The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-21
The Riga Liar on the
Cable Puts Russia in
the Limelight Again
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, the Riga liar is the job again.
This time his is Donald Day. of the Chicago Tri-
bune News Service and his lie headned Russian Troops
Kill Five AS Mobs Beg for Food"
The Chicago Tribune has a world reputation on
the experiences of its liars at Riga the Latvan capital
Stockholm Copenhagen Hesngfors, not to mention West
European capitals.
The truth gets slight chance however, in an interview
cabed direct from Moscow by the correspondent of the
New York Times Walter Duranty It gives the views Of
Fanny Hurst the American author in the Soviet CAPT.
ta who asks the question: why is that approaches
Russia the people try and to brighten you back
home?"
She reviews attitude her proposed trip to
Moscow follows:
"In London they said it easy and safe trip.
"In Paris they shook their heads doubtfuIIy.
Berlin told you omnousIy that it fooIhardy
dertaking.
by the time got to Riga the people saying
would be carrying my life in my hands all the time"
Of course "the people" to whom Fanny Hurst refers
the of news, especially Riga of foreign
correspondents These the people" who have been
getting their attacks against Russian Soviet Rule for
the past years. but luckily without avail. Fanny
Hurst herself tells what she found in Moscow foIows
"Yet Moscow quiet and orderly any place in the
world was really disappointing when mustered up
courage for real adventure"
Duranty reports that similar comment was made by an
English woman member of parliament, Susan Lawrence,
who remarked disappoinedy that in Red Square
waiting Lenns tomb seemed so passive and ODE
dent quite different from what she had expected"
But if Fanny Hurst and Susan Lawrence couldn't find
the Killings robberies and scandals that rampant any
day of the week in Chicago, New York, London Paris
Rome they nevertheless found much that really worth
while to interest them.
Fanny Hurst pays an especial tribute to Russian youth
and thereby confesses the stability of Soviet Rule in Russia
She says:
What struck the way everything this
country Sovet Russia stands for scentered around youth
mot only nine executives out of ten you meet are
young you feel tremendously that the whole country has
been put in the hands of the growing generation make
mar it after their own pattern.
So. There is youths tremendous vitality youths
hopefuness and youths to work miracles because
it does not know that mpossibiIes impossbities
a.. And they all so desperately in earnest, these
youngsters, absorbed in their own affairs.
"of one thing certain, it is the most interesting
country in the world"
that isn't the kind of that gets the first
page. At least not in these days. This will the
first pages in every country just the spirit of
the Russian youth in building their FUTURE spreads to
other lands.
The last paragraph of the Donald Day story betrays its
purpose The Tribune correspondent has the of
Russia starving and then draws its conclusion that exports
this coming winter. This should prove welcome to
American farmers whom the Bosheviks undersold in
Europe year ago."
No doubt the Tribune correspondent, in putting his
little fake the CABLE Whisted to himself THAT ought
get a few votes for Coolidge"
But the hard facts of the bitter life of the bankrupt
American farmer will drive him against the whole Cool
dge social system The every day struggle will force
extend their hands in comradeshp the youth the work.
and the farmers of Soviet Russia That will be bad
day for the subsidized politicians and the kept press defend
ing things as they