Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-01

| Despite much interest in the reports
of Soviet Russia's alleged attempt to
demoralize the American grain market,
| there are wide differences of opislion as
to the intent of the recent transactions
Some Americans doubt that the volume
OF trading by Soviet agents was suffi-
| Gent to have an effect on the market.
and hold that the Russian action repre-
sented only part of world trading by
that country. Others charge an evil
purpose and hold that there was def
mite effect apart from domestic trans
| actions. 1t Is suggested by some editors
| that the Government statement was in
tended to excuse failure of the Farm
Board to achieve what it had under
taken.
| Seeing ga fit of hysteria" in the dis
cusSion, the New York Times argues the
question to this conclusion: ITO serious
minded readers, the confused tumble of
news, rumors and conjecture has prin-
| cipally served to show how stupidity the
| Moscow dictatorS are being served by
/ their foreign agents. The Soviet'S i'm
| perative need is to increase the money
value of Russian sales abroad, whereby
| purchase of much-needed foreign mate
| rial might be facilitated. But their
commissioners on the markets of grain
consuming Europe appear to have made
|
| to the Moscow treasury. Their agents
| In America have been specializing at
Chicago in way which, so far as it had
any influence, would be prejudicial to
RusSia's European market. There must
| have been dreary sense of amusement
when the Kremlin learned of the in
| depreciation which the foreign wheat
trade had placed on such bungling."
Commencing the full investigation of
the subject, the Harrisburg Telegraph
declares that "either Russia is holding
back for export wheat which it should
be feeding to its own people, fright
| full indictment of the Russian govern
mentor it is willing to take severe
| losses in America in an effort to stir
| up discomfort here" That the Russian
| trading is unfriendly to the United
States is the belief of the San Francisco
| Chronicle, the San Antonio Express and
the Chicago Daily News. The last mem
| toned paper holds that cit has been no
secret that the Soviet government was
driving its preparations forward for the
attainment of precisely the results in
the worlds grain markets which of
| late it has sought to bring about" That
paper argues further: Russia has regi-
mented its peasants, taken the land and
the live stock and established communal
| wheat growing on gigantic scale, the
agricultural workers getting their keep
in barracks and nothing more. That it
is dumping wheat and specializing in
the cereal partly for the purpose Of
demoralizing 'capitalistic' markets, SOW
ing seeds of discomfort and furthering
its design of world revolution is not a
violent assumption in view of Soviet
Russia's heralded designs. However. 1t
is clear that RuSsia's desperate eco
nomic situation and its financial needs
go far to account for much dumping of
grain by the Soviet government at
prices so low that they threaten ruin
to farmers and other producers in free
countries"
Russian hostility, with the danger of
burned fingers" is emphasized by the
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, while the
Lincoln State Journal sees argument
against recognition of Russia, in Sin
lister intentions" but the South Bend
Tribune points out that "those indus
tries that hope to cultivate the Rus
sian market are studiously ignoring
Russian trade practices which do not
affect them" and maintains that 'the
prospects for boycott, official or UNI
official, are, therefore, not bright" The
Chattanooga News believes that "such
punishment as is dealt out to the So
Wet spectators will be merely vocal"
and that possibly the disclosures will
delay recognition of Russia"
1T would be a happy thing for the
administration, doubtless" thinks the
Charleston Evening Post, ''if it could
make the farmers believe that the dread
full bolshevists of Russia were responsible
for the poor state of the grain market
1t would relieve the administration of
the blame which properly attaches to it,
not for failure to relieve the farm sit
uation. since that may well be beyond.
the power OF the Government, but for
promising relief 1t is unable to give"
The Morgantown Dominion News, with
similar point of view, declares: IF
Secretary Hyde will only blame the
drought On the SoViets be can vine