The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1920, Page 6

STRONG LIVE, ~ WEAX DIE, IN FREE RUSSIA, Survival of Fittest Rules in Bol- shevik Republic With Trade Disrupted L INDIVIDUALISM URVIVES Correspondent Says That People Go to Extremes in Order to Keen Alive By J. HERBERT DUCKWORTA N. E. A. Staff Cor (Copyright, 1920, by The Enterprise Association.) Special Canale. Reval, Esthonia, June 22.—! asked Many Russians: “Are you afraid of a Polish inva- sion?” “We welcome no invader, vet any- thing is better than this heli!” they told me. ‘Marketing by Russian wonien is @ complicated, tiring and hazardous .chore, Theoretically, all trade in Russia is abolis! The stores of Pskov, once a thriving town of 46,000 people, now are closed and boarded up. Grass grows tall on Sergeyevaskaja, the main street of Pskov. legal Market Flourishes. In an alleged communist republic, individualism still exists! Century-oid habits die hard. Russian people still buy, sell and barter. ‘Yhe shrewdest and_ strongest and most cunning get sufficient andthe old, the weak and the ignorant starve and die. I went marketing with the women at Pskov. ‘The wife of the superintendent of the soviet flax factory acted as my guide. 28th Buying a Problem. ‘This woman's problem is to provide food for a family of five. Her hus- band draws the icient ables a| ration and his wages are 3400 rubles a month. Bread sells for 500 rubles a pound. The market square was filled with Red soldiers and townspeople. Even the commissar’s employes were there, for I recognized some of them as be- ing the Extraordinary Commission for the Suppression of the Counter Revo- lution and from communist headquart- ers! “Must Live,” Excuse “What are you doing here?” I heard one commissar ask another. “You are sabotaging the revolution.” “We cannot accomplish everything in a day,” was the reply of his com- panion. “We must live.” ‘The second commissar took salt \. These photographs, just ceived from’ Soviet Ru show how boys and girls well as grownups under the rule of the Bolsheviks work..as laborers. Above is a scene outside a paper mill. Men, women and girls are hauling up logs, in crude trucks like wheel- barréws, to be made into paper for Bolshevik propaganda. Be- low Russian boys are carrying logs for bridge building. YANKEES SHOW ON HATRED T0 FORMER ENEMY Correspondent Visiting the Boys Keeping Watch of Rhine, Says They’re Satisfied BOCHES WANT NO FRENCH BY MILTON BRONNER. * European Manager N. E. A. Coblenz, Germany, June 22.—Do the Yanks who fought like bear-cats in the Argonne, display; any hatred to- wards their late foes? If they do you can’t notice it in this from us as well as money in exchange | capital of the American zone of occu- for his goods. The Russian peasant farmers do not want Soviet money, but they do want salt for use in preserving meat. Jews of Pskov have “cornered” salt and now the townspeople are exehang- ing Soviet money for czar money and then buying salt with czar rubles and | exchanging the salt for farm produce- ' The market stalls that are closed belonged to the petty bourgeoise. Barter in Eatables. T bought 10 eggs for a pound and a half of salt. ‘Ore fish cost a pound of salt and a pound of cheese cost four pounds of | salt, six small carrots cost a pound of salt. while. two pounds of beef might be bartered for two pounls of salt. There is a prison penalty for buy- ing or selling, yet 5,000 people throng- ed the market place. I myself bought “the makings.” A pound of Siberian tobacco cost 5000 rubles (a ruble was 51 cents before the war), while the paper to make cigar- ets from—a sheet torn from a used of- fice letter book—cost 25 rubles (about $12.50 at the pre-war rate!) I wanted some small souvenirs and was taken to the back door of the stall. An employe told me that the proprietress would fetch things she had hidden at home to the market in the afternoon. This she did. What Money-Dealing Means It is a strange thing, if the Bolshe- vist revolution was really successful, that the Jews, with their proverbial in- stinct of bargaining, should be buying czar money. It is also significant and amusing that on my second day in Pskov, a commissar (Bolshevist official) visited me at my hotel and offered as.a “per- sonal favor’ 'to exchange my czar and Kerensky money for Soviet rubles. “You must keep it a secret,” he said. “You are liable to be shot.” No Lights, There are no lights in Pskov. Un- der,a daylight-saving scheme, the clogks are running three hours fast and, as a result, the people wander the streets at 1 o’clock in the morning and do not rise until 9 o'clock. The only amusement in the city is the open-air moving picture show. The program includes quotations from the speeches of Lenin and Trotzky and bulletins from the front. BURGLAR FOOLS HIMSELF Seattle, June 22.—“Somebody swiped a bottle from my store,” told A. ‘A. Welsh to the cops. “Never mind look- ing for it. "Twas only medicine.” ECZEMA 1S ONLY SKIN DEEP ““NoInternal medicine will cure Pel by the application ot SeCRANG: ‘LENE, the great external~remedy, can theEczema pier jicrobe be destroyed. Preve this statment for yourself at cur Science has discovered that the acid-like juice found under the skin of the common. table cranberry, uickly destroys the tiny skin iE cause Eczema, ane | pation. To all outward appearances, the American troops and the German civ. ilians get along as comfortably as a big foot and a soft old shoe. Many American Kiddies. rs have brought milies here and American kid- reall over the city, Go about at night and it looks al- most as if every American “non-com” and private had a fraulein on his arm. Some have been to church, others to picture shows and still other, to res- ants, where they can dance and sing. I was in a restaurant one night when an old, sweet-faeed motherly wo- man came in to sell bouquets of lilies- of-the-vulley. Nearly every man with a woman, bought flowers which sold for two marks. The flower vender, I learned, lost her three sons in the war and is now supporting grandchildren. The Yankee keeping watch on the) Rhine is certainly not a good hater. It-must be added, however, that there! is absolutely no fraternization between | our officers and the natives. Thej| Americans in charge of our army nat- urally must keep aloof from pedple with whom we are still officially at war. Don’t Like French, How about the Germans? I suppose they. love us no more than; they do their other, late foes. But ia also imagine they hope to make more out of us by being openly friendly. They certainly prefer us to the French. I asked Germans of all classes! whether they: would rejoice the day the Yanks left for home. The answer was a vigorous negative. They feel that the day we leave the French will enter. a Unlike our men, the French -poilus do not fraternize with the populace. In the terrace gardens where drinis | Clothes Purer ' Si Than the | Milk You Drink! All of us have learned through our studies of personal hy- giene and sanitation that if we would .best safeguard our health, our clothes should be sterilized as well as washed. It is understanding of this fact that makes our Jaunder- ing methods superior to those of the laundress. When you send us your family bundle we return it to you purer than the milk you drink. » phone us. We 311 Front St. are. put to! hand. After washing clothes as we wash them—in pure water at 180 degrees—and drying them. ina current of clean, fresh air at 250 degrees, your things approach hearer to perfect purity than the milk you serve on yeur table. To be sure of clothes cleanliness and clothes purity, tele- will have our driver call for your family washing, and remember we also do Dry Cleaning and can make your old clothes look like new. Capital Laundry Co. may be frequently seen, because it re- minds them of their beloved. Paris boulevards drinking places, but always keeping to themselves or in company with their Allies. Few Things “Verboten.” American occupation rests lightly upon the people even though Ameri- are billeted in the best ome hotels and restaur- ically been taken over and have .prac for our needs. In the_former land of, ‘“‘verboten” few things are verboten now to the natives so long as they behave them- selves. Among the American verbotens to the Germans are: They ‘may not burn gas in their homes after a certain hour. This is to he' them save preciots coal, They may not drink liquor in» the ei afes and bars after a certain hour. This is to help -preserve order in the om They may not hold parades in which the red flag or Bolshevik banners are displayed. American. occupation was followed hy Aw nh white flour and other food which the natives had not seea for years. It was also followed by a flood of American money spent by doughboys. Prices Shot Up. This was good for shop-keepers, but. bad, for, other classes of ‘people. It caused: prices to shoot up. The people who fare best are the frauleins who are fortunate enough to have a Yankee private for a beat on monthly pay-day. He thinks nothing ¥ blowing the girl off to a big “feed” at a: good restaurant and topping it otf dy, vuying her a 700-mark skirt or ‘blouse that. she has long coveted: Lost RIGHT HAND. \Spokane, June 22.—Milton Kerwin 1 doesn’t know what to do with his right It is his but he can’t wiggle the fingers and it won't ho)d.a fork. Ac- cording to’ latest . reports Kerwin’s “mitt” was in thé morgue. Kerwin lost his hand in a-buzz saw. “Three days Orn@aum.co. Phone 684 |WOMEN AND CHILDREN CHAINED TO LOGS WHICH THEY ARE FORCED TO HAU! .IN “FREE RUSSIA” eR HAR ARR AAA and- food are sorved ‘outdoors, they! ago it bobbed up in-a load of al FRENCH QUIET TRACE KATION BY SHALL ARNY to as Example of What League Would Accomplish Adrianople, June 22.—The French administration, accompanted by a small army of occupation; in Western Thrace, is being pointed to-here as an exampie of the would accomplish under the:League of 1 Nations. The French civil ‘administration be- ean dts work in the latter part of lasi November, and into a country full of ‘warripg bands of various nationalities, it has brought peace and order, per- mitted the planting of crops, and the normal pre-war life of the country to be pursued. Country in Turmoil. When the ‘French took over the country every man’s hand was raised against the other. Alarmists rumors about the arrival of the British and Greek, Bulgar and Turkish troops were! cireulated frequently. The French took over the Bulgarian administra- tion, and for the fost part the Bul- ganrian civilian employees, whom the French found efficient. In order to insure the honesty of these. officials, the French have adopted the system in many localities, where the Greeks are in majority, of putting alongside of a Greek chief official, a Bulgarian secretary and vice versa in localities ere the Turks or Greeks are in ma- jority. The French have in all, including constabulary, not more than 500 of their own chief administrators, These n cemarally officers detailed from the-Army-who have had experience in jue areach colonies... Thus with the skeleton French staff, the French have heen able to obtain a reasonable effi- ciency. Spend Little. 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