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Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28

Washington, Feb. 27.--Immediate
steps to reduce the number of COL
lisions by student avators by spread
ing out the training areas are about
to be taken by the War department.
1t is planned to lay out flying fields
in various directions from the train
ing camps to which the student avia-
tors would fly each day in a pre-
viously arranged schedule. 1t is be-
lieved this will eliminate crowding in
the air.
All things taken into consideration,
however, War department officials feel
that the number of accidents have not
been unduly large. In order to hasten
the governments aircraft program,
authority has been given to comman-
deer spruce in the northwest wher-
ever it may be found.
The trees are being split where they
lie, so that delivery to the govern
ment cut up mill, near Vancouver bar
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
HEAD OF NASH co.
VISITOR At BIG
OMAHA CLASSIC
Motor Car Industry Most I'M
portant of All in These
Times Of War, Says
C. W. Nash. r

c. w. Nash, president of the Nasf
Motor company aud one of the big
gest men in the automobile industry
arrived in Omaha Wednesday morn
ing to attend the Omaha auto show.
Mr.. Nash for many years was the
directing genius Of the General Motor
company, the largest automobile con.
Germ in the world. Two years age
he started the Nash Motor company
manufacturing a complete line Of mo.
tor cars and trucks, and many stu.
dents of the automobile business be.
.lieve that in due time the new Mash
firm will rank ON equal terms with
the General Motor company.
"The majority of the people do moi
realize the importance of the motor
car industry in the. present war;" said
Mr.. Nash. 1T would be suicidal to
attempt to curtail the output of auto
mobiles in the United States. am
confident from conversation with Off
cials in Washington that this is real
lied and no attempt will be made to
reduce motor car production.
Shortage in Army.
THE greatest handicap of the Amer
ican expeditionary forces in France,
/ was informed in Washington a few
days ago, is the shortage of motor
transportation. Army officers in
charge of transportation in France in
formed me that the American gov
ernment was purchasing all of the
French and English cars they could
get to relieve this congestion.
"Our production of trucks is now
largely given to the fulfillment of gov
ernment orders. We are making
Continued on Page Two, Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
Army More Peaceful
Than Home, HUBBY Says

Martha Dargacewski charged in
police court Wednesday morning
that her husband, Peter, had urged
her to have previous decree of d.
vorce annulled so that he might re-
turn and live with her, and thus
claim exemption in the draft.
But, she said, that after living a
short time together. he had de-
clared: "The army beats this; there's
less fighting over there and de-
serted her forthwith.
Police Judge Fitzgerald asked
Peter If he had any witnesses who
would dare to say he worked. Peter
replied that he did not. He was
bound over to district court under
$500 bonds.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28

BLAMES AMATEURS.
Blame for the coal shortage Sena-
tor Lodge laid to the fuel administra-
lions price-fxing plan, together with
railroad difficulties, and the closing
order he described as complete
confession of impotence and failure"
He denounced the fuel administration
as an unnecessary agency" which
was composed largely Of amateurs.
The senator dealt in a nilder man
1er with the food administration, and,
although asserting the fixing the price
of sugar was mistaken policy and
the sugar famine largely artificial, he
added:
"In justice to Mr.. Hoover, he made
every effort to get rail distribution
and get sugar. How much he was
thwarted by the railroad situation
and the tangle d priority orders / do
mot know. but ! am certain that if he
had been efficiently aided, instead of
!, being crossed by other commissions,
there could have been no sugar fam
inc in the eastern states"
=. = Fuel Administration Failure. z
., Discussing the procedure of the
fuel administration, Senator Lodge
said:
"They fixed a price which made it
impossible to work many mines,
frightened the producer and tended
to reduce production. :.
= "Not content with this, they also
set to work to change the whole sys-
tenn of distribution. No more reck-
less experiment could have been bet
ter caluculated to make railroad diff
ficulties almost insuperable. At sim
gle blow they partially paralyzed all
the machinery of distribution. Only
ignorance of economic laws could be
offered as an excuse.
THE result of the fuel administra-
tion's policy was to add-to the already
enormous railroad difficulties by Gre
ating chaos in distribution and adding
to all this suspense, alarm. and uncer-
tainty due to fixing an arbitrary price.
"The system adopted by Mr.. Hoo
yer had at least the merit OF main
tanning production. The system of
making a different coal price at each
mine was impracticable. Even if they
kept prices down, which. is purely
guess work, they brought coal fam
inc with this nominal fixed price"
Incompetents in Control.
Declaring that he did not believe
the railroad problem could not have
been solved, Senator Lodge con-
tinued:
> But nothing can be more certain
than that the policy of the fuel ad-
minstration, its attempt to substitute
a new scheme of distribution, its reck-
= less price fixing, brought on a coal
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column One.)
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28

GERMANS REFUSE ARMISTICE.
"A peace delegation is now on the
way to Brest-Litovsk. We expect any
moment news that it has arrived at
the place appointed for peace negotia-
tions, but there is no armistice. The
German government has formally re-
fused an armistice and German de-
tachments continue to advance.
1--WE are prepared to sign their
peace of usurpation. We have al
ready declared this, but there are
many indications that the German i'm
perialists do not desire peace at the
present moment, but rather an i'm.
mediate strangling of the workmen's
and peasants revolution. ..
Resistance to the German hordes
thus becomes the principal task of
the revolution-brave, heroic, obstin-
ate and pitiless resistance. Every po-
sition, every railway station, every
locomotive must be defended. Every
possible obstacle must be put in the
way of the enemy.
"Our greatest strength is in our
wide territories. Enemy detachments,
still very small, have occupied Reval
and Pskov. Even Petrograd itself,
which is still far distant, can in no
way decide the destiny of the revolu-
tion.
Use Russia's Strength.
"The government of the peoples
commissaries can, and if needs be
must, retreat, must gather its forces
and must appeal to the country to
use its whole strength for the defense
of the revolution. Should the threat
Continued on Page Two. Column Three.l
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
Many Officials Will Try
To Continue in Office

Aurora, Neb.. Feb. 26.-(Special.)-
State Representative Perry Reed ex-
poets to be candidate for state SEN
ator this year. He will be opposed
in the republican primaries by former
State Representative w. l. Farley.
Sheriff James Howard and County
Attorney Whitney will be candidates
to succeed themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
SIS Reward

For the arrest and conviction of
George Nelson, who has been
fraudulently collecting money for
subscriptions to The Omaha Bee.
He is not, and never has been, an
authorized agent for The Bee.
He is dark complexioned, has
brown eyes, is short in stature and
a stylish dresser.
Has been operating in central
Nebraska.
BEE PUBLISHING co.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
LODGE DEN0UNCES PRICE
FIXING BY GOVERNMENT
AS WORK OF AMATEURS
Declares Food and Fuel
" Have Proven Abject Failures and Pro6teering is
T.. General; Caused Complete Paralysis of
Railroad Systems of Country

Washington Feb. 27-Government price-hxng as method
of preventing proeerng proved failure Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge declared today giving the
the conclusions he had drawn from the recent
of the coal and sugar shortages
In the case Of COAL Senator Lodge said prcexng had
only served cura production, while the food
price plan sugar had kept western beet from
and the meantime retoiter Of coal and
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
RUSS CAPITAL To
FALL EASY PREY
TO GERMAN ARMY
Soldiers Flaty Refuse to Fight and Declare They Have
Had Enough of War; Workmen Prepare to Resist,
But They Are Unorganized and Without
Military Training; Outlook Gloomy

London Feb 27.-lf special dispatches from Petrograd
gauge accurately the situation there the Germans likely
Russian soldiers frankly refuse to fight and saw 1--WE have
had enough Of fighting If the Germans come let them take
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
WILL FIGHT To '
DEATH IN DEFENSE OF RUSSIA
Petrograd Official Statement Announces Kaiser Has Re
fused to Grant Armistice; Declares Readiness to
Sign "Peace Usurpation;" Predicts Revo
- luton in Germany

London Feb. 27.-The Russian revolution will defend
itself against Germany official Russian
out by wireless, and which that Germany has
fused to grant armistice. The reads
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
Colder
Comparative Local Record.

Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
Normal temperature ............,27
Excess for the day. 10
Total deficiency since March 1, 1917. .e14
Normal precipitation ........... .02 inch
Excess Tor the day. .04 inch
Total precipitation since Mar. 2s.42 inches
peficiency since March l...... 7.21 inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916 1918 inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916. 0.97 inch
Report From Stations at z. NJ
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28
The Weather

For, Nebraska-Fair; colder.
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-28

7" Indicates trace OF precipitation.
y. A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
100000 Jobs!

1t is stated that there is still short
age of at least 100000 skilled men need
ed for the carrying out of the shipbuild-
ing programme on scheduled time 1t is
likewise disclosed that with the abolition
of overtime the production of the yards
has shown a distinct slowing up. In
other words, the need for workers is
greater now than before. 1t is an open
question whether considerably more than
100000 workers could not now be sue
cessfully employed. Inquiries from for
eign sources-France, Italy and Norway
especially-continue. Apparently even
at present prices of construction here
other countries would be glad to take the
product. And the Shipping Board is now
considering the removal of restrictions
on the shipyards against foreign orders.
What is very difficult to realize is that
prices abroad have, in many countries,
gone up more than in the United States.
A recent consular report from Denmark
says that a set of freight car wheels,
formerly costing $40, now brings $348!
In general, prices and wages in Norway
and Sweden have risen nearly twice as
much as in the United States. Is the
"cheap labor" of Europe a vanished
nightmare?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
"es'roy IL we must, for it can menace the
peace of the world more than navies and
armies.
The New Tax Bill

The Senate's revision Of the tax hill
mad naturally to meet the fact that the
war has ceased. With that war profits
vanished. Revenues from this source
VIII be some 100000 less than the House
olll estimated. There is no change in the
income tax; that remains at IL per cent
normal on over $4,000 and per cent be-
low that, with heavy surtaxes on over
So,O00, ranging up to 65 per cent on in
comes over S1,00o,O0O. Corporation in
come taxes will be IL per cent straight
inheritance taxes are somewhat reduced
and likewise on theatre admissions and
other special taxes The heaviest loss
OF course, is due to the prohibition meas
ure, which will cut the alcoholic revenue
to less than half billion. Automobiles
are taxed per cent on the sale price;
telephone and telegraph taxes are re-
tanned, and likewise theatre taxes. club
dues, perfumes and other Injuries. An
especially good feature is tax of 10 per
cent on the products of child labor.
The Senate's estimate is that the bill
will produce little short of $4,000, O0O.-
600. If the governments expenditures
in the coming year are reduced as much
as at present may reasonably be hoped
this means that a much larger proper
ton will be raised by taxation than has
been achieved hitherto, something nearer
to Secretary McAdoos ideal figure of SO
per cent. This is economically sound and
practically desirable Peace-tme bonds
are neither so easily f1oated nor is their
necessity so clear.
Objections are raised against the pro-
posal in the bill to fix the taxes for 1920.
In view of the nebulous state of the esti-
mates as to expenditures for even next
year, it would seem wiser to leave this
question to the next session of Congress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
The New Business Greed

Our dispatches from the national gath
ering of business men at Atlantic City
chronicled not merely high optimism as
to the outlook for. America and for bust
ness, but, much more, new and larger
spirit in business affairs. Mr.. Knappen
described their resolutions as kind of
creed for industrial relations. The main
points are that labor is partner in bust
ness, and not a vassal that the COM
munity is also partner in industry, and
that business must look out for these
while taking care of itself. The resolu-
tons declare that grievances of employees
must be promptly uncovered and RENE
died, and that industrial harmony de-
ponds on representation in industry, and
find:
THAT man renders the greatest social
service when he so co0perates in the
ganization of industry to afford the
largest number the greatest opportunity
for self development and the enjoyment
by every man of those benefits which his
own work adds to the wealth of civliza-
ton"
1t would be much to say that the
convention at Atlantic City marked a
new era in American business life, but it
is certainly true that it was signalized
by broader and finer vision of the func-
ton of the business man in the life Of
the nation.
American industrial development has
been infused with an intense individual
ism. The old-time type OF the employer
was the autocratic figure who would
brook no interference in his affairs His
attitude inevitably bred feeling of hos
t;lity on the part of the employees. Out
of the necessity for defensive organiza-
ton grew the trade unions. With a cor
responding development of employers
associations the alternatives became
clear-either a fiat deadlock ruinous
strikes, violence and misery, or coopera-
ton and agreement.
The sentiment crystallized at Atlantic
City is big advance toward mutual in
terest and helpfulness. Diffused by 1000
delegates returning to their homes and
workshops all over the United States, it
will be of the largest value in bridging
over time of hesitation, uncertainty and
many perplexities. Even our ablest
business men find a mental wrench in
getting adjusted to higher level of war
prices. But those prices cannot be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Associate, Not Ally

BY an alteration of diplomacy the
United States remained an associate, not
an ally, of the other great powers at war
with Germany. The awkwardnesses of this
situation cropped out frequently while
the war was still in progress We re-
Trained from hostilities with Bulgaria
and Turkey. We have therefore no d-
rect concern with the terms of peace to
be imposed on Bulgaria and Turkey. Yet
Mr.. Wilson's fourteen articles contain
paragraphs disposing of the Ottoman in
heritance and dealing with territorial re-
adjustments in the Balkans.
In the discussion Of other peace cond-
tions the embarrassments of our limited
association with the Entente powers are
being unpleasantly emphasized. 1t is
highly desirable that a united front
should be presented to Germany. France,
Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and Japan
have obligated themselves to harmonious
joint action. But the United States plays
lone hand and the danger is that this
isolation may produce an attitude of mind
leading to the accentuaton of minor diff
ferences.
The Entente powers are unanimous
for q trial of the ex-Kaiser on criminal
charges. 1t is said that our government
is reluctant to approve demand on Hol-
land for his surrender. Yet it is the
overwhelming feeling Of this country that
he should be arrested and tried for his
Grimes, as should other Germans who
share his blood guiltiness.
The Entente powers are firm for a very
large measure Of German PREPARATION.
Our government is understood to be
somewhat less insistent on this point. 1t
was left out Of the fourteen points. Ger
tainly it would have contributed ma
terially to strategic and moral unity at
this juncture if we had been in a posi-
ton to discuss all these matters as a
member of the Entente council, and did
not have to consider them as questions
between the combined Entente powers
and ourselves.
We should have declared ourselves long
ago one Of the Allies. AS it is, we must
guard all the more carefully against Civ
ing our relation dissociate rather than
an associate character
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Pro-Peican

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me through your paper to
make protest against adopting the sugges-
ton of Mrs Mary w. Kendall concerning
the adoption of the phrase care You Pel-
can?' by the food administration.
| make this plea because I believe that
the assertions that this bird is glutton,
a shirker, etc, are incorrect, in spite of the
fact that through some misunderstanding
of the nature Of the birds the sailors may
have adopted that expression appertan
ing to "gluttonous" sailor, etc. OF course,
if Mrs Kendall is referring to the pelican,
a dcep-sea eel-like fish, with whose habits
am unfamiliar, cannot dispute her attr
buttons. IT, however, she means the bird,
must take exceptions with her.
have long understood that this bird
was the emblem of generosity. Somewhere
| have read that of all birds it alone shared
its food with birds of other species, allow
ing 1.-THE more tmid birds to ride on it's
back in the water while it tossed back to
them scraps Of the fish it caught. That it
is claimed to feed its young from its
breast when food is scarce is too old a
legend to doubt that it must have been be-
lleved to possess better qualities than glut-
tony.
1t has a, large pouch-as has the pee-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

can-which it fills with food, but so does the
cow Chew its cud' and the camel store
up water. Neither of these can be ac-
cused of pigiike habits
AS to the sailors authority, l would like
to ask why was there issued some years
ago 4 monthly paper for the navy called
"The Pelican? Surely no editor would
have adopted that title if it was an ap-
pellation of reproach to the sailors.
The pelican is used as a crest in more
than one case. 1t was so used by an
organization in Ireland more than hundred
years ago, because it was considered to ex-
press generosity.
The deep-sea fish may be better known
to chose who follow the sea" than it is
to me, but | must still object to the phrase
because it is confusing, and ISLANDERS bird
long held up TO respect NJ. L. S.
New York, Dec. I, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

abruptly slashed to pieces. Their de-
scent must be gradual, if, indeed, as Mr..
Vanderlip stated the other evening, we
have not entered permanently upon a
higher level of both prices and wages.
1t is only reactionaries who think we
must go back to pre-war conditions and
levels.
We should like to see great conven-
ton of labor men infused with the same
spirit of common-weal and common
wealth as that which has just closed at
Atlantic City. A united nation of 35,-
100000 business men and workers could
achieve unparalleled results
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

TNHE more news comes out of Germany
the more conviction deepens that the
peace offensive" is still on, and pre-
senting all the dangers that were expected
in it's accompaniment. Public opinion has
not actually needed the guidance of the
newspaper correspondents who are now
eXctedly cabling that Germany's plea for
food is false dinner in Treves costing
less than its equivalent in Paris. There
is in the general mind pretty lively
memory of thos9 newspaper headlines of
four years ago when the war was but five
months old-"Riots in Berlin Markets."
Berlin Alarmed at Potato Famine"
"Bernstorff Says No Supplies Sent by
U. S. Will Be Seized for Military USE"
Police Tear Down Placards Asking for
Bread and Peace There were not so many
German babies starved to death by the
British blockade that our soldiers cannot
write home and say how the streets of
Prussian towns crowded with whole
families of children.
Germany sought four years ago to make
sympathy loosen for her the iron grasp
Of Britain; there cannot be the slightest
doubt that she is to-day working the same
game. Everything since last August has
been directed hopefully to the United
States-for example, the drive for free
trade which the German fnanciers have
inaugurated taking their cue from Mr..
Wilson's hints about economic barriers
or boycotts. "The biggest question the
world is now facing is whether free trade
or the high tariff principle shall be ap
piled between the nations and, in particu
lar, what the United States will do in this
respect" contides DR.. Alfred Treichl di-
rector of the onetime Anglo-Austran
Bank, in an unimpassioned review of the
world situation, and on every side is being
put forth that query which, it is adjudged,
will have most weight in the land of the
dollar; if you impose too severe conditions
on Germany, they asking, how can you
make her pay? Before Foch turned Ger
many's tide, the free trade question was
not discussed quite from this angle. at
is not exaggeraton," wrote Emil thinner
mann in a pamphlet concerning Mittel
africa "to say that our system Of protec
ton was only possible because the Anglo
SaXons put at our disposal their fields of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
To Englishwomen: 1918
New York, Dec. 7, 1918.
lFronl The Westn,ina

(Frons The Westminster Gazette)
y EFORE our long-barred heritage VIC
D stand;
What shall we make of it? Shall better
land
Than this dear England, Land of our
Fathers, rise
From out the ashes of worlds demise?
We hold weapon--old, yet forged anew;
Shall it be rusty gun, aimed all askew,
AS oft of yore, at half forgotten things?
Or shall it be Sword bright tipp'd with
Wings?
Oh, Women of the age that CLEANS afar,
Choose ye the Sword and on its crossed
ioags your souls to send it winging
straight
Through all the ills OF Ealsk to Heavens
Gatel
Bring to this old sad World change ID
heart;
Look on the fret of Labor and of Mart
Through eyes asperged at the deep wells
of Life;
BY woman's mother-wisdom heal mans
STRIFE.
Guard first the Race! that so an Age of
Gold
May dawn, wherein the Wonder-chant of
Shall sound anew, hailing the Woman
blest
Who bears New Redeemer at her breast.
ETHEL M. ARNOLD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Britain $ Day

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you allow Shakespeares splen-
did words placed in the valiant mouth OF
gallant old Gaunt Orchard ID to greet
your many British readers tomorrow, Sun
day morning?
Methinks l am prophet new inspired
And thus expiring do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered
isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world.
This precious stone set in the silver sea.
Which serves it in the office of wall
Or as moat defensive to a house,
Against infection and the hand of war.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realms
this England!
G. ARMSTRONG.
New York, Dec. z, 1913