Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-11-01
TOURISTS TO RUSS
NEED SOME INSECT
POWDER EN- ROUTE
Ry Associated P-essl

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 coolies 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 gate
ways to Soviet Russia, with out en-
countering the crawling Gordon.
Filtering into Russia is slow pro-
cess. 1t is no job for nervous and
impatient folks. Those who go to
Reval to get permission from the
Bolshevist authorities usually wish
they had gone to Riga. Accommo-
dating Danes have established an
airline between the two ports for I'M
easy folk who desire to ease down
their nerves by flying back and forth
and rapping at both entries. 1t takes
two hours to make the flight while
the railway trip consumes "a hours.
And so far vermin have not shown
any liking for this air route.
The Bolshevist legations at Reveal
and Riga present prospective visit
ors to Moscow with a formidable
QUESTIONABLE in Russian including
such queries as:
"What kind of immovable proper
ty do you own, if any? Describe it
"What are your political views!
Are you a member of party in any
country? Did you participate in the
great war? What is your religion?
These questions are all pretty diff
ficult for the ordinary bourgeois
American who is good bit of a po-
litical mugwamp and hasn't much
religion, but is anxious to say the
thing which will facilitate his en-
try and not stretch the truth too vio-
lently.
One hears on all sides that the Boil
shevists have been deceived so often
by pretended liberals that even d
Socialist of the parlor variety is apt
to be scrutinized more carefully thar
an applicant who doesn't assume tx
be sympathetic with Bolshevis
ideals In sheer desperation "repub
iican" is written down in the hops
that Moscow will offset Mr.. Hard
ing's position on Russian recOgni
ton by the fact that Senator Franc
is enrolled with Karl Marx among
the immortals and Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover is feeding millio
Russian children.
Then one hastily inscribes himsel
as a Methodist or Presbyterian o
and Episcopalian. 1t is difficult t
fib about ones church affiliations
even to facilitate entry into a Ian
controlled by government whic
SCOTS at religion.
There is a great temptation to er
roll as a draft evader. That ougt
to be a guarantee of speedy entr
into a land which doesn't believe i
any wars except those it makes il
self. But the new Russian secre
service is more omniscient than tha
of the late Gear, so one admits tn
truth and prayerfully hands in HI
paper with the hope that the Mos
COW examining committee won
funk him.
Here the endurance test begins.
may last six days. 1t may last 81
weeks, or even six months. The1
are not places on the Moscow trail
There are few rooms for stranger
in Moscow and Petrograd. COnst
quently the Soviet governmel
weighs applications carefully ar
acts slowly. If you are able to of
err millions to develop Russia, yc
may get quick action.
If YOU are patient enough the n
ply from Moscow may arrive befo1
YOU leave Berlin or London in de-
psration. If it is affirmative, peat
must be made with the America
consul by turning over to him yol
cherished passport and getting a pi
per in exchange which induces tt
Latvian government to permit yc
to leave Latvia and return.
The wise of the Bolshevist legatic
comes next and a railway ticket
provided by the Bolshevist ofticia
who must be paid in English pound
or American dollars. There is I
longer any soothing at the engra7
ings, of George Washington, Ulysst
S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln or GeorG
v.
If you happen to strike luck
night you will be given berth in
French international sleeping ca
If it is an off night you will probt
bly, get a couchette in Russian ca
But it really doesn't make much di1
ference. They both require the sam