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Show i THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH When best linens get worn, cut Lemon and orange skins can be. around weak areas and insert cro- grated and used for flavoring in cheted motifs in other spots. cakes, puddings and other desTheyll look as if they were intend- serts. ed so. Moths will not remain in rugs Allow the electric iron to cool which are sponged at intervals after use and remove any starch with hot water to which a little with soap and a damp cloth. vinegar has been added. INSTALLMENT ELEVEN , burg has had a free rein. His 'articles calling for vengeance on all Germans are prominent. His passionate admiration for France contributes to the poor view he takes of and in of the particular war effort of which, like most Russians, he has seen nothing. His articles led the Soviet journalistic clamor for a premature second front. When the finally opened their Normandy offensive, he explained the rapidity of their advance from the Normandy beachhead as being largely due to the effectiveness of the French In the Soviet Union about people have been on an even lower living standard for twenty-fiv- e years, and only a few privileged millions know anything better. During this quarter-centur- y the Soviets have controlled of the worlds land surface, rich in natural 180,-',000,0- 00 Anglo-Saxon- s, Anglo-Americ- one-seven- th Resources. " They explain this low living standard by pointing out that; the Russian Anglo-America- people lack technical experience and that Russias resources are largely undeveloped. But to correct these things they had almost a quarter t of a century of peace which Is a long time. Temporarily, money has little value. Everyone has far more than he needs to buy his ration limit. The unofficial currency in Russia is Vodka. The average citizen may buy a pint a month for about $5, but if he does not care to. drink, it has a Very high trading value. There are several categories of tationing corresponding to different Strata of the Soviet caste system. The Red Army is extremely well View of Moscow, shown before first-clas- well-know- u. Anglo-Americ- an an ns Maquis. What might be called the American fifth column has never bothered to go underground, even during the war. Large sections of our people openly favored the axis before it began, and since we got in, power- hammered by Germans. fed. And Soviet officers enjoy a 50 per cent discount at the commercial stores. The Kremlin is luxuriously fed through its own commissary. To foreign embassies the Kremlin obligingly provides delicacies otherwise unobtainable in the Soviet Union at any price. Foreigners are about as well fed as the top Bolsheviks (except, of course, for the very top, in the Kremlin). . For ordinary Soviet civilians, there is a sliding scale, which may be pretty well judged by the bread s ration. A warworker gets 600 grams a day more than a worker gets pound. A second-clas- s 500, an office employee (not an executive) gets 400 and a dependent (old people, children, cripples) gets 300 grams. Writers, actors, singers, musicians, and other artists are in a special luxury category, for food, clothing and living quarters. A society called Voks, organized by the government to maintain cultural relations with the outside world today honors Eric, accompanied lay Joyce and me, with a party. Not more than twenty-fiv- e Russians are there, but the list inn Russian cludes every name in the arts. There is, of course, the composer Shostakovitch, the sculptress who did the gigantic statuary group for the Paris exposition of 1937, and the immensely popular writer Ilya Ehrenburg, of whom I have also heard much from the correspondents. He served as Tass correspondent in Paris, the only Western country he knows, and is at ease in the French language. His political line in relation to the Germans is indistinguishable from that of the late Georges Clemen-ceaThis has not always been the line of his government. Until the Teheran conference, where it became clear that the powers would raise no serious obstacle to their annexation of the Baltic States, the Soviets maintained, in Moscow, a Free German Committee of captured generals. Stalin had emphatically said that the war was not against the German people but bnly against Hitlers clique. A separate Soviet peace, signed with any German faction other than Hitlers, keeping intact the German army, was possible. Since Teheran, however, when Stalin, in exchange for various assurances, hccepted the unconditional surrender formula, the Free German Committee has been soft pedaled, and Ehren Anglo-Americ- an ful newspapers have continued caustic criticism of our British and Russian allies. By contrast with this, Russia seems a miracle of national unity, with not a dissenting voice. But if Russians are contemptuous of us because all of our newspapers do not support Roosevelt with that degree of doglike devotion with which Russian newspapers support Stalin, we can retort that, so far, none of our generals has deserted to join either the Germans or the Japanese. Moscow has not widely publicized that General Vlassov, charged in the early days of the war with the defense of the Staraya Russa sector, went over to the enemy with his entire army corps, mostly Ukrainians, The Germans soon discovered it was not safe to arm these men for combat on the Eastern front for many of them would desert again to join the partisans. We generously praise the high morale of the Red Army and sometimes complain that our boys do not seem to know what they are fighting for. But, for the record, we should remember that out of the many prisoners the Germans hold, they have failed to organize a single battalion willing to fight in Nazi uniform. We have read many stories of the heroism of Moscow when the enemy was at its gates. Thousand of women left their homes to dig fortifications in the suburbs, saving the city to the embarrassment of our American experts who had predicted that it would fall. Such stories are true, and are typical of the great majority. But I should like to give a few other stories which, although typical only of a minority, are equally well authenticated. The Moscow panic described for me began October, 1941, as the Germans approached the town. The foreigners and the government had gone. As the fighting got closer rumors arose. People began destroying all evidence which would prove they were ever sympathetic with the Party. They burned up those pictures of Stalin, Lenin and Molotov which are in many Russian homes, and burned their Communist books doing such a thorough job that it is still difficult to buy this type of literature because of the paper shortage the government has not got around to replacing it. The Germans were dropping not only reprints of Winston Churchills early speeches attacking the Bolsheviks but also attacks on Jews. But German propaganda was not solely responsible for the rising in Moscow; Russian propaganda also contributed. In an effort to arouse patriotism in the Russian people, the Bolsheviks had turned to history, repopularizing the discarded heroes of czarist times, generals and czars who in the past had heaved out invaders in the name of Holy 'Mother Russia. We know, reasoned a promifient Bolshevik, that the people are not fighting for Communism; they are It was true, fighting for Russia. and the Bolsheviks capitalized on it. But pride of race cuts both ways: if you convince a people that an unusual amount of heroism goes along with their possession of Slavic blood, they take the further logical step of concluding that something is wrong with anyone not similarly blessed. did not directly The embarrass the Kremlin for, since the purges of 1937, very few Jews remained in high government positions. They have recently taken steps to correct the trend by publicity about the Slavic of antiquity. The czars Anglo-Americ- an often encouraged and one of the admirable things about the Soviet regime is its uncompromising attitude toward any form of race prejudice which it holds down with a firm hand; no small task in dealing with the Russian people, in whom has been a tradition for centuries. But the government has done a good job in keeping it down with the result that is no stronger than it is in America. The people during the Moscow panic were also sore at the army For twenty-fiv- e years they had sacrificed to maintain the ' biggest one in Europe, and had been told it was the best equipped. But since June it had been kicked out of one defense line after another, and now beaten back to the outskirts of the capital. The whole thing seemed hopeless to many, and since they were also frightened by the continual bombing, they felt the sooner it was over the better. My informant-frien- d with one blue eye and one brown, had the habit of wearing in his button-hol- e n a small replica of the flag of his country in red, white and blue enamel. It also happened his country was then being highly praised in the Moscow press for the aid it promised to Russia, and the people were being assured that much more would soon arrive. But my friend had to take off his little enamel flag because it got him into too many arguments. Strangers would come up to him on the street or on the subway and say, Why are you silly people sending help to the regime? Dont you know youre only prolonging the war? If youd mind your own business, it would be over sooner. And if anyone started making a patriotic speech, someone might remark sourly, Whats the matter with you, anyway? Are you a Jew? In general, the evacuees were not popular. Rumors circulated as to enormous prices they were paying for automobiles to make their getaway, and other rumors to the effect that peasants were stopping them on the highways to relieve them of hoarded valuables. The situation got worse. The militiamen on the comer had disappeared. Also those guarding vacant anti-Semitis- windows Double and doors should be stored in a dry place. Dampness will cause them to warp, and much planing and refitting will be necessary when reinstalled in the autumn. When buying needles, choose those with a smooth finished eye and smooth, sharp point. Thread wont fray as easily and point wont catch in the fabric as you sew. ariti-Semitis- m anti-Semitis- m NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS Smart for Linens Cross-Stitc- h Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. 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Russians are not by nature an orderly people and as soon as they discovered the militia was food queues gone, the became pushing crowds. There were rumors that Jews were being beaten in the subways. Three things stopped the Moscow panic. First, the government on October 17, ordered all stored food dumped on 'the market, allowing people to buy in unlimited quantities. If the Germans were to take Moscow, it was better to have it in the cupboards of the people than in warehouses for the Germans. The people were so busy scrambling for this food that they had no time for rumors. slow-movi- CTO ng BE CONTINUED 1 New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast keeps for weeks on your pantry shelf full-streng- th IF YOU BAKE AT HOME-y- ou can make delicious bread any time ... at a moments notice with New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Always dependable New Fleischmanns Fast Rising keeps fresh for weeks on your pantry shelf ready for quick action whenever you want it. 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