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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1917, BRINGING ME FATHER I DoriT know WHAT T 5UT T TASTED xh: THAT OIRO ALL RlCHT! ill,. r- Copyright, 1117, International News Service. Drawn for The Bee by George McManus 10 WWW ( I KNOV I ATE f WHAT??? AFirHEB)fc0 T-WHERE -L-' ' IT!! THAT WAb VOU bEsT lb HE 9 HOTr J V J PARROT- rTct- HCME" i i i i ' ' " i 1 i -DEAR- J - W V-v WELL -HE SSJT D,DM'T tAt -v. -. Th ANT TH1N Vv V r ( ..., Trt MCI 0 .' W JrfSJ W.I- . Is '43ki-j -21. COLLEGES GET TOGETHER IN BIG WARTIME CONFAB Facing Most Momentous Situa tion of History, Delegates Will talk Relations of Athletics to National Service. New York, Dec. 27. College ath letic conditions in view of the war will be considered at the twelfth an nual meeting here tomorrow of the National Collegiate Athletic associa tion, which will face probably the most momentous situation of its his tory. Reports from all sections of the country will be presented and the prospects for a continuation of inter collegiate sport discussed. The atti tude of the association will be influ enced to a considerable degree, it is expected, by advice fro mhigh gov ernment officials on the erlation of college athletics to war service. Among the addrsses to be delivered are: "Athletics For the Service of the Nation," W. H. Faunce, p resident of Brown university; "Athletics and Gen E-rt-.-; . r 17 r:... . r via, miitiiij', j, u. v Mucin, pi evi dent of general education board; "Recreative Games and Competitive Athletics in Military Training Camps' Dr.-J. E. Kaycroft, member War de partment commission on training camp activities. These Addresses will be followed, by discussions on "What more can the colleges do to win the war" and "Reconstruction of athletics after the war." South High Will Battle Alumni oTi Floor Tonight South high' basket ball quintet to night will clash with the school's alumnifive at the South high gym nasium. This is the annual contest with whic the packertown cage players always start the season. A number of former Uri are on the alumni team, including Irving Graham, now captain of the Tarkio college team; Lyman Corr, said by some to be the best basket ball player they ever had, and captain last year, ana W. Graham, a forward of excep tional ability. The varsity will be put to it to win. The lineups: SOUTH BIDE. ALUMNI. Volts , .R.F. R.F. "Wilson L.F. I..F. EUr ,.C. C. .. Foley R.O. R.O. NUon L.d. L.O. It. Corr .W. Graham , . I. Graham Kngle . . . . Oswald Cornell Checkmates Penna In Annual Chess Tourney New York, Dec. 27. Cornell won from Pennsylvania the first game compleated in the second round here today of the nineteenth annual tourna ment of the Triangular College Chess league. The success was scored by H. Adelsberg, who checkmated R. Kohen, of the. Pennsylvania team, after 19 moves. President Wants Filipinos ' In the Federal Army Washington, Dec. 27. President Wilson has advised Chairman Dent of the house military committee that he desires bills to provide for the en trance of the Philippine national guard and the Philippine scouts into the national army become a law at this session of congress. Mr. Dent announced today that he proposes to press this legislation with a view to enactment. . It is estimated that the organiza tions total approximately 25,000 men. Parents Wage Bitter Court . Fight Over Little Daughter Margery Lewis, 4-year-old daughter of Marshall and Nellie Lewis, who have taken teir troubles into divorce court, will have to remain at the Child's Saving institute, where she wjis secreted by her father.- Mrs. Levfis alleges, when he "kidnaped her" in El Paso,- Tex., and brought her to Omaha December 8. Judge Les lie ruled that Margery should remain where she was at her father's ex pense. - ... Pouch Holding $50,000' V Stolen During Transit Richmond, Va., Dec. 27. A pouch . containing $50,000 sent by the federal reserve bank of Richmond to a bank in Columbia, S. C, disappeared in transit last Saturday and is believed to have been stolen. Detectives are now at work in several cities. Today' 8 Sport Calendar Athletics: Annual convention of National Collegiate Athletic associa te r. at New York. . Go'.f : Opening of fifteenth amual mU' winter tournament at Piachurst, N. C. Boxing: Charley Weinert against Gunboat Smith, 15 rounds, at Provi dence. Kiid Wolfe against Young Brown. 12 Founds, at Toledo. ?, . ATHLETICS AID IN BUILDING Y. M. C. A. Supervised Recreation in Canton ments and Posts Creates Esprit d'Corps in Men MORALE IN THE BIG ARMY CAMPS Building men physically in the new National army by means of the Young Men's Christian association super vised athletics and recreation has given military officials a new realiza tion of the possibilities in creating morale, esprit d'eorps and the spirit of "up-and-go-get-'eni." When these men are eventually given the order to "go over the top" the physical training and discipline they have received in the homeland will then become perhaps their great est asset. Evidence of the training is found at Fort Omaha, Fort Crook and Camp Funston. Of course, one big purpose of athletics in the army is to build men physically, but very often this is the least it does for them. Athletic ac tivities are enabling officers to view and gauge their men from a new angle, aiding them to secure an im pression of how certain men will act under stress of excitement. Men of the ranks, otherwise handicapped by lack of education or lack of oppor tunity, have their chance to make good before their officers on the athletic field. Brings Men Together. . Athletic competition in the camps is bringing officers and men together umler new circumstances and is tend ing to narrow the line betwetn the man above and the man below. Offi cers have taken a surpisingly hearty interest In the new work. They have designated an "athletic officer" in each regiment. He, in turn, ap points an athletic head in each com pany to handle details of the great program yof inter-company ath letics which has been mapped out by the Young Men's Christian associa tion and approved by the command ers. Few of the regulars have indulged in athletics before." Those who have participated in college or high school activities have not a great advantage, aj'the sports now in vogue are dif ferent from those generally used by schools and colleges. Running re lays in uniform, hurdling with rifles. and carrying a fellow soldier 35 yards are not sports prevalent on Ameri can campuses. Boxmg has been found so ad vantageous from the standpoint of developing limbs and muscles most used in trench fighting or bayoneting that what amounts to a military or der has been issued, in some in stances, requiring the entire division to learn to box. There is an in structor for boxing teachers in each company and the company men in turn teacu the boxers at the head of each platoon. v Boxing Popular Sport. , Much of this boxing takes place I out of doors and becomes a form of recreative sport for the participants as well as a pleasure for the spec tators. Officers and men alike are now being taught to box. i he all-around Young Men s Chris tian association recreative and ath letic program at the camps includes also such games as soccer and rugby. playground ball dodge ball, bull-in- the-rmg, swat tag, three-deep, pris oners base, chariot race, catch-ann-pull and many others. There are also track meets in which the strongest kind of competition is usually devel oped. ' At Camp Sherman, savs Coach Conner, "our men have already used up 1,600 indoor base balls, 1,100 rugby, toot balls, 80 association foot balls, 100 basket balls and 200 sets of boxing gloves, lhu indicates, I think, that our men are fairly active in play. Certain it is that they would lead a lonesome life- not to say a dangerous one wisjbut this one fea ture of Young Men's Christian asso ciation war work." The experience at Camo Sherman is typical of the use of Young Men's Christian association athletics at Camps Grant, Custer, Taylor,; Funs ton and Dodge. Thousands at Play. Under the direction of the Young Men's Christian association physical directors, series of competitive and recreational games have been devel oped intil it is no uncommon thing to see as many as 32,000 soldiers at play in different parts of the camp every day lor an hour, both morn ing and afternoon. . Early in the encampment discovery was made that among the non-English speaking men of the camps there were thousands who could not make two consecutive broad jumps. These men required a type of recreation that brought big, slow muscles into play, so they were taught to throw the medicine ball, put the shot, use the heavy weights and dumbbells, wres tle and grapple. Many of these slow, weight-testing games they had lnown to an extent in their native countries.' Boxing was much too fast tor them, out with a style of plav which they could understand and par ticipate in they soon learned how to amuse themselves and at the same time hardened and livened their mus cles, Develop Quick Action. Among the infantry enlistments the recreational program aims to develop quick action of muscles combined with cool head. This end is being accomplished by means of basket ball, boxing,, base ball and other games that require more or less quick action and bodily contact. Agility of move ment and courage to take punishment are two soldierly qualities which these games develop. Artillerymen are given muscle building games such as weight-lifting and stone throwing or tugs of war, because the nature of their work calls for just such muscular or bodily movement. Men at the depot sta tions, from which other units are filled, are developed all-around phys ically with practically all f the games known to Young Mens Christian as sociation work. WEMYSS BRITISH FIRSTSEA LORD Jellico Relegated to Seat in House of Lords "in Recogni tion of His Very Distin guished Services." i London, Dec. 27. Vice Admiral Sir Roselyn Wemyss has been ap pointed first sea lord in succession to Admiral Sir Joh,. R. Jellicoc, accord ing to an official announcement is sued this evening. The translation of Sir John R. Jel licoc to the honorable eclipse of a seat in the house of lords and the promotion of the second sea lord to his place, briefly announced in an of ficial communication tonight will con vey but one interpretation to the hiind of the general public in view of the strong" criticisms for a long time passed upon the admiralty, which culminated, in deep disappointment and dissatisfaction at the impunity with which German raiders recently again sank a British convoy. I here is also a suggestion that the new policy may mean an active offensive against U-boats and their bases. The official announcement says nothing of Admiral Jellicoe having for any reason desired to resign his appointment; but merely announces his replacement by Vice Admiral Wemyss and the bestowal of a peer age, "in recognition of his very dis tinguished service." U. S. BUYS THREE MILLION TONS OF CUBAN SUGAR New Work, Dec. 26. Negotiations for the purchase of a large part of the Cuban sugar crop now being har vested and amounting to an esti mated 3,600,000 tons, for the use of the United States and its allies have been virtually completed by the in ternational committee and the Cuban committee, appointed by President Menocal of Cuba, it was announced here today. The price was said to be $4.60 a hundred pounds, f. o. b. Cuba, The formalities of the agreement, it was said after a joint session of the two committees today, will be completed within ten days or two weeks on the return here of Sir Joseph White Tod and J. Ramsey Drake, the British members of the international committee. They have been making a tour of the Cuban sugar fields as a result of negotiations which were started some time ago. Meanwhile, it was announced, Cu ban producers will make every-effort to forward their new crop of sugar as fast as ships can be obtained. The stringency also will be further reliev ed, it was stated, by the release for domestic consumption of 4,000 tons of sugar for Swedish shipment which is held here. British Bombs Narrowly Miss German Emperor Geneva, Dec. 27. The German emperor, returning with his staff from the Verdun front, had a nar row escape during the reprisal raid of a British air squadron on Manne heim on Christmas, according to dispatch from Basel. The emperor's special train left the station an hour before the sta tion was partly destroyed byxseveral bombs. A section of the tracks was torn up, cutting communication north. In fact the emperor's train was the last to leave Manneheim, and no trains arrived at Basel yesterday from that city. Two bombs fell on the palace, k and one on the suspen sion bridge across the Neckar river, both structures being badly dam aged. An ammunition factory in a northern suburb was blown up. Few persons were killed at the factory, however, as the employes were hav ing a holiday.- A considerable num ber of persons were killed or injured within the town and several were blown into the Rhine. RATES NOT TO BE CHANGED NOV. BUT RAISE IS HINTED Railway Commissions Will Act as Before, Both Interstate and State; Question About Ex press Companies. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 27. "Rate ques tions, including the pending 15 per cent advance case, before the Inter state Commerce commission will not be affected immediately by President Wilson's proclamation directing gov ernment operation for railroads. An early decision of the eastern and western railroads' application for 15 per cent higher rates is now ex pected. . Railroads will continue to apply to the commission for increases or modi fications of rates and practices, un less the director general issues spe cific orders otherwise, and irf that case his authority will be supreme. Express Companies Also. The principal rate questions now under consideration by the commis sion in addition to the 15 pervcent case, are the express companies' ap plication for. a 10 per cent increase and various ramifications of the west ern inter-mojntain cases. Some doubt was' felt tonight whether express companies are in cluded in the president's proclama tion. They wre not mentioned spe cifically, but the president referred to "every system or transportation and the appurtenances thereof." This was generally interpreted as includ ing these companies, whose business is so closely interlocked with that of the railroads. State railroad and public utilities commissions also will be lett with full powers to supervise intrastate rates and transportation rules. Hint at Higher Rates. It is presumed that railroad will apply direct to the Interstate Com merce commission or to the state commissions as in the past, without referring questions of rate increases to the director general, although the procedure will depend largely on the scheme of control to be worked out by Mr. McAdoo. In the 15 per cent cases, the "rail roads presented figures showing marked declines in net earnings this year, and explained that even the in crease in earnings resulting from a 15 per cent Increase, probably would not suffice to check the decline. This led officials to suggest that the gov ernment railroad administration might look with favor on higher rates, since they would tend to reduce the amount which government operation will cost the public under the plan of guaranteeing pre-war earnings. Government to Back Roads. Government backing will be given to new issues of railroad securities that a ready market may be found. The president's move, although forecast for weeks, came at this time as a great surprise to nearly every body in Washington, including rail road officials. It had been generally believed he would await the re-assembling of congress before taking any step. He acted through Secre tary of War Baker, under authority conferred in the army appropriation act. Direct management of the roads will remain iir the hands of railroad officials and the railroads' war board, composed of five railroad heads, will continue to direct actual operation under Secretary McAdoo's general supervision. The chief practical effect of govern ment operation will be to permit a complete unification of at! rail sys tems, impossible under private opera tion because of statutes prohibiting pooling of rail traffic and earnings. The roads themselves had gone as far as they dared in this direction, and it became known only today that they had been warned by Attorney General Gregoiy that a violation of anti-pooling laws could not be per mitted. This situation was fully realized by President Wilson, who in his state ment declared the railroads had gone as far as they could and that already some systems were endangering their earnings in attempting unification. Russo-German Peace Meet To Be Held Again in Sweden London, Dec. 27. The socialist revolutionary majority in the con stituent assembly has decided to con voke that body January 2, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Times, although the Bolsheviki government has said it was determined to prevent the meeting of the assembly inde pendent of its sanction. M. Borovsky, the Bolsheviki repre sentative in Stockholm, a dispatch to the Morning Post from the Swedish capital says, confirms reports that Stockholm will be the scene of the continuation of the Russo-German peace negotiations. He says that the sessions in Stockholm will begin early in January, when all the delegates now at Brest-Litovsk are expected in the Swedish capital 9-Cent Sugar in Two Weeks, Says Rolph New York," Dec. 27. Within two weeks virtually every sugar refin ery in the country will be in opera tion, according to George M. Rolph, head of the sugar division of the food administration, who returned here from Washington today. By the end of January.he assert ed, 50,000 tons of sugar will have been brought in and the consumer then should get sugar at 9 cents in stead' of the present price of 10 cents. He added that about 25,000 tons of raw sugar either are being loaded at Porto Rico and Cuba, or are on the way here. MOVE BY WILSON LONG SEEM COMING Congestion of Traffic and Other Problems Brought on by War Have Made It Inevitable. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 27. The railroad ituation has presented one of -the greatest problems that have arisen to puzzle those who are directing for the United States the prosecution of the war. . Government control, now ssunied hv Trpsidpnt Wi1mi al though not offering an entire solution for transoortation nrenlexities. nianv officials believe will go far towards re- leving many transportation ills. War's demands nn railroad tarititi were foreseen early by railroad of- nciais ana nve days atte war was de clared the heads of the principal sys tems met in Washinfflnn and a committee of five rail chiefs to direct the roads as nearlv as possible as one continental system. The five men named were called the railroads' war board. Thev were: Fairfar Harricnn nf the Southern railway, chairman: How- ara r-iuott ot tne incw Haven, Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania, Hale Holden of the Burlington and Julius Krutt- scnnitc ot tne southern I'acihc. The War board has sat rnnlinunuclv in Washington since its organization and has so co-ordinated railroad op eration that the roads are said to be CarrvinfiT 25 ner cent more traffir than they ever moved before. As war prep arations increased, tatiic became con stantly heavier and a month ago the war board named a cpnrat rmrratincr committee for eastern rail lines and announced that it would ool all track age and facilities, induing cars and locomotives. No Opposition Shown. Meanwhile traffic had crown tn siirh proportions that the roads could not handle it and in rhr rasr in niriirnlir Lmany terminals were choked and con gested witn treight. I he war board l.as declared that the only way to meet uie situation, eitner under government or private operation is to deny trans portation to non-essential products. The war board, it is said, does not oppose government operation. Nor, it is said, do the hrotherhnnH rhipfs who with the brotherhood executive agents have an engagement to see President Wilson tomorrow Af this conference, it is understood , the brotherhood leaders will ask that no measures be taken which will set aside safeguards for workers obtained by the brotherhoods in many states and irom congress. Boston Telephone Girls Vote to Strike for Raise Boston, Dec. 27. Ballotine con ducted by operators of the New Eng land Telephone company today on the question of striking to enforce their wage demands, was declared tonight to have resulted in a vote to strike. Leaders asserted that plans had al ready been made for official notice to that effect- to the management. Nearly 2,800 of the 3,400 members voted. "Say Doctor, This Works Like Magic -Physician Explains Why Nuxated Iron Quickly Puts Astonishing Youthful Power Into the Veins of Men and Brings Roses to the Cheeks of Nervous, Rundown Women. Ask the first hundred strong. healthy looking) people you meet to what they owe their strength and energy and see how many reply "Nuxated Iron." Dr. James Francis Sullivan, formerly Physician of Bellevue Hospital. New York, and tne Westchester County Hospital, ays: Thousands or nervous, run-down, anaemic people suf fer from iron deficiency but Oip r do not know what to take. There is nothing like or ganic iron Nuxated Iron, to quickly enrich the blood, put roses in the cheeks of women and give men that youthful punch, vitality and "atavlns nower. A patient of mine said to me liter's short course of Nuxated Iron: "Say, Dortor, this prescription works like magic." Unlike the older forms of iron, Nuxated Iron does not injure the teeth nor upset the stomach, hut is readily assimilated and you can quickly recognise its action by a re newed feelins; of snap, vigor and increased staying power. No matter what other iron remedies yon have used without success if you are not strong or weu you owe It to yourself to make the following test: See how long fou ean work or how far yon can walk without becoming tired; next tsks ' ' 'if MUD GREATEST FOE OF H. S. ENGINEERS Men Working Behind British Lines Declare Almost Super human Difficulties in Ter rain Overcome Daily. (By Associated Press.) Behind British Lines in France, Dec. 27. The most desolate pictures that the illustrated papers have print ed of mud in and behind the British lines on the west front fail to do justice to the ground that the Ameri can railway engineers have laid tracks across since they arrived on French soil. Flanders mud is something that must be experienced to be appreciat ed; it cannot be adequately described or photographed. It is impossible to dig to any depth even in the driest spot, without water seeping into the hole. An officer who came back for a few days' rest after two weeks in the mud brought with him only one souvenir a photo graph of a piece of ground over which Sick of Helmets. "I am side of the sight of German helmets and pistols and shell caps, and all the rest of the ordinary souve nirs." said the officer. The scene in the photograph looks like the Masurian lakes in miniature. Instead, however, of dry land sepa rating the chain of lakes, earth be tween these shell holes and craters is a treacherous quicksand, into which a man would sink immediately knee deep. . Typical of Conditions. "The snot nhototrranhpit is tvnli-nl of hundreds of pieces of ground over which we have to lay tracks," con tinued the officer. "The fight against the morass is just as real and just as stern as that against the bpche." To begin with there are only a few hours a dav in which trip pnennppre can work with safety immediately be- nma tne lines, a track is wanted from one place to another and the engineer officer decides h Ow if shall run ga that obstacles will be avoided. ' If there is great urgency, the track is thrown down in the quickest way possible, and straicrlitenpfl out latpr as shell craters can be filled in and other obstacles levelled. he and his men had laid a track. The work is divided i'ntn toMinn with a working party for each, sec- w... iai-u yany vies in setting a record for nuick wort. sr far ao tliic can be combined with the requisite solidity of construction. One party of engineers in an ex posed position laid 180 feet of track in what was virtually record time and J"en had to stop as dawn came on. When they came back the next night to complete the remaining 180 feet of tracks across, this exposed spot hey found not only that their half graded part had been riddled with sneu notes, but that the track already finished had eight shell holes along its length. In a period of time ex actly equal to their performances of the previous night they graded and laid the remaining 180 feet and re paired the broken track as well. There is not a little courage of the cold blood sort required of the men who carry out this very necessary work. They are constantly beiiu shelled and sniped, and without the satisfaction, of being able to hit back. German Children Beg .In Streets Xmas Day Geneva, Dec. 27. Accounts of the German Christmas,, according to news from across the frontier, stite women and children openly begged in the snow covered streets for food to appease thir hunger, and riots took place in- some of the towns. Only the rich enjoyed a good, but. ordinary dinner and for this they paid high prices, as much as $50. Most of the churches in Germany were closed, owing to lack of coal. Prescription Over Three Million People Annually Are Taking Nutated - a m.rtr Iron vwu five-grain tablets ot Nux ated Iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you have rained. Nuxated Iron increases the strength. power and endurance of delicate, nrvcu, run-down people 100 per cent in ten days' time in many instances. NOTE XuxnlM rm. roitrnmended bos br Tr. Sullivan, ran be obtained from snv snod druggist, with or without a physician's prescription, on au ab solute guarantee of sutvess or monev rrfuiHlmt It Is dispmsed in this rltr br Blunwn a McConrrell Drill Stores and all good drustists. AdrerUiemenb Fire Starts in Ham House At Armour Packing Plant Fire which broke out in the. ham house at Armour's packing plant ph the South Side this afternoon was extinguished before it did much dam age. The entire fire fighting equipment in the., packing house district was called out. ; The blaze was caused by hot grease.. v. Thousands of dollars' worth of meats for the soldiers in this country and overseas were stored in the build- injMhrcStened -by the fire.-- AMCSKMENTS. k. ffiffll-ivmM!wUi:V.'.'fi Gertrude Hoffmann In Gertrude Hoffmann's Revue With Company of 35 Artists. Stanley A Norton; Ruth Roy; McDonald A Rowland; Tba Act Beautiful; Rouble Sims; Orpheum Travel Weekly. ; , Special Monday Night, Dec. 31 NEW YEAR'S EVE Two Shows: 7:30 and 9:45 DRANDEI U PIAVFD! TONIGHT tJ PLAYERS ' Saturday Matine "Peg O' My Heart" The Successor to T CINDERELLA MAR K A Play of Youth, Love and Laughter Sat. Matinee, 25c; Nlfhts, 15c to Sue 4 DAYS BEG. NEXT SUN., DEC. 30TH First Time in Omaha. A. H. Woods Pr.unt. PERLMUTTE R IN SOCIETY Mats., 25c to $1.00; Nishts, 25c to $1.50 DsVn TONIGHT Qllf II SATURDAY . . Matinee Saturday . -Return Engagement of the Popular. Musical Comedy "Very Good Eddie" Popular Matinee Sat. Best Seats, $1.00. . Nights, 50c to $1.50. Sunday "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" Jan. 3-4-5 Matinee Saturday MAX , NOTHING BUT FIGMAN THE TRUTH . OMAHA'S Fllf fSNTFil 50e 1 LAST TIMES T DflY- i! sduX" WORLD-CF-FRCLICS Tomorrow (Saturdny), Mattae and Week MERRY ROUNDERS JSJg-- LADIES' DIME MATINEE WEEK DAYS. PHOTOPLATS. MARY PICKFORD in "The Little Princess" His Smashing Career (Sunshine Comedy) MUSE CONSTANCE TALMAGE "SCANDAL" A story of a willful debu tante, a wealthy caveman. Smart society at Us . smartest. mum Today and Saturday'. 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