The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
ALL WELCOME BUT
MONARCHISTS in.
OLD DUMA HALL.
EVERY SHADE OF NEW
OPINION GETS HEARING
FROM REVOLUTIONISTS
Flood of Theories Pour
Into the Council
Notes Taken On ALI Kinds of
Questions-Social Standing Is
Moot Question Among the
Women Who Now Have Ballot.
BY William G. shepherd)

United Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD, June 26-The whirl-
pool of voting in Russia centers in
the old building in which the Duma,
now dispersed, used to meet. Folks
OF almost every shade of opinion in
Russia have their headquarters there.
Votes, kilograms, letters, delegates,
pour in from the remotest corners of
Russia, from the edges of China and
Japan, from the Black Sea and the
Crimea. Have you seen soldiers di-
rect from the trenches, who have
been elected as delegates to the ma
tional committee of soldiers at meet
ings held under fire; farmers who
have come as delegates to the pea
SAINTS natiipal committee; workmen
of all trades; women OF almost all oc-
equations, Boys and girls, fired with
the zeal of new Russia through the
nuddy-floored building after school
hours, singing songs or watching the
various heroes of the revolution as
they pass to and from their offices?
AT all the portals stand grim sol
diers, with %bayonets fixed. You must
have a pass to enter the building.
Why do you have passes?" | ask
wi at Nll0 Olll0C VI lhC 0OAAlIlQhnonA
Isn't Russia a free country?'
I'VE don't want any reactionaries to
enter the building was the reply.
My fourth tremendous impression,
after l had entered the old building
which is now the center of the PeO-
pies Russia, was that women, coat
less, hatless, were everywhere, work
ing alongside the men at the various
committee headquarters.
do m vote as well as work."
/ asked Vladimir Perazitch, head of
the press bureau of the Soldiers and
WOrkmens' Union.
"All over Russia, in all meetings,
women are voting with men," he re-
sponded. "In the new Russia, they
will vote equally with men,
That was the first real news of
the future l got after entering the
famous old puma building. But in
the building, amid all the mud, the
dirty soldiers, the hurrying men and
women, / found mines of news. gey-
sers of new thought and floods of new
theories for human government.
Every theory, every belief, every
schism of sociology, every injustice,
every problem of poverty and of af-
fluence and of labor-is being voted
on in Russia today.
Meetings by the thousands are be
Ing held. The Russian people are di-
Viding themselves along the lines Of
professions and occupations and in
their meetings the smallest problems
are brought up. In a meeting of the
washwomen in Petrograd the other
day, for instance, the women went so
far as to discuss their social standing.
I'VE want an eight hour day" de-
clared one washwoman. I'VE want to
have time every day to visit our
friends and enjoy life"
moi MOI" declared the next speak
or. "What we want is more work. {
want to get all the work can do and
work as long as l please. l have no
friends to visit"
"That woman is wrong" declared
a third, IF we haven't got any friends
to visit, it's because we've had
time to make friends as other people
do. What we need is more friends and
more time to enjoy them"
Utter and absolute free speech ex-
lists; only this could make possible the
infinity of the number of matters that
are being discussed by the people OF
seething Russia. Folks are free to
talk against each other. Only yes
terday, for instance the soldiers OF