Waterway Plan
to Feature Meet
Here January 11
Manufacturers of State Also to
Discuss Problem of Irri
gating Nebraka's Arid
Areas. \
Lincoln. Dec. 23.—Irrigation of Ne
braslfa's arid and semi-arid acres and
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water
way will be two of the important top
ics that will take up the greater part
of the time at the annual convention
of the Nebraska Manufacturers’ asRo
, < iatlon, to be held at Omaha, January
11. Manufacturers from all parts of
the state have signified their inten
tion of attending, according to O. H.
Zumwlnkle, secretary, who has issued
invitations and progrums for the con
entlon.
Victor It. Smith, managing editor of
The Omaha Bee. and Charles P. Craig,
vice president and executive director
of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide
water association, will deliver address
' s on the proposed waterway leading
through the Great Lakes down the I
St. Lawrence river to the Atlantic, j
thus, in a sense, bringing midillewest
ern cities 1,500 miles nearer the ocean.
Know Subject Thoroughly.
Doth speakers have been over the
proposed route and know their sub
ject thoroughly.
’’Land shipping rates are so higli
thut a cheaper mode of shipping must
be found and the waterway seems to
lie the only logical solution to ship
ping problems." Mr. Zumwlnkle de
i lures. "The new proposed waterway
would allow middlewestern shippers
to get their wures to European mar
kets speedier, cheaper and on a bet
ter and more equitable competitive
basis." /
McCouinigliy to Speak.
U. W. McConaugliy of Holdrege. 1
president of tho Central Nebraska j
Supplemental Water association, will I
tell of the efforts of the association
to corral the waters of the Platte
titer In such quantities that it will
he possible to irrigate 650,000 acres of
arid and seml-ayid land the year
around. It also will be possible to use
tho water powers to generate electric
ity for sale for power purposes, accord
ing to his address.
Other Important topics to be dis- j
cussed by the manufacturers are: -
“Industrial Insurance," "Importance ;
af Safety Appliances in Plants," "Im
migration Problems” and “Employ- :
ment and Labor Supply."
James A, Emery, counsel for tho !
National Association of Manufactur- j
era, will be one of the main speakers j
at the banquet to be given by tho 1
state association during the evening j
of January 11.
Peter B. Kyne Victim of
Xmas Crime Wave in L. A.
Ixjs Angeles. Cal.. Dec. 25.—Peter
>3. Kyne, author, and his guests. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert C. Sewell of Pied
mont, Cal., were among the victims of
what tho police termed “the Christ
mas crime wave" here, involving
nearly 100 robberies and burglaries
over the weekend.
Mr. Kyne reported that a burglar
entered his home and tool; from him
a watch valued at $100 nnd from his
guests diamond earrings and scarf
pins valued at $3,500.
Burglurs, bandits and thieves com
bined to give the police an active,
if not a merry, Christmas.
Approximately nine-tenths of the
crude rubber produced in the world
is grown on plantations in the far
east under the direction of Euro
peans.
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JIMMY RABBIT
ONCE MORE
HAARTRl%XOTT BAILER
CHAPTER I.
1 Jimmy Rabbit’s •lumper.
The first coasting of the winter had
! come. And Jimmy Rabbit had no
| sled. He didn't even know where lie
] could get one. But that didn't make
| him unhappy.
He was standing at the top of a
i steep bank, thinking what fun it
would be to slide down it.
"Lt me sec," he said to himself.
“I certainly can't go through the win
ter without coasting. Let me think
I must find a way somehow."
"Think all you want to!" cried a
voice right above his head. "I shan't
stop you."
Jimmy Rabbit looked up. He saw
I Frisky Squirrel sitting On the limb
And then he dropped off and
landed squawdg upon -Jimmu's beck.
of a tree, eating a nut which he had
taken from Ilia winter's store.
"Well, will you help me?" Jimmy
asked.
"Yes. I'll help you to think." frisky
answered. "If you want to think clear
ly and well, you must do your think
ing without anything to take your
mind off it. You mustn't be uble to
see anything nor hear anything.. Just
you bury your head in a snowdrift
and you'll find that you never thought
better in your life.”
"That’s a good idea,” Jimmy Rabbit
said. "But 1 don't like it at all. Sup
pose somebody like Peter Mink came
along when 1 had my head buried?
He'd grab me before I knew he was
anywhere near me.”
"That's easily arranged,” fc'rlsky
Squirrel told him. "You stick your
head in thut drift just behind you,
and I'll sit here and watch. If any
body like Peter Mink nppears. I’ll
call to you.”
Jimmy Rubbit smiled all over his
face.
"Oh! Thank you" he cried. "That's
very kind of you." And with one jump
he landed in the middle of the snow
drift and plunged his head out of
sight.
There was Just one trouble with
Frisky's plan. Though Jimmy Rab
bit’s head was buried deep in ths
snow, his long eurs, which he had
folded back, still stuck out alongside
his shoulders.
“He'll have to go deeper than that,”
Frisky muttered to himself. Having
promised to help, Frisky ran far out
on a branch, until he was directly
over Jimmy Rabbit. And then he
dropped off and landed squarely upon
Jimmy's back.
Frisky's weight sent Jimmy Rab
bit's head deeper into the soft snow
His eurs no longer showed.
"There! That's better,” Frisky
Squirrel exclaimed. And he hopped off
Jimmy’s back and scurried up into bis
tree once more. But as soon as he
had seated himself again and glanced
down at his friend, he saw that Jim
my Rnbblt had pulled his head out
of the drift and was looking all about
with a frightened air.
"What huppened?” Jimmy cried.
"What hit me?"
"I did." said Frisky. “Your ears
weren't covered. 1 knew you ought to
bury them, or you'd hear every noise
in the woods and you wouldn't be
able to think."
"You startled me," Jimmy Rabbit
told him. “I’m afraid I shan’t be
able to think anjf more today."
"That’s a pity," Frisky replied.
"I’m sorry I jumped on you."
"Ah!” Jimmy Rabbit cried suddenly.
"I have it now. What' you suid just
now puts an idea into my mind.”
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THOMAS MEIGHAN
NEW SHOW TOMORROW
CONSTANCE TALMAICE
! 44 Happiness a la Mode4
' MAVE you
SEEN
—tha girl who wroto herself love lottars
—who gtva a funeral for a man ah*
had never aeon.
Now Showing with
BUSTER KEATON
in
“The Electric House”
j^^\faudeville — Photopliyi^m
UNTIL FRIDA^^^
EARL FULLER
and hit
JAZZ BAND
A Musical Sensation
Other Christmas Week Attractions
of Yuletido Cheer.
Shows Continuers from 1:15 P. M.
Vaudeville 3:20, 0:45, 9:10.
NEXT SATURDAY
Record six-act New Year’s Show,
with the "Kelly Revue," Planta
tion 9" and othar big featuras.
MIDNIGHT SHOW MONDAY
Starting at 10:45 P. M._
I 1
Thomas Meighan
and LILA LEE In
GEORGE ADE’S
“Back Home
and Broke”
One of the Yenr’e Beet.
NEIGHBORHOODTHEATERS
HAMILTON . - 40th and Hamilton
ALL-STAR CAST
In "HAIL THE WOMAN"
VICTORIA .... 24th and Fart
JOHN GILBERT
In "THE YELLOW STAIN"
GRAND - 16th and Qinaay
HOUSE PETERS
In "HUMAN HEARTS"
"OMAHA'S FUN CENTER"
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PRE-WAR PRICED
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Greenwich Village Revue
TOM senna! RAY READ
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Most helMay cheer In town.
Ladie:’ Tickets. l?o cr ?&e at Dally Mat.. 2.1V
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"What 1 said?” Frisky repeated. "I
don't understand."
“This is what I mean.” Jimmy ex
plained. "You jumped on me. You're
a jumper. And I'll make one to coast
on."
"One what?" Frisky Squirrel asked
hint tvonderingly.
"One Jumper!” said Jimmy ltabbit.
"Johnnie Green makes Jumpers out
of barrel staves and pieces of board.
They have one board runner—which
is a barrel stave. Johnnie nails a short
: board, upright, near the back of the
[ runner. Another bit of board flat
across the top of that makes a seat.
And there you are!”
Frisky Squirrel shook his head.
"I know I'm here," he said. "But
I don't quite understand about these
Jumpers. I shall have to see,one.”
"I'll show you mine as soon as I've
made it," Jimmy Rabbit promised
him.
And he did. That very afternoon
lie brought a jumper to Frisky Squir
rel's tree.
Frisky said it looked like a good
one. But he added that he wouldn't
risk his neck on it for anything in
the world.
(Copyright, likij.)
Parents’ Problems
Does a child of 2 know when he
is naughty?
Sometimes he does and sometimes
he does not. Be extremely careful in
dealing with a child of that age, or
of any age, to make sure that he
understands what you consider
naughty and why. Little children
very often do not know when they
are hurting other children or animals.
They often do not mean to be
naughty when they actually are. Be
gentle and be clear in your explana
tions.
My Marriage Problems
Adele Garrison's New Phase of "Revelation* of a Wife.”
| The Reason Madge Knew She Was
“Playing" Correctly.
That Miss Cargill realized some*
thing of the suppressed emotions
which were surging beneath my mask
of pleasant flippancy I found out
when, after surprising Dicky with
the nonchalant assertion that I meant
to remain with Claire Foster during
the night, leaving hint to return to
: the hotel in Caldwin by himself, she
bade us a pleasant adieu.
There was a distinct signal to me
in her eyes as she left the table, an
1 appeal, which I answered by unob
trusively rising as she turned away
from the table, and walking with her
to the door. When we were once i
safely in the hall outside the door, she
held out her hands to me.
“I want to thank you for your nour
tesy to us under such trying circum
stances," site said, "and—I wonder If
you’ll think me presumptuous If I
tell you that the cleverness, the re
sourcefulness and the tact with which
you have handled this thing set this
experience apart from most of my
assignments. It has been a pleasure
to meet you."
"You don't really believe that any
body could dub the utterance of a
compliment like that presumptuous,
do you" I asked, smiling-'nnd giving
her hand a warm, answering grip. "In
deed, I can’t imagine mf* culling pre
sumptuous any possible utterance of
yours. The pleasure of our meeting
is not all on your side, you know.”
“Then—" she hesitated oddly—
“I’m going to take you at your word
and run the risk of offending you.
Please—" she hesitated nguin. "don’t
let bitterness get the upper hand of
you secretly In this thing. Outwardly,
of course, you’ll curry on. (—am older
than you—and I have seen many
things—" her eyes were suddenly
weary, world-worn—“and, believe me,
this affair is nothing to take seriously
in your own heart. But—I glory in
the way you arc handling It. More
power to you."
Dicky Takes Ills Cue.
She dropped my hand, turned and
wulked swiftly away before I could
tagve answered her, even If I had
wished to do so. With a warm little
glow ut my heart, because of the wom
anly sympathy she had given me, I
went back into the dining room. But
I was not ready to follow l»r advice,
any fnore than I jvas In a state of
mind to heed what Lillian and my
father had told me before starting on
my journey. I had forgiven Claire
Foster, but 1 could not find pardon
In my heart for my husband.
Dicky rose its I came back to the
table, nml remained standing even
after I was seated.
"The Lord knows I’m not usually
thrifty,” he said with a fine assump
tion of carelessness, “but a clicking
taximeter, or whatever they substitute
for It up here, annexes my angora
more swiftly than anything else. So
as long us you're going to stay up
here with Claire, anyway. 1 think I'll
mosey along. What time will you
be along In the morning? The first
train leaves at 10. the second and
only other at 2. Blit I warn you now.
I’m not going to get up in the morn
ing in time to catch that first train.”
‘‘Neither are we.” I responded
promptly. "We'll get down to your
hotel just In time for you to take us
to lunch, so order a good one, that's
a dear.”
"Say. where do yo uthlnk*you are?”
he countered aggrlevedly. "Order a
good one! Well, that's a hot one, any
Ay. You’ll get your choice between
roast beef and some sort of stew, and
a piece of bakery pie for dessert. I’ve
been eating at that so-called hotel for
several days now."
"Then we'll eat an extra late and
bountiful breakfast,” 1 said Imper
turbably. “Come on Claire, let's
speed him on his way. We can come
back and finish these delicious baked
apples afterward.”
She rose obediently, 'even as Dicky
barked: "Now what’s the use of that?”
And I saw that she was prepared to
agree like a docile child to anything
1 might propose.
“You know very well why," I re
torted, and If Dicky had Imrked like
a big dog, ,1 certainly yipped like a
little one. and was glad of the oppor
tunity to lay aside oven for a second
the saccharine tone which 1 had sedu
lously used ever since my arrival.
"Oh!” Dicky returned blankly, fol
lowing the exclamation with a sulky:
"All right."
But when wo emerged from the din
ing room Into the hall he had adjusted
his own mask, and wo were a merry
trio as we came out on the veranda,
and Dicky signalled the taxi driver to
start his engine.
"Tomorrow at lunch time then,"
Dicky said clearly. "So long, Claire.
Good-bye. Madge."
He tapped Claire lightly on the
shoulder, stooped and kissed me, and
ran down the steps to the waiting
taxi.
Unde Sam Says „
Silverflsh or ••Slicker" Control.
The allverflsh or ‘‘slicker" is one
of the moat serious pests of libraries,
particularly In the bindings of books.
Frequently It eats off the gold letter
ing to get at the paste boneath, or
gnaws off the white label slips glued
on the backs of books. Heavily
glazed paper and museum labels or*
sometimes dlsllgured or destroyed by
the feeding of the pest upon their
surfaces. In some cases, books
printed on heavily sized paper will
have the surface of the leaves all
eateh away except the portions cov
ered by the Ink.
Thr- government’s booklet about
this pest is issued by‘the bureau of
entomology. It illustrates this house
hold Insect and tells how to get rid
of them.
Readers of The Omaha Hee may
obtain a copy of this booklet free as
long as the free edition lasts by writ
ing to the Division of Publications,
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C., asking for ”F. B. 902.”
CHRISTMAS, 1923.
Christ Child, come down again to earth,
To the lowly tnang'. r of Thy birth
Como In the light of Thy Star no bright.
Come to Hie watching shepherds tonight.
War wreck ad nations aro crying for
bread.
Refuge.-a weep lor their unburied dead.
Tho amoke from Smyrna aacenda to the
sky.
Christ Child, come, for Thy children die.
.Ire-d stalks rampant in every land,
Hate and suspicion walk hand in hand.
'The Next Great War'* Is now^the cry,
Christ Child, come, ere the Nations die.
Come on the wings of healing love.
Come with Infinite power from-above;
Rrlng the Herald Angels to sing again,
“Peace, peace on earth! Good will to
men.”
—CLARA rtlGH.
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