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THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921.
PAGE THREE
SOVIET DISTRIBUTES
FOODS BY CARD
SUPREME ECONOMIC COUNCIL
SUPERINTENDS FEEDING OF
RUSSIA EQUITABLY.
By Patrick Qulnland
(Written for the United .Press.)
JJEIVV YORK, April 18.-iThe prob
lem of feeding Russia has always
been a complex one for several ob
vious reasons. First, the vast expanse
of Russia and Siberia forms the larg
est single territorial unit in the
orld; secondly, there are about 170,
000,000 people lo provide for in this
immense stretch of land, reaching
from Vladivostok ' to iPetrograd and
from the Arctic to the 'Caspian sea.
Thus these is an area of approximate
ly 6,600,000 square miles to be. sup
plied with food stuffs., During f'he
- reign of the czars, when industry
' )&nH' 'railroads were presumably- in
good condition, whole sections were
frequently reduced to starvation and
underfeeding proved almost as unir
versal as the national samovar.
lit is no cause for wonder, then, that
. with the breakdown of the industrial
system and the disintegration of the
railways, as a result of the revolution,
the problem should be. aggravated a
thousandfold, not to mention the allied
.blockade and foreign Wars. The soviet
government has met this difficult
problem in a sane and practical way.
It created a central bureau for the
equal distribution of the food sup
ply on hand. This bureau is known
as the Supreme Economic Council
and is assisted by local councils! all
over the country. The supreme eco
nomic council is directed by Professor
Milutov, the well-known economist,
and this body has first preference in
the avenues and channels of distribu
tion, including transportation. Since
peace has been signed with Poland,
this department in the soviet govern
ment is considered' the most import
ant and In-all matters Is given Jhe ,
right of way. In this manner170,000,
000 persons, with the exception of the
exception of the small peasant farm
er, who retains a sufficient quantity
of wheat and oats to feed - himself,
are fed each day.
Every ounce .of food is distributed
by card. The single ration or "pioke,"
as it is called, consists "of a pound and
a half, of bread and a portion of meat
or fish and tea. The system has been
' perfected to such an extent that the
ignorant peasant, who, in many in
stances, might have doubted the effi
ciency of the soviet system, has be-,
come not only reconciled but, recol
lecting his poverty-stricken condition
under the czar's regime, is now con
vinced that the new form of govern
ment is equitable.
The headquarters of the supreme
economic council is in Moscow .and
employs 25,000 persons in that city
alone; the total number of employes
all over the country is near the mil
lion mark. The council has adopted
the simplest method of distribution
possible. Surveys-of the food on hand
are made with the utmost exactness
and then, when the fall harvest has
been estimated, it is doled" out on a
basis Depopulation all over the coun
try. Making due allowance for th
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government's lack of experience and
the demoralization of the arteries of
distribution, the soviet government
has succeeded admirably in feeding
the population of Russia. What is not
able about all this is the astonishing
fact that never before in the long his
tory of Russia has every element been
fed. To be sure, the feeding Is- inade
quate and is far from meeting the
needs of the people; but there is no
actual starvation. -Mothers with babes
at the breast receive a special, al
lowance, as do all children, for the
soviet government holds that the fu
ture of Russia lies- with the children.
It is Interesting to note that while the
upper and middle classes in Germany
are well fed, the laboring population
is on the verge f oi starvation. In Rus
sia there is absolutely no discrimina
tion. i
Certainly the system as I saw it
at work is by no means free from mi
nor abuses, as well as the intricacies
of red tape. But on the whole it does
the necessary work admirably. In
Moscow I watched the food distribut
ing agency perform its offices with re
markable efficiency. Professor 'Mllu-'
tov showed me through the' depart
mental offices and warehouses and
outlined the machinery of distribu
tion to me. In addition to a central
warehouse there are a large number
of small shops or smaller distributing
points throughout the city. At 'theso
shops each day I beheld long queues
or .people waiting In tu$n for their
ration of food. The former aristo
crat stood next to the industrial work,
er; the former lr.dy of fashion gos
'slped familiarly with the laborer's
wife or children about the quality of
the meat or fish doled out that day..
At the shops, tea' is served at stat
ed hours and the government workers
are often fed at their desks when
work is heavy and urgent. The govern.
"ment staffs eat in their hotels, or in
'the Kremlin, if they happen to be em
ployed there. Officials1 of tho govern
ment are treated r.o better in this
regard than the worklngmen. Lenlne
and Trotsky eat at the Kremlin, for
example, but they partake of the
same food 'as the remote peasant in,
the district, of Samara. Some specu
lation flourished here and there, but
this is unavoidable and while the
government, on the whole, does, not
wish to deal too severely with these
offenders,' it cannot'-be said that spec
ulation isi widespread. On the o'ther
hand, where it is, particularly flagrant;
the punishment is likely to be heavy
and drastic. The law works with the
strictest impartiality in these cases,
as when 16 communists were execut
ed in Moscow last summer for prof
iteering on .foodstuffs..
'If the present form of government
survives in Russia, no small part of
its continuance, I believe, will be di
rectly due to efficiency and organiza
tion of the supreme economic council,
which has undertaken, despite the
discouraging blockade, the almost im
possible task of rationing 170,000,000
people.
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