The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-23
AFTER MANY YEARS
By E. 7. SHORT

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Some Chickens Are
Coming Home
One Breed Hefehed
BY the Gar
A New Story Of King
Edwards Abdiesfion
Cure for Unemployment
In This Country
IT'S the chickens coming home
L to roost, often after many
years absence, that cause most
of the trouble in this world.
willingness of the people to
take for gospel truth that which
under great emotional stress
they want to believe, can do the
rest.
And unless the United
States wakes up and does
something that win cure the
unemployment situation we
viii wake up some morning
to find that lot Of chickens
have moved In during the
night. One of the influences
that viii bring the chickens
back is the propaganda that
Is being fed to the people
through the radio and some
of the newspapers.
The foregoing is the substance
of the thought inspired by the
lecture at Jones Hall. College of
Puget Sound, Saturday night
by Don Bolt. newspaper man
and war correspondent He
spoke under the auspices of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women.
Mr.. Bolt didn't talk like an
alarmist. His lecture was
sort matter-of-fact discussion
based on his experiences and
observations in the last rs
years. The effect was to cause
a little more serious thinking
on some of the matters that are
discussed in the daily papers
and on the radio.
Among other things, Mr.. Bolt
told his audience that the situa-
ton In Russia today is due to
the failure of the government
many years ago to correctly
read the signs of the times.
The present Russian govern
ment and the trend toward COM
munism was forced on the coun-
try by the oppression of the
czars and a corrupt church.
Thirty-five years ago this
month there were uprisings in
Russia by the oppressed people.
Headlines in the files of The
Times in April, 1905, tell how
the streets of Russian cities
were red with human blood. In
quelling an uprising in st. Pc
tersburg, 1000 men, women and
children were slain by the
cars troops. That put the lid
on the unpleasant situation for
the time being but it did not
stop the simmering under
meath. 1t broke out again I'M
der the stress of the World war.
The members of the royal family
in Russia were murdered and
the country went communistic.
The car had said, TT can't
happen here" Mr.. Bolt told
how it did happen.
Another throwback to the
tragedy which began when the
car sought to silence the pro-
tests of an oppressed people by
force, started England on the
way to the war with Germany.
Members of the royal family
murdered by the Bolsheviks
were blood relatives of King
Edward VIII. When he be-
came king one of the dominant
thoughts in his mind was to
avenge their deaths. He also
planned a number of social re-
forms in England intended to
relieve unemployment and raise
the standard of living among
the working class. On top of
that he was very much pro-
German natural inclination,
considering the German blood in
the English royal family.
All this was bad In the
eyes of the powers that be
in England. Something had
to be done to change Ed
ward or get rid of him. He
wouldn't change. and his
attachment for Wallis Simp-
son Warfield, whom he de-
termined to marry. offered
an out. His letter of abdi-
cation, which the speaker