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REPORT ON THE RUSSIANS ^ ^3) | White A uioiAiiiiinrnfi rir iZE.fi The thing I liked best of ail about the Soviet Union, and it is one we would do well to copy, is the intelli gently decent Russian attitude toward minority races. They are helped without being patronized, and they have developed self-respect and an understandable gratitude. If they have no real freedom, neither do the Russians. While this Soviet racial-colonial policy may not be so good as our handling of the Philippine Islands, it is infinitely better than our bun gling 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 fclue lake. It is so big that when land drops away behind us we still cannot see the shore ahead. When it does appear, we see the begin ning of a rolling desert. On our left a chain of blue, snow-capped ' mountains rises like a fence. Geo logically, they seem about as old Entire factories have been moved from one part of Russia to another. as our Rockies. On the east side of this fence is China. We enter Kazakstan, of which Alma-Ata is the capital. The Kazak people are part of the savage no madic tribes who for a thousand years have pressed against Europe and once formed a part of the armies of Genghis Khan and Tamer lane and Atilla's Huns. When Europe invented the rifle, they sank from the status of a ter rible menace to that of a constant ly harassing threat. In the past few centuries the Rus sian people have been pouring through the Urals to colonize Si beria. The Russians had to struggle with these savage Mongolian nom ads, whose culture was only a little higher than that of our American In dians. They battled the equivalent of Geronimo and Sitting Bull and they have their Custers who made valiant East Stands, but who finally, after f 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-Ata air port 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 nazaxs wear immaculate white raw silk suits. Alma-Ata, like Denver, is on an irrigated plain with mountains rising in the back ground. We pass through corniields, where sunflowers grow along the irrigation ditches ? again exactly like Colorado. The (arm houses are of sun-baked brick, made of clay and straw?the adobe of our South west. This Soviet Denver is a sprawl ing 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 pre served 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 in distinguishable from the rest of the Soviet Union. Next mant~f"They take us for a drive out through the irrigated river valley, past pink adobe houses like "lose ol New Mexico (lacking only the strings of red peppers) to a great Soviet experimental station?one of four in the Kazakstan Republic. Ka zakstan is four-fifths the size of all Europe exclusive of Russia, but it is largely arid like our American dust-bowL This is a fruit farm, where under irrigation they raise apricots, peaches, cherries and plums. They are keenly interested in the plum which they recently brought here from Canada, and is already pro ducing more than twenty-five pounds of fruit per tree. In this particular orchard they use the most modern pipe system of subterranean irriga tion. 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 Amer ican figures, this is about 10 cents ? square yard. Eisenstein is of German-Jewish origin. He is a short, fast-thinking, friendly little man. He and his staff wear colored polo shirts with short sleeves in the Hollywood manner, and Eisenstein wears a well-cut white linen suit. tie is turning tne me or lvan tne Terrible. Ivan is one of the newly resurrected Soviet heroes. Eisen stein speaks fluent English, with a slight but agreeable accent. The name of the President-Pre mier of Kazakstan is Nutras Un dasinov. 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-eyed, blond Russians present. The Russians, however, are in the background. The Kazaks tell us the people racially belong to the Turkoman Mongol group, and fought for inde pendence 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 independ ent republic; well, tell us about some of the conflicts you've had with the central government." The premier says there haven't 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 to? Will you send one to America?" A big Russian down at the end of the table, hitherto silent, now tact fully 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 Amer ica 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 govern ment? The premier explains that the people elect delegates to a regional Soviet, who send delegates to the Kazakstan Soviet, who chose him as premier. "All right. Now ask him how Stalin got his Job; we want to un derstand 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 elec toral 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 bow many refugees are here, it is the alert and friendly Russian who tells us that a million are still here, al though many have already gone back to the reoccupied territory. They now present Eric with a complete Kazak costume which con sists of a gold-embroidered robe more gorgeous than anything I have seen this side of a Shriner's con vention. 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 pleas ant we attended in the Soviet Union. It was the most informal. The din ner was elaborate as usual, but it wasn't stiff. The local notables were easy, friendly notables. There is an attractive girl?she teaches dancing at the local acad emy and she speaks fairly fluent good English but curiously awk ward. She explains she learned it from books and until now has never spoken with an American or an Englishman. There are vice premiers, council ors and members of the local gov ernment, some Russian and some Kazak. There are also half a dozen stars from the local opera?all Ka zaks. There are twin boys in their teens, who sang last night, now re splendent in twin Tuxedos, of which they are very proud. There is a 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 sorori ties at the University of Kansas. Then there are two older artists ?women in their forties, who, ex- [ cept that they look like sisters-in-law of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, could 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 teetn, but in addition they wear beautiful Oriental Jewelry set with precious stones?old Kazak work manship worthy of a museum. Most of all, we liked them as peo ple. They were gentle and friend ly, and obviously had never been warned against foreigners. Almost the same thing could be said of the Russians. That invisible barrier of {ension and suspicion which sepa rates 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 So viet Republic of Uzbekistan, whose capital is the ancient Mohammedan city of Tashkent. I am riding in the caboose plane with the corre spondents. The buifet service is as good as in the plane ahead. It even includes fresh strawberries, taken on at Alma-Ata. Dick Lauterbach pays a visit to the toilet and returns shaking his head. "m never get used to them. Five thousand feet above a howling des ert they serve us strawberries, cavi ar and champagne, and then I go < back there and find nobody has re membered to empty the chemical bucket for three days." The crowd of airport-greeters, as at Alma-Ata, are wearing white silk suits. Again half are Russian and half local Orientals. The local boys are known as Uzbeks. The jackets American mission to Russia in 1M1 included Gen. James H. Burns and William L. Batt. of all Russian white silk suits but ton up to the collarbone and have high turned-down collars like the Chinese. They wear caps of the same white pongee silk. The cap, Incidentally, is a relic of revolutionary days and was sym bolic 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. However, all the old-time Bolshe viks still cling to caps. Nesterov always wears one. Mike Kalugin wore one. And, of course, Stalin, in all his pictures. As a hall-mark of the old Bolshevik aristocracy, the i cap is probably politically safer j . than the hat. <to bk cnrnxuKD) 1 - - JL - J1 IMPROVEDIJ ,l,u 1 ,M UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LVNDQU1ST. D% D. Of TT>e Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesion for June 23 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International permission R*"*ious Kduc?tlon; used by STRENGTHENING BONDS OF FELLOWSHIP LESSON TEXT?Luke 11:I?-S0: John 11: ? ?. 20. 21. MEMORY SELECTION?A new com mandment I five unto you. Thnt ye love one another: aa I have loved you. that ye alM love one another John 12:34. Fellowship Is a word which comes to its full meaning only in the relationship between the Lord and believers, which also brings them into just such a relationship with one another. The Lord seeks his people and gives himself in friendship to them, even to the full devotion of death. Shall we do less for one another? Our lesson presents four ways in which Christ fellowshiped with his disciples. I. The Fellowship of the Passover (Luke 22:14-18). It was late on Thursday, of what we call Holy Week, that Jesus and his disciples came to the upper room where Peter and John had already made preparation for the observ ance of the Passover (Luke 22:8). This feast had (since that great and awful night of Israel's redemp tion out of Egypt's bondage) pointed forward to the Christ and to his cross as the fulfillment of the type of redemption by the shedding of blood. Our Lord looked forward with in tense desire to the Passover which he now observed with his disciples, for it was the last celebration of that feast recognized by God. All that it had foreshadowed of deliver ance and hope was fulfilled in him who now sat at the table. He had moved forward with resolute pur pose to this day when his mission on earth was to be accomplished, and he was to become the Chris tian's Passover lamb (I Cor. 5;7). The Passover was a solemn feast of remembrance of God's deliver ance from the bondage of Egypt, but It was now to be replaced by a new feast of remembrance of eter nal significance. They went on into D. The Fellowship of the Lord's Table (Luke 22:19, 20). Taking the unleavened bread and the unfermented wine of the Pass over which had just been observed, Jesus established the Christian feast of remembrance, which we call communion, or the Lord's table. His words are significant, "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come" (I Cor. 11:26). At the Lord's table his fol lowers find spiritual strength in re calling his death for them, but they also find joy as they remember that he is to come again. They thus testi fy to the world that they believe and cherish these truths. Our Lord also spoke of the cup as "my blood of the new testament." The word "testament" means cov enant. The Lord's table, therefore, speaks of our allegiance to him, of our loyalty to our Lord, and of our devotion to his service. That is why the Christian church speaks of communion as a sacrament, a word from the Latin saeramentum, meaning oath, and essentially an oath of allegiance. in. The Fellowship of God's Word (John 17:6-8). John gives us a blessed account of the fellowship of Jesus and his disciples In the upper room, and then takes us into what is indeed "the Holy of Holies" of Scripture, our Lord's intercessory prayer. Here "the High Priest of our pro fession" (Heb. 8:1) brings us into the very presence of God. At the very beginning of his peti tions for them and for us (see v. 20) he speaks of the word which the Father had given him and which he had given to them. This little company of men had been given to Christ, drawn out of the evil world and set apart for God's work. But note that the thing which distinguished them in the eyes of the Lord was that they had "kept" the word of God, even as they had received the living word, Christ, as the one whom the Father had sent. That kind of fellowship with the Lord makes a man strong and use ful. Life and testimony both ring true because they exalt Christ. (V. The Fellowship of Prayer (John 17:20, 21). Christ prayed for his disciples, not only those immediately pres ent, but all who should through the ages since that day believe in Christ because of their witness. That puts each one of us, who is a true disciple, right into the center of the greatest prayer fellowship of all time. He, the eternal and omnipo tent one, prays for us. Why then should we be weak and faltering in our testimony or have failures in our life? Can it be that we have failed to count on his prayer and have tried to walk in our own strength? The prayer for unity (v. 21) does not speak of an outward uniting of religious bodies such as is much favored and promoted in our day. Certainly where such unity can be attained without the sacrifice of principle or compromise with false doctrine it is desirable. Real unity is that of the heart. PANDENBURG OOP CANDIDATE WASHINGTON. - Erudite Sena tor Vandenberf of Michigan not only has been doing a good job on for eign relations, but he takes it?and himself?seriously. Perhaps one is necessary to the other. Talking to a friend the other day, the Michi gan senator opined: "Well, we're getting along pretty well now that we have a Republi can foreign policy." "what do you mean?" "Well, analyze it for yourself," shot back the man who may be the next GOP nominee. "It all goes back to my now somewhat famous speech of January, 1M5." NOTE?Van claims be Is get ting bored wttb polities. "One question I can't answer to my wife's satisfaction," be says, "is why I'm running for re-election (as senator). I've threatened to divoree her If she asks me again." (The answer, of coarse, is that if Van doesn't run again for senator, be won't be In the trial heats for President.) ? ? ?' SENATE LABOR REBELLION Deadliest backstage punches against President Truman's Labor draft program were scored by CIO Pres. Phil Murray in a secret meet ing held by the senate education and labor committee. Those present included Murray; Lew Hines, AFL legislative repre sentative: Martin Miller, represent ing A1 Whitney's railway trainmen; plus Senators Jim Murray of Montana (chairman), David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Elbert Thomas of Utah, Claude Pepper of Florida, Lister Hill of Alabama, Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania and Wayne Morse of Oregon. The CIO president got right down to cases. "My organization has always fol lowed President Truman's recom mendations in labor disputes and the record proves it," Murray de clared. "Look at the auto, steel and oil disputes. We went along with the fact-finding boards. In some cases we had to accept much below what we asked, but we did so patri otically. "Can Industry say as much?" Murray continued. "Look what happened daring the anto strike. General Motors held out for months against the recom mendations of Truman's fact finding board, which labor was willing to accept. That was a ease of management striking against the government, but did President Tram an call for a Joint session of congress to up braid General Motors offi cials as he did recently against labor? He did not." ? ? ? NO-STRIKE PLEDGE? Then, with a scowl, the usually mild - mannered CIO boas acidly added: "Did be offer legislation then to penalise and enslavo all management as he did in this ease against labor? WoD, I don't remember reading anything about It." Senator Hill Inquired if labor would be willing to offer Truman a compromise on the strike issue, such as a six month no-strike pledge. "That is Impossible, as tar as the CIO la concerned," replied Mur ray emphatically. "My organization is run on Democratic lines and such a pledge could never be enforced. When members at a CIO union are working under intolerable condi tions, I couldn't dictate to them not to strike. Therefore, I would never agree to such a pledge." mam RATIONING FERTILIZER Agriculture department experts are worried over a new drive by Dixie democrats. They now want 1 fertilizer rationed. Hitherto, potash fertilizer has been used mainly for food growing, but now the southern bloc wants it rationed so more can go for the cotton and tobacco crops. Midwest farmers do not object to the idea of rationing of potash, pro vided rationing regulations recog nize the supreme importance of food. The Civilian Production ad ministration, however, has always allocated scarce materials on the basis of a base period, and tha southern representatives are insist ing that any new rationing program be based upon 1944 consumption of I fertilizer. la 1944, Its southern states ased 44 per cent of the nation's fertiliser bat predaced only 19 per cent of the nation's food, la the same year, hs midwest states produced 54 per cent at the nation's food bat used only 4 per cent of the fertiliser. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF The exit of young men continues. Josiah DuBois, one of Secretary Vinson's crack assistants, has re signed to practice law here and in Camden, N. J. . . . Secretary of the Interior Cap Krug ended a six-hour " Ashing trip in the Virgin Islands with a painful sunburn, then pro ceeded to sweat out 12 days of hot ter negotiations with John L. Lewis. ... At Fort Washington, Md., is a half-empty veterans' hospital which costs tha taxpayers till a day par ' patient. 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