THURSDAY. MARCH
TIM ES. W ILLAM INA. OREGON
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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
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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
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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.”
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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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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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