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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 6, 1918.
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II IN U. S. IN
SERBIA GROWS,
SAYSJAP PRESS
Interesting Article on Far
East Is Contained in Paper
Received by Omaha
AHnrnov
' A copy of the Japan Advertiser,
Japanese newspaper printed in
English in Tokio. recently received
by D. C. Patterson, Omaha real
estate man contains an interesting
article on the political and economic
situation in Russia, especially Siberia.
' ji lie aiiitic sictics nidi rckcm uc-
velopments in the war situation in
the far east necessitated Japan tak
ing military action in Siberia, and
urges business men of the nation
to give full support to the move.
"Vladivostok is now shaping the
political fate of Siberia," says the
article. "The attention of all peo
ple li concentrated on the two ex
isting governments, the Siberian
Horvat, and all negotiations be
tween the two are closely watched.
Differences Explained. -'The
uncertain situation is due
to the unsoundness of the position
f both governments. The Siberian
iovernment commands sufficient in
uence in the Primorskaya, but has
to solid support in the port of
ladivostok, where the masses are
Openly pro-bolshevik. On the other
hand, General Horvat's government,
though having within its rank men
of weight and experience, receives
a chilly welcome from the majority
of the people, which is largely dutf
to the misdeeds of some of Hor
vat's detachments in the early stage
of his political activities.
"Naturally, both governments, not
being deeply rooted, politically, tend
to shape their policies according to
the attitude of the allies. This ex
plains the enormous interest taken
by the people in every step taken
Vy the allies, especially by Japan
and America.
' ' Japan Misunderstood.
"It is well understood here that
Japan can play a dominant role in
the far east. Japanese intervention
is quite desired, but at the same
time, its possible consequences are
feared. The Siberian people are
.firmly convinced that Japan is de
termined to support Horvat only,
and in the opinion of many Rus
sians, Horvat's chief aim is the re
storation of czarism.
"Japan would gain greatly, could
she remove this distrust by convinc
ing acts. To illustrate the people's
,uspicions of Japan the latest Ja
pan move in Manchuria is interpret
ed as an overt act in support of
Horvat.
"Such impressions are enter
tained, not only by the well in
formed, but by men active in Hor
, vat's ministry. Because of this, dis
trust of Japan grows steadily
while there is noticeable a deeper
sympathy toward America. The
Russian people have absolutely no
fear of America championing mon
archial ideas; there is unbounded
confidence in her democracy and all
her moves" are awaited with impa
tience. Faith' in America.
"As a result of this situation, the
people are divided into two groups,
the smaller favoring monarchial
ideas, the larger, embracing demo
crats, republicans or moderate so
cialists, definitely expressing sympa
thy with the ideas of America.
"Clearly the situation is hardly
favorable to the creation of a stable
order of things in the far east. It
would seem imperative that the gov
ernments of America and Japan, es
pecially the latter, declare explicitly
that they will support only sucti a
government as will endeavor to
unite the hostile groups; a govern
ment formed by coalition of the
bourgeois and democratic elements.
Such a frank declaration, would un
doubtedly remove present fears in
the far east.
Student Nurse Drive
.To Continue During
Spanish Flu Epidemic
The recent drive for student
nurses is to continue because of the
Spanish "flu" epidemic. Mrs.
Charles S. Elgutter, head of the
nursing bureau for the county coun
cil of defense', today received in
structions from Washington to con
tinue enlisting nurses.
Thirty Omaha girls have already
qualified and are awaiting calls to
enter military or civil hospitals. Be
cause of the epidemic, their calls will
presumably be hastened. Miss
Bertha Elsasser has already left for
Fort Riley and Miss Ethel Brucker
for Camp McClellan. Miss Frieda
Margaret Holstein has entered the
county hospital.
Those awaiting calls are Mrs.
Margie Von Shuetr, Misses Dorothy
Cole, Jean and Margaret Woodruff.
Louise Koenekamp, Essie Silliker,
Lola Bader, Madeline Taylor, Mil
dred Street, Anna Larsen, Con
stance Garrett, Esther Hardy, Dor
othy Dorland, Othelia Anderson.
Ruth Candee, Eleanora Estes, Eliza
beth Giltner, Minnie Moore, Jennie
Sobatka, Laura Bailey, Hazel Zoll,
Margaret Mcherren, Jessie Davis
and Gladys Wright.
Typical Western Man Chosen to Head Big
United War FundDrive Which Starts Soon
Mayor Recommends Three
to Assist War Risk Bureau
In compliance with a request from
the war risk bureau, of Washington,
Mayor Smith has named George W.
Shields, L. C. Sholes and Miss Alice
F. Nelson for appointment to places
as field agents under the direction
of the bureau. Should the appoint
ments be confirmed it will be the
duty of these agents to investigate
conditions surrounding the making
of allotments aod soldiers' allow
anc s to depenutnts of mp;i in the
setvice. The nosiiions are honorary
and those who fill them will serve
practically vvithou compensation.
By J. D. KUYKENDALL.
John R. Mott is a name to con
jure with. It is one of the names,
which in these murky days of war
is growing, constantly growing, be
cause the man to whom it belongs,
and the job he is doing in the mad
world are growing.
John R. Mott, it was announced
a few days ago, is to head the great
drive of the united war organiza
tions, which are to knock at the
door of the nation's heart next
month. To those who know nothing
of him it may not be quite clear
why he, devoted to only one of the
organizations, should have been
chosen for this ' stupendous task.
Those who have known Mott, or
known intimately of his work for
the last quarter of a century, ac
cepted the announcement the other
day as the most natural thing in the
world.
The fact of the matter is that
Mott is one of the great men of this
age, which has been bringing out the
greatness or the meanness of men.
He is a Christian statesman, and
when this big job loomed up on the
horizon demanding a man with
world vision and the capacity to
undertake a world task, the job na
turally lit on Mott. And he will
carry it through.
Mott is a Typical Westerner.
The reason that I am so confinent
in making the foregoing statement
is that Mott and I are both west
erners. He does not know me and
I do not know him personally, but
I do have a profound confidence in
the ability of the west to make men
who can and will do things in a
large way even though said west
may have slipped a cog or two in
my case. There was no slip with
John R. Mott.
Mott was born in Iowa. He spent
the formative years of his life on
the wide-stretching, wind-swept,
sun-kissed prairies of this middle
west. If that will not make a man
great he has no greatness in him.
There is something enlightening to
the mind, strengthening to the soul,
enlarging to the vision, in these
broad prairies. If you want to give
a man a world wide view of life
and a sweeping breadth of human
sympathy, plant him in the far
reaches of the prairies. He cannot
breathe the air of these vast plains
without becoming bigger. The real
provincials are not the men who
have come out of these provinces,
but those who have been cribbed
and confined all their days in the
city.
John R. Mott was predestined I
am inclined to think he may be a
hereditary' Presbyterian, although he
is a member of the Methodist
church, and the foregoing word
will go with him to greatness by
the very circumstances of his birth
and his upbringing. Of course even
the west cannot make greatness
unless there is the stuff there with
which to start. Mott has in him-
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institution in America. Mighty few
college men of the past decade or
two have not been stirred by his
searching addresses at these con
ferences. His influence in this in
direct way has been world-wide,
and many of the men who will help
him put across his present big job
arc the men whom hehas met in
these conferences.
Mott is primarily not an orator,
however, but an organizer. He was,
before war broke out, engaged in
carrying out a tremendous dream,
the organizing of a world on the
basis of human brotherhood. His
Reformers in Japan
Start Movement to
Abolish All Caste
Correspondence Associated Press.
Tokio, Oct. 5. Japanese reform
ers, stirred by the recent food
class of society, took a prominent ' 8 the streets, indicating whert
part, are advocating the abolition of j Jn the outlyjng districts, except
the caste regulations whicii Hedge ; whcre the blocks are unusually long
Adopt Schedules for New .
Skip-Stop of Street Can
Arrangements have been worked
out by street railway officials,
Mayor Smith and Commissioner
Ringer of the city council, for th
skip-stop schedule. The street rail
way company has a force of mea
at work, painting signs on polei
together by the unbreakable bonds 'about these people on the ground the signs are placed
of fraternity of spirit. that the restrictions are distinctly
out of
intersections, mere are signs ai an
.i . . railroad aim mnucvaiu hvjjiub-,
Mott Still Retains His Vision. ou countenance wmi me spirit , . ordinance stops are mdt
This dream was somewhat shat- j f modern Japan. . nef essary
tered when the nations sprang at the eta might be compared to; At each intersection where a sto
each other in bate. But Mott has
not lost his vision. He sees in the
great organization i mercy and
service the means by wi", J'cr
chance, a chastened wo.'Irt H V
led to a real comprehension ot tue
meaning of brotherhood.
If he did not believe in this great
er thing which is to come out of
the welter of war, John R. Mott
would not be heading the movement
of which he is to so very great an
extent the very heart and soul. He
has not lost the vision nor fhe hope.
Not because of .war, but in spite
of it, and in a measure through the
new meanings that will cortie to hu
man life through it, the consumma
te pariahs of India. They number j is to be made, on the right Banc
more than 1,000,000 and are said to ..d 'f.br'Kht ve"ow tw'
, , . . c ; ieet wide is painted on the crosi
be the descendents of kokrean cap-. am poIe Thclf in black letters, suf-
tives brought to Japan during the ! rit-ientlv larce to be read from
wars of the sixth century. Others distance of a couple of hundred feet
trace their origin to tne introduction i
of Buddhism in Japan in the eighth
century when the taking of animal j
life was looked upon by adherents
of the new faith with abhorrence and
disdain. From the earliest days the
"eta" have been slaughterers of cat
tle and other livestock and today the
majority of these people obtain their
livelihood as butchers and tanners.
Legally the "eta" have the same
rights as other Japanese but socially
are the words, "Cars Stop." In th
downtown business center, thess
signs are at every street intersection
traveled by the company lines.
STOMACH
POT
tion of the vision will be hastened. ' they are outcasts Forbidden to ;
mingle Wlin nign-ciass Japanese 01
to marry outside their own caste,
the abbatoir workers and their fam-
That is his faith.
Mott is able to put a little more
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he knows the need and the possibil-' j!1" h'e t0.t,ier '" towns and vil
ifies as few men do. He has al- ! ''&es ,we,S,fr" a.?d- southi J?;
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DR. JOHN R. MOTT.
Dr. John R. Mott, chief executive of the Y. M. C. A., who has been
elected director general of the United War Work campaign to raise $170,
000,000 for the seven war service organizations which are working to sus
tain and increase the morale of the American and other allied soldiers.
Dr. Mott was chosen to take charge of the big November drive for funds
at a meeting of representatives of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the
National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation
Army, American Library association and War Camp Community Service.
ways
war started, he has been five times
overseas. And perhaps most im
portant of all, he has a boy in the
trenches and he knows what the
boys need. The father heart of him
will be the bridge over which the
love of America will be carried
across the seas to the war-ravaged
lands.
When John R. Mott asks us for
$135,000,000 we may with perfect
confidence give it to him. He will
sec that it goes where we want it
to go and where we could not send
it without him.
self the stuff of which greatness
comes.
He is clean-cut, upstanding, a
dynamo of physical and nervous
force, and has an almost uncanny
power to set and hold before him
self the ideal of Paul, "This one
thing I do." He fought as a young
man in Cornell university against
entering upon Young Men's Chris
tian association work. But when it
was borne in upon him as the "one
thing," he set himself to the task
with all his tremendous capacity and
has been at it for 30 years.
The First big, statesmanlike thing
that Mott did was to inaugurate the
movement, or rather the move
ments, in the colleges which re
sulted in the World's Student feder
ation, and the allied lines of work
for student life. "The world for
Christ in this generation," was a
Mott undertaking. It has resulted
in sending to the foreign missionary
field thousands of trained young
men who have carried the ideals of a
virile Christianity to all lands.
Hundreds of thousands of lives
Iiave been touched by Mott in the
student" Y. M. C. A. conferences,
which many years ago became an
Students in Colorado
Take Up Studv of War
Boulder, Colo., Oct. S. So that
Colorado's part in the world war
may be fully chronicled, the Uni
versity of Colorado has instituted a
course in the history of the state in
the European conflict.
Students, studying this course, clip
stories from Colorado newspapers
pertaining to the activities of sol
diers and sailors from the state and
file them. Efforts are being made
also to obtain from relatives person
al data of men and women who have
entered the service of the nation.
Already there have been filed
sketches of more than 3,600 per
sons, taken from newspapers.
The data thus collected will be
filed by the university as a perma
nent record and in time will be
available for use in the compilation
of the history of the state's part in
the war.
Get at the Real Cause Take
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets ;
That s- what thousands of stomach
cofferers are doing now. Instead of
taking tonics, or trying to patch up -poor
digestion, they are attacking the
real cause of the ailment clogged
liver and disordered bowels.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets anrass
the liver in a soothing, healing way.
When the liver and bowels are per
forming their natural functions, away '
goes indigestion and stomach troubles. ,
If you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor, J
lazy, don't are feeling, no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigested foods.
Manv nf their women in the citv of you should take Olive Tablets, tha
Osaka led attacks upon food dealers substitute for calomel '
and property. With the settle- Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a 4
ment of the trouble Japanese editors purely vegetable compound mixed with "
and publicists suggest the "eta" o iveoil. You will know them by their .
should be brought out of their set- hve color. They do the work without
tlements and encouraged to live and Enping,CTampsor pain,
associate with their so-called betters .Ta,ke one or two at bedtime for quick '
r .. Miff. Sft vnil ran nhat m, lib. '
as a. nart ot tne man to more vr -.7 ""
many radicals who see in the grow
ing spirit ot democracy an opportun
ity to end forever for themselves and
their children the social ostracism
to which for centuries their for
bears have been subject.
The rice disturbances gave the
"eta" the opportunity to show their
disapproval of existing conditions
thoroughly democratize Japan.
At 10c and 25c per box,. All druggists.
Goodbye Curling Iron !
Better Method Found
Don't burn the life out of your hair
with that instrument of torture, the curl
mi? iron. There is nothing that will
surely dry out and hreak off the hair
Kiving it that ragged, unkempt appear
ance.
You will he glad to learn that you can
keep your hair beautifully wavy and curly
by using a perfectly harmless liquid
known to druggists as "silmerine." You
need only apply a little with a clean
tooth brush before retiring and in the
morning you will be moist agreeably sur
prised with the effect. And this effect
lasts for a considerable time, so a small
bottle goes a long way and is quite eco.
nomical to use. Pure silmerine is really
beneficial to the hair and there is no
greasiness, stickiness or anything unpleas
ant about it It is a good idea to divide
the hair into strands and moisten these
one at a time, drawing the brush down
the full length.
PUT MAZDA in every socket
the convenience is worth
more than the trifling cost of
the lamps. Mazda lamps all
kinds for sale by
NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY
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OMAHA
Factory Employment Situation
TT IS generally believed by the public that women workers in f ac-
A tories like our own earn but $4 to $6 per week.
This is very far from the truth, as we, will tell you here. We realize, too, that it is very largely
our own fjault that such an idea prevails. Our own employes knew the truth that they made very
much larger wages. They were happy and contented. We had all the help we needed, and so we
never took occasion to contradict even such an absurd report. BECAUSE
We never realized the harm it was doing, not only to us, but to Omaha, -even to the country when it faced a crisis as now.
Any Industrious Girl Can Make $15.00 Per Week Here
Then came the war. Uncle Sam demanded more and more supplies. Wom
en were called into every field of employment.
Factories like our own, working on war orders, were ston short from 10 to
3Q0 women operators. There is now an actual crisis in the labor situation in
t Omaha. It is so acute that the government is appealing, through advertise
ments, for )vomen to come forward and fill these vacant places.
We believe the patriotic women of Omaha hesitate to ask us for employment
because th$y honestly believe their pay will be small and the hours long.
Nothing could be further from Ihe truth. Any industrious woman can make
$15 per week in our plant and we have many who are drawing $26, $28 and
even $30 per week.
Women who want to help win the war who want to help increase the family
income who want to find pleasant employment at a highly remunerative com
pensation are invitedto come to our factory office and talk with out employ
ment manager. ,
WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE M. E. SMITH PLANT
The Hours From 8 o'clock A. M. to 5 o'clock P. M. the shortest work
ing hours in the city. Saturdays from 8 o'clock A. M. to 1 o'clock P. M.
Welfare League The employees own and operate a Welfare League
for social and benevolent purposes. Liberal cash benefits to members
while idle from illness or accident. Services of prominent physicians
free while ill.
Private Cafeteria A finely equipped cafeteria is operated by the com
pany, where home cooked food is sold to employees only priced ex
tremely reasonable.
Promotion We promote our own people to executive positions as vacan
cies occur. We have women in our factories who have been with us
more than 20 years.
. We need at least 200 willing, ambitious girls in our plant now girls and women who are not only
anxious to help win the war, but to make a high wage as well. To such workers we guarantee not
only permanent employment, but also perfect satisfaction as regards working conditions and salary.
FACTORY ENTRANCE
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