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PARIS, March 20. (Special.) Sta
tistics, especially so unreliable a col
lection of them as that assembled
by the bolsheviki, whose disdain for
figures is marked, are worthless in
' estimating Russia's wealth at this
juncture. One cannot visit that vast
, country even in these troubled times.
. 1 nf ta iinnlnmhuH
natural resources mightily reinforced.
One senses instinctively that Rus
sia's feebleness is the feebleness of
infancy, bound, under proper tutelage,
year. And the exhaustion laid upon
her by four years of war and two of
revolution seems scarcely more than
' a momentary fatigue. Her limitless
forests, her untapped treasure 01
! mineral deposits, the incalculable
riches of her millions upon millions
i of acres of untitled soil these are
the images that recur to one's mind
even while one beholds the ruins ot
her immature Industrial edifice.
Obviously, virtually the only sta
tistics obtainable on present day Rus
sia are those made by the bolsheviki,
and these, as J. have said, are by no
means perfect. I give them, there
fore, for what they are worth. Most
ot those relating to raw material are
derived from Rikoffs report to the
all-Russian economic convention. i ney
'must be reasonable and accurate oe-
cause upon them the supreme coun
cil of public economy is basing its
general plan of production.
Transportation Big Problem.
In the first two months of soviet
Russia's fiscal year beginning Novem
ber 7, 1319. there was cut and corded
6.000.000' cubic sazhen (a cubic sazhen
.equals 343 cubic feet of timber, or
half the programme drawn up by the
government to cover the country's an
nual need. Only about one-third of
this total was transported to its ulti
mate destination by railroad or river.
Still there is every reason to hope
that Russia will have all the fuel
she requires by the middle of next
summer, provided, of course, ine rail
roads can be kept running. And at
this moment only TOO cars are avail
able daily for hauling wood from the
forests, in comparison with 400,000 in
1914.
Before the 100,000.000 poods (one
pood equals 40 pounds) of coal that
are said to be lying on the surface
in the Donetz region can be carried
away a whole network of bridges and
tracks destroyed in the fighting there
must be restored.
Russia's cotton crop comes from
Turkestan, where some 8.000.000
nnunris have been harvested. The
Moscow and other textile factories
require a half million pounds monthly,
but there being only two trains at
their disposal, they only get about 15
per cent of their requirements. Still,
there should be close to 2.000.000
pounds that could be exported, if
means were found to ship it to Black
aea .ports.
L'l.r Autlnnk Dubious.
As regards flax, the outlook is less
encouraging. The ground sown with
flax has been diminished by about
40 per cent and the harvest reduced
from some Hfl.000.000 pounds yearly to
less than 5.000.000 pounds, the likeli
hood of a still further decrease re
vealing itself, moreover, in December
and January. Stocks of flax now in
hand are only sufficient to supply
Russian industry for from eight
months to one year.
The production of linen, on the
other hand, is at a remarkably high
level. Russia needs but 2.500.000
pounds of linen and possesses 5,500.
000. Consequently some 3.000.000
pounds can be shipped abroad. The
same is true, though in a lesser meas
ure, of hemp, of which there is 2.000.
000 pounds in stock, and hides, of
which there is 5.500.000. and of furs,
of which there is 2. 000. 000.
For some obscure reason perhaps
because they have no reliable fig
ures themselves soviet economists
refuse to disclose the details of their
supplies of platinum, but Milioutin,
Rikoffs chief lieutenant on the su
preme economic council, told mo that
a very considerable quantity was in
the government's possession, and that
a large part of it could be exported
' the moment the blockade was raised.
' Since Russia controlled 'Jo
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industry, owing first to its inability
to secure enough raw materials, and
secondly to the depreciation' of its
spindles, looms and other machines, is
only 10 per cent productive.
Rikoff pointed out that unless the
situation shows radical improvement,
exhaustion of the existing raw stocks
will imply complete paralysis of the
entire industrial fabric.
Electric PlantH Building.
In concluding this general survey
of the industrial situation, mention
should be made of the surprising
progress made by the Soviets in their
programme for the electrification of
industries. There has been estab
lished during the revolution at Kashir
the strongest electric plant in the
country, with a power of 40,000 kilo
watts, and other power stations are
being built up with considerable ra
pidity. The pinch of the labor short
age is felt universally. On railroads
alone 15,000 skilled mechanics are
needed. Soviets supported by the
trade unions do not hesitate to trans
fer labor groups from one part of the
country to another, by force if neces
sary, on the principle that workers,
like soldiers, should be willing to
make sacrifices for the common
wealth which they control.
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SUB-COMMITTEE SELECTED TO
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Exhaustive Inquiry Promised Be
fore Universal Military Meas
ure Is Drafted.
of the world's supply of platinum
there is no reason to doubt his state
ment. Grain Stock Considerable.
One of the leading Russian agri
cultural authorities told me there
was enough grain in soviet Russia
to provide for half of Europe after
all Russia had been fed. His asser
tion was borne out by the glowing
accounts of Ukrainian and Siberian
harvests that 1 received from pcrJ
sons, many of whom were non-bolshevik,
coming to Moscow from these
regions. Here again adequate sta
tistics are wholly lacking, the com
missaries of agriculture pleading that
inasmuch as soviet territory had been
increasing daily owing to the red
army's steady advance for the last
four months, it was out of the ques
tion to provide accurate figures.
The soviet government actually had
In its granaries, however. In the first
three months of the fiscal year of
1919. 20,000.000 to 60.000.000 pounds
of breadstuffs. or more than one-third
the annual requirements of the en
tire non-producing population based
on consumption of one pound per per
son per day. The estimated amount of
bread required daily to feed ade
quately those Russians who do not
grow their own grain is 18,000,000
pounds.
Metal Supplies Short.
Although Russia will eventually
have the Ural and Doneti mines, all
her metallurgical Industry will re
quire, she is woefully short of them
at present. For manufacturing pur
poses central Russia requires more
than 100,000,000 pounds of metal, but
in January last she had less than a
quarter of this quantity. The great
Ural furnaces, owing to all kinds of
shortages, are yielding scarcely 40
per cent of their pre-war production.
Consequently the total manufacture
of steel and iron product is only
about 30 per cent of what it should be.
There are 1191 metallurgical plant
In operation, including, however, the
small ones scarcely more important
than blacksmith's shops, of which 614
are nationalized. Generally speaking,
according to Rikoff, 41 per cent of
all industrial enterprises nave Deen
subjected to nationalization. Pro-rt,-fvlv
In all the essential lines
save
WASHINGTON", March 20. Chair
man Kahn of the house military com
mittee Friday selected a sub-commit
tee to frame legislation providing for
compulsory universal military traln-
Inn- o nKjinriK' nf whil'h i R rnnnid-
per cent I ered favoral,ie to the adoption of a
training plan. Representatives Dent,
Alabama, and Quln, Mississippi, dem
ocrats, are the only selections re
garded as unalterably opposed to com
pulsory training.
The other selections were Repre
sentative Kahn, California; Greene,
Vermont: Sanford, New York; McKen
zie, Illnois, republicans; and Olney,
Massachusetts, democrat.
These committeemen recently ap
proved adoption of a training plan
excepting Mr. McKenzie, who opposed
immediate action,
Before framing a training bill the
committee will make an exhaustive
investigation. Mr. Kahn announced,
and its report is not expected to come
before congress until next session,
WILSON AGAINST REVIVAL
(Continued From First Page.)
the republican reservationists on the
other hand appeared to feel quite sat
isfied with themselves while making
material for the republicans to an
swer that argument that Woodrow
Wilson and his followers may put
up in a third-term campaign oi to
elect some other administration demo
crat to the presidency on the treaty
issue.
Republicans to Make Issne.
It is generally agreed that an ef
fort will be made by the president to
inject the treaty into the eoming cam
paign, but republicans declare -that
they and not the president will make
the Issue on which the campaign will
be fought out. Senator Walsh, dem
ocrat of Montana, always loyal to
the president until yesterday, dis
played more wisdom as to the future
than any of his party colleagues in
or out of congress. '
He reminded them that the repub
lican party was not compelled' to be
bound to such an issue as the treat
and that his party must expect- to
have its entire administrative record
of the last eight years placed on trial.
It is recognized by leading demo
crats in Washington outside the White
House, that the treaty offers the poor
est sort of campaign issue.
Democratic Voters Desert. -
rfty In ail lun eracniisj lines I
.'.it., .nnrnarhes so iMr rpni They say frankly that Mr. Wilson is
of its pre-war figures.. The textile 'out of touch with the country and that
the democratic voters have been
turning rapidly against the ratifica
tion of the treaty without the dotting
oi an i or tne crossing of a t, as de
manded by the White House.
The bulk of the letters from demo
crats everywhere bearing on the
treaty have either demanded that
therr senators vote for the treaty with
reservations or that they vote to kill
it as an undesirable contract. A let
ter signed by a large number of
Georgia democrats to Senator Hoke
Smith gives some conception of how
democrats in the south are feellnir.
This letter asked Senator Smith to
permit his name to go on the pri
mary ballot, setting forth that a Iarare
number of democrats in the state were
being denied the opportunity to vote
their actual sentiments.
No Candidates Mkrd.
The writers said that the bulk of
Georgia democrats were without any
opportunity to support a candidate
for president of their liking, because
the. only candidates entered were Attorney-General
Palmer, supporting
everything President Wilson had done,
and Senator Reed of Missouri, op
posing every act of the president's.
They said they could not support
Palmer and thus give sanction to Mr.
Wilson's autocratic conduct and they
could not vote for Reed who had not
approved what good there was in the
present democratic administration.
One interesting feature of the final
rollcall on the treaty was the manner
in which practically all of the demo
cratic senators in the west, all elected
in the last few years with the ex
ception of Chamberlain of Oregon,
on a pledge to uphold the hands of
Woodrow Wilson, threw off the White
House collar yesterday1 Only one.
Johnson of South Dakota, obeyed the
White House command and he is one
of those who was expected to change
his vote had there been an oppor
tunity to reconsider.
Nugent Is Last to Quit.
Senator Nugent of Idaho was one
of the last to quit the president, and
it was equally surprising when. Pitt
man and Henderson of Nevada and
Walsh of Montana 'declared their inde.
pendence. Phelan of California was
compelled to break away from the
president some time ago on a Shan
tung reservation and on the Irish
question.
Phelan, anyway, is now the real
head of the democratic end of the
Hoover campaign in California. He
is depending on Mr. Hoover to be to
him in the campaign this 'year just"!
what . woodrow Wilson was to him
When he won in 1914. .
Despite any 'efforts of the presi
dent to keep the treaty Issue alive,
public interest is Expected to sag and
die out. With the preconvention con
gress of both parties getting in full
swing it may be expected that polit
ical personalities win rroro now until
next June constitute almost the sole
topic of interest. $
Direct Judge Election Proposed. .
WASHINGTON, March 20. A res
olution proposing a national amend
ment for direct election of federal
judges was introduced Friday by Sen
ator La Follette, republican, Wiscon
sin. It was referred to the judiciary
committee, v
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