Today When 10,000 Fly. Any Farmer a Surplus? Making Religion Pay. The Fight on Cancer. ^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE j Russia has a standing army of 490,000 men. A year from now, Trotzky announces, Russia will have 10,000 well equipped fighting flying machines. The rest of Eu rope may hear from those ma chines. Their coming would be different * from that of the Huns wandering from east to west on their little ponies. Trotzky’s flyers would come with a buzzing that would worry the whole of Europe. President Harding, in a “key note” for 1924, announces that his I able secretary of the treasury, Mr. Mellon, has been really saving money, and has a surplus of $200, 000,000. This year the government will spend $234,000,000 less than last year. That’s good financing. Mr. Harding chose the right secre tary for the treasury. But still there is the farm bloc, and its leaders will ask, not how much money the treasury has left, after paying its bills, but how much the farmer has left after paying his bills. Trinity church looks on Wall street and Wall street looks in on Trinity church. And musing there an hour alone, you realize that Christianity can be made as profitable as stocks if you know how. Trinity church says that ita in come for 1922 was $1,249,870. Clergymen on the regular staff were paid $78,758.34. Temporary clerical help got $3,434.33; parish visitors and such, $5,892.50. Music, musicians and choirs got $50,864.46. Light and coal cost $28,122.23; rent for a home for the chief clergyman, $7,550.30. That financial report, which is in heaven by now, must be inter esting to the Spirit that said: “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath nowhere to lay his head.” Seven thousands dollars for rent s a considerable improvement on a fox’* hole, or a bird’s nest. One big item for insurance seems a sound investment. It would seem unwise to reply on a miracle or special Providence o protect that institution from lightning or ordinary fires. Philadelphia doctors will try an X-ray, 300,000 volts, in cancer treatment. Hitherto the most powerful ray applied to a human body has been 250,000, applied to a woman suffering from cancer of the stomach. Invisible, mysterious particles, thrown from radium, at speed that would take them seven times around the earth in a second, go through the body. The theory is that healthy tissues will safely endure the terri fic bombardment, while abnormal cancer tissue will perish. It is the same process as stap ling the back of your hand hard enough to kill a mosquito, not hard enough to break the hand. At present the X-ray seems the only hope for treatment of cancer jeyond the reach of surgery. A cashier in Kansas steals a million and a half to gamble in oil tocks. Who should lose that noney, the bank, its honest stock iolder» and depositors, or the >rokers and others that took the itolen money without asking whence it came? If a pawn broker takes stolen iiamonds, the owner can get them »ack. Why shouldn’t the owner of he stolen money get it hack, if he •an trace it to the oil or stock tambling establishment to which he thief carried it? The question of wine and beer •'or crews of foreign ships seems ettled, along lines suggested in his column. Our law says doctors an prescribe alcohol for patients. Sverybody on a foreign ship will be classed as patients of the ship loctor. He will be allowed to say when they ought to drink, and that, will settle that Even the eighteenth amendment and a supreme court decision can be twisted to look like a dough nut when you really want to twist them. Down the flanks of Mt. Etna 'ava is pouring in streams onp mile vide, fiO feet deep! Hamlets, ineyards, roads are covered by the moving stream. Soon it will cool. The housps and vineyards vill be locked up in solid stone, un ■il Gabriel’s trumppt or man’s dynamite comps to release them. The soil will form on top of the cold lava, and more vineyards will be planted, and more houses built. The steamship Majestic, higgest ifloat, built by Germany, rhristen d the “Bismarck” and taken by — England, arrived Tuesday, hrrak ng two records, for speed and ’lcohol drinking. Passengers knew hat once they got inside the three mile limit they wouldn’t have any thing more to drink. They didn't realize that, they could get. every thing wanted—and more than they Aught to want—when they touched >ur prohibition shore. To tell men they can’t have a thing makes them want it. King of Italy Hurries Into Volcano Zone Lava Streams Destroy 11 Towns and Cities—All Eastern Sicily Buried Under Ashes. By Associated Press. Rome, June 10.—A slight earth quake was felt at Pisa at 9:15 o’clock this morning. The early reports made no mention of damage. By Associated Press. Rome, June 20.—King Victor Em manuel has arrived at Catania to as sist in relieving the distress of the thousands made homeless by the erup tion of Mount Etna. Palomba and Santo Sprito are re ported destroyed. Many of the districts in the volcanic zone have not suffered from the erup tion. The people in these communi ties have gathered around the statues of the saints in the public squares and pray day and night. By International »ws Service. Rome, June 20.—Nearly 100,000 per sons were homeless today from the torrent of destruction which con tinues to roll in a devastating stream from the flaming crater of Mount Etna. Eleven Sicilian towns and cities have been completely or partial ly destroyed by the relentless sweep of the river of molten lava. It is feared that Oiarre, a town of 17,000 souls, and Linguaglossa, a com munity of 13,000 residents, are doomed. The whole of eastern Sicily is buried under a blanket of ashes, cindeiV and volcanic dust. Clouds of cinders, borne by the wind, are fall ing upon the mainland. Lava River Nearing Sea. A lava stream 2,000 feet wide and 30 feet high is creeping onward, hut lls progress has hewn somewhat re tarded by the hilly nature of the country about the foot of the vol cano. The continued eruption has height ened the fears of earthquakes. The devastating river of lava is nearing the sea between Messina and Thormine. both of which places are crowded with panic-stricken refugees. Fascist! troops were sent into some of the 3,000 villages to drive out the inhabitants. The people, dazed by fear, were reluctant to flee from their homes. Long lines of military motor lorries fill the roads, carrying the most valu able belongings of the villagers. So far no loss of life has betn re ported, owing to the slchvness of the lava river In spreading and the ab sence of earthquakes. Smoke is rolling from the crater of Vesuvius, but so far this volcano has not joined Etna in active eruption. Precautionary movements are being taken to safeguard the residents about Vesuvius. Fiery Glow Lights Sky. The spectacle of Etna during the night mad* a grand hut terrifying scene. A stejidy rain of redhot lava poured upward, lighting the sky with its fiery glow. The glare could be seen for 200 miles. As the flame and lava vomited skyward, accompanied by thunderous detonations, spurts of dense black smoke and steam rolled from the burning mountain top. There was a steady rain of ashes and cinders. A glowing wall of fire ran along the mountain base, where the slowly mov ing lava was setting fire to vine yards, groves and dwellings. Beneatn the orange glow In the night sky was a dense, thick pall of smoke which eddied In the wind from the sea. The damage Is mounting steadily by millions of dollars. European Deadlock Now at Critical Stage (Continued From Fane One.) George, had been largely to blame for the events that have led the French government into its present state of mind. The reply of the British took the form of a questionnaire. Just what do the French mean by "cessation of passive resistance?" Do they mere ly mean that the German govern ment shall withdraw the orders to Its people to practice resistance, nr do they mean that the German gov ernment must do something beyond this in the direction of humiliation and stultification? Also, in case the German government should withdraw the orders for passive resistance, will any diminution follow from the present drastic rigor of French military rule in the Ruhr. These questions, addressed by Bri tain to Paris, cover the first condi tion laid down hy France. There were other requests for interpreta tions in the British questionnaire, but they concerned the subsequent stages of the negotiation, assuming that the initial stages are not made impossi ble and that negotiation goes on at all. Britain Protest Futile. It is apparent that the British feel, first, that they must take the most extreme pains to keep the present sit uation alive and avoid a deadlock, but, second, that they cannot hand out as sent to the condition insisting that Germany cease passive resistance. To do so wpuld he to stultify. It would present approval of that in vasion of the Ruhr which Britain four months ago disapproved as illegal. Moreover, it would be futile. It would promise nothing for the future. But it is equally apparent that if the French will give the British the faintest leeway to do so, the British will be willing to use their good offi ces to counsel Germany to cease the passive resistance. The British are not so much concerned with saving their own face. Is I p to Franee. But it is obvious that Britain can not ask Germany to take this step without having sgme assurance that It will be followed by other steps look ing toward letting Germany and the world know exactly how much rep arations Germany must pay, and ex actly what else she must do to get herself free from bondage . If the French reply to the British questionnaire is such as to enable Britain to go on another step. Eu rope will at last be on the way to peace. But if the French reply is an insistence on a condition which Bri tain regards as impossible, then Bri tain must finally and definitely deter mine to take some different course looking to her own future and what she literally fnd sincerely regards as the saving of European civilization from destruction (Copyrlgh', 1923 ) Farmers Desert Platte Bottoms as Flood Nears Loup Cutlinp New Channel— Clark Flooded—Ice Fam ine in Cedar Valley Towns. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Columbus, Neb., June 20.—Farmers living in tho lowlands of the Platte river valley are fleeing to higher ground while the waters of the I’lalte are breaking through their hanks and beginning to overflow meadows and haylands. Meanwhile the J,oup river has begun to cut a new channel to the I’latte through a small stream which runs between the two rivers near Columbus. Should the I.oup break through it will leave the wagon bridge over the present channel high and dry. creat ing a Junction of the two rivers more than four miles above the present mouth of the Unup. The town of Clark. Neb., is reported one foot un der water. Ice Famine Hits Towns. Columbus, N'eb., June 20.—Fuller ton, as well as all towns north of that point on the Spalding branch arc out of ice. With too long a haul by road and no hope of resuming train service on the Union Pacific until next week physicians in tho towns on the Cedar valley flood area point out that the water logged lowlands and the absence of ice may result in disease. No mail has reached Fullerton for three days. A Columbus paper brought to Fullerton by automobile this evening sold like wildfire on the streets. Meantime more than SO cars of freight, two ears of mail and five of express are at the local yards along the Spalding line where train service is only operating as far as Monroe. Train service on the Albion line has returned to normal. Bridges Out In Polk County. Osceola, Neb., June 20.—As r re sult of high waters In the streams of Polk county much damage was done to bridges over Clear creek, which parallels the Platte river, and over which there is scarcely a bridge left that has not heen damaged. The bridge on the Meridian highway, south of Columbus, was washed out and tourists have heen using the road on the county line between Polk and Butler counties for several day*. Platte Floods Lowlands. Jkjutsvllle, Neb, June 20.—The Platte river has left its hanks and has overflowed bottom lands. The river Is higher this afternoon than it has been for many years. Both the Missouri Pacific and the toll bridges are safe, although men are keeping the logs from lodging on the bridges. Lads Paroled to Parents. Special IlUpatrh In The Omaha lies, Beatrice, Neb., June 20.—Lloyd Wager. Wymore youth charged with taking a horse and buggy belonging to Robert Rice of Blue Springs from the streets of Wymore last week In company with John I.uberger. an other Wymore youngster, was paroled by Judge Colby of the district court to his parents. Venerable Attorney to Speak at Unveiling Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Grand Island, Neb., June 20.— “Gdvernor" O. A. Abbott, sr., the oldest practicing attorney in the city, and one of the two remaining dele gates to the first and second consti tutional conventions of Nebraska, has been selected by the recently organ i7ed Hall County Historical society as the speaker for the unveiling of the granite mark to be placed on the C'alifornia-Oregon trial intersec tion of the Locust street road dhe highway to Hastings- on the morn ing of July 4. This date was selected both because It was the nation’s birth day and because it was the day on which the first flag was planted in Nebraska territory west of Columbus, In 1857. Mr, Abbott at first demurred be cause an extended address would tax liim, but when it was explained that he could make it as brief as convenient to himself, the civil war veteran and first lieutenant governor of the state consented. Six other markers, spread across the country, havo been ordered, and their placing will follow In the next few months. There will he an open ing national anthem by the band, the address by Mr. Abbott, the unveiling by Miss Mcvas. a granddaughter of Mrs. H. C. Joehnck, deceased, the only married woman coming out with the first colony, and a closing na tional air by the hand. Prices of Stocks Fall as Result of Failure (Continued From rase One.l made for him. In a few minutes ^he telephone rang again and a mem ber of the firm begged him for a mid night conference at which he would "look into {he picture," as he ex pressed it. lie declined, saying he would be glad to talk It over at his office this morning, but before the hour set for the conference, the Zimmerman & Forshay condition had become so crit ical that Morgan & Co. decided it could do nothing. Run Started .Monday. The firm had been subjected to a run since .Monday, when rumors were cir culated that it was about to follow the trail blazed last week by the now bankrupt house of Knautb, Na cod & Kuhen, which, like Zimmerman & Forshay. did a large banking busi ness and trade in German exchange and letters of credit, in addition to its brokerage line. Hanricapped by the frozen condi tion of more than $1,000,000 assets Impounded by the alien property cus | DR. ALLWINE Specialist in plainlcss extraction and restoring lost teeth by best methods. Ripe experience and per sonal attention to both. 412 Securities Bldg. AT lantic 6&A3 todian during the war, the firm tried to negotiate a loan on the basis of that claim, but failed. The crisis came today when the National Bank of commerce, with which the firm kept its principal account, suspended cer tification of its checks. News of this action augmented the run on the firm. 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