The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1921, Page 8

, —Sovernment ever) PAGE EIGHT NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT IN CITY OF MOSCOW Everywhere Officials Interfere —No Walk of Life is: Un- touched by Bureaus in Russia Mescow,” Oct —(By a Staff Cor- re"pondent of The Associated Press) here, nothing but government! Such is the impression that a for- cigner Ww! known Moscow of old gets in entering the Bolshevist capital today. All the hotels are government com- mittee headquarter: The same is tue cr de vititinent stores, office builds ings, clubs cafes end larger private’ houses. All theaters are government theaters. j Queues of Russians and foreignc’s are waiting in the stree before most larger buildings for permits to buy railway or perform some yr din ion such as a New, y, ‘would dispose of over the tele- phone in five minutes, The mctor cars are all government cars and are monopolized by gover ment employes. The street ¢ run by the government and govern- ment employes, especially workmen, have first call on the few cars witich run chiefly at times: when workmen are going to or from work. Other; folks may take the fe ages which ply the main streets for hire at prices beyond the reach of ordinary government salarie: Trains Filled Railway trains are few and seem to be crowded largely gith government | employes and soldiers, Pa trains far exceed freight trains on all | lines and every teach has a red sol- | dier or two to keep people from mas ing on the trains at stations. Factories which are in operation are rin by the government-and wdrk | chiefly on government supplic ch “the ‘eremlin, foriieriy” the ec Y cal center for Russfa and hrine about which the Ro- | manoflf traditions centers, 1 gev- | ernment. Its churches are ¢! Red army soldiers occupy the of the old imperial army ba a and ut Bolshevist oflicials occupy the quarters formerly given over to church officials and other dignitaries of the Romanoff regime Run By Govern Hospita and orphanages and schools are run by the government. The government payrolls are filed to overtlowing with employes who want the government food ration aid nt sequence there seems to bo an t tions as well as the provinces, Many of the orphanges have nearly as many attendants as they have or- s. To American eyes, the m to‘be overstaffed. Trains are alive with officials is, many of whom seem un- because of the/general quiet that prevails. Russia always was document mad, | and it ms even worse now than it was under former regimes. Endl rows of employes are busy making | documents and reports in nearly every | government” building. Statisticians aro | at work everywhere. Bolshe official the overstaffing of the departments / and the inefficiency of many of tho! worke: They fill the Moscow and | provincial papers with ajppeals for greater diligence on the -part of em- | ployes and a reduction of forces not | engaged in productive labor. They | also complain bitterly of the red tape | which slows down all government) business and clamor for simplification and decentralization, Recall. Teachnical Men ‘But, after all, the railways and tele- | graphs and telephcics and posts are in | much the same b&nds they were be- for Bolshevism triumphed. The men who knew the technic of the various | public service organizations had to be | recalled very largely. ‘Many of them | make no, pretension that they are Communists or even Socialists and | their work is done in an extremely perfunctory manner. Three years have brought about a remarkable change in the attitude of Red army men and all government employes toward the general public. | There is a great modification of the acerbity which characterized the early days of the Bolshevist control. In the tr d first year of Bolshevism, of- ficials seemed to regard everyone who approached them as an They. growled and harangued top to bottom officialdom — w: ner: vous, irritable and generally unpleas- ant tio deal with. This spirit has disappeared, very large degree. The success of the government in overthrowing its ad- versaries has given a feeling of secur- | ity and it now functions much as other | governments do. Guards, messengers, bureau chiefs and higher officials are | more, cordial. ‘Bolshevist legations | abroad also reflect this caanged atti- tude to a marked degree. *| White collars are no luuger banned. | Black leather coats are not regarded | ,®s the only suitable uniform for a ‘Bolshevist official. Experienced minor officialy of the old regime have been restored to their-places in many of the offices and their mple has greatly modified the brusque manners. of the soldier, sailor and workman elemeat which originally monopolized most of the government posts. to a are not blind to/ , | Hl the force which propelled them. is | |, because they are heavier HERO’S Mc THER M: AY BR RING WREATH Mrs. Jane the air ferce of Grea me who won ine have the great honor of being sent to America to place a wreath on the er of the Unknown n Soldier to be buried ‘with ceremonies ai Arlington Cemetery Arm y. BIZARRE THEORIES OF VOLIVA FORM COURSE FOR SCHOOLS ee ae K ls UOLONY AY ZION any the edge of 1 Tat world topher | projection — w ago, prior to the di uth Pole dnd before | s known about the Antarctic so only a bare outline of of the southern ice land is The €30 ye seer of the colony adopted his new th world and the ¢ and-the 1,000 grade pupils believe them cording to their teachers. The public school maintained by the state board of education and at- j tended by. the children of non-mem-| ¢yh president hay ories of a fla ‘overy of the tation, | much 1 school |r if ace Bellerce in Theori Thompson, pri pal OF s shoal system, and an ar bers ot Voliva’s ian-Catholic | Gent believer in the Voliva theories, Apostolic church s aches, he ided a question which she | ever, that the world is a globe mov Il trip scientists and na-| ing through limitless space and it was the a jon of gravity Ww caused the apple to: fail on Issac Newton's head. New Course At the Zion schools the new course of study t The ci a flat cire with a north pole in the e Showing on her tropic of Cancer, 4 the norih pole, oy circle than the ricorn, 4 flat map} tropic , of On says: 2 tors on a globulay earth would find if they were to sail com- pletely around cither of these tropi cular world, act center, no south pole and surrounded bya} that they would” be identically the | wall of ice which keeps veniuresonie | sa: Jength. On a flat earth, how- mariners from falling off the rim. the tropic of Capricorn would That ‘ remains motion but} be “much larger y in space. Cancer, and would take much longer is not millions of] to sail around, because on a flat nd 91,060 000 miles } carth Cancer would be mearer the really a ittle orb 32 center, or north pole. Why don’t some miles’ across and only 3,000 miles | of globular cartht believers try | from the earth. Shine around the two tropics and That the law.of gravitation is a] find out whether they or we are cor- | fallacy and when objects are thrown] rect? The globular people certainly | can't prove curveture of the’earth.” s Iva Baker, * teacher of geo- rth demonsttrates to her cla thin air. | that the sun is only a tiny orb a few | the world, on | thousand mile vtiona: ‘That the sun into the air they continue to rise un- expended, and then fall hack to e: A standard map of instead ofa orb | | Christopher's projection, is used in} millions of m n diameter and! the schools to demonstrate the flat { 91,099.090 miles from the earth. If the | world theory. This m Which :18) ginava-soclarce , tt. would | uSed by navigators fentists iM | light up all the world, i ad of con- ng _time and longitude caleula- i rays to a 3,000 mile from the usual Merca-| y de Welt en the two tropics. projection familiar in other! yoifya himself, in a recent sermon | schools, in that it shows the earth as} at Shiloh Tabernacie, said God cer- it would look to an o directly above the north pole, with the con- ! tinents and seas projected on a flat) plane. As a result the north pole inly wouldsnot have made a sun to light the A man would be a fool,” the over- the center, and instead of seer added, “to build a ‘house in Zion where the Antarctic regions and place his parlor light in Kenosha, ted by a white ring about the outer | w cumference of the circle. This ig, according to Voliva, the ice barrier which keeps mariners trom “World ‘is Flat” Thompson, principal of the | s the children prefer | “LIBRARY” f Miss schools, A “A MOSCOW Have Made Chi Easier By Uzing Ht, | “AO tline, Waive Fou BOOKLET on MOTHERHOOD ANDTHE BACY, Fee BRADFITLD REGULATOR Co., DEPT. 9-D. ATLANTA. GA. | His counter the cnrb, his roof the sky, a thriving business between glances at the sky. (specialty. Sea a degrees farther ‘away, | world and then placed it so} Moscow book merchant does | Weather reports are his | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 21 | their mew flat world to the old | fashioned: yound one in which Colum- bus believed, “the student in Zion “grasp the thee earth readily because their minds are ‘not full of globular earth teaching such as older folks have had drilled into thom. Therefore. they accept the flat earth teaching without ques- tioning, not because they have to, but because it appeals to them as ration- al. I don’t believe there is one stu- | dent in the grades who has questioned it. The flat earth seems more rea- | sonale to them. The globutar, un- real.” j Wilbur Glenn Voliva, , ed John Alexander Dowie as overseer of Zion on the latter's death,in March, | .y07, was born ‘near Newton Ind., March 10, 1870. In 1897 he received his B. A. from Hiram College, Ohio, and in the same year a degree from Union Christian College at Merom, Ind. In 1889 he has been ordained a minister in the Christian church at /uhe age of 19, and held a pastorate at Linden, Ind., from 1889 to 1892; urbana, IL, 1892-93; studied theology at Stanfordvile, 9 supplied the pulpit of Che christian ~ church at Alb: d Ha | filled a pdlpit at York Harbor, | Me., |. |S the following year; and was pastor of the Ch m church at Washingy ton, C. H., Ohio, in 1897-99. In 1899, Voliva joined Dowi church and was ordained an elder and placed in charge of the ‘Zion taber- nacle in» Chicago. In 1900 and 1901 he represented Dowie at Cincinnati; schools,” she of the flat season. who succeed- prices. «©. All orders will be at Market Prices. 210, 5th Street. TIN OANETNG NONE TNE ANNOUNCEMENT Having just recently bought the G. M. Mandigo Grocery Store, ae 210, 5th Street, I wish to inform the customers of this store and th public, that I have a complete new'stock of Groceries and will be aim to carry a complete line of Fruits and Vegetables which are in I am going to make every possible effort to have on hand at all times the best goods which thé market affords, and at moderate I will also buy Butter, Eggs, Vegetables and all kinds of Produce * Any portion of your patronage will be greatly appreciated. T. B. SMITH, Grocer. Successor to G. M. Mandigo. Ses Cream Daily--Guaranteed to Whip NET AE TNE NETNET NONE ETAT AGING TAETAETACTAG TAO? promptly delivered anywhere in the oe Yours For Service. Phone 371 [Wa Xow 1) and then wag ‘sent to Aust overseer of the Dowie settlement of Zion there. He returned to Zion, | 000 motor trucks were registered in | INL., in 1906 as assistant to Dowie. the Country in 1920 while railroad re ar treight cars that will be forced into adleness total . approximately. 2,500,- 1 000. Some’ cities which for the past year tem. or two have been developing a of rural. truck lines connecting up with the source of their food and raw | ey hardship as a result of a strike, for ‘Only 900,000 To Do Work| these systems wil function as upual, oe y But in cities where these truck than- of! 2,500,000 Freight sportation systems are organized on Cars the spur ofthe minute, confusion and 5 congestion, with a resultant sapply ——_ shortage, is bound to result. y N. E. A. Servic | ‘New York, Oct, 20.-Tieup of the ‘ailroads by a strike throws upon | the motor truck fleets of the country ‘the entire burden of supplying the | named. This | needs of the cities, except such small! tor trucks registered in each state,in i help as may be given by the freight |.1920: New York state leads by far all the others in number of commerc motor trucks, with Ohio, Illinois and Massachusetts following in the order departments of interurban electric | Ala 12,696 | lines. * Ariz, 4,000 ; Inability of these truck fleets to) 3,500 | adequately cope with the emergency 34,078 is shown by the fact that only 900, degrees | a much }* material. supply will experience little | is the number of mo- | (IVAW di DW AW AIAN AAA WW AWW AVE Ae ave de ws - 23,950 1,800. 6,826 + 10,439 14,000 2,000 - 64,674 - 82,481 - 30,000 - 26,000 - 18,258 5,000 7,600 12,000 | 51,386 + 45,771 19,400 Minn. Mis 7,728 iss. . + 4.000 Mo. . + 23,700 Mont. Hg ‘ a Be The old reliable shop for dry clean- Nev. - "S00 || ing Pressing, repairing, remodel- N. 4,440 ing, relining, dyeing and tailoring. 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