Special Cables From The Journal- Chicago Baily Ne Correspondents
NATIONALIZATION
OF
RUSS WOMEN
WAS ' MERE -JOKE
Report Had Its Inception in Fa
cetious Article Published by a
Humorist in Petrograd. '
THE IDEA PROVOKES MIRTH
Possibility of Such a Thing Com
ing to Pass Creates Only
Laughter Among Both. Sexes.
Bjr Isaac Don Levine.
Special
Correlhtlefie of
Tb Chicago
The Journal
New.
and
Stockholm, Sweden, July 8.
"Are yau nationalised ?' ,
With this question on my Hps I
started out the first day of my ar
rival in Busl to ascertain the truth
regarding the story of the national
lzation of women in Russia, widely
circulated abroad.
The reception that thl question jot
from the first lu women inai i pui n
in wa.fi mixed. Some were thoroughly
tnAimant. heinr entirely Irnorant of
th vim about the soviet nationallxa
tlon of women which the western world
has spun and cultivated. Others were
amused, expressing their wonderment
how any Intelligent person could ever
credit such reports. But none, not even
the two daughters of an out and out
bourgeois, who have nothing hut hatred
for the soviet regime, would admit that
a decree for the nationalization of
women has ever been promulgated by
the government
BU8SIANS LAUGH AT II
As soon as one finds one's self in Rus
sia In 4he company of the fair sex. the
tory of nationalization of the Russian
women appears as a huge falsehood, so
ridiculous that one cannot discuss It
without mirth. People simply will not
take you seriously U you try to delve
Into the matter. At least noooay iook
me seriously when I pleaded that It was
Important for the American public to
know the truth about It. I probably met
as many as a hundred women In all
walks of life durum my stay in Petro
grad and in Moscow. I spoke to fac
tory girls, to stenographers, to domes
tic servants, to students, to Idlers, and
finally to the Galli-Curct of Russia,
Neihdanova, the prima donna of the
Moscow opera, but all my efforts to find
any nationalized women were in vian.
PKODTJCT OF HUMORIST
How did the fairy tale of the nation
alisation of women originate? There
was a humorous weekly In Petrograd.
It was hostile to. the Bolshevikl and to
the Soviets. It had some clever writ
ers on its staff. One of them, upon the
promulgation of the soviet decree sim
plifying marriage, conceived the wea
of going a little further and outlining
a decree for the nationalisation of
women. This product of the fertile im
agination of a clever humorist was duly
earried abroad and translated and pub
lished In Breat Britain as an autneuww
government proclamation. v
Perhaps from the point of view of the
eld Russian order of life, the sovjet
marriage decree was a startling nov
elty. But from the American point f
view there Is nothing
ical about it, The full
cree, promulgated undeir the signatures
president or "
strikingly rad-
text of the de
rt f nin and the then
central executive committee of the sov
lets, Sverdlov, follows a
CIVII, MARRIAGES klECOGMZED
Thi Russian republic henceforth rec
ognises only civil marriages.
"Civil marriage Is performed in ac
cordance with the following regula
tions: . .
Th net-sons desiring to contract a
anniv thnr nersonally or
1 1 1 a I IQRO pf " - - -
,h-n..h a written declaration to the
section for the registration of marriages
and births at the city, district, county
or village administration board of their
place of residence.
"Note. Religious marriage, contract
ed parallel with the compulsory civil
marriage. Is the private affair of the
marrying persons.
"2. Declarations of Intentions to get
married are not accepted :
'a) From males under 18 years of
acre and femalea under 16. In trans
Caucasla the natives can contract mar
riage when the groom is II and the
bride is 13. '
"(b) From direct line relatives, full
and half brothers and sisters.
'(c) From people who are married,
and
"(d) From demented persons.
SO JfXlBE STATEMENTS TAKEN
; "3. The persons wishing to marry ap
pear in the section for the registration
of marriages and births and declare
under their signatures that the above
prohibitions are not violated by them
and that they contract the marriage
of their own free will. Those who are
found guilty of making intentionally
false statements are held criminally re
sponsible and their marriage Is declared
void.
Upon the affixing of their signa
tures, the director of the section regis
ters the marrying couple and declares
the marriage legally performed. The
marrying persons are given the free
dom to determine whether they should
go under the name of the husband, the
wife, or their Joint name. In testimony
of the event of the marriage the mar
ried couple Immediately receive a copy
of the marriage, certificate."
WHY DIVORCES WERE MANY
Indeed, marriage In soviet Russia is
not much different from marriage in tne
United SJtates. The same Is true of the
home. A communist's home differs lit
tle from that of a bourgeois, unless it be
by the fact that the communist lives in
a flat furnished not by him. I had the
eood fortune of falling into a typical
Bolshevist home upon my arrival In Pe
trograd. My host was the youthful com
mandant of Beloostrav. a Petrograd
factory workman of Finnish 'origin, 24
years of age. He had been married for
three years, but had not been divorced
even once! And this in spite of the
comparative ease with which a divorce
can be obtained in soviet Russia. In the
first months there were hundreds of
thousands of divorces in Russia, almost
exclusively among people who had been
unable to separate legally under the o;j
regime. But things soon stabilised, and
now the number of divorces is surpris
ingly law.
APARTMENT WAS SOT XOOTED
The home In which J lived In Petro
grad was situated In one of the finest
apartment houses In the '".
merly belonged to a woman of the demi
monde, whose picture still adorns. the
reception room of the house. It was
luxuriously furnished. After the coming
of the Bolshevikl Into power she es
caped, leaving the apartment in charge
n . u,int That was more than a
v m . www- - .
There were tnousauas
year ago!
of
others who did likewise. The surprising
thine about it all is that these apart
ments have not been looted. It was
amazing to find the dishes, the rugs, the
paintings, the grand piano, the many
leather chairs and leather is a precious
article in Russia the silver and even
the bric-a-brac untouched. Every arti
cle In the house had been registered and
tagged. The same was done with the
other houses. Altogether 3000 such
dwellings, mostly deserted by their own
ers, were taken over by the govern
ment, and workmen from tenements and
basements moved into them.
One Is not allowed to occupy alone a
whole flat or house. If a family of
three, for example, had a home of eight
rooms, the government would requisi
tion three or four of these rooms and
allot them to eome 'needy persons. In
the six-room . flat which my host occu
pied, paying 400 rubles a month ($200)
to the city treasury, as all houses have
been municipalised, there dwelt three
more persons. One of them was a
brother of the hostess. Another was
Kuslnn, one of the leading members of
the central executive committee of the
Finnish communist party. My first
evenlnr in Petrograd I met Sirol and
Rahja, two other members of the same
committee, and to my great surprise
found myself in the midst Of the Fin
nlsh reds, who have been described
abroad ae the terror of Petrograd.
BED PINNS ARE GENTLE
The so-called red Finns, instead of
beina? terrorists, turned out to be the
gentlest of men. Slrola and Kuslnen,
former members of the Finnish Socialist
government, were not afraid to state
their disapproval of some of the Bol
shevist measures ana aeciarea mem
selves to be only recent supporters of
the soviet idea. To claim thai these
red, Finns run Petrograd. as Helsingr-
fors would have the world believe it,
is. absurd. Perhaps if they did, Petro
grad would be the better for it. For
they are much mora moderate than the
Russian BoisneviKi.
DISPUTED CITY IS
THE JUGO SLAVS
Marburg Incident, by Which' Eth
nical Boundary Is Disregard
ed by Allies, Seen as Menace.
ITALY RESENTS THE. ACTION
Letts Want to Buy-
Flour in Stockholm
Americans and British Rally to
Support of French in Uphold
ing Claims of the Jugo-Slavs.
At that time it was the residence of
the powerful provosts of Martinmas. In
1634 the property became the feudal
duty of Frederick Henry, prince of Or
ange. After having changed proprietors
a few times the house became the prop
erty of the wall known Dutch aristo
cratic family Lebouchere. The extent
of that property Is S77 hectares (13 $4
acres). Meanwhile the former duke and
eHichess .of Brunswtck have bought a
big residence In The Hague, where they
intend to establish themselves in Octo
ber. The former" ? uchess is Victoria
liouisa of Prussia, daughter of the for
mer kaiser, who in 1913 was married to
Uuke Ernst of Brunswick, grandson of
IClng George V of Hanover. Dutch
newspapers now warn against the pacific
invasion of Holland by dethroned Qer-
man princes.
Ambitious Program
Announced by Party
Of Young Japanese
By Ersest W, Clem"
Special Cabla to Th Jonmal and The Ch)cao
Daily X.wa.
tOepyrisht, by Chlcaso Dally Newa Ca)
Tokyo. Japan. Sept. 6. Forty prom
inent publicists and rising young men
have organised for the purpose of re-
By Banett Dlgby
Special Cable to The Journal and The Chicaco
uauy news.
CopyTihO 10ie, by Chicaco Daily News Co.)
Stockholm. Sweden, Sept. 5. The
American supplies in Lettland having
proved to be gravely insufficient, the
Lettish government's representative here
has asked the Swedish government to
permit the purchase of flour in Stock
holm from her state stores and from
private persons. The harvest in Lettyl
land haa been delayed because of cola
and wet weather and Riga is confronted
with famine. Small pox and other dan
gerous diseases are also harrying Riga.
By Paul Scott Mowrer
Special Cabla to The Journal and The Chietzo
taily New.
(Copyright, 1919. by Chiracs Dally News Co.)
Paris, France, Sept. 5. The' Mar
burg Incident seems to have thrown
confusion into the final deliberations
on the Austrian treaty. Marburg is
a town of 30,000 inhabitants, mostly
German Austrians, and is an Import
ant Junction point on the Trieste
Vienna railway. It lies on the north
bank of the river Drave, which, ac
cording to American experts, marks
a natural ethnical boundary between
the German Austrians and the Slavs.
The Jugo-Slavs want control of this
function and also want the Marburg
Klagenfurt railway, which runs
partly north of the river.
The original text of the Austrian
treaty provided a plebiscite for the Kla
genfurt region. This provision was sud
denly withdrawn and then put back
again and still stands.
Signer Tittoni made a formal pro
posal to extend the region of the
plebiscite eastward to include Marburg,
which everyone agrees is a German
town, but which the treaty has accorded
outright to Jugo-Slavia.
The American and British delegates
tromrtly suDDorted the Italians. The
French, representing Jugo-Slav Inter
ests, made counter proposals tending
to extend the zone of the plebiscite so
far southward into territory inhabited
by Slavs that a Slav majority in the
plebiscite would be assured.
Last week, to the amazement of the
Italians, the British and American dele
gates rallied to the French viewpoint,
thus practically insuring Marburg to the
Jugc-Slavs. The Italians express the
fear that if this position is maintained
nothing can save the Renner government
In Austria, for the Styrlan and Carinth
lan deputies, to the number of 37, have
given Renner & warning that if he does
njt obtain -the German towns of Klagen
furt and Marburg for the Austrian re
public they will vote against him.
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Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm
Buys 'Heus te Doom'
For Permanent Home
KCL
By Leopold Aletrlno
Special Cable to The Journal and Th Chicago
Daily rewa,
(Copyright, 1919, by Chicago Daily News Co.)
Amsterdam, Holland, Sept. 5. The
fact that the former German kaiser has
bought the country house "bues te
doom" near Amerongen in order to re
side definitely, in Holland has stirred
Dutch public opinion. Holland has al
ready paid 20.000 guilders (J8000) since
November, 1918, for watching the e
kaiser and is wondering whether the
costly foreigner will remain a charge of
the Dutch government for a very long
time. It is understood that the ex
kaiser will not remove to his new resi
dence before the late fall. The house
remains unaltered. The "huis te doom"
is a very old manor-seat dating from
the early part of the fourteenth century.
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