The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
By JULIA BLANSHARD Stan Writer for NEA Service and the Democrat, Sent to Soviet
 Russia Especially for
This Series

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 Youth is one of the first concerns of Soviet Russia. You, as an elder, might live on cabbage soup, but your child, or children, would have meat stews and even sweets. Russia looks to the future. not the past.
 From the moment little Ivan is born and registered at Zags (the state bureau for vital statistics) the Soviet state concerns itself. with his health. It suggests his diet, tn- quires about his surroundings, care and cultural life," peers up his nose for adenoids and down his throat for tonsils.
 Enthusiastic Communist parents give their children names that have meaning in the new order. In the apartment house where l lived in Moscow, a girl baby had the name of Electrifitkatsa (meaning identification, a part of the Five Year Plan). Mai and Maya, from the revolutionary month of May, and Kim, g contraction from the youth organization, Komsomole h. ternational. abound. In a single grade of school I found three Ninels, a name arrived at by spell ing Lenin backwards. In South Russia the journalist, William Henry Chamberlain. saw a roly- poly baby girl named Diamata, short for Dialectic Materialism!
 Even little first graders in Rus sia have their self-governing little Soviets. I visited q grade at Ros- tov, composed of shaved-headed little tads ine homemade washable suits and bobbed- -haired little girls in dresses or. calico aprons, and found their Soviet checking up to see which boys and girls had and which had not enforced in their own homes the schools "sanitary minimum" This consisted of daily washing the face, neck and ears, hands and teeth, changing all his clothes for clean ones when he had his bath, undressing when he goes to bed and hanging up his clothes to air. and taking part, along with his mother, in trying to rid the home of flies, reaches and bedbugs.
 
 In August it was the three or ganizations children can join vol untarily, the Octobrists (tots from babyhood to seven years); the Pioneers Corresponding to our Boy and Girl Scouts), and the Komso- moles (boys and girls from 14 to 25) who organized an arbor day celebration.
 They marched to the tune of their own bands for hours, carry ing banners. Let Us Greenify Moscow and Make It the Most Beautiful City in the World!" ThSy passed out pledges to every child they saw urging him to sign his vow to plant at least 10 trees in the next five. years.
 Outside Moscow. on the road to Ileningrad, the traditional cobble- stone country road is broken for about 300 meters by a smooth ma cadam road which Is a children's colony, built by themselves a year or 50 ago, with no help from adults.
 Down in the Ukraine, little 12- year-old, tow-headed, barefooted Vanya escorted us with pride over q brand new orchard of tiny apple treos that he and his schoolmates on the cooperative farm planted because the nation needed more apples.
 There are junk weeks" "ashes weeks" 'scrap-iron weeks" "old rope weeks" during which the Pioneers gather certain quotas for the Soviet factories.
 Your child in Russia would take his beliefs very seriously. Neigh borhood groups often haze a new conner.
 "Where is your forehead?" one of the group will ask the new child. He indicates it. Where is your stomach? ?" He points to it. Where is your right shoulder" He puts his finger on it. Where Is your left shoulder" As he reaches over to identify this last, the taunter will point his finger at him and cry aloud. "Oh, lokey. he crosses him self, he believes in God!" The man. ner in which your child reacts to this would have much to do with his immediate acceptance as one of the group.
 One day I visited the Moscow public school where Stalin's nine, year-old son attends the third grade. The principal, dignified despite his shaved head, patched shoes and worn gray suit. said they never pointed out the child. "Spe- cial attention is likely to develop self-consciousness or even self-im- portance." was his explanation.
 The children looked clean, well.