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PERSONALS Ed. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Pe ter* Trust Building, JAckson 3841 or HAmey 2156. Carnival Dance given by tbe Choir Guild of St. Philip’* Episcopal Church at Dreamland Hall, Thursday even ing, Octobcv 11. Music by Harmony Seven.—Adv. Mr*. E. R. Wesi. has returned from a pleasant motor trip to Kansas City, Mo., where she went to see her moth er. She was accompanied by Mes dames Susie Yancy, Garrett and Mr. and Mr*. Edward Grooms. Madam Florence Cole-Talbert, who appeared in song recital at the Strand theater, Monday evening, September 24, and her accompanist. Miss Edna Rosalyn Heard, left for her home in Los Angeles, Friday morning. They were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt during their stay in Omaha. Wanted, a woman between 28 and 38 years old, for companion. No ex penses. Room furnished. Call in person. 2429 Lake street. No phone calls.—Adv. Mrs. Ardina Watson has returned from a very pleasant month’s vaca tion spent visiting relatives and friends in Manchester, Ind., Danville, and Chicago, 111., and Des Moines, la. Mr. Claude Barnett of the Associ ated Press association was an Omaha visitor, Monday. The Collegiate club met Friday night, September 28, at the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A. Plans for the year were discussed. Officers elected for the year were as follows: President, John Pegg; vice president, Consuella Cross; secretary, Elaine Smith; treasurer, Virginia Jackson; and reporter, Madeline Shipman. Meetings will be held each Friday night. Coats re-lined. Very reasonable. Also dressmaking. 2302 North 29th street. Web. 2608. (2t) Mrs. Edna McCaw, who was quite ill last week, is reported much im proved. Mrs. Bernie B. Cowan returned last week from a pleasant month’s visit in Chicago. Miss Pauline White, who has been the house guest of her sister, Mrs. L. L. McVay, 2868 Corby street, left for her home in Denver, Colo., Sun day night. LOST—A white fez with black tas sel—Zaha Shrine embroidered. Web. 7183. FOR RENT—Modern, nicely fur nished rooms. Twenty-second and Grant. Phone Webster 3946. Call evenings after 6 o’clock. Mrs. Fred C. Williams has returned to her home in Los Angeles, after a pleasant visit with friends here en route from a vacation spent in visit ing friends in St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit. She was the house guest of Mrs. Richard Ward, 2322 No. Twen ty-sixth street, while here. Japhis Scott, 2512 Corby street, was called to Chicago to attend the funeral of his rephew, William Scott. Hillside Presbyterian Church 3th and Ohio Sts. 11a. m.—Preaching by Rev. E. K. Fenton. 12:30—Sunday School. You are invited to attend these services. For information of the Hill side Presbyterian church, call Dr. J. H. Hutten, WE. 1106, Mr. John A. Hardy, WE. 0989, Mr. N. Jenkins, WE. 3084, or R. T. KERR, clerk, WE. 3722. Harvest Home Dinner The Sacrifice club of Bethel A. M. E. church will serve a Harvest Home dinner Thursday, October 11, at the Y. W. C. A., Twenty-second and Grant streets. Carnival Dance given by the Choir Guild of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church at Dreamland Hall, Thursday even ing, October 11. Music by Harmony Seven.—Adv. It !? I':’ NEWS FROM DULUTH, MINN. | By Mrs. Jennie Murdoch Williams Miss Marguerite Horn has returned | to her work at Silver3tein and Boudy j after a two weeks’ vacation. Miss ; Horn usually visits relatives and j friends in Omaha on her vacation, but j owing to her mother’s prolonged ill- I ness, she decided to stay in Duluth i this summer. — Mrs. Esther Robinson of Racine, Wis., has returned home after visiting her cousin, Mrs. Lizzie Davis of Fourth Avenue, East. . I Carnival Dance given by the Choir Guild of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church at Dreamland Hall, Thursday even ing, October 11. Music by Harmony Seven.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lindsey and Miss Alfred of Chicago arrived in Omaha Sunday by automobile. They were the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seymour, 2626 Maple street. Mr. Lindsey is a brother of Mrs. Sey mour. They left Thursday for To peka and Kansas City. ELECTRIC INDUSTRY NOT CAMPAIGNING AGAINST GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Vice-Pre»ident, Nebraska Power Co., Refutes Charge That Utilities Are Spreading Propaganda In Schools. A sinister attempt is being made to induce the public to believe that the electric industry has been carrying on a propaganda campaign against gov ernment ownership in the schools and colleges, according to J. E. Davidson, vice president and general manager of the Nebraska Power company. “The facts do not warrant this charge,” said Mr. Davidson. “We have publicly stated our position sev eral times and we insist that no at tempt was ever made by a public util ity in Nebraska, or within my knowl edge, anywhere, to spread propagan da of any sort in the public schools or colleges.” “The electric companies of Nebras ka issued a pamphlet on ‘Electricity’ which was offered to any teachers of public schools that desired them but there was not one bit of propaganda in this pamphlet. It dealt entirely with electricity and its many uses. This pamphlet was not a text book. It was merely a paper covered pam phlet or leaflet.” Mr. Davidson said that there has been propaganda in the schools, but not issued on ihe part of the electric companies but issued against the elec tric industry and against the Ameri can tradition of private enterprise and individual initiative. John Spargo, who for a number of years was engaged as a lecturer pre senting socialistic doctrines to stu dents in colleges and ‘"'gli schools, wrote recently to the Chicago Trib une saying that the investigation by the federal trade commission of pub lic utilities has been very unfair. In his letter he told how he and others spread propaganda in the public schools against private ownership and for public ownership. Mr. Spargo in his statement said: “Every man who is at all familiar with the facts, knows that the fed eral trade investigation would not have been ordered by the senate were it not that the campaign of malignant abuse and cowardly innuendo has caused so many of our servants in office to fear being branded as hire ] lings of the ‘power trust.’ Every | man who has thus far dared to raise ] his voice against this sort of political ' muckraking and in defense of Amer ican industry has been thus assailed. I have been personally so accused de ' spite the fact that I have never re ceived a single dollar, or any equiv alent thereof, from any utility cor poration, or its agents, directly or in directly, either for services rendered, support given, or for any other pur pose whatsoever. I have never re ceived pay, directly or indirectly, from any utility company or its agents for speaking against public ownership. But for many years I did receive pay for speaking in favor of public ownership from organizations maintained for that purpose.” The Chicago Tribune, in connec tion with Mr. F.pargo’s letter, said the following: “By a fortunate coincidence, The Tribune is enabled today, Labor Day, to present to its readers a letter from Mr. John Spargo dealing with the senate’s inquiry into the so-called power trust and its propaganda. Mr. Spargo writes as a former socialist who was engaged for a number of years as a lecturer presenting social ist doctrines to students in colleges and high schools in many sections of the country. He knows that the pow er companies did not present their case in academic circles until long after the case for public ownership had been presented by advocates of collectivism. He does not believe that the best interests of this country will be served by having the coming gen eration know only one side of the ar gument, and that the theoretical as opposed to the tested side. In that view he will be supported by Ameri can labor. “It is fortunate for this country that our labor movement has never been captured by socialism as so many of the labor movements in for eign countries have been. The fact that the great majority of our unions have persisted in confining their ac tivities to their natural function, col lective bargaining, has helped to dis courage the growth in this country of the class consciousness which is the first goal of most of the foreign labor movements. Class consciousness is supposed to make unions strong; in stead, it makes them weak, for it im bues those who possess it with a sense of inferiority. Class consciousness encourages the belief that, pending the millenium, the line between the laboring man and the capitalist is one which never can be crossed. The class conscious workingman devotes , his thought to the millenium when he 1 might be striv'ng to improve his own | condition. Class consciousness dis | courages workers from making any 1 effort to increase production — for ! that is supposed to be in the interest of capital—though it must be appar j ent from recert American industrial WVWWWWWWWWWVWVWWVWWVtfWWWWWVWWWWy i ARTHUR J.WEAVER f J REPUBLICAN £ £ FOR GOVERNOR j f Native Nebraskan / J Successful Grain Farmer V I; and Fruit Grower for % 11 Twenty-five Years ^ 'I *1 f President Constitutional mm* I* Convention 1919-20 2j ;• City Attorney and Mayor .« I; of Falls City, County ■; Attorney, Member ;■ I; Legislature I; J» A Notable Record of |j • J Public Service >| I; An able, forceful, public-spirited citizen, whose election ;! means a progressive, business-like, economical J ■ I state government. \ jj NEBRASKA’S LOOM OF STATE NEEDS A WEAVERjjj 11 j I ■I CLOSING OUT SALE ;! 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