COUNT TOLSTOY

Bolshevists are sixty per cent Fools, thirty-nine per cent Thieves and robbers and one per cent republicans. This interesting opinion has been held by a great many people who know very little about the subject of Bolshevism. It is held by one man, at least, who ought to know much about it--and he is Count Ilya Tolstoy who is speaking at the Union tonight. He has written many articles for American periodicals and in them he pictures the woes that Russia has had to put up with, conditions which he has observed first hand, since war and Sovietism have been visited upon her. Most normal people agree that the present state of affairs is impossible; and here they stop. Count Tolstoy, with perhaps some vision of his father, a true lover of democracy, can look upon the present horrors and still find cause for optimism. He feels that Russia will rise triumphant out of chaos to become the United States of Russia. In these days when that nation is either a complete myth or a hopeless human entanglement to most of us, it is a welcome guest who can speak with authority on conditions as they are, and as they may be in a better time to come.