The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1921, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ITALY EMPLOYS. IDLE MEN ON PAGE SIX FOOD HOARD IN RUSSIA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 matoe: i » The first industrial plant, a tomato-' pag ctory, has heen established ti the Betleing eat enew aa fier a.wood- pulp and paper mill will be erected. An essential feature of the work is an effort to control, malarial fever in which the company has engaged the foremost medical experts who are mak- ing successful progress in the cure of 1 power is proceeding rapidly. Before| land heretofore has been submerged the war, she obtained about 935,000| for flve months each year by torrents borse-power from) thatsyourge.»:;Since}which..poured down frgm the neigh- then the total horse-power has. been| boring: mountains and, staghating On’ 1.2 ased to 1,750,000. the land, converted that area into To make this possible, 59 reservoirs | ‘dangerous fever trap. and artificial lakes nave been con-| The company organized with a cap- structed. ital of 50,000,000 lire io reclaim this AUTHOR AND SOUTH SEAS BELLE ‘ISDISCLOSED Associated Press Correspondent Finds Charge of Bolshevists / / Partially True Regarding ( Supplies PRICES OUT OF REACH | i System of Barter Advocated To! Aid in Stabilizing Condi- tions—Property Rights Being Restored ‘Note: Correspondents of Associated Press who were admit- ted to that country with the American relief workers found the economic conditions there of great interest. The bars against free trading had been removed by the Lenine government and the people were again allowed to buy and sell without danger of ‘con- fiscation. But wages in Russia’s de- preciated currency were fantastic. This condition is described in the following articile, written by one of the men sent into Russia and who has previously reported by cable the} famine situation. Moscow, Oct. 19. (By a Staff Cor- respondent ‘of The Associated Press), ~—Russia’s struggle to recover econo- mic normalty overshadows all politi- cal considerations and subject which {s.commanding the at- tention of Russians of all parties and sects. The contention of the Bolshevists | that food and maunfactured articles had been hoarded. has been justified toa certain extent by the sudden ap- pearaneé upon the markets of nearly all’ kitids- of foodstuffs and notions. ‘IMarket stalls and shops opened speedily after the declaration of free trade in domestic commerce. Needles, pins, thread, nails, toilet articles, cloth, shoes, tinned milk, Australian corned! beef, English bottled pickles, pressed . caviar, sugar, cheese, tea, coffee, biscuits and various /house- hold articles and furniture ade their appearence suddenly. Prices Soar. Prices are so high that only the wealthy, as wealth goes in Russia today, can buy extensively. But the market folks do. such a lively busi- ness that the Bolshevist claim about extensive hoarding of money foreign as’ well as Rus#ian—is also support- ed to a considerable extent. Larger shops have not opened ex- tensively in the center of Moscow and the small hatters shoe dealers and clothierd have chiefly con- fined their activities to various street markets and bazaars: As the week of free’ trade drag on; merchants are becoming more secure in their position and have apparently lost all fear that Soviet government threw open the markets for the pur- pose of drawing goods out of hiding} and confiscating, them. j In one of the worst famine centers on ‘the Volga The Associated Press correspondent saw hungry refugees starving within sight of markets where ‘bread, meat and a}! sorts of! food were displayed in great quanti-| ties for sale at prices entirely beyond the reach of the average Russian peasant. 2 “Why don’t you, seize the food and feed these people?” the corres- pondent asked a provincial governor who was not able to obtain enough: food to give 40,000 orphans-a scanty ration. Urge Barier. i “That would only make food | scarcer,” the governor replied. “It would drive all the supplies back un-| der cover and the well-to-do would not be able to buy. Consequently they would have to depend on the government rations and make the siteation ‘Worse. When money and ‘matitfdcttifed’ ‘articles can be ex- chatiged legally for food the peasants bring their supplies into the markets and the burden which the govern- ment has in collecting food js lessen- ed.” Russians who are in the worst plight are the formerly well-to-do who have not found employment under the Soviet government. Employes of the government all get some food. Con- sequently all departments are, great- ly ‘overstaffed and the clamor for Positions is deafening. Salaries are small and the scale is so varied that it is impossible to learn what the standard is. But employes work for food rather than money. One woman clerk in the Foreign office told the correspondent that she received 7,000 Tubles a month. A soldier employed as guard at a government guest house The | is the one| Ann. pound of black bread, two lumps of sugar and a limited amount of rice and cassia, or rough meal made from millet ‘and used by the Russians as a sort of breakfast food. With bread selling at prices ranging from: 3,000 to 7,000 rubles a pound, according to quality, these splaries are ridiculous. Cannot uge Wages, Workmen in some of the automo- bile factories are reported ‘to receive from 1,000,000: to. 1,500,000 rubles a month... Others are paid less paper money and receive perquisites in the way’ of. manufactured products, food, rent, etc. So,’ in all the maze’ of figures, it is impossible to reach any average Wage -or salary. Under the revised economic plan, fares must bé paid on railways and street cars. Charges are also to be made for light, telephones, telegraph and postage. Free rent is, also dis- appearing and renters are to be re- quired to keep up repairs at their ex- pense under the direction of house committees. These charges arg increasing the difficulties of persons without income and forcing gentle folks into the street markets. with their, remaining furs, -jewelry,). silverware, china, linen, and clothing. However, most of the old-time aristocracy has.long ago learned the ways of trade and it is not the hardship it once was to stand in the streets ‘and barter away one’s Personal effects. Many of the former members of leisure classes have taken very na- turally to changed conditions and gone ‘in for trading on a strictly commer- cial basis. The only two restaurant in Moscow where satisfactory meals are served are staffed by cultured women who speak German ‘and French as fluently as Russian and __ receive diners with all the courtesy found in better-class drawing rooms. The manager of, one ‘of these restaurants is the wife of an officer high in the Bolshevist Red army who was form- erly a colonel in the Imperial army. her husbands’s salary is wholly in- adequate to support her two children and aged parents so she worked for the government until the new economic policy made it possible for her to enter business of a more re- munerative sort, Krassine and other economic ex- perts who are working out the new trade pelicy make it plain that both retailers and wholesalers are free to engage in domestic trade without government interference. However, all exporting and importing are to be throygh government channels and, as the government is not inclined to expend large sums of money for pur- chases abroad, it is difficult to see where Russian merchants are to get foreign articles after the small stocks which have been uncovered are ex- hausted. Krassine hopes to get foreign. cre- Says his wage is only 1,000 rubles a month, with an allowance of one PIMPLY? 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See how much better you feel and look, 15c and 30c. iDU dits through a consortium which will enable Russia to buy on long time or to exchange raw materials for manu- factured articles. But such negotia- tions are slow and uncertain and the groken-down railways’ make it 'im- possible to assemble raw materials speedily. Consequently it is difficult to understand the optimism of Bol- shevist leaders who say they believe England will supply Russian mark- ets very shortly with the great tea surplus which is burdening London dealers. They are equallly optimistic about South American coffee, Ameri- can and Canadian grain and other food products, When the correspondent asked Krassine if fie thought Russia's re- Ppudiation of foreign debts and. con- fiscation of the property of foreigners in Russia would be much encourage- ment to eapitalists or foreign gov- ernments to make loans to the Soviet government, he replied: “That’s what revolutions!” “It didn’t happen in Germany.” | “But Germany didn’t really have a revolution,” Krassine retorted. BANS SACRED PARADES Shanghai, Oct. 19.—The chief of po-; |lice of Shanghai and Woosung has is- {sued a decree prohibiting processions {of gods, Fights among the paraders ; and jonlookers. have occurred so often, \he explains, that this action had to be | po, ' Orders ADH taken. t } / ‘ts eos FREDERICK O’BRIEN, PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A.GIRL OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, ON HIS LATEST VO¥AGE. O'BRIEN SCORES CIVILIZATION Author Says Savages. Of South Seas Are Happier é Than We (By Alice Rohe) 'New. York, ‘Oct. 19—“Civilization is an uttor failure.” » Frederick O'Brien, whose stories’ of the South Seas have put these distant islands on the map of modern inter- est, was the speaker. 4 Only three weeks back from the South Seas, he finds contrasts: mvre startling, than ever between the land he left and the land to which he has returned. “T have spent six months, mostly among natives of Samoa and. the Fiji Islands—who, despite civilization, are healthy and happy. “When I contrast these peoples’ days and nights of peace and simple comfort !and natural’ pleasure with what) we have, I realize that whatever the goal of the civilized world, it can- not-be that of happiness. “If so, it has utterly failed. Wars Are Ended “But these native peoples, wth in- tertribal wars ended, now live a true community life—a condition which seems. possible anywhere. “I do not speak of communism in the political sense so ioften applied to it of late. It is, however, really or- ganized communism. It consists of all having equal rights, but with no in- fringements. “With them there is a spirit of hon- est liking among themselves. If, for example, a man wants to build a home, he cannot hire anyone. There are no hired workers. But anyone will help him.” t “This is not only because it is their, kindly custom—but a man would lose always happens in} face if he refused. It is just expected of him to help his fellows. “To be sure, I am speaking only of @ remnant of people, .The world may say they do not count as-an illustra- tion of what life has to offer. Only about 30,000 of this group still remain. But the condition of their living -ex- ists, and it exists among people who once were killing each other as we were. ies i Puts a Question 5 “Civilization has to some extent brought this cessation ‘of intertribal wars by policing them. But I want to know why. civilization cannot police. itself?” Va ! O'Brien does not hesitate to say what he considers is the’matter with our civilization. | “The: struggle for money has com- pletely, corrupted the world. And ‘no’ one seems to know what to do with the money after he: gets it. ‘Hope lies in honest equality and fgirness and love—in honest democ- acy.” CATARRH of the BLADDER Sale, excess ach Capsule S) bears name &4 Bewareofcounterfoits MEaNTAL CAPSULES itioy, ASK: Your Grocer Humpty Haag Bread roduced By - BARKER BAKERY EAGLE Tailoring and Hat Works | Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, Dyeing. | Hats Cleaned and Blocked. Knife Pleated \Skirts Cleaned and Pressed, all for and deliver, Phone 58, Op- Postoffice, Bismarck, N, D. "Mall Solicited. PUBLIC WORKS Anather important. industrial pro-| section has ‘been in operation about | Ject is the reclamation of the Pontine| one year and has reclaimed about 7 {marshes which Rome, Oct, 19.—The tiiulian govern-|®cres between Rome aad Naples. This | wheat lands or farms for growing to- ment is meeting its problem of un:} employment by setting tne idle men to} ‘work to develop to the utmost the nat-} ural resources of the ccuntry. | The sum of 700,000,000 lire (equiva-| lent to about’ $28,000,000) has been devoted ‘to public works and abouii another 100,000,000 lire — ($4,000,000? | has been assigned to land reclama-_ tion. These works’ are being carried out largely by private initiative and} by consortiums, to whom the govern- ments grants, subsidies and conces- sions. ' Funds for these enterprises are ob- | tained from banks, Another 150,000,000-lire (about $6,- 000,000) will be spent on improving; the telegraph and telephone systems.| And in addition, the government ha authorized the laying cf a submarin cable so as to obtain direct commu cations with Spain, reece, Brazil; Uruguay and Argentina, thus render- sing Italy independent ot foreign cabie/ companies. | The development of Italy’s water SS You're: constipated! 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