THE OMrfA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 14, 1917.
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CITY FIREMEN
WIN CASE FOR
LARGER WAGE
Supreme Court Holds Law of
1915 Stands and Omaha
Must Give Up $40,000
Back Pay.
Three hundred Omaha firemen are
due to receive $40,000 back pay in
time for their Christmas shopping,
according to a decision of the Ne
braska supreme court received Satur
day morning.
The decision of the higher court
affirms the decision of the Douglas
county district court, holding that
the Omaha city commissioners must
observe the fire department salary
provisions as outlined in a city char
ter amendment enacted by the legis
' lature during the session of 1915.
Clow F. Adams of hook and lad
der company No. 2, Twenty-fourth
and Cuming streets, brought a test
suit which was brought to a success
ful termination by Stanley M. Rose
water. .
Fixes the Wage.
The law of 191? provides that fire
men shall be fctarted at $65 per
month and advanced $5 per month
each six months until $90 shall be
reached, providing further that the
city may increase the pay to a maxi
mum of $100 if funds should war
rant. A minimum of $105 and maxi
mum of $115 were fixed for junior
captains and $i20-$130 for senior
captains.
The city has been observing the
old schedule, which is $60 and $85 for
firemen, $100 maximum for junior
captains and $115 , . maximum for
senior captains.
The decision from Lincoln means
a raise of $5 a month, for firemen and
captains.
May Mean Back Pay.
"It is my opinion that the decision,
of the supreme court will be re
troactive in its effect and that the city
will be required to meet the 1915
schedule from July 1 of that year. We
have not seen, the Lincoln decision,"
stated Assistant City Attorney Te
Poel, who was surprised when ad
vised first by The Bee of the outcome
of the case.
Mr. Clow won his case in the dis
trict court here and the city legal de
partment took the case to Lincoln on
appeal, the main contention of he city
being that a specific provision of the
commission form of government law
gave the city council the right to fix
salaries of all city employes.
Assistant Fire Chief Simpson
figured that the back pay involved in
this case was about $40,000, which
will have to be paid out ot he judg
xnen fund.
Lives to See U. S. Involved in Four Great
Wars; Omaha Woma7i Knits for Soldiers
Mrs. Sally Thomas, who cele
brated her eighty-third birthday a
few days ago, and has lived to see
the United States engaged in four
war for liberty, is knitting socks for
the boys in the trenches in France.
With trembling fingers, none the
less swift, for all that, she ply her
steel needles and the gray yarn
magically is transformed into ten
inch soldier's socks proof against
frosty weather.
"The boys in the regular army (she
means that 'regular army' of the
civil war), didn't have any warm
yarn socks knitted for them like they
have nowadays," she said as she
measured from the tip of the heel to -the
nearly completed toe. "I would
have made the leg an inch longer, but
the directions say just eight inches,
to save the yarn I suppose," she -added.
Mrs. Thomas sits by her window
in the kitchen near the range, be
cause she does not like the furnace
Bond Committees Do Not
Want Cash Subscriptions
"We want to make it plain," said
Mrs. E. M. Fairfield, chairman of the
woman's Liberty bond committee,
"that subscriptions to Liberty bonds
are not to be accompanied by any
money payments. The subscription
card is to be made out and sent in.
That is all.
, "Then, as soon as possible, within
a reasonable time, the subscriber is
to go to his or her bank and pay for
the bonds or make the initial pay
ment if it is desired to buy them on
payments.
"A number of people have sent in
their cards with a payment of 2 or
more per cent. Where this has oc
curred we had had to send back the
cards and the money because we ac
cept absolutely no cash."
A large proportion of the bonds
sold by the woman's committee have
been sold to parents for their chil
dren. Some have "bought them for
their soldier sons.
T'.ie woman's committee has ar
ranged for speakers to address the
picnic of the Omaha mail carriers and
the ladies' auxiliary at Elmwood park
Sunday and a meeting at the Young
Woman's Christian association at 4:30
p. m. i
War Tax Goes On All
Rail Tickets and Freight
Railroad officials are lining up for
the application of the war tax that
November 1 is to be placed on tickets
and freight shipments. They figure
that this will of necessity cause a
large amount of work and that forces
in the accounting departments will
have to be materially increased.
Tickets that are sold at less than
35 cents are exempted. Others pay
8 per cent. The tax on tickets is col
lected at the place of sale and on cash
fares by the conductors of the trains.
The tax on sleeping car and parlor
car fares is 10 per cent of the cost of
the transportation.
On freight there is a tax of 3 per
cent of the total charge. There are
no shipments that are exempt those
handled by the government, for the
government and the transportation
of material for the use of the carrier,
itself, or its subsidaries over its own,
Daughter of Judge
Estelle Dies in Arkansas
Little Christie Boone Estelle, 7-year-old
daughter of Judge and Mrs.
Lee Estelle, died at Pine Bluff, Ark.,
Friday, according to word received at
the court house. Judge Estelle was
called to Pine Bluff a couple of days
ago by his daughters illness.
Mrs. Estelle and Christie Boone
went to the Arkansas town last week
for a visit with relatives. The little
girl was in good health when she and
her mother left Omaha.
The body will be brought back to
Omaha for funeral services and inter
ment Judge and Mrs. Estelle wired
that they will return with the body
Monday.
Egypt's New Sultan Seated
Amid Noisy Celebrations
Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 13.-The acces
sion of the new sultan of Egypt,
Ahfhed Fuad, was marked today by
great pomp and ceremony. He rode
n an open carriage, accompanied by
the premier, through flag-bedecked
streets. The equipage was escorted
by Egyptain cavalry and the streets
were lined with English and Aus
tralian Infantry as a guard of honor,
while guns boomed and crowds
cheere isr"
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MERCHANTS CAN
SAVE THIS WAY
Drcther Brotkort Transform Soiled
and Shop-Worn Piece Goods,
Garments and Hats Into
Items That Will Sell.
MRS. SALLY THOMAS,
heat. It is too dry, and not "homey"
at all. Her husband died last year
and she is living with her daughter,
Mrs. J. M. Hilliard, 1915 Chicago
street.
Needles Hurt Thumb.
"Yes. Thu isthe fourth war I
have seen. The civil war, the Spanish
American war and now this one. The
Mexican war of 1833 came the year
after I was born."
"It wears a sore place on my
thumb there, where the needles rub.
That is why I have to wear this
glove." The finders may be as swift
and sure as possible in rendering their
mite of service in this last and great-
even these chill, creeping frailities of
the body will not serve to bow the
spirit and as long as the eyes remain
undimmed and the fingers capable of
doing their accustomed tasks some
service shall be done.)
Service Her Motto.
Service, service, service the call of
it is lodged deep in the aged heart
"Service" it is the one fundamental
religion of life.. It is the religion of
godo deeds. It is preached from a
humble pulpit in the kitchen of every
humble home where each day is a
vital sermon on that ever varied
theme. It is a beauti.'ul thing; and in
est of war in .which her country is j this great day of sacrifice and suffer-
engaged.
"If I could only hear as well as I
can sec it would be better," she said.
"But I can do knitting," she added,
not without a touch of pride. She can
not only do knitting well, for the
work in her hands gave promise of
being as well shaped and as closely
knit a pair of socks as could be seen
anywhere.
Is this not the ebauty of old age?
Thta the face upon which Time has
written his manual of furrowed cares
may shine with the long service of
past years and that the head touched
with the silver frosts of winter may
still bend over swiftly flying fiingers
in the performance of new services
with the changing years?
The halting step, the semi-palsied
hand, the slow receding sounds of
dear, familiar , voices of the outer
world in gradually deafening ears
ing in the name ot humanity it is a
beautiful thing to devote, as the wom
en all over this United States of ours
are devoting, the full measure of what
energy and ability may be at command
to the service of our cause.
"It wears a sore place on my thumb
there, where the needles rub." Mrs.
Thomas is probably unconscious of
the fact that she presents the symbol
of the spirit of America's noble wom
en in this day of our testing as she
sits by her window near the kitchen
range knitting her pair of gray yarn
socks for the soldier boys each day.
But she does, God bless her. t
Colonel William Lasslttr. t one time sta
tioned at Fort Crook, passed through Omaha
Tuesday on his way to North Dakota, where
he has been detailed as military Instructor
at the university there. He remained here
until Wednesday mornln?, the guest ot Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. McConnell.
If you were a merchant, we will
say, in a small town, possessed of
more or less stock that wouldn't sell,
wouldn't you make SOME effort to
put the stock into some shape that
would MAKE it sell?
To be sure you would! And, if
this strikes the eye of such a mer
chant let him know that Dresher
Brothers, the immense cleaners and
dyers of Omaha, can make saleable
items out of much of his slow-mov-inpr
merchandise.
For instance, "fancy garments,
both men's and women's, they can be
dyed a black or blue and therefore
rendered very saleable. Stocks of
slow selling piece goods may often be
dyed and transformed from some
non-selline shane to a condition that
will make them sell a great deal bet-'
ter. Then there are felt and stifl
hats. Dreshers can reblock, remodel
and retrim them. If these hats are
Drought down to date ?n shape they
will sell as readily as the newest hats
from eastern hat factories.
This is truly an age oi conserva
tion ; a merchant wants no dead stock
about. Stock represents money and
should be turned into cash.
So, why not write Dreshers if you
are a merchant. Tell Dreshers what
you have and what vou want done
and Dreshers will tell you what it
will cost When you write your let
ters address them to Dresher Broth
ers, Cleaners and Dyers, 2211-2217
Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Or you
might phone in, Long Distance, Ty
ler 345.
Dreshers maintain branches at
Dresher The Tailors, 1515 Farnam
St., and at the Burgess-Nash or
Brandeis Stores. Dreshers pay ex
press or parcel post charges one way
on all out-of-town shipments. Adv.'
KIDDIES GARNER
CR0P0FP0PC0RN
Kindergarten Tots Lug Great
Basketsf ul of Own Product ;
Encounter Difficulties in
Agricultural Attempts.
Pop-corn I Sacks, bags, market bas
kets, wheelbarrows, even baby carts
fult of itl
And ail raised by the youthfu gar
deners of Franklin school during the
summer vacation. While some of the
"fellers" wert out in the old swim
min' hole, Franklin's embryo citizens
were elp win the war by hoeing
row fter ro of tender corn plants.
While less patriotic little girls were
making extravagant finery for pam
pered dolls, Franklin's lassies were
out in the hot sun weeding little plots
of the Nebraska doing their
bit to aid their big United States in
the all-essential work of conserva
tion. EACH ONE NINE KERNELS.
Early "in the spring Miss Ann
Hutchins, principal, gave each child
nine kernels of pop-corn, with in
structions o plant, tend and with the
first frost, harve . their product. Fri
day afternoon, at the school, the har
vest was garnered in, and the varie
ties of pale yellow, bright orange and
delicate pink corn displayed made a
pretty sight.
"Don't Spill a Grain."
Three hundred children assembled
on the school grounds, each with his
contribution of pop-cor .. Flump,
black-eyed Bobbie Glover, who is one
of Miss Niedemeyer's first grade
youngsters, appeared lugging a great
market basketful. In manipulating
his enormous cargo, Bobblj spilled
several ears. Miss Hutchins, with a
quick eye t ' the opportunity to point
a . ial, cautioned the children not
to spill a grain, "for," she saiJ, "we
believe in conservation, children."
Save tor Country.
Black and white, big and little, of
many nationalities, and representing
man social strata, every child had
uppermost in mind the necessity for
saving the country's food, in order
that our soldiers who are going over
the top some dismal morning, may
have nourishment and strength for
thei" t emenJotis task. It was a sight
to make IIerb Hoover bulge his fat
cheeks in . smile of ecstasy and slap
his portly sides in satisfaction.
Hortense Johnson, a dusky, crink'y
haired four '.-grader in Miss Sant's
room, proudly exhibited a well-tilled
basket. Wide-eyed, fair-haired Bob
bie lastings, one of Miss Comstock'-i
kindergarten tots, dragged a basketful
of the crisp grain bigger than him
self. Natalie Hastings probably raised
more orn than other of the girls.
Ford and Esther Robinsot had sepa
rate plots in their back yai'd, not car
ing to pool their interests, so keen
was the competition between brother
and sister.
Many Difficulties Overcome.
Miss Elizabeth Dunn, popular sixth
grade teacher, not to be outdone by
the youngsters, came in under the
wire with her contribution, which she
had raised under a big shade tree in
the only t.t of space she could obtain
in her father's garden.
Some of the young agicu-turists en
countered herculean difficulties in
rearing the Nebraska plant. Bertha
Greenhouse tearfully protested that
her corn developed a peculiar fruit
which resembled onions. A thief rav
aged Margaret Sorensen's corn patch,
leaving her only a few ears to harvest
when the frost came. Another little
girl labored dil'gently at an extensive
field, and sh rtly before harvest, the
man-n .xt-door'sNtuio ran over it, she
said, "simply ruining the htrvest." Ev
ery cone " able ailm"nt to. which cor
is heir, kr wn and uuknownf to farm
ers, ampere I the j oungMers n their
rural cm patio-, but in spite of all, the
Franklin harvest made a brave dis
play. The corn is to be sold for the bene
fit of the Red Cross, and the quanti
ties reposing in the auditorium of
Franklin school augur well for the
comfort and health of our "Sammies"
on the other side.
Prof. Frandsen Head of
Dairy Food Products
Prof. J. II. Frandsen, head of tin
department of dairy husbandry at
the Universii) of Nebraska, has bee.n
appointed by Food Administrator
Wattles as chairman of the committee
on dairy products under the food administration.
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Own Case and Promises to Reform
Morris Inergan made such an elo
quent plea for himself before Judge
Woodrough in federal court Satur
day morning that the judge let him
off with a sentence of a year and a
day in the federal prison at Leaven
worth, Kan.
A jury found Lonergan guilty of
breaking the seal on a box car in the
Union Pacific yards at Valley, Neb.,
May 29, 1917.
When asked by the court whether
he had anything to say, Lonergan
arose, and in a voice that trembled,
declared his solemn intention to lead
a better life. His wife sat behind him,
weeping.
"I have learned more in the five
months that I have spent in jail than
I ever did in all my life before," Lon
ergan said. "I learned that the
straight way is the only way. I
learned that it doesn't pay to be
crooked. I have made up my mind
that, after xl have served whatever
sentence the court shall see fit to
pronounce, I will go straight all the
rest of my life. I will be a decent
citizen, an honest man, a man that my
family can be proud of. I am done
forever with crookedness."
Judge Woodrough told the youth
ful prisoner that he believed he
meant what he said and, because of
his youth, he felt there was still a
good chance for him to redeem him
self. He then imposed the sentence,
which is the minimum for this crime.
Lonergan's attorney fought hard in
the trial to prove him innocent. The
crime was alleged to have been com
mitted about 2 o'clock on the morn
ing of May 29. An Omaha physician
testified that at about 4 o'clock that
morning he was called to Lonergan's
home at Twenty-fourth and Vinton
street, Omaha, to set a broken shoul
der blade for the defendant. The
date on the physician's book was
blurred and looked as though it had
been changed from "29" to "30." The
government argued that in getting
away from the officers at Valley Lon
ergan sustained his broken arm. Tes
timony was introduced to show that
he was seen in Valley vith torn
clothes on the morning following the
officer s attempt to capture h i m.
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