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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
SENATORS URGE
LAWS TO CHECK
RED CAMP AIGN
owe Are Frittering Away Our
Time While We Are on
Eve of UpheavaI,"
Warns Thomas.

Washington, Feb. i5.-Drastic
laws to check the spread of radical
propaganda were advocated in the
senate today by Senators Thomas of
Colorado and Weeks of Massachus-
etts. In discussing the appropria-
ton bill, Senator Thomas said red
publications were "springing up like
mushrooms"
I'VE are frittering our time away"
said Mr. Thomas, while we are on
the eve of a volcanic upheaval.
These red publications are not only
encouraging and advising insurrec-
ton, but are preaching the doctrine
of the dagger and the torch, an
nouncing that universal massacre
and destruction will soon begin. We
are minimizing the magnitude of
these conditions. Officials of the
government are supine for lack of
legislative authority"
Cummins' Proposal Beaten.
Immediate study of reconstruction
problems by joint congressional
committees was urged today by
Senator Cummins of Iowa. and other
republicans, but by strict partisan
vote the senate refused to lay aside
the rivers and harbors appropria-
ton bill and take up his resolution
for creation of six joint committees
of investigation.
Senator Cummins declared there
had been little concerted effort to-
ward study of reconstruction legis-
lation. Although he conceded action
at this session was impossible, he
urged adoption of his resolution
so that committees could work after
congress adjourned and be ready to
report at the next session.
Soldiers Return Discontinued.
1--WE are drifting into a most I'M
fortunate situation" Senator Cum
Minis said, regarding rehabilitation
of soldiers. / believe a very large
part of our soldiers are coming home
disconnected, particularly because
their country has done nothing to
provide for their transition fromtwar
to peace pursuits"
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts,
republican, pointing out that COM
missions of England, France and
Italy had long been studying recon
struction problems, deplored alleged
inaction by the United States.
Senate democrats again failed to
press their program for holding late
sessions to expedite appropriation
bills. Adjournment was taken
shortly after g o'clock tonight after
a day of debate on many subjects
other than the rivers and harbors
bill which was the special business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Driver Throws Man in
Street When Unable to Pay

After having been beaten into in
sensibility and robbed of IS cents,
Jerry Shahan, SIS years old. living
Il 708 South Sixteenth street. was
Brown into the doorway of 40
South Sixteenth street by an un-
Identified taxi driver. Mrs. Dora
AluIiin, living nearby, found the in
iured man and called the police.
Shahan was given medical attention
hy the police surgeon and returned
lo his home.
Incoherently he told police he
ordered the taxi driver to take him
home, and, when he was not able to
pay the full fare, was beaten. Po-
lice are looking for the driver
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Police Catch Man in Act
of Tearing Off Girls Clothes

When emergency officers re-
sponded to a riot call at Seven
teenth and Chicago streets Satur-
day night, they saw NJ. E. Hamblin,
engineer at the Wright block, tear
ing the clothes from the l0-year-old
daughter of Mrs. ]. w. Linehan,
No. rs California apartments.
Hainblin was booked at the station
on charges of drunkenness, and as
sault and battery. Mrs. Linehan
told the police that Hamblin threw
the girl into the street when she
told him to leave the place
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
| South Side
TO LEVY TAX OF
|. FIVE CENTS FOR
EACH CAR HOGS
Money Will Go to National
Live Stock Shippers Pro-
teCtive League; Storm
Cuts Down Receipts.

At a meeting yesterday morning
members OF the South Side Stock
exchange voted to levy a Scent tax
on each car of live stock shipped
to the Union Stock yards. This &C
ton was taken at the request of the
National Live Stock Shippers Protec-
live league, an organization of ship
pers with headquarters at Chicago.
Last year 137,393 cars were
shipped to the South Side market.
Receipts are expected to be at least
as large this year and the result will
be a large revenue for the shippers
organization. Edward Kiefer is the
local secretary and manager of the
National Live Stock Protective
league. 1t is the leagues duty to
oversee railroad rates, transporta-
lion facilities and bedding.
Hog receipts at the South Side
market showed the effect of the
great storm wave which has swept
the country. Only 81 loads of hogs
were billed to reach the South Side
market yesterday and a large per-
centage of these were purchases
made by packers at other markets
and shipped to the Omaha market
for slaughter.
Only 20 loads, approximately, in
GLIDING Fridays holdover, were on
sale yesterday. OF these, the pack
ers purchased only one car, the
shippers securing the rest Receipts
for the week total 88,400 head, com
pared with $4,000 last week, and
1000 head for the same week last
year
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Andre Fribourg to Give
Lecture on Paris During War

One of the most notable guests of
Tie week will be Monsieur Andre
Fribourg, who has been recently sent
to the United States by the French
government, not only as an official
ecturer for the French Alliance, but
rs cement the long-established
friendship between the two repub-
les, and to make such observations
IS will enable him to further his
work in France upon his return.
He was stricken blind during the
war while at the front, but continues
. give his lectures. He will speak
81 Paris During the War" Thurs
iay evening in the Blackstone hotel
ball room. The lecture will be IL
ustrated with slides and moving pic
'hreS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16

Golden Days When the Judge
Played "Rummy" with the
Cowboys Are Gone
Forever.
By JOHN FRANKLIN LEWIS.
photographs by the Authorl

They took a pillow and plowed him down.
Put clods upon his head,
An they have sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn was dead.-Burns.
Ekalaka, Mont, Feb. 15.-(Special
to The Bee. WHO says there is
nothing new under the sun, when
the Montana, with its Calamity
James, its wild cowboys shooting
up the towns, its bad men running
amuck and starting something; its
dance hall, hurdly gurdies and gam
bling hells; its road agents, cattle
rustlers and painted Indians, with
tomahawk and scalping knife-the
old Montana of the blood-and-thun-
der past-is as tale that is told?
And the midnight bell of the dying
year, 1918, tolled the knell of John
Barleycorn in the Treasure state
Funeral announcements appeared
in all the newspapers and on the
fateful night the crowds at the "Old
Stand" filled the room to bid last
farewell to their old comrade and
lifelong associate, and take a last
nip at the cup which cheers; and Old
John cheered them on to the last,
even with his dying breath.
Many sold Stands"
Nearly every Montana town had
an "Old Stand" Miles City had an
"Old Stand" and a New Stand"
and numerous other stands, which
were calculated to put a fellow in
a condition where he could not
stand at all.
Beware" Says Judge.
In the old days the first business
house to open its doors in a new
town was the saloon. At famous
murder trial held last year in lit
tie Montana town the Judge, adj
dressing the prospective jurymen,
warned them against crowds. He
said: Il understand there are just
two places where crowds congre-
gate, at the old Stand and at the
Corner. Govern yourselves &C
cordingly and Withdraw when the
(murder) case is up for discussion"
Whatever may have been Old
Johns faults, he was no snob, and |
his court, in Montana at least, was |
thoroughly democratic. In Mon
tana bar room all met on common
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Safety Movement Hampered.

Washington, Feb. l5.-Members
of the house education committee,
considering a bill to appropriate
Sl2,500,000 annually for work in CO.
operation with the states to educate
native illiterates and aliens, were
told today that the bureau of mines
has progressed to such a point in its
safety movement that further inn
provement will be difficult unless
foreign born workers are taught the
language of the country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Butte Car Service Resumed;
No Violence Is ATTEMPTED

Butte, Mont, Feb. 15--Brig, Gen.
Frank B. Watson, commander OF
the Twenty-sixth infantry brigade
of the Thirteenth division, who
commanded United States troops
during the recent labor troubles at
Tacoma, arrived in Butte to tall
command of the military situation
here.
Butte's street car service, which
suspended last Monday morning
when threats are alleged to have
been made against the carmen by
striking miners, was in operation
tonight in virtually every part of the
city. No violence was reported.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16

level-the roustabout, with scarcely
enough kale to pay for his supper,
chummed with the wealthy ranch
man, whose possessions, told in
acres, ran up to five figures. The
eminent barrister, whose eloquence
could sway the multitudes, joked
Familiarity and clicked glasses with
the roughneck, while the Judge sat
at table smoking cigarets and
playing rumny. The rugged hand
Of toll was gripped just as firmly
and with the same glad welcome
that was extended to the white
and ieweled fingers of the clubman.
Rich and poor looked alike to John.
No evidence of grief marked the
obsequies.
Banjo Jake a celebrity from
Belle Tower, Butte, twanged the
strings while ASSOCIATES sang melo-
dious songs; old timers danced to
the strains of Turkey in the Straw"
and the mirth and fun grew fast and
furious.
The Old Lion Just Grinned.
The grim old mountain lion, trophy
of some hunters prowess, from his
lair on top Of the ice box looked
down and grinned sardonically for
the last time at the long row of
thirsty ones quafing the nectar over
the mahogany bar; and the soft
eyed doe looked shyly down at the
unusual and tumultuous scene and
dreamed of other days when such
scenes were not unusual.
Surplus Stock Auctioned Off.
At the eleventh hour the surplus
stock was put up at auction. The
Jolly red-faced auctioneer was full
of spirits, and he knew he was cry
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
time Rab,n3Mlz

is worse than the east side in New
York. Ali the wares are displayed
on the sidewalks, most of the things
on the walk, others on stands-ed-
ibles, wearing apparel, cooking uten-
sils and everything Some are on
carts, which dogs help to pull, but
it is not uncommon to see women
and girls drawing high loads on
carts or balancing them on their
heads"
American soldiers are so anxious
to get home We hear some wonder
full tales, yet, with all they have gone
through, the boys are extremely
modest"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Major Henry Discharged;
to Meet Wife in CHICAGO

Mrs. E. c. Henry left yesterday
for Chicago, where she will meet
Major Henry, who is returning from
France. They will return to Oma-
ha Wednesday. Major Henry re-
sponded early to the cali for sur
geons in the army and during his
absence Mrs. Henry has busted her
self in conducting the Lord Lister
hospital. Mrs. Henry has just pur-
chased the Cannon residence at Fiji
ty-ffth and Dodge, which they will
occupy as a home. Jesse Hyatt
made the sale.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Pay on Russian Bonds.

New York. Feb. l5.-The National
City bank announced today it was
paying some of the coupons due
yesterday on the Russian internal
5 IL per cent bonds, in accordance
with the option given holders of ac-
cepting IS cents per ruble, the rate
fixed by the financial attaehe Of the
Russian embassy at Washington,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-16
Many American Soldiers
Dyinu of Disease at Brest

Washington, Feb. ls-Maj. Samuel
V. Ellsworth, of the medical corps,
recently returning from France, told
the senate military committee today
that many returning American sol
diers were dying of disease at the
embarkation camp at Brest, France,
after coming from the front line in
good physical condition
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14

The best method Of destroying
weevils in corn is through the use
of carbon bisulphide. You do not
give the exact dimensions Of your
crib and so we cannot say just how
many cubic feet it may contain, but
you can easily figure this out your
self. We would advise the use of
twelve pounds of carbon bisulphide
for each 1000 cubic feet of space.
If the crib is very open you may
need to use as much as twenty
pounds for each 1000 feet of cubic
space. The tighter the crib the
smaller amount OF carbon bisulphide
it is necessary to use. More car
bon bisulphide must be used where
the corn is not husked than where it
is husked.
The best method of using carbon
bisulphide is to put it on top of the
grain in shallow pans, making the
crib as tight as possible before it
is distributed. Cover the bin if pos
sible with a tarpaulin or any heavy
covers available. 1t should be kept
covered for at least twenty-four
hours. After that the covers may
be taken off and the air allowed to
circulate as freely as possible.
The vapors of carbon bisulphide
are tnflammable, therefore, do not
handle it in the presence Of a lighted
pipe. cigarette or candle. This liquid
should be handled as carefully as
gasoline. This is an important fact
to bear in mind. We are certain,
however, that if you handle carbon
bisulphide carefully you can destroy
the Neevi1s effectively.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14


Bull associations ar2 here to stay.
Figures furnished by the United
States department Of agriculture
show that there were rs cooperative
bull associations in, operation in this
country on July 1, 1919, which repre-
sents a gain OF 81 associations over
the previous year when records shoW-
ed that there were A associations
active on July l, 1918.
Bull associations have proved espe-
cially popular IN sections where
dairying is comparatively new in
dustry. Many dairymen have been
anxious to increase the productivity
of their cows, but due to the tact
that their herds were small and their
resources limited, it was often i'm
possible for them to buy and main
tain sufficiently good purebred bulls
to accomplish this purpose. 1t is IN
cases of this kind that the bull as
ISOLATION has proved most valuable,
saws the department. BY organizing
the dairymen into an association ana
working comparatively the purchase
of proved, bulls of high producing
ancestry is made possible. BY using
these animals comparatively a few
GOOD bulls can take fireplace OF all
The inferior bulls formerly found III
the community.
An example of what the bull asso-
citation can do in improving the type
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14

probably more sorely needed in our
southern soils than any one other
thing. The loss of humuS may be
due to a variety of causes, but pri-
marily to the persistent following
out of the one-crop system. In adj
dition. our rainfall is SO heavy at
times that it causes violent washing
of our surface soils and a tendency
to leach out of them through drain
age a good deal of the available
plant food. Moreover. in relatively
warm climate where oxidation is
very rapid and continuous, the soils
content of humus is very rapidly re-
duced. and unless very carefully
safeguarded soon becomes exhausted
all together.
That humus is essential to profit
abb agriculture is borne out by the
fact that virgin soils supplied with
this element almost invariably pro-
duce good crops. The longer soils o.
this type are cultivated without any
attempt being fade to maintain or
increase the humus supply the less
productive they become. Before the
era of commercial fertilizers it was
a very common practice in the South
to reclaim lands from the virgin
forest, cultivate them for a few
years, and then throw them out to
again grow up in shrubs and trees.
This practice is in evidence even to
the present day, and could only have
been found profitable at any period
of our agriculture by reason of the
relatively cheapness of the labor
available to handle land in the man
ner indicated. Under any circum-
stances, such practice was Wasteful
and expensive, and under modern
conditions cannot be followed with
either profit or success.
1t would not have been necessary
to abandon these cultivated fields
and bring fresh areas under the
pillow, if the humus content of the
virgin lands had been preserved
This could have been done just as
easily as by following the wasteful
practice of turning the land out af-
ter it had been cultivated for a few
years. 1t is not uncommon to find
worn soils which show relatively
high percentages of plant food If
we apply mineral fertilizers to these
soils. we do not increase the crop
yields to the degree which many
people think possible. This is due
not to any fault of the fertilizer
which has been used, but to the
fact that the lands in question are in
an impaired physical condition, due
to the exhaustion of their humus
content.
In building up and reclaiming
soils Of this type, the first thing
which must be done is to add to
the supply Of humus. Gradually as
the content of this element increas-
es. a good rotation system can be
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14
HOW HuMUs AFFECTS SOIL FER
Utility

Utility
What is humuS? A very good defi-
milton of this term would be decay
ing organic matter. BY organic mat
ter we mean that which is or has
been organized, such as the tissues
of plants and animals. When crop
of cotton has been harvested the
stalks remaining on the land begin
to decay. They illustrate and repre-
sent what is meant by organic mat
ter. Humus is essential to the fer
til1ty of cultivated lands because it
exerts several very specific infIu-
ences on soils: Fra of all, if there
is an abundance OF humus, it af-
fects the temperature of the land
favorably, causing it to warm up
earlier and so insure a more rapid
termination of the seed planted in
it. Every one knows how important
1t is to get the land planted early
III the spring. Probably more is
gained by the early planting of crops
than most of us realize, so whatever
we may do to help secure tempera-
lures in the soil favorable to plant
ing early in the season is a great
advantage.
Humus affects the texture OF the
soil. If there is a deficiency of hui
mus, the land is heavy and COM
pact difficult to work and it does
not absorb or hold water satisfac-
torily. Since water measures the
productivity of all lands to a large
degree, increasing the absorptive
power of the soil through the use
of humus becomes a matter of great
economic lO1nOrtSnna TO ao1.ipf1l-
ture. Humus darkens the color of
our soils. The more Of it there is
present in the land, the darker it be-
comes. The black, alluvial bottom
soils of the Mississippi Valley and
othe rsections fthe country are sur
feited, as it were, with humus. The
fact that lands containing this ele-
ment in considerable quantity not only
can absorb but can hold more water
than soils deficient in humus is a
matter of the utmost Importance in
crop production.
Hunus Necessary TO Soils
1t is not difficult after having
given careful consideration to the
functions which humus performs in
the land to see that the loss of this
element means loss of productive
ness. In other words, many types
of soil that were once fertile and
abundantly supplied with humus are
now little better than sterile or
waste lands, due to the fact that
they were so handled that the hui
mus supply was destroyed, and all
these lands took on an entirely new
type or character. In the south HUI
mus is just as important as in any
other sections fthe country. It is
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14
IS EGGS INSTEAD OF 4

Mrs. J. H. holster, Corder, Mo-,
gets wonderful results from feeding
2-4-1 More Egg Tonic. She says: I'VE
were getting from 4 to eggs daily
in two weeks we got from rs to IS
eggs a day VIM. Lutz, Overland
Park, Kas., says: "Was getting Ia to
IS eggs a week from "a hens, and II
days after feeding AL More Egg
Tonic am now getting 100 to 12a
eggs per week" With eggs soaring
toward the dollar mark these actual
results mean big profits. Don't ex-
pertinent Every poultry raiser can
do as well and make every hen a
money-maker. Send 81 for 100 tab
lets. Money back if your hens don't
make bigger profits.
STOCK YARDS LABORATORIES,
Dept. S25, Kansas City, Mo. h
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14

Of sires is found in the South Gibson
Bull association of Susquehanna
county, Pa. This association has
twenty members who own a total of
382 cows. Before the bull associa-
ton was formed there were 10 bulls
in the community with total valua-
ton of $1,000. After organizing, on
ly four bulls were needed and these
were purchased at total cost Of
$4,000. The average investment in
each of the 13 bulls in use before or
ganizing was $561.54, but after as
ISOLATION was formed the average in
vestment was $1,000 for each of the
good bulls. In this way each dairy
man had the use Of bulls that were
twice as valuable as the bulls used
formerly, and at the same time his
investment was 1925 less.
The southern states have been
found especially we'll adapted to bull
association work. Dairying in those
states is making rapid strides, and
producers have shown great interest
in improved dairy cattle. Twenty
of the associations organized dur
ing the past year are credited to che
south, six associations having been
formed in Mississippi, four in North
Carolina, three in South Carolina, two
each in Alabama, Georgia, and
Tennessee, and one in Louisiana.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-14

fallow may help, but that will only
be beneficial temporarily.
Other Elements Important
We must not lose sight of the fact
that humus is combined in the soil
with phosphates, potash and lime.
These combined elements, known as
humateS act as plant food, and that
they are essential to the well-being
of plants is shown by the character
istic manner in which the roots of
growing crops cluster around decay
ing matter in the soil. Since humus
in the soil is best increased through
the use of animal manures, all of
the droppings accommodating on the
farm or in the barns or stables should
be saved and returned to the land.
In a country where legumes thrive
successfully they should be ex-
tensive1y used for green manures, an2
then if satisfactory rotation OF
crops is followed we will begin to
make substantial progress toward the
resupplying of our. land with that
essential material upon which we can
build really permanent type of
agriculture in the south. Com
mercial fertilizers alone will not do,
for very often they even fail to show
an increase of production, and hence
we must give greater attention and
consideration in the future to the
type of farming we follow on lands
which have been completely ex-
hausted of their humus supply. The
type of farming calculated to most
quickly exhaust the humus from the
soil is grain farming; then follows
cotton farming, grass or hay pro-
duction, dairying ana general live
stock production. The farmer who
operates at home his own manufacture
ing plant and sells only the finished
animals from his land will most eff
fectively maintain the fertility OF his
land and will keep that happy balance
between mineral constituent, humus
and nitrogen, which is essential to
the profitable pursuit of farming
operations