"Particularly Happy"

Smoking long Russian cigarets, there returned to Manhattan last week Dr. Mildred Fairchild and Dr. Susan Myra Kingsbury. Nine months ago Dr. Fairchild was sent to do research on "Women Industrial Workers in the Soviet Union" by the American Russian Institute of Manhattan. Dr. Kingsbury accompanied her.

Said comely Dr. Fairchild: "Under the new order of things the women and children seem particularly happy. During the day, while the working women are busy in factories, they leave their children at day nurseries called 'yaslies' managed by the factory or by the Government. The children are in charge of men and women with specific training in child psychology. No profession is barred to a mother. Many women are skilled laborers and artisans, some are engineers and factory heads."

Said crisp Dr. Kingsbury: "The incentive which fires the Soviet worker is not desire for Money but desire for Power. Power and influence accrue to a worker, man or woman, who holds a managerial position, such as director of a textile factory or designer of bridges and so forth. Graft and corruption, if existent, are certainly well hidden. The most stringent punishments are meted out to the dishonest by the Soviet Government."

Both doctors repeated with insistence that "Russians like black bread," claimed that their interpreter, "a member of the old Russian aristocracy," so greatly preferred black bread to white that she invariably refused the latter. "She even carried small pieces of black bread in her handbag, for fear we should get to a small hotel where they would have only white bread."

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