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THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1921.
Japs' Aims
Subject Of
Discussion
Two Diverse Opinion! De
velop on Japanese Expan
lion In Far East ai Con
ference Near.
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO.
Ihtoaa Tttti O S Km W
Washington, Oct 22. Two di
vorce schools of thought are devel
oping on the eve ot the armament
conference on the question of Jsp-
untie expansion In the tar east.
Summarized they may be defined ai
follows:
Japan Is cverpoputated and mutt
find room for its urpltu population.
If Japan be allowed to expand on the
Asiatic m.iiuland, America, and the
HritUh dominions in the Pacific
would be relieved of the pressure to
admit Japanese immigration.
Japan is no more overpopulated
than many Europeaa countries and
i nerkine in Aia. not room for
emigrants, but economic and politi-
cal domination. With the resource
of China and Siberia, Japan would
become so powerful as to menace the
security of the white nations border-
injr uic i acme
Much Will Be Said.
: Much will be heard of these con
tentions and theories during the
arms conference. The Japanese
delegation is coming prerared to
iriake much of the over-popuiatton
90timnf. if one may judge cor
rectly from the dispatches from
Tbkio. ... . .
s The Harding administration has
taken the pains to gather all. the
available data on this question for
use during the conference. A spe
cial investigation has been made by
an agent of the State department
who has recently returned from
Japan and submitted to Secretary
Hughes a. voluminous report, on
Japanese population and emigra-
.The population of Japan is about
56,000,000 and has increased during
the last generation at the rate of
500,000 a year. The recent figures in
dicate that the current rate of in
crease is 700,000 a year.
350 to Square Mile.
The area of the Japanese archipel
ago is 148,756 square miles and the
density of population is 350 to the
square mile, compared with 630 in
Belgium, 590 in Holland and 664 in
England. To which the Japanese
reply that their population density on
arable land is really greater than
Europe's because . of the greater
mountainous areas in Japan which
do not support life.
Despite the- density of population,
however, and a population increase
of from 500,000 to 700,000 a year,
only . 800,000 Japanese .' have emi
grated in the last 20 years. " There
are only 250,000 Japanese in Korea
today although that portion of the
mainland has been under Japanese
control for 20 years. The population
density in Korea is 200 to the square
mile. :!
Manchuria has been the scene of
Japanese activities for nearly u
years, but only 300,000 Japanese
have migrated thither and about half
of these have returned, dissatisfied
with conditions on the mainland,
even where Japanese control pre
vails. The Tokip government has
made a special effort to colonize
Formosa, but the emigration to that
iland totals less than 150,000.
Prosper Prodigiously.,
There are various explanations
of these phenomena. One is that al
though the pressure to emigrate is
strong, Japanese arJ not attracted
to the mainland in large numbers
because of their inability to compete
with the Chinese and Koreans. They
prefer to migrate to white countries
where they prosper prodigiously in
competition with , the whites. An
other explanation is- found in the
assertion of Charles Edward Russell
that Japan is not really overpopu
iated. . , . ... .
Still another explanation is that
hat Japan needs is not room for
excess population, but that raw ma
terial resources with which " to
transform itself from an agricul
tural into an industrial nation. Such
resources are not to be found m the
Japanese archipelago, but on the
mainland. ..' v . ,
Japan, according to the second
achool of thought, is not content to
obtain these Chinese iron mines and
other resources in the ordinary man
ner of commerce, but is seeking po
litical control of the sections of
country in which they are located.
In support of this contention Japan s
21 demands contemplating Japanese
control of China are cited. Group
five of these demands"which would
have given Japan such control, was
withdrawn after protest by the
United States.'
I Jingoists See Trouble.
'Further evidence of Japan's de
signs upon China is found in the
Sino-Japanese military pact, the se
cret agreements of 1918 forced upon
China and the Nishi-Hara loans to
China. .'. '
From all of which the adherents of
the second achool of thought con
jure visions of Japan, unless re
strained, eventually dominating
China and employing its man power
and material resources to build up
a powerful Prussian of the Far East,
capable of commanding the Pacific
with the greatest navy and army In
all history- ' ' ' -
Pan-Pacific Press Congress
j. Is Organized at Honolulu
Honolulu, Oct 22. Formal or
ganization of the Pan-Pacific press
congress was effected here today by
delegates from Pacific countries at
tending the sessions of the Press
Congress of thelverld. The member
ship is limited to representatives of
the press of all countries, or states
bordering on the Pacific
Soviet Premier Admits
Defeat of Communists
Riga, Oct 22-After long rest
in the country. Premier Lenine of
soviet Russia has returned with an
admission of communists' defeat ac
cording to an account of a speech
he made before the congress of politi
cal workers in Moscow, given out
by the Rosta agency, official bolshe
k vik ncv disseminator,
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Blind Wife Murderer
Gets His Only Vacation
srt - - in
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Left, Rudolph Kraus, blind, serving a life term in the penitentiary for
murder of his wife and two children.
Lincoln. Oct 22. (Special.) Do
pangs of remorse torture Rudolph
Kraus as he sits in the .Lancaster
county district court, gazing with
unseeing eyes at the jury which is
hearing evidence in his suit for $25,-
000 against . Max Schoeder and
Henry Pimper, former saloon keep
ers at Daykin and Tobias, respec
tively?
If there is any man in Nebraska
who has a right to curse, fate, .that
man is Rudolph Kraus, 30;
Murdered Family.
He is totally and hopelessly
blind. -,,,-,, .. ..,
He is sentenced to spend the re
mainder of his life in the peniten
tiary. .
Right, Sheriff Ira Miller of Lincoln.
And he knows that he has mur
dered, his wife, 26 and their two
babes 5 and 3.
Kraus claims that liquor sold to
him by the two saloonkeepers was
responsible for his . murdering his
family and shooting himself so that
he became blind.
Hia Only "Vacation." :
The man already has spent four
years in the penitentiary. He may
have more than 40 more'; years . of
living death' ahead ofJiim.-
During trial of his suit he -is con
fined in the county jail and taken to
the court room under -guard..
It is the only. "vacation" he has
had or will have from the peniten
tiary. i-: .' ..: '
Pupils to Give
Pageant Before
State Teachers
Spectacle, "Nebraska, To. Be
Feature of Pedagogues Con
vention Noted Speakers
Wcl Be Present
Premier entertainment event for
members of the Nebraska State
Teachers association, which will
meet here November 9, 10 and 11,
will be the pageant "Nebraska,", pre
sented by hundreds of Omaha school
boys and girls. ' ' ,
The book of the pageant was writ
ten by Hartley B. Alexander of the
University of Nebraska. Howard I.
Kirkpatrick of the University School
of Music, Lincoln, wrote the music.
Lena May Williams o Central High
school, Omaha, is director, assisted
by Marion Reed, supervisor of art
in public schools.
The pageant will be given at the
Brandeis theater Thursday, Novem
ber 10, at 10 a. m., and on the after
noon of the same day.
Pageant Has Five Parts.
The spectacle will be in five parts,
"Spirit of the West," "The Louisiana
Purchase," "The Plainsman," "The
Making of the State'? and "Nebraska
and the Nation."
Among the talent which will ap
pear at the 57th annual session of
the state teachers will be Miss
Charl O. Williams, president of the
National Education association and
county superintendent of Shelby
county schools, Tennessee.
Other speakers engaged for the
general sessions in the Auditorium
are: Francis G. Blair, state superin
tendent of education in Illinois; Wil
liam A. McKeever, author of educa
tional books; N. L. Engelhardt of
Teachers college, Columbia uni
versity; Herbert S. Weet, superin
tendent of schools, . Rochester, N.
Y.; Wallace W. Atwood, president
of Clark university; Edward A.
Steiner of Grinnell, la., authority on
immigration and Americanization;
Emily Griffith, organizer of the Op
portunity School of Denver; John
Dennis Mahoney, authority on Eng
lish; Z. E. Scott, superintendent ot
schools at Louisville, Ky.; Harold
W. Foght, president of Normal
school at Aberdeen, S. D.; Emma
Watkins of University of Iowa,
authority on teaching children to
read.
Will Lead Singing. .
Albert Edmund Brown of Massa
chusetts wiH lead the teachers in
community singing. He is said to be
the "greatest leader of mass singing
in this country."
The bureau of publicity of the
Chamber of Commerce, in honor of
the teachers of the state, will present
Miss May Peterson, soprano, of the
Metropolitan Opera. New York, in
the Auditorium Friday evening, No
vember 11.
The Ohio Federation of Labor is
comprised of 1,219 locals, with a to
tal membership of more than 300,000
Card Games on Train Not
Disorderly, Judge Rules
Washington, Oct. 22. "Unless the
players are disturbing, fellow pas
sengers, playing cards on a train can
not be construed disorderly '' -conduct,"
commented Judge Hardison
in dismissing a charge of disorderly
conduct: - filed against Bernard
Sweeney and Thomas Underwood.
It appeared from the evidence
that the two men, in company with
two companions, were in a game of
pitch on a -train of the Baltimore
& Ohio to while away time return
ing : from the races. According to
police, as the tram pulled into Un
ion station the ame terminated and
one man handed one of the players
75 cents, explaining, . "here is what
I owe you." ':' ) (
Stolen Car Found Wrecked
At Bottom of High Cliff
Ambcrst, Oct. 22. An auto re
ported stolen from Frank Justin of
Lorain -was found at the bottom of
a 150-foot cliff at "Mill Hollow, on
Vermillion river. No bodies, were
found in the debris.' Sheriff Backus
expressed belief that the car was de
liberately iun over the precipice, or
that occupants' lost control of the
machine and jumped to safety ahead
of the crash. . , '
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4 Million
Invested
In Dairies
; Twenty Thousand Cows and
500 Men Engaged in Fur.
i iiihing Milk Supply for
Omaha us.
Twenty thounand cow, 50t) wen,
t.-aether with machinery and equip
ment for delivery, repreenting m all
a total mmtment ot nearly nw
tXKi, provide Omaha with its daily
milk supply, according to me uurcau
of publicity of the Chamber of Com
merce. About. 20,000 gallon of milk and
1,000 gallons of sweet cream are
brought to the city each day from
the farms in the outlying districts.
It is otimated that 1.000 gallons ot
crean) represent 10,000 gallons of
milk. This brings v the total milk
production necessary to supply the
city to 30,00V gallons of milk a day.
Milk if sold at about 50c a gallon,
making the total expenditure of
Omaha's milk consumers amount to
$15,000 a day.
From Large Radius.
The milk supply Js gathered from
a territory within a radius of 40 miles
of Omaha, including parts of Doug,
las, Sarpy and Washington counties.
The herds in this district are care
fully selected and subjected to close
inspection.
The 500 men engaged in providing
the city with its milk, supply draw
salaries ranging from $75 to $200 a
month, aggregating a .total expendi
ture in salaries alone of approximate
ly $750,000 a year. A conservative
estimate of the value of the 20,000
cows maintained in this industry
places it at $1,400,000. Equipment
and supplies are estimated at $2,000,.
000V
Dairies within the city limits are
prohibited by ordinance and only a
few exist close to the proscribed
limits. The majority of them are
situated on farms at some distance
from the city but easily, available,
due to the numerous roads leading
into Omaha.
Distribution Organized.
Distribution within the city is
managed under direction of the large
dairies and plants engaged in the
business. The milk is delivered to
certain stations by the farmers and
is kept there in large ice-cooled cans
until gathered by the drivers who
take it through the city for delivery.
These drivers work on set schedules
and handle their routes with as much
regularity as mail carriers.
The carriers who gather the milk
comb every portion of . Douglas,
Sarpy ahd Washington counties'dur
ing the night and early hours of
morning. The milk taken from
cows durinsr the day 'is delivered to
the refrigerator rooms early the jtext
morning. It is immediately .pas
teurized, cooled and bottled, prepara
tory for delivery to customers, and
stores. "
Bute Law Strict
. The large dairies do not permit the
snikV t6 leave the pasteurization plant
until it has been cooled to a tempera
ture of 36 degrees, The wagons in
which it is taken are iced. '
.- The state law provides that milk
dffered for sale, must carry 'a mini
mum of 3.2 oer cent butter fat Fit?-
iires show that the average content
of milk sold in Omaha is at least 3.8
per .cent. butter fat, white much of it
runs as high as 4.6 per cent
Only a small per cent of dairies'
have their own cows, the majority of
them depending on the farmers for
their supply of milk and cream,
Man Caught Stripping ,
Automobile Arrested
A. H. Mayer, 291 S Erskine street,
was arrested yesterday at Four
teenth street and Ames avenue,
where .he--was; found by Policeman
Riley, stripping, an automobile.
Mayer said the car had been hit by
a locomotive.
Clearing House Banks 1
Show Deficit for Week
' New York, Oct 22. The actual
condition of clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
shows a deficit of $2,535,470 in legal
reserve, Thi9 is a d&erease of $41,
593,960 from last weelt.
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Leader Declares
Men Will Walk Out
(Cmliwl mm r9 Om.) ,
ployrt' department, and the presi
dents of the sit affiliated unions,
signed statement addrcised to their
men, in which they said:
"We were definitely advied Octo
ber 14, 1921, by the officers of the
four trantportittion organisation that
tbey would not under any circuitu
stances co-operate with the federated
shop crafts organizations' in the
strike beginning October 30, 1921."
Await Board Decision. '
" "The statement insued by'B. If,
Jewel, president of the railway shop
department, American Federation of
Labor, which includes the shop
crafts, saul the six unions would
await.-the decision of the railroad la
bor board in the ocndinir rules and
working conditions case and then re
convene the general officers and de
cide on future action.
The shoo crafts were first of all
the unions to vote on a strike. 4J5.0OO
votes ocuig cast for a walkout, with
40.000 opposed to a strike. After th
rote was canvassed President Jewe l
announced ttiey would await action
oy the labor board in the rules case.
Information Lacking.
Chicago. Oct. 22. (Bv The Asso
ciated Press.) The United States
railroad labor board at 2 p. m. was
without official advices that the train
men on the International & Great
Northern railroad of Texas had auit
their places. .
1 be board, however, went into ses
sion on receipt of newspaper reports
to discuss what action should be
taken for the violation of yesterday's
order to the unions to preserve the
status quo.
Just as the board went into ses
sion word came from the hotel
where the Order of Railway Tele
graphers is in session that the union
has decided to join the brotherhoods
and quit work if the strike becomes
effective.
Armed Guards.
Houston. Tex.. Oct, 22. Armed
guards took up patrol duties at the
International fit Great Northern
yards here at noon, as 150 trainmen.
members of. the brotherhood, aban
doned their work. Switching in the
yards was at a ftandtt'tt, but oper
sting olncuis said ail paengrr
train crews will be maintained, the
places ol the strikers being tilled by
new men.
E. G. Goferth, general manager of
the road, slated as the men quit work
tnat the road wonld handle no
f i eight trains today, but would oper
ate its passenger service without in
terruption through the transfer of
men from other departments and the
use of employes u ho remain loyal
to the road. Mr. Gofortli stated also
that the operation of freight trains
might be curtailed somewhat, for a
longer period than today because the
road did not propose to hire strike
breakers. . '
San Aufonio.'Tex.. Oct. 22. Two
hundred and fifty brakemen and
switchmen of the International &
Great Northern railroad, San 'An-
lonto divuion, went on strike
promptly at noon today.
Chicaao. Oct. 22. (By The Ao-
ciated Press.) Hopes for a peaceful
settlement of the national transpor
tat ion crisis were brighter today
with the agreement of rail executives
and brotherhood strike leaders to
respond to the summons of the la
bor board for an open conference
here next Wednesday on the wage
and working rules dispute.
While brotherhood chiefs, in con
ference at Cleveland, stated their
willingness to meet the executives
and the board, it was indicated they
had made no plans for suspending
the strike arrangements pending the
negotiations.
Will Obey Order.
S. M. Felton. president of the Chi
cago, Great Western and chairman
at the meeting of western executives
here yesterday, declared the excu-
tivs would obey not ouly the order
to appear . for the conference, but
also the board's order that the sit
uation remain unchanged pending
the conference and 'the board's de
cision resulting from it. i
Measures to combat the strike
will be abandoned, he said, until the
hearing..
The strike decision of 11 so-called
"standard" railroad unions, compris
ing three-fourths of the railroad em
ployes, also was expected today.
B. M. Jewell, president of the rail
way employes department of the1
American Federation of Labor and
head of the unions whith have
reached their derilon, declared b
woui.j ao an iu In power to avri
walkout.
No Power.
. The labor board's conference or
der yesterday placed the brother
hoods in the position of violating the
board's orders if th strike set for
October M is niaJo effective
Jecnnically the strike is In oirrl
lion to the board's wage reduction
of approximately 12 per cent, elrec
live last July I. althouo.li the strike
order was not issued until the ao
ciation of railway executives meet'
ing here last Friday announced plans
for proposing a further wage cut of
iu per cent to the labor board.
While the transportation act cre
ating the labor board gave It no
power to enforce decisions, the
boards summons for next IVrifnn.
day's conference, it was announced,
was with the full baekinir ot the ait.
ministration at Washington.
No Penalties Provided.
If the unions choose to carry
through strike plans which the board
asked them to defer, members of the
board said that the next move would
have to come rom Washington, in
timating yesterday's action exhaust
ed their attempts to furnish the teeth
which the transportation act creat
ing the board was said by many to
lack. At the same time it was point
ed out that the transportation act
gives the board power to cite the
interested parties for alleged viola
tion, of its rulings, si it did in call
ing next--Wednesday's conference,
but provides no penalties for viola
tions of its decrees.
Causes for Strike.
. Cleveland. O.. Oct 22. CR Th
Associated Press.) Causes for the
strike of railway workers, set to be
gin in general at 6 a. m.. October 30.
are enumerated by W. G. Lee, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, in a statement to The As
sociated Press today.
The statement was issued. Mr. Lee
explained, because "the public is
rather, confused" as to its causes,
some believing it is for higher
wages.
Three causes were ascribed by
Mr. Lee:
The wage reduction of July 1.
Proposed further reductions.
Proposed elimination of rules, Saturday.
Mhiih uuld iiuitn still further tc
dnciiiii.
Pieparc to Obey Citation.
The thrre local brotherhood
t-hicU, Mr. i.ee of the trainmen,
Wsrrrn S. Hone of the Ilroiherhot-4
ol Locomtive Fnginrers and W. S.
Carter ol the Druthrrhood r FirC.
men aim r ngineiiien, Hliil
ing to obey ihe ciiatio
before the labor board l,
nrxt Ycdnrsday, were all,
ahead Willi plana to carry ou.
Strike. v
L. E. Sheppard. president of tit
Order of Railway Conductors, ar
nvrd lat night.
Mr. Lee's statement as to the
cautci ol the strike follows:
"The public is rather confused as
tc the causes fur the railway strike.
There is a belief on the part of some
that the strike is for Initlicr waees
and is not understood to be a dt-m-
oiiMration againtt a wage reduction,
tc which has been added proposU
tions further to reduce wanes and
eliminate rules which would mean
still further reductions.
Tixed for All Classes.
Railroad transportation employe.!.
even when neak warn- ur nm!
did not receive advanced wages in
keeping with the increased -livintr
COsfs. Hie dailv rate naiil Irimiwr.
tation men was fixed for all ritra
ir the United States in 101.1 atwl r.
gardless of the increased costs of
living, there were no increased
wages for these employes until Jan
uary 1, 1918, and only then after a
most searching investigation hn
been made by the Lane commission.
"The railroad companies have not
been fair in the nrnasanda av.iimt
the employes, and it is to be hoped
that before the trouble is over that
prejudiced opinion, based on railway
publicity misstatements, will under
stand the exact wage that may be
earned through a normal day's work."
Rolirer Must Have Permit
Evidence Reedy in Week
Prohibition Enforcement Officer
U. S. Rohrer's order of October 4,
revoking the alcohol permit of the
Wolfe-Farrar Chemical company,
will stand until next SatiirHav of
least, under an order made by Fed
eral Judse Woodrough today. He
instructed Rohrer to be ready to
present his evidence in the case next
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