“4 Be . HEN I first went to work, Jones buddied around with me. HIS summer strange new machines are rolling out on. Soviet farms. Thesy giants sig- nal the beginning of a revolu- tion in farming. They are a dream of engineers come true, Electric tractors. Silent. with no smoke or smell, the Soviet electric trac- tor makes gas and diesel ma- chines obsolete. It is the result of ten years experimenting at the Engels Machine and Trac- tor Station, in the Saratov Dis- trict. : The electric tractor has cat- erpillar treads. It is super- powerful, for heaviest work. But it looks smaller than a big diesel “cat.” It seems to have no motor at all. Actually the electric motor that powers it is slung down between the treads. On top there is a little » cabin where the operator sits. Behind this is a big reel, trail- ing a cable’ that carries the power. The electric power comes from the “high line” transmis- sion wires. Seviet farming country is being rapidly elec- trified with ‘high-voltage net- works. To run one of the new tractors, a specal transformer is hooked up to the “high line.” It changes 10,000 volt power Ted Tinsley HE May issue of True Con- fessions features an article called Trapped by Sex—A Com- munist Confesses. (he blurb which introduces this story declares, on behalf of the author, “The smooth talk of my friends, and the soft arms and lips of a strange woman made me a Communist.” : Trapped by Sex is filled with over-ripe paragraphs such as: Yd kissed girls before. But I knew now that had been kid stuff, too—awkward and timid of flaming and sweet like when I held Johanna in my arms and kissed her goad night. This wasn’t like that at all. It was somethine that made you feel wild and crazy and kind of terrified and shamed at the same time,” Zowie! Sounds like Roger Baldwin’s analysis of the Marxist-Leninist kiss. as de- scribed in the frenetic style of Dorothy Thompson. “ Being one of those cynics who doesn’t believe that the true confessions in True Con- fessions are true, I would like _to present a genuine confes- sion to which I have all North American rights. It tells how a flaming woman lured Arch Farch into the Communist ‘party. I was proud that Georgie — €ers, long famed for their trol- ley buses, have done the “im- possible.” S Listov and Stecsenko are the two socialist experts who per- The machines are revolutionary for it severa] reasons. They cost less to make than ordinary tractors. The mechanism is simple. Elec- run under y heaviest loads, for years, with- “electrification” out major repairs. They burn no fuel or oil, hence no trans- port is required to keep them going. They need almost no fected the new tractors. tric tractors can smaller orchard and market- garden machines will go elec- tric. No doubt some Canadian farmers might regard the elec- tric tractors as just a novelty. But when the Soviet people call “revolutionary” they mean what they say. Bringing elec- tric power out to the farmlands is one of the basic tasks of socialism. In the socialist world, means some- thing far greater than just giv- ing the farmer electric lights, stoves, washing machines, pumps and so on. Within a @ This tractor is engaged in . spring plowing on a state .farm in the Uzbek SSR. As a result of the increased pro- duction of farm machinery s and improvement in scientific agricultural methods, crops in central Asia are continually improving both in quality and yield and widespread use of the electric tractor can be expected te enable new ad- vances to be made. By DYSON CARTER Electrifying the earth down to 500 volts. : A special cable carries this Power to the tractor. As the . tractor moves, its reel auto- matically lets more cable out, or winds it in. Thus the tractor can work freely over a large area, It can plow, seed and cultivate the biggest collective- farm fields. Engineers in capitalist coun- tries found out, years ago, that the electric trolley bus is far superior to gas or diesel buses. They knew an electric tractor would have similar advantages. But you can’t string trolley wires over great fields. So the electric tractor was said to be impossible. Now Soviet engin- servicing. ‘ The cost of electricity is much less than the cost of gas or oil. An electric tractor can do more work in less time than any other unit ever built. Fin- ally, the new tractors are eas- ier on the driver. A little lever controls every motion of the huge machines. This summer 75,000 acres of socialist farms will be plowed, seeded and harvested by elec- T , few years all socialist farms: will have electricity for such things. But they are aiming at much bigger goals, — Already, over 100 million bushels of Soviet grain are threshed ‘by electric power. Cheap electricity has shown so- cialist farmers how to irrigate wheat fields, doing away with droughts and greatly increasing . the yield. Electricity is being used for the biggest jobs on for power farming, In sue electrified districts men ane women are no longer “till of the soil.” In fact one oul of every three “farmers” in the big electrified farms is now a specialist—a driver, electriciat, machinist, engineer, farm sciel- tist, doctor, teacher, me 1% When Lenin said “Commut ism is Soviet power plus elec: trification,” this is what he had. in mind for the farmlands — Electric power, ‘used on the land as it is used in factories, brings a new life to the farm er. Socialist electrification step$ up farm production by over 30- percent, e Of course, Canadian engin- eers could make electric tracy tors. But our capitalist system could not use them. Such ao revolutionary advance in farm- ing, with a sudden increase of 30 percent in farm outpub would bring disaster to our al ready collapsing farm markets: tric tractors. A mass produc- tion factory has started. Two and a half million acres will soon be worked electrically. This autumn the first electric the farm. Real work the land. In 1948, even in Soviet areas where every farm had lights electrification means using electric power to ‘@ Here two members of a col lective farm in the Chu ASSR relax after. the day’S — work. Alexandrina Stepashina reads to 15-year-old Danili and even though my little grev- haired mother warned me_ that he was a Communist, I thought nothing of it, although I often heard him say, “Sixty cents an hour is my idea of lousy wages.” was young, and-I never con- sidered how emotionally difficult to his house—'‘to meet a girl,” he said. When I arrived, Sandra was there. Her lips, her hair, her cheeks, her fingernails, and zombines will take to the fields and appliances, over 80 percent Ashinin as he drinks his — rd and next year thousands of of all the electricity was used evening tea, CORNERED BY PASSION e 2 s i . iy A genuine simulated true confession ae it was for the boss to pay us her shoes, were flaming red. She nuts.” He walked out and left that sixty cents, or I wouldn’t looked at me through—heavy- me alone with Sandra. a have listened to Georgie Jones. lidded half-closed eyes, and mur- ” I approached Sandra timidly: One night Georgie invited me mured, ‘“‘Hello, Arch Farch? 5 tit ihe vovercané my_hesitatiot Georgie has told me a great deal about you.” Georgie then said, ‘I have to shell three pounds. of Indian like. Time reported: to France. plauded madly. Georgie spoke about many things, erican press when it comes to anything it doesn’t Time Magazine, May 2, had the follow- ing account of the Chinese contribution to the Paris Peace Congress from the head of the del- egation, Mr. Kuo Mo-jo, a famous novelist and playwright of China, who remained with the others in Prague when they were refused visas “In the huge, high-ceilinged Salle Pleyel, Paris’ Carnegie Hall, the thin chirping syllables swooped and soared from the public address system like some kind of static. record scratched to an end. Some 2,000 del- egates to the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, realizing the speech was over, ap- “Few, if any, knew what had been said. The speech was in Chinese. It might just as well have been in Urdu. To the delegates, it was important only that it had been made by a Communist, China’s Kuo Mo-je. The seekers after ‘peace of the Soviet Russian variety—per- A lie in every line ERE, is a sample of the kind of untruthful _fectly exemplified a lesson of the great Russian. distortion now in common use by the Am- ~ physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: to an arti- ficial stimulus they had made a conditioned reflex.” Finally, the of the and at the end, Newsleiter. I immediately wrote the following letter to Time which it has not seen fit to print: ‘‘Correc- . tion, please! On page 15 of the May 2nd issue you have a completely unfactual account of the Paris Peace Congress. Mr. Kuo’ M a commanist; he is a liberal and one of China’s : great dramatic writers. (Ed. During the Mar- shall negotiations in 1946 Mr. ed by Chiang Kai-shek as one representatives.) The speech was not in Chinese; ‘it was read in French, understood by two-thirds delegates and translated over the head- phone system in English, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Therefore, the delegates knew exactly what they were applauding. At the beginning three sentences own voice were broadcast.” “Is it possible that the conditioned-reflex is to be found in Time’s editorial offices >” James G. Endicott in The o-jo is not - Kuo was accept- of the non-party in Mr. Kuo’s Canadian Far Eastern " prices. The trap was tightening ee PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 1, i9i9 — PAGE* ‘ Ly ; by slipping her arms beneath mY shoulder and clutching me in 4 warm and vibrant full-nelson. , reflected that this was illegal ™ college wrestling, but little, 4! I realize in what company I was _ ~ travelling. bitslee Before I knew it, Sandras lips were against mine, and ! felt her hot red breath seepin® down my neck, As she kissed me I suddenly understood the g@” eral crisis of capitalism, and the merger of bank and finance ¢4P” ital which characterizes the ePoc of imperialism. oie When she stroked my cheek and whispered to me in a burn- ing voice—so different from thes nasal and monotonous voice sweet little Mary-Ann who er to so much faith in me—I rea ‘ that wages need not be ti 1 It was later in the evening shortly before Georgie ba the house down to get me OU? that Sandra rested her (¢ aah against’ mine, and said, “Lely see a lot of each other, A was From that moment on. 1 W®- against the bi-partisan policy and the Atlantic pact! ae write this as a warning J all. Stay away from Sandra" She’s my girl!