THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAY 23. 1921.
'A
Credit Man for
Tire Finn Accused
ui uinnezziemenl
riiarged With Taking $13,000
in iraimer pi Merchandise;
Spite Work, Asserts
Suspect.
Charged with the embf rzifment of
$15,000, H. A. Hulk?, credit man
ager for the Omaha branch of the
Firestone Tire and Rubber com
pany, was arrested Saturday by De
tective Lloyd Toland.
"It is all a misunderstanding and
I am being made the goat," said
Hulke, who was released on $2,300
bonds.
"As a representative of the Fire
stone company I made a collection
of approximate! v $15,000 due the
rirm, paid by Will Huber, former
president of the Marine Tire and
Rubber company of Winchester,
from the funds of the latter, concern
for the transfer of merchandise. This
merchandise was transferred from
the Marine company of Springfield
to the Marine company of Win
chester.
Hulke said that the remittance
made by Huber in favor of the Fire
stone company was transferred im
mediately to the St. Louis branch,
"The charges against me are
merely a case of spite work," he
asserted.
Hulke denied that the Firestone
company hart taken over the Marine
rm, and that4he charges ot embez-
ziment followed this transaction, as
formerly stated. He has been cm-
ployed in his present capacity with
the Firestone company for three
years.
Hulke is being held, pending
further word from Winchester au
thorities. He lives at 1014 North'
Thirty-third street.
Korfanty Threat
Regarded as Bluff
Allied Chiefs Refuse to Take
Statements of Polish
Leader seriousiv.
By LARRY RUE.
Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright, 1921.
Oppeln, May 21. Adalbert Kor
fanty's renewed threat that if the
Germans entered the insurgent area
he. would blow up the mines and
destroy the industrial plants is re
garded in allied circles as a colossal
bluft
"Of course every threat can be
traced to the fact that the Poles are
not the owners," a high British offi
cial told me. "Korfanty threatens
destruction when he is no longer able
to hold the territory. If he fails his
cause will be lost and his threat will
tnerekr mm thf a ie who is re
sponsible. Surely, it there is ex
tensive destruction of property, the
allies will demand that Korfanty be
surrendered by the Poles.
Korfanty must remember the al
!fsand not the Germans are the
trustees of the territory he is holding
and the blowing up ot mines and in
dustries will be an attack apainst the
allies rather than against the Ger
mans.
Man Gets Six Months in Jail
For Failure to Go to Church
Redwood City, Cal.. May 21. Be
cause Joe Scrivani, Daly City me
chanic, forgot to go to church he
was given a six months' jail sentence
by Superior Judge George Buck of
San Mateo county.
Accused of stealing tools from the
Daly City garage, Scrivani .was con
victed of larceny and given probation
by the judge. There wf re four stipu
lations. He must go to,church every
Sunday; he must pay his wife $20 a
month; he mu$t pay his attorney and
he must write a letter to the court
every 30 days.
Scrivani failed to keep his prom
ises and yesterday he was called be
fore the judge.
Three of the commandments had
been broken. Scrivani had not paid
his wife, he had not written to the
court and worst of all he had "for
gotten" to go to church.
"I1 am willing to overlook two of
your infractions," said the court,
"but your failure to attend church
is unpardonable, your sentence will
be six months' in the county jail."
Oregon Man Scores Serum
Treatments for Animals
Bend, Ore.,-May 21.' Tom Ved
der, rancher of Lower Bridge, Ore.,
believes the golden rule should apply
to animals as well as men.
Iota, while in the army, was com
pelled to .take his regulation nine
shots' in the arm betore Demg al
lowed to take a shot at' the enemy.
But Tom refuses to - allow his
.cherished sows to be subjected to
any such treatment. He piotested
vigorously when Dr. George Tru
bey. tuberculosis inspector, wanted
to innoculate the animals, and if
they receive their "shots" it wilt be
N done only because the law requires
if.
Berry Picking on Sunday
Is Barred by This Church
Duluth, Minn., May 21. The
Swedish Tabernacle Mission church
has adopted resolutions making as
sufficient ground for dismissal from
membership in the church the fol
lowing offenses:
Fishing, hunting or berry-picking
j on Sunday. , t
' Dofng work around home, joy
ridine or savins anvthine against
the pastor on Sunday.
Rev. John J. Daniels, pastor, in
troduced the resolutions.
New Matron Appointed
At Grand Island Home
Lincoln, May 22. (Special.) Mar
riage caused the resignation of Mrs.
McKinney Anderson as matron of
the Soldiers' and Sailors' home at
Grand Island. The state board of
ntrol appointed Mrs. Atwood
Keithley. former matron, to t he
place. The board also is anxious to
employ a printer to Teach boys in
the state industrial school at Kearney
the printing trade.
Bee Want Ads Are Business !
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Voodtrap Shatters
Kentucky Derby Time
By One-Fifth Second
i
, Louisville. Ky., May 22. Old
Rosebud's record of 2:03 2-5 ior a
mile and a quarter, established when
, she won the Kentucky derby on May
; Kt. r14, was lowered one-titth of a
' second Saturday by Woodtrap, an
i outsider in the betting, who won the
Kentucky handicap tor three-year-olds
and upwards. Ethel Gray was
second ana Jouett third.
Woodtrap paid $45.20 to win, $23
to place and $12.10 to show.
The race, with $10,000' added
money, was worth $15.200,' of which
Woodtrap won $12,625; Ethel Gray
$1,500; Jotieft. 800, and Ginger, who
finished tourth, saved the stake ot
Presbyterians
Urge Union of All
Branch Churches
Discussion on Question Fol
lowed by Debate on Reor
ganization of Boards
And Agencies.
Winona Lake, Ind.. May 22. De
termination to insist on nothing less
than actual union with other branch
es of the Presbyterian church was
expressed at the 133d general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church
Saturday. Speakers declared that pro
posals for closer co-operation with
the other branches were useless and
that efforts should be made for an
organic union.
Discussion of the church union was
followed later by debate on reorgan
ization and consolidation of the
boards and agencies in the church.
This question was brought up by
the report of a special committee,
who proposed that some plan be
worked out in which the number of
boards be reduced and much over
lapping work eliminated.
Resolutions adopted declared that
the assembly "while favorable to any
measure which will promote closer
relations with Presbyterian and re
formed churches, is united and earn
est in the desire for an actual union
of the churches of the reform faith
and order."
The resolutions also instructed the
moderator to send a message to the
assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States (southern) at
St. Louis, expressing the desire of the
assembly for the real union of Pres
byterian and Reformed churches and
also expressing the hope that the as
sembly of the southern branch may
take, such action as will not only pro
mote closer relations, but also will
secure reunion of the two bodies It
was also directed that a similar mis
sage be sent to the assembly of the
Presbyterian church, the synod of
the Reformed church and the synod
of the Reformed church in the United
States.
Villa Waxes Fat and Happy
In Peaceful Life on Ranch
Los Angeles, May 21. The bo;s
of a 200,000-acre ranch, and with
many of his former officers and men
occuoving small farms around his
foldings. Pancho Villa, former Mex
ican revolutionary leader ana ban
dit, is waxing fat and happy in a life
of peace at Canutillo, in the state of
Durango, Mexico,
At least so says J. E. Hardy,
American mining man who has re
turned to Los. Angeles after a year
spent in the vicinity of Villa's es
tate. According to Hardy, Villa,
having lost most of his revolution
ary popularity with the people, is
taking no chances and goes about
armed to the teeth and accompanied
by a formidable bodyguard.
"In an endeavor to win back some
of his lost popularity. Villa has of
fered to rebuild the city of Jiminez.
destroyed during the war, and has
offered M,000 to improve the schoo1
system of Parral," said Hardy.
World Wine Famine Danger
As Result of French Frosts
Paris, May 21. A world-wide
famine of good wine is threatened
for next year and the year after as a
result of unprecedented f fasts 'and
snowfalls in the wine districts of
France after a premature opening of
spring. . '
The region around Bordeaux,
where claret is produced, has been
hard hit and the production, this
year will be only S per cent of. nor
mal. In the center of France the
vineyards of Volnay are "severely
damaged..
The hardest-hit grape-growers are,
however, in the Burgandy district.
Scarcely any Pommard, Moulin-a-vent
of Beaune will be produced this
year.
Sutherland Public Schools
End Year's Activities
Sutherland, Neb., May 22. (Spe
cial.) Professor Stuff of the state
university delivered the commence
ment address to the graduating
class of the high school here. Dur
irg the week's festivities the senior
class staged the play, "Cupid., at Vas-
sar. lne junwr-senior panquei
was attended by over 50 Every
grade in the schools presented some
thingjn the way of entertainment
Bulgarians Prefer to Work
On Farms to Joining Army
Sofia. May 21. Buigariatm prefer
working on the farm to fighting:
hence the Bulgarian government will
ask the allies to revise the treaty of
Xeuilly providing that Bulgaria shall
have only a voluntary army of men
willing to serve 12 years. Very few
volunteers have appeared and Bul
garia wants the allies to let it raise
an array bv conscription.
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World' Fattest Weman Dies
Tewksbury. Mass., May 21.
Flavia Oulette, once the fattest
woman in the world, died at her
home here. When she was SO years
old she weighed 680 pounds, but had
lost some weight of late years. Mrs.
Oulette was born in Quebec. She
was one of 18 children.
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Industry Moves West
RICHARD BOECKEL in "Business."
A century ago the valleys of a certain county, not far from
New "York City, were filled with wheat fields. Today they are
filled with dense woods. The only remaining evidence of their
earlier utility is here and there a tumble-down stone fence running
through the thicket fence piled by colonial farmers from the
abundance of stone that littered their lands.
These lands once supplied most of the wheat for New York,
and their owners prospered until the railroads came. The wheat
raisers of this county, and of the other Jess fertile sections of the
east, were the first to feel the effects of the revolution in trans
portation As freight rates came down ad middle western wheat was
brought in constantly increasing volume to eastern markets, the
price of wheat fell and the New York farmers soon found them
selves unable to produce it at n profit. In the end their farms
were abandoned to whatever would take root and the impoverished
owners moved on to the more fertile free lands of the west.
This was the beginning of a process of agricultural central
izatfon under the influence of improved transportation that went
on throughout the entire period of railroad expansion and falling
freight rates. Food production was centralized in the west and
manufacturing, at the same time, was centralized in the east. Both
were placed upon a new long-haul basis.
Goods from established industrial centers near the Atlantic
seaboard could be shipped into the west by rail so cheaply that
the development of manufacturing in the new territory, where
labor was scarce and free capital limited, met with almost com
plete discouragement. Practically all industrial development went
on where industry had been started in the east.
Industry was centralized by cheap long-distance transporta
tion. Inevitably it will be decentralized by the present high trans
portation rates. In some industries the process has already begun.
Long-haul rates today are at higher levels than in nearly 50
years. When the Interstate Commerce commission began gather
ing its statistics in 1887, the railroad revenue per ton mile was
only a little over a cent. By 1916 it had dropped to seven and
seven one-hundredths mills. Sinre then it has soared until at
present the revenue per ton mile is something over a cent and a
quarter.
Had the rise in rates reflected by these figures been spread
over a considerable period of time, industry would have been
gradually re-located for the elimination of long hauls. Compressed
within a short period of five years, during most of which the
world was at war, the increase in rates has given industry little
time to think, much less to act.
The -limited decentralization now taking place is going on
under the compulsion of economic forces that have been little
understood. The movement has not got into full swing, but when
all industry rids itself of the delusion that freight rates soon will
be back somewhere near the old levels, the relocation of manu
facturing establishments and parts of manufacturing and estab
lishments may be precipitous. Business noticed few ill effects
from advances during the period of war prosperity, and stood
less firmly against further increases than before.
In the agricultural sections, however, the increases were
keenly felt; and for a simple reason: Industry was able to pass
the increased rates on to the consumer, whereas the farmers al
ways have paid the freight to market on their products them
selves. The "hog and hominy" movement for diversified agriculture
in the south, started when cotton prices fell with the outbreak of
the war, received great encouragement in the increased rates. So
long as the south devoted itself solely to raising cotton it would
be caught both going and coming. It would be compelled to pay
the increased rates not only on its cotton, but on everything it
ate and wore and used that was brought from the north and
the west.
Along with the "hog and hominy" campaign there went a
movement to induce northern manufacturers of cotton goods to
locate in the south, near the cotton fields. One great company
had already seen the advantages and placed its cotton mills there.
Since that time practically every cent of new capital that has gone
into the manufacture of cotton goods has been invested in mills
in the south.
Almost over night there developed a condition of overproduc
tion. Not that there was more goods or transportation avail
able than the country could use, but there was more available than
the country could buy at prevailing prices.
The answer to the problem was simple: Reduce prices. But
then there arose that more difficult problem: How could prices
be reduced? They could be brought down somewhat, of course,
by reducing wages.- Many industries took this obvious course.
It is not a real solution. Sooner or later it must be seen that
a condition caused by diminished purchasing power cannot be
cured simply by reducing wages, even though the reductions in
prices be proportionate.
The real solution, as some industries have already come to
see, is to reduce prices by eliminating waste. The greatest of all
wastes, as American industry is organized at present, is the waste
of unnecessary transportation. Ten years ago it was a small waste.
The multiplication of transportation costs during the war has con
verted it into a great waste.
. States west of the Rockies are discovering that the hew rates
are working out decidedly to their advantage. High transporta
tion costs operate as an internal protective tariff, giving en
couragement to local industries by shutting out competition from
older and more efficient industries at distant points.
, Many new .furniture factories are being established on the
Pacific coast. They import hard woods from the Philippines
and South America and convert them into desks, tables and chairs
to supply the western markets. Grand Rapids, for the first time
in all its history as the furniture center of the Americas, finds
itself unable to compete, because of the high freight rates. Even
the "movies" have taken to manufacturing their own furniture,
rather than buy it in the east.
In manufacturing industries that can be operated profitably
in small units, requiring little expensive machinery, the process
of decentralization is already apparent. Combinatons in in
dustries, whose raw materials are widely distributed throughout
the country, are faced with dissolution more complete than ever
has been enforced by any court.
Industries requiring heavy capitalization and huge organiza
tions will be influenced by the high freight rates to move, not so
much to their markets as to the richest sources of their principal
raw materials, where one long haul can be eliminated and their
operations an be conducted more efficiently.
The grip of New England upon the textile industry is being
loosened not only by the south, but also by the west. Woolen mills
established in Oregon, near the sheep-raising country, are rapidly
taking up the western market for .blankets, and are competing
with eastern mills on even terms in the markets of the middle west.
The present is a real transition period for industry and
for the railroads. Neither protective tariffs nor reductions in
wages will bring it to an end. It will have run its course only
when the industrial fabric of the nation has been rewoven upon
more logical lines and wastes have been eliminated. When that
has been accomplished the United States will be a more prosper
ous and more evenly developed nation and its people may look
upon the high railroad rates that started the process as a blessing,
rather than a misfortune.
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