The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
BY JACK HOWARD
United Press stan Correspondent


to do with her afternoons.
An afternoon at the theater is
out Of the question, for there are
neither matinees nor matinee idols
A hunt from one end of Moscow to
the other would reveal no dancing
place at tea time.
Five hours Of chauffeuring on a
steam roller, conducting a changing
street car, or laying another block
OF paving stones may be her after
moons amusement, for the emanci-
patton Of the Russian woman has
been completed. Now, it appears,
she is going to start doing all OF
much of the work.
Next to the amount of work be-
ing done by women, the most sur
prising thing to foreigner is the
type of work in which a Russian
maid INDUCES.
Enjoy WELDING a Pick
BuXom peasant women, to whom
work on the farms of their native
Caucasus is drudgery, actually enjoy
welding pick and shovel on some
construction enterprise or railroad.
Ten hours barefooted track-walk-
ing under broiling sun is accom-
plished with all the enthusiasm you
might expect to find in a group of
picnickers.
Any kind of work in which ma
chinery plays a part seems partic-
ularly to attract the young women
out to help prove that two plus two
can equal five.
In Moscow where the reconstruct
ton Of the streets is being carried
on with (for RUSSIA amazing speed
the greater part of the operators of
the American steam rollers are
young women.
That Would Be Utopia
These young Amazons. handle
their machines with all the skill
and enthusiasm of a man at the
helm OF a racing yacht. The more
maneuvering the prouder they are.
A young Russian woman would be
In PARADISE Red paradise-if a
concrete mixer were intrusted to
her.
When it comes to the traffic stu
alton in Russia, the women are the
only chauffeurs who seem to realize
that it is possible to drive a car
under sixty miles an hour.
Unlike the men, they have dis
nOWpFnH
equipped with brakes for definite
purpose. Merely driving a car is not
enough, for the women who have
gone in for mechanics are capable
of applying their knowledge.
Even on Police Force
Most of the Soviet effective look
ing police are women whose muscu.
lar equipment suits them admirably
for any Russian variety of the
third degree" that may become
necessary.
They still retain one feminine
touch, however, they still wear
skirts. A look at some of the buxom
cops sets you wondering what po-
lice brutality might be like in the
land of Lenin.
In the rush of construction and
repair work being done all over
Moscow, many women bricklayers
and carpenters may be seen hard at
work.
May Enter Professions
Probably the time will come when
women will be tossing red hot
rivets from one Russian steel girder
to another. There is something
very business-like in the attitude of
a female MuScovite construction
foreman which suggests that work
is, after all, about the best thing
than can be done during working
hours.
Not all Russian women have
turned to manual labor as a means
of displaying their talents. Many
have entered professions such as
medicine where they are treated on
equal terms with their male fellow
workers.
Dentistry has proved popular field
for the women, and many a Mus
covite molar has stopped throbbing
and aching thanks to some young
woman'S skill.
An unusually large number of
women are employed in the banks
and Offices in work which would APP
e pear to be mans job. In such
work also the women seem to have
more initiative and determination
than the average male worker.
Know They're On Trial
They seem to realize that, in the
eyes of the rest of the world at
least, they are on trial and they
are bound to prove that there are
few things for which they are not
suited.
The Russian theater also has at
tracted a large number of women.
They may be found working in all
the various phases of theatrical
production.
No matter whether a woman is
working with her brains or her
hands, she feels in Russia that she
is playing a real part in a great en-
terprise which depends for success
on the cooperation of thousands of
people like herself. Feeling thus
about the situation it is easy for
women workers to keep up their in
tereSt and enthusiasm naturally.
Next: Shopping in Moscow has its
problems.