The Washington times., 1933-08-01


raft. The building has not yet begun
The objective in the future is society in which
there casses-no rich, no poor, no MOBILES, no
idlers, slaves. 1t is, gather to be society IN
which all do a certain amount OF work and no one
gets private profit from the work of others In short
it is to be Communism And the Communists of Russia
and of our own country have done Russia bad turn
by pretending that all is for the best in the present
stage, which is only passage from Czarlsm to Com
munsm.
Durant Blows Up
I think of this in connection with little book by
Will Durant, called "The Tragedy of Russia" (pub-
lshed by Simon Schuster). For long time have
felt that something pretty drastic ought to be done
about Mr.. Durant-and he has done it himself
declaring himself intellectual bankrupt. In book
of 164 pages all but four pages treat the present situation
in Russia if the Communists of Russia consider their
present state the last word in perfection That
one of them with the fantest trace of brain looks
toward future totally different from the present you
could never guess from Mr.. Durant. He is so busy
complaining about lavatories that he puts from his
mind the entire purpose of the Russian experiment.
suggest that readers absolutely distrust all books
about Russia which begin with of these two things
an that the writer hoped for the success
of communism in Russia account OF the filthy con-
dtons of railway travel in Russia Mr.. Durants book
begins with both. Put faith in it. Mr.. Durant is
80 impressed by the mseres he and his companion suf
fered at Omsk that he becomes quite uncomfortable and
writing in the of lover of liberty, positively
rhapsodizes Poland with its spotess train run by
Too Much Cheering
The people who complain of bad train service not
the only ones who are making things hard for the Soves
Those who clap their hands in childish glee
small triumph of Stain equally misleading. We have
heen told thousand times that there is no unempoy
ent in Russia and that divorce is easy and miners sit
in the Cars box at the opera in their hrtsleeves and
education has reached the and the Russian the
ater is exciting.
These things are true the others; but they
also temporary items 1t true that Russia has built
a vast motor factory and it is true that the factory
doesn't work very WELL The point to remember is that
Russia is only 16 years old and is trying to create
society which will only begin to be born perhaps hun
dred years from now.
The Wrong Road
dislike intensely the suppression of liberty in Russia,
lust as dislike it in Italy, Germany and America
not such an enthusiast for physical labor to mad
with ioy at the thought that day everyone will have
+o work. I think it quite possible that the world will
move entirely in the opposite direction and will create
q society in which almost will need to work. I am
not even sure that either of these societies will make
human beings happy, because human beings still know
a lot of ways to make themselves miserable
It would be the best thing in the world if the two
perments could be carried out at the time Russia
on the one hand ourselves the other With frendl
ness With understanding the part of Russia that
we are welded to good plumbing and lot of personal
liberty and understanding Mr.. Durant's part that
Won do not throw rocks at struggling in mdstream
because he has stopped singing the "Voga Boatmans
Song"