American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-13
ANARCHY RULES RUSSIA.

sky began an attack 10 regain control
and according 10 the dispatch with
every assurance OF winning. But
whatever faction succeeds ia gaining
control. a huge task lies before them.
The great body OF the Russian people,
according to Information secured from
Russia. lack OF proper training 10 be-
come citizens OF q democratic country.
They have no conception OF liberty
other than license. and yield obedience
70 no government Russia Is a mass
OF ~unorganized people. a huge mob,
beyond control. Arthur Ruhl, who
accompanied the Root mission to Rus
STA some three months ago, writes In
Golfers Weekly as follows.
was sleepy after three days la the
train, aud lucky enough 10 find a room,
tumblcd into bed. and knew nothing
until / was awakened by a great run
ning back aud forth and calling IN the
hall. and finally by the chambermaid,
who pounded on the door with a cur
ioua perempt0rlneas told me 10 get up
and got my coffee and get out, as the
restaurant. kitchen aud everything
was 10 be closed at ten o'clock. still
half asleep. / asked II | had TO 30 too.
She made an impatient gesture
everything was closed at ten o'clock,
she repeated, and flounced away.
! remembered her from the year be-
fore. but she too had changed. No
more the Russian friendly servants
p0llteneas-wo we're both tOvarishi
nov. aud she was determined ! should
know IL. a. the door closed there vas
a heavy explosion la the distance, and,
closely following Il. another. These
d%etOnatiOns. the hurry and cries in the
hall. took me back 10 Antwerp. Evil
IDENTITY the big day had come. The moi
was cut. the hotel was 20 be blown up
presently. aud we had until ten 10 get
out. Throwing on my clothes. l pic
tured the approaching exit-dragging a
trunk downstalrs-or should | leave
the trunk and take only a hundle?-
and learned a few moments later that
the explosions we're caused by "A IRE
ON ono OF the Neva docks. that the
noise In the halls was made by the
servants. who had decided. as this was
a holiday. to do no work after ten
o'clock.
And they did none A few seconds
after ten | ran across the proprietor
begging the same lntransigent cham
bermaid. all but on his knees, to finish
the room she was working on. and
within half an hour the place was
empty OF everyone but guests. There
was not a hotel nor restaurant that
day Ia which you could get anything
20 eat. nor an open shop. Those
warned Ia time had laid In a supply
Saturday night. and when I returned
that evening. after tramping all day
long, / should have had 10 go without
anything had not the benedcient
shepherd OF tho United Press shared
the plate OF cold meat he had kept In
his room. There was no bread and
though We had tea. a took the better
part OF an hour and the hotel pro-
prictor's personal persuasion before
anyone could be induced to bring hot
water.
And this serio-comic state OF things
vas not unique. II was, aud still Is,
a. this Is written. the more or less
regular thing All that humber Rus
sian world. which smiled and called
ono BARN" and seemed SO quaint aud
charming as such s~ubservient orders
Mexican poems and the like-always
are 20 the free-born American. was
drunk with svOboda now. and each
proceeded 10 realize his freedom In
his own way. Tho laundresses struck
and u anyone ought TO strike, Il
must be- a steam laundressl-and for
days IL was impossible TO get anything
washed. and even now three weeks is
about a. o a. one can expect 20
have things back
Starched collars were regarded as
peculiarly rcptiiious. Outside the no
tells. they simply wouldn't DO them, and
those ahO didn't live ia hotels had 20
steal about among their friends who
did. slipping Ia a collar here and there.
in the other mans wash. like a coun-
forfeit bill Indeed. for "a time one
couldn't even buy collars the clerks
being threatened with direst ven
geance 70 they truckled 90 capitalism
and by this uuderhand method weak.
ened the strike. Pavemants were dir.
"a because the dyorniks. those grave
and mysterious individuals. half port
sr half policeman. Nho sit az every
ground-roor doorway. decided that
their old job OF sweeping Ina front OF
AN|HN N"A"NH was no NANAN ANN NNNtM
Ia the big Moscow hotels. FOR severn.
weeks. people had 10 go 10 kitchen fol
their % a make their own beds
rp and down the Nevsks. shops CLOSED
by the dozen With a notice on the do0i
that the clerks were on strike. factorl
employees met and demanded wage.
and hours which amounted not only 9,
c~onnscation Of profits but of the who'll
invested capital
There was practically no necessit,
o. ufe-the things city folks take 10
granted-which might not az any mo
ment be impossible TO get or so expen
sive as 10 be beyond the reach OF mos
people. Queues a block long. waite
outside the shops for milk, bread, but
teri have seen people camping on
il front OF shoe shops the night beior
- A-I.s. 90 10 an hand rban the ubn