Evening journal., 1920-10-15
RISKS life To
.SAVE FAMILY
Young Texan Brings Folks
Back From Russia After
Long Search
BRIBES SOLDIER
WITH RAINCOAT
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DALLAS, Texas, Oct. i5.-"It's !
just luck I'm able to tell the story"
said Harry Harrs. owner OF the
Queen Cigar Store. mot One out OF
a thousand escape from Russia alive"
Harris has lust returned 10 Dallas
from Russia with his mother and
three sisters, Helen, 70. Gertrude and
Beatrice. twins, 81, after a search
which lasted eight months and COW
cred all Russia.
II anyone wants to know how
much they gel to eat over there,
they should see my mother and
sisters" said Harris,
My mother Is not yet over that
terrible fear one gels in Russia. She
Is afraid 10 sleep with the windows
open. When ! got back 10 New York
and was on the streets at = O'Clock
at night. found myself looking back
TO see II anybody was slipping up
on me-"
crossed the border into Russia by
bribing Bolshevik soldier with his
fsIncoat and cap.
You can get most any thing in
Russia for clothes said Harris.
"Money doesn't do them any good
because the other fellow comes along
and takes it away from them.
Il had some American travellers
checks that I put inside 2 loaf OF
that black bread that I managed TO
get hold OF while t was fresh. NO
body took the bread away from me.
,Harris arrived 10 Nlnsk, where his
father had starved TO death, but MS
nolher and sisters were not mere
Three days after his arrival there
the Bolsheviks came and Tor SIX
weeks he existed under their rule.
In that i'me ] learned wh9t gnes
want, or In other words, tneS aon
want onylhWs but 10 get what the
other fellow has.
"An lhoy hive TO cat IN Russia Is
black bread. notato peelings anq
grass Lenin gels the potato ana
giVs the people the peelings. Ine
people have no clothes and they are
starving-iJ0O00O0 OF them;
"Such conditions can't last another
year. The people are Just noidine
in on promises They were told thai
they could easily whip Poland. then
the world would recognize them and
they would have plenty 10 eat.
Wonderful posters are spread
throughout Russia holding form
promises from a brilliant future. IN
the meantime people are falling dead
on The streets from hunger women
and children without clothes beg Tor
a scrap Of bread on the streets In
'srhe wheat aelds OF Russia are an
living idle Nobody Will work.
few would but what's the use? An
other fellow would come along and
take it away from him.
There are a great many German
aviaiors and krupp workers In Rus
ala n Is with The help Of the Ger
mans glaf practically all the muni-
tions arc made. large number or
explosions and deaths are caused az
the rlants because inexperienced
men are IN charge. Il almost
amounts 10 a fight still going on be-
tween the Germans and the allies
There is no coal In Russia. They
use wood 20 run trains and you can
sometimes travel 80 miles In p
hours. never any further. The sparks
from the engines cause great Ores.
Sometimes a CITY Is almost burned
to.iha ground and great forest fires
are startled that way. They have no
system for putting out nres, eHcfs
10 make everybody pump wafer
once and didn't give me a thing 10
~ lnallv found my mother and
aietprs in Lithuania, but II was al
most too late when got there. They
were nearly starved.
"Women end children don't have q
chance I'm Russia. They seldom get
any bread To get 10 you have TO
sill on the stairs all night so as "a
he ono of the nrst 10 line in The
morning 10 get Il while 70 lasts
Then when you get it someone Is
,yaning around the corner to knock
Won in the head and take It away
from YOU. What's a life TO a Loaf
OF bread7 "a
1--WE got away as soon as we could
and thanks 10 inc aid n Senator
CuIberson, my trip was a success
mi it's terrible 10 think what my
mother and little sisters have sur.
. fered They don't hardly realize
where they are now.
sThe Bolsheviks have made peae,
,.lih T.itvia and letters can be senl
thcre for people in Russia.