"Bolshevism" Defined.

It is hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea.

If you are a prohibitionist you now say that any effort to impede the success of the federal amendment will drive the country to bolshevism. If you are on the other side of that question your point is that the failure to give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved out an extra hour in the afternoon for golf playing. And vice-versa.

If you are not willing to strike out boldly against any league of nations that is encumbered by a Democratic President, you are turning to bolshevism. If you fail to go into a league you are projecting somebody else in the same unenviable direction. What did we do without a phrase so happily applicable to all human needs? Boston Post.