TTT13 MOTtXTXG OTJTCfiONTAN. TnUKSDAT, XOVE3IHE11 ID, 1914. "DRY" RUSSIA IS LITERAL REALITY Nation, Almost Overnight, Forced to Abandon Daily Consumpton of Vodka. PEASANTS MUCH CHANGED Millions of People. Already Ixtok Jjike Different Race, and Order and Thrirt Begin to Appear In Homes of Poor. PETROGRAD, Nov. 18.--There is pro hibition In Russia today, prohibition which means that not a drop of vodka, whisky, brandy, Bin or any other strong liquor is obtainable from one end to the other in a territory popu lated by 150.000.000 people, and cover ing one-sixth of the habitable globe. The story of how strong: drink has Deen utterly banished from the Russian empire was related to the Associated Press by Michael Demltrovltch Tchell pheff, the man directly responsible for rutting: an end to Russia's vice, the vodka habit. Prohibition I Literal. "Tt should be said In the beginning: that the word prohibition in Russia must be taken literally. Its use does not imply a partially successful at tempt to curtail the consumption of liquor, resulting- in drinking in secret places, the abuse of medical licenses and the general evasion and subter fuge. "It means that a vast population who consumed $1,000,000,000 worth of vodka a year, whose ordinary condi tion has been described by the Rus sians themselves as ranging upward from a slight degree of stimulation, has been lifted almost in one day from a drunken Inertness to sobriety. The na tion has been compelled, virtually over uis-bt. to abandon Its enormous daily consumption of vodka, a liquor that is almost pure alcohol, and became ab stemious to the extent of letting no liquor pass its Hpb. Dnukrannn lias Vanished. "On that day when the mobilization of the Russian army began special policemen visited every public place where vodka is sold, locked up the sup ply of the liquor, and placed on the shop the imperial seal. Since the man ufacture and sale of vodka is a gov ernment monopoly in Russia, it is not a difficult thing to enforce prohibition. From the day this step was taken drunkenness vanished In Russia. The results are seen at once in the peasan try. Already they are beginning to look like a different race. The marks of suffering, the pinched looks of illness and improper nourishment have tone from their faces. There has been also a remarkable change in the appearance of their clothing. Their clothes are gleaner, and both the men and women appear more neatly and better dressed. Order and Thrift Appear. "The destitute character of the homes of the poor has been replaced with something like order and thrift. In Petrograd and Moscow the effect of these improved conditions is fairly startling. On. holidays in these two cities inebriates always filled the po lice stations, and often they lay about on the sidewalks and even in the street. Things are so different today that unattended womsn may now pass at night through portions of the cities where it was formerly dangerous even for men. Minor crimes and misde meanors have almost vanished." This miracle has been virtually ac complished by one man. He is Michael I. Tchelisheff, a peasant by birth, or iginally a housepainter by profession, than Mayor of the City of Samara, and cow a millionaire. Book Starts Train of Thought. Speaking of what he had accom plished .for the cause of sobriety in Russia, Mr. Tchelisheff said: "I was reared in a small Russian village. There were no schools or hos pitals or any of the improvements we are accustomed to in civilized com munities. I picked up an education from old newspapers and stray books. One day I chanced n a book in the hands of a moujik, which treated of the harmfulness of alcohol. I was so Impressed with this, knowing that everybody drank vodka, that I asked the first physician I met if the state ment were true. He said yes. Men drank it, he explained, because momen tarily it gave them a sensation of pleasant dizziness. From that time 1 decided to take every opportunity to discover more about the use of vodka. "At the end of the "80s there came famine in Russia, followed by agrarian troubles. I saw a crowd of peasants demand from a local landlord all the grain and foodstuffs in his granary. This puzzled me; I could not understand tow honest men were indulging in what seemed to be highway robbery. I noted at the time that every man who was taking part in this incident was a drinking man, while their fellow-villagers who were abstemious had suf ficient provisions in their own homes.! Thus It was that I observed the indus trial effects of vodka drinking. Cltr"" Money Is Refused. At Samara I decided-to do more than passively disapprove of vodka. At this time I was an alderman and many of the tenants living in my houses were working men. One night a drunken father in one of my houses killed his wife. This incident made such a ter rible impression on me that I decided to fight vodka with all my strength. "On the supposition that tbe gov ernment was selling vodka for the reve nue, I calculated the revenue received from its consumption in Samara. I then introduced a bill in the City Coun cil providing that the city . give this sum of money to the imperial treasury, requesting at the sfeme time that the sale of Vodka be prohibited. This bill passed and the money was appropri ated. It was offered to the govern ment, but the SDTernraSit promptly re fused it. "It then dawned upon me that Rus sian bureaucracy did not want the peo ple to become sober for the reason that it was easier to rule autocratically a drunken mob than a sober people. "This was seven years ago. Later 1 was elected Mayor of Samara, capital of the Volga district, a district of a auarter of a million inhabitants. Sub sequently to holding to this office I was elected to the Duma on my anti-vodka platform. Poison Labrl Proposed. "In the Duma I proposed a bill per mitting the inhabitants of any town to close the local vodka shops and pro viding also that every bottle of vodka should bear a label with the word 'Poison.' At my request the wording or tnis label, in which the evils of vodka were set forth, was done by the late Count Leo Tolstoy. This bill passed the Duma and went to the Im perial Council, where it was amended and finally tabled. "I then begged an audience of Em peror Nicholas. He received me with great kindness In his castle in the Crimea, not far from the scene of the recent Turkish bombardment. He lis tened to me patiently. . He was im pressed with my recital that most of the revolutionary and socialist excesses were committed by drunkards and that the Sveaborg, Kronstadt and Sebastopol navy revolts and the Petrograd and other mutinous military movements were caused by inebrieties. Having heard me out, his majesty promised at once to speak to his Minister of Fi nance concerning the prohibition of vodka. Caar Impressed by Observations. "Disappointed at not having been able to get through a government bill regulating this evil, I had abandoned my seat in the duma. It was evident that the bureaucracy has been able to obstruct the measure. Minister of Fi nance KokovsotT regarded it as a dan gerous innovation, depriving the gov ernment of 1,000,000,000 rubles (J500, 000.000) yearly without any method of replacing this revenue. "While I lobbied in Petrograd the Emperor visited the country around Moscow, and saw the havoc of vodka. He then dismissed Kokovsoft and ap pointed the present Minister of Finance, Bark. "Mobilization precipitated the anti vodka measure. The Grand Duke, re membering the disorganization due to drunkenness during the mobilization in 1904, ordered the prohibition of all drinks, except in clubs and first-class restaurants. This order enforced for one month showed the Russian author ities the value of abstention. In spite of the general depression caused by the war the paralysis of business, the closing, of factories, and the Interrup tion of railroad traffic the people felt no privations. Savings banks showed an Increase in deposits over the pre ceding month and over the' correspond ing month of the preceding year. At the same time there was a boom in the sale of meats, .groceries, clothing, dry goods and house furnishings. Honey Spent for Necessities. "The 30.000,000 rubles a day that had been paid for vodka were now being spent for the necessities of life. The average working week increased from three and four days to six, the numer ous holidays of the drinker having been eliminated. The working day also be came longer and the efficiency of the worker was perhaps doubled. Women and children who were seldom without marks showing the physical violence of the husband and father suddenly found themselves in an undreamed-of para dise. There were no blows, no Insults and no rough treatment. There was bread on the table, milk for the babies and a fire in the kitchen. "I dreaded to seize this occasion for' a press campaign, so far as this is a possible thing, in Russia. Instead, I organized delegations to present petl- tions to the proper authorities for the prolonging of this new sobriety for the duration of the war. This step found favor with his Imperial majesty, and an order was issued to that effect. An other similar campaign to remove the licenses from privileged restaurants and clubs was successful, and strong liquor is no longer available anywhere In Russia. "The second month of abstinence made the manifold advantages so clear to everybody that when we called upon his majesty to thank him for his recent order he promised that the vodka busi ness of the government would be given up forever. This promise was promu gated in a telegram to the Grand Duke Constantine. "There remains only now to find else where the revenue which, up to the present time, has been contributed by vodka. There has been introduced in the duma a bill offering a solution of this question. The aim of this bill is not the creation of new taxes or an increase in the present-taxes, but an effort to render the government do mains and possessions more produc tive." UNHAPPINESS TRADE AIM SUCH IS DECLARED Pl'RPOSB CORN PRODUCTS COMPANY. Witness In Antl-Trnst Salt Says) Price Lowered Accordingly Competi tors Are Bouckt Out. CHICAGO, Nov. 19. The policy of the Corn Products Refining Company was to keep Its competitors unhappy, ac cording to George Chamberlain, of Decatur, 111., a chemist formerly em ployed by the corporation, who testi fied today in the Government's anti trust suit. Discussing price fixing, he quoted E. T. Bedford, now president of the company, as saying: "We must sell at a price sufficiently low so that more competitors will not be happy in his business." Conrad Mattheson, then an official In the company, also helped fix prices. Chamberlain said. William F. Plel. of Indianapolis, who sold the National Starch Company to the Corn Products Company, said he could not recall a single starch or glu cose factory in the United States that had not been taken in. He had refused to sign, an agreement not to engage in the manufacture of starch, he said, and since had been operating a factory in Indianapolis, adopting the prices of the Corn Prod ucts company. I WAR TRANSPORT SUNK CROWN OF G ALICIA ATTACKED BY GERMANS OFF CHILE. Crtn Said to Have Been Saved Tea- Mi Known In Portland, Where She Has Discharged Cargo. VALPARAISO, Chile, Nov. 18. There are persistent rumors here that the British transport Crown of Galicla has been attacked by German cruisers and sunk. It is not said whether the ves sel was sunk by her own crew or by the Germans. The crew of the transport, it Is said, was saved and will be landed at Val paraiso by the German steamer Rha- kotls, of the Cosmos line. The crown of Gajicia was a steamer of 4821 tons. She was built in 1806 and belonged to the Crown Steam ship Company. The Crown of Galicla was in Port land in the Spring and discharged Eu ropean cargo, she being one of the Harrison line, plying between London and the Pacific Coast. The service is yet maintained in spice of the war, but of late Portland has not been in cluded in the itinerary. The Crown of Galicia was built at Glasgow in 1908 and was of 4281 tons gross and 3140 tons net register. She was 400 feet long, with a beam of 52 feet and depth of hold of 27.1 feet. HOMES ORDERED VACATED Germans Force Belgian Residents Out, So Gunners May Practice. AMSTERDAM, via London. Nov. 18. The German authorities in Belgium to day Issued a proclamation, according to the Handelsblad, ordering everybody in St. Nicholas and the surrounding villages to quit the houses until fur ther notice, "as the Germans will be practicing firing in this district" St. Nicholas is a town in East Flan ders, 20 miles northeast of Ghent, on the railroad to Antwerp. . FOOD DISTRIBUTED WHERE MOST HEED Canadian Potatoes Sent to Liege, Flour to Limbourg, Groceries to Brussels. AMERICANS ARE PRAISED Correspondent of Halifax Xewspaper Says Germans Are Xot Seizing Supplies, but Are Giving Courteous Assistance. HALIFAX, N. S.. Nov. 18. How the aid which Canadians have sent to the starving Belgians is being applied is described in a special cable message today from the representative of the Morning Chronicle who accompanied the relief steamer Tremorvah to Rot terdam with supplies, the gift of the people of Quebec, cmt.. and the mari time provinces. Cabling from Rotter dam, he praises the work of the Ameri can commission which has the relief work in charge, and to which the handling of the Tremorvah's cargo was entrusted. "The. potatoes," says the correspond ent, "are being sent to Liege, where they have none. The flour will be sent to Limbourg. a district of 60,000 people, where they have had no bread for 40 days. The apples and groceries will be .sent to Brussels, with some of the general cargo, from which place the goods will be delivered to the sur rounding districts. "Jhe clothing will be distributed throughout the country. "Captain Lucey. of the American com mittee, has shown every courtesy to us and is giving Mr. Elderkln. the Nova Scotia Commissioner In charge, every opportunity to render the utmost aid with Canada's fc-lf ts. One thing must be emphasized: The Germans are not seizing any of 'this relljf food and clothing, but are giving courteous as sistance to the work of relief." The correspondent emphasizes the'tir gent need of the Belgians, dwells on the evidences of intense and widespread suffering and forwards an appeal of the commission for further Canadian aid. WOMAN'S DEATH PROBED FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED 1ST CASE OF CONTRACT WIPE, AGES 20. Life Insured In Favor of Husband, San Pranelseo Physician Ar eotle Dose Fatal. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. Investi gation by a Coroner's Jury into the death of Dixie Fay Martin, the 20-year-old contract wife of Dr. J. W. G. Mar tin, which occurred in this city Novem ber 11, brought to light today several features which have led Coroner Le land to suspect foul -play. The young woman, according to statements of Dr. Martin, had frequent ly taken narcotics hypodermically - to relieve suffering caused by valvular heart disease. On the night of her death, he said today, he found her lying unconscious in their home. A physician was summoned who diagnosed the case as an overdose of the narcotic. Delay In informing the Coroner of the death and tbe nature of the diag nosis caused police investigation. Thu stomach and vital organs are in the hands of the city toxlcologist and tbe inquest was postponed until that of ficial shall have rendered his findings. Dr. Martin produced at the request of the Coroner what he said was the original contract between hlmBelf and the dead woman. It is dated St. Louis, April 21, 1914. According to the police Mrs. Martin's life was insured by two policies written in favor of Dr. Martin aggregating $5000. Dr. -Martin told the Coroner's Jury that he had met Dixie Fay Gor don In Oklahoma City in 1910, at which time she was a nurse. He said also he was a graduate of at St. Louis medical college and that he was awaiting state examination to practice medicine here. He has not been arrested. FRENCH EXPLOSIVES BEST Cliemist Says Sudden Withdrawal of Air Pressure Has Deadly Effect. BORDEAUX. Nov. 4. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) One thing French engineers believe has- been demonstrated by the war Is the superiority of French explosives. That is the opinion of Emile Moustiker, an ADVERTISING TALK No. 9. Uncle Sam Has 202 Regular Carriers Delivering Mail in All the Portland Homes The Oregonian has 192 regular carriers deliv ering Oregonians into nearly every Portland home. You can draw your own conclusion from this statement as to the Home circulation of The Ore gonian. Nature proves the friend of the morning news paper. In the morning the mind is alert and in a receptive mood hungry for the news all the cares and vexations of yesterday are gone. Tired Ijrain cells have been recharged. Yesterday after dinner you were tired vexed not in a receptive mood you could not concentrate your mind on the contents of the afternoon newspaper. You went to a meeting a dance or theater for relax ation. You remember only what you read in the morning newspaper because then your mind was clear. - Doesn't it strike you, Mr. Advertiser, that the great mass of readers of advertisements are in fluenced in the morning before the worries of the -day begin? The Portland home which does not get a copy of The Oregonian is, in most cases, of little value to an advertiser. eminent expert attached to the great est ammunition and gun manufactory in France. "Most modern explosives," he said, "are based on picric acid, but the com bination arrived at by French chemists has shown itself under the test of war conditions more reliable in Its action and more powerful in its results. "Of course, the stories in the- news papers of the dire effects of our shells are much exaggerated. It is said whole companies were stricken dead In the act of playing cards. I know as a fact that men have been found dead in strange attitudes without a scratch. The explanation of this is simple. The explosion of the shell causes a sudden terrific air pressure within a certain radius. This pressure is as suddenly withdrawn, the effect being to stop the whole human organism. It Is as if a diver were precipitated to a great depth and instantly brought to tho sur face again. No living being can stand such a strain." NORTH SEA DAR NOT NEW ASQ.UITH STATEMENT TO PARLIA MENT ONLY REITERATION. Word Regarding; Copper and Oil Re garded Similarly United States Wool Request Supported. "WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. Premier Asuqlth's statement to the British Par liament yesterday regarding the clos ure of the North Sea has not been made the subject of a xormal commu nication to the American Government. It is understood here to have been nothing more than a repetition to Parliament of the facts that were com municated to the State Department about a fortnight ago by the British Ambassador in Washington in regard to the danger to navigation in the North Sea, and a further notice Is deemed Improbable. Notice that the British government had placed mines in the North Sea to defend the English channel only after the Germans had sown mines in north ern waters and along the Irish coast probably will be accepted as sufficient answer to-the recent Inquiry by the State Department as to responsibility for the mining, and the Department will content itself with passing along the notice of the state of affairs In the North Sea to American mariners. It was pointed out today that Mr. Asquith's statement regarding the con traband character of copper and oil also was nothing more than a repeti tion of the Information communicated to the United States several weeks ago. The British embassy here is still try ing to facilitate the Importation of Australian wool Into the United States, notwithstanding the embargo recently declared. Another communication has been sent to London In regard to the apllcation of American wool manufac turers for permtsion to import Aus tralian wool under Individual guaran tee that the product will not reach Germany. WAR SHOCK KILLS WOMAN Hawaiian Heiress Passes Away at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 Funeral services will be held here tomorrow over the body of Mrs. Henry Galllard Smart formerly Thelma Parker, Ha waiian heiress and San Francisco so ciety favorite who died last night at the home of her mother, Mrs. Fred Knight. After the services the body will be cremated and the ashes, together with those of her Infant daughter. Eliza beth, who died recently in New York, will be taken to Honolulu on the liner Siberia next Saturday for interment. Hawaiian singers, part of a band who used to sing their native airs at the court of King Kalakaua in ante annexation days, will take part in the funeral ceremony. Mrs. Smart was granddaughter of Colonel Samuel Parker, of Honolulu, ex-Prime Minister in the Cabinet of King Kalakaua,' and is survived by her mother, husband and her 2-year-old son, Richard. Anxiety over war con ditions prevailing in Paris, where she was at the outbreak of hostilities, was said to have had much to do with her death. MILLING COMPANY FINED Moscow Concern Pays $5000 for Violation of Commerce Law. MOSCOW, Idaho, Nov. 18. After having pleaded guilty to violating the Federal law through attempting to ob tain transportation of freight at less than published railroad tariffs, the Mark P. Miller Milling Company, of Moscow, was fined 15000 here today by Federal Judge Dietrich. The plea of guilty resulted in two other counts against the company being dismissed. The case was prosecuted by H. R. Dunca, an attorney from Washington representing the Interstate Commerce Commission. William H. Vanderbllt has a tre which, although only two years old and less than ix feet In height, has produced 15 apples, whereas two or three ars unusual on a tree of this as. Lipman, Wolfe & Co. warn the public against men soliciting subscriptions for magazines and representing- themselves as our agents. We employ no agents or canvassers. These men are impostors. Our Semi-Annual Drug and Toilet Goods Sale STARTS AT 9 A. M. TODAY And Continues Friday, Saturday and Monday Only Thousands of articles in daily use and in constant -need are to be found in this sale at the lowest price level of the year. Hundreds of articles suitable for Xmas gifts are assembled in this sale at prices which we have found by the closest investiga tion cannot be matched elsewhere. This Drug and Toilet Sale has enjoyed the confidence of the public to a remarkable degree and its service to the public is self -apparent after comparisons are made with other drug and toilet goods sales. Investigation, comparison, scrutiny of sales here with those held elsewhere has given impetus in a great measure to the rapid growth of this store. Come today, while this enormous stock is complete. It will be impossible from the outset to guarantee our patrons against disappointment after one or two days' selling. No phone orders. No Restau rant No Bakery Liquors dMordwndi atcJ Merit ALIENS MUST LEAVE German Order Is Extended to Long List of Cities. SHARPER ACTION PROMISED Retaliation Against Xatlons That Compel Subjects of Enemies to Live in Concentration Camps Xow Threatened. BERLIN, via The Hague and London, Nov. 18. The expulsion of all subjects of countries hostile to Germany from the city of Frankfort-on-the-Maln. ref erence to which was made recently, resulted from an order issued by the chief of the general staff of the army. This order was made public .today, and according to It the subjects of hos tile countries, without distinction of age or sex, must leave the places enumerated In the following list: Pots dam, the Baltic Coast, including the Island of Kuegen; Stettin, Schaelde muehl. Thorn, Koenigsberg, in East Prussia; the fortifications around the Masurian Lakes, Allensteln, Elbing, Marlenburg, Lelpslc, Posen, Glogau, the coast of the North Sea. and all Ger man Islands along the North Sea, Ros tock. Luebeclc, Neumunster, Kiel, Em den and Wilhelmshaven; the country along the Kiel Canal and around the mouth of the Elba and the mouth of the Waser up to Hamburg and Bremen, including these two cities; Llegnltz, Breslau. Glatz, Essen, Dusseldorf, Co logne, Nuremburg, Gotha, Dresden, FTiederichshafen, the vicinity of the fortifications on the upper Rhine, Lahn, Baden, Nauhelm. Straasburg, Neubfreisach, Metz, Dledenhofen. Dan zig, Graudenz, Kulra. Darmstadt and Frankfort-on-the-Maln. In this connection, the Tagellsche Rundeschaa says: "We hear from a well-informed heource that further and sharper meas ures along this same line will be taken in the. Immediate future. . "From Russia we hear that resident Germans," this paper continues, "are obliged to live In concentration camps. If this Information Is found to be cor rect, Germany will retaliate by plac ing all Russian subjects In Germany in concentration camps. "Against the British system of im prisoning German women, we have protested to London in the sharpest way through neutral powers. Whether Germany will be obliged to retaliate by imprisoning English women now residing in Germany will depend upon the outcome of these negotiations." KING'S MA!LFILLS TRUCK Belgian Ruler's Saint's Day Brings Pelage of Congratulations. HAVRE, France, Nov. 18, via Paris. A large motor truck was required to forward to King Albert at his head quarters In Flanders the mail received here for the King on the occasion of his fete. No class of society forgot the Belgian ruler on his saint's day, which corresponds to a birthday in Protestant countries1. Picture postcards bearing congratu lations and best wishes wero in the majority, but the King's mall con tained poems, drawings, painting and even original musical compositions. Children were heavy contributors, as also were wounded soldiers in the hos pitals. All ranks, from the noollity to the peasantry, were represented. UNNEUTRAL FILM BARRED New Yort Censor Upheld in Exclud ing "Atrocity" Pictures,. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. The right of city. officials to prohibit the exhibition! No mail orders. No returns. 'Signncoct & Set of motion pictures believed to be con trary to public policy was upheld to day In a decision by Supreme Court Justice Davis. The decision vacated an Injunction obtained by a producer restraining George H. Bell, Commissioner of City Licenses, from prohibiting- the display of a "war" film supposed to show Ger man atrocities. Mr. Bell ordered the picture taken off at a local theater This Great Glove Sale In Which ONLY New Fresh Gloves Are Offered at Sale Prices Receives Added Impetus Each Day As the Real Worth of This Great Sale Becomes Known Women who have been attracted from time to time by sensational, advertising are com ing" to know more and more, day by day, that this store can always be counted upon as reliable, trustworthy and dependable in its every announcement. The Sale Is Still in Progress Come Share in Its Economies Announcing the Arrival of White Worumba Chinchilla Balmacaan Coats For Which So Many Women Are Waiting Two New Models Selling Regularly at $17.50 and $22.50 Special $12.50 and $15.00 Third Floor Merchandise No Groceries No Pots and Pans No Meat Market OnbT after he had learned that the National Board" of Censorship had condemned tz. The position was taken by the board that the film violated the principle of neutrality. It was shown in court that the picture had been suppressed In Boston. Providence, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Mo., and Dallas, Tex. India. In 1818. nt to the T'nlted States 1R2 students, and China sent Gtt-. of cS Merit On! I