MONDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1917.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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FACES FOE, SAYS
HERBERT COREY
W OELE -KEHALD COERESPOKD'NT
III WAP. ZOInE VISITS IN:
VADED COUNTRY.
Declares Gennr.ns Must Get Down
Cut of the Mountains Before
Winter Sets In There.
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Herbert Corey, tlie Omaha World
Heralu'fc special correspondent in the
war zone sent a cablegram yester
day to that paper, following a visit
to the Italian front. Mr. Corey has
been in Switzerland viewing inter
nal conditions in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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He cables the following summary
of the Italian situation:
"The Italian army has returned to
its work with a good heart after the
recent terrible strike of the Germans
and Austrians.
"Careful inquiry on a visit there
loads ice to the conclusion the cause
of the Italian collapse were neither
strictly military nor strictly politi
cal. "When I left the Germans and
Austrians were in a critical situa
tion. They must get down out of
the mountains before the winter be
comes too severe, but the Italians
were .holding well their lines and
they shewed a cheerful courage in
the work they believed faced them,
;luu!d. the foe attempt to spread out
over the plain, driven from "the
mountains by the cold.
"The front lice heroism of the
Italians in the fighting with the in
vaders has aroused a national spirit
which can be explained by several
causes. Some disaffected elements
were taken prisoners by the Germao
forces.
Morale Improved.
"French and British army rein
forcements had been received and
were ready to help the Italians hold
their lines.
"Italia Irrndenta has never arous
ed much enthusiasm in Italy outside
the northern border districts, for tht;
Italians live in compartments as no
other great people do. However, pa
triotism which was not aroused by
the attempt to gain land from Aus
tria is now warinly resisting the in
vader of the country. Soldiers from
every section gallantly shared suffer
ing and this is making Italy into a
nation with one purpose and spirit.
This shows the action which is now
being taken against peace propagan
dists. Italy needs immediately men,
guns, flour and coa!. Vigorous and
ungrudging aid in these will help
her to fight triumphantly."
ASKS CONGRESS TO
PUT UP MONEY IF
U. S. TAKES ROADS
EEPOSXED PRESIDENT BEADY
TO MAKE SUCH BEQUEST IF
GOVERNMENT OPERATION
BECOMES ACTUAL FACT.
Washington, Dec. 13. The rail
road situation continued to engross
President Wilson today with the
financial problem involved in a
possible government control drawing
most cf his attention. The presi
dent has before him a mass of in
formation on the subject including
details of the British plan of govern
ment operation.
The president, it Is understood, is
ready if he decides on government
operation, to ask congress to guar
antee the railroads pre-war earnings
and the railroads are said to want
such a guarantee to be based on
191G revenues. Officials tonight esti
mated that such an arrangemnet
might cost the government next
year as much as $100,000,000.
Returns on Capital.
In addition to guaranteeing earn
ings the government, if it operates
the roads, probably would be called
on to guarantee returns on new cap
ital invested. Tlie roads estimate
that they will have to invest next
year between half and three-quarters
of a billion dollars in equipment and
improvements. The roads, it is said,
are readyto finance themselves wheth
cr under government control or not,
altho;i!jh they ask that their ' credit
be not impaired hy having- to com
pete in bond sales with -government
bond issues.
Reports today to the railroad board
showed that on December last, un
filled car orders amounted to 117,
132 cars, a decrease of 22.880 since
November 1, and ari increase of only
10,000 overDecember 1, 191 C. al
though the roads are handling 20
per cent more traffic than in the same
time last year.
GERMANS START
STORY U. S. EXECUT
ED A WOMAN' SPY
STATE DEPARTMENT SENDS OF
FICIAL DENIAL TO EMB ASSIES
IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 14. Per
sistent repetition of a story that a
'woman spy had been executed in the
United States has caused the state
department to send an official denial
to American consults and legations
in the European neutral countries.
The story originated In Germany,
and its widespread use is regarded
as another case of propaganda.
The name of the woman was given
las Anna Huitems. Ordinarily no at
tention would have been paid to a
story so palapbly false, but in this
case credence appeared to have been
given to it in neutral countries.
SILVER MEN WANT A
DOLLAR PER OUNCE
Washington, D. C, Dec. 14. Small
silver producers must receive at
least $1 an ounce or shut down their
mines. Director Baker of the mint
was told today by a delegation of
producers from western states, who
conferred on the government's plans
for acquiring the silver output for
the next year.
Mr. Baker and Albert Strauss, the
government's foreign exchange ex
pert, told the silver men that a de
cision on the price and details of the
proposed silver arrangements would
be made in about a week. In addi
tion to the silver producesr the con
ference included Senators Smoot,
Pittman, King, Newlands, Ashurst,
Smith (Arizona), Shaffroth and
Borah.
Treasury officials today declared
the proposed silver acquisition was
solely to meet the momentary needs
of the United States. Great Britain
and other co-belligerents.
Co-operate with jour government
and mail your Christmas parcels
early. Unless you mail your Xmas
parcels early this year the boys in
the cantonment may not receive
their presents.
The greatest asortnient of Christ
inas boxa paper hat we have ever
shown is now awaiting your ap
proval at the Journal office
Mail every pacnage which is in
tended for a Military Cantonment
in the mail3 not later than eight days
before Christmas.
' The finest line of Box Stationery
ever shown in the city will now be
found for your approval at the
Journal office.
Dennison's fancy Christmas Boxes
at the Journal office.
Initial stationery will be found at
the Journal office. An excellent
Christmas present.
Christmas Cards of every descrip
tion at the Journal office.
While T. M. Patterson, president
of the Farmers State Bank, was wait
ing for a late train at the Burling
ton Station in Omaha last night, he
was fortunate enough to meet Mr.
Frank A. Vanderlip, chairman of the
Thrift Stamp movement for the
United States, who is now making a
tour of the country, and Mr. Ward
M. Burgess, Director of the movement
lor Nebraska, who were also wait
ing. Mr. Vanderlip is President of
tlie National City Bank of JN'ew
York City, the largest bank in the
United States and next to the Bank
of England t he-largest in the world.
Both Mr. Vanderlip and Mr. Burgess
, urged Mr. Patterson to push the sale
of Thrift stamps in Plattsmouth
which he agreed to do.
Denniscn's tags and seals sre on
sale at the Journal office.
Subscribe for the Journal.
LET THE CHILDREN
HELP TO WIN THE WAB
GIVE THEM
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
lor Christmas
GONFOSiON AND
OHAOS REIGNS
IN ROSS! A NOW
COSSACKS WIN BATTLE AT ROS
TOV PUT KORNTLOFF RE
TREATS NEAR BIELGOROD.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS JAILED
et .1 - j . i ti j
ouypenuea; xtioung xearea
at Petrograd.
Official announcement is made by
the Bolshevik! government at Pet
rograd that the Russian delegates to
the armistice conference now in
progress at Brest Litovsk are em
powered to begin peace negotiations
with the central powers if an armis
tice is Bigned.
Meanwhile the struggle for power
in interior Russia is growing more
bitter. Advantages in the civil
warfare are claimed by both sides.
The Bolsheviki assert success in the
fighting with General Kaledinc's
Cossacks in the vicinity of Bielgorod,
some 350 miles south of Moscow,
while the Cossacks are reported vic
torious at Rostov-on-the-Don, cap
turing the city and forcing the Bol
sheviki troops to retreat across the
Don.
Official German and Austrian state
ments say that the Russian dele
gates arrived at Brest Litovsk Wed
nesday and the armistice negotia
tions were resumed yesterday.
Petrograd, Dec. 14. In the battle
near Bielgorod, according to a Bol
sheviki staff report. General Komil
"if's Cossacks were defeated. They
retreated to Vasileika.
In connection withHhe battle at
Rostov, the evening newspapers re
port the Cossacks as victorious, the
Bolsheviki forces having retreated
across the Don river to Nakchiva.
London, Dec. 14. Bolsheviki
troops have occupied TamonTvaka
and Kaluga, according to a Reuter
dispatch from Petrograd.
Tamouivaka is near Bielgorod, iu
Kursk province, about 250 miles
south of Moscow. There is a rail
road town named Kaluga in the
province of tlie same-name, which
lies about 100 miles"' southwest of
Moscow.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki for
eign minister, according to a Reuter
dispatch from Petrograd, announces
that if an armistice for the eastern
front is signed at Brest-Litovsk, the
Russian delegates are empowered to
enter into peace negotiations.
Tamanovka was occupied by
troops from Petrograd, while Kal
uga was captured without much
fighting. The c6unferrevolutionar3r
troops there disarmed and arrested
8nd the Bolsheviki authorities re
stored. Petrograd, Dec. 13. The Bolshe
viki forces have defeated a "death
battalion" in the vicinity of Biel
gorod. where the fighting with the
Korniloff and Kaledines forces cen
ters. In the Orenburg district, where
General Dutoff has a large force of
Cossacks, there has been little fight
ing and the Bolsheviki have sent
agitators to work among his troops.
It is reported that Kaluga has been
taken by the Bolsheviki, after the
defeat of a counter revolutionary
"death battalion."
The commander of the Black sea
fleet, has called upon all the sailors
to light against Kaledines, declar-!
ing Kaledines, together with the al
lied imperialists, has declared civil
war.
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at the Journal office.
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GREAT WORK BY
CD'S OFFICE
SELECTIVE SERVICE ' REGULA
TIONS AND QUESTIONNAIRE
TO ALL REGISTRANTS.
MODELS OF COMPLETENESS
Provost Marshal General and His Ex
pert Assistants Have Completed an
Immense Task in Preparing for the
New Drafts.
Ey EDWARD B. CLA.K.
Washington. Provost Marshal Gen
eral Enoch II. Crowder is waiting the
events to follow the installation of the
new selective service regulations and
the all-embracing questionnaire to reg
istrants. There has been constructive and in
part perhaps destructive criticism of
many of the branches of the govern
ment since the United States entered
iirto the war. The office of tlie pro
vost marshal general has not been im
mune from criticism of individuals,
but in a general way the work that It
has done has received the praise of the
people.
If study, care and extreme thought
fulness can make for success of the
preparations for the next drafts, tlwn
success is certain to come with the
same fullness with which it was meted
out in the first high instance.
No -one who has not been In daily
toucJi with the office of the provost
marshal general tan appreciate the
magnitude of the work with which this
officer of the service has been confront
ed from the first. The new selective
service regulations which today are in
the hands of every local board in the
country were prepared to meet every
possible case, and contingency which
may arise. If anything has been over
looked it managed to escape notice
while a score of pairs of trained eye
were on watch.
Making the Questionnaire.
General Crowdor and his staff of of
ficers subjected themselves To a ques
tionnaire on their own account. -It
may be said that in effect a school was
established in the general's office. Ev
ery question which it was conceivable
that anyone might ask was given con
sideration and the answer was forth
coming. The matter was viewed not
on!y from the questioning standpoint
of the man who might be drafted, but
from that of every offiHal connected in
nny way with the service of drafting
aud from that of every person of what
ever kind or class who might take an
Interest in the service subjpcL
Law, rules and regulations are the
foundations of the selective service op
erations. It has been the attempt of
General Crowder, soldier and lawyer,
and of his assistants, also soldiers and
lawyers, to strip bare the lwok of in
formation nf all technicalities and con
fusing verbiage.
The country perhaps has no concep
tion of the tremendous volume of cor
respondence which flowed between the
public and the office of the provost
marshal general at the time of the
preparation for the first draft and dur
ing the weeks which succeeded it. A
large part of it came wholly from the
Tift that the people who asked the
fractions did not read the rules end
the regulations and did imt want to
tnke the trouble to read them, but
were willing to take more trouble on
themselves in order to. get somethius
straight from headquarters.
The coiTesKndence of the provost
marshal general's office was so tremen
dous that it taxed almost to the break
ing point the energies of "the officers
and stenographers who worked within
the walls of these "Washington army
quarters. It Is the belief and the hope
apparently of the provost marshal gen
onil's office that, with seemingly every
possible question answered in some
part of the regulations which have
been forwarded to the governors and
to the local boards, the persons who
are in doubt about anything will ap
peal to their board members or to any
other competent authority willing to
clear up doubt.
Prepared by Experts.
The selective service regulations
which have been prescribed by the
president re conveniently arranged in
a well indexed book. The preparation
of this book has been the work of Gen
eral Crowder and a corps of assist
ants composed of live officers of the
regular army and of the reserve corps.
All of Mhese officers are lawyers, for
there are in the judge advocate gen
eral's office many officers of regulars
who found time either afters gradua
tion from West Point, or, if not gradu
ates, after entering the service, to take
the prescribed law courses In order
that they might be attached to the of
fice of the judge advocate general.
When General Crowder was lieu
tenant of cavalry In the SCTs be was
stationed at Fort Yates on the Stand
ing Kock agency, in North Dakota. The
post had a small library and on one of
Its shelves Lieutenant Crowder found
a copy cf General Fry's history of the
draft of 1S3. He studied the book
thoroughly and continued the study of
it through the years thereafter. There
uever was any thought, of course, in
General Crowder's miod that one day
he might be called tipon to conduct a
draft of American soldiers for a great
war, but the day did -come when it was
necessary and it found bina prepared
so far as the past records could pre
pare him both, to put a draft through
;md to avoid what he thought to be the
mistakes of the earlier operation.
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RAIIAT0R COVERS Protect your radiator from freezing.
JOHNSON'S FREEZE PROOT Guaranteed to not evaporate or injure the
radiator.
HAND WARMERS For steering "wheel. Operates off the magneto.
Also a Full Line of Tires, Tubes and Auto Accessories
Hriug your Ford car to us for repairs. We're interested in seeing that every
Ford owner is satisfied with his car. Only competent machinists employed.
FORD TRUCK SERVICE
We have put in service two Ford Trucks equipped with Hog Racks and
will haul hogs to the South Omaha market at the rate of f 10.00 per truck
load for any farmer within a radius of six miles from Plattsmouth and a
small extra charge for extra mileage.
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FORD Authorized Sales and Service Plattsmouth, Nebr.
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80 Head of yearling Heifers,
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