The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-23
is EASY TO DIE
Engineer Who Saw Inside Work.
ings of Government Backs
Duckworth's Findings.
DOCTORS UNOBTAINABLE
No Freedom of the Press and
Only Communist Papers Are
Allowed to Be Printed.
UNOBTAINABLE

Reval, Esthonia. Aug. 22.-"It ia
easy 10 die in Russia"
This is the declaration Of n. W.
Mamontoff, chemical engineer. who
held high rank with the Soviet SUI
preme council Of national economy. un-
I'll his flight from Russia to Reyal
MamontOff is delivering lectures be-
fore the Reval Russian Neutral So
cialistic society. His picture OF Rus
sia under Red rule corroborates In
every detail the graphic dispatches
cabled from here by the American
newspaperman. J. Herbert Duckworth,
who made an independent investiga-
tion of Russian conditions at the peril
Of his life Tor The Journal ana asso-
ciated newspapers.
The people of Moscow are terribly
emaciated,' says Mamontoff. The din
ner in a Soviet dining saloon consists
of brown liquid called soup with a
floating skeleton OF 'vabla' 1fish) in il.
followed by mush
Not only the scanty fare but the
constant use OF saccharin as a sugar
substitute has made people thin and
formed ulcers in their stomachs.
Physicians are scarce and their
fees enormous. II one goes to a So
Wet doctor he must wait five or six
days and by that time either his maj
ady cures itself on 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 50
cold that the incisions they make
in their patients steam in the cold air.
THE motality rate in Russia is enor-
nous. Burials cannot be held without
permit Long lines Of pepole stand
before the offices OF the 'Centrogrob'
(sanitary burial committee) all day
long awaiting permission to bury their
dead.
1T is not uncommon to see a son.
assisted by his mother, dragging a
sledge with the body OF his father Ia
the burying ground. There, the.
corpse must be rolled from the coffin
into the grave the survivors them
selves dig
Like Duckworth. MamontoG was
particularly impressed by thc utter
disruption of Russian railway service.
Mamontoff explains Russian eco
nomic conditions. Russia, he says. is
divided into four parts:
THE fourth class is rapidly dimin-
ishing," he say. 1t is the class that
earns its living.
The third class has things 10 sell.
When these are gone its members, too.
will starve.
''The second class is made up Of
spectators.
'@The first class is composed o those
who still live well, drink vodka at
$4,000 rubles a bottle Ca ruble before
the war was 81 ,cents) and ride ia
automobiles. These are the masters
of Russia.
Most Of the inhabitants Of Moscow
are in office. The streets are deserted
during the working hours-10 a. M TO
4 p. m.-and after that time thronged
with officials hurrying with portfolios
filled with food
"In working Russia only two classes
have the right to exist. First. the
workers, and second, children and the
weak who have a certificate from So
cial institution.
Workers must be registered as
such with a Workers Soviet.
places in Soviet Institutions are
often obtained by pull
whole families are in Soviet SER
vice.
But even so. a family cannot earn
enough 10 live on"
There is no freedom of press in
Russia" says Mamontoff "Only
Communist papers are printed"
Mamontoh deplores the Immoral
bringing up Of the coming generation"
The Kremlin, where the autocrat
Lenin lives, is keenIy watched. No
one can enter without a permit" he
says.
'The population Of Moscow is deep
Iy depressed and Indifferent to ali
hope of better future. The only in