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INSTALLMENT FIVE
“This morning,’’ says Kirilov, as
we climb into the waiting Zees,
“we visit fur factory.’’ In his bright
lexicon, a factory is any place
where something is produced. This
one turns out to be a collective mink
farm. It was once a village. The
houses still stand along the mud
street. The biggest, which probably
belonged to a thrifty kulak who was
liquidated in the thirties, is now the
administration building. The com
munal kitchen and dining room is
in the second biggest house. A nurs
ery school is in a third.
In the director’s room is the usual
picture of Stalin, the usual carved
furniture. The director is a lean,
gentle farmer. His face and neck
are weather-beaten. So are his
hands. So are the faces and hands
of his assistants. These are rugged,
intelligent farmers such as you
might find in the Farm Bureau Of
fice of Lyon County, Kansas.
This director gives us some statis
tics. His collective has 1,200 hec
tares (hectare-2V4 acres), of which
animal cages occupy about forty. It
raises minks, silver foxes, sables
and martins. Mink pelts bring al
most $12 each, and at a wholesale
price of about $800, you can buy the
seventy necessary for a coat, which
will retail at about $2,500. It takes
about sixty-five sable skins to make
a coat, and these pelts are sold at
prices ranging from $50 to $600
each. Only one or two sables are
born in a litter and it sometimes
takes a hunter two weeks to find and
kill a single animal. Wild sable
pons sometimes Dring $:>uu eacn.
The darkest and silkiest made up
into a coat bring as high as $45,000.
Practically all of them are sold In
New York. In normal times, also
London and Paris. Very few in the
Soviet Union.
I get a brief attack of social con
science. Here this half-starved na
tion is forced to put skilled farm
ers to raising useless animals for
the cream of the foreign luxury mar
ket so that Russia may buy useful
machines.
The mink farm Is orderly and
clean, and the sturdy farmers seem
to know their business thoroughly.
The supervisors, both men and
women, are “agronomes." They
have degrees from agricultural
schools in veterinary science.
A visit to what Kirilov calls a
meat factory, which is, however, not
a stock farm but a packing house.
Since it is food, we are again garbed
in rumpled, slightly soiled white. It
differs little from an American
packing house, but they show us
something they say is a Soviet in
vention. The cow, instead of being
slugged with a hammer, is struck
Just at the base of the skull with a
javelin, tipped by an electrically
charged needle. This stuns but does
not kill. Her heart continues to
pump out blood after her throat is
cut and while, suspended by the
horns, she moves down the dis
assembly line to be skinned.
I say ‘ she advisedly for Soviet
beef consists almost entirely of
worn-out old milk cows, calves, or
an occasional bull whose romantic
fires have burned to embers. Al
most no cattle are raised to matu
rity purely as beef. Here it is the
end product of the dairy business,
as it is over most of Europe.
In the Soviet Union tenderness
makes little difference since, due to
the lack of refrigeration, almost all
red meat is prepared as smoked
sausage. During our entire stay in
the country, only twice were we of
fered steak.
We were surprised at this plant to
find that the basic wage was only
500 roubles a month—-instead of the
customary 750. However, the fact
presently comes out that workers
who overfulfill their norms (almost
all of them do) get an extra divi
| dend, not in money but in meat,
which is infinitely more important,
j Joyce and Eric return wide-eyed
from today's trip. They visited a
large Russian military hospital, a
section of which is devoted to the
repair of genital wounds. They have
here developed a surgical technique
to treat men who have had their
| vitals blown away in battle.
Although visiting Soviet doctors
; have free access to Allied hospitals
1 on the Western fronts, it is most
difficult for Allied medical observ
| ers to visit Soviet field hospitals.
Tliis is not entirely because of the
traditional Russian suspicion of for
eigners. They are a proud people,
and conceal their weaknesses. Their
general standard of medical care
cannot compare with that of the
Western countries.
They spend freely on the more
spectacular branches of medical re
search, but under this top crust, the
average Russian doctor has less
training than a good American
nurse. So when permission to visit
a Russian hospital is refused by the
Soviet method of delay and post
ponement, the real reason often is
that the Russians know the foreign
er would learn nothing new except
the meagerness of their equipment.
I For the general poverty of the coun
| try extends to medicine. Yet even
though Soviet doctors have less
training than American doctors,
their people probably get better
medical care than do many Ameri
cans in the lower income groups,
who cannot afford good doctors and
yet are too proud to go to charity
clinics. And Soviet medical train
ing has made great strides in recent
years.
Today I visit Eric and Joyce at
the embassy and am invited to
lunch. Never have simple, vitamin
stuffed dishes like canned pineapple
and tomato soup made with con
densed milk tasted so good.
Afterwards Joyce and 1 follow
Eric up to his room.
He brings out a list. "This is the
itinerary they’ve worked out for the
Urals trip. It’s too long. Lots of
places I’d like to see, but my cham
ber meeting starts the twelfth and I
absolutely must be back for that.”
Just before Johnston left Amer
ica, the Soviet Ambassador prom
ised his Russian trip would include
both an interview with Stalin and a
trip to the front. The latter is now
going to be delivered, only we are
to visit not the German front but
the Finnish.
It is necessary first to go to Len
ingrad. The reporters are excited
because Eric has agreed to take half
a dozen of them along. So far none
of them have been able to get near
Mink Industry was found to have
become big going business.
enough to the battle lines to hear
a gun. A Soviet "front trip” usually
consists of a trip in a de luxe Pull
man in the general direction of the
lines, a perfunctory interview with
the sector's commanding general,
inspection of some abandoned Ger
man trenches, and at the end, cham
pagne and vodka at the officer's
mess. This time they hope it will
be different.
Eric, Joyce and I traveled in
what, when we left Moscow, was a
private car at the end of the train.
It was clean and comfortable. Its
rear contained a long table and
there, of course, was the Intourist
steward, laying out the sliced stur
geon, uncorking the champagne,
and opening the cans of caviar.
But just before dusk, the train
was halted at a junction and a ram
shackle boxcar was hooked on be
hind. Two anti-aircraft machine
guns were bolted on its roof. Some
straw was also piled there and on
this sprawled the gun’s crew—half
a dozen Red Army boys. The Soviet
Union was taking no chances with
the safety of the titular leader of
American business.
Thirty or 40 miles farther on we
are halted again at ■ siding to let
a troop train pass us on its way to
the Finnish front.
By Western standards, they look
shabby. They have been haphaz
ardly piled aboard this rickety train.
Everything seems improvised. The
equipment is battered, a little rusty
and considerably lighter in con
struction than ours.
In many ways Russia is like Mex
ico. Both peoples have been basic
ally agricultural, with no great apti
tude for industry and still less ex
perience. The general poverty of
Russia is no less than that of Mex
ico except that it is a cleaner pov
erty. Also the standard of health
is better in Russia and this has cut
the Infant mortality rate. Russian
doctors do not have the problem of
persuading the peasants to accept
what medical care they are
equipped to give. In Russian vil
lages the people aren’t asked; they
are told.
The compartment I share with
Joyce is a little larger than an
American Pullman compartment
but lacks all the ingenious contrap
tions with which Western nations
make limited space useful. There
is no washbasin. Nor toilet. The
only mechanical device is the bolt
on the door.
The train comes out onto level
ground and we see ragged women,
who plow barefoot through this mud,
have planted little potato patches in
clearings of the debris of concrete
pillboxes, barbed wire, and the
rusting ruins of wrecked tanks.
“Now somebody,” said Eric,
"ought to do a magazine piece about
these Russian women. Look at
them out there—back working al
ready-clearing things up. The
women of Russia! Probably the en
gineer and fireman on this train are
women. Look at all the women
we’ve seen in the factories. Those
women out there don’t shrink from
hard work! They’re practically
keeping Russia going! The mag
nificent women of Russia!
We glide throigh a wood as
heavily blasted by artillery fire as
those In the Somme in 1916. Only
a few shattered, branchless trunks
protrude above the shell holes. Here
the Red Army’s excellent artillery
had to blast the Germans out of ev
ery inch of ground.
The colonel tells us that these
German fortifications were built
when they cut the railway line,
completing the encirclement of Len
ingrad—in late 1941 and early 1942.
This encirclement was only broken
by the Russians late in 1943.
We now pass a railway siding
where the heavy machinery of a
factory stands loaded on flat cars. It
is a former Leningrad plant, return
ing from its wartime exile in the
Urals.
As we drive from the Leningrad
station to our hotel, we get a good
look at the city. It is a beautiful,
spacious, well-planned town, built
over two hundred years ago on the
shores of the Baltic.
As part of a drive toward West
ernization and modernization Peter
the Great built his new capital on
the shores of the Baltic, giving Rus
sia a window on the civilized outside
world. There is in its beautiful,
clean architecture little suggestion
of Russia. The architects were all
French or Italian. The city might
be part of Paris except for its
churches and except that its public
buildings and palaces are painted
lemon yellow, the color of the czars.
It is, of course, now run-down and
dilapidated. Yet, somehow, we all
felt we were back in Europe, in
a gently cultured, comfortable
world.
Russians, proud of Leningrad’s
war-suffering, are always annoyed
if you mention the fact that the town
is less damaged than London. Actu
ally the beautiful old central part is
almost intact, except for broken win
dow glass and nicked cornices. Shell
or bomb craters are rare.
In Leningrad we are put up at the
Hotel Astoria, one of the relics of
czarist grandeur. Eric has what
could be no less than the former
Romanov bridal suite and we in
spect this with awe. There is a
large dining room, a spacious sitting
room and a thundering big bedroom
with matching double beds covered
in silk brocade. The rooms are
done in the lavish style of czarist
days, and there are several pieces
of porcelain bric-a-brac, thick with
china cupids tickling each other or
else pinching the gilded bottoms of
angels.
Opposite our hotel is St. Isaac s
Cathedral, but there is no hint of
Europe in its architecture. It
squirms with Byzantine ornament
over which float onion-shaped spires.
It is Russia, and back of Russia,
the Eastern Empire of Constantino
ple, and back of that Bagdad and
the temples of Asia.
Before the war most of Russia’s
highly skilled precision workers
lived here and it was the center of
Russia’s precision industries, which,
however, were only about 10 per
cent of the whole. Leningrad also
made tractors and comparable ma
chines. Most of this factory equip
ment and the people who worked at
it were loaded into freight cars and
hauled halfway across Russia to the
Urals, Siberia, or the Chinese bor
der, where they are now operating.
We are taken to Leningrad’s city
hall and there meet the official
architect of the city — Alexai Bar
anov. On the wall is a huge map
of future Leningrad. Some of this
grandiose plan had been built be
fore the war; most of it is still only
on paper.
Leningrad s intellectuals contin
ued with this planning during the
blockade, as both architects and
people were sure their town would
never fall. Like everything in Rus
sia, it is very impressive In its blue
print stage.
On to the new Palace of the So
viets, the hub of the future city.
We drive down a wide street be
tween rows of six-story concrete
barracks - like workers' apartments.
Suddenly the city stops. Beyond the
last apartment are the open fields
of a collective farm, whose build
ings we can see in the distance. But
near us is not a shack, a shed, a
bungalow, or an old fence. We have
emerged into open fields of grain
and potatoes.
Here a city follows, not the con
tours of the land nor the desires
of the people, but a blueprint on a
drawing board. Suppose those peo
ple in that six-story concrete work
ers’ barracks had been able to
choose, would not some of them
have preferred modest bungalows
here in the outskirts?
(TO BF CONTINUED)
Vki -—4—
Are You There, Mooney?
Get set for more trouble. Man
has now made contact with the
moon!
He has communicated with it by
radar. AH he got back was an echo.
But it is the No. 1 Echo of all Hu
man History.
And there is this to remember:
Give a scientist an echo and he
won’t rest until he gets an argu
ment.
• _
It’s amazing. Hollywood would
even call it colossal. The moon is
225,000 miles from the earth. That’s
even farther than the road compan
ies of ’’Life With Father” and "Hell
zapoppin” have traveled jointly.
Up until now man has never been
able to establish contact with the
moon except through the Lick Ob
servatory or Tin Pan Alley.
•
Scientists have been trying to
communicate with the moon for
ages, but aU they got back was
“They don’t answer.” The Man in
the Moon has been one fellow free
from the nickel-nickel-nickel jin
gle. He didn’t even know what our
best hair oils and nail polishes were.
But an American Signal Corps
man, Lt. Col. John De Witt, has said
"Hello" to the moon.
All we hope is that we don’t send
a message to the moon and get back,
"So you’re the guy!” or, "Remem
ber, you started this business!”
_•_
The establishment of contact may
mean the ability to detect rocket
planes of the future and provide
communication between the earth
and great airships cruising near the
moon, but the whole business fills
us with goose pimples.
_•_
Splitting the atom and getting
rebuttals from the moon all in one
season is NOT good.
Elmer Twitchell, the well-known
pinochle wizard, astronomer and all
day sucker designer, says that he
has been working on the problem
of contacting the moon all his life.
"I got answers,” he declared today.
"But no answer from any place is
good unless It Is signed.”
_•_
Elmer says he even tried to con
tact the moon, using an irresistible
question, "Would you be interested
in a T-bone steak dinner for ninety
cents?” He got an answer, "Is
that with mashed or french fried?”
which made him so sore he hung up
without making certain whether it
was from the moon or not.
• * •
Are You $50,000 Smart?
To help raise funds for the Alfred
E. Smith memorial hospital, a
quiz with a winner take all prize
of $50,000 was conducted by John
Kieran at the Waldorf the other
night. Two men, W. R. Coe and
Lester Stone, tied in a photo finish
and split the prize $25,000 each.
Inasmuch as $50,000 marks a new
high for quiz contests and every
body is saying, "Gee, I wish I had
been there,” we have secured the
12 questions and answers. Try them
on your cerebellum:
1. What is the mean approximate
distance from the earth to the
moon? 239,000 miles.
2. What high office in the federal
government was held by Aaron
Burr? Vice President.
3. Who discovered Manhattan and
when? Henry Hudson, 1G09.
4. Of Rome, New York and Tokyo,
which is the farthest north and
which farthest south? North: Rome.
South: Tokyo.
5. What is the highest mountain in
the world? Mt. Everest.
6. How much does a cubic foot of
water weigh? About 62 pounds.
7. Are the Philippines on, above or
below the equator? Above.
8. Who composed Rigoletto? Verdi.
9. Who served the shortest term
in the presidency? William Henry
Harrison, who died one month after
his inaugural.
10. What British monarch had the
longest reign? Queen Victoria.
11. Give the name of the poem
and author: “Smiling, the boy fell
dead.” Robert Browning’s Incident
of the French Camp.
12. How deep is the ocean at its
deepest point? 35,400 feet.
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“What seems to be wrong?" the
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"I feel futile and frustrated. No
pep,” we explained.
“Ah.” the doctor replied. “You’re
having a touch of reconversion.”
Can You Remember—
Away back when everybody was say
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happy ife would be?”
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