Now, would you care to hear something on the question of duc tion? Let figures tall, In 1916 there were 64,000 lower schools for Peasantey, all working to. capacity Tu 1923—only §3,000—11,000 schools closed down! And out of these 58,- 00 toft, many are on paper only. Thave no statistics handy, showing how many are actually working, ex cept for the Province of Khatkof, where there are supposed to be 973 lower schools, out of which 39 were working for the whole year, a part for several months, and the majority did riot work at al From time to time one reads of the hysterical outeries of the Government: "AN to the school-front!", "Down with the illiterate!" and so. on, "On such and such a date there will be 1no'illiterates in the republie!""—How many times this assertion was given with only the dates changing! Words, words and words.
In the meanwhile, the Government, pending enormous sums on the sdueation" of the proletariat of Europe and America in communistic Principles, has no money for the tea chers. The teachers profer to seck manual Inbour rather than to sit without pay, without clothing and ood, in schools without any heating in winter The Bolsheviks tried to remedy this by aking the peasants pay for But the peasants, whose ideas in 99 per cent, of the cates are as remote from those of the Bolsheviks, as my own, refuse They do not want their children to be taught that their parents are nothing short of an incidental happening in their lives, and that God is an invention of the bourgoi that the pleasures of sexual life can: not be barred by the so-called morals, which cannot exist in_an advanced country like the U, S. 8, R., ete, ete, "We are retreating on our school-front", writes "The Power of the Soviet, official organ of the Central Exe Committee (V. ZI. K.) They would have better said' that they are beaten on this front as well fas on all the others.
The Penalty in Disease, all we have a glance at the affairs with the-Heulth institutions of the Soviet? T will quote what they themselves so)
Speaking of the unbelievable development of venereal diseases Jamong peasantry, Comrad chen ko, member of the collegium of Narkomsem, questi "When anit how will this nightmare come to an end?" reo wth comrade Bow vet adio can Hath Sot lite tee ate ecole See tages can be ery year the St the population nad of the complete the tremendous "del morale Tack of" medical "help and.auperviion, Kok, for instances, "atthe inulget of tie io Katia. "Wer metic owen the Government allows 257 per budget, peck po? capita peu'
Yes, "When and how. will this nightmare come to an end?" Sooner than they expect.
One might think that Comrade Troteky, well knowing all of these and many other facts, after having oneulted the Bible (is not that so, Mr. Rye?) would honestly say himself that he and all are a tragic and criminal failure, and would, for once in his life, act man, not as a mad dog.
But here is what he says in Pravda," No. 176, August 5, and his words sound like those of an intoxicated maniac, like a joke of Satan him se "The future is ours.
Volutionaries, ready' for the struggle, the at. dri ' there are re: "the whole
who Thanayed to. translate the Bolshevism "into thole votation of the octine in the (RIB. shove that these conditions are improve Tny'all eer Eurane). Amd riy with on" wil "owe "the "revet icho on Mr. Rye invites the world to give them a chance, By all means, but et them have this chance in your own country, Mr. Ryo—in my coun try their days are getting short, no matter whether you help them There ix one nit int Mr. otter which cannot be passed without comment. He means to say that Great Britain found out, at a cost of about £100,000 who the Monarchists are. do not has been found out, but I
=|none of those many British Naval and Army officers whom I et the—" Dunsterforc Norperforce" and the British Caspian Flotilla of 1918-1919, would have the nerve to throw 'a stone at us. I also know too well many a thing concerning fishing in disturbed waters, of which T do: not
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