THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE! DECEMBER 2, 1917.
SIBERIA ABOUT '
TO DECLARE ITS
INDEPENDENCE
Social Revolutionary Extre
mists Unite With Lenine in
Support of Extreme
Policies.
(By Associated Frees.)
London, Dec. 1. A dispatch from
Petrograd to the Daily Mail says
that Siberia is about tp declare its in
dependence. Ministers already have
been appointed and are -holding ses
sions in the governor's palace at
Omsk. Considerable popular sympa
thy is displayed for the movement and
a Siberian flag is flying in many
places.
The dispatch says that as a result
of the elections to the constituent as
sembly in Petrograd, the Leninites
have won two seats, constitutional
democrats four, the social revolution
extremists two and the other parties
were not represented owing to the
smallness of their pools.
The correspondent adds that the
social revolutionary extremists are
almost indistinguishable from the Le
ninites and consequently the extrem
ist policy will be supporte'd by a large
majority. t ,
A Russian communication received
here. by wireless announces a union
between the All-Russian central exec
utive committee of the council of
workmen's and soldiers delegates with
the executive committee elected by
the All-Russian peasants' congress.
At a united meeting of these bodies
and the Petrograd council of work
men's and soldiers' delegates a unani
mous agreement was reached as to
laws concerning land and peace and
to the law resting control in the
hands of the workmen.
-Agree on Representation.
Petrograd, Nov. 30. The Maxi
malists, with the social revolutionaries
of the left and the Minimalist inter
nationalists have arrived at an agree
ment concerning the organization of
the governing power of Russia.
A people's council is being formed,
consisting of 100 representatives of
the peasants' deputies, 11 representa
tives of the army and navy, 55 rep
the central executive committee of the
workmen's and soldiers delegates,
100 representatives of the peasants'
deputies, 11 representatives of the
army and navy, 55 representatives of
the trades unions and 15 representa
tives of the railway unions.
Leon Trotsky, the Bolsheviki for
eign minister, speaking at the Smolny
Institute today, said the fact that the
German, emperor has been compelled
to receive representatives of Commander-in-Chief
Krylenko and nego
tiate with them showed that the Rus
sian revolution had placed its heel on
all the propertied classes of Europe.
Expert Railroad Men to
Consider. Coal Situation
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 1. The gen
eral operating committee of the east
ern railroads at a meeting here today
took further steps' toward relieving
the coal shortage in various parts of
the country and in straightening out
the congestion on eastern railroads
by the appointment of a subcommit
tee of railroad experts, who will sit at
Cumberland, Md., and deal at first
hand with the situation which ad
mittedly is hindering the nation's war
effort and acting as a depressing
factor on business throughout the
country.
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PRAYER
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For America and the Allies
Let . us ' remember we are all
citirens of a great nation AMER
ICA. That we are what our fore
fathers made us Freemen and
that we nerer will in any degree
subject ourselves to the dominion
of German Prussian rule.
We believe what God says: We
I should love our enemies, but God
' expect us to bve HIS
enemies.
It is not for glory, riches or
honors we fight, but for Liberty
alone, which no good man loses
but with his life. ' ' '
HARRY LAUDER.
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Poor Harvests Force France to
Ration Food; Use Bread Cards
(B.T Associated Press.)
Paris, Dec.4. The cabinet today approved of the measures of Victor
Boret, minister of provisions, regulating the distribution of bread. Closer
restrictions have become necessary because of insufficient harvests and
the limitations of tonnage for importations.
The basic principle of the new rationing is that none except agricul
turists consuming their own crops may have a greater ration than the
soldiers at the front. Individual bread cards will be established for towns
of more than 20,000 population and the state requisitions all cereals.
Bread will continue to be sold by weight, but the form and weight
may vary. Fancy bread may be sold by the piece, but it must be made
of the same flour as the ordinary article and differ only in form and the
manner of the baking.
Pastry shops will continue to close during two days of each week and
must not use bread flour. Pastry cooks and confectioners are forbidden
to sell anything for consumption in their shops and bakers are forbidden
to bake or sell pastry.
Restaurants, hotels, tea houses and similar establishments are forbid
den to make or sell pastries or cakes. Restaurants where meals cost more
than 4 francs must not serve a customer more than 100 grammes (about
one-fifth of a pound) at each meal. The cheaper places may serve 300
grammes.
FOOD AND COAL
FIGHT TOR TRACKS
Various Departments Demand
Priority of Transportation
for Products ; Lovett Tries
to Clear Situation.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 1. Requests
from different government quarters
for priority of transportation for food,
fuel and munitions hasthrown the
whole question of preferential ship
ment into a tangle. The committee
on priority of transportation, of which
Robert S. Lovett is chairman, was
trying tonight to clear the situation.
Acting on the suggestion of Fuel
Administrator Garfield, the general
operating committee of eastern rail
roads today gave coal and coke ship
ments right-of-way to clear congested
terminals. Dr. Garfield has requested
of the priority committee a general
order giving coal the tracks.
Tonight the food administration an
nounced it had entered a strong pro
test with the priority committee
against giving priority over food ship
ments to coal or 'any other freight.
The situation is further complicated
by demands of the War and Navy
departments for preferential rights to
the movement of their supplies.
In explaining its request that noth
ing be put ahead of food shipments
the food administration said the nec
essity of moving live stock and per
ishables and corn, oats and animal
feeding stuffs generally is pre-empient
or large amounts of food would be
lost.
Grub Is Too High,
Makea"KiclcrInN.Y
New York, Dec. 1. A bureau
of complaints where reports of
over charging by food retailers can
be made by the public, will be es
tablished in' this city, it was an
nounced today after a conference
between John Mitchell, chairman
of the federal food board forNew
York state, and Arthur Williams,
city food administrator. Each com
plaint filed will be investigated.
A kitchen is to be installed at
headquarters of the new state food
board, where experts in prepara
tion and conservation of food will
give demonstrations to housewives.
Latest U. S. Treasury Issue
Outdoes All Previous Ones
Washington, Dec. 1. The latest
issue of treasury certificates of in
debtedness due next June 25, and re
ceivable in payment of income and ex
cess profits taxes was closed tonight
by Secretary McAdoo when subscrip
tions had reached about $690,000,000
more than any previous issue.
The entire amount has been sub
scribed withia the last nine days since
the issue was announced and books
were closed because ample funds now
are provided to redeem the $250,000,
000 certificates due today and other
cash requirements of the treasury in
the,immediate future. No definite lim
it was placed on the issue when it was
announced.
Additional certificates will be issued
from time to time with the June ma
turity, Secretary McAdoo announced,
and banks are urged to maintain inter
est in the certificate scheme of gov
ernment financing.
Monday The Last Day of
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OFFICERS' UNIFORMS
15 - or. O. D. Serge Uniforms, formerly $60, at. ...... .$4
I8-01. Whipcord Uniforms, formerly $65, at ,..$44
17-oz. O. D. Serge Uniforms, formerly $45, t $38
J6-01. O. D. Wool Uniforms, formerly $45, at .$38
16- oz. O. D. Wool Uniforms, formerly $42.50, at ....$34
15-os. O. D. Serge Uniforms, formerly $40, at $32
17 - or. O. D. Wool Uniforms, formerly $37.50, at $30
17-oz. O. D. Wool Uniforms, formerly $3$, at $28
14-or. O. D. Wool Uniforms, formerly $35, at $28
. OFFICERS' OVERCOATS
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$45, at $38
SO-os. O. D. Melton Overcoats, heavy lining, formerly $50,
at $40
80-oz. O. D. Melton Overcoats, heavy serge body lining,
formerly $55, at $40
30 -or. O. D. Melton Overcoat, heavy wool serge lining,
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ASKS SEED AND FEED
FOR FARMER OF WEST
Townley of Nonpartisan League
Urges $50,000,000 Appro
priation to Relieve Finan
v cial Condition.
Dy Associated Preas.)
Washington, Dec. 1. President A.
C. Townley of the National Nonpar
tisan league today asked President
Wilson to urge upon congress an
appropriation of $50,000,000 for the
purchase of seed and feed to be sold
at cost to farmers of the northwest,
who, he said, are in financial straits
because of the failure of the cropjf in
two successive years.
Mr. Townley told the president
that the farmers in North Dakota,
Montana, Kansas, Nebraska and parts
of Oklahoma and Minnesota, whom
he represented, iiad answered the
country's call for more food by in
creasing their acreage this year and
that the failure of the enlarged crops
had hit them heavily. Added to that,
he said, was a shortage of grass and
feed, which compelled the farmers to
sell their cattle.
During the conference Mr. Town
ley pledged the president the al
legiance of the northwestern farmers,
declaring that they desired to do
everything within their power to aid
the government in the war.
Before going to the White House,
Mr. Townley called on Food Ad
ministrator Hoover and urged his
support of relief measures for the
northwestern farmers.
Army Orders.
Washington, Dec. 1. (Special Telegram.)
First Lieutenant Louis A. Cornish, medical
reserve corps. Is relieved from duty at the
medical officers' training camp, Fort De
Moines, la., and will proceed to his home.
Turks' Fire Wrecks
Tomb of Samuel
London, Dec. 1. "Turko-Ger-man
artillery again made its ob
jective the mosque erected on the
traditional site of the tomb of the
prophet Samuel," says the official
communication. "This site is held
in equal reverence by Christian,
Mohammedan and Jew. The
minaret has been destroyed by this
bombardment.
"A detachment of 40 men from
an eastern county regiment at
tacked a Turkish post on the Nahr-El-Aujel,
held by a garrison of
about 100 men. Fifty Turks were
killed arid our detachment brought
in prisoners and a machine gun."
Would Impeach Seattle
Mayor for Balking Cleanup
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 1. Resolu
tions calling upon the city council to
impeach Mayor Hiram Gill because
of his alleged laxity in suppressing
vice, were adopted tonight at a mass
meeting that filled a large theater.
The action resulted from an order
issued recently by Major-General H.
A. Greene, then in command of the
Camp Lewis national army canton
ment, prohibiting soldiers from visit
ing Seattle. General Greene charged
that a vice syndicate, employing a
large number of women of the under
world and gamblers was operating in
Seattle.
Cuban Sugar Crop to
Ease N. Y. Shortage
New York, Dec. 1. The bulk of
the new Cuban sugar crop will soon
become available in the New York
market under an agreement reached
today at a conference of tfie Cuban
Sugar commission and the Interna
tional Sugar commission, fixing the
base price at $4.90 per 100 pounds.
DOUBT
IS
A
KILL-JOY
Without Faith--means
, Without Hope.
I sincerely pity people who
"have no faith" in humanity,
because it is an admission of
their own insincerity, which
has so "soured the milk of
human kindness" that they
deem everyone unworthy of
belief. When a person reach
es that intolerable state of
mind where faith is crowded
out of his heart the present
holds no pleasure nor the
future any hope.
As a registered, licensed dentist, graduated from a
dental college of recognized standing, my primary quali
fications to practice my profession are the equal of any
dentist-
My special training and vast experience in handling
thousands upon thousands of patients has added to my
"college-knowledge" and given me a degree of skill that
could be acquired in no other way.
My promise, or my check,, would be accepted by any
man or any bank at one hundred cents on the dollar and
my dearest friend or bitterest enemy has never intimated
that my private character was other than the best
AND YET in spite of this, I am criticised by some
who could LEARN DENTISTRY at my hands and doubt
ed by others who "have no faith" BECAUSE I, single
handed, attacked as un-American and unethical the
coterie of dentists who banded together to maintain ex
orbitant dental prices and because I had the temerity to
tell the public that I could, would AND DID eliminate all
UNNECESSARY PAIN in my office.
My critics have, with few exceptions, never been in,
my office nor have they any .knowledge of my methods,
yet with nothing to guide them but their own unbelief,
these chronic kill-joys are sowing the seeds of unbelief
and malice in the minds of others, and thereby smother
ing the faith that would lead to investigation and ulti
mately to belief. s
You people who have no money to throw away, you
who are timid and sensitive to pain, are wronging yojjrv
selves and wronging me when you listen to the man who
"has no faith,"
I have surrounded myself with a staff of associate
dentists whose combined skill and knowledge are at your
service, insuring you better dentistry and lower prices
than you can secure elsewhere, with unnecessary pain
eliminated. No matter what your frame of mind when you
enter my office, you will leave it convinced of my honesty,
earnestness and ability to serve you better and save you
money.
PAINLESS WITHERS, DENTIST
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Doctors Stand Amazed at Power
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Strong-According to Dr. lewis
Gnat anleed to Strengthen Eyesight 50
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It is believed that thousands who, yrcar
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Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of a
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it is your amy 10 taxe steps to save them
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Note: Another prominent Physician to whom the
Mi,,, aiui-ie mummed, aim: "lea, the Bon
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Its constituent Ingredients are well known to emi
nent eye specialist snd widely prescribed by them. I
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slrt and Is sold In thta city by 8 norm an McCou
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