In Moscow the Soviet Government opened last week the first little Red schoolhouse for children of U. S. and British engineers and workmen now helping Russia with her Five-Year Plan. Fond parents faced painful alternatives. The school, as Soviet officials frankly admitted, will try to turn every pupil into a little Bolshevik. But the Government offered free tuition & textbooks, reduced streetcar fares and for each hungry pupil a heaping hot lunch at 15¢such a lunch as would otherwise cost in Moscow at least $1.
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