RED CLOUD, NEBRAS75A, OJJIEF 420 Scientists Die in 3 Years - Vritims of Starvation Under Per secution of Bolshevik Regime in Russia. INTELLIGENCE HOW A CRIME Aged Philosophers Are Left to Fate in Dirty Prlsor.8 at Will of tho Reds Many Great Professors Among the Victims. New York. Several letters from fclentlsts llvliiB under thu Ilolshevlsl lcglnio In Itusslu and other documents describing the conditions under which tho Itusslnii scientists uro living lit present uro inuile public by A. J. Sack, director of the llusslun Information bureau In the United Slates, represent ing In this country this llussliin demo- cratle nntl-llolshcvlst forces, x iu ' torlal came to Mr. Sack through l'rof. Uorls SokololT, n leading momlier of ihe iiarty of Soclullst-ltuvolutlonlsts hii.l duinity to the First All-Kusslun constitutional assembly. Professor Sokoloff is now In Prague, Czechoslo vakia. The statement nays that nccordlng to olllclal Bolshevist statistics -120 Itusslun scientists died of (starvation during the last three years. The names of the Russian scientists who wrote those, letters were not given, as tills, It Is said, would expose them to Bolshevist orsocutlon. Do scrlliltiK the conditions under which tho scientists are now living l "us sin, l'rofessor X, writes: "These years have been one continu ous horror. . . . We were declared bv the ISolshovlkl to be parasites and drones, and wo were deprived even of that miserable food allowance which the Workers and the soldiers have been receiving." Government by Falsehood. Professor of Philosophy U. writes that lie looks upon the tragic Munition "with Interest calmly, ns bellts a phi losopher, .lust ns calmly us t consider the fact that In my room the water Is freezing and that 1 am eating oats, in stead of bread and meat. All these dls comforts of soviet Itusslu 1 regard quite calmly. "Hut there is one aspect of life un- Ior the soviet rule which compels mo to dosnlso that rule. This Is their boundless falsehood. Every day, on the pages of their silly newspapers, In their speeches, In their books there uro falsehood and deceit everywhere." Professor V. Writes: "No, there can be no understanding between me and the llolshovikl. I nm nn old, feeble man, hardly able to move, with Teet swollen with sores from tho cold and hungry winter. Yet they are keeping me In solitary con llnement." "" Aged Scientist Tortured. Finally, Assistant Professor X. wiltes: "It was hard to watch the sufferings of Kvgraph Stophanovlteh (l'rofessor Fodoroff, the crystallographer). Aged, gray, emaciated from hunger, he had grown so Teak tho lust few days that b ins unable even to get up from bed. I came to visit him. 1 brought blm a little stale bread, which I had dllllculty In obtaining, for I had no money. lie grasped the bread eagerly, lie took a bite, miif then lie slopped: "'You are young, belter eat your self; us for me, It Is time for me to die." "And vainly did I try to urge him to take some bread and gruel. . . ." The tlrst Issue of the journal, Science and Its Workers, published re cently by the Committee for the Im provement of the Condition of Scien tists in Petrograd, contains In Its In troductory article a list of Husslnn sci entists who died of hunger and destitution during the last few months of 1020. ThjMlst cites the following names: Pror. V. A. Hernntsky (physic ist), V. L. Hernntsky (zoologist), Prof. S. A. Vengerov, Prof. N. A. (iezuchus, N. L. flecker (physicist). Prof. 1). I. Diiblugn (astronomer), V. A. Molznlovsky (historian), Prof. V. V. Polovlzov (botanist), Prof. K. S. Kederoir (crystallographer), Prof. P. K. Sternberg (astronomer), and A. A. Shnkhiiiatov (academician). "If this process of the dying out of scientists," says the Journal, "will con tinue at this rate our country will be entirely deprived of Its brain. The SHE IS SOME GIRL! ' . -Hi V 3J& s . "r jfTm.l " f'm. .VL. J on n Klincr of San Francisco U called America's 100 per cent perfect llvo-your-old girl. She Is n diver, swimmer, dancer, pianist and linguist, and .Is here seen doing one of tho stunts that keep her in condition. life of ii c'entlst In our times Is ter rible, as regards bis physical environ ment, ii ml Is a torture morally." C0RNHI1 ITEMS News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. Under tho direction of nn Amcrlcnn export, China Is building one of the world's largest mints, which will be able to coin 14 tons of silver n day. Duck Refuges in Marsh Areas Uncle Sam's Biologists Declare The Wild Fowl Must Have Further Protection. ARE OUSTED BY DRAINAGE Results of the Study, During Three Summers, of the Ducks and Canada Geese That Breed In Dear River Region of Utah. (Prepared by tlio Unlteil Slates Depart ment of AKrlculture.) Washington. Although legislative measures for tho protection of wild fowl have multiplied, and have ndded to tho restrictions on hunters, these regulations have not been sutllelent to maintain these gamo llrds in their former abundance. Keglons that onto were the summer homes of myriads of wild ducks have been drained and placed under cultivation, und extensive areas where tho birds at one time bred nre now populous farming com muultles. These changes, say biologists of tho United Slates Department of Agricul ture, have crowded out the former feathered residents and have served in u corresponding degree to reduce their numbers. Hciillzatlon of these facts has led recently to the adoption or omer measures to encourage waterfowl." A number of extenslo miirMi areas have Navy Plane for Commercial Uses Navy coast patrol Hying boat, converted Into a six-seat passenger-carrying flying limousine. This Is tho tlrst of a series of navy Hying boats to bo re leased for commercial purposes. been made permanent refuges under tho guardianship of the Department or Agriculture, and many private pre serves, some formed by iirtlllclal means, have been established where the birds ure protected while nesting. In addition, In n number of cases, rigid local restrictions have been placed upon hunters. Investigating the Ducks. As a means of co-operating In such efforts to maintain and Increase the number of waterfowl, the biological survey of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture has undertaken Investigations of the general conditions under which wild ducks live and thrive, coupled with counts of the Llrds found In areas varying In char acter. During three summers, Held studies were made dealing with wild ducks In the Hear river marshes In Utah, n report of which has Just been published by the department In De partment Hultetlu (:!(), Wild Ducks and Duck Foods of the Hear Ulver Marshes, Utah. During the three seasons devoted to this work li! species of ducks und the Canada goose were found breeding In the region Included In tho Hear river marshes, which cover an extensive area at the northern end of Great Salt Lake. In an enumeration mado (luring May and June, 1010. of the 11 species of breeding ducks !5,fUU pairs were counted, and it is believed that i his number represents between GO and 100 per cent of the total number of breeding ducks occurring hero that season. Vast Number in One Region. Allowing live young reared to ma turity as the average for each pair, ami considering 1010 as an average season, the bulletin states that, at n conservative estimate, between -5,000 mid :U),000 wild ducks, native to the marsh, are to be found there at the close of the breeding season. it was found that, In addition to the large numler of birds reared on the Hear river area, many other ducks came In after the nesting season to re main there until fall. That birds from the Hear river section range widely after leaving these marshes has been shown by records of ducks thnt have been banded and released there and subsequently were shot elsewhere. Rec ords thus obtained show that birds re leased near tho mouth of Hear river In migration cover tho region from Oklahoma to Texas and west to Cal ifornia. The department urges the es tablishment of a greater number of preserves where wild fowl may breed mul rest unmolested and Had an am plu supply of food. t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t New York Zoo Has Albino Rattlesnake on Display New York. The Zoological park In tho Hronx has on exhi bition a wlilto rattlesnake found In the Horkshlre hills. Tho snako Is ubout twelve Inches long, has pink eyes and Is said to bo an albino. It Is about u year ami a half old. At the park It Is re garded us n grent curiosity slnco In tho last twenty-ono years there has been no report of such a white rattler. The snako Is transparent when bold to tho light. Haymond L. DItnmrs, curator of reptiles, discovered tho snake. Ho wus unable to capture It when It ran Into n rock pile. He mado another trip and iriot nn amateur snako hun ter, Holes Smith of Shellleld, Mass., who promised to see that tho snake was enptured und ful filled his promise. IT MADE EVEN PARISIANS GASP - Extravagant Costume Worn by Mrs. Wilkinson of England. "Temperance Queen," Who Never Wears Same Gown Twice, Gives the French a Sensation. " I'arls. No longer afraid of being called profiteers, the owners of "war millions" are now bringing them out for the "grand season." The result Is that I'arls It witness ing a carnival of tlamboyaiit extrava gance uucqualcd, according to many critics, since tho days of Nero. Mrs. Smith Wilkinson, Kiifjllsh "tem perance queen," who for three weeks has made Hurls sit back and gasp, uppciired at the Pro Catalan restaurant one Saturday night with her third husband, who Is twenty-four years old, wearing on her head a genu luo crown composed of more than a thousand pearls and rhtucMnncs. The crown formerly wns worn by the Gram! Duchess Xenla of Jlussln. Mrs- Wil kinson bought tho trifle for $800,000. Suspended beneath her chin was tho cluster of famous Shrewsbury pearls, more than IIOO years obi They were bought by Mrs. Wilkinson from tho Kngllsh museum so she could wear them In I'arls. Her dress was Inter woven with more than !I0O gonulno diamonds, other gems being set In her stowklngs and shoes. Altogether, Mrs. Wilkinson esti mated her cost u mo to he worth In tho neighborhood of SU.00,000. She said: "French women have been tho stylo setters long enough. I made tip, my mind I would show them what real sensations meant. I have a different gown for every day In the year. Iuotei wear one twice.' Jiillns Welgel of ltnvenim bus re turned home after an absence of eight years. Welgel, a wealthy Schneider township farmer, Is' a native of Ger many and In lOlit he decided to visit relatives In that country. Shortly af ter his arrival all Kuropo was seething In war and Welgel was unable to leave despite frantic protestations against bis retention. Then America got Into the game and there was nothing left for Welgel to do but make the best of bis stay, regardless of how disagree able It was tinder the circumstances. Klght years later, through the Swiss consulate, he dually had bis passports properly vised and took the next steamer for home. On July 10 citizens of the school district of Gllead, and four surround ing districts will vote on a proposition to unite In one high school district. There arc alreudy seven such schools In tho state. They are located at Champion, Chase county; Lyons, Hurt county; DIx, Kimball county; Lowell, Kearney county; Hellevue, Sarpy county; Mlnatare, Scottsbluff county; Drilling for nil by tho Home Oil Co., composed of Hastings business men, bns begun on the Dan Nettleton farm, five miles and n half cast of Pauline. Government geologists hnve n survey. The compnny bns leased several thous and acres and If oil Is not struck In tho first well, two or three more will be drilled. A Yellowstone Nntlonnl pnrk "cut off" was established on the National Jilghway near Kimball, which goes north to the National Monument park road to Scottsbluff, and northwest to the Scottsbluff Valley highway via Fort Laramie to Guerney, Wyo. This will save seventy-five miles. Hoy Haines, n farmer living near Lexington, has Just threshed a Held of twenty-five ncres of wheat which yield ed forty-suven bushels per acre and tested sixty pounds Turkey Ited. Ills Held Is no better thnn many other fields will prove to be In this county. To lose three barns In the last few jj-enrs on the same farm was the ex perience of Charles Dognor, a fanner northwest of Hebron. The flrst barn Vns burned, the second was destroyed In n cyclone and the Uilrd burned by Jlghtnlng. Mell Yoder of Sterling, electric line man who came near being electrocuted when be came in contact with a live wire n month ngo, will go to a hospital ior skin grafting to some of Ids burns before be can recover. Tho supply of lco at HlooniHeld Is running low and as n result the Hloom field Ilutter Co. has been compelled to discontinue the manufacture of Ice cream. An artificial ice plant has been talked about. The community play ground nt Liberty will be opened July 111. The boys and girls up to fourteen are to I make use of the grounds which will be under the supervision of Miss Tlielmu UcMurrny. Marinas Llndhout, of Norfolk, whose neck was broken when be struck the bottom of the river after diving Into two feet of water, Is still alive, ul though bis limbs are pnralyzed. Cass county has employed a homo demonstrator, Miss M. Wllklns, a graduate of the home economics de partment of tho Nebraska state uni versity. The congregation of tho Evangelical church nt Mllford unanimously voted to petition congress to call a confer ence on International disarmament. Governor McKolvIe, at Lincoln, an nounced that the stato staff of olllcers for tho enforcement of dry laws will bo doubled Immediately. The wheat harvest In Lincoln and adjoining counties Is now In full swing. The average yield being about twenty bushels to the acre. Corn In the Central City community Is from two to threo weeks ahead of usual this year, due to tho unusual warm weather. ITarvestng of the nearly .1,000 acres of potatoes around Kearney Is well under way. The yield Is good and so Is the qunllty. A terrific hall storm totally destroyed grain over nn aera of more than thirty miles square, northwest of Alliance. It Is reported that the plant of the Great Western Sugar Co., at Mlnatare Is to be completed this fall. Nehawka has the boys' and girls' pig clubs with a combined membership of forty-one. Figures compiled by the state de partment of agriculture show that practically SO per cent of the Nebraska farmers are nulhe. white Americans. Of the TJI.4UI farms In Nebraska. O.), 4'J0 are operated by nalle, white fanners, lM,.r!." by foreign-born whites ami .'107 by colored farmers, Including Indians. The $7,000 monument erected nt Hloointleld to the memory of those who saciltieed their lives In the late war, was unveiled amid a huge as Beniblai.e of citizens of the town and community. A drive for memberships in tho For threading tho ends of Iron rods used to hold silos together a cutting die thai can bo operated by powci from mi automobile bus been Invented. Jn addition to the regular setut nit mill assessment of $1112,f00 to be made this month, an additional assessment of ?."00,000 must be mnde against bnnks of Nebraska to bring the stato guarantee fund up to IJs legal level of I per cent of the total of deposits. In state bunks. While this sum will be u drain on the banko-s of Nebraska, It Is probable that when the bank fail ures of recent date are wound up that much of the money necessary now to guarantee depositors will be returned, according to .1. K. Hart, secretary of the state department of trade and commerce. The action of the last legislature In permitting a reassessment on property In 1011 In order to get away from tho "peak" valuation of a year ago shows that assessors In Ul counties of Ne braska have decreased their assess ments nn average of Ifi.It.'t per cent, according to figures announced by State Tax Commissioner Osborne. Tho counties arc: Adams, Antelope, Hox Hut to, Hoyd, Cedar, Chase, Hall, Hitch cock, Keya Halm, Kimball, Loup, Nance, Nemaha, Pawnee, Pierce, Platte, Hod Willow, Stanton, Wheeler, York. After nn nbsenco of sixty years tho old fashioned potato bug has again In vaded the Held of Saunders county. The bug wns discovered by County Agent Huberts, who sent specimens to State Entomologist Swenk at Lincoln, who identified the stranger as eplcarta lamnlscata. or old-time potato bug. The bugs wore fully an Inch long and striped like n liberty shield, Roberts asserted. Governor McKclvle wroto n letter to the principal banks and other financial Institutions of tho country, In which ho set out for them the con ditions of Nebraska from nn economic standpoint. Tho state, the governor declares Is getting bnck to normalcy fast. Tho farmers have Just about liquidated their post-war losses, ho says, nnd nre getting on their feet again. The congregation of the church of the Nnznrene, of Ren trice, through lt pastor. Rev. C. E. Ryder, has raised nbout .$7,000 for the new church edlllco nnd expect to begin building about September 1. The sum of $10,000 will bo raised In the campaign now In pro gress. As n means of Increasing church nt tendance and the elemlnatlon of rivalry, all Christian bodies of Mnoroflcld have been consolidated Into one imn-sectnr-lan church and the plan has so en hanced nttendnnce thnt It Is recom mended to small towns all over the state. Although tho Nebraska corn crop, ns a whole, was nowhere near the danger line preceding tho recent heavy rains, the crop has been greatly benefited, according to A. E. Anderson, govern ment crop expert. He stated that wo still need more moisture to make It a bumper crop. Juno wns the banner collection month of the year for receipts, accord, Ing to reports just sent out by the State Treasury, collections nmount to $2,.'5 lU,:m. Disbursements came to $l,7U:t,i:M, leaving nn excess of about $010,000 In the treasury for the month. Hastings Is to hnve a new $17,000 swimming pool. The pool will bo eighty feet wide by 100 feet long, and will contain fiO.OOO gallons of water, which will bo filtered every twenty four hours. Work has started on a municipal swimming pool at Tocuinseh. Funds for construction hnve been donated and citizens are contributing labor. Fifty men nnd boys now are nt work. Plans for the proposed Fremont live stock sales pavilion are taking form rapidly. The commercial club has ap pointed n committee to buy a site and erect suitable buildings. Crops In the Humboldt district were badly washed by the heavy rains the pnst week. One downpour measured six nnd a half Indies and fell In less than five hours. At a recent meeting of "the Congre gational church at Geneva plans were mado to start a fund for the erection of a new church building. Two hundred dollars nn acre was paid by George R. Ward to Len J. Davis for his l'JO-acre farm, two miles-' from Geneva. Corn In Garlleld county Is tassellng fully three weeks ahead of the usual tassellng time for the district. Clans Mencke, abstractor, of I'.lalr, and for twenty-two yea in sheriff of Washington county, Is dead. Several small buildings, private garages, chimneys ami wliulnilll towers were blown down ami many trees uprooted when a hl,li wind lo tted Gordon. Salt against the American Potash Co. to enjoin It from the insurance money which will be paid as a result of a lire which destroyed tho plant at Aniloch was begun in the federal court at Lincoln by George 11. Ibirils, who Is the plaintiff in a suit against the company to recover $700,000 winch he holds as a claim agaltist the company. Heating of twenty loads of alfalfi stored In ihe mow on the U. Schmidt farm, live miles west or Hastings, caused the total destruction of thu barn. Citizens of Walton voted to retain the consolidated school and as a result IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchooI I fttteTl V V (By IlKV t. H. FITHWATKIl. I . y.. Toncticr of Kngllsh UlbU in tlio Moody UiIjIo Institute of Clilniu'o.) (, 1921, Western Newspaper t'nlon ) LESSON FORJULY 24 SAUL PROCLAIMS JESUS AS THE CHRIST. LBSPON TICXT-Acta 9:101)-SO. OOLDICN THXT Thou urt tlio Chr.st, the Son of the llvlnR Ooil.-MatU 16:16- ItUFUIirJNCti MATERIAL. -Acts 18: 24-28, PIUMAJtY TOIMC-Saul Telling Other About Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC Saul Wlnnlns Other to Jesus. 1NTKRMKDIATB AND SKNIOH TOPIC -OcttlnK lleudy for n New Career. VOUNO PKOPLB AND ADULT TOPIC -Suul UcKlna Ills Ministry. I. Saul Preaching Christ In Damas cus (vv. lb-'J2). After Saul was baptized ho remained1 certain days with the believers In Da mascus (v. 10b). How beautiful to think of the transformation which took place! one who was so passion ately bent on the destruction of the disciples was now enjoying fellowship with them. I. .Straightway prenchlng In the syn agogue (v, '&).) Saul, like every one who Is really converted, begins to tell oJ the newly found Savior, livery Chris tian should, be taught that It Is his business as soon as saved to help to snve others. L. The people omnzed (v. 'J1). They knew that the very one who had been ringleader In persecuting the Chris tians In Jerusalem and bad come to Duniuscus for the express purpose of bringing them bound to the chief priests, was now passionately advo cating that which he bad bo vehe mently sought to destroy. 3. The Jews confounded (v. 'J12). Sunt retired Into Arabia for three years. During this time he wns taught tlio full truth of his mission (Gal. 1:17 18). Saul Increased In spiritual strength nnd confounded the Jews,, proving that Jesus was not only the Son of God, but their Messiah. Ills proof, no doubt, was by citation from the Old Testunient prophecies, show ing that tho life, death and resurrec tion of Jesus exactly paralleled them Tlmt Christ died and rose again from the dead, no one then could deny; tho transformatlon of Saul from a hnter to an ardent witness was ii proof which could not he gainsaid. II. Saul Escapes From the Jews (vv. 'JH-'J.')). He used the Scriptures with such skill thnt the Jews could not answer him. Finding that the argument wns- agalnst them, the Jews took counsel how they might destroy S''iul. So In tent were they upon killing lilin that: they watched the gates of the city day nnd night that they might take blm. When this was known to the dNclples. they let him down at night in a bas ket by the wall. III. Saul Visits Jerusalem (vv. 20 )n). Tills Journey to .Terusnlem was in strange contrast with the one from Jerusalem to Damascus. The one was the lender of an Important expe dition under the authority of the Jew ish olllcers with tho prospect of a place of distinction In the councils of the Jewish nation. Now he Is nn out cast, disowned by his countrymen, and fleeing for his life. 1. Suspected by the disciples (v. SI0). Tho believers at Jerusalem had not heard fully about Saul's con version. They knew nothing of his so journ In Arabia and his preaching nt Damascus after his return, so they re garded him as a spy. "Part of the penalty of wrong-doing Is the dllllculty of restoration In the good opinion of honorable men." Rut tt Is Inllnttely better to be regarded with suspicion when genuinely true than to be trust ed as genuine when n hypocrite. 2. Rarnabas' conlldencu In Snut (v. 27). He wus a man filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 11:21); there fore, able to discern the reality of Saul's conversion. He wns In reality a "son of consolation," und In this Instance showed his kindly spirit. IJ. Saul In fellowship with the disci ples (v. 28). They went In and out together. Peter received him Into his home, since his object In going to Jerusalem was to see Peter (Gal. 1:18). He nbodo with him 15 days. 4. Saul disputing with the Groelnns. (v. 20). He was not content to merely visit with the brethren; he spoke boldly In the nanio of the Lord Jesus Christ. IV. Saul Sent to Tarsus (vv. 29b, HO). A conspiracy similar to tlio one at Damascus was formed agnlnst Saul. When the brethren knew of It they sent him to Tarsus. Saul's life Is In danger everywhere except among tho Gentiles. He Is now back to the place of his birth. Tho flrst and best plnce for one's testimony is In ids home. United Stutes Grain Growers, Inc., I a Smio will be put before the people the farmers' $100,000,000 marketing or ganzatlon has started In Nebraska and several co-operatlvo elevators of the stato have passed resolutions author izing their olllcers to sign tho neces sary contracts which will nlllgn them with the national orgnnlzntlon- soon to bond the district In the sum of $10,000 to erect a new school building. I More than $100,000 worth of con Hscnted liquor was presented to the hospitals of Omaha by prohibition en forcement olllcers to be used for modi clnul purposes. When In Tribulation. When thou art In trlbulntlon, nnrt nil these things nre come upon thee, even In the Intter days, If thou turn to tho Lord thy God, and shnlt he obe dient unto Ills voice (for the Lord thy God Is n merciful God), ho will not forsake thee. Deuteronomy, 4:30, 31 A Sabbath Thought. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before tho Lord our Maker. For Ho Is our God; nnd wo nro the people of his pasture. Psalm 05:0, 7. V vqfHflASXrrz WWEWw- .. H9Hi-KV