Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-19
The New York Times, the Bolshe-
Wiki and Mr.. Vanderlip.

Wiki ana MIR. Nanutfllp.
1901 East Central Avenue,
Albuquerque, N, NJ,
December II, 1920.
Morning Journal, City.
Dear Sir:--In your editorial this
morning based on information
! from Mr. A. j. Sack. you curiously
| say nothing about the allied block
| AIDE on Russia. You mention the
increased death rate and the de-
| creased birth rate and the fact that
five thousand children die in Mos
COW every month for lack of food,
but you strangely forget to men
| ton the blockade.
You're a sensible man, Mr.. Ma
gee. You know there is no country
on earth, with possibly the eXcep-
ton of our own United States, that
could go three years without food
or manufactured products from the
outside. without feeling some OF
the same effects But you take the
thoroughly unbiased word of Mr..
A. ]. Sack, official propaganda of
the Bahkmeteff-C zarist regime in
/ Washington.
You surely know, Mr.. Magee, that
Mr.. Sack has been discredited so
often as to be summed even by the
most conservative papers. He gives
out most interesting fiction, but It'll
isn't news I'll be surprised if |
gee Mr.. Sacks article in any other
paper but yours, and doubly so i'll
ii is made the basis of an editorial.
You have access to number of
exchanges, Mr.. Magee. Why don't
you use the privilege? Why don't
you read the New York Times, for
instance? It's a standard among
American papers, isn't it? And 1t
can't be accused of radical lean
ings.
Why haven't you been reading
the articles Of Mr.. II. G. Wells?
Perhaps he's too radical and spent
too limited a time in Russia to be
accurate. Then why not Washing
ton Il. Vandcrlip, who spent twol
months in Russia and got to know
everybody of prominence? He was
pretty favorably impressed with
what he saw. You can read it all
in the Sunday and Monday issues
of the Times, December IL and 10.
You cant accuse him of being
overly radical, for he's merely rep
resenting prominent financiers of
Los Angeles including Mr.. Harry
Chandler, proprietor of the Los An
gees Times, and Mr.. Edward l..
Doheny among others.
Did you read the interesting
diary of Mrs. Sheridan, who went
to Moscow to do" the faces of
the leading men there. She is a
noted sculptress and the cousin of
Winston Churchill, who has prob
ably done more than anyone else
to keep on the blockade and outfit |
armies against the bolsheviki Mrs. |
Sheridan went so far at the con-
clusion of the articles, which ran
in the Times, as to say she would |
be glad to go back to Moscow to
live if it weren't for her children |
at home,
Then just word by Mr.. II. N. !
BrailsfOrd, who is by far the best |
informed man on Russia because |
he has spent his time among tho |
peasants. He says of one Rus
sian province:
"In Vladimir there were no an
aesthetics, no caffein (the only |
medicines of much use in typhus)
little quinine, and dreadful short |
age of every sort of drug, dlsinfec-
tant and instrument, including even !
clinical thermometers, though an
attempt is now being made to man
ufacture them in Moscow. Worst |
of all, perhaps, was the almost to
tai lack of soap"
And still you make no reference |
to the blockade. You make no men
ton Of men who have studied Rus |
STA. You take the word of a man |
whom you never heard of till three |
years ago and might be anything |
for all you know. You ignore the |
existence of a blockade that has
Killed thousands of Russian child |
rem
You offer no solution for the |
Russian enigma, but say it depends |
on the common sense, the COM
mon decency and the common
gratitude of the rest of the world. )"
Christmas is coming, Mr.. Magee, a
time for Peace on earth, Good
win to Man" You're a Christian, |
Mr.. Magee. You don't want to have
part in the murder of Russian
women and children, do you? You
won't object if they slip little
medicine through for their sake,
VIII you? You won't be harsh
enough to condemn all these peo-
pie to starvation just because their
fool rulers believe in a certain pol
icy?
Your Christmas fund here is an
admirable thing. Why can't you
extend the idea to the world?
Sincerely yours,
(signed) K. S. CREIGHTON.
Mr. Crichton asks us why we
don't read the New York Times.
We do. Below we reprint extracts
from a single and the most recent
issue of the Times that has reach
ed us-that of December IA. These
excerpts throw considerable illum-
ination on what the Times thinks
OF bolshevik Russia and of Mr..
Vanderlip; on what Mr.. Vanderlip,
who calls himself an American,
said to the bolsheviki about the
president of the United States, and,
finally, on what Mr.. Vanderlip has
to say about Emma Goldman's de-
sire to get back to civilization.
Our exhibit will consume con-
siderable space but If. after ex-
amining it, Mr.. Crichton feels that
he wants the last word. he can
have 1t. AS far as we are con-
cerned, this completes our case re-
on rdiDu tba nd;torioI that die