Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 216, 11 September 1922 — Page 18

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LATVIAN REPUBLIC, CHILD OF TEAGUE, GAINING PROSPERITY (By Associated Press) RIGA, LatTla ,Sept 11. It i? three years since the. Paris Peace conference bought Its youngest child, the Latvian republic, into the world Like most of Its other progeny, Latvia is doing well, but is finding life a difficult and rigorous one. It knows it has a long and tortuous road to travel to gain its full stature of statehood and join the grown up members of th family of nations. The people havo been immensely heartened by the United States' recent recognition of the re public. Latvia, which is about the Mze of Vet Virginia and has a smaller population than the cjity of Philadelphia, is handicapped by its terrible losses of life and property during the war and by lack of capital. On the other nana, like all new states, it is unfet tered by precedent and by the claims of vested interests, and Its human raw material is excellent. " Long before the war the Latvians. who through centuries of history were( successively under Swedes, Germans and Russians, had proved their efficiency as workers. Their chemical, textile and metallurgical industries and their Baltic trade were highly remunerative. They paid all their own governmental expenses, and contributed a large annual surplus to the Russian treasury. Efficient Fighter The manner in which the Latvian volunteer army composed of farmers and peasants and led by students of the Riga Polytechnic schools, - drove out first the Germans, then the Bolshevlld, and finally the Junker forces of Von der Golta aid Bermondt. shows tHat the Latvians are also efficient as fighters. In this tittle state there is virtually no illiteracy, and all the people speak three languages Latvian, Russian and German. - The Latvian government is- hard at work building Utopia on the bleak shores of the Baltic, One of Its first measurca was to found a university in its capital city of Riga; one of its latest has .been to reform its currency and to stop- the issue of paper money. me vaiue or tne Latvian ruble, as measured in dollars, is slowly creeping up. Exportsvand imports are now very nearly balanced. By dint of heavy taxation and wlsetfinancing it has been found possible to combine increased expenditure on education, housing and public health with general retrenchment. Ian Chakste, President of the Constituent Assembly of Latvia, has explained his country's outlook to the correspondent: Have Little Information "The Western nations," said he, "know little about Latvia. They do not believe in the stability of our government, and they hesitate to lend us money. They even call us Bolphevikl. I assure you that 90 per cent of Latvians hate Bolshevism. Russian propagandists are, of course. active here, but they make no headway. We have shot a good many of them for spreading their pernicious doctrines. , . Policy Criticized "Our agrarian policy the sequestra- ' t!on of large estates and the creation of Email holdings was harshly criticized, and no doubt done much 10 give us a bad character. The western nations did not understand the situaRichmond Gas Gives So Desired in Richmond Gas jmd Sinclair Oils are unexcelled for mileage and easy running. Motors operated .with Richmond Gas have a minimum of carbon trouble and when turning in Sinclair Oil give a maximum of power at all times. A competent man able Follow the diagram to Ft A

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tioni Our people were supremely disBtIsfied, and rightly so. They had been ground down; they did nothing. It was a critical moment. The Bolshevik! Were ready to promise anything. We considered it essential to create without delay a contented community, hard-working, thrifty and deaf to political agitators. We therefore gave the people the land, and they at once settled down to work upon it.4 Trade Better "Trade Is Improving, but not rapidly. Hundreds of our factories are still closed, for we haven't the money to requip them. Agriculture Is reviving. The League of Baltic States is making steady progress. The four small nations bordering on Russia, Latvia, EsIhonia, Finland and Lithuania, all realize that a military defensive union would be their best security against the Bolsheviki. Perhaps later on Den mark and Sweden may join us for commercial purposes. "We are establishing free ports. cutting away transit duties, revising and reducing our tariffs. Wo have Russian as a common language, but we need also a common currency and a network of light railways to connect us with Esthonia and Lithuania. We are gradually restoring the devasta tion of the Germans, but for all these undertakings we require capital. A3 yet we cannot borrew this, so we are working to create iG That ia why we have no unemployment and no labor question in Latvia." Called by Death ZENO ROBERTS CAMDEN, Ohio, Sept 11. Zeno Roberts, widely known farmer of So Biers township, died suddenly Sunday morning about 2 o'clock, of neuralgia of the heart. Mr. Roberta suffered an attack Sat urday afternoon while working in a wood-slot. He was unconscious for a short time, but recovered and appar-

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