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4 Reavis Returns Impressed With ' Business Crisis Congressman Back at Wash ington Declares That Need ' " for Rail Cull Is ' , Urgent. '. . . Washineton.' Dec. 30. (Succia Telegram.) Representative Jvcavis, accompanied b? Mr. Reavt. . rt turned to Washington todav after a month spent in Nebraska. : J he 1-trst district congressman come back to the nation capital . ureatly mi preed with the eriou financial condition of business throughout tlte itate aa he found it in his travels, and the uraetit need of a reduction in freight rates to help producer over the present crisis. Very franK Iv Mr.. Reavis laid he was out o politics permanently and propose to give all his attention to the law firm he is to join at the close of the Sixty-seventh congress. Until the present congress ends, however, the Falls Citv representa tive will be exceeding busy with the bill re-organization committee which Chairman Brown of the joint committee of congress appointed to formulate a scheme for consolidating bureaus and divisions of the govern I ment. '. 'Cut Treasury Estimate!. Chairman Madden of the appro-. uriations committee in discussing the legislative situation in the house on the convening of congress next Tuesday, said .that his committee would be readv to report on appro priation bills, 11 each week, until all were completed and mat ne nopco to report the treasury bill in time to herin its consideration, on the next Thursday. Mr. Madden admit ted that the committee had cut the estimates for the Treasury depart ment very considerably over the esti mates of General Dawes, and he franklv said it was the desire of the committee to bring the expenses of the government during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1922, well within the anticipated revenues.. "We expect to have all the appro priation bills out of the house by the middle of March," said Chairman Madden. "We will hold the navy bill until we know exactly what is agreed upon at the arms conference." State Society Committee. At the meetine of the executive committee of the Nebraska state society, held in the rooms of Con ereisman McLaughlin, the newly- rettA nrcsident. on Thursday eve ..-rtnrTaA tV.ot ttip first social meeting of the winter will be held on January 18. The following . members of standing committees M?r annointfd: 1 . Membership Miss Edna Ward. Treasury department; Miss Floyd Tremain, Department of Agriculture; H. L. Barrick and W. H. Whitney, Bureau nf Printine and Engraving UU. Mnllie Volz. -House MDffice building: Dr. D. P. Rush, Govern- vnntinar Pritltinff OmCe. "t Entertainment . Committee John B. Shanahan. Omaha.: chairman; Dorothv De Muts Watson vice chairman: Crawford Kennedy, T.iiirftln srrretarv The following vice presidents for four congressional districts were ap pointed and the remaining two vice nr.iHpnt will be selected at a meeting of the executive committee to be held later. First district. Dr. L. I Harter, Department of Agri culture, formerly of -Lincoln. ; Second District Edgar C. Sny der. Third District Mrs. W. F. Nor- ris '' Fourth District Miss Billie Dunn. . Rural Mail Restored. , Congressman Reavis has secured the restoration to service of a' part of rural free delivery routes No. 2,, out of Union,- JNeD., wnicn rhamloned in February,. 1920, on orrnimi n( Kad roads Tust how inauv families will be served by this ' restoration the . congressman was not advised. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crocker of Omaha are in Washington on their wav to the Bermudas where they will 'spend the winter. Grand Island Mayor Calls Conference on Relief Work Grand Island, Neb.. Dec. 30. (Special Telegram.) Mayor Elis bcrry has called a conference Mon day of the official heads of the city and county; Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Y. V.: C. A., the truant nffi,-r f the schools and others to consider the need of more relief work for the rest of the .winter; than the county is legally able to do. One of the main questions to be decided is whether such work is to be done by a separate organization, or through the Red Cross. . Ogallala Airplane and Hangar Destroyed by Fire Ogallala, Neb.. Dec. 30. The Cur tiss airolane and its hangar belong ing to Rector Searl of this city ,was destroyed by fire. Mr. Searl was in Omaha at the time and had request ed a oilot here to take the ship and distribute advertising matter in the nearby towns. While starting the ship inside the hangar ir back-fired and immediately became a mass ot flames. J No Life on Venus. Swarthmore,' Dec. 30. Investiga tions by E. St Johns, director of the Wilson observatory in California, and Seth B. Nicholson, his assistant, indicate that the planet venus sup port no life, they asserted in papers read today before the ' American Astronomical society, in convention at the Sproul observatory. Swarth more college. Both declared they had discovered no oxygen or v .cr on Venus and therefore the presence of even animal life was precluded. $10,350,000 for Leviathan. New York, Dec 30. Eight bids for reconditioning the giant steam ship Leviathan, idle at her. pier in Hobofcen for two years, were opened today before Chairman Lasker of the United States shipping board. - The highest bid was that -of the Warwick Machine Works. Newport News. Va, for $10,350,000 and the lowwt was $5,595,000 by the New port News Drydock and impounding Trained Diplomats, Need ; Of U. S., Says Ex-Senator Albert Beveridge, Addressing Bar Association Here, Says America Almost Trapped in Arms Con ; f erence Through Inexperience of Statesmen. "If America is to abandon her traditional policy of keeping out of foreign politics and instead is to adopt the ancient European and Asiatic practice of political alii anccs let America first transform her helter-skelter diplomatic estab lishment into a permanent system, by which American diplomats will be carefully selected early in life and trained to hold their own with for eign diplomatic antagonists, Albert J. Beveridge, former United States senator Trom Indiana, declared, in an address here yesterday before the Nebraska State Bar association. Mr. Beveridge. speaking on the "Nature and Development of the American Constitution. referred generally to the treaty-making pow er of the government as set forth in the constitution and incidentally to the Washington conference and so-called "Big. Four" treaty now be- tore America. . . "Everywhere .It is' admitted . that British foreign statesmanship is. the ablest and most successful in the history of the world," Mr. Beveridge said; "yet we' are asked to go into conference with . professionals of perfect equipment, with good will and without suspicion. ? , Must Be On Alert. The fact that even our president was not informed of the interpreta tion put upon this 'four power', treaty by the Washington conference it I secret session and that that interpre tation might 'not have been divulged st all until after the treaty was rati fied, had. not alert newspaper men discovered and exposed it this amazing incident is more than enough to put the American people on enauirv. ' Such an occurrence, shows, that the humblest American citizen must be constantly on the alert It shows there must be no haste in considering any treaty, when such an interna tional contract is laid before the senate." Reviewing processes of treaty ne gotiations Mr. Beveridge admonished senators to "insulate themselves from effects of supposed public sentiment and pursue the safe, wise and patrio tic course marked out by the consti tution." ; "A.; United States senator who votes against a treaty merely because submitted by a president belonging to another political party is but a 'mere partisan guerilla and beneath Nebraska City Men Held On Kidnaping Charge Nebraska City, Neb., Dec. 30.4 (Special.) Dan Smith, jr., negro, and Martin Mullaney were bound over,to the district court by County Judge" Bischof on a charge of kid naping Tames Estes,- negro- strike breaker of Lincoln, who alleges that he had been taken from a railroad station here and "escorted" across the river bridge by Smith,' Mulla ney and others against his will. Smith, who is a veteran of the world war and the possessor of the crpix de guerre, having been a mem ber of Col. Will Hayward's regi ment of negro troops in France, secured $500 bail and was released. Lstes returned to Lincoln a few days later and reported the mat ter to the police of that city. - A complaint was filed and he was re turned . here to prosecute the two men, both, strikers, on a cnarge ot kidnaping.. Two Couples Arrested With Liquor at Nebraska City ' Nebraska City, Neb., Dec. 30. (Special.) Police Arrested two men and - two women after the car in which they came to the city was found to contain about two gallons of corn whisky. One of the men, who gave the name of Snodgrass and his home at Brock, in Johnson county, admitted owning the" car. Later another man was arrested after a chase on suspicion that he was one of the occupants ' of the car. He stated his name was Wilcox and that he lived near Auburn. Th two women, said to be the wives of the men, were arrested in a ga rage. " Women Crime Wave Victims in Last 24 Hours at Lincoln Lincoln, Dec. '30. (Special.) High spots in Lincoln's crime wave in the last 24 hours tollow: Unknown man slugged Miss De. !ia( Kelly in front of Grace Method ist church and attempted to . drag her into basement. Girls screams frightened him. She staggered to parsonage of church nearby. Highwaymen held up and robbed Mrs. Julia R. Dennis and daughter. Burglars entered Lincoln apart ment house and took away valuable property. Father Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Assaulting Son Aurora, Neb., Dec 30. (Special.) Frank H. Sharp, residing near Phillips, was arrested and pleaded not guilty to the charge of assault ing his son, Hammond,-with intent to- do great bodily harm. It is charged that he struck the young man in the face and broke his jaw. North Platte Police Arrest Ogallala Robbery Suspect Ogallala Neb., Dec. 30. (Spe cial.) James Murphy was arrested by North Platte police charged with robbing the jewelry, store of Robert Goodall here. He signed a confes sion " and was bound .over to the district court,. " " ' . "" Arrest in Murder of Girl. St. Louis, Dec 30, Frederick G. Mier. 33. and Walter Bybee, 27, were under arrest here today in connec tion with the death of Miss Thel ma Long. 19, whose body was found in a street gutter today after she had leaped from an automobile to escape the attentions of Bybee, ac mrAintr to Mier'a story, as an. j nounced by police. I contempt.' while a president who brings pressure to bear acts auto critically," lit. Beveridge continue:!. Mere "Rubber Sump." "By the same token, a senator who yields to such persuasion becomes a irere "rubber stamp'," the speaker said. A senator who disapproves treaty and yet votes for it because submitted by president of bis po litical party is a conscious betrayer of the republic, n "rrom. the foundation ot our government to the present hour, no alteration of a treaty was ever mad by the senate which, in tune, wa not seen by everybody to have been prudent, and essential. Neither, has any treaty ever been rejected by tnc senate, which, in time, was not seen to have been unwise and harmful to American interests." Turning to foreign propaganda ''which is being conducted right now with reference to the doings of. the Washington conference, Mr. Bcver. idge said : . . Prudence Needed. "Thc general opinion today may be reversed tomorrow! ,and yet, if senators act upon temporary, propaganda-manufactured' clamor today, they may be cursed tomorrow by the very same public, then awakened, for having sacrificed' American in terests. "if foreign political association is to be our future policy, let us at least act, like prudent and sensible men and women." Civilization cannot exist without law and law is useless unless active ly effective, Judge Kiinbrough Stone of Kansas Qity told the association yesterday. ' .", "The great agency which makes Ir.w effective is respect for the law by everyone. This respect can be compelled from such as do not will ingly accord it There now exists, In this country, the need to enforce respect for the law. "Laws are enacted to control ex isting or apprehended conditions. Unless they are enforced they con trol nothing. An unenforced law is not only a vain thing, it is a danger ous thing. Disrespect for Law. "Recent happenings evince a dis respect for law and defiance of it which urge watchfulness and action. Kansas enacted the so-called indus trial court law. I am not now con sidering the policy of that law. It may be very good or very bad. The legislature enacted it and the highest court sustained it. As such, it should be obeyed by all within that state. .Alexander Howat and his fol lowers, among the miners of Kan sas, do not find this law to their liking. It is entirely within their legal rights to test its validity in the courts. But they are openly advo cating and practicing disregard and defiance ot.it.; 1 his is a direct chal lenge to the will and power of Kan sas to enforce its laws.. 'An instance of defiance of law occurred in Wisconsin, where a set tlement, mostly foreign born, foci bly resisted enforcement of the na tional prohibition law.' Several men were shot before the situation quieted. , All thoughful Americans should concern themselves .with the prob lems oi immigration. . There are classes of immigrants -we can well do without. They confound license with liberty; they are not willing to accept our institutions; they often seek to substitute their own ideas and ideals of government, ; by fo menting discontent and advocating defiance. of and resistance , to exist ing law. They herd to themselves with no desire to mingle with the American mass;; ' . ' Charity at Home. " "It is very fine to regard America as the asylum for the oppressed of all lands, but it is about time we transferred some of our solicitude for the oppressed of other lands to the untainted preservation of those ideals and institutions which have protect ed oiir own people from oppression. "But amore- dangerous kin'd of violation is a subterranean sapping. The most pronounced existing in stance of this is the violations of the prohibition statutes. There can be little doubt that those statutes are not being effectually enforced. It is high time that they were. It is in no sense a question of prohibition or anti-prohibition. The policy of pro hibition whethei it be good or be bad is not involved. That policy has been and is settled and, in my judgment, will never be reversed. At any rate, congress has passed laws for the purpose of executing and making effective the amend ment. A man who violates them is a criminal." ADVERTISEMENT. BEATTY SAYS IT MADE HIM GAIN Omaha Man Says He Found a Sure Way Build Himself Up. Has to "For a short time every year I take a little course of Tanlac and it al ways does what I want it -to do," said Robert H. Beatty, 1646 Cue-St, Omaha, Neb.: "I took it first some four years ago for stomach trouble, and it toned and soothed up my stomach right away. I was very much run down at thj time and it built me up wonderfully, making me gain 20 pounds in weight Whenever I feel myself losing ground, which happens just about once a Vtar, I start taking Tanlac again and it invariably - puts me in good shape. I " I had been a sufferer from" hav fever since my boyhood, but it is a peculiar thing; since Tanlac built me up I have been entirely free from this trouble." Tanlac is sold in Omaha br the ShermM & McConnell Drug Co. and by leading druggists everywhere. Rum Not Needed As Medicine, Say 291 State Doctors 272 Nebraska Physicians, However, Declare It I Ma jority in 6 States Against Intoxicants. Chicago, Dec. 30.-(By A. P.) A large majority of physicians from six states, replying to an alcoholic questionnaire, sent out by the Jour nal of The American Medicat asso c;ation, asserted they did not regard whisky, beer and wine as necessary therapeutic agents in the practice of medicine while nearly two-thirds ot them said thev believed there should be restrictions in prescribing whisky, beer and wine. About three-fourths of the replies asserted there were no instances in the practice of the physicians where suffering or death 'had resulted from the enforcement of the? prohibition laws. "Not Necessary." In these eight states combined. 2,743 physicians replied that they did not consider whisky as a neces sary therapeutic agent in the prac tice of medicine and 2,524 asserted they had found it of value. On the question ot beer, 1,404 doc tors in the eight states replied they believed it had medicinal value and 3,833 physicians said 'they did not believe it necessary as a therapeutic agent. Wine as a therapeutic agent was supported by 1,592 doctors in the eight states and' opposed by 3,624. ' Could Cite Instances. One thousand and eighty doctors reported. they could. cite instances in their own practice where unneces. sary suffering or death had resulted from enforcement of prohibition laws and 3,923 physicians reported they had experienced no such in stances. - ; - . In the eight states 3,184 physicians stated they favored restrictions in prescribing of whisky, beer and wine, while 1,929 physicians were opposed to such restrictions. . ' . The analysis of the auestionaire from Idaho and Nebraska follows: ' Questionnaires sent ta Idaho. 227: Ne braska, 870. Questionnaires returned. Idaho. . .181: vo you regard whisky as a neoessary mm If therapeullo mat In tht pragtlce ct Aunni Krum Idaho, yra, 1i tmm N.t,,k. yea, ft:, fit from Idah, 10 (rum Nebroks, ill. Ia ou r.sard hr aa a nerewarT Ih.raptullO atant In Iht practice of mad I elna: Anattersi Tea (rem Idaho, SI; from N-brak. H&. Ho (rem Idaho, UOi (rum N.I.ra.ka. 114. lis you mart win as a n-aary tharapautlo aseut In th practice o( modi fiine? Idaho i Tea, 4i Nebraska, 1(1 Ne, Idaho, USt Nebraska. 11. Have Inalanraa occurred In your own pranlra In which unnaeeasarjr euffrrlnf or death liss reaulted troru ihs enforce- ment of prohibition lawsT Idaho! Tea. 41 j Nehraaka, lit. No, 1,1. hn. Kill Nabraaka. 314. . In your opinion ahould physicians be restricted In prescribing whisky, beer and wlnef Idaho! Tea, II; Nebraska, 140. IdahJ, no, Nebraska, lis. David City Granary Destroyed by Fire David City. Ncbi Dec. 30. (Spe cial.) the large granary on the James McGurk farm north of town urned to the ground. The granary contained 2,400 bushels of oats, 400 bushels of corn, an automobile, good supply of tools and other things. The loss amounts to about $3,500. It was only partially covered by insurance. The origin of the tire is believed to have been in a short circuit in the automobile. IT. S. Potash Industry Said To Be in Danger by Germans Washington. Dec. 30. The 34 American fertilizer companies which contracted to take 75 per cent ot their potash requirements for this season from the German potash syn dicate have contracted with French mines in Alsace for the remaining 25 Der cent, the senate finance com mittee was toia toaav Dy wiiDur i-a ... .... I ,lf't, T Roe of Washington of counsel for the United Mates rotash .produc ers association. These 34 companies produce more than bO per cent of the potash fer tilizer turned out in this- country, Mr. La Roe said. He testified that the federal trade commission had re torted in 1916 that the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, which is opposing a tariff on potash, had important holdings in. German pot ash mining company. : ; r , ... The witness declared that if given-j protecttop for five years as proposed the American potash industry could supply all the needs of the United States. Unless it is protected, ; he added,' American farmers will be at the mercy of the German potash company . ... 1 ...,.'" Race horses " are "often insured for siuu,uw. . - f! 1 Omaha Groups Paylnbutc to 13 Soldier Dead "Some Pay,' One for Me," Breathes Shellshorked Vet At Caskets Are, Taken : 7fom Train. . ' A cluster of the faithful gathered in the gray early morning yesterday at, the Union station to pay tribute to 13 soldier dead, whose caskets; were returned front France. Wore poignant even than the flag. draped boxes of pine was the sight of Ed Stevenson; 5U south j wen tieth street,, of whom the' war exacts a living sacrifice. , ' His quivering franie, wracked by shellshock in the Argonne in . Iuly, 1918. occasioned a-big part of the heartache felt by, War Mothers and those or other ' patriotic organiza tions who went down to meet the hero dead. . . "Some Day, One for Me." "Some day. one for me!" breathed the ex-soldier as he stood with bared head, the caskets filing by. Stevenson, who has a wife and oaby to support, is the only e- soldier who goes to the station each time a train bearing soldier dead ar rives. It is his way of keeping faith with his buddies. "I can never forect. I wonder how others seem to," said he. The government allows this dis abled soldier $90 per month on ac count of his condition. Chaplain West Presides. Chaplain West presided at the brief services observed when a soldier es cort from Fort Crook unloaded the casket shipment. Miss Helen Cor nell of the Woman's Overseas Serv ice league; Mrs. W. A. Wilcox and a group from the War Mothers' so ciety; a 'representative from the Chamber of Commerce, and J. M. Buck, pioneer .in meeting the soldier dead, pinned gold stars and patriotic tributes to each casket. Only one was that of a former O.mahan, Clyde Kidder, 4406 Pink- ney street, whose coffin was shipped to utenwood, la. Fire Damages Cafe Ogallala, Neb., Dec. 30. (Special.) The Ogborn cafe was srutted bv fire. The loss is estimated at about one thousand dollars. '"THESE sketches are but a few of the many dainty styles which are to be found in this group of spring frocks which usher in the new season. They are fashioned of fine quality taffeta in brown, blue or black. . . ... .: he Store of Specialty Shops; Lolita Armour Says Dr. Lorenz Helped Her Chicago, Dec. 30. Publication, of an article in the Journal' of the American Medical association that the cure of Lolita Armour, daughter ol J, j(den Armoiirof Chicago by Dr. Adolf Lorenz of Veinns, "was not a cure," today brought a state ment from the former Mi Armour, who is- now Mrs. John G. MiUhelL jr. in and 1W4 notations were nerformed by Dr. John Kldlon of Chicago and Ir. Lorenz on Mrs. Mitchell. "I cannot say that a perfect cure has been' effected in either hip. but the hit trruted hv. JJr. Lorciu is . far better than the other one, with which he could do little because ft had been 'too badly "mishandled.' h v"d. I myself believe that had it not" been for the work done before he was called in tny case he could have ef fected a complete cure.. I am very fond of Dr. Lorenz, and I feel that if it had not been for him. I would not now be getting so much pleasure out of life." Retention of Potassium . . Cyanide on Free List Urged Washington, Dec. 30, Retention of potassium cyanide on. the free list was urged before the senate finance committee today by Senator Sterling, republican, South Dakota. He ex plained that cyanide was used prin cipally in industry for extracting gold from ore and in fumigating citrus fruit trees. Senator Sterling declared the com- Dependable Tailoring at Cut Prices ' " To Close Out Winter Suitings and Keep My Tailors Busy I offer my entire stock of all-wool fabrics at two prices,' tailored to measure, style, fit and workmanship guaranteed. All Suits and Overcoats That Sold to $75.00 Now $50 $60 , , Mad in Omaha . TAILOR BECK 1512 Dodge Street Presenting remarkable values in New Taffeta Just Arrived to Be Placed onSale Saturday at , 19.75 Straight gathered skirts; bouffant "hip effects, bright col ored ribbons and v a r i,e d colored flowers'' form 'odd,' fanciful trimmings. Sizes 14 to 40. . ,. Dress Shop Third Floor inittee ought, nut ta hrej "(he tk uuinl fur tarilT made by the ko"( Irr-lUstUchrf Chemical company ft New Jeraty', which, Jn , ilfclatiilj would have monopoly. ' I Senator Smoot, republican, UU'i, said the proposed duty would tto af fret the price of gold, as only 'S cent worth of cyanide was tued to ton nt tire. Former Governor Charles J. Mc, K Carthy of Hawaii presented a, pro test from fertilizer producer of' Honolulu against a tariff on potash. Their cablegram said it would add to food cost and was unnecessary, as demand exceeded the supply. Karl of Athlonc Mentionetl ' At Irihii Free State Head London, Die. 30. Dicuion of candidates fur the governor general-' ship of the Irish Free State under the pending Anglo-Irish treaty is being revived, the latest name men-. tioned in connection with the pot being that of the carl of Athlonc, younger . brother ot Utteen Man-. i nc can was in line ir ine gov. r cruor generalship of I nnada ana f,. would have succeeded the duke of ,r Cannaught in that office in 1914 but ' r' for the outbreak of the war. , '"' Bandits Kill Two Men In Attempt to Rob Bank rearl River, N. Y Dec. 30.-(By A. P.) Four armed bandits yester day swooped down on Fearl Kiycr, failed in an attempt to rob the first National bank and fled in their automobile after slaying two men and probably mortally wounding another. . - All Suits and Overcoats That Sold to $85.00 Now '4 ' ' a (I. - r ( A ' W ra i - I f T II f 1'