The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-24
Another Answer to the
FaIsehoods Still Spread
About Russia's Children
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

| been placed in children's asylums.
In the Russian Socialist Federated
Soviet Republic (Which is Soviet
Russia proper there are 1000 chill
dren's homes, colonies and receiving
points. Here the wounds of the past
are being healed. Under the best of
conditions, 22S,OO0 homeless children
or those who have been menaced
with vagrancy, are here being brot
up. Soviet rule is spending 100000
900 roubles, ($20,O0O,000) annually
for their maintenance and education.
However, the Soviet government,
unlike it's enemy capitalist govern
ments, does not try to conceal bad
conditions. 1t admits that the prob
lem is not entirely solved. There
are still many Migrants" abroad
seeking shelter in big cities or along
railways in cars standing on sidings.
In the olden days under czarism
they were dismissed as "beggars'
and the press of the capitalist world
Union has laid the basis for solving
the ''beggar" and "vagrant" prob
lens. The capitalist nations still
thrive on them.
The three-year program of the So
Wet government calls for the raising
OF expenditures on this work annual
ly to 100000 roubles $25,000,000)
New homes for children are being
built, new colonies established. So
far as possible children are being
taken over by workers and peasants
to be brought up in their own
homes. They are encouraged to do
this by the government thru being
allowed certain tax concessions. In
the Soviet Ukraine it is announced
that this problem has already been
entirely solved.
While the situation is, therefore,
rapidly mending, the hysteria of the
yellow press, nevertheless, increases
in intensity. The Chicago Tribune
openly charges that so per cent of
the 'Lenin Fund" raised to care for
homeless children was used by the
Russian Communist Youth organiza-
tions to spread free love pamphlets
and other Communist literature
among the youth of Russia" The
yellow press learns nothing and for
gets nothing. This charge is on a
par with that spread by the kept
press and its socialist allies during
the Russian famine, when it was
claimed that relief funds raised by
the Friends of Soviet Russia" in
the United States were used to
finance Communist publications in
this country. In New York City the
charges were even carried before a
hostile prosecuting attorney. He
was compelled to drop them very
quickly because there was nothing
to the charges. But that is all part
Of the struggle.
The children Of the Soviet Union
are being taken care Of. The night
mare of capitalism and czarism. of
war and famine, is passing. But
what of the children in capitalist
lands?
It will be remembered that last
winter the Riga liars got much
space in the American press when
they told at great length how Soviet
rule was threatened because a score
Of ships were held tight in the Baltic
ice and could not proceed to starv-
ing Leningrad. It was never pointed
out that such incidents were COM
mon even under czarism when the
Baltic Sea would insist on freezing
over.
But the winter passes. The Baltic
Ice melts with the coming of spring.
The fairy tales also fade with the
cold and the snow.
The Russian masses-the workers
and peasants-are in the springtime
OF their new social era Communism.
Creative life is before them. The
horrors Of homeless children will
soon be forgotten. In the meantime
the workers over five-sixths OF the
worlds surface remain prisoners of
capitalism, tortured in its icy grip,
worse than any suffering endured
from winters cold. Their struggle
for their deliverance goes on.