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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1923)
Minus Signs But— Pity the Children. Employers and Workers. Rockefeller and Ford. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ "Stocks irregular in quiet trad ing.” That’s the stock exchange way of saying that things look dubious—telling the truth, without frightening the lambs too violently. Little minus signs appear after the various steel stock quotations. Some wise men think that some thing is wrong. Steel is a barometer. Heed, don’t gamble. But not everything in high fi nance is gloomy. Standard Oil of New Jersey shows, for last year, a surplus of over $46,000,000, after paying expenses, depreciation, taxes, everything, and S. O. of N. J. is only one Standard Oil baby. It has little brother and sis ter S. O. babies in many states— and they are all well, thank you, very much, indeed. Pity poor children in brutal or ignorant hands. Only the record ing angel knows their sorrow. Raymond Baker, 10, was broken hearted when his mother ran off with a strange man, leaving him and his father alone. His school mates, with the cruelty of little savages, taunted and teased him about his mother. Shame drove him from school. His father pun ished him, “for his own good,” for truancy. The child kills himself, then, with his father’s short barreled rifle, also for his own good. That’* one true story. Here’s another, in the same day’s news. Dominick Gianentto, 12, came home late. His father promised him a whipping, but postponed it until next morning. In the morn ing he was busy and deferred the heating again, meanwhile chaining his son to a kitchen chair to make sure he would not run away. After five hours, police, called by a neighbor, found the child, so firmly bound by the heavy chain twisted around his waist and legs that they had to carry him, chair and all, to the police station. When the father came with his key to unlock the padlocked chain, he explained, casually, that the boy would not mind him. Imagine that child’s agony of mind, all night, in terror and then for hours in chains, waiting for his own father to come and beat him. And there are states that legal ize beatings by school teachers, a collective crime unworthy of can nibals. No wonder that a human race vile enough to beat feeble children should be constantly at war. The Manufacturers’ association is told America will turn bolshevik unless the open shop is estab lished and unions suppressed. Do the gentlemen understand that powerful unions and high wages destroyed the old Russian govern ment or did the czar fall because workers and peasants were dissat isfied? To keep workmen con tented, let them at least organize, as their employers organize. “The hand of sympathy, encour agement and love” is what the workers need, not selfish unions, according to the manufacturers’ president. If that is true the workers don’t know it. They think they want good wages, short hours, regular work and independence. Offer any manufacturer “sym pathy, encouragement and love” instead of profit on a contract and hear what he’ll say. No government ownership, say the manufacturers. “Government should refrain from competition with its own citizens in any form of business which they can success fully undertake.” What about railroads? Tracks were blocked with loaded coal cars last winter while citizens lacked coal because the roads could not haul it. Is that “successful?” Henry Ford anked: “What are you going to do with your money when you die?” Replies: “Just what I am doing with it now— keep it at work, producing what people need and paying workers well. I don’t believe in giving things to men, but in making men nble to get things for themselves.” John D. Rockefeller expresses (he same idea in connection with the Rockefeller fight against dis ease. Rockefeller, jr., says: “My father is not so much interested in curing individual eases of illness as in making such rasps impossible. To make people well by destroying disease, is my father's idea.” The Rockefellers are now earry 'ng on a campaign to wipe the yel low fever germ off the face of the earth, sending it to join the extinct dodo. It can be done and that would be better than curing a mil lion individual yellow fever cases. Dr. Webster, a scientist of great, ability and value, kills himself "because I am a failure as a physicist and my life has been a failure.” How many would sur vive if all failures killed them, selves? How many would go un whipped if all that deserved it got a beating? The world’s success and progress ate made up of partial failures. And the ablest men have most under-rated themselves. Newton, one of earth’s five great est. men, compared himself to f man picking up a pebble on f shore of the ocean of knowle, with all the rest unexplored hr him. JT' Cepyrlslii. 1*** f Matters Sentenced 3d Time in U. S. Court Thomas H. Matters heard a jury in federal court pronounce him guilty for the third time, and for the third time underwent sentence. About sev en years ago he was tried for abetting l the violation of the national banking j laws which led to wrecking of a bank in Sutton. Frank Howell was United States attorney then. Matters was found guilty and was sentenced to the federal prison in Leavenworth for six years. The circuit court to which he ap pealed sent the case back for a new trial and again Mr. Matters was found guilty and was sentenced to prison for years. Various stays of execu tion were granted, but finally in 1921 he went to prison. Forty-two days later he was pardoned by the presl | dent. The present sentence of five years and a fine of $10,000 will also be ap pealed. His attorneys are confident that it will be reversed because, they say, the three-year statute of limita tions had run before prosecution was started against him. Throughout his prosecutions Mr. Matters has stoutly maintained that he is a sorely persecuted man, who has done no wrong and is only a vic tim of public prejudice. His wife, three daughters and son have stood by him most faithfully through all the court actions. Though he in popularly believed to have large wealth, his daughter testi fied In this case that the only reason he sold out his interests in the Colo nial concern for $250,000 was that he was so poor that his whole family had given up its property for him. Yesterday one of his attorneys pleaded for him on the ground of his “impecuniosity.” Webster Urges Return to Old-Fashioned Fourth Outlining the purpose of the pa triotic historic pageant to be given by Ak-Sar-Ben this fall, John Lee Webster, who originated the idea, in addressing the Concord club yesterday noon, urged a return to the old-fash ioned Fourth of July celebrations. "The purpose of the pageant is to bring back to the memory of the peo ple the ideals that were in the minds of the creators and founders of our government," he said. "We should get back to the old Fourth of July celebrations when, in the spirit of Rufus Choate, we talked of the patriotic spirit that planted the colonies and pointed the bavonets of all their battles.” Col. T. W. McCullough was chair man of the meeting, which was held at Hotel Fontenelle. Man Appeals 60-Day Term; Judge Makes It 270 Days Bad luck trailed Tom Van from municipal court into district court, ' when he appealed a 60-day sentence Ion a charge of disorderly conduct. District Judge Day today sentenced j him to 90 days in jail for vagrancy, 90 days for immorality and 90 days | for disorderly conduct. The sen 'fences win not run concurrently. Van i will be out in 270 days. Nebraska Shoemaker Stabbed by Boy, 12 Bassett, Neb., May 17.—John Couzi I neau. 37, village shoemaker, is near death today as a result of being stabbed with a jacknife by Dli N'o meer, 12, following an argument over the boy's shoes, waiting limousine. Fraud Trial Jury Shatters Court Record This Jury returned a verdict Wed e-day finding 12 men guilty in the Colonial Lumber and Coal corporation mail fraud case on a total of 85 counts. It broke all records in the local division of the I idled Stales court. It sat in judgment eight weeks and three days, twice as long as any other jury. ( It found more men guilty than any other jury. The 12 men have been on the jury panel since last September. They are as follows: Front row, left to right—C. N. Harding. 2552 Harney street, cashier in restaurant; M. Salak, Schuyler, restaurant owner; Claus Saas, Klkhorn, farmer; August (iroves, Columbus, retired; K. S. Long fellow. 2521 Farnam street, tire shop owner; Albert Itrinker, Tekamah, retired farmer. Hark row, left to right—K. A. Williams, South Sioux City, retired farmer; Oscar Oleson. t.enoa. retired farmer; Frank Fish, I’apillioii, laborer; (i. II. Busse, Hecalur, real estate; A. A. Lammers, Ilartington, pumps and | windmills; II. A. Hanson, Klkhorn, retired butcher. I Masterly Handling of Case Arouses Comment cj.w Woodrou^h^ Much comment was heard on the ! masterly manner In which Federal j Judge J. \V. Woodrough presided1 over the Colonial Timber Sr. Coal cor j poratlon mail fraud case. With a dozen big legal lights on one side of the case and the legal talent j of the government on the other; with | every minute full of possible trouble, j I he maintained a smooth-running trail throughout Its eight weeks and | summed up the case In four hours of | instructions to the jury In a manner which surprised his auditors because. ; of his astonishing memory of all de tails of the ease. Legal Talent Array Present in Colonial Firm Fraud Case Trial Breaks Record Here Never before has surh an array of legal talent been gathered dally in the I'nited States tribunal here as during the Colonial trial. At the beginning of the trial no less than 20 attorneys were present to guard the defendants' interests. Several of the defendants were re leased and the number of attorneys was reduced correspondingly, lint all through the trial there never were less than 12 defense attorneys, and these included the best of the bar. These were Ed I’. Smith, W. K. Hurley, Abel \ . Hhotwell, Mallei I, Rose, A. \V. .lefferis, H. It. Ele hart.v, W. I,. Haiiglm. David Fitch, of Omaha; FI. J. Burkett, FI. It. Perry and Arthur \V. Richardson of Lincoln, and K. FI. Squires of llroken Row. On the government side were I'nited States Attorney J. C. Kins ler and Special Assistant W. C. Dorsey, Band and Orchestra Leaders Attention! 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When the expense of the months of preliminary investigation is taken into account, however, it might foot up to more than this figure. The government brought 47 witness es from West Virginia. Their total mileage rest was $4,033. They received $1.50 a day. ns did the other 44 gov ernment witnesses during the time they were occupied testifying or wait ing to testify. Two expert witnesses from West Virginia were paid $100 a day. $2,160 for Jury. Expert accountants and Investiga tors were employed for months be fore the trial in accumulating the loads of evidence. The 12 jurymen received $3 a day, which totals about $2,160 for the 12 for the eight and a half weeks. The heavy expenses fell on the de- , fendants. It js likely that tlie fees of the attorneys averaged $5,000 each, which would he $00,000 for the 11 at torneys who went all through the case. In fact, It is said two of the attorneys received $15,000 each. Then the defense hart also witness fees, court costs and many other ex penses. The vast record of the case to he written up by tho official reporter, Charles Pearsoll, will cost thousands of dollars. This is necessary for ap peal to the higher court. Pearsoll re ceived $15 per day paid by the de fense. All transcripts jf testimony cost extra. Norfolk Banker Die?. Special IHepatrIt to The Omaha flee. Norfolk, Xeb., May 17.—Ernest Zutz. pioneer Nebraskan and vice president of the Norfolk National hank of which Institution he has hcen continuosly employed since 1888, died here. Convicted Man Says He Had “Good Intent” Ralph E. Sunderland was In the coal and building supply business with his brothers here until shortly before he Joined the Colonial adventure. He married a southern woman In Charles ton. She did not miss a single session of the eight weeks’ trial. Every day she was in the same place listening to the long testimony. When Bunder DRY OAK For Fireplace Updike Lumber St Coal Co. 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If. P Sretem. i«i« Dodge St, Omsk*. Phone Jecksott }Su Cenaolldeted Tlrker OBce Union Station ■ 4iS Dodge St , Phone AtlentU 9114 10th end Mercy Streets union Pacific land was called for sentence Wedne* day he rose anil said: l never had an unclean financial transaction In my life and no man can tell me 1 had not goisl faith and intent in the Colonial deal." put Judge Woodrough replied Just before pionounc.ng sentence; "Your attitude seems wrong. As I see it from evidence, this was a scheme and plot to get. your share of $1,000,000 fur nothing, to get it regardless of whether the title to tho lands was good or not.’* Platte County Woman Ends Own Life With Shotgun S|irclal IlinpHtdl to The Omaha Bee, Columbus, Nell., May 17 —Mrs. William l-ange. 39, wife of a wealthy Platte county farmer, committed sui cide at her home. Going to the woodlot at the rear of the house, she placed the barrel of the shotgun against her heart. I.eaning over the weapon as it stood ori the ground, she pressed the trigger with a forked stick. Married 14 years, she is survived by a husband and five children. The youngest. Mildred, is 2 year-old. No reason for the act is known. Moses Sees Hard Pig'nt in 8 States Washington. May IT.—Republican senatorial candidates Mill haw a hard fight" in lt>24 in eight states now represented by republican senators, in the opinion of Scantor Closes of New Hampshire, chairman of the repub lican campaign committee, as ex pressed yesterday after a preliminary survey of present political tendencies. Besides, the senator adde, the demo crats are certain to retain at least 10 of the 14 democratic senate member ships for which elections will be held next year, so that on the whole the republican committee "is not at all comfortable over the outlook.” There is some doubt as to whether they will elect the successor of Sena tor Stanley in Kentucky and Senator OM-en In Oklahoma. My hope of re publican success in those states is not as great as it is for success in Massachusetts and Montana, where senators are to lie elected to fill the seats now occupied by the two Walshs, but it "ill lie no easy light to beat either of these. Cfainpon.^lten&Ca May Sale of Lingerie Undermuslins from our regular stocks. That means only the best materials— soft nainsooks and cambrics, fine laces and daintily patterned embroideries. We cannot emphasize too strongly the quality of these materials. Reductions And very drastic ones, are based on the original prices which means even more in view of the present rising cotton market. Shop early Friday and secure the best selec tions, for sizes are incomplete in some instances. Corset Covers 29c and 98c Elaborate lace-trim med tops with built-up shoulders. Teddies $1.89 and $2.89 Lace-trimmed top and bottom and a few ex quisite handmade ones. 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