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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

He therefore proceeds to the !ogical
conclusion. Not only does he refuse 10
aid the present government, but ne re-
fuses to recognize il as his government
and has proceeded from the very nrs'
70 call for a civil war against IT. Inc
largest formulation Of his thought CON
corning the present war and the kus-
sian revolution j. as follows: The wnole
war is 70 be transformed in all coun-
tries into civil war against the existing
governments. In the March report,
from which have quoted, and IN re-
peated speeches since that time, Lenine
not only called for a civil war against
the Russian government, but also called
for a transformation of the present war
between nations into civil war. That
is to say, he is for civil war at any
price. entirely regardless of its effect
on the outcome of the present struggle.
A. the same time he insists upon re-
garding the Russian revolution or
March as 4 mere incident in the coming
revolution in Russia and in other
countries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Edward Earle, Monoplaniac

ures of the plane twisting and turn
ing and volplaning and everything and
ask US 20 believe that the hero is in
side it,"
But for once we were wrong. We
knew that Edward Earle piloted that
car, or that the director had discovered
a new way to fool US, and 50 the first
question we asked Mr.. Earle was,
did you really fly in that picture
For France'?" and as the old song
says "and this was his reply;
eyes, did Ay in that picture, and
it was my first fight. Also, may add,
not my last.
ADO you like tea and things" asked
Mr.. Earle, Bunker Bean-like. And
then we stopped discussing aeroplanes
70 discuss the relative merits Of but
tered and dry toast. But we were de-
cidcdly anxious 70 get back TO flying
again, because one may interview an
actor who eats toast any day, but it
isn't easy to corral one who has actu-
ally toyed with the stars.
Sc we desisted from the consuming
Of our buttered toast long enough
TO say, weren't you frightened when
you felt yourself leaving the ground"
Our host balanced some orange mar
malsde accurately on a piece Of dry
toast as he replied, That's il; you
don't feel yourself leaving the ground.
You just sit still and the earth re-
cedes, and the first thing you know
you can't see the earth any more. and
then you know you are getting up
pretty high.
"Well, rehearsing that part Of the
picture was the most pleasant thing !
ever did, and Immediately became a
sort of monoplaniac. The only story
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
+ cared Power OF
Kaiser s Armies

In following the evolution Of the
Bolskheyiki we have 20 consider
Trotzky d Russian jew whose real
Eame is Braunstcin) as well as Lenino.
No; only is TrotZky head Of III" Work
r,en's and Soldiers Council OF Petrc-
grad now, but he was head Of the
same body and one of its first origina-
tors in the great revolutionary up
heaval of 1905. After the present war
had been going on for three months
1rOtzky summed up the political phi
losophy held at that period m a
pamphlet published in Zurich. ms
pamphlet also contains a mixture OF
reason and unreason. In II Tictzky
practically discerds political action, O.
"the method Of national opposition in
parIiaments," in favor of violence and
mass action" That is 20 say, ar
archistic movements leading up TO
complete revolution. In defence OF
this position he says that since world
j.olitics and wars have came 70 domi-
nate national politics, parllaments
Rave come TO have comparatively little
value for the working class.
Here we have the first appe arance
among the Bolsheviki of a distinct
form of anarchism; sort OF syndi-
calist philosophy which is at least as
near to anarchism as 1t IS TO any
revolutionary socialism.
But in the same pamphlet lrotzky
expressed fear Of Germany and the
German armies which is in direct con-
tradiction TO the views now adopted
By the BolsheviH advocating sep
arate armistice). On October 81 1914.
Trotzky wrote:
"The fate of the Russian revolution
is so inseparably connected with the
fate Of European socialism, and We
Russian Socialists are such GOOD IN
ternationalists, that we could never
purchase the freedom of Russia by tn.
certain destruction of the freedom OF
France and Belgium and by the poison
ing of the German and Austrian pro-
lotariat By means of imperialism
(which would, in this case. have sue
caedcd against France and Belgium.
"The defeat of revolutionary Russia
by Germany would mean the paralysis
% the revolution because it could no.
be denied that the party of the Ger
man proletariat stood behind the Ger
man bayonets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
His Logic Calls
For Civil War

Here we have the Bolsheviki doctrine
approximately in it's final stage of pro-
German anarchism. The power capital
list governments OF Great Britain,
France and America their democratic
clements being utterly ignOred) are
actually regarded as more dangerous
and reactionary than governments like
Germany, where capitalism is mingled
with feudal militarism and despotic
monarchism. Moreover. in this same
March document. Lenine adopts pre-
cisely the same semi-anarchistic view
formulated by Trotzky two years before.
Lenine repudates the orthodox So
cialist view Of Kaufsky. He saws
definitely that the bourgeois democratic
republics are entirely unnecessary and
instead Of them should be another type
Of social organization, under 1.-THE di-
rect power of armed and organized
workers. Such is the state we need.
Such was the character of the Com
mune OF 1871 and of the Council of
Workmen and Soldiers Of 1905 and 1917.
on this basis we build"
But Lenine is nothing II not logical.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
His Army Views
A Strange Anomaly

Here we see the position taken when
the Bolsheviki captured Petrograd on
November 3 almost completely de-
yeloped. We have now to point out
that even q few weeks ago the Boil
sheviki had not developed so far in
the direction of pro-German separate
peace as they have to-day. In state
mcnt made in Russia at that time
Lenine wrote:
I'VE must recognize at once the
right of all nationaities to vote freely
Upon the question as to whether they
wish TO be Independent, or TO cast their
lot with this or that nation"
Here is a principle upon which the
whole of the Stockholm and Soviet
German peace programmes could be re-
jected at every point. Lenine pro-
ceeds further to elaborate a very cur'-
Gus idea of a democratic army. without
discipline by which he hopes to 'efend
the Russian revolution from the Kaiser
while at the same time bringing about
4 revolution in Germany.
This statement continues:
How shall we then secure that
early peace without resorting I; vio-
lent means. but in a purely democratic
war?
81 must state at first that a mere
refusal to fight on the part of the
soldiers of one belligerent army, or
the cessation of hostilities on one
side of the line will not put an en-
% the war.
"The war must be fought on by
different military organization, not by
an army organized as the present
army is. but by militia whose men,
bers shall receive for their services
wages equal to those of first class
workingman. 49,
"The officers of the militia should
be elected by the soldiers, and s1bJect
10 recall. and every order of the of
fcers or generals should be approved
by a vote of the men. For it is only
ciected officers whom the men cen be
expected to obey and respect.
ain order that the soldiers be bet
Tor fed a repartition of the lands
should be arranged for as soon az
possible by the Council OF Working
mems and Soldiers Deputies. and the
supply of bread and meat thereby IN
creased"
Finally. we must encourage az one
every attempt made by the soldiers on
both sides of the line to fraternize. IT
o. Ter that these instructive manifesto
,ions of solidarity may ripen INTO
conscious, organized movemen, 10
place the governmental owners OF
every belligerent nation in the bands
Of the revolutionary proletariat, whithl
alone can restrain the whiphands OF
capitalism.
In this programme it must be noted
that there is no direct advocacy either
OF a separate peace or separate
armistice or of negotiations with the
German government under any form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
By Harriette Underhill

Jeanie Macpherson is a little girl
Who has done big things. Plenty OF
people can write scenarios, but when
they want anything really impressive
we'll. they just leave it to Jane.
Having seen Joan the Woman" and
THE Little American" and THE
Woman God Forgot" it is not strange
hat our mind conceived Miss Mac
Dberson as a middle aged person who
wore a Persian lamb coat and allowed
the little finger Of her glove to project
beyond the finger which it incased.
Later we saw a Greenwich Village
prodigy, who wore a smock and san
dals and short hair. We learned that
she wrote dreadfully clever things, so
we thought perhaps that Miss Mac
pherson looked like that, too, and 1t
was with a confused blending Of these
two images to guide US that we at
tempted 70 pick our interviewee out of
the throng in the lobby of the Astor
Hotel.
There was a person there with a
coat and gloves such as the Miss Mac
pherson Of our first picture might
have worn, so we approached her first,
but she denied the sppellation as in
dignantly as though she had been &C
cused Of being Flora Finch. Our next
try was a young lady with short hair
and a swsgger stick, who looked as
though she might be prodigiously clev-
or, but she, too, proved to be other than
the object of our search. And then
the real Miss Macpherson took pity on
US and presented herself. 1t is dis
concerning TO be prepared for the
beast and to meet beauty instead.
Jeanie Macpherson is about as big
as Mary Pckford, and quite as beau
tiful, with big blue eyes and lots Of
curly hair. She wore a beige duvetyn
frock, which might have come straight
from lombard, Ltd, and beaver furs
and little hat to match.
"Are you Jeanne Macpherson" we
asked incredulously. "Well, then, why
aren't you on the screen instead Of
behind it,"
Because" said Jeanne, pathetically,
they wouldn't let me. Sit down and
I'll tell you all about it. l was once a
Griffith girl! Yes started out gayly,
little knowing what was in store for
me. was happy Griffith girl, with
Mary Pickford and Blanche Sweet and
he others, and then one day they
found out that could write.
We'll, that was the beginning Of
the end. Ingenues there were a-plenty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

Edward Earle goes up in the air on
the slightest provocation!
OF course, no one at the Vitagraph
Studio will indorse the foregoing.
Down there ne is one Of the most pop
ular stars in the galaxy, because he
never wants 20 write his own titles
nor assemble his own pictures; also
Re doesn't try 70 come between the
camera and the closeup Of the next
most important person in the cast, be-
cause he doesn't share the opinion Of
many stars that good ive-reel pict-
ure means 5000 feet OF the hero.
II may even be stated that ne never
disacrees with the director nor talks
back 10 the camera man. and yet we
repeat that Edward Earle goes up in
the air on the least Provocation, and
We know II is true because he told us
30 himself.
II was all because the hero in the
recent war picture "For France" be-
came an aviator instead Of dough
boy" OF course, every one knows that
directors have a way Of making things
"look like what they amt but no good
director ever kills an actor in the mid
die Of picture, however richly some
Of them may deserve it, because, a.
every gentle film fan knows. that would
necessitste retake, which is ex-
penciye and bothersone.
So when Edward Earle appeared on
the screen in the very fetching costume
which the aviator in France wears, we
said, "Fsney a motion picture actor
driving an aeroplane' OF course they
will let him climb in and then they
will fash back 20 some other safer
topic until the plane is well up in
the sky, and then they will show piet-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

that looks good to me now is one which
has lots of aeroplanes in it,
Here our hosts cessation Of attack
on the toast and marmalade convinced
US that he was up in the clouds again,
so we said. soothingly, "Tell us about
the letters you receive. You do re-
ceive letters, of course" Such single
ness of purpose is very beautiful, but
our interest is sporadic, and we wanted
to know about lots of things besides
aying-hencc the desire to get back to
earth. "Do you receive lots Of let
ters?"
"Why, yes; every actor does receive
a great many letters, of course.
suppose you don't know Of any good
stories featuring an aeroplane, do
you?" It was no use, What must be
must be; so we suggested "The Flying
Dutchman," but this was hastily re-
Iected, and VIC tried "a Tale of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Gives Separate Peace
New Name

We now arrive at the final stage OF
the evolution of the Bolsheviks toward
that insane form of anarchism desired
nv the German government in this
great crisis. In an interview with the
correspondent of "The New YORK
World of October % Trotzky said:
On demanding immediate peace we
find il inevitable that Russia act
alone, because we believe that is the
only way to get quick action Thls
enables US 10 understand the first point
of the programme of the Bolshevlk
proclamation upon gaining control or
Petrograd. "the offer Of imnedlate
democratic peace" II is a new name
for a separate peace.
On the same day Lenine said con-
corning the Bolshevik Instruction:
This is only a preliminary step tow
ard q similar revolution everywhere
There is nothing more certain than
that a worldwide fever OF revolutions
would be supported cordially by the
German governments secret propa-
eanda, Just as had been the case re-
Gently in China. Mexico and other
countries.
This is truth clearly seen by that
well grounded and mature German rev.
olutionist Karl I.i~bkrechf lcr. - h's
most famous writing (Which won him
his first year of imprisonment less
than decade ago., he opposed q
series of revolutionary movements
against war One of the chief reasons
ne gave was the following:
THE most backward people is the
strongest from military standpoint.
A plan of action Of this kind Can in
ternational proletarian uprising against
war; would cease to set a premium on
cultural backwardness only If the
training and pugnacity of the great
mass of the proletariat of all the
countries at war had reached approx
mately the same high level"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Peasants May Head
Anti Socialist Revolt

There was only one case where Lieb-
knecht would Justify such move
ment. That was in case Russian
revolution was menaced by armed
forces. He says: "Ir case Of inter-
vention in Russia (against a revolu
tionary Russia. then, indeed, the cry
OF valiant, Rather instruction than
war would find an echo in every
country"
This case has now arisen, and what
do we find? We find one of the lead
ing Socialist factions OF Russia, the
very faction for which Liebknecht is
the greatest German hero Of the pres
ent day, fighting against a social revo-
lutionary government of Russia, even
TO the point of actively aiding the Ger
man arms in their invasion Of that
country
But the Bolshevik rule in Petro-
grad is not permanent. In my talk
with Lenine in the woods of Finland
in those early revolutionary days the
anarchist Socialist thinker had a very
clear premonition Of what would nee
essarily and inevitably happen in case
the workingmen of the Russian cities
secured temporary control of the gov
eminent. As ! wrote in my book at
that time. he predicted that the Rus
sian peasants may some day shoot
down the revolutionary workmen as
the French peasants did during the
Paris Commune"
Whether this day OF reckoning comes
tomorrow, next week or next year,
there is every reason for supposing
that the forecast of the fate Of the
Bolsheviki will be fulfilled.
No force Of the world can prevent
extremists from becoming more and
more extreme until they approach the
verge of insanity. But this tendency
of extremlsm to destroy itself utterly
is the hope OF humanity at the present
time, as il has been in past ages.
Unreason can talk forever, but II can
scarcely govern n single day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

Plains with the Stars" and "The
Wings Of the Morning" but none of
these, strange TO say, met with Mr..
Esrle's approval.
He is hard TO suit. So We suggest
ed that he write his next story him
self. and he promised to do so. Why
have not the managers thought OF this
before? Let each star write his own
scenarios and then he would be quite
satisfied with his stories. "'Tis a
contamination devoutly TO be wished"
II. u.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Lenine Critical
OF German Socialists

"He feels that the revolution in Rus
sia is being retarded consciously by
foreign capitalists and governments,
which are very glad to be able to hold
il back at any cost, knowing that 1t IS
sure 20 have a social character IN the
end that will affect even their own gov
ernments. All of his views are formed
with a very full knowledge of the eco
nomic and political situation OF other
countries, and are especially interest
ing because he sharply differentiates
his socialism from that prevailing IN
Germany, whence the leaders Of the OPP
posite faction have taken bodily nearly
all their ideas. The German movement,
he finds, has been too anxious to be
legal. Under a despotic government
like that of Prussia he would have been
glad to see it take more illegal and
violent form; he thought that it had
been deluded by the fact that Prussia
had a paper constitution
Here we see that Lenine already
leans in his sympathies toward the Ger
man government in a negative way
that is, he regards the French and Brit
ish governments with far greater hos
tility because they had loaned money 10
the Gar. The Kaiser's promise TO the
Car to put down revolution with his
armies, known to every Russian revo!u-
ZIONIST at that time, seemed to Lenlne
to be of secondary Importance. But
there was also an element Of reason IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
From Socialism to Anarc hism
The Evolution of the Bolshevik Toward
Revolutionary Lunacy
By William English Walling

Lenines views at that time. II unduly
favorable 10 the German government.
he was keenly critical of the German
Socialists. and realized that there was
no revolutionary spirit among them
while they we're deluded by the Kaiser's
mock democracy Of the Reichstag.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Empress Of Austria Gives Approval
To Two Brothers Fighting for Belgium
Two of Zita's Sisters
Nurse British Wound
ed-Opposes German
Control Of Her Coun-
try
BY Temple Moore

"HE Empress of Austria has two
brothers, who, with her APP
proval, are lighting on the SIDE
of the Allies. A third brother - an
officer in the Austrian army.
The story has not previously been
told to the public regarding the atti-
tude of the Austrian Empress townrd
the choice made by her brothers OF the
side 20 which they should offer their
sw ord in the world war.
An extraordinary coincidence oc-
Cured on a day when decorations were
being distributed on the Western front
among the officers and soldiers who
had distinguished themselves for spe-
cial acts of bravery. NJ. Raymond
Poincare, the French President, was in
charge of the solemn function. which
took place in the northeast Of France
British, French, Belgian, Russian,
Bohemian and Portuguese fighting men,
selected for special acts Of bravery and
military service TO be honored by the
head of the French Republic, were lined
I'D to receive medals and other decora-
tions. In the line were the two broth
ers Of the Empress of Austria. Both
of them, as officers in the Belgian ar
tilery facing the Germans in tn, DIFF
ficult sector north of Ypres. hal COW
cred themselves with glory, not only
by their expert ability in handling the
Belgian field guns, but by their in
dividual acts of daring in recommending
the German lines and in directing the
operations of their men in the most
perilous positions.
On the same day the Austrian En-
peror, with much ceremony, conferred
medal for military valor on the other
brother of the Empress, the one fight
ing for the cause of the Central En-
pires.
Two of the Austrian Emprcss's sis
tiers are working in the hospita. ser
vice of the Allies. They are Benedic.
tine nuns of st. Cecilia and arc sta
toned ats Ryde, in the Isle of Wight
The elder of the two, Princess Ade-
laide, is known in religion as Sister
Maria Benedicta, while the younger,
Princess Frances Joseph, named after
her grand-uncle, the later Emperor
Francis Joseph, is called Sister Scolas
tica.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

II USSTA has been evolving ward
II cxtremism by two different
routes. Every few weeks has
placed more and more extreme group
in power in Petroerad. First, we had
an advanced radical but non-Scciallst
party in power. This was followed by
n coalition government with the mod
crate Socialists. Later, the moderate
Socialists. under Kerensky, ruled alone;
and finally we had the Bolshevlki IN
control Of Petrograd
But a second evolution has been 60
ing on at the same time and IN the
same direction. Before the March rev.
olution the Bolsheviks were nearly rev
olutionary Socialists Of type known
in all countries, combining reason and
unreason in their political thinking and
their programme OF action. They have
been steadily evolving in the direction
of a more and mere extreme form OF
radicalism until their present position
is almost undistinguishable from that
of the most extreme anarchists.
At the time of the last abortivC revC-
luton, ten years ago, ! visited Nkolai
Ulianof (Lenine) in his hiding place
in the WOODS of Finland. | noted down
his conversation in book published
at that time after having had the ad-
vantage Of half days talk with him.
Already his revolutionary ideas, with
which | agreed in part, contained GER
tain elements that appeared TO he ex-
tremely unreasonable. But, neverthe-
Jess. reason still seemed to predomi-
nate. Here are one or two Of the most
important points of that interview as
I summed it up at that time;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11

TIME Empress of Austria has two
brothers, who, with her APP
= i - G,h+;po, an the side