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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
LUXEMBOURG SENDS MISSION.
Little Duchy Responds To Wilson's
Invitation.

Luxemburg. ~ Secretary Of State
Reuter- read in the Chamber of Dep
uties letter from President Wilson
inviting a Luxembourg delegation to
come to Paris. He said the Govern
ment was ready to leave tonight for
Paris to tell the Peace Conference that
the people of Luxembourg wish their
country to remain autonomous and to
conclude an economic union with
France or Belgium or If that were
found impossible, to open negotiations
with those two countries to learn their
conditions.
He added that the Government also
was asking that Luxembourg be adj
mitted to the League of Nations.
According to a Paris telegram the
delegation will be received on Wednes-
day afternoon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
LUXURY TAX REPEALER.
Favorable Report BY Ways And
Means Committee.

Washington.-By unanimous vote
the Ways and Means Committee or
dered favorable report on a resolu-
ton repeating the so-callea semi-lux-
ury taxes in the war revenue bill. Ac-
ton on proposed repeal of other tax
levies in the bill was deferred. Chair
man Fordney said efforts would be
made to obtain early action on the
resolution which would eliminate the
10 per cent. levy on part of the pur-
chase price of costly wearing apparel
and many other articles.
Discussion by the committee of the
repeal of the tax on soda water indi-
Gated that the members were not in
clined to consider favorably all COM
plants regarding the tax levies. 1t
was decided, however, to await sugges-
tions of the Internal Revenue Bureau
before proceeding further with repeal
legislation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
WASHINGTON

Reinstatement of contracts with Pa
cific Coast shipyards, which may have
been unjustly treated in the cancella-
ton of orders for steel ships since the
signing of the armistice was promised
by Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping
Board.
Repeated efforts of the Democrats
to force separate votes on Senate Com
mittee chairmanships failed in the
Senate by solid party alignment, and
the Republicans finally put through
their slate of committee assignments.
Unanimous decision has been
reached by the Naval General Board
to continue construction Of battleships
and battle cruisers rather than to
adopt composite ship embodying the
essentials of the two types.
The League of Nations was support
ed as a logical and practical organiza-
ton, entirely consistent with the
American Constitution, by Senator
Robinson, Democrat, Of Arkansas, in a
speech in the Senate.
Consideration of legislation proyid-
ing for the return of the telegraph and
telephone systems to private owner
ship will be taken Up today by the
Interstate Commerce Committee.
The Government has asked Governor
Hobby, of Texas, to reconsider his re-
fusal to permit Carranza troops to
pass through the state to hunt Villa
bandits in Northern Mexico.
In the week ended May 20 troop ar
rivals in the United States totaled 54,-
$40, bringing the grand total of sol
diers returned to 966,259.
Secretary Lane explained in detail
before the House Public Lands Com
mittee his project for furnishing farms
for soldiers and sailors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
READ LANDS IN
NC-4 AT LISBON
First Aerial Across Atlantic
Goes to American Navy
rs HOURS AND 40 MINUTES
Coveted Honor OF Spanning The
Ocean Goes To The United
States Navy-Lisbon
Goes Wild.

MISUNDERSTANDING the way Of
the first air trail from the Western
to the Eastern Hemisphere, the Unit
ed States Navy seaplane NC-4, under
Lieut.-Com. Albert Cushing Read,
swept into the harbor at Lisbon,
Portugal, the first airship of any kind
to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean
under it's own power and through it's
natural element.
Taking the air at Ponta Delgada,
Azores, at 61S A. M, Washington
time, on the last leg of the trans
oceanic portion of the voyage from
Rockaway Beach, L. l., to Plymouth,
England, the NC-4 covered the 800
miles in 9 hours and 43 minutes,
maintaining an average speed of bet
ter than so knots an hour. The total
elapsed flying time from Newfound-
land to Lisbon was rs hours and Al
minutes.
AT the first opportunity the big plane
will continue to Plymouth, us nautical
miles to the north. To the Navy De-
partment, however, it makes little diff
ference when he completes the journey.
The great object of all the effort law
ished on the undertaking navigation
of seaplane across the Atlantic
through the air-has been accom-
plished. Twentieth Century transpor-
tation has reached new pinnacle and
the United States Navy has led the
way.
Naval officials emphasized that the
long delay at the azores was due to
the weather and to no weakness of the
machine or it's daring crew, nor to any
failure of the cisefully laid plans of
the department to guide the flyers to
their destination. The IA destroyers
strung from roata Delgada to Lisbon
reported with machine-like precision
as the flight progressed. The plane
was never off it's course, and there
was no moment when officials in
Washington did not know to within
a few miles where it was in the air.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06

corsets are too comfortable and too
fiattering as rule to be relinquished.
They are probably the foundation Of
the good lines, truthfully portrayed by
photographs, in the two suits shown
above. In one Of them a dress and
coat takes the place of the usual three
piece combination. The dress is OF
figured silk with the lower half Of the
skirt made Of plain wool material and
long narrow girdle of the same goods.
The long coat of one of the new rough
silks is cut on the lines of the Chinese
coat and is bordered with another silk
in a palmer weave. Small buttons set
on the side seams are very attractive
as finish.
The plain box coat over draped
skirt, shown in the other pictures. is an
excellent model for pongee or other
heavy silk for summer wear. Black
embroidery on the coat and sleeves,
and oblong buttons at the top and
bottom of the front lend character and
elegance to the design.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
FARMS ABSORBING LABOR.
Further Decrease In Unemployed Re.
ported.

Washington growing demand
for farm labor is decreasing the
amount of unemployment over the
country, the United States Employ
ment Service reported in presenting
a summary for the week, showing 227,-
425 persons classed as unemployed,
against 247,365 during the previous
week. Over half the unemployed were
reported in New York City, where the
estimate ran that from 100000 to 1885,
600 were seeking work.
Reductions in number of unemployed
were shown at Youngstown, Ohio
Cincinnati and Los Angeles. Out of IL
cities reporting in New England, seven
showed labor surplus, the report said
Bridgeport, Conn, having the largest
number. Both the Middle West farm
ing states and the South reported need
of farm laborers, while on the Pacific
Coast Los Angeles and San Francisco
reported surplus.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
TO REPEAL DAYLIGHT SAVING.
Agricultural Bill Reported To The
House Carries Rider.


Washington.-The agricultural APP
preparation bill was reported out OF
the House Committee with supple
mental appropriations increasing the
total from $31,673,000 to $32,62S, 900
and a legislative rider providing for
the repeal of the daylight saving act
on the second Sunday after the meas
ure is signed by the President.
Principal additions to the appropria-
lions were 100000 for fighting animal
tuberculosis and $250,O00 for fighting
the corn borer, which has caused great
damage to crops in New York and
Massachusetts.
Secretary Houston asked Congress
today for an increase of 100000 in the
appropriation for the farm manage
ment bureau, explaining that enlarge
ment of the bureaus activities made
the increase necessary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
SPIDERS cAUsEsTRouRLE.
spin Web That lnterferes With The
Telegraph.

Buenos Aires.-Spider webs are
working havoc with land ends of cable
communication from Argentina, Brazil
and parts OF Chill to the United States,
as well as interfering with interior
Geographic routes in South America.
The ground spider spins a heavy
web, which the wind sometimes wraps
around the wires. These masses be-
come very damp during a humid spell,
and short circuits are thus caused
where the wires are not protected by
Insulation.
Large forces Of linemen are follow
ing the wires across the Pampas and
the mountains, removing the accumu-
lations. 1a ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
TO RUSH ALLOTMENT PAYMENTS.
War Risk Bureau Will Not Wait For
President To Sian.

Washington.-Payments of past due
and current allotments to families of
soldiers and sailors and dependents
of civil war veterans will be made by
the War Risk Insurance Bureau with
out waiting for the formal signing of
the urgent Deficiency bill by President
Wilson. Authority to send the checks
forward without a moments delay"
was cabled to Secretary Glass by Pres
ident Wilson after the President had
been informed that the $4,000. 900
Deficiency measure had been passed
by Congress. The bill is now on its
way to Paris, where it will be signed
by the President.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
WILSON'S GENTLE HINT.
Says He Is Glad The Presidency Is
Behind Him.

Paris.-"It is very delightful, for
one thing, if may say so, to know
that my presidency is not ahead of me
and that his presidency is ahead of
him." said President Wilson in refer
ring to DR.. Epitacio Pessoa, President
elect Of Brazil, at the dinne1 given DR..
Pessoa by the Pan-American peace
delegation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
TREATIES TO PROTECT JEWS.
Council Of Four Arranging Them With
New States.

Paris.-Acting on instructions from
the Council of Four, special commit
tee of experts is drafting series of
treaties with the newly created states
designed to protect minorities, and
particularly protect the Jews against
determinations of race, language and
religion, leading to disorders, riots and
pogroms.
One of these treaties with Poland
has been completed; others with Ru-
mania, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slovakia
and Ukrainia are being prepared.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
G.A. 2nszz-A
Skirts for SPORTS.

Binding the bottoms of sports skirts
with velvet, or edging them with
fringe, is return to very old-fash-
Toned style. Usually the velvet bind
ing matches the coat of the suit,
which is always in contrast to the
skirt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
OVER YOSEMITE BY AIR.
First Flight Into Valley Made BY
Lieutenant Krull.

Yosemite, Cal.-The first airplaae
fight into Yosemite Valley was ac-
complished by First Lieutenant James
Stephen Krull, flight. commander at
Mather Field, flying from MERGED,
Cal. Rising to an altitude Of 11000
feet, Lieutenant Krull completed the
S0-mile fight into the heart of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains in hour
and minutes. He plans return
flight to MERGED tomorrow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-06-06
WANTS ARMY OF $4,000.
Affairs Abroad Influence Bakers
Action.

Washington.-The continued unset
tied state of International affairs has
led the War Department to decide de9-
nitely to submit the Army bill, which
failed to pass in the last Congress.
Secretary Baker said. This measure
provides for temporary force Of
about $4,000 officers and men.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15
&c ADMINISTRATIVE code.

The principal feature Of Governor Nickel
vie's constructive program is his proposed
"civil Administration Code" which is frankly
adapted from the experience Of the state Of
Illinois. If it would be good thing for Me-
braska, we ought to have it, and to decide that
question testimony as to its operation elsewhere
should be carefully studied
How has such plan as proposed by Cover
nor McKeivie worked out Here is the judg-
ment of Governor Lowden as embodied in his
latest message to the Illinois legislature.
The Civil Administration Code went into
effect on July l. 1917 It amounted to rev.
luton in government Under it a reorganiza-
ton of more than lbs boards, commissions
and independent agencies was effected Nine
departments, with extensive and real power
vested in each head have taken the place OF
those bodies. which were abolished, and dis
charged. under the general supervision OF the
governor, the details of government tor
which the governor is responsible AT the
time the bill was Ut. for consideration It was
claimed that it would result in both efficiency
and economy.
Ii has more than justified all the expecta-
tons that were formed concerning it. The
functions Of the government are discharged
at the capitol. The governor is in daily con-
tact with his administration in all its activi-
ties. Unity and harmony of administration
have been attained, and vigor and energy OF
administration enhanced.
It seems to me almost providential that it
should have been enacted into law before war
actually came. A large number of the states
most expert officials and employees were
drawn upon by the government at Washing
ton because Of the exigencies OF the war
The same difficulties arose in the conduct
of public business which vexed private bus
mess so much There was necessarily much
confusion The cost of all supplies rose
rapidly Unless the more than hundred scat
tered agencies. which had existed heretofore,
had been welded by the Civil Administrative
Code into a compact and coordinate COVER
ment, anything like efficient state govern
ment during these difficult times. would have
been impossible Illinois, through the greater
elasticity and efficiency of her new form
of government was able to meet every
emergency of the war without an extraordin-
ary session of her legislature.
The appropriations made by the last gen
eral assembly were based upon pre-war
prices and conditions. And yet, we will
have completed the biennium without de-
6ciency in any department under the Code,
with the exception of the item of supplies for
the Charitable and Penal Institutions in the
Department of Public Welfare.
Of course, it is not to be expected that any
complete reorganization and reassignment of
state administrative functions that would almost
revolutionize all previous practice can be
brought about without opposition and serious
discussion pro and con- This is one of the big
gest subjects before our legislature and de-
serves its most serious consideration
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15
Fiftg Treaties to End War
Edgar Mas In Leslie's

More than so treaties Of peace will be signed
by the conference being held at Versailles-for
more than SO declarations of war were made
during the course of human events since that
memorable day in 1914. when hostilities were
declared The exact number of treaties to be
promulgated is hard to estimate, for the
crumbling of Austria-Hungary and Of the Ger,
man empire into segments and fragments NAV
necesstate the drafting of extra treaties. I'M
thought OF when President Wilson stated his IA
points in his address before congress
AS the matter stood then, Austria Hungary
had declared war five times; Brazil once: Bull
garia once; China twice; Cuba once; France
four times; Germany five times; Great Britain
tour times; Greece four times; Italy four times;
Japan once; Liberia once; Montenegro twice;
once; Russia twice; San Marino once; Serbia
thrice: Siam twice; Turkey twice and the
United States twice
But since these declarations were made. the
whirligig of time and the pranks of fate have
changed the aspect of things materially. Baden,
Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony Hungary and
perehance. dozen other entities may demand
and receive separate treaties The Czecho-
Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs, Armenia, Palestine
and the disintegrated parts of Russia from
Esthonia to the Ukraine, may obtain separate
treaties. So that when the gigantic 1abors of
the Versailles conference are done, more than
~ distinct international peace agreements may
result
When all the treaties are completed, they will
be submitted to the treaty-making powers of
the respective governments. In the United
States the president is empowered to make a
treaty, which must be ratified by a two-thirds
vote Of the senate.
In Great Britain, the peace-making power is
crown prerogative, subject to the assent of the
prime minister acting on the collective advice of
the cabinet
In France, the president may negotiate and
ratify treaties, according to article of the con-
stitutional law of 1875, subject to the sanction
of the chamber of deputies
In Italy, act of the fundamental statutes
Of l84S empowers the king to make peace, COM
municating this fact to the chamber, but not
requiring its sanction.
In Belgium. under article 68 of the consti-
tuition of 1888 the king makes peace treaties
Who will accept the peace terms for Ger
many and for Austria-Hungary it is difficult to
say. In Germany in worser days, now happily
relegated into history the kaiser had boundless
powers. under article II of the constitution Of
1871. But the bundersrath was required to give
assent and the reichstag had to validate treaties
In Austria, under act under the constitution
Of 1867, the emperor was the sole treaty-makng
power
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15

Oakland, Neb., Jan. T3.-To the
Editor Of The Omaha Bee: / read in
The Sunday Bee that Judge Sla-
baugh Of your city claims the dis
tinction of being the champion dairy
keeper Of Omaha, having a record
of events for the past 80 years. I
am thinking perhaps might be the
champion keeper of events for the
state, as I wrote my first page Sun
day, January i, 1882. l have never
missed day during this 36 years
and am now writing in my 37th
book I have never carried my
books away from home, and as a
consequence in appearance they are
as new as the day they were bought.
| can tell you the prevailing price of
all kinds of grain and live stock
during any one of these 36 years,
also where was, how much money
l paid out and how much received,
if any, together with any important
events. I left my fathers home in
Lee county, Illinois, September Z,
1882, for a short visit through the
then known out west. 1 never re-
turned until had raised and fed my
first car load of hogs and cattle,
and for the next 80 years fed and
marketed from one to three loads
each year. During the first 10 years
Il shipped my cattle and hogs to the
Chicago market, there selling 1,400-
pound cattle finished good enough
for live expectation at $5.15 per
hundred. / did not intend when /
started this letter to give you any
history, but 1 have so much Of 1t
that 1t is almost impossible to break
away from it entirely.
CHARLES M. HURLBERT.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15
"A Dam of Dollars"

Appropriation of $100,000,00O as an emer-
gency fund to provide food for starving Euro
peans will meet popular approval because Amer
leans are generously and alphabetically in
clined towards the suffering at any time. When
we think of thousands of millions Of money
so iavishiy expended in pursuit Of the enterprise
OF war, out Of which the famine has grown, the
present sum looks small enough for the work Of
rescue. But is it not mistake to view it from
the angle that has been thrust forward, that Of
relieving the world from the threat Of bolshe-
visml
Mr.. Wilson says the social malady can not
be remedied by force; il must be treated by
other means. In this he is much nearer the
mark than many may realize, yet it is serious
mistake to conclude that the upheaval is due to
hunger alone Bolshevism broke out in Russia
when plenty to eat was on hand. It has spread
in lands where no famine is felt. Argentina
for example, where food is more plentiful than
anywhere on earth for the moment, is under
going social disturbance almost equal to that
Of any Of the anarchy-infested countries where
the disorder is complicated by starvation This
ought to indicate that the cause is deeper than
mere hunger.
1t is the rooted antipathy of the proletariat
for the old order of society," revolt against
things as they have existed and which will only
be stiled . by the establishment Of reason
where it now seems to be overthrow. To feed
these hungry rebels is an imperative duty, but
their mania requires treatment through another
channel than their stomachs That course may
be taken when the danger of starvation has
been averted, but only when better way Of
living has been set up will order be secure.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15
Factory Fodder.

Council Bluffs. Jan. 12.-To the
Editor of The Omaha Bee: In an ar
ticle, "Workmen Are Not Factory
Fodder" published in the News of
the 10th. Henry Ford takes to task
men of power for regarding work
ingmen as factory fodder" Re-
sponsibility for the war Is placed
on "a bad condition everywhere"
we were piling UP mountains of
munitions, great mountains of
mankilling tools" 1--WE thought a
system which stepped on one man
because he was poor and bowed be-
fore another, because he was rich,
was going to last" The only interest
they have in the business on the
product is the dollars they can
squeeze out. The people of Omaha
do not know the conditions under
which men worked for the Ford
Motor company at its branch
here in Omaha or they would say
as / say TO Henry; Practice what
you preach" Some of the bad con-
ditions are: Turpentine, which
weakens your kidneys; paint poison
ing, which causes ulcers; gas from
the newly started motors in the test
room which floats over the entire
factory causing sick headaches
which are everlasting as long
as you work where you breathe
its fumes. A man must work eight
hours continuously, not stopping one
minute, for IL you do you get behind
end can I catch UP all day. Yon
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-15
RIGHT no THE POINT.

washington Post: Money talks,
but the high cost Of living acts.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat Eng
land will never give up her feet
and the United States will never
give UP her Monroe doctrine; other
wise the league of nations can go
ahead.
Brooklyn Eagle: Two-thirds of a
quorum is enough to pass bill
over a veto. So the supreme court
fatty decides, and against its de-
cision the heather may rage and the
people imagine a vain thing, but
the question is settled forever.
New York World: The statement
that the Russian bolshevist leaders
have sent a propaganda fund of
100000 to this country lacks only
one detail of entire credibility-
namely, their willingness to let that
amount of money escape from their
immediate control.
Minneapolis Tribune: Represen-
tative Royal G. Johnson of South
Dakota demands deportation of all
aliens who proved themselves un-
desirable during the war. A segre-
gated red flag district on some
island away from the ocean trunk
lanes would be about right.
Brooklyn Eagle: Uncle Sam is
respectfully asked by the president
to unroll 500, 100000 from his wad
and pass it to the suffering In Eu-
rome. Roll, ocean roll. The muddy
Tiber also rolls. Vienna rolls. But
take notice that 1t is your Uncle
Samuel who is supposed to belong
always to the holy unrollers. or
course he'll do 1t.