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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
Letters From Soviet Russia

terrible famine Of 1921, which affect
ed not only the Volga but also the
Crimea, the local workers did their
utmost to repair the havoc wrought
by the whites.
They repaired the electrical power
station. the drains and the buildings
and increased the number Of sana-
toria. The health resort is now in
fun swing.
EMS Of thousands Of sick working
1 men and women from the bench
find rest and health here during the
season. Here you will find miners
from the Donetz basin, Moscow tex
tile workers and metal workers from
the Urals. Over 1000 persons have
gone thru one department alone of
the health resort during the spring
and summer season. And we have
hundreds of beds of the Central In
surance Administration, as well as
trade union and factory sanatoria,
etc.
This is how we have converted the
former czarist and bourgeois Crimea
into proletarian health resort. Our
industry here amounts to repairing
shops to mend the health of the
workers OF the Union of Soviet Social
list Republics. And from here they
go to take part with renewed
strength in the building of the edi.
fee for the creation of which every
one of US is working-the edifice OF
a World Workers Commune.
THE workers who belong to the
Third International Club" are
principally workers employed in the
sanatoria and vineyards, and also
members of the Medical and Sanitary
Workers Union and of the Land and
Forest Workers Union. Comrades, we
would like to correspond with you
regularly. We will ask you to tell us
how you live and work, and we TOR
our part will endeavor to tell you
about what can be OF interest to you
concerning our life and work. We
will tell you how we learn to live
and construct our life according to
new methods, getting rid Of all the
relies Of the old social order.
IkTE win exhibit your letter to our
Wv club and we will send you all
the answer to these letters. In the
dark days Of bourgeois repression,
let the knowledge that the workers
Of the Soviet Republics are always
with you and that true to the injunc-
tons Of Lenin they are holding high
the banner of the first workers and
peasants republics, put courage into
your hearts.
Awaiting your reply,
With fraternaI greetings on behalf
of 1000 members of the "Third Inter.
national Club"
Luba Gendina, secretary Of the
management board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
YaIta, Dec. %, 1924.

NEAb OOMhAOEO. Recently
- closer connection has been estab-
lished between Russian and foreign
comrades. l would like to tell you
how we lived before and how we are
living and struggling in our Soviet
country.
On the other hand, we would like to
get better acquainted with you and
to know all your joys and troubles
for altho far away you are our
brothers whom we remembered thru
all our struggles.
TO be united one must know each
other, one could not do better
than correspond with one another
Our desire to do so is very great, and
am sure that you will agree. Not
only the workers of big factories who
are the most class conscious people
among us, but even the peasantry and
the rank and file workers of the So
Wet Union are anxious to keep in
touch with the workers of western
countries and to share their thots.
hopes and experiences.
COMRADES, if you consult the map
~ you will find among the vast ter
ritcries of our republics right in the
south in the middle of the Black Sea
a little peninsula called the Crimean
Soviet Republic. In it's most south
ern part there is our famous port
Sebastopol. and not far from it, the
health recort Yalta famed for its
beauty.
Our club is in one OF the streets
of Yalta, which you would probably
not be able to discover with the help
of magnfying glass.
The Crimea deserves its appella-
tion-the pearl Of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. All the year
round it is flooded with bright sun
shine and washed by the green waves
Of the sea. All the year round it en-
chants people with the beauty and
magnificence of its mountains, its pan
Drama and its luxuriant vegetation.
1t is the best place imaginable for
rest for recuperating ones tired or
ganism.
NUR czars and capitalists knew
~ that full well. Magnificent pal
aces, villas and parks are to be found
all along the shores of the Black Sea.
They belonged to those who oppressed
and sucked the blood of the people
from Nicholas the Bloody down to his
lackeys, the dukes. earls and capital
lists.
The Crimea had longer and harder
fight than other parts OF our country
for its liberation. The white bands
of Denikin and Wrangel abhorred by
Russian and foreign workers alike,
made the Crimea point d'appui in
their struggle with Red Moscow. and
had in this the support of the British
and French fleets.
And it was only after the fierce
struggle which lasted three years that
our Red army defeated these bandits
in 1920, drove away wrangel and
handed over the Crimea to the work
ers and peasants OF the Soviet I'm
ion.
THE Crimea became at once a pro-
l letarian health resort where the
workers of the Union of Soviet Social
list Republics can recover their health
after the long years of war and fam
inc and devastation. The palaces and
villas formerly the pleasure ground
Of handful Of debauched parasites.
were converted into sanatoria and
rest homes for the workers.
The Soviet government granted
large sums of money and the neces
sary personnel to make these health
resorts fit TO provide rest and recup.
Grafton for the sick In spite of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

TRANSLATED by Simon Felshin)
Brother!
The mountains CLEAN,
Fragrant are the trees,
You came, to call me, and / am
going.
Brother!
Oh, yes:
Our hearts are one,
Our hearts are one,
Our lungs are one,
And the blood too is one,
The hot, the rebellious-our
blood.
Brother!
You gave me your hand,
And l feel the contact:
How the veins throb,
How soft and smooth it 10,
And clings to mine.
Brotherl
For the hand Is not a single hand,
1t is the hand of all humanity:
A voice that calls,
A word that rings,
A hand that leads,
I am going Il am going
Brother!
l have no more body,
1 am only word light as a fame,
1t scars. scars into the FAR
infinity.
Brotheri
In mems hearts there scars,
In slaves hearts there tremblea
A blaze setting afama sss.sI sss
The chilling hearts,, = eee
BrotherI
My brother in the fight,
In pain,
In rebellion,
In struggle,
You stretched out your hand to me.
Brotheri
We stride forward on stony paths,
At the head Of daring rebel armies,
You, I, we: the slaves
Into infinity
We slaves march,
We conquer in the fight,
In fever; out of black slavery
Into the land of eternal light.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
BROTHER!

(Answer to a letter, a poem-or 10 1t
my heart? do not know)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
BY JOHN LAssIN.

- SN HNSO''N.
TRANSLATED by Simon Felshln)
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-01-22

CTo he continued)
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-01-22
MI. AU RENOlRi

am compelled, for reasons connect
ed with railway and steamship
schedules ana other relentless condi-
tions. to leave this land without visit
ing many places which bcckon to me,
among them Safcd, and some of the
Jewish settlements near the Sea of
Galilce | must also omit the settle
mcnts in Upper Gailec which stretch
to the Syrian border and in one of
which. Tel-Chai (IIill Of Life) | was
told an epic struggle had taken place
shortly after the Armlsticc between
the settlers and band of Bcdouins,
in the course of which great Jewish
hero, Joseph Trumpcldor. lost his life.
They are already weaving legends
about this mans name.
But Trumpcldor is not the only hero
who has given his life in the rcdccmin-
Of his people The people of martyrs
has given birth to new generation
Of heroes, Of whom many have al
ready made the supreme sacrifice.
| want to set down, in passing, that
one Of my surprises in this land Of
many surprises, has been the virtual
absence of what heard so much
about before | came here, namely, the
Arab problem. In the agricultural
settlements particpulnrly there seems
to be no trace of it, The relations
between the Jews and the Arabs here
are cordial and mutually helpful
| am in Jerusalem again TO entrain
for Alexandria and 10 say farewell and
an reyoir know that it will not
bc long before shall obey the i'm
pulse to visit this land again | feel
certain that when | come again | shall
hardly recognize the land because Of
all the new life that will have grown
up in it, especially, in the case Of the
colonies. For nowhere is the rcjuycn-
utirR Of the Jewish body and spirit so
profound as in the colonies where they
come into direct contact with the holy
soil.
acknowledge that I am leaving n
land 10 which | belong, that ! feel as
if am deserving it. but | find com
fort in the sight of those who remain.
for | am going with the kncwledgc.
that | am leaving it in good hands !
am departing for other lands with tn"
resolution to dedicate myself, rs others
have done, to the great work that lies
before us in the new Palestine.
Crhe EndD
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-01-22
Pen Pictures of the NeU
Palestine
by DIR, JOSEPH SILVERMNN
Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel,
New Norl, City
NJ TIE VALLEY OF ACHIEVE
MENT

NJ. TIE VALLEY OF ACHIEVE
MENT
This little land Of Palestine, this
stretch OF barren, sunbakcd hills and
plains, Of marshes to he drained and
deserts to he watcrcd- this amazingly
varied little land. Is like powerful
lens which has drawn to focus the
deepest longings and hopes Of the
Jewish people. Jewish life here Is
tense, It is firmly rooted, 1t imprcsscs
one like some decp-plnnted tree which
grows ana spreads out slowly, cease
loSsly, irrcsistibly l am moved to
write this after visiting number of
the latest Jewish settlements in this
famous Valley of Jczrccl.
They have almost all sprung mp since
1870, these dozen or 50 settlements.
They have come to life since the Ma
ti0nal Fund bought this large tract Of
fifteen or twenty thousand acres, since
marshes and cleared the rocks. and
since the Kcrcn lIaycsod was able to
advance the money with which 10 put
up houses and barns, TO buy machinery
live stock and other necessary things
These Emck settlements, as they are
called, are the first fruit of the new
regime under the British Mandate, and
there is something about the spirit of
these settlements, of these resoute
men and calm women, not different
from that of the others, hut If pos
sible more intense, proudcr and moro
determined
| 4 feeling of impotence comes over
one at sight of the contrast between
| the blooming new and the dcsolatc old.
How long" | asked, must ii take
before all the rest of the Emck and all
the rest of Palestine will he covered
with Kfar-Ezckicls and Balfourias and
Nahalals?
II used to be impatient myself,
said my host. Before 7 settled down
here. New | am perfectly calm. Every
day brings it. tiih Of work and
| know that there is only one thing tt
do-to do the task thoroughly. The
rest win take care of itself"
This new settler has already beer
endowed with the proyernial patience
of the old peasant!
The Denver Jewish news., 1925-01-22
The ReaWakening
by NJ, NJ DOITTZKN
From Niddish, translated by j. II.
Boucher
Continuation
wmNr ms ooNr nrronr.

Nuhhi Goldfciu Is poor RABBIT living In
the Jewish quarters of pdcssu. lie Is Just
recovering from uu attack nf grippe, partly
due ta his cNcrtiuus IN aiding the refugees
that were flowing into the city from the
path uf the cputrudiuE Irmics German and
Russian. in the World war.
one Of his sons, Juscph, Is in the army
Another son, BIruch. had embraced chris
tiunity In Moscow, where hr vHs attending
the University aud married very wealthy
Russian girl, Nuthsha. News Is brought Ia
Rabbi Goldfcin that Joseph l. dead. How
ever. Joseph has escaped.
Joseph had attracted the attention Of
q rich Jewish girl, Rchccca, living Ia Odes
50. whose parents. however. were out OF
sympathy with Judaism sud were trying
to marry her to u Russian uohlcmIn, She
had had q quarrel with her parents about
this marriage and had determined 10 leave
home.
Natasha aud Bnruch had called To see
the parents Of Rnrueh In odessa Bnruch
had met with a cold reception aud was told
his brother WIS dead. u" lett the housr,
returning to Nutusha, who awaited hun In
the street
Evening star., 1925-08-25
Warmth in Blankets.

We now know that the warmth in
blanket doesn't come so much from
the kind of fiber used in it as the way
the material is treated. 1t is the air
spaces on the surface of the blanket.
the "fuZZiness," in other words, as
we'll as the closeness of the weave un-
derneath, which makes a blanket
warm and comfortable.
Do you remember that bitter cold
morning last Winter when you got up
to close the window and as the icy
blast Of air rushed in you spied Just
outside on the bleak, -incrusted
branches a fluffy little chickadee
chlrping bravely to the whole shiver-
ing world? And as you crept back
into the snug folds of your blankets to
wait for the frozen furnace to come to
life, your heart swelled with pity for
your little feathered friend just out
side the glass. You thought he was
so cold.
AS matter of fact, he was warmer
than you think. Don't you recall how
he sat huddling himself into a verita-
BILE downy ball of feathers? And It
wasn't the feathers themselves so
much which kept him warm as the
hundreds of air spaces between the
feathers which shut the cold out and
held the heat of his little heart within
This is Natures great heat-conserv-
ing secret by which she protects her
outdoor family against frigid weather
1t is not alone the feathered songsters
abroad in the empty, snow-buried
woods that benefit by this arrange
ment; but ali the fur-bea ring animals
have a buffer" against the cold in the
form of soft inner fur under the shag-
gy outer coat, which is literally infiat-
ed with millions of tiny air cells
1t is not surprising that blanket
manufacturers have developed machin-
cry to treat fabrics in such "a way AS
to simulate Natures construction.
The same principle holds in blan-
kets. We strive to get as deep or
lofty" a nap as possible. and this nap
or tangled mesh creates millions of lit
tie pockets" of air which keep the
cold out and the warmth within.
Anything which tends to mat down
br flatten this nap reduces it's air con-
tent, and therefore its warmth. That
is why blanket manufacturers tell US
that more blankets are ruined by wash
ing than are ever worn out in use.
The damage may not be easily seen.
the color and pattern may not run"
or fade, but if the nap has been fat
tened much of the usefulness of your
blanket has been lost. A few laundries
try to correct this by using a curry
comb on the blanket after washing
but this is not to be recommended, be-
cause II ia hound corr1h ol1r "a pood
Evening star., 1925-08-25
My Neighbor Says:

Have a brush especially for
scrubbing both pastry boards
and tables. Wash and wipe dry,
and be careful not to allow
dough to accumulate in the
cracks.
Do you ever, in making sugar
cookies, take the rolled-out
dough. spread one-half with pea
nut butter or Jelly, then turn
the other half over and shape 1t
nicely. then bake as usual, and
when 1t Is done cut 1t in squares?
Try 1t. The best ones I have
made resulted when I thought I
had nothing for filling, and I
had to plan. / mixed two table
spoons Of cocoa, one of butter
and two of sugar. They were
fine.
After cooking cabbage or any
vegetables that have a disagree
able odor, sprinkle a little ground
cinnamon on the top of the
stove and all odors will disap-
pear.
A mode of ascertaining the
freshness of eggs Is to hold them
to the light. If an egg looks
clear, it is good; If thick, it is
stale. If there is a black spot
attached to the shell 1t Is worth
less.
For busting furniture, par
ticularly If 1t Is at all elaborate
in design, there is nothing bet
ter than an ordinary paint
brush. The bristles cannot
scratch the surface, and they
remove the dust from the cram
MES and corners better than a
dust cloth can possibly do.
Evening star., 1925-08-25
Room for Children.

There seems to be no room in the
world for children-that is, people
never provide any space for them.
That is the stupidest thing we can do,
ignoring that fact that the world is
for the children, that we are allowed
to live only for their sakes, that all
we do and all we have is only for
them.
Take the case of two young people
building their house. Do they ever
make provisions for the children who
are coming? Rarely. In some houses
YOU will find plans for the nursery
but in most they ignore the posi-
bility of them. So they are born into
a grown-up's house. Everything in
it is built on the adult scale, away
out of proportion to his height and
I7ower and understanding.
The first thing a baby needs to do
is to clutch things. And the first
thing he is told is that he is not
TO touch them. The two laws con-
f1ict and the baby usually gets the
permitted to clutch everything in
sight. But he ought TO be in a place
where he can touch almost everything
in sight so that his days need not
become a procession of donts.
When he gets old enough to start
outdoor explorations there is again no
place for him. He can't dig the lawn,
he can't mess up the back yard, he
can't play on the nice porch mats.
He can't take to the streets because
they are unsafe. Even the sidewalks
are not safe for the children to walk
upon.
The older the children get the less
room there is for them. Go out
and play" says their exasperated
mother and there is no place to play.
Nobody has kept place for the chill
dren. You would think that they
were an unexpected happening, just
came along when nobody was looking
or expecting anything of the kind.
Now this sort of thing cannot go
on. 1t is time people made room for
children. 1t is time that the home
life and the school life and the COM
munity life We're planned. with the
view Of making place for the chill
dren who We're to occupy them.
There is no sense in building a house
for a child and then shutting him out
of it that grown-up person may
have more space. That is what we
Evening star., 1925-08-25

Not only does the woman of today
expect to have clothes that are easy
to put on. She insists on having
clothes that are easy to keep in the
pink of condition and clothes that are
not difficult to pack. She has no pa
tience with snappers and hooks and
eyes that need to be reinforced; she
is not very eager about elaborate
pleats unless she Is assured that they
are of the permanent sort.
A very large number OF women
have rebelled against lingerie ribbons
that have to be put in after every
laundering. One thing that makes
the costume slip such a popular sub
stitute for the petticoat is that it needs
no buttons. strings or other fasteners.
Even hairpins seem to be fading into
oblivion-at least the number Of wom-
en- who regularly visit the barber is
still on the increase. Shoes, too. have
felt the present-day demand for
clothes that are easy to put on. The
high shoe is. so far as fashion is con-
cerned, quite thing Of the past. And
even the oxford fails to find many
followers. We wear pumps and slip
pers that have at most only two but
tons or buckles to keep them in place.
Evening star., 1925-08-25
HOW 1T STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
Parchment and It's Name.

We are all familiar with parch-
ment and it's imitation parchment
paper from their use in making lamp
shades and for other decorative pur
poses. The original use of parchment,
however, was strictly utilitarian, the
genuine and original parchment being
the skin of a sheep or goat, which
men in an early period of our history
prepared for material to write on.
The invention Of parchment is
credited to Eumens II, King Of Perga-
mum, in Asia Minor, in the second
century BIC, the circumstance being
the prohibition by Ptolemy of Egypt
of the expectation of papyrus, the
cotemporary writing material. In
other words, the invention of parch-
ment was the outcome of the Egyp-
tian conservation of home products!
The manufacture of parchment rose
to great importance in Rome and its
use spread all over Europe and con-
tinued until the invention Of paper
made from rags. 1t is from it's birth
place, Pergamum. that the, name
parchment" is derived, through the
Latin 'pergamina," and subsequently
the French "parchemin."
Evening star., 1925-08-25
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Beware of the Male Cat.

"All women are cats" the men tell
US complacently, and some of us are
foolish enough to let this remark go
unchallenged and undisputed.
Certainly there are a great many
members of our sex whose claws are
kept busy from morning to night
and they're, very definitely, people to
be avoided.
But don't ever get the idea that
cattiness is a trait peculariar to
women alone.
Don't let any one make you believe
that all men are big-hearted, frank.
trustworthy souls to whom you can
confide the innermost secrets of your
heart.
So often girls have told me of
their great fear of being betrayed by
their girl friends. I'VE can't trust
our girl chums," my readers tell me.
But it's ever so easy to believe in
our boy friends. They seem so much
more straightforward and honest in
their dealings"
In a recent article I pointed out
that boys are rather more apt to
stick to their word than many of
the modern girls-but l certainly
didn't mean to convey the idea that
you could expect to find them all
models of virtue and honesty.
There's nothing more dangerous in
the world than the man who is a
cat.
He listens to your frank criticisms
of Doris Anthony and then rushes
off to give her an earful of news
about your conversation.
He comes to your house, makes
himself as charming as possible TO
your family, and then entertains his
f,-of fn,- h,-1% a
the amusing time he had kidding
those funny old fossils-your people,
If you tell him that you're particu-
larly keen about some friend of his
and ask him for some advice on the
subject, he's apt to be very sympa-
thetic and helpful about it ALL.
Then later when he meets the OBJ
ject of your affections he's more
than likely to say: "Oh. Ted, An
gela's got frightful smash on you.
The poor kid told me all about it
last night. She's a funny little thing
not very attractive-but she gives
me a lot of laughs"
He can't bear to have any piece
of information go unpublished. He
lives in a constant atmosphere of
intrigue.
You will recognize the male cat
immediately-the instant a boy begins
eating" another girl to you you
may be sure that none of your Sc
crets are safe with him. No decent
boy ever discusses a girl disagreeably
with another girl.
Once a boy sets out to be a cat
he's a lot more efficient than his
feminine cotemporary.
He will make things frightfully un-
pleasant for you, If you take him
into your confidence. He can cause
you more embarrassment and annoy
ance than almost any other kind of
pest. And you may think all the
time that he's one of your very best
friends. Watch carefully and at the
first sign of gossip on the part of
one of your men friends beware of
confiding in him.
The male of the species is more
deadly than the female.
Evening star., 1925-08-25
Our Children-By Angelo Patri

are cod 1stantly doing. we are forever
trying to share the world with the
children and keeping 1t all for our
selves with the benign thought of
leaving it to them when we die
that Is, when we can't help ourselves.
Some day there will be a building
law that makes it impossible to have
a block of residences without proper
tionate play space. Some day it will
be impossible to build a town without
providing adequate place for children
to play and bathe and grow in. And
it will be quite out Of the question
to build a community without pro-
viding roomy school buildings with
acres of ground for the children. The
children's part of the scheme will be
laid out first and the grown-ups will
have what is left. l hope.
But if you build a house make place
for the children. And don't go to a
community that has no Fairgrounds,
no schools that are not on part time,
no home grounds where children can
play. They are no good for your pur
nose.