THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919.
IOWA ROTARIAN
LAST VICTIM OF
"EFFICIENCY"
Bluffs Business Man Arrested
for Resisting "Gun Play"
of Omaha Morals
:i Squad.
Blame Wilcox, prominent Iowa
Rotarian and wealthy business man
of Council Bluffs, was a victim of
police "efficiency" Monday night on
the Douglas street bridge.
' The doors of his coupe were
thrown open, after he had paid his
toll, by two men who ordered him
to halt.
"Get out!" they commanded.
Wilcox did not move soon enough
to suit the policemen, Harry Ask
with and Jack Sheldon, morals squad
officers doing guard duty on the
bridge.
Two guns ytrt thrust simultan
eously in Wilcox's face. He was
jerked from his seat. The car was
searched. No liquor was found.
"Get in and go!" Wilcox said one
of the policeman commanded.
"I resented the tone and the need
less display of authority," Mr. Wil
cox said yesterday.
"I determined to be leisurely
about moving. The command was
again1 given. When I did not obey,
the two policemen dragged me to
the toll house and called the police
patrol. I was booked for resisting
an officer."
Yesterday the two policemen
testified against Wilcox and he was
fined $7.50 for resisting an officer.
The gun play was made on Wilcox
Monday night as he was coming
from the Rotarian outing at the
Shugart farm near Council Bluffs.
He was a member of the committee
which arranged for the entertain
ment of Omaha Rotariaus Monday,
and was bringing two negro cooks
to Omaha in his automobile.
owen't Valua-Civlng- Store
Lawn and
Porch
Furniture
As there are many weeks
I of hot days still ahead,
why not equip your porch
I- with several pieces of
Porch Furniture, and on
the lawn place a bench
or two and a lawn swing.
Omaha, as Center of Trans-Continental Air
Line, May Get Big Plane Factory and Shops
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Our large stock enables
you to find what you
want when you want it,
at the price you want to
BencKei Light and well
constructed SI. 25
Lawn Chairs and Rockers
$3.50. 83.75. 84.50.
$0.00 and 88.00
Perch Swinfs 4-foot, fin
ished in fumed oak, $2.45
Perch Swings 5-foot, differ
ent finishes $5.95
6-foot,- differ-
$7.50
Perch Swings
: ent finishes.
Maple Porch Benches
Natural finish. . .$14.50
1 You can buy those things 1
- needed for the porch and lawn
at Bowen's at a saving. See
; display on fourth floor.
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On Hovird Between 18th and 16th
OMAHA'S
NEW STORE
' Your neighbors ere buying
Groceries, Fresh Meets, Hard
were, Peint and Wall Paper at
Harper's.
Special for Wednesday end
Thursday in the
Grocery Department
35c Per Pol
t Only one doaen eggs to a
customer.
Friday will he Flour Day.
It will pey you to get our
prices on flour Friday.
. II. Harper
COMPANY
.'. ' 17th and Howard Sts.,
East End of Flatiron Bldg.
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Edgar W. Croft, The Bee representative on the first commercial transcontinental airplane flight, to
be undertaken in a few days, shown in the rear of huge airplane which is now being completed. It will
carry 26 persons in its luxurious cabin. Its wing spread is 95 feet, its weight seven tons and two 400
horsepower Liberty motors are expected to drive it along at 100 miles an hour. Lawson plans a fleet of
100 of these planes.
Bee Representative to Be on First New York-Omaha-San Francisco Trip of Alfred
W. Lawson Air Line Planes Will Leave New York in Evening and Passengers,
Upon Arrival in the Morning, Will Change Here for Day Plane to Pacific Coast.
By EDGAR W. CROFT.
(B Representative on Transcontinental
Illsht.)
Chicago, 111., Aug. 5. (Special.)
The establishment of a New
York-Omaha-San Francisco and re
tour commercial air line becomes
more and more visible. Within but
a few days the first transcontinental
commercial airliner, a plane ot the
Lawson type, will leave New York
for Omaha and after a brief stop if
that city will continue to fly to the
Pacific coast. The Lawson Air line
contends that within but a few
months the transcontincltal air line
will be fully established with Omaha
as the center point. Airplane pas
sengers would leave New York in
the evening and change in Omaha
in the morning for the dayplane to
San Francisco. Later airplane
routes will cover the United States
from one end to the other and will
form an air net, similar to the rail
road net, now covering the coun
try. In an interview with Alfred
W. Lawson, builder of the big
Lawson airplane which is to fly
from New York to Omaha in a few
days, the veteran aviator told me
at the Blackstone hotel, Chicago,
that he expects to put three or four
shops on his air route between New
York and San Francisco, and one
of these shops he expects to estab
lish at Omaha. It was necessary,
he said, to establish points where
he can get his parts for the big
ship, and the shop which he expects
to establish at Omaha, if the landing
field is a good one and other con
ditions are favorable, will eventually
develop into a regular plant where
he can assemble the machines com
plete. Discussing the possibility of erect
ing an aeroplane factory at Omaha,
Mr. Lawson said:
"If I find Omaha a suitable place
for an aeroplane factory, I may es
tablish it there. I will have to put
a big repair plant in at least three
cities across the continent in which
we will have to employ at least
1,000 or more men for repair work
and making parts, with a probabil
ity of even making the complete
machines. I realize the necessity
of having a plant with expert work
men within reach of the center of
the airline, and as Omaha is cen
trally located, it is more than likely
that Omaha will not only be chosen
as a central station from which
branch lines for different parts of
the compass will connect with, the
main trunk line running east and
west, but it will also be utilized to
handle all of the construction work
pertaining to the big ships within a
radius of 1,000 miles or more.
"Omaha is really mpre centrally
located than Chicago as an air-craft
center, because on my express serv
ice between New York and San
Francisco, the night ships may not
make a stop between Omaha and
New York, or New York and
Omaha.
"For instance," Mr. Lawson said,
"a 'through ship' leaving New York
at 8 p. m. and making ISO miles an
hour (which I expect my ships will
do within the next year or two), at
8 a. m. the passengers would be able
to land in Omaha and transfer into
a day ship. From that angle, there
would be no necessity for the
through passenger sleepers to lose
any time in stopping in Chicago."
Mr. Lawson pointed out that the
people of Omaha would be able to
get in touch with the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts in but a few hours.
He declared that his ships would put
the business man of Omaha in a bet
ter way to do business than any
other city in the Uinted States.
"When the Lawson air line is op
erating its air lines in all directions,"
the airplane builder said, "you can
get from Omaha to New York in 12
or 14 hours, or you can get from
Omaha to San Francisco in 16 to
18 hours; Omaha to New Orleans
in 10 to 12 hours; Omaha to Seattle
in 18 hours; Omaha to Florida in
18 hours, or Omaha to Quebec in
18 hours."
GROCERY STORES
TO BE OPENED BY
CITY THIS WEEK
Council Appropriates $10,000
to Open Municipal Food
Markets.'
The city council yesterday passed
a resolution recommended yesterday
providing for opening at least three
"municipal grocery stores," and set
ting aside $10,000 for the purpose.
Commissioner Zimman was ordered
to proceed with the work in the ab
sence of Commissioner Ure who is
spending a three weeks' vacation in
Minnesota.
Mr. Zimman said he would lose
no time in opening up the stores.
"I have in mind already to get
Lew Pixley to do the buying," he
said. "He is experienced in this
work and I think will be able to
pick up goods in the wholesale
houses at the best prices.
"I am not going to stop with the
potatoes, corn meal, canned hominy
and bacon which the mayor men
tioned in his resolution, but will
try to sell dried beans, peas, fruits,
flour, sugar, butter and eggs. We
can fix up temporary refrigerators
out of boxes and put tubs of but
ter in them. I used to work in
a grocery store and I think I re
member enough about the business
to go at it again.
"I voted against the resolution
because I do not believe it is a so
lution of the high cost of living.
But I shall do all in my power to
give the plan a thorough try-out."
Mr. Zimman says he expects to
have the groceries on sale at the
municipal market in the basement
of the city auditorium before the
end of this week and to open up
the store in the South Side city
hall about the same time if he can
secure the goods and equipment.
COUNCIL VOTES
TO RETURN CHECKS
ON NEW JAIL BIDS
Eight Omaha Contractors Are
Angry With Commissioner
Ringer.
Police Commissioner Ringer's at
tempt to build a new city jail is a
"bungle" so far as the eight con
tractors who bid on the specifica
tions last week are concerned. City
council yesterday voted to return
the certified checks to all bidders
who ask for them.
Mr. Ringer asked for the bids
when there was no money in the
city treasury with which to build the
jail. He said he believed the coun
cil could issue $100,000 worth of
bonds for this purpose without a
vote of the people. He didn't get
any legal opinion on his surmise un
til after the bids were submitted.
Then he discovered from the city
attorney that he could not get the
money without a vote of the people.
Now the contractors are angry
because they did their work for
nothing. The contractors say it
cost them approximately $200 cash
to submit bids.
The council will attempt to have
the question of issuing $100,000
bonds for a new jail submitted at
the time delegates to the constitu
tional convention are elected, Sep
tember 16. There is a possibility
that this election of delegates will
be thrown out by the courts before
that time.
In that event the council might
cfi.ll for a special election on the
bond proposition. The cost of the
election would be about $10,000.
The consumption of tobacco In
Japan has been increasing greatly
each year, rne total value or tne
product manufactured and disposed
of in that country for the fiscal year
ending March, 1919, was 165,294,-793.
No Strike Today, Say
Union Street Carmen
Six Player Rolls for $1.00
AT OAKFORD'S
We have made np a limited number of packages, each
containing six 88-note player music, which we will sell
while they last
$1.00 PER PACKAGE
Here is yonr opportunity to secure $3.00 to $8.00
worth of Player rolls for $1.00.
JJpQjyj 1807 Farnam Strcet
(Continued From Pats One.)
the State Railway commission the
men are to be granted a 10-cent in
crease in the hourly rate. Another
meeting for the same purpose is
scheduled today. A state railway
commissioner will be in this city to
confer with the men, the company
officials and the city commissioners.
Prior to the conference between
the city commissioners and the rep
resentatives of the men, Mayor
Smith discussed the situation with
President Frank T. familton and
Manager Leussler of the company.
A copy of the answer given by the
company to its employes was handed
the mayor.
Following two hours of discussion
it was announced yesterday that the
company had refused to grant the
major portion of the demands sub
mitted to it by the men more than
two weeks ago.
"Closed Shop" Refused.
Demands of the men were taken
up separately and the reason for
their refusal explained in a written
statement.
"This company will not accede to
the 'closed shop demand," the com
pany's statement reads. This de
mand is inimical to the company's
and city's best interests, according
to the statement.
Recognition of the union is also
refused, the company reiterating its
determination to continue dealing
with its employes as heretofore. The
company is ready to adjust any dif
ferences with its employes either in
dividually or through a committee
composed of employes chosen by the
men, the report says.
Unwilling to breath faith with the
employes who obtained their posi
tions during the strike of 1909, the
company also refused to accede to
the demands of the men that the
seniority rights be restored as they
existed prior to the strike of 1909.
Conditions Already Fixed.
Numerous demands for improved
working conditions are refused on
the grounds that the National War
Labor board recently fixed those
conditions and that a remedy for
these conditions can always it
found through the regular and es
tablished channels now in existence.
It is pointed out by the company
in the matter of wages that many of
the principal traction companies pay
less than the wage which the men
now ask of the company. Revenues
of the company will not permit a
higher scale at the present time, the
statement says.
International Trades
Union Congress Adjourns
Amsterdam, Aug. S. At the last
sitting of the International Trades'
Union congress here Monday Brit
ish and American delegates sought
I to amend the last paragraph of the
resolution dealing with the confer
ence to be held in Washington, D.
C, in October, providing that the
resolution should be binding on all
nations represented at the present
congress. The British and Ameri
cans, however, failed in their effort
to remove the objectionable para
graph and the resolution was adopt
ed, 29 to 11. The British delegates
left before the vote was taken-
ORDERS GIVEN
TO PROSECUTE
FOOD HOARDERS
Attorney General Makes Move
in Fight on High Prices
Wheat to Remain at
$2.26 a Bushel.
(Continued From Face One.)
general said, have been ordered to
institute special investigations to
find evidence of hoarding and prof
iteering as prohibited under the
Lever food control act, and prosecu
tions will be instituted without delay.
Attorney General Palmer de
clined to disclose what remedial
laws he would suggest to the presi
dent, or go into detail as how the
department would proceed under
the existing laws beyond saying
that operating under the Lever act
did not mean the functions of the
food administration would be as
sumed by the department of jus
tice. Doubt was expressed by some
legal authorities as to whether a
penalty is provided for profiteering
by the food control act, although
penalties are provided raneine from
$5,000 to $10,000 or from two to four
years or both for hoarding and
other violations. Attorney General
Palmer said it was his belief and
hope that immediate results toward
reducing the cost of living could be
obtained through prosecutions un
der existing laws.
No Statement from Wilson.
Secretary Tumulty said after Di
rector Barnes had left the president,
that no statement would be forth
coming from the White House to
night beyond the mere announce
ment that the president "will ad
dress a message to congress as soon
as he has time to write it."
Director Barnes in makine oublic
his statement regarding the world
wheat situation said that the wheat
crop in the United States is not
short and that 1.000,000,000 bushels
was assured. There was no war
rant, he said, however, for state
ments that the price had been in
flated. He announced definitely
that as far as he could see there
was no hope for a reduction in the
near future, and that he would not
sell wheat at a price below the guar
antee.
Figures were given by Mr. Barnes
on the world price as follows:
Average farm price to American
farmer under guarantee, $2.05 a
bushel.
Average farm price in the United
Kingdom durine the last calendar
year, $2.28.
Average farm price for four bisr
producing countries, United States,
Canada, Argentina and Australia,
producing 1,500,000,000 bushels.
$1.94.
Average grower price (large sruar-
anteed) of Europe's fifteen consum
ing countries, producing 800,000,000
bushels, $3.75. I
Average Record of $2.46.
Average of all wheat growers.
weighted according to the size of
their contribution to the total crop
of the world, works out an average
world grower prce of $2.46.
Argentina wheat, with longer voy
age and higher freight rates, the
Barnes statement said, cots deliv
ered in Europe fully 50 cents more
than American wheat delivered in
Europe.
There is no support for the the
ory of intimate relation and influ
ence between wheat price and other
foods," the statement said. Figures
were presented to bear out Mr.
Barnes' contention.
"Britain, France and Italy," the
statement continued, "all have arti
ficially reduced flour and bread
prices, buying their raw material at
the world's price and absorbing the
loss by national taxes. Any, sale of
wheat or flour by us at reduced
prices to them would only save their
national treasuries, while depleting
RAILROAD MEN
CONTINUING TO
LEAVE SHOPS
Strike Spreads in Violation
of Union Officers'
Injunction.
Chicago, Aug. 5. Further spread
of the strike of railway shopmen,
especially in the middle west, where
about 15,000 workers went out to
day, according to union reports,
with a strike of 10,000 men on the
Norfolk & Western line set for to
morrow, marked the fifth day of the
walkout. The strike has been de
clared illegal by railroad union ex
ecutives, who have made that
charge to the local bureau of the
Department of Justice.
The barrier was let down today
for boilermakers to join the other
strikers, according to L. M. Hawver,
president of the Chicago district
council of the Federated Railway
Shopmen's union, which called the
strike last Friday. He announced
a telegram from E. C. Chase, the
boilermukers' representative on the
national agreement committee now
negotiating with the railroad admin
istration in Washington, that con
ditions "do not warrant holding men
any longer."
While railroad yards in the Chi
cago district have become congested
with broken down cars, as a result
of the strike, the union officials de
clare all railroad service will be more
seriously affected in a few days.
They admit the strike was called in
defiance of the grand lodge officers
of the unions involved, but that it
was in compliance with the wishes
of the rank and file of the federation.
They also refuse to take a strike
vote August 24, as ordered by the
grand lodge officers and assert that
the rail administration must treat
with them and grant their demands
for 85 cents an hour for mechanics
and 60 cents for helpers.
ours, without any possible reflection
in the bread price to their people
which is already fixed."
Mr. Barnes also gave figures to
show the relation of the price of
wheat to the price of bread and con
tended that bread now was the
cheapest item in the diet. If all
other foods were at the same rate as
bread the annual cost of food for
each person would be about $50, or
a total national food bill of $5,000,
000,000 instead of $18,000,000,000.
Metal Trades Craft Will
Ask Reduced Living Cost
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 5. The
metal trades department of the
American Federation of Labor will
make demands on congress and the
president this month that measures
be taken to reduce the high cost of
living, James O'Connell, chairman of
this department, said. Membership
o fthe metal crafts exceeds 500,000,
O'Connell said.
Reduction of living costs, O'Con
nell said, is the only means of avoid
ing further strike disturbances
throughout the nation.
Railroad Problem Up
Today at Washington
(Continued From Pace One.)
burden of financing the railroads at
the present time when the war debt
is so large, its interest rate would
necessarily be as high, as, if not
higher than, the rate at which cor
porations could secure capital.
Governmenf Inefficient.
"3 Government operation is sel
dom, if ever, as efficient as corpor
ate management. Competition, the
incentive to efficiency and progress
in private enterprises, is absent
from the government administra
tion of affairs. Individual initiative
is less, bureaucratic methods are
more characteristic, and the services
rendered are less progressively ef
ficient. "4 While the government would
presumably select officers and em
ployes by means of only tests, po
litical influence would almost cer
tainly be given weight in selecting
men for official positions.
"5 Unless the government adopt
ed the policy of fixing low rates
and fares with the intention that
any resulting deficit from opera
tions should be olaced as an in
creased burden of taxes upon the
general public, rates and fares
would be higher under government
than under private operation. Un
der government operation, expenses
rise in relation to income and the
charges imposed by the government,
if a deficit is to be avoided, must
be higher than those which it
would be necessary to permit rail
road corporations to make.
"6 The political effect of govern
ment ownership and operation of
railroads in the United States might
be serious. There are now about
500,000 civil employes of the gov
ernment. The addition to the pub
lic services of 2,000,000 railroad em
ployes, the majority of whom are
voters, would constitute a force of
about 2,500,000 government em
ployes interested in controlling the
policy of the government as regards
wages, hours and conditions of serv
ice. Such a body of employes
might easily exercise a controlling
influence upon state and national
politics."
HOTELS WIN IN
GARBAGE SUIT
BROUGHT BY CITY
Judge Upholds Constitutional
ity of Law Passed by Las
Legislature On Refuse
Disposal.
Omaha hotels and restaurants
may haul away their own garbage
and dispose of it as they see fit, Dis
trict Judge Troup decided yesterday
when he upheld the constitution
ality of a law passed by the last
legislature providing that concerns
in which garbage originates as a
by-product may dispose of the gar
bage as they like.
The suit was brought by the city
of Omaha against the owners of the
Fontenelle, Conant. Paxton, Rome
Loyal, Blackstone, Castle and Hen
shaw hotels, the Calumet restaurant,
Courtney's restaurant, Louie Ahko's
restaurant and two or three other
defendants. The city sought an in
junction to keep these defendants
from disposing of their garbage and
to compel them to turn it over to
the city, which sells it to Henry
Pollock, who feeds it to a large herd
of hogs which he owns.
Some of the hotel and restaurant
men wanted to feed the garbage to
hogs of their own, claiming that this
was a large source of profit.
Mr. Pollock has a contract to haul
the garbage next year for $45,000.
City Attorney Weaver was unable
to say what effect the decision will
have on this contract. It is esti
mated that 60 per cent of the city's
garbage comes from the large ho
tels and restaurants.
When Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Leggett
of Palmyra, Kan., celebrated their
fifty-fifth wedding; anniversary re
cently, all their children, grandchil
dren and great-grandchildren were
present. In the whole family there
had not been a death In all the 55
years.
POSLAM'S BALM
ENDS ITCHING
SOOTHES SKIN
For eczema you must have an effi
cient, competent remedy to see true re
sults. Poslam is so good for skin troubles
that you can make no mistake in trying
it first and for all. Apply right on the
places that burn, itch and harrass: they
will be pacified, soothed, cooled. Poslam
offers quality to each ounce that cannot
be equalled by pounds of inefficiency.
For every form of eruption on the skin,
pimples, scalp-scale, blemishes, burns,
itching feet.
Sold everywhere. For free sample write
to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th
St., New York City.
Poslam Soap, medicated with Poslam,
brightens, beautifies complexions. Adv.
E. B. WILLIAMS SAYS:
"The married men of America don't have to
do the washing but if they did they would be
rs tired of the laundry slavery as the American
married women are."
Men in business buy typewriters, adding ma
chines, dictating machines and use every other
mechanical means to speed up their work.
There are many married men who have never
given the question of laundering any thought.
Uncomplaining, their wives have scrubbed and
rubbed and ironed for them as a matter of fact,
with the result that many have not realized the
mean, hard work of washing by hand. Such
men are urged to arrange for a free demonstra
tion of the LAUNDRY QUEEN ELECTRIC
WASHER in their homes. The machine will con
vince any housekeeper that she needs one we
can convince any man that he will save money
by owning a LAUNDRY QUEEN.
Sold exclusively by
Pay for this machine by the week.
312 South 18th Street.
You will be paid by year of happiness.
Phone Tyler 1011.
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TAe Te sliion. Qenler &r 14o2zteii
Summer dresses, capes, suits and sep
arate skirts of all prices and descrip
tions are being shown now at greatly
reduced prices. This is a most advan
tageous time to shop.
The August Sale of Linens Offers
Huck and Linen Towels
65c hemstitched guest towels 50c.
85c hemstitched guest towels 65c.
$1.50 figured huck towels, large, $1.25.
$2.50 figured huck towels, large, $2.
Fine Irish Linen Table Clothes
$12 cloths, 2x2 yards, for $9.89.
$13.75 cloths, 2x2i2 yards, for $11.
Main Floor
si J
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n
from the
Mens Shop
Fibre Hose 45c Pr.
First quality Eiffel
hose in seven colors.
Sizes 912 to Hi2.
75c Hdkf's 59c
Linen handkerchiefs
with any width hem
or cord or tape bor
ders. Great values are of
fered in this August ,
shirt sale we're hold
ing. Look them over.
To the Left as You Enter
All ladies' and chil
dren's parasols from
$2 up go for half price
in this August sale.
To the Left You Enter.
Netting's Corsets
El a s t i c top, flesh
colored N e 1 1 i n g's
corsets the ideal
sort for these hot
days.
for $1.50 a Pair
Corset Dept. Third Floor.
Children's Hose
Infants' pure thread
silk hose, fine ribbed
in white, pink or sky
blue, $1.25 a pair.
Misses' pure Jap silk
hose, fine ribbed, in
white or black.
$2.50 a pair.
DressGinghams
Amoskeag and, "A.
F. C-" gingharjis in
lovely plaids, checks,
stripes and( plain
shades fast colors,
27 i n c h e s wji d e .
Wednesday 35c a
yard.
In the Basement.
Silk Gloves
for 29c
2-clasp Milanese gloves,
brown, black and white
in small sizes. Former
ly $1 and $125.