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PROBLEMS FACING
STRICKEN WORLD
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
SOVIETS’ MISUSE OF POWER
Conditions in Russia Under That Form
of Government Not of a Sort to
Commend Themselves to
Thinking Men,
Article XXVIL.
By FRANK COMERFORD.
Soviet government has been a costly
experiment. Russia is almost suc-
enmbing to the treatment; notwith-
standing the “Red"™ army is meeting
with success on the field, back of the
army conditions tn Russia are grow-
ing from bad to worse, The soviet
leaders are drunk with power and they
have conducted themselves as drunken
men generally do. Reckless waste, in-
tolerant officiousness, greed for spoils,
are the record they have made. The
political machine Is the same plunder-
ing graft organization under eom-
munism in Russia that it is under
democracy in other countries. The
soviet government is a political ma-
chine, and communism has not
changed its character or its methods,
It has simply given it larger oppor-
tunities for spoils. Greater security
in its corruption.
The “Socialdemocratin” prints some
Interesting extracts from the bolshevik
budget for 1919.
According to this newspaper, the
revenue for the first half of 1010
amounted to 20,350.000.000 rubles, and
the expenditures to 50.703.000000 ru-
bles, so that the deficit for the first six
months of 10190 of soviet lussin
amounted to the enormous sum of over
80,000,000.006) rubles. The scquisition
of foodstuffs and necessaries of life
has cost a deficit Bf five billion rubles,
and the railways four and a half bil
lion rubles; thus a half year of hol-
shevik more than the total
outlay on the whole war,
Money Expended Recklessly,
The report of the bolshevik, Nemen-
sky, on the audit of the central soviet
cost
rule
tories, appeared in the “Sovietskaya
Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn"
25, 1919: “The finance credit division
of the central soviet commission re-
ceived up to Febrnary 1, 1810; 3.400.
000,000 rubles. There was no control
of the expenditure of moneys. Money
was advanced to factories immediately
upon’ demand and there cases
when was forwarded fae
tories which did not exist,
1 to December 31, 1918, the
soviet commission advanced on ac
count of products, to be received,
1,348,619.000 rubles. The value of the
goods securing these advances re-
ceived up to January 1, 19019, was only
143.716.000 rables, The negligent way
of doing business may be particularly
observed from the way the central so-
viet commission purchased supplies of
raw wool. Up to January 1, 1919, only
126.803 poods of wool was acquired,
whereas the annual requirement is fig-
ured at 3.500.000 poods,
“The tremendous staff of officials
{about 8,000 persons) employed by the
commission are in the majority of
cases doing nothing useful, It appears
that there were on the payroll of This
institution 125 persons who actually
were not in the service at all, but who
were receiving salaries. There were
cases where the same persons received
salaries twice for the same period,
The efficiency of the officials is negligl-
ble to a striking degree.”
Such soviet institutions, Nemensky
gays at the end of his report, are a
beautiful example qf deadening bu-
reaueracy and must be liquidated.
It would seem that the idealists in
charge of the communist program In
Russia are experts In “graft-ring”
methods. Payroll padding Is among
their accomplishments, An Innocent
bystander might suspect some of these
soviet -officials having a leaning
toward private property, particularly
when it is in easy reach.
Their Own Condemnation,
Probably it is fair to the bolsheviks
to state thelr case In thelr own words,
The bulletin of the central executive
committee of the soviets, No. 15, 1919,
announces: “We have created ex
traordinary commissaries and extraor-
dinary commissions without number,
All of these are, to a lesser or greater
degree, only mischief-makers.,
“The tolling population see In the
squandering of money right and left
by the commissaries and in their In.
decent loudness and profanity daring
their trips through the district, the
complete absence of party discipline.”
People’s Conmimissar Lunacharsky,
according to the “Severnayna Come
muna” of March 238, 1019, declared:
“The upper stratum of the soviet ‘rule
i# becoming detached from the masses,
and the blunders of the communist
workers are becoming more and more
frequent, These latter, according to
statements by workmen, treat the
masses In a high-handed manner and
are very generous with threats and
repressions.”
The soviet machine has had its “run
in" with the workers. The factory
committees have been bulldozed, The
soviets have been brutal In their treat-
ment of the proletariat.
“I'he struggle between the soviets
i
were
money to
central
of
—_—
and the committee of factory workers
is an ordinary occurrence,” according
to the bolshevik newspaper “Ekon-
omicheskaya Zhizn" of April, 1019,
Workers Denied Right to Strike.
The soviets have the whip hand In
their controversy with the workers;
they are the government and the “Red”
army backs théir decrees. There is a
final court of settlement for all dis
ngreements between the soviets and
the workers, It Is the “wall”—and the
firing squad.
denied the workers, Many of those
who have dared to strike have pnid
for It with their lves, The workers
are without recourse when commanded
by the soviet. Whether or not they
were the slaves of the machines be.
fore communism came, it is certain
that they are now the slaves of the
soviets, Even as slaves of the mn
chines and the capitalists who owned
strike for their rights. The soviets de-
prived them of this right.
viet March 9, 1010, wrote:
communist soviet workers
disgusting manner,
is going on constantly.”
The conduct of the soviet commlis-
Thelr conduct is described In
the provincial soviets:
saries were going through
ftzin county In sumptuous
driven by three and often by
horses, A great array
and a large suite accompanied these
commissaries, and an Imposing nam-
her of trunks followed along. They
made exorbitant demands upon the
toiling population, coupled with as
saults and brutality: their way of
squandering money right and left Is
particularly characteristic. In some
houses the commisaaries gambled away
and spent on Intoxicants large sims,
The hard-working population
upon these orgles as complete demoral-
ization nnd failure of duty to the
world revolution™
These pen plcetures of life In Russia
under the
nished by the enemies of holshevism ;
they are the complaints of bolshevik
leaders. Do we need a grenter warn-
ing of the menace of bolshevism?
the
enrriages,
six
soviet
(Copyright, 1320, Western Newspaper Union)
Reorganize Polish Police Force,
The British police mission which
{ went to Warsaw under the direction
{ of Gen. Sir Nevil Macready, commis.
siomer of the metropolitan police, has
| submitted some reform proposals
{ which the Polish government has
| adopted and which will have the ef.
| fect’ of remodaling the Polish police
i force after the style of the metropoll.
{tan police. The Polish ministry of jus.
{ tlee will co-operate with the British
| mission In carrying out the scheme,
{and it Is anticipaied that the latter
{ will remain in Poland until reorganiza.
tion has been completed.
Spain Urged to Cut Exports.
portation of shoes, leather, foodstuffs,
cotton and linen is published by Im-
parcial, Madrid. The newspaper gives
| statistics that while the ex.
portation of shoes and leather from
January to Joly, 1918, amounted to
13,000,000 pesetas, during the same
period in 1919 exportation of these ar
ticles reached a value of 772.000.0000
pesetas, The exportation of other raw
materials also increased greatly. The
Imparcial says this has been the cause
of the large Increases In the cost of
living.
to show
Clemenceau Drops War Duties.
Premier Clemenceau declared in an
interview that he could not continue
to represent the department of war
task with a fear that my strength fail
me before it could be completed.”
accomplish formidable work, demand
ing patience for which France may
be incapable, 1 will always have a
to be a member of parliament.”
Belgium Buckles to Her Task,
Belgium is manfully grappling with
the great problem of domestic recon-
struction,
country she is faced with a tremen.
dous shortage of houses, besides her
own great devastated areas which
must in some way be rehabilitated.
Every day, however, the work must be.
come easier, and with a people 80 re
markably determined to secure unity
amongst themselves and the maximum
of effort, a comparatively short time
ought to see Belgium well on the way
to complete rehabilitation, :
italy Urged to Join Russia.
Deputy Ciceottl, In a speech before
the Italian chamber, urged Italy to
break away from the allles and asso
ciate herself with the Russian soviet
government. This was the first decla-
ration of the Italian socialists’ policy
toward the allies,
Immediately after Clecotti's speech
leaders of the Catholic block let it be
known that thelr party has decided
against a parliamentary coalition with
the socialists,
“Villain.”
This word has come down to us
from Latin through the Krench and
means a very wicked person. In
Roman” times, however, a “villanus”
(from “villa,” a country home or es
tate) was only a farm servant and
often a very good man,
John Hansen,
Crew
By FREEMAN PUTNEY, JR.
(Copyright)
Stoild, pink-eyed, flaxen-halred John
Hansen. crew of the Mary H. "had
gone below to look for the skipper's
pocket-knife,
The skipper himself had stepped
from the sloppy fishing-sloop to the ad-
joining wharf, while the lowered gaff
{on which he had been working lay In
i a disorder of canvas on the deck,
#¢ He walked along the wharf to the
{ schooner in the next berth. and asked
{fa man sitting In the shadow
{ forecastle for a bit spun
of yarn.
sxplained.
The man on the schooner dropped
and remarked that it was Sun
From the fishing-sloop, the crew,
his
«ail,
lay.
John Hansen, now resting on
| sows half out of the cabin,
| ander his thin, corn-silk mustache,
The man on the schooner dropped
to look in his and
skipper walted, puffing on his pipe.
wlow SlOores,
feck again, shaking his head,
! gled cord.
“They
hatled
do?
“Ee-—yah!
got no John"
the
yarn,
“Win
spun
skipper.
returned John,
“Thank ye,” grunted the skipper to
the schooner’'s man. “Sorry ain't
got any spun yarn"
“All right.” mumbled the other re-
suming a colored supplement
he had left off.
The skipper returned to his sloop.
John Hansen did the repairing, and
the skipper assisted. Before long the
tron was rewound, the ropes strength-
ened, and the halyards rebent.
“Now.
ashore,
ye
sald the skipper, “ye can
We'll airly in the
F mornin’ so ye better sieep aboard
goin’ to see Christina this after.
noon
John grinned.
“Ee—yah,"” he drawled.
her.”
“She's a mighty stanch
ting,” admired the skipper
she ‘goin’ ter git
The crew blushed,
“I ain't asked her
we
———
“That's right,”
“Don’t ask
right an’ tight"
“Eeyah" corrected John.
one ting can break it
girl go away?
“What d'ye mean?”
“1 tank 1 got promised to marry a
girl once myself. I went on a fishing
trip. and when 1 the
ban gone away.”
“A gal at home?
“No, a girl named
when 1 first came to Hardyport.
went away. [I tank 1
to her longer, eh?”
he skipper thought
yenrs Hansen
gO sail
up
“I tank 1
gO see
gal, Chris.
“You an’
git spliced soon?”
yet, but 1 tank
the
ye're
approved
per. her till
“y
come back
Fannie, here,
rapidly,
had
two John
]
|
3
proceeds had given him a
the skipper knew that the
had trusted the
John
what was
would encourage anything that might
delay this marriage.
“Ye sartain got
if ye sald ye would,” he began.
John looked perplexed.
“I don't tank so,” he considered
slowly. “Khe ban gone to New York
| her cousing they told me.
it she don’t write me a
want me?”
“Oh, ye neter can tell about worn
en folks” generalized
| easily, “She may be breakin’ her lit-
tle heart waitin’, fur all ye know”
i With troubled face, John washed
| his hands and face and changed his
clothes in the cabin. Then, going on
deck, he combed his hair before a
fragment of mirror stuck in a mast
i hoop.
“1 tank.” he announced finally, “I go
up an’ see the parson at the Bethel
I got to be honest, an’ If I ban fool
to get promised to little Fannie long
time before I saw Christina, maybe
I have to pay for it. Only 1 hope”
he added brokenly—*I hope Christina
she don't care—much
“That's right,” approved the skip
That afternoon, when the meeting
at the Fishermen's Bethel was over,
John Hansen did go to the parson, and
the parson, having untangled from
John's broken English what seemed to
be a straight version of the story, did
tell the tall, light-haired fisherman to
walt.
John did not go to see Christina that
evening.
Instead, he made his way back to
the wharf.
“I tank I don’t fish any more” he
announced to the astonished skipper.
“Why pot?" was the demand,
“1 tank I go to find Fannie,
“But, ye tow-headed sculpin’
can't find her in New York!"
Deaf to expostulation, John stead.
ily packed his dunnage-bag, while the
skipper swore the oaths of a man who
had overreached blues,
Three evenings Pn
under the glare of
Ye
Hansen spent
electric lights
w
in Coney
found her,
He recognized Fannie in spite of
the bleaching of her halr, «the rouge
on her cheeks, and the exaggerated
outlines of her silk clothes, Troubled,
he followed her down a dimly lighted
street into a cheap wooden bullding
with a bar In the front room. Passing
through this apartinent, they sat down
at a small table in nn alcove beyond,
“Well,” she ejaculated finally, “how's
old Hardyport? What brought you
down here, John?"
“1 eame to bring you back,” he an-
swered soberly.
“Quit yer kidding,
angrily,
“You
tank It
Island's Bowery before a
"
she broke out
don't like this plece. |
very good place,
home to Hardyport.”
“Lord I” she cried.
to? Ain't I tired and
hole?
an’ musk for a whiff o' the wild roses
sick of
behind the
the water all red
across the marshes?
choked for a breath of alr from
real ocean, for a gust of the
wind, all sharp and salt?
“1 can’t go, John. 1 can’t go!”
“1 tank you can he persisted
“What make it you ean't?”
“1 owe money here, to the boss, Yon
sun set
and at
Aln't 1
hills
tide
an?
BO,
let me go If 1 tried.”
“A lot. a hundred dol-
lars now.’
Hansen took from his pocket
roll of bills, divided it, and
handed her the larger part. As if
dazed, the girl took the money and
slipped it Into her dress
It's nearly
©
John
a slim
York
row
o'clock tomor-
rising.
at ten
John sald
for train
mornin’,”
When the next afternoon boat from
had made fast at her Hardy-
wharf! John Hansen and Fannle
the gangplank and
walked slowly up Harbor street,
“You don't know how good It seems
to get murmured the
“Speed babbled,
that get away
raw Let's
selves to a where
our faces
They ate supper at a little restan-
rant and then over the
avenue that skirts the harbor,
oston
port
crossed together
girl
“I'm
with a
back,
up, Beau”
empty 1
selling-plater,
she
cotid
our
feed
chase
joint we can
"
wandered out
The two stood leaning on the bridge.
rail, Fannie watching the bathers and
the of the revolving lamp
in the Il the Polot,
with his eyes on the girl
he dully
showy dress, the tho abundant frizzed
slow flash
ghthouse tower on
Once more studied the
yellow hair, the powder.
blotched cheeks, the hard lips, and the
bold, brilliant
Then
his heart rose
This
eyes
he thought of Christina, and
slowly In
young-old,
what had
Why should he give up for
girl
wanted
protest
tainted, made-up
she In common
the cleareyed
~the
shores
her
he wanted
on the
What
clean-skinned
only he
girl
of the
this
seven seas?
cium had brass-tongued
him?
added alond.
upon
“Ave.” he
and I have to pay
“What say?’ queried Fan.
“Fannle”~ steadily—*yon
an’ me ban promised four years ago.
When 1 came in from that trip an’
found you gone to New York I didn't
follow.™
Fannie was gazing at him from un
der half-shut eyelids, but made no re-
ply.
Johs Hansen continued:
“Year ago 1 know better, but I'l
stow that now. 1 ban older than you,
and I tank my place to stand between
an’ the wind. Now I ban goin’
to pay.”
“You
mean--you'll
“But 1 bao
fol o“
fool
he spoke
you
mean,” she whispered-—“yon
marry
He nodded silently, and for a few
moments she gazed Into his eyes.
“John Hansen!" she ejaculated
finally, “You're a fool!
big a baby as you were four years
ago!
of yon. I'll marry youl”
“T'tI marry you, yes, on one condi
tion.
with any other girl,
snapped.
HY se J omorana™
John.
“You are!
ean have her, I don’t love you. 1
don't want you or any other man. You
were sent to me, an’ you've brought
me home an’ given me back this”
She waved her hand toward the
town and the sea,
“You've given me back this. I'l
give yon back your girl. Now go to
her.” ,
Are you?" she
began the
Power of Sentiment.
Without sentiment we shall reform
in vain. We shall start to pile up a
erases, utilitarian building, that makes
no appeal to the soul of man. We
stall miss immeasurably the finer side
of reconstruction. Blockheads deride
sentiment. They want something tangi-
ble, they tell you. They want the
“stuff"—none of your poetry and nam-
by-pamby nonsense.” But blockheads
miss the fact that sentiment ought to
play a mighty part in the reconstrue-
tion of the country; we ought to have
it In full measure, brimming over—
provided It be of the right kind.—Ex-
change.
That Didn't Suit Her, Either.
The Bride—Oh, Dick, you shouldn't
kiss me before all those girls,
The Gtoom=—I'tn gad my little wife
Is so unselfish, and just to please you
IN kiss Bll those girls first.—Boston
Transcript.
A RELIEF,
how much
said the
“You don't know
have cheered me”
“Why, doctor, how can 1, a sfek
sick and
re you.
“Because you are really
to cu
with imaginary allpents. I'm glad to
something besides déception.”
Canine Palace.
“The Grabeoins put on a great deal
little
sort
“Everything thes ig a
better than anything else of the
’
possess
“Yes?”
“Even thelr dog
Queen Anne cottage.”
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5
house looks lke a
2
al
i \
EXTREMES MEET
“Young Brigzs has 181
inherited
lion.”
why everybody greets him
True,
Time and tide for no man
walt,
) whate'er you do
Remember this: Men also hate
have fo hang arcund for you
He punctual
To
And Nothing More.
“Scribson is dashing off another nov-
A
“How
f novel?
“About six
“Good heavens! And what
put into 17”
we 44
About
m to write
weeks”
does he
G0.000 words”
A Selfish Thought
“Henry,” sald Mrs. Dubwalite
a perfect love of a hat In a mi
window this morning.”
hope you w
sald Mr. Dubw
“What do you mean?”
“You
Nese to
buy it.”
“I saw
liners
111 not disiliusion
self)’ Gite
.
now very well that hat will
be a perfect love when you
These Animal Actors.
Willie Bow Wow-—Why did Harold
Rilver Fox refuse to act today?
Sammie Me Ow—Temperament,
mw the director's wife wearing
cousin and it affected him so. that they
pital.
Of the Dead Past.
A Long Time Since—Can yon sug-
gest a nice inexpensive car 1 ean get?™
“No, nor an inexpensive wife, nor an
inexpensive house, Those things are
aut of fashion,”
STARTING AT THE TOP.
Barber—Halr getting thin, sir,
Obese Party — Thank goodness!
That anti-fat is beginning to work.
Hard Luck.
He sold his house
And made three thou.
But has no place
To live in now,
Economy.
*I wish I knew whether my next
door neighbor is going to plant a
vegetable garden.”
“Why are you anxious to know?"
“Because if he Is 1 needn't spend
go much for chicken feed.”
Professional Jealousy.
First Artist—Congratulate me, old
man. I've just sold a pleture to old
Banker Parvenn for $2,000.
Second Artist--Glad to hear it, «The
miserable old skinflint deserves to be |
stuck.
Art and Literature,
“Which do you prefer, art or litera
ture?”
“Art,” replied Miss Cayenne, "It Is
very seldom that I enjoy reading =
magazine as much as 1 do looking at
the pretty picture on the coves”
BRACE UP!
The man or woman with weak kid
neys is half crippled. A lame, stiff
back, with its constant, dull ache and
snarp, shooting twinges, makes the
simplest task a burden. Headaches,
dizzy spells, urinary disorders and an
“all worn out” feeling are daily sources
of ‘distress. Don’t neglect Lidney
weakness and risk gravel, dro or
Bright's disease. Get 5 box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills today. They bave helped
people the world over.
A Maryland Case
Mrs. M. J. Nickol,
01 E. Baltimore Bt.
Baltimore MA,
says: “I suffered
from lame back and
other symptoms of
kidney trouble. The
pains were severe in
the region of my
kidneys and were
worse when stooping
or lifting. 1 also felt
tired out, had dizzy
spells and head-
aches, As another
in the family had
used Doan’'s Kidney
Pills with good re. ’
sults, I bought some and three boxes
fixed me up in good shape.”
Cet Doan’s at Any Store, 60c o Box
DOAN’ RKIDNEY
PILLS
FOSTER - MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, MN. Y.
— —
The pessimist growls at the sun-
shine
because It casts shadows,
SAY “DIAMOND DYES”
Don't streak or ruin your materi! in &
or dye. Insist on “Diamond Dyes”
y directions in package.
“FREEZONE"
Lift Off Corns! No Pain!
Doesn't hurt a bit!
“Freezone” on an aching cor
that corn stops hurting, then
you lift it right off with fingers
Your druggist sclis a tiny |
"Freezone for a few cents, suffic
remove every hard corn, soft corn, or
corn between the toes, and the calluses,
without soreness or irritation,
Truly!
ttle of
ent to
The man who Is not afraid of
ure seldom has to face it,
INVENTIVE GENIUS
ROBS CALOMEL OF
NAUSEA AND DANGER
Doctors’ Favorite Medicine Now
Purified and Refined from All
Objectionable Effects. ‘‘Calo-
tabs’ '—the New Name.
fail-
What will human Ingenuity do next?
Bmokeless powder, wireless telegraphy,
borseless carriages, colorless iodine, taste.
less quinine, now comes hnauseaiess calo~
mel. The new improvement called “Calo
tabs” is now on sale at drugstores,
For biliousness, constipation and indie
gestion the new calomel tablet is a prac
tically perfect remedy, as evidenced by
the fact that the manufacturers have au-
thorized all druggists to refund the price
ectly delighted™
with Calotabs. One tablet at bedtime with
No taste,
nO nausea, no griping, po salts. By morn.
shout your business
Calotabs are not sold in bulk. Get an
Price, thirty~
Give cents. —(adv.)
We call all the “devil ” human
ASPIRIN
Name “Bayer” on Genuine
“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is
ine Aspirin preved safe by millions
and prescribed by physicians for over
twenty years. Accept only an unbroken
“Bayer package” which contains proper
directions to relieve Headache, Tooth.
ache, Barache, Neuralgid, Rheumatism,
Colds and Pain, Handy tin boxes of 12
tablets cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger “Bayer packages.” Aspirin
is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon-
oaceticacidester of Salicylicacid.—Adv,
A favor becomes doubly valuable
when granted with courtesy.