The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-26

creased from $500 head to 5000
in two years.
I'm these villages we heard the
sound of church bells. Lutheran
and Catholic churches continue
to exist"
Mr.. PARROT fisished his talk
which lasted nearly an hour,
with the following phrase: 81
don't know how the kulaks (fOr-
mer rich farmers) feel, but am
convinced that the poor peasants
in the cOllectives have begun to
lead a well-tO-dO life"
Times Refutes Hearst
As an authority" on the Soviet
Union, Hearst brought forward
member of the former Russian no
bility, DR.. Ewald Amends, who was
kicked out by the workers and
farmers along with the car and
other worthless rubbish. State
ments Of starvation made by this
White Guard were printed as the
truth by Hearst newspapers.
On August %, 1884, Harold
Denny, Moscow correspondent fer
the New York Times, cabled his
newspaper in regard to Amende's
statement:
This statement has absolute
ly no foundation. Your CORE
spOndent was in Kiev several
days last July (when the starv-
alton was seen, according to Am
ends) about the time people were
supposed to be dying there, and
neither IN the city nor in the
surrounding countryside was
theye hunger"
On October Is, 1884, Denny
cabled his paper again, as follows:
Nowhere was famine found.
Nowhere even the fear of it.
There is food. including bread,
on the local open market. The
peasants were smiling. too. and
generous with their fOOdstuffs.
In short, there is no air of trOu-
bic or impending trouble"
Manufactures pictures"
Hearst is illustrating his "starv-
alton" stories with heart-rending
pictures which are supposed to
convince the skeptical reader. But
what about these pictures
A western newspaper man in IL
innate contact with the Hearst or
ganization has recently revealed
that Hearst himself sent a conf
Dental message to the executives
of his daily papers instructing
them to dig up from their files
all the old war pictures they had.
What was done with these pic
lures? They were given to artists,
retouched and prepared for the
American reader to swallow as
pictures" of starvation in Russia.
Thus in the issue of the New
York Evening Journal of Febru-
airy Is there is a picture of desti-
tuition purporting to come from the
Soviet Union. Actually this pic
ture is one of an Austrian soldier
standing near one of the fallen
horses on a strip of land laid
waste by artillery fire. The pic
ture was really taken after one OF
the battles in the last war.
Another Hearst picture shows a
row Of corpses, naked except fo1
few rags, lying on the ground.
This picture was actually taken in
the Soviet Union. But the orig
inal picture was made at a work
ers' rest home in Crimea. It or
iginally showed a group of work
ers clad in shorts lying in the sun.
Hearst's artists got to work and
retouched the picture so as to
make the figures look like corpses,
and his editors added lines about
starvation and robbery of corps
es."
Let US compare Hearst's lies
with statements made by some
American farmers who have seen
conditions in the Soviet Union.
Milo Long, an Indiana farmer
who has recently returned from
Russia after working on farms
there from April to December
said:
During my stay in the Soviet
Union, Travelled about 5000
miles and ate in hotels, commun-