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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 11, 1917.
REGULATION OF
GROCERY STORES
PREDICTED HERE
J. J. Cameron, Local Secretary,
Advocates Licensing of
Shops; Action Would Re-
duce Price of Food.
Revolutionary changes in the
supervision of grocery stores in Oma
ha are predicted within a short time
by J. J. Cameron, secretary of the
Omaha Retail Grocers' and Retail
Butchers' association.
The reduction of the number of
Krocery stores in Omaha from its
present number of 560 to a minimum
of 300 is one of the reforms pre
dicted and ured by Secretary Carfl
eron, the measure assuring the con
sumers of Omaha at least a 5 per
cent reduction in foodstuffs.
"We do not advocate putting any
Rroceryman out of business," declared
Mr. Cameron, "but merely to prevent
others, who know absolutely nothing
about the stock they handle, from
opening corner stores which of
necessity must be an expensive ex
periment to the neighbors. From fif
teen to twenty grocery stores are
changing hands monthly in Omaha,
and by licensing each grocer $100 we
could cut down these fly-by-night
concerns. ,
Small Store Higher.
"The average number of customers
for each Omaha grocery store is 81.
lie cannot sell as cheap as a store
with 300 customers." before wc un
derstood an up-to-date credit system,
grocery men of Omaha worked on a
25Nper cent basis, because of the
tremendous credit they carried. That
has been sharply reduced, and now
the majority work on a 20 per cent
basi."
Mr. Cameron believes that eventu
ally there will be means of limiting
the number of grocery stores oper
ated in the different cities according
to the population of each. 'This will
require all grocers to make the same
price for each article sold, in that rase
a standard service being established
that all grocers must maintain in or
. der to handle their trade on a regu
lated system.
Ccst of Business Same.
The cost of doing business in all
stores will thus be made practically
the same. Efficiency will be the only
competition in the grocery line, de
clare! Cameron.
If the general plan of Secretary
Cameron goes through clerks will be
required to show their certificates as
thoroughly experienced, efficient and
i first-class salesmen in making appli
cations for position and parties wish
ing to engage in the business must
have a permit showing their qualifica
tions, ability and financial standing.
Another requirement would be a san
itary, clean and spotless store and
itandardized from cellar to roof in
ivery detail. Delivery service will be
cut down to one , day and be re
ttricted to certain blocks within a
liven limit of each store.
Action, by the United States food
administration slonz the lines of the
local . association's effort is expected
by Omaha grocery men within a short
time. .
Tulsa Men Take
I. W. W. to Woods
Ana Coat With Tar
(Continued from rag On.)
except by the man who applied the
tar.
Eleven of the Industrial Workers of
the World had been convicted in po
lice court on a charge of vagrancy.
Taken From Police.
They were fined $100 each and com
mitted to jail. The police arrested six
others who had appeared as witnesses
itt the trial of the original 11 and who
had admtted on the stand that they
belonged to the Industrial Workers
of the World. After a conference of
police court officials it was decided to
take the entire party to their head
quarters and exact from them a prom
ise to leave the city before morning, in
which event their fines would be sus
pended. As the motor cars neared Industrial
Workers of the World hall a num
ber of the "Knights of Liberty"
jumped from behind a pile of bricks
and with levelled rifles and revolvers
ordered the drivers to stop. None of the
policemen had a chance to reach for
his gun, as they were surrounded by
armed men.
The Industrial Workers of the
World were quickly searched, their
hands tied and the drivers ordered to
proceed. Two blocks farther along,
"QUICKLY! SEND, IT
THRESHER'S"
Thousand Hurry Thoir Belated Car
, meat to Drethers the Moment
the Weather Crispens.
Watch 'em! See the public in gen
eral, the moment the thermometer
drops. Hear all of 'em say: "My, it's
freezing and that winter suit of mine
is scarcely fit to go into. Goes IH
,' have to call Dreshers up immediate
ly!" Dreshers deeply appreciate the
work, the compliments and the idea
of being favored, but, did you ever
stop to think of the strain put upon
a cleaning establishment at the very
last moment, when everybody de
mands cleaning jobs in a matter of
hours?
Come! Be wise! You know that
, f reeling cold weather is merely hid
ing itself somewhere or other, and
that it will be nosing in here at any
time -in a lew days at the most
Better get together all of your
winter suits, coats, dresses, caps,
gloves, "etc. Phone Tyler 345 and a
" ? Dresher man will fairly scoot to your
place. Dreshers will get the work out
in a hurry and return the job to you
so that you. will be in a position to
"make a face" at winter and pass a
merry jest to Old Man Freeze.
Leave the work at Dresher Broth-
2217 Faraam street, at Dresher The
Tailors, 1515 Faraam street, or at
one of the Dresher Branches in the
BurgeBS-Nash or Brandeis Stores.
Dreshers pay express or parcel post
: charges one way on any sized ship
. ment to any point in America.
I six automobile, loads of men, similarly
iciac and armed, joined uie procession.
1 They were driven to a wild ravine be
! 'ond the city limits.
Tarred in Circle of Light.
The automobiles in the party were
placed in a circle with their lights
shining on an oak tree. The seven
teen Industrial Workers of the
World were made to strip to the
waist. The knights stood guard with
guns pointed at each man. One by
one the ropes were taken from their
wrists and they were tied to a big
tree. One of the party stepped for
ward with a lash and applied it until
the blood ran. Then another stepped
up with a whitewash brush and a pot
of boiling tar. This was applied over
the back deliberately. Several hand
fuls of feathers were then thrown
into the tar.
The Industrial Workers of the
World talked but little during the
ceremony. Several of them boldly
proclaimed their allegiance to the In
Industrial Workers of the World.
An old man pleaded for mercy. "1
have lived here for 18 years," he said,
"and have raised a large family. I
am not an Industrial Worker of
the World. I am as patriotic as any
man here."
But someone in the party remem
bered that the speaker had been ar
rested at Independent Workers of
the World headquarters and he so in
formed the others.
When the last man had done his
turn at the whipping post Ihcy were
all lined up with faces toward the
west.
"Let this he a warning to all In
dustrial Workers of the World to
never come to Tulsa, Okl., again,"
said the ringleader. "Now get."
Flee in Bare Feet.
The frightened and half naked men
ran in their bare feet through the
brush as members of tho "Knights"
fired volley after volley into the air.
The captured officers stated tonight
there were fully 50 men in the party
that participated in the whipping.
Among the victims of the "Knigltfs"
were J. R. Hill, -a local printing press
man, and J. F. Ryan, former secre
tary of the Industrial Workers of the
World, who took a prominent part in
the trial.
The names of the deported Indus
trial Workers of the World, according
to the records at police headquarters,
were as follows:
John McCurry, Tom McCaffery,
John Myers, E. M. Boyd, John Doyle,
Charles Walsh, W. P. Walton, Jack
Sneed, L. M. Mitchell. Joe French, j.
R. Hill, Bernard Johnson, Bob NJc
Donald, John Fitzsimmons, Joe Fish
er, Gordon Dimikrow and J. F. Ryan.
After the recent blowing up with
nitroglycerine of the home here of I.
Edgar Pew, vice president of the Car
ter Oil company, it was announced
by the authoritiei that plans for
spreading a "reign of terror" through
out the oil fields around Tulsa by the
Industrial Workers of the World had
been uncovered.
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Cars Clash, Many
Injured in Dense
Fog in Chicago
Chicago, ,'ov. 10. Scores of per-1
sons were injured in railroad, street.'
car and elevated collisions and other J
accidents due to a heavy fog this
morning. The injuries were mlstly of
a slight nature.
Twenty-five or more persons were !
injured in a rear-end collision in the
yards of the Chicago & Alton rail
road. At the fog's densest, objects
10 feet away were invisible. A fireman
on the Illinois Central suburban train
was unable to see a danger signal and
crashed into another suburban train.
Two hundred passengers were shaken
up and the fireman, A. Melter. was
scalded. Six others were cared for
at a hospital.
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Suffragists to Hold
Mass Meeting Tonight
A mass meeting of Omaha suffra
gists to celebrate the victory at the re
cent New York election will be held
in the council chamber at the city
hall tonight at 8 o'clock, Mrs. Draper
Smith presiding. Patriotic music,
conducted by Mrs. Samuel Soote, will
be a feature of the gathering. Mrs.
H. C. Sumnev makes it emphatic that
' everybody is cordially invited,
whether interested in suffrage or not.
Among the speakers of the evening
will be Mayor Dahlman, John L. Ken
nedy, F. D. Wead, Mrs. H. C. Sum-,
ney' and Mrs. George Covell.
Paul W. Kieser Helps Food
Administration in S. D.
! Paul W. Kieser, an Omaha boy,
; brother of Henry F. Kieser. has just
(been appointed assistant to the fed
eral food administration of South Da
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Douglas 1317.
Corner 14th and Dodge Street.
Charles Smith Writes
Out His Own Defense
Attorney Morrison, representing
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on trial for his life Monday morning
on the charge of murdering Mrs.
Nethaway in the railway cut north of
Florence, appeared before Judge Sears
complaining that he had never been
allowed to interview the prisoner
alone.
"I have never been able to discuss
the details of my client's story con
fidentially with him and I don't see
how I can defend him at the triaj
without his side of the story," said
Mr. Morrison.
"Smith tells me that he has written
out his defense. I want the court to
give me an order to the sheriff per
mitting Smith to hand that writing to
me uirertly without previous inspec
tion of it by the police."
The order was immediately granted
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Gowns, $6.25, $7.50.
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Quilted silk carriage bags
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