The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-09
KNIFE AND BOMB STILL REIGN IN
 EUROPE-NATSON
Youth of Old World Shows od-ThirSty Tendencies, Although Guards Numer-
 ouS After ASSaSSinS
By NORMAN II. WATSON Special Correspondent to The Age-HeraId Copyright. 1922. by The AgeHelald)

tCooyright. 1929. by The Age-Herald)
 London, July 8.-The cult of the Deed, the use of pistol and bomb for purpose sof political debate, con- tinues to be held in high regard by the youth of the old world, if it is not, indeed, gaining in favor. All the ministers of the British cabinet and those M. P.'s who have taken prominent parts in the Irish contro- versy are now being carefully guard cd lest some frantic young man empty his automatic into one of them by way of the additional "ges- ture" for the cause. Germany's leaders, who had grown a little care less, are now, after the Rathenau and Maximilian Harden incidents, more closely protected than ever be- fore. It's a dull day in Italy when an opportunity to take a pot shot at the wholesale grocer's son doesn't get the shoemaker's apprentice with whose political philosophy he dis agrees Or the apprentice doesn't find an emphatic individualist to shy bomb at. In Ireland the other day a school teacher, belonging to the wrong generation (not this one) ad- vanced on naughty boy with an up- raised ruler and changed his plans when the naughty boy made a sug- gestion with an automatic. Not so long ago l saw a parade of fascisti returning from @ punitive expedi- tion" in Milan, and the standard bearer was promising gunman in short pants and socks, his knees bare. He was rather rangy to be still sub mitting to Fauntleroy tailoring, but not so big that his mother couldn't successfully insist.
 Youthful Army
 ''Thou shalt kill" say tho youth of the extreme right and the extreme left; anything Is fair in war-and to that confession of faith. this explan- atory footnote: A war is an armed struggle between nations, between a nation and a group of individuals, between groups within a nation. and even between an individual and any one of the others-a comprehensive
 
 the pioneer evangelists of the Cult of the Deed, those who made the phrases now so popular in western Europe, are on trial for their lives in Moscow. The Sr's (social revolution aries) made war on the czar by bomb- ing individual members of his gov ernment, when the bolsheviki set up their dictatorship the Sr's naturally continued their tactics, killing Volo- darski, planning but failing to blow up Trotshy. and putting tow poisoned bullets into Lenine, before their or ganization was definitely smashed and their leaders jailed.
 Interest I'm Killings
 If the Srs did much to popularize the terminology of the popular and exciting game of political murder, the was developed generation of young men whose most impressionable years were largely spent in listening to enthusiastic descriptions of killings, or actually engaging In it. A great proportion of the hearty young killers of Ireland, Germany and Italy-and of other countrieA. no doubt-are those who after years of preparation grew up to find no enemy on whom to use their automatics. In the "de- fense of nationalism. internationalism, militarism or pacifism, they are find ing an opportunity for self express sion."
 There is a sense in which the waste paper basket is as sacred as the grave" says c. K. Chesterton in his preface to Love and Friendship" and other early works, containing hither- to unpublished writings of Jane Aus ten, written by her before she was IT. Love and Friendship" is an amusing parody on fashionable novels of 1790; 'Lesly Castle. which was never finished, is curiously cynical and mature; then there Is a rather comic history of England and num- Der of scraps" But the raking out of R. L. Stevenson's waste basket is another story. Important unpublish- ed letters and the manuscripts of his unpublished play, Monmouth" are to be sold in London on July II. The play is evidently bad one He him- self mocked at it. reciting lines from it to show how not to write play; and those who still hold that Steven- son was a great writer are hoping that Monmouth" will be bought by some one who will keep 1t dark. The letters, however, are interesting.