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Evening star., 1924-08-08
ARTICLE vi.

| Bo1shevist aims to discard the "old
bourgeois, patriarchal, individualistic
system of family life" and replace it
! with the new Soviet collectivism with
communal houses, kitchens and dining
rooms communal rearing of children
! and new communistic family relations
are not working out in practice as
well as on paper. The new order, ac-
| cording to DR.. Semashko the Soviet
| minister of health, is working well in
| the big de luxe hotels OF Moscow and
elsewhere. taken over for this pur-
pose, but lot of benighted Commun-
lists. he laments, still prefer homes
or their own and the nom Bolshevist
population is not adjusting itself with
any grace or Willingness to the new
order.
Children, SO the up-to-date Bolshe-
FlSt doctrine runs, must and should
not be brought up in the family, not
only to free the parents for the serv-
Ice of the state. but also for their own
good, because participation in family
life develops in the child "a narrow
egoism' and prevents him from taxi
ing, as he should. his proper place in
organized community life from the
age of three. Thus only is he sure
| to grow up Ii good. well balanced Boil
shevfst of the future.
thus preach the wives of the
boishevist great to the Russian COM
monalty. Read Mrs. Semashko. wife
or the Soviet minister of he alth. on
no" she is bringing up her three: Il
nave no particular methods about
their education. | am always at the
oftice. rarely at home and see them
but seldom. / want them to be inde-
pendent. Unfortunately, the youngest
boy. years old, is sickly and | have
mad 10 devote somewhat more atten-
ton TO him and have not been able to
send him away to one of the collec-
tive children's institutions"
Or Mrs. Olga Kamenev, wife of the
vice premier and herself bulwark of
the commission which is reorganizing
russian education on Bolshevist
lines: MY husband and | are so
occupied that we see our child of
three on ~ at meals: hence his impress
sion probably is that we do nothing
except eat. He comes, ! fear, far too
much under the influence of his nurse.
Such an individualistic education is
shocking and utterly wrong but I
don't feel justified in sending him to
an institution and depriving some or
phan. or child whose parents cannot
aHord a nurse of place there.
nope that the coming extension Of the
network of children's homes will en-
able VS. TO place him in one of them"
Busy with Other Children.
Madame kalinin, who il chairman
of the Commission to Combat Child
Destitution, is so occupied with the
plight Of other children in her official
work that, she says, she can pay little
attention to the education of her 10
year-old son. She sees him only early
in the morning or at night after he
has gone to sleep. Her daughter is
already at school. being educated
with the children of actual workmen,
as she believes the children OF ali
higher Bolshevist officials should be.
Heretics to the cause are Mrs
Sokolnikov. wife of the minister of
finance. who is devoting her entire
personal attention to her year-old
baby and scorns the thought of end
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Editors Discuss Canada's
Experience With Prohibition

amendment. the Springfield Union is
confident the reform has therefore
been in operation a sufficiently long
time to afford a reasonable opportu
nifty to judge of its results and IL is
not without significance that province
after province should express a de-
cided preference in favor of regula
ton
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On the other hand. the Kalamazoo
Gazette does not attach any signifi
canoe to the development, because
"Canada>s liquor system has never
been comparable to the one which
ran riot in the United States previous
to July /, 1918. In country where
the saloon system was never allowed
to become a sinister influence in thi
political and moral life of the popu.
lation absolute prohibition may pos.
sibly be regarded as an undue re.
striction upon the free will of this
individual, but in America the indis.
putable evidence of historical faci
rather than the destroyer, of per-
sonal liberty" Whatever Canada may
do. though every province repudiats
prohibition. the Pittsburgh Sun de-
clares it by no means follows that
the contagion will spread to this
in any early modification of the Vol
stead law" The Lansing State Jour
nal concludes that ''pafrving the
eggs in the United States will be far
more difficult than in Canada, and
we are not yet satisfied that prohi-
bition cannot be complete, although
1t may take generation or more to
free the rum slaves"
Evening star., 1924-08-08

with making the weather hot or cold.
They hold that their duty is done
when they record conditions as they
find them and foretell weather for the
next "a hours. There is famous al.
manac which foretells weather for the
next IL months, but let us avoid an
argument on that. The people at the
Weather Bureau admit that they have
no control over the weather, and some
of the very wise men there doubt
whether Washington weather can ever
be brought under complete regulation
by the National or District Govern
ment. 1t is believed that weather in
the National Capital is as well regu-
lated as weather in other cities, but 1t
gives us many disappointments.
The loyal Washingtonian will stand
up for Washington weather, and can
prove by statistics and quotations that
it is better than New York. Boston.
Chicago or st. Louis weather. but we
agree among ourselves that certain
notifications might be made with ad
vantage. Those in general charge of
the heating system show a disposition
to turn on too much steam in August
and to economize on coal in January.
Another thing that Washingtonians
will confess is that there is lack of
proper regulation in the schedule of
Summer storms. Under the present
arrangement these storms begin at
O'Clock. interfere with ball games and
cause wet feet and shirt waists among
tired Office workers during the home
going jam from 4:30 to .. If it could
be arranged to have these storms be-
gin at 10 am. and end just before the
lunch bell strikes it would be an ac-
commodation to many citizens.
The weather yesterday was decided
ly uncomfortable-conf un-
comfortable, one might say-and the
weather today is not the most delight.
full Of the year. but it is a change in
the right direction.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
An Open Way to Death.

AS if to illustrate that warnings
mean nothing whatever, three men
living at New Brunswick. N. j., drove
their motor car upon a grade-crossing
at Voorhees, Station Of a Pennsylva-
MIA branch line, the car stalled and
was struck by an express and all
three men were killed. They were,
presumably, familiar with the scene.
They knew there was grade-crossing
and that trains were operated at fre-
quent headway, and they were well
aware Of the fact that just about "a
hours earlier three other persons were
killed at that very same point. The
earlier victims were from Oakland,
Calf, and Philadelphia. They might
not have known about the crossing.
The New Brunswick people, however,
should have known about it, because
# Xas IN their immediate peighbor.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Mr.. FirpO Returns.

Strange to relate, the arrival of Luis
Angel Ffrpo from his Argentine home
has failed to arouse the degree OF
enthusiasm that had been expected
1t must be taken into consideration,
however, that a good many Of the
sport writers in the East are away
on vacation trips at the present. Until
they return sporting hash relating
to Mr.. Firpo will be served sparingly
The chief purpose of his return en-
gagement seems to be to fulfill a con-
tract with Tex Rfckard to meet Harry
Wills. The possibilities of another
bout with Jack Dempsey also loom
strong in Firpos mind. The Ameri-
can public will not take much stock
In this chap unless it can be shown
that he is learning more about the
boxing game than he knew on that
Inflated day when Dempsey foored
him repeatedly. even after Ffrpo had
knocked the heavyweight champion
through the ropes. That affair was
not calculated to arouse intense inter
est In the Argentine giant, though
sport writers all agreed that he pos
sessed enough brute strength to clean
his way through an average crowd of
batlers. Jimmy DeForest, well
known authority on boxing, has
argued all along that Firpo could be
for Dempsey's crown. He has worked
with the Argentine battler and he
knows whereof he speaks. Firpo, on
the other hand, is pictured as con
ceiving that he knows 1t all and is
hard customer to handle in the
training camp. His supply of science
was limited enough when he was
here before. II he hasn't added to
this knowledge or III he hasn't taken
steps to increase his boxing capacity
his case 10 hopeless, even again6
|'Wius-Spdngneld Daily News
Evening star., 1924-08-08

Now that the Canadian province of
Saskatchewan has followed the prov
inces of Quebec, Manitoba. British
Columbia and Alberta in abandoning
prohibition in favor of governmental
regulation of the sale Of liquor, and
the province of Ontario is facing a
plebiscite to be held in October, the
press of the United States is discuss
ing the probable effect of what is
happening upon prohibition in this
country.
Canada. the Topeka Capital ex-
plains, has been trying prohibition
and confesses that it has made a fail
ure of it, to the extent that several
water wagon. The claim was made
that enforcement of the law had COM
pletely broken down." This paper
believes. however. 'if the law did
break down. it was the fault of the
Canadian officers and Canadian peo-
that prohibition can be enforced If
the officers are willing to do their
duty and are reasonably efficient"
Those who would hail the Canadian
detection as a defeat for prohibition,
the Des Moines Register suggests,
VIII 40 "eH TO COnSlQeT what the
Free Press of Winnipeg says about
the change for, 'it hints that the
people may as well get ready for the
reaction that is bound to set in should
the old abuses return. The Register
feels the reaction will set in in all
the provinces quickly enough" be-
cause state sale of liquor is no more
a safeguard than saloon SALE, and
"in the end Canada will do just what
We have done in the States.
Springfield Republican points out
that economic factors are prominent,
though not necessarily dominant" for
it refers to the statement of the Mon
treal Star that the Volstead act is
'the most courageous piece of legis-
lation and greatest social experiment
ever made by great nation" and
concldues that "such an opinion ex-
pressed in a non-partisan review OF
the Canadian liquor situation implies
that however excellently administer
ed the Quebec act may be from a
business point of view there is acute
questioning regarding its social feas :
ibility, even with the profits derived
from catering to thirsty Americans
At any rate. says the Brooklyn Eagle,
zone fact stands out in the 1egisla-
tion and in the referendum votes of
the Dominion Of Canada-viz, that
there is no room in Canada for the
saloon as we used to know it in the
United States. Outside Of the British
Islands, Anglo-Saxondom is almost a
unit against the saloon. The expert
ence OF humanity is against it That
even in Britain its days are numbered
is a reasonable conclusion"
Calling attention to the fact that
inces will be in the liquor business
IL the vets carry the Province of On
tario, the Buffalo News thinks "the
Canadian authorities are not likely to
be so helpful as they are now in ef-
forts to suppress the booze smugglers.
The wet provinces naturally will have
no sympathy with a campaign In this
direction. The more liquor they sell
the greater their revenue. In the
circumstances the United States au-
thorities will have a difficult time
mopping UP along the far-ftung bor-
der" Since Canada adopted prohibit
ton ~ q war measure four years
'UHorto cur adoption Of the eighteenth
Evening star., 1924-08-08
A Railway Merger.

For several years ii has been ac.
| cepted that an effective way to bring
the railways of the United States IL
the highest point of efficiency and
economy of administration is through
consultations TO reduce the number
of Independent organization units and
to establish a series of large trunk
systems. In 1921 the Interstate Com
merce Commission drafted tentative
plan for such consolidation. group
ing the railroads of the country into a
! number of systems. Obviously such a
plan could not be put into effect by
compulsion. The railroads being
groups could only be effected by vol
| untary agreements.
Such an agreement seems now 10
have been reached in the case of the
Nickel Plate system and its affiliated
lines. with some other mileage. Ac-
cording to the consolida tions proposed
the New York. Chicago and st. Louis
Railroad, which is the official name of
the Nickel Plate will unite with the
Chesapeake and Ohio. the Hooking
Valley, the Pere Marquette and the
Erie. making a single system with
total assets of about 81. 500 900. 900 and
total trackage of 1887 miles. AS
thus constituted it will be the fourth
largest trunk-line system between the
Atlantic coast and the Mississippi
River, a direct competitor of the New
York Central. the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore and Ohio. 1t will reach
such cities as New York. Chicago. ST
Louis. Cleveland. Detroit. Buffalo
Toledo, Peoria and Newport News
having two outlets on the Atlantic
seaboard.
1t is q noteworthy fact that this
proposed consolida ton. which has
reached the stage Of an agreement be-
tween the controlling stockholders of
the various units. will be in direct op-
position to the 1921 plan of the Inter
state Commerce Commission. Under
that plan the five railroads now pro-
posed for the new Nickel Plate system
were put into four different groupings,
the Erie in system four. the Nickel
Plate in system five, the Pere Mar
quette in system six and the b. g. o.
and the Hooking Valley in system
eight. These components, however,
not only form geographical unity,
but they have, with the exception of
the Erie, a present financial relation
ship. The Nickel Plate company now
owns more than 5000 shares of the
c. & O., which in turn owns about 80
per cent of the Hooking Valley stock.
Nickel Plate also owns more than
100 900 shares Of Pere Marquette.
II this consolidation is carried out
as planned, and in the spirit of eff
cheney and economy which is contem.
plated under the proposed general
scheme of railroad mergers, it will eff
feet large savings in overhead ex.
penses, will promote a more rapid
movement Of traffic and will in gen.
eral be Of more value to railroad users
The public hope is that out of these
components will develop a strong
profitable, serviceable SYSTEM. Should
the merger be completed the Erie, sc
long the victim of financial misfor.
tune, will have at last lost it's identity
as an Independent railroad.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Oil Scandal in the Campaign.

Last Winter when the oil scandal
Was the subject of nationwide com.
mcnt and daily sensational develop
mcnts it was generally believed that
ii would form the principal topic of
discussion in the campaign and the
chief weapon of offense by the Demo.
Gratis against the Republican party.
AS the weeks dragged on, however,
the scandal seemed TO pail upon the
people. 1t was protracted with unim-
portant and irrelevant side issues.
Change Of personnel in the admins
tration WAS effected. special counsel
We're secured to probe and to the limit
of the law To right the wrongs that
had been done and to punish wrong
doors. Other matters came up for
consideration. other questions were
framed. and the oil scandal gradually
went into the background of history
The other day Mr.. Butler chairman
of the Republican national committee
remarked To group of newspaper
men that little would be heard of the
oil scandal during the campaign; that
the people were too busy and intent
upon things OF present moment. This
was at once challenged as too rosy a
view. And yesterday Mr.. Davis gave
notice at II Democratic rally at
roughkeepsie that that party is go
ing to he rough on the Republicans
during the campaign and is going to
sound as its principal slogan Hon
esty in government"
As d matter of fact. il was Gov.
Smith who gave the first cue. In his
own speech he chastised the Repub-
lican administration for the oil scan
dial and other disclosures brought out
by Senate Investigations last Winter.
Mr.. Davis. in following said that he
and his associates in the Democratic
organization feel that it is a duty to
see that their Republican friends are
not afflicted with failing memory Oh
that subject.
This sort of campaign necessarily
will involve personalities. 1t was
hoped that there would be no person
alities in this campaign, but that, it
would seem, is not to be escaped.
There will be d calling of names.
There will be a rehash of scandalous
and, in some parts, slanderous allega-
ton against living and, possibly, dead
persons. 1t remains to be seen how
far such d campaign will affect the
public judgment.
1t may be expected that the La
Toilette organization will also assail
the Republican administration on the
score of the oil leases. 1t was Sena.
tor La Toilette himself who really
started the inquiry with resolution
introduced long before the beginning
of the actual investigation. 1t is
hardly likely that he will forego the
pleasure, if not the profit, of an oc-
casional, and perhaps frequent,
blast on this subject as he warns
up to the campaign.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Gompers Bidden to Clarksburg.

Mr.. Gompers is coming to be the
most sought-after man of the hour.
He has disclosed how Candidate Davis
tried to get in touch with him in New
York Immediately after his nomina-
ton and, failing, then tried to have
him submit a list of the things that
organized labor desires. Then a spe.
cial effort was made to get him to use
his influence to have the A. +. of L..
indorse the Democratic candidate
That failed. Now, with the action of
the A. +. of l.. and the correspondence
between its president and former Sec
rotary Wilson fresh in the public
mind, it develops that the Democratic
national committee has extended to
him through the Clarksburg local COM
mittees in charge of the ceremonies
an urgent invitation to attend the
notification there next Monday.
No intimation has yet been given
whether Mr.. Gompers will accept. 1t
is hardly likely that he will be pres
ent. He has gone so far in his letter
to Mr.. Wilson in rejecting Mr.. Davis
as unsatisfactory to organized labor
that he can hardly put himself in the
position of a special guest at the big
Clarksburg party. 1t is doubtless
gratifying to Mr.. Gompers' soul to be
thus an object of tender solicitude.
Every beam of the spotlight is a
source of joy to him. He has never
lodged it heretofore and will not begin
now to do SO. Having been invited to
Clarksburg in the face of the Atlantic
City pronouncement Of organized la
bor, and his disclosure of the futile
effort Of the candidate to confer with
him in July, he will be brightly H.
lumined wherever he may be next
Monday.
Evening star., 1924-08-08

Much flexibility is possible in ar
ranging weather comparisons which
may relate to various dates and sea-
sons in the past This represents an
other wise provision of nature. In
climatic stress there is peculiar relief
in knowing that some kind Of record
has been broken.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Born Lucky.

Born Lucky.
4 man is lucky-so they say
Who keeps advancing day by day
And comes at last into his own
BY toiling faithfully alone.
A man is lucky-if he's born
With courage that will let him scorn
The gamblers frenzy for the game
The demagogue's rude clutch at fame
A man is lucky If he knows
How to keep silence toward his foe;
AS he strives on with tasks immense
It's luck to have both heart and sense
Evening star., 1924-08-08
The Weather.

Though it would be taking liberty
with English to say that this is brac.
ing or invigorating weather, it is an
improvement over sizZard conditions
Of other days this week. Everybody
feels sense of thankfulness for the
improvement, and would gladly give
thanks to any one deserving credit
for bringing about the change. The
peopao ct the Weather Bureau would
deny that they have anything to do
Evening star., 1924-08-08

formed Gen. Pershing thus lit the
lamp when last in Paris.
X X * x
Taxicab riding in lightning like,
trim little cars is the favorite Yank zee
pastime in Paris. Fares begin at a
franc, and you can take a long ride
for 10 francs, which is only about
SO cents in real money. Tips are vir-
tually compulsory, but you can tour
the Rois de Bologne for an hour,
pay a handsome pour bois of 2 francs
and be back ct your hotel for total
expenditure of less than dollar.
HcppyrSxhk 1ac4A
Evening star., 1924-08-08

1t might win votes for Mr. Charles
Dawes TO have his classic compost
tions played in Boston. 1t may be
doubted whether west of this cultured
point his music would exert as much
appeal as his rhetoric.
Evening star., 1924-08-08

1t may be timely to remind the
farming populace, now on the verge
Of obtaining ready money, that eau
tious consideration is due to the an
nouncement that Ponzi is out Of
prison.
Evening star., 1924-08-08

AS time passes new interests de-
journal thought it would be possible
to come out without first-page ref
erence to Teapot Dome.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
BY SEYMOUR B. CONCEl

ing him to a creche because the Rus
sian ones are not good enough, OF
Kari Radek, the quenched firebrand
Of the Third Internationale, who de-
votes all his spare time to giving
his 1o-year-old daughter a carefully
individualized education in the home
MRS. Sokolnikov, who appears to be
regular oldfashioned mother and
who speaks of "a mothers instinct
In the way In which the more Spartan
ministerial wives mention the Bolshe-
Vlst text books on rearing children in
.stitutionally, even hopes that Father
SokolnikoV may soon be less burdeneo
by the currency and budget stabili-
zation. so he will have a little time
to devote to his children, of which
there are six.
But most of the prominent Bolshe-
visit femininists advocate communal
collective rearing Of children in insti-
tutions and regard bringing up chill
harmful, since. as explained in SYM
postum for mothers in the newspaper
Evening Moscow, there is no such
thing as an ideal family. If the
FAMILY Is uncultured. the child's de-
veiopment Is unhealthy and stunted,
family tends to make the child or
children deep individualists and ego
lists. with little social instinct. In
stead they should be "creched" in in
fancy and sent to the organized chill
drens collective communities at the
age OF three. Here they should re-
main TIL the age of IA or Is, going on
then to labor educational institu-
tlon TO learn trade or profession for
life.
Old Ideas Survive.
Unfortunately" DR.. Semashko la
ments. the survival of old ideas and
prejudices is one of the weak spots in
our Soviet endeavors." Family life
like religion, the property instinct and
other factors of pre- -Bolshevist Rus
sian life, is proving harder to eradi-
cate and destroy than the Bolshevist
theorists had counted upon. And the
new order is not always proving su-
perior to the old
The once mighty Trotsky. who has
been talking to Moscow audiences on
chemical warfare, collective kitchens
and woman out of the home or bait
ing foreign governments. now that he
Is no longer permitted to have a say
about running the army or the coun-
try. admitted in speech that he had
seen a far higher degree of comfort
and convenience in working ella SIS
homes in the United States than ex-
listed anywhere in Russia under the
new order. He told how astonshed
he had been during his residence in
New York at the household conven-
iences found in working class apart
ments and said that the dominant
characteristics of American house
hold life were the high technique,
coupled with a bourgeois Individual
ism.
We must borrow he declared
this technique from the Americans
and Incorporate it with our coIlectiv-
ism, as expressed in community y
houses for the urban population. COM
munity kitchens and community din
ing rooms
He said only in this way could this
aspect of communism be made per
feet and the Russian women freed
from all domestic tasks to devote
themselves to political work in the
cause of Bolshevism bringing them
selves, their husbands, fathers and
brothers to the higher levels of en-
lightened communism.
Copyright, 1924. by Public Ledger Company