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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; MARCH 7. 1920. ! UNITED STATES HEARING LEGAL LIMIT OF CREDIT Indications Cause Reserve serve Board to Consider Question of Restoring Gold Embargo. By ARTHUR SEARS HENMNO. CfclMff THtaM-Oamh Dm Lmm4 Wire. Washington, D. C, March 6. With the gold stores of the nation slowly ebbing and indications multi plying that the country is approach ing the legal limit of the use of credit the federal reserve board is . giving serious consideration to the question of restoring the embargo on the export of gold or of adopting alternative stabilization measures. Some treasury officials view with disquietude the continued exporta tion of gold and frankly advocate ' the reimposition of the embargo to prevent any possible derangement of the credit structure through de pletion of the gold basis. iM reserve board was instru mental in lifting the wartime era bargo on gold exportation last sum mer tnd has steadily opposed its restoration. At recent meetings wnen the matter was under constd eration nearly all the members have taken a position adverse to an embargo and the indications are that unless the situation becomes more serious the board will pursue the alternative course of regulating credits ana curoing speculation. Oold Exports Large. Latest figures available show that from January 1 to February 10, export of gold from the United states totaled $63,769,203. Imports 01 gold auring same prnod amount ed to only $12,203,000. Of the gold exports during that period , $25,500,000 went to Argentina. $11, 268,342 to Hong Kong, $9,302,109 ; to other points in China; $5,506,301 to japan and $J,744,5J2 to Mexico i ne embargo opponents assert there is no cause for apprehension a there is $2,000,000,000 worth of gold in the. control of the federal re serve system, the greatest supply of gpia ever neia in any nation in all nistory. ' AH of the federal reserve banks have maintained their full 40 per cent in gold upon- notes issued as well as 35 per cent in gold upon re serve deposits, with the exception of the New York b....k, which last week dropped to 33.6 per cent on its frold reserves on deposits. This in cident has created some apprehen sion and if considered a warning uiat the nation is approaching the legal limit in the use of credit. Propose Change in Law. The federal reserve board within recent weeks increased discount Yates with a view to restricting the rediscount of member batiks at the federal . reserve banks. The board has caused to be introduced lit con gresi an amendment to the federal. . reserve act to limit the member hanks from borrowing for any cause or reasonable purpose ot the tunas of the federal reserve banks. 1 hi ftill Which permits tederal reserve bank to fix graduated rediscount rates for borrowing banks, has been approved by committees of both senate and house, and will be acted upon in one house or the other with in the next few days. The hill pending in congress pro vides that when a borrowing bank goe above its rightful share it should be taxed and increased by higher rates in the discretion of the federal reserve banks, subject to the approval of the federal reserve board. Use of this additional au thority oh top of the present law which permits changes in discount rates applying similarly to all banks will be another step toward the reg ulation of rationing of the use of credit. Conservative bankers opposing any embargo on gold feel that this is -a proper approach to the solution of the Situation. A far more impor tant Step however, in their view is that people should learn to use as little currency as possible, to be eco nomical in their spending and to be saving and thrifty in order to pro tect the whole credit structure. Greater economy and thrift, finan ciers say, would affect the gold re serve to a far greater extent then most people imagine. Train Load of Nash Sixes Arrive on Fast Schedule P! Ttr (- mm R. W. Hayward, president of the Hayward-Cameron Nash company, Omaha distributors of the Nash Per fected Valve-in-Head Sixes, has just been notified of the arrival of a train load of 50 carloads of cars. This is the first solid trainload of the Nash product, which consists not only ot the Nash Six, built in five and seven-passenger sport models, two-passenger roadsters, sedans and coupes, but also of the well known Nash line of one and two-ton rear-driven trucks and the famous Nash Quad truck, which has tory at Kenosha. t never been shipped into the Omaha territory, mis trainioaa made re markably quick time, being only 60 hours en route trom the .Nash fac Howell Disapproves Gas . Plant Purchase At Appraised Value Omaha should not pay $4,500,000, the appraised price for the purchase of the gas plant, according to in ferences made in statements yester day by R. B. Howell, general man ager of the Metropolitan Water dis trict! Speaking as prospective man- v ager Or the gas plant in the event that the city should acquire the plant , under the terms of the recent con demnation. "There is no question as to the city's legal rights in the case," said Mr. Howell. "The gat company has Neett given its right of appeal from the appraisal if the city should elect to bay the1 plant and the city's right of appeal rests in its right to re ject the appraisal and to ask for ' mother - tsxss Bourbons Endorse ( Wilson's Administration Dallas, Tex, March 6. Endorse ment Of the administration of Presi dent Wilson and arraignment of the auti-administration sentiment as ex 1 amplified by the "Bailey faction" marked a state-wide meeting of Texat democrats here Saturday which is formulating plans tor send ing a pro-administration delegation to the national convention. , . , Women from several parts of the state participated in the conference. . . ... Orchestrians on Strike. Boston, March 6. About 30 mem Lers of the Boston Symphony or chestra, in pursuance of their de cision to refuse to ptay unless the management reinstated Frederic Fradkin, the concert master, who was dismissed Friday night for fail ure to respond to a signal from Conductor Pierre Montcux, did not uke their seats for Saturday night'6 'n - Kind Words for Pershing From All Over the Nation Even if the whole country wasn't rising up behind the magic name of Pershing, Nebraska republicans could hardly think of doing any thing but supporting, him as Ne braska's candidate, since he has pur chased a house in Lincoln and calls Nebraska his home. Blair (Neb.) Pilot. ... A lot of voters are naturally go ing to come to. the conclusion that if a soldier is to be a candidate for the presidential nomination that soldier should be the man who di rected the armies to victory. Ana at this point it is interesting to note the preference Roosevelt displayed when, as president, he jumped Per shing over the heads of many older army officers. Says McClure's mag azine: ''One thing which annoyed Roosevelt was the public's persist ence in believing that it was to him that Gen. Leonard Wood owed his big jump in the army and to its confounding the case of Wod with that of Pershing. 'The man they are thinking of,' he used to say, 'is Pershing. Jt was he I jumped over tlie heads of several hundred other army -orhcers. Id do it again by thunder, if the same occasion arose.! Wood got his big jump from Mc- Kinley, and all 1- ever gave him were the promotions due him in the Usual course of seniority. Pve tried a hundred times to straighten this out in the public mind but I don t suppose I'll ever succeed. The pub lic seems to want to believe this nivth." Sioux City (Ia) Tribune. At his San Diego banquet. Gen eral Pershing made a most surpris ing speech tor a protessional war rior. He passed up all the glories and horrors of war and devoted his address to the importance of educa tion. "If the government ever fails," he said, "it will be because of the ig norance of the ueoule who vote. The draft disclosed that 32 per cent of American men were illiterate. During the war we established army schools ranging from ABC classes to college courses, and 1,700,000 of the men who went to France re ceived schooling of some kind. No lan came back frond r ranee unable to read an$ write." The general is right. The bulwark against an archy is popular intelligence. San 'Diego (Cal.) Sun. Gen. John J. Pershing was the commander , of the American expe ditionary forces. He never employed a publicity agent whilst on the other side; he never contributed to maga zines or the daily newspapers, telling the people how they should run the government or the laws that they fhould enact. Why' shouldn't the soldier who saw real service get into the Vace? Fort Worth (Tex.) Record." The successful man has a strong appeal for this progressive people, and they find much satisfaction in Pershing s record as the only su preme commander who held his post throughout the war. He alone anions? the chiefs of all the beliger- ent nations completed what he was Appointed to . do. No finer tribute could be naid to his military genius. But Houston also welcomes General Pcrshini? as a splendid represents- tve of American manhood. 1 (trough; out his career he has exhibited those traits of character which are held most desirable in the true S.nd up right American. Militarism has not hardened his soul. His' devotion to discipline has not obscured his sense of justice or dried up the wells of sympathy in ins heart, as Uiosc about him learned on many occa sions dtirinff the great test in Eu . A J rope. As long as America proauccs men of the Pershing type, the nation will be safe Houston (Tex.) Post. If General Pcrshinsr is to fiaure as a republican candidate for the presi dency ne is neglecting uwuj uypui tunities'to impress his personality upon the party, states the New York World.' Called upon almost every dav to make public addresses he Confines his utterances to such com monplaces as duty, patriotism and good citizenship. Unless there is to be a right-about-face all along the party line, the nomination of such a man is a manifest impossibility. Ro pubjicanism has survived all sorts ot clusms attributable to pique ana ambition, but it could hardly outlast a campaign in these lunatic days un der the leadership 'of a candidate who thinks only of duty and coun try. Morristown (Pa.)Times. t t inlpretintr. Itt View Of the approaching visit of General Per shing to this city to note tne ire- quent references to a rersntng presidential boom that is already ac cumulating healthy proportions without any evident encouragement from the general 'himself exactly the way a presidential boom ought to be born and grow. Davenport (ta.) Times. As the symbol of America's great ness in war, expressed through the heroic struggles of countless dough boys who went out from America's homes on the long journey to Chau mont and beyond, to suffer, and bleed and die at his command, General Pershing has the homage of Amer ica.' ' . As a professional soldier of life long experience, of high technical ability .and attainments; a disciplin arian of the sternest and the most unbending qualities, and an or ganizer of most outstanding success. Uen. John J. Pershing has com manded the admiration of the' mili tary world. Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat ' There are things about this man Pershing that can not be too often repeated and that can not gain too wide a currency among his country men. Any man by virtue of his po sition alone as the head of our troops in France, would command our plaudits. That General Persh ing demonstrated beyond question that he was pre-eminently the man for the' place on every occasion When the test came is added reason why he should be our national hero in this hour of the war's aftermath. But there is something else that should be recalled and kept in mind, not only while he is in our midst, but as part of our national tradition and as a vindication of our national ideals. And that is that all through life this man has shown the qualities which fitted him to perform the su preme service when the hour of the country's need came; that he was and is pre-eminently a man of whom it can be said truthfully that the hour of the nation's need was his hour of opportunity, and that lie is our national hero today because he is, and because he has been, that kind of a man throughout his career. Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram. If the next president must be a republican, then we can't go wrong with Pershing. He is a stockholder with us here in Nebraska, lives here and is one of us. Did you ever notice that he never blows his own horn? 1 hat is his weak point. Too modest for modern tunes, but you have to give it to h'm for knowing how, what and when. "If we were a re publican we would be for Pershing without a question. Capital City Bulletin, Lincoln, Neb. If General Pershing runs ior pres ident he is going to go a HNig ways on hisJ ability as a campaigner. He can stand up under a tedious siege ot handshaking, has pleasing man ners with women, can say a few well-chosen words on the least pro vocation, and if he wears his cap vith a slight tilt to one side as he did here last Sunday he will capture the soldier vote unanimously. Wauicgo (Kan.) Times. ! General Pershing has always been popular in Lincoln, and his hold on the people was enormously strengtn ened by his visit to his home during the holidays. Are the people of Lincoln for him for the presidency? Let it be known that he wants the support of this community and he can have it witnout a oouDt. Ne braska State Journal. Original "Deadwood Dick" Of Wild Days of the' Black Hills Dies in Los Angeles Many Claimants to Fame as Inspiration of the Hero of Dime Novel Writers, But None Measured Up to Standard of Old Time Indian Fighter and Govern ment Scout Deadwood Today Quiet. Public May Soon , Resume Eating of , Olives, Officials Say Chieair TtlbuiM-Omntui Bm tMacd Win. Chicago, March 6. Steps are be ing taken to reassure the public that it may resume the use of ripe olives. Numerous deaths recently from bo tulinus poison have thrown such a scare into the public mind that no one is eating olives, either ripe or green. Officials of the bureau of chemis try of the United States Departmcnt- of Agriculture announced today tnat ripe olives will be an entirely safe item of food as soon as the practice of packing them in tin instead of glass becomes general. It is a sin gular fact that all cases of poison were found in olives packed in bot tles and other glass containers, while those packed in tin were entirely free of poison. . No explanation is given for this unusual condition. Government officials say olives are perfectly safe, as they are packed in a strong brine solution. Stocks oi ripe olives over the entire country are being rigidly inspected by gov ernment officials and local health boards and all suspected goods arc destroyed. According to govern ment experts, All cases of poison found were in olives that had been packed more than a year ago. Minstrel Show Staged by Employes of Sunderland 'Employes of the Sunderland Ma chinery & Supply company' staged a minstrel shows Saturday evening . a. i.k.. i in iuc new uiatijiift. biiuu uuiiuuiK at Twenty-first and facific streets. Families of the1 employes were guests at the entertainment. Aong those taking part in the oroerfim were William 'Mooney, Walter Finch, Arthur Fuche, Albert Kustz, Frank Van Gunde, Jack AI- vord, G. C. Edgerly, Crane Shea, Edward Dehrs, Martin Bethune ana Miss Frances Marion Alvord. Refreshments were served after the minstrel show and the balanct of the evening was spent in danc ing. Music was furnished for tne dance by Lofing Elliott, Phillip Downs, Stuart Edgerly, Wallace Shepard and Donald Shepard. Fights Rental Raise. San Francisco. March 6. Charles Price, lessee' of a hotel, aoceared in court resisting the attempt of Henry G. Wendt, owner of the bm'lding, to collect increased rental. Price al leged Wendt raised the rent from .125 a month to $600 since Decern er. telling him to raise the rates to tenants accordingly;. ' i : . .!., By DUNCAN E. ELDER. A press dispatch from Los An geles, Cal., a few days ago an nounced the death at that place of Richard Bullock, "Deadwood Dick," the famous Indian fighter and gov ernment scout of the historic Black Hills country. Bullock was popu larly supposed to be linked by blood ties to Capt Seth Bullock, but as a matter of fact was not related to that famous sherilf and friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Dick Bullock was a plain, every day miner employed by the Home stake Mining company, until he changed his occupation and became a stage driver and guard of the bul lion carried out of the hills. , Old residents of the Black Hills, and those who made a study of the early history of that country say that there was no original "Dead wood Dick," nor was there any character of the early days in Dead- wood whose escapades were the original of those described by the dime novel writers, the characters were purely fictional. Many Claimed Honor. ' Many men, besides Richard Bul lock, claimed the distinction of be ing the original scout. Richard Clark, who died in Whitewood, S. D., a few years ago, claimed to be the one and only "Deadwood Dick" of Nick Carter fame but his claim was not taken seriously by the pioneers of the Black Hills. Clark drove a bull team and handled freight into the Hills in the days when Indians were holding up and murdering white settlers, and no doubt he ran up against some tough characters while making the trips back and forth, but neither he hor any of the other alleged Char acters were of the type of Seth Bul- Llock. . Every day was full of adventures for the settlers of Deadwood in the days of 76 and 77. The Sioux In dians were resenting bitterly the in vasion of the whites into various sections of their country, and es pccially into the Black Hills, con sidered by them their hunting prounds and the home of their ureat Spirit. But the white man coming into the country had been attracted by the discovery of gold and kept pouring in, resulting in isolated parties of prospectors being sur rounded and brutally massacred. Center of Trails. t Deadwood was the center of i system of trails running out to con nect with different outfitting and (lading posts, such as Sidney, Cheyenne, and Bismark on the Northern Pacific railroad. Stages made regular trips over these trails carrying passengers into the Black Hills. Every one who saw "Buffalo Bill's" wild west show, or who at tends the movies of today, is fa miliar with the old stage coach built on high wheels, which swayed and rocked over the rough roads like a boat m a 6torm. Twice every month the cold but lion from the Homestake and other mines amounting to over a quarter of a million dollars had tir be shipped out, on its way to the mint in Washington. The Wells-Fargo company re ceived the gold bars from the ttiin ing companies and placed them in an iron box loaded on a special coacn accompanied by armed men, l hese treasure coaches allured the - lawless bands operating in the Hills and, of course, on numerous occasions they were held up and the bullion stolen. Stories Of the wild and mmsntic life of the Black Hills were carried back east and fired the imagination Of the youths of that day in very muen the manner that the modern moving pictures do to the young generation of today. Hundreds of early settlers in the Black Hills admit they were moved to come west by reading Nick Car ter stories. To the bbys of that day "Dead wood Dick" was a real person, as much so as Daniel Boone, Kit Car son, or any of the other Indian fighters of that day. Old men recall the thrill of ex citement they experienced when they read the glowing words of these stories: "The report of a rifle shot rang out through the darkness and another redskin bit the dust," or "A cry of distress was heard in the night, then came the galloping of a horse, and Deadwood Dick, our hero, plunged into the midst of the bandits, snatching Lulu from the hands of Scarface just as the 'Vil lain," etc. , Deadwood "Quiet Today. ' As literature, these stories were without merit. They are devoid of "local color" or accurate description and except for names of a few 1 gulches and mountains, the stories would fit any of the western coun try as" well as the Black Hills. eadwooo is today a quiet town, with few landmarks left to recall the stirring days of 76. Nothing is left cf the old-time mining camps. The saloons are gone and the town is as dry &i the Sahara. Gambling of the old style is gone, but the stories that fired the imagination of the boys of 1376 have not wholly faded from the memory. A monument erected by Capt. Seth Bullock shortly before he died in memory of his life-long friend and companion, Theodore Roose velt, stands 1,000 feet above Dead wood, overlooking the distant hills where the pioneers fought their way into the west. During the Indian summer, when a haze envelops the mountains and the air is clear, tour ists and strangers from all parts of the country visit the monument and, standing in the tower, hear the ring ing of the school bells, the pounding of hammers far down the mountain and watch the herds of cattle graz ing where once bands of buffalo roved. Old-time pioneers regularly make the trip to the summit of the moun tain and gaze out over the vast Country which they helped to civil ize, and remember the time when battles raged over almost every foot of the land. Some pioneers are still alive, but most of them have died, and when the society meets once each year there are always new vacant chairs around the table. Those who died recently include John Brennen, Capt. Seth Bullock and Theodore Roosevelt, the latter honorary mem ber of the Black Hills Pioneers. DANIELS OFFERS PROVISIONAL I). S. NAVAL PROGRAMS TTiree Plans Presented to Committee Are Contin gent on Senate . Ac tion on Treaty. Washington, March 6. Three provisional! naval building pro-, grams, dependent on senate action on the peace treaty, were laid be fore the house naval committee Saturady by Secretary Daniels. If the United Staes ratified the treaty and became a member of the league of nations, Mr. Daniels said, he would recommend new construc tion only to "round out" the fleet now built oi building; If -the sen ate rejected the treaty and the United States definitely decided not to join the league, he said he Would urge duplicattion of the three-year program of 1916, with some modi fications, with a view of making the fleet incomparably the great est in the world. . In case the senate took no final action on the treaty at this session of congress the secretary said he Would oresent a 69-ship program for construction as rapidly as pos sible in order that the United States might not lose ground in competi tive naval building. Secretary Daniels told the com mittee it most choose between the three proposals. The 69-ship pro gram, he said, would cost about $195,000,000.' He did not give any estimate of the cost ot a new three- year . program. N. Y. State Senator Prepares to Attack Immigration Laws New York, March 6. State Sen ator E. A. Cotillo announces that he has begun gathering evidence for an attack upon the literacy test re quired under the immigration laws He cited the deaths or disappear ance of persons who were deported because they could not read. Senator Cotillo told of the case of Ettore Cuttorino, who arrived here in January from Italy with his four children, expecting to join his wife in Albany, where she was and worked as a dressmaker. The father could not read 40 words of the psalms and was deported with the children. He and the youngest child died on the voyage to Italy under circumstances as yet unexplained. Senator Cotillo also told of An tonetta Pallaretta, an Italian girl, who came to be married in New York, but was deported from Bos ton for illiteracy. 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Aftermath of Maj. A. V. Dalrymple's unsuccess ful invasion of upper Michigan be gan to appear when alleged dealers in moonsninc were uiauusscu uc cause thev had been arrested with out warrants. On February 23, three revenue officers raided the homes of two men and seized 15 quarts of illicit liquor and arrested the owners. About the same time a saloonkeeper and his bartender were arrested and a large quantity of liquor was seized. United States Commissioner Foote and District Attorney Clyne announced they would dismiss all similar cases. The rule requiring warrants was enunciated by Wash ington authorities after the Dal rymple fiasco. Dalryniple had an nounced he would proceed into Michigan and seize various alleged offenders without warrants, but he was stopped by orders from Wash ington. The rule will make it much more difficult to round up r the reds and it will be especially hard to apprehend the illegal booze ped dlers. Advocate Service Bureau To List Catholic Workers Washington. March 6. With the election of officers the conference of Roman Catholic club women held here to organize the national Catho lic women s council adjourned Sat urday. Mrs. Michael Gavin of New York was chosen president, Mrs. W. T. Donovan, St Louis, first vice president; Miss Agnes Regan, San Francisco, second vice president; Mrs. Theresa Molamphy, rittsburgh, third vice president: Mrs. Florence Loeber, New Orleans, treasurer, and Mrs. Harry Benziger, Baltimore, secretary. The board of directors includes one representative each of the 14 archdioceses of the United States. Chief anions the recommenda tions made by the delegates was the establishmentof a service bureau to list all Roman Catholic social serv ice workers and to perform the work of an employment exchange. Bed Leader Sentenced. Dulnth. Minn., March 6. Tack Carnev. alleged radical leader, was sentenced to two years in the fed eral penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., by Judge Page Morris in United States district court. WOMEN VOTERS ASK REGULATION OF THE PACKERS Representative of Newly Formed League Appears Before Congress In Sup- port of Bill. Washington, March 6. The re cently organized league of women voters presented its, views on a legis lative question to congress for the first time today when Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, Denver, a representa tive of the league and vice presi dent of the National Consumers' league, appeared before the house agricultural committee to urge fed eral regulation of the packing in dustry. "About 6,000,000 children in this country are not getting sufficient food," Mrs. Costigan told the com mittee. "The price of living has kept in advance of wages through all the years: Meat and meat sub stitutes are disappearing from the tables of the poor. "After studying the situation, ws have come to the conclusion that behind the retail trade exists a manipulation of food supplies and prjees that is a menace to this coun try. A few people control the mar kets in which they 'buy and the markets in which they sell." Miss' Helen -"smith of the Wom an s iracie union league, presented resolutions passed by her organiza tion favoring enactment oir the Kendrick'jKenyon- Anderson bills, for' regulating the packers. New York Socialists Seek Aid of Republican Party Albany, N. Y.-, March 6. Assem blyman William C Amos, New York, announced that he had written a letter to Will H. Hayes, chairman of the republican national commit tee, urging him to make public a declaration that the republican part does not approve the proceedings of the state assembly to unseat the five socialists members of that body. Assemblyman Amos declared the republican party "has always main tained that thebalIot box is the con crete typification of the ideals of our government. DRIVING comfort nas been given foremost consideration. The front compartment is excep tionally roomy. 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