The Omaha Daily Bee
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OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922.
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TWO CENTS
Reduction
of Taxes Is
P r o b 1 e in
Advantages of Gradual IMfa.
tion Are Jmlirated in the
Action of Special I.rgi
.alive Sceion.
$6,500,000 Over Prewar H
By PAUL CREER.
hiate tixr ruve gone up o5oO,.
m iinre 1017.
, That look I'kc a pretty lig bal
loon. Tlif problem Nebraska fare!
i to let out some of the Rs To
cut one idr ow of an inflated haf
loon i not the best ay to get back
to earth. The advantage of mur
nJ gradual deflation are indicated
in trie action of the special session
of the Irfiisluture. which rrdmr-d the
tued for tif.ite Mcs in tmc
third. This -x ill (pave the ky for tlnV
rar f.1,25.'.(KK) atove the prewar
level of 1I7.
Nebraska has grown in 1'nc y r;rs,
but that dors not explain the !atk.n
ascension. A glance at the several
items of increase shows, for one
thing, that the .state has been sad
dlrd with a number of new responsi
bilities. Some ot them have consist
i d of matching dollar with the fed
eral government. Which of these
activities must be curtailed or elimi
nated is up to the people and the
next crop of legislators.
Big Belief Fund.
One outstanding fiuure that will
cease to appear in state expenses
titter 1922 is the $1,000.(100 for
Opera Singer Says She
Bought Spouse's Suits
V
il Margaret Matzdiaver si.
relirf
of veterans of the worhl war. The
legislature appropriated $J,0O0,IH)O
to this ntirnn?e in the biennium. All
except $50,000 was ordered perma
nently invested in bonds, the interest
on -which is to be used through the
soldiers' organizations for needy
service men.
After 1924 the annual levy of
S?89,."72 for building the state capi
tot will be dropped. Nebraska then
will have a $5,000,000 statehousc,
completely paid for and without any
bonded debt
Good roads cost $320,0O() in 1917.
Last year $l,0o6,87O was levied for
the purpose. The special session has
reduced this to $833,000 for this year.
The nuestion ot good roads will be
foremost in the legislature which w ill
convene in 192.5. It will first have to
decide whether road building is to
continue, then whether the state or
the comities shall do the work,
-whether the state shall' stand the
expense alone or join with the fed
eral government. Another qtiestion
will be whether road , funds shall be .
raised by a property tax, a gasoline i
tax or some other measure.
Vocational Education.
Another case ot matcning uoiiara
w ith Uncle Sam is that of vocational
Education. Most of this state and
federal money goes back to local
schools, some for night classes, some
for teaching trades, and some for re
habilitating crip'es so that they may
earn their living. Five years ago the
state apropriation was $10,000; in
1921 it was $114,000.
Whereas nothing used to be spent
for . social hygiene, which concerns
the stamping out of venereal diseases,
$16,140 was jut tip to match the fed
eral appropriation.
In anticipation of the passage of
the federal maternity bill, the state
has established, at an expense of $13.
210, a bureau of child welfare and
hygiene. This was advocated by
r.iany women voters and is designed
to meet another federal appropria
tion. Health Bureau Expense. "
Along somewhat similar lines is
the increase of $14,435 in the health
bureau. This branch of the govern
ment enforces the various laws to
protect the people against disease,
going into communities where conta
gion is spreading . to aid the local
physicians. It passes on 'matters of
sanitation and supervises the con
struction of waterworks and sewage
systems. ,
Vital statistics are registered here,
and a testing laboratory maintained.
Various boards and commissions
that have been combined in the De
partment of Agriculture were re
ceiving $141,440 of the people's
money in 1917. I.ast year $273,090
was expended in this way.
There are those who defend the
work of preventing bovine tubercu
losis as a measure protecting public
health. At all events, farmers, live
stock merchants, packers and federal
government have encouraged the
service. Five years ago this did not
exist; last year it cost the taxpayers
of Nebraska $142,500. Similar con
ditions surround the 1921 appropria
tions of $7,500 for the prevention
of hog cholera. Some will regard
this as a subsidy for the farmers.
Others point out that by preventing
a possible shortage of hogs from
disease the price of meat is held
down. , , ,
Labor Expense Doubled.
Since 1917 appropriations for the
Labor department have been dou
bled, amounting last year to $22,934.
This office has charge of workmen s
compensation insurance and for the
first time the proper execution of
(Tun ta Two. Column Three.) , (
Big Slump Reported in
Rail Passenger Traffic
Washington, March 16.--Fassen-ger
traffic on class one railroads dur
"in 1920, according to reports corn
in 192', according to reports tom
piled by the carriers for the Inter
state Commerce commission. A
similar condition was reported last
month as to freight traffic.
Total passenger miles reported for
1921 the number of passengers
multiplied by the miles carried
amounted to 37.332,000,000 compared
with 46,841,000,000 in 1920. Total
revenues from passenger fares were
$1,153,752,000 or $133,671,000 less
than in 1920,
Opera Slar Threw.
Chauffeur Mate
Out of Apartment
Asserts She Surd for Divorce
After Discovery in January
of His Infidelity With
"Old Lady of 50."
St. Louis, March 16. f Ry A. P.)
Madame Margaret Matzcnauer,
grand opera singer, in a statement
to the Associated Fress today de
nied statements of her chauffeur
husband, Floyd Wotbach, that he
bad deserted her.
"I threw him ouji of my New York
apartment January 26." she asserted.
The diva asserted she has pending
in New York proceedings for abso
lute divorce on grounds of infidelity
"with an old lady of 50," and that
papers were served on Glotzbach
January 27.
Madame Matzenauer said she be
lieved a "great love like mine"
could overcome all obstacles, but.
failing, all she desired was "to rid.
myself legally from this man 'as
quickly as possible."
"I had intended to treat this whole
matter in a dignified and- ladylike
fashion," she stated to the Asso
ciated Fress, "and this explains my
denial at Joplin of our domestic in
felicity. I wished to spare him hu
miliation, but as he has made me
the laughing stock of. the world, he
has forced me to come out with the
truth.
Mme. Matzenauer, touching on a
report from San Francisco that she
expected to become a mother, said
she notified her husband to this ef
fect a month ago, after being ex
amined by a physician of Ann Arbor,
Mich., but that it now turned out
"to be a false alarm.". She added
that the phyisician also had written
Glotzbach about her supposed con
dition.. Glotzbach Silent
San Francisco, March 16. Floyd
Glotzbach declined today to reply to
statements of his wife, Mme. Mar
garet Matzenauer, that she had sued
him for divorce, saying he did' not
care to discuss the matter.
Man Sought as Firebug
in Big Chicago Blaze
Chicago, March 16. Several sep
arate investigations of .yesterday
morning's disastrous fire which
swept a city block and burned build
ings in two others, with a loss
placed by insurance and property ex
perts at $8,000,000. were continued
today. Shirley T. High, city fire at
torney, expressed conviction that the
conflagration, the most serious since
that of 1871, which virtually de
stroyed Chicago, was of incendiary
origin. '-
An employe of one concern which
was among the first to go up In
flames was sought. He was named
bv a fellow worker who was arrest
ed, but denied connection with start
ing the fire.
Included in ' the tabulation of
losses in the fire was that of 90
paintings by Henry Arthur Elkins,
valued at $250,000. Among them
was "Shifting Lights," a painting of
a California sunset, valued at $75,000.
Aunt of President Dies.
Stevens Point, Wis., March 16.
Mrs. Sarah Bancroft, aunt of Pres
ident Harding, died at the home of
her grandson, A. F. Barrows, here
today. -
Move
to Release
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SmnA TTWIL'Q Avn Wnvni. QnKcfWl I A F n f T,
jto Support
.Coal Strike
Uoue tonmiiltrc lr?cd to Tririrwh d.rah Uom Ro.jr mm
et , the lifiUuimti of r s) pt In.ff.
Iifnort Hrmilutiotl AklllS i pendeme hi faltuwnl by deinsn.
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itian cauhy srd?re(l out lo re
' toie otder.
! A Cairu dUpati'h to the London
1 tine stt uek iaij the Mjltan i
Prceidntt l Act in tlae
of Political Com ict;.
Clashes Feature Debate
Warhiitgton, March lo In the
fare of apparent and out-pokeri im
position, hmyrr and ri'prtintjtics
of various bhetl ot sjiiiiiIi'HIs
pleaded with the hours judniary ,
I New Bonus Bill
Reintroduced in
Lower House
Out in the . cold night t
that erstwhile confident
Lothario, . hi black . eye
pemive with unrequited lore.
Miss Putty Face
by Vingie E. Roe
A charming BLUE
RIBBON Romance of
beauty and a cowboy
Next Sunday's Bee
cspr.trd to UiMC the of kilt
upon ratification the Hrltuli par.
l.aiiKiit of the decision to, terminate
the iirotfilurstu oxer rpt. 'I lie
I'tw crnitliiutioi! it! vhiih Fgjpt
ni!l be provided, however, call tor
i teiui'ii'mtioii v the miIou of tome
i-f his prrrogaiivrt, "X be Utitislt par-
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tarciui ruTiM'iri 4ihii, n nir ihu
pricty of Krantina iitimediate amnes
ty to 1U political prisoner cr
ir.g long term for iolation of tne
espionase act.
(.'oinmitti'cmrrt indicatcj that the
lesolulion never would In
Msting that ceingress had no fulit to
direct the president in such matlrt.
especially because of the lack of on
pot tiinity to review the caes. Gilbert
E. Roe, an attorney of New York,
who advocated the general principle
of amnesty said, when questioned,
that he saw no impropriety In re
questing the president, the attorney
general and the secretary of war to
look into the appeals because "trie
resolution seems at harmless as the
four-power treaty." "
Clashes at Hearing.
Speaking for the American Federa
tion of Labor, F. II. Wallace de
clared war laws were necessary, that
they should have been enforced, but
now in peace times there was no
good reason for keeping wartime
offenders in tail.
There were many clashes between
members of the committee and wit
nesses. Representative Yates, repuh-
Fordney ' Submit. Majority
Report, Claiming Six Ad
vantages for Measure
Says Soldiers Approve.
lican, Illinois, charged that Repre
sentative London, socialist, ew
York, author of the resolution, who
declared he would free men con
victed of violence if they did so be
cause of a deep religious feeling, was
advocating violence, which Mr. Lon
don was quick to deny.
Another verbal clash centered
around Harry Weinberg, a New
York lawyer, one time counsel for
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft
dodger, who added that he bad
"nothing whatever to do with Berg
doll's escape." In a tilt with Repre
sentative Reavis, republican, Ne
braska, Weinberg said he would ex
press his "opinion on political and
economic questions at any time and
any place, despite the supreme court
of the United States." . .
Time Called on Lawyer, j.
Referring to the rHeW of some
offenders, Weinberg charged that one
obtained his liberty through the in
tercession of the Italian ambassador,
and some of his comment drew from
members the reminder that they
would not sit there and hear the pres
ident and attorney general criticized.
This was after the lawyer had stat
ed that one of the men in whose
behalf he had annealed did not get
out because he did not happen to be
a trust magnate. Weinberg de
nied any desire to criticize the presi
dent. Tune was called on him while
he was still trying to speak.
Miss Caroline Lowe of Kansas
Citv. counsel for a number of I. W.
W. members tried in Wichita, charg
ed that men arrested in the "famous
Oklahoma case," were oil workers
and that the animus back of their ar
rest "was the determination on the
part of oil operators to crush any
attempt on the part of the workers
to organize."
F'reauent references were made to
the pardon of Eugene V. Dehs, and
on this point some ot the witnesses
expressed conflicting views.- Many
agreed, however, that President
Hardines list ot lnristmas pardons
contained the names of persons who
have served terms which, they in
sisted, were more serious than those
charged against "the political prisoners."
Miss Theodoro Pollock, convicted
in Sacramento, Cal and fined, came
here to testify, but committeemen
said her recital of the trial had
no bearing on the resolution.
Many Grieve Over Death
of "Bright Eyes" by Car
Sorrow was in the hearts of
friends and neighbors of Marian
Leonard, 5, who died last night fol
lowing an automobile accident, as
they visited the home yesterday
to comfort the grief-stricken par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Leon
ard. 4270 Wirt street. School friends
of "Bright Eyes," as she was called,
sang and played in the kindergarten
room ot Uinto rtfti school un
able to realize that their playmate
was dead.
After school Wednesday atternoon,
tiny tots of the neighborhood, where
Ilanan was a tavorite, gathered to
olav "pump-pump pull-a-way. form
ing a line and holding hands, they
ran across the street in front of an
automobile driven by Harold Hibbs.
Little Marian, who was last to cross,
was struck and run over.
Winter Wheat Improved
Washington, March 16. The con
dition of winter wheat improved dur
ing the last week in - Oklahoma,
Texas, Kansas and in the lower
Missouri valley, . according to re
ports received by the weather bu
reau. Heavy precipitation occurred
in the southwestern winter wheat
area and the soil was amply supplied
with moisture in that section. .
In the eastern foothills of the
Rocky mountains there was suffi
cient preciptation to be beneficial.
The crop continues mostly in sat
isfactory condition and showed im
provement during the week in many
localities, according to reports from
.ill weather bureau points in the
wheat couutrv
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Washington. March 15. The com
jroniise soldiers' bonu bill, as final-
ly revised, was reintroduced today in
the tt'iiise hy Chairman rordney,
who snbmitlrd a majority report
from the ways and means commit
tee claiming these ."advantages" of
plan of the bill:
"First: No new taxation, no issu
ance of new securities at present required.
secotHl: It prolines for the vet
eran tn need to obtain assistance.
"Third. The amounts requiied
each year after July 1, 1'23. are
.'mail compared to those which have
lie rctolorc been tnrt ana can be pro
vided without difficulties or derange
ment of the situation.
"Fourth: The plan tends to pro
mote saving habits among the vet
erans. Protects Veteran.
"Fifth: It protects the veteran
himself and his family from misfor
tune in the future.
"Sixth: It will create a class of
home builders who will greatly in
crease the mass of property in the
country.
"While perfect unaninmity could
not be expected as to all details of
the bill," the report said, "the ma
jority of the committee believe that
the plan in general lia the approval
of the soldiers and of all of those
who are in favor of granting to them'
additional compensation in any form
whatever." . " .
To Confer With Fordney.
St. Augustine, Fla., March 16.
(By A. P.) Speaker Gillette who is
a member ot president Harding s
Florida vacation party, announced
today he would confer with Chair
man rordney of the house ways
and means committee in Washington
Saturday on the parliamentary situ
ation brought about as a result of
the expressed desire of certain re
publican leaders to bring the soldier
bonus bill up in the house Monday
under suspension of the rules.
Mr. Gillette has indicated that he
would rule adversely on a motion
to bring up the bonus legislation
Monday under suspension of the
rules. He asserted, however, that
there was nothing to prevent the
rules committee from bringing in a
special rule under which the legis
lation would have precedence and
could be brought up at any time the
house desires.
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! Samuel Gonipcr Scorei Mine
Operator! Sn a 5Ieu De.
t iri ti Negotiate on
Wage Quention.
Train Held Up.
Mail Seized by
4 J
Band in Ulster
Masked Men . Assassinate
Three in Homes at Gateway
. Daylight Bombing in
North Bend Woman,
69, Is Killed by Train
Fremont, Neb., March 16. (Spe
cial . Telegram.) Mutilated nearly
beyond recognition, the body of Mrs.
John Kern, 6, of North Bend, still
showing signs of life, was found on
the Union Pacific tracks not far from
the family home. She died an hour
later.
It was Mrs. Kern's custom to
walk to the home of J. Ii. Ferrell
each morning for her day's supply of
milk. She was on this errand when
the accident occurred and her body
was later discovered by Leonard
Farrell. There were no witnesses of
the accident.
Mrs. Kern was well known in this
vicinity, where she resided for 50
years, coming to Nebraska from In
diana. The family retired from
farming about six years ago moving
to North Bend. The husband died
about a year ago. She is survived
by three sons and four daughters.
State May Offer Reward
for Slayer of Circus Man
Riverside, N. J., March 16. Prose
cutor J. H. Kelsey of Burlington
county, announced tonight that he
would petition the board of free
holders and Governor Edwards to
offer rewards for the capture, dead
or alive, of the slayer of John T.
Brunen, circus proprietor, killed in
his home last Friday.
Under the New Jersey law, the
board is authorized to offer, from
$500 to $2,000 and the state from
?500 to $2,500 in such cases.
Word was awaited from County
Detective Ellis Tarkcr, who left
with a state trooper today for an
unknown destination on what he
characterized "one of the hottest"
tips yet received.
Hearings Open March 28.
Washington, March 16. Public
hearings on the administration's
merchant marine bill will begin
March 28, before joint sessions of
the senate commerce commission
and house merchant marine and
fisheries committe, it was announced
tod3'.
Belfast, March' 16. (By A. P.)
A train proceeding from Belfast to
Dublin was held tip at Altraveigh,
near Newry, today by an armed
jzang who carried off the mail. A
similar holdup occurred yesterday
on the southern side of the border.
Ulster special constahles today re
moved from Crossley Tender, near
Londonderry, seven youths who
said they had come from Donegal,
which is- free state territory. The
prisoners, who are understood to be
republican police, were lodged in
V ictoria barracks m Londonderry,
charged with having arms in their
possession and with unlawful as
sembly.
Three Men Assassinated,
Gateway, Ireland, March 16.
Four men in disguise entered the St.
Bride's home last night and shot and
killed Sergeants Gibbons and Gil
martin and seriously wounded a con
stable." Just previously three masked
men entered the workhouse hospital
and killed Patrick Cassidy of Mayo.
Daylight Bombing.
Belfast, March 16. (By A. P.)
Belfast had the unusual experience
today of daylight bomb-throwing,
which resulted in the injury of 12
persons, four of whom were serious
ly hurt. No dGaths had been re
corded up to an early hour this aft
ernoon. , .
A grenade was thrown during the
noon hour into churchyard in the
Ballymacarret district, where sol
diers are stationed. There were no
casualties. Two other grenades
were thrown in the Scaford street
area and it was here that all the cas
ualties occurred
Consumption of Wool in U. S.
Shows Increase in Last Year
Washington, March 16. Con
sumption of wool ' in the United
States in 1921 was 72,000,000 pounds
more than in 1920, according to a
statement issued by the Department
of Agriculture. . '
Consumption of wool in 1921 to
taled 572,024,000 pounds as compared
with 500,000,000 pounds in 1920.
The following totals were given:
Grease wool, 477,473,000 pounds in
1921 as compared with 410,666,000 in
1920; scoured wool. 68.69S.000 pounds
in 1921 compared with 72,102,000 in
1920: pulled wool, 26,553.000 pounds
in 1921 against 17,976,000 in 1920.
Warm ,
weather's
coming and
you want to
buy an auto
Read Bee
"Want" Ads
17th and Farnam
ATlantic 1000
Son of Laic Auto
Builder Sent to
Jail for Speeding
John Dmal Dodge Sentenced
to Fhe Days and Fined
. $100 -7 Sued for
--:-.-.'-- $10,000. '
Detroit,' Mich.,' March 16. John
Duval Dodge, millionaire son of the
late. John F. Dodge, the Detroit auto
mobile manufacturer, was sentenced
to five days in the house of correc
tion and fined $100 by Judge
Charles L. Barllelt, in recorder's
court here today when he admitted
driving his automobile 23 miles an
hour three miles in excess of the
speed limit. He was immediately
taken to jail.
Judge Bartlett also recommended
that Dodge's driver's license be re
voked for a year.
Dodge's wife wept' as sentence was
passed on her husband.
As Dodge was being escorted
from the courtroom he was served
with a summons in a damage suit
for $10,000 instituted in behalf of
Edwin Schultz, 12, newsboy, who is
said to have been run down by an
automobile driven by Dodge several
weeks ago. '
The speeding charge was filed
against Dodga March 5. This morn
ing his counsel asked for a con
tinuance saying his client was un
advoidahly detained in Kalamazoo,
where he1 .vas arrested Monday,
charged with driving an automobile
while intoxicated and illegally trans
porting liquor,
Judge Bartlett refused to grant the
continuance.
The Kalamazoo case is the out
growth of a; ride following a dance
early Saarfay, in which Dodge, Rex
Earl of Kalamazoo, and three girls,
students of Western State Normal
participated, and which resulted in
Emmeline Kwakcrncck, one of the
girls, jumping from the automobile
?nd sustaining serious injuries.
Dodge is under $7,000- bond to ap
pear for hearing March 21.
Grand Island Council
Keeps Carnival From City
Grand Tsland, Neb.. March .16.
f Special -Telegram.) Notwithstand
ing that . Mayor T. J. Ellsberry de
fended the street carnival companies
in comparison with moving picture
shows, the. city council, by a vote of
6 to 2,- refused a permit to the Wal
ter Savadtte shows of Wayne to exhibit-in
this city,, and the members
indicate that they will stand pat for
the. season;
Rosewater Offered
Place as Assistant to
Head of Exposition
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Philadelphia, March 16. Mayor
Moore yesterday offered to Victor
Rosewater, former publisher of .The
Omaha Bee, the post of assistant to
the president of the Sesqui-Centen-nial
exhibition at a salary of $7,500 a
year. Mr, Rosewater requested a
few days to consider the offer.-
Mr. Rosewater recently was ap
pointed by the mayor as publicity
director for the . proposed exposition
in 1926, but his appointment was not
confirmed by the board of directors
of the association. Instead the direc
tors Tiiffsday, at a meeting at which
the site for the fair was decided
upon, authorized the mayor as presi
dent of the association, to appoint an
assistant to look after ofhee work and
publicity.
Italian Vessel
Seized by Greeks;
Rome Is Aroused
Steamship Africa Taken hy
Greek Torpedo Boat Off
Ineboldi Turkish ; Pai
"Sengers Made Captive.
Constantinople, March 16. (By
A. P.) The Greek torpedo boat
Naxos, while patroling the Black
sea with other units o the Greek
fleet, seized the steamship Africa,
flying the Italian flag, off Ineboli.
The Africa was taken to Mudania,
where, after a three hours' search of
the vessel, the Turkish passengers,
including the personnel of a Turkish
sanitary corps, were declared prison
ers of war.
Rome, March 16. (By A. P.)
Considerable excitement has been
caused here by the news that Greek
warships had stopped and searched
the Italian steamships Umbria and
Abbazia, detaining the latter.
The Messaggero observes that
Italy, notwithstanding the ; Greco
Turkish -war, has never recognized
the right of Greece to institute a
blockade or to search ships, nor did
France, who experienced a similar
incident in the seizure of the steam
ship Espoir.
The French steamship Espoir re
cently was released by Greece after
a sharp protest from France. The
Greeks, however, retaiued the cargo,
which they maintained was contra
band of war destined for use of the
Turkish nationalist army, with
which Greece is at war.
Long School Teacher
Seeks Public Office
Martha L. .Powell, principal of
Long school, Twenty-sixth and
Franklin streets, has filed for state
superintendent of public instruction.
- Miss Powell is a former president
of the Nebraska State Teachers' as
sociation and has been identified with
the Omaha public school system
many years.
Fler action has the approval of J.
II. Bevcridge, superintendent of
schools. . i : ' I
New York Man Leaves $5,000
for Care of Dogs and Cats
New York, March 16. James Bol
ton, deceased textile manufacturer,
was so fond of his cats and dogs
that he made a separate bequest in
his will, filed for probate today, stip
ulating that $5,000 be invested in
stocks and bonds to provide a fund
for their care.
His widow is the principal bene
ficiary tinder the will, which dis
posed of an estate in excess of
$200,000.
The Weather
Forecast
Friday, fair; not much change
temperature.
Hourly Temperatures.
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Churches Issue Appeal
By ARTHUR SEARS 1IENNINQ
Omaha Km .a4 Ira,
Washington, March t(. Bittefiy
nailing the mine operators, i'rei.
dent littipcr of the American Fed
cutiosi of Labor, averted that or
Canized labor to a man will luppoit
the came of the mine workers
though be did not ay ubether l
bor would resort to the aympathetis
sirikc to aid a miner' strike.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
viwt the possibility of a national
coal trike as the one dark cloud on
the horizon of improved businr-i
condition, it was said today at the
Ireaury.
Treasury officials expresrd th
opinion that there wit nothing tli
government could do to atop strike
if called for April 1, and indicated
there was little possibility of the
government taking over the bitumi
nous mines utiles a protracted strike
developed an unexpected shortage
of bituminous coal which would
work a hardship upon the general
public.
"Come what may, the American
Federation of Labor, the American
labor movement, is with the mine
workers of America in their struggle
against the mine owners," said Mr.
Gompers.
Score Operator.
"The citizenship of America can
draw from this conduct but one con.
elusion: the mine owners wish it to
be understood that the pledge of
mine owners ig valueless. The state
ment of mine owners that the repre
sentatives of the mine workers have
no power to confer is baseless. The
officers and the policy committee
of the mine workers have full pow
er to confer, to negotiate and to en
ter into an agreement. This power
was officially and properly con
ferred upon them by the mine work
ers' convention.
"The mine owner are willing" to
break their word if by so doing they
can reduce wages or weaken the un
ion. Profits and power, with ths
mine owners, come first and every
thing else, including the comfort and
welfare of the public, of which they
talk so much, come last. ,
MTll Vi'lmlat A wi n 1-i V,ei r4 .t
a. aax. tt uuiv iuin.Hi.au X 4 illUVC"
ment is with the miners. The United
Mine Workers of America have an
honorable record of agreements
honorably kept. The industry for
20 years has been conducted nport
the basis of negotiation and joint
agreement.
Want to Negotiate.
"What they ask is negotiation and
agreement, trusting to these truly
American devices to bring improve
ment as time passes. The thing they
v.-ant least of all is to be compelled
to cease work as a final protest
against the dishonor of the emplov-
,,
crs.
Asserting that a strike "would
greatly add to the hardships which
millions of citizens are already en
during, would spread great economic
waste and confusion, the social serv
ice departments of the federal council
of the Churches of Christ in Amer
ica and the .National Catholic Wel
fare council joined in an appeal to
the operators and miners to. confer
on a settlement on the following
basis':
"First, that every effort be made
by both parties to supply all the
lacis Dearing upon the questions at
issue, in order that the decisions ar
rived at may be founded on justice
rather than on economic advantage.
"Second, that besides determining
the immediate issues, operators and
miners tinite in a determined effort
to secure the better regulation of
the industry and thus correct the
intermittency of employment which
has characterized it in the past and
which has been the chief cause of
disturbance and of widespread suf
fering and discontent.
"Third, that while full production,
fair profits and just wages are the
immediate objectives to be attained,
both parties to the conference should
recognize that the establishment of
right human relations takes prece
dence over any economic issue and
is prerequisite to a permanent solu
tion of the industrial prqblem."
Second War Romance
c r ci .. i
ui t ranee onaiterea
The second Franco-American War
romance to shatter here is that of
Marie Ready, 22, of Savenav and F.
L. Read3-, 26. student, at the Uni-'
versity of Nebraska medical school.
She was granted a divorce by Dis
trict Judge Sears yesterdav. A short
time ago she won a $5,000 aliena
tion suit from B. Rcadv, county at
torney, at Hastings, Neb., the father
of her husband.
The first ill-fated Franco-American
romance here was that of Char
lotte Cesnel, whose marriage to Jesse
Crumb, Fort Omaha soldier, was an
nulled more than a year ago.
lo ottset these unhappy weddings,
however, there are at least three
happy one? known in Omaha.
Fraternal Organizations
Will Be Taxed This Year
Lincoln. March 16. Property of
fraternal organizations in Nebraska
will he taxed this year, according to
W. II. Ojbome. state tax commis
sioner. Such property will be taxed
as a unit, according to Mr. Osborne,
who rules that this class of organi
ration does not come under the ex
emption clause. Hospitals having
church affiliations will be taxable for
such part of their propcrtv tj is
used for paying patients, Mr, Os
borne also stated.
