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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1962
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Russian Cities Impressive, But Howard Morgan Notes Drabness
(Edilor'i not: Howard
Morgan, formtr Oregon
1 public utilities commlaiion
; er and now on the Fadaral
Powar commiiiion, racantly
' accompanied Secretary of
'. the Interior Stewart Udall
' and other members of the
Federal Power commiiiion
on a trip into Ruiia. Thii ii
the third in a aerial of ar-
ticlea in which Morgan dii-
cutiei tome ot hit Imprei
- aiom of Ruiili.)
By HOWARD MORGAN
For the remainder of these
articles I shall, instead of
tracing our path through Rus
sia and Siberia by air and au
tomobile, break the materia!
down into general headings
likely to be of most interest
to a casual reader or to an
intended visitor.
; The things which interested
me the most, after the actual
purposes of our tour whicli
were to examine the hydro
electric plants, power stations
and extra-high-voltage trans
mission lines, were the cities,
the people, the transportation
facilities and the land.
. The cities are impressive,
but they take a bit of getting
accustomed to. Moscow is a
truly beautiful city, but It is
so different from anything I
have ever seen In either North
or, South America or In West
ern Europe that it was not un
til we returned there toward
the end of our tour that 1
really appreciate it.
First Impression
One's first Impression, just
as in some of our older cities,
is of drabness. The favorite
colors for buildings seem to
be a dull mustard yellow or
faded off-green. Many are of
painted are not repainted of
unpainted dun-colored sand
stone. Most of those which are
ten enough, there being too
many more important things
to be done first, and many arc
extremely old.
The weatherbcaten appear
ance of these old buildings is
carried on by the newer ones,
which tend to be of a ponder
ous old-fashioned architecture.
Somehow the Russians have a
talent for building new struc
tures which look old even be
fore they are finished, and the
visitor is constantly confused
by being told that a row of
apartment houses which look
twenty or more years old
were finished only a year or
two ago.
There is an enormous
amount of building going on.
Apartment construction seems
to be the greatest urban short
age and to have the top pri
ority from the government
(top priority for quantity, that
is, but not necessarily for
quality).
Everywhere one looks
across the skyline of Mos
cow, and every other city we
saw, he sees tower cranes at
work erecting buildings, and
in nine cases out of ten they
they are building apartments.
I think I am being quite con
servative and realistic when I
estimate that there are prob
ably between two and three
thousand of these tower
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alone.
Counts SO Cranes
It is almost impossible to
find a section of skyline with
out a tower crane prominently
in view and In the intermedi
ate and outlying areas of the
city I have counted as many as
SO from a single viewpoint.
We were free to wander about
as we pleased, incidentally,
with guides If we wanted
them or unaccompanied, and
in the time available to us we
did so.
Moscow is a very large city
with a population of about 7.5
million, but it is not as large
In area as you would expect.
The population lives almost
entirely in apartments and
there are no suburbs as we
know them. One drives direct
ly from farming country
through a surrounding open
belt, which will eventually
surround the city with parks,
into the most concentrated
areas of apartment construc
tion I have ever seen.
The city is constantly grow
ing outward so that the apart
ments are now approaching
the park belt, and I suppose
that they will shortly leap
frog over that to resume their
march into the country.
Large Boulevards
There are several large
boulevards leading into the
center of the city, of which
we saw only two - those lead
ing to the Scheremetievo and
Vnukovo airports the latter
serving flights southward and
eastward. These are hand
some thoroughfares, broad
and spacious and lined with
trees and parkways almost all
the way downtown, and they
pass numerous monuments,
parks, stadia, swimming pools,
schools, training institutes and
libraries along the way.
The main streets and side
walks everywhere, especially
In the small towns, are
scrupulously, even miracu
lously, clean.
There is far more traffic
than I had been led to expect,
quite enough to produce traf
fic jams during the rush
hours. Traffic moves on the
right, as ours does, so it is not
as hair-raising to an Amer
ican as the British and Swed
ish left-hand traffic, but it
moves at a terrific pace and
since horn-blowing is illegal it
pays to keep one's eyelids up.
Hare Right of Way
Pedestrians have the right-of-way
even when jaywalking
but you would never guess it
while riding with a Russian
chauffeur. Most people in
Moscow travel bv the mae-
! nificc.it fast, efficient and
beautiful subways (about 3.5
million passengers a day)
which deserve a whole article
by themselves. The fare is 5
kopeks about a nickel the
trains are long, fast, modern
and comfortable, and run as
often as every 45 seconds in
rush hours.
Each station is uniquely dif
ferent and each is a breath
taking work of art. We were
told that even at a fare of 5
kopeks the annual profit of
the subways is very large.
I would say that trucks and
busses still comprise a slight
majority of the street traffic
but there are a surprising
number and, we were told, a
rapidly growing number of
small cars and panel delivery
types of vehicles resembling
Volkswagens, Nashes, Volvos
and Corvairs along with the
older cars resembling Pack-
ards and Buicks.
All are Russian-made and
appear to be well-built.
Among the limousines we us
ually rode in I preferred the
old ZIS, which I am told
stands for "Automobile Fact
ory Named for Stalin."
Beautiful Built Car
It looks like a 1949 Pack
ard, is high, roomy, very com
fortable and is a beautifully
built car. The newer limou
sines look like a cross between
a Lincoln and a uaauiac, are
named Chaika (Seagull), and
seem to be as well constructed
but not as roomy and com
fortable.
The fact that Russians are
highly conscious of their hist
ory is borne out strikingly by
the way they care for old
museums, the genuinely hist
oric cathedrals (ordinary ones
are apparently left to the
small congregations to main
tain and they are rapidly fall
ing apart) and the palaces of
the Czars, both in and out of
the Kremlin.
We were fortunate enough
to be offered a rare trip
through the great palace of
the Kremlin. It is composed of
wings built in the 15th, 17th
and 19th centuries and each
room or hall literally stuns
the visitor with what seems
to be unmatchable opulence
and magnificence, only to be
surpassed by the next one.
While going through tile
palace and the Kremlin cath
edrals one of our party asked
one of our hosts, a high Rus
sian official who speaks Eng
lish, why a communist gov
ernment would go to obvious
ly great expense in order to
maintain and repair these
remnants of the old order.
He said, "Well, those people
were not of our class, but they
were of our people. They rep
resent something We Russians
went through, and thus they
are part of us. We wouldn't
think of wiping out these
things. They are our history."
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encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by
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Emanuel G. - She's too ser
ious about her music. Her
time belongs to the home.
Shirley G. - I've been told
I have enough talent for a
career in music. He should be
glad.
Emanuel G. - My wife has
let a lot of careless flattery
go to her head. She's con
vinced that she's another Lily
Pons and that nothing must
stand in her way toward the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Well, the first thing in her
way is me. And next comes
our three children. Only two
of them are in school. The
baby is three years old. But
suddenly Shirley is all wound
up about a career. Up to now
her singing was just a pas
time, a hobby. But now she
has a singing teacher coming
to the house twice a week.
He's a character from right
out of the comic page, one of
those Latin,-lover types. ;
The truth is, her voice Is
nothing special. Also, I don't
need the money she says she i
can earn performing. And
meanwhile I don't want her
throwing out my good money '
on all those lessons. She has
all she can do now taking care
of the children and our home, i
Shirley G. - I think I have
a right to follow through on
a chance for a career. Manny j
knew I had a deep interest
in singing when he married
me. I used to entertain at our
friends' homes and at amateur
contests. As long as I regard
ed it as a hobby, he took the
whole matter lightly. He let
me attend concerts and take
a few seasons of lessons at a
music school. But now that
I'm serious, he keeps thinking
up new objections.
If I'm as good as I've been
told 1 am by people whose
opinion I respect, then I'd like
to train for a recital and get
some professional criticism -not
Just the squelches and
cold waler my husband hands
out.
In our ten years of mar
riage I've been patient and a
good wife and mother. But
now that two of the children
are in school, I see nothing
wrong with having my teacher
come to the house. The les
sons take place during the
baby's nap.
. .
The C o u n e i 1 1 Evidently
what gels one member of this
family irritated (we mean
Emanuel), lulls another mem
ber into hours of peaceful
slumber (we mean the baby).
So there must be more to this
debate about Shirley's singing
than meets the ear.
There's no doubt that cer
tain fears arc now assailing
Emanuel, rise he'd be glad
that his wife was keeping
alive nn "outside'' interest.
All good wives are being con
stantly advised to do this very
tiling as a hedge against be
coming too child-centered and
having nothing challenging to
do when the children arc
grown and the home releases
her. So what's really worry
ing this husband''
Can it be that lie s afraid
Shirley may actually be very
gifted and may some day no
longer "need'' him as her pro
vider Does he require a wife
he ran dominate? And do the
singing lessons represent the
loosening of his hold on Shir
ley? His arguments arc redicu
lous. In one breath he says
money Is no problem to him.
he doesn't need what ''she
might earn. But then he
doesn't want Shirley to
"throw out" his money on her
lessons. A quick answer to
that one would be for Shirley
to accept modest engagements
(if she can get them) to sing
at weddings, to join a choir,
to participate in musicalcs -where
the fees would take
care of the tuition.
Emanuel's other kick, about
the teacher coming to the
house, sounds lame to us.
Would he rather have Shirley
hire a babysitter and leave
the house for her instruction?
Her solution is ingenious, for
it permits her to remain on
the premises, attentive to her
duty and, at the same time,
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ceremonies at Emigrant State
Park opening a new four-lane
stretch of highway which cost
$14.7 million.
The 33-mile stretch short
ens the distance between Emi
grant Hill and La Grande
from 56 to 52 miles.
reach out for the "plusses'
beyond.
To make her venture
smoother for Emanuel, Shir
ley must allay his fears of
losing her, and of losing out
to her in their present compe
titive relationship. She must
remember he didn't marry her
to make a coloratura out of
her. He married her to have
a lover and a partner. It may
pay her to switch the lessons
to the evening so Emanuel
can keep an eye on that "Latin-lover
type" teacher. That
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