LIFE UNDER THE SOVIET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17659, 21 December 1920, Page 7

LIFE UNDER THE SOVIET

MR. WELLS' IMPRESSIONS.

STATE REARING CHILDREN.

LONDON. Nov. 20. In a further article in the Sunday Express describing conditions in Soviet Russia Mr. H. G. Wells says :—" The work of the Government offices is shockingly carried out. The slackness and inaccuracy are indescrbable, and everybody is working in a muddle of unsorted papers and cigarette ends. The counter-revolution has not this, for it is inherent to the present situation. " Entire towns are sinking into slum conditions, and thf; Goverment has to play the part of a gigantic Dr. Barnardo.'' Mr. Wells visited institutions where children were taken from their parents and brought up by the Government. They are healthy and contented, and the Bolsheviks are getting the very best people to control these homes.

I The writer amusingly describes a " home I of rest." where workers are sent for two j or three weeks to lead a life of refined j ease. It is a beautiful country house in | magnificent grounds. Meals are servea in | the manner of a gent'eman's home, but the I obligation is on the worker to act simi- | larly. If he spits on the floor an attendant I draws a circle round the spot and forces j hin. to clean it up. Mrs. Clare Sheridan, cousin of Mr. I Winston Churchill, has returned after two ; ; months in Russia, where she went, at the j invitation of Kameneff. to execute busts of , Lenin and Trotzky. She praises her treat- ! nient most highly, and exiolls the wit and [ intellectuality of the leaders. Food and ] comforts are lacking,*however, and the ! ftces of the people are blank and expres- | sionless. " 1 am not a Bolshevik, and did not. trv to understand Bolshevism," she savs, " b;it | I have seen the leaders working i 6 hours i daily, with hardly anv food and no stimu- : lants. and I know them for idealists, and net devils. I have come out feeling that : I have seen the crucifixion of a nation, not ! by the Communists, but by the Allies. ' I Every man and woman who knows that ! the nerve strain of modern business life j is continually sapping the body's energy | should take a periodical course of Ceregen. It contains over oO per cent, of protein. which is absolutely necessary to repair the j wastage of tissue that goes on daily. Business people especially, when feeling restless, sleepy and nervy, should take Ceregen, and restore the system to a j healthy condition-. It is a wonderful food. . Chemists sell Ceregen in four sizeg—2s ! 6d, 4s 6d, 7s 6d, and 13s 6d. 1