Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-26 | Page 29 | Children and Vagrants Give Reds Problem

CHilDREN AND VAGRANTS GIVE REDS PROBlEM Russian Juveniles Ij Pound Found Addicted to Narcotic Habit i MOSCOW July 25 AP AP- AP On AP-On One ne of the soviet Russia's greatest unsolved un solved problems 5 is to relieve relIe e the thousands of vagrants destitute children beggars and unemployed 7 Y which overflow every city The greatest of these evils Is the appall- appall number of vagrant and desU- desU tuto tute children which Commissar of 1 character- character as the most terrible ulcer on fl S. S S the he soviet unions union's b body dr Many of these Juveniles ar are to Jo Jr drugs rugs Others are Infected with t All are a 1 positive menace Hundreds of thousands o ot of these children said in a avS v vS recent appeal on behalf of at them have degenerated into a stale of semi savagery some bordering on ony y while others have had their fr so sharpened and excited b by collision with life Ute that they have dangerous enemies of ot so so- lety Of Ot almost equal proportions are aret t o legions of adult paupers and that the American vis- vis r or finds cluttering every street Tand jand and squatting in front of ot every 4 church Their constant cry is i nie pashal- pashal l' l Bead please bread ease In all other outward ass as- as s the occasional American eler who finds find his way to Itus' Itus these days is agreeably sur- sur sed to find Moscow quite a nor- nor lal l city although the most Ive veIn eln Jn the world This army of or sor- sor pauperized Russians that assail one at every turn is the most public spectacle in the bolshevik bolshevik bol bol- shevi capitali capital I i The soviet authorities argue that j vagrancy and t are the Inevitable concomitants r. r of ot war and revolution re that probably nas las no greater share hare of these evils e than other warI war- war I af affected ted countries While the gov government S Is trying in er e every way p pos pos- s- s i- i Bible sible on the slender means at It its disposal to ameliorate the lot of the he unemployed and the destitute the problem is so huge and so Imf Im- Im f mediate that it is almost beyond Vf control The ree on a sr sound basis of Russia's factories pd Industries the reentry of or foreign forn for- for eign n capital into the country and tho- tho he tapping of Russia's enormous natural resources foreign observers a say ay offer otter the only remedy for the S existing evils t That the problem of child vagrancy vagrancy T. T rancy Is beyond the control of the state Is admitted even by I i sky In his appeal to the public private funds ne De says sats The 5 j state ette alone cannot eradicate this YlI VIl Therefore every ery person with pr heart must assist by i subscriptions otherwise all all- tJi th efforts will be useless and the tile fi great stream of vagrant children ll m not Dot only pay a horrible tribute i i to death but out will develop into a polluting oU Hood food poisoning the tie entire fIt current i. i current of life