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Show PAYSON, UTAH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN,'; nuu Kathleenj (Casual ? hit'h W, Ools jbainttj uMl Features. W.L White INSTALLMENT FIFTEEN The thing I liked best of all about the Soviet Union, and it is one we would do well to copy. Is the Intellidecent Russian attitude gently toward minority races. They are helped without being patronized, and they have developed and an understandable gratitude. If they have no real freedom, neither do the Russians. While this Soviet racial-colonipolicy may not be so good as our handling of the Philippine Islands, It Is infinitely better than our bungling and thoughtless treatment of the Negro. We fly south out of Siberia, down Into the ancient Oriental peoples now ruled by the Soviet Union. Suddenly we are crossing a huge blue lake. It 1s so big that when land drops away behind us we still cannot see the shore ahead. When It does appear, we see the beginning of a rolling desert On our left a chain of blue, mountains rises like a fence. Geologically. they seem about as old self-respe- snow-cappe- ' "V ? ' ' is A 4 N' ' , A n V 1 ' ' d I i 7 , those of New Mexico (lacking only the strings of red peppers) to a great Soviet experimental station one of four in the Kazakstan Republic. Kas zakstan Is the size of all Europe exclusive of Russia, but it Is largely arid like our American four-fifth- dust-bow- l. This is a fruit farm, where under raise irrigation they apricots, peaches, cherries and plums. They are keenly Interested in the plum, which they recently brought here from Canada, and is already propounds ducing more than twenty-fivof fruit per tree. In this particular orchard they use the most modern pipe system of subterranean irrigation. They are proudest of their vineyards; In 1914 they had 3,000 hectares of land in grapes. Now they have 30,000. Workers on this state farm get only 300 roubles a month in salary, but at the end of the season they get a produce dividend of about 700 kilograms (roughly 1,500 pounds) of vegetables, which Includes corn, melons and pumpkins. Then each has his own Irrigated garden plot about a quarter of an acre for each worker. They may sell the produce dividend on the free market, at prices lower than the Moscow free market. The director gets 1,700 roubles a month and pays monthly 35 roubles for two large rooms in a big house he shares with someone else. The rent, he says, is figured on the basis of 1 rouble, 30 kopeks, per square meter of dwelling space. In American figures, this is about 10 cents a square yard. Eisensteln is of German-Jewisorigin. He is a short, friendly little man. He and his staff wear colored polo shirts with short sleeves in the Hollywood manner, and Eisensteln wears a well-cu- t white linen suit. He Is filming the life of Ivan the Terrible. Ivan is one of the newly resurrected Soviet heroes. Eisen-stei- n speaks fluent English, with a slight but agreeable accent The name of the President-Premie- r of Kazakstan is Nutras He is a pleasant, kindly old Comanche or Sioux, who except for his European clothes, might be the dignified tribal chief you would meet on any Indian reservation. Most of his cabinet ministers are also Kazaks, but there are a few blue-eyeblond Russians present. The Russians, however, are in the background. The Kazaks tell us the people racially belong to the Turkoman-Mongo- l group, and fought for independence as early as the twelfth century, when the southeastern part of the present republic was under the rule of the Chinese Seventh Dynasty. Later they adopted the Mohammedan religion. The title of the hereditary ruler was the Khan as in Kublai Khan and Genghis Khan. The Mohammedan religion is still popular many people go to the mosque. But Kazakstan is now one of the Soviet republics and has a great measure of Independence; recently it was given the right of a separate foreign minister. Joyce, turning to the premier says, You say now this is an independent republic; well, tell us about some of the conflicts youve had with the central government" The premier says there havent been many conflicts, and lets it rest at that. You say that you have the right to send ministers to other countries; who will you send them tot Will you send one to America? A big Russian down at the end of the table, hitherto silent, now tactfully leans forward and suggests that such ministers will be sent to those countries most useful to them commercially. Joyce turns back to the premier. Are you going to send one to America or not? Of course, that would be decided in Moscow, the premier explains. The premier explains at the time of the 1917 Revolution the people were 93 per cent illiterate. Today illiteracy is gone, and the Soviets have built many theaters and schools. Naturally, the people are grateful, so why should there be any disputes with the Moscow government? The premier explains that the people elect delegates to a regional Soviet, who send delegates to the Kazakstan Soviet, who chose him as premier. Now ask him how "All right Stalin got his job; we want to understand it. Ask him that. The handsome Russian down at the end of the table leans forward and explains smoothly and briefly the Intricacies of the Soviet electoral system. He did it politely and there was no feeling that he was brushing the premier aside; only helping him over the hard places. Likewise when we ask how many refugees are here, it is the alert and friendly Russian who tells us that a million are still here, al e h i ? I ? t f : I: I i i I i ! Entire factories have been moved from one part of Russia to another. I ! i i I: i i t ! t - i I !; b i I I 1 I f ! I I 1 I I as our Rockies. On the east side of this fence Is China. We enter Kazakstan, of which Alma-At- a Is the capital. The Kazak people are part of the savage nomadic tribes who for a thousand years have pressed against Europe and once formed a part of the armies of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane and Atlllaa Huns. When Europe Invented the rifle, they sank from the status of a terrible menace to that of a constantly harassing threat In the past few centuries the Russian people have been pouring through the Urals to colonize Siberia. The Russians had to struggle with these savage Mongolian nomads, whose culture was only a little higher than that of our American Indians. They battled the equivalent of Geronlmo and Sitting Bull and they have their Custers who made valiant Last Stands, but who finally, after a series of border wars, opened the continent to the White Man. We penned our Indians up In reservations. The Russians found another solution as we shall see. We step out onto Alma-At- a airport at the base of the foothills into a country exactly like that around Boulder, Colorado, or Colorado Springs. The trees, the scenery, even the weeds are the same. The prominent Russians and the prominent Kazaks wear immaculate white raw silk suits. Alma-Atlike Denver, is on an irrigated plain with mountains rising in the background. We pass through cornfields, where sun flowers grow along the irrigation ditches again exactly like Colorado. The farm houses are d of brick, made of clay and straw the adobe of our Southwest. This Soviet Denver is a sprawling Russian town, which before the war had 180,000 people and now has 400,000. That evening after the customary banquet we go to the local opera, where they give a performance based on an old Kazak folk tale. The actors are all Kazaks as are the words, music and costumes. It is a beautiful show, and gives us a vivid idea of what these people once were like. The costumes are clearly derived from the Chinese and a musician picks out a haunting Oriental tune on what looks like a Chinese banjo while a pair of twin Kazak boys sing. All of their culture came over the mountains with them but it is preserved only here In the opera, for the clothing of those we see in the streets is not picturesque, but is a drab composite of clean patches indistinguishable from the rest of the Soviet Union. Next morning they take us for a drive out through the irrigated river valley, past pink adobe houses like sun-bake- t I $ I f is. though many have already gone back to the reoccupied territory. They now present Eric with a complete Kazak costume which conrobe sists of a more gorgeous than anything I have seen this side of a Shriners convention. But Its crowning glory is a hood of red velvet, with ear flaps the size of soup plates, and the whole, including the ear flaps, is lined with silver fox fur. The party they gave us at the hotel that night was the most pleasant we attended in the Soviet Union. It was the most informal. The dinner was elaborate as usual, but it wasnt stiff. The local notables were easy, friendly notables. There is an attractive girl she teaches dancing at the local academy and she speaks fairly fluent good English but curiously awkward. She explains she learned it from books and until now has never spoken with an American or an Englishman. There are vice premiers, councilors and members of the local government, some Russian and some Kazak. There are also half a dozen stars from the local opera all Kazaks. There are twin boys in their teens, who sang last night, now resplendent in twin Tuxedos, of which There is a they are very proud. Kazak girl of about twenty, who danced the role of the Oriental princess with the cruel father. She could be any of the pretty Indian girls who, when Indians had oil money, were sought after by sororities at the University of Kansas. Then there are two older artists women in their forties, who, except that they look like sisters-in-lacould of Madame Chiang be any of the Russian artists who have entertained us in the other towns. Their evening dresses are Just as good, they have as many gold teeth, but In addition they wear beautiful Oriental jewelry set with precious stones old Kazak workmanship worthy of a museum. Most of all, we liked them as people. They were gentle and friendly, and obviously had never been warned against foreigners. Almost the same thing could be said of the Russians. That Invisible barrier of tension and suspicion which separates Russians from all foreigners had been slowly dissolving since we left Moscow. Here in Kazakstan, it disappeared entirely. We have now left Kazakstan and enter the neighboring Socialist Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, whose capital Is the ancient Mohammedan city of Tashkent. I am riding in the caboose plane with the correspondents. The buffet service is as good as in the plane ahead. It even includes fresh strawberries, taken Dick Lauterbach on at Alma-Atpays a visit to the toilet and returns shaking his head. Ill never get used to them. Five thousand feet above a howling desert they serve us strawberries, caviar and champagne, and then I go back there and find nobody has remembered to empty the chemical bucket for three days. as The crowd of airport-greeterare wearing white silk at Alma-Atsuits. Again half are Russian and half local Orientals. The local boys are known as Uzbeks. The jackets Kai-she- a. American mission to Russia in 1941 included Gen. James H. Burns and William L. Balt. of all Russian white silk suits button up to the collarbone and have collars like the high turned-dow- n Chinese. They wear caps of the same white pongee silk. The cap, incidentally, is a relic of revolutionary days and was symbolic of the working class, since only bourgeois exploiters wore felt hats. Recently, the government began making felt hats, explaining that in the new Russia, they need no longer be regarded as a badge of shame. BolsheHowever, all the Nesterov viks still cling to caps. always wears one. Mike Kalugin wore one. And, of course. Stalin, in of all his pictures. As a the old Bolshevik aristocracy, the cap is probably politically safer than the hat. vender I ul companionship with a of 19 may hare Truly, treat her as a doll, as his wife. But only when he can pet her. spoil her, man-eve- -- By KATHLEEN NORRIS NE of the richest blessings life can win any one of us is companionunderestimate it. Never ship. No matter how burdened your life is with duties, responsibilities, interruptions, distrac- O tions, financial and domestic worries, dont complain as long as you have someone with whom you can share them. Certain professional and business women are enormously successful. Some of them are rich. But if life hasn't brought them companionship they have nothing worth having, and they know it. They go in for nervous disorders, for bitterness, for strange extravagances. They keep reaching blindly about for the precious, the inestimable treasure that is companionship with some other human soul, and they never find It. They cannot find it. They have destroyed the secret of possessing it, of winning it. Yes, I used the word winning in this connection, because a part of that secret of companionship is that it never comes ready-madYou have to work for it, to preserve it. That's why letters like this one from Francoline are so pathetic In their innocence and so sad in their certainty of disappointment. Francoline is 19; she is going to be married. This is part of her letter: Mother objects to Paul. He is Just twice my age; not that 38 is old for marriage, but mother thinks it's old for the man who wants to become my husband. He has been married before, and he says he has learned consideration the hard way. He has two boys, aged 10 and 8. and he adores them, and so do I. Their mother has moved away and left them here In school. Complete Sympathy.' We will not have much money and that worries mother. I tell her I am not marrying Paul for money. I am marrying because of the complete sympathy there Is between us. We laugh at the same things, we like the same shows, we love to plan what we will do someday when we are rich. Our feeling for each other is based on something much deeper than a mere crush, and we have known each other ever since Paul was in college and I was born. You feel, and youve often said, the letter concludes, that companionship is the real base of a happy marriage. We are sure of it. I am not taking Paul away from his wife; except for her monthly alimony check he has no correspondence with her at all. He says he never has really loved before; I know I never have, and that I never will again. I feel much more capable of giving advice about marriage than accepting it, but I would like to know if you dont think this may successful marriage? (TO BE CONTINUED) personality cess of any marriage, I ERE orris in today s article. Such women are rare, however , she girl goes on. 1 he who asl;s for advice in the letter quoted does not seem to be one of them. Francoline is madly in love with a man 38 years old. lie has been married before, but is divorced. 1 he two sons, 8 and 10 years old, are in his care. W hat Francoline finds in Paul is a deep companionship; a similarity of tastes and ideals. This is the first time she has ever been in love. Francoline says. Paul claims that he is feeling the tender passion for the first time, too, and that he never really loved his wife. Miss Norris cautions Francoline that she is headed for a lot of shocks and disillusionment if she enters this marriage. There just isnt the proper basis for a happy marriage here. A young woman must give up too many pleasures that are normal at her age; she must put up with too many difficulties. 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Size 14 requires 33,i 35 or yards of Pattern 18, CiqsL sn to is EGGI Name- - s& 9nnowizsL Address- - The young wife had just gleaned a delightful bit of information. Oh, by the way, Mother, she remarked, with exaggerated non chalance, Henrys going in for anthropology. You know, I always said he had brains! sniffHumph! Anthropology! ed the parent. That couldnt even pronounce the word! What gave you that crazy notion? continued the young Well, wife complacently, I found some green tickets in his pocket, marked Mudhorse 15 to 1. When I asked him about them he said they were relics of a lost race. SUMP SEWING CIRCLE Ml 1150 Sixth Ave. Knl Enclose 25 cents pattern desired. Pattern No. diow Sws&t 9a, Urn, said that when flour regulations ended after World War I bk -- s went right on making dark CUStmerS had ih The baker savs the use m thp Jr?.!-andcmay increase bread af so much that it offsets love the bens, too. , fa net and panties Sa-v- mS adci p s k foi tiny daughter thats easy to make. The sleeves are edged ins JE1 the drawstring neckm AND pie to launder. A sea S A Gray Cool Set is an warm-weath- says Miss may marry any man she pleases and win through all the dangers and whirlpools and pitfalls of matri-mon- y to a serene and happy middle age. But possibly Francoline hasnt the necessary qualities to get into that class. Many Sacrifices Ahead. The responsibility of supporting another woman and two boys does not grow easier as the months of marriage turn themselves into years. Francoline will have to make many sacrifices, will have to be ready for grave decisions. The shortage of money will cramp her from the first, and unless she is of a really generous nature, she will resent that constant drain on Pauls resources; one boy will need dental work, another may come home for long after an illness. Paul may nursing crush her by hinting that as he already has children he is none too eager to welcome more. This marriage robs her of the dancing, the house parties, the new frocks and new friendships that are natural at her age. It means that she grows mature before her time Truly, a girl of 19 may have a wonderful companionship with a man of 38, even as his wife. But only when he can pet her, spoil her, treat her as a doll. To Francoline none Francoline is 19, but she sounds of these pleasant flattering things wfll come. She will be at once the younger. She sounds about 12. She second wife, is revelling In her first stepmother, houserapture of keeper, cook and manager in the young love, a time of dreams and delusions beautiful. Inevitable, but house of this much older man. If toere is any spoiling done she will pitiful, too. It is Paul that I blame for this situation; Paul, who has have to do It; if there are any conshe cessions, will have to make two boys, and a divorced wife, and tnem. who is twice Francoline's age. 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