The Washington times., 1919-11-23

Lenine's desk and tricks him into
eating more than his share of the
national food allowance.
His biographers say that he
starved and froze himself with
the others, and exposed himself to
bullets as they did.
Perhaps not true, but it sounds
like the man.. II true, very foolish
OF him and his crowd. If one had
to be hit by an oncoming train, he
would. IL possible, expose his foot
rather than his head to the wheels.
Lenine in Russia is the head, and
the feet ought, for their own
safety to feed him and keep him
Napoleon used to send back
messages from the front promis-
ing France that he would keep
out of danger for her sake. Good
psychology; it pleased the French
and made them think Napoleon
was keeping safe as special IA
vor. He doubled his apparent
bravery without risk.
In the.years, waiting for Gar
dom to topple over, and for. the
war that gave the push, Lenine's
life was filled with an amount of
work incredible in any but Slav.
de translated the works of others,
wrote books of his own by the
score, spent months studying the
treasures of the British Museum.
England would have been, like
kerensky's father, surprised to
know that the haggard, dismal
looking Russian student would
cause England to send troops,
ships and treasure against him,
in Siberia and elsewhere, and
WITHOUT SUCCESS.
Only last week Lloyd George
announced that England would no
longer spend money and men
hunting Lenine, who, while ago,
might have been captured, with
a book under his arm, by any
London policeman.
The wars beginning found Le-
nine in Austria, stirring up trou-
Bile for authority, as usual. He
was jailed, freed, went to SwitG-
erland, and when the Car fell was
allowed to enter Russia through
Germany with one hundred as
sorted revolutionists.
Germany let them in that they
might make trouble in Russia.
Another surprise, Lenine's Boil
shevism, which means the 'major-
ity," and is an old word with him,
infected the Kaiser's troops and
helped the Kaiser to fall in his
turn.
Germany did not dare bring
back to the west her troops that
had come under revolutionary in
fiuence on the Russian frontier,
and THERE they would not fight.
Persuasive Lenine must be.
Raymond Robins, not a Bolshe-
visit, declares that Lenine's mere
word scratched on paper ruled
Russia for thousands of miles,
where there was not a red
guard or any soldier on Lenine's
payroll.
To know how far a man will 20,
ask what his followers think of
him. Thought rules everything.
Williams, whose book you are re-
viewing, says the Russian nation,
peasant farmers and city workers,
say that Lenine is "not only leader
OF all the Bolsheviks, but of every
body else in Russia, in Europe and
in all the world"
Those who believe that every
thing is and always has been per-
feet because they have enough,
and those aware that everything,
including government, must grow
and can't be made to order, find
much to excite ridicule in Lenine's
program.
He addresses a great Bolsheyik
congress at Smolny, and begins,
Comrades, we shall now take up
the formation of the Socialist
State"
Imagine how that thrilled thou
sands that had honestly worked
against tyranny in Petrograd cell
lars and Siberian snow and be-
lieved that only words were needed
to change men and government!
Lenine might as we'll have said,
Comrades, we shall now take up
the formation of a human baby."
Babies and governments grow.
Sometimes they are diseased.
sometimes they die, usually they
are a disappointment when full
grown, and never are they perfect.
But Russia is busy with the i'm
possible, trying to make a perfect
state out of a few earnest fanatics
and scores of millions tNat can
neither read nor write, only FEEL,
do not think.
1t is an interesting part of the
world, with somrade this, comrade
that, rifles cracking, peasants on
the inside of palaces upon the out
side walls of which they once
gazed with awe, peasants getting
the land, workers getting the fac
tories, and Lenine already twice
shot hy a csaSsipS-opca hy q civil