Evening star., 1924-01-27
BY MAxIMILIAN HARDEN.

By Radio to The Star.
| BERLIN, January 26.-For twenty
months before his death Eikolai Lee
min was mortally ill and had taken
no part in any state business. Had
he died in May, 1922, as many then
feared, Russia would not have sur
vived his loss without severe earth
quakes. But the mans strong will
compelled death to wait. He died so
! tslowly that even his truest friends
gradually accustomed themselves to
his fading away.
| News which, like those from a
kings sick bed reported Lenin's ap-
preaching recovery, were indeed faIss.
But they made the people believe that
the ruling Observation-Disclosures
| Stain and Zinoviev-were following
the counsels of a temporarily incapa-
citated chief.
Message From Lenin.
| At the end Of the winter Lenin had
Tread to the eleventh congress Of the
| communist party speech in which
he told the party the bitterest truth.
| Our communist pride" he said,
prevents us from realizing that the
complishes more than we, and that
we, with all our great power. cannot
provision the land as we'll as do pri-
vate merchants. He who has done
something badly must begin again.
Economy Of administration. selection
of men, administration of justice -
everything is still ineffable.
| But that must not make us lose
courage. Only we must not imagine
that we have already defeated the
from them. And if we cannot prove
that we can quickly aid the poor,
hungry peasant he will drive US to
These are not the most pointed
Isentences from that speech, whose
sublime, cruel frankness has never
been attained by any other chief of
state. Lenfn spoke like czar, but
this car differed from others in that
he did not conceal his own RESPONSE
bilitieS and his own errors.
Silent Since Confession.
Since this majestically courageous
|confession Of error. his voice has been
mute. His unusually varied and tan
gled life could not have ended more
Vladimir 1lyitch Ulfanov. Lenin's
imam, grew up with the peasants and
decided early In. life to dedicate his
life to freeing the poorest and most
depressed.
When barely thirty years old, he
lsheviks. who had separated from the
lmensheviks. The mensheviks wanted
ito work through the douma- The boil
!sheviks expected nothing from parlia-
,ment, but everything through revolu-
tionary action. Lenin's elder brother
twas hanged on a charge Of completely
lin an assa ssination plot. He himself
later was exiled to Siberia for helping
organize a fighting association for
the liberation Of lRborers," but es-
capped abroad.
After such experiences, only brute
force appeared to him to be effective
in class warfare. The intelligence
and logic OF his theoretical writing
had won fame for him, and had i'm
planted In him a certain feeling that
a prominent place in history was re-
served for him
Overthrew Kexensky.
tured the revolution's drst fruits
Lenin returned to Russia secretly, bu,
poorly in Finland. Paris. zurich and
;Geneva- Following the outbreak o,
the world war, he wrote his news.
paper that the overthrow OF cxarisn
would be the lesser Of tho evils ts
Sly people suggested to tho German
military command that the return OF
tLenin and his comrades would be the
best means OF destroying Russia. Ir
a German railway coach, they wer.
brought through Scandinavia te
Russia.
/ AT the end Of the third year OF tn,
Iwar, Lenin overthrow Dictator Keren.
lsky, who desired to continue the war
Lenin ended the war in the Brest.
iLitovsk treaty, brought about a divi.
sion Of land among the peasants, and
became the only real might In thu
whole empire. He found highly
gifted helpers and did not grudgt
them fame. but he alone exhibited