THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 16, 1919.
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L1EATLESS HAM
BONE COSTS 60C
II07 IN FRANCE
Ritchie Describes Sad Christ
mas in Hunger-Stricken
Devastated Districts
of France.
By ROBERT WELLS RITCHIE,
Universal Service Staff Corre
spondent. Faris. Dec. 25. (By Mail, De
layed. Will you call this stale
stuff, vuu folks at home, who will
read this about the time the last
stew has been extracted from the
bones of the New Year's turkey?
Will you be so completely launched
in the new year and with the holi
days so far behind you that a story
about what Christmas meant in
France will have no more interest
for you than last year's results in
the world's championship series? If
' so, of course I would not write this.
Without question there is a preva
lent belief at home that this is the
most happy Christmas France or
any of the agonized countries of
C I '.uiope has seen for four years.
" Peace has come, you say; therefore,
everybody in the land swept by the
llame of war must be happy and full
of rejoicing. True, a preat weight
of terror has been lifted from bowed
'"boulders over here, and every
where there is a reborn light of con
lidencc in the eyes of folk who've
drained to the very lees all imag
inable suffering and horrors. But,
alter the throes of war through
which France and her allies have
passed the softer moods of peace
have not come automatically with
the signing of the armistice.
In one of the Parisian papers yes
terday appeared an editorial head
ed, "just a Ham Bone." I worried
through that editorial with my lim
ited facility in the French and drew
therefrom a Christmas lesson which
was perhaps the strongest this holi
day season ever gave to me. The
editorial said that in the devastated
w districts around Lille and Cambrai
the poorer classes were paying two
and three francs for a ham bone
stripped eutirely of the meat; that
.they boiled the bone two and three
times and considered the resultant
broth a luxury.
"After these boilings." the edi
torial went on to say, "the bone it
self is split and the marrow, if any
remains, is given to the sick."
The Sober Truth.
Here is the sober truth, toldnie
by French soldiers who have just
returned to Paris from the devas
tated areas: The north of France
from the Belgian border to Verdun
is in a worse state in the matter of
food now than under German domi
nation. Because of scarcity of trans
portation facilities the government
lias not been able to put sufficient
quantities of provisions into the
devasted areas to keep' the popula
tion out of want. Northern France
is starving.
Not only does food lack, but coal
is very scarce; thousands . whose
homes were destroyed are without
adequate shelter; clothing and furni
ture are equally wanting; medicines
for the sick are being supplied in
part by the medical corps of the
English and American armies. Here,
In thcj, wreckage of war, there was
10 Merry Christmas.
Belgium in Same State.
Nor are conditions greatly differ
ent in Belgium. A dispatch front
Brussels in Le Matin of today said
that because of the embargo Hol
land had put on the exportation of
cheese and meats to Belgium there
was great suffering through all the
little kingdom. The Germans, as I
know from personal observation,
carried away with them all the "cat
tle they could find; even chickens
and geese were not too paltry to be
overlooked by German foraging
parties tluring the great retreat of
the autumn.
Even though the Belgian Relief
Commission still functions at top
pressure, every mouth cannot be
fed.
For all of France another element
in the situation made for a sad
"Noel." Not a single man, has yet
been demobilized from the French
army, though the opposition to the
Clemenceau government has forced
this question to a serious issue in
the chamber. This means that
more than 2,000.000 homes were
without fathers, husbands or sons
this Christmas.
No, folks at home, this was not a
very Merry Christmas over here.
You who sat down to turkey and
plum pudding rnusf remember mis
ery still exists in Europe, and when
another call comes to help relieve
it do not believe peace has put an
end to charitv .
Property on Leavenworth
, Street Sold for $17,000
The Independent Realty company
""last week sold to Jake Slosburg and
Nathan Somberg, property 133x113
feet at the southeast corner of tLea
venworth and Twenty-second streets
for $17,000. There are four houses
and a double store on the ground.
A. P. Tukey & Son negotiated the
deal the same day it was put on the
market.
The purchasers are holding this
property as an investment. Consider
able interest is now being taken in
property close to Twenty-fourth
street, because of the possibility of
passage by the legislature of the
proposed law which will enable the
city planning .board to widen Twenty-fourth
street.
Manager of Local Company
Purchases Brownlee Home
The J. T, Brownlee home at
4919 Chicago, a 7-roomed building
with sleeping porch, has been sold
by C. B. Stuht and Linn Campbell
to Emerson R. Bailey for $6,250. Mr.
Bailey came here recently from
Denver to be a department manager
of the Bemis Omaha Bag company.
The Faith in Them.
London. Who's who at the peace
conferences? The French prime min
ister and Marshal Petain are ag
nostics. Marshal Foch is a Roman
Catholic. Marshal Haig and Presi
dent Wilson are Presbyterians.
Premier V. M. Hughes of Australia
is a staunch Baptist. Austen Cham
terlain is Unitarian.
Russia in Need of All-Russ
Constituent Assembly, Says
Grandmother of Revolution
Mme. Catherine Breshkovskaya Lays Her View of
Russia's Cause Before the American People Plead
ing for America's Aid in Creating a True
Democracy in Russia.
Br CATHERINE BRESHKOV8KAV8
(Grandmother of tha Russian Revolution)
(The naca of Catherine Brfshkovskaya,
the "grandmother of the Russian revolu
tion" is known the world over. "Grand
mother" i now ?5. bul. Just aa In her
youth, she Is still s.rvlng the great cause
of Russia ! and to ie world' democra-y.
with all the rower of her beautiful Bout.
Mme. Breshkovskaya spent about fifty
years in prison and in Siberia fighting
against the Czar's regime, for the free
dom of the Russian people. Standing fui
real democracy, she Is fighting now tn
Bolshevist tyranny with the same vigor aa
before she fought the tyranny of the old
regime.
Mme. Breshkovskaya's mission In thin
country Is to tell the American people th
truth about the conditions In Russia an
to organize help for the 4.000,000 of
Russian orphans left now without any
shelter. The fathers of these children
fell in the war, and under the pres-nt
conditions most of these children face
death by starvation.)
Russia, although the most back
ward in her culture, has rendered
such great services to Europe, and
therefore to the, whole world, that
she deserves the full attention of all
her friends and allies. For many
centuries Russia served, and still
serves, s a barrier defending Eu
rope from the raiding forces of
Asia. By the price of her own
blood and progress, Russia guarded
the might and the culture of the
European peoples. Russia had
hardly the time to fortify her posi
tion in the east, before Europe it
self began to hit her, and blow after
blow fell on her shoulders again
and again. Twelve different na
tions sent their forces under the
leadership of Napoleon to destroy
and conquer Russia. Our large
country saw her cities ruined, her
villages burned, her treasuries
robbed.
A century passed. Russia rose up
and entered the family of peoples
who struggled towards freedom and
light. A treacherous, merciless war,
the work of her neighbor, awaited
Russia, and during five years Ger
many has tyrannized our country in
concert with her allies, the treacher
ous bolsheviki. Material poison,
moral spiritual poison all the
diabolical machinery was put into
action to bring our beautiful coun
try to the ground. The very heart
of Russia, its very mind is injured
by the venom brought across its
boundaries by its enemies. Co-operating
with Lenine and Trotzky. the
government of Germany strove to
poison the very conscience of the
Russian people. The mind and con
science of a great people will never
die! They already awaken to a new
and better life. The .enlightened
Russian people will come to freedom
and democracy. t
Great Services to Humanity.
Russia has rendered great services
to humanity by carrying on its
shoulders the defense of Europe
from Asia. Now when these his
torical services, and even the recent
enormous Russian sacrifices in the
war with Germany are forgotten,
Russia has the right to present its
account to mankind.
Three Million Dead.
While we lived through all the
horrors of war, paying 10,000,000 in
casualties, of whom 3,000.000
are dead and about 1,000,000 disabled
for life, American sufferings in this
war were comparatively small.
Never did the enemy tramp Ameri
can soil, never destroy your towns,
never burn American villages, never
cut down American forests and
gardens, never violate American
daughters, never shoot thousands of
American innocent citizens, never
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Not What You Eat But What
You Digest Tells the Story.
Eat Anything if You Fol
low With a Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablet.
The Man or Woman Who Can Eat
Heartily and Not Fade Away la the Wel
come Guest Anywhere.
Man oeoole just hate to eat in com
pany. They prefer to crawl into some by
place for a dyspeptic's plate of molly cod
dle. Business men olten resort to tms
form of weakness under the belief they
can work better. But it isn't what you
eat but what you digest that counts. Some
stomachs can t digest even s glass 01
milk. So they simply keep on feeding
dvsDeDsia, and set sras. water brash, sour
risings and so on that the better informed
and hearty eaters entirely avoid. this
they do by using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets.
Many physicians prescribe them for In
digestion, dyspepsia and other digestive
disorders. They are sold at every drug
store, everywhere, price 60 cents a box.
Ask you druggist more about them.
Adv.
uau June;
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cured .'"
"I saw a remarkable cure of a boy ban
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A single bottle cured another case,
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force on you a civil war with blood,
robbery and slaughter.
The United States does not count
its war orphans by the millions, and,
it is happy in that it is sure of its
future. Its children are growing up
without witnessing . atrocities and
degradation. From the very begin
ning of the history of this country,
we see its people possessed of a high
degree of culture and spiritual en
lightenment, we see in them fighters
for liberty, defenders of human dig
nity. We see in the people of this
country the eldest brethren of the
Russian people, and we hope they
will stretch forth their hands to us
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1917
There was no mistaking the
opinion of both men and women
in 191 7 regarding light weight
and fineness versus heavy weight
and rigidity, for Franklin sales
increased 135 against the
12 increase of all other fine
cart,
III ft
without pride, unselfishly, bringing
moral and material aid.
Nature of Aid.
Of what nature should this aid be?
What are the immediate needs of the
Russian people? Our greatest, deep
est, most immediate need is the crea
tion of conditions under which the
Russian people will be able to con
voke an all-Russian constituent
assembly. Russia will never be
quiet and satisfied until her repre
sentatives, freely chosen by the en
tire population, will establish a con
stitution for the state, will lay the
foundation for a stable, democratic
government, insuring laws that ac
cord with the will and desires of the
Russian people. The demand for a
constituent assembly was one of the
main aspirations of the Russian rev
olution. It was on the eve of its
realization when the Bolshevist re
volted in November, 1917, tore out of
the hands of the people the beautiful
possibility to make laws for them
selves, to trace the path for their
future, to construct a new life in ac
cdrdance with the interests of the
masses, to strengthen peace and in
sure the common welfare., Th; con
stituent assembly, elected by the en
tire Russian people on the basis of
universal, direct, equal and secret
How Men and Women
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Light Weight and Fineness
1918
Demand still increasing, when
entire Franklin facilities were
turned 'over to Government war
work, including highly skilled
production on Hispano Suiza
and Rolls-Royce aeroplane en
gines. This work now com
pleted; production resumed.
APPROVAL expressed by actual
purchase is approval indeed. Big
volume took time, for at first, people
were indifferent to efficiency in a motor
car.
But as 1 more and more people
have owned automobiles and com
pared values, Franklin superiority be
came more evident
And it is not alone the splendid
Franklin economy a daily delivery of
20 miles to the gallon of gasoline instead of 10
10,000 miles to the set of tires instead of 5,000
It is more than that for with that
economy goes the sense of satisfaction
in owning a really fine, efficient motor
car, one that insures remarkable riding-comfort,
ease and safety of hand
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suffrage, was dispersed by the bol
sheviki with bayonets.
A year ago our allies, together
with the devoted and proven friends
of the Russian people, could have
created the conditions necessary for
the convocation of a constituent as
sembly. The opportunity was lost,
and our masses, simple-minded,
naive and credulous, tired out by
their past misfortunes, became a
prey to the base and rapacious in
stincts of selfish, ambitious and mer
ciless people. Under the circum
stances, Russia faces a long and
cruel struggle with all the evil which
has entered her life. She has to suf
fer al. the pains inevitable in the con
ditions of a people clearing its way
to a better future. Many opposing
forces bar this way; they check the
normal course of events and make
the people suffer and suffer more in
their struggle to get the right issue
out of the insurmountable chaos.
World Curious to See Outcome.
The world is curious to see the
outcome of this deadlock, the issue
of this conflict of passions, theories,
ana aspirations, the conflict between
the people striving for a brighter
life and the hideous treachery handi
capping the great people.
There is no floubt that Russia will
be able to find the right path, but her
1919
Normally, current winter
months are slow in sales but
from indications throughout the
country it is already evident that
. the temper of men and women
has not changed. The demand
for the Franklin is exceeding
the supply.
ling, year-round useability, and capac
ity for long service.
The public' has come to realize
that this kind of motoring is only pos
sible in a car of scientific Light Weight
and Flexible Construction. And these
have been basic principles of tha
Franklin Car for sixteen years.
That is why you are seeing more
and more Franklins, with their grace
fully sloping French-style hoods, run
ning lightly, comfortably, on every
road in the country.
And men and women who have
determined to buy a motor car that
will combine fineness with motoring
satisfaction, are expressing their ap
proval in actual sales of the Franklin
America' Only Light Fine Car,
pains, her bloody sufferings will be
known only to the millions of Rus
sian mothers and the millions of our
other innocent martyrs, our orphans.
Flooded with tears and blood, Russia
moans and cries out to the world.
She is a living body, and her tor
tures cannot be looked upon cold
bloodedly as an extraordinary, -nev-er-before
witnessed experiment in
social evolution. She is alive, and
every pore of her body is shedding
blood. The illness that was not
stopped in time, I fear, may be pro
longed for years. Only through in
sistent, and incessant work and ef
forts can Russia be brought to the
norma! conditions, to the position in
which she found herself two years
apo, after the glorious revolution of
March 1917. In those days there
was real freedom in Russia, and it
seemed that our young country had
every possibility for peaceful evolu
tion and the free building of her fu
ture. I may assert, without boast
ing, that the March revolution was
brought about, among other factors,
through the efforts of the party of
socialists-revolutionists whose pro
gram for more than one-half century
presents a basis for settlement which
will satisfy the demands and aspira
tions of the overwhelming majority
of the Russian people.
But, unfortunately, our people,
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young and inexperienced could not at
once find the true path, and, if aban
doned by their friends, they may not
find it for a long time. It is Ameri
ca's duty to aid them by its sym
pathy and its deeds. Especially by
deeds, for our people, long deceived
in their hopes, will give credit only
to those who really and practically
give them proof ot their sympathy,
to those who aid them to elevate and
educate the new Russian genera
tions, the millions of Russian or
phans deprived of shelter and the
most elementary means of education.
Russia is exhausted through the
war and the terrible civil strife. Its
industries are disorganized, its
means of transportation are de
stroyed, its educational system is at
a standstill. Without industry, means
of transportation and education,
Russia faces conditions the horror
of which cannot be expressed.
I undertook it as my task to pre
sent to the American people the
tragedy of the people of Russia, in
order that the American democracy
might render us the immediatehelp
necessary for re-establishing demo
cratic order, for convocation of the
constituent assembly and creating
conditions whereby peaceful prog
ress may be possible in Russia. Re
calling, with gratitude, the true'
friendship which the people of this
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country have shown nie during in?
exile in Siberia, I appeal to the peo
pie of the United States to help wt
suffering people, the people cj
Russia.
New Theater Building to
Be Completed by Spring"
Officers of the. World Realty com4
pany announce that they expect thq
firm's new theater building on Doug-
las street east of Fifteenth, to M
completed by the last of April.
Practically all of the steel trusses
and girders are noverected and
work will start soon on the walls.
S. H. Golberg will go to Chicago
this week to buy equipment for tin
big theater building which will hava
a larger seating capacity than the
Sun theater.
In the front of the building there)
will be two stores with basements,
and marble stairways.
Clearing House Statement.
New York, Feb. IS. The actual
condition of clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
(five days), shows that they hold
$52,415,480 reserve in excess of legal
requirements. This is an increase
of $15,013,760 from last week.
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