Show SOM FOOLING ICan r Can Russia Help Reich VV x r When V V Y Russian Premier Via Via- Vi cheslav Molotov made macic his epochal speech before the Soviet parliament on Hallow Halloween een en day he stated t cd very em emphatically that Germany and Russia were going to im im- improve improve im- im improve prove their trade relations That runt means Adolf Hitler expects to get oil oU and food- food for his massive army urmy m in ex cx exchange change for machinery and ond finished products which he would send to Comrade Josef Stalin hint But somebody's fooling say the experts because Russia's in no po position to help anyone but herself Disrupts Year car IMan Itan Last January Dictator Stalin made a speech outlining the third five year plan during which In Industry was ns ordered to Increase its Ils production by 80 per Ill cent Agri Agriculture culture he said was Will to be boosted 53 per cent Ills His speech which Is ie- ie produced in United States depart depart- department ment t of ot commerce bulletins said sold in part It Jt is undeniable that the country still lags Ings behind the th capitalistic states in an economic sense Be DC Because cause of the low level el of industrial production which prevailed before the World WOId war the Ole present level is still below that of capitalistic c coun countries tries with respect to per capita pro production in such respects res as electric power pig iron steel and coal pro pro- production production and the manufacture of cit consumption goods such ns as textiles paper soap and some others backwardness must be he com corn completely overcome before Communism can cnn triumph in its historic competition with capitalism The third plan period is to carry further the satisfaction of needs and lf lUTLER-ir as is he Tie tricked Ii I i i I II I Ir ir hat can earm he lie trade desires of cit the workers for tor foodstuffs housing facilities and services of a domestic and cultural nature Compared With U. U U S. S How Russia lags by comparison camp orison with American production tion was pointed out a few days da s 's later by Pravda the oO paper The per capita comparison showed Russia producing 11 barrels of petroleum for Americas America's 87 barrels COG pounds of wheat and rye re compared with Ith Americas America's pounds 1722 pounds of coal compared with pounds i 35 pounds of steel com corn compared compared pared with pounds pounds of sugar compared with 2134 pounds and kilowatt hours of electricity compared with 1120 O hours Only in the two foodstuff items- items wheat heat and sugar su sugar does dors ar-dors does the Soviet let lead d. This year Russia Russin had only 21 bushels of 01 wheat per capita com corn compared COMpared pared with 38 33 bushels here The only lilly reason she exports any of it is isto isto to 1 gain gam exchange on the world mar mar- ket keto U. U S. S Trade to o Suffer SutTer I One other point the experts bring up Most Russian imports in the past few years have ha been from the United States which in 1938 sold the Olt Kremlin in products compared with Germanys Germany's 9 I Undoubtedly Germany would get et trade formerly placed with the United States under the new co cooperation co- co cooperation operation plan But nut since Russia's industrial expansion has been ac se accomplished ac- ac shed chiefly with American American- made machinery machiner most of this must be junked if it the Soviet continues her expansion with German tools The reason A difference in de do- designs signs and patterns which would be death to industrial efficiency Can Russia complete her third I year live lI I. I ear plan and still aid nid Germa Germa- Germany I ny n The experts think not Some Some- fooled tooled s going to get I |