Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21
GOVERNMENT IS
FOUND ON EVERY
HAND IN RUSSIA
Practically Everything Is
Controlled by the Moscow
Regime; Country Seems
to Be Document Mad.
tBy The Associated Press.)

Moscow, Oct. 20 (by~a Staff Cor
respondent of the Associated
Press) .--Government everywhere,
nothing but government!
Such is the impression that a
foreigner who has known Moscow
of old gets in entering the bolshe-
visit capital today.
All the hotels are government
committee headquarters. The same
is true of department stores. office
buildings, clubs, cafes and larger
private houses. All theaters are
government theaters.
Queues OF Russians and foreign
ers are waiting in TIE streets be-
fore most larger buildings for per-
mits to buy railroad tickets or per-
form some ordinary transaction
such as New Yorker would dis
pose of over the telephone In five
minutes.
The motor cars are all govern
ment cars and are monopolized by
government employees. The street
cars are run by the government
and government employees, espec-
tally workmen, have first call on
the few cars which run chiefly at
times when workmen are going to
or from work. Other folks may
take the few carriages which ply
the main streets for hire at prices
beyond the reach of ordinary gov
eminent salaries.
Trains Are Few.
Railway trains are few and seem
to be crowded largely with GOVERN
ment employees and soldiers. Pas
90 aif,lA
trains on all lines ard every coach
has a Red soldier or two to keep
people from massing on the trains
at stations.
Factories which are in operation
are run by the government and
work chiefly on government sup
plies, such as railway repairs, mo-
tor repairs. airplane repairs and
other army supplies.
The Kremln, formerly TIE &c
clesiastical center for Russia and
the historic shrine about which the
Romanoff traditions csnters, Is al |
government. It's churches are
closed Red army soldiers occupy
the barracks OF the old imperial |
army and prominent bolshevist Of |
ficials occupy the quarters former
ly given over to church officials |
and other dignitaries of the Ro-
manoff regime.
Hospitals and orphanages and |
schools are run by the government |
The government payrolls are filled |
to Overlooking with employees who |
want the government food rationl
and in consequence there seems to
be an excess Of personnel in Mos
COW institutions as we'll as the
provinces.
Many Of the orphanages have
nearly as many attendants as they
have orphans. To American eyes
the railways seem to be overstaff-
ed. Trains and stations are alive
with officials and guards. many OF
whom seem unnecessary because
of the general quiet that prevails.
Statisticians Everywhere.
Russia always was document
mad and 1t seems even worse now
than it was under former regimes.
Endless rows of employees are busy
making documents aid reports in
nearly every government building.
Statisticians are at work every
where.
Bolshevist officials are not blind
the overstaffins of the departments
and the inefficiency of many of the
workers. They fill the Moscow
and provincial papers with appeals
for greater diligence on the part of
and reduction of forces
not engaged in productive labor.
They also complain bitterly Of the
red tape which slows down all gov
eminent business and clamor for
simplification and decentralization
But, after all, the railways and
telegraphs and telephones and posts
are in much the same hands they
were before bolshevism triumphed.
The men who knew the technic of