IN THE
REPORT ON
RUSSIANS • ♦ • ••••••
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Dainty Wardrobe
For the Tiny Tot
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items together, nine-tenths of what a hand-to-mouth basis, dependent on
it raises must be sold to the State his government-controlled salary.
Tlie war'* climax came in 1943 at the low-pegged official price.
In America a man who saves
with the successful defense of Stalin­
But not all. A small surplus of money is regarded as a sound and
grad. The Germans had by this produce usually remains, and this valuable citizen. In Russia he is
time been dealt a crippling blow is distributed among the farmers, viewed with suspicion as a hoard­
to their air force in Africa. Rus­ free either to eat it or bring it to er, a potential capitalist to be
sians pointed out scornfully that this town for sale in the free market at watched for the criminal tendency
African campaign involved few any price. This is also true of what of exploiting his fellow workers by
men; however, it required masses each farmer raises in the small giving them jobs.
of highly complicated transport and kitchen garden tract which is allot­
Into one of these government-
machines.
ted him It is supposedly only large owned “Commercial Stores” steps
Furthermore, the RAF and the enough for his family'» needs, but our $20 a week Soviet warworker
Eighth Air Force in England were usually something is left over.
without her ration book. This black
by then pounding German industry,
In America commission men make market is perfectly legal—the gov­
and the Germans had to strip the the rounds of farm houses in trucks, ernment makes the profit—not some
If you bake at home— you'll cheer wonderful New Fleiachmann’a
Russian front of Messerschmitts to buying surplus vegetables for resale racketeer. The cheapest grade of
Fnnt Ruing Dry Yenat. Kaay-to-uae . . . eztra-faat, New Fleiach-
defend their home factories, so in town. In the Soviet Union both baloney sells for $13.20 per pound
rnunn'a Farit Rising staya fresh, potent for weeks on your pantry
that for the first time the Russians the farmer and the commission man or boiled ham at $26.46 per pound or
ahelf . . , lets you turn out delicious bread quickly . . . at any time.
had superiority in the air. Lend- would get a five-year sentence, be­ bacon at $24 57 per pound. A dressed
No more being "caught short” without yeast in the house . . . no
Lease,
including
thousands
of cause that is exploitation. To avoid chicken at only $13 20 per pound.
spoiled dough because yeast weakened before you could use it. W ith
trucks, was now pouring In. the Ger­ this crime, the Soviet farmer must
Beef—about the grade America
New Fleischmann's Fast Rising you can start baking any time . . .
man lines of communication were take time to hitch up and go to uses for soup meat—is $13.62 per
finish taking in “jig-time." It's ready for action when you need it.
perilously extended, and for the first market where he sells personally pound, mutton $13.20, and pickled
Get New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast at your grocer’s.
\r O U R little tot w ill look like the
time it was possible for a Russian what he raises, and the hungry herring $13.20 per pound.
■ angel she is in this dainty
army to move quickly out to en­ housewife may go by subway clear
Luxuries, too.
If she plans to
square-necked dress. Note the soft
velop and cut off a German army, across Moscow to find him.
have a few friends in for a snack,
lace or ruffle edging, the pert
as theirs had been enveloped so
The rouble-per-kilo prices 1 trans­ there is sliced, cooked sturgeon at
puffed
sleeves. Pattern includes an
many times before.
late into American dollars and cents $13.20 per pound, black caviar at
Russia's factories behind the per pound. But remember that on $19.73 per pound; almond meats the easy-to-do sunsuit. Slip and pan-
Urals were working; new ones were this same basis, our Russian war same, and also hazel nuts. For an ties complete a grand ensemble
set.
equipped with American machine worker gets a total of $20 a week.
omelette from really fresh eggs for the younger
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At the Rynok. she may buy eggs (never sure in the free market) at
P a t t e r n N o. #971 Is d e s ig n e d fo r sizes
at $13.10 a dozen. She may buy as only $1.25 per egg. and a pint of 6 m o n th s . 1. 2 a n d 3 y e a r s S iz e 1, d re s s .
big a chunk of bread as she wants nice, fresh thick cream for $8 Swiss 14* y a r d s of 33 o r 3 8-ln c h ; s u n s u it. ’ »
y a r d ; s lip a n d p a n tie s . l ' j y a r d s o f 33-
at the rate of $5.87 per pound. Mut­ cheese at $20 per pound.
in ch .
Outside this store a long line
ton (or perhaps goat)—a bargain at
$11.34 per pound—more than half stretches around the block; shabby
• E W I N G C IR C L E P A T T E R N D E P T .
her week’s wages. Sugar beet at 80 warworkers eager to pay these
709 M is s io n S t.. San F r a n r ls r o , C a lif.
cents a pound.
Honey at $15 a prices. Inside there is another long
E n c lo se 23 c en ts In coins for e ac h
line to the cashier's desk. It takes
p a tte rn d e s ire d .
pound.
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An old lady is selling a calfs head the better part of a day to get in.
W H O O W N S THE WORLDS K N O W N
and its four knuckles at $18 for the buy a few items and get out again.
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collection, with the hair on and This is one of only twenty "Com­
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FO R Q U IC K
R E L IE F F R O M
glassy eyes open, attracting a few mercial Stores” in Moscow.
The government has already tried
flies.
Another wrinkled old lady is sell­ patriotic appeal: countless drives
Oriental on U. S. Stamp
ing a bunch of peonies, asking (and urging factories and collective farms
M USCUIAI ACNES ANO PAINS • STIFF JOINTS • IIU IS IS
getting) $1.60 per flower. A man is to buy tanks and planes for the Red ! The only O riental personage
selling a crudely made wooden coat- Army but this was not enough. 1
whose po rtrait has appeared on a
RUSSIA TRAMS MORE DOCTORS
hanger for $1.02. This sale is legal There remains considerable money
U. S. postage stamp is D r. Sun
in Russia because the seller whit­ now in the hands of the farmers who
Yat-sen, first president of the Chi­
tled it himself. Potatoes are $1.05 have been selling food at the fantas­
nese republic, who was honored on
cents a pound. Ripe currants in a tic free market prices for some
our China Com m em orative stamp ,
jelly glass at a dollar without the time, and have been paying fantas- | issued in 1942.
tic
prices
for
second-hand
clothing.
glass. Cheese for $6 a pound.
The government opened a chain of .
Stockings, slightly used and care­
fully mended, cost $6.25 for the cot­ clothing stores exactly like its com- 1
ton ones and $25 for the rayon pair. mercial food stores, where new, 1
A man is selling his extra pair of stout, warm clothes, including many
Russia is a big nation as H itler
shoes, somewhat worn but look fair­ luxury items, are on sale at black
also found out.
ly stout, for 1.000 roubles—$80 in our market prices. Thus, it takes from
tools. By the summer of 1944 at money—exactly a month's salary the farmer all he has saved from
least naif of the Red Army’s road for our warworker. A pair of new selling food in the free market to
transportation was being supplied by evening shoes would cost $333.33.
city workers.
210.000 American military trucks.
The people do not protest the gov­
Here a girl is selling a sweater—
40,000 jeeps and 30,000 other military since it is warm now—and this is a ernment taking over the functions
motor vehicles. She also had 5.600 real English camel’s hair or cash- of the illegal black market. They
American tanks and tank destroy­ mere. And any Russian would call seem glad to buy these things, and
ers. and was using $225,000,000 worth it a bargain at $56. Still, this is count the new shops among the oth­
of machine tools—a total of $5,750,- June. She could get much more er blessings of this society.
000,000 worth of Lend-Lease aid. At next October—but she's hungry now.
Some effort is made to present
last Russia’s crushing superiority
However, remember that these the merchandise attractively, just
in manpower could become effec­ food prices listed above are excep­ as our post office would prefer to
on ordinary tires. The connected bars are
ESTS conducted under a wide range of
tive.
stronger, too, because they are triple-braced.
soil and weather conditions proved
tional; our $80 a month Soviet war- put out pretty stamps. But it doesn’t
But as the Anglo-American offen­ worker has already bought with her greatly matter, any more than Kan­
This added strength increases tread life.
conclusively that Firestone Ground G rip
sive opened in France, the Soviet ration book at the government-con­ sas particularly cares whether its
tires w ill give your tractors up to 16% more
These money- and time-saving features
government loyally kept her agree­ trolled store about nine-tenths of the auto license tags are prettier or eas­
pull on the drawbar. T h at’s because only
arc responsible for today's farm preference
ment, made at Teheran, to start a food she uses and has paid only $6.50 ier to screw on than those of neigh­
connected, triple-braced traction bars...w ith
drive from the east. To do this, she per month for it, at low - pegged, boring Oklahoma.
for Firestone Ground Grips. And they are
was drafting for front-line duty men state prices.
the reasons why it w ill pay you to have
their
extra
tread-bar
length
in
the
center
of
The architect who drew the plans
who had already been discharged
Firestone
Ground Grips on your present
for
dreary
workers’
apartment
had
the
pulling
zone...take
a
"Center
Bite.”
The Soviet government's problem
with wounds and others previously
to please, not the people who live
tractors and to specify Ground Grips when
was
basically
that
of
our
own:
its
rejected for serious physical defects
in it, nor the promoter-owners who
Besides giving Firestone Ground Grips a
you buy a new tractor.
—the dregs of any nation’s power. people were getting high war wages, hoped to keep it rented, but the gov­
"Center
Bite,”
connected
traction
bars
also
but
there
was
nothing
to
spend
them
But the Soviet government kept
*Area in whit» ¡bou t th e "Center Bile" traction
on. We solve it partly by taxation ernment officials who approved his
insure better cleaning. There are no broken-
faith.
tone, not found in other liret beeoute of Fireilone't
drawings.
The
tenants
live
there
bar, trash-catching pockets such as you see
cxcluiive patent rigblt.
One reason for the success of and partly by selling our people not because they like its facade or
the Red Army is that the breach bonds, so that after the war they its plumbing, but because it belongs
Linen to the Voice of Firettone every Monday evening over NBC.
between its old-line, experienced of­ might sell the bonds and buy mer­ to the factory where they work or
C o o z r lfh e I t « . T li* r i m k m a T i n A lu b b e r CO.
chandise
at
normal
prices.
War
ficers and the Communist Party is
because they lack the necessary
bonds
are
sold
in
Russia,
many
even
now completely healed. Originally
prestige or political connections to
the Red Army was burdened with bear interest. But a large propor­ wangle more square meters of liv­
tion
of
Soviet
war
financing
consists
a system of political commissars
ing space in a better one.
whose duty it was to watch the of­ of outright gifts solicited from in­
Under our way of doing things, a
dividuals.
factories,
and
co-opera­
ficers, and whose authority could
man who saves money instead of
tives,
either
in
cash
or
in
kind.
Also
under certain circumstances exceed
spending it to have a good time, per
that of the unit’s regular command­ the government gets money by I
charging
fantastic
prices
for
luxu-
'
er.
The political commissars have ries in state-owned stores, thus put­
been absorbed in the army, with ting part of the war on a solid pay-
regular military rank and duties. as-you-go basis which would delight
Political education continues, but a Vermont Republican.
Russians are skeptical about
not to the neglect of military train­
ing. Membership in the Communist bonds, because a man who owns
Party always carries heavy respon­ one has purchasing power the state
sibility, and this continues in the can’t control. His whims constitute
army. Party members are supposed a danger to the state economy. He
to set an example to the others— may take a notion to buy before the
not only in efficiency but in bravery government is ready to sell. He may |
under fire, and as consequence the prefer a radio instead of a wooden |
Party has had more than its share table, and create a sudden shortage I
of casualties. Its membership, for­ in radios!
While dependent on state wages, I
merly 2,500,000, was increased to
4.000,000. but many of them have he is on a hand-to-mouth basis and
his purchasing power can be con­
been killed
But the Party is strong in the trolled. He will get a radio only i
army, and a man who wishes to ad­ when they are ready to make radios,
and the first sets will go to those '
vance must usually join.
The arm y’s achievements have giv­ whom the government thinks most
en it a great pride in itself and some deserve them. If he owns a bond,
Russia’s wheat fields saved that
little contempt for the outside world. or has hoarded his high wartime
Moscow correspondents have a wages the whole carefully planned country.
deep respect for the competence of economy is threatened.
its leadership and often, when irri­
The Soviet government has met forms a useful act. For out of such
tated by the stupidity of a Russian this peril most ingeniously. In April savings our factories are built and
civilian official, they would remind of 1944, it reopened “Commercial our farms improved.
These Socialists can argue that
each other that some of this was Stores.” In them the government
temporary, as all the country’s real­ sells you almost any luxury in food when saving and spending are left
ly intelligent and efficient men were or clothing at prices about equal up to the individual, they can get
in the Red Army.
with those in the free market and out of control and wreck a nation's
business structure. Panicky saving
without ration coupons.
can stop all business activity and
The farm er lives on a collective
In American terms, the Soviet
throw millions out of work. They
or state farm , where he does his government runs its own black mar­
can argue that the greatest waste of
share of the common work. When ket as a state enterprise to skim
capitalism is not the money we
the crop is sold, certain overhead from its workers the bulk of their spend feeding the unemployed, but
expenses must be met. There are war wages.
the valuable man-hours of work
substantial state taxes. His collec­
When peace comes, they hope io which our nation loses when these
tive probably owes money for farm have most of the worker's savings millions are either idle, or when
implements and these installments in the hands of the government they are employed by the state in
must be paid. The Collective has (without obligation to repay him, as ways which do not compete with pri­
prrbably pledged itself to buy a tank our government must redeem its vate business.
for the Red Army. Taking these war bonds) and ha will be back on
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D l
Keeps for weeks on your pantry shelf
. . . You can bake at a moment’s notice
IB IIG M H S 8
W kaf pec N££D to.
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