Arizona republican., 1920-12-20
VANDERBILT SAYS COMMUNIST RULE. .|S STRAG|CFA|LURE
Republican A. p. Leased wIrel


 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.-Washing- ton D. Vanderlip, who obtained a 6O- year lease of the Kamchatka peninsula rom the Russian government for a Los Angeles syndicate, expressed confi dence, in a statement given out here today. that the trade contracts" with the Russian government he brought pack With him will " do more to re- stabilize the world than anything peace treaties or the league of nations has been able to accomplish"
 Russia must have Supplies and she wants to buy them from the United States rather than any other country because she considers this country is the only real friend she has in the world" said Mir. VanderIip, who re- turned to his home here yesterday. These orders which I have received have already exerted tremendous pres sure upon the governments of France and England. As soon as the news was given to the world, the British govern rnent assumed a more reasonable atti- tUde in dealing with the Russian trade commission headed by Kameneff, and within 10 days, France, instead of de- nouncing the Russian government, had appointed a commission to negotiate for the purpose of reopening trade"
 Mir. Vanderlip announced he had ob- tained orders for $3, ,000, GOO, 900 worth of goods to be delivered over a period of three years and denied cable reports from Europe that these orders would be effective only if the Lenine regime was recognized by Washington. He said the orders were independent of the Siberian concession. The Russian peo- pie are badly in need of many things. MT. Vanderlip said, but can pay for what they want.
 No Vestige of Socialism
 The Russian government no longer is communisitic, according to Mir. Van derlip, even the leaders admitting that in most important respects the experi- ment had been a tragic and costly failure.
 "In two or three more years time the only vestige of socialism left in Russia will be government ownership of transportation, banks, lands, mines and oil wells" he declared. The soviet plan already has been discarded en- tirely in industry. and factories and business affairs of all kinds are run just as they are here.
 Russia is not under a dictatorship. Lenine could be as easily unseated as could Lloyd George or any other pre- mier. Every sixty days he has to face | the peoples commissars, an elected body of about 200 men, equivalent to a parliament. If they passed vote of lack of confidence. his power would be at an end"
 Contrary to general belief in this country, Mir. Vanderlip said Russia in- formally is at peace and even prosper ous. He asserted there was no repres- sion of free speech and everywhere frank and outspoken criticism of the | government was permitted. Tales of Trotzkys tyranny are also made out of whole cloth. There is no repression of free speech" he said, "I, myself, heard a prominent official of | the Russian foreign office denounce Trotzky, but the incident created no more stir than a dispute between ad- ministration members in any other country.
 1 Another popular misconception IS ! that Russia's railroads are ruined. h. stead of being ruined. they are in splendid repair, and within the last three years the present government has built 2,700 miles of new railroad. The Russian lines, however, have only 5000 locomotives. whereas they should have 1S,000, the other 12,000 locomotives having been burnt out and worn out