The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-15
GOLDMAN SPLITS
WITH REDS;FlEES
Letter Received Here Tells Of
Woman Radicals Flight
From Land Of Soviet.
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derstand and absorb what now seems
to US conflicting. On the other hand.
II Is well night impossible to live
here outside the soviet regime.
Things are terribly scarce and still
more terrible In price. Imagine 1000
rubies for q dozen eggs. 500 rublss
for q pound of butter. shoes. 1000
rubles or more. The dollar 10 now
80 rubles. So you can ngure out for
yourself how one can manage. There
10 one way out. that II TO get money
from home In gold. Its value 10 fifty
times that OF paper.
1T Ii q great pity no one told US
that. as we could just as well have
taken part OF our money In gold. AZ
II is. Sash had only Si00. Now, dari-
ing. IL you want US to be able to live
more or less Independently. you'll
have to do two things-send us pro-
visions and things and gold. I don't
know how much Harris intends to
pay for my correspondence. But,
course. collect II from him and change
it into gold.
.sEND Us GOLD"
among those who viii be deported
next there surely will be some de-
pendable people who will bring US
gold and provisions. For instance.
Schnauiets wife. You can reach her
At the following place: MI. Alexan
dry, No. ooS East One hundred ano
Ninety-first street. You or r. might
get hold Of her and ask her TO take
$500 In gorld for US II Ia too bad
that we took paner money with W.
You Will see the importance OF
gold when tell you that / paid $500
rubles today for q little electric tea
pot. But in American paper money
that tea kettle costs about $50. you
| see. then. that unless we can get gold
from time to time we will not be able
to live in Russia at all In view OF
| the fact that we must retain our In
dependence II we are to decide with
out fear or favor whether we can
work within the Soviet regime.
1--WE want to help Russia. The pow.
erty and distress are beyond descrip-
ton. No medicines OF any sort. no
soap. matches, muslins, underwear.
and nothing Of food. II Is appalling.
The suffering Of the sick and OF chill
dren Is awful. Why not get rev
women together In America to organ
ize relief work? 1t must not be Oh
ficial relief. otherwise the things VIII
never leave America AS iar as We
know. no restrictions were placeo on
anyone as to the amount OF baggage
the deportees carried.
THE Petrograd climate Is rotten;
nearly all our people nave coid'
Aside from our own needs we'o nke
ru"ntu' .1 tne e", ossthia :, ~
things wholesale, so that each de-
portee can be given the extra trunk
OF food for the hungry children Of
Petrograd
What became Of Mrs vanderlip's
500 900! Couldn't she be induced to
help carry out our project? You don't
know what 1t would mean to the
children. Sonya Kolomburovna. care
of !. Lorin. Hotel Astoria. Petrograd,
Is my address. We're going to Moscow
in about ten days. but will return to
lPetrograd to live. This Is the revo-
luttonary workers center. while
Moscow is the seat OF the government.
Needless to say we prefer to be far
distant from MOSCOW. But we must
go to meet Lenin and the others.
"Of the leading men in Petrograd
we've met only two so FAR, Zinovieh
| ana j. FORM. we saw the former
devoted much or his time to us. He
Is most lovab'e personality. In fact,
they all are and 80 earnest and dedi-
Gated. All work themselves to death.
Ihey are starved and exhausted, but
their spirit Is beyond oelief. And yet
we may not De able TO Work with
them.
BEGs FOR BABY CLOTHES.
.rbe .,tuatio, 10 .,cb th., wv. ~.
now going ,brouyb ,ha da.n.s, 81
final conf;ict In onr live.
"You can lima gine our iov v,.n MO
mot dear nil Shatov here ua =. o,,r
neiphhor lives In the SAVE ho,,s, ~
the noor ahov. ne drsad 20 th,Ui,
~ A. tn. n,ntber co noor,,, $50
;sbed ana u,itho,,t an,thtn ~
habv Imagine she hss nnsv Nj, -,
a dianer for tbs hahv Oh. ~, o. ~, ~,
s.ck wben 1ava re-, 49, ~ 80
powder and a piece of castM soap.
Dearest. I want you and Rose Yster
to get one or two outfits for Shatov's
child. Be sure to include little
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