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Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
BRICE CRITICISES
PEACE CONFERENCE.

London, Oct. 5l.--Secfet diplo-
macy in general and the methods Of
the peace conference in particular
were condemned by Viscount Brice,
former British ambassador to the
United States, in a speech at a
gathering Of young liberals.
Lord brice said the Paris confer
ence had committed very great
errors" and there MAS the danger
of committing others.
1t seemed to him, said the speak
er,- that the border populations in
the Balkans were assigned to states
to which they did not desire to be-
long. He added there was no part
in the world where the rights oi
minorities ought to be more re,
spected than in the Balkans. and il
the peace conference did not ac'
accordingly, it would sow seeds for
future wars.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Constituionality
OF Prohibition Is
Attacked in Chicago

Chicago, Oct. 3l.-Suit to enjoin
the government from enforcing the
wartime prohibitionsact and attack
ing it as unconstitutional was filed
in the United States district court
by Levy Mayer, counsel for the dis
tillers.
The suit alleges that wartime pro,
hibition violates the fifth and the
tenth amendments to the constitu-
tion, which- respectively prohibit
confscation of property without
just compensation and afirms that
power not delegated to the United
States nor prohibited to the states
shall be preserved to the states or to
the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
) REF
<RIGHT
R EEzY
GoDSPEED GIVEN TO
BELGIAN ROYAL PARTY.
BITS OF NEWS

Old Point Comfort, Va. Oct. 81
The transport George Washing.
ton steamed away from Hampton
Roads at l:30 today bearing King
Albert of the Belgians, Queen Eliz,
abeth, Prince Leopold and their
suite, homeward bound after g
days in the United States.
The guns at the Norfolk navy
yard doomed a national salute as
the barges, which carried the royal
party to the ship, cast off from the
pier, after the king and queen had
inspected the navy yards. Aboard
the George Washington. boat
swains whistles piped them over
the side and the ships band played
the Brabanconne, while Captain
McCauley stood at salute at the
gangway and the ships crew
manned the rails.
King Albert stood on the bridge
Of the transport with his wife and
son beside him, gazing shoreward
as the big vessel steamed slowly
down the bay, escorted by battle
SnipS and deStroycrS and with the
royal standard Of Belgium futtering
from the masthead.
The king and his party, accompa-
MED by Secretary Lansing of the
State department and Assistant
Secretary Long, who has been with
the party throughout its tour of the
United States, and by Secretary
Daniels of the Navy department, ar
rived at Fortress. Monroe on spe-
cial train from Washington. There
and later at Portsmouth, the king
was warmly greeted by crowds.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
War Department Proposals
For Conduct OF Peace Time
Military Forces Attacked by
A.E F. Commander.
INCREASE OF GENERAL
STAFF PLAN EXCESSIVE
Important Changes Advocated
by Federal Officials Emphat-
ica|Iy Opposed on Basis Of
Experiences in France.

Washington, Oct. 31.-Dissenting
in many important respects from the
program recommended by the War
department and the general STAFF,
General Pershing told the military
committees of congress that 100000
men, raised entirely by voluntary
enlistment. should be the outside
figure considered for a standing
army.
He favored universal military
training to provide an emergency
reserve, but thought general educa-
tional work should be combined with
it and military discipline Somewhat
relaxed" SO that~the system would
be in complete harmony with dem
ocratic institutions. He fixed six
months as the training period
The department had recommend
ed an army of more than 100000,
with system of universal training
not embracing the educationa fea-
lures Its recommendation for a
training period was three months.
Favors Air Bureau.
Departing again from the ex-
pressed views of the department,
the general declared army purchas-
ing should be rcorganizeA jim a, new
bureau apart from the fqlartermas-
ter corps and that separate de-
.partment of the government should
be organized to coordinate and SUI
pervise military, naval and commer-
cial aeronautics. He considered the
departments request for 231 general
staff officers excessive, and made
clear his opposition to any effort by
the staff to extend its authority into
the details of the department bu-
reaus and of the line. .
During his day of testimony be-
fore the two committees which
opened a series of special joint ses-
sions to hear his views on peace
time reorganization Of the army
General Pershing expressed several
times his familiarity with the pres
ent makeup and policy of the gen.
eral staff and emphasized that he
was speaking directly from his ex-
periences in the field. But he did
not hesitate to put into pointed Ian
guage his opinions on the abstract
questions presented by committee
members.
Avoid War Experience.
When one representative asked
whether he approved an apparent
tendency of the staff to project its
control into details of the line he
brought his fist down upon the table
and snapped:
II certainly do not"
He was equally emphatic when a
senator asked whether the staff
ought not to take military commit
tees into its confidence about the
general situation in the army.
II am quite sure of it," he quickly
replied.
Only once or twice did the ques-
tioning lead him into discussion of
the activities of the American armies
in France, though that is expected
TO come in for more detailed consid-
Grafton before he completes his tes-
timony. He will appear again to-
morrow and his statement, which is
expected to be the last heard by the
committees before they begin franz
ing reorganization legislation, may
RIM into next week
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Cavalry Sent to HidaIgo
to Watch Mexican TropS

MoAllen, Tex, Oct. N.-Five
troops of United States cavalry,
three from Fort Sam Fordyce and
two from McAllen, were ordered 20
Hidalgo, Tex, following receipt OF
reports at military headquarters
here that Villistas were planning an
attack on the Carrancista garrison
of Reynosa, Mexico, across the river
from Hidalgo.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Secretary RedfieId Ends
Service as Cabinet Member

Washington, Oct. U.-William c.
Redheld Friday retired as secretary
of commerce, after serving for six
and a half years as a member Gf
President Wilson's cabinet. He
leaves Saturday for his home IN
Brooklyn, but said that he had made
no plans for the immediate future.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Bank CIearings Of Omaha
Show Enormous Gain

Bank clearings for Omaha for the
month of October, 1919, amounted
to $500, ,226,956.42, showing a gain of
$42, l44,8o8.31 over the clearings for
The corresponding month last year.
The total for October, 1918, was re-
ported as $264, 4,082,058.11. These
figures were compiled by the Oma-
ha Clearing House association, Of
ficials of which believe this to be
the largest gain which will be re-
ported in the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Omaha Man Is Appointed
Federal Labor Examiner

Lincoln, Oct. 3l.-(Special. y
Secretary F. A. Kennedy of the de-
partment of labor is TO be ap-
pointed federal director for Ne
braska under the Department of
Labor at Washington, and c. H.
Davis of Omaha has been recon-
mended as examiner under the de-
partment.
The job of federal inspector has
now been placed in the "dollar-a-
year" class.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Injunction Granted
Prohibiting Sale Of
Liquor in New York

New York, Oct. sl.-United
State District Judge Augustus y.
Hand today granted a temporary
injunction at the request OF the
United States district attorney pro-
hibiting the sale of all liquor con-
tanning one-half of one per cent or
more alcohol.
Under the Injunction saloon
keepers who violate the prohibi-
.ion enforcement law can be sum-
marily arrested and imprisoned for
contempt of court.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Wilcox Man Murders Wife
and Then Takes Own Life

Wilcox, Neb., Oct. 3l.-Arthur
HOLDEN, IS years old, who came
here week ago from his home at
'Tabernash, Colo, shot and killed his
wife and then took his own life.
Letters addressed to relatives in
KANSAS found on the dead man in
dicate the act was premeditated.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
PHOTO ENGRAvINGS
USED TO BREAK STRIKE.

Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 31.-Photo
engravings of the editorial columns
and some advertisements win be
used in the Saturday morning issue
of the Tennessean in order to get
out the paper despite a printers
walkout. Three newspapers OF
Nashville are affected by a "vaca-
ton" in the composing rooms when
they refused to grant a fourth bonus
ef 81 : day 70 printerA
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
REFUSAL TO PART WITH
DOG LEADS TO ARREST.

La Orange. Ore, Oct. 3l.-A wo-
mans love for her dog has led to
the arrest here of Mrs. E. w. Nc
Carthy for alleged completely in a
bank robbery. =
Police say that William Anderson
and James Miller robbed the Bank
of Springville, Springville, Utah, Of
$4,000 and escaped TO La Grange,
Ore, and that Mrs. Mccarthy was
with them. The police tracked her
spotted dog to this city and arrested
the trio. 1t was said that the men
urged her to part with the dog in
Utah, but she refused 4 ~ ~
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Detroit Machinist, With Let
ters From Home, Paid Up
Union Card and Cash, Given
Fifteen Days Sentence.
POLICEMAN IN CASE
is O. P. PETERSON
Boy Released From Jail on
Surrendering $100 of His
Funds to LaWyer-0maha
Union to Stir Things Up.

A sentence of IS days in the
county jail on a charge of vagrancy,
when he had $3.50 cash, letters from
his mother and other members Of
his family and a paidup working
card in the machinists union in his
pocket, was the experience of Fred
Miller, about 20 years of age, with
Patrolman o. P. Peterson, of
Omaha, and Judge Foster of the
Central station police court yester-
day morning.
Miller, having been sentenced to
Is days, and having been placed in
a cell in the cohnty Jail, gained his
freedom two hours later by sur
rendering $l00 of the money taken
from him by the police at the time
of his arrest to Attorney R. H.
Bremers, of Breiners & Lee, 709
Keeline building, he states.
Miller is a clean looking young
fellow, well dressed, and has all the
appearance of competent clerk
in high class store, as far as looks
go, and in the opinion of many in
the courtroom should ordinarily
have been released upon his appear
ance, his possession of the $50, his
union card and the fact that the
officer made no charge, against him
other than his statement Of, ct va: va
grancy.
Hunting for Room.
Young Miller, who is on his way
from Detroit, his home, to Cali
fornia, arrived in the city at 7:30
Thursday night. He checked the
grip containing his machinist tools
at the station and with one contain
ing a change of raiment started out
to hunt room.
He first sought the. Y. M. c. A.,
where ne could get no room, and
was taken by a chance companion
to a hotel at Nineteenth and Har-
ney streets.
It was then that Officer Peterson
approached and demanded to know
what he was doing and other par
ticulars.
Miller gave him all details about
his home, his business and object at
the hotel, and surrendered his grip
for inspection.
Peterson arbitrarily ordered the
two youths to "come along and
took them into the fire station while
calling for the patrol.
On the arrival of this he turned
them over to the wagon men, &C
cordina~to Miller, with the state
ment:
Book these two for investiga-
ton"
AT the station they were booked
for vagrancy.
Money Is Taken.
In accordance with the custom in
all stations, Miller was searched and
the $3.50 and other effects taken
from him. He was then placed in a
cell, and taken before Judge Foster
in the morning.
Peterson was present and whiled
away the time by glaring at the cub
prit he had arrested. When the
case was called Peterson approached
the bar and said, according to the
story of the youth:
Now, Judge, I've got two genuine
vagrants this time"
Miller attempted to tell his story
to the Judge, he says, and gave q
Continued on Page Two. Column Five,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
CARRY BALL TO GAME
AT HURON IN AIRPLANE.

Huron, S. D., Oet. 3l.--bucking
a 6O-mile wind an airplare, piloted
by Day Miller and Wick Engle, ar
rived here from Sioux Falls. The
aviators carried with them the loot
ball used in the Yankton-Huron col
lege game. The ball was dropped
from the plane as it settled over
the gridiron a few minutes before
the start of play.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
SOCIALIST DEMAND
BLOCKADE CALLED OFF.

Paris, Oct. 3l.-"Call of the
blockade or every worker in Eu-
rope will throw down his tools"
This dramatic threat was uttered by
NJ. Longuet, socialist deputy at the
labor conference.
By reason of the absence of Jou-
haux, Demoulin and Lenoir, the
conservative labor leaders, who are
attending the international labor
conference IN Washington, Longuet
managed to carry out a coup giving
him control of the unions. His op-
ponents say Longuet's threat of a
general strike is merely camouaage
10 cover a movement for the estab-
lishment of a soviet government in
France.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
NATIONAL LOTTERY
PLANNED IN BRITAIN.

London, Oct 31.-The chancellor
OF the exchequer, Austen Chamber
lain. Will enter no objection against
the proposed national lottery loan,
the Daily Mail announces. The
paper adds that the treasury has a
scheme for such loan ready. There
will be 500 bonds bearing no in
terest, but daily drawing for $780,
600 in prizes,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Find Miners Bodies.

Amsterdam. O., Oct. 3l.-Rescue
parties found the body of James
Gray, foreman, and six other bodies
Of the 20 entombed miners in the
Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal COM
pany's mine No. 3, as they reached
the entrance to entry No. Is.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
Armour & Co. Fined.

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 3l.-Plead-
ing guilty to 29 out of 80 counts,
Armour & Co., Chicago, was fined
81, 100 by Judge Page in district
court today for keeping 10000
pounds of meat in cold storage for
more than year without obtaining
a permit from the health depart
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
The Bees Free Shoe
Fund

Memory of a kind deed remains
long after the money given is for
gotten.
Will you do a kind deed in keep
ing some poor little kiddie's feet
warm this winter?
Then send your contribution to
The Free Shoe Fund, Omaha Bee,
Omaha, Neb. 1t will be acknowl-
edged in this column and expended
on really needy child.
Previously acknowledged. ....... .S6e GO
Lob Carey !.SS
Laura e lewis, Lebanon. Kan.. 800
fetal A4~ssasHaA>Azs.A.snss.>p.ees.ee es.ee
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
CREPE DRAPED BOTTLE
BIDS WHISKY FAREWELL.

New York, Oct. 3l.->A whisky
bottle draped with crepe and a
wreath Of cabbage leaves with an
inscription reading, Here lies the
body Of Barleycorn's tool, he died
by the hand of temperance fool"
hung on the door of saloon in
,Stapieton for few minutes. 1t was
removed when man wearing a
badge ordered the bartender to
take il down in hurry.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
WILL LAY WREATHS
ON AMERICANS GRAVES.

Paris, Oct. 3l.-As a special
tribute TO the Americans who fell
in the great war. the French people
are to Jay wreaths on the graves in
the American military cemeteries
throughout France on All Saints
Gay, November 2.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
SUICIDE BRIDGE IN
CHICAGO PARK RAZED.

Chicago, Oct. 31.-Park employees
have begun razing suicide bridge,
the high viaduct in Lincoln park,
from which some 40 persons have
leaped to death orInjury in recent
wears.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-01
THE WEATHER:
Generally fair Saturday
and Sunday; warmer Sum
day.

Hourly Temperatures;
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Operative brotherhood that helped
them to their glory. We are centuries
behind them. I'm getting out here
Imperial If you come up to Imperial
look me up. Brandon's my name. I've
no card these days!''
There are several things I want to
hear from you," answered Richard,
following brown necktie and pointed
beard to the platform. 'Y'll be sure
to look you up. Mines Richard"
The breeze which was now entering
the car windows had blown over the
clover-leafed fields. It's message was
sweet and fresh. Richard could see
the canals leading off like silver
threads to the homes and farms of the
future; "the socialists dream come
true" Willows of two or three years
growth outlined the banks. Here and
there a tent or a ramada set up a
brave defiance against the hard con-
ditions of the land it was invading.
Richard leaned out of the window and
looked back up the valley which was
dominated by the range now wrapping
around itself gauzy, iridescent drap-
cries.
'The monument to an effete super
stition!" he repeated. '"That wasn't
bad idea"
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Continued next week.
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her washtube Tnerc is no irregularity
or caprice about irrigation
"Wonder how the old fellow picked
it all up?" unused Richard with dis
respect. Aloud he said, "You were
speaking of the value of the soil?"
"Look at the earth those plows are
turning over. See how rich and friable
it is, how it crumbles? You can dig
for hundreds of feet and still find that
sort of soil, eight hundred feet down
II is disintegrated rock and leaf mold
brought in here in the making of a
delta. Heavy rainfalls are rare here,
though we have had them, in spite of
popular opinion. Were we to have
frequent rains the chemical properties
which rain farmers must buy to enrich
their WORKOUT soils would be leached
out, drained from the soil. l can't
make this comprehensive, but I've a
monograph on desert soil. If you are
interested I'll send it to you"
81 should like ft-immensely," as
scented the engineer, still amused.
at explains the choice of the Aztecs,
of the Incas, of Carthagnians, the
Moors," observed the stranger. ''They
chose the desert, not in spite of the
soil but because of it. I doubt If they
were awake to the social advantages
of the system, but it was their CO.
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rushing their speculatiOns into print;
as it had done before? Or would the
overflow maintain the paradoxical
sea?
The food signs were apparent.
There cracks had split the desert
sand; here water assures had men
aced the track: and to the south a
fringe OF young willows hid the path
Of the ColoradO's debouch.
The men crowding the platform
wore the motley of the new country.
In Tucson the uniform of the male
citizens, with the exception of those
reckless ones Who found inevitably
that lotus is a liquid, was the Wilted
prctense of a gentle civilization; de-
Spondent ducks and khakis and limp
collars. Imperial Junction marked the
downfall of the collar. The rest of
the composite costume was irregular
badly Numbered and torn, faded and
sunburned; the clothes of the desert
soldier. Richard saw buttonless
shirts, faded oyeralls, shabby hats
the sOmbrero of Mexico. The faces
under the brOad-brimmed hats made a
leaping impression upon him of youth
and eagerness. He noted a significant
average of intelligence and alertness.
This was not the indOlent group of
men which makes a pretense of occu-
patton whenever train comes in!
Going in?" asked voice at his ear.
y pair of faded eyes set in a young
old face, whether early withered or
well preserved he had not time to de-
termine, was staring at him.
He assured his interlOcutor that he
was going in. His mood isolated the
phrase; its Significance vastly differ
ent from going on
"Buying?'
ST think not"
'It is good time to buy" Richard
suspected a real estate agent. "FOr
land is low-rock bottom prices on
account of the uncasiness about the
river. People are afraid. They want
to see the company redeem some of
its promises before they come in; and
the company isn't in much of a
hurry"
Richard asked what company he re-
ferred to.
The yOung-old face with the faded
eyes looked at him in surprise. "The
d. r. company, Desert Reclamation,
which brought us all here"
"Scamps?" The newcomers survey
of the long line of naked mountains
and lean lands that formed the neck
of the valley gave snub Of casual
ness TO the question.
"No. Fools!' The answer was as
swift as bullet. Though some
people think them worse than that. I
don't go so far; I'm willing to say
they've tried. PHI say that much. But
they haven't the know-how."
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CHAPTER III.
The Blessing Of Aridity.


When Richard left the main line at
Imperial Junction the next afternoon
his eyes followed the train he was
DESERVING rather than the one that
was to carry him to his new labors.
He felt again the thrill of detachment
that invariably preceded his entrance
into a new country. With the pulling
up of the pOrter'S green-carpeted stool
the stunning of the train gates, the
curtain fell on the Tucson set scene.
The long line of cars was pushing
off with it's linen-c0vered Puilmans
and diners, steaming down grade
toward the Sink, the depression which
had been primeval sea, and then des-
ert, and was now sea again. Old
Beach, rechristened Imperial Junction
for railroad convenience, was itself
lower than the ancient sea line where
once the gulf had reached. Richard
knew he could find shells at that des-
ert station should he look for them.
He picked UP his bag that the porter
had thrown on the ground and faced
the rung-down curtain.
Its painted scene was q yellow sta
ton house broiling under q desert
sun; large water tank beyond, and
in the distance the inevitable card
board mountains, like property scene
shifts, fat and thin in their unreal
Fues of FURNISHED pink and purple. A
dusty accommodation train was back
ing and switching, picking up the
empty refrigerator cars to carry into
the valley for the early melon growers
Already the valley had asserted its
industrial importance; the late ram
page of the Colorado had made ii
spectacular. Those who would pay
little attention to the opening of a
new agricultural district in the heart
of q dreaded desert opened their ears
to the vagary Of the river which had
sportiyely made of Il part of that des.
ert an inland sea. Scientists were
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The. window seats, Richard could
see, We're filled before the cars halted,
by the experienced ones who had not
waited for the train to be made up.
In the scramble he spied q vacant
window On the sunny side and made
for it. A stranger dropped into the
seat beside him.
Every window in the car was open.
Each red velvetcd, dusty seat was
filled. A strong desert wind was blow
ing sand into their faces, dscOloring
the seats and covering the floor.
The engineer turned to his compan-
ion, who was coughing.
do you mind this window being
open?"
I'D mind if it were not. It's always
bad at the Junction. When we get
into the cultivated country you will
see what the valley will be like when