The Arvada enterprise., 1920-04-22
Shal Chaos OF Reconstruction
h Europe Follow the Great
World War;
RussIA's TRIAL OF SOCIALISM
Ultimate oeed - TIE World Looked
ter from the Practical Test
New Being Mass IN That
ceuatry.
Article XIV.
D. FRANK coMgRFoRo.

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The "red nag" remedy has been de-
manding trial. test. The demand
has bsen growing. Before its advol
Gates can be silenced they must be
sAowD.N Out Of the test Of socialism
10 bussia II bound to come good.
Whistler the theory il q practical one
or not. putting It to the test will an.
swer 4 question. satisfy 4 demand,
and tend to quiet unrest.
The fair-mlnded investigator cannot
deny that there was Justification and
reason back Of the effort to try the
remedy. That the world has been sui.
fering from poverty cannot be denied.
! have found few men, even among the
conservative. Responsible leaders uf
business and governments In Europe,
who did not admit that conditions In
the world before the war were not
right; that some change In the order
Of things was inevitable: that the dis
satisfied elements In society were COM
Ing together and that unless men were
given better lives. they were deter.
mined to fight. The working man was
detefiofating physically under the
strain a brutal working conditions
which enacted too many units Of phys
ical energy for the number Of ealoe.
~ Of food he was getting. The haeino-
giooin count. the rcd corpuscles. were
disappearing from the blood Of the
WORKING people. 1t was not q theory |;
oos could 80 It In the faces and move
msots Of the people. Medical men
recognised the fact. A walk through
The poorer district Of any Industrial
city IN Europe furnished plenty Of
evidence Of this alarming condition.
Mea. women and children were resort.
ing TO false stinulants to kesp up.
Tea, co6es and alcohol were being
used In Increasing amounts.
Assays ~ vsr0s ~ Want.
Men were stretching their arms and
yawnins. squalor and Nth furnished
ths homes. Aany lived in abject pov.
erty. many more lived On the border
lite Of the carriage alley. Few were
able to accumulate even the smallest
surplus. They could not by scraping
and denial MT : wesk ahead NJ nm:
R.me. II had become . hand. month
existence. q weekly. monthly hght to
meet the grocery bills, buy stocking.
shoes. and the sc,nt amount NJ r,othe-
70 cover their hodAaa II vee hr..N
and coffee for breskf.st. brad vim
iam and n. for dinne, r.. ana ch....
for sumner. Saus.ee sometime. too,,
turns with cheese. Once . v..l m.
Sunday rspast. n Rreat atew . fev
vegetables and . hon.. In IN. I..u.
countries II w.. the sam. .,c.rt th.t
diluted che.p wine vas .uh.t,,uted 10.
to-. The sreat m. ,or,.v ~ M. e,,ra
themselves noorer ana oId., ~ IN.
soA ~ N. va.k the, ,h., ,v... =. ~.
beginning. Over IN. work,n.n.n..
head v.s .usn.nd.d n,,ht .r1 A., \,
, thin. weak thread the dra.d.d .-o,d
Of povertv. Men feared that IN. ,hr..d
misht bresk .nv minu,. 7, ~. mo
thread nv which they held m. thing
called q ",oh" wh:, a,d The, 60.
shout the r,.h.. ~ nr,v.,. nrc,,.r,v,
Thev didn't h.v. .nv nr,x.,. r.r,.
crty m. socialist. had ..,II,n. ill.,.
amer. wh.r ,h.y r,r,.,, .t.,,,. CON-
munism. II nrom,..d n ,,r. ,h...
ueoole nrooertv n civ. ,hsrr . corr.
mon ownership ~ .v.rv,h,r. =.
wasn't hard "a convinc. them that ,h,.
w.s better than ovner,h,n NJ no,h,n.
The hoi.hev,k. q, Rms.,, a.. .n.
fitted "a the prs.umn,ion n, ,no,