Show DESCRIBES I VISIT TO SOVIET S CAPITAL Finds No Fat People in Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow but W Women o en Seem I Well Nourished BY KARL H. H VON WIEGAND Universal Service Staff Correspondent BERLIN May 6 Pictures from Moscow osco are ate Interestingly given by a writer In the Deutsche Zel- Zel tung who loft left the capital of 01 soviet Rusala Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia ala recently A number of ot taxi sleighs stand at the I station when I arrive The faro tare into 1 town Is rubles The enow Is deep I i but the streets everywhere have havo been cleaned up and the first impression Isone is isone isone one of order My sleigh rush rush's rushs s along in what seems an endless drive to th thu j center of or the city not to a a. notel dotel Themis There Them is no such thing no restaurant no cafe All AU houses are arc communized En route we ve meet long lone trains of 01 I peasant sleighs laden with wood or empty empt The scarcity cf tf fuel Is one of or the greatest worries that the soviet government has Tho The horses 1001 surprisingly well from which I conclude conclude con con- clude chide that plenty of ot fodder Is on hand Vo Wo meet people most of or them In brown coats and everyone has the customary customary customary cus cus- cus- cus tomary high felt relt boots on but boots and coats In in many instances show signs of h hard wear and look shabby I 1 find th the felt boots so 50 practical In the dry snow snowS that I want ant n t to b buy a pair I arc air told I Ionly that there h is S no o such c place as a st store only distribution places places' If Jr you want wont to buy uy anything you ou must have a t commissary com corn as friend NO FAT PEOPLE At street corners we meet half half- starved miserable looking looking- figures es offering offering of of- fering frozen apples at rubles apiece ten awful cigarettes arette tor rubles a pound of dried fruit for tor or ru ru- ru ides bles I asked what so many peo people le arc are doing on the streets They are on the way to or from work or going to get a 3 pound half of or bread or some miserable soup or are on their way to some tearoom tearoom tearoom tea tea- room to set get et warm Whoever does doe not work somewhere or in some way gets getsI I not nothing to eat I 1 am told I I haven't seen a single fat person I here not one with a big stomach How Slow nice it would be if some t of or tho the rat fit Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin profiteers could be transplanted here herd I 1 observed on one thing the women n looked well nourished at least the younger women and th the children who play tay In swarms in the streets or are skating The writer df describes his hla arrival al it t the German Gennan relief reller for war and civil prisoners ners which is in the same building wIth the central council of revolutionary German workers and soldiers The time one-time magnificent maC mag Paintings on the walls walla of the palatial building have ha disappeared and aid aida anda a painting of ot ROM itoL Luxemburg reigns Igns supreme Several volumes of or Karl I knecht are the only books In sight PLENTY OF CROWS I In SIn the afternoon I took a walk In town I and saw a remarkable picture Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of ot crows darkened the air and filled the gard gardens ns and broad brood boul boulevards boulevard and covered the numerous church steeples steeple and roof roofs The coming and going going- cries and crowing chasing ln and n rr were 0 a discordant medley The clock strikes 6 S. S It Jt is the signal for for all aU the bells ben In the many manly churches and chapels In Ino Moscow o cow and their deep and powerful tones scare the enormous swarms of 01 black gallows birds bird who circle cloudlike over the sad city All the houses of ot God are brilliantly lighted How comes come that Have Slave I not Just read in huge letters on I the building of ot the city Duma Religion ReligionS I Is S. opium for the people Evidently Uy It ItIs itIs Is not so co easy to eradicate the memory of or a thousand years ears eara from the hearts of or orthe the ma masses At At this time we began n to meet the Intelligence coming from t their work ork i DI Dignified looking elderly gentlemen n wit with h I spectacles spectacles- many of 01 them miserably y dressed pulling a 11 tiny sled behind them themon I on which Is a It bundle of oC wood Th The e thought occurs to me how holl must it loo look lookin lookin k I in the cold rooms of or the these genuinely ky y Russian Rulan intellectuals The bells bes continue to drone and the th e black blade death birds flutter nutter Intile in tile the Increasing twilight Silently It be begins begins be- be I gins to snow and a gray veil veU sinks sink down dow n upon our little tUe mother Moscow |