Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1946 — Page 28

RR : - . . Russian . - ° : Jubious Privileges Under Communism Revolution Gave Them Freedom to Labor In Mines, Fight in Army, Pay Allimony

de an episode very sill to the ' recent case in which State Trooper ‘= Herbert Smith was killed, ‘state + ‘police today held two teen-age youths and an A. W. O. L. soldier. Late yesterday Trooper Marion Robbins stopped ap automobile with ‘Wisconsin license p three miles south of Lafayette on U. 8, 52. The car had been ‘reported stolen from Green Bay, Wis, Monday. Operators of the car were two teen-agers: from East Kingsford, Mich. In their were three toy pistols and a .22 caliber auto-

Eugene Lyons, for six years the United Press correspondent in Soviet Russia is an authority on its history and system. The ninth of a series of articles Mr. Lyons has written exclusively for the ScrippsHoward newspapers is published today.

By EUGENE LYONS : The Russian revolution freed women from many of the disabilities matic pistol. hey are held under| der which they had lived under the ancient regime. They were given (AB violation of . Dyer act . +. absolute equality of citizenship and the right to equal education. transporting a stolen car across a They even obtained the privilege of paying alimony, and not merely state line. receiving it as in backward capitalist lands, Millions of Mohammedan

The soldier, Leo Helstand, Bl, dropped their veils and were relieved of other onerous handicaps

under Moslem customs. This emancipation of wemen was real

admitted being A. W. O. L. from Ft. Knox, Ky. He was turned over to army authorities at Ft. Harrison. The youths picked him up

education has been forbidden in the lower schools.

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’ ment, to be educated along new 4 +» Council of )Social agencies has been

lution Soviet propaganda made capital out of its enlightened handling of the problem of juvenile crime. 3 The youthful offender was regarded as the victim of environ-

lines rather than punished. All that is past. By decree of April 17, 1935, children of 12 or 'more have been made subject to the ordinary court and to the full penalties of the criminal law—including the death penalty for pod litical crimes. For all the noise made about the new freedom for women in Russia, they have few, if any, privileges not enjoyed by American women—and myriad hardships from which American women are exempt.

HEADS WESTERN AIRLINES WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.). —American Airlines has announced the resignation of Terrell C. Drinkwater as vice president to become president of Western Airlines with

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Agency Opens Christmas Office

_The Christmas office of the established at 1025 Lemcke bldg. ~ Operated under the supervision of a committee headed by Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz, it will serve as a confidential clearing house for néwspapers and other’ organizations which conduct Christmas charities. Principal service of the Christmas office is to establish a master file in which names can be confidentially listed to avoid duplication in the giving of Christmas gifts. Agencies will have an opportunity to recommend families, children and individuals to receive presents in accordance to requests received by the office. The office is operated by Mrs. Gertrude Horney, secretary of the council's social service exchange, ard Mrs. Mary B. Brown. President

Local Persons Write For Religious Booklet

Several Indianapolis persons. are quoted in a new booklet on the need and value of religious education just

released by the International Council of Religious Education. Local contributors to the publication titled “A-Century Beckons,” are Judge Mark W.. Rhoads, Marion county juvenile court judge; Mrs. Robert ‘PF. Shank, 1709 Sharon ave, president of the Indiana P.-T. A.; Miss Nellie C. Young, children's minister and youth adviser ofthe Central Christian church; Edgar H. Evans and the Rev, Marcus E. Kendall of Carmel, Ind.

Word of Death Received

Word has been received here of the death of Arthur P. Thomas in Tilton, N. H. He lived at 3310 Central ave. and was active in affairs of the Nature Study Club of Ind. ana and the Indiana Audubon society.

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achievements: of In the early years of the revo-

+ as a hitch-hiker a few miles north

of the council .is Wilfred Bradshaw.

Burial was in Tilton Dec. 1. - w—_t,

of Lafayette. the revolution.

State police were alerted by Wisconsin authorities in regard to the however, stolen car. Investigation disclosed aggerate its scope 3

+ that earlier in the day the youths|_—or to overlook 4 / . {failed to pay for gasoline delivered more recent So- | iv . at Highland, Ind. |viet policies that = ¥ v.. : el t———————— In A Vv e undone og Yo i much of that new ! ., Suggest Substitute Allon w. . i ir ? wi For Name ‘Nippon Despite their Bor |

leg al equality Russian women play a comparatively small role in the country’s pothelr country—Nippon—be dropped litical life—much smaller, o The because it “obstructs the country's Whole, than in Sweden or the Un democratization.” | States, for instance. He proposed Mizuho, “land of | Doubtful Freedoms fresh receivers,” or Chishima, “land| of a thousand islands.”

TOKYO, Dec. 11 (U. P.) —A diet member suggested today that the name the Japanese people give to

There has never been a woman member of the all-powerful Politburo, a woman top commissar, a woman “president” of any of the larger Soviet “republics.” Female ambassadors, assistant {commissars and the like are as) rare, and therefore attract as much | attention, in the USSR as their, i equivalents in the U. 8. A. Women | are not overly active in the Communist party in Russia.

A Dozen Dangers Threaten

%- In the Downstairs Store!

While gaining new freedoms, Russian. women preserved some doubtful freedoms in vogue traditionally under the czars—especially the free- | dom to work as longshoremen, miners, sailors and in other trades elsewhere reserved for men only. | This is one freedom they had never utilized as fully in the dark | . | past as they do now. | Since Russia is not a signatory to the Geneva convention which! forbids the use of women as combat troops, they also have the free- | dom to engage .in that field of activity. |

Nazi Measures Adopted

When Hitler's government pro-| mulgated measures for enforcing large families, the Soviet press branded it is “debasement of women to the role of brood-mares.” It pointed out that Germany was breeding additional millions of soldiers for aggressive adventures. Today practically every one of those Nazi measures is law in Russia. Birth control has been made extremely difficult and abortions illegal, { The divorce law now in force is about as rigid as that of South Carolina. Moreover, divorce has| been made so expensive that only Soviet citizens in the higher income | brackets can afford the luxury.

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vorce was a post-card notification, '] birth control information available in department stores and abortions in every hospital. The new Soviet policy has two obvious and undisguised motives. The first is to boost population for military purposes and to provide | new labor power. The desire to make {up for the millions lost during the war and millions more lost before that through purges and under- | nourishment enters into this.

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The second is .to step up labor | discipline and production. The goyernment, like private employers elsewhere, knows that men and women with many, mouths to feed work harder and are more submissive than those without such responsibilities,

A stable family makes for a stable

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Parking Zone

First municipal off-street parking zone here was opened to the publio | today, ] Parking for five cars“has been | provided in the zone. It is 90 feet | long and is located on the north '! side of Chesapeake - st. between | Maryland and Georgia sts. ; The zone was recommended hy! Inspector Audry Jacobs, head of || the police traffic division, who said: | “This facility will take care of parking on Maryland, st. which is prohibited between 6 and 9 a. m. and 3 and 6 p. m.” i The board of safety approved Ine! Spector Jacobs’ recommendation at! its regular meeting yesterday. It | issued an emergency order which | makes the space immediately availe || able to the public. i

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