The Washington times., 1931-10-13
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LOVE-IN RUSSIA
AND LOVE N
ITS PLACE
Nv GILBERT SEI.NES

the top of his voice. whats the ldea OF fazAhg ioVe'
Are you trying to go sophisticated on us? Love all
right" Covering under this attack, still IAN 10
identify the cause noted the other day that love was
taking the place of business the great incentive TO
being well dressed clean shaven and personally as sweet
as the breath of the kne definitely ranged myself on
the side of love- the redeemer and the nsprer OF man.
kind agree with the vehement Mr. Forrest that love
is all right only would add that it is all right in its
place which is the home Pm not keen about love in
public places.
Soviet and Sex ~
In Liam O'Flaherty's rather bad-tempered book, Il
Went to Russia" there at least three statements
about love which are interesting First doctor tells
him:
The situation is such: Soviet Union, sexual rela
tions have been reorganzed on rational system, to
sneak. NV wife and / live together this basis.
While we find mutual existence to say, socially
useful to both of u.s. married. Afterward we
become separate citizens. meet her in train one day.
We both like. Next day we marry. She is such
type, fond of marriage Already she marry five times
So life is. Already begin to think there are perhaps
IN Soviet Union women more socially useful to me than
my wife,"
Item two woman wailing for nearly-demon lover:
"Last winter had lover, Now he has left me-
It is bad For fully developed female it is bad to be
without a lover" VI
And, finally, another woman criticizing this one:
"she would be unhappy anywhere. She is constitu'
tOnaly incapable of social optimism. Her life centers
around her own personality In order to be happy in
the new society," we must live not for ourselves but for
Others for the mass"
liouidatins Love
have heard from time to time that the young peo-
pIe of Russia have strange attitude strange to our
tradtons) about love- They think it is good Tor them
and good for the state they think it brings them to
such full development that they be Of greater SER
vice to the state and they depse those wo' IN or OUT
of love- unhappy because OF love- since
is an u or antisocal malady and must be Aquldateo
It is not easy to be how much OF this is aK no"
much is false front; but in while you get tne
accent of simple truth 1t does appear that many young
peope as given as any Of us to emotion and DESIRE
think of love as being not the greatest thing in the
world not the purpose of life, and decidedly not the
most interesting thing to talk and think about
Romance Is Out
Among the things the Soviet Union is probably iqui-
dating as hard and as fast as qudate (and THAT'S
very hard and fast indeed is romantic love. should
think that the thinkers for the Sovets have decided
against romantic love hangover from the middle
ages and capitalist trick to make the prolear1at tnnk
itself happy when it is really miserable Well we have
heard of love as natures little trick to assure the fu-
ture of the race-although have why brute
nature has the fantest desire to keep this particular
race gongand we've heard of the last refuge of
ilusionists why not give it thought as capitalist
weapon and at the time take hats off to the
inventor? The bow and arrow have gone, gunpowder
is weakening wage slavery under attack but love is
still doing business in the old perhaps with little
less elaboration than in the days of the roubadours,
but fundamentally the same.
The Great Lovers
Mr.. Forrest, who seems to have appointed himself my
permanent critic (or pain in the neck that love
all right and yield the point But I'd like him to be
more explicit. How many people of his acquaintance
have experienced the kind of love Shakespeare wrote
about in Romeo and Juiet| Incidentally Shakespeare
seems to have disbelieved in it himself to such an
extent that Romeo and Juliet" is thoroughly bad
play with of his worst poetry affected and false
sounding farrago all through. History and romance
combined give half dozen pairs of lovers to remem
ber Paoo and Francesca Tristan and Isoda Dante and
Beatrice Petrarch and Laura-chefly poets, poets