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THE MOILMXG OREGOMAX, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1917. RUSSIA HUNGRY If! MIDST OF PLENTY Car Famine and High Com modity Prices Cause End less Suffering. POOR PEOPLE SHIVERING Slars in Distress in All Parts of Revolution-Torn Country Be cause Means for Distri bution Are Wanting. BY RH ETA CHILPE DORR. fT'ourteenth of a. seri-s of articles telling the Insidn story of Russia's revolt. Copy right, li17, by the New York Kvening Mail. Published by arrangement.) After Napoleon Bonaparte's defeated legions had fled from Russia to freeze and starve and die by thousands in a frenzied attempt to pet back to France, the victorious commander of the Rus . sian army said that his two greatest aides had been General January and General February. The relentless cold and storm of a Russian Winter were foes too strong for Bonaparte to con quer. They sent him to St. Helena, and the same strong foes this Winter re going to banish the Bolsheviki. The Russian revolution began with a bread riot and it will culminate in a bread riot. When the people of Russia get hun gry enough they are going to stop talking about "no annexations" or "no contributions," "all the power to the Soviets." and the rest, and demand a government that shall govern, and as soon as possible put the country back on a normal basis. When the ther mometer falls to 45 degrees below zero and a 50-miles-an-honr wind is driving sleet and snow in their faces, people can no longer stand 24 hours in line to buy food for their children. Ks pecially when their clothes are thin and worn and their boots are dropping off their feet. Yesterday I told something about the food situation in Russia. The cloth ing situation and the fuel situation are. if anything, worse. If you want to buy a pair of shoes in Petrograd you must take two days to do it and you must put much money in your purse. There is an American shoe store on the Nev sky Prospekt and every day the line of people trying to get in and buy hoes was so great that it blocked traf fic and the city authorities finally had to close the street entrance. The line now forms in a court or lane In the rear of the store and the customers are admitted, a few at a time, through the back door. This American shoe store is very popular because the shoes are of excel lent quality and the prices are regard ed as reasonable. A woman can bus- a pair of boots there as low as $25. Men's shoes are somewhat dearer. But the stock was running low when I was there in the Summer and when it gives out I don't see how they are going to replenish it. On a corner of the Grand Morskaia there is another shoe store, in front of v. hich a crowd stands all day long and all night. The queue extends around the corner and I have seen it when it stretched to the Moika Canal, a very long block away. This is a store where cheaper shoes are sold. It represents an attempt on the part of one of the fleeting ministries to relieve the shoe shortage. A large quantity of shoes and leather was purchased and there are now being distributed through au thorized channels in the shop on the Morskaia. Shoe Shortafte a Menace. In order to buy a pair of those shoes a man or a woman gets there and gets a place in line. He stands in line un til his turn comes to be admitted to the shop, a long and weary business. When he gains admission to the shop and the clerk gets around to waiting on him he gets a pair of shoes? Not a bit of it. He gets a ticket with a number on it. The ticket entitles the cus tomer to come back at some future date, stand in line and claim a., pair of shoes which are probably at the time being made. Provided he can afford to pay a minimum of $10 for them. When 1 was in Poland with the wom en soldiers, the Botchgareva Battalion of reath. the regiment was delayed in its further progress toward the fight ing line by a dearth of boots in which ITCHY PIMPLES ON FACEJiECK And Shoulders. Formed In Blotches. Burned So Scratched. Cuticura Healed. Cost $1.00. 'I had to work with prease and oils which were the cause of trouble with my skin. Small, red pimples began to a r f 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 p nr. m v n -L- "Jjji shoulders, and face, which " bothered me very- much. i ncyuseaioiormin niotcnes which became festered and itched and burned so that I scratched them, and many a ni;ht 1 lay awake because of the eruption. "I was bothered for sev eral months until 1 heard of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. By the time 1 had usea one box of Cuticura Ointment and twocakes of Cuticura Soap I was healed. " (Signed) Ravmond Moyer, 151 J Porter St.. Portland, Ore., March 24. 1917. Keep your skin clepr by daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every day toilet purposes. Nothing better. For Free Sample Each by Return Mail address post-catd: "Cuticura, Dept. H, Boston." Sold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. Heal Skin Diseases It is unnecessary for you to suffer with eczema, blotches, ringworm, rashes and similar skia troubles. A little zemo, obtained at any drug store for 35c, or $1.00 for extra Izrp.e bottle, and promptly applied will usually give instant relief from itching torture. It cleanses and soothes the skin and heals quickly and effectively most skin diseases. Zemo is a wonderful, penetrating, dis scoearine liquid and i3 soothing to the most delicate skin. It is not greasy, is easily applied and costs little. Get it today and save all rurtner distress. The E. W, Rose Co.. Cleveland, Ot to march. About half the women sol diers received boots along with other equipment before they left Petrograd, but the other half wore, with their khaki uniform, the women's shoes, of ten worn and tattered, in which they had enlisted. One day there was great rejoicing in the barrack. The boots had come, and the rest of the afternoon was spent in sorting out from the pile a pair to fit each girl. I was interested in those boots, for they were mute but eloquent witnesses of the poverty of life in Russia. Not a pair was new. They were all second hand, remade and mended boots, and I strongly suspect that most of them had been taken off the feet of dead sol diers. They had, in many cases, new feet or new soles, but the majority of them were merely mended and patched. Coarse, stiff, malodorous ami badly put together as these were, the girls were only too glad, to get them. The adju tant Skridlova and one or two of the well-to-do soldiers had their boots made to order, and they paid $90 a pair for them. Seventy-five dollars for a pair of women's boots is not an unheard-of price. What is true of boots and shoes is true of almost every other clothing commodity. I ran out of gloves while I was in Russia, but, after hearing what gloves cost in Petrograd, I went without. You could get cotton gloves as low as $1.80 a pair. They were ugly and shapeless, but people bought and wore them. If you wanted a pair of kid gloves and. you knew where you could find them and had time, you could buy them for $3 to to. They were the kind that an American department store might put on a table in the cen ter aisle and sell for 50 cents to at tract customers in the dull season. Dollar for Linen Collar. A man pays il for a 15-cent collar In Petrograd. He pays several dollars for a decent pair of socks. What he pays lor a suit oi clotnes staggers the imag ination. There are only two things that are cheap to buy in Russia just now cats and dogs. You can buy a magnificent wolfhound or other thoroughbred dog, or a pure-bred Persian or Angora cat for a song in Petrograd, because peo ple can't afford to feed pet animals. Mr. Miles, attached to the Root mission, took home with him two Russian wolf bounds that are going to make him the most envied man in the next dog show in his town, and the song he sang to get them was too short to tell. Russia is a very cold country and almost every one, rich and poor alike, wears furs. The rich wear sable, mink and ermine and the poor wear rabbit skin and sheep. But furs just now are as difficult to buy as other clothing indispensables. There are several spe cial reasons for this shortage of fur in a fur country. There are not so many people hunting furs since the war and the pelts are scarcer; and besides, the Russians have never cured and dyed their own furs. They sent them to Ger many to be prepared for market and, of course, the war put a stop to that. Aside from these special reasons, the fur shortage and all the food, clothing and other shortages are caused by two main obstacles. There is plenty of food in the empire, plenty of raw materials for clothing. But the transportation system has almost broken down and they cannot distribute the food. Also the factory system has all but broken down and they cannot produce the clothing. There are besides minor and contributory obstacles, some of which I shall describe. The main reason why Russia will starve and freeze this Winter is be cause the people of Russia, liberty- mad, have allowed the railroads to go to pieces and because they have, to an almost incredible extent, ceased to do any work. I cannot, speak as an expert about the railroad situation, nor would mere figures and statistics give the reader any adequate picture of the railroad demoralization. To say that on May 15, 1917, the then minister of ways and communications reported to the Duma that more than 25 per cent of the total number of locomotives in the empire were laid up for repairs wouldn't be gin to express the thing. The average reader does not know that a per cent of "sick" locomotives is considered high by competent railroad managers. I might go further and say that the number of freight cars loaded from May 15 to May 31, 1917. was. S7.000 poods less than the number loaded be tween those dates in 1916, but that would not mean much. Few outside of Russia know what a pood is. I did know, but I have forgotten whether a pood is something more or something less than a pound. Huge Supplies Ready to Ship. What told the tale of railroad de moralization to me was the constant anxiety I heard voiced on all sides by people trying to buy their Winter stock of wood and coal. There is an endless quantity of wood in Russia. Great for ests of pine and cedar and birch, beau tiful forests. I had often marveled at them from the windows of my railway carriage passing through Finland and the country between Petrograd and Moscow. Plenty of this wood has been cut. I saw thousands and thousands of cords of it piled up alons" the railroad tracks and' of course there must have been much more elsewhere. Petrograd is built on a marsh and the ground is drained by picturesque if rather badly smelling canals which run through the city and empty into the Neva. Down one of the widest of these the Moika. which I crossed every day a constant line of barges, loaded with wood, floated slowly, drawn by horses and sometimes by men. walking along a towpath beside the canal. 1 used to watch those barge loads of wood and wonder why. with such an almost un paralleled means of distributing wood after it got there, the people of Petro grad should be troubled about the Winter fuel supply. Not nearly enough of it was getting there last Summer; that was all. The quantity that floated down the Moika and the other canals and got stacked up in woodyards and in the courtyards of apartment houses, hotels, hospitals, factories and even palaces, was not half the normal quantity. There weren't enough flat cars and locomotives run ning to get the wood as far as the city limits. 1 tried the - experiment of "keeping house with the wife of the "Outlook" correspondent after he left Russia on a mission. We had a charming little apartment offered us rent free, with a maid thrown in, if we would live in it and keen it from being looted. Every one who knew a Cossack or other reliable soldier, or an American, did that when they went to the country from Petrograd. We gave up housekeeping after a week and went back to hotels, partly because the maid could not get us enough to eat, and partly because we never had any hot water. The land lord of the apartment-house had cut off the wood. He said that he couldn't get wood enough to warm the house next Winter, much less provide warm baths tor the tenants in Summer. T B Continued. U. S. DESERTER AIDS HUNS Austrian and German Mapping Koads and Trails of Chiliualiua. JUAREZ. Mex.. Oct. 17. An Austrian who deserted from the United States Army- at Fort Bliss. Tex., is mapping the roads, trails and water holes of Northern Chihuahua, it became known here Late today. He is being assisted by a German, according to informa tion received at military headquarters here. The survey includes a map of the trail used by General Pershing in pur suit of Villa. . PRO-GERMAN AGENTS FIGHT LIBERTY LOAN Organized Propaganda Bears Fruit From Minnesota, to Texas. SLANDERS ARE CIRCULATED Efforts to Prevent Banks From Handling Bonds Center Chiefly in Wisconsin, the Dakota?, Mis souri and Oklahoma. WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. Pro-German agents in the United States, accord ing to reports to the Treasury Depart ment, have directed their energies to ward defeating the liberty loan. Their organized propaganda has borne fruit from Minnesota to Texas, it is as serted, in scattered localities where weak efforts have been made, -not open ly, but by indirect methods, to discour age subscriptions. The work of the pro-German agents, officials assert, has been carried on for more than two weeks. Some 6f the workers have had the temerity, reports to the Treasury indicate, to conduct their operations here in the National capital. Official recognition of the propa ganda against the loan was vnl,.H f day by Colonel Herbert M. Lord rep resenting the War Department at the W"ar risk insurance c n r . - n which details of the new sniHisrs-' sailors' insurance law nre hrino- Plained to officers and enlisted men from the various cantonments. Organized Effort Kelt. "There has been an nr.t niroH r fort." said Colonel Lord, who was chairman of today's meeting, "to dis courage and defeat the loan." Ihis effort, tie added has hn mono by "seeking to misrepresent the patri otism of the new National Army." An official announcement of the proceed ings or the conference, which was be hind closed doors, issued tnnip-ht k,. the Treasury Department, reads as fol lows: "In convincing refutation r,t th slander, which was to the effect that the men of the new National Armv opposed the war. Colonel Ird an nounced that subscriptions from the rrmy for the loan alreadv jrrreirt $26,000,000 and that some of the sub scriptions were written in foreign lan guages, i ne announcement caused great enthusiasm among the delegates, from the Army and Navv. Marine f-oi-im Coast Guard (attending the confer ence). 500 of whom swarmed up to the platform following the address and signed war insurance applications, all of which, except 40. were for the max imum of $10,000." Main Channels Are Fonr. Assembled from various sources th efforts of workers against the loan ap pear to have been directed along four main channels; Attempts to discouraere nrosner.fi ve buyers of liberty bonds. Efforts to prevent certain banks from handling the bonds. The publication, in certain newspa pers and other mediums of publicity, of editorials and articles which, whiie not directly opposing the loan sub scriptions, tend to discourage buyers. 1 ne prevention, so far as local and sporadic efforts can prevent, of the placing of liberty loan posters and ad vertising where it will be most bene ficial. Attempts to discourage buyers by the personal plea method have been con fined mostly to the East. Instances have been brought to the attention of officials where buyers have been ap proached, apparently in a spirit of great friendship, r.nd advised not to buy the bonds. Germans Withdraw Funds. Efforts to prevent banks from han dling the bonds have centered chiefly in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Montana, Missouri and Oklahoma. The president of a Wis consin bank has advised the Treasury that his depositors, mostly Germans or of German parentage, have withdrawn many thousands of dollars from his bank because he aided the first lib erty loan. These depositors, he added. had taken their accounts to two rival banks on the understanding that those banks would not aid the second liberty loan. iiiiumiiiiimn.immmiMiiiiiimiuiiMmiwifmiiiim t TO OUR PATRONS ! AND DEPOSITORS i HI a i n Ml The two banks, he reported, were not aiding the loan in any way. Many banks have felt the pressure of German influence in this propaganda, reports indicate. So pronounced was the movement that the states of Min nesota, North and South Dakota and Montana recently decided that they would withdraw state funds from any bank which did not support the loan. Pro-Gfrman Element Strongi In Missouri and Oklahoma the pro German element is said to have applied strong pressure on bank directors and officers to induce them to refrain from participating in the flotation of the sec ond loan. This movement, however, proved to be a boomerang, it is said. The banks turned a deaf ear to these rep resentations and subscriptions are now reported to be increasing heavily in that section. A check is kept by the Treasury on all newspaper editorials and articles referring to the loan, not only In publications printed in English, but in the foreign language press as well. A number of such publications, it is asserted, have been industriously printing editorials and articles of a tone apparently studied to produce im pressions unfavorable to the loan. Loan Worker Are Making Whirlwind Campaign. Liberty Ilond Appeal In Being: Car ried Into All InrtM of state, and ltefponse 1 KntbUMlatlc BANKS all over Central Oregon, in cluding Klamath Palls, Lakeview, Bend, Dufur, Shaniko. Ashland, Marsh field, Astoria and others, have an nounced to liberty loan headquarters that they are carrying customers for liberty loan bonds at 4 per cent in terest, the identical rate charged by the Government. Reports from 41 meetings held Tues day night and Monday show large at tendance and intense patriotic spirit. In many meetings people were unable to restrain their enthusiasm, and made subscriptions before leaving. Individual farmers rose in meetings and subscrip tions were made by them, some exceed ing $1000 and several of $5000 and $10,000. t Carroll S. Stowe will address the em ployes of the Columbia Engineering Works at Linnton today at noon. He will also take subscriptions, being equipped for the purpose. Mr. Stowe spoke at noon Wednesday to 75 employes of the Portland Laun dry. Three hundred and fifty dollars in bonds were subscribed right on the spot, with more promised. Eighteen of those present when M. R. Klepper spoke at Woodburn Tues day subscribed for liberty bonds on the 'spot. Frank Crome made a wonderful talk Mr. Klepper said on reporting to liberty loan headquarters yesterday. ... Ralph R. Duniway and Frank A. Freeman will speak before the Boy Scouts in Library Hall at 7:30 o'clock Saturday at the inauguration of the Boy Scouts' campaign on behalf of lib erty bonds. Conrad P. Olsen spoke at Seaside yes terday afternoon and the meeting was largely attended. Mr. Olsen made a tremendous hit when he asserted: "You are making yourself a part of our National Army when you purchase a bond. Your bond will buy a load of provisions for the Army, provide for doctors and hospitals, buy ammunition and guns, barbed wire, pay the soldiers and sailors, provide offensive and de fensive warfare. "Buy bonds to the extent that it cramps you." Seneca Fouts addressed a noonday crowd, composed mainly of union men, at Third and Alder streets yesterday. Mr. Fouts spoke from the viewpoint of a former working man. He asked the 100-odd men present if those who had subscribed to the liberty loan would hold up their hands. About 20 did so and an additional -0 promised to sub scribe to the loan. "I was deeply impressed with the loyalty of these working men," said Air. Fouts, who did not even mention the strike question. . Ralph R. Duniway, upon his return from Sheridan, reported that the meet ing held there Tuesday night, which was addressed by A. J. Gillis, of Walla Walla: R. W. Montague and Frank E. Manning and Air. Duniway was a re markable success. Richard W. Montague will take the place of Judge Henry E. McGinn at Ba ker Friday evening. The Judge will be unable to be present at Baker's pa triotic meeting. . Ben Selling's plan of selling bonds is perhaps the sensation of the Oregon campaign up to this time. He continued to do a large business yesterday, ap proximately 250 bonds being disposed of. Mr. Selling was called upon by a del egation of South Portland residents. 3 N RECOGNITION of the necessity for this time to bring the Second Liberty Loan of 1917 to a successful close," The Northwestern National Bank will lend funds to its patrons and depositors with which to purchase LIBERTY BONDS. Under present conditions such loans, payable in regular installments, will be made at 5 thus affording the opportunity to invest future earnings as well as present savings in this SAFEST OF. ALL INVESTMENTS. We are glad to thus co-operate in order that YOU, TOO, may become a con tributing factor in protecting the FREEDOM of this Nation and all mankind. The NortHwestern National Bank Northwestern Bank Building Portland, Oregon re- 1 mfl $1 1 Third and Alder Streets M Week-End Specials for Thursday, Friday and Genuine Boston Garters, colors blue, white, purple and tan, spe cial 15 Good, warm Raglan Overcoats, made from Oregon wool by the Oregon City Woolen Mills; good value for $20. Our sp'l price $14.50 New Cloth Hats, new patterns, new shapes. Special price in effect Thursday, Friday and Saturdav only $1.85 These six big specials will be the talk of the town. You must come, if only to get acquainted and see what an exclusive Man's Store will do for you the citizens and buyers of Portland. Remember the store all around the southwest corner Third and Alder Sts. JM who came to confirm his offer and. upon his assurance that there is no string attached to the proposition, an nounced that they would bring in a large number of purchasers from that section of the city. Bend has now subscribed nearly $30. 000, according to a wire from C. S. Hudson, who asks for a speaker for October 24. Rufus C. Holman was promptly assigned by H. E. Reed, and Mr. Holman as promptly accepted the assignment. Benton County banks raised, up to last night, $85,600, according to ad vices from A. R. Woodcock, cashier of the First National. "However, we are just organized and we shall proceed to raise our quota by tripling that sum in the next nine days." he said. Rollie Watson, down at Tillamook, has been making a wonderful campaign on behalf of liberty bonds and food conservation. He has induced school children to buy bonds. He made a rapid fire campaign of Tillamook County with Mrs. Jennie Kemp. Pendleton has one bank that has raised over a quarter of a million dol lars to date. The American National Bank reported yesterday that its one day's total was $25,350 and the total for the campaitrn for the swine bank united action at PI a yij .50 For Twenty-Dollar IL.L.E Men's Cashmere Hose, all sizes, ex tra special -. 25 Men's Fiber Hose, all sizes, extra special 25 $1.50 Dress Shirts, soft French cuffs, new patterns. Special $1.15 You must see these shirts. A good, heavy-weight Cotton Union Suit, just the kind for Autumn wear, worth $2.00; our price for 3 days' selling. . . .$1.35 L, Third and Aider Streets was $259,900. Liberty loan officials, in trie absenrft of definite records, wr Let Us Show Don't Have to Button Edmcator for Boy rasi ti Bent I'll Jii I Bones !i m&Z&M , Jrrv,w SI 'Jrsxz; i you If Sh" 1 ; . I VSffi i I 'Jplls' llStraightl Cv I Bones 21 IvitS 4 That Grew:? I I XZ" 5 Straight in M KNIGHT SHOE CO. Morrison, Near Broadway A New Face Without Surgical Skin Peeling The surgical operation of face peeling la too radical, too severe. There's a bet ter way of removing offensive complex ions and one that is entirely safe and rational. Ordinary mercolized wax causes the devitalized scarf skin to come off. but gradually and grentlv. Unlike tne surgical process, the skin is not forcibly taken off in bie pieces all at once, but almost Invisible flaky par ticles are absorbed by tne wax, attd about two weeks are required to com plete the transformation. There a no pain, no discomfort. Nature renews complexions the same way, shedding tiny cutaneous scales day by day. But deficient circulation, or other abnormal condition, may in terfere with the shedding a "bad com plexion" results. Then mercolized wax assists Nature by hastening the re moval of the aged, faded or discolored top skin. Thus only the lively, yountr. healthy-hued skin is in evidence, as in robust girlhood. This is why mercol ized wax produces the indescribable beauty of ever renewing youth. The wax is put on at night like cold cream. and washed off In the morning. You can procure it at any druggist's; an ounce is uuincient. Aav. Suits Third and Alder Streets r: Saturday Only 4 -:1 .1 1 j F n i 4 1 Inclined to believe out-of-state bHnkp. this a record for You Why You "Break In" the RICE & HUTCHINS LONG before pinching, f pointed shoes are bro ken in,yourfoot is broken in. The bones are bent, twisted, made unfit. Then come the inevitable foot miseries flat feet, corns, bunions, ingrown nails, callouses. You don't want these ills at this National crisis, do 1 hen, give up those absurd shoes of yours. Get into Educators, built to "let the feet growas theyshould". Remember, it is not an Educator shoe unless stamped EDUCATOR on the sole. There can be no guar antee stronger than this trademark, for it absolutely guarantees the whole shoe every part the shape the material the workmanship. Made for Men, Women, Children by Rice & Hutchins, Inc. Boston TO RELIEVE CATARRHAL DEAFNESS AND HEAD NOISES . If you have a fatarrht Deafness or head noises go to your druRRist and pet 1 ounce of Parmlnt f double Btrenmh). and add to it U pint of hot water and 4 ouncei of granulated sugar. Take 1 tublenpoonful four times a day. This will often bring quirk relief from the distressing head noises. Clocked nostrils should open, hrea.thinff become easy and the mucus stop dropping Into the throat. It is easy to prepare, costs little and Is pleasant to tae. Any ono w ho has Catarrha 1 Ioaf ness or head noises should give the prescription a trial. Adv. Gray Sfiair? BARB a H4J? gfKMKOlT A preparation of exeat merit that gradually darkens gray hair and makes it soft and glossy Vow Can Makm it YourueH To balf pint of water add on oz. of Bar Ram. a boa of Barbo CoroDoaod. nd X oz. of Bireerine. Any drusviBt can pat tbts a p. ot yoa can mis it at boin at err litUe cost. Direction SUM in aach box of &arbo Compooad. At ail drag sums.