Show SCRiBE E DEPICTS LIfE IN TIFLIS Food Obtainable Cars Can Stopped Nobody Worries Nov 3 By Dy a Staff Correspondent Correspondent Corre Correspondent of the Associated Press Pres This cit city under soviet rule bears many resemblances to lo to another city I of unique beauty Budapest Hungary when that gay place of of opera and houses house's and handsome handsome handsome hand hand- fine tine streets streets- and some people was was favored ta b by a soviet under the ardent Bela Kun in the spring and summer of 1919 Before t time both were wealthy and well cared for despite a a long and disastrous war Business was fairly brisk shops were filled with expensive expensive sive Rivo articles with all that the heart hoart desired Ired in adornment When the correspondent saw this city cUy of Thus TIllis two years ago its Its Its' magnificent Georgian cu club a huge municipal resort open to rich and I II I poor was the tho scene of ot unbounded gaiety Here public hospitality was I handed 1 out broadly to all strangers Its little theatre was filled tilled with good dancers an antl l actors and singers Now until the opera reopens it is the solo soe place of amusement except the thA movies mo It is attended by red ml soldiers soldiers its gardens filled by faded street beauties of the tho other sex while those bourgeoisie who have havo been unable unable unable un un- un- un able to flee hold hol forth in a modest little restaurant do downstairs called tho the Cafe do de Paris Its manager is the former proud owner of f the Hotel Orient He Ho is a Frenchman IN LIBERTY'S NAME I People do strange things in the tho name of ot liberty is his summing up un of ot the situation As a matter of ot otI I fact they like this new newt f liberty so soI sowell sowell well that both poor and rich would I like to get away from it I n TItUs Tiflis some things are better belter or ordered orI ordered or- or dered than they w were re in soviet Buda- Buda I pest There is food to be had good Mood II tood and at not impossible prices There the comparison ends The streetcars are not running for tor lacy lack cf ot of oil 01 or something Anyway people j Just as well walk as they have t no no special reason for tor getting anywhEre anywhere anywhere any- any where quickly The homes of TItUs Tiflis once so vast and elegant In their hospitality are aret t still outwardly handsome but the interiors In Interiors In- In are arc different Most have been requisitioned and divided with their furniture slowly finding Its way to tot toI 1 t the pawnshops One man formerly prominent as a politician has h had d allIO all IO his fine fino residence taken from him and each time he finds a furnished I room it Is requisitioned at the order t of some old enemy until now he hasI has been made mado to move eight t times limes mes I WORK SCARCE I There is still enough clothes Jelt eft I from from the tho old days so that nobody appears shabby Of 01 work for tor a livIng living liv- liv liy- liy Ing there Is little lItte or none The Tha onlY Y civilizing Influence left Is the Near East Bast relief There the correspondent met a woman looking for work She was from Riga and had lived ed fifteen fifteen years teaching languages in Tiflis But now she had no one to whom to give lessons or who could pay for them Work under the soviet was of f I no use she said because It paid only rubles a month the pr price ce of ot ofa ota a few pounds of cf bread She was now engage engaged in selling I food and clothing in the markets on n commission but the profit was so little and courageous as she appeared to be she begged with tears In her eyes for tor any kind of place place pace sewing scrubbing floors floors anything What would happen wh when n winter came ame she dared not think like many thousands I of othe others e |