The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-07-06

conclusion that to learn what boil
shevism IL might with wisdom adopt
the scientific method used by the doc
tor Of medicine in arriving at q d.
agnosis. The doctor examines and
gathers the symptoms, the meaning Of
the disease. He then determines what
diseases might produce these symp-
toms. BY a process Of elimination he
discards one possibility after another
until at last there is but one disease
left. one thing that the symptoms can
mean.
discovered az the outset that most
Of NJ have the habit Of using terms
loosely. Seldom do We give time or
thought to the exact, real meaning Of
things. The meaning Of bolshevism IL
too important to the world not to try
to understand It. There Is a differ
ence between having the acquaintance
Of q word and knowing; the former 10
h mere Introduction. the latter an In
timacy.
Since the war, when the fastidious
diner YEARLY orders his consomme
and the waiter brings 1t bit tardily
or cold, he thinks to himself. or II
courageous enough to speak his mind.
he calls the cook a bolshevik. He has
found a word to express his irritation.
It serves his profane feelings and at
the same time saves his SNUG respect.
ability.
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Once the maid asking for an af-
ternoon of 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 it is differ
ent. The maid il 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 of to 60
to the bali 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 1t, 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
It 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 pad with
bolshevism."
Every Sort Of Definition.
The wag with the wit Of a barber
defined bOlshevism as a 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 II
enly q camoudage for bolshevism."
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