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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1917)
r n a THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 8. 1917. WOMAN'S WORKING HOURS STAY SAME Department of Labor Will In . sist on Enforcement of Law Now in Force During the War. Lincoln, Neb., June 2. The State Department of Labor has made known that "during the war there will be no suspension of the female labor law in Nebraska, nor will violations of the law be ignored." The announce ment is made, it it said, for the bene fit of employers who are hiring wom en to fill positions of men who have enlisted and who are contemplating employment of women to replace men wko will be drafted. George . Norman, state labor com missioner, said: "The female labor law requires that women and girls shall not work more than nine hours a day, nor after 10 o'clock at night, excepting such pub lic'service corporations as telephone companies, where necessity of night work for women is apparent. Even the exception requires women shall not work more than nine hours of the twenty-four, "We have no desire to antagonize employers of labor, but the-fact has sir tidy been demonstrated that nine hours is a sufficient day's work for a woman. The woman who works nine hours a day is a more efficient em ploye than the woman who works twelve hours. The employer will get , more for bis money with the shorter hours." Publisher Called to Time For Running Liquor Ad (From a ftaff CorrMpond.nt) Lincoln,- June Z (Special.) The first violation of the new law prohibit ing the circulation of papers contain ing liquor advertisements has been called to. the attention of Governor Neville, a copy of the Woman's Home Weekly containing such an advertise ment being sent to him. The governor at once called the at tention of the publishing firm to the infraction of the law and today re ceived the. following reply: "Your excellency's letter of recent date received regarding copy of the Woman's Home Weekly containing liquor advertising, and I simply want to state that' all liquor advertising will be eliminated in the magazine after July I." . . ' The governor simply responded that the Nebraska law became effec tive on May 1 and that it would be ' unlawful to circulate such papers after that date. The attention of the at- torney general has been called to the matter, v. Million and Half Dollars Balance in State Treasury (From a fltitf Correapoadent.) Lincoln, June 2. (Special.) The balance in the state treasury for the month ending May 31, as shown by the report of the state treasurer, it $1,523,555.21, an increase over the bal ance as shown April 30, which was $1,198,58676 Receipt for the' month were $820, 527.94 and 'the disbursements were $495,558.73. Cash on hand and on deposit 1 shown t he tf2,580,02j warrant on. hand, $30.V0594; bondton hand at cash, $69,700, and United States gov ernment certificates of indebtedness, $500,370. Trust funds of the state invested are given in the report as amounting to $9,940,26835. . . i Commncement it Tecumseh Tecumseh, Neb., June 1. (Special.) The annual commencement exer cises of the Tecumseh high school were held Friday evening. Mist Net ra Reynolds gave an oration on "The , Passing of Kings." Mist Mary Keim gave the class prophecy, and the his tory of the Tecumseh schools wat by Everett Thompson. Prof. W. S. Cook, superintendent of schools, pre sented the class and the acceptance ' and presentation of diploma was by J. W, Malkie, president of the school board. '. The following young people graduated; - j iValte. AMlIn Amelia Btirteli Karl Cathrart Arnold CatarhaaeB llulh Clark Worn. Out jr.?: Vein. Curlla Fauatae Damoa . Paul Ievl Margaret Darr Alloa Dolph Maynard Danlap Maa Farley huth Flthlaa Marguerite Irwlo toren Jobea , -Mary Kelm Alma Kuater Rata MfQoary ' Arnold Minor . Boy Nlbtw . Ouy Oleen Clifford Phillips Noaea. Reynolda ' Beta Beynolda Opal Sherman Kverett Thorapeon Bow Walker Alice White Prank Wrliht Luke Pombauth Reuben Swan Henry June T Robert Miner !' ' , . ' Mary Watte Controlling die Nations Food Farm, Factory, Road and Home By Fredrick J. Haskin Washington, May 31. These are the factors in the production and use ot food, "and our food administration will attempt to increase the efficiency of all four. It is now possible to set torth in a general way how this will be done. Price-fixing will affect all of these factors, and because it is a large and little understood subject will be dis cussed separately in the next article. To stimulate production is the first necessity. Besides assuring the farm ei of a good price for his products, the government will attempt to help him by teaching him better methods through the county agents of the De partment of Agriculture, the number of which will be sreatlv increased: and it will assure him of an adequate supply ot seed at a reasonable price. Labor is the great problem in pro duction, not only in the United States, but all over the world. -Even Germany has more land than it can cultivate. The Department of Agri culture expects to solve thisi problem largely by making' a survey of farm labor, and facilitating its distribution.. The department is placing a man in each state to work in co-operation with a state central board to this end. Farmers will be encouraged to co operate with each other, to share their labor and to buy labor-saving machinery co-operatively. Efforts will be made to facilitate; the seasonal distribution of labor, to see that the men who moved the Kansas wheat crop in June will go north in time to pick apples. Numerous other wayt of solving the labor question , have been sug gested. . Steps have . been taken to ward organizing Boy Scouts, tchool children and various other elements in the population. - The chief trouble with all of these movements is that the farmers do not want boyt or in experienced labor of any other tort One suggestion made before ' the house committee on agriculture wat that we should import a million Ger man priaoneri and put them to work on, the farms. ,". , Tn the manufacture of foods the milling of a larger percentage of flour it a measure that will probably be used to make cur grain gp farther. Alcohol it now being successfully made from sawdust in this country, and this will make possible the sav ing of a certain-amount of grain now used (or that purpose, whether or not part of that now used for beverages it kept for bread the future. The drying of fresh vegetables so that they may be kept more easily and wilt be much lighter for shipment is another means that will probably be used to increase the winter supply of vegetables. In Germany portable drying machines, many of them mounted on railway cars, go among the ' farmers, who come on certain days to have their beant, potatoes and other producti dried. In this coun try process of drying by means of a fan hat been perfected, which is said by experts to be very efficient. There are, however, very few drying ma chines in the United States. They Two Drayloads of Stolen Goods Found at Gibbon Kearney, ilebr., June 2. (Special.) When the, .sheriff, pt this , county placed under arrest Jake Voland, of Gibbon.- on Thursday, he felt that tome cases of petty thievery which have been annoying Gibbon merchanta might be ctared up. But he hardly bargained for a disclosure of whole sale thefts, such as 'a search of. the Volant! premises brought forth. Two dray loads of goods were re covered and twelve merchanta identi fied property as their belongings orig inally. One merchant stated that noining wai missing irom nia ptaco but when a bed was-moved at the Vo land place and two hundred dollars worth of shoes found he changed his tune.' The total haul passed the fifteen hundred dollar mark in value. Vo land has been transferred to the coun ty jail here and will be given his preliminary hearing early next wek.e Hughes Takes Charge of Archaeological Exhibit Howe, Neb., June 2. (Special) Samuel Hughes has been invited to take charge of the archaeological part of the exhibits in the auditorium at Lincoln during the semi-centennial celebration. The collection of nearly 3,000 objects will be exhibited for the first time.Nearly the entire collection wat dug up about eight milet north west of Stella. A clump of trees marks the spot of an old Indian bury ing ground near Howe. must be built and a plan for thelt co-operative use worked out. The control of the distribution of foods, in addition to the fixing of prices, means regulation of their ship ment and storage. The food bill, as reported from the house committee on agriculture, giter the administra tion adequate powers to deal with both. The general idea is to direct shipments to that they will go where they are needed. The purpose will be not so much to break up gluts as to prevent them. For example, if Cleve land has all the potatoes it needs there is nothing now to prevent farmers who have always -used Cleveland as their market from shipping still more potatoes to that point, to that tome of them will rot for lack of a mar ket, while in Chicago, perhapt, a po tato tcarcity it not far off. A food administration which knowt what the .potato supply is in each place and has power to regulate shipments will eas ily prevent these market gluts. In Germany it has been found pos sible to regulate' the distribution of foods except insofar as the consumer ?;oes direct to the producer. That is, ood which goes over railroads is han dled by commission men, wholesalers and retailers, is easily "regulated through these agencies. That does not mean that their business is seriously injured; they are al lowed to exercise their legitimate eco nomic -functions in the distribution of foods, but their opportunities for speculation are reduced to a mini mum. It has been found impossible, however, to prevent the farmer from doing what he pleases with what he produces. The result it that the only classes which Jiave had more than the war ration to eat in Germany have been the farmers who raised food and the rich people who bought It from the farmers. For example, Ger man farmers, instead of telling their barley and to putting it into the usual channels of trade at the fixed price, have often fed it to their geese. Geese in Germany bring at much as $50 apiece and are sold b the farmers di rectly to those who can afford to pay for them. : Regulation of the consumption of food meant the- reduction of the diet to the physiological . norm, and to the ' elimination : of waste. In most of the belligerent countries, ra tioning has been adopted, so thaj it is against the law for anyone to eat more than he needs to keep him alive. This country it nowhere near the condition that maket rationing neces sary, but the general purpose of the educational campaign which will be directed to housewives by the food administrator is the same atthat of rationing. Thus Mr. Hoover preaches "the gospel of the clean plate and the individual service of the tame," which means that each one must be given only as much as he will eat to the last .morsel, and that no more must be put before him as a tempta tion. The heaped up family platter and the steaming vegetable dish, from which each one may take at much as he pleases must from now on be con sidered unpatriotic, for the sight of food tempts to gluttony. This stinting of the diet will prob ably, be a difficult thing to accomplish by educational methods, but the fool)' administration may do a great work by its campaign to teach housewives what foods to use at certain seasons and how to prepare them, for Ameri can women are both quick and anx ious to learn. It it doubtful vAiether ?nyone in this country is eating any ess than he was before the declara tion of war, unless he has to, but al ready the results of the campaign for the use of more cormneaj is gcttinr results. The trade has gotten behind it with display advertisements of spe cial brands of cornmeal, and advertis ing never fails of its effect inJhis countcy. In like manner, the study of food values it rapidly becoming a fad. Just a few years ago the calory was an absolute stranger to all but men of science, and now its magical name is heard in every household, while tome dinert carefully compute the calorific value of every dish before they eat it. Nearly everyone has become aware, too, that perishable vegetables should be largely eaten in summer, so that those staples which will keep may be cheap and abundant in the winter.- This educational campaign, like many another movement atarted by the war, wilt have lasting and val uable effects. If we, can conquer old H. 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