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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
BLOSSOMS
BY RUTH PERKINS


I picked white blossoms on a hill
When morning spread her fingers
wide
And singled out each Swallowed
place
Where strips Of night might seek
TO hide.
I picked white blossoms on a hill
Before the dew upon them dried.
All day upon the hin I walked
And fought the winds swift NOV
ing load:
Then home I went through thicken-
ing shade
Where once the sparkling sun had
glowed,
And dropped my blossoms bruised
and dead,
-Fnrgotten on the dusty road.
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MODERN VERSION
OF SYMBOLISM
BY a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
In the matter Of syrnbolizing 1t
seems that the gigantic oil industries
and others have chosen perfect
symbols for themselves in the form
Of the huge prehistoric beasts. Of
course, they pretend symbolism Of
the aged products.
However, it may have famed their
vanity to feel that they also rep
resented power motive. financial and
political, as they have spent i'm
nense sums in perfecting their i'm
aginary performances.
Scientific theory is that the beasts
bodies were so enormous and the
brain so feeble that they were easy
victims Of attack by other wild ami
mails or the survival of the fittest.
A more modern version might be
that on account Of their huge size
they devoured all the other animals
except the more clever ones which
outwitted them. They then died of
starvation. having defeated their
own cause by their own greed. Seems
as good guess as the generally &C
cepted one. Anyhow, it would COM
plete the cycle Of symbolism.
Robert f. A. CrOOkstOn, whose
letter on the relationships between
capital and labor appeared in
Mondays Message Center, to-
day asked The indianapolis Times
to correct a mistake in that let
ter. The printed version said, Il
am a Communist :" 1t should
have said, Il am not a Commu-
mist"
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Daily Thought

But ne that shall endure unto the
end, the same shall be saved.-St.
Matthew, 24:13.
lTREAT effects come of industry
NJ and perseverance,; for audacity
doth almost bind and mate the
weaker sort of minds. -Racnn..
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Wonder if that scribe who wrote John Dill
fingers boyhood DAYS in the slums ever saw
the towering tenements of Mooresvile, Ind.
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The Message Center

Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so az can have q chance.
Limit them to $50 DoTds or Iess.)
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Rumors have spoiled many beautiful friend
ships says Jean Harlow. And roonlers have
spoiled many beautiful marriages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12

Sometimes in an irreverent moment, It
seems that the world still might wag on
whether Doug and Mary were reconclled or not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12

the baseball pinch hitter is the one they really
help most
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Well. even if all the other codes fail t
stick. that one on the animal glue industr
should
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Everything I am I owe to honest advertis-
ing. says Sally Rand There's one case where
the bare truth certainly paid.
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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. u. 1884
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Phone Riley SSH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

the imperiaNsts of England and Ger
many have not hesitated to ruin and
to strangle whole series Of countries
from Belgium and Serbia to Pales-
tine and Mesopotania. And what
about the Socialists? Shall they,
for the sake of "ther" cause.-The
liberation Of the workers of the whole
world from the yoke Of capital, the
conquest Of a universal lasting peace
wait until they can find a way
that entails no sacrifice? Shall they
be afraid to commence the battle
until an easy victory is guaranteed"
Shall they place the integrity and
safety Of "theit" fatherland, created
by the bourgeoisie, above the inter-
ests Of the world Socialist revolu-
ton? Thrice they deserve utmost
contempt, this scum of international
Socialism, those lackeys of bourgeois
morality who think along these lines.
The beasts Of prey Of Anglo French
and American imperialism accuse"
us Of coming to an agreement" with
German imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

periaIisn for the Bolsheviks, as well
as from the sympathy Of claSs-con-
sciouS workers OF all countries, we
draw new assurance in the justice OF
our cause.
He is no Socialist who does not I'M
derstand that one cannot and must
not hesitate to make even such
sacrifice as the sacrifice Of a piece
of territory, the sacrifice Of a heavy
defeat at the hands Of capitalists
Of other countries, the sacrifice of
indemnities to capitalists, in the In
terest q victory over the bourgeOisie,
In the interest of transfer of power
to the working class, in the interest
of the BEGINNING of the interna-
tional proletarian revolution. He is
no Socialist who has not shown by
DEEDS his readiness for the great
est sacrifices on the part Of HIS
fatherland so that the cause Of the
socialist revolution may be pushed
forward.
For the sake Of "their" cause, that
is, the conquest Of world hegemony,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

sympatllized in words with the Boil
shevikS while in deeds faithful SER
want Of French imperialism, brought
the French officer de Lubersac TO
me. Il am o monarchist. My only
purpose is the defeat of Germany"
de Lubersac declared to me. THAT
goes without saying (cela va sans
dire)," I replied But this by no
means prevented me from coming
to an agreement" with de Lubersac
concerning certain services that
French Officers, experts in explosives,
were ready to render by blowing up
railroad tracks in order to prevent
the advance Of German troops
against us. This was an example Of
an agreement" OF which every class
conscious worker will approve, an
agreement in the interests Of Social
ism, We shook hands with the French
monarchist although we knew that
each Of us would readily hang his
partner" But for a time our in
terests conceded to throw back
the rapaciouS advancing Germans, we
made use Of the equally rapacious
counter-interests of the other imper-
ialists, thereby serving the interests
Of the Russian and the international
Socialist revolution. In this way
We served the interests of the work.
ing class OF Russia and other coun-
tries, we STRENGTHENED the proletariat
and weakened the bourgeoisie of the
whole world, we used the justified
practice Of maneuvering, necessary
in every war, Of shifting and wait
ing for the moment when the rapidly
growing proletarian revolution in a
number of advanced countries had
ripened.
And despite all the wrathfuI howl
ing of the sharks of Anglo French
and American imperialism, despite all
the calunnies they have showered
upon us, despite all the millions spent
for bribing the right Socialist-Revo-
lutiOnist, Menshevik and other social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG

While Russian soil was being in
vaded, the enemies within, the So
Observation-Disclosures, another brand
Of the traitorous Socialists, were Or
ganizing an attempt on the life of
the German Ambassador Won Mir
bach, in order to provoke the inva-
sion Of the German army from the
West and were plotting to behead the
revolution by killing Lenin. They
succeeded in killing the German Am
basSador, but only seriously wounded
Lenin.
It was in this circumstances that
Lenin was addressing himself directly
to the American workers. telling
them Of the conditions under which
the October Revolution was fighting
to achieve its aims and drawing the
lessons for the American workers and,
for that matter, for the workers of
the whole world, to whom the sue
cess or failure of the Russian Revolu-
ton was closely tied up with their
own struggles for the emancipat ion
from the oppression of imperialism,
Tinneliness of Lenin's Letter
With war again on the imperialist
order of the day, and, in the first
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
AMERICA HAS BECOME COUNTRY WHERE HAND
Full OF BILLIONAIRES ARE WALLOWING IN LUXURY

rights 10 all nations and proposed
such a peace 10 ALL the countries al
war.
And it was the Anglo-French and
the American bourgeoisie who refused
to accept our proposals; they were
the very ones who even refused to
talk to us Of a universal peacel Pre-
cisely they were the ones who acted
treacherously towards the interests
Of all peoples by prolonging the an
perialist slaughter.
Precisely they were the ones vino,
specializing upon renewed partici-
patton of Russia in the imperialiSt
war, have Stunned peace negotiations
and thereby given a free hand to
the no less maraudEng German CAPT
talists in foisting upon Russia the
annexstioniSt and violent Brest
Peacel
It IS difficult TO imagine a more
disgusting piece Of hypocrisy than
the one with which the Angio-French
and American bourgeoisie now put
Peace. The very capitalists Of those
countries upon which it depended to
turn Brest into general negotiations
for world peace are now our "accus-
ers." The scoundrels Of Anglo-French
Imperialism, who profited from the
loot of colonies and from the slaugh-
ter Of peoples, and who prolonged the
war almost a year after Rrest-they
accuse US, the Bolsheviks, who pro-
posed just peace to all countries;
us, who tore up, exposed and put to
shame the secret criminal treaties of
the former Tsar With the Anglo
French capitalists.
The workers Of the whole world,
in whatever country they may live,
rejoice with US and sympathi5e with
us, applaud us for having burst the
iron ring Of imperialist ties, dirty i'm
perialst treaties, lrnpe-Aalist chains,
for having dreaded no sacrifice, how
ever great, to free ourselves, for flav-
ing established ourselves as a Social
list republic, even though rent ssun-
der and plundered by the imperial
lists, for having gotten out Of the
impeHalist war and raising the BAN
ner Of peace, the banner Of Social
ism over the world
No wonder that for this we are
hated by the band Of international
imperialists; no wonder that they
all accuse" us and that the lackeys
Of Imperialism, including our right
Socialist Revolutionaries and Men
sheviks, also accuse" us. From the
hatred Of these watchdogs OF i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
EXPLAINS SIGNING OF "BREsT PEACE

o hypocritesl 0 scoundrels. who
SANDER the workers government and
shiyer from fear Of that sympathy
which is being shown us by the work.
ers Of their own" countries! But
their hypocrisy will be exposed. They
pretend not to understand the differ
ence between an agreement made
by Socialists" with the bourgeoisie
(native or foreigD against the work
ers, against the toilerS, and an agree
ment for the safety Of the workers
who have defeated their bourgeoisie,
with bourgeoisie Of one national
color against the bourgeoisie Of an
other color for the sake Of the utiliza-
ton by the proletariat of the contra
dictions between the different groups
Of the bowgeoisie.
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compare the translation with the
original Russian text as published in
Lenin's Collected WORKS, already
available for several years
The readers will find while perus-
ing this Letter reprinted In this is
sue Of the Daily Worker, a good deal
of the type set TN bold face. This rep
reSents the parts actually left out
from the original English translation.
The rest Of the Letter was freely
translated and bare outline Of Len
ms thoughts was given. In reading
the Letter as now published, one can
easily see how important are the Sec
tons which were left out, and If one
will take the trouble to compare the
present translation with the text as
it was published before, one will see
how Lenin's writing was emasculated
and distorted.
The fate of Lenin's Letter is not q
singular one. Other writings of
Lenin such as Estate and Revolu-
tion," Imperialism" Left Commu-
nisnl-An Infantile Disorder" have
also been presented in TRANSACTIONS
which were careless and not always
giving accurately Lenin's ideas. If we
examine the previously published
TRANSACTIONS Of other MARKHAM class
les, we will note similar neglect to
pay careful attention to the work OF
translation and publishing Of the lit
erary heritage of the founders of
scientific Communism. In our at
tempt to make the classics Of Marx
fsm-Leninisrn available to the work.
erS OF this country we must take great
pains to see that the writings left
by the great teachers and leaders OF
the working class are presented pre-
ctsely as they wanted the workers to
read and understand them. This Is
the task Of the Communist Party
which must jealousy guard the pur-
ity Of Marxist-Leninist theory and
not allow the carrying over into the
TRANSACTIONS any contraband of for
eign theology about which Stain
warned us in his famous letter to
"Proletarskaya Revolutsia," nor to
condone careless or "free" transla-
tons, or trifiing with the text, which,
are Just as criminal.
On the 10th Anniversary OF Lenin's
death we can dnscribe on cur red
banners floating in the breeze the
last sentence in his Letter TO the
American Workers: I'VE are irwin
chile. because the World -Proletarian
Revusutico n invanc1ble." &c 90. -
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when he fought the revolutionary
views Of Trotzky who opposed the
signing Of the Brest-Litovsk Peace
with the German government to
gain breathing spell" for the Revo-
luton. LeninS arguments advanced
then hold true today regarding the
foreign pokcy OF the Soviet Union
which is carried on under the leader
ship Of Conlrade Stain.
To Study His Letter
American workers to whom Lenin
addressed his Letter should read and
re-read 1t every so often, because
they will find packed into these few
pages answers to the many burning
questions by the greatest working
class teacher and leader since Marx
and Engels. This Letter, which is
being published in pamphlet form,
should be distributed In millions of
copies among the toiling masses of
this country. LeniT's Letter and the
lessons 1t carries for the American
workers, should become the topic Of
conversation whenever two or more
workers meet, for in 1t they will find
much that they want and need to
know to help them understand their
present plight and the way out Of It.
Lenin's Letter to the American
Workers, written on Aug. 20, 1918,
was first published in the United
States in the December, 1918. issue OF
the Glass Struggle" q bi-monthly
issued by a revolutionary interna-
tionalist group in the Socialist Party
at that time. It was reprinted In
pamphlet form from that magazine
and widely distributed. It played an
important part in developing the I'M
derstanding of the nature Of impe-
rialism, and the position Of the So
cial-chauvinists in the Socialist
movement. It directly contributed to
the building Of the Left Wing in the
Socialist Party which led later to
the splitting away of the revolution
airy elements and in the formation
Of the Communist Party.
Careless Translation
The Letter as 1t was printed In
the Glass struggle" was later re-
printed on numerous occasions In the
revolutionary periodical publications
In this country. The Daily Worker
reprinted the Letter several times
durings its ten years Of existence. IN
fortunately the editors always as
sumed that the text Of the Letter as
originally published in this country
was properly translated and given in
FUN. II ives not found necessary d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

The American people have a revo-
Iutionary traditions adopted by the
best representatives Of the American
proletariat, who gave repeated ex-
preston to their full solidarity with
US, the Bolsheviks. This tradition Is
the war Of liberation against the
English in the 18th and the Civil
War IN the 18th century. If we are
TO take only into consideration the
destruction" Of some branches Of
industry and national economy,
America in 1870 was in some respects
behind 1880. But what a pedant,
what an idiot is he who denies on
such grounds the greatest, world his
toric, progressive and revolutionary
significance OF the American Civil
War Of 1e61-1S65!
Representatives Of the bourgeoisie
understand that it was worth letting
the country go through long years
Of civil war, the abysIna1 ruin, de-
Struction and terror which are con-
nected with every war for the sake
Of the overthrow OF Negro slavery
and the overthrow Of the rule OF the
slave-ownerS. But now, when we are
confronted With the vastly greater
task Of the overthrow of capitalist
wage slavery, the overthrow of the
rule Of the bourgeoisie-now the rep
resentatives and defenders Of the
bourgeoisle, as well as the socialist
retoFmists, frightened by the bour-
gecis3e, and stunning the revolution
cannos understand and do not want
to understand the necessity and the
legality Of civil war.
The American workers will not fol-
low the hourgeoiSie. They will be
with us for civil war against the
bourgeoisie. The whole history Of
the world and the American labor
movement strengthens my convic-
ton. also recall the words of one
Of the most beloved leaders Of the
American proletariat, Eugene Debs
who wrote in THE Appeal TO Rea.
son." I believe towards the end O;
1915, in the article I'm Whose War
VIII I Fight?". Il quoted that article
at the beginning Of 1915 at a public
meeting Of workers in Berne, Swift
zerland) that he, Debs, would rather
be shot than vote for loans for the
present criminal and reactionary i'm
pertalist war; that he. Debs, knows
Of only one holy and, from the stand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

line, against the Soviet Union, Len
ms Letter is timely today as it was
when it was penned over Is years
ago. japanese imperialism and Ger
man FascisIn are the spearheads Of
the threatening attack, and again the
tocsin must be sounded 50 that the
workers and peasants of all capitalist
and colonial countries may hear that
the Workers Fatherland is in danger.
And when the Workers Fatherland
is in danger, all toiling masses are in
danger.
The lessons which LenGn outlined
in his Letter are also timely today.
To those who did not free themselves
from the pedantry OF bourgeois in
tellectuahsIn and were questioning
Lenin's policy of dealing with the
French miItariSts, when the German
troops were marching in the Ukraine.
he declared: "To throw back the ra-
pacious advancing Germans we made
use of the equally rapacious counter
interests Of the other imperialists,
thereby serving the interests of the
Russian and the International So
oEalist Revolution" The same rea-
soning was used earlier by Lenin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
~ Revolutionary Workers Iconclabe Imperialism

particularly tragic page in the bloody
history Of bloody imperialism by Civ
ing their apprOyal-it makes no diff
ference whether direct or indirect,
whether open or hypOcriticaIly COW
cred up-tO an armed expedition of
the Ango- Japanese beasts for the
purpose of strangling the first Social
ist republic.
The history Of modern civilized
America opens with one OF those
great, really Iberating, really revolu-
tionary wars, Of which there have
been so few among the large number
Of wars Of conquest, that were caused,
like the present amperialist war, by
squabbles among kings, landowners
and capitalists, over the division of
seized lands and stolen profits. II
was a war Of the American people
against English robbers, who subject
ed America, and held it In colonial
slavery, as these civilized" blood
suckers are even now subjecting and
holding in colonial slavery, hundreds
Of millions Of people in India, Egypt,
and in all corners Of the world.
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Z Almost the very day Lensn was
writing to the American workers
about these imperialist attacks.
American troops were disembarking
in Vladivostok to join japanese,
British and French military detach-
ments which arrived there before.
American Intervention
Already on July II, 1918, President
Wilson, the darling of the liberal and
Socialist chauvinists, agreed to a
limited military intervention On
Aug. 3, the American government
was forced to admit publicly that it
was in full accord with the other
imperialist powers in the Russian in
tervention policy. But in the usual
hypocritical Wilsonian manner, COM
mon to all democratic" governments,
declared that the troops are being
sent to protect" the stranded"
Czecho-Slovak regiments, and to
guard the military supplies
the Germans who were thousands of
miles away. In "the most public of
solemn manner It informed the peo-
pie OF Russia that cit contemplates
no interference with the political
sovereignty in Russia and no inter-
vention in her internal affairs"
The Japanese government hurried
to issue similar statement contain
ing similar assurances of friendship
to Russia" and of cts avowed policy
Of respecting the territorial integrity
Of Russia and of abstaining from all
interference in her internal affairs"
To make sure that Russian territory
in Siberia was respected" Japan.
which was to send over 1000 troops.
soon had there 10000 armed and
equipped men, and troops of other
reSpecters Of Russian territory were
pouring in from Hong-Kong Brit
ish), Indo-China F'rench), and the
Philippines (American). The brave
Siberian peasants who organized
their partisan bands to defend them
selves from the imperialist inzaders
and the Russian landowners vssto fol-
lowed in their wake, drenchSd that
territory with their blood to save it
from their protectors. Not satisfied
with sending troops to the Far East,
the American government also sent
military attachments to Murrnansk
and Archangel In the North. probably
to protect the Czecho-Slovaks WAC
were in Siberia.
Lenin, Of course, could not charac-
terize these American invasions other
than that the American government
was Joining "the Anglo japanese
beasts for the purpose Of strangiiDg
the first Socialist Republic"
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In reality, every European knows
this difference very well, and the
American people particularly, as
shall presently show, have expert
enced" 1t in their own history. There
are sCreeuents md agreement. there
are fagots ct fagOts, as the French
say.
When the German gmperialist rob-
bers, in February, 1918, threw their
armies against defenseless, dcmobi-
hzed Russia which staked its hopes
upon the international solidarity Of
the proletariat before the fnternq-
tional revolution had completely rip
ened, I did not hesitate for a mo-
ment to come to a certain "agree-
ment" with the French monarchists.
The French captain Sadoul, who