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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1923)
Some of the News. Irish Idle. Lord Dmvson. And Dr. Kerlev. ^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE j In this day’s news you learn that: The prince of Wales changes his clothes four times in five hours. He telegraphs express ing deep regret at being unable to witness the fight between two young Jewish gentlemen, named Leonard and Tendler, competing for the championship. Millions know them that never heard of Spinoza or read a line of Heine. An American lady in London, Mrs. Pattern of Illinois, wears a tight apple green satin dress, small turban to match and “paints her legs” instead of wearing stock ings. It is cool and it surprises London. Mr. Anderson, head of the Anti Saloon league in New York, an ac tive fighter for prohibition, is in dicted by a grand jury. Five bills are returned against him, charging forgery and extortion. Anderson says he is pursued by villains on account of his virtue. Prokibit'^n friends say persecution will make him a saint. Another jury will decide that. The king’s doctor, Lord Daw son, tells the house of commons that alcohol increases happiness. It is a “balancer” of human nature and the human body. Alcorn,., says this doctor, gives the tired, overworked brain the relaxation that it needs. The American brain must get along without it or drink bootleg, and that does not increase happiness. Dr. C. G. Kerley, children’s spe cialist in the country and a thorough scientist, gives this warn ing that mothers and fathers should keep in their minds: Do not exploit or overwork mentally an unusually intelligent child. Don’t allow such a child to be made the plaything and amuse ment of an entire family. When you compel the child to respond to questions, keeping its mind abnormally active, you waste en ergy that should be used in build ing up the child’s physical strength. The greater a child’s intelligence, the less should be the stirring up of its brain. The "antique bug” has bitten Henry Ford. He is buying “early American” things for the Wayside Inn, recently purchased, and for his house in Florida. The same “bug” bit John D. Rockefeller, jr., some years ago, and started him to buying the best things to be had. It is a useful antique bug, bringing here things that the country needs. Henry Far4-will go through the usual stages, buying “tanagras” made in Manchester and antiques fresh from the factories of ingen ious Armenians in New York. But after a while he will settle down, learn how, and enjoy his money usefully. A thief steals the bone of St. Martin from an ancient church in Paris, a relic that has performed miraculous cures. The thief thinks possession will keep him in good health. But will it? Does such a relic cure, by inherent vir tue and in spite of itself. Or in each case, does the dead saint ex ercise an effort of the will? The probability is that the thief will be disappointed. Gustave, son of Sweden’s king, was to marry Lady Louise Mount batten. Her father, prince of Battenburg, gave up his title at the request of King George, who has an official horror of German names —though his family is German. Thus Battenburg became a "private man.” The king of Sweden says his son cannot marry a "private man’s” daughter. Napoleon Bonaparte would en joy that. The king of Sweden descends from Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, son of a little lawyer living at Pau in France. Jean Baptiste enlisted as a private, worked his way up, became a marshal under Bonaparte and, with the latter's permission, was chosen king of Sweden in 1810. If the descendant of Private Jean Baptiste cannot marry the daughter of Private Mountbatten, that shows how easily royalty learns to take itself seriously. Did you ever hear of William Holabird? He died Friday in Chi cago, after a life far more useful to the world than the lives of many men widely advertised. William Holabird was the archi tect and engineer that originated the skeleton type of building that made possible modern skyscrapers and the modern city. William Holabird was one of the builders of civilization. Henry Ford turned out last Wednesday, his car numbered 8.000. 000. He has made 1,000,000 cars in the last six months. How long can the present output of automobiles last? Indefinitely, of course, and a bigger output. Long ago, when the country was smaller and less prosperous, the farmers alone bought 2,000,000 buggies a year. Of tractors, trucks and passenger cars they will soon average a purchase of 4.000. 000 easily. We have the flying men in this country, but it seems that we haven’t yet got the flying ma chines. It is a pity that the coun try that invented the flying ma chine can’t manufacture it, and must buy abroad. For years we got our 'Xurgical instruments from France, our high class cutlery in England. But we have taken the lead in automobiles and shall prob ably do the same in flying ma chines when the country’s real manufacturers get at it. (Copyrlrht 1133) 8 Coal Production in Ruhr District Practically Nil j German Boycott of Trains Operated l>y French Prac* tically Complete—Little Private Auto Traffic. By I'nlTersnl Service. ■Washington. July 22.—French and Germans agree that coal production in the Rhur practically has ceased, the Department of Commerce an nounced today. In making public a summary of conditions found on a five-day trip of investigation by American commercial attaches. German boycott of trains oper ated by the French is practically com plete, while that on the German oper ated railroads is most effective. Street cars, where they are still oper ated by Germans, carry a heavy traf fic. Private automobile traffic has practically dlsappeaerd. Merchandise traffic through the streets of Essen and other occupied cities is at a mini mum. Traffic on the canals, espe cially the Rhine-Herne canal, is far below normal. In contrast to the traffic suspen sion in the French-Belgian occupied zones, traffic of all sorts in the Brlt sh zone is proceeding under normal •onditions. Shipments outside of the y,,r>>-e held up by cir cumstances similar to those In the French and Belgian areas. In a few mines of the occupied area small quantities of coal are being mined for running the boilers used in pumping the mines and in preparing them for greater production after the ,sts nas passed. Actual additions .o the coal stocks are practically un known, owing to the German desire to produce no coal which the French later may seize. Metallurgical coke production also practically is at an end. Small amounts of gas coke are produced at certain gas works in the northern part of the Ruhr area, where the owners find it necessary to continue the gas supplies in areas both inside and outside of the Ruhr. Former Editor of German Language Paper Sentenced By Universal Servlrv. Chicago. July 22.—Arthur Lorenz, former editorial writer for a German language newspaper, was sentenced to six months in Jail on a eharge of criminally libeling the American Le gion. Lorenz, it was charged, wrote an editorial in w'hich he referred to members of the legion as "bums and loafers." "While hitting directly at the American Legion" Judge Hugo Pam said in passing sentence, "he was hit ting directly at the army of the United States. The article this de fendant wrote is almost treason." Bushels to Be on Basis of Weight in Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pa., July 22.—Bushel containers for various food commodi ties will be changed at once in this state to comply with the McCaig act. just signed by the governor. In some cases the consumer gets more for his money while in others be gets less. A bushel of apples under the new »rt must weigh 48 pounds instead of 13 pounds; barely 48 instead of 47 pounds; cranberries 32 instead of 40 pounds; cucumbers 48 instead of 50 pounds: green peas, unshelled, 28 in stead of 56 pounds; tomatoes and turnips 56 instead of 60 pounds. Main Questions Before Mexican Parley Settled By Ahsoclsted Prem*. Mexico City, July 22.—Discussing the recognition conference with the correspondents today. President Obre gon said he understood that a few de tails of the settlement were still pend ing, although these were not of major importance. "The most Important principles have been clarified," the president said. He had no idea when the sessions would end but added that when they were over he would give a complete account of the entire proceedings to the nation through the press. Signs of Optimism Seen in Move to Aid Farmer Uuotinurd From I'nr Ont.l money with which to meet their bills and their Interest payment*. For these to be forced to sell when the market is at. its lowest ebb is mani festly unfair. The wheat buying campaign is therefore designed as an emergency measure to boost prices for the next DO days, which each year represents the stress period in the market. If the situation can be met for that period. If is believed the crisis will have been passed. Scrutiny of the daily shipments to the leading markets indicates that the farmers are holding back their grain as urged by various agricultural or ganizations, for gradual supplying of the market ns demand requires. Compared with shipments for last year, the present movement is ex ceedingly light. Shipments Fall Off. On June 20, Omaha received 18 cars of wheat from the country. On the same day a year ago it received 143 cars. Chicago had 79 cars as against 366 a year ago, Kansas City had 144 as against 334, and Minneapolis had 69 as against 126. Tho total for the seven principal markets, including Winnipeg, was 646 cars, as compared with 1,359 on the corresponding day of last year. The government estimate of the wheat crops shows a decrease from last year. The forecast of production for winter wheat, made July 1, gave 58.1.889.000 bushels, as compared with the 1922 production of 586.204,000 bushels, and with a five-year average, from 1917 to 1921, of 589,858,000 bushels. The five principal spring wheat states showed a decrease from 275, 887.000 bushels to 234,739 bushels. The five-year average was 244.943.000 bushels. Nebraska’s estimated pro duction of wheat this year is set at 38.498.000 bushels, quite a decline from the 57,159,000 bushels yield of last year, and from the five-year average of 42,245,000 bushels. It ap pears that the Idea of reducing acreage didn't wait for next year. Nothing to Ilaunt Spirit. At all events there Is nothing in these figures to discourage the Omaha business men who are rtylng to put wheat prices up where they will give the farmer a living. The mlddiewest has everything to gain from the effort. A low price for wheat is reflected In hank deposits, in the ability to pay debts, and in the volume of trade. All that the farmer makes in addi tion to his coat of production Is new w-ealth. Economists say that every $100 of new wealth added to the spending power of a nation means at least $55 in additional trade in the various hands through which it passes. So, if a farmer loses $100, the commercial life of the nation is deprived of $500 in buying power. "If the buyers come into the mar ket for dry goods in great number*. It strengthens the market." says Ward M. Burgess, one of the Omaha business men who is backing the wheat and flour buying campaign. "And if the buyers get into the wheat market. 1 can't see why that won't help prices likewise." Housewives Can Help. Tlie business men, seeing the plight of the farmer, are determined to secure a higher price for the farmer during the early movement, which is usually heavy, "said Joy M. Hackler. "This buying movement will do good. Housewives can help themselves and business too. If they will lay In a sup pyl of flour now while it is cheap, and thus increase the millers' demand for wheat to a point where it will boost the price paid to the farmer." Mr. Hackler also said that farmers ran better their rendition by feeding some of their wheat to livestock, by avoiding congestion of the terminal markets with early shipments, and by reducing the acreage of next yonr's wh^at crop. Kill's Island Immigration Station Caught l p on Work New York. July 22.—Ellis Island, through which 2S.000 immigrants have passed since the opening of the quota year. July 1. caught up with its work in all departments today after three weeks of strenuous ac tivity. Only 1.200 persons remain In de tention. which is 200 less than the average in quiet months. These per sons are awaiting deportation or de cision on appeal. Women of 50 Turned Into Flappers Promise Held Out bv Noted Surgeon J D Hy 1 nltfrMil Service. Eondon, July 22.—A real method by which women of 50 years and more can ho transformed Into flap pers again: That was tha promise held out by Herge Voronoff, the famous surgeon, in an interview In the Sunday Ex press. Voronoff not only declared It possi ble, but promised to have the method perfected by November, a pledge that created a sensation and was the main topic of femininity In the most fash ionable hotels and restaurants. "Glands of Youth and Beauty" war the heading placed over its article by the Sunday Kxpre**. but In hi* brief talk the famuli* *urgeon did not men tion gland tran»plantatlon. content ing himself hy saying, according to the Kxpre**: "My method of rejuvenating men 1* perfected and 1 have explained It to the Kurgeon* attending the con gee** here. Ju*t a* I can take off 30 year* from a man'* age, I will be able in November, to tell the world how women may lie made young again." V’oromiff explained frankly that hi* method 1* not yet perfec ted, but, breaking off the Interview and bow ing out hi* vlkltor, lie added: "In November." 1 ' Fanner Has Not Had Square Deal. Brookhart Says Iowa Senator Says Progres sives in Congress Ready for Test of Strength at Next Session. By A«MH'tutMl Pre*». Chicago, July 22.—The progressive element in congress welcomes the statement attributed to Senator Mo ses of New Hampshire, in Washing ton Friday, calling for co-operation of the conservatives of both parties to meet the “menace of radicalism,” and will win when the point comes to issue at the beginning of the next congress, .Senator Smith W. Brook hart of Iowa said Saturday. “The Lincoln republicans and the Jefferson democrats will be prepared for a uniting of the tory republicans and the bourbon democrats when the next congress convenes.” Mr. Brook hart. who passed through Chicago on ills way to his home in Washington, la., said. Commenting on the statement of Senator Moses, who is chairman of the, republican senatorial campaign committee, Mr. Brookhart said that the progressives were "pretty well or ganized now,” and that they welcom ed the public statement which recog nized them to the extent of calling for a combination of conservatives of both parties In order to meet them. Showdown at Next Session. The situation really would come to Issue at the beginning of the next congress, he said, in the test of strength and the "Lincoln republi cans and Jefferson democrats,” as he characterized the progressives in the two parties, would win, he said. Mr. Brnokhart denied that the pres ent apparent Inclination toward the progressive tendencies in politics was temporary or that it was confined to the farmers of the west or the middle west. "X was in Senator Moses’ state last Monday and I found the same condition there among the farmers as exists In the middlewest,” Senator Brookhnrt said. Never Had Square Deal. "The farmers never have had a square deal.” he said. "The prices they must pay and the prices they get are fixed hy the middleman. The one thing which has saved them has been the fact that they got their land from the government for $1.25 an acre and that the land has advanced in price from a low value. Now the advance In price of land has ended. The price Is Imckward. The financial Interests of the east now have determined to force the value of land Imck by re ducing loans, by using $150 as the valuation of the best Illinois and Iowa lands.” The farmers now realize the situa tion. realize that they have never re ceive da fair price for their products and that a large number of them are faced with bankruptcy, Mr. Brook hart asserted. Harding Urged to Call Dirt Farmer Conference {Continu'd from l‘a(' One.) president's return to Washington. The president would open the meeting with a heart-to heart talk something after this fashion: "The government fully realizes the distressing conditions prevailing In the agricultural sections and is eager to do anything and everything that may be suggested in a practical way to bring relief to the farmers. Our Interest is not political; It is economic as well ns humanitarian. Aside from the suffering and distress among the farmers themselves, it is a well demonstrated fact that when agricul ture falls to prosper, the country as a whole suffers in the same propor tion. "The question before us is how may this situation tie dealt with In a practical way. I am going to ask you representatives of the farming industry to first hear the experts of the government and any others you may desire lo have address you. Then it is suggested that you go Into ex ecutive session among yourselves, calling on the government depart tnents for whatever Information you may need, and see If you can work out some practical plan whereby the power of the government can he brought Into play to afford relief. "If such a plan Is found, the ex oeutive will exert every effort to have it put Into operation, through the enactment of legislation or otherwise, as may be needed." It Is the idea that the proposed conference should be held In advance of an extra session of congress. If one is to he called, so that whatever ac tion In this direction-Is to he taken may be put into legislative shape by the time the session Is convened and no time would lie lost. Opinion among members of congress In Washington, with a few notable ex ceptlons. is growing that the coblned influence of the farming element and the people of New lCngland. who again fare acute suffering from the lack of adequate coal supplies, will compel the president to call an extra session. £*ory Friday Night A Through Sleeper lo Clear Lake, la. Leave* Omaha 8.00 p. m Arrive* Clear Lake 700 a. m. May b* occupied until Sam. Sleeper will leave Clear Lake every Sunday 10-.20 p.m, arriv ing Omaha 7s40 a. m. WMkfaaVan I B.M fO Day Ticket 10.70 TkkUt. RtmnnSm, a*. Ami MARSHALL B CRAIG, O. A P D. j i.W la National Bank Bids PHona J.cluM OM ' Consolidated Ticket Offie* Ml* Poci|. S»., I’ilufM Atlantic Hit Th* CHICAGO CHEAT WESTERN Nickerson Denies He Is Member of Ku Klux Klan (Continued From Ptie One.) topic of discussion yesterday in many Omaha homes and in place* where thoso interested in poetics gather. Mickey Gibson's cigar store, across the street from the courthouse, where the politicians gather, hummed with klan talk. The same was true at Sack's cigar store In the Woodmen of the World building. Many Sales Reported. News stands did a rushing business yesterday in the sale of the maga zine which printed the expose. The Omaha Bee was the first Omaha newspaper to carry the "meat" of the story as brought out in the expose. Hearst’s International story also showed facsimiles of letters and tele grams sent from Omaha by Maxey and other klansmen to the imperial wizard at Atlanta, Gn., and to klan representatives In Washington In which the appeals were made to beat Kinsler for the district attorney’s job and to get Nickerson appointed as mat shat. Many Omahans still remember bow Maxey suddenly departed from Omaha after organizing the klan and collecting a $10 bill from each who joined the fasclstl organization which that the rent for his office In the Baldrigo block hadn't been paid. His title was “King kleagle” and he had several assistants who helped him organize and collect the money. One of his assistants was Paul Davis. Davis later exposed the klan and joined the Fascistl organization which opposed the klan. He went to Des Moines to organize a faseusti “tower.” It was reported his work there "blew up." He has not been heard from since. 36 Nationg Repregented at World Baptist Congress Bjr Associated Press. Stockholm, Sweden,\ July 22.— Thirty-six nations answered the roll call at the opening Saturday of the third congress of the Baptist World alliance and after a welcome from the Baptists of Sweden by Ur. J. Bystroem, president of the Swedish union, and Premier Tryggcr, greetings were read from President Harding and tho former British prime minister, David Lloyd George. Representatives of the free churches then greeted the congress, to which the Rev. Dr. G. W. Truett of Dallas, Tex., responded. In the roll call of nations the representa tive of each spoke briefly. The Rev. O. S. Shank of Seattle, responded for the Northern Baptists, Rev. D. A. G. Cree, of Atlanta for the Southern Raptlsts, and the Rev. D. S. Klugh of Boston, for the negro Baptists of America. War in Ireland Ig Ended, So Far as De Valera Is Concerned By AMOfialfH I’reM. London. July 22.—Eamon de Val era. In a statement to an American newspaper correspondent, made through his publicity department today, declared, "It Is not the requb llcans' nor the army's Intention to re new warfare In the autumn nor after the elections." "So far as we are concerned." he added, "the war is finished. We in tend to devote ourselves to local re form and education and to developing the economic and material itfength of the nation.” Fheater Magnate Who Started at $6 Per Week Expires P-rcy G. Williams. Founder of Keith Circuit, Dies on Country Estate iu New York. East lslip, X. Y„ July 22.—Percy G. William*, who *tartei! life In Baltimore as a ''stage struck kkl ’ with a *6 a week Job, a* theatrical utility man, died at hi* estate, pine acres, Saturday, Internationaaly known as a vaudeville theater owner and producer. Born in Baltimore 66 years ago, Mr. Williams got his first Job from Colonel Sinn, who was manager of the old Front Street theater there. Later, when Sinn came to Xew York, to take over the Park theater, Brook lyn, Williams came with him, work ing as a member of his stock com pany at *12 a week. Accumulating a small stake, Will iams finally sent several shows on the road, only to go broke and be driven to the patent medicine busi ness to recoup. Finally he built the Orpheum the ater here and fn a few more years had established a string of a dozen vaudeville houses. He sold them In 1012 to the Keiih Interests for a price reported to have been *12,000,000. Mr. Williams drew heavily on the old world for talent, bringing to this country, among others, Vesta Vic toria, Vesta Tilley and Albert Cheva lier, who recently died. He also brought Mrs. Lily Langtry and Mrs. J. B. Potter to America for tours. Mr. Williams is survived by his widow and one son, Harold G. Will iams. Enormous Fortune Made in Omaha Investments f < ontlnnrd From Pace One.) obliged to give land away to small packer# to get them to locate, and for one or two of them they had to build packing houses and turn them over to them. It was a very dis couraging project for a long while. Benjamin Smith made up his mind that the Omaha stockyards would never be a success until he could persuade Armour, then the biggest packer In America, to locate there. But this was a tough proposition. Armour persistently refused to have anything to do with South Omaha. Finally, Benjamin Smith went to the head of the firm of Armour & Co. to make a last appeal for its co operation. The Armours finally told Smith that if he would give them $750.00X1,they might consider moving to Omaha. Benjamin Smith, shrewd and long headed, was in favor of egaeeing to the plan. He figured he could get many times $750,000 out of the Armours In the future. Few of the stockholders would agree to giving up the money, but finally Benjamin Smith insisted on the proposal going through. That was the turning point in the history of the Smiths. From that time on Omaha, directly due to the business at South Omaha, grew by leaps and bounds, and the Smith brothers' fortune Increased as rapidly as the city grow. In the middle 80's the fortune was well established and bringing in a largo amount of money every year. They had Incorporated thems ives as the four Smith broth ers and each shared in the proceeds of the enormous investments which they had built up. Mau^liati Ordered Bark lo McCook hield l»y Rail Hock Springs. Wyo., July 22.— Orders to return by rail to McCook field. Dayton. O., and to express his disabled airplane in which ho was forced to land here last Thursday while attempting to fly across the continent between dawn and dusk, to the same place, were received here tonight by Lieut. Russell L. Maughan. Asserting that the work of tearing apart the plane and preparing it for shipping probably would be com pleted by Tuesday. Lieutenant Maug lian said he expected to leave here by that day or on Wednesday. The flyer said he expect* to rctu; n west within a few months, if le« of abac nee is granted, to visit re! tivee. lieutenant Maughan lives Logan, I’tah. You May Be \& rong. 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