Evening journal., 1920-01-10

Editors NOte-H0w long can the
soviet government last? In This, the
SIKH and last article by Rsnsome, he
;slls' of therRace with RulnH that faces
lhe Bolshevik regime)
7 went 10 see Krestinsky. the Com
r1issioner of Finance. 7 found him IN
the Ilyluska street., In the Chinese
town / began by telling him that did
not believe they meant TO pay the
loans. lie laughed and gave me pre-
cisely Hhe answer / had expected: "Of
course we hope there will be a revO-
luton in other countries, 10 which
case they will repudiaie their debts
and forgive us ours. But II that does
not happen we know very we'll that we
-hall have 10 pay. and we are prepared
To- pay. and shall he able no pay. IN
concessions, in raw material which
hey need more than they need gold.
Then being myself neither an econ
Imist nor a theoretical Socialist, / put
before him what had been said to me
D stockholm by an Englishmen who
was both one and the other; namely.
hat, being isolated from European
nance. the Soviet government OF Rus
sia was bound 10 come TO an end on
economic and lnsnclal gOrunds alone.
He said: THAT would certainly be
80. II rising prices, rising wages, were
To mean indefinitely increased demands
un the printing machines for paper
money But, while we are at presen.
forced 10 print more and more money,
mother, process Is 40 work which, In
.wfr fn OF -
things 10 an end. Just as in our deal
.ugs with other countries we exchange
goods instead Of paying in money, so
Viihin.our own frontiers money Is ceas-
ing 10 be The sole medium OF exchange.
Gradually the woTkmen are coming 20
HaceivC more and more I'm other forms
'lan money Houses, for example, light
ing and heating are only a beginning.
These things being state mOnOpolies,
The t9sk OF supplying the wOrkman's
needs without th3 use Of money Is
comparatively easy. The chief dlhl-
ruiiy IS. Of course. food supplies which
depend upon our ability 10 keep up an
'ychange Of goods with the villages.
n we can supply the villages with
Hlnufactured goods. they Will supply
with food You can fairly say that
% rain or salvation depends on a race
tween the decreasing value Of money
Ni,h The consequent need FOR printing
roles IN ever greater quanttlesl and
lur growing ability 90 do without
money altogether That is. OF course, /
'a broad view, and you must not for Z !
moment suppose INST we expect 10 do /
without money in the immediate fu- !
'Wc.' J am merely showing you the |
tWo opposting tendencies on which /
"7r economic fate depends"
Prof. Pokroyskv told mo A good deal |
olui the organization OF the Com |
aI,-srial of Public Education. as Lun- /
g'Ilr>ky Lhe actual head OF II, was I
ay In petrograd.
.l, schools are divided into two (
sas f5Esebidren. from Z to II /
- ars aid ,nd one for those aged from /
b. O.. 4 m.u!ari roubles has been .
-ueI tg feeding children in the 4
a.e. and those who most need I
tu orc supplied with clothes and
1tse1r There are many classes for
-4rkiugmcu.
TIE Soviet government has earned
81 Lr.tiiudC 0f many Russians who
.-,dkc a for everything else 10 has
.a'' hy fhe rcsOlule way in which it
brought the Russian classics into
b0oksaops Books that were out
print and unobalinable have been
printed from the stereotypes and set
'i0at -ag3in at most reasonable prices.
Among lhe other experts on the sub
itet of the Soviets educational work
consulted two friends, a little boy,
.yeb who sturdily calls himself q
def. though three Of his sisters work
q soviet institutions), and an old and
cry wise porter
GlYeb says that during the winter
iheyshad no heating so that they only
sat for a very short time, because OF
ne great cold. He told me, however,
hat they gave him a good dinner there
very day, and that lessons would b.
I'D right. as soon as the weather got
WARMER He showed me a pair Of felt
'OOts which had been given him at |
Inc school. The old porter summed up
be similar experience OF his sons
Fcs, he said, "they so there, sing
Ie- Marseillaise twice through, have |
dinner and come home" I then took
lese expert criticisms 10 Pokrovsky,
.'ho slid, 1T is perfectly true. We
ave not enough transport 20 fed the