Evening star., 1923-03-23
HOOVER SEESRUSS
NEEDING OWN HELP
Recognition Would Not Mean
Flow of Money There,
iEs He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23.--It is
hopeless Illusion that a flow of
money or business toward Russia
would follow recognition of the So
Wet government by the United States,
Secretary Hoover stated in a letter
received by c. V. Hibbard, associate
general secretary of the Y. NJ. G. A.
international commission.
Russia S real salvation must come
from within Russia, Mr. Hoover de-
clared. While the aid of responsible
bodies Will be required to perfect
II comprehensive reconstruction pro-
gram, he SAID, 'all that charitable
relief can hope to do is lift special
groups from utter destitution up to
the level of the general poverty and
thus to prolong life for the future"
Mr.. Hoover's letter was in reply
70 one from Mr. Ilibbard requesting
his views upon the relief outlook
and the future requirements of Rus
Sid.
Holds Needs Economic.
What Russia needs" Mr. Hoover
said. lis economic reconstruction;
the recreation of productivity. Her
peasants need agricultural machinery
ana animals. Her Workmen need
tools. her industries need raw ma
terials. her factories need new ma
Chinery. her transportation needs
repairs and equipment. If her large
industry is to be restored. she needs
skilled workmen and trained execu-
tiVeS and the impulse of self-inter-
est that is absent from nationaliZed
Industry
"Furthermore. for purposes of re-
construction. gigantic sums Of capital
and the professional personnel to di
rect reconstruction must come from
abroad. No doubt 4 few spectators
and concession hunters intent on sew
eral hundred per cent per annum will
he willing to take the risks, but the
great flow of capital investment at
reasonable rates cannot arise until
the whole system is advanced to
fundamental position upon which Sc
curity and confidence must rest.
1T is hopeless illusion that there
will be Il flow of foreign savings.
business or skill into Russia by the
simple act OF official recognition by
our government. Indeed, there has
been no appreciable investment in
Russia from the several countries
which have extended recognition, al
though some of them are exporting
capital in other directions.
Recognition Not Argument.
This is not an argument for or
against recognition. but simply
statement that the question of re-
stored productivity to large industry
rests on other fundamentals, such as
the security and the freedom of ini-
tiative, and these can only be created
through the institutions of Russia
herself
AS to the immediate needs of the
Russian people. Mr.. Hoover said the
terrible famines and epidemics have
been Stemmed Through the great re-
lief campaign and the improved har-
vest of last August. There are some
signs of renewed national life from
the changes in economic policies. yet
standards of living are still the low
est in the civilized world. disease is
rife and mortality is high
Fundamental recovery is taking
place said Mr.. Hoover, but 1t will
be slow and painful without help
from the outside world"
Mr.. Hoover said there were four
great phases of relief: the shipment
Struction. The first it is hoped. he
said, will he over with the next har-
vest although this depends upon the
harvest itself
The other forms of relief" the
heter continued. will deservedly pull
the heart strings of charity for many
years to come and offer an ample
field for those who can devote them
selves to such work. for the terrible
sufferings of a great people cropping
for freedom from centuries of wrong
must enlist the sympathyof every
well thinking person. But one eS-
sential is critically necessary, in or
der that such American effort shall
be in responsible hands and not ex-
hausted in propaganda, it should be
administered through organized re-
,ligious bodies"