The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
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A MOTHER letter comes from the
"A peasants sanitarium in Livadia,
on the shores Of the Crimea With
shrewd political taste, the Soviet gov
eminent has used the old summer
palace of the car not for Soviet Off
cials. nor even for city workers, but
for peasants. 1t is delightfully."- sym
bolic. They are saying, Our officials
do not choose to sleep in the cars
bed, as Kerensky did, thus showing
that he aped the car: neither do we
give it to the city workers. who don't
care whether a bed belonged to the
car or not, if it is otherwise a good
bed. But we give it to the peasants,
the great dark mass of the land, to
show them that they are taking the
czar's place now. OF course, the peas
ant is the one person in Russia now
who can get some real excitement out
Of occupying the czar's palace; it
gives Ivan something to write home
about and tell the gaping neighbors
in his village.
So here is a letter from an employee,
working in the Peasants Sanitarium
of Livadia:
"Crimea, July, 1925.
"In beautiful park above the sea
CLEANS white palace, where for
merly the czars rested from the
groans of the workers. At present
tba naacapta % p,,oofo ract +bara tha
new rulers. Daily in small groups
the patients arrive; now there are
more than 300 people. They arrive
from all ends of this limitIess terri
tory of the United Republics, from the
central states and the far removed
provinces.
Here you can meet the bright
Khalat of the Turcoman, the narrow
face of the Khirgizian, the short cut
hair and basket sandals of the Great
Russian. Various dialects and tongues
intermingle. But finally they are all
washed, dressed in sanitary clothes
1t is not so easy to distinguish them
now; they have become less pietur-
esque and more alike
1.-THE patients like to inquire which
room was Nicolai's and which belong
! "a to the czarina and the grand duch-
esses. With great curiosity they ex-
anime the expensive carvings of fur
niture and walls, the tremendous din
| ing saloon and vast pantries. They
talk and argue how many tractors you
could buy for the village with this
money, or how many new school build
| ings.
Most of the peasants can't get over
the impression of their trip and of
this vast health resort. To them who
have spent all their lives in the dead
villages, in ceaseless labor, it all
seems dream. What it so long ago,
only eight years, when even in dreams
! he could never have seen himself
travelling to a resort for a cure at
the expense of the state and stopping
in the cars palace. Even in fairy
tales they did not have such things.
among the peasants, especially the
older women, there are a number of
believers, but more by habit than con-
viction. They will get up from table
and hastily cross themselves as they
turn around. Then some young neigh
Dor will jocularly remark: See what
kind OF palaces your God built for the
car. Certainly was a kind-hearted
God!' The woman will answer: o
my dear son, more by habit does the
hand pull up. What is life in heaven
if only we can arrange our life on
earth
I'm this way the Russian peasant
regains his health-he who with the
worker is rebuilding his own land.
Working-women Nikolaieva."
Employe of the Livadia Sanitarium,