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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-23
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]. Autoists who storped at gasoline filling stations Tuesday discovered that tho purchssans power of | M bill had sArunk ovefntsAt.
 1t took 91.t0 ts htx.sths usual i've gallens, due &e AffsSdsAnce of ' cents a ssllen, made nedseeary, deal. srs say, to advance production and -covss the increased price sf crude
 me lncrSase was effective tArOughout Alabama lt stations of tho standard and Msf1erd Qil com. paplss and at s.t1e- AipA stations.
 btAndard and "6e-klp" officials sald the crude bli narket had ad. yanssd eonsidsorabiy. Z: G. II, Wolf ford of Weffefd of company said unless production was quickly stim- ulsted there would be- little gas on the market In slx months, time.
 oil lntefssts Afe watching closely the outcome of the Teapot Dome in- vsstisstion in Washinston.
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of his time fishing, shooting or playing with his pet kittens.
 Lenine was characterized by ob- servers as the greatest intellectual force in the Russian revolution. He spoke German, French and English, and read works on economic problems in all these languages as quickly as they could be received in Moscow. Having a world vision, and desiring world revolution, he tried to keep in touch with the thought and affairs of all countries.
 Lenine's supporters in the com munist party treated him with some thing of a religious reverence, although they did consider him human enough to call him by the nickname, "Baldy." His picture has replaced the Ikon ii thousands of Russian homes.
 Lenine was married, but had no children. His wife, M. K. Oulianeva, commonly known as "Krupskaya," a plain little woman with thin iron gray hair, stood shoulder to shoulder with him through the most important period in his career, participating in the di- rection of the political education con- mission, and other communistic or ganizations. He also had 6 sister who shared in his political fortune and had been business manager of one of the communist newspapers in Moscow.
 In 1917, when Lenine insited upon Russia making a separate peace with Germany, he expected that the world revolution would come speedily. As time went on, and attempts at com uprisings in Germany, Hun. gary and elsewhere proved abortive, Lenine gradually came to the conclu- sion that the world revolution was far away. He never, however, lost the idea that it would come, and that, sooner or later, communicate Russia would
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on developed serious nervous and gas tric disorders. Always impatient of restraint, he would not obey the com mands of his Russian physicians or the advice of his friends, and continued to work. In the autumn of 1922 he suf- fered serious attack. and for long time his life was despaired of. A num- Der of times he was reported dying, but under pressure from his associates he at last consented to take rest in the country, and early in the year 1923, he appeared to be considerably improved. However, from September, 1923, on- ward, Lenine's position in the Rus sian government was more that of a valued counsellor, than that of a pre- mier. He continued to propose poli- cies, but seldom appeared at meetings of the council commissioners.
 Physically Lenine was short, rather plump,- with a thick short neck. broad shoulders, round, red face. high fore head, broad head, nose slightly .up- turned, brownishs mustache and d short stubby beard. He has been described as looking more like a country grocer than. leader of men.
 Once in the early days of the revolu- tion,. Lenine was fairly easy of ap- proach, but in his later years he re-, ceived few people. Once met, how ever, he appealed to the observer as a man of extraordinary keen intelligence. Persons who went to interview Lenine found themselves being interviewed in- stead. He fired questions in rapid succession, searched for the points he really wanted to know, and then dis missed them and took up another ques- tion even ibsfore his visitor realized he had answered the first. In addressing public audiences, Lenine drove home his points with a curt force surprisingly clear in a man of his thick-lipped, rather difficult delivery. In his speeches, as in his actions, he was merciless critic of his enemies; of his friends and of himself. He once told the communist congress that if the party did not initiate capitalistic meth ods and learn to. be better bargainers than the capitalists, that they prob ably would be hanged, and surely would deserve it.
 Simple In Habits
 He seemed absolutely lacking in self interest. His personal life was ex- ceedingly simple. When in Moscow he occupied two small furnished rooms nt the Kremlin, within stone's throw of a magnificent empty palace. which once housed Czars. When in the country, at q little place called Tarasovka, some 20 miles from Moscow, he spent most
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nave no counterpart in modern his- tory. Through all of this period I.e- nine, backed by the solid, strictly dis ciplined Communistie party v. directed affairs. Y,
 In 1921 when the soviet government had swept aside allimifitary opposition. had swept aside all military opposition. tact in communist hands, except for Poland, Finland and the Baltic pro. vinces, which broke off and formed Ia. dependent republics Lenine turned his hands" to the task of building up the Russia the revolution had de- stroyed. To achieve this reconstruc- tion, Lenine, with the daring that characterized all of his major plans, began what he called .A stratesetic re- treat from communism. A eommunis- tic utopia might be possible In years to come, he said, but the -active com munism as practiced during the period of the civil war had never been intend ed as permanent. It was purely a war measure, and 50 in an r-epochal speech, delivered in November, 1921, Ienine publicly announced the failure of past policies. and explained the need fer an economic departure. 2.
 '''We met with d bad defeat,. and have undertaken strategic retreat" he admitted. Before they have thrashed us definitely. let us retreat and construct exerythins over again. but more solidly." He proposed at least partial re-establishment of capitalistic principles { q reversion to free trade; the imposition of taxes on land abolishment of free transporta- tion, and the acceptance of outside aid for the millions of starving Russians.
 Reverse From. Peasapts s.. .s i, 1t was the great peasant class and its refusal to accept the principles of communisni,, coupled with the destruc- tive drought, and resultant famine of 1921 that finally brought abuot the exploitation. With the small farmer flat1y refusing to deliver his scanty crops requisitfoned by the soviet state, and millions perishing from hunger throughout the nation, the premier could see nothing but black clouds ahead. =
 When this new economic policy had gained momentum and it appeared that Russia was coming back to bOur- geoise regime, Lenine was the first to proclaim that the retreat had ended that there was to be no more surren- der of real communistic principles; and above all things, that the proletarian of Russia would not be 
 In the spring of 1922 Lenine's health began to crack under the strain. He ,ecame a victim of insomnia, and later
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TELLS OF PASSION PLAY Troy Woman Lectures At Tuskegee On
 Scenes At Oberamnsergau

TUsKEGEE, Ala..a 1sR 22.-(spe- ciaL. IA rare treat was given in Tus, kegee un Friday night when Mrs. Bashinsky of Troy addressed large audience at the couFA house on the Passion Play as she saw 1t on her toux through Europe and the east. She was introduced by her former pastor, E, S. AIder@aH. In her own way she gave a clear presentation of that wonderful playN ns she saw it at, Oberammergaa.
 The visit of Mrs. Bashinsky was dB- der the auspices of the. Sappho club and the funds derived from the lecture wsnt to the establishWnt of schol arshih
 Req Cross Head, Resigns
 Miss Phelps, who has been ut the head of the red crOsS. work at the government hospital. has resigned. Her resignation will take effe.. the first of February, after which time negroes wiI have charge of welfare work there.
 Interest In Politics
 The political questin is getting quite interesting in Tuskegea-s~-The inter. est is divided between Underwood and Musgrove. -.,4,s.7sfss9, as.,e. Y Mayor Crawford. whe has been in Montgomery for a number of days in the hospital was brought home Suu- day. He is in very serious condi' 4iOR
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was urged on to tremendous propor- tionH,> and after few months of the soviet reglme, Russia had signed the treaty of Brest-L -Litovsks and was def. nitalt out of the world conflict.
 Internally, Russian life was turned upside down. Factories were taken over by the workers. Great estates ware confiscated by >thssvsasants, who divided them among thernseIves. The aristoeracy sought any kind of safety 1t could find, and the middle class or bourgsoise, became special. objects for the hatred of the massst. Free trade was abolished and in tts stsad was e. tablished . system of government con. trol that rationsd food, placing the workingmsn in preferred classes, and doling out little or nons at all to the others. The use of money was con- demned, and grain, manus1ctursd prod ucts and labor became the chief media of exchange.
 Four long dismal years passed dur. ing which internal counter revolution, in many cases assisted by allied in- tervention, kept Russia in q constant turmoil. Enemies of the communists assassinated some bolshevik leaders, and in September, 1918, Lenine himself was shot and severely wounded. Plots and counter plots, terror and coun- ter terror, swept Russia from one end to the other, and the bloodsed, misery
 and famine of these four black years
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PREMIER VISITS KING Head Of New Labor Regime At
 tends Privy Council

ten0S ff1vy Council
 LONDON, Jan. 22.-(By Associated Press.)-The labor government goes into action ahead of all expectations. !. Ramsay Macdonald kissed the hand of the king at Buckingham palace this aft ernoon, thus sealing his entrance upon the high office of prime ministers, and the exchange of sealN between the min isters of the old cabinet and the new will take place at the prenaier's official residence in Downing street at noon te- snorrow.
 The names of the new cabinet meps- bers were published officially soon after Mr. Macdonald submitted them to the king.
 Stanley Baldwin met his cabinet for the last time as prime minister this morning.
 He then proceeded to the palace for the last offical audience ss
 Soon after his departure, the labor leader, MT. Macdonald, descended in the palace yard from a private motor car. The Scottish prime minister-as he now is-attired in a ffock coat and silk hat, neglected none of the conven- tiOnalities of office, but with him went two of his colleagues, James Thomas and John Robert Clynes, true to the proletariat, typified by bowler hats and short jackets. They attended in their capacity of priyy councillors and the privy council was presided over by the king, at which MT. Mcdonald was sworn in as a privy councillor. A
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Usual capital punishment in France is beheading by the guillotine.
 Spitxenberg coal shipments have. been stopped by ice in the fiords.
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CABINET CHOSEN
 BY MACDONALD.
AA Are Tiled Pnlial mt ariana Three Of Them Being PssEs
 Of Inc Realm
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 LONDON, Jan. 2.-By StAs snd ol prenier, win be instalisd at No. 10 Owning street, and his labor cabinet, named Tuesday, will .hayN- begvn tp function. .Na "
 Ten years aso men who .prslicted that labor would rule Britain ESrt fS-- garded a lunatic4 but dAnssous ones. Later. ss iabor's strength aSrsw, the words labor governmsnt' came to or rcd menace that thrsAtened Britain. Tuesday labor,s battle WIS won. But as King George offered t4e preinisrship of Britain to Ramsay .MacI) Donald, few EnSiishmen felt that the nation tottered to ruin. Britain h in the hands of . labor governmeht, but . government of sane, earnest men, trained to as w1ds knowledge of world spoli tics and woeld economies as the conservstfys kadsfs nsh Fhsss sSSesss, sss .,ai..h.rd.. SAo p,ot... to see catastrophe at6 Hut tho overwhelming majority Of Britain.s people exprees no alarm over labos's rias to power. Labor, they belfarS,, must be given . chance. Giying that chance to the labor party, Britain watches, even hopefully, the evolution sf events. #
 Premier Ramsay MacDonald's labor cabinet was officially announced Tues. day evening. Its members are tried parliamentarians. Three of them are peers. The offices are filled as fol- Ramsay MacDonald-First lord. of the treasury and foreign secretary. !. R. Clynes-Lord prisy seal and 1eputy leader of {; Commons, . E. Lord Parmoor-Lord president of viscount Haidane LStd chancellor. Philip Snowden-- Chanosllor of the exchequer. TX
 Arthur Henderson--Hona secretary. J. H. Thomas--C Colonisi secretsry
 Stephen Walsh of war.
 Sir Sidney Oliver-Hssd of the. India Rrisadier-G General TbonDsop-Air viseount Chelmsford-First lord of sydney Wsbb-president of the. board of trade. s3 John Wheatfey-Minister of health. Noel Buxton--Minister of agricul- ture.
 Charles, Trevelyan--Minister of ed- ucation. ts #F
 Vernon Hartshorn--Post gen. eral. HIT f
 Colonial Josiah Wedgewood- Chan cellor of the duchy of Lancaster.
 The old and new members of the cabinet are expected to assemble at Buckingham palace Wednesday morn- ing, where the old cabinet will hand over the seals of office to the new.
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live in an Utopian brotherhood of com' munistic nations.
 Personally Courageous
 Lenine never was horny y-handed son of toil'' himself, but rather an in-i tellectual, and those whom he put in. power in the council of commissars, were likewise more of educated dream CTS than practical workingmen.
 I.enine was personally courageous and impatient of the guard that his ad- visers insisted upon putting about him, despite the fact that he carried for sev-. eral years the bullet fired into his necks by Dora Kaplan, the- young socialist revolutionary, who, in September, 1918, attempted to assassinate him ands nearly succeeded.
 Several other attempts upon his life were made during the revolution, bulletf, he always laughed off any While he was carrying Dora Kaplan's s warnings by remarking that II have. plenty of lead in my backbone and am not afraid" '
 During all the darkest days of thes civil war and red terror, when many of his associates lost their nerve, Lem. inc was able to laugh and joke. Fora eign visitors during these times said' they found him the only man in Russia with a sense of humor. He liked tos slap visitors on the shoulders, to play. with his two kittens. and to tell stories. .. to his friends children. But he wast absolutely adamant, and loss of humans life was to him unimportant when. we:<hed against the fate of the bolshe-s vik revolution. .
 Usual capital punishment in France is beheading by the guillotine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
Youngsters Exhibit 200 Pigs

Fourteen banks in Lee County,
Iowa, recently co-operated with the
Breeders Association in conducting
a boys and girls club rally. The
boys and girls brought in the best pigs
that they were raising and exhibited
them for $3.50 in cash prizes which the
banks contributed.
Quincy, Illinois, bankers are Offer
inx pure bred boars and high grade
seed corn to the value of $500 to farm
ars who attend the Adams County
Fair. These prizes will be distributed
by lot to farmers Of each township,
the amount to be based on the town
ship attendance at the fair.
The Missouri Bankers Association
inter-county contest for boys and
girls clubs is the result of action TAX
en- at the annual convention, when
$1,000 was provided for premiums.
The premiums, not less than $25 each,
are to be awarded to counties to pay
the expenses of club winners to junior
farmers week at the Missouri College
OF Agriculture; 500 is to be used to
nav the expenses of the state cham
MON demonstration team to the meet
ing of the Bankers Association, where
the team will present its winning dem
onstration.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
took enough special interest in the
man to speak final word.
Warden Gives Advice


Warden Gives Advice
kid, you've seen what you get into
by being crooked. Don't ever come
back here-you know what you're apt
to get as second offender long
stretch
The Kid took the advice in part.
He went to New place, but the rea-
son in the back of his head was that
he didn't mean to be convicted as a
second offender. He crossed the Hud-
son to Nyack, journeyed to Trenton,
New Jersey, in security used up the
money the warden had handed him,
tried Intellectually to get work to his
lazy liking, and then found himself
penniless. He tried to lift a leather
pick mans pocket-.got into {
fight, and was caught.
Jersey justice is reputed stern, but
ssThe Wallabout Kid" had long ago
found ways to beguile judges. He told
the court he was from Lakewood and
that he had never done anything
wrong in his life before and he won
a suspended sentence Imagine-at the
moment he stood guilty of violation of
parole-in leaving New York without
permission and was doubly sec
ond offender.
Gets Ten Years Term
1.-The Kid" next stole a motor car
and journeyed across the Delaware
River into Pennsylvania. Turning
north, he went to Easton, tried twice
to find jobs that were easy enough to
suit him, and then reverted to theft.
He was now fugitive from justice
in two States, yet by giving his age
as nineteen and working on the sym
pathies of the complainant, he man
age to "beat the case" and escape into
the interior of Pennsylvania.
But why continue the story! "The
Kid under half dozen clever alias
es kept this up for eight months be
fore New York detective, who was
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13


- l,4o4o1
securities owned:
OWned unpledged $11,57l84
War Saving thrift Stamps
- -
other bonds
Furniture fixtures
other real estate owned ..-...--.-..
romo l48249
Cash onh from Federal
reserve hank and approved reserve banks ..- 2634743
Exchange clearing
checks o banks e-....- -- 1894
cash items 2,5O153
other
..----. $361,351l1
Capital paid in -~ $25,OOOOO
surnlus fund
eurent expenses and -
D;Jidend unpaid
subject check l844O362
Time certificates of deposit ~
Savings deposits
Certified checks - - 6o1s5
Notes and bills redscounted ..
Cash adjustments
Total . ~. .-..~--.. 1861, Ill
of Wiscons o
Wiegand bank,
knowledge and belief
c. H. WIEGAND Cashier.
Subscribed day of 1924
CNoarial sea) GEO E. OCoNNOR Notary Public
Correct Attest A. J. DENoYER FINN LAWIER Directors
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in Cleveland, Ohio, to get a prisoner
recognized him as one of group of
gangsters brought in by the police.
The Investigation of his record and
comparisons of fingerprints between
cities resulted in "The Kid starting a
ten-year term in the Columbus peni
tertiary as confirmed criminal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
Pennyfn-slot Elevator.

Penny1n-slot Elevator.
penny-in-the-slot automatic eleva
tor recently has been invented. insert
ing coin, the passenger enters the
car and presses button displaying
the number of the floor he wants The
car automatically stops at thaf~fioor.-
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
Where Platinum Is Found.

Platinum is found in small gray
PARTICLES along with other metals, in
Guiding gold and chrome-iron. Occa-
sionally it is discovered in the form
of nuggets, which are naturally ex-
tremely valuable A 25-pound mug
get of platinum would at the present
time be worth over $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
Tattoolna Name on Wrist.

Tattooing the owners name on the
wrist is said to have supplemented the
wrist watch as a fad among English
KitaA
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
Report of the Condition
Farmers g. Merchants State Bank

business
Commissioner Bank
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
Plum Disease.

Susceptibility of different varieties
of plums to the brown rot disease can
now be determined mechanically by
measurements Of the toughness of the
skin and firmneSs Of the flesh Of the
fI.1it
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Con1petitfon

Nurse-"see, Charlie, the stork has
hronaht you a nice little brother"
Cbarl,e-"Yes, that's the way! Just
- I'm getting on in the world com
edition begins. "-Fliegende Batter
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
PRIVILEGE Of Giving.

Self-sacrifce is not sorrow or gloom.
That is true because love never counts
what it gives, and the greatest pleas
ure of life is the privilege of bestow-
Ing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-13
NOTICE is NOT GIVEN WHEN
CRIMINALS ARE DISCHARGED
FROM PENITENTIARIES

!
In my opinion, the greatest step to-
ward the elimination of crime in this
country which can be taken is in the
establishment of National Police
Bureau at Washington, d. c. 1t is OBJ
vious that under existing conditions
criminals of the most desperate sort
are able, under clever aliases, to go
from. one state. to another and to get
if caught, only prison terms meant for
first offenders.
Not only is there this danger, but
foreign criminals of every description
can migrate to this country and oper-
ate for mouths, sometimes years with
out being caught The best preventa-
tive~I know for this is in an Interna-
tional Police Bureau. Such an instituI
ton should, and l hope, eventually will
be established.
1t may surprise you to learn that the
prison authorities in this and other
states give the police no notice of the
discharge of prisoners. The most des
perate of criminals, sometimes men
with murder laid at their door, are set
free without the men who are charged
with the protection of the lives of
citizens having any opportunity to
check up on them or watch where
they settle down Until we come upon
them in some new lawless outbreak
we usually do not know whether they
have resumed their old criminal asso-
Citations or not.
There is cure for this lack of co,
operation among the police forces and
it lies in the adoption of a bill now be-
fore Congress for the establishment
of National Police Bureau, a central
office in Washington where finger
prints for the whole nation would be
compared and such receptions as prac
ticed would be impossible.
Every European country has one,
Canada has one, only the United
OtdICS ldS0. Auu IOudy, Will uiOIOl ~
ed criminals leaping at will from
state, to state, it is an absolute neces-
sity if we of the police are to fully
protect you, the citizen
Criminal History
| recite this bit of criminal history
to illustrate a condition that needs cor
recting.
"The Wallabout Kid was one of our
most promising young gangsters and
pickpockets when he made the mis-
take of trying to slit a policewoman's
hand bag in a Subway crush. The re-
sultant sentence to Sing Sing amazed
him. Always before he had been able
to buy off the complainant, beat the
charge" or get suspended sentence
or, at most, a thirty-day term in the
Tombs He felt fairly at home in that
prison in the city, but to be sent up
The river because this complainant
could neither be bribed nor bullied
nor cajoled--that was something else
again.
He was a smart lad, and he had not
been in Sing Sing six hours before he
began to learn and to apply what he
learned First he set himself to win
the very shortest term possible by
means of the parole system; next he
set out to gain the favor of the off
Gals as well be haved prisoner. His
success was great. Came a day two
years later when prison "Trusty"
was being discharged on parole. The
Warden, in whose service he had been
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fOST AND FOUND
Reward

LOST-Tan leather bag SATURDAY
niEht between o. W. station and
p"s Molncs. Reward. Telephone
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