The New York herald., 1922-07-09
By w. A. DAVENPORT.

r UST to observe and listen to
II Messrs. Pujo, Probuzna. Gold
korn and Smith would furnish
the most puzzled American with the
answer to one or two Of the discon-
certing demands upon him to find
out what ails his devoted Govern
ment. The chances are good that
said distraught American would ar
rive at the conclusion that after all
there is nothing particularly wrong
with the Government. It is also
probable that he would discover that
parcel of himself and his 10000. 900
neighbors.
This poor badgered American is
assailed daily with fierce blasts from
the editorial pages of Journals of
opinion" 1t makes no difference to
him whose opinion composes the
bombardment. He has long since
despaired of ever sorting this view
from that estimate: this mans view
point from that mans propa ganda.
There is something tremendously
wrong with us politica economi-
cally and without end variously he
Is assured. By "us" he is given to
understand "the Government"
So there he stands. mired waist
deep in welter of abuse and con-
demnation. conceding that there
must be something wrong. How
does he know? Has not every young
editor of every radical Journal said
SO? Has anybody been heard re-
Gently to say that even a few things
remain upright? Is there anybody
anywhere willing to go to the mat on
the proposition that the country is a
perfectly good country il properly
manned? If there is. he hasn't been
able to hear because of the fearful
din that these bright young Govern
ment renovators have been making.
It is too bad that Messrs Pujo. Pro-
buznO, Goldkorn and Smith can't be
led around the country like circus
elephants to be seen and observed
and heard 1t is too bad because In
this quartet Of physical magnificence
"ies a nice blanket answer to one Of
Che latest Of the questions that our
befuddied American admits is ton
much for his beset intelligence.
The Return to Moscow.
"Why. just why" demand the
fierce reconstructonists. "are thou
sands of Industrial workers clamor-
ing at the doors Of the Kuzbas organ
ization. the Society for Technical Aid
for Russia and the nascent Russian
American Industrial Corporation,
begging to be sent to Soviet Russia
that they might expend the well
known sweat of their honest brows
in cooperative. community and even
subsidized mines. farms and fac
tories?
'.And when." you are asked. have
you ever beheld foreign labor forsak-
ing America. with its highly adver-
tised opportunities for the least Of
the humble alien. to return to land
where a wagon load Of official money
doesn't equal three days wages of a
union pantsmaker? Is there any de-
fense Of a system that cannot offer
sufficient inducement to industrial
workers to discourage them from
wanting to work in Soviet Russia"
Disregarding for the moment Sid
ney Hiilman's Russian American In
dustrial Corporation which is in the
process Of formation. and which ap-
pears to bear a close resemblance to
business as we know it: consider
Messrs Pujo. Probuzna. Goldkorn
and Smith. They purpose leaving
America on the ed of this month on
the steamship Rotterdam. They will
be dlsembarked at Rotterdam along
with upward Of q hundred men.
women and children who Will b