Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-05-01

IL serves MS prOtane feenngS anu AZ
the same time saves his SNUG respect
ability.
See BoIsheVism Everywhere.
Once the maid asking for an af
ternoon off provoked a knowing smile
Her mistress granted the request
charged 1t up to a 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 bOlSheviSm.
The mistress thinks to herself: The
maid doesn't want To 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 off to go
to the ball game is trying to shirk
work, In the opinion of his employer.
who formerly, when such an appli-
cation was made from the same source,
chuckled as he granted IT, 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
ball field
Many captains OF industry see the
symptoms of the new dread in every
movement and thought of the workers.
The demand for living conditions and
decent wages are grudgingly received
by minds soured with the thought that
Il is bolshevism.
The hirers of child labor. looking
hatefully at legislation designed to end
child slavery, call the leaders of child
life conservation bolshevists. When
doctors and public-spirited men and
women insist that an irreparable in
Jury is being done the nation In al
lowing women to work for period in
excess OF the hours they are able to
work without menacing their mother
hood, the profiteers from woman labor
cry out: "You are invading the right
Of private contract; your are mad with
bolshevism."
Every Sort Of Definition.
The wag with the wit Of a barber
defined bolshevism as wild idea sur
rounded by whiskers. The saloon
keeper, bowled over by prohibition
screams "bolshevism." The anti-sa
loon leaders come back with the an
swer. your personal liberty cry is
only a camouflage for bolshevism."
II anyone disagrees with you. don't
grant him the right to an opinion,
don't reason with him-just call him a
bolshevik. The word has become an
epithet, a popular invective. a slur. an
| insult, an outlet for contempt, con-
! tumely and hate. Its parenthood In
fuences our definition of 1t. Most OF
us see the Russians with the eyes OF
| the caricaturists, who for so many
years have portrayed the Russian rs
the moujik with high boots, disheveled
hair. wild whiskers, the face of an as
sassin, the body of terrorist in &C
ton. the suggestion of a long dagger
smeared with hot blood, under his
| greatcOat.
] If a doctor, making an examination
of all of the patients in hospital,
discovered they all had certain symp-
| toms i'm common, such as temperature
weakness and pain, and because of
| these findings should diagnose the
sickness of all of the patients as pneu-
mOnia. the doctor would be regarded
lunatlc. yet there are men in the
world today who are as foolish as such
/ a doctor would be. They call every
| symptom of unrest, without regard To
! its history, bOlshevism.
! Copyright 1920. Western Newspaper Unionl
! Roumania's Oil Wells.