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RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN BETRAYED SAYS KERENSKY

Country Has Not Been Credited for Part Played in War, Former Premier Charges. LONDON, Dec. 2. "The alHes have betrayed Russia. They have stuck a knife In the back of Russian democracy." Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky fairly shouted these words today. He was in a high state of excitement. Hi eyes were burning with an almost uncanny fire in the pallid setting of hia emaciated face, showing the traces of terrific suffering. As he spoke he accentuated his words with emphatic forward jerks of his close-cropped head. He appeared much as he was pictured in hia prime, when he tried to fire his countrymen to fight to the last ditch. "Despite Russia's heroic KHcrttic.es during three years of war, without which victory could not possibly have been won; despite the supreme effort during my regime in that vital summer, when we kept the Germans pinned on the east front while America slowly gathered strength to throw her decisive weight in to the struggle on the west front a year later despite all this and more, the Entente is planning to tear Bessarabia from us to give it to Roumania. They do not give us a fair chance at the peace conference." The former premier excitedly hit the table with his fists. He was speaking in French. Criticizes America "Hasn't Russia as much, if not more of a Fhare in the victory as America?" fa tskrd. "The United States has 53.900 dead in the war. Russia has 2,000,000 dead "America has been in the war a few i months. Russia, fighting ceaselessly, bore the brunt from the start, save in the last year. She fought ceaselessly, while completely cut off from allied Minnl'ea. She did not get one thousandth part of what France got." M. Korensky was asked if he would be Fattened with a settlement for Russia on the basis of President Wilson's 14 principles. With a sweep of his arms he answered: "Wilson's 14 points as mere themes lor discussion are excellent, but they are academic. All depends up on the way they are carried out. r to

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President Wilson's Speech Before Congress

(By Associated Press) v WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The President's address to congress follows: Gentlemen of Congress: The year yenr that has elapsed since last I stood before you to fulfill my constitutional duty to give congress from timo to time information on state of union has beeu so crowded with great evenls, grat processes and great results, that I cannot hope to give you an adequate picture of its transactions or of far-rnaching changes which have been wrought in life of our nation and of the world. You have yourselves witnessed these things as I have. It is too soon to assess them; and we who in midst of them and are part of them are less qualified than men of another generation will be to say what they mean or even what they have been. But some great outstanding facts are unmistakable and constitute iii sense part of public business with whtch It is our duty to deal. To state that is to set stage for legislative and executive action which must grow out of them .uul which we have yet to shape and determine. A year ago we hud sent 1 45.0 IS men overseas. Since then we nave sent 1,950,513 an average of 162,542 each month, the number in fact rising in May last to 245.051, In July to 307,182. and continuing to reaching similar figures in August and September in August, 285,575 and in September, 257,438. No -such movement of troops ever took place across 4,000 miles of sea followed by adequate equipment and supplies and carried saftly through extraordinary dangers of attack dangers which were alike strange and infinitely difficult to guard against. In all this movement only 758 men were .lost by enemy attacks, 630 of whom were upon a single English, ship which was sunk near Orkney islands. " Americans Stood Test I need not tell you what lay back of this great movement om men and material. It is not invidious to say "There must be a frank official recognltion by the allies of all- that Rus sia has done in the first three years of the war. " The allies should announce that there will be not one question settled, not a boundary line fixed pending the creation of an allRussian government representing, through a federation all elements of Russian public opinion. "All internal questions and all international relations must be settled by Russia herself. She must be given a fair chance at the peace table or 80 per cent of (be Russian population, now pro-Entente, will be turned over to your enemies."

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back of it lay supporting organization of industries of country and of all ita productive activities more complete, more thorough In method and effective in results, more spirited and unanimous in purpose and effort than any other great belligerent had ever been able to effect We profited greatly by experience of nations which had already been engaged for nearly three years In the exigent and exacting business, their every resource and every executive proficiency taxed to utmost. We were pupils. But we learned quickly and acted with promptness and readiness of co-operation that jus. tify our great pride that were able to serve world with unparalleled energy and quick accomplishment. But it Is not physical scale and executive efficiency of preparation supply equipment and dispatch that I would dwell upon, but mettle and quality of officers and men we sent over and of sailors who kept seas and spirit of nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved themselves more quickly ready for test of battle or acquitted themselves with more splendid courage and achievement w lien put to the test.

Duty Done at Home. Those of ua who played some part In directing the great processes by which the war was pushed irresistibly forward u final triumph many now forgrt nil that and delight our thoughts 'vith the story of what our men dirt. Their officers understood the grim and exacting task they had undertaken and performed it with audacity, efficiency and unhesitating courage hat touch story of convoy and battle with Imperishable distinction at great or small, and their men were every turn, whether enterprise were great or small, from their ehiefs, Pershing and Sims, down to the youngest lieutenant and their men, were worthy of them. Such men as hardly need to be commanded and go to their terrible adventure blithely and with quick intelligence of those who know just what it is they would accomplish. I am proud to be a fellow countryman of men of such stuff and valour. Those of us who stayed at home did our duty; war could not have been won or gallant men who fought it given their opportunity to win it otherwise; but for many a long day we shall think ourselves "accursed" we were uot there, and hold our manhood as cheap while any "speaks that fought" with those at St. Mihiel or Thierry. Memory of those days of triumphant baiUn will go with these fortunate id er. to their graves; and each will have hia favorite memory. "Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but be ll remember with advantages what 'R8 2 J zsata

feats he did that day." what we all think good for, with deepest gratitude is that our men went in force into line of battle just at the critical moment when whole fate of the world seemed to hang in the balance and throw their fresh strength into ranks of freedom in time to turn whole tide and sweep of fateful struggle, turn It once for all, so that thenceforth it

was back, back, baci, for their enemies, always back never forward. After that it was only a scant foui months before commanders of centra! empires knew themselves and , nov their very empires are in liquidation And throughout it all how fine spiri of nation was; what unity of purpose what untiring, zeal what elevation o purpose ran through all its splendi' display of strength, ita untiring ac complishment. 1 have said that tho of us who stayed at home to do wor of organization and supply will alwaj wish that we had been with the me whom we sustained by our labor; bv we can never be ashamed. It has bef an inspiring thing to be here in tl midst of fine men who had turn aside from every private interest their own and devoted the whole their trained capacity to tasks th supplied sinews of the whole grc undertaking. Woman's Contributions. Patriotism, unselfishness, thoroi going devotion and distinguished c acity that marked their toilsome bors, day after day, month after moi have made them fit mates and cc rades of the men In the trenches ai on the sea. And not men here in Washington only. They have but di rected vast achievement. Throughout innumerable factories, upon innumerable farms, in the depths of coal mines and iron mines and copper mines, wherever stuffs of industries were to be obtained and prepared, in shipyards, on railways, at docks, on the sea, in every labor that was needed to sustain battle lines, men have vied with each other to do their part and do it well. They can look any man at arms in the face and say we also strove to win and gave the best that was in ug to make our fleets and armies sure of their triumph. And what shall we say of women, of their instant intelligence, quickening every task that they touched; their capacity for organization and co-operation, which gave their action discipline and enhanced effectiveness of everything they attempted; their aptitude at tasks to which they had never before set their hands; their utter self-sacrifice alike in what they did and in what they gave. Their contribution to the great result is beyond appraisal. They have added new lustre to the annals of American womanhood. The least tribute we can pay them is to make them equals of men in political rights as they have proved themselves their equals in every field of practical work they have entered, whether for themselves of for their country. These great days of completed achievement . would be cadly marred were we to omit that act of justice. Besides the immense practical services they have rendered women of country have been moving sp'rits in systematic economies by wl:h our people have voluntarily assisted to supply suffering peoples of world and armies upon every front with food and everything else that we had that might serve common cause. The de tails of such story can never be fully written but we carry them at our hearts and thank God that we can say that we are kinsmen of such. And now we are sure of great triumph for which every sacrifice was made. It has come, come in its completeness and with pride and inspiration of , these days of achievement quick with in us we turn to tasks of peace again, peace secure against violence of irresponsible monarchs and ambitious military coteries and made ready for new order, for new foundations of justice and fair dealing. We are about to give order and organization to this peace not only for ourselves but for other peoples of world as well, so far as they will suffer us to serve them. It is international justice that we seek, not domestic safety merely. Our thoughts have dwelt of late upon Europe, upon Asia, upon near and far East very little upon "acts of peace and accommodation that wait to be performed at our doors. Problems at Home, While we are adjusting our relations with the rest of world is it not of capital importance that we should clear away all grounds of misunderstanding with our immediate neighbors and give proof of friendship we really feel. I hope that members of senate will permit me to speak once more of unratified treaty of friendship and adjustment with the republic of Columbia. I very earnestly urge upon them an early and favorable action upon that vital matter. I believe they will feel with m3 that stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just but generous and in spirit of new age upon which we have so happily entered. So far as our domestic affairs are concerned problem of our return to peace is the problem of economic and industrial readjustment. That problem is less serious for us than it may turn out to be for the nations which have suffered disarrangements and losses of war longer than we. Our people moreover do not wait to be coached and led. They know their own business; are quick, resourceful in every readjustment, definite in purpose and self-reliant in action. Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly tangled because they would pay no attention to them and go their own way. All that

we can do as their legislative and executive servants is to mediate process of change here there and elsewhere as we may. I hava heard such council as to plans that should be formed and personally conducted to happy consumatlon but from no quarter have I seen any general scheme of "reconstruction" emerge which I thought it ikely we could force our spirited justness and self reliant laborers to iccept with due plaincy and obedience. Industry in Motion. While war lasted we set up many gencies by which to direct industries f country in services it was necesiry for them to render, by which to lake sure of an abundant supply of laterials needed; by which to check ' idertakings that could for time be !spensed with and stimulate those lat were most serviceable in war by hich to gain for purchasing departents of government a certain coped over prices of essential articles id materials by which to restrain ade with alien enemies make most the available shipping and sysTiatize financial transactions both bile and private so that there would no unnecessary conflict or confus-

i by which in snort to put every iterial energy of country in harss to draw common load and make us one team in accomplishment of at task. But the moment we qw armistice to have ben signed took harness off. Raw materials n which the government had kept hand for fear there should not be .;ugh for industries that supplied , armies have been released and put into general market again. Great indus trial whose whole output and machinery bad been taken over for uses of the government have been set free to return to uses to which they were put before the war. It has not been possible to remove so readily or so quickly control of food stuffs and of shipping, because world has still to be fed from our granaries and ships are needed to send supplies to our men overseas and to bring men back as . fast as disturbed conditions on other side of water permits, but even there restraints are being relaxed as much as possible and more and more as the weeks go by. Never before have there been agencies in existence in this country which know so much of field of supply of labor and of industry as war industries board, war trade board, labor department, food administration and fuel administration have known since their labors became thoroughly systematized. And they have not been isolated agencies; they have been directed by men who represented permanent departments of government and so have been centers of unified and co-operative action. Labor Presents Problem. It has been polity of executives, therefore since armistice was assured, (which Is in effect complete submis sion of enemy) to put knowledge of these bodies at disposal of business men of the country and to offer their intelligent mediation at every point and every matter where it w as needed. It 1b surprising how fast process of return to peace footing has moved In three weeks 6ince fighting stopped. It promises to outrun any inquiry that may be instituted and any aid that may be offered. It will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. American business man is of quick initative. Ordinary and normal process of private initiative will not, however, provide immediate employment for all of men of our returning armies those who are of trained capacity, those who are skilled workmen, those who have acquired familiarity with established businesses those who are ready and willing to go to farms all those whose antltudes I are known nr will ho ann&ht nut hv employers will find no difficulty, it is safe to say in finding place and employment. But there will be others who will be at loss where to gain livihood unless pains are taken to guard them and put them in way of work. There will be large floating residue of labor which should not be left wholly to shift for itself. It seems to me important therefore that development of public works of every sort should be promptly resumed in order that opportunities should be created for unskilled labor in particular and that plans should be made for such developments of our uqused lands and our natural resource as we have hitherto lacked stimulation to undertake. the oouzedvichclay.aytheo I particularly direct your attention to the very practical plans which the secretary of the interior has developed in his annual report and before your committees for reclamation of arid, swamp, and cut over lands which might if states were willing and able to co-operate redeem some three hundred million acres of land for cultivation. There are said to be fifteen j or twenty million acres of land in the west at present arid for whise reclamation water is available if properly conservedThere are about two hundred and thirty million acres from which forests have been cut but which have never yet been cleared for plow and which He waste and desolate. These He scattered all over the union. And there are nearly eighty million acres I of land that lie under swamps or sub- i Ject to periodical overflow or too wet for anything but grazing which it is perfectly feasible to drain and protect and redeem. Congress can once direct thousands of returning soldiers to reclamation of arid lands which it has already undertaken if it will but forge plans and appropriations which it has entrusted to department of in-; terlor.

SCHOOLS RESUME

WORK TODAY The Richmond city schools resumed work Monday morning. They will be dismissed at the close of the school day, December 20, for the Christmas vacation, and will reopen on New Years' Day. According to Superinten dent Bentley there will be no other vacation until the close of school early in the summer. Dr. J. E. King, school physician, has issued the following statement to the parents of Richmond: "Parents may feel safe In sending their children to school when they open Monday. It would be better, however, if families in which there is already influenza, would not permit the well children from coming to school unless they have already had the disease; not that they will carry it, but they may become ill in school and infect others. "In order to prevent further infection, children should go directly to their homes after school, and should not be permitted to mingle in crowds or visit homes where there is illness. With the reopening of the school two new teachers will begin their work at Whitewater school. They are Miss Mary Stewart, of Xenia, O., and Miss Lena M. Dean of Norfolk, Neb. Miss Stewart will teach tha third A and third B and Miss Dean will have grades one A and one B made vacant by the illness of Miss Elizabeth R. Close. The high school cards will go out Wednesday for the first five weeks grading period. The school year will be divided up into two terms of fifteen weeks each and each term divided into three five week periods. The spring term will start on Monday, February 10. The teachers will take extra precautions to help fight the influenza in the schools. To make up for the lost time the teachers will only "hit tht high spots in the work this year," B. W. Kelly, principal of high school, said today Night school will open tonight and anyone who wishes to enroll may do so then, Principal Campbell of the night school nnnounced today. Eldorado, Ohio Mrs. Joe Maden is very sick suffering from influenza. .. .Mrs. Samuel Hensel spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Irvin Kimmel....Mary Troutwine is ill at this writing Wesley House and wife and Mrs. Samuel Hensel spent Friday with Roy Helsel and family.... Mrs. Irvin Kimmel entertained at dinner Sunday Mrs. Curk, Mrs. Elsie Baker, Mrs. L. C. Ashman, Miss Wheland and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wehrley The meeting held at Pleasant View, Wednesday and Thursday was well attended and enjoyed. . . . . O. H. Martin and wife took dinner with H. C. Mastin and wife Sunday. In the afternoon they all called on John Guenther Sr. and Miss Kate Millwood. .. .George Hapner and family of Eaton spent Sunday evening with their aunt, Mrs. M. L. Coovert. and husband Harris Minnlch and family and Miss Emma McCoy spent! aunaay wnn rror. cnas. aunger and wife of Oxford H. C. Mastin and wife called on RusseL Ricker and wife Sunday evening. Mrs. James Gabbert called on Wm. Beatty's Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Roily Oliver spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Lem Rush Mrs. G. C. Gabbert and 6on called on Mrs. T. C. Broadstock and daughter Thursday afternoon Mrs. Temple of Brookville Is visiting at present with her brother, Frank Sharrett and wife. Mrs. Earl Nlsonger and daughter Pauline, called on Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Minnich Thursday afternoon.. . . . . Jas. Gabbert, wife and daughter Virginia, took Sunday dinner with Ezra SUfer and Mrs. Baker T. C. Broadstock and family, G. C. Gabbert and family, Tebe Beard, .Elvin Oler and wife, and O. W. Schlechty and family spent Sunday with Charles Minnlch and family, near Painter Creek. .. . .Wllford Rush spent Sunday with Levi Ritz. , .A baby boy was born to Jesse Hapner and wife last week. His name is Robert Lee Hapnes Herbert Rinehart and family called on Wilson Broderick and family, Sunday evening Mrs. Roy Spencer and children have been visiting with Jesse Hapner and family. Pershing, Ind. Harry Winter of Terre Haute State Normal, spent a few days last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winter Mrs. Edyth Baker of Pittsburgh, Pa., spent last week with her aunt, Miss Cora Behr, and other relatives... John Dougherty has opened up a shoe and harness repair shop and expects to carry a full line of men and boys' work shoes Mrs. Clara Kid well is spending the week with relatives in Hagerstown Mr. and Mrs. WrilHam Taylor and family spent last Thursday with Oliver Taylor and family of Milton Mrs. Clinton Kieb of Newcastle spent last week with Miss Cora Behr Mr. and Mrs. Dick Whirley of Cambridge spent Sunday with Mrs. Edna Ohmit..Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson of Connersville spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hlday. ' If possible we hope In dealing with our unused land to effect a great rural and agricultural development which will afford best sort of opportunity to men who want to help themselves.

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; " Domicio da Gama. Domicio da Gama, foreign minister of Brazil, heads the Brizilian peace delegation which has already .left for Paris. Da Gama for soms lyears was Brazilian ambassador ?: CWashington. Keep on Gardening By C. I. CHRISTIE. Many cf our city and town fclk for the past two years have had taeir first taste of gardening, have enjoyed the work, and realize its benefits. Some, however", now that the war i3 over think they can afford to abandon their gardens in the city and depend cn a supply of food from other's efforts. That the war is over is only a greater reason for increasing our food production by the use of formerly -idle land of our cities and town3. Mr. Hoover tells us that food will be more scarce In 1910 than ever before. Not only will we have our own people to feed, but those who have been In close touch with the eituatlon tell U3 that in Europe half the countries are starving and in all of them there is a serious food shortage. The fields of Northern France and Belgium cut to pieces as they are with shells will not be able to produce large crops until reconstruction of the land ha3 taken place. The millions of people In these countries arc looking to the United States as a supply depot of the world. Our canned goods, dried vegetables and fruits, and other food material must be shipped In large quantities. Every Inhabitant of town and city should garden more energetically than ever to produce all the food needed for his own family. Every gardener should attempt mere earnestly than before to -raise not only al lthe summer vegetables he needs, but enough storage crops and vegetables for can ning to provide a plentiful supply for winter use. Plan a larger garden for 1919. Indicted for Shooting Boys in Melon Patch WINCHESTER. Ind., Dec. 3. Levi Cc rtnfr and .Tmtv Panrrll farmarc one mile southwest of here, have been indicted by the Randolph county grand jury for assault and battery with intent to kill. Each gave bond of 2,00J Saturday. It is alleged they conspired to shoot to kill Eugene Best, age fifteen, of this city, when they found him in Conner's watermelon patch last August. Cantrell, it is charged, fired both barrels of a 6hotgun at Best, both loads taking effect. Nearly 200 shot entered Eest's body, and he was in a precarious condition for several days. Cantrell is a son-in-law of Conner, and lives on a part of the Cortner farm. Edmond Rostand, Famous Poet, Is Dead in Park (By Associated Press) PARIS, Dec. 2. Edmond Rostand, the poet and playwright, died this afternoon. He had been 111 from grip. Rumely Indicted by Federal Grand Jury (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Edward A. Rumely, of New York, who bought the New York Evening Mall with money said to have been furnished by the German government, was indicted by a federal grand jury here today for failure to report German ownership of property to the alien property custodian. Mooney Asks Meaning of President's Request (By Associated Press.) SAN QUENTIN. CaL. Dec. 2-i-A telegram asking President Wilson to "Etate exactly what you mean by commutation of my death, sentence", before he leaves for the . peace conference, was sent to the president by Thomas J. "Mooney from the state prison here today. According to recent statistics, upward of 500 women are engaged in the practice of medicine in Massachusetts.