Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-03

members were compelled to give Up the work or return home. HLwevar. Mir. Fedor has tteen on ;he job ever since
 "I represent government that is now in jail," he explained. My chef, the vice premier. is in jail now. 9th CTS are in the same predicament. Still others. Ike Kerensky, have fled. How ever, the Russian embassy in this country now represents the old KeTen- sky government. It does not ackDOwl- edge the authority of the Bolsheviks.
 lenine Crazy Dreamer"
 'Lenine is a stupid. crazy dreamer. Trotzky, we suspect, is not even hon est. Some of us fear he is too closely identified with the Germans. The Bol- sheviks do not represent the r5Ek and file of the Russian people.
 sThe reason the Russians stopped fighting the Germans was that not only were they tired of fighting bat they did not know what they were fighting for. Ninety per cent of them peasants, and S5 per cent of them illiterate, they furnished a fertile field for the de- C6lllEul Gcfllldu BiOpobohN0s AANs weIe told for instance that Elihu Root was sent there to obtain valuable con sessions.
 Likes Americans
 "The intelligent people of Russia, however. recognize that the United States has no political axe to grind m Russia. What the Kerensky govern ment wanted to do was to introduce American capital over there and adopt Amcrican methods in developing Rus sia's tremendous resources so that Russia might become prosperous and nay off her debts. The sending to this country cf the commission of which 1 am head was the first step, ara l want to say that l have been deeply affect ed by the universal sympathy for Rus sia which have heard on all sides since I have been here. Not one harsh word have l heard.
 "The United States is better, fitted than any other country to help Rus sia, because so similar in extent and climate. The climate is almost i6enti- cal. Your business men know how to do things on large scale and that is the kind of business men we need over there.
 interesting Figures
 Perhaps I can give you an idea Of the difference industriaily between the two countries by a few figures. Rus sia has 1S0, ,OOO. 900 people and the Unit ed States a little more than 1O0,000.000 and yet the United States has 750 900 school teachers, 500,000 of them women as compared to only 150,000 miles of railroad, while the United States has 267, 900. The United States has done wonders in road building the last twenty years. Its auto industry leads the world. Its schools are giving prac- tical education These are some of the things which it is my ambition to introduce in Russia.
 MT. Fedor is. a member of the board and managing director of the Lyseven- sky Mining company, owned by Count Successors, limited, S2O,- 0O0, 900 corporation. This corporation has a turnover of 75 million rubles in iron. platinum. paper, munitions, hollo- ware, spades, axes, picks, tin plate and galvanized sheets and owns 1,500.OO0 acres of forest. For the benefit Of tb'c Kerensky government it built a muni- tions plant employing 10000 men which turned out 5000 six-inch shells a day at the time the Kerensky gov ernment fell and which was hoped to be an important factor in the war on Germany.
 Mir. Fedor is a director in several other corporations of similar magnl- tude which produce iron, copper. as- bestos, coal and lumber. He is espe- cially interested in seeing more rail road built into Siberia. From here he goes to Tucson, where he wants to in spect carefully the University of Ari- zona. Then he goes to Globe, Miami and the Roosevelt dam. This is about the only corner of the United States in which he has not yet been. He is preparing an exhaustive report on what he is learning here.