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THE TEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. JANUARY' 30. VJ:. Titus Lowe Tnkes' Oirist as Tlieme for Final Sermon ,) Human .Vatttrt Cut Away From Influence (f S ir Kail I.ratri Crowd Laughing at Comic, Filnf as Theater Roof Falls Hrjirf.cntatne Smith it of Floriild Drtcriltfi Collapse of V'nohiiigtun Mo to Pal ire w F. Key, Tiu Lowe prcuhrd 1. 11 i'rrwr! criiu' la the fonsir6i!i;n I t ite I "ir t Mfihflit church yet unlay mnrnini,', The (hurch wa tilled to rapacity; even standing room was rvliiu.n Hi subject, "The Adequate t liri.t," wa one nearest his heart, Rev. Mr. Lowe said. "During Hip riKhi yrar and four imimlK that I li.nvc Inrn at the rirt church here I have ,madr every ef fort to krrp tip i he catholicity of irit, began Krv. Mr. 1.0 we. 1 Has IIc!4 Position. "I have never arird from the po sition that Jcti ( hrit in the mhi cf (mil; that e w nrofuary for the sal tation of the individual, of society and of the world. Jeu i entirely - adequate (or the individual or the nation, I believe there i no need for a new revelation of (ind. Chri-it hat power enough to draw hack the whole world to hirutclf, and he i now o doing. "Jru i adequate in the individual life foe moral mastery. Failure t , attain moral mastery fill the world with mn, rant ami urgfegatiuii. :iu man nature cut awav from the, m tlucnre of Christ fail; it need:' the buttressing adequately provide! by Jrsiu Christ. ".There is no power in lieil that can challenge the hitman soul mat is linked with the s-pirit of Christ. False ambition arc under control when t hrist i adequately admitted to life. Scorei Divorce MilL "One of the most pitiable exhibi tions of life today is the divorce mill It sometimes may he inevitable, hut with Christ enthroned in every home the divorce lawyers will be driven out of existence. ? "His radiance chanties a house to a home. He is adequate to sanctify the home. Men attempt to build up their own moral standards, but they , inevitably break under t.-mpta-lion. Christ is entirely adequate for the aspiration of the soul; adequate in the ills of circumstance and in the sudden accidents of life. "The man without Christ, who is clubbed down by the force of cir cumstances, has a way out: a re- volvee nlaced at his temple. If he : as- Christ he has readjusting now er. 'jesus is adequate to open the grave into a great highway. "I have said the same thins many times during my eight years in Oma ha,' said Kev. Air. l.owc m closing. '""As long as the church is staunch for the adequate Christ so long will it' be a. blessing to ihe community , ; ' . Makes Personal Touches, ' There were occasional personal touches in Rcv. Mr. Lowe's sermon, which, brought .handkerchiefs .to thp eyes-of. &om.. Ij'c.lqsing.he'. appealed to; th(5se ."who have "never ye .jrnre the adequate Christ a place in thei heart to do so pow.V A special musical service was held at the First Methodist church in the evening, when Rev. Mr. Lowe s'poke iit 'The Most Critical Moment in Man's Life." - ' ' He leaves today for New York, to take up ncwrduties as corresponding secretary of (he board of -foreign misr sions of the Methodist-church. i-, ,;Parvin Witte, .director of the Ne braska ,r.VVesIeyan University. Glee club, assisted with the music at the morning and evening services. ' . - j 'Vv Bishop, to- Fill Pulpit. ' Bishop C. 'B. 'Mitchell of Minne-, apolis-is to fill the pulpit at the First, Methodist next Sunday. Bishop Ho mer. C. Stuntz will preach there Feb ruary 12, and -if a successor to Rev. Mr, Lowe has not arrived before March 5, Bishop Joseph F. Berry is to occupy the pulpit on that date. Washington, Jan. 2, An aaU anche of broken plater, britk-s, naw, (splintered wood and twisted itcrl brant catapulting on the iiudirnce while the orchestra played and a comedy Mm ground out, is the romption of the Knickrrbork er theater disaster givrn today by Representative John if. Sinnhwiik i iVntacola, Ma. lie was in the balcony when the roof collapsed under it weight of mow and es caped unaided just bow, he cannot recall with more or less trriout hurt.. The orchestra vat playing and a comic film wa running." he laid in hi bed, bandaged with hi face ami hand covered with cut. Sud denly there was a sharp crack. 1 w great fissure running across the crtlinjr. right over my head. The plaster began to fall, all over the theater, it remed to me. While 1 wa looking up a great piece right over my brad Martcd to tall. I ('inked, crouching involuntarily. I suppose, down between the seat, The piece struck the neat where I had been sitting. I he torce wa broken by the scat, but it pinned me down. Noise Awful. "The' noise wa awful. It wa ; great roar. It was simply indescribable- I never can forget it. "In the midst of the roaring were shrieks and cries of women and children and a few shout of men. There were cries for help, groans and worst of all, the moans of those in terrible pain. It was awful. can't , describe it. I see it all the time, those poor children and men and women crying and groaning. "There were only a few of us in the balcony. Luckily there were not more. I he balcony gave wav and crashed, soon after the ceiling began to fall onto those on the lower floor. They were caught the worst. 1 guess there was a lapse ot may be 20 seconds, hardly more, be fore the balcony fell. Funny, but it kind of twisted, as its supports gave way and it swung down on those below. It didn't go straight down, just kind of sideways and slanting- Escapes From Debris. "I don't know how I got out from where I was crouching under that chunk of plaster. I really be lieve it weighed 500 pounds. And think I moved that plaster, with niv shoulders. Anyway, I crawled out between the seats to where I saw a small hole in the plaster above. . 1 forced myself up through that hole. Thrn 1 crawled out over the snow and plaster, over the tangled debris, to the doors on the fc-ighteentn street side. i "Across the aisle when the crash eame. ' was a uuie ienow 1 never saw him' again-and I wonder if he-''- is : dead who- . laughed and roared at every especially funny part of the film. I don't know what became of him or the otners in me balcony. ' "The plaster fell first, .in chunks. It was 'just like an ice' pond break ing up. ' l he root oian i give way mi i mi i ii in mii r n1- V x fen j G Rep. John H. Smithwick. one crash. It seemed to break tip everywhere. That let in the snow. "It's queer, but I wa conscious all the time when I was pinned down by that great piece of ceiling. My mind, when 1 saw the ceiling falling and afterward, was just as clear and collected as now. I knew I was hurt some, but I didn't know how badly. It seemed my time had come. I lived a year pinned down between the seats. Get Out Without Help. "It wasn't until I got outside that I noticed blood falling from my face and band. 1 got out myself. No one helped me. I crawled over the broken seats and' plaster and snow to the door. On the way I saw a young fellow lying hajf curled up, moaning and crying for help. I leaned over to lift him and then everything went black. The next I remember, I was at the door, wip ing the blood from my eyes and mouth. I don't know how I got out. I didn t see any other injured ones as 1 crawled. . I can't remem ber about that part of it, My only thought then was to get t 1 f 1 .L-..I j lj:. w f - . nomc nciorc t snoum uic. .mv enesi pained me, my back seemed broken my face was dripping with blood. All 1 wanted swas to get home and tell my wife and little girl what had hap1 pened. I thought I was going to die" Representative Smithwick, . ' who lives about a block away, said he staggered home without overcoat or hat, through the snow. Physicians found him suffering .. from shock, bruises and possibly, internal in nines. I think it was a miracle that 1 came out alive," he said, "but think of those poor children and men and women not so fortunate. I don't see how any who were under that bal conv escaped. If those below could have seen the ceiling breaking they would have had time to rush out through the doors. Those"underheath us had no chance. I guess-.: I keep thinkinn of it all the time, that awful roaring and the crashing of the bal- conv on its wav down to those peo ole below. It. was all over. in. half a minijte, I guess, butv. jt .seemed hours. t . Wits in 1922 Is , Desire of . Farmers Known Dead in. Movie Crash Noy Number 90 (Continued From Page One.) the steep slope of the fallen baJcony to safety, although many were Struck down when the roof ' came .in. ; Some were hurled down into the pit wreckage when the balcony -front fell and even' some, of these escaped with, bruises. There, is-, no' "record;' however, of any - survivor afnoni? . those in the foremost balcony seats. Calls for Aid. . , Frantic calls for aid went '.out; as soon as' those- in the double- walled structures-which'' form- the -Eight-; renth street and back wall of the au ditorium realized what happened? - -These two. three-floor wings- form' the offices,: a. store, along the Eighf-r eenth street front, and . house .the ifairwaira "anVl "iUa annrnarhic anfl lexits. both on, that side and along tbe back wall, and they were not in yplved in the disaster, which was iconfincd : to the . auditorium. -t Later. Shis store and corridors became the ifirst aid stations as ; the mangled victims were , dragged out. , Flremeu fought their way through; the heaping snow drifts in answer to a general alarm. Police ; -patKils" filled with men, ' churned and 'skld-j ded through-the white muck in an-.' swer to a. summons, marmes' camc. at double time, panting througlvtht heavy going. At Fort. Meyer acros-v the river, the cavalry . wa's '.tSrned out ana stariea m injcic loaos to tiie rescue, only to find roads srowed in. The men shoveled their ' cv frantically, but finally four u;:!c teams from the fort and the engineer barracks were called on. 20 of ; 1,524 Industrial ' Accidents Fatal in W. . Va. Charleston.' V. Va., Ian. 2?.-In-juries in industries of West Vrrgini-. tiering last month numbered 1,524, ot which 20 were fatal, according to tlj3 report of Lee Ott, workmen's com pensation commissioner. One of .the fatal accidents occu--rod in the lumber industry and the w thcrs occurred in the coal mines. Freed of Murder Charge. Cambridge, O., Jan;r29. The jury i-i the second trial of former Mayor Jacob J. Calvert, charged with shoot-ji-t Thomas McNiece, returned a ver- , ct of not guilty todaj" Calvert v.s i";isnd guilty at his fir trial (Continued From Pag One.) prices' get in' harmony, he will buy gain." : Local Capital Used. : Mr. , Baird, like all other farm- bred men who passed through other periods of depression, declares that there is absolutely no analogy be tween the hard times ot last year ?nd those of 1893. Then the loans were made chiefly by eastern inves tors, whereas . now very few tarm loans are sent out to investment bankers. Locaf capital finances prac tically all the credit in Nuckolls countv. Only one bank customer out of , eight is . a borrower. The other seven haven't borrowed and hold 90 per cent "of the deposits. The banks of the vicinity are said to have been able to invest in $200, 000 worth of government bonds and treasury certificates. . -The sight of 150 automobiles on the streets of Superior gives con tradiction to the canard that farm ers no longer are able to afford this means of quick transportation. Qi) Saturday, which is the main day for shopping, from 300 to 500 cars are Idrjven to town. That farmers are; paying cash for their gasoline also indicates that they are not "stony ' broke " The hotels report a' heavy f business from traveling salesmen and last night had stand ing room only. There has not been one merchantile failure. Farm folk and the business men 'who supply them are at one in holding that the rural population is entitled to all the luxuries of life. The, fact , that since the fall of 1919 lOTicee.tof '.many -farm products were talow-'lhe,. cost of production auto- if.t)4alfy threw the farmer 'and his "family out of the class ot liberal ;buj;ers. Out in. the country no one is- willing to admit that any of the conveniences which are an ordinary 'Jtature of city life- are not to be liad for farm homes. Wealth of Produce. There is a wealth of produce on these -western Nebraska farms. The upward turn of prices has started some of it to market. The North vesteYn railway recently has put back two freight trains 'that were removed during the low period. Su perior has a terminal elevator hand ling a good deal of wheat for the southern ports, a flour mill, three cigar factories, a cold storage house, the largest farmer-owned creamery in. the. state, operated by the Farm ers' "union, and the only cement plant in the state. There is also a hydraulic electric plant which sup plies several towns in the vicinity with current, and also sells light andpower to farmers along the lines. T,here has been only one bank j failure in this entire district, and practically no farm foreclosures. The spirit of co-operation is strong, hav- jing grow n steadily since the organ-1 ization almost 50 years ago of the first co-operative livestock shipping association in the state. -To auote one observant; resident, "The farmers never, 'in this ' whole period of business stagnation, have been very bilious in Nuckolls coun ty, - -- " - - 'V '' ' "And, unless the people of the cities cheer up and . look tin the bright side, there are a good many thrifty, .hardworking farmers ' who will feel like sitting on the fance and laughing at them. - Germany Asks Allies Relief on Payments (Continued From Pace One,;) , upon. The compulsory loan will be nonrecurring and 'is ; intended to fi nance t'rn reparations ' due in 1922, without h. creasing paper circulation. Relief Necessary: - ' It ' is absolutely necessary, if -.'the matter is viewed from an , economic standpoint, the note says, that Ger many should at least for 1922 be relieved of all cash payments on ac count of reparations.. .. v The German government recog nizes that economic and financial considerations must yield to political necessities. It refers to the figures taken into consideration at Cannes by the allies, namely, 720,000,000 gold marks in cash and 1,450,000,000 gold marks in kind, and requests a reduc tion in the cash payments increas ing, if necessary, payments in' kmd. Il; also proposes that the costs-of occupation should be credited to the total sum in cash and kind paid in 1922 and that the other obligations in- foreign currency arising from the peace treaty, especially clearing house! obligations, should be mitigated. Germany reaffirms its readiness to collaborate by all the means in its power in the restoration of the de vastated regions; the Weisbade' agreement was concluded in this spirit. Germany also is prepared to conclude agreements with the other" allies' regarding- deliveries in kind. - Sea Turtles in Possession;'; . of Gulf of Tehuaintepec San Pedro. Cat,, Tan. 29. Thou sands of large sea turtles have taken possession of the Gulf Of Tehaun tepec, on the coast of Mexico.'ac cording to reports brought to this port by officers and crew of' the freighter Cape Romaine. As .evi dence, the ship's crew had four tur tles, caught m a net without- reduc ing the speed of' the vessels. Shells of the turtles measured ihte. and one-half feet in width."'- i Mrmnn ii.m nor : pt j f - at Rome to Elect New Church Heat Kvery Nationality Kxpcftfd to kSend- DrlrgHtf JS'ow Represented Except America. Br ts A 114 I'm. Home. Jan. J9.-With the arrival of Cardinal. Merrier, Kakow ky. Dalbor and Ctrruoch, arch bishop, respectively, of Hrustrlr, Warsaw. Pox-n and Budapest, every nationality expected to have dele pate at the conclave which it to elect a ucceor to Tope Itcnedirt XV t represented except America The death of Cardinal Almaraa fantoi. archbishop of Toledo, a few day ago, hai reduced the number of foreign cardinal to Zv, if one in elude Cardinal Merry Del Vat, i native of Spain, but a long-time resi dent of Koine. Cardinal Cava! Canti of Brazil Begin of Canada, Herrera of San tiago, Spain, and Hello of Portugal have informed the Vatican ccrttann: that they would be unable to attend the opening of the conclave. Cardi al l'risco of Naples and Cardinal rancica-Nava of Catania, both Ita! urns, will be unable to come on a; CDunt of ill healtL .Thus the con. clave is likely to be composed of tnly si cardinals.. It was learned today that the Qecbo-Slovakian government has refused to "take olhrial note of re cript of the official notification of tht icath of rope Benedict. This was .enrned through the secretary to Cardinal Dalber. who said, however, that the.Caecho-Slovakia government cmcially recognizes the presence ,ot qe papal nuncio at i rague. Only certain religious rites ore- scribed by canonical law, in which the cardinals will be participants, re? main before the sacred college is locked within the Vatican walls to choose the successor of Pope Bene dict XV. There will be three more reauiem masses, in which four or five cardi nals will take part, and after that the conclave will begin. According to the present arrange ments the conclave will open Febru ary 1. AH the doors of the Vatican will be bolted, and the palace will be shut off from the outside world. Drs. Battistini and Cherubim, who attended the late pope, remain within the Vatican. The monks and the whole Vatican staff were notified today that their services would be no longer needed until the end of the conclave, except for a very limited number of employes; these will be sworn to secrecy. . List of Identified Dead, and Injured r : Cartoons .of Ithe Day . (Cuornjsli Ul Bi TM CfcK-w TntmMl TlfSw S if ' : -. - " J ' I IJ fl '( Th,4?orkeeper. FRANCE WANTS V5 SE K!Ly-V AM Af HAMTF - I fi.h mCftWitr W Premier Poincare is thinking of the next war. C0 50 ' ts V "v we Solemnly SWE.Af?TODEFEHD AND UPHOLO THE I C0N5TIT0TION-5O FAR AS AGREEABLE TO US A "Liberal" interpretation of an oath. (Continued From Fft( One.) bocker theater are: Mrs. Bateman Adams, Nohjle To masso Assereto, third sepretary of the itanan embassy; June Ucrgman, Mrs, Hazel Buehler. R.'J. Bowen. Mrs. R. T. Bowen, Mrs. Bernard Bresslau; Miss" Sadie Bresslau Toseoh C. Rrnee. tuion erumoaugn, uubert Laplan. m. t. castney, Mrs. Mary Chalmers, v aiiin. iviiss-Margaret LO f. ame A.' Curtain, F; W. Dodson, I, B. Dod son'; 7,'.L.;Durlahd,Irs. J. L. Dm land,; Mrs. Guy Eldridge, Miss Mary .Forsythe. Miss Ruth Foiits, William A. Galloway, Dr. Clyde -M, Gcarhart, Norman L. Gibson and sis ter, Mrs. Haley; Hugh Glenn, Moe Gold, Dr. Custis Leehall and wife. Ivy Hamilton, Dr. E. E. Havdcn. wife and two children; Warren Hel-' pnen, Mrs. Douglas Hillyer, Capt. j.. xt. finis, u. b. A., and wife; M.. Pera Hill. Miss Helen Honkinc Margaret John, John Klenncr, .Mrs. Howard Knees. Henrv T. L'acevI S. M. Lee, Clarence Long. Tohn A. Man. got, ureste Matillo, Lillian Masse, John T. McEverley, Mrs. Julius Mc- jxinnev. Mertie. . Mr. and Mru. Jonas Michaleas, V. T. Monahan, Wakefield, R. I.; Scott Montgomery, John A. Mdrgant, H. Br Moses, Her bert and Mildred Nash, John nd Katherine Nesbit, Clarence New Kirk, Mrs. E. Pasnttale. Alise Pas- quale, Henry Person, Miss Virginia j ooie, miss Kiitn rostiey, Mrs. Henry S. Powell, Henry Wilson and Miss Edelin Wilson. Tohn Marie Rhea. Belle Rembo. EHwavd A.'' Sacks,- New York City, Harry" r. oacy, waiter urd iiaey, Mrs. MaV tie Schwab,' E. H. Shaughnessy; sec ond assistant postmaster general; Mrs. E. H. Shaughnessy, Myrtle Shaughnessy,' Ruth : Shaughnessy, Representative John A. Smithwick of Florida; Albert R. Sward, Martha Strayer, Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, Lieu tenant Colonel Tavlor. II. S. A Leonard and Elizabeth Theunisseii! vnnsuana i nompson, Etta Under wood, Caroline LJoshaw. Nathan T Urdong,. Alphonso Van Pouckc, Col. C. ,M. .Wesson, U. S. A.; Nancy Wesson, Miss MacLean White, Ed ward A. Williams, Miss Marie Young, Mrs. Joseph Younger, Lieu tenant Commander Zalaski, medical officer of marine barracks, and wife; iurs. juneue weoo, Miss Inez Woodruff. Navy Airplane Sold by Gunner of Marine Corps Man Arrested at New York Confesses to Disposing of Government Machine to Former Army Officer. Revelry Wave in New York Surpasses Nights of Babylon Intoxicating Liquors Flow Like Water Sensuous Dances Make Even Sophisticated ., Gothamites Gasp With Their Daring Entertainment '.?Kj: if Abandoned at the Dawn of Day.i v;;.v , Oinali Bee Leased Wire. : '.Washington,' Jan, 29. Investiga tion-by the Department of Justice ' . J - ,' 9 i I." j ! ana tne marine corps nas resuueu m charges that an airplane belonging to the corps was sold- by a gunner to a former army ' officer and an other man;.. ." ,l ... ' v ,' According 'to; -the. bureau of in vfistigation. John L. ,;McCoy, -.the gunner, "'obtained permission about September 19, .1921, to make a flight irom tne training station at jraris island. He returned to the station a few days later with a story that the plane had been wrecked in' the marshes, near bavannah, -ua. Later the Department of Justice and the marine corps began mves ligation', "with the result that McCoy, who had left Paris ' island, was traced to the marine corps hospital in New York city. There, so the bu reau of investigation asserts, he confessed that the plane had not been wrecked, but that he- had land ed near Savannah and sold the ma chine to two men, Roscoe Turner and Harry Runser. Acting on this information, agents from the Atlanta office "arrested Turner, a former army- lieutenant and recently an exhibition flyer, at Colombia, S. C, and Kunser at Fort Wayne,' Ind. t - - ' ' . 1 University Pair Brings Rare Plants From Borneo Los Aneeles. Tan. 29. Chaplain Joseph Clemens of the University of Southern California, and . wife, who have returned to their home here af-. ter passing several years in the far east, have two notable distinctions to their credit. Mrs. Clemens is the only white woman ever to climb to the peak of Mount ' Kinabalu, highest mountain in Borneo. . " Chaplain Clemens dis covered the blue orchid, a very rare plant. The Clemenses suffered great hard ships in living in caves 10,000' feet above sea level in Borneo," but man agedto gather one of the most val uable collections of rare plants ever obtained in that part of the world. Los Angeles Bureau Gets ": ' 13,000 Jobs for Veterans Los Angeles. Tan. 29. The sol diers' and sailors' employment bureau conducted here by the Ameri can Legion reported that in 1921 it obtained JJ.UOO joliSSfoV, association -t CBritributcd a -- iund - for maintenance of the bureau. fooneieTroUey? Reality ,, - , -j ( ' .. ,'-5 Suburb of Cleveland Boasts of Dinky Street Car Linejth fSkipper," Run Mostly for Accom- rhodation of Housewives. 1 Cleveland; ;:, Un 29. Cleveland leightsV' boasts' of; a dinkey ' street '.car linfi' Tt is managed and piloted by, ".Skipper" Jim Moran, and is run; mostly for' the' accommodation of the housewives. ; The 1907 model, car, its mile of double track., (oitjy one of which is sed) aniJta.iabourtenances are of ficially. tli '.Washington Boulevard Kailway company, Inc. i 'The trolley is oblivious to sched ule.- It waits until it has a fair crowd and then goes. It used to be operated on a 20-minute schedule, but as one can walk the entire length of the line in about 15 min utes, steady passengers declared an embargo and refused to wait. veterans; The Merchants aiidanijfa.c.t,u.i;ersi The line fell so low on fares at Zice-nts a.head that somethiae had io be done. The company went to the village officials and asked to be relieved of the car line in toto. The, Heights officials dug up a' dusty franchise and pointed out that it was for 25 years and had most of this time to run. . .,.' "You'll have to keep on operating until we tell you to quit," they said. "Besides, .you're a public institution and we can't get along without you." ,-, By this they meant that when hard-pressed housewives at the east ern end of the line wanted a pound of butter in a hurry they would go to "Skipper" Jim and give hinv the money and a plea for a quick purchase at the stores at the other end of the line. .When the car came back the butter came along. The upshot of it is that the car runs now about at the demand of the 'steady pssedjers.-" V By CLAUDE R. COLLINS. Unlverml Service Staff Correspondent. New York, Jan. 29. A wild wave of revelry, has swept into, the night me oi jncw loric. Rome or Babylon, in their palm test 'days, could not compare to the palaces of joy in upper Broadway's yawning chasm of scintillating lights, .rrom midnight until long past dawn the revelries are at their height. Intoxicating liquors flow like water. .. Semi-nude women perform sensuous dances between the tables of hilarious diners while kings of Syncopation and rollicking jazz pro duce whining harmonies which pack the limited dance floors into solid masses of swaying dancers. There is nothing new in the tune of constantly clinking glasses con taining highballs, rickeys, fizzes and straight liquors which -many believe have long since passed. If you have not brought your hip supply of liquid that cheers, a few words to the waiter, and the necessary greenbacks, will generally produce whatever your parching palate craves. But this is common knowledge. Dancers Scantily Clad. The scantily clad professional dancers, however, are just coming into the public eye. In the past fort night they have stirred a wave of cunOus comment. Their diaphanous costumes and unusual antics have created considerable furore in the Rialto.' " The extreme wildness in the new era of night life seems to-be con fined to residents of New York or visitors acquainted with the cafes and cabarets. - Naturally, it comes high. A cover charge of from $2 to $4 per person is made by the more fashionable cates. urange juice or lemonade is $1 a glass. In toxicating liquors bring a price mat would make the most hardened of bootleggers blush. If one has plenty of money there is no trouble in locating the palaces of joy. iThough all of them remain open until 5 or 6' o'clock "in the morning, when dancing resorts should be legally closed, they make no effort at concealment. Thp removal of earments and the wriggling details of the professional exhibition dances outdo anything of the kind ever seen in New York. Even the sophisticated oldtimers on RrnaHwav have been forced to sit up and stare in wonder at the unusual j antics. ''- " " ' . ; CotnDanion Quits. Last night I made a tour of the white light district to learn first hand of this new era of night life, tales of which are passing from tongue' to" tongue. 'At midnight I started out - on my rounds of the resorts, accompanied by the lady who goes to tho. theater with me. After leaving the second cafe the lady in question decided it best that she return home. ' The cafes , we" had visited were considered the tamest of the night life rendezvous and already my un sophisticated "companion had been shocked." '.'.', Our first stopping place was one of the oldest 'and 'best known of the Broadway establishments. Wait ers were rushing here and there supplying a public that carried its own hip flask with the various ac cessories for-fancy alcoholic drinks. The orchestra is playing almost continually. The limited dance floor is so jammed with fancy steppers that it is impossible to dance and the couples seem satisfied to squirm and shake as best they can to the tan talizing trains of the music. -Those who are not, dancing sip what ap pears to be highballs or cocktails. The more they sip the more hilar ious they become. Turn Lights Out. Finally the jazz band is quiet, the dancing stops and the floor is cleared. The lights are extinguished and a half dozen urns of incense lighted on all sides of, the room. Then,- as the fumes fill the atmos phere with a pungent, " ; : pleasing odor, the orchestra suddenly begins a low, whining tune. A spotlight flashes from the ceiling at one side of the room, casting its rays on the top of a long stairway extending from the wall of the other side ot the rosin to the dance floor. Into the light steps a beavily veiled dancer. Later we learn she has gained considerable fame in ca baret revues and musical comedies Slowly she descends the steps, then, as the strains of the orchestral din becbmfe louder and more lively, she begins a wild Egyptian dance at the height of which the heavy veil is dispensed with, revealing the maid en in limited, very limited, attire. From her hips ban-- several pieces of cloth, apparently meant to serve as a skirt. On each heel is a blotch of red point. Otherwise she is un clad. Liquor Flows Unhampered. At 2 a. m. we entered another court. Unlike the first this place is small and intimate. As in the first place liquor . was circulating . freely on every hand and the entrancing strains of the jazz orchestra kept the dance floor filled. : Promptly at 3 o'clock the lights were dimmed. Green spotlights were thrown on the center of the dance t'ioor. The exhibition dancers ,are ready. First enters a man dressed as a South Sea islander. Then four liulu hula girls enter. All are very young and comely. They wear no c'othing worth the name. The dance they perform is a series of wriggles. The leadine danseuse is an Amer ican girl who became famous at the height of the shimmy ' craze a year ?go. Her muscular "' convolutions are remarkable.. As she steps around the edge of .the dance floor within a few feet of the gentlemen guests, she directs her attention firs! toward one man, then another, mean while performing a shimmy writh ing that would arouse the envy of any Hawaiian belle. Finally the dance ends, ine dancers with grace ful, creeping steps wend their way among the tables to the exit. :..' Then the orchestra begins an oxo lic whining melody. The floor soon fills with closely dancimz couples. The wriggly exhibition seerns to have exerted an influcucc on. the dancers. Greenwich Village, Too. -, Famous old Greenwich Village is not omitted in this sudden wave of wild night life. In this quarter of ohort-haircd women and long-haired men, jazz also reigns supreme. The oczen or more popular resorts offer many novel and spicy mediums of en tertainment. Most of the village re sorts seefn to have heard nothing of Volstead--or- prohibition and liquor runs fast and free if you have the-price.-": ' " ' " ; .- Americans who have recently becrt abroad declare the famous resorts of Paris are mimicking the cafes and cabarets of Broadway. From what I saw in a few hours last night no American need to go abroad to find m'ght life as wild as Paris ever dreamed it might be, within a stone'-i throw of Times square and "Flash Alley ' ' . j& m mm. VI 1 -ut lAiiuui ji.wa to Meet Here for Drive Conference, State Uu Quota of ?!2 .()00 to Kie for Alleviation of llarr' Suffering in Kuropf. More than 2K leading Jen i f the state Hill meet in Onuha Sun day, February 5, ta attend the con fernice f traders in tht statt.vid campaign to raise I25,004 lor the) tutU-finir Jrw (it (he war-stricken. countries of 1'nrope. William II. airman. iUte rhkirman of the drive, Mill be in charge of the ceufrretne. which will be held at the Jcttii.li community center, Lyric building. The drive tarts February 6. A mertine of the Om. aha workers will be lu-l.l Wediirx day night at the Jewish community center. At tint mettinir a kit con. taming' the working plain of the campaign; a pro.prrtu showing tho horor of present living in the war stricken part of Furopcj pledge rurdi and a book of questions and answers will be givrn to each worker. Kvi-ry JcwUh family in the cit will be vUited. None will be mi-sed. according to Chairman Jacobv we have done a great oral, but more is expected of u." Chairman' Jacobs said last night. "Men, women and children are dying of starvation in Europe while we fca.-.t in this country. Even the Atlantic cunnot separate tis from that suffering, 1 hey are our nciKhbors. the same a if they lived across the street. "Winter's cruel blasts are tilling hundreds. According to word re ceived here on every road and in every town, Jewish men, women and children are shelterless, famished and naked, parched with fever and suffering of typhus. We must heir them." Governor Faces Hard Fight on Gas Tax Bill (Turn la Fare Five. Column Kour.t bill say they do so because it i unpopular, although admitting it will grow in popularity. When its real purpose is understood they'll have more difficulty and embarrassment in explaining their votes against it than they would their votes for it " Sense Growing Popularity. The attitude of the democratic members against the bill two days ago, who say now they are in doubt now, they will vote, is looked upon as a support of the statement that the gasoline tax is growing in popularity. The fact that 16 states have it and find it a popular wav to raise monev for good roads, and that many legis latures are passing such a law this winter, -is said to be influencing the democrats, who see that there will be popular clamor for a gasoline tax and wouldn't be adverse to injecting such a plank into their own platform tne republicans reject it. May Vote "Aye." The report here toniirht was that the democrats,'-; -with, one exception rnen tne names are called alphabe cally, will vote for the bill if thev discover from earlier votes cast that it is probable it is lost. The fact that. Governor McKel- le has announced he wouldn't be Candidate for United States sena tor and would take active charge of hie HCWSnnnpr Knuinee 'of tha v piration of his term is working two ays. It has robbed the opposition of th charge that he is pushing the bill foe . political purposes, while on the other " hand it has robbed him of some im fluence, respecting possible patron age. Protests Have Ceased. It is admitted by both sides that protests against the bill have ceased, and people from various parts of the state, finally realizing that the aim o.f the bill is for the purpose of tak ing the burden of road building tax ation off property owners and plac ing it. on users of good roads, are sending telegrams to members urg ing that they support it. World War Veterans Make Best Students Washington, Jan, 29. World' -wart veterans make the best students, ac cording to scholastic records an nounced here by the United states veterans' bureau. . Soldiers who. returned to their uni versities after serving in; the world war scored httrher scholastic Grades. the records showed, than their class mates who enrolled since the war. The records also showed that the former soldier was more earnest in his study and more anxious to learn. Records sent to the bureau from, the University of Minnesota showed the veterans led both fraternity and nonfraternity me"n.' Similar reports were also received from the Leland... Stanford " university, University of California and University of Wisconsin.- Member of Howat Mine Boanl Attempts Suicide Pittsburgh, Kan., Jan. 29. Wtllard Titus, member of the deposed Howat district miners' -uhioin ; board, at tempted to commit - suicide. He shot himself in the head, but will re cover. Action of the interrfational miners' union in suspending the Howat or ganization in Kansas was blamed by officials' at the Howat headquarters for the action of Titus. Mrs.' T4tus, however, said that ill. health had caused her husband's act. Steamships Arrivals. New York. Jen. 18. Colon. Colon. London, Jan. 88. Centennial State, New York. , Coxhaven. Jan. H. Estonia. N-w Tork. Ohrlstlania, Jan. 13. George Washing ton, San Francisco. ' Napier, Jan. 25. Waikawa, San Fran cisco. " ' , . Melbourne, Jan. - Hollywood, Port land, Ore. Hongkong, Jan: 15 Empress of Russia. Vancouver. San Francisco. Jan. S. Murama, Syd ney, Papette; Manchester Spinner (BR) t'anllfr. . , New Tork. Jan. J. I.a Lorraine. Hsrrr; Prlncena Matolka, tjueenstown; Caronla, Cadli; Valacia. London. Jepar( tires. Manila. Jan. 2. Hooaltr Slata, San -Francisco. Southampton, Jan. IS. Aiuitan,a, Kiw Tork