The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-09

:, .i, tnat to learn wh,, |
snevism Is ! might with wIsaa wv
the scientific method usad 4
tor OF medicine In arriving ~
agnosis. The doctor exan,, :
gathers the symptoms tbe NJ ss
the disease. He then detern,@
diseases might produce tbas"
toms. BY process of clint
discards one possibility after
until at last there is but ona ~, !" I'D
left. one thing that the symntoS Y MI
mean. p'0as
J discovered at the outset tAat
OF US have the habit of nslna
loosely. Seldom do we give T.
thought TO the exact, real moosi
things, The meaning of bolsbaa,
too important to the world Il,
to understand 1t. There ia +,
ence between having the aconaIn'.
Of a word and knowing; the FORM
a mere Introduction, the latter y
timacy.
Since the war, when the fastId
diner YEARLY orders his coosoa "
and the waiter brings it BIZ h,s
or cold, he thinks to himself 4 IL
courageous enough to speak his NJ
he calls the cook a bolshevIk. Hss III
found a word to express his irrltahsl
1t serves his profane feelings aM n
the same time saves his SNUG resrs.
ability.
See Bclshevism Everywher,
Once the maid asking for an VI
ternoon off provoked a knowing smI.
Her mistress granted the reoues
charged It up to a possible roman,|
and generally suspected the pocen,,|
on the beat. Since the war II is anna
ent. The maid is looked upon wA
suspicion. Her motives are question:
The request is considered a symptOa
Of the new terrible disease, bOlsheyisu
The mistress thinks to herself: N.
maid doesn't want to work any more,
she is down with the epidemic.
The office boy. working the relatt
excuse that his grandmother has did
again. to get an afternoon off to 4
to the ball game. is trying TO shih
work, in the opinion of his emplOys
who formerly, when such an appl
cation was made from the same sOurc
chuckled as he granted it, while b
memory took him back to his own DO
hood days when he used the gran
mother yarn to answer the call Of d
ball field.
Many captains of industry see I
symptoms of the new dread in eve
movement and thought Of the worke
The demand for living conditions a
decent wages are grudgingly receiV
by minds soured with the thought Il
it is bolshevism.
The hirers of child labor, look
hatefully at legislation designed to
child slavery, call the leaders OF Oh
life conservation boIshevists. WI
doctors and pubIic-spirited men
women insist that an irreparable
jury is being done the nation IN.
lowing women to work for a period
excess of the hours they are able
work without menacing their mott
hood, the profiteers from woman Ia
cry out: "You are invading the r
of private contract; your are mad
bolshevism."
Every Sort of Definition
The wag with the wit of BAL
defined bolshevism as a wild idea
rounded by whiskers. The say
keeper, bowled over by prohiDlt
screams "boIshevism." The anu
loon leaders come back with the
swer, your personal liberty Ct,
only a camouflage for boIshe7lsm,
If anyone disagrees with you y
grant him the right to an opll
don't reason with him-just call III
bolshevik. The word has become
epithet, a popular invectiye, a slur
insult, an outlet for contempt
tumely and hate. Its parenthoou
fiuences our definition of it. MOS
us see the Russians with the eye
the carlcaturists, who for so i
years have portrayed the RuSsiu
the moujik with high boots disney
hair, wild whiskers, the face OF "
sassin, the body of terrorist ID
ton, the suggestion of long va
smeared with hot blood, unuei
greatcoat. I.
If a doctor, making an eXalnlh'
of all of the patients in a hosl
discovered they all had certain ,
toms in common, such as tempera
| weakness and pain, and Decaus
these findings should diagnose
sickness of all of the patients as
monia, the doctor would be rega
a lunatic, yet there are men =
world today who are as foolish 40
a doctor would be. They call
symptom Of unrest, without resu
its history, b0lshevism.
Copyright. 1920. western Newspaper
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