The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-26
IN SOVIE! RUSSIA
 NOT ALLURINC

tE ROGhAlJ, NOV. 2b.- -AmeflCanS who contemplate trip to Soviet Rus sia would do well to equip themselves with an abundance of insect powder, patience, optimism, warm clothing, money and canned heat.
 They will need the insect powder long before they get to Russia Bed bugs and CoOties have taken great liking to the railway cars and hotels in Poland. Lithuania, Latvia and Es- thonia They also enjoy life on the Baltic ships.
 Consequently it is difficult to reach either Riga or Reval, the two gateways to Soviet Russia, without cncountering the crawling cordon.
 Filtering into Russia is slow pro cess It is no job for nervous and i'm patient folks. Those who go 10 Acval to get permission from the Bolshevist authorities usually wish they had gone to Riga Accommodating Danes have established an airplanc between the two ports for uneasy folk who desire to ease down their nerves by flying back and forth and rapping at both entries. It takes two hours to make the flight while the railway trip con sumcs 2l hours. And so far vermin have not shown any liking for this air route
 The Bolshcvist legations at Rrval and Riga present prospective visitors to Moscow with a formidable question: uairc in Russian including such quor, ies as:
 "What kind of immoyable property do you own, if any? Describe it?
 "What are your political views? Are you member of party in any coun- try? Did ou participate in the Great war? What is your religion?
 These questions are all pretty diff. cult for the ordinary bourgeois Amer ican who is a good bit of political mugwump and hasn't much religion. but is anxious to say the thing which will facilitate his entry and not stretch the truth too violently.
 One hears on all sides that the Bol- shcyists have been deceived so often by prctcndcd liberals that even a So. cialist of the parlor variety is apt to be scrutinizcd more carefully than an applicant who doesn't assume to b. sympathetic with BoIshcyist ideals. In sheer desperation Republican" is written down in the hope that Moscow will offset Mr Harding's position on Russian recognition by th" fact that Senator France is enrolled with Karl Marx among the mmortas and See. rataw oG Commerce Hoover is rnoding a million Russian children
 Then one hastily iuscribos himself as a Methodist or a Presbyterian OF an Episcopalian. It is difficult to fib about ones church affiliations. even to facilitate entry into land con trollod by a government which scoffs at religion
 There ts a great temptation to en- roll as a draft eyader That ought to be d guarantee of speedy entry into a land which doesn't believe in any wars except those it makes itself But the new Russian secret service is more Omniscient than that of the late Czar, so one admits the truth and prayerfully hands in his paper with the hope that the Moscow examining com Hitte won't funk him.
 Here the endurance test begins It may last six days. It may last six weeks, or even six months There are not places on the Moscow train. There are few rooms for strangers in Moscow and Petrograd. Consequently the Soviet government weighs appli- cations carefully and acts slowly If you are able to offer millions to de vnlop Russia, you may get quick action.
 If you are patient enough the reply from Moscow may arrive before you leave Berlin or London in despera- tion If it is affirmative. peace must he made with the American consul by turning over to him your cherished passport and getting a paper in oN- change which induces the Lptvian gov ernmont to permit him to leave Latyia and return.
 The wise of lhe Bolshevist legation comes next and 9 railway ticket is pro yidcd by the Bolsheyist officials who must be paid in English pounds OF