Legion Liaison v Board Is Aiding Disabled Vets Many Cases of Ex-Service Men in Needy Circum stances Unearthed by Local Post. Disabled ex-service men are to re ceive every possible aid in their va rious needs through the Douglas coun ty post of the American Legion. The American Legion has instituted a big brother movement to help the disabled men get back on their feet To carry this work on to the best ad vantage, a committee known as the liaison board has been organized, con sisting of James Itanbery and Si Wheeler of the local post, who will co operate with George Rattchkalh of the ninth liaison district, which iit eludes the states of Iowa. Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska. Gases that come Under the jurisdiction of the va rious districts ate taken care of in Washington by National Liaison Offi cer Joe Sparks. The needs of local disabled men, such as compensation, -insurance, vo cational training, hospitalization, re habilitation and medical attention, will bo given careful attention by the American Legion through this new board and disabled men are invited to call on the legion for such assistance. A typical case was unearthed last week When legion men found a for ^er service man working as a dish washer in a restaurant on wages in sufficient to keep himself and family. I’nrt of bis leg had been shot off in the war, and he had attended a gov ernment training school, where he received training ns a barber. Lack of skill and condition of his Injuries prevented him from following this trade, but, his case having been closed, he was refused further help by tlio government. Through the effort of the new liaison board the veteran's case was reopened and the man will 1h> sent to a government school for instruction in another trade. Al though the board has been In opera tion only a few weeks, dozens of simi lar cases have been bandied to the satisfaction of the disabled men. To better acquaint the disabled men with the functions of the new board, a get-together meeting in the form of an entertainment and party will die held Tuesday evening, January 23, to which all disabled ex-service men in the county will be invited. A com mittee consisting of James A an Avery and Jay Dudley are making plans for this meeting. French Phone Service Worst Parisian “Alio ’ Girls Too Busy Powdering Noses to Be Bothered. Paris, Jar. 6.—Wrong numbers, long minute* of waiting for central to answer, "cutoffs” and bad connec tions—in a word, very bad telephone service in general—are causing Paris ians to turn their wrath against the "Alio” girls. "France has undoubtedly the poor est telephone service in all of Eu rope,'’ says l'Oeuvre. "The slowness of our long-distance communications Is proverbial. In all of France there are about 375,000 telephone stations, less than one-half the number one finds in the city of New York alone— a figure almost derisive for a country so important commercially." Americans arriving in Paris have few words of praise for the French telephonists. For the most part they are Insolent and extremely slow. They seem to bo busy powdering their little noses or rouging their lips, for very often one waits all of five minutes for "J'ecoute?” which Is the French girl’s way of saying "Number, please.” To receive t-wo wrong numbers Is an ordinary circumstance, and as many cutoffs, which are even more annoying; for no matter how one pleads the telephonist will not re establish the broken off connection, bho simply 'closes her key and leaves one hanging on the line. In the end it is really much quicker to walk, and most Parisians do it. While Germany la busy laying a line of long-distance underground cables, which will have a strategic commercial importance, France real ises that she has not a single cable of great distance. Outside of public tele phone stations in small hamlets, the telephone is almost unknown in the outlying country districts. The mayor ^nml public officials are often the only ""ones who have ever made use of a telephone in small towns. The cost Is prohibitive for all but the comfort ably rich. To install a telephone costs nearly $100 in round figures, aside from the apparatus which adds another $35 or more to the amount. One may have an old apparatus, which would serve ns well and cost much less, but one Is obliged to purchase a new and usually expensive outfit from one of the numerous companies which are working together with the telephone concern. If he shows any signs of not wishing to co-operate he is polite ly told that there Is no available free number for the moment, or he is kept waiting an eternity. Then, once installed, the telephone is a luxury, for the subscription price is not a small item—a matter of $70 a year and long-distance calls at a high rate. "Our telephone service has need of many reforms," continues l’Oeuvre. "Besides a competent and efficient management, we must procure new and modern machinery and, above all, telephonists who are attentive and capable." Ono smart modiste in the Rue Duphot has found a method of bet tering her telephone serevice. "Every season I present ‘her’ with a fine new hat.” she says, “and thus I have pence and my telephone communica tions.” Oh, corruption! The French government has com p| pleted nrrangementa to establish a school of architecture and painting for Americans in the Palace at Fon tainebleau. * ■ 1 ■ 1 ■ The discovery of a commercial pro ecss for fusing and casting tungsten has been, claimed by an European en '.. Trying to Keep Up With the Fashions - 1 i-By O. O. MclNTYBE- ■ ■ ■ - - - well, I m half through the winter and elz lap* behind the aartortal sa trape. How thoee boys do carry on! Just when yog're all tuned up with a robin's egg blue tie and a salmon pink shirt sitting around for Mrs. Astor to call you up for tea you learn that you're out of the running. The boys are wearing zig zag shirts, puff ties and perhaps high-heeled shoes. And you are left flat on the lot. Tough! No end. The winter opened auspiciously for nifty dresayrs. Horse blanket over coats gave Fifth avenue the appear ance of Belmont park paddock on derby day. Greatcoats fairly screamed their Imprecations at passersby. They were long and in huge folds in the back and front. At the present writing you have to use a shoehorn to get into the latest style overcoat. They are corseted at the waist and as skimpy as John D. with bis cad dies. And, O yes, they have leather buttons right from Bond street. Fashion has become a drillmaster that keeps the boys goose stepping without rhyrme or reason. Just Like (lie Movies. With tho season opened the nifty dressers wanted to look rough—you know, cavemen with granite Jaws and falcon eyes. Regular Kodolphos prowling the deserts. Instead of n | stone club they carried huge sticks with knobbed ends, remindful of the southwest poster of a mid-Victorian bed. Then some wild-eyed idiot decided to go back to the milk sop age—the days of Rollo curls nnd fluted panta lettes. Trousers began to flare at the bot tom, bell shaped. The* rest of the way up they were skin tight, so much so that when they sat down you knew something was going to hap pen. * , And — Sweet Guinivere — at the waist the trousers are now pleated. Three' cute little pleats to a side. You chase me and I'll chase you! Then vests—or rather weskits, if you want to swank along with me any further—used to have long nar row' points and the left button was left unbuttoned. Dashingly, as it were. Oh, Woe; Oil, Woe! Now the vests are clipped off straight across and the edge hooks on to the trousers so if one stretches there is liable to be no exposure of shirt bosom. England sent us the fashion of clapping the Alpine hat down swag gering!)' over one ear. The sides are supposed not to be creased in. To crease on the side is terrible, r on’t forget that or you may not be in vited to pink teas or anything. Just when most of us had become perfect in adjusting the Alpine along came tho derby to be worn Jammed down to both ears just like Joe Welch used to w ear his. And no sooner had \ve accustomed ourselves to the derby headache than the baggy rap sprang into style. It bags at one side and has a long visor ami smacks of riding to the hounds, and ail that sort of rot. And who is it that sots and changes the pace of style? The most astute observer in New York tells mo that it is our maintee idols. Whenever a curly-haired Romeo decides to wear something a bit different, a new style is bom. For instance: Six months ago with the dinner jacket one was supposed to wear a narrow wing collar. One of the stage A polios had a boil on _ ' afternoon in a drawing room scene with a wide-open collar with flaring wings, so his boil wouldn't be chafed. Zip! In 10 days time every haber dasher in town was besieged by smart dressers for flaring winged collars. If the actor had a carbuncle he might right now be wearing ruffles, Instead of wing collars. One Must Blend Now. Tone-dressing has now become a fad for men. There must be a perfect blending of collars. The best example I have seen, came out of a club lounge the other afternoon to startle the vil lage. Ha had on a russet brown overcoat that resembled a disappointed sun set. His muffler was nut-brown, his derby the color of a morning after taste, and his spats, shoes, gloves and stick blended into the entire scheme. Just to put it on thick, a brown i ■ .* ■ *.. No achievement could surmount hie his Adam's apple and appeared one sartorial faux pas. To keep up with these varying styles la. of course, a severe drain on the purse. I note in a morning journal that one of the blades of the town took a bankruptcy bath. Among his assets were 98 monogrammed shirts. 18 suits of clothes. 21 hats and 64 pairs of silk hose. The report didn't state whether or not he had any underthlngs—but but I’ll'venture he didn't. That makes no difference in New York. By the way, he did have $10 in cash. Berry Wall used to be noted for his 20 or more suits of clothes. That's old stuff these days. Almost any of the shoddily dressed are worrying along on that number. One must have a morning suit, a business suit, a walking suit, m late afternoon suit, dinner and evening Btu. Bortftn - ■ -I—'-* +'oese 0i»Ni Horrors, How Awful! New York puts a high value on clothes. The clothes may not make the man, but they go a long way. Only recently I attended a soiree and, there was present a man who Is na tionally known as a gogetter. He has accomplished big things in a cer tain ifeld of endeavor. He was one of the speakers of the evening and he made a two-fisted talk. Afterward a group of ladies in an alcove were discussing him. They ! were fearfully distressed because he ! wore a turn-down collar with his din- ; ner clothes. They thought he was a ' sight. clothes these days to occupy a slot at the Automat. Revolution Approaches. But a revolution is coming! The I cycle is going to be completed soon. | Faint clouds dot the sky. Only a few days ago I saw Walter Kingsley, who is one of Broadway’s niftiest dressers, in a suit of clotheA that he wore the day before. And Geno Buck, another of the liot dlggedy-doggers, came up from Great Neck without his spats. It may have been an accident but he did not mind the supercilious lifting of eyebrows at all. Such courage as that will make its impression and the news will be bruited about. Personally I'd like to appear at some gala event In evening clothes and a red tie. Two years In Europe and New York would forget. And maybe by the time I returned fash ion sanity would be restored and 1 could walk about the streets with egg on my vest without feeling as if I had just robbed a blind man. (Copyright. 3 922.1 Radio Amateurs Cross Atlantic Recently Completed ' Tests Show Encouraging Gaing in Radio Communication. By fur the greatest single feat dur ing the transatlantic radio tests was the success of the American amateurs in hearing the British and French stations, which for the first time sent tbeir signals across to brother ama teurs in the United States. The sec mid day after they began to transmit American amateurs heard the station operated by the Wireless Society of Manchester. This feat not only established com pletely the possibility of constant two way communication among amateurs of both continents, but also demon strated the ability of American oper ators to receive. During the trans atlantics, according to a cable from London, R. H. Ridley and other Eng lish amateurs succeeded in hearing a concert in Newark. Never before until ' the present transatlantic tests had any American amateur stations been heard in Switz erland. During the first week of the tests 125 American amateur stations were heard by amateurs in Europe. Last year only 27 stations were heard during a period of 10 days. The success of French amateurs in the transatlantic was made complete by the report that the amateur radio station operated by Monsieur Leon Deloy at Nice, France, the first "'sta tion in the country to span the At lantic. had been heard Tuesday night by Oeno E. Withom of Brooklyn. N. Y. Deloy was detailed by his govern ment to this country during the war and was at one time attached to the United States Navy department. The fact that, the British and French government gave their ama teurs the special privilege of trans mitting on higher power reflects the influence and progress of American amateurs. The transatlantics have been successful beyond all expecta tions and have established a new and important era—namely, two-way In ternational amateur communication. By means of a newly-devised pneu matic machine, earcorn is now loaded into boxcars very rapidly. A divided nozzle shoots the corn into both ends of the car at once. The first zinc made in the United States was from the red oxide of New Jersey at/ the arsenal In Washington la 1858. Radio Distracts __Patients* Minds Radio is being pressed into service in a new line by Dr. George Randall of Omaha. While he fills their mol ars he slips a head-piece over his pa tients’ ears and lets them listen to market reports, music and other di versions which are floating around in the ether. They say it lessens the mental torture to a large degree. ”If you are worrying about what May wheat is going to do you can’t worry about what the doctor is going to do the next minute,” one patient explained it. Ur. Randall's set Is an interesting one. as he has no regular aerial. It is n crystal set which he secured through C. Meyer of the Wellington Inn for only a few dollars, and instead of an aerial the doctor dropped tho end of a hundred foot wire out of the window of his office building. There is a weight on the end of the wire to hold it steady, and he is getting good results. John M. Baldwin, with the same ap paratus, was successful in picking up the Bee’s radio concert last Thurs day evening, when the Omaha String Club played instrumental music. Ur. Randall says his set has a nor mal radius of about 25 miles, but that on one occasion he heard Kansas City. According to Mr. Meyer, when the Woodman of the World Station is put in, this small set will be able to pick it up within a radius of two or three hundred miles. Commercial Radio to China Set Up San Francisco, Jan. 6.—Commercial radio communication between the United States and China has been es tablished, the Federal Telegraph Com pany announced today. An arc sta tion at Hillsboro, Ore., working on 8,400 meters is being heard regularly at Shanghai, China, where the com pany has erected an experimental sta tion, a cable from Shanghai advised the headquarters of the company. The Hillsboro station, which Is near Port land, Ore., was established to work with San Francisco. Its power out put is thirty kilowatts. President R. P. Schwerin, of the Federal Telegraph Company, with a party of engineers, is in China completing arrangements to erect stations that will work with this company. It is an experimental station on the Hotel Astor, Shanghai, th^ is receiving the radib messages from the Pacific coast. Rustless steel, a recent European discovery, is being tried in place of igold, fo; the plates pi artificial taetb. Observers Seek New Star. Greenwich, Kng., Jnn. 6.—Observers here are nightly searching for the new star which has been reported as dis covered by M. Zivlerel, the Rumanian astronomer. Thus far their efforts have been fruitless. 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OHIO IT'S A KlAL STORY | . , •• •' INTERESTING FACTS 105,799 Ford Cars and Trucks Retailed in December l * * Approximately the same number scheduled for delivery in January What Does This Mean? This volume of deliveries to actual owners is entirely un precedented for this time of the year— It has taxed the manufacturing ability of the Ford plants working at full capacity— It indicates a volume of business during. the rapidly approaching months of “heavy demand” which will be far beyond the maximum production schedule which the Ford Motor Company has set— And that means a Ford shortage even more acute than the one which existed last Spring and Summer. Dealers’ stocks all over the country are low—there are no reserves to draw upon to meet the demands for delivery— There is no way in which dealer reserves can be built up, as deliveries have been made to customers as fast as Cars could be manufactured since last April. The only way you can protect your desire to obtain prompt delivery of a Ford even at this time is to place your order immediately. This emphasizes more strongly than anything we could possibly say the necessity of your making prompt arrangements with a Ford dealer for the listing of your order, particularly if you are contemplating the purchase of a Ford Car or Truck for use this Spring or Summer. We believe you are entitled to know these facts as they actually exist. 1 • 1 Ford Motor Company Detroit, Michigan See any Authorized Omaha or Council Bluffs Ford Dealer A Small Deposit and Easy Payments if Desired