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The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
BERLIN UPSET
PROVES TRIVIAL
Arrest of Soviet Leaders
Disowned by Ebert
Government.

Copenhagen, Dec. "A new up
heaval has taken place in Berlin. but
dispatches at hand late today indicate
twas a tempest in a teapot
The Ebert government issued a
proclamation today that II did not
order the arrest yesterday evening of
the executive committee of the Union
Of Workmen's and Soldiers Soviets.
Promise was given that the prisoners
would be released forthwith.
Proclamation of DIR. Ebert as Presi-
dent of the Republic of Germany"
yesterday appears to have been an
affair of little consequence. being
staged by an isolated group Of armed
soldiers and sailors.
Taken on the whole, Yesterdays OUT
break, so far as can be CLEANED from
the news so far received, was in the
nature of a demonstration, backed by
the moderates and executed by
armed forces loyal to the "slfe'and
sane leaders. that the Liebknecht
terrorists will not be suffered.
Other Disorders Reported.
Reports, of disorders and riots
marked by casualties are still COM
ing in. but il is seen from the dis
patches that they date a day or two
back.
Following the arrests OF the So
wet executives yesterday shots were
exchanged in a large-scale demon
stration in front of the reichstag &
building. Troops occupied the build
ing of the University of Berlin.
The Berlin National Zeitung SAYS
the allies intend to demand that
Germany dissolve all Soviets. in de-
fault of which Germany will get no
food. Rumors persist in Germany
that the allies propose to occupy
virtually the whole country
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
British Spinners Ordered Out.

London. Dec lone hundred thou
sand cotton spinners in the Lanca-
shire district have been ordered-to go
on strike because of the refusal of
their employers to grant a 40 per cent
wage increase.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
Czeehs Call Men to CoIors.

London. Dec. THE Prague
of the Cologne Ca
zette says the new Czecho-S -Sioyak
governments has called to the col
ors all men between is and IS, ac-
cording to a Reuters dispatch.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
Metal Explosion Kills Two.

Columbus, O.. Dec 1.-TWO labor
ers were killed and two badly in
jured in an explosion of molten
metal at the Catnegie Steel Com
pany's plant here today.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
World Revolt Planned in Sweden.

Stockholm. Dec. Z. Documents
seized here today are reported to
show that worldwide revolution
was being planned. to center in
Sweden.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
Cannot Pay in Goods.

,oadon. Dec. T-Germany will not
be allowed to pay the cost of the war
with goods. says Sir Auckland Geddes.
Britain will not permit dumping"
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
HURLEY TO COME BACK
BEFORE XMAS, REPORT
Actual Program of Ship Construc-
ton to Be Trimmed 10 Limit.

Philadelphia. Dec. Chairman n
Edward y. Hurley. of the United
States Shipping Board. is expected
to sail for home "a few days before
Christmas" according to reports
from authoritative sources
officials here yesterday while ad-
mitting they expected Chairman n
Hurley to return around the first
of the year" declined to say def
nitely the date of his expected re-
turn.
The lifting of the ban on private
shipbuilding was regarded here as
the best evidence that the actual
program Of ship construction was
being trimmed to the minimum.
The Washington herald., 1918-12-08
THE WEATHER:

Today-Partly cloudy and warmer.
Tomorrow = Partly cloudy; moder-
ate south winds Highest temper
ature, yesterday. AZ; lowest, 80.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
Back Up Slav States.
From the New Republic.

If then, as everyone must now agree, it is vital to the allied cause
to wrest the Slavic nations of central Europe from German control
and to keep them free from German Influence after the war, it il
obviously necessary to set up a adequate international defense for
them. This means that the first step toward the definite breakup Of
Austria-Hungary must be the establishment of a league of nations.
Its not worth while to call Czecho-slovakia and JugoSlavia into
existence, to succumb shortly to German imperalistc enterprise. But
no one would deny that it is worth while to call them into existence
as free members Of a great world league pledged to defend them
against foreign aggression. The league is necessary to their existence.
And the league in its turn would gain in it's power of coercing the only
nation likely in the next decades to seek to disturb the peace
|Germany-if 1t commanded the resources Of two vigorous Slavic
states in the heart of Europe.
Were it announced to the world that the allied states had Joined,
lin a league of defense, to which all nations DESTROYS of living in peace
might become parties, and that the league recognized the indepen-
|denc of the two Slavic states of Austria Hungary. the prosnects ~,
conclusive allied success would at once become brighter. Every.
Czecho-sloyak and Jugo5slav in Austria's armies would know that in,
Fighting on the side of the central powers he was helping to defeat
mot a shadowy hope of a nominal independence, but a binding prom;sss:
LOT real independence, supported by the whole resources of the leapue.
The hundreds Of thousands of Czecho-slovaks and Jugo-Slays IN
America, now technically classified as enemy aliens and kept out q.
the war, would be given an opportunity to show in what esteem thev
|aeld the independence Of their native lands. The Austrian siavs are,
among the worlds most resolute fighting men,. when thew have :
cause to fight for. We can give them a cause that would make f;gbt.
ling men even out Of q race of cravens.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
Security and Oil Stocks.
From Financial World,

Already nian schemers are figuring how
they may employ Liberty bonds and War
Savings certificates ~ = vehicle to help
them sell their securities. One striking
example coming to our attention is~au
offer made by the fiscal agent OF the Sc
curity Petroleum company. Of New York.
Leonard A. Hughes. Who. with the uss Of
War Savings certificates contends he 10
offering investors an OH stock out Of
which al risk has been completely clint
nated. He agrees for each 500 investors
lend 70 the company to secure zach In
weston with 800 Of War Savings certifi-
scAfoo coetinG ~. In sther words what
Mr.. HHGAea really Aoeo - 70. ~ an IN
4vestof ~ shares sof stock IN the 0ecuf3ty
.Retrplauny csnpany for ~. the diffsr-
encet ana u. TIE ecampaRE fatla 70 fulfli
tAe' oo1f3opiSS E:'iHu3ASs has IN sit3el
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11

passengers that II they Gid not u the
elevator back up ia the fifth floor.
which Is the top. without making an
outcry. they would be shot.
The robbers then stepped from the
elevator. which Is OF the old fashioned
variety. and tho only n on that side
Of tho building. and walked into the
street.
A young woman stuck her head from
a NTH floor window q minute later and
screamed "Folice! Robbery!"
The robbers had disappeared.
The Melville Shoe corporation 10 con.
nected With 3 Rival Shoe company
and the John Ward OonnDaIy. ana the
aaoney In stAA hAg represented the SAT-
urday receipts from the chain OF shoe
shops operated by the two last named
companies.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
Team in World Series
Is Possible Result of War

Basebalrs big success this veal looks
like the real sure for the international
GOODNESS h a has puzzled Anglo
American well wishers since the days
of fifty four forty-or-fight.
They like our slang yer here. they
like U movies. u jazz time sOngS
and even the English" styles for mems
clothes, fresh from the sweatshOps OF
the U. S. A.
Eight thousand people. half of them
E~nglishmen. clapped their hands and
sheered with singular lack Of restraint
as Admiral Sims stepped II h box
May IL. and opened the Anglo-Ameri-
can league season by Rtching tho first
ball to Maj. Gen. Biddle. commanding
American soldiers in England.
From that moment. through Ii
wranglescme innings, they heard hum,
dreds Of b~rass-throated doughbies and
jacks unravel a vocal program that
brought back memories of the Polo
grounds when Tinker n Evers and
Chance were earning Charlie MUIR
phys biggest dividends.
English people can't resist comparing
baseball TO cricket any more than
Americans over here can resist COM
pairing shillings to dollars. Cricket,
really means more than a am When
an Englishman wants to say another
fellow is absolutely square he just
says. He plays cricket"
With cricket in his system our Eng
lish friend thinks baseball a dull game
il it's played we'll. He wants to see
running and a lot Of errors. In other
words his idea of q good ball game
Is our notion of a bad one. But he's
! learning.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
VIVA WANTS IS
A MATTER OFOPZN7ON
From the New York World.

From the Now York World.
The trouble with the resolution now pending in the United states
Senate providing for intervention in Russia ls that ITS preamble is
either untrue or misleading. 1t says that the Russian people want to
establish a republican form Of government and are in sympathy with
the cause of the United States and the allies, whereas most OF the
known facts are to the contrary.
Nearly everything done and said in Russia since ITS armies were
disbanded indicates that the United States and the aa1les ~ II
class conscious revolutionary socialism OF Karl Marx has found IN IN a
democracy OF order and justice more to hate and fear than IN frus-
sian militarism, which has given the boshevists a free hand IN one
quarter while it gorged itself in another.
There is a sincere desire in the western world to help Russia, but
how is Russia to be helped if it is hostile to those who would go to its
rescue, and who is to say that the poison of Marxism which has
produced the soviet deirium is not as active among the masses who
applaud the soviets? The American commission headed by Ehhu
Root made the painful discovery, long before Russia went wholly
mad, that assistance from anybody except the apostles OF classism,
anarchy, confiscation and reputation was not welcome.
President Wilson is informed as to this situation, and no doubt
that is why he is in no haste to act. To restore Russia to independence
and open the way for a constitutional democracy would be a noble
task, but until the fever of Marxism has run it's course there is grave
danger that an invasion would strengthen the hold of the Ienines
and Trotzkys upon the country, or throw the greater part OF it into
open alliance with Germany.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
The New Crusade.
From tn. London Spectator.

last few months that h greatest won-
der OF all has been seen. All these
peoples have fought, and wondered and
lost n won. on n of. ever since
the fall of Rome. Charles Martel and
Sobieski fought In desperate battle for
French and English too tho cross and
struggled for symbolic Jerusalem. For
us history had only found q new mEStc
when the guns spoke in 1914.
1t Ii curious now to think how great
must have been the spiritual gulf
Britain and the United States IL the
latter had remained in prosperous
isolation. In i've years we should have
ceased to understand each others
jokes. In 10 we should scarcely nave
spoken the same language. But now
towards a complete and perfect SYM
patty. A whole generation OF Ameri-
cans will a been our brothers-in-
arms. Every tit American who was
between the ages Of 81 and rs in 1917
1918 will have fought by us in the
closest comradeship. They will have
become citizens of the world and heirs
Of the great traditions OF history.
We shall share with them all our new
moral and intellectual experiences. tho
wider outlook. h deeper sense of duty.
he ~itifulness. that we have learned In
the furnace. and lastly. but to Anglo
SaxOns 1t Is OF infinite moment. to tho
end OF time we shall share the same
family Jokes and slang. bartering per-
iiaps forget II" for mot in these
trousers"
But in truth tho possibilities Of the
new brotherhood are almost boundless.
II anything could make us welcome
the continuance Of the war for another
year. 1t would be the thought that only
through such temperinR Can the new
bond be forged and the new force come
to perfection. We do not wonder 1t
any desperate desire In the enemy to
force a conclusion before the men from
Nebraska have learned that they arc
citixens OF the world. and tho United
Angl0-Saxons ave realised their
strength.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
German Economic Situation
The Forerunner of Failures

1t becomes necessary to watch the progress of a German drive
An attainment of it's object is Germanys last chance. But if the
object is attained, it means for us and the allies only a longer war.
1t lis because Of the desperate economic situation in Germany that
se must have a victory this time, to save her. In an article on
Germanys financial condition, i'm the Magazine Of Wall Street, Mr..
Frederick w. Gehle says:
Tho German and Austrian people are accepting the paper Of
either in hand o to he acquired. and 1t IS here that the whole sun and
substance Of German var finance finds hss source. Having piled up in
total Of $5OOOoOOO0 900. having flooded the length n breadth Of central
nurope with sl5ooo0ooOoo OF irredeemable paper money. and having
moret hn $4,000 1000 5000 yearly to maintain-n other words having
committed heir citizens in a manner that in the ordinary way Of
citizens that nevertheless ani s well. How? Ey promising thu wealth
will soon be taken from their enemies to wipe thu aatee clean
n judge that position from their pont of view Germany is laden
with deb. her public obligations equal a full third OF her wealth. her
wheimhn Ah!-but offsettng Ill is. the great fiindenburgs
o victory to com n his pledge of vasta nnexahons n tremendous
Germany is plunging over the brink OF ruin n bankruptcy. self
hypnotzed, b Y her cry. '"Annexauons n 1ndemnites!" The e
With him. toe tho N mus Justify everything. or all is lostG ermanys
whole made scheme from first to last has made n o provision against
blood n iron cost Of the war;. indemnites nre relied on to make u
fling payment will sooner or later be demanded. With her finances
weakened. her credit destroyed. g international trade gone. she will
ar W nt lei entitled to oun upon the fear Of such a catastrophe,
in conjunction with apprehension over military results. rs a factor
themselves win hasten the inevitable break?
Germany only hope is in military successes. The financial
fabric is hollow and rotten; it will fall into dust at the moment
when military efforts fail. The failure is bound to come, whether
now on the western front, or later when the American millions have
reinforced the allies.
1.-THE troop movement, says Secretary Daniels, in an impromptu
speech recently, will reach the 100000 mark in a few weeks; in a
few months the 100000 mark will have been reached, and 100000
or more men will be sent, it need be, to win the war
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11

Many OF the men now embarkinE
mad never before seen the sea-" So
wrote a witness OF the setting out from
an American port of u part Of the army
q the new crusade. Probably no Eng
nshman. no citizen of the British m
pire. can, quite realize the miracle that
In taking place when men from Minne-
apolis. Jefferson City. OF Milwaukee.
sail forth to fight at our side in French
FLANDERS.
They had seen the sea. How
SHOULD they. working competition hours
In q dry goods store in Memphis or
driving an express wagon in Kansas
city? They had never even imagined
tilat crowd OF now noises and smells
that a be o compendiously de-
scribed as foreign parts" Sights and
smells. ala no longer familiar to any
ochoing through twisting. narrow
streets Of pave. the smell Of hot wax
tapers and incense, or the sight Of
davis sailing laxily round the gray
towers OF q cathedral.
OF course. actually half the privates
In the Wiltshires or the gunners in
some Australian battery were equally
still AUTOMATICALLY a wanderer, and
had always! the tall of an y to turn
from his wire fence to see what might
BE- brewing at home. The wiltshire
man had forgotten he was an
1alander. and that nothing changes.
Ntnden. Waterloo. Agincourt. and
Arras are somehow parts Of q habit Of
his.
But the Pittsburger had forgotten.
He lived in a busy isolation shut off
1fOm the contentious OF Europe by q
curtain woven In about equal parts of
great distances. tho Monroe doctrine.
ana IN admirable capacity for minding
hts own business.
Tho present war has been through
out In nothing more remarkable than
IN tho colossal movements Of popula-
lions which It has involved. Every
imaginable race-Turks. Celts. Films.
0axona. Frenchmen. Poles and Pathana
been shaken bcwtlderlngly In the
Kaleidoscope. But It has . in the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
Refused 70 Work.
Commerce and Tnanc

Henry Mcdonald. . husky individual
who declared that he never worked md
never wiil,.. has been sentenced to six
months At hard labor. the limit unde
the new ~antiloafing law by Justice B. C.
MeAys. Of BAldwihsville. N. Z.
MCDONALD II . years old and halls from
.Providonces He. had been In; the Baldwina-
willie nelghborhood for three weeks fish
Ing. when 20 disposed. and resting when
30 inclined. which was most OF the time.
He had mad . bed In the woods and.
having enough money to buy what he
needed, wa carsfrse and contented. The
wa. his duty TO his country. and 20 forth.
did not concern him. He considered only
himself. 90 long y he had enough 70
vi he didn't mean to bother about what
happened 60 other human beings. His
doctrine wa EVERY ma for himself and
the devil take the htndmost."
Until The. passage OF the antl-loafing
law The possession of money made tndi-
v1duals IKE NcDonAld freo from ,proeoou-
tion q idless. laa1srs. drones. Now they
ooese within the law. A man who - .
millioAAlra end who, doesn't DO anything
In the nAtnro Of work = . loefsr Just q
much - the .hoAp who Wan0ers tho coun-
try over ana 0oM no labor. Mr.. NcDonAld
nsdthsrAb Z milhonaire @ . hobo. He
simply = geusleman born tired and.
shAyiAg . llttae mensy. 10 induleee himself
= NJ ttrolneoe - ths limit. He sAys iEs
nooeoo - DeQd him TO jail ~ he viii not
WUtk. He MayseAaage his mind. Others
~ htm AAvo cAengoe.y
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11

becoming . big profit Garner. the inysstor
eventually will lose this small sum-. A
the investor chi buy War Savings csrtifi-
Gates at the Same price Mr.. Hughes pays.
there is no particular advantage in tn
purchase through him. But when Mr..
Hughes contends that the risk is entirely
eliminated from the purchaSe OF stock In
his oil company he 10 not exactly stating
the fact. for SIT out OF each 500 In and
viii be In jeopardy until tho company be-
comes q dividend payer, for which. We
have ~ security only the hopes Of uhe
projectors OF the enterprise.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
BY United Press.

London. June 26.-World's Series
1922-London Teafighters VS.. Comis-
keys White Sox.
1t reads like a pipe-dream. but four
years ago this war would rave sound-
ed like a message from the padded
cell. SO, strange things may happen
In the next our years.
a ball club playing for the worlds
championship.
John is really taking an interest in
the grandolgame this year. learning all
there is to be known about 1t, for the
first time since Wallie Skinclothes
leaned his knotted war club against
a falling persimmon, thus inventing the
pastime. back in the days when high
society wells were staged in the tree
tops.
Eight American and Canadian ball
playing q full schedule as the Anglo
American league. Charity gets the i'm
mediate money proceeds but the peo-
pie promoting this circuit have the
ultimate aim of bringing England and
America closer together.
OF course this object has been sought
many times before. There have been
highbrow essays. summer tours for
rural school marms and outward Off
Ella handclasps for a and years.
Sons and daughters of the idle rich
national polo matches and racing their
little yachts across the Atlantic for
Tommy Lipton's solid silver growler.
And up to the time we came into the
war the average Englishman and the
average Yank understood each other
like you understand a Chinese laun-
dry ticket.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
About Tornadoss.

(Washington). Prof. A. j. Henry pre-
SCENTS a sort Of tornado catechism,
nmDIsc, asked me sbS S@es tbeas s mos1 COM onS
the answers to them. The following
Is an extract:
@. During what month of the year can
tornadoes be looked for in the Mississippi
valley?
A. Tornadoes may occur in the Gulf
states in winter. AZ the season advances
the region of greatest frequency is found
in the Plains states n the Mississippi
valley. May being the month Of occur
renee Of the greatest number, April COM
ing next. East Of the Appalachians tor
nadoes occur rarely until after July. The
valley extends from April to September,
inclusive.
Q. In case q cyclones cellar is not
available. what In your estimation, would
be a safe place?
A. The southwest portion Of the cellar
Of a frame house.
Q. What about cellars in brick build
ings during such storms; are they safe?
A. That depends entirely on the sever
ity Of the tornado. Some tornadoes mere
ly destroy the roof of brick houses: some
cause the walls to crumble or fall out
ward. The cellar of a brick house is
probably safer h any other place in
that particular STRUCTURE. IN the Om6na
tornado Of March. 1919. very few brick
houses were seriously damaged.
O.. What time Of day do these storms
occur?
A. Generally from $3.50 to S p. m.
Q. Have there been any at night?
A.. Yes.
Q. Have the municipalities any way of
notifying the people. n how?
A. The place where q tornado will form
can not be foretold. Tornadoes. like
thunderst0rms and hailstorms, occur, for
tho most part. on warm. sultry after
Moons. in the late spring ri in summer.
While the precise path Of these storms
can not be accurately foretold. the wealth
or maps show when the conditions are
favorable to their generation.
The local signs Of the approach Of q tor
nado are ominous clouds. first in The
southwest and than Almost Immediately
in the northwest and north. The appear
ancs Of = pendant funnel shaped cloud
may be taken as conclusive evidence Of
tho presence of q tornado. II. . funnel
cloud can not be observed. it's existence
can be known by . peculiar roaring noise.
somewhat like the rumbling Of distant
thunder Or the approach Of . train Of
heavy cars.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11

This is the most recent photograph
Of Mrs. Hilda Mulhauser Richards,
head Of the United States employment
service department of labor. Although
she is the daughter Of a wealthy wool
manufacturer. Mrs. Richards has
worked in a number of factories tc
learn first hand the conditions IF the
working woman in the various indus
tries.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-11
THE 10 Awful.

tho Punch BOWl.
B~ss9ar-lm m ex-chimnsy sweep ous
81 job; can't you give mi 4 quarter?
why don't yqn ErAt = 101!, x.se..s.a A. .
g psegar-.Becanse nothing. clsss sSenss.so
800 haa.''