Evening star., 1925-07-07
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

! Somebody, who makes "A specially OF
| definitions, has stated that Boston
| is not a place: it Is state of mind
| Like the Einstein theory, that may be
too intellectual for ordinary mentality
to comprehend, but if it be diluted, sc
| that it shall read: Boston is in a
state of mind" it becomes simpler and
more comprehensive. There still would
be some question as to the politeness
of the plain, blunt inquiry as to what
| had put Boston into that state of per
| turbation, OF, in short, who had spill
! ed the beans.
1t is beyond the possibility of un
| certainty that the shot which was
audible around the world, wherever
any one tuned in, was not fired by the
the author of the Pageant of 'Lexing
! ton." which all Boston-meaning al
| New England and all New Englanders
wheresoever they may have made
| temporary pilgrima ges-were applaud
| ing since June 15, until some be
spectacled patriot actually read the
text. Attention was thereupon called
| to the astounding fact that the author
of the text which had so thrilled the
souls of descendants of "Injuns" who
had once poured tea" in the Boston
Harbor was one of the well recognized
advocates of red literature in America
Boston celebrating Bunker Hill with
i Red literature! Using words of one
! or two syllables in which to slip in
doctrines of socialism and anarchy and
| bolshevistic hatred of capital, Sidney
| Howard got by" all Boston censors
! of patriotism.
In the foreword of his text of the
| pageant, the writer encourages his
Boston pageant managers with these
naive stage directions:
THE acting presents no difficulties
| beyond that Of securing actors with
good voices who have troubled to learr
how to speak the English language
Was he fearful that Bostonians
could not speak English-or had he
/ in mind Russian immigrants toe
1 freshly admitted?
AS IL the general betrayal of the
learned sons OF Cambridge were not
contamely enough, let 1t be known
| that even that Bostonian of the Bos-
| tonese, alias the Boston Transcript
fell for the trick" put over by the
socialstic propagandist, for, In the
regular course of human events, the
| literary editor reviewed the text of
! Lexington" beginning with:
| "A new note in pageantry is struck
| in Sidney Howard's 'Lexingtont BY
the book it is not the conventiona
| pageant of the American seminary
| or the anniversary amphitheater
Through 1t runs scarlet
thread of symbolism. = a pur
poseful motif which translates Lex
| ington's day into the usages of today
and tomorrow in American life.'
Six columns of similar laudation!
"'Scarlet thread indeedi Why
| the whole woof and web is as scar
let as the cap or banner of any boil
shevist oratori" declares Mr.. West
the secretary of the American De-
Tense Society.
| s. X - r.
Smash down the cities,
| Knock the walls to pieces.
/ Break the factories and cathedrals
I warehouses and homes
| Into loose piles of stones and lum-
/ Der. and black burnt wood:
Ye are the soldiers and we COM
| fnand you.
"You people,
What are you to Freedom?
l. What is Freedom to you?
You have no rights but only duties
Producei
| Faster and faster.
| Harder and harder.
! 1t doesn't matter
How tired you are.
| Produce, do you hear ~
"You people!
Stand up for your. rishtsi