The Raymer enterprise., 1920-04-22

II come among nations to destroy them
and to the hearts Of men TO silence the
heavenly message, peace. on earth.
good will to men, Would II run
around the world as scourge? Was
II postscript to the bloody war les
son, prophesying more anguish and
tears than four years fighting had
brought? Would the world, coming
out Of the war bent. now be brokenf
Or was II meaningless mythi Was
the word a boyle. bad joke. night
mare pressing heavily on tired, nery-
Gus worlds headi
Seeking Words Real Meaning.
Or was the meaning that men had
read into the word LIEF Was boil
sheyism the message Of a new Mes
slah being cried down by the money
changers Of our time In the same way
their ancestors had silenced the word
from the Mount and destroyed the
Message Bearer with the lash and the
crossi
In every mind was the thought and
from every tongue fell the word. Rus,
sIa had given the world a word II
had enclrcled the globe Everywhere
people were speaking the word--it
found lodgment in every brain. lly-
Ing place In every language. Its use
had become universal. The old. the
young, rich and poor, the learned, the
uneducated. the serious, the simple,
the toller, the artist, the poet. and the
peddler. the tinker and the thinker.
held the thought and spoke the word.
Men, women and children spoke the
word. read the word, and felt the
thought II carried,
To the nine hundred and ninety-nine
II was word Of ill-omen. word OF
terror and fear. To the one In thou
sand II was a word Of hope, light
for the feet Of stumbling world, and
the nine hundred and ninety-nine said
that some Of these people called Dol.
sheyiks were dreamers of O strange
dream, that twisted idealIsm had made
them mad, that the majority Of those
who profess faith In bolshevism were
sick with strange, social fever. that
they were mlschief.makers, ne'er-do.
wells, criminals. that they sought to
burn the world.
made up my mind that | would
learn the real meaning Of the word.
The dictionary definition threw no
hight on Its meaning. ! came to the
conclusion that to learn what Dol.
sheyism is ! might with wisdom adopt
the scientific method used by the doc.
tor OF medicine In arriving at dI-
agnosis. The doctor examines and
gathers the symptoms. the meaning Of
the disease. He then determines what
diseases might produce these symp-
toms. BY process Of elimination he
dlscards one possibility after another
until at last there Is but one disease
left one thing that the symptoms can
mean.
] discovered at the outset that most
OF us have the habit of using terms
loosely. Seldom do we give time or
thought TO the exact, real meaning OF
things. The meaning Of bolsheylsm is
too Important TO the world not to try
to understand IT, There Is a differ
ence between having the acquaintance
Of word and knowing: the former is
mere introduction, the latter an in
timacy.
Since the war, VIXEN the fastidious
diner wearily orders his consomme
and the walter brings IL a bit tardily
or cold. he thinks to himself, or II
courageous enough to speak his mind,
he calls the cook a bolsheyik. He has
found word to express his irritation,
II serves his profane feelings and at
the same time saves his snug respect.
ability
See Bolshevlsm Everywhere.
Once the maid asking for an af-
ternoon off provoked a knowing smile.
Her mistress granted the request,
charged 1t up to possible romance
and generally suspected the policeman
on the beat. Since the war II Is differ.
ent. The maid is looked upon with
suspicion Her motives are questioned,
The request is considered a symptom
Of the new terrible disease, holshevlsm.
The mistress thinks to herself: The
maid doesn't want 10 work any more
she is down with the epidemic.
The Office boy. working the reliable
excuse that his grandmother has died
again, to get an afternoon on to 20
TO the ball game Is trying to shlrk
work. In the opinion of his employer,
who formerly, when such an appli-
cation was made from the same source,
chuckled as he granted II, while his
memory took him back to his own boy.
hood days when he used the grand
mother yarn TO answer the call of the
bali field
Many captains Of industry see the
symptoms of the new dread In every
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