Page 6 THE COLLEGE NEWS Aprit 15, 1931 —— Socialism Discussed By Norman Thomas CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE abundance, actual or potential, there is less and less security! There is no answer that can be made to this over- whelming argument against Capitalism. Increasing unemployment is leading to increasing unrest. Workers are coming to believe it unnecessarily ironic that be- cause they produce too much they must consume too little. We suffer not from overproduction but from maldistribution. Everywhere we see great wealth con- trasted .with great poverty. The war, born or imperialism, intensi- fied nationalism. Europe is on the brink of another war. America, economically dependent, cannot remain aloof from foreign wars. A_ sentimental pacifism i trusting in Kellogg pacts and the League of Nations is foolish. Good though they be, these are useless to prevent war when nations’ supreme loyalties are to amoral states which are above ethics. To the twin gods, Profit and The State, we have sacrificed more\ lives than ever were slaughtered for heathen idols. é na ouneictn ieidavenntinnpamnntecointielisiditeletnotensilihaaha “I agree largely,” said Mr. Thomas, 3 “with the denunciations of the Com- munist, Mr. Scott Nearing, whom some of you have heard speak. I cannot agree with his -inethods.” To avoid social suicide we must try, with a minimum of violence, to develop and improve Democ- racy to provide for peace, plenty and free- dom. “I do not assume that we shall |. come to some easy revolution; I wish I did believe it.” There is nothing radical about violence; it is conservative and_re- 9..actionary. Nor is there any relation in ‘history between amount of violence and 1 -amount of social change. ' Our highly i artificial civilization makes war suicidal. | “Communists say ‘The World War led to ee . the Russian revolution; the next war-will ~~Jead to world revolttion.” —They~forget that the war led also to the Italian revo- lution, to the growth of dictatorship and Fascism throughout Europe. : - The Russian revolution, although per- haps as important a step forward as the «French revolution, has created serious ‘problems. Science in serving the state is in danger of becoming dogmatic rather than experimental; civil liberty is denied; the people have had to undergo hardships which our people perhaps could not bear. The Russian revolution was accomplished through violence and dictatorship but we must not accept lightly the inevitability of these things. We must organize to uphold peace and democracy. We need a new outlook on life. We need to Jearn to co-operate, to learn to feel that there is no shame greater: than being a passenger in the lifeboat of life, Individualism is already dead. We must outline a program for socialism that will carry us on further. Plans for nafional and international reform must be thought out in detail. .When the revolution comes plans to direct it must be ready. Working. under existing problems is not a hopeless problem. Public owner- ship, public works, proper taxation, un- employment insurance, wars against pov- erty, disease, tyranny and war can be ad- vocated. We must aim’ far production for use not for profit.. Technilogical and cyclical unemployment can never be got rid. of when production is for profit as it now Above all we must work in humdrum organizations as well as dream. -We must form a political organization that stands for something. Civil disobedience rather than violence should become our weapon.’ It does not mean compromise but merely avoiding the barricades rather than manning them. “There are barricades today ficiently strong to hide behind.” 1S. no suf- Russian Facts Shown CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE formed in mind. So Russia has abol- ished private property and religion and shaken the very roots of the family. When the Russian says private prdb- erty he means the more comprehensive term private business... This attack a habit-only, the result of early educa- ‘his country. She is as progressive as: ‘mentally a pagan. 4 tion... The clergyman is, decried along with the business man and the bootlegger. “Yet this is no new con- cept because the peasant was funda- He had drama, color and art in his church but no religion. Mr. Hindus gives these facts merely as a suggestion of the condi- tion; he has no theories as to a gevival. Women Sustain Family x Although the Soviet regime has dis- carded private enterprise and frankly discourages religion, it never. wanted’ to destroy the family. By brushing aside the external forces it has been compelled to be: sustained. by its own inner forces. Marriage and divorce are as easy to obtain as a milk-shake in America; yet infinite care is taken to’ protect the children, so much so that there is an intreasing overpopulation. The peasant children don’t ‘die. “In spite of everything the family is sur- viving. The reason for’ this may be found in the quality of the Russian woman. It is a pity, said Mr. Hindus, that foreigners with slight knowledge of the Russian tongue are not able to come in contact with such an impor- tant factor in.Russia as the women of the modern woman politician and long ago she bobbed her hair and smoked cigarettes, - She does not play with her emotions nor take marriage lightly and the result is a new kind of margiage, a social unit rooted in monogamy. Because of her fidelity, marriage is not being discarded. The increase of collective farms} is | an indication of the peasants’ strength, and the eternal nearness of the gov- ernment has induced in him a growing political mindedness. He has discov- ered the power of organization from the need of it, and so is the peasant becoming -the--gigantic shadow that | hangs—over_the_Soviet_ rule. _Hé™ is. the great mystery. The government will not be near a definite settlement until we have heard his point of view. 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