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ki.. esci friend loaned us
, "I Speak For the Sil-
...lieners Of the Soviets,"
dr 'Schernavin. This is one
MIA books having been first
hi February' of this year.
'Psalter, a • distinguished Roe -
*natant, abandoned research
•. Aga inestist loyally' in, the develop-
nat.tesif a great Russian inddustry
feeleeries.' Arrested without
Pneg, he .was held in the Soviet
'ffiggkneat Leningrad for three months
'and eubjected to no fewer than see-
s,
egteen inquisitions, with threats of
,,•tortruee and execution, to force him
“Cmgess" that he was a "wrecker."
•' Refusing to ?confess" they threaten-
ed to imprition his wife, which they
,did. Unyielding and' unafraid, he
'Wes condemned without trial and sen-
tenced to five years of forced labor
in one of the dreaded concentration
camps ,of the G.P.U. 'Managing to
esene.pe; he brought away and reveals
to the world in this book, unforget-
table impressions made upon his keen
minld, of conditions as he found them,
and which, according to the G.P.U.,
the Says; "Foreigners must not know."
In a note to the reader, the author
says: "I tell my own story because
1 believe that only in this way can
discharge the moral obligation
which a kindly Fate imposed upon
me, in helping me to escape frern
the Soviet Terror; the duty to speak
for those whose voices cannot he
heard.
In silence they are sent away as
convicts to the concentration camps,
in silence they suffer tortures, and
go to meet iled'. death frown Soviet
bullets. Nothing is invented in this
hook, and I stand back of every state
ment I have made. All those whom
1 describe are real persons, and ev-
erything is true to :he minutest de-
tail.
. This- is a ;narrative of what befel
a Russian scientnist, under the .Seviet
eegime. . More than that it is the
story of many. if no: most people of
education in Soviet Russian to -day.
As you read, please remember that
I speak of myself. only because it en-
ables me to tell the story of others.
Rememleer. also, that 1n. the Soviet
Union, innocent people' are still being
tried nor "wrecking" and that intel
ligent men are still being forced by
torture to "confess" to crimeswhich
they never committed.
Remember too that thousands of
Russian men and women of education
are still languiehing, in the filthy cells
of the G.P.U. prisms. and in the cold
barracks of the )neentr ati n camps,
poorly clad and starving, breaking
'with exhaustion under the hardships
of inhuman ;slavery."
The letters G.P.U. are the initials
of the Russian words meaning State
Bolitical Administration—a Scrviet
organization of secret political poliee.
Their policy aimed to conscript the
wealth iof the people, to get control
of all industries, to exterminate in-
telleetuals and the aristocracy, and
te break up all other- organizations
(inciuding the churches, which they
call organizations )as, being anti-
Soviet. The 'only pullellications allow-
ed were those which were in synupa-
thy with their interestis. '
In order to carry tout their policy,
the most horrible, almost uneonceiv
able forme of cruelty have been prac-
tised.. Thousands have been arrested
on the slightest pretext, or fur no
canon at all. Numbers of these
ss, ere taken out and shot at once
without trial. Others were submit-
ted to gruelenng examinations, at
which some of the victims have been
required itlo sband for four days with-
out food er•water, because they
weuld not confess to alis Frequent-
ly thoee arrested have been request
ecl t o denounce certeins others, some
of whom they may not even have
known, and in many cases, after their
health and their morals were broken
Jewel by terrible suffering, they have
sect ded to these requests.
Those suspected of having money
has' been arrested, but promised
eclom if they would hand it over
to the G.P.U. If they -refused they
were imprisened and tortured until
they finally gave in. Even though
they gave up all they possesse•d, if
the officials still thought they had
more, they were returned to jail and
huiojecte,d to still further cruelties.
No matter how money or gold was
concealed, the police scented' it and
demanded that it be turned over to
lia'‘Pel by the leaders for their own
them. The wealth thus obtained was
pleasures and gratifications. If dur-
ins' their carousals they learned of
any foreigners being in elle district,
everything was covered and hushed
up, until all danger' of being spied
upon was removed.
Industrial concerns have been
taken over by the G.P.U. and the
capable managementeby expert artis-
ans replaced by memibers of the &Ar-
iel; Union. men entirely ignorant of
the working of the industry. Fail-
ure§ resulted and the blame laid on
the efficient experts, who although
Entirely innocent, were arrested and
imprisoned on the charge of actively
assisting in wrecking the industry.
Many, refusing to sign a confession
of "wrecking" have been shot or tak
en hock to psison rt i") he fureher tor -
according toe whim of the
examiner. In this too, great care
was exercised, that the outside world
should not hear it.
Church members have been requir-
ed to sign statement admitting
theft -selves stle lee sighThi s rati4
them members 'of an ongernizatieu an
was considered seffieient evidence
condemnthem.
All other measures failing to Or
about desired confession, the ver
climax Of cruelties has been resoet
to. One mean e Of extreme torture
was found in the use of the "lic
cell." From too to 3Q0 persons), in
and women together, ihnave been jam
reed into a cell where they must sten
closely pressed together. To add
the agony, a high temperature eva
maintained in the cell. Erv"erybod
was covered with lice, and fi,ghtin
them was quite imposeible. 'No on
was permitted to sit down, or li
down; many were kept in this ce
for weeks, and the writer know on
who was there for 30 days. Merch.
ants, .dentists, doctors, engineers—
all sorts were 'taken.
The "wet cell" was another mea
coersion. Here the floor wa
flooded with water and the only fur
niture was a very narrow plank, b
which one could sit, but not lie down
There were no sanitary conveniences
and the prisoners were not allowed
to leave the cell for any reason. Thei
feet 'had to remain in the filthy, putri
water filled with ordure. This de
veloped ulcers. One person, after si
days in the "wet cell" finally signe
a false confession. But he left be
ihind him another prisoner who ha
been there for over 30 •days, and stil
refused to sign a false statement.
Is it to 'be wondered at, that larg
numbers of those compelled to en
lure these horrible cruelties 'hay
gone insane, completely mad?
Mr. Scheinavin says that the case
cited' in his book are 'but an ineig
nificant part of what he saw and
heard of th:e methods of the G.P.0
hat they are just •a few examples
showing the conditions under which
he Russian intellectuals suffered ian
prisonment.
Get this book if possible, and read
t for yourselves, as 1 have scarcely
Juched the fringe of all that to
e learned from it. It clearly re-
ats the tragedies which fellow,
when a nation forces or allows its
hurches to fall into disuse.
•Do I hear you say, "'What 'has all
his to de with Missions •or with
hristian stewardship?". In my hum -
le (opinion, it 'hes everything to do
:•ith them.
Those who reed our newspapers,
our church papers and our mission-
ry jeurnals, are frequently pained
nd shocked at the outrages perpe
-eted by Communists. All toe fre-
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ing kidnapped and subjected to sev-
ere treatment, and often death.
In an address in Park United
Church, Westmount, Montreal, on
Monday evening, Rev. Dr. McLennan
said: inorlstianity's greatest rivals
are not Buddhism and Illohammedaan-
ism. but Nationalism and COM/MU
ism." Mrs. Horner Brown, who was
the guest speaker at our Sectional
meeting in Egmendville last year, and
who is a returned 'missionary from
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LI eriond Kidneys
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China, says that Communism is the
greatedt menace in •China to -day and
that the great factor which is to de-
cide Ohina's deetiny is either Obria-
tiarkity or ''Comanunism. Which will
it be?
For lack of funds to support the
work on their fields, Rev. and Mrs.
Brown along with several **era, are
not being rettuxned to China this
year. At the very time when every
available worker is so urgently need-
ed, to combat the forces of Commun
i'sm in 'China, we are 'withdrawing
our tmissionaries and leaving the
fields so dearly won, to fall into the
ham& of the Communists.
Can we afford to take the risk of
being indifferent to their cry, "Come
over and help us?" Communists
dominate Russia, have a foothold in
many other countries, are quite active
in our own land, axed are rapidly in-
creasing in China. If China with its
400,000,000 people comes under Com-
munistic rule, what a menace that
will be to the rest of the world. For
purely •selfleh reasons, if for 1113
other, can we, as Canadians, afford
to take this risk for to -day the world
is very small and' China is not very
far away from Canada?
- We are looking forward to lour
autumn thankoffering service when
we shall have the pleasure and the
privilege of ;presenting our thanicof-
ferings as a token of our gratitude to
Almighty God, for all His goodness
to use; and while enumerating our
leeseings, let tie place near the top
of the list, one for which we should
be most 'devoutly thankfel—that we
were born in Canada, beneath the
British liege in a land where God is
honored, and where every one is free
to worship as he or she pleases.
If each member .of our Auxiliary
could fully appreciate the spiritual
blessings which are ours, together
with the wonderful privilege of being
a British subject and a citizen of our
fair Deininion, our missionary giv
legs would be so generous that when
we came to the end of 'the year we
shall 'be able to take our usual place
—at the top.
Sunday Afternoon
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it necessary to sit down and' think
oneself back into the life of the sta-
tion aglain. But when all the old
familiar faces appeared and greet-
ings were received—creetings which
it is worth travelling half way across
the world to receive—and as I felt
the Umbuiodu coming back to my
mind and tongue, ea the old familiar
duties came 'back also, and in a few
days I found myself back in harness
again, getting ready to receive the
pupils on their return to school.
The greatest change is the new
school, Escola 'Brantford, which was
r ot yet quite completed when I went
home on furlough. Last year a part
of it was in use. Now, with school
in session, every robin is in u.se, and
e hat a comfort it is. No one can
ever appreciate it to the full, except
those of us who labored under the
old conditions.
When I came to the Lutamo in
1930, the girls? classes were meeting
in their dining -hall, a eery rude a-
bode building with only openings for
windows and doors, and four classes
meeting in a room which no one
would think that more than two could
possibly be accommodated. Nat ive
teachers are not confused and hin-
dered in their work as we would be
by crowding and noise, and it was a
constant source of wonder to me
that 90 much could be done under
such trying circumstances. As I
took over the work under Mrs,. Tuck-
er's patient. and kindly guide/lee, I
learned sto appreciate bhe teachers
and their ;nebhods, and learned many
a lesson which' has helped me great-
ly in understanding native litfe.
Escola Brantford is a real delight
to me and to thine of the teacliers on
the staff who taught under the old
conditions, either as teachers or as
studenteteaehers while they were
till students of Currie Institute. We
have eight classes in the morning
and nine in the afternoon, each class
in its own ream. The tenth class-
room is the sewing-rolom. And what
a earnfort it is to have an office
where 'one can comfortably sit and
discuss, the many matters that turn
up every day. The energy that wan
used up in the long walks from the
boys' school to the girls' school in a
broiling African sun is now- available
for the work inside of Escola Brant-
ford, and many times I think grate-
' fully of bhe kind' friends inn Brant-
ford who have' made the school a re-
ality. The •big assembly hall', too,
where all meet together for prayers
is a distinct asset to the life of the
station.
We came hack cin August to find
that the locusts were leaving a trail
of destruction behind them. We found
a most discouraging situation. Every
fruit tree was stripped, every blade
ef wheat eaten to the ground., just
berfore it was ready tie be harvested.
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The people ad tried tc. save the
crops. but realized after days of la-
bor that it was a hopeless) task, The
cern and bean crops sown in the riv-
er bottom lands, met a similar fate,
end now the whole country is faced
not only with famine, but with the
fact that if in a short time the lee-
usts leave the fields, the people have
no seed with wlbdeh to start again.
We are doing what we can, but what
can so few of us do towantle saving'
o ' ':led We are just touching
the fringe of the heart -breaking sit -
eat ion.
It was great to be alt home last
year. 1 Ixad a splendid year in heau-
11t6u1 'Ontario. But African weeds
'have a beauty Of their own, too. If
you eould see the hong 'files of eager,
happy faces Which •enter Selli0b1 Murry
clay you would indeed urid;erstand me
when I say thatfb in 'great to be
back at the Lutaine agait. —.m
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The Missionary iMenthlee
"Somebody
to see you!"
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If everybody with something to interest you should come and
ring your bell, what a nuisance it would be! Think of the swarm-
ing, jostling crowd, the stamping . of feet on your porch and
carpets !
Every week we know of many callers who come to see you.
They never jingle the bell—they don't take up your whole day
trying to get your attention. Instead, they do it in a way that
is most considerate of Your privacy and your convenience. They
advertise in your newspaper !
In this way you have only to listen to those you know at a
glance have something that interests you. They make it short,
too, so you can gather quickly just what you want to know. You
can receive and hear them all without noise or confusion in a
very few minutes.
In fairness to yourself look over all the advertisements. The
smallest and the largest --you never can be sure which one will
tell something you really want to know.
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gas. mask attached to the oxygen
tank in the gondola and gave the
signal to lower away. When he was
400 feet down a terrific explosion
from some subterranean depth bowie -
ed the gondola up and down and en-
veloped it in heavy gases. At 600
feet Mr, Iwata saw a body smashed
on a pile of rocks. At 1250 feet 'the
gondola struck on a projecting she
and could be lowered no farther. 0
the same shelf lay the body of a 1
year old boy wile had made his lea
five days befere.
The explosions were now unceas-
ing. The walls of the crater shook
with each conslulsion from below
dislodging rocks that whited pas
bhe gondola. Then the oxygen tan
connection sprang a leak so Mr
Iwata signaled and the derrick tow
e6d him up, safe but half unconscious.
His journey had occupied 50 minutes
—and the doctor who examined him
announced for 'publication that an-
other 15 minutes might have been
fatal. It is estimated that the Yo-
miuri sold 90)0,000 copies of the edi-
added at least 100,000 permanent
subscribers.
After this exploit °shims blossom-
ed into a combination of Coney Is-
land, Atlantic City and Niagara Falls.
In 1928 there were two photograph-
ers on the island. Now there are 47.
For tourists who did not wish to
climb the mountain on foot, 69 riding
horses were imported. There , are
five taxi companies, running 29 cabs.
Where there were once only flour
sleeping plaries with room for about
Ino guests, there are new 14 hotels
with space for '500. A recent Coney
Island touch has been the construc-
tion of a 1200 foot chute-theech.utes
down Mihara's slope, providing an
easy return for those who do'
comeback. The steamship company serv-
ing the island has let a contract for
the first streamlined vessel in the
world that will carry 1200 passengers
at a time to Oshima.
The -most spectacular addition to
O'shima was the importation of three
camels to negotiate the lava -covered
desert a mile and a half wide be-
tween the outer rim/ and the actual
craters For to Japan no camel had
ever came. The animals were first
landed at Tokyo 'and paraded through
the streets while thousands
It was the greatest sensation since
the arrival of Charles Chaplin. The
camels then played a 30 -day engage,.
ment at the opera house before go-
ing to ()Alma.
diVhenever interest in Miihara 'ap-
peared to be abating, some unusual-
ly opectacular suicide was certain to
revive it. Inert summer a green re-
cruit in the Imperial Army was tole)
bet a drill oergeant that he was so
stupid he ought to kill himself. Next
day his hat was found at Suicide
Point with a note whieh sail: "I al-
ways obey my superior officer." This.
military scandal temporarily fright -1
ened the press into playing down the
deaths at Mibara, but interest flare
ed up again early this Year when
thtee young men walked to the cleat-
er's edge and jumped eestatically.
Even in Japan suicide is not leg-
ally approved of and the police have
been able to prevent many as no Jap-
anese would think of committing sui-
cide without a ferwell message set-
ting forth his 'reasons. These mes-
sages are 'often discovered by rela-
tives in time to have the police tele-
phone to °sill:ma and. prevent the
death leap.
There is a policeman always on
duty at the cone of the -crater, and
a Mihara-yama Anti -Suicide League
1fhas built a fence around Suicide r
stss
oint. The League has also set up,
on the crater's edge, an arrangement
6 of mirrors which gives the onlooker
a view down into the crater and pre-
sents a terrifying spectacle of violent
arid fiery death. Perhaps these var-
ious Xing •Canutes will eventually
succeed in holding rback the tide. But
te meanwhile the volcano, the suicides
kiand the resort business are alike ac-
tive.
APPLES DAY IN
AND DAY OUT
"What's all this fuss about vita -
reins," granddad wants to know. He
goes on to point out, too, that he and
his seven brothers lived to a ripe old
age 'before they even heard of the
things. Moreover, half the foods
that give us our vitamins to -day were
luxuries in granddad's youth.
But if you listen to granddad's
stories of the good' old days yeti will
soon hear about the apple bin in the
cellar. If he still has enough teeth,
his stories are accented wieh pauses
fox another juicy bite from what may
be his third or fourth apple for the
dary. He has always had plenty of
apples because they are an abundant
crop in most lands and keep well if
properly stored. An% .of course,
plenty of apples give plenty of vita-
mins and that may help to explain
the mystery of granddad's good
health.
Although improvements in, agri-
culture, refrigeration, storage and
transportation give us a great variety
of fruits and vegebabes, elves re-
main as a standby for most of us
neary the year round. Fortunately
the crispness anel slightly acid flavor
of apples are always refreshing, Raw
or cooked they blend well with other
foods. Here are some unusual re-
cipes that prove their versatility in
the menu,
Apple Omelet
3 tablespoons butter
2 apples, washed, eored and sliced
'crosswise 14 inch thick
4 eggs (slightly beaten)
2 tablespoons milk
14 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar
Paprika.
Melt the butter in a skillet and
browny the apples en both sides over
moderate heat. Remove apples from
skillet. Combine eggs, milk and salt,
and pour them in the skillet. Cook
over low heat, lifting the edges with
a .spatula te let the uncooked por-
tion run under. When set, put the
fried apples spatinkled With sugar on
the omelet Roll it and turn it out
on a 'warm platter. Sprinkle with
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One -Two -Three Salad
1 dill pickle (diced)
2 medium onions. (finely chopped)
3 tart red apples (unpared, diced)
Lemon juice or cider
Mayonnaise. •
.Combine dill pickle, onions and ap-
ples. Sprinkle with lemon juice or
cider and marinate for at least 30
minutes. Mix with mayonnaise and
.serve on lettuce or as a relish with
meat.
One -Dish Breakfast
Wash and core apples. Place in
baking dieh, sprinkle lightly with
cinnamon, fill cavities with bran
beeakfast food, sweeten with honey
or brown, sugar and dot with butter.
Add boiling water to cover bottom of
dish about 1/4 -inch deep, Bake in a
moderate oven (425 deg. F.) for a-
bout 30 minutes or until apples are
tender. Serve warm with cream oil
whole milk.
Apple Crunch
4 cups sliced tart apples
1 cup brown sugar
14 teaspoon nutmeg
Grated rind of, 1/4 lemon
1 cup lne corn flake crumbs
% cup melted butter.
Arrange apples in bottom of deep
pie plate (9 -inch). Cover with %
cup of 'brown sugar, nutmeg and lem-
on rind, Combine corn flake crumbs
with remaining Ye cup sugar and
butter. Pack firmly on top of ap-
ples. Bake in moderate oven (400
deg, F.) until apples are clone, about
30 minutes. 'Serve with cream. Yield:
Six servings.
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