| Show O P POSTS T T TO I U But Easy Divorce and I t t FI jauntIng Flaunting 0 0 of f R Religion e 10 0 j i Keep Many Indorsing IIi In- dorsing 2 r By Press I V y ARSAW 1 ARSA V arch The I.-The IV Russian oviet government I carrying on campaign to secure Secure the support of Of- throughout Russia according to refugees from Moscow l Mme Radek Hadek I 1 twite wife of Karl Radek Hadek the chief Boshe- Boshe vI agent In Germany Is prominent nt u In work oi-i oi an and Is trying to attract the attention of women by having thEm t take positions positions' In the and Lenine Is declared to have made this remark to Mme 1 Radek Ir If Bolshevism falls fails It will be because bet be- be t cause we could not get the mass of women Interested Many l Intelligent S women are reported tto to be cooperating with Lenine and t but lut they point out that It wUI be Impossible to win the support the women as long as as' as religion Is flaunted and as long as divorce Is made so ea easy W t HOPE HELD OUT The soviet propaganda bureau Is lUtting out notices that with spring wll come rood food and clothes They also harp on the prospects for peace as it 1 Is peace above all aH that the women and peasants want 1 Women refugees who have arrived here rarely complain of the general treatment of women under Bolshevik rule In Petrograd and Moscow Ac- Ac to the refugees and reports th re has been no general application of of the much advertised easy divorce tand easy marriage regulations The province of Tula made an attempt to women but nothing came of It The same result followed a simi simi- lar lai decree issued in Moscow W WOMEN MEN REQUISITIONED However women have frequently been heen subjected to mistreatment as aslI ii- ii 0 In the town of Troops of the Red guard arm army when they arrived there requisitioned sixty unmarried women and sixty married women and women of the nobility In i j i the provinces of Volga and Vladimir the sovIets red that men rand women had equal rights and also that if a person of either sex wa was not I married they were obliged to accept the first offer made publicly through selections made by consulting ames posted osted at soviet headquarters The children of such marriages it was decreed decreed de- de creed were to become the property of the state NURSE ALL CHILDREN It J as vas on on this theory it is declared that the childless Mme Ime Kollontay a prominent Bolshevik married Dedenko Del De- De l enko denko at one time the Bolshevik mm- mm aster lster of marine Mine 1 Kollontay believed be- be f that the children of the bourge- bourge olse If educated by the state would grow row up with Bolshevik ideas She also I de a plan to eliminate maternal I I affection by forcing mothers at childrens children's chil- chil drens dren's institutions ons to nurse na tely any children children there who were lot knot their own While was minister minis minis- ter of education Mme Kollontay It Is aId ald was responsible for a number of such schemes SHE WOULDN'T SHOVEL During a heavy in Moscow Mos Mos- cow this winter very every person was obliged to do his or her share of shoveling lIng eling snow In the thc streets Miss Isabelle Isabelle Isa- Isa belle L the daughter of Professor Vincent of the UnIversity of Paris refused to obey t the e order She told the Bolshevik that th they y might arrest her but she would not shovel snow She carried her point but was later advised to leave which she did coming to Warsaw LUDICROUS LUDICROUS RESULT Bolshevik have led to ludicrous results A A. story Is told In connection with the manner In which women servants servants ser ser- do as they please In ij ii bachelor householder tried to disa dis- dis l a charge harge cook but she refused to leave On the advice of a Bolshevik friend the bachelor filed a declaration that he had marrIed his cook lIe then filed a se ond declaration that he had her and lie he was wa then le legally within his rights In forcing her to de de- de part WIVES ARE BEATEN The attempted to please women by establishing centers centers cen- cen in the cities and towns but this was counteracted by the fact that the I closed the stores and nationalized na- na women's clothes The women also held aloof from Bolshevism because because be- be cause of the difficulties the soviet threw around housekeeping The peasant peasant peas peas- ant women were often beaten by their husbands because of the lack of food The wives of the Bolshevik leaders often were openly against Bolshevism owing to the clothes question their new found wealth the women wish to make a display and they also had difficulties in obtaining silks gloves glo and other finery There has been bitter feeling every kind of display and even Premier Premier Pre Pre- mier Lenine who is obliged to use an automobile to go about has been criticised Mme Lillina the wife of th the P commander is one of those who have been delegated to win over o the mothers to Bolshevism She has been making a special effort to get food for the children but has been lug ing a difficult task as food has been I I very scarce |
