Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 6 | Prevailing Opinions

I Prevailing Opinions I Comment of 1 the Iho American Press Assignment to Utopia When William Henry Chamberlin Chamber- Chamber lin the distinguished correspondent correspondent correspondent dent of the Christian Science Monitor finally left Moscow for good he wrote a book which shocked the hundreds of sands of followers he had ac acquired acquired acquired ac- ac in this country through his books and lecture tours He had given them a generous and friendly interpretation of the so soviet soviet soviet so- so viet experiment Now suddenly he revealed the picture which he previously had suppressed He told of the famine o of ot 33 1932 in which millions starved without the government admitting that a famine existed He told particularly particularly particularly of the compulsion under which the correspondents suffered suffered suffered suf suf- suf- suf to keep them from telling the truth Some months later there appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap the book I Write as I Please by Walter Valter Duranty of the New York Times probably the known best-known American correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- In Russia The title is self App a are r e n t 11 1 y however Duranty either deliberately deliberately deliberately prevaricated in saying he wrote as he pleased or else what he pleased to write was and is a queer mixture of fact and fancy At least there is strong new testimony to the effect in the book H Assignment to Utopia by Eugene Lyons who was United Press correspondent in Russia from 1927 to 1934 Lyons went to Russia an avowed and militant communist He came out thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- disillusioned and bearing witness that Chamberlin understated understated understated under under- stated the difficulties of the correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents in getting the truth first from the Russian government government government govern govern- ment and second across the bor bor- der The The Portland ortland Oregonian Examination by Lawsuits The proposed amendment to open all civil examination papers to public inspection would wreck the civil service It may maybe maybe maybe be true that there are arc errors fa favoritism favoritism fa- fa and too much attention to trivialities since civil service is operated by human agencies and not by instruments of preci preci- sion slon But that is hardly justification tion for paving the way for every litigious minded candidate to go goto goto goto to court And the complainants would be as likely to to ask the judges to enforce trivialities against the successful applicants as WI to rule them out in the case of the unsuccessful With opportunity opportunity opportunity for comparison and judicial judicial judicial judi judi- cial review we might well have to wait walt for the eligible list for street sweepers until the United States supreme court ruled whether the examiners examiner's markings on the correct spelling of man o war unconstitutionally confiscated an appellants appellant's property b by de de- de him of third place on the list This is not the only question to the amendment but it is isen en enough San enough ugh San Francisco Chronicle In rn Freedoms Freedom's Name Russia today is supposed to be bean bean bean an approximation of Utopia It is is in effect Marxian socialism made real Within its borders the philosophy of the famous author or Das has bas ceased to be merely a theory and has s become a rule of life a system of people Josef Stalin once a shoemaker now the secretary of the communist com corn party maintains an al allegedly allegedly allegedly al- al benign dictatorship in the interest of a proletariat fanatIcally fanatically fanatically loyal to the bolshevik principle principle principle prin prin- ciple of industrial democracy But something is wrong in Mus Mus- covy No less than 1141 persons have been executed during the past few months They are the known victims of a purge di directed directed directed di- di by the Russian Caesar How v many more must die before treason treason treason trea trea- son and sabotage will terminate nobody can guess What is 13 perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- plain is 13 the fact that liberty lib jib erty already has perished in the Soviet Union The tyranny of the czars has been replaced by the tyranny of professional radicals King Log has been succeeded by King Stork The The Evening Her Her- ald aid