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BRYAN HITS AT
SUPREME COURT
Nebraska Governor Assails
Decision As to Deposit
Guaranty Fund
Lincoln, Neb , Jan. \ (I. N. S.l—
Governor Charles W. 3ryan, Friday,
assailed.the state supreme court de
cision holding deposits drawing in
terest at higher than the legal rate
are protected by the state guaranty
fund.
“It appears to me that the court
decision overrides the statute,'' the
governor' said, “as the law declare*
that deposits drawing more than.'6
per cent.! interest are not within the
provisions of the guarantee fund.” .
"If fi banker and his bank are held
to be two separate institutions and
one can add to the legal rate of in
terest it seems to result In nullifica
tion of the statute and will permit
the. guaranty fund to be raided at
will..
SHIPPERSAYS
RULE BAD ONE
Complains About Hogs Be
ing Side-Tracked “To
Rest”
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. * (Special)—
I). M. Hildebrand, stock hog shipper
of Seward, has lodged complaint
with the state railway commission
against the practice of railroad com
panies in sidetracking shipments in
order lo abide by the eight-hour rest
and wait rule. He says that the ob
ject of that order was to give the
hogs lime to eat and rest, but that
it actually results in a lot of un
necessary delay. He says that as
the hogs cannot he fed in a public
stockyurd, this is done in the car,
md there is no need to wait. He
also complains because the rate on
hogs from Whitney to Seward has
Iteen jacked' up on him from 36
cents to 50 1-2 cents without his
knowing anything about it. He
doubts the correctness of the charge.
DEPARTMENTS QUARREL
OVER NEW OFFICE
Lincoln, Neb., Jun. ' (Special)—
Governor Bryan announces that the
dispute between the state depart
ment of public education and the
board of control over which shall oc
cupy the nice new commodious suite
j of rooms in the northwestern part of
the main floor of the new capltol will
be decided without any interference
from or intervention by the state
teachers’ association.
That body appointed a committee
the other day to. see tl.'.e governc*1
and urge that the department of edu
cation be given the rooms. The gov
ernor says that there arc rooms for
all, and that the matter can be ad
justs without any intervention. The
educational department says it is a
constitutional, office and its heart
elective, while ;vthe hoard of control
is appointive^ although created by
the constitution; hence the state su
perintendent should have first choice.
NEBRASKA BANKERS
SEE DANGER AHEAD
. Omaha, Neb., Jan.' ' (Special)—
State bankers are frankly alarmed
over thp possibilities for had bank
ing op<*hed up by the recent decree
of the supreme court that a deposit
in a state bank is not taken out
from under the protection of the
guaranty fund by a depositor making
a side contract by which the banker
personally guarantees or pays him
excess interest. They say that if the
legislature does not stop up the hole
in the law that the court indicates
is there the financial stability of the
fund will be menaced during the next
period of inflation.
ASKS FOR $15,000
FOR WIFE’S AFFECTIONS
Sioux Fulls, S. D., Jan —Charg
ing Melvin Hoff, a prominent farmer
of Corson, with alienating the affec
tions of Mrs. Margnusen, Mervln
Margnuson, of Sioux Falls, has in
stituted an action in the circuit
court here by which he seeks to
recover damages of (15,000 from
Hoff. The husband charges they
were frequently together, making
appointments by letters and by tel
ephone, and that the wife now re
fuses to live with him and neglects
their children.
“Stampeders” Are
Ordered Held Up
Ketchlcan, Alaska.—“Stampeders,"
traveling by automobiles, dog teams
and afoot to the Casslar placer dis
trict strike, British Columbia, have
been stopped on the international
boundary line northeast of Wrangell,
Alaska, by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and refused permis
sion to travel to the scene of opera
tion by way of Stikinc, Telegraph
Creek and the Dease Lake trail until
MParch, according to the word re
ceived here.
The order to head off the wdnter
rush was issued to prevent hardship
and privation without proper provi
sions at Cassnir.
QUITS FAIR BOARD.
INTO AMUSEMENT GAME
Lincoln, Neb_, Jan. T. N. S.1 —
E. H. Danielson, se»»»“tary of the
Nebruska state fair, has Informed the
board of managers of that exposition
that he will not seek re-election to
the office he has held for the last
eight years, according to an an
nouncement here. He resigns as head
of the state fair to become vice pres
ident of the Midwest Amusement
company, general offices of which
were established at Sioux City and
later moved to Lincoln.
DAKOTA COUNTY
FARM INVOLVED
Supreme Court Asked to
Restore Property to
Purchaser
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. : (Special)—A.
L. Whit* dispossessed of a Dakota
county lirm that he paid for and has
operated for sixteen years, has ap
plied to the supreme court for a re
hearing. His attorneys say that if
the court allows Its decision to stand,
great damage and loss will follow to
other persons equally as Innocent In
the purchase of land.
White bought the land of i>artles
Who had bought It from others who
had purchased It from the buyer at
a sale under an execution. Tfie
Judgment debt or, was Bernard Mahon,
an old-time resident of the county,
who died in 1903. After his youngest
heir came of age she began suit to
get back the farm, claiming that
there was a legal defect In the title
White has. The suit in which the
Judgment was rendered and upon
which the land was sold was begun
against Mahon, while he lived, and
was revived against his administrator
after his death.
The supreme court says that being
real estate the reviver should have
been against his heirs. It ordered
White to give back the land, the heirs
to pay him what the land sold under
execution and for his Improve
ments. This still leaves him loser to
the amount of the difference between
the forced sale price and what he had
paid and all increment in its value.
His attorneys produce a number of
arguments and citations to show the
court it erred In its decision.
BEAUTY EXPERT CAN'T
WORK IN THAT TOWN
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. i (Spe
cial)—Mrs. Lulu Hutton Cinch is
barred for the next five years, by a
supreme court decree, from minister
ing as a beauty specialist to the wo
men of Grand Island, unless she does
so as an employe of Mrs. Sarah A.
Dow. A year or two ago, in consid
eration of being sent to Chicago for a
post graduate course in hair curling
uml cosmetic application, Mrs. Gotch
signed a contract to stay a year with
Mrs. Dow and never work for anyone
else in Grand Island. Later she went
to* Cheyenne and when she returned
to Grand Island entered the employ
of a rival shop. Then Mrs. Dow
descended on her with an Injunction.
The court says there was a time
when a person who signed such a
contract signed away their liberty,
but that Is not ;rue In these days of
rapid transpu- ation. Such con
tracts will be e forced when they are
reasonable. Til's Is a reasonable
contract. Mrs. Gotch wasn’t forced
into signing it, she has no ties in
the city and Is free to work else
where. Neither will the city suffer
because It has other beauty parlors
and other expert workers. Anyway
when a person signs such a contract
knowingly anil takes money for it,
the courts will see that they ubide by
their promises.
NEWSPAPER MEN
GIVEN PRAISE
Columbia University Profes
sor Gives Advice to Ne
braska Teachers
Omaha, Neb., Jan. (Special)—Dr.
Kollo G. Reynolds, or Columbia uni
versity, addressing of the Nebraska
Teachers’ association here paid a
high tribute to newspaper men, de
claring that they are men of high
Ideals, who want to present the news
of the day in a truthful interesting
way. He said It was the duty of
school officials to give “all the news”
they have to the press. He said no
superintendent or lesser official has
a right to set himself up as a censor
of what the public shall know about
the school system through the press.
“Don’t underestimate the newspaper
man” he warned. "His Ideals are
just as high as yours. Don't hold
the entire profession to blame just
because you had some personal ex
perience with some one newspaper
man."
NEBRASKA CITY MAN
HEADS BAR ASSOCIATION
Omaha, N'eb., Jan., . — Paul Jessen
oi Nebraska City was elected presi
dent of the Nebraska State Bar asso
ciation at the business session at the
Fontenelle,
Webb Rice of Norfolk, James C.
Quigley of Valentine, and B. F. But
ler of Cambridge were elected vice
presidents.
Allan Raymond of Omaha was re
elected secretary, and Virgil J. Hag
gart of Omaha was elected to the
executive committee for a term of
three years.
The report of the committee on
Judiciary, Indorsing a congressional
bill to increase salaries of federal
Judges, was unanimously adopted by
th< association.
The association also Indorsed the
action of the American citizenship
Committee in sponsoring a prize es
■ay contest In the VZ teachers’ col
leges in the state. ,,,>
TRIAL OF DAMAGE SUIT
ATTRACTED ATTENTION
Randolph, Neb., Jan. vSpeelal) —
Probably the most Interesting and
widely discussed case which was on
the docket of the district court ses
sion recently held at Hartington and
in which Judge Mark Ryan, the
newly elected judge, presided, was
the damage suit brought by William
Finnegan against Risenius, of Ran
dolph. for (30,000 for injuries re
ceived in an autoniobiic accident a
year ago and which resulted in a
verdict of the jury awarding the
plaintiff $£00 damages'.
WILLPUTOP
LOUD PROTEST
Bloomfield and Other North
east Nebraska Towns
Would Keep Trains
Bloomfield, Neb., Dec *. (Special)
—E. H. Mason, H. R. Van Auken, E.
F. WHter, J. C. Robinson and C. T.
Heckt have been appointed to repre
sent the local Commercial club at
the meeting to be held at Wayne,
Monday, December 29, at which time
i the state railway commission will
hear protests against the cancella
tion by the M. & O. of trains 50 and
61 on the Bloomfield branch and 40
and 41 on The Crofton branch.
L. D. Case, ■ state representative
from this district, will represent the
farming community.
Word comes from Hartington,
Crofton, Laurel, Randolph, Wausa
and other towns on the two branches
that they will have representatives
at the meeting.
The heaiing will open at 11:15 a.
m. and will be held in the Wayne
county court house.
RATES ON SUGAR
ARE UNDER FIRE
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. . (Special)-—
U. G. Powell, rate expert for the
state railway commission, is prepar
ing an exhibit to be presented short
ly to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission backing up a complaint
about sugar rates into this territory.
For years, he sgys, the overlords of
the sugar business based prices in
Nebraska on the basis of rail rates
from California, whence comes the
Hawaiian sugars. Now It is basing
them on the rates from New Or
leans, which handles Cuban ship
ments.
Central Nebraska jobbing points
are affected by the change. These
formerly had the same rate from the
west ns Omaha and Lincoln. Now
the jobbers in the latter cities can
undersell them at points west of
their locations.
CONDEMNED NEGRO
TO ESCAPE GALLOWS
Omaha, Neb., Dec. . (Special) —
Sol Wesley, convicted murderer from
here, is to escape the gallows. Three
experts from the state Insane hospi
tals have pronounced him definitely
a lunatic. He was to have been exe
cuted some months ago, but the court
stayed his execution until the ex
perts could pass on his mental capa
city. He has h^en in the hospital for
the insane of Lincoln for the last
four months under observation. He
and Leroy Mauldron, both of them
colored, killed W. M. DeerS6H while
holding up an Omaha grocery store.
Mauldron was also sentenced to the
chair, but the supreme court, be
cause It was shown Wesley did the
shooting, commuted the sentence to
life imprisonment.
»
SUGAR BEET GROWERS
HAVE STRONG DEMANDS
North Platte, Neb., Dec (Spe
cial)—Trouble is threatened in the
sugar beet districts over the making
of a new contract by growers with
the 'Great Western, which operates
the only factories in the North Platte
valley, four in number. The growers
have an association and have ad
vised their directors to stand pat on
five amendments they demand to
the 1924 contract. If the company
will not give in, the growers pledge
themselves to devote 50 per cent, of
their land next year to other crops
and the remainder the next year.
The five points insisted on are:
Increase of guaranty for beets, from
$5.50 to $6.50 a ton: that growers
share in gross profits and not net
profits, ns additional payments: that
the company agrees to act, as col
lector for association dues; that the
growers bo paid on the basis of in
dividual tests for sugar contents of
beets instead of on district basis, and
that the company either eliminate
the proviso that it shall not be liable
where losses occur through fire, ac
cident or labor trouble or else there
be ndded a guaranty of the company
that growers shall not lose by reason
of crop hazards like grasshoppers or
hail storms.
PASSES BAD CHECKS
BUT ELUDES CAPTURE
Bloomfield. Neb., Dec. ; \ (Special)
—Bloomfield merchants are on the
lookout for a young fellow who has
been passing forged checks here at
various intervals during the last
two months. He writes the checks
for small amounts, usually under
$10.00, and signs the name of some
prominent farmer. Among those
whose name he has forged are Henry
Hefner and Claus Hagge,-both well
known farmers. The checks are
marked “for labor" and the signature
in each instance has been cleverly
imitated. Strange to say, none of
those who have been victimised seem
to be able to give a good description
parently about 19 or 20 years old and
of medium build.
PIERRE NEV.'SPAPER
BEING IMPROVED
Pierre, 8. D„ Dee. —Expansion
of the Pierre Capital-Journal this
week to a seven-column, eight-page
dally publication, made possible by
extensive additions In equipment,
completes one more step In the news
paper history of the capital city of
8outh Dakota.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. ..—In order
to meet I he convenience of the pro
testing towns, the state railway com
mission has set for hearing at Wayne
next Monday the application of the
Omaha railroad for permission to
cancel two trains dally on the Crof
ton branch, which taps the main line
at Wakefield, and two on the Bloom -
Held branch, which connects at
Wayne. The commission has received
notice that every one of the towns
affected will be represented, and
that the commercial clubs will send
delegates to protest against curtailed
service. <
Some New Books Revieived
BY ELEANOR HUBBARD GARST
Arnold Waterlow—By May Sinclair
May Sinclair, wrote The Three
Sisters and though I’ve forgotten the
Plot completely, the thrill of reading
a beautiful thing beautifully done is
with me atlll. Her latest book,
ARNOLD WATERLOW, perhaps does
not have the quality which will haunt
in long after years but it is a truly
distinguished piece of work. She
combines an absorbing situation, with
sure psychological analysis of all the
characters, and a study of a man's
etarch for God.
We know from Mr. Waddingron of
Wyck that biting satire flows from
her pen- Arnold, however, she gives as
the portrait of a good man. Sincere,
Icyal and keenly intelligent. Life
batters him but as he says, "Through
ft all there was something in him
that endured—... that stood apart and
alone, beyond and above this mys
tery. It was proud and undefeated;
It would go on.”
Possibly it is the “new morality” to
which James Harvey Robinson so
often but so vaguely refers which is
developed in this book. The “Ir
regular” relation of Effle and Arnold
Is made good by the very beauty of
their love. Rosalind, as his lawful
wife, is hateful, though the attempt
is made to make her understandable
Tn giving Arnold's mother to u.° Miss
Sinclair allows herself a little of the
Irony in which she is past master
and consequently Mrs. Waterlow’s
portrait bites in a bit more deeply
than any of the others.
Though it is a dangerous thing
ever to recommend books to anybody,
at ill I will say publicly to the kind
soul who tucked Arnold Waterlow in
my Christmas stocking, ‘‘From the
bottom of my heart, I thank you.”
Postscript:—The opening chapters
describe Arnold as a little boy. They
give that hazy period with as great
a veracity as an adult pen can hope
to achieve. I believe I’ll take it back
that the book is not one of the ones
that will haunt in after years. The
flavor of the early chapters will linger
long and long.
A Strenuous Guide
What a fascinating old gentleman
he must be! And how enraged he
surely would be at such a comment!
George Moore darting hither and yon
In his mental excursions, set forth in
CONVERSATIONS IN EBURY
STREET, (Boni Liveright) is an ex
perience I wouldn't miss. Neverthe
less because of the very range of his
Interest, the casual way he jumps from
education to art, art to the abhorred
Thomas Hardy, Hardy to Paris
in 1870 and back to Moore Hall in
Ireland, makes hard reading. And the
chance that if you become indolent
and Just skim you will miss some
keen, witty obseration precludes any
very restful mulling over the pages.
His manner of writing Violates all
maxim of correct English composi
tion. Ope paragraph never clings to
one subject; quotation marks are ap
parently taboo; the overweening con
ceit of the author sticks out all over
each page—he makes no attempt to
ingratiate himself with the reader.
And yet, it’s a book to enjoy as the
far ranging thought of a man to
whom art is the supreme thing. He
cares as vitally for Landor and Bal
zac as we earthbound mortals cherish
our first born child. He has little
respect for the things most of us
Jake for granted as great.—Words- .
worth, Hardy, most of George Eliot,
one of the Bronte sisters, all forms
of modern education-—ho hurls into
the outer darkness. His opinion of
Joseph Conrad he mutes thus,—“And
now 1 beg that you will not press me
to speak more explicitly of Mr. Con
rad’s writings. I should feel that
I was lacking In courtesy to a guest.”
Some books I feel comparatively
safe In saying “I know you will like
these.” Others, I know you will de
test. This unique book, I can judge
only for myself—I found it stimulat
ing.
A Sincere Portraiture
Even the humblest of us can ape
Edith Wharton and attempt analysis
of what constitutes a good book. I
believe my prime requisite would be
sincerity. A book written primarily
for effect or for “popular consump
tion” with no attempt at an honest
portrayal of life, Is not worth the
faper it’s written on. Because EN
TRANCED, by Grace Flandrau,
iHarcourt Brace and Co.) has not an
ounce of sentimental haze, but is a
fearless and clear-eyed piece of work,
I enjoyed it. I missed reading Miss
Flandrau’s first book, “Being Re
spectable.” However, I venture the
guess that in a few years time her
name as author will not be new, but ,
rather familiar to all on the search i
for good books. There Is In this
book, a feeling of nervous tension, a
strain at fine points of analysis, that
makes It tiring to read, a defect
Which more writing will surely over
come.
The plot Is laid In St. Paul. It Is
the story of a man of charm and force
with u weak spot at the core. At the
end when ne has apparently been
stripped of every shred of self re
spect—“Already the horlzen of his
dream was widening, already he be
gan to see In some remote future a
world on its knees *o what he was to
become," and again he is commencing
to build a house of cards.
The description of the conversation
In Evanston at the h«me of his grand
mother an “eternal requiem and path
ology” is worth being put in a mono
logue by Beatrice Herford. Rita.
Dick’s sister I would like to hear of
further. She rings true as u real
Christmas Tie.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Wife gave him
a
surprise,
A tie made for
his
sake.
’Twhh very like
the
ties
That n‘.other used
to
make. _ _ '
Quick Repairs.
F-om Answers (London.)
The Inspector—1 find your scales ab
solutely correct, Mr. Short—16 ouncee
to the pound.
The Grocer—I suspected they were.
Vni point; to fix ’em when 1 act time.
perWon. However, since she to Dick ■ •
with the weak spot left out, aitd that
weak spot constitutes the story, per
haps she is doomed to live only In
cidentally in these pages. (Just a
normally intelligent, regular kind of
a parson is seldom dramatic enough
to constitute good copy.) One final
word must bo said for Undo Twing.
He’s real, he’s dramatic. How about
him for your next book, Miss Fian
drat:?
Elf, Angel, Philosopher
By C. K. P.
How many words show her? They
can only outline, suggest. This
Martha Dickinson Blanchl has done
in her LIFE AND LETTERS OB'
EMILY DICKINSON. Surely ws
have here the most entrancing per
sonality in American literature.
Bom in Amherst in 1830, Emily
Dickinson never left her home ex
cept for her short stay at the South
Hadley Female seminary, a visit to
Washington and Philadelphia and a
few trips to Boston. As she grew
older, she gradually withdrew from
the world. This desire for solitude,
Mrs. Bianchl attributes to an impos
sible love.
From the time of her father’s
death, she never left the house
‘‘except to flit about the porch at
dusk in her white dress." In spite
of this way of life she was np
misanthrope, but the tonderest of
friends, gay, daring, unique. “Half
angel, half demon,” her friend, Sam
uel Bowles, called her.
Her joy in the flowers, iho birds,
the change of seasons, is exquisite.
“Spring,’’ she says, “is a happiness
so beautiful, so unexpected, that I
don’t know what to do wi.th my
heart.” And again, “To live is so
startling, it leaves but little room
for other occupations.” As with
Keats, her “angel nerves’’ were ill
adapted for any higher vibrations
than the old house afforded with itt
safe routine.
Emily’s creedless religion is her
own. Even in this most broad
minded day, she startles one with
her jocular familiarity with Biblical
characters. “As the Bible boyishly
says,” she remarks. And further,
“Paul took the marine walk at great
risk.”
And what a darling she was with
children! To a small nephew she
writes, “Grandma characteristically
hopes Neddy will be a good boy.
Obtuse ambition of Grandma’s!”
With a box of candy smuggled
through the hedge. "Omit to return
box. Omit to know you received
box. Brooks of Sheffield.”
What a blessing it is that Emily
Dickinson’s family did not carry out
her wishes in regard to her own
work.' She left word that not only
her friends’ letters but her manu
script poems, neatly packed in her
old mahogany bureau were to be
burned. The letters were destroyed,
but the poems were rescued, and
are now appearing in a single volume
gathered together by Mrs. Bianchi
and published by Little Brown and
company.
Little Reviews by Our
Readers
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one writing the cleverest review. This,
we are delighted to announce, will be
a weekly feature of our Saturday
Book Column so if your review
dosen’t get in time for one week
watch for it the next. Did you know
that we had the state champion of
‘‘Little Review” artists right with us
here in Sioux City? Byron Sifford of
Sioux City has just won the yearly
prize offered by the Des Moines Reg
ister for the best review submitted in
the whole year to their weekly "Tab
loid Review Department.” His win
ing review iu as follows:
"The New Spoon River’’ by Edgar
Lee Masters.
With my first Spoon River
I reached success.
And ever after,
As I tried to fan the flame
That In me which they called
genius
O found but sodden dullness,
And then I turned again to my
first triumph
But Spoon River had changed
And grown beyond the compass
of my pen
And I waa done-’’
Though we all may not write with
the skillful art of the veteran re
viewer. Mr. Sifford, 1 am quoting him
Just to show you how it can be done.
Now come one, come all, and send
in your own. Don't forget that there
is a weekly prize of an entrancing
new book to the winner.
Employment in Great Britain showed
a further slight decline during Octo
ber. Among the 11,508,000 workers in
sured against unemployment under the
Unemployment Insurance Acts in Great
Britain and northern Ireland, according
to a statement by the Ministry of La
bor, the percentage unemployed on
October 27, 1924, was 11.1 compared with
10.8 on September 22. 1924, and 11.7 in
October, 1923. The total number of per
sons registered at employment ex
changes in Great Britain and northern
Ireland as unemployed on October 27,
1924, was approximately 1,247.000, of
whom 943,000 were men, 235 000 were
women, and the remainder boys and
girls.
The Clever Idiot.
From "The Triumph of Gallio, by
W. L. George.”
"Bhe was such an infernal fool, the
sort of fool who can find her way In
the time-table, understand the in
come tax, know the date of the bat
tle of Waterloo, in other words a
thoroughly well-informed woman
whom people call clever, and who's
nothing but a drivelling idiot."
Man’s Frivolities.
From the Fort Scott Trlhune.
One to five years, dolls.
Six to fifteen, marbles.
Sixteen to twenty, tennis.
Twenty-one to thirty, baseball.
Thirty-one to forty, bowling.
Forty-one to the cemetery, golf.