The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-04-08
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
IN Europe Follow the Great
World War;
DANGER IN GENERAL UNREST
Practically Universal Feeling Of Dis
content Will Grow unIsss the
Causes Which Gave II Birth
Are Removed.
Article VII.
BIZ FRANK coMERFoRo.

Speftff uHuHlH EUROPE. IL N IN
ghost OF unrest. When ! started gu
Ia interview unrest In Europe til
not give my ear 10 the idle theorls
who always kDowe all about every
thing but never from direct expert
| cnce with II. nor did go TO the agita
tor who breaches unrest In red words
Neither did | seek out the type OF IA
natical labor leader. who Is eager 70
trouble. who IL trying to mobilize un
rest and marshal II under the banner
OF Revolution. passed by the place
hunting time-serving politician. wa'
not Interested In platItudes and prom
ises.
] sought knowledge OF unrest from
those who knew Il from contact with 1t
those who were part and parcel OF II
! went to the man In the street, the
average man. talked with the
sweaty. dirty coal miner ut the mouth
Of thr shaft. He had just come from
his day In the darkness deep In the
ground. | visited the man who works
in the mills. listened to the rough
speech OF the tenmster. | 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,
| guped tea. coffee or cheup, diluted red
wine ! spent time with the idle. the
Idle by choice as well as those without
! work through no fault of their own.
| ..f
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 u, but never
as unrest. always protest.
Threat Mus. as ouistsd
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N and dsnendipp upon TO do the
w,r,d.s work II doesn't tske
nro,bet m understand tbat n heed is
not given 10 the things irritating them
and a remedv 10 M, found for the lrri-
,.tto, serions trouble viii follow.
While war is hell II has nj lenst
IN, restraint ~ dIscinIlne reyolu.
ton oro,,,,c out ~ unrest would mean
noh ,,ad,.ss terror,sm fanaticul
hr,,st cruel and merciless once
otartad !, wo,,d snraad ike wlldare.
M, v,or,d xonld ha gwen, from It's
s.,sss rha AR, wou,d run its course
,n,iI s,,nn.d hacnns. there was moth
a., lar, d, h,rn who dares plc,ure rho
So. T., ,hioh !, wonld leave the
worlb, In this day when the nerves
., ~. world .ra ON adge when cold
a., ,,,,,,.r ,rri,o,a o,a shndders when
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a. a. ' s,,,a.'' 49,. 4. ,h., tonr yeors
L., mo tranches hava causad them to
atom complaining and act Soldering
taught them much. They learned OF
the greatness OF force.
Rack Of their present tendency to
act is the grown grievance and the
war lesson. Before the war they com
planned; today they demand. II is In
terrsting to examine unrest In the
complaint st, se, as these men knew 1t
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 |
k,enly their responsibility for the hap |
plness oftheir loved ones. They have
hut one thing 10 give. Before the war
they raye IL unsparingIy-lt was their |
labor Their one source OF income was |