Today' Dangerous Teajwt Dome. She's Back in the Mill. ISetv Style Killing. The Hen's Ancestor. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ A few days ago everything looked wonderfully smooth for the administration. Hiram Johnson might be able to stir up something but “wise men’* said it didn’t seem probable. McAdoo might %iake a strong democratic run, but it probably wouldn’t make much difference. Now comes the Teapot Dome oil scandal, with the oil reserves of the navy sold to a private Concern, and a very unpleasant discussion as to what happened to a certain lump sum of $100,000. Unless that is thoroughly cleaned up immediately and by the re publican! themselves not waiting tor democrats to do it, it may make a big difference in the elec tion of 1924. However, it is not likely that Mr. Coolidge will wait for democrats to do his house cleaning. Yesterday’s testimony concern ing the Teapot Dome, especially young Mr. Roosevelt’s account of his resigning from the oil com pany, will interest you and the voters. You will probably hear from President Coolidge and the attorney general within 48 hours. That is not the sort of scandal that can be allowed to simmer too long. Myra Cole, 17, went to the mill at 6:30 in the morning, in the little Massachusetts village of Hill’s Grove, and got away at 5 in the afternoon. She thought she would try New York. She went without eating for several days, fell in a faint on the street, and has been sent back to Hill’s Grove. She will start in again at the mill, go in at 6:30 'n the morning, and get out at 5 in the afternoon. Dut things used to be worse. More than 80 years ago, the late Albert Brisbane, who wrote for the front page of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, asked the good men of New England who advo cated abolition of slavery: “Since you are so much interested in the poor black slaves, why don’t you free your own white women that you drive into our mills before daylight and keep there until dark?’’ Albert Brisbane, by the way, used to pay Horace Greeley cash for the right to write his opinions on the Tribune’s first page. His unworthy son has a better finan cial arrangement. This telegram is received from Reno, Nevada: “Two Chinese will be executed by lethal gas, Carson City, Nev., February 8. Fearful that horrors may attend this untried experi mental means of execution. As an admirer and reader of your ar ticles largely read daily in this community, would appreciate any thing you could editorially say. - Reverend Otis L. Linn, Superin tendent, Presbyterian Church of Nevada.” The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals kills super fluous cats and dogs in a lethal chamber. The animals don’t know what is going to happen, their death is merciful. What can you say about civilized human beings forcing two Chinamen into an air tight “lethal chamber,” turning on deadly gas and killing them? The constitution of the United States forbids cruel and unusual punish ment. This method of killing is at least unusual. A good lawyer ought to be able to postpone that execu tion. Will the men be tied down or strapped in chairs in the lethal cell? Will they be killed two at a time or separately? Will they be left free to dash their heads in despair against the walls of the deathtrap? Will a Chinese interpreter ex plain to them what is going tQ.hap pen? Will a clergyman mumble prayers through the walls of the cell? It’s an interesting experiment in our “civilization." Dinosaurs used to lay eggs. You knew that. Did you know also that they had gizzards and that scien tists find in skeletons of dinosaurs large, finely polished pebbles1 which, in the dinosaur’s gizzard, ground up food, as the hen now grinds her food with gravel in her gizzard? And did you know that the hen of today is the direct descendant of the dinosaur 70 feet long? The hen would probably object to that statement while Mr. Bryan ob jects to Darwin’s theory. Bub in both cases the facts are over whelming. A big dinosaur would weigh 200,000 pounds. What Burbank will reverse, evolution’s process and give us a chicken of that size? England discusses seriously abol ishing the gold standard. The United States having half of all the gold available for money, it wouldn’t be bad, from the English viewpoint to select another stand ard. But for the present, the thing can’t be done. Men demand something in the way of money that can't be created artificially. Silver might do, but W3 have that also. Abolish the gold standard and you abolish gold's value. Curiously enough, Russia, home of the misty rlble, is to go on a gold basis in April. They have dis covered that paper won’t do. Britain will soon laiffich two gigantic new battleships with all the latest improvements, 680 feet long and 106 feet wide. Over hero we are junking battleships half fin ished to oblige England. It is unable to compete with us, finan cially, in battleship construction, but admirably able to befuddle us diplomatically. It did that at the Washington conference and now tells our baby boy diplomats that we may not even increase the elc vation of our guns. That would make them shoot further (CoorlKht. 1931 i 4 Grand Island “Dream Girl” Hales Bluffs Youth Before Jury When Wedding Plans Are Disrupted Love Letters Read in Court; Girl Cries on Witness Stand. Letters dripping with love and affection, written by Robert Wollert, 21, 1118 Fifth avenue, Council Bluffs, to Virginia Neligh, 19, of Grand Island, Neb.,(were read in open court Monday by Coupty Attorney Frank E. Northrop in Wollert's trial on charges filed by the girl. Second day of the, trial opened Tuesday morning before Judge Earl Peters in Council Bluffs district court. Youitg Wollert was graduated from a Council Bluffs high school and Miss Neligh has a wide acquaintance in the city. Girl on Stand. Miss Neligh, chief witness for the state, was on the stand all Mon day afternoon and she resumed the stand this morning for cross-examina tion at the hands of W. E. Mitchell, chief counsel for the defense. Wollert denies relations with the girl, according to the opening state ment of his attorney. On the stand Monday Mis.* Ne ligh testified that she first met Wol lert in the spring of 11122 when she was visiting at the home of her sis ter-in-law, Mrs. Everett Swanson, then living at 1120 Sixth avenue, near the Wollert home. The ac quaintance was made through Wol lert's sister, yorothy. The couple became firm friends, in September, Miss Neligh returned to Grand Island, where her family has lived for 11 .years, but the following spring, returned to Connell Bluffs, to visit the Swansons. She returned to Grand Island in July, but again visited Council Bluffs in September. It was then that she made known her condition, she said, and Wollert's arrest followed. Miss Neligh testifier] that Wollert at first admitted his responsibility, and arrangements for their marriage were going forward until objections on the part of his family caused him to re fuse to go ahead with the plans. She declared that It was under stood between them for some time that they were to he married. The letters read In court "ere written whilf Miss Neligh was ip Grand Island last summer, before her return to Council Bluffs in September. Twelve letters In all were Introduced iu evi dence, but only two of them were read. So far, cross-examination has failed to shake the girl's story. After three cr four more witnesses are called for the state, the defense will begin the presentation of its case. The case probably will not go to the jury be fore Thursday. T'he court room was crowded yester^ day, and today standing room was at a premium. Fully half the crowd was composed of women. Miss Neligh cried on the witness stand yesterday under cross examina tion, hut retained her poise today. Following are extracts from two of the love letters Introduced ss evi dence: . . July :t. Dearest Virginia: I cannot resist the temptation to answer your njost welcomed letter this evening So, my dearest, you won’t have to wait very long for my answer Mom told me thnt jour letter tame in this morning’s mail. Although I didn't get to read It until after I gut home, the mere fart that I knew that there was one at home waiting for mo cheered me up consjjeiablt I certainly have felt blue since you left. No doubt you laugh at this, but it’s ao. I wish that 1 could convince >ou that 1 really have meant every thing that I have told you about my affection and love for you. Isn’t there some way that I can make you stop doubting my love for vou ? To tell the truth. I really believe that my love for you la deeper than yours for me. You v\ wm. t believe it of course, but time will tell. I'm home here ail alone -and am loneson..-! fie*-. I don't sea how I’m going to stand it after be ng with you pet much' I surely wish that I were there, or you here (that would be much better. 1 P. -“ally I wish that I could <-»»mo to *a« you, but that’s Impossible for awhile. I’d go tomorrow or to night If -I could There’s certainly a lot that I could say, but what’s the use. you'd either doubt It or not believe It ai ail. Some day I hope that you will know how it*ii' h T really - arc for you. No doubt this letter disgusts you. doesn't it. with all this sentimental stuff It’s • he wav I feel, so it’p the way I write. Some day I hope to be something sod then may lie mv dreams will come true. It seems a long time to wait, but then you know, "true love endures." I won der if you will be waiting for me then? Hay, Virginia deac. you wouldn't think of letting anyone read this let ter, would you"* I know that all yours are read by no one hut myself—I'm that selfish 1n my love for you. Well. I guess that I'd better close for j this time, my drarrst girl 1 only hope that you will think of me once in h little while and believe me when I say that 1 love you With all the love 1n the world to the dearest girl in the world, I am. your ivaethttrt, BOB. August 1, 1923. My dearest: Your IMter came yesterday. 1* seemed like agvs since I had heard from you flee, l was certainly hnupy. When Mom informed me that tnere j was a letter for me from Grand J-dand i I could hardly wait until 1 could get home to read it. My. I certainly miss you. Virginia dear, I do believe that you would come back to C. IJ If you really knew how much I want you. It surely seems strange not to be calling up your telephone number every afternoon or 1 traveling down to your home every other night. My, I surely wish that I could be i with you tonight—I arn awfuly lone- ! »■• in ** for > oil, dearest girl 1 rt only hoping that*you will he able to con hit*■ k to C. TV In the v-ry near future. 1 wonder what you are doing tonight * Anything but thinking about m*-. I'll bet. Gee. it doesn’t seem possible, hut It was Just n week ago last night and to morrow night that 1 was with you. dearest. I’ seems like six months, t wonder If 1f will be that long before I run thke you in tny arms again Per haps by that time you won't want me to. how about it? Jus: think—only 14* miles Haparst* ua tonight' Well. Virginia you must believe me when 1 i ell you again how much l think of you. dear (\ TV surely Is a dead pi ■ •* sin-a you went away. Now, dearest. I must «-iose. Writ* me soon. «ause Pin so or*ely and your letters help a lot »o cheer me up. Well, good night. My T*re, to Girl, as ever, with the same truo love. »OD The seasons on Mars arg twice as lonfc aa those on earth. 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Lenlne’s death came at a time when hl» colleague, Leon Trotsky, as spec tacular a revolutionary figure as him self, was ill and at war with the cen tral executive committee of the corn m uniat party. Disease and death thus*removes from the arena two ol Omaha branch of the workers’ party passed a resolution of mourn ing for Lenine’s death. Tom Matthews is secretary. the most ijctlve figures that set the red flag flying over Russia. Specialists Summoned Specialist* had been suinmonec from Germany from titno to time They succeeded in prolonging Le nine's life but could not save it. JJur ing most of the time he was 111, he lived in a modest villa on his coun try estate outside of Moscow, attend ed dally by his wife. Members of the people's council ol conimissariesMthe government of the federal socialist soviets, vlsiteel him at intervals for counsel. Sick or well Lenine remained the idol of the Rus slan communists. At the last meeting of the execu tlvcs of tlie all-Russlan cornmunisl party, which ended only last week a resolution van adopted that Rub sian youths should be compelled tc study the political teachings ol Lenine art the basis for the futurt government. While Lenlne's death h felt throughout the world, he has al ways remained more or less of an oh scure figure. He was content to re main in the background and allow the lesser lights to occupy the lime light. It had been long reported that Lenine would be succeeded by a tri umvirate. IX was a notable circum stance that his death found a vir tual triumvirate In power. Zinoviev head of the Petrograd soviet, leader ill the third Internationale and inem-i ber of the communist executive com mittee; Stalin, people's commissar for minorities (nationalities) in the soviet government, and Leo Kamenev, third viee president of the council, are virtually in power. They are lead ing the communist "old guard" against the hostile faction under Trot xky. Dictator of Russia. For six years Leniuo was practi cally dictator of Russia. Allied pow ers waged war against him, but with out success. His notable military falluro was the war against Po^nd when Poland was saved by French troops. , Lenine's real family name was Vladimir llyitrh Ulyanov. Ho came of a noble family, but was banished from Russia because of his nihilist (socialist) principles. He lived a great part of his life in France and Switz erland. He -..ns living in Switzerland during the world war. In 1917 when t,ho Russian govern nient was tottering Germany allowed Lenine and a few colleagues to pass through the country in a sealed train. At that time the czar, Nicho las, had been overthrown. Alexan der Kerensky was In power and Rus sia was still waging war against Gcr many. Rut the "councils'* in the army and navy had weakened their strength and Germany saw- a chance for a bloodless coup. Lenine and his adherents arrived from Switzerland about the same time that Trotzky arrived from the United States. They started their red revolution in Petrograd and after bloody fighting the moderates under Kerensky were put down. Lenine and Trotzky came into power. The following year (1918) they no gotiated a treaty of peace with Gcr many at Brest-Litovsk. This treaty was hitterly denounced by the allies, and later by the Russians themselves, but they abided by It and from that time on Russia ceased to he a factor in the world war. Lenine put George Tchitcherln in power as people's commissar for for eign affairs (foreign minister), a posf he still holds. The first three years of the soviet regime was marked by Internal warfare and foreign invasion The United States, France, Great Britain, Japan. 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Foreign statesmen united in admit ting that Lenine was not only one of the most spectacular figures Europe has produced in the past century, but one of the most powerful. From his place In the kremlin lie Issued orders that were obeyed by the "proletariat” not only in his own country, but In foreign lands as well. He had become almost a myth when his death was announced today. Lenine had married, but had no family, lie was the author of many books upon rmmnunism and socialism Many attempts were made upon I^nine's life, but he escaped them all to die a natural death, peacefully in bed. * Dora Kaplan, a woman socialist, shot Lenine, and he had a narrow escape from death. The bullet was not removed from his breast until over a year later. This wound is said to have hastened his death. t Hj Associated Free*. Nikolai Lenine, lawyer pamphleteer, and finally director of all Russia, was the organizer and chief exponent of tiie movement which i»ecame known as bolshevism, and which *he char acterized as "the great experiment; the dictatorship of the proletariat.” The career of this short, plump, bald headed little man. who turned Russia topsy turvy and probably as much Influenced the other nations of the world as any other man of his century, was full of adventure from his boyhood. lie was a revolutionist at school, at the academy, at his uni versity, and ever afterward. . I^nines real name was Vladimir lllitch Ulianoff He was born April 24, i870, in the town of Simbirsk, of a bourgeois family with a pronounced Tartor strain, reflected in Lenlne's high cheek bones and slightly slant Ing, cynical eye*. His father was responsible master at a communa school at Simbirsk and was very well known among the school teachers of his district. 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