Nebraska Newspapers

    RECORD CROWD
ATTENDS FAIR
114,473 Pass Through the
Gates of Nebraska’s
Great Exposition
LINCOLN, NEB—(UP)—A holi
day crowd that Jammed the fair
grounds Monday, almost necessitat
ing '’standing room only” signs, set
an all-time one-day attendance
mark at the Nebraska state fair.
A total of 114,473 persons went
through the turnstiles Monday, as
compared to the previous high one
day record of 106,173 set last year.
The attendance Tuesday was ex
pected to be only half of the holi
day crowd.
Frances Axtell, of Jefferson coun
ty, and Milton Gustafson, of Phelps
county, will represent Nebraska at
the national contest at Chicago in
December as the champion health
bey and girl of 4-H clubs.
Norman Bulling, of Lancaster
county, won first honors as the best
hog showman in the boys and girls
chib division.
Milton M. Thorson, of Mead, Is
the new state champion 4-H club
beef showman.
Elmer Young, of Havelock, is the
dairy champion showman.
BIG SPECTACLE
BEING PLANNED
University Professor Write*
“Making Nebraska, Pag
eant of the Plains”
OMAHA. NEB—(UP)—One of the
most elaborate pageants ever staged
in the Middle West is planned for
the Nebraska Diamond Jubilee here
November 6 and 7.
Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander, for
mer professor of philosophy at Uni
versity of Nebraska, has been com
missioned to write the pageant
which will be titled: “The Making of
Nebraska; a Pageant of the Plains."
More than 1,000 persons will take
part in the dramatic tabloids. A
chorus of several hundred voices
will sing during the performance. A
large number of horses and other
domestic animals will be used to
portray some of the historical inci
dents.
The assistance of Rev. Daniel A.
Lord, St, Louis, Mo., recognized as
a writer and producer of pageants
Is sought to aid Dr. Alexander. The
John B. Rogers Company of Fos
toria, Ohio, will produce the page
ant.
A number of significant historical
events in the history of Nebraska
uncovered through personal re
research of Dr. Alexander, who is
now connected with Scripps univer
sity, California, will be portrayed
publicly or the first time in the Ju
blleo pageant.
FUNERAL FOR J. L. WEBSTER
TO US HELD WEDNESDAY
OMAHA—(UP)—Funeral services
will be held at Trinity cathedral
Wednesday afternoon for John Lee
Webster, 82 years old, veteran Oma
ha lawyer and for many years
prominent in Nebraska republican
political circles, who died here Mon
day following a long illness. Dean
Stephen McGinley, rector of the
cathedral will officiate. Leading le
gal lights from all parts of the mid
dle west are expected to attend the
services. Webster was president of
the first state constitutional con
vention in 1875 and for years acted
as attorney for many large corpor
ations here.
RUNAWAY GIRL HURT
IN FALL, BOYS JAILED
OMAHA—(UP) — Donna Deising,
15 years old, high school girl who,
In company with two high school
ooys, started cn an elopement tour
last Friday, fell from a coal chute
at Langdon, Mo., and was serious
ly injured Monday, her mother,
Mrs. S. L. Riley, was notified here
Mrs. Riley immediately started for
Neocho. Mo., where the girl is re
eeivin? medical attention.
With the girl were the two boys,
oelieved to be Ralph Swanson, 18
years cld, and Thomas Parsons, 15
years old. When the trio was found
missing, it was supposed that the
girl and Swanson had eloped, tak
ing young Parsons along as best
4ian.
Parsons and Swanson were taken
co county jail at Pineville, Mo.
OPPOSITION TO XOKRIS
IS BRING ORGANIZED
LINCOLN — t Special) — Repub
lican leaders who are interested In
seeing that Senator Norris is not
returned to the senate are working
with representative women of the
state who have been active in poli
tics in recent years in an effort to
tlenr the field of opponents so that
if Morris does enter the senatorial
primary a year hence he will be
faced by but one man. It is pro
posed to hold a series of confer
ences after while, with the ultimate
object of getting a gentleman's
agreement among the candidates to
narrew the opposition to Norris, li
tic enters, to the man who shall be
chosen by one of several method'
that will’be proposed.
NORFOLK LAYS PLANS
FOR BIG CELEBRATION
NORFOLK—The stage is set in
Norfolk for a big celebration when
the Nebraska air tour arrives ir the
city, September 10. Nearly 500
north Nebraska women and girls
competing for the honor of becom
ing "Miss North Nebraska,” have
entered the beauty contest which
will be one of the entertainments
for the visking aviators.
Q Are petrol and gasoline the
same thing? R. M. B.
A. Petrol is petroleum spirit such
as it used for producing motive pow
er. It is the same as gasoline.
TO LET CONTRACTS FOR
MORE HIGHWAY WORK
LINCOLN— (UP)— Another letting
of contract* for state highway pro
jects will be held September 26 to
clean up odds and ends of road
work for this year, State Engineer
Roy Cochran says.
The projects involved are: eight
miles of gTavel surfacing between
Wakeiield and state highway No. 15
north of Wayne; grading and drain
age structures between Lincoln and
Valparaiso. 18 miles; grading and
drainage structures between Colo
and Valley, 10 miles; four miles of
pavement south of Norfolk, re-ad
vertised on account of the original
bids being rejected.
FEVER VICTIM
IN INDO CHINA
Ashes of Former Nebraska
Man Brought to Schuy
ler for Burial
SCHUYLER, NEB.— (Special) —
The ashes of Russell Hendee, who
died in French Indo-China of a
tropical fever, were buried here, af
ter Harold Coolidge, also a member
of the Kelley-Roosevelt-Field Muse
um expedition of which Hendee was
a member, journeyed more than two
and a half months with them to
Schuyler.
Hendee, a former Schuyler youth
and grandson of H. C. Russell, early
settler of Colfax county, went from
Brooklyn with the expedition to se
cure specimens of animal life for the
Chicago museum.
The Roosevelt boys, Theodore, Jr.,
and Kermlt were In Tibet while
Hendee and his party were In north
ern Indo-China. Hendee was taking
a 20-day trip down the Hue river
with his companions, to Saigon,
where they were to Join the Roose
velts. It was while he was on the
raft that the fever attacked him.
ASK NEBRASKA
FOR DECISION
Members of M. W. A. Op
posing New Rates Resist
Taking Case to Court
LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special)—At
torneys representing the groups of
Modern Woodmen who are attempt
ing in the state courts to enjoin the
new and increased rate schedule
say that the adverse decision in Il
linois will not be binding in their
cases, even though they had sent a
lawyer to Chicago to help fight the
case.
Tire state supreme court has sev
eral times refused to follow the su
preme court of Illinois, where the
Woodmen has its legal domicile. The
tost instance was in a case from Da
kota county, where the court said
that proof that the policy holder
had been absent for seven years
from his usual place of residence ant
business was proof of death and thr
policy was collectible. The Illinoii
supreme court had held that a re
cently adopted bylaw to the effecl
that death would, not be presumec
until a member had lived out hit
expectancy of life as fixed by mor
tality tables was good. The Nebraska
court held it was not, and stuck tc
It that It was not bound by the prior
decision in the courts of the state
where the defendant was incorpor
ated.
Attorneys for the Woodmen do
not content the point, but are trying
to have the cases taken to the fed
eral court.
STATE HOUSE GUIDES
NOT WELL INFORMED
LINCOLN—Volunteer guides loi
(air visitors at the state capitol are
posing out rare Information these
Says. Though five regular attend
ants escort large groups of sight
seers through the edifice, the ama
:eurs get their hands in every novt
ind then.
One of them today was discours
ing on the merits of the supreme
court chamber.
"In those pews over on one side,’
ne said, “is where the jury sits. Or,
he other side of the aisle are the
•ceats reserved for witnesses. The
lefendant—I can't just tell you, but
his seat is somewhere around here.’
The supreme court, an attache ex
plained later, conducts no trials
sees no defendants, has no jury and
examines no witnesses. Its pro
ceedings ordinarily are confined tc
hearing arguments of attorneys in
cases appealed from the trial courts
COLUMBJS—< UP) —The nations
of the world should unite in both
plea and demand for instant action
by England and France to stop
Moslem fanatic!-.,! in Palestine and
overt further persecution of Jews,
Congressman Edgar Howard, demo
crat, of the thim district, said in a
telegram to the Jewish telegraphic
agency.
Howard in an editorial in the
Columbus Telegram suggested that
President Hoover notify the military
ttovernment of France that the
American people would gladly for
give $1,000,000 000 of the $5,003,000.- ~
000 France owes the United States
if the French would agree to spend
!he money protecting Jews against
■he ravaging Arabs.
"No informed citizen has the
tightest hope that France will ever
pay the billions she owes our gov
ernment anyway," Howard said.
ENGAGED TO TWO GIRLS
CORDOVA— (Special) —Engaged
to one girl who refused to release
hun, and loving another, Ed Range.
24 years old, took his own life by
shooting himself while seated in his
automobile. Range is said to have
mid the second girl that he could
not rr.ariy her but that he would
prove that she was the one he really
tovuci.
Range had bought the revolver
’ ith which he took his own life, a
,vsck ago. He had been in poor
poalth, also, for the last six months,
t was said. Both his parents are
!ead.
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Aged Man Who Turned Bank
Robber Raises Moral Issue
From Omaha World-Herald.
Honest old H. L. Closson of Columbus, who turned bank robber
at 62, by the mere fact that he took nearly $1,200 of a bank’s money
and kept it for a few hours, has not materially shaken the social
foundations of this commonwealth by that act. In all, it seems that
only a little over $12 is unrecovered, which will undoubtedly be ulti
mately restored, and which, anyway, is not a staggering sum for a
community to contemplate which has grow'n used to aberrations of a
half million or a million at a time.
But, in trying to puzzle out some kind of reason for such an
amazing action by a man who for 62 years apparently has been an
admirable citizen, one unavoidably collides with a consideration which
might be something for the foundations of this society and this civili
zation to worry about.
For Mr. Closson involuntarily brings up the old question of the
fundamentals of morality again—or the lack of them—upon which
our present civilization is based. Nobody, perhaps, out of the whole
million and a half people Which constitutes the population of the
state of Nebraska will maintain that to rob a bank of $1,200 is right.
The right of private property is one which, at least in our scheme
of things, holds a place second to none in sacredness. Upon it de
pends the ambition to succeed and to provide which, however, much
it may sometimes be defiled and made sordid, is still one of the foun
dations of our righteousness.
Thomas Edison, in his examination of some forty-odd young men
a few weeks ago to pick a successor for himself, asked, among other
things, whether it was proper to lie for money, indicating, at least,
that more than one answer to the question might be expected from
truthful people.
There was, undoubtedly, no one of these forty-odd boys who
actually answered that it was proper to lie for money, or for honor,
or for fame, or for any of the other ordinary purposes set out in Edi
son’s question. And yet it seems often quite apparent that this civili
zation actually recognizes lying for money, or for fame, every day,
and approves it.
“I certainly never thought I’d do anything like this,” said Mr.
Closson, in tears. But then came the afterthought: “It seems as
though our best moral people are doing things like this these days.
Bank presidents honored for their honesty, preachers, Sunday school
teachers—our best moral people are going wrong.”
Mr. Closson probably wasn't offering an alibi when he said that
nor was he satirizing on the word "moral.” He was honestly won
dering. He was thinking of the hundreds of people, bank presidents,
bishops, ministers, political idols, professors, upon whose heads popular
opinion and the march of our civilization had set the crowns of
admiration and leadership but who, nevertheless, had "gone wrong.”
The trouble is not that there is too much morality, or too little.
The trouble is that one never knows, especially if he is given to the
vice of consistency, Just what morality is, at any one time, or under
different conditions.
And civilization, or real morality, will, it seems to us, never get
very far ahead of the Hottentots—or perhaps never will catch up
with them—until it sits down to a long grind of defining just what
morality is, and unless the definition reached is finally unchange
able. Citizens are not likely ever to be 100 per cent moral and 100
per cent bewildered at one and the same time.
Was Snowden Wrong?
To Imagine that a Chancellor of
the Exchequer could not make his
wav securely through columns of
figures and tables of ratios and pay
ments might seem preposterous. Yet
there have been Chancellors of the
Exchequer who were notoriou-ly
weak in arithmetic. Disraelli was
one of them. Another was Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, who told his aides
at the Exchequer that he never
could understand what a decimal
point was for. Mr. Snow-den has a
higher reputation for mathematical
accuracy, yet it has been delicately
put to him by other delegates at the
Hague conference that he has made
a mistake in reckoning uu the Brit
ish annuities under the Young plan.
They invited him to have the whole
calculation gone over again by fi
nancial experts of the different
countries represented, and to this
Dlan he assented. At the same time
he issued a statement to the effect
that he did not care so much about
the exact sum which England might
claim as her due as about the “pres
tige” of his own country on the con
tinent. It has been supposed that he
cared more a,bout peace than about
prestige, but let that go. He appears
to be now a little afraid of his own
figures.
One thing commonly overlooked
Manganese and Gold.
From Cham'xr'ain Register,
in answer' to question the Gen
eral Manganese corporation’s of
fices at Sioux Falls state that there
are innumerable uses for manganese
It is used in the manufacture of
steel, to remove impurities and
►hereby make it harder. The propor
tion is 14 pounds of manganese for
every ton of steel.
Officers of the General Mangan
ese corporation declare the nature
of the deposits and the market
value of the product should make
mining highly profitable. The ore
is lying exposed over thousands of
acres, and can be mined by the ;
in all this discussion is the fact that
British experts collaborated in the
framing of the Young plan. One of
them, Sir Josiah Stamp, has a great
reputation—fully as great as Mr.
Snowden’s—as an authority in fi
nance and a patriotic Englishman.
It is inconceivable that he would
have permitted the legitimate in
terests of his own land to be grossly
disregarded by the Young plan. It Is
true that it called upon England to
make certain sacrifices, but France
and the other countries weie to
make them, too: and it has reason
ably been contended that Sir Josiah
and the other British experts at
Paris, after long standing up stoutly
for safeguarding all English rights
in the matter of German repara
tions, finally became convinced that
in the long reckoning, taking every
thing into consideration, no dis
crimination against England was in
tended or would result.
This is the question w-hich. in sub
stance. is now again to be submitted
to competent experts. If they find
against Mr. Snowden, it ts not to
be expected that this will make any
difference in his unyielding atti
tude. But it mak« a difference in
the attitude of a more important
man—Prime Minister MacDonald.
open pit method like iron in north
ern Minnesota.
The mineral in a ton of South
Dakota manganese ore is far more
valuable than the gold or copper
commonly found in mines bearing
the latter minerals. In tne case of
gold, tunnels are required to extract
the ore, besides elevators to lift it
to the surface.
While the process to be used in
the South Dakota manganese oper
ations has not been disclosed, it is
understood it involves crushing and
leaching as in the case of gold and
copper.
The significance of the South Da
kota discovery is seen by a comparl
I HAVE A WITNESS.
Dame Nature does such funny things
She never doth explain.
Sometimes I wonder can it be
That she is really sane.
I try to grow out at my home
A greenly luscious lawn;
At night I water it till dark.
And eke again at dawn.
The dandelions every spring
That I pull out of it.
Laid end to end would reach the
moon—
There is do doubt of it.
I mow it when it should be mowed,
And fertilize about:
New seed I sow where’er appears
That is it dying out.
I pull from out its blue-grass heart
All grass that’s growing wild;
It’s seeded in the richest loam.
And tended like a child.
Yet right this minute it is brown
As any desert waste;
And spaced in spots as in the hair
That on my head is placed.
And yet today I saw some grass
That reached up to my knees,
Blue-grass it was, all seeded out,
And thrifty as you please.
And that grass grew, and came up
through,
A walk made of cement.
I wish, Dame Nature, you might tell
Just what was your intent.
—Sam Page.
Growing Tax Burdens.
From Barron’s Financial Weekly.
Our tax bill in 1928 was $8,000,
000,000, or one tenth of the entire
income of the American people. An
annual burden of more than $70 for
every man, woman and child is so
staggering that we may well ask,
upon whom roes the burden ulti
mately fall? Prof. M. H. Hunter
of the University of Illinois deals
with this question in the current
issue of Ban-on’s Financial Weekly,
He finds that, though some taxes
may be shifted and others cannot,
the burden in every case disturbs,
In varying degrees, the economic
relationships of the burden bearer
with others and so “permeates the
entire mass of society.”
is no simple matter to deter- i
mine who finally pays the tax, and
still more difficult to trace its far
reaching economic and social ef
fects. Some general statesements,
however, are reasonably certain. For
example, ‘‘when a tax is levied upon
competitive industry in such a way
that the least efficient are driven
out, a higher price level will result*
No one, however, pas more than he
would be willing to pay for the good
i rather than do without it, though
i the difference between what he has
to pay and what he would be willing
to pay is lessened. Some do not
buy at the higher price who
have bought at the lower, because
the utility is not sufficient to war
rant the expenditure."
A tax on some surplus like rents
or profits cannot be shifted. Conse
quently, ‘‘the prive will not be af
fected, eve nthough the effects ot
the tax may be widely felt. It is
certain also that a monopolist does
not always have it m his power to
push a tax to the buyer of his prod
uct through an increase in price.’’
But these generalizations give on
ly a part of the full effects of a tax,
“Even if the final payment of a tax
could be accurately traced, the still
more dificult and elusive problem
of where rest the ultimate effects
would still remain. He who would
hope to trace such effects must wait
to be endowed with powers not yet
bestowed upon the human mind.”
t*. What is meant by perpetual
care of a cemetery lot? F. C. S.
A. Headcrenes or monuments are
kept straight, fences or rails are
prevented from sagging, and grass
is mowed and replanted as neces
sary. One pays a lump sum to the
cemetery association, the interest
on which is sufficient to provide for
these services.
son of the values of the three ores,
gold, copper and manganese, ac
cording to figures supplied by the
manganese office. The gold in a
ton of ore is worth approximately
$3.50 they state, copper S3.o3 and
manganese, 515 4*1. It pays to mine
gold and ccppcr it should certainly
pay to develop tine Soutn Dakota
resources, especially since the bulk
of the product is now imputed. It
is said.
Q. How long has the Christian
Science Monitor been published’ O.
S.
A It was started about 21 years
ago. It’s firtt issus was dated N'»
vember 25, 1909. __
RESUMES TEST
WELL SATURDAY
Oil Drilling Near Bassett
Delayed by Poor Weld
ing of “Stem"’
BASSET, NEB.—(Special)—After
8 days delay in drilling caused by
poor welding in shortening the
“stem,” Harry T. Osborn, president
of the North Central Development
and Drilling company of Sioux City
which is drilling the test well on the
B. P. Leonard estate northeast of
here, expects to resume operations
Saturday morning.
When two welding jobs failed, Mr.
Osborn said that he ordered a new
pin and joint turned on the “stem”
and expects no more trouble of this
nature.
Only a few feet have been drilled
since striking a "rainbow showing”
of oil sand at approximately 600 feet.
Osborn says that their drilling foot
age is very good considering drilling
time. He also said that lack of wa
ter in the oil sand indicated that
they must be on a “high formation.”
OLD TEACHERS
BROUGHT BACK
Aid Nebraska School in
Celebrating Its 50th
Anniversary
ELMWOOD, NEB.—(UP)—Forty
six years ago J. W. Crabtree was
the teacher of the one-room prairie
Fairview district school, and Satur
day he returned as secretary of the
National Education association to
speak at the 50th anniversary re
union of the school district.
In a grove that was opposite the
school house which has stood two
miles southeast of Elmwood for 50
years, he spoke to a large gather
ing, recommending the definite or
ganization of agricultural forces to
provide the teamwork necessary for
solving the economic and political
problems of the farm and the rural
school.
Among those attending the reunion
were about 20 former teachers of
the school in which Crabtree
taught 46 years ago. Two of his
former pupils also were there—Etta
James, who has spent the last years
in caring for her aged mother, and
Aulden Turk, who has cared for a
stricken father. There were 52 pu
pils when Crabtree was the teach
er, and Cyrus Williams, an out
standing leader in educational ac
tivities in Kansas, was one of them.
MUSIC TEACHERS ArPLY
FOR STATE CERTIFICATES
LINCOLN— (UP) —Twenty three
applicants for special music teach
ers’ certificates appeared Friday be
fore an examining board to take ex
1 animations for the certificates, is
sued under provisions of a new state
law.
' FINDS DIAMOND SHE
LOST A YEAR AGO
LINCOLN—(UP)—Mrs. George
Skillstadt, of Albion, Friday found a
diamond that was lost from the set
ting of her engagement ring a year
ago.
On the first day of the fair last
year, Mrs. Skillstadt lost the dia
mond and a diligent search failed
to reveal it. Returning Friday she
had made a few sweeps with a
broom on the cement floors of ag
ricultural hall, and there the gem
lay.
Since last year the floor of the
hail had been swept dozens of times,
but never had the diamond been
seen. The stone is valued at be
tween $400 and $500.
CEDAR COUNTY FAIR
WILL OPEN TUESDAY
HARTINGTON—(Special) — Ev
erything is ready for the gates to
swing open for the big Cedar Coun
ty Fair here next week. The
grounds have presented an unusu
ally busy scene the last few weeks.
The new amphitheater is nearly
completed and will be one of the
finest in northeast Nebraska. This
mammoth structure is modern in
every respect and will seat com
fortably nearly 1,300 people. The
new race track has received its fi
nal touches and horse race men
say that it is one of the best race
tracks in the state.
Tlie fair which opens Tuesday,
continuing for four days, will offer
one of the best programs ever pre
sented by the association. The
various departmental superinten
dents announce that the exhibits
will excel all previous years.
BODIES OF GAS VICTIMS
GO TO PERRY. OKLA.
NORFOLK—(Special)—The bod
ies of Mrs. W. C. Davis and her
daughter. Byra, who were asphyxi
ated by gas fumes In their home
Thursday, were to be taken to Per
ry, Okla.. the old home, on the eve
ning train, Saturday. There were
no funeral services in Norfolk.
Mr. Davis learned of the tragedy
while at his hotel at McCook, Neb.
Friday morning.
The family can give no reason
for Mrs. Davis’ act except that per
haps her mind became unbalanced
suddenly.
GOVERNMENT OF OMAHA
COSTS INDIVIDUAL $28.77
OMAHA—(UP) — The city of
Omaha paid $8,410,450 or $27.77 per
capita for operation and mainten
ance during 1923, accordiing to fig
ures released by department of
commerce in Washington.
This compares with a per capita
cost of $18 92 in 1927 and $29.21 in
1917. Net indebtedness cf the city
on December 31, 1928, was $18,137,
476 or $144.24 per capita against a
per capita of $102.21 in 1917 and
$151.60 in 1927, the figures dh •
closed.
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