The Washington herald., 1921-12-19
RUSSIAN POLITICS
QUIET FOR time,
SPEAKER ADMITS
Woman's Party Tea Group
Hears Miss Lucy
Branham.

PRUSSIA is politically quiescent
for the moment" declared Miss
Lucy Branham, before the gather
ing at the fourth Of a series Of in
ternational teas at the headquar-
tiers Of the woman's party yester-
day afternoon. She has just re-
turned from that country. where
she was the only American woman
to travel through the Urals with
the Martens commission.
There Is no vigorous feminist
movement" she said. There are
no active political movements
everything Ia at q standstill-that
Is one OF the appalling things in
the Russian feminine situation.
The Industries which are essentisi
to the production and transporta-
ton of food are shut down because
the workers in them cannot work
without food. Millions Of people in
Russia are living Ia the face Of the
knowledge that they will die with
In a month. Children cling together
and weep instead of playing. It
10 all too big . problem for other
than government relief. The wom-
on Of Russia begged me to urge the
women Of America to secure speedy
help from the government of the
United States, and II IL that mes
sage that am delivering wherever
/ can In this country.
Women Active In Affairs.
The women of Russia are or
ganized in housewives leagues and
in professional and trade-unions.
There il a woman head of the de-
partment of social welfare. Nine.
Kalontai. who also presided at .
national convention meeting which
was held last summer in Moscow.
Mrs. Leonard is one of the most
active women in the educational
movement, both for children and
adult education. Women are prom
inent in school faculties and
boards: they act rs doctors in the
maternity hospitals and have In
general large opportunities because
the basic idea of Russian education
is sex equality and co-education,
she concluded.
Chinese women are rebeiling TO
the point Of suicide against the
old traditional position Of women
In China and are Joining the uni
versal movement Of women toward
education, usefulness and freedom
according to Nine. Tsailwan Tyav.
wife of the secretary to the Chinese
delegation, who spoke at the tea.
Chinese wsae. stlAents.
Three hundred thousand Chinese
women are studying in the schools
| Of China" said Mime. Tyav. and zoo
Of the 1000 Chinese students in
America are women. 1t 10 inevita-
BILE that as women secure education
they demand and secure greater OPP
portunities and greater freedom In
their personal relations. There are
| now women doctors in my country,
| women nurses, women In business
and the banks. and even women
aviators. Everywhere you hear the
| demand for the emancipation OF
women. and that demand 10 sup
ported by some Of the most infiu-
entail papers In the country.
THE right to choose their own
| husbands 10 gradually being Sc
cured by all classes Of Chinese
women. and rather than submit to
the old marriage arrangements
many young Chinese are commit
ting suicide.
I'VE are not only working in our
| own country. but in the interna-
tional activities OF women. The
wife Of the President of our re-
| public and the wife of a former
| prime minister are leaders in the
women's Red Cross in China
Miss Maud Younger, Legislative
chairman of the Woman's party
discussed the State equal rights
bill. which will be introduced into
nine legislatures converting next
| month.