Southern Oregon M iner, Thursday, Jan u ary 17, 1946
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there’ll again be phttly o f Smith D ro th e ri,,,
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sian women have bad complexions, comfortable feeling you have when
which seem to indicate lack of vita a large roll of money ia rustling in
We get a quick first look at Mos mins. These people, in their twen your pocket and you may buy what
cow. Wide, Incredibly empty streets, ties and thirties, were children dur you like in a strange city. Slowly
sidewalks full of hurrying, shabby ing the hard days after the revolu during my walk, I discover that
people, walking past dingy shops in tion; years of malnutrition show in there is nothing I can buy. Here no
dilapidated buildings. Monotonous their bad bone structure. No won one ever kills an hour. There are
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rows of uninteresting apartments, der we three average-sized Amer no cafes, bars, or hours of leisure
concrete beehives which sometimes icans stand half a head higher than time. The lim ited supplies of news
make an effort at beauty in orna the Red Army officers who parade papers were sold out hours ago.
Bring your favoiita recipet right up Io
mentation. But it is half-hearted, there.
dale by comparing them with the batic
There remains the subway, which
like the architecture of an insti
Although Red Army officers must I can enter for the equivalent of
recipet contained in
tution.
still spend some time in the ranks, four American cents. It has been
TODAY'S CAKINGW AYS
Now we come to Spaso House schools like Annapolis and West
which, before the 1917 Revolution, Point have been established where proclaimed the world's best It is
Your name and ad d ratt on a port card
a good one, exactly like the best In
was built by a beet-sugar baron, they give pnftnising youngsters
will bring you Ihlt new baking guide plus
New York or London, with the dif
and is one of a number of such training toward commissions. Also
a copy of Tho Clabber Girl Baking Book,
ference
that
it
is
cleaner
and
its
palaces in Moscow which once be the Suvarov cadet schools have re
both free.
longed either to the merchant prince cently been opened, admitting sons waiting platforms and corridors are
lavishly
done
in
costly
polished;
ADDRESS
or the Romanov nobility. The Bol of officers and orphans as young
marbles.
Yet
the
system
Is
small
HULMAN & CO M PA N Y
sheviks have turned them over to as eight years old.
with few stations serving only a
foreign governments for embassies
These officers in the foyer of the small per cent of the people.
Dept. W
Terr« Haute, Indiana
Inside, all are giant forests of mar concert hall are apparently on leave
In
the
Westem
world
any
transit
ble columns from the tops of which, and, except for the fact that they
like grapevines, tra il the marble are under-sized, are fine-looking corporation would spend the cost
SIMPLE shirtwaist frock to
balustrades of staircases. They are men. They are usually blue-eyed of this polished marble on more
give you a “ band-box” look.
miles
of
track
and
more
stations,
as drafty as movie sets, and as cozy blonds with high cheekbones, and
The shoulder yoke forms shoulder
to live in as Grand Central Station. their unsmiling Slav faces and swelling their capitalist profits by sleeves that ure comfortable and
In the back yard of each is a hen clipped bulletheads constantly re taking in more nickels from a pub practical. The gored skirt is easy
lic eager to ride nearer to work.
house.
to make and flattering.
mind me of old-time Prussian of
• • •
It was in one such august hall, ficers, as they solemnly patrol the
A day or so later we are shown
its spaciousness lighUy salted down foyer with these shabby, undernour our first Soviet factory. It is in
Pattern No 1358 comes In sizes 14. 18.
Moscow's industrial suburbs and it 18. 10; 40. 42. 44 and 4ti Size 16 needs 3s,
ished women.
yards of 35-lnch or 3th yards of 391nch
But now our hosts tear us away makes the famous Stormovik plane material.
for
the
Red
A
ir
Force.
Approach
from this revolving crowd to a room
SEWINO C IRCLE P A T T E R N D EP T.
near our box where a little between- ing it we see enormous sign boards
709 M inion SL, San Francisco, Calif,
the-acts supper is being served in at the entrance on which are given
Enclose 25 cents in coins for each
our honor by the director of the the most recent production figures,
pattern desired.
the names of workers who have
theater.
Pattern N o .--------------------------- size___
Thia truly oriental hospitality has overfulfilled their quota—only here
nothing to do with Lenin or the theo the word is “ norm” —and big pic
ry of Surplus Values. These people tures of Lenin and Stalin, apparent
may be socialists, but they are also ly painted by the same artist who
Russians. As such, they inherit an does the portraits of the tattooed
even stronger tradition from the man, the snake charmer, and the
Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan two-headed baby for the side-show.
All this faces a square, and there
than they do from Karl Marx.
Looking around the hall, I wonder is also a little raised platform in
where they keep the old people. All which there is also a red wooden
these faces are young; in their tribune for speakers. We later dis
twenties and thirties.
So were cover that these are standard in all
those on the streets this afternoon. Soviet factories.
Before inspecting this one, we are
What became of Russians who
should now be in their fifties, six taken to the office of the director,
ties, or seventies? Now, back in who in America might correspond
to the president of the company
America, I still wonder.
May Day in Moscow
In Russia, if you decide to move, He is a young man of thirty-seven
Vasili Nikolayevitch Smyrnov bj
with curved gilt furniture, that Eric you must go through about as many
name, and tells us he has worked
formalities
as
you
would
need
to
get
Johnston held his first press con
in
aviation twenty-four years—eight
married. In Moscow you don't just
ference.
years as director.
The reporters plead for bi-weekly arrive in a taxi (for there are none)
The director tells Eric Johnston
press conferences. For the Soviet at the hotel of your choice. For
Government has promised he can eigners stay at one of three hotels, that 65 per cent of his employees
see everything he desires, and, until but they are the best Moscow af are now women, that before the
he has been in Moscow for a while, fords except for the Moskva which war it was about 30 per cent. Hours?
he can't conceive how closely for has been built since the Revolution The regular eight-hour day, plus
eign reporters are held down; how and is reserved for high-ranking three daily hours of overtime, for
seldom they are allowed to leave communists, important government which they are paid time and a
Moscow; how little they see or hear. officials (which is the same thing), half, as in most American factories.
But now Johnston is off to call on well-known artists, and top Red But they work six days a week, a
Mikoyan, an intimate of Stalin and Army officers. Its public rooms are working week of sixty-six hours.
a top Bolshevik, who is People's in an uninteresting, classic style, Boys and girls under eighteen work
Commissar for Foreign Trade, our which is best represented in New only eight hours a day, five days a
York by the Grand Central Station. week.
official host.
Intourist is a government-owned
Wages are paid to the plant's
Johnston returns from the Krem
lin very much impressed by Mikoy travel agency and you can start 10,000 workers twice a month and
an. "Highly intelligent. He'd be thinking Cooks or the American Ex on a piecework basis. For a pre
prominent in any country. In Amer press, because in peacetime it ar determined quota or “ norm” of
ica he'd be a big businessman or ranges tours with hotel reservations work, the worker receives 750 rou
industrialist. I told him that. He and meals. But in Russia it has bles per month. Then, if he over
complete charge of the movements fulfills this norm (and they usually
seemed pleased.”
Tonight our Russian hosts, with and creature-comforts of practical do) his pay goes up on a sliding
K irilov in charge, take us to a con ly all foreigners, and you cannot scale. So the true average would be
1,000 roubles a month, and an oc
cert in Tschaikovsky Hall, which in stir without it.
For here it is impossible to drop casional 1,500 or 2,000.
New York would be Carnegie Hall.
Since the rouble has a purchasing
I look at the hall which seems well into a restaurant for a casual meal,
built but a little too ornate. Then go to a hotel for a night, or climb on power, in terms of rationed Soviet
at the crowd. It is intent on the a train for a trip. A Russian be goods, of about 8 cents in America,
stage and in the half-light looks longs to his job. He and his family the Soviet war worker gets, in terms
shabby, except for the red epaulets usually sleep in an apartment house of American purchasing power,
o n th e officers' uniforms. Most of which his factory owns. He prob between $20 and $40 for his sixty-
their heads are clipped. Prussian ably eats, in his factory dining room, six-hour week.
style.
food raised on his factory's farm.
However, other elements brighten
Each act on the stage is intro His children attend a day nursery the picture. The worker may buy
TYiey play his meals in the factory's restau
duced by an attractive brunette in which it maintains.
a simply cut dress of gleaming games and go to movies in its cul rant; if he chooses to eat all three
white satin. By contrast with that ture palace and they go on vaca
shabby audience, she is a dream tions when it can spare them on
princess, and so are the performers. trains which it designates to resorts
This drab socialist audience stares and workers' homes which it con
at the stage as though it were some trols.
Foreigners can function in this
unattainable fairyland of which
rigidly ordered world only if some
they get just an hour's glimpse.
A male pianist has just taken his state organization provides for their
bows and retired to the wings and living space, transportation, food,
they are now clearing away his and ration coupons, which is where
grand piano for the next act. How? Intourist comes in.
Well, the slender brunette in the
The Soviet Government realizes
white satin dress is pushing it, a feat that it cannot force foreigners from
made possible because it is on cast the Western countries down to the
ors. Later, after watching many sub-WPA standard of living, which
&
Orlvo in for a thorough tiro inipoction. (Thero
slender women heave pianos, trunks is the lot of most Soviet citizens.
1« no charge for fh li »or vice.)
and crates around, we become al Consequently, it accords foreigners
most as calloused as Russians. But privileges which in the Western
Yoor smooth tiros will bo roplacod with loanors,
now in the dark we look at each world are only common decencies,
( • yoa can driva your cor. Your tiro* will bo
other wordlessly and smile.
but which are fantastic luxuries in
[•« « P I» * * by
fom ou. F iro tfon o F a c to ry
Now the lights come up and we the Soviet Union.
M e th o d , (You got a quality recapping |ob.)
go out into the great foyer where
I was accorded a large and com
W h o now Flrostono Do Luxo Champion Tiro,
the Russian audience is indulging fortable room at the Métropole
oro
available to yon, wo will equip your car and
and
presented
with
a
book
of
ration
in the pleasant European custom of
boy your rocoppod tiro*. (You got tho bast tiro*
“ W ell-dressed” Red
tickets, each good for a meal in one
a between-acts promenade.
money can buy.)
And I ’ve never seen anything like of the Métropole s two dining rooms
there,
that
w
ill
be
only
5
roubles
a
it.
Ill-fitting clothes, poorly cut, reserved for foreigners. It had still
often flashy but always of tawdry a third dining room for the selected day. The factory also maintains
materials.
Russians who were lucky enough to nurseries and kindergartens. Wom
This is the Tschaikovsky Concert have permission to stay there. I en get the same pay as men.
Worried about the tires on your car? H ere’s a new plan esneciaiiv ^ . ( * . . 4
-a
But now Eric turns to the direc
Hall where seats usually go to top never saw it, nor did they ever see
you driving safety NOW when you need it most. This amazing F i r e i t o V S W « ? w V®
tor.
What
does
he
get?
He
re
ours.
officials or to crack Stakhanovite
eliminates the guesswork about the condition of your tires. S
”
Tw°-Way Plan
ceives a basic salary of 3,000 roubles
workers who get high wartime
My hotel room with an adjoining
wages. But their clothes can't com bath was comfortable but somewhat a month (in rationed purchasing
All you have to do is drive in, and our Firestone tire aen»«. ..m, *.
secure complete tire safety. Smooth, dangerous tires will be ?ualitv SSinnnH k°W*i°
pare with those of a meeting of the depressing. The washbasin drain power, about $240) except that, if
the
plant
wins
a
production
banner
Workers Alliance in my home town was stopped so that it took ten m in
famous Firestone Factory Method. You exchange smooth t i i J d ' ty re.caPP,ed
the
of Emporia, Kansas, at the bottom utes for my shaving water to run (this one like most Soviet war plants
Gear-Grip Tread, which
mulh ex™ p r T e e Z aga?m, S h g
,h “ fa” °U’
of our depression. Yet Carnegie out, leaving in the bowl a scum of have), he then gets 150 per cent
Hall seldom offers a better program soap and whisker stubble, but I soon more up to a maximum of 10,000
than the one that we heard on the found this is standard in Russia. roubles a month (about $800),
But Eric is now back to the work
stage.
After moving my bags to the
’ed“ “7 a,Ki le‘ tlM F ta S t°"e Tw° W ay Pla”
S g t ’ iety7 you want
I note that the crowd is almost Métropole, I stop by the embassy to ers; what about their grievances?
as poorly fed as it is poorly dressed. change a hundred American dollars Well, they take them up with the
The Red Army officers are robust into 1,200 roubles. Once settled, I go trade union committee for their de
enough. But too many of these Rus- for a walk in the town, with that partment of the plant.
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