RUSSIAN WAR IS
PEOPLES’ FIGHT
PETROGRAD, June 20. — (By
Mail)—Slowly, like a giant getting
under way, Russia, backed by her
plain people. Is gathering strength.
Today, working for her, she has an
army of them fifty million strong.
This is not sob-sister hysteria.
It Is truth.
The Russian war is the people's
war. With their incalculable forti
tude the people are backing up the
army in a way peculiar to them and
try of Europe. In England and
France, for instance, the govern
ments are co-operating with indus
trial corporations and bankers—to
the exclusion of well-defined citizens'
groups—thus keeping the nation
and the army supplies.
In Russia the government and ar
my also co-operate with these. But
they co-operate with an organized
people, too, through non-political
groups which have been formed all
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I over the country,-citizens' associa
lions, co-operative societies, peas
ants' unions -and whose aim is bu
to serve Russia.
Then there is a central committee
composed of civilians, to co-ordlnati
the efforts of the groups and taki
the army's orders.
So some of the fifty milions an
at the front, in uniform, undei
arms. Others are hack of the line:
drilling to go to the front. The res
are scattered all over the Kussiat
j empire working at their jobs, big 01
little, but for the nation. They an
farmers and merchants, tailors anc
chemists. Bootmakers and doctors
druggists and nurses, seamstressei
and carpenters, machinists and piair
day laborers, all mobilized Just as
effectively, so far as carrying on the
war is concerned, as the foremosl
soldiers in the foremost trenches.
The citizens' organizations for aid
ing the country and the army are lit
erally hundreds in number, but the
majority of these Can be bunched un
der one or the other four general
j names.
Then there is the municipality
: union, grouping the work of Russian
cities.
Next is the War Trade committee.
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Lastly the Co-Operative union
whose membership includes over 30,
000,000 people, mostly peasants
and whose activities affect It
the population of the Russian em
. pire.
So it is putting it very conserva
tively to say that, counting soldiers
. and those backing up the soldiers
■ Russia has fifty million souls toling
i to fetch her home a victory.
in order that the work of these
organizations may clash as little as
possible there is a central committee
sitting permanently, week days and
Sunday, in a building to itself here
in Petrograd. When the govern
ment has need of this or that for the
army, or for refugees, or for its or
jganization back of the lighting lines,
| it can and does call on the central
I committee for aid. The central
I committee, looking over the vast re
sources at its command, with the
' wires reaching out into the farther
| most corners of the empire, sees at
a glance what can be done and does
1 it, quickly and efficiently.
I There is not a single branch of hu
man endeavor not at the beck and
call of these citizens’ organizations,
land through them available the cen
tral committee and the government.
All the sciences, arts, trades and oc
cupations have been mobilized in
this way. They are ever ready to
provide anything from fresh milk
for babies to high explosives or the
, army.
The whole world knows that Kus
I sia lacked sufficient munitions at
the start of the war. So did the
other allies. But the difference he
, tween Russia and them was this:
They were great industrial countries
and shr was not.
Russia could not remedy this in a
day. N'or even in a yqar. Germany
I had for had a long time time prac
j tically a monopoly on manufactured
articles, chemicals and so forth in
Russia and, as former Premier Count
Kokovtsow, pointed out this had
proved a positive curse to the em
pire. "hen the war came on, sever
ing all relations with Russia and
her former source of supplies. she
felt a pinch.
The worst of this situation so far
as Russia was concerned, was that
it could not be quickly remedied.
Depending on Germany for manufac
tured articles, she lacked machinery
to make them. Buying nearly all
her chemicals from Teutonic druhi
mers, she could not immediately
start manufacturing them herself.
And so on.
Which brings us to this: The Rus
sian people, through their organiza
tions, have acomplished near-mira
cles, and are still accomplishing
them, making up for past defects.
Through their combined wits and re
sources, clear on down through to
the furtehermost peasant of Siberia,
they have bridged what otherwise
might have been disaster. The story
of some of these citizen-organiz
ations, how they came into being,
how they work and the extent of
their utility for the public good, will
be told in subsequent articles.
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Ideal Organization
of the Navy
Must Be Based on
Government Policy
By FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
Auislant Secretary of the Nary
THE ideal organization of a navy,
broadly speaking from a mili
tary standpoint, is as follows:
A body of the ablest and most ex
perienced naval officers, freed from
all routine duty, whose business it
is to decide mili
tary policy.
They must, first
of all, by close
contact with the
state depart
ment, ascertain
the policy of the
government in
its foreign rela
tions. To know
what kind of
navy is needed
it is necessary
to know what a
navy is required
to do.
TO KNOW
WHAT THE NAVY IS REQUIRED
TO DO IT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW
THE POLICY OF THE GOVERN
MENT.
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F. D. ROOSEVELT
Having this information, it should
be this body’s duty to determine just
what the navy will have to do to car
ry out the policy of the government
under all possible contingencies.
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