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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1923)
Y. M. C. A Plans to Launch Annual Campaign Feb. 5 Local Association Seeks to Raise $75,000 in Drive— Budget for Year Placed at $118,000. Anpounceinent of the T. M. C. A s annual drive for funds, to be launch ed February 6. was made Monday night by the directors of the organiza tion. The local association seeks this year to raise $75,000, It was explained; $31, 000 for the work of the institution for the year ending December 31, 1923, $19,000 for payment of current bills past due, $20,000 for an accu mulated deficit of the last few years and $5,000 for Oriiaha’s share of the state work. Budget of the association in Oma ha for 1923 will he $118,000 or approx imately $17,000 less than the actual expenses of the association in 1921. Of the amount required. $38,000 will be realized from the activities of the as sociation. G. W. Noble, prepklent of the Oma h.« Young: Menu Christian associa tion, will be in charge of the cam ♦ paign aided by J. Dean Ringer, chair man of the state commit fee. The. as sociation also will have the services of George L. Goodwin, national asso ciation finance director. The campaign wilf continue until February 12. ^^*\clion Filed to Hold Up Interest on Rail Bonds Denver, Jan. 23.—An order direct ing ihe receiver of the Denver & Rio (irande Western railroad not to pnv $301,000 Interest on the first eonsoli dated mortgage bonds of the com I any, due April 1, is asked in a peti tion tiled in the federal district court here. Attorneys representing the New York Trust company, trustees under 1 the adjustment mortgage of the com I pany. and a joint plaintiff In the suit "f the Bankers' Trust company as trustee against the road, tiled the pc.i ijtion, which is said to have come as n >urprise In connection with the e\^ (ended litigation Involving the com pany. A date for hearing arguments on Hie petition Is expected to he set with In tile next few days by Federal Difl trict Judge J. Foster Hymes. ^ Road Conditions rurnUheil by the Onithn Auto ('lub. Lincoln Highway, East—Ftoad.- good Lincoln Highway, Went — Roada good. 9 ' '• L. D.—Roada good. Mtirldo‘1 Highway—Roads good Corahuaker Highway—Roads good. S V. A.—Roada good. Hltt«’k Hills Trail — Roads good to Nor folk. Highland Cutoff—Roads good. \S aahlt\gton Highway—Roads- good Omaha-Tulea Highway—Roada good to Topeka. Oinaha-Topeka Highway—Roada good to state lire. King of Trail*. North—Roads good. King of Trail*. South—Roads good to Leavenworth, fair to Kansa* City. River to R|v* r Road— Road* good. White-Way "7” Highway—Roads good., I O. A fthortllno— Roads good. Grass Trail—Roada good. Mrs. Harding Is Almost Well 'IKS. \\ AKIth.N G. il.VKDINU. IIit p.iyslcans declare Dial, unless there is a totally unexpected relapse, Mrs. Warren G. Ilarding, firs! lady of Hip land, for whom millions prayed when she was critically ill, will he sufficiently strong to go south with the president on March (>. She has practically abandoned the use of her inxalid's chair. Experts of (ircat Britain Preparing New Air Policy London. Jan. 23.—As the result of remarkable developments recently li^ aircraft construction, says the Cen-1 tral News, government experts are j preparing an entirely new aviation policy, which is to be submitted to; tile cabinet soon, so thnt the increased expenditure involved may be lneluded in the next budget. The plan contemplates the building of a large number of machines of a new type, which, according to the news agency, will place England ahead of all other nations “for mili tary and naval purposes.” Common Sense Value in a Closed Car The Coach provides all essential closed car comforts and utility, with the long , carefree service that only a superlative chassis can give. " , You will like it. It is sturdy, long lasting and good to look at. It has all essential comforts. The new price makes its margin of value greater than ever. ' v Note the New Price: Reduced *100 to *200 I ✓ Speedster, $1425 7-Pas* Phaeton, $1475 Coach, $1525 Sedan, $2095) Freight and Tax Extra 0 GUY L.SMITH * rsinvicc rm*x 2561 Farnam St, OMAHA. USA. AT lantic 1944 . / C N L .SHfCS “r •, > ^ l ^ HUDSON Coach $1525 ^ Bill Would Ban Hasty Wedlock Measure in Congress Also Contemplate* Stiffening . of Divorce Law*. Washington. Jan. 33.—A bill tie signed 10 "prevent hasty and foolish marriages and to make divorce more difficult,'’ sponsored by the general federation of women's clubs, was in troduced today by Senator Capper, republican, Kansas, together with a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to legalise federal mar riage and divorce laws. Marriage licenses would have to be applied for and posted in courts two weeks ahead of the ceretnonv under the bill, and applicatVs would have to present certificates of health and nor mal mentality. Girls undfr IK and hoys unarr is would bo prohibited from marriage without parental consent and the marriage of feeble-minded persons or of those closely related or of different races would be barred. Divorces under the bill could be ob tained only for misconduct, physical or mental cruelty, abandonment or nonsupport for one year, incurable in sanity or commission of felony. No divorce would he effective for a year. Submission to states of a constitu tional amendment, which would give congress the right to enact a mar riage divorce ]aw was proposed in the house also by Representative Fairfield, republican, Indiana, offering a resolu tion which was sept to the judiciary committee. The cost of riding on a street car in Moscow, Russia, is now 500,000 i Soviet rubles, or about 2 cents. Bandit Invited to Dine With $10,1)00 Year Advertising Man and His Bride New York, Jan. 20.—A bandit called on the telephone Monday while Eouis Victor Eytinge, three weeks ago an inmate of the Arizona state prison at Yuma, and now a $10,000 a year advertising man, was giving an in terview on what he considers to be the matter with the prisons Eytinge invited the bandit to have dinner i^ith him and his bride of three days, and the bandit accepted with alacrity. Fifteen years ago. when committed to prison for murder, Eytinge weighed 110 pounds and was tubercular. Yes terday the weight of 200 pounds went behind his fist when lie hammered his desk* to emphasize his remarks. “The prisons of this country make criminals,” Mr. Eytirige said. 'They do more harm than good. They must either be revolutionized or abolished.” "The way to revolutionize prisons is this. First, take the prisons-out of politics and politics out of prisons. Second, give every man a psycholo gical trial before you give him a political trial. Thirty-five per cent of prisoners today are mentally de fective and .IS per cent are physically so. Society Is the criminal in send ing such persons to penitentiaries. Third, let a triumvirate of one bust ness man, one moralist and one psy chiatrist govern every prison. "Full brains, full bellies and active fingers arc what prisoners need. They need, too, an amount of study and play equal to that of work. Then the telephone rang and I'Jj tinge, smiling, issued an invitation to dinner to the speaker at the other end. Benevolences of Methodist Church Show Big Increase Chicago, Jan. 23. — The total ap portioned benovolence of the Moth odist Episcopal church increased from »2,282.625 in 1912 to $13,907.7-1.') in 1922. or 509 per cent, according to the report of Dr. R. J. Wade, cor responding secretary of the commit tee on conservation and advance, rend before 200 icaffing Methodists of the country tin conference here yesterday. The total disciplinary benevolences of the <*huroll Increased from $3,532. 858 in 1912, to $18,013,801 in 1922. an increase of/407 per cent, the report showed. "The per capita giving of our mem bershjp last year for centenary pur poses Was $3.60; for all church pur poses a grand total of $84,793,582' per capita $22.40.” the report said. t/inoolu Bus Hits Horse; 15 Passengers Arc Unluirt One of the big busses of the White Transportation company vvps driving along from Lincoln to Omaha Mmi tlay when it collided with a team of horses attached to a wogan driven bv a farmer about two miles west oi Millard. The collision injured a leg of on horse and damaged t\ie radiator of the bus. The boulevard Transit com pany sent a 1ms out from •'•main to bring in the ]r, passengers and a new radiator was sent out from Lincoln to replace the damaged one. Nobody was Injured. The Japanese are known to be the greatest rice eaters. Koch Inhabitant eats on an average of 800 pounds or rice in the course of a year. “Quicksilver” Case Dismissed by Court K1 Paso. /ex . Jan. 23.—Charges against three defendants in the rail road strike "quicksilver" case were dismissed l>y Federal Judge NV. R. Smith yesterday on motion of attor neys for the prosecution. The charges dismissed were against the following; John1 >1. Morgan, general chairman of striking railway shopmen at San Antonio Tex.; Val Callaway, shop man with the Gulf, Colorado ,*t Santa Fe Railway company at Cleburne. Tex., and Charles Poe. traveling organiser for the machinists, with headquarters at Houston, Tex ,\ surprise was sprung by the gov ernment in (he testimony of Callaway that lie was a detective employed by the Pinkerton agency at the time lie attended a conference in Houston and that he made this fact known to ths government on December 19, 1912. 't Conventions at Sioux City. Sioux City, la., Jan. 23.—Four con victions will be held in Sioux City this week. The thirty-fifth annual convention of tho Iowa Metal Plumbers aasoclae tion opened today. Northwest Iowa Baptists also open a conference today. Wednesday representatives of sev eral middle western states will gather here for a discussion of agricultural problems of tills section Thursday the fifty fourth annual convention of the Sioux Valley Medi cal association opens Maxim silencers arc now used on gas and oil engine exhausts and suc tions. air compressor suet Ions, air hoists, air and steam discharges or safety valves, steam traps, etc. (AUVER'r18KMpv*.) (Al>\ l.H rM.'t V vr.» RefsSiz^ whaf Kellogg's Dran means lo your family’s health? Eat en regularly each day, Kellogg '* Bran will permanently relievo eonati pntion; it will free you from danger ous toxic poisons that lead to 90% of all human illness; it will remove the cause and sweeten a bad breath; it will clear a pimply complexion through its work on the bowels. In fact, Kellogg's Bran, through its natural action as a bulk, indigestible agent, will tone-up the whole system!. 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Don’t delay your tight, ag ins' con stipation; don’t lose a minute in tho great battle against illness! > on can buy Kellogg’s Bran from all grocer* and you can have it. served in indi vidual packages at. flrst-class hotels* roetaurauta aud clubs. # Our Easy Payment Plan Will Help You. _ Courtesy and Inspection - Days t 'urniture that is well bought endure?. I And as contributing to a thoughtful ■ selection of the furniture with whieh you will probably live many years we have arranged for Courtesy and In sp«trtion Days. During these three days ^ preliminary to the sale you can enjoy ■.t leisurely inspection and careful in vestigation of the great stock of fine furniture whieh you will find on our Seventh Floor. Tags bearing the sale prices which go into effect Monday, January 29th, will be on each piece. Authentic information about the furni ture will be gladly furnished by expe rienced salesmen. , Courtesy and Inspection Days— Thursday, January 25 v Friday, January 26 Saturday, January 27 Seventh Floor ✓ • Sale Prices Go Into Effect \ Monday, January 29 Every woman, as the widei awake purclias i n g agent for her home, should be alive to the advantages of buying in this sale. Whether you contem ' plate the purchase of a new suite for dining room or only a single piece, these substan tial reductions will ef fect' very genuine sav ings. Ask About Our Easy \iyment Plan included in this sale, in addition to furniture, wiD be rugs, floor coverings, draperies, house furnish ' ings, china ware, art goods and pictures. Our buyers for these departments have gone into the markets of the world and purchased the fur niture and household goods you need. They made their purchases for cash and obtained price con cessions which enable us to offer these gowd? to our customers at prices unusually low. %