The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-09
BY JULIA BLANSHARD,
Stan Writer for MA Service and
The Times

Stan Writer for MA Service and
The Times.
Copyright. 1881. NEA Service. Incl
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 Gags, state
bureau for vital statistics, the Soviet
state concerns itself with his health
1t suggests his diet, inquiries about
his surroundings, care and "cul-
tural 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, baby girl had the name
Of Eiectrifkatsa meaning electri-
fication, part of the Five Year
Plan).
Mai and Maya, from the revolu-
tionary month of May, and Kim,
contraction from the youth organi-
cation, Komsomole, International,
abound.
In a single grade of school I
found three Ninels, a name arrived
at by spelling Lenin backwards In
South Russia the journalist, William
Henry Chamberlain, saw roly-poly
baby girl named Diamata, short for
Dialectic Materialism!
Young Govern Selves
Even little first graders in Rus
STA have their self governing little
Soyiets I visited a grade at Ros-
tov, composed of shaved headed
little tads in home made 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 mini
num-"
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
Built Own Macadam Road
outside Moscow, on the road to
Leningrad, the traditional cobble-
stone country road is broken for
about 300 meters by a smooth maca-
dam road which is a children's
colony, built by themselves a year
or so ago, with no help from adults.
Down in the Ukraine, little IL
year-old, tow-headed, barefooted
Vanya, escorted us with pride over
a brand new orchard Of tiny apple
trees that he and his schoolmates
on the cooperative farm planted
because the nation needed more
apples.
Your child in Russia would take
his beliefs very seriously. Neigh
borhood groups often haze 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?"
Reaction is Tip-Off
AS he reaches over to identify
this last, the taunter will point his
finger at him and cry aloud, "Oh,
Jockey. he crosses himself, he be-
lieves in Cod"
The manner 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 Stains 9-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.
Special attention is likely to de-
velop self-consciouSness or even
self-importance," was his eXplana-
ton.
The children looked clean, we'll
nowished, neatly dressed and alert.
Most Of the boys had shaved heads
and had Russian blouses outside
their trousers. The girls wore wash
able dresses, or colored blouses over
dark skirts.
Exarvoua TS RuSv