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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1921, Page 2

Tun origin, progress, and consequences of the Bolshevist movement in Russia are dealt with in a report, issued in the House of Commons recently, by the Committee appointed, under the chairmanship of Lord Einniott, to collect information on Russia. Among the final conclusions of the Committee is the following: 'That the complete renunciation by the Soviet Government by the Russian Communist Party, and by the Third or Communist International of propaganda directed towards the destructing of the political *utl economic order existing in other countries is the fundamental premise without the acceptance ol which there can be no question of capitalist aid in the economic reconstruction of Russia. Great

importance is attached to the trade union revolt in Russia. “Wo believe," the, report states, “that the trade union crisis in Russia cannot be fairly appraised unless it lie realised that the crisis if self the schism in the* Communist Party, and the wave of non-party feeling behind the Labour Opposition and tin* Democratic Centralists arc part of a great psychological revolt which is now taking place in Russia.” There is evidence that a peasant party is forming; a party also opposed to Communism and the peasant “is the enigma and may prove to be the decisive factor in whatever may be the outcome of the Russian revolution.” The committee doubt whether so much human misery as has existed in Russia during tin* last three years has ever been the lot of any people wit Lin so short a time in the history of the modern world. The power of officialdom ill Russia lias developed on a scale to which there is no parallel. According to recent evidence the tendency town'Ms State control is increasing rather than dini'iiishing, and this at a time when many Communists are of opinion that tile withering iway of tile State—accented by a I believer, ns tin* second stage on the read to a Communistic Ctopia— lias already been 'reached. ,

Tin', fata* of the inventor of films for moving pictures which arc the delight of millions daily, is the tragic story of a man who made fortunes for other-. Tin* dentil while addressing a meeting of the London film industry in earI.'.' 1 .'.' May. of Mr W. Kriese Given, invento" of the kiiiema, brings to an end a lit ' of .vicissitude and tragedy. Hut. like so many men of genius, while other men made huge fortunes out of h s brains, bis life was one of hardship and struggle against adversity says tli • London Evening News. It was in 1889 that la* invented a camera for takinjg moving pictures on photographic glass plates. There was, however, no machine which would show a moving photograph, and alter further experiments lie produced the rolled celluloid film, and later the first hmt<"n or projector which showed Ins pictures on the screen. He lost £20,M00 in hiexperiments, and becoming deeply involved in debt, lie was imprisoned lor non-payment, His home tun! practically all Inh earliest apparatus was sold by order of tlm sheriff. Advwndnfi

ears saw him still in difficulties and a December 1915, so poor had he beoino that Ml v Will Bay, who visited ill! at Brighton, found nothing in the lOuse. A temporary relief fund was polled and this tided the inventor oyer iis troubles, until lie obtained a post i ith a colour photograph company. Unla.p pily there is little that is new or trange in the story of the late Mr Jiieene. The lot of the inventor is mrd. Ilis inventions more often Benoit others than himself, and, if lie wins it last to fajine and fortune, it is lsually at the cost of long years of druggie against poverty and neglect. Inly tin- unfailing energy of George Stoihenson, the inventor of railways coil|uered the violent and persistent oplosition with which olmiist ‘‘Very sue ■(‘S'-ive proposal of bis was met. Arkwright. the lather of the cotton indos.rv was at limes so poor as to be acjially io rues. His lilill Was destroyed ind his claim to the greatest of his inventions was successfully disputed. Farad ay, on whose discoveries all the industrial applications of electricity arc based was glad to accept a pension ol £.‘loo a year and lived and died a comparatively poor man.