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.
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The discovery of a commercial pro
ecss for fusing and casting tungsten
has been, claimed by an European en
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Trying to Keep Up With the Fashions
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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
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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
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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
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"Fashion has become a drill master that keeps the boys goose-stepping !
without rhyme or reason.”
fluffed Chow dog in a brown blanket j
tagged along at his heels.
I wanted to peek under his brown
muffler .to see if he was wearing a i
brown shirt and brown tie. Six to
one, he was.
And I'll bet a cookie his mother
i had great hopes for him when he was
I a child. Always the woman who pays,
and pays and pays! ■>
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.
Canaries, baby carriages, used cloth
ing sewing machines, victorias, car
penters’ ana mechanical tools—in fact,
anything you howe, can be swapped
for what you want through a three
line ’'WANT’’ Ad in the "SWAP COL
UMN” of The Omaha Bee.
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INTERESTING FACTS
105,799 Ford Cars and
Trucks Retailed in
December
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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
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