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Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
ANCIENT CAPITAL
IN FULL CONTROL
OF RUSSIAN REDS
BoIsheviki Resumes Govern
mental Functions and Treats
With kerensky, But is
Snubbed by Germany.
BULLETIN,
Nv Associated Press, J

Petrograd, Nov. l9.-Emperor VIII
liam. according to Petrograd news
papers, has informed the Russian
soldiers and workmen's deputies
that he will treat for peace only
with the legal successor to the inn
periai government or with the con-
stituent assembly.
Kaiser Refuses Peace.
Petrograd, Nov. l9.-Germany has
Nefused to treat for peace with the
new soldiers and workmen's gov
ernment in response to recent pro-
posal according to the newspapers
here, which publish this news as COM
ing from a well authenticated source.
In this connection the VOLTA
Noroda says it has information that
the soldiers and workmen's govern
ment, in the event OF its failure TO
receive replies from the belligents by
November %, reserves the right to
make peace on its own account, after
which, if the war continues, Russia
will occupy a neutral position.
London, Nov. l8.-The Berlin Tage-
blatt declares that Premier Ks~ensky
and Nikolai Lcnine, leader of the Boil
sheviki revolution in Petrograd, have
effected a compromise essentially fa-
vorable to Leuine, the Exchange
, Telegraph correspondent at Copen-
hagen reports.
Peace in Moscow.
Petrograd, Nov. l8.-Peace has
been definitely declared in Moscow
with victory for the Bolsheviki. The
white guard has been disarmed and
likewise the military cadets.
Two train loads of the rcd guard
enroute from Petrograd to Moscow
to support the Bolsheyiki soldiers
there have been stopped and at the
same time railway telegraph reports
indicate that the Cossacks are making
progress northward and that the Boil
sheviki are in panic i'll consequence
OF their near approach.
1t is likewise reported that approxi-
mately corps OF mixed troops from
the southwest front, intent on putting
an end to civil war, are enroute to
Petrograd and have reached Luga. All
reports are impossible OF confirmation
as the city is flooded with exaggerated
rumors of every description.
Try to Restore Peace.
Bolsheviki leaders are endeayoring
to effect the resumption of operations
by the various branches of the gov
eminent, most of which have been
dsorganized by strikes and the re-
Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
Boston Newspaper Sold.

Boston, Nov. l9.--The sale o the
Boston Advertiser to William Ran
dolph Hearst was announced today.
The sale dose not include the Boston
Evening Record, published by the
same company. The Advertiser was
founded bv Samuel Adams in l748.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20

Berlin, Nov. 1e-The official announcement says; In
particularly desperate Quero and Moneco Cornee
extending to the taken by storm and the enemy
driven from his strongly prepared positions ON Monte Ao
ba Eleven hundred Italians fell into our hands"
ION the Pave the artillery duel at times increased
to great violence
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
FEARFUL CARNAGE
WHEN GERMANS TRY
TO CROSS PIAVE
Italian Troops Fighting With Hand Grenades, Bayopets
and Bombs Repel Persistent Attacks and River
Is Filled With Bodies of German and
Austrian Soldiers
BULLETINS.

BULLETINS.
Rome, Nov. 19-Further attempts of the Ausro-German
troops o the Piave have been stopped.
On the front the Pave south of Quero great
bers of troops attacking the Monte Mon
fenera and Monte Tomba lines
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
The Weather

For Nebraska--Fair. warmer.
Temperatures ut Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
C0mparative Local Record.

tOnpdfdtNt LoCdi
1917. 1916. 1915. 1914,
Highest .gaTt yesterday 50 - 81 ~ ~
Mean tempera ture o.. AZ +S SS 10
Temperature and precipitation departures
rom the normal;
Normal temperature ......-........... AZ
Excess for the day ....................
Total deficiency since March l........ 250
Normal precipitation .......... .0S inch
Deficiency for the day ........ .03 inch
Total rainfall since March 1....21.30 inches
Deficiency since March I...... SO inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916 1915 inches
deficiency for cor. period. ,l9l5 1.35 inches
Reports From Stations at r. II.
statiots and State Temp. High Rain
of Weather. p. m. est. fall
'heyenne, clear ..,.........iS 5s 90
davenport. cloudy r..... "A 50 90
Denver. clear ...:.......j4 so 90
- Mnines, cloudy ......,.A 30 90
y. a. WELSH. MefsorndRist
Omaha daily bee., 1917-11-20
DIVORCE EVIL IS SHARPLY
CONDEMNED BY JUDGE DAY
:. BEFORE MINISTER'S union
/.
Declares 1t Too Easy for Fghty Persons Marry When
Prompted By Passing Fancies and Desire for Brief
JOY Ride In Matrimony; Blames Pre-
Day Artificial Life
DISTRICT JUDGE DAY ADVOCA TES This LAW

No man under 25 to marry without the consent of his
parents - " .,.
No woman under % to marry without the consent OF her
medical examination to determine the purity of the
Notice to be published for 20 days preceding the mar
riage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
THE RISE OF SILVER

The rise In the price Of silver in the mar
kets of the world has been phenomenal.
The white metal is worth more today than
It has been at any time since 1892. which
was four years before the famous cross of
gold" speech which gave Bryan the NOM
ination for the presidency and which
brought about his overwhelming defeat.
The result OF this advance has been that
In silver countries the purchasing power of
the dollar has kept pace with the rise in
the price of commodities. This is due to the
fact that silver serves both as a standard
of value and as a commodity in these coun-
tries, while the gold standard remains sta
tionary, II it does not decline, as commodity
prices soar
For the time being therefore, the people
of the silver countries are profiting from
existing conditions at the expense of the
people Of the gold countries. Just how this
works out in actual practice is shown in a
report made on May 20 by United States
Consul General Thomas Sammis at
Shanghai, who wrote:
ITO the Chinese the present situation offers
certain distinct advantages. His silver
money will buy virtually as much land
raw material, buildings and labor as it ever
would, and, Furthermore, it can purchase
far more gold with which to pay for ma
chinery than has been possible during re-
cent years. On the other hand, In contrast
to the Chinaman, the American or British
investor, living in a foreign land and meas
uring his wealth in gold, who contemplates
investing his money in some industry in
China. will find that he must pay an ex-
orbitant sum for silver with which to buy
land, buildings, raw materials and labor
and he will be running the risk that should
exchange return to level equal to the
normal of the last ten years, then the
dividends from this undertaking may not
buy sufficient gold to warrant the invest
ment in the first place"
Since this report was mailed to Wash
ington. silver has greatly advanced in price
in China as elsewhere; in fact somewhat
more rapidly than has the cost of living
This being so. 1t is undoubtedly true that
the Chinese are now able to buy more for
their dollar than they were before the war
or during its first two years Yet when
this abnormal condition ends the Chinese
monetary system will return to it's normal
state--that of being perhaps the most nm
fair unsatisfactory system In the world
unless China learns a lesson I'm monetary
reform instead of being satisfied to accent
it's lucky strike" during the war as an in
dication that the country Is on a sounder
basis than those holding to the gold
standard
The lucky strike" In China Ia conhned
to those who earn wages, whose incomes
are fixed (as from bonds and mortsapesI
or who have savings accounts, because tha
purchasing power of all such incomes ba a
Increased faster than that Of commoditi.s
for which they are exchanged This is the
reverse Of the situation here with resnect
to the purchasing power of the America n
dollar-Newark News.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

campaign. at that rate. would be an
utter nasco. In the last five weeks the
weekly average has been sixteen ships
week. In the five weeks from April
81 to May 10 II was twenty-eight ships.
II Is to be assumed that the self-con.
etained Mr.. Baker would not announce
our new battleplane engine as one OF the
greatest engineering feats of the war
without assurance that he was on safe
ground. That the new planes can be
produced speedily by the thousand is
splendid tidings, for the swamping o.
the German air fleets will mean nothing
short OF disaster TO the Kaiser's armies.
South America draws closer to us.
The anti.GermaD rioting in Argentina
proves once more hat Berlin diplomacy
win always hang itself II given enough
rope. 1t is extremely important for us
that Argentina and Brazil should now be
consolidated in pro.Ally sentiment. In
this connection, an article elsewhere on
this page by Mr.. Bomfim is most in
structive and encouraging, presenting
good reasons to believe that Brazil will
shortly be sending soldiers to France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
SEPTEMBER

whispering winds kiss the hills of Sep
tember
Thistledown phantoms drift over the
lawn,
Red glows the ivy like a ghost. lighted
ember,
Shrouded in mist breaks the slow.com.
ing dawn,
Sunlghted vistas the woodland dlscloses.
Sleeping in shadows the still lake reposes.
Gone Is the summer, its sweets and its
roses,
Harvest is past and summer Is gone.
Piaintively signing the brown leaves are
falling,
Sadly the wood dove mourns all the day
long,
In the dim starlight the katydid's calling
Hushes In slumber the brook and its song
Gone are the sewers and ended their weep-
ing.
Gone are the cleaners and finished their
reapipg,
blossoms and bees with the song birds are
s,eeping.
aarvsyt 4 psst ana ~ summsr i sens,
yr'1le1oFt =, iuv6o@lo &
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
TO THE DRAFTED

To you fortunate ones who are about to
go forward to that long battle line where
the armies of autocracy and oppression are
FACING the armies of the free, congratuJa-
tions and godspeed!
You go, not as reluctant victims of mis-
fortune or fatal chance, but rather as
our chosen ones; the pick and flower OF our
manhood. whole of body, sound In mind ana
spirit-what all of us should like TO he
AND we who are too old or too weak. or in
some other respect unified to 60 in BODY.
snail go with you In spirit. We know that
we ask much OF you, and we expect things
IN keeping with our great traditions-thinS.
born OF the spirit Of Nathan Hale but we
Know that we shall not be disappointed.
In imagination and in sympathy we shall,
De there with you on the firing line. and
at home we shall do all that we can to make
you comfortable and content. We shall
pray that you may return In safety. but
even more fervently we shall pray that your
courage may not flag or the edge of yorIr
determination be dulled.
You are to fight in the noblest cause in
which man ever took up arms, ana for
nation the most generous IN ali IN vor,d
!; =; y; 3: :s's;:' :: q: S's ~; Is;;i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
BRITISH CANDOR

WHEN things get Gown to brass tacks,
w the British candor is about the
candidest article in the world Mr.
Bonar Law, in his address at dinner
to Congressman Mccormick made nc
bones about the situation, saying:
The Germans lately have been saying
that the Entente was relying on the
United States as their last hope. | want
to say to you that we do rely on the
United States. As Chancellor of the
Exchequer | am ready to say to you
now what should have been sorry to
have had to say six months ago, namely,
that without the United Statcs financial
assistance the Allies would have been in
disastrous straits today. We have not
yet seen the end.
This can mean only one thing, and it
If the main brunt of making war is on our
shoulders, the chief responsibility of
making peace is in our hands and we are
so placed as to present peace terms to
Allies as well as to Central Powers.
There is certain tendency in some
quarters to tell us not to be cocky and
to remember that we shall never make
the same sacrifice in lives that the
Entente has made. But we have made
already a greater proportonate sacrifice
in lives than the Entente. We made that
sacrifice in 1775.17S1 and in 1S6l-1S65,
and we always have been ready to make
it to keep South America free
1t is not our fault if we cleaned up our
half of the world long before the other
half required our intervention.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
CHIROPODIST is
BUSY IN FRANCE
He's. Just a Plain, Ordinary
Sergeant, but He Knows How
to Handle q Knife
By HENRI BAZIN
STAG Correspondent Of the Evening Ledger
F,1ure

| IN France.
AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUARTERS
| FRANCE, Aug. 10.
| NAPOLEON is given credit for lot OF
~ axioms that apply to successfui war
| fare. One Is that an army fights on Its
stomach. He forgot-or II he thought OF
1. considered 1t too obvious-that there is
another portion Of the soldier as important
as his interior. and that is the old reliable
| shank's mare.
For, while a favored few ride horses or
| motorcycles, or, when they cut as mucn
| figure as a war correspondent, In automo-
| blles. the great majority hoof II. ana ror
| hiking purposes the khaki-clad hoo1er does
| not carry rings on his fingers and bells on
his toes, but hobnals in his shoes ana an
iron magnet-shaped AFFAIR In his heels lie
also carries a bunch of weight on MS pack'
And as the night follows the day he
also has corns-all kinds of corns--the SOFT
the hard, the kind that never sing out
except when y it's going to rain ana tne
young corn that grows out of callus Ever
have a corn? Because, If yes. then SYM
pathize with the defender of his country's
honor.
In the regiment of marines In this train
ing camp there Is more than sympathy.
Sympathy is just that "l'm-sorry' stuff. II
doesn't relieve that corn. the only known
thing Is knife with chiropodist behind
It, And the marines are so equipped 10
the envy of the other regiments.
II you picture this marine chiropodist
as something of the same brand as a mani
cure or a foot-fxer in Philadelphia, where
he has a parlor and velvet-cushioned arm
chair for his patients, guess again. He is
just plain, ordinary sergeant. And after
u days hike, or a morning digging trenches,
L. al aha 1atf
out lese majeste toward the gentleman and
officer who establishes reading clubs for
the Sammees, he Is a sole-saver, too. His
rarlor consists of n canvas cot, the ordinary
soldier kind. which is set in place in the
sick bay. by its side is camp chair On
a box before him an array of knives, little
ones ana big cnes curved ones and straight
ones. For this is a straight story.
Beside the knives is bottle of iodine,
the cure-all OF the army, the only rival of
that other cure-all salts. Cnly they are
lust no count for corns. The patient lies
on the cot the knifewielder cuts out the
trouble dabs a little iodine on the place
where the corn was and that's all there is to
1t. All, except that the marine walks out
with relief and ready for another hike, he
feels good.
A typical days record for the corn doc
tor, according to entries in his little book is,
Blistered feet treated d................9s
Corns removed. d.................,
ingrowing nails trimmed ......
He says the corn crop is pretty steady,
no apparent rise or fall in the market
lie is one of the thoughtful provisions OF
the colonel in command, who, rumor saws
suffered with corns himself in Cuban cam
paign, and who swore there would be moth
ing doing in the corn line for his regiment
in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
THE STATUS OF AFFAIRS

rTNHE use of the police force as a polit-
L ical instrument is a disgrace to the
city and has been a disgrace since Mayor
Smith took office. Repeated outrages
have brought repeated promises Of re.
form. None of them has been carried
out. Vice has walked and trafficked un-
checked in the streets. Sporadic raids
have done no more than indicate that
certain places are protected. The clubs
of policemen have been used to bludgeon
political sentiments into the heads Of
citizens who preferred to think for them.
selves. Not since Clodius and his gang
blackjacked their way through the streets
of Rome has there been a more fragrant
abuse of the police power than is daily
exhibited in Philadelphia.
There are professions of holy purpose
from mouths that might we'll pray for
mercy, but the hypocrisy of the senti.
ments uttered is not so thickly yelled
that citizens cannot identify it. The city
has been divided into the goats and the
sheep, and may Providence help the
goats when authority undertakes to beat
them into lambs To be safe is to be a
loyal and obedient follower of the Mayor,
since for no other is there any mercy.
When has politics been more openly
played in. City Hall than now, with the
Mayor waving his scepter this way or
that to confer the accolade on candidates?
Contractor government Is at its zenith,
and by their bonds ye shall know them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
THE GINGERBREAD MAN j

EVERYTHING that is worth while nAa y
IL be invented some time or otns'
some one though it happens often enoIs.
that the better and more obvious w.
yention, the sooner is It forgotten py ..sr
II was invented II it seems like -,. i.
device, 1t is assumed that II WASH
vented at all but just grew /.
So animal crackers" are taken -. ~
granted. But they had to be inveh!ea. ~
trick was done by christopher Luuw ~
first gingerbread baker in Philadelpns,
made his cakes in the form OF anlmsI nas,,i'I
most notable discovery OF the w.
of cake, having its far-reaching enev's assS
to the present day, though ANNA. Ssrl
rarely are made Of gingerbread no"' ~.
Ludwig was born in Germany ~ ~ NJ
He was for many years soldier an. ~
became a sailor. travelling al u-si ~
world. He reached this city IN i,s 4
STAYED here. He opened his bakery
Letitia court. became wealthy, owhse 81
houses in the city and farm nea' 1hsv
mantown and had $17.50O at interes, r.uvts
called him the Governor OF Letitla oS,,reaf
He was elected one OF the .rdsri
deputies in 1774. He became AZ -
American patriot. On one occasion W.
General Miffiin proposed to the Asse~ 49,
that money be raised for ammunitlons, MA.
was some opposition to this act Oh 1,r,Ish
Ludwig made a speech in broken Ehs.
II am NIGHTS more as snins ,, Tsds
baker," he said, "aber put down der s''
wig for two hundert pound -.
In the summer of 1875 he enterss ..sts
American army, serving on danserou, N
refusing pay and ever arguing a"o" ~
comrades for persistent sacrince .Ma,..bb ~
cause Of freedom. A most ~
hyphen On one occasion he actec a.
and went to New York disguised I,,,,r ~ -
serter from the American army. vis'u.. y
Hessian army at Staten Island ~ ~ -
scribed the virtues of life In Pennsyv &
30 well to these Germans that hlAI 1uoa
them wanted to desert and get farms s-ousli MI
when 500 Hessian prisoners were ~
into the American camp. question
as to what should be done with 'ns.
LET us take them to Philadeipms
show them our fine German churcns1;
Ludwig, LET them see how our
eat good beef and thpp, let "
- sSsE'ss ~ ss%:s ss'u. ;1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
What Do You Know? 4
QUIZ

1. Who Is Count Luxburg. whose conduct n
produced an internatio scandslS
2. DR.. Harry A. Garfield has an important -
tion In the war administrator. VA
is It.? -
3. What is the meaning Of the Indian vwi
"Minnehaha"?
proxy: = e.
5. What Is an equerry? rHB
9. Describe the place held BY the sslAlu
Hygeia In ancient mythology. = HI
Z. What Is meant y "the Salon.? 1sk
8. How does the area Of Japan compare VI
the area Of France?
0. The highest rank actually held In the Unlid
states army is major general There N
higher ranks In England. Name then.
10. Who are eligible to membership In the h
cieyt Of the Cincinnati?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
SIMPLICITY ITSELF

THE IIooverization OF the country is
l. generally supposed to be very COM
plex matter. As a fact, it is painfully
simple. Doctor Garfield puts the latest
detail of the process into eleven words:
Don't buy coal from Philadelphia dealers
till the price comes down" We are
now long way from the bad times when
George Baer got off that mystical formula
to the effect that God gave mines to the
people that happened to own them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
ALMOST TIME TO CHEER

rRoM London, from Washington, from
Buenos Aires comes news that must
|ol|k new hope into the hearts OF doubters
- subscribing Of only twelve ships
~ 1(1e 1oeo ~ the Iast week bring,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Scott Nearing always maintained
that he had the goods. We wonder il he
was caught with them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Missouri Democrats are formally
calling upon Senators Reed and Stone to
resign. Similar invitations to Messrs. La
Toilette, Hardwick. Gore. Vardaman ct
al. would help a lot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Money will win the war. according
to Judge Gary. A little efficiency in add,-
ton will do no harm, to Judge from re.
ports.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Sweden suggests a conference of
neutrals. conference on the laws of
neutrality would be more to the point,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Philadelphia cannot afford to lose
the Johnson art collection, no matter
what 1t costs to keep 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

The silver in a silver dollar is now
worth dollar. Silver therefore, is where
It belongs and so is Mr.. Bryan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

American artillery was on the job to-
dsy.-Dispatch from France.
1t was only for practice purposes,
but the big point is that to be on the Job
It had to be on the ground.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

Kultur has succeeded in arousing
Argentina to the point of riot The world
is so old-fashioned that it resents being
BETRAYED
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

The thermometer is about to go up
That will give us a chance to wait for
coal to come down.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

!, The American State Department has
again published documents Of which II OBJ
tained possession by God knows what un-
derhand methods.--cologney yolks zsitung,
II IL naturally difacult for 0ernsns
% >1n1exalAn1 how mstho6e - ~ uo1or-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

They are splitting heads fifty-fifty
in the Fifth Ward.