MTCDFOITO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTiD, OltEOOX, . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER .r, 1917.
PAGE THREW
KERENSKY NOI
DICTATOR BUT
PUBLICSERVANT
People of Russia Repudiated Idea,
" Not the Man, When They Overthrew
. , the Czar Mass of Russians Not
' Misinformed or Ignorant, But In--,
telligent Kerensky Star Orator.
This is another of the series of
articles by Charles Edward Russell,
who hus just returned from Russia,
where he spent three months ns a
nember of the official United Stutes
commission to the new Kussiun gov
ernment. (By Charles Eilward Russell.)
(Copyright 1917 by tho Nowspaper En
terprise Association.)
"Where is the Napoleon of Russia t
Who is he? Do you think ho is Ke
rensky?" I huve these questions every day
from scores of Americans. Appar
ently the persons that put them are
convinced that Russiu, having thrown
off one king,, necessarily and of
courso proceed to choose another.
No going without a' king.
All Knglnnd, naturally enough, be
lieves this, but what puzzles me is
that nny American should cling to
a notion that belongs, to the world's
antique.
Idea Repudiated.
Americans might reflect that it
was not the man, Nicholas Roman
off, the Russian people repudiated,
but the king idea. .
Having waited so long and en
dured so much to get rid of it under
oi name, does it seem likely they
Would rush joyously to get it back
under another ,
"Where is the Napoleon of Rus
sia 1" Well, dear ojd sleep walker,
there ain't no sich animal.
There is none now and there will
be none so long as the Russian peo
ple have anything to say about their
affairs which will bo' until the Huns'
flag flies above Pctrogrud and Mos
cow, anyway. Tho Germans believe
in that sort of thing, but tho Rus
sians do not. That makes a dif
ference. , ....
Let me tell you now an odd little
fast -that f should"-throw no "send of
light ontho actual situation between
the United States and Russia.
Xo Dictator Needed.
."What Russia needs," sings a large
chorus of American cave dwellers,
"is a dictator.".
So, Russia, not being sufficiently
wise to pick out one, these gentle
men proceed to create one for her.
.. It is literally true that is what
they have lurcadv done.
Ycn Kerensky succeeded to the
place ot prime minister the Ameri
can press was deluged with tho as
"Siortion that ho had been made dic
tator of Russia. Jt was said so posi
tively that the entire nation became
convinced of it. "Dictator Kerensky"
some newspapers always called him,
as, if that were his regular title
"Tho man 'that rules Russia" is an
other fuvorite reference.
"It was an impressive spectacle,"
observed many journals, meaning the
meeting between Kerensky and the
lute czar, "the man that used to rule
Hussiu face to fuco with the mull
that rules Russia now."
Kerensky Not Dictator. .
, This is all the most nbsolulo rot
mid rubbish that ever was devised.
There is literally not ono word of
truth in it. 1
y Kerensky is no more the dictator
of Russia than you are. Ho was
never made dictator nor nnything
like dictator. He comes no nearer
being a dictator than his predecessor
enmc. When he was named to sile
nced I.voff tliere was no more thought
of making him dictator than there
was of making Hill Deverv dictator,
. Beyond all this, Kerensky himself
who is a most unselfish, sincere and
liigh-minded patriot, would be
hocked and gTicvcd to learn thnt
America believed him to be capable
i betraying the revolution.
As No 'one that knows him or knows
4ko Russians ns they really arc would
O'er go so far astray.
CftiTlej) Out Popular Will.
Kerensky, iike the. rest pf the min
Ifjatrv, holds office to enrry out the
1tnl of the Russian people.
And if ynii think that the Russinn
people will ever tolerate n dictator,
let me prowjse something for your
enlightenment.
Ou n Sunday afternoon an out to
the meeting that cover the great
Kield of Mars in l'etrograd and sug
gest such n thing. Yon will not
huve to prepare any argument about
it. Just suggct it. Only a word in
your ear take along plenty of good
strong huskies for a bodyguard
You'll need them.'
The idea that Ritin needs anil
will have a dictator i horn of fun
damental disbelief in democracy and
the fixed delusion that ninny persons
huve that the people of Russia, being
very Jfmornnt and totally without
e.ericnce, cannot mnnuge their own
affairs. .
Hut that is just the point. The
people of Russia arc not very ignor
ant and are not inexperienced.
Kxtraordiiuuy Capacity.
They ore people of extraordinary
capacity and instead of being inex
perienced their peculiar form of lo
cal government has trained nnd de
veloped among them an unquestion
alblo talent fufr the self-governing
job. .H .;'':... !,..-
They havb factions among them, of
course, anil some of the factions
stund out for wild, visionary and
impossible things. )
They arc also plagued, cursed and
bedeviled 'With n German' propagan
da almost as industrious and insidi
ous as tho movement that is trying
to induce the United States to turn
dirty yellow.
Hut the masses of the people have
a great fund of great, plain, hard
common sense. .
Also, while thev may have little
book learning, they undcrslund the
principles of democracy just us well
as we do, and nre at least ns de
termined to hnvo them and nothing
else.-
lofty in Character.
Kerensky is one of the foremost
men of his ago, as lofty in charac
ter as ho is unusual in ability. In
a nation of orators he is one of the
greatest. Ho has the orator's gifts,
magnetism,, presence, a splendid
voice, a marvelous command oyer
speech. In our own country prob
ably nobody this sido of Wendell
l'hillips has equally swayed men.
He gives you at onco tho impres
sion of sincerity, of a man that is
on the level.
As a prime minister, ho undoubt
edly understands the situation as
well as anybody in Russia; he knows
that there can be no peace in the
world until German militarism is put
out of it
The Inst time I saw him ho' was
carrying his right hand in n sling
because he had strained it shaking
hands with the people.
Hut I think that with his left lie
would have assaulted anybody that
called him a dictator, tho betrayer
of the young republic.
The only dictator in Russia is the
majority oF the people.
It is a dictator that knows its job
and will do it if left alono.
TO-BE EXILED
I'KTHOURAD, Sept. 5. General
Gurko, former commander on the
southwestern front, charged with
treasonable conduct toward the revo
lution, will ho exiled from Russia.
General Gurko, according to reports,
is the first person against whom
such a measure has been taken by
the revolutionary government. He
will be permitted to choose tho place
of his residence.
A commission has been appointed
by the government to draft a law
for the summary punishment of trea
sonable nets "in the rear." which is
intended to include all Russia.
AFTER '
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5. The Hus
seldorff Anzeiger, which, like all the
German papers, publishes the state
ment recently made by Dr. Von Hcth-niann-IIollwcg,
tho former imperial
chancellor, to the Associated Press,
appends the following remarks :
"Hy the way, while the United
States kept up tho sham neutrality,
the gentlemen of the Associated Press
frequently acted as intermediaries for
statements from leading Germans,
which could have gone direct to tho
German press. What is the mean
ing of this, that while we are at war
with the United States, a represen
tative' of the Associated Press is
IMTmitled to carry on his profession
in Germany unhindered?''
ASCERTAIN FACTS ON
. ' NORTHWEST COAL
SEATTLE, Sept. 5. In order t
gather facts on the threatened coal
famine in Washington state, a con
ference of the coal operators of the
state at the Scuttle chamber of com
merce has been set for Thursday
afternoon, nt the request of Dr. Hen
ry Suznlhi. chairman of the stale
council of defense. Dr. II. A. Gnr-
field, national coal administrator,
today telegraphed asking for all the
facts in the situation, and expressed
his willingness to begin an investi
gation nt once.
BOYiSCOUTS OF AMERICA CAN HELP. WIN WAR :
!BY FOLLOWING EXAMPLES OF BRITISH COWIRADES
GREAT BRITAIN'S "SEA SCOUT S" DO EFFECTIVE SERVICE AS AS
SISTANTS TO THE NAVY.
By Kenneth W. Payne.
LONDON, England, Sept. 5.
Boys, here's a special d:spatch from
the world's war center meant just for
you for every Medford youngster
who wants to help Uncle Sam with
the war!
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Ba
den-Powell, founder and chief ot near
ly 300,000 boy scouts in the British
empire, has glyen mo this message
for you.
To begin with, this war is really
your war. Your fathors and uncles and
big brothers are coming here to fight
and die for your sakes. They want
you, when you grow up, to bo able to
live in a world which is happy and
safe. They don't want you or your
children ever again to go into the
trenches and be killed.
And they know the world will
never be safe for you until tho kais
er's army is beaten. Because they
are fighting for you, you will want to
help them beat that army.
Since the war broke out the boys
of great Britain have been helping.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell showed
them how.
"There Is hardly anything tho boy
scouts haven't done."
"The day the war broke out we had
more than a thousand scouts mobil
Ized for maneuvers. And from more
play, they went into the coast patrol
In real cearnest. The government
was glad to get them, and their ser
vices wore so valuable today about
1G00 of our sea scouts aro on dally
const guard duty! '...,.'
"A tremendous lot have entered
the navy, and others have joined the
army, where, becauso of their prac
tice, thoy tako to trench life like
ducks to water.
"But the young boy scouts back
home are accomplishing marvelous
things.
Get Your Moneys Worth
Save waste in buying as well as in eating!
For net food results
Grape-Nuats
In using Grape-Nuts you
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts
The Food With TheSnappy Flavor
SIB. ROBERT BADEN-POWELl
"After an air raid the boy Bcouts
help clear the bombed nreas, work
with the wounded and handle the
crowds. The London police have
7000 boy scotit orderlies.
"in a recent air raid I was riding
in a train which was hit. I escaped
injury, and when I turned to holp an
other man who had been badly
woundod, I found a boy scout already
there ahead of me, giving first aid!
"When the war broke out, Germans
in this country sought to destroy cul
vorts, bridge, electric light wires or
cables. Tho boy scouts were on tho
job so quickly that practically no de
struction was accomplished,
"That Is tho best mossage I can
send to the boy scouts of America.
"Know what to do, know how to
do It, nnd bo ready to do It."
Save in Buying
Save on Cooking
Save on Serving
Save on Waste
Save on Spoilage
Save on Health
WOMEN TO HELP
We were talking nbont the world
war and tho women of Europe who
aro giving everything which they hold
dear to the sacrifice "It makes ono
proud to bo a woman," she said.
"Everywhere they aro taking up the
hard work of the world. I would give
anything if 1 could ro "somewhere
in Franco' nnd help."
And even us I pictured "somewhere
In Fiance" I saw Medford, our own
Main street, and the big flag float
ing from tho window of the local
Red Cross. A company of soldiers
in olive drab fatigue uniforms crossed
tho Hear creek bridge and marched
under tho international emblem of
neutrality and humanity and I knew
that she did not hnvo to travel six
thousand miles nnd moro over luud
and water to "do her bit."
Have you over visited our Red
Cross ?
Thero arc many hundreds of wo
men in Medford who never have
been thero.
In fact so few of our women go
thero that the rooms aro opened only
threo days a week and even then
it is hard to get enough workers.
Throe days out of seven!
Think of it I When every hour of
overy day could bo used to udvnn
tnge! When every hour could tally
enough work accomplished to save
a score of lives and an etcrnityof
of suffering.
Would you, oh, women of Medford
wish your countrymen to bo so in
need of surgical dressings Hint the
bandages stripped from tho wounds
of tho dead should bo immediately
applied to their wounds?
Or would you have them go with
out dressings altogether?
Hero is your clear choice. It has
occurred and will continue to occur
unless yon bestir yourselves in such
numbers that a continuous stream of
Red Cross goods shall go forward
to tho front.
. Wo hnvo not chosen to go to wnr.
Never wcro pcoplo so pntiont.
Hut war bus come to us and wo
must meet it.
There ,is money nvnilalilo for ma.
tenuis but that which money cannot
buy, devoted and continuous volun
teer work, is lucking .
Kvory woman in Medford should
feel a personal responsibility towards
insuring enough worker,
We should not be satisfied to have
tho rooms opened thrno days n week
I he cannons belch forth death an
wounds, endlessly, hour alter hour
every day of the week.
Wo should beg, aye, diimend thai
tho work rooms be opened six duys
a week.
Wo should make it necesary to
have them opened several evenings a
week as well.
And wo should sec that there are
always plenty of workers on hand.
In this way, wo who renin in nt
is an ideal cereal practi
cally 100 nutrition.
home, can ease many a pain from the,
tearing wounds of pieces of shells.
the deep, jagged stab of the bayonet,
the burns of liquid fire nnd save tho
i GOlN&l G-QING!. GONE III
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noticeable. Hut no matter how little
may be the fall each day, it is work
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I You may have hair enough today,
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nnd have gono suiling "somewhero
in France." AN AMERICAN.
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You may be told that there are
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You cannot afford to take chances
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Insist on having genuine Herpicide,
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Whether you buy SNOW FLAKES In bulk or
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After (hat tho material nnd work
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