New-York tribune., 1922-12-10


I Two real workmen would have done
a. much As afteen Of us. Clothes
are torn. We arc covered With dirt. eE.
hausted. some are wounded and lonicd.
As reward Re receive 2 quarter Of a
pound Of bread. Aad what breadl Al
this Is necessary for the re-establisn-
nent Of the economic lie OF the na-
tion. Long live tho Wise government
and the head Of Petrozrad-zinoyievl
sleep Il only solaee
We 70 home, worn ov,. AZ home VIC
must cook the food, II there are pro-
visions; cook II there Is fuel-oftea
there Is neither. When you get through
vl,h al this Il Is time 70 20 to lecture.
On returning from tho lecture ! And
that to-day IS M turn to be Waterman
A. tie gates. an 70 watch FROM II
20 8 an.
After getting home from the uni
vrsity 10 60 sleep. There is 10 light.
II an unable 70 90 anything, there
fore orc can only sleep. This dark
ness 10 more terrible than anything
else, more terrible than cod end even
very likely worse .han hunger. Il op-
presses, arrests every possible effort.
nakes work impossible. The only SAL
vatlon-is sleep. Bot it Is impossi.
bic 20 sleep from ?. m. 10 10 a. -.
You lie by the hour, thinking Of one
thing, then another. Your are glad Il
you have a lecture In the evening. u
sho-tsns this wearisome lying in bed.
Like bears we do not live, but hiber-
nate In = kind OF coma. However
there Is no evil without some good.
Such a lying in bed eonseryes energy
and in time OF hunger IL Is oxpediei''
Zach calory r. taken into rceount
A. midnight 70 70 the gates. re-
e.ive the keys from ny predecessor
The street 10 dark and dead. Only now
and then an automob!ie whirls by or
sor,ewfere . shot is heard. a dead
eity. There is nothing 20 60. Il 81 dull.
As diversion beZiu % pace before
~, house and count ihe steps, then /
81. on the eurbs.one AID try 20 think
about Nigh matters" Sometimes l
look n the few lighted windows of the
heuss opposite. A. times I nm the OBJ
rerver Of more interesting scenes.
Mex. :, our house Is a girls asylum.
fr our house there arc many sailors.
4. times between and . IN the morn
ins In the next house the door woald
opea sad drunken sailors would be
thrown ou.. Al times during the rsris
hours the girls would kaoek 90 the
gates and pass into the sailors quar-
/ ters. They we're scarcely mose than
thirteen or fourteen years Of age. Tails
was tie experimental del.ruetion o.
bourgeois prejudiees.'
! At 3 o'eloez wake up H. successor,
give Mn the keys and 60 % bed.
Death Gets Every Assistance
We are dying-disappesring. A. s.
Lappo-D -Danilevsky, y. \. Rosiae, A. v.
Pokrovsky. Khvostoy, InostrAnsev and
: .iany o,hers arc TO more-some from
.yphus, others from starvation and
others still from "eempulsory lrbcr'i
e.hers committed suieide. They lacked
The strength % live. Poor InostranIsv
I looked like q ghost for long time.
Finally there was 70 bread nor fael
nor strenR.h. when his vie died he
took cysnic acid IN the room VITA tie
corpse. For the youag Il is eadurnble.
There is hope In the futuse. But fos
the cid, who have everything ia tic
past, what Is there 70 wait foE? Why
Ago? ]. Is hard 20 I've, bu. Il Is ELL
has ,ss to die.
Il 10 not 50 easy 70 bury the de-
ceased. Threo or four days ere spent
In getting The permit. Il is necessary
TO secure a eofFn. the sleigh and people
TO drag tho sleigh o. % the cemetery.
After great pains O.. last we found
cofin FOR K. Bu., alasl it proved too
short. Wha. we're ve 70 do1 Il is i'm
possible 20 place the feet. The corpse
has grown stiff ard cannot b, bent. We
we're compelled 20 ask aid Of the rsedi-
cal s.udents. I. Is easior 70 &c. the
Gieigh. There Is still enough strength,
80 We pulled the sleigh oursslvel. Tic
mass for the dead, the funeral service,
tho burial without long speeches or
rites-these are 10: n harmony With
the surrounding conditions.
The furersl is ever snd silently we
walk home. We die 70 quickly that we
arc unable TO learn In time about each
death. Il "a only al univerlity faculty
meetings that one hnds himself "well
informed" Il Is not a meeting of tho
faculty, but some kind OF an under
takers bureau. Each meeting begins
With the announcement of the death
cf hvo or six among Us and with O
tribute TO their menory. In truth.
death works we'll
s. ROYn I'm Mr. and Mr.