East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-06

II Major, W, Blake
has made trip through considerable portion Of Russia
to observe the famine conditions there In his story,
which cabed to the New York World this correspondent
says that the hearrending sights terrible
to be depicted He sums all up Gigantic nightmare of
Here section from Major Bakes story not the worst
part of his narrative but chosen because it less epusve
than much Of his report;
terrible Not TIE suffering from intense hnger but they
Of fighting
burned
Of pfssious in surrounding
From ny pDsR 10 wilma ana m PnH outsTrs @ to the Dnep the old
German ana Russian nehes sr INHABITED by starving peasants r. spent
ports rapidly oine and families have been buried in the collapse
daughter paazed and could only crawl slowly on all fours The grand
mother could beg which little Of the nghbors
lapse the parayzed knows that in the earth
preparing Il soup grass
peppers and half dozen rotten potatoes No wonder they than
dugout yards away
mother had died The boys were eontg to live on milk and few p
mud what left Of the local river All these people are in rags
they fall birds starvation grow
going to happen
When win these eniT asked
i the winter. he replied they afreenet DEATH"
Those conditions tnan barbarc and they exist n
the 1921 Why? The casual citizen will bosheysm
and let at that But that does not tell the whole story
BoShevSm overwhelmed Russia because Russia had too much
and too much mtarm In the old days military
autocracy For that matter it military autocracy be-
Lenns rule rests chiefly upon force Russia vic
tim her fate should be object lesson the rest of the
world Give another big and other countries will the
fact other European nations had
escape this time.
Warfare should be under the ban 1t be done and it
viii have to be done civilization is to survive Warfare be-
tween nations stopped matter what reaconaes and
pesmsts 1t stopped by the whereby
1t has been stopped between individuals between families and
tribes Society must do in self defense 1t
plan may work perfectly be free from objections But the
big thing be put the get together basis
consistent with and human nature Why should
they not dc it, How think of Russia without
gyngs the future mankind fails to chain the god?
War and mtarism produced bosheysm in Russia just bad
sanitary conditions produce fever If want to make the
world Of the future safe must deal with and not with
the future and the nation that thinks is the safest of all
the most susceptible Until few people
thought the Russian the saddle and
they dreamed that Russian civilization could be under
mined SO easily and so thoroughly.
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The batteshp Washington launched Thursday 1t cost
millions of dollars The spent in building would
build the proposed Umatla Rapids Project the Columbia
thousands of of land and the drowning out Of barrier
upriver navigation This understandable argument
for International disarmament Budget
When Clatskane laborer died after drinking moon
shine his body turned black He wanted something with kick
in it and he got it.
The Butter creek road important road and the peo
pie of that region justified in asking that be made navi
gable.
The wheat market does not much stimulated b.
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little September rain to settle the dust will be welcome
Major NoorhQuses