The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-18
ARRESTED Again"

smiling. They have arrested ma
again. e-Sll them to let me 60" II
was signed Ivan Volny. "I have read
his book. I liked it very much.
After readingi the first five words
I felt at once that here was man
who understood the inevitabiiity o.
mistakes, who did not get angrx.
or fly into a rage II he was hurt
personally. This Is the third timA.
I think, that he has been arresteA
You had better advise him to leave
the village or they'll kill him nexks
Evidently they are not very fond al
him there. Advise him. BY tefes
gram"
I was often struck by Lenin's read.
mess to help people whom he COM
Sidered to be his enemies, and not
only readiness to help but even care
for their future. One general, for
example, a scientist, a chemist, was
threatened with death. HIN, him."
said Lenin, after listening atten.
lively to my story. $50 you think
he didn't know that his sons had
hidden firearms in his laboratory?
That seems rather unlikely. But we
must leave 1t for Dzerzhinsky to
unravel. He has keen instinct for
the truth" Several days later he
rang me up in Petrograd and said,
I'VE are letting your general go
think he has already been set
free. What does he intend to do?"
"Homoemukion."
Eyes, yes-carbolic acid. Well,
let him boil his carbolic. Tell me
If he is in need Of anything"
Lenin spoke ironically in order to
conceal the Joy which he did not
wish to show, of saving mans
life. Several days later he asked
again, well, how is the general
getting on? Everything arranged?"
princess T."
In Petersburg kitchens in 1919
there appeared a very beautiful
woman who demanded severely.
"Give me bone for my dogs! I
an Princess T." There was story
that, unable to bear any longer the
degradation and the hunger, she
resolved to throw herself in the
Neva, but, so it was said, her four
dogs, who had an instructive intui-
ton of her sad intention, ran after
her, and by their howls and anguish
made her renounce her idea of
commi ling suicide. I related this
story to Lenin. Looking me up and
down with sidelong glance, screw
ing up his eyes and then closing
them entirely, he said gloomiiy,
Even if it is all made up, still the
idea is not a bad one. A joke of
the revolution" He was silent.
Then he got up and, sorting the
papers on the table, said thought
fully, Eyes, those people are in great
straits. History is cruel STEP
mother, and when it is retaliating
stops at nothing. What is there
to say? 1t is bad for those people.
The clever ones among them under
stand of course that they have been
torn up by the roots and will never
grow again; and transportation in
Europe won't satisfy the clever ones.
You don't think they will strike
root there, do you?" "I don't think
they will" "That means that they
will either go our way or attempt to
make another intervention?" I
asked him, did it only seem to me
so. or did he really pity people?"
He answered, II am sorry for the
clever ones. We haven't enough
clever people. We are for the most
part a talented people, but mental
ly lazy" and recollecting several
comrades who had outlived their
class psychology and were working
with the Bolsheviks, he spoke Of
them with astonishing warmth.
Lenin's Qualities
A man of astounding strength Of
will, Lenin possessed in the high
est degree the best qualities and
properties of the revolutionary in
telligentsia = -discipxao often
amounting to self-tortNe and self
mutilation, in its most extreme
form, to remuneration OF art, to
the logic of one of the heroes OF
l.. AndreJev, "Other people are liv-
ing hard lives. and therefore must
live hard life"
In the hard famine year OF 1919
Lenin was ashamed to eat the food