Show I BOILING OUT HELD GREATEST NEED NEE IN RUSSIA American Jew Predicts Process Process Pro Pro- cess May Take 20 Years but Must Come TIFLIS Nov 3 Dy a staff start correspondent correspond correspond- ent of the Associated Press The Press The question question question ques ques- tion uppermost in the minds of oC all visitors visitors tors torA to nu Russia sla Is is What can be done to revive Russia's broken down and Industrial situation The writer pu pul that query to a Russian-American Russian Jew Jet who had Just befriended him during an altercation with wit wita a Red guard over the correspondents correspondent's right to occupy a seat In Ina Ina ina a train Jammed to overflowing during the trip from Bat Batum urn to Tiflis The friendly Jew a high official In the soviet of ot Georgia sent here from Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow to carry out In some degree the latter's latter's latter's lat lat- ter's plans sat down clown in the crowded compartment compartment com com- and talked about from his point of view got to be boiled out that's all he explained The process may take twenty years but when Its It's finished therell there'll be but blat two great peoples on earth Russians and the Americans And they'll be as like Ike as twin brothers both rich in 11 agriculture and In mineral mineraI wealth What Russia now needs is factory products Is trained engineers to put her heron heron heron on her feet to help set to work her mines and whoever gets In on that Job is bound to male make big fortunes The next and Immediate need of Rus Rus- sin sla is education The soviet Is trying to todo todo todo do that Every man in the Red lied army Is la taught to read and write But the Job is a a difficult one Under the old regime education was discouraged The people were exploited by the wealthy and educated educated educated edu edu- few tew This keen leen Russian-American Russian told ot of otI himself I and n his tI present needs s. s He was rJ earning I a big l salary rubles rubies a month exactly Jl 1 I at the present rate o of exchange and enough to keep his family going for about a da day day- The rest the millions millions mil mil- lions of ot rubles necessary for tor the other days dars he made up by speculation b by shrewd practices for or which he would be shot if they were vere known But it was wal either that or starvation His IUs wife lay ill In Datum with malaria and a tablet of quinine or one dose ose cost OOOO rubles and bad quality at that Also his only son had tuberculosis as a result of underfeeding underfeeding underfeeding under under- feeding and medicines at prohibitive prices were required Was Vas this man satisfied with the soviet regime Of course not He had worked hard for tor It for three years rears to keep goIng goIng going go- go Ing he had bad held beld all sorts of Jobs that required high Intelligence and he considered considered considered consid consid- ered the crowd In Moscow a lot of ot fools Up to 1916 1816 he had been In America ha had 1 his three automobiles and a big importing agency owned his hla home in Brooklyn n still I but he be had been caught caugh in the revolution and couldn't get out So he was helping in the boiling out process Hes He's going to stick on because he can make malte his hili fortune fortune for for- I tune back He hated the old aristocratic class because because because be- be f cause the they tried to have everything for themselves because theirs was a s system stem I that led to laziness drunkenness an and non- non I production and finally the tho extinction of 01 their class in the grand crash of ruinous revolution All the good he could think to say for forthe forthe forthe the soviet was that it had tried hard For FOt Forone Forone one t thing It had knocked c out a alcohol O I. I Yes f that t tt was ono of the tho troubles i u of old I Jue Rus- Rus I sia sla Too much drink among all classes I J Jn In Georgia where we were there was still stUll I plenty to drink but toward Moscow drink thinned out until none was vas to be h had d. d THIEVES PLENTIFUL There was lots lot's of thievery thievery the the correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- had best look out for or hi his pockets pockets pockets pock pock- ets and his baggage but baggage but to be bo caught stealing meant execution Another excellent institution of the so soviet soviet soviet so- so viet was the Red army armr yes es that was a no athing athing nothing thing to be proud of Discipline wis fine It was better than the czars czar's army Now only men up to 24 were enrolled Ther Therb were five million of them them them-a a great great force forc to be reckoned with Would the United States come tome In and help Russia This thought was uppermost uppermost upper upper- most In his mind He hoped so He Ile HeI I wanted to get back to America for a time timeto timeto timeto to get some money together Then he would return and make his fortune He Ho had taken out his first papers years ears ago but his business In Russia had prevented his taking out the second papers His wife was from Philadelphia Born there So was his son It lt would take 1000 to get back to the United States which meant i rubles Speculate as he ho might he conic cOllIe never get together such a sum Maybe I he might arrange tp get sent over on a commission when Moscow got the he Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans to accept the trade idea Just now ho he had 5 In American money mone money ru rubles ru- ru bles which bles-which which he ho had given his wife as a birthday present Well Vell one had to make male the best of ot things thinS's in Russia One got used to make male shifts lie He was supposed to have a private private private vate car but it was In the repair shop and tonight he was sleeping on the floor of ot the car we were In He couldn't find finda a seat and was glad of the floor space Thousands had been left at the station In waiting for another train |