The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-03-10

waiting list as it is about the only
place in which sons of peasants
are assured of being well fed and
clothed.
'They are not loyal, however,
as they have seen their parents
starved under the system. The
reason that Russia permits Japan
to knock so many chips off her
shoulder is that army officials are
sure the army would desert in
time of trouble.
Russia has the largest airplane
fleet in the world" he stated, 81
lived in a town of 10000 resi-
dents and there was never a min
ute of the day or night that there
was not an airplane lowering
overhead. Sometimes there were
numbers of them in formation,
impressing the people with their
strength and power.
"One thing ABOUT which I was
disillusioned was the equality of
classes which I expected to see.
The upper strata in the state rode
in Lincolns which the next class
could not have. They rode in V-8s
and those in the strata below had
1925 or 1927 Fords."
Stores By Classes
Only the opus could trade in
one kind of store, party members
in another, and Crandall was
forced to trade at still a third
kind. He had to have a pass with
stamps for commodities and arm
ed guards were stationed at store
doors to examine credentials.
There was always a line a half
block long at the stores for the
proletariat and shelves were US
ually empty of necessities.
The beautiful immense Greek
Orthodox churches which stand
on nearly every corner in Moscow
are now used as granaries, ma
chinery warehouses and even live
stock barns, he said. All of them
were five-domed buildings, each
of the domes plated with gold
which has been stripped from
them and melted into money.
Mr.. Crandall saw old people
going to religious services, but
the only activity connected with
religion in which he ever saw
young people engaged was that of
destroying the crosses which those
who retained their religion placed
on graves. He said he had seen
cemeteries comprising several
acres with every cross broken or
removed.
Schools are included in the
Russian program because propa-
ganda can be spread much more
quickly if the people can read and
write.
'The only qualifications of a
Russian school teacher are that he
be able to read and write and is
Communist" he asserted.
University students in Russia
picture America as a country al
most completely covered with tall
buildings, around which Turk
giant ogres (capitalists) ready to
pounce on proletarians and shake
their dollars from them.
The state is eliminating small
property owners by exile to Sib-
eria, he said.
about five million men of
about your position" he told his
audience, "have been exiled to al
most certain starvation for no
other sin than trying to have
something for themselves and
their families"
'The GPU goes to their homes,
makes every male above nine
years of age prisoner, and drags
them off to concentration camps
where they are kept in terribly
crowded conditions and given
only water. Their only food is
what their Wretched women re-
latives smuggle in to them," he
asserted.
People in Russia concentrate
at railroad stations, hoping in
some way to go to other sections,
probably on the theory that con-
ditions are no worse elsewhere. In
a town the size of Redwood Falf,
there would be 1000 persons
crowded into the railroad station
at all times. During the night
five or six of these would die of
starvation.
Conditions of filth in depots
are indescribable. You can smell
one a half mile away"
a Iac0r1InI - IS
food, recalling that when 10000
head of hogs were lost in a chol-
era epidemic on the farm which he
supervised, they were eaten glad
ly.
Workers were on duty at all
hours, sticking the pigs just be-
fore they were ready to die. If
the workers should fall asleep
they would stab several head af-
ter they had died.
He said his houSekeeper at
tempted to serve him meat dead
two days before it was dressed.
The children's nursery which so
impresses foreigners visiting Mos
cow is show place, he said, des-
cribing another nursery where
children slept on straw with only
one cotton blanket during the
winters and were given a daily
ration of cup of milk, dish of
porridge and black bread. OF
so in the place, all but 10 or Is
died of pneumonia in the winter.
Children are put into the nurs-
cry to keep them from starvation.
Only workers are given food and
man and wife are unable to re-
ceive enough to divide among