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Hit iiKK: OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTKilHEU 13. 1921.
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Jlr. Ford's Railway Miracle
, Success With D., T. t I. Dut to
Lowtr Tonnage, and Higher Rate.
(Prom th Railway Age.)
Tlie rt!rol miracle' which Henry Ford U
uppof d to have wrought by converting tli De
troit, Toledo & Ironton from a delicit incurring
property to a profit earning railroad in a few
month hai been due, not to any change in the
method of operation but primarily to an increase
in the average freight rate per ton per mile. It
it pointed out thia l due in turn to, first, "a great
change in the character of the traftic handled,'
I of the L'nlveralty of Iowa
II ilv too much runUal detail
and, second, "the fact that the Detroit. Toledo 'or reader, in consequence
The Bee?$ Platform
1. New UaSea Passtager Statiea.
2. Continued improvement of the Na
braaka Highway, iacludlag tba pava
maat of Mala Thoroughfares Uadiag
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A abort, low-ret Waterway from tba
Cora Bait to tba Atlaatie Oceaa,
4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, witb
City Manager form of Coreramoat.
i Who Killed Virginia Rappe?
.' It is too soon to aend "Fatty" Arbuckle to
! (lie gallows, although he stands in parlous fix
; as a result of his misconduct. When the ma-
" chinery of the law has ground out all the facts,
then will be known the extent to which the film
1 star is culpable. Pending that issue, we may
give some consideration to the wider responsi
bility for the tragedy.
' If scandal has marked the growth of the niov-
.ing picture industry, a share of the blame greater
' than the half must be borne by the people. Long
ago the managers discovered that a hint of the
risque served to bring patrons in shoals; if the
. salacious could be touched upon, then the success
of the venture was assured. The mainspring of
the screen drama has been sex against sex. Flay
after play has been presented, the argument of
which is that the heroine could descend to the
lowest depth of degradation and then by a mar
riage with a noble youth restore herself to social
: if not to physical purity. Other plays have
shown how a wayward boy could violate all the
laws of God and man, and then through the sav
ing grace of a girl's pure love be lifted to a place
by her side. Every sentiment of humanity has
been outraged, no revolting detail of bestiality
has been spared, and the American people have
gazed and paid for gazing at scenes that should
shock, but seemingly have not.
Is it any wonder that the Pickfords, the Fair
bankses, the Chaplins, the Arbuckles, feel they
have a right, to do what they please, when they
please, and how they please? They are commis
sioned by the American people, who have ignored
or laughed at their immorality, and lavished on
them such wealth as ought to be a source of na
tional shame.
Motion pictures may be clean; most of them
are; in fact, the greatest of them are .irreproach-
. able from a point of morals. Actors can live
cleanly; thousands of them do. Talent does not
require smut as a stepping stone to success.
However, patient merit does not always imbibe,
courage from the spectacle of the unworthy wor
shiped by the multitude,
It is not caring what "Fatty" Arbuckle does,
so long as be is funny in the film; what the pri
vate life of any of them is, so long as they are
entertaining or amusing in public, which has en
couraged them to go ahead as they have. If
Arbuckle had thought his "party" at the San
Francisco hotel would have brought a reduction
in his income, he would not now be in a felon's
cell, accused of murdering a girl who, engaged
, in the orgy with him. He knew the American
public would pay to see his pictures no matter
what else he did,7TM so indulged himself after
his whim. The people can not divest themselves
of at least moral responsibility for "Fatty" Ar
buckle and Virginia Rappe. " , .,'
! the prospect for fall busiueu is most encouraging,
and whatever flit may be true, Nebraska will be
Ptithrr cold nor hungry during the winter that
is now not so very far away. So it is well to
join with the merry monarch in a few days of
genuine ret and pleasure before taking up the
last active preparations for the long winter's
campaign, Go to the races thia week, and attend
the carnival next week, and you II feel better ill
winter long.
Should Railroads Be Self-Supporting?
Railroad earning for last July amounted to
almost $70,000,000, which is to be compared with
a deficit of almost $12,000,000 in the same month
of 1920. By economical management, reduction
of wages and enforcement of high rates the net
operating income hat been brought up to 4J
per cent of the valuation, still somewhat short
of the yi per cent profit which the Interstate
Commerce commission was instructed to assure
by the transportation act of 1930.
The movement for a general reduction ip
freight charges will find no encouragement in
these figures. Through a policy of cutting tariffs
on certain commodities, as on live stock in the
west, the transportation interesti evidently are
counting on decreasing the pressure on them
without making any general concessions.
The railroad problem is far from solved, and
restoration of the transportation business to a
profit making basis quite conceivably would only
be at the expense of the directly productive in
dustries.. To quote from a financial publication
of high standing, "It is doubtful whether we are
not penny wise and pound foolish in insisting that
our railroads shall be self supporting." This
expert goes on to say th.it he is disposed to be
lieve that if costs of transportation were cut in
half, and if the people as a whole were to pay, 1-88 cents, 88 per cent greater than in September, I school standing."
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How to Keep Well
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LEARNING PROM CHILDREN.
The I'hyaieal Orowth of Children
From Birth to Maturity" U the title
of a atudy made by Dr. B. T. Uatdwln
& Ironton ha been able to use the large volume ' W,J 10 '" b"1 c',0.1
of traAie originated by the Ford interest, to se- wfi '.'t fX It jS.t ihl
cure larger division, of the through rate, on all fiJI'thS 'w.n'tTn W quVS
trains naiiuitu parity cvrr hi lines aim parujr ntm dlSCUMl. I WUD I COUIO QUOlt
over other lines. fw thousand word of conclusion
"During- the four mouth. September to De- and opinions from thia atudy, but 1
eember. 19J0. Inclusive, after the erttent railu-iv must confine myself to a few hun-
rates were fixed." .ay. the Railway Age. "Ine mn .,.,., , v.. -
D.. T. L I. handled an average of 9.24o.OOO ton- L!fa:rirvU1eL,rVUWo;ri-.,S
mile in revenue freight per month and hadl... h. u. ,,
freight earning, averaging 49J,8O0 a month. In chronuluglcal av. In oihur word.
the month, of April. May and June, 19J1. the I how mature la the child rather than
road handled an averaae freiaht business of 37.-1 how old la he or how well developed
09J.000 ton-miles a month and earned from it an ' Don,i ,r mown ,m
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average or momn. in otucr won ., j h ,,., t , , , ,nJ
its average freight business in these three months gam ,',,,, b a,m:d on he bust
was almost 25 per cent less than In the last four of the child's ace and the use seleot-
months of 19J0, while its average monthly freight ed should be the physlnioatcal. Thia
earnings were over 40 per cent greater. the child naturally doi-a and the
"This larae increase n freiaht earninas. in pareni ana ieacner anoum muir
spite of a big decline in the total freight handled,
could have been due to only one cause, and that
was an increase iu the average rate. And there
was a very extraordinary increase in it. average
rate per ton per mile a thing to which public
attention never has been called before. In the
last four months of 19J0 its average rate was
m surr iuii y?l ,5 4,re .vtup ra g ycr ,h- .l,.,.,,.,, H.tflnnmnt of tha
Inn nr mil in Inn fu mA liana 1070 ..in I " ------ -;-" - r -
. , id - . boy or gin as well a tne age ana
tuea from the child's natural ten
dvncles. It should be the- baala of
InipnlHl exercise and work, likewise
of school work. No child should be
promoted or demoted with -nit taking
Into consideration hi or ht-r phyal-
ologlcal age.
Daldwln nays: "Child lahor leam-
lution should take Into consideration
' Cuba's Financial Muddle.
" A peppery leader of the Cuban liberal party
publicly complains that the delegation recently
sent from Havana to Washington was coldly re
ceived. He seems indignant that the $30,000,000
sought by the callers was not forked over forthwith,-
and resents our government suggesting
methods whereby the wreck in Cuba may be
salvaged. He, and the American propagandists
on behalf of Cuba as well, forg that the finan
cial stress which has overtaken the islanders is
the direct result of an effort made deliberately
. to hold up the world on sugar. When Americans
were paying 25 to 30 cents a pound for refined
"sugar and going on short rations at that, the
Cuban sugar planters were riding the world with
whip and spur. Havana banks loaned money on
sugar that it might, be withheld from market in
order to maintain the price. No matter what
brought about the collapse, it came, and the
greedy, avaricious speculators were caught in the
crash. Cuba's finances are in precarious condi
tion, yet that entails no obligation against us to
loan money that will be needed to restore the
island government to health. General Crowder
. lias once more set aright the peculiar politics of
the natives, and in the ordinary course of busi
ness the situation down there will be righted, but
it does appear unreasonable to ask Americans to
liquidate a debt that grows out of the effort of
the sugar pirates to raid the homes of the United
States. ' . ' . . 1
Al-Sar-Ben's Curtain Raiser.'
" r Ak-Sar-Ben will, in the parlance of the track,
get away to a flying start this week. The grand
old monarch, about the only one of his kind now
alive, will come to the barrier with breast heav
ing and nostrils dilated, eager to make the plunge
into the fall festivities. For a curtain-raiser to
the "big show," a program of mixed races is to
be set before the king this week, in which horse,
man, airship, automobile and perhaps other mov-
, ing things will compete. It is about as diversi
fied as such a program possibly could be, and ex
hibits fairly the temper of the king and his court
Action ta what they crave, and that is what has
been provided out at the exhibition grounds.
From Tuesday to Saturday it will be a swiftly
moving procession of events, and the blood, that
will not stir in response thereto is sluggish in
deed. Xext week the main celebration will be
ushered in, but the proceedings of the Current
week will be something more than an appetizer.
This is a year for celebration. Crops are good,
through taxation, the resulting loss
roads, the gain in our aggregate national wealth
would far exceed the additional revenue which
the government would have to provide, by that
taxation, iu order to make good the loss to the
railroads.
This remarkable idea is best explained by
reference to the fact that the item of freight al
ways appears whether the product has been
shipped or not. Omaha, for example, is unable
to buy sugar any cheaper for the fact that it is
produced in quantities in the beet fields of west
ern Nebraska.' The cost of bringing in sugar
from the more distant source of larger supplies
governs in this as in other instances. Denver,
with immense sugar refineries only 18 miles
away, pays a price for their product based on
what the freight would be if it were shipped from
San Francisco. Steel made in Gary, Ind., and
sold in Chicago, has included in its price an
amount equal to the cost of shipping from the
basic point of Pittsburgh to Chicago. Cement,
wheat, flour and many other items fare in the
same way. .
This is not the fault of the railroads, and the
fictitious freight charges are not collected by
them. But it is plain to see that the lower
freight rates are made, the lower prices will be,
not only on articles shipped into a community,
but on those which have never been on a train,
but are sold where produced. The actual saving
made by reducing freight charges, then, would
be greatly in excess of the bare amount saved on
products actually shipped. This was what must
have been in the mind of the financial writer
when he expressed his misgiving' over the effort
to put the railroads on a self-supporting basis.
A proper readjustment of the business of buy
ing and selling that will take into consideration
the actual facts, and not a supposition, an unnat
ural state of affairs, will also do something to
relieve the situation.. If, for. example, Omaha
could buy things produced in Omaha without
having to pay freight charges the railroads never
collect, wc might be better able to meet the
tariffs actually levied;
average rate of all the railways in the country
is only l..'J cents.
more rapidly than
boy. Therefore they should pro-
areas through Erade faster than
boya. should have playa of a different
kind, and be allowed o work earlier.
Keliaiou awakening occur in
children 12 to 16 yeara of age and In
girm earner than boya.
Given the measurements of a child
6 years old, and the tabic of rate
of growth found In this atudy, one
can prophesy with a considerable
measure at 12 year of as. Given
the measurements at 10 years of age,
those at 16 can be likewise accurate
ly prophesied. This information is
of more importance than the satis
fying of idle curiosity. It Is of value
in determining policies of vocational
Guidance, school training, social
fluenco of racial stock, of city and
country life, of tonsils, adenoids, and
nutrition, and or various diseases
on the rate of growth are Illuminating.
For Instance, he found that for
come reason tonsil and adenoid trou
ble Influenced early growth material
ly. While breast feeding of babies
caused them to grow rapidly at the
start, the bottle-fed babies had
caught up In weight and height by
Bryan at Baltimore
Playing With Phrases.
The inconsolables; who have not been able
to see anything good in the Harding plan, arc
juggling words again iu a vain attempt to cast
suspicion on the coming conference at Washing
ton. Senator Hitchcock expresses regret that
the president did not Select as delegates men who
are more thoroughly committed to disarmament.
This is directed at the statement by Secretary
Hughes that -the conference will waste no time
in discussing the - impossible. Limitation of
armament will be considered, a reasonable effort
to establish by agreement a condition of affairs
that will end the heavy expense of maintaining
huge armies and navies.- We may conjecture
who it was Senator Hitchcock , had in mind,
Borah, Johnson, LaFollette, for example; these
were lately pilloried in the senator's paper by a
cartoon representing them as skulking while the.
war was on but now rapturously attacking the
nation with whom we were associated iu the
prosecution of the war. Such is, the consistency
of the opposition to the president's program.
They play with phrases, like the witches with
Macbeth, keeping the w'ord of promise to the ear
and breaking it to, the hope. America's destiny
is plain enough, but it9 fulfillment requires that
she stand upright, holding firm to her leadership;
and by setting an example of self-respect teach
other nations to do the same. An end to war is
sought by all, and the people of the United States
are willing to point the way, combining the ideal
with the practical to the end that happiness and
not disappointment will be the result. .
"To what was this remarkable increase in the
average rate per ton per mile due? Chiefly to
two things: First, to a great change in the char
acter of the traffic handled. Mr. Ford began giv
ing Ins railway practically all of his freight busi
ness; and the freight handled directly and indi
rectly for his motor works consists largely of degree of . accuracy the else and
relatively high grade commodities which pay a I weight, length of trunk, and chest
rate much higher than the average. Meantime,
the amount of coal handled by the railroad great
ly decreased. Coal being a bulky and cheap
commodity, it pays a rate much smaller than
the average. This change in the character of the
traffic alone would have caused a large increase
in the railway s average rate.
Second v. t lie D t & I. has heen ahle to use activities, ana penoas or maturation
the larcre vn1m nf raffir inVlnatet k he Fr,l Baldwin's observation on the ln-
intcrests to secure larger divisions of the through
rates on all traffic hauled partly over its line and
partly over other raliways, and the great bulk
ofahe D., T. & I.s business consists of this
through traffic. Both the change in the character
of. the traltic and the larger divisions of the
through rates obtained by the D., T. & I. have
tended to increase its average rate per ton per
mile and the only really great change which had
been made on the D., T. & I. uo to July 1 was
iu the conditions which determined its average I the end of the first year provided
rate per ton per mile.
"But how about the reduction of 20 per cent
in its local rates and the advance in the wages
of its employes which have been so widely ad
vertised? Neither of these went into effect until
July 1 or later, and therefore neither of them
had anything whatever to do with the increases
in the railway's net earnings which have been so
widely exploited. We shall have to get later
data than are now available before anybody can
say what is the effect of these changes in im
port ant policies.
"It may be said, however, that Mr. Ford is so
completely convinced of the desirability of a Ken
eral reduction in rates that he has proposed that
a reduction of A) per cent be made m the rates
of all railroads. It is not our purpose to impugn
Mr. Ford's motives, but there are certain impor
tant facts about this proposed reduction in rates
which are pertinent. The freight earnings of the J should say the Floridian was not a
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton are now running at candidate before that convention.
the rate of approximately $8,000,000 a year,
I herefore, other things remaining equal, a reduc
tion of 20 per cent in them would reduce the
road s earnings by about $1,600,000 a year. On
the other hand, the freight bills paid by the Ford
industries to all the railways amount to from at
least $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 a year. There
fore, a reduction of 20' per cent in freight rates
by all the railways would reduce the freight bills
of the tord Motor company by $3,000,000 to
$4,000,000 a year. In, other words, Mr. Ford as
a shipper would be sure to gam millions of dol
lars more' by a reduction in rates than he could
possibly lose as a railroad owner. Most of the
other railways of the country are not fntimately
connected with large manufacturing concerns
they had been free from sevr or
protracted llin.
May Vary Itaby'M Did.
Mm. T. C. 8. write; "I am
nuraina- my 6-month-old pftby and
will nurse iter tlirouan tne m
weather if possible. tth welaha
pounda, nvr haa ndd a physio
or enema, and ha two nnd thre
good bowel movement a nay.
"l. will von kindly ten ma u
should a-lve her any additional food
or fruit Juice, etc., until 1 wean liar?
"2. After weaning her. I good
fresh milk eurnVient food?
'1. And fur how lone?
"4. Hliould it be diluted and, If so,
how much?
"5. la every three hour too often
to nurse her?
"6. What cause a strong ammonia
dor In the urine?"
1. Stlrk rather closely to breast
milk and water during the hot
weather. Orange Juice In moderate
nuantltv ia all riant.
2. No.' Give fruit Juli'. cereal
hard bread, and a little later on oup
and muHhect vegetable.
1. A rhlld enn b taking milk
cereal, hard bread, soups, and
mashed vegetable at 8 month in
cool weather.
4. Immediately after weaning use
a mixture of 1 part milk to 2 parts
water. Increase the atrenrtn to
parts milk to 1 of water at end of
month.
n. Feed her at four-hour intervals,
6. Too much food.
How to Detect Fever.
Worried Mother writes: "1. Can
a person have fever while perspir
ina? .
!. Can a thermomtcrer Miow an
elevation of temperature when fever
1 not present?
"a. Can a porson get well of t,
without Hbtylng n bed? Thnt person
in in fairly good condition, doea not
rough much, and Just spltn up a little
in the morning. Sleeps by an open
window. "
It E PLY.
1. Ye. Although free perspiration
is generally accompanied by a fall of
temperature to normal or there'
uboutn, It is not always so.
2. Ye in a certain eenso. Tn som
cases of hysteria the body tempera
ture rises. On a hot wetiday it may
triso also. But these are exceptions,
Ninety-nine times out of J 00 when
the clinical thermometer show that
a person's temperature is up he has
a genuine fever.
3. Yes. Whether it is brst for
consumptive to stay In bid all the
time or not Is a point for tne physi
cian to decide. Stewart says that the
most successful physicians treating
consumptives are those who know
best when to advise rest in bed and
when to advise exercise and work,
As a rule consumptives who run to
fever should stay in bed.
(From the Baltimore American.)
The controversy concerning Wil
liam J. Bryan's intentions at the na
tional democratic convention of 1912
has never been settled to universal
satisfaction, but the account of Mr.
William F. McCombs concerning the
Bryan strategy will liava a large
share of weight. Mr. McCombs'
article in last Sunday's American ap
pears to shed a lot of ligut on the
charge that the Peerless One was
actuated by self-interest In the nar
rowest sense of the word, first, last
and all the time at Baltimore-
The Mebrasna n pei-naps we
Dupes of the Soviet
He Was ostensibly interested only In
the nomination of a candidate who
could be counted on to uphold and
champion the so-called proeressiv
ideals native to the Bryan intellect
Mr, Bryan, McCombs says, advised
the' equal partition of certain dele
gations between Wilson and Clark
and then when an evident impasse
in the nomination struggle had ar
rived he went to McCombs and said
"You vcan't name Wilson; nominate
me," or words to that inspiring effect
Clark, if McCombs idea is correct,
was out of the running. Bryan had
acomplisfied that much-by his own
maneuvering. The next thing was
to effect the rout of Wilson. But
Wllann warn inn fnrtimntfl frnm thA
which would save millions of dollars annually by I Bryan standpoint, in the character
a reduction of their freight bills.
, "The Railway Age had its doubts as to
whether even Mr. Jbord could strike the stone
of railroad operation and make floods of. profits
immediately burst forth, f He has demonstrated
in the manufacturing business that in certain
ways he is one of the greatest genuises of the
age. His success in the automobile bustness has
been such as to indicate that if there is any man
in any Other line of business m this country who
could atep into the railroad business and soon
gam extraordinary results, it is Henry Ford.
We were skeptical, however, as to whether it was
possible within the short time he had owned the
D., T. & I. for even Mr. Ford to work such a
miracle as was attributed to him.
"The results, of an investigation made upon
of his support and he could not be
denounced a a tool or tne inter
ests." Therefore, he must be per
suaded or bulldozed into withdraw
ing.
But for the character of the man
at the head of the Wilson force Mr
Bryan probably would have succeed
ed in his purpose. But McCombs
was In the fight to the death and he
rad the nerve to stick. He fought
on and he put Wilson over and so
went into the wastebaaket Bryan'a
last chance for the presidency.
Therefore, to McCombs, a man of
no particular national consequence
before he hooked up with the Wilson
cause and of no particular conse-
ouence after Wilson was actually
elected, the country owes not unlike
ly a vital change in the whole na
the ground and of a study of the official rigures I tional history at the moment when
regarding the operation of the D., T. & L show
that under the Ford management, the financial
results of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton have
been very greatly improved. They also show
that no miracle has been worked. The results
obtained thus far have been due almost entirely
to the circumstance that .the ownership of the
the very life of the nation may have
run upon the. character of the man
In the presidency.
If Bryan had been nominated in
1912 he certainly would have been
elected. The chances are he would
have been re-elected in 1916, because
the thing that elected Wilson in 1916
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton has been acquired by I was his peace talk. Mr. Bryan not
South Dakota is thought of as almost wholly
an agricultural state, and yet only 117,246 of its
citizens are engaged in farming; this is S4.1 per
cent. -There are 22,626 engaged in trade, 26,331
in manufacturing, 13,796 in the professions,
12,823 in transportation-and only 1,435 in mining.
only could have been counted on to
talk peace, but he could have been
counted on to stay at peace regard
less of the desperate menace of an
on-rushing Germany.
To carry the possibility still fur
ther If an unknown, a man named
McCombs, had not been possessed of,
we might say, an obsession to bring
about the election of a certain indi
vidual to the presidency, and a cer
tain .other individual, Bryan, had
Still Cuba is not to blame for wanting Uncle
Sam to pay her bills; she has had plenty of en
couragement from others no more entitled to
help.
Leon Bourgeoise also regrets that the United
States did not join the League of Nations, but
he may yet come to understand why we did not.
A gain of $10,000,000 in Omaha bank deposits
looks awfully good, however small one own
share may be.
one of the largest manufacturers in the country,
and that Mr. Ford has used his position as a very
large shipper to do things on the D T. & 1
which neither he nor anybody else could have
done without being such a large shipper, lhe
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton now has much the
same relationship to the Ford Motor Car com
pany that the Duluth & Iron Range, the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern and the Lessemcr & Lake
Erie have to the United States Steel corporation.
These steel corporation railways have been for ecured the prlzei Germany might to-
many years among me most prosperous railways i day be overriding the world, with
in America. They have been very well man- the allies and ourselves in the dust
aged, but their prosperity has been largely due at its feet. Of course, the possibil-
to the fact that they have been owned by an in- not have worked out-
rtlistr a rnnrern ivhirh i-nntrnls 9 vact bmnnnt Af "" " -wj,,
.""s".1" - l rtertlnacltv: nnd Clark was not a
Meantime, no man wno is caoanie ot stuav- i w,rto u -ii v,i r, ,n wo
ing tne tacts aDOut tne management and opera- on due provocation or if the danger
tion of a railroad and drawing rational concju- m staying out became obvious.
ion from them will aav that Mr. Fnrd has a Wilson himself went in far too
yet worked a miracle on the Detroit; Toledo & 'te- .?ut h d,,dt go in before it was
I aitAtvat hAr TtA It ra V-Z 1 1 r -ttYiin nova
Ironton."
altogether too late. But Bryan never
would have gone In. W e can bank
on that.
Just as soort as this land is properly stand
ardized we may sound "taps" for democracy.
The grand jury may let a few wild cats out
of the bag before It is done. .
What' Business Between Friend? .
' French purchasers of supplies left behind by
the. American army were willing to send them
over and undersell the United States markets.
There are impulsive moments in every life when suiting fatally have been due to tne
it s d.tt.cuM : to allow friendship to interfere with igh mark! InThat sUte for
Intoxicated Motorists.
In Massachusetts thi year, to Au
gust 1. 262 automobile accidents re,
(From the: Xew oYrk Times.)
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens. "Am
bassador" of the RussHn soviet
government, testifying at Washing
ton before the senate subcommittee
investigatine Russian - propaganda
on January 30, 1920, filed a list of
firms in the United States with
which, he said, he had contracts to
supply goods to Russia as soon as
the restoration of direct " relation
between the two countries made
shipments possible. One -of these
contracts -was with the Lehigh Mar
china company of Pennsylvania for
14,500,000 worth or printing ma
chinery. On the same day he tes.
tided that "all tha money he got
came out of the . treasury of the
soviet republic." . Mr. Emerson P.
Jennings of that' company is also
president of the American comraer
clal Association to Promote Trade
With Russia. The members of that
association are described as "hard-
headed business men."
That is a-highly ironical descrlp
tlon so far as their dealings with the
promissory - Mr. Martens are con
,cerned. They were so eager to do
Dusiness wun iiussia- mat mey neg
lected to find out what was a matter
of notorious public record, spread
abroad in all the newspapers. There
was little to sell and litt.'e to buy
anything with in .Russia. Trans
portation was broken down; even in
ternal distribution of goods wa al
most impossible. Martens was :
soviet propagandist. He was fiat
tertng the hard-headed business men
with prospects of a mostly imaginary,
trade for the sake or inducing them
to bring the United States to recog
nize the soviet government. Every
body not extraordinarily credulous
and pining to be gulled knew that
that government "repudiates," ' as
Secretary Colby said, "every prin
ciple of harmonious and trustful re
lations, whether of nations or indi
viduals, and is based upon negation
of honor and good faith and every
usage and convention underlying the
structure of international law."
Both ' that government and its
emissary Martens can have deceived,
it would seem, nobody who read the
newspapers. Yet the hard-headed
business men were easily bitten.
They put up the money which Mr.
Martens used for propaganda pur
poses. Many of them spent a lot
of time and money in Russia. They
got contracts. They never could get
any -money. The soviet magnates
are "plain crooks," says Mr. Jen
nings. He might have found that
out a great deal more cheaply. Soon
after he left this country for its
good, Martens cheerfully stated that
the American contracts had been
canceled. Recognition of their gov
ernment, a better chance to break ,
down other governments, is what the;
soviet masters have been seeking.
The so bepuffed trade is always
small potatoes. The long nlscussed
trade agreement which Mr. Lloyd
George and Mr. Krassin negotiated
has brought no golden results. Not
much but flax, which was brought in
indirectly before the agreement, has
been imported into England under it.
Our own trade with Soviet Russia
has greatly shrunken since 1919 and
1920. For the first, six month of
1921 it amounted to some f IS. 000.
000. of which less than S700.000 was
imports. .,...
Commercial, sentimental or politl
cal, the delusion about Soviet Rus
sia is of the strangest. Before the
eyes of all th -world a great nation
has been driven into utter disaster.
Yet even now the men that have
driven it have their apologist and
their admirers in the United States;
and not among their fellow com
munists and destructlonists alone,
So easy is It to divorce opinion
from unpleasant facts.
: One Ray of Cheer.
There are so few pleasant features ot the
It looks as if the "movies" were finally to be I new tax bill before congress that it. were un-
I . r , . i . . r c
casualties of this classification; 184
deaths were reported during' the
same period a year ago. Providence
Journal.
cleaned up.
It pays in the end to be decent.
grateful not to take notice of some of thera.
One especially is the fact that Representative
Claude Kitchen is writing the minority reports
on it this time. Kansas City Star. -. -
Paddle Our Own Canoe.
We have simply got to quit expect
ing miracles from the government
and paddle our own canoe.- New
York Times, ' ' '
Four Projects
Suffer Setback
Council Kcjecti Committee
Report on Street
Improvement.
Reports of special committee on
the following property improvement
projects were rejected yesterday by
the city council committee of the
whole:
Widening of Twenty-fourth street
from 1'aciiie to Cuming.
Widening of Twentieth street,
Leavenwrth to Dodge.
Opening of Twity.econd street,
Howard to Dodge.
Widening of Harney street, Twenty-fourth
to Twenty-sixth.
It is undcrtood rejection of he
committee reports will be equivalent
to indefinite postponement. Member'
of the council are inclined to favor
the Htrnev and Douglas street pro
jects, the former only between Twen-
tsrth and Twenty-fourth tre:t.
"I favor all of these improvements
and feel confident that they will ulti
mately be accomplished," said Mayor
Dahlman when voting againM Twtn-
ty-fourtli street widening.
The city council, in regular e
mo n, will announce its policy on
these subjects at an early date.
'Quickserve Resumes
After Slipping a Cog
After rough sailing along channel
of credit men and poor bu.tiin.-n, thi
good cafeteria "Quickserve" is again
on its way, full steam ahead, iu
charge of Mrs. Lillic E. Baker, for
11 years in charge of the Y. M. C. A.
cafeteria.
When Harry Wilcox, the hand
some proprietor of the place, left
Omaha on the Elks special for Los
Angeles last July, the "Ouickserve"
was placed in charge of Harry's
three sisters-in-law. Florence, Helen
and Estclle Siedel. Miss Mary
Brewer, pianist, who helped finance
the business to the tunc of $400,
played piano while the business went
on its downward path. Finally the
place was closed for lack of credit.
With Mrs. Baker at the helm, the
good cafeteria ''Quickserve" is again
sailing a merry path of popularity.
One of the familiar faces behind t;ic
counter is Mrs. Clara Cross, who in
sists the former manager double-
crossed her.
Acre Farm Gives
Oinahai. Wealth'
Hrvtmic From t'ui oJ
Honey HriiiK Prosperity
After 20 Year.
Krvrnue from eugi and toitey on
a one-acre "farm" on the oiiukim
pf Omaha, cultivated for JO rar,
ha brought proP"y Anthony
Johnson. Hit uccci i the out
yrowtli of an experiment on a small
city lot when hi world!." we
iuu numbered M stands k1 btt.
Mr. Johnson says he Iwi wrncd
the quettiuit of the minimum amount
t i land uKn which a farmer can live
nnd rear a family and at the same
time maintain in average standard
t.f living. Eronomiula and expert
argue from 5 to 40 acres. Mr John
ton sas. Hi own opinion i jut
one.
Whnt he started. Mr. JoIiiHtm
knew little of farming an! Ics of
the culture of thicken or bees.
"Because of this. 1 passed through
the period of lice dicar :nd olhrr
devastation during my experi
ments." he aid. "Finally 1 was
tuccetkful and after 10 years added
chicken to my Ijrm product.
Painstaking experiments gained
from bee culture aided in the de
velopment of my chicken, although
he two specimens are wildy ep
trated in their raiing."
Knowledge, system and f existent
tenacity for exactness in all the de
tails of care Mr. Johnson regards
is the cornerstone of his inrcess on
a single acre.
Payment to Depositor!
In Pioneer State Starts
Paying off of about 250 depositors
of the defunct l'ioneer State bank
started yesterday at the State Bank
of Omaha.
A. L. Schant, rccelwr for the
Pioneer State bank, said there was
a total of about $40,000 jtt time certili
catcs, cashier's checks, individual and
hank accounts to be paid.
i 1
Committeemen to Meet.
All committee members of" the
Chamber of Commerce will meet at
a dinner to be given at the Chamber
of Commerce this evening at
0 o'clock. Plans for the coming
year will be discussed. The meet
ing will continue not more than two
hours, according to J. David Lar
son, commissioner.
Three Omaha Hotels
of Merit
nrtXT A "KIT SIXTEENTH
David B. Youa. Mnr
4V HARNEY
Ratal S1.00 to t3JD9
SANFORD
Jao. r. Eg tn. Manotcr
HitMlt.SOtoU.SO
OT7VTCU AVT7 SIXTEENTH
Jot. II. Knoaa. Mnoer S
V FARNAM
Ku 11.90 to 13.00
All Fireproof Centrally Located
on Direct Cat Line from Depots
Our reputation of twenty year is back of the hotel.
Guest may (top at any one of them with the assurance
of receiving honest value and courteous treatment
Conant Hotel Company, Operators
"'a
Keep It Mnzzlcd.
In spite of the mild and benevolent
qualities attributed to the Ku Klux
Klan there is no escaping an Im
pression that it becomes ugly when it
is vexed AVashlngton Star.
Exit Ice Man Enter Coal Man.
When the summer ice man 1b fairly
good to us we sometimes have
enough left to jingle when the coal
man calls. Atlanta Constitution.
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If you haven't smoked
one lately you've mis
sed something mighty
good you'll never re
alize how good until
you try it.
ROTHENBERG & SCHLOSS
CIGAR CO., DISTRIBUTORS
C .mr
Phone DOuglaa 2793
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COMPANY
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