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: } RELEASE TUESDAY, “OCTOBER 22, 195 ; PAGE 2 [ o p&Drur0n LEWIS, JR. XX laborers. \ In either case, the living is abont comparable to that of Tobao- co Road, The farm boss, if he's lucly,may have a two-room house to himself, The reat of the company live three and four families in a ’ one-room, unpainted shack without the first hint of what we consider r minimum modern conveniences, No running water, no plumbing, no electricity, no gas, no hard-surfaced roads, The farm Mrs, Roosevelt saw was a dairy farm, with concrete a block buildings, concrete floors and American type interior fittings and stanchions, Aside from the fact the walls are cracked, it presents a fairly impressive picture to the uninitiated, To anyone who knows, however, the sanitary standards are such that an American dairy farmer, operating on the same basis, would be : arraigned on criminal charges. The milk is retailed in bulk from open pr oT . eanes in filthy sidewalk shops and 41s undrini:able to Americans, There is a beaten-up red tractor, always on display, which won't the land, in operation, Newsmen will tell you that this story has been told to everyone who has ever visited the farm, but nobody has ever seen 4 tractor in operation yet, { | run, but the visitor is toid that the ones that do work are out on i | ' So far as medical seience is concerned, the kindest thing to believe is that Mrs, Roosevelt simply accepted the word of her hosts for this. There is no shred of evidence, from American correspondents ~ | or embassy attaches, to support it, One English woman who had to be hospitalized in Moscow, owing to pneumonia, was kept in bed for eight daya without even a sponge bath, She learned where a bathroom was located, sneaked there in the small , of the morning, only to find the tub filled with potted plants, An American, suffering a stomach difficulty, had a preliminary examination by the Russian doctor in the absence of the embassy physician, and his trouble was diagnosed as jaundice, a very common and widespread malady in Russia. The dactor noted the yellow tint to his skin, . The embassy physician arrived later, went to the window, raised tie yellow shade, and the "jaundice" was gone, | fhe practice of asepsis in Russian hospitals 1a a2 but non-— exlatent and polio is rampant, Medern controls and cures for 1¢ are . . ignored and the Russian medical profession solves the problem by dubbing 1¢ "the American disease." ; . These are the great strides in medical seience, which Mrs, vee poosevelt advertises so giibly. Fortunately for her, she did not need medical attention while she was there. ld 109 -1a-AVYO-/F tan