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COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF HOME BUILDERS FAIR Many months of painstaking effort on the part of the Junior Chamber of Commerce have gone into the preparations for | | # this week's Home Builders and Home Furnishings Fair. Above is the committee in charge, with Chamber executives, doing some planning. Front row, left to right, rt FOE Dan Howe, Chick Hewitt, Don Brown, president; Harvey Moy- er, vice - chairman, Fair Com- mittee; Gordon Baker, executive director for fair. Standing, left Casa La ea IE A | | | | to right, Don Campbell, Keith Buchanan, Bill Kellie, Bob Dew- land, Vince Cremona, Bob John- ston and Tommy Cook. Photo by Dutton--Times Studie Classless Society Hardly Correct In Soviet System {Condensed from Fortune Maga- sone In the Soviet Union today, class ctions are more exact and income disparities are more glar- ing than any in the west. Money now one of the prime incen- ves in Soviet life -- perhaps the most compelling incentive except for fear. Russian society is divided into 10 or more classes, from the dacha (country house) set down to the wretches in the slave labor camps. Class consciousness eon- trols the "classless society". A few years ago a series of de- orees placed several million em- ployees and officials of the coal iron ore industries, the railway Wstem, the ministry of foreign af- airs and the state prosecutor's of- fice in uniforms that vary in color and out to the status of the wearer, and which bear dis- tinctive insignia of rank. The uni- forms of the engineering and tech- nical staffs of the coal industry, for example, distinguish 19 grades of authority and prestige. FAVORS RICH An unskilled Soviet worker gets about 3,600 to 4,800 rubles a year. (A ruble is officially worth 25 cents, but less in terms of actual purchas- ing power.) A factory manager may earn as much as. 80,000 to 120,000 rubles a year, plus such handsome perquisites as a house, car-and chauffeur. This is a range of roughly 30 times, in cash alone. In the Red army, the ordinary soldier received 360 rubles a year, a major 27,600 rubles, or 77 times as much, a general 108,000 rubles or 30 times as much. (In the Unit- ed States army a major's pay is four times, a major general's 10 times that of a buck private.) Favored Soviet writers and artists may, with royalties from books and performances, earn as much as 300,000 rubles a year. "Ruble mil- lionaires" are no longer so unusual in Russia. Not only can a Soviet plutocrat make money, he can keep it, too. The Soviet tax system is one that the most right wing Republican in the United States congress would fear to sponsor. Income tax rates are progressive only up to the level of 12,000 rubles a year. Beyond that, ; L\ Qopr. 1953, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. "Don't worry about jury duty, darling, there to help you. even though I won't be R. H. Saunders To Open Fair On Thursday. 8 p.m. Official opening of the 1958 Home Builders and House Furnishings Fair, sponsored by the Oshawa Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held on Thursday evening, April 23, at about 8 o'clock, when the official ceremony will be perform- ed by Robert H. Saunders, chair man. of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario... Mr. Saunders, who was mayor of Toronto before taking over the im- portant duties of his preent office, will deliver the opening address, and since he is re as one of the most able and forceful speak- ers in Ontario, he should draw a large audience. By a coincidence, the Hydro-Electric Power Commis- sion, of which he is the chairman, this year has a special exhibit at the fair, portraying some of the new developments in Ontario's pub- licity owned power system. A special souvenir program, which will be given away free to all visitors to the fair, been prepared for this year's show. Each evening of the three, a nightly prize of $100 will be given away to Earthworm Wrecks A Home A lady off to the west'ard has struck a low blow, and the culture of earthworms may decline on her account, John Gould writes in The Christian Science Monitor. She has divorced her husband because he spent all his money feeding his earthworms. He had 10,000 earthworms, which make a good round quantity, and the soft endearments of conjugal affection fretted in this atmosphere, and there came a fateful day when the good wife rose up to her full height and said, "It's me or them." WHAT OF FUTURE? The case is on record in our courts, and humanity is at the crossroads again, Earthworms will feed us and JeTpelate the race, but what kind of a race are we going to have if the women won't go along? A man with 10,000 worms is turn- ing a lot of dirt, but is that grounds for divorce? I think not, both from the point of view of the individual, and the : social group. The broader, social point of view has been well covered in magazines and books by the specialists--how the sly little worms slowly ma- noeuvre in the ground, leavening the soil until its productiye capaci- ties are vastly increased. Arid wastes bloom and abound if the worms get a chance. Two cab- bages flower where one struggled before. I believe this, I believe on good turn deserves another, and that a worm is just the turner. I have never seen a worm who didn't radiate enthusiasm, and who wasn't attending to his business--making life better for us all. I can't under- stand why a woman, knowing the importance of worms, should shun them, and cease to love, honor, and cherish a man simply because he has 10,000 worms. If they (the worms) should mul- tiply and replenish the earth, that delver since Adam, another Bur- bank at a time of need, the man to § | transform wasteland into verdant ROBERT H. SAUNDERS the person qualifying for it by ans- wering the mystery question. all income from salaries is taxed at a flat rate of 18 cent. Thus a worker maki ,000 rubles a year pays about 7 per cent of his y as income tax, while a fac- tory official earning 100,000 rubles pays only 12 per cent. Income tax, however, forms only & per cent of Soviet state revenue, Almost 60 per cent is raised by a sales tax of roughly 60 per cent of the price of the products. In the United States, people have occas- ionally 'proposed a sales tax of per- haps 5 per cent. The proposal is regularly shouted down, of course, as favoritism to the rich, The élite class in Russia includes about 50,000 people (with their families, perhaps 200,000). The prime symbol of status in Soviet society is. the dacha, or country villa. Members of the pres- idium and top government officials maintain theirs in the Silver forest some 30 miles southeast of Moscow. Here the dachi are large and sump- tuously furnished. In other com- pounds near by -and along the banks of the Moskva river, lesser mem- bers of the elite have their dachi. The factory manager is given an apartment or cottage near the plant as well as his dacha, both rent free, the use of a private auto- mobile and free gasoline, and the services of plant personnel, includ- ing chauffeurs, at no cost. At home, the Soviet aristocraft is likely to be surrounded by furni- ture of heavily carved, gilded, or otherwise orngte style. Lamps are heavily fringed, embroidered anti- macassars dot the heavy, upholst- ered chairs. All the elite homes have radios, and many have the small six inch screen Soviet tele- vision sets as well. Since the war the children have had cameras, bi- cycles and sometimes motorcycles and even automobiles, many of which were picked up in Germany. The servants in such a home are employees of the government. In such a rank conscious society naturally, families tend to associ- ate with others of the same status, to seek "good matches" for their children. Cases of unequal mar- riages are becoming increasingly rare, Leading artists, writers, musi- cians and theatre directors in Mos- cow live in the large new apart- ment houses along brightly light- ed Gorky st. Here are the luxury stores, gastronomes that sell food delicacies, the large mostorgs or department stores, expensive res- turants and fashion shops, book- stores and theatres, The Red army has its own offi- cers' clubs, shops, hotel and the most modern theatre in the capital. At the opera and ballet the officers occupy the best seats. Their wives are fashionably gowned, and some are to be seen in silver fox capes or mink coats, with their fancy in- signia and blinding displays of de- corations, are models of military splendor. The intelligentsia and the army officers are the most frequent pat- rons of the fashionable restaurants, such as Cocktail hall, the Aurora cafe and the Joskva hotel bar. Cocktail hall is a laborious imita- tion of a New York night club, com- plete with glittery decor, circular bar and a sleek female singer. In the Moskva hotel, latest to be opened in the Russian capital, all the public rooms are supported by gardens, Yet here he is bereft of his wife's comfort and love. TALENT AT STAKE He might well give up his worms and turn to railroading, or music, or writing--and the world would lose his talent. Some day we may all be hungry just because this woman looked lightly upon the per- manent values. From the personal point of view, I think the lady's drastic action is entirely unwarranted. Some years ago I stuck a lemon seed in a flower pot, and have had the plea- | sure of watching a tree take shape {on my kitchen windowsill. It has come to occupy three successively larger pots, and is now about three feet high. When it was about a foot high I came in one day after a successful expedition up the brook and after we had washed the fry- ing pan I found seven earthworms in my vest pocket. I put them in the pot with the lemon tree, and bade them bend to their task. They fell to work with a will, and for some time now have tilled this flower pot until there hasn't been any need for me to do a lick of work in it. Now and then I happen to remember to water the tree, and when I pour on a pitcher of water these worms come rush- ing up for air. They smile at me, and beam, and I speak to them warmly and encourage them, and thank them for their unstinting labors in my behalf. WIFE APPROVES My wife, who knows of the im- portance of earthworms in the broad scheme of cropping and reaping, loves the little fellows. Many a time, when the radiant beams of an orient sun shine in that window, and, rim the moist edge of the pot with the golden coruscations of a new day, I have seen her stoop and look at the worms, and favor them with en- dearing terms. I do not' know if her heart pro- jects this approving ardor in terms of more trout, or in terms of lem- ons, but that is beside the point. The point is that the worms share our home with us, and we are not unmindful of our mutual affairs, because of them. No distracting differences arise between us be- cause of the worms. Ours is an understanding arrangement, and we share our little worms for bet- ter or worse. I realize, of course, that there is a difference between seven worms and 10,000 worms, but it is a dif- ference in quantity only, a purely towering marbel pillars topped b gilded Corinthian capitals. y arithmetical matter, and it should not affect the underlying principle. 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