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.
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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|»« — \
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Each ..
llaifinrnt—< * r*irr
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oil our winter «M»r*
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bards. Haeii . *...
Fourth Floor
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m»d» with dn!>h|o I
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[Mrkitii out full. •
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Fourth Floor
I ao Fair **f Hud
\ »»ac*—1 ratty A ^
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hu l v*m*. i«parla»- I
ad for I »* ”
day. pair .
nrih noor—r*»t
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Nemo Flapper bandeau*—
- *? pink *iik Jera* >. Nar
row hack and narrow
shoulder straps^,
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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
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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
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Third Floor—North
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match. In fruit aid ’.ea
: *>t d*1.* imr. Attr*' -
tiv* pa’ter
wry little
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on •hem.
per •**- .
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ttemca'e f*Ac to "Sr >r«t*
— ■Band top op hod -
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comt'ed <**tt«n v • |
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fifth I'looi—Iji%!
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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 ^
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a >.. n ih.M In 31 |
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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.
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>evoDii I1a*r—><*t1fc %
I -V» < and* Jar* —
-
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t i n p ». Specially
priced. ca*h _,
l.fth Pwr
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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