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Show t This Week bj Arthur Brisbane The Very Best News No More Family? An Eye 100 Feet Wide I Foolish, FOOLISH Russia There is good news, bad news, dull lews, criminal news. The best news tells of improving conditions In many Erections. The price of wheat going ap, the South is encouraged by good :rops, better demand for cotton and tobacco, better prices for oil in the West, accompanied by street celebrations; celebra-tions; pronounced industrial upturn in Mew England. What went up came down. Now it is I the turn of that which came down to jo up again. Solemn gentlemen, Including the realty learned Bertrand Russell, discuss dis-cuss "abolition of the family, and rearing rear-ing children by the State." Russell thinks such a plan would give greater freedom and prevent emotional emo-tional strain. He should look on the inside of an Incubator when the first egg is hatch- ! sd "by the State" and watch the little chicken as it emerges and wanders, disconsolate, over the vast expanse of white shells. What would that chiken give for a real mother to cluck, and spread her ivarm feathers? , How miserable would children be without the mother and father, the mother especially, to give affection that no "State rearing" could ever give. Drummond in his "ascent of man" says civilization began when the first gorilla sat up all night, club in hand, at the foot of a tree, to protect the baby gorilla in the nest above. Such civilization as we have is the work of children, influencing the father fath-er through the mother. I If Bertrand Russell's idea were car- ' rled out, and his own children taken to i Bome Institution for rearing, he would .' go the next day to get them out, because be-cause he is a man, not a machine. The observatory at Mount Wilson ' |