The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-22
Crew of Dirigible on Way
toNorth p ole Makes Some.
Discoveries at Leningrad
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

Il AM little dazed writes Scott Nearing in the first issue
of The New Masses, telling how, AFTER two months in
Moscow Kharkov Rosov, Tifs Baku and other cities and
villages Of Soviet Russia, have just plunged back into
Boston Providence, New York, New Haven, Philadelphia
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago"
But Nearing not alone. Walter Duranty cables the
New York Times that The crew OF the dirgbe Norge OF
extraordinary section of the life of Soviet Russia in
the first as hours of their stay"
explorer, and Lincoln Ellsworth, the American millionaire
financing the expedition are lost sight Of What the crew
of the dgbIe in the first Workers Republic becomes of
interest. Duranty cabIed to the Times:
"A the TrOky asrOdrome they h Owd told
that they had obtained impression much higher efficiency than
they had expected of the number of we'll clad and we'll
disciplined" part Of the Soviet Red Army
Faded the fairy tales in the yellow press about dis
content and open utny in the Red Army The of the
Norge drops out of the sky and finds the Red Army efficient
and disciplined, the job. 1t is like warning the cap
itaIist world out of which they have come.
And in Leningrad itself! BoIshevk Leningrad! Here
the Norges found the soldiers few and far be-
tween" and "he scanty bue-coated policemen amply
sufficient to maintain order and direct traffic"
Thus in few words the many myths of the Riga Hell
PEELED. No marching unemployed otng hungry, the
Chicago Trbunes kept writer's for instance have often
claimed to the great delight of their paymasers Just ode
everywhere and the members of the slept late in the
magnificent rooms in the Imperial Palace gilt beds,
authentic Louis XVI and Louis XIV and later they spent
evening at the Hotel Europe which, Duanty points out
compares faVoraby with any hotel on this side of the
Atlantic"
Delegations of workers from dozen European coun-
tries of Them like the British delegation constituted
OF the highest officials have visited the Soviet Union during
the year. The press of capitalism has been carefully
silent about the findings of these delegations invariably
favorable to the workers republic Where mention has been
made has been in the form of hyserica attacks. Even
the socialists and their press have joined in the frantic
saught The barrier of ignorance and deception be
maintained The truth must not be allowed to leak out
the workers in the capitalist nations
But was impossible to ignore the passing of the diri
gbe Norge over that part of the world that
workers rule And something like the truth had be told
The Norge at the Trotsy aeodrome Lenngrad means
the of the reading world focused for few days the
metropolis of the Soviet Union is said that trouble
is being encountered in erecting the moorng Sptz-
bergen within the arctic circle Thus the Norge delayed
Soviet SOIL might not be of place wish that the
delay continues yet while. That would enable the Norges
crew to bring back to capitalist lands after their trip
the North Poe something than additional discoveries
in geography They could tell of the social order
that blazing its way the EARTH They might join
with Scott Nearing in declaring:
while gold streams in and of Wall Street there
comes from beyond the Gordon sanae beyond
OF civilization the hiss of the sickle and the cang
hammer the peasants and of the Soviet Union
build the structure of the world"