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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1919)
THE. BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH ' 28, 1919. HIGH PRICES STATE OF MIND FOR PRESENT John Latenser' Points Out Psychology o Profiteering and Suggests How Rem- edy May Be Applied. John Latenser, well known archi tect and builder of the court house, the Brandeis blocks and other of Omaha's monumental -buildings, has this to say on the subject of high prices, whether for building ma . , terial or other things: "The present industrial condition requires readjustment in the sense that this or that pommodity has been raised in price out of propor tion to prices of other commodities for reasons resulting from the. war period.. This reason may haye been excessive demand or it may have been profiteeering. "To the extent that the prices of some commodities require lowering to a basis consistent with peacetime supply and demand readjustment must taue place, "But, Venerally speaking, the - problem before us is the adjustment of prices that is, the prices of commodities must be adjusted to new conditions resulting from the wary These new conditions are na tional and not local. What Makes Prices. "Just as before the war, the prices of commodities were dependent on the cost of the raw material, trans portation and manufacture plus the cost of distribution and profit, so do "the commodities now depend on those items. Ve now find that in adding these items together at the present day they foot up to a larger sum than they did before the war period, and the question is how the total cost can be reduced.' . . . "The price of 'raw material' in some cases obtained locally, but in most cases transported here is more or less a national question. "The second item, 'transporta tion,' is wholly a national question. "Third, 'manufacture' mostly na- , tional, some local. "Fourth, "distribution and final , profit" are local questions. "From this it will be seen that the prices of commodities are generally nationally influenced. We can influ ence locally such commodities as are based on local raw material anif'we r- can influence only the cost of local distribution and final profits of those commodities which are transported into this territory, v "From the above it will be seen that the prices of most commodities cannot be locally influenced no mat ter how good our intention and pur pose may be. In other words the high level of prices is nationally in fluenced and not local. V "I now come to the second and . very important phase. , Just as in a panic the general s)ate of mind tends to lower prices beyond all reason so in the present state of affluency and abundance of money a state lof mind has Jeen created which has gone to the other extreme. State of Mind. !l" "We have raised the prices for the isheer pleasure of raising them. Ex cessive profit-taking has become a state of mind inversely comparable only to a panic. This atmosphere of high profits must give way to a 'Jive and let live' plan and the gen- eral law of supply and demand must be honestly allowed to take its course. , A rich harvest will then be ' in sight. Satisfactory results in v profits must be aimed at through a large volume of business. "We have behind us a long period of time when the natural require ments in the increase of population and the requirements of the natural growth of business housing have not been satisfied. The increase in pop v alation by birth alone in this coun j sfry amounts yearljMo from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 and the increased re ... quirements in the shape of additions and betterments in industrial Rous ing is enormous. In other words we are from three to four years be hind in ouf home and industrial building." ! Mid-European Governments Appeal to U. S.s(or Equipment Washington, March 27. An ap peal to the United States and the entente powers for arms, ammuni tion and equipment for soldiers to be sent against the red a?mies of Russia and Hungary by Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia and the provisional governments of recently liberated v European peoples was advised by officials of the Mid-European union today to .President Wilson, Secre taries Baker and Daniels, the Amer ican peace delegation and the con gressional foreign relations com mittees. ' i The communication expressed the opinion that with nroper material and moral support the existiag' gov ernments could be depended upon I 1 Tif- ' I I f? A TO ocai wun wc uoisncvisi menace . , 7 American Army "Missing" List Now Stands at 5,500 Washington, March 27. General ! Pershing reported to" the War de- yariiiinu louay mai mere arc sun 5,500 officers and men of the expedi tionary forces listed as missing. This total compares with the British of ficial figures of 161.800 missing and the French of 290,000. " AH of the 5,500 names have been reported as "missing" in casualty lists already published, the report said. Reinterments of,bodies from iso lated graves in the centralized ceme teries is furnishing additional identi fication in a number of cases, and for this reason the records of the grave registration service are being ..carefully studied. First of German Ships - Placed in Commission Washington, March (' 27. The first of the 12 German ships allotted to the United States for bringing troops home has' been placed in 'commission, the Navy department was advised today. It is the steam er Cleveland. Two other liners will be put in commission Saturday. The ships will take on board as many troops as they can accommo date. 'Refitting as transports will be DOStooned until their arrival at American ports. , . 1 o - O I A. ' : miiin " maii.ii.ni "" " i Detective Knudtson, who was finally arrested nine days after he. shot and seriously wounded Charles Coleman, a soldier, on warrant issued by Judge Patrick, when Commissioner Ringer's inactivity in the case prompted numerous protests of indignant witnesses. 1 Ak-Sar-Ben Boosters Committee Sets Goal for 5,000 Membership This year's hustling committee of the Knights of Ak-Sar:Ben, under the leadership of J. E. Davidson, an nounces that it has set an objective of 5,000 members for this season, with 2,500 to be enrolled before fhe show starts at the "den" on June 1. The committee met at luncheon-! yesterday at the Paxton hotel and decided to "hop to it." Secretary Weaver reported that the membership at this time last year was 387; today it is 700. It is also proposed to double the personnel of the hustling commit tee and to make a city-wide drive for members on a day later to be determined. Attendants at yesterday's meeting were: J. E. Davidson, - William Wood, A. F. RaspW. H. " Craw ford, "Doc1; Frye, E. J. Seroy, J. F. Bryan, Julius Rosenzweig, Frank Heintz, W. H. Wagenseller, Earl Burkett, William Mickel, F. H. Par sons, C. F. Cox, C. C. Phelps, M. O. Cunningnham, H. E. Izard, Wa'lter Byrne. Will Baumer, A. C. Adams, Walter Meyer, George Heintz, F. S. Sieverling, Harry S. Byrne, J. W. Hartwell, Harry Mahaffey, Nat Meister, Robert Hayes, L. P. Dy berg, Daniel Whitney, Joseph Duf- fey, W. L. Beaver and Warren Blackwell. , . Article About Recent Omaha Congress Is in Leslie's Weekly A brief article about the Trans mississippi Readustment congress in Omaha, together with photographs of some of the prominent delegates to the assembly, appears in this weeks Leslies Weekly.. Pictures of several Drominent Omahans who figured in the man agement of the congress are pub lished with ' the article. Among them are: W. B. Tagg, president of the National Live Stock Commission Men's association; Everett Bucking ham, manager of the Union Stock Yards; R. C. Howe, manager of Armour & Co., Omaha; E. E. Cal vin, president of the Union Pacific railroad, and R. J. Dunham, presi dent of the Union Stock YardST Galicia in Revolution and Soviet Established Vienna, March 27. (Via Copen hagen.) A wireless dispatch from the soviet government at Moscow declares that all of Galicia is in a state of revolution. The movement is described as having begun in the oil districts near Drobhobyoz, where the workers established a soviet government. OFFICER WHO SHOT SOLDIER -UNDER ARREST (Continued From Fata Oar.) Detective L. O. Toland, who repre sented the police department in the investigation instituted by Superin tendent Ringer and Chief Eberstein a number of days after the shoot ing, the army officer asserted it was possible he would seek to obtain some of the facts, which Mr, Ringer is said to possess. , The police department did not of fer either the county attorney's of fice or Lieutenant Weeks assistanca in procuring the facts in the case. Mr. Ringer declared that he sus pended the detective from the force, pending the hearing set for Mon day night before -the city commis sion, on information submitted to him by Detective Toland, who made his report last Monday night, nearly a week after the shooting. The police commissioner also gave out a statement-with- his announce ment of Knudtson's suspension that his detective should not have shot Coleman. "However," he added, "Knudtson says he shot at Cole man's legs." Chief Eberstein announced the day following the shooting, that Knudtson was justified itf the at tack. The police chief assumed from the beginning an attitude of justifying- the deed for which the de tective has been arrested pursuant to an exhaustive investigation con ducted by Assistant County Attor ney Ready. Mr. Ready declared that he failed to obtain a single state ment of witnesses justifying the at tack on the defenseleas soldier. The witnesses are unanimous and em phatic in their condemnation of the shooting. Says Fit of Anger. "There was nothing else that could be done," said the assistant county attorney. "There was no other charge upon which the man can be held at thisv time. In the light of the testimony of eye wit nesses the attack was committed wilfully, unlawfully, maliciously and with intent to murder. I be lieve Knudtson, in a fit of anger, sent the bullet crashing through the body ''of the soldier." Coletnan yesterday was still in a critical condition, it was announc ed at the hospital. In "the event the soldier dies, Mr. Ready declar ed a charge of murder would be placed against the detective. Coleman was shot at 6 o'clock on the evenifTg of March 19 by Detec tive Knudtson after the boy was arrested for being absent without leave from tha army. When he-saw the detectives approaching him in the vicinity of Twentieth and Dodge Streets he attempted to elude the officer. A shot was fired in the air and Coleman surrendered. Knudt son and the prisoner were walking on Twentieth street, between Capi tol avenue and Dodge street, when, according to witnesses, the prisoner protested against the detective's draesrine him along the street, de claring he was willing to walk with the detective. Knudtson is alleged to have hurled the taunt of "desert er" at his prisoner and the two men stopped and engaged in an excited conversation, r Married Day Before. , The soldier, who was married the day before, begged to be allowed to walk to the corner and explain the situation to his wife and mother. This was refused, according to wit nesses, and the men engaged in a sparring match. The soldier struck the detective a stinging blow in the neck, and jumped back about six or eight feet from the officer. He was facing the detective when a shot was fired by Knudtson. The bullet entered just above the right hip and emerged in the pit of the stomach. " Knudtson claimed he fired in self- "You can thank that old, unsani tary bathroom for this" j 1 Millions of disease -breeding germs lodge and thrive daily in the unclean able waste piper comers and crevices of old-fashioned bathroom plumbing. If you knew that tomorrow they would attack someone near and dear to you, you wouldn't hesitate a single day to tear them out, root and branch, and replace them with modern, sanitary Thomas Maddock fixtures, regardless of cost. But you do hesitate because of what you think will be the cost and because you've just been lucky as to health. Pay a visit to our model Maddock bathroom display and let us show you how little it costs to have safe, sanitary, at tractive fixtures the Maddock way. United States Supply Co. ' Ninth and Farnam Sis. Omaha, Neb. ' or Consult Yonr Plumber defense. Later a statement was given out from Commissioner Ring er's office over the detective's sig nature, asserting Coleman was shot while attempting tto escape. Ex-Central High Men Who Wereln War to Give Talks Former Central High boys who have been discharged from service after making good war records, will speak tomorrow afternoon at a mass meeting in the Central High audi torium to raise funds to support five French war orphans for another year. '' Lt. Allan Tukey, who was in a German prison camp for several months; Louis Rockwell, who also saw, service abroad; Clyde Case and "Leatherneck" , Karl Dimond are among the speakers. Miss Florice fchuw will preside. Bee Want-ads pay big profits to the people who read them. Live Stock Commission Man Injured in Fall from Horse . A. E. Roger, widely known Sputh Side live stock commission man and vice president of the Live Stock ex change suffered a broken leg yester day morning when he was thrown from a horse which he was riding. It is said the animal was re"cenUy pur chased from the army and resented being ridden by a civilian. German General Strike Fails in Yankee District Cobleni, March 27. 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