SO Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, February 9, 1950
Lowdown on the Inside '
What's It Like to Be
A Big-Shot in Red Russia?
(Editor's Note: How does it feel to be a big-shot in Russia?
Bow does the "other half" live?
(Edmund Stevens, staff correspondent of the Christian
Science Monitor, just back from a three-year tour of duty
in Moscow, has found that soviet intellectuals live a good
life, if their stomachs are strong,
(This is the third of four articles digesting material written
by Stevens about present-day Russia and published in the
Christian Science Monitor in 40 installments.)
New York, Feb. 9 W) Soviet writers, musicians, artists and
icientists live well, so long as they consent to wear an Intel
lectual strait jacket, an American reporter has found.
These intellectuals share the top rung of the social ladder
with the leading politicians, says Edmund Stevens, who covered
Moscow for the past three years
for the Christian Science Moni
tor.
Stevens found that Soviet
morality is predicated on the
idea that anything promoting
communism is moral. Thus, he
observes, the cultural strait
jacket and intellectual turn
abouts are no more startling
than the assumed right of the
government to distort or with'
hold the truth, break agree
ments, subdue alien peoples and
outstrip the czars in imperial
ism. The artists, writers and scien
tists have cars like Stalin they
seem to prefer the American to
the Soviet models. They have
town flats in addition to coun
try homes, despite the critical
housing situation. They are the
pampered social lions of the
Soviet scene,
They do much better than
doctors, lawyers or other pro
fessional men, who earn the ru
ble equivalent of $194 to $358
monthly. They soar above the
white collar people who earn
the equivalent of $97 to $194 a
month, enough for a sufficient
but monotonous living. They are
miles above the lowest layer of
the social scale, mostly unskill
ed workers who barely get by.
...
But, Stevens reports, the pit
falls are many and the road is
treacherous. The intellectual
must be nimble enough to catch
and ride the current party drift.
Stevens describes the scene
something like this:
Denouncing Americans is the
surest key to literary success,
even for a writer of children's
books, and "no Soviet play or
novel nowadays is complete
without American diplomats,
newspapermen, engineers or
businessmen who are at the
same time spies and provoca
teurs." Stevens adds in passing that
the Soviet case against Ameri
cans is helped along greatly "by
the Irresponsible statements of
certain United States public
figures, Including members of
congress, urging immediate
armed action against the Soviet
union, including use of atom
bombs. To the Soviet public, this
sounds like corroboration of
Pravda."
Konstantin Simonov, the au
thor whose dramas belabor the
United States incessently, has
an open bank account on which
he can draw at will, and other
anti-American, and thus suc
cessful, writers do almost as
well.
But as an example of what
can happen, last March Tamara
Motylova, leading Soviet female
literary critic, was fired from
Gorky institute's faculty and
had her doctor's degree revok
ed. Her offense: She urged So
viet literature to be critical of
Soviet surroundings, and she re
ferred favorably to the German
Jewish author Lion Fcucht-
wangcr. This branded her a
"bourgeois cosmopolite."
Soviet writers once celebrat
ed now are in oblivion. The us
ual reason: too much realism.
A Stalin prize book by no
less a figure than Alexander Fa
dayev, head of the writers un
ion, was found two years after
Its publication to have pictured
a Soviet general as a bit of a
stuff shirt. The Agitprop (pro
paganda and agitation) ordered
Fadayev to revise the book, and
he openly confessed the "Jus
tice" of the criticism.
...
Newspaper writers lead a mo
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notonous life. Pravda is the na
tionwide model and other pa
pers seem like carbon copies,
echoing and re-echoing through
the country.
The cardinal rule for newspa
pers, says Stevens, is "never
print anything that reflects the
slightest credit on the west,
particularly the United States.
. . . Play up everything unfav
orable to the west."
The story is the same in the
Soviet film industry, which Ste
vens says has been in the strait
jacket since 1936. It frequently
stumbles despite efforts to toe
the party line. As for American
films, Charlie Chaplin, almost
alone, commands Soviet approv
al, but Chaplin's "The Great
Dictator" never was released
publicly in Russia.
And the story is the same in
science. Scientific isolation is
the order of the day. The natur
al sciences are enmeshed in the
party line.
Tomorrow Production
trade in the U.S.S.R.
and
Amity Keeps Marshal
Amity At the regular meet
ing of the city council, James
Davidson's contract for city mar
shal was renewed, and a raise in
salary for the city recorder was
allowed.
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Silverfon Library
Circulation Gains
Silverton Circulation at the
Silverton public library was
higher for January than it has
been for several months, accord
ing to the report submitted to
the city council. Total was 1318.
During the month 33 new
readers were registered and a
total of 168 reference questions
cared for. Books added by pur
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chase and donation numbered
25 and 59 books were removed
from circulation.
Doners durlnf the month wer Mr.
and Mr.. Scott McPike, Dr. and Mr. A.
J. Mccann.l. Mr. and Mr. Clay AUen,
Mr. Earl Dedrlck, C. L. Gstes, Mrs,
Sink, Mrs. Glenn Brledwell, Mrs. O. O.
Rustad, Miss Mae Service, Mrs. Lewis
Wavra, Mrs. Annes Haugen, Mrs, William
H. Woodrard, Jr., Mrs. George Ohrlsten
son, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Preston, Mr.
and Mrs. Reber Allen, Mrs. E. L. Starr,
Mrs. O. W. Keen, and Mrs Mark Hun
gate.
Because of the unpleasant
weather, the library toard post
poned its January and February
meetings.
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