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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1921)
Progressive Is Name Selected For Third Party Stale and Congressional Tickets Not Narnpl Liquor Question Is KvadVd In Platform. By EDWARD BLACK. Ktaff C'ormiMiDilrnt Omaha IIm. Grand Island. Neb.. Dec. 9.-(.Sf-cial Telegram.) 'i'lie " ro,jreiiiv; Tiirty" was organized at a nus con vention here jcucrday. The widely varying ideals of the niembcrsliit ol the convention kept the assemblage in almost constant debate Hid at a late hour with only i.'o5 of the over 000 attendants at the meeting present a tine die- adjournment ws taken without nominating a slate ticket. The following Mate executive committee was named from con grebiiinnal districts: C, E. Wliittaker. First; John lr. Murphy, Second; Mrs. Marie Veeke., Third; Arthur . G. Wray. Fourth; T. J. l.llsbury, Fifth; Henri' Apking, S'Mli; F. L. Collcn i laige. T he c ommit tee elected the follow ing ofiicrrs: J. II. F.dmistvn, North I'latle, ch.iirman; V. II. Green of Omaha, secretary; K. C. Knudson of Genoa, treasurer. Evade Liquor Question. Platform was adopted without amendments. K. ti. StoNey of Grand Island, precipitated the liquor question by ot tering a resolution which condemned "invasion of homes" in enforcement of prohibition. His effort failed. B. B. Kelly' of Holt suggested that the convention ro on record as in favor of prohibition, but the con Kntion refused to act. No Candidates Named. At a late hour, with only -t5 dele gates present, the question of nomi nation of candidates was before the house. C. A. Sorensoti urged that the spirit of primary law be observed and all interests served, by deferring nominations to a later date. A. II. Bigelow offered a solution that the state central committee of the new party attend to the business of filing petitions for all state candi dates. Mr. Bigelow explained that in this way the new party may have a real primary election. The convention adopted Mr. Bige low's proposition. Resolutions Reported. The resolutions committee re ported in substance as follows. Pres ent orgy in state and national gov ernment must be terminated, govern ment must be freed from Wall street and domination by privileged classes abolished; references made to prof iteering, excessive profits, and equal opportunity to all. Gage County Farm Union . Names Officers for Year Beatrice, Neb.;' Dec. 9. (Special.) At the annual meeting of the Gage County Farmers' union these officers were elected: President, Marce Witz enburg of Blue Springs; vice presi dent, L. M: Smith of Wymore; secretary-treasurer, Frank Malicky of Barneston. W. H. Dale of the United Grain Growers association gave the principal address, - stating that the "big industries" of the country were partly responsible for holding the farmers down. "Taxation," he said, "is a worse handicap to the farmer than the pres ent low prices which, in turn, are a result of over taxation following the war." . Teachers Examination Taken bv 107 at Neligh ' Neligh. Neb.,. Dec. 9. (Special.) County Superintendent C. A. Mohr man reports that the teachers' ex amination of last week was the larg est since he has been in office. One hundred and seven teachers and prospective teachers wrote on the subjects required for the certificate. Of this number about 50 were writ ing for the first time. Palm oil is being used as steamer fuel in the Congo with good resutts. Bowens Value-Giving Store 15 More Days Then Christmas and why not plan on pleasing the entire family by having a Columbia GRAFONOLA in your home on Christmas morn? It is one gift that will be enjoyed every day and every evening throughout the year. Columbia Grafonola Priced at $ 30.00 45.00 60.00 85.00 100.00 125.00 140.00 150.00 175.00 Sbtc from $2.50 to $100 hj buying the one you want at Bowen'a Convenient Term Maka Buying Easy IB CO Wall Street Domination Opposed In Progressive Partv Platform Grand Island, N'eb.. Dec. 9. (Special ) Hie following platform and program wa adopted by tl.e progressive party here in nia con veniioii yrterday: The irogreMve jity this day or canied in the city of Grand IlanJ invites public spirited, loyil and prcKreivc citizens to join with them in a supreme f fort to -make 0. 1r state and national governnciu n rie truly gnvcrnriviiU of the p'f (inn tionnig more re.ponsivily 1. nd impartially In the interest of all the people. A a basis for o.ir common effort we declare onr belie,' in the follo-v-inu principles: Party Priiiciplei. 'I he present aImot insane or,jy oi pr.l lie extravagance, btate and na lioiial, must be term'natcd and taxa tion at once reducej to the absolute in critics of a government honestly and economically administered , Our government must be tr.-c I frou: further control by Wall street. Domination by psvileged classes nu si not oulv be iltli.hed but class n!f made forever impossible. l'tot'iti-ering. no longer ronfinci! to a Uv monopolistic rrrporatiuns, but so w idespread as to threaten produc tion itself, must he crushed and excess or unreasonable profits not merely be taxed but must be abso lutely prevented or our government will permanently become an aristo cracy of wealth and "equal oppor tunity tnr all" cannot be realized. Trices for farm products must nut be permitted to go below the cost of production, plus a reasonable profit. Wages must not be permitted to go below the cost of living at Amer ican standards, with a margin for old age. Government Rail Control. Railroads must not be the sole beneficiaries of government guaran tees of profits, based on inflated capital, but all carriers, whether of freight, pa.-sengers or intelligence, should, like the mails, be operated at cost by governmental agencies for the benefit of all the people. Credits must not longer be left to private control and manipulation, but should be taken over by the gov ernment in the interest of all the people; moreover, the peoples' credit, whether of community, state or na tion, must not be so restricted as to prevent succor in emergencies to basic industries or relief from un employment. To effectuate our purposes, we de clare the following as our present program of action: 1. Government ownership of rail roads and of all other means of communication, with a voice and reasonable share of compensation to the manhood as well as the capital needed in its operation, 2. Making government more re sponsive to the will of the people by a presidential primary, a refer endum on the question of a declara tion of war, except upon invasion, application of initiative and refer endum to national legislative ques tions and of the recall of public offi cials to both state and nation; also by the abolition of the party circle and by the establishment of open primaries. Reduction of Taxes. 3. Immediate and drastic cuts in A malia's -Greatest lott - mm eral Baking Company takes possession of our our Men's and Young Fellows' New Winter 'A if IS & I ' JlL OVERCOATS- Extra quality of men's fine double-breasted coats. For r merly sold at $50.00. Now. . . CLOSING OUT All Our MEN'S O'Coats THE pvblic expenditure and taset, in cluding abolition of the dual system of the code ami elective departments of utate government; the cutting out of wate and extravagance of the rapitol commifrsiun and of the slate highway expenditures: the discour agement, of national laws returning to the state an amount of money for certain causes, upon condition of a like state appropriation, -it wrong in principle and 'a bribery in prac tice; the reduction of all alaries, ap propriation and state expenses, sub ject to legislative regulation, as far as possible relatively to a prewar basis; the abolition of the state railway commission as a useless ex penditure and of doubtful public benefit; the abolition of all semi private appropriations in Nebraska; with a constructive program con scripting war fortunes for payment of war debts and soldier bonus; in crease of federal inheritance taxes on large estates, shifting the burden of taxation from the homes and the industry of the people over to the excess profits of nionoply and to the values of the vast natural resourcei held out of use by orofiteering- own ers; a state income tax with reason able exemption, modeled after the Wiseonir t't, and with state and national income tax laws discrimin ating sharplv between earned and unearned income. 4. Ai' quale marketing facilities and rural credit systems similar in principal to the South Dakota law with provisions for the encourage ment of home and small farm own ing, and a limitation on home rentals to a reasoniihle profit on actual in vestment. Plans for Banking. 5. The t.'ikinc over of the fed eral reserve bank system; the use of our tremendous bullion reserves, and the direct issue of currency, all by the federal government, in the in terest of all the people and not of Wall street. 6. The state ownership and op eration, by districts, of the unused water power 'of Nebraska, and the equal right of metropolitan cities with other cities, to own and oper ate an electric light and power plant or other public utility. 7. The encouragement of all co-operative-lnovemcnts to the end of the destruction of profiteering ;and where regulation fails to control a private monopoly, then by municipal or state competition; similar in prin ciple to the state serum plants and municipal ice and coal yards. 8. F.qua economic, legal and poli tical rights for ail citizens; the pres ervation and assurance by appro priate legislation of the rights of free speech, free press, free religion and of peaceable assembly, as guaranteed by our state and national constitu tions. ' 9. The right of collective bargain ing through representatives of their own choosing and of collective mar keting; the restriction of the use of injunctions in labor disputes with the right of trial by jury in all cases of constructive contempt; and th modi fication of our workmen's compensa tion law to include occupational diseases, and establishing the prin ciple of a state fund, as opposed to indemnity insurance, along the lines of the Ohio law. 10. The defeat upon referendum Continues With Never before have you had such an opportunity to secure high grade Suits and Overcoats at such a saving. Hundreds of satisfied customers are leaving our store daily with clothing of the better kind. Only 18 days more before the Fed' BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1921. 'in V22 of the law enuciil.iting the primary, requiring rural registration f party ulTihation, prohibiting f eacclul picketing in labor contio Ivcrsiei ad permitting a monopoly of ! banking facilities. While we ask the i .... - I - . - it. - . I penpic 10 neieai inesc laws passeu Ly the last reactionary legislature, we favor the enactment of welfare legis lation to protect the child life of tliu state. Organization Report. To the Honorable Delegates of the Progressjvc "'irty in Convention Assembled: We, your committee on organiza tion, have given careful consideration to all matters pertaining to the in terest of the Progressive party of Nebraska, and to the best methods of carrying; on the work which has called it into existence. It is apparent that the success of this new movement depends mater ially upon the completeness with which the slate is covered, hence the organization must ramify into the smallest units of our commonwealth. To prevent the organization from becoming unwieldy because of such ramification, it must have its author ity centralized under one strong ex ecutive head. Having due regard for the fore going conditions, we, your commit tee, have devised and hereby respect fully submit the following tentative plan of organization: 1. We recommend that a state central committee composed of two committeemen from each county be elected at the convention. Provided that a man and a woman shall be selected. Provided further that Lan raster county shall have three com mitteemen and Douglas county shall have five committeemen, 2. Wc further recommend that an executive committee of seven shall be selected from outside the slate central committee, and that there shall be one member from each congressional district and one mem ber from the state at large. It is recommended that . both men and women be recognized on this com mittee. 3. We further recommend that there shall be organized in each pre cinct of every county a committee comprised of a precinct chairman and four or more additional commit teemen as assistants, both men and women to be recognized on these committees. Name Officers. 4. We further recommend that when the state committee has been selected it shall immediately as semble and proceed to select a state 414-2S Securities Building Corner 16th and Farnam Sts. Telephone Deuglai 8347 Omaha, Neb. Unabated Confidence room, forces us to make tremendous reductions on all SuSts Overcoats SUITS- Of the finest all-wool fabrics, with two pairs of pants. Values up to $35.00. Now SUITS- Single or double-breasted, in all wanted patterns,' with two pairs of pants. Val ues up to $45.00 . SUITS- from America's foremost tailors, in all the new winter materials, with two pairs of pants. Values up to $60.00. Now . . OVERCOATS- A limited number of remarkable values in Overcoats. Closing out at OVERCOATS- Leather-lined, .double-breasted, plaid (Ch CA back overcoats. Values up to $40.00.3 II Now cluinn.ui, a st.itv seuretaiy and a state treasurer who shall have au thoiily to conduct ull the business of the progressive party in the cam paign and otherwise, 5. Since the strength of an or ganization i no greater than its fi nancial rating, your ' committee has given thought to the methods by which the party funds shall be raised. We recognize the principle that for an individual to become deeply interested in the success of an undertaking, he or she must con tribute to its treasury. Therefore to promote the principle as advocated by the progressive party, some method must be devised by which individual contributions shall be en couraged. We suggest that this work largely be conducted by the committees as phovided for in the report of your committee on organization, 6. In counties not represented in this convention, the committee on organization recommend that the chairman and secretary of the state committee be authorized to act in the capacity as state committeemen until such time as the county con vention in said counties shall meet and select committeemen to fill such positions. Respectively submitted, J. II.'KDMISTKN. Chairman. VERXA ROBERTS, Secretary. Former State Senator Dies iu South Dakota Norfolk, Neb.. Dec. 9. (Special Telegram.) Felix J. Hale, ex -state senator, personal friend of W. J. Bryan, veteran of the civil war on the side of the south and prominent in state democratic politics, died at Burke, S. I). Funeral will be held in Battle Creek Saturday. Senator Hale w as a pioneer of north Nebras ka, platting the original town of Bat tle Creek, lie came here from Vir ginia. Rail President Predicts Big Increase in Traffic Philadelphia, Dec. V. The ques tion of making provision for a large increase in the volume of railroad transportation service which, he said, probably would be required in a few years, overshadows everything else in the railroad situation, in its funda mental importance, in the opinion of Elisha Lee, vice president in charge of the eastern region of the Penn sylvania railroad. Dr. Burhorn's Chiropractic Health Service My office is located on the fourth floor of the Securities Bldg. and is equipped with private, individual ad justing and rest rooms; also complete Spinographical laboratory for X-Ray analysis. We make calls to .your home when unable to come to the office. Office adjustments are 12 for $10.00 or 30 for $25.00. Chiropractic teaches that the cause of 95 of human ailments are found within the body remove the cause and you get well. Office hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Lady attendants. Call or write for free booklet on Chiropractic today. iiig Sale $9150 mm $13 CLOSING OUT All Our MEN'S Suits Columbus Man M Elected Head of State Hotel Body C. If. Owen to (Juitle Des tinies of Nebraska As Koeiution During Com ing Year. II. Owen, Columbus, Neb., va elected prcsidrnt of the Nebraska Hotel aoriation at the annual busi ness meeting and election of officer at the Hotel Konie yeterday after, noon. Other officer elected were: H. Ifeckert, I exitiRton, lirt vice president; M. M. Mohncy, Fremont, second vice president; O. A. I'enni KOti. Kearney, third vice president; L. R. Harper. Omaha, fourth vice president, and Chris Kocke, Lincoln, fifth vice president. . I. A. Medlar, Omaha, was re-clcct-ci secretary ami treasurer. K. D. McKaddeu, Koine Miller, Omaha, and Ralph Bryant, Hastings, were named on the lrgiMative committee. E. C. I'ppley, Rome Miller, G. H. Conant, Omaha, and R. F. Oatman, Red ("loud, were named on the ad visory committee, John I7, l'gan, Omaha, was re elected president ol th Nebraska Iowa Grerters at the annual election Friday noon at the Hotel Fontne Psychology and hotel business were combined at the morning ses sion of the Nebraska-Iowa Grceters and Nebraska Hold association at Hotel Fontenelle. Hotel business and the question, "Do Clerks Sell Rooms." were dis cussed. Then Mable Warner Rugg, character analyst and psychologist, gave demonstration of character reading. Luncheon was served at the Rome hotel at noon yesterday by the Iowa Nebraska Grcetcrs. The Nebraska Hotel association convened at the Rome in the after noon. Reports of committees, annual business meeting anil an open dis- Another Lucky Purchase Of Ladies' Hats, which will enabje us to continue . our great Sale of Mil linery. Lyon's and Panne Velvet Hats that were selling for $4.00 to $6.00, CI 40 NOW ?I-W Hats that were selling from $7.00 to CO QC $9.00, NOW....""' ALSO A new assortment of Fur Brim Hats, values up to $9-00, CO AC NOW Wv.aiJ r Selling One Lot Men's Suits and Overcoats Sold Up to $30 $21.00 All-Wool French Flan nel Shirts, values to $8.50 $2.95 Regular 20c Hos, to go at, per pair 9c 35c Garters, while they last, per pair 14c Fiber Silk Hose, all colors, per pair ....44c Arrow Soft Collars 12e Men's Slippers, $2.50 values. at $1.29 $12 to $15 All Wool Sweaters, extra heavy, at $4.95 All Wool Caps, with earlaps, blue serges included, St. . .48c Any Felt Hat in the house, to close out, at $2.43 Uu'oii ol hotel iuiMi-ii wrre on th" ' I'M'H'.HI'. I In animal b ni'i'ii t M4 kuimi i at the I 'itntrnrltc Ut,niht by the Uiii4h Hutti Men aociation. Fiuiii September to October rm ploynifiil in New Yoik Male fi- tones increased neaity ' per cent. 5,000 of these Cut Glass Water Sets Given Away Free During Our Store-Wide Year End Clearance A Set Free With Every $25 Purchase Buy on Credit 1417 Douglas St. ACROSS FROM HADEN'S BeaO 4 Appreciative Knas Gifts Fine Silk Camisoles, $1.50 values Best Quality Silk Camisoles, (J? 4 Q regular $2.25 values. P 100 Fine Leather Pocketbooks, a sample line CO QC worth to $8.50, choice. yfcS75l Fancy Lace Collar, Fancy Combs i M I rtf s2itie. and Doc 300 Fine Georgette Crepe and Fancy Silk CO QD Waists, worth to $6.50, choice . VvO Sweaters of all kinds, a sample line worth $3.95 to to $12.50, all greatly reduced, priced now. . . $7.95 Ladies' Coats. Suits, Dresses offered at a tremendous sacrifice in our Ladies'" Ready-to-Wear Department, second floor. Out! s All $40 Men's Suits and Overcoats Forced-to-Quit Price $19.75 All $50 Men's Suits and Overcoats Forced-to-Quit Price $24.85 Leather-Lined V e s t s with full sleeves, at $4.98 Dunlap Shoes $12 high grade Dunlap Shoes, to close out, at, per pair. .$6.00 $15 finest Dunlap Shoes, to close out, at, per pair.. $7.50 $10 high grade Dress Shoes, to close out, at, per pair.. $4.89 High grade $2.50 Dress Shirts, to close out, at $1.05 CLOTHES SHOP. Neckwear lleld for Muiliezlenient , Norfolk, Nib.. Dec. . (Sprcut Trlcgr.im.) Chiii lc McN'jIiy. post matter at Inn, wax hound over to Ihu federal court by United fcutcn t ommissioner Norvel here on a fed- r;i charge of fmbribng a mum y ! i-iiler amounting to f-'.W i. mmmk 98c We Quit in Just a Few Take Advantage These Slaughter Prices All $60 Men's Suits and Overcoats Forced-to-Quit Price $29.85 Men's Sweater Coats, good weight, while they last 98c $3.50 and $4 Fine Dress Shirts, to close out, at $1.49 Unionalls, our Quitting Business Price, only $1.79 Ribbed Union Suits, go at. . .98c Wool Ribbed Union Suits, all sizes, per suit $1.98 We were forced to accept large shipment of Dunlap Shoes and Overcoats;. they must go regard less of cost. Pure Silk Knit Neckwear, $2.00 values, at 98c Fine Cashmere Hose, pair... 43c $1.00 ' $3.00 FLANNEL SHIRTS $1.49 It pmyt to r4 Bsvra'a small aos. ACROSS FROM HAYDEN S V 47c orren 0j V $1.75 Neckwear, at 89c 1312 Farnam Street. Hevar4 St. Wtweca ISA b4 16th St