El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-13
Little Interviews.
Housewives Warned Against Picking Up Help From Streets
Universal Training Necessary For Safety Of United States

I AS one step toward complete
Americanization OF the people who
/ live in the United States, I think that
I foreign signs in stores. foreign Ian
I guage newspapers, all foreign itera-
I ture and things OF a similar nature
should be prohibited" said H P.
I Farmer. There are some sections OF
our big cities, for example, where
English Is not the prevailing Ian
] guage, where an English speaking
man Is as much at loss as though
he were in the country chiefly repre-
scented by the inhabitants OF the els
trict mentioned. We are trying 10
fight bolshevism IN this country and
the chief obstacle is that Il Is in sucn
places as are hard TO ferret out II
an literature printed in this country
were in English. II would deal a
heavy blow 20 ]. ". W-ism and Dol
sheVism, and would prevent their add
ing hundreds Of recruits This may
seem exaggerated, but when one stops
70 think Of the great propaganua
work these influences are working
among Immigrants, II can easily oe
seen how much they must depend
upcn foreign languages. why not
force American residents to pc amer
ican2 II would do away with a grsat
percentage Of the agitation IN TINS
country, where Immigrants try TO set
up the ideals OF their own country.
If they disapprove Of becoming
Americans they can be reminded lndl
the same transportation lines o.
which they arrive run two ways anu
can take them back"
sBoIshevism is nothing new, said
A Y Wetmore, Kansas C4ly lnsuE-
ance man. This scheme has oeeh
tried out right here in North amer
ia IN in western Canatlsi, not far
from the United States line, a5o1SS
20 years ago a colony OF some 12yy
or more persons tried ID apply lle
urinciule Of communism Iue col
onr was managed by a soviet. There
were, I should say, about SOO men n
the colony. Five OF these men met
every evening and all OF tfe lilen met
once a week, and once a month there
was a Gathering OF the entire colony
as far as possible. Only persons VINO
actually worked v ere given voice
in the government. That, however,
included most Of the members, as the
people lived in the opens where prac-
tically everybody had to work
The communists made the indl-
vidual the unit OF society, lnslea9 OF
the family. What each INDIVIDUAL
produced was contributed 70 com
mon store. from which all drew sup
plies The surplus was sold and the
money put into a sort OF sinking
fund 20 be used for maintenance ex-
tension Of dominion, amusements,
etc There were two unfortunate
things about the colony. One was
that the attempt TO nationalize
women failed A man and a woman
would fall in love with each other
and Tor some strange reason would
not want to 90 roaming off with
somebody else This was especially Z
true OF the women. The other thing
was that some Of the men had a habit /
Of getting drunk. Sometimes they I
would trade their produce for booze Z
Instead OF turning it in to the cen !
ter
There was another. but less ia Z
grant instance Of communism tried /
out a few years since in Arkansas. /
II failed because the settlers decided I
they could each do better under the |
old system OF each keeping the fruit
OF his labor. I predict that what is
a large scale communism, will fan OF I
its own weight in a few years il 81
IS not kept united by the attacks of I
outside peoples"