The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-04-29

conclusion that to learn what boi- shevism Is might with wisdom adopt the scientific method used by the doc tor of medicine In arriving at di- agnosis. The doctor examines and gathers the symptoms, the meaning of the disease. He then determines what diseases might produce these symp- toms. By 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.
 l 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 bolshevism Is too Important to the world not to try to understand 1t. There Is a differ. ence between having the acquaintance of word and knowing; the former Is a mere introduction. the latter an in- timacy.
 Since the war. when the fastidious diner wearily orders his consomme and the waiter brings 1t bit tardily or cold. he thinks to himself. or If courageous enough to speak his mind. he calls the cook a bolshevik. He has found word to express his irritation. It serves his profane feelings and at the same time saves his snug respect. ability.
 See BolshevIsm Everywhere.
 Once the maid asking for an af. ternoon off provoked 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 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 m 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 1t 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 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."
 If anyone disagrees with you. don't grant him the right to an opinion, don't reason with him-just call him bolshevlk. The word has become an epithet. a popular invective. slur. an insult, an outlet for contempt, con- tumely and hate. Its parenthood in- fluences our definition of 1t. Most or us see the Russians with the eyes of the caricaturists, who for so many years have portrayed the Russian as the moujik with high boots. disheveled hair. wild whiskers the face of an as- sassin, the body of terrorist In ac- ton. the suggestion of 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 in common, such as temperature, weakness and pain, and because or these findings should diagnose the sickness of all of the patients as pneu- monia. the doctor would be regarded a lunatic. 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 Union)
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