New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1914, Page 9

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Its use does not imply a partly successful attempt to curtail the consumption of liquor, resulting in drinking in secret places, the abuse of medical licenses and gen- eral evasion and subterfuge. It does nikan that a vast population who consumed $1,000,000,000 worth of vodka a year; whose ordinary condi- tion has been described by Russians themselves in ranging from a slight degree of stimulation upward, has been lifted almost in one day from a drunken inertia to sobriety. The nation has been compelled, virtua!'v oger night, to abandon its enormous aaily consumption of vodka, a liquor that is almost pure alcohol, and be- come abstemious to the extent of let- ting no liquor pass its lips. On the day when the mobilization of the Russian army policemen visited every where vodka is sold, locked up supply of liquor and placed on spop the imperial seal. Since manufacture and sale of vodka is a government monopoly in Russia, it s not a difficult thing to enforce pro- hibition. Drunkenness Vanishes. From the day this step was taken public place the the the CIGARETTES No Premiums with Camels HE cost of the to- baccos in Camel Cig- arettes simply forbids the giving of such induce- ments. 20 for 10c and you never smoked a better cigarette at any price. They’re pleasing in flavor and fra- grance. Besides, they will not bite your tongue or parch your throat, nor will they leave that cigaretty taste ! R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO, Winiton-Salem, N. C. gin or any | began special | [drunkenness vanished in Russia. The results are seen at once in the peas- already beginning to look like a different race. The marks of suf. fering, the pinched looks of illness and improper nourishment, have gone from their faces. also a remarkable change in the ap- pearance of their clothes. Their clothing is cleaner, and both men and ‘Wwomen appear more neatly and better dressed. The destitute character of the homes of the poor has been re- placed with something like order and thrift. In Petrograd and Moscow the effect of these improved condi- | tions is fairly startling. On holi- idays in these two ¢ities inebriates al- ways filled the police stations, and often they were lying on sidewalks and in the streets. Things are so ! Qifferent today that unattended women I may pass at night through sections of these cities where it was formerly dangerous even for men. Minor crimes and misdemeanors have almost vanished. This miracle has been accomplished virtually by one man—Michael D. Tchelisheff, a peasant by birth, a house painter by profession, then mayor of the city of Samara and now a millionaire. Physically he is a giant, standing over 6 feet 4 inches in his stocking feet, and of powerful build. He is fifty-five years old, but looks much younger. His movements display the energy of youth, his eyes are animated and his black hair is not tinged by gray. erally found in 4 rooms in one of the best hotels. He goes about clad in a blue blouse, witn a ‘tasselled girdle, i.ceches, tucked into heavy boots. Ho offers his visitors tea from a samovar and fruit from the Crimea. Beginning of the Crusade. I was reared in a small Russian village,” Mr. Tchelisheff said. “Thers were no schools or hospitals.or any of the improvements we are-accustomed to in civilized communities. I picked up an education from old newspa- pers and strdy books. One day 1 It your deaier can’tsuppl yyou, send 10c for 1 package or $1.00- for a carfon of ten packages (@00chgareftes ), postageprepaid, After smoking 1 package, if you i find CAMELS a5 rep- resented, return the other 9 pack- ages and we will refund your money. In Petrograd Mr. Tchelisheff is gen- luxurious suite of | and baggy black ! g . fulness of alcohol. There has been -drank it, he explained, | sum of money to the Imperlal Treas- { ury, requesting at the same tima that i the sale of vodka be prohibited. This | i | | and went to ! tabled. chanced upon a book in the hands of a moujik which treated of the harm- It stated, among other things, that vodka was a poisou. | I was so impressed with this, knowing that everybody drank vodka, that T asked the physician 1 met if the state- ment were true. He said yes. Men because of | momentarily’ it gave them a sensa- | tion of pleasant dizziness. From that time I decided to take every oppor- tunity to discover more about the use | of vodka. “At the end of the 80’s there camo | famine in Russia, followed by agi rian troubles. I saw a crowd of pea: ants demand from a local landlord all the grain and foodstuffs in his gran- ary. This puzzled me; I could not un- derstand how honest men were indul- gink in what seemed to be highway | robbery. But I noted at the time that | every man who was taking part in| this incident was a drinking man, | while their fellow villagers who werc abstemious had sufficient provisions | in their own homes. Thus it was that I observed the industrial effects of vodka drinking. | “At Samara I dacided to do more | than passively dissaprove 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 terrible impression on me that I decided to fight vodka with all my strength. Rejected vy the Government. “On the supposition that the gov ernment was selling vodka for the revenue, I calculated the revenue re- ceived from its consumption in Sam- ara. I then introduced a bill in the city council providing that city give this bill passed, and the money was appro- priated. It was offered to the govern- ment, but the government promptiy refused it. “It then dawned upon me that Rus- slan bureaucracy did not want the people to become sober, for the rea- son that it was easier to rule auto- cratically a drunken mob than a sober people. Bill Passed Douma. “This was seven yvears ago. Later T was elected mayor of Samara, capital of the Volga district, a district with over a quarter of a million inhabi- tants. Subsequently to holding this office I was elected to the Douma on an anti-vodka platform. In the Dou- ma I preposed a bill permitting the inhabitants of any town to close the local vodka shops, and providing al that every bottle of vodka should bear a label with the word ‘poison.’ At my request, the wording of this label, in which the evils of vodka were set forth, was done by the late Count Leo Tolstoy. This bill passed the Douma the Imperial Council, where it was amended and finally an audience of He received me “1 then begged Emperor Nicholas. with great kindness in his castle in the Crimea, not far from the scene of the recent Turkish bombardment. He listened to me patiently. He w impressed with my of the revolutionary and socialist ex- cesses were committed by drunkards and that the Sveaborg, Kronstadt and Sebastopol navy revolts and the Pe trograd and other mutinous mili- tary movements were all caused by inebriates. Having heard me out, his majesty promised at once to speak to his minister of finance concerning the prohibition of vodka. Regarded as Dangerous, “Disappointed at not having been able to get through a government bill regulating this evil, T had abandoned | ($600,000,000) yearly, | government domains and possessions | son acting recital that most | | and Strength. Best for Colds, my seat in the Douma. It was evident that the bureaucracy had been able to obstruct the measure. Minister of Finance Kokovsoff regretted it as a dangerous innovation, depriving the government of 1,000,000,000 rubles without any i method of replacing this revenue. “While T lobbied in Petrograd the emperor visited the country around Moscow and saw the havoc of vod- ka. He then dismissed Kokovsoff and appointed the present minister of fi- nance, M. Bark. ““Mobilization precipitated the anti- vodka measure. The grand duke, re- membering the disorganiaztion due to drunkenness during the mobiliza- tion of 1904, ordered the prohibition of all alcoholic drinks except In clubs and first class restaurants. iThis or- der, enforced for one month, showed the Russian authorities the value of abstinence. Yelt No Privation. “In spite of the general depression caused by the war, the paralysis of business, the closing of factories and the interruptions of railroad traffic, the ‘people felt no privation. Savings | banks showed an increase in deposits over the preceding month and over the corresponding month of the pre- ceding year. At the same timc there was a boom in the sale of meats, gro- ceries, clothing, dry goods and house | furnishings. The 30,000,000 rubles a day that had been paid for vodka were now being spent for the neces- sities of life. “The average working weeck in- | creased from three and four days to the numerous holidays of the | drinker having been eliminated. The working day also became longer, and | the efficiency of the worker was per- haps doubled. Women and children. who seldom were without marks | showling the physical violence of the husband and father, suddenly found themselves in an undreamed-of para- dise. There were no blows, no in- sults and no rough treatment. There was bread on the table, milk for the babies and a fire in the kitchen. Opens Press Campaign. “I decided to seize this occasion for a press campaign so far as this is a possible thing in Russia. 1 organ- | ized delegations to present petitions to the proper authorities for the pro- longmg 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. Another similar campaign to remove the licenses from privileged restau- rants and clubs was successful, and strong liquor is no longer available anywhere in Russia. “The second month of made the manifold advantages so clear to everybody that When we called upon his majesty to thank him for his recent orders he promised that the vodka business of the gov- ernment would be given up forever. This promise was promulgated in a telegram to the Grand Duke Con- stantine. “There remains now only to find elsewhere the revenue which up to the present time has been contributed by vodka. There has been introduced in the Douma a bill offering a solu- tion 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 abstinence more productive.” Best coffee 32¢ 1b. Russell Bros.— advt. | —— | JEWELS ARE PRESENTED, | Past \raasters’ night was nbberved:| at Centennial lodge, A. F. & A. M last night and the third degree was conferred by a team from the ranks of the past masters, Dr. C. F. Erick- as worshipful master. Master Georgb Dyson presented past masters’ jewels to the following past masters: Dr. E. B. Abbey of Hart- ford, master in 1893; J. W. Bailey, in 1890-2; Edgar H. Smith, in 1891, and Frank E. Corbin, in 1897. PREDICTS SEVERAL CHANGES. New York, No: Edward Bar- row, president of the International league, predicts several changes in his circuit in the event that peace nego- tiations between organized baseball and the Federal league fall through, as reports from the west indicated last night. Jersey City and Baltimore will both lose their franchises, accord- ing to Barrow, who stated that the Jersey City team will play in Brooklyn, | and the Baltimore franchigse will be | shifted to either Syracuse, N. Y., or Richmond, Va. 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London, Nov, 19, 3:30 a. m.—Advices received here from Thielt, Belgium, which brought by way of Sas Van Gent by messenger and are dated Monday, Nov. 16, state that West Flanders, the scene of incessant military operations, remains an island cut off from rest of Belgium through the blowing up of most of the bridges leading thereto. ‘easants are obliged to make emergency bridges from planks and crawl along these to escape from the danger zone. The Germans have de- clared the territory west of the rail- road running from Antwerp to Brus- sels and thence to Mons an official war area, where nobody, including even Germans, is allowed to travel without a special military passport. It is difficult to obtain reliable news of the situation in the war zone, as the bedraggled men and women who manage to escape are too miserable, tlirough cold and hunger, to give a connected account of their experi- ences. Their only definite recollection seems to be the continued cannon fire and the endless procession of wounded filling their villages. Dixmude Entirely Ruined. It was learned from some of them, however, that Dixmude, the scene of such severe fighting, is entirely ruined. Nieuport also suffered se- verely. The principal church there has lost its tower and its roof and the renaissance carvings in its interior have been demolished. Tn Ypres the Cloth hall, which was one of the few ancient buildings saved from the Fnglish siege in the year 1383, is se- verely damaged by shrapnel fire. In Termonde the Germans have ordered the schools reopened, but since the ten thousand inhabitants have been reduced to a hundred, there are no pupils, and besides as four- fifths of the town is in ruins, there are no schools. The bridgzes here are lightly guarded by men of the Ba- rian landwehr, AT $14.98. The Hague, Pcpulation. its population Deserted by Ghent is deserted by but is overflowing with German wounded. Zeebrugge, according to reports, has been made a station for submarines by the Germans. At Alost the population is beginning to return. The people arc establishing them- selves in shacks and in the ruins of their old homes. Food Exceedi ¥rom the entire province of Flan- ders, where the roads are full of aimlessly drifting people, come credit- akle reports of ever increasing suffer- ing from hunger. The peasants are cutting down the old line of trees at the country places for fuel. Brussels is quiet. About one-third of the population there is supported by public charity. A similar situation xists in Maline - Scarce. HONORS LORD ROBERTS. Liverpool, Nov. 19.—The Liverpool Cotton Exchange closed for two hours today from noon to two P. M., out of respect for the late Lord Roberts. were | the | WERE GOING T0 SAYS CAPT. TALBC (Continued from Eighth Page.) scored a touchdown on a forward pass after Ewing had made several good gains through the line. Kent kicked the goal from the scrub touch- daown. Harvard Students Enthusiastic. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 19.—All Harvard turned out to the stadium | vesterday. The undergraduates marched to the fleld with their band and after the team had put on its last drill swarmed up onto the stone seats and cheered the team as it ran up and down the field half a dozen times on signals. There were songs as well as the cheers, and not a player or ccach was forgotten, The ’varsity worked as for the first two days of the week, Withington re- maining at right guard. Weston was out of goors and Friday. will go to New London with the team. It is sald that he surely will start the game. The players now are fit for the battle on Yale Field. Captain Charley Brickley ran through signals with the substitutes, but is not in shape for any real work. He tried one drop kick from the twenty-eight yard line and kicked in his old time form. As the Yale game comes to hand there is no doubt that he will go in to try for a fleld goal Saturday if the occasion demands. i 1 ‘COACH DISMISSED FOR CROOKEDNESS [ Sent Player Back Into Game in Dls- guise After He Had Been Ruled Off Gridiron, | | As an aftermath of the incident during last Saturday’s football game with New York university, when the Stevens coach substituted a player who had been ruled out of the game, Head Coach Ayres has been dismissed by the Stevens athletic council. Ayres was a member of the West Point | team several years ago. The unusual action on the coach's part was taken when the manager of the team was off the field and when the captain was out of the game dis- abled to such an extent that he could take no part in the amairs of the game. The substitution did not come to the notice of the college authori- ties until yesterday, when President Humphreys and the athletic council started an investigation. During the Investigation it was learned that the coach had been guilty of deception in sending back a man disguised by plasters cver nis face and wearing a different sweater. As a result the athletic council promptly dismissed the coach, and in spite of the fact that it is within four days of the end of the season and one of the biggest games, that with Rutgers, is all that remains of the Stevens schedule. PREXY O'ROURKE BACK. President O'Rourke of the Kastern association arrived home last night from Omaha, Neb., where he attend- ed the minor league convention. 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