Humanity Made To Order

HUMANITY MADE TO ORDER BY HARRY STEKOLL INTRODUCTION Life is better. Life is more cheerful. Every where I went in Russia during a visit I made in the summer of 1936, placards bearing this optim istic declaration of Stalins greeted me, along with the ever present poster, Workers of the World, Unite It was what I had hoped was true, what I had come to Russia to find. I had made a similar trip five years before, covering widely separated and representative points in both European and Asiatic Russia. At that time I had found appalling filth everywhere. Now, as I saw at once a general improvement in cleanliness, I hoped that Stalins statement was true for clean liness is a significant factor in a country as back ward as Russia and is, of itself, evidence of both economic and cultural progress. All arrangements for a trip through Russia are made through the Intourist, part of the Arntorg, or foreign trade corporation of Soviet Russia, which has elaborate offices in New York and other large...