Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-29

-sGPreme,- and ss human nature Is not in
fallible the result was the cheka became
SO bad that the government abolished ii
and instituted the court.
Another great movement Is the permits
sion TO trade and the return to the capt.
talistic state This later move enables
the Russian peasants who. by nature, are
individualists, TO sell their products Of
tho soil and with the returns from the
sale Of their produce TO buy necessities.
Ny personal opinion is that had the
government permitted the Russian peas
ant to sell his wares the present famine
on the VOlga River could have been pre-
vented by the Ukrainia. another agricu1-
ture district, supplying the demands Of
the famine district Furthermore, the
transportation is in such condition that
even if the peasants could help the fam
inc district, it would be impossible to de-
liver the produce 70 the famine district.
The American relief administration,
together with the representatives OF the
Russian soviet. are at the present time
feeding five million persons"
He stated that in Moscow and Petro-
grad one can buy nearly anything want
ed, with the exception OF meat. He said.
although there is meat there, the people
who really know conditions, are not buy
ing it because no one can ascertain wheth-
er It is dog. cat, horse or some other ami
NAL. Most OF the meat being used is
pork, which is provided by the American
relief administration.
According to Mr.. Weinshank, the
.theaters are open and the actors are paid
by the Government in form Of good
pajok.' which means that the actors are
able to get enough food to keep them
from starvation.
But the trouble Is that some of the
actors have not received their pajoks
since last October and the result is that
they do manual labor during the day and
perform at night" he said.
Admission TO the theater costs about
1000 rubles, he said
Il can't say just how much that is, but
81 in our money means about two mil
lion rubles." he said.
Mr.. Weinshank brought back with him
a quarter Of a million rubles.
My personal opinion is that if Russia
is left alone and there is a good crop next
fall, she viii be in a position to support
herself without aid. Ny impression is
that most Of the suffering in Russia to-
day is due to the five civil wars which
she has had to go through in the last
three years. The civil wars were in
stituted by France and partly by the
allies. General Petlura at the present
time has an army at his disposal to
jump on Odessa for the purpose of d ght-
ing the BOlshevik government. which is a
government in name only, as the nation is
taking care Of itself
General Kaltchak, who opersted IN
Siberia with the aid of American troops
against the Bolshevists, has not helped
Russia to get on her ceet. General
Udenitch, who with an army supported
by France, attempted to AXE Petro2rad,
has added considerable TO the suffering Of
the Russian nation. Other attempts to
down the Bolshevists has only strength
ened the hands of the BOIshevists and
has caused considerable misery to The
Russian nation"
In conclusion. Mr.. Weinshank said ::
There are today in this country Civil
War veterans who remember the heiping
hand Russia gave US. but in Russia. for
centuries to come, the word American,
and especially the name of Hoover, will
be remembered with reverence
MIR. Weinshank is an authority on the
great amount OF good that a $40 con-
tribution TO relief in Russia will do.