The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946 Page: 4 of 6
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THE ELECTRA NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1946
INSTALLMENT TWO
DAY OBSERVED
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'ducted the most successful children’s
festival last fall.
Mrs. Zulema Stroud’s room won
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Mrs. Charles T. Murphy and
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We get a quick first look at Mos-
cow. Wide, incredibly empty streets,
sidewalks full of hurrying,- shabby
people, walking past dingy shops in
dilapidated buildings. Monotonous
rows of uninteresting apartments,
concrete beehives which sometimes
make an effort at beauty in orna-
mentation. But it is half-hearted,
like the architecture of an insti-
tution.
Now we come to Spaso House
which, before the 1917 Revolution,
was built by a beet-sugar baron,
and is one of a number of such
palaces in Moscow which once be-
longed either to the merchant prince
or the Romanov nobility. The Bol-
sheviks have turned them over to
foreign governments for embassies.
Inside, all are giant forests of mar-
ble columns from the tops of which,
like grapevines, trail the marble
balustrades of staircases. They are
as drafty as movie sets, and as cozy
to live in as Grand Central Station.
In the back yard of each is a hen
house.
It was in one such august hall,
its spaciousness lightly salted down
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| Mrs. Tinnin also voiced the appreci-
ation of the membership for Mrs.
Pettit’s splendid leadership, and the
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Mrs. Pettit’s guidance, the First
Ward PTA has attained the largest
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H’. Avcrell Harriman
.raEuxcs—close in on his profile.
r’his aver, we smilingly shake hands
the unsmiling Russians and
<il >ui way through to the Amer-
jfi reporters. Practically all of
fiasco w’s tiny foreign newspaper
<«'ony is there. They tell us the
Russians have given us an unusual-
h big official turnout—“better than
Banaid Nelson’s.”
A big Russian in his middle thir-
wanders toward me. “Is every-
• all right?” he wants to know.
' am Kirilov, in charge of protocol
*»r the People’s Commissariat of
foreign Trade ” We did not then
know that, representing this Com
missariat. our official host, he was
to be our constant companion.
May Day in Moscow
with curved gilt furniture, that Eric
Johnston held his first press con-
ference.
| The reporters plead for bi-weekly
press conferences. For the Soviet
| Government has promised he can
' see everything he desires, and, until
he has been m Moscow for a while,
; he can’t conceive how closely for-
• eign reporters are held down; how
, seldom they are allowed to leave
i Moscow; how little they see or hear.
' But now Johnston is off to call on
Mikoyan, an intimate of Stalin and
a top Bolshevik, who is People’s
Commissar for Foreign Trade, our
1 official host.
I Johnston returns from the Krem-'
lin very much impressed by Mikoy-
‘ an. “Highly intelligent. He’d be
prominent in any country. In Amer-
ica he d be a big businessman or
industrialist. I told him that. He
seemed pleased.”
Tonight our Russian hosts, with
i Kmlov in charge, take us to a con-
cert in Tschaikovsky Hall, which in
I New York would bo Carnegie Hall.
I look at the hall which scorns well
built but a little too ornate. Thon
at the crowd. It is intent on the
stage and m tl o half-light looks
shabby, except for the rod epaulets
on the officers’ unifoims. Most of
tLeir heads are clipped, Prussian
sblc.
Each act on the stage is intro-
duced by an atti active brunette in
a simply cut dross of gleaming
white satin. By contrast with that
shabbj' audience, she is a drcam
princess, and so are the performers.
This drab socialist audience stares
at the stage as though it wore some
unobtainable fairyland of which
they get just an hour’s glimpse. j
A male pianist has just taken his
bows and retired to the wings and '
they are now clearing away his,
grand piano for the next act. How?
Well, the slender brunette in the
white satin dress is pushing it, a feat
made possible because it is on cast-
ors. Later, after watching many
slender women heave pianos, trunks
and crates around, we become al-
most as calloused as Russians. But i ;
now in the dark we look at each' 1
other wordlessly and smile. ;
Now the lights come up and we
go out into the great foyer where ;
the Russian audience is indulging
in the pleasant European custom of ’
a between-acts promenade. 1
. And I’ve never seen anything like ,
Ill-fitting clothes, poorly cut,
The forty-ninth anniversary of the
founding of the National Congress of
'Parents and Teachers was observed
by the First Ward Parent-Teacher
, Association with an appropriate pro-
gram on Thursday afternoon, Febru-
I ary 7, at the school building.
, Mrs. Charles T. Murphy, program
chairman for the day, introduced
the following numbers: Songs and
readings by Miss Eloise William’s
second grade pupils; "Faith of Our
Mothers”, a song sung by the PTA
group and led by Mrs. Tim Rollins;
a dedication prayer, read by the
group; a short biography of the na-
tional founders, Mrs. Alice Mcllelan
Birney and Mrs. Phoebe Apperson
Heart, read by Mrs. J. C. Yates.
______________ | An impressive playlet, entitled
the constant saluting. ’ In the West- I *The Shining Road’’, paid tribute to
| the founders. Characters in the
playlet were portrayed by Mmes. J.
L. Lancaster, Jack Creager, J. L.
Clayton; and Misses Sandra Tin-
nin, Nelda Ruth Hines, Jane Baker
and Mclva Jean Nunley. Al the
conclusion of the play, Mrs. Murphy
j sang a special Founders Day song
. -- "The Tree of the P.T.A.” She was *
accompanied by Mrs. Paul Rogers.
[ Preceding the program, Mrs. R.
K. Pettit, president, conducted a
■ short business meeting, during which
a nominating committee to select of-
ficers for next year was elected The
committee is composd of Mmes. C.
G. Downtain, J. W. Tinnin and Le-
roy Worley. Mrs. Pettit introduc-
ed Mrs. Theo Yourco, who, in be-
half of the First Ward Parent-
Teacher Association, made the pre-
sentation of two State life member-
ships to
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dents of
worships
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Mrs. Jake
the regret of the members at the i
loss of Mrs Pettit, who is having to I
resign the presidency because of a
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electrical equipment that caused the fuse
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Russians
By W. L. White
we would get a good look at ancient
Cairo, which none of us had ever
seen. *
The next morning Eric, Joyce and
I continue our trip, and that after-
noon at Teheran we see our first
Russians. Their planes with the big
red stars on the field as we circle,
and as we get out of our plane, the
Russian Ambassador to Iran and a
half dozen of his staff are there
to welcome Johnston. They are
very solemn and do not smile as
they shake hands.
These, solemn Russian diplomats
are all in their thirties or early for-
ties, and they wear curious, badly
cut Soviet suits—somber in hue and
of shoddy materials. You could take
an American mail-order suit, boil
it, press it lightly, and get the
same effect.
Next morning Averell Harriman,
American Ambassador to the Soviet
Union, who has just arrived in Te-
heran, is taking us to Moscow in
the official ambassadorial Libera-
tor.
Most fascinating of all is a fact
which I knew but not until now could
believe: that in Russia there are
few connected paved highways. I
see wagon trails from the villages
out to the fields, and sometimes
faint ones from town to town, but
not one strip of clean, flowing con-
crete or black-top.
Also I’m trying, through this plexi-
glass window, to see the socialist
revolution as it has affected the vil-
lages, but I can’t. For all this might
have been here in the middle ages.
If new thatched-roof huts have been
built since czarist days, from 5,000
feet I can’t tell them from the an-
cient ones. Looking down on every
village, the biggest building is still
the white church, built in czarist
days. In twenty-five years the So-
viets have constructed nothing half
as big, although here and there is
what might *be a school or an ad-
ministrative hall.
The co-pilot comes back to say
we will swing low over Stalingrad.
Diving, we follow the bends of the
city itself as it follows the river—
or rather, as once did the city. For
Stalingrad is gone, and there re-
main only roofless walls like the
snags of decayed molars staring up
at us. Factories, with twisted ma-
chinery rusting under the tangle of
roof girders.
Finally, just out of Moscow, we
see an electric power line running
from horizon to horizon. It is the
first thing I have seen in the past
hour that I am sure was built since
1917 But soon we see the first hard-
surfaced road, and that black
smudge on the horizon is Moscow
itself. Then its railway yards and
the smoke from its factories. Tiers
of workers’ apartments surround
each factor-., and are m turn sur-
rounded by a crazy quilt of potato
patches A spacious outdoor thea-
ter is ott the river banks. The roofs 1
of the big bi: idmgs are mottled with t
brown and green camouflage paint.
As we let our wheels down and
begin to feel for the runway, I see,
rushing past, great rows of Ameri-
can-built C-47s stacked on the field
in orderly rows with the big star of
the Rod Air Force painted on each.
A considerable crowd is waiting
at the airdrome. First, the wel-
coming committee; a row of solemn
Slav, in the same boiled mail-order
suits we saw at Teheran. But the
minute Eric Johnston emerges, a
battery of
and Soviet copies
with embroidered silver stars indi- MAminmT
eating the officers’ rank. They al- . NATIONAL FOUNDERS
ways wear pistols in carefully pol- A v
ished leather holsters, suspended
from Sam Browne belts, since the
last war abolished by the British,
American, and French armies. In
Western countries there is little dif-
ference between the uniforms of of-
ficers and men. Indeed, the British,
who are most sensitive to criticisms
of former class distinctions in the
army, now have a uniform battle
dress for all ranks so that you
cannot tell a general from a pri-
vate unless you are close enough to
see his inconspicuous shoulder tabs.
But in Russia you are never con-
fused on this point—the officer spar-
kles a quarter of a mile away.
In the Western countries heroes
modestly keep their medals in the
top bureau drawer, and the award
is represented by a tiny bit of col-
ored ribbon just above the upper left
pocket of the tunic. Soviet officers*
chests jingle with actual bronze and
gold medals. There is, furthermore,
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ern countries, both officers and men
regard it as a nuisance, and officers
when passing enlisted men on the
streets, look the other way to avoid
it if possible.
Here everybody salutes constant-
ly and from all distances. Most of
the other old czarist military caste
lines between officers and men have
been vigorously revived. No Soviet
officer may carry a conspicuous
package on the streets. Officers, of
course, eat in separate messes,
and on trains travel in “soft” com-
partments, rather than in the hard
ones where the enlisted men ride.
Although Red Army officers must
still spend some time in the ranks,
schools like Annapolis and West
Point have been established where
they give promising youngsters
training toward commissions. Also
the Suvarov cadet schools have re-
cently been opened, admitting sons
of officers and orphans as young
as eight years old.
These officers in the foyer of the
concert hall are apparently on leave
and, except for the fact that they
are under-sized, are fine-looking
men. They are usually blue-eyed
blonds with high cheekbones, and
their unsmiling Slav faces and
clipped bullctheads constantly re-
mind me of old-time Prussian of-
ficers, as they solemnly patrol the
foyer with these shabby, undernour-
ished women.
But now our hosts tear us away
from this revolving crow d to a room
near our box where a little betwoen-
the-acts supper is being served in
our honor by the director of the
theater.
This truly oriental hospitality has
nothing to do with Lenin or the theo-
ry of Surplus Values. These people
may be socialists, but they are also
Russians. As such, they inherit an
even stronger tradition from the
Mongolian Emperor Genghis Khan
than they do from Karl Marx.
Looking around the hall, I wonder
where they keep the old people. All
these faces are young; in their
twenties and thirties. So were
those on the streets tins afternoon.
What became of Russians who
should now' be in their fifties, six-
ties, or seventies ° Now, back in
America, I still wonder.
In Russia, if you decide to move,
you must go through about as many
formalities as you would need to get
married. In Moscow you don’t just
arrive in a taxi (for there are none)
at the hotel of your choice. For-
eigners stay at one of three hotels,
but they are the best Moscow af-
fords except for the Moskva which
lias been built since the Revolution
and is reserved for high-ranking
communists, important goxernment
officials (wh.ch is the same thing),
well-known artists, and top Red*
Army officers. Its public rooms are
in an uninteresting, classic style,
which is best represented in New
York by the Grand Central Station.
Intourist is a government-owned
travel agency and you can start
thinking Cooks or the American Ex-
press, because in peacetime it ar-
ranges tours with hotel reservations
and meals. But in Russia it has
complete charge of the movements
and creature-comforts of practical-
ly all foreigners, and you cannot
stir without it.
For here it is impossible to drop
into a restaurant for a casual meal,
go to a hotel for a night, or climb on
a train for a trip. A Russian be-
longs to his job. He and his family
usually sleep in an apartment house
which his factory owns. He prob-
ably eats, in his factory dining room
food raised on his factory’s farm’
His children attend a day-nursery
which it maintains. They play
games and go to movies in its cul-
ture palace and they go on vaca-
tions when it can spare them on
trains which it designates to resorts
and workers* homes which it con-
trols.
Foreigners can function in this
rigidly ordered world only if some
state organization provides for their
living space, transportation, food,
and ration coupons, which is where
Intourist comes in.
The Soviet Government realizes
that it cannot force foreigners from
the Western countries down to the
sub-WPA standard of living, which
is the lot of most Soviet citizens.
Consequently, it accords foreigners
privileges which in the Western
world are only common decencies
but which are fantastic luxuries in
the Soviet Union.
I was accorded a large and com-
fortable room at the Metropole
and presented with a book of ration
tickets, each good for a meal in one
of the Metropole’s two dining rooms
reserved for foreigners. It had still
often flashy but always of tawdry i
materials.
This is the Tschaikovsky Concert
Hall where seats usually go to top
officials or to crack Stakhanovite
workers who get high wartime
wages. But their clothes can’t com-
pare with those of a meeting of the
Workers Alliance in my home town
of Emporia, Kansas, at the bottom
°f 9ur depression. Yet Carnegie
Hall seldom offers a better program
than the one that we heard on the
stage.
I note that the crowd is almost
as poorly fed as it is poorly dressed.
The Red Army officers are robust
enough. But too many of these Rus-
sian women have bad complexions,
which seem to indicate lack of vita-
mins. These people, in their twen-
ties and thirties, were children dur-
ing the hard days after the revolu-
tion; years of malnutrition show in
their bad bone structure. No won-
der we three average-sized Amer-
icans stand half a head higher than
the Red Army officers who parade
there.
Red Army officers’ uniforms fol-
low the ger ^iJ Russian sartorial
standard But their poor material
ls garnished by flashy red epaulets
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