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Show Page 2 Millard County Chronicle Thurs., October 26,1961 The Millard County Chronicle Published Eery Thursday at Delta. Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY B. B. (Bob) BIDING INEZ BIDING - JOE STEWART ..... LINO PRESSMAN Entered as Second Class matter at the Postoffice at Delta. Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate: $4.00 a year in advance; Six months, $2.25 Advertising Bates on Request NATIONAL EDITORIAL mat SIM'MB'5saM!0X, There are so many things to write about this week that I do not know where to start. If I started First Things First, then I would just dive right into volume 2 of "Facts on Communism", Commu-nism", I suppose. So maybe that is the correct place. So here goes. Chapter I: The Bolshevik Party "There has never been in. Russia, or perhaps anywhere else, a political poli-tical party whose birth, growth, and maturity .were so closely tied to the personal history of a single leader as in the case of the Bolshevik Bol-shevik Party and its creator, Vladimir Vladi-mir Lenin." From its inception Lenin welded almost unlimited power in his party. par-ty. (You will remember from Volume Vol-ume 1, that the Communist Party is more of Leninism rather than Marxism, as is commonly believed.) Many Communist observers believe that without Lenin there would have been no Communist regime in Russia. Lenin was an heir of Russia's long revolutionary tradition, and like others who played a prominent promi-nent role in the Bolshevik Revolution Revolu-tion of 1917, he took ideas and philosophies from a long line of predecessors of earlier generations. "Revolutionary movements i n Russia aimed at the overthrow of the autocratic political system had been in existence for 90 years before be-fore they achieved their goal in 1917". The movements were clandestine clan-destine and operated underground Some groups of the underground called for popular uprisings and the assassination of the Tsar and members mem-bers of his government. The government gov-ernment retaliated by imprisoning, deporting and sometimes executing the revolutionists. FALL 1 SALE -1961 CCpING H0V. 2 ... i r- i t i m irr h order now, head of the crowd ELIMINATE SHOPPING -let us prepare your order ASSURE SAVINGS -while stocks are complete 2 FOR THE PRICE OF 1 plus a pennyl Buy your SUPER PLENA-MINS PLENA-MINS now and gf.'f from 1 to 5 chances on a beautiful Westinghouse Stereophonic High Fidelity Player. Baker Pharmacy : . ende and . . A ORIGINAL icS p. cr ii BIG ) OWNER-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE EDITOR The most important revolutionary revolution-ary trend during the second half of the 19th century was represented represent-ed by the Populist groups. The aims of these groups were to arouse the peasantry against the political system, achieve a socialist transformation trans-formation in Russia and make Russia Rus-sia socialist before other countries even entered on the path of socialism. social-ism. The Populists assassinated Tsar Alexander II March 1, 1881. Lenin's elder brother, Alexander, was hanged on May 8, 1887, for being part of a group who attempted attempt-ed assassination of Tsar Alexander III. Vladimir Lenin was born April 22. 1870, into the family of a school inspector in Simbirsk, on the Volga. The five children received a good education. Vladimir, was an able and industrious student and had been imbued with revolutionary ideas from early youth. The execution execu-tion of his brother was a strong factor in the development of his extreme revolutionary inclinations. He was arrested and expelled from Kazan University at the early age of 17 because of his political activity. acti-vity. In 1891 he passed law examinations exami-nations at St. Petersburg University Univer-sity and was admitted to the bar. Shortly thereafter, he joined a pioneer pio-neer Marxist circle in the capital. In April 1895 he went abroad for several months. In Switzerland and France he met a number of politi-. politi-. cal Emigres (political refugees), , among them the two founders of Russian Marxism, Plekhanov and I Axelrod. (They had founded the I Russian Marxist group in 1883. For a long time the group exerted little influence upon Russian intellectuals, intellect-uals, and it was not until the early 1890's that it began to achieve its first successes in the underground movement.) When he returned to his native Russia in the fall of the same year, the 25-year-old Lenin Len-in was a mature political leader. "The years that followed witnessed wit-nessed a large wave of strikes of Russian industrial workers: the strikes were unprecedented. Small socialist groups emerged students' and workers' organizations for propaganda pro-paganda and Marxist education. Lenin was active in these circles until he was again arrested. He spent 14 months in prison and on his release was deported to Siberia and did not return to Europe until 1900, when a new wave of the op positionist and revolutionist move ment was in progress. After a short period in Russia, Lenin left for Germany Ger-many and Switzerland, where, with a few friends he started the newspaper news-paper Iskra (The Spark) in December. Decem-ber. The paper was intended for illegal distribution in Russia and to serve to link the emerging underground und-erground groups there with the leading groups abroad." At this time, Lenin and the other Russian Marxist leaders took over from Marx the philosophy of the great "social revolution", which would put an end to the era of capitalism and inaugurate the epoch ep-och of socialism-communism. The main force in this revolution would be the working class and the lead ers would be the Marxist party. Sup pression of adversaries by every means, was a part of this new philosophy, phi-losophy, but never emphasized. According to Russian adherents of the new philosophy, backward Russia at this time was suffering from an insufficient development. Russia must first experience a capitalist capi-talist phase, develop new industries, indust-ries, increase the size of this pro letariat and go through the motions of a "bourgeois democracy" before the social revolution could come about. In 1903 the RSDLP (Russian Social-Democratic Labor Partys) held a second convention. This conference, confer-ence, is generally viewed as mark ing the birth of bolshevism. Two factions made up this convention. They agreed in their political philosophy philo-sophy and longe-range aims, but were opposed in regards to ways and means of actions. These two groups were called Bolsheviks (majority) (ma-jority) and Mensheviks (minority). According to the Bolsheviks the "professional revolutionist" was to play the central role. Also, the party par-ty itself must be a strictly disciplined disci-plined small union of adherents acting orders from the supreme body, the party's Central Committee. Commit-tee. This concept of the role of the party in a sense forecast the party's par-ty's assumption of dictatorial power pow-er after the revolution had been accomplished. In its development up to the revolution of 1917, bolshevism bol-shevism followed Leninist theories and endowed party leaders with dictatorial power. Such has always been the Bolshevik Bol-shevik concept of a party: an officer of-ficer corps which organizes its army; ar-my; not a party according to Western Wes-tern idea, which chooses its' commanders. com-manders. Soldiers do not choose their own generals. "David J. Dallin in "The Changing World of Soviet Russia". (That would seem to be an important im-portant thing to keep uppermost in our minds. Therein, lies a basic difference between Communism and our way of life. Communism or the Communist Party has absolute abso-lute control over who the people's rulers will be. We have a voice in saying who our leaders will be. That is important.) "Like his predecessors in the 1870's, Lenin denied the ability of the working class to produce, out of its own midst, a theory and practice of socialism. Rather socialism social-ism was to be elaborated by intellectuals intel-lectuals from among the "burgeois intelligentsia", while "the masses were expected to adopt, follow and obey." (Here is another point well worth remembering, I think.) One of Lenin's friends and later antagonist, Alexander Potresov, had this to say about his former friend: "The aim justifies the means! In his personal life Lenin was a modest, unpretentious, virtuous virt-uous family man, who daily quarreled good naturedly and not without humor with his mother-in-law she was the only person of his immediate circle who dared to rebuke him and assert her personality." per-sonality." Petresov went on to say that for Lenin only two categories of people and events existed: those with him and those against him: The intervening gamut of social and individual human relationships between these two opposites did not exist for him. Lenin used the war with Japan (1904) and an earlier famine (1892) for his strategy of defeatism to benefit the Bolshevik Party. "Defeatism "De-featism was an outstanding and constant element of Lenin's strategy; stra-tegy; it was not restricted to issues of war and peace. To him. what was bad for the government was good for the revolution, even if it meant privation and death for the people." Lenin's slogan "All Power to the Soviets" was born in November 1905, during another uprising. Workers, Wor-kers, under the leadership of the priest, Georgi Gapon, had intended to submit a petition expressing loyalty to the Tsar but demanding improvements and reforms when a military squad opened fire on the peaceful marchers, killing and wounding thousands. There followed follow-ed a period of great economic and political strikes which soon engulfed en-gulfed the whole country. The first "Soviets of Workers' Deputies" in America's Preferred i IHE OU) CKfl i:SI!Lltl! C3., rtfSKfCir. KT.. Paid Advertisement by Phill Rawlinson, David Russia emerged spontaneously during dur-ing this time. (Might I say here that Soviet means "council" I did not know that before and thought that maybe someone else might not know, either.) In Ian. 1906 the Bolshevik conference con-ference convened and was attended by 41 delegates representing 26 organizations or-ganizations with a total membership member-ship of 4.000. The particular tactics of bolshevism during that period was the emphasis on armed fighting. fight-ing. An armed uprising as the necessary ne-cessary means to overthrowing the regime was the goal. The underlying under-lying assumption was that "the people" were burning with revolutionary revolu-tionary zeal; all they needed was tactical and organizational leadership, leader-ship, which was to be provided by the bolsheviks. Elections to the first State Duma were to take place in Feb. and March, 1906. The Bolsheviks, still certain of the imminence of a popular pop-ular uprising, decided to "boycott" the elections. They adopted a resolution re-solution which said (1) renounce absolutely any participation in the State Duma. (2) Renounce absolutely abso-lutely any participation in elections to the State Duma at any stage. (3) Organize a propaganda drive to explain the real character of the Duma, to counteract anv attempt at-tempt at deceiving public opinion in Russia and Europe, and to demonstrate de-monstrate the inevitable disappointment disap-pointment of those peasants who expect positive results from the Duma". The political history of Russia during the years of 1906 to 1912 is one of disappointments', uprisings, three attempts to elect a State Duma, Du-ma, moral degeneration of the bolshevik bol-shevik party, and sympathizers turning their backs on bolshevism and revolution in general. The Bolsheviks took part in the elections to the 4th Duma in 1912. Six of the deputies of the Duma belonged to the Bolshevik faction. It was not until the World War I broke out in Aug. 1914, that bolshevism bol-shevism acquired its definitive traits. During the war, Lenin urged all socialist parties of all countries to s t r iv e for the defeat of its country's armies. Defeat in war was the road to revolution. Pacifism, which implies the illusion of a peaceful capitalism, must be attacked, at-tacked, the foreign war must be transformed into a civil war a revolution. Propaganda of revolution must be carried to the armies, the troops must be urged to turn their arms against their own officers. During this time, Lenin stated that "from a scientific point of view it would be utterly wrong and utterly un-revolutionary un-revolutionary for us to evade or gloss over the most important thing, namely, that the most difficult diffi-cult task, the one demanding the greatest amount of fighting in the transition to socialism, is not to crush the resistance of the bourgeoisie". bour-geoisie". (Something else to remember). re-member). He turned repeatedly against those who supported the cause of the Allies against Germany Germa-ny because Germany had started the war. This was of no importance, Lenin emphasized. This takes us to Chapter 2. The Revolution of 1917. It is an ugly business this Communist business. Mr. Seegmiller, Art Dept. of DHS, brought a letter and news clipping into the shop last week. The letter is from his daughter-in-law, Jean Seegmiller. The David Seegmillers live in El Cerrito, Calif. They are the parents of four young children. Quoting from Jean's letter she says "everyone is so aware of the threat of war here". She tells Mr. and if? Mw.-- OLD CROW 1 ... Bourbon VX.lVk nA.EHI k'iSN BHiSKIT. 16 K.l ' N on C E Any cattle producers desiring bulls graded this fall please notify noti-fy Marven Ogden this week . so West Millard can be included in the State Bull Grading schedule. Mrs. Seegmiller of their attempts of teaching their oldest child, Donald, Don-ald, how to care for the youngest three in case something happens to mother and daddy if a bomb falls. The news clipping is from a daily paper and is a description of what it would be like in a big city if a bomb fell there. Editorial note accompanying the article states that it is compiled from the latest available information and is not intended to frighten only to inform. But, of course, it frightens. Such an article makes me angry. Angry with whom, I do not know. But, I rather think with our elected public officials. For forty years, they have been buying the theory of "peaceful coexistence", with disregard dis-regard to plain teachings of Communism. Com-munism. Now young parents, such as the David Seegmillers, have to teach their children how to survive in case of nuclear war. It is ridiculous ridi-culous that our leaders have been asleep so long, and our proud nation na-tion is reduced to near panic in many places. No wonder that young Mrs; Seegmiller says "Sometimes, "Some-times, I grow weary". Another thing that is equally ridiculous ri-diculous is the opportunists who have used our panic to sell their wares. In every paper and magazine, maga-zine, we read (and one can get panicky, believe me) how necessary neces-sary it is to store two weeks of food in a shelter, how to build the shelter out of certain materials as other materials are not radioactive-resistant, radioactive-resistant, etc. In the first place, I believe a family would have to store a year's supply of food and water. Two week's supply just wouldn't do the trick, I'm afraid. Imagine the chaos of every family emerging from its shelter at the same time and having followed instructions to store two weeks supply of food finding no available avail-able food. All foodstuff not stored properly is contaminated; water supplies are contaminated; animals used for food consumption are contaminated; con-taminated; grain, not properly stored is contaminated. What good would a two week's supply of food do? But, the best thing yet is the five-year easy payment plan of installing in-stalling a fallout shelter. Who will be around to make the last payment, pay-ment, all the news reporters asked. As much to the point, who will be around to collect! See you Friday Homecoming Day. SHOPPERS WISE ECONOMIZE THEY SHOP WITH THOSE WHO ADVERTISE lowest price Falcon is again America's lowest-priced 6-passenger, 6-cylinder car America's greatest compact car valuel finest quality Famous Ford quality throughout and a new quiet ride that will amaze even Falcon's near-million owners. h.uv.. v ' - I widest choice Now there are 13 wonderful new Falcons tor 1962 today's greatest choice in compacts. I ra n 11 CsiiyUiUil . ........ ja-"1""" t ' Hfpliil DELTA'S G0HQ y F.DAF. DELTA MOTOR COMPANY DELTA, UTAH Moody, Frank Baker It is not how much we have, but V,ri, Tviiih i.-a fininv tViat makes J i d i I , ' 1 1 1 1 s similes oyuigeuii. Wasn't it wonderful and exciting i : -ii i C I when our Delta football team beat Millard? The boys and the student-body student-body and the faculty should certainly cert-ainly be commended. Let's hope they can defeat Juab and Richfield and be able to go to the state. Vicky Nielson of Leamington had a Halloween party last Friday. The following girls were present: Mary Ann Wichman, Nila Nielson, Dina Harder, Eva Lynn Bradfield, of Leamington. From Lynndyl there was Judy Nielson, Sandra Benson, Ranae Simpson, Phyllis Nielson, LaWrene Bradfield, and Valerie Tolbert. All the girls were in costumes. cos-tumes. They had a spooky time telling stories and playing games. A delicious lunch was served by Vicky's mother, Barbara Nielson. Margaret Bradfield and Jane Williams Wil-liams of Leamington spent Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon visiting with Mrs. Sarah Ann Wiley and sister Minnie Ashby. Bishop Reed Nielson was quite ill all week, suffering with a sore throat, but he is better now. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Benson and baby from Salt Lake spent the weekend at the home of Donald's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Benson. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Roberts and baby Dana of Callao spent Sunday in Lynndyl. They attended Sunday School in our ward. Mrs. Katherine Jones and son Kim went to Black Rock Wednesday Wednes-day to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Dale Jones and girls. Mrs. Dale Jones and girls returned to Lynndyl Lynn-dyl with Katherine. They took their children to Leamington School Friday Fri-day to have pictures taken. Pictures were taken Friday at the Leamington School of all the students and many pre-school children. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Nielson had their four boys home for the deer hunt. There was Kent and his wife and children, Dee and his girl friend, Joe, Nancy and baby, and Blaine. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Overson and baby Chriss, of Salt Lake are visiting vis-iting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Overson. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Overson had their children home for the deer hunt. It seems like everyone likes to come back home to get their deer. I don't believe there has been very many successful hunters. Perhaps Per-haps next weekend they will be able to bring in more of those huge bucks that got away during the first few days of the hunt. Allan Nielson, who is going to school in Provo came home to hunt sweetest styling All new in beauty, too, but still Falcon through and through. I I I to best gas mileage i A Falcon Six last I spring recorded the I best gas mileage tor i a o- ut o-(.yimuer s J car in the history of ! j Mobilgas Eco,nomy Run-1 a ft. or H-rv Under ! B D$ o I ! i i ' V LAURA BRADFIELD deer with his brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Overson received re-ceived word of a new grandson bom last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Myron Frazier (Ellen Overson) of Orem. Mrs. Overson went to Orem to be with Ellen and the new baby for a few days when she came from the hospital. Rayma Bradfield, who is working in Salt Lake came home to spend the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bradfield. Happy birthday this week to Gloria LaRue, Lilace Christensen and aunt Millie Lovell. The program in Sacrament meeting meet-ing Sunday evening was given by the Dick Nielson family of Leamington. Leam-ington. Talks were given by Mr. and Mrs. Nielson; piano selection by Carla; and a reading by Julie. It was all very interesting and inspiring. DR. SMITH DIES Archie O. Gardner, Delta, received receiv-ed a telephone message Friday of the death of Dr. Bernard H. Smith, in Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Smith will be well remembered by many he served in this area. 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