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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1923)
Today The Spinster's Story. ,\ame the Seventh. They That Watch. Boomerang Strike, Maybe. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE J Miss Emily Howland Bourne of New England died, age 86, leaving a milkon. Those that did not get the money seek to prove her crazy. To prove her of sound mind, one of her executors repeats the last story the aged lady told her. Three appeared at Heaven’s gate. Saint Peter admitted the first, who said: ‘‘I am George Washington, father of my coun try.” The second, Abraham Lin cold, answered: “I am the savior ■ of my country.” The third, Theo dore Roosevelt, answered Saint Peter: “None of your business. Where is God?” Do you think that old lady was crazy? What are the 10 books that you would take on a desert island? What 10 sorts of human beings would you take to that island? Which are the 1,000 greatest men in eaith’s history? You have heard those questions. Now an editor asks: “Which are the seven greatest Americans? Six t.nswer for themselves, auto matically. They are Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Ful ton, Edison. You must accept those six if you *admit that the greatest Americans are those that the greatest number of ordinary Americans would name. That leaves only one name to complete the seven. Among the 100,000,000 of us there may be one that ill future history will out shine the six, but it’s not likely. Which would you select as the sev • enth? If you sought the man most useful to his country in a material way, you would have to name Henry Ford. More important might be the man that has done most to make Americans think. Which is he? Colonel Ruppert and Colonel Huston bought the Yankee base ball club for $480,000. Now Ruppert buys Huston’s half for $1,500,000. Baseball is profit able for thoss that own good clubs. It is less profitable for crowds . that contribute the money. To ' find your pleasure in watching others do something that you would like to do is not getting anywhere. Demosthenes • on the seashore, talking against the waves to im prove his voice or talking with pebbles in his mouth to cure his stammering was improving him self. That is better than watch ing Babe Ruth and only improving somebody elsc’s gate receipts. Two thousand bricklayers on strike tie up $200,000,000 worth of building. That means tying up thousands of men, also making idle those that would have sup plied materials for building. Also, and most important for the workmen, frightening those that lend money for building. The striking bricklayers pre sumably know what they want and what they ought to have If they can force a two years’ contract at peak pvices, that is wisdom, per haps. The trouble is that benefits of the. future are uncertain. Jobs of the jfl-esent, at highest wages ever known, are certain. Men that build borrow money for building. Men that strike, under present conditions, frighten men that lend. Stop money lend ing and you stop building. Stop building and a two-year contract won’t create jobs. Worse times will come quickly enough of their own accord. They always do. Don’t force them, ahead of time. Mussolini begins to see the oth er side of the medal. Forty thou sand Neapolitans abandon him. A fight is organized against him. The Twentieth century, very rococeo Rienz, who lately spoke of liberty as a “decaying corpse," quite out of date may yet be sur prised by that corpse’s activity. Italian history makes it improba ble that any substitute will be ac cepted for the liberty of Gari baldi, Mazzini and Cavour. War does not pay, even when you “win.” Everyone knows that now. Money talks, and says “war does not pay.’’ Figures tell the same story. The Germans and Austrians had 22,850,000 soldiers in the war. The allies had 42, 189,44-4 soldiers. The 22,000.000 Germans inflicted on the allies about three times as many casual ties as the 42,000,000 allies inflict ed on the Germans. Our war de partment supplies this information. Much greater harm was done by 22,000,000 men than by their 42, 000,000 enemies. But those niost severely hurt won. And, winning, they lost more than the enemy, because they had more to lose. Yet, they want and will have more war, and we have statesmen that would drag us into it. The Greek representative st Lausanne talks of the Greek army’s ability to defend the na tional honor, in case Turkey in sists on indemnity. The Turks were yesterday, reported to have blown up a bridge, that the aver i'gc American never heard of, but one very important, to Greeks and Turks. Look out for another war, in that distressed east. Ami pray that you may not be dragged into the foliy, via a leugue of nations, or world court. (Copyright, mm Sun Puts Pep in Trade Trip j — j Tourists Feeling Snappy After Two Solid Days of Rain. Special Dispatch to The Omnha Bee. Wheatland, Wyo., May 23.—Sun shine. after two duys of rain, has put more jazz in the Omaha trade ex cursion than Dan lies Dune's band. Today's trip, stadted at Chugwa ter, through a fertile irrigated val ley north of Cheyenna. Although plowed fields and stretches of alfalfa lined the way, yet there are still many large ranches. Wool is selling at a higher price than during the war, ad sheepmen thank the traiff which shuts out Aus tralian competition. The Swan Land and Cattle company which has 58,000 sheep on the range at Chugwater has sold it’s clip for 48 cents a pound. Home of Bill Nye. Bill Nye, the famous western hu morist, used to run a newspaper at Laramie. He published it on the sec ond floor of a livery stable, and named it for a kicking white mule, called Boomerang. George It. Hand, the present editor of this daily, told the tourists of a sign Bill Nye hung up. "Twist the | Mule's Tail and Take the Elevator.” Laramie entertained lavishly last j night. L. B. Clough and J. David ] Larson spoke in response to the greet ing at the banquet. The town Is the seat of the state university, which is j richly supported w ithout taxes, from | the prodts on oil found on state land. University Site. As one speaker said, "Cheyenne lias I the Capitol, Casper has the oil. Rawlins has the pentientiary, but Laramie has the university.” At Kawllns. Warden Frank Hadse'l took Martin Tark and A. C. Loomis out to the prison where Fred Brown, the Omaha chain man, was held after capture. Irrigation System Viewed by Omahans (Contlnurd From Page One.) rated and crystallized, produces about | 240 pounds of sugar. The farmer re reives $5.60, and then, if the price i of the refined product goes up later, I he is paid a share of the increase, j A bonus of $2 a ton has been paid on i last year's crop, and the farmers have j hopes of another dollar bonus. Returns to Nebraska. % The trade excursion of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce entered Ne braska today at Morrill.’a sugar town, after spending the morning in the Wheatland and Torrington districts of Yyoming. J. L. Whitehead, banker, | accompanied some of the visitors to the refinery, where Superintendent C. C. Campbell explained the industry. Morrill is also a center of potato raising, shipping about 600 carloads a year. This is an important crop through all the west end of the state, although the market was disastrous last year. Another crop is cucumbers, a particularly fine variety used for pickles growing in this district. One of the greatest pickle companies in •the nation maintains a number of pickling vats at various points here abouts. This crop like sugar beets is raised on contract. The farmer thus being assured of a fair market price before he ■plants the seed. Dairying on Increase. Irrigation has also encouraged the planting of alfalfa in the North Platte j valley with a consequent increase in 1 cattle feeding and dairying. A. N. Mathers of Oering, who was speaker j in the last legislature, stated that milk production had tripled in the last three years. The days trip of the trade excursion j ended tonight at Alliance in tho north- i west corner of the state, a great center for cattle raising and with im- ] mense fields of the finest potatoes j on the tableland to the westward 1 about Hemingford. This district is 1 not irrigated. After being entertained by the business men of Alliance un- 1 til midnight, the tourists left on a night run to IJrule and Ogallala. K. C. Business Woman Is Enthusiastic Over Fine Results NEVPL KILP % — 1 I f ’ "As a medicinal aid to one's gen eral health I consider Tanlac has no equal." declared Mr*. N'evel Klip, 1H41 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. "Before I took Tanlac I had been managing a chain of shops and through overwork my strength nod energy decreased almost to thn van ishing point. My appetite was very poor, and even the little I did eat caused terrible attacks of Indigestion srtd my cheeks were losing their glow of health. "However, four bottles of Tanlar relieved my troubles entirely, 1 have a ravenous appetite, the healthy glow has returned to my ehecks, and 1 have the energy of a school girl. 1 sleep so well It takes a giant alarm dock to wake me. I'm always ready to praise Tanlac." Tanlac Is for rale by all good drug gists. Accept no .substitute Over Hi million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Pills sir Nature's ; own remedy for constipation. For sale everywhere.—Advertisement Romance of Old West Survives in Wyoming. Trade Tourists Find By PAI L GREEK. Laramie, Wyo., May 23.—A mile and a half above Omaha and 500 miles west lies a state that is perhaps best known for its output of wild west novels. Bitter Creek. Powder River, Rawlins and Medicine Row, the latter the scene of Owen Wister’s novel, "The Virginian,1’ despite their place in fiction, are real. The romance of the old west sur vives even though ranchmen today may wear goggles and drive an auto mobile. Life seems actually freer and more careless than in the more in tense competition to the eastward, yet it is not for its picturesque qualities that Wyoming is most deserving of notice. A desultory day's Journey from Green River, In the southwestern part of the state, to Laiamie does not af ford much scenery. This part of Wyoming is far from handsome, it doesn’t look like much on the surface, with its buttes and mountains of gravel and granite and nothing hut freckles of sage brush dotting tho land. But back beyond those hills are millions of sheep and the range Is again filling up with cattle, in those streams are mountain trout and scattered in the wilder spoks is more big game than in any other section of the United States. Though the state is semi arid, wherever the val leys are irrigated, there are rich farms. In reality, Wyoming Is one of the richest states in the union, but its wealth is mainly underground and the surface has Just been scratched. For example, there Is a section of land owned by the state in the Salt Creek oil field. This tract, known as the "world's richest square mile,” recent ly has been leased to an oil company. It is estimated that 2,000.000 barrels of oil He under this piece of land. At IS a barrel that amounts to $40 000.000, a large part of which will go to the people of the state. Six miles out of Rawlins a $7,000,000 refinery project is underway to handle the oil. Four months ago there was nothing but sagebrush there, now there are 700 men at work. Rawlins feels the boom and it is said that 100 houses have been built there this year. Natural gas has been piped from an outlying field, the Mahoney dome, and an extension of the line 'o Laramie and even Denver is proposed. Coal More Important. Important though the oil Industry has become, yet coal mining is great er besides being much less specula tive. The Rock Springs district alone ships out more coal each day than do all the mines under French occu pation in the fagious Ruhr rtUley. Five thousand miners are employed within 16 miles of Rock Springs and some of tile shafts owned by the Sheridan Coal company of Omaha are within the city limits. The company is now expending *100,006 on a new tipple. When going full blast 600 cars of I coal a day are shipped out of this station. Production now is about half that and the miners are employed only two or three days a week at an average wage of about *7 a day. As orders for next winters fuel supply begin coming in more work will be available. At Hanna, another important min Ing town, the mine payroll of >10f.000 a month is now cut approximately In half by the summer lull. Here, how ever. as elsewhere along the In ion Pacific system, the sheep Industry is 1 active, wit It both lambing and shear ing begun, and pays good. Sheep Fascinating. From the train one sees great can vas bags of tills year's clip. Hack among tlie foothills may be seen the wandering herds with the sheep-horder driving along in his wagon. Some of the men go for six months without seeing another liumayi being, al though most of them get hack to headquarters every month for their $75 pay check. At Cheyenne last night a story, per i haps only a humorous exaggeration, was told of a sheep-herder who came In town that day inquiring where the saloons had gone, never having heard of the eighteenth amendment. Lumbering is another important in dustry in Wyoming. At (ireen Riv er, Fort Steele and Hanna great piles of railroad ties may bo seen floating in tile river and others piled on the banks. Five hundred thousand tim bers will make up the tie drive down the Rig Wind river to the treating plant at Riverton. The timber com panies in the region about Hanna draw many of their logs from the forest reserves in the Medicine Bow and Hayden national forests. Banquet at Laramie. » Today's tour of, the Omaha Cham ber of Commerce ended at Laramie with a banquet given by the Laramie Council of Industries. Everywhere the excursionists found merchants and bankers full of confidence. Omaha made many friends during the period of deflation by the manner in which its financial institutions came to the rescue of this territory when the hanks at Denver were pressing for payment. L. B. Clough, vice president of M. E. Smith & Co., and Commissioner J. David Larson spoke for the tour ists. Dinner was served in the Cath olic cathedral. The air mail service from Omaha to North Platte and Cheyenne is also playing its part in building up a closer connection. Letters or papers mailed in Omaha postoftice at 10 at night reach Cheyenne at 10:35 the next morning. Mali posted at the same time in Denver reaches Chey enne at 11:59 a. m.. one delivery lu'er, and while Cheyenne is 500 miles from Omaha it is only 100 miles from Den ver, which must send its mail by train instead of airplane. Sons of Herman Discuss Building Home in Omaha Spet ini Dtnpatch to The Omaha lkf. Columbus. Neb., May 23.—Thirty two lodges are represented hem in the 14ht biennial convention of the Sons of Herman which opened a two-day meeting. More than 100 delegates have registered. A banquet w.ts served by the women of the Evangeli cal Protestant church. P. F. Luch singcr of Columbus was toastmaster. The proposed erection in Omaha r»f a home for the aged was the prin cipal topic of discussion. Oldest Jefferson County Man Celebrates Anniversary Sperlal IH»patrh to The Omaha Fairbuty. Neb. May 23.—John Si1 hoop rock, a farmer residing be tween Falrbufy and Gladstone, cele brated his Slat birthday anniversary, lie is said to ba tlie oldest man In Jefferson county. lie sfill attends his horses and feeds a number of hogs. His three son*. John L, William A. and Gustav, and a daughter, Augusta, live In tlie neighborhood and helped their aged father celebrate. Fireman killed in Train \\ reck Engine and Two Cars of Fast Burlington Train Derailed Near Benkelman. _ The fireman of Burlington train No. 2. eastbound from Denver, was killed and a baggageman seriously injured when the engine and two cars of the train were derailed early Wednesday mornlhg as the result of a cloudburst near Benkelman, Neb. No passengers were injured. The fireman was standing on the engine gangway when the derailment occurred, lie was crushed when the tank and engine buckled, according to word reaching Burlington headquar ters here. Reports give the fireman's name as Tanner and his home McCook. Bag gageman Armstrong was injured when struck by falling trunks in his car, but will recover, according to these reports, which state his home also is in McCook. Train No. 2 left Denver at 9:+S Tues night. it was due to arrive in Omaha at 3:30 this afternoon, and is now lining detoured via Alliance, so it can continue its interrupted eastward journey. Other Burlington trains also were being detoured by the Alliance route until evening, when the track break will have been repaired. Nngineer S. I.. Vterson was unin jured, being seated safely in the cab at the time of the derailment. The -1 heavy rain in the vicinity of the, wreck washed out the track "fill" at a place where high water never be fore had been reported, according to C. 1.. Gray, assistant to the superin tendent of Burlington lines west. A j wrecking crew was sent to the scene I from McCook. The engine, a baggage I and an express car were the only units of tiie 13-car train derailed. The train was not reported to be delayed more than four or five houts, and other trains which are making the detour will be delayed only two or three hours, Burlington officials said. CoJumhus Firemen Urge Flection for City Hall HprdaJ li lu The Omaha Her. Columbus. Neb.. Mny 23.—Forty members of the fire department are) canvassing the entire city to gecujre signatures of voters to a petition re questing a special election for sub mission of the question issuing bonds for ereetio no fa city hall. Harding to Be Initiated in “Tall Cecftirs of Lebanon Washington, May 23.—President Harding today announced he plans to go to Milford. Del., on June 9, to be initiated into the "Tall Cedars of Lebanon,” a Masonic organization. George B. Christian, jr., secretary to the president, and Assistant Secre tary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt will be admitted to the order at the same time. Grand Island Promoters Postpone Marathon Dance ial Dispatch to Tho Omaha Be**. (Jrand Island, May 23. — C. E. 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And then encourage children to choose this sweet. ■ Allorange Confection Co., Redlands. California