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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
American influence Felt.

The adoption of a more tolerant atti-
tude toward Russia is said to have been
urged by the American delegates TO
the recent Paris conference, and this
viewpoint now apparently has been
adopted by all the members Of the en-
tente. Lord Northciine's Weekly Dis
patch says:
The belief here Is that the bolsheviki
government Is likely to remain in
power for a long time. The principal
aim ef-tAe- entente hsnceforth will be to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Senate Adopts Recess Resolution.

The Senate today adopted the House
Joint resolution providing for a recess
Of Congress from tomorrow Until
Thursday, January 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
STAND BY, FALL IN,
CALL OF RED CROSS
Chairman Henry P. Dawson Ap-
peals to Public as Christmas
Week Drive Begins.

+! On the eve of the great Christmas
membership campaign of the Ameri-
can Red Cross beginning today. Henry
IP. Davision, chairman of the society
war council. issued this call:
ITO the 100000 members working
LOYALTY with US today: Stand by the
colors
ITO the 1o.0e0.oo or 15.00o.oo0 MEM
bers who viii Join us befote Christmas
eve: Fall i'm
Mr. Dawson. who was called upon by
President Wilson to serve the Red
Cross after the country went to war.
told in his statement something of
what he had learned about the organi-
cation and of its wonderful expansion
to meet war conditions.
One of Modern Miracles.
"roday the American Red Cross is
one of the modern miracles" he said.
eft has accomplished the impossible in
it's national organization with vo1un-
teer workers. In the Junior Red Cross
for children, in its chapter admins
tration, covering the whole United
States map. 1t has mobilized America
for action in the world emergency; It
stands behind the American Army and
Navy with supplies and with person
mel for every call which they may make
upon it. @a
at works with President Wilson's ap-
provaI in the task of preparing our
neop]e for mutual service to those
among us who may suffer because OF
changes which the war has brought.
In Belgium, France, Italy, Russia. Ru-
mania. Armenia, Serbia, the American
flag of the Red Cross Is the symbol OF
its kindly hand.
Invites American People.
THE Red Cross has given me new
conception of America and the Ameri-
can spirit 1t Is with the zeal of a
convert that I invite the American peo-
pie to come in with me under Presi-
dent Wilson and make it the nation
wide organization that is demanded by
these times. We need your loyal and
your efficient membership. in order that
our organization may be truly repre-
scented.
"If the Red Cross is not as democratic
as you would like to make it, that Is
prof. bly, because you are on the out
side looking in. My experience is that
no one has the right to criticize who is
not in the work up to his neck. 1 be-
lieve we shall obtain a membership of
twenty millions, in which all social
lines are flung in the winds and an or
ganization representative of the entire
people will be created
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
RUSHING CAMPAIGN
FOR THE RED CROSS
Week Opens in Washington
With Every Booth at Fifty
Stations Active.
BUILDING UP MEMBERSHIP

Here's days pay. but it's worth it
With this comment young National
Army soldier today deposited dolla,
at Red Cross booth for Membership
in the American Red Cross.
The campaign for Christmas member.
| ships started with a rush. Every booth
is in. place at the ffty stations, In
banks. department stores. government
Offices and other public places.
The youngest members 30 far reported
was enrolled at hsadQuarters. SIS 14th
street She was little Miss Mary Ellen
Mclean, fourteen weeks old. of 201s
I'd street northeast. Her grandfather
IL. P. Black, signed the subscription
blank for her and for six other members
of his family. He was given a service
flag with seven stars affixed. which
will be hung in the window of hii
home on Christmas eve with lighted
candle behind it.
Proposes Installment Plan.
A little boy, cap in hand. appeared
at headquarters and asked Mrs. IL Is.
Soule: Lady. can I join on the in
staIlment plan. l can earn 10 cents a
week for the Red Cross tsia4,
When told that this would be i'm
possible he seemed disappointed, but
only for moment.
Huh, I guess ] can make dollar
this week. SO l will he back when l
get it,
So heavy was the demand of the hun
dreds of workers for campaign posters.
booklets and other material that the
supply at local headquarters was de-
p1eted before noon. Requisition has
been made for more, and it viii be
distributed as soon as it has been de-
| livered.
Many of the uniformed women at
booths have been told: II am Red
Cross member" by persons who were
requested to join. II was stated at
headquarters that present Red Cross
memberships expire with the end OF
the present year. SO that even those
who already have Joined should renew.
Renewals made now will cover 1918.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Applies Law Generally.

In a recent ruling, Controller Warwick
decides that the prohibition of the act
of October s, 1917. is a condition upon
civil employees generally and that not
being under civil service does not form
an exception. Incidentally. the declines
to permit the Secretary of the Treasury
to give employment in the Office of the
treasurer of the United States as a
computing machine operator at 5000 a
year under lump sum appropriation to
an employe of the Department of
Agriculture. not under civil service,
who receives the reward for his serv-
ices OF $25 q month or $500 year.
I'm the present case the employe is
stated to have been appointed In the
other department. October IL. 1917. until
further notice., comments Controller
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
BARSUP FOR P[UMS
TO FEDERAL CLERKS
Government "WheeI Horse" Is
Denied Opportunity to
Better Condition.

The bars to advancement of civil
employee by transfer to some other fed
eraI activity at higher salary are up.
They are high up-so high that it is
difficult for any employe to get a trans
fer from one executive department or
government establishment to another.
In the meanwhile. however, lot of
new government activities created by
war conditions or older activities ex-
panded in personnel through the same
conditions, are offering good jobs and
better wages than in the usual field of
federal service. Preferment to these
well remunerated places is largely bar
red to the old-time worker in govern
ment harness-long residents of Wash
ington. Newcomers are getting them.
The presidential executive order of De-
cember II restricted the possibilities of
transfer under the older law. determining
that even where transfer was legally pos
sible under the provision of three years
service and not inhibited by the lump
sum appropriation provision of the later
law. still such transfer could not be eff
fected without the initiative and sanction
of the head of the department jim which
the clerk was regularly employed.
Law of October 6.
The controller of the Treasury. W. w
Warwick in his decisions, has been
moved to construe the law of October
6 last as affecting not only employees
on a temporary basis. but also those
who are not under civil service. and to
rule that such are federal employees,
like others on the government pay roll
coming under the prohibition of trans
fer to higher pay under lump sum ap-
preparations
The Presidents mandate is as fol-
lows:
During the continuance of the pres
ent war no executive department or
other government establishment in
Washington shall hereafter give or Of
fer employment, directly or indirectly
conditionally or Internationally, to any
officer or employee in any part of the
executive civil service without first OBJ
tanning the written consent of the head
of the executive department or other
such person is then employed. together
with the statement that such consent
is based upon the conclusion after due
consideration that the person can rem
der better service for the government
in the place in which his employment
Is proposed: Provided, that this shall
not be construed as applicable to en-
1istments or appointments in the mil
itary or naval forces OF the United
States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17

try to assist In every effort to bring
Russia relief from economic collapse"
Dispatches during the past twenty
four hours from Petrograd tell of fur
ther efforts by the bolsheviki to consol-
fdate their government in civil life and
with the army. church and the courts
and with regard to railway communf-
cation.
trfct around Petrograd has voted to
recognise the authority of the boil
shevikt and consented to transport boil
sheviki troops to the south to operate
against Gen. Kaledines. The union also
has sent delegates to the front to ar
range for the transportation Of de-
mobilized troops homeward.
Soldiers Returning Home.
Two regiments, fresh from the front,
paraded in Petrograd Saturday. and the
newspapers say that rehabilitation IL
proceeding rapidly. though in disor-
dered fashion. In many cases COM
panies have been reduced to the
strength OF twenty-five to thirty men
by gradual departures of soldiers. who
demobilized themselves.
The railway situation, notwithstand
ing the brave front of the trades
unions, is precarious everywhere. Many
strikes are threatened owing to the
non-arrival OF funds for the payment
OF wages.
The serious fuel question in Petro-
strikes of employees in the fuel de-
partment, who refuse to work under
the bolshevik eommissaries. A SINH
lar cause has been responsible for
strike of the employees in the Petro-
grad city hail, who quit work on the
appearance of the new bolshevik
mayor who formerly was a day labor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Church Stripped of Power.

OF the most powerful 1nSliIutloiS
under the old regime. now has received
attention at the hands OF the bolshe-
vik, which have directed the confisca-
ton of all church property. lands.
moneys gold. silver and precious
stones. and the abolition of all
privileges from the clergy. The gov
eminent has also decreed the abolition
of religious instruction in the schools.
Little is heard from the constituent
assembly in the days dispatches. One
group of the constituent delegates has
gone to Kiev to hold sessions there.
News from the Russian province Is
fragmentary. The all-Siberian work
mems and soldiers council is trying
to form a congress at Irkutsk. The
constitutional democrats announce the
formation of a constitutional demo-
cratic government In Poland.
A dispatch from Reuters, Ltd, Petro-
grad correspondent says that Satur-
day, at about the same time as it was
reported that former Emperor Nicholas
had escaped. meeting OF the Ismai-
lovsky and Petrogradsky rsgimsnts
the immediate removal of the former
ruler. with Alice (Alix) and family"
to Kronstadt or to the St. Peter and
st. Paul fortress for strict confinement
and the cancellation of all theater
privileges.
Cossacks Tender Services.
The meetings Of almost all units of
the Petrograd garrison have sided with
the peoples commissioners and the SOL
dfers' and workmen's delegates against
the constituent assembly in the form
originally intended. Three Cossack
regiments quartered in Petrograd have
offered to send detachments against
Gen. Kaledines.
The newspaper Isviestia, organ of the
soldiers and workmen's delegates, says
that the maximalists. socialists and
socialist revolutionarfes Of the right
must be ciassed with the right parties
and the counter revolutionartes. After
the election OF members Of the con-
stituent assembly from Taurida Palace
by armed soilors, attempts to meet
there have been abandoned. The boil
shevikf red guards broke up q meet
ing In defense Of the constituent as
sembly and made forty arrests. Unruly
scenes in the peasants congress have
followed clashes between the support
ers and opponents Of the constituent
assembly. The destruction OF wine
stores in Petrograd continues. accom-
panied by orgies and shooting.
A Russian government wireless mes
sage received here says:
Ensign sKrylsnko Comma nder-in-
chief of the army. in proclamation
addressed to all the army commands
on all the fronts and the military rev.
oIutionary committees announces that
in consequence of the signing Of the
armistice, which begins December II.
4 propose. until receiving the full text
of the treaty. to cease all military
operations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Murder Theory Advanced.

A Petrograd dispatch to the Post
says Gen. SkaIons was responsible for
the armistice conditions. including the
evacuation of Moon sound. which SO
offended the Germans at the first meet
ing Of the negotiators and rendered
nugatory the efforts Of the first mis-
sion. Gen. Skalons returned most un-
willingly for the second meeting. under
imperative orders OF his superiors. The
correspondent seeks to show there is
nothing to prove that he committed
suicide. which Is most improbable, and
insinuates that he was murdered.
There is no confirmation OF last
weeks official bolsheviki announce
ment regarding the arrest Of Gen.
Kaiedines. Communication by rail and
wire with Rostoy. in the Don Cossack
territory. where fighting has occurred,
ia reported to have been stopped.
Fighting in the neighborhood of Khar-
kov is reported in a dispatch to the
Daily Mail fled at Petrograd on FRI
day, although Kharkov itself Is said to
be calm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Representatives Who Attended.

Among those who crowded forward to
be placed on record were Representa-
tives Good of Iowa, Gray of New Jer-
sey. Gould of New York, Winslow of
Massachusetts,. Moores o. Indiana,
brook of Ohio. Mccullough. Ohio; Fuller,
Illinois: Smith. Michigan; Burroughs,
New Hampshire; austin. Tennessee;
NcFadden. Pennsylvania; Juul, lili-
nois; Emerson. Ohio; Dyer. Mis-
Indiana, Sanders, Indiana; Nestai,
Indiana: BYrnes, South Carolina;
Hicks, New York; Sullivan. New YORK:
Tague, Massachusetts. Parker. New
Jersey. saunders, virginia: Strong.
Pennsylvania Hutchinson, New Jersey;
Rose. Pennsylvania: Mckinley, Illinois:
PurnelI, Indiana; Magee. New York;
Hull. Iowa: White, Ohio; Lobeck. Ne
Illinois; Scott, Iowa; Oliver. New York ;
Switzer, Ohio; Campbell. Pennsylvania:
Gambler. Mississippi: Cooper. Wiscon-
sin: T.naberIake, Colorado: S2pders.
New York: Zihlman, Maryland. Loner-
gan, Connecticut; Merritt. Connecticut.
and Pratt, New York,
Snyder, New York; Smell. New YORK !:
Beshlin. Pennsylvania; stiness, Rhode
Island; Robbins, Pennsyivanla; Eestai'
sylvania: Van Dyke. Minnesota; Lun-
deem, Minnesota: Griffin, New York: OIL
ney. Massachusetts,; Smith, New YORK,
and Mapes, Michigan.
Members of the committee during the
hearing In questioning witnesses re-
peatedly put themselves on record as IN
IA yor of Increased compensation for
the postal workers.
Frank Morrison Testifes.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Dor. made a
strong statement setting forth why
the present salaries are inadequate
and gave six reasons, which have pre-
yiously been given by Representa-
tive Martin Madden of Illinois, father
Of the bill under consideration by the
committee. and with Thomas F. Fla
herty, secretary-treasoser of the Ma
tional Federation of Post Office Clerks
Mr. Morrison read resolutions adopt
ed at the convention of the American
Federation of Labor urging increases
for postal clerks and carriers. railway
mail clerks, fourth class postn1asters
and rural mail carriers.
He urged particular consideration OF
the fact that the pay OF postal workers
has not been increased in ten years and
that the increased cost of living makes
| the purchasing power OF a dollar but
| half what Ii was at that time.
MIR. Morrison made reply to a state
ment by the Postmaster General seeking
| to discourage the postal workers from
af1liating with organized labor. in
| which he stated that they would be
called out in sympathetic strikes. Mr..
| Morrison said he wished the committee
| and Congress generally to know the
| disposition and attitude of organized
labor toward government employees.
Any salary increases sought by the
Ssssrss :d sSis ss:rs rs 3
ssMa 9s the he eo q Il sns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17
Permanent Peace Seen
as a Result of Armistice
Between Russ and Teut0nS
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 1.-THE predom-
inant fact as regards the Russian situa-
ton at the moment is the signing OF an
armistice. which is announced onicialiy
at the capitals Of all the countries concern
ed. According to special dispatches from
Petrograd, every one there believes that
a permanent peace between Russia and
the central powers will result. Core
spondents in general treat as negligible
the undertaking of Germany and her al
lies not to withdraw troops from the
eastern front. A Petrograd dispatch to
the Times says large masses Of Germans
already have been removed. and that
probably the German command has trans
ferred all il purposes to employ else
where, so that its plans are not likely to
be deranged seriously.
The reported suicide during the
armistice negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
of the Russian general. Skalons. ap-
parentiy has made considerable i'm
preston at Petrograd. although the
Russian national commissaries are
silent in regard to it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-17

denarcat!on will be solved during tne
peace negotiations This apphes aiSo ~
Polish troops.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
Railroad Chief
Says His Road is
Afraid of Fines

In reference to the refusal of the
Burlington Railroad company to haul
as baggage the camp equipment and
impedementa of the soldiers when or.
dered from place to place, General
Passenger Agent Wakeley explains
that doing so would be a direct viola.
ton of the ruling of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Mr.. Wakeley asserts that every pas,
senger travelling on first class ticket
the kind furnished soldiers, is entitled
to carry(200 pounds of baggage in the
baggage train on which he is travel.
ing. However, he contends that in.
terstate commerce rules provide tina,
/ this baggage shall be wearing apparel
or composed of articles having to dc
with the comfort and convenience oil
the soldier. The rules of the commits.
sion do not take into consideration
tentagc, camp furniture, cooking uten-
sis or munitions.
Everything, aside from the personal
belongings of the soldier, under the
ruling of the commission, says Mr.
Wakeley, must go by express or
freight,
Asserting that to violate the rules
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in the matter of handling the
camp equipment and impedementa of
the soldiers, says Mr. Wakeley. is the
same as violating the rules in other
respects and would subject the road
doing so to fines.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
SPEEDERS BUMP
into POLICE JUDGE
Nineteen Motorists Are Hailed
Into Court for Violating
Rules of the Road.
DOZEN SUSPENDED FINES

Nineteen apprehensive motorists
who had heard of the magistrate
declaration to wage vigilant warfare
on all speeders faced Police Judge
Madden Tuesday morning.
Twelve OF. the refractory motorists
were arraigned on charges of speed
ing. Five dollars and COSTS" re.
peated Madden twelve times, and
gloom pervaded the court room
Then the police judge, after deliver
ing lecture and providing each mo-
torist with a copy of the city trafhc
ordinances with the advice to read
carefully. suspended the sentences,
much to the joy and delight OF the
autoists.
The speeders who were given the
suspended sentences were Ira Ehren-
reich, Edwards hotel; J. Borghofl
4O2 North Sixteenth street; w. Fl.
Low, 7lS North Thirty-eightA ave-
nue.; S. X. Hanfotd, 100 North Forty
second street; Milton Johnson, 1851
Davenport street; v. Pascale, 402l
Cunning street; Harry Flescher, 1875
Ohio street; L. M. Rogers, 240l Far
nam street; R. ]. Mayer, 2344 South
Thirty-fourth street; G. R. Turner,
2502 Cunning street; Howard Upde-
graft, Colbert apartments; Joe Cen
tile. 600 Hickory street.
Five others, charged with violating
the parking ordinance, were dis
charged, as were two accused OF reck-
less driving.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
Druggists Offer Their
Services TO Uncle Sam

Anxious to serve their country to
the best of their ability, several out
of-town men have written to navy re-
cruiting headquarters and offered to
enlist in commissary or. pharmacy de-
partments, in which they have had
much civil training.
A. F. Barnes OF St. Joseph, Mo-,
past As years Of age, wrote from Te-
cumseh. where he was temporarily
on business. He said he was expert
enced in grocery, drug, dry goods and
railroading lines and was anxious to
use that experience in serving the
country's navy in the crisis.
R. f. Listle, a registered pharma
cist at Havelock, applied by mail to
enlist as a navy pharmacist.
Other similar applications are re-
ceived daily by the navy recruiters,
who are always anxious to enlist men
possessing training in professions or
trades.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
Forty New Cars to Be in
Service by Early Fall

The street railway company has a
force of men at work on forty new
cars that are being built in the Omaha
shops, but the probabilities are they
will not go into service until late dur
ing the summer or early fall.
General Manager Smith of the
street railway company asserts that
on account of being unable to get ma
terial and parts for the new cars the
work is greatly delayed. This. he
says, will hold back the new cars and
prevent their going into service as
early as originally planned.
Some cars in service now look like
new cars, but they are really old cars
that have been run through the
Omaha shops and have been made to
look like new. A number of the old
side seat cars have been equipped
with regulation front and rear plat
forms, new motors, new curtains. the
short seats and they look like new.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
City Defers All
Contracts When
Prices Too High

On account Of high prices the city
council will defer letting contracts
for supplies for this year. Second bids
recently opened were higher in most
instances than the first lot of bids.
Corporation Counsel Lambert advised
the commissioners that if they can
buy cheaper in the open market it
would be public policy to do so until
conditions are more normal. Since the
opening of the first bids in January
the city purchasing agent advised he
bought some materials less than prices
quoted in the bids. The bids were for
crushed stone, cement, castings, coal,
sand, asphalt and other materials.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
Crowd Cheers Raising
Old GLORY at .Creiuht0n

Students of the dental and law de-
partments of the Creighton univer-
sity held fag-raising demonstration
at their building on Eighteenth street,
between Douglas and Farnam streets,
during the noon hour. While two
students raised flag to the top OF a
new pole on the roof a band on the
street played patriotic airs and a
gathering of students and passersby
cheered Justify.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-04
At Last-a Safe Way
To Clean the Teeth!

A large percentage of tooth and gum
affections Is caused by the tnsoluble grits
contained in dentifrices. And yet grit Is
absolutely necessary IL the teeth are to be
kept perfectly clean and sparkling. Spots
and stains simply cannot be removed with
out the use Of grit But the continued
presence of harsh substance Is bound to
infame and weaken the delicate gum It's
sues, rendering them less resistive to in
lection. pyorrhea, etc. What then Is to
be done?
The question Is now easily answered,
for 1t has been found that ordinary avatol
In soluble form, while containing the nee
essary grit, dssoves SO completely min
ute or so after coming in contact with the
saliva, that not a particle Of grit remains.
This is good news, indeed, for one need
get only a quarters worth Of soluble ava
toll from the druggist and have a more
perfect cleanser than any known tooth
paste. cream. powder, or liquid-a pyor-
rhea preventive well-and one that
cannot possibly injure teeth or gums
Home Observation-Disclosures