The Washington times., 1935-05-22
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright 1895, by International
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KOVNO, Lithuania, May % Il.
Observation-Disclosures are rugged in
the Battles and nobody laughs at
rugged individualism. In Com.
munist Russia, just across the
border, they sent their rugged in
dividualist farmers to Siberia to
penal labor, at least 100000 Of
them.
In capitalist Lithuania, Latvia,
and Esthonia they fostered and re-
warded their rugged individualist
farmers and have helped at least
100000 of them acquire land
since the war.
So, for many years, crops and
livestock decreased in the Soviet
Union, but crope and livestock in
the Baltic States have steadily In
creased. Peasants have less than
they used to in Russia. They have
more than they used to in the
Battles.
The Case Of Jonas
Jonas Ambrozevicius. Of the
Lithuanian village Of Veiverai, 20
miles out Of Kovno, is a living ex-
ample Of the difference between
this part of old Russia and that
part which Is now the Soviet
Union. Jonas would be q kulak II
he lived across the border. A
kulak is a rugged individualist: he
is farmer who has worked hard
enough to accumulate q few
horses, a few COWS.
Kulaks were considered danger
Gus to the Communist state be-
cause, having worked harder, they
enjoyed a standard Of living
higher than the average. The col
lective farms could not expect to
have a standard Of living higher
at the beginning than the average
Of its members. Therefore, the
kulaks could not be expected to
enjoy or support the collectiveS.
They were taken from their farms
and sent to remote places.
Jonas would certainly be living
in remote place If the BolshevikS
came to Lithuania. Jonas story is
an epic of the sort Of personal en-.
deavor that keeps the capitalist
system on its feet in the days OF
it's tribulation. It Is a story that
was repeated a million times on a
million farms from Finland down
to Poland and it explains why this
part Of the world will not go Com
muniSt from the inside.
Ruined by War
Jonas is 81 years old today and
when he returned from the wars
in 1920 to his little farm OF SO
acres he found every stick burned
down to the ground. Not so much
as a henhouse remained.
He went to work. He and his
wife worked for Is years. They
did not have q cent Of cash and
have never had a cent Of credit.
Today Jonas, by the sweat OF MS
brow and the muscle of his arms
has created and owns the wealth
to make him a respected man
here, q criminal in Russia.
He has a flve-room house. IN
their stocking feet, careful Of the
floor, he and his wife showed IL
to us. Neat, clean, well furnished
it would be a credit to any Amer1-
can farmer. In its pantry hung .
dozen sides Of salt meat.
He has six horses, nine COWS, 20
pigs, four sheep and 80 chickens.
The livestock live in two large,
well.made barns, built mostly by
Jonas own hands. Next to that IS
spacious hay-barn stacked hlgn
with fragrant hay. Next to that IS
q granary with piles OF golden
wheat and red-brown rye, nght
yellow oats and green dried peas.
Family Lives Well
Jonas, his wife and two chill"
dren eat as well as many Amer"
lean farmers, incomparably bet
ter than any Russian farmer.
They had for breakfast, eggs
coffee, bread and buttermilk: IN
mid-afternoon they had tea, but
ter and cheese; for supper, cream
of wheat with milk and cream.
The family consumes two and q
half gallons of milk and an aver
age Of 10 eggs a day.
He is a very religious Catholic,
the house is lined with pictures
Of Christ and the Virgin. Last
year he erected q monument in
honor Of holy year in the middle
Of his orchard Of 100 apple and
cherry trees. He does not drink.
He has two savage dogs chained
up to watch his barns. Out OF
them come the bleating Of sheep
and the complaints Of . young
calf. His chickens are blooded
Plymouth rocks.
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is proud Of his American gasoline
engine, Of his children going to
school, Of his thresher, Of his
wife's sewing machine, of the six
journals he suhscribes to weekly,
and he is proud Of himself.
FROM NOTHING
Fifteen years ago there was
nothing here, absolutely moth
ing. Never got . penny from
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