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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Items of Interest to the Housewife AROUND he HOUSE To prolong the life of childrens Tie a simple bow-knin your hose with the nozzle protruding up- shoestrings, stitch up and down ward. Support it on a block, and them several times on the sewing ot INSTALLMENT FIFTEEN The thing I liked best of all about the Soviet Union, and it is one we would do well to copy, is the intelligently decent Russian attitude toward minority races. They are helped without being patronized, and they have developed and an understandable gratitude. If they have no real freedom, neither do the Russians. While this Soviet policy may not be so good as our handling of the Philippine Islands, it is infinitely better than our bungling and thoughtless treatment of self-respe- racial-coloni- ct al the Negro. We fly south out of Siberia, down into the ancient Oriental peoples now ruled by the Soviet Union. Suddenly we are crossing a huge blue lake. It is so big that when land drops away behind us we still cannot see the shore ahead. When it does appear, we see the beginning of a rolling desert. On our d left a chain of blue, mountains rises like a fence. Geologically, they seem about as old snow-cappe- Entire factories have been moved from one part of Russia to another. as our Rockies. On the east side of this fence is China. We enter Kazakstan, of which 'Alma-At- a is the capital. The Kazak 'people are part of the savage tribes who for a thousand -- no-jma- years have pressed against Europe once formed a part of the larmies of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane and Atillas Huns. When Europe invented the rifle, they sank from the status of a terrible menace to that of a constantly harassing threat. In the past few centuries the Russian people have been pouring through the Urals to colonize Siberia. The Russians had to struggle with these savage Mongolian nomads, whose culture was only a little .higher than that of our American Indians. They battled the equivalent ,of Geronimo and Sitting Bull 'and they have their Custers who made valiant Last Stands, but who finally, after a series of border wars, opened the continent to the White We penned our Indians up in . Man. reservations. The Russians found another solution as we shall see. airWe step out onto Alma-At- a port at the base of the foothills into a country exactly like that around or Colorado Colorado, Boulder, The the scenery, trees, Springs. even the weeds are the same. The prominent Russians and the prominent Kazaks wear immaculate like white raw silk suits. Alma-AtDenver, is on an irrigated plain with mountains rising in the background. We pass through cornfields, where sunflowers grow along the again exactly irrigation ditches like Colorado. The farm houses are of brick, made of clay and straw the adobe of our South west. This Soviet Denver is a sprawling Russian town, which before the war had 180,000 people and now has 400,000. That evening after the customary banquet we go to the local opera, where they give a performance based on an old Kazak folk tale. The actors are all Kazaks as are the words, music and costumes. It is a beautiful show, and gives us a vivid idea of what these people once were like. The costumes are 'and i a, sun-bak- ed clearly derived from the Chinese and a musician picks out a haunting Oriental tune on what looks like, a Chinese banjo while a pair of twin Kazak boys sing. All of their culture came over the mountains with them but it is preserved only here in the opera, for the clothing of those we see in the streets is not picturesque, but is a drab composite of clean patches indistinguishable from the rest of the Soviet Union. v Next morning they take us for a drive out through the irrigated river valley, past pink adobe houses like those of New Mexico (lacking only the strings of red peppers) to a great Soviet experimental station one of four in the Kazakstan Republic. Kazakstan is four-fiftthe size of all but it of exclusive Russia, Europe is largely arid like our American -- hs dust-bow- l. This is a fruit farm, where under irrigation they raise apricots, peaches, cherries, and plums. They are keenly interested in the plum which they recently brought here from Canada, and is already propounds ducing more than twenty-fiv- e of fruit per tree. In this particular orchard they use the most modern pipe system of subterranean irrigation. They are proudest of their vineyards; in 1914 they had 3,000 hectares of land in grapes. Now they have 30,000. Workers on this state farm get only 300 roubles a month in salary, but at the end of the season they get a produce dividend of about 700 kilograms (roughly 1,500 pounds) of vegetables, which includes corn, melons and pumpkins. Then each has his own irrigated garden plot about a quarter of an acre for each worker. They may sell the produce dividend oil the free market, at prices lower than the Moscow free market. The director gets 1,700 roubles a month and pays monthly 35 roubles for two large rooms in a big house he shares with someone else. The 'rent, he says, is figured on the basis of 1 rouble, 30 kopeks, per square meter of dwelling space. In American figures, this is about 10 cents a square yard. Eisenstein is of German-Jewis- h origin. He is a short, friendly little man. He and his staff wear colored polo shirts with short sleeves in the Hollywood manner, and Eisenstein wears a well-cwhite linen suit. He is filming the life of Ivan the Terrible. Ivan is one of the newly resurrected Soviet heroes. Eisenstein speaks fluent English, with a slight but agreeable accent. The name of the President-Premie- r vof Kazakstan is Nutras He is a pleasant, kindly old Comanche or Sioux, who except for his European clothes, might be the dignified tribal chief you would meet on any Indian reservation. Most of his cabinet ministers are also Kazaks, but there are a few blue-eyeblond Russians present. The Russians, however, are in the background. The Kazaks tell us the people racially belong to the Turkoman-Monggroup, and fought for independence as early as the twelfth century, when the southeastern part of the present republic was under the rule of the Chinese Seventh Dynasty. Later they adopted the Mohammedan religion. The title of the hereditary ruler was the Khan as in Kublai Khan and Genghis Khan. The Mohammedan religion is still popular many people go to the mosque. But Kazakstan is now one of the Soviet republics and has a great measure of independence; recently it was given the right of a separate foreign minister. Joyce turning to the premier says, You say now this is an independent republic; well, tell us about some of the conflicts youve" had with the central government. The premier says there havent been many conflicts, and lets it rest at that. You say that you have the right to send ministers to other countries; who will you send them to? Will you send one to America? A big Russian down at the end of the table, hitherto silent, now tactfully leans forward and suggests that such ministers will be sent to those countries most useful to them commercially. Joyce turns back to the premier. Are you going to send one to America or not? fast-thinkin- g, ut Un-dasin- presto, you have . an improvised machine. sprinkler head. Use a stiff hand brush for rePlace a piece of waxed paper moving silk from corn in a jiffy. under the centerpiece you have on When using both the rind and your fine table. Prevents stains Of course, that would be decided from water and keeps cloth from juice of lemons and oranges, grate the rind before squeezing the fruit. in Moscow, the premier explains. sticking fast in hot weather. The premier explains at the time Plan a play at home night of the 1917 Revolution the people Keep painted woodwork shiny were 93 per cent illiterate. Today and clean by applying a thin coat each week with games, music, g and candy illiteracy is gone, and the Soviets of wax to the places most often stunts, d besides. children. the have built many theaters and pulling by schools. Naturally, the people are grateful, so why should there be any disputes with the Moscow government? The premier explains that the people elect delegates to a regional Soviet, who send delegates to the By Ruth Wyeth Spears Kazakstan Soviet, who chose him as tifully as if you hired a decorator. Readers may get copies of this booklet for 15c premier. pattern. No. postpaid. A All right. Now ask him how 255, for the spool shelves shown in the 15c. is Send sketch also orders with Stalin got his job; we want to unname and address to: derstand it. Ask him that. The handsome' Russian down at MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford HiUs, N. Y. Drawer 10 the end of the table leans forward Enclose 15 cents for booklet and 15 and explains smoothly and briefly cents for pattern. the intricacies of the Soviet electoral system. He did it politely and Address there was no feeling that he was the brushing premier aside; only helping him over the hard places. Likewise when we ask how many refugees are here, it is the alert and friendly Russian who tells us TT IS marvelous what you can do with a yard of flowered chintz. that a million are still here, alJust have try cutting the posies out and though many already gone back to the reoccupied territory. spreading around for dramatic efThey now present Eric with a fect. Tint a faded bath mat and apply a stunning big rose in one complete Kazak costume which consists of a robe comer, use others on towels; then 'Get O'Sullivan SOUS as well as more gorgeous than anything I have make shower curtains of plain seen this side of a Shriners con- material with more roses applied. Heels next time you have your vention. But its crowning glory is shoes repaired. These intriguing ideas are from a a hood of red velvet, with ear flaps Make Your Own Curbooklet, Every page is illustrated so clearthe size of soup plates, and the tains. you CAN WALK that you can foUow directions whether whole, including the ear flaps, is ly you have ever sewn before or not. With Its help you may use both new and old lined with silver fox fur. FARTHER materials to curtain your house as beau- The party they gave us at the WITHOUT TIRING. hotel that night was the most pleasant we attended in the Soviet Union. Members Big League It was the most informal. The dinner was elaborate as usual, but it The only baseball clubs that wasnt stiff. The local notables were have played continuously in the National league since it was foundeasy, friendly notables. We have now left Kazakstan and ed in 1876 are the Boston Braves enter the neighboring Socialist So- and the Chicago Cubs, says Coviet Republic of Uzbekistan, whose lliers. The only clubs that have capital is the ancient Mohammedan played in the American league WMER.IC'A city of Tashkent. I am riding in since it was founded in 1900 are the Chicago White Sox, the Clevethe caboose plane with the correICODtS EE spondents. The buffet service is as land Indians and the Detroit good as in the plane ahead. It even includes fresh strawberries, taken on at Alma-AtDick Lauterbach pays a visit to the toilet and returns shaking his head. Ill never get used to them. Five thousand feet above a howling desert they serve us strawberries, caviar and champagne, and then I go back there and find nobody has remembered to empty the chemical bucket for three days. The crowd of airport-greeteras are wearing white silk at Alma-Atsuits. Again half are Russian and half local Orientals. The local boys are known as Uzbeks. The jackets story-tellin- finger-spotte- Posies for Your Bathroom Made From One Yard of Flowered Chintz wood-workin- g ed a. s, a, can also get this cereal in Kelloggs && You 10 VARIETY 6 different cereals, erous packages, in one handy carton! gen- d, 7emptmg, lot PARKER HOUSE ROLLS ol American mission to Russia in Gen. James H. Burns and William L. Batt. 1941 included of all Russian white silk suits button up to the collarbone and have collars like the high turned-dow- n Chinese. They wear caps ' of the same white pongee silk. The cap, incidentally, is a relic of revolutionary days and was symbolic of the working class, since only bourgeois exploiters wore felt hats. Recently, the government began making felt hats, explaining that in the new Russia, they need no longer be regarded as' a badge of shame. BolsheHowever, all the old-tiviks still cling to caps. Nesterov always wears one. Mike Kalugin wore one. And, of course, Stalin, in all his pictures. As a hall-maof the old Bolshevik aristocracy, the cap is probably 'politically safer than the hat. rk no BE CONTINUED) Tasty, tender Parker House Rolls anytime with Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast IF YOU BAKE AT HOME youll cheer this baking discovery that stays fresh for weeks on your pantry shelf ready to help you make delicious bread, rolls, buns at a moments notice. Dissolve according to directions then use as fresh yeast At your grocers. Stays fresh .on your pantry shelf |