The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1919, Page 16

Absume Contdinneit® ot French «ttt, ot RS and Wie Wire, 1: 5B) ived ih NOW t Bapaystie. | ote hen Teonetigh = TH y gnn Bevan Ambulance ital ormenization with whivly Jie In France. He i @ native fm but an Ametican @)tiken. Ne abroad the dancers assamod Hanship ove: Marie Crignon, a French girl found by Maurice at luge hours on border of tie Bolshevist “Ambassador” Armed With Money Seized From Russian Banks. THE COUGH THAT KEEPS YOU AWAKE - WtSaps Your Strength—Get Id of It By Taking Father John’s Medicine ASRS to realize that the cough| The Soviet Government ar- keeps you awake at night is a / et i fanged to finance ite “Ambassa- js menace to your health, It is| ” precese your strength. It is keeping | Gor” by the cmpte bed thin and rundown. You need| *@izing the largest banking in- zeon irdicine right now iad stitution in Russia, the Moscow and heal the irritation in the! "i 5 % passages; to give new} Narodney (People’s) Bank. with strength, to fight off the germs and to| its capital of 100,000,000 rubles, Be Faas ashes Somme ot sna aso : ‘ather John's Medicin ¥ ing had more than 60 years of success | cUritien on “loans of 900,000,000 treat: just such conditions. Jt is! ‘ubles, and an annual turnover safe for all the family to take becau: of 5,823,000,000 rubles. in nor- it is guaranteed free from alcohol or! mal times a Russian ruble’s value | dangerous drugs.—Advt. te 60 cents. At the present time of dollars that L. C Russian Bolshevist A. ning Unions. Great Sale of WALTERS PLAYERS- Special Low Terms.” or ONLY $' ).50 A WEE NO EXTRAS A limited number Of'the latest model: Walters Players at a‘special low \price of $475. This will also include, without extra charge, a beautiful Music » @ handsome ‘betich, 12 Rolls. of Music of your own selection, and «free delivery. Be sure to call to-morrow and make your selection. | ’ Free With Each Player A Beautiful Musie Cabinet—Handsome Bench to Match—12 Rolls of Music of Your Own Choice-and Free Delivery Advance in Price On account of the steady advance in the cost for . all materials used in the manufacture of Player Pianos, we will be compelled to advance the retail price very soon. Purchase your Player now before the advance price goes into effect. If You Cannot, Call, Mail Coupon Raters —tete unk illustrated catalogue and Player Sale QW BEN FOUGHT AN NEN YORK CTY Is Thé mystery of the source from | wivich Come tiie hundreds of thousands K. Martens, Ambassador” to the Unitéd States, has at his cpm- | mand, has béen revealed to The Eve- orld by A. J. Zotonko, manar- ing director of the American Com- | mittee of the Rustian Co-operative BOB BV uw an WORLD, | it is worth only 20 cents in the | interior of Russia. The Bolshevist Government seized tlie bank for two reasons; first, be- chhse FeAl money, not thé kind that the Bofsheviet Government prints, was needed to finance the Marten» mission's propaganda campaign and establish a cash down basis witn American industrial firms, and, sec- ond, becanse the bank's owners, the Russian Coperntive Unions, were obnducting economic warfare on the Soviets, The Co-opeative Unions had even gone so far as to demand “the immediate: resignation of the Soviet of People’s Commissaries.” | "CO-OP8” REPRESENT BULK OF | * POPULATION. ‘The Russian Co-operative Unions retaliated for the seizure of their Moscow Narodny Bank by sending a rival economid miswion to New York t@ give battle to “Ambassador” Mar- tens. The Co-operative Unions’ American mission is financed by thi funds of their bank and of their so- |cietios which have escaped seizure through being outside the territory controlied by the Bolsheviki, ‘They have made New York City the big battlefield of their war on Bolshe- viem. The blood-spilling in Siberia | and along the borders of Roumania, Poland, Ukrania, Austria-Hungary, Crecho-Stovakia, Germany and Fin- | land ts merely incidental to the eco- | nomic warfare that is raging in New York City between the Martens mis- sion and the Russian Co-operative Unions mission. | An army of 20,000,000 heads of fami- Hea in Russia constitutes the man power of the Co-operative Unions. ‘This man power represents 100,000,000 men, women and children, or approxi- mately two-thirds of the le popu- lation of Russia. The Co-operative Unions’ repre- sentativés in New York are recog- nized by Ambassador Bakhmetieff, the only Russian Ambassador with whom the United States Government has official relations, This gives them the advantage over the Martens mis- slon of the favor of the United States Government, Co - operative Union's mission predicts the early fall of the Lenine-Trotsky regime. “They cannot last much longer, not more than sx i should say,” Managing Director Zelenko pregicted. he military forces of ir opponents are making steady forward progress, whil iF economic predicament laces them in a precarious situ- Selon. We know that the la~ oa that it worked on Getmany.” The #conomic conditions described by Mr. Zelenko are doubtless re- sponsible for a tement issued by “Am lor” artens yesterday. The “Ambassador” announced that he would call a conference in New York on July 4, 6 and 6 of Russians in America who are experts on agronomy, dirt ro agricultural constructions, &@5 avowed pur- pose of the~ conference being to formulate plans ‘for reconstructing Russia. Mr. Martens's statement was addressed “To Citizens of the Rus- sian Soviet Republic tp America.” Indicative of the distress of the pop ulation in Soviet ruled territory this passage from the “Ambassador’s' message: ficult is the inheritance Which fell to the share of the Boviet/Gov- ernment, Russia was devastated vy war and the inability of the Czarist aa well as of the provisional Govern- ments, The cultivated area had de- creased 40 per cent., half of the live stock was consumed at the front. The railroade were in a state of paralysis, factories and shops re- m raw ma- condition vf Rus: when the Russian proletariat took the power into their hands.” Mr, Zelenko, managing director of the co-operative mission, ignores the blame Bay the ist and ‘erensky and say: “The conditions in Soviet ony re indeseribably ey are far more seri- oue than they were in 1917 and are becoming more alarming every day.” Three months ago the Russian \:o- operative Unions Mission established Great Headquarters for their eoo- nomic army of 20,000,000 men in the new M. O. H. Corporation Building at No, 136 Ltberty Street. The whole fourth floor of the building is occu- pied by their General Staff. The New York city field commanders are not Foch, Pershi Haig. They are Berkenheim, Baghkiroff, Zelenko. Their titles are not militarily reson- ‘ant like Generalissimo, Field Marshal, Commanding General. They are chair- not cannon but canned goods, not any- thing that takes life but everything that saves life, THE MANDATE OF THE CO- OPERATIVE CONGR . They have’ been conducting their operations for the past three months by virtue of the | \nappropriately be termed | thon of war, The Mandate’ is “First All Russian Co. | Congress” and it is dated “Moscow, Feb, 18-24, 1918," | “The . All-Russian Co-operative | Congress, composed of representa- tives from M8 societies, has learned | With deep sorrow and extreme indig- |Mation of the invasion by German | troops of our defenseless and dis- armed country. | F invasion is a direct conse- uence of the policies of the People's |Commissars (the Bolshevist Soviets), | whose power is being fed and up- held by civil war. From now on a eontinuation of civil war will ‘not only lead: to starvation and ruin, but an open betrayal of our country. t atime when the very existence of the State is being threatened, the | defense of the revolutionary ideals of the country can be affected only by o power representing the-cntire nation. “The ‘invasion ‘of Russia by Ger- man troops, and the signing of a sap- arate peace will subject our country | for many years to the will of German |Imperialism, to eeonomic slavery, Starvation, ruin and unheard of hu- THuv&SDAY, MAY 15, 1919. , | Pudiates a separate peace and | calle the people to arms to resist enemy with all their power. ye Congress calle for an imme- diate establishment of the organs mands the imm: of the Soviet of People’s Com- # missaries. “The Congress considers it the duty of the Constitutent Assembly at this, the gravest moment in thevlife of the nation, to fenew the work of the Constituent Assembly, and that the ret tank is to eather together all the reed of tha nation. for the eton se of our country and the protection of the gains accomplished by the revo- lution. Pressing unshakahic conviction that the great misfortunes and humiliations which have befallen the Russian people will never enslave them and never subject them to a foreign power, the Congr calls upon the members of the co-operative organizations to do their duty, and by active participation in the life of the nation prevent any, development of anarchy and internal disintegration.” FORCES THAT ARE STRANGLING BOLSHEVISM. The leaders of the All-Russian Co- operative Congress waited in vain for the Soviet of People’s Commissaries, the Lenine-Trotaky organization, to necede to the demand for their res- ignation, They waited in vain for a repudiation of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. for a reorganization of+the Russian Army and a resumption of hostilities against the Central Pow- ers, Instead, they witnessed the spectacle of a humiliating surre: der to the ene! and the inauguration of the Bolshevist reign of terror. The Russian Army at the high tide of Russia's participation in the war numbered 15,000,000 men. More than 50 per cent. of this army was contrib- uted from the membership of the All- Russian Co-operative Societies, 1Din- armed and disorganized, they were forced to see’ their country enslaved by Germany and given over to a hor- rible form of anarchistic internal rule. This they were compelled to endure until the armistice of Nov, 11 wan signed, The armistice constituted their emancipation from a status of en- forced passivity, ‘The warships of the United States and the Allies blork- aded Russia's northern const. Amer- lean and allied troops landed there and entered Siberia. ‘The Bolshiwik hordes were stopped from overrun- ning all gf Russia, More than two- thirds of the country is sow con- trolled by the forces opposing Hol- shevism, There are hundreds of thousands of armed Russians under Kolchak and dther Muscovite leaders, supported by American and Allied armies, hold- ing the Bolshevik! hemmed tn Cencral Russia while millions of All-Russian Co-Operative Societies members are gradually strangling the Soviet sys- tem to death by means of economic warfare. It is this economic warfare that has crossed the ocean .and opened fire from No. 136 Liberty Street. NOT WAR BUT “RECONSTRUC- TION.” THEY CALL IT. They do not call tt waging war at the New York headquarters of the American Committee of the Russian Co-operative Unions. They call it cconstructing Russia.” They are nor talkative at No, 1% Liberty Street, and when they do talk they talk peace, not war, But they con- fess that they get along harmontous- lv with the Kerensky regime and that the “co-ops” would have liked t» see Kerensky continue In power. Also, they confess that a condition stili exists which prompted the First All-Russian Co-operative Congress to denounce the German invasion as “a "to to demand “an immediate cessation of civil war” and “calling to life an all-Russian Constituent Assembly” to replace the Lenin-Trotaky digtatorship and to demand ‘the im jafe resignation or Soviet of People’s Commis. earl A, J. Zelenko is managing director of the American Committee. Mr. Zelenko disavows that the Co-opera- tive Unions-are warring against the Bolshevists, He explains the “co-op” position this way: “At the present time the co-operas tives, under the greatest difficulties, are supplying the economic needs of the bulk of the Russign people, As they are non-pollti in character they still varry on their work in Cene tral Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Ukraine and Northern Russia, irrespective of political parties.” Mr, Zelenko was asked to state the nature of the work done by the American Committee. WANT TO TRADE RAW MATER- 1AL FOR MANUFACTURED. “The blockade of the Kussian ports and the breakdown of the tri tion system,” he answered, “bi sulted in tl accumulation of vast stores of raw materials which the people are ready to exchange, not for money, but for manufactured goods, This can be done only by the co-operatives or the different ex- isting governmenta. The govern- ments have no agencies adequately organized to collect and handle these materials. The co-operatives alone can handie this task, During the war the great ‘bulk of the supplies for the army of fifteen million soldiers wis furnished by the co-operatives. “The unrest at present prevailing in Russia can be allayed by the re- sumption of normal trade with out- side countries. Exchange Is the life blood of a nation. The renewal of trade is vital to the Russian people, but not less so to the reat of the world. The resumption of trade will revivify Russia, and in no less de- aree will it hasten the restoration of peaceful production in every coun- try and bring about normal condi-, tions in industry. “The co-operatives are engaged in supplying thelr membery with mer- chandise and agricultural imople- ments; in the production of goods for sale at home and abroad, such as fiax, lumber, furs, skins, vegetables, eggs, butter, oll, » Starch, tobacco, flour and candy “Aa the financial situation in Rus- sia is very unfavorable, transaction: must be made tn the form of the ex- change of native raw materials for foreign manufactured goods. The co- operatives have enough power, money and organized system to enable them to buy ‘raw materiale al] over Russia and bring them to ports to ship them abroad. Raw materials are already accumulated for shipment and larger quantities will be available in the f are embarrassed because of sufficient shi; embarrassm a short time. “The co-operatives are not wast war on the Soviet Government, Y Americans have what you call trade wars, We ure not even waging that kind of war, We are try! order out of chaos in Ru: plying materials for reconstruction, ‘That will make for a quick ending of the civil war now raging. The Bol- shevik fire will burn itself out through the desperate suffering and despair of the people in Soviet ruled territory. Tranquility prevails in those parts of Russia that are beyond the Bolshevik influence. The efforts of the co-oper- atives contribute in no small degree to that condition, Virtually all t inhabitants of Sovietized Russia are co-operative members. Their leaders are using economic Weapons to bring peace to those districts, and that their work will be crowned with success in thé near future I have no doubt. WO REASON SEEN FOR CANDY PRIGE RISE AFTER JULY 1 BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM, GLUNS & G} Fulton Street, Brooklyn Exceptional Sale Friday President of Loft, Inc., Disputes View of Confectioners’ Asso- ciation Head. Candy ‘is going to be just ax sweet after July 1 but no more expensive to the, possessor of @ sweet tooth, accord- ing to C, B, Underhill, President of Lofe, Ine, His opinion is in contradis- tinction to that of Robert R. Cleeland, President of the National Confectioners’ Association, in his addreas yesterday at Springfield, ys., at the association's convention. “There Is no reason for an advance, at’ least not in the immedigge present,” sald Mr, Underhill, “if the industry will study efficiency in manufacture an sales. I don't mean by reducing wages. “I can't see where prohibition ts go- in® to help the candy industry, Men who give up drinking are not going to turn to candy, which &@ food, It doubtless will help the soda water foun- tains,” VAN ALEN TO LIVE ABROAD IF ‘WORST’ COMES JULY 1. | 4 Van Alen of Newport and New York and father-in-law of the late Robert Collier, whose United States passports were revoked by the Ameri- can Embassy at Paris, returned home to-day on the French liner Espagne. Mr. Van Alen said be had intended to g0 to France when he first planned his trip, but later concladed to go also to Spain and Italy. His passports were altered in aceordance With his new ittinerary by a Mr. Neweomb in the pasport bureau in this city, be sald, and Mr. Newcomb had assured him they were all right. He said he did | not understana why the pasports had | Girls’ Wash Dresses matter, as his trip had Higher priced frocks taken from the regular | stock and reduced specially for this occasion. ee ue Chambrays, Linenes and Ginghams in pretty plaids, checks or plain col- ors. White pique collars and em- broideries. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Values Up to 3.95 Sale Price 2.65 BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM. GLLINS & G | Fulton Street, Brooklyn Wash Out Your Pores With Cuticura Soap ‘And have a clear, oweet, hesithy sin witt Sosey ithe excuses Come Sale Friday Girls’ Positively No C. O. Ds. , millations, “The only hope of ridding ourselves of the, German invasion {s to bring all the forces of the country together and immediately re-establish the national centr thority, calling to life the organs of local f-govern- ‘Ment and an All-Russian jt 1d homme yon Beery 4 Vamps, Gray € BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM.CLLINS & G Fulton Street, Brooklyn Clearance Sale Friday No Exchanges Approvals Or 1,200 Pairs | | Oxfords, Pumps and Boots Taken from the regular stock and marked much below former prices 580 Pairs Oxfords of Patent Leather, Brown or Black Kidskin. * °’. Pairs Pumps in White Canvas, with Turned Soles and Louis XV Heels. | 380 Puirs High Lace Boots—Glace Kidskin loth Tops, Louis XV Heels. Serge Capes Sizes 10 to 16 Fine quality Navy Serge Capes. Coatee and sur- plice styles. Collars of self and contrasting ma- terials. $ Values to 18.75 Sale Price WHALEN BROTHERS Brooklyn’s Credit House Biggest Thi 219, 221, 223, ster | fa i 164, 166, 168 and 170 Grand Street Smith Street Cor. Driggs Ave. Cor. Wyckoff St. ‘guest gives the easiest and best terms 0! any .. n t as of Vietrol SE store. | Smith st. $100 WORTH OF , $1 WEEKLY | Vielro | Carriages ) on Ove! New Account. BROOKLYN Spring Clothing on Credit the stock of house in the trade. gegpigte ock of ree~ cords at our Grand pad records ut our ere. Ryttets ones for... EN'S AND, YOUNG MEN'S SUITS, $21.00 “setae? SUITS, $28.50 "ibs GOe Week! io have «bie of cviston. Be Weekly, D) Une of Baby Care art 12. foes ee ¥ AND BATURDAY EVENINGS aqeeeenenmemnt Incomplete Range of Sizes | hi? MAKES |.ITTLE DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU NEED— Fs ashen we . ate ay Gh TOADoni wer as Mada SCM alti de dD a teS ECA. lA