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1t, on flights of passion, or flights of
the mystery of the instant weaving of
patterns of words. Trotzky has clever
ness, and he has vehemence. He sprays
the poison Of his ideas upon his hear
ers with penetrating force which
even Robins's sophisticated attention
was stunned by. Robins could detest
nobodys ideas more than Trotzkys.
The one man is an individualist and
preacher of religion. The other is
communist and preacher of material
ism. Their one point of contact is
oratory. On that point Robins is in
clined to regard Trotzky as unfortu-
nately the worlds champion performer
Facing the democratic conference
Trotzky did not even bother to refer
to the words pro German" and Ger
man agent" and "spy" and "traitor"
He paid no attention to them. He
plunged straight into Bolshevism and
into the Bolshevist programme, and
spoke for the programme; and it began
to win. Through Trotzky, through
Kamenov, through Rosanov, through
Stccklov, through hard work, through
hard talk it began to win. Before
that convention was over, among dele
gates who had started pro- government,
the Bolsheviks had almost won an
open anti-go government victory.
AS it was, they won a covert vic
tory. They succeeded in getting the
convention to vote down a resolution
in favor of coalition with the Cadets"
that is, a resolution in favor of the
Kerensky kind of government. They
succeeded in getting the convention to
refrain from indorsng the Cadet Co.
altion" idea. And they succeeded in
securing the withdrawal of the reso-
luton in favor of the war. 1t was
spirit dominated the close of the con-
ference. For Robins, for any pro-war
man, for any man as nationalistic as
Robins, it was an ending most miser-
able, most forebodng.
The audience stood, unregardful Of
national Russia. The resolution for
the war was gone. 1t was buried. The
audience stood and sang the song, the
hymn, called THE International" They
sang it for their message. 1t was their
word. They had no word for Russia.
They had no word for the army. They
had no word for the fight against the
Germans. They had "The lnternation-
AL" 1t might have been sung in Ger
many 1t is to-day being sung in Ger
many. 1t was sung that night in Petro-
grad with the souls of the singers.
1t was the symbol of the triumph,
covert and indirect, but still triumph,
Of the Bolsheviki in that Democratic
Congress Of All Russia.
Robins listened and went away ana
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propaganda among them, and he gives
it as his considered opinion that the
Bolshevik propaganda was indeed
urgent and active, but that after all it
was much like the case of d man blow
ing with his breath in the same direc-
ton with a full-grown natural tornado.
Unless that fact is considered and
frankly faced and admitted, says Rob-
ms, it is impossible to understand
what happened afterward or what is
happening now. A thick darkness of
misery, of mental misery and Of physi-
cal misery more than any darkness Of
propaganda, was driving Russia
toward peace. If we could even begin
to take the measure of that misery we
could then also begin in some slight
fashion to take the measure Of the
shut-eyed and hearted stupidity
which attributes the agonized convul-
sions Of peoples in Russia and in Hun
gary and in Austria and in Germany
to agtators and to pamphlets.
In Russia the industrial directing
brain of the country was almost gone.
Much of it had been German When
the war came the Germans went Some
Of them went back to Germany, and
some of them sank down into Russia
and lived submerged. In either case
they ceased to help to manage Russian
business for Russia.
Then came forward the Russian part
Of the per cent, the truly Russian
part of it, out of she nobility, out Of
the universities, out of the professions.
out of business. They volunteered to
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None KnOius Russia

ROBlNS expresses himself strongly
at this point. He wants to be
perfectly sure that he does not in any
way give the impression that the peace
movement in Russia was simply
movement of Bolshevik propaganda.
He has just one hesitation He knows.
and he keeps on saying, that the full
truth about Russia is not under any
one mans hat. The full truth about
Russia, for even any one month of the
Hateful year 1917, may not be known
till after decades of research by hun
dreds of inquirers. But Robins is will
ing to say, and does .say:
"If I do not know more about the
opinions of the common soldiers and
of the common workmen who made the
Bolshevik revolution of 1917 than any
other foreign representative then in
Russia it is because my intelligence
was not equal to my opportunities"
He had the opportunities, and he did
not neglect them. When he saw that
Trotzky was a power in the Democratic
Conference he did not evade him. He
went to where he was. He walked up
to him and talked to him, just as in
Chicago, when he was head resident of
the Northwestern University Settle
ment and afterward member of the
City Board of Education and then mem
Der of the City Charter Convention
and chairman of the State Committee
of the Progressive party; he talked to
more different sorts of people, radical
and reactionary, sacred and profane.
than anybody else had ever collected
into one acquaintance. More even than
being a professional speaker and
preacher, Robins is a professional COL
lector of people and Of peoples opin-
ions and ideas. Having seen him gather
them in Chicago, all the way from the
white right wing of the City Club to
the red left wing of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor, l can readily see him.
with his characteristic gait, as of an
Indian on the trail, gathering them
tlrelessly in Russia--and systematic
cally.
Every day he had before him on his
desk, translated by corps of Russian
assistants, all the opinions of all the
Russian newspapers regarding any
matter of interest to America He suf-
fered nothing in the way of printed
opinion to escape him; and he also
gave himself to the study Of that much
more elusive kind of opnion~spoken
opinion.
Ho studiedtit especially among the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Colonel Roosevelt on Colonel RAYMOND Robins

~ AYMOND ROBINS comes into the
IN columns of The New York Tribune
Magazine this week with the first in
stalment of his sensational story of Boil
shevlst Russia, narrative which is of i'm
mediate world Importance in the present
world encounter with Bolshevsnl
Colonel Roosevelt to know Robins thor
oughly and knowing him, to have confidence in
his character and his capacity particularly for such
missions the to Russia Colonel Roosevelt,
in fact, urged him to go to Russia, and Robins
setting out sent him this message:
My Dear Raymond Robins:
l pleased than l can say.
You will do great work. I
not say how glad l that you are
going Faithfully yours
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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IN THE Allied embassies and mis-
sions, Robins goes on to point out,
there we're numbers of men of the
highest native ability and of immense
experience and of the finest character
and patriotism. 1t was their business
to judge public events. That was their
speciality. They we're in Russia to
guide their governments regarding the
facts of Russian affairs. They earned
their living doing just that sort of
thing. Yet virtually every one of them,
in sympathy, in policy, in influence,
was with Kornilov. Virtually every
one Of them put his money, so to speak,
on Kornilov And they we're all
wrong. They were betting the diplo-
matte favor of their countries on
horse that had no chance.
In the mean time there was in Russia
an American business man "a copper
operator. He wore an American uni
form. He had become, for the time
being, colonel in command of an
American mission. He was head of
the American Red Cross in Petrograd.
Colonel Billings, the first head, had
been obliged to return to America, He
was succeeded in Petrograd by Colonel
William B. Thompson.
Colonel Thompson never took any
stock in the Kornilov adventure at any
time at any price. He was not
trained observer Of foreign political
affairs. He was a copper man. He was
a hnancier. He was absolutely with
out diplomatic experience. Yet he
went automatically absolutely right.
Quite naturally, says Robins, Colonel
Thompson used the methods Of simple
door fact instead of the methods Of
indoor gossip and surmise. BY dwell
ing on fact he helped Robins to see
that adventures like Kornilov's were
impossible in Russia at that time.
Kornilov was appealing to the senti-
ment of law and order and discipline,
and he needed middle class. There
was no such class in Russia There
SO per cent. and there was virtually
nothing in between. The SO per cent
were not interested in law and order.
They we're interested in the land con-
troll and In the factory control they
thought they ought to have. They were
an under class, rising, and willing to
rise, by violence. They were not a
middle class, resting on acquired prop
erty and responsive to a law and order
programme. There was no such class,
and there was no such response, in
Russia. The Allies were whistling to
it, but Colonel Thompson knew it
would not come, because it was not
there.
1t might not have been expected that
Thompson and Robins would come to
an agreement about Russia. But they
did. They came to an absolute agree
msnt. They agreed with regard to the
prospects OF the march Of Kornilov,
and they agree now with regard to the
whole Russian situation in general. 1t
liz remarkable, and it is also among the
most convincing circumstances in the
record. They came to the same view
from widely separated stations of
vision. Az Robins says, they look at
life from altogether different windows
| Thompson is a man of great wealth,
of great Wall Street wealth. sup
porter and an organizer Of the effort
| 10 get tho Republican nomination for
Elihu Boot In 1915. When no first
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heard that Robins was to 60 to Russia
with him he revived to say: "That
uplifter! That labor agitator! In the
Red Cross mission" He was not
pleased. Robins, for his part, is will
ing to say that Thompson and he did
not come to their first meeting with
any profound feelings of mutual es-
TEEN. They soon found, though, that
they agreed on one thing fully They
agreed that you could not abolish facts
by sitting and dreaming in palaces.
They agreed that you could not make
an army for Kornilov in Russia by
sitting and imagining social class
and a political motive which outdoors
in Russia did not exist.
Kornilov arrived in Pskov, on his
way to Petrograd, with only 10000
men. The next morning 10000 Of
these 100000 refused to go further.
Kornilov surrendered. Not shot was
fred. Kornilov's army was simply
poisoned and disintegrated blythe new
Soviet culture
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When Robins returned he went to Oyster BAY
and laid his final views Russia before Colonel
Roosevelt in person He also presented them to
him in written form. AS attesting the impression
made on Colonel Roosevelt by the national and
international facts and by the suggestions of ma
tional and international policy which Robins
brought before him and which are now set forth
here he wrote to Robins:
] shall use some of what YOU
say, and, as far as possibly can, shall
adopt the spirit Of what you say in what
| am writing the lesson of Russia for
u.s. Faithfully yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The second instalment of Colonel Robins story
will appear The New York Tribune Magazine on
June %.
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and talk to the Soviet
and make arrangements with them.
His pockets were full of .. Kerensky
credentials. They were full Of
authorizations from the govern
ment at Petrograd. When she pre-
scented any such document = he was
treated kindly, but he was treated
rather pityingly, as if he were a child
showing a letter from Santa Claus
authorizing him to have q train. 1t
happened that Robins did want
train. He wanted several trains, to
carry his Red Cross supplies. "But,"
said people, of you really'want trains,
you must see the men in. the Soviet"
And 1t was so. The Soviet was
MASTER now From the Soviet, not from
the regular authorities, Robins got the
trains and also the farm wagons that
he needed. II the men In the Soviet
said he could have the farm wagons,
ne had them. If they said a train
could set forward, it set forward. And
II they said it could not set forward,
it could not and did not set forward.
By proof Of fact these soviets had
authority. They had the power.
Robins went back to Petrograd much
more enlightened but also much more
disturbed.
On his way back he passed through
Moscow He had passed through Mos
COW before, on his way out down south
to Ekaterinoslav and Kharkov. The
great Moscow ALL Russian Conference
Of August, 1917, had then just been in
session. Its results now REQUIRED to
him with redoubled force.
There were two chief results. The
hrst was seen in the demeanor of a
certain set Of delegates. They sat by
themselves compactly. They behaved
eompaetly. Alone in the great hall
'aey seemed 70 constitute a body Of
opinion knowing exactly what it
wanted and knowing Exactly how it
parposed TO get it. In the midst of a
Russia Of irresolution and Of indeci-
s'on they were clear and emphatic.
iaey were ominous. They were the
delegates from the Soldiers and
~orkmen's Soyiets.
The other result was smaller, but
more dramatic, and it had conse-
asenees more immediate
on the last day Of tho conference
mere was scene coming close to a
SaJs'eal encounter. A group Of Cos
'~ek oncers were challenged in state
nsh' BY KercnSky. They challenged
''n IN turn. There Was storm Of
.'fas' Mort, sharp. In it's lightning
~ Cleavage ssood clear between Korni-
~ the Crssack. the general soon to
'' q revolt for Claw and order and
s''sins," and Kerensky, the man in
,'s' The man forced N compromise
tween the wishes Of the Allies for
-. and order and discipline" and tho
$3.50 Of the Russian people for bread
~a land and peace.
~ the time Robins rot back 70
a"erad the KorniIoy revolt was in
=" swing-~thst il, IT wan swinging
Az. "aeh as ~ ever aid or could. Thu
s' embassies and missions had
-" seie 70 hear II about 10 swing
.snasrinxiy through tbs whois coun-
81 I'om the Black 10 Tho White seas
u barely moved. IT. simply
tad stoppsd. AZ Robins puss
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Heart of Russia

THEREFORE,, with some confidence,
he ventures to say that he knew
something about the peace move
ment among the Russian soldiers, as
we'll as something about the Bolshevik
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Soviet Victory

1T WAS the soviet, not Kerensky,
= that won. Kerensky was in the
palace. The soviet was in Smolny
Institute. Kerensky issued a procla-
nation, and effectively ceased. Smolny
vigorously acted. 1t was from Smolny,
not from the Winter Palace, the
orders issued which brought sailors
down to Petrograd from Kronsta and
bivouacked them in the Field Of Mars.
1t was from Smolny, not from the
Winter Palace, that the energy came
which dug trenches in front of Petro-
grad and lined the tops of Petrograd's
buildings with machine guns. 1t was
from Smolny that Bolshevik sailors
went to the Winter Palace and dis
missed the Cadet Guards there on
watch and took their places and
guarded Kerensky himself. Finally,
and overwhelmingly, it was from
Smolny that the arguments went out,
the propaganda, the words, the philos
ophy, which disintcgrated the dispersed
Kornilov's army more than rifles or
threats of rifles.
Even the Mahometans took part
in that combat of words. Robins has
led life of amazements, but there
has been no more amazed moment in
ecutive committee of the All Russian
Mahometan soviet was taking a hand
in repelling Kornilov by going out from
Petrograd through delegates to have a
little philosophical chat on class-con
seriousness with the Savage Division"
of Mahometans in Kornilov's army.
These methods, taken together, were
successful. Kornilov's soldiers did not
fight. 1t was a bloodless folk-victory.
1t was a victory for the revolution. 1t
was a victory for the soviet.
Thereafter mems eyes turned in
creasingly toward the soviet and to-
ward Smolny. Smolny, in Petrograd,
was seen to be the nursing source and
the radating centre of power. But
whatever helped the soviets helped the
Bolsheviki. Just as the soviet was more
energetic and definite than the rest of
Russia so the Bolsheviki were more
energetic and definite and purposeful
than the rest of the soviet. And
Robins soon had a new and disheart
ening exhibition of their constantly
charging power and skill
BOIsheuik Tactics
AN ALL-RUSSIAN congress was
n called. 1t bore the name of
Democratic Conference. 1t did not
represent simply the soldiers and
workmen and peasants. It represented
other groups as we'll. 1t had dele
gates from the Zemstvos and from
the food committees and from the CO.
operative societies and from the mu-
inequalities 1t met toward the end
Of September.
At first the government got on quite
we'll with it. Kcrcnsky made it a
speech and was enormously applauded.
The conference seemed to be for tho
government. 1t seemed to be for the
war. But then the gcncralship Of the
Bosheviki began to tell. In the notes
Robins mnde Mt the time I find he
jottcd down the "platform general
ship" Of the Bolshcviki and their real
work with Delegates" They worked
rcally, realistically. They were not
content with orations. Thew argued
man to man, on the floor, getting votes.
They we're trclcss on the floor as we'll
ms on tho plntform. And there, on
that platform, Robins had his first
sight OF Trotzky.
Trotzky WAS walking up and down.
| Tho hncctaclA of thatf ulatform. a. |
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mas Deen almost part OIL MS
occupation to listen to speakers, to
seek them out in order to listen to
them. He has listened to them in
this country and abroad Besides
himself practising the arts of public
speaking on street corners and in
ward conventions and in the pulpits
Of churches on Sunday mornings and
in world tours for the Men andre
ligion- Forward Movement and in trade
union councils, and elsewhere. he has
professionally watched those arts in
others. Even his enemies will admit
him to be judge Of speaking.
gather from him that he is obliged
to mako a professional bow to Trotzky.
He says that as speaker he has never
secn Trotzky's equal in the conqucring
Of an audience. In the carrying OF Of
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went to work. He went to work against
the Bolshevki Or, rather, he went
to work against the peace movement
in Russia.
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Chapter II

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has been almost part Of his
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Bv William Hard

it. the Indoor Mind had guessed wron,
again,
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Continued on merit page
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ChaptersI

w THEN Robins wanted to get
M anything really done among
the Russians he had TO go
and talk to the Soviet
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The Bees Household
Arts Department

over with butter Wet edge of un-
der crust, cover with upper crust
and press edges together. Bake 40
to IS minutes in moderate oven.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-20
Canning when the fruit is on
the trees spells economy when
the snow is on the ground.
Flame-Colored Marmalade.


carrots. 1 teaspoons ground
cups Of sugar. ginger root.
Cook the carrots until tender and
add the sugar. Peel, quarter and cut
The lemons into thin slices, removing
the seeds. Cook slowly with the
carrots until thick. Do not stir ex-
eept to keep from burning. Pack
IN hot, freshly sterlized jars and boil
for five minutes in hot water bath,
or process 10 minutes in hot cream.
Dixie Marrnalade. ..
cups of ground leut in small
-, sar r,n. ., c,onr.o p pieces ana UNI un.
per. cups of sugar
. lemons. Ginger root II de-
cups Of rhubarb sired.
Make according to directions for
flame -colored marmalade.
Ripe Tomato Marmalade.
! dozen m d m s lemons.
sized tomatoes. az cups Of sugar.
Peel and slice the tomatoes thin,
remove as many seeds as possible
and make according to directions for
flame-colored marmalade.
Ripe Tomato and Carrot Marmalade.
cups Of ground ground torserad-
carrot. ish.
cups of ripe. cook 2 teaspoons Of gin
ed tomato ger.
9 cups of sugar. teaspoons Of vine-
lemons gar. "
2 easpoons Of
Place the ginger in a cheesecloth
bag and make according to direc-
tons for flame-colored marmalade-
United States Department of Agri-
culture. ... ~.
Fish Chowder.
tablespoons fat. ! carrot.
l onion. ! tomato
potatoes. l quart fish stock
ear Of corn.
Fry the sliced onion in the fat I'm
til brown. Then add the stock.
Dice the potato; cut the corn off
the cob and slice the carrot. Add
all to the stock and cook for about
Is minutes. Add the tomato cut in
slices and season. Cook until the
vegetables are tender.
Apple Pie.
w cups flour. 4 tablespoons fat.
Y teaspoon salt. Cold water
Mix the salt and flour and cut in
the fat. Add enough water to make
soft dough (about 10 tablespoons).
Cut the dough in half and roll out
one-half and line the pie tin. Roll
out the other half and make four or
five cuts in the dough to let the
steam escape when the pie is baking.
Filling.
| 4 sour apples. l teaspoon butter.
| 1-3 cup sugar. teaspoon lemon juit
! v teaspoon grated Few gratings lemon
| nutmeg. rind
| u teaspoon salt.
! Pare, core and cut the apples into
eighths, put row around plate one
half inch from edge, and work to-
wards center until plate is covered;
then pile on remainder Mix sugar,
nutmeg, salt, lemon juice and grated
rind and sprinkle over apples. Dot
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Household Hints

A one egg cake baked in a biscuit
pan and cut in squares, then served
hot with foamy sauce, is good des-
sert. . . e..-..
Add one-half cupful of grated
cheese to white sauce before stirring
it into same. Crate cheese on top
and bake.
Cut up three cooked sausages, add
to one and one-half cupfuls of
cooked hominy. Cool in creased
can, slice, dip in flour and brown.
Bristle brushes may be kept in
the best order by washing in luke
warm soapsuds to which little am
monia has been added.
Salt beef requires carrots, turnips,
parsnips and cabbage
When frying doughnuts, etc, do
not wait until the fat smokes.
Never let garbage stand uncovered
for more than an hour.
Be sure the tea is dry before you
make it into beverage.
Never put teapot away with the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-20
Styles of the Season.

SkyASo VA SAAS SSNSSA'
Silk sweaters are more popular
than wool at present.
Heavy velvets are promised for
autumn coats and wraps.
The new head dresses favored by
Paris are very elaborate.
Lime green wolfe is charmingly
used over lime green satin.
Pongee is perhaps most suitable
for summer motor wrap.
Heavy ecru lace appears as a
trimming on Georgette crepe.
The waist line seems to have
taken q sudden drop to the hips.
1t is a novel idea for ones shoes
to match the color of ones hat.
Attractive parasol handles are OF
bamboo root carved and painted.
For the sea voyage have a suit
made of flannel or heavy serge.