The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-11-20
i Letters From and About Soldiers

Maj. Phillip II. Carroll. just back
from southern Russia and Constantin-
ople and who will leave this week to
return to Europe. spent apart Of last
week here looking after orchard inter-
ests. Maj. Carroll. who was with the
9lst Division, was assigned to duty at
Nice for several months after the
Armistice Last summer he was sent
to southern Russia with a relief expe
dition, which carried cloth, small tools
and other manufactured goods to the
agricultural districts around Batoum
and Baku.
Mai. Carroll. whose forthcoming
mission to Europe will carry him into
Czecho- -Slovakia with party which
will spend the winter engaged in re
lieving the distress and want of chill
dren, will be accompanied by his wife
and little daughter. The mission will
be dispatched under the auspices of the
European Chldren's Relief Fund.
| Maj. Carroll says that the region of
southern Russia is devoted largely to
production of wheat, but that many
raw materials await development.
Representatives of American harvest
ing manufactures have invaded the
territory and the farmers conduct their
great grain fields along :modern lines.
| The people are in no need of foodstuffs
| but as a result of the war they are
short on many manufactured commodi-
ties, he says.
There should be great American
interest in helping southern Russia. "
| Mai. Carroll declared. "These people
do not want charity. They need to be
understood first and then they need
American manufactured goods cloth,
clothing. shoes. machinery and rail-
road equipment. For these they are
willing and able to exchange raw prod.
ucts.
Here is our chance to combat boil
shevism. If American trade does not
enter southern Russia Germany will
capture the business and the friendship
of the country under the force of eco
nomic demand.
German Jews entered Russia in the
| dark days of that empire and sWayed
the Russian Jews to the German line
Of thought, with disastrous results.
Russian and German Jews today are
the ringleaders of bolshevsm, and
against them are the mass of Russian
people, the thinking people.
Sane Russia is absolutely against
bolshevism, which is its own worst en-
emy. The laboring man is not neces-
sarilv a bolshevik, for the Reds are
as antagonistic to the laborlng man as
to the imperialst. The worker does
not get the best of the melon on any
hand, not even in the matter of ma
tional wage scale. Under the bolshe
wiki the lawyer is the best paid pro-
fessional in Russia. and the scale is
graduated downward from the bar to
the pick and shovel"
Mai. Carroll expects wheat prices to
tumble next year. when the great ton
mage of grain from the rich southern
Russian belt is again made available
for world consumption.
While at Nice Maj. Carroll met
Henri de Redding, young Swiss army
officer, who formerly owned Hood
River orchard. Mr. de Redding was
called to military service shortly after
the world war began. Maj. Carroll
reports that he has welded young
French woman of Lyons. He met the
young couple while they were on Wis
it at Nice.
Ernest Samuel, who was overseas
with Co. b.. llth Regiment. U. S.
Marines, has returned home. Follow
ing his discharge at an eastern canton
ment, Mr. Samuel visited relatives in
Pennsylvania. Roy M. Samuel, a
brother, has also received his discharge
from the devil dogs with whom he
served.
R. B. Wood, recently mustered out
of the navy, and his bride, formerly
Miss Anna Hart, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. f. Hart, have arrived here to
make their home. Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
were married at Vancouver.
Jack Anderson, who was overseas
with Troop A., old Oregon cavalry,
transferred to field artillery service, is
now here driving one of J ack Bagley s
Oldsmobiles. The car is engaged in
apple sportation.
Lynn Davis, who is stationed with a
contingent of coast artillery soldiers at
Fort Worden, Wash, was here last
week on furlough visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Davis.
Clifford Wolf, former Portland boy,
was here last week from Goat Island
navy yard. San Francisco, visiting his
old friend, Robert Greene, and wife. 8
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