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Show The Cache American, Lojran, Cache County, Utah Pace Seven -- EP0RT M TC-- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS D ZJrocft ' L White TWO We get a quick first look at Moscow. Wide, Incredibly empty itreets, aldewalki full of hurrying, shabby people, walking past dingy (hope In dilapidated building. Monotonous row of uninteresting apartments concrete beehives which sometimes make an effort at beauty in ornamentation. But it is like the architecture of an institution. Now we come to Spaso House which, before the 191? Revolution, r was built by a baron, and is one of a number of such palaces In Moscow which once belonged either to the merchant prince or the Romanov nobility. The Bolsheviks have turned them over to foreign governments for embassies. Inside, all are giant forests of marble columns from the tops of which, like grapevines, traU the marble balustrades of staircases. They are as drafiy as movie sets, and as cozy to live in as Grand Central Station. In the back yard of each is a hen house. It was In one such august hall. Its spaciousness llghUy salted down half-hearte- beet-suga- Ml i I :n i : V XN-- : N i IJL May Day f h ? t r i ?! 1 :i ; i d Uiere. Although , Red Army officers must still spend some time in the ranks, schools like Annapolis and West Point have been established where they give promising youngsters training toward commissions. Also the Suvarov cadet schools have recently been opened, admitting sons of officers and orphans as young as eight years old. These officers in the foyer of the concert hall are apparently on leave and, except for the fact that they are are under-size- g men. They are usually blue-eyeblonds with high cheekbones, and their unsmiling Slav faces and clipped bulletheads constantly ree mind me of Prussian officers, as they solemnly patrol the foyer with these shabby, undernourished women. But now our hosts tear us away from this revolving crowd to a room near our box where a little between-the-ac- ts supper is being served in our honor by the director of the theater. This truly oriental hospitality has nothing to do with Lenin or the theory of Surplus Values. These people may be socialists, but they are also Russians. As such, they inherit an even stronger tradition from the Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan than they do from Karl Marx. Looking around the hall, I wonder where they keep the old people. All these faces are young; In their So were twenties and thirties. those on the streets this afternoon. What became of Russians who should now be in their fifties, sixties, or seventies? Now, back in America, I still wonder. In Russia, if you decide to move, you must go through about as many formalities as you would need to get married. In Moscow you don't just arrive in a taxi (for there are none) at the hotel of your choice. Foreigners stay at one of three hotels but they are the best Moscow affords except for the Moskva which has been built since the Revolution g and is reserved for communists, important government officials (which is the same thing), artists, and top Red Army officers. Its public rooms are in an uninteresting, classic style, which is best represented in New York by the Grand Central Station. week. Wages are paid to the plants Intourist is a government-owne- d travel agency and you can start 10.000 workers twice a month and thinking Cooks or the American Ex- on a piecework basis. For a prepress, because in peacetime it ar- determined quota or "norm of work, the worker receives 750 rouranges tours with hotel reservations and meals. But in Russia it has bles per month. Then, If he overcomplete charge of the movements fulfills this norm (and they usually of practical- do) his pay goes up on a sliding and creature-comfort- s ly all foreigners, and you cannot scale. So the true average would be 1.000 roubles a month, and an ocstir without it casional 1,500 or 2,000. For here it is Impossible to drop Since the rouble has a purchasing into a restaurant for a casual meal, go to a hotel for a night or climb on power, in terms of rationed Soviet a train for a trip. A Russian be- goods, of about 8 cents in America, longs to his job. He and his family the Soviet war worker gets, in terms power, usually sleep in an apartment house of American purchasing which his factory owns. He prob- between $20 and $40 for his. week. ably eats, in his factory dining room, However, other elements brighten food raised on his factorys farm. His children attend a day nursery the picture. The worker may buy which it maintains. They play his meals in the factorys restauto and in its cul- rant; if he chooses to eat all three movies go games ture palace and they go on vacations when it can spare them on trains which it designates to resorts and workers homes which it controls. t. Foreigners can function in this rigidly ordered world only if some state organization provides for their 2 living space, transportation, - food, and ration coupons, which is where Intourist comes in. The Soviet Government realizes that it cannot force foreigners from the Western countries down to the standard of living, which is the lot of most Soviet citizens. Consequently, it accords foreigners privileges which in the Western world are only common decencies, but which are fantastic luxuries in the Soviet Union. I was accorded a large and comfortable room at the Metropole hnTniiofitiiTfrilinriiiTTiriiiifir and presented with a book of ration d Red tickets, each good for a meal in one two of the Metropoles dining rooms that will be only 8 roubles a reserved for foreigners. It had still there, The factory also maintains day. a third dining room for the selected nurseries and kindergartens. WomRussians who were lucky enough to en get the same pay as men. have permission to stay there. I But now Eric turns to the direcnever saw it, nor did they ever see tor. What does he get ? He reours. ceives a basic salary of 3,000 roubles My hotel room with an adjoining month' (in rationed purchasing bath was comfortable but somewhat power, about $240) except that, if depressing. The washbasin drain the plant wins a production banner was stopped so that it took ten min(this one like most Soviet war plants utes for my shaving water to run have), he then gets 150 per cent out, leaving in the bowl a scum of more up to a maximum, of 10,000 soap and whisker stubble, but I soon roubles a month (about $300). found this is standard in Russia. But Eric is now back to the workAfter moving my bags to the ers; what about their grievances? Metropole, I stop by the embassy to Well, they take them up with the change a hundred American dollars trade union committee for their deinto 1,200 roubles. Once settled, I go partment of the plant for a walk in the town, with that (TO BE CONTINUED) d old-tim- In Moscow with curved gilt furniture, that Eric Johnston held his first press conference. The reporters plead for press conferences. For the Soviet Government has promised he can see everything he desires, and, until he has been in Moscow for a whUe, he cant conceive how closely foreign reporters are held down; how seldom they are allowed to leave Moscow; how little they see or hear. But now Johnston is off to call on Mikoyan, an Intimate of Stalin and a top Bolshevik, who is People's Commissar for Foreign Trade, our official host Johnston returns from the Krem lin very much Impressed by Mikoyan. "Highly intelligent Hed be prominent in any country. In America hed be a big businessman or Industrialist. I told him that He seemed pleased. Tonight our Russian hosts, with Kirilov in charge, take us to a concert In Tschalkovsky Hall, which In New York would be Carnegie HalL I look at the hall which seems well built but a little too ornate. Then at the crowd. It is intent on the looks stage and in the half-ligshabby, except for the red epaulets on the officers uniforms. Most of their heads are clipped, Prussian style. Each act on the stage is introduced by an attractive brunette in a simply cut dress of gleaming white satin. By contrast with that shabby audience, she is a dream princess, and so are the performers. This drab socialist audience stares at the stage as though it were some unattainable fairyland of which they get just an hours glimpse. A male pianist has just taken his bows and retired to the wings and they are now clearing away his grand piano for the next act How? Well, the slender brunette in the white satin dress is pushing it a feat made possible because it is on castors. Later, after watching many slender women heave pianos, trunks and crates around, we become almost as calloused as Russians. But now in the dark we look at each other wordlessly and smile. Now the lights come up and we go out into tiie great foyer where the Russian audience is Indulging in the pleasant European custom of a between-act- s promenade. And I've never seen anything like clothes, poorly cut, It often flashy but always of tawdry materials. This la the Tschaikovsky Concert Hall where seats usually go to top officials or to crack Stakhanovite workers who get high wartime wages. But their clothes cant compare with those of a meeting of the Workers Alliance in my home town of Emporia, Kansas, at the bottom Yet Carnegie of our depression. Hall seldom offers a better program than the one that we heard on the stage. I note that the crowd is almost as poorly fed as it is poorly dressed. The Red Army officers are robust enough. But too many of these Rus high-rankin- well-know- n F.ddie j George Munger. Johnny Grodzicki, fromNanticoke, Pa., is an ex paratroop-er- , who is still working on a shrapnel wound in his right leg. George Munger, passing the off-in icers school test the Pacific area, has made such a Eddie Dyer gnc record the army doesnt want to let him go. The main point of this yam is that Dyer believes both men could have been two of the best pitchers in baseball. "When I had Grodzicki at Columbus in 1941." Dyer says, I thought he was the best minor league pitch135 er I ever saw. pounds, he had what you might call everything. That season Johnny won 19 games and lost 5 when his record might just as well have been 22 wins and 2 defeats. In addition to a fine arm he had both head and heart, but an uncertain right leg due to a shrapnel wound which has been healing slowly. But he is still undiscouraged. In shape Johnny might easily have been a 25 or winner. "George Munger, in my book, is one of the best pitchers in Cardinal history. In his last season with the Cardinals in 1944, Munger won 11 games and lost 3. But he was just beginning to find himself. He is now on duty in the Far East and I don't know when well get him back. Munger is another who might have led the league. These two are not the only cases. The game through 1946 will give you many others from other clubs. e Vets Will Dominate The pennant races of 1946 will feature largely returning players from the service forces. Among those I might mention are Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Tex Hughson, Joe Gordon, Bobby Doerr, Bill Dickey, Phil Rizzuto, Johnny Mize, Hank Greenberg, Dick Wakefield, Spud Chandler, Charlie Keller, Johnny Beazley, Howie Pol-le- t, Peewee Reese, Pet" Reiser, Country Slaughter, Terry Moore, Dave Ferriss, Dom DiMaggio, and many, many more. list that It is from this you will find the pennant winners, the leading hitters and the lead ing pitchers. They will dominate the double show. There will be others who were not in service who will play good ball. Here is an example. In 1945, Snuffy Stirnweiss led the American league hitters with a seasons average of .309. Yet it is the opinion smart baseball men that it will take a mark of .360 or .370 to lead the punching parade this season in the junior circuit. I put this query up to six American league veterans, including Bill Dickey and George Selkirk, who know their way around. There were four or five others from American league clubs. It was also their opinion that the 1945 winning mark of .309 wouldn't finish in the first 12. sixty-six-ho- ur sub-WP- "Well-dresse- Ulfj Dyer of the. has about all the pitchers two teams could use. Your guess would be that Eddie has nothing to worry about. But the first section of any managers job is to worry about something. Two of Manager Dyers worries now are Johnny Grodzicki and MANAGER comfortable feeling you hav when a large roll of money is rustling in your pocket and you may buy what you like in a strange city. Slowly during my walk, I discover that there is nothing I can buy. Here no one ever kills an hour. There are no cafes, bars, or hours of leisure time. The limited supplies of newspapers were sold out hours ago. There remains the subway, which I can enter for the equivalent of four American cents. It has been proclaimed the worlds best. It Is a good one, exactly like the best in New York or London, with the difference that it is cleaner and its waiting platforms and corridors are lavishly done in costly polished marbles. Yet the system is small with few stations serving only a small per cent of the people. In the Western world any transit corporation would spend the cost of this polished marble on more miles of track and more stations, swelling their capitalist profits by taking in more nickels from a public eager to ride nearer to work. A day or so later we are shown our first Soviet factory. It is in Moscows industrial suburbs and it makes the famous Stormovik plane for the Red Air Force. Approaching it we see enormous sign boards at the entrance on which ar given the most recent production figures, the names of workers have overfulfilled their quota only here the word is norm" and big pictures of Lenin and Stalin, apparently painted by the same artist who does the portraits of the tattooed man, the snake charmer, and the baby for the side-shoAll this faces a square, and there is also a little raised platform in which there is also a red wooden tribune for speakers. We later discover that these are standard in all Soviet factories. Before inspecting this one, we are taken to the office of the director, who in America might correspond to the president of the company. He is a young man of thirty-seveVasili Nikolayevitch Smyrnov by name, and tells us he has worked in aviation twenty-fou- r years eight years as director. The director tells Eric Johnston that 65 per cent of his employees are now women, that before the war it was about 30 per cent Hours? The regular eight-hou- r day, plus three daily hours of overtime, for which they are paid time and a half, as in most American factories. But they work six days a week, a hours. working week of sixty-si- x Boys and girls under eighteen work only eight hours a day, five days a d 4t'MYAX !tt sian women have bad complexions which seem to indicate lack of vita mins. These people, in their twenties and thirties, were children during the hard days after the revolution; years of malnutrition show in their bad bone structure. No wonAmerder we three average-sizeicans stand half a head higher than the Red Army officers who parade lur-Z)ti:rjil- cr Jl Simpfe ZJu oSomc for S, IV. INSTALLMENT for Hjo Psttera No. 1488 Is designed for sizes 18. ZO; 40 and 42. Size 14, blouse, requires 1'. yards of 33 or 12. yn. S. American Baseball No one can Frock er contrasting shade. Grown-ugrowing up charmers. p Mac-Phai- pattern desired. 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