Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21

(Note-One of the staff CORE
spondents of the Associated Press
who entered soviet Russia when
Lenine opened the doors of that
country to admit American food
and relief workers, started from
Constantihople and proceeded to
the Black sea ports of Trebizond
and Batum. He went on to Tiflis,
in soviet Georgia, and thence, ap-
, parently across the Carpathian
mountains to the lower NOlga river
district, the heart of the famine
country Then he moved n.ftl-
ward and finally reached Moscow,
traversing the territory to which
American food was sent. On the
way he sent cabled reports giving
first-hand information of condi-
lions in the famine district In the
appended article he describes in
detail the conditions he observed
in Baum anG Tiflis,l
Baum, Oct. 10 Cby n Staff Cor
respondent of the Associated
Press) .-Entranc in to Russia
through the Black sea may be COM
pared TO a visit to a dreaded battle
front There's lots of fear Of death
and destruction but somehow one
does not find them. These ele-
ments to uneasy sleep seem to IL K
always Just little farth along.
The traveller has himself rammed
full of vaccineS, vaccines against
cholera, pest, smallpox and ty-
@phoid, is made properly i'll in ad-
vance, only to find that these dis
eases are just now out of season.
The only thing he needs is quinine,
not for himself but for malaria
patients about the scar orts.
Money Hard 80 Earn.
Fear of Russia should not be
based on fear of violence or bodily
hurt, so much as to the discomfort
of living in a land where social and
economic conditions are very hard.
Money is hard to can. Dock labor
ers at Batum. when they work. may
earn 5000 rubles. or cents, per
day, and this is the price of two
pounds of bread.
After all the stories of revolu-
tons and counter revolutions, the
murders and whatnot, one is dis
tinctly surprised TO find neople GO
ing about as usual There seem
to be more people than ever before.
One wonders where thev come
from. They swarm about the cities,
THE train stations in the country,
thick as ants.
Yet rich and poor seem alike en-
gagged in the process of getting out
of Russia. Many of the rich have
done so. Their old life has been
,o1
life of educating and rearing fami-
lies. Their manner NJ living and
thinking doesn't fit in to the new
chaos and they prefer to get to
Constantinople-so mu h so that it
has become almost a Russian city
o--and thence filter through to Eu-
rope and there I've on charity and
their wits. Some manage to retain
wrecks of their fortunes, Tor old
Russia was rich beyond the dreams.
of western Europe. Everybody
seems to have hal gold a d jewels
in abundance. Those with prop
erty are ctill slipping away. and
without too much difficulty or him
drance from the soviet
Must Use Caution.
Only they must use caution. A
certain Melikov, the Russian-Ar-
menian owner of the newspape"
Horizon, in Tiflis, had his home
requisitioned, so he got leaTe to
depart to Constantinople. On the
way his baggage was searched. al
dairy was found telling his inmost
reflections about the bolsheviki
and the new order of life, a diary
that he DOssibly was intending to
publish. The foolish man was
hauled before the "checka" the
secret police with extraordinary