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SAN PnANOTSCO rr cimoinoLB SUNDAY DEOESinUlC JfTJSP IT WW rfmri British Press Divided Over Peace Proposals Majoriy of Newspapers in Great Britain Favor Giving Hearing to German Suggestions but This Is Opposed by the Northcliffe Group IjOKDON December The ror fT OfOea announced before closing today that It had not yet received the peace net and the prominent fllelala disclaimed knowledge of Its contents beyond what tha newspapers a4 published Tha TTefneh vletorr at Verdon la acclaimed by all tha 1 ondon papers a tha French raply to tha German Kmparefa speech to hla troepa In Alsacs and Chancellor ron Beth rnann Ilollwega claim et tha Invlnsl fltty at Oaman arm 1 Tha aplnlona In tha British pre aa reflected la tba latest editorials araimost unanimous that tha least Aha OoTanunant ran do la to make a tatatnent of tha alllaa alms and ob 3ata and aak or tha preacnlatlan of tha Oarman term l6llTHCItrnC STANDS AIOIH Trie i weekly reviews Including the nnclal arcana take tha urn Una aa da alio tha provincial papers The filr notable exception haa been tha iwrtncluTe croup which Immediately MfCed that Great Britain ahould Ig nore the overtures Thara appears to ba a consensus of opinion that the aUles should not con alder ante lint Into a conference until thy know approilmately tha central swworr policy and unlesa they con sider mat that policy contalna th aada tot agreement Tha Russian re JecUon of tha overtures was published oe 4ata fop comment by tha raornln ajvara All the artarnoon papera refrain from expressing their opinion war eon Fwrnler XJoyd Oeorgea flrat ap clslma will ba the cerlty test of her sin hla new capacity aa Prima Minister may ba delayed untl Itha QoTernment la In a position to pronounce a definite atatament of Its policy toward tha negotlatlone if A WORD FOR SOLDIERS Sir Hadlay La Baa who la a retired feoldlar wrltaa to tha papara ursine nut tha men In tha tranchea have the highest right to speak on tha question and that their view staoulj be obtained before any maaaurea are decided upon Dispatches from Switzerland say that Count Tiaia tha Hungarian Pre roler haa rone to Berlin to uae hla Influence or peace Tba speech delivered laat night by Arthur Henderaon la being commented upon as mora specific In regard to tha peace proposal of the central powers than any other utterance from a responsible source Handaraon Is one of the five mem bers of tha War Cabinet which Just has been formed and haa supreme authority In regard to the general conduct of tha war He denned the reparation which Andrew Bonar Law declared waa still the policy or tna Government as being reparation or all that Belgium Franca Serbia and Poland have suffered Hendersons statement that Great finraln entered tha war In defense of small nationalities waa taken aa an Indication that tha defense email nationalities would ba ona of tba essentials of security or the future ta which Bonar Law referred In general Tha flrat atsentlel of peace In tha opinion of tba Nation la that both aides ahall concede tha right to In dependence of all nations Comment lar An Aimusr1 neeee offer the Ni i tlori aaya i The teat will come when our an Jfc awer If known and Germany haa to decide whether aha will modify her Tv offer and coma nearer to our position Wr Wi real onua or tha continuance of thaswar win rest on tne eiae wnicn malntalna any demand which would ba fatal to the Independence and future of any belligerent 1 Germany or Instance haa really claimed Serbia aa her prey she haa Included at least ona point which convicts her of either unbelievable stupidity or mere Insincerity If the claim is maintained precludes further discussion But even to an offer including such a point our answer must be reasoned and praciae We ahall lose nothing In tha world a court of honor by rejecting that claim but let us not loao eight of our guiding principle that thla war la waged or the ending of militarism Germany makea a claim Involving tha deatructlon of an Independent nation tha war la not yet morally won Her repudiation 01 au PRESIDENT OF DUMA SAYS WAR WILL GO ON LONDON December II In an nd drese before the rtusetan Duma which yesterday adopted a resolution opposing acceptance of tha peace pro possls of the central powers Michael Rodslankn president of that body gave the reaaona why In his opinion the proposals ahould not be accepted Reuter a Petrograd correspondent quoteo Itodslanko as follows The enemy pioposes peace I nstances ahlch are exceptionally advantageous to him Ha claims to be conqueror we cannot trust our adersary He Is a wornout felon who seeks not lasting peace but a temporary armistice in order to recuperate before making a fresh onslaught nn the allies with greater violence than before In tha aecond Place we are united to our allies by Indissoluble ties by common sacrifice by blood which haa been shed Our object la auppreaslon of German militarism We deslra that the world shall ba able to live free from the threat of the German fist on the bests of right freedom and eqults We shall agree to negotiate onlv when the enemy Is finally beaten In concert with our allant allies we ahall algn a peace which ahall guarantee peace to the whole world Thla la the solution of tha historic problema which will repay ua or what we have suffered We say to all nations The enemy In the midst of a clatter of arma la seeking an honorable laaue from the atruggle foreaeelng defeat In tha near future We aay to Germany lou began the war You have brought un speakable suffering upon humanity When you have been brought to your knees you will be held responsible GERMANY ISREADY TO MEET ALLIES ATTACKS BERLIN Wednesday December 13 by wirelesa to the Associated Tress la Sayvllle December It A military official who Is frankly and keenly hopeful that some way may oe found to end the war though ha la none too optimistic at the present today called together representatives of the neu tral preaa to inquire aa to the prob able effect of tha German peace note in neutral countries He laid rreat atreaa on thla point and particularly whether there probably would any tendency to construe the German note as a sign of weakness Discussing the possibility that all peace propositions may be rejected at present thla officer declared Germany waa aware the French ana British would make anofcher herculean effort In the west next spring an effort for which Germany would be fully prepared Ha expressed the opinion that it could nat have any result other than continued slaughter and that It would have no more prospects of success than the fiomme offensive In the meantime this officer continued Germany would not give Russia time to recuperate aa happened a year ago He aald Germany waa In a position today to force Russia to make peace and that she surely would do so If tha peace overtures were rejected Ha asserted Russia waa known to Germany to be ex hausted In a military and economical sense having neither trade troops nor ammunition On the word of Hlndenburg that there would be no winter quarters this year he said Qerrriany did not Intend to give Russia tha chance to build up new armlee or make up or deficiencies in ammunition King of Bavaria Talks to Troops Regarding Peace AMSTEtiDAM via Lon ion December 1 6 The King ef BaVaria ae cerJing to a Munich dispatch to the Lolfal Anxeiger of Berlin in an address to his troopt on the peace proposal said lltkeeerh I do sal know yet whether the peace propeaal will a aeeepted I hop It will krles aaosit aa hoaoreble peace eorre poaaing be earriarea a two a a keif years of war a peace which wo eoa be preaa aa which will aalegaard aa for aaaay yeare If oar eaemlea da net accept tba asagaaalasoaa propaaal thea aenet roavlaea theaa threagh aim great mlaht aad greater aareeaaea that fcy raaaet eoa Hugo Munsterberg Harvafrd Professor Dies in Classroom treeflaaed frees Page Ml IEWS OF RUSSIANS EXPLAINED IN DETAIL PETROGRAD via London December II A urther exposition of the Russian Government a attitude toward the German peace propoaal la contained In the following statement obtained by the Associated Press from the Russian Foreign Office A complete and emphatle rejection by Russia Germany offer can hardly have been necessary to convince America and other neutrals of the attitude which tha allies will take toward Germanya Insincere and such theatric peace proposal QUARREL OVER A CaALF ENDS IN A FATiU SHOOTING Onbriella Fonera of San Joie It lilled and Fouei Are Searching for Hii Brother Samuel serial ptaaeteh te Tse Carealcle SAT JOSE era searching the southern end of the county at a late hour this evening far Samuel Fonera a young man wh aarller In tha evening Is alleged to lieveehot to death his older brother Oabrlella In a quarrel over a calf Relatives heard tha young men narrating violently and Ave ahots rang cut In quick succession A rothstln law rushed to tha door In tnnetehear Gabrlella ery out Teu have killed your brother If I bad another bullet In my gun rf give TVl aome more Danufi aid have cried A moment later ha Mad and residents of the neighborhood saw him enter a shed a block awy Offlcera who arrived a few minutes later were unable te And any trade 61 tha alleged fratricide Tha murdered man leaves a widow aadiour email children The brother l4Uamarrte4 No urther trace had fcaeaaaad of tha fuattlve lata ta Ulahti Jle la believed ta a unarmed except ttrl tha amply ravalrer Scjwbf Teachers Fund Soon to Meet Demands 1 SACRAMENTO December II The obaal teachers retirement and pre My will aeec ba aelf eupponing urlnr taarterly paaslons to those Mrkai ta sii na i Mucatlea may declda are entitled to 1 hearty aeK auaUtnlag the state award Otueatlen tadar authorise Ltha executive head of tha board to avast liafftt or tna retirement fund ta beads er other securities the la tarsal af Whleh will heap ap peaateai war Ik act Several haadrad theu i ar datura ara already Invested It Is teale4 that It only a aa af a few yaara natU tha ruad Pa alfgiiuUUSh I Clinics for Defects Of Speech Planned NEW YORK December II The National Round Table or the Improvement of speech ormad during tha convention of tha National Education Association here laat July announced today that ree cllnlce to aid peraona who stammer and have other speech defects and peraona who wlah to Improve foreign accents are to ba established In Boston Chicago San December II Posses Frsnclsco and othsr cities II is estimated that In New Tork city alone there are 20000 persons who hae speech defects The school authorities In rsrlous cities will be ssked the Round Table to supervise the clinics as Is done by the Board of Education here Tha Round Table recently elected Dr Harris Taylor superintendent af tha Institute for the Improved Instruction of the Deaf as national president SEEMS EVERYONE HEARD ABO I IT All want to try new drug that dries up corns so they lift out Oood news epreade rapidly and druggists here are kept busy dispensing freesone the recent dlscoery of a Cincinnati man which Is said to loosen any corn eo it lifts out with tba fingers A quarter of an ounce costs vsry little at any pharmacy but la aald to ba sufficient to rid ona feet of every hard ar soft corn or callus You apply Just a law drops en the tender aching ooru and Instantly tha soreness Is relieved and soon the corn Is so shriveled that It lifts out without pala It la a atlcky ub etanee which drlea when applied aad ever lafteraes or even Irritates the allowing tlseue Thla discovery will prevent thou aaada et deaths annually ram lock Decisive Word on Peace Proposal to Come From London treatise from Page Hon of the attitude of the Lnlted States toward tha peace prorogate of the central powers to dlacuea the general subject peace from this Governments viewpoint and to gt any Information Lansing might do sire on the attitude of the German Go eminent VOX BKRNSTOHFF lb9 Ambassador Rernstorff aald rir ten minute visit with Secretary Lan We did not discuss peace terms In any way I have not received any formal terms and the American Government knows officially that no formal terms have been proposed All Germany has suggested le that the belligerents get together and talk If that proposal Is accepted definite terms naturaiiv will be discussed but till then It will not be proper to mention them My visit to the Secretary waa purely for general discussion The Ambassador Indicated that the actual place for the holding of a conference and the question of whether It should be by direct negotiation or through Intermediaries were questions entirely dependent on the willingness of the entente allies to discuss the situation at all He Indicated also that he hsd not discussed the American action In sending on the Teutonic notes without comment as that was purely a matter for the country to decide for itself who favored Germsny As a result he was brought Into contrnverslee with other members of the Harvard faculty who were outspoken in the defense of tha allies WITH HiRVAltD BlICK IMII Professor Munsterberg lcae a widow and a dsughter Born In Pan slg Germany In lilt after distinguished work aa an educator In hla native lend Profeesor Muneterherg rsme to Harvard In 1111 as professor of psychology In 1110 he returned to Germany aa Harvard exchange professor at the University of Berlin In the following year he organised and became the head of the Amerlka In at I tn to of the German Government At the expiration of hla term as exchange professor In 111 he resumed his work at Harvard He waa made president of the Amerlcsn Paycholog leal Association in 111 At the time if his death he wj president of the Ronton German Association IIKrilB tTKD BY KAIftKR Mr Munsterberg wee formerly Miss Selma Oppler of Strasshurg Germsny They were married in 1M7 Tor twenty yeara Trofessor Mun sterberg had written extensively nn philosophical psychological and sri tlfio subjects one or me nest known works was The American He was twice decorated by the Ger sn Lmperor Profeesor Robert Yerkea an as sistant In the department of psychology at Harvard of which Professor Munsterberg was the heed said death probably waa due to cerebral hemor rhage The funeral will be held at the fam ily residence Mondsy aftsrnonn Rav Adolph A Rerle a close rlend Professor Munsterberg will officiate at the services which will be In tha German language Profeseor George I Moore of Harvard will deliver a eulogy Rerla aald the body would be cremated In accordance with the wlnh of Professor Munsterberg and that eventually the ashes would be shipped to Germany 1ntrn uiot rnEairvncD MW YORK December II The lest public message of Professor Munsterberg who died suddenly today In his clsssroom in Cambridge Mass contains a vision peace and good wilt and In It the writer Indicated that he believed such a peace waa near The message was sent to a weeklv magaslne here and made public tndav upon receipt of tha news of his deeth Of the war the message says No trsce will remain those who hated inoet hotly will forget moet quickly Men will look one another In the faco with astonlnnment the spell will be broken They simply will not heliee that tne could misjudge and maltreat their friend so grossy The subtle power of our mind to forget will become mankinds blessing As soon ss peace Is secured we shall keep the peace not only by harsh method of enforcing It but bv the hundred tlmea better method of maklna It natural And It can be come natural because all the storm todav will fall off like the scab of a hrsllna wound Unless all psycho loglial signs dscelve us sfter this war ends peace really will be lasting and I feel sura the end or tne war ADVERTISING IN GETS BIG POSITION Salem Clergyman Is Heir to 34500 SALEM December II Rev Webber pastor of a local Cathn lie church has fallen heir to an es tate or ijisuv oy the will City Attorney Relies on Consumers To Furnish Facts in Water Fight Coatlaued wide response yet the rate payers should understand that their legal representative Is expecting them to bring the evidence with them rtsB rtGPEVDS oy peopi If It rained hard or the street cars stopped or or any other reason the people were prevented from attending then there wouldn be any case for the people except as It may be frei rage made from the evidence which Spring alley cares to present Attorneys familiar with court pro ceedings said enterday that lawsuits were not usually presented In tne manner proposed by tha City Attorney It all seems to depend on the people being able to get to the office of the Railroad Commission on the morning of December 27 and bringing their own case In their own pocketa London Blanketed by 50 Year Record Fog His Healed Right Leg Evens Score on Left Pedeitrians Light Way on Street Man Totten From Bed After Six With Old Fathioned Torches LONDON December 17 2 IS A A fog which nettled over London terday Is described aa being the moat dense In flft ears From early morning until a late hour London was a city of perpetual night Heidegger a Howard 8 business I venlence was greatest In the WHO died in 8t Paul Minn onlnulnir to tha llaht restrictions On October 21 The will provides thatnlbuses stopped running and taxi Howard a whole estate be turned over cabs disappeared from the streets to the Salem clergyman Weeki to Break Other Limb GRASS VALLEY December II After six weeks In bed with a broken leg his right ugust Zimmerman icmploved on nearbj ranch hobbled Incon out of his room on crutches only to fall at the doorway and break hla left leg He was carried back to his bed wheie ha must remain for another Denison Clift of Hale Bros to Write Photoplays for Lasky Company totilon Cllft for three yeara In charge of Hale Proa publicity In Oakland aQd for the past four years connected with Males adtertlslng department In Pan Krsnclsco liss accepted an a from the Jess rA Lasky Featura Play Company of Hollywood to write photopfaya for tha Lasky stars on tha raramount pro grsmtna Clift Is agradu University In his i undo graduate days be waa editor of the college comic The hap 1 1 and upon graduation In 17 he was chosen editor of the Alumnus the alumni ofllelsl organ Ha won sev ral Junior opera contests notably Butterfly ialaM XmiTOOS CLITT written with I Lev and the following year with In Tanklers For a time Cllft was editor of the terland Monthly In the Januarv 117 Issue of this California magaslne Cllft war novel Oun of Gall begins serial publication Besides writing fiction for the leading magailnea Cllft haa written a PL A 1 nKC I msYM a HKia9IHfLaaaa EAJ Masofiic Club Entertains in New Quarters at Palace i at Brilliant Reception First Held in Sumptuously Furnished Rooms Practically All of West Wing on Second Floor Is Occupied by Club The spacious and beautiful quarters of tha Masonlo Club of San Francis occupying the entire west wing tha second floor tha Palace Hotel were opened last night for the Inspection tt the members of the fra ternlty and their ladles The opening night reception was a brilliant anclal affair 4 constant stream of guests coming to congratulate the officers of the nw club on the successful opening of the rooms KVHED II Oln OAK William Kilmer president waa at the head of tha reception line and a reception committee of fifty John I KcNab chnrrman aeslslrd In showing the guests oer the rooms The msln rooms sre finished In old oak and Include a large lounging room with billiard and dining rooms on either side The dlnrng room Is of generous else end here the dsVly noon luncheon will he one of the feetures of the new club life At the north end of the suite is a library and reading room and ad number of plays which were handled In New Tork by Cecil da Mllle now director geneial of the Lasky Company Recentl Cllft wrote a diplomatic story or the use of Sassue Hajakawa the Japanese actor called The Stolen Code which brought the offer rom Lasky COtPLK ABAMDO AITO RICHMOND December II Dust covered and showing signs of hard Jarent la a large card room order to provide or the entertainment of letting members the management of the Palace Hotel has arranged to hae tha rooms opening on the west corridor made virtually a part of tha equipment of the new club which atarts with 1780 members the quail Oration being membership In any Jllue lodge In tha Masonlo order CItB WOW QPKX This week the club will ba open ta all who have made application for membership and the regular luncheon will be sened each day In tha dining room Aniong those present last night were Mr and Mrs William Fllmr Mr and Mrs Eugene Levev Mr and Mrs Walter Ilrunt Mr and Mrs In seph Abrams Mr and Mrs Eugene Elkus Mr and Mrs Lewi Mr and Mrs Lewis Oetx Mr snd Mrs John I McNah Frsncls Kes ling Isadora lacohs Mr and Mrs Purcell Rowe Famuel VT Burtchell It TV Hpcncer Scofleld and 8 hHmier usage an almost new automobile Is being held bv Constable Fred Da Is while a search la being conducted or the man and woman ho left it standing In front of Judge A II Mackln non court at Btege last night Tha cara number la BI7I5 and according to the Htate license records Is tha property of Bavert of Los An geles It waa probably stolen and ran until the gasoline gave out 22 refiSfirw iSS 1JvVl a tig SHKmf mi MmSmwm a mmmir iw fi ea Sterling Terms make it eaay to five and eaiy to pay Uae your Credit thi Christmas select whatever you like pay during the new year Open Evenings Until Christmas People on the etreeta carried torches I six weeka Matchless in Tone 3 mfMCamnnnnri ijj ytH Famous Master of Sing BOJlHing Composer and BkjjSPaE Grand Opera Director Jj iplB another well known jJ KmH artist to us en SaBaBsaaaUaUaaaaaaaaSilaaHdorsernent of Jriatm The Worlds Best Piano Read His Letter San Francisco Cl Dec 10 1916 Mcun Kohler Chase 26 OFarrcIl St Js Gentlemen I After several yean of conlinuoui daily use I take i pleasure in ending you my unqualified endorsement and ad i miration of the Knabe Piano My Knabe Grand has been pJ a conlinuoui source of delicht to my pupils and myself i sj Sincerely ours LI ANDRO 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