The Washington times., 1918-01-27
More's "Utopia'' Condensed.
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down In front OF their mothers and confessed their onsss
The women kneeed down before their husbands and made
their confessions Then the husbands went to church with
the family and there confessed to higher power.
men nave the best seats at table, mothers their
own oaples tne paoes are taken Of wholesale way
in room especially assigned them and never without
fire and clean water and cradles where they can lay the in
fants down. Older children wait at table while their ed
eat and eat after the older people Utopa Is mot pan
ned according to the ideas Of the spoiled American child
Slavery the punishmsnt for crime Slaves well be-
haved become free again The stores of food belong to all
It is waste Of energy to steal More overlooked the fact
that many Of imperfect human beings would also con
slider waste OF energy to WORK under such conditions
Utopians keep treasury full of gold and when thew
to they hire from the outside
to do the fighting for them This idea that More
got close at home But in emergency the Uopians would
do the fighting themselves with desperate courage and al
ways winning.
used for themselves the simplest things and despsed gold
and silver Of which they made great chains fettsr and
gives for the slaves"
They put pearls and jewels on the little babies and teach
the children to be ashamed Of such toys and es when
they older
That may have worked in Utopia; it would not work in
Washington.
When ambassadors from another country came to
Utopia loaded down with golden chains they were treated
with contempt Uopans thought of they must be
slaves
-Four hundred years ago More wrote in his Utopia"
sThe Utopians wonder at anyone being so foolish
as to delight in the gtterng of little trng who
behold the brightness of the stars the itse'
viii pass alas and unfortunately before the young lady win
prefer the brightness Of the the stars to the glitter Of
a small stone on her finger.
Utopians had simple relgion-immortal happiness
after death the reward for decent living here They dssd
hunting and killing Of animals which rebuke to the
England Of that day and the T. r. of this day.
Ths pleasure in death they consider brutal instinct
and In denotes cruel quality Of mind which in the long
run becomes downright cruelty"
Utopians encourage suicide by one incuraby diseased
E'If the disease is only ncurable but nain-
full the priests and magistrates with the patient
and try to persuade him that he should determine to
suffer longer, and his life is nothing but torment
he should not be unwilling to die but should be glad to
dispatch himself
1t was necessary to have an official permit for suicide
ANY who kills himself before the priests and the counsel
have consented to his death not buried cemated but
his body is thrown into some foul marsh"
More invented his own Utopan system of eugencs with
considerable rannes in the choosing Of wife or husband
Says he:
''In choosing wives and husbands, they relgiOusly
and strictly observe custom which, however seemed 70
foolish at first stad and honest lnatron pre-
sents the woman-whether maid widow-naked to the
wooer and responsible and discreet presents the
man naked to the We laughed at this custom,
and thought silly; but they, the other hand
surprised the folly people of other nations who
in buying colt-whch is merely matter of money
are so chary and cautious that they will conclude the
deal until the saddle and harness had been taken off, for
fear gall or may he hidden under them Yet
in choosing a wife who must be either pleasure
dispeasure to them all their e they reckless
that the womans body being covered with clothes, they
Judge of her beauty merely by seeing her face and
married forthwith
Divorce is permitted in Utopia by consent of the man
and if they can't get along But it is discouraged
Unfaithful husbands or wives punished by the
severest grade of slavery
Husbands punish their wives, and parents their chill
dren"
More lived in day when it was the respectable duty
of the English husband to punish his wife with stick
thicker than his thumb"
In the Uopans fought all together wives standing
by their husbands The husband without his wife