The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-20

t1onaP. 1t was beautiful and rather
gorgeous sight, all the boys and
girls with their gay red neckerchiefs,
many in abbreviated gymnasium suits
with their great red banners, noticed
in gold, and surmounted by the ham
mer and sickle, enclosed in a flame
shaped hollow metal frame; and ming
led with them the young excursionists
Jointing with equal spirit in the
ceremonies; and in the background
on one side, shaft with a statue of
Marx, symbolizing, as it were, the new
faith, and challenging on another side,
the old faith, symbolized by a pic
turesque little old domed village
church.
After several addresses, and many
exchanges of salute by word and lifted
arm, the working-men went On to their
excursion grounds, and we left them
and the Young Pioneers, in order to
join others in the Moscow suburbs:
but not until we had visited their
Lenin Memorial House, in it's little
fenced apple-orchard, with lawns and
fiowerbeds about the house, behind it
an open-air theater and back of that
again a football ground. Within the
house, on each side of central hall.
with a large portrait of Lenin facing
the entrance, were library with read
ing table and literature and a visitors
book, and work room with exhibits
Of various kinds of art and handwork
of the young people. From there we
caught the train, and enroute back
to town ate the huge slabs of bread
and butter that our hosts thoughtful
wife had provided for us.
At the Moscow Station, we were
met again by the Soviet car and driv-
en- out to the Lenin Hills, where one
formerly went for well-ordered even
ing meal and to see the place from
which Napoleon had shelled Moscow.
The old restaurant is in ruins, and
the whole locality has been taken over
for a peoples playground, and spe-
officially for great stadium, which in
hope at least will be built in the triple
of terraced wooded hills
that follow the bend of the river, gay
with clusters of row-boats. Washing
the Kremlin walls, the Moscow River
sweeps out in great curves through
the country, and from these vantage
hills, one looks out across two curves
Of the river to the domes and towers
and walls of Mother Moscow"
The green plateaus and wooden ter
races were alive with Sunday pic
nickers. The Young Pioneers had or
ganized the day,-as they have or
ganized the place. Concessions have
been leased to Nep providers, which |
helps to pay expenses and to start |
fund for future development. Kiosks
are scattered about and we had milk
and cookies in an airy pavilion. Far |
of on the green, we spied a group |
Of red satanic imps, who as we drew /
nearer, proved to be dancing-group of |
workers children, who have been
taught by the children of the Duncan
School. Only now and in this way has
lsadora been able to begin to fulfill |
her dream of carrying her art among
The people, for her struggle for exist
snce Gas an instructor) has paralelled
The struggle of the Soviets, and hear
1T the School the tale of the struggle
md hopes and Heterogeneous and
he courageous persistence which
have been hers. Out at the station,
.hese workers children gave a dance
there on the green, of
he international" while another large
group sang with the band "con
lmore." Here too. we found the in
'vitable open-air theater, though to-
lay nothing dramatic was offered. In
stead, all the different groups were
themselves quite independent
y with ring-games, ball, gymnastic or
owing, and finally forming in military
inc, each with its own banner and
lrumS. and each leaving nj lie ouyn