Show I Duration of Soviet Rule Easily Proved Comrade Kalinin is president atthe of at the soviet union He lie is a peasant by hy origin Like all good presidents Kalinin Kalinin Ka Rn- linin makes mal es a speech occasionally He lie makes a specialty of addressing peasant audiences Not long ago he made a speech at a farmers farmers' reunion not so far from The Tile president president dent lent was drawing a grandiloquent picture picture pic pic- iC ture of life under the soviet re regime j At the outset he lie told his peasant- peasant listeners that Russia was the first country to throw off of the yoke oke Suddenly Sud Suti- denly he was interrupted Interruptions Interruptions Interruptions are not infrequent in peasant districts We uWe have haye land and freedom freedom free free- dom dam cried one farmer but un er erthe the czar some of us had three pairs pair of pants and now we have only one oiw Comrades comrade comrade- de- de replied the president the ne oes s of Africa have no pants at all How Is th t came carne back the tile voice oice from the tue audi audi- ence You told us we were the first to be but If those people in Africa have ha no pants at nil all they must have had soviet so rule for at least 20 years Pierre ears Pierre Van Yan in the Atlanta Constitution I |