The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-22
FLAPPERS ARE
NOT TFOUND IN
RUSSIA TO-DAY
American Writer Tells Of Liy.
ing Conditions Of Slays-
Womens Dress Is
Makeshift.
COUNTRY IS CHANGING
Tons Of Foodstuffs Sent by
American Relief Admins
tration. Are Keeping
Many Alive.

NEN fOsE. May 22.-Hs~ do the -
men in Russia dress: Are there an,
flappers< Is Russia sei or dr.. Via
are the people IN the famine zJnes II
ing On; l. it I-yssihIe for = msa ID
carr oafaTe in Russian rg5le-.
Several hundred questions s-kei sine.
] landed IN The UBiied States after :
two months journey through Russia in
Giesie that the answers to The above
questions are Of sharper interest here
than politics or the prospect Of peace or
war
The dress Oi The women j. makeshift
There i no s-i OF EKed siyle IN hats.
in dresses OF IN shoe. Six stockings arc
very rare. They are particular, never
NOrn on the street and only By small
percentage Of the ~omea who attend the
opera or the ballet The skirts come 10
within eight o: ten inches II the ground.
as cOnirssted Nth the eighteen OF twenty
inches that seems the vogue in New
York where ski:is are shorter than in
either Berlin OF London.
The flappers seems 10 BE- distinct
American type. There u not a irace Of
her kind in Russia and only a very slight
trace IN Germany, Belgium and Eng
land
II tea counted. Russia might be called
The Neiiest country in me world. Ever
home has IL sanOyar and the samOyar
seems to be going endlessly and the folks
always drinking cup after cup or glass
after glass of hot iea-encep, in the "a
mine zones. where they drank glass after
glass Cf tea substitute -sSmeihing 10
color the water and take away the Ordi-
Bary flat TASTE 81 boiled water.
The only sealed vodka in Russia Is the
preprohibiiion dis;ilaiion. But in many
places throughout the country the home
brewers make a raw aEd sery strong col
orless drink. IT. bz- i. nezrIy always
the alcohol from the potato. Its strength
and inspiring quality may BE- judged
from the fact that once. shen the gas5-
line supply at Ufs, on the Asian border
ran out. the potato alcohol was used TO
run the American Relief Administrations !
service automobile and it ran ii.
FAMINE TNDEE ooNTKoL
The Russian famine i coming under /
control. This mus; not be- taken To mean I!
that there i no more hunger priyaiion OF
even death in the famine zones. but it |
does mean that the scores and hundreds I
Of tons Of American foods;uffs that have ;
been pouring into Russia under the d. !
Iec;ion Of the american Relief Admin /
isirsiion are doing their work.
Adults who. without American aid. /
would have died, are staying alive on
American corn purchased in the United /
STATES with the S20,OJ1.OOO Congressional
appropriation Children who would have
died are being kept alive on foods;uffs
purchased with money made available to
the American Relief Administration by
the charity Of the American people
The number being fed is steadily in
creasing. The program will come to It's
crest about the middle Of May, when ap-
proximaiely 100000 children and 5000
900 adults will be receiving American
food. The figures are from Colonel Viii
liam n. Haskell, director in Russia for
the Administration.
On April the Russian ruble sold at
the rate Of 100000 for the American
dollar-or at the rate Of twenty thou
sand for one American cent. But the
Russian ruble as an entity vanished long
ago. The smallest current printing is
a note Of 5000 rubles-one cent and
quarter. The more common note is for
100000 rubles-fiye cents and the 1000
600 ruble note-fifty cents, is very COM
mon. The prices Of goods 10 an Ameri-
can. such as he can buy, is very low if
he buys rubles with his American dol
lars. The price 10 Russians who earn
only few million rubles per month, is
very high. Ii keeps the living Of even
the moderately fortunate down very
low.
TRAVEL Is HAZARDOUS
Rail travel in Russia is hazardous
but not an extra hazardous task. In all
Dut-lut 1
zation Of rail transport seemed to me a
,rifle oyerdrawn. The first American
corn train out Of Novorossisk February ,
10. went to Ufa, l.4O0 miles distant in
% days-a irifle better than fifty miles
a day. X
This is not a tremendously fine record
in the terms Of the performance on
American railroads, but il is perform
ance that will. in spite of difficulties,
move the food that has been landed in
he ports. In some instances there has
,een heavy but not overwhelming con-
,estion Of cars at division points.
With the thaws. the transportation dif
ieulty will go from the railroads TO the
lorse transport from the rail towns out
nto the country. But his burden will
,e spread over a tremendous area and
here will be a tremendous number TO
ope with 1.-THE millions who can have
he corn to eat if they will haul it TO
he distributing points.