Show I t I Money to Burn 1 J JA I A A reports from Russia indicate that S the great greatest st amount of work being performed performed performed per per- formed by men employed in any industry is isS S that hat in the government printing offices which are are issuing paper rubles in what might be described described described de de- de- de scribed as carload lots A A year ago go it wa was estimated esti mated by soviet leaders leaders leaders' that there had be been n issued approximately a trillion of paper rubles A few months later the estimate d doubled the amount while today there is said to have been issued nearly six trillions trillions' or at the rubles ruble's parity value approximately three trillion dollars It would appear from these figures that soviet R Russia ssi is s the only country on earth that to use a slang lang slang expression expression w which ic comes near the truth has las money to burn for certainly the ruble is t thas not v worth th rth as much as the paper it is printed on or at least in single ruble pieces and aid therefore has a value only as fuel It is estimated that 1000 in American money would buy 50 b bolshevist rubles b but t it is u unbelievable that any American outside of an institution for the I feeble minded would part with a thousand good American dollars for any number numb r of millions of Russian rubles in expectation that they would be redeemed Many million rubles issued by the government of the late late czar the total issue of which h was nearly nearly nearly near near- ly eighteen billions were were bought by speculative Americans who profess to fo to entertain the belief that these have some chance of eventually being redeemed Such a hope is in tn ihno no greater prospect than that the soviet government will ill red redeem e its six trillions of rubles S |