Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Breaking Up of Russian Estates
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

as exchange necessities dictate. There
Is always a world market for Wfkkt.
However, the land will be scientifically
observed and there will b 9 chanas Of
paintings to other crops wheEeTcr h Z
advised that the soil requires 1t.
The estates Of the Soviets will be
farmed by Soviet workers. They will
live in central groups of buildings
rather than in small farmhouses wide
ly scattered. These central groups will
be about 20 miles apart. AS the auto
mobile is in fairly general use. the
farmers of the state will go to the dis
tant fields in cars in the morning and
be brought back at night. During the
revolution many fine old houses Of the
Russian nobility which stood on these
estates were burned down or blown
up, but where any remain each will
be used as the nucleus of a farm COM
munity center. Motor trucks, tractors
and all other modern farming ma
chinery will be utilized and crops will
be sprayed for insect pests by airplanes.
Much of this is already being done
throughout Russia, but special atten-
ton will be given to it on the state
farms.
Modern Methods Used.
Each farm unit will be under the
management of a director, who will
| have two assistants, one to be in charge
| OF production and the other finance and
business management. The entire en-
terprise will be under the direction of
the board OF directors of the Soviet
grain trust
1t is to be wondered whether the
Russian worker being whisked about
from held to field in fiivver automo-
"A &C
war peasant trudging home to his cot
tage in the twilight and whether the
new. community centers will have as
much glow and color as did the inns
OF the old days. From the outside
point Of view there doubtless will be
loss in picturesqueneSs, but it Is a
fair guess that the worker will be in
many ways happier, especially those
who formerly we're used as beasts OF
burden and dragged the plows them
selves.
In Paris cafes. in modest pensions. in
garrets and in novels in and around
Paris the old Russian nobility sits and
hopes that these estates will some day
be returned to them. The idea of q
pretender to the Russian throne per-
haps seems rather absurd, but so did
the idea OF a Soviet republic seem
absurd only little more than a decade
ago. There have been many pretenders
to thrones and some of them have
| seen their hopes realized. There is a
pretender to the throne of France today
and Royalist party which has not
abandoned hope of a return of the
Bourbons. Charles the Second, King
of England, for years was nothing but
pretender, but finally the revolu-
ton which had taken the throne from
his family was turned back and the
restoration came. Bonnie Prince
Charlie was the most picturesque pre-
tender of modern times In the opinion
Of most English and French-speaking
people. Claimant Of the throne OF
Scotland as head of the house of
| Stuart, he lived most Of his life in exile,
| wandering about Europe in poverty and
finally dying in Rome But as long as
he lived there was many O Scot who
never drank the Kings health-a toast
no man can refuse-without first pass
ing his goblet over a glass Of water, a
| gesture which meant that the King he
really was drinking to in his heart
was not the man on the English throne
| but Bonnie Prince Charlie over the
water.