South Bend news-times., 1919-04-27


Fact number six: Schools open throughout Rus
STA and school children better fed than adults.
On side it is claimed that these schools
quely inadequate; that they discipline
they teaching impossible things. On the other
hand, Mrs. Dorothy Garfield Fisher, who is by no
means in sympathy with bolshevsm, declared after
reading the accounts of the Russian schools written
in the French papers by their enemies that
SLAMS using the Montessori method nearly she
can make out. Mrs. Fisher. it may remembered, is
leading American authority the Montessori meth
cd OF teaching.
Fact number In spite of all the starvation and
anarchy the opera theater have been patron
lied by the state and workers their misery fill the
amusement places to which they given tickets
cOrdng their ability produce group
vers declare this is to keep down further revolution;
that bolshevisrn recog-
nized art and a institution sustains even
through and famine, is the best denial of the
charge that bolshevism would wipe out every class
workers.
FINANCIAL INTERESTS GET CONCESSIONS.
Fact number eight: Great financial interests get
ting concessions Russia the bolshevist govern
ment British interests are playing both
against the middle by securing concessions
puted territory from both from the boil
shevists under corporate name the anti
bolshevists under another.
Fact number nine: The bolshevists want Immediate
peace with the world. and willing to make terms.
Every observer coming Russia brings this
The anti i-boshevsts declare that Lenne and Trotsky
are their last legs and must themselves by
foreign recognition, further declare that if the
allies will only hold out until summer boshevist
government will be overcome by its exterior enemies
and it's interior opponents.
others coming out maintain that Lenine and Trotsky
have finally pulled their government together. a
point where it will function. and that the boshevst
lea Sers believe if they peace with world.
the example Of a communist government functioning
in orderly will spread bolshe-
vism the world than any other kind OF propa-
ganda
Now these 10 undisputed facts with their contradic-
tory explanations may be supplemented with certain
facts which less in dispute, but the dis
putes of the indicate that they somewhat
the result of view point. Here is
The boshevsts claim they have abolished pros
tution Their enemies fatty contradict this declaring
a general morality has taken the
place commercalized vice, and that famine has
helped
No one now pretends that the story about the ma
tonalizng of has any basis in fact story for
instance that the wives akd daughters of the middle
class people held in certain public building in
Moscow for immoral purposes by the fact that
this building is a chidrens hospital
The bolshevsts have established national
wives and mothers day" fete day and in March
had grand celebration in Moscow in honor of the
marriage relation.
Here is another matter in dispute The break down
Of the bOlshevs theory that factories would with
out superintendent is evidenced by the fact that all
observers declare that the bolshevists en-
ploying the former foremen and superntendents and
owners Of factories to SeH them going and that
certain other making necessary machinery
have been operating throughout the revolution includ
ing private ownership and mana ge-
ment with the consent of the local soviet