Show 7 ' ( i i V TIIE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH psa rr li J W iLzi iX r Wer-- e ? ) TEN lMAfTHielSfc a a we nation (I WHO OWNS THE WORLD'S KNOWN 04 ' RESERVES J Lm4 LI ill fuhjl buuuMuiiM " 4 WAINS I—J 41 DOCTORS itmmi Russia Is a big nation nbe found cut at tUtler the summer of 1944 at least naif of the Red Army’s road transportation was being supplied by 210000 American military trucks 40000 Jeeps and 30000 other military motor vehicles She also had 8600 American tanks and tank destroy era and was using 1223000000 worth of machine tools— a total of 83730 000000 worth of eld At last Russia’s crushing superiority In Manpower could become efTee tlve But aa the AngloAmericanoffen ive opened In France the Soviet government loyally kept her agree ment made at Teheran to etart a drive from the east To do this she was drafting tor duty men who had already been discharged with wounds and others previously rejected for serious physical defects —the dregs of any nation’s power But the Soviet government kept faith’ One reason tor the success of the Red Army Is that the breach between Its experienced of' fleers and the Communist Forty la now completely healed Originally the Red Army was burdened with a system of political commissars whose duty It was to watch the officers and whose authority could tinder certain circumstances exceed that of the unit’s regular command-tools By The political commissars have been absorbed in the army with regular military rank And duties Political education continues but not to the neglect of mflltarytraln-lnMembership in the Communist Party always carries heavy respon ilbillty and this continues In the army Tarty members are supposed to set an example to the others— not only in efficiency but in bravery under Are and as consequenca the Party hai bad more than its share casualties Its membership for 2500000 was increased to -- mly dK00Qbut many of them have been killed But the Forty la strong ha the army and a man who wishes to ad ounce must usually Join The army's achievements have glv- en it a great pride in itself and some little contempt for the outside world Moscow correspondents havt deep respect for the competence o! Its leadership and often when Irritated by the stupidity of a Russian civilian official they would remint each other that some of this was temporary ss iQ the country’s really Intelligent and efficient men were in the Red Army T Scalloped ydroch for Give It a Chance iHr WL BQ own Syndicate— WNU Features lAJarn $ an daebt Set CaiiL ) White ill The war’s climax cam in 1043 with the successful defense of Stalin grad The Germans had by this time been dealt a crippling blow to their air force in Africa Bus lane pointed out scornfully that this African campaign involved few men however It required masses Of highly complicated transport and machines Furthermore the RAF and the Eighth Air Force in England were by then pounding German industry and the Germans had to strip the Russian front of Messerschmitts to so defend their iom$ factories that for the first time the Russians had superiority in the air Lend of Lease including thousands trucks was now pouring in the Ger man lines of communication were perilously extended and for the first time it was possible for a Russian army to move quickly out to en velop and cut of! a German army as theirs had been enveloped so many times before Russia’s factories behind the Grata were working new ones were equipped with American machine anus f f a INSTALLMENT " Kathleen Norris Says v V J SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS m si win The farmer lives on a collective or state farm where he does Ms When thar of the common work tine crop U sold certain overheae expenses must be met There ere aubstantlal state taxes tils collective probably owes money for farm implements and these installments must be paid The Collective has probably pledged Itself to buy a tank of to lied Army Taking these of what Items together it raises must be sold to the State at the official price But not all A small surplus of produce usually remains and this is distributed among the farmers free either to eat it or bring It to town for sale In the free market at any price This Is also true of what each farmer raises in the small kitchen garden tract which is allotted him It is supposedly only large enough for his family's needs but usually something is left over In America commission men make the round of farm houses In trucks buying surplus vegetables for resale In town In the Soviet Union both the farmer and the commission man would get a sentence because that Is exploitation To avoid this crime the Soviet farmer must take time to hitch up and go to market where he sells personally what he raises and the hungry housewife may go by subway clear across Moscow to find him The prices I translate into American dollars and cents per pound But remember that on this same basis our Russian war worker gets a total of $20 week At the Rynok she may buy eggs at $1310 a dozen She may buy as big a chunk (of bread as she wants at the rat of $367 per pound Mutton (or perhaps goat)— a bargain at $1134 per pound— more than half her week's wages Sugar beet at 80 at $18 a cents a pound Honey ' pound An old lady Is selling a calfi head and Its four knuckles at $18 for the collection with the hair on and glassy eyes open attracting a few files Another wrinkled old lady is selling a bunch' of peonies asking (and A man is getting) $180 per flower selling a crudely made wooden for $102 This aale is legal In Russia because the seller whittled it himself Potatoes are $103 cents a pound Ripe currants In a Jelly glass at a dollar without the glass Cheese for $6 a pound-- ' Stockings slightly used and carefully mended cost $623 for thfc cotton ones and $23 for the rayon pair A man is selling his extra pair of shoes somewhat worn but look fairly stout for 1000 roubles— $80 In our money— exactly a month'll salary for our warworker A pa If of new evening ahoea would cost $333 Here a girl is selling a swerjAer— since it Is warm now— and this Is a real English camel’s hair or cashmere And any Russian would call It a bargain at $38 Still this Is June She could get muci more next October— but she’s hungry now remember that these MIowever food prices listed above are except tlonal our $80 a month Soviet has already bought with her ration book at the of the store about food she uses and has paid only $680 per month for it at low pegged state prices The Soviet government'! problem was basically that of our own: Its people were getting high war wages but there was nothing to spend them W eolve It partly by taxation on and partly by selling our people bonds so that after the war they might aell the bonds and buy merWar chandise at normal prices bonds are sold In Russia many even bear Interest But a large proportion of Soviet war financing consists of outright gifts solicited from individuals factories and cooperatives either In cash or fa) kind Also the government gets money by charging fantastic price for luxustores thus putries in ting part of the war on a solid pay bails wMch would delight a Vermont Republican Russians are skeptical about bonds because a man who owns one has purchasing power the state can’t control Ills whlma constitute a danger to the state economy He mty take a notion to buy befort the government is ready to sell He may prefer a radio instead of a woodp table and create e sudden ahofg hi radios! While dependent on wages stny basis and he la on a his purchasing powerman be controlled Ha will gey a radio only when they are resdvRo make radios and the first seta ‘will go to those- whom the government thinks most bond deserve them If be owns or bat boarded Ms high wartime wages the whole carefully planned economy is threatened The Soviet government has met this peril most ingeniously In April of 1944 It reopened "Commercial In them the government Stores" Bells you almost any luxury in food or clothing at prices about equal with those in the fire market and without ration coupons the Soviet In American term government runs its own black market as a state enterprise to skim from its workers toe bulk of their war wages When peace Comes they hope to have moat of the worker’s savings in the bands of to government (without obligation to repay Mm as our government must redeem Its war bonds) and bs will be back on jp a basis impendent on bis salary In America a man &ho saves money is regarded as a sound and valuable citizen In Russia he Is viewed with suspicion as a hoarder a potential capitalist to be watched for the criminal tendency of exploiting his fellow workers by giving them Jobs Into one of these government-owne"Commercial Stores” steps our $20 a week Soviet warworker without her ration book This black market is perfectly legal— the government makes the profit— not some The cheapest grade of racketeer baloney eelta for $1320 per pound Of boiled ham at $2648 per pound or bacon at $2457 per pound A dressed chicken at only $1320 per pound Beef— about the grade America uses for soup meat— is $1362 per pound mutton $1320 and pickled herring $1320 per pound Luxuries too If She plans to have a few friends In for' snack there is sliced cooked sturgeon at black caviar at $1320 per pound $1973 per pound almond meats the same and also hazel nuts For an omelette from really fresh eggs (never sure In the tree- market) at only $123 per' egg pnd a pint of nice fresh thick cream for $8 Swiss cheese at $20 per pound Outside this store a long line stretches around the block shabby warworker eager to pay these prices Inside there Is another long lino to the cashier’s desk It tMes the better part of a day to get in buy a few items and get out again This is one of only twenty "Commercial Stores” in Moscow The government has already tried patriotic appeal countless drives urging factories and collective farms to buy tanks and planes for the Red Army hut this was not enough There remains considerable money now in the hands of the fa'rmere who have been selling food at the fantastic free market prices for some time and have been paying fantastic prices for secondhand clothing The government opened a chain of clothing stores exactly like its commercial food stores where new stout warm clothes including many luxury items are on aale at black market prices Thus It takes from the farmer all he has saved from selling food In the tree market to city workers The people do not protest the government taking over the functions of the illegal black market They seem glad to buy these things and count the new shops among the other blessings of this society Some effort is made to present the merchandise attractively just as our post office would prefer to put out pretty stamps But it doesn’t greatly matter any more than Kansas particularly cares whether its auto license tags are prettier or easier to screw on thn those of neighboring Oklahoma The architect who drew the plans for dreary workers’ apartment had to please not the people who live s In it nor the who hoped to keep it rented but the government officials who approved his The tenants live there drawings not because they like Its facade or its plumbing but because ft belongs to the factory where they work or because they lack the necessary prestige’ or political connections to wangle more square meters of living apace in better one Under our way of doing things a man who saves money instead of good time per- spending ft toTbave ef Thotuandt of tor years in homes havt every generation By KATHLEEN NORRIS had g such a swell time the kids while I was away” writes Billy Williams “that sometimes I think Sally would just as soon I hadn’t come back! I like the old lady well enough but gosh I didn’t think she was going to settle down and live with us!” My return is a disappointment to Margaret” writes an older soldier “I see it— I’ve felt It from the hour of my I’m back in my old job but not at my old pay the firm has changed hands nothing is as comfortable as it used to be I’m slowed down in some way—tired in mind and soul as well as body5 1 guess I hope we can work It out but I know she’s disappointed in me” bam happily established in thousands “rMIE and her mother "My husband he come home changed man" say scores of letters from young wives "He wants to do crazy tojngs— give up hta Job and go pioneer somewhere ’ He doesn’t like the baby He talks so bitterly Re’s suspicious of everything I did wMle he wae way" "We don’t aeera to be the same people" many of the letters say sadly "Perhaps we didn’t know each other well enough when we went so gaily into that wartime marriage 1 made new friends when he was away He doesn’t like them We both bate divorce but we can’t see ourselves as ever being happy together again" To all of these 1 want to say "Oh kids kids— be patient! All this la part of the 'price humanity haa to pay for the Insanity of war Don’t add to the terrible sum total of the world’s misery today the wreckage of what was bo gay and beaufew tiful courting time only years ago don’t make It all a lie that lovely hour of promise! and hope and confidence! t Prayer and PaUence Be patient Walt Give all these troubles time— time end silence and faith and prayer— and win through to tha happiness of a real marriage Every man thinks he has to protest it hta wife’s mother lives in Ms house TMs la old a convention as marriage Itself many a young and genman otherwise erous will stipulate in hta engagement days "no And many a young man’s mother win warn him "Don’t have Judy’s mother with you deer—it never works!" ' Now as a matter of tact It often works Thousands of have been happily established In thousand of homes tor years in every generation A home with two affectionate and understanding women in ft works far better than a homo with one a thousand dally problema that are vexatious and bewildering to a woman alone are solved almpiy and easily when Mother is there to sit with toe sick child finish the ironing answer the keep the mending basket - ' from bursting And who benefits from this? The husband of course He may not know it but the single element that contributes most to hta comfort at home may be that same The war has given a new twist to the mother-in-laffhen the husband problem went off to the army or navy often came his mother-in4ainto his home to help with the children After a year or two she became rather firmly established as in the situation discussed today Billy Williams believes his wife and her mother resent his return "They had tuck a twell time running the kids while I was away that I sometimes think Sally would just as soon I hadn’t come back!" writes this disillusioned vet- - eran Everyday Men and Women' After the highly emotional crises of parting and separation after the that came from fervid a lonely mfcn In camp to a lonely woman waiting at home It ta a hock to find each other only an everday man and woman with everyday problems of meals and plumbers’ bills and dentist and crowded trains and the claims of unreasonable small children to meet We would have to be supernatural In our heroism to resume normal living unscarred by the unnatural and tragic Interruption of war But even though most of us have not enough character for that heroism we ean school ourselves to patience Half the battle is won when a man and a woman realize the danger of tola world crisis realize that the restlessness and disillusionment they feel ars not being experienced by themselves alone realize that thsre Is hardly a household In America that Is not'belng obliged to rearrange all Its Ideas abandon scone of Its dreams settle down to a type of living that ta entirely unlike the bright romantic future that the wartime letters predicted Give ft time all of you You’ll find the right house The job will Improve The spoiled babies will beLife will be gin to fall Into dine full and good again tor you both It’ll be all worth while For believe me tha chances are 99 to 1 that your happiness lies In each other and to making a success of this experiment that seems so close to fillure Don’t gamble on that hundredth chance! Nightdress A and YOUTHFUL Beth' and rl dress to addseW to your wardrobe" HspJ bows accent the drawt and waist To match i bed Jacket For Summer Wear the set in a pretty alkt print with soft harmonic j COR pleasant summer afternoons U a beautifully fitting dress that A wonderful shower 1 e comes to a wide size range The scalloped neckline is very flatterPattern 1432 Is feriba No cool sleeves are brief pleated ing 18 20 40 and 42 Size pr the dainty and comfortable of S3 or msttnii f Defeminine shoulder shirring (Hta yards 4ft yards Send to order of all the compliments your serving you’ll gather Pattern No 36 38 3ft yards ot 40 42 010 comes 44 and 46 33 or In sizes 32 34 Size 34 requires material SEWING CIRCLE FATTO Mission St Sal frix ' Enclose 25 cents la ki pattern desired 1 Pattern No 709 NamAddress- e- 69fe Mend your curtains after laundering them instead of before After curtains are washed ironed and hung In place you can see where the mend will come and ean arrange curtains to hide it Do not hang feather pillows in he sun as it draws the natural oil out of the feathers lessening their resiliency Air them on a cloudy windy day If the shoulder lines of your favorite sweaters are beginning to droop sew in shoulder pads This will give the sweaters smart new ines Add a little borax when making starch to give a gloss to articles when ironed After starch is made stir In a little cold water to prevent formation of "scum" od top — A good sprinkling space for dampening clothes can be made by placing a discarded piece of oilcloth over the Ironing board - Place a well equipped shoe shine kit where your family will see it and be tempted to use it to prolong the life of their shoes ££ I® rastf Cancer Now No 2 Killer Keep a coarse comb ta the launto straighten and untangle Every year IK 000 men and cereals 10 generous peW® n dry die of cancer while 600000 are washed fringes handy carton currently afflicted And because one of every six deaths between the ages of 45 and 70 ta due to cancer an Increasing rate of life expectancy throughout the nation Is bringing more and more people into the dan(l ger group Next to heart disease pv cancer is the most common cause of death There are certain signs of cancer aa compiled by the American Vf Cancer society wMch if detected should be examined Immediately by I I Baking i a doctor These signs are: any sore that does not heal — wlti lU MlANCEt Co--- 1 particularly :Ti about the tongue mouth or lips I f OotUr Girl U painless lump or thickening partied 1" l! txxjBtX natural choke for the larly to the breast the lip or the ‘ double octlon 0 balanced tongue td V' irregular bleeding t qj bo ti charge from the nipple or any right action in tha mixing As for the wistful husband who 8° lC4 MMMkMp UJf body rise opening to Cght end fluffy progressive a me he is that writes "disappointta the fields Rust la’s Wheat color or size of a change saved that ment to Margaret” he need only wart mole or birthmark country persistent wait—only be patient— end in the and unexplained Indigestion after forma a useful act For out of such course o! events entirely unforeseen 33 persistent hoarseness - un will Ms now seold all he our factories are built and regain Bating explained cough or pronounced dif our farms improved curity and happiness Acuity to swallowing These Socialists can argue that when saving and spending are left FEWER LINING ROOMS up to the Individual they can get Dining rooms ar disappearing n out of control and Wreck a nation's American homes Many families business structure Panicky saving are throwing out the formal dining can atop all business activity and room furniture and sre using 7 muM" 'r'a 1 a Y throw millions out of work They rX a extension tables placed —i aea can argue that the greatest wsste of JJ window or wall If tare! more than U not the money w capitalism or four persons are to be pend feeding the unemployed but toe table Can be moved to served the centhe valuable man hours of work ter of the room Side chair frm which our nation loses when these r UP to millions are cither idle or when table when necessary This the they ere employed by the state la gives a house a ways which do not compete with priroom where there i room vate business fur J He cams home e thonged man piano radio and other puCc4 (TO WE C0NTINUX01 F w- - f ia 3 32 mmm JJ&& dp11® Hi lvn r““7rrITT f r — J e ( |