New Britain herald., 1919-10-20
PETROGRAD FALLS.

for several years, after fighting con- ducted in desultory fashion with no determined plan of fighting to char acterize it and no permanent leader, Petrograd has, it seems, fallen in whrlWind finale of victory for the Anti -Bolsheviks of Russia and the
 home of Trotzky and Lenine and their ragged irresponsibles is in the hands of friendly forces who realize that permanence and soidity Of gov ernment is one of the first perqui- sites to a country which wishes to continue relations with others on it's sphere. The capture may be another flash in the pan, it may be the start construction and thorough financial introspection. We hope it may.
 The Reds, as the disturbers are characterized, are proving-have gime cannot last. The very princi- ples upon which the party is found- ed, though appealing to the average lmpecunious individual spelled de- feat eventually, it is probable that the eventual defeat is here. It does not take a great amount Of brain to come to the conclusion that the theo- ry back of Bolshevism is wrong. May the United States, or certain factions in the land who are looking forward to a financial Utopia when every man will have the cream of the COW and
 no man will have to tend to it's wants,
 take heed of the lesson and not de-
 mand a demonstration of it's infalli- bility in this country.
 Russia cannot last another winter,
 it is said. Ruin has come to the peo-
 pie through destruction of it's money resources; starvation is to follow rap
 idly, through destruction of it's food
 crops, and failure to raise more.
 There were large estates in Russia
 worth a great deal of money. there
 were government funds that might be
 spent there were many things which
 we will consider as reserves" All
 of these, the money, the lands, and the credit, have been thrown to the four winds by a band which believed that it could live and not work; play and not produce. It took time to dis purse these reserves, it may take longer, but there was nothing being placed back and, of course, every thing has to come out sooner or later. There is no class of people in the world that may do nothing, have good time, and not pay for it. The Russian Reds are paying and will pay in facing the alternatives of starving
 or working and working doubly hard to make up for the waste which they have been responsible for. Possibly they think they are not going to work, that they still may draw their funds from the public and private coffers They may be right-for a while-but these coffers cannot re- main filled.
 We are seeing the same proposi- ton worked out in Russia as we ] might see in an improvident family l here, which makes it the more easy ! to demonstrate. Supposing a family l reserve had been worked up by the 1 efforts of it's head until an appreci- 1 able sum had been saved and placed 1 in the bank Then suppose the whole
 family decided that they were through l work, that they were going to have a good time The reserve would be-
 come rapidly depleted, and would ] eventually disappear. Then the fam 1 fly would go to work or starve. If it ] had planned wisely, looked we'll to it's 1 reserve and lived upon the income
 only it might continue it's policy in-
 definitely A whole government may
 not do this there is no reserve which
 could make it possible. The members
 of it have to work as whole. So the i Reds have exhausted their reserve, it is not so much that they have captulated to force of arms, and the V world, the government, the organiza- l ton, the family and the individual l may look at the lesson with profit. l The moral is obvious and we'll cov- cred by the old saying. Waste not,