The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-04

that cannot be wiped out. AS time
passes these impressions become
stronger until they evolve into perma-
nent amazement.
In the two and one-half months
that spent in Russia | never walked
down business street, thru a resi-
dence or factory section or a boule-
ward without finding myself saying
How happy and free from worry
these people are!" And, rs there any
bookstores outnumber other business
establishments three to one?"
1t takes some little time for one to
discover what makes the atmosphere
of a Russian city so different from
that of an American city. 1t is. not
the architecture nor the soft sound
of the Russian language spoken by
a crowd; it is not the absence of glar-
ing billboards and electric signs;
neither is it the total lack of regi-
mentation in style of costumes Zone
sees on the streets of Moscow every
thing in the form of clothing from
the Young Pioneer clad in nothing but
bronzed skin and pair of red trunks
to the exotically brilliant habiliments
of Bokhara and Turkestan) it is not
the beautiful pastel shades of the
buildings nor the constant clamor of
the bells Of the hundreds of churches.
1t is something far more fundamen-
tai than any Of these, something that
begins far down in the lives of the
masses themselves and that is a re-
suit of deep feeling of safety COM
pounded of two factors-the knowl-
edge that the wealth of Russia be-
longs to the masses and there is no
Boss in Russia; it is the feeling of
security manifest in every act and
utterance of the workers.
Do not get excited about anarchy,
dear comrades. OF course there is
boss in Russia, very stern and re-
lentless boss as more than one dis
turber Of revolutionary order will tes-
tify-if he is still in this vale of tears.
This boss is a many-headed and many
handed ruler-he has indeed morg
heads and~hands.than any other fhfeH
the world. has yet ,sesn-he is axdS1i
posite Of the working masSesss
Russia and he is therefore a SrtfiSF7'
whose onlysSnbiects-the remnants9l
the capitalists and petty bourgeoisie:
become fewer every day. AS he loses
subjects his power Increases
strange ruler but then there has been
a revolution in Russia.
1t takes, as has been said, some lit
tie time even for a Communist, to
get this matter straight but once the
key is at hand there is unlocked a
marvellous storehouse of information
and little incidents of the boulevards,
cafes and street cars reveal the won.
ders that Russia, 1924, has for the
observer
II you can think in terms of coun-
try without a boss in the shape of
capitalist state power you will i'm
mediately see that many things must
be done differently. For instance: a
crowd that gathers to listen to a
heated political argument (and all
arguments in Russia are political
generally about international politics
these days. between two factory work
ers and in which everyone in the
crowd takes part, cannot be dispersed
by policeman who comes up and
says. "Move on or I'll run you inlT
However, crowds that block traffic on
busy streets cannot be tolerated in
Moscow any more than they can in
Chicago so sooner or later police
man Ga very young and spick and
span policeman saunters up. He re.
monstrates with the debaters but no
one pays much attention to him. Then