BURGLAR PROOF STAMP, LATEST Postoffice Department to Make Experiment in Ne braska and Kansas OMAHA. NEB — 470.023. The company manufactures wa ter softeners and water softener mineral. There were 322 creditors. Thirty per cent of liabilities will be paid in cash, with 15 per cent pay ments for four years and the re maining 40 per cent in the fifth year. Changes made in the com pany's process objected to infringe ment actions meet with require ments of the patent law, It was stat ed. BOONE COUNTY APPEALS CASE Would Deny Compensation to Worker Who Was Kicked by Horse LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special)—The appeal of Boone county from an or der that it pay Willis Speas certain moneys for compensation for in juries resulting from the kick of a horse, was argued and submitted in supreme court. Speas did considerable work for the county in dragging roads. On the day he was injured he was working on the roads and had driv en his horses into the barn to be fed. While passing one of them he received a kick that laid him up for six months. The law makes the employer lia ble for injuries arising out of or re ceived in the course of his employ ment. The county contended that feeding the horses was no part of his employment, In relation to the county, and occurring at a time when he was not at work no lia bility attached. BURGLARS GET SOME LOOT AT CROFTON CROP TON—(Special)—Thieves, Sunday night, broke into the dis play window cf the Klunker store and secured a considerable quantity of silk hose. The same night the International Implement house was broken into but nothing was taken. NEIGHBORS WANT 'WIFE TRADER’’ RELEASED LINCOLN — (UP) — Thirty reei dents of Bennett who petitioned that Otto Slade, “wife trader,” be freed because he has two children ill at home, drew the ire of Judge Broady, who has jurisdiction in the case. “It is most unusual for people to submit a petition to court on a pending case,” the judge said. “I am not pleased with this procedure. The cases cf the two men might have come up Wednesday but I will de fer action to make further investi gation.” Slade and Horace Red were ar rested last week when it was learned they had, by mutual agree ment, traded wives without the for mality of a divorce. They pleaded guilty April 9 and have been in jail since awaiting sentence. The dis posal of the two children in each family complicated the problem of what to do with the men, Judge Broady said. County ccmmissioneu, refused Mrs. Slade’s request for charity. HER FALSE STORY REACTS ON NEBRASKA WOMAN YORK—(UP)—Because a story she tearfully told to the pardon board was proven to be largely un true. Mrs. Evelyn Ramsey had her parole revoked and she is back in the state reformatory for women here. Her "visit” here, however, will be only for about a month as that is all that remains for her year's term on conviction at Sidney on a charge of obtaining a coat under false pre tense. Mrs. Ramsey was returned from Iowa by Parole Officer Har mon. In her story to the pardon board, Mrs, Ramsey claimed officials re fused her legal counsel and pre vented her from getting in touch with relatives. WILDING AND LOAN COMPANY TO LIQUIDATE OMAHA—(UP) — For the second ime in history, a Nebraska build up and loan organization has gone nto liquidation. Liquidation was decided upon by ofifeers of the Bankers' Savings and Loan association here Tuesday night ind the announcement, made for he first time, that two years ago tormer officers of the concern abs ■onded with $108,000. Names of the bsconders were not made public. All real estate owned by the as ociation will be disposed of by the iquidation committee headed by President E E. Kiplinger. the pro ceds to go to the shareholders. The issociation has earned $24,000 since lisappearance of the $108,000 and his also will be turned over tc -hareholacrs. WINSIDE SCHOOL ATIILTE HURT IN POLE VAULTIN’u WINSIDE — (Specie.’) — Hopes of Vrnold Trautwein, 14 years old, son f Mr. and Mrs. K. Trautwein, for participation in high school ath letes came to an abrupt end Tues day afternoon while the youth was pole vaulting. H? fell in a vault att-mpt ar.d alighted in such a way hat the coid: and tendens in his legs and feet were torn and sprained. Doctors said he will nev er be able ta eng ge in future ath letics Electioneering in Great Britain Veering Around to American Style From the New York Times. Preparations for the general election in England are going on apace and each of the three parties is horrified at the methods proposed by the other two. It is not a question of “Americanization” of British politics, though that is al leged, but of vulgarizing them. It is doubtful if they ever again can become so vulgar, or at least so sordid, as they were in the days about which Dickens used to write, but changed times have certainly brought in changed manners. With a greatly enlarged electorate—especially now that a new “monstrous regiment of women” has been added—forms of appeal have to be tried of a nature and on a scale never before known. The campaigning will be of a sort to recall Coleridge’s distinction between popularizing and plebificat ing. First just now in the minds of all British political par ties is what they irreverently call the “flapper vote.” This covers the number variously estimated of the women voters enfranchised by the recent suffrage bill. All the political leaders profess the most unbounded confidence that these intelligent young women will rally to their particular ban ner. Yet posters and epigrams and “slogans” especially de vised to lure the feminine eye are printed and circulated in vast numbers. One of the most ingenuous is a sentence past ed upon thousands of boardings: “Vote for Baldwin—he gave you the vote.” Whether that will seem irresistible logic to the female mind, notoriously weak in logic, we shall not know until the votes are counted. Of course a great deal of money will be spent on tne election, although actual candidates will need to keep very carefully within the provisions of the corrupt practices acts. The Carlton club, which is to the conservative party very much what the Union League club is to the republican, has been called upon to fork over $500,000 at once. This is in tended partly as a counterpoise to Mr. Lloyd George’s well stuffed war chest, available to the liberals. They are pro posing, in what Winston Churchill calls their “mad dog” wTay, to put up as many as five hundred candidates for the house of commons, although it is not believed that they can possibly elect 100. By splitting up the vote in many con stituencies which the labor party by itself could not hope to win, it is reckoned that they will increase the followers of Ramsay MacDonald in the next parliament. His party does not require so large an election fund as the others, and is reported to have one ample for its needs. One of the minor scandals of the political situation in England is that the race-track bookmakers, who naturally want the betting tax repealed, are supporting the labor party, which virtuously denounces public gambling as Avorse than the drink evil. Many election prophets, Avise at least in their own con ceit, are positively predicting the outcome, each according to his own taste and fancy. Perhaps the surest indication we have at present is the odds posted at Lloyd’s. These indicate that the conservatives will emerge from the election Avith a plurality over either of the other two parties, but not with a majority over them both. Should that prove to be the composition of the next house of commons, it Avould be apt to be a short-lived parliament. TWO LINDBERGHS ARE PROVIDED FOR PARIS THEATRICAL CROWDS From Time Smart Parisan children are ac customed to behold at the Chatelet theater entrancing “fairy specta les’’ called feeriques. Recently how ever this famed theater for tiny tots was taken over by actor man ager Sacha Guitry, who is usually to be found costarring with his wife. Mile. Yvonne Printemps, in Paris’ latest and most urbanely naughty hit. To the Chatelet trip ped and strode, last week. Tout Paris to applaud what one critic called “the boyish dignity and so entrancing innocence de notre cher Lindberg!” Generously the great Actor Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindbergs—Viola! Also he entitled his piece “Charles Lindberg—a Heroic Melodrama.” Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest—without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le symbol of masculine chastity. Act 1 reveals Colonel Lindberg Colonel is attractive chiefly as a hearkening symphetically to a beauteous young U. S. girl who passionately loves—a frenchman. Unfortunately her U. S. father thinks that all Frenchmen are “lousy’, dirty frogs” (hisses from audience). With boyish dignity and inno cence Le Colonel decides to span the Atlantic, uniting citizens of France and the U. S. by a common bond of heroism, and thus power fully inducing the U. S. father to let his daughter marry the French man. Two highly melodramatic scenes show the takeoff of Lindberg from Roosevelt field and his landing at Le Bourget. In both the technical staff of the Chatelet theater, famed specialists in scenic effects, nobly acquit themselves. Thus far the audience sees only Lindberg No. 1 played by M. Ar mand Chatraine a youth who was thought by all his friends to re semble the colonel at the time of Lindberg's actual landing in France. The smash-finish of the play brings on Lindberg No. 2 played by M. Pierre Tristan, who never real ized that he resembled the colonel until a Paris mob recently descend ed upon him and bore him shoulder high under the impression that the real Lindberg had slipped back to Paris. Naturally this mob scene, includ ing the original mobee, was shrewdly introduced by Playwright Inconsiderate. ‘‘Gadvs. aren't you ever going to get up?” "Great heavens! Did you wake me up just to ask me that?” , Q. How much of the flour manu i faetured in the United States is used in making cake? C. D. E. A. Of the 121,000,000 barrels of flour produced yearly in this coun try, about 5.500,000 barrels are be ing used in making cake. With an average of 7S>0 pounds of sake per barrel of flour, the per capita con sumption of this food product is estimated to be about 1.6 ounces per | day compared with r> «»*•-'- fee ounces of bread. ' Guitry as his final, terriffic curtain scene. The other Parisian theatrical event of the week was the appear ance of M. Nikita Balieff's famed Russian Bat theater, the Chauve Souris in French for the first time. Heretofore, the troupe has played exclusively in Russian, with M. Balieff introducing each act in ex cruciating pidgin-English, French, German, or Italian. Traffic and Trade From Trade Bulletin Traffic congestion is not a prob lem peculiar to the large cities elcne, but afflicts small cities to a considerable degree, according to returns to a nationwide question naire sent out by the America De partment Stores corporation to de termine the effects of traffic con gestion on retail trade. While returns from the question naire are not complete, those which have been received all indicate that traffic congestion is to a relative degree as serious a problem in the small city as in the large, particu larly in the effect that it has upon retail trade. Many of those responding to the questionnaire declare that the ef fect of traffic congestion is tend ing to decentralize retail trade. They state that the difficulities in driving to the retail trade centers and the dearth of parking facilities is diverting business from the us ual retail trade centers to neigh borhood stores. Thus, the retailers feel that the character of their trade is being changed and that they are not getting the benefits which should accrue from roads and automobiles. Lack of parking space is em phasized by a majority of the re sponses as the outstanding prob lem of traffic congestion, Manv re port that owing to lack of parking space motor trade is constantly de creasing and this trade is going to outlying stores wl"e there is avail able parking space. Numerous sug gestions are made for the creation of community parking spaces to be operated by the municipality. The decentralization of retail trade is not always a handicap, the responses show, because some merchants in smaller cities, which are on highways leading to the larger cities, state that their trade has been increased by the difficul ties of traffic in the larger cities. They report that those who for merly travelled by train to the larg er city to shop now travel by mptor and shop where they can do so with out encountering traffic trouble. In one instance a retailer in a small city which is within easv motor travel of a larger city says that he now draws trade from the resi dents of the larger city who pre fer to motor to his store rather than attempt to compete with the heavy traffic in their own city. Replies are almost unanimous in stating that police are coping with the traffic problem to the best of their ability and that the prob lem is far more underlying than one of mere regulation. Retaliation. Prom Nottingham Telegraph. Mother (in train): Tcmmy, if you are not a good boy I shall smack you. Tommy: You slap me. and I'll tell the conductor my real age. Q What are the names of six American colleges in the Near East? G. 13 A. They are the Constantinople Woman's college. Robert college, American University of Beirut, Athens college, International col lege of Smyrna, and the American schools in Sofia. The endowment fund for the six colleges is now *:o.?-so.oon.