THE KSE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 19. IS21.
Fire of Gijisy9s
, Criticism Drawn
By Intellectuals
fciliicntdl rrnn I'reed to
Look Into Own Hearts for
Right to Call Stives
Christiaua.
The ntt'HcctuaU drew the fire of
Gipsy Smith' rriliiikiu at the Mou
day ninht meeting at the Auditor
ium. He said "von intellectual peo
pic. who are able to read hook
intelligently and come to a wise con
elusion, look into your hearts
honestly and see whether you have
right to call yourselves Christians.
See whether your life warrants your
taking that holy name upon your
selves
"What I am about to say will not
be pleasant to you, hut every word
comes from a heart filled with the
desire to be of service to you," and
thru he scored the men and wom
en who desecrate the Sabbath.
Children Not Considered.
"Your boys and girls hold the
Sabbath lightly. Christ said, 'suf
fer little children to come unto me,
hut it is different in Omaha. Oma
ha ministers tell me that it is almost
impossible to get intelligent men
and women to take charge of boys
and Kris' Sunday school classes, that
the burden falls on the shoulders
of a faithful few.
"Many children have never heard
their parents pray. I here is . some'
thing the matter with your religion
when children can't talk about it to
their parents and when husbands
and wives can't pray together and
before the children."
"America is destined to become
the greatest nation in the world. It
will not fulfill this destiny unless it
gets a tighter grip on the Lord's
day. If the Sunday records of many
of you church members were known,
it would read something like this
He went to church Sunday morn
ing and played golf in the after
noon.' Titter Gets Rebuke
Here there was slight titter in the
audience and smiles came upon many
faces.
"If you can smile at such sacred
words I feel sorry for you. I am
not after your giggles." The smiling
stopped at this rebuke.
He continued: "And she went to
communion on Sunday morning and
in the altcrnoon went automobile
riding or entertained company.
'Your church activities count for
nothing unless they have God in
them. The most stupendous thing
in religious lite is God.
"You can crowd the churches with
theatricals, entertainments, minstrel
shows, dramatics and musicals, but
try to crowd them with prayer meet
ings. "Am I right?" he appealed to the
ministers. There was a unanimous
reply of "Yes."
Need Prayer in Homes.
Then the evangelist pleaded for
more prayer in the home and
churches. "Getting right with God
means following Jesus, and follow
ing Jesus means praying," he said.
His text was taken from that inci
dent in which Christ selected several
of his disciples. i
'."Follow Me.' does not mean the
sentimental, sickly, weak Christian
life you lead. It means something
bigger.
"'Hcview your life and ask yourself
whether God is satisfied. You had
better look at your life now before
it's too late. You should thank God
He sent, somebody to your city to
make you think of eternal things. If
you put God in your life you have
nothing to be ashamed of."
The preacher expressed sorrow
that there were no more men in the
world of Moody's caliber to preach
tie gospel as it should be and to
convert sinners. "O, that we had
iriore great evangelists," he cried.
In closing he said, "Blessed are
tey who hunger and thirst after
righteousness," and then he asked
al who intended to do better to
arise. The audience arose. "Close
yiur eyes," the evangelist" command
ed and the choir sang softly, "Where
He Leads I Will Follow.".
He then asked 'all' Who had not
attended - any previous meetings to
t fu)ld up. their hands. 'Hundreds of
' hands w,ent up. ' . ,
J 1,000 Sign Pledge.
The number of pledge cards
turned in at the platform last night
wis estimated at 1,000 by Rev. Titus
Lowe, about a third of . the entire
audience. Only the floor space-was
filled. There ' were great - vaxant
places in the galleries.' "But Mon
day is always ' a bad night," Mr.
Smith said optimistically.,, ;
AVhile the great - choir ' sang, all
wjio cared to shake hands with
Gtosy Smith were invited to-do so.
There was a stream of men and
wipmen, lead by an elderly , man,
from all aisles. Several hundreds
shook the evangelist's hand.
The preat choir was at its best last .,
night. There are still some vacancies
which the choir leader,"William Mc
Ean, would like to have filled. The
mnsic is one of the inspiring features
of the meetings.
Service Certificates for Heroes
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Tales of France
During War Told
By Gipsy Smith
Evangelist Drives Home
Points of Sermons With
Stories of Unselfish
Service.
Well. boys, this is the stack oKs-
war service certificates waiting for
you in the American Legion office,
court house. Come and get 'cm.
Twelve thousand of these service
certificates, awarded to former sol
diers, sailors and marines of Doug
las county by art of the Nebraska
legislature, are awaiting distribution
a! the American Legion office in the
court house.
The name of each ex-service man
is engraved upon his certificate.
Men must call at the office if they
wisn to get tneir certificates.
Superior Power Company
To Serve Guide Rock Stores
Superior, Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
A contract has been closed be
tween the town of Guide Rock and
the Southern Nebraska Power, com
pany of Superior by which the power
company is to furnish electrical serv
ice to Guide Rock. Line work is
being started and plans are made to
carry the work through very rapidly.
Burglars Enter Store for
Second Time in Two "Weeks
Beatrice, Neb.. Oct. 18. (Special.)
fc For the second time within two
weeks the Farmers Mercantile store
at Barneston. Neb., 20 miles south
cf here tear the stat? line, was en
tered list night,by robbers who se
cured silks shoes and clothing valued
at $300 and escaped in a moicr car.
Officers have secured no clue.
Davenport Couple Married
By Minister at Beatrice
- Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
-William F. Johnson, jr.. and Miss
Grace M. Bower, both of Davenport,
Neb., were married at Trinity Lu
theran parsonage by Rev. G. B.
Weaver. They will make their home
at Davenport, where the groom is
engaged, ia busiccsa.
Incidents which happened during
the three 'and a halt yc.-.rs Gipsy
Smith spent in the front line
trenches are bound to crop out dur
ing his sermons. Monday night he
told of two incidents wnkh will bear
repeating. He told them to drive
home the point he was putting
across, unselfish service to others
"Sergeant Nolan, an Alabama
boy, was one of my best friends,"
he said. "He was a splendid fellow
During the fight at Chateau Thierry
his right forearm was blown away.
"After he returned from the hospi
tal, I said to him, 'Sonny, I m very
sorry you lost your arm.'
Gave It Willingly.
"He snapped into attention,
stood straight as a ramrod, and sa
luting me with his left hand said,
'Sir, I didn't lose it. I gave it will
ingly for my country.' "
Another incident was this.
"One day I found nine boys in a
shell hole where they had crawled
for protection from the fire of the
Germans. As I sat with them a
padre came along and took his can
teen from his belt and gave it to
the first man. He put it to his lips
and passed it on to the next boy. It
went down the line all nine boys
putting the canteen to their lips.
Handed Back Full. ' ,
"When it was handed back to the
padre he looked at it. Not a drop
of water had been taken. Each fel
low had saved its contents for the
next fellow, thinking that he needed
it more than himself. ,
"One of the greatest joys of my
life is, when a boy tells me he was
in France, to be able to say, 'so was
I. "
Gipsy Smith "carries . the love of
the soldiers with him wherever he
goes. ,
There is to be. a special patriotic
service, November 4, at which all
former soldiers,' sailors and marines
and members of every patriotic or
ganization in the city will be invited
to attend. '
There will be-patriotic music and
talks and the evangelist will make
a patriotic address.
Live Stock Good Loan
Collateral, Declares
Reserve Board Head
Motorist Runs
Into His Mother,
Dying in Road
Had Bern Hit !y SfoIi.ifr
Negroes Attempt .to Lynch
Alleged Wife Shyer
Two Die of Ptomaine.
Huntington, I., ., Oct. IS Har
ry lihip brought hi motor ear to
an abrupt top on Lincoln avenue
lat night jukl in time to avoid run-
ning over the body of a woman the
ear' headlights revealed in the mid
dle of the mad. HUhop I (ted the
battered body and recognized hi
mower, ai r. r.vciyn iiinop. Mtc
unconscious.
Mrs. Hindoo hid eone front her
home, where her nti lived, to see
her daughter. Mrs. Zoll, on Lincoln
avenue and hid started on foot to
return.
She wa uncontcioui when bet
son found her and she died a few
minutes after ohe was carried to
the Huntington hospital.
Evidently she had been struck by
a speeding motor car, which had not
stopped.
' f ve been mtly ronipe4 ( ! 'tfiil akme with Martm Audirnii.
'Bit, inoHier l iri, ivierwin. When
I At the idmlu.ioii (4 the branny lu returned the mi win dead and
lie niah .i,iwrd the citiieii wiili! her brother had di.irarcd,
(heir iiunrr iinld Mlllnn to unlet
I of It. i. tun nhfre they rnnln-d the
' tU4ri and kried llrtpUn. ()(
lifer lt.iv.ever fjuii'My drw thr
l?un and drove off the attackers,
ooit after I'revcntiiiij another at
ttnu.t in the Mine manner.
The negro wan placed in I tic Hot-
ton jail, later bciu brought lure
fur talc krepii'ir
Funeral Is Held
For Minden Yank
Gala Day, October 27,
Scheduled for Minden
Minden. Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.
Thursday, October 27,. will be ;
gala day in Minden, with a complete
program of sports, athletics, speak
ing and mujic, under auspices of the
r . ...
uinniunuy commerce ciuo. A spe
cial program will be held for the
old settlers of the county. Col. Tom
Majors' of Feru and Hon. W. E.
Sheldon of the State Historical so
ciety at Lincoln probably will be
the speakers.
The Minden Woman's club will
have a special meeting for the worn
en of the county, in the n;v rest
room in the court house. A horse
shoe tournament will be held, with
cups for first and second places in
both singles and doubles. The plans
include the organization ot a tentn
club for the county, and a tennis
tournament to be held also.
Another special feature of ihc day
will be what is being held in some
other towns under the name of Ford
day, with prizes for a slow Ford
race, best decorated Ford, noisiest
Ford, worst looking Ford and. many
other novel Ford contests. The
stores and ' business houses, will be
open all day. witn special displays
and special offerings for the day.-
Lincoln Phone Company
Defendant in $35,000 Suit
Beatrice. Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
The personal damage suit of Wil
liam Davis, colored, against the Lin
coln Telephone & Telegraph
company, is being tried in the dis
trict court. Davis is suing the com
pany for $35,000 for alleged injur
ies, received by falling- from a faulty
ladder while engaged irt cleaning the
rooms in the bock owned by the said
company.
Pioneer Dies .
Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
E. E. Goehring, 65 years old, pio
neer of Gage county, died at his
home six miles southwest of the city,
after a bjief illness. He , is sur
vived by a widow and three children.
Washington, Oct. 18. (Special
Telegram.) Governor Harding,
chairman of the federal reserve
board, in a letter to Congressman
Jefferis, clears up what has been a
much-mooted question in the minds
of a number of people in Nebras
ka as to how far the power of the
federal reserve board extends over
member banks as to loan policies.
Speaking of this phase of the sub
ject. Governor Harding says:
"You ask ifhe board cannot di
rect member banks to accept liens
on hogs as collateral. Neither the
federal reserve board nor the fed
eral reserve bank has any jurisdic
tion whatever over the loan policies
of the member banks. We cannot
compel any member bank to make
a loan which it docs not wish to
make nor, indeed, can we restrain
a member bank from making a loan
which it does not wish to make even
if it is not authorized by law. Such
cases are dealt with after the fact
bv comptroller of the currency if
the member bank is a national bank.
or bv the state superintendent if
it is a state bank.
"It seems to me, however, that at
present prices farm products proper
ly warehoused and insured and live
stock ara especially good collateral.
While there is alwavs a risk in mak
ing loans at the top of the market,
certainly the risk is very slight at
the present level of prices."
House Committee Favors
Board on Foreign Dent
Washineton. Oct. 18. Favorable
reports authorizing the creation of
a commission to arrange for funding
and refunding of .the foreign debt
was ordered today by the house
ways and means committee, me
measure is a substitute tor tne ad
ministration bill which would have
eriven the secretary of treasury
blanket authority over foreign debt
negotiations.
Girl Found Unconscious.
ISoston, Oct. 18. The police arc
investigating the finding r; Miss
Ethel Sutoritis. of Fort Washing
ton avenue. New York City, a voice
culture student, scantily clad and in
i an unconscious condition in an ai-
t imv ti( Vu'1iiiru cfrt flarlf It:ii;
early today. I'rof. David Lythgoe,
the girl's vocal instructor, and Ray
mond Ricliell, both found in the
girl's boarding house, are being held
for questioning by the police.
Miss Sutorius, who is about 20,
was removed to the city hospital,
where it was found that she was
suffering from a fracture of the
spine. The police have been unable
to determine whether she jumped
or fell from the window of her
fourth-floor room.
Negroes Attempt Lynching.
Tcxarkana, Tex., Oct. 18. Two
unsuccessful attempts to take Edley
Hopkins, negro, from deputy
sheriffs who were removing him to
Boston, near here, following his
preliminary hearing at Dekalb on
a charge of killing his wife, were
made last night by a mob said to
Alleged Child Deserter
'Is Returned for Trial
Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
George Tewksbury, who was ar
rested here last week charged with
failing to pay for the support of
his minor child at Madison, Neb.,
was taken back to that place by
Sheriff Smith.- Tewksbury has been
operating an auto bus line between
Beatrice and Auburn the last few
weeks.
H. S. Clarke, Jr.
President of the Corn Exchange National
Bank, known to hundreds of Omahans as
a booster for every enterprise that has
for its purpose the building of a, bisger,
better Omaha. Mr. Clarke would appre
ciate ftn opportunity of making- YOUR
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G rl and Mother Shot.
Cofteyville, Kan., Oct. l$-Mr
Emma DepuinUr wa found un
eouicious with Iter kull rrukhed and
powder burns on her face, an ' lur
10-vcar.oid dauijnier. iiuiy .uy
Trowbridge, rf Miami, OkU wa
found dead wit'.i two bullet hole in
her body by niutoriiU a mile we!
of Tyro.
Two Die of Ptomaine.
New York. Oct. 18.-Mrs. Nellie
Parker, a typit for the Anglo
Mexican Petroleum company, 65
P.roadway and Morri Madden,
waiter in the l'oxtal lunch. 54 Lib
erty street, died in a hospital last
night of ptomaine poisoning. Alex
ander Coste, 23, a bank clerk, of
.1024 East Sixth street, was critically
ill in the same hospital.
CoKte, who walked into the hos
pital this afternoon told detective
who investigated the ctue that he
had breakfast yesterday at the
Postal lunch, eating oat mral, ham,
apple sauce, bread and butter and
coffee.
Aged Woman Killed.
New York. Oct. 18. A woman, 50
years old, was killed yesterday when
trying to save her 4-year-old grand
daughter from the wheels ot an
automobile truck and two other per
sons lost their lives in automobile
accidents. The prevalence of speed
ing in the city is so great nowadays
that there were more than 500 case
on the calendar of the court yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Vyskogel was the n-year-old
woman who lost her life
in trying to save Mildred Ilolub, 4.
As a motor truck rushed down on
them, the old woman seized the child
and pulled her back out of danger,
but she was struck and killed.
Girl With Uncle Slain
Chattanooga, Temi., Oc:. 18. Th
body of Verne Peterson, 12. was
found in a room of the Peterson
home near Trenton, G., yesterday
The girl's throat was ct.t from ear
to ear. Mrs. Peters jn had lclt the
American Legion in .Charge
Of Sfnice for
Hero.
Mimhn. Neb.. Oct. lS.-CVrh! )
Funeral rrviee were held Tues
day for Private Segfrrd Oscar John-
sou, killed in I ranee, whose body
arrived here i-riuay evcumg, ecorted
by T. Kidlry of Port Des Moines,
Johnson wan born in Kearney coun
ty. October 16, K). When i'J years
old he moved on to a farm southwest
of Minden where he lived until he
rnliktctl.
He enlixted in September, 1917,
and went into training at Camp
1'unston. In March. VJin. lie w;n
transferred ' to the regulars, leaving
Camp l'unston for Newport News.
a. A month later he tailed lor
France,' arriving at Urest, April 15,
1V1K.
Early in June his division became
a part of the fighting troops, Segfred
being with the fourth infantry, com
pany V, third division. lie fought
at Chateau Thierry aad in the Ar-
gonne-Meuse drive, the latter battle
being the place where he received
wounds that caused his death on Oc
tober 14, 1918.
He it survived by his mother, Mrs.
G. Johnson: four sisters, Mrs.
Hannah Lynn of Kearney county,
Mrsr. Matilda Johnson of Pixley,
Cal.: Mrs. Amelia Nelson of Kearney
county and Miss Hessic Johnson of
Lincoln; also two brothers, William
and Alvin, both of Kearney county.
J he funeral services were held
under the auspices of the local
chapter of the American Lesion, in
charge of Commander Alfred I.
Petersen. Dr. I. C. Rankin of the
local L'nitcd Presbyterian church
delivered the sermon. The legion
escorted the body to .the Minden
cemetery.
Fined for Drunkenness
Beatrice, Neb., Oct. 18. (Special.)
Frank McCabe, Glen Wells and
"Jumb" Blowere were lodged in jail
on the charge of being intoxicated.
They were brought before Judge
Elhs and pleaded guilty, fcacn was
fined $10 and costs and paid their
fines.
Old Fort Kearney to
Be Marked by Shaft
Kearney, Neb.. Oil. l.f Special )
The llulfulo and Kearney count
board of supervisors have ni'h '
Bkide $5(H) to be me 4 for purpose
of purcluxiiK a nuitililc memorial
and marker to be erected on the ite
of old Foil ki iim-y, located three
miles smith and i miles et of
this citv. At iirrsent there it no
marker identifying the historic spot,
at tne tune the Uitlu-tt went army
fot. An effort i being made lo
have a parking nt; created, embody
ing the fort anil ground, all loral
civic oruanintmns being interested
to this end. The financial help un
co by the two count v board is. the
frst step taken in ll is dirrction.
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