Show Howe Hove About h. h 1 11 The Arctic Circle Communism Farmers in Russia By Dy ED HOWE lIA VE lately been wondering It if 1 I Iam I am a t le less Intelligent and moral man be because ouse of my long connot con ron contat tat tact with reform reformers rs In 1930 a man mon name nam named l Robert Marshall Marahall went to the town l. l north of orthe the Arctic circle and remained more than a year Recently he has written a book took about bout his ils experiences while there The Inhabitants In In- n- n habitants number 70 TO whites 94 44 Eskimos I 0 Indians and 1 light moist to o. o Forty-five Forty of the whites are na nn tire live born and antI 82 32 foreign born horn Germans Ger mans l English Scandinavians etc a fair air of the people of the United Suites States Living so se far for from what wha Is commonly called civilization and being snow snowed d In six sis months of the lie ear dear one would think they lived like Ike savages es On the contrary their average In all respects Is higher than ours One white und and two native nathe women profess to be religious but the test ret of the he the Inhabitants pay less than usual attention at to the subject and there Is no disturbance about It When there ts tl nn an occasional case of poverty or distress dig dis tress both very rare It Is promptly and antI generously relieved relle although there are no welfare workers In la the town Nor r Is there any stealing and violence Is unknown except a tradition that a crazy man once killed a native sentiment Is strongly opposed to quay t There are no newspapers pol pot pastors policemen judges lawyers doctors teachers movie plays or welfare workers of any kind Mr Marshall g gave ge e forty five of the adults l and amt most of the children the commonly accepted Intelligence test lest and found that 40 per cent ranked above our average Times are always hard and ond nat nature re harsh but the pee peo pie le manage to get along comfortably and decently Some are well well well-to-do to-do to some middle class and some poor loor but there Is no rioting about It It all being given the same opportunity This history seems to Indicate that the troubles of the average civilized community are largely artificial and Introduced by the tho reformers also that those of us In civilization In trying to get rid of our troubles become less lessI Intelligent less effective and less I moral mora a I believe one bugaboo with which men have ha long frightened themselves may moy be safely given up I refer to Communism Men will wll continue to be I mean meon Idle Idle foolish foolish but the worst of them have lost respect for the conten Uon of Karl Marx that the best lion Uon of the human problem Is for nil all allmen men to pool their work and earnings and at nt the end of the week divide equally Everybody knows knowl and admits now Individualism capitalism every everyman everyman everyman man handling his home his job his family to his own taste Coste Is the best way woy because It Is the human way we have at last admitted some men will not work and that the Industrious will wll not divide with them I 1 think wo we may also dismiss the old fear Clor of general rioting burning and murder Men are still mean enough to do these things but are discovering there Is no common sense In burning such houses bouseR and ontI food supplies as ns we have hove that It Is easier to possess them through election booths or judges that Instead of killing Industrious men It Is better beUer and easier to let them accumulate more that may be stolen The friendliest critic of the Bus Kus- scans Walter Waller Duranty says the Russian Rus Rus- Russian sian town people and ond soldiers have plenty of food but that millions of farmers ore are dying because of malnutrition which means disease nse caused by lack lock of food In the United States town people have never been that rough with farmers we have made fools of them but always allowed them enough to eat a aI I have known men a long time and antI had hotI occasion to remark many cases of extreme shiftlessness but believe men are more shiftless now than ever before A man of forty-five forty and who confesses he be Is healthy In writing tome to tome tome me for help says I have no one to appeal to now except m my sister Ruth but she has hos been helD sick three years and unable to do anything for Cor me I 1 have observed also that more men than usual us us- usual ual are lately working the women Note ote any woman who has baa achieved considerable prosperity as a result of ol the new freedom and you will find fine finda a lot of men hanging to her skirts one successful actress confesses she Is supporting seven families A tramp said the other day he Is nearly always roughly rebuffed or Insulted Insulted In In- If It he be asks for work but that anyone will give Mm thu a dime or a quarter with a kind word when he says he Is hungry S S Balzac says every everl man mau of sixteen or seventeen falls foils In love with a woman much older and antI has trouble If It he marries her o oThe The allied nations agreed It was a 8 good goolt Idea to compel Germany to pa pay the cost of the World war and anO occupied pled pied the country with soldiers to see lee that the Germans did It Dut But there here was all one serious weakness In the plan Germany couldn't do It so BO the allies withdrew their troops after spending a good deal of money monel mone foolishly O. 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