The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1931, Page 12

Ce eee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1931 - . WOMEN IN RUSSIAN SOVIET | Fay Railroad Tracks, Work in! Factories, Pour Concrete, Run Institutions m4 ee ! WOMEN IN RUSSIAN SOVIET .. 24! Editor’s Note: This is the sec- ‘ond of a series of stories dealing with Soviet Russia, By JULIA BLANSHARD Staff Writer for NEA Service i (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) If you were a woman living in Rus- sia— | You would have “equal rights” with | men—whether you wanted them or not. ‘You would be expected to work and support yourself and be of as much ure in building the new Soviet State as any man, There is absolutely no sex discrimination. You could enter any profession and rise to a position of authority, if you made good. ‘You would find no barriers or prej- ‘udices against your doing the heaviest or the most disagreeable kind of man- ual labor. You could be a cement mixer, brick- Jayer, lumberjack, street cleaner, man- ager of a collective farm, furnace stoker, tractor operator, butcher or hhead of the government's most im- portant electrical plant. Russian women have always been ‘ased to heavy work. Now it is as if tthe government has mobilized for the Five-Year Plan and sent them into every field. | In the Youth Day parade I saw two women sailors, obviously regular ®gobs” marching with men sailors. ‘Russia has two women generals in fhe Red army. Two-thirds of all the medical stu- ents in Russia are women. ‘Women lawyers are legion, women erchitects work side by side with men on all the new buildings. Traveling in the south of Russia, one night we got off while the train refueled. A woman engineer stepped | ‘out of the locomotive’s cab. A woman dressed in clumsy felt boots and man’s coat, big hose in hand, climbed up and refilled the water tanks. ‘The next day we saw women laying @ railroad track. * * * ‘The huge “Park of Culture and Rest” in Moscow is run by a young, attractive Russian girl, Betty Glan. Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow, is the tireless foe of illiteracy. Through her efforts Russia is organized with the slogan, “We will teach everybody to read and write by 1933!” No woman holds a position of su- preme importance in the Communist party for no woman belongs to the Supreme Economic Council. But many @ local Soviet has a woman head. You hear heroic tales of the older Communist women. Maria, a Communist for 17 years, ‘marched in the Red Army as a prop- fgandist when the revolution was first won, Her father was an artisan, she had little education. She heard the government's call for engineers. De- spite bad lungs she entered the Lenin- grad university to study engineering. She is now on a construction job far eway in the oil fields. Each individual in Russia, man or ‘woman, stands on his own merits as a person. Wives of prominent Commun- ists get no reflected glory. x * * A recent book on Stalin described him as an Oriental who kept his beautiful young wife in the virtual confines of a harem. T asked the press department for an {interview with her. The under-secre- tary looked perplexed. “Mrs. Stalin?” he queried. “Why an. interview with Mrs. Stalin?” I explained our inordinate interest {n all our Mrs, Hoovers, our Mrs. Coolidges. “But Mrs. Stalin is a private citi- »” he answered. “The government an make no appointments for private citizens, Why don’t you just phone her if you want to see her, There is ® phone in her name.” I did. She was in the Crimea with him on vacation. But I found that Nadya Aluluieva, which is her name, leaves the Kremlin every morning, takes the crowded street car just like ‘any other Moscow woman, and goes to an institute where she is studying to be a chemical engineer, to work in the factories that manufacture arti- ficial silk. Stalin's wife was born in 1902, has. ‘been married to Stalin 11 years, has one girl and one boy by him, and is herself only six years younger than Waskov, pains son by his first wife, * ‘There ere no “weak women” in ‘Russia, seemingly. When anyone ar- rived or left our apartment, which | WORK JUST AS HARD AS MEN was on the fourth floor—walk up—it SIDEGLANCES - - By George Clark ICE, TR Fass ‘i was Sascha, our slender little maid, who insisted on carrying all the lug- wage. On a co-operative farm I passed a huge concrete building that was be- ing constructed entirely by women laborers. They were putting up the walls, laying floors, putting in win- dows, doing the plumbing. Their men folks were out in the fields doing farm work with the new modern ma- chinery the co-operative had bought from abroad. In Moscow when new concrete streets are laid, it is women who do the heaviest work. You see women bricklayers working high on the fourth or fifth stories of new build- ings. In athletic contests the equality of women is also shown. At the “Park G- HENRIETTA: SHE REALIZES Now HOW YOM CARR FELT WHEN WE SAW HER With BIMBO- — SHE MADE Tom JEALOUS BY GOING with BIM HOPING T WOULD BRING HIM BACK To HER BUT iv Do NOT - ' of Culture and Rest” I saw a group of German sailors playing volley ball with a team of Russian workers. On the Russian team were two girls. * * OK . This equality works both ways, of course. Russian men are learning to shoulder their burden of home duties. You sce fully as many fathers out at parks with their children as women. Men shop for food. Men help with housework. The Soviet government insists that they should work out | lives equally. Minot Gas Company Request Dismissed): An application of the Minot Gas Co., Minot, for a certificate author- izing the construction and operation of a high-pressure gas line has been dismissed, it was announced Wed- nesday by the state railroad commis- sion. Dismissal of the application was asked by the gas company’s counsel at a hearing conducted at Minot last Octobe r8, and the commission's ac- tion carries out this request. The Minot Gas company, in its ap- plication, sought permission to con- struct and operate a high-pressure gas line from the Glendive-Baker fields in Montana to Minot, N. D. Several other applications con- sidered at the Minot hearing still are before the commission for fur- ther consideration. (cpadeesiy tl beanie | Weds Again ‘ Mrs. Ruth McConnell Coulter Moore, above, who attracted nation-wide at- tention in 1928 by a mysterious dash across the continent closely followed by a friend of the man who was to become her first husband, is now on) her second honeymoon. She was married recently at Rochester, N. Y., to Richard Elton Moore, an aerial photographer. Soon after the strange: transcontinental dash, she married Kenneth B. Coulter, an invalid, who) died in December, 1929. | Stickler Solution ‘ — ®Y'm £0 relieved since Henry's gone back 5 to window washing. That indoor! 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