Iron County Record | 1951-12-13 | Page 11 | Americans Are Moving toward Russian Way of Life Speaker Tells Rotary Club

Americans Are Moving Toward Russian I Way of Life Speaker Tells Rotary Club "Americans appear to be moving mov-ing toward the Russian wav of life about as fast as the Russians Rus-sians are moving toward our way of life," Vern K. Kupfer, assistant assist-ant professor in psychology and social sciences, declared in a talk Tuesday before the Cedar City Rotarians. Prof, Kupfer was introduced in-troduced by D. C. Dix, chairman of the international contacts committee. Noting that Dec. 10 marked the lfiOth anniversary of the Bill of Rights, Prof. Kupfer said that the Kill of Rights makes the United States unique among the countries of the world. Ye?, tie said, America is moving in the direction of socialism as rapidly as Stalinist Russia is becoming capitalistic. "Bosses and high -bracket officials of-ficials in Russia may get 300 times as large a salary as the lower income workers, while a lieutenant in the Russian army is paid 100 times as much as a private. In the British armv a lieutenant receives only four times as much as a private, and in the American army a lieutenant lieuten-ant gets only about three times WMWIINIMWHHmtHMIiWMHinM1m.... as much. If an American dies' and leaves an estate of $35,000,-000, $35,000,-000, the government takes $30.- 000. 000 of it," Prof. Kupfer said. "Even though Karl Marx's social so-cial theory required the sharing of worldly possessions on the basis of equality, and though 1. enin's program for Russia was laid out along much the same lines, Stalin has been turning to capitalism," lie averred. Some Soviet So-viet officials receive as much as S'.MXX) a month, he said.