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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1924)
^"<T* 1 "''® Today Southwest and North• west. Fords Bid Real Money. Rough Abroad, Smooth Here. First Brize for Casting. ARTHUR BRISBANE^ An El Paso bank closes its doors, in the southwest, that should know only prosperity. The other day an important bank in the northwest was in trouble and only saved by merging with another bank. Farmers can’t make a living, and while everything is done for rail roads and other corporations, to make sure that their stockholders get dividends, nothing is done for farmers except to give them fath erly advice. Something better must be done before long or there will be trouble in more banks, arid trouble in two old political parties. They have done nothing “in many years for anybody except politicians and cor porations.” Henry Ford bid real money for Muscle Shoals, agreed to manufac ture fertilizers, and the fanners know that he would manufacture them. Many other concerns are now bidding, but not real money. One bid offers $120,000,000. and reminds you of the conversation between Messrs. Weber and Fields, burlesque actors, in the old days. “I’d give $5,000 for that dog,” says one. “But, Mike, we ain’t i> got $5,000,” says the other. “I know it, but ain’t it a good offer?” Ford offered to pay the govern ment $215,000,000, during the pe riod of his lease, and he has the money. They do things roughly in other countries. In Russia 42 men are accused of giving and taking bribes. If convicted they will all be ex ecuted. In Hong Kong yesterday :?S Chinese were shot to death. They had run away with the steam launch Kwongtak. We are more gentle here. Men steal a naval reserve or take a few hundred million out of a govern ment shipbuilding or airplane en terprise. But they are not shot to death. They go to Palm Beach or to Paris, and their lawyers say, with hearty approval of many news papers, that it is outrageous to make a fuss about such things, and do so much investigating.” The record for casting a fish hook goes to Fred C. Berger, who heaved his line with a four-ounce sinker more than 495 feet. That’s interesting, hut not important. What's wanted is ships with steel nets, to scoop un each day a few thousand tons of fish that are wait ing to be caught, and distributed to the people at a fair price. The government should help the fishing situation by killing off the tens of thousands of small-sized whales that devour the short hounds salmon, in cold northern waters. Joseph l ihlein of Milwaukee has seen those whales literally in tens of thousands following the shoals of salmon. D'Annunzio, having tried every thing, is now bankrupt and will sell his original manuscripts. He need not fear that he will know actual want, for Italy will see to that, and Mussolini personally would see to it if Italy didn't. The king has ju.-t made D’An nunzio a prince. Mussolini will give him a pension if he needs it. Dicta tors are able to take short cuts. The best thing that the real kings did was pensioning able men. But to live in a republic where the really able man can pension him self, is better. While Japan tells us how much insulted they feel because we don’t let them come into the United Slates, the Chinese are warning Matsui, Japan’s foreign minister, that they, (he Chinese, are much insulted because they are not al lowed to settle on Japanese soil. Somebody in Japan must lack a sense of humor. “The forces of evil are always organized,” says President Coolidge to the republican women of Phila delphia, “and the virtuous must also he organized.” But the forces of evil are so de termined in pursuit of what they want, and virtue, usually, so mild and gentle, that the fight is hardly even. The inmate of a public institu tion, craving alcohol, cut off his hand, knowing that whisky would he given to him to sustain his heart. You rarely find the virtuous going to such extremes. Dignitaries of the Methodist Epis copal church suggest deporting all aliens caught violating the Volstead set. That new idea would enable the shipping board to earn a profit, if it got nil the business. The Methodist gentlemen arc mis taken, in their statement that “aliens make up the hulk of those who break the Volstead1 law.” Gen tlemen that go down to the sea in ships to meet the rum fleet 12 mile:; out, are, as a rule, Americans of several generations. (Copyright, 1124.) Columbus Tracher Coos to Schuyler as I’rincipal Columbus, Neb., May 7.—Five teachers to fill four vacancies In the high school sml one In the gradca wete elected by the board of edinn tlon. The new Instructors are: Mis Della Veatherhogg, Lincoln. Neb., Instructor in history; Miss Marian Richardson, Madison, Neb., instructor in English and dramatics; Norris <i. Kenney, Lincoln, Neb., bookkeeping and mathematics; Kthlyn Druse, Cambridge, Neb., Instructor In home economics. Clara Rodeborst, a Columbus girl now faking s post graduate course in Chicago university, has been elected a grade school tcarher. Robert Hlsty, two yestra assistant high sehool principal here, was re leafed from his contract to accept rhs princlpnlshlp of the Schuyler, Neb., high school. A. V. Larson, for eight yean a high school instructor i._ here, takes Klety’s place. f Over 100 Extra Clerks Express Elevators to 40 Bargain Squares Eighth Floor I Thursday—Another Sensational Sale of The Greatest Shirt Sale of Them ALL 24,000 Men’s Brand New Summer Shirts in a Mammoth Purchase Sale and Price Reduction Unrivalled at Any Time | « Our Entire Eighth Floor Devoted to This Great Sale This sale is the result of sixty days’ planning, and no stone was left unturned to give the men of Omaha the greatest shirt values they have ever received! On the evening of the great March 6th sale, so en couraged by the most wonderful response ever had, we determined to go out after even bigger success. We were successful, even beyond our own expectations. Our friends in the market thought it the most phenomenal shirt sale they had ever witnessed. The Famous “Nofade” Shirts—In Three Sensational Groups j ^ The ‘‘Nofade” shirt is Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 the colors won’t run or fade. Each shirt is a substantial performance in technical truth. The skillful touch is shown— cut, fit, style and finish are masterful—they are fast sellers because they are woven from the finest Egyptian yarns— don’t wait. Think of . t, $/. en—5,000 Finest Quality Silk Shirts! At the Ridiculously Low Price of— | We consider this the most remarkable purchase of super-fine Silk Shirts we ever made. The price is so low that it may seem ridiculous, but be assured the values are correctly stated Valves Heavy Silk Broadcloth —Heavy Satin-striped Silk Jerseys— *-s® 'l° Radium Silks—Imported Pongees—Silk Crepes •■5^ fin a. Colors—Blue; Lavender, Tan, Green, White, Slate, Pink, Stripes, Two-tones Come prepared to buy a season’s supply Come prepared to get the m best values ever offered Come prepared to save money—at 3.85 ~ All Sizes—14 to 17V2 \