| Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe bolow fo low the great world war RUSSIA CUT cut OF BALANCE that ta its industrial life ha H not kt K pace with its it ritu Hural HM has beai eci fatal to Cou itry ity article by FRANK COMERFORD I 1 13 cna t 11 10 por r ot of the people of 0 live ln in cities or IL tou s I 1 rite the ta nl ia bord pu perma gently to call attention to the fact hat that a air of peasant peasants ind nd VII 11 lagers ome lome L to the catle ana to to a ork for a n part of the a ear I 1 in n the they retain their peasant status nod and their dont domiciles lelles 11 I 1 the ati laes in 1910 there mere ere ouy fort forty cities in 10 the russian empire with mith a population of from front to to only coir cities 9 milli a or of or I 1 berty forced upon pon the Il Ilus people the cooperative spirit irit lo 10 a gre breit it 1011 barall leople can call stand up together letter than alone it Is the ida of consolation in companionship it Is a prin dile cille of tran ti that a group of men hlll dare to d di a thing to stan I 1 n suffering or a dan dain ger that no in tie tle croud bould undertake alone tie tle hussler basilan lune hae suf fired tred from the dawn of hia his tory and anti one of he the old it institutions of lit lift Is atlie the 1 vitel I tel 71 tie e artel veri enuch re gembleR the cooperative of stern with this difference that the co boci eta ft in imor e an I 1 america erlea 14 the out kroth of un an economic tr it I 1 in ilus itus sla sin it un u n result of nece ity it ito 1 lie cifferelli e bo be aveen one mho la Is hungry binnino he ts is dieting an ani I 1 one i to Is sinning be ho he Is food the borkert ork cri of 0 bare sit ff tre I 1 the same slavery the peas int ha have en on dorcil TI tie P maximini maxi muni vage age lias has I 1 teen eon a starvation laa so tot when the work ing men inen fron froli I 1 a province come to a c ty to work in the textile industries or ni its carpenter nason etc they at oice once unite in groups of from front ter to fifty dersons rent a bouse keep n common talle elect in tin elder of the artel to ench each one pays hl share of t the lie en ml III over r I 1 ela sin one finds the artel artelin ll 11 tl 0 clale in the lumber camps even tn in the prisons N hen ben a building ts Is to be put up an artel 19 s org organized ionized when a rail road Is being built an artel la Is formed in rn gome some instances stancel In the irtel resemble i a labor union in that the arrangement ot of the terms of employment ti Is made by a delegate or committee I 1 by the artel live in squalor and misery milage life ie Is primitive the til I 1 lagera lagers live out of the world the vil leges are very small in the extreme north the houiss houis s 3 are generally cheap wooden shanties sh antle owing to the great danger of alre the til vil lages generally cover a large area of ground the housea houses are scattered end di straggling the convenience es found even la in the american tenements are re unk unknown own there Is no chance tor for cleana cleanliness n ness they live and alp in crowded crowd lz smoky unfinished bous bouses es furniture they haven t what we call all furniture even what the poorest turid tenant in america would call furnish ings ingi A board for a table it shake down for a bed industrial life has alwawi been out of balance balanco with her agrical tural life her richer of raw material 31 and hit her great bosil for a successful 10 industrial life austila has cot linued to be a nation with 81 per cent farmers 7 op or 8 per cent permanently engaged in industry and 9 or 4 per cent ot of peasants ho devoted devot ert part ot of the time to work in the Indu industries it has been aid said re heatedly peat edly that the imperial russian bernit oer nIt tr from the time ot of peter the great hus hug been un centing in inq lt efforts 4 for the creation and development of home manufactures all of the eat dence I 1 have examined refutes this statement tat ement there never has boen any security to the worker in russia the only protection he be has had bad has been his interest in the family allotment lie ile could go back there ani an I 1 be hun gry in the city was wag tho danger obstacle in the the czars put every and of course this way ay of education prevented the growth of industry in IM 1002 2 the principal industries in it hussli representing all of the factories throughout the empire of which acneal production ats a valued at rt ae tre a e more than 1 WC wre re textile it food products gainal predicts wood pa per chera lAl Prod products LIts camic min ing metal gw ani all of these employed only workers led up to this dwarfed stunted 12 d tido side of Rul alts its side aft m lotions in has a direct blaring upon today and Is on an important part of the problem ot of the bol bolshevik bolsi shevi evl sw A nation to be economically must have salaried ba bal laried arted ii man and commercial 11 4 it if of activity departments these three are not proportionately developed deve lopel ei the atlon ito 1 d c cr ipri rus s SM hn been and is in th this is seme beale an enoi nit cripple her body Is U great and powerful the to aiom oa la 6 strong oae one arm rn agriculture Is overdeveloped and if its has batu at the sacrifice ot of the tb other arm it hussi economically la in one physical reemt reminds me of vilhelm Vl helm t I 1 t h n 1 l 1 r 1 late ta 0 ot f p pros m s 8 ela id I 1 now io w I 1 living I 1 v I 1 n g 1 in n holland 1 1 0 1 laa d I 1 r refer ef er t to 0 his hi ItI tred undeveloped baby erdl kusta a undeveloped industrial arm Is just such a cripi led useless a aria hit arence ti to the ex emperor who ho Is 1 nov no v enwin awl nul in I 1 itu aa etti tl mv us liln I 1 he word of a great 43 econom idt lint list A nati m cannoa cann promote idill fur ther its civilization its prosperity ant its eili dually ally ne as well tell by etchet gins agricultural lir products for j cods ds as a I 1 y ing in i tila nufa turing of its own A nation can inver niver in to any extent a home 0 it foreign with ith inland dawans of and toniga havlat on oil incisi vit ti ts population lu in due pralor lion ti 0 tl clr ir eilleine eil leIng or aa niall no table lr progress ro eresa ID in iti its moral intilli lw will SOL aj and sold development it will mill neer acquire important cal ent per or be placed la in a position to influence the cultivation and pr gre tv of lo 10 hiie is ad nilian alced ceil notions nations aal an I 1 to farni f rim colonies ot its hii ii A X mere 14 ral state Is infinitely lees less iasa an n agricultural manufacturing tate state the Is always econom icalla find nd politically dependent denen dent on oil those fortion loni alch taia from it agriculture in isch anee uge for ru J I 1 it cannot dt d ermine how much it m mill III produce it must wait i sit an I 1 eee see I 1 bov w bouch oil ott f rs will mill buy 1 nn it the agricultural states on it tie e contrary produce for themselves laree large quantities of raw tua tila ant anil provIs provisions tons and anti mill ply merely the from lir porta ion the partly agricultural nations til are thus 1 pen lent for the ammer of effecting salts on ali 1 i chance chances of 01 rt A mort or less les bountiful harvest in the cultural n a t 11 I 1 to it a i they hive to comette in their bolles with other purely tural nat loii herly the power pomer of sale lu in itself li is uncertain they are ex 1 ea to the langer of ruin in fit their radius trading mith ith agricultural aerl cultural manufacture ing milons 1 li war mar or new tariff tariffs lev suitor 1 the dulio dif alil il of finding no 1 o 0 ibers for thor uri mirl lua lus agricultural products ni I J of falling to obtain of tho the ninn mail I 1 g ds they illie an jig ri cultural la Is a ni in wit vl ono one am alio giaki s use 1184 ot of nn an arm bolong 1 ing aa to anoil er person but cannot of course be sure of having it alway nal lable ali cultural turing luring natan la Is a rian mho ho has two tw gool arm of his on oin at his disposal poland cited as a an example list further points out that the IN relative cultivation oc oll the he a agricultural V cu I 1 lura I 1 and manufacturing arms artzis of a country possessed of an art ample and fertile territory will give that country A population twice t three times ax largo ai as it could secure by the development of the agricultural arm alone and maintain thia this vastly increased creased la population in a much higher degree of comfort surplus agricultural produce is not necessarily capital in an agricultural country countries Countr iea which produce such a surplus and remain dependent upon countries are often obliged to aptt abase these manu stured goods at tn an enhanced price lie ile points to poland as an example she exported the fruits of her soil to obtain the good goods which she he could have m from it As A a consequence she he fell like a house of card cards when hen organized nation nations attacked her list considers con alders that had poland developed manufacturing arm besides retaining her national independence ghe she conid have exceeded any other european Fur Furo peen country in prosperity to use ue list word words I 1 go to fallen poland and anti askitis hapless tia plesa people no whether it Is advisable for a nation to buy the fabrics ot of a it foreign country so 0 o long ionic ai as its native manufacturers manufacture ra are not strengthened to be able to CO compete pete it lu price and quality with the M foreign foreigners err tine lifts set out to socialize political agricultural and industrial Ru kusila and as its I 1 expect to examine the effects of communism in each of them department departments of russian life I 1 ifft iet et down some historical and economical truths which must be kept in a mind when ben examining the anine panacea islow umfra NO cpr catoe |
