THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY,' MAY 12, 1919.
Lincoln Bureau of The
GOV. M'KELVIE
STARTS TO GET
FULL LOAN SUM
Issues Statement Urging Citi
zens and Banks to Sup
port the Victory
Loan. v
Lincoln, May 11. Governor Mc
- Kelvie has issued a statement urg
ing -citizens and banks to support
the Victory drive. The statement
follows:
I am advised by the State Vic
tory loan committee that on ac
count of bad roads and bad
weather conditions, which ex
isted in our state for weeks past,
it has been impossible to carry
out the original campaign plans
in many counties for the sale of
bonds; consequently many coun
ties in the "state have not yet
reached their quota, and an ex
tension of time for subscriptions
has been granted up to and in-
eluding Saturday, May 17.
I want to appeal to our citizens
and to the banks of our great
state, and urge them to support
, the United States treasury de
partment in this great financial
undertaking. It would be un
fortunate if our state, which has
supported our governmept in such
a liberal way in former cam
paigns, should fail to do its par?
i in this last appeal for subscrip
tions for bonds' that have been
issued to support our brave sol
diers and to finance the war.
Sicned;
SAMUEL R. McKELVIE,
Governor,
W. E. Sharp of Lincoln Is
Wedded to Miss Vastine
Lincoln, May 11. (Special.) W.
E. Sharp, well known Lincoln fi
nancier and president of the Lincoln
Traction company, was wedded to
--Miss Lila Vastine. yesterday after
noon. The wedding was a quiet
affair, the ceremony being per
formed at the home of Mr. Sharp's
brother, F. J. Sharp in Lincoln with
only the immediate relatives of the
family present.
Mrs. Sharp was formerly from
Hastings, but has been in Lincoln
for some time. She had K-ffge. busi
ness experience and for a number
of years was cashier of the Beatrice
Criamery company. During the
past year she has been auditor of
the big potash company of which
Mr. Sharp was the president. The
couple left last night for the east for
a short wedding trip.
Hold Annual Election.
, Fremont, Neb., May 11. (Spe
cial.) At the annual luncheon of
Lewis-Clark chapter, D. A. R., Mrs.
Waldo"Wintcrsteen was elected
regent. Mrs. R. G. Wright, vice re
gent; Mrs. Irving McKennan, treas
urer, and Miss Sadie Irene Moore,
corresponding secretary. The chap
ter has raised $415 for Belgian re
lief within the last year by collec
tions made through boxes kept at
public places in the city.
"Stenographers' Union for
Sunday Fails to Materialize
The mass meeting called for yes
terday afternoon at Labor temple to
interest workers in Stenographers',
Typewriters', Bookkeepers' and As
sistants' ifTiion No. 16,405 failed to
mass. Officers were on hand to
greet prospective members, but they
failed to arrive. Another meeting
will be held in the near future when
an effort will be made in some way
to interest the office workers.
Already union No. 16,405 is one
of the strongest, if not the strong
est in the city. It has a member
ship of close to 1,000. The plan is
to at least double this membership
before the Labor day parade next
fall. .
Russian Delegates Protest. '
Paris, May 11. The Russian com
mission in Paris has protested to
the entente powers against the un
conditional recognition of Finland's
independence on the ground that
Russia's consent must be obtained
before Finland can be legally sep
arated from the Russian empire.
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P. A. Barrow, Correspondent.'
Should Give New Code Law
Trial Before Referendum
Barrows Says Real Motive Behind Efforts of democrats
to Kill Statute Is Question; Every Man Should
Thoroughly Understand Law Before Urging Pe
tition. w
Lincoln, May 11. (Special.)
The people of Nebraska need have
no cause for worrying over the at
tempt of Fred C. Ayers, promotor
of the democratic propaganda to
bring about the referendum on the
code bill for Mr. Ayers is only car
rying out a democratic principle, in
fact a fundamental principle of that
party to view with alarm any at
tempt at progressive legislation on
the part of republicans.
Ever since Father Adam looked
with consternation upon the efforts
of the serpintine tempter to con
vince Mother Eve that she should
partake of the forbidden fruit, the
"viewing with' alarm" proposition
has been a very important part of
the democratic make-up. Just be
cause the world started out wrong
in the particular instance of the
episide in the Garden of Eden, it
has been a democratic belief that
everything since must naturally be
wrong, unless sanctioned with
democratic backing, which jn the
rnind of the average democrat
makes it right whether it is right or'
not. , ,
Democrats Alarmists.
Democrats "viewed with alarm"
the attempt of Abraham Lincoln to
preserve the union and even went
so far as o take up arms against
the republican v effort to keep the
government a one and inseperable
galsxy, of states. They "viewed
with alarm" the principle of the
republican party that American in
dustries should be protected. They
"viewed with alarm" the opposi
tion of the republican party to
"free an unlimited coinage of silver
at a ratio of 16 to one." They
viewed with alarm the idea of
Theodore Roosevelt, a republican
president, that the United States
should be better prepared for war
should it come, and yet every at
tempt of the democrats to "view
with alarm" has been shown to be
foolish and the action of a re
publican administration in putting
across progressive legislation, the
right thing to do.
The attempt of Promoter Ayers
to make the people believe that the
p?ssage oi the administrative code
bill is a step along the line of back
wardness, instead of progress, is
simply along the historic line which
democrats have followed for the
past 60 years. Every attempt of a
republican administration, whether
in state or nation, to pass progress
ive legislation has been fought by
the representatives of the democrat
ic party. Mr. Ayers poses as a pro
gressive democrat, yet he is at
tempting by the invoking of the
referendum on the code law to keep
the people of Nebraska-from secur
ing the very best knowledge they
can secure, that of a trial of the law.
Ayers' Argument.
'Should Mr. Ayers be able to find
enough Nebraska voters who will
place their names upon the referen
dum petitions to secure the referen
dum on the code law, it will mean
that the law parsed by the legisla
ture will be held up for two years
and the people will be deprived of
any knowledge of the law whatever
except that which they may gather
by second-hand information.
Promoter Ayers sets out in his
argument why the referendum
should be had on the code bill that
it is a very long and complicated af
fair and for that reason the people
will not be able to understand its
provisions. Yet he is asking the
people to sign a petition to hold up
the operation of the law, when by
his own admission they do not know
whether the law is a good one or
not. If the law is a hard one to un
derstand, the best way the people
can find out just exactly what the
law will do is to try it out, and then
if there are things about it which
ought not to be, thes coming legisla
tures can remedy the defects and, in
this way make the law satisfactory
Surely, if the people do not fully
understand just what the law does,
they will not be made any more to
understand it by holding it up so it
never can be tried.
The writer is frank to state that
there are some things about the
Omaha Bee
code law which he thinks might
have been made better. He may be
wrong or he may be right. How
ever, I am willing to see the law
putjnto effect and then it can be
discovered whether my judgment in
the matter was well founded. I
would not have the whole law held
up simply because there are parts
of it, perhaps, which I think could
be changed and made better. After
it has had a chance to work per
haps these seeming defects may be
all right. Anyhow, I am willing to
see it tried out as it is, that I may
see whether it is all right or not.
I will never know for sure until
the law has been tried out, but if
the promotor of the referendum
petition is successful in getting the
necessary 23,000 names neither I or
anybody else in Nebraska will
even be able to know whether the
law is a good one or not. .
I would like to know, and I think
there are a great many people in
the state who would also like to
know what the real motive is be
hind the organized effort to hold
up the code law. There is an or
ganized effort headed by Fred C.
Ayers, a former democratic office
holder, who lost his job because the
republicans were successful to hold
up the law. Mr. Ayers is a poor
man from a financial standpoint.
He cannot afford to hire an ex
pensive office in one of Lincoln's
most modern office buildings and
take part in a propaganda to hold
up cue of the most important laws
the legislature passejL
What Is Motive. v-
What is the real mqtive behind
it all? Who is furnishing the
money to kill off the work of a
republican legislature, which true to
its promise made the people, has
enacted into law that pledge made
the peopled It is known that demo
crats are doing the work. But who
is putting up the money? The
putting into effect of the code law
means the death blow to certain in
terests. The question naturally
arises, why so much interest taken
in an effort to keep the law from
going into effect?
What is the use of the republican
party making a platform of pledges
to the people and redeeming those
pledges, if the opposition party can
take such steps as will keep the
people from ever finding out wheth
er. those pledges were kept or
whether they are worth putting into
elfect.
It is very easily understood why
the democratic party looks so lightly
upon platform pledges. They sel
dom put them into laws, themselves
being content to use them simply
to get in on ,and then forgetting
all about them when the time comes
to redeem them. They-never have
been able to understand why the
republican party always tries to re
deem its promises to the people.
Consequently the action of the
democratic special committee in try
ing to keep the people from finding
out whether the pledge of the re
publican aprty was a good one or
not is easily understood.
Use Republicans.
Promotor Ayers attempts to give
his cause standing by saying that
he has about 30 republicans already
who have placed their names on
the petitions. Sure. When a demo
cratic organization desires to pull
off any blue sky propaganda it
knows it will never get anywhere
unless they can give it an air of
respectability by the use of the
names of some republicans. It is
the same old confidence game used
ever since the gold brick, padlock
game and few other such schemes
were promulgated. Some good
men are induced to allow the use
of their names and the rest is
easy.
Every man, before he places his
name upon one of the referendum
petitions, would understand that by
such action he is signing away his
right to find out whether the law
is a good one or not. H& shauld
understand that the action of in
voking the referendum is simply a
democratic movement, backed by
interests of which the people are
kept ignorant and that it has for its
purpose two things: First, the keep
ing of a" republican legislature
from redeeming its platform pledge
made the people to give it legisla
tion which would bring about con
solidation of departments of state,
a more efficient government of the
state affairs and a placing of re
sponsibility so that no officer could
dodge that responsibility, and sec
ond,' the interest of the interests
which are putting up the money of
which the people so far have been
kept in ignorance.
There is just one thing to con
sider before placing your name up
on a referendum petition. Would
you rather be your own judge of
the merits of the law by seeing it
work or would you rather take the
argument of the man interested in
killing-it off before it can go into
effect. If you want to test the law
out and see if it is a good one or
not, do not sign the petition. If you
believe the argument of the pro
motor who has an object in keeping
you from seeing the bill work,
sign it.
Prominent Fremont Woman
Dies After . Long Illness
..Fremont, Neb., May 11. (Spe
cial.) Miss Margaret Dodge,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
F. Dodge, prominent Fremonters,
died at the home of her parents
here. Miss Dodge had been ill for
several jnonths. Last December
she wasforced to give up her studies
at the state university and return
home. She was 20 years of age, is
a graduate of Fremont high school
and was a junior in the state uni
versity. She was a member of the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
V .
Gomez Nominated.
Havana, May 11. Jose Miguel,
Gomez, former president of Cuba,
was nominated last night by the lib
eral assembly for the president. The
election takes place in 1920.
M'KELVIE MAKES
FULL REPORT OF:
APPROPRIATIONS
Legislature Passes ' Bills
Amounting to $15,929,492
Increase Over Session of
1917 About 4 Per Cent
Lincoln, Miy 11. (Special.)
That the people ot the state may
know just where the increased ap
propriations over the 1917 session
have been placed, Governor Mc
Kelvie has prepared a statement
covering all appropriations, the
total amount for the session being
$15,929,492.48 as against $994.189.04
for the 1917 session. The last ses
sion had a deficiency to make no of
tiie former administration of $313.
277.03 as against a deficiency made
up by the 1917 session of $33,779.32.
Taking all these into consideration
the increase made in appropriations
by the last session over the previous
session was only about 4 per cent.
The statement of the governdr is
as follows:
Capitol bulletin 1 mill $ 1,695.000
Child welfare 15,000
Game and Fish commission,
Gretna & Valentine 10,000
Fish nursery ..... 2,500
Pavlnir At Kearney 311
Expense of legislature J0.0O0
Salaries ... 108,000
Enforcement of prohibition 26,000
Normal schools, 1 mill 1,130,000
Relief of Maud Caston 6.000
Paving: along chlrkfen farm.... 1,000
Potato Improvement ass'n 1,500
Social HvRlcne fund 25,925
State aid hrldKe 1-5 mill 226,000
State institutions, maintenance.. 2,927,500
Pavinir state institution and
fair grounds 100,000
Relief of Mrs. J. M. Tisor .... 825
Purchase of land, dependent
children 6,000
I,and for cemetery, Burkett .... 2.800
Hospital Mllford lOO.noo
State printer 3,000
University, maintenance, iA
mills . 2,826,000
Certificates for soldiers, world
war 25,000
Salaries 'bili 1,130,300
General maintenance bill 1,251,160
State institutions, permanent Improvements-
588,460
Good roads 3,093,262
Supplement to statutes 3,000
Vocational education 100,000
Boundary y 300
Board of health 3.000
Benklemen Fish' hntchery 15,000
Tuberculosis eradication 75,000
Women's Custodial fam 60,000
New York soldiers' reception
committee ' 25,000
Claims 2.691
Books for state library 3,011
State dental board 391
Institutional deficiency 287,900
Iowa-Nebraska boundary 300
Destroying prairie dops 2,000
Relief of Kathryn Huffman 1,600
Relief of Eugene Romberg 4,000
General deficiencies 21,976
Total 815,929,492
Appropriations of Thirty-fifth
session 9.694,189
Less deficiencies 33,779
(HR 797 and HR 232 9,660,4409
Total appropriations Thirty
seventh session $15,929,492
Less deficiencies:
Books for state library. I 8,011
Stntn dental board 391
Institutions 287,900
General 21,975
$313,277 313,277
$15,616,215
Increase: $5,955,806.73.
In Four Departments.
Practically the entire increased
appropriations for this session were
made for four departments of effort:
First, to meet federal aid; second,
for educational institutions; third,
for, the support of the state's de
pendents; and fourth, a state capitol.
These are enumerated as follows.
To meet federal aid:
Roads $3,093,26!
Vocational education 100,000
Bovine tuberculosis 75,000
Hog cholera 15.000
Social hygiene 25,925
Total $3,309,187
Against this amount should be fig
ured $661,000 which was appropri
ated hyrthe last legislature to meet
federaj aid, thus leaving a total in
crease for this purpose of $2,648,187.
For education:
State University : $ 291,000
State Normals 271,600
For maintenance of state lnstl-
tutlons "4,830
For state capitol 1,695,009
Total Increase for the forego
ing enumerated branches ..$5,490,617
Covers Whole Amount.
This amount covers almost the
entire amount for the increased ap
propriations during the session. The
difference between this amount and
the total increased appropriations
($465,289.73) gives the increased ap
propriations for ell other depart
ments of the state government, or
only 4 per cent (Total 1915, less
deficiencies and federal aid; educa
tion and maintenance of state insti
tutions). About the only increase in the re
ceipts from fees, cash funds and
special license taxes will be in the
automobile license fees. The regis
tration fee was raised from $3 to a
minimum of $10 and an additional
amount based on weight of car over
a ton. Three-fourths of this regis
tration fee comes into the state
funds, and the county treasurer re
tains one-fourth.
Vast Crowd Celebrates
Driving of Golden Spike
Ogden, Utah, May 11. Celebrat
ing the fiftieth anniversary of the
driving of the golden spike which
linked the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific railroads into a transcon
tinental system, thousands of peo
ple from western states and many
visitors from the east witnessed a
parade here that was more than
two miles in length, listened to ad
dresses on historical features,
watched army airplanes from
Matherfield maneuver and joined in
dinners and banquets given to the
hoaor guests.
Addresses were made by William'
H. Hood, builder of the Lucin cut
off; Manager E. E. Calvin, of the
Union Pacific system; President
Heber J. Grant, of the Mormon
church; Paul Shoup. H. V. Piatt.
vice-president and general manager
of the Oregon short Line; H. Bis
sel. pioneer construction engineer:
J. A. Munroe, traffic manager of
the union Pacific and Salt Lake
route, and W. H. Wattis. oresident
of the U&h Construction company.
Packing House Employe
Injured in Auto Accident
Nebraska City, Neb., May 11.
(Special Telegram.) A packing
house employe, Jesse Cisco, was
quite badly injured when the Ford
roadster in which he and two com-Vl
panions were riding ran into the
curbing at Twentieth street and First
avenue. The front axle of the car
collapsed and the car turned turtle.
Cisco was' taken to the hosnital
and his wounds dressed. His com
panions escaped with slight bruises.
Conditions in Packing Plants
Are Good, Says Mrs. Towl
Welfare Report Shows That 1,283 Women AreEm
ployed. In Four Omaha Packing Houses This
Figure Does Not Include Office HelpSome
Recommendations Made.
v The Board of Public. Welfare has
issued printed reports of investiga
tions made by Mrs. E. B. Towl of
the four large packing plants at
South Omaha. This is the first series
of reports on "Women in Industry."
Mrs. Towl is a member of the board.
She reported that 1.283 women
were working in the plants at the
time of her visit, this total not in
cluding the office employes. In one
of the plants she was told that the
wpmen were paid from 304 to 43
cents' per hour and that the piece
workers earned from $16 to $25 per
week. Another plant pays 30J4 to
40 cents per hour and piece workers
are said to receive from $15 to $30
per week, according to their skill.
Mrs. Towl states that at the third
large plant a minimum hourly wage
of 33 centsHk paid, with a weekly
bonus of 10 per cent, and she reports
the same of the fourth plant.
Working Conditions Fair.
She reports that working condi
tions for women in - the packing
plants are generally of a desirable
nature. She recommended that new
and sanitary toilets of a sufficient
number be installed in the smallest
of the four plants she visited.
Among the welfare features she
No Reply Received From
Russia on Relief Proposal
Paris, May 11. Dr. Fnidtjof Nan
sen, heatf of the commission to
feed Russia, has returned to Chris
tiana without receiving a reply from
the messenger sent to Nikolai
Leninev the bolshevik premier at
Moscow, to communicate the en
tente's plan for feeding Russia
through neutrals on condition that
the bolsheviki cease fighting.
The Russian commission in Paris
has sent to the entente powers and
the United States a formal protest
against the plan, saying that it
would be a recognition the right
of the bolsheviki to expend Russian
government funds.
Warehouse Fire Destroys
Army Officers' Keepsakes
Douglas, Ariz., May 11. Many
thousandssof dollars worth of per
sonal belortcings arrd irreplaceable
keepsakes of officers stationed here
and of several who are with the
army in France were destroyed here
last night when the clothing store
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ed matrons, medical attendants, wel
fare "workers, rest ruoms, cafeteria,
sun room, with sewing machine,
manicurists, and other special em
ployes for bettering working condi
tions. "I was surprised," wrote Mrs.
Towl, "to find an artist in her pro
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manicuring (this for sanitary rea
sons) for all the women who handle
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ing house.
Heard Workman Sing.
"In passing," she added, "I heard
a workman singing. I told him that
sounded good. to me and made me
happy, too."
Mrs. Towl noted that good soup
is served in one of the plants at 3
cents per bowl, and that meat, pea
nut butter or cheese sandwiches are
3 cents each. Meat and potatoes are.
served for 5 cents a plate.
Another extract of the "report
reads: "Reached packing
plant about 9 o'clock a. m., and
stayed until 4 o'clock p. m., stopping
just long enough for lunch."
of the army quartermaster depart
ment burned with an estimated lbss
of $100,000. Army property valued
at $500,000 was endangered, f
Among the heavy losers was Brig.
Gen. Howard Hicko commanding
the Arizona district, most of whose
belongings were stored in the build
ing. '
Mexicans Attack Italian.
Washington, May 11. Advices
reaching Washington today said
that "arnilo Cirrutf, a member of
the Italian embassy staff here, was
attacked a few days ago by Mexi
can bandits while making an in
spection of the Tampico oil fields
for his government.
Both the Italian government and
the American ate department have
been notified of the attack and of
ficials are being kept advised of the
situation.
On May 2, on the Panuco railway
line between Tampico and Topilas,
according to the advices, Signor
Cirruti was attacked by six armed
and mounted men. He. was robbed
of his money and two watches,
stripped of his clothing and left to
make his' way back to Tampico.
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AMERIGANADIATORrOMLPANY
Brief City News
IJ(bllii( Futures Burgeas-Oranden Co
Have Kout Flint It Beacon Press.
Burglary Ins. Wheeler & Welpton
Ieaves on Buying Trip. H. C.
Lamond, has gone to New York
City on a buying trip.
Wyoming Postmaster Here Sher
man Cantield, postmaster of Sheri
dan, Wyo, Is visiting old friends In
Omaha.
Buyer is In New York E. E.
Stanneld, furnishing goods buyer
for Browning King & Co., is in
New Yorkrn a buying trip.
Grader) to Begin Work. The four
road graders operated by the county
are scheduled to begin work on the
roads next Monday if the weather
permits. '
Improvement Club to Meet The
New Omaha Improvement club will
meet Tuesday, May IS, at 8 p. m., at
2219 Military avenue. Important
business will be brought before the
club.
Dr. F. W. Lake has returned from
military service and resumed the
practice of medicine, with offices at
619-6L"2 City National Bank building.
Phone: .Douglas 660; residence,
bBlackstone hotel.
Charges Cruelty Lottie Rosier
asked the district court Saturday
for a divorce from Courtney Rosier
and the restoration of her maiden
name, Greenway. She charges him
with nonsupport and cruelty. They
were marled In Council Bluffs in
1912. .:
ITALY CEASES
PRESSING ITS
CLAIM TO FIDME
Demands Fulfillment of the
Treaty of London; May En
ter Into Alliance Wittr
France.
Paris, May 11. Italy, according
to the Echo de Paris, seems in
clined to cease pressing, for the
time, at least, its claim to Fiunie,
and to demand fulfillment of the
treaty of London, upon which its
Dalmatian claims were originally
based.
In several of the newspapers the
view is taken that it is in order for
France and Italy to conclude a for
mal alliance.
The council of four of the peace
conference has not yet taken up the
question of Fiume for settlement,
according to the HaVas agency.
The council of foreign ministers
has nearly finished the work of de
limiting Uie Austro - Hungarian
boundary. Imports of the various
committees on this problem were
adopted in their crirety.
"Never again, Jim! Here's where
CHURCH PENSION
FUND INVESTS IN
LIBERTY BONDS
Episcopal Church Pays Nearly
$1,200,000 Old Age and Dis
ability Claims; Has Large
Surplus'.
New York, May 11. The first an
nual report of the Church Pension
fund of ttie Episcopal church issued
today, shows that the total re
sources of the fund amount to $10,
772,659. This makes the Church
Pension fund one of half dozen
largest pension granting corpora
tions in the world.
In the first two years of the fund's
operation, tthe Episcopal church
paid nearly $1,2000,00 for old age
and disability pensions for its
clergymen and their widows and or
phans. This Is the amount of as
sessments paid into.the fund by par
ishes and mission in the United
States and foreign fields since it
started on March 1, 1917.
The church originally subscribed
$8712.000, to start the Church Pen
sion fund and to insure pension
protection to clergymen already in
office. The fund now embraces
8,000 parishes and missions and
more than 5,000 clergymen.
Oi the total resources of the fund,
$1,600,000 has been invested by the
treasurer, f, Pierpont Morgan, in
second, third and fourth Liberty
bonds. "
The pension grants in force at the
end of the fiscal year covered the
first annual report amount to $275,
465. Monell Sayre, secretary and"
manager of the fund, points out in
his report that the assessments paid :
into the fund during the first two
years were 98.6 of all possible pay
ments. This, he says, is probably un
precedented in pension experience
in a system where there is no legal
compulsion to pay the assessments.
The original subscription of $8,-';
712,000 has been paid in to the ex-
tent of $6,414,209. The balance falls
due up to 1922. With the assess
ments the total resources of the
fund actually on hand amount to
$8,444,181. '
- Three million dollars "have been'
set , aside to. effect mergers with
other church relief fonds in order
to centralize this work and elim
inate further demands npon the
church for relief for clergymen and
their families. .;
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S. N., retired, died here last night
after an extended illness. He was
69 years old.
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