PART THREE
AUTOMOBILE AND
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VOL. XUX NO. 42.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1920.
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GOOD ROADS
WATCHWORD
OF PROGRESS
SAYS ARMOUR
Movement Will Cheapen Meth
ods of Distribution and
Expand National Trans
portation System.
By J. OGDEN ARMOUR.
' The country is entering a period
of road building. Projects which
were planned during the war are be
ing put into effect. The federal gov
ernment has made large appropria
tions, to be spent conjointly with ap
propriations 1 by the various states.
Good roads have become a "watch
word of postwar progress.
There is occasion for reflection in
the fact that the greatest of ancient
empires was conspicious for its road
building. The Roman roads were the
railways ana teiegrapn oi an age
that did not know steam and elec
tricity. They were the pathways of
the imperial couriers and the im
perial legions. These rods were the
girders that held the empire to
gether. It is customary, today, to
admire the Romans for their prac
tical sagacity, nowhere ' better ex
emplified than in their road build
ing. In a manner, "history repeats it
self" in our newly bestirred zeal for
a . . . , i i .
constructing good mgnways. vvnai
to the Romans was a national neces
sity, has become for us an urgent
need; and this by virtue of a modern
invention the motor car. I look for
much advancement to grow out of
the "motor age," and I am certain
that this advancement will be con
tingent upon the attention we give
to the improvement of our roads. ,
City and Country Merge.
Thoss of us who have made ob
servations for two decades have
seen wondrous changes 'resulting
directly from the use of the pleasure
automobile. Once the city was the
city, and the ccuntry was the coun
try. Today they merge into one an
other. The city man' knows the
country as never before is glad to
have access to it and to live in it
when possible. The country man
knows the city and frequents it often.
Small villages o: yesterday have be
come the rural metropolises that one
finds here and there, everywhere.
This is all good, for if is well that a
nation be knit together in the spirit
of mutual understanding and in a
reciprocity of advantages. s
But there are better arguments
for' good roads than those which ap
ply merely to the pleasure car. We
are told, on the authority of the
government, that farmers lost $300,
000,000 yearly in marketing their
crops because of bad roads. That
is too much to waste. ' We should
contemplate this figure in connection
with the high cost of living.
There is no more serious problem
before us today than the matter of
reducing the cost of getting the
products of the farm to the table of
the consumer, One step, at least, in
the solution is plain better roads.
Instrument of Economy. -
As an instrument of economy the
motor truck has not yet come into
its own. Efficient servant as it is
in certain restricted realms, it now
awaits the further development of
interurban and country highways to
reach the measure of its full attain
ment. It has power and speed that
put it outside the class of the horse
drawn vehicle, and a nimbleness and
flexibility which gives it a certain
advantage over the railways. It is my
expectation to see it assume more
and more the function fof the "short
haul" as its own peculiar province;
in part, relieving the railways of
those duties which they are least
able to perform; and in part, ex
panding the field of our national
transportation system.
I say, therefore, all speed to the
good road movement! g It will
cheapen our methods of distribution
and help to bring the people of our
country closer to each other. I com
mend its common sense and practi
cal wisdom. It may be less spectac
ular than some of our other nation
al issues, but it strikes deep into the
roots of fundamental progress.
Neck Holds In Dancing
Are Positively Barred
Hazelton, Pa., April 3. Sugges
tions for dancers have been' issued
by the ' Duplan Recreation club,
composed of Duplan silk mill work
ers. Whether or not "neckholds"
had been in vogue is not definitely
stated, but it is believed they were
for one of the suggestion is: "Neck
holds are positively, unpardonable."'
Others are:
"Dancing should be from the
waist down, not from the waist up.
"Shaking or perking of the body
.from the knees upward while taking
short steps or standing still should
not be tolerated."
'The hold or clasp of a partner
should never be tight." s
Farmer Victor In Battle
With Three Hungry Wolves
Concordia, Kan., April 3. James
Flynn, a farmer living near here,
was awakened by a noise on his
porch a few nights ago and found
three wolves trying to enter his
house through a window.
Armed only with a butcher knife.
Flynn fought a desperate 15-minute
battle with .the would-be intruders
before he could drive them away.
Finally the butcher knife found a
vital spot in the body of one of the
wolves, whereupon the others turned
tail and fled.
Flynn suffered several severe lac
erations. His nightshirt was reduced
to ribbons by the teeth of his assailants.
GRETNA GREEN
AROUSED OVER
MARRIAGE TIES
Plan to Strengthen Marriage
Laws Opposed by Those
Who Profit Most. '
Br International Kewa Brrit.
Elkton, Md., April 3. This town
is all wrought up over the question
of marriage.
For several years Elkton has had
a widespread reputation as a Gretna
Green. It is close to the Delaware
and Pennsylvania state lines. Mar
riage laws in Maryland are not as
strict as in the adjoining two states,
hence there have been hundreds of
lovelorn who have rushed to Elkton
to culminate their romances.
Now some of the leading citizens
are aroused over the town's refuta
tion as a Gretna Green. I hey say it
gives the place a bad name and that
the large number ot marriages
make the young folks of. the town
look with little resnect on the sacred
institution. They are in favor of
petitioning the legislature for more
strict marriage laws.
On the other hand there aw many
who want Elkton to temain a
Gretna Green, particularly the taxi
drivers. Every hurried , marriage
means from $3 to $5 in taxi
fare, a $1 fee for the county, $5
or more for the parson, and per
haps it booms the restaurant re
ceipts of the local eating establish
ments. Rev. Mr. Jones . of the Grace
Methodist church used to be the
popular marrying parson, but of
late he has lost trade. Rev. William
R. Moon, a Baptist preacher who
recently came here from Iowa, now
gets the business. Rev. Mr.Jones has
been in favor of stricter marriage
laws, it is said. But the taxi drivers
control the marriage business; they
pilot the lovelorn to the parson, and
it is gossip that there is a working
agreement between the taxi drivers
and Parson Moon.
The whole auestion of marriatre
promises a lively session of the
spring town meeting.
Germ-Proof Man Is
Immune to Disease;
Menu of Raw Fruit
London, April 3. There lives at
Sompting, Sussex, a modest man
named William Aird, who, to prove
his belief in being able to cure him
self with natural foods, has allowed
himself to be inoculated with many
virulent germs, including even an
thrax.
Mr. Aird has suffered no harm as
a result of the inoculation. His only
medicine has been fresh uncooked
fruit and vegetables.
Disease, he says, is not an acci
dent that cannot be avoided. It is
a curative process. The germ which
was thought to be our bitter enemy
is really a friend. It enters "our
bodies to feed on waste products. If
all the food we ate were only what
the body really needed uncooked
fruit and vegetables there would be
ho. waste products and no germs.
Among the cures that are claimed
are cases of cancer, epilepsy and
other "incurable" diseases.
Even death will be delayed and
painless if this diet is followed, says
Mr. Aird. It solves the servant
problem, for there is no washing
up and cooking.
The summer is the time to make
beginning with this novel diet, he
adds. . '
Pedigreed Herd Brings
Large Price at Auction
London, April 3. At Mill Grove,
Moresby, Cumberland, Mrs. Burn
yeat's herd of pedigreed shorthorns,
one of the leading herds in the
United Kingdom, ' realized the rt
markable total of $136,110, for 49
cattle an average of $2,775 an ani
mal. H. G. Latilla, a noted Sussex
breeder, secured some of .the best
cows, paying $5,250 for the 7-year.-old
cow Princess Royal in the Hun
dred and Ninth, and $4,830 for a 9-year-old
cow, Lavender Lady the
Fifth.
The earl of Rosebery purchased
the first cow to come into the ring,
tlje 10-year-old Clipper Kingj bred
by King .Edward, for $3,150.
Another notable price was $6,037
given by G. H. Drummond for the
grand 3-Vear-old . heifer, Moresby
Princess Royal.
TRADE RULES
PERSONIFIED
IN MAKEUP
OF PERSHING
t
Striking Kinship Noted Be
tween - His Army Scheme
and Business the More
General Is Studied.
"Pershing personifies the applica
tion of the fundamental rules of
trade to the thing called war. The
more you study Pershing, the busi
ness man, the more you realize the
striking kinship between his army
scheme and business. He is a better
business man than any of his , col
leagues. Pershing is a master or
ganizer. Because this particu
lar aspect of him has not been ex
ploited, it is well worth explaining.
If Pershing had entered finance or
trade he would never have been a
lay figure; he would have led."
These are the conclusions reached
by Isaac Marcosson, well known
writer, after he had gone to France,
had met and talked with General
Pershing, and had been given an
opportunity to studv at first hand
General Pershing's great work as
commander-in-chief of the Ameri
can expeditionary force.
Mr. Marcosson interviewed
Pershing at general headquarters at
Chaumont. The office of the commander-in-chief
was on the second
floor of the battered old barracks
building there. '
His First Impression.
. This interview, which first ap
peared in the Saturday Evening
Post, reappears with interviews Mr.
Marcosson had with other men who
olaved conspicuous parts in. the
war, in a book which recently came
from the press and which is, re
viewed in this week's Literary Di
gest.
What Mr. Marcosson says about
General Pershing reveals clearly
that if the country really desires -a
"business man" for its chief execu
tive, all it need do to satisfy its
desire is to elect Nebraska's candi
date to the presidency.
When General .Pershing arose, '
Marcosson goes on to say, "I got
my first impression of the man. He
is taller than Foch, Petain or Haig,
with broad, shoulders, deen chest
and fine military bearing. Save only
Haig, he is the most commanding
figure among all the, allied generals.
"Still more impressive is his face.
Foch has an unusual visage but it is
not quite so human as Pershing's.
Anxiety had already written deep
lines in his cheeks, and the grave,
almost wistful, look had come into
his eyes. There is about him that
fndefinable thing which spells lead
ership and inspires confidence. In
the last analysis it is what I would
call 'just Pershing.'
Reserve His Bulwark.
"The moment you meet Pershing
you encounter the reserve which is
his principal bulwark. At that meet
ing I contemplated no writing about
the American army or about him. I
merely wanted to pay my respects.
Hence he felt freer than usual to
speak, t
The phrase, economic states
manship,' may have a foreign sound
when applied to war, but it is as es
sential to the successful conduct of
a conflict these days as a knowledge
of tactics or strategy! Although he
never spent an hour in a business
office in his life, Pershing personi
fies the application of the funda
mental rules of trade to the thing
called war. -
"He is a better business man than
any of his allied colleagues. Foch
and Haig, for instance, know how
to deploy men, but Pershiner can not
only do this but, like Kitchener, is-,
a master organizer. Because this
particular aspect of him has not
been exploited, it is well worth ex-olaininff.
Soldiers, like bisr business men. I
know the value of time. The ouicker
you can swing into action the better J
thty like it Preliminaries to inter-
im . , ,
views, ime introductions 10 dook,
are as useless as they are obso
lete.
"This time the general anticipated
Question of Habit Declare Omahans Who Sleep by Day
. And Work by Night---Civilization's to -Blame for It All
Demand for Comforts and
Conveniences Respon
sible for Topsy- ,
Turvy Lives.
Consider the workers of the night.
In , the towns and villages they
stilt take in the sidewalks and ring
the curfew at 9 p. m. The street
lights are turned' out ah hour later
and even the "night" watchman
sleeps until sunrise.
But in the cities there is a small
army of workers in a score of dif
ferent occupations, whose working
day starts at sunset. They break
fast at suppertime,? report for duty
about the time . the average citizen
is planning an evening's recreation
at theater or dance, and are at the
height of their labors while the rest
of the world i sleeping.
Civilization to Blame.
The advance of civilization is re
sponsible for the 'topsy-turvy lives
of these workers. Full benefits of
modern comforts and conveniences
are only available through the me
dium of their, efforts. But for them
civilization would be apparent only
12 hours out of each 24. '
The telephone .telegraph, street
car, taxicab, train, electric lights and
steam heat, restaurant and ' cafe,
theater and movie,, dance hall and
cabaret, drug store and cigar stand
or hotel none of these modern con
veniences would be available with
out the obliging workers who sleep
by day and work by night to give
service.
"It's all a matter of' getting used
to it,"- says Mrs. Gladys Wredc,
night telephone operator. "Night
work at the switchboard isn't as
strenuous as day duty."
Calls Trains 36 Years.
' One never misses the telephone
operator until he takes down the
receiver and listens to the long
lullaby of the singing wire, unbrok
en by the sharp click of the connect
ing plug. J he instrument is even
more of a convenience at night than
in the day time. In case of burglars,
fire, accident, sickness or other
emergency it is the .first thought of
the average person.
Supposing policemen hung clubs,
guns and stars on the hook at sun
down and remained neutral until
after breakfast and the firemen re
fused to slide from their warm beds
in answer to any alarms turned in
before daybreak? .The crooks and
thugs could not be depended upon
to maintain an unprofessional status
during the dark hours.
If trains only moved. by day, time
required for trips of more than nor
mal length would be practically
, " VALadf UPP lt: L. M. Garamack, ..UNV-i
doubled, according to Joe Mik, vet
eran station master for the Burling
ton railroad in Omaha. Joe has
called trains in the local station for
36 years. ,
Enjoys Night Work.
The telegraph is a convenience
that is utilized fully -as much by
night as by day. L. M. Canunack,
Western Union night operator, has
received and sent messages by night
for more than 12 years. Mr. Cam
mack has been a telegraph operator
for 38 years. He enjoys night work,
he says. :
A strike of the night workers,
would check the light out of our
enlightened age. We seldom con
sider, when we flood a room with
light by the simple expedient ' of
pressing a wall button, that its -c-sponse
depends principally upon a
Upper left: L. M. Garamack,
Western Union night telegraph
operator, who has worked at night
for 12 years.
Upper right: Mrs. Gladys
Wrede, night telephone operator,
who says that it's all a matter of
getting used to it'
Lower left: Joe Mik, station
master for the Burlington railroad
here for 36 years and probably
the best known railroad worker
in Omaha. ,
Lower righi: Fred Ballentine,
4230 North Sixteenth street, who
has fired boilers all night for 10
years. ,
sooty person down at tlve power
plant, who keeps himself awake
during the silent hoflrs with a pipe
and magazine to heave coal pe
riodically into steam engines that
operate the generator.
Fred Ballentine, 4230 North Six
teenth street, has been a fireman for
10 years, working nights most of the
time.
"I didn't mind night vfork when I
was single." said Mr. Ballentine,'
"but now that I have a family I'd
really prefer to work days. It gets
to be a habit, however."
Even the Lowly Milkman.
Customary-entertainment of thou
sands of day workers would be
checked , if actors and actresses de
clared their intentions of putting on
the works only at matinees and the
movie operators refused to turn the
1$ i
crank for a foot of reel after sup
per. Most any appetite would be stimu
lated by the sight of darkened cafes
and restaurants with cold, stoves in
the kitchen and bare tables bristling
with chair legs. Three meals a day
are considered sufficient, but the
service of cooks and waiters at late
hours is frequently appreciated.
Lovers of jazz or other dancing
would have to content themselves
with home affairs and phonograph
music if syncopating musicians con
fined tfyeir activities in halls and
cabarets to hours when they could
read their x notes without artificial
light.
Even the .lowly milkman, the
greatest right worker of them all,
is depended upon to provide fresh
cream for our breakfast coffee and
cereal.
me, because he opened fire first.
He said: . . . - ,
"'What have you in mind?'
"'I want to write the complete
story of the services of supply, but
I cannot do it without your co
operation,' I replied.
"'What do you want me to do?'
he asked. '
" 'Give me complete authority to
see everything and let me write
about it without reservation,' I re
sponded. "Without hesitation he answered:
'"You shall have it.'
"Having gained my first ground,
I followed it up with this:
"'I cannot do this job thoroughly
without using men's names.' Names
had been tabooed in all army writ
ing. "He thought a moment and then
replied: '-.- ' -
" 'You're right.'
"This brief exchange shows two
Pershing characteristics, swiftness
of action and directness of speech.
Hard-Headed Business Sense. .
"The British understood and liked
him from the start. Shortly after
his first 'visit to Montreuil I dined
there with a high staff officer. He
said: 'That -C in C -of yours., is'
the real thing. Unlike most of you
Americans, he doesn't talk much.'-
"I ' have spoken of Pershing's
foresight. It was backed up ' by
hard-headed business sense. In that
dark day when the headquarters of
the American expeditionary force
was housed in a modest little build
ing in the. Rue Constantine in Paris
and the whole staff could sit around
a single , table, Pershing had the
vision of an ail-American army and
an ail-American offensive and sup
ply. He perservered, and his idea
had rich and thrilling fulfillment at
Saint Mihiel.
"The whole services of supply,
which was the backbone of the
American expeditionary force, rep
resented a dramatizatiqn of Persh
ing's business acumen. There can
be no economic statesmanship witfw
out vision, and Pershing has this
asset. During the autumn pf 1917
there were optimists at home and
abroad who believed that 500,000
American troops were ample in
France. If Pershing had based the
'S. O. S.' on this figure we could
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never have massed, fed and equipped
those gallant millions who flocked
overseas in the summer of . 1918.
Why? Simply because the 'S. O. S.'
machine was made so elastic that it
could meet any demands made upon
Father of Allied Supply.
"Pershing's business instfnet fa
thered this plan. He did just what
the head of a growing industrial
concern would do. In the phrase
ology of commerce 'orders were
coming in fast' and he wanted to be
ready for any extension of output
that might be necessary. And he
was ready.
"While General Pershing . held
tenaciously to his idea of national
unity in his fighting .and supply
agencies, "he" was the real father of
the standardization of allied supply.
It was one of the many distinctive
ly1 American contributions dicta
ted by business experience to the
final victory. He did this, bowever,
only after he had reared a remarka
ble machine American from the
ground up to feed, equip and
t-ansport his army.
"General Pershing put this merg
ing proposition through in the face
of immense difficulties and obsta
cles. It was like a vast 'selling
campaign.' Lloyd George, Clemen
cean, Foch, Loucheur, the French
(Continue! on Page 2 C, Column Two.)
RULES IN BIG
RELIABILITY
TRUCK RACE
ARE ALL FAIR
Board Approves Contest Regu
lations and Motor Truck
Makers Are Expected to
.Do So.
Rules for the First National
Motor Truck Reliability contest
have been compiled with a view of
permitting a fair determination of
relative truck performance values.
These rules were formed by Charles
P. Root, general manager of the
run, who submitted them to the con
test board of the American Auto
mobile association for approval.
Mr. Root's lengthy experience in
the direction of great motor truck
runs, and other contests, enabled
him to formulate rules which meet
with the entire approval of the con
test board.
That motor truck makers will com
mend them is altogether certain.
Mr. Root has settled upon May 22
as the date on which the trucks will
have to be in the hands of the tech
nical committee at Omaha. Entries
close at midnight May I.
Go Over Trucks.
On arrival at Omaha, the tech
nical committee will go over them,
and at the close of the 2,500-mile
run, which is to be made in 25 days,
the committee will again go over
them. Penalties will be set against
a truck' which shows marked varia
tion between the two examinations.
The contest is designed to demon
strate the speed and reliability of
pneumatic-tired trucks up to and" in
cluding the 3-ton class. The con
test is limited to pneumatic-tired
trucks.
Speed Graduated.
Speed will be graduated, accord
ing to the size of the trucks, by
classes. Road conditions of the day's
run will be taken into consideration
in setting the speed. The figures
will be fair and reasonable to all.
Penalties will be by points. These
will be assessed against a truck for
being late at noon and night con
trols, for work done on the truck by
the driver or any one else and for
mechanical defects as determined
by the technical examinations be
fore and after the contest.
To Name Observers.
Each entrant will name an ob
server for each truck entered. This
observer may be connected with the
maker or may be a distributor for
the truck represented. The observer
will ride on a different truck each
day and will make report daily to
the officials of the truck he rode up
on. This will cover the perform
ance, of the truck and the conduct
of the driver.
Makers will be allowed to name
their sales representative as ob
server. It is proposed to start the
run May 31 or June 1, but this may
be delayed when the pathfinder has
gone over the route in May. De
cision will be based upon the prob
able condition of the roads early in
June. The start may be set for June
15. ' J
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Back Cushions $1.95
Champion, Studebaker or Overland Plugs 65c
Sedan Rear View Mirrors ..$3.25
No. 98 Spotlight with Mirror $6.75
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