Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-16
LENLNE CAN'T BE BUSTED,
MAMMALIAN HARDEN SAYS
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's foremost publicist.
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal.)
downright 1921

Copyright, 1921
BERLIN, Aug. 13.-Only one who
has listened to a quarrel about the
property in one room as the dying
mans groans come through the nalt
open door of the next, can Wholly
grasp what this week has meant to
the old world. In the front parlor
the allied supreme council has hur-
ried along it's disputes, while in an
obscure back room the feeble voice
of diseased Russia was audible only
to those who listened attentively.
Europe's chiefs act as if Russia
already was dead, but when she re-
wives again, Poland, while perhaps
keeping her autonomy, will not be
able to hold sovereignty over the i'm
mense territories now claimed by
her. When Russia revives there
will be no possibility of restoring
Turkish rule in Europe and France
no longer will be able to continue
her policy of unconditional favor
1tism to Poland. Such a policy in
evitably would drive Russia into an
alliance with Germany against the
French republic.
For tWenty-seVen years an alliance
with the Russian empire was the
basis of French foreign policy. Now
she patronizes Poland and Turkey,
the oldest and bitterest enemies of
the Russian people, refusing to heed
the melancholy and angry question::
DO you French really believe that
I am dead?"
Nation Can't Die.
A nation of one hundred and forty
millions cannot die. The terrible
crisis the Russian people are now
experiencing can be healed if the
world will acknowledge its duty of
solidarity in distress. The Russian
people have often had to starVe
under their cars. In a country of
great landed estates. where so per
cent of the inhabitants lived Oh
agriculture, there were only SIX
acres for each peasant. After nor
NAL harvest the peasants still lacked
nourishment. The state was obliged
to appropriate seVenty-flve million
dollars to feed the peasants, but at
the same time exported quantities
of meat, fowls, eggs, fats and sugar.
The bounties and subsidies given to
encourage exports made Russian
sugar cheaper and more plentiful L.
London than in Moscow.
When the bolshevists came, they
gave the land to the peasants, but
they took away the strongest men
for the army and forced farmers to
barest necessities, paying them m
paper rubles. Today it takes 100000
900 rubles to equal thousand marks,
or twelve American dollars. The
peasants have whole cupboardS tulI
of the all but valueless paper money,
and do not desire any more. Hence
they cultivate only sufficient land
for their family and animals.
Last summer nearly all sections
had less than half the food neces-
sary for adults and children. Since
then there have been two crop fail
obtainable, and any one can imagine
what has happened since the scorch-
ing sun shriveled the harvests, leav-
ing twenty millions literally without
bread.
Peasants May Trade.
AS I have already pointed out in
these dispatches, the period of mill
tary communism in Russia has been
stabilized and the peasants are al
lowed to trade their excess products.
Heretofore, however, the soviets sent
as many men as could be fed into
the factories. The result was laziness
and the ruin and robbery of business.
1t was impossible to expect intensive
work and absolute honesty from men
long under fed. Many sought work
while others speculated. Anybody
nowadays who still possesses some
thing is a speculator, earning more
in few hours than would be pos
sible in work shop in a month.
Only the great industries are work.
| ing now directly for the state and
remain nationalized. Unproductive
ones have been abandoned and small
ones have been leased to corpora
| tions. Thus state controlled industry
has been largely restored to private
enterprise.
The state is abandoning free cleo
| trio light and free railway and street
car transportation, which resulted in
| enormous waste. Hundreds of thou
sands of returned war prisoners,
while relating their su. ferings,
nevertheless have changed the minds
of many of the Russian people by
their stories of how other peoples
live. Today the Russians long for
systematic labor and modern tech
nical equipment Even the moujiks
demand farm machinery, which for
merly they called engines of the devil.
But everything is lacking-even see,
for the next sowing. Even the fire
side industries, such as delicately
colored carpets, bead work, table
| cloths, shawls, lacquer boxes,
brushes and tapestries, are stopped
on account of the lack of materials
| The only exports possible now are
| fur and wood.
Needs Credits.
To import the barest essentials
| Russia needs enormous credits, but
after three good harvests and a ra-
| tiOnal eXOlOifatjon of her ineXhanSti l.
BILE resources she would be solvent
again.
But international aid must not