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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
Covenant Pruned
By All Other Nations

CONTINUED From Page One.)
document which ! present to you,
without investigation, analysis.
amendment or reservation.
What is His Theory?
Upon what theory does he thus
limit the action of what is supposed
to be the great democracy of the
world? When did the president of
the United States possess the power
to say to its people and its congress
You must? When this league of
nations was discussed at Paris,
Great Britain would not be a party
until Great Britain was given six
votes and in this fashion Great Brit
ain amended it. France declined to
subscribe to the league unless
France was given an offensive and
defensive alliance by the United
States, and although the president
had denounced up to the very mo-
ment that he signed it, any special
alliance or any separate agreement
with any nation, he yielded to
Clemenceau and brought back to US
the special alliance against which he
had so often acclaimed. Thus
France amended the league, Japan
declined to sign the league until
given Shantung, with its 100000
Chinese. The president whispered
he would never consent and forth
with he yielded and consummated
the Shantung infamy. Thus Japan
amended the league"
Gust one country is denied the
privilege by Mr.. Wilson of pro-
tecting its life, its treasure. its SOW
ereignty, its blood and its future,
and that country is the United
States.
In the audience were Chief JUS
tice Andrew Morrisey of the Ne
braska supreme court. a democrat;
former Governor c. H. Aldich, JUS
tice of the Nebraska supreme
court; Chancellor Samuel Avery of
the Nebraska state university and
Charles w. Bryan, brother of Will
liam Jennings Bryan.
Senator Johnson will be rendered
a luncheon tomorrow by the Com
club of Lincoln. after which
he will leave for Duluth, Mimi,
where he speaks Friday night.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18

Great Britain and other great pow
ers took Chinese territory without
any objection from this country.
Every great European power, the
president asserted, now enjoyed
special privileges in China, in some
cases at the expense OF China's
sovereignty. But he declared Japan
had promised to return everything
that savored of sovereignty to
China.
Then, he asserted, the only way
to get Shantung away from Japan
was to 20 to war. A woman near
the front of the hall asked what
is the league of nations for them"
The president continuing his SEN
tence said the league offered for
the first time tribunal before
which China could bring her COM
plant about the wrongs she had
suffered for years. The crowd
cheered the statement.
Forum for Agitation.
1t was not in the province of
the peace conference said the presi-
dent to consider the question of
self-determination as affecting peo-
pies other than those formally UNI
der the sovereignty of the central
empires. But under the league. he
added, such questions would be
brought under the jurisdiction Of
the great powers. 1t would offer,
he declared "a forum on which to
conduct a successful agitation"
"If they're not satisfied with
that" he added, their case is not
good"
More applause followed the state
ment and there was another out
burst of cheering when he said
confidently that the United States
was going to be in the league.
Reading a quotation from a for
mer German statesman, the presi-
dent said those opposing the treaty
were trying for a result which
would be welcome to Germany. 1t
was inconceivable. he continued
that Germany now would be able
to separate the United States from
the other powers as she had been
unable to do by force of arms.
Mr., Wilson said it was impos-
sible to work out industrial reforms
as long as the peace treaty uncer-
tainty continued. Ratification of
the treaty, he said, would be the
first step toward preventing any
sort of minority from debating in
the United States.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
$5,0OO,O00 Bond Issue
For Omaha Schools

Continued from Page One.)
against asking the people to vote for
such large amount.
The board generally favored the
construction of the proposed High
School of Commerce as soon as pos
sible at Thirty-second and Cunning
streets. The building program pre-
pared by Superintendent Beveridge
will be carried out with such modifi-
cations and changes as conditions
warrant, it was decided. Superin-
tendent Beverage estimated that
the $s,000,000 bond issue would be
sufficient for the Omaha public
school system for from five to eight
years.
Program for Building.
The building program which will
be used if the bond issue carries, as
prepared by Superintendent Bever-
idge, is as follows:
Four-room addition to Mason,
$4,000.
Four-room addition to Lake,
$4,000.
Sixteen-room and auditorium new
Saratoga school, 100000.
Sixteen-room and auditorium
Walnut Hill school, 100000
Twelve-room building replacing
Benson Central. $l35,00.
Eight-room Sherman school, $780,
900.
Six-room Belvidere school, $685.
600.
Six-rom Mime Lusa school, $685.
900.
Auditorium for Park and Clifton
Hill, $4,000.
Junior high schools:
Thirty-four-room Twenty-second
and Chicago. $550,000.
Thirty-two-room at Twenty-fourth
and Corby, 100000.
Twelve-room building west of
stock yards, 100000
Twenty-two-room addition to
South high, $350,000.
Senior high schools:
North high to accommodate 200.
81 100000.
Complete Commercial Technical
high, 100000.
New sites and additional ground,
100000.
Total. s5,OO0,00o.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
Auto Thief Leaves Car
When Stalled in the Mud

An automobile thief yesterday mar
rowly escaped an accident and
abandoned the stolen car at the rail-
road embankment on South Thirty
fourth street DR.. f. F. Shanahan,
1889 South Twenty-fourth street,
notified the police that his sedan
was stolen from his garage during
the night At the same time the
police station got another call that
an automobile was stalled half way
down the railroad embankment. Evil
IDENTIFY the driver of the stolen Car
skidded backward and was stuck in
the mud. The police found the
automobile and returned it to the
owner, but they are still searching
for the thief
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18

of 10000 pesos representing the sum
paid to obtain the ransom of Lieuts.
Harold G. Peterson and Paul II.
Davis, American aviators. who were
captured by Mexican bandits in Au-
gust The money will be delivered
by a special messenger from the
Treasury department
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
FAIR FOOD PRICES

We notice recently in the press a
list Of the committees prices. In it
they quote:
Best Creamery Butter, per
package ............o Csc Csc
At the store on the corner of Six
tenth and Farnam-the busiest in
tersection in Omaha-hundreds of
people have, for more than a month,
been buying the finest creamery
butter sold in Omaha at Sc.
No finer eggs have been sold than
have been sold there during this
period, mainly at 45c and less.
Thousands patronize that store. As
high as 900 dozen eggs and 1900
single pounds of butter have been
sold there in a day.
Will not the press be sufficiently
interested in the high cost of living
to investigate the source from which
this committee obtains the prices
they. so proudly and mistakenly
PUBLISH A CONSUMER.
(Advertisement.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
South Side
South Side Drivers Are
Confused by New Whistles

South Side traffic police are
greatly excited over their newly ac-
CURED whistles. The crowds Of
pedestrians and automobile drivers
are confused by the shrill noise and
miss the former signaling. However,
the policeman on the corner of
Twenty-fourth and N streets soon
realized the situation and uses both
whistle and signal, saying, Never
mind, they'll soon get on to the
trick. The whistles were used years
ago with good results and few acct
dents and we expect them to work
again."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
Successful Strike Of
Actors Boosts Prices
Of Theater Tickets
BY Universal Service.

New York, Sept. l7.-Old high
cost is now getting busy with the
theaters. Orchestra seats for Broad
way shows have already been ad-
vanced from 81 to $3.50 and Special
productions" are charging still
higher prices. Ticket brokers say
the charge for orchestra seats in
many houses will soon be So to $3.50
plus war tax. Balcony seats will ad-
vance in proportion.
One ticket broker when asked to-
day for the cause of this advance in
seat prices said:
We'll, the actors won their strike,
didn't thcy:"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
South Side BreUities

Sherman Cox, formerly a live stock
commission merchant of South Omaha,
Is in the city visiting old business friends.
He now lives In Los Angeles Cal.
The marriage of Miss Bessie Mertlik,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Merit
Xix, us o street. TO John Lacina, jr.,
Twenty second and o streets. will take
place Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs. Lacina
will make their home in Omaha.
Mrs. Alice Crumb. wife Of A. Crumb,
an instructor in the United States flying
their home in Norwich N. Y, after visiting
Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Brewer of this city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
Ransom Paid MexiCanS
Ordered Returned to u. S.

Mexico City, Sept. 1.-THE sec
rotary OF the treasury has been Of
dercd to make immediate payment
to the United States government
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-18
Salvation Army Offers Its
Service to Stricken Cities

Enid, Okl., Sept. Ut. Col.
George Wood, chief southwest d.
visional officer of the Salvation
Army. left last night for Dallas to
proffer the assistance of the organ
ization he represents to the food
victims in Corpus Christi. He wires
Governor Hobby yesterday putting
the southwest division at the states
DISPOSAL.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
BALL PLEA
CONSIDERED BY COURT

Justice Stafford of the District Su-
preme Court has under consideration
the motion of organized ball for a new
trial of the suit of the Baltimore
Federal League club. in which a jury
recently returned a verdict for $4,000
damages against the two major
leagues and the members of the ma
tional commission as constituted in
1915 for alleged violation Of the anti
trust laws. Oral argument was dis
pensed with when the court intimated
adherence to his ruling that the
monopolistic, but CT request of At
torney Benjamin S. Minor the court
allowed briefs to be filed during the
coming week.
Mr. Minor suggested that he might
the actual damage sustained by the
Baltimore club. and Justice Stafford
told him tC put that in his brief.
Attorney Charles A. Douglas of coun-
sci fer the Baltimore club suggested
that in the event the court decides not
to grant a new trial he hoped a rea-
sonable counsel fee would be fixed
The court said that counsel might en-
large on that matter in his brief
Under the antitrust law, it was
stated. judgment must be rendered
fer three times the actual damage
sustained plus counsel fee to the
plaintiffs lawyer to be fixed by the
court. Should Justice Stafford decide
not to disturb the verdict of the jury
the judgment against organized ball
would have to be for $4,000, plus a
counsel fee, 1t is said.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
G. W. U. WOMEN BANQUET.
Columbian Women Hold Eleventh
Annual Affair at Chevy Chase Club

II George washington University
women put into effect all of the prof.
ects they discussed at their banquet
last night. George Washington soon
will be in a class by itself. The oc-
casion was the eleventh annual BAN
ouet OF the Columbian Women, a uni
yersity organization held at the
chevy Chase Club. The affair marked
the twenty fifth anniversary of the
founding of the organization.
Among the speakers were Mrs. Will
liam II. Heron. Miss Sara p. Grogan.
Miss Agnes Nelson. Mrs. T. Malcolm
Price, Miss Margaret A. Browne and
Mrs William f. Chamberlin.
"Witticisms Of 1919 in Color" was
the title of a unicue entertainment
presented following the toasts. A re-
ception preceded the banquet. In the
receiving line were Mrs. Joshua
Evans. jr., hostess: 4 1rs. William c.
Van Vleck, president of the organiza-
tion: Mrs. ]. Wilmer Latimer, Dr.
Martha Brewer Lyon. Miss Freda Eg-
bert. Miss Ruth II. Bennett. Miss
Anna S. Hazelton and Miss Ella NJ
Monk.
On the banquet committee were Mrs
Harold Enlows. chairman; Mrs. Joshua
Evans. jr; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
Mrs. John II. Erwin. Miss Ruby New
ins. Miss Lee Hardell and Miss Eliza
beth Humphrey.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
STANFORD GRADS" MEET.
Get altogether of Seventy-Six in
Washington at Club.

Stanford University men and wom-
en- now resident of Washington had a
'get-together" last night at the Col
lege Womens Club, attended by sew
enty-six former students of the great
California institution and featured
by "reminiscences and humorous anec-
dotes by a dozen speakers during q
lively session continuing till midnight.
The following officers for the local
association were elected for the en-
suing year: President. Archie Rice.
'95. from Santa Barbra, Cal, and late
of the committee on public informa-
ton: vice president. Frank Hess, '03.
of Washington and geologist in tt.e
Department of the Interior; secretary,
Miss Jackson. IA, from Boise. Idaho.
secretary to an Idaho congressman. 4
series of meetings is to follow.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
JURY EXOMERATES DRIVER
IN FATALITY AT GARAGE
Women Taken to Hospitals After
Two Collisions-Other Local
Accidents.

Coroner hewitt held an inquest at
the morgue yesterday afternoon in
the case of Joseph w. Jones, who was
killed by an automobile driven by
Maurice Judd in Semmes' garage. 613
G. street, Thursday afternoon. The
jury heard the testimony of several
witnesses and reached the conclusion
that the affair was an accident, ex-
onerating Judd.
Capital Traction car 43, in the
charge of Motorman George Latham
and Conductor Ralph Phillips, COL
lided with the automobile of DR.. Fred
erick Bartlett. 1910 Holmead place, at
14th and Irving streets last night
about $50 O'Clock. Mrs. Florence
Lithgew. seventy years old. 1902 Keo-
kuk street, occupant Of the automo-
bile, received scalp wound and cut
over her right eye. She was taken to
Garfield Hospital
Miss Acie Saunders. SIS Harvard
street. received severe injuries to her
head last evening as a result of an
automobile collision at 18th street and
Massachusetts, avenue. She was rid
ing in the automobile of Noble L.
Veirs, 1925 Illinois avenue. which was
struck by another automobile. Miss
Saunders was thrcwn from the ma
Evening star., 1919-04-26
FOUNDING HOME DRIVE
IS ENDING WITH TAG DAY
Women Interested in Raising
Fund and Volunteer Solicitors
Conducting Sales Today.

The drive for funds for the Wash
ington Home for Foundlirgs ends to-
day with a tag day. Women repre-
senting the board of trustees of the
institution. and volunteer solicitors
stood at prominent downtown points
today tagging passA-sby for the beneit
of the little children. who. unless
$4,000 is raised to defray the ex-
Dense OF repairing the country home.
will have to stay in the city during
the hot months this summer.
The summer home. it is announced.
is badly in need of repairs. and un-
less these repairs are made. and made
quickly. the children at the home. of
whom there are sixty, Will be forced
to stay in the city.
Although no guess could be haZarded
as to the amount raised to date, mem
bers of the board of trustees said
today that in all probability the fund.
with the money raised by tagging,
will approximate the amount needed.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
FORMER WARD OF GREERS
RETURNS TO THEIR HOME
Lad Was Transferred From Bakers
Custody to Industrial Home.
Which Was Burned.

The soles of his snoes nearly worn
away. John Merriger, fourteen years
old. former ward of Mr. and
Mrs. William A. Greer. was found
asleep in an automobile in the rear
of the Greer home. The boy. who
had been committed to st. Mary's M
dustrial Home, i'm Baltimore. by the
board of childrens guardians for the
District. had walked from that city
following fire which destroyed the
building. %
Levi H. David. attorney for Mr.. aRd
Mrs. Greer during n recent court m
vestigation. said he expected thtee
others who were sent to the Balti-
more institution with the boy "a 30
would return.
.'Merriger wanted to get back 20
his mother, as he anectiona;sy
terms Mrs Greer" said Mr.. David.
"I went to the Juvenile Court TO Get
some ruling on the matter, but DE
court decided that il had nothing 20
do with the case and that the Hy
was a ward of the board OF chfldrea
guardians
Evening star., 1919-04-26
FUGITIVE BOYS CAUGHT.
Come to This City After Fire al
Baltimore Institution.

Policeman Donovan. on duty at
Chevy Chase early last evening. met
four boys whose appearance was sug-
gestive of something wrong. He ques-
toned the quartet and learned they
were fugitives- from St Mary's In
dustrial School. Baltimore, where fire
destroyed the main building Thursday
afternoon.
Taking advantage of the disturbed
conditions following the ire. the boys
left the Institution and came here on
a visit, two of them, John Edward
Wise and Alvin Baldwin, each twelve
years old. having resided here. Their
companions were William ELLIS. eleven
years> old. and Clemson Wise. thir-
teen years old.
The boys. alarmed by the fire. left
the grounds of the institution and
started in the direction of this city.
intending to see the sights and re
turn. They rode most of the way in
automobiles. 1t is probable they will
be returned to the school late today.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
Like Poking a Fire"

When the sun is undergoing a period
of great activity as shown by sun
spots, prominences. and similar signs,
il is like poking a fire and bringing
fresh Goals to the surface. Thus there
is produced a hotter sun and conse-
quently greater amount of radia-
ton: second. there is a short period
variation which is explained by
changes in the transparency of the
outer solar envelope.
II the correlationS between the Sc
variations in the radiation from the
sun and our temperatures here on
the earth continue to prove as sat
isfactory as they. have up to the
present in Argentina. 1t will be de-
sirable to establish three or four
additional observing stations in wide
ly separated. most cloudless regions
of the earth. as for example in Aus
tralia. South Africa. India and Egypt.
While II would be desirable to have
these stations all under one manage
ment as for instance the Smithsonian
Institution. the means are not at
present available. and 1t will probably
be necessary to ask the government s
of the regions noted to establish and
support their own observing stations.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
GAVE SECRETS TO GERMANY,
DR.. Schweitzer Directs Communi
cation of Mustard Gas Formula.

NEW YORK. April 26.-Under 1.-The
master spy" DR.. Hugo Schweitzer,
former president of the Bayer Com
pany, taken over by the alien prop
erty custodian, German agents in this
country reported to Berlin by code
every de<ail of Americas business life,
kept from the allies 100000 pounds
of explosives and sent overseas the
formula for the deadly mustard gas,
which laid low thousands of Ameri-
can soldiers. This statement was
made by Francis p. Garvin, alien
property custodian. who delivered an
address at the annual banquet of the
American Cotton Manufacturers AS
sociati6n here last night.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
ne She was taken TO Emergency

chine. She was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
A collision between motor truck
driven by Herman Sullivan and an
automobile owned and operated by
William H. Jackson. 134S Girard
street, occurred at Florida avenue and
w street yesterday afternoon. Both
vehicles were damaged and Il street
lamp was demolished.
An iron post supporting a fire alarm
box at 18th and = streets was de-
molished by a motor truck driven by
Edward Griffin. 926 Massachusetts
avenue. last night about 7:45 O'clock
Police charged Griffin with operating
the truck without permit.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
All States Interested.

Every effort will be made to secure
so wide a distribution that every state
will be represented. and thus empha-
size the truly American character of
the hospital.
Many endowments already have
Leen received by the hospital com
mittee. of which Miss Edith Bangs of
Boston is the chairman. Mrs. Lathrop,
who has been for four years at the
head of the American Fund for
who is largely responsible for the
success of the Memorial Hospital
plan. will direct the preparatory work
in France. Mrs. Lathrop came to the
United States in April to launch the
Memorial Hospital idea.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
WASHINGTON END
+. Of HEARING CLOSES
Bar Association Committee
Hears Gen. Kreger on
Courts-Martia
OTHERS ADVANCE IDEAS

The careful inquiry conducted for
he past several weeks by the special
military committee of the American
Bar Association into the administra-
ion of military justice came to an END
yesterday afternoon as far as wash
ngton is concerned. The committee,
Though adjourned, is subject tc the
all Of it's chairman, Judge S. S. Greg
>ry Of Chicago. and sessions may be
,eld later in his home city. .inasmuch
he has indicated that he desires, If
ossible, to obtain the viewpoint OF
lumber of enlisted men before clos
ng the record and reporting to the
executive committee OF the aSsocia
ion about July l.
Brig. Gen. Kreger. who succeeded
lieut.. Col Ansell as acting judge ad-
ocate general of the Army. was
mong the last witnesses heard yes
erlay afternoon. AS the committee
vas pressed for time. the summary of
is views was necessarily brief. Gen.
Ireger took the position that the ends
f military discipline and of justice
vere the same and that in securing
ne one the other also was to be Sc
'ured. For this reason, he thought. 1t
Tould be we'll to take any steps
which might be necessary to improve
he actual trials before courts-martial.
The question of how this should be
lone, whether by creating system of
Presiding judges or by appointing law
members through the courts, he said,
was one of detail on which he made no
recommendation.
No Serious Infringement Seen.
Gen. Kreger did not believe that the
ra of m DRrCenfaRe
accused in the wartime cases were de-
tended by lieutenantS indicated any
serious infringement of the rights of
The defendants through the inexperi-
ence or military relationship of coun-
sci. The experience and ability of the
defending counsel and the trial judge
advocates, he thought. about balanced,
and lieutenants were selected most
often because they were acquainted
more intimately with the accused en-
listed men.
practice of sending court-martial find
ings and sentences back for revision
in cases of acquittal or of sentences
which appeared Inadequate to the re-
viewing authority could well be apan-
doned except for clear cases OF tech
nical error.
Col. Connor Testifies.
Col. William Connor or the ciem
ency board testified yesterday after
coon and agreed generally with Col
James s. EasbySmith of this city
member of the same board. VINO ap-
peared in the morning. that the ex-
listing court t-martial system is one
well calculated to obtain facts and
unlikely to bring about punishment
The only other witness was J. B. w
Gardiner. New York lawyer. for
merly an officer of the Regular
Army. He was the only one of the
core of men suggested to the com
mittee by Col. Ansell to appear before
the committee Mr.. Gardiner insist
ed that the attitude Of the Regpla5
Army was all wrong, because IT held
the court-martial system to be an
executive. agency CO. for ndstipn discipline o,
the judicial framework of the coun-
try. duly recognized by the Supreme
cIined to use the system as "a club to
create discipline. he said. whereas its
only real function was to secure the
punishment of offenders against mill
tary law.
Evening star., 1919-04-26
Lieut.. Col. Moreno Ordered HeIe.

Lieut.. Col. Aristides Moreno. general
staff. has been ordered to this city
for duty in the military intelligence
division, general staff. 80
Evening star., 1919-04-26
Assigned to- Militia Bureau.

Col Francis B. Wildly. Corps of En-
gineers. has been assigned to duty in
the militia b.---.. VIZ Oe3Srtment.