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Page 2, Taylor Daily Press, Sunday, July 9, 1961
Off Beaten Path
Soviet Union Boasts
Two Tourist Circuits
By PRESTON GROVER
T A S H KE N T, Uzebistian,
U.S.S.R. (/P)— In the Soviet Un-
ion there are two tourist circuits.
One goes through Moscow, Lenin-
grad and Kiev—the modern his-
tory cities of the industralized
part of the Soviet Union.
The other one—Tashkent, Sam-
arkand and Bukhara—is great
propaganda country.
In almost every public building
in Tashkent signs tell of Commu-
nist successes in converting these
ancient, sleepy areas into produc-
tive farms and cities. The most
glaring testimony comes from the
vast acreages of cotton produc-
ing three million tons of long
staple yearly, the machine plants,
the cotton mills, the bulging un-
iversities and the housing pro-
jects.
This is where the Soviets show
people from underdeveloped coun-
tries how the Communist regime
has built up its underdeveloped
areas.
- Without dispute, the develop-
ment is impressive, whether you
come from Baghdad or Omaha.
But it is mere impressive if you
come from Baghdad.
Three Pakistani cotton special-
ists studying here, who know
what good cotton looks like, had
spent some time in Texas. But
Texas is Texas, while this terri-
tory is so much like irrigated sec-
tions of Pakistan, a few hundred
miles southward across the moun-
tains, that they could not escape
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the comparison. During lunch
they told me how much higher
quality Uzbekistan cotton was
than Pakistani.
The three Pakistani cotton spe-
cialists had seen the same state
farm I saw, about 100 miles from
the Chinese frontier, in that
strange corner of the world where
China, India, Pakistan, the Soviet
Union and Afghanistan all come
together.
The farm of about 17,000 acres
is in the fertile Ferghana Valley
through which passed the age-old
silk route from China to Europe.
It is run by Uzaknai Sarimsakov,
28, and under him are 2,800 work-
ers who, with their families, form
a population of 7,750.
The farm is, in effect, an indus-
trial organization given over
mostly to cotton. The people live
in six settlements with each fam-
ily having a two-room house,
kitchen and porch with outdoor
bath and toilets.
There is a 100-bed hospital with
12 doctors. Schools are the equiv-
alent of junior high school. The
nearby town of Andizhan has
higher technical schools. •
The average worker gets 773
rubles—about $800 a year income,
much more than a Pakistani and
Indian farmer.
Certainly the life is not lush.
An American farmer would con-
sider himself definitely underpriv-
ileged. But compared with the
Middle, East, Indoensia, India,
Pakistan, the living level is high.
Efficient? By Middle Eastern
standards, extremely so. By
American standards, not in 'the
least. Despite 2,800 workers, 120
big cotton-picking machines, 270
tractors and 45 seeders, Sarimsa-
kov’s farm uses one man for
every eight acres. That is hope-
less featherbedding by American
standards.
The big change in this area
and in most of Uzbekistan came
with communism. Cotton produc-
tion is—by Communist calculation
—more than 500 times as much
as before the revolution.
Even the silk worms are fed
Wise Farmer Circleville Philosopher Glad
To Learn Congress, Like Him,
Knows How to Raise Debt Until
Keeps Eye on
Legislature
AUSTIN Iff) — The wise farm-
?r or rancher now keeps a close
watch on 'the work of the Texas
Legislature, a Texas business
writer says.
“The time has passed' when a
farmer or rancher could remain
oblivious to the activities of the
State Legislature,” according to
James D. Gordon, research as-
sistant of the University of Texas
Bureau of Business Research.
Why this increased need for
agricultural scrutiny of lawmak-
ing?
Gordon gives two answers in an
article in the forthcoming Texas
Business Review:
1. Farm and ranch legislation
is progressively assuming a great-
er scope so that at present vir-
tually no participant in agricul-
ture—owner, laborer or marketer
—is exempt from decision made
at the Capitol.
2. Rural representation is de-
clining, with the bill (HB349) re-
districting the Legislature trans-
ferring 13 house seats from rural
to urban areas.
“As a consequence of these two
transitions, farmers and ranch-
ers may no longer rest assured
that their interests will necessari-
ly be perpetuated by the
State Legislature,” Gordon said'.
‘Though it would be inaccurate
to surmise that adequate support
in the House has been lost, the
future will present an abundance
of previously unencountered; ob-
stacles insofar as the promotion
of farm interests is concerned.”
“Intensified defensive efforts”
will be required even in the rural
stronghold of the Senate, Gor-
don said.
Agriculture fared surprisingly
well in the 57th session that end-
ed May 29, he said. The Texas
Farm Bureau, which Gordon call-
ed “the state’s most active agri-
cultural lobby,” gave this box
under stepped up heat so they
form bigger cocoons more quick-
ly. Streets and farms lined with
mulberry trees whose leaves are
stripped to feed the silk worms.
Editor’s note: The Circleville
Philosopher on his Johnson
grass farm on the Gabriel dis-
cusses finances this week, per-
sonal and national
Dear editar:
There are many things I don’t
understand about Washington,
and I guess this is balanced out
by the fact there are many things
Washington doesn’t understand
about me, but when it .comes to
financial matters, Washington is
pretty much in step with the rest
of the country.
I know it’s customary to com-
plain, if not yell and scream,
about the amount of money
Washington spends, but when
you get right down to it, Wash-
ington pretty well reflects the
rest of us.
For example, I was trying to
scrape up enough money to buy
a new picture tube for my tele-
vision set—I could get along with-
out television, everybody did fif-
teen years ago, but who does?—
and it was straining my budget
and to rest my mind and clear
my head for a proper decision on
the matter I picked up a news-
paper and ran across an article
that made my decision easy.
According to it, Congress has a
permanent debt ceiling for the
score of what happened' to bills
it backed or opposed: Bills sup-
ported and passed, 20; bills op-
posed and defeated,20; bills sup-
ported and defeated, 17; bills op-
posed and passed, 3.
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country. Back in 1954, Congress
decided unlimited wild spending
had to be curbed, a line had to
be drawn, and since then it’s
been against the law for the na-
tional government to get further
into debt than 285 billion dollars.
But along about this time every
year Congress looks up and dis-
covers a picture tube, so to
speak, has blown out and it’s
going to take some extra money
to run the country. So last week,
as it has done every year since
1954, Congress temporarily raised
the debt limit, this time by 13
billion. Understand, the permanent
ceiling of 285 still stands, this is
just a temporary measure to get
by on this year, and it’s still
against the law, the permanent
one, that is, to go beyond the
1954 figure.
This is what I’m talking about.
How could me and Congress know
that my picture tube was going
to burn out or that 15-million-
dollar missile was going to fiz-
zle? We’ve got to be economy-
minded if this country, including
this Johnson grass farm, is going
to survive, but an emergency is
an emergency.
Everybody ought to have a per-
manent debt ceiling, but if he’s
going to let it stand in the way
of national defense and good tele-
vision reception, he’s out of touch
with me and' Congress and a
good many of the rest of you.
Yours faithfully,
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The Taylor Daily Press (Taylor, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 174, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1961, newspaper, July 9, 1961; Taylor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth799526/m1/2/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taylor Public Library.