Show CALL ON BRAINS FOR SUPPORT Regimented Propaganda Is Modern Idea Established Order Bolstered by Intellectuals No conscIentious student of let tern has been Inclined to take too the alarm thit has been felt Celt over the future of literature In Russia's proletarian n state After all It was only n a natural pax past t of the rev rev- revolution revolution that the Intellectuals should have been regimented for propaganda ganda purposes History sho shows S that It Is the part of the intellectuals during to support the established order und and when that order becomes t table able to In varying ways ays the ferment thit precedes all fundamental shIfts In political pow Pr Pf 1 thus hus the writers In Russia long ago ft O became re And when the re resolution cime they extolled the new regime more blatantly but not less than the wrIters In i 1 state bend their art toward support ot of the homely virtues whence hence cap Cal draws Its strength Writers know Inow this Somerset Maugham In the preface to East and West takes pains to Inform hIs renders readers that the editor of the miga- miga zine where hIs stories mostly mo never told him whit to is t or whit not to write rite It If It were ere not at least suspected that writers are regImented under w political system such declarations of Independence would be ous But there are degrees of regi- regi regimentation reg- reg as of eer everything tiling else elce DurIng n a resolution re the subtle con con- of under a layer of art dIsappears and the skilled writer becomes ns as unscrupulous unscrupulous lous as any hick agent That Is what happened In Russia when In the pIu phrase ase of Max lat East Cast Castman Eastman man the were put In uniform The Russian resolution rC Is now un an unaccomplIshed accomplIshed fact The need for ob obvious obvious propaganda lessens The diehards die die- diehards hards may still beIle e that there Is Isan Isan an unlimited distinction bet between een true proletarIan writers and bourgeois In- In intellectuals But Karl J Radek one of Communism's most powerful think think- ers that undiluted prop props ganda may eventually defeat its own ends At a congress of all Soviet writers In Moscow Radek nadel said that the bars must be let do down n and that the old theory of he he who is not with us Is agaInst us Vi would no longer rule In the arts And so It may soon be that the writers of In liy hy aside theIr unIforms and the Russian artists In mufti will find new means for stop slon Out of the thc chaos of revolution may appear the needed security which Is the basIs of all art At the same time It be well cn to speculate speculate late on the theory the reason relon why literature has so lagged In the years ears of America Is ot of Its regimentation under such tan nets ners as Puritanism and The growing detel determination of our wrIters to work under different standards and to tall talk openly of the place of propaganda In art 1 is as sIg as mo ement In the opposite direction Washington Post |