Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1930, Page 97

B €, 'NOVEMBER 9, 1930, FhNe O i s il m — P — —— . g itic Effore to Sp ed Up Progress Peop le Stand Patiently and Wait for Faod,fl"hzle Their Leaders Invoke the Gads of the Machine to Bfld 'ge a Two- Hundred-Year de_ in Social and Eco- somical Progress Within a Generation. o —r— = e e P — The Russian people wait in long lines for food, which is rationed out to them in the war-time manner, but there is none of the dull hopelessness of the bread line. ~Senator Barkley thought they were waiting to get into a movie., The crowd was good- 3 g a5 31 zgii humored. Tmmdit.hu of isolation and provincialism '" bas been one of the greatest obstacles in the way of the full realization of the original gevolutionary program. Inclined by tradition and every factor of en- vironment to making their own way in life by constant struggle with the land and the terrific Winters, the villagers were strong individualists, They demanded a large degree of personal con- trol over the elemental affairs of life. They resented the thought of being governed. * They wanted land—and then to be let alone. The revolution of 1917 gave them land—and the revolution then was over so far as they were concerned. In Moscow, however, elaborate political and economic theories were being worked out on the various boards of the revolutionary leaders. They provided for the pooling of all surplus farm products—above the individual require- ments of each farmer—for the sale of all ex- port commodities by the government. All the individual peasant had fo do was produce. The government would feed the in- dustrial workers and the army, and export grain with which to buy all other necessities. Red]uuerdin"om—-—chewfiniared,mbln the side of the ccrru'cge.;Obm also, thfitwo, v { years later with which to feed lion city workers and the of famine in 1920-21 was had been during the worst years . It was at this point that the first great de parture was made from the original of Communism. Instead of pooling all surplus farm products the government whatever quantities the peasants elected A vflhmhadm.tkmolormey.m the simple reason that it was no good to them. A ‘They could buy nothing in the way of indus- trial products, for Russia had none. Much of - the land, furthermore, was in the hands of the village kulaks, a class of semi-professional squires. UNDER this system the profit incentive did not penetrate to the real producers and Here again, Mwenr,thedeep-rooudmm. of the villagers stubbornly resisted the Moscow program. The plan to bring all peasants in & - willing enough, but those who owned 6 or 10 cried, “No bargain.’ % Suddenly the villagers began to kill extra live stock. In less than two Continued on Fourteenth Page k, and the hammer-and-sickle emblem of the Soviets may be seen on en perched beside the coffin as the single horse plods toward the cemetery,