Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21
rich AND POOR ARE ENGAGED In
TRYING TO GET OUT OF RUSSIA;
MANY FLEE TO C0NSTANTIN0PL.E
Dock Laborers at Batum, When They Work,
May Earn 5000 Rubles or Eight Cents Day,
the Price of Two Pounds of Bread; Peoples
Old Life Has Been Broken Up.
tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,

powers, from whose decision there
! is no recouse. and he was executed
Landing from one of the vari-
Gus passenger and freight vessels
that run weekly in and out of
Batum, to and from Constantine
ople, the traveller finds that the
bolsheviki are not such dreadful
people after all. It is far easier
than getting to or from ship in
Constantinople, where the allies
reign.
Guards at the GanGplank.
There are a lot of guards at the
gangplank, to steer departing
travellers through the customs,
but most anyone passes back and
forth who wishes. There is first
the formality of telling the port
control who you are. He is a
ood-humored, patient, glorified
Red guard who knows no langu-
age but Russian, and that indif-
ferently, there are so many dia-
lects of Russian. He wears n
peaked cap pushed on the back
of head, with its red star and the
spade and shovel of labor.
Nv ffiSNNlI oNio NliO lltINt Nsll
fully collected all sorts of creden-
tials in Constantinople from soviet
commercial missions, crowd about
him, and he takes their names and
looks casually at their vises. The
Americans, who have only q bit
of typewriter paper. a receipt
from the United States consul, for
their passports, generally have n
soviet letter'in addition. The con-
troll officer doesn't stamp their
papers afresh to show they may
land. He merely indicates with
a wave of the hand that passen-
gers may debark. and they do,
full of surprise that they have not
been disturbed. Travellers in Eu-
rope are so in the habit of being
bothered that they think some
thing is wrong, here, that they
haven't been.
Ashore. in the sunshine, amid
the tree-lined streets. sitting in
carriage with rubber tires, driving
to a good restaurant the traveller
is still wondering why something
hasn't happened to him, but it
probably will not so long as he
has money to pay his way and
especially if he is an American,
thanks to American charity influ-
ence and the general good stand
ing of Americans in the hearts of
the people.
In Batum, now controlled by the
Moscow soviet, affairs seem to slip
along in q certain loose groove.
Nobody worries much about the
political changes, but they do fear
the "Cheka."
Wire Fence Stolen.
The most notable social change
in the people Of this little San
Francisco, set by the seashore
amid palms and flowers, at the
that on the beach,. In the old
days the girls and women of the
city used to battle often without
bathing suits in space set aside
for them where no men We're al
lowed. During the past two years
the wire fence shutting off this
space has been stolen, and the
place for the women may be en-
croached upon; but many of the
women continue the old custom of
bathing without suits.
While there is less and less fur
niture in the fine houses behind
the park, at the leading restau-
rants may be had as good a meal
as in Paris or London at one
third Paris or London prices. The
strict morale of the early soviet
days has gone everywhere. No
body resents or prevents anybody
else from having a good time. if
they have the money. The poor,
who live in requisitioned villas or
who sleep in the empty ware
house sheds along the waterfront,