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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1919)
THE SEMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Home M ade Less Easy Government Makes Elaborate Ar rangements to Discourage Private Plants. TAXES, FINES AND PRISON Manufacture of Whisky In Commercial Quantities Made Especially Diffi cult Home Stills Are Offi cially Defined. Washington. Ambitious drinkers who exported to set up their own little ntllls nnd t mi 1 1 1 11 1 n it ti Individual oasis against tho mttloniil drought nro to ho checked up, tnxed nnd policed by the interim! revenue bureau of the treas ury ilepnrtuient. Tlio hurenu sent- notice to every col lector of Interiinl revenue of the re quirements for registering nnd paying tnxes on stills. The regulations nre rigid nnd nppnrontly the only escnpe for the Individual delimit will he In the home manufacture of the distillery ns well as tho spirits. Thon Is given the following notice: "Under federal laws and regulations manufacturers of stills aro required to pay an annual special tax of $50 nnd In addition -thereto $20 for each fit III or worm for distilling made hy them. All persons, firms or corpora tions thus manufacturing n still or worm to he used In distilling are deem ed manufacturers of stills. This ap plies to nil stills capable of the pro duction of distilled spirits but does nrt apply to' smnll laboratory stills (usually glass) for legitimate labora tory purposes or to water stills which lire not capable of nnd Intended for tho production of distilled spirits. Or dinarily Inborntory stills are small, constructed of glass and not adapted to tho commercial production of dis tilled spirits. How Stills Are Defined. "Any stills or worms udnpted to tho production of distilled spirits for com mercial or beverage purposes nre pre sumed to bo Intended for such use nnd In consequence tho manufacture there of Involves the manufacturer In special tnx liabilities as above. In order to remove such presumption in tho enso of stills and worms Intended to bo used In tho manufacture of essentlnl oils, vinegar and like products and In purification of water (other than small glass laboratory stills) the person for whom such still Ib made will he re quired to submit to tho collector evl denco under oath showing that tho utlll Is not to bo used for tho produc tion of spirits and setting forth spe cifically tho actual purposes for which It Is to be used. "The manufacturer of any still, boiler or any vessel to he used for the pur pose of distilling must, before tho NOVEL AMERICAN SUBMARINE r i i 1 tmirMn linn r T 'i 'V. -"w. v t A moat unusual view of Hie new United States "0"-boat with Its sub merging nppurntus above water. Several submarines of thjs type aro now at i anchor with the rest of the Atlantic licet In tho North river at New York. 'The "0"-boat operated on this side of the water during tho war, und performed credltnbly. - GIVE FOOD (Allies Plan Larger Ration for 7,000,000 Foes. German Need of Fats Recognized In Order by Military Com mission. Coblenz. Tho averago uniform rn itlon for tho 7,000,000 Inhabitants of jOie occupied areas of Germany will Ibe 030 grams a day for each person, according to tho decision of the Inter allied military commission for food isupply for tho civilian population on tho left bank of tho Itblne. In weight this Is an Increase of 80 itrrnms a day over that provided by the Iflcrmnn war regulations, but cstl .Ininted In calories It means an Increase lof 2.-100 calories a day from tho 1,-100 allowed by the Germans. Tho in 'crenso In calorics won based on iports made by food experts thnt the Germans needed more fat. Distilling same Is removed from the place of manufacture, notify In writing the col lector of the district In which such still, boiler or other vessel Is to be set up, by whom It Is to be used, Its ca pacity and the time when the same Is to be removed from the place of manu facture. Manufacturers of stills for Industrial distilleries aro exempt from the special tnx for the inanufacturo of such stills, but they are required to obtnln permits for their rcnvovnl In the usual manner. Penalty for fail ure to tile return of special tax with; In the time prescribed by law Is 25 per centum of the nmount of the tax. Penalty for carrying on the business of manufacturer of stills without hav ing paid the special tnx required by law Is u lino of not less than 5100 or more than $5,000 and Imprisonment of not loss than 510 days or more than two years. "All stills set up, whether Intended for use or not, must he registered with the collector of the district on ussian Prisoners Straggling Back Find Fatherland Greatly Changed Since War. . MAKE BREAD OUT OF STRAW Returning. Soldiers Tell Tales of Piti ful Suffering From Hunger In Villages Through Which" They Passed. With the American Forces In North Hussla. Russian soldiers returning from Germany to tlielrho:nes In north ern Ilusslirfind their fatherland vastly changed since tliey went to war. Scores of these soldiers are passing through the bolshevik lines and making their way to the American and other allied outposts. They tell tales of pitiful sulterlng from lumper In the villages through which they passed. One Of them, F. Evlnniploff of Archangel, thus de scribes his experiences: Famine Reigns at Petrograd. "At Petrograd we were sent to bar racks, where a bolshevik otllcer start- . - . . i. ei m reuu us uie soviet program. i no prisoners protested. 'Give us lirst something to eat, and then read us your program, they cried. Then the commissar gave up trying to rend the INCREASE The decision to allot each Inhab itant 030 grams dally means that the commission agrees to supply the food not supplied by the Germans. The food will bo pnld for by the German government. It will he distributed through enrds Issued hy the Germans at prices sanctioned by the commis sion. Tho food is to come from the sup plies accumulated by the Interallied relief organization and the army sup ply depots In the occupied zones will get 10 per cent, of the total allotted by tho Interallied organization for Germany. Tho population of tho American area of occupation Is 8.10,000 and Is 111 per cent of the occupied zones. Tho distribution of food will begin nssoon as It can bo brought from Itottcrdnm. The number of women employed hy tlu railroads of tho United States In dented 70 per cent during the war, K form -M In duplicate. Tiiis applies to all stills of whatever size or Tor what ever purpose Intended, whether for distillation of spirits or for pharm aceutical or other purposes except as to smail glnss laboratory stills. Pen alty for failure to register still Is a forfeiture of the still or distilling ap paratus which Is not so registered, to gether with all personal property In tho possession or custody or under con trol of such offender and found In his building or In any yard or tnclosuro connected with the building In which tho same may be set up. Tip for Home Distillers. "A person who innkos a mash fit. for diminution Is held to be a dlstlllor oven though he does not vnporlzo or condense tho spirit. A ninsb fit for' distillation Is a fermented beer In which alcohol Is genernted. Obviously the malting of such a mash Is not per missible In tho home brewing of beer or home production of spirits, since It renders the manufacturer liable as an Illicit distiller. Penalty for Illicit distillation Is forfeiture of the distil lery and distilling apparatus and all distilled spirits and raw materials for the production of distilled spirits found on tho distillery premises, and a lino of not less than $500 or more than $5, 000 and Imprisonment of not less thnn six months or more than three years." Famine Widespread o-o-o-o-o-o-oo--o- Can Use Growing Trees for Radio Washington. Before the American Physical society, hold ing Its annunl spring meeting at the United States bureau of' standards, MaJ. Gen. George O. "Squler, chief signal olllcer of the army, announced a discovery which In Importance and mag nitude will startle the world. It Is the discovery that grow ing trees can be used ns natural antennae for the radio telephone nnd telegraph In both sending and receiving messages. Hy means of a metallic contact simply a spike driven Into a tree. It Is possible to obtain nnd transmit dispatches from nnd to all corners of the earth. program, snylng we were not fit ele ments for propaganda, and left us. Each of us received 25 rubles In ad vance on his salary. "Famine was reigning In Petrograd. The first category (working people of bolshevik- sympathies) received one pound of oats dally. The second cate gory received mio-half pound. The cit Izens grind the onts In coffee mills to make Hour for bread. For Christians tho Petrograd Inhabitants received two potatoes for each person. A slice of bread Is sold for 25 rubles. There was no tobacco. People smoked cabbage and nettle. - Wait for Bread Two Days. "The situation rtt Vologda wns the same as la Petrograd. It was famine, and tho population stood In line for bread sometimes two days. There was no prlvntu commerce. The shops were empty." On his way from Vologda toward Archangel a commissar tried to coax Evlnmplefl Into serving In the red army, and on his refusal sent him back to Vologda. A peasant hid lilin in a load of hay and carried him to his un cle's home In Torozk. In all the vil lages ho passed through, he said, there was famine. The ponsants cut straw, cook It and make bread. Eventually, nfter a long journey mi foot through tho snow, Hvlnmpleff reached his home. When such prisoners reach tho terri tory of the provisional government of tho north they are cared for as well as possible. Many of them voluntarily have Joined the white guard army be cause of their hntred of the bolshovlki. Quite Enough. Ilohokcn, N. J. John Kelly, seven ty, told the Judge his wife had him arrested 100 times. "That's enough," wild the judge, dismissing the wife's charge. TRAINING BETTERS HIS STATE Young Chlcagoan Is Aided to Higher Wage by the Department of Labor. Washington How an unskilled workman lucrensed his wages (50 per cent In six months through the work of the training service department of labor Is revealed In the story of a young man who six months ago went to a'Chleago machlno shop and foun dry looking for a Job. Ills only ex perience Jmd consisted In pushing u wheelbarrow to and from n concrete mixer. They gave him a Job as a sweeper, hut after working In the shop a few weeks ho became Interested In the ma chines, particularly the boring mills and lrhnd screw machines. Because he spent more time watching tho ma chines thnn In working, he fell behind In his work, but the foreman learning of bis attraction toward tho machines, turned him over to the training In structor for n chance. DRAG ROADS AT PROPER TIME Fully as Important as It Is That High, ways Should Be Done Right Keep Ruta From Forming. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) It is fully ns Important that a road bf dragged at the right time as It Is that the dragging be properly done. Furthermore, the difficulties Involved In proscribing definite rules for deter mining when dragging should be done an equally as great as those already encountered In attempting to define how It should be done. Only very gen eral statements concerning this fea ture of the work can properly be mndo here, nnd much must be left to the ex perienced Judgment of those who de cide when the dragging of any particu lar road Is to be started nnd when It Is to bo stopped. The rule frequently cited that all enrth roads should be dragged lmine dmtely after every rain, Is In many ei ses entirely impracticable and Is also Drag on a North Carolina Road. very misleading because of the condi tions which It falls to contemplnte. It Is true thnt there nre many road sur faces composed of earth or earthy ma terial which do not become very muddy under traffic, even during long rainy seasons, nnd since such surfaces usu ally tend to harden very rapidly ns soon ns the weather clears up, It may be desirable to drag roads of this kind immediately after a rain. Such roads, however, would not-ordlnnrlly need to bo dragged after every rain, because of the strong tendency thnt they nat urally possess of holding their shape. On the other hand, mnny varieties of clay and soli tend to become vers muddy under only light traffic nfter very moderate rains, nnd, It is evident thnt roiuls constructed of such ma terials could not always be success fully dragged Immediately after n rain. Sometimes, In fact, It may be neces sary to wait until several consecutive clear days have elapsed after n long rainy spell before the rond Is sufficient ly dried out to keep ruts from forming nlmost as rapidly as they can bo filled by dragging. Well-constructed sand-clay topsoll roads should not often become muddy Kftcr they nro onco well compneted. They mny become seriously rutted, however, under heavy traffic, during rainy weather, and nro almost sure to need drngglng several times each year. Such roads should ordinarily be drag ged as soon nfter n rain as prac ticable as otherwise the surface soon becomes dry and hard, so that It Is ncccssnry to do ""considerably more dragging In order to fill tho ruts. Fur thermore, the muterlul which tho drag moves .will not compact readily unless It contains n considerable amount of moisture. Gravel roads can be effectively mnln ' tallied with n rond drag only when the ' gravel composing the surface Is fine I grained and contains n considerable ' quantity of clny earth. Gravel road I surfaces In which this condition pre ', vnlls not Infrequently get badly out of I shape during wet wenther, and may . sometimes require considerably more attention than well-constructed snnd- clay topsoll roads. The time for drag ging grnvel ronds Is unquestionably while thoy nre wet. In fact, the best results nro sometimes obtained by do Inp the dragging after the road has be come thoroughly soaked and while It Is still raining. In general, It may bo snld that tho best time to drag any type of road la when tho material composing tho sur faco contains sufficient moisture to compact readily nfter It lias been moved by the drng nnd Is not sum clently wet for the traffic following tho drag to produco mud. Chango in Road Sentiment. - When wo consider the fact that such a largo proportion of our population are owners of automobiles It Is not difficult to undcrstnnd tho change In sentiment In regnrd" to road building that has recently developed. Big Saving In Hauling. If our main highways were improved with permnnent surface, we would certainly save 8 or 0 cents per ton mile In hauling the Immense Interstate commerce that each year originates from agriculture, uilno and forest. Black-Strap Gasoline the Latest Jitney Saver WASHINGTON. From tho records of tho United States pntcnt office ha, come the carefully guarded secret of the ns yet unnamed superfuel, In vented for driving war planes nnd now being developed to supplnnt gasoline Wherever motors run. This liquid ' fuel, past the experimental stage In development, wns used In virtually every war plane put out by the gov ernment. Tho formuln utilizes alcohol us n basis, with 25 per cent of gasoline and n heavy mixture of petroleum hydrocarbons. It develops n propelling power nearly as grent as some of tho ulgh explosives. It Is the properly of two com panies which own and control about 05 per cent of the alcohol capacity of the rountry. Before the discovery the two companies were producing more thnn 100,000,000-gnllons yearly of Industrial or noiibcveragc alcohol. What Is still more startling Is the Inexhaustible character of the sourco of the baste elements. Black-strap molasses, the refuse from the refining of sugar, Is the source of the alcohol In the blend. Tho invention means thnt the nvnllnblo supply of gnsollne Is multiplied four times, It Is said. At the some time yet Immeasurable units In power nre obtained. It Is free from nil sediment, practically odorless and absolutely smokeless. v What the market price will bo the thing motorists the wortd over will bo Interested In Is still n mntter of speculation. To the government the product has gone without cost. To date figures on the cost of production nro still a secret, though It Is kuown to be much Arthur A. Backhaus, a Baltimore coinpnnTes, Is credited with the Invention. Whnt about that threatened gasoline shortage? And what, oh, what, Is the price? The Legion for Jobs for Mustered-Out Soldiers fTpHE LEGION" Is the name of u nntlonal organization of soldiers of which tlio nnnounceu purpose is to mnuc congress proviue returneu ugnting men with n Job. It hns been In formutlon nbout u month aud has branches in 7 IK LEGION F0RJ delegates to state conventions, nnd tho state legions will name representatives to the national convention, the first meeting of which will bo held soon In Washington, when n permnnent organization will be perfected. The fee for admission to membership Is 2. The monthly dues aro 25 cents, payable in advance. Men who hold commissions nre, ineligible for membership. The declaration of principles says demobilized men of the United States service Is tho opportunity for employ ment for all. This the government could nnd. should have provided them last November, ns soon ns demobilization began. The failure and neglect of tho- govcrnment four months after the armistice was signed to take any single step- to provide employment for the millions ers wns Inexcusable, and the legion Intends that this neglect shall not be repeated nt the speclul session of congress to be held this summer." If congress does not meet these congress thnt will. The legion also wants congress to will cost tho nntion only nbout $2,000,000,000. Katmai, Alaska: Valley OltD hns been received by the Nntlonnl Geographic society that the sixth expedition of the society, headed by Prof. Robert F. Griggs, to explore tho- fnmous Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes opposite the extensive volcanic urea about Mount Kntmal. Professor Griggs headed the soci ety's first expedition to the Kntmal district In 1015. The following year ho discovered the volcanic area there which has been cnlled one bf the greatest natural wonders of the world and which was set aside by Presi dent Wilson ns a national monument September 21, 1018. This year tho party Includes chem- ists, a petrographer, n zoologist, other scientific men, and motlon-plcturo photographers. Efforts will be made to determine whether helium, the nonlnflammable gas which Is expected to revolutionize tho science of ballooning; Is to be found about Katmai. Tha Katmai National monument contains about one million acres. It lies on tho south shore of Alaska in n volcanic belt that has shown extraordinary volcanic activity of late years. Tho eruption of Mount Kntmal In June, 1012, ranks in tho first order of volcanic explosions. This explosion left n crater with n circumference of 8.4 miles. There is n lake In tho bottom of it about a square mile in area. The precipice from tho lake to the highest point in the rim Is 3,700 feet. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes lies a few miles west of tho crater.. It Is several miles long. From its bottom rise mnny thousands millions, Mr Griggs believes of Jets of steam. Thousunds of these jets rise COO feet; many rise 1,000 feet. All mergo Into one gigantic cloud. Tho valley is a land of geysers In the making. Spike a Tree and "Floragraph" or "Floraphone"1 BEFORE the American Physical society, holding Its nnnunl spring meeting at tho United States bureau of standards, MaJ. Gen. George O. Squler, chief plgnnl officer of the army, has unnounced a discovery which In Importance . startles the world. It is tho discovery y "TVTll k HomTVJ i I, fl fWsupreR ar J. paratus. Messages have been received from England, France, Germany and Italy. In addition to this, radio tele phone conversations, in which tho voice is transmitted just as clearly as in th& ordinnry metallic circuit telephone, have been carried on from treo to tree in the woods on tho outskirts of Washington. Up to date these conversations have extended u distance of three miles, but there never has been a test for distance. "It is possible," nccordlng to General Squler, "to conduct long-rnnge tele phone conversations, limited, of course, only to the power of the npparatus." Tha messages carried over this tree telephone nnd telegraph system have been named by General Squler. They are to be "florugrams." Tho tree tele phone Is to bo n "floraphone ;" the tree telegraph n "florugraph." With the floraphone and the airplane not even a golfer can find an excuse tor not getting home to supper. No wonder the government handed back the wire lines. cheaper than gasoline. chemist In tho employ of one of the- various parts of the country. Marvln. G. Sperry Is national chairman of the organization. Ho Is forty-five years of age, and before the wnr wns n railroad engineer In Ironton, O. ITo was a for mer private In the Twelfth regiment of railroad engineers nnd was one of the first Ynnks to land' in France. He still wears his uulform with three gold, stripes and a wound chevron. The plan of organization is to es tablish one or more legions In every town. The town legions will elect In pnrt: "The first demand of tho- of demobilized soldiers and wnr work-t demands, the legion Intends to elect n. pny every returned soldier $500, which of Ten Thousand Smokes has arrived at Kodlak Island, Alaska,, -ggsrHti.. jcS5Z&? jl. Faigfo that growing trees can bo used ac nnturnl antennae for tho radio tele phone and telegraph, In both sending and receiving messages. By means of a metallic contact simply a spike driven into n tree It Is possible to obtain and transmit dispatches from" und to nil the enrth. General Squler has been in com munication with Europe for several months by means of the tree radio ap