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THE OMAHA- SUNDAY BEKt AUGUST 10, 1919.
BRITISH READY
TO HURL FORCE
AGAINST REDS
Concerted Military and Naval
Move Now Being Prepared
to End Russian
Snarl.
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By HUGH MUIR.
- I M-lualvv Cnhl to I'nlvfmal Nervlce and
Tha London Pally Kxprru.
On the Russo-Finnish Frontier,
: Aug. 9. (Via London.) I have
been privileged to learn the general
, lines of the forthcoming attack on
Petrograd, which, in the opinion of
those who have prepared to carry
out the plans, stands an excellent
chance of success.
The plaits involve co-operation
from various points and timely ac
tion by various forces should in-
sure speady and complete success.
. Credit for the plans is due to the
British. As a result of the recent
conferences between British naval
and military chiefs, it was decided
toput an end to the inerita in cer
tain quarters and secure success.
Abandon Hopeless Task.
The hopeless task of trying direct
operations from Helsingfors has
ieen ordered discontinued. Admiral
Cowan, the British fleet commander,
". drew up the plans in conjunction
t with Generals Gough, Yudenich and
Pitkoff, commanding the Eston
ians, and they involve action by
-land, sea, air and from the subma-
. rine bases.
(Note The above is the first men
tion of General Gough having a
command in Russia. It is not cer
tain whether this is the General
Gough who commanded the British
Fifth army during the German
spring drive last year, and who was
." later relieved of his command be
( cause of the utter collapse of his
I troops, though subsequently many
expert military voices were raised in
his defense.)
The recent bombing of Kronstadt
by British airplanes tends to con-
' firm the plans. The Esthonians are
ready to commence operations for
the first time since the beginning of
the campaign. If there is no hitch,
fthe action against Petrograd should
s begin this month.
Reds Are Uneasy.
Direct and reliable news from
Petrograd shows the bolsheviki are
made uneasy by the attacks on
Kronstadt, and the expectation of
a march on Petrograd. The Kron
stadt forces have, been greatly re
duced. I
(Note: Kronstadt is the naval
iortrcss defending Petrograd.)
? The road to Petrograd is prac
tically open, due to the withdrawal
of troops by the bolsheviki. The
population is in dire str"aits. There
is literally no food in the city and
the guards themselves are suffering.
Two incidents of famine just have
been reported.
A mysterious disease is rampant,
killing its victims within three
hours,
Business Men Demonstrate That They' Can
Use Their Muscles s Well as, Their Brains
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Winning Team in Bank
ers' Reserve Life Com
pany Home Office
Tug-of-War.
The winning team in the tug-of-war
contest at the Bankers Reserve
Life Co. home office picnic at Lake
view park last Wednesday. From
left to right: V. G. Preston, Paul
B. Burleigh, Hudson Hill, G. De
Witt Babbitt, Ray C. Wagner, J. M.
Melander, E. B. McCreary, George
H. Braun.
Airplane Becomes Angel
Of Life for Sick Woman
Stockton, Cal., Aug. The airplane
became the angel of life for Mrs. J.
Koenig of Stockton.
She was on the verge of death
from rheumatism of the heart when
her physician, Dr. Six, undertdok a
heroic restorative for which he
needed a serum. The serum could
not be obtained in Stockton or
Sacramento. With each moment
precious, Dr. Six finally found the
serun: in San Francisco and engaged
B. M. Spencer of the Pacific Aviation
company to make the trip to Stock
ton. Spencer made the trip in 50
minutes. The serum saved Jifrs.
Koenig's life.
Fishing by Seaplane.
aanta tsarDara, cai.. Aug. v. ue
out the old seaplane and let's go
fishing! That's what they're doing
here now.. The fashion was set by
A. K. Bennet, who invited six men
and women guests aboard the F-l,
piloted by Allen Longhead. They
flew out over the Pacific, anchored
in a channel, and made a good catch.
SCREEN CRITICISM
By Maurice Tourneur
PHOTOPLAY criticism? There
is little or none. If ever a
form of amusement needed crit
icism, it is the photoplay. Not so
much the pictures as a whole, but
each feature.
Criticism of pictures as a unit
gives but one or two men's views,
and is therefore unhealthy. Criti
cism by a number of critics on a
number of pictures forms the foun
dation of universal opinion and is
more sound.
Persons who criticise pictures are
divided into three classes, those who
write laudatory notices in accord
ance with a set policy of not offend
ing the theater men (i. e., the ad
vertisers); those who use scissors
and paste on the notices furnished
them by the manufacturers; public
ity writers, and those who indulge
in occasional honest criticisms. The
last named are few and far between,
and even then some of them are
often warped in their judgment by
certain narrow views which they be
lieve to be "moral."
Candid criticism is severely handi
capped. It is hardly possible to
take a man's money and Jecry his
wares at the same time; how can
journals or papers carry the adver
tising for a certain film and then
give it adverse criticism? The
maker of a film, as a general rule,
does not want criticism; he wants
applause, and here, I think, is one
of the crying evils of the industry,
the fear of honest, capable criti
cism. Then again, most of the so-called
critics are not entitled to criticise.
Many of them have never been in
side a studio, have no idea whatever
of dramatic construction and no
dramatic instinct; they do not ap
preciate the scope or the limitations
of screen work; they are unable to
distinguish the good from the medi
ocre. Many of them are biased by
certain religious scruples and see
evil where it does not exist.
What is the use of fooling our
selves? I have made pictures I
like and ones I do not like at all,
and when I make a mediocre picture
and read a laudatory criticism of it
I do not flatter myself that the fca-
I ture must be better than I thought
it was.
I wdl probably be criticised for
criticising the critics, but I am
strongly in favor of capable news
paper criticism, and bear no resent
ment against those who have openly
written they have not liked certain
of my pictures; it does me good;
honest opinions honestly expressed
do us all good and are far better
for us than fulsome flattery and
laudatory comment when it is not
deserved.
Noted London Costumer
Urges Less Nudity and
More Beads for Women
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London, Aug. 9. W. Reville,
noted costumer, rises up in his in
dignation to refute the charges that
the wearing of beads -by women of
todav :s a barbarism.
"The ancient Egyptians wore
them, and they weren't Mar
ians," he says. "And they are pop
ular in India, and where do you
find more beautifully dressod i Jplc
than in India. Moreover 1.. 2 Is
love to play with them, and its
natural that big girls still :ove thei.i.
"Perhaps," Reville admits, the
beauty of women's dress today
might be increased by a litUe less
nudity, but for beads, they
right, and today's dresses are the
most beautiful ever known."
Reville sells 'em he ought to
know.
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'Exams' for Chauffeurs
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 9. Chauf
feurs who are color blind, weak
have poor eyesight or hearing, or
who have happened to be subject to
apoplexy may soon be seeking other
employment. ,
Director of the streets and sewers
Talbert as opened a laboratory for
the determination of the physical
fitness of chauffeurs employed for
hire.
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MEXICAN PAPERS
DISCREDIT TALE
OF NATION'S DEBT
Say Articles Printed in U.,S.
Regarding Huge Indebted
ness of Mexico "Wholly
1 Inaccurate."
Washington, Aug. 9. Mexican
newspapers reaching Washington
contain long articles declaring that
recent figures as to the Mexican
public debt, published in the United
States, are "wholly inaccurate." In
this , connection financial experts
here said comparison of the unoffi
cial figures published in this coun
try with the figures given out by the
.Vexican treasury department show
no great discrepancy.
The official Mexican figures as to
the external loan debt of the counr
try are $143,472,000 with interest to
the end of this month placed at $43,
0(10,000. The unofficial figures as re
cently published placed this total at
$173,469,000. The apparent differ
ence, experts here said, is made up
mostly by the $30,000,000 of the
Huerta loan, floated in France under
authorization of the Mexican con
gress, but repudiated by the Car
ranza government.
The internal loan debt of Mexico,
according to the official statement is
$69,397,000 and interest to June 30,
of $17,914,000. The unofficial report
gave this debt as $66,611,000 and in
terest of $14,530,000.
Washington financial experts say
the Mexican treasury statement fails
to account for all the guaranteed
railroad indebtedness which the un
official report figures at $290,500,000;
the obligations other than railroads
which the, Mexican government has
guaranteed, the chief of which is the
farm loan banks' debts, which, with
interest to June 30, totals $31,500,
000; the "infalsificable" issue of pa
per money of which $80,000,000 at
10 cents, United States currency, is
still toutsanding, making a total of
$8,000,000 more, or the $20,000,000
which Carranza took as a "loan"
from the banks of issue in Mexico
City.
The fact that Mexico has paid no
interest or! its foreign debt since
1913, also is kept in the foreground
by Washington experts, who, for the
Sute department, are keeping a
close watch "on the financial condi
tion of Mexico. Experts here also
assert that the Mexican government
has used the entire income of the
railroads and express companies
without accounting and with no ad-
nvssion of responsibility.
Owner of First Ice House
in City Gave Ice Away Free
In Ice Cream-Sodaless Days, When the West Was Young
and Men Drank Their "Liquor Straight," People
Had Very Little Use for Ice and Failed to Support
's First Ice Business.
City'
With ice selling at 70 sents per
100 pourds, during theose hot days
it makes you long for the good old
days 50 or 55 years ago in Omaha
when blocks of this frozen water
could be had almost fof the asking,
if you would go after it and carry it
away,", said W. R. Rath Nebraska
pioneei and who now lives in Dodge
county, near Fremont, and is now
past 80 years of age.
Mr. Rath was in Omaha last week
and during his stay visited at the
rooms of the Douglas county Pio
neers' association, in the court
house. There he greeted some of the
old boys with incidents of the early
days, and they were early days in
Nebraska, for he claims to have come
west in 1856, when the country from
the Missouri river through to the
mountains was all known as the
territory of Nebraska. Getting
back tc the ice, Mr. Rath said:
"Father and members of his fam
ily reached Omaha in in the spring
of 18;7 and at the time there were
not more than 300 people living
here, but there was an ice house,
the property of George W. Forbes,
now dead. This man Forbes con
ceived the idea that there would be
money in handling ice, so the fall
before, along the bluffs, probably
at about what would now be the foot
of Williams street, he had excavated
for an ice house. He roofed it over
with cottonwood logs and hauled up
quantities of sawdust from a mill
that operated near where Gibson is
now located. When winter came
and the river froze over, Forbes
commenced packing ice. He filled
his cave, sealed.it and sat around
waiting for the coming of spring and
warm weather. Both came but no
customers came for ice.
"You see the people of those days
had not been educated to taking cool
drinks and they had little use for
ice in summer. Ice cream, sodas
and those fancy things had never
been thought of and here about all
there was to drink was whisky, tea
coffee and water. The majority of
the Omaha people preferred their
"liquor straight." They had not
been taught to drink iced tea and
coffee Mid cool well water was good
enough. The outcome of the situ
ation was that long before summer
was over, Forbes was inviting the
people to call at his ice house and
carry his ice away, free of charge.
"I think l-orbes had the rrst ice
house in Omaha, for that matter,
in Nebraska, and I also think that
his venture into the ice house busi
ness was a financial failure."
Elopes With "Human Fly."
St. Louis. Mo., Aug. 9 Declar
ing his wife ran away with Rex
Casey, a "human fly," Gustav
Schoo-i was given'a divorce in Bell
ville circuit court.
Schcop told the court that after
his wife had gone to Chicago with
Casey she wrote him he had de
serted her, and she asked to be
permiited to return to Schoop. He
was unforgiving however.
Live Fox Appreciates
New Duties as Frisco
Woman's Fur Neckpiece
San Francisco, Aug. 9. A pretty
live fox for a neckpiece.
Thus arrayed, Miss Florence
Wateo of this city, created no
little stir as she strolled down Pow
ell street.
"Fo.w" circled his furry hody
about the neck of his : :w mistress,
rid' 1 gracefully nd apparently
with delight.
The little animal was captured by
Dr. George D. Scott. Miss Waters
says that the combination pet and
ne'ekfur is far better than ny other
neck-piece she ever owned.
"Foxy keeps quite still when
about my neck," she said. "He
seems to know what he should do.
He answers to his name already."
, Harvard Men to Mexico.
Mexico City, Aug. 9 The faculty
of the National University of Mex
ico is making preparations to re
ceive several members of the faculty
of Harvard university who are com
ing here to study typhus bacilli.
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