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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-14
BLIZZARD GRIPS
MIDDLE WEST

CHICAGO. Dec. 14.--Widespread
suffering was caused today by the
severe cold wave that holds Chicago
and the middle West in Its tcv
grip. Frigid winds sent the mer.
curry down from 81 degrees at I
o'clock Yesterday to below zero
at dawn today.
Zero temperatures are general
over the northern middle section OF
the United States and Canada.
North and South Dakota and MIN
nesota are the hardest hit.
A. blizzard OF major proportions.
blowing in from Alaska. swept over
those States and extended into the
adjoining States OF Montana. KAN
sas, Nebraska. Illinois. Indiana.
wisconsin and Michigan.
Although fifteen deaths have been
attributed to the cold wave. only
two are known to have been caused
directly by exposure. me otners
were the result of accidents OF va.
rious kinds. principally automobile
sn1a shlibs Incidental to the blizzard.
The lowest temperature was re.
ported from, Wilder. Mont. where
the mercury touched 81 degrees De-
low zero.
Heavy blankets OF snow cover
the affected area. The furious
gales drifted the snow into rail.
road cuts and highways and tied
up traffic in many sections.
Keen suffering was reported
among the poor in Chicago.
A, e. Sinclair. in charge OF re-
lief work, has issued orders for six
emergency relief station TO re-
main open day and night and to
have adequate stocks of food. fuel
ard clothing to dispense to the
poor and needy.
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Are You a Good Fellow?
The Washington Times Will Help You
Spread Christmas Cheer
Among Needy.

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ASK S4,000,O0Q.
FOR ANYWAYS

Growth OF commercial aviation
has been so rapid this year that the
Government will have more than
10 900 miles Of aIrways in operation
by December 81. it was announced
today by Secretary of Commerce
E-over.
Congress is to be asked for an
additional appropriation of $4,000. 900
to extend lighting and radio faciii
ties along the routes. Hoover said
The mileage in airways forecast
for the end OF the year is just about
double that which officials had
figured on when the year started.
Hoover, declared commercial avia
ton is more prosperous III this coun-
try than abroad as several lines are
now making real money" All
European lines are subsidized.
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VETERAN WHO SHOT SELF
AT CAPITOL rs DEAD

John w. caldwell, 6s.year-old
Army veteran who shot himself n.
the head yesterday 1t the Capitol,
died today ia Casually Hospital.
Caldwell shot himself while
standing on i landing ct the TOP
81 the historical old stairway lead
ing from the Capitol plaza up into
statuarv Hall. formerly the main
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-14
JOSEPH A. KOzAK WINS
GEORGETOWN MEDAL

Contending that the Philippines
should be independent. Joseph A..
Kozak was adjudged the winner OF
the annual Georgetown College de-
bate at Castor Hall last night there.
bv winning the Merrick medal. The
prize is considered the highest
scholastic award of the college.
The question or the debate was:
That the United States
Should Grant Independence, to the
Philippines"
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find elsewhere ln this paper. l.
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son or persons or q family Ia
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Then you supply that want. that
demand.
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Lecture on Religion

1.-THE Evolution OF Religion" will
be the subject of an address de-
ivered by DR.. William T. Shepherd
at 4:30 this afternoon before the
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
of Washington in the National
Museum Building.
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stairway into the old House q
Representatives.
He left ! note aslxing that rela.
lives in California bs notified. re
had served twenty years II the
Army tiuflng the fildiaD AgllpaIgnE,
tha Spanish war ana the Philippine
cafnpaigu. He has been living at
soldiers Home Cor some time.
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The good song rlngs clear for thr
Good FeII0Wss Look Into the NATTER
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South Afrlcats principal coal pro
tiucIng areas are In the Transvaal
and Natal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17
The Lenin Memorial

1t paradoxcal that
century, who explained the role of great
environment and who all his life combated my play
the dominant role in determining history should
most figure in the history of his time Yet such place
Lenn in history
Not only the proearian world where cap
iasm has concentrated and developed great
are deprived Of everything except their labor power
Lenn reyed but the suppressed in the
Of the earth where capitalism has penetrated
Of Lenin the symbol Of all their hopes and aspirations
His influence upon the working by capitalist
punderers Of the world because all his strategy tactics
kept in mind the fact that every move smallest adj
vancement must be consciously directed revolution He
depised the fake revouonists who tried scientific
plantations for the continued rule capitalism dnunciato
of the scoundrels Of apostacy he said
He who comforts melting against
slavery lends helping hand to the slave
Two have passed since the leader proletarn
luton laid down his tasks forever but the practical
application OF Marxsm the stage of Imperialism guide for
those who remain carry the conflict memory will grow
ever brighter the struggle against Imperialism embraces ever
greater Of mankind When history finally written the
Of the capitalist agents Imperialism first quarter
Of this century will be only negatively to the extent that
they referred to enemies of Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17

1.-THE eolgotha of the working class
L has not yet ended, but the day
Of salvation approaches. The day OF
trial for Scheidemann, Noske, and for
the capitalist rulers who hide behind
them comes. Events rise high to the
sky; we are used to being thrown
from the heights to the depths, but
our ship continues its straight course
firmly towards its goall"
On the day before his foul murder
at the hands of the social-democrats,
on Jan. 18th 1919, Karl Liebknecht
wrote these stirring words. The revo-
luton of the German workers had
been choked in blood, the ranks of
The revolutionary leaders had been
smashed during those days of blood"
and still the indomitable spirit Of
Liebknecht expressed itself in this
heoric passage.
We are somewhat familiar with the
life of Liebknecht. We have all heard
Of the tremendous fight that he waged
against the Junker lords and the pitt
less warfare he carried on with Red
Rosa against the reformists. The
story cannot, however, be repeated
too often. Not in a sentimental and
romantic way do we idealize and glori-
fly his name; rather to the contrary.
Certainly he was Of heroic temper,
but above all that, we must analyze
his actions for the purpose Of learning
thereby the true role we must play
in this gigantic struggle.
Red Versus White.
In the words above expressed by
Liebknecht is foretold the doom OF
the betrayers Of the German revolu-
ton. Together with their doom Is
foretold the consequent victory of the
working class. That is the kernel OF
the lesson we must learn from the life
and work of Karl. Turnout his life
he, together with other militant work
ers, carried on the struggle against re-
formism, against the reactionary pol.
icy Of the social.democratic party OF
Germany. The inevitable occurrence
of the world war and the revolutions
that followed were the rocks upon
which the old parties split; when they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17

in number; and in no former period
of industrial expansion was the old
formula Of the free play of forces
abandoned to such a degree, when
the momentous decisions as to the
extent Of production, sales, prices,
the granting of credit, the raising
Of new capital and the fixing of
wages lay in the hands Of a few
persons found at the head Of the
large banks, mammoth Industrial
undertakings and great cartels."
This was in 1906. Four years later,
Germany was already producing twice
as much steel as Great Britain and.
ranking second only to the United
States in its metallurgical power. In
less than forty years after the Franco
Prussian war the capital Of two of
its chief banks had grown some 900
per cent. By 1907, the policy of the
imperialist Kolonialvsrein was crown
ed by the establishment of a special
colonial office with the Jewish finan-
cier, Dernberg, at the head. The wild
SSAdADlC AOI CO4OulcS III AlTlCd, JuG
threat to British imperialism of the
Drang mach Osten, the demand for
place in the sum-, were signs of the
growth Of mighty imperialist ma
ton, well-rounded imperialist pol
icy-and an imperialist corruption of
profound consequences within the
ranks of the working class move
ment
The Decay Of the soeisi-Democracy.
It is automatic that the bitter ex-
ploitation of the colonial peoples and
the intensification of exploitation of
the unskilled, unorgapized masses of
workers at home have as their com
plement corruption of the upper
layer of the working class, the labor
and the bureaucracy. The
insidious poison of reyisionism,
against which the struggles of the
patrons of the German social-demo-
cracy became weaker and weaker
with the passing of time, was becom-
ing the unofficial, and even the official
policy of the huge social-democratic
party Of Germany. Their platform,
their pronunciamentos, their activities
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Liebknecht pointed out the dual
character of militarisn5, e., of its use
on behalf of Imperialism on the out
side and secondly, its use against the
working class "at home" He further
emphasized that mflftarism was
necessary part of the whole capitalist
system, and while capitalism must be
eliminated before capitalist militar-
ism can go, nevertheless the form of
this capitalist militarism necessitated
a definite struggle against it thru
specific FORMS Altho not as clear as
it might have been, this attitude was
far in advance of the accepted social
democratic policy.
Linking up his struggle against
militarism with the organization of
the youth, we find Liebknecht becom-
ing one of the outstanding figures,
standing for the definite establishment
of young socialist international,
parallel and as a SECTION of the so
cialist (2nd) International. It had
taken years of struggle to make the
social democratic PARTIES recognize
the necessity of organizing the youth
into separate organization and the
struggle was nearly sas difficult to
overcome the opposition to an inter-
national.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17

perialist nation in the world, the
Young Workers (Communist) League,
the American section of the Young
Communist International, must be in
the forefront of the struggle, and not
only in words. The danger is an i'm
mediate one and calls for swift, ener-
getic action. To unite the entire
working youth, and the farming youth,
and the students of America behind a
unified struggle against Imperialism
is now a main task of our league.
The call for a concerted battle must
go to every factory, every shop and
mine, to the fields; to every working
class youth organization and every
working class organization in general:
to every progressive student body.
And while we work for the unifca-
ton of all forces in united front
against militarism, let us not forget
our other tasks in this field. Let US
not forget that we have not begun to
carry onward, no, not even with the
most meager attempt, the isolated
work which was started by our com
rades Crouch and Trumbull the build
ing of Communist nuclei in the army
and navy, the great feminist task of
shattering the most deadly and hated
weapon of the bourgeoisie. Even in
the darkest days Liebknecht did not
omit the conducting of this work, and
we, who pride ourselves on following
in the spirit of Karl Liebknecht,
should materialize our pride in carry
ing on this work which is already to
the glorious credit Of our brother
leagues in Germany, France, Italy,
Bulgaria, the Baltic, yes, and even in
Anglo-Saxon England.
The burden of militarism rests on
the youth: the youth must lead in
the struggle against It. Liebknecht
turned his face to the youth because
it was interrupted and potential
militant fighter against Imperialism.
The youth must fulfill the spirit and
work of Liebknecht and its greatest
master, Lenin. Our work will be OF
one piece with the great revolution
airy traditions which have been given
to us.
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no longer reflected the traditions 0
the elder Liebknecht and Bebel. TIL
unity of Gotha with the Won Schweit
zers was coming to it's full blossom
carefully fortified by a steady stream
Of imperialist profits which dribbled
into the pockets of the labor aristo
cracy. The party of Kautsky and
Scheidemann was becoming a labor
adjunct to German Imperialism, an al
lance to which they sang shameless
hymns of joy in the great betrayal of
August 4th, 1914.
Why wonder, therefore, that Scheid-
emann loftily waved aside the anti
militarist proposals and agitation of
Liebknecht with SANDER and cheap
wit? 1t was therefore a piece of
knavish consistence that led the
guardians of the social-democracy to
fight against Liebknecht's efforts to
form youth movement, which, while
politically led by the party, would be
orgahizationally independent from it.
The youth was not corrupted by i'm
perialism: it suffered from it. The
youth did not acquiesce in the milit-
artist development of the empire: they
revolted against the bitter months of
compulsory service under Prussian
lieutenants and the prospects of work
ing class corpses strewn over foreign
plains for the greater glory of
Deutsche Bank and the Disconto
Gesellschaft. The youth needed no
theoretical disproof of Bernstein's de-
claration that the conditions of the
workers were improving under capt.
alism; the burden which grew heavier
on their shoulders every day, in the
shop and outside of it, was sufficient.
The youth, forming one OF the most
compact sections of the working class
which was ready and eager to enter
into the struggle against militarism
and Imperialism, became, with Lieb-
knecht, natural basis for his work.
The healthy instincts of Liebknecht,
revolving against the opportunism and
servility Of the party officialdom, turn
ed him to years Of great work for the
youth. And while he did not forget,
as none of us can, that among the
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! which became a basis for the youth
from that time on-"An oppressed
class which does not strive for the
knowledge Of arms, for the practice
of arms, for the possession of arms,
such an oppressed class is only wor-
thy to be oppressed, maltreated and
regarded as a slave class" He con-
tinued pointing out I'VE must trans
form the imperialist war into the rev.
olutionary civil war"
During these stormy years Of war
and revolutions, Karl Liebknecht, to-
gether with Luxembourg and the other
leaders of that little group which
founded the Spartacusbund, to-day
blossomed into the powerful Commun-
list Party closed their term of activi-
ty in the socialist movement. They
were murdered by the social demo-
cracy in cold blood But those prin-
ciples for which they stood are still
alive and live today, enriched with
the theory Of Leninism, in the work
ing class youth-in the Young Com
munist International.
The bourgeoisie, thru their spoke-
man, the social democracy, proclaim
ed, "order is established in Berlin"
The subsequent events bring to mind
the triumphant declaration of Rosa
Luxembourg on the day of her death,
Order is established in Berlin!-You
fools! Your order is built on sand
Tomorrow the revolution will arise
again majestic and to your terror an
nounce with a voice of thunder: 4
was, am, am to be!'"
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II ARL LIEBKNECHT is often re-
IN ferred to as the leader and foun-
der of the revolutionary youth move
ment. In him is symbolized the act
ivities of the new generation Of pro
letarian rebels who fight in the fore
front Of every struggle, who rally to
the red banner the most oppressed
and exploited section of the working
class; the toiling youth which has
gained its political consciousness in
the period Of wars and revolutions.
The immortal struggle of Liebknecht
against capitalist militarism, the plac-
ing of his hopes in the youth move
ment as the standard bearers of the
battle, his incessant efforts to form
and build a mass movement of the
working class youth, form one Of the
most brilliant pages In the history of
the revolutionary movement of the
world.
1.-THE Future Belongs to the Youth"
To Liebknecht, the slogan of the
Future Belongs to the Youth" meant
more than a casual reference to some
inheritance that would go to the
young generation when they came of
age.
The slogan had deep political sig
niflcance which even now forms one
Of the basic factors in the Bolshevik
connection of the labor movement.
Liebknecht was born in the period
of the end of the long struggle for
national unity in Germany and its
entry into the imperialist epoch. The
furious objections raised the Iron
Chancellor, Bismarck, against the ac-
QUESTION of Alsace-Lorraine and the
nascent tendencies towards colonial
development were already voices of
dying period. IN the short span of
two or three decades Germany was
taking its place among the foremost
imperialist nations. When Liebknecht
was being tried in Leipzig for his anti
militarist book, the Austrian consul
in Berlin wrote that:
Never before was economic Ger
many so entirely under the absolute
rule of group of men, barely fifty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17

However, in 1906, the Young Social
ist League of Germany commissioned
Henry DeMan together with Lieb-
knecht and other sympathetic com
rades, to undertake the task of calling
an international congress immediate
ly after the international congress, in
Stuttgart, 1907. The congress was held
with representatives from 10 coun-
tries present. The chief points on the
agenda were:
Anti-militarism, reported on by Karl
Liebknecht.
Our minimum economic program,
reported on by A. Alpiri.
Working class education for the
youth, reported upon by Roland-Holst.
The international in itself only
loosely connected up the various
young socialist leagues. The execu-
tive elected comprised DeMan, Lieb-
knecht, WarsheYsky, Roland-Holst and
Muller.
Here was laid the basis of the youth
movement on an International scale.
But Liebknecht's interest in the youth
did not stop here. Altho no longer a
youth in the sense of age, he realized
that they had within them that force
which would be the driving wedge
within the old End international, be-
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Liebknecht and the American Youth

The nationwide celebrations of the Young Commun
is League concentrating the heroic ebknecht
that thousands thousands the
to learn the significance of the life of this the German
youth At this time when the impera waging intensified
campaigns to ns the poison virus of capitalist marism
minds Of the youth of the nation prepare
next imps blood BATH the lessons be derived
and activities of Karl Lebknecht have farreaching effect
That the American youth the exploited work
ing class capable of something attending games
jazz parties las the capitalist press pulpit upers gen.
orally would have beeve evidenced the strike
workers in Belaire Ohio who wage cut
of 10 cent These hundred workers faced unchngy the
assaults of the steel and coal trust owned city
that city, noted for its brazen suppression every vesge of free
speech. =
such these that the Liebknecht come as
revelation pointing the way to the militant struggle against cap
italism which alike in industry toll from
the ranks Of the youth