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IN THE FOREGROUND, “AMERICA”: Lined up in parade format for children of Moscow subway workers. Th spend six summer weeks at this camp, front row, two youngsters hold a copy of “America,” in the Soviet. President Truman is on the cover. In the back row

GREETINGS: After making arrangements to visit a machine tractor station near Stalingrad, Mr. Strohm found youngsters lined up for his arrival under a sign reading “Greetings to Our American Friends.”

DANCING LESSON: All the children at the machine tractor station near Stalingrad are cared for by

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ion are some of the 630 youngsters of the Pioneer Camp outside Moscow e children, who also are members of the organization sponsored by the Young Communist league, acres of crops, 500 hogs, 300 beehives, 500 cows. In the U. S. state department magazine of which the Russians allow 50,000 copies to be distributed looms a billboard-sized picture of Stalin and Molotov.

+-with wild lyme’ grass; the hybrid he developed is being plant

two women while other adults of community work in fields or at other jobs. Here two children dance for the

others,

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Eggs Are 90c Each, Milk 80c a Quart, Russians Can't Get Enough to Eat|

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said. “Russians are unpredictable. Just because Tuesday followed Monday this week 1s no sign it will be the same next week—at least not in the Soviet Union.”

Some Fiscal Tangles

'. They loaned me a little money until I could get some changed and warned me to take it easy—that I wasn't in China. Quickly I delved into finances and found that the diplomatic rate of exchange makes a ruble worth about eight cents. The official rate, for all other foreigners, makes a ruble worth 20 cents. Lucky for me .|that correspondents are considered as diplomats (for purposes of finances, that is). I more cautiously picked up an fjce cream bar from a street vendor. Six rubles. It doesn’t sound like much until you get to the arithmetic. Then it adds up half a dollar, or $1.20 if you're not » diplomat. A Break at Hotels

The government, however, has given foreigners a break. They are lodged in Intourist hotels. There's a terrific housing shortage in Moscow, with half a dozen people sometimes in a single room. But Intourist always fixed me up with a room on an hour's notice— it never took longer than that to move out some Russian occupant. Hotel coupons entitled foreigners to

ROYALTIES FOR HIS WHEAT: For the hybrid wheat he developed, this academician, Professor Tsitsin, is rewarded with royalties from the Russian government in accordance with the amount of seed being used. Here he holds sheaves of wild couch grass which he crossed all over the Soviet Union.

ADDING MACHINE: Russians work Chinese counter overtime. Shown above in Moscow's Hotel Savoy, this type of adding machine is in use throughout U. 8. 8. R.

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STORING HAY: Grass hay for the family cow is being put away in the loft of a log house firm by a woman on the “Victory” collective farm near Moscow, When she works for the collective farm, this ‘woman gets credit for “work days”; whengshe works for herself like this, she gets no such credit, :

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reduced rates, making an average meal cost only $1.60. I had planned to take a Russian friend from one of the other embassies “out” for dinner, until he gently pointed out that it might easily cost $30 or so per person. “A bottle of beer, alone, is $2.25 in your money,” he said. So instead I went to his home for dinner. ‘We stopped at a bread store and stood in line for an hour to get his bread ration. Bread Half of Diet One look at his ration card and I was ashamed T had taken advantage of his «Russian hospitality. Bread makes up more than half of the Russian diet. As an office worker he gets a little over a pound a day. Workers in industry get more. For the month he gets two pounds of sugar, one and three quarters pounds of fat, four and a half pounds of grits or macaroni and four and eight-tenths pounds of fish or meat. “Only the last two months my store hasn't had any fat or meat,” he said. Rations for his wife and little boy were much less—they are nonproductive workers.

Egg Is 90 Cents

The free market or commercial store ekes out the meager rations, so we went to a commercial store where you need no ration books— just money. He bought one egg (for my breakfast, I was to learn later). It cost 90 cents. “We can’t afford to buy much here,” he said, superfluously. Milk was 80 cents a quart. A five-cent chocolate bar was $2.50. Sugar cost $12 a pound. The store was crowded with purchasers, but purchases were few. € The average wage in the Soviet Union is less than 500 rubles a month—$40. A school teacher may get $32, a chauffeur $80 a month. “It's been so long since we really had enough to eat,” observed my friend wistfully.

Ration Disappointment

“The war came just when our country was making progress. But Premier Stalin promised this spring that food rationing will be definitely lifted this year.” He brightened at the thought. (It must have been a cruel disappointment when he heard the recent Kremlin announcement that rationing could not be lifted this year, that it must continue until some time in 1947, and .still more disappointing when the government tripled ration prices the other day.) Swap markets have sprung up in all cities and villages. Anyone who has anything to sell or swap is welcome. A Russian friend calls them “push” markets: “Everyone pushes everyone else around.” You can buy weeds ground up to be used as tobacco, a bit of ribbon, a comb, old clothing. I saw a woman buy one shoe and then go around and try to find a mate for it. _Not the mate, just a mate. “Samples, Nothing More A girl took me to one of the exhibits where “samples of what the Moscow factories are making for the people” were on display. We saw everything from motorcycles to radios, from furniture to toys. But another Russian said to me later: “Show me a store where we can buy these things. Those exhibits are nothing but museums.” Then.there's the question of religion in Russia. I couldn’t get out of my mind a spectacle I had witnessed at the Moscow cathedral. I had barely been able to force my way inside, so tightly were the worshipping thousands packed together. They had stood for nearly three hours, some barefooted, some pregnant, all of them hungarily drinking in the celebration of the mass. I had almost stepped ‘on a young woman lying flat on her face, her lips to the holy floor of her church. The air was heavy with the odor of many human bodies. The choir, in shirt sleeves and some without. ties, nevertheless gave forth with the most movingly beautiful religious music I have ever heard. Deeply Religious I could not forget the friendly, kindly look on, the face of the bearded patriarch as he gave his blessing to the thousands who pressed forward at the end of the service to kiss his hand. So I went to see Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian Orthodox church. I told him I had been moved by the sight of thousands of people crowding to get inside his church, tor even get near his church. They don’t crowd to get in the Baptist church in West Union, IlL “Yes,” he said. “The Russians are by nature deeply religious. They love the pomp, the ceremony, the music of our church.” . “Father,” I asked directly, “the people in America want to know— is there freedom of religion in Russia?” His answer was equally direct and simple. “Yes, we have freedom of religion. Anytime a group of people want to open a new church they apply to us and wé help them organize. The government supplies lumber and materials for building new churches. The government has been very helpful.” 25,000 Churches Open He went on to say there are now 25,000 churches open in the Soviet Union, that they have nearly 40,000 priests -and have just established schools for the advanced training of their priests. And he mentioned, tpo,, that there were Baptist churches, Catholic churches, Mohammedan churches open in the Soviet. The government has set.up a bureau to maintain, contact with the church, which caused some

critics to accuse it of being a “kept” church. On the way to the patriarch's house we passed the place where the gigantic Palace of the Soviets is going to be erected. The cathedral- stood there before the revolution. “It was a case of tearing down the past to make way for the future,” one Russian explained to me. Interrupted by War Construction was started in 1037, but there was great difficulty with the foundation. American engineers were brought in. Piles were sunk 300 feet into the earth. Finally a skeleton of steel slowly arose. It was to be the tallest building in the world. But when it was six stories high the war broke out. The steel was badly needed, so it was taken down. Today the Palace of the Soviets is still just a hole in the ground. An old woman, standing nearby, gave us her explanation: “An of God,” she said, crossing hersell. The next day I made arrangements with Communist party headquarters to visit a Pioneer camp and I invited . the wife of Gen. Bedell Smith, our ambassador to the Soviet Union, to go along. We came home with our arms full of flowers, with dolls and red neckties, and a mutual feeling that these kids were as lovable as any youngsters we had ever seen. ‘We Want to Thank You’ The camp director, who had hurriedly put on his uniform after we had surprised him in shirt sleeves, told us: “The children will be glad to see you. Every little boy and every old man with a beard knows how much America helped us win the war against our common enemy.

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f People Behind The Iron Curtain

HUCKLEBERRY FINNOVITCH: The trip this boy is making to the Volga river has nothing to do with boatmen. With worms, tackle and pole, he’s going fishing. >

And we want to thank you for it.” The director of the camp looked at the children parading back to usd.

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dren have suffered in the war. Our children have suffered. We grownups have*suffered. We must stop war. We must have peace. America |and the Soviet Union must always stand together for peace.”

(TOMORROW: Minsk—ruined city and impoverished countryside.)

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RECONVERSION: This Red army captain, who wears many decorations, is now agronomist at the Mironovka Seed Selection Station in the Ukraine. He stands beside a burntout tank which people just farm around because there's no way to move it. He was enthusiastic in his praise of Americans he had met in Germany.

LOCAL BRIE

““Fecond Wara Déntoeritic-chib meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carson Jordan, 2428 E. 10th st. at 8 p. m. Thursday.

The October band of St. Roch’s Catholic church will sponsor a card party at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Food Craft shop in the K. of P. bldg. Mrs. Rymond DeJulio is chairman. i

Dr. E. Carl Miller, East Cleveland, O., dentist, will address the

dinner meeting of the Indianapolis

Dental society at 6:30 p. m. Monday in Hotel Lincoln. His subject will be “The Clinical Management of Amalgam.”

Three members of the Indiana

state police and Lewis B. Smith,

state public safety division director,

are attending the meeting of the

National Safety congress in Chicago Those from the state police are Lt. David L. Laughlin, Sgt. Lloyd D. Hickerson, a member of the committee on public safety and Chief Technician Robert F. Borkenstein, a member of the national committee on chem-

this week.

education,

jcal tests for intoxication.

The Second Ward Women's Democratic club will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the home of Mrs. Clara

Ward.

The Women’s Democratic Harmony club of Center township will

Organizations

Degrees will be night observed 7 No. 315, O. E. at 8 p.

Thomas Chilton is worthy patron.

A special program honoring all brothers of the chapter Xm be held by Gaiden Rule

chapter No. 4 Illinois sts. Mr worthy matron and Fred patron. A oard party will be sponsored by

1 . Coke Co. auditorium. Mrs. and Mrs. Bessie Hart are co-chairmen.

A luncheon in honor of past presidents od 0. 25

will be held by Golden Rule lodge N Ladies auxiliary to Brotherh

men’s hall. follow.

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The sociation of Marion county w at Speed

fy the O. E. 8. work of 187 way chapter tonight.

day at Prospect temple. ner will be served at 6:

» Daylight chapter No 58 0. BE 8, will ' m.

observe Friends day at Pri

day with Mrs, Nellie Mae Smith as guest 1 . -Zobbe is worthy

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— Lynhurst chapter No. 505, O. E 8, will m. tonight. Edythe Bly hs

meet at 8 p. worthy matron and Arthur Weakly worthy patron.

An initiation of candidates will be held 7:30 p h

Friday by Neola Rebeka

at T: A 3 lodge No. 362 at Brightwood hall, 2345%: The senior degree staff will

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confer, the degrees and Mrs. Martha Greg-

ory, noble grand, will preside.

Lena Mitchell and. Mrs. Mabel 1| —Governor: Ralph Gates will be the

mple principal speaker at a Clear Lake erstine | Conservation club dinner Nov. 16. |

rs. Reinacker will be Esther chapter, O. E. 8, day celebrations in the At 2 p.m. priday Mrs. Lura Va & chapter presidents

conferred and friends’ Broad Ripple chapter . m. tomorrow in Broad Ripple Masonic’ temple Mrs. Mabelle Schwarzer is worthy matron and

, OB. 8. at p. m. Friday in the Masonic temple, North and % s. Viola G. Lindholm is ¥. Uhl, ‘worthy

Golden Link court No. 7 of the Amaranth at m. Priday in the Citizens Gas & Harry Halter

of Rail road trainmen tomorrow noon in Train1 A business. meeting will t matrons and past Jatrons as0 - The association

will observe past presidents night ThursA carry-in din-

Schroeder, 2640 Brill st. tonight at 7:30.

Indianapolis Retail Hardware | Dealers’ association will meet at | Bast Tenth Hardware Co. at 8 p. m. tomorrow. A film, “Steel Man's Servant,” will be shown.

A card party will be sponsored by ladies auxiliary of the Locomotive | Firemen and Engineers at 2-p. m. {Thursday in the Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium,

Trans World Airline representatives will interview applicants for hostess positions from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. Oct. 8 and 9 at the Claypool hotel.

Ralph F. Wilcox, Indiana state forester, was elected president of the Association of State Foresters, at the group’s meeting at Centre Lovell, Me., last week-end.

Alpha Chapter ‘of Kappa Beta Pi sorority will hold a rush party Thursday at 8 p: m. in the residence of Mrs. Capitol ave.

Flight rating were awarded three Indianapolis men by Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp., last week, C. H. Yoder, 2406 N. Pennsylvania st., received his solo rating, and D. W. Daniel, 5850 Lowell ave. and Leon Sutton received private - pilot licenses.

A former marine lieutenant and his seeing-eye dog will bé special guests o fthe Forty-Niners club today at the Washington hotel. Lt. Hasbrook lost his sight when a land mine exploded near him. He has resumed his civilian career with

the aid of his dog, Fay. Mr. Has- .

brook is an assistant éditor in the public relations department of Eli Lilly & Co. He will relate his wartime experiences at the club luncheon.

Wayne Post 64, American Legion, will hold a monthly business meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the post home, 6566 W. Washington st. Members of the post auxiliary also will meet.

2 PLANTS ON 4-DAY WEEK AT EVANSVILLE

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 8 (U.P.). ~The Evansville Chrysler-Plym-outh assembly plant and the Briggs body plant today adopted a four. day work week, dropping Monda, from the weekly work schedule. Officials of both plants said tir change was necessitated hy the shortage of materials. —————————————————————

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