The Willamina times., March 21, 1946, Image 2

THURSDAY. MARCH
TIM ES. W ILLAM INA. OREGON
REPORT ON THE
RUSSIANS
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IN S T A L L M E N T S IX T E E N
The dacha where we stay is com
Russia pays no royalties to Doug­
fo rta b le and spacious. T his ru ra l las, having paid a flat sum in 1939
The Uzbeks, ra c ia lly , are a m ix ­ m ansion is a rest home and s u m ­ w hich the d irector believes was
ture. They resemble the near-by m er vacation place fo r m em bers of $2,500,000, Before that, his chief en­
Afghans, and others m ig h t have the U zbekistan cabinet.
gineer, Boris Lisunov, worked in the
Persian or Arab blood. Occasion­
Instead of J im C row ing the w eak­ Douglas Long Beach plant fo r two
a lly we see a M ongolian face w hich er peoples, the Russians lean over years, so they needed no A m erican
has strayed down from Kazakstan. backw ard to give them title s and o f­ help when they set up production
Tashkent is an enormous s p ra w l­ fices w hich are ra th e r beyond th e ir in Moscow. Only about 5 per cent of
ing c ity of cracked and peeling stuc­ capacities. At first, I jum ped to the the m ach in e ry is Am erican; the rest
co w ith wide, hot. dusty streets. We conclusion th a t the native office­ was m ade in the Soviet Union.
a rriv e in the clean, co m fo rtab le o f­ holders were stooges, dressed up
We are taken out into the desert
fice of the d ire cto r o f the S talin T e x ­ and provided w ith fancy offices but
to v is it the Stalin-C hirchik Electro-
tile T ru st and w hat w ith the heat w ith little real power. But we lea rn
C hem ical T ru st, which, when un­
are fra n tic a lly th irs ty . They s ta rt th a t the p re m ie r o f this rep ub lic is
scram bled, tu rn s nut to be a Soviet
to open champagne but we plead fo r an Uzbek and a s m a rt one— an old-
M uscle Shoals. They have dam m ed
w ater. So they b rin g out bottles of tim e Bolshevik w ith a ste el-trap
the C h irc h ik riv e r, providing the 100,-
that w arm ish, p ink soda pop. M e r­ m ind, h ig h ly respected in the p a rty
000 k ilo w a tts o f e lectric power neces­
c ifu lly , there are on the table h a lf councils. We are assured he is no
sa ry to run a huge nitrogen fixation
a dozen fresh peaches. In h a lf a stooge. He is apparently as pow er­
p la nt, w hich makes 80 tons of a m ­
m inute the plate is em pty and in fu l here in his own rig h t as was
m onia e very tw enty-four hours Be­
another h alf m in ute it contains six M anuel Quezon in the P hilippines.
fo re the w a r it turned out 600,000
peach stones. N othing ever tasted
Since I am so keen on ancient tons o f fe rtiliz e r per year.
so delicious and we realize how cities they offer a b rie f to u r in the
W ith o ut a m inute's rest (because
starved we have been fo r fresh O rie n ta l q u a rte r o f Tashkent. The
eating is the most gruelling p a rt
fru its and vegetables.
old c ity is a la b y rin th of w inding
Since we crossed the U ra l m oun­ alleys lik e those in the A ra b Me­ o f our w o rk ) we are packed into
tains we have seen little A m e rican dinas in N orth A fric a , the old q ua r­ ca rs and a fte r a half hour's d riv e
unload at a " f r u it fa c to ry ," an i r r i ­
m achinery—indeed, few foreign m a­
te r of Jerusalem , the C airo bazaar, gated valley.
chines of any kind.
or the cities of Afghanistan across
They w alk us down an in c re d ib ly
There are 14.000 w orkers in this the border.
But ju s t outside th is
te xtile plant and 80 per cent are
long a rb o r where grapes hang so
old c ity are two beautiful new w hite
women. The raw m a te ria l is cot- buildings, both ornam ented w ith Uz­ low they knock our hats off. A t its
end we a rriv e at a pavilion where
bek designs—the post office and a
(O h, H eaven! Be m e rc ifu l before
huge cinem a.
these w ell-m eaning people k ill u s !)
A t firs t there seems nothing to see a long table is set for another ban­
in the ancient c ity but adobe w alls quet.
enclosing cobblestone streets— w ith
They te ll us they are e xp e rim e n t­
here and there a carved doorw ay.
ing w ith cotton. This sovhoz (stale
There are no windows in the w alls.
fa rm ) raises seed te r all the kolhoz
A shabby old man offers to show
(c o lle c tiv e fa rm s ) in the region.
us his house. W ith an ancient, s ix -
T his e xperim ental station was
inch iro n key he unlocks a door un­
sta rted by an ancient O riental w ith
der a pointed wooden arch, and we
the ja w -b re a k in g name of R izam at
step out of the drab alley into a gem
M usam ukham edov.
He is s ix ty -
of a garden w ith a fountain in the
th re e and started w orking in the
center. A t one end of this patio is
vine yard s as a boy of thirteen. He
his home—tw o clean, whitewashed 1
is an Uzbek o f a peasant fa m ily , a
rooms, some low fu rn itu re . On the | th in , d re am y m an w ith an Uzbek
floor is a m ellow O riental rug w hich
s k u llca p (o r tubeteyka) and a scrag-
he says was his g ra nd fa the r's, and
g ly beard out of Arabian N ights. He
a polished brass samovar.
has on his coat the ribbons of m any
The old man te lls me, as Nona in­ sta te decorations.
terprets, that in w ritin g any of th is ! The Russian d ire c to r, A bram M al-
in A m e rica , I should understand
tezeb. The big struggle since the
th a t he is an old m an, who w ell w ar, he te lls us, has been fo r sugar.
A typ ical Russian school building rem em bers the days when the em irs
F ou r refineries were evacuated fro m
In its republics.
ruled th is land. And th a t in those U kra in e to U zbekistan, s till others
days he was not a m an. B ut now to Kazakstan.
ton, grown under irrig a tio n in this
he feels lik e a m an, and is treated I Since the Germ ans seized the sug­
va lle y. They also weave silk, which
like a m an, and fo r th is he has to a r beet fields of the U kraine, U z­
they im p ort.
thank the R evolution and Com rade bekistan has planted 35,000 hectares
The w orkers’ hours run fro m e ig ht Stalin.
in beets fo r sugar, w ith this year
to ten d a ily according to th e ir age, '
A ll Soviet streets are clean—even another 15,000 hectares fo r seed fo r
and they average m ore than 1,000
roubles per m onth, although some the crooked alleys o f th is O rien tal the libe ra te d U kra ine .
Irrig a tio n is responsible fo r the
crack ones m ake as high as 4,500. town w hich elsewhere in the east
In addition each w o rke r averages would reek of garbage. But I m ust heavy yield of the seventy-five kinds
between five and six m eters of cloth fo r the record te ll H al D enny's story of grapes grow n here.
of the eager professor.
per m onth as a p re m iu m .
The average yield is 22 tons per
Hal was New Y o rk T im es co rre ­ hectare, w ith w a te r supplied three
The m ayor of Tashkent is a d ark
spondent
in
Moscow.
One
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f
his
little Uzbek, a frie n d ly but ra th e r
to five tim es a season so the yield
tim id O riental. H is name is Sadik a ffliction s had been the num bers of is steady. Sam arkand is an even
Khusaynov. Before the w ar, he te lls eager tourists who came every sum­
us, Tashkent had 700,000 people and m er to study the m arvels of the So­
m ore than 50 per cent were Uzbeks. v ie t system and become a uthorities
A t the peak o f the evacuations, on this Land of the Future.
there were 900,000 but now i t is
A professor o f m u n ic ip a l govern­
back down to about 850,000.
m ent in a m id-w estern college a r­
M any m achine-building industries rive d to spend a m onth studying his
w ere evacuated here w ith th e ir specialty. A fte r two weeks in the
w o rke rs—m ostly the lig h t and m e ­ lib ra ry he showed up at H a l’s room,
d iu m but a few heavy m achine in ­ breaking in on a p arty of homesick
d ustries as w ell. They also m ake correspondents, and began to ta lk
a ir c r a ft here.
about the m arvels of the Soviet
A big, handsome, fu ll-fa ce d Rus­ tow n-planning system.
sian w ith ve ry blue eyes sits down
A ll, a ll was m arvelous, the eager
by the m ayor. He te lls us they have professor insisted; th e ir methods of
here a p la nt m aking Douglas planes. police protection, taxation, u tilitie s ,
Also a lig h t m achine tool plant con­ elections, and a d m in is tra tio n ! Yet
ve rte d to tu rn out a rm s and am m u­ on the ra th e r im p o rta n t topic of
n itio n fo r the Red A rm y ; shoe fa c ­ sewage disposal there seemed to be
to rie s, garm ent industries, plus a no lite ra tu re .
p la n t fo r m aking em ery stones
Could H al te ll him w hat they did
needed by heavy industries.
I w ith th e ir garbage?
The handsome young Russian is
The answer, in sta n tly given by a
R odion G lukhov, vice-pre m ie r of ' roo m ful of correspondents, rose in
the Uzbekistan R epublic. Now and spontaneous chorus: “ They eat i t ! ’ ’
The Republic of Uzbekistan fu r ­
then he in te rru p ts— always pickin g
F orty-year-old d irector, Afanasy nished some of R ussia’s best fig h t­
up fo r the m ayo r i f he falters.
, Y a run in te lls us this Tashkent plant ers.
Evacuees came w ith th e ir plants, ; builds Douglas airplanes. I t a rriv e d
and w ill stay perm a ne ntly.
Thè here from Moscow in N ovem ber of ric h e r grape co un try. And, as here,
p la n ts came fro m Moscow, the 1941 w ith 7,000 w orkers, and th irty - the little hand-w ork done is on the
U k ra in e and the N o rth Caucasus. five days la te r was in production. grape collectives— m ost of it being
And fro m L en in gra d they have Now they have 14,000 w orkers build­ done by tra c to r.
What we have seen of Soviet a g ri­
m an y skille d w orkers and engineers. ing a Russian m odification of the
He te lls us L en in gra d is anxious to DC-3 and tu rn out six planes daily. cu lture has been u n ifo rm ly good.
have these engineers back. B ut U z­
The Red A rm y has m odified the Since I come fro m a fa rm in g state
bekistan is anxious to keep such Douglas so th a t i t can be used as a I could not be badly fooled. T rue,
va lu ab le m en. I t w ill be fo r M os­ com bination tran spo rt, paratroop they have shown us th e ir best. B ut
cow to decide.
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ship, hospital plane and night bom b­ it is at least as good as our best.
We retu rn to the dacha in tim e
He te lls us th a t U zbekistan before er.
Because it sometimes goes into to change our s h irts fo r the local
the w a r had 6,200,000 people, so the
We see som ething called
a d d itio n of 2,000,000 refugees was a b a ttle , a huge transparent gun blis­ opera.
big task. B u t w hen we ask h im te r bulges from the top of its fuse­ “ U lug-B eg” w hich was one of the
how he m anaged it, he p o lite ly re­ lage, cre a tin g a w ind -d ra g cutting title s of T am erlane, and its sto ry
off a t least 50 m iles per hour. They is of his tim es. Between acts we
fe rs us to the m a yo r.
A huge m unitions p la n t evacuated use wood in the floor-braces, p a rti­ are taken into the banquet room
fro m Rostov-on-Don had le ft its tions and doors. The d ire c to r insists (Yes, God help us, the usual table
fo u n d ry behind, w h ich had taken i t is as good or better than a lu m i­ la id .) to meet the composer, a slen­
der young Russian in te lle c tu a l. His
tw o ye ars to b uild. H ere in Tash­ num and easier to w ork.
Perhaps in Russia, where both w ife, a handsome but w orn-looking
k e n t th ey finished one in tw e n ty -
e ig ht days. A g re a t a via tio n p la n t a lu m in u m and tools to w ork it are g irl, who has w ritte n the words—
was m oved fro m M oscow; w ith in a scarce. B u t a lu m in u m is stronger not in Russian, m in d you, but in Uz­
m o n th i t was up to 80 per cent of and wood, under m achine-gun fire, bek—is here to e xplain the plot.
its fo rm e r production.
dissolves to fla m in g slivers.
IT O B E C O N T IN U E D )
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A quiz with answer» offering
information on various subjects
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7. Not counting m ytho log y, who
was the firs t iro n m a n u fa c tu re r
nam ed in lite ra tu re ?
The Question»
1. O f w hat co u n try is the orange
a native?
2. What occupation has the hig h ­
est accident toll?
3. Where was George W ashing­
ton inaugurated President the firs t
tim e?
4. What does "a p p le p ie ” o rd er
sign ify?
5. How long w ill foreign G I.
brides have to w a it to a tta in U. S.
citizenship?
6. How m any o f the 360 islands
of the Berm udas are Inhabited?
The A m u itr i
1. Chinn. C u ltiv a tio n began In
the M iddle uges.
2. F a rm in g . I t has three acci­
dents fo r e ve ry tw o in in d u stry.
3. F ederal H a ll, New Y o rk C ity.
4. P e rfect, precise o rd e r.
5. They
m ust com plete tw o
y e a rs ' residence before filin g a
fo rm a l p e titio n fo r citizenship.
6. T w enty islands.
7. T ub al Cam (Genesis 4:22).
Desk Unit to Match Shelves Requires
But a Few Simple Tools to Make
B y R u th W y e th Spear»
the desk srt<I is the u t t w in nvory wsy
except that I he drop tronl and stationery
co m p artm ents a te u m ltteil
The u w of
halts or screws w ith m odern slue m akes
II possible to construct these sturdy pieces
w ith Joinings th at requ ire no special tools
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Z7O, the corner unit with ZJI. the desk
with m
P attern s a re ISc each or all
th ree patterns to r 3Sc when m ailed to one
address
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^ H IS u n it fu rn itu re fo r y o u r
d re am house is so sim p le th a t
the a m a te u r can m ake it w ith the
s im p le s t hand tools.
P a tte rn s I
w ith actual-size c u ttin g guides and
d eta ile d d ire c tio n s are a v a ila b le i
fo r the u n its in th is group.
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ttO M sniffi ». stuff » o i i t i i i i of
Th e desk Is shown closed at D between
an end u n it A and a corner u n it C. The
E unit is m ade w ith the sam e pa tte rn as
Head Colds!
FS» ' y
, 1 1 1 > Y* g
'aéra
Instantly relief from head cold dis­
tress starts to come when you put a
Uttie Va-tro-nol In each nostril. Also
- I t helps prevent many colds from
developing If used In timet Try It I
Follow directions In packager
Both R ig h t
A teacher put a p roblem to his
class: "T h e re w ere 13 sheep in a
pen and 7 jum pe d o u t; how m any
w ere le ft? "
One of the boys said, "N o ne ,
s ir ,” and when the teacher re­
buked h im fo r his deficient a rith ­
m e tic and told h im he knew noth­
ing about figures, the boy's rep ly
was, " S ir, you know nothing about
sheep.”
VICKS VATRONOL
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The B a ttle F ro n t
John u a t mertsng h it grand­
father lor the first tim e.
“So you're m y grandpa," he said, eye- j
ing the old man over.
“ Yes, m i little lad," taid the grand­
father. “I'm your grandpa on your
father’i tide."
“O h, are you!" said John. “Then
you can take it from me you're on the
wrong side."
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The class had had a lesson on
E skim os, and were asked to w rite
an account of it. One b rig h t young­
ste r began: "T h e E skim os are
God's frozen p e o p le ."
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