The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1919, Page 20

ive Russia a’ Government Like U..S.---Food and Work SAYS\COUNTESS WITTE Tremendously Rich and Has*Great | Possibili- ere, and They Dominat By Copsrigh' i. by The Prem Publishin ilies May Be. Needed — “tie of Future Development, but: Intervention by Bolsheviki Only Murder | e: Soviets. Marguerite Mooers Marshall ¢ Co, (The New Yorkdivening World) ‘TESS WITTE, widow of the wisest man in; Russia, herseif born of the people, yet for years the telligent woman in Russian po} That derers. That their rule the Bolsheviki most remarkable,:influential and in- litical circles, beliewes— are synonymous with mur is the rule of organized robbery. That no help is in the Soviets, sincesthey are domt- nated by the Bolsheviki.’ That Russia is in great need of food and of work. ‘That in parts of Russia the nationalization of women has been decreed, as reported. ‘That the country should have a stable Government —whether a republic such as that of the United States or France, or a constitutional monarchy euch as that of England. Mt probably intervention by the Allies will be needed to save Russia, FF Wat it is a tremendously rich and wonderful country, with’ great pos- of future development. creatot of new Ruasia,” the Count Sergius Witte has been and mighty is the tale of hie nents. He was his country's ime Minister, and was respcn- for the Czar’s concessions to the element in 1905, to the catent ting the Duma and a Cabinet. Witte is generally admitted to ‘out-generalled the Japanese dip- in the peace conference held outh, N. H., after the japanese War. As Minister of he established the gold While the Portsmouth pegotiations were pending ne d a secret agreement for of- and defensive alliance be- Russia and Germany, although then Russia was ostensibly the of France, and by threatening to ja his #'gnature to the Russo- treaty he succeeded in hav- ing ‘annulled this treacherous hidden’ M act for which he was never dtgiven by either the Kaiser or the | 4a was a remarkable prophet. in| 1914, six months before the oi the great war, he said: y the first act of the Balkan af- has been played. It is now the | on, which may last for years ‘perhaps only for months the plore the said that the | ‘ot. Europe was no peace, but | io war, since 40 per cent. of | chp outlay of the nations went into | War preperation. Ho added some | strangely portentous in the “ present events: id I call to mind the gold and fis dissipated in smoke and ‘and compare that picture with ig gther—villagers with drawn, faces, men and women and gonscious children perishing painfully of hunger—I be- ip ask myself whether human cul- ‘and the white man, who person!- j it, are not tending toward an and, turning in another di- I behold the Anarchists and epringing up in regions desolate by this modern Mo- >i f ow aml ym and how will it all end? the great states which set deous example agree to call a go to say, and knit their sub- into a pacific, united Europe, {# the only issue I can perceive, Mi whc.. I say war I mean a con- St which will surpass in horror the ruta! armed conflicts known in history, and entail distress ‘widespread and more terrible ip living men can realize.” t Wilte lived to see a part of heey come true, His wife to sec it all enacted, Count ite died of influenza in March, 1915 widow told mg yesterday that here was no tyith in’ the rumors he had committed suicide or had bbe murdered by his political oppo. ~ sNgy she has come to America, her destroyed and swept away Pipit!—all!"—she declares, with ex Seinive outfung hands, in the dis- of, the past few years. Bhe is ity hardly less rémarkable her late husband, whose confi- and.counsellor she was, Born in the province of Odexsn, received at the most exclu- Basa , to have exercised more influ- Political affairs than any other outside the imperial family. youth they called her “La nig Matilde.” When she received ne y in her suite at the 1 saw a woman of medium wit a rounded, matronly fig- “ hy { Me gourt in the world, and she is Unlike most mature European women, Countess Witte uses no makeup, at least in the daytime. She has a wide, humorous mouth, very white, even| teeth, a strongly moulded chin and lower jaw. She was dressed in a plain, closely-fitting black gown, yet beneath the simplicity the almost caressing friendliness, one felt force, intelligence and a disillusioned com- mon sense. She was especially anxious that our conversation should not be called an ‘interview,” as she has denied herself consistently to the newspapers since her arrival, “But I could not refuse to see you,” she said, in her charming, soft voice, “since to me American women have been #o kind, so amia- ble." And she consented to answer @ few questions, and to speak briefly IF We Could “‘Radio”’ to the Qur Message Would Reach Venus in 2 Minutes, Planets--- But Would Take 4 Hours to Get to Neptune And Over 4 Years to Reach Next Star Beyond. Years to Alpha Centauri, Next Stellar Stop. Lewis of the United States Naval Observatory show that the telegraph and telephone systems are cane compiled by Isabel M. infinitely worse than we thought they were. “Infinitely” is a good of conditions in Russia. Her English ; Word in this connection, for Miss Lewis, in the compilations upon whica is clear, but there are not too many) this article is based, deals with the infinite—the universe—in effect, tho words of ft. "So do not call it an interview,” she begged, @milingly. “What of the Bolsheviki?” was, of course, my first question, ; “The Bolsheviki, they are murder- ers,” st replied, “I would like to take any father, any mother, any sister to Russia, and show them what the Bolsheviki there do to fathers, to mothers, to sisters. They kill, No woman, even, is safe.” “Ig it true that the nationalization of women has been ordered?” An emphatic nod of assent “Tha:, too, they do.” “Why do not the people cast oft the rule of the Bolsheviki?” Countess Witte spoke rapidly a mix- ture of French and English I could not follow, Then she said more slow- ly: “The people must live. There is no work. There is little food. The Bolsheviki, they say it is right to rob.” She leaned forward and gently plucked my blouse between thumb and finger. “I am @ Bolsheviki—then I say—T like your blouse. I want your’ Diouse. You must give it to me. Also your chain, What I see— what I want—I take that, It Is mine.’ "’ She added that she believes event- ually the soldiers, the officers and the women will rise against the Bolshe- viki, I asked her if she saw any hope in the Soviets, She shrugged a negative, explaining, “they, too, are in the hands of the Bolshew#ki, “Was the Kerensky Government better than the present state of affairs?” Another shrug. g004.” ° “What sort of government would you like to see set up in Russia?” “Someching strong, firm-—a gov- ernment like that of the United States, or of France, or of England. Russia is so larg country there may be several governments, Will royalty ever come b I do not know. Will Admiral Kolchak set up & firm government? I think he is a good man—I hear so, But I do not know, “Russia is a rich country, a won- derful country, with great posaibili- th Now it needs food, it needs work—there is no work any one can do. To help it I think the Allies must Intervene—it would seem so, But {ussta—who knows about Russia?" shrug of the shoulders finished the fragmentury little talk. And who does know about the fu- ture of this “most distressful coun- I thought as I came away, if “Belter—but no a Sigh? ae <> WITH THE INVENTORS, ae i fe Witte has only @ shrug--aud | system of the stars, Starting at the foandation—the game being this earth of ours—the teader should understand that electricity progresses, in covering distance, neck and neck with light. An electric impulse, starting from a given point and travelling over a wire or through the air by radio propulsion, moves at the rate of 186,324 miles a second, ‘This scientific and established fact is amazing when we consider that we often spend ten or fifteen minutes) establishing @ telephone communica- tion between Park Row and Harlem, | and !f one wants to talk over the tcle- | phone to a person in Boston, from an hour to three hours is required for the establishment of the communi- tion, But listen! The moon is 240,000 miles away from the earth, Of course we cannot conceive of a telephone line of the usual sort between the earth and the moon, because the linemen could not put up the poles, and without the poles they couldn't string the wires. But, conceivably, there might be estab- lished, some time, radio telephoulo communication between the earth and the moon, And with such communi. cation possible, Boris Roroffsky, Soviet Mayor of New York, desiring to com- munieate with Loon Loona, the Presl- dent of the Moon, might pick up his radio projector and say: “Lunar Suburban, Number One.” And how long do you suppose it would take the voice of Boris Boroff- sky to reach the radio central siation on the moon? Just one and one-third seconds! It takes longer than that for a mundane telephone girl to in- form you, in these times, thet your f'numba don’t ansa.” STENOGRAPHERS| Increase Your SPEED and Earn More | MONEY | HERMAN J. STICH World Champion 300-Word-a-Minute \ Stenographer Will Tell You How His Articles Begin jan table, a Pennsylvanian has pat- ented an electrica) device which, when @ bal! enters a pocket, starts a hand spinning on @ dial, the number on rich, the stops being added to oo, ia es Rs As an addition to the pocket bill- | Next Monday in the And as for Venus, she isn't much farther away than the moon, Adonis McManua of Yonkers, hungering for information right from the feedbox on Venus, as it were, might call up at midnight—when this long distance conversational convenience is an ac- tuality—and he would hear the dulcet tones of the Venus Central in just two minutes and eighteen seconds. With static conditions working fa- yorably telephonic communications between the earth and Mars might be hooked up in four minutes and twenty-one secends. The sun could be reached with the voice in seven minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Jupiter, however, is a few, junction points off in the solar system, and after putting in a call one might have @n opportunity to walk around the block, for it would take thirty-five minutes and fifteen seconds for the voice to reach Jupiter and the same time for the Jupiteria response to’ get back. Should bne ring up Saturn the call would not reach that planet for an hour and eleven minutes. Uranus is two hours and thirty-two minutes away from a sound originat- ing on the earth and travelling 186,- 324 miles per second, and Neptune eould be reached in four hours and two minutes. ‘ The above mentioned are, as everybody probably understands, planets. Talking to @tars would be An operation consuming considerably more time, The nearest bright star is beyond Neptune, Alpha Centauri If the radio system wasn't clogged with other messages or there wasn't & strike on or anything else in the way of interference one might call up Alpha Centauri from New York and the voice of the caller would reach Alpha in just four years, four months, seven days, 19 hours and 12 minutes. From this it will be seen that Alpha is about the same distance away from the earth that William J. Bryan was from the Presidency of the United States three or four times, We may treat lightly of those things, but Miss Lewis is serious about them, In the Electrical Ex- perimenter she ventures to suggest an aeroplane trip to the planets we have been talking about talking to, Her experimental plane would move 200 miles an hour and be powerful enough (o escape earth's gravitation. al bonds; also ir would have to have considerable gas and oi! capacity With an aeroplane traveling 2 EVENING WORLD on This Page miles an hoyr an aviator could make @ Don-stop ciroumnavigation of the jearth in @ little over five days, and, Would Take 200-Mile-an-Hour Airplane 1,500 Years to Neptune; 14,500,000 STELLAR DISTANCES MEASURED BY SPEED OF AIRPLANE FLYING 200 MILES AN HOUR FROM THE EARTH, Venus ..... METS. .cccccee +27 years Mercury ...... +32 years From Neptune to nearest star to travel 14,500,000 years—a in four and one-third years. 3 years +14 years moon in seven weeks. But to park on the sun would require a trip last- ing 53 years, After travelling for fourteen and a fraction years\we would pass the orbit of Venus and eighteen years later the orbit of Mercury. If we pre- ferred to trayel oufward from the earth in the direction of Mars and the outer planets instead of toward the sun, more than twenty-seven years) would elapse before the orbit of Mars| would be crossed. An airplane jour- ney to Jupiter would be a matter of more than 200 years, to Saturn 450 years, to Uranus nearly 1,000 years | and to Neptune about 1,500 years, To| cross the solar system on the diame- ter of Neptune's orbit would be a journey of more than 3,000 years. When our airplane reaches Neptune after a journey of 1,500 years, it is, as it were, just clearing! the ground for its flight to the stars, To cover the intervening space to the nearest star, travelled by light in four and a Jupiter «+++ 200 years Satur . +e» 450 years Uranus ..........1,000 years Neptune .........4,500 years beyond, airplane would have distance light would traverse third years, an airplane would require 14,500,000 years. With all this knowledge at hand it ought to be comparatively easy to figure out how long it would take to get to the moon if the B, R. T. ran that far. ———— INDIANS AND INDIANS. &. PACKINGTON of Chicago, visiting in New York, was in- troduced to a lady as from that growing town. “Ah,” she smiled, with the keen cynicism of the effete East. “From Chicago? I suppose you have Indians out there?” “Yes, madam, he replied humbly. “Ah! Aren't you afraid of being sealped?” “Not now, madam; not now,” he re- sponded, with profound sincerity. “I was, before I came to New York, but having been skinned as I have by these New York Indians, I consider scalping by our Chicago breed as a mere bagatelle.” Then there was a hull in the con- versation.--8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. TUESDAY, J What to UNE 10, 1919 Do Until The Doctor Comes By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Series of Articles Written Especially for The Evening World HAT should be done when a W foreign body, such as a plece of steel, lodges in the eye ball? Nothing. Eye specialists say they are frequently forced to remove an injured eye that has been de- stroyed by meddling onlookers at- tempting to remove the fragment with dirty toothpicks, ends of ‘matches, rusty pocket knives and the like. In case of an accident of this kind cover the eye with a protes- tive bandage and hurry the patient to the nearest hospital, Here, under X-ray exposure, the object is located, a magnet applied, the foreign body removed and the eye saved. Foreign bodies are sometimes swallowed and become fixed in the throat or gullet; dental plates, arti- ficial teeth, large chunks of ‘food, fruit’ stones, rings, @ bone, in fact anythifig that can be taken into the mouth. Fright causes an immediate train of disastrous symptoms, such as choking, suffocation, that may end fatally unless quickly allayed. Keep cool, If happening to a child, un- der no circumstances show fear or anxiety, Bones, teeth, rings and the like can foe rescued by depressing the tongue and “fishing” out the offender with a book. A buttonhook has been employed by me for this purpose when nothing was nearer at hand. The crooked finger sometimes an- swers well, Masses of food may be gently pushed down the gullet by means of olive oil and a whalebone, in the absence of a bougle. A tiny sponge may be securely fastened to the end of a whalebone and carefully beyond the obstruction; the sponge, on becoming moist from the fluids of the gullet, is then gently withdrawn, bringing fhe foreign sub- stance with it. ‘These measures should be employed until the arrival of a physician or the patient reaches the hospital, as tracheotomy is some- | times an imperative necessity in this accident. ‘When a little child swallows a for- eign body inversion of the youngster, gently shaking him ‘from side to side the while, will usually “spill out” the offending object. Never hesitate to invert the patient, hanging him by Cut Out and Save in Your Home Copyright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Rvening Wortd, OBJECTS LODGED IN EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT” the ankles, as it were; a sharp slay on the back of an inverted enti onan causes instant expulsion of the fore eign matter, Children sometimes button or other object in the ear, Now, almost all foreign bodies can he removed by means of a douche, using @ syringe, 90 that a stream of some force (not too great) Tay be secured, The patient should be placed on hia side #0 that the ear containing the | object is lowest, 90 taciiftating its ~ moval. Now, the nature of the fore j¢'sm body is important to knew, bee jcause seeds, beans and the Mke | quickly absorb water, swell up ang clog the canal, therefore any astrige gent, such as alcohol, must be used (vinegar, or liquor of an wilh y kin do). . Place @ bean, er probe in the ea; | Anything—as serious injury to th drum may result. Remember the ad~ monition of a famous a : “Do not put anything the elbow in the ear,” Wash hard objects like ‘buttons out with a stream of water, Insects may crawi in the ear and cause distressing symptoms, Fill the ear with olive oil, which suffocates the invader and at once floods him out, Should he be very lively, use @ mixture of chloroform and olive oll, Larvae. have been deposited in the | CaF of a stuporous person; on hatche ‘8, agonizing symptoms occur. The insects may be Kitled at once with a mixture of oil of tumentine and sweet oil, 1 to 10—then expel with hot. water douchings, When a button, seed or similar, Ject has lodged in the nostri) ashe tee other one tightly with the finger and blow the nose violently. A child has not sufficient force to do this for him~ self, therefore place your open mouth over that of the child, whose head is depressed, and tilted to the side of the plugged up nostril, you “head” the other way. Now close the empty nos- tril and blow powerfully into the ohild's mouth, so making a blow- Pipe of the combination. The unless it bas been in situ for daya and become deeply embedd: shoot out without any dimeulty, big r to remove jaller thay Look UCCESS is in large measure the matter of convincing the other fellow. And this holds good) all along the line, as, for example, between defendant’ and court, salesman and storekeeper, counsel writer and editor, editor and reader, politician and public, preacher and populace. other fellow round to your point of H machine, which he calls @ “parasol ing his family to the top floor, The ‘barring accidents and aerial trafic he iether > RA ARRY VAN WIE, plumber, of Nor 1229 46th Ave- nue, San Francisco, hopes before long to traverse the Pacific in a new type of heavier than air chine has been assembled in @ hangar, evolved by cut- ting away the second floor of his residence, and mov- 18 feet tn diameter, is shaped like a parachute, and below it are the main. sections, 4 feet in width and plane.” The ma- plane's top section, Unsuccessful, but pias 3 Side controls are planes on each side. The machine is constructed of aluminum and oiled silk, is more than 17 feet high and 85 feet long. The deck for passenger and crew Is 5 feet wide and 10 feet long. A trial flight held revently was ‘‘Parasol Plane’’ Frisco Plumber Built; located below the main Van Wie says with several minor changes he will be ready to revolutionize the flying industry. The above photograph shows a model of the panes Wah Bi, Laces Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co. (The New York When you've brought tie | It Up Evening World). view, when you've made him think |S you think and see things as you see them, then the next, most nat ural and simplest thing in the world is to win your case, to make your sale, to give impetus to communal action, to elect your man or to make {men better men, ‘And it 1s words—words as mese | Sengers, go-betweens, private secre- aries and vehicles of communica. tjon—which are the instrument of Progress, the real source of force and triumphant power, Too often words conceal instead of convey thought. People do not appreciate the potency of expression. They fail to make their meaning plain and their influence is always on the wane. Lucidity is commonly considered an outpost of ability; and by the same token ambiguity is taken ag a confession of inability or chicanery, When you're clear you've Uttle to fear, Language gauges the man, Time was when the dictionary habit was adjudged the moribund pastime of moss-backed bookworms and cranks. ‘To-day every desk boasts its unabridged or B00d-sized Webster. It is out of fashion and execrable taste to sneer at the chap who has the “looking up" habit, You'll soon be looking up to him, Anyway, history favors conscien- tious cranks. The elemental gold {s not to blame if we shame and debase it on worthless, electro-plated trinkets, The rare metal is Present all the time, but the corresponding mould |'sn't. So your language is there att the time; but it is up to you to cast the mould, to dress your thoughts i attractive clothes, in words which carry, which put your case acrose, WHICH CONVINCE THE OTHLR FELLOW, And in the final analysis, ‘the eg. tent to which the other tellow 4 convinced determines the exteng oh your success, f