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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1923)
Today Another $600,000 Fight. A Manioc's Interest. Typetvriter Athletics. Steel Co. Insurance. By ARTHUR BRISBANE L A Eighty thousand citizens paid about 1*00,000 Monday night to see two young Jewish boys, Leonard and Tendler, fight. Benny Leonard's ability to beat any Christian of his weight does more to create respect for Jews among Christians than all the great Jewish writers combined could do. That's our civilization. Concerning your digestion, notice that the young fighters, having been weighed to prove that they were un der 135 pounds, early In the day, ate a moderate meal, lay down to sleep for the afternoon and did not eat again until after the fight. Remem ber that If you eat heartily at noon and expect to work, drawing to your brain the blood that the stomach needs, you are inevitably oheatlng either stomach or brain. V. W. Suydnm, confined In the In sane asylum In 1874, had less than *50,000. The supreme court now dis tributes among his heirs $1,000, 000. Because he was Insane, the piling up of interest kept on with the remorseless certainty of arithme tic and less than fifty thousand dol lars became $1,000,000. It should not be necessary for a man to go crasy In order to let in terest work for him. Bear that In mind when you pass a savings bank instead of going In. Birdie Reeve, 1C, uses on the type writer two fingers on each hand and makes 10 strokes a second. As an athletic performance that to more re markable than anything done by prise flghtera or marathon running. That the brain should hear words in dictation, divide those words in stantaneously into letters and write them down, 10 to the second, Is a rsal athletic marvel. Many a young woman at her type writer displays more remarkable nervous and physical equipment than Mr. Dempsey ever dreamed of. Life Insurance business In the United States Increased by nearly three thousand million dollars in the first six months of 1923. The wise man Insures his life. But modern insurance with costly solicitors will bs replaced by simplified Insurance. In other words, the population will insure Itself. That sounds strange, perhaps. But it ban been done by the United States Steel corporation. Long ago, when Judge Gary took charge of the.company, he Started a .system of insurance for the company by the company in the face of much opposition. The property hae, ever since, patd for all of its lessee, charg ing itself only 70 per cent of the usual premiums, and has saved up a little nest egg of 230,000,000, Things can be done If you try. Professor Haldane, an able Eng lish scientist, says the real wealth of ths world is In the wind that blowj above us. Windmills could supply the earthy with light, heat and power, if they were property developed. They could, and fortunately those Winds will blow on long, after the coal IS gone. No need to worry about power, light or hest while the winds blow, tides move and the sun shines. Thu read "rich Americans art hir ing fine ghootlng places in Scotland.” Grouse are scarce, ths breeding sea son was bad. But there are plenty of pheasants and other thlnga to ahoot. You bow In reapectful homage, be fore highly civilised Americans, who travel 1,000 miles, not to see Scot land, lahd of beauty and history, but to shoot little birds, especially bred that the prosperous may come and buteher them. A dispatch from Borne announces that two Italian doctora, Cristina, and Caronla, have Isolated ths bacillus of scarlet fever and Use effectively a serum made from that bacillus. That Is tha most Important medlcnl news since the perfecting of the dlph theretlo serum. Alll doctors Will tell you that acarlet fever, Its causes snd methods of Infection, are among their most difficult problems. (Copyright, lilt.) 1,500 Persons Have Been Aided by State Relief Lincoln, July 24.—More than 1,600 former Service men or their families have been aided by the state emer gency relief fund, admlnletered by the Nebraska department of the Ameri can Legion, according to Frank B. O'Connell, state adjutant. The fund of 12.000,000 was au thorised by the 1921 legislature. The cost of administration Is quite low, Including as It does cltrlcal help and supplies, Mr. O’Connell said. Report ing on the administration of the fund, J. Bd C. Fisher, legion state commander, announced that because ths entire amount of tbe fund has been raised by taxation, ths oommlt tse will be able to be more generous with applicants In ths future. IA most cases rejected, Mr. O'Con nell said, the applicants were able to support themselves if they desired work, , Junket to Boost Legion Fun Show in Seven Towns i _ South Omaha Business Men and Post Members to Make Day's Trip in Motor Cars. A delegation of members of South Omaha post, American Legion, and of the South Omaha Merchants’ as sociation will leave by automobile in 100 cars at 9:30 tomorrow morning, for a tour of Plattsmouth, Louisville, Papilllon, Springfield, Oretna, Mil lard and Valley for the purpose of ad vertising the big Fun festival to be given by the outh Omaha legian August 1 to 12 at Twenty-fourth and M streets. A 20-piece band will accompany the party, which will bo headed by Mayor Jarpes Dahlman. A number of mem bers of the legion will be in clown costume and makeup to attract at tention. The band will serenade the populace at the various towns and a big siren whistle will announce the arrival of the visitors before entering the respective towns. At Plattsmouth at 12:30 the party will be entertained at dinner as guests of the Plattsmouth post, Amer ican Legion. After the band has given a concert there will be a parade in each town. A committee headed by John E. Briggs, county commissioner, has been named to take charge of the dis posal of tickets to the festival. The packing plants and every office in the livestock exchange will be invad ed by the committee. Next week a parade will be given in Omaha, trav ersing the principal streets, in the in terests of the festival. Actions of Stock Reveal Death of Woman, Suicide Grand Island, Neb., July 24.—To temporary Insanity, caused by 111 health since the birth of her last child, still an Infant, to the necessity of undergoing an operation and to the death, within the past 18 months of another child, a sister and her mother, is attributed the suicide of Mrs. Ralph McCray, 24, near Wol bach. Neb. Mr. McCray, who had been out In the fields late Monday, first noticed something wrong when the cattle and horses shied away from the water tank. Upon Investigation he found Mrs. McCray in tho tank, face down ward. A note was found in which she said she was tired of life. “Four Members Per Post Per Week,” Legion Slogan Lincoln, July 24.—“Four members per poet per week" is the slogan for a membership campaign to be held by American Legion posts between August 1 and September 15, the lat ter being the dato on which the of ficial accounting is made for repre sentation at the national convention, according to Frank B. O'Connell, state adjutant. “If evety post obtains its four members," Mr. O'Connell said, "the American Legion will assembb for the national convention at San I ran cisco with the greatest membership in its history." Youth Forced From Train by “Brakie,” Ankle Crushed Special lllepatrh to The Omaha Bee, Nebraska City, Neb., July 24.—He. land O'Brien, Texas, le, had his left ankle so badly crushed while trying to alight from a freight train on the Missouri Pacific five miles south of the city Monday night that amputa tion was necessary. The young man stated at the hospital that a brake man forced him to get off the train at the point of a revolver after he had refused to give the railroad money to rids the csr. DeMolay Officials Will Hold Meeting August 22 Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bcc. Hastings, Neb., July 24.— In con ference here Zoro D. Clark, of Oma ha and Fred Kuenncth and Curtll L. Walters of Hastings fixed August 22 as the date for the state meeting in Hastings of the advisers, master councilors and scribes of the Order of DeMolay. The order has 3fi chapters and 4,000 members In Nebraska. This will be ths first meeting of the kind to be held In the state. May Lose 1100 Each Day. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee, Columbus, Neb., July 24.—If the construction of the new $75,000 Hwlft A Co. produce plant Is not completed before August 1, the contractors will lose $100 a day for every day after that date, according to the penalty provided in the contract. This an nouncement was made by W. W. Wit ter, local manager of the plant. Inventor Who Attempted to End Life Still Lives Special Dispatch to The Omaha Itee. Columbus, Neb., July 24 — In spite of the fact that the bullet with which he tried to end his life paseed into his right «ar, going through a part of his head snd lodging In his neck, Joseph M. Kotloh 32, Inventor of the husking hook used throughout the corn belt and president of the Kozlol Manufacturing company, still lives. EARL H. BURKET hxBURKET&son ElUhllitt'4 1ST* FUNERAL DIRECTORS Paraam Straat at 34th John G. Neihardt to Address Nebraska Poet Club in Omaha John G. Neihardt, poet laureate of Nebraska, will address the organlza tion meeting of the Nebraska Poets' club to be held at the Omaha Cham ber of Commerce early In August. Mr. Neihardt was In Omaha yester day on his way to South Dakota to attend ceremonies attendant upon the unveiling of a memorial to Hugh Glass, pioneer character, immortal ised in his poem, “The Song of Hugh Glass." "Grouping Nebraska poets in a club of this nature will be a source of encouragement to poetry and poets,” he said. “I think the idea an excellent one. I am for It heart and soul." Mr. Neihardt will be In South Da kota until early in Augiwt and upon his return will address the meeting of poets. The idea of a poets’ club was first broached by Jack Lee, author of "Niobrara Waifs,” and in a short time practically every poet In Ne braska as well as several from the Iowa side of the river responded. Develop Western Poetry. The plan of the club Is to encourage and develop western poetry and to stimulate Interest In the rich heritage of tradition the pioneers have left the present generation. Following the organization meeting another meeting will he held early in September, at which time Dr. II. It. Alexander of the University of Ne braska will he invited to speak. Dr. Alexander has a national repu tation as a writer, particularly of masques and pageants. Hi* pageant, based on the exploits of Coronado, presented at Ak-Sar-Ben festival last year, was the subject of national comment. v At present Dr. Alexander Is in New York City and is expecting to return to the university early in September. Others Respond. Other poets who have declared themselves strong for the organiza tion of the poets' club are Horace A. Gilbert, Hubert Worfthington Davie, H. Howard Blggar, Jonathan John son, George Shedd, Eugene Konecky and Caroline Renfrew. Date of the organization meeting will be announced in the near future. Farm Union Given Grain Exchange Seat (Continued From Fags One.) early In the spying an application for membership was made, which, after considerable delay, waa passed upon and rejected, no reason being given officially for such rejection. “However, from unofficial sources we were Informed that there was a number of objections to our entering the exchange, the main ones being: Not properly incorporated and insuf ficient capital. Comply With Suggestion. Immediately after being so advised of the exchange's action, we called our stockholders together and amend ed the articles of Incorporation In compliance with the suggestion of fered by the exchange and made an other application for membership. Several times action upon the ap plication for membership was de layed because of members being out of town, but finally uporf due con sideration the second application was rejected for which no official reason was given. However, the exchange members all seemed very friendly to the application of the National Grain Commission company. “The National Grain Commission company Is Incorporated for 12,000.000 with a paidup capital of $30,000. More capital will be added as required for the successful operation of the bust ness. Handle Consignments Only. “We propose fo do a strictly con signment business and comply with the rules and regulations of the grain exchange." Mr. Osborn explained that the farm ers’ union has three livestock commis sions In operation, one at Ht. Joseph, one at South Omaha anil another at Sioux City, la. This will be the first grain terminal marketing agency to be operated by the union. "George C. Johnson, an experienced grain man of this city, has been en gaged to operate on the'floor of the grain exchange for our company, which should Insure a reasonable de gree of succcfs on account of his previous experience on the floor of the grain exchange," Mr. Osborn added. Omaha-Made Tire Week to Be Observed August 6 to 11 The week beginning August 6 has been set aside in a proclamation is sued by Mayor Dahlman Tuesday as Omaha-Made Tire week. A committee composed of K. H. Sprague of the Sprague Tire and Rub ber company, W. D. YVuchter of the Nebraska Tire and Rubber company, and T. K. Huff of the norland Tire and Rubber company is In charge of arrangements to invito alt Omaha to inspect one or all of the Omaha rub ber plunts some time during the week. Woman Loses Si2.000 Suit Suit Against Dr. Charles Flatt gperlnl IMnpntrti to The Omaha Be#. Hioux Falls, b. P., July 24 —After a sensational trial in the Grant coun ty circuit court. Mrs. Nellie K. Fischer of Milhnnk failed in efforts to collect *12,000 damages from Dr. Charles Flatt, for alleged improper treatment for her foliowring the birth of a child about t wo years ago. The Jury, after being out about 24 hours, returned a verdict in favor of the defeanilant. PIANO VALUES THAT TALK Are You Listening? High-Grade Used Uprights at less than the original factory cost. Every instrument completely overhauled by our factory experts and they are guaranteed to give satisfaction. READ THIS LIST Wegman, excellent condition, only.$ 95.00 Camp & Co., walnut case, only.$135!00 Huntington, plain style, only.$150!()0 Marshall & Wendall, fine tone, only.$165.00 Schaeffer, real bargain, only.$175.00 Emerson, excellent tone, only.$195.00 Hardman, real value, only.. ..i. $310.00 Steger & Sons, plain style, only.$260!00 Remarkable Terms—$5.00 Down, $5.00 per Month OH'16'B*Dod4t* Onutki Prink ■it’s QK A rich reef refreshment wtth s lus cious grape flavor not unlihe a sweet red wine e sparhltng. cooling beverage. At all fountains or by the case from your grocer. Hlx*<i with ft-Mh fruits, ft mmfimm % dullghUul punch for Iswn parting picnic* and oth«r «timm*r antar* talnmgnt* may b« u*ad alio to gtvt flavor to froaan loo# and pudding •auea*. Anheuser-Buicm. St. Lout* CRAPE BOUQUET,. 9o par glass 10c par bottla Paxton & Gallagher Co. Wh»l»imlm Dlttrlbutar* Omaha, Nabr. 1.800 Guardsmen ✓ to Train at Camp Number Is 700 More Than Than Last Year's Encamp* meat, Gen. Paul Says. Special Dlupateb to The Omaha Bee. Lincoln, July 24.—The annual Na tional Guard encampment to be held on the 700-acre government reserva tion at Ashland August # to 20, will be attended by 700 more men than the 1022 encampment, according to Adjt. Gen. JI. J. Paul. The estimated number of guardsmen to gather at the camp, which from now on is permanent headquarters for all fu ture encampments, Is 1,800. This is due to nn additional medi cal regiment and the Thirty-fifth di vision train corps, equipped and raised In Nebraska in the last year. The train corps will in peace times be drilled as infantry. The various units of the train corps are at Lexington, Kearney, Holdrege and Fremont, while head quarters of the medical regiment are at Lincoln and Hastings. The new rifle range is completed and the waterworks system and roads will bo completed by the time the camp opens.- General Paul stated that the swimming pool planned for this summer will not be opened until the next encampment. Prior to the encampment a training school for field and staff officers and old lino and certain non-com missioned officers will be held at Ashland August 2 to 5. O.K. on Bonds to Give Farms Juice Sought Lincoln. July 24.—Approval has been requested of the state railway commission to issue $90,000 in bonds to build transmission and distribution lines for furnishing electricity to farm users by the Scribner rural electric district No. 1. The bonds were voted at » special election June 19 and carried by a majority of 66. Bonds will be paid off at the rate of $5,000 a year, beginning in 1926. Fremont and Scribner will furnish current which the district organisers will resell to resident consumers. Jacob Heis, Arnold Witt and Thomas J. Haywood are directors of the dis trict, the third to he created as a result of a law passed by the legisla ture four years ago. A soiled clothesline can be wrapped around the washboard and thoroughly scrubbed with a brusti and hot soap suds. Fight on $1 Wheat Spreads Over Country I Continued From Face Oar.) market week committee, the Omaha clearing house and the Associated Retailers has been obtained In tha distribution of pamphlets which aet forth the plan of the joint commit tee. A circular letter on the wheat sit uation was received yesterday by an Omaha grain company. The article was written by Thomas T. Wickham and reads in part as follows: i "Do you know that wheat prices are the lowest In 10 years, and based on the purchasing power of the dollar, the lowest In our history? "Legislation has failed, and always will fail, because nothing can help a market except a demand for goods. Millions of bushels of wheat must find a market. They are harvested with in a period of a few months, while the distribution and consumption is carried over a period of 12 months. Burden Up to Someone. “Someone must carry that wheat during the process. In former years large speculators have done so. Gov ernment control of speculation was doubtless Intended to both reduce speculation and to give the small speculator an equal chance with the larger one hy reducing the volume. "In practice It has merely made large speculators, who would normal ly buy-millions of bushels at any time the price was low. afraid to do so. Every market report gives the same reason for the decline—the continual pressure of wheat to be marketed, and an absence of buying.” The letter Staten that It Is neces sary to general business that wheat raising shall be mad# profitable and that any business man can well af ford to play his part In helping make It so. "Keep In mind," the letter adds, "(hat wheat Is the farmer's standard of value, just as definitely as gold Is the banker's, and that we have never had any long-continued season of prosperity unless wheat prices were high." Wife Alleges Brutality in Petition for Divorce Special IiispMrh to The Omaha Bee. Columbus, Neb.. July 24.—Alleging that on July 1 her husband, Alfred Mueller, beat her in the fnce with his fists and then threw her into a barbed wire fence, severely lacerat ing her hack, Marie Mueller, Platte county farm wife, has brought suit for divorce In the district court. Th# eouple were married May 20, 1921. The present Mrs. Mueller was a close friend of Mueller's first wife who died In a Norfolk hospital in 1920. Kbe came from Germany to marry him. Golden Wedding Is Celebrated Dr. and Mrs. Solon R. Towne Get Congratulations on Anniversary. A romance of the Vermont hills was relieved Monday night by Dr. and Mrs. Solon R. Towne, who celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home, Fiftieth and Charles streets. Dr. and Mrs. Towne were married In Jericho, Vt. The bride's home was In 'Greensboro and the doctor lived In Stowe. Telegrams, letters and cards de luged the couple yesterday from old friends, some of whom the pair had not heard from for 30 or 40 years. Several persons sent gold pieces in commemoration of the occasion Members of Dr. Towne’a graduating class at Dartmouth of 1*72, sent their congratulations. The majority of remembrances came from Enfield, Mass., where the couple spent the early years of their married life. In 1888 they came to Omaha. The doctor Is very active in spite of his age, which Is close to 75, and he is never too tired to hike long distances Into the woods to study the birds, flowers and trees. He is a member o ftho Audubon society. Last evening Dr. and Mrs. Towne received several of their friends and relatives at the residence. Among them were Mrs. Fred Deweese of Lin Mail in your films Wherever vacation takes you, our develop ing and printing service of the superior sort is still at your command. And vacation pictures deserve the careful atten tion you have learned to expect from this store. Eastman Kodak Co. g(Tbe Robert Dempeter Co.) V 1*13 Farnam St. ill tranrh Aero J 30S South l*tb St. coin and Jessie Town* of Omaha, daughters; Dr. A. B. Somers, Mim> Agnea Somers, Miss Janet Somers I . Holyoke, Maas. • I Raise Brings Extra $15,000. Falls City, Neb., July 24.—The 2. cent raise announced by the Missouri* Pacific railroad will bring about $115,000 extra to the Falls City an nual payroll. It was estimated here today. About 250 machin'sts oru- . ployed at the Falls City shops wfif* benefit by the Increase, which was made retroactive to July 16. Cfcompti, Children's Summer Sleeping Garments Are Low in Price. ^ CHILDREN’S SLEEP ERS of cross bar nain sook, low neck, short sleeves and button down the back with drop seat. Sizes 2 to 6. $1.00. All our cotton crepe and nainsook sleepers, sizes 8 to 16 years, re duced 20% to 3353%, making them all one price. $1.00. Muslin Drawers, plain and lace trimmed in bloomer style, sizes 8 to 12 years, all reduced to 25c. Second Floor . s ' Buy a Thousand or More Bushels of | Wheat or a Beg or Barrel of Flour Millions of bushels of wheat are now being harvested on the farms of Nebraska and other states. Present prices are abnormally low. What shall we do with the crop? The raising of food is a fundamental function. It is more important to raise food than to raise armies. During the war, with patriotic pride, we sacrificed freely to place and maintain our armies in the field. There was a glamour about that. There is now no glamour about the farm. In the last analysis, the farmer is the foundation of our prosperity. His welfare should be our chief concern. We are confronted by a condition and not a theory. For present pur poses, we may lay all theories aside. Legislation cannot possibly be had immediately. That, too, is for fu ture consideration. Manifestly the present wheat crop cannot be diminished in quan tit}, rhe suppl} is a iixod tact. Our only substantial roliof, therefore, must come trom an increased demand, or some plan of supix>rting the market. Because of financial conditions, many farmers in the central west must immediately sell their wheat. This would glut the market and lower the price. There are two legitimate methods bv which this situation mav be relieved. One is to hold wheat out of the ‘market—the other is to in crease the demand for actual consumption. The withholding or withdrawing of wheat from the market might not permanently affect the price; but it would afford temporary relief bv stabilizing present prices, and so make possible an orderly marketing of the crop. For the time being, it would limit the supply. In this connection the slogan “BUY A THOUSAND BUSHELS OF WHEAT” should he very effective. I he pureha.se of wheat and flour for present or future consumption is the preferred solution of the problem. Bv that method, the demand is increased. Wo have no moral right to expect other countries to buy our surplus crops. We nave disclaimed all responsibility for their affairs, and our present attitude tends to discourage foreign trade relations. Existing rates of exchange, too, go far to make such trading unprofitable and unsatisfactory. In tho present emergency, we must rely ehieflv on our home market In thirty days our own people could work out a peaceful revolution in the price of anv eom modity All that is necessary is on aroused public sentiment and intelligent co-oper ation I he plight of the farmer requires pitiless publicity. The public should be inncle *1* understand that of late be lias been bearing more than his share of the bur dens of life. We should boar our fair share of these burdens. We cannot all buv a thousand bushels of wheat, but wo can buy a bag or a barrel of flour, and we can do it n°w. hi every home and hamlet in the land there is a potential purchasing power which should be exercised without delay. ^ 1 * jChambers of Commerce throughout the country ought to make an active ef tort, to relievo the situation. They have responsibilities to the public which cannot be ignored. By such unselfish service, they would materially increase their present ores tige and power. ‘ 1 1 Tho appeal to the public will be pressed to the limit. Omaha is one of the great est primary gram markets in the world, and Nebraska is ono of the great trrain pro ducing sutes. We are directly and vitally interested. The movement, howev^ should have the enthusiastic support of every loyal citizen, and overv financial com mercial and industrial organizalion Bttt, Wait, North and South. THE OMAHA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE By Committee Specially Authorized _ John L. Kennedy, Chairman oeorge urandeis Randall KU Brown Ward M. Burgess Everett Buckingham T. C. Byrne F. S. Knapp