YOUR FIRST BOLSHEVIST R more USSIA CREATED NIHILISM and Turgenef first put it into literature; she also created Bolshevism but Shakespeare got in ahead of any writer Russia may produce for the job of giving the Bolshevist a literary form. "Jack Cade" was your first Bolshevist, and our extreme Western contemporary, the Portland "Oregonian", is the first to point him out-- perhaps because the Bolshevik appeared in the flesh out there before he took form in the East. Or perhaps the Oregonians thumb their Shakespeares oftener and look into such unfamiliar plays as "King Henry VI" than we Easterners do. The "Oregonian" discovers that "Jack Cade," tho he was the son of a brick layer, and got his name from stealing a cade of herrings, speaks rather better English than his congener of today. pursuades this paper that "a classic touch to Bolshevik literature, copied, from Shakespeare, would lend a charm that it does not now possess and be a comfort to the professional failures and parlor anarchists who have embraced his teachings. 11 Bolshevism is set forth in this colloquy between "George Bevis" and "John Holland": He GEO. I tell thee, Jack Cade means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it. JOHN So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it was never merry world in England since gentle men came up. O, miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in handicraftsmen. JOHN - The nobility think scorn to go council are no good in leather JOHN True; and yet it is said vocation; which is as much to say as trates be laboring men; and therefore magistrates. Labor in thy Let the magiswe should be Thou has it; for there's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hånd. "Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and Vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it a felony to drink small beer; all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass; and when I am king as king I shall be all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me, their lord. "The sincere bolshevist who has followed the Russian soviet's similar efforts and proclamations and its attempts to stamp out intelligence will find Cade's catechism of the clerk of Chatham delicious. The clerk is accused of 'setting boys copies ' and of being able to make obligations and write court hand: CADE---Dost thou use to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man? CLERK---Sir, I thank God, I have been So well brought up that I can write my name. ALL---He hath confessed; away with him! He's a villain and a traitor. CADE---Away with him, I say! Hang him with his pen and inkhorn about his neck. "Or the sympathetic bolshevist will find something worth copying for future use in Cade's indictment of Lord Say: 11 ↑ I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such as thou art. Thou has most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. "While Cade did, in fact, empty the jails to gain adherents, as the Russian bolsheviki are accused of doing, there is no record that he in truth purposed to kill all lawyers or slew men solely because they could read and write. In Shakespeare he is a sort of postdated communist figure. It was Wat Tyler, it is told by Holinshed, who demanded from the king 'a commission to put to death all lawyers,. escheaters and others which by any office had anything to do with the law; for his meaning was that, having made all those away that understood the laws, all things should then be ordered according to the will and disposition of the common people. It was he who obliged teachers of children in grammar schools to swear never to instruct any in their art. 'It was dangerous among them to be known for one that was learned, and more dangerous if any man were found with a penner and inkhorne at his side; for such seldome or never escaped from them with life. 'n Perhaps our own Bolshevists would profit by going to Shakespeare instead of to darkest Russia "for the best proletarian thought," says the "Oregonian." ENGLISH VIEW OF ELLA WHEELER WILCOX THE LONDON "TIMES" puts to shame the American reserves about the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It boldly declares her "the most popular poet of either sex and of any age, read by thousands who never open Shakespeare, and far more famous than were L. E. L. or Felicia Hemans or A. L. 0. E. at the height of their renown. The secret of her poems' success, it says, is readily seen: "They are smooth, easy, plucky, kindly, and sentimental. They put into rhyme the common wisdom of cheerfulness and courage. As time went on, Mrs. Wilcox made some attempt to find a philosophical basis for her counsels. One Swansi Viva-Kananda taught her about deep breathing and concentration; and in her book, The Art of Being Alive, she would talk persuasively about 'New Thought' and 'God's supreme plan' and 'the soul's inexhaustible reservoir. But these were only the trimmings. The substance was a friendly, cheerful, plucky nature, which enjoyed success to the full, and would doubtless have borne failure with exemplary pluck," W ADVERTISING FOR HEALTH HEN YOU BEGIN TO SEE the Red Seal where you will hue every with the know that something new is behind the effort to kill tuberculosis. Christmas has for several years seen this "sticker" on its packages and letters, mingling its holly berries and streamers. But this year the highest advertising brains of the country are on the job to make us "see red." The National Tuberculosis As "No man can vouch for his own continued good health so long as a single case of illness exists in the community or so long as he mingles with others in a business or social way. His best friend may bring disease into his home or his business associate into his office. If he wishes to conserve his own health he must aid in conserving the health of the community. "Tuberculosis is the greatest cause of death on record, and it is preventable." Great Britain is using advertising combatting a scourge that menaces as a means of her public health: the cam British Space is "It is significant to note that the National Council for the Control of Venereal Disease, of which Rt. Hon. Lord Sydenham is president, is using paign of display advertising throughout the Isles in an effort to combat this menace. being taken in newspapers and popular magazines and is bound to bring magnificent results. this country we have been sound asleep for centuries. Experts who have been fighting disease mostly in the laboratory readily admit that advertising will sell toothpicks or tires, paper dolls or portable houses, but they have never put their heads together to plan a selling campaign for public health, a commodity which they have in their possession. (For instance, if every man and woman in the United States knew these facts, don't you think the death rate from tuberculosis would soon show a marked decline?) 11 "1. Tuberculosis kills 150,000 persons in the United States every year. "2. Tuberculosis kills mostly producers active men and women between the ages of sixteen and fortyfive. "3. Most infection comes in childhood and the disease annually claims the lives of 12,000 helpless children besides crippling many more. "4. And now -- Tuberculosis is preventable and cur able. "Consider how deadly is this disease that we have been accepting all these years as a visitation of providence. During the period the United States was actively engaged in the war a little more than a year Uncle Sam lost about 67,000 soldiers, sailors and marines. In that same period tuberculosis killed 200,000 persons, mostly workers, right here at home. Heart disease has always been looked upon as a great scourge and yet it killed only 115,337 persons in 1917. It should be remembered that a great number of these were beyond the age of usefulness and therefore the economic loss was not great. Tuberculosis, on the other hand, causes an annual economic waste of at least $500,000,000," A given community can determine to a very large ex. tent, declares the writer, "the number of men, women and children who are to die in that community every year." Experiments, in fact, to this very end have been tried: town "This has been shown in Framingham, Mass., a with a population of approximately 17,000. Framingham was an average American town with the average death rate, the average industrial life and the average foreign population. It was neither better nor worse than any other fairly representative American town of the same relative size. For three years the National Tuberculosis Association has conducted an experiment known to the medical world as the Framingham Demonstration in this town. It has accomplished results that are truly remarkable, besides cutting the death rate from 121 per 100,000 in 1916 to 76 per 100,000 in 1919. In addition it has proven that tuberculosis is controllable and is rapidly completing a model health plan that may be applied successfully anywhere in the world. The experiment has been kept a but the results of its investigations given the light of publicity. dead secret, soon will be "It is safe to say that the Framingham Demonstration would have failed without the help of the local newspapers and it's a foregone conclusion that any that it would be a calamity to the Christian Church and to the Kingdom of God on earth if the Treaty and the League Covenant should not be ratified this year. Thirty cities of the East and Middle West have been canvassed and the belief is thus derived that "the sentiment of ministerial associations, church fede.ations, denominational conferences, and other ecclesiastical establishments out there is in favor of the League of Nations." All through the Mid-West "and other sections of this country the voice of the preacher is heard proclaiming the necessity for a League of Nations." We read: "An itinerary that included Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cincinnati, St Louis, Sedalia, Fort Scott, Parsons, Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Aberdeen, Jamestown, Bismarck, Fargo, Crookston, Duluth, Minneapolis St. Paul, Winona, Milwaukee and Chicago showed in every city at the center of the most active groups of men and women who are working for this high political and moral ideal a minister, or several ministers. "In Kansas City there is Burris Jenkins, preacher of the Linwood Avenue Christian Church. By day and night throughout the great State he may be found un of a of the of the folding to various bodies of Kansans the need League and interpreting to them the articles present Covenant. Dr. Jenkins also owns one leading papers of the city and there is never a day or a single edition of the many editions of his paper issued during the day that does not have in it an editorial or some article setting forth the advantages contained in the proposed Covenant as over against anything we have had in the past. Go to Sioux Falls and you will find the Rev. L. Wendell Fifield, pastor of the First Congregational Church in that city. He is doing what probably no other minister or League speaker is doing. Knowing that in his city and in other parts of South Dakota there is much confusion as to the significance of certain clauses in the ument, he has adopted the expository method of interpretation. it is his custom when speaking on the Covenant to start with article one and go through every article consecutively, calling for questions. from his audience at the end of the presentation of each one.... It is worthy of notice also that he knows every article of the Covenant by heart. doc "In Winona, Wisconsin, you will see Rev. George S. Keller, of the Episcopal church in that beautiful little city, giving his energy in a big way for the furtherance of the League idea. Dr. Keller attends day school picnics, Sunday school picnics, celebrations and meetings of various kinds setting forth the supreme moral aim for which the war was fought. church "Let him glance at the monster petition made up of seventeen thousand names of clergymen in the United States, and presented to the Senate through Vice-President Marshall, calling for the ratification of the League Covenant in a way that would not cause its resubmission to the Powers in Paris. Here you have the voice of one great bloc made up of leading ministers from every State of the Union, and representing virtually every sect, asserting that the Paris Peace Treaty, embodying the League of Nations Covenant, should be ratified promptly. The clergymen of the Middle West were very ready to sign that great petition. "It is not true that the preachers of America are evoiding this great issue. It is not ignored by priests, rabbis or ministers. They are not passing it by. The great majority of them are responding to it and using their influence in order that the treaty may not be defeated. "Contemplate the power of the message of seventeen thousand preachers constantly calling for a League of Nations and you can see the doom of the evil forces that keep the human family apart. Racialism may continue for a span, but its days are numbered. Commercial exploitation may persuade itself that it is immortal, but its days are in the yellow leaf. Militarism and navalism may hold their serpentine heads above water for a little time, but soon they will go under. Too long have they been permitted to swim their slimy way into the life of nations, but their glory has for ever departed. 'Othello's'occupation's gone. prospectus, quoted in the "American Hebrew" (New York) "It would be an interesting thing to observe the dwells upon "the unfortunate evidence of anti-Semitic success of any petition circulated among the ministers by the opponents of the League calling for signatures leanings in the contemporary press:" of those against ratification. The result of such a task would be a sorry sight. The mail that recently brought over seventeen thousand favorable replies brought word from only 805 that they opposed the League, or were not in favor of ratifying the Covenant without drastic changes." The "Christian Work" finds it "not difficult to un League of Nations: "We deeply deplore this decline from the more uni versal esteem in which our religion and its adherents were formerly held. But we cannot disguise our fear that the decline may partly be due to the negative cause of the lack of a more representative Anglo-Jewish newspaper. "When a Jewish newspaper discovers that 'the ideals consonant with the derstand why preachers welcome with such alacrity the of Bolshevism at many points are finest ideals of Judaism, and proceeds to defend this heresy with vituperation directed against its opponents, we cannot affect surprise that a non-Jewish newspaper should roundly write 'Let England and Furopa remember that every Jew is a Bolshevik'. "They have for years been reading their New Testament and studying the life of Christ. For generations they have been repeating 'God has made of one blood every nation of man to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation." 1 They have been leading their flocks to a consideration of the Golden Rule. They have cried aloud and spared not those whose purpose in life is one of domination and not service. The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man have been their constant themes. Preachers can do no less than they are doing for the beginning of this League. They feel that it enters the kingdom of religion and that the idea of a League, a World Brotherhood of Love, stands at the center of the teaching of their Master. There is this final word: Hard work, thrift, honesty, fair-dealing,and loyalty to our friends will get us over more stiles than any political agility in combining nationalism and internationalism as twin aspects of self-determination. We Jews may reasonably return to the rootprinciples of religion and patriotism, by the clear enunciation of which, and the clear distinction between which, the emancipation of Jews in this country was won in the second quarter of the nineteenth tury. сеп. The new organ also makes itself clear as not con-> fusing Zionism with nationalism. It holds to "the primary truths, first, of the Jewish religion, with its Messianic promise of a spiritual Zion, and, secondly, of the national obligations which are the privilege of Jewish citizens equally with their fellow-countrymen of of the other creeds." Upon these points the stand full cooperation of "With joy they hail the coming day when the League, infused by the spirit of Christ, will be a living reality. They look forward to the new foundations built upon justice. They are sick of the unsound foundations of the past. They hope for the the nations in all matters of great and common concern. They hope that the League Council will soon get busy on the question of armaments. They are sick of armed peace, sick of the abominable record made by compulsory military service, sick of nations treating each other as if they are crooks to be forever armed against, sick of big nations being parasites on the little nations, sick of greed, sick of hate, the whole philosophy out of which came the hell in 1914." of back A SPLIT IN ENGLISH JEWRY B OLSHEVISM AND ZIONISM have caused Anglo-Jews. G. Sir Charles "Jewish Guardian" will be as follows: "There is no cross-national bond, uniting Jew politno national or bi-national Judaism. ically with Jew, or supreine ecThere is not so much as a Jewish Pope, clesiastical authority. Dr. Hertz is Chief Rabbi in the British Empire, not of Dutch, Polish or Portuguese a Chief Rabbi Jews; and wherever his is appointed, functions are similarly localized. Yet, if Palestine is reconstituted as a national home for Jews, it is obvious, wrote the correspondent to 'The Westminster Gazette, that the Jew in European countries will be a foreigner. Obvious or not, it is an inference which will occur as logical to most of us, and which accounts for the likeness in aim,unpremeditated equally by both parties, of some anti-Semites and some political Zionists. a cleavage among the Jews of Great Britain, and a new organ of opinion has been launched with backers "We cannot attempt to work out here all the consequences of this deplorable confusion. The religious among the most distinguished names of the solidarity of Israel has and seeks no constitutional Men of the type of Dr. Israel Abrahams, machinery. Such signs of it as may have been apparent in recent years have been due to common causes in the Montefiore, Capt. Anthony de Rothschild, war, and to the agitation arising out of it, and not to Henry, Sir Philip Magnus, Lord Swaythling, Sir Edward common institutions among the Jews, which are strictly delimited even for religious objects. Thus we are conStern, Sir Philip Sassoon, Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir vinced that there is room for a newspaper, which, tied Isidore Spielman, Sir Laurel Magnus neither to the League of British Jews nor to any Zioncame to feel the ist organization, will be true to the principles which need of effort to counteract the growth of opinion we have formulated. Such a newspaper can offer constructive criticism of the policy in foreign affairs which coupled Judaism with Bolshevism. The Jewish of the committee appointed to watch them, and can denewspapers already established in England have been vote unbiased attention to the domestic and home interests of the Jewish community in our beloved country. looked upon as lending color to this view. In the "In establishing 'The Jewish Guardian' to guard prospectus of the new paper, called "The Jewish Guard- Judaism itself, we point the way back to mutual trust and tolerance, to the spread of liberal ideas, to comian," its projectors declare: "We are not always mon labor for the public weal, to the furtherance of wisely served by the newspapers of our own community, the historic claim of British Jews to assist their and this disservice may not be without influence on the tone and attitude of some newspapers outside." The less fortunate co-religionists in less fully civilized countries and, finally, to the Prophetic vision of Israel's duty as a witness to God and the Mioral Law. 18 |