Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Gentle Radiealism of Gentle Radical
soothes to Gentle slumber-eut
Conditions Discussed Were
Conditions In England
BY SARAH ID, .IOyyRIE

period. must have q sense that. whatever
family lost or gained ground, the Russclls
managed to keep somewhere near the center
Of the stage politically and intellectually.
And the same thing might be said of tho
family in this first quarter Of the twentieth
century. only the politics Of tho most con-
spicuous of them is Of so radical a type
compared to his seniors that the fact that
he is in the line Of succession to the head
ship Of the family must be an astonishing
thought TO some among them.
Knowing the Hon. Bertrand Russcll's
lcanings toward pacifsm and his out and
out sympathy with tho English Labor Party
and the rumor Of his arrest and Of his
being spirited away out Of harm's reach by
solicitous family friends during the war-l
say rumors, for they were never explained,
and when he turned up later in Asia, or was
said to be in China at least, that was never
cxplained--but knowing what he was ana
what was rumored concerning him bough.
n book he published some time ago and sgt
down to read what I thought would be the
high talk Of an enthusiast. SO 1t may have
been. but as 1T had to do with higher mathr-
matics it left me cold. incidentally, he Is
n university professor. and the book was
technical treatise on some SOFT of higher cal
culus.
When the English labor program that was
50 fine and utOpian came out during the war
and was more or less accepted by English
and American progrcssivcs as the last and
best word on constitutional socialism, many
persons thought the agreement had been
wordcd by Russell. since it was undoubtedly
the English of n university man. and Bert
rand Russell was the most conspicuous uni
vcrsity man from the viewpoint Of America
who had identified himself with the Labor
Party.
But that theory has never been verified;
aud certainly there was nothing in Bertrand
Russcll's book on higher calculus that was
anything like the Labor partys platform
have an. unfagging interest in bertrand
Russell just on general principles, first
because he is Russell, then because
he is a progressive and last because,
whatever he does or says, even the English
conservatives do not seem to think he ought
TO be shut up or squashed or put stop
to. which shows that England is great denl
more solidly sure of her conservatism and its
powers than We arc over here.
THE other day when I was asked 10 so
TO Seventh Ward meeting Of the
League Of Women Voters and to incidentally
meet the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell and
to hear her talk on English politics. I was
very glad to so. ] knew that Mrs. Russell
was an Amcrican-was, in fact par:
IhiladeIp phian and n Bryn Mawr girl, all
of which made her interesting apart from
being Bertrand Russells wife-but what I
wished to observe was whether she would
seem radical to an American or just Eng
lish.
4 cousin of hers had told me last summer
that when she had met her some years ~"
at n reception at Bryn Mawr, given in her
honor. as she was swept past her along the
line by rather pcremptory intrOducer she
had murmurcd to Mrs. Russell:
II think we are kim: knowing full well
they were second cousins Wherrupom Mrs.
Russell had looked ut hcr with kindly Dut
removed interest and murmurcd:
What Is kin: and LEFT 1t at that.
wanted to see II Mrs Russell looked as
And then got to tnat meeting ana was
arranged in most comfortable armchair ana
MIS-. huN>''l caiilc uo"l' S'alLS ana va,
rleas"m1nN !ntroduGGu ny her hostess hHn
ours MISS MARION heii'! ana pcsah |" 'alN
very hin'aplE anu "'thput any ireSonlc ~
iIouuc'iVu ABOUT the p"nt,Shl ulhtre'I;c" pc-
tween TINS country ana England al moro
or leSs ~ iasor ol t.nSIhnu, pul nol .llslS'e',
upon WIN an! 'vhit'atSnhI "e'u' "','.
1eit so soothcd ana rohiort"plc ana at rest
npout Hcr helih'r pe'ng 700 radical nor 10"
EngllSh thht uroppcn on INTO a lovcly
Siecp through "hich ! hcAra wen ROUNDED
"'hh!'lohs anu some peasant GuotaDlc things
Surh as:
I'm America things are mHch more siren
nous polNlcalIS' Is " ,pcrnaps because IN
f'ilEiahd Il mum StnhhS ,'or iarlhinen''
while here a candidate runs -and1-
i am told that III some SlatcS your phi-
lots are marked with the party signs 70
designate The ANIMATION OF thc candidates,
and that an eagle typiicd tn" Republicans
and q fountain the i,rohibItiohSts, whlcn was
not always as clarifying ns it was hoped
the man who wished 10 vote wet choosing
the fountain. ana the socialist choosing what
he called the chicken.