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V Germany Not to Be Dictated to At London Meet r Minister of Finance Declares Country Will Present Rep aration Proposals of Own at Conference. , Berlin, Feb. 12. (By The Asso ciated Tress.) Germany is not go ing to the London reparations con ference to be dictated to, Dr. Wirth, the minister of finance, declared in a speech to the Bremen .Chamber of Commerce today. . Great i economic questions could not he solved in that way, he added. "We are prepared to accomplish all we can," continued Dr. Wirt)), "because we feel under a moral obli gation to assist in . reconstruction; and we will make reparation pro posals of our own in London. "The newspaper reports on this subject are incorrect. Our offer will not be a small one. The nation must learn to realize that what we shall offer cannot be extracted from the national wealth, but must bev pro duced by work." "America cannot hold atoof," added the finance minister, "when tlte economic forces of the entire world shall assemble around one ta ble, and all plana are mere theories unless the whole economic world is prepared to co-operate." I Start Testimony In Shooting Case Stage All Set for Famous West Virginia Trial Two De fendants Dismissed. Williamson, W. Va.. Feb. 12. John McDowell, a Baldwin-Felts employe, present at the Matewan battle- last May; was the first wit ness called by the prosecution in the trial of 19 men for murder, when court' convened this morning. The first shot of the battle that resulted in the death of 10 men came j'rom the doorway of ; a hardware store near the railroad station, accbrding to McDowell's testimony. He could not say who was the. first man killed. He testified that Sid Hatfield, Matc w.an police chief; Albert C. Felts and Mayor C. C, Testerman, all of who mwcre killed,; were gathered about the doorways ' . When he was turned over to the defense for cross-examination. Attor ney J- J- Coniff went back into what has been accepted as the cause of the battle, the eviction of miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal company. McDowell was uncertain as to the number of families evicted by . the Baldwin-Felts detectives that day, but said he Jjclieved there were rive or six of them. 'While a few of us were taking the furniture from a house," said t fie w itness. "Mr. Felts, who jwas. in charge, said, 'two or three bf you j had better get your rifles, for yon der comes the mayor. Sid Hatfield and a gang of men.' We did as we were told. Hatfield, Mayor Tester man and two or three others came to where we were and protested against the eviction." Hurley Declares Schwab Was Genius Washington, Feb. 12. E. N. Hur: ley of Chicago, former chairman ot the , shipping board, testified today before a house committee investigat ing shipping board operations, that he bad been told by Clemenceau. at the Paris peace conference that the appointment of Charles M. Schwab as director general of the Emergency Fleet corporation had frightened the Germans, heartened the , French and enthused the British. Describing Mr. Schwab as the "foremost captain of industry in the country," Mr. Hurley said he had been instrumental in .getting Mr. Schwab to serve, because he real ized that "satisfactory progress was not being made inUhe building of new yards and in the construction of wooden ships." Cops Jam Patrol Wagon, Rush To Battle Bandits, Find Baby The patrol wagon 4 filled with policemen made a hurried trip to burglar call which was sent by the A. D. T. yesterday. The officers surrounded the bank and advanced with drawn revolvers, expecting the bank robbers to give battle; . Instead of encountering bandits, the bluecoats walked into William Phillips, 418 South North Thirty ninth street, and his 2-year-old daughter, Francelene. "Francelene is the bandit," Phil ips told the policemen. "She just stepped on the burglar alarm but ton The officers shook hands with ihe baby and returned to Central police station. London Paper Says Armed Men .Raid U. S. Consulate " London, Feb. 12. The Evening rCews today printed a dispatch from Cork which said much excitement had been caused at the Cove . (Queenstowns) by the visit of a party of troops to the American con sulate. The message said the mili- . . j er tary naa carnea ort some leainer . a ,li a 1?mrt Trick rnncf aHula barracks at Westview, the content of the bags not being known. A Queenstown message quoted "American Consul Mitchell as.stating there was no foundation for the re port that crown forces had entered the consulate. : Bandits Rob Great Western Ticket Office at; Waterloo '.',..V(.rt,n T-, IT.k -V? RonIItc last night burglarized the Chicago Great Western ticket office here ob taining $267. A stocky pinch bar was used by the yeggs to force the night lock on the door and to jimmy the cash drawer. Police believe the robbery was interrupted by apprdaching pedes trians. The bandits are unknown, and the police have but slistht slues with, wljich to' work. ..- f i Professional "Blue Law" Reformer Says Fighting Battles for Moral Legislation Has More Thrills Than Stalking Big Game Dr. Wilbur Crafts Who Has Been "in at Death in , Every Fight for 40 Years" Gets More Pleasure Out of Watching Morals of People Than Participating in Wholesome Pastimes. (Editor's Note) What manner of people is it that seek to impose on the country the bleak, forbidding "blue laws" and "blue Sundays?" The answer to this oft-asked question found below in the personal story of Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, head of the International Reform bureau, which is now maintaining a powerful lobby at Washington looking to th; passage of such laws by congress. In his story Dr. Crafts says he has been "in at the death" in every great battle for moral legislation for nearly 40 years. "Some fellows," he writes, "get their supreme pleasure in fanning prize fights and in movie thrills and joy riding, but how tame that is compared with my joy in knocking out Fitrsimfnons and Jeffries and Willard by helping to secure governmental acts that barred Fitzsimmons from the arena at St. Paul, and drove Jeffries from San Francisco to Reno, and kept the Willard-Johnson films trom entering this coun try. . "I had rather hunt news dealers to clear the streets of perils for youth, or hunt congressmen in the interest of ood laws than to hunt or eat wild game. ...''' "It is as enjoyable as an elephant hunt in India or a tank attack in France. . . "Without a quiver I call myself a professional reformer!" By DR. WILBUR F. CRAFTS. (Written for International w Service.) Copyright, 1931, International Newi Serrlee Washington, Jan. 22. I am asked in this statement to write, not of bills I am promoting, . not of the work of the international Reform bureau of which 1 am superintend ent, but, quite humanly, of my own life, which has been "the simple life" on the personal side, ' and "the si'nuous life" on the public side. They say every life would make a good story if frankly told. If there is anything in mine-- to instruct others, whether by way of warning or otherwise, I ought not to with hold it. Well, for one thing, I am quite content with the places where, and the times when, I have lived. What better birthplace could a future pro hibition ldef have chosen, if he had been isu!tcd. than Maine in the days of Neal Dow? When ccald a boy have been in troduced to Christian politics more favorably than in the civil war, when the appeal to voters was not to sup port the republican party in order to save the "full dinner, pail" and increase profits and wages, but to save the union and emancipate the slave? That was the high meaning of politics as I first saw it at 11 to 14 years of age. Jhe same Funtan ism that had impelled my Mayflower ancestor to fight King George was impelling the Puritans' descendants to fight King Alcohol and King Cot ton. Let the impuritans who sneer at the Puritans take note that these supreme crusades against enslaving forces were of Mayflower origin. And let them show some achieve ments for human progress by 'the Puritans' critics that are even half as useful. Whatever of good there has been in my work has been large ly due to Furitan heredity, supple mented in boyhood by Puritan train ing in home and school. j Studied Jn Boston. When I was old enough to under take literary work, where in all the world could I have found an envir onment so favorable as Boston, then in its golden age, with such stars in its galaxy as Wendell Phillips, Longefellow, Whittier. Oliver Wen dell Holmes and Mrs. Mary Liver more?' These were my teachers in literature and in reform. When I went west in 1876 I found (a New Engtand Puritan, Dwight L. Moody, the acknowledged religious leader of Chicago and the whole west in church evangelism, in Sun day school work, and in Y. M. C. A. activities. And when I returned east I found another New England Puri tan, Henry Ward Beccher, the ac knowledged leader of New York and the whole east in religion and reform. And going later to Wash ington I found Reed and Dingley and Frye and Hale, all from my native Maine, dominating the nation al congress. Again I challenge the sneering impuritans to match the story in any field of high endeavor. Traveling abroad in 1873 and later, I found the "nonconmormist con science" leading in London, imper sonated in Gladstone and Spurgeon. I ' found the same dominant type in mission .fields in the Jessups, the Scuddcrs, the Gulicks, and many more. It was such people that I met. as a traveler and lecturer in 49 American and 29 foreign common wealths men of vision and passion and regnant conscience that en riched my life more than art or scenery. "Far-Flung Battle Line." Shortly after the civil war, in 1867, midway in my college course, I start ed preaching with a sermon on "Faith and Works," and lecturing with the theme of "Total Abstinence and Prohibition." That four-in-hand has increased to a "borax team" of many cleansing reforms, for after. 21 years in the pastorate I became pastor at large in 1889, first as a defender ' of the imperilled American Sabbath, then under bitter r.ttack by Sunday saloons, and later, in 1890. I broadened my attack to in clude the whole league of commer cialized vices and commercialized politics, of which the saloon is but one, though the heaviest, battalion. A lawyer presiding at one of my early reform meetings frankly said: "You are starting out to reform peo ple. They dont want to be re formed. You've got a hard job." Some might make it so, but to me reforming has been a series of adven tures. The joy of the foot ball cap tain overcoming a strong lineup, of the hunter conquering big game, of the soldier winning agaftist great edds, all these have been mine. For 25 years I have taken but a month's vacation because variety and victory are all the recreation I needed. I had rather hunt newsdealers to clear the streets of perils for youth or hunt congressmen in the interest of good laws than to hunt or eat wild game. My mental attitude in clearing newsrooms in scores of cit ies was expressed in the heading I put on the story in one case, "Hunt ing in the Wilds of Pittsburgh." In two days I cleaned 51 newsrooms there by simply showing the of fender in each case, calling him quietly aside, the law he had broken, and taking his promise to quit. Clean Up Newsdealers. In Cleveland I bunted in an auto mobile with a Bible class teacher and Y. M. C. A. religious work di rector. It was as enjoyable as an elephant hunt in India, or a tank at tack in France when it was new, as we cleaned tip 20 newsdealers in two hours and a half. For once it was the wicked, not the good, that were afraid, as we yhowed the dealer's liability in each case to a maximum punishment, for exposing evil pictures where a boy might see them, of $2,000 fine and live years' imprisonment. - Half a thousand times I. have won such victories, and winning some benefit for others is after all the Greatest satisfaction. It will seem almost incredible to those who think of reformers as de lighting in jails that I have secured obedience to law in more than 400 cases with no arrest but "the arrest of thought," and never arrested but one man in any other way. Always "in at the Death." Many "fans" have counted it the crown of the year to see the "world's series" in base ball before the gamblers threw a fog of suspi cion over it by bribing our best players; but what if you could be pitcher and "fan" in the same game?; That is my privilege, for after pro moting a good bill in congress for months or years I get in the gallery to sec the final fight on the floor with a greater joy than anyj'fan" ever knew when his own nine won the pennant. "A good time is one that don't go off with the having," and the joy of winning a good law goes on forever. It has been my fortune to be "in at the death," as hunters say, in every great battle for moral legislation, save -two, since 1882, when national moral leg islation began in the anti-polygamy. ,aw- N Thrills in Reforming. Some fellows get their supreme pleasures in "fanninc" orize fights. and in movie thrills, and joy riding, but how tame that is compared to my joy in knocking out Fitzsirn mons and Jeffries and Willard by helping to secure governmental acts that barred Fitzsimmons from his arena at St. Taiil and drove Jeffries from San Francisco to Reno, and kept the Willard-Johnson films from entering . this, country. ... .", No man ever got so much real fun in winning stakes at a horse race'as I did in beating "Boss Quay" in the legislature at Harrisburg in his plan to legalize rice gambling. Generals thrill with delight when by strategic flank movements thev win a battle, but never victor was nappier in these bloody battles than when, again and again as a "Chris tian lobbyist" at the doors of con- T IJ f. L . Sie5, i cuuiu noi carry a oiu xnai was sidetracked far down the caka dar, but got it on some bill as an amendment which I call the re former's side door. In that way we won the first anti-canteen amend ment, prohibition for immigrants, the law of Christ on divorce and war prohibition. In defeats also I claim a place among the sports, since the supreme test of a "good sport" is to take de feat without a grouch, in which the impuritans, thinking they include all the sports, prove that they haven't any. In Mayflower year, .'. fighting the pugilists in New York and Mas sachusetts in their effort to legalize knockouts, I was knocked out twice myself, and instead of the defeated man's consolation share of: the win nings it cost me $2,000 to be licked, but I came up smiling1 both, times, and am putting in more money and effort to arouse, and equip the preachers' meeting in 39 state capi tals where the fight on legalizing pugilism is momentarily expected. Pleasures of Authorship. The joy of electing laws that will go on forever not one of my 18 has been set aside by the courts is hardly greater in my case than the joy of writing. There is no finan cial inducement to write serious books. Every one of my 42 has gone beyond the first edition, and "Successful Men 'of Today" has had a circulation of 45,000, but "there is no money in it." 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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1921. ?IY'Tir55L; Vvy j .tun ii wiv ?t.i ni.1. it, lau ivuuvi and salary is secondary. - It has been one of the special joys (f authorship to me that I have been a pioneer in most of my book ven tures. In these cases there is the thrill of blazing a new trail. My first book, "Through the Eye to the Heart." was our book, for in au--thorship my wife has been a com rade from the first. We started as book partners and when the time came to divide the profits I took her into the firm. It was the first book cn plain blackboard work for Sun day schools. So our second book, "Childhood, the Text Book of the Ace." was written before the word ''Child Study" got into verbal cur rency. My -book, "The Sabbath for Man"," was the first one taking the orthodox view that had been issued iii 22 years. My "Practical Christian Sociology' was the first boek on that subject by an orthodox man, and my "Internationalism," in 1908, more than anticipated the league of na tions of 10 years later. Adventures in Finance. Even the finances of the reformer I knew best of all have been a series c f adventures. 'Cominjj to Wash ington to establish a "Christian lob by" with less than $50 in hand, and nothing pledged for the untried ven ture, he has been able to put back all salary received and lives on the interest of the interest of what he has saved on salary of $2,500, which he did not ask to have raised even in the world war. It is some adven, ture to be able to finance one's dreams. He coull write a book on the simple life that might multiply, marriages of sensible lovers who do not know it is "the high cost of high living" that has troubled our land. , A recent addition to this adven ture in economy has been helping to bring down high prices, in which I have at least matched Governor Coolidge, for in the year 1920 I bought no clothing, save one pair of cuffs, one suit of underwear, two pairs of socks, one necktie and -a dozen and a half of collars,- and I bought' these only because I was away from home when the need came. But for that it would have been total abstinence on new clothes for the year. Every reformer is entitled, to gen erous sup,port, especially if he has boys and girls to educate, but the sneers about ."paid reformers" fail to explain even to enemies the re form motive in my case. Without a quiver I call 'myself a "professional reformer." When we need a doctor we want a professional Sale of Men's Clothing Shoes and Apparel Entire Stock Goes at 40 and 50c on the Dollar Men's $25 Suits, go at ,,, .....SIOOO Men's $35 Suits, go at S150O Men's $50 Suits, go at , 22 50 Young Men's $45.00 all-wool Overcoats, sizes 34 to 38, $10 and $15 Men's $65 Overcoats, In all sizes. Black and dark grey Kersey, quilted lining and fur collars, go in drastic clearance at.... $30 Men's $125 fur lined Overcoats, go at $55 $12 and $15 Blue Serge Trousers, go at ,T$ Men's Blue, Green and Brown Flannel Trousers, go at i$5 Men's Shoes .Leading brands,, .such as Stradford, Bates and Eclipse, go at 60c on the dollar. Shirts Men's leading brand shirts, such as Arrow, Glendale, etc. Large assortment, with or without collars, in Madras and Basket Weave, will- go at 50c on the dollar. $12 Silk Shirts, broken sizes, at $150 Heavy Blue "Work Shirts, 75c 13.00 and $6.00 Army Flannel ' Shirts' ...$3.50 JOHN FELDMAN 109 No. 16th St. See Our Windows doctor, not a quack. When we need a lawyer it is a professional, not a shyster, we ask. In the hardest of all tasks, reform, we should seek not an amateur, but an expert a professional reformer. In Great Britain all employed temperance workers have an association and meet annually to discuss their com mon problems, after, the fashion pi the bar associations and doctors' as sociations. I hope to see all paid so cial workers so organized, proud to be "professional reformers," whose membership in such an association shall certify their standing and pro tect the public against incompetent dabblers in retorm. Among this Puritan's thrilling ad ventures have been numerous inter views with great men in many for eign tours. Except the first foreign tour in 1873, such interviews along with national and world conventions, have far exceeded merc-scenery and exhibitions in my touring purposes and plans. Among the high officials who have granted interviews of halt an hour or an hour have been Count Okuma of Japan, Marquis Ito, then resident general of Korea; Count Hyashi, President Yuan Shihkai of China, H. E. Tong Shao yi, China's foreign secretary: M. Capelle, for eign secretary of Belgium, and Presi dent of International Convention on Africa; ambassadors at same of Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, China and others. ' " Interviews Marquis Ito. Of these interviews in the world tour of 1907-1908, which I describe as "As a Reformer Let Loose Among the Diplomats, the most unique ad ventuhe was my one-hour interview with Marnuis Ito in Korea. I knew he was allowing Japanese to enrich themselves by introducing opium and gambling, though both were sternly suppressed in Japan. My task was to make him feel the world knew it and would expect him to stop both evils and yet not seem to rebuke him. I boldly assumed to be his cham pion. I greeted him as "the great est man of the Orient, who had in hand its hardest task, namely, to make a Scotland rather than an Ireland of Korea." I told him I had said in 'a speech to students at the Y. M. C. A. the night before that if they saw the Japanese were introducing opium and gambling they should not go about whisper ing against the government but re port the wrongdoing frankly to the governor general. It was a critical moment. If he suspected it was a complaint and re buke I might get a rough dismis sal. But I looked him straight in the eye, and he apparently accepted my assumed championship as genu ine. And then I changed the sub ject and talked of the great Japan ese victory over Russia. "Was Oyama the secretary of war," I asked, "a general, or, like our sec retary of war, only a lawyer?" For tunately he missed my meaning, for it brought me a word picture of Japan's ' scientific warfare. "The commander-in-chief," he said, "does not go to the firing line. He sits among the telephones." War by Telephone. That was a wonderful flashlight on the firsf war conducted with modern invention. And that is the way I have been fightingr of late, at the telephone half of the time or more in answering calls of the great papers 'of the nation, nearly all obsessed by the fear that the na tion is in danger of a renaissance of Puritanism, though the impuri tans sem to be in full control of Sunday. There has been no delu sion so absolutely mythical since the world was filled with the spell of witchcraft. In that sense only is the "blue law" terror Puritanic. As that is disappearing I , hope the papers are going to help me and let me help them deal with real na tional and international perils dope, and anarchy, and gambling, and ( vampires, and many more grim realities. Hunting these social foes together might be as interesting as the knights of old found it to make the highways safe for womanhood and childhood. Honduras May Adopt Gold As Basic Money Standard San Salvador, Feb. 12. The Hon duran minister of finance has Sub mitted to the national congress a bill providing for the establishment of a gold, basis for the currency of nonauras, says a aispaicn received here today. ,4 Men's $10 and $11 all-wool Sport Coat Sweaters, go at.. $4.50 Large variety of Men's Neck- wear, ranging in price from $1.25 to $3.50, goes on sale in 4 big lots 25tt 50 $1.23 and -$1.50 Largo assortment of 75c Grip Bow Ties, go on sale at.. 35$ Men's underwear, such as Chalmers, Wilson Bros, and Rdyal Mills go on sale at , 40 n the Dollar. $2.50 and $3 Winter Caps, go at .....75 50c Garters go on sale at. .30 35c and 50c leading brands of Soft Collars, go on sale at 5 for ; $1.00 Hosiery 33c Cotton Hose , ,20 75o Silk Lisle Hose AQ $1.50 Pure Silk Thread Hose ior 90C Directly Opposite Postoffice. c U. S. Authorities Plan to Prevent Typhus Spread Imposition of New Regula tions Both Abroad and at Home Is- Considered Likely. , Washington, Feb. 12. New meth ods to safeguard the people of the United States from Europe's typhus epidemic were under consideration today by the federal authorities. Confidence was expressed, however, that the more than 35 cases found among passengers aboard steam ships arriving a New York would not result in the spread of the dread disease to the United States. Imposition of new regulations both abroad and at American ports was considered as likely to result from a conference today between Ewing Laporte, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of public health, and Surgeon General Dim ming of the public health service. A ban on admission of immigrants from typhus-infested idstricts of Eu rope, however, is not regarded as warranted in view of the precautions already taken and contemplated, Sec retary Tumulty has informed Dr., Royal S. Copcland, New York City health commissioner. Commissioner Copeland, in a telegram to the White House, recommended the imposition of such a ban. Unemployment Problem Causes Concern in Mexico Mexico City, Feb. 12. Solution of present labor problems growing out of the influx of foreign workmen and the consequent unemployment of many nafives will be sought in a hill soon to be sent to congress. Rafael Zubaran Capmany, minister of industry and commerce, declared yesterday "the proposed law was be ing modeled largely after similar laws in the United States. The bill, he said, would require that in some cases companies em ploy from 75 ta 80 per cent native labor. Thieves Steal Safe With $11,000 Out of Ohio Bank Toledo. O.. Feb. 12. Thieves 1roke into the Bank of Temperance, Temperance, Mich., about M miles north of here, early today, loaded a heavy safe containing $1 1,000 into a waiting truck and made their gct away. ... .. t. U v aliace, president or xne bank, said the safe was equipped with a three-day time lock and that it could not be opened through the combination until Monday morning. Postmistress Near Memphis Held in Jail for Murder Memphis, Feb. 12. Mrs. Bernice Vallance, postmistress at Palaska, near here, is in jail today on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Floyd Barnham. Barn ham was shot and killed on the street today. Mrs. Vallance, a widow, is iaid to have become en raged when she learned he had pur chased a license to marry another woman. The Omaha Bee's New South Side Office ' Located in ' Philip's Department Store . 4935 uth 24th Street Merely farther evidence of our policy of giving the best possible service to our many readers i.nd prospective readers. We ask you to.make use of this branch office it is prepared to receive your subscription, your Want Ads, your advertising, to give you information in fact, to render a complete service. We believe this new location will - prove very convenient for you. 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