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TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA Common Impressions are Sadly Mis. leading. MOSCOW PROSPEROUS BUSY CITY * i Whatever is Desired May be Had for the Money?There Has Been Much Distress; But Now Things are Hopeful?Speech is Free and Life ano Property are Safe. New Yoi*k World. The I^oy. .John Hayncs Holmes, minister*of the Community Church, who returned last week from a visit to Russia, has written fdr The World, this brief outline of big impressions: I entered Russia on the long railroad i \ line from Riga to Moscow--one train a j <lay each way! This road is in good condition though the traveling time is ! slow. Rolling stock is in fair condition, though inadequate in amount. Locomotives are its chief weakness; ours broke down going in. But at one station cn the line i saw on sidetracks forty brand now locomotives, of the'most modern European type They t were described to njc as the first consignment of an order for 240 locomotives, placed in Germany. Moscow at first glance presents a depressing sight. The whole city has fallen into an almost indescribable state of disrepair. The wreckage of flokiinm fnil.. VOflVO ITIK' IX'VWIUUUimi7 Il&lJlIIiP) l^ui JVO'O ago Is still visible. Pavements on streets and sidewalks are broken as though by earthquake. Buildings are unpainted, crumbling in roof and cornice, dingy, dirty and unsightly. But all about are the evidences of reconstruction. The work of repair and rebuilding is well under way and is beIn^ pushed day and night. Dirt a Besetting Evil. I saw in Moscow some of the best pavements in Europe, freshly laid. I inspected apartment houses, from cel' lar to roof, recently put in as good ( condition as the best houses of the type in New York. I saw stores and 1 houses newly painted, well repaired, , clean and attractive. ( "Give us two years," said a Rissian ( to me, "and Moscow will be as hand- , some a city as there is in Europe." , Dirt is still a besetting evil. Pigs 1 and cows Kept in the city are ( sources of dreadful filth. Fliee swarm ] by the millions everywhere. Bedbugs { aro common and lice a constant men-' ace. Toilets and other sanitary ar- ' ?-angements are in an appalling state J of 'decay. The water is undrinkable J until boiled. Improvement in these ' conditions, however, is rapidly progressing The streets arc now being ( wcH cared for by a regular co ps of | T ntlinr lis*. I diacvi vivrturio. Jjivr auu, uwivi *vimine are being successfully fought. ] Pli^nberj have put at least a few places in a condition liveable according to Western standards. Churches in Good Condition. The churches of Moscow seemed to be lr a better condition than any other buildings. The famous Church of Christ the Saviour was aq beautiful and . as richly decked as any cathedra.' I saw ' in Europe. The unspoiled treasure j chambers were open to the inspection j of visitors. I looked in vain, in this j and many other churches, for any cvi- ( denees of damage, despoilment or in- | suit. Worship in churches and shrines was going on without interference. ] Trie National Art Gallery was open, , and the pictures excellently eared for. j, It is .one qf the noblest collections of 11 modern paintings-in Europe. Street cars are in good condition', and are running on regular schedules , on all lints. I rode in them frequent- ] ly, and aim-ays in crowds that rcmid- | cd me fondly of New York. The cost for a ride is 150,000 rubles per zone; . the average ride ccists 800,000 rubles. , Cabs or droshkies arc numerous and , charge from 2,000,000 to 0,000,000 ruble s j a ri,de, according to distance. There are" practically no automobiles < xcept . those owned and used by the govern- , mcnt, about a thousand in all. Business Flourishing. Business seemed to be flourishing < MAP SHOWING EVE) II Ilia IMIIIW1I ?IIIITT ?JTJU.V.V. 7 |JUGrQ , slavia/ ff i jugoslavs oppose! e turks in thrace I THRACE C> ^M___CQKT1 J- [BRITISH NOTIFY FRENCH ^ V i TUEY WILL NOT RETIRE. J * ' SEPT. XI. lH?k^GRE ; CAPTURED SEPT 9. \fA BURNED SEPT->3.K^tt 1^9/ ?1 ^ "THE BAMBINO j|| When George Herman Ruth, Sul fence the crowd can sing "The Coi Dorothy, 10 months old, sings "Hei Ruth is holding the apple of Babe's < two poundB and a half at birth, but when I was in Moscow. The streets1 were smarming with peddlers selling j bread, fruit, berries, vegetables, shoes,. stockings, hats, hardware, pictures, I books, papers, etc. All stores were I open and seemed fairly well stocked' with goods. I saw stores given over to clothing, furniture, drugs and toilet articles, groceries and provisions, china, crockery and glassware jewelry, j ilry goods, and one very*large, four-j storied department store, which was' thronged with purchasers. I was able to buy everything I needed, and'nearly j everything I* wanted. Prices were' high, very high; Moscow was the most ! jxpensivc city 1 vis .ed In Europe. The cost pf living was well Up to the New York level. Good food and plenty was procurable in all the hotels and restaurants, j [f you had the money to pay for it, an : excellent meal could always be had. In | :he homes, however, where I lived or j was entertained, eating was conducted an a very simple basis. Bread and cutter, fish, potatoes and tea were the staple articles of diet. Milk was very scarce. I hud it only once. The city had every appearanco of: thriving activity. The streets were J ;rowded day and night with busy j people. There were no idlers; every-j body was going somewhere and had' something to do. Clothing was variegated in the cxtren\e. A woman dressid in complete Western European style ivould be followed by another woman bare-foot and bare-legged. One man ivould be arrayed in a familiar business suit, the next in .peasant smock ind trousers. There were few rags. Beggars appeared here and there, especially by the churches, but they j were hardly noticeable after the peggars of Berlin and Vienna. Conditions of law and order were remarkable. I saw r.o intoxication, no llsorder, and policemen were so scarce [ had to hunt for them. I went about Lhe city at all hours in perfect sccurl ty. My home for u time wis two I miles or more from the centre of the city, and at no time did I have the slightest reason for uneasiness in gong back and forth. I smi^.d more than once as I contrasted the pence and security of Moscow with the violence and brigandage of New York. Conditions of thought and opinion seemed to be perfectly five. 1 came; mil went, talked and argued, critieired NTS CENTERING ABOUT V. :. : : URKS DEMAND JB Ij A. C J ASTERN THRACE v ID CONSTANTINOPLE /' ! : : DNSTANTINOPLE^ ^? u ta r J Nmustapha kemal demands! J CONFERENCE HERE SEPT. 21. r rs~^\ -Cmuoan II I Bilcjih ROLLK^H^jevacuated 8y greeks. sept./. 2. \ \ . \ \UshaU ^ tamssa | 50/ Philadelphia L_ l0J. P1 ^jf Daa>2ii/<?^'*a^rn J / w minor? ore. / |^co/w/v7?-/vc/r^ j ,n' ,i?p??p?rvjeajaatBuMM????? Ul???y? OF THE BABE." JsRbIBh - v ^ - & 1 ^ ^ ' ::C ?#' '^-v \V **/v*r"$?*i*2?a Strafed : " -j. v_J. , / >/.. *: ':(tfflfo': '-i aquering fleno Comes," but little r e Comes My Daddy Now." Mrs. ; jye. She (the baby) weighed only; t look at her now, / and questioned, without the slightest restraint. I met numerous men and women who were not Communists, who told me why. Critics and opponei of the government were encountered I more than once, and they made no concealment of their views. A droshky driver, who berated the Bolsbeviki in his chance passengers, and prayed for the return of the good old days of the Czar, gave me one of my best "stories." Terriorism may have prevailed, in Moscow once; if so, it prevails no mora All this in the capital city of the country, which has been described as the centre of al! evil and misery, and where famine and disease still rage in curxmn uri'us; n uai iy me vApiaua- i tion? That is another story, but j here's the gist of it: The famine and ' disease are the last chapter in the dreadful tragedy of agony and death written in Russia during the last five ; years by the great war, the Allied blockade, the counter-revolutionary conspiracies and invasions, and last, the failure of the harvest. The turn in tho tide has now come. Russia is recovering. She is started on tho upward road. The bleak winter of misery is behind her, and the warm summer of happiness and prosperity is ahead. This is the reason why Russia, or at least Moscow, stems so cheerful, stimulating, inspiring. After the demoralization of Germany, and the dead despair of Austria, Russia seems the brightest spot in Europe. It is the one place where the future seems a thing of hope and not of dread and terror. If i 1 had to gamble on tho future of the j various European nations a decade j or a quarter century hence, I would : place my stakes on Soviet Russia j evrrv time. ? Agriculture constitutes the chief source of the i?o\v or and wealth of the Japanese picnic in spite of the rapid strides made recently in the manufacturing and minim? industrit s. Sixty per C( nt. of the population of Japan is rural. ? Only 10 out of 142 institutions in the t inted States formerly known as "drink cures" are now conducting a business similar to that which they pursued before the advent of national prohibition of the liquor truffle. THE DARDANELLES ANE i ! i ??mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wii mimmmm mmi hwiii?ib hi??n?tw RAH K S E A TUR.I . Ismi d} \c l ^ f* \ GREEK LIf\'ES ATT / J AUG. 22. /I/ " t |* Mr/ 7-i X Liu /fc*f 3 T/ / r> l/i r* t/ I / I l? 1f v I ' w/nni / | VI A ^ L2????^^? / "A. !&<SI " S/)lh \GC $ 1 V jffKUTAYA CAPTURED \\ ^LffK TURKS |;A to aug^ZQ. mA^M^E um Kara Kis9ar* EEK RAJLHERDTy ? Al'G.30. r SX A/v rM \^I50MlUM V?>V ?,-zr? ?. nfi/(.jro';r \ \ i<?/*770AS f \ \ ? AUG 20. I I \ BBsctucwa^ ^^vu'. . ***** tnapwaoa KILL H*M NOW Whittle Gives Advice Rc,'ativo to Destruction of Doll Weevil. O'.io of the moat effective steps In ! boll weevil control is the early destruction of cotton stalks, writes C. A. I Whittle of the Soil Improvement Com- ^ mittec. Just as coon as the cotton can be harvested, go into Lie cotton field 1 or rip them up with a plow. The object is to destroy the cotton plants. Weevils ran not feed on dead cotton stalks. When their fo id is destroyed they migrate to where they can feed or else go into winter quarters. Whether they are thus driven away from your farm or driven into winter quarters 1 the probabilities of their damaging you again next season are greatly reduced. Over most of the cotton I> it it is possible to gather the cotton early enough to permit of the destruction of , the cotton stalks three to four weeks before a killing frost will destroy them. ! Three to four weeks earlier in going | into winter quarters mcann that death , will be greatly incrca3od. It is the last weevils that go into winter quarters that cause damage in the cotton crop the next year. If al' of these were starved out by destroying cotton stalks early there would of course, be an end of the weevil. While one can not expect that cotton will ever be destroyed early and completely enough to accomplish a complete eradication of the weevil, it is true th'at to the extent that this is J done the number of weevils and their j damage will be reduced. cnopping uijwn auun.-i nuno t,vuu= that spj-out new growth on which the weevil can feed, therefore, the onlysafe way is to uproot the stalks or else, with the aid of a drag chain to turn them completely under the furrow slice. Knowing that muny cotton farmers do not plow deep enough to cover up cotton stalks, the safest general advice is to uproot the stalks with a plow and to watch that no new growth starts up. As long as there is green cotton growth left in the field, the weevil will be found. It will crawl into a lock of cotton or half opened bur to keep warm and come out when the sun shines to feed on the green stuff. Don't burn the cotton stalks. Let them lay on the ground. When the ground is plowed they can be turned under where they will decay and add frhr? nrcanie matter which the soils SO much need. Why not organize a community-wide, or country-wide movement for the early destruction of cotton stalks. It means less trouble ifrom the weevil next year. ? Fully two-thirds of the 45,000,000 inhabitants of BcngaMiave hookworm and more than onc-th$i of, the 30,000,000 inhabitants of India are victims of the disease. CLAIMS OUTLOOK BRIGHT. I , Senator David J. Walsh of | Massachusetts, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, declares that the campaign opens with favorable prospects for the Democrats. ) CONSTANTINOPLE. EK. ARMV AT BEGINNING BV OF OFFENSIVE ICS AT BEGINNING OF V OFFENSIVE ACKED TI1DI/ICIJ|\ base: "~T7/r AMGORA H U : ite or r ]} */ JROIUM V.50 JL. \ CK,AUG.26. ^ ISax DO /konia5T . ? A plant has boon discovered in India which is an effective remedy for malaria and hlackwater fever. ^ WINCHESTER ^ SFlashlk HOT SHOT BA1 DRY CELLi FLA.SE LIGI HARDWARE, HARD CROCK Complete Stocks. Give v RED "W" YORK HARI OXFORD "CHASE" B Are The b* OUR MOTTO 13 QUAL -CHASE- QUALITY WILL AFTER PRICE HAS BEEN MMG?Nm?m7M?/mrffA zoidby | CARROLL F^=== \7 I 10 ! Cou IS AS EVER WE3 EXHIBIT A' U ATTEN3 iii GAS j GAST Oct. 10,11, LARGEST COUNTY 01 THE TWO C FREE T FOR YORK COUNTY ? IF YOUR SCHOOL TRUSTEES WRIT! r-i FOR PREMIUM LIST ( TION, WRITE TO FRED M -I EXECUTIVE a. GASTONIA, |L ,== ? An automobile, packed in knocked- ! down form, was shipped from Detroit I to Cleveland by aerial freight. __ ( j 1 lill J j mi BBtBSSSBBSSS MPBHBSPEWWp fits 1?|p nterns H PTERIES BATTERIES TT RTTT.TtR lili'Sfi WAREERY, GLASSWARE is your wants at the ' STORE. )WARE CO. UGGIES AND SURREYS sr By Test \/TY THE OXFORD BE REMEMBERED LONC FORGOTTEN VSmnMNUlXMmQfBUKf BEOS., YORK, S. C. I f. m rK i; '. j [nty J \ '1 * jCOME, BOTH TO T AND TO ) THE. LJ TON 2 n Vi \ M ONI A j 12'13'14 _ lil I DISTKJLUT in AROLINAS ICKETS SCHOOL CHILDREN- I COMMITTEEMEN OR ; FOR THEM. 0 )R OTHER INFORMA. ALLEN SECRETRY, - - - N. C. =j FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. TUOTrCE is hereby given that on Sat11 urday, Qctobcr 14th, 1322, I will make Final Settlement with the Probate Court aa Administratrix of tho Estate of*J. J. McOAltTER, deceased, [and that I w'ill then and there apply for my discharge from further liability in 'connection with said administration. MAHY -ill EBK McCATtTER, Administratrix, Estate of J. J. McCarter, Deceased. .. 73 t 4t "A Fine Job" WAS THE OWNER'S VERDICT when he first looked at his newly painted car. SINCE THEN wo have [ done many good jobs and aro hoping to do more. Wo .the BEST and j most enduring Paints, Oils, Varnishes, applied by Skilled Paintcrs'who aro tnnsttrs of their craft, and return your ! old car looking like a NEW ONIS. JOHNSON'S PADfLoP JAS. A. JOHNSON, Manager Auto Painters, Body and Top Builders, I t ROCK HILL, S. C. W* High grado Typewriter Ribbons and Carbon Paper at Enquirer Office. ff IS WONDERFUL To spend money for luxuries, IF you can 7 v afford it; but the FIRST money you spend should be invested in a See us about it. . LOGAN Lira YARD ; - L 1 "Wo 8triva to 8orve and' Satiafy." F. E. MOORE, Pro-priator See, Phone or Write to THOS. C. O'FARRELL FOR High Grade Monuments In Marble ancl Granite Plant on Eaet Liberty Street, Adjoin' ina Roee Hill Cemetery. PROFESSIONAL CARDS ^ # / ' ? * . Dr. C. L. WOOTBN ? DENTIST ? OFFICE OVER THE Husiurriwt Telephones: Office, 128; Residence, 93 CLOVER, - - S. C. 71 t f. 6m J. S. BRICE Attorney At Law Prompt Attention to all Legal Unstress o< Whatever Nature. Office on Main Street in tho Moore Building, First Floor, formerly occupied by S. E. Spencer. J. A. Marion W. G. Finley MARION AND FINLEY ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office opposite the Courthouse. Phone 126. YORK,8. C. a YORK FURNITURE CO. Undertakers ? Embalmers YORK, . . 8. c. In All Its Branches?Motor Equipment Prompt Service Day or Night la Town or Country. JNO. R. HART ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR * T- I A \JL/ ? I un ?? Prompt and Careful Attention to All Business Undertaken* Telephone No. 69. YORK. 8. C. 7? f.t It Melrose Flour? HERE AT LAST. We have JUst received a fresh shipment of that fapiously good MELROSE FLOUR?Just the very bestcst goodest Flour ever sold on this market. It is so good that lots of folks hereabouts are never satisfied to use anything else. LET US HAVE YOUR ' ORDER NOW FOR MELROSE. Order it today. IF YOU WANT anything in the way of Canned Vegetables, of Fruits, or Meats, or Fish Products, or Bottled or Loose Pickles, Bottled Fruits, or Fancy Cakes and Crackers, Fcesh Vegetables?Beans, Cabbage, Potatoes?it is pretty sure you'll find what you are looking for here. Then too we have a good variety of Dried Beans and Peas nnd the Fat liack that goes with 'em. CHEER UP?you'll get over it if you will buy your Groceries here. SHERER & QUINN Seo The Enquirer Office for Titlee and Mortgages of Real Estate.