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Matter of Fact by Stewart Alsep WHAT IS RUSSIA LIKE? Moscow What is Russia REALLY like? The best answer seems to be that Russia is like whatever you want it to be like. In the Soviet Union, you can find what you have come to find. Suppose, for purposes of argu ment, that you are a visiting "progressive," as pro-Communists are called in these parts. You can then report with en thusiasm and unchallengeable accuracy to the comrades back home. You can report that Moscow has broad streets kept scrupu lously clean and lined with hand some buildings. You can report that the people look reasonably well fed (the ladies a trifle too well fed, by Western standards) and fairly decently clothed. You can report that the standard of living has risen continuously since the war. You can report that industrial production is increasing at a con siderably greater rate, in per centages, than in the United States. You can further report that the Soviet Union has scored great technological achievements notably in such key fields as nu clear energy and jet propulsion. IF YOU happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might even be able to offer eyewitness proof of such an achievement. This is unlikely, since Moscow is a very big city and the sky is often overcast. But as all Moscow now knows, the Soviets have been flying their remarkable new aircraft over Moscow continuously, al though at irregular intervals, ever since the famous' overflights in early May. As a "progressive" your list would by no means end with such technical triumphs. You could point also to such marvel lous artistic achievements as the Moscow ballet. You could even report accurately, in the view of all Western observers that the Soviet people feel a greater sense of personal security than they have felt for years. All these things, from the clean streets to the jet planes, are unquestionably true. But sup pose that, instead of being a "progressive," you are a "de cadent bourgeois." On the most decadently selfish level, you may complain of a lack of such small luxuries as well turned out wom en and good food in pleasant sur roundings. But your doubts may go a bit deeper than this level. For example, behind the hand some buildings on the clean streets, you may find strange shantytowns which remind you of the American South in the thirties. With their unpaved roads and hand pumps and sag ging walls, these wooden vil lages inside a great metropolis are a curious phenomenon, odd ly out of place in Utopia. Again, as a decadent bourgeois you may be surprised by the close packed, shoving crowds in Babson on Investments Babson Park, Mass. (Special to The Mail Tribune) Last week I showed that Uranium, Aviation, the Telephone, and Television are opening up the entire world to businessmen with vision. I will now offer some suggestions to INVESTORS with vision. J. R. Govett For the past 100 years English and American promoters have sought "concessions" to invest money and do business in for eign countries. These conces sions consisted of railroad and trolley lines, electric power plants, manufacturing or mer chandizing operations, and later For a Safe Make the TOY HOUSE your Cap Gun Headquarters Caps Guns from 59c u$ roll & disc 5e ea. See the New Automatic Burp Gun at Toy House 317 EAST MAIN every store and market, and dis mayed by the prices these crowds are willing and eager to pay. In Western eyes, these prices look strangely un-Utopian. IJUT WHAT you miss most, naturally enough, are pre cisely those "decadent, bour geois" things that make up the Western and especially the American manner of living. Drive in to Leningrad from the air port, for example, as this reporter did on his arrival in Russia, and you suddenly realize how immensely wide is the gulf which separates you from the summer life of the lawn mower and the open air movie. Instead of the mushroom growth of small houses you see in the suburbs of a Western city, you see great, imposing, clumps of apartment buildings for work ers, hideous but functional. And instead of the bumper to bumper traffic, you see a surging, un ceasing flow of people on broad streets, purposeful, industrious, antlike. What most dismays the "un progressive" Westerner, in short, is that this is a system totally alien to anything he has ever known. There is, it must be said, no sense of fear here at all, at least for the visiting foreigner. But there is a kind of scruffy selfrighteous uniformity. Above all, there is a lack of that easy free spdkenness to which de cadent bourgeois types are ec centrically attached. But this lack should not be permitted to obscure the fact that ; this alien system works. This Soviet way of life functions. It increases industrial production at an impressive rate, it produces nuclear weapons and remarkable aircraft, and at the same time it feeds and clothes the people ade quately by their standards. To the "decadent bourgeois" way of life, the life of the lawmower and the open air movie, 'the Fifth Amendment and the right of dissent, it represents a greater challenge than this reporter had realized before. (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) mining and timber rights. Some were unprincipled exploitations, but most have been honestly op erated. All, however, have given little attention to the local peo ple of these foreign countries, almost none of whom have had a stock interest. These "one-sided" agreements have caused many diplomatic misunderstandings and even revolutions "against the white man." Where the "white man" has insisted on his "pound of flesh" and has refused to volun tarily give up anything he has ultimately lost; but in Burma this has not been the case. I have in mind Burma Mines Limited, Burmah Oil Co., and other for eign developments. Burma has a wonderful climate and faces on the the Bay of Bengal midway between Indo-China and India. During World War II Burma was sacked by the Japanese, and Burmese companies were forced to reorganize. J. R. Govett, of 37 Dover Street, London, formu lated a plan which will be used world-wide. The Burma Plan Mr. Govetfs Plan divides stock ownership, and member ship on the Board of Directors of the foreign-owned companies be tween the old stockholders and the foreign government AT THE START OF THE REORGANI ZATION. One half of the stock goes to the old stockholders, and the other half is put in trust in a Rangoon bank to be deliv ered to the Burmese Govern ment as it contributes labor and native supplies. The Govett Plan insures that the profits hence forth will be divided fifty-fifty. The foreign nation supplies the ore, or oil, or customers if it is a utility, while the English and American investors supply the "know-how" and management. I not only believe in the fu ture of these Burma "50-50" companies, but also I believe in other companies in Africa, Aus tralia, and Argentina which are considering the Govett Plan. Powerful Standard Oil interests have just adopted a similar plan for Argentina, and the St. Joseph L.ead company may follow. A great opportunity for the Govett Plan lies with the American & Foreign Power Company which has holdings in Argentina, Bra zil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colom bia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Pan ama, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica, and China. Most of these proper ties I have personally visited, including the Shanghai Power Company. Shanghai Power Company This was a most valuable prop erty in a city of 6,000,000 popu lation. When it was expropriated by the Communists, it probably could have been saved by adopt ing the Govett-Burma Plan; but the American & Foreign Power Company, which owned it, hesi tated to make such an offer fear ing to set a precedent. As a re- Thursday, June 30, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Is That So? OVER HUDSON BAY, With SAS Early this morning as our plane left Greenland, the air was clean-swept of clouds, clear as a crystal goblet, having traveled over a clean part of the world. As we approached Hudson Bay, . a new high.., vrithinir sihnrt. nf nprfprt.t the new over-the-knee maqi-sfretch W le-skrwteer : : with the exclusive Ventilated Foot They smoothly hug every curve of your leg without a single sag or wrinkle because they're Belle-Sharmeer's perfect-fitting leg sizes in s-t-r-e-t-c-h with the cling knit in. Topped with lacy elastic garters, Over-the-knee stockings stay up .. . comfortably. Wear them for blissful freedom above the knees. 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Which brings the second re quirement: the vapor-holding air must be subjected to a tempera ture change. There must be a cooling and warming of air to bring the cloud and take it away. Just as in the cup of hot cof fee which the attentive SAS hostess brings me the hot cof fee can dissolve much more sugar than a cold cup. Stir as hard as I like, the cold coffee will always have sugar left in the bottom. So, too, warm . air can blot up more water vapor than cold air. Actually, at 80 de phere can hold over five times as much vapor in the invisible state as air at 32 degrees, or freezing. The reason, incidental ly, why my breath steamed when I left chilly Copenhagen last night but will not be seen when I step off the plane at warm Los Angeles this afternoon. Now to transform invisible vapor to visible, the warm moist air must get to a colder place where the excess moisture con denses out in exactly the same way as breath becomes visible. when it is puffed from warm lungs into cold air This is done by an , upward movement of air which anyone can see taking place at the top of a smokestack on a windless day. . Thus! on this day of 'June, the warm moisture-laden air rises upward and at first it held all its water vapor. But as the day became warmer over Hudson Bay, the air rose higher and sooner or later reached a point where it had a surplus of water vapor the condensation level, and here the visible cumulus clouds formed. When the sun's heat is shut off, then the cumulus cloud will start to fall but as descending air warms up under the in fluence of compression, the water particles will evaporate and so vanish into thin air long before they will have reached the earth's surface. Thus, ordinary fine weather cumulus clouds in a day in June rarely survive "nightfall, dissolv ing away completely. And so, as evening falls, the miracle of the day is repeated clouds vanish, and nothing" stands between man and the hard-polished stars. FREE: By special arrange ment with the editors of the En cyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol- sult, the Shanghai Power Com pany bonds, sold to U. S. inves tors originally for $1,000 each, can now be bought for $5 each. The properties are still men tioned in the annual reports, but no capacity, output, or earnings figures are included. Certainly the stork of the American & Foreign Power Company is one of the most in teresting of foreign investments today. There are 7,224,238 shares of common stock outstanding, and a large debt. The stock paid S0.75 in 1954 and sells it about ! 14. If the Management has the vision and courage to gradually change the ownership of its for- j eign properties over to the Burma Plan, this American St Foreign Power stock could sell much higher. This would especially be true if Congress should pass certain tax legislations favoring foreign investments. If, however, the Management and Congress are stubborn, this . stock could be come valueless. Several times I have personally talked this prob lem over with the Company's famous founder, the late Sidney Mitchell, but it was wasted breath on my part. He was an honest and re markable man, with technical training and great energy; but he was a hard dictator with very little social vision. Unfortunate ly, this applies to the heads of many big Corporations today that "have large foreign investments. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraf t binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to IS THAT SO! c 'o Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Pere Mesta Tells of Chats With Soldiers Tokyo (U.R) Perle Mesta paused briefly today in her round-the-world tour to tell of her chats with American serv icemen. "I'm very fond of our sol diers," said the famed Washing ton hostess. "When I get to a new place, I find out where the soldiers are to talk to them." The former ambassador to Luxembourg said she makes wire recordings of Americans in uniform so she could send them home to their families. Mrs. Mesta said of her three day stay in Korea that she found President Syngman Rhee a "very wonderful gentleman with great charm." She leaves tonight for For mosa and Hong Kong. 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