Show I Russian Thought Swings To for Culture Nothing says sas the philosopher is permanent but change chance It Js is a truism well demonstrated In Russia where the people are begin ning to demand at least a reasonable acquaintance with bourgeois art and literature and where the government ro appears ready to Grant the wish The story is now welt veli known ot of the author au thor who presented his new book to Stalin and ot of how the thc called so-called man manof manof of steel after reading it it handed it back with the advice to go and read Shakespeare Every extreme movement wears wean out That is D a thought with which to console ourselves when so man many extreme experiments are being made The historian knows that after atler the Puritans with Cromwell at their head had dominated England for lor a couple ot of decades the younger people people- who had no memory of the injustices against l which their fathers had risen in turn rose up against the Puritan repressions Thus the pendulum swings and wherever the swing is extreme extreme ex ex- In one direction then it is ex cx In the other dIrection also No movement can be accepted u as perma- perma nent due to the sImple tact fact that the next generation will not be able to feel teel the indignation of oC their fathers In the original soviet plan for lor the reconstruction of the Russian mind to tofit tit fit the communist experiment his tory was to be almost entire entirely Rus sian history and even the Russian story was to be pointed for tor corn com All the old bourgeois writers and artists were put on the index But resentment against the old order or or- der is a delicate fever Once the danger of restoration is put past and the theold theold old conditions slip from mind then the national temperature begins to come down Then youth begins to wonder what i and has been going on in the rest ot of the Oregonian |