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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1919. SAN FRANCISCO GIVES JOHNSON GREAT WELCOME Senator Makes Two Speeches Against League of Nations in Answering Wil ' son. San Francisco, Oct 1. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, in two ad dresses here, took arguments in be half of the league of nations pre sented to two San Francisco audi ences by President Wilson a fort night ago and sought to disprove the points in the presidential argu ments. He spoke at a luncheon and a mass meeting of citizens here to night. President Wilson, in behalf of the peace treaty and league of nations covenant, and Senator Johnson, against some parts of the treaty and the league as planned in the cove rant, appeared before San Francisco audiences exactly two weeks apart. Senator Johnson appeared before audiences of his own townspeople and was given fervent welcome. He was often interrupted in his ad dresses by applause, particularly as he attacked the six votes given England and five of Great Britain's Colonies or dominions, against one vote for the United States; when he declared that the league of nations will not bring disarmament, but al ready has led to the administration seeking to pass an army program calling for a standing army in this country of 579,000 men, costing sub stantially a billion dollars a year, with conscription in peace time of youths of 19 years, and when he de clared that the fight himself and other senators were waging was to prevent "British or Asiatic" control of America's policies. Speaks to Business Men. In his first address at a luncheon to more than 1,600 San Francisco business men the California senator made reference to the administration military program. "I will tell you a secret about this," he said, "and that is they will not get any such army at all." He declared the award to Japan of Shatitung with the United States a party to the deal was the first time America had ever broken its plighted word or promise. The promise, he said, was given China when the United States and other powers sought China as an ally that the . United States would protect its in terests at the peace conference. He . declared President Wilson had ad mitted the "wrong" done China and that Secretary Lansing had said if the people of the United States un derstood the peace treaty they would not have it. He declared ratifica tion of the treaty by the United States would make this country a party to the wrongs he charged. "Because you won't commit a bur glary is no reason why you should enter into partnership with ;i bur glar," he said. . Attacks Utah SpCech. The senator attacked the presi dent's address made in Salt Lake City, in which the president said that amendment offered in the senate to Article X of the covenant was a knife at the heart of the document. "This amendment seeks to keep the economic and military power of America from being given into the hands of Europe and Asia." w-"He declared article X took pow ers of control from congress and tre American people and gave it to the league of nations without re course. Twice during his luncheon ad- dress Senator Johnson referred to . friends who sent telegrams to him which were made public, upholding the league covenant. In his first ; reference he said: "I do not care to refer to any of the telegrams sent to me, but how little do these men understand me when they think that I would turn . back from' my course because any man or auy set of men demanded it of me." Auditors Rise to Feet. This reference brought his audi ence to its feet. He had prefaced , it by saying his entire fight was ; being made to get for the United States its just deserts. ' . Near the end of his address he said. "1 am sorry, more sorry than I can tell you, that some friends of mine, who I hope will still be my friends have seen fit to become part of a propaganda in partisan v press -throughout the east and in the U. S. senate. "This fight some of us are making '. in the senate is bigger than any party. It is an issue of Ameri v ans." . New Hungarian Cabinet Formed; Opposes Covenant Vienna, Oct. 1. (By The Asso ciated Press.) Bucharest dispatches announce that General Voltoanu, , former minister of public works, has , completed a new cabinet, of which every member but one has an - . nounced his adherence to the policy of former Premier J. J. C. Bratiano in refusing to sign the treaty of peace in its present fcm. I he meeting of the constituent assembly hat been postponed a fortnight. Mob Spirit Here Outgrowth of Failure of "Reformers" to Reform, Declares K. C. Star Newspaper Tells of "Political Mire" in Omaha and Blames "Municipal Politics, Too Long Neglected By the Majority of the Otherwise Progressive Element" Says "Morals Squad" Aroused Public. Going into detail and explaining the events leading up to the Omaha riots, the Kansas City Star of Mon day relates how the Nebraska me tropolis is "in political mire" and draws1 attention to the fact that the city has a "reform administration that failed to reform." The Star in its story declares the mob spirit of Sunday was the out growth of bitter feeling engendered by failure of the police and city au thorities to cope intelligently with vice and corruption. It was written by a staff corre spondent, who was sent to Oma ha Sunday when reports of threat ened trouble were first received in Kansas City. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 29. Muni cipal politics, too long neglected by the majority of the otherwise progressive element, begat po lice corruption, the infection spreading to court circles and be yond. This, in brief, is admittedly the background of the dark picture of Omaha today. "Jim" Dahlman served nine years as mayor, six years of his term being under commission government. "Jack" Rider was Dahlman's first super intendent of police under the commission form, and the late J. J. Donohue was chief. Donohue died while in office. He was suc ceeded by Henry' Dunn, who re signed three months before the 1918 spring election. M.s F. Demp sey, a veteran patrolman, who had a record of never having been "on the carpet," was named to succeed Dunn. Dempsey had worked his way to the top from patrolman to captain, and later to the position of command. "Reformers Didn't Reform.' In the election in the spring of 1918, J. Dean Ringer, a lawyer and avowed reformer, who had gained considerable local fame as a spe cial prosecutor in the South Oma ha vice crusade, was elected as one of the seven commissioners on the reform ticket. This ticket was strongly supported by The Omaha Daily Bee, the same paper that, in the last six months, has lambasted the present adminis tration which it helped elect by persistently and , continuously pointing out incompetency and specific cases of failure to enforce laws and making other charges. The mayor, Ed. P. Smith, also a lawyer, and his commissioner of public safety, J. Dean Ringer, have been especial targets for The Bee's shafts of criticism. Ringer undertook to reorganize the police force, his first move be ing to displace the chief of police and appoint Marshal Eberstein, then the head of the local bureau of the United States secret serv ice. A police captain, Henry T. Haze, who had resigned under fire before the election, was reinstated by the reform administration. Named a Vice Committee. A committee of citizens, SO in number, was named to cope with the vice situation. Later this com mittee was expanded to 500 mem bers. Elmer T. Thomas, attorney for the Anti-Saloon league, was prominent in this committee. Then the legislature enacted a law em powering the governor to estab lish a state constabulary for the enforcement of the prohibitory laws, and the Omaha committee's work was at an end. The methods of the present police force in dealing with vice and crime intensified the feeling that found expression Sunday night by lynching and burning a negro charged with a crime, mak ing an attempt upon the life of the mayor and burning the court house. "Morals Squad" Aroused Public. Ostentatious pretense at law enforcement on the part of the police department "morals squad" called down upon the department heads the wrath of citizens and made enemies of former friends. Apartments, small hotels and even private residences were invaded by this so-called morals squad," the places searched, and respect- . able men and women dragged off to the police station, in many in stances in their night garments. And in none of the cases of this kind, which so aroused public in dignation, did the arresting offi cers obtain a conviction. Damage suits followed, some of which were settled out of court by city officers. - About six weeks' ago a small hotel was raided, ostensibly under the prohibitory act. Two patrol men not in uniform, accompanied by a special officer who works for the Union Pacific railroad, enter ed the place and encountered in the hallway a young negro boy employed as a combination watch man and bellman. The negro, be- A Saver to podcej: book and.health, and ;4eIightio the palate uo, m your neighbor is doing and cut. the higK ,cos of living by drinks ing INSIMTPOSTUM Insieadf-Cbffee. coming frightened, ran. He was shot dead. When the facts concerning the killing of the negro became known, there was a general out cry, the people, both white and black, loudly demanding that the officers be arrested and prose cuted for murder. The county at torney acted. He filed informa tion charging manslaughter. The men gave bond, and when popu lar clamor demanded that they be removed from the force the city commissioners voted to retain them. The vote was four to three Mayor Smith casting the deciding ballot. Women's Assailants Unpunished. This marked the breaking up of the so-called "morals squad," which has been conspicuously in active since, although the two members charged with man slaughter still are on duty, at least on the payroll. The records show that 24 cases of attacks upon white women by negroes in the last three months have resulted in few arrests and no sentences in keeping with the gravity of the crimes. One negro was arrested charged with at tempted assault. He was tried before a South Side police judge, convicted and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He appealed under a $500 bond, and while the case was pending was arrested for commit ting another and similar crime, and what is said to have been ir refutable evidence of his guilt brought a sentence before the same judge of 60 days in jail. Lenient With Slayers. The Nebraska statutes, in de fining murder, make it first de gree if committed in pursuit of another felony. About three weeks ago three young negroes came out of a picture show, walked down the street, and, according to their confessions at trial, went after "some easy money." They agreed they would hold up the first per son they met. Meeting no one, they passed the grocery store, en tered, pointed a pistol at the pro prietor and demanded that , he stand and deliver. The man grap pled with the negro who held the weapon and was shot in the stom ach. They rolled onto the side walk, where the negro, wrench ing himself free, deliberately shot his victim twice, killing him. The trio confessed and the prosecutor allowed a plea of guilty to' murder in the second degre. They were sentenced to 10 years. The storm of public indignation over this procedure had not sub sided when other assaults upon white women by negroes were committed, some of them ' in broad daylight In a more recent one the negro who was lynched Sunday night was arrested and identified by his victim. It looked as if it would be another case of. either turning the culprit scot free or letting him off with a light sentence. Men who in the past had been known to stand for law and order joined in the mutter ings, which soon grew to a gen eral hue and cry, crystallizing in mob spirit rampant. Wrecked Court House Testimonial. The formerly beautiful and or nate court house, the scene of Sunday night's riot, windows broken and exterior smoke mark ed, stands as a grim silent tes timonial of the procrastination of Omaha's better element, which too long left municipal politics to the politicians, then, seeing the reefs ahead, elected a reform ticket which failed to bring about re form. The two patrolmen charged with manslaughter have filed libel suits against The Omaha Daily Bee and that newspaper is being villified by friends of the admin istration patently in the vast minority for turning against the set of men it helped to office. The other two newspapers, edi torially, deplore the recent hap penings that besmirched Omaha's name in tones of apology. Ad ministration partisans point out that the officers on guard in the courthouse could not be expected to have stopped the mob with bullets since there were many boys and other innocent persons in the crowd, drawn there by ex citement and curiosity. Public Anger Not Cooled. And tonight Omaha sits tight upon her own little volcano, ex pecting every minute to hear that rioting and killing again have broken out in defiance of the mili tary and civil authorities, which have joined hands to preserve a semblance of order. All know and know well that public anger has not been cooled by recent happenings, and that any order restored under present conditions may be but temporary. Interesting to a degree is the viewpoint of administration par- It tisans, tersely expressed through an interview with a man prom inent.in the local business world, who said: "Several ingredients combined to form what was the mob mind unified for violence and destruc tion. There was consciousness of the strained relations between the whites and the blacks. Race prejudice was accentuated locally by the admitted attacks upon white women, for none of which the culprit has been punished or certainly caught. These events created bitter feeling against ne groes in the several parts of the city. .. "Then with a considerable element there is the dangerously prevalent contempt for authority all over the world, including the United States, the feeling that established institutions of what ever sort are inadequate or cor ; rupt or open to the temptation io show favoritism. In the minds of a few of the mob was hostility to the police administration, j "The conditions in the city wrfre shrewdlv taken advantage of by PLANS CHANGED FOR RECEPTION OF KINGALBERT Early Arrival of Belgian Roy alty Will Prevent Attend ance at Foot Ball Games. Announcement that the king and queen of the Belgians 'will arrive in Omaha on October 20 instead of October 24, as was at first an nounced by the State department, will change many plans which have been made for their reception here. Foot ball enthusiasts are keenly disappointed, for the king and queen will now be unable to see the Creightqn-Marquette, Nebraska Missouri foot ball games, which were to have been played as a double-header for the Belgian rulers. City officials and members of civic organizations who met recent ly at the Chamber of Commerce to plan the reception for the royal party put much of the responsibil ity in the hands of Mayor Smith, who is now confined in a hospital as a result of the riot. Ure to Take Charge. The mayor's confinement throws the responsibility on Acting Mayor Ure, according to Assistant Com missioner Ellis of the Chamber of Commerce. Instructions from the State de partment will help in the reception. Among the information which they contain is the following: In the motor car ride from the Union station, and all subsequent rides, the king will ride on the right hand seat of the first motor, beside the highest ranking official, pre sumably the governor. If the gov ernor's wife is present she will ride with the queen in the 'second car. Lots of Red Tape. The mayor or acting mayor rides with the prince, and the may or's wife with the ladies in waiting to the queen; the chairman of the entertainment committee with the Belgian ambassador. The wife of the chairman of the committee comes next with the Baroness de Cartier, wife of the Belgian ambassador. Should any member of the welcom ing party fail to be present the others will move up a notch. j At dinner, luncheon or breakfast! the governor will sit at the head of the table, with King Albert at the right and Queen Elizabeth at his left. The mayor will sit at the king's right, to the left of the queen will sit the wife of the governor, and to the right of the prince will sit HMHEiS 'JZom FILMLAND "PHOTO PIAY OFFERING FOR.' TODAY IF you were an ambitious young woman and a duke were to fall in love with you, would you jeopardize your chances of marry ing him by disclosing to him a secret which might transform his love for you into hatred? Here was the situation in a nut shell as it develops in "The Career of Katherine Bush," in which Kath erine Stewart is being shown at the Rialto. Katherine Bush began life as a typist in a money lender's of fice where she met Lord Algy, a young nobleman, who paid her marked attentions. She associates with him in order to learn the ways of men, and when he seeks to marry her, she turns him down, because she hadn't as yet carved out her career. She hears the duke of Mordryn speak in parliament and inetantl; tails in love with him. She contrives to meet the duke, and he believes her to be a society woman instead of the companion to the duke's hostess, which she actually was. She disillusions him, but he loves her all the more. Then she tells him of her escapades with Lord Algy, risking her happiness by doing so. The duke takes her into his arms with a smile of for giveness, and both are happy. Boyd's Mary Pickford in "The Hoodlum," by long odds the best the wife oJ the mayor. Other mem bers of the party will be distributed about the table according to in structions. Will Land Today. Washington, Oct 1. After visit ing 19 cities on a tour that will car ry them to the Pacific coast, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Bel gium will arrive in Washington October 24 to be the guests of Presi dent and Mrs.'Wilson at the White House. - The royal party, which is to arrive at New York tomorrow will visit Washington Sunday, the State de partment announced. It will go from there to Niagara Falls, arriving Monday. The party then will pro ceed to Buffalo the same day and will visit the following cities in the order and on the dates named: Spokane, October 10; Portland, 12; San Francisco, 14; El Portal (Yosemite Valley), 15; Los Angeles, 16; Grand Canyon, 17; Albuquerque, N. M.. 18; Kansas City. 19: Omaha. 20; St. Louis, 21. the advocates and apostles of disorders who are alert every where. It might appear, could the truth be known; that the main dynamic force of the mob was of bolshevist and radical so cialist origin. The lynching, the arson, the pillage of stores, the mob activity was by no means the outcome of a merely local con dition. It was rather the symp toms of a general condition, as sisted in developing itself by the circumstances of the local sit uation." While criticism was heard to day that there was lack of lead ership in the organization of the forces combatting the mob, re ports indicated that the police did not "quit cold" as reported last night. 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The story revolves about a girl who, in due time, meets the hero of her heart and the inevitable happens. She gives her coat and hat to the man who opens the door and tells him to notify her friend that she has ar rived for dinner, and then learns that she is in the house of a western min ing man whose vast interests have been stolen from him through the trickery of her own father. She further discovers that her host has discharged all his servants and is spending his last night under his own roof. But the effect of the even ing does not wear off and when they meet again the next day they are in stinctively prepared to overcome all the unnatural barriers of wealth and position. Empress "The Darling of Paris," taken from Victor Hugo's tragic romance, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," featuring Theda Bara, will be the photoplay attraction at the Empress theater for the last three days of the week. The scenes are all located in Paris, and there is not a scene in it that is not filled with great dramatic action. Strand "The Valley of the Giants," with Wallace Reid, is draw ing big crowds to this theater. The star is a popular one, but that is not the only reason, as this is another picture that has a story that grips. It is well put on and the detail is good, the continuity is almost be yond criticism; as the story goes along you really live it. The loca tions in the Redwood country are the most picturesque we have seen of the Californian scenery. Sun H. B. Warner in "The Pagan God." Hundreds of Chinese are used in this production, and the director who filmed this picture swears that Chinamen are ultimate zero when it comes to emoting for the screen. If the bland and sphinz-like Chink emotes at all, he doesn't do it in the face. Somewhere in the dim re cesses of his anatomy the Mongolian may feel pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow. anger, ecstacy. but it s deep-sea stuff and never comes to the surface. In Try and Sentence Negro for Assault In Thirty Minutes Camden, N. J., Oct. 1. It-took less than 30 minutes to try and sen tence to from 20 to 30' years in state's prison James Whitings, the negro for whom a posse searched continuously from last Monday be cause of an attack near Merchant ville on a white woman, the wife of a ship yard worker. To Investigate Sugar Price. Washington, Oct. 1. Investiga tion of wholesale and retail prices of sugar by the federal trade commisr sion was ordered by the house through the adoption of a resolution introduced by Representative Tink- hnm rniih1iran f accarhlKpHfl. this picture there are many Chinks, but they just make atmosphere. Warner keeps the interest, and his acting is beyond reproach. Muse Nazimova week is quite a success. 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