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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
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0IR E E ZY
BITS OF NEWS
YOUNG SOLDIERS TO BE
SUPER-BUSINESS MEN.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. Shy Uni
versal Service ~ The discipline
taught the American youth in the
American army and the hard knocks
he received "over there are des-
tined to produce a race Of super
business men in the United States,
s the view of 1t. Col. Charles w.
Berry. adiutant general of New
York state.
"The same something which has
made a man go forward into hell
of fire knowing that it meant death,
will make him go forward again"
said the colonel in decrying the
oft-repeated assertion that the army
life has destroyed many youthful
Americans for business careers. Il
don't care what line of business that
men enters after his discharge from
military service" he added, he has
had an experience he will never
outgrow and he vii forge ahead in
civil life in exactly the same mannNr
as when he went over the top"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
nab Man AFT Fight AT FORT
French View With Alarm
Huge Mohammedan Empire
Shortest Speech
Recorded at Paris
Made by FreRchman

Paris, Feb. 3.-Louis L. Klotz,
French minister of finance, was
elected president of the peace
conference committee on repara-
ton. In the briefest speech yet
delivered during the conference,
M. Klotz invited the members to
get to work.
Thank you" said M. Klotz.
Let us get to work for justice.
That is our program"
Wednesday morning the COM
mittee will begin discussing the
general principles of repsration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04

position to act as saIesmanagef for
a New York merchandise house. In
l9Q9-l0 he was superintendent of
public schools at Plattsmouth, Neb.,
and on June /, 1919. he, came to
Omaha as a stockholder in the
Standard Chemical company,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
spandau Arsenal Closed.

Berlin, Saturday, Feb. 1.-(By
Associated Press.)-The stat ar
senal at Spandau, employing $4,000
laborers, has been closed because
Of the coal shortage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
Ukraiinian Troops to
Attack Roumania, Says
Copenhagen Advices

London, Feb. 3.-Ukrainian
troops are preparing to attack Rou-
mania, which is said to have mobil
lied its forces to meet the assault
according to Copenhagen advices to
the Mail.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
THE WEATHER.

Fair Tuesday and probably
Wednesday; warmer Wednesday
and in ,northwest portion Tues
dnv.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04


Paris, Feb. 3.-President Wilson
spoke as follows before the cham
Der of deputies today. Fresideut
Poincare OF France being present..
Il am keenly aware of the I'M
usual and distinguished honor Vol
are paying me by permitting nc te
meet you in this place and to adj
dress you from this historic plat
form.
Indeed, sir, as day has followed
day and week has followed weeb
in this hospitable land of France
have felt the sense OF comrade-
ship ever become more and more in
innate and it has seemed TO me thai
the making Of history was becoming
singularly clear
We knew before this war began
that France and America were unit.
ed in affection. We knew the oe
casions which drew the two nation.
together in those years, which nov
seem so far away when the worlt
was first beginning TO thrill with tbs
impulse of human liberty, when the
soldiers of France came to help iii
struggling little republic OF Amef
ica to get on its feet and proclefH
one of the first victories Of free.
dom.
I'VE have never forgotten that
but we did not see the full meaning
OF it. A hundred years and more
went by and the spindles were slow
ly weaving the web of history. We
did not see it to be complete, the
whole OF the design to be made
plain.
Linked With Great Britain.
Now look what has happened
In that far-off day when France
came to the assistance OF America.
America was fighting Great Britain.
And now she is linked as closely to
Great Britain as she is 10 France
We see now how these apparently
diverging lines of history are com
ing together. The nations which
once stood in battle array against
one another are now shoulder tc
shoulder, fighting a common enemy
1t was long time before we saw
that, and in the last four years some
thing has happened that is unprece-
dented in the history of mankind
1t is nothing less than this-thai
bodies of men on both sides of the
sea and in all parts of the worlC
have come TO realize their con1radc
ship Of freedom
France. in the meantime. as We
have so often said, stood at the
frontier of freedom, Her lines Law
along the very lines that divided the
home of freedom from the home ol
military despotism Hers was the
immediate peril Hers was the con.
slant dread. Hers was the most
pressing necessity of preparation:
and she had constantly to ask her
self this question; IF the blow falls.
who will come to our assistance?"
And the question was answered
in the most unexpected way. Her
allies come to her assistance, but
many more than her allies. The free
people of the world came to hel
assistance.
Paid Debt to France.
And in this way America paid
her debt of gratitude to France bv
sending her sons to fight upon the
soil of France. She did more. She
assisted in drawing the forces Of the
world together in order that France
might never again feel her isolation
in order that France might nevel
feel that hers was a lonely peril and
would never again have to ask the
question who would come to her as
sistance.
For the alternative is terrible
(c6ntInued on Page Nine. Column siHl
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04
PRESIDENT
SAYS U. 5.
PAYS DEBT
TO FRANCE
Scene in Chamber
When Wilson Appears to
Deliver Address on Amer
iCa's Part in War.
French Deputies
Insist on Standing
While Wilson Talks
By Associated Press.

Paris, Feb. 3.-President VIII
son this evening delivered an adj
dress in the chamber OF deputies,
having as auditors President
Poincare, the presidents Of the
chamber and the senate and large
numbers of members OF both
houses of parliament and the per-
sonnel Of the French cabinet.
The audience insisted on hear
ing the presidents address stand
ing. NJ. Poincare. Clemenceau
and Dubose also stood. This
seemed to embarrass Presiden.
Wilson. who made gestures that
the deputies remain seated, but
they shouted: Standing, We
will hear you standing"
President Wilson turned to
NJ. Deschanel. begging him to
request that the deputies be
seated, but the president of the
chamber shrugged his shoulders,
as if helpless. Enthusiasm did
not break out until the interpre-
ter translated the speech. Then
deputies and senator's gave full
vent to their feelings.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-04

The city detectives learned that
Spellman was scheduled to enter the
fighting ring at Fort Omaha last
night, and planted there for him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
FINE AVIATORS' CLUB

ern way, are provided for men. The
library contains complete set of
books on aviation.
Adjoining Ihe clubhouse Is an air
drome of so acres. Members of the
club who are owners of aircraft may
house their machines on the club
grounds. where they are kept in or
der by men hired especially for the
purpose.
Passenger airplanes are kept In con-
slant readiness for the use of mem
bers for long or short flights at special
terms. If one wishes to make quick
trip to a distant point he has merely
to call up the club from his office in
London, and by the time he reaches
the field everything Is In readiness for
the hop off. The airplanes used in
this service are specially designed
touring craft. with silenced motors
and saloon bodies. Fast single seat
ers and two seaters are available for
sporting and service pilots.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
Next to Undertaking II Is the
Main Cause Of Terrible
Death Rate.
DISEASE IS FAST INCREASING
Vermln Thrive While Disinfeetants
and Aids to Cleanliness Are Lack.
ina--oailela, the Ukraine and
Hungary Are Most Infected

Rerne, Switzerland -"LncA - soap
and OF all aids 10 cleanliness Is the
main cause. nfter underfeeding, of the
appalling death rate from disease In
central Europe generally" said dis
tingulshed physician who had Just
been travelling through these regions.
Everywhere In Austria, Hungary, Po-
land, Bohemia. Russia and even Ger
many, typhoid, spotted, typhus. dysen-
terry, scurvy and tuberculosis have
Increased and modern hygiene Ii now
unable to localize these scourges be.
cause of lack OF disinfectants, linen
and soap and, above nll OF dlsinfect.
Ing stoves or chambers. In which sol
diers' clothes can be placed and kept
at temperature which kills all
yermln.
The most dlsease-lnfeeted regions
on the continent now are Gallcia, the
Ukraine and Hungary. In these coun-
tries thousands Of soldiers meet
Russians returning home from Ger
many Austrians, Hungarians and Ger
mans returning from Russia; cg0a-
tians aud Serbs going southwark, and
Poles going northward,
Soldiers In Shocking State.
Or, +. Banchod, French,sewiss
who recently visited budapest on be-
half Of the Geneva Red Cross and
spent some time In military depot
there. where an attempt, at any rate.
Is made TO receive all these different
soldiers as they pass through, sort
them out into their different nationali-
ties aud at the same time rid them Of
yermin, describes them as being clad
IN rags ana animals skins, chiefly
sheepsklns or goatskins, and wearing
greasy skin caps ON their heads, their
feet and legs being bnndaged up In
rags and untanned leather, Not one
III them has now any sort Of uniform,
and MS many Russians, after years of
captivity IN Germany have learned TO
spv1S German and many Hungarhns
have learned Russian they contrlve to
pass themselves Off as belonging to
whatever nationality best suits them
for the time being. II Is impossible,
therefore, really TO sort them, or to
know where they belong.
ALI these unfortunate and filthy men
are. in plain English, covered with lice,
which are the sole propagators OF
spotted typhus, Mi,ny OF them do their
best 10 avoid going near any military
depot which has means of disinfection,
because their wretched rags, once put
into the dislntecting chamber, simply
fan to pieces, and as there is no fresh
clothing TO give them In exchange. they
feel themselves worse Off than before
| Many OF these men leave the depot
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
Housewives There Must Hunt
Through Town for Food.
Job Requires Seven Hours Of Each
Day and Supplies Are Very
Scanty.

Rome Seven hours of each day of
the italian heusekeeper must be de-
voted TO buying food. The problems
of the ordinary American housekeep-
er pale into lnslgnlticance even with
their troublesome servants when com
pared TO the Italian. Domestic serv-
ants strikes in Italy are chronic.
The recent upheaval In Italian eco
Monies when the government ordered
prices of foodstuffs and clothing re-
duced 90 per cent has begun its re-
action, md the factor affected most
Is the housekeeper. She must start
TO market at seven o'clock in the morn
ing, and Is forced to hurry from one
store to another. To obtain piece
of meat usually takes two hours. To
obtain bread about an hour. eggs
two hours, vegetables, one hour and a
half and canned goods about an hour.
The housekeeper's day starts by
placing herself at the back of a long
line of waiting customers. The line
sometimes extends for half block,
guarded by armed carabineers. When
the buyer Is permitted to enter the
store she finds inside scramble for
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
CLIMB ON HIGH WITH
AN ARMY CHAUFFEUR
Rockiest Road to Dublin Is To-
Gated in France.
Private Employers Who Are operat-
ing Large Fleet of Trucks for De-
livery Purpose Are Told to
Remember Army Men.

The chauffeur who used to consider
Broadway and Forty-second street a
hard place to cross went to war to dis
cover that the rockiest road to Dublin
lay in France, after all. For automo-
bile driving became supreme art over
there, where there We're no lights to
illuminate the roads, and often no
roads to illuminate.
With shells bursting on all sides, and
bombs dropping from the Jerrys above,
the truck, ambulance and lorry driy-
ers soon learned thousand new tricks
in the trade: how to keep a straight
course without benefit of compass or
light, how to climb out of mud hub
deep, how to run on three wheels If
something happened to the fourth. in
short, how to do the impossible, all
to the glory of the allies and Novem-
Der 18th.
These men are now coming back to
the United States, master mechanics
and drivers, trained in the hardest
school to every emergency that an au-
tomobile could confront. Some of them
are still jobless. and Col. Arthur
Woods, assistant to the secretary of
war, and in charge of the governments
unemployment campaign for ex-service
men, offers them as the best possible
material in the world for expert auto.
mobile driving.
Private employers who are operating
large fleets of trucks for delivery and
transportation purposes, are especial
~ recommended to these expert driv
ers. The various governmental and we,
rare agencies will be the means fol
bringing the men and the jobs to
gether.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
High Water Mark for
Flat Rents in Gotham.

The high water mark of resi-
Dental rentals In the world Will
be attained In an apartment
house to be erected at once In
New York. The building will be
II stories In height and will con-
tain II Experimentation simplex
and seven duplex. The rentals
of the apartments will vary
from $4,000 to $4,000 each,
and, according to the owners
estimate, the gross rental for the
II families will be SAL, 500,
which, figured on the basis of
square footage, will be the larg-
est rent for apartment residen-
tial purposes ever realized In the
world.
As an example of the luxurl-
BUSINESS of the proposed build
ing, the main duplex apartments
will contain 20 rooms, including
a salon "a by 40 feet, dining
room, 81 by 33 feet, five open
fireplaces. seven baths, and six
master bedrooms. Each apart
ment win have separate service
elevators and service halls lead
ing to the service sections where
the household employees will
stay.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
Motor Truck Heavily Loa ded with Farm Produce.

more common In the West and South.
west than In any other sections of the
country, but has decreased under re-.
cent demurrage and traffic regulations
Reaching Markets by Trucks.
Direct delivery by wagon or motor
truck is practicable only where the
farmer lives within 25-mile radius ~
the consuming center Hence this
method of marketing affords an outlet
only for the commodities produced in
the area Immediately surrounding the
market. Such deliveries are limited
In the main, to country towns and
smaller cities. The automobile truck
undoubtedly is eniarging this service.
but it probably will be limited to
very small portion of the total produc.
ing area of the country and can not
be expected to form an outlet for the
great bulk of farm crops. Again, the
development of cities, with their con-
slant encroachments upon outlying
country districts, forces production
areas farther from the market centers
and in the larger cities makes II
practically impossible for growers to
deliver their produce direct to con.
sumers. The best examples of sue
cessful direct deliveries by growers to
consumers are found in the sale Of
fresh fruits and vegetables in small
country towns and deliveries from
neighboring farms through residential
sections of most of the larger cities
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

The capabilities of the latest type of
airplane viii be demonstrated on the
club airdrome for the benefit of fhe
members.
A flying school is established on the
airdrome, with pilots available for
teaching ordinary and stunt flying.
Interclub displays and contests are
being organized, not only between the
London Flying club and other clubs in
England, but also with foreign clubs.
Members have an interchange of priv
ileges with the Sussex County Aero
club at Shoreham, where there is an
airdrome within easy flying distance
from Hendon. A good connecting link
IS thus formed with such resorts as
Brighton. Worthing and Bognor.
Atone side of the clubhouse. on q
beautiful terrace, there are several
tennis courts. 1t is hoped in the near
future to establish the club as cen
ter of general sporting instruction.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
MARKETING IN ITALY

all sorts of commodities. Guards are
stationed there to prevent any mis-.
chief. II she obtains what she wants
she is lucky.
She treads over the streets whole
morning, searching for the things for
lunch and then in the afternoon must
start on the hunt again for food. If
she is looking for butter she is usually
thankful to go away with can OF
American "bully beef"
It often happens that her family
must miss a meal, but that is usually
overlooked. 1t is too evident on ey.
cry hand.
Housekeepers sometimes watch a
car of produce unloaded at the rail-
road station and follow the motor
trucks to the store, where the pro.
duee will be sold. When carload Of
eggs arrived the other day, women
chung to the trucks carrying the eggs
to stores, while others ran alongside.
At the stores the clerks stood In the
doorways and handed out the eggs,
three only to a customer. Some Gus
toners reached over Others heads
with their hats, while others pushed
aside the weaker ones.
Servants take their rest days by
telling the housekeeper they are go
ing for day or two. They come back
when it suits them. The days of those
perfect Italian servants" as Amerf-
cans used to call them, have passed,
and a housekeeper is lucky to have
servant at all.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

When radiator leaks it is not adj
Visable to use material to ston the
leaks from the inside.
Nhen any part gets rusty put kero-
sene on 1t, but be sure to wine if off
after it has stood while.
Spend an hour or two going over
your instruction book and learn more
ABOUT keeping your car in good shane
Every time you change a wire wheel
Pue grease on the metal surfaces eF
wheei spindle where the hub touches
motorists who use one Of the hand
pumps win do well to give the nrmn J
valve. ~ " 'hs
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

PeddIing farm produce from side
door PuIlmans" is a market outlet
which some producers have followed,
as. by accompanying car of their
produce on the road and selling direct
ly from the car door to dealers and
consumers in number of small towns,
they realize remunerative return from
their marketing operations. In most
of the places where this method of
"car peddling" is practiced the pro-
ducers take out license from the
authorities which gives them tempo
rary selling privileges, such licenses
costing Aom $40 to $25 apiece. This
system of self-service craftsmanship is
applicable only in regions where the
growers have no cooperative associa-
ton. 1t would be extremely unwise
for the individual producer to go on
the road in active competition with
an extensive selling organization.
Cut In Profits.
The growers also must bear in mind
the fact, although the returns from
this method of selling at first may APP
pear large they will be cut down to a
great extent by his expenses, the time
consumed, and the consequent neglect
of his regular business. This practice
may result also in lowering wholesale
prices, inasmuch as the grower may
be anxious to get away and may sell
at figures which the regular dealers
would not accept. Car peddling is
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
SHORTAGE OF SOAP
MENACE TO EUROPE

wearing nothing but their sheepskins
or overcoats, any apology for under
clothing which they may have had hav-
Ing been destroyed In the process of
disinfection. So anxious are some of
them TO avoid being examined or hav-
ing their clothes disinfected that
very often when n train of repatriated
soldiers arrives at Budapest, Vienna
or some other place the soldiers begin
10 jump off II as soon as II slackens
down before arriving at the railway
station; and thus they enter city
without the authorities knowing, and,
OF course, spread their lice and their
disease.
Some of the men were already suf-
fering from spotted typhus while on
their Journey and had, of course, in
fected others. II is, indeed, often Inn
possible to diagnose the disease unless
mans skin has first been thoroughly
washed with soap. Matters are still
further complicated because soldier
as rule Will not say that he is III I'M
I'll he can no longer crawl about. The
hospitals are overcrowded with dis
eased men lying on gray paper sheets
which, of course, cannot be either
washed or boiled. There are not even
handages with which to dress the gan.
grenous sores which often accompany
spotted typhus. They, too, are dressed
after fashion with paper. The pa
tients have neither blankets nor elder
down quilts, nor even shirts to sleep
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
ASSISTS TIRE-REPAlR WORK
Handy Device Is Sheet-Metal Clamp
Which Holds SearchIight in
Position Desired.

For those who prefer the tubular
flash light to the trouble light con-
nected to the storage battery, for IRE
repair work, a handy device IS =
sheet-metaI clamp which holds tne
flash light in such position as to throw
the light where it is needed. The idea
would be of little use to the driver
who always has companion to nolu
the light for him in case of trouble
but for those who often drive alone
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
EARLY AUTO DAYS

In 1893 gasoline sold for six
cents a gallon.
The first New York motorcar
show was held In 1900.
The first four-cylinder car was
brought out in 1900.
In 1895 Barnum & Bailey an
nounced they would exhibit
throughout the country "horse-
less vehicle"
In July, 1893, the news was
given that a plant would be built
to turn out zone motor carriage
a week"
1t is hard to conceive that In
1896 there were but four motor
cars in the United States.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
Largest Establishment of Its
Kind Opened in England.
Women Are Eligible TO Membership,
and Both Sexes Are Taught
to Fly.

London.-What is perhaps the
largest and most ambitious club for
ayiators has just been opened at Hen
don. Not the least interesting fea-
ture of the club is the American bar.
The London Flying club is social
and country sporting club to promote
and give instruction In flying and
aerial activities Of all kinds. Women
are eligible to membership.
A special feature of the clubhouse
is an immense ballroom and concert
hall, accommodating about two thou
sand persons More than fifty sleep
Ing rooms, equipped In the most mod
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
TO COOL BRONZE BEARINGS
Using Water for Purpose Us ~
Thing to Do-When in Hurry
Cool With OIL,

Never forget that cooling with wa
ter a bronze bearing that mas "a a.
running hot is the last thing 70 sor
The best thing to do is to wal. IL,
the bearing to cool in the oru.n" n
course of events, but If you ~ 49,, Il
too much of hurry for TINS WV
with oil instead of water.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

In which are not all In rags; and as
there is a great scarcity of coal there
can be no proper heating. The doctors
cannot operate because there is no
means of sterilizing instruments, no
soap, and no cotton, wool or band.
ages.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19
Worlds Greatest Fish Story.

London.-Angling off Deal, Alfred
Norton caught s24 fish with one rod
In 1e hours, hauling them up three,
four and Ave at time. Norton saws
this is worlds record.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-19

there is decided advantage. The me'"
used should be stiff brass or steer, ".
the spring which holds the flash is~'
must of course have sufficient sprlns,
ness for this purpose. The light WIZ
be found convenient for tire chalsins
in the position shown, but II SUN sun,
other angle is preferred. the elaiI .
can readily be made to give 1T ~
Avery, Garfield, N. j., in Popular M'
chanics' Magazine.