Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1916, Page 5

—-— — THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1916. T TSRO GOETHALS ANSWERS CRITIGS OF CANAL Strictures of Kearns and Miller Are Called Erroneous, Un- warranted and Unfair. SLIDES UNDER CONTROL Washington, Nov. 19—Sharp .lan- guage is employed by Major General George W. Goethals, governor of the Panama Canal Zone, in replying to published criticisms of the big water- way, which he charges have seriously affected its commercial rating. In his annual report, made public by the War department, the governor de- clares that the earth - movements which have frequently interrupted traffic through the canal finally will be overcome for all time. General Goethals goes into a lengthy review of the geological prob- lems which have been encountered, of the steps taken to overcome such ob- stacles and the measure of success at- tained. So far as the Culebra cut is concerned, he says, “the worst is over, the intervals between movements are becoming greater and the quantities of material less.” The report replies to the published statements of Prof. Benjamin LeRoy Miller of Lehigh university and for- mer Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah. The charges made in each case, Gen- eral Goethals brands as “erroneous, unwarranted and unfair.” It is shown in the report that during a part of the fiscal year, 1916, during which the canal was opened, 411 vessels passed from the Atlantic to the Pacific and 376 in the other direction. Of all these, only ninety-one were engaged in the American coastwise trade. To total cargo tonnage handled was 3,140,046, as against 4,969,792 for the preceding year, although the waterway was in operation for only five months last year. Commenting upon the reduction in coastwise traf- fis shown, however, the report says | it was due principally to the scarcity’ of ships for foreign trade which drew American coasting vessels into that service. Difficulties of the present system of levying tolls are recited and General Goethals again recommends that leg- islation be sought making the earning capacity of a ship the basis upon which charges shall be computed. He points out that $2,399,830 were col- lected in tolls during 1916. Had the so-called Panama canal rules applied in measuring the ships, he adds, this sum would have been increased by approximately $400,000. Y Million and a Half Bushels Increase Grain stocks in Omaha warehouses continue to be large, but the surplus is something like 1,000,000 bushels Jess than one week ago, when the in- voice was made. During the last week large quantities of wheat have gone out, some having been sent to the nnlls, but more having been sold for export. In bushels the grain stocks in stor- ;age now and at the corresponding tlate of last year: New. Last Year. Wheat .. ..1,323,000 812,000 Corn . 48,000 177,000 Oats . 1,014,000 852,000 Rye .. 187 000 82,000 Barley 18,000 28,000 Totals +++3,690,000 1,951,000 The increase over this date of last year is 1,639,000 bushels. Prices of Sandwiches Advance in Omaha Prices of sandwiches for those de- siring light lunches have gone up in Omaha in many places. In some of the small lunch rooms where they for- merly put out a sandwich for a nickel the price has been raised to 10 cents. In some others where the price was formerly 10 cents and where there was a little more nfeat in the sand- wich the price has been advanced to 15 cents. Lured from Homes, Two Women Repent The two women who were lured to Omaha last week by the blandish- ments of two San Francisco traveling men, are being cared for at the Work- ingmen’s hotel, Thirteenth and Capi- tol” avenue, until they receive the money from relatives to return home. Their children- are with them. The two traveling men have not been lo- cated. Expert Testimony in Big Suit in Federal Court . Expert testimony was_introduced in the case of William Livingstone, who is suing the Omaha railroad com- pany for $50,000 damages, which he asserts he received in 1902, when he|. fell and injured his head on the steps of a railroad engine. The testimony was in the form of skiograph plates showing how the bone tissue of the skull had been removed as a result of the accident. Dr. Johnson of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine testified that the injury might have caused the plaintiff to wander about in a demented condi- tion and otherwise affect his mind. The case is being tried before Judge Woodrough of the United States district court, ‘Want to Install:Fish Pond ; In the City Hall Lobby L City Commissioners Jardine, Hum- mel and Withnell comprise a special committee to determine the advisa- Dbility of installing an aquarium in the irotunda of the city hall, which is be- sng remodeled. Mr. Hummel believes 2 fish pond would add to the interior ‘gharms of the municipal building. :Court Fines Teamster : For Cruelty to Animals Frank Murray, Tenth and Pierce streets, was fined $10 and costs in ‘police court on a charge of cruelty {o animals. He is a teamster. 2 st o i e ; Are Your Bowels Regular? " Dr. King’s New Life Pills will keep bowel fegular and overcome constipation, relieve “ndigestion and sick headache. 20c. All drug- gists.—Advertisement. NEW YORK'’S $2,800 BABY HIPPO—Commercialism per- meates everything these days, even the Central park zoologi- cal gardens, where “Congo,” the $2,800 baby of “Mrs. Mur- phy” and “Caliph II” has been sold to a circus. Congo is only one of several children, but the others have all been sold. All told the Hippo family has brought $40,000 to the zoo. " CONGO AND HIS MAMA, i Boys Who Stole Hallowe’en Fé:d Lose Out on Thanksgiving Dinner It always pays to be good, boys. You know, Abraham Lincoln said, “Honesty is the best policy.” Now here’s just an example of how it pays to be honest and how those that are dishonest always “get it in| the neck.” g | Rev. C. W. Savidge gave a Hallo- we'en party at his church a few weeks ago and invited a lot of poor children. The ladies baked eight cakes, which would have been plenty. But some boys who didn’t appreciate the hos- pitality thought they'd be smart and they stole five of the cakes and took them off and ate them. They thought they were that much ahead. But now sce how their pun- ishment is coming. Rev. Mr. Savidge is going to give a Thanksgiving sup- per to 500 poor children at the Peo- ple’s church Friday evening. But those boys who stole the cakes are not going to be there. They would have been invited if they hadn't stol- en the cakes. . They don’t want bad boys around | that “bite the hand that's feeding them.” So they lose out on the roast turkey and cranberry sauce and pota- toes and celery and pumpkin pies and cake'and ice cream. Ob, it's a great lesson to boys that are tempted to steal cakes or to do anything else that isn’t honest. Farmers Are the | Ones Making Money | | “Eastern Colorado farmers were| never as prosperous as now,” asserts | R. J. Dobell of the Julesburg Grit-| Advocate, who is spending a few days | in Omaha. | “‘Beet growers are getting $6.50 to | $7 per ton for their beets and they | are running eighteen to twenty-four | tons to' the acre. Wheat is fetching | better than $1.50 per bushel everything that a farmer has to sell is correspondingly high. Practically | all the fgrmers ride in automobiles | and | JTwenly—eighth street, and did slight and they are the ones who are mak- ing the money. “Land through eastern Colorado is advancing in price and settlers are flocking into our section of the state. In another year practically all the cheap land will be in the hands of actual settlers, instead of in the hands of speculators, in in the past.” Overheated Stove Starts Fire in Hansen Home An overheated stove set fire to the home of Mrs. L. Hansen, 2130 North damage before the department ex- tinguished the flames. 'OMAHA WILL TRAIN City Dads Find They Have No Right " ARMYBALLOON MEN| To Abridge Free Speech on Streets | or faded hair. Captain Chandler Says No Air- ! planes Nor Dirigibles Will [ Come Here Yet. |AERO COLLEGE FOR MANY | Companies of balloon men for the United States army service will be trained at Fort Omaha and sent from here to join various artillery detach- ments in various parts of the country, according to Captain Charles De- France Chandler, who has just ar- rived in Omaha to take charge of the balloon school that is to be estab- lished at Fort Omaha. Six balloons are ordered for this balloon school, and are now being manufactured. No airplanes are to be used here just yet, and probably no dirigibles, according to Captain Chandler. The type of balloons to be used is what is known as the captive | balloon, which is sent up and kept | tethered to carth by a rope, so that it may be brought down by a windlass at any time. The men in the balloon take observations and find ranges for the gunners in the artillery, o | Captain D. H. Bower, besides Cap- | tain Chandler, has been assigned to duty at Fort Omaha. About twenty officers can be accommodated here at one time, and Captain Chandler says some 250 enlisted men will be taking instructions here. ' Captain Chandler has been in the | aeronautic service of the United States army for some years, having served two years in the Philippines and some months with General Persh- |ing on the border and in Mexico. No Turkeys in the Thanksgiving Day Baskets This Year “We are not giving away any Tur- kéy in our Thanksgiving baskets this year,” said Mrs. G. W. Doane, secre- tary of +the Associated Charities “Not at their present high rate. What we are going to do is to give away about 250 baskets, but they will con- tain only essential and staple foods.” Mrs. Doane says that she could use a large number of shoes, as calls in this line have been very heavy since the increased cost of the footwear. Pastor Scores Severely Religious Hypocrites “The martyrs were those who bore witness to the truth as they saw it and would not yield their beliefs even in the face of death. It should be so with us,” Rev. Robert Leavens, Uni- tarian pastor, told his congregation Sunday when he preached on “An Honest Religion.” Hypocrisy, he said, was more despicable in religion than in any other phase of life. He urged all men to strive for sthe wis- dom to see the right and the courage to abide by their findings. The church meeting was held at Turpin’s hall, Twenty-eighth and Far- nam streets, where they will continue to be held until the new church is erected. Plans for the church are al- ready drawn. Science Confirms the Lore of theIndians Long before the coming of the Seneca Indians Today the twenticth century white man, the S collected mineral oil from the surface of water in pits dug in the oil sands. A French mis- sionary visited theWestern Penn- sylvania wilderness in 1627 and was told that the crude petroleum thus obtained was good for rheu- matism and skin diseases. Used internally, the Indians declared, it killed a serpent that lived in he intestines and caused ab- dominal pains. physician prescribes mineral oil as the safest, most rational treatment for constipation. Nujol is the modern version of the Indisn specific. It is not a laxative or a purgative. Its action is to soften the intestinal contents and so make natural movements easy. All druggists carry Nujol which is maou- factured only by the Stasderd Oil Com- me (New Jersey). Avoid sobstitutes. rite today for booklet ‘‘The Rational Treatment of Constipation.’’ . STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne New Jersey Mayor Decides He Has No| Right to Grant Permits or to Refuse to Let People Talk. MAY DRAFT AN ORDINANCE | What are the rights of free speech? The city commissioners want to know. | They are at sea and want sumcl»udy‘ to throw a lifeline. Three members of the city legal| department perused the law books for | three hours and announced that they | could not find anything which pre-| vented public speaking on the streets | of Omaha. | “l am convinced that I have no authority to issue permits for street| speaking as I have been doing. These | permits have no legal status. It seems | to have been a custom for the maynri‘ to issue permits,” stated Mayor Dahl-| man. The net result of the meeting of the city commissisoners in committee | of the whole was to announce to all | of the world and his brother that street speakers may have a free-for- all until such time as the city council ! shall have passed a regulatory ordi- | nance which wlil define a zone inside | of which street speaking will not be | allowed. The city attorney was di- rected to prepare such an ordinance. “Then what shall I do?" inquired | Superintendent Kugel of the pHolice department. | The commissioners took counsel unto themselves once more and de- | cided that the police department may keep the. streets and walks open to traffic, but cannot legally interfere | with the speakers, because that would be interfering wtih the rights of free speech. Mr. Kugel thinks he is the goat of the situation. It is up to him to pre- serve inviolate the sacred rights of | free speech, maintain traffic routes for vehicles and pedestrians, main- tain order in the crowds which attend street speaking meetings and placate merchants who complain of congested walks in front of theit places of busi- ness. Mayor Dahlman suggested setting aside Jefferson square for public speaking, but Commissioner Hummel stood up in all of his might and re- monstrated against invading the sa- cred precincts of that hallowed spot. This matter was brought to its pres- ent status when the mayor was asked for permits for speakers who intend to oppose the five-year street lighting contract which will be submitted to a referendum on December 5. The mayor refused the permits on the |Rine Will Decide | ( grounds of public policy; that he had received many complaints from busi- ness men who said they were annoyed | during the recent campaign. The mayor publicly admitted he had no authority to issue or refuse permits. He said he believed it was a matter of police regulation. Saloon Men’s Tax City Attorncy Rine has been in- structed by the city comn report Tuesday morhing, M 28, an opinion as to the minimum li- cense fee the city can assess saloon- keepers for the period from January 1 to May 1, 1917, Although it is unofficially under- stood that the city cannot charge less than $1,000, the commissioners want an opinion in writing from its legal department. 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