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Show Soviet leaders are lacking in a sense of humor. It is to be noted however, how-ever, that nothing is said about what j may happen to the private capital j after the industries get to going. I CAPITALISM IN "RED" RUSSIA j Communism, which has declared war on capitalism everywhere can-! not get along without some of the enemy's practices. Dispatches from Moscow state that" private capital is to be invited to resusticate the industries in-dustries of the Russian state. The announcement that private capital is to be enlisted in state enterprises was i made recently by Emanual Quirring, ; vice-chairman of the supreme economic eco-nomic council in Soviet .Russia. M. Quirring states: '"Private industrialists must have the privileg-e of importing machinery machine-ry and raw material with which to establish factories. The state cannot can-not now neglect private capital, which, since the introduction of the new aconomic policy, has accumulated accumulat-ed large reserves of money. "The private industrialist is preferable pre-ferable to the private merhant and will be of great assistance to us -at present, when we are unable to supply sup-ply the peasants' needs for manufactured manufac-tured articles and textiles." At the same time it is reported that the supreme economic council of the Ukraine has decided to allow private pri-vate persons to erect small factories and to form mixed companies in which the state will participate. This departure from pure communism-is said to be a symptom of an economic crisis in Russia which .is more serious than the outside world imagines. A communistic government govern-ment seeking to save itself from economic destruction by using capitalistic capi-talistic remedies is a decidedly unusual unus-ual proceeding and proves again the old saying about when the devil took sick, "the devil a monkvould be." Adopting capitalism in a mild form j while declaring war to the death on capitalism proves at least that the |