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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 41. 1917.
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U.S. TO INSURE MEN
OF ARMED FORCES
Officers 'and Men Would Be!
Compelled to' Provide for ;
Dependents from Their j
'--Monthly Pay.
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ashmgtou; : Aug. lO.-Authonty ,
to make effective the governments
program of insuring the armed forces
of the nation was 'soueht of congress i
oi me nation was sougni ci congress
today in bills introduced in
k.MI. :.... ,j..j ; km I,
bills introduced in bOth i
houses by Senator Sinimons and Rep- j
resentative Alexander. j
The proposed legislation would
provide insurance, at minimum cost.
for American soldiers, sailors and
marines, the insured men paying the
premiums; family allowances to de
pendents of men in the nation's mili
tary or naval services; indemnifica
tion for disabilities and the re-education
and rehabilitation, at govern
ment expense, of injured men.
A feature not previously announced,
would make it compulsory for offi
cers and men to allot a minimum of
$15 a month out of their pay to de
pendent wives and children. These
allotments would be supplemented by
family allowances to be made by
the government, of from $5 to $50
a month, according to the circum
pt2ucesand number of dependents.
Indemnities for Disabled.
Liberal indemnities for partial and
total disability are included in the pro-;
gram, varying from $40 to $75 per!
month minimum up to $200 a month
for, higher officers. Insurance would
be written by the government on the
lives of the men at a rate of approxi
mately $8 per thousand in sums from
S1.Q00 to $10,000, the premiums pay
able in installments.
The cost to the government, as es
timated by Secretary McAdoo, would
approximate the following:
Flret Tesr. Serond Tear
Family allowances .141,0,M Jli,W0,009
Death Indemnities, 1,749.000 13 900,000
Compensation for to- ' -
tal dlenblllty .... 5.K0.000 115,000,000
Compensation for ...,
partial disability.. ' 8,200,000 21,000 000
Tnnuranc agalnel
death and die- -
ability '.. iJ,000,00 m.MO.000
TotaU.i....,.,.17t,150,000 3S0 6OC.O0O
" Plan Approved. .. . ,
The total for the two years is thus
placed at $556,650,000,.. which Mr. Mc
Ado estimates at less than 6 per cent
of the cost to the country of conduct
ing the war. , '
In its general features the bill was
approved by the advisory committee
of insurance repr'seutatives' stim
mond by Secretary McAdoo to Wash
ington July 2. ; i 1 '
'They oppqsed, however," Mr. Mc
Adoo advised the president, "llie
grant of any! government insurance
over and above the compensation.
They favored, over and above com
pensation, the payment, by the gov
i ernment ofr; $1,000 in each . case of
Vdeath during "service or within five
years after discharge- of , service; in
lieu of insurance."
Wives and Children Beneficiaries.
Children up to 18 years of age and
wives of men and officers would be
given family allowances. Other de
pendent relatives would be given al
lowances only in case voluntary allot
ments were made out of the pay of
the men. insured.
The bill not not attempt to cover
the methods to be pursued in re
educating ariV and rehabilitating in
jured men.'." Two principles, however,
are recognized; The man's obligation
to avail himself of audi opportunities
as the government may provide un
der penalty of loss of compensation
dunng "any period of unreasonable
refusal" ana a man's right to disabil
ity compensation regardless of his in
dividual economic recuperation.
When disability .results in dealth,
dependents would receive from $15 to
$60 a month, the sum being rated ac
cording to the circumstances of the
dependents. v
All insurance of this character, the
bill provides, would be ' non-assignable
and free from claims either of
the insured or of the beneficiary." It
'would be limited to wife, children and
othef SDecihed kindred. V -
On-the administrative side the -bill
provides for a division of the govern
ment's war .risk insurance bureau into
two sections, one on 'marine and sea
men's insurance, the other on military
and naval insurance.
SUmmr 'Amusements
Strnad To!r l th. lut pprn. at
ih Strand ttt Olive- Thom.i in "Madcap
.Mdi,". a, clev.r lit it .lory of modem
Hr,i told-hi I ' a moat deltthtful manner.
Mtc. Thamai la a l!-flia Faille beauty,
and also' it known lha Harrlaon Flehr
owing -tp ..the mimctcus drawing;, (or
. (!oh ah poeed for him. Tomorrow romea
tlw beat picture Thomaa It. Mr aald he
tr made, "The Flame of the Yukon," with
Dorothy Oalton In the leadtnf ,role, s ;,
ilue r'he H"ll"ofTk .Nation" ehfatament
-rutin atilitkiiU'Hter-v'jfttli tn "n1 'r
frmaH&M f yit$. --""Tltl 'production fully
llffd usy'df . tWpTuMhK'i st torth by the
! a,tntji,iinrti.h. proved one of the
bltaeit. tyn otrarolt it (hi picture play
huue.fit Ut fc tr,eiy attd patriotic aub'ct
podued in vitatrnpn beet manner. The
Diery , et-rtttci by Thomae Dixon, who
hlo row the .Btnb.'Ot a Nation." ,
Hipp Mt-npn; Andarmon will be '..the fa
tuTc4 fclayr'.Jhere' today for the lau time
sin - "A Wif-'rti Trial." the Utset rren of-rrlnc-from
the HutUrfly company. The
etory' ) pwuy and lutrtUn One, of a
poor l Jwno;marrl. a cripld millionaire
In return tot- -beautiful roie garden all ber
own and all the money eh wante to apepd.
The husband finally luteins hi etrength
and the ending !- happy a one at per
oa would wleb. A fod ranted)- le nUo on
tho bltl
Suo Vlrg Irrta Pearson will be the feattired
Player--at thia theater for the lat time
today In th William Fox play, "Th Wrath
of 'Lev." It la a play that hi been pleas
ing th crowd who hare been, attending th
ahowlnga the laet two daya and prreenta
aotno of th beet work till aolreaa haa ao
far accomplished,- Although th atory deal
- with the pregenf war, there are bo trench
koaneo a Ut entire tory haa to do with
a man being, called to the color and leav
ing hi wife to b In the ear of a friend.
: A good comedy la also ahewn irt the proper
muale adda to th reallan? of tM cene.
! 'Attack Concentrated. .
Th Auatrlaa omp'rew I said to' ' be
atrongly In favor of peac with everybody
except Emperor Charlet Botton Advert Her.
verturar. ', .
A mettlng'bi the' Douglas County
Council of Defense will.be held at
the Commercial club rooms. Thursday
evening, August 9, at 8 o'clock. Every.
precinct cnairman ts urgently re
quested to attend as it is expected that
matters f importance will come be
fore the meeting. . . '
; v RAYMOND G. YOtJXG,
. 1 :-' Secretary.
HAIR BALSAM
a telM preearatto of mwt.
Blv a eradleat SeadnS.
NATIONAL BREAD ECONOMY
WHAT IS MAN'S BEST FOOD?
By Harry Everett Barnard, Ph.D.
State Fnod and Drue- Commissioner of Indiana, membor of Indiana BtaU
Coun-.il cf Defense, author and lecturer on food subjects.
Farmers feed their itock by rule and know to ft fraction of a cent how much
It costs them to produce a quart of milk or a pound of beef or pork. It is not
Dossible to estimate In the same way the cost of feeding the human family,
tor the value of the product is determined by the abliitj ot me consumer to
do 6f ,n lncreMed welght
e oave learned by many careful experiments Just how much food It
takes to keep the average man or woman in health and efficiency. And we
know by analysis the value of our different food in doing this Important
' ,v..w nf m rnt anpnt fnr tanl
wura. i uo ibuib uciu moid ius yui v,uo...bi rv-. . r ....
..... . ,,., nrntoln far and rhnhTdrntfta that
LUUIUiUUlllCB. l ttlBU DUUTio vim "tuviiu.
each 10-cent portion of food furnishes, as
. Ten cents will buy:
Beefsteak (round)..
Mutton chops (loin)
Ham
Eggs, per doz.,
Eggs, per doz., 60c... 40
Milk, quart, 10c 05
Potatoes bu., $1.20.... 02
Potatoes, bu., $2.40.... 04
pah
Potatoes, bu., $3.60
Wheat bread
Wheat bread
Wheat flour
m. e. Barnard. The talue of meats is also shown.
Beef, even at the lowest price, costs most. This is due to the fact that it
is less fat. But what it lacks in fat it gains in protein content.
The most Striking thing in the table is the great value of bread. Ten cents
spent for bread, even at its present high price, will buy 1,500 calories of en.
ergy; nearly five times as much as can be bought as steak, and six times as
much as whon spent for eggs.
Bread today is cheaper than potatoes at normal prices. Indeed, it is our
cheapest staple food. But better than that, it is the best balanced food we can
buy at any price. With the exception of milk, it is the only food listed that
contains protein, fat and carbohydrates in well-balanced proportions.
Whether wheat is cheap or dear, bread at almost any price is cheap food
when compared with meat. There is no denying the fact that the well-fed
man is a lover of good bread, i
. The stale bread delusion has 'cost the consumer as well as the bakef, a
great deal of money. It is foolish besides. When bread Is first baked. It con
tains nearly 80 per cent of moisture. After a time some of this water escapes.
The bread dries out, or as the baker says, "goes stale." As a matter of fact,
the bread isn't stale, it Is just as wholesome, Just as sweet, Just as satisfactory
b the moment when it left the oven and every loaf that is returned to the
bakery to be fed to horses by that much Increases the cost of bread.
Bread three days old, when properly kept, is Just as good as when a day
old. Why shouldn't It be? Bread baked In the home is always used up before
the next baking. It does not dry out because It Is wrapped and placed In a
bread box, where Its moisture content Is conserved. The average housewife
doesn't like to cut her homemade loaf until it is a day old, for Us texture Is
then firn, instead of spongy. -
Because bread Is such a wonderful food, It is the first thing to which the
government turned in the accounting of oar supplies necessary because of the
present war. For two years the world has produced less wheat than It has
oaten, and this Is why far-seeing men at the head of the government are urg
ing the most careful economy in the use of bread stuffs, so that we may have
the maximum quantity to send across to those who are, doing the fighting ia
the great war.
Today there can be neither excuse nor tolerance for the waste of a crumb
of bread. Housewives must look to their larder. Bread that is eaten is put
to its best use, but bread that Is wasted In times like the present becomes
party to a crime. In cooking, the use of toast for a garnish or decoration, un
less it Is eaten, should be discouraged. Cutting more bread than the family
will consume at a meal, Is wasteful. Crusts and crumbs -must be carefully
saved and untlllzed la other dishes. Only by such practices Instituted at once
can the United States hope to escape the necessity of dark, coarse breads,
that are being eaten In Europe and generally known as "war bread."
- Copyright 1917 by T. T. . Frankanbarg .
Regular. Army Raised
To Full War Strength
Washington, Aug. 10. With the
war volunteers of yesterday, the reg
ular armywas raised to its full war
strength of 300,000. - Since April 1
more than 183,898 volunteers have
been enlisted. . Twenty-three states
filled their quotas and twenty-five did
not. '
The states In the roll of honor are
All Pumps Now On
Display
Fall Comfort Shoes, fine,
oft kid, rubber Jfl
heels, sale price . 1?V.tO
Saturday
1
ALL PANOK'S PURflP
Just Think
neeis ur me
Patent
Colonial
Dull
Strap Pumps
DON'T i MISS
THIS .
GREAT EVENT
Every Pump
at This Price,
WhiteorBlack
The Greatest
BOYS' SCOUT; SHOES
Elk' soles, "soft uppers," a
$248
. j .
well as its energy or calorie value.
Pro
Mia In.
.073
.039
046
.062
.025
.072
.105
.062
.035
.110
.148
.183
Carbohy
drate! lb.
Price
per lb.
. 28
i 32
. 36
. 24
fat
lbs.
.036
.092
.108
.044
.0175
.08
Ct'o
rlM 293
445
545
260
158
(60
1875
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1600
2100
27(0
86c.
.094
.895
.447
.297
.703
.937
.1.180
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.028
.018
This table Is full of surprises. The first is ths
great difference In food value of staple foods. We set
at a glance that potatoes at 90 cents a peck (until this
year an unheard-of price) are much cheaper than eggs
at 86 cents a dozen.
V
California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming, . if
Recruiting will continue, however,
without any let up, as the .War de-
Sartment expects to keep up a steady
ow of volunteers into the reserve.
PMum
1512 DOUGLAS STREET
Values Up To $6.00
of This All our Pumps; high, pretty $
new low necids
Pumps
Pumps
Pumps
Values Up
to $6.00
. l 7 a : -
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Are Buying Their Oxfords at Panor's
All styles go Leather or Rubber Soles,
English or High Toes, all go for. . ... ... . . ...... .-
af All Values
CHILDREN'S SHOES
White top. patent with
tut
$1.98
soft kid tops,
sale price . . .
TWO BILLION TAX
, BILL UP TO SENATE
Great Wir M.as.r. Before Bp.
per nouse may oe ijaw
Within Two Weeks; Sim
mons Delivers Address.
Washington, Aug. 10-Thc
re-
"drafted war revenue bill imposing
taxes to the amount of more than
?.',uuu,uw,uuu was taken up lor con-
sideration in the senate today w ith
exclusive right of way until disposed !
of. Debate on the measure is expected
to last about two weeks, after which
it will go to conference for adjust
ment of differences between the two
houses.
In opening' senate debate on the
$2,006,970,000 war tax bill today, Sena
tor Simmons, chairman of the finance
committee, declared the committee's
purpose in revising the house bill was
to raise sufficient federal revenues for
extra war expenses without injustice
to rich or poor and without injuring
sources from which the new and fu
ture taxes must come. ' '
The bill, said Senator Simmons, pro
poses to raise a larger proportion of
war revenues by direct taxation and
less by bonds, distributing the war
burden between the present and fu
ture generations. He pointed out
that nearly $1,400,000,000 of the new
war taxes are to be obtained from
incomes and war profits alone, with
over $200,000,000 from intoxicants.
War Profits Chief Source.
"Before the war," continued Sena
tor Simmons, "our total expenditures
were between $700,000,000 and $800,
000,000, exclusive of postal costs. It
is evident that the expenditures dur
ing this fiscal year will reach some
thing like $10,000,000,000. These con-
ill
MUST GO
cm Tor
Order a Pair
by mail.
in Our Great Chi
FIRST STEP BABY SHOES-
Black with white tops, all black
soft kid or patent with
dull tops.
98c
ditions suggest incomes and war prof
its as the chief and just source of
revenue to defray the expenses of the
war. Apparently the house did not
take this view. As the war profits for
1916 exceed $3,000,000,000, the house
levy of $-'00,000,000 from war excess
!$$70V
estimated to raise
not meetjhe mani
fest equities of the 'situation. Your
committee thought that the equities
'of the 'situation required at least one
j half of the sum proposed to be raised
should be drawn from incomes and
! excess profits." , '.
I Senator Simmons submitted statis-
i tics stated to have been compiled by I
, J. r. Morgan & Co. showing that
forty-five great corporations alone
will pay under the proposed commit
revision war profits taxes of $239,
977,000, against only $7,736,000 pro
posed under the house bill.
Senator Simmons declared that the
committee proposes a specific war
profits and not an excess profits tax.
The house standard is "wholly unsat
isfactory, artificial and arbitrary."
The reduced tobacco taxes, he said,
would raise the same revenues as the
house rates without burdening either
producers or . consumers. Liquor
rates, he added,-were raised because
the food control' laws provisions stop
ping manufacture of whisky made, it;
advisable to find other revenue,
sources. : . .
Mr. Simmons' statement regarding
the publishers' tax was:
"Your committee decided to elimi
nate the house zone system becaus
if was made clear to them that it is
a tax which would be not only bur
densome, but in a number of cases
disastrous, to many valuable publi
cations. Representatives of practi
cally all the great publications of the
country appeared before the commit
tee against this tax. The tax substi
tuted by your committee Is n6t a logi
cal one, it must be confessed, but it
was the best your committee was able
to devise in view of the present con
ditions of the publishing business."
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With every Suit (C. & P.) tailored to your order. Free means
free. No prices changed. We wish you to bear in mind that you
get the extra $7.00 Trousers absolutely free. Furthermore, you
get the same good service now and always!
Just Think of it, Men!
A REGULAR $25 and $30
SUIT Tailored to Your Measure
Ul And Extra $7.00
PAIR OF PANTS FREE
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Not
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During ,
Thi Sale. S
See Our Show
Windows
Comfort House Slippers,
with two straps. Q ft A
sale price vlaU
Monday
oo
i3
Pumps
White 2-Strap
Pumps
Black Low Heel
Pumps
Tan Low Heel
Pumps
BE HERE EARLY
All Pumps Go,
High or
Low Heels
dren's Dept.
BAREFOOT SANDALS
Tan with sewed
soles, any sixe. . .
98c
Ex-President Taft On Road
To Recovery at Clay Center
Clay Center, Kan., Aug. 10.- Phy
sicians attending former President
William II, Taft, who is ill at a local
hotel, determined this morning to give
him the first food he had eaten since
the attack of intestinal trouble early
Tuesday morning.- ' -r,
"Mr. Taft is some better this morn
ing," Dr. B.1 F. Morgan; said. "He has
no temperature, and, although weak,
is more cheerful and like himself than
at any time since he became ill."
The decision to give nourishment
to the former president was made
after he himself had asked for food.
He will be given an egg and toast,
Dr. Morgan said, that being his pa
tient's wish.
"I don't want to say the danger
mark has passed," Dr. Morgan de
clared, after having visited Mr. Taft
for the first time since last night, when
he was sleeping easily. "That would
not be entirely correct. However, I
do not think at any time there has
been any immediate danger. I was a
little afraid of conditions that might
develop.
"Mr. Tift passed a very good night
and I should say that he is some
better. He conversed this morning
abouMhings in general in a way'that
.he .Bid not do yesterday, -when. he
talked very little. ,He is man like
himself today than he'.has been."-
Street Car . Strike at
Kansas djtyjies Up Traffic
Kansas City. Mo.', Aug.'lO.'-The
third day of Kansas'Cify s streetcar
strike began today 'with .the', tricks
deserted of all except a ;few interur
ban cars, only' prfe f whiclv carried
passengers withtrf 'the city; and 'those
conveying the mails. ' ProspectJ were,
judging from statement both of the
Kansas City Railway company and
the men, that none would be operated
at least before tomorrow.
Paits
Northwest Corner., 1 5th and
ssCSan
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Come early Saturday and take advantage of the
opportunity we are offering you to obtain a
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carry, over any garment for next season and
we are in need of the space for our new
fall goods.
Summer Suits
that are made under our own su
pervision and in the .latest styles ,
and of the finest of material in hundreds of
patterns at just one-half the former price.
$30.00 Suit. .
$25.00 Suits..
$22.50 Suit..
$20.00 Suits.,
.$15.00
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Large and always useful. Keg- ?
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