FOOD SCARCER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 2

FOOD SCARCER

RESULT OF RUSSIAN FIVE YEAR PLAN. RIGID ECONOMY THIS YEAR . LONDON., Jan. 5 “The Five Year Plan has ended with food scarcer and rations smaller than when it began,” declares the Moscow correspondent of the “Obserer.” Hubert Griffith in an article in the “Sunday Chronicle,” says . the - plan failed (to give those . Russian people conditions equal to those enjoyed by the average English worker, failed to overcome the incredibly . buraucratic tradition, inherited from Czardom, and failed to turn peasants into mechanics, and give them sufficient to eat.

Waste, delay and muddle are everywhere apparent. Apparent successes are enormous factories, electricity plants, tractor works and hundreds of schools and creches, but these have been purchased at the expense of the under-nourishment of the population.

The most striking result, of the plan lias been to turn the dreaming Russian into a busy worker, while sport of all kinds lias become a mania. At. Sulimov, the president of the Russian Republic, has urged the authorities to cease thinking in terms of giant constructions. He declares that the ouptut and consumption of goods must be increased during 1933. Instead of embarking on now enterprises, 1933 will bo devoted to completing unfinished constructions, reducing staffs and exercising the most rigid economy.