Show I This Picture and That C COL OL L. L RYAN Red Cross commissioner fo for North Russia Russia Rus- Rus sia sin and the Baltic states pictures conditions in Russia somewhat differently than they were painted by Morris ronis Hillquist at the recent mass meeting of Socialists Socialists Socialists So So- in New York He says that tho time system of tho the countr country has broken down In Petrograd wooden houses fire are pulled down and barges on the N Nova Neva c a chopped up for fuel No water is to be had save 0 in inthe tho the river There is no soap Virtually there are arc no lights Moscow is in the tho same terrible condition In both cities the streets aro unspeakably filth filthy with piles of dirt and rubbish four feet high Everybody is dirty and shabby stabby The hospitals lack Inck tho the most necessary medical supplies In Moscow everybody was cold Horse lorse meat was practically the only meat on sale The bread read ration was a n quarter of a n. pound a n. person parson These are arc a n few of the glorious achievements of th the sort sod of government the Socialist party part of tho the United States recently resolved in favor of They want ant n n. soviet government based upon public ownership of public publio necessities upon government by representatives chosen from occupational as well as geographical groups in n harmony with our industrial development and with citizenship based on n service that we wo may end nd forever too ho the exploitation of class by class Those are arc the high sounding phrases used in America America Amer Amer- lea ica to t tickle I the of tho the to ica cars groundlings spread sedition and create discontent in the tho ranks of honest and earnest American workmen II There There are aro n poor in n Russia Russia all all are equal say the propagandists of tho the soviet so-iet seeking to seduce American citizens away from the he best government on earth They might have added all all are equally dirty ill-clad ill famished suffering from Tom cold devoid of ambition and utterly hopeless A great nation brought to rags and wretchedness demoralized demoralized demoralized demor demor- or ruined materially and morally The American citizen will think twice before he sells his ns birthright for a mess of so soviet et pottage Astrologers say tho the juxtaposition of the planets is favorable for the Democratic convention date dato at nt San Francisco Perhaps some of th candidates will not Dot require require re ye- quire the aid of a telescope to visualize the starry f firmain irma firma in eat ment |