The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
TELLS TERRIBLE
 BY NIGHT AND
 DREARY BY DAY

Tflis. Georgia. Nov. 25--tBy
 Staff Correspondent Of the Assocfat-
 ed Pr3ess) )-Tflis is a city dreary by day. terrible by night. The last city
 Of importance to come under the in-
 fluence of the Bo1shevik emblem of
 the hammer and the sycthe: replacing the double-headsd eagle Of the ena-
 pire, here are contrasted the happy
 old days or gaiety and prosperity with
 the dull m:sery-of the new regime.
 At the railway station, on entering
 the city, the difference is seen ana
 in black boots, black long coat and
 flashing silver belts and swords. arc seen a few Addressed Red solc1crs.
 looking hungry and uncomfortable Tn illfitring clothes held together by B
 loose belt. Barefooted. dirty, white
 faced, ragged boys clamor for a. chance to carry baggage.
 Peasant women and bourgeois wo-
 men of the old time stagger along
 under loads of baggage or packages
 of food and fruit brought from the
 country Broken down hacks wait
 for fares pulled by thin. underfed
 horses.
 full Of holes.
 belong to another era Here where
 dozen tongues are spoken and
 where 100 tribes used togather in the
 proud ffnery of their national cos tumes all is down at the heel. Women often go stockingless. Their shoes show sings Of patches done
 over and over again until they are composed of patches only. Their skirts may be of old pieces of silk and their jackets of military cloth or even the black heather of aviator coats. Shawls have replaced hats. The men civilians wear clothes that are a parody on shabby gentility.
 Their top boots are all top, the so!es | and heels long since worn away. All
 sorts of military odds and ends, from all the armies of Europe, contrfbute to their dress, khaki puttes yellow leather jackets, British canvas trous- CTS, French blue caps, United States army coats.
 The stores are boarded up, for thes most part and when open surely have a few bottles of French or Italian per fumes and little else. A pair Of 1 Am merican shoes, of poor quality, waS seen in one window, marked 760, 900 rub1es, an incredible sum of money in a city where monthly salary of . Soviet employ is 5000 toE5.000 rub1es. Small trading is done on the mar ket place, where starving families sell off finery and jewe1ry which escaped the wreckS- of their homes. Tnese homes, once so comfortable and boun- tifu1 in hospitality, are cold for lack of fuel dreary for lack of food, often curtafn1ess, with here and there bull let marks on the outside walls. The toilets and baths are useless, because the city water Supply IS cut OH iot lack of fuel.
 The Red army in occupation has orders from Moscow to be good to Georgians and it is good" yet it's commanders go about with set, stern faces as if the world was watching. 1 Cholera. in summer starvation in winter. this is the lot of Georgia. Max Heiner, radiun specialist as
 Vienna, arrived at New York. He says
 radi11m is being successfully used in
 F;urope to cure cancer of the face. He will study radio-th erapic methods
 during his stay in this country. Federal Judge Carpenter, in Chi l cago, issued a temporary injunction l restraining the Chicago surface street car lines from putting into effect five | cent fares ordered by Illinois Utilities 1 Commission.