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The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

A. M. Dieringer has one of the swift est horses in the United States. It went nearly three thousand feet re- gently in little less than a half min ute-down a mountain side. The ami nal was caught in snowslide and carried to the bottom of the noun tain. The driver went down after it expecting to find it buried under tons of snow, but found the animal in good shape. Food and blankets had to be packed down until the horse could be shoveled out.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Jack Steiner, who in company with Louis Van is raising fur foxes on Axel Lind island, arrived in town on the N. & s. MT. Steiner reports the fur business good and says his firm has killed 64 blue foxes this season, realiz- ing SIS per skin.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Professional kodak finishing. Scar borough. Agency at Cordova drug store.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

George M Calligan, a former Val dezan, was married at Tacoma Octo- Der 15, to Mrs. Hattie Moulton The newlyweds are living one mile from Sumner on the Pacific highway, and have an 11-acre raspberry ranch.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Sergeants Jerry Allen and Hi Hutchinson arrived on the steamship Spokane from the states, where they conveyed prisoner. It is said that Jerry learned a few pitching kinks while outside which he hopes to use this summer.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Walter A., a brother of Elmer Theusen, of the local signal corps, re- gently enlisted at Fort Lawton, and is awaiting orders for duty. He may be stationed in Alaska.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

MT and Mrs. Chas. A. Agnetti and baby are passengers on the steam ship Alameda en route to Valdez. MT. Agnetti was formerly a sergeant in the local signal corps, but received his discharge and left for New York several months ago. Not liking the country as we'll as Valdez he returned to the coast, re-enlisted and was de- tailed for Alaskan duty.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Extreme cold weather is reported at all points on the trail, tempera- lures ranging from 24 to 55 below. The coldest weather was at Copper Center
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Merwin w. Parkers and son Charles of Bellingham, Wash, arrived on the steamship Northwestern to take posi- tions in the Miner office. MT. Parker is first class bookbinder, ruler, and printer-pressman, and will be valu- able addition to the Miner force They have taken Mrs. E. Winters house on North Mckinley street. MT. Parker's family will move to Valdez in June.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

MT. and Mrs. Howard G. Clifton are the proud parents of a baby girl, born January IS. Weight 81h pounds.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

Wm. Quitsch left for Mineral creek the first of the week to resume his freighting to the Big Four property where he is erecting a mill.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-18

1-3-2wks.
Evening star., 1921-03-27
FEATURES
Told BYE. 4. Macmillan

were almost invariably made OF straw
reeds. As we passed through some Of
the finest farming land in Russia IL
WAS amazing how little wheat had
been sown and of that how little had
grown. The peasants were tired of
growing wheat to have il stolen by a
tyrann;cal government. The world
heard that there had been a failure OF
! the wheat crop in Russia. The re-
ports did not explain the cause
IOCT of the vast storehouse of si-
- IBERIA. we began passing throurb
the section OF the country where in
the old days that latent wealth had
been converted into the comforts and
! necessities of life. The first thing |
noticed was that we were travelling
through dead land. Our train rum
, bied and growled along mazes of
tracks, on which stood thousands and
thousands of cars falling to pieces
for lack of "A little care. Giant loco
! motives. the American type made by
;; the BaldwIns in Philadelphia and the
works in Schenectady, were rapidiy
becoming mountains OF rust When
an engine fails to function even from
SO slight cause a leaky valve il
I
TO pieces. A hot box is sufficient
cause for the scrapping of a car
From this antechamber. more dismal
and somber than a morass, for il told
OF waste-willful waste-we entered
Moscow. Against the sky line the
smokeless chimneys of the factories
were like the scraCgly, teeth of a
grant about to swallow the city
Dead. dead as the ruins of Rome, but
Yet moving with the frenzied writh-
ings of a snake with a broken back
or some forgotten monster. blind and
twisting. spewed up from the sea s
| hoor. 1t was horrible, that dead city
which still lives.
I The streets, at certain points, were
alive with human beings. and almost
invariably they were clad in the now
| rusty. greenish gray of old army uni
forms 1t seems that army garments
are all that is left. The crowds NOV
ed as aimlessly and as fiurriedly as a
colony of ants disturbed by the thrust
OF a cane Where were they going
and why? L never learned. The
stores were boarded up or looted the
factories stilled. all places of public
assemblage closed. 1t was a city Of
madness. which sometimes broke out
in wild shouts and sometimes dwin-
died away to whimperings as plain
tive as the cry of a starving baby
But ever and always the people NOV
ed in this city. where Lenin sits in
the kremlin. scheming and dreaming
his dream of a city of gold. music
and JOY. which is to rise on the
foundation of bleeding bodies and
crushed bones. which his sword.
Trotsky, is blithely busy laying. In
my next installment 1 shall tell you
how these mad people live in their
nightmare. city beneath the shadow
. of the kremlin, where a dreamer
dreams of beauty and works in blood,
of Trotsky's letting.
Mr.. MacMillan's second article
will appear in the Magazine Sec
ton of next Sundays Star.
Copyright 1921. by Public Iedger)
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by the bolshevists, too lazy. too dull
witted, too full of their theories to
turn to the limitleSS coal mines and
forests for fuel. The commissar
forced the workers to tear down the
dwellings when just as easily the
labor could have been commandeered
for the forests and mines.
x < x
pUT to return to the salt. that was
an amusing and at the Same time
terrifying experience. At Omsk | was
secretly advised to smuggle salt into
European Russia whep we started for
Petrograd.
l slowed forty pounds in Kit bag.
and within fifty miles of Omsk |
traded a handful for pound of but
ter. sweet butter, the best in the
world. At little village where our
train stopped we were surrounded by
crowd of women and children, beau
tiful little things as shy as a covey
of quail. When the guard stepped
away from our car woman-rars
head were her dress-stepped close
and whispered 'salee" The all
took should not suspect of SNUG
Cling out a contraband, and their
fear was wholly for us In all
Russia the peasant is the only one
,, who has not and does not cringe to
the bolshevist. They are hearty
haters and take no pains to conceal
their feelings when they alone are
concerned. This is particularly true
of the women.
handful of my salt-and not a
large one. either-was traded for a
pound of butter, and the woman SEEM
ed to think she had the best of the
bargain, and maybe she did, for in
European Russia 1 sold what | had
left of my forty pounds for 10000
rubles. s25 at that time. For 1900
miles had kept myself supplied with
milk. cheese, wild Strawberries and
other foods. not plentiful even in the
farming districts, but still obtaina bic
for such necessities as salt
The journey west was interesting.
The twilights were glorious in the
shadow of the Urals, the mountains
with their wealth untold in emeralds
and amethysts. platinum and gold. 1t
was midsummer, and in that northern
latitude the twilight lasted almost all
night.
Early in the morning we crossed the
line. one side of which was Europe
and the other side was Asia.
AT one station a little peasant girl
had wild Strawberries for sale. She
was six years old. perhaps. and had
the sad, wistful eyes SO common now
in Russia We invited her to tea. She
| remembered having taAed tea before,
but was not SO sure about the sugar.
The people were very short of cloth
ing and many costumes were made
entirely from gunny sacking. Shoes
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DUSSIA is really more than the sim
N pie combination of geography and
people that so many Of US regard it.
Russia is a condition, a process, an
evolution, a transition. Russia is a
kaleidoscope ferment of the many
races. languages, religions. hopes,
ideals and ambitions that are in re-
action within her boundaries.
From a casual study of Russia. one
can easily see that she is in great
difficulty. 1t might easily be said that
Russia suffers under what is proba bly,
the most devastating social peStilence
that has ever scared the souls of
humanity.
I shall not say that just yet. but
from what I have seen of the Russian
socialistic federated soviet republic
I will say, God help the Russian
people,"
oh" you say. another enemy of
bolshevism, another capitalist propa-
gandist who would strangle the in
fant republic. another oppressor of
the proletariat. I wonder what he
knows about it, anyway"
would confidently predict the future
of Russia. Any one might attempt
it. Russia is a country of contra
dictions, of vast extremes, of inf
mite surprises. and is consistent only
in it's inconsistency. In Russia any
thing may happen-and does.
During our internment in Russia a
director of soviet propaganda said to
US: You will return home through
Moscow and Petrograd. We want
you to tell the world what bolshev-
ism has done for European Russia"
He could hardly fail to notice the
touch Of acid in the reply: I'VE will"
His request displays one of the mar
Evening star., 1921-03-27
A SERIES OF FOUR
ARTICLES ON RUSSIA

! In this first installment
Mr.. Macmillan gives a
general view of the situa-
ton, touching all classes
and conditions, from the
Siberian peasant to the
city dweller in Moscow
and Petrograd.
The next article, which
will appear in The Star
next Sunday, will deal with
Russian women and the
part they play and are be-
lieved destined to play in
the topsy-turvy country.
The third installment will
deal with economic condi-
tions and the almost total
stagnation of commercial
life.
The fourth, and last ar
ticle will deal with Lenin,
his dream and its :ealiza-
ton, and the outcome of
his experiment on civiliza-
ton.
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ter the bolshevists order him to plant
again in the spring. Has he seed
oh. yes. those peasants are crafty
| fellows and always manage to see to
thae. although we think we have
stripped them clean" This explana-
ton. If such it is, can be heard when
commissar is asked how a farmer
may reap if he does not SOW, and how
can he sow if the bolsheyist has
taken all his seed.
oh. yes. the farmer worked. That is
a soviet rule, all must work-at least
they call it work, but my conception
OF work is toll to some definite end
ana this is not the bolshevist idea
| Men with rags bound about their feet
IN lieu or boots shoveling snow off a
bolshevist notion of work. Apparent
ly 1t has never occurred to them that
men turning leather into foot cover
Ing, in a land where old army boots,
anu only few of them, is ali that is
le1t, might be considered working
Inc very best example 1 saw of the
workings of bolshevism as applied to
commerce and development of a coun-
try is furnished by the handling of
the salt mines. At Omsk there were
millions of pounds of salt, mountains
of it. and across the Ural mountains
in European Russia there is none.
Naturally, under the communistic
theory no one may traffic in a COM
modify, and for fear some one might
there is ban on salt and death is
the portion of a Russian caught car
rylng 1t from natures seemingly
limitless store to Moscow. say. 1000
miles away. where salt is worth gold,
grain for grain. This same condition
prevails in all other commodities,
whether produced by mans labor or
the free gift of nature. In land of
theoretical brothers. the actual gos-
pei is each man for himself to a de-
gree undreamed of even when the
heavy hand of a blundering autocracy
lay heavy upon it.
Under the cZars the peasant and
worker were ignored: now they are
exploited. and it has had it's inevitable
result; being prey. they prey on each
other. Russia has become a band of
predatory beasts. In Petrograd. for
example. wooden houses by the hun
dred were torn down and used as fuel
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velous characteristics of the boil
shevik officials. They nurse a child
like belief that they are doing the
best possible for their country.
In justice to the propaganda man.
I shall endeavor to present evidence
rather than render verdict. l hope
that my opinions and statements
have not been prejudiced by any per-
sonal inconvenience suffered while
prisoner in soviet Russia. This evil
ering a period of two years, and
which extended from Vladivostok to
Petrograd.
We talked with all classes, from
peasants to princes. with members
of the old aristocracy, who had for
merly been surrounded by all the
comfort and luxury that wealth and
power could command, with peasants
in their dugouts who had scarcely
enough food and clothing to protect
them from the diseases among which
they lived.
When the tables were turned by
the bolsheviks. the change of scene
revealed the same illiterate peasants
with mandates of life or death over
the former bourgeoise. .barons and
princes who now languished in yer.
min-infested prisons at the mercy of
their victors.
We gathered evidence in the streets
and in the workshops along Lake
Raikal and on the Volga. in filthy
prisons and resplendent opera houses.
of the imperial express, in fever in-
Tested Siberian towns, and in the
Winter Palace. Petrograd.
So you see there was a greater op-
portunity for observation than is
usually accorded the scribbler who
comet throueh a cobweb. and then
writes n book.
ny f. A. MACMILLAN.
CoCALoR and high-sounding words;
- starvation and glowing promises;
disease and beautifully turned
phrases; death and "nichevo.' hell can
be no worse, and there you have Rus
sia after more than three years of
bolshevist rule "Nichevo." 1t is the
watchword and the death knell of that
land of madmen organized by mad
man with a mad vision. 1t is on the
lips of the man who has suffered the
slightest annoyance; it bubbles up
through the mud into which this
same man has been stamped, face
down. by the blind feet of his red
brethren to die. and it means. "Oh.
never mind" The man in his mud
sepulcher with, his last breath
whispers. "Nichevo," and those above
who are yet quick shout, "Nichevo."
To obtain a full sense of the beauty,
or horror, of a picture one must CEN
ter his whole attention for an instant
on one point. Gradually the crafts
mans intent becomes apparent and
you see the work in it's entirety.
Russia, for me, finds as it's focal
point, 1.-The eye of the picture" an
empty bathroom.
Through a twisting corridor. filled
with gewgaws and trinkets of the
red regime and called the bolshevist
museum. l came into the Winter
Palace of Petrograd. ,,
The whole affair was so unexpect-
ed and SO suggestive of the Arabian
Nights, that it almost took my breath
away. My guide, it appeared. had
Evening star., 1921-03-27

the Venus de Milo lost her arms,
By the time we reached the sitting
room of the empress l had already
fallen beneath the spell of the trag-
edy of Russia. 1t was essentially
woman's room. The furniture, the
mural decoration. the refined beauty,
a few photographs of intimate fam
of the czarina had been slashed by
a Cossack saber and framed photo
graph of a beautiful grand duchess
had been pierced by a bayonet The
window seat looked SO inviting that
one could easily imagine the empress
Evening star., 1921-03-27

perished in the same manner as
thousands of poorer and humber
Russian families perished at the
hands of the bolsheyists.
AS ! stepped out into the street
my reverie was given a dramatic
punctuation by an old peasant wom-
an, who stopped me and asked: You
are English; well. where is Nicolai?"
* X X
DUT that bathroom. Beautiful it
was as skill and art could make
it. complete in every detail, but there
was no water. That is the Russia of
Evening star., 1921-03-27

been employed in the palace for about
thirty years and it is unnecessar J
to state where his sympathies lay.
He had attended the coronation in
Moscow of Nicolai II. as well as that
of Alexander III before him.
1 shall not attempt to describe in
detail the rooms One could ina gine
the splendor of a state function there.
Most of the paintings were in place.
but many were overspread with great
crimson banners. These helped to
convert the hall into great bolshev-
ist auditorium. The portrait of Alex
ander III was concealed by a hideous
picture of the beast who assassinated
him. This came as shock to me,
even with my knowledge of the reds.
that they should thus honor a mur-
derer.
We next visited the throne room of
Peter the Great. which. with it's rich
tapestries and art treasures, had
been looted by souvenir hunters from
as far up the walls as one could
reach. The historical pictures were
mostly intact but many of the fine
paintings. especially those in which
the aristocracy appeared, had been
destroyed. Revolver shots and saber
cuts had mutilated many of them.
The priceless rugs had been taken
from the elaborately inlaid floor.
X I:
THE private chapel was beautiful
but most of the fittings had been
removed, leaving a scene Of desola-
tion.
Finally we reached the private
apartments Of the royal family. Sell
dom have 1 seen such beauty. The
decoration and furnishings were al
most hypnotic in their charm. There
was nothing garish or gaudy and
not a note of discord
In the drawing room one could
imagine the visitors who had been
(former) Russians, the problems of
state that must have been discussed
with the emperors' advisers as they
sat before the marble fireplace. How
tragic that such discussion should
have been so fruitless,
The billiard room was still COM
plete, and in the library the books
still rested behind the glass doors,
One might expect the host to step
back into the room at any moment.
The bathroom was beautiful, the
Grecian type, of white marble. The
walls decorated with marine views
Everything was there but the water
The bedroom had been used by
Alexander III. 1t was also here that
the loquacious kerensky tried to
play Napoleon after contracting a
morganatic marriage.
Most of the leather covering had
been torn from the chairs, as well
as many of the curtains from the
windows. Even the mattresses had
suffered at the hands of devastating
souvenir seekers. Now know how
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government and he has been forced
to live as he could. like any other ami
NAL of the wild. Enough to keep the
life flame Pickering in him and his
IS hidden away in hooks and cranpies
and the reds find nothing to con-
fiscate.
This government. formed to amelio-
worker, lives and battons on what it
steals from the peasant. His crops, his
butter. cheese. beef, mutton and wool
are all the property of the state and
are taken by the state. Not in part,
but all. If he lives through the win
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Land Where Nco COh Mnd Death
KneThe Infinite All Spreads the
Md of DeathA Thrilling Narrative of the First Disnsted Witness of the
Red Methods Reach the Outside WordFirs of Four Articles Gives
Reader Comprehensive Detail the Physical
the Psychological Effect of Bovt Graft
INTRIGUE
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today. At hand lies all the natural
resources to make a nation great, but
there are no men.
In the rural district the lesson of
bolshevism has been bitterly learned.
Experience taught, the peasant has
reduced his domestic economy to the
basis of a squirrel with his hoard of
nuts. Twice. maybe three times. his
crops have been confiscated by the
Evening star., 1921-03-27
Wy TWO YEARS IN RAZED RUSSIA

of vivid and comprehensive views of Russia
Macmillan returned from stay of two
years. during travelled from shores of
member of the
allied bolster Kohaks fight the reds and
the Mr. Macmillan,
While
in electricity Mr. always deeply
qualify him speak with
Evening star., 1921-03-27

and her young daughters sitting
there and gazing out upon the palace
courtyard or across the River Neva
A subtle perfume still pervades the
place. One could not help but think
of the same family huddled together
in filthy Siberian shack, where
they were slaughtered like a flock
Of sheep by their fellow countrymen.
The cZar of all Russia and his family
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NNTATURALLY. 1 watched for an
~ opportunity to escape. 1t came
most unexpectedly. Among the ami
mails on the place there was a tame
lioness, which served to scare off
discourage providers. She kept at a
distance the leopards, the jackals and
the hyenas. I imagine she would
have been more lenient with other
lions. but there were none in the
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led by Liberty Bonds and other glIt-edged
investments.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover announces
that a million more workers have found
employment within the last few weeks.
In high circles confidence persists in the
outcome of the Washington conference.
Much of the talk and objection now in
dulged in is interpreted as merely for home
consumption, preparatory to official accep-
lance of conditions not wholly palatable
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-11
p vvAVAR ~ Eastern Merchants View.
MIMI "a M Arguments Unsold.
u. s. Ideals
900 Japanese Ambitions

CHICAGO Dec. 1O.-An Eastern merchant writes to the
Nation Business for December the disarmament confer
ence He regards the conference aid to he
repeats the and assertions that hears or reads
daily from bankers chambers Of commerce and
club orators.
These arguments need not be rehearsed here They
familiar to all The spread of propaganda has made them
So Yet they do fit the tuaton they do not agree with
the facts
MANY business men are deceving themselves, almost as
many as are decevng Others to what doing in Wash
ngton and the motives behind it. Hopes, wishes pous
ASPIRATIONS in business do not alter cases or peces
What do we find in Washington that applies to the cases
and policies of American busnessi Let
From day to day the struggle goes between the Jap
anese and American delegates japanese talking peace
and striving for power the Americans talking peace and
striving for disarmament The Americans have little
desire power the japanese have little apparent
interest in anything else Now, why do the Japanese insist
so obsnatey on every last possible element of
to the point of one lone battleship the Matsuf
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The security

Important developments have not been lacking -"
Briefly those at home have been bascally favorable;
those abroad omnousy unfavorable.
Farreachng importance is attached to the Railroad
Labor Boards abolition of many of the nonsenscal work
ing rules forced upon the railroads during Government
troll by union leaders Not only will the savings thus di-
recty effected be substantial but this body
action is accepted setting example to industry and
to labor all along the line. e