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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1923)
Today Girls in the Well. Glove Shoes—“Tut” Hats. Losing Doesn't Pay. Death, Dreams, Religion. ARTHUR BRISBANE In Yucatan is found a city of the Mayas, 1,400 years old. Ancient remains include a well 180 feet in diameter, 70 feet deep, into which beautiful girls were thrown alive to please the rain gods in time of drought. There were sacrifices also for the great god Kukulcan, the feath ered serpent. Had you, 1,400 years ago, told the priests hurling young girls into the well: “This can’t last; this will not go on forever,” they would have laughed at you, or more probably, would have thrown you in after the beautiful ladies. If you stand before the high priests of finance today and tell them that the presnt system can’t last, with the majority worried and poor, you are not thrown into a well, but you are apt to be thrown into a convenient jail “for seeking to upset the government.” When we uncover ancient cities, find the sacrificial stone where the living victim was ripped open, that his beating heart might be offered to the gods in sacrifice, we tell our selves that WE are highly civilized. But what does the news tell us? At the races in Paris they are wearing “glove shoes”—made to pull on like gloves, and Tutankha mun hats. And their minds are on that. In New York a girl dances 27 hours without stopping, wearing out six partners and eclipsing the record of the strongest French male dancer. We admire that. Tha United States government sending abroad the magnificent steamship Leviathan, owned by the people, engages a hippodrome di rector to produce theatrical per formances, changed every trip, in which young girls will dance and sing. The hope is that passengers on the American boat will accept the dancing ladies in place of an ac tive barroom. They won’t. Mr. Canfield, the new prohibi tion man in New York, says he will look after the “rum fleet” with a flock of flying machines. This will make it uncomfortable for the so-called “bootleg pirate” that works between the snore and the fleet. a , That ought to solve that prob lem, unless the bootleg pirate can operate submarines. Bulgaria sentences to life im prisonment six of the government heads, held responsible for drag ging Bulgaria into the war. If Germans, Bulgarians, Turks and Austrians had won that war, those six men would now be living in palaces and later would have monuments put up for thei’. It doesn’t psy to loso. The “Sonic depth finder” has enabled the United States hydro graphic office to make an accur ate map of the "floor” of the Pa cific ocean. That’s a gleam of civilized news, in pleasing contrast ^o murders, holdups, sugar swin dles, etc. _ The Rev. John Haynes Holmes’ Easter sermon surprised his con gregation. “I don’t know, said he, “which is worse, the myth ol heaven or the myth of hell.” If both are myths, what becomes of old-fashioned religion? The Teverend gentleman also said, “funerals are relics of bar barism.” He denounced the fear of death, saying: “We don’t know anything about death, or what, if anything, there is in the life after death.” That’s all very puzzling. He was mistaken when he said, “religious beliefs are largely re sponsible for the terror and fear of death.” It is just the other •way around, according to scientists. In terror, fear of death, strange dreains at night, the early religions of barbarians got their start. The sleeping savage, seeing Ws grandfather in his dreams, said to himself: “My grandfather lent dead after all. There is "omething after death.” Then he built him self an idol, in front of which he could bang his head on the ground, reproaching himself for eating his neighbor, or for not eating him. Mr. Dickinson, one* consul gen eral of the United States in Egypt, is back, gloomy. He doesn t think Egypt will know how to use the “liberty” the English gave it after the war and he foresee* aerious trouble coming in Palestine. The Arabs, outnumbering oth ers 10 to 1, resent control of Pal estine by the Zionists, he says, and he suggests the possibility of mas sacre. _ There won’t be any “massacre,” although there may be a fight. The 60,000 Jews in Palestine ar# armed with modem weapons. Any body seeking to “massacre’ them will meet with a ■»rPri»e. However, those well informed say the Arabs are content, they and the Jews understanding each other thoroughly. Time will tell about t hat._______ New Ford and Cash Taken. Special Dispatch ta The Omaha B«a. Callaway. Neb., April 3.~The first robbery In Callaway for some time occurred her* late last night when the Carothsr* Motor and Oil company broken into. An unknown man d”ve an old Ford Into the Xage and when he left he took a one also *100 ,rom the cnl,h later. He succeeded In making hla getaway. - Wheat Looking Good. -nlT.-« Dispatch ta Tba Omaha Bec. ’T^terTSrhllvlng'^eir WyU » s&.srsi’rs that the crop »'1 *'2" Wric# >«,k* tween Wymor* and Beatrice good. | $140,000 Added to Appropriation Bill by Lower House Increases Are for Yankton Bridge and Railway Com mission — Not Recom mended by Bryan. By P. C. POWELL. Staff Correspondent The Omaha Bee. Lincoln. April 3.—The house today added $140,000 to the blanket ap propriation bill submitted to it last week by the finance committee. With this added appropriation the blanket bill is still more than $350,000 lower than the estimate submitted by the governor. The Increases are: $100,000 addi tional for state aid bridge fund for specific purpose of building the Yankton bridge without draining on the original appropriation of $200, 000 for other state aid bridges- $40, 000 additional for the state railway commission, whose request had been cut nearly In half by both the finance committee and the governor. Increases Not Asked. Neither of these additional appro priations had been recommended by the governor in his estimate. There fore when the bill comes up for third reading it will be necessary to garner 60 votes in order to pass these ad ditional appropriations. When these additions were passed to third reading today they lacked fully a dozen votes below the neces sary 60. In advancing bills to third reading only a majority vote of those present is necessary. There is much dis cussion tonight ss to whether Speak er Mathers will rule that the entire appropriation bill must receive 60 votes or whether the 80 are neces sary for Just those eectlons In which appropriations are made in excess of the governor’s estimate. If he rules that the 60 votes are necessary for Just those sections in which appropriations are made in ex cess of the governor’s estimate, or If he rules that the 60 votes are neces sary on the whole bill and it Is not necessary to consider the bill sec tion by section. It was forecast that the added appropriations would carry because the members are tired and be hind time in adjourning and would not consent to consideration of a sec ond appropriation bill. Additions May Be filed. , However, if each section is con sidered separately, as many contend should be done. It appears likely that these added appropriations will be killed on third reading. There are dozens of other specific appropriations to be considered before the entire bill will be advanced to third reading. The house has not considered any of the appropriations for normal schools, the university or penal and charitable Institutions on which the appropria tions bloc is expected to make Us hard fight. The votes today on the $100,000 ad ditional for the Tankton bridge and the $40,000 for the railway commis sion did not reveal the true appropria tions bloc, but rather divisions on sentiment as to the usefulness of the state railway commission and tl# need of mors state aid bridge money. In no instance were party lines drajvn today. O'Gara. democrat, made the motion to add $100,000 for the Yankton bridge, while Lamb, republi can, made the motion to add to the state railway commission's appropria tion. Bock. Keyes, and Neff, demo crats, Joined In supporting the Lamb motion. Colman, republican, made a motion which nearly carried to cut out a $52,000 appropriation for pav ing at state Institutions. Omaha Job Unpaid. It was revealed that the state board of control had contracted for $12, 000 for paving at the School for the Blind at Omaha during the last two years. The work had been completed and had not been paid for. A por tion of the $62,000 was to pay for this work while most of the remaind er was to pave a road from the city of North Platts to the state experi mental station near that city. There waa no roll call on the Col man motion and it is declared lost. There was another lively squabble over a motion by Broome, democrat, to add $600,000 to the *1,500,000 for federal aid roads recommended by the finance committee, the present gov ernor and the former governor. Yochum of Saunders, another democrat, made a substitute motion to raise the federal fund to $3,000, 000. After much arguing both mo tions were lost. The real fight was on the state railway commission ap propriation. Defenders of tfie com mission contend that it was much misunderstood as a result ,of mis representation by Its enemies. It was asserted that the commission was the only body the people had to ap peal to for rate adjudications and that through co-operation of this commis sion w-ith like bodies of other states millions of dollars had been saved in freight rates (n the last year. Jacoby Leads Fight. Jacoby led the fight against the | commission. He asserted Charles A. r.andall, the new member, was the only member worth a 2-cent postage stamp to the people and asserted he had nearly been bankrupted while operating an elevator near Lincoln as a result of a joint ruling of the state board and Interstate Commerce com mission relative to distribution of freight cars. Lamb presented copies of corre spondence of the commission to prove a claim, made by Lamb that Jacoby's fight on the commission was personal and Jacoby had attempted unsuccess fully to get the commission to give him a special privilege In the way of extra freight cars. Consideration of appropriations will continue tomor row. Vote on Appropriations. Here Is the vote on the $40,000 ad ditional for the railway commission: For Increased appropriations: Allan, Amspoker, Bailey, Baldrlge, Barbour, Bock, Burke. Colman, Davis of Cass, Dennis, Densmore, Donnelly, Dysart, Essam. Gallagher, Garber, Gilmore, Gould, Green, Hansen, Nelson, O'Gara, Parkinson, Polkerd. Reece, Reynolds, Staats, Stlesal, Thatcher, Vance, Ward, Wilson of Dawes. Wilson of Lancaster, Wlngett, Wise, Wood, Tochum, Otoe. Total, 46. Against: Auten,, Auxier, Axtell, Ball, Beushausen, Brown, Collins, Cr B. Collins, G. S. Elsasser, Ernest, Hyde, Jacoby, Kautsky. Keck, Moore, Morgan, O’Malley, Orr, Petereon, Otteman, Osterman, Quinn, Raasch, Regan, Rourke, Strehlow, Swoboda, Thompson. Wells, Whitehead, Tochum of Saunders. Total, $3. Absent and not voting: Belding, Broome, Davis of Fillmore, Dutcher, Dyball, Egger, Hall, Haycock, Pef ferean, Johnson, Kemper, Kendall, Keyes. Neff, Mitchell. Smiley, 8mlth, Tlmme, Speaker Mathers. Total, 42. Her Husband Wouldn't Kiss Her, Mrs. Tutin Testifies Mrs. Emma Tutin, In a petition for divorce, alimony and custody of hea child, with trial under way in District Judge Davis’ court of domestic rela tions. testified yesterday that her husband refused to kiss her after they were married. She also alleged Inhuman treat men on the part of her husband, Harry, wealthy farmer of Stanton, Neb. The couple was married In 1910. _ Colonel Stone Assigned as Assistant Chief of Staff Col. David L. 8tone, who returned recently from Coblenz. Germany, has been assigned by Gen. George Duncan to the position of assistant chief of staff, known as "G 4." His office Is In the Army building and he has charge of the transportation sccounts and other activities of the Seventh corps area. He and his family will remain for the present at the home of his father in-law, George Hoagland. Murdered Man’s Mother Dies Without Knowing His Fate Special Dispatch te The Omaha Bm. Beatrice, Neb., April I —Mrs. Sarah Wolfe, 79. whose son, Charles 'Wolf, was murdered here last November by Francis Stewart, Francis South and George Warren, who are serving time In the penitentlry for the crime, died this morning. She was critically ill when her son was slain and never recovered auf flciently to be told of his fate. Bombs Terrorize Cork. Cork, April 3.—Bomb eiploslons have disturbed this city throughout the past 48 hours. The people spent a night of terror. Republican Irregu lars attacked the military post of the free staters near the railway station. The power station was bombed. Two soldiers and a girl were wound ed. Five republicans were captured. Edward C. Warner Dies. Chicago, April. 3.—Edward C. Warner, for 15 yen re traffic man ager and general agent of the Sells Floto circus dl»<l today In hla room In the Palmer House. An attack of acute Indigestion and heart disease is believed to have caused his death. Men, This Is Stetson Season It is the one time of year when a new Hat ia most necessary. Let us suggest a gray or camel shade; these are the ones that point most strikingly to being "style” this sea.o'h and are, of course, the ones we are best prepared to serve. Stetsons $7 $8 $10 0 Mallory Hats are $5.00 QfdJJ • —for MEN Two Stores 1509 Ftnim SlrMt IMS Farnam Slraat Amended Senate Bill Licensing Vehicles Passes Bus aud Truck Lines Covering 25 Miles or More Put Un der Supervision of Pub lic Works. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Lincoln, April 3.—Senator Ban ning's bus and truck licensing bm, S. F. 358, cleared the hurdles this morning and was passed on final reading as amended by the upper chamber. Aa ‘amended it places commercial lines covering routes more than 25 miles long under the supervision of the department of public works. Liability bonds of $15,000 must be carried, and fees ranging from $50 to $250. depending upon the size of the truck or bus will be charged. The proposed law will not affect farpiers and trucks carrying farm produce or livestock or trucks or buses devoted to school transporta tion purposes. Only two votes were cast against the measure. The Sarpy county boulevard bill, H. R. 278, was passed with the emer gency clause. It allows one-fourth of the cost to be assessed against the county and was backed by the Omaha delegation as giving an outlet south from Douglas county. 8. F. 242, by Warner, which strikes out of the present Insurance law the clause making life insurance incon testlhle after two years, was also psssed. H. R. 45, was rather unexpectedly killed on third reading, the vote standing It to 18. This was a bill by Representative Keifer authorizing the regents to pay $2.00 to the widow of Prof. W. F. Dann and $588.33 to the widow of C. E. Chowtns, the building superintendent. Another bill passed. S. F. 242. was strictly local, to permit the contlnu- ! ance of high schools In Lincoln sub urbs after annexation by Lincoln. The measure was to take care of the school children In the suburbs and to remove one of the big objections to annexation. Shepherd-Towner Act Is Approved by State Senate Speelal Dispatch to The Omaha IM. Lincoln. April 3.—The senate today passed house roll 168. introduced by Representative J. Reid Green of Lin coln, to accept the provisions of the Shepherd-Towner act for Nebraska. The act applies to child and ma ternity hygiene and welfare work and was strongly backed by women’s , organizations. Because of the legislative Inquiry ; into the capitol, the senate recessed ! Tuesday morning until afternoon. Bovs’ Corn Club. Special nispatrh to The Omaha B«a. i Waterloo, Neb.. April 3.—At a meet ; Ing starting at 2 Saturday afternoon, ! April 7, at the home of W. J. Apple I by, four miles northwest of Waterloo, ! a Boys' Corn club will be organized and any boy not over II on January ' 1, 1923, Is eligible. Fred Grau of Ben j nlngton will act as local leader. Bonus Paid Out on 1922 Beet Crop $4,584,735 ftpeHa) DI .patch to The Omaha Boa. Scottsbluff. Neb., April 3.—A pay ment of $654,856.14 aa an additional bonus of the 1922 sugar beet crop made by the Great Western Sugar company to growers In its four Ne braska factory districts at Scotta bluff, Qerlng, Bayard and Mitchell, bringing to the total amount paid to date for the crop to $4,584,735.30. Prospects are good that an addi tional dollar per ton will be paid be fore the contract requirement is com pleted by the company. From Scottsbluff today was paid out $204,535; from Gerlng, $190,174.25; from Bayard, $195,941, and from Mitchell, $64,215.89. Johnson Repeats Capitol Charges (Continued from Face One.) said. "Mr. Johnson has been of great service to the state. I do not wish to belittle his charges, but the whole matter is a question of opinion and judgment.” / McKelvte Interposes. When Mr. Johnson complained of changes having been made in the plans by the architect, ex-Governor McKelvle, also a former member of the commission, interposed with the question: "The commission approved the action of the architect, and the commlseion is responsible. You voted for it, didn’t you?” ”1 did,” Mr. Johnson replied. “But I’m willing to say I made a mistake, and the rest of you are not.” Two contractors and material deal ers were called aa witnesses' for Mr. Johnson. The testimony of one of these, W. It. C. Rowan, a member of a firm manufacturing acoustical de vices, illustrates the original of some of the differences of opinion. Mr. Rowan's firm makes sounding devices of felt, over which painted canvas is stretched. The architect’s specifications called for tile Instead of felt, and Mr. Rowan was thus put out of the bidding. He claims that not only Is his patent cheaper, but It Is more powerful in carrying the voice. He stated that the canvas could be painted to resemble tile, whereupon Commissioner Thompson asked wheth er he considered a deceptive device, which looked like one thing, but was another, should be Installed in a monumental building such as espitoi. Johnson Demands Saving. Mr. Johnson then rose. “The architect says that he won’t, tell a lie in architecture." he said. "He is will ing to have the state pay nine times as much for acoustics as is necessary. "No one could tell the difference betwee nthe tile and the canvas from the floor. I expect this committee to save the people this needless expense. ’ He stated that the tile for the first unit would cost $43,000. If the same material is used In the second unit, which includes the house and senate chambers, it will cost $117,000. The third unit will cost $48,000. Senator Kroh of Ogailala objected to calling the felt preparation a deceptive de vice. The other witness. John Westover, structural steel contractor of Lincoln, who hid, testified as to prices of steel. The committee proposed to call Mr. Jolley of the Concrete Engineering company of Omaha, to add testimony on this phase. Now a Quick Quaker Oats * Cooks to perfection in 3 to S minutes Please NoteThat Oats almost ready—quicker than eggs Now your grocer has Quick Quaker Oats. ' They are the quickest cooking oats in the world. Try them if you want your breakfast in a hurry. The dish will be ready, and cooked to perfection, long before the coffee. Lika the Quaker you know No difference in quality or flavor. You get in Quick Quaker all the Quaker delights. We simply cut the oats before Asking. Then they sre I rolled very thin and partly cooked. So the flakes are smaller and thinner—that is all. And those small, thin flakes cook ^ quickly. Now Quaker comes in two styles—tike your choice, i Both are Asked from the finest grains only—just the rich, f plump, flavory oats. We get but ten pounds of these deli cious flakes from a bushel, i But note what this means in flavor. Here it a dish that every oat lover loves. Millions of mothers, all the world over, send across seas i to get it. And it makes this supreme food doubly welcome I to children everywhere. Insist on Quaker—either style—for the children's sake. I _ I I 1 i Regular Quaker Oats Come in package at If It — the atyle you have always known. Quick Quaker Oats Come in package at right, with the "Quick” label. Your grocer ha* both. Be sure to get the atyle you want. J Ftcbd la Htltd rovnd packac** whk rtmmklt aatara THE OMAHA BEE DICTIONARY COUPON 3 Coupons aq and «70C ••cure* thi* NEW, authentic Dictionary bound in black taal grain, illuetreted with full page* in color. Preaont or mail to thia paper three Coupon* with ninety-eight cent* cant* to cover ceat of handling, packing, dark hire, ate, 22 DICTIONARIES IN ONE All Dictionariaa Published Previous to Thl* Ono Are Out of Data MAIL ORDERS WILL BE FILLED—Add ler poetagei Up te ISO mllee, Tc, up te 300 mllee, 10c. For greeter distance*, aab Peetmeater rale ler 3 peuada. Senate Passes 30 Bills Before Noon Whistle Blow* Hour Earlier for Solon*—Four Meas ures Killed. HperUI Dispatch to The Omaha Bo*. Lincoln, April 3—The upper branch of the legislature got down to business an hour earlier than usual Tuesday and, working at full speed, passed 30 bills before the noon recess. They were: S. F. 150, Osborne—Simplifies pro cedure |n appealing to supreme court In cases Involving forfeiture of wafer rights. S. F. 322, Allen—Amends form of law; gives governor free hand In ap pointments, except that one must be labor union man, one an employer and one neither. S. F. 150, Allen—Amends form of i issuing Irrigation district bonds. S. F. 261. Kroh—Provides equity i l jurisdiction and trial without jury in cases involving disputed land bound ary. 8. F„ 198, Anderson and Warner— Makes lire equipment In Lincoln schools legal if complying with city ordinances. S. F. 136, Rickard—Strikes out clause fixing salaries of clerk of county court in smaller counties. H. R.a 301 and 307—Amend Douglas county election laws. H. R. 587, Rourke—Places super vision of sewer systems under city engineer. H. R. 270, Baldrigc—Makes posses sion of auto with mutilated engine number prima facia evidence of theft. H. It. 218, Regan—Provides that up to $200,000 in bonds may be issued In city between 6.000 to 25,000 upon ap proval at election, to pay for private property confiscated. H. It. 288. Recce—Appropriates $10,000 for eradication of scabies. H. It. 127, Hansen—Requires elec tion of justice of the peace for each section of town located in two or more counties. H. R. 534 (Emergency)—Appropri ates $15,000 from hunting and fishing license fund to stock phesants, quail cense fund to stock pheasants, quail and partridges. H. R. 511. Osterman—Allows rural school districts consolidated with dis tricts to be reorganized <4j petition of two-thirds of voters in old district. H. R. 630—Appropriates $50,000 of fish and game fund to sink wells to keep lakes from freezing. H. R. 658, Wilson (Dawes)—Forbids use of any word applying to butter or to cattle In advertisements of but ter substitutes. The senate killed the following bills Tuesday: H. R. 503, Hardin—Requires judges to publish their interests in corpora tions. H. R. 412, Keck—Requires supplies for absent voters to be ready 15 In stead of 30 days before election. S. F. 237, Purcell—Leaves matter of transporting pupils by consolidated school to general vote. 8. F. 326, Cooper—Relating to teachers’ certificates. "Foster Is Arch . Enemy of Nation’ * Prosecuting Attorney Declarer Radical Will Go to Any Lengths to Attain Object. By International ttewi Service. St. Joseph, Mich.. April 8.—William Z. Foster Is an "arch enemy of the i republic," Charles W. Gore, prosecut ing attorney of Berrien county, told the Jury today in the state’s closing argument in the trial of Foster, charged with violating the Michigan syndicalism act. "Foster has not and will not leave undone any means by which he can accomplish the overthrow of the United States government!” Gore declared. Gore launched an attack upon the communist party. 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Cut-offs make us work as well as annoy you and we do everything powiblc to prevent them. What to Do When “Cut Off’ There is but one correct thing to do when accidentally “cut off” while talking over the telephone. The person who was called should immediately hang up the receiver. The person who made the call should ask the operator to re-establish the connection, saying,“I was talking to Number _and was cut off.” If the person who was called does not hang up after being “cut off,” his line will test “busy” and might be so reported by the operator when the calling party is trying to reach him again. A "cut ofl" may be due to one of several reasons. Some are caused by temporary disarrangement of the intricate central office equipment. Our employees handle their work so as toreauce the number of "cut offs” to a miniifium. •p * Northwestern Telephone Company