The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-01
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN.

BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.
MIME. Pierre Ponafidine, Amer
lFI lean wife of Russian diplo-
mat, tells in her recent book, Rus
sia-My Home" of her experiences
with the American Relief Admin
istration, organized under the direc-
ton Of President Hoover, immedi-
stely following the revolution, &C
cording to Bobbs- Merrill.
In July, 1921, we heard that an
American relief expedition had been
organized on a large scale under
the direction of Mr.. Hoover, and
was even then in Moscow. Nothing
so wildly exciting had come to us,
cut off as we had been from all
regular and reliable news from the
outer world. My boys felt that our
friends in the United States would
surely take advantage of this OPP
portunity for direct contact, and
they advised me to go to Moscow
to see the A. r. A. people. Again
the red tape of getting permission
to go for treatment for my eyes. At
length, however, I arrived in Mos
COW, and was told by my friends
that the letters A. r. A. and the
American flag had been seen on
cars and trucks, but no one could
tell me how to locate the admins
tration"
After great difficulty, Nine. Pona-
fidine found the committee, sur
rounded by Bolshevik spies, of
which they were unsuspecting. THE
commission was very loyal in keep
ing to their agreement not to inter
fere with any internal politics, and
/ soon realized I could not advise
with them as to all of us getting
out of the country in an Illegal
way.
My experience in hunting up the
A. R. a made the Englishman
laugh, but he did not realize the
tragedy back of 1.-THE deceit prac-
ticed on the people. When the COM
mission arrived, every means was
used to keep them from coming into
contact with anti Bolshevik. This
was proved by the childish attempt
C. officials even to keep me from
fl ling them. The rumor was spread
eyel ywhere that the provisions
brought by the A. R. A. were also
sent by the American proletariat in
token of political sympathy.
That this was and still is one of
the regularly practiced measures for
leading the Russian public aStray
was aStoniShingly illustrated in the
report of Mr.. Hoover'S election. The
Soviet press, in speaking of it, said:
The name of the newly elected
President is familiar to our peas
ants, as Mr.. Hoover, one of the
greatest capitalists of the great
capitalistic country of the United
States, was engaged at an unusual
salary because of his great extensive
ability to deliver and distribute food
and medicine bought by the Soviet
in America at high price, during
the Russian famine"
Word has Just come from England
of the death of Eric Brett Young.
author of The Murder at Fleet"
and Dancing Beggars" Gippin-
cott). Young, brother of Francis
Brett Young, died on Nov. 80 in
England after a brief illness.
=
Charles Darwin set sail in the
Beagle" on Dec. q, just 100 years
ago. His letters and Journals. writ
ten during the five years of that
epoch-making trip around the
world, have been edited by Amabel
Williams-Ellis in THE Voyage of
the Beagle" book for children.
published by j. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
DIETJE NELL LENTZ, 800 Board
Il of Trade building, is the win
ner of the book review this week
reviewing Il, Jerry, Take Thee,
JOAN"
Inc winning review is as follows:
II Jerry, Take Thee, Joan"
with these words. muttered with a
erstwhiie newspaper columH MISTY ts Sos0e ebs
ElanorouS daughter of a millionaire Joan
ibf entaeSs' ~, Tor a short. momentous ride
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evoke % ma her dying. heart-broken.
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nuSpano striving TO please. But always
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stap snc Joan continuously lost-even
Cleo Lucas wrote this tale of modern
ne; which. incidentally. won a recent
Couege Humor novel contest Her Sfvle
81 Writing is distinctly personal and can
AIstng. carrying the reader into the very
soul OF the story and holding her there
Win little .pang of sorrow and vet a
IL all N'''si '40nN %
The winner will have choice of
one Of several good books.
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In January of the new year, the
J. B. Lippincott Company will pub
lish three mystery and adventure
stories, 'Unsolved," by Bruce
Graeme, The White Arrow" by
Anthony Wynne and Nothing Ven
tured" by Patricia Wentworth. Nom
fiction titles will be THE BARRIERS
Clock" by E. v. Lucas and the new
est addition TO The Hour Library
series, AN Hour of French History
by E. saillens, M. A. Paris.