The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-08
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Everywhere in Russia. Traveller
Sees Terrible Sights.
"kindest Thing YOU Can Do to ! Lot
,of These People IL to Kill Them"
a I Said nailreader. ( B. \

We had no. sooner crossed into Rus
sin than we began to See horrible
sights. And this II the trutll---I; was
not expecting it, I Thought the nor
rors were confined to certain areas
and that should have to go anu look
for them, writes Eleanor Franklin
Egan in the Saturday Evening Post.
But there is no area in Russia to-
daS. that IS not Horrible; at least
there is no area in which horrors are
not to be encountered. And though
the. soviet authorities spare no effort
In trying to induce the world to be-,
lieve that the fanine, is confined to
the Volga valleyiand that it: Is due
solely to natural causes and causes
over which they had no control, there
is not a man, woman or child In the
country, aside froms. a favored few
within the Eoyernlnept circle +or who
have money enough TO pay the fam
tastic prices that are demanded for
food, who 3is getting enough toeeat.
This also issthe absolute truth, which
nobody who knows the situation will
sees to- deny. & - n ! ss:,I s. : : =,
sAtfeverY railway station there We're
=seething 1iobs of tile most awful peo-
PIE had ever = seen. 4 Eli : They crowded
up under the windows Of our car and
walled . piHful wall with their hands
held ont 4 81 .5:: ~ .
i asked our Latvianss porter, t:who
spoke both English and Russian. what
they we're saying, and 5lAushing asbru-
tai laugh, he ! answered They sare
saying. '.For Gods sake give us bread,
give us bread !'F"' He was remember
ing the BolshevIst invasi9n OF his own
countrySantd the ruthless1ess of IT:
He had no sympathy for Russians =.
Most 1.-THE; people were&trylng to
get on the atrain they were going
somewhere, anywiiere, T suppose, AWAY
from where they were. 81 There were
Red soldiers stationed 1at each end of
all the cars, and tsonly those who had
permits tOitravel were allowed to get
aboard; but the others I'm ,uncontrol-
liable masses, struggled FOR III foothold
anywhere We had one continual:
fight to keep them out Of our car. but
We had to keep, them fout !; our hearts,
might ache for stliein,F but they had on
them one thing weEwere afraid of
carriers of disease. ~ - ,f&i.
We locked our doors, but they:
kicked against them and beat, upon
the windows with: their fists, making
piteous appea1s.S They clung TO the
steps and the trucks and crowlcd to.
gether between the cars on. the coup
ling pins. And 1t wast cold, bitter cold.
The country was just one vast inter.
minable 2stretcir asof fb1tnding white
silence; the villages were burieds up
to their thick thAtcteus caves in snow;
the boards OF the men atld the muf-
flers OF the women were hung with
icicles 1T was all at terrible picture
of human suffering. r 5;.st3 ~ = '3s;st.t;
= At one station I: stood looking out of
a window@as the train began to move;
it gathered speed; there was a a&surge
forward, in the crowd and frantic
shout :. then i felt the ear under me
lift and twist itself zwithha' sickening
grind: ? ,..' = / N ,,,:.: sz:-
one Of the young men 7 was travel
ing with came up to- me quickly,
turned ME away from the; window and
said, Don't. look We ran i over a
woman. She: slipped on the icy step
she was trying to hang on to: and sfell
under THE wheels ~ ~ l.s' .E5s:*
! The porter, looking Just a. little BIT
shaken himself said, ,ssand she's
better off! Kindest thing ,you+ can do
to lot OF these people is to xiii thenis
We don't often make this run without
killing two or three, but It. don't seem
right that they: should nearly always
be women, .,,.ttt. j9sste,. c,:' .r2.<s .
!, We killed three before we got to
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