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The Omaha Daily Bee
vol; xlvwno. 291. '
OMAHA, THURSDAY- MORNING, MAY 24, 1917.FOURTEEN PAGES.
S'ar.n SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
Tim BOARD SPLITS;
THE WEATHER i
Goudy -
RUMP
SESSION
mjlu
LIBERTY LOAN JS
FASCINATING BY
REASONJF SIZE
Fourteen Times as Large as
the First Loan Made by
Great Britain When
War Broke Out.
By A. R. CROH.
The bigness of the "Liberty loan"
is fascinating. ,
We are accustomed to doing the
"biggest" things here in the U. S. A.
And the "Liberty loan" is by far the
biggest loan ever floated by any na
tion at one time. It is just fourteen
times as much as Great Britain raised
in its first war loan in August, 1914.
It is 40 per cent niore than Great
-Britain spent for itself and its allies
in the first year of the war. .
Yet it '.a only one-sixth of our
annual income. Our foreign trade
last year was $1,000,000,000 greater
than the amount of the "Liberty
loan." .
Three-sevenths of this loan is to
be loaned to the allies and they will
pay the interest on it. Two-sevenths
is to be raised by taxation. That
will leave only $2,000,000,000 to be
added to our national debt.
: Paying the Debt. , -
And here is a remarkable fact re
garding payment of war debts. The
only two nations on the face of the
earth which have madea practice of
clearing up their war debts in time of
peace are the United States and Great
Britain, the two richest nations on
jjarth. j
When the civil war ended the
United States debt was $2,700,000,000.
Just twenty-five years later itwas all
paid off except $700,000,000.
When the Napoleonic wars ended
in 1812 the British debt was $4,400,
000.000. In eighty-five years Great
Britain paid off $3,100,000,000. (This
I learn f rem th: much-aJmired En
cyclopedia' Brittanica.)
While, these two mighty nations
were paying up their obligations other
nations were piling theirs Higher.
When the present war started France
tion. But its credit was first classr-f;
Its own people furnished 'most of the
money to their government. Nearly
every Frenchman owned a "rente,"
as the government bonds are called.
Six Loans for Germany,
Germany in the present war so far
has floated six different loans aggre
gating $17,000,000,000. This is nearly
one-fourth of its national wealth. The
$J,000,000,000 debt which we will
have when jve get ,t,he new loan
floated will be only about one-sixtieth
of our national wea-tth.-
Besides, Germany is not paying any
of its war debt by taxes. It is piling
it up and much of each loan is used
to pay interest on preceding loans.
It is estimated that about one-fourth
of the last loan must have been used
to pay interest on the preceding five
loans.
The record of the American, Brit
ish and French governments is one
to be proud of, for it shows that de
mocracies pay up their debts more
promptly than monarchies,
v U. S. Credit the Best.
You can see the credit of the four
nations reflected in the price at which
their bonds sold on the market just
befo'e the war. The figures are for
1913. '.United States 3 per cent bends
sold at $102.74 for a $100 bond. French
3 per cents -sold at $87.08. German
3 pfr cents sold at only $75.90. Gr(cat
Britain had no 3 per cents.
In other words, the United States
government's credit was considered
about 25 per cent better than that
of Germany and the French govern
ment's, credit was considered about
15 per cent better than that of Ger
many. : I
Buy a bond! i
The Weather
For Nabraska Partly cloudy.
Temperature at Omaha l'terday.
Hoar. Dear.
5 a. m v.... 44
m 45
T ft. m 48
S a. m Gi
I a. m, 67
10 a. m.,.; 60
11 '.a. m 4
' 12 m 65
1 p. m.,
P. mv
3 p. im. 87
' 4 p. m AS
& p. m 69
6 p. m ... 68
7 p. m .... 67
1 D. m 64
Comparatlve-fwa! Record.
- 1911, ltrltt.lHlB.
HiffhMt yfBterday..,. 6ft 7a .72 S
lrf)wet yesterday 44 5.1 67 64
' Man temperature . . 66 66 64 76
Precipitation 00 .00 .04 .00
Temperature and precipitation departure!
from the normal:
Normal temperature ,,, (5
Deficiency for the day , f
Total deficiency tlnce March 1 07
Norma! precipitation ., .13 inch
Deficiency for the day 13 inch
TUl precipitation lnc March 1.7.97 Incheft
- Excess alnce March 1 85 Inch
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916...1.B6 Inches
Deficiency for tor, period, 1116. .1,86 Incite
Beoorta from Station at 1 F. M.
Station and State Temp. High- Rain-
of Weather, 7 p.:m. . eet,
Cheyenne, part cloudy.. 56 6fi
Davenport, clear 68 AO
Denver, part cloudy.... 66 58
Des Molnea, clear 62 66
fall.
T
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.01
Dodge City, part cloudy 64 66
Lander, cloudy '. ..-fifl 66
North Platte, cloudy .. 2 66
Omaha, clear 67 69
Pueblo, clear 68 68
Rapid Ctty, clear 62 U3
Chicago, clenr 64 56
Santa Fe, cloudy 63 64
Sioux City, e!-ar H ' fH
Valentin, clear 64 SS
T Indicates trace of precipitation.
L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist
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CABINET OFFICER WHO AR
RIVES IK OMAHA TODAY.
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HOUSE PASSES
REVENUE BILL
BY BIG MAJORITY
New Measure Favored by
Lower Body Calls for Rais
ing of $1,800,000,000
Through Taxation.
Washington, May 23. The war rev
enue bill was passed by the house late
today. , '
Th,e vote on final passage was 309 to
76; absent, 4. Tin bill purposes rais
ing approximately $1,800,000,000 of
revenue from. taxation. '
Democrats, headed vby Speaker
iiarx anq r iQpr ieaaer rmcniu, ipiiKa
solidly for the bill. Republican Leader
Mann was among those voting nay.
" Mann Opposes BUI.
Republican Leader Mann aroused
applause of the republicans in the last
hours of debate by declaring that he
would vote against the measure.
Too great an amount ot money, Mr.
Mann said, would be raised by im
mediate taxation under 'the bill. Bond
issues or supplementary taxes, he de
clared, should raise the greater part
of the required war revenue.
"In the present time," he said,
prices for the necessities of life are
going to be unusually high. This bill
places too great a burden of taxation
upon the country.
"We had far better continue along
by raising a part of this money by
bonds and passing other tax bills
from year to year. This bill ap
proaches killing the goose that laid
the golden egg. I am afraid we are
killing that goose today.
"I regret that J. shall have to vote
against the bill. It raises too great
an amount of money by direct and
immediate taxes and 1 cannot support
such.a tremendous levy at this time."
Another Postage Rate Scheme.
Increase of second class postage
rates on advertising portions of pub
lications is proposed in an amend
ment to the .war revenue bill intro
duced in the senate today by Senator
Hardwick of liaorgia. It would leave
the present cent-a-poun(l rate on news
sections of publications, but increase
that of advertising sections to 3 cents
a pound until July 1, 1918; 6 cents a
pound until July 1, 1919, and 8 cents
a pound thereafter.
The section of the war tax bill pro
posing a tax on advertising matter
other tlran that contained in newspa
pers and periodicals was stricken out
today by the house on motion oi
Democratic Leader Kitchin.
Young Women Detective New
At Task and Didn't Stay Long
Never Before Had Done This
Sort Of. Work and' Stayed
in It But Week.
Mrs. Elsie Phelns, 28. the Omaha
amateur woman detective, who was
sent to Chadron to obtain evidence
as to the alleged indiscretions of the
young wife of Robert, Hood, aged
and wealtny Chadron banker, for the
Omaha Detective agency, and who, it
is said, double crossed the agency,
never was engaged in detective work
before heinu sent to Chadron.
"She had such appealing ways that
we thought she would have no trouble
in gamg the confidence of Mrs.
Hood," Harvey Wolf, president of the
agency, said yesterday.
Mrs. Phelps reports of the first
week show that she had no difficulty
whatever.
The, first day she arrived in Chad
ron, the report reai!s, she called up
Mrs. Hood and was invited out.
She was to get $7 a day and all, ex
penses. After working a week she
resigned her job.
Mrs. Phelps is an Omaha woman.
She was formerly the wife of Fred
Phelps, secretary of the Omaha Musi
cians' union. Mr. Phelps was given
the custody of their 9-year-old daughter.
WHITE TELLS OF
93-FOOT PLUNGE
JDOWNJLEVATOR
Engineer Parlcer, Hero of Ac
cident, Describes Thrill
ing Adventure at Coun
cil Bluffs.
Frank White, TS years old, who
miraculously escaped death Tuesday
whet, he plunged ninety-three feet
from an elevation of 110 feet, is now
recovering from the shock and bruises
at the M.rcy hospital in Council
Bluffs. '
White was standing near the eleva
tor cage 110 feet in the air when the
Frank Parker, the engineer who
saved Whitest life by quick thinking.
signal was given for the hoisting en-
(Continued on Pag. Two, Column Three.)
Mr. Phelns ruccntlv biiutelit the
Central Baths at 1506 Harney street
j'jgM)iwi mu lim ni ,
1 l!iflri'i rdrtrm
One for All and All for One
FIRST TEST CASE
OF LIQUOR LAWS
IS WONBY STATE
Anton Larson, at Whose Place
$5,000 Worth pf Booze
Was. Seized, Fined $100
in County, Court.
Nebraska's first test case under pro
hibition arising out of a wholesale
seizure of liquor resulted in a victory
for the state. '
Anton Larson, dairyman pt Six
tieth and Center streets, at whose
place' Sheriff Clark and deputies
seized $5,000 worth of contraband
booze May 9, was found guilty by
Judge Crawford, sitting in county
court, and fined $100 and costs.
The court ordered the 1,200 eases
of beer and 500 gallons of whiskies,
expensive wines, gin,cordials and
other intoxicants destroyed. Counsel
for Larson immediately filed an ap
peal bond.
By agreement between Larson's
lawyers, Chief Deputy County Attor
ney Abbott and the court, it was de
cided not to dump the wet goods into
sewers or sprinkle the streets with it
until after the supreme court makes
a final decision on the case.
The court room was jammed to
the doors when the case was resumed
Wednesday morning., Larson's at
torneys had attacked the constitu
tionality of the prohibition amend
ment Tuesday afternoon. Masses of
citations were read before the court
purporting to support this contention.
Kef uses to Testify. 1
Though he had said, previous to
the hearing, that all the booze seized
by the sheriff belonged to him, Lar
son refused to take the witness stand
and testify to this effect. On the day
the officers swooped down upon the
dairy farm Larson's wife told Sheriff
Clark that only twelve cases of beer
were owned by her husband, assert
ing the rest belonged to "downtown
business men."
Sheriff Clark made the statement
that "Larson stood pat in order to
protect others "
"Larson was the goat," said the
sheriff.
The case hinged on the constitu
tionality of the law which limits the
term "residence" to the dwelling
house alone.
Larson's attorneys contended that
a barn, cave or any buildings on an
individual's premises was his "resi
dence." -
The booze seized at the Larson
farm was found in detached buildings.
Judge Crawford ruled that the Ne
braska prohibition law is specific and
means that the "residence shall be
the actual dwelling place. He said
that having liquor in one's possession
is prima facie evidence of intent to
violate the law.
A. S. Ritchie, chief counsel for Lar
son, thundered before the court that
"it has gotten to a point when some
people in this state consider posses
sion of a pint of whisky as great a
crime as a murder."
Editor of Army and
Navy journal is Dead
New York, May 23.-Wi!!iam
Church, editor of the Army and Navy
Journal, died at his home here today
from pneumonia. He was 81, years
old.
SECRETARYM'ADOO
IS SCHEDULED FOR
BUSYDAY IN OMAHA
Will Arrive Early This Morn
ing and Later Will Deliver
Three Addresses on the
' Liberty Loan.
William McAdoo, secretary of the
United States treasury, will be the
guest of Omaha today.
He will arrive at 6:40 o'clock this
morning, over the Burlington railroad
from Kansas City; and until his de
parture for St. Joseph in the evening
will be a busy man.
During the day he will deliver three
addresses.
Although the secretary will arrive
at in early hour, he will not be called
until near breakfast time.
Shortly after 8 o'clock a large dele
gation of Omaha business men will
go to the Burlington passenger sta
tion, where they will meet the secre
tary and escort him to the Hotel Fon
tenelle for breakfast, which will be
served at 9.
After the morning meal thr secre
tary will be taken on ah automobile
trip about the city and into the coun
try, returning at 11 o'clock, me will
be driven to the Commercial club,
where prior to the luncheon he will
meet the business men ,of the city.
Will, Talk Liberty Loan.
Following the noon luncheon, at
which covers will be laid for 550 per
sons, Secretary McAdoo will discuss
the "Liberty ..Loan" and probably will
have a few words to say relative to
the European war and the part the
United States wilt take in support of
the allies.
At the club luncheon Luther Drake
will preside and introduce the speaker.
From the Commercial club,' Secre
tary McAdoo will go to the Auditor
ium, where at 2 o'clock he will address
the Conservation congress. The
"Liberty Loan" will be the topic for
discussion. '
At 3 o'clock the Boy Scouts of
Omaha will be on hand and will be
admitted to the Auditorium. They
will hear another talk by the secre
tary, whose subject will be Every
Scout Saves a Soldier."
On the trip to Omaha, Secretary
McAdoo is accompanied by W. D. G.
Harding of the Federal Reserve
board. Mr. Harding probably will
address the main meeting at the
Auditorium.
Subsea Fires More Than
Sixty Shots at British Ship'
Phlladrlnhia. Hiv 23-Tales of a
desperate encounter with a German
submarine off the north coast of
Africa were told by sailors of a Brit
ish freight steamer which arrived at
this port yesterday. (The battle with
the undersea boat took place shortly
before daybreak on the second day
out. ,
In the darkness the two boats ma
neuvered about- the British startl
er's gunners locating the hostile craft
only by the glare that went up as it
fired volley after volley from its small
guns. Officers of the steamer declared
the U-boat fired at least sixty-three
shells and then shot a torpedo. It
missed by a narrow margin.
The British gunners returned the
fire, the battle continuing until day
break. The U-boat fled toward the
African coast and submerged. The
freighter escaped without damage.
Nebraska Will Pay
Bonus of $25 Each
To State Guardsmen
(From m (tuff Correnondent.)
Lincoln, May 23. (Special.)
Drawing of vouchers for the pay
ment of the men of the two Ne
braska regiments who were on the
border and who were voted an ap-
firopriation of $25 each by the last
egislatura will soon ba made by
the state auditor's office.
Six hunrded and fifty-eight men In
the Fourth regiment are entitled to
receive the money, making the total
amount for that regiment $16,450.
Work on the vouchers for the
Fifth regiment soon will be started.
VON HINDENBURG
WATCHES FRENCH
TAKE JRENCHES
Gauls Foiestall German As
sault and Capture Several
, Important Observa
tion Points. ;
rom a Staff Cnrreipondent Of Th Am
elated Pre..)
On the French Front in France,
Tuesday, May 22. Von Hjndenburg
himself is understood to have been a
spectator of the defeat which the
French inflicted on the Germans yes
terday evening on the Moronvilfiers
range, which resulted in the capture
of several lines of German trenches
and a number of important xmservajl
The German commander Is known
to have been just to the northward of
this section , of the front on Sunday.
His presence is supposed to have been
connected with an attack on the
French lines which the Germans in
tended to deliver on Tuesday morn-
luff.
The French forestalled them, and
after demolishing German machine
run nests and other defenses with ar
tillerv, launched an assault which was
so brilliantly successiui mm more
than 1,000' Germans were captured.
At the same time the French obtained
elbow room beyond the ridge for fu
ture operations.
Important Points Taken.
As outlined to the correspondent
tndav the Alterations in this region
developed into a struggle for "obser
vation points," possession of which is
absolutely indespcnsable for success
under present conditions of warfare.
In their forward drive on the Mor
onvilliers range, the French captured
all those positions dominating the sur
rounding territory. The heights of
Carnillet, Blond. Haut, Casque and
Teton and the Moronvilliers hills are
now indisnutablv in their possession
'and from them thev are able to watch
the movements of German supply col
umns and reinforcements and thus
harass them, making precarious the
German tenure of the Rheims plain.
Fortifications Are Formidable.
The - system of fortifications en
countered by the French in their ad
vance was more formidable than they
had met before that time, but the
clever maneuvering of their infantry
and the pile driving of their artillery
overcame the difficulties. Thus the
French were able to register a victory
at a cost amounting to only one-fifth
that of the Germans.
James Hazen Hyde was permitted
to make a flight over the lines in an
airplane before the attack. -Two
French fighting airplanes escorted him
and held off German machines which
hovered above. Mr. Hyde has taken
an official position with the Young
Men's Christian association, which in
tends to make arrangements for
American troops similar to those
which have been made for the British
along the lines. They are invaluable
for the men when they are resting
after trench duty. v
Germans Fail to Stem Tide.
(AMoelattd From War gummorjr.)
The second phase of the great bit
ties of Arras, the Aisne and Cham
pagne has ended in the failure of the
costly German efforts to stem the tide
of victory now setting against them.
The net result of Field Marshal von
Hindenburg's supreme effort to re
gain the initiative has been that the
British and' French have tightened
their grip on the German line and
have placed in great peril the key po
sitions held by the Germans in north
ern France.
The customary lull which separates
all major operations in modern v ar
ware has now come and the expecta
tion is that it will be broken by a
British blow on a great scale aga'nst
the Drocourt-Queant line, already
practically outranked. ,
In the meantime the usual crop of
peace rumors which.marks these lujla
has made its appearance. Reports
from different sources tell of offers
from Austria to Russia, Germany to
Russia and Austria and Germany to
the collective entente powers.
The latest German-Spanish crisis
has subsided with the receipt by
Madrid of assurances from Berlin
which Premier Frieto announces as
satisfactory. Germany promises to re
spect Spain's rights in its territorial
waters, but the text of the communi
cation is not made public.
First Engineers of U. S.
Army Reach London
London, May 23. The first de
tachment of United Statesarmy en
gineers under command of Major
Parsons arrived in London this
evening. The second unit of the
American hospital corps has reached (
FARMERS BOLT
FOOD MEETING:
HOLD THEIR OWN
Charles Graff and Hundred
Others Protest Against Be ,
ing in Minority and Hold ,
1 ' Rump Convention. . t '
Declaring that they were npt be
ing properly treated and were not
properly represented at the big Con-
servation congress, 100 fanners Wed
nesday held a "real farmers'" con
servation congress in the banquet
room of the Castle hotel, while the
main convention was in session at
the Auditorium, '
C H. Gustafson of Mead, Neb., was
erected chairman and L. S, Herron,
Omaha, secretary of the rump con
vention.
The "rump" convention had its in
ception in the controversy Tuesday
night between Farmer Taylor and
Chancellor Avery, and was called by
a number of farmers to protest
against the language used by the
chancellor.
"Our object is to resent a remark
that was made at the convention last
night and to demand, that the real
farmers have something to say at the
State Conservation congress," was
the preamble read to the convention
by the chairman. ' -
Later, for the benefit of those farm
era who were late in coming, the ob
ject of the meeting was restated.
Graff Praises Taylor,
Mr. Taylor was characterized by
Charles Graff as "one of the ablest,
strongest and most reliable men in
the state."
''When he says something the fur
always flies," Graff declared.
Graft is one of the heads of the
farmer section of the main conven
tion and, he told the farmers' con
vention he had (written 500 letters
urging farmers to be present today.
"But the farmers' interests are not
being looked after rightly," continued
Graff, "That's nothing new, how
evert In all these big state wide meet
ings the farmers are usually to be
found in the minority. All the trim
mers, thea professors and the jump-ing-jacks-in-general
are hercbut not
the farmers. The woods are full of
people who are running around slam
ming such men as Taylor." ;
W. H. Dech of Ithaca paid his re-1
spectsi to the main convention and
said:
"Look over these committees. They
are filled with bankers, lawyers and
storekeepers, but where are the farm
ers? They are notirepresented. I
want to see the farmers fiave some-
imng io say ai inis convention wnicn
is called to conserve what the farmer
produces. '
Lamar Favors Farmers. 11
Representative Lamar of Saunders
county was another Speaker who
thought the farmers were not being
treated fairly. "I expected when I
came," he told the convention, "to find
the farmers on the back seat and I
am not disappointed. Nebraska
farmers are big enough to take care
of themselves and if ,they don't get
what they are entitled to they should
get right up on the floor of that
convention and say so."-
J. O. Shroyer of Humbolt made an
attack upon Chancellor Avery for the
latter's remarks about Taylor.
"This man Avery, at' the head of '
our big school, paid by the farmers,
paid by taxes, makes an attack upon
Taylor, one of the (biggest men in
the state. Yesterday I would have
said that Avery was a big Aian and
was all right. I can never again say
that. I can never send a child of
mine to a school presided over by
him. What Mr. Taylor said was true,
every word of it, and we farmers
must stand by him."
After several "thrusts" directed at
Chancellor Avery, the convention '
took up consideration bf matters
which its members said should be
acted upon.
"To hell with this minimum and
maximum price fixing," said Charles
Graff. "We don't want these prices
regulated. Let the demand and sup
ply regulate prices."
Later in the day resolutions were
adopted setting forth the position of
the farmers. The resolutions wilt get
before the conservation convention
today. r'
Resolution Are Passed.
The rump convention passed reso
lutions setting forth the views of the
"real" farmers. One man objected
to one word in the text. The reso
lutions are as follows:
Speaking for Nebraska agriculture,
(Continued on Pago Two, Column Om
Buy a Home
"The Omaha Real
Estate firms are of-'
fering special induce
ments ' to- persons
buying homes . this
week. . For the best
list of bargains in all
parts of the city turn
to the Want-Ad col
umns. ' - -
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