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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.—Martin Tupper.
WHY THE BUBBLE BURST
In Bolshevik Russia the people lack food, shelter, clothing, the
joy of work and play, and thus have no happiness.
The failure of this system of government is complete, absolute.
A few years ago under the czar and tyrant the people of Russia
were more or less well-fed, more or less prosperous, more or less
clothed, more or less happy. Life had more or less zest for them.
Why then this dreadful change?
Lenin’s theory was to bring about an equal distribution of the
goods in Russia so that all should have them, share and share alike.
No man was to have more; none was to have less. To bring this about
the Bolsheviks immediately stripped of property those who had more
than others. The process went so far, it will be recalled, that the
agents of the government even invaded the private homes and if they
contained more rooms than they thought the owners and their fam
ilies needed, set aside rooms they considered not needed by the owner
to any Bolshevik they chose.
Factories and stores were taken over by the state because the
people employed there had fewer rights in the premises than the
owners and manager. The employes themselves were to run the
places, thus all would be on an equality.
This was the first step. The next thing that happened was that
people who had had to work for a living for wages, just as the owners
and managers had had to work for the same purpose, quit working,
because they had lost their incentive. They could not be discharged.
The state owed them a living.
There was a good deal of accumulated surplus, despite the war
when this system started, but with giant strides the lack of incentive
to work and the consequent lack of the fruits of toil and of brain work
cast its shadow upon the whole system.
The accumulation disappeared and no new stores of goods were
being created. The railroads went from bad to worse, the farms pro
duced less and less, the cities became giant centers of distress.
And now the whole world sees the collapse of the system which
removes from the individual the necessity—the absolute necessity—
of having a direct personal incentive for working.
The average American works to maintain himself and his family,
to provide for old age, to accumulate so that he will be a bit better
off than the other fellow. He does not wish the other fellow any hard
luck, but feels that the other fellow has just as much chance to get
ahead as he has himself.
Under Bolshevism it is different. The incentive is removed. The
citizen may not accumulate. Even if he had an extra room in his house
it was taken from him. How much truer was this of extra wheat or of
any other product? Why work asked the Russian. So he quit and now
as a result of this the whole country is starving and probably too
weak to work.
America today is confronted with a tendency less dangerous
only in degree than the Russian Soviet movement. It is the tendency
of many of the laboring class to demand more pay for doing less
work. Thoughtful men, economists, captains of industry, are seriously
disturbed over the situation and the immediate future promises im
portant developments in the way of a show-down that, it is hoped,
will turn their minds back into the old channel of safety and restore
the old ideal of the full day’s work for a full day’s pay. Without it
America will continue drifting toward the shoals that have wrecked
Russia.
Lenin’s fundamental theory was wrong. The economists all said
so. Predictions of disaster were freely made. Signs of its coming have
been apparent. It remained for J. Herbert Duckworth of the News
paper Enterprise Association, the first American newspaperman to
make a free and independent investigation of Bolshevik Russia, to
come out unqualifiedly with an unprejudiced statement of the collapse
of this theory of government. He is the man who pricked the gigantic
bubble of falsehood and secrecy in which the Bolsheviks have en
shrouded their ghastly experiment in government from which Russia
will not recover in decades.
“HOME TOWN STUFF."
Blow your home town’s horn.
Let your bugle be heard around the world. What would this
town be if folks didn’t have something to say for it? The good effect
is cumulative. If one says things loud .enough and often enough things
will begin moving our town’s way. It has proved true in the past; it
will prove doubly so now.
Some towns excel in one thing. Some excel in others. All, it is
safe to say. excel in some things. Play ’em up. Maybe it’s railway fa
cilities, and that means convenience in shipping. Maybe it is schools.
Parents are always on the lookout, when they move, for good schools.
Maybe it is a pure water supply. Maybe your town excels in its sani
tary arrangements. Maybe there’s cheap fuel to be had. Or water
power. Or low tax rate. Or it may a town .of natural good habits. Or
it may boast of its excellent amusements.
Paved streets, efficient city administrations, complete sewerage,
a growing park system, a boulevard plan, a civic center, the center of
a farming community—why, just good people will give a tip to the
friends of the town for something to talk about.
The man who boosts his town is a good citizen. He need not
brag—simply tell the truth. Tell folks why the old home town, with
its rows of shady trees, its up-to-the-minute homes, fine kept lawns
and its sleepy Sunday morning church bell, is a fine place to live;
It will interest them—and, if nothing else, it will result in yourself
being more happy and most contented.
AND CONGRESS QUITS
Congress puttered and piffled—and quit.
It voted huge sums from the people’s pockets—
And shut its eyes to the shameful inequalities of war taxes that
bear cruelly upon men of modest means and strangle legitimate
businesses struggling for air!
It tore the welkin with oratory against the Reds—
And did nothing about profiteers!
It stretched mule-size ears to hear the call of politics—
And stopped them with cotton against the outcries of a great,
suffering people!
Blind, dumb and deaf—
Congress quits.
There is also a deplorable shortage of thinking.
AND STILL THE WORLD WAGS ON
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THE BOOK OF ANN
I Have Small Reason to Hope for
Joys on the New Day.
At midnight 1 starved to phone
Bob’s father and ask that one of I
the men be sent over to guard the
bungalow. But once more I hung up 1
the receiver without giving the num
ber. Many a wife has erred in adver- •
tising her husband’s misdoings to ’
friends and family; women usually
conclude +hat a husband has been;
murdered if he stays out after mid
night without stating his intention. 1
I flung off my kimona,. turned
out the lights in the house, except 1
those in the vestibule and lower hall,
and crept into my bed. In spite of
my reasoning, there was always
in the back of my mind a vision of
Bob under his car at the foot of ,
an embankment. 1 couldn’t stabilize
my nerves. I was dumbly enduring
my extreme mental agony when 1
heard Bob’s car on the drive and a
little later the click of the lock as
he closed the hall door.
Then came the even tread of his
step on the stairs. I couldn’t rush out
and throw myself into his arms and
tell him all my troubles. Too much
thinking had paralyzed my will I
pretended not to hear him. Bob
might think what he pleased. At
least I would discover what kind of
a girl he believed me to be, if he
let his jealously develop further.
My husband paused for a second
at the top of the stairs, then passed
my door softly and entered his room.
I heard the water splashing in his
bathroom, then his light went out,
he opened the windows, and dropped
upon his bed.
1 hid my head under the covers
so he might not guess that I was sob
bing. But at the slightest sound, I
emerged, hoping against hope, that
he would come in to talk with me.
A quarrel—a war of words—sluch
as many spouses indulge in would
be pure joy compared to the unrea
sonable silence which separated us.
At length, being quite worn out
by a violent fit of silent sobbing, I
changed my mind, as a woman -will.
The mountain would go to Mahomet.
Bob would have to hear my story
even if he did not want to hear it.
It was his duty to listen to me. He
might take it as he pleased—he
would simply have to let me go
through with it. I put on my kimona,
entered his room and knelt by his
bed.
My husband was s und asleep!
His peaceful slumber marked the
culmination of my injuries! ?
I had cried myself sick over our
misunderstanding, but it meant so
little to Bob that he could sleep like
a child.
I was more hurt than I had been
in all my married life.
“So that is the way a husband
cares!” said myself to myself as I
stole back to my pillow.
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Why should I waste perfectly sin
cere emotion over an incident that
meant so little to Bob?
“Bob has his moods—but they al-]
ways pass,” his twin sister had toldl
me.
“I don’t care whether this mood: 1
passes or not,” Ithouglift 'bitterly,!'
and I resolved not to wear my heart;
out over the affair. Nevertheless myj
mind kept going around in foolish
circles: Ann and Claude Ives; my-:
self and Claude Ives; Bob and Claude]
Ives. And I knew that I would be
a 'nervous wreck in the jmorning, .
and quite unable to discuss the 1
weather with my husband.
I decided to be practical. I remem- i
bered the advice about insomnia
given by a great psychologist. I
found my book and read:
“If a patient afflicted with insom-!
nia can controll the whirling chase 1
of his ideas so far as to think of
nothing at all (which can be done),!
or so far as to imaginne one letter I
after another of a verse of Scrip-'
ture or poetry spelt slowly and mo-;
notonously out, it is almost certain
that sleep will come.”
By a tremendous effort -f my willl
I began to spell the Twenty-third ]
Psalm. And the next thing I knew,'
Bob was splashing in his morning!
] tub.
I hated to face the new day.
I had small reason to hope that
;it held any joy for me.
(To Be Continued.)
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BY O. B. JOYFUL
The delegation from the state of
Excitement got in this a. m., boom
ing the Hon. Oscar Gosh for the
presidency. They bore a banner up
on which was inscribed:
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The states of Anger and Surprise
are solid for 0. Gosh.
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Other candidates may come and
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It was to be expected that when
W. Running Brook got into the race
the wet-dry problem would bob up
again.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920
The militarist have gotten together
and decided to run Gen. Apathy for
the vice presidency if they win out
on Gen. Humudity as the presiden
tial candidate. If Apathy and Hu
midity are named the New Third
Party will select the hookworm as
the party emblem. ,
Rural delegates arriving are say
ing by heck if a farmer doesn’t
land a place on the
ticket they will
start another third
party and this
turns the spot
light upon the
Hon. Josh Wise as
a likely candidate
for vice president,
which gets Mrs.
Tom Duff all fuss
ed up. She had the
vice presidential
nomination cinch
for Mr. Duff yes
terday. But when
Mr. Wise got go
ing Mrs. Duff call
ed another meet
ing of the suffs
and the tide again
turned Duffward.
The candidates,
with instructed
votes, follow:
For president, Everett True, 326;
Gen. Humidity, 174; Santa Claus,
98; William Running Brook, 17; 0.
Gosh, 8; uninstructed, 731.
For vice president: Tom Duff, 236:
Josh Wise, 235; Gen. Apathy, 42.
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