The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
THE TRUTH LEAKS OUT AS THE NORGE DE.
SCENDS ON LENINGRAD

Like of Viking of old in search of new worlds to
ler Captain Roal Amundsen is steering his shp-ths
the air-towards the North Pole He is DELAYED in So
ussa the way and he and his crew are seeing things
result that the truth is finding its way through the enc
g tog OF lies to the outside world In an able article
ngdah mterPrets and des Ibes the visit Of the Norge
ussa follows:
) AM little dazed" writes Scott Nearing. in
the first issue OF he New Mesces telling how After
two months in Moscow, Krahkov, Rostov, TiAis, Ba-
ku and other cities and villages of Soviet Russia
have just plunged back into Boston, Providence New
FORK, New Haven, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Cincn-
natl, Chicago"
But Nearing is not alone Walter Durantv
cables to the New York Times that The crew of the
dlrIglbe Norge of the Mobile
Tolar Expedition got extraordinary cross section of
the lite OF Soviet Russia in the first 4S hours of their
stay.
:, For the moment Captain Roa Amundsen the
Norwegian explorer and Lincoln Ellsworth the Am
erlcan millionaire financing the expedition are lost
Slsht or What the of the dirigible sees in the
nsI I Workers Republic becomes Of interest Duranty
cabled to the times:
cat the Trotsky aerodrome thew Ghe crew. told
your correspondent that they had obtained an impress
SION OF much higher efficiency than they had ex-
Pected OF The great number of troops which were well
Army. --'"
Faded are the fairy tales in the yellow press
about discomfort and open mutiny in the Red Army.
he crew OF the Norge drops out of the sv and finds
the Red Army efficient and disciplined on the lob It
IS like warning to the capitalist world out of which
they have come
And in Leningrad itself Bolshevi1k Leninoradl
F1eTe the NOrges found the soldiers were few
ana Tar between and the scanty bue-coated police
rect traffic" -
Thus in few words the many myths of the
RIcya Halo ir0Eo~e L
are quickly dispeled No marching UNEMPLOYED no
rlotng hungry, the Chicago Tribune kept writers
Tor instance have so often claimed to the great de-
hght OF their Paymasters. ust order everywhere.
and the members of the crew slept late in the maon
Hcent rooms IN the Imperial Palace on gilt BEDS au-
thentlc Louis XVI and Louis XIV and later thew snent
an evening at the Hotel Europe which, as Durantv
points out: compares favOrably with any. hotel on
this side OF the Atlantic
Delegations of workers from dozen European
countries, some OF them like the British DELEGATION
constituted OF the highest officials have visited the
Soviet Union during the past year The press of can
Ialsm has been carefully silent about the findings of
these delegations, invariably favorable to the workers
republic. Where mention has been made it has been
IN the form OF hystercal attacks Even the socialists
and their press have joined in the frantic onsauobt
ne barrier OF ignorance and deception must be main
famed The truth must not be allowed to leak out TO
the workers in the capitalist nations.
But it was impossible to ignore the passing of
the drlgble Norge even over that part of the world
that Is under workers rule And something like the
truth had to be told The Norge at the Trotskv aero
drome near Leningrad means the eyes of the readino
world focused for few days the metropolis of the
0oVet Union 1t is said that some trouble is being
encountered IN erecting the moorng mast at Spitz-
bergen within the arctic circle Thus the NORGE Is de-
Iayed on Soviet soil 1t might not be out of place to
WISH that the delay continues yet while That would
9naPle the Norges crew to bring back to capitalist
anoS after their trip over the North Pole something
more than additional discoveries in geography Thew
could tell more of the new social order that is BLAZING
Is way over the earth. They might even Join with
Scott Nearing in declaring:
While gold streams in and out of Wall Street
there comes from beyond the Gordon sanitaire. be-
yond the borders of civilization the hiss of tbe -;
ke and the cang of the hammer as the peasants and
workers OF the Soviet Union build the structure "a
the saner world" "
1lfxy FL. Al