The Washington times., 1934-02-21
The Human Side of the News
Soviet Russia Begins Second Five-Year Plan
BY EdUin C.. Hill

Six motor cars draw up before
a secluded house in the village
of Gorky near Moscow. They
are absolutely identical. Pas
sengers enter each and are
whirled away in the snow and
cold OF Russian winter. In one
of the cars is square-Set. dark,
morose Sinister-looking m n.
But Which one? All, that is the
secret! That is the reason why
there are sir cars. The particu-
lar one carries the general secre-
tary of the Communist Party,
and the other five are decoys
which make it one chance in
six that any enemy or any
traitor can approach Joseph
Stain.
The scene shifts to the hall
for the meeting of the All Union
Communist Party Congress. The
man of steel, dressed as always
in old clothes-for he is a mod
est and abstemiouS person.
rises to speak, and for four
hours he goes on in his report to
the party. It is a bit of mock
cry to call it a report. Stain
speaks, and there is nothing to
say but "aye"-just as MuSSolinl
speaks to the deputies, Hitler to
the Nazis and Kemal PaSha to
the parliament in Angora.
Stain Reports
The cobbler's son of the
Caucasus has developed as an
orator and he Stirs the audience
as he relates that there is no
unemployment in Russia, while
capitalistic production the world
over has dropped 80 per cent.
Fascism he finds is a proof of
bourgeois weakness and indi-
Gates decline of the. old
democratic theory. World revo-
luton will come-not imme-
diately, but when the working
classes get around to the Com
munistic principles. He was
for peace, but he was afraid
that the capitalistic countries
would seek war as a way out
of their crisis.
Now it is certainly all right
for Joseph Stain to say what
he pleases, and to have his
words carried all over the
world. But since no one in
Russia dares question him, or
what he says, it might be per-
missible for us to look into
his speech and ask a few ques-
tionS.
No capitalistic or democratic
country, despite its troubles,
has been bothered with famines
in the past 10 years. 1t is a
fact, too, that their unem-
ployed have had food, housing
and clothing better than the
best paid of the Russian work
ers can enjoy.
Where outside of Russia, in
a democratic country, is there
forced labor, RECOMMENDATION of
workers and the transporting
of them to places and to work
which they do not want?
But there is lesson to
democratic peoples, a serious
challenge to liberty in the rise
of the dictators. For the
few democracies which remain
in the world today the whole
thing is summed up admirably
in the christian Message for
the World today" just issued
by the Round Table Press:
Across the world today are
powerful forces at play which
are dissolving the modern
mood like cheap amalgam un
der strong acid. Two such
faiths are foremost: national
ism and communism. They do
not invite participation, they
command allegiance. They
declare finalities. They silence
criticism. They demand sac
rifice.
"They do not pamper men;
they conscript their very souls.
They do not magnify the in
dividual; they require his all in
the service of the whole. His
mind, lulled by comforting self
initiation, is ill-tempered for the
challenge of their confident