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SUNDAY, 4PRI4 , 2 92
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1923
THE MICHI1GAN DAILY
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Michigan Reds
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LILLIAN REID.
"A spectre is haunting Europe-' to the practical worker is, "What am
the spectre of communism," wrote I going to get out of it?" He is work-
Karl Marx in 1848 in his Communist ing hard to pay for a little house, and
Manifesto, the favorite textbook of the a little car, and to put money in thej
radicals. Almost a century later, that bank. After all, money is rather sat-
same red ghost is rattling its chains isfactory to have. He has vague ideas
in upper Michigan, sending cold chills about the benefits of comm unist so-
down the spines of conservatives, and ciety, where labor is supreme, until
property owners. he hears that his meager savingst
In 1848, the bloody Commune of brand him a capitalist, or, worse, a
Paris ended the First International, bourgeois. A contented workman has
a socialistic organization of all Eu- little use for extreme movements. ItJ
rope. Today, the collapse of the makes him skeptical to be asked to
Russian experiment may kill the contribute to relief funds for the suf-
Third. or Red, International. The re- fering Russians, who are now living
sults of the recent trial at St. Joseph i under this ideal plan. He is almost
indicate that the Worker's Party of content to be a wage slave, as long
America is part of this world-wide as he is comfortable.
movement. One hundred years of dis- After all communism is not new.
cmssion has marked little progress in It has been quite common in prime-
methods, results, or ideals. Karl tive society where money and credit
Marx could easily explain the doc- were not used. Our English ances-y
trines which Foster supports. tors held their village fields in corn-
Last summer, the American Com- ,mon, and cultivated different plots
munist party held its second annual each year. Some Indians have com-
conventon at Bridgman. It was mon ownership, and distribute foodf
there that the government agents got, equally to all in the tribe. The old
the evidence that is being used in the Russian village was communistic in
trials. Charles E. Ruthenberg, who industry and government. Even prim-
went on ' trial last week under the tive savages have common property.
criminal syndicalism act of Michigan, in land, goods, and women.
declares that he went to the conven- Ideal communism may be perfectlyE
tion merely to bring the American harmless, as in the Brook Farm of1
party into the open. He undoubtedly the New England poets, but idealists,
did, if publicity was his aim. lack the mechanics to apply it to mod-.
The new Worker's: Party re-ptices ern specialized industry. It is over-
the former Communist party, whichi whelning to think of the book-keep-
was secret. It is said that Ruthen- ing which woul be needed to distrib-!
berg was secretary of both. Foster, mdute the necessities and luxuries of
who was recently relased, had control modern life equally. Who is to de-
of the Trade Union Educational; termine whether I should eat ice
League, which carries on the move- cream or pie, drive a Hudson or a
ment in industry. Trade unions must -Ford?
be taught the advantages of brother-' This may wander far from the1
hood. criminal syndicalist trial, but the ev-
idence provokes such reactions. The1
startling statements on the witness average citizen has just discovered
stand, and is eapected to clear up that the Red of whom he has read
moranda msteiedinhis towde- calmly in the papers, has appeared in
more radical mysteries whis own de- person at his very doors. No, we
tense. He seems to speak with au- would never allow such things to
thority -for the Reds of the United.'wudnve lo uh l~sto
tarey rhappen in Michigan. We did not even
es.know that we had a law against it,
Comuniist theories are based on until the court brought it out to use
the ideas of. evolution and revolution. against Foster.
They believe that historical ev lution The leaders have evidently been:
consists of a constant struggle be- careful to do no actually criminal.
tween classes--those who have, and acts, although the party as a whole:
those who want. They desire to con- can push its revolutionary doctrines.
trol industry, and to change the ideals There is great argument about free-
of society, but can do this only dom of speech, which the society rad-
through the overthrow of govern- ical defends with fury. Thecharge
ment-what the uninitiated call rev- of Judge White to the jury indicates
olution. No wonder that the authori- that the Michigan law is not to be
ties spy upon conventions which- are used to deny freedom of. speech in the
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G rnspresent the- German- factories
It would be supremely disrespect- content with the building of m
ful, I suppose, to call the Gargoyle a at the home factories for develop]
joke, although it is full of them. on large scales in the neighbo
Froi the first sheet of advertising to friendly countries. The chemical
the last, it is illuminated with jokes, dustry of Germany having been
both humorous and painful; so that veloped to the extent that it prob
one might call it, with- due veracity, leads the world, its transformatio
a funny paper. It is indeed more: a war basis would necessitate. b
than that: It is a very funny funny few days' work.
paper, for besides little poems and Germany is also well supplied
scrawly pictures, it frequently prints raw materials necessary to condu
the truth about our college profes- an extended war. Large and wel:
sors and the campus celebrities., i veloped coal districts lie within
In. reviewing such a periodical, the - borders. She has imported since
question arises as to whether one Armistice 10,400 tons of chron
should praise it for being funny or for ore, and 27,743 tons of wolfram
is presentation of funny things. In- both of which are components of fi
dubitebly, the latter is the correct tungsten. This amount would. ,
course; but it is also the most te- the war needs of a modern army
dious. The secret of presenting hu- several years.
mor is, I believe, that of isolating Germany has long. been knowi
bright bits and of administering them the excellence of her railroads. T
t'o the reader in small doses. L 1ugh. having been built to cover all
ter like the aesthetic transport is the needs of mobilization, further
most satisfying when it cones and,! ment is unnecessary. They are
goes as the ash of- a falling meteor. idly attaining theix pre-war Stan
Attempts to long sustain button- of military appearance accuracy.
busting, fail like Irvin S. Cobb often rolling stock has replaced that
does, or as Wallace Irwin usually,; out during the war, and that su
does. In the Gargoyle this secret of -dered..to the Allies.
isolation is nearly mastered. You With the High Command and
have probably condemned the..editors eral Staff provided for, with a c
for printing their best jokes in a pile of "officers and. non-commissioned
of ads, saying it is a mere device of cers for a war-strength army,
the business staf; but did. you ever the means of.:transportation neces
refect that it is in some degree the ad- for mobilization, with veteran or
vertisements which make those jokes!- ization closely linked up with a+
the best? It is a trick of the trade. units representing their old+
-Of course it is true that many-of the mands, does Germany possess
best jokes in the Gargoyle are the means through her industrial sy
imported. ones, and- that the major- of arming, equipping, and main
ity of the original contributions sel- in the. considerable army whicl
dom advance beyond puns and such undoubtedly could mobilize =nd
facetiousness in words as makes one. centrate? And if this can be
want to let out an awful "Aw!" after would this army be sufficient t
reading them. But on the other hand used on the offensiveoronly I
some real fun does escape. The pa- enough to conduct a rigorous d
per feels its responsibility of having: sye? These are the two quest
to appeal to many sorts of readers, '-which the general staffs of the
and it bears up under the burden powers are trying to solve today
admirably. Here and there is -a veil- (The- writer is indebted to
ed -one which passes over the head of Army and Navy Journal for mo
the innocent as a miss-fire, and at the the material for the above, whiclh
same time hits a lusty spot In- those contained in a rather lengthy an
who are not so innocent. It plays tailed recapitulation of the situa
upon the vnitynof the ego-centrics and to various officers of the re
and so satisfies the vast majority of establishment who have been in
re'aders; for the biggest part of hu- many very recently.)
mor, as the biggest part of aesthetic
delight, is based upon personal ego- AMONG THE
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the
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matters we attain is formed by Eng- edness becomes of
lish rather than American masters." pages. Such is tb
The article trails off into generaliza Set" has had upon
tions, however, and ends with the fol-
lowing very trite evaluation of the The other liter
new American spirit: "It is a spirit of April number is
-potentiality which may under wise by Richard Curle.
guidance become a spirit of power." In veller who knows
a style similarly tame, but for that rad's Eastern fic
reason authoritative, James Bissett takes to discuss C
Pratt writes about "Religion and the "The purpose of I
Younger Generation." Prof. Pratt at the beginning,
should be well known on the campus cover to what e:
for his excellent book "The Religious I derings in the E
Consciousness, A Psychological flected in his writ
Study." The present article says no- how far in his
thing which cannot be drawn from caught the spirit
his other writings; but it does pre- myself I think thi
sent in a small space the. distinctive dertaking nor a fe
elements in the new socialization of tidle is worth rea
religion. His greatest encouragement rad.
to the younger generation is that it is The Yale Revi
not on the road to Hell--yet. wholly devoted tc
Wilbur Cross has some ponderable deed a review of't
ideas in his criticism "Novels in N Arthur Hadley co
Dimensions," and he- shows a learned tors in the Railro
mind; yet his everlasting fair-mind-. (Continued
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held to preach this doctrine. The usual sense, but to prevent direct ac-
spectre stands at the bed-side of the ;tion against the government. It might
class in power. be better to -.llow the communists
The modern weapons of the radical to talk as much as they please, so;
esmmunists are propaganda and long as they did not commit treason,
strikes. "One big union" is their slo- or violate criminal law. This trial is
gan, and the general strike of all in- i certainly giving them free publicity
dustry is their hope for the future, for their doctrines. The leaders'
Foster was accused of managing a could hardly get their speeches so
steel strike, in which the workers'j widely printed in auty other way.
thought they were striking for more Marx must have been acquainted withj
wages, instead of helping to destroy 1 the same type -of "parlor pinks" who
the wage system altogether. In fact, Iare so active in defense of the work-j
the radical does not wish the ordinary ,ers, for he describes them as "The
strike to be successful. So long as dangerous class, the social scum,
the laborer can get his demands by that passively rotting mass thrown
striking, he has no need for revolu- off by the lowest layers of old so-
tion. ciety. .
Nothing pleases the Red better than The "spectre of communism" is:
to see the workers badly beaten In a rattling its bones before the courts,
strike, for then they have a grudge and may disappear into the past from.
against society. The skilled crafts- which it came.
men ofthe - Trades unions are con-
tent to live under a capitalist system Charles Scribuner's Sons will publish
which they can control, while the in April "MVark Sykes: His. Life and
wandering hobo, and the western Letters", written by Shane Leslie, his.j
field hand join the I. W. W. in the cousin. Sir Mark, who died in Paris
conviction that anything can be bet- ; during the Peace Conference at the
ter than present poverty. It has been age of 38 years, served in the Boer
said that the I. W. W. represents a war,.nade a record in-Parliament, and
pathological condition of industry, during the recent war was active in
and it is true that the mind of dis-. every part of the East. He was aiman
contented workers is hardly normal. of varied talents; a distinguished
It is possible that the communists archaeologist and author, a brilliant
have taken longer to gain a foothold letter writer, a political caiicaturist, a
here because of. our prosperity. The mimic, and an exceptional conversa-
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wit which takes root in incongruity, nothing brilliant in it, nothing essen-
though truth is perceived. tially "new"; but there is careful re- -
The outstanding personality in the fiection by men of mature judgment-_
Gargoyle is obviously James House, and of scholarly instead of popular
Jr., whose drawings and their sub- attainments. For instance, in the list
scripts display a penetrating obser- of contents for April, 1923, you will 1
vation and sympathy as well as hear- find such people as Arthur T. Hadley
ty laughter. The editorials are as a President Emeritus of Yale University =
rule commendably clever and sug- PJames Binssett Pratt, Professor of
gestive. The only thing that is real- Philosophy in Williams College; Bliss
ly bad is the attempt at prose wit Perry, Professor of English Literture -
such as the "B. M. 0. C. Bugle" in the at Harvard, and Tucker Brooke. edi-
April issue-not to single this out as or of Yale Shakeseare and ?roes-^
especially poor, but only as illustra- sor onis in Yale
tiveof he ortof hin tht wakes IThe opinions of such men are worthy=
Live of the sort of thing. that weakens f.itin.Iitons n-l f
the Gargoyle every month. This is, of.initation. Irritation is one-half of.s
It is true, extremely. difficult matter originality; for creatio- is at best,
to write; but the .copy reader ought re-creation. And there are two kinfds:
of imitation: imitation by tradition and
at least to cross out such 'brilliance custom which tends to preserve what
as: "Mr. Hume was .. .single minded has been significant in the past; and
in his perseverence for the welfare 1 imitation by fashion which tends to
of red-winged blackbirds." make - something .else significant in
"The Preface" often descends to the future. Both sorts.of imitation.are -w
this silliness, but then it is excusable important to society since it. is only
fort "Preffy" has --to:fill three columns by the sincere opposition of. the two
with hilariously. funny stuff. It- 'is ithat stead) progress can be made. If
probably needless to mention that one is omitted, either stagonation or an-
"Book Reviews" was the best thing in archy follows. The Yale Review rep
the April number. I resents the austerity of the elders. =
I These prefatory remarks seemed re-
MILITARISM -quisite because the first contribittor
(Continued from Page Three) Ito draw my attention to the April is-
osth d frof 105-mm.Thow- sue was Stuart P. Sherman. He has
trtubes wicthr their bree-h bloks an article entitled "For the Study of
itzer tubes with their breech blocks American Literature." To say the
are two examples of such discoveries. least, it.is not poorly:written, although
The Krupp factory worked several some of his cleverness emerges with1
months after the Armistice on new mighty effort. The bait for the paperi
field guns- with the result that there is that "From childhood to old age
is a considerable reserve of these we read English books -. . . per-
weapons. With permission of the Al- haps in early adolescence we are help-
lies the Germans have installed the ed by some aspiring high-school teach-
most modern of, coast defenses and er through an essay of Emerson. But
-also, a number -of new guns of heavy when we go to college, we put away
caliber on the eastern frontier. ! our American classics as we put away ,
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