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ed studies of their own-a great hoon, especially to the older men. By this concession many obtain a few hours of moderste quiet by day, but the majority carry on their work.
very unpleasant conditions.
One gets accustomed to every- thing" was the uncomplaining an- swer I received from one well-known professor. But it was wonderful AN INTOLERABLE POSITION. how he managed without a private library, without a study table, amid the washing up of dishes and
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Chicago. With strangely colour ful fish swimming to within a few By Ds. HAGBERG WRIGHT.]the chatter of his wife. His great inches of him, stopping to pose, and then swimming away, Leon L. Pray, staff artist of the Field Museum of Natural History, tells how he sat calmly on the floor of the ocean off the Bahamas and painted pictures which are to form the basis for the museum's newest piscatorial ex- hibit
grievance was the system of inter- ference with his private life. His Foeven, could not be closed to the Soviet inspector. “The Tsar's government," he said, was better.. It was only concerned with our public life, and we could avoid con- diet by strictly minding our own another box of Codicors Clatinens business."
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In the history of the Russian Revolution" the bitter. antagonism the intellectual shown towards classes and their porscention by the masses has always been a puzzling frature. The former had done il
Education Must-win. they could to foster revolution and
It is obvious that learning must In their bring it to ahead,
suffer very considerably in such cir Down to the floor of the rea anxiety for change they had brought cumstances, and yet it was appar through a dark tube Mr. Fray, had forward unworkable schemes and ent that there was a great deal of gone. Carefully, slowly, as if upon propounded indigeted theories, study going on over in the market- place round the innumerable stalls an unstable ladder, he had descend-none of which was anderstood by of the hawkers, who exposed for sale
ed. Suddenly he emerged into a globe of light. He had reached his undersens studio, 35 feet below the
surface of the waters that cover the roral reefs of the Bahamas.
There, amid a scene which he describes as a marine fairyland, Mr. Pray made erayan sketches of rare fish and eight oil paintings of the seascape. Soon these will be used by the museum as the basis for elaborate groups in its Hall of Fishes, showing the variously hued marine life among the corals."
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At the same time, the question The hampered' lives of the elders of the formation of a new and in- science and learning, makes the con-ficult to answer. who are martyrs to the cause of dependent "intelligentsin" is dif
The Bolsheviks
the people. A few made attempts every imaginable kind of book. The to educate the ignorant, but, parting with young men and women
owing to official opposition and intellectuals in the making. partly to an absence of public opinion, they had not been able to carry their endeavours very far.
In Russia there were only two great classes, the rulers and the ruled that is, on the one hand the bureaucracy and the standing army, on the other the people.
present.
sian Academy of Science and pro- fessore of the University have been because they declared themselves un- compelled to abandon their "posts able to explain mathematics and principles. Eterature according to Marxian
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flict stern and earnest, but eduen-are trying to force Russians to no- tion and culture are band at last cept Marxian "idealism and FILL YOUR FOUNTAIN PEN bent on educating the rising general to win.
The Tolstoy festivals at the endtion on Marxian theories alone, for. of 1928 were an indication of the getting that the world has already existence of forces unconsciously advanced beyond them. Enforce- gathering strength. There were ment is, however, often carried to sectings and social gatherings of the extreme by the mules and im But, in addition, there were artists and of literary men akin to beciles who constitute the leading those of the olden days except that staff of the Communist Party (sce several social groups-the comme there was an atmosphere of ungern letter of Krassin's just publish cial, the industrial, and the intel tainty and vague suspicion that ed). Several members of the Rus lectual. The latter, whose repre-scenied to be larking in the minds Big Less in Iron Ball,
sentatives were draws from all these of those present and prevented them The deep-ses studio is the inven- groups, and also from the bureau- thoughts. But when, on a moment from giving free vent to their tion of J. E. Williamson, leader of cracy and the army, became, as was ous occasion during that festival the Field Museum-Williamson Sub-natural, the leaders of the people himself go" and put forward the
week, a well-known publicist "let | marine Expedition to the Bahamas. in the struggle against the throne case for freedom of opinion and But no official doctrine has ever It is an iron ball with a big lers, and the existing system, and formed liberty of speech, the air seemed been able to satisfy any one genera- thick enough to hold up under the a distinct class of professional suddenly to be invaded by an tion. In every community, the "in- electric current that affected all telligentsia, generally speaking, powerful water pressure. A flexible revolutionists.
stand for progress, while the un- tube connects it with a barge above.
educated and those who represent The globular apartment is large
vested interests stand still. The balance produced between the two enough to allow two artists to 'work
regulates the life of the com. at the same time and is constructed
munity. so that an abundance of fresh sea air is in constant circulation.
Time stood still, said Mr. Prey, when he set to work in this extra- ordinary studio. Hours slipped by as he gazed in fascination at the marvels of the fish kingdom, seeing beauties that have rarely been brought to the surface or, in his opinion, even satisfactorily photo graphed, before Mr. Williamson's invention. Three, four hours paus- ed, and he continued to sketch, quite forgetting that up above in the world of men, lunch hour bad come and gone.
Mistake of the Intelligentsia. The great mass of the population was content to exist on the idea that the Taar was divine. All civilised people, live en some ideal based on tradition, but every Bach ideal must have some point of con- tact with real life. În Russia it was planted in an atmosphere of faith, which the intellectuals dis turbed and partially dispersed.
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In love, however, with the idea of abstract justice, the yearned to show kindness towards the insult. cd and the injured," and were pre- Pared to make sacrifices, but they did not realise that sacrifices must be mutual; that the people" must show themselves ready to be self- denying if the social structure is to be built up anew. When the critis came the necessity to make sacrifices was apparent, but the masses were
to make prepared Disillusioned, they turned against "It was so still, so peaceful," he the intellectuals, who carried down said. "There was no noise except every other group in their fall.. the murmur of conches. Yet the By upbringing, education, and rule slightest sound could penetrate the culture, the men who
Russia are half-fledged, semi-intel- iron globe with the utmost esse.lectuals. Stirred by Utopian ideals, The" water was an invisible as air. they tried
rouse the pro- As we looked through the window letarist from lethargy and to alle of the chamber we could watch viate the lot of the messes; but as soon as they got control and began thousands of living things moving to put their doctrines into practic, about in beautiful rhythms, but we they foundered. Hence we see the intolerable position of the intellec- could see no water. Artists that tual classes in Russia to-day. The depict water by wavy lines are really earlier phases of the Revolution 'mistaken. When one is in it as
bave now resolved themselves into we were, fish seem to move about in midair, as if suspended.
Fish "Kodel" Raadily. "For a distance of 50 or 60 feet one could set clearly. Objects be- yond that space scemed to be at a great distance, in a pearly, blue- gray baze."
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less ruthless struggle, so far as the purely intellectual elements are concerned but still a struggle be tween the two forces one beat on bringing everything to one low level, the other aspiring upwarda Those who started with ideals have now thrown them aside, and the true intellectuala ara submerged
In raising the standard of life it The artist had but little difficulty is quite obvious that education and in getting the fish to "model" for culture are the most important kim. By throwing out a little buit, factors, and must be recognized as the fish would come close to the au casectial agency in our social window. In fact, so clear was the system to effect an intermingling of glass that some of them tried to incongruous elements. Civilisation swim right into the studio.requites self-discipline, especially Even the sharks "posed" for the abandonment of that unlimited
licence
which is in times of revolu- artist. He got a new conception of their beauty. The sinuous, graceful always mistakes for liberty. task of pointing this out is the movement of the animals was a fur- prise to him. The sharks approach-concern of the intellectuals: if they ed in wavy motion, accompanied by fail, their lives are usually forfeit their pilots, the remoras who always
Comforts Fox-Existent. swim along with the larger fish, and
An accurate survey
est of the position together they seemed to be dancing, the remoras.cruising over the backs of intellectual life in Russia and. and under the bellics of the big fsh. Among Xussians abroad would give Most beautiful of all were then elus to what seems to hard to un- derstand, to-day First-band im angel. Sah, coloured like flowers. pressions gamed by a visit to that The artist saw a blue and yellow country, have a certain value, even angel fish change under his gaze if the inferences drawn are open to from a cobalt, edged with golden criticism. yellow, shading into, orange, to a
deep purple running into orange It would be difficult to deny that fed. Other fish changed their very the educated Russian, be he pro- patterns from spots to bars like a fessor, doctor, author, or journalist, kaleidoscope Again their colours leads an unenviable existence, His vanished. This happened when the creature comforts are non-existent. vidid creatures approached the dun In Moscow, for instance, where the sands of the ocean floor. Mr. Pray housing question is still very acute; anid it was hard to believe that the a professor and bis wife have us whitish fish one saw at the bottom ly but one room in which to eat, to were the fathing ones of the coral It seems unnecessary to enlarge on sleep, and to work. No privacy! reets. Yet one had only to wait to what that menas; but I am con- see them regain their splendid hues vinced that no self-respecting Eng
It took Mr. Pray about a month lish workman wou'd long-tolerate of continuous work to complete his anch conditions: In Moscow it is sketches. Es came away with much the general rule, Editors in chief, appreciation of the deep-sea crea- members of Soviet Committees, tures who live among the corála. educational or otherwise, men in
It seems to me by no means be yond the bounds of possibility that young and old intellectuals may join forces, even within the course of a lifetime.
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