The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-23

itself is the best confirmation Of our
assertions, it is hoped he will come
home-or stay-as entirely won over
as Harold Wares first contingent One
of his group of youn Dakota farmers.
who went over hopelessly ignorant
and seemingly incorrigible, came back
an ardent convert, and gave most
convincing practical talk before
large committee, of varied sympathies,
at st. Paul. That is the double 40
complishment of many of these indus
trial projects,-they help the Russians
and they educate us. Most of all he
appreciated the education given the
workers of Russia, and regretted his
own inadequate command of language
in trying to give an idea of his expert
ence over there. To return to our pas
sengers, both these young Russians
are fine, energetic, wide-awake and
well-educated~ fellows, able to give eff
ficient service to Russia, and as both
are Jews, it is natural that they should
feel an enthusiasm for the only coun-
try in which the Jew is accepted on
his merits, and hardly with consci-
BUSINESS as to whether he is Jew or
Gentle.
Another passenger, a band-master of
fifty or more, is returning to his fam
lily after eleven years in America, dat
ing from the year before the war. His
wife, it seems, has well-off connec-
tions and "Nep' inclinations, but he
her is to be used in making more
money. From Germany, he will take
musical instruments as a gift to Rus
STA. His young daughter, tho able to
go to a "Nep" school, scorns to do
so, and his son writes him that there
are millions of youths like himself
ready to die for the Russian idea. And
so it seems that both the young and
the older are rapidly coming under the
new influence, some in the midst of
the marvel Of reconstruction-some in
spired from abroad, in spite Of all dis
couraging propaganda.
July 10th.
Mail goes off tonight from Copen-
hagen, where we merely anchor and
send off the Danish passengers. Our
concert was a great success both ar
tistically and financially. Our young
'cellist and forcer counter-revolu-
tionary Russian violinist playing annie
ably together. This artist fought in
the White Army in Russia, and was
twice "stood up against WALL" but
now he thanks the Bolsheviks aboard
for a complete conversion, and says
that if Russia would pardon him and
invite him as an artist, he would rejoice
in giving his art for mere living,
and renounce hope of further Ameri-
i can profits. Indeed, it is remarkable
what this small group include all
radicals aboard the boat-has acorn
plished in winning sympathy and in
terest for Russia. The concert was
preceded by the traditional Captains
dinner" and followed by dancing and
punch into the small hours. Inciden-
tally, we collected good sum to send
the heart-sick deportees back where
they came FROM" to use the hospit-
able phrase so popular in the u S. A.
The guinea-pigs were not in
noculated after all, by either method,
for with so many brilliant minds on
board-not least in debate, Comrade
Coleman's,-a series of discussions de-
veloped in a broad range of subjects,
and ragged daily in the bar-room. In
the course of these, a reactionary
American lawyer expounded ably
capitalist law, tho he did not call it
that, and barred the word economic"
from the discussion; and it took some
ingenuity for radical to avoid the
word and "get over" his points.
Some Of us inferior people-this is
not the mock-humility II may sound
feel as if we have been having lib