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selling on railroad trains between Boston
and Portsmouth y. H. For a hobby he took
TO the cinder path and turned out most
creditable performances. Along about 1884
he transferred his attention to the shoe bust
ness. but not liking the confinement. ac-
cepted job as night messenger. That
proved to be his undoing, for ne fell into
bad company and was shortly afterwards
arrested I'm connection with the holding up
of a foundry paymaster.
While awaiting trial he escaped. with "A
number OF other prisoners. after rinng the
Jail safe. remained i'm hiding for a few days
and then took ship for England While
abroad ho supported himself by his ability
on the cinder path competing successfully
throughout England and Scotland under the
name of Patterson. Getting a tip that Scot
land Yard suspected who he was, Hanley
slipped over to the Continent. Returning
TO the United states in 1899 as a fireman on
a tramp steamer he kept under cover until
an opportunity offered itself to travel with
Barnum's circus. In the circus he was
known as Charles Williams. His liberty
ended October 2S. 1895. when he was found
guilty Of breaking and entering at Lawrence
Mass. and sent to state prison under the
habitual criminal act.
Corkey doesn't take any too kindly to his
new freedom. He has been too long behind
the prison bars. and also feels the handcap
caused by his inability to speak There are
moments when he wishes he We're again
behind the bars, where he had no worries
was provided his three meals a day and
comfortable place to sleep. all without any
effort on his part. In fact. on the very dav
ne was released from prison ne made a
strong plea to be allowed to remain assert
ing to Warden shattuck that his work was
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was raised about India. Finland. Poland and
Hungary. More practical cries were raised
in connection with cleanliness typhus, edu-
cation repair of transports. collection of
arms for the Red army haircutting and the
support of Red army hospitals. Minute cross
references from these articles to the talent
chart" of the Journalist who had written
them gave the whole exhibition the air Of a
very up to date laboratory for scientific ex-
periments.
Even thus did Lord Northcliffe send forth
cry for Standard Bread or for More Shells,
a cry which was taken up by all his organs
In the press. But this Bolshevik newspaper
trust will be immensely bigger than the
Northcliffe combine, for it is an absolute
monopoly of the Russian press, and seems
to contain in It the principle of a rapid and
monstrous growth. If Bolshevism continues
there will be as much difference in volume
between the Red press of 1880 and that of
to-day as there is between the British press
o. to-day and that of 1920.
Curiously enough however the Boshevik
press generally is not yet so subject to
Kerzhentsev as the Northcliffe papers are to
Northcliffe many of the provincial papers
in Russia being published by local Soviets
and local labor organizations which print a
good many original articles. but of course
the complete control Of the foreign and Of
practically all the Russian news as well as
the possession of a merciless censorship
enables the central Soviet Government to
exercise a tremendous and irresistible infiu-
ence on the entire Russian press. an influ-
ence even greater than that exercised by
the German Government on the German
newspapers du. SO war. Moreover the
Rosta not only res kilograms and ar
ticles to the press throughout Russia; it
also publishes more than 400 newspapers of
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RoSta Well Managed Technically.
But OverdoeS It's Propaeands

Inc conception, organization and manage
ment OF the Rosta is very good-from A
technical point Of view The pooling OF All
journalistic talent under Government super
vision enables the smallest papers in remote
parts Of Russia TO publish excellent articles
and reviews, to use catchy headings and 10
issue striking posters. Trotzky. himself
journalist. is so enamored of this scheme
that he is going 90 make all Russian Jour
Hdlists wear special uniform, probably
with pair of crossed pens as the badge. r
as to emphasize the fact that they are AS
much agents Of the Soviet Government gs
the Grenadier Guards are Of the British Gov
crnment
In some respects the Rosta overdoes its
propaganda. II so frequently reports revo-
lutions abroad that people have come 20
disbelleve il even when IL tells the truth.
prominent Bolshevist once asked me II
there was any truth in the reports of demon
strations outside the War Onice in White
hall by soldiers wanting to be demobflized
lie had been doubtful OF it owing TO tho false
reports OF the same kind which had so often
appeared In the Communist press that there
is common humorous saying in Moscow 10
the effect that we must have a revolution
reported from abroad at least once a day"
But though the Commssars do not always
believe all their own propaganda. they never
theless continue it AZ the same high pitch for
the sake OF the less enlightened comrades
and this policy is justified for the rank and
file swallow lt all on my once telling an
educated Bolshevik workman that Krassln
was going to England, he said: "Then Eng
land has gone Red" To him Britain's loss
OF india. Egypt and ireland were az NJ
plished facts lie believed that n Sovic Ms
sitting at 10 Downing Street. that an g-
lish Lenine had replaced Lloyd George and
an English Trotzky had replaced Mr..
Churchill The tremendous events Of the last
three years IN Russia. the constant retera-
tions Of the Bolshevik propaganda had ron
dered these events not only credible but even
trifling and commonplace.
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lean Government would always be glad to
discover and foster any genuine poetic talent
that was brought to its notice, the news OF
the day had better not be sent as a rule
in poetic form. "And if | send poetry" con-
tinued the schoolmaster will Comrade
Lenine see it?" to which the agent replied
that poems of special excellence would Ger
tainly be shown to Comrade Lenine and
also to TrotZky.
The Rosta does not confine itself, how
ever to telegraphic work It sends out to
all the newspapers news articles, literary
articles and even stories and poetry, all of
which are produced in the great journalistic
factory on the Lubyanka; and / saw in the
diagram to which l already have referred
very accurate record of the reception which
those articles met in the provincial press
The names of the writers were given. and
also the exact number of times which each
article was used. Thus one could trace the
rise of writer with scientific precision;
and by looking at the chart of any journal
ist the director of the Rosta could see at a
glance whether he was progressing or not
the exact popularity of each writer being
stated in figures and even in decimal points.
If the development of Shakespeare's genius
had been recorded i'm this way 1t would
have been shown in a series Of tables SINH
lar to those used in hospitals to indicate
the successive stages Of an attack of typhus
The publicity which attended various agi-
rational cries was indicated In the same way
Trctzky, for example would say to Ker-
zhentseff. the director of the Rosta: Start
a cry Of horror at the White Terror in Ire
land" Kerzhentsev would pass on the order
to his news editors and poets, and forth
with the whole Russian press would resound
with shouts OF indignation and descriptions
of Government repression. similar cry
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Prison Accident Explains Refusal to Talk
Doctors Doubt He Will Regain
Voice---His Life Story

health is fairly good Old timers remember
him as a 10 second man when he was in his
youth. running 100 yard dashes with Piper
Donovan and other notable track speedsters
Corkey can leg hundred i'm moderately
good time even now. but he no longer toys
with the 10 sect - mark.
X-ray photo Jhs of Corkey's head
wound were ma under direction of DR.
B. r. Benson. - during the examination
the ex-convict's fingers were itching to
talk" in order to learn what they were find
ing out.
Twenty minutes later DR. NJ. sudelof, pro-
ducng the wet plates, announced his find
ings as follows:
The X-ray shows no thckening or evil
dent abnormality of the bony vault OF the
skull. There seems to be. however some
intracranial pressure in the frontal region
The clmoid processes of the sella turcica
(pocket Of bone that protects the pituitary
gland at the base of the braln) seems to be
shrivelled. That may have been caused by
the increased intracranal pressure. Whether
due to hemorrhage or tumor the X-ray Of
course does not show"
Though he cannot talk. his hearing is most
acute. When Or Sheehan. following his
throat examination declared it "entrely
improbable that Corkey would ever talk
again" Corkeys face took on a rather sad.
| told-you-so expression.
When Corkey entered Charlestown prison
twenty-five years ago, convicted Of being a
"habitual criminal" there were no such
things as elevated trains and automobiles
Though he has been free a month now he
has not yet become used to these fast NOV
ing objects.
Hanley says that he was born i'm Lynn.
Mass. went TO work as soon as he was old
enough, for the Armstrong News Agency.
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Corkey Gives His Own Story
of Losing Power of Speech

"Corkey' wrote out an explanation OF
how his speech was taken away when the
written question was placed before him.
This Is what he wrote:
I'm November. 1912, | was out i'm the
yard one day. where we exercised. II was
very windy day. We all had TO pass by
an old chimney to the chairshop used fifty
or sixty years ago. 1t was falling TO pieces,
and as was going under It one Of the bricks
struck me on the head went into my cell
and told the officer. Right after that | lost
my power to talk
scientific examination of the prisoners
head made just few days ago by eminent
medical and X-ray experts. tends to sub
stantiate the story of the falling brick. Or.
William J. Sheehan. nose and throat special
list at the Carney Hospital. who was one of
those to examine "Corkey." declares his
vocal cords are shrunken almost TO moth
ing.
"Corkey Is now as years old His hair is
snow white and he is slightly bent though
still retaining considerable vigor. and his
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Neithy Liquor Nor Tobacco
Figures in Corkey'S Career

II is noteworthy that Hanley never used
tobacco or liquor i'm his life. never desired
TO and never intends to. Evil companions
explains his undong. Like so many other
young fellows with time on their hands. he
drifted into "a gang and wasn't strong enough
i'm character ip those days to break away
when the gang began to go wrong 1t was
easier 10 go with it, and he did.
Hanley says The only way he can account
for his NICKNAME. Corkey Is that as a young
fellow he was quite ready to predict. and as
he very often hit It right the fellows began
to call him a corker on predictions. That
became in time shortened in the gang lingo
TO corkey
He says he viii never forget his experience
in New York city after breaking jaii In
Salem while awaiting trial. One day he was
in a place ON the old Bowery called Gum
bossys As he went in the door he met the
late Joseph shaw a Massachusetts state
detective. shaw scanned Hanley's face
closely and asked:
"who was that fellow you were Just talk
ing with
Hanley replied It was Elder Waite OF
Lynn, revvast
Then Shaw. pulling photograph from his
pocket, asked Hanley IL he had seen the
fellow hanging around there Hanley said
he had not. and Shaw passed on. The photo
graph was that of Hanley, for whose capture
q substantial reward had been offered. Han
Icy says ne gave the Bowery place wide
berth after that
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it, own, not to speak of a still greater num-
ber of small sheets called wallpapers :"
which are pasted up on hoardings and at
railway stations and from which the Russian
man in the street derives most of his in
formation about the general progress of the
world. even as the British man in the street
derives most of his information about cur
rent events from newspaper contents bills
Radio Service Figures Largely
in Great Expansion of the Press
The extent to which the press has ex-
panded may be judged from the fact that
while formerly there were only two news
papers in Ekaterinburg Government there
are now twelve, eight of which get most of
their news by radio from the town Of Eka-
terinburg.
In Perm and Ekaterinburg provinces
where there were formerly only four news
papers in all, no wallpapers and no resi-
dent correspondent of the Russian Telegraph
Agency, there are now twenty-five wall
papers and two resident correspondents
whose position i'm the Boshevik hierarchy ia
second or third. who live in houses as large
as those occupied by the local bishops and
who hold in the Bolshevk community the
same position as the bishops held in the
Pravoslavny community. This is not a
fanciful comparison. Lenine has decided
with the same cold. matter of fact but in
flexible determination which he has shown
IN all the other tremendous changes that he
has decreed that his newspaper correspon-
dents will exercise all that influence over
public opinion which has hitherto been the
monopoly Of the church. and Trotzky speaks
calmly OF having replaced the army chap
lains by political commissars who will APP
peal to the emotions Of the soldiers exactly
as tie chaplains used to do.
At the Red front in Siberia | attended
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Corkey the eSilentWilling but Unable to Speak

not done When that plea failed he offered
TO pay his board If he could be permitted to
stay and work in the prison.
However. he is making the most Of his
freedom His is living with his sister-his
parents died while he was behind the bars
lust outside Of Boston and devoting his time
lust now % max ne Christmas cards. at
which ne is quite skilful. and beaded watch
charms. for both OF which he finds ready
market i'm the holiday trade.
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Trotzky Enamoured of
System, Plans to Put
All Russian Journal
lists in Uniform as
Servants of Com
munist Government

military revival meetings presided over by
military ccinmissars. who employed all the
arts of the Methodist preacher in order TO
arouse the fanaticism of the soldery. BY
wild harangues and by making the "congre-
cation join in the singing of fierce revolu-
tionary songs those commssars worked the
troops up to state of excitement such as
have only seen paralleled in Stamboul and
Belfast. The old regime used to do the same
by means of vodka and religion: and re-
member that during the Russo-Japanese
War the Russian War Office distributed
among the soldiers thousands of pictures
representing priest who. with his crucihx
held aloft was alleged to have headed a
charge against the heather Japanese.
Russia is an ideal place for the use of
wireless, which is being very extensively
used even now for journalistic purposes.
much more extensively than il is used in
England and the Bolsheviks look forward
to a time when its use for such purposes
will be a thousand times greater than II is
at present and when the great establishment
in the Lubyanka will be like a vast mega
phone, debating policies and opinions and
then hearing the innumerable echoes Of It's
own voice come back to 1t from the remotest
confines of Russia.
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2 ILENT Corkey"-whose true name


is Patrick j. Haney-who was
~ released five weeks ago from the
Charlestown State Prison after twenty-five
years incarceration, and who during the
last eight years of his term spoke no word
to any one, probably will never utter an
other word as long as he lives.
silent Corkey' gained wide fame during
his latter years in prison because of his
refusal to speak. eveH>a a single word. un-
der any and all circumstances. Only after
his release did it become known that he was
physically unable to do so.
Officials and fellow prisoners were one in
the opinion that Corkey, eight years ago.
became "huffed" at certain prison attache.
and entered upon talk strike" which he
never broke. This belief however. is now
entirely dissipated.
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and the finished journalistic phrases in which
the smallest newspapers there spoke of the
Red flag and prophesied that it would
yet wave over every capital in Europe dis
closed ut once the practised hand of the
metropolitan journalist. Somewhat the same
effect would be produced in the British Isles
If all the best English journalists were con-
centrated in, say, the Hotel Cecil under the
direction Of some editor gifted with unusual
organizing ability. These experts would be
divided into different committees, one con-
sisting of experienced manufacturers of head
lines and contents bills, another consisting
of leader writers, and so on, with the result
that the smallest newspapers in the prov
inces as we'll as the largest newspapers in
the great cities will epitomize all the jour-
naistic skill of the country enthusiastically
supported by the heads of the Government.
In each great city there would be, moreover.
a local correspondent of the British Rosta,
who would always be journalist of distinc
ton and who would have a palatial house to
reside in and network of local correspon-
dents under him
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Murder and Divorce News Barred:
Poets Get Scant Encouragement

The agents of the Rosta in Perm, Ekat-
erinburg and other places are Bolsheviks
who all acquired good knowledge of jour
nalistic work and of foreign languages while
i'm exile under the Car. | once heard one
of them lecturing a number OF his local
correspondents on their duties, and was sur
prised TO hear him tell them that he did NOT
want murders and divorces. but only solid
matter about the repair of bridges. the agri-
cultural industrial and educational situa-
ton and the progress of Communism. one
of them an unsophisticated country school
master asked If poetry would be acceptable,
but the agent replied that though the repub-
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Manufacturing Public Opinion
With BoIshevisr1 as Sole Ain


1t is difficult to exaggerate the power
which the Soviet Government will thus ac-
qulre Tor the manufacture of public opinion
and for the education. on utterly wrong
lines of plastic people still in its infancy
The central laboratory wherein all domestic
and foreign news is manipulated with the
one main object of helping Bolshevism is
under the direct control of the Communist
Executive Committee at the Hotel Metro
pole and in fact the more important news
foreign and domestic goes to the Hotel Met
ropole first and is sometimes manipulated
there before being sent to the Offices of the
Rosta. The position is much the same as If
all the more important news reaching Eng
land or coming from various ports of tho
BRUSH Isles went first to Downing street
ana were touched up" by board of min
lsterlal secretaries under the direct stper-
vision of the Cabinet before being sent to a
college of tame editors housed in the Hotel
Cecil
for large area around Moscow the tele-
pnone Is used and wireless telephony will
be employed as soon as possible The great
map In the Kremlin exhibition indicated
Where the ordinary telegraph lines and even
mounted messengers are employed to carry
the news to remote villages and factories
herzhentsev Is convinced Communist and
an indefatigable editor; his guide book to
communist literature and his organization
OK the Rosta display all the minute scientific
care or a Darwin or a Metchnikov Some NJ
his assistants are not so satisfied with their
servltude, and in fact they would like To
get into a freer atmosphere; but under
present conditions they have as little chance
OF getting away as cog wheel in a Pitts
burR factory has Of walking down the street
Most of the best Russian Journalists ara
stiil abroad, but lack Of money will probably
induce them to return as the diplomats and
the ofhcers are returning; and when they
do come back they will be fitted into the
great press machine of the Reds That ma
chine is supplemented by theatres and con
certs and works in harmony with the Com
missariat Of Education and with the propa-
ganda department. It even caters to the IL
hterate by means of cinemas and posters
ana It's agents are expected to furnish
periodically most careful statistical reports
Of their activities.
The specimens Of these reports exhibited
IN the kremlin exhibition could not be sur
passed in accuracy and painstakingness bv
agents of any great trust i'm America They
were all facts and figures; no rhetoric what
ever Those facts and figures are controlled
from other sources. and there was short
shrift for correspondent who did not de
liver the goods"
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Bolsheviks Expand
Press Service With
Marvellous Ingenu-
ity, but Overreach
Themselves in Dis
torting Truth

Special Correspondence of THE NEW York
HERALD.
Copyright. 1920 By THE New York HERALD
BY CAPT. FRANCIS MCULLACH.
New York Herald Bureau.
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Soviet News Agency Most Amazing Propaganda


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of Miss Jennie Feinberg, who left
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should be given, so that they might
readily become the common knowl-
edge of the electorate. Nor should
those sciences which pertain to our
collectively be omitted - political
economy. sociology in all its branches,
and enough of psychology to enable
the voter to understand value, and
Withstand the wiles of the propaganda
ist in moulding public opinion in his
own interest.
"In time we might then hope to
merit no longer the charge Of Mr..
Frank Vanderlip that we are a ma
tion Of economic illiterates.'
Another feature Of outstanding I'm
portance would be the development
and discussion in open forum of cur
rent issues growing out Of our chang
ing conditions and common needs. Is
sues should not be imposed by party
motyed by an invisible group Of
greedy self-seekers, but should arise
from the peoples needs and the de
mands of the electorate"