Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-09
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peeler
TEX RICHARD sometimes adj

TN Mn NAM NNlil'iliiitN oh~
mitted that. among the vet
Grams of the Alaskan gold rush
who chilled the very marrows
of their friends with stories of
hardship and. rancid blubber,
there were some OF the most
imaginative liars on earth.
Men who as restless young
StcrS. had Jared north for adj
venture and gold. had taken
few WhilfS of the brisk winter
air and thereafter had holcd up
i'm saloons as bartenderS. deal
erS. SWeepcrs and common,
never tar out of the warm pres
enCe of the iron stoves and had
taken We hardShlpS OF the trail
by proxy.
Yet, IN later years, when their
company had been thnned out,
SURVIVORS of that place and
time. by common consent would
Corroborate one another 5 stories
of Chilblaln in the frozen vast
ness and men who had suffered
no Worse Than an occasional
lack OF room rent would invent
perlS and suiferlngS 10 curl the
hair of city friends who could
interpOSe no very solid doubt
eEe4s-beeattse- they htton t-bccn
there.
DEN STOLBERG, a small and
- hooking Skcptic OF the
left wing, the biographer of per-
SonaliticS of the torclgn-Amerl-
can union-political movement,
invites similar diSilluslonment
concerning the revolutionary
adventures Of such package
goods heroes under the ear.
For many years native Ameri-
cans nave heard with horror
and sympathy, tales of exile To
Siberia and OF enormous bravery
in suffering, all for their ideals
which IN view OF their frequent,
savage diSagreementS IN the
land of opportunity, seem not 10
have been alike except 10 the
extent that they unanimously
oppose amy system which they,
individually, cannot boss.
OF David DubInSky, whom he
admircs cmotlonaily. Mr.. Stol-
berg writes IN his informative
work, Tailor 5 Progress, that
Dave, though sentenced 10 ST.
IBERIA, actually was allowed 10
escape before he even reached
his destination.
The -cZarlSt- government, he
reveals, pad The penal authofi-
lies s. kopcCkS a day Tor the
maintenance OF each convict and
the iailerS often allowed the
escape of prisoners in order TO
pocket this allowance
(Which explains" Mr.. Stol-
berg says, why 50 many reNo-
lutionary figures made SEEM
ingiy miraculous escapes from
Siberia"
DublnSky, moreover. brlbed
one OF his guards with his spare
clothing and was allowed TO
walk away lie reached, With
out too great distress, his native
LODI and, about year later,
landed IN New York.
lie promptly joined the So
cialist party, Mr. Stolberg says,
and, year later, was soap
boxing all over the east side.
EARLIER. Dave had spent a
IL year and a half in the LODI
local prison, If the hero himself
does not eXaggerate, but even
there MIR Stolberg says, his life
was made easier by a contrlbu-
ton of three rubleS a month
from his father to the warden.
who seems 10 have had good
job.
THAT didn't mean." DubinSky
said, that l escaped the terrible
beatings which all Of us had To
take" TO which, however,
might offer the observation
that, AT 81, Mr.. DubinSky is
still a very solid and healthy
man, bearing NJ visible scars of
thise abuse.
OF Sidney Hillman. eWhom he
diSapproves with joyous per-
Sonal detCStation. MIR. Stolberg
paints a picture even less heart
rendlng.
Citing HIllman'S friend v
Communist blographcrS, who
had him on a proletarlan COM
mlttee which "SeiZed" his ma
tive town of Zagere. Lithuanla,
and made him the hero of six or
eight months IN the DvlnSk
prison, Stolberg says first that
Zagere never was seized by
any proletarian committee. and
that a number of other refugees
never heard of lIllman a. an
active fighter in the 1903 rcvo-
luton.
To Squcal ON Sidney IIillman
and discrcdlt him may seem 10
violate the Alaskan tradition;
but, as I told YOU, the Gold
Rush veterans did not always
hang together.
Mr.. Richard in certain moods,
would debate the adventures of
some of his contemporaries and
Jack kearnS, the manager of
Jack Dempsey, who also was
there, sometimes remembers
that the heroes of great adVen-