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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1925)
Today Mr. fi or field's Plan. Kill Potato Bugs. Queer Justice. i | Snakes on Stockings. By ARTHUR BRISBANE *■ • S. Davies Warfieldy president of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, plans an in crease in profits for railroads, and Tetter freight service for.the pub lic, througn common sen^ oonaol idation of box car serviced There are in the countfjv 1,100, 0(l() ordinary box cars .owned by the different railroads. . -The- life of these cars is wasted ip bejiyr hauled buck and forth, or Stored on sid ings empty. Mr. Watfieid suggests a central agency to haridie cars for the benefit of all railroads and all carrying business. That!Would bo legal under the plan that Mr. War field suggests. It couldn’t, he ac complished otherwise except by putting all railroads ip$b one great consolidation. That doubtless will come. r ~ * Britain forbids importation^ of United States potatoes, too many potato bugs. Canada also has po tato bugs, but Canadian potatoes are not shut out. Secretary Hughes’ protest calls for equal treatment with Canada. He will learn from Great Britain I that potato bugs within the empire have important redeeming quali ties. The British empire takes care of the British empire, and all inside it. Therein it differs from some of our mushy imitation statesmen, gyejy lastingly worrying about outside' 0 nations. ^ Why not take a few'wiiltKStW'we lavish on foreign countries and use them to kill off systematically all potato bugs, mosquitoes and .iucht enemies? If cattle ticks can be killed off why( not other pests? How many billions would it be worth to get rid of flies and mosquitoes? What would that mean to the pub lic health? Justice works in her own queer way. The distinguished prize fighter, “Kid” McCoy, in private life Norman Selby, was accused of murdering a woman. A bullet went into the back tif her head. He says she killed herself. The prosecutor says he killed her, and planned to kill her. The jury brings a verdict of man slaughter in spite of the fact that it was either murder or not murder. Mr. “Kid” McCoy, now safe from hanging, at all events, will appeal and can only be convicted of man slaughter. Judged by recent Juries, It will probably be decided that he has “suffered enough” and he’ll get off. Ladies in Berlin wear snakes em broidered on their stockings, and golden snakes,for garters. It's ec centric, but based on gratitudd. Ladies would not hav* any stock ings but, perhaps, for the original snake, that walked on the tip of his tail until sentenced. Woman, the restless element in humanity, is certainly working out some important step in evolution, md no one should presumptiously judge her, Collins, chief of police in Chi cago 'says there are 93,000 men out of work in the city. And he predicts “more crime,” where there is already plenty It might be cheaper to find work for men, in stead of waiting to find prison room for them. 1 he trouble is that it's paternal ism, almost socialism to suggest creating government jobs where it is quite all right to give the man fr'>e board in a prison after he has ctnrted as a criminal. To discourage crime might seem unfair to lawyers. The gentlemen that saved Leopold and Loeb from the gallows have been paid $150, iiOO fur their work. It was worth it, to the parents. They kept hang ings out of the family record, so far as is known. The doctors got even more money than the lawyers; it’s worth more to swear that a murderer is crazy than merely to tell the judge that the murderer is innocent. Lord Robert Cecil, an able Brit isher, working for the British em pire, says the United States would inspire the league of nations. It would do more important work than that. I* would finance the leagup if this country were foolish enough to become a member. "Your money first, inspiration, as much as you please, afterwards,” would be the league program. (Copyright, ] 9i’ 4. > Wheat Fields Bare. Beatrice, Dec. si.—Farmei** I report ' that (he wheat fields in some loe-U'. ties are bare, due to tlie, strong wind which prevailed following tA-* heavy snow of last week. tVbU£tht molMuro was heneflolnl to tho crop, .firmer,, say it would have been much belter had the snow remained on the fields Until thawing weather comes, Hoap Depot to Be Rebuilt. Beatrice, Dee. 11, — Burlington depot nt Hoag, eight miles northwest of Beatrice, which wa* destroyed by file from an unknown cause win be rebuilt soon, according to an official of the road here. \fnj. jnn„ j|u,|r[lW tiio agent, lost motit of her personal effort. (iolhfiihm :■ ai the following Officer*! President, K. J. I.outsenhelser; vice president, ('■ Jt Frasier; secretary, I). K. Jfnrpar ironsurer, A. U. Wambinh; district trustee, M. M. Htebblns. Cost for Upkeep of County Roads Is $1.26 a Mile Douglas Gravels 32.5 Miles, Paves 21.5 Miles, Builds Eight Bridges in 1924. Thirteen thousand, nine hundred righty-two miles, of roads were main tained In Douglas county throughout 11(24, according to the annual state ment of D. E. Adams, county sur veyor. The total cost of upkeep was $17-, 691, or $1.20 per mile.' Thirty-two and a half miles of road were graveled or regraveled, at a oust of $20,564, or $683.70 a mite. Eight steel and concrete bridges were constructed in Douglas county, including the Klkho'rn river bridge. Total cost of construction was $103, 045. - Nebraska paid $181,603 for the building or widening of 15 state bridges during 1924. Five wooden hedges, constructed in Douglas coun ty, c<?st-$7,791. • Grading.-in Douglas county coat 25 cents per cubic yard of earth. In this work, 202.813 cubic yards of earth were moved a$.-a vest of $50, *63. 7 ' • - 'fen miles of. Co nr l'ct r paving' and |,Vo BWd a J$al? milelr of brick paving were laid with federal aid, the coun ty's half of expenditures amounting to $191,037. ... ... Douglas county laid on* and a half miles of brick paving, .git a cost of $3S,049;,.^fo^ji-hundredths lii^es cjf; a.$pii.ntto,idJi'nci'i^e, at a cost "GsitmuflSwiind ona,JinJ7fc. half miles of* l.ltmjk If n|,. .jyhiclt cost $48,468. Snowfall Stops Mail Deliveries Rural Carrier* Prevented From Covering Parts of Routes for Weeks. Gothenburg, Dec. 31.—December, 1924, holds the. undisputed record In Dawson county for heavy snowfall and low . temperature. Snowfall to the depth of. 14 Inches, temperatures as low as 22 degrees below zero and high winds accompanied by light srtow.s established this record. Practically all main traveled roads are open to travel, but miles of lesser , I raveled roade remain unopened. HUral mall carrier are trlvlng to ccSver their route, but have not cov ered, parj of them for weeks. Christ ran s shopping suffered gr«a^ Bv anti it ’is feared that much bug! ness w-fll b» lost until roads n*»n, which JYi many places will take tlHtil spring. V - |j|j Dawson County Raises Funft to Retain Farm Bureau Agl*nt Cazftd. Dec. 31.—Cozad ComnferctaJ club.pledged its quota of $370 toward the maittienanwe of a farm bugehu agent in Dawson county, to carry on activities am,nng the womenfolk of the county during 1925. Business men of the county are -: joining the farm bureau a^ associate members In order that. .Maud Bean, appnt for the last yea*, may be re talned. Curt'allment of funds avail able from the county from $5,000 to $3,500 by‘the state legislature would have made it necessary to dispense with her work If the business men of the county had not volunteered the money needed. When Willie groans with the stomach ache, he sure that he hasn't appendicitis before you administer castor oil. Grain Exchange Business Gains 8.334.300 Bushels More Than in 1923, Omaha Receipts Show. * --- One of the largest Increases shown I of the many Omaha Institutions was • »n at the Omaha Grain Exchange for business during 1924. Official* of I the exchange reported that they re ceived si.354,300 more bushels of grain in 1924 than In 1923. Total receipts for the year were 7fi.32S.100 compared' to 67.X73.SPO bushels. The largest gain in the grains was that of wheat. The ex change received approximately 11, 500.000 more bushels of this product duVing the past year than received in 1923. Following Is the number of bushels of grain received at the exchange: ! Year 1924: Wheat, *4 234.300: corn, 24,735,200; oats, 13,500.000; barley, 7 72.S00; rye. 1.1S5.SOO. Year 191'3: Wheat, 22.631.400; rorn, 23,370.200; oats, 19.112,000; barley, 1, 260,600; rye, 1,499.400, The exchanpe also shipped 74.309, Son bushels of Krain in 1924 compar ed to 61,293,000 in 1923. New Year's Sermon. Rabbi Frederick Cohn will speak on ' Religion In 1925," a New Tear's ser mon, at the regular services at Temple Israel at S p, m., Friday. IOWAN’S PORTRAIT UNVEILING RITES Special VtlwpAteh to Th« Omaha B«. Glenwood, In., Deo. 31.—John Y. Stone, former attorney general of Iowa, was guest of honor at a ban <tuet given by his friends at Glen wood, la., Monday evening, when a painting of him was unveiled. The portrait is to be hung In the at torney general's office in the state capitol. C. K. Dean was toastmaster, and the speakers were Judpe I-owls, A. D. French, J. n. Graham, Clyde Ganunp, Wayne D. Choate, Shirley Gilliland, Dr. Mopridgre. General Stone also spoke briefly. PNEUMONIA I Call a physician. Then be pi V “emergency" treatment wit /■ VICHS I Sure Relief | FOR INDIGESTION buwSA I jndigestk-mj 6 Bell-ans Hof wafer Sure Relief E LL-AN S 25< and 75$ Packages Everywhere IDVERnNKMRM. SO ILL WASHED DISHES SITTING DOWN Mrs.Ashcroft’s Remarkable Recovery After Taking £.ydia E. Pinkham’s . .Vegetable Compound Covington, Ky.—“1 wan so weak and nervous J could hardly do jny house - work as I could not stand because of the bearing-down pains in my back and abdomen. I fat down moat of rtho time and did what l could do in that wav-as wash ing dishes, etc. One day a book de scribing Lydia E. Pinkham’s medi __ _cines was put in m« mail-box. I saw how the Vege tnp\e Compound had helped others so 1 gave it a trial. I had to take about a doeon bottles before I gamed my strength but I certainly praise this medicine. Then I took Lydia E. Pink ham’s Blood medicine for poor bjood. I was cold e^I thp time. I would be so cold I could Fiardly sit still and in the palms of my hands there would bo drops of sweat. I also used the San ative Wash and I recommend it also. You may publish this letter and 1 will gladly answerjetters from womenand advise my neighbors about these med icines. ” Mrs.Harry Ashcroft.IvK Beech Avaftiic,Covington, Kentucky. RADIANT COAL Smokeless Semi-Anthracite LUMP $13.50 MINERUN $11.50 SLACK $8.50 Phono WA lout 0100 UPDIKE i^LBEcRo* i See Sample* of ThU Coal at Hayden’* Grocery Dept Alaska Foxes, 16 Mf f|duc|[m £6Hft1tl' Muskrat Fur All Shades, $39.50 | ^ £fQS Buildup ^^ ' 1 AFTER INVENTORY SALE 1\ Extra Salesladies W anted We shall require the services of 20 experienced extra salesladies during this sale. Apply Friday morning. Never to Be Forgotten Offerings Starts Friday Thanks to our many patrons, we announce the largest volume of business in our history. We now find our stock however much larger than usual and in order to follow out the Orkin Bros, policy of never carrying over merchandise from one season to another, we have made further drastic price cuts to effect an absolute clearance. Costs and profits are forgot ten. Every garment must go. * ,,t*. Take the Fullest * Advantage of m This Great fl| Money Saving | m Event | .. . fis Entire Second Jgj Floor Crowded I? With Gorgeous % ur-Trimmed I Hundreds of Beautiful SilkandWool 1 Cl IATS Coats !p -C / at — §1 m Worth to $89.50^^ m Magnificent coat*, with gorgeous fur collars, cuffs and bandings. Every new color. All richly lined. *' Viatka Squirrel Mandel Opossum Moufflon Manchurian Wolf Heavcrcttc French Seal (Dyed Coney) Coats Worth to $65.00 Coat prices cut to the quick. ■ - These beautiful fur-trimmed * mg £ | garments will cause a stam- Th ||J pede of buying. U/ V V New Collar and Sleeve Effect, 'il-•’‘''Vi*, Flounce Bottoms, Straightline J ^ Coat8, Embroidered Coats, Button Trimmed Coats, Panel and Border Trimmed Coats. Coats Worth to $45.00 Fur-trimmed coats *in styles of the hour—a won derful offering. Values that overshadow all com petition. Truvonette Buckskin Brytonia Ar mandate Sport Coatings Fur Fabrics Coats Worth to $22.50 Fur collared and self* trimmed warm winter * coats, well made, lined and some are interlined. Blocked Chinchillas Polatrs Novelties Bon via 316 South 16th St. i , % Score* of our finest dresses. Exclusive models for party, afternoon, dinner and street wear. The very richest of fabrics, many fur trimmed, every pleasing color and color combination. Dresses Worth to $35.00 Wonder value* in dresses, hundreds from which to choose; every new color, every delightful style. Canton Crepes Georgettes Satins Flat Crepes Jacquards Poiret Twill French Flannels Dresses Worth to $22.50 Neat, well made dresses, in style* you’ll greatly admire. A very wide 1 selection. Canton Crepes Rengafile Serges Poiret Twills Xoeeltg Mixtures Dresses Worth to $15.00 More than 100 dresses in this lot and every one a clever style. A variety of I wanted colors, *ir.e* 14 to * j ' 44. Crepe He C hines Prunellas Flannels Twills Soivlties Conant Hotel Bldg. » <*» t Orkin Brothers s