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Show JHE difference In living standards between the United States and Russia was pointed out in a recent editorial in The Lincoln Times, Lincolnton, N.C. The editorial was entitled, "Some Difference": "Many newspapers recently carried car-ried an article by William L. Ryan of the Associated Press which delt with conditions in Moscow. It was based on information gained from a man who had recently left the Soviet capital. According to him, the Kremlin makes a point of raising rais-ing living standards a trifle each year. Even so they are tar below the level in the United States and many other nations. A constant barrage bar-rage of propaganda is employed to convince the Russian masses that "nobody else In the world ever had it so good." "Mr. Ryan dealt briefly with the situation in Russian retail stores. One leading department store, he wrote, "opens at about 11 a.m. At 9 a.m. there is already a queue running far back from the entrance. The store is invariably crowded, as are the food stores. There are some attractive displays in the windows, but usually the purchaser falls to find these items on the shelves.' "Contrast this with the average American store whether it be large or small, a chain or an independent. in-dependent. Long waiting lines are unknown, except in the case of some terrific bargain sale. There is plenty of goods for all who want to buy and a very wide selection of styles, colors, qualities and so on. There are no phony window dress-ings dress-ings whatever is displayed there is on sale inside. If the consumer doesn't like one store, he is free to go to a competitor's shop. Ha could not do that in Russia, where everything every-thing is a state monopoly. "Ntxl tim you shop, wbtlbir for such daily ntctssitits 0$ food or for t tssom'$ uardrobt, think of tb vssl difftrmcn bilwitn frttdom and communism. It should mak you mighty gUd you titt biro not in lb 'work' r parodist' of tb Krtmlin bossts." . Grass Roots Opinion From Ely Becord, Ely, Nev. "The Record believes that all of us must realize that free enterprise made our country strong. We . . . should use this knowledge in the domestic battle against creeping socialism. If we do not win this fight at home, our resources, productivity prod-uctivity and strength will, under enroachlng bureaucracy, degenerate degener-ate Into stagnation and poverty here and the free world's defense against tyranny . . .will be fatally weakened." |