Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-22
TREAT RUSSIAN REDS
ROUGH, SK|PPER'S PLAN
Must be Made to Work or to Know
They'll Starve, Says Down
East" Sailor.

Bangor, Me, Jan. 13.-According. to
Yankee shipmaster, who has just returned
from a voyage TO the land of the Bolshc-
wiki, everything is scarce and costly
In Russia except rum and fruit.
There Is plenty of rum over there,
says the Captain, "and plenty OF folks
to drink it. Some of them don't do
much of anything else. There IS n
great chance for spectators over there
just now, and if / had been able to
carry $1,000 or $4,000 worth of boots
and shoes with me last trip | could
have cleaned up a fortune. Yes, could
have made enough 20 keep me comfort
ably ashore the rest of my days.
Shoes that | could have bought in
New York for 80 | could have sold over
there for S25 or $50 a pair, quick. It's
the same with all kinds of clothing
Scarcely anything to be had in that
line, and prices sky high. Sugar is very
scarce. and | had to pay 10 cents a
pound for 500 pounds 10 supply my
ship Provisions of all kinds are hard
TO get, and prices are fabulous. Rus
sa, for all that is IN many ways the richest
county in the world. and it's pity
TO SEE her In such q condition.
Can't FarTOw's last voyage WAS TO
Batourn, on the Black Sea, and he saw
in that city and its neighborhood IN
one week more ruin and distress than
hc had observed iii all his lifetime of
sailing to ports all over the world. His
conclusion from ali that he saw and
heard in Batoum Is that unless the
Bolshcviki clement can be ovcrthrown
only famine and disaster, may he utter
ruin, await Russia.
LAND OF RICH RESOURCES.
$50 muck havoc has been wrought
m this land of rich resources that, in
the best of circumstances, it will take
many years 10 restore the prosperity
and happiness that once prevailed,
ne saws. There are oil, coal and all
kinds Of mineral wealth, but the pco-
plc generally seem 10 have settled into
Il policy of continuous loafing, behcv-
me that the United States and Eng
land Will not allow them TO starvc
5ut they arc not happy IN their lazi-
moss they are restless, easily excited
and ready for any sort Of violence and
plundcr. Things arc going from bad
70 worse, and can sec no hope for
hettcrnent unless some strong hand
takes hold Of affairs there and puts
down the revolution and forces the in
doent masses 10 90 to work.
Capt. FaFrOw SAYS he talked with
men who had travelled all over Rus
sia and that their views coinTdod with
bis. The American Food Administration
representatives were in Batoum while
he was there, distributing supplies to
starving refugees from Armenia. who
fled to the Russian port when pursued
lv the Turks. The impression gathered
nv other Americans whom he met was
hat the Russians. or most of them seemed
'o feel that the rest Of the world owed
hem q living, and had determined not 10
work 50 long as the supplies were forth
coming.
Tho only remedy" says Capt. Far
row IS 10 treat en- rough. | don't
pretend 10 bo wise enough II solve
ii +. thr greatest problems the world /
yer been called upon 10 settle.
.ta. verNthing indicates that the Russian
naS-,s need an awful Jolt to wake thcm
~ ID the fact that they must e. 10
work at once or they will starvc Til {
would he bitter medicine. but its In,
anty thing that can bring them 10 their
senses.
The majority of the PEOPLE have
become 50 saturated with red theories /
that they actually believe that good
living viii be handed 70 them on a
gold platter without their l;Tting
hand When they get that notion
put oi their heads and realize that they