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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ETflHT MTCPFOTTO MATTJ ' TRTBTTN"TC, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1924 E Robert H. Boyl, who lias successful- 1;' served as big eruption of tbe Crater club for the past year, staged the off! clal wind up of his administration at the regular meeting of the organiza . tlon at the Hotel Medrord last night. The, evening was devoted principally to cleaning up susponded business of the past year and was marked by Inter esting debates on various subjects brought before the members. As an outcome of thla business session It was definitely decided to postpone the selecting and purchasing of uniform!) Indefinitely and members were unani mous in deciding to cooperate finan cially as Individuals in the I toy Scout drive but not as an organization. The Craters . have heartily endorsed the Hoy Scout movement. The Crater club will assist in put ting over the lecture scheduled for Wednesday night at the . Armory at which R. W. Price of the Crater Lake National Park company, James A. Or mandy and W. I,. Flnley will be the principal speakers. Iloth moving and stereoptlcon pictures will be featured at this locture. A. S. Roseiibaum of the Southern Pacific was unanimously elected to honorary membership and A, B. Comfort of Seattle, a guest at last night's eruption, gave a short talk. - A- general revlow of last year's uc complishments speak well for the ad ministration of "Hob" lloyl. During the past year the regular attendance at meetings has increased percoptubly and the finances of the organization have boon put on a sound basis. The Crater club is steadily taking a more active part In civic enterprises and is working along a constructive program for southern Oregon, Crater lake and particularly Medford advertising. The ' selection of A. J. Vance as tho big eruption, who will guide tho dentl nies of the Crater club during the, 1924 season has met with general sat isfaction. Mr. Vance Is well sultod to fill this position insofar as he is a charter member of the organization and thoroughly familiar with its alms. "Cap" and hlB associate officers have a big program . for the coming year which will be generally outlined nt the next regular eruption nt which time ho will assumo tho reins of tho club. PREMIER LENINE OF (Continued From Page One) ENGLAND HAS I.AIIOU GOV'T (Continued From Vage One) chosen to meet MucDonnld's conven ience. The house agreed to tho adjourn ment for three weeks proposed by Mr. Baldwin. Railroad 8trlke Spreading LONDON, Jan. 22. (Ily the Asso ciated Press.) The second duy of the strike ot the Associated Society of Lo comotive Engineers and Firomen in protest against a wage reduction found the men and the railway com panies proclaiming that their respec ttve positions wore gaining strength. Later reports from the provincial center were far from reassuring to the thousands of persons who use the railroads. Not only were the men standing firm, said these advices, but In soma places they were being Jolnod by many onglnemon having member Bhlp In the National Union of Itall wuymon, In defiance of the admoni tions ot the lnttcr union. A review of the numerous telegrams gives the Impression that the strike is spreading. The coal districts fear that the minora will soon have to cense work II' the tie-up continues, while tho indus trial centers fear enforced Idleness bpcause of Inability to obtain supplies. The Newcastle coal owners see the spectre of American dealers oust Inn them from the continental markets. probably produce no general disquiet In ltussia but nevertheless would have un Important political effect. So long as he was alive, although not actively participating In the government, he was at least Its titular head and his death now opens the position to other leaders. s. Nikolai Lenine, lawyer, pamphle- toer, and finally dictator of all Jtussla, was 'the orgunizer and chief exponent of the movement which became known as Bolshevism, and which ho characterized us "the Kioat experi ment; tho Dictatorship ot tho Prole tariat." The career of this short, plump, bnld-houdud little man, who turned ltussia topsy turvy and probably ux much Influenced tho other nations of tbe world as nny other man of hi century, was full of adventure from his boyhood, lie was u revolutionist at school, at the academy, ut his uni versity, and ever afterwurd. Horn April 21, 1870 Lcnine's real nume was Vladimir Illltch Ulianoff. He was born April 24, 1870 In the town of Simbirsk, of a in order to keep them from spreading I first to proclaim that the retreat hud revolutionary propaganda among the ended, that there was to be no more soldli-rs at the stations where they surrender of real communistic princi stopped. Hut if the Germans hoped pies; and above, all things, that the for disintegration of the Russian army . proletarian dictatorship of Russia Lenine nnd his supporters contend . would not be surrendered, that this plan was a boomerang. From In the spring of 1923 Lenlne's the very moment the Bolshevik! were health began to crack under the in power in Petrograd, they set about strain. He became a victim of in ,to spread communism in the German somnia, and later on developed seri urmy. ' j ous nervous and gastric disorders. First Effort Falls I Always impatient of restraint, he When Lenine arrived In Russia he would not obey the commands of his j made his first appearance at the All- Russian physicians or the advice of" Russian Congress of Soviets, urging his friends, and continued to work. In the workers to seize the power and to the autumn of 1922 he suffered' a. do away with the Kerensky govern- serious attack, and for a long timo mcnt. Not having found an ear, the his lifo was despaired of. A number Bolshevik faction, under Lenlne's of times he was reported dying, but leadership, attempted in July 1917 a under pressure from his associates he ooup d'etat, which was suppressed by at last consented to take a rest In the the Petrograd soviet and the Kerens- , country, and early in the year 1923 ky government. , he appeared to be considerably 1m From July 1917, until Lenine re- proved. However, from September turned to Petrograd to become almost 1922 qnward, Lenine's position In the over night the dictator of Russia, he Russian, government was more that was in hiding. Secreted In a straw of a valued counsellor than that ot stack on an Island in the Neva, not premier. He continued to propose far from Kronstadt, he remuined for policies, but seldom appeared at meet- days while platoons of Kerensky sol- ings of the council of commissars, dlers, aided by bloodhounds, searched Didn't Look the Part ror mm. Peasant friends Drought him I Physically Lenine was short, rather iooa ana newspapers, ana carrieu plump, with a thick short neck, broad messages irom mm to i,eon iroizKy, shou ders. round, red fare, hiirh fore later second in command of tho pro- i head, broad head, nose slightly up dictatorship, who was then turned, brownish mustache and i MRS. L. I. ELLIS :L Auno Studio How About the Kidneys? PORTLAND, Oreg. "I nm glad to recummond Dr. Pierce's Anurlc (kid ney and backache) Tablets as a safe and reliable remedy to be given to lit tle children who are afflicted with weak kidneys. My little daughter '(between five and six years of age) was troubled greatly, especially at night. Tho doctor said ho could do nothing for her. but that she might outgrow It. 1 then decided to give Pr. Pierce's Anurlc, Just one-hnlf a tablot each night, until one bottle had been taken, it strengthened the organs' so that we havo had no fur ther trouble with her. I feel sure that Dr. Pierce's Anurlc Is a safe remedy to be given to children. If given Intelligently." Mrs. L. I. Ellis. ,717 K. 48th St. Help weakened kidneys by obtain ing this "An-urlc" of Dr. Pierce's at your nearest drug store, or send 10c for trial pkg. of tablets to Dr. Pierce's Invalldn' Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., or jvriln lor trot ttUvJte. Adv. bourgeois family with a pronounced Tartar strain, reflected in Lenine high cheek bones and slightly slanting cynical eyes, ills father was responsl ble master at a communal school at Simbirsk and was very well known among the school teachers of his ills tiict. Lenine himself attended the high school at Simbirsk, anil by strungo coincidence his princlpul was the'ruthur of Alexander Kerensky, whom Lenine afterward overthrew to become premier of Russia The spirit of revolution against the cznr entered into prnuticully every Itusslan school In those days, and Lenine, with somo of his companions, is wild to have smuggled the works of Karl Murx on socialism into the school and to have read them with nil tho secret fear of discovery that American schoolboys have of being cuught with a dime novel hidden be hind their geographies. M. Kerensky reported that Ienlne was a very slu dluus pupil, introspective In his thoughts and shy in his relations with his schoolmates. When Lenine was 17 his eldest brother, Alexander Uli anoff, was sentenced to death and hanged for an attempt upon the life of Czar Alexander 111, which was or ganized by a terroristic organization of which lie was a prominent member. Avengv Hi-other's Dentil Lenino himself never was a mem ber of any terroristic organization, but a doslro to avenge his brother's death is said to have ruled his life. 1 lis active revolutionary work began in tho' early uu's, when he entered the University ot Kazan, from which lit- was expelled one month later for par ticipating in a students' revolutionary movement. Then he moved to Petro grad, attended the university; and studied for a lawyer's degree. le spent more time, however, in revolutionary propaganda among the Petrograd workmen than at his stud ies. Ho was arrested, served a long term of Imprisonment, and then wus deported to Siberia, lie lived for sev eral years a quiet life ut Mluuslusk, a tiny Siberian village. During this period ho wrote several books on political economy, which gave him famo us the real exponent of the Marxian theory. While hi Siberia, he adopted as his penname, "Nikolai Lenine, by which he rose to world notoriety.. Ho Is said to have chosen It because of his deep feeling over the massacre of several hundred miner in tho Lena gold fields by czuiist troops. Emigrated In Switzerland In 1901 Lenine finished his term of deportation In Siberia and emigrated to Switzerland, where, together with two uf his friends, Mnrtoff and Plak hnnoff, he published a newspuper en titled "Tho Spark," devoted to revo lutionary propaganda in Russia. He wandered from Switzerland to Ger many, to England nnd to France, ek ing out a simple existence by Jour nalistic efforts, or was supported by wealthier revolutionaries. Up to 190-1 Lenine had worked along general Marxian lines, hut In that year he de Inched himself from his comrades and organized the llolahevlk faction ot the Social Democratic PArty, the same faction which he swept Into power in ltussia as the communist dictators. In 1906, when Russia almost crack ed under the "first revolution," Len ino surreptitiously made his way back to Russia. Under constant danger ot arrest, ho remained hidden In Petro grad for two months, and then escaped to Finland, from where he directed tho activity of the llolahevlk group. In 1906 he emlgruted again, establishing his headquarters first in Pnrls nnd afterward in Clallcla, from where he mnlntalned an underground dictatorship of the Bolshevik faction in the Russian Uunm. When the World War began ho was nt Cracow in Austrlnn-Oallcln. Vrgos War of ('hisses The Austrlans expelled him, and ho went again to Switzerland, where with other communists, who hnve slnco become prominent In the Bol shevik government of Russia, he con ducted a campaign demanding that all the socialist parties of the world should change tho war of nations into a war of classes. It was during this time, and nt tho Zlmmerwnld socialist conference, that Lenine split definite ly with tho moderate socialists of the world, whom he termed traitors to the proletariat. When the czar was overthrown early In 1917, Lenine, with a gruup ol his supporters, returned to Russia They went from Switzerland, through Germany. At tho time It was charged, and generally believed in all allied countries that Lenine was an ngent ol the German government, wliojn the German general staff aided with funds nnd advice to disrupt the Rus sian army, and break Russia from the entente. The German gave the party uf 40 Russians free conduct through their country In a train under guard. letarian dictatorship, who was practically in control of the Petrograd soviet. Escapes In Disguise The search soon became too hot for him on the island, and one night, after huvlng shaved off his beard, and being equipped with a false passport short, stubby beard. He has been de scribed as looking moro like a coun try grocer than a leader of men. Once In the early days of the revo lutlon, Lenine was fairly easy of ap proach, but, in his later years he re ccived few people. Once met, how describing him as a Finn, he made his ever, he appealed to the observer as a way buck to one of the suburbs of : man of extraordinary keen Intelll - Petrograd. A friendly locomotive genco. Persona who went to 'inter- engineer agreed to smuggle Lenine view Lenine found themselves being over the lieavlly guurded Finnish ' Interviewed instead. He fired qucs- frontler In his engine. Lenine board- tions in rapid succession, searched for ed the locomotive wearing the grimy tho points he really wanted to know, clothes of a fireman and stoked the and then dismissed them and took up engine until it had successfully passed another question even before his vlsi- through the control station at the tor realized he had answered the frontier. , first. In addressing public audiences, On November, 6. 1917, Lenine re- Lenine drove home his points with a turned to Petrograd. Trotzky and curt force surprisingly clear In a man other loaders of the communist fac- of his thick-lipped, rather difficult tlon of the Petrogrnd soviet had paved delivery. In his speeches, as in his the way. The tottering . provisional actions, he was a merciless critic of government was powerless to save itself. After 24 hours of almost blood less skirmishing, during which the aters functioned as usual, whilo street fighting went on in the next block, Kerensky had fled; the rest of the provisional government were prison ers; the city was completely in the j hands of the Soviets, and Nikolai his enemies, of his friends nnd of himself. Ho once told the communist congress that If the party did not imitate capitalistic methods, and learn to be better bargainers than the capi talists, that they probably would be hanged, nnd surely would deserve It. Absolutely Vlisctflsli He seemed absolutely lacking In lenine sut smiling in n little room at seir-lnterest. His personal life was Smolny Institute, applying his signa- exceedingly simple. When in Moscow ture to proclamations he had drawn ho occupied two small furnished up long before, announcing tho proje- rooms at the Kremlin, within a stone's turian revolution In RubsIii and call- throw of a magnificent empty palace, Ing upon tho proletarians of the world to unite tq assist them. For "Disgraceful Pence" Lenlne's prlnclpnl program at tho moment wus Immediute peace with Germany. With dynamic intolerance of even such important ussoclutes as Trotzky, who opposed what they termed a disgraceful peace, Lenino pushed through his plan. The already existing fraternization between Rus sian and German soldiers at the front was urged on to tremendous propor tions, and after a few monthB of the soviet regime. Russia had signed the Treaty of RriRt-Litovsk und was def initely out of the world conflict. Internally, Russian life was turned upsldo down. Factories were tnken over by tho workers. Great estates were confiscated by the peasants, who divided them among themselves. The aristocracy sought any kind of safety it could find, and the middle-class or bourgeoise. became special objects for the hatred of the masses. Free trade which once housed the czars. When in the couuntry, at a little place called Tarasovku, some 20 miles from Mos cow, he spent most ot his time fishing, shooting or playing with his pet . kittens. - t- : - , Lenine waa characterized by obsor ; vers as the greatest intellectual force ln'the Russian Revolution. He spoke German, French and English, and read works on economic problems in alt these languages as quickly ns they could be received lu Moscow. Having a world vision, and. desiring a world revolution, he tried to keep In touch with the thought and affairs of all countries. Lenine's supporters in the com munist party treated him with some thing of a religious reverence, ultho they did consider him human enough to call him by tho nickname, "Baldy." His picture has replaced the Ikon In thousands of Russian homes. Lenine was married, but- had no children. His wifoi M. K. Oulianova. was abolished and in its stead was . , ., Y I,' . " established a system of government J11" little woman with thin iron grey .,.i th,.. n.iin.,.H fnn,i i..i., .i. hair, stood shoulder to shoulder with worklngmen in preferred classes, nnd . 'm, through the most important perl doling out littlo or none at all to the He never. , however, lost the Through all of this period. I ldea that It would come, and that. would live in an Utopian brotherhood of communistic nations. Lenine never wns a "horny handed son of toil" himself, but rnther an Intellectual, and thoso whom ho put in power in the council of commissars were likewise more of the educnted dreamers than practical worklngmen. Lenine was personally courageous and Impatient of the guard that his advisers insisted upon putting about him, despite the fact that he carried others. The use of money wns con detuned, and grain, manufactured products nnd labor boenmo the chief media of exchange Shot and Wounded Four long dismal years passed dur ing which internal counter revolution, in many cases assisted by allied intervention,- kept Russia in a constant turmoil. Enemies of the communists assassinated some Bolshevik leaders, and In September. 191S, Lenine him self was shot and severely wounded. Plots and counter plots, terror nnd counter-terror, swept Russia from one , end to the other, nnd the bloodshed, misery nnd famine of these four black years have no counterpart in modern ?Jvay' history. Lenine, backed by the solid, strictly- disciplined communistic party direct ed affairs. Gives Vi Communism In 1921, when the soviet govern ment hud swept aside all military op position, and when Russia was practi cally 'intact in communist hands, ex cept for Poland, Finland nnd the Hultio provinces, which broke off and formed Independent republics, Lenine turned his bunds to the task of build ing up tho Russia the revolution hud destroyed. To achieve this recon struction, Lenine, with the daring that characterized all of his mujor plans, oegall what he called a strategic re treat from communism. A commu nistic Utopia might be possible in years to come, ho said, but the active communism us practised during the period ot the civil war had never been Intended as permanent. It was purely a war measure, and so In an epochal speech, delivered in November. 1921. Lenine publicly announced the failure of past policies, and explained the need for un economic departure. "We met with a bad defeat, and have undertaken a strategic retreat." he admitted. "Before they havo thrashed us definitely, let us retreat and con struct everything over ugaitv but more solidly." Ho proposed ut least partial re-establlshment of capital istic principles; a reversion to tree trade; the fhiposltlon of taxes on land; abolishment of free transporta tion, and tlte acceptance of outside aid tor tho millions of starving Rus sians. It wns tho great peasant class and Its refusal to accept the principles of communism, coupled with the de structive drought nnd resultant fam ine of 1921 that finally brought nbout the capitulation. With the small far mer flatly refusing to deliver up his sennty crops requisitioned by the soviet state, and millions perishing from hunger throughout the nation. the premier could see nothing but black clouds ahead. Halts Extreme Reaction When this new economic policy hod trained momentum luid It appeared that Russia was coming back to a bouttculuu recline, Lenluq wus tlw iod In his career, participating in the direction of the political education commission, and qther communistic organizations. He also had a sister, who shared in his political fortune and had been business manager of one of tho communist newspapers in Moscow. Never Gave Up Ills Dream In 1917, when Lenine insisted upon Russia making a separate peace with Germany, he expected that the world revolution would come speedily. As time went on, and attempts nt com munistic uprisings in Germany, Hun gary and elsewhere proved abortive, Lenine gradually came to the conclu sion that the world revolution was far for several years the bullet fired Into his neck by Dora Kaplan, the young socialist revolutionary who, In Sep tember. 1918, attempted to assassinate him and nearly succeeded. Several other attempts upon his life were made during the revolution. While he was carrying Dora Kaplan's bullet, he always laughed off any warnings by remarking that "I have plenty of lead In my backbone and am not afraid." During all the darkest days of the civil war and red terror, when many of his associates lost their nerve, Lenine was able to laugh and Joke. Foreign visitors during these times said they found him the only man in Russia with a sense of humor. He liked to slap visitors on the shoulders, to play with his two kitt'ens and to tell stories to his friends' children. But he was absolutely adament, and loss of human life was to him unim portant when weighed against the fate of the Bolshevik revolution. SAYS SHE KISSED THE BCLLET (Continued From Page One) ing up his wounds and that the blood poured through her fingers fcnd pre vented her doing so. She was also under fear that she had killed the wrong man according to tho testimony. Walker Ellis was tho only witness called by the defense in the morning session and offered little save that his sister seemed to Imagine that she was being followed for a long time prior to the killing. Betrayal Is Claimed PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 22. That Gordon Mettle had betrayed Nora El lis after repeatedly promising to mar ry her and that the knowledge of her condition so worried her that she be lieved that she must kill hint and then herself in order to eradicate the stain on her life waf the statement of the defense cotiuscl, Colonel J. II. Haley, in opening the defendant's case ycBtei day. Counsel for the defense admitted that his client had taken a shot at Mettie once before. He described their relations together as swcethoartB and; said there had long been an un derstanding between them to the ef fect that they were to be married eventually. The witness examined for the state, A. M. 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