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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1923)
1) Inventions of ^ Edison Turned Down bv Navy y J Officers Seein to Resent Ideas for Betterment of Navy Rather Thau to ^ elconie Them, Inventor Says. West Orange, N. J., Feb. 12.— Thomas A. Edison today said that he had offered tho United States navy 4.7 inventions slftce he had been presi dent of the naval consulting board, hut that every one of them had been rejected. “Navy officers seein to resent ideas for the betterment of the navy rather than to welcome them," lie said. The occasion was the electrical wizard's annual birthday interview with news writers. He was 76 years old yesterday. Edison becan the interview in his laboratory office, by kicking over his head to prove‘‘his assertion that he was “still young.” "I am doing more work than ever,” he said. “I am interesting myself in . business theories os well as mechan ieal and electrical construction. But 1 tun not spending a fortune on bum ideas. As .soon as 1 see a scheme is no good, I discard it.” Ntings College Men. Mr. Edison jumped nimbly from in ventions to polities, and as readily from polities to flappers, education ^jod prohibition. y “College men,” he said, “don't know what is going on. They .are too' dense. Newspapers arc a great force and the collego boys overlook them If I had a paper, I'd put more popular science into it. I’d make the candi dates for jobs fill out a questionnaire to see if they knew anything. I'd want men with imagination. Imagi nation is a scarce article.” “Does Coue do any good?” he was asked. “Yes. I can hand something to him. T don't think lie’s a fake. Ho seems to be in earnest.” “What do you think of prohibition?” For Prohibition. “Sober America,” he said, raising both hands, “I’m for it by all means. I know prohibition is a failure in the cities, but when wood alcohol kills off all the old soaks, prohibition will have its day. The boys and girls of tho next generation won't have any taste for the damned stuff. “The newspapers print too much scandal,” the inventor declared. “We all like a little of it, hut I think the papers overdo it. The politicians make suckers out of the publishers. Why should every one-horse politician use up good print to rant about what he wants to do? He should he made to pay for the space he uses.” "What's good in the field of inven tion?" he was asked. “The hellcnptcr*-the heavier than air machine that goes straight up. James Gordon Bennett once gave me S 1,000 to experiment with one. I made a machine that only weighed t ^fifht. pounds, but it didn't do the trick, . scorched my hanjls and burned most of the hair off my head trying to per fect it, but I didn’t. There is a great ■ omniercial held for the helicopter.” Pawnee City Has Eight Postmaster Candidates Pawnee City, Neb., Feb. 12.—(Spe cial.)—February 8 was the date mark ing the final filing of applications for the position of postmaster in Pawnee City, which office will become vacant April 1, when the resignation of Post master A. E. Overdon become* effec tive. There are eight candidates. Paul A. Beaton Dies After Week’s Illness Paul A. Iteaton. Paul A. Beaton, 45. Hotel Hill, died Monday morning at «:30 of erysipelas after an illness of one week. Mr. Beaton was horn In Schuyler, Neb., March 22. 1S77, and came to Omaha when a child. He was a grad uate nf*Creiehton university, lie was in the insurance business. Mr. Beaton saw two years' active service in France during the war as captain under Col. Charles DeForest Chandler, Mr. Beaton is survived by three brothers, Charles I*. Beaton and J. 11. Beaton of the Beaton Drug com pany of Omaha, and F. J. Belton of Denver. Funeral services will be held JVednesdav morning at 9 from Gentle man's mortuary to St. Peters church at 9:30. Rev. F. J. McCarthy will officiate. Stockyards Rate War Is Predicted Chicago Firm Announces 4-0 Per Cent Reduction in Live stock Commission Charges. Chicago. Feb. 12.—A rate war among stockyards commission men was forecast today with the announce- ! ment by the Progressive Livestock i Commission company for a 40 per cent reduction in their charges for handling cattle and hogs in carload lots. The reduction takes effect Im- | mediately. A saving to the farmer and live- , stock producers of from $300,000 to $400,000 a year will be effected If the reduction becomes general. The live stock exchange has had a committee considering a reduction for several weeks but It is said the matter has been buried In the committee and is | not likely to be reported back for ; action. "Refore and during the war a car- j load of hogs worth $3,500 was sold j for $12,” said John Burke of the : Progressive company, composed of | veteran dealers at flip yards. "The present price of hogs |s about 33 1-3 p*-r cent of their wartime value, but the commissions of a carload of hogs now worth about $1,300 is $10 and $1*. Commission for selling rattle show the same glaring increases. “Another charge we have decided to eliminate is the $2 a car for pro-rat-' lng, made when two or more consig nors have livestock In the same car. Under the old rates an extra charge of $2 was made, for dividing the pro- j reeds of the sale among the con- ; signors.” I Rabbi W ise Doubts / Details Regarding 10 Commandments Jewish Leader Challenges Church Officials to Banish Him for Heresy—De fends Dr. Grant. New York. Feb. 13.—Asserting that he dirt not beil^vo certain details re garding the delivery of the Ten Com mandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue, in a sermon at Carnegie hall yesterday, challenged Officials of the Jewish church to "banish him for heresy." "There are heresy hunters In the Jewish churches as there are in the Protestant and they would banish me if they could,” he said. His sermon, "Recant or Resign: Church and Synagogue Versus Free dom," was devoted mainly to a de fense of Rev. Dr. Percy Stlokney Grant, in his controversy with Bishop William T. Manning over the deity of Christ. Bishop Manning was charged by Rabbi Wise with evasion in his re ply to Dr. Grant and lie declared that it would have meant "death to the moral and spiritual life of the Chris tian church" for Dr. Grant to recant. "I am a Jew j>f Jews," Rabbi Wise asserted, "but the freedom of re ligion is in peril and liberty Is inter denominational. I have a peg staked in the fields of truth and I cannot view the issue with unconcern.” The Grant case, he continued, was the thin! heresy controversy of the Year and he championed the former unreservedly. At the same time, Dr. Grant, rector of the Church of Ascension, was de livering a sermon on ".Should Lib eralism Be Generally Taught?” In which he declared he did not believe in some factors mentioned iti connec tion with the birth of Christ, lie said he had received many letters Noted Jewish Leader Doubts Commandments | 5abbi .Stephen S.Wise from those finding fault with him for “undermining Christianity.” “I ran Htill hold by attention upon the great lessons of that sermon and preach upon the spirituality of these lessons, yet retain tny belief regard ing the birth of Christ." m Snow Hits North Loup. North T,oup, Neb,, Feb. 12.—<Spe cial.1—After a short period of thawing weather, snow began falling here Fri day night and continued at Intervals all day on Saturday. The mercury fell to from 6 to 10 degrees below zero. Man Does Not Die —He Kills Himself Usually he is intelligent—yet, he is so ignorant about himself that he “dynamites” his intes* tinal tract with powerful purgatives—digests his meals with pepsin—dispels his headache with a powder and believes himself healthy. Don’t go on trying to deceive yourself. Come let us help you keep well. Remember, Health is everything. take a 1 SOLAR z/ieahnmt and enjoy Health, in its fullest sense. 19th and Douglaa Strreta Maaonic Temple Bldg. Treatment Hour#: 8 A. M. to 6 P. M f Wednesday Evening v V Cl LvI 1 • Papers for Our - Announcement Of Omaha’s Greatest Our buyer has just returned from the eastern markets where he has been working tirelessly to assemble the GREATEST COLLECTION OF DRESSES ever placed on sale at one time in the history of our store— WATCH WEDNESDAY EVENING PAPERS FOR DETAILS Bergdoll m Hot Water Over German Waitress Kberharh, Jtaden. Feb. 12.—((4*))— (trover Cleveland Hergdull, wealths American draft evader, is again in the limelight as a result of his love affairs. It was recently reported that he had been married, but this was denied by his friends, who say he became enamoured of a waitress in a local hotel apd that one night after a merry dinner he gave her a written and signed engagement contract. A local editor was authorized to I rint this notice, but Bergdoll is re ported to have denied the engage merit until confronted with this docu ment in his own handwriting. He then claimed it was all a mistake and the engagement was cancelled after a reported monetary settlement for the Waitress' wounded affections. Bergdoll has been in Switzerland several times lately on recreation trips, but he has remained in liber bach or nearby most of the time. Death Parts Buddies. • Hiarle* C'ha»', 6*. was found dead mills room, H'07 Douglas street, jf' t, Jay by his brother, Fred. Ham* McCormick, his pal. who effected hi* , osarrest when »'har!*s w as jailed, lint fo he separated from his buddv. ts disconsolate. On February 2 both then were pardoned by the mayor. im A Dollar Is Only a Dollar Till It Buys a Bargain at Brandeis I till ■ l.t B Roji' h or r full*— These are the genuine Koveralla made by Levi Mrauas A <*omj»any. Medium w eight ma terial In light or dark blue, trimmed with rr.J. Plzen 3 to $ years. Each Fourth Floor Harm < lor|»« — \ I! min'i'f alarm, f:*r- 1 Each .. llaifinrnt—< * r*irr 1 u.1 to 5.1.1 Men's 11 inter ( up«—1 '• ■ ■! < nria- » ©' oil our winter «M»r* All it J le« * /(% ^ r I ils'k • o!orirk• »i'h I 'ur or rlush in bards. Haeii . *... Fourth Floor IViu’ Blur DfniiTi Of *▼»!!• — * A ^ m»d» with dn!>h|o I *«l»«*h**<1 »o*m*. Four 1 [Mrkitii out full. • * i^» & to » 3rMn, Fourth Floor I ao Fair **f Hud \ »»ac*—1 ratty A ^ nnngf In luatar * *ro K hu l v*m*. i«parla»- I ad for I »* ” day. pair . nrih noor—r*»t • < Nemo Flapper bandeau*— - *? pink *iik Jera* >. Nar row hack and narrow shoulder straps^, I 'dr h 1 for ' k • K' • - et| ^ lr» plrl v ho dn*-a ■ not requlre much ^[j I support. h:zea 20 to j*. Each Third Floor—North floren Rr»a<l and Butter I'tatea— bread and butter deflirn#. Rtfuiar ly J.St). T'ozen.. . Fifth Floor—Fa at tVomrn'fe Mnn«lnr I nfon 0 i) I t * M>1» in knr* >ngth *»ltii shrll nr bind | . 'a tusts of ilmllnr A 4 ha ».*1 tfj*. AM • r*m |S H**ul*»' 1 2' *n»I 1 !.’••) V»l’ rg. Si +*ai- A Ijr priced. tmctt ... Ihinl floor—< tnirr 'U*do I ahrlr I»*iin!!**•— • Ity ft ■ I app'.lquad <!#• «;gna or amb'oid ik ^ trai ogff« 1n fray I m»•»'o. nard »iI h«lf*r ahad*p • Ter ^»ir .Halii Fl©#r—»rth **f. p#nt« < np* and rr%—4»©od grad* of Poav* o*mt pore*- » ;*in .-'ir* *nU *« :>■ *r« llfgular valu* j Jft« » down, apa cftal, l tot J fifth n#*r—Km* | T uesday 5 Yards 30c and 35c Curtain Materials A good assortment of figured nets and plain mercerized marquisettes in white, ^ 1 ivory and beige. 5 yards for 1 Nath Floor—KaM 1.39 Bleached Sheets—MxSO-inch sheets made of splendid muslin, free from dress ing with French seam in center, hemmed ready for use. No*mail or phone (he orders filled. Special at, each, V A Ha^nirnt — >orth Metal Ribbon—Black or colored ground with brocade in silver and color com binations. Wonderful sash and ^ a millinery ribbon. Special, yard, V A Mam Floor—Nnrth 1.39 All-Wool Canton Crepe—In a full range of all the fashionable shades as well as navy and black. 35 inches £ a wide. Specially priced, yard, ip A Ktxnirnt—4 fiitrr All WoolWtemnants—.Nearly 500 of them and all most wanted and desirable fab rics in a great variety of colors. 42 to 54 Inches wide and formerly tr Id on ^ < the piece at 1.75 to 2.6o, p- r ;-ard, v A —4 riiirr . 1.95 Novelty Buckles—Novelty cap and suit buckles and clasps in. many attrac tive shapes. Piain and paisley col- ^ a onngs. Specially priced at, each, A Main I lof ( fintrr \ Women'* Linen Handkerchief*—Women's all pure linen hemstitched handkerchief in white and Color* with fancy em broidered corner*. Priced, 7 for, v A . * Main Finer—North Children'* 1 79 Union Suit*—Natural color wool; most every size for boys and girls. Special at, each, V A Basement—Arrid# Men'* Union Suit*—The early buyer of spring underwear will be well repaid in buying his supply Tuesday. Seconds of the well known Coot>er's spring needle knit union suits ia white or ecru. Ail shapes and ail sizes. A saving to you or ' o 'j and moie i tin - -> ■ ; A •* tuarket. Specially priced, ca.’- «p i Main Hoof—Viiih Leather Bag* and Party Bone*—«7enuine leather. Many styles to select from. All colors- brown, black, gray and tan. (.rained seal, spider calf and va A* chet'e. All silk lined. Priced, each, V A Slain host—R*«t Men’s 1.49 Overalls 1.00 Blur denim overalls, high hack or suspender back. .Sues 32 to 44. For one day only— Limit 2 to a eu*tomer. No phone orde1'*. IWiaenietl— Arr«<1«> Nemo • iirlet Brassiere*— The- f,t a they i**> r. down meil over top lem COTI-f'. Mad* of pink and” mhite hatiat** T' ■r *■ c c. t h a? ’ e ara>*ht line every I woman i» tookir* l 'or. gizea 36 to if. “ m Ka<h Third Floor—North 1.35 mirl ! Vt IV.;.' »h>rt« — •7ollar-atta«rhe»i cr A 1 m a <1 r a * a n't r*r- I f a * • ‘liia-an'a l I • H Y * !: , to 1*%$- Eoeh Fourth r<w>f Brxli# or 1 on* heon - Si-lOCh injuare oenter r sap kins t match. In fruit aid ’.ea : *>t d*1.* imr. Attr*' - tiv* pa’ter wry little erlnf to 1 on •hem. per •**- . Third Floor—Wert ttemca'e f*Ac to "Sr >r«t* — ■Band top op hod - r- »*>’• in (hi comt'ed <**tt«n v • | r> ■“• cr 1% f |B f ' T " ««. 3 for . B* moment — Arcade * 1 .%• lion lion D »*!>»»' * patniod bon bon • iahrt in mto; a* trartt-. n and do-'orat-loi jl.. S;*# dal •* k . fifth I'looi—Iji%! I..*>« ftufflof] (or* tain«—f' h< • r fV *• rim with f'i!! narrow rurf*« and rufflM t ••-ha^ka *o matrh. Pair . £i\th floor—Ka+t OiilfJron'% 1.i» «h«ri^ F-a'cr.t bather with Marie *opw, pa»«r,t leather * J in* top*, and r a t • a t v. ;th fawn ' J tor*: b « < t © r. /K ^ • ;yl**. A!jo brown ^F ( a >.. n ih.M In 31 | '*•*■'** S:zca . V * ‘o S. I«' jt r i;u%f m*-nt— \rr srjo 1.95 Mihtpi* Thread Silk .r*d i.- ^ v »h rj . . ! * * httiB and !;*Je r*rter tor**. 4lte » pjik * chiffon wcifbts P ? k. brc.a n and rsbos shades. I*air Mam n<*»r—> o r‘ h *ltp-Ow rater* — In b J a r * , nary. ■' :i *&4 !i(ht aha <J*a. f.n« aj M'rfnjer t . n p ? a ! n aud far. *y e.vhra, >evoDii I1a*r—><*t1fc % I -V» < and* Jar* — - * th •'*r»- '• ‘de « in « it mt t i n p ». Specially priced. ca*h _, l.fth Pwr 1—————— a Features in Linens at 1.00 Irish Linen Toweling I Yard* Irish Linen Toweling—A heavy quality of bleached towel In* all pur* flax. Spe- | dally priced, t yard* 1»UU Brown Linen Toweling 5 Yard* Brown Linen Toweling— With neat blue stripe. An absorb rni qualify that is extremely Inn* wearing, specially e priced at yards for, I *\/vl Wash Cloths 12 Wash Cloth*—Mg heavy wash riot ha In color*. Second* a /-vrs of 20c qualities, 12 for 1 et/vs Turkish Towels 4 Turkish Towel**—III*, heavy bleached towels with hemmed . ends, all while, specially | priced Tuesday at 4 for. 1 • v/U Diaper Cloth 5 Yards Buds Eye Diaper Cloth — “Mm li dia|>er cloth In e v> yard piece*, 6 yard*. 1«UU MmIn I l»PT —Mf»l Tuesday Notion Sale Coats' Sewing Thread Spool..*. . 4c 10c Stocking Darners—Black or natural color, fie ..... 5c Reddy Bias Lawn Tape -Sires 3 to 7. (i yard holt... 10c 50c ‘ Evelyn" Curling Ironr—Large wooden haidli- 29c 10c Peter Rabbit Safety Pins Guarded • ■ i1 s. ns- rtnl si.es to tlie card ... 5c Basting Threads 2X1 yard. 5c Reddy Garters for Children Stout elastic. strong clasps. . per pair.10c Reddy Powder Puffs In sanitary envelopes.10c Shoe Trees Pair .1. 7c 50c Hickory Sanitary Aprons -l’or. 39c 25c West Electric Hair Curlers 5 to tin ard. 19c Kotex Sanitary Napkins -Por.cn. 49c 50c Hickory Waists for Boys and Girls . 39c Pant and Skirt Hangers 3 for.... . lOc Reddy Brass Dressing Pins—3*k) needle point pin<r-t • the paper. lOc I 10c Paper Shopping Bags For. 5c 15c Singer Sewing Machine Oil For .10c 10c Ocean Pearl Buttons AsWtrd sir.es, («rd.5c Colored Mercerised Twill Tape , inch, per yard ... 4c Rust Proof Snail Fasteners \11 sires, 3 cards fur._10c Belditigs or Ricnardson Darning Silk 3 spools for .. 25 c I J 4 P. Coats’ Darning Cotton 2 halls for .5c 20c Bias Fold Stickerei Edging Assorted color, bolt .15c I 5c Package of Hair Pins Black and bronre. fot . 4c Main Floor—South Drugs and Toilet Goods at 1.00, 3 Tube* Peptodert or e r\r» Pebeoo Tooth Paste ' 1 .UU Re.ii B- st• e Ha>' Bru»h a-d 9 inch Prince** Dressii j 1 nn c .1 .UU Ivory Finished Large O Art Oval P.ctur* Frame fo; 1 .UU '6 Bart Crems Oil Soap 1 /in ipecialI}’ priced at. 1 *U\ 3 Qua t Combination Founts -i Scringe and Water ' * ftn Bottle, >pc i|l> p;:. 1 1 .UU Large Household Chamois Shin and Large Sponge—\* a i-ve\ Ural or bleached »: 1 .UU S.35 Lunch Kit—Cor j I'li »;tiia h bo. 1 »UU Mavi* Combination — i in,; of 1 (hi box of Mavis F'acc row dor. V- hotiie ot Toilet N\ s’cr, c can of Talcum, all | /wex p cml spec.all> ■ 1 eUU Mam Fleet—Wrvt
