The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-19
RUSSIANSSAD
AND DSTARVlNG
], AS REDS RULE
Correspondent Who Penetrates
Bolshevik Country Stunned
at Revelations
GET BUT ONE MEAL A DAY
Sanitation is By~gone Thing in
Country Where Red Radi-
Gals Hold Sway
az HERBERT DUckWoRTH.
Copyright, 1920. by the Newspaper
enterprise Association)
(Special CabIe)

Copyright, 1920. by the Newspaper
enterprise Association.)
Especial cabIe)
Reval EsthOnia. June 19.-The ap.
prarance of Moscow stunned me!
| had read what other correspond
ents had written Of the BolsheTik cap
ital. i.s$
Now I know that they must have
| been led over Cooks Tours" through
Mcscow--that they never saw the real
Moscow or they could not have writ
ten without reservation that the city
was running normally.
7 flatly contradict those who have
said there are automobiles. well-dress
ed men and women attending theaters
and restaurants that things are run.
ming full blast.
.s. People Dazed. Ragged.
Moscow looks as though it had been
smitten by terrible plague.
The people of. Moscow are dazed
with sorrow. Their clothes are thread
bare and they are almost shoeless.
IT. is true there is opera in q few
theatres few restaurants open and
a, few neighborhood moving picture
plaLes But these are not lC" thf
starving masses.
The only automobiles in Moscow
s,e those carrying commissars. and
armed soldiers from the Extraordin
ary Commission for the Suppressic:
of the Counter Revolution
These official cars race about wit7
onen exhausts and like the cars called
Juggernaut, make people shudder w,tt
fear.
49, Shops Closed
l saw long lines of haggard, miser
ably clad people, waiting for hours
outside soviet kitchens for their one
meal a day.
The citizens look like shades from
purgatory With dull. drawn face:
and with the sickly parchment like
skins of the starved, they stalk 1ht
streets.
| All the Moscow shops are CLOSED
and the dirty, broken windows arr
j mastered with flasiag rcd revolution
\ airy posters. -@y'' II +,
Such department stores as Muir I
| Merriles. in kuzneiczki Most. whici
was to Moscow what Marshall Fiel,
is to Chicago. now are empty shells.
Kuzneiczki Most, once the Fifth ave
nue. of Moscow, now is like a deserte,
street in dead city at o'clock o,
a Sunday morning.
My tours of Moscow included no
only the former business districts. bu
also the section where the worker
dwell
| l passed through the famous Suk
one can buy anything from beeves t.
canaries. But at the prices charge,
on the market is for communists, com
missars and spectators only.
Another morning visited the stree
market at the corner of Karetni AM
Sadevia streets.
Here is what various foods cost il
rubles and in dollars at the pre-wa
rate of 81 cents a ruble:
Butter. lb, 2S00 rubles or $1428.O0.
i White bread. h., $50 rubles o
s3S2.5O.
Eggs, each, 120 rubles or $6120.
Picked herring, each, 1000 ruble
or $4,000.
Potatoes, lb., 300 rubles or $153.OO
Thousands of Russians who are no
working for the government, exist b.
exchanging household goods to farm
ers for food The farmers now owl
pianos. monographs. fine pictures
carpets-the goods of luxury.
In Moscow, one carries bread Whel
he can get it. in his pockets, in brie
cases or in bundle slung with string
across his back. was stopped score
of times by people begging bread
only bread!
saw men at Nikoiaevski railwa.
station devourng like mongrel dogs
scraps tossed from Red Cross trai1
New plumbing is unobtainable il
} tary arrangements have completed
broken down. Because of this l hav
} seen disgusting incidents on tn
streets of Moscow by both men an
women.
quite believe the statement mad
to me by a man who said he was
commissar (Bolshevik Officially tina
. the communists fear that barely 100
600 of the 100000 paid up communist
are sincere.
This minority rules by terror only
because the majority is too weak an
depressed by starvation to rise.
At least dozen officials of the CON
munist party begged and implored m
to help them escape to America.
. Haf-Starved Workers.
AS for the housing of workers in tn
dwellings of the bourgeoise-th re
. suit is ludicrous if not pathetic
5 Behind the dirty, curtainless wiz
2 dows of once handsome apartment
2 houses. on Tverskaya and Great Sac
5 ovaya, saw the hungry. half-clad chi
: dren of the Reds living in the furn
: tureless rooms. | saw their mother
l going out with pals to stand in lin
and try to get food from the Sovie
kitchens.
+ The people of Moscow are sick Of tn
l rule of Lenin and Trotzky.
Y The revolution was not won, for
t found all communists still talking {
I civil war.
But for the heavily armed red guar
t on every corner and machine gum
. mounted on motor trucks racing e'
t erywhere, the mass of Russian peopl
. would have overturned the Bolshevi
government long ago.
} The mills of the United State
| consumed 67,0O0,G00 pounds of wot