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Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
SLUMP IN PRICES
WORKS AGAINST
HOGPRODUCT|0N
Tagg Contends It's Misdirected
Patriotism to Stop Home
Demand for Pork at the
Present Time.

The slump in the price of hogs and
the propaganda against eating pork
is discouraging hog production, ac'
cording to T. B, Tagg, president Of
both the National and the Omaha
Live Stock exchange.
The bulk of the hogs on the Oma-
ha market sold Thursday and Fri
day at $l5,70@l5SS per 100 pounds
Many of these hogs were purchased
as stock pigs last fall at $l9. At that
time the government urged stockmen
to raise hogs.
Administrator Hoover has asked
us to have II porkless meals week" "
said Mr.. Tagg, "and every patriotic
citizen is ready and willing to ad-
here to that, but many of the persons
who are urging the people in this
country not to eat pork during the
war do not understand market condi-
tons and they are Gripping the very
industry WHICH tHc ioou duiilliiiold- d
tion wishes to encourage.
''If Mr.. Hoover had wanted all of
our pork production for expectation
he would have ordered us to observe
2l porkless meals a week, instead OF
II. About Is per cent of the pork is
for home consumption and if this de-
mand is cut short, the price of hogs
drops below normal, considering pres
ent prices of corn, and stockmen are
discouraged.
ut is misdirected patriotism to stop
the demand for pork for home con-
sumption at this time when the in
dustry should be fostered by at least
a normal demand and staple mar
ket."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
Laundry Soap Sale

White Russian
Soap
Per Cake, S 1ac
By Case, $5.25
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
South Side Brevstles

Mr. and Mrs A. P. Sundburg, Holdrege
are visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
c. c. Wilson.
While wrestling with John Novak, 531s
South Twenty-seventh street, Thursday
night, Carl Wilhelm, messenger boy, 2S13
, street, fell and broke his leg. He was
taken to the South Side hospital.
Lew Etter, superintendent of the South
Side postoffice, has been appointed a colonel
IN the drive which the Douglas County
Council Of Defense is planning to check up
On patriotic giving. 1t will be the duty Of
the coloneis to select precinct chairmen,
who will choose block committeeman
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03

White Borax
Naptha Soap
Per Cake...6c
BY Case, $3.50
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03

or leave the country. Many other in
justices were practiced against them.
The general discomfort which fol-
lowed was not understood by Ger
many" said the lecturer, because
Germany never had a revolution. |
hope it will in the near future"
One of the chief reasons. according
to DR.. Fling that Germany insists on
its right to the province. is because
Of the desire TO possess the rich coal
and iron mines in this section.
For so years Germany has tried
to Germanize the province. but 'he
people of that territory are repub-
licans and lovers of liberty and they
will never be happy separated from
France"
Last nights lecture was the first Of
a series of four to be given under the
auspices of the Equal Franchise So
ciety. The lectures deal with the
Problems of Peace Settlements"
You can secure maid, stenogra-
pher or bookkeeper by using Bee
Want Adj
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
Stock Yards Exchange Flag
At Half Mast for Mrs. DrexeI

The flag at the Stock Yards ex-
change building was at half mast Fri
day because of the death Of Mrs.
Christian Drexel, who died Thursday
morning. -
She and her husband, Fred Drexel
settled on homestead in 1856 and,
later, when the farm was sold, it be-
came the site for South Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
Fails to Deliver.

Pinkey Mitchell, the Milwaukee
amateur boxer who turned profes-
sional, has not startled the boxing
world since joining the pros.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-03
Muggsy Is Foxy.

John McGraw is some strategist off
the ball field as well as in the big
yard. He beat the coal famine by
going to Havana.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
EVIDENCE SHOWN
To PROVE GUILT
Of MEAT PACKERS
Henry Declares letter Was
Written to Force Others Quit
of Business Others Deny.
Allegations,


Philadelphia, Jan. Further evil
dence tending to prove that the Amer
lean Agricultural Chemical company
was the chief agent in an alleged H.
legal combination of meat forces to
force a local Independent rendering
company out of business was pro-
duced today before the federal trade
commission which is conducting an
inquiry into the meat packing busi-
ness.
The chief evidence submitted con-
sisted of a copy of letter, written,
according to Francis j. IIeney, coun-
sci for the commission, by Hugh j.
Robertson, general manager of the
American company and president of
the Eastern Oil and Rendering COM
pany, to f. j. Murphy, local agent.
which stated that you want to train
your guns on NJ. l.. S."
Frederick w. English, secretary of
the d. b. Martin company, a local
packing firm, whose name was men
toned in the letter, denied all knowl-
edge of the letter. He refused to ad'
NIT that the IN. L. s." referred to in
the communication was the M. L.
Shoemaker Company, Inc. 1t was as
a result of complaints by w. S, Allen
of the Shoemaker company the local
independent firm, that the Philadel-
phia investigation was ordered
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
WYOMING OPPOSED TO
OIL LAND LEASE BILL

Washington, Jan. Reconsideration
of the Walsh-Pittman coal and Oil
land leasing bill was resumed today
by the senate under an agreement to
finally dispose of the measure Mon
day. It's passage was regarded as as
sured because of the agreement to
eliminate provisions dealing with the
California naval oil reserve district.
Senator Borah today criticised the
measure for alleged discrimination
against Wyoming oil operators and
Senator Smoot announced that Wyo-
ming delegation would arrive tomor-
row to protest against it.
Debate on the bill continued
throughout the day with scarcely a
half dozen senators in their seats.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
AME RIGA FORCETS
DEBT To SWEDEN,
SAYS PROFESSOR
First Neutral State to ReCOg-
nize United States Declares
Writer Who Thinks We.
Treat Country Badly,

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Stockholm, Jan. 5.-The Americans
talk a great deal about paying their
debt of gratitude to France" incurred
during the revolution, but another
debt of gratitude-and this to Sweden
appears to have been forgotten
writes Prof. wilhelm Lundstrom oI
Gothenburg. prominent Swedish
educator and author. He continues:
Sweden was the first neutral state
that recognized the United States and
concluded a treaty with it, IT was
Sweden that introduced the United
States to the diplomatic world and
was the first state that while not at
war with England, offered it's friend
ship to the young republic, whose con-
tinued existence was still insecure,
ut was in June, 1882, when, upon
the order Of Gustavus III, the Swed-
ish minister in Paris, Gustavus Philip
Creutz, got into communication with
the Americans agent in France, Ben
iamin Franklin. 1t was nothing less
than a treaty with Europe's oldest
kingdom which Cruetz offered to
Franklin and the free states of his
land.
"Franklin himself, as well as his
countrymen. grasped with thankful
ness the offered hand, the treaty
was signed in April 1888, and remain
ed of practical benefit to the United
States for a long time. The most i'm
portant aspect of the matter was,
however, that this treaty signified the
Introduction Of the United States into
relations as recog-
nized power"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
GE ERMAN AGENTS
PLANNED RADIO
ON MEXICO COAST
Mexican Authorities Arrested
Several Members of Enter
prise Which Was Then Civ
en- Upj Baron in Deal,
lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,pr

San Francisco, Calf, Jan. f.
Agents of the German government
attempted to establish a wireless tele-
graph station on the west coast of
Mexico in 1914, several months after
war had been declared, according to
testimony today at the trial of thirty
one persons charged with conspiracy
in connection with a proposed revolu-
tion against British rule in India.
Gustave Koeppel, a shipping broker
Of San Diego, Calf, on the stand in
the United States district court, said
today he had arranged several details
in the wireless matter for Baron e.
Won Setback, former vice consul gen
eral for Germany in San Francisco.
The plan failed, Koeppel said, when
several persons engaged in the enter
prise had been arrested by Mexican
authorities and the expedition return
ed to the United States.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
MELVILLE STONE, JR,,
DIES IN CALIFORNIA.

Pasadena, Calf, Jan. 4.-Melville
f. Stone, Jr., son of the general man
ager of the Associated Press, died
here today. Mr.. Stone had been seri-
ously i'll since Sunday. He had been
in poor health for some time, during
which he lived at Altadena, a suburb,
with his mother and sister, Miss Eliz-
abeth Stone.
Mrs. Stone was with him at the time
of his death. Miss Stone left New
York Tuesday and will arrive here
tomorrow. No funeral arrangements
will be made until her arrival.
Mr. Stone was born November Z,
1874. at Chicago. He was graduate
of Harvard university and was asso-
ciated with his brother, Herbert
Stone, in the publication Of the Chap
Book and the House Beautiful Al
one time Mr.. Stone was managing
editor of the Metropolitan Magazine.
He had written many short stories.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
SOLDIERS WENT HOME;
NOW IN GUARD HOUSE

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. 4.-"Absent
without leave" is the charge against
1000 Texas and Oklahoma soldiers
here, because of the holidays These
1000 were not in the $4,000 granted
furloughs by Major General Greble.
So they went home anyway" for the
festivities. One hundred of them,
members of Company B Of the One
Hundred and Forty-fourth infantry,
went to Dallas in body and paraded.
About 200 of the men are in the
guardhouse serving out their terms.
They say the holiday was worth the
punishment,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
MISS RANKIN TAKES
SLAP AT JOHN BULL

Washington, Jan. A joint reso
luton declaring that this government
recognizes the right of Ireland to po-
litical independence and that we
count Ireland among those countries
we are fighting, was introduced today
by representative Jeanette Rankin
of Montana
Miss Rankin also introduced res
olution authorizing the president to
require all employers of labor during
the war to pay women workers the
same wages paid men and offered a
bill to equalize the wages Of men and
women government employees who
perform similar labor.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
ALIENS TO
BE HELD IN ARMY

Washington, Jan. 4.--The war de-
partment will oppose every effort of
men already drafted to obtain dis
charges on the ground Of alien citi-
zenship, 1t was learned today
Adjutant General Mccain has or
dered camp commanders in every case
to fight the matter out in the courts
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
Cotton Mills Transferred.

Great Harwood, Eng, Jan. 4.-Cot-
ton mills in Lancashire are to be
turned over to the manufacture of
airplanes in order to alleviate distress
in that district resulting from dismiss
sails consequent upon shortage of cot
ton supplies.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
| aFAYETTE ESCADRILLE
MEN TO u. S. FORCES
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tsf NoRNING JOURNAL sVacIFt LtHstp WTNtI
Paris, Jan. 4.-Negotiations be-
tween the French and the American
army authorities for the transfer to
the United States army of the Ameri-
can aviators in the French escadrilles
have been completed and the trans
fers of the men have begun. Thirty
two experienced pilots, mostly mem
hers of the La Fayette escadrille, are
being taken over first.
These men are being sworn in as
members of the American forces as
fast as they can conveniently arrange
for Paris leaves.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
HOOVER TO ATTEND
FOOD MEET AT DENVER
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Denver, Colo, Jan. 4,-Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover will attend a con-
ference of food administrators for
several western states here January
2a and 23, it was announced today by
r NJ Ammons, former governor of
Colorado, who is arranging details of
the meeting.
The states whose administrators are
expected here are Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho.
Texas and New Mexico. County ad-
ministrators from several sections of
these states also are expected to at
tend the meeting.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
SWEDEN TO RECOGNIZE
FINN INDEPENDENCE
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London, Jan. 1.-The Swedish coun-
ell of ministers at session presided
over by King Gustave has decided
to recognize the independence of Fin
land, according to a Reuter- dispatch
from Stockholm today,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
JRG VI REPORT.

summary of local weather condi-
ditions f0f the twenty-tour hours end
ed ~ p. m. yesterday follows: Maxi
irium temperature, 62 degrees, mini
mum, "a; range, IS: temperature at 9
p. m, a.; west wind clear
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
GENERAL ALlENBY
PUSHES FORWARD

London, Jan. Am official COM
munication issued by the war office
tonight says General Allenby reports
"a further advance by part of his dne
north of Jerusalem over distance of
a mile,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver colo. Jan. 4-For New
Mexico; saturday partly cloudy, cold
er east portion; sunday fair.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
Officers in Foreign and War
Service Are to Be Replaced
by Men Who Have Not Been
Worn Out by Duties,
SWEEPING CHANGES TO
BE BROUGHT ABOUT
Three Names Mentioned, One
Of Which Is likely to Sue
ceed Spring-RiCe at WASH
ington' Grey Is Leading,
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London. Jan. (by the Associated
Press) A topic that is greatly inter-
esting British orrrcIaGdom and the
public at the moment is the selection
of an ambassador to the United States
to succeed Sir Cecil Arthur Spring
Rice.
Three names thus far are being dis
cussed-those of Viscount Grey for
emr foreign secretary; Earl Reading,
lord chief justice of England, and ].
Austen Chamberlain, eldest son of the
late Joseph Chamberlain and former
secretary for India.
Viscount Grey is generally consid
cred the strongest man of the three.
He is one of the foremost of British
statesmen and his political convictions
are sincerly and deuply democratic
and liberal. 'Tlie only handicap to
NiscOunt Grey suggested is that he Is
distinctly shy and retiring. There IS
belief here, whether IL be right or
wrong, that the British ambassador to
the United States shoulG be a man
who is called a mixer"
Lord Reading now holds the office
OF chief justice of England and it is
questionable whether he would be
willing to resign that post for any
diplomatic position. although he has
temporarily waived ii for special mis-
sions.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
Men Do Not Object to Paying
on Excess Profits but They
Want Burdens Imposed
EQuitabIy Distributed,
CORPORATIONS GAMERS
OVER PARTNERSHIPS
Statesmen Wrote Many Things
Into Bill Without Knowing
Consequences, Is Opinion of
Many Experts,

srsdrAL coRsasroHosHcs TO soRnINo IouRsALl
Washington, Dec. At is now
known that many changes in the war
tax law must be made by congress,
the measure. as it now stands, pre-
senting so many Determinations and
crudities as to make it stumbling
block to enterprise.
Its grossest offense is the discrimi-
nation it sets up between corporations,
partnerships and individuals who
compete with each other. Congress Is
tinctured with if not dominated by a
corporation hating element, and when
some of the gentlemen who tried to
soak the corporations in the law
and make them pay all the war tax
es, awake and discover that they have
driven thousands Of Independent busi-
ness men to turn themselves into cor
porations overnight to escape unrea-
sonabe taxation, they may feel like
trying to level things up little
This is what the business world de-
mands; for it cannot be emphasized
too strongly that the concerns hit by
the excess profits taxes do not object
to being taxed and taxed heavily, but
they denounce tax system which
favors one competitor over another.
in some instances so preponderatingly
as TO erdanger the existence OF one
concern as against another.
joke on Congress
The joke is on congress, If that SOL
emn body intended to smite the cor
porations and let the individual go,
for the law does not work out that
way On the contrary, although the
law is supposed to tax excess profitr
uniformly, as a matter of fast the
corporation pays one amount in taxes,
the partnership another, and the lndi-
viGual business man another still, even
though each has the same capital and
makes exactly the same profits. After
long and puzzled consultations with
Mr.. Kitchin's lawyers, business men
have discovered these things and have
told their congressman that they will
not stand for the inequitable discrim-
nations in the law whereby the gov
ernment deliberately gives one COM
petitor an unfair advantage over an
other.
The working of the excess profits
section with respect to concerns en-
| gagged in the same line of business
may be illustrated by means of very
| few simple figures. Thousands OF
machine shops, for example, exist in
the country, each competing more or
! less with the other and practically all
making large profits from government
war orders. Let us take as example
four iron and steel concerns capita
lized at 100000 each and making
profits of SO per cent, or $250,000. in
1917;
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05

Capital ................ $500,00
Profits Observation-Disclosures. 100000
(3)-JOHNsoN. WHITE & LIT
TIE, INC. incorporated since
March 5, 1910.
Preferred stock, 100000
representing tangible as
sets and 100000 common
stock, issued for good wilD.
Net tangible assets ........ $500, 900
Profits ................. $50, 900
Annual salaries of S25.000
paid to each of the three
executive officers.
D-BLACK, THOMPSON & WILL
SON, INC. Incorporated prior
to March 8, 1919
Preferred stock, $500, 900, rep
resenting tangible assets
and 100000 common stock
issued for good will.
Net tangible assets s......... $500. 600
Profits .....,........... 25O,O0O
Annual salaries of $4,000
paid to each OF tho three
executive officers.
Tax on Ono Man Concern
The above concerns having the
same amount of assets as invested
capital, and the same profits, would.
under the recently enacted law, pay
varying taxes. as follows:
G)-JOHN SMITH.
From 1917 net income
subtract 15 per cent
1917 net invested n
capital .........S2 $4,000
cent would be. 80. $4,000
From which amount
deduct 9 per cent OF
1917 invested capital
and $4,000, to-wit $1,000
Leaving SS7.VpC
| Which tax at 20 per cen,. -. sl.SO0
From this balance Of
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05


Mr., Chamberlain has suffered the
lifelong handicap of being the son OF
an important and able father. he
has his fathers manners and manner
isms He wears a mOnocle and the
members of the labor party, who to-
day play an important and almost
dominating part in British pOliti1
would say at he is too much of an
aristocrat to be Great Britain's rep
resentative in the United states
The fact that Sir Cecil Spring-Ri
is being recalled from Washington and
Sir George w, Buchanan from the
embassy to Russia does not mean any
'Hck of confidence in them on the part
of the government, much less any
feeling that they have not fulfilled
their duties we'll Buchanan had the
most difficult work in Russia any for
eign diplomat has had to handle IN a
long time. He knew of the threat OF
a revolution in Russia long time De-
fore the revolution actually broke out
and counselled the emperor, so far as
a foreign diplomat could do without
making himself distinctly offensive
of the danger which hovered over his
head and advised him to give Russia
a real parliamentary government.
Empress Real hutcF
But the empress, who was the real
power, reinforced by Rasputin, the
mystic monk, and other fanatics and
by the bureaucracy, nullified Bu-
chanan's advice until it was too late.
After the crash came Buchanan
supported the attempts to help
the democratic regime, but Where
the most solid and able RUS
81, sntp had failnH fhp lttIe
group of friendly foreign diplomats
in Petrograd who attempted to aid
Russia in plotting her way through
the chaos could not be expected to
succeed.
The government today is engaged
in retiring several of its servants OF
high standing and reputation in sew
eral departments, notably in diploma
cy and in the army and navy. rms
does not mean that they have failed
but it does mean that war WEAKNESS
and the strain of nearly four years
service under conditions of almost
overwhelming responsibility and toll
make fresh blood and less wearied
men imperative.
JellicOe an Example
Admiral Sir John r. Jellicoe was a
shining example of the necessity or
retiring a popular and able officer un-
der such conditions, and the newspa-
pers are speaking freely of the need
of changes in the higher commands
of the British army. Probably an i'm
portant announcement of that charac.
ter will be made soon. France has
done this ruthlessly and consistently.
Although Marshal JGfre was in the
heart of the people and the foremost
man of France, the government
placed him on the side track when the
time came that they thought the ma
tion's interests required it,
Premier Lloyd Georges government
is facing the same conditions and ap-
parently is dealing with them the
same way.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05

Which tax at 20 per cens. $500
From this balance Of
The Republican journal., 1918-10-24
SANDYPOlN1.

There are many sick ones in this vi.
cinity.
Mr. Charles Snow, who has been i'll
for week, is now able to be out.
Wesley Styles is in Bridgewater for a
few days with his brother who is an in
valid
Postmaster Willard Grant is about his
york after having very bad time with
an infected hand.
Mrs. Harrie Partridge returned to Bel.
fast Monday after spending Sunday with
N. C. Partridge and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barrows of West
Hampden were guests over Sunday OF
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Griffin.
Mrs. George Turner and two daughters
of Rockport were here for visit last
week with Milford Turner and wife.
We wish to acknowledge the receipt oil
cards and extend congratulations to Mr..
and Mrs. Irwin Croker, who were marri-
ed in Bangor Oct. 10Th.
Sympathy is extended Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank S. Hartman in the death of their
eldest daughter, Mrs. Josephine Harri-
man Foster, who died in Massachusetts,
Oct. 18th, aged 29 years. Burial at San
dypoint.
The Republican journal., 1918-10-24
THE LAST GERMAN NOTE.

The text of the reply of Germany to
President Wilson's last note has been
made public The document is purely
German from the first word to the last.
When it is not false in statement it is
evaslve by intention. This sort of reply
was to be expected from people who
violated solemn treaty, invaded Bel
gum and practically destroyed that
peaceful little nation. In the past Ger
MANY has accomplished much by false
hood and knavery, but today her lack of
honor is known to all men, and all men
DENY credence to what she says Hence
forth we Judge her by her performances,
not by her promises. The entire press of
the country has expressed its rejection of
what the note proposes and the people
will support the statement of the press.
Negotiations with Germany by wireless
are futile and should be discontinued until
the Kaiser and his generals reopen them
with Field Marshal Foch