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New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

carry out this order will this time
be regarded by me as a deliberate
counter revolutionary ignoring of
the ordinances of the soviet authori-
~ and will call forth a correspond-
ing attitude on my part.
Irotzky has tried to justify mass
terror (extract from signed article
in 'lzvestia' Of January 10, 1919
under title Military Specialists and
the Red Army:
BY it's terror against saboteurs
the proletariat does not at all say:
Il shall wipe out all of you and get
along without specialists" Such a
program would be program of
hopelessness and ruin. While dis
persing, arresting and shooting sa-
boteurs and conspirators, the pro-
ietariat says: II shall break your
will, because my will is stronger
then yours. and | shall force YOU to
serve me- Terror as the
demonstration OF the will and
strength of the working class is
historically justified, precisely be-
cause the proletariat was able
thereby to break the political will
OF the intelligentsis. spacify the pro-
iess'onal men OF various catcgorics
and work, and gradually subordinate
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

lord for whose bias due allowance
must be made, was secured by an
American representative in June,
1919:
Considering this discomfort and
hatred, it would seem that elections
to different councils (soviets) would
produce candidates of other parties,
nevertheless all councils consists of
Communists. Tho explanation is
very plain That freedom Of cleo
tion Of which the Bolshcvilsi write
and talk so much consists in the free
election OF certain persons, a list Of
which had already been prepared.
FOR instance, if in ono district six
delegates have to be elected, seven
to eight names arc mentioned, of
which six can be chosen Very char
acteristic in this respect were the
elections February last in the dis
trict Of Moscow Province.
where had one Of my estates.
Nearly all voters, about two hundred.
OF which twelve 'werc Communists.
camc to the district town. Seven
delegates had to be elected and only
seven names were on the prepared
list, naturally all Communists. Tho
local soviet invited the twelve Com
munistic voters to a house, treated
them with food, tea and sugar, and
gave each 10 rublcs per day; the
others received nothing, not even
housing. But they. knowing what
they had to expect from former cx-
pcriences, had provided for such an
emergency and decided to remain to
the end. The day of election was
fixed and put off from day to day.
After four postponcments the soviet
saw no way out. The result WAS
that the seven delegates elected by
all against twelve votes belonged to
the Octobrists and Constitutional
Democrats. But these seven and .
number Of the wealthicr voters were
immediately arrested as agitators
against the soviet republic. New
elections were announced three davs
later, but this time the place was
surrounded by machine guns. Tho
next day official papers announced
the unanimous election of Commu-
nists in the district of Verea. After
a short time peasant revolts started
10 put down these, Chinese and
Let's were sent and about thrce
hundred peasants were killed. Then
began arrests, but it is not known
how many were executed.
Recourse is also had to mass ter
ror, which is carried on through a1l
agencies of the government. Thus
the murder Of the commissarics
Uritsky and volodarsky and the at
tempt on Leninc's life late in
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
l4el,il,e and 1roizkv
Preachers of
Terrorism

them to its own aims within the
fields OF their spccialtics
In The fall of 1918 the Bolsha-
wiki began a discrimination in The
distribution Of food, which operates
on the one hand, TO lessen opposition
through starvation, and on the other
to bring into the ranks Of their
active supporters many unconvinced
but despairing recruits. By this
system, which still exists, the popu-
latlon is divided into catcgorlcs
along occupational and class lines
and receives food, so far as food
may be available, in accordance with
a scale which is adjusted with view
to the maintenance Of the Bolshe'
wiki in power and the fulfilment OF
their program for the extinction OF
the middle classes.
The Bolshevik system looks bad
enough on paper, but in practice "
is hundred times worse, because
of the incredible corruption Of Rca
officials. This corruption sometimes
reaches such cxtents that the Bot
sheviki themselves arc forced TO ad'
nit it.
The economic collapse Of SOVIET
Russia is admitted by the Bolshevl"'
themselves, as is seen in some OF ''S
quotations from their own news
papers. The Bolsheviki, howeVef
blame the incompetence of the ou
Czarist regime, and of the Lvov an"
kerensky governments. and the cco'
nomic isolation or blockade. for Inc
desperate situation to which tnes
have brought Russia.
The admitted failure and cons"
quent abandonment of many o. the''
economic tenets may, it is hoped "
analyzed in subsequent memora"'
dunn. Naturalization" in the sense
of Communication" of the IAN"
would seem to have been deiinl'e's
rejected, though only during the lss.
months. The Supreme Soviet ..
National Economy, the hls"es'
soviet authority for all econon'''
problems, has come under the 'o'''
troll Of a very small group OF me',
Workmen's control was aboiis''''
after few months Of trial. l".s.
facts are frankly admitted BY Wv
Bolshcviki themselves.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Bolshevk Government Is Condemned Out It's Own Mou

speech on March 12, 1919, before
the Petrograd Soviet. Hc said,
among other things:
We can understand the activities
OF the Council Of Peoples Commits
sarlcs for the last year only if we
assess the role of the soviets on the
scale OF the world revolution. Often
the daily routine Of administration
and details that could not be avoided
IN the work Of construction are push
ing us to one side and forcing us to
forget the great task Of world revo-
luton. But only when we assess the
role of the soviets on the world scale
will we be able properly to handle
the details of our internal life and
regulate them properly. The task of
construction depends entirely on how
soon revolution will triumph in the
more important countries of Europe.
Only after such a victory shall we be
able seriously to undertake the work
OF construction. The expert ac
countants from Berne speak of us as
the champions of the tactics of yio
lence, but in referring to this they
do not sec what the bourgeoisie is
dong in their own countries, namely.
that it is governing exclusively bv
violence.
Bolshevik rule originally was
baaed on the industrial working
class Communists of the cities and
the so-callcd poorest peasants" in
the villages, with the former in full
asccndency over the latter. Later
on, however, it was found necessary
to take in the "middle peasants" as
opposed to the erich peasants" ;"
which last group was and is bitterly
hostile to Red rule. The new policy
was laid down by Lenine himself,
who also enunciatcd the necessity of
using some, at least, of the Men
slleviki and social rcvolutionaries.
He said:
Mensheviks and social revolution
lists fall into two classes. There's
group of specialists and officials who
are working for us. These are not
counter revolutionists, and as long as
they work we do not care whether
they believe in tho Constituent As
sembly, or even in God, If they want
to. The other class which only en-
ters our ranks in order to stir up
strikes must be crushed. Gzvcstia.
April s., 1919
Many observers from Russia have
furnished accounts of the arbitrary
manner in which the Bolshcvist
leaders have controlled elections, of
which the following is typical ex::
ample, This account, from land
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

for the First Congress of the New
Revolutionary International (later
called the Third or Communist In
ternational), as wirelessed to the
world at large from Petrograd on
January %, 1919. This statement
said, in part:
The present is the period Of de-
struction and crushing Of the capi-
talist system of the whole world.
The aim Of the proletariat must
now be Immediately to conquer
power. To conquer power means to
destroy the governmental apparatus
Of ths bourgeoisic and to organize
new proletarian government appa-
rstus. This new apparatus must ex-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
OmcialReportsThat
Show Conditions
in Russia

1OLSHEVISM in Russia stands
self-condemned in the series
~ of newspaper extracts, de-
crees, proclamations, reports
and other documents just published
by the Russian division of the State
Department at Washington. The
documents are Incorporated in q
Memorandum on Certain Aspects
of the Bolshevist Movement in Rus
sia," which, without laying claim te
being a full account of Russian
soviet rule, conveys a rather com
prehensive picture of its principles,
methods and aims, on the basis of
statements taken, for the most part
from Bolshevik newspapers, official
mouthpieces of the all-Russian
Soviet Executive or some of it's local
or departmental organs. The Boil
shevik utterances arc supplemented
by the reports Of representatives in
or near Russia.
Summarizing the lesson taught by
this collection of soviet documents,
the memorandum says:
The theoretical dictatorship of
the proletariat," acknowledged to be
the rule OF minority, with definite
policy Of preliminary destruction, is
found in fact to have degcnerated
into close monopoly Of power by
very small group, who use the most
opportunistic and tyrannical meth
DDS, including mass terror"
While existing on the accumulated
wealth Of the country the Bolshe
visit regime has brought about a
complete economic collapse, with
consequent famine and epidemic.
The claim OF the Bolshcvists that
economic isolation is wholly rcspon-
sibls for the economic chaos in So
viet Russia cannot be sustained.
The Bolshsvist program, has not
worked and Bolsheyism has to it's
credit no constructive accomplish
mens.
The material included is subdiyid-
ed into three chapters, dealing with
the character and results Of BoIshe-
vfk rule and tho Bolshevik program
Of world revolution respectively.
Outlined by Leine
AZ TO the theoretical aims of the
BoIshsviki, they are clearly set forth
N = statement embodied In the cali
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

press the dictatorship of tho prole-
tariat.
The dictatorship of the proletariat
must be the occasion for the imme-
diate appropriation of capital and
the elimination of the private right
OF owning the means of production
through making them common prop-
erty.
In order to protect the Socialist
revolution against external and in
tenal enemies and to assist the
fighting prolctarians Of other coun-
tries tt becomes necessary to disarm
entirely the bourgcoisic and its
sgents and to arm the prolctariat.
The idea Of proletarian dictator.
ship was analysed by Lenine in /.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

roll Dunham. She said in part
"The items under the heading
Thrift Committed bear direct re-
lation to the Home Bureau work in
the county, and the Westchester
County Home Bureau might be
listed as another organization bene-
fitted by this work. The Home Bu-
reau is supported here, as in other
counties, by the Federal, state and
county governments. These appro-
priations are, however, only suffi-
cient to form foundation for the
work, and if it were not for the
financial assistance of the thrift
committee the Home Bureau work
would be seriously hampered.
The Thrift House comes under the
head of Home Bureau work, with it's
home economics cafeteria, where
food values and proper cooking are
emphasized, and it's sewing class,
where the renovation of clothing is
the project stressed.
"The automobile enables the Home
Bureau agent to cover the county
and develop the sewing and cooking
clubs as well as other community
projects. In the last five months,
besides her Office work, local meet
ings and establishing the cafeteria,
the agent has held 1872 meetings and
classes, which she has reached with
her 'flivver.' In aiding the Tucka-
hoe Community House, the Home
Bureau was again helped, as this
money was used to equip a portable
house, where foods and clothing
classes are conducted under the di-
rection of the agent. Part of the
money listed under salaries was
used to pay the Office force who are
assisting with the Home Bureau
work. 1t can readily be seen, then,
that the Home Bureau is better
able to help in civic problems and
to be an active force in the COM
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

THE YELLOW THRIFT HOUSE IA White Plains is cou
d~cted by the Home Bureau Of Westchester County, in The
barn of Uich is conducted "Thrift Erchauge the Vest
chester for a 7unxage sae The House Bureaus aocn
devotes her time to teaching young girls to cook
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Girls Are Being Taugg hit Home
Economics and There Are Bar
gains at a Thrift Exchange

Bureau of the county. There arc
SO many young women who never
have time to learn to cook or whose
mothers can't take time to teach
them that the cooking teachers have
their hands full.
Miss Elizabeth Simpson is the
Home Bureau agent of Westchester
County. In her trusty Ford she
goes to the remote settlements and
organizes cooking classes. After
the classes have received their start
from Miss Simpson they continue
their work under volunteer teachers.
The agent calls again> in a month
or a few weeks to see how we'll the
class has progressed, and to give
new work for another period of
time.
Cooking Classes at Noon
Girls of fourteen and fifteen years
and even those younger have been
found to be particularly interested
lin learning cooking and household
work. Most Of Miss Simpsons pu-
pills are schoolgirls of about this
age.
Another class of pupils who take
a great interest in their cooking
lessons is the group of business
girls and women in White Plains
who meet at noon and get their own
lunches. Each member of the class
takes a turn at getting the lunch
after all have had practical instruc-
tion from Miss Simpson. The
naivete with which these women ab-
sorb the wonders Of cooking! The
"why" of breads rising and the
basting Of a turkey hold wonders
that they all would learn and mar
vel over. The business women and
girls who are learning to cook show
even greater eagerness for the
classes than the schoolgirls, accord
ing to Miss Simpson. 1t probably is
in part due to the fact that many Of
them have been starved on the do
mestic side of life. They did not
have a chance to learn the domestic
lessons when they were of the age
that 'absorbs them best, and having
gone along at Office routine for a
number of years, their naturally
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

DR.. Carroll Dunham, vice -charms,
and treasurer.
Charles Philip Easton. vice.chs;,.
man.
Mrs. Lawrence J. Mead, secretary
The treasurer, j. G. Curtis. mapsc,,
the Farm Bureau.
Miss Jean Reid.
Mrs. Joseph J. Walker.
Mrs. Caspar Whitney.
Mrs. F. c. Bishop.
Mrs. James s. Metcalf. =.
Mrs. Carroll Durham.
Mrs. Henry p. Griffin.
Mrs. Oliver Hartman.
Miss Mary Schuyler Hamilton.
Mrs. +. II. Bc,hcll
Mrs. Regina S. Stcrnbach.
Mrs. William B. Stewart
r. A. Stevenson. Yonhers.
Mrs. +. r. Bump. New Rochelle. :
Mrs. Herbert c. Lakin. Scarsdale.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Davis. Ossning. /;
MIS-. EdWln latham. katonah.
Miss Sarah Walker. Tarrytown
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid is chairman
of the house committee in charge Of
the Yellow Thrift House. Mrs. Caspar
Whitney is chairman of the member.
ship committee. Mrs. Whitney and
her committee are opening drive
for membership Monday. Their an.
bition is to make every woman in
Westchester County member Of the
Home Bureau. Membership requires
the paynnt of 81 year dues and
continuous enthusiasm ard support
in the work of the organization.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

feminine tendency toward home
making is eager for an outlet.
Much Of the waste of Westchester
kitchens is being eliminated through
the work of the Home Bureau. An
ether work Of salvage is being done
through the sewing classes which are
held at the Yellow Thrift House. The
principal teaching of the sewing
classes is in .remodeling or making
over clothes that are out of style.
The day of swift changes in fashions
involves large waste of good cloth
ing if we have no way of saving
some of the materials.
A Crown-llp Rummage Sale
And when it came to saving money
on clothes the Thrift Exchange
of White Plains takes a prominent
place. A thrift exchange, if you
have never seen or heard of one, is a
sort of glorified rummage sale.
Goods no longer Of use to some of
the citizens of the county may be
taken to the exchange and put on
sale. Fifty. per cent of what each
article brings goes to the person sup
plying it and SO per cent to the ex-
change. The prices of really good
things are phenomenally low. West
chester County represents so many
families of wealth that the Thrift
Exchange should prove of great ad-
vantage to the less wealthy.
The thrift exchanges are managed
by the Westchester County Thrift
Committee. Several thrift exchanges
have been established and it is ex-
pected that more will be opened. At
present, however, the principal one
is in White Plains. Women's dresses,
children's clothes, mems suits, shoes,
hats, furniture, books and crockery
are among the articles for sale at the
exchange. Clothes of materials that
are better than anything that could
be purchased for anywhere near the
same price to-day may be obtained,
and if the styles are not recent
enough the classes in remodeling are
open to the purchaser to make them
up to date and usable.
Every one who comes to the ex-
change comes again, and often the
purchasers become contributors. The
story is told Of one old man, decid-
edly poor, who purchased an over
coat from the exchange at moderate
terms and returned with his own old
coat. He offered it for sale and said
that some old man even poorer than
he might be able to use it.
Prominent Membership
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
M 7ELFARE WORK begins Bureau of the county.
wv at home, is the motto Of young
the Home Bureau in have time to learn

Westchester County. And
true to their beliefs, the women OF
the bureau are working consistently
fer the people Of their own neigh
borhoods.
Headquarters, although officially
in the courthouse at White Plains,
is really the Yellow Thrift House
This is just an ordinary comfort-in-
viting old residence, not far from the
center of town. There is nothing too
imposing about the place for the
most humble visitor. 1t is for the
use of the community, and it invites.
Within the yellow house are the
cafeteria of the Home Bureau, resi-
rooms for country women shopping
in town, the sewing rooms for the
"remodeling" classes, and rooms
where small entertainments may be
held. Since each project of the
Home Bureau has a story all its own,
we can sketch little of the history
and purpose Of each.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Prominent Membership

The cooperation with the Home
Bureau Of the Thrift Committee of
Westchester County is shown in the
first annual report of the thrift ex.
changes, made recently by Mrs. Car
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

: becomd interested in the Home Blu.
reau and the thrift committee
Members of the board of directors
of the Home Bureau department
are: j..
Mrs. Edwin latham, president, Ka
tonah.
Mrs. F. H. Bethel, sident
Scarsdale.
Mrs. Lawrence J. Mead, secretary
Tarrytown.
DR.. Carroll Dunham, treasurer, Ir
vington.
Mrs. Casper Whitney. Bronxville
Mrs. Carroll Dunham, Irvington.
Mrs. William d. Sporborg, Por
Chester.
Mrs. Louis d. Huntoon, Pleasant.
vile.
Mrs. V. Evert Macy, Scarborouh.
Mrs. Frederick Zinsser, Hastings.
Miss Caroline Choate, Pleasantviile
Mrs. R. S. Jewett, Mount Vernon.
Mrs. Enos Lee, Yorktown Heights.
Mrs. F. c. Bishop, Mount Kisco.
Mrs. Herman De Wetter, New
Rochelle.
Mrs. Felix Warburg, White Plains.
Mrs. F. L. Wurzburg, Tuckahoe
Miss Elizabeth Simpson, county
agent, Home Bureau.
The executive committee of the
Westchester County Thrift Commit
tee includes in its membership:
Mrs. V. Everit Macy, chairman.
Miss Caroline Choate, vice-chairmaf
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
A Good Eating Place

The cafeteria at the Yellow Thrift
House supplies a need in that it fur
nishes first class eating place in
a middle sized town, where all too
often there are no first class restau-
rants or hotel dining rooms. Eco
uomical meals may be bought at the
Home Bureau cafeteria. They are
we'll cooked and nourishing. In fact,
a speciality of recipes which are
wholesome and attractive, and at the
same time inexpensive, is one of the
reasons for the cafeteria.
Two large rooms on the first floor
of the Yellow Thrift House are oc
cupied by the cafeteria. They are
full of bright colored tables and
chairs, the color scheme of one
room following true Greenwich Vii
lage taste and running to orange
and green's. The few restaurants
in White Plains are usually so over
crowded that they do not resent the
competition Of the Thrift cafeteria.
Cooking and home economics are
the primary work of the Home
The Dolores star., 1920-11-26

events from the printed pages Of many
cooks. Totem poles ARE In reality In
dian books, and the marks and curious
carvings upon them take the place of
the printed words in the white mans
books and are quite as readily trans
lated by the Indians of the tribe to
which The pole belongs"
Shelton is filled with enthusiasm
about his work, the enthusiasm of n
real artist. His face lights up nj the
opportunity to talk of his work. and
his black eyes fash. He is about
forty-five years old and in full Indian
regalia lie looks as If he might have
just stepped from the printed pages
of wild western fiction. In his store
clothes. hcwever, although he would
not be mistaken for other than red
skin, he resembles an acute business
man of today. During the war. al
though he was too old for active serv-
ice, he showed an amount of patriot
ism that won him commendntion from
the government. AT that particular
time he proved himself to be 'really"
American. Appearing in full Indian
rega!la he was great aid at swelling
subscriptions to all of the Liberty
loans, and also played conspicuous
part In other war work.
The Dolores star., 1920-11-26
American Hen Is a National Institution

which met recently in Chicago. These
delegates were quite swelled up with
Just and fitting pride, for they rep
resent the men who collected the hen
fruit. handled It with care and brought
the enormous crop TO market. 1t took
them two days to talk 1t all over and
to discuss marketing and transporta-
tion problems.
The data was compiled for the pro-
duce men by the bureau of markets of
the United States DeparSnent of Agri-
culture. 1t further shows there were
6OoooO,OoO pounds of poultry mar
keted at an average price of 23.s4
cents per pound to the farmer. or a
total value of $143,04OOO0.
Butter and eggs" are two words
and things that seem to go together.
OF butter there were S5l, ,269, l4O
pounds brought to market at an aver.
age price of 59.5 cents n pound to the
producer, or $500, 6,5O5.l3S.
The wholesale price for fresh
hrsts," as the brand new eggs are
known in trade jargon. was 49, cents
dozen In Chicago, and 55.6 In New
YORK city. The average price of best
butter in Chicago was 5S.4 cents a
pound, and in Gotham COT.
The Dolores star., 1920-11-26
Millions for
NeW Stonoc/

Ono Of the greatest America,
aires said to his physician. "a nm'
dollars, Doctor, spot cash and M
bling, for a now stomach ana n
the sick man groaned and turned ,~1
All his wealth could not NAL. d
happy or contented, for happips., !,
ly depends upon digestion w.
health where does happines, con. y
After all tho stomach plays . IL
part in everyday life. W;,h,..
healthy stomach and good digestion I
blood is thin, watery and ma,
heart action is weak. our liver do.. \
do its duty. and man is miserahl. j
unhappy. Prevent disease bv nr,,;1
the house in order and strenrtb.ri'
the system against the germs Of a;,..'
DR.. Pierce. of the Invalid, Bo,s :.
Surgical Institute. at Buffalo N !
years ago understood diseases md ~.
prevention, and he discovered ,s,..,
roots and herbs which were p,to,.
remedies. and succeeded in putting IN.
up in = form that could be s.,ilv -.
cured at the drug store (lion;d
tablets). This he called DR.. pi.r.
Golden Medical Discovery. Thi, nj
covery gives no false stimulate, +,
cause it contains no alcohol or apy nj,
cotic. 1t helps digestion and III. i,
similation of such elements in ths n,
as are required for the blood. II o;,
to the blood the food elements the 4;
sues require. For over fifty year
has enjoyed the confidence Of d
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