"At Least One Child"

Miss Charmion von Wiegand, only daughter of famed Karl H. von Wiegand and, like her sire, a Hearst correspondent, reported last week from Moscow:

"It is to be noted that the average Russian woman, though the state does not demand she have any children, and means to prevent maternity are at her disposal every hour of the day, usually has at least one child."

In the early days of the Soviet regime the mortality among women undergoing in the State hospitals what would be in other countries "illegal operations" averaged 32%. Thirteen years of practice, according to Miss von Wiegand, has reduced this figure to 16%, "a 50% gain in the humane direction since the revolution."

Applications for operations are so numerous that "the woman will be asked to have her child" unless she: 1) is unmarried; 2) already has more children than she and her husband can support; 3) is nursing an infant.

Miss von Wiegand, adept with her typewriter since childhood, described for Liberty last June how she obtained in Moscow, gratis and in a few minutes, a divorce from her husband who was then in the U. S. Last autumn Mr. Hearst gave her a commission as special correspondent in Russia.

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