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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1924)
Today The Great. Pacific Coast. Where the Desert Re joices. One Chance Hearst Missed. It's a Great Country. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. ----——-— This is Los Angeles, looking out from a window of the Ambassador hotel upon a city of which the beauty and growth multiply ten fold the wonders of Aladdin’s lamp. Before you leave tv,e railroad station, Los Angeles facts are pour ed into you. Twelve hundred thou sand population, as shown by the school census. That’s Los Angeles. The most important seaport in the United States next to the port of New York. That’s also Los An geles. Have you any manufacturing in dustries of importance in Los An geles? Pain and amazement shine in Los Angeles’ face. As well have asked Hart, Schaff ner & Mark, “Do you make men’s clothing?” Have we any manufacturers? This is the sixth city in the United States in raaafactures and we’re only started. Stretched across the side of a small mountain outside the city you see at night an ole.ctric sign. “Hol lywood Land.” They offer Los An geles bargains there. You might perhaps get an acre for $30,000. When men living here were boys, you could have bought that big hill and all the hills and mountains in sight for half of $30,000. And if you had offered such a sum the , owners would have insured your life lest you should die before com pleting the deal. Is there a lull in the Los An geles boom? Yes, a lull like that of a man catching his breath after a marathon race. W. R. Hearst was born in this state, and rode around here on horseback with his' father, Senator George Hearst, when a little “loose change” would have bought a mil lion dollars worth of today’s real estate. Hearst has had his lessons in California land values, and he is buying now, doing his Los Angeles shopping early. With the beginning of the year the rush to buy will start again. The so-called “lull” is confined to subdivisions that are being laid out as part of the general plan for a city of six millions. Don’t laugh at the six millions proposition. This town will have a population of six millions, of ten millions and more. It is utterly im possible to exaggerate the future of California, or Florida, for they will draw, as a magnet draws a tack, those that have money enough to live where they please, and here, as in California, the cost of living is remarknbly low, less than half the cost of decent comfort in New York state, for instance. “The desert shall rejoice,” said k old Isiah. He should have seen *f+iC»e “da'.ert” plains and valleys ■when w_n,er is brought to them. You come west through so-called “desert lands,” mountains on either side, in the distance, yellow sandy looking roil stretching away to the mountains, a few cactus, and other plants that live without water, nothing else. Suddenly on both side of the track appear magnificently beauti ful brange groves and vineyards, mile after mile, the trees laden with fruit, the grapevine cut close to the ground to grow next year's fruit-bearing vine’. Between the rows of trees you see shallow ditches, a few inches deep. They mc"i irrigation. The only difference between those groves and vineyards and the so-called “desert” just beyond is the difference of water and no water. Water does for the land what knowledge does for the human mind. “Give light (knowledge) and the people will find their own way,” said Dante. Give water to these “desert lands,” add to the water a few thousand of Dante’s fellow country men from Italy, or other good workers, and these lands will pro duce anything you want. The difference between water and no water is included in one of W. K. Hearst’s lessons in Califor nia real estate only a few years ago. His intimate friend, the late Guy Barham, knew, as did every body, that water was to be brought into one of the “arid valleys” near Los Angeles. That valley then was divided into ranches of 20,000 and .30,000 acres. Barham said: “We ought to buy one of those ranches, W. R. When the water gets In they will be valuable, cut up into small farms. We can buy 20,000 acres for about $40 an acre, even now with the water coming in.” But llearst thought it was hardly worth while to buy and “wait a long time.” One year after the water came in the big ranches had been divided into farms. Go there now and you pay $3,500 for a good corner Jot. No more ranches, no more farms, but real estate by the foot, not by the thousand acres. When the flying machine comes, as it will, in a few years, and people from the east fly to California as easily and quickly as they now go from New York to Washington or Newport, this country will be known to all. Meanwhile, fortunate the man who gets in ahead of the others, anywhere from Snn Diego on the south to Seattle to the north. Here you cannot go wrong, whether you select the warmth of San Diego, the mild winter climate of Los Angelos, the bracing air, in tense business energy, beautiful mountains covered with live ouks In the San Francisco region, des fined in this writer’s judgment to have the greatest port on this con tinent. That will come when the Pacific eclipses the Atlantic, ns the Atlantic eclipsed the Mediterranean after 141)2. U'opyi ]924 t Mayor and His Citizens of Bennington j y-' Drawn Into Court by Neighbors’ Feud Defendant Claims His Refusal to Allow Plaintiffs Husband, to Shave Him Started Row; Coal Shovel Figures When Wfords Change to Blows. A neighborhood feud was thrashed out Tuesday in county court, which Anally dismissed the charge against Jinks Bair, depot agent of the metropolis of Ben nington, Neb. Even the mayor of the little city, Gus Bunz, appeared to testify to the peaceful character of the Ben nington trunk smasher. "I wouldn't let her husband shave me. Thut's the cause of all this trouble," Jinks assured Judge Crawford. “Her" is Mrs. Lyman Momeny, whose husband operates a barber simp at Bennington. Because he wouldn't patronize the shop, declares Jinks, Mrs. Momeny counselled his wife to sue him for divorce. The suit is now pending trial. Tlie Argument Starls. Lust week Jinks encountered Mrs. Momeny in an ice cream par lor that adjoins her husband's bar ber shop. "What do you mean by telling everyone that I’m tubercular?” de manded Mrs. Momeny. "What d'ya mean by telling the telegraph operator that I was try ing to get his job?” countered Jinks. Thereupon Mrs. Momeny is al leged to have grabbed up a coal shovel and attempted to hammer down the ears of the depot agent. Jinks wrested tile shovel from her. he claims, but Mrs. Momeny declares that he held her against the-wall and hammered her jaw. And the Judge Decides. After the pair had been sepa rated and the crowd, dispersed, however, Mrs. Momeny and her * husband are alleged to have started to "clean up” on Jinks. Jinks, being Irish, lost his tem per, he claims, and beat the irate husband to a finish. Then Mrs. Momeny filed charges against liPpi, claiming that he had assaulted he«, according to her attorney. Bud Nolan. Judge Crawford found that there was not enough evidence to convict Jinks for life and he dismissed Ihe case. Doesn't hurt one hit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching corn, in stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of ■'Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn or corn between the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or ir ritation. POLICE PLANNING CHRISTMAS TREE Members of the police department are already beginning preparations for the Christmas tree celebration whtrh is held every Christmas at the police station for the benefit of poor children of the city. Arrangements this year are in charge of “Mother’’ Gibbons, matron of the city jail, and Sergeants Rose and Jensen. Merchants are being solicited for contributions of candy, nuts and other presents for the chil dren. Mrs. Gibbons is making small stockings to hold the gifts. Mahaffey to Pen. Special Dispatch to The Otnnlia Hcc. Sturgis, S. D., Dec. 9.—John Ma haffey was given an indeterminate sentence by Judge McNenny in cir cult court here of from two to foui years in state penitentiary. Ma haffey' was tried and convicted ol shooting and killing Albert Campbell near Marcus, Meade county, in June. Mooseheart Elects. The Women of Mooseheart held their annual installation of officers at a meeting Tuesday evening a( Moose temple, 117 1-2 North Sixteenth street. Miss Harriet Abraham, vio linist, pluyed several numbers. I ■■l.L!L_ ■" — Whatever Your Favorite Radio Set May Be You Can Have it in a Victrola | We feature the Victrola No. 210. ' With 5-Tube Neutrodyne Panel Installed Complete in Your Home *20o I J- ---\ Victrola Special 01 c With 5-Tube Neutrodyn ^ I 1^ Installed I p Complete 1# JL \r Sold on Our Time Payment Plan Ed. Patton Music Co. 16th and Farnam Ja. 4779 Headquarters for Radio Equipped Victrolas __ ___I Dizzy? Sick? Headachy? You’re Bihousl Breath Bad? •*a*te a Stomach Sour? Laxativel Clean the Bowels I j For Constipation, Biliousness, Headache ; Postal W orkers Plan to Speed Up Christmas Mail Schedules for Shipping Par cels Given; Branch Offices Open at Night After December 17. Handling of Christmas mail In the Omaha postoffice will be speeded up through the use of precanceled stamps. Postmaster Charles E. Black announced Tuesday. The canceled stamps will be placed on the packages by mail clerks as the packages are weighed and deposited. Black believes this plan will relieve nuch of the | congestion in the cor iilors of tlie postoffice. The postmaster announced th.it, mbstations will be open until 8 p. m., except the Stockyards station, from December .17 to 24. These stations are is follows: Twenty-fourth and Ames. Twenty-fourth md Ohio, Twenty-ninth and Leavenworth, 1050 Military, 5001 Underwood, 1020 Vin ton, Fortieth and Cuming. 871fi North Thirtieth. Eleventh and Harney. Thump 'on-Belden company. Twenty-fourth arid U.. Livestock exchange. Burge*s-Nash company, Thomas Kilpatrick company, J. L. Brandeia & Sons. Black issued the following schedule showing the latest dates on which parcels may be mailed in Omaha for jell very In the territory indicated: Wednesday. December 17. for elutes of California, Oregon. Washington, Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Thursday. December 18, for atHte* of Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana. Mis sissippi, North Carolina, South. Carolina. Texas. Virginia. Friday, December 19. for states of Artxona, Delaware, District of Columbia, Idaho. Maryland, Montana, Nevada. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsyl vania. WeHt Virginia, Utah. Saturday. December 20. for states of Arkansan, Colorado. Illinois. Indiana, Kan sas. Kentucky, Mb higan. Minnesota, Mla sourl. North Dakota. Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee. Wisconsin. Wjo- 1 inin* Monday. December 22. for states of Ne hrasku and Iowa. Tuesday, December 23. for Omaha and Council Bluffs local delivery. Wednesday. December 24, for Omaha and Council Bluffs special delivery mall. Thursday, December 25. no delivery of ordinary mall after 11 a. in COMIC OPERA AT CENTRAL HIGH •‘Chimes of Normandy,” a comic opera by Klanquett, will be presented by the Central High school senior glee clubs In the school auditorium Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening. Rites for P. T. Singles. Perry T. Singles, 30, formerly of Omaha, who was killed Saturday when his shotgun accidentally dis charged, was burled Tuesday In Day ton, O. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Singles, 1301 South Thirty-first street, and a brother, Thomas, attended the services. rWO PILLBOXES ARE ABANDONED Pillbox stations at Fortieth and Kama in streets and Twenty-second tad Lake stieets have been only tem porarily abandoned, a subcommittee :>f the municipal affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce reported Tuesday. The committee found that the officers had been quartered in business buildings and were compell ed to leave when the owners of the buildings required the space for their 1 own purposes. Stations for the men will be built when the department ob^s^ tains.sufficient funds, the committee reported. Give Furniture for Christmas An Advertisement I Intended to Serve as “the Yard Stick” or BUYERS’ GUIDE to Economical / Fuels should be thought of in about the same fashion, as to classes, as are automobiles; in fuels you have those of the Ford class and those of the Pierce-Arrow class and others in between; this advertisement is intended to show you just how to class fuels, to give their purposes, so that you can make your selection in the same intelligent way that you do your automobile. Goddard Fuel Company believes it its duty to give the people of Omaha the full value of its fuel knowledge and to handle the better kinds of fuels in each of the classifications of good fuel .... for with this better service it be comes the servant of all the people, instead of the few. I SSW-lSSr-... / *W\.-.ci—"' \ \ m “r-i” ■• ;;•,!'>«/ om*11* Co»t „,.»>»■ V %««» *./.oo \ JL *w» 4'"«h4' / v— / Hannft Coal 18 *° TtnC*»h *"£ fnV»»U8,laCt'0n* \ r /„«.»*&s»-— Vftj Vl^—i ! ^I/s? 1 .nil t-A-X'Y Soi?*l| T?" / ll fc a. ^ - -riSNsssL l m uoMp / m c“■<".<”ml”“” ufZ **^0*».. - /'•***, / I „, .tk« IMinoi. ^ S / Fuel Satisfaction comes first in heat units, cleanliness and low ash, then next to increase the ; value is its smokeless and sootless qualities. Petroleum Carbon offers all of these, semi-anthra cite is cleaner than soft coals and Hanna Coal is the cleanest of all soft coals. By this guide you can select your fuel with a more comprehensive understanding of fuel values. * Goddard Fuels are dependable and Goddard Service and Prices are aimed to build friends. Give us your fuel problems and we’ll assure you of fuel satisfaction. v GAYC GODDARD v/.F.MEGEATH FORREST RICHARDSON City Office: Phone AT-lantic > Brandeis Theater Bldg. *701 O 208 S. 17th St. 1Z ) 1 '