A BOLSHEVIK FABLE

Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6

A BOLSHEVIK FABLE

Once upon a time there lived in Moscow, under the Soviet regime, an enterprising man who .succeeded in saving a few thousand roubles. Ho invested all his capital (writes a '.Morning Post’ correspondent, translating from the Russian) in 1,0031 bof sugar, which 1m sold at an enormous profit, his thousands of rambles growing into tons of thousands. This hs once more invest®.! in sugar, but this fi-ime only got 8001 b tor all his capital. He again sold the sugar at an enormous profit, and his fortune was now measured in hundreds of thousands of roubles. He invested all his money once again in sugar, but lor his hundreds of thousands of roubles ho was able to purchase only 6001 b, which ho resold again at a tremendous profit, and became a millionaire. And bo he kept on buying and selling sugar, and his millions grew and grew, but each time be got less and less sugar for his money, until one day ho found himself the owner of several millions of millions Soviet roubles with '.vliich bo was unable to purchase even an ounce of sugar. And only after a great deal of bargaining land arguing did he succeed in purchasing for himself.