Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-10-12
new CULTURE
IS DREAM OF
RUSSIAN REDS

understanding hussI...
culture" Is one of the tasks attended
to by the bolshevik government of Lee
nine and Trotzky. What this process
consists of is told by the Copenhagen
correspondent of the London Morning
Post. He says:
''If the bolshevik system, as seems
likely disappears altogether from Rus
STA during the present summer, a curl
GUS experiment in culture thereby
will be brought to an end Beyond
doubt nine-tenths of bolshevism is
common murder and plunder-the boil
shevik dictator, Zinovilieff, in a speech
of May 10, admitted that 'three-quar-
ters of the 100000 soviet officials care
only for their own pockets but the
other tenth is honest fanaticism with
the customary foundation of decisions
zone delusion is that there can be a
specific 'prOletarian culture Last
, month the Moscow provincial soviet
lin the intervals of shooting old men
and boys whose kinsmen of service age
refused to fight) set about organizing
biograph and graphophone entertain
ments in the villages, at which, says
the Krasnaya Gazetta, lin addition to
showing pictorially and screaming
stridently the infamies of our former
foes, we are providing real proletarian
education, art science, philosophy, his.
tory 1t is culture stamped with the
asfctibIa snroIatIyuIfs maui Tbtc
'proletRult,' word concoeted by
Lunatcharsky, is the official name of a
state department with headquarters In
Catherine street, Petrograd, and in the
Moscow Morosoff palace. The con.
cocted word goes with Sovnarcom (foH
Council of Peoples Commissaries)
Glavsakhar flor chief sugar monop.
oly), Sovdep, and other barbarous
neologisms which, with bolshevlsm
have enriched the language of Tur
genieff and Tolstoy.
Millions Expended on cgIt.
"The commissariat of education
over which Lunatcharsky presides
spent in 1918 2,9OO,OOOOOO roubles
(nominally 81, 450,OOOOO0), and the es.
Inmates of its expenditure for the first
half of 1919 alone amount to 4,667, 600.
600 roubles, nOminally about so pei
cent more than the whole annual bud
get before the war. OF the first men,
toned sum over 250,OOOOOO roubles
the Kraynaya Gazetta says, was
on the encouragement of literature and
the arts, that is, of the specific arts
tic and literary forms which are glor
iOusly known as 'proletkult.' Thus arr
and literature are violently democra
tized.
During the whole of last winter, in
the Morosoff palace were held weekly
competitive soirees, which M. Lunatch
arsky and even our mighty Hitch
Il. e., Lenine) did not shrink from at
tending, though the ordeal for Lenine
who is cultivated man, must have
been hard. Bolshevik poets read ALOUD
showed how hopelessly they had left
post-lmpressiOnists, cubists and ex
pressionists behind. Two of theiI
paintings shown to me at Stockholm
were mere splashes Of color, framed In
zigzags of common tar
The report of the commissariat OF
education for 1918 states that in sev,
enteen provinces swayed by the soviets
at the end of last year there we're 81
per cent more elementary schools than
under the autocracy. This largely &C
counts for the swollen expenditure.
Higher education has been proletar-
ianized-on paper-by admitting stu
dents according to their merits.
Many Papers Suspended.
'"The plight of proletarian culture
has grown markedly worse during the
last few months, mainly owing to lack
Of paper. In Petrograd, instead OF
nine newspapers, there have appeared
since April 1 only five. The bolshevik
propaganda is still turning out many
thin political pamphlets, some of which
have seen; but book publishing has
almost entirely ceased; and the best
known Russian novelists, AndreyeR,
Kurpin and Merezhkovsky, are begin.
ming the publication Of their writings
with BONNER Of Stockholm. The in.
ability to produce books at home viii
certainly continue for years."