The responsible editor of the! Soviet organ "Och: ly only a figure. sorry figure at the Administration the other day when called upon to prove certain state ments that had appeared in that organ, These concerned the alleged icings of White youths and their activities against youthful Communists, The man, who was very much confused the whole time, made a lot of rambling statements but could substantiate nothing, simply because he did not know the actual details which the paper boasts of having on file, The Police Administration, being fully aware that the so-colicd editor is merely a tool in the hands of _arrant!
Communists, let the man off lightly, riving him a chance to bring forward proper evidence, The story of how the man became to he editor of the "Echo" is quite an enlightening one and is an example of the "control" of the local press by the Police Administration. Before any Russian is allowed—to start a paper in Hardin he must first met the necessary police permit. This was not a dificult matter up. to the time that the Soviet people took over the C.E.R. management, and the man was running " small evening paper which had _a precarious existence when the change took place and the paper became "Red." Then followed the suspension of the Soviet organ Tribune" and the impossibility of obtaining another permit to open a paper, that the heads of the former had no other alternative but to come to an arrangement with owner of "Echo" by which the fatter received a steady monthly] income for having turned over the paper entirely, He remains nominally the editor seeing—that the Police regulations demand this but has nothing to do with actual running of the paper though he has to appear at Police Headquarters should the paper trip up.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.