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VOLUME XXVI, No. 174
Bolshevism’s Greatest Horror—the
“Nationalization” ot Women
Peggy Hull Finds the Infamous Decree and Its Tragedy In a
Tiny Siberian Town
(By Peggy Hull.)
With the Allied Armies In Northern
Siberia.
Pigs squealed, a hen
cackled, a baby was
crying. I turned
over in my sleeping
bag and opened my
eyes trying to re
member where I was
It requires a lot of
mental gymnastics
to jump from a
farm in Kansas to a
village in Siberia
which has just been
besieged by the Bol
sheviks. I accom
plished it gradually
as I took in my sur
roundings.
The room was
fairly clean for a
Russian housewife.
The floor was bare
but showed the sat
isfying results of
many scrubbings.
pzccnr kuul
The walls were un
papered but bits of crocheted and em
broidered pieces were tacked here and
there, and a couple of colored pictures
represented Russian festivals. An icon
hung in the corner at the foot of my
sleeping bag. It was smaller and less
elaborate than the ones I had seen in
the homes of wealthy Russians in Vlad
ivostock.
beds in Home almost
A SIGN OF PLUTOCRACY.
Two beds occupied one-half of the
small room and l judged the other half
was used as a living room. There was a
round table covered with a gay cotton
cloth of red green and yellow and a few
trinkets of cheap china. I came to the
conclusion that this peasant home was
somewhat better off than the majority.
The beds alone were almost a sign of
plutocracy. An armful of hay and a few
rags constitute the average peasant's
sleeping quarters.
A rap at a door interrupted my musings
and i overheard an eloquent flow of
Russian. Then a familiar voice said
something in French and 1 knew Major
G. P. Morton had come for me.
I scrambled out of my bag, pulled on
my boots and hustled into my tunic and
I was dressed. It would be useless to
comb my hair, because my fur cap cov
ered it completely.
The little old Russian woman who had
been my hostess for the day was enter
taining the major and a Russian officer
In the kitchen.
I discovered the pigs immediately.
There was a large one and eight little
ones. They nosed around the tiny room
stopped on the major’s feet and the old
pig tried to root him out of her way.
A hen was setting on a nest of eggs
in the corner and a baby was fast asleep
on the brick stove!
WOMAN TELLS STORY
OF BOLSHEVIK TYRANNY.
With the Russian officer acting as an
interpreter, madam told us her story,
which equaled in tyranny anything that
ever occurred under the monarchy.
At the first uprising of the Bolsheviks
her husband had been visited by a com
mittee and told to take up arms against
the "bourgeouise” or die. He refused to
fight against the people who had done
nothing to incur his enmity.
The committee went away and three
days later madame, who had frantically
searched for him throughout the village,
found his body, face downwards in a
little forest at the edge of the town.
There was a bullet wound in his back.
Throe sons had died on the eastern
front during the first year of the war.
The only one left had been on a trap
ping expedition when his father was
visited. l r pon his return the same com
mittee called on him. It was either
fight or be killed. He left his wife and
baby with his mother. That was over
a year ago and they had not heard from
him. He was probably dead.
And the daughter-in-law—where was
she?
For the first time the old lady's voice
faltered. Tears welled up in the faded
eyes and tumbled down her wrinkled
cheeks. She brought from a ho* a folded
paper and handed it to the Russian of
ficer.
He glanced but once at the printed
Fage and his whole expression changed.
had admired his laughing eyes and his
debonair ways. They had vanished. For
the first time in my life I looked upon a
man with murder in his heart.
BOLSHEVIK PROCLAMATION
OF WOMAN'S ENSLAVEMENT.
"It is a proclamation issued by the
Bolsheviks,’’ he said, “they base their
excuse for it upon the grounds that it
represents the principles of true social
ism This bit of paper destroys the
sanctity of the home and the sacredness
of motherhood. It uproots the ideals of
civilization and puts us on even a lower
plane than animals for they can choose
their mates and fight to keep them.”
Translated, the paper read as follows:
"All women between the ages of 16
and whether married or single are to
become/ the property of the state, Im
mediately.
"Each woman will receive 250 roubles
per month for her services and will be
available for four hours out of each 24.
“No man will be permitted to remala
with a woman longer than two hours.
"In cases of prospective childbirth wo
men will be released from service three
months before confinement and for one
month after. At the age of three months
the child will be turned over to a home
grovlded by the state in which it will
e cared for by experienced nursee and
reared as the state desires.
"Married women who are within the
age limit will not be exempt from ser
vice and their husbands will be permit
ted to visit them once a week ”
There were many other provisions of
which I cannot write and which the Rus
sian officer refused to interpret. But I
knew madame’s daughter-in-law had
been swallowed up in this, the latest and
greatest horror or all the horrors Inaug
urated by the Bolsheviks
Her baby began to cry. and madame
hurried to the brick stove. Major Mor
ton folded up my bedding roll and we
went out of the little home painfully
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
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(UNITED PRESS.)
conscious of our inability to offer one
consoling word.
You have read of the anarchistic
and bolshevistic degrees enforcing
"nationalization” of Russian women
—making them sexual slaves, sub
ject to the will of their autocratic
masters.
And perhaps you have heard these
decrees denounced as "forgeries"
gotten up by the allied governments
to discredit the Lemne-Trotzky Bol
shevik government.
Well, Peggy Hull, American girl
reporter and most noted of woman
war-correspondents, found the same
decree enforced in a tiny Siberian
village which had passed into con
trol of the Bolsheviks, and she sent
to the Augusta Herald an exact
copy of the decree signed by the
"Saratov council of anarchists"
which has previously appeared in
these columns, and which, no matter
by whom it was issued, has been
used by the Bolsheviks to force wo
men into unwilling "free-love,”
E. ROOT URGES 1
DIVORCE FOR IRE
TREATY—LEAGUE
Washington.—Former Senator Root in
a letter to Republican Leader Lodge of
the senate, made public today, strongly
urged separation of the league of na
tions from the peace treaty, recommend
ed adoption by the senate of the Knox
separation resolution and favored adop
tion by the senate of reservations to the
peace treaty.
The principal treaty reservations pro
posed by Mr. Root relate to American
action under Article 10, the territorial
guarantee clause, the Monroe doctrine
and for withdrawal of American from
the league by its own action and with
out consent of other nations.
Mr. Root declared the Monroe doctrine
clause ,4 erroneous in its description of
the doctrine and ambiguous in its mean
ing," while the new provision for with
drawal leaves a doubt whether th<* na
tions could not be kept “In the league
indefinitely against our will."
The ratification reservations recom
mended by the former secretary were:
"(1) In advising and commenting to
the ratification of the said treaty the
senate reserves aqd excludes from its con
sent the tenth article of the covenant
for th«> league of nations, as to which
the senate refuses its consent.
“(2) The senate consents to the rati
fication of the said treaty reserving ar
ticle 10 aforesaid with the understand
ing that whenever two years’ notice of
withdrawal from the league of nations
shall have been given as provided In
Article 10. no claim, charge or finding
that international obligations or obliga
tions under the covenant have not been
fulfilled, will be deemed to render the
two years' notice ineffectual or to keep
the power giving the notice in the league
after the expiration of the time speci
fied In the notice.
“(3) Inasmuch as in agreeing to be
come a member of the league of nations,
the United States of America is moved
by no interest or wish to intrude upon
or interfere with the political policy or
International administration of any for
eign state, and by no existing or an
ticipated dangers in the ffairs of the
American continents, but accedes to the
wish of the European states that it shall
join Its power to theirs for the preserva
tion of general, peace, the senate con
sents to the ratification of the said
treaty, excepting Article 10 aforesaid,
with the understanding that nothing
therein contained' shall be construed to
Imply a relinquishment by the United
States of America of its traditional at
titude towards purely American ques
tions, or to require the submission of its
policy regarding questions which it drains
to be purely American questions, to the
decision or recommendation of other
powers.**
‘This reservation and tttes* expres
sions of understanding,” wrote Mr Root,
are tn accordance with lon*r established
precedent in the makinp of treaties.
Hhen incruded In the instrument of rati
fication they will not require a reopen
lnjr of negotiation but if none of the
other signatories expr**ssly object to the
ratification with such limitations, the
stands as limited between the
United States and the other powers.
GEORGE C. NEWBERRY
PRAISES NAVY LIFE
Geo. C. Newberry, non of F. H. New
berry. of the Merchants Bank, who has
been in the Navy for the past two years
i? “‘“lf tor a short furlough from the
U. S. S. Nevada, stationed off Philadel
phia. Mr Newberry now holds the rat
ing of gunner's mate, and has visited
many of the large ports of the world.
.. Saturday Gunner Newberry visited the
Naval recruiting station over the Dream
land Theatre, and told several present
of the benefits he had personally deriv
ed from sea life, and of the many ad
vantages the Navy offered Mr. Newberry
said In part: "One could not buy the
valuable experiences I have had dar
ing my ‘cruise - In the U. S. Navy. It Is
a most healthy life, also Thn Atlantic
fleet is to visit this summer the Pacific
Coast and the Hawalan Islands, and to
those Joining now the opportunities of
fered are unprecedented."
THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMEITM* ONE PAPER IN MOT HOMtt>
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1919
Make This the Pleasantest
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Fashion Dictates
That the silhouette must be
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IS
Tn the new
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Fabrics
Sheets
72x99 Sheets, $2.00 me an
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10x4 Isirkwood Sheeting, or
Special - ...... /DC
Cases
45x36 Hemmed Cases, 60c value, ir.
for HOC
45x36 Hemstitched Cases, 60c an
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Remnants Table
Damask
2 to 4% yards in piece, value 75c to
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DAMASK TABLE COVERS
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Foulards, Tricotrinea, in attractive striped
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ora, 81-60, 3L25 and 3L98 values . . UuC
Fancy Voikos—in light and dark colors, In
small dainty patterns, and Large no
floral designs, values 85c and 31.00 D3C
Figured Organdys, plaids, stripes, checks
and flowered patterns, 69c and 76c in
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Colocsd Voiles, all Tight colors. large and
small values 50c, r,9r and an
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Chaffin—in the newest, colors and oQ
patterns, 32-in. wide, 50c value. diJC
Gingham 32 Inchon wide, 50c value nn
for 33C
Novedty Whit* Voiles—Self plaids and
stripe* and embroidered, value* to js
75e, for HjJC
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Continuing Our June Sale of Sewing Machines!
At Price* in E ffect Only a* Long a* These Machines Last.
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HANDKER CHIEFS—
A SALE!
Handkerchiefs
Make
Dainty
Graduation
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LOT No. 2.
Novelty Hdkfs.
Embroidered and hem
stitched edges, in white
and colors, 19c f C
values I vC
LOT No. 4.
Hemstitched Lawn
Handkerchiefs.
Embroidered and cord
ed. white and colors e
10c value DC
LOT No. B—FINE SWIBS HANDKERCHIEFS—Mem stitched and daintily embroidered tn romeni,
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A Sale of Dainty Wash Frocks
Offering Extraordinary Advantages in Price
Ifff 1
A J\ Ja i V I QB fn
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A ' M
$4.95
Linene, Gingham and Chambray
Dresses, including a small number of
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pockets. All are smart new styles,
just what one needs for morning wear
on the vacation at mountain or shore,
and are values up to $7.50 each.
Other attractive Summer Voile Dresses - ....... .$12.75 and $16.50
Standard
(Dfwonrtr»t>ow)
$28.00
600 Dozen Handkerchiefs, for
men, women and children. A
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Come early Monday for these
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Sharp!
59c {
LOT No. 5.
Children’s Hdkfs.
Hemstitched lawn, plain
and colored embroider
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TT: 10c
Gingham
Dimity
Voile
and
Linene.
fectrve in styling, and are practical and eco
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LOT No. L
(0 dozen Madeira Handker
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embroidered, a charming va
riety of icrveiy design% values
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LOT No. «.
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Of cambric with H-tn.
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4 for
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1 A special purchase
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King
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$36.00
Hemstitching and Picoting, 10c, 12c, and 15c yard—Needles and Parts
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LOT No. 8.
Hemstitched Lawn
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Very sheer, corners em
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and colors, 16c vaL I UC
LOT No. 7.
Ladies’ Pure Linen
Handkerchiefs.
Soft finished sheer
quality. 36c nr
value tuC
$14.95
A charming assortment of attract
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Singer
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