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    Today
Ten in Is Dead.
I nique in llisliny.
7 he Czar Exiled 11 is
Thought.
His Thought Tailed the
Czars.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Lenin is dead. The all-Russlan
soviet announces it officially. This
time Lenin is really dead.
History will call him n man re
markable and great great in
power, in persistency, great in ex
traordinary success. Never h.Js
(hat success been paralleled in all
the world's history.
What man except Lenin - can
you mention, a theorist and
dreamer for years, that ever lived
to put his theories into practice,
with them governing a great na
tion? !
Plato dreamed and wrote of his
model republic. The world reads
“The Republic” still. It never ex
isted, never could exist.
The world reads Moore's
"Utopia.” It’s only a name in a
book, a name well concocted of
two Greek words, meaning "not”
and “place” or no place. Never
have the Utopias of philosophy
and literature been made part of
real life, before Lenin. They ap
pear in Scandinavian, Celtic and
Arab traditions. Some dreamed
of ancient earthly paradise, which
they called “Atlantis,” a land out
in the Atlantic. Columbus and
other explorers ended that idea.
Rousseau, Hobbes, Gharles
Fourier, great intellectual geniuses,
dozens of the great and small
have imagined their “perfect gov
ernment.”
Among them all, Lenin, now
•lead and gone to his place 'n his
tory, is the only one that lived to
try his dream in practice. He im
posed his will and theories on
125,000,000 human beings, over
turned a throne, killing its pos
sessors, took every foot of land in
a nation greater in area than the
United States from the nobility
that owned it and gave it to the
peasants.
That strange man Lenin with
the concentrated, determined face,
whose brother was knouted to
death by order of the czar, and
who lived to kill a czar, will stand
out in the world’s history when
today’s pigmips who think them
selves giants shall be forgotten.
The Lenin dream will not He
, permanent, of course. As De
Mandeville wrote his “Fable of
the Bees” to illustrate the down
fall of an artificially manufactured
ideal commonwealth, so some
writer of the future will write the
downfall of Lenin's Marxiar.
Communist-Bolshevik Utopia.
Human beings are not fit for
communism, while selfishness, in
dividual greed exist within them
as the mainsprings of th ir activ
ity
individuals will not he ready
for freedom from the stern lash
of necessity, as long as that lash
is the only power that will drive
them to work.
The old ruling impulses, self
preservation, reproduction and
ambition, nature’s three driving
powers, will rule again in Russia
as everywhere. Intelligence at the
top will take more than its share.
Dull minds in at the bottom will
do more than their share of the
hard work.
Society also is an evolution.
You can no more invent and
create new government or society
than you could invent or create a
new kind of human being.
Each must grow.
But apart from all that Lenin
-lands out as the first man that
ever made of a government theory
an actual living government. Most
marvelous of all, he has kept it
going, sick or well, year after year,
while in all other European coun
tries, except Germany, various
governments rose and fell—autoc
racy of the old school seizing gov
ernment in Italy and Spain while
the new autocracy held Russia.
Lenin's power was in his abso
lute honesty, sincerity, devotion to
his own convictions.
One hundred and twenty mil
lions of Russians mourn his death.
They trusted him, and they could
trust him.
Farm Federation
O.K. s Bank Loans
Coolitlge Heeded Advice of
Bureau Chiefs in Message
tu (ioiigrc'ss. .
Chicago. Jan. 23.—President Cool*
idge's message to congress today rela
tive to loans for relirf of farmers
was declared at th«• headquarters of
the American Kami iiurcan federa
tion tonight to t>e Iti luirmony with
recommendation* telegraphed to the
president by tli»* ♦ xecutlv* commit*
tee of the federation. The reronv
inundations were Maid to have been
telegraphed, la night and were as
follows:
“In approving the Norbeck Hurt'
ness bill (providing loan* through a
revolving fund of *5*1,000,UOO for the
refinancing of . grleulture where
needed, as In the northwest), wp de
sire It to !)«• ho amended that the
other groups, ruth as the present
< reditor*. transportation systems, and
other local business Interests be re
quired to Join with and share the
responsibilities with the farmers In
order to secure the benefits offered
by the hill.*'
The hill referred to provides for
tbe loaning of moneys to assist
farmers in conversion of their farms
<»n tho basis of diversified farming.
Lester Clary Inipruveil.
Heater Clary. 13. won of Mr. and
Mrs. A! clary, j»24 Month Tenth
street, who wan Injured Tueaday
vhen lie run in front of n atreet car
at Tenth and Hickory atr**ta, l« re
ported Improved at kit. Joseph hoa
oitaL
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iCoolidjje Asks
Congress for
Far in Relief
in Special Me>&age Urges Rc
I funding of Past Indebted*
ness and Financial
Assistance.
((ontinuril from 1‘hkc Onr.)
and sonic by private interests, were
outline,! l,y President Coolldge today
in :t special message to congress.
The flt.,*jis include:
The refunding of the pressing past
due indebtedness of the fanner in
the. territories most seriously af
xeoled.
Financial assistance through a
federal agency t < > enable wheat
farmers to make the change from
a single crop system to diversified
farming.
The restoration, wherever it would
be helpful, of the impaired capital
of hanking institution* in the dis
tressed sections.
The creation by private capital
of a substantial financing corpora
tion to assist in the plan of reor
ganization.
The extension of the time the
War Finance corporation can make
loans.
Mr. Coolldge told congress that
these were measures "by which, with
out undue alarm or agitation, but
nevertheless promptly and effectively,
we can bring to bear on a serious
though happily, a localized emergen
cy, every resource of the federal gov
ernment and all assistance which the
business and farming community can
render."
"The economic condition in certain
wheat growing sections of the north
west," the president said at the out
set of his message "is reaching an
acute stage that require* organized
co-operation on the part of the fed
eral government and the local In
stitutions of that territory for its
solution."
Involved In Debt.
Calling attention to the mention
lie made of this situation in hi# mes
sage to congress in December, he
continued:
"'lireat numbers of individual farm
ers are so Involved in debt both on
mortgages and to merchants and
banks that they are unable to pre
serve the equity of their property.
They are unable to undertake the
diversification of farming that is
fundamentally necessary for sound
agricultural reconstruction of the
area. They are unable to meet their
obligations and there has been in
volved the entire mercantile and
banking fabric of these regions.
"Not only have there b«ert large
numbers of foreclosures on actual
farms, but there are great numbers
of farmers who are continuing In
possession on sufferance from their
creditors.
"There have been large and in
creasing bank failures. Bills have
been introduced providing for the
lending by the federal government of
monies directly to the farmer* for
purposes of assisting them in conver
sion of their farms on the basis of
diversified farming. 1 am heartily In
favor of these bills but they do not
and will not compass the entire
problem.
"Many of the farmeia are. how
ever. in such jeopardy front their
creditors that even with this assist
ance, there is no assurance that they
would have a sufficient period in
which to work out the necessary
conversion of their methods and It
would be useless to give tc this group
such governmental assistance It it is
to be only for purposes of immediate
seizure by the creditors.
"Suoh legislation therefore will be
of little avail unless arrangements
have been effected between the farm
er and his creditors, uy the funding
of past due indebtedness and Interest
or by similar means, so that the loans
will inure to the benefit of the farmer
himself, instead of merely to the
benefit of ids creditors. If such ar
rangements CHn be made, the farmer
tan be given the opportunity to work
his way out of the pit; ent difficul
ties. If they are not made, It In dif
ficult to see how he can benefit from
the plan.
"In addition to legislation of this
character, coupled with" the agree
ments which I have mentioned look
ing to the refunding of past due in
debtedness. it is necessary to consider
whether any steps can tie taken to
bring financial help to certain limited
areas of the northwest In which em
barrassments and failures nmong
country banks have added to the
hardships of the farmeis. The war
finance corporation is still function
ing but its authority to mnke new
loans expires March 31 of this year.
[ recommend that congress extend
until December 31, 1934, the time dur
ing which loans can bo made by the
j corporation and grant some exten
11 Ion of the period for which loans
heretofore made can t-e renewed.
"It appears to me that It Is es
sential tbat the large business con
cerns such as transportation, the
more stable banks, not only in this
territory, but In adjoining states, who
necessarily benefit from the prosperi
ty of these areas, should in their own
Interest extend a very large measure
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Robert Laudon, lo-monthsold son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. Ft. Laudon. North
Platte. Neb., is going home W ednes
day with his mother, fully recovered
from a painful operation to remove a
kernel of corn from his k ft lung.
An Omaha surgeon removed the
kernel last Friday with a bronchoscope
and forceps. No anesthetic could be
given.
Location of the corn was not known
because X-ray reveals only metals as
foreign objects. First attempt to
locate the kernel last Tuesday at
Methodist hospital was unsuccessful.
All this time the baby had a
temperature of 1011 because of In
flamation of tlie windpipe and lungs
After twice putting the tube down
the baby'* throat the kernel was
seen at the end of the bronchoscope
where a tiny electric bulb is located.
When the kernel was seen tile sur
geon Inserted a long pair of forceps
in the bronehoscope and grasprd it
ltecause of the size of the kernel It
was impossible to draw the corn
through the tube. Bo bronchoscope,
forceps and kernel .ill were with
drawn at the same time.
“Robert suffered a great deal but
he is getting along fine now," said
the mother yesterday.
"It was a wonderful operation. We
knew the baby had swallowed the
corn for ho was in pain one evening
after playing with kernels of corn on
the floor. It was difficult, for him to
breathe. The kernel of corn first
went to the right lung, and then
worked fo the left. ] brought him to
Omaha in my arms with little hope
of hia recovery. But we are going
home today with Robert as sound in
health as ever."
Robert opened his big blue eyes
wide with wonder at the camera man
and cooed and laughed us his mother
proudly held him up before the
camera.
of aid in remedy of this situation,
and that creditors even further afield
such as our insurance companies ami
others should cooperate fully.
"Iti those agricultural sections in
which numerous bank failures have
contributed to the distressful condl
tions. It must be recognized, however,
that there is a distinct limit to the
scope of tire assistance which the fed
eral government Can render, tiovern
nient agencies cannot properly mirk
loans upon 1nsc< ire collateral or to
banking institutions whose capital is
impaired. Tn certain sections u more
drnatlc remedy may be necessary. It
may bo necessary, on r well org t
nized anil extensive scale, to provide
systematically for tho restoration or
strengthening of tire capital re
sources of the country hanks and fl
naming Institutions nc • utry to the
proper service of the farmer.
"It may be found to bp advisable
!o create new financing institutions,
such as have been organized with
great success in the lirestock terrl
tory to co-operate with the war'
finance corporation. Tire government
cannot supply banking capital, nor
can It organize loan companies, but
It can properly cull upon those largo
concerns, the railroads, the mercan
tile establishments, the agricultural
supply houses and ail these largi
buslnes establishments whose welfare
is immediately connected with the
welfare of tho farmer. It can ask
them. In their own Interest, as well
as In the Interest of the country,
to co-operate with federal agencies
In attacking the problem in a large
way.
"I have therefore directed the zee
retarles of commerce and agriculture
nnd tire managing director of the war
finance corporation to confer with
representatives of the Interested
groups to devise a practical plan of
action."
^ if«* Alleges 11 ti si hi ihI Mas
Colored Matt-; Aokt* Divorce
Shenandoah, la . Jan. 23.—Mrs.
Maria Miller, In her divorce petition
from Jesse Miller of Clnrlndu, alleges
that her husband lrus u colored wife.
Martha Miller, whom lie married July
19. 1921. at Leavenworth. Kan., and
has never divorced.
Doctor Is Held
for Trial on
Murder Count
Hearing for Ntir-e \rrcstcd in
(,a*c to Hr Held as
Star Chamber
Session.
Dr. I5" A. Edward# was bound over
to district court on $5,000 bond on a
charge of murder while performing
an Illegal operation, after a prelim 1
nary hearing in municipal court \rs
terday .
Case of Mr#. Lillian Child, jointly
charged with causing the death of
Miss Lillian Holman, was continued
until thl# afternoon at 1:15.
The hearing will he resumed ns
a star chamber session In the office
of Municipal Judge Holme#.
Witnesses at the afternoon heat
I ing Included Helen Brockan, book
keeper at the Nicholas Penn hospital,
and A. H. Uriffilh. manager, who
testified that the girl# dying state
ment, read In court, was signed
in their presence after it had been
read to her.
Detective Arthur English, who
raided the child home, where the
operation is alleged to have been per
formed, testified that lie found nn
operating table In one room, and that
Mrs. Child was wearing an apron on
which was n blood stain when he en
tered the house. He admitted that
he did not have a search warrant.
Heading of the girl s dying state
nient brought the name of Ed llazen,
hall player, Into court records In con
neetion with the case for the first
time. Hagen Is named in the state
ment by Miss Holman ns the man re
sponsible for her condition.
Mrs. Olfs Recovering.
Mrs. Carolina Olfs. 5B01 South
Twenty-fourth street, is reported to
bo recovering from a recent illness at
Methodist hospital.
Hiram Johnson
to V isil Omaha
PrceidcnliHl Aspirant Coming
Next Month. Managerial
Candidate Says.
Frank A. Harrison o£ Lincoln, Neb
and Alhambra. Cal., breezed Into
Omaha Wednesday morning and
straightway directed his footsteps to
the court house.
Mr. Harrison, who lias been Identi
fied with Nebraska politics ever since
Salt Creek became famous, probably
will be the charge d'affalrs of the
Hiram Johnson campaign In Nebras
ka. which position he held four yeats
ago when the California candidate
carried the Nebraska presidential pref
erential primary with a total vote
of about 60,000 and about 25.000 over
his next competitor.
Tomorrow morning Frank 11.
Hitchcock, general manager of the
Johnson presidential campaign, is ex
pected here to confer with Mr. Har
rison, Dan Wonder of Lincoln and
other Johnson leaders of the slate
At this conference a Nebraska man
ager will be named, according to
telegraphic Information from John
son's headquarters In Chicago.
"It Is Johnson weather In Nebras
ka," averred Mr. Harrison. He ex
pressed his belief that Senator
George W. Norna will be a candi
date and that he will be re-elected.
Mr. Harrison managed Senator
Norris’ last campaign.
High School Girl Injures
Leg in Coasting Accident
fly A«*<m i*tc«i Trr**.
Grand Island. Neb. Jan. 23 —AletH
Manchester, North Loup High school
girl, was Injured painfully while
coasting near Scotia. The slide, com
ing down the chalk hills, crosses a
narrow gulch which is bridged. The
sled ran close to the wooden walls
of the bridge and .in eight-inch
splinter tore the flesh from knee to
hip. requiring 30 stitches.
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|C. L. Allen Leads
Association of
State Millers
[Nrliraoka Body hinlor-?e» a
trnvay Project and Mellon
Tax Reduction Plan
Seek* Kate Cut.
C. L. Alter, manager l»f J’.l.fk
Brothers Milling rorupaJiy, was elect
president of the Nebraska Milters(
association at its convention jester
day in Hotel Fontenellc.
Others elected were 1‘J. K. Black
burn, vice president, Omaha; J. N
Campbell, secretary treasurer. l*ort I
A. Johnson was chosen director foi
cn#» j-cnr and Ernest Myers and John
Wagner were held over one year.
J. E. Jacobson, J. A. Emerson and
t\ E. Uin/unore were elected direc
tors f<*r the two-year term.
Kesidution endorsing the Great
I,ake«-£t. Eawrenco waterway proj
ect was adopted and its building
urged for the earliest possible date
Other resolutions follow:
"YVhersas. the revenue* colte* ted by
the federal government are now more
than S8Oft,000.000 in t«c«*i*e of tte n»*»l*.
and where**, the agricultural Internet* of
the vountrv ere crippled t»'. th- after
tho-wer deflation tiro» w, therefore.
\ni»rove Mellon Tit Plan.
Resolved: That th- N>bra«ka MiH'-rt
ssoclatlon approve lhe Mellon tax plan,
v»... especially ask that tax*** on tele
phone and telegraph messages he *n
nulled aa an unneces-ary and unjuat re
jtrt* tjon in the business world
“Resolved further: That the milter*
promptly and vigorously urge upon th n
representative* and senators In con* res*
the Immedlau t i --g- of the Yistal
decimal freight bill. *
"lie"«i!ved forth'That to meet the
emergent V of the threatened teas • f our
flour trade m Cuba, we earnestly renuest
the federal tariff commte-lon to enter
Info p reciprocal agreement with Cuban
renrea'-ntat Ives now in Washington,
wherebv the tariff on Impor** of Cuban
nugar ha reduced and a larger sale of
our mill products In Cuba aetired. This
a e t jon being nece**ar\ tn order to put
our mill* on a parity with thos* of Cana
da In competition for the flour tiade
of Cuba.
■ Resolved further That we give our
*'ipoort. as far a* possible to all th*i
plans suggested bv the Millers National
federation for e!in nattne the »v'l 'n»d'
practices which have so demoralized and
injured the milling Industry -luring the
last year of Intensive n-.nip*»ttt i-m.
I rre* KhI*- Cut.
“Resolved further That we hold to
the principle of more and better v. heat
to the acre, and to the practice of dlv»r
>.f!< -Cion of crons to maintain soil fer
tility. but we are against continued arti
fi ial agitation for the reduction of wheat
acreage Jn th s hard winter wheat
because of the superior auallt "f of t he
hard winter wheat for bread making
purposes, and the i'mlte dsunnlv 'f the
same compared to the demand.
“Resolved further That we tender a
vote of thank" for the courtesies ex'end
ed to this b dv. to th* Hotel Kontenelle.
the Beni’" Brothers Bag comranv the
nmahn chamber of Commerce and »o
the speaker* who ha%e taken part In
the program.”
J. E. Jacobson, Lexington: (I. H
Teeter®, North B®nd, and J C.
Rousch, On aw a, la , made up the
ievolutions committee.
f*. V. Topping, Recretarj' of tlie
Southwestern Millers' tengue, spoke
on reduction of freight rates so that
tlie central association imy be served
as cheaply from Nebraska and points
west as from Minneapolis mills.
The speaker alto asked a reduction J
of about 25 cents .* Hundred pounds
on flour being shipped to Portland,
Ore., to enlarge tlie opening made by
th® growing oriental trade. The rate j
now is 75 cents
Railroads Favorable.
‘‘Railroads are inclined to accept ‘
lilts reduction." said Alt. T'ljiping. I
"because they now no forc'd to
carry empty cars west to take cait
of the fruit grower*. They might
lust as well be carry in , our flour
with them.”
A reduction of the tiriff on sugar
from $1.76 to fl was advocated. This
was urged, said tho speaker, to put
the United States on a parity with
Canada in competing for Cuban flour
trnde. Cuba, bo said, in return for
the reduction of Canadian tariff on
sugar, buys almost entirely of Cana
dian flour.
Outlook Bad in East.
A. It. Kinney, president of the Ne
braska Consolidated Mills company,
who is returning from a meeting In
Chlongo and a visit to New dork,
stated that the milling outlook in
tho east is bad. due to the low quoted
prices. The condition in the central
west, he said, is little better, became
of tho poor market.
Chauncy Abbott, just back from
Europe, sounded a hopeful note when
he stated that the American com
inert ia list should feel confidence in
America. To prove this he cited con
ditions in Europe.
The general sentiment of the
millets is one of hopefulness for 1924
because of the fact that there is not
the surplus grain on hand that there
was at the beginning of 1223. They
also will cut down production until
the market becomes steady.
Omahan Killed
When Hit bv Train;
Allen DiltJ, 50, Struck by
Burlington Train—Neigh
bor Identifies Body.
Allen DIM, 50, 1234’4 South Fif
teenth street, was struck by Chicago,
Burlington A Quincy train No. 38,
east bound, at Fifteenth and Marcy
streets yesterday at 3:30 and whs in
stantly killed.
He is married, but has no children.
Indentification was made by F. A.
Au«tin, who lives In the same house
Only witness to the accident, so far
as police have been able to discover,
was Louis Hague, 2024 Vinton street.
Mottes O Briftt of Omaha to
I lead e\hra-ka Pioners
Line In, Jan. 23.—Moses p. O'Brien
of Omaha today was elected president
of the Nebraska Territorial Pio
neers, who are In convention here.
T. II Bobbitt of Lincoln was chosen
first yh president' Mrs. B. H. Ulan
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