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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SALINA, UTAH - SEWING CHICLE NEEDLECIUFT Kathleen Norris Says: The Root of All Evil Bell Syndicate. Gay C Kitchen Towels ross-Stitclie- d Sunbonnet girls look like applique ara ! Pattern 7320 has transeasy fer of 6 motifs averaging 6 by 81a inches. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time la required in tilling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numberi. Send your order to: And Much Good cross-stitch- WNU Features Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Box 3217 San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclose INSTALLMENT THREE went into production in only three weeks. The Zees plant now has four Rut now for the Stormovik factory itself. It is, first of all, jxiorly daughter plants turning out army lit and unbelievably dirty. It has trucks and munitions in the Urals. no production line in the American Their directors were formerly simp sense but rather a series of conchiefs in this plant. Automobile nected piles between bottlenecks, production started with women waiting idle at their here in 1924, the car being designed machines for the line to start mov- around a Soviet adaptation of the famous American Hercules Engine ing again. It is jammed full of the best made in Canton, Ohio. The director tells us with quiet American machine tools, but seems to lack proper organization At one pride that he has visited American point, the assembly belt is a make- factories at Detroit, Flint, Buffalo, shift canvas affair. The floors Saginaw, Pittsburgh and Chicago, w'ith holes In that he is a member of the Society uneven throughout are of Automotive Engineers. the concrete. Piles of metal shavA worker who is ill, he tells us, ings are everywhere. No one bothers to clean up. Many of the girls goes to the plant doctor to get wear gunny sacks tied around their a leave of absence. If the case is infeet. Others have crude wooden serious, in tins plant his social of cent 90 surance would per pay sandals with a nail sticking up between the great and second toes. his wages for three months. If he In these, they scramble around In is still not recovered, he gets either a temporary invalids status or the dim light. Here they are movA pregnant ing (by wheel barrow) a load of un- maybe lighter work. finished parts whirh spill at a bump woman yets several weeks' leave on the floor. The girls must stop of absence before her baby, and after it. The average family, he to pick them up. tells us, is five children for the city There is an elaborate banquet in worker and about eight for farmers. the director's dining room at the But Eric wants to know about the end of the inspection. There again of absenteeism. The diare the red wine, white wine, cham- problem rector seems amazed that such a pagne, and vodka glasses, the treshould even be asked, bequestion mendous array of cold hors cause he says, of course, they have d oeuvres, starting with caviar and no such cases here. Lazy or tardy pastry. Standing behind the table, workers are rebuked by the wall I see a familiar face. It Is the smilnewspaper or denounced over the ing steward who presided over the shop public address system. If it Theabanquet at the Tschaikovsky happens two or three times the matter. ter is taken up with him by the He was, it developed, the chief union. We gather it is a grim procaterer for Intourlst, and every- ceeding. where we were entertained we were It is hard for our capitalist minds to find his beaming smile whether to grasp (tie Idea that under socialthe scene was a factory, a railway ism, possibly the factory belongs to diner, or a picnic near abandoned the workers but certainly the workGerman trenches on the Karelian er belongs to his factory; without it Isthmus. he has nothing to eat and no place Between toasts Johnston whispers to sleep. to me: a good man. Now we tour the plant. Again it He could hold an important job in seems to have no smooth-runnin- g the States. Maybe not quite the assembly line but a series of linked Job he has here, not president of the company. "And you'll notice that on all such policy questions, this guy didn't know. Obviously, the Kremlin decides. Like any plant manager he does the best he can with what they give him. "Were talking to production men. The planning brains of this thing are In the Kremlin, not In the fac"That-dlrector- tories." The Russians around the table are familiar serious, orthodox, indus- trious young men anxious to get on In the world the same type you might find at a Junior executives' lunch in an American factory. There they would be registered Republicans without having given it too much thought, but because the boss was a Republican and because it was the party of respectability and Its hallmark would be helpful to a young man anxious to get on In the world. , Here their prototypes are Communists for the same reason. These Reviews Red Army men would average thirty-twyears old. In 1917, when Communism was bottlenecks and connected piles. a revolutionary party in Russia The workers look up, but they seem (sometimes It still is abroad, but to have no fear of the bosses. They only when it is helpful to Russian look him straight In the eye as an foreign policy), these men were American worker would. boys of five. When Lenin died they The Zees trucks and were twelve years old. look sturdy by American peacetime The Revolution was over and standards, but they can't compare those young men most likely to suc- with the rugged giants which Deceed followed the Communist Party troit pours out for our armies and because It represented authority, those of our allies. The workers are power, and wealth, as has the Re- about half women, and the rest very publican party to a lesser extent in old men or boys In their middle America. teens. The next morning Kirilov arrives Wages here, including the directo take us to another factory, one tors salary, are exactly what they of the most Important In Russia. were at the other plant and at For here they make the Soviet most of the others we are to visit. Unions automobiles. In America We go in to the usual banquet at a dozen major companies turn out about four in the afternoon. a hundred models. In this classless The next day we are herded into society one company makes one our Zees and tear across town to model, and Its entire output goes to another dingy square, flanked by its single privileged class the top barracks - like concrete workers communists, factory directors, and apartment houses, where flapping government officials. Red banners and huge portraits of It looks rather like a 1935 model Marx, Lenin, Engels and Stalin ansedan of American manufacture nounce the entrance to the ballwith the difference that it is a sloppy bearing works. engineering Job. Its name, proIt is crammed full of the newest nounced "Zees in English, comes and best American machinery but from three Russian words meaning Its floors are cluttered and the again "Factory in the name of Stalin." lighting bad. However, the product The director of the Zees plant, seems to be a good, precision-mad- e Ivan Likhatchov, Is a stumpy, seriJob, although we guess that by ous little man of forty-eigh- t who American standards, production per carefully cultivates a slight resemworker must be low. blance to Stalin. He wears a cap, At the regular afternoon banquet grows a mustache, there are many toasts to and receives us in riding trousers friendship and the second and high black Russian boots. front. Then Eric tries to find out First, he gives us an over-al- l picabout business competiture of the plant. It employs 40,000 something tion in the Soviet Union. The direcand has 12,000 more young- tor of the workers, factory insists that there sters in Its factory school Formeris great competition particularly ly, It made trucks (the Soviet Union, to get raw materials. But who gets with over 200.000,000 people, made the most? The plant with the high300,000 motor vehicles per year at est production record. the peak compared with Americas We pile back Into our cars to be 1941 production of 4,800,000 for Its taken to what Kirilov describes as 130,000,000 people). Now it pro- a rubber factory; actually it pros duces trucks, and muniduces not rubber but tires, from tions for the Red Army. rubber made (usually from alcohol) The Komosols (young commu- in the Soviet Union, whose scientists nists) In the factory school started pioneered In this Important field. making tommy guns for the Red Its director, introduced as VladiArmy when the Germans were only mir Chesnikov, Is a pleasant young (5 kilometers from Moscow, and man of thirty-thrq- e and under him o half-track- s soup-strain- half-track- Soviet-America- n are about 1,500 worker. In IT d d self-deni- al self-deni- d Mum Adrirega Okapi Seems Made Up of Giraffe, Horse, Zebra, Ox If naturalists of the 19th century believed they had discovered all of the worlds large animals, they were mistaken. The rare and remarkable okapi was not found until 1900, in the deep forests of Belgian Congo. The okapi is a walking puzzle. It has the legs of a zebra, the head of a giraffe, and the thick neck of a work horse. Its body is that of an antelope, and its tail and hoofs like those of an ox. The strange creature has a Ijlue tongue. And its skeleton is predinner, dishes are fun cisely the same as that of a preAFTER when youve towels em- historic beast which lived on the broidered with these gay sunbon-ne- t island of Crete in the Meditergirls and colorful balloons ranean sea some 10,000,000 years ago. Simple stitchery. 1 For sweeter music, give your To make a good wire splice, lay the ends side by side, pointing in phonograph records a bath now opposite directions until the and then, using warm water and doubled portion is about two mild soap. a inches long. Grasp firmly right in Grease of a the with the middle glass baking dishes bepair jaws of pliers. Wrap one free end firm- fore putting food in them to bake ly about the splice at the left, and and they will be much easier to the other in reverse about the wash. splice at the right. The result is Wrap gold and silver evening neat, easily taped, and wont pull d apart. Such joints should be sol- bags and slippers in dered, particularly if the wire is cloth to prevent tarnish. part of an electrical unit. An old tennis racket makes a Do not throw away used wax mighty good carpet beater. jelly tumbler covers. Wash in cold water, dry them, and place in an empty tin can. When the can is filled, they should be melted together to form a cake and covered. Thus, it will be kept fresh and as good as ever to be used for next seasons jelly jars. dark-colore- Fut spices, seasonings, baking powder, cream of tartar and the like on a cookie sheet and keep on a shelf in the kitchen cabinet. When cooking or baking, take out the cookie sheet and make your times fills up with stuffy transient conga lew drops of estion-put In each no6tril. It quickly reduces conmakes and gestion breathing easier in a hurry . . . gives grand relief from sniffly, sneezy, stuffy distress of head colds. Follow directions in the package. choice. Immediate patching of worn spots may add years to the life of a roof if it is, on the whole, still in good condition. It is, however, usually poor economy to do a patchwork job on a roof that is VICKS If you have a favorite piece of jewelry which cannot be worn be- cause it discolors the skin, try this: After cleaning it, give the back a coat of colorless nail polish. d d lk lA iV GET A Seth Brought Pick of the Crop and That Was All! 25' J y LAXATIVE cfiOM. mi oMt i D'ltetit BOX Heres One Seths pap sent him to the mill one day to try to sell the season's wheat crop. Seth got hold of the miller and submitted a handful of wheat to him. The miller examined the wheat very carefully. Then he L TOMORROW AUICHI Tl Dependant II II I VATRO-riO- ilEEHEEII well worn. If you lack Of The Greatest BLOOD-IRO- Tou girls and women who sutler so from slmpls anemia that youre pale, weak, dragged out" this may be due to lack of blood-iroSo try Lydia E Plnkhama TABLETS one of the best home ways to build up red blood to get more strength In such cases Pink-ham- 's Tablets ars one of the greatest Wood-Iro- n tonics you can buy! said: "How much more has your pap got like this? "He aint got no more like it, young Seth answered. It took him all morning to pick that out. Hardworking self-respe- (TO BE CONTINUED) cents for Pattern. No anser to our questions he explains that he gets the basic monthly salary of 3,000 roubles ($240 without the usual production bonuses because the plant isn't yet operating). They started building it only in December and began setting the machinery only six weeks ago. Back in the directors office, Eric wants to know what percentage of their wages Soviet workers give to the war. Chesnikov tells us proudly that Soviet Union workers sometimes give as much as two or three months salary. We attended a performance of Tschaikovskys "Nut Cracker Ballet at the Bolshoi Theater, the Grand Opera house of Moscow. It is a magnificent old czarist building Lucky the man who gets a thrifty wife, and the woman whose husband will decorated with a restrained lavishsat e as well as plan." ness rare in Russia under any reAnd the performance is gime. By KATHLEEN NORRIS beautiful beyond anything I have SAVE AND I14VE seen on any stage in any country-danci- ng, for IS almost impossible costumes, acting and As everyone know, wages man and a woman, as scenery are done with sweeping been high and overtime have and wife, to agree imagination. These people have a for the theater. genius plentiful. Profits of businesses, upon the proper spending of The theater is the only thing in the small and large, have been family income. the Soviet Union which can boast begood during the last five or six It is sometimes wiser, of an uninterrupted growth and to years. Savings of individuals fore that you marry, agree tradition. The Bolsheviks were are at unprecedented levels. Mosof will this both in differ the ballet and point, proud you upon cow and Leningrad they kept going than to Each and family has on the average blindly fondly continuously ail during the revolu- state that you will discuss it some $ 2,000 in bonds and bank tion. The Bolsheviks did not liquiaccounts. date their actors, stage designers, fairly, and agree upon it. Of course that has it happened Spending also, however, has directors, and artists as they did been and continues to be on an most of tire upper classes in 1917 a wedded couple faced this problem fairly and kept to their agreement. and in the ensuing Civil War. basis. Many who open-handeToday, a visit to a motor factory But very rarely. had never than enough more As a general rule, the husband which used to make tractor engines. live been have on wife to makes the the and money, enjoying Both factory and product have been luxuries once thought out of redesigned and the plant now turns fills a dozen places at home cook, out dive bomber motors largely for houseworker, upstairs maid, careach. While prosperous times terer, nurse, bookkeeper, hostess the Stormovik a are expected to stretch on no and gets pay. job. ahead for at least three or four It wouldn't make any difference if Its director is only thirty-fou- r years, the present scale of wild years old and seated next to him at she did get paid, for it is impossible woman of for a wife and mother to keep her the table is a spending can mean hardship forty who ia assistant director, and personal accounts separate from the and ruin to many, many famiwho has charge of wages, working familys budget. She couldnt see lies as soon as any pinch comes. Tom wistful for money for his conditions, health and vacations. Money problems account for He tells us he has 15,000 workers tennis racket, and Barbara all and most of them eat their meals aglow to go to the Girl Scouts camp much, perhaps most, of the doIn one building. The food is cheap and quietly deny them, and continue mestic strife in the land. Few and good because the factory to deposit her own dollars In her can face the hard facts couples owns and operates two farms. There own bank account No. mothers income and expenses realisof are permanent operating staffs on money is everyones money, and is difficult to skimp It If out she holds feels she it tically. each, but the factory workers rotate merely to furnish most of the labor. and save when other people ridiculous, selfish and unhappy. We glance into a workers' lunch Anway, mother cant be adequateseem to be having fun and room. The meal consists of a por- ly paid. Suppose her husband's spending freely. Yet ridge with kasha (buckwheat), black salary is $300 a month. How can is the price of future sebread and borsch a rich meat and he possibly compensate her and beet aoup. It looks and smells keep the home going, out of that? curity and comfort. One hundred and fifty dollars a good. Savings mount up fast if the Beyond la the foremens dining month would be low pay for what is adhered to closely. budget room. They get the same dishes mother does. The temptation to make excepplus black pressed caviar. Farther Budget Cramps Style. to buy this or that unon is the engineers' dining room. tions, So they go along very much as They eat like the foremen except everyone else does; sometimes they necessary luxury, is always they may have white bread as get the bills out and decide to do present. After the first few well as black, butter, and their cavisomething about it, and sometimes however, the nest egg years, ar is the more expensive, loose, un- they even talk budget But staybe will salted kind. big enough to permit a Inside Is a budget what was ing Now we proceed to the directors few departures from the rigid once described by a brother of mine dining room, where I Jot down the as being like trying to dress in an early plan. menus main items: vodka, red upper berth. You are cramped on caviwhite wine, wine, champagne, all sides. No sending flowers to today bears a smoked sturgeon, salted dear Nancy, sick in the hospital No know that ar, bip'-r- , cucu: is (which are delicious), taxis. The cheaper, smaller movie golden interest tomorrow; that middle-age will be dignified and secure; coleslaw, cold veal salami, smoked houses. The cheaper cuts of meat. that they will not have to depend beef tongue and for dessert, pastry You feel that the ease and graciousupon their children for support, or chocolate layer ness has gone out of life. and go on into old age laboring wearily cake. It hasn't, of course. A call on for bread and butter. We learn (not from our Russian Nancy, or a note, will be far more hosts) the caste system we have seen to her than three dollars worth of Savings Pile Up Fast. in the dining rooms goes all through These facts are true. America has roses. The smaller movies are Just their factories. They have devel- the same as far as the show goes, over a million really rich families, clerical and more oped enormous white-colla- r over 15 million comfortably rich as to crowdcomfortable and engineering staffs. Once a man and seats. The cheaper cuts of ones. And there are other millions ing becomes an engineer, he loses face meat more careful cooking who know that they need never and prestige should he slip Into a and aretakes know real want. more flavorsome. as American ensuit of cover-alls- , All but one fraction of 1 per cent But saving, living economically is gineers do, and go down to a fac- hard. Just the same. of these fortunes have been made Tom Perhaps tory bench to show workers how it wants a duck gun, feels guilty over by working folk, starting with nothshould be done. the tells you to get ing. It doesnt make sense, but savextravagance, Until the 1917 Revolution, Russia the little ing multiplies your money just as checked coat. yourself for a thousand years was a caste "Aw. what the heck! extravagance lessens it The habit Tom, says e Twenty-fivridden feudal state. of drudgery, tired of saving, of saving gives you other good tired years can no more wipe this out tired of and the respect seeing the woman he loves things; than it can abolish Russian food habSo you get the of your tradespeople; interest In counting pennies. its or Russian verbs. So this new own future; knowledge of insocialist bureaucracy, raised up out coat and he gets the gun and that your war bonds, real estate. same month the old car just goes vestments of the proletariat, instinctively to And also it draws you and the man and somewhat scared pieces, stratifies itself into castes. now youre committed to pay every of the house closer together; your Slowly I am beginning to understand this place and its people. Sup- month for that carl The payment hopes and plans are one. on the car and the life of the car Lucky the man who gets a thrifty pose you had been born and spent wife, and the woman whose husband all your life in a moderately well will terminate at the same time. But now and then a thrifty, sensiwill save as well as plan. But how run penitentiary, which kept you a ble man few sensible gets they are! To most young thrifty, working hard and provided a bunk new cosmetics, to sleep In, three daily meals and wife. They know that just as money couples cars, melts downtown movies, under taxis, mysteriously away to dinners, warm. clothes enough keep you so it mysteriously accumucocktails, poker debts are Suppose it was explained that the wasting, now, and doing what the rest warden and the guards were there lates under saving. There's no exit is of so. crowd does most important the this; plaining simply to They from the protect you largely know that the saved $316 that looks of all! malevolent outside world. In 1965 you'll have an entirely difNeedless to say. If anyone tried so puny now will be over a thousand to release you or menaced you with next year, and that some day they ferent crowd, and may perhaps wish a parole, you would fight like a tiger. will be looking at a paper marked that you had thought of that 1965 to each other. crowd a little more in these days There Is, however, one marked 'Title, and saying "Home. own Our home! of 1946. They difference between inmates of the Soviet Union and of the Kansas MEAT LEFTOVERS State penitentiary at Lansing, where I have often visited an old friend. Every smidgen of meat has to be used up, these days. You can make Food and clothing in both places are a meat and vegetable pie topped about the same, maybe a little betwith pastry, mashed potatoes, or ter In Lansing. But should my Kansas friend decide his penitentiary crusty biscuits. How about meat was not well run, and express the shortcake, creamed leftovers served on split biscuits? Open-facesandhope that there might be a change wiches with hot gravy is a nice way of wardens, he would run no danger to use yesterdays roast or meat of being shot were be overheard by loaf. Or you might try a french-toastea stool pigeon. I concede, howevsandwich, ground meat er, that In Russia a talented inmate can work himself up to be warden, spread between two slices of bread, then the whole sandwich dipped in which would be Impossible in mA thrifty, sensible wife. . , . batter, and browned dark-haire- 18 MUSCLES rely on SLOANS Why suffer the torture of muscle sorenessl Take the tested way to quick relief just pat on Sloan's liniment, pat out ace an(J pains. No slow, painful rubbing, no trouble at all. You can feel this wonderful heat treatment go to work instantly stimulating, relaxing, easing that nagging pain. Your simple way to solid comfort. mus-cu'- . , v Ir U w FORTQUICKlRELlEFlFROMf Tired Aching Muscles Sprains Stiff Joints Bruises Strains Wuttyea. NEED to. SLOAN S LINIMENT ar |