Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-05 | Page 4 | Forcing Young Girls to be Common

I. YOUNG GIRLS TO BE COMMON. Some one of unknown identity has been writing articles for distribution dis-tribution in Ogd$n, supporting and upholding the Bolshcviki of Rus-Jia. Rus-Jia. In today's telegraphic news is lhet story of a school teacher, living in Moscow, who was ordered by the Bolshevik secretary to be Lhe wife of one of the leaders in Premier Lenine's cabinet or be "nationalized." To escape from either shame, the girl arranged to be married to a Swiss, Nicolas "Weiss, and leave the country as a . Swiss refugee. AVc do not know of any man in Ogden who openly would advocate advo-cate the soviet system of debasing women, and yet this Ogden writer, whoever he is, insists on the Bolshevik doctrines. The soviet treats women as merchandise. A young girl, if not married, may be "nationalized," or, in other words, brought down to the level of those who .are promiscuous. How long our civilization would endure under a home-destroying attack of that kind is readily figured. One generation would lower us to a hopeless stage of immorality im-morality and eliminate that responsibility which now attaches to fathers and supplies an anchorage for the home. The great moral codes which have existed for centuries are the wisdom of the ages. The "home was established and then the home was made inviolate. Why? To establish close ties of affection, in order that children brought into the world might be protected and sustained with lovo and devotion until they could determine for themselves a rule of conduct and could depend on their own efforts to carry them successfully suc-cessfully through life. The soviet would upset all this and erase at least two of the ten commandments. In America the home is recognized as the greatest institution we possess and it is guarded with jealous care from corrupting influences in-fluences and defiling hands. That is as it should be. We have no place for the soviet and its "nationalized" women. "We have no field for the Bolshcviki.