The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-15
.pROF|TEERS SAP
|. wilma, CRAzED
BY STARVATION
Hand of BolSheyikl CruSheS
/ Life Out Of People,
BY MISS CECIL CHESTERTON
Exclusive Cable TO the Internal onal
News Service)

y WILMA tBy Mail)--I arrived here
: after ,hrty-six hours travelling The
! ei,y is wrecked from artillery fire.
; When Russia was still IN the fight
ing line the Nistnla was prosperous
aud gay Now It is desola,c, the
+ people being wi,hou, fuel and TODD.
Mo,lonlcsS figures sit on the pave
mert, s,upeiied from sheer hunger
! Since my entry troops OF the Polish
larmy have been sharing their ra,ions
with the population. 1t may he little,
\ but for starving people IT means
much.
|. On my arrival ! found unheard Of
prices being asked for food. a
pound OF bread cost thirty ruhles--
that is, nomlnally Rotten eggs cost
$2S, pound OF sugar S62S, pound
OF mca, $50, butter $3.50 Nearly
all restaurants were closed but IN
one still open | paid $2S for dinner
sof soup and col trSe meat asked
!; for a piece OF cake, but was told II
would cost s2S | was glad that |
had brought my own PgoVslqns IRON
WARSAW, according TO friends ad-
|yyiee,
To quote a particular case. a doc
tor 10, badly oi', goes TO tho coun-
airy to see his patients. They pay
i him by produce. lie gets for his adj.
z vice and medicine eggs, butter and
Z bread Certain people learned what
wa, happening, and lady Of very
Il good family came 20 see him She
]. tainted before she began to speak,
Y and the doctor gave her food. She
n revived a little. but burst into tears,
h saying that she came no, for herself,
/ but to beg some food for her mother,
|. who was dying from starvation.
1 Bread Worth More.
Y An acquaintance OF mine who was
\ lucky enough to obtain piece OF
L leather took il TO a shoemaker, ask
4 ing him his price to make a pair OF
Y shoes. The shoemaker replied ~
Il loaf OF bread"
\ 1t i, much easier to obtain goods
i for bread, cheese and butter than
/ money, even gold.
|, Money h'' brought further con
y fusion. A part OF the Polish army
had five kinds Of currency in ciroula
y 'tion--rubics OF the crar's period,
which have the highest value, ru-
|, bles OF the Kercnsky government ;
tubles printed by the Germans dur
Il Ing their occupation. and rubles cir
|. rula,ed by the bolsheviks, which
\ have no value at all. The bolshcviks
\ are able TO print all kinds exoep,
y German, ., they are in possession OF
\ The original paper and blocks
y This allowed them TO rob the help
n less population. They paid their ac-
u counts in their own money. which
4 IL, no value abroad. while duties and
taxes had to be paid in the crar's
money. which Is still exchanged in
n foreign countries. Russian letter
4 stamps are still usst instead of small
|. com. 10 preyen, speculation. The
h Polish authorities have published an
4 official table Of values.
| Meanwhile the bolsheviks have
% plenty OF food amid the misery. All
/ the members OF the party now known
4, the communists were drawing
large salarieA A soldier Of the mil
i lila draw, $500 month, while
|ftia,ses exist even more privileged in
Il San Corses hotel. The restaurant
\ there 10 opened only TO commissaries
n Communis, leaders are admitted 10 a
\ dinner u four courses costing s rs
hall he cost, The manager Of the
hotel told me that the Russian gov.
ernmen, paid the difference, thu'
! spending enormous sums for the bene'
III Of selected people. This is q
\ characteristic trick of Russian COM
niunista
h Bribery Common.
n The inh1b,ant. OF wilma tell mi
h that there is now more corruption
| than even in the time Of the ciar
II Bribery will secure everything. Frei'
Ia asoN an influential bolshevjSk a,