TTTE TORTIT PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTBUNE.
SHOWS ONE WAY
TO GET LIQUOR
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Issues New Rules on
Whisky Sales.
TO SELL SEIZED SPIRITS
Doctor Can Prescribe Intoxicants, If
Necessary, but Only on Blanks
Issued by the Government
Six Quarts the Limit.
Washington, Jnn. 31. Methods by
which Intoxicating liquors may ho oh-1
tnlnod for medicinal purposes nntl do
'tailed regulations governing their sale
were made public hero by the bureau
of Internal revenue.
Announcement also was made that
the bureau had complied a system of
penults, providing n definite and fixed
channel through which all lntoxlcat
ilng liquors must movo and by which
herenfter the government will know
the locntlon of every gallon of distilled
illquor within the nntlcn's boundaries,
except that stored In private homes.
Tn setting forth the wnys In which
liquor may he procured. Commissioner
Roper took occasion to Issue a warn
ing against prollteerlng In Its sale.
The commissioner declared that exor
bitant charges for liquor for medicinal
purposes "certainly places the dis
pensers thereof In the class with prof
iteers and they will be Investigated."
Mr. Kopor also announced that all
liquor seized under federal law. prior
to October 28 last, unless clnlmed un
der the CO days ruling, would be sold
by order of the court under the Juris
diction of which It Is beld. It must
be sold, however, to a, holder of a per
mit to use It either for medicinal or
nonbeverage purposes.
Both the physician who prescribes
nnd the pharmacist who sells liquor,
the regulations provide, must have a
permit which may be obtained from
the federal prohibition director.
Other details follow:
"Any physician duly licensed to
practice medicine and actively en
gaged In the practice of such profes
sion, may obtain a permit to prescribe
Intoxicating liquor and may then Issue
prescriptions for distilled spirits,
wines or certain nlcohollc medicinal
preparations for medical purposes for
persons upon whom he Is In attend
nnce In cases where he believes that
the use of liquor as a modlclne Is ncc
pssary. "In no case may spirituous liquor be
prescribed by one or more physicians
In excess of one pint for the same per
son within any period of ten days.'
"All prescriptions for Intoxicating
liquor are required to be written on
prescription blanks provided by the
bureau, except that in emergency
cases physicians may use their regu
lar prescription blanks.
"Proscriptions for intoxicating
liquor mny be filled only by registered
pharmacists who hold permits author
izing them to do so, or who are em
ployed by retail druggists holding such
permits. Pharmacists and druggists
holding such permits will procure
their supplies of Intoxicating liquor
from manufacturers or other persons
holding liquor.
"Physicians may also obtain permits
entitling them to procure not more
than six quarts of distilled spirits,
wines or certain nlcohollc prepara
tions, during any cnlondnr year, for
administration to their patients In
emergency cases, where delay In pro
curing liquor on a prescription through
a pharamaclst might have serious con
sequence to the patient.
"Provision also Is made In regula
tions for issuing permits to hospitals
and snnntoriums to enable them to
procure Intoxicating liquor to be ad
ministered for medicinal purposes to
patients at such Institutions, and also
for Issuing permits to manufacturing,
Industrial and other establishments
maintaining first-class stations, au
thorizing them to procure such liquor
for administration to their employees
for medicinal purposes lu emergen
cy cases."
WHAT THEY OWE UNCLE SAM
Interest on U. S. Loans to European
Countries Now Amounts to
$325,000,000.
Washington. .Tan. 111. Accrued In
terest on loans to European countries
totals approximately $325,000,000. ac
cording to a table submitted to the
house wnys and means committee by
the treasury department.
fin-nt Hrltaln owes the most Inter
est, 5M1,44(),S37. Interest owed by
other countries is: France, $01,021,
740, Italy. $51,250,580; Russln, 10,
832,602; Belgium, $11,105,278; Czecho
slovakia, $1.0(53,083; Serbia. $017,200;
Roumanln, $000,873, and Liberia, $518.
Kolchak Escapes Reds.
Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 2. Ad
miral Kolchak is reported to havo es
caped from the bolshevik! and to bo
lu hiding In Manchuria, according to
a Tokyo dispatch to the Japanese
newspaper N'lppu .TIJI here.
Big Drop In Flu at Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 2. The number of
new Inlluenzn cases recorded set n new
low record for the disease slnco tho
epidemic reached Its peak last week,
according to reports receive by the
health department.
GILBERT F. CLOSE
Ktf eUrn NeHipajwr Union
A recent photograph of Oilbcrt F.
Close, who has succeeded Onirics K.
Sworn as chief stenographer to Presi
dent Wilson, following Mr. Swem's
appointment as White House clerk.
IQWAN IS IN CABINET
E. T. Meredith of Des Moines
New Secretary of Agriculture.
Houston to Have Treasury Portfolio
and Carter Glass Will Take Seat
in U. S. Senate.
Washington, .Tan. 20. Edwin T.
Meredith of Iowa, editor of Success
ful Fnrmlng, was named by Presi
dent Wilson to bo secretary of
agriculture to succeed Secretnry
Houston, who Is to become secretary
of the treasury In the place of Carter
Glass.
Mr. Meredith, who Is at Miami. Fin.,
telegraphed the White nouse accept
ing the office. He Is forty-four years
old and his home Is Des Moines, la.
Before stnrtlng Successful Farming he
was the publisher of the Farmers'
Tribune. lie was a candidate for the
United Stntes senate In 1014, and for
governor of Iowa In 1010.
President Wilson has sent the nom
inations of both Mr. Houston and Mr.
Meredith to the senate. As soon as
Secretary Houston qualifies Mr. Glass
will take his seat In the senate to
succeed the lato Seuntor Martin of
Virginia.
Dr. Hugh. S. dimming of Hampton,
Va., Is understood to have been se
lected to succeed Dr. Rupert Blue ns
surgeon general of the public health
service. Doctor Blue's term of office
expires Janunry 15, nnd Doctor Cum
mlng's nomination is expected to be
sent to the senate within n day or two.
DECLINES AID TO EUROPE
Glass Says Peoples Overseas Must
Meet Their Own Problem of
Sinking Exchange.
Washington. Feb. 2 Europe, In
so far as the United States govcru
mcn Is concerned, must rely upon her
own resources In retrieving llnanclal
equilibrium.
This wns the interpretation here
generally of the letter Secretary of the
Treasury Glass has sent to a commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States, which sought a gov
ernment expression on the proposed
international conference of financiers
and commercial lenders to discuss re
construction problems.
In n blunt statement of the facts as
he sees them, Mr. Glass declared "the
American government has done all
that It believes advisable and practi
cable to nltl Europe. The conference,"
he added, "would serve to cause con
fusion and rovlve hopes, doomed to
disappointment, of further government
loans."
PRISONERS PERISH IN SIBERIA
375,000 Austrians Die of Smallpox and
Typhus, Is Report to
Red Cross.
Genovn, Jan. 20. Three hundred
nnd seventy-five thousand of the 500,
000 Austro-Ilungnrlan prisoners of
war taken by Russians have perished
In Siberia from smallpox and typhus,
according to Vladivostok dispatches to
International lied Cross Headquarters,
hero.
Tho rest were kept nllvo only by tho
efficient work of Japanese. American
and English doctors who havo boon
assigned to different towns along the
trans-Siberian railroad.
Enst of Lake Baikal Chinese physi
cians are also helping, but tho work
is difficult owing to bolshevik Inva
sion. 2,000,000 in U. S. Navy.
Washington, Feb. 2. Mobilization
of an army of 2.000,000 men would ho
possible within live years after pas
sage of the senate army reorganisation
bill. Chairman Wndsworth of the sen
ate military committee said In report.
Dublin Acclaims Sinn Fein.
Dublin, Feb. 2. When the new
municipal council, composed xuit)y of
Sinn Felners, met for the first time
It wns greeted with the greatest en
huslasin by huge crowds ns the Mug
of the republic was hoisted.
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RIMERS' PLIGHT
Senate Post Office Committee
Told of Condition Called
Serious.
TILLERS OF SOIL MAY STRIKE
Declaro Work Too Hard and Return
Too Small Complain of Ease,
Comfort and High Wages of
the City Dwollers.
Washington. .Ian. 31. Decreased
farm production next year and a con
sequent Increase In the cost of living,
due to dNsnllM'nctlon of farmers, was
predicted before the senate post office
committee by James 1. Blakslee,
fourth assistant postmaster general.
More than 40,000 answers to 200,000
questionnaires sent to fanners, he
said, Indicate n condition "disquieting
and porteutlous of disastrous conse
quences." A report summarizing the contents
of the farmers' unswers, prepnred by
George L. Wood, superintendent of the
division of rural malls, was read by
Mr. Blakslee.
Burden of Complaint.
Asserting that the farmers were
tired of receiving low returns for
long, hard periods of toil while city
dwellers lived In "ease and comfort
with high wnges and short hours," the
report said that replies received Indi
cated that hundreds of farmers had
resolved either to quit the farm en
tirely or greatly decrease production.
Comnlnlnt wns made In a majority
of the replies, the report said, of the
high prices paid by consumers as com
pared with the low return to the
farmer, Indicating an entirely dispro
portionate profit for the middleman.
Many farmers, the report said, drew
comparisons between "the hours of
labor required of the farmer and his
compensation with those of the urban
Ite of which the farmer bitterly com
plains, sotting forth the soft nnd lux
urious living of the lntter ns com
pared with the hard and bare living
of the farmer who Is no longer willing
to toll and produce for the striker, the
profiteer and the short-hour, high
wage man."
A member of the committee re
marked that the replies seemed to bo
"mostly from a bunch of bolshevlsts,"
which prompted Mr. Blakslee to say
that in his opinion the situation was
extremely serious.
Inability to obtain farm labor was
another complaint of the farmers, as
serting that the shortage of farm la
bor was "causing great antagonism on
the part of the producer toward the
city dwellers."
The report snld that the great de
mand in the cities for labor with high
pay and short hours is driving the
farm hired help and the farmers' boys
and girls to the city.
Parcel Post Extension.
"The high cost of wearing uppnrol,
of staples not produced on the fnrm,
of farm Implements and fertilizers, all
of which seem to have llllei the farm
er's mind with discouragement and re
sentment, Is certain to result In the
curtailment of food production," the
report said.
Extension of the rural p.n-col post
service to make It easier for Iho fann
er to sell his products direct to the
city consumer wns advocated by Mr.
Blakslee as one step toward correct
ing the condition Indicated.
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BAN ON PUBLIC FUMERALS !
Flu Death List in Chicago Reaches
192 for 24-Hour Period End
ing Friday.
Chicago, Feb. 2. Public funerals
and wakes in connection with deaths
from influenza and pneumoulu were
barred, and the funerals and wakes
limited to relatives and close friends,
numbering not more than ten, by order
of Health Commissioner Robertson.
Two reasons were given by the offi
cial :
"Congregation or a number of per
sons, and especially in a house or
uniiind the body of an luilue117.11 or
pneumonia victim, helps to spread the
contagion. There are only 175 hearses
In the city, and these are being used
to capacity, while the number of fu
nerals Is causing a strain on liveries."
MILLERAND GETS BIG VOTE
French Premier Pulls His Cabinet
Through Crisis by Ballot
of 510 to 70.
Paris, Feb. 2 Premier Mlllornnd
pulled his cabinet through the crisis
when ho received a vote of contldence,
510 to 70, after delivering to tho
chamber of deputies a warm defenso
of his entire ministry.
Rob Iowa Bank of $12,000,
Sulley, la., Feb. 2. -Robbers entered
the Sullx State bank about tso o'clock
ill the morning and obtained $12,000
In securities and bonds before being
frightened away by John Eldrldge, a
watchman.
Favor Hoover in Michigan.
Uinsliig, Mich., Feb. 2, PetltHms
to place the name of Herbert Hoover
on the Democratic ballot at the presl
dentlnl preference primary April r,
were received by the sec-clary of
state.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
President of the American Federa
tion of Labor condemns bolsl.evlsm for
"all time."
HITS SOVIET SCHEME
Samuel Gompers Denounces Plan
of Russian Government.
Labor Leader Says Constitution
Provides for Compulsory Labor
Strikes With Arms.
Washington, Jnn. 30. Writing In
the current number of the Federation
1st, official organ of the American Fed
eration of Labor, Samuel Gompers
condemns bolshcvlsm "completely,
Ilnnlly and for all time."
"We do not have to wait for Infor
mation about the form of government
existing In what Is called soviet Rus
sia. All the Information necessary to
pnsslng of judgment on bolshcvlsm
nnd the system of government and as
a state society Is at hand from authen
tic sources.
"The plea of those misguided per
sons In America who say 'wait for
facts before passing Judgment' Is noth
ing more than an excuse, which, It Is
hoped, will gain lime for the Russian
experiment and enable it to spread to
other countries."
Quoting from t lit new bolshevlst
constitution, Mr. Gompers points out,
while -t lie fifth Pan-Russlnn congress
declares for a dictatorship of the pro
letariat and the poorest peasantry, a
great portion of the peasantry Is dis
franchised, and the largest bolshevlst
estimate of the proletariat calculates
them as only one-tilth of the number
of peasants.
.Mr. Gompets quoted as the most di
rect information a dispatch from Rus
sian trade unionists to W. A, Appleton,
president of the International Fed
eration of Trade Unions, which de
clares that bolshevlsts have spilt up
the reserve funds of trade unions,
throttled the labor press, killed labor
organizations, split up trade unions
as a class and put down strikes by
"force of arms and plentiful execu
tions." "In all concepts of freedom within
the Aunw-Icun nation," Mr. Gompers
said, "one fundamental principle Is
that any involuntary servitude, that
is, compulsory labor, shall not lie en
forced upon the working people."
HELP STARVING WILSON
President Urges Congress to Make
Loa" of $150,000,000 to Relieve Po-
land, Austria and Armenia.
Washington. Jan. 30. President
Wilson on Wednesday asked Secre
tary Glass to make anolher appeal to
congress for authority to loan $150,
000,000 to Poland. Austria and Ar
menia to relieve their desperate food
situation JJ'lm president wrote the sec
retary tlint It was "unlhlnknblo" to
him Unit the United Stales should
withhold from the stricken people of
those countries the assistance which
would lie rendered by "making avail
able mi credit a small portion of our
exportable surplus of food."
SHARE IN PROFIT AND DEFICIT
Eastern Knitting Mill to Go
With Its 1,200 Employees
Plan Accepted.
50-50
Wul.clk'ld, Mass.. Jan. 30. a plan
cnutemplating an equal division of net
proiits iir not losses annually between
the company nnd its 1,200 employees,
nnd containing provision-- by which
the workers may take over control of
the business, was announced by
Wlnshlp, Rolt & Co., owners of the
Harvard Knitting mills, engaged In
underwear manufacture. Tho em
ployees who, In recent years, have re
ceived an nnniial bonus of 15 per cent,
agreed to accept tho plau.
Death Takes B. J. Reynolds.
Chlcngo, Jan. 31.--B. J. Reynolds,
vice president of the United Cigar
Stores lonipany, died at his homo In
Evanston. He wns sixty-two years old.
Mr. Reynolds was born In Baltimore.
He came to Chicago 15 years ago.
Harry Now Is Sentenced.
Los Angeles, Cnl., Jan. 31. Harry
S. New, convicted hero of murder In
tho second degree for shooting Miss
Freda Lessor, was denied a now trial.
Ho was Immediately sentenced to
serve not h-hs than ten years.
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION NOTES
Lincoln. The convention apparent
ly has taken n dellnlte stand to refuso
to knock out the death penalty from
tho constitution. The assembly, by a
vote of three to one, voted down a
motion by Delegate Flansburg to re
verse the committee on miscellaneous
subjects In Its report recommending
the Indefinite postponement of two
measures abolishing capital punish
ment. One of these wns Flansburg's
own proposal No. 307, and the other,
No. 18S, by Carothers. Mr. Flansburg
made n supreme effort to save his pro
posal but was unsuccessful. Clmlrman
Epperson of the committee asserted
that n number of states which legis
lated against capital punishment found
It necessary later to restore It, and he
thought Nebraska should not try such
an experiment, especially by putting It
In the constitution.
An attack was made on parlot
bolshevlsts by members of the con.
vontlon when an attempt wan mndo
to put on general file Proposal No.
205, making It necessary for every
voter to he nblc to read nnd under,
stand the constitution. The nttempl
failed and tho proposition was defin
itely postponed. After Clove of Otoii
failed to revlvo the measure Splllman
of Pierce, who !l the opposition, de
clared that, the danger tn this country
Is not In the unfortunate uneducated
man who ennnot read the English Inn
gunge, but rather from the super-
educated men nnd women who enn
read It but do not care to understand
II. Wlltse of Richardson, who sup
posed Splllman, said the proposed re
quirements would be nothing less than
taxation of the uneducated classo.i
without representation.
The committee on taxation and
revenue Is struggling with the propo
sition of exempting bonds of Mate,
rounty, municipal, school district or
other political subdivisions from tnxn
llon. The committee Instructed a sub
committee to draft three separate
plans. They are: First, exempting
such bonds, except from Incomo tax
on them ; second, a provision that the
legislature may exempt public bonds
from taxation except Incomo; nnd,
third, that no bonds shall be exempt
from taxation.
The committee on education recom
mended for Indefinite postponement
Proposals Nos. fill and 17,F), by Evans
and Taylor, both for the election of
regents of the university by districts,
also No. 8"i by Svoboda, fronting a
stale board of education, elected by
districts, to have control of the uni
versity normal schools and common
schools.
Nebraska women will be eligible for
Jury service so far as the state consti
tution Is concerned If the people ap
prove the draft prepared by the consti
tutional convention. In adopting a
proposal to permit the legislature to
provide for the returns of verdicts In
civil cases by a five-sixths vole of the
jury, convention eliminated the word
"moil."
The committee of public Indebted
ness recommended Indefinite postpone
ment, for Proposal No. 232, by Cornell,
a proposal to permit the stale to
create a state debt for the purpose of
buying laud lu large tracts and selling
it In small parcels to settlers.
Deuflniie action on the fnrm land
tenantry question was sidestepped by
the assembly after u long discussion,
but tile Cornell proposal on that sub
ject, No. 232, was turned over to three
standing committees for (hem to con
sider Jointly.
Convention delegates appear to bo
generally in I'avor of an amendment
to the constitution creating an Indus
trial coiirl to adjust labor disputes.
Three proposals before (be assembly,
Nos. Ml. 217 and 337 provide for
such ti body.
The committee on municipal govern
ment has lifted favorably on the pro
posal which will grant home rule to
the city of Omaha. Other cllles of the
stale remain under the same constitu
tional provision as at present.
After a hsig verbal ha' lie, the con
vention approved a proposal lo per
mit Nobraskans connected with tho
military or naval forces of the country
to vote, but left the details to bo
worked out by the legislature.
The convention killed the compul
sory vote nuieiidiuent, under the provi
sions of which a penalty would attach
to failure to vote In any election.
'By uuniitmmis vote the convention
passed tho woman suffrage nuiendment
to the new constitution.
I mugum counly delegates are push
ing with vigor Proposals Nos. 27fi. 270,
277 and 278 by Abbot!, which, If
adopled will imposo drastic regula
tions on nil public service corporations
In Nebraska.
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Public attention has been called to
Proposals 274, 30(1 and 308, now be
fore the committee on public service
corporations, which some delegates
predict If adopted and ratified will
strip inuiiicpalltles of power lo control
pucllc nUllltles, city or privately owned.
By a vote of six to five the comrnlt
(pe on bill of rights went on record
in favor of Inking prlvnte property
for private use. Th committee did
this In voting lo recommend for gen
eral llle proposal No. 00 by Ross of
Merrick.
DAMJEVMNG
FAMTALEI
pom.
THE CREAKING DOOR.
"It's hard," said tho door, "to nl
ways bo n door. And yet what Is there
to be done nbout
It? There Is a
Joke about n door
not always being
a door, but nlns,
that Is only a
joke. There Is no
truth In It. A
door Is really nl
wnys n door, as
long as It Isn't
taken down nnd
chopped up for
wood, nnd then,
of course, It Isn't
a door."
"You're rather
silly, door," said
tho colling. "I
"It's Hard."
wouldn't h n v o
would be sensible."
silly thoughts, I
"Of course you wouldn't," said tho
door. "lou nre high-up, nnd you
don't stoop to being foolish or silly.
Perhaps the lloor will ho kinder to
me."
"Well," said the door, "If there Is
anyone to receive sympathy and kind
ness, It should be me. Here am I,
always being walked over, never hav.(
Ing anything to say for myself."
"That's right," said the ceiling. "The
floor has a sad story to tell. Why,
even I look down upon It."
"You look down on mo, too," said
the door.
"Not so far down," said the celling,
"and, besides, part of you Is up near '
me, very near me."
"You know," said the door, "when
I nm neither shut tight nor wide open
wlint do you suppose I do?"
'Stay half way between," suggested
the celling.
"No," said the door, "that Isn't what
I do."
"You bang and get mnd," said the
floor, "and then you do some moro
banging."
"You're wrong, too," said tho door.
"Well, of course," said tho lloor,
"you have everything on your side
when you're telling the story nnd when
wo don't know the answer."
"I'm an honest door," Said thedoor
haughtily.
"Beg pardon," said the lloor. "It Is
what conies of being walked all over.
I think everyone Is a little unkind and
unfair."
"Oh, lloor," said tho celling, "yon:
don't think as badly as all that of'
people, do you?"
"Yes, 1 do," said the lloor. "But
what can I do about It? Nothing, un-
less I should fall through and then
they'll all go right on through to tho
basement. They'd be In the sotlp all
right."
"Is the bnsenient made of soup?"
nsked the door. ''Is It of tomato soup,
or mock turtle soup, or cream of cel
ery soup, or what kind? Often as 1
hear the children going from here to
tho dining room, they're talking of
soup and what kind there Is going to
be."
"Nonsense," said tho floor, "when 1
say they'd be lu the soup I do not
mean that the basement Is mndo oi
soup, any more than I am made of
soup. That Is ridiculous."
"But," said tho door, "you said that."
"I meant," said the lloor, "that
they'd be lu trouble. Soup Isn't madu
of trouble so don't try to say any
thing until I have finished explaining.
But there Is an old expression or say
lug which goes like this, that when
folks are going to bo In trouble they
will be In the soup, meaning they'll bo
In trouble, or In a tcrrlhlo state."
"It's beyond mo to understand thnt,"
said the door.
"I don't understand, myself," snld
the celling.
"Well," said the floor, "thnt Is one
story all of my own, and which I
don't havo to
share with any
one except a few
dozen or hundred
or thousand peo
ple." "I was going to
tell you," said the
door, "what I do
when I am neither
shut light or open
wide."
"Oh, yes," said
the celling. "Wo
tried to guess nnd
didn't guess
right."
"T hat' s so,"
snld tho floor.
"Now I've told my
"The Children."
story, the door can tell Its story."
"I was going to say that when I
nm like that," said tho door, "I creak.
Yes, I do! I got tired of hearing boys
and girls and dogs talking and Inugh
Ing nnd barking, and I want to mnko
some noise, too, and sound cheerful,
even If I nm only a door, alusl
"So I creak, and have something to
say for myself, I do!"
Warned.
A boy was visiting another boy, ntid
ns they wero going to bed the little
host knelt to sity his prayers. "I never
say my prayers when I am at home,"
said the visitor. "That's all right,"
fluid the other hoy. "You better suy
them here. This Is a folding bud."
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