The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27
For the Good of
 the Community

p ADICALISM, which has been spreading ovor .l. tne world the last year or two is engaging the serious thought of students of social and olif 1ca science, as well as those charged with the eutv of protecting the lives and property of the citizens sand the institutions of the various countries affected
 In the United States, while the number of radi- calls Of the type that are considered dangerous is relatively small, yet it is large enough to give se r1ous concern to those who have studied the sit uation
 B. E. Samuels of Sylacauga, for several months connected with the employment service of the United States department of labor and who has made study of the subject has this to say in con nectlon With Bible study class lesson of last Sunday:
 The great need of the church today is not to get away from the old-time heart religion, but to take an active part in bringing this Christianv in US true sense to fuller application to all prob lems ot life. Never in the worlds history have such opportunities for Christian leadership been so. - necessary, and to do this every man who professes christianity must, like Peter in last Sundays les son, take bold stand, not only in matters reatino to church and Sunday school routine and worship, put ln all matters of the government state ard the community In this lesson today pooling of the commu- nlty property of the disciples was tried out this being done by the voluntary contribution of each one, and we find that it was not a success even then, for Annanas and Saphra undertook to hold pack part. The great issues that are facing the world today along the lines of economic govern menu should be squarely met and seriously studied and the propaganda of boshevism and the doc trines of the Reds is one believe that should be 1ought by every church and Sunday school in the United States, because the very existence of the church and our glorious institutions, established through the sacrifice and death of the great founders of this government are at stake. SO why shouldn't we take hand?
 Every man Tn Europe today must stand up and oe counted and be classified and 1t will be the turn of Americans tomorrow. Where does each or us stand! Indifference is the great danger We have recently read of the testimony as to the part Carranza and Mexico and the southern negro IS expected to take ln bringing bolsheysn to the United States. Extreme socialism, cOln1malnism and other idealistic doctrines are being encour- aged and taught to the youth of our land, and when we see that the great country of Russia is a- most entirely controlled by the leaders of this dangerous doctrine, let us see for moment what the results are there. All banks and industries were taken in charge by the bolshevists, produc- tlon almost ceased and an orgy of death, destruc- tion and starvation has been the result
 As an example of how it works out under the dctum that all lands belong to the state the prop critics of the bourgoise in the envrons of Kharkov were appropriated, together with the live stock and fleld machinery. The city government de- cided that it would convert these estates into demonstration farms. These estates were no longer to be the abode of wage slaves but the cen- ters of practical enlightenment One of the own CTS, MT. CherbanelnkO owned 625 acres, and on March 1 he had 50 oxen, 20 horses 30 cows, 30 < hogs, 300 chickens, and for years the place had provided work for 40 tenants. Each member of fa the soviet which took this in charge had an equal community interest and an equal voice in its af- fairs. They voted six-hour day. The number of the workers so large that they drank all the milk and ate all the butter, and as the veal was born they stewed it. The poultry went into the same kettle. No more than third of the land was planted. Whenever member of the communist needed money he sold a beef animal. In three months the buildings were filthy, the horses were sold the fields were a-thcket of thistles and the model farmers were robbing the hen roosts for meal and in a fit of anger one of the members set fire to the buildings and the model farm had to move.
 "There have been great injustices by capitalists, but the revolutionary socialists, though not oppos ing political action, beievest that iii large way in stitutions cannot be socalized until individuals are socialized The socialist by direct action, al- ways full communist wants society changed here and now, and force is to be applied, and what the few of great talent used to accomplish, the many of little talent must accomplish. When ever the socialists of country meet in convention it resembles a Donnybrook fair. The conference splits into factions with violent antagonsm, par liiamentary law is disgraced and the spectacle is
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