The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1931, Page 8

TH E BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931 of Chance Found in Moscow Housewives Can Never Tell What They Are Go- ing to Bag in Stores Editor's Note: This is the sev- tenth of a series of stories deal- ing with Soviet Russia. By JULIA BLANSHARD Staff Writer for NEA Service ACopyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Shopping in Moscow has the same sporting element of chance as big game hunting. If you lived there you could never tell what you were going to bag. What the stores have stocked today may be gore tomorrow and what you have Iooksed for in vain for six months may be in the stores today. If it is books or periodicals you want, almost every other store along Kuznetsky Most and Tverskaya and other main streets is a book shop. Every fifth or sixth corner has a kiosk (stall) selling reading matter. Every phase of the Five-Year Plan is dramatized and available in read- ing form. Periodicals and books cost 30 and 25 kopecks each, five and 1212 gents, respectively. If it is lipstick, rouge or other cos- ‘metics, you can probably get what- ever you want. You may have an’ aversion to the inferior Russia brands. but the Soviet trust puts out a full line and that’s all there is. But, should you want a thermome- ter, a hot water bottle, sheets, a raincoat, a pair of scissors, a cook- {ng stove, a typewrtier, a bed or many other fundamental articles, you are put of luck, No store has these to te. = sae A young American newspaperman. broke from living in a hotel, found tiny room he could sublet for the: winter. In desperation over trying to locate a bed somewhere, he went to the press department of the Nar- komindel (Soviet body corresponding to our U. S. State Department) and pleaded his case 50 eloquently that hhe got a government order to have bed made. ‘The first store that struck my eye fm Moscow was a pet shop. Inside rabbits cost 12 rubles ($6) the pair, canaries “that sing,” 26 rubles ($13), gold fish, 75 kopecks (35 cents). Two doors up Tverskaya was & lower shop. Hothouse flowers, like roses, carnations, forced crysanthe- mums, tube roses were high, costing’ around 10 rubles ($5) for a sizeable punch. I saw a poorly dressed cou- ple buy a whole armful of field daisies, marigolds and bachelor but- tons for two rubles ($1), xk * Each of Moscow's 10 districts has fits blocks of stores. These district stores repeat the goods on sale on the Tverskaya and Kumetsky Most because practically all goods now are produced by the government trusts and the stores are government out- lets and uniformly stocked. The Bame articles cost the same stand- in every Moscow store. In any shopping center, you will about the following kinds of 3 book shops, sweet shops, & goods house, an antique shop, office supply store, e liquor store bottled goods sold here), a | in office, Bhop to pleat and hemstitch mate- tials, a toy shop, a photographer's! studio, a peasantware shop, an un- Gertaker’s window displaying a gtue- Some red coffin. x * & ‘There is one huge, handsome de- {partment store where no one can trade but workers of the G. P. U. (the Soviet secret service). In addi- tion there is a well stocked antique gjnd general store, called Torgsin, (where only foreign money is accent- ed, hence only foreigners trade. The big hotels run branches of Torgsin in) heir lobbies. Newest are the Udarnik shops. Whese are fancy goods stores where nly those can trade who are mem- bers of the Shock Brigades, as work- ers are called who volunteer to speed up the work in their factories, mills, darms. In the first store I entered I ran Into a queue at the shoe counter. Fathers and mothers were shopping for their children. Sex equality is obvious in the way Russian fathers or mothers shop, depending on which parent has his. day of rest when the occasion arises. The man clerk behind the counter, fn a faded gray chambray Russian blouse, handed each customer either Shopping in Soviet Russia Has Element Big Game Hunting the customer might put them on and walk out Everything is serve self, parents trying on their children’s shoes. x ke An old man was leaning on the counter poring over a newspaper package of ragged food tickets. You could buy children’s stockings that day but you needed the unstamped clothing coupon from a food ticket dated May 20, 21 or June 2 or 30. There had been no stockings since that date in this store and only those who did not get them then could jhave them now. There are no deliveries. No mat- ter if you should buy a grand piano | you would have to’arrange for trans- porting it. (I once got on a street car behind a man with an unwrap- ped, small white coffin under his } arm.) In this same department store I saw counters stocked with coarse white muslin underwear, sleasy print- ed silk machine-made dresses, fash- joned in the long-waisted mode of several years ago, children’s dresses in unattractive prints, sturdy stock- ings for children, and one whole de- partment of hats for women, old- fashioned felt cloches in bad colors, a carnation pink, drab blue, dirty gray, all trimmed with a wisp of cheap grosgrain ribbon and each hat six rubles ($). Hettinger Farmers Share Relief Work Grand Forks, Nov. 11—Sixteen law students at the University of North Dakota have been selected by faculty members to compose the student board of editors of the Dakota Law Review. The student board will meet weekly as a seminar class to discuss recent court cases, according to Prof. O. H. Thormodsgaard, editor-in-chief of the review. In this way, the students will have an opportunity to become acquainted with the technique of le- gal research and with legal writing. All cases involving decisions of es- pecial significance will be written in the form of case comments and pub- lished in the Dakota Law Review, which appears quarterly. Linn Sherman, Steele, was named) chairman of the student board of editors. Other members of the board include Durward Balch, Dickinson; R. J. Bloedan, Linton; Archie Mc- Gray, Underwood; Earl Torgerson, Berthold; and Raymond Werner, Mc- Henry. i Smoking and drinking is said to year in taxes. NOTICE OF REAL ESTATE MORT- GAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Notice Is Hereby Given that a cer- tain mortgage made, executed and delivered by Neil Housten Omay and Helen Omay, his wife, both of Bis- marck, Burleigh County, North Da- kota, ‘mortgagors, to Northwestern Mutual Savings and Loan Association, a corporation, mortgagee dated the 2nd day of February, A. D., 1931, and filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds of the County of Burleigh, and state of North Dakota, on the 9th day of March, A. D., 1931, and duly recorded in book 208 of mortgages, at page 54, will be fore- closed by ‘a sale of the premises in such mortgage and hereinafter de- scribed, at the front door of the courthouse, in the city of Bismarck, in the County of Burleigh and state of | North Dakota, at the hour of 2 o'clock B m. on Saturday, the 12th day of jecember, A, D., 1931, to satisfy the amount due upon said mortgage on the day of sale, The premises described in said mortgage and which will be sold to satisfy the same are situate in the city of Bismarck, in the County of Burleigh and state of North Dakota, and are described as follows: Lot numbered nineteen (19), in block numbered ono hundred ‘ten (110), of the Original Plat of the city of Bismarck, according to tho certified plat thereof, duly filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for the County of Burleigh and state of North Dakota, reference there- to being had: That there will be due on sald mortgage on the date of sale the sum of $1,202.99 besides the costs of this foreclosure. 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