted the man. the lady
wanted justice, and when on the fields
of life woman meets lady, in the
same body, then it goes hard with tine
lady. That is perhaps the reason she
went TO her fathers office, she told
herself that it was, simply to hear
how he would manage to set that
boy free; but in reality it was to
see to it that he should not be spir.
tied away from her, Consciously she
formed her thoughts according to her
training, subconsciously she shaped her
acts according to the requirements of
Biology,
This phenomena of mind is seen un.
versaly in the working class thru ont
the world under the influence OF rad.
zeal education. They speak in tho
terms Of radicalsm but when con.
fronted by the real problems of live
they act true to their slave heredity.
Olive lived in slave environment but
reacted activistically to her ancestral
blood.
She sat in the outer office and over
beard her fathers conversation with
tho Judge over the telephone. His part
II 1t ran somewhat like this:
"Hello-is this you JudgcP"
"This is Gus--Gus Anderson. Can't
you hear, or have you forgotten who
! am9n
Say want you to turn that
kid loose" at this the girl fel. a
thrill of JOY. And then her father
rontinnod so.J - . .