Evening journal., 1920-08-21
IT'SEASY TO
DIE IN RUSSIA
Engineer Who Saw Bolshe-
vik Rule From Inside
Backs Duckworth
DEATH RATE
is VERY HIGH
n. E. A. stan Special.


REVAL. Esthonia. Aug 20.-"It is
easy 10 die in Russia"
This is the declaration OF NJ. w.
Mamontoff, chemical engineer. who
held high rank with the Soviet Su-
preme Council of National Economy.
until his Night from Russia to Reval.
MamQntO1 is delivering lectures be-
fore the Reval Russian Neutral Social
istic Society. His picture or Russia
under Red Rule corrObOrates In every
detail the graphic dispatches cabled
from here by the American newspa-
perman. J. Herbert Duckwortn, who
made an independent Investigation OF
Russian conditions at the peril OF his
life for The Evening Journal and as
sociated newspapers.
"The people or Mscow are terribly
cmaciated." says Mamontoff. THE
dinner in Soviet dining saloon con-
sists Of a brown liquid called soup
with a floating skeleton Of 'vabla
flshl In il followed by mush.
mot only the scauty fare but the
constant use OF saccharin as a sugar
substitute has made the people thin
and formed ulcers in their stomachs.
physicians are scarce and their
fees enormous II one goes 10 a So
Wet doctor he must wait i've or six
davs and by that time either his ma
lady cures itself or becomes serious
and perhaps takes his life.
Even simple remedies like castor
oil may not be obtained without a
doctors order. and then after six days
wait
Russian hospitals are a horror.
physicians now operate in rooms
sn cold that the incisions they make
In their patients steam In the cold
air.
enormous. Burials cannot be held
without a permit. Long lines OF peo-
pie stand before the offices of the
'Centrogrob SANITARY burial commit
ice all day long awaiting permission
10 bury their dead
"Tt Is not uncommon 10 see son
assisted by his mother dragging 8
siedce with the body OF his father u
the burying ground. There. the
CORPSE must he rolled from he cofiE
into he grave the survivors them
selves dig"
Like Duckworth, Mamonto1 wa'
particularly Impressed by the uttel
disruption OF Russian railway service
NamOntof explains Russian ccon0
mic conditions Russia, he says. h
divided into four parts;
The fourth class Is rapidly dimin
ishlngr ne says. Its members arr
starving 20 death II is the class tina
earns It's living.
'"The third class has things TO sell
When these things are gone its mem
hers. too. will starve.
'The second class is made mp o
Spectators.
"The first class is composed o
ihose who still live welln drink yodk
az 1900 rubles a bottle "a rubie be
fore the was was 81 centsl and rid
in automobiles. These are the mas
ters OF Russia.
Most nf the inhabitants OF MOscOy
are IN office. The streets are deserte
during The working hours-iO a. m. .
p. m.-and after that time thronge
with officials hurrying with portfolio
Allied with food
I'm working Russia only two classe
have the right 10 exist: First. N
workers and second children and N
weak who have a certificate from
social institution.
Workers must be registered a
such with a Workers Soviet.
places In Soviet institutions an
often obtained by pull
whole families are In Soviet sci
vice.
"But even so. family cannot ear
enough 10 live on"
There Is no freedom Of press
Russia" says Mamonton. "Only Con
munist papers are printed"
Mamontoff deplOres the immor
bringing up Of the coming gener
ton"
THE Kremlin. where the autocr
Lenin lives. is keenly watched. No OF
can enter without a permit" he say
NThe population OF Moscow Is dee
" depressed and Indifferent 10 Z
hope OF a better future. The only !
terest left is-eatingl"