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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH O" NC (u O 'ASK (- -O O N ms 0- - - armasn v (v, (v. (u (w (w (u (u ( (w (v fw (w (w(u(Ufw(u(w II A quiz a with answers offering information on various subjects CwN(ww(WNNN(W(v(w(w(u(w(w(uw(WU(i.(u(w(v(i.(k.(u(i.(U(WN(i.w6.NN(w i. 1. White INSTALLMENT THIRTEEN I told him what I was doing here and that this was Omsk. They told me theyd been as technical advisers on a assigned big war construction project. A mine up north, said Tex. And now were going out. Ed said, to secure permission to travel outside the capital. One of the Allied g countries which has in power a left-win- government adorned its diplomatic staff in Moscow with a special labor attache, and appointed to this post an important union official. He came to extend the hand of fellowship from the toilers of the West to their fellow workers in Russia. The Soviets gave him countless banquets but let him see nothing. This lack of freedom has so warped his viewpoint that he now insists that the Soviet system of unions is only a scheme to get the last ounce of work out of labor. , After the Revolution, Lenin invited foreign concessionaires to help get Russian industry back on its feet. Later they were thrown out. Stalin invited foreign engineers to build the great factories and dam rivers, but later put some on trial At this little burg, they set up a whole Intourist Hotel to take care of us. Brought in wine, cheese, cigarettes, candy, noodles, and dried eggs. For the .rest, we were supposed to scavenge off the country. They sent in a cook and an assistant cook, a bookkeeper in all about ten people taking care of us. , We really didnt get to know many Russians, said Ed. Except it was diiferent with the girls. They have some fine girls and nobody seems to mind if you take them out. They might have been assigned to for espionage. us. Or anyway had to tell the NKVD Of course, Bolshevik hostility whatever we said. A aroused bitter counter-hostilitWe know they gave the hotel emcordon around sanitaire was built a ployees lecture, said Tex. Said Russia. France supported Poland in a war against the Bolsheviks in 1921, and Russia was for over a decade excluded from the League and 'denied diplomatic recognition. So their suspicion of foreigners came to have some basis in fact. This warped view of the world held by the Kremlin is slowly yielding to reality. After Lenins death, Stalin won power and supported the thesis gingerly at first that socialism in one country was possible and Russia could dare to devote her energies to building up her own economic structure. World revolution, he explained, was desirable, and he pledged himself to bend all efforts to bring it about. But for the immediate future, it was not indispensable to the Russian Bolsheviks. In recent years there has been a further change. For publication the Lack of highways and motor Kremlin has annouhced that world transportation prove handicap to revolution is neither necessary nor desirable from the standpoint of the Russian development. Soviet Union. And the ablest foreign we - were foreigners, and anything observers in Moscow agree that we did they must report. Very sus- these protestations are sincere. They picious. point out that Russia has been terAt their mines they sure do ribly weakened by war and needs things different from what we do. In- desperately a few decades of peace. stead of having big construction They say she now realizes that Eufirms, they 'call them trusts and rope does not want to be liberated most of them are branches of one from capitalist democracy, and that big central trust. this could be accomplished only by American child a further bloody struggle involving Any with a Meccano set, said Ed, will sacrifices which the Russians are start at the bottom and build up. both unwilling and unable to make. But these Russians always start at Russia wants, they insist, only a the top, build the roof first and then stable and friendly Europe raise it. Novosibirsk, Siberias capital, lies And work like hell, so they can in the center of this chill roof of the throw up some kind of framework world, about midway between Berthat they can hang a red flag on the lin and Tokyo. tip of and make speeches, said The feeling of this big, sprawling Tex. boom-tow- n was like that of the West are Theyve got no respect for ma- where the robust terials. They have no conception of proud of their city. West of the how much work has gone into mak- Urals, Bolshevik civilization has taking them. They unload valuable en over the ancient towns and palpipe from a flat car by just rolling aces and their new structures rise it down an embankment smashing on the ruins of things they dehell out of it. And fire brick for stroyed. Here in Siberia, they have smelters the same way. The way chopped and blasted and dug their theyd heave it off, about 25 per cent cities out of a virgin continent. And would be damaged. to be proud of. they have something Politicals get the roughest deal, Novosibirsk has ' almost a million said Ed. They have NKVD spies people. in the markets and hanging around We are whisked across the town the store counters, waiting for some- to our quarters. Tiny potato patches one to pop off. They usually get ten are along the highway shoulders and years chopping wood with ofno cor- back in forest clearings. Big handrespondence, and 500 grams bread some girls, often barefoot, walk a day. If you are husky and can erect down the road with scarves work hard, theyll give you more. around their hair and farm tools If you miss getting typhus and over their shoulders. live out your sentence, said Tex, ' The patches have been assigned to they turn you loose, but your pass- workers in the city. Some factories port has a red line through it. That maintain busses to take the workers means you can never get a house out on week-end- s to hoe the patches. or a good job youve got to keep But most trudge out from town, as moving. we see them doing now. Or you may not get sentenced, Presently we ride along the banks said Ed, just arrested and investi- of a river as wide as the Ohio at gated. If things dont look quite its mouth, but as yellow as the Misright, then you get a passport with souri. We are told that it is the letters in front of the numbers. This Ob, of which none of us have ever means that you are under some sus- heard, and that it is the fourth longpicion, and you can never hold a est river in the world. We come to the dacha a Russian key job. You see a mining engineer gets word meaning country residence for about 1,800 roubles a month, said someone who normally lives in the It gleams new and white Ed. They get one room for which city. they pay about 30 roubles. All they against the great trees which surcan buy on their ration cards round it and overlooks the Ob. The amounts to 400 or 500 roubles a house would be indistinguishable month. Then they must go to the from the great estates of the wealthy free market for enough butter, eggs, New York families along the Hudson. It has an equally large staff meat, or fish. The rooms are as of servants. Now for a note on Russian picion of foreigners. Russia does not large, as clean and as luxurious. Whenever the convenience of a yet trust thp outside world. Diplomats are just as closely imprisoned high Communist is involved, these in Moscow as are correspondents. At people can be as clean and tidy as .the time of our visit, the current the Dutch or the Swedes. So it is British ambassador had been unable in this dacha. y. ten-year-o-ld President Trumans auto li- The Answers cense is No. 5745. What does it stand for? 1. May 7, 1945, the day Germusical instrument, many surrendered. 2. The piano. the flute, violin or piano, has the 3. In 1948 in London. greatest range? 3. When and where will the 4. Approximately 327,672,000 Below the dacha a private bathing Olympic games be resumed? cubic miles. 5. The Dyaks. 4. The amount of water in all pier extends out into the Ob. Down the hill we see a well-ketennis the oceans is how many cubic 6. Yes, the Committee of Suscourt, with flood lights for night miles? and Observation of the pension games. To the right is a volley-ba- ll 5. What is the principal native Continental Congress, designed to court. We have a volley-ba- ll game race of Borneo? break Revolutionary war black Russians versus Americans. 6. Has the United States ever marketeers. There is considerable shouting. On the Russian side only one man does NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS any shouting; the others play in grim Slavic silence. He is an undersized man in his forties, with wide cheekbones and a shock of curly hair quick as a fox terrier Due to an unusually large demand and who keeps up a running fire of comcurrent conditions, slightly more time is mand and encouragement to the required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Russian team. Send order to: He is strikingly Some odd combination of chromosomes Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. has produced out here on the steppes cents for Pattern. Enclose 20 Irishman-a tough little No complete with wiry hair and Name. jutting jaw. He even talks out of the comer of his mouth. Address- His name was Michael Kalugin, and although he turned out to hold no local office, it was easy to see how he had acquired the habit of command. He was Secretary of the Communist Party for Siberia. Novosibirsk has a shopping dis trict about the size of Wichitas. There is a beautiful new theater, for the ballet, but Moscow artists Make a paste of cornstarch and also occasionally perform there. into the grease or mud spot on rub Near by, a smaller theater is dethe rug. When paste is dry, brush voted to operettas, and plays are it out with swift, strong strokes. given at a third. Grease and mud comes with it. The post office is the usual Soviet shabbiness. The building is pretenA pretty decorative effect may tious but the linoleum is worn be achieved by slipping pressed through. In the halls, tiles are leaves under the cellophane cover chipped and missing. of the lamp shade. The railway station is from the outside, an impressive modern Fold household linens over the building. The architecture is draclothesline with hems together. matic high ceilings with sweeping Prevents their tearing in the wind. vistas, but the materials are second-rate. It is shopworn already, To avoid cutting the material but the effect is beautiful. when removing buttons, slide a One The crowd is fascinating. comb under the button and cut the great hall is roped off for women Three-quarter- s thread with a razor blade. yard with babies and small children. A bib remnant for a bunny plus There are no seats. Their mothers Have a place in the kitchen terrazza floor. and pockets make this small fry where sit on the clean-sweyou can sit down to do your and sunsuit! sewing Stitchery There are polished wood benches in and use it. work simple. the spacious main waiting room only this is reserved for wounded Pattern 7139 has Summers cornin Equal parts of linseed oil and soldiers who sprawl on every inch transfer pattern of one bib; pattern vinegar will remove ink stains of the space, their crutches leaning pieces for sizes 1, 2, 3, 4 (all in one pat- from wool. on the benches beside them or lying tern); directions. on the floor. There must be between 500 and WAP! CRACKLE! ANV TOP! SAY 1,000 of these weary men, most of them with an arm or leg missing. This is a normal hour of a normal day in Novosibirsk station. In the main hall they even have faces with Indians copper-yellohigh cheekbones and straight, black Mongolian hair. These, of course, are from Kazakstan down on the Chinese border. But I see no racial difference between Uzbeks or Kazaks and our Osages or Navajos, except that these Soviet Indians are 2. Which pt r ay Summer Suit with Bunny Bib quick-minde- d, pt I ... S w pice 49RICEKRISPIESgfj town-builde- rs v set up a price control system similar to the OPA before? The Questions PC W can also get this cereal In Kelloggs VARIETY 6 dlf--I ferent cereals, 10 generous packages, in one handy carton! You MluKS u mmBECAUSE m yeast got weak Omsk, one of the industrial visited by Johnston and White. not so as ours. Like ours, they were fighting nomad Mongolian tribes until the Russians tamed them. At the dacha a Red Army band is tuning its instruments down by the water front. As it strikes up a military march a second band appears, in even smarter uniforms, and begins tuning up. As we go in to dinner, a gleaming white river steamer ties up at the wharf. We are told that after dinner we will go for a ride on the Ob. Mike Kalugin ushered us down the river bank and aboard the steamer. Mike waved us expansively to a row of deck chairs just forward of the bridge. The better of the two bands, lined up on the bow facing us, struck up as the boat moved out into the current. well-dress- ed (TO BE CONTINUED) New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast keeps (or weeks on your pantry shelf If you bake at home you can always depend on New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast to give you perfect risings . . . delicious bread . . . every time you bake! Ready for instant action New Fleischmanns Fast Rising keeps fresh and potent for weeks lets you bake at a moments notice! 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