The New York herald., 1922-12-03

slack in the fight against superstition,
and they give as an instance the con-
Duct of the Tiatskaya PraDdo in pub-
( fishing an article recently addressed
ito the believing Christians of Nolin-
sky and Glazovsky districts" ~
Father Alexander Yutakov 7'hiA
I priest explained that, though the mi-
| raculous crucihX OF Churinsky" Is not
really miraculous, 1T deserves the re-
spect OF all Orthodox Christians on ac-
count OF the great atonement which
It recalls"
Moscow, however. will have none Of
this. "As a result OF all this religion
says a writer in the PrdDdo, I'VE have
in the villages turbulence, mischief
and drunken rows. Savage bravl4
take place regularly between tho
young men OF different villages III
Penza, Vladimir and Chernigov, and
fists, sticks. stones and even knives
are sometimes used"
These dsgraceful faction fights,
which result not infrequently IN black
eyes and broken heads. shock all law
abiding Bolsheviks: but the party
hopes that with the elimination Of
vodka and religion these rowdy scenes
will come 10 an end.
Russia has no Rome to cut adi-ift
from. The men who separated Eng
land from Rome were Englishmen and
Christians. while the men who ara
pulling down the Christian church in
Russia are not themselves Christians.
and in some cases not themselves RUS
slams. England continued the churcii
by perpetuating bishops and priests.
while the Soviet Government would
sooner end the church than mend *.
will cite Trotzky on the States
l.position. One of the most important
of his recent speeches was delivered
on October - a. the fifth All-Russian
congress OF the League OF Comnu-
mist Youth. In this very remarkable
organization no member OF ii is moro
than IS. IT contains both boys and
girls, and is intensely serious. being
extremely Communist and anti-Chris-
tian. but laying great stress on study,
discipline. conradeship within tho
Communist party), industry, austerity
and frugality. Many OF It's young mon
Of II and IS are comn1issars, while
others are employed on important
political business which in other coun-
tries always Is entrusted TO mature
men. But the BolsheviL leaders act
on principle in thus making great use
OF mere lads, for they find that youth,
when maddened by enthusiasm, has
fewer scrupies less fear and less sem
tnent. No one is harder, Drawer. more
contemptuous OF death and religion
and pity than the young Bolshevth.
male or female. who has been sradu-
ated in the r. X S. NJ.
Best of all, from the Bo,shevik poins
of view, religion has practically 70
hold on tire young men and women
who were 10 years old when the great
war began and are now Is, and reliS-
tous prejudices, anti-Semitic or othor-
wise, also have no hold. This can
never he said OF the middle aged or
the elderly. who. even when working
with the Bolsheviks. betray at times
fierce hatred OF Jews or hereditary,
aristocratic contempt for what they
used to call "the lower classes"
Trotzky for the last Ave years has
paid the greatest attention TO the r.
X. $. Nt-pcrhsps It was because thac
l
ness. enthusiasm and self-abnegation,
with absolutely neither racial nor
other prejudices-and he is profoundly
convinced that ie tho members OF that
organization who are now u reach
the age OF 80 under Bolshevik Gov
crnmcut then Communism VIII have
taken root in I;uss.a as strongly anG
ureraGicably - Christianity had taken
root IN the Roman Empire in the tin1e
of Julian the Apos,ate. Even II Il.
counter revolution ard a mouarchicaI
restoration take place after that Il viii
nor matter. the Societ Goveramen.
viii como 1esir.. the .'oots viii remain
hidden .n ;hc earth. though the leyvcs
Nay tc Destroyed. For he neSt ten
years. hovever. th'o de.icate plant the
r. *. s. NJ. must bc carefully watched.
and. to DO him justice. 'rrotzky ia tend
ne q W,t. rreat care.
Trotahy began with a rather un-
happy metaphor Religion" said he.
els a mustard plss. er- it sucks.r But,
correcting himself Immediately. lie be-
gan again: Religion Is a poison. par
ticuiar,y in revolutionary times or IN
the times of exceptional difficulty
which come after the conquest OF
power. Therefore we ought to deepen
tho revolutionary world knowledge OF
the young and take into account even
their religious superstitions The more
enlightened should approach THE less
enlightened With the very greatest
I pedagogical attention. We ought TO
carry on among them a propaganda
of atheism. II only that propaganda
defined mans place in the universe
ana outlined the circle os his activI-
ties here ON earth"
Persecution CiesnSed Church
And the Reds Were Alarmed