Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-10
By NORMAN r.. MA1SON
'pscisi Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune

SUUot0s v y otS A"h
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
London, July 9.-The cult of the
deed, the use of pistol and bomb fol
purposes of political debate, continues
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 members
of parliament who have taken promi-
nent parts in the Irish controversy are
now being carefully guarded lest some
frantic young man empty his auto
matte into one of them By way of an
additional gesture" for the cause.
Germany's leaders. who had grown
q little careless, are now after the
Ratbenau and MAMMALIAN Hardin in
cidents. more closely protected than
ever before. It's a dull day in Italy
when the wholesale grocer's son does
not get an opportunity to take a pot
shot at the shoemaker's apprentice.
with whose political philosophy he dis
ngrees-or the apprentice does not
find an emphatic i~ndividualist to shy
a bomb at. In Ireland the other day
q school teacher belonging to the wrong
generation ii. e., not this one) adj
vanced on a naughty boy with al up
raised ruler and changed his plans
when the naughty boy made a sugges-
ton with an automatic. Not so long
Ago., / saw a parade of fascist return
ing from a punitive expedition" in
Milan, and the standard bearer was a
promising gun man in short pants and
socks. his knees bare. He was rather
ragged to be still submitting to Faunt-
leroy tailoring. but not so big that his
mother could not successfully insist.
All Fair in War
Thou shalt not kill" says the youth
Of the extreme right and the extreme
left: anything is fair in war-and to
that confession of faith, this explana-
tory 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 individ-
ual and any of the others-a compre-
hensive definition. 1t is a curious fact
that the pioneer evangelist of the cult
of the deed. those who made the phrases
SO popular in western Europe. are
trials for their lives-in Moscow.
The social revolutionary made war"
on the car by bombing Individual mem
bers of his government: when the boil
shevikes set up their dictatorship the
S. RS naturally continued their tac-
tics. killing Volodarsk!, ~planning bur
to blow up Trotzky and putting
two poisoned bullets INTO Lcnine. be-
fore their organizations were nefirite-
ly smashed and .hrir leaders jailed
Defend Various Isms
If the S. RS iii inIrn to rclu.arize
the Technology Of the popular and sx-
citing game of rolitieal murder, the
war developed a generation Of young
whose most im~pressionable years
were largely spent in listening to en-
thusiastic descriptions of killing, or
actually engaging in it. A great pro-
of the hearty young killers of
Ireland, Germany and Italy. and of
other countries. no doubt are those
who after years of anticipation grew
up to find 10 enemy on whom to use
automatics. In the defense Of
internationalism. miIitar-
ism, or pacifism." they are finding op-
portunity for self expression.
There is q sense In which the waste