Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-22
SOVIET CITY BEARS
RESEMBLANCE TO.
BUDAPEST IN 1919.
HoMEo or WEALTHY ONCE SO
EXQUISITE HAVE BEN REouIsl.
TED AND DIVIDED AMONG THE
POOR.

TriAis, Oct. l.-tBy a Stan Core
spondent of The Associated Press -
This city under Soviet rule bears
many resemblances 10 another city
OF unique beauty, Budapest Hungary
when that gay place OF opera and fine
streets and houses and handsome peo'
ple was favored by Soviet, under the
ardent Bella Kun, In the spring ana
summer of 1919. Before that time
both we're wealthy and well-cared for
despite long and disastrous war.
Business was fairly brisk. shops were
filed with expensive articles, with all
that the heart desired in adornment,
When the correspondent saw this
civ of Tihis two years ago, It's mag
niicent Georgian Club, a hugh mum
cipal resort open to rich and poor.
was the scene of unbounded gaiety.
Here public hospitality was handed
out broadly to an strangers. Its lit
tie theater was filed with GOOD
dancers and actors and singers.
Now, until the opera reopens' II Is
the sole place of amusement, except
the movies 1t is attended by REQ
soldiers. its gardens filled by faded
street beauties of the other sex, while
those bourgeoise who have been un
able To flee hold forth in a modest
little restaurant downstairs called the
Cafe de Paris. Its manager is tht
former proud owner OF the Hotel
Orient. He is a Frenchman.
"people do strange things in the
name of liberty is his summing'up OF
the situation AS a matter oil TACT
they like this new liberty so well thai
both poor and rich would like to get
away from IT,
In Tifis. some things are better
ordered than they were in Soyie
budapest There is food to be had
good food. and ut not Impossible
prices. There the comparison ENDS
The street cars are not running, 10
lack OF oil or something. Anyway
people might just as well walk,
they have no special reason for get
ting anywhere quickly
The homes of Tifis. once so vas
and elegant in their hospitality arr
still outrardly handsome but the in
teriors are different Most nave
been requisitioned and divided witt
their furniture slowly finding its wa.
10 the pawnshops One man. former
ly prominent as a politician, has haf
all of his fine residence taken iron
him and each time he finds a furnish
ed room, ii is requisitioned at the or
der OF some old enemy. until now ht
has been made to move eight times
There is still enough clothes lef'
from the old days so that nobody ap
pears shabby. OF work for ltyinf
there is little or meme. The only CT
vilizing influence left is the Nea'
East Relief. There the correspondent
met a woman looking for work. Sh'
WAS from Riga and had lived Is year
teaching languages in Tifiis. But nov
she had no one to whom to give les
sons or who could pay for them. WorI
under the Soviet was Of no use, shf
said, because 1t paid only 2.o0e ruf
bles month. the price OF feV
pounds of bread.
She was now engaged III seillnI
food and clothing in the markets OF
commission but the profit was s.
little and courageous as sac appeared
to be. she begged with tears in he
eyes for any kind of place. sewing
scrubbing fioors-"anything. Wha'
would happen when winter came shf
dared not think. like many thousands
of others. dEAG"