The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-22
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY

Copyright. soripPYso5Ja 50wa Newspapers.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Immi-
nent overthrow of the Soviet gov
eminent has been reported by
czarist emigre stories in anti
Russian newspapers so often dur
ing the last eleven years, that the
hardy annual this fall is dismissed
by most American officials with a
yawn.
So long as there is a large corps
Of American correspondents and
business men in the interior Of Rus
STA sending out daily reports of nor
malcy, Washington apparently will
refuse to get excited by these re-
viyals of fantastic tales from Riga,
Warsaw and Paris.
The latest long-distance reports
of Soviet collapse happen to COM
eide with visits to Russia of hard
headed capitalist investigators who
are so sure these czarist emigre
yarns are lies that they are
gambling several millions Of dollars
on the stability of the communist
government.
Charles Dewey American flnan-
cial adviser in Poland, former as
sistant secretary of the treasury
and q close friend of Herbert
Hoover, is leaving Russia this week
and soon coming to the United
States. If there is an active
counter-revolution on in Russia, he
has failed to report it to his friends
here.
Standard Oil, General Electric
Company which this month ex-
tended a $26,OOO,0OO credit to Mos
COW, and the New York banks doing
business with Russia, all usually
know what they are doing.
1t is precisely this rapid increase
in Russia trade and credits in the
United States which explains the
new crop of anti-Russian myths"
from such places as Riga and Paris,
in the opinion of Boris E. SkvirslIy,
director Of the Soviet Union In
formation bureau here.
Today he expressed agreement
with a New York Times Moscow dis
patch of Nov. II "characterizing the
stories of a Separatist uprising in
the Ukraine as an exploded myth"
Skvirsky, in reply to questions
charged that:
Cali these yarns are deliberately
concocted by interested persons
with the purpose Of hurting Soviet
credits abroad. The recent marked
increases in American-Soviet trade
and the closer relationship estab-
liShed between Soviet producing
organizations and large American
business concerns have caused a
desperate activity among the fab
ricators of such mendacities."
r.
TITO the emigre stories that Rus
Il sian cities are starving because
Of grain famine caused by crop
failure and a general uprising of
peasants, the Soviet information
bureau here replies:
"The grain crop Of last summer
approximately was half a million
bushels above that of last year and
about equal to the pre-war average.
The peasants have been selling their
grain in larger quantities and at
better prices than last year. Pro-
curements in October were 1,778,0
metric tons, IT'S per cent greater
than in october last year. The
peasants have also had the best cot
ton and sugar beet crops since the
war, respectively 16 and 4 per cent
larger than the pre-war average.
ut is true that some unrecon-
structed kulaks or wealthy peasants
who had become spectators and
middlemen rather than producers
unoer the old regime, resent the
taxation scheme which is scaled to
assist needier peasants, and
resent the coming of education in
the villages. The Soviet press has
reported that kulaks have caused
the murder of some fifty peasant
correspondents and village educa-
UlOnal workers curing Cne laSC Jnree
months"
To the emigre yarns that the
Soviet state is toppling into bank
ruptcy, the bureau replies with these
statistics:
"On Nov. IS, the gold fund of the
department Of issue of the state
bank was higher than at any time
since the sterilization of the cur
rency in the summer of 1924. Indus
trial production for the fiscal year
ending Sept 80 last, increased over
20 per cent over the previous year,
and was 25 per cent above that of
1913. The value of the agricultural
output was the greatest since the
war. The foreign trade turnover was
the largest since the war"