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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1918)
ma tsaa: umaha, muinday, FfiUKUAUX 18, iyi. REDUCE AMOUNT OF WHEAT FLOUR USED UNDER RULE Pound for Pound Substitute Will Effect Actual Saving if . Put in Force in. Spirit Intended. The pound for pound substitution rule is not a measure to increase the sales of substitutes. It is a measure intended to cut down the consumption of wheat flour. That distinction is made by the Nebraska food adminis tration, to correct seeming misunder- . standings of the rule necessitating the purchase of a pound of substitute with a pound of flour. , Investigations of complaints that the pound for pound rule works a l Ifardship on customers, developed that in the great majority of instances these criticisms were based on the thought that the purchaser should buy as much flour as he had previously bought. Then he should supplement it with an equal amount of substi tutes. This practice would result in the purchasing of more than was need ed. Cuf Down Wheat Flour. But what the customer should do, said Mr. Wattles, is to buy just one half the amount of flour previously used. Then supplement it with an equal amount of substitutes and the measure becomes a real conservation measure and will accomplish the pur pose for which it was promulgated. If the only result of the measure was to increase the sale of substi tutes, then the measure would not be conservation, said Wattles. But if the intent of the measure is observed and practiced, then it becomes an unus ually effective one, for it will provide an avenue for the supply of the allies, i However, continued the adminis trator, the situation has developed now so that within a very short time we will be unable to buy wheat flour, only in limited quantities. Whether rigid rules are provided or not, the natural law of supply and demand will determine. The supply is not suf ficient to meet the demands across the water and yet give us what we have been using. The demand across the water will be met and is being met now at the rate of 10 to 15 mil lion bushels of wheat monthly, which ,will continue until next harvest. The wheat flour shortage will be here, and it's going to be met here. Our associates across the water can- not meet the situation by using of substitutes. They can't get them and we can't get them across. .We can use substitutes, and we will, whether we desire or not. , Situation Emphasized. The recent ruling of the milling di vision, shutting down all mills which have ground 75 per cent of the allot ment, lor the year, only emphasizes the existing situation. And when it is known that the original allotment means 70 per cent of their last year s . grind for sale to customers, the short age becomes irore apparent. ( Progress Made In Church . . Pension Funds to Date "The Protestant churches have in their treasuries $30,000,000 for preach ers pensions and are actively engaged in campaigns which will bring this amount to at least $65,000,000, says Rev. J. B. Hingeley, corresponding secretary of the board of conference claimants of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr; Hingeley is president of the Interdenominational Council of Pension Agents of ProtesUnt churches. ' The Protestant Episcopal church was the first to complete its campaign, which was for $5,000,000, and Bishop Lawrence and his workers secured $8,500,000. The Methodist ? Episcopal church has $8,500,000 in Us enerat and annual treasuries. Dr. lingeley reports $1,265,000 actually paid to the attired ministers, their "widows and orphans in 1917. The Tresbyterian, church, according to Dr. W. S. Holt, associate secretary, Phila delphia, has resources amounting to $6,559,933. Its goal is $10,000,000. The Northern Baptist has no fixed goal, but has at present $2,000,000 in funds and is seeking an additional million . this according to it secretary, Dr. E. T.Toinlinson, New York City. The Congregational church has $1,900,000 in hand for the welfare of its aged ministers. This consists of the state societies, permanent funds, the an- nuity fund and the National Board of Relief, says Dr. William A. Rice, New York. The Methodist Episcopal church, south, has a fund of $1,200,000 and is seeking $5,000,000. Dr. J. R. Stewart, Nashville, Tenn is secre tary. The general synod of the Luth eran church reports a fund of $150,000 arid is in a campaign for $1,000,000 for endowment; 3,600 laymen are enlisted to secure this endowment fund, says Dr. G. M. Diffenderfer, Harrisburg, Pa. The Evangelical Lutheran, Au gustana Synod, with Rev. S. L. Lind holnv general secretary, Des Moines, has in hand $265,000. The laymen arc gathering a fund of $500,000. The Church of Christ, according to its sec retary, Dr. W. R. Warren, Indianapo lis, Ind., has a permanent fund of 1 16,000 with $200,000 coming from the "Men and Million" movement, subscriptions to which are expected to be completed by June 1. This church will undertake an endowment campaign for at least $1,000,000. The Moravian church, which was one of the originators of the pension move . ment, is at present in no campaign, ac cording to its secretary, Rev. Paul de Schweinitz. Bethlehem. Pa. Among the notable ienreases in pen sion funds for the year in the annual conferences of the Methodist Eoiscooal church, are: Dtrolt confertne. (Mlchtiia) lion.000 Nebraka conference 420.0M .w England conference JJS.000 Central Pennylvni conference.... 100,000 Bock River conference (Chicago and . vicinity JOo.OOO Nortpwent Iowa conference 171.009 Erie conference 100.000 tieneeee conference (New York).... 100. 000 Many other conferences have re ceived less than $100,000. Boston Transcript. ' Advance Price of Newspapers. Rochester. N. Y.. Feb. 17. Roches ter's three afternoon newspapers, the Post-Express, Union and Advertiser, and Eveninz Times, today announced an advance in price to 2 cents, ef fective Monday. Cor for Foraau Caper. Frederick B. Jenks. of New Haven, rem m...- lbs of the -hot air furnace by viaclue a laree tank of sand inside Ha top. ana ejr uaina ma vniinvr swt v njoduclnc heat. The aand abaorfti Beat ivli-n .the atove in hot and then radiates It dNfuriiiiy af'.er the fire In the atove ha died down and the beat la neded.Popular McGan to Represent Creighton ! In State Oratorical Contest J w M ' 'vr J j 3 rH' ! If. ?4Vf 4 James W. McGan. CIVILIAN RELIEF WORK IS URGED Aid Must Be Extended to Rela tives of the Soldiers Who Go to the Front, Says Gillin. The importance of civilian relief during the war was urged by J. L. Gillin, director of civilian relief, of the central division of the Red Cross, in the opening meeting of the Nebraska Conference of Charities and Cor rection Sunday afternoon. "If we don't make provision for the care of those left behind in any emergency, we're going to impair the morale of the soldiers at the front, said Mr. Gillin. "We will have to see that those who are going be left widowed have the benefit of service and help in the matters that they will have to come in contract with. There will be daughters just coming into adolescence, and sons just ready to embark for the first time upon the untried field of adventure. "Woman has the right to have the guidance and advice of someone who knows the community, its possibili ties, and the advantage, or disadvan tages it holds for those children. She has a right to the advice of someone who will help her get these children into positions that have some promise of a future, instead of being left to push them into the first opening that presents itself a job without the pos- siDinjy oi a luiure. ' "Civilian relief has a big work to do here, for the same bullet that ends a life at 100 yards, wrecks a life across the sea." Rabbi Frederick Cohan, president of the Nebraska Conference of Chari ties and Correction, presided. Arch bishop J. J. Harty gave the invoca tion. This morning at 9 o'clock the meet ings will begin at the Hotel Fon tenelle. Dr. Ira W. Porter. Omaha, will deliver the opening address on "Co-Operation." Others to lead dis cussions are: Dr. Theodore Hanson, general superintendent of the Na tional Public Welfare league: Judge Arthur G. Wray, York; John A. Rine, T. F. Sturgess, E. D. Gepson, Omaha; ur. Uwen K. Lovejoy and Miss Verna Elsingerv Husky Western Boy Hands Over a Compliment The Young Men's Christian associa tion secretary at Camp Merritt has a cherished possession. He shows it to visitors with glowing pride. "It was a bunch from Idaho gave it to me," he said; "I wish you could have seen them big strapping out door chaps. They had a wonderful time here, They liked every one and every one liked them, and they were invited out to dinner all the time and made a heap of real friends. But the climax of their stay came one night when one of the community clubs gave a dance for them. The Congre gational minister is president of the club, and the dance was in the base ment of the Catholic church, and every one had a grand time. It was a terribly cold, windy night, with snowdrifts everywhere, and it seemed a shame to send those lads out in the storm after the party. But do you think they minded it? Not a bit of itl "And the next day," he added, "they gave me this." It was a set of poker chips! "You see," laughed the secretary, "the boys watned to show how much they really thought of the Young York Times. URGES SOLDIER British Army Officer Says Mother Must Encourage Men. BOYS TO MARRY Birmingham. Ala., Feb. 17. Lieu tenant Colonel R. V. K. Applin, of the lth British Hussars, in an ad dress harangued mothers to en courage their soldier son to inarry before going abroad. Colonel Applin spoke under the auspices oi the local council of defense. "In England we are doing everthing possible to encourage the men to marry while on ten day leaves at home," said the officer. "Children must be born to fill the void left by the thousands of deaths in the British army during the last three years. '"I am asked constantly when the war will be won. My repiy is when America is ready. "It is a matter of discipline and the discipline must extend all the way from the trenehes back into the homes of the American people. I beg of the mothers and sisters to smile. Give the boys a chance. Don't encourage them to become dissatisfied. "I have visited 12 army camps in the United States and I say to you I have never seen betcr fed, better looking aud better cared for soldiers At the annual contest of the Ne braska State Inter-collegiate Ora torical association, to be held Friday night. February 22, under the auspices of Bellevue college, at Bellevue, James W. McGan, a senior in the college of arts, will represent Creighton univer sity. The theme of his oration will be: "This is Our War." The Creighton orator was the win ner of the oratorical contest held at Creighton in January competing against six speakers of the Creighton Oratorical association. A number of other Nebraska colleges have made entries in the contest. They are Doane, Cotner, Nebraska Wesleyan, York, Bellevue, Grand Island, Hast ings and Central college. The win ner of this contest will receive a prize of $50, and will represent the state of Nebraska in the divisional contest to be held in April at South Dakota. Creighton has won this contest for the last two years. Ralph Nickerson represents Belle vue, having won first place in the Clark oratorical contest, ' Bellevue's preliminary to the state. Chester Whittier and Clint Day won second and third places in the local Bellevue contest. The oratorical work of Belle vue college has this year been under direction of Prof. Edwin Puis. Miss Nora Mohr of Bellevue, president of the State Oratorical association, is in charge of arrangements for the con Otest Friday. The state contest is one of the major events of the college year, the winner representing Ne braska in the interstate oratorical contest at Northfield, Mass., in May. POLISH CABINET RESIGNS; BERLIN FEARSUPRISING (Continued From Tmg One.) with the feelings or needs of the mo ment. "The peace of Ukraine appears to furnish proof that from this vast wreckage even the greatest diplomat. are unable to rehabilitate the pieces of the shattered world, and that only the conclusion of a general peace, with guarantees from all can offer real safeguards." Referring to the dispute over the Cholm (a district of Poland which, under the peace agreement, is to be, annexd to Ukraine), the Zeitung re marks that it is preferable that in the case of such dispute all Europe should share the responsibility rather than that Germany alone should be burdened with the hatred of the peo ples affected. Germans to Attack Bolsheviki. Germany forces are already being concentrated in Ukraine to attack the Bolsheviki, according to a Berlin dis-j patch, and declarations looking to the active prosecution of the war against the Bolsheviki in north Russia also will be made at Berlin next week. The German authorities are anx ious regarding the fate of German prisoners in north Russia, whom the Bolsheviki are holding as hostages and who, Berlin dispatches say, may be killed if the Bolsheviki are driven to desperation. Germany has already served notice on the Bolshevik au thorities, that it will enforce reprisals if the German prisoners are harmed. Count Czernin, the Austro-Hunga-rian foreign minister, has not'fied Ber lin that Austrian troops must not be used against Russia to support any policy which Austria has not ap proved, but only for purposes of self defense against maurading bands. News has been received m Berlin confirming reports that Russia had not begun the demobilization which her representatives at Brest-Litovsk an nounced had been ordered, according to a dispatch from Berlin. TARTAR WOMEN IN FAR RUSSIA DR0PTHE VEIL London, Jan. 28. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Tartar women in the far Russian provinces have dropped the veil and are freed from sex tyranny as a result of the Russian revolution. In the elections for the local Zemstovs they are vot ing along with the men. A let'ter from Kazan says: "The women's movement here started in the revolution of 1905 as a result of which the women began to go about unveiled. By 1910 a veiled woman was unknown in Kazan. After the revolu tion in which the emperor was de posed the Moselm women formed a society and sent delegates to the first All-Russia conference. Here they pre sented demands for the abolition of polygamy and the Moslem inheritance law according to which female heirs receive smaller portions than male. A separate day is set apart for the Tar tar women to vote, to satisfy the mil lahs and old fashioned women. About 40 per cent of the women went to the polls on the last election. "In Kazan one has only to walk through the streets to see that Mos lem women are socially the equals of men and have shaken off the shackles of centuries of sex tyranny.'' ANOTHER PROBLEM IN SUPERSTITIOUS FOOLDOM Saturday, February 2, was what is called "Ground Hog day" and human beings are now telling one another that the little creature came out of his hole at 12 o'clock, did or did not see his shadow and that therefore we are or we are not to have six weeks more of winter. "Human beings," mind you. The ground hogs are not in the least in terested in these discussions and prognostications. They have too much sense to come out of their holes on such a day and they are not at all concerned about what significance human beings attach to their doings and seeings at high noon on the sec ond day of February. It is not the ground hog who pre tends to reveal the weather for the next six weeks; it is the human be ings who attribute that power to him. when exercised at a certain hour of a certain day the human beings who boast and believe that they are the only products of creation that have intellects! Who are the fools the ground hogs or the human beings? Louis ville Courier-Journal. You can secure a maid.stcnogra-' pher or bookkeeper by using a Bee DESIST, SHADES OF DIOGENES Omahan, Aboard Train From Sioux City, la., Finds Himself Guardian of Booze Grip. HERE AT LAST AN HONEST MAN Diogenes, we are iold, spent many years of his fruitful life in a futile search for an honest man. But had he lived in Omaha in the year of 1918. he might have found the object of his quest in the person of H. B. Huston, 1214 Farnam street. On his way from Sioux City, Sun day, Huston spied a suspicious look ing suit case on the train. Its bulging sides seemed to indicate the pres ence of something besides wearing ap parel. The suit case was in the cus tody of three men who watched Hus ton rather furtively, he thought, and served to confirm his suspicions that all was not well. the three men rose hastily and started ) to leave the car. Huston quietly in-1 formed their, that they had forgotten I their baggage, whereupon they denied ' Noted California Speaker Will Help Launch Campaign Hafenstein Throws Gotch; Lindsay, Neb., Feb. 17. (Special.) Young Gotch of Omaha and Anton Hafonstein of Newman Grove wrestles here last night, Hafonstein getting the first and third falls and Young Gotch the second, Hafonstein got his two falls with the body scissors," the first in 14 minutes and the third in 15. Gotch got his in 10 minutes with the head scissors. .Hassman and Leuschen staged an interesting preliminary, Ed Stahle was referee. Young Gotch at 165 was a little handicapped in weight, Hafonstein weighing 185. American Women Spend Too Much Money for Clothes Washington, Feb. 17. Ameri can women spend too much money for clothes in the opinion of Professor Stough ton Holborn of Oxford uni versity. His first two impres sions of America, he said here today, were the amount of money spent on the American woman's dress and the waste of food. "We are getting so in Eng land," said Professor Holburn, "that we notice these things. My wife writes me that cooking utensils no longer are cleaned in the old way. After food has been cooked, the utensil is filled with water, and after the par ticles of food adhering to the utensil are loosened, they are strained off for further use." One Way To Help The Food Administration Eat cereals that conserve sug ar and milk as well as wheat made partly of barley, con tains its own sugar-developed from its own grains in making; and needs less milk than the ordinary cereal. A WONDERFUL" SAVING" FOOD FOR THESE TIMES. that they had ever owned the grip, and dashed out of the car door. Hus ton took possession of the abandoned suit 'case and carried it to his room, where it was found to contain three gallons of whisky. Did Huston bury it down in the depths of his cellar? He did not. With wonderful fortitude he strode to the telephone and called the police. The shock was almost too great for the desk sergeant, but he retained enough presence of mind to assure Huston that the patrol wagon would be sent at once for the booze. But before the patrol could be dispatched on the errand, Huston walked into the station and delivered the "goods" to Desk Sergeant Marshall. There was some talk of a Carnegie medal, but Huston explained that he was only an ordinary humane officer, and deprecated the thought of a re ward for "merely doing his duty." Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford University, is one of the aids of Herbert Hoover, who will speak in Omaha and throughout the North Platte section of Nebraska the week beginning February 25. Dr. Wilbur with Everett Colby of Orange, N. J., and Mrs. Leonard Beecher, of Birmingham, Ala., will start their campaign in Omaha the night of February 25 at the Auditorium. Dr. Wilbur has an unusual equip ment for effective services in this campaign to help get th; necessity for food conservation before the people of Nebraska and America. He studied not only in some of the lead ing universities of America, but also in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Munich and London. He served with distinc tion as professor of medicine in Cooper Medical college, and as dean of the medical department of Leland Stanford before he was called to the presidency of the latter institution. WOULD CONFINE RIGHT TO VOTE TO FULL CITIZENS State Council of Defense Asks Amendment to Constitution Prohibiting Voting on "First Papers." Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 28. The re striction of the elective franchise in Nebraska to actual citizens of the United States is the object of an amendment to the state constitution proposed by the State Council of De fense, and for the submission of which to the voters petitions are now being circulated. Under the present con stitution foreigners who have declared their intention of becoming citizens are permitted to vote. The subject was brought to public notice some weeks ago by numerous registrants under the military draft law, who claimed exemption as "en emy aliens," although they had pro cured their first papers and had voted in elections. It is hard to say how many men would be disfranchised by the adop tion of the amendment, but it is es timated that at least 20,000 of the less than 300,000 voters in the state would be affected. Of this number it is said about half are Germans and Aus trians. i It will require the signatures of approximately 30,000 registered voters to validate the petition submitting the amendment to the electors, but the members of the state council are sure that many times that number will be obtained without difficulty. The amendment will be submitted at the November election. :3 WALLACE ACCEPTS ATTRACTIVE OFFER Had Many Propositions From Outside Cities, But Turned Them Down to Remain in Omaha. Hugh Wallace, for three years rent al manager of the First Trust com pany and recently building manager of the First National Bank building and Farnam building, has accepted a position as assistant secretary of the North American Life Insurance com pany, now located in the Farnam building. Mr. Wallace will take his new position March 1. Dropping out of the real estate and building management business as he HxL$hE. Wallace now does, 'Mr. Wallace has tendered his resignation as treasurer of the Omaha Real Estate Board and of the Building Owners' and Managers' as sociation. Mr. Wallace accepted the position with the North American Life after considering two or three other flat tering offers from concerns in other cities, one an attractive offer in Chi cago. "Other things being equal, I wanted to stay in Omaha if possible," said Mr. Wallace, "for I feel that this city has a future that few cities have at this time." It was through his negotiations with the North American Life Insurance company in closing their lease for the third floor of the Farnam building that the company officials became in terested in him and opened negotia tions for his services. Why Monkeys Use Feet Instead of Their Hands When next you go to the zoo. watch the monkeys use their hands, suggests the Popular Science Month ly. Notice how they seize things with their fists. They do not use their finger ends as we do. While the high er . monkeys, such as gorillas and chimpanzees may be taught to use their fingers, they never learn to use them as easily as do human beings. The monkey is primarily a tree dweller. It lives in forests and swings from tree to tree, using its hands as hooks with which it grasps the branches. The thumb is not brought into play. Some South American monkeys have lost the thumb through disuse; all that is left of it is indi cated by a little lump under the skin In the higher monkeys the wrist is built like yours. It has the same number of bones. But the monkey has never used his wrist, and so it has lost the flexibility. The monkey can use its feet to better advantage than its hands. Man, on the other hand, has used his feet so' long simply for the pur pose of walking, that he would exper ience considerable difficulty in using them as he uses his hands. Yet, it is amazing how quickly a man can learn to use his toes as he does his fingers. If you don't believe this, just try to CLEAN THE PLATE IS CAMP SLOGAN Small Saving by Each Indi vidual Makes Total of Stu pendous Amount, Accord ing to Army Officials. Camp Funston, Feb. 17. The "clean plate" is to be the order at all mess halls at Camp Funston, national army cantonment. A bulletin calling the attention of the nation's fighters here to the necessity for food conservation has been issued by Brigadier General Winn, in command of the canton ment. The bulletin, quoting a circular let ter from the bakery branch office of the quartermaster general, follows: "In time of peace many food econo mies were so small in their returns that the end did not justify the means. But at present, with 1,500,000 men as sembled in the various cantonments and willing to give their aid, there is almost no economy too small to be worth while! Even a half cent a day saved by 1,500,000 men amounts to $7,500 a day and at this rate $2,737, 000 could be saved in a year. The saving in a company of 250 men would, on this basis, amount to $1.25 a day, no mean amount, especially if added to the company fund. Serve it Again. "Most of the men of the new army have been living in homes where the small savings that now amount to so much, not only in money value, but in actual conservation of food, were not considered worth bothering with; for this reason these men cannot be expected to realize the necessity for being careful with food or to view the question from an angle of real econ omy. "With the cost of rations at 't cents a day for each man, a man who leaves on his plate even one-eighty-third of the food served to him causes a waste of a half cent a day. Atten tion is called to this not with a view of having the men eat less, that would be highly undesirable, but to have them realize the great importance of avoiding waste. At one of tne ran tonments the commanding officer found the habit of the wasteful plate was so prevalent that a regulation was enforced requiring that food left on a man's plate should be served to him as the first course of his next meal. "The prevailing practice of cutting cans with a cleaver may save time, but how much of the contents of the can is left clinging to the inside un der the uneven edges? It is safe to say there is a loss of 1 per cent of the contents of each can, or a loss of 10 cans in every 1,000. "The thin slice of bread is the eco nomical slice and these are to be halved, so that a man who desires more than one slice of bread, but is not hungry enough to eat two whole slices, may satisfy his appetite with out wasting half of the extra slice. Ba con and ham'should be carefully sliced in order to avoid uneven ends." write with vour toes. At first tfi 1t. Iters will be very large and awkward. But with a little practice you will find that you can write with your foot more easily than with your left hand, if you are naturally right-handed. It is an attractive exercise with which to while away an hour. We know you will try the experiment. 34 MILLION DOLLARS invested in mortgages en Im proved Real Estate He at the bate of Home Builders, Inc. 6 Guaranteed Preferred Shares An Attractive Investment Cut your March Coupons aad PUT THE MONEY to work by inTesting in our shares. Resources $887,794.52 Growth, 1917 .. . $373,477.95 l Surplus, Etc.... $101, 225.1 3 ABSOLUTE SECURITY Home Builders, Inc. American Security Co., Fiscal Agent. Douglat and 17th St., Omaha. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. Hotel Dyckman Minneapolis FIREPROOF Opened 1910 Location Moit Central 300 Rooms with 300 Private Baths Rates $1.75 to $3.50 Per Day H. J. TREMAIN Pres. and Manager x "for Sales wiih Pidures ihai iell yowt s W at a gjance OMAHA