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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1918)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 6, 1918. V FOOD OFFICIALS ASK FARMERS TO HELP THEM Southern States Are Organiz ing to Have Present High Prices Fixed to Be Permanent. Owing to the extension of the drougth area, the shortening of the . corn crop, the larger animal popu lation in the countn . and the allied V. demands upon us for feeding stuffs for their own animals, because of ' their own shortage in production of feed grain, it is necessary that we should exert every effort in the 'proper conservation of feeding stuns during the next twelve months; yet we must maintain our own animal production. It is necessary that we should 'hip a larger proportion of wheat as compared with Hour during the next twelvt months than during the last twelve months to the allied countries, because their own short age of feeding stuffs is such that if they are to keep alive their dairy herds, they must have a larger sup ply of grain wheat. Milk Supply Only for Children, Already, the milk supply in the al,: d countries has been limited practically to the supply of chil dren and other vitally necessary national uses, and any failure on our part to supply them with necessary teed stuffs for their dairy herd means that we shall cut into the actual safety of the children amongst the allies. On the other hand, both our own population and the allies are dependent upon our production of animal products, and we do not in any way wLh to stifle this production. What we must se- , cure is the utmost elimination of waste by the careful feeding of ani- ,-.ls and the use of all the roughage ivauaoic. One of the difficult problems is the distribution of wheat mill feeds, and this is made more difficult by the fact that the food administra tion, in an endeavor to protect the farmer, is maintaining an artificially low price on tnese ieeas. une con sequence is hat a great deal of mill , tecds are now going unnecessarily into work animals or beef produc tion. Every farmer will recognize that the wheat mill feeds are vitally necessary for the dairy cattle, to , rotne extent for the poultry, and for young pigs. Owing to the absorp (ion of mill feeds at local points near the mill, considelable sections 1 of the dairy industry are practically without mill feeds and our dairy production is thereby in danger, With a few to correcting this, so far as possible, the food adminis tration desires to appeal for the as sistance of. the farmers of the coun- try in the use and distribution of wheat mill feeds. In this view, they .are asking every buyer of wheat mill feeds, outside of the acute drouth . - . -i.,i. -t i, . .. jt. ...l : 1 1 i. r - Purpose except the essential use in dairy, young . pig and poultry pro duction, and not to purchase or hold at any time more than 60 days' sup ply. Unless they can secure this careful and specialized use of mill feeds, our dairy production in the congested eastern areas of the United States is bound to fall and to jeopardize the food supply of our people in that section. Otherwise it will be necessary to release the price restrictions on mill feeds and allow them to take their natural course. Atk Farmers Pledge Co-Operation. With a view to securing this co operation from the farmers all over the country in the interests of their -wMw.. j m J n nuuik, lilt, lUVLi U ministration is instructing the nulls and all dealers in feeds to secure from the buyer of wheat mill feeds the following pledge: "In order to assist the food ad ministration in the distribution of mill feeds, I hereby undertake on honor not to use wheat mill feeds for any ther purpose than the feeding of dairy cattle, poultry, young pigs or young calves, or the preparation of a weekly bran tnash for work animals. I will not feed any more wheat mill feeds than is cus tomarily fed to such animals and I further agree not to have at any dhe time more than a 60-day supply of feedstuffs on hand." The food administration is also requiring the millers and feed job bers to distribute their wheat mill feeds in such manner that each state receives the same proportion .-of the mill's or jobber's shipments as it received in the same quarter in 1917. 7-B Not a Turkish Harem, But Red Cross Workshop Unit Making "Flu" Masks I I II M Ijll . J ' ' & ,! ' S " ' i 1 ' .- Ail cross workshops in the city are closed, with the exception of Masonic temple headquarters, where Spanish "flu" masks are being made with great speed to supply the needs in local hospitals and resi dence cases by the Collegiate Alum. nae unit. Mrs. Walter E. Silver, chairman of the surgical dressings depart ment, is chief flu mask-making director. Work started early Satur day morning. As soon as the first masks were completed, the women themselves donned, them to complete their work. This is the first means n which Red Cross workers are able to co operate with health authorities in Omaha in combating the epidemic, as requested yesterday in advices from Surgeon General Blue. Any-fment are also closed. one needing "flu" masks may ob tain them by applying at Red Cross offices in the court house. If practicable, the Masonic temple workrooms will be kept going, in order not to interfere too much with getting out much needed surgical dressings, but all women will be re quired to wear the "flu" masks. All other workshops are definitely closed until further notice. The Fort Omaha canteen and salvage depart- WAYOF POLITICAL ADJOURNER IS HARDJLEDDING President Uses "Reverse Eng lish" on Southern Cotton Growers After Primary Elections Are Held. agricultural slacker, should be trefft ' ed as were northern products? Were there not many cantonments, camps, nitrate plants ana other ripened fruit of "Keep-us-out-of-the-war vic tory" which must be properly har vested? The matter progressed so far that a presidential letter went to Candidate Harris assuring the cot ton men of Georgia that they should not be concerned about cotton. Well, the primaries are now over and the administration, knowing that the primary in the south in sures election, began to give heed to the warning of Moore, Sloan and other congressmen over the favor itism shown cotton and now an- American Successes Ton the Western Front Impress the Chinese Peking, Oct. 3. China has been impressed by the success of General Foch's counter offensive, and by the American successes on the western front. Hitherto the Chinese have been very much overawed i by Ger many, which most of them consid ered invincible. Now a change has taken place which is reflected in the Peking press. The Minhsinpao urges the central powers to make peace with the allies and says the -defeats of the Austrian and German armies in Italy and Frarrce show clearly that ,a complete military victory over the entente is impossible, especialy now that the youfig"American army has proved itself capable of attack ing tne experienced German troops 'with victory. Previous to this Franco-American victory in France, the majority of tLe Chinese, people, especially Chinese military officers, most of w'.-oni had been trained in Germany nnd Japan or educated in China un der German and Japanese military instructors, expressed great doubt about the ability of the 4,pre-exper-ienced Americans," to combat suc cessfully the Germans on the west ern front. " Now the Franco-American vic tory has shown the intelligent class of Chinese what the American army 'can do. This raises the prestige of the Americana in the tar east as a military people. By EDGAR C. SNYDER. Washington Office of the Bee. "Reverse English" is a phrase to which billiardists attach a profes sional meaning. A western con gressman thus tersely describes the administration's policies in two words. He followed these two thoroughly descriptive words with these cryptic sayings: "Free tolls," "too proud to fight," "peace without victory," "kept us out of war," and "politics is adjourned." A democratic senator in extenua tion of the foregoing said: "We must fight on a different basis from the republicans. That party is like the engineer facing the path of his engine. Ours must be the manner of the boatman, looking one way and rowing in another." The re cent "adjournment of politics" has been no exception. Politics adjourned is the boldest piece of political camouflage in many moons. They are out in the, open now, since all the primaries have been held, with a regular cam-! paign book. A most unusual course 1 to take for the off year election, es-; pecially for the war year. It was prepared by the joint labors of the i national and congressional demo cratic committees. So every polit-1 ical force is mobilized. The Screen is Withdrawn. j It is related that the national dem- j ocratic leader, the national chairman, , Vance McCormick, and Represent-; ative Scott Ferris, the national con- j gressional chairman, met in the now most private which used to be the , most public place in Washington,; just before this book was prepared. Ferris is reported as saying, "Let us now talk about the adjournment of, politics." ' i "Wait," said the scholar, "till I ! draw my veil." Then he told the story of Haruspices (the fortune ! tellers of ancient Rome) who kept; their faces straight before the in- j tereited inquirer, but when they met ; each other on the street drew their ; veils over their faces so that they might not see each other smile. "That's right," said Vance McCor mick,"my lips are a little sore and I do not want to crack themwith a grin " The screen is withdrawn! Poli tics 60 lbs. (4 atmospheres) to. the square inch is now apparant to the country at large as it was to the in itiated heje at Washington for the last several months. In the judgment of his party Jef ferson was a mild-mannered political monk; Cleveland was a non-combatant partisan; while Roosevelt was tnl-i.warm nartv academician com pared with the political general of 4 the White House. His view of states has partaken of the character of distant dependent provinces to be ruled directly or in directly from Washington. He se lected Davies of his political house hold here at the capitol to represent the sovereign state of Wisconsin. That he was not accepted was due to the independence of Wisconsin republicans. Picks Harris in Georgia. He had better fortune when he chose the innoffensive and political ly colorless Harris for senate from Georgia, the empire state of the south. As pro-consul Harris will undoubtedly give proper precedence in recognition of his selection to the wishes of the administration and the best interests of the people. This precedence at once meant walking on the boMy of the independent Hardwick and making a political corpse out of the brilliant Congress man Howard. Equally successful was the presi dent in disposing of the picturesque Vardaman and in his stead installing Pat Harrison of Mississippi for the senate. , The south took orders. For be hold were not northern congressmen J demanding that cotton, that great nounces the appointment of a cotton price fixing commission. A storm of protest has gone up in the south over the action of the ad ministration' The members of a South Carolina organization met and solemnly declared they would plant no more cotton next year than enough to furnish seed for a later crop. If a southern senator or con gressman is not vocal with profan ity it is because he is an officer of the church or "there are ladies pres ent." If both fists are not being swung it is because he is one-armed. What were we kept out of the war for if it was not to do "for the south" and "to the north?" BEST FRIEND OF AIRMAN IS HIS TRUSTYCOMPASS Height Indicator One of Neces sary Instruments to Have When Riding Through the Air. An American Aerodrome in En gland, Set. 28. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) One of the safest places in the airplane cock pit is given to the compass, for without its aid the airman who is flying over land or tea is hopelessly lost. Great attention is paid by American pilots training in En gland to the problem presented by "drift." If an airplane starts to fly from one point to another due easi and there is wind blowing 15 miles an hniir northeast, he must take that clement into consideration by alter ing his compass course, before as cending, according to the total dis tance of the journey. Many difficulties had to be over come in the production of a satis factory compass for aerial work. Chief among these was the problem of neutralizing the magnetism of the engine and particularly the mag netw, and of preventing the effect of centrifugal force which tends to cause the dial of the compass to swing in a direction quite independ ent of north when the airplane is banking on a turn. These difficul ties, however, have all been sur mounted and the compass in use on present-day airplanes is a fairly satisfactory instrument. It is said to be far superior to anything which the Germans have yet been able to evolve. The airman's next most impor tant instrument is his aneroid, or height indicator. This is fitted with an adjustable dial which can be moved round so that on leaving anyv given aerodrome thejeading is zero, whatever the height of that aerodrome above sea level may be. An American pilot left his aero drome for a cross country flight re cently on a very misty day, care fully setting his aneroid at zero. After flvinor for two hours bv com pass he thought he must be nearing ' his destination, tie could see ; nothing below and so descended to ! 500 feet. He flew at this height for five minutes and decided to land. He was about to volplane down Nebraska Preacher Going to France Kev. K. W. G. Hiiier, pastor of t; '.odist Episcopal church at Gene;, Neb., has received orders to repwt to the War Work Training college of the Y. M. C. A at Chica go and will close his pastoratrtn October 31. His enlistment is for the period of the war. Dr. Hiller has been pastor at Genoa for a year, going there from a five years' pas torate at Elgin, where he hadva large part in the organization of the Elgin Conimunity club, which, with its magnificent club plant, is one of the most substantial organizations in the west. He was also for three years pastor of Lefler Memorial church in Omaha and will carry with him the best wishes of many friends in Omaha. into the mist when suddenly the mist cleared and he saw the ground immediately beneath him, about 10 feet below. His aneroid still in sisted that he was 500 feet high. The explanation lay in the fact that the place he was about to land on was 500 feet higher above sea level than his own aerodrome. SOUTH AFTER BIG WAR PROFIT FOR ITS COTTON Dairy Production in Danger Unless Feeders of All Kinds of Stock Con serve Feeds. Washington, D. C, Oct. 5. The cotton interests are organized to force the administration in event it is decided to fix a price for cot ton to adopt the prevailing "war prices" as the price to be guaran teed by the government. The New Orleans Cotton exchangev has ex pressed its intention of standing for a minimum price of 35 cents a pound. Governor Hobby of Texas has wired President Wilson that cotton prices, if fixed at all, must not be less than 35 cents a pound. From other southern points similar demands are being made. Some idea of the profiteering there would be in a guaranteed price of 35 cfcnts for cotton may be obtained from an elaborate survey of the cost of producing this year's cotton crop which was made by the Watkins bureau for the banking houseof H. F. Bachman & Co. of New York City. This banking house is a member of the New York Cotton exchange and associ ate member of th- Liverpool Cotton association. It wanted the information for the benefit of its trade and in order that it might have an accurate and com prehensive report it employed the services of James L. Watkins, sr., formerly chief cotton statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Watkins report was based on investigations in over 2,000 cotton growing counties of the south. It is a very thorough report and has been pronounced by the market as the "most scientifically satisfy-1 ing document dealing with the cos of cotton production that has ye been issued." In ascertaining thi cost of raising cotton it takes inti account the rent of land, cost o fertiliser and seed, breaking am preparing the land, planting, culti vation, picking, ginning, marketing , labor, mules and horses, machinery bagging and other supplies am even cost of bacon and corn meaj two articles of food which man; cotton planters furnish their negn labor. All of these items are figurei on the basis of their cost in the sea son of 1917-18. 145 Per Cent Net Profit In Cotton' But even on this basis the report shows the cotton planter made t net profit of over H5 per cent oi his crop of 1917-18. It shows that the average cost of producing a point of 1917-18 cotton as 1 1-2 cents. The average price obtained by the planter for his 1917-18 croj was 27.5 cents. His net profit waj 16.42 cents per pound, or a little over 145 per cent. If Governor Hobby's demand for a minimunl price of 35 cents were granted it would guarantee the cotton plantef over 200 per cent net profit. ' The price which the southerij cotton interests want fixed is thi price which is prevailing now t price which, for the exception xf i brief period in 1866, is the highest price ever paid for cotton. The cot ton market today Is a runawaj market," which corresponds to thi wheat market of the summer ol 1917, when wheat went above $3.0( a Dusnei. As a result the government stepped in, closed the market, and fixed a maximum price for whea much lower than the open market price. the cotton cowers and the cotton congressment who control the demon cratic party and dominate all com gressional committees, are demand.) ing not that the cotton market bej closed, but that it be left alonel They are demanding, however, if tha market is closed, that the price guaranteed by the government shall be the same as the runaway market! price. Unless they can obtain this promise1, they announce their pur-i pose of fighting the whole program) of price fixing for cotton. Quarantining Will NOT Stop The liberty Loan Drive Two thousand patriotic men and women will begin work Monday morning, October 7, and will con tinue until Omaha's quota of $10, 500,000 has been reached. All patriotic Americans managers and principals of business institu tions, merchants, manufacturers, heads of financial institutions and housewives of this city will show their zeal and patriotism by courteously assisting to their utmost. Omaha Liberty Loan Committee EQUALIZATION COMMITTEE WM. J. CO AD, Chairman. W. C. FRAZER, B. A. WILCOX, WM. R. ADAIR, FREDERICK H. DAVIS, FRANK T. HAMILTON, WM. E. RHOADES, W. D. HOSFORD, A. L. REED. PAUL W. KUHNS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE C. BYRNE, Chairman State Liberty Loan Committee. F. FOLDA, Secretary State Liberty Loan Commttee. T. EASTMAN, Chairman Douglas County Liberty Loan Committee F WACOB, Secretary Douglas County Liberty Loan Committee. WM. D. McHUGH, SAMUEL BURNS, WM J. COAD, MRS. F. W. JUDSON. R. A. VAN ORSDEL. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE H. E. MILLIKEN. ARTHUR THOMAS, F. S. LARKIN, E. W. HALM, JAS. HENDERSON, C E. MILLER, H. M. THOMAS. E. J. BERG, JNO. T. YATES, E, T. SWOBE, CHAS. L. SYKES, L. H. MATTSON, CHAS. NOLEN. Notice! We, the united theaters of Omaha, wish to express our regrets to our patrons that we have been forced to disappoint them this week and to assure the public that we will endeavor at a later date to obtain for them an opportunity to see all of the attractions which were sched uled. Watch the papers for our announce ments of re-opening. Brandeis Theater Boyd Theater Empress Theater Gayety Theater Orpheum Theater Grand Theater Muse Theater . Rialto Theater Strand Theater Sun Theater -I -HAY DIE The Medical Fraternity Has Admitted That it Is Helpless NOT ONE CANTONMENT DEATH HAS OCCURRED FROM SPANISH FLU WHEN THE PATIENT HAD RECEIVED ADJUSTMENTS BY A CHIROPRACTOR. By consensus of Medical Opinion there is nothing in their treatment of "Spanish Flu." They have not been able to locate the germ, the line of treatment by medicine is the old-fashioned one of Dover's Powders (Ipecac and Opium) and As pirin. If you want your case taken care of in a scientific, up-to-the-minute, logical way, seek a CHIROPRACTOR, who will remove the cause of the DIS-ease, take the DIS out of the Dis ease, and render your body immune from all things which are called DIS-ease. Let the body be at EASE. DR. LEE W. EDWARDS 24th and Farnam. .1 DR. J. A. MARK WELL, Spinographer Doug. 3445. -Jit. ' 0