New Britain herald., 1921-10-21
GOVERNMENT ON ALL
 SIDES IN RUSSIA
Authority Shown in Stores,
 Clubs, Cafes, Etc.

Moscow, Oct. 1.-CBy Staff Cores pondent of The Associated Press )- Government everywhere. nothing but government!
 Such is the impression that a for eigner who. has known Moscow of old gets in entering the Bolshevist cap .tal today.
 All the hotels are government com mittee headquarters. The same is true of department stores. office build ings, clubs, cafes and larger private houses. All theaters are government theaters.
 Queues of Russians and foreigners are waiting in the streets before most larger buildings for permits to buy railroad tickets or perform some or dinary transaction such as New Yorker would dispose of over the tele- phone in five minutes.
 The motor cars are all government cars and are monopolized by govern ment employees. The street cars are run by the government and govern inent employees, especially 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 whic1 ply the main streets for hire at prices beyond the reach of ordinary government salaries
 Railway trains are few and seem to be crowded largely with government employees and soldiers. Passenger tiains far exceed freight trains on all lines and every coach has a red sol- dier or two to keep people from mass ing on the trains at stations.
 Factories which are in operation are run by the government and work chiefly on government supplies, such as railway repairs, motor repairs, air plane repairs and other army sup plies.
 iastical center for Russia and the his to-fc shrine about which the Roman off traditions center, is all govern ment. Its churches are closed. Red army soldiers occupy the. barracks of the old imperial army and prominent Bnlshevist officials occupy the quar- ters formerly given over to church officials and other dignitaries of the Romanoff regime.
 Hospitals and orphanages and schools are run by the government The government payrolls are filled tc overflowing with employees who want the government food ration and in consequence there seems to be an ex- cess of personnel in Moscow institu- tions as we'll as the provinces.
 Many of the orphanges have near iy many attendants ay they havo crrna ns. To Amefican eyes the rail- ways seem to be overstaffed. Trains and stations are alive with officials and guards, many of whom seem un- necessary because of the general quiet that prevails. .S
 Russia was always document mad and It seems even worse new than it was under former regimes. Endless rows of employees are busy making government building. Sta:ist.cians are at work everywhere.
 Bo1shevist officials are not blind te the overstaff1ng of departments and the inefficiency of many of the work CTS. They fill Moscow and provincia papers with appeals for greater dili gence on the part of employees and 2 reduction of forces not engaged in productive labor. They also complain bitterly Of the red tape which slow. down all government business ant c1amor for simplification and decen tralization.
 But. after all, the railways ant te1egraphs and telephones and post are in much the same hands the, were before bolshevism triumphed The men who knew the technic of tn