Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-26
ARE We DRUNK
OR SOBER?! WORLD
]. Keeling -TOLSTO|
Have Days of Sobricty Come.
Asks Son Of Famous
Novelist.
REALIZATION Is NECESSARY:
SOUNDS AWAKENING HOUR
Cites Duty to Look at Reality
With Calm, Clear Eye, Says
Russian Writer.
ny Count Icon Tol,,ui.

Hy Count Leon T"l>,"i.
prominen; Russian Writer. Son OF
tho Famous Novelist
PARIS. June 25.-Wc were drunk
IN Europe in the few years before
the war; We were drunken during the
war Are We drunk again at this
moment. or have the days of So
briefly come
It is absolutely necessary 10 real
izc that tho hour OF awakening has
sounded. II Is our duty TO look at
reality with calm and sober eye.
I've must be sober We have no right.
either for ourselves or for mankind.
To lead the life wc have hccn leading
in the past, and those who do so are
in great danger.
After the war Europe found 20.
t0OGOO human lives wasted and
10 not know how many millions OF
animals destroyed. If we had ali this
Vital force living today there would
We in Paris in France and III Europe
a different spirit AMI outlook ON life.
Set. would there he" Would there
DE another and a changed spirit"
Mould there be only more people TO
circulate about?
spirit Would RE Same.
believe the general spirit would
he the same II all these dead were
!ivuC. that the causes in the changes
~ life after the way have not been
unique in tho facts and results OF the
War. hut in the CUsmic conditions of
ihc world. which, a every one knows.
undcrgocs during certain periods AN
enormous iniucncc as tho spots of
tho sun increase or diminish or TO
some other phenomena OF which We
know little.
But I want To believe that rather
dhan war being the result Of cosmic
causes. il has been itself the cause
NJ change in our lives. II il was
this. and we had hecn able TO pre-
vent war and by that save millions ot
lives. think how much better our
present life would hc.
With that calm and sobriety which
is coming and which has already
GONE and would have come even
without a war, with progress directed
not only toward "A perfection OF mill
iary irchnic but employed every
where for the development OF peace
Jul work. We would have reached to-
day better stage of civilization and
Of wclI-bciug. In our drunk cnncss, in
ihc drunkenness of our sentiments.
thoughts and actions. we have de-
Stroycd such an amount OF wealth
which had been acquired after so
many years OF hard toil--that w-
have fallen into "a situation 80 aim
cult that il viii take half century
20 correct and forget
Omen Our Eyes.
u VIII be said that it IS useless 10
spcdk Of things that are past and
ranno; hc undonc. that the war was
Inevitable. perhaps necessary, and
fv.n GOOD thing. No
: Before the disaster produced by
the war, We should more than ever
oFen our eyes TO the mousirosities of
:hat scoursc and do everything pos
sibie 10 avoid another such disaster
IN the future. We should employ all
pur intellectual ana material forces
10 do away with war.
] have spoken OF the sobricty which
is being manifested 81 this, moment
in an the Countries Arr.crila has not
only experienced the same return 70
.obrioty. hui has !tcrally become a
tobcr nation.
Europe Las not followed the cS-
ample of the New World Eurnuc
toes not Wish 10 bcccm, dry" she
prefers to remain wei Certain
measures have pecn taken against al
tou"lism in EnEiaud Liquors have
become NOR. -Nr,usiy. in France
'Fhsre is stjl driur TO hc had IA
lia!E' m ieriuamy and even In nus
sia WHOA ONE 90 these nations is
f!EhI n""cNer. ls another question.
Eut 1T rs not omiy TINS form of so-
srI"ts ihat We must have. Wc
shoGld first T., >op.t ina OBJ, ,nourhts.
IN our IDEAS 10. ALI ouv opinions in
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