The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-12-03

country conducted tours, do not
see the country or learn to know
the inside as I did.
Tourists Conducted.
Tourists, especially writer's and
other outstanding persons, fire.
quently go in Russia pink and
come out red after one Of these
trips. All they see Is model homes,
model nurseries, model factories,
model towns, model farms, model
everything.
"They are never given a chance
to go off through the country
alone and see things for them
selves.
eft would open their eyes if they
did. Women work as hard as men.
Shooting is almost a daily occur
rance. Principal diet is black bread
and water, several hundred people
must sleep in a room about the
size of your court room.
Outside Of the main lines,
trains are like our boxcars, and
crowded with vermin. There is
no God, only Lenin; morals are
loose. There is little or no family
life, children run wild in packs;
there is no personal property, the
social order is completely reversed.
Death for Altering Cards
Everyone must work. If you
don't work, you don't eat. Food is
dished out by the government. To
get it you must have a bread card,
and bread cards are issued only to
workers.
II saw six men shot for altering
a bread card. In another instance
some meat shipped from a farm
spoiled. Officials couldn't find out
who was the guilty party among
some 48 or so workers on the farm
and shot them all in order that the
guilty parties might not escape.
Death is the penalty for
crimes such as these, while muir
der draws a maximum 10-year
penalty.
Women work just as hard as
men. In the evnt of child birth.
they get a months vacation before
and two months vacation after
wards. Then they must return to
work and leave their baby at a
government nursery, where one
nurse has charge of about so
babies. The soviets figure it a
waste of time to have one mother
to one child, where one nurse can
take care of So"
Everybody Checked Up
Mr.. Zavoral said he believes
Russia has the best secret service
in the world. He said secret SER
vice operatives keep check on
everyone, from officials down to
laborers, and know what every
body is doing. If they meet some
one they don't know, they immed-
lately ask the person to prove his
identity. No one will say anything.
against the government for fear of
the secret service.
Political prisoners are still sent
to Siberia, Mr.. Zavoral said and
trainloads of prisoners may be
seen headed into exile.
"The soviets have not reached
all the people as yet" Mr.. Zavoral
stated. "But will do so in a very
short time.
ut is their plan to do well by
the majority. Free disqualification
and medical service is afforded, old
age pensions are planned, and
everyone goes to school. Children
go to school every day and are
paid to go to higher institutions.
Adults who cannot read or write
must stay after work to learn"
Mr.. Zavoral said attempts are
made to round up the wild children
and train them, but that it is a
hard job.
People Of the higher class in
Russia before the Revolution and
their children are in sorry state"
Mr.. zavoral says. "They have no
rights. No child or anyone who
owned property or hired men in
the days of the car may attend
school.
Few young people attend
church for fear they will lose their
jobs. A few Catholic, German
Lutheran and other churches re.
main in Russia, but they are i'm.
potent. The God of the Soviets is
Lenin, and thousands pass his
glass enclosed casket in Moscow to
pay homage.
There is no Sunday. The week
is of five days with four days of
work, one day to rest. The Rus
sian year has more weeks than
ours.
Although equality is their creed
the soviets recognize that some
workers are better than others,
and wage scale is paid which
runs from 40 rubles to 300 rubles
a month. A ruble is so cents.
From this the government de-
ducts an income tax and room
rent before the workers get any
thing"
Army Well Cared For
OF all the Russians, Mr.. Zavoral
said the army, which numbers a
million and half, was the best
fed and best clothed.
Everything is propaganda in
Russia. Only the bad features Of
other countries are told to the
people. They know all about our
Al Capone, bootlegging, bank rob-
berries, and bank failures.
TN one movie shown in Russia
as depicting the United States, a
corpulent capitalist was shown
going to his office in a huge limou-
sine. Armed soldiers cleared his