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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1923)
Today The Week Begins Darkly. Earthquake and War. Strikes and Trouble. Jean Frioux Was Wise. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ The week begins with gloomy news from all directions. The worst news is of human suffering that men have not brought upon themselves, and that comes from Japan; Modern times, apparently, have known no earthquakes com paring in violence and disastrous consequences with the calamity that has fallen upon Tokio and Yokohama and hundreds of miles into the countryside. And there is, unhappily, no known limit to the appalling dis aster. Wires are down from all parts of Japan, and even telegraphic communication through the air has ceased at this writing, Japan being cut off from the world out side, as completely as before Per ry’s day. Following the European style, Japan has erected tall buildings in place of the light, basket-like construction, well adapted to a land of frequent earth disturb ances, and these modern buildings are in ruins with many dead in the wreckage. Railroad trains were overturned, and fire, raging every where, with water supplies de stroyed, completes the hideous tale. In Europe, men create for themselves trouble worse than fire or earthquake, with new war. Italy seizes Greek territory and flouts the League of Nations, as was to be expected. The English might once have settled the trou ble with a firm note and a solemn parade of superdreadnoughts to the near east where Italy is tak ing over Greek islands. But now a superdreadnought is a superjoke, one flying man could sink it, 100 flying men could de stroy the capital of the nations sending out the fleet. France is inclined to sympathize with Greece, Italy and France hav ing long disliked each other. But Franee can be soothed by perfect Italian co-operation in the Ruhr. Italy, letting France do as she pleases with Germany, will not be checked in doing what she pleases with Greece, if she can. Greece announces that she will fight, if forced to it, but it is not a pleas ant prospect, after all the years of fighting. _ England, after having financed and put through one war for the safety and peace of Europe, sees herself without power to stop the msh toward more war and destruc tion. Lloyd George, who managed ihe big war, is blackly pessimistic. He says in yesterday’s article: “Issues indicate that France must get what she wants. Britain must take what she gets.” He pities the great Britiah empire that raised 10,000,000 men and spent ten thousand million pounds to save the allies, only to be mocked now. What a difference the Wright b -others made in the world’s his tory when they invented the fly ing' machine. It has made the great small, it could even check the conquerors, if the oppressed were to use it to the limit, and re gardless of war rules. One hun dred fliers from Greece or Berlin •• ppearing over Rome or Paris with the right explosives and poison gas might cause Mussolini or Poincare to think hard for a few minutes. ,Our part is to hope they will find a way to peace, instead of to a new war, and mind our own busi ness. If we have money to spare better send it to Japan, the un fortunate, rather than to Europe to be spent in fighting machinery. Even the most earnest and ignorant advocates of our join ing the League of Nations now admit that the Greek Ttalian affair seriously injures the prestige of that distin guished league. A “great peace tribunal” that closes up and shuts up when trouble starts, is some thing like a policeman hurrying to bed when he hears a burglar. Here, at home, things arc not all bright. More than 150,000 coal miners strike, cutting off $750,000 a clay in wages that they need, and thousands of tons of coal daily, i bat the public needs. That again means deciding that war is better than discussion or compromise. It is the Europe'an method, applied to American industry. Reason and compromise per haps will prevail. But the entire nation, nationalizing the coall in dustry, enforcing arbitration or otherwise will have to settle the coal situation and gome other ques tions. Fifty little industrial wars every year are as disgraceful to this country as one unnecessary i cal war would be, and almost as expensive, and involving loss of life, like real war. It is almost a pleasure to turn aside and look at the pictures of male human beings at Deauville wearing hair nets because they '■an't invent any other change in the fnshionr. Soothing, also, to read of Monsieur Jean Frioux, dead, aged 101, on the tiny island of N’olrmoutiers, off the co$st of France. There Jean was born, there he lived his 101 years among Ills neighbors, add there he died, never having left that, island, con tent with its little circle of life and duties Wr all do the same, of course, our little earth an island being not. much bigger, cosmically speaking, than h’oirmoutiers, but we wonder none the less as Monsieur Jean’s future generations, exploring space, will wonder at us rarely get ting our eyes off this little island. Copyright, l§2* lias Cut to 14 Cents by Texas Independents Fort Worth.Tex., Sept. 3.-~Oaso line prices at a number of local In dependent filling stations have dropped from I Sr to I4e a gnllon l.arger companies have not dropped i heir sreeoline prices Magnolia and “••■if atatieu tula fui/Uu* at 15% , iKeen Competition ! Reported Among Buyers of Lambs Omaha Man, Back From Western Trip, Says Specula tors Are Paying Unusual ly Good Prices. Bert Roberts, traveling representa tive of the Union Stockyards company of Omaha, returned yesterday from a tour of the west and said there was keen competition among lamb buyeys in the west looking for contracts for the season’s crop of lambs. According to Mr. Roberts, sheep men in Utah Have had a very fair season, with both mutton and wool prices quite satisfactory. He said speculators were paying $10 to $10.50 for lambs on the range and the sheep men had sold most of their wool. “In northern Colorado,” Mr. Rob erts said, “sheepmen have estimated that over 1,000,000 head of lambs had been contracted for fall delivery, but it is not known how many the specu lators got and how many will be held for feeding. Colorado has plenty of hay and the best corn crop for years.” In Wyoming, according to Me. Rob erts, lambs have sold as high as $11 to $11.25 a hundred and in some in stances the price went even higher. The annual ram sale in Salt Rake City recently was not very well at tended and prices were rather dis appointing to breeders. The top price paid for rams was $8 a hundred, while pure bred rams sold for $50 a head. Nebraska Farm Boy Shows Fancy Work (Continu'd From First r»*e.) South Omaha: Mrs. E. M. Peterson. 2633 Davenport street; Mrs. J. H. Hoi dridge and Mrs. James Sawyer. 2637 Davenport street. Twelve counties have grain and garden exhibits. They are: Douglas, Lancaster, Gage, Adams, Custer, Franklin, Kearney, Thayer, Valley, Boxbutte, Kimball. Dawson. Dawson is the only irrigation coun ty to have a display this year. It is the first attempt of that county to show he remainder of the state what irrigation has done for that section of the country. "They grow nearly everything out there these days,” L. B. Keedle, of Minden, superintendent of agricul tural hall, said. The j^dams county exhibit is fea tured by a sunset scene arranged from various colored twisted grasses streaking from theh "sun.” also made of grasses. Kearney county has a red. white and blue shield, with "Kearney coun ty exhibit" spelled out across the shield, all made of corn. A number of girls In the county banded to gether and arranged the shield The Douglas and Lacaster exhibits are the largest. The Custer county exhibit features the Immense alfalfa crop grown there annually. Over 5,000 Exhibits. "There are over 6.000 agricultural exhibits this year,” Keedle. superin tendent of agricultural hall for 10 years, asserted. “It Is wonderful how the counties are learning the advan tage such advertising docs them. Ten years ago we had from 1,600 to 2,000 exhibits. You see, they have more than doubled and the annual appro priation of the state fair board for agricultural hall has Jumped from $2,000 to $4,000,” Probably the most marked feature in the building to the casual observor Is the iced butter cxhlbtl of the Ne braska Cream Butter Manufacturers' association. A life-sized farm lad with crumpled straw hat and curly locks peeking through the holes In the hat. is wheel ing a wheelbarrow, a milk bucket hanging from one handle and a huge milk can In the wheelbarrow It Is captioned "milking time." The entire display Is a butter creation on a huge Iced glass cage. The attendance today was surprisingly large, accord ing to E. R Daniels, secretary of the fair. IFurs to Predominate in Milady’s ¥ Wardrobe During Coming Winter _t? c Brightly Hued Crepes and Silks, Covered With Thin Weave of Monkey or Fox Fur, Among Most Popular Innovations. By Universal Service. Biarritz, Sept. 3.—Fur* will pre dominate the fashionable woman'* wardrobe this winter, according to the advance styles seen here where society has transferred Its activities following the closing of the season at Deauville. The brightest Innovations will be “fur gowns” consisting of brightly hued crepes and silks covered with a thin weave of monkey or fox fur, the oddest effects being produced by the colors showing through the mask of fur. One such creation, entitled “Es quimaux Sunset,” is a deep crimson decollette evening gown, out of which the monkey fur seems to grow in wide circles. Furs will also largely predominate in millinery, the hats showing a decided tendency to grow bigger, while Gaby Morlay, star at Capucino’s theater, startled the pre lunch cgpktail crowds at the beach by wearing a fur trimmed one piece bathing suit edged around with white ermine. The same edging around the top of the stockings shows vividly against the sunburn. Squirrel, kolinsky, sable and ermino are indicated as the most fashionable furs. After inaugurating the'colored neck scarf fashion', Dora Stoyeva is en route to New York where she will star in the music box revue repre senting different moods. When she is sad she wears light blue; pensive, she Is adorned in red; in anger, she wears black. The mystery of the season so far is the lean’ Yankee who hires two cad dies on the golf course, one to carry his bag and the other to carry a port able gramophone playing the latest jazz sufficiently loud to drown the re marks when he misses. He claims the music improves the rhythm of his stance. The liveliest couple here are the "two Marys.” One is Mary Lewis, former Ziegfeld star, who is studying opera; the other is little Mary Mac Cormick, of the Chicago Opera. The two are inseparable and are the cen ter of attraction for the males. Since the visit here of Mrs, Jean Nash it is fashionable to wear pearls at all hours of the day. Some even wear them while bathing, claiming that the natural element improves I their luster. Banker Midland Packing Receiver Appointment of C. Walter Britton, Sioux City, Fol lows Warm Debate. Sioux City, Sept. 4.—C. Walter Britton, Sioux City banker, was named receiver for the defunct Mid land Packing plant by Judge T. C. Munger today. Appointment was made following a spirited debate, dur ing which the names of several others were proposed. Mr. Britton, whose appointment w-as urged by the Sioux Ity Chamber of Commerce, succeeds H. G. McMillan, resigned. Criticism of the McMillan receiver ship was made in open court, it being charged that slight or no attempt had lwen made during McMillan's incumbency to end the state of re ceivership, while the receiver and his attorneys continued to draw large salaries. More than $400,000 of the com pany's assets were paid out during the McMillan regime, the petitioners informed the court. The Midland, which was promoted in 1918-1913, operated only five weeks before going in receivership. Eight million dollars' worth of stock was sold in Iowa, Nebraska. South Da kota and Minnesota. Court records show a $3,000,000 plant was erected here Fin* Gauges Damage of $7,000 at Wiltjox Store Wilcox. Neb.. Sept. 3.—Fire early Sunday morning caused a damage df $7,000 to the building and furniture stock of the Robert Zulauf furniture and hardware store here. The cause of the fire Is unknown, but it ts said to have atarted from the inalde of the store and to have been burning sev eral hours before flames broke out about H:30 in the morning. The build ing was of brick. The entire stock was charred and water soaked. The city fire department aaved the build ing from total destruction and con fined the flames to the one store. This is the second disastrous fire in this vicinity within a week, the Farmers' elevator nt Sacramento, six miles west of here, having burned Friday night, entailing a loss of near ly $18,000. Heavy Damage Front Hail Reported Near Farnam Cambridge. Neb . Sept. 3—A heavy rain visited the country northwest of here, and several places report a heavy hagl storm. At Farnam, north of here, heavy damage was reported, with hail in drifts like snow. Nebraska Editor Sued for $5,000 George Porter Seeks < ash From Seottsbluff Republican for Newspaper Article. Gering \>b., Sept, 3—George C. Porter of Merrill claims that E. T. Westervelt, editor of the Seottsbluff Republican, has damaged him $5,000 worth by publication of an article in his newspaper. Porter Is a former member of the legislature from Douglas county, elected as a republican, but adhering to the socialist faith. During a con trover ay over beet prices. Porter wrote several articles opposing the sugar company's proposition, and Westervelt replied. Porter • alleges in his petition that the article was published with intent and purpose of subjecting him to ridi cule and disgrace and discrediting him in the eyes of the public a« a lawyer. C. A. Sorense and F. L. Rollon have been retained as counsel by Portei -- Activity at Start of Feeder Stock Season Fall feeder livestock trade opened j nuite briskly last week, there being shipped out of the stockyards 19.166 head of stock cattle and feeding steers, of which 7,339 went to Ne braska. 11,164 to Iowa. 393 to Illinois, 197 to Missouri and 30 to Indiana, as against a total of 16,351 the week previous and 11,907 for the last week of August last yyar. Liberality also marked the feeder lamb and sheep movement, with 35, 741 head l>eing shipped out. as com pared with 33.704 tlie week previous and 41 639 for the corresponding week a year ago Annual Election Is Hel<l by Fremont College Club! S Myers was elected president; Mrs. H. M. Eaton, vice president, and Mrs W. H. Mullln, secretary, of the Err moot College club at its second an nual meeting yesterday afternoon at Elmwood park. One hundred and fifty graduates and friends of the college attended the picnic. The club was organized by Jl. M. Eaton, su perintendent of instruction In Doug las county, and Mrs. Eaton. It Keeps— ' and Keeps —and Keeps You will find Kraft Loaf Cheese to be fresh and mild and wholesome long, long after ordinary cheese would be dry and hard or covered with mold. Kraft Loaf Cheese will keep for weeks in ordinary room temperature without Ice. This exclusive feature makes it the most economical because so free from waste. Four varieties: American, Pimento, Swittand Brick, told by the tine, flatted or loaf, a VARIBTIBS IN TINS Jugo-Slavia Will Join Italy in Case Albania Invaded Italians Will Refuse Arbitra tion by League on Grounds That Acts Are Not War. By Ini vernal Service. Paris. Sept. 1.—The high lights in the Greco-Italtan dispute summed up tonight discloses the following sttua tion: 1— Jugo-Slavia officially states that if Italy lands troops in Albania it will be considered a "casus foede/is" (for consideration under the treaty), in which case Jugoslavia will Join with Italy. 2— The Italians, though still pro claiming "peaceful" intentions, ai*e keeping up their belligerent naval movements, occupying Islands and firing on Greek merchant shipping. 3— The Italians officially announced they will refuse arbitration by the league of nations on the ground It is not a case of war, but in the event of the league not agreeing with this view, Italy may agree to let the Hague tribunal decide the question as to whether the league has proper jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Italy states ■he will "continue to take whatever measures seem necesshry." 4— Anti-Italian riots are reported from Athens, Saloniki and other Greek ports. 5— The Italians land 20,000 men, fully equipped, including mountain guns, in Corfu, lending color to the report that it Intends to invade Al bania. 8—The French government has un officially let It be known that it fa vors arbitration by the council of ambassadors and not by the league. "The tension is lessened." said a high Italian diplomat tonight. “All now depends on whether the Greek government decides to give in." Bryan Perplexed by Dry Leader’s Complaint Lincoln. Sept. 3.—Governor Bryan kept telephone wires to Omaha busy today following the expose by F. .f Hight. superintendent of the Anti saloon league, of the alleged failure of Foliee Judges William Wapplch and Frank Dlneen properly to enforce laws relative to sale of liquor and gambling houses. "I have received nothing official relative to Mr. High-* complaint," Hie governor said. The identity of the persons m Omaha who communi cated with the Governor concerning the request for the suspension of Wappich and Dineen was not made known. The power of the governor to sus pend any law enforcement officials, pending outcome of an ouster suit, was conferred upon him by the last legislature, largely at his request The power to instigate ouster proceedings has been in effect for years Hop Prices Gradually Climbing to ?10 Mark Hog prices are gradually climbing to tiie $10 mark on the Omaha mnrke' the top price bring $9 95 a hundred at tlie stockyards yesterday. Most of tiie lightweights went at }8 9009.10. while the bulk of snles went from IT.Tii'o 9.10 a hundred. The shipper demand w is snappy and buyers were out early I -- Mail Rider Halts at Grave of Cody Pony Express Pauses at Look out Mountain to Honor Me mory of Famous Scout. By AiMH'iatfd Pw*. At Buffalo Bill's Grave, Lookout Mountain, Colo., Sept. 3.—At the rocky crypt where lies the body of William F, Cody (Buffalo Bill) the pony express halted Its western race today to pay honors to the old scout who carried the mochila in 1860, when ho was a lad of 15. Pressing his pony at breakneck speed over the precipitous roadway to the crest of Lookout mountain, John nie Baker, foster son of Buffalo Bill, carried the mail pouch being rushed westward from St. Joseph, Mo., to the Golden Gate, and with it a wreath which he placed on the hier atop the towery eminence overlooking miles of once rugged, Indian-infested lowlands beloved of the pioneer plainsman. Baker raced to the top of the moun tain, about seven miles, in 30 minutes. A large crowd gathered about the grave as the brief ceremonies were held and die mall pouch was trans ferred to a fresh horse, upon which Swede Nettleileid immediately dashed away, again resuming the race to San Francisco. On a limb of a gnarled tree beside Buffalo Bill's grave hung the leather saddle hearing the inscription, "Pony Express, March 3, I860." which the old scout used when he was a pony expres^rlder. Several prominent ofTl chils of city and state greeted Baker at the mountain's crest as lie stepped to the grave to place the wreath. Girl Leaves for School With Variety of Colors Virginia Oliver Send* Summer Crepe* to Be Dyed by Drether*’ Expert. Virginia Oliver of Dundee is leaving for the Connecticut Col lege for Women on Long Island Sound this week. The girls in her high school set idmire her beautiful variety of 'lothes. Then she told them her secret and said that she wouldn’t mind having it published. Two of Virginia's afternoon dresses are dyed—one the new ‘‘ashes of roses’’ shade and the other a soft brown. They were both summer canton crepes—one a combination red and white and the other a bright green trimmed with bands of putty-colored crepe. But Virginia's mother knew that an expert dyer is required to give materials the luster, body and sheen. She knew that Dresher Brothers, with nine other leading cleaners in the country, spend $>5,000 a year for testing the methods and proc esses used in their plants. That's why Virginia's dresses cok new. They were correctly dj.ed by Dreshers’ expert. Dreshers’ main plant is located at 2211-2213-2215-2217 Farnam street, Dresher building. Work can be left at any of their j branches — Brandeis, Burges'- , N’ash, Dresher the Tailor, 1"15 j Farnam street, and on the South Side at 4625 South Twenty fourth street. Telephone AT lar.ttc 0346 or MA rket 0050 Real Coal Problems Missed in Parley (4 vntinued From First Fugr.) which act practically made impossi ble the ending of the strike through the ordinary method of hiring non union laborers. It is the state legislature of Penn sylvania alone that has the power to repeal or modify this statute if that is deemed necessary. It Is the courts of Pennsylvania which have the power to declare if they so wish that both the miners' union and tho organization of the operators constitute a menace to the public welfare and to dissolve. It is the governor of Pennsylvania who has the immediate power to use troops for the maintenance of order if that should be necessary. What President May l>n. The president of the United States under the constitution can only send federal troops In a state on request of the governor or on the request of the legislature or in order to main tain a republican form of govern ment. That the various states should, in the broadest sense, be more willing to assert their sovereignty over local situations, and arrest the tendency to turn over to Washington more matters than Washington Van han dle either constitutionally or with best results, is one of the greatest of America’s present needs. Ill the coal strike the president, be cause of constitutional Imitation was able to do nothing, in spite of the great effort that Harding made. Congress was able to do nothing ex cept to create the coal commission after the crisis had arrived and th;. the powers of the commission were inadequate has been proved in the present case. But while Washington was impotent In the coal strike las! rear it is a fact that aJl that wa done effectively to cure the situation ‘ a year ago was done by the gover nors of some western states who ac cepted th'-ir responsibilities promptly and courageously. Prices Out of Balance, In one other respect the course of the coal strike is unfortunate. S' retary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture said the other day that the worst economic condition in th* country is the lack of balance be tween agriculture and other indu* tries. He said that either the prices the farmer gets should go up, or the cost of what he buys should go down This lack of balance is made more extreme by the prospect of higher priced coal. Coa! is the one conspicu nus industry where wages and costs have been kept at the wartime peak by a trust-like solidarity of organize tion on the part of the workers Practically everybody else has beer deflated, the farmer most of all Something like what is now happen ing in the oil business is what nor mally should be happening in coal. tCspif'Sht. 1923 I ^onpon,€)d6en&Cci New Fall Dresses Featured for September .To meet every wardrobe's need for a fall frock in September we have made an unusual effort to pre sent a very complete display of moderately priced dresses which meet Thonipson-Belden's exacting standard of quality and good taste. Drop in Tues day and see for yourself how well we have suc ceeded. At $25 Dozens of smart styles in tailored dresses of navy twill cloth. 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