THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918.
FOOD ADMINISTRATION SPEAKERS URGE ALL
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TO SAVE SUPPLIES AS VITAL WAR NECESSITY
AMERICA MUST CARRY LOAD
IF ALLIES ARE TO WIN WAR,
FOOD SPEAKERS TELL OMAHA
Administrator Wattles and Speakers
Who Lead State Food-Saving Campaign
PACKERS -HENEY
HEARING BRINGS
OUT SENSATION
Letters Read in Open Court by
Special Prosecutor Show
Meat Heads Were Well
Informed.
French and British Merely Holding Line Until Uncle
Sam's Boys Are Ready and United States Must
.Send Them Food So They Can
Hold That Line.
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The French and British are merely holding the German
line until the Americans come; they admit freely that they can
not win the war without our help, and we must send them food
constantly to make it possible for them to hold that line until we
can train an army. Thatwas the burden of 13 speeches deliv-
ered in Umaha yesterday by Dr. Kay Lyman Wilbur of Leland
Stanford universitv. Everett Colbv of Orance. N. J., and Mrs.
Isabel Becker of Birmingham,
federal food administration, who opened their speaking sam-
l FRANCE DOWNHEARTED.
"The French were tremendously
(.downhearted and discouraged when
i they heard in the fall that though we
were willing to send men over for can
rnon fodde we would not deny our
'selves food in order to help our allies
!and our own men," said Everett
HColby, in his talk to the county food
'administrators from all over the state
'.at the Hotel Fontenelle at 3 o'clock in
' the afternoon.
'.."I came back from France, where
4 1 saw the most terrible thing; saw
"children starving in the streets, saw
'the fever in their eyes, and heard their
..cries. When once you hear the cry of
a starving child you can never for
get it.
America Takes No Heed.
"Yet I come back here and find
people going along eating everything
.they want just as though there were
nothing going on in the world. I con
fess I cannot discuss this matter with
any patience. I feel deeply on the sub
ject, for I have heard the cry of starv
ing children. And if you don't begin
now and save food, substitute and
send the pork and flour abroad the day
is ont far distant when things will be
so that you will hear the cry of starv
ing children, too. Mark what I tell
'you.
Unpleasant Truth.
"When I took luncheon at the Uni
versity club at noon they brought in
my plate with a piece of bacon on it.
I cannot understand that. I would
not eat it. Of course, I don't suppose
I can get it back on the market again
because it has been sliced and fried,
but it is absolutely wrong to serve it
here."
. ; Speak at Theaters.
Dr. Wilbur and Mr. Colby spoke
at the Muse, Brandies, Strand, Gay
ety, Orpheum, Sun, Empress and
Boyd theaters last night. The three
speakers will leave for Fremont this
morning, beginning their tour of the
section north of the Platte river for
one week.
"Food has taken a paramount place
in the strategy of the war. Our sol
diers can do nothing unless we supply
them and our allies with food," said
,Mrs. Isabel Beecher in her talks to
women at the Young Women's Chris
',' tian association Monday.
"If we are going to be fit to live in
,the same world with English women
,who have sacrificed so much in the
war, we will have to come out of our
'selfishness, stop eating so much, stop
.serving refreshments at parties, and
Wet believe we are not wasting just
because we save the leavings for the
chickens.
Pool the Food.
Take the world in at your table.
flThere is not enough food in the world,
I but if we pool it, there will be enough
;to go around. If you take more than
;your share, you are robbing some one
else.
"Do not touch wheat, bacon or ham
and other hog products, fats, sugar
and fresh meats. If you don't hear
this call of the government, you ought
to have on your burial robe. It's the
personal response to the national pu
pose which will win the war. What
ever we have that is genuine belongs
to the government in this hour of
need. ,
"There's been a great deal of talk
about making the world safe for
democracy. The test is now to see if
democracy is safe for the world."
Unpleasant Truth.
"Unless we send our allies 6,000,000
barrels of flour a month for the next
nine months we are licked. That is
the bald, unpleasant truth of the war,"
declared Everett Colby of Orange, N.
J., at the University club. Mr. Colby
returned from Europe a month ago
and is one of the speakers who are
trying to impress the people with the
absolute necessity of saving wheat to
win the war.
Found Situation Acute.
"I visited the French, British and
American fronts and I found the sit
uation there absolutely acute. Not
only is the food nearly all gone, but
the people have very little seed or
fertilizer and the outlook for a crop
this year is extremely bad.
"We cannot understand the attitude
of the American people in declining
to save wheat and meat The only
explanation is that we have basked in
plenty for so many years that we can't
realize the absolute, gripping life-and-death
necessity for saving food. This
is no joke, I can tell you, and unless
the people wake up and deprive them
selves of wheat and meat Germany
will win the war and then our people
will have long years in which to wish
they had obeyed the vital orders of
the food administration.
"Even with our own troops in
France the situation' is acute. I found
one division with only five days' food
rations between it and hunger. The
sinking of just one ship would have
put these boys up against it In
London, when we left, the butcher
shops were all closed because there
was no meat
Says "Ugly Truth."
"We must learn that every little bit
saved multiplied by our 100,000,000
people is going to save the situation.
Ana l tell you that we are defeated
now unless the people will take them
selves in hand and faithfully observe
every regulation of the food adminis
tration. That is the plain, ugly
iruth."
"When we have won the war the
jphole world will look back and say,
Ala., These speakers for there
'it was the food conservation of
American women which turned the
trick!'" So spoke Mrs. Beecher at
the Young Women's Christian asso
ciation. "Food conservation is the most im
portant problem of this whole world.
We must save it or we are lost. There
can be no peace but a German-won
peace while our allies are crying for
food.
"We as a nation must get together
on this food saving as on nothing else.
And do it by choice, which is our pre
rogative under our democracy. If we
were in Germany we couldn't exer
cise choice. We would be forced to
do it.
"The war is the greatest world
event since the coming of Christ. It
is a divine experiment by the Lord to
see if the peoples of the earth are
capable of living together like
brothers."
Mrs. Beecher addressed two meet
ings, one of business girls at the
Young Women's Christian association
at 12:30 o'clock, when Miss Esther
Stamats presided, and again to Pjuse
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leader of the home economics
department of the Omaha Woman's
club, presided.
Act Like Chinamen.
"We have acted like a lot of China
men," said Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
food speaker, in his talk before 400
business men and womer. at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon. "We
tried to dodge this war. There is no
denying that. The Germans believed
all we wanted was to have our faces
saved and so they tried to fix it to
From Oumr Neaur Nefehboro
Atocs.
Tha public sal of George Harahman, Jr.,
waa hold Iaat Friday. Mr. Harahman and
family will leave aoon (or Forklne county
where they win reside.
II ri. Ora K. Copea entertained the
Woman'a club Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. E. O. Spencer of Talmas; waa here
Thursday for a visit with her parents.
Claude Durham returned the latter part
of the week from two months' stay at
Chadron. '
The school rave a patrlotlo program for
the benefit of the Junior Bed Cross at the
opera house Friday night
Henry Hunterman was at Omaha this
week with two cars of cattle.
Miss Edna Johnson of Sumner Is spending
the week with relatives In this city.
Miss Nita Francla was at Dunbar over
Bunday for a visit with her parents.
Henry Maseman, Jr., will leave the first of
the week for Bertrmnd, where he and family
will reside on a farm.
Charles E. Everett waa a state capltol
visitor this week.
Weeping Water.
At the Bel Cross benefit given Tuesday
night by the Woman's club the receipts
were ISI.1S.
Andrew Johnson and family will move
soon to Chappell, Neb.
Mrs. Fred Oorder baa recently received
appointment aa district committee woman
to the civil service aectlon of the State Fed
eration of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Adolph Mogensen entertained fifty
friends last Saturday at a kltohen shower In
honor of Miss Christiana Chrlstensen, whose
marriage to Otto Mogensen occurs In the
near future.
Mrs. Oeorge Hageman and two children of
Wray, Colo., arrived thla week for a visit at
the home of Mrs. Hageman'a parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Parker,
Walter OXander, who recently enlisted In
the navy, waa called to report for duty at
Omaha Friday.
M. J. Wlckarsham returned the first of
the week from a month'a trip to Bt. Peters
burg and other points In Florida.
Mia C. M. Paine and her brother, Ira
Paine, are visiting this week at the home
of their sister, Mrs. Stella Butler.
Valley.
John Vonehan, C. H. Webb and Miles
Moon went to Omaha Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Janaen are rejoicing over
the birth of a daughter, born February 14.
Mrs. J. V. Ler.tell gave a valentine party
for the Valley Camp Qlrls and friends
Thursday evening. On account of Mrs. Len
to 11 moving Into the country ahe resigned
as guardian and Miss Katherlne Nlelson
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"We must wake uo now. We are
bleeding to death at the source. Many
ships are waiting in New York har
bor for wheat that is out here.
"The world today is watching the
greatest race of all history. It is the
race between Germany trying to fin
ish up the war before we can get in,
and America trying to get in before
it is too late.
"When Dr. Garfield stopped the in
dustries of the east for a period of
days so that coal could be moved, he
saw the great importance of the situ
ation. He was big enough to see that
the industries could afford to be shut
down a few days in order that coal
might be available for the ships that
were lying in the harbor with their
bunkers empty ships that positively
must sail if our troops in France and
the allied troops were going to be
able to hold the line any longer.
Life Hangs On Thread.
"The very life of this nation at this
moment hangs on a thread of ships
sailing between American ports and
France and England. That thread
was positively broken when the ships
were idle in New York for the want
of coal. The very thread that held
was chosen by the girls to take her placa.
Mrs. H, Wallstroem spent Wednesday In
Fremont.
Mrs. Janetts Jackson Wt last week for
Schuyler to care for a lady who Is sick.
Mrs. Balr and aon of Omaha visited her
aunt. Mrs. Wallstroem Wednesday and
Thursday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Women's Christian Temperance union was
held last Friday afternoon at the home of
Mra. Burke.
Miss Gertrude Beynolds went to Omaha
Thursday to attend the wedding of her
sister. Miss Beynolds.
Mrs. Olen Condron returned aSturday
from Camp Funston, where ahe has spent
several weeks with her husband.
Newton W. Gaines of Fremont began a
series of gospel services In the Methodist
Episcopal church on Monday evening.
Mr. Nordqutst of Mead purchased Thomas
Orr's farm at 1200 per acre and will take
possession March 1. Mr. Orr and children
will move to California.
Elkhorn.
V. E. Chamberlln visited several days the
first of the week with his daughters and
family at Falrbury.
Mrs. Arthur Nolte went to Bennington
Friday tor a few days' visit with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Logeman.
H. A. Elcke and daughter, Lena, visited
Mrs. Elcke at a hospital In Omaha Satur
day, She Is recovering from a a dislocated
hip and body bruises received in an auto
mobile accident The accident occurred
three miles east of Elkhorn, when the auto
slipped off the muddy road and turned
turtle. Six of the family were In the car
and Mrs. Elcke was the only one hurt
Mesdames Clyde Hollister and N. F.
Carlson were Omaha visitors Saturday.
John Smith of Dakota county la visiting
a few days with hla sister, Mrs. D. Kuehl,
and family.
Mrs, E. A. Schurman la spending a week
visiting friends in Chicago.
Charles Hopper of Colorado visited with
his niece, Mrs. Charles Wltte, Monday.
William Hansen of Osceola visited bis
parents Bunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gaeth are the par
ents of a bouncing baby boy, born Tueday.
Mra Margaretta Mllke went to Camp
Funston yesterday to visit her son, John
Hansen.
Henry Miller of Chappel Is vial ting friends
and looking after business a few days.
The Henry Krqeger-Ernest Benke sale waa
poatponed to February Si owing to aevere
weather. , '
The J. H. Blecken sale on Thursday waa
well attended and tha chatties sold for high
prices.
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the life of this nation was temporarily
broken, and Dr. Garfield knew it
when he gave that order. Any school
child can see, then, how important
the order was.
"We cannot do much in a military
way this year. That is already plain.
Our machine guns are still incom
plete.' Our ships will not begin to
be turned out before midsummer. Our
duty and our business, then, is to feed
the allies and keep them fighting until
we can get there, lest it be forever
too late.
"If the American people don't wake
up at once it positively will be too
late and then they will have a good,
long time to regret their indifference.
"We are the great amateurs of the
world in world affairs. The world Is
watching to see whether we really are
going to prove ourselves to be the
greatest nation in the world or wheth
er we are going to turn out to be
merely a nation of money-loving
bluffers as the Germans have said we
were."
"The American school teachers are
the ones in the first trenches. If they
fail to do their share, all hope is
gone," Ray Lyman Wilbur told the
teachers of Greater Omaha yesterday
in the Central High school auditor
ium. "Omaha and the middle west, is
rotten with war profits. You are
living on the blood of the boys in
France. If you continue to eat as at
present, you are going to live on the
blood or our own sons now in
France," continued the speaker in an
attempt to bring a realization of the
food crisis in this country to his
hearers.
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speaker vividly brought to her aud
ience the fact that this is our war;
that we must win it. and that a
means to win it was to save food.
Everett Colby of Orange, N. J., who
has recently returned from the first
line trenches, first described the
horrible conditions in Europe before
making his appeal for conservation.
He told of the 3,000,000 Frenchmen
either killed or wounded and the
barbaric methods of warfare used by
the Huns. v
Must Sacrifice.
"We stand beaten today unless we
make this little sacrifice," said Mr.
Colby. "Thirty ships are awaiting
cargoes of wheat in New York had
bor that have not even been saved
yet. We must send 400,000,000
bushels of wheat or lose the war."
"You may take our boys and feed
them to the cannon but you may
never have our pork which we want
for our own stomachs, seemed to be
the attitude of America at the be
ginning of our participation in this
war.
"Every piece of white bread that
you eat you take from the mouth of
starving children in Belgium. There
will be no wheat in France in three
months and there will be a complete
famine in nine months in that poor1
country. No man with a right con
science can eat a piece of pork now."
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Chicago, Feb. 25. Heads of the
packing industry had "inside" infor
mation that Joseph B. Cotton, a New
York attorney, would be appointed to
assume charge of the packing and live
stock department of the federal food
administration and several of them
saw him before his appointment was
announced.
This fact was revealed today in
private letters which Francis J. Ile
ney, special counsel for the federal
trade commission, read today in the
government's investigation of the
packing industry.
Knew of Appointment.
Mr. Heney read a telegram from
Thomas E. Wilson, president of Wil
son & Co., in which Mr. Wilson, then
in New York, advised V. D. Skip
worth, his confidential agent in Chi
cago, tna: Lotton nad oeen cnosen
and that announcement would be
made public later.
"I had luncheon with him today,"
Mr. Wilson added in the message,
which he said should be treated as
confidential. The message was dated
several days before Cotton's appoint
ment was announced and was sent
over a private wire.
Interviewed Packers.
Confidential letters from the files
of Swift & Co. also revealed that as
early as October 7, four days before
Mr. Cotton s appointment was an
nounced, he had been in Chicago and
held a conference with Louis F. Swift
and his brothers in the directors'
room at the Swift plant.
A letter in which Louis F. Swift re
ferred to Swift & Co.'s public an
nouncement in favor of the govern
ment setting maximum food prices as
"galley play" was read today by At
torney Francis J. Heney before Chair
man Davies of the federal trade com
mission. Charges "Galley Play."
The alleged "gallery play" was
made April 10, 1917. The letter, dated
a month later, was signed by Louis
F. Swift and was addressed to Charles
H. Swift at Washington. It was one
of the letters taken from Swift &
Co.'s files some time ago. Mr. Heney
read it as follows:
"Some of this is gallery play when
we say we are in favor of maximum
prices. But I repeat that this is the
only proper thing to do and I believe
that it is possible to follow it out if
the government wants to. I am well
satisfied that the government doesn't
want to and is not going to. At the
same time it doesn't make any dif
ference I mean our public announce
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