Today
We Need Big Business.
Rubber From Milk Weed.
Prayer and the Weevil.
Don’t Blame Calvin.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE^
F. E. White tells the Chicago
Association of Commerce that dis
couraging big enterprises -is fool
ish, and he’s right.
A big country needs big busi
ness. Competing with Europe, we
compete with concerns that are
practically as big as the nations of
Europe.
England, France, Germany
stand behind their business men,
not trying to pull them down, but
encouraging them to be bigger.
President Harding favors big
ger and bigger railroads through
combinations that will simplify
transportation and save money.
This ought to be accomplished
through government ownership.
The next best is greater railroad
combinations to save overhead
and avoid wasteful competition in
soliciting business and a thousand
other wastes, inevitable in reckless
competition.
The people should have brains
enough to allow and encourage the
biggest possible business, and at
the same time get their share of
the resulting economies, and pre
vent extortion based on monopoly.
If they haven’t brains enough to
deal with big concerns, they won’t
have brains enough to prevent
combinations among smaller con
cerns.
There is • plan to grow milk
weed, and make rubber of the
milkweed sap. Dr. LaRue of the
University of Michigan believes
that it might be done. That would
help solve the rubber problem.
Every little boy knows how sticky
milkweed juice is.
. More Immediately important is
the news from Minnesota which
tells of a new process for washing
low grade iron ores. If its suc
cess is proved, that seems to set
tle and guarantee an indefinite
supply of iron. Minnesota alone
has 30,000,000,000 tons of iron
in low grade ores, which means
"hat the state is richer than if it
iwned all the gold mines of the
world. Real wealth is in the hu
man brain and its inventions, ap
plied to this earth.
At the request of Governor Mci
Leod, the people of South Carolina
next Sunday will unite iu prayer
against the boll weevil. A good
idea, but of course the people of
South Carolina will continue to
fight, as well as pray, against the
boll weevil, remembering the fifth
verse of the seventh chapter of
Judges, telling how the Lord tried
the people of Gideon, setting
aside, as especially reliable,
“everyone that lapped the water
vith his tongue as a dog lappeth.”
Gideon won with(the aid of men
that were earnest in fighting as
well as in praying.
F. A. Wood, No. 432 Buffalo
avenue, Paterson, doesn’t believe
that John Calvin, whom he ad
mires, ever burned anybody alive.
“Give me the name of the history
from which you got your informa
tion,” says he. Any encyclopedia
will do.
Look up the name of Servetus.
Calvin informed against him and
caused him to be burned alive at
Geneva in October, 1563.
Mr. Wood need not, however,
cease his admiration for Calvin
on account of that burning alive.
In those days it was the fashion
for Protestants to burn Catholics
and Catholics to burn Protestants.
And both, most joyously, burned
those that were neither Catholics
nor Protestants. Servetus would
be included among the last, prob
ably.
The Germans have made an
other proposition to the allies to
pay cash in return for peace and a
chance to build up. They offer
$300,000,000 in gold every year,
giving a mortgage on beer, wine,
sugar, tobacco and spirits taxes,
also on real estate, railways, etc.
That’s enough money to build one
Panama canal every year, and
leave 60,000,000 over. This rich
country made a fuss about build
ing the Panama canal.
Whether or not France will ac
cept depends on what France
really wants—the collapse and
downfall of Germany, or a certain
amount of German money.
The assembly of Wisconsin, im
itating the state of New York,
votes to do away with prohibition
enforcement, by state authorities.
The results of national prohibi
tion, without state enforcement,
will be interesting. This fact
stands out. The police are not
obliged to arrest bootleggers. They
can take them or leave them. In
other words, prohibition will offer
the most gigantic opportunity for
blackmail and graft. A criminal
business, “earning" hundreds of
millions annually, is powerfully
organized on a basis of banditry
and blackmail.
Germany agrees to pay us
$246,000,000, the amount we
spent uselessly keeping an Amer
ican army on German soil after
the war. Can anybody suggest
any good that was done by
aquandering that money, and load
ing that debt on.a beaten "»*ion?
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Johnson Denies
Firing Shot That
Killed Jurging
Defendant on Witness Stand
in Murder Trial—State
Impeaches Testimony
of Dr. Hoff.
Fremont, Neb., June 8.—Andrew
Johnson. 65. facing a charge of first
degree murder of William Jurging at
North Bend last October following a
drinking fest, denied emphatically on
the witness stand late thia afternoon
that he fired the shot that killed
Jurging on direct examination John
son stated that he cannot remember
anything that occurred at his home
during the drinking party, on cross
examination by the states attorney
he insisted that he knew he did not
kill Jurging.
Court adjourned at 5 o'clock with
Johnson still on the stand. He will re
sume his testimony in the morning
and attempts will he made to com
plete the case for the jury sometime
tomorrow.
.Attorney Discredits Statement.
The big sensation of the fifth day
of the arial came when Prosecuting
Attorney J. C. Cook practically Im
peached the testimony of Dr. E. A.
Hoff, the first physician to attend the
wounded man. In his testimony the
doctor stated that Jurging told him
that the shooting was the result of
the accident. Attorney Cook ex
hibited a letter from Dr. Hoff with
depositions taken from Jurging short
ly after he was shot. In thia letter
Dr. Hoff informed the county attor
ney that Jurging said, “Oh, I don’t
know why he shot me.”
Constant Bickering.
Constant bickerings ad arguments
hetween the attorneys that necessi
tated warnings from the court fea
tured the introduction of the letter.
The jury was retired while the court
ruled that the letter should be ad
mitted as evidence before the jury,
thus impeaching the doctor's testi
mony on the witness stand.
"Unable to Remember.”
Johnson, on the witness stand, was
able to recount the exact details lead
ing up to the drinking party and
everything he did on the day of the
killing. After the third drink his
memory fails him, he said, and he Is
unable to tell what occurred. The
next thing that he recalls, he said,
was waking up In the county jail
next morning, charged with murder.
Debt Issue Discussed
by Harding Cabinet
(Continued from One.)
and that congress had declined to
ratify the proposal.
Rumania is reported simply to have
asserted that It is not able to pay
anything on interest or principal, and.
therefore, cannot enter into a fund
tng agreement.
Will Adopt Policy.
With Great Britain the only debtor
actually to enter into funding
negotiations and the time rapidly ap
proaching when the commission's re
port to congress must be drafted, the
administration is anxious to get thg
situation definitely lined up so as to
know the best policy to pursue. Mr.
Wadsworth's task wai to tir up the
European governments to a realisa
tion of their obligations
It is known that the debt commls
aion had concluded, if the smaller
powers could not be induced to make
funding arrangements, the pressure
would be so great on the larger na
tions that they would have to take
action.
Whits House Optimistic.
Falling in this course, the commis
sion would be confronted with the
problem of determining upon whst
measures to adopt to compel eettle
menta. Doubtless this phase of the
question cam# up for discussion at
the cabinet meeting.
The White House spokesman was
somewhat optimiatic in hia announce
ment. He said the information which
the government had been able to get
was not available for publication as
yet, but in response to questions, de
clared there was no concellation pro
posal among the gestures. He added
that no consideration was being given
to cancellation, because the commis
sion has no right to discuss such
action.
Song, “Borney Google
to Cheer Spark Plug
When Hpark Plug unwinds him
self at the barrier Saturday before
the big derby. Ills equine heart will
be cheered by the lilting melody of
"Barney Google," the new tong hit
commemorating DeBeck’s famous
comic strip, sung to him by Jack
Hterman.
,merman will lie accompanied by
Frank Kliaa' hand.
Player Roll
Records
75c
A large selection of Im
perial Player Rolls is
ready for you in our new
building. Prices have
been cut to 75c and the
rolls include the very
latest music hits. Come
in while we have them at
this low price.
Hare Ara a Few of Thant
“You’ve Got to See Mam
ma Every Night”
“Oh! Harold!”
“When the Leaves Come
Tumbling Down”
“Seven or Eleven”
“Mother's Love”
Ramambar, wa aWo Kara
tha vary lataat Q. K. S.
Playar Rolls (or your
soloction,
Schmollir & Mueller
Plano Go.
1SI4-16-18 Dodfo Stroat
Omaha, Nab.
Big Curb Firm Fails;
Police Seek Records
(Continued From Pace One.)
record* had been removed from the
Winkelman office# after announce
ment of the failure.
■’District Attorney Benton will
find,” he eald, "that all the records
are In the offices as they were before
filing of the bankruptcy petition.”
The involuntary petition In bank
ruptcy was filed in federsl court this
morning against the firm.
The petition was the climax of an
exciting forenoon around the Winkel
man offices, during which the doors
of the firm were temporarily closed,
only to be opened again later. *
Charles L. Livingston was named
receiver with bond of $50,000.
The firm has offices in 13 eastern
cities.
It was the largest house actively
in business on the curb market today,
the only ,other one, that of Jones A
Baker, having gone into bankruptcy
and suspended last week.
Members of the firm are L. L.
Winkelman and A. K. Nicholson.
District Attorney Banton disclosed
that Winkelman and Nicholson, in the
Winkelman house formerly had been
in the employ of Charles A. Stone
ham, part owner of the New York
Giants, who formerly operated a
brokerage house under the name of
Charles A. Stoneham A Co. Mr.
Stoneham recently was involved in
the $65,000,000 failure of E. M. Fuller
A Co., admitting at a referee's hear
ing that he had loaned the firm $197,
000, shortly before the crash, at the
request of Thomas F. Foley, Tam
many leader and former sheriff of
New York county.
Winkelman, It was said, was the
curb repreeentative of the old Stone
ham firm, and Nicholson was a cor
respondent and market letter writer.
The Winkelman firm, which be
came a member of the curb market
in 1916, specialized in curb oil stocks
and Standard Oil securities. One of
Its mryit successful promotions was
Salt Creek Producers’ association,
which operates In the Wyoming oil
fields.
The recent series of bankruptcies
of stock brokerage firm* accompanied
in several cases by charges of bucket
ing orders, has started Federal Dis
trict Attorney Hayward on an Inves
tigation preliminary to a possible cru
sade against bucket shops.
He le seeking evidence that a bank
ruptcy ring is behind the failure
and the disappearance of millions of
dollars of customers' securities and
money. He has called upon official
referees for transcripts of testimony
in hearings In the cases of E. M.
Fuller A Co. upon the 8. 8. Ruakay
A Co., Raynor Nichols A True. Kar
der A Burke.
Apartment Prowler
Makes Daily Visits
Operation* of the prowler who
make* hi* wav into apartment* by
forcing the lock* with a cnneknlfe are
of almost <|ally occurrence.
The apartment of A. Theodore. No.
8 Theodore terrace, was entered
Thursday afternoon and a diamond
lavalllere was stolen with other
articles
Tools were taken from a building
at 1125 North Twenty-second street
either Wednesday or Thursday night.
Mrs. J. B. Batton, 2556 Woolworth.
and Michael Stager, 316 North Fif
teenth street, reported they were vic
tims of thieves.
Man Get* Wolf Bounty.
Plainvlew, Neb., June 8.—Charles
K. Watson, who lives a few mile*
southwest of Plainvlew, received 321
bounty for seven baby wolves which
he dug out of a hole on bis farm.
The mother wolf escaped.
Petition to Retain Warden.
Clearwater, Neb., June 8.—A peti
lion of more than 800 names has been
| sent to Governor Bryan asking that
William J. O'Brien, state fish warden,
he retained and given control of the
Gretna hatcheries.
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can’t be copied and a
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Nature shaped 1 a a t a.
solid comfort and qual
ity crowded in from tip
of the toe to the end of
the heel.
Child’s Brown Elk Ox
fords ... ..$2.90
Children’s Brown Elk
Oxfords .$3.50
Misses’ Brown Elk Ox
fords . $4.25
Child’s Patent Strap
Slippers .$3.00
Children’s Patent Strap
Slippers . $3.75
Fancy patterns slightly
higher.
A shoe that tells in .
eloquent silence the
superior values this
great store is offer
ing.
Drexel Shoe Co.
“The Store of (rood
ft earing Shoea”
1419 Farnam
Bryan Is Beset
With Politicians
Urged to Maintain Enforce
ment Laws — O’Brien
Artion Decried.
Kperial DUpstrh la The Omaha Be*.
Lincoln, June 8.—Two »ets of peti
tions are pouring into the office of
Gov. Charles W. Bryan.
One calls upon him to issue a state
ment giving his moral support to
those Interested in maintaining a
slate law enforcement bureau to dis
count the rising tide of public senti
ment for passage of repealers to state
law enforcement programs similar
to that recently signed by Oovernor
A1 Smith. Bo far the governor has
declined to comment on this subject.
The other urges him to stop, look
and listen before he calls for resigna
tion of W. J. O'Brien, superintendent
of the state fish hatchery al Gretna,
O'Brien refusea to obey the governor's
order to live in the home built by
the state for the hatchery superin
tendent and because O'Brien gave
fish dinners to legislators.
The Governor has had nothing to
say recently on the Gretna situation.
The $1,200 claim for O'Brien's back
salary is still being held up.
The governor Is In Alliance today
delivering an address to stockbreeders
who are holding a rodeo show and
annual meeting.
The New State Appears
as Independent Paper
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Be*.
Lincoln. June 8.—The New Htate.
formerly Nonpnrtisan league organ in
Nebraska, after suspending publica
tion for two months, has again been
put in circulation this month, fol
lowing a legal divorce from t he
league, according to C. A. Sorenson,
president of the executive hoard of
the Nebraska Co-oiteratlve Publishing
company. Thle company. Sorenson
asserted, owns the publication.
"In fact this company always had
owned the paper and merely leased it
to the Nonpartisan league.” Sorenson
said today. "The league fell down on
Its lease by falling to publish for two
months. This gave us tho right to
regain control and start publication.
“The paper will be independent of
any political party. Until the politi
cal campaign opens it will he a
monthly publication, ’'hen it prob
ably will be transformed into a tri
monthly or weekly."
Sorenson asserted that various
members of the executive board were
editing tho paper.
Hotel Firm's Creditors
Will Meet With Referee
Lincoln, June 8.—Creditors of
the bankrupt Nebraska Hotel com
pany will meet with Referee Baylor tn
the federal courtroom here June 19,
to consider the sale of the assets, It
was unnQuneed last night. The meet
ing Is called on action taken by the
creditors. Two offers for the proper
ties, consisting of eight hotels, mainly
In Nebraska, among them the Lin
coln of Lincoln and the Fontenelle of
Omaha have been made. Kugene <7.
Kppley. who Is at present conducting
them, has offered $900,000. John Fow
ler of Lincoln, with three other men,
has offered $*75,000.
France Rejects Latest .
Proposal of Germany
(Cnntinnrd From Pegu One.)
eats. Is exerting all its influence to
induce Premier Poincare to climb
down from his position.
It is this position of Poincare, it is
pointed out, that stands as the great
obstacle to the resumption of ne
gotiations. , '
It is an open secret that Premier
Baldwin and all the members of the
cabinet believe that Germany has
evinced a genuine desire for settle
ment in her latest offer and that she
has offered practically every guar
antee possible.
Fear Communist Kulr.
Some of the members of the cab
inet agree with Sir Charles Higharn,
that if France maintains her obdurate
stand, she will force the fall of the
Cuno cabinet and throw Oermay into
the hands of the communists, who
will repudiate all war debts.
Sir Charles believes, and In his be
lief is reflected the views of impor
tant members of parliament, that the
time has come for the government
to act in the Interest of world safety.
If the present appeal to Fiance
fails. Premier Baldwin will insist that
Great Bsitain's rights be heard, and
in taking this stand he will be backed
by all parties in parliament.
Threat is Resented.
Leaders of the government resent
Premier Poincare's threat to Ger
many to revive the interallied com
mission control in order to enforce
the new sanctions and severe pen
alties.
They feel that the brutality policy
of force has failed, and that unless
the rulers of France listen to reason
this government will be forced, in
the Interest of its suffering commerce
with the resultant great army of un
employed, to demand from France
recognition of its rights and a full
voice in the settlement of the citua
tlo.
"It is like chess with three contes
tants,” was the comment of a White
hall official on the note.
"The Germans have taken our ad
vice and delivered the note, which
gets commendation here, but unfor
tunately Berlin informed the French
that the note came as the result of
our inspiration, and therefore the ef
fect of the Berlin note wae largely
lost.”
Heat Wave in East Broken.
Washington. Jun# 8.—The heat
wavs over the eastern part of the
country had been broken today in the
Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys
and in the Oreat Lakes region and
weather predictions for tonight indi
cated relief for the middle Atlantic
states, the Carolina* and Ueorgia.
Cole Accepts Position.
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Lincoln, June 8—A. B. Cole, for
merely state purchasing agent, has ac
cepted a position as Lincoln sales
man for the Carpenter Paper com
pany of Omaha.
Large Chick “Crop.”
Alexandria, Neb., June 8.—More
than #.000 chicks have been hatched
out by the battery of incubators on
the chicken farm of R. L. Cummings
of Alexandria.
Paris last year had the largest per
centage of divorces to the number of
marriages of any city In Francs.
Statistics show that during 1922 there
were 5,237 decrees of divorce granted
as compared with 38,659 marriages
celebrated in that city.
Straw Hat Headquarters on Our First Floor
Those Famously Good Two-Pant
Gaberdine Suits
are acknowledged to be
Omaha s Greatest Values in
Warm Weather Clothes
And, men, they are the liveliest styles you have ever
encountered.
Fine gaberdines In all
those wanted shades, in
semi-conservative as well
as all sport models.
One glance will be enough
to convince you that these
are the suits you really
want.
Don’t hesitate because of the size of the suit you require.
We fit all men.
Saaurltia* Building
tilth and Karnant Straata
Ctapn .€>efa & Co.
^BEST PLACE TO SHOP AFTER ALL”
Saturday—500
Sport and Trimmed
Hats $375
Our New York representative has rushed this
wonderful shipment of new summer hats to us
just in time for Saturday’s selling. Included
are not only every smart summer style, but
also clever models in felt and satin for the
.woman who likes to be a bit ahead of the ma
jority in millinery matters.
For dress or sport, wide of brim or close
fitting, in colors to match any frock; select
one of these smart hats Saturday at much less
than you would ordinarily pay.
Fourth Floor
Special Selling of
Madeira Napkine
$3.98 for V2 Dozen
Because they are slightly soiled,
you buy them for less Saturday.
However, one trip to the laundry
and all the beauty of their hand
embroidering and pure linen is re
stored to its first perfection.
Bungalow Aprons
Coolest of Home Frocks
While you can’t change the ther
mometer, yet a bungalow apron for
the business hours of the home
maker can considerably reduce her
temperature. Attractive styles in
light and dark percales in regular
and extra sizes.
Main Floor
Second Floor
Sorosis Slippers
At Reduced Prices
Two groups repriced for quick sell
ing offer some of our smartest dress
shoes in strap and pump styles in
patent and satin combinations.
Now $7.85
Also sport oxfords with flat heels
in black and white, tan and black,
and gray and black combination*.
Now $5.95
Maio Floor
Women’s Outsize
Silk Hosiery
Thompson-Belden’a “Special” of 12
strand pure thread silk with lisle
tops and soles wears wonderfully.
Out sizes in black, white and Afri
can brown.
|
Thompson-Belden’s “Invincible,” a
heavy thread silk outsize in beige,
fawn, otter, meduim and shoe gray,
white, black and African brown.
$2.50 Maia Ftaor
Summer Frocks
Selections Now at the Height
of Their Attractiveness
Very new tub frocks in all the clear,
bright shades of summer doubly do
ing their duty by keeping one cool as
well as smart. Clever tailored styles in
linen,cool voiles and practical ratines.
Wheher you are looking for cool
shades of gray, hlue, green and lav
ender or rosy pinks and yellows,
Saturday offers a delightful choice.
Sizes 16 to 44
THirJ Floor
Saturday Ends “The Battle of the Roses”
5,000 Fresh Cut Roses Will be Given Away
5,000 fresh cut roses will he given away to the first 5,000 women
who call for them Saturday.
Ro*t Third Floor.