Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
MRS. HARTMAN REPORTS:
Peace Plea Is Heard
Everywhere in Russia
BY SID GOLDBERG

BY SID GOLDBERG
North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK. July 25.-A
persistent, almost desperate,
plea for peace-in Moscow,
Yalta, Kiev, Tashkent, Stall
ingrad-is reported by Mrs.
w. Averell Hartman after a
month-long journey through
Soviet Russia.
Russians of all ages and
all occupations, in every city
/ visited, pleaded that when
I return to the United States
I should carry the message OF
world peace. The requests
were made so often, and so
persistently, that they would
have been tiresome-if not
for their obvious sincerity"
she said in a two-hour inter-
view at the Hartman home
Just off Central Park here.
"Of course I assured them
that the American people are
equally DESTROYS Of peace"
she added.
Ruling Glass"
Her husband, the former
New York Governor and war;
time Ambassador to Moscow,
fully agreed. 1T seems the
average Russian has a deeply
set belief that there is a 'rul-
ing class in America which
for some reason wants to
make war on his country"
he said.
Though the charge, of
course, is absurd" he added,
"it underlies much of the
thinking on world affairs by
the Soviet man in the street,
whose only access to news is
the carefully controlled Com
munist press and radio"
Although the peace plea"
is what impressed Mrs. Har-
riman most during her visit,
her first to Russia (she re-
manned in the United States
doing war work during her
husbands Enthusiastically.
she also was struck by the
status Of women under the
Soviets.
Almost all the women
work, and the young mother
has a vigorous life" she said.
Here's her daily schedule:
up early in the morning,
cook breakfast and make the
beds, take the children to
the community nursery. take
the bus or subway to the
factory or Office, perform
eight hours of work (six
hours on Saturday; then
back to the nursery, bring
the children home, prepare
supper and do the dishes and
finish the houSework.
I'm addition to this" Mrs.
Hartman continued, "the
Russian mother must spend
hours every week doing the
shopping. In Russia this at
times means waiting in Nng
lines for kitchen necessities.
Also she can't stock up on
food because very few Rus
sian homes have even a small
refrigerator, so shopping is a
daily chore."
All Career Women"
Mrs. Hartman pointed out
that every Russian mother is
also a career woman" The
careers, however, are not
those which the American
woman normally would
choose-road building. con-
struction, outdoor sanitation
and virtually every other
type of rugged labor.
IT even saw a Russian
woman cleaning windows
high up on an Office build
ing" she said.
Equality of the sexes" has
been carried so far in Russia
Mrs. Hartman noted, that
the women now are expected
to do more than the men
"They certainly have heav-
Ter work load" she said.
Governor and Mrs. Harri-
man agreed that "job equal
ity" does not extend to the
top ranks of Soviet official
dom.
zach of the city recep-
tions we attended was DOM
mated by men," Mrs. Harri-
man said. THE Mayor in
variably was man and the
City Councils were mostly
male. We met women dep
uty mayors and women who
were heads of health or ed
ucation departments, but We
never met woman who held
the highest city job.
Mrs. Hartman also report
ed that she never met any
of the wives of the top Krem'
lin officials. "Mr. and Mrs
Khrushchev seem to lead in.
dependent careers, and II
Khrushchev throws a party
for foreign visitors it is MOI
considered necessary for hi
wife to attend.
"There appears to be &