Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1932 — Page 10

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ALL GLITTER IS NOT PURE GOLD IN SOVIET PLAN Serious Defects Hidden by Curious Optical Illusion on 5-Year Program. This is ih fifth artkte of a n'rifu deTlbtn* the nctMin and failure* of lliiMia'j first Five-Year Plan and the oviet*’ program for a second five-sear drive. BY EUGENE LYONS, t’nited Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April B.—A curious optical illusion has given the most r.erious defects of the Five-Year Plan every appearance of special merit. Speakers at the Communist party conference recited proudly the totals of capital invested and workers employed since the Five-Year Plan was undertaken. They boasted that in both respects the plan had been greatly over-fulfilled. In effect, they prided themselves that their work cost a lot more In men and money than they had figured It would. Summarizing the results of the first plan, Premier Molotov said at one polai “The Five-Year Plan contemplated a huge reduction in unemployment, yet at the time of its adoption there was no foreseeing that unemployment would be entirely *dped out in the U. S. S. R. already

in 1930-31. Claims Changes Help Workers “As you see, we have somewhat departed from the original plan, but there can be no doubt that such changes, or rather such improvements in the plan, are entirely in the interests of the working class and meet with full approval.’’ This is precisely as if I were to inform my office proudly that the work which they planned for me to do alone I am doing with the assistance of two others. For the volume of production, • which will be turned out in 1932, j the plan had foreseen 16,000,000 wage-earners; actually there will be at least 21,000,000. In so-called “census industry’’ this j overfulfillment is even more striking, with 62,200,000 employed where it was thought there would be 4.100.000—exactly 50 per cent above the plan. Os course, the plan is being finished in four and a quarter years, which accounts for 15 per cent additional workers; that still leaves! a huge and expensive margin of “extra help’’ and explains in part the inordinately high cost of the whole business. For the men and women who otherwise might be jobless, this is a gratifying state of affairs. From the angle of planned national economy, it is a doubtful advantage. The abolition of unemployment is by no means an unmixed blessing. Moreover, the capital put into industry to attain this volume of production is cited as being startlingly bigger than planned. Paid for “Out of Stomach” Despite large emissions of currency, the higher cost of the plan in men and money is being paid for out of the country’s stomach. A ( shortage of food and clothes. Infla- * tion prices on the free market, upon which most people are dependent to greater or smaller extent. Loans which take at least 121 2 per cent of the earnings—a month's wages —from every worker. Higher prices even, in government stores. The Soviet Union already has much to show for this investment of capital, labor and suffering. On what was until recently a bleak wind-swept stretch of Nortji Caucasian steppe there stands an American plant turning out 130 j tractors daily. Looking down from the Kremlin j in Nizhni-Novgorod one sees a brand new town of the American industrial type surrounding a great manufacturing unit; this has an eventual capacity of 140.000 Russian “Fords” annually. Great Progress Made The run-down old Amo factory in Moscow has been remodeled to produce annually 30,000 auto trucks. In Saratov a factory equipped to turn out 20,000 combines a year has begun to function. A copper smelting plant to yield 20.000 tons a year has been opened for business in the Urals. The first of six blast furnaces is pouring out metal in Magnitogorsk.. In their totality these undertakings are staggering. However the margin of waste and error, it is already sufficiently clear that enough solid achievement remains to remove Russia from the list of purely agrarian nations. HOOSIER ARTISTS TO PUT WORK ON OISPLAY Three Exhibitors Feature Paintings In Chicago Gallery, The Hoosier art gallery in Chicago will open an interesting exhibition Saturday of the work of three Indiana artists—Will Vawter of Nashville, Mrs. Leota Loop oi Kokomo and Homer G. Davisson of Ft. Wayne. All three are regular exhibitors in the annual Hoosier Salon, and both Vawter and Davisson are known for their beautiful landscapes, and Mrs. Loop as one of the outstanding flower painters of Indiana. Most of Davisson’s work in the present exhibition has been done in Bruges and near Munich, where he spent a number of months last year. He is a member of the faculty of the Ft. Wayne art school, and was the recipient of the Edward Rector memorial prize at the Hoosier Salon of 1931. The exhibition will continue through April, with a number of special days in connection with the exhibit. Former members of Tri Kappa sorority of Indiana will have a reception and tea on April 9. and P. E. O. Sisterhood has been invited to observe a day, as has the Altrusa Club. \ Colored Concrete Is Topic Cement contractors and finishers of Indianapolis and nearby cities have been invited to attend a meeting on the second floor of the Architects and Builders building i tonight, sponsored by the Portland Cement Association, at which colored concrete will be the topic.

ANTIOCH TO YIELD GREAT TREASURES

French and Americans Join in Excavations at Ancient City. By Science Service PRINCETON, N. J., April B. Antioch, which ranks as one of the “big four” among cities of the ancient world, is to be excavated by archeologists of France and America, working together. Professor

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I George W. Elderkin of Princeton university, will leave this month to direct the five-year excavation program at this Syrian city, famous in Biblical and Roman history. Associated with Princeton in the venture will be the Musees Nationaux of France, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Worcester Art Museum. Antioch ranks with the great cities 0/ Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople. These were the hubs of the ancient universe around the

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Mediterranean sea, Antioch was founded by one of the generals of Alexandria the Great, about 300 B. C., and became the leading city of the near east. When Syria became a province of Rome in 64 B. C., each ruler of Rome tried to surpass his predecessor in beautifying Antioch. Antioch was the center from which the new faith of Christianity first was propagated westward. “The excavation of Antioch will be of great importance," said Professor Elderkin, in discussing the expedition, “because buried in its ruins is material relating to the history of Christianity, as well as vast stores of works of art for which the luxurious city was famous for a millennium of its existence, from its

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BUFFALO PLANS BIRTHDAY FETE City Soon Will Celebrate 100th Anniversary. By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., April B.—During the first ten days of July, this city will hold the largest carnival and celebration since the Pan American exposition in 1901. It will be the city's hundredth birthday party. Nearly a million visitors are expected for the cele-

bration. Specific invitations have been sent to the citizens of western New York, northern Pennsylvania and western Ohio. Dedication of Buffalo's new $7,000,000 city hall, a mammoth civic parade, and the unveiling of monuments to Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland are among the scheduled highlights. July was chosen for the celebration because that is the time of year when Buffalo usually enjoys the most pleasant weather. Crowding the ten-day program will be pageants, parades, fireworks displays, concerts, track and field events, a horse show and outboard motorboat races. All the events will center around the new Centennial park being built along the Niagara river front.

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GANDHI GARB BARRED IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL' Woodland Upper Classmen Suspended for ‘Cruelty’ to Freshmen. By United Press WOODLAND. Cal., April 8 Wearing the Gandhi garb in Woodland high school must stop. Such was the edict issued bv school authorities, as nine upper- ; classmen stood suspended today for sending freshman boys to school wearing loin cloths and safety pins. To impress the new students with their status in school, the seniors forced them to undress. ■ The edict followed.