The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-06-10

conclusion that to learn what Dol
sheyism is | might with wisdom adop
the scientific method used by the doc
tor of medicine IN arriving at a di
agnosls. The doctor examines ant
gathers the symptoms, the meaning O
the disease, He then determines VIVA
diseases might produce these symp
toms. By a process Of elimination h,
diseards one possibility after another
until at last there is but one disease
left. one thing that the symptoms car
mean.
/ discovered at the outset that most
Of us have the habit Of using terms
loosely. Seldom do we give time or
thought to the exact, real meaning OF
things. The meaning of bolsheyism is
too important to the world not to try
to understand it. There is a differ
ence between having the acquaintance
OF word and knowing; the former is
a mere Introduction, the latter an In.
| tlmacy.
Since the war, when the fastidious
diner YEARLY orders his consomme
and the waiter brings It a bit tardily
or cold, he thinks to himself, or If
courageous enough to speak his mind.
he calls the cook bolshevik He has
found word to express his irritation
1t serves his profane feelings and at
the same time saves his SNUG respect
ability.
See Boishevism Everywhere.
Once the maid asking for an af-
terpoon off provoked a knowing smile.
Her mistress granted the request.
charged it up to possible romance
and generally suspected the policeman
on the beat. Since the war it 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, bolsheyism.
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 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
L is bolshevism.
The hirers Of child labor, looking
at legislation designed to end
,hild slavery, call the leaders of child |
ife conservation bolshevists. When |
lOctors and philosophical men and !
women insist that an irreparable In
ury is being done the nation in al
owing women to work for period in
.xcess of the hours they are able to
work without menacing their mother
lood, the prohteers from woman labor
ny out: ''You- are invading the right
# private contract; your are mad with
Every Sort Of Definition.
The wag with the wit of a barber
efined bolshevism as. a wild idea sur
ounded by whiskers. The saloon
eeper, bowled over by prohibition,
creams "bolshevism.' The anti-sa-
BON leaders come back with the an
wer, your personal liberty cry is
My camoufage for bOlsheyism."
If anyone disagrees with you, don't
rant him the right to an opinion,
ont reason with him-just call him
olshevik. The word has become an
pithet, q popular invective, a slur, an
lsult, an outlet for contempt, con-
1mely and hate. Its parenthood in
uences our definition of it. Most of
S see the Russians with the eyes of
le carieaturists, who for so many
ears have portrayed the Russian as
ne moujik with high boots, disheveled
air, wild whiskers, the face of an as
,ssin, the body of a terrorist in &C
on, the suggestion of a long dagger
neared with hot blood, under his
If a doctor, making an examination
: all of the patients in a hospital,
scovered they all had certain symp-
ms in common, such as temperature,
eakness and pain, and because OF
ese findings should diagnose the
ckness. of all of the patients as pneu-
onia, the doctor would be regarded
lunatic, yet there are men in the
ord today who are as foolish as such
doctor would be. They call every
mptom of unrest, without regard to
history, bolshevism.
opyright. 1920. western Newspaper Union)
Rouma las Oil Wells.
Many of the Roumanian oil wells
p not In working order, which is