The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-02
Germans Win
Fair at Riga;
Yank There
BY THOMAS RUSSELL.
q. tba New York Timea.

sronnds Il the Riga exposition, as
n An defiance Of the blood-red ban
rsr Of Soviet Russia. few feet
away. and OF the colors OF Germany,
G.upted from buildings, booths and
! 80 on an sides. At sight of II
IN nv reasons for visiting the expo
ANA,n 20 hang The exhibit from
Novirt Russia--the main cause of my
fbelnr would have to wait,
even though IL was the first lot of
GOOD. manufactured under the Boil
sboyist regime ever officially eXhib-
Ned In a foreign land. And the Ger
mans though their exhibits crush
Irglv outnumbercd those of any one
of the other nations represented
they. too. would have to wait. First,
that lone American flag must be in
4 vestigatcd.
excuse my not shaking hands,
I'm covered with grease and dirt"
An exceedingly American young
K man. In his shirt sleeves and hatless,
\ climbed down from a threshing ma
chine made in Wisconsin, which he
Z had been explaining to a knot o..
" Let's.
"say. Just look" he exclaimed,
Il dtYstedly embracing in a sweep
N ngp pesture the exposition grounds in
genEral Germans everywhere!
n German machines all over the placel
Are the Germans coming back -
Why they've come back And what
are We Americans doing? Just one
a American exhibit, this one of thresh-
ing machines I'm running, here at
this cxpostion-ivst onel--and more
than half ~ all exhibits German. and
even the Russian Bolshevi with a
\ whole building fun of their stuff
made In Russia! Say, it's fierce!
And the worst Of II IL that we could
get hold on these markets IL we
n only tried. But We don't. We ought
Z ei,her TO make a real try for foreign
Il markets or just get out of them alto
ii gether and let the Germans have 1t
= all their own way.
AT least there's nothing much in
SIDE that BOlshevist building over
n there the young man went on, "and
n that's one consolation. Which re-
n minds me OF something: When the
\ Bolshevist exhibit was first opened,
"A last Sunday, the people running the
VI exposition had put up an American
a flag and a French flag on each side
n Of the red nag of Soviet Russia.
4 When I came here today TO get on
4 the Job with my thrcshing machine
exhibit | looked for that American
a flag but 4 wasn't there. Then / no
% ticed II flying on a step over across
u the way from my exhibit, and that
N made me sore. so l picked It up and
= started out to find what the trouble
n was Would yol believe ". the Boil
n sheviN had objected to having the
h American flag, and they'd had II
n taken down; and done the same with
the French flag!
German Prices Lowest.
See those machines over there?"
N --he pointed to an exhibit next to
4, the lone group of American ma
3. chimes Those are German thresh
3, ers, made in Mannheim. The thresh-
" llp machine made by my people
.NstS more than the one made by the
,AMannheim concern plus the steam
vi engine TO run II! That's the kind OF
W competition I'm up against over
n here My people have cut their
prices to the limit, but still our
III Prices are higher than what the
Germans charge. But | don't care
y I'm going to stick around here until
sell this bunch of threshers even
UN have TO wait until hell freezes
81 ovep"
III He climbed into the seat OF one
W. his Wisconsin machines and
looked pleasant" while he was
mapped. He is Phil A. Celandcr
ana he has been over here five years
~ he dashed away to resume ex'
palning to Let's. he seemed TO me
10 epltomiac American foreign trade
but there was no time for moral
mng. Turning our hacks on hal
n oo2en German exhibits my com.
panion and ! hurried over to in,
iIaing Of Soviet Russia--tiIv firs
OIlc@l exhibition OF Russian goods
d made and sold on the communist,
+ pan II had just been opened. and
L. was the star attraction OF the Rig5
n exposition. People were pourinf
II ."'e IN a steady stream, filling 4
n 70 It's utmost. Outside the big Bol
heNst banner tapped insolently
now and then STRENGTHENING out suf
r .Citntly in the breeze TO show tn
sHow scrolls in the upper left hanC
e nrner, which alone give variety I,
@ ned Of red. over the door wert
ne initials Of Soviet Russia's officia
.ame IN Russian. Russian FEEDER
s,sa Soviet Republic" The facad,
- ihe building was daubed viii
III MmTNhl nolors in fantastic designs
inpy reminded one of the wier,
M eoIauons that accompanied tn,
Iauons Of the Russ! IN ballet II
W ~ York few years ago.
M me Bolshcvist building was tn
onisning array Of diagrams, plans
nam and charts. They were hum
r. NJ walls 70 right and left; there wer
.,, ohes and medium sized ones, AM
e ones. Some We're in black ant
pai.s others in gaudy colors. Tn
heVlst have. apparently dia
hed, charted and mapped ever,
use subphase and near-phase o
a. u IS lived in Russia today
'unately the great bulk OF tn
written on these wall exhibit
~ N Russian, so / could scarcel
e mead or tail of them. but eve
He knowing no Russian could easil
the fact that all those tumble
H., sucs were intended to shoN
sss, syerything in Soviet Russia, a
NJ rom a diagrammatic point O
WcnksW was In a highly satisfactor
oussla Adyanccs--on Paper.
ina nuge map, covering most o
sbo,.ssl at one end of the building
ton me progress OF electrified
reg;,.n Russia under the Bolshevis
4 conn,' Also there were chart
.se.shg the production OF qIlt
Hs ,',aV OF articles In Soviet Rus
W., "lth that of other countries; tn
NV o. the data presented aIway
WNtmed 10 pro,,n -. L. a =