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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1923)
Co-Operation Is Use of Self-Help, Speaker Asserts f ' Co-Operatora Assume Own Risks. Bear Own Losses, L. S. Herron Tells Club. "Co operation, in tha aconomic defi nition of tha term, mean* tha prac tice of aelf help in tha solving of economic problem*.” *aid L. P. Her ron last night, in speaking to the Fellowship club of Millar Tark Pres byterian church, at tha homa of C. A. Hhodes, 3044 Curtia avenua. ‘‘Co operator* do not aak for government aid or outside help. They invest their own money tn their co-operative an lerprlaes, assume their own naks and bear their own losses, if they have any. All they ask from the govern ment Is a free field." 4s a background for the discussion of the philosophy of co-operation, Mr. Herron sketched the development of 10 operative activities among Nebras ka farmers. About -S years ago farm ers of this stato began organizing elevator companies. There are now over 4.S0 farmers' elevators in the s'ate. over t’OO co-operative stores, • *"<>res of livestock shipping associa tion*! and numerous mutual insurance companies. The Farmers' Cnion of Nebraska operates three co-operative livestock commission houses and has a large cooperative wholesale supply house in Omaha. I'p to this time, cooperation ha* been applied to different problem* of marketing and distribution as they arose without much thought of a well Planned system, Mr. Herron said. New. however, there ia a gTowirg group of persons, including citizens of every nation in the world, who have a well defined philosophy of co operation and a definite plan of action. Through co-operation applied to mar keting. distribution and manufactur ing, they believe that profiteering can he prevented and trusts and monopo 1 es broken. To show that the plans of the co operatlnnUK* are not pure “dream stuff. ' Mr. Herron cited the fact that the English Co-operative Wholesale Society of Manchester is operating coal mines, has tea plantations in Ceylon, operates steamships and has factories for the manufacture of al most all the necessities of life. Carbon-Proof Plug on Market New AC Spark Plug Designed to JCIiminate Cold Weath er Annoyance*. If you own a four-cylinder car, for I example, and are "hitting on three,” Just C4 per cent of your gasoline is ' being wasted, your oil is being thinned out rapidly and excessive wear caused in e'ery hearing and every cylinder. Similarly, if you experience difficulty ! in starting your car you are wasting j " your battery, your gasoline, and your oil. The arrival of cold weather in years past has always introduced these troubles to every motorist. This win- ] ter finds experts of the AC Spark Plug company offering a complete | line of carbon proof plugs specially designed for cold weather use and the elimination of these winter annoy ances. The expense incurred by the waste of gasoline through a missing, splut- 1 tering engine is sufficient to cause e very motorist to consider the desir- 1 ability of plugs that remain efficient in cold weather. It is easy to un- i derstand that the dead cylinder con- , tinues to "inhale” its regular mix- I lure even though it may he explod ed. When a rich mixture is used, as is practically necessary in winter, 1 there is a considerable quantity of raw gasoline that remain at top of piston and trickles down around the . rings Gasoline Is an efficient solvent of oil and the lubricant is soon cut ■ swny, the gasoline runs Into the crank j c;ise and the lubricating oil is thinned ‘ cu t. with resultant excessive wear on , all parts. To make an engine hit evenly and smoothly In winter from the first turn of the starting motor, the carbon 1 proof plugs are offered as a reliable ' way to avoid the ordinary troubles of cold weather operation. There ^ plugs lirtVe a series of sharp, saw tooth. high-temperature fins, girdling j the inner end of the porcelain. These fins attain sufficient heat to burn off ; the oil and soot that are bound to 1 accumulate over an ordinary smooth | surface porcelain when rich mixtures are used and the choker pulled on cold days. Oldsmobile Takes Well at Auto Show in Chicago Charles T. Tucker, president of the N'chraskn Oldsmobile company, re turned Friday* from Chicago where he attended the automobile show. Mr. Tucker was Impressed with the pub lic's enthusiasm over the Oldsmobile lines which. In his opinion, should cause the Oldsmobile to enjoy In 1923 tlie biggest year In its history. . Draining Recommended. Every motor car manufacturer strongly recommends the complete graining of the crank case at regu lar Intervals. This is especially neces sary during the early life of the car. All owners have been educated to recognise the necessity of this practice yet few carry out the prop er drainage schedule because of the difficulty and messlness of the job. The usual means provided for drain ing the crank case is simply an ordi nary pipe plug in the lowest part of the crank case. To drain out the 01 f it is necessary to get underneath the car, screw out the plug and then, if possible, withdraw one's hands quickly enough to avoid having the oil (sometimes uncomfortably hot! in undate one's arm and sleeve. Alt this is obviated in the new Chandler car. the Pikes Peak motor having a drain ing valve operated hy turning a han dle. readily acressibla under the hood of the car. The operation thus la as simple and as clean aa turning on the ignition switch. Omahan Sees Cars Made in Detroit a Wilson King. Wilson King, mechanical foreman for the Richardson Motor Car com- | panv, returned recently from the Packard factory at Detroit, where he spent two necks acquainting himself ^ with the construction of Packard au tomobiles, Mr. King Is a strong booster for Packard cars. The caro ■ given to each unit and the painstaking exactness with which those parts are assembled make sthe Packard such a splendid mechanical achievement, ac- ■ cording to King. The molnr is first run for 12 hours under electric power, after which it is torn down and each part measured 1 and made to fit to the one-thousandth part of an Inch. The motor is then i driven under Its o«1i power and put ■ through the same test as before. Two more tests are later given the car. Reo to Have Big Storage Building Addition to Plant Will Have 640,000 Square Feet of Floor Space. Work on a new storage and ship ping building to cost in the neighbor- | hood of fotiO.OOO and to have approx; inately 64P,000 square feet of floor space; will be started by the Reo Mo tor Car company, Lansing, March 1. 1 The new building is to be three stories, 577 feet long and 365 feet wide, and will include a train shed 1 which will accommodate 72 freight cars at one time. The train shed covers tyro sidings each of the Michigan Central. New York Central and Grand Trunk rail roads. It is to be constructed on the east side of Cedar street, south of the Grank Trunk trucks. It i s the plan to use the building for both storage and shipping operations. It will also Include the export department where cars will be prepared and crated. At the present time, ouput for large shipments must be stored in the open and about the city and shop. The new building will provide storage space for 3,000 vehicles at one time, j The storage stock is drawn upon In making shipments which are packed under cover on the company's own i sidings. Tlie building is to be of • steel and brick construction. Auto Shortage Caused by Good Advertising “Advertising of automobiles in na-1 tional magazines and newspapers has been so well done in the last year and during this winter that the sup ply has just barely kept up with the demand," says J. H. Hansen of the J. If. Hansen Cadillac company. He further slates that now, when the enormous demand Is felt in every part of the country, factories are unable \ to quickly Increase production. A shortage already is felt in Oma-1 ha. Various concerns already are un- I able to deliver certain models of cars w hich have been sold and the cus- j tenters are waiting until the shipments arrive. The opinion of several automobile j dealers is that this shortage will be- i conic greater from now on until the ! first of July than ever before in the automobile history. All because j many factories have permitted their i parts stock and supplies to run low j on account of the uncertainty In prices. - - . “Better automobiles than we have had before to sell and remarkably effective newspaper advertising are not the least factors In this shortage. Heed the advertising and buy your car now. Spring is nearly here,” con cluded Mr. Hansen. Durant Plans Building of 4.10,000 Autos This Year The Cooper Motor company, retail distributors for Star and Durant oars, report excellent prospects for future delivery. Durant is now operating eight plants and recently has erected a new one at Flint, Mich. He is said to have a promotion program exceeding 450.000 cars for 1023. The Cooper Motor company Is maintaining a sales force and service department adequate to the needs of the increased factory production. Patriotic Name. Steelton, Pa.. Feb. 3.-"Patriotic that s me all over. Mabel.” Provided he had a girl with that name, Fourth July Shupp, of this place, could certainly write that fa mous line to her, for he seems to have all the Other necessary qualifications. Born on the Fourth of July, which accounts for his name, Shupp served more than a year with the 28th division in France. Now, to cap It all. he has been elected commander of the 1 oca 1 American legion post. All of which accounts for his nick name among the other legion mem bers—"Yankee Doodle.” Big New Ford Plant. Detroit, Feb. •3—When the Ford i Motor company of Canada's new! $8,000,000 plant is completed at Ford Ont.. the company will employ from 5.000 to 10,000 workers. Vice President TV. K. CanVpbell announces One by One, Illusions Burst With Bang! ---—-By O. O. M’lVTYBE. ———————————— J New York has always been to me the city with the golden halo. I used to be a rlerk in a country hotel and when a baking powder drummer would Inscribe the mhgic words "New York ' on the register 1 gave him No. 6—that was the one with two chairs and tbe,rj)iwrt<| of the basket,of fruit on the waif. jig I saw Broadway as a dazzling crtP* ciblo transmuting the obscure into greatness. When Lottie La Mont's Broadway Elite Repetroire company came to town I fell in love with Lot lie and walked up and down past the opera house like a moon sick calf. Not even the news that her hus band was the trap drummer and stage carpenter and that Lottie bleached her hair could shako my admiration. For she came from New York—the w onder •isle. My uncle—the one who made the round trip to Niagara Falls—was somewhat of a traveler. He used to take a New York newspaper in com bination with a farm weekly. I read each issue from cover to cover. 1 would go into the Depot Short Order House for a T-bone steak and im agine I was sitting at Rector's. No city meant anything to me save New York. Then one day the whirligig of fate landed me on Broadway. The second nay I was here a stranger came up and asked me for a direction. That was the proudest moment of my life. I figured that he took me for a regu lar New Yorker. 1 belonged! Main Street Through Glitter. New York is still the mightiest of cities and there is romance in every block—hut. after living hero owhile, the illusions hurst with a bang. You begin to see Main Street through the glitter. Tho greatest personalities are just every day foils—even as you and I. I have sotn Otto H. Kahn, the big banker, dodging taxicabs on Fifth avenue with as much ridiculous"agili ty as the veriest country bumpkin. I have seen Pierpont Morgan as confused over a French menu as a leading hick from Jay's Crossing, la. J have seen George M. Cohan try'to enter the exit entrance of the sub way. 1 have seen John Drew caught in a revolving door. 1 have seen Robert Hilliard trip on a rug in the foyer of the classiest ho tel. And I even saw the great Bern hardt trying to push in a door that was labeled "Pull." And after living here a great num ber of years I wouldn’t ride on an escalator if they'd give me the city hail. Clod From HohoUus. Try to find an original New Yorker. It can't be done. Tear off the mask of sophistication and you find a gilded clod from Hohokus. The most fashionable man milliner ir New York calls his shop a "salon." lie has a name that sounds as if it might, have been freshly plucked from the Hue de la Paix. Ilis first name is Herman and back in Sidney, O., where he comes from, all the boys on the cracker barrels known him as "Herm.” , • One of the best dressed men in town—Town Topics calls him a fash ion plate—was No. H on the planing mill pay roll 15 years ago down in Arkansas. When he cams to New York he wouldn't have known a patie de fois gras if one jumped in his lap. The greatest man -about-tosfli New York has ever known—an ultra sophisticated person who was at home in Home, Paris, London or New York—had to leave his home town because of his mortification over los ing $15 at a shell game on the county fair lot. The designer in one of the most ex clusive jewelery establishments in town can be seen only by appoint ment. One has to be a headliner in the Social Register to get in then. He fashions the head dress anil other jeweled ornamentations for creme de la creme. Tile Tinner’s Bluff. He wears a goatee, white splits and actually has a British drawl. Back in a little town in Indiana a few years ago he was a tinner by trade. He had never been inside of a Jewelry store until he came to Manhattan. lie. like thousands of others, found it easy to put over the big bluff. My admiration for the w riting cbm lias always been enthusiastic. For years I followed the silk-batted vil lains and the black-frocked nd venturesses)througli the pages of K. Phillips Oppenheim’s novels. Monte Carlo, Paris, London and where not.' Then last year T met Mr. Oppen heini. 1 pictured him as a typical worldly cosmopolite. He looks exactly like a certain^country squire I know in Ohio—just as bucolic appearing and no better dressed. Hay Long is known, and deserved ly so, as the greatest magazine editor in America. Authors stand in awe of him. Ills acceptance of -a story ' can ’make the most obscure writer famous ever night. One expects to see a glowering hulk of a man with a deep sounding voice. Instead one finds a very boyish looking fellow—with s merry, mis chlorous twinkle—who, if the mood iPlrikftS'Mtn. will enjoy a Charley Chap is a home that has every luxury— but when a rare old friend conies to call they go to the kitchen and sit on kflehen chairs and smoke corncob pipes. He has a half dozen oars, yet always rides in the subway. There is a man who runs a ehaJr of supper clubs. He caters to the cog noscenti. His flair for decorative I yaint Neveo goin To ) I amount To a dawn nepm, ( ) CjITTikI AROUND ON o?A£*SW ! OAPReiT,' wAiy Dontuia cur I (fW»K f J 'The most fashionable man milliner ip New York rails his shop a •Salon.’ I|is first name is Herman and bark in Sydney, Ohio, where he came from, all the boys on the cracker barrels knew him a* ‘Herm’.’* lin picture as much as grand opera. He is also fond of onion soup. There is a famous writer who writes the inspirational editorials. He does not write of bosky dolls, bab bling brooks or fragrant flowers, but attacks the follies. Crailtics and sins of tHe age in no uncertain language, i He wields seldgc-hammer blows. He harps continuously on the inesti mable loss of losing a precious mo ment. Tet he Is the despair of his publishers, lie is always three weeks late with his copy and I was in his office one day when, at the very last moment, he telephoned an article from San Francisco. The topic of the arti cle was "Laziness—the Greatest Vice.” ‘ Cob Pipes in Kitrlien. Henry L. Doherty, the oil and gas ^ magnate. Is one of America's richest \ men. He lias a home on a skyscraper in the downtown money marts. It i establishment* don* In Babylonian splendor give* one the impression that he is a superesthete. As a matter of fact he was once a "bouncer” in a Bowery beer hall and a cauliflowered ear and a foggy eye and talk "dis” and "dat” talk out of the side of his mouth. His pa trons never see him. He spends his idle hours in the back room of a Tenth avenue saloon and has never owned a *u!t of evening clothes. Perhaps the best known movie pro ducer. who prattles of Idealism in art, never went to school a day in his life and can scarcely read or write. And more power to him. The man who, until a few years ago, built and managed the finest hotel in Manhat tan was for 20 years the bartender in one of the toughest rum Joints in town. And so it goes! Don’t let New York "high-hat” you. Tag Day Chiefs Are Announced American War Mother? Seek to Raise $1.0,000 for Me morial February 10. _• i Mrs. ,\. H. Burr, chairman of tag day for the American War Mothers today named the list of captains who are to assist her February 10 when the War Mothers will try to raise S ld.OOO toward their memorial for American soldiers. The captains are Mesdames A. Har ris. G. W, Ahiquist, M. B. Bewis, Daisy Van Scoy, Georgo Browning, .1. E. Talmadge, Otis Reeves. E. Ol lis, Sisak Woolf, Carrie Sundahl, George Nieman, Fred Watsbaugh,1 Mary Andersog, J. E. Miles, M. .Tor dan Drake and Charles Showalter. The last tun will have charge of the hotels of .the city. Mrs. Burr announced that each cap tain would ask women to help her. but that any women who are not members of the Mar Mothers, tout who would bp interested in the cause wilf be welcome and their assistance gladly used. The moving picture houses of the city arc exhibiting slides announcing the tag day at all their shows. Michigan Has 2 Auto? for Every 12 Resident? Bansing. Mich., Feb. 3.—Michigan has one automobile to every 6.3 per sons. according to figures made pub lic by the secretary of state. A fotal of 578,9X0 pleasure cars was licensed in the state during 1322, an Increase of 35 per cent over 1921. Wayne county (Detroit) heads the automobile census by counties with 148,424, The Most Talked of Car at the Chicago Show New $Q75 Price * »■' Factory WimsSSSiBm Hack Covers 46,080 Miles. Goshen, Ind., Feb. 3.—Guy Bardo. employed in Washington township as a school hack driver for 17 years, fig ured recently that in that time he has covered 46,080 miles. Former Justice of Peace Pleads to Co to Prison Dalton, Ola., Feb. 3.—Judge M. O'. Tarver received a Utter recently front J. M. Nix. formerly a Justus of the peace of Murray county, who states that lie is guilty of forgery and lar ceny after trust, and he requests I that h«» l>e brought back from New Orleans, where he is living, and lodged in the federal penitentiary. The local hank, in which Nix de clares he cashes 1 a forged check, also received a letter from him stating that unless the hank officials sent for him he "as going to pick out a nice shiny mailbox and break Into It. so the federal authorities would take charge of him. Ha added ha tried to get Into hospital# In f«*u# states and couldn't, and ha wa» Ut» gently In need of medical attention In writing to Judge Tarvar. M* declared ho had to he either a begsra<"_ or a crook and go to Jail, because^e* htx crippled condition. MI hxvA tried them all.'* ha stated# •'and I d rather be a prisoner."_ The*Kew Coupe-Sedan £Dqots Front <tnd Rear ( The New Coupe»Sedan Wins Instant Acceptance EVIDENTLY, a great many people wanted just such a car as the newWillys Knight Coupe-Sedan. Acceptance has been immediate—eager. It is a beautiful body creation of steel, with intimately comfortable seating for five, and with doors both front and rear, providing easy entrance and exit for all. T he quiet, powerful Willys-Knight sleeve-valve motor actually improves with use. Si, WOlgt-Znight advirlittmenl in F thrum 3rd Scdurdvt timing Fmt TOURING 5-pti*. • i II23S OURING ;-p*n. . . 51435 ROADSTER 3-pul. . . J123S SEDAN Spm. . • . 11291 COUPE-SPDAN S-p»n. . V5U SEDAN • • • *1"' COUPE S-i»m.*1*9* ' Ail prim/. *. *• Totei* WILLYS KNIGHT WILLYS -OVERLAND, Inc. 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