Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-11
Russian Reds Poison
ChiLdren'S Morals


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liberty as instituted by LunacharskN.
has inevitably led. in primitive coun.
try like Russia where there is great
mixture of races, to revolving condi-
tions of precocious immortality. Every
thing is done in the Bolshevik schools
to awaken and stimulate the develop
ment of these instincts.
ITO this truly satanic system of de.
pravation belong the 'children's balls
which are arranged frequently in the
schools by order of Lunacharsky. Par
ents are forced to send their children
to these dances which last until the
early hours of the morning. Last win
ter, it was pitiful to see miserable moth
ers waiting all night in the snow in the
streets of Moscow outside of brilliantly
Illuminated schoolhouses. where their
boys and girls were dancing the tango
and foxtrot and learning TO forget and
despise their homes and parents in a
whirl of precocious pleasures. The
teachers assist at these balls, but are
not allowed to exercise any authority
over t'". children. Trotzky and other
jaded r'luptuaries of the soviet gov
ernmcnt nrc sometimes present as spec
tators. but Lenine, in his priestly seclu
sion in the Kremlin, firmly believes
Lunacharsky's glowing reports of the
excellent moral influence of these en-
tertainments.
with tears in their eyes, the moth
ers of Russia tell you: There are no
longer any children in Russia today,
only vicious little brutes whose talk
is of money and pleasures When you
pass a group of school children in u
Russian city, you hear only immodest
iests and brutal outbursts of passion I"
"Children's Rural Colonies" a Mockery
My informant said regarding the so
called rural colonies of which Lenine' s
advisers make so much:
This summer, several hundred
children between the ages of six and
twelve were sent from Moscow into the
province of Tamboff, where the soviet
lodged in a palatial manor house and
on milk, eggs, butter and other agri =
cultural products almost unobtainable
in the city. The children and their
teachers were put into cattle trucks ;
the railroad journey lasted several DAYS.
and many children were taken i'll before
they reached thteir Estimation.
'"The manor house turned out to be
half in ruins and entirely unfurnished !:
the children were forced to sleep on
the bare floor without blankets. and
the local peasant soviet absolutely re =
luSeu W supply IileIn WlJn 1OO0. After
weeks of terrible privations and misery
this 'children's, colony returned to
Moscow. Thirty per cent of the children
had died in the country. This case is
typical and all honest teachers refuse
to conduct their pupils to Lunachar-
sky's rural colonies
There exists, my informant adds. but
one type of school in Russia today. This
is officially called the Workers Com .
mon School" 1t has three prepara
tory and four higher classes, the highest
or eighth class of the old Russian school
having been abolished. In each class
there is an equal number of boys and
girls. School books are no longer used
to them on principle, but for the simple
reason that the old school books have
been condemned as counter revolution
ary and the Department for Public
Instruction" has been too busy issuing
DEGREES and instructions to the teachers
to publish new ones of its own.
Cleanliness Taboo by Bolsheviki
All the schools are under the sur
veillance of the so called educational
departments Of the local soviets, who
keep a close watch over the political
tendencies of the teachers. Most OF
the old school teachers have been re =
placed by youths and young girls still in
their teens, graduates of the Boshevik
propaganda institute in Moscow. In
many cases entirely illiterate supporters
of the Bolshevik regime have been ap-
pointed instructors. Thus, the head
master of the famous Alexandrowsky
cadet school is a former corporal whose
first act of authority upon assuming
his new functions was to prohibit the
use of tooth brushes, tooth powder,
combs and all other toilet articles of
bourgeois character
There is no schedule of lessons IL
the Bolshevist school. In the foul
\ higher classes the children decide them
selves every day what they wish to b.
taught. The teachers may only lee
ture. as in a university. and are for
hidden to give their scholars tasks tC
prepare at home or to put questions tC
them during the lessons. All educa
tional differences of opinion are decided
by the school councils. whose meetings
are distinctly original. Side by sid,
with the teachers sit the delegates o
the scholars committees-childre from
the age of twelve upward-and the de
cisions of the latter are obligatory fo
the teachers.
Educated i'm Pure Communism
Quite recently Lunacharsky has Sc
about reallZlng tne ola comfnunlSC pldl
of taking children at a very early ag
from their parents to be brought Vi
entirely by the state. A census of al
children under ten years Of age is bein
taken in Russia at present. 1t is pro
posed to educate these children in spe
cial state boarding schools. guarded b.
Red guards. definitely severed from thei
families and, in the case of quite youni
children. even in ignorance of thei
parentage.
"Thus we shall be able declare,
Lunacharsky in a recent speech, 1T
educate an entire generation in the pur
communist doctrine, unsullied by tn
influence of bourgeois parents. Thi
great enterprise insures the duration o
bolshevism and its ultimat~ triumph
throughout the world"
The brave and upright men who CAV
their lives on the Russian fronts in tn
crusade against the international crimi
nails of Moscow died for the children ant
mothers of Russia and for the saliva
tion of the world from a greater .neri
even than the domination of the Hun
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