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Announcement: Hothing But ! Government in City of Moscow

Government controls all aspects of life in Moscow. Every hotel, store, and office building is run by government committees. No part of daily life is untouched by government bureaus. A foreign visitor is left with the impression that government is everywhere and nothing exists outside of its control.
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Announcement: Hothing But ! Government in City of Moscow

Government controls all aspects of life in Moscow. Every hotel, store, and office building is run by government committees. No part of daily life is untouched by government bureaus. A foreign visitor is left with the impression that government is everywhere and nothing exists outside of its control.
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PAGE EIGHT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ~ » THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, '2!


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their new flat world to the old E2
HERO'S MOTHER MAY BRING WREATH
HOTHING BUT ! I
fashioned.£0111x1 one in which Colum­
bus believed.
"The student in Zioii schools," she

GOVERNMENT IN says, "grasp the theory of the flat


earth readily because their minds are
not full of globular earth teaching
such as older folks have had drilled
ANNOUNCEMENT
CITY OF MOSCOW j
into thorn. Therefore, they accept
the flat earth teaching without ques­
tioning, not because they have to, ibut
because it appeals to them as ration­
Having just recently bought the G. M. Mandigo Grocery Store, at
210, 5th Street, I wish to inform the customers of this store and the
Everywhere Officials Interfere al. I don't believe there is one stu­ public, that I have a complete new s£ock of Groceries and will also
—No Walk of Life is Un­
dent in the grades who lias questioned
it. The. flat earth seems more rea­
aim to carry a complete line of Fruits and Vegetables which are in
sonable to thein. The globuhir, un­ season.
touched by Bureaus in Russia real."
Wil'bur Glenn Voliva, who succeed­
ed John Alexander Dowie as overseer
^ I am going to make every possible effort to have on hand at all
Moscow,^Oct. 2't-- (l!y a Stall' Cor-.
r(' •pondent. of The Associated Prcsst of JSion on the latter's death,in March, a times the best goods which the market affords, and at moderate
—r.ovenmient everywhere, nothing : iy()7, was born near Newton lnd.,
March 10, 1870. In 181)7 he received
prices. <
but government!
his 13. A. from Hiram College, Ohio,
Such is the impression that a lor- :
eiirner wlr> has known Moscow of old ; and in the same year a degree from All orders will be promptly delivered anywhere in the city.
sets in entering tluV Bolshevist capital ,
today. '|
Union Christian (College at. Merom,
lnd. In 1889 he has been ordained a
I will also buy Butter, Eggs, Vegetables and all kinds of Produce
All the hotel.-; are government com­ minister in the Christian church at at Market Prices.
mittee headquarters. The same is:
i m e < i tlt• jii11 iiiciit stores, office IwildT :
X the age of 19, and held a pastorate
at Linden, lnd., from 1SS9 to 1S92; * Any portion of your patronage will be greatly appreciated.
ings. clubs c^t'es and larger private"; urbana, 111., 1892-93; studied theology
liouses. All theaters are government at Stanfordvlle,X. V., 1S93-94 and Yours For Service.
theaters. _ j supplied the pulpit of Chestnut street
Christian church at Albany, N. Y.;

T. B. SMITH, Grocer
Queues of Russians and foreigners <
are waiting in the streets before most ! filled a pt\ 1 pit at York Harbor, Me.,
larger buildings for permits to buy the following year; and was pastor
railway tickets or perform some or­ of the Christian church at Washing­
dinary transaction such as a New j ton. C. H.. Ohio,, in 1 8 9 7 -99. 210, 5th Street. Successor to G. M. Mandigo. i Phone 371
Yorkrr would dispose of over the tele- i In 1899, Voliva joined Dowie's
phone in five minutes.
The motor cars are all government 1
! church and was ordained an elder and
placed in charge! of the Zion taber­ Fresh Cream Daily-Guaranteed to Whip
cars and are monopolized by govern­ nacle in Chicago. In 1900 and 1901
ment employes. The stre&t cars are . he represented Dowie at Cincinnati; I V ' l l l , » , , I . . k . . »V'< t i ' f » ! " / k , . *V
run by the government and govern-! and tiien was sent to Australia as
ment employes, especially workmen, >
overseer of the Dowie settlement of
hav& first call on the few cars w'.iich , Zion tljere. He returned to Zion, 000 motor trucks were registered in Conn. 23,950 Ore 10,000
run chiefly at times when workmen! Mrs. Jane McCuckien, mother of the late Major McQudfcn, a hero of i 111., in 1906 as assistant to Dowie. the country in 1920 while railroad Del 1,800 Pa 48,329
are going" to or from work. Other:the air force of Great Britain, who -won the coveted Victoria Cross, may!
folks may take the few carriages lliave the great honor of being- sent to America to place a wreath on t h e ! freight cars that will be forced into I). C .' 6,826 R. I 9,563
which ply the main streets for hire at igrave of the Unknown American Soldier to be buried with ceremonies a t '
pi ices boyond the reach of ordinary J Arlington Cemetery Armistice Day.
government salaries. j — —: • __j
j BURDEN PUT idleness total approximately. 2,500,- Fla
000.
Some' cities which
s
for the past
or two have been developing a system 111.
year
Ga
Idaho
•• 10,439 S. C?ar
14,000 S. D
2,000
64,674 Texas
Tenn

9,200
9,000
11,638
30,000
Trains Filled
Railway trains are few and .seem to
be crowded largely gith government
employes and soldiers. Passenger!
!

BIZARRE THEORIES OF VOLIVA \.


ON TRUCKS of
with
rural
the
material
trucjc
source
supply
lines
of their
will
connecting
food
experience
and
up
raw
little
lnd
Iowa
Kan.
32,481
30;000
26,000
Utah
Vt
Va
••
5,692
2,916
13,670
trains far exceed freight trains on all j hardship as a result of a strike, for Ky .' 13,258 Wash 25,864
line:; and every teach has a red sol- j
dier or two to keep people- from mass- j
ing on the trains at stations. j
FORM COURSE FOR SCHOOLS Only 900,000 To Do Work
of i 2,500,000 Freight
these systems will function as
But, in cities where these truck tran­ Me.
sportation systems are organized on Md
usual. L a

:
• • . . . . 5 ,
7,600
12,000
0 0 0
W. Va
Wis
Wy ,•
10,802
16,205
1,000

N HIS COLONY AT ZION CITY


Factories which are in operation are i the spur of the minute, confusion and Mass '...j. 51,386'
run by the government and woVk I
Cars congestion, with a resultant' Supply Mich. ! 45,771
Total...... 945,826
chiefly on government supplies, such j shortage, is bound to result. Minn. ." 19,400
as railway repairs, motor repairs, air- j By X. K„ A. Service. New York state leads by far all Miss 4.000
plane repairs and lother army supplies. ,
The Kremlin, formerly the ecclc- i . . ? ' 1 ( n S , H U
.
' 0 1
New York, Oct. 20. —Tieup of the the others in number of commercial Mo
falling off t,he edge of his flat world. railroads by a strike throws upon motor trucks, with Ohio, Illinois and Mont. ..."
23,700
1.200
KLEIN
siastical center for Russia and the which W ilbur Glenn \ oliva, the over- The Christopher projection was the motor truck fleets of the country Massachusetts following in ttye order Neb The old reliable shop for dry clcan-
19,000
historic shrine about which the Ro- \ s e o r the colony is president have niade i :J0 years ago, prior to the dis­ the entire burden of supplying the named. This is the number of mo­ Nev ing-, pressing, repairing, remodel­
• f>00
manol'f traditions centers, is ;IU gov- j adopted his new theories of a iiat covery of the south pole ifnd before needs of the cities, except such .small tor trucks registered in each state in N. H ing, relining, dyeing and tailoring.
4,440
eminent. Its churches are closed, j world and the absence of gravitation, much was known about the Antarctic- help as may be given by the freight 1920: Tailor made suits at ready made
N. J. 23,612 (
Red army soldiers occupy the bar- i a n ( '"the 1.000 grade and high school region.-;, so only a bare outline of departments of intcrurban electric Ala -• prices.
.: 12,696 N. M 124,398
racks of the old imperial army and i I>"l>il* believe them impiieitlly, ac- poi tions of the southern ice land is lines. '
prominent Bolshevist officials .occupy i cording to their teachers. I shown.
Ariz 4,000 N. 'Car 13,455 KLEIN
Inability of these truck fleets to Ark. 3.500 N. D. . . . ' . 1,455 Tailor and Cleaner.
the quarters formerly given over tio' 1 " e public school maintained by BHievn' in Theories adequately cope with the emergency Calif 34,07'8 Ohio . . . . . 82,600
church officials and "other dignitaries !.the state board of education and at- 1
Phone 770
Miss Mary Thompson, principal of is shown by the . f a c t that only 900,- Colo. 7,728 Ok la 9,000
of the Romanoff regime. tended by the children of non-mem-' thb Zion school system, and an ar­
Jtuit By Government I bers of Voliva's Christian-Catholic dent believer in the Voliva theories,

I
•Hospitals and orphanages a n d ! Apostolic church still teaches, how­ 'has propounded a question which she
schools are run by the government. , ever. that the world is a globe mov­ believes will trip scientists and na­
The- government payrolls are lihed to ; ing through limitless-space and that vigators. Showing on her flat map-
overflowing with employes who vant j it was the attraction of gravity which Iluu. the tropic ( of Cancer, 43 degrees •H
the government food ration aiid m | caused the apple to- fail on issac from the north pole, was a much
consequence there seems to bo an ox- j Xewton's head. smaller Circle than the tropic, of
ceis of personnel in,' 1 Moscow iustir.u-: »v. i o i i i s o Capricorn, 47 degrees farther-away,
fions as well as the provinces. I At tho Zion schools the new course .•Miss Thompson says:
Many of the orphanges have nearly i of study teaches that: ' "Navigators on a globular earth
as many attendants as they have or- i The earth is a flat circular world, would find if they were to sail com­
pnans. To American eyes, the rail- j with a north pole in the exact center, pletely around .either of these tropics
ways seem to-be overstaffed. Trains j no south pole and surrounded by a that they would be identically the
and stations aro alive with officials j wall of ice which keeps venturesome same ^length. On a flat earth, how­
and guards, many of whom seem un- i mariners from falling off the rim.
necessary be'cau'se of t h e general quiet ;
that prevails. •
ever, the tropic of Capricorn would
That the earth has no motion but be much larger than the tropic of
j remains stationary in space.
-SIX TOURING CAR NOW $115Q
Cancer, and would' take much longer
Russia always was document mad, ; That the sun is not millions of to sail around, because on a flat
and it sesma even worse now than it ; miles in diameter and 91-,0(i0 000 miles ' earth Cancer would be jnearer the
was under former regimes. Endless! away, but is really a ittle orb 32
This is a Studebaker Year
center, or north pole. Why don't some
rows of employes are busy making j miles' across and only 3,000 miles
of the globular earth* believei's try
documents and reports in nearly every | from the earth.
governmeiit"buildirig. Statisticians are | That the law. of gravitation is a
at work everywhere.

the overstaffing of the departments


! fallacy and when objects are thrown
sailing around the two tropics and
find out whether they or we are cor­
Bolshevist officials are not blind to into the air they continue to rise un­ rect? The globular people certainly
til the force which propelled them, is
can't prove curveture of the'earth."
Miss Iflva Baker, teacher of geo­
Study the LJGHT-SlX feature by feature
—then consider the new low price!
and the inefficiency bf many of tho
expended, and then fall back to earth graphy, demonstrates to her classes
workers. They lill the Mpscow and
because they are heavier -than air. that the sun is only a tiny orb a few
provincial papers wijth ajppeals for
A standard map of the world, on thousand miles away, instead of'a orb
greater diligence on the part of em­
Christopher's projection, is used in miHions of miles in diameter and
ployes and a reduction of force? not
engaged in productive labor. They the schools to demonstrate the flat | 91 ,OOQ.OOO miles from the earth. If the
also complain bitterly of the red tape world theory. This map, which is sun was so large, she says, it would
which slows down all government u^ed by navigators and scientists in light up all the world, instead of con­
business and clamor for simplification j making time and longitude calcula­ fining its hotiest rays to a 3,000 mile
and decentralization.
Iteeali Tairlmirul Mm ,
tions, differs from the usual Merca- wide l/elt between the two tropics.
tor's
, , . projection familiar
. ., , . in other„ Voliva
•But, after all, the railways and tele- schools, in that it shows the earth as at Shitoh Tabernacle, said God cer­
himself, in a recent sermon
i
T »HIS remarkable light weight six-
cylinder car combines all that we
5believe the critical owner expects
in an automobile. It was built up to that
Studebaker design—built complete in
Studebaker factories. The flexibility—the
power—and the economy (18 to 22 miles
to the gallon) of the LlGHT-SlX motor
graphs and telephone*.: and posts are in | would look tb an obstnyer directlv tainly wouUPnot have made a sun to
much the same h^inds^they were be- above the north pole, with the con­ light the world and then placed it so
expectation. And because it is manufac­ are qualities not to be found in the aver­
for Bolshevism triumphed. The men tinents and seas projected on a flat far away.' tured complete in the Studebaker plant age six-cylinder car.
who knew the technic of the variioua i plane. As a result the north pole is in "A man would be a fool," the over­
with middlemen's profits eliminated—
public service organizations had to be the . center, and ^nstead of a south seer added, ''to build a ; }iouse in Zion
recalled very largely. 'Many of them | where the Antarctic regions are indi­ and place his parlor light in Kenosha, Studebaker is able to offer it today at the You can have the advantage of this
make no pretension that they are i cated by a white ring about the outer Wis." , new low price.
Communists or even Socialists and j circumference of the circle. This "World is Flat" motor's wonderful gasoline economy and
their work is done in an extremely j ring, according to Voliva, is the ice -Miss Thompson, principal of the the satisfaction of its smoothness of oper­
perfunctory manner. I barrier which keeps mariners from schools, says the' children prefer all At driving speeds the LlGHT-SlX is
Three years have brought about a remarkably free from vibration. Its power­ ation only by owning a Studebaker
remarkable change in the attitude of i
Red army men and all government ; A MOSCOW "LIBRARY" ful 40-horsepower motor is an exclusive LIGHT-SIX.
employes toward the general public, i
There is a great modification of the \ No motor car evet before offered to the public has represented so fnucA in oufonjofci/e vfl/utf
acerbity which characterized the early j as the LIGHT-SIX at the new price. SEE this remarkable car. DRIVE in it. KNOW
days of the Bolshevist control. In the 1 why Studebaker refers to it as "The World's Greatest Light-weight Automobile*'*
frenzied first year of Bolshevism, of- s
ficials seemed to regard everyone
who approached them as an enemy. ;
They- growled and harangued. From !
top to bottom officialdom was ner- 1
BISMARCK MOTOR CO.
. vous, irritable and generally unpleits- j
ant tio deal with. '
Distributors
1 116 Broadway Bismarck, N. D.
This spirit has disappeared, to a 1
very large degree. The success of th« j
government in overthrowing its ad- •
versaries has given a feeling of secur- j
/ NEW PRICES OF STUDEBAKER CARS, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 8th, 1921
ity and it now functions much a s other f. o. b. FactaritM
.governments do. Guards, messengers, I Touring Can and Roadtttrt C n p u anrf Stdartt
bureau chiefs and higher officials are j LIGHT-SIX 3-PASS. ROADSTER .....$1125 LIGHT-SIX 2-PASS. COUPE ROADSTER $1580
more, cordial. Bolshevist legations I LIGHT-SIX TOURING CAR 1150 LIGHT-SIX 5.PASS. SEDAN 1880
abroad also reflect this cnanged atti­ SPECIAUSIX 2 PASS. ROADSTER 1585 SPECIAL-SIX 4-PASS. COUPE 2480
* SPECIAL-SIX TOURING CAR 1635 SPECIAL-SIX 5-PASS. SEDAN 2550
tude to a marked degree. • SPECIAL-SIX 4-PASS. ROADSTER 163S BIG-SIX 4-PASS. COUPE 2880
- White collars are no laager banned. BIG SIX TOURING CAR....V. 1988 BIG-SIX 7-PASS. SEDAN 2980
(Black leather coats are not regarded ALL STUDEBAKER CARS ARE E Q U I P P E D WITH CORD T I R E S
us the only suitable uniform for a
[Bolshevist official. Experienced minor
officials of tlie old regime have been
r«strv°il to their-places in many of
the offices and their example has
greatly -modified the brusque manners
of the soldier, sailor and workman
element which originally monopolized
most of the government posts.

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t„ XPECTANI.
MOTHERS54 ^'L
For Three Generations
Hove Made Child-Birth
Easier By Using W'v

A SOLD
BY ALL
k DRUG
STOREi
His counter the curb, his roof the sky, this Moscow book merchant does
WRiTcroa b o o k l e t o n m o t h e r h o o d a s o t h e BACY .ftt business between glances at the sky. Weather reports are his
jspecialty.

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