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Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
AMENDED FLOOD
BILL IS REPORTED
follower HOUSE
|ommittee Strikes Out Words
"Other Instrumentalities"
A in Measure Drawn at
M the White House.
ERMITs ARMING SHIPS
Surance by Government of
yesscls Carrying Munitions
of War is Prohibited.
ENDRED MILLION BONDS

s,S Washington, Feb. 28.-The house
fOrcign affairs committee today re.
ported the Flood bill, designed TO give
the president power to protect the
lives Of United States citizens and
Ancrican ships. after striking out the
words "other instrumcntalitics' and
amending the measure TO prohibit
government war insurance for ships
y CARRYING munitions OF war.
X As reported by the house COM
inttee the bill reads:
A The president of the United
4 States shall be and is hereby author
ned and empowered to supply mer-
Chant ships, the property of citizens OF
33the United States bearing registry
Of the United States, with defensive
arms and also with the necessary am
8munition and means of making use OF
lthcm in defense against unlawful at
hack; aud that he be, and is hereby
authorized and empowered to protect
8such ships and the citizens OF the
ETnitcd States against unlawful at
tack while in its lawful pursuits on
the high seas. -.
This eliminates the provision which
would have empowered the president
to employ such other instrumentallties
and methods as may in his judgment
and discretion seem necessary and
adeq"ate.
Hundred Million Bonds.
Tie bill would provide the 100000,
900 loudissuc and authorize the presi-
den; TO transfer some of the funds. to
the war risk insurance bureau, but
contains this phrase prohibiting IN
surancc OF munitions ships:
said bureau of war risk insurance
shall not insure any arms of ammuni-
ton or any vessel carrying arms and
ammunition consigned to belligerent
couh.rie5 or any citizen thereof" -.
MIR. Flood said this provision would
permit the arming and protection OF
munitions ships, but would not per-
mil their insurance by the govern
ment. The administration contends
that munitions ships are protected by
international law as well as any Others
against ruthless and unwarned de-
struction with sacrifices of life.
Senate Awaits House Action.
That the senate will take no action
on the armed neutrality bill until the
house has passed the measure practi-
cally was assured today after a con-
ference between Senator Stone, chair
man of the foreign relations COM
mittee, and Representative Mann,
house republican leader. Mr.. Mann
declared the senate could not act on
a bill providing for an issue of bonds
until it had been passed by the house
No record of the vote i'll committee
was kept, but Chairman Flood said
he thought it was II to 4. Other
members said seven voted against it
At any rate five committeemeH an
nourcet. they\would file minority re-
ports. They were Shackleford, dem
ocrat Of Missouri; Cooper, republl-
can, Wisconsin; Huddleston, demo-
Graf, Alabama; Porter, republican
Pennsylvania, and Thompson, demo-
crat, Oklahoma. Chairman Flood will
report the bill to the house tomor-
row,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
'Jardine Gets Proof Of
TruCkinq Laws Violation

When City Commissioners Jardine
was nearly 'side-swiped" by an iron
pipe Motrudinq from the itar end of
a motor truck, he thought i. was time
to call attention Of motorists to an
ordinance which prohibits such dan
gerous practices. He will bring the
matter to the notice of the police de-
partinent.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Dry Days Ahead
Of Washington Now
That the Bill Passes

Washington, Feb. 28.-Prohibition
champions won their fight in the
house tonight for the senate bill abol-
ishing saloons in the District OF Co.
lumbia after November |. The
measure passed by a vote of 273 to
1877 and was sent to the president,
who is expected to sign it.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
HOUSE PASSES MILL
RURAL SCHOOL TAX
Taylor of Custer Gets His
Measure Through the
Lower Body.
DOUGLAS COUNTY SPLITS

| Lincoln, Feb 2S-(Special}-W. J.
Taylor won decisive victory i'll the
house today when his bill levying a
special lmill tax for rural school pur-
poses went through on final passage
by vote of 50 ayes to 35 nays.
Douglas county split on tho vote,
Bulla, Howard, SCHNEIDER and Neil
sen voting for the bill while the rest
of the delegation, except Richmond,
who was absent, voted against The
bill.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by Mr.. Ainlay to recommt the bill
for specific amendment comforting
the benefits of the act on schools in
villages and cities having not more
than $500 population and excluding
all cities above that figure. The mo-
ton was ruled out OH Mr.. Taylor's
point OF order that recommltment
could not be had except for the pur-
pose of making minor corrections.
Mr.. Flansburk than moved a re-
consideration in order to have an
amendment similar to Ainlay's incor-
porated in the bill. He was squelchcd
on another point Of order by Taylor
that no member could offer motion
to reconsider unless he had previ-
ously voted on the prevailing side
Flansburg had voted in committee of
the whole with the opponents OF the
bill.
Reason for Opposition.
When his name was reached on the
subsequent roll call, Mr.. Flansburg
offered an explanation and gave his
reasons for voting mo" He declared
the bill taxed cities and towns that
arc already burdened to the limit for
the support of their own schools, i'll
order to aid schools where the people
of the districts will not vote the maxi
mum local tax themselves. He also
pointed out that the rural districts
having one-room schools will be
taxed 10 help maintain those with
schools of two or more rooms. This,
he said, was not aiding the weak dis
tricts, but the strong ones.
The other five Lancaster members
cast their votes for the Taylor bill,
Mr.. Peterson said he did not give it
his support as measure that was
strictly equitable from taxation
standpoint, but purely as state sub
sidy to promote better rural edu-
cation.
The Douglas county delegation split
on the bill, the same as it had done
before, with four of its members vot-
ing "ays," seven voting may" and one
absent. Mr.. Shannon, in a lengthy
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
The Weather

For Netraska-Fair and Colder.
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01


looking The 1867 the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Reports from Stations at 7 r. NJ.

T indicates trace Of precipitation.
L. A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
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Continued on Page Two. Column one.)
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
FAUNcE LIKES WILSON NOTE.
Calls 1t Frank Presentation Of Ideals of
Our Fathers"

New York, Jan. 29.---Dr. w. II. p.
Faunce, president of Brown university
and former pastor of the State street
Baptist church, this city, speaking before
the Republican club Saturday, declared
that President Wilson's recent address to
the Senate on foreign affairs was a
frank presentation of the ideals of our
fathers" which has forced the procla-
nation OF democratic principles in every
court in Europe
Certain passages like peace without
victory we may reject" said President
Faunce, "but that address has forced the
proclamation of democratic principles in
every court in Europe; the consent of
the governed, the equality of nations,
liberty OF work and worship for all, free
dom of the weak from the oppression Of
the strong release from ever increasing
competitive ornaments. These principles
are the bedrock of American life and are
now being discussed with incredulity or
with joy throughout the civilized world,
and when once fully discussed they can.
not be finally rejected.
'We must give To Europe more than
we must give principles and
idealism has always
been Americas gift to the world. Our
political experiment of binding together
colonies settled by the English, the
Dutch and the French, seemed a wild
enough venture, as impraeticsble as the
league to enforce peace to-day seems to
some men,"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
OVER FORTY
WERE INJURED
In Collision on New Haven
Road When Engine
Hits Express
A NUMBER WERE
SERIOUSLY HURT
Rear Car Upset, Just Misses
a Plunge Down a 30
Foot Embankment

Waterbury, Conn, Jan. 20--More than
40 persons were injured, some OF them
seriously, when the rear car of the Bos-
ton to New York express on the New
Haven railroad was run into Saturday
| night by a freight engine about half a
mile south of the Waterbury station,
The coach was tossed from the track,
| toppled over and barely escaped plunge
down a 30-foot embankment.
The accident happened at the intersec.
ton of the tracks of two divisions. The
express train, which was about 45 min
utes behind schedule, had almost cleared
the crossing when the freight engine,
OF the Mogul type, came at high speed
down the intersecting tracks and crashed
into the rear coach. One or two of the
passengers were hurled through the win.
dows. A number of the injured were
taken to a Waterbury hospital, while
Others were cared for in an emergency
hospital near the scene of the accident.
After the injured had been cared for
the train proceeded Several of the in
i,red were New York and Brooklyn res
idents.
The eolliding engine was running wild,
and the car struck was the smoker,
steel coach. Trainmen say that when
the engineer of the express saw the run
away approaching he speeded up in an
effort to clear the track, but the freight
engine struck the rear OF the smoker and
toppled it over on its side close to the
edge of the embankment. Some of the
passengers were hurled through the win
dows and others were thrown in tan
gled mass with seat frames and brok-
en- glass. How the freight engine started
on its run has not been determined.
Twenty passengers were injured, only
one seriously, in the crash between an
engine and an express train at Water
bury last night. according to the general
offices OF the New Haven railroad in New
Haven. According to the railroads YER
sion, the engine struck the rear coach, a
smoker, on train IS, bound from Boston
for New York. There were 40 men in
the coach. After delay OF two hours
the train continued its trip to New York.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
General Sporting Notes.

Wisconsin, Annapolis and Princeton
may send crews to compete with Cornell
Columbia. Pennsylvania and Syracuse in
the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeep-
sic If the distance is reduced from four
miles to three. The question of eliminat-
ing the fourth mile was discussed at a
meeting of the board of stewards of the
association on Thursday. While no ac-
ton was taken at the time, it is stated
that all three of the stewards of the
board are in favor of the change. No in
vitations to compete will be issued until
after the February meeting. The races
this year will be held at Poughkeepsie on
June 81, The 1918 regatta will be rowed
at the same place on June 2S.
The financial statement Of the Cornell
University Athletic association for 1916
l6 shows a balance of trihe over ST. 700
Receipts were s1ol.es2.l7 and expendi-
lures $100,2s0.70. Football was the only
one of the four major sports which yield
ed a profit to the association the other
three sl,mping way below the receipts.
The receipts from the gridiron games
amounted to S4s,6l5. and the expendi-
lures of the squad were s299s6. Base
ball showed a deficit of nearly $500.
track athletics of $4,000 and rowing Of
slI 900 More than $4,000 was received
from membership dues to the C. L, A. A.
and the sale of season tickets.
Most of the leading and higher salaried
ball players do quite a bit more in the
line of recreation during the off season
than they do in the line of employment
The salaries which thew receive from the
months of April to October are more
than enough to keep the wolf from the
door and still have a little change left
Ty Cobb spends most OF his time in hunt
ing and playing golf, while Christv
Mathewson and Johnny Evers play golf,
and both do little sport writing. Joe
Jackson Walter johnson and Grover
Alexander spend greater part of their
time in touring about their native states,
although they are all hunters 1t seems
like a pretty soft snap for five out of
every IL months of the year.
Yale has filled out its new schedule for
the 1917 baseball season, it being an
nounced Saturday. The New Haven col |
Iege has taken on two new colleges, the |
names being Amherst and North Caro-.
lima. The coaches and football commit |
tee have decided that Lehigh, Colgate, !
Brown and Washington g. Jefferson are
too tough propositions before Harvard |
and Princeton. The schedule is as fol- /
ows: Sept. %, Carnegie; Oct. 9, yir-
yinia; Oct. 10, V. P. l.; Oct. 20, Amherst;
Nov 3, North Carolna Nov. 10. Brown;
Nov. IL, Princeton; Nov. "a, Harvard at
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
King Georges Admiralty
Notifies Neutrals That the
Danger Zone Is Extended
SO AS TO COVER
APPROACHES
To the Coast of the Father
land--Would Block the
Movements Of Raiders

London, Jan. 29.-Warning Of con-
siderable extension OF the North sea zone
designated as dangerous to shipping"
was received at the state department at
Washington Saturday from the Amer
lean embassy at London. 1t is assumed
the warning means that the British mine
fields are being enlarged, but what ulte-
rior significance the step may have il
not known here. The warning put into
the dangerous" zone the following wa
tiers: Area comprising all the waters ex-
cept Netherlands and Danish territorial
waters lying to the southwark and east
ward of a line commencing four miles
from the coast of Jutland in latitude 80
degrees north, longitude degrees east,
latitude "a degrees, As minutes north,
thence TO position in latitude SO de-
grees, 81 minutes north, longitude de-
grees east, seven miles off the coast of
The Netherlands.
The natural result of enlarging the
mine field on the lines indicated would be
to bottle up more closely the German
warships at Helgoland and to lessen the
possibility Of raiders escaping the Gordon
of British vessels and mines and attack
ing the English coast. Heretofore the
British have been depending largely on
their warships to halt enemy ships try
ing to get into the North sea.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
TESTING DAIRY cows.
Increased Profits as Result of Co-opera.
tive Work.

Increase of from $40 to SIS and in
some cases much higher in the annual
profits from each dairy COW have result.
ed from the organization of cooperative
cow-testing associations in the United
States, according to statistics gathered
by the dairy division of the United
States department of agriculture. The
expense of membership in these assoc
Citations, on the other hand, has been
only sl.50 per COW per year. The or
CARNATIONS therefore have been very
profitable.
Because of the great and obvious eco
nomic advantages arising from the as
sociations dairy specialists of the depart.
ment believe that the organizations are
one OF the most important factors for
the upbuilding and development OF the
dairy industry in this country. Such an
consists generally of 20
farmers, living within radius of few
miles, who cooperate to hire an expert
tester to keep accurate accounts of the
amounts and cost of feed consumed by
each cow in the association, the quantity
Of milk produced by each and its richness
in butter fat. These statistics usually
reveal the fact THAT some cows are not
enough to pay for their keep,
while Others are highly profitable. Act
ng on this information the owner OF the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
The Enslayed Belgians.

Seize an innocent man and put him in
prison at hard labor, and you are justi-
fled If you show that you feed him well.
This is the principle on which the Ger
man government proceeds in regard to
the $4,000 civilians it has deported from
Belgium. They have been carried off
from their homes and condemned to
forced labor in Germany, thereby, en-
abling about the same number of Ger
mans to join the army which is fighting
against the Belgians and their allies.
And now the astute German diplomats
invite the United States government to
allow a member of our embassy at Ber-
lin to visit the camps and see how the
enslaved Belgians are treated. He will
be given the glad hand, and expected to
certify that these captive work.people
are getting plenty to eat and drink.
Suppose they are. What he's that got
to do with the question of the right or
wrong Of deportation and enslavement2
1t was not against der-feeding that
the United States government protected
"most solemnly" but against "the policy
of the German government to deport
from Belgium portion of the civilian
population for the purpose of forcing
them TO labor in Germany" The depor-
tation and forced labor were declared by
our state department to be in contraven-
ton of all precedents and of those hui.
name principles of international practice
which have long been accepted and fol-
lowed by civilized nations in their treat
ment of non combatants. Those were
admirable words which have come to
nothing.
The wordy administration has been
cleverly led away from the moral plane, |
and inveigled into an inspection of food
and shelter provided for the Belgian
workmen in their slavery. President |
Wilson and Ambassador Gerard are no
match in diplomatic fnesse for Secretary |
and Ambassador Won Bern |
storff. Our government is duped. 1t Is !
letting itself be used as a German instru |
ment to minimize the enormity of the !
rhine against which it protested. But
no certificate of decent feeding of slaves
will excuse the wrong done to them az
ireemen. That is one Of the outrages I
Tor which the allies viii rightly demand
-eparation. Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29

cows disposes of the least desirable OF
his animals and makes up his herd ex-
clusively of those that produce a con-
siderable profit.
The membership OF the association is
placed at 26 so that the tester can make
complete round each month, devoting
one work day to each member, and that
he may keep his records on monthly
basis. II has been found by careful ex-
periments that the average based on
monthly tests do not vary more than
two per cent from the production, as
shown by daily observations. Since the
tester is an expert and can make the
necessary tests and computations rapid
ly, and since he can be depended on TO
make his observations independently of
pressure of work on the individual farm,
the owners of dairy cows find 1t cheaper
and more satisfactory in many cases to
have their testing done through the as
ISOLATION than to undertake to do it
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
GOVERNOR GRAHAM GUEST.
Goes to Boston for the 31st Annual Din
ner of Vermont Association.

Boston. Jan. 29-The Vermont asso-
citation of Boston entertained Hon. Hor.
ace +. Graham, governor of that state
Saturday evening at the associations
3lst annual dinner at the Vendome.
Gov. Graham was accompanied by a
member of his staff, Maj. L. d. Taylor,
and by John G. Sargent, ex-attorney
general of Vermont. All three of the
visitors met former Vermont friends or
acquaintance, now living in or near the
Hub, among the 1870 or so prosperous and
happy-faced men and women who greet
ed them at the reception preceding the
dinner
The dinner was followed by brief ad-
dresses. mostly of an informal character,
by Carroll w. Doten, president of the as
sociation; Gov Graham, Mr.. Sargent,
Hon. Henry @. Wells, president of the
Massachusetts, Senate, and Charles II.
Bradley, superintendent of the farm and
trades school at Thompson's Island, who
responded for all past presidents of the
association.
The speaking was followed by dancing,
which lasted till towards midnight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
WORTH $4,000, BROUGHT SIS.
Necklace, Only One of Stolen Chicago
Jewels, Sold for Trife.

Chicago, Jan. 29.--Partial solution of
the robbery of the Chicago art. institute
jewelry valued at $4,000 brought with
it Saturday knowledge that the thieves
received but trifiing sums for the deli
cate creations of the lapidary and the
cunning workmanship OF the goldsmith.
A $4,000 cliriously designed necklace of
gold ajour enamel. Mexican opals and
small diamonds, made up of fine gold
work and set with many stones, was
broken up and sold for SIS. Other ar
ticles in the collection which as the Ida
r. S. Moves collection had been one Of
the most highly priced groups in the art
institute. were treated similarly. Asge
larsen. said to be a member of a dis
tinguished Copenhagen family, is in Gus
tody charged with receiving the stolen
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
SCHOOL TEACHER
Wards Off Nervous Breakdown

Alburtis, PAT am teacher in the
public schools, and ! got into very
nervous, rundown condition, j could
not. sleep and had no. appetite, ! was
tired all the time, My sister asked me
to try Vinol. did SO, and within a
week my appetite improved and ] could
sleep all night, and now feel well and
strong Rosa NJ. Keller, Alburtis, Pa
We guarantee vinol, which contains
beef and cod liver peptones, iron and
manganese peptonates, and giycero-phos-
pilates for all weakened, rundown condi-
tions and for chronic coughs, colds end
bronchitis, Red Cross Pharmacy, Floyd
q. Russell, Prop, Barre; also at the
leading drug store in all Vermont towns.
ADV.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
is ARIZoNA's GOVERNOR.
Supreme Court Decision Fsvors Camp
bell, Gusts Hunt.

Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 29.-The Arizona
supreme court Saturday returned de-
eision holding that Thomas +. Campbell.
Republican. is the de facto governor Of
Arizona The decision GUSTS @. w. P.
Hunt. Democrat, who had claimed re-
election.
The opinion holds that the certificate
of election issued to Campbell is prima
fseie evidence Of his election. The court
issued no writ, stating its belief that
Hunt would now surrender the Office but
declaring that II he did not a writ would
be issued.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29

ton, bureau Of plant industry. Under
the method an electric mechanism, sim
liar to those seen on soda fountains, is
used to mix finely ground corn and alco-
hol. Thirty minutes of mixing it is
found will extract from the corn an
amount Of acid -reacting substance COM
parable to the amount extracted through
digestion in so per cent alcohol at room
temperature for Is hours.
The methods for making aeidity deter
limitations of corn with this apparatus
are described in detail in circular IS, Of
flee of the secretary, recently published
by the United States department of ag
riculture.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
Automatic Change of Faith.

The group of delegates to the PAN
Presbyterian conference were out seeing
the town, and without noticing the dan
ger sign went out on a footbridge across
stream. Soon their pleasure in tho
view was interrupted by burly keeper
who in angry tones ordered them ashore
"Why, that is all right" said one OF
the number; I'VE are Pan-Presbyterians.'
Il don't care" said the man, ''if you
are Pan-Presbyterians or Pot -Presbyte
rians, you'll all be Baptists in five min
utes if you don't get off o. that bridge
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-29
WOULDN'T PAY LICENSE FEE.
Groom-to-Be Was Therefore Left By Bur-
lington Woman.

Providence, r. l., Jan. 29.-George Har-
rop, aged 2s, who claimed to be a paper
mill worker at Holyoke. Mass, would
not listen to paying $40 marriage fee
to a superior court judge here Saturday
and so his bride-to- be wiped away some
tears and declared she would go back
home.
The expectant young girl said she went
to Boston to meet Harrop for the pur-
pose of getting married. From Boston
they journeyed TO Providence and sought
a Judge to tie the knot. The bride-to- be,
Miss Elsie Frenehlie. aged 81 of Burling
ton. Vt. firmly declared she would not be
married by a minister and she said a
man ought not to permit a few dollars
to stand in the way II he wanted a wife
that is. If he loved the girl.