The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-14


sian Socialist Federated Soviet Re-
public (R.SF.SRJ. This code intro
duces a number of changes into the
judicial procedure that has hitherto
prevailed.
Special Importance attaches to
Article 6 Of the new code, which pro
vides that no criminality is entailed
by any act which, although formally
appearing to come under some article
Of the criminal code, is Invested Of
any socially dangerous character by
virtue CT its triyiality and lack Of
harmful consequences.
The penalties have been reduced on
several offenses. Thus, in view of
the fact that the struggle against
bribery has had positive results, it
has been found possible to curtail re-
pressive measures against this crime
in the new code
In keeping with the general spirit
Of Soviet criminal Jurisprudence the
code opens with number Of intro
ductory articles setting forth the re-
troactive force of the new criminal
code. In cases in which the con-
demned was sentenced to a punish
snent of greater severity than the
maximum imposed by the new code
for the offense in question, the pen
atty is to be reduced to this revised
maximum.
Interutban Telephone.
Nearly all the most important
cities Of the Soviet Union-Lenin-
grad, Kharkov, Kiev, Novorossiysk,
Archangel, Saratov, Kazan, Odessa,
Rostov, Minsk, Smolensk, and others
have telephone line connections
with Moscow. Work has been started
on the construction Of the Moscow
Tiflis telephone line, which will be
one of the longest in the Union and
will also make it possible to connect
with Baku, Vladikavkaz, Batum,
Grozny and perhaps Erivan.
The largest portion $50 per cent?
of interurban telephone CONVERSE
tions with the Moscow central station
falls to the share of Leningrad. Last
year telephone conversations between
Moscow and Leningrad aggregated
about 100000 speaking minutes, as
compared with $4,000 minutes for
the year 1918.
The telephone system of Moscow
Province was recently completed and
now all the Township Central Exec
utive Committees, factories and mills
in the Moscow Province have tele-
phone connections with the Capital.
1t is planned to connect the Moscow
interurban telephone station with all
the villages in the Moscow Province.
All the most modern improvements
In telephone technology have been
applied in the Moscow interurban
station. Multiple telephone APP
paratus has been installed, rendering
it possible to conduct two CONVERSE
tions simultaneously over a single
wire. In addition to its regular
operations, the Moscow central sta
ton transmits radio programs to
various cities of the Soviet Union.
Books and Newspapers in 36
Languages.
The Central State Publishing
House ("Centroizdat" provid e S
periodical and other literature for the
various small nationalities in the
West and East of the Soviet Union.
Books are published in Sc languages.
During the fiscal year 1885 more
than 100000 copies of primers alone
were turned out.
Educational work among the ma
tional minorities has been consider
ably facilitated as a result of the
partial adoption Of the Latin alphabet
by the peoples of Islamic culture.
At the present time about 10 per
cent of the instruction texts for the
national minorities in the Soviet
Union is printed in the Latin alpha
bet.
During the fiscal year 1925-26
large amount of agricultural litera-
ture was issued.
Daily and weekly papers in the Ia
tar, Lettish. Mordvnian, German and
Chuvash languages are also pub
lished, the total annual issue amount
ing to about 100000 copies.
Monthly magazines are printed in
the Chuvash. Mari, Tatar, Polish,
German and Yiddish tongues.
Expenditures for Public Education in
the L. S. s. K.
The expenditures for public educa-
tion in the Soviet Union are covered
by appropriations from the budgets
Of the six constituent republics So
Wet Russia proper, in Authorization
RSFSR, the Ukraine. White Russia,
Transcaucasia, the Uzbak Republic
pd the TurlSoman Republc), called
epublican budgets" and from the
! budgets of their administrative
divisions. THE republican bud
jointly with the federal budget,
Soviet Union AS is shown IN
BILE below. the expenditures for
ion, both in the republican and