Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD WORL 0 shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war HUMAN NATURE VS IDEALISM communistic theory of ownership of land put to the test in russia has ha proved dire failure in practice article by PRANK FRANK COMERFORD the bolshevik government seized in austry the working men took ov over r lif IB ha factories it was part of the alg plan it 1 I communism the promise was that tho ina socialization of industry would increase crease production and free the lie workers from exploitation the owners and moon managers gers were driven from the plants rhese men were of tile he bourgeois class they had no place in tile the new scheme of df things they were tainted minted with I 1 ulcers they had intelligently and efficiently built up their industries rills was ns enough tho the belshe bolshevik vil government ment denied theann n citizenship and them from froin the enterprises they alicy had find built everything was wag to be owned in common inmon ro private property of all kinds had beer been abolished the men who lio worked in the lie factories or mills were to be their own bosses they were part of the state and the state owned and operated everything the government t of the factory was to be by committee every ciery man mail was tile the cougil of every other rinn man orders were glyen given and orders taken with tills this thought in mind the result was insubordination overy man was boss all system banished system made slaves down with system I 1 the bushier brains having been driven out insubordination having come in production declined until it almost ceased many workers gave up tip in disgust anil and returned to their villages the exodus from Petro petrograd grad was marked prior to inin 1015 Petro petrograd grad was wai a city of nearly 2 in 1918 1018 its population imd find shrunk to less than factories ac s closed again the theory of communism when put to 0 o tile the test failed had Rei redy in covI bojes essing ank the fall failure urn of the he bolshevik to successfully socialize industry charged it to the sabotage of uie the intellectuals hy by tills this lie dealt that the bolsheviks drove tho the specialists tile the technicians and mana manager gere of industry out of busl busi ness that the working men not having training for these places requiring quiri ng skill ond and knowledge were unable and successfully to carry on the business having pointed cat the cause of the lie failure ili he presented a remedy reu edy ile he truly said that tha t tile intellectuals have tho the benefit of special training education and experience per peri ence lence and lint hat shops and factories filled with nin machines chines material mate ilal and working men cn cannot not ile he run without tile the skilled manager the intelligent experienced fore foreman ninn but tins has not lost falth faith in the plan of industrial du trial communism nor has ho he lost belief in the theory that it can ho be made to increase production lie says that eliat the bourgeois brains when forced into the factories by the state do not work with the lie same game ambition to make a success of tho the business that they did when it was their private property and they hey had a personal profit interest in its success thus thug they are guilty of withholding their best from factory management under tinder the bolshevik holshey lk scheme of communism this lie he calls tile tho sabotage of the ilia intellectuals to eliminate tills this difficulty culta ho he proposes that the bolshevik government turn its attention to the education of the working men technical schools choals and schools ten teaching chIng bil business siness management and in this manner make competent manager and technical experts out of workingmen it Is ills opinion that workingmen educated to be experts and managers retain their clog class 18 sympathy and their interest in tile tho sue F ress ass of tho the class struggle had forgotten human nature the bolsheviks are strong on theory falls falis to take into lion some simple fundamental tru truths ills re ite falls to reckon with human nature as it Is ile he thinks of tt it ns as it should he be let us tako take tin an example which illustrates and emphasizes tho difference between bolshevik t aueory cry and practical exit alence let us suppose that the government establishes tab lishes schools for tile lio purpose of training mm men irr in business and for technical work then enroll in these schools school workingmen who at the time are entirely class conscious they tire ardent when hen they enter the front floor door of the school on the first day of their attendance they attend school for maeral years tile the time spent in school and the education given to the men makes rt it elin change in ili them thein they become con selous scions of tile the power of education of flieler belr fill lans lt ns for a better class of work gives them a sense of superiority and I 1 do not niran it in lh ahe or r h fistful etense fhe implied il i aind inal Is 14 conscious of ff ian ining it in 1 it non moro mind tin ilip mon men tire nt not ie iri 4 4 eatnon chov want lo 10 pl cl it it or i ilia serial limi als ta ro t 1 l till soil r f ival V 4 I 1 V 11 11 Itu mite Y 10 the thaw men the door of the different men in aspirations and ambitions bit tilt ions take them back to tile the fa factories and in nine cases out of ton ten you will find that you have made ninna mans gerb foremen experts om cut of them abot that they tire const conscious ious of it there will be some few hose great idealism lett lisul will inspire then them to go BO lack ack into nto the shop and work for tile the coll cornmon cornman good such men ore are the exceptions eions to the rule the grent brent majority major ity mill insist upon recognition of their greater skill and demand bompensa tion for it their thoughts would ile ha now that 1 7 not nm skilled anti educated now that I 1 anice on my shoulders a B larger and more important re thil ity fly I 1 nm am entitled to inc consideration and n larger r reward ahr should I 1 lie he wit out on tile the level with will tb men who the he call netty I 1 move and who do not shoulder the same rt r I 1 do plan r re me of the intensely maternal lien that after practicing cing on oil white door knobs discovered some eggs in a baru barn and with great he be gan to set in she file course of time tier her patience nil and motherhood opre apro i award ed cd As soon as n tier her brood was able to walk ab she took them on an excursion to tile the river bank bick to give them a worm banquet when slip site reached tha she was startled nt at seeing tier young ones paddle into the water and without oven even so much as a good toy by swim ot off tito the test of tile the communist theory po av whether I 1 le ther or not when put to practice it increases production the theory of tile the communist Is that it will in c rense production by inducing men to work because they are their own bosses and aro guaranteed on equal sha bhare ro in the he production the proe pine ti cal fact which upsets the thi theory cory li Is t hot human beings nie fire moved to work liv hy their desire for gain unman tiegs ings have tilts his strain in ili their blood it 1 Is organic it Is a part of them hem I 1 do not refer to greed I 1 mean that all experience proves that human beings anra individualists the average man thinks of himself and ills intersects Inter sets seta a doyen times s the one time lie ho thinks of it lie he general interest of 0 society tills this Is true even of the annn who gives much thought nil and tins lias much concern for ilia ho common good lie ile may ho be generous to ti a fault but lie ho wants to acquire the thing find then give it competition notwithstanding all tile tho theories of tho the idealists Idea lists to the contrary quickens life stimulates men to 0 o work makes for progress avery l iery where about us we soc see in our dally daily experiences evidence of tills feirt life Is a gamble in ili he sense that hint everything Is 14 uncertain life itself is coln no man can call plan or pr program his tomorrow while I 1 nin lim not a I 1 can see front from my 0 own v n 1 life any and from tho the lives of others tl tant 1 t amny ll 11 1 things conic come to pass over which we ibave no control it Is tho the effort of vinn man to provide against unfavorable contingencies to compete coro peto with chance clin nce which males makes him film basically a competitor with every other man element of human nature take the poker game men who play the national game will tell ell you that they play for thorun of the game not for tile money fill and of they tire speaking the truth try nil an experiment play n game nine for matches instead of for money and observe tile the effect upon tho the ambition find and skill of the players liobe it should not bo be so but we are not dealing with 81 should not be hes 1 a the life problem must be handled liand led from the point of view of 0 things M S they are while tile the theory of in ideal human beings are not the ugly tact fact Is that 4 Is nt at the bottom of nearly nil personal endeavor it stimulates stImulate 3 men to work it Is the will to work two years experience with communism in russia bassin proves that tile the experiment peri perl ment Is a failure it disorganized laed life demoralized people and damin diminished production instead of curing poverty it made poverty universal instead of removing the spots of can poverty froni from the body of civilization communism Is causing decreased production Is making the en toioi social body it cancer hit warn tern newspaper union |