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Show i Howe About: Russia Begging Big Business Men Bell Syndicate. Vs'NU Serv'.'-e. By ED HOWE THERE are actually a good many sensible features in the present Soviet government in Russia. Rus-sia. The Idea that no public ol'i-ciai ol'i-ciai should receive more than ?lo0 a month is sound; so is the habit of promptly punishing officials when they are dishonest or negligent. . . . Put the determination to live by Communist principles will wreck Sovietism. Communism is so palpably pal-pably weak in so many respects it cannot succeed. The objection to the teaching of Karl Marx Is it will not fit human needs. The poor man is entitled to Justice; but so Is the man who refuses to remain poor. And In the human experiment there has never been found a tribe of men wherein the majority were willing to remain in perpetual poverty. pov-erty. Nature provided means for all to become well-to-do, and the better specimens of men will not consent to forever remaining uncomfortable un-comfortable when comfort abounds and may he easily attained by not unreasonable effort. I may not be here to see the end of the Russian experiment but lot younger men remember the prediction that Communism Com-munism must be given up there. Like whisky, it Is a fool; it will not stand practical trial. Negroes are very disagreeable In bothering whites for gifts. I have spent the present winter in an apartment house in Miami, Fla., and have found everything satisfactory except my failure to satisfy the negro servants. An old fellow living liv-ing nearby Is so much annoyed that he will not let a negro maid come in ; he does his own cleaning up, and I often go over to enjoy his Indignation. I have been whipped Into submission but admire ad-mire a man brave enough to rebel re-bel In a good cause. . . . The poor whites are as bad as the negroes In begging. About the only real vigor shown in the LTnited States during the past winter has been displayed In begging campaigns. Every one Is apt to be a little prejudiced prej-udiced when discussing his own case, and It really seems to me I do my share In proper giving, but the American system of begging seems to me disgraceful. Much of It Is racketeering; the selfish business busi-ness of boss beggars who hide behind be-hind the scenes and browbeat timid citizens Into engaging In charity campaigns they do not themselves believe In. Ask any American what he Is most disgusted with, and he will probably tell you It Is committee commit-tee begging. The smart French do none of It; the Germans and English Eng-lish very little. It Is an American weakness; one of many we all disapprove dis-approve of, but do not quit. Instead In-stead of quitting, the nuisance Is becoming worse every day ; leaders In It p.re trained as others are trained to become stenographers, doctors, lawyers, machinists, to pull teeth, and receive large Incomes from the dishonest business. There Is more than the usual complaint lately about big business men. A new charge Is they do not manage their wives nnd children with reasonable efficiency. ... No American does; specially foolish women and children are as common com-mon among (he poor as among the well-to-do. The manner In which American women muss up their men has been the wonder of foreigners for-eigners since the foundation of the republic; Americans no more assert themselves In their homes than they do In politics. And look at what the politicians have done to them. . . . Americans need n lot of reform In a lot of ways. It Is pitiful to see a sweet HI tin girl grow Into habits a woman must have. ... A little girl unreservedly un-reservedly trusts her father, believes be-lieves In him; loves him. A woman knows she must trust, love nnd believe be-lieve In a husband and father Willi great caution I took part In quite a romance the other day. On the street I saw a little girl, three or four years old, walking wllh her parents. She was holding her father's fa-ther's hand, but occasionally let go and ran to look nt somefblng In the windows. Once when she came back, with her band out, to be led, I took It, but she was still looking nt the wonderful windows; she thought she was still walking wllh her father. It wns quite n thrill. Then she ran to another window, nnd, when she came ba'k, took h'T ffithor'R hand, without knowing she ; had boon boM with a s ran -or. Ail my life I have hoard iim ii say, as a Bort of E polony: -J an, r,.,t a j 'money maker." Everyone of any account ac-count at all is a money maker; the rare thing Is a money mer. The I maxim I have rno-t solemn r-gard for Is that declaring It Is ca:'r to I : make money than it is to save it. So rnany iinpo.-e on me 'jnreaon-ah'y 'jnreaon-ah'y I am -;e--a lly fij.:..ij.s riot to i::;;io.-o on others. I always want : whnt Is J my ): ; I do re.t oh- I to '.'- In anon( to tn-i-t on j ;.i:r I'l.i'.ti r' !.'. is a !rt:i. I re T r" r -.lv t- n n re-co : v a nnova nees j jan, i.i-lo,,. ' ' I |