"BOLSHEVIKI PLEA. BY COL. THOMPSON Gives Reasons for Recognizing or at Least Helping New "Free Russia." NOW AID ALLIES' CAUSE Propaganda in Germany and Austria Is Causing Two Kaisers to Totter. Special Despatch to THE SUN. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Col. William Boyce Thompson of New York, whose advanced views in demanding a hearing for the better side of the Bolshevik Government of Russia has been a prime sensation in the financial district, be- lieves that the Bolsheviki are doing the greatest good to the cause of the Allies in the autocracies of Germany and Aus- tria. In an interview with a SUN cor- respondent today Col. Thompson was asked: "Are you in favor of the recognition by the United States of the Bolshevik Government?" "That is a matter for the Govern- ment of the United States to decide upon. I cannot think of a thing to be gained by antagonizing Russia at this time. But I would answer your question thus: If we recognize the Bolsheviki, we shall have done more than any other nation to aid the Allies in bringing about their victory over the autocracies of Germany and Austria. "JERSEY TOWNS FACE NEW WATER FAMINE Order to Furnish Only Filtered Kind Promises to Ex- hast the Supply. Acting on a peremptory order from the State Board of Health the East Jer- sey Water Company and its subsidiaries, of which the Montclair Water Company is one, have ceased furnishing unfiltered water from the plant at Little Falls to Montclair and other municipalities. The regular supply again was being fur- nished the customers yesterday. However, the water company in complying with this order of the State authorities announces that a shortage will result, and said unless the order is rescinded some of the communities served by it will be short of water within three or four days, and that portions of these communities may be wholly without water. Louis F. Dodd, Mayor of Montclair, issued a proclamation yesterday urging citizens of the town to conserve the water wherever possible. The same re- quest is being made by the authorities in other communities served by the East Jersey Water Company and its subsid- aries. A State Health Board inspector was in Montclair yesterday making inquiry relative to the 1,500 cases of intestinal trouble which was reported there. The prevalence of the ailment two weeks ago led to the discovery that an unfiltered water supply was being served to Mont- clair. (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) Sales Specially P day and Wednes en's Smart Suits & D en's Philippine Li Furs and Fur Gar Spring Silk Mat e & Cotton Dress en's New Model E erware and Electric er with a Remarkable Off and Rogers' Silver R and Americ ing Tuesday, the February gly low prices, on the Fi Shirvan, Kurdistan ves; small and medium ularly $32.50 to 49.50 Rugs, room sizes, in gold, etc.; embossed, larly $90.00 to 475.00 Hamadan, etc.; room 00 to 375.00, at ouk Rugs, room sizes; reg. $265.00 to 550.00, Special for Tuesday d Wilton Rugs and 81/4x101/2ft.; regularly $56. speak of our expressing satisfaction, but let me explain. Our whole national thought regarding Russia is based on a false assumption. It is directed only with the idea that Russia is out of the war and has broken her faith and is making a separate peace with Germany. Of course the answer to the last is that a separate peace has not been made with Germany and will not be. Russia Called a Free Country. "But we fail to realize that Russia is a free country now, anti-German, and either the democratic ideas of Russia will prevail in Germany or an attempt will be made by Germany to impose her autocratic ideas on Russia. All the time the Russian democracy by example, by organized propaganda and in other ways is demoralizing the autocracies of Ger- many and Austria as they have never before been demoralized. "Shall we stand idly by while this is going on? So long as the Bolsheviki are attempting these reforms, which have already made the Government of Austria-Hungary surrender to Demo- cratic public opinion, so long it seems, to me, Russia must be regarded as a potential ally of the United States. The havoc which they have created with the plans of the bloodthirsty German General Staff is admitted in cabled accounts of discussion of the crisis in the German newspapers. If it is not deemed ad- isable to recognize the Government we should extend to them to the fullest degree our help and sympathy. "These people constitute a democracy. Many of their theories are wild. Ex- perience will show that their democracy can only succeed by recognizing the usefulness of capital as well as of labor, and that will come in time. That is why I say we may yet be satisfied over extending help to Russia. It will not help us if we run away from the great new questions involving democracy which are pressing upon us. We should hold out the helping hand. A fine ex- ample we will present to the struggling democrats of Germany, who are just now trying to bring about reforms, if we turn our backs on the Russian democracy. Great Need for Relief in Russia. "Is there much need for relief in Russia?" "The need for assistance is greater than has ever existed in any country in the world before. When all the facts are known the great heart of America, now so cold toward the Russian people, will go racing in the endeavor to go to their relief. It is a stupendous ques- tion. I have no doubt that there will be 50,000,000 pairs of naked feet in Russia before the spring. Think of a multitude as numerous as half the pop- ulation of the United States wading through the Russian slush in March with their feet wrapped up in the bark of trees or in grass and straw. "The Russian people, regardless of the political theories which they have been imbibing, are free people. They are white people. They are the natural ards of the United States, and as I have already said they are in effect our allies because they are aiding in the work which will surely bring the two Kaisers toppling down. The German Kaiser has his heels in very slippery mud, and the Austrian Kaiser, I think, is falling now. "In this great national crisis of the Russian people the duty of the United States is very clear. It wants to forget that a great calamity happened to us in the war when the Russians quit fighting because they may be doing even more good for us and humanity in this other direction." n Bröt