Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1918 — Page 1

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j RUSSIA MAY FIGHT AGAIN S f 4. Dramatic Turn in Affairs ndiJ as Result of Conference With the Germans. — —. '<•: BRITISH MAKE GAIN rs. On Western Front—Japan Resumes Diplomatic Relations With Russia. I (United Freis Service) (Uy Ed L. Keen, United Press staff' correspondent.» London, Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) — The dramatic turn of events in Russia today will in all like • likxxl affect the allied cause more mil than ,he winnins of a great battle. I It may mean first of all recognition *’y the allit ; s of the Russian bolsheviki) | government. Certainly it seem d j, likely today to result in another joint —. effort by the allies to aid Russia in ——. working out her own destiny. th As observers saw the situation today the effect of the complete convincing proof offered at Brest Litovsk of' [• , <ne Germany's sinister annexationist plan ■» will be psychological. political and moral—not alone in Russia and Ger- “• many but particularly in America and ■• in neutral nations. n. No one in England has much hope that Russia will be able to resume , the war in case of a definite breach, ■ii- That Is practically impossible owing lr ( to the condition of the Russian army. I »♦if Germany may not have to waste mat y l ' men in her efforts to penetrate Russ < 1 commercially, in view of this utter disorganization of the Muscovite fighting forces. The Brest I.itovsk negotiations, hoc. [ evei, have proved this effort at com-1 mrreial penetration and economic; domination is Germany's particular game in Russia The revelations must inevitably strengthen the allies resolution to wage the war unremittingly ' ' to a victory. _ A Russia dominated by Germany ; i dwarfs even the miettleeuropa scheme in its vastness. I ■ The liberal newspapers Chronicle and News, both urged practiial recognition by the allies of the bolshevisi in editorial comment today. The News Petrograd correspondent today cabled it was reliably reported ; that there were two distinct tenden- ; cies apparent among the German delegates to the Brest I.itovsk conference. One group, under Dr. Hoffman, led the annexationists, and Keuhlmann and Czernin headed the moderate I There were frequent disputes, he asserted, each time the. matter being referred to Berlin. Czernin and Kuehlmann, the dispatch asserted, were ai- - ; ways upheld. Dispatches from Germany via AmI _ sterdam today stated that the Central Powers delegates are all returning to Brest Litovsk and coupled with this information the report that new and "" 1 more moderate terms were to be of-; sered the Russians. Just what these; 1 new '‘concessions” were to be was not f indicated. The delegates, it was said, included Foreign Minister Kuehlmann.. Count Czernin. and the full Bulgarian and Turkish delegates.

BULLETIN Petrograd, Jan. 4 —(Special to Daily j Democrat) —Opening of the conaii-, tuent assembly was fixed for Jan. I'i if a quorum of four hundred members is then present in Petrograd according to formal anouncement today. Petrograd. Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)—That the czar's govern-; nif-nl was in communication with G« r j man autocracy seeking the formation of an international convention which would lay plans for a world wide fight ngainst socialism was revealed in decuments unearthed at the foreign and made public by the bolshevik! go\ ernment today. The archives showed pour parlers had actually been begun at one time with this purpose view. London, Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) — British troops advanced their lines south of Lens last nig-". Field Marshal Haig reported today North of Cambrai in the neighbor hood of the canal Du Nord, he said there was local fighting yesterdaj afternoon, resulting in no material change in the military situation. Hostile artillerying was reported

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during the night in the Bulleeourt and Ypros sector. Petrograd. Jan. 4--(Special to Daily j Democrat) —Russia repudiates a Ger-man-contrived peace. The four purlers at Brest Litovsk apparently are ended. The bolshevik! government is awake to the simplicity and self-in-terest of the Germans. Whether or i not Russia can fight again within j months cannot be foreseen I These facts stood in strong relief out of a maze of almost hysterical bob | sheviki anger at the full record of I German machinations and attempts to I deceive the Russian people. Publication of the proceedings at Brest Lit- | ovsk with interviews with the Rus- ! sian delegates spread over all the ' newspapers during the past few days | has brought home to the Russian peoI pie Germany’s sinister duplicity in all I the armistice and peace negotiation.;, j No peace is possible, in the German i view, without Germany’s virtual annexation of Lithunia, Poland. Courland and Esthonia. That part of the armistice between Germany and Russia, relating to troop movements expires Jan. 12 (Dec. 30 Russian style.) What is to happen) then is something no Russian will prophesy. Thousands of Russian troops have been withdrawn from all fronts; the transport system has been allowed to melt away; the whole military system is disorganized. Soldiers’ delegates in Petrograd insist that the army cannot expect to fight under present utter disorganization and demoralization.

Foreign Minister Trotsky today forwarded a note to Persia offering in accordance with the armistice between Russia and the central powers, to evacuate Russian troops from Persian soil on condition that Turkey do likewise with regard to Russian territory held by her. BULETIN Petrograd, Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Decision to acknowledge the independence of Ukrainia wts reached by the commissaries council today. Presumably the council of commissaries—that is a meeting of the various executives which the bolsheviki named to administer various cities and states of Russia —represents the will of the bolsheviki government itself. The decision to acknowledge Ukrainia's independence is virtually a victor • for the cossack reebls. The KorniloffKaledine revolt, however, did not origfliate in Ukrainia. but when that section of Russia made its bid for separate entity, it joined forces with the cossacks. Ukrainia is the so-called White Russia. composing sections of the old Polish kingdom. A movement for independence has been progressing for more than three months. Amsterdam. Jan. 4 —(Si>ecial to Daily Democrat) —Chancellor Herding announced to the main committee of the reichstag today that Foreign Minister Kuehlman had been instructed to refuse proposals of transfer of peace negotiations for neutral filing. It is stated by German delegates to Brest Litovsk. had been instructed to continue the negotiations as to Russian territory held by Germany. Berlin, Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —So far this year, said an official statement, the enemy has lost by our gun fire twenty-three aeroplanes and two baloons on the western front.

Copenhagen. Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A newspaper today printed a dispatch from Tokio that Japan had decided to resume the fullest diplomatic relations with Russia. —-<>— — CALLS UPON CONGRESS. {United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Jan. 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson today called upon congress to give him full and unrestricted power, power to conduct the federal operation of the country’s railroads. Be-| fore a joint session of the house and ' senate the president outlines it as ’necessary for McAdoo's administration of the roads. He explained that the action already taken was neces- . sary to secure the complete’mobilization of the whole resources of America as rapidly as possible. Private in- ' terests must for the present give way 1 to the public necessity. The president asked necesary means for protection of the interest of the railroads. Measures to protect travel--1 ers and safeguard private shippers ■ were asked and compensation for the 1 railroad basis of the average net rail- ; road operation income of the three tl years ended June 30, 1917. |

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, January 4, 1918.

YOUR CLOTHING May be Conglomeration of Strange Get-ups so Army Can be Well Clothed. — [CLOTHES AND SHOES — May Make Peacock Alley a Queer Looking Place— Same True in Europe. (By George Martin. United Press staff correspondent.) Washington. Jan. 3—(Special to I Daily Democrat)—Stay-at-homes of all; | fighting nations, the United States in- j j eluded, may soon go about in strange I get-ups, so that their armies may be properly clothed. This has been the) experience of the Teuton powers, and' government data today reveals a . world shortage of civilian clothing. The situation has led the defense councils economy board to curtail shoe and apparel styles and materials Cutting 25 per cent of wool and an equal amount of leather from shoes now being made for next fall trade and eliminating all feminine fripperies in duds are only starters in what the board will do. Shoes and clothes are so scarce in Austria-Hungary and Germany that the government is seriously considering a citizen's suggestion that civilian dead, rich and )>oor. great or humble, be buried in gingham shirts instead of their “Sunday best,” so the "needy living may have their apparel.” The United States economy boards proposed order for "low heeled shoes and those only in black and two shades of tan; black, gray and blue frabric only for men’s and women’s apparel: only one grade and color of * silk .and no patch pockets or pleats,' i is nothing compared with restrictions! in Europe, most of whose “peacock il-j leys” when trod at all. are trod by a very dowdy lot of birds. TO THE WIDOW Is Left Estate by Marcus Jahn for Use During Life. i OR HER WIDOWHOOD ! At Her Death it is to be Divided Equally Among Children. Markus W. Jahn’s will, written De- ( cember 1, 1917, and witnessed by! Frank W. Mosure. W. H. Shroder and Vielette I. Wehrle, was admitted to probate in the Adams circuit court and, placed on record. As is usual, provision for the pay-' ment of debts, funeral expenses, etc., was first made. He then states that all the estate, real and personal, is to go to his wife, Mary Elizabeth Jahn, to be hers asj long as she lives or as long as she remains his widow. At her death, the remainder is to be sold and the proceeds be divided equally among his children. Rosa. Lu-, la May Ratliff. Roy Gideon Jahn. 1 Ralph McLee Jahn. John Clark Jahn.! Any sums owing to the testator by the children, are to be deducted from their shares. TAKING LESSONS HERE 'United Press Service) Indianapolis, Jan. 4 —(Special to; i Daily Democrat) — Governor William j L. Harding and thirteen other officials I and leaders in war work in lowa went to school today with the Indiana I state council of defense as the school I master. The lowa delegation heard of I the great work which Indiana has I been doing to win the war and sent i over a delegate to study the methods | placed in force by Will Hays, chairman of the defense council. The parity visited the defense councils head- 1 I quarters in the state house and this afternoon left for Columbus, 0. IRA BARKLEY^VISITS HERE Ira Barkley son, of Mrs. Jacob Barkley of Hoagland, who is now 10-1 1 cated at Wray, Colo., where he is in the hotel business, called here yester--1 day afternoon on his uncle, Levi BarkI ley.

■F+++++++ + + + + + * + HAVE YOU GOT IT? + + + + The local Red Cross chapter + + needs a typewriter desk and + + they would certainly appreciate + + it if some big hearted man or + + woman would loan them either + + or both of these articles for (he + + use of the secretary. If you 44- have either a desk or a type- 4* 4> writer that you will loan the Red 44> Cross, please notify Mr. Quinn 44> or the secreiar;, Mrs. Peters. + 4> at the library. + ++++++++ + + + + <b + K. OF C. NOTICE Regular meeting Monday, Jan. 7th. On this, the first meeting of (he new year let there be a good attendance as there will be something of interest for all. G. K. C. 0. RIDER WEDS) Sergeant Compton 0. Rider, Son of Prof. 0. D. Rider MARRIED ON TUESDAYi'

At Atlanta, Ga., to Bluffton Lady—Mother Attends. Miss Gail Vore. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Vore, of this city, and Sergeant Compton O. Rider, son of Prof, and Mrs. O. D. Rider, of Decatur were married at Atlanta. Ga.. on New Year’s evening. This announcement was made this afternoon by Mrs. Rider's father, Otis Vore, when he and his daughter arrived home from Atlanta, where Mr. Rider is stationed as a seigeant in the commissary department at Camp Gordon. Mr. Vore and his daughter left last week to visit Mr. Rider and the plans for the marriage were completed after they arrived at Camp Gordon. Miss 'Vore stated before she left that a marriage was not in contemplation

and her father today said that Mr. Rider did not know of their visit until they arrived. The marriage took place at eight o'clock Tuesday evening at the manse of the First Presbyterian church of Atlanta with Rev. Moore officiating. The young couple have been sweethearts for several years. Mr. Rider has been unable to come home, owing to the fact that furloughs are limited to five days while over forty hours are required to make the trip from Atlanta to Bluffton. He will try to get a long enough furlough to enable him to come home before iiis unit is sent overseas but in case he is unable to come home Mrs. Rider will go to Atlanta to visit him again before he leaves this country. Mr. Rider is in splendid health and has worked himself up to the rank of sergeant where he has 24 bakers under him. Mr. Vore and Mrs. Rider took dinner at the camp and they found that the food served there left nothing to be desired. The camp i’i located on a high hill across the city! from Fort Sheridan. The drainage is I ( fine and other conditions are good so that the camp is one of the pleasantest and healthiest in the country. Mr. Vore visited Fort Sheridan and saw a party of 800 Germans, crews from interned vessels, who are held prisoner there. The Germans are well treated and are kept busy building barracks and other accomodations for other prisoners who are added to their number. The unit to which Mr. Rider belongs will go to France early in the spring, if the expectations of most of the members are fulfilled. —Bluffton New Prof. Rider, who is a teacher in the Kirkland tonwship high school, has i resided here several months, living at i the corner of Jefferson and Thir l I streets. BIG FIRE AT HOBOKEN (United Press Service) Hoboken. N. J.. Jan. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fire that broke out in the Gatt-McQuade plant here at 8 I a. m. today was still beyond controll of the fire department at 10:30. At that time it had already spread to the Butler storage warehouse where $2,000,000 worth of groceries are stored. Within two blocks of the burning structures are located the Remington munitions factory and the TiedenLang company dry dock. Both plants menaced by the fire are doing governI inent work.

►GIVE AMBULANCE k ' Decatur Tri Kappas and ' Other Chapters of the ■ State I I DOING “THEIR BIT" Will Send to France Soon a Fully Equipped Ambulance. The sixty-five Kappa Kappa Kappa chapters of Indiana, of which number the Decatur Tri Kappa is one. will send to France soon, a fully equipped IG. M C ambulance, with a capacity of bearing from thirteen to twenty men. The ambulance is purchased at a cost of SI9OO. This is purchased from the funds in the treasury of the past year. The sorority has been giving up a number of social affairs during the war time, including its two day annual convention and its attending festivities, and the money is thus devoted to a humanitarian purpose. On the sides of the ambulance will be copper plates bearing the inscription “K. K. K. Sorority of Indiana” ami thus the girl members, of this humanitarian and charitable organization, are sending forth a power to help the wounded at the front. Mrs. Avon Burk was a delegate to a ; special convention called at Indian- j apolis last week to decide upon the ( ambulance —gift and report of the convention was made by her at the ( meeting of the local sorority at the , home of Miss Marie Patterson last , evening. , With many of the girls at home for ( the holidays the meeting was a de- , lightful social event, too. and the girls talked while they knitted and ( enjoyed the pleasures of the evening. ( In two weeks, the meeting will be with j Mrs. Jean Lutz Smith. _ o

THE NEW OFFICERS Elected by the Baptist Congregation and Sunday School. HARVE N. SHROLL Is Superintendent of Sun- . day School — Department officers. i i The Baptist congregation elected the following officers for the new 1 year: Treasurer —C. E. Peterson. Financial Secretary —Jessie Winnes. Clerk—Mrs. C. E. Peterson. Missionary Treasurer—Mrs. S. E.. Shamp Pianists—Ruby Miller and Electa Glancy. The officers for the Sunday school are: Superintendent —S. E. Hite. Assistant Superintendent —H. N. Shroll. Secretary —Pauline Hite. Treasurer —Grace Shroll. Chorister —O. P. Mills. Pianist —Pauline Hite. Department Superintendents — Elementary—Ruby Miller. Missionary—Mrs. J. Buhler. Temperance—Mrs. J. G. Butler Home —Mrs. J. Everett. Cradle Roll—Mrs H. N. Shroll. WAR FILMS AT THE REX The Rex Theater will have the third episode of “The Retreat or the Germans at Arras" the real thing, tonight, showing actual scenes on the battle fields of France. You will have a better idea of the war. of what the Adams county boys will engage in this year, if you see these wonderful pictures. The admission is ten cents to every one, including the war tax. We have secured these films at extra expense and those who have seen the former episode declare them the most wonderful pictures ever shown here. Come to the Rex tonight. methodPst CHOIR The Methodist choir will meet this evening at 7 o'clock at the home of Dr. |J. Q. Neptune.

■ RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS ■ Our loyal subscribers, many of whom have road the Daily Democrat - every issue, since we started, fifteen ' years ago, huve already r< newed for the year and we. hope that every one on the list does so and gets his neighl>or to take the Daily Democrat. Wo realize that the cost of printing a paper is much higher than it ever was and that every paper in the country or nearly so is increasing its prie •. but we feel that we can get by withI out doing so. if our subscribers will pay in advance. We offer the paper to those who do so for the old price. $2.50 by mail, though the price if not paid in advance will have to be s3.o<». Do it now. EAT MORE FISH And Help Win the War Says the Food Administration. WAYS OF SERVING Recipe for Fish Potato Pie A Substitute for Meat. It is queer, isn’t it. how closely interwoven are all human affairs? Take your eating fish instead of meat, for' instance. How can the wildest imag-j ination connest this with the winning of battles in France and Flanders? Yet, these two apparently irrelevant things are very closely connected, for. neither our soldiers nor the allies can win those battles across the water.' unless they are well fed. And one of the things especially needed for our. armies is meat.

How can we help the government' provide this needed food? Simply by eating other foods, cheaper and more! plentiful and just as nourishing and; healthful. • I One excellent substitute for moat is fish. I. I < “But I don't like fish." you object. . Have you given all kind ,of fish al chance to win your favor? Fish are as varied in flavor as meat. If you don’t like salmon or mackeral you < may like haddock or coil, or even some ( of the new kinds of fish. “Well, fish doesn't agree with me. 'j you fence. ; ( It is true that occasionally a person ( is poisoned by fish, but for the average ( individual, fish is as readily digested ( as meat. | ( “But I need the nourishing in meat '' You settle, back with the complacc:;'. | air of one who has installed himse f j behind an argument that can not re’, felled. But fish has practically the same', body building value as meat If eaten I with potatoes and with corn bread and f butter, fish furnishes an adequate meal. Yoii resort to the last argument. “Well. 1 get so tired of fish. One fish day is all I can stand in the week "' If this is your complaint, it is a : needless one. for the ways to vary the; ( serving of fish are almost limitless It J may be eaten boiled, steamed, broiled , ( fried or baked. It may be “dress 'd ■( up” with all kinds of sauces. It nmy| ( be stuffed and roasted. It may lie , served cold in a salad or flaked or ■ ( used in a gelatin. Or it may masque; | ade its appearance on your table com- i bined with other materials as in the ; following recipe: 1 Fish Potato Pie. Line a deep greased dish with well I 1 seasoned mashed potatoes to the thickness of one inch. Fill to within ; 1 one inch of the top with creamed fish, cover with potatoes, brush with melt-i ed fat, and bake in a het oven until brown. Garnish with parsley and lemon. Two fish days a week instead of one will release much needed food, and your patriotic self-denial need involve no real hardship. CLEARANCE SALE Annual Event at Bernstein’s Opens Tomorrow. A big force of clerks will be readv to wait on the many customers t li.it will attend the annual clearance sale at the Bernstein store, beginning eimorrow, Saturday. January 5 amb continuing three weeks, through Jauuarv, 26. Special bargains in all lines weri | announced in full in the ad in .I paper last evening and will attract' | many. I

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BOOST LIMIT TO FORTY-FIVE C rowder Advocates Increasing Age Limit to Forty or Even Forty-five. — NEED OLDER MEN Especially for Skilled Labor Believes Increase in the Draft Age Needed. (United Press Service) Washington. Jan. 4 —(Special s o ' Daily Democrat) Increasing the draft age from 31 to 40 or 45 years is one of the "probabilities of the future," according to Provost Marshal General Crowder in his comprehensive report to the secretary of war. The draft of the older men should be mainly for skilled war labor but also to distribute tne burdens of the war. There are plenty of young men for the first line fighting Crowder has shown but he also points out there is danger of "injuring the coming generation,” by taking away too nianv of the “aggressively patriotic young men.” Out of the estimated 10,083,249 men between the ages of 3 land 45, Crowder estimates 3.525.472 are unmarried and that thirty nine per cent of the latter figure, or 1.389.38 S would be accepted for service under the present regulations. Advocating this legislation Crowder said:

The youngest men are generally | deemed to make the soundest and j most pliable military material. On . the other hand the older men are more j likely to yield in large numbers the I occupational skill so necessary in the I varied compositions of the modern army. “Under the national selective service system which seeks to distribute the burden equally among the willing and unwilling, it is important, if not essential to include the older men because the smaller proportion of them is likely to enlist.” Under the new system a card index of the abilities of every man will be compiled in Washington after the questionnaires are all returned. In this way the government will be able to put its finger on men of certain trades just when they are needed "The whole labor problem can thus be controlled.” Crowder points out. "adjustments forced where right and proper that they should be farced and in this respect, this nation will be in the most advantageous position ever occupied by a belligerent power in this or any other war." HOW YOU ARE CLASSIFIED. The local military board was kept busy today correcting the questionnaires that were sent back from the district board on account of the errors made in filling out the agricultural claims for deferred classification. Local attorneys and members of the advisory boards were summoned before the board and instructed as to the correct way in which to fill*out the blanks. Notices summoning the registrants to appear and correct their mistakes were mailed out today. No classifications were made today. Those classified by the local board yesterday were: Harry Cross. Johnstown, Pa. Class 1. Joe Freed. Geneva. Class 1. Arthur P. Ice. Geneva. ClasS 1. Owen D. Sours, Geneva. Class 4. Gilbert Hirschy, Monroe. Class 4. Walter Llecnty. Berne Class 4; I non-combatant. Melvin Meyer. Berne. Class 4. David Sprunger. Berne. Class 1; I non-combatant. Ernst E. Miller, Bluffton. Class 1. Jacob D. Wendell, Linn Grove. Class 4. David Neuhauser, Monroe. Class 1. Omer D Lehman. Berne. Class 4; | non-combatant. Albert Fuchs, Pleasant Mills. Class 4. Ralph W. McCrory. Berne. Class 4. Wm. J. McCague. Decatur. Class 4. Harvey L. Wpgoper, Decatur. | Class 1. Frank O. Henschen. Magley. and I Charles Cook. Berne, were referred tn the district board because of agricultural claims.