The Arvada enterprise., 1920-03-04
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
h Europe Follow the Great
World War;
DANGER IN GENERAL UNREST
Practically Universal Feeling ef DIs.
content win Grow Unlsss the
Causes Which Gave it Birth
Are Removed.
Article WI.
BY FRANK coMERFoRo.

ghost OF unrest. When ! started out
to Interview unrest In Europe ! did
not give my ear to the idle theorist
who always knOws all about every
thing, but never from direct experi-
tor who breaches unrest In red words
Neither did seek out the type OF fa-
natical labor leader. who Is eager for
trouble. who is trying to mobilize un-
rest and marshal 1t under the banner
Of Revolution. l passed by the place
hunting, time-serving politician. I was
not interested in platitudes and prom
Ises.
sought knowledge OF unrest from
those who knew 1t from contact with It,
those who were part and parcel OF 1t.
I went to the man In the street. the
average man. talked with the
sweaty. dirty coal miner Mt the mouth
of the shaft. He had just come from
his day In the darkness deep In the
ground. visited the man who works
in the mills. I listened to the rough
speech Of the teamster. went to fac
tories and talked with men between
the two whistles which mark the time
Of the noon meal. They munched at
black bread. ate cheese or sausage.
gulped ten. coffee or cheap. diluted red
wine. I spent time with the Idle. the
idle by choice as well as those without
work through no fault OF their own.
Only yesterday many. yes. most Of
these men were In khaki: now. back
on the job In Overalls. they were think
ing. Their speech was troubled. Dis
content looked out from their eyes.
could feel It. They talked II, but never
as unrest, always protest.
Unrest Must es ouIstsd.
Their state Of mind Is the problem.
Unrest Is epidemic: It Is militant.
There is little Of pncIfism in 1t. 1t Is
real, It Is not without cause. To get
close to the cause OF this disease which
and understand what II going on In
the minds of the men we are looking
to and depending upon to do the
worlds work. II doesn't take q
prophet to understand that II heed Is
not given to the things Irritating them
and remedy Ii not found for the irri.
tation. serious trouble will follow.
While war Is hell. II has Mt least
the restraint Of discipline. A revOlu-
tion growing out OF unrest would mean
mob madness. terrorism, fanatical,
brutal. cruel and mercIlcss. Once
started. 1t would spread like wildRre.
The world would be swept from Its
senses. Tie fire would run its course
until stopped because there was moth.
Ing left to burn. Who dares picture the
state In which 1t would leave the
world? In this day. when the nerves
OF the world are on edge. when cold
and hunger irritate. one shulders when
he thinks OF the fate OF civilization
II unrest Is not checked before II ex-
plOdes In passion and wrath.
Unrest existed before the war. II wns
an acorn then, II In nm oak now. BE-
fore the war men were complaining.
and justly complaining, about their lot.
In the trenches hnve caused them ia
stop complaining md net. Soldering
taught them much. They learned Of
the greatness Of force.
Back OF their present tendency ia
act il the grown grievance md the
war lesson. Before the war they com.
planned; today they demand. 1t In In.
teresting to examine unrest In the
complaint stage. MS these men knew II
before 1914.
These plain. ordinary average men
have always been Intensely human.
They loved their wives and children,
they lived for their homes. they felt
pincss Ofthcir loved ones. They hive
but one thing 10 give. Before the war
they gave II unspnrIngly-it was their
inbor. Their one source Of Income was
the pny envelope. With their wages
they hnd to buy shoes. clothes. food.
and provide shelter for the lives they
brought into the world. md for the
women they had chosen TO be the moth.
ers Of those children.
"Hors" Before All.
"loinc, Sweet Home" Is the inter.
national anthem. II In the heart song
Of the average man. The club plays
no part In his life. From his home he
goes TO work. and from work he goes
home. Shnntics and tcncmcnts nre
not homes. These men have always
protested ngninst the ugly shncks In
which they were compelled To house
their loved ones. They Bit their lips
In jObless dnys when their children
went to bed hungry. Resentment
grew In their hearts when they saw
how poorly dressed their wives md
children were. They muticrcd curses
when their children were forced TO go
20 work. They wnnt'-I to give their
children better education thnn they
had hnd. n better chnnce In lIfc. nnd
In uV la tt.t