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I. i i i Little Chance of Reclamation Bill Passing Hi Project! In Western Ne. .rj.l Will Suffer If Measure FU JUrJing Noncommittal. WaUton, April 27. (Special.) I ti iniitbdiuMc4 Sniith-Me-Nary irvUiiintou till ttmt about tM fall ty the ayiie for another rion, probably until a new cou Crt meet, til 19JJ. favjulity te- lneq py noue ini senate ffiii. puttee i ntj mi the calendar in both bodies. irotonrnts of the bill have hrn b'n'ging the While Haute (or V e go-alin-l igiul. 1 hey hive met with the iiiual tnr l'u reception, but 1 4e found Mr. Harding noncommit tal. Abmit the het the idvocitei of the hill no hope lor It that it may , be paed without any immediate ! propriation of ftiirl.. carrying ct ly the general authorization for an ap propriation over a term of vear t ( the round sum o( $351.0H),otM. Th; would put ton g re on rccrr.l in tavor of the program, hut would, by no meant anly the reclamation!!. ho wish a uhtanti.il and actual rah appropriation with uhLh to iniiu'e the uotk. On the other hand, a cah mitro nnatwm of tay only $ZO,000.iO. a . figure-, hv the ay, already great! fJuced from the original demand, doe rot ecm to fall in with the ad niinittration view of what ' he it for a bard-bewt treasury. Tat re turn have been thrinking to alarm ingly of late at to greatly itrengtlien the responsible party leaders in their intintence upon the utmost in econ omy. Bonui Bif Factor. Another factor in the question is the pretence in the house bill of he land settlement feature for sowers at contained in the original Mondell bill, creatine an independent soldier settlement board. Senator McCitm her of North OaVota. chairmar of the finance committee which hat charge of the bonus hill !n the upper houe. is said to be out after its land settlement and reclamation provi iont with a strong ax ground to a fin point. The North Dakotan's aversion to reclamation Hates from the arly failure of the Williston project in hit home state some vears ago. In th:s enterprise, irrigation tv pumpinif proved a costly experiment, not navinir the expense of the operation. It was unfortunate for the cause f reclamation that practically its only , failure honld have been in Senaa , tor MrCimiher s state. WTvle 'he American T.egion repre sentatives in Washington arc not fightinjr the Smith-McN'anr 1ill. thev are. of course, activelv for the soldVr settlement feature of the bon us Ml. If the latter should fail they would he for a more general rcclamn- tion legislation, as under the general 1w now existing the vetentn ha a 60-nav entry preference where new nnn' up. Moreover. .. cmj,i,.WrNarv hill orovidet tnat exserv're men be ffiven preference at annlVants for employment on any project 'orfc. l - Qtiestion of Legality. It is argued in favor of the sol dier settlement reclamation proposal that ther.e will be no question as to the constitutionality of -the legisla tion, the appropriations beinj made specifically and primarily-for the benefit of former soldiers. On the other hand, it is contended that there it some, question concerning the Smith-McNary bill, which would tax all of the states for Work that can be done in only a part of the country. The rest, of course, would receive indirect benefits. The stake of the west is great under either -bill. For instance, in Nebraska there is' the great project on the lower Platte between North Platte and Kearney, which would exceed, the existing North Platte project in magnitude. This great enterprise is now being mapped out and surveyed under a special, ap propriation. The field work will he completed this month. Feasible reservoir sites have been selected and the high lite canals have been laid but. , ' F F. Smith, the engineer in charge, wij! take about three months longer to complete the office work in connection with survey, and then will be able to report. In partial reports made from time to time he has indicated that mere win oe enough of a drop in the principal canal, one of nearly 150 feet, to af- iord fine power possibilities. Nebraska Cost Lo)w. General Goethals, reporting recent ly on the great Columbia Basin project in the state of Washington, recommended that construction be proceeded with, despite the fact that the cost is estimated to be as. high as $145 an acre. The estimated cost of the Jower Platte project is not a half or a third that much. The 26 existing reclamation projects of the country, upon which work is still being done, will not be affected by the fate of the Smith McNary bill. They -were cared for in the interior department appropria tion bill. For the fiscal year end ing July 1, 1923, the North Platte project gets an appropriation of $1, 690,000. This is the second largest of existing projects, costing $11, 500.000. The Boise (Idaho) project calls for $12,500,000. Over $1,250,000 has already been paid into the government treasury on the North Platte project. Only about $250,000 is overdue on this enterprise as a result of the recent price crisis in farm products.. The sum in arrears is but an insignificant part of the whole. The rights of those who are behind in their pay ments has been fully protected by special legislation. No Overproduction. Proponents of reclamation are not alarmed over any present sur plus of farm products in the United States. They quote Dr. E. D. Ball, director of scientific work. United States Department of Agriculture, who says: "If some one possessed a magic wand that would restore the world to normal conditions, we would suddenly be confronted with the fact that there is no overproduction; that what the world is suffering from is underconsumption. There is Irish War A floral wreath was placed at the ft of the monument at the bead f the grave of Gen. John J. O'Neil in Holy Sepuklut cemetery by Maj. I 4 I V M O On C:: Bryan Pays $ 1 00 "to See College Professor Guilty of Cowardly Evasion" on Darwin Morgantown, W. Va., April 27. William Jeunitigs Bryan has sent a check for $100 to Dr. Spangler, pro lessor of botany in West Virginia university, at reward for answering certain questions on evolution put by Mr. Bryan in a recent address here. Dr. Spangler is undecided whether he will accept the money because Mr. Bryan took the posi tion he had proved nothing, and in the letter accompanying the check declared that "it is worth $100 to me to see a college professor guilty of cowardly evasion." Mr. Bryan's challenge-was to any university protessor who could har monize the Bible and the principles of evolution, 3nd Dr. Spangler un dertook the task, claiming the re ward. The letter carrying the check to Dr. Spangler was addressed to Rev. W. O. Caylor of Morgantown. and said in part: . "Mr. Spangler's letter does not an swer a single question that I asked. I asked that any believer in the Dar winian question as applied to man not enough food in the world at pres ent to provide for normal consump tion. .If buying power could be re stored tomorrow, the surpluses would almost instantly disappear. The peak of agricultural produc tion per capita of population in the United. States was passed in 1898, nearly a quarter, of a century ago. Agricultural production almost kept pace with the population! increase for some little time after that date, but in the last decade it' has steadily and even more rapidly fallen, Sta tisticians have estimated that our population at the close of this cen tury will be more than 220,000,000, and have placed the probable time at which we shall begin to import the staple foods at from 15 to 30 or more years. Even if it should turn out to be the longer period, it is time we should be considering tK problem not only from the national standpoint, but from its effect on agriculture. Randall for Governor Club Formed at Coleridge Coleridge, Neb., April 27. (Spe cial.) About 200 republican men and women of Cedar county met at this place and organized a Kandall-for-Governor- club with the follow ing men for officers: President, T. 1. Linkhart, Coleridge: secretary, b. G. Dewey, Coleridge; treasurer, F. O. Robinson, Hartirtgton. The meet ing was a very enthusiastic one and every one present was determined to utilize every legitimate means of se curing the nomination of Mr. Ran dall.. . ' Attorney General Davis Will Speak at Beaver City Lincoln. April 27. (Special.) At torney Geneal Clarence A. Davis has accepted ai invitation to deliver the commencement address to the graduating class of the Beaver City High school. May 19. Ihe invita tion was extended by C. E. Coffey, a member of the Beaver City High school. Bim Gump and Mrs. Zander are B tsitu ,uoq -s;no au, uo m.js single issue. GIVE A BABY Constipation, biliousness and lika annoying ilia will quickly disappear A MOTHER is always anxious to give the safest and best medicine to a constipated baby, but is puzzled which to select. Let her decide by the ingredi ents on the package. Every bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has the formula printed plainly on the outside of the carton u nder the portrait of Dr. Caldwell, who wrote the prescription in 1892. You will find that it is a combination of Egyptian Senna and other simple laxative herbs with pep sin. It will not gripe the baby, and it is free from narcotics. A bottle sufficient to last a family several months can be had at any drug store, and the cost is only about a cent a dose. While no one, young or old, need take a drastic purgative like salts or calomel, be espe cially careful what you give a Hero's Grave Gen. I'iarit Beatlal. head of the Iritli provisional government hU com ii.U.ion, Wednesday ftcruouii. The wreath bore the gietii. white and gold oi the Irish national (lag. General O'Xeil was born in Ire laud March 9, 1834. snj died Janu ary 8, 1875. He wat a civil war vet eran and leader of the Irih dur ing the rebellion cf Ifk7 in Canada. General BnU stood at salute at he read the inscription on the monu ment: "By nature brave man, by principle a soldier of liberty, he fought with distinction for hit adopt ed country and wtt ever ready to draw hit iword for hit native land. would write out a statement of his belief of the Bible doctrines which, in my judgment, are inconsistent with Darwinism. Spangler's letter means nothing. He tries to make it appear that evolution is consistent with the Bible, which evolutionists do not as a rule believe. I am not willing, however, that he should claim that I refused to pay the $100. It is worth $100 to me to see a college professor guilty of cowardly evasion and you will please give him the check and at the same time ask lum to answer to the questions which I enclose." Enclosed were five questions, the first of which read: "Are you willing to put in writing and sign a statement declaring that you believe you are the descendant of an aper Mr. Spangler said today he had not decided whether he would keep the $100. but he would refuse to an swer the questions, which he de scribed as being no part of Mr. Bryan's original offer. Pender Farmer Gets Top ' Price in Cattle Market The cattle market was topped by Otto Weddingfcld of Pender, who received $8.50 a hundred for 30 head of- 1,366-pound steers. ' ' Mr. Weddingfeld said there Iwere quite a number of cattle in the feed lots arqund Pender but that the con signment he brought in was the last he had this season. , He said there would be a large crop of pigs as the'farmers had had good luck. Rain at Bigspring. Bigspring, Neb., April 27. (Spe cial Telegram.) Over three inches of rain have fallen here since Mon day night This is the first good rain since last June at. this place.' Road Conditions (Furnished by Omaha Auto Club.) Lincoln highway, least: Roads rood to Marshalltown. Cedar Rapids vicinity has Improved rapidly. Cars have been coming: through from Clinton tn two days' time. Lincoln highway, west: Roads good to Columbus; Central City roads (air; raining hard at Grand Island and, roads very muddy. 0. I. D. highway: Roads fine to Lin coln; slight showers west. Hastings roads very, muddy, been raining hard since 11 p. m. Highland Cutoff: Roads fair. S. T. A. road; Roads fair; muddy near Grand Island. Some rain reported also at Aursra. Cornhusker highway: Roads fair to good. Sam road work north of Lincoln. Omaha-Tojeka highway: Roads fair to good to the state line. O Street road Fine. ' ' . George Washington highway: Roads good to Sioux City. . Black Hills trail; Roads fair to good to Norfolk. King of Trails, north: Roads good to Sioux City. ' King of Trails, south:. Roads good to Hiawatha. Custer Battlefield highway:"Roads good through Iowa. Improving rapidly through South Dakota.' River to River road: Roads good to Neola. Des' Moines reports roads muddy In every direction; muddy Grlnnell to Iowa City; Iowa City to Davenport, roads good. White Pole rood: road work 11 miles east of Council Bluffs and extending Into Oakland. Des Moines roads muddy. South out of Des Moines Jefferson highway im passable to Kansas City. 1. O. A. Shortline: Roads good. - Blue Grass road; Roads good. Weather reported cloudy at every point except Atlantic. Raining most points 100 miles west. Predictions for unsettled, with showers today and tomorrow. SYRUP PEPSIN child. Some contain minerals, coal tar and other drugs that might prove dangerous by over stimu lating the intestines or depressing the heart The ingredients of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin are recommended by the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Half-Ounce Bottle Free Fw escape constipation, so tvtn if you do not leqwf a laxativt at this moment let m, send jj a Hoft-Ovnct Trial Bottle of my Smp Pefom FREE OF CHARGE that you dt have it handy u-htn iweaVd. Stmpty tend your name and addnst to Dr. W. B. CaiduxH, 114 Washaifton St Monoctilo, VL Vnu nctodaj. THE TF.E: OMAHA. Decorated To perpetuate hit memory th't mon ument va erected by Iritli national- iu, iioil tave Ireland,' l-ollowine the reading. Re. W. J Cvrbry tl Crciti'iloa uuivertity UJ in Player. In the picture, left to right, are: W. J. MiCraim, Dr. T..K. Mullen, John Forreital, niembert vl the Dub lin municipal council; J. C WaUli, Jamn .M. juiltkan, tpeciai repreteu Utivrt oi Michael talluit, head oi the Irith provuioml government; Oneial Bea.lai, t". K. Tulley, Father W. J. Corbey, Mayor Dahlmati, James II. 1 lanky and J. A. Deery, national pmident vf the Ancient Or der of Hibernian. Taylor Upsets Political Dope Plan "of Demos to Gobble Up Third Party Hampered by Filing of Revolt Leader. Lincoln, April 27. (Special Tele gram.) W. J. Taylor, leader of the revolt in the third party against the Wray-Norton combination, filed to day as a candidate for the state sen ate from the Twenty-third district. He filed as a progressive. The Taylor filing on the progres sive ticket caused visible disappoint ment among democrats interested in a Bryan-Hitchcock fusion aimed to bring angry third party men into the democratic ranks. Taylor will fight any attempt to worm Hitchcock in as a progressive democratic candidate; and from appearances here today the Bryan-Hitchcock tieup will be treat ed with as much scorn among the buck privates in the democratic ranks as the Wray-Nortoir tieup was re ceived in third party ranks. Democrats hoped Taylor would lead disgruntled third " party men back to the democratic party if "Brother Charlie" Bryan would an nounce as a candidate for governor. Drag Lakes Near Lincoln Seeking Student's Body Lincoln, April 27 (Special.) "You'll find my body in the middle of a lake." This note, signed by. Herman Ristau, 16, student, was received by his father, Herman Ristau, Lan caster countv farmer, today. The father informed officials that his son disappeared Wednesday after he had quarreled with the lad over a bill at a grocery store. The father, with neighbors, were drag ging small lakes in the vicinity of Lincoln late this aiternoon. Grant Rate Insurance. T inroln Ann! 27 fSneriali Th Nebraska railway commission nas p-ranted a 25-cent-a-month increase nn rpsirlenre nliones ' and -10 Cents on rural phones to the Oconto Tele phone company, provided a new switchDoara is instanea. BRU1SES-SPWUNS, Alternate applications botaM cold cloths then apply V VAPoRua Onr !7MlUhn Jan Utd Yk "Delicia" Ice Cream and Sunshine Cakes Served Free Saturday Union Outfitting Co. "Gurney" Refrigerator Ex hibition Starts Saturday How quickly a good ref rigera tor can pay for itself by pre serving food and milk and sav ing ice will be shown Saturday at the Union Outfitting Co. dur ing a demonstration of the na tionally advertised "Gnrne y" Refrigerator, for which the store is exclusive Omaha agent. As a special ' treat to all vis itors Delicia, "the perfect" Ice Cream, with "Sunshine" Wafers will be served free of charge. Special terms will be made dur ing the demonstration and a "Gurney" given away. 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Deck, Chicago Tri bune, The purpoe of the new society is to atsist editor in a solution of country-wide editorial problems. To rarry out this plan (or co-ordination regional directors al.o were elected. They are: James T. Williams of the lioston Transcript, representing the northeastern division; Herbert B. Swope of the New York World, rep resenting the eastern division: Maj. John S. Cohen of the Atlanta Jour nal, representing the southern divi sion; E, S. Bros of the Indianapolis Star, representing the central divi sion; George Bailey of the Houston I'ot, representing the southwestern division; II. E. Newbranch of the ADVEBTIbKMEMT. Aged people can be permanently Serve Kellogg' Bran, cooked and krumbled, to aged sufferers from conatlpatlon and results will prove astounding! Here Is nature's moat wonderful food not only sweeping, cleansing and purifying the bowel tract without any Irritation or dis comfort, but stimulating and energizing- brain and nerve cells! 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Further, "the two Governments undertake to give each other mutual assistance for the alleviation of their economic difficulties in the most benevolent spirit" Ac cording to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, "it foreshadows a new European line-up, with Russia and Germany forming what may become a military as well as an industrial and political alliance against the rest of the Old World." The danger to Western Europe is even greater than it was in 1914, declares Maurice Casenave, former French High Commissioner in the United States. "Here is Germany recog x nizing Bolshevism and joining with it. This has a meaning for America as great, in my mind, as the war had. The Ainerican Government and American public opinion ought to see the sig- nificance of these events, but if th,ey do not now they will be disagreeably shocked by the consequences." One British spokesman declared that ."the signing of the separate treaty was a ' challenge to the whole world. . The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week (April 29), "Germany and ' Russia Defying the Allies," discusses the Genoa Conference from all angles, presenting the edi- torial opinions of American newspapers and also the German-American press. ' Other striking news-features in this week's DIGEST, April 29ui, are : Henry Ford's Fire-Day Week The "Wet" Campaign Launched The Coal Strikers' Verdun New York's Big Foreign Population Storm Center of the Tariff Dispute British American Trade Rivalry in China Strikes Through China's Open Door A Truce of Electricity and Steam Ocean Way-Stations for Airplanes Base Stealing's Sensational Decline The Man Who Made Broadcasting Possible Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Maps, April 29th Number on Sale Today Just Published SERGEANT YORK Marshal Foch Maid in decorating Sergeant York: "Whit you did wis Ihs frcatett thisi sccompli.hed by sny prirsra soldier of sll tbesrmltsof Europa" Omaha WpfM-llrtaJJ, representing the western diuin, and I. S Man. ton el the $n I uiiono t'aaminrr, representing the J'sciiie cMt dui iun. Hotel Men Protest Phone Rate Increase Lincoln, April 27. (Special.)-!. A, Medlar, Omha, secretary Ne braska Hotel Men' ittdcianon, hat enieud igfou protest with th Nebraska railway commission against application of the Northwestern Hell Telephone company fur higher rat's. Medlar stale tlut under present arrangements S cent i charged by hotel (or local calls from room, 31-2 rent for the hotrl and il-2 eenis fur the telephone company. Under the new schedule, which the telephone company is kking, the hotel would receive i 1-4 cent and the telephone company 3 J-4 cent. Medlar in hi letter Wales that he lias taken the protest to the tele phone company direct and its offi cial proposed that the hotel cover thi Iom by "soaking' the traveling men and other iiirtnbei of the pub lic 10 cent for local call. Killed ly 10-Koot Fall. Lincoln, April 37. (Special ) Jerry Dee, 50, carpenter, died here today following a fall from a 11 foot ladder. No one aw him fall. He wa found unconscious by la borers. . Files for Legislature. Lincoln, April 27. (Special. E. G. 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