The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1921, Page 2

DOCK LABORERS IN RUSSIA GET 8 CENTS A DAY. Price of Two Loaves of Bread | Are Paid Them For Their Work on Baltic WRITER ENTERS RUSSIA Fear in Entering Not Bodily : Harm But of Difficulty in Getting Food Batum, Oct. 17—(By a Staff Corres- pondent of the Associated Press) Entrance into Russia through the Black Sea may be compared to a visit | to a dreaded battle front. There's lots of fear of death and destruction but | somehow one does not find them. | ‘These elements jf uneasy sleep seom | to lurk always just a little farther | along. T ne traveller-has’ himself rammed | cholera, | is made | full of vaccines against post, smallpox and typhoid, Properly ill. in advance, only to fin that these diseases are just now oul ot season,. The only thing he needs i quinine, not for himself but for, ma. laria patients about the-seaports. Fear of Russia should not’ be based’! on fear of violence of bodily hurt, so | much as to the discomfort ot living in | economic | a land where social and conditions are very hard. hard to earn. tum, when they work, may earn 8,000 rubles, or eight cents, per day, and | this is the price of two pounds of | bread. Arter all the stories of revolutions | and counter revolutions; the murders | and whatnot, one is distinctly sur- | prised to find people going about as | usual. These seem to be more people | than ever _ before. One where they come from. about the cities, the train stations in| ‘Money is the country, thick bs ants, | Yet rich and poor seem alike en- gaged in the process of getting out of | ‘Russia, Many of the rich have done | so, Their old life has been broken up, | their social life, their life of educat: | | ing and rearing families. Their man- ner of living and thinking doesn’t fit in to the new chaos, and they prefer | to get to Constantinople—so much so that. it has become almost a Russian | city—and thence filter through tio Eur- | ope and there live on charity and their Wits. ‘Some manage to retain wrecks | of their fortunes, for old Russia. was | rich beyond the dreams of western | Europe, ‘Everybody seems. to: haye | had, gold and jewels ‘in- abundance. Those with property .are. still’ slipping away, and without too much difficulty or hindrance from the Soviet. Only they must use caution. A cer- tain Melikov, the Russian-Armenian | owner of the newspaper Horizon, in - Tibis, had his home requisitioned, so he got leave to depart to Constantin- ople. . searched,’a diary was found telling his inmost reflections about the Bolshe- | viki and the new order of life, a diary } that he. possibly -was intending to pub- lish. The foolish man was hauled he- fore the “Cheka,” the secret. ‘police with extraordinary powers,’ from whose decision there is no recourse, and he was executed. Landing from one of the. various passenger and freight vessels that Tun weekly in and out of Batum, to. and from Constantinople, the traveller finds that’the Polsheviki are not such dreadful people after .all. It is. far easier than getting to or from ship in Constantinople, where the allies reign. There aro a lot of guards at the. gangplank, to steer departing travel- lers through the customs, but ‘most anyone passes back and forth whu wishes. There is first the formality of telling the port control who you are, He is a good-humored, patient, glorified Red guard who knows no language but Russian, and that indit- ferently, there are so many dialects; of Russian. He wears a peaked cap pushed .on the back of his head, with its red star and the spade and shov- e} of labor, The passengers, who have carefully collected all sorts of credentials in Constantinople from. Soviet... commer- cial missions, crowd’ about him, and he takes their-names and li20ks casually | at their vises. The. Americans, who have only a bit of typewritten paper, a receipt from the * United” States ANOTHER WOMAN ESCAPES Ciciie | _, Pinkham’s ieee \ pound in Time : Georgetown, Ill. ae ‘born “After ‘my first I suffered so with my left side that I could not walk across the floor unless I was all humped over, hold- Hing to my side. I'doc- tored with several baby: was: relief and they said | 1. would have to ae man operat other inetd nl iy taking Lydia E Pinkham's eget ble Compound and soon found telief. Now I can do all my | own work and i of is the Vegetable Com- | that has saved me from anopera- caeataiet may Tends: and I of my friends an Sea the Compound did for me. Mrs. MARGARET MCCUMBER, St,, Georgetown, Illinois. Mrs, McCumber. is one of the unnum- ered thousands of housewives who struggle to keep abcut. their daily tasks, while sufferin: Beh ailments peculiar to womert with’ Backache, sideaches. headaches, bearin; ne oan pe pains and ft pcre? ard’ if every such we a Bian &xperience and give ile cBinietiam’a .Negetable Com flareney wontd get well does: iat gg 5s Docklaborers at Ba- | wonders ; They swarm | On the way his baggage was | 4 — \ ALMA, | se 8 \6¢ BY JAMES W. DEAN. New York, Oct. 17.—If there is in }your heart an abiding affection for. “the old home ‘town”’ you feel ‘that the | play “Main Street”, maligns its char- acters more.than, Sinclair Lewis does. in his tremendously successful novel: | But. if: you~ look upon “the : folks back ‘home’: with: unkindly. recollec- tions “you will laugi aloud’ at’ their prototypes:on the stage, whereas. you | were only disposed to chuckle at them in the’ book, However, the play. with its exag- | gerated characters, and: plot does not measure up. artistically to the stand- ard. of the novel. The novel’ is of more than 400 pages... .Its chief interest is in: what Carol Kennicott, the city-bred wife, said to Dr. Will, her Gopher Prairie- bred husband—and what the. neigh | bors said about them. Sinclair Lewis.has a. subtle way of | turning this gossip into character de- | lineation. This subtlety is lost in the play. Romance would have fled long before matrimony arrived if Carol Kennicott were such a girl as Alma Tell plays her and Dr. Kennicott were such a man as McKay Morris :lelineates him. The innocent interest of Carol in Erik Valborg, the youth with ambi- tions. to’ leave Gopher Prairie and make a mark in. the world, is con- verted into a rather guilty situation |on the.stage. The affair between carl ute) husband and his boyhdod sweetheart ute) becomes an open ean: MAIN STREET” ON STAGE LOSES NOVEL’S CHARM é iry crossroads: TELL : * * The story in brief, as the’ stage pre-; sents it: It’s a doggong: hot day in Gopher Prairie when. Dr. Kennicott arrives with his . bride..;'The neighbors do their best: to make the’ bride’ feel at! home, But on*her very first sight of the place she determines to ‘reyamp it to her own ideals. Several months later she ‘entertains ‘the town folk with a sketch enacted by herself and young Erik. Valborg. an electrician with the soul of a poet, The atidience laughs aloud at. an er- ror. The attentpt at uplift | fails. She quarrels ,with her: husband. To! her -the neighbors. are lowbrows, un: worthy of her’ efforts. .:To, him~ they aré.. humans,. free ao live -ag {they choose. y “Several months lates Erik Valborg is leaving town. He comes to say goodby to-Carol and. to -give her a ‘volume of poetry. They pack a picnic lunch and go out under the trees to read the poetry: { Ah, the’ neighbors’ tongues wag then! Upon their return the doctor overhears Carol tell Erik that she is fond of him. The doctor's ‘boyhood. sweetheart enters. Carol runs away. She returns at the end of a year.) She says she has met many people and has learned much. Evidently she has come to the belief that virtue re- sides in crossroad towtis as well as | in ste Aa cities. Shag will go great in| AOTER: iio¥ed' from: coun- Consul, for their passport, generally have a Soviet letter in addition,.The control officer doesn’t stamp their pa- Pers afresh to show they may land. He merely indicates with a wave of the hand that passengers may debark, jand they do, full of surprise that they have not been disturbed. Travellers in Europe are so in habit of being |bothered that they think something ‘is wrong, heve, that they haven’t been. Ashore, in the’ sunshine, amid the tree-lined streets, sitting in a carriage with rubber tires, driving to a good restaurant, the traveller is still won- dering why something hasn’t happen- ed to him, but it probably will not so long as he has money to pay his way jand especially if he is an American, | thanks to American charity influence and the general good standing of Americans in the hearts of the people. In Batum, now controlled by the | Moscow Soviet, affairs seem to slip in a certain loose groove. ‘Nobody wor- ries much about the political changes, but they do fear the “Cheka.” The most notable social change in the people of this little San Francisco, set by the seashore amid palms and flowers, at the foot of a fertile hill country, is that on the beach. In the old days the girls and women of the city used tio bathe often without bath- ing suits in a space set aside for them. doctors but found no | where no men were allowed. During jthe past two years the wire fence shutting off this space has been stol- fen, and the place for women may be |encroached upon; but many of the wo- men continue the old custom jof bath- ing without suits. _ |. While there is less and less furni- |ture in the fine houses behind the park, at the leading restaurant: may be had as good a meal as in Paris or London at one-third Paris or London prices. The strict morale of the early Soviet days has gone everywhere. No- body resents or prevents anybody else from having.a good time, if they have ithe money. The poor,who liye in re- quisitioned villas or who sleep in the empty warehouse sheds along the wa- terfront, according to their luck, do not resent any longer the good for- tune of others. Those who have bet- ter clothes or» better quarters are merely fortunate, that’s all. for the spring, summer, and fall, the ports and littoral of the Black Sea, ve for foreigners with money, would prove cheap and pleasant regorts, Bol- sheviki or no Bolsheviki. A big house may be rented for $6 to $10.a month, furnished:and. servants: may. be’ had ; for their keep, and.glad of the jqb. their own. scenery. and a beautiful | wardrobe of nifty costumes, the girls} A modern are all: under ninteen and jpretty, the| the heroine of “The Magic Cup,” Con- comedians! _ There's lasting satisfaction REG. U.S.PAT. CFP This: trademark aid the trademarked ‘2. word “Victrola” identify all our products. «Look under the lid! Look on the label! » VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO. -Camden, N. J. The featur e photo play to day little city Cinderella; is we you go see them. Hi stance Binney’s latest Realart re-| > BP BISMARCK ’* 1 Waiting for:days.on a mountain top! to photograph the sun coming-through the clouds, standing waist deep in swirling ‘water for hours,. photo- graphing rocky coastline cliffs ur- ing the raging of the worst storm of | the year, were a few of’ the feats | which Alvin: Wyckoff and. Karl) Struss, photographers of Cecil B, De} Mille’s Paramount picture “Some- j thing To Think’ About” which comes | to the Bismarck Theater tonight were} called upon to accomplish in the fflm- ‘ng of that production. THE ELTINGE, ‘The Faith Healer,” showing at the} Eltinge today and tomorrow concerns a young shepherd who goes forth to} heal the sick. .At his greatest jiou:| of triumph he falls ia love with a| yeautiful girl but as ne yields to his passion, he feels the loss of his spir-j itual powers. After many: dramatic Incidents he comes to know that he can share-his spiritual love. with -the material and his power to heal is re- stored. “The Faith Healer” is a.wor- thy successor to “The Miracle Man.” The cast is headed by Milton Sills, who is remembered for his fine work .in “Behold My Wife.” Topics of the Day and the news r ‘Kinograms are being shown with “Th Faith Healer.” MUSICAL COMEDY AT THE REX Harry “Ike” Evans the oldest: est-} ablished and best Musical Tub Show in the Northwest opens at the Rex to- day for an indefinate run changing the play and picture every ‘Monday; Wednesday and Friday. The company consists of twelve people and carries | i | | | | nell. of Bridgeport, Conn., investigated, Legal adoption followed, _ : ines ADOPTS BABY FOUND IN ASH CAN “Heaving feeble’ cries ‘from a dark ‘New’ York ‘alley, eee found a ihaby. in an ash can. the Victrola ‘Victor records; the greatest artists make their Victor reccrds to play on Victrola instru- ments; you hear these artists exactly as they. expected you to hear them—they themselves tested and approved their own records on the Victrola. Victi rolas $25 to $1500. New Victor Records on sale at all dealers in Victor products © on the ist of each month. in owning a Victrol a \ ee “ae lease’ which is now showing at the Rex Theater. The Prince Charming in ‘the case is a cub reporter, and they meet, not at a ball, as in the old fairy tory, but in the in the unformation atmosphere of a hotel kitchen. The male lead opposite Miss Binney -is ved by Vincent, Coleman. 5 "he added comedy attraction is Monte Banks in “A Rare Bird.” SECOND RECALL PREVENTED BY - THE STATE LAW Following the cnencomnietion of the present recall election on October 28, if Governor Lynn J. Frazier, Attorney General Wm. Lemke and. Commis- ; r of Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan are retained in office, their opponents are estoppéd by law from again appe: g to the recall as a means of removing them from of- fice. One of the paragraphs of Chapter 93 of the Session Laws of 1919, which chapter defines the recall provisions in full, is. “After one such (re¢all) petition and special election, no further re- call petition shall be filed, against the same officer during the term for which he is elected.” The three men against whom the present recall is aimed were last elected November, 1920 and their terms of dffice extend to December 30th, 1922. If they are recalled, the men taking their places will hold of- fice until that date. The paragraph does not prohibit other recalls in the period, against othér state officials, or against the officials that might take the place of men recalled, but if retained in of- fice, further attempts against them under the provisions of the recall are impossible. The famous French Academy. has ading membership of forty. is specially made to play | Mexico is divided into. 28 states,-the federal district and two territories. There are 37 life insurance com- panes i New York state... The United States produced nearly 11,000,000 bushels jof flaxseed last year. ASPIRIN: Name “Bayer” on Genuine Warning! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin pre- scribed by physicians for twenty-on3 years and proved safe by millions. 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