Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
new CULTURE IS
DREAM OF REDS
Huge Sums are Expended by
B0|ShevstS to Promote
Their Propaganda.
SEE WEIRD Effects IN ART
Demoeratlzed Paintings are SpIashes
OF Coior That Guido the Work Of
cubIsts--Newspapers and
Books are Scarce.

LoH"oh 'iulNlhlldu!MnR RUSSIAN
culture is one Of the tasks attended
80 by the bolShevik government Of Le-
nine ana Trotzhy. What this process
consists of is told by the Copenhagen
correspondent of the London Morning
Post. He says:
IF the holShcVlk system ~ seems
likely disappears altogether from Rus
STA during the present SUMMER a curl
Gus experiment in 'culture' thereby
win be brought TO an end. Beyond
doubt nine-tenthS of h0Shpvism is
common murder aud plunder--the boil
sheyik dictator, Iinoyilleft, in speech
Of May 10, admitted that fhree-quar-
tiers OF the 10000 soviet officials care
only for their own pockets bat the
other tenth is honest fauuticism with
the customary foundHtion of decisions.
zone deluson is HAT there can be "A
specific 'prolearlan culture Last
month the Moscow provincial soviet
Gin the intervals of shooting old men
and boys whose kinsmen of service age
refused 10 tigED set about organizing
biograph and gr0phophone entertain.
ments In the villages, at which says
the krasnhya GnIettu, in addition to
showing pictorially and screaming
stridently the inf0mies If our former
foes, We are providing real proletarian
education art. science, philosophy, his
tory 1t is culture stamped with the
Irresistible 'prulctkult' mark. This
'prolttkult,' word cOnCocted ny
Lunatchursky, IS the official name of a
state department with headquarters In
Catherine street Petrograd. and in the
Moscow Morusotf palace. The con.
coCted word goes with SOvnarcom (for
Council Of Peoples Commissaries),
Gluvsakhar tfor chief sugar monop-
oly). Sovdep and other barbarous
aeologisms which, with bolshevsm.
have enriched the language of Tur.
genieff and Tolstoy.
Millions Expended on Cult.
1.-THE commissariat Of education,
over which Lunatcharsky presides,
spent in 1918 1900, 100000 roubIes
(nominally Sl,450,U00U and the eS-
Inmates of its expenditure for the first
half Of 1919 alone amount to 4GG7 ,000,-
700 roublC', nominally about 80 per
cent more than the whole anHUa! bad,
get before the ar OF the inst en-
toned sum over 250oo0.00n r0ul ,es
the Kraynaya Gazettn says, was
on the encouragement of literature and
the arts. that Is, Of the specific arts
tic and literary forms which are gior-
lousy known as 'proletkult' Thus art
and literature are violently denoCra-
tzed.
During the Whole of last winter in
the Morosoff palace were hrll weekly
competitive soirecS, which VI. Lunatch.
urslSy ana even our mighty Hitch
&. e.. Lcninc) did net shrink from at
who is cultivated man. must have
been hard. Ho.~hrviIl poets read aloud
their verses, and holshevik painters
showed how hopeleSely they had left
post-impreSsioGiSts. cuhistS and eX'
prcssionists behind. Two Of their
paintings shown to ne at Stockholm
were mere Spln~htr color, framed in
zigZagS of .cOn.aon tar.
' The report of the commSSariar Of
education for 1918 states that in sew
enteen provinces sWnycd by the soriets
at the end of last year ther" were II
per cent more elementary schools than
under the nutocracy. This largely ne
counts for the swollen expenditure.
Higher education has been proletar-
ianized-on paper-by admitting stu
dents according to their merits.
Many Papers Suspended.