THE BEE : OMAHA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1921.
Retailer Would
Stop Monopolies
In All Business
Seward Merchant Says Young
Men Entering Career "Fro
zen Out" by Established
Concerns.
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One merchant who attended the
Federation of Nebraska Retailers Is
against business or industrial con
cerns which grow too large. He is
J. F. Gochner, who operates a gen
eral store at Seward.
"I believe that one merchant
should carry only one line and stick
to it," he said. "I am against the
merchant who grows and grows un
til finally he has the business of one
town centered under one roof. As
he grows he gets richer and crowds
out the young man who wants to go
into business.
"There is too much 'freezing out
in business now. There is no chance
for a young man to enter business on
his own account What little sav
ings he could put into a business
would not be enough to combat the
big capital of 'he rich man.
"Big concerns are really monopo
lies. They corner all lines of busi
ness in a town, one county or sev
eral counties. The young man
must work on a salary to stay at
home or go to some place where
there are no monopolies before he
can start out for himself.
"This works a rank injustice on
the young man. I know young men
who served their country in France
with the army who would go into
business now, hut they are 'frozen
out' by bigger interests.
"I beliufve. that business should be
regulated in such a manner that
after a concern attained a certain
growth it cojild be prevented from
growing lareer. It would safeguard
the little fellows and be an induce
ment for younger men to get into
business for themselves."
Freadnch Elected
Retailers' President
(Continued From Pars One.)
organizations, was made by Paul M.
Jvey of the state university on ef
ficient salesmen, efficiency in selling
and extensive advertising.
The federation did not adjourn at
rjoon yesterday, but continued in
session until 1:30. A luncheon was
served in the dining room of the
Rome hotel.
. Urge Repeal of Tax.
The repeal of luxury and excess
profit taxes was urged in resolutions
adopted by the Federation of Ne
braska Retailers.
Development of the college of
business administration, establish
ment of a state bureau of credit in
formation to safeguard retailers
against bad account losses and the
establishment of a state research de
partment witlj an appropriation of i
$20,000 for its use in collecting sta-
tistics and educational literature
along commercial lines also were ad
vocated in the retailers' resolutions.
National Cornmeal week was en
dorsed unanimously by the retailers
in the morning.
National Cornmeal Week.
The first week in April has been
designated by them to be known as
National Cornmeal week, and the
following resolution was presented
by a committee headed by F. S.
IVnny of Fairbury:
"Resolved, that the first week in
April be knowu asy National Corn
meal week, that every social, civic
and commercial organization in the
United States should give undivided
support to this proposition.
"It is our purpose as an organiza
tion to ask every federation and re
tailer in the United States to for
ward the interest of this movement
by selling cornmeal at the smallest
possible selling price and especially
do we ask co-operation in making
this an event of national interest of
all bodies interested in helping the
farmer."
Farm Produce Brings Good
Prices at Wymore Sale
Beatrice. Neb., Jan. 27. (Special.)
-At the Kemp sale near Wymore,
stock of all kinds brought good
prices. One team of horses sold for
and another for $250. Cows
brought all the way from $80 to $85
a head, and hogs as high as $35 a
head.
The Best News
of Many a Day
Offered Friday at
the "Guarantee"
Clothing Co.
Heaviest Weight Blue
Union Made Overalls
$1.69
Dwinc to the unsettled condi
tions in the overall industry
have been able to go in tne mar
ket and secure these overalls at
a price considerably under the
cost of production and we are
going to pass tnis Dargam on ro
our customers. '
Unusually well made overalls,
double stitched seams, heaviest
blue denim, union made, in sizes
58 to 42 waist. On sale 'riday
m our basement at $1.69 a pair.
Guarantee Clothing Co.
l$th and Dodf Street
House Adjourns to
Let Bureau Prepare
Bills for Last Day
Lincoln, Jan, 27. (Special.)
The lower house adjourned this
afternoon until 2:30 Monday after-
, noon ior tne purpose ot Riving me
i legislative reference bureau time to
I prepare the many bills proposed for
introduction ai mis session oi me
legislature. Under rules adopted by
the house only 20 legislative days
can be used for introduction of bills.
Today made the 19th legislative day.
An attempt was made to adjourn
until Tuesday morning, but Speaker
Walter L. Anderson ruled such pro
ceedings unconstitutional, as the con
stitution provides that a single ad
journment cannot extend more than
three successive days.
Hall County Supervisors
Want Revenue Law Changed
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 27.
(Special Telegram.) The Hall coun
ty board of supervisors, by unani
mous vote is requesting its represen
tatives and senator to employ all
efforts possible to secure an amend
ment to the revenue law as to the
period for which rear estate as
sessments stand owing to unsettled
and fluctating conditions. The board
finds the four-year period resulting
only in inequalities and confusion.
It suggests t two-year period in
stead. Byrum and Gifford Would
Cut Code Secretaries' Pay
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.)
Representatives A. H. Byrum of
Franklin and E. H. Gifford of Paw-
j nee stirred up more trouble for Gov-
ernor McKelvie and his code secre
taries today when they introduced
a bill in the lower house cutting sal
aries of code secretaries from $5,000
to $3,500 a year.
Bill Takes Regulation of
Utilities Away From Cities
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.) The
rights of villages and cities to fix
rates and regulate private utilities
is taken away in a bill introduced
in the lower house by Representa
tive John McClellan of Grand Island.
This power is placed -in the hands
of the state railway commission un
der provisions of the measure.
Codified Fish and Game
Laws Are Introduced
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.)
The state fish and game laws of the
state, codified and changed in minor
particulars, appears in House Roll
399, thrown into the house hopper
today by the committee on fish and
game.
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Prices of commodities are running away down-hill, and the one question that is being asked on
all sides, in one form or another, is: hdw,long will thcrunaway keep up his speed, and how long
before it will be checked in its mad career? 7 While it may be difficult to predict the future of
prices and business men and financiers are chary of hazarding guesses, everybody is now fully
aware that the high cost of living received a fatal blow some time between February and June
last year, and that every subsequent bulletin from the bedside reported "sinking."
'In the leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, January 29th, the reductions in
retail prices of a wide range of commodities is shown and the course of the price avalanche is
forecast. The article is, illustrated by graphic charts that show the rise and fall of prices at a
glance.
Other important news-features in this number of THE DIGEST are :
Prohibition's First Year
To Curb the Pestiferous Lobbyist
Kentucky's Tobacco Rebellion
Remedies for Unemployment
The Air Mail in Peril
Austria's Collapse
"Germany Must Pay"
Canadian Pleas for Disarmament
Strikes That Hurt Labor
Paper Clothing
Bad Patients Make Bad Doctors
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Senate Passes
Two Omaha Bills
For Water Board
Name of Metropolitan District
Changed and Powers Are
Enlarged in Emergency
Measures.
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.)
Two measures greatly enlarging the
powers of the Metropolitan water
district of Omaha were passed on
third reading in the state senate
while a companion measure, S. F. 29,
Wis advanced to third reading in
the committee of the whole. There
was no opposition to either measure
which passed the senate on final
reading and each carried the emer
gency clause so that in the event
they pass the lower house and are
signed, they will become operative at
once.
One bill changed the name of the
Omaha water district while the other
extends the scope of the water board
bonds. The companion measure,
which was advanced to third read
ing in the upper branch, permits
extensions by the water board for
other purposes than water service.
Another measure, known as the
Omaha grand jury bill, also passed
the senate on third reading. ,
Printing Is Refused.
The upper branch declined to ac
cept the printing ordered for it by
the purchasing department and
ordered new printing by a local firm.
The purchasing department of the
state secured the supply from a St.
Louis printing house.
Among the bills introduced in the
senate was one by Senator Robbins
providing for a state park board apd
another by the same author,provid
ing that cities may contract debts in
the regulation of public utilities.
Berka threw a bill in, the, hcUpper
providing that the city of Omaha
shall have power to regulate the
Omaha street railway commission,
instead of the state railway commis
sion. Following is a gist of the senate's
work, including bills on first read
ing, committee reports, committee of
the whole proc?edings and bills on
final reading:
First Bdlnr.
If. H. 3 County clerks to record sol
diers' discharge.
H. R. 68 Increases election board com
pensation. Committee Reports.
S. F. 108 To legalize practice of Chris
tian Science. Reported out by senate med
ical committee without recommendation.
Committee of the Whole.
S. F. 3 To let salaries of appointive
offices be filed by ordinance In towns
5.000 to 25,000. Advanced after pbrase
lojry amendment.
S. F. 118 To turn Interest on 130.000
United Stfitea appropriation made years
ago for Spanish war veterans over to
Wil li
Strile Bottom?
Many Interesting Half -tone
BUILDING MATERIALS
state Spanish War Voterans' association.
Advanced.
S. K. lit Provldus for bonded ware
houses on private farms, and makt'S re
cell'tii negotiable.
8. K i Omaha water district bill.
Final rasaafe.
S. F. 63 Omaha (rand Jury bill. Passed.
IT to 1.
8. F. 47 Three full days for motion
for rehearsing In courts. Passed, 81 to 0.
8. F. 31 Kxtends scope of Omaha Wa
ter district bonds. Passed, 0 to 0, Tilth
emergency.
S. F. 30 Changes nam of Omaha Wa
ter district. Paused, 30 to 0, with emerg
ency. S. F. !S Hara railroads from contrib
utory negligence plea if safety laws are
violated. Passed. 38 to 0.
P. F. 17 Provides method of suing dls.
solved corpoations.
Yock el Salary Claim
Turned Down in House
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special. The
house claims committee has turned
down a claim from Miss Anna E.
Yockel, former bookkeeper for the
board of control, for $60 salary she
claimed to be due for a vacation
of two weeks, to which she was
entitled but never received last sum
mer. Her resignation was requested by
the board before her vacation came,
and the board itself refused to allow
her claim.
Miss Yockel at the time of her
differences with the board was run
ning as a democratic candidate for
secretary of state at the primaries.
Fund to Aid Soldiers
Provided for in Bill
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.)
Preliminaries for following Gov
ernor McKelvie's recommendation
to establish a fund for loans to sol
diers to purchase homes were taken
by the introduction of a bill in the
lower house by Representatives
Robert Lvnn of Cedar and Walter
Sandquiit of Walthill. The bill au
thorizes the state treasurer to sell
low-rate Massachusetts interest
bonds and other bonds held by Ne
braska at a discount. The proceeds
will be the nucleus of the soldier
loan fund pending the proposed sale
of school lands, which would make
the major proportion of the soldier
fund.
Beatrice Cuard Company
Inspected by TJ. S. Officer
Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 27. (Special.)
Company C,' which was recently
organized at this point, was given
a federal inspection in the armory
by Colonel McDantels of the regular
army Equipment, etc., will soon
be 'issued to the company by the
government.
George Boyd Will Defend
Title as Checker Champ
Central City, Neb., Jan. 27. (Spe
cial.) The state checker tournament
will be held in this city, February
8. George Boyd of this city is the j
present state champion. I
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A Trio of Prima-Donna Conductors
Dramatic Critics Unmasked
Southerners Solving the Negro Problem
Making the Movies Safe for the Children
Immigration
The National Debts of the World
Three Men in a Balloon
The Yankee Consul, New Style, On
the Job
Topics of the Day
Best of the Current Poetry
Illustrations and Cartoons
tisementsJin this number. It is not only interest
ing but of much importance to everybody to
choose the right material and you will find sev
eral kinds of roofings advertised, terra cotta, as
bestos shingles, paints, and varnishes, window
screens, special floorings for factory and home,
wood for doors and trim, steel products, electrical
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"Alfalfa John"
Loses Hot Fight
Takes Off Coat to Halt "Bank
ers' Special No. 2," But
Is Unsuccessful.
Lincoln, Jan. 27 (Special.)
"Bankers' Special No, 2" rushed
through the committee of the whole
in the lower house today refusing to
stop a second to permit even one
amendment to board it.
Representative S. J. Franklin of
Furnas, "Alfalfa John," in a frantic
endeavor to get an amendment
aboard, took oif his coat but to no
avail; the "special wouldn't stop.
The bill which passed the com
mittee of the whole gives the state
department of trade and commer.ee
discretionary power in issuing chart
ers to new banks. Its authors are
Representatives II. K. Frantr, Fred
L. Nutzman, Millard M. Robertson,
Robert Lynn, George A. Williams,
W. F. Wood, Benjamin H. Hickey,
George C. Clizbe and George M.
Wallace.
The Franklin amendment, its
Authors claimed, would wreck the
bill, as it threw the chartering of
hanks back to the old basis. Frank
lin declared that the passage of the
bill would sound the deathknell of
co-operative banks and in the course
of his arguments took off hit coat
His amendment didn't carry.
Neither did minor amendments pro
posed. Salary Increases Are
Proposed in Two Bills
Lincoln, Jan. 27. (Special.) In
creasing the salary of members of
the State Board of Control from
$3,000 to $5,000 is provided in a bill
by Representative C. H. Morian of
Cedar Grove.
Representative George Snow of
Chadron also introduced a blanket
salary increase to $3,000 a year to
the governor's secretary and secre
taries to the board of control, state
railway commission and various
other deputies to state officers. I
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Suspect Ex-Convict of 4
Attempt to Wreck Train
Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 27. (Special.)
James Lillre, ex-convict, is in jail
here, suspected of being implicated
in the attempt to wreck the 'Union
Pacific northbound passenger train
one mile east of here two .weeks airo.
Lillie was arrested yesterday by
Sheriff Shieck. . ,
The plotted wreJck was avoided
when the engineer of the train saw
a steel rail across the tracks in time
to stop his train.' Other arrests are
expected in the case. Lillie protests
his innocence.
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Debate oh Tariff
Bill Wanders Far
Away From Point
"Everything! From Negroes to
Battleships" Discussed in
Senate Simmons Attai-ks
"Iniquities' of Measure.
Washington, Jan. 27. The Ford
ney emergency tariff bill was theo
retically before the senate today, but
was discussed only in a speech by
Senator Simmons, democrat of North
Carolina, and in a brief debate on
sugar items. Speeches were so far
afield once that Senator McCunibcr,
republican of North Dakota, declar
ed the senators had discussed "every
thing from negroes to battleships."
Senator Borah, republican of
Idaho, spoke of disarmament, into
which other senators were drawn
in debate. Senator Walsh, democrat
of Montana, discussed the landlord
tenant laws of the District of Col
umbia and Senator Ransdell, demo
crat of Louisiana, discussed publish
ed statements which, be declared had
sought to link the Louisiana sena
tor with the big sugar interests.
Tariff debate, however, was not
without pointed argument. Senator
Simmon's speech was directed at
what )je termed th inquities of the
proposed legislation. He charged con
gress would be exceeding its power
in enacting such legislation. He also
took Senator Mc Cumber to task for
his attitude on wheat protection. He
argued that Mr. McCumber was sup
porting legislation which not only
would increase the price of bread
and cereals, hut would place the
United States in a position to suffer
retaliation at the hands of Canada.
Denying the statements of Mr.
McCumber that Canadian prices
were lower than those in the United
States, Mr. Simons quoted official
statistics to show that prices had
varied little between Minneapolis
and Winnipeg.
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Leaders of Congress
Are Facing Dilemma
(luiitlnucd from l'ucs One.)
plustzed its dilemma, many meritori
ous items going out on points of
order made by Chairman Hansen of
the agricultural committee, who has
been a persistent opponent of the
present system of handling supply
bills.
He antagonized his colleague;
Chairman Good of the appropria
tions committee, who put the bud
get plan through the last session
and went down to defeat, insisting
that the rule adopted would rise up
to haunt its advocates.
Before adjournment on Wenes
day night the bouse had been rent
almost asunder orer the question of
free seeds, apparently a question of
such transcending importance that
upon its solution would depend the
fate of the nation.
"Free Seeds or No Seeds."
The vital question was whether
or not $360,000 should be appropri
ated tor me oisirinuuon oi gnrucu
and flower seeds by members of
congress to their constituents.
Cut out by the appropriations
committee, voted back by the house
and then defeated by a vote of 142
to 141, the house adjourned on a
motion to reconsider after a previous
motion to table the reconsideration
was voted down.
When the house met today it ap
peared as if every representative
elected to the Sixty-sixth congress
was on the floor, the interest in the
outcome of "free seeds or no seeds,"
splitting delegations hither and you.
And the appropriation for free
seeds stays in the bill by 20 majority.
Congressman Jefferis of the Nebras
ka delegation being the only member
from his state to vote for free seeds.
Jefferis Justifies Vote.
He justifies his vote on the
grounds that last spring he inserted
an advertisement in The Bee. tell
ing the people of the Second dis
trict that he had seeds to give his
constituents if they would indicate
by letter or postcard, that they desir
ed them. As a consequence of that ad
vertisement nearly 3,000 household
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With that experience before him,
Mr. Jefferis said it would have been
a slap in the face of those who wrote
him last year for him not to have
voted as he did. today.
Beatrice Legion Post
Plans Membership Drhfc
Heatrice, Neb., Jan. 27. (Special.)
Bitting-Norman Post, American
Legion, - held a largely attended
meeting here and arranged for a
membership drive for 600 members.
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