The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-17

MUST FEED RUSSIA,
ASSERTS REDFIELD
BolShcvism Rests on Hunger,
He Tells Rubber AssOcia-
ton at Banquet.
FURTHER PINCH NEEDED
Also Says Business Men Will
Have to Accept Any Sc
curity Offered.
FURTHER PINCH NEEDED

Rolsrevism In Russia Is bred by hun
se~. and the United States must supply
food TO Russia as II means Of combat
Ing that peril. william C. Redfeld,
Secretary Of Commerce, told 500 men
prominent in the "billion dollar" rubber
business at the victory banquet of the
rubber Association OF America at the
Waldorf Astoria last night.
The Secretary also warned the rub
rer men that they. and all the other
business men OF the country would be
fsked to and must consent to the pur-
chase of strange and novel securities"
or European corporations and munich
ralities In order to restore the Industrial
aud general life OF the devastated parts
Of Europe
The banquet followed the annual cleo
ton of officers and directors of the
ursAnization, which consists OF the prin-
pal rubber corporations and firms OF
,ne country. The POSTMASTER was
Eertram q. Work. retiring president of
TIE association, and Mr. Redf1eld was
the principal speaker
Must Send Even More Food.
In speaking of the condition Of anal q
I'm Europe at the present time Mr.. Red
fed said:
We have seen. thank God, within a
week something that looks like the res
,oratiou of sanity In Germany itself
but what the stage may hold behind the
Russian veil we do not certainly know
Writ there are 1SO,0O0.000 human souls
there, Of whom 16e.oo0,0oo cannot read
o. write; they cannot be reached by
press or by book or by pamphlet. and
what we are there to find we do not
yet fully know. We may not. you and l.,
like turtle draw our hands, our feet
and our heads into our shell and say,
We will have none Of this We may
not, like the ostrich bury our head In
the sand and say, We see nothing
Your boys and my boy fought the
fght against the autocracy of imperial
ism. Let us hope and pray We may not
have to face the sutocraoy of anarchy.
We believe that Bolshevism rests on
hunger and we have abundance TO spare,
and We must give of that abundance.
We sent last year twice the food we
ever thought we could spare. We must
send at least one-half more food this
year"
The question of shipping, Mr.. Redheld
said. is not yet met, especially since
more than twenty million tons of food
must go over from the United States be-
fore the spring Is half over.
Shin Rates to Be Lowered.
Tonight. thank God. 1t Is announced
that the Shipping Board has seen the
need Of standing the gaff as you have
% stand II and of reducing its valua-
tons on this vast multitude Of shipping,
81 hat the rates 1t is hereafter to charge
saall Se fairly competitive and your
commerce shall be free to move on equal
oil he
added There have been days in which
It was d>med possible that an effort
might be made to SO charge American
Industry with rates at sea as TO earn a
profit upon the cost Of American ships
That danger is past"
Mr. Redfeld said that on top of the
5000 o00, 900 in taxes this year and the
coming loan of five billions the United
: ates must continue its credits to the
countries abroad TO supply the people
with homes.
TT is probable q million dwellings
must ne built in Continental Europe
s'one this coming spring and summer"
he said. From somewhere they must
get cement and lumber and hardware,
and none has SO much OF all to spare
as We. But how shall they be paid for
save by credits which we shall ourselves
extend In addition to what we have al
ready done! AMI you must ne prepared
YOU men Of aff1irs./tp be asked and to
consent TO the purchase OF strange and
novel securities in your home towns;
Cor unless America shall buy the securi-
ties OF foreign corporations, Industrial,
municipal and others. it seems that It
would be very difficult indeed TO build
UP tho world again TO anything like Its
former status"
Mr.. Redheld said that greater ap-
populations for the promotion of Amcri-
Can commerce abroad had made pos
bile the placing In the various foreign
countries capable young American bust
ness mon to look out for the interests OF
American industry and commerce.
We have got to go out into the big
world beyond the three mile limit to
earn our livelihood henceforth. because
such is the capacity OF American indus
ny that when II runs continuously full
'mn we have not the purchasing power
IN his country continuously TO take It's
Product. We have got to sell abroad, all
around the world
officers elected during the afternoon
were Homer e. Sawyer, who is vice
PRESIDENT of the United States Rubber
Company. president: Harry T. Dunn of