Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-13
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU?
Botshepism a Bogy That Britain
Passed on to Us--HoD the.
President Wiped Out Debt
We OlDed to Lafayette

ceived does Russia furnish ''the acid
test" For TO listen to the press
begotten conversation of good Ameri-
cans in cars, hotels and In their
homes. you would gather that this
vast country. the richest ever known
and the firmest-rooted in the rights of
property is being hurried to the brink
OF ruin by agents of the soviet govern
ment scattering Russian gold and Sc
ducing into revolutionary violence the
highest paid workers in the world.
During recent months the longer and
more explosive word "Bolsheviki' has
been struggling with the simpler RED
as the stigma for these revolutionary
elements The war that was no war"
in Russia has been the means of plant
ing this sham-revolution in America.
A s LONG ago as IL took to write that,
"A send it to England and get II back
here printed in the London Nation, il
was true.
Today we are preparing TO cnange our
minds on bolshevism.
Ienine rides in n Rolls Royce.
Clearly Russia cannot be so bad as il
is painted.
DES1DES the London Nation should
- not be so hard upon us.
With regard to Russia, we followed
England
And most Of our information about
Russia came by the way of the English
press.
Mr.. Wilson weakly went along with
Mr.. Churchill in sending troops into
Russia.
When British big business. fearing q
labor revolution in England. seized upon
Russia as its horrible example, we in
this country made the most Of Russia
AS a horrible example.
Now that British business is in need
Of Russian raw materials We are grad
ually. through British sources mostly.
learning about Lcninc's Rolls Royce
and the other mitigations of .olshcvism.
DRESIDENT WILSON has a new
L horrible example in his letter to
Senator Hitchcock-thc French. who
have now gone over completely to mill
tarism.
But. after all. French mlitarism is
Of the defensive kind
And for its fears France has at least
better excuse than this country for
its absurd panic over bolshcvism.
The war left Europes nerves natu-
rally much more ragged than Americas.
And French big business, wishing to
eliminate competition across the Rhine,
has made the most of the German bogy.
just as English business. wishing to
weaken the British Labor party. made
the most for while of the Russian
bogy.
The lesson Of the Russian experience
is that the world cannot afford the lux
ury Of such fears and hatrcds as the
war has left.
rs FRANCE any more militaristic
l. than Mr.. Wilson's own secretary.
Mr.. Daniels, who demands the largest
navy in the world il the League of Ma.
tions fails?
In Frances view. tho League of Ma
tions has failed, and all France is doing
is to form alliances for her protection in
consequence Of its failure.
France might rctort. except that tho
tradition of international manners is
different over there.
The President s attack upon France
was made for campaign purposes.
1t was the leader of the Democratic
party giving instructions to his follow
ers in the Senate and making an issue
in the coming campaign who spoke in
the letter to Senator Hitchcock.
And the leader Of the Democratic
party had to have horrible example of
the wickedness that had sprung up in
Europe because of what the Republicans
had done.
Therefore the chief of the militaristic
T. L.. - ,,I. Il
Besides, France doubtless ranklcs in
Mr.. Wilson's breast
1t was in France that his leadership
of the world came to grief, and he prob
ably blamcs his failure not upon him
self. but upon France.
Moreover, there is the memory Of the
French press, which drove him to fury
several times while he was at the Pence
Conference.
Mr.. Wilson paid in his amour propre
the whole debt Of gratitude the United
States owes to France for LAFAYETTE.
ana he has written it off
q q q
T ONDON signs for the skyscrapcr.
- Let us grow up and have sky.
scrapers," cXclaims ono English news
paper.
And Mr. Bush. of the Bush Terminal.
is going TO give London one. Says one
London writer:
II he is going TO give us anything
as beautiful as the Bush Terminal
Building in New York. he will put
London greatly in his debt To my
mind the Bush Building is the most
perfect example of its class. It is
lovely by day, loveler by night, when
! its gem-lilie crown queens 1t over the
proudest Of the city's monuments. The
structure and design of the tower,
through It's long ascent Of thirty
stories, are of the simplest a Coupre
of courses Of bricks relieves the
monotony Of surface and color, and a
delicate tracery Of windows and open
stonework does the rest It looks so
! light and Is so solid, has dignity and
strength with a touch and suggestion
Of exquisite fragility. Having 50
! lovely an ornament and so mighty