Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

that every COOK ought TO be able 10
A rule the state"
This message may be a Utopian
ideal 1t may be statement of hope. But
there is no pronouncement from the mouth of
any Communist leader in Russia which is being
taken more seriously today TrotSkys sister,
Nine. o. D. Kameneva, rose to one OF the
most responsible positions in the Soviet gov
eminent chairman of Voks (Society for Gull
tural Relations of the u. S. s. r. With Foreign
Countries. Scrubwomen and feminine factory
workers sat in the All-Sovet Congress few
months ago, politically and socially the equals
of those holding high executive offices.
No longer, Russia pronounces, shall womans
interests be Subordinated to mans At first, for
some years after october, 1917 it was possible
to organize only the active feminine elements,
those women who had participated in one or
more of the three revolutions, active plotters-
mental or physical ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
Charlotte Corday or her somewhat gentler Sis
tiers. But today actual observations, bolstered
up by irrefutable statistics, show that amazing
advances have been achieved. A Russian new
woman" is growing, differing radically from her
American and British sisters
Deliberately, the Russian government is ele-
waiting women to responsible executive positions,
even though it candidly anticipates many
CHASTITY failures. But the government realizes
that advanced political and industrial executive
experience can be acquired only in the. process
of the work itself and frankly admits that the
advantages received from this will fully COM
pensate for the failures of ineXperience in ele-
waiting women to responsible positions" That's
the slogan and the belief.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY is OBJ
served each year in Russia on March 8. 1t
s not day for parading of the Pankhursts
and Carrie Chapman Cats 1t is day of cele-
hrat ali Qualification of no
mentS of the ordinary peasant woman, the girl
in the mill and of the woman who sweeps the
streets.
A woman in Russia today hasn't much chance
to remain just woman. She must become
citizen; not passive participant in society and
politics, either. She is coaxed coerced
dragooned, educated and almost forced to dis
play capabilities which Soviet rulers inspired
by Lenin, believe are more innate in one sex
than in the other. Russian women now COM
pose approximately one-quarter of the mem
bership of factory committees one-sixth of the
membership of arbitration commissions and at
least one-tenth of the membership of the CEN
trail committees of the Soviet Union.
Communal kitchens are springing up in
nearly all the large industrial centers I'VE
make it our goal" says Nine. Kameneva
ito free women from the drudgery of the
kitchen by establishing large, modern communal
kitchens and dining rooms" There is an Or
ganlZeQ SIaCe struggle against homework. OF
course, the system of communal meals is yet
insignificant, compared with the needs BY
a fve-year plan it is arranged that the system
shall extend throughout the industrial centers
of the whole Union. During the last few
months 81 large dining establishments have
been constructed, nearing completion,
which involve an expenditure in excess of
$10000000 Early in this year there were
1000 dining units in operation, serving
more than 100000 dinners a day, and this num-
Der has probably been at least doubled since
then. In February five large steam kitchens
were in operation in the great industrial centers
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Rodniki Nzhi Novgorod
and Dnieprostroy. The director of one of the
largest establishments is a woman, and most
of the personnel of this and similar kitchens
are also women.
u USSIA is not content that these rights for
women shall be available only for those of
Slavic stock With thoroughness really Teu-
tonic this problem of equal rights is being
tackled among the Oriental races which are
now included in the hundred different national
tiles that come under the rule of the Soviet
Union. Turcomans and Uzbegs must bow to the
principle of equality. The Adjerbaipani
women have for countless generations worn the
chadra which is more conceaing than the
Turkish yashmak as it covers the whole figure
as we'll as the head, leaving only small OPEN
ings for the eyes. The Uzbeg men, from time
immemorial have enforced on their women a
net made of hair. through which the wearer
can see and breath only with difficulty. Special
commissions have been organized in Moscow for
the abolishment of these and kindred devices.