Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-16
Ruin in Russia

newspapers printed in Russia say only rosy
things about the country could quickly be
disillusioned by perusal of the papers them
selves. During the past four months, the
principal Moscow and Petrograd newspapers
have been startlngly frank about some OF
the conditions that communism has pro-
duced.
The Moscow Economic Life not long ago
wrote the following description Of condi-
lions on one Of the communist model
farms:
1.-THE farm presented a picture of COM
plete desolation. For years there have been
no repairs Windows are broken, walls are
falling in, and some of the buildings are
in ruins Workers live in terrible, dirty
| rooms, black from smoke. In one of the
rooms there lives calf, placed there by
the foreman despite protests of women ten
ants.
There are neither potatoes nor vege-
| tables for the workers. In the summer
no one has bothered to store them. Peo-
! pie are starving, cattle starving. In
the farm there are 80 persons, of these
six officials
The old program of the Bolshevik gov
eminent called for an increase in the NUM-
Der of these "model' farms. The new pro-
gram by which the peasants are given nine
years tenure of heir land, practically does
away with them.
No less frank were more recent admis-
sions in the Moscow newspapers about the
of which were shown to be producing less
than per cent of what they produced be-
fore the war.
Flying Figures
During the first six months of this year,
1900 commercial airplanes flew more than .
$685. miles in various parts of the coun.
try, according to partial survey just COM
pleted by the Manufacturers Aircraft assoc
citation.
1.-The record" says the survey, "shows
that civilian lying, although embarrassed by
the lack of an American air policy, has es.
tablished itself as remarkably safe and de.
pendable means of transportation In three
and quarter million miles OF travel by air,
only 6 persons were killed and 43 injured
in total of 27 serious accidents. Most Of
these accidents occurred among that class OF ,
civilian viators known as gypsy flyers.
"Of the 1900 commercial aircraft prob
ably one thousand under the indirect
supervision of responsible plane manufacture
ers or transportation companies-and this is
absolutely the only regulation over flying,
as local ordinances or state laws can not be
enforced
Eight of the fatalities and so of the in
jures in the last six months have been
traced to the lack of terminals, routes and
storm warnings, or to reckless stunting-er-
rors which would have been corrected or pre-
vented had there been a national air policy.
In all the United States there are only PA
adequate municipal or civilian air ports"
Cross of Sacrifice
"cross of sacrifice" erected in memory
of hundreds of Canadians who fell at the
capture of the height Vimy Ridge, four
years ago, has been unveiled by Prime Min
lister Meighen of Canada. The monument
crowns the crest of the ridge in a cemetery
which is but one of hundreds dotting the
whole countryside
Premier Meighen in his address euogized
the heroism of those who died during the
heavy fighting in this region.
World Revolution
The congress of the Third Internationa]e,
which met in Moscow, was urged by Karl "
Radek, the Cor 4munist leader, to maintain
unceasing efforts aimed at world revolution,
says wireless dispatch frol.- the soviet cap
ital Radek tod the congress to SEIZE upon
every movement calculated to further this
end and not to suppose that the period Of
warfare had ceased but to continue it's
propag anda and be ready for all emergen-
cies.
"Our motto is to extract the utmost out
of every situation and be ready not only to
fight but to teach to fight declared the
speaker.
COrean Casualties
Reports have reached Japanese military
headquarters that a batt has occurred on
the Siberian border between Japanese and
Coreans, in which five hundred Coreans were
killed or wounded
Several thousand malc0ntent Coreans
alleged to have joined the Siberian Boil
sheyiki.