The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-13

a few more pages thoughtfully. "Why,
IL these are the sums Of money Peter
son has blown, the man must have
spent a fortune. Two thousand pounds
TO lvolsky. Incidentally, that's the
bloke who had words with the whatnot
on the stairs
In silence they continued their study
of the book. The whole Of England
and Scotland had been split up into
districts, regulated by population
rather than area, and each district APP
peared to be In charge of one director.
A varying number of sub-diStricts in
every main division had each their sub
director and staff. and at some of the
names Drummond rubbed his eyes In
amazement. Briefly, the duties of every
man were outlined; the locality In
which his work lay. his exact RESPONSE
blhties, so that overlapping was re-
duced to a minimum. In each case the
staff was small, the work largely that
OF organization. But in each district
N>sN oHINuiNu lSh Vi q uobVli huilC
OF men who were euphemistically de-
Scribed as lecturers: while at the end
or the book there appeared nearly fifty
names-both of men and wOmen-whO
were proudly denoted as first-class lec-
turerS. And If DrummOnd had rubbed
his eyes at some Of the anne on the
organizing STATS, the first.class general
lecturers deprived him Of speech.
"Why," he spluttered after q mo-
ment, "a lot Of these peoples names
are absolutely housewold words in the
country. They may be swine-they
probably are. Thank God! I've very
rarely met any; but they amt crimi-
nails"
mo more is Peterson" grinned the
American lat least not on that book.
See here, Captain, it's pretty clear
what's happening. In any country to-
day you've got all sorts and conditions
They just can't stop talking. and as yet
It's not a criminal offense. Some Of
'em believe what they say, like Spin
dle-shanks upstairs some of 'em don't.
And If they don't, 1t makes EN- worse;
they start writing as well. You've got
clever men-intellectual men-loOk at
some Of those guys in the irst-class
general lecturers-and they're the
worst Of the lot. Then you've got an
other class-the men with the business
brain uhn thfnk fhoy'rn uaftipU tho
sticky end of 1t, and use the takers
to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for
them. And the chestnuts, who are the
poor blamed decent wOrkingmen, are
promptly dropped in the ashpit to keep
EN- quiet. They all want something for
nothing, and / guess ii can't be done.
They all think they're fooling one an
other, and what's really going at the
moment is. that Peterson is fooling the
whole bunch. He wants all the strings
In his hands, and it looks to me as IL
he'd got 'em there. He's got the money
and we know where he got 1T from
he's got the organiZatiOn-all either
red-hOt revOlutionaries. or intellectual
windstorms, or calculating knaves.
He's amalgamated 'em, Captain and
the whole blamed lot, whatever they
may think, are really working for
him.
Drummond thoughtfully lit a Gig
arctic.
working toward a revolution in
this country" he remarked quietly.
"Sure~ thing," answered the Ameri-
can. "And when he brings it off,
guess you won't catch Peterson for
dust. He'll pocket the Doodle, and the
boObs will stew in their own juice. ]
guessed it in Paris; that book makes
1t a certainty. But it amt criminal,
In q court of law he could swear it was
an organization for selling bird-seed."
For q while Drummond smoked In
silence, while the two sleepers shifted
%uneasily in their chairs. 1t all seemed
SO simple in spite of the immensely OF
the, scheme. Like most normal English
men, politics and labor disputes had
left him cold in the past Blu no one
who ever glanced at a newspaper
could be ignorant of the volcano thai
had been simmering just beneath the
surface for years past.
mot one In a hundred"--the Ameri
cans voice broke into his train OF
thought-"Of the sO-Called revolution
airy leaders In this. country are disin'
terested, Captain. They're out for
Number One, and when they've talked
the boys into bloody murder, and your
existing social system Is down-and-out
they'll be the leaders in the new one
That's what they're playing for
power; and when they've got It, God
help the men who gave i to EN- D..
Drummond nodded, and lit ANOTHER
cigarette. Odd things he had read re
Cured to him trade unions refusing
to allow discharged soldiers to join
them the reiterated threats Of direct
action. And to what end? .
A passage In a part OF the ledger evi
IDENTIFY devoted TO extracts from the
speeches Of the first-class general lee
turers caught his eye: ~
To me, the big fact Of modern life Is