The Washington herald., 1919-04-27
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

| growing. is due 10 their ability %
live on the enemy.
No one disputes the fact that many.
middle class officers of the czar's old
| army now are with the Bolshevistn-
But soldiers families are fed by
/ the state, and will fight in Russia
rather than TO see his children de
And unless he does fight, they car
tainly will die.
Fact number FIVE. the Bolshevtrts
= are gaining the support Of the peas
ants. who until winter came wers
against Bolshevism rather openly. and
always secretly.
| The explanations are these: The
anti-Bolsbevist observers insist that
the peasants have been cowed into
Bolshevik support; the Bolshevtsts
point TO the fact that they have
changed their theory Of land tenure,
from one of communal holdings to
the right OF private ownership IN such
tracts as one man and his family can
hold. This is a concession TO the mid,
| die class.
1t also produces Bolshevist recruits
from men who have no land; for Boz
shevist soldiers are promised farms In
conquered territory.
This latter deduction is disputed by
! advocates OF Bolshevism returninn
4 from Russia
Fact number six: Schools are open
throughout Russia and school chill
dren are better fed than adults. On
one side it Is claimed that these
schools are grotesquely inadequate:
that they have no discipline. and that
they are teaching impossible things.
On the other hand. Mrs. Dorothy
Garfield Fisher. who is by no means
in sympathy with Bolshevism, declsr-
ed after reading the accounts OF the
Russian schools written in the
French papers by their enemies. that
/ the Russians are using the Montes-
soH method, as nearly as she can
make out.
Leading Authority.
Mrs. Fisher. it may be remembered.
is a leading American authority On
the Montessori method OF teaching.
J Fact number seven: In spite OF all
the starvation and anarchy. the op-
era and theater have been patron
lied by the state. and workers in
their misery fill the amusement
places. to which they are given tick
cts according to their ability TO pro-
duce.
one group Of observers declare this
is 10 keep down further revolution.
and others declare that the fact that
Bolshevtsm recognized art. and as a
/ state institution sustains it even
through war and famine. is the best
denial of the charge that Bolshevism
would wipe out every class but hand
| workers
Fact number eight: Great financial
interests are Setting concessions in
| Russia from the Bolshevist govern
msnt and certain British interests
are playing both ends against the
| middle by securing concessions in dis
puted territory from both govern
merits, from the Bolshevists under
I one corporate name, from the anti
| Bolshevists under another
Fact number nine: The Bolshevists
1 want immediate peace with the world
and are willing TO make terms Every
observer coming out Of Russia brings
| this news. The anti-Bolshevists de-
| clare that Lenine and Trotsky are on
their last legs. and must save them
selves by foreign recognition. and
further declare that II the allies will
only hold out until summer. the Boil
| shevist government will be overcome
by its exterior enemies and its inte-
rior opponents.
Others coming out maintain that
Lenine and Trotsky have finally pull
| ed their government together 20 a
| point where Il will function, and that
the Bolshevist leaders believe II they
can have peace with the world. the
! example OF a communist government
| functioning IN an orderly manner will
do more to spread Bolshevism over
the world than any other kind OF
| propa canda.
Now these ten undisputed facts.
] NR-ifh "a
may be supplemented with certain
facts which are more or less IN dis
| pute. but the disputes OF the fscs
indicate that tEry are somewhat the
result OF viewpoint
Here is one: The Bolshevists claim
| that they have abolished prostitution
Their enemies fatty contradict this.
declaring that a general era Of loose
sex morality has taken tho place or
commercialzed vice, and that famine
has helped.
No one now nretends that the story
about the Matchmaking Of women has
any basis in fact A story. for in
stance, that the wives and daughters
Of the middle class people were held
in a certain public building in Mos
COW for immoral purposes is met by
the fact that this building is a chill
; dren's hospital
The Bolsheyists seem 20 have es-
tablished national wives and
mothers day as n fete day and In
March had a grand celebration In
honor Of the marriage relation.
I Matter In Dispute.
,. Here is another matter in dispute.
The breakdown Of the Bolshcvist the
oIy shat factories would run without
l. superintendent is evidenced by the
fact that all observers declare that
now the BolsheviSts are employing
the former forCncn and superintend-
cnts and owners OF many factories
= to keep thC'n going, and that certain
other concerns making necessary ma
Chincry have been operating through
out the revolution, including the ter
ror. under private ownership and
management with the consent OF the
local Soviet.
The local Soviet. il must be remern-
hered. has great power. and IL II de-
sires TO recognize private ownership
and private management the general
scheme Of ere alton in Russia is pow
erless against a local self govern
ment.
Hence the presence in Russia Of
certain operating factories under pri-
waite ownership. which have fed and
provisioned their men. got their own
coal and are turning out production:
hence also the explanation OF the
fact that superintendents at fabulous
salaries are actually running a few
shops in some part of Soviet Russia,
| under Soviet control