Today
About the 1924 Dance.
Field Mice, Heivare.
ISo Time for Child's Play.
Ford Stands in the
Shadow.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
The 1924 political dance starts
with Hiram Johnson’s attack on
the old gang of California.
Johnson attacking that crowd
is something like a large wildcat
attacking a nest of Held mice.
When he gets through with that
. nest there won't be anything left
of it politically. But mice arc
like croton bugs, you have to keep
on killing them.
Johnson is the man for the job.
He has cleaned out thd California
sink several times, last time with
a majority of 200,000.
The funny part of it is that
Senator Johnson, gdod political
housewife that he is, actually gets
mad at the little corporation cock
roaches, and goes at them with all
the fury of Roland at Roncevalles.
He knows just what they are,
that money always buys them, sun
light always kills them, that they
are cowardly, unpleasant little
animals. Nonetheless he rages
each time, with the old vigor, and
each time he cleans them up.
As interesting as Johnson's ef
fective fury, is the old guard
stupidity. Unlike the Bourbons,
it does forget but it never learns.
It forgets past lessons, learns
nothing new. If it should manip
ulate and buy the next conven
tion, putting through a “safe and
sane" and crooked nonentity, the
republican ticket would get such a
heating as would make Alton B.
Parker’s campaign look like a
glorious Victory.
And there is McAdoo. Wise re
publicans will not forget him. if
they want to win. He is the only
man that can compete with Ford,
in the estimation of workingmen.
The latter have not forgotten Mc
Adoo's nttitudc when running the
railroads, in war time. What he
wanted was to muk'e things move.
He did it. and his motto in dealing
with labor was "if $10 are not
enough, take $20.” Then men took
the $20, and would like to get back
to those good old times. Ask any
railroad worker, if you know one
that will trust you with his real
opinion, what he thinks of Mc
Adoo.
And then Henry Ford, there is
danger for republicans and demo
crats alike. If he were nominated
by either party, which he probably
will not be, every politician with
an ounce of brains, includinir Mc
Adoo. and Hiram Johnson, will tell
you that nothing could stop him.
If not nominated, he may decide
to nominate himself. He has the
necessary organization already in
the 15,000 agents throughout the
country. No trouble setting his
name on the hnllot. And his cam
paign fund would make Mark
Hanna's best efforts seem child's
play. _
Would he pour out his income of
$150,000,000 to corrupt the dear
electorate? He would not.
That dear electorate, to its sor
row. in many instances, would not
get $! directly from him. At the
end of the campaign he could and
would swear that he had not spent
$1 to get elected or beaten, as the
case migTt be.
But don't forget those 15,000
agents. With few exceptions,
everyone has been made a rich
man by Ford's genius. Every
one holds an agency worth from
$50 to $500,000, that Ford can re
voke overnight.
Kneli with no hint from Ford
would have brains enough to say to
himself “this election, with Ford
on the hailot will tell what people
think of Henry Ford in my neigh
borhood. If their votes show that
they think little of Ford around
here. Ford will say ‘that agent
evidently has not represented me
very well.’ ” ,
Each Ford agent, the moment
Henry Ford begins his campaign,
will sav to himself “a good showing
for Ford is my job and 1 am go
ing to see that he gets it.”
What do you think the average
Ford agent would spend, in divers
righteous ways, to turn out a big
Ford vote in his territory?
Many would spend $5 to $10, -
••00, if necessary, without hesita
tion. .Suppose they averaged only
$1,000. on the one great occasion
in the life of Ford by whom they
have been changed from little
bicycle menders, wagon dealers,
<ctc., to men of wealth.
Only $1,000 apiece from the
Ford agents would give Henry Ford
a little campaign fund of $15,000,.
000, and with no request from
him, no spending of a dollar by
himself. Mere instinct of self
preservation among the agents
would roll up tho fund. Ask Col.
William Boyce Thompson or Will
Huys of these days, what eould
he done to “enlighten the public”
with a fund like that.
Old guard republicans should
remember the excited, not too rev
erent prayer of the old colored
lady, when the earthquake start
ed :
“Come dovyn yourself, Lord,
don’t send your ion this time. This
ain't no child's play.”
Republicans are reminded that
with farmers angry and Ford in
the shadow keeping watch above
his own this ain’t no lime for
child's play, no time for the cock
roach brigade to take charge.
I•"> Per Gml Gait! in Number
of Students at Peru School
First two days’ enrollment at the
•State Normal school and Teachere’
■ ollrge at Peril, Neb,, shows an In
crease of 15 per cent over Inst year.
The iunmr college also shows growth.
The percentage of young men In
both schools show* a decided Increase,
as 48 per n ot of the students In the
Teachers’ college are males, and In
lb* Junior college the number of
youths and ihe nuuibei of girls 1*
•Wl (
_a •J MC - , a. M - —* i
Old Schoolmates
of Madison Meet
Memories of “School Days’’ of
Early ’80s Reealled at
Picnic Gathering.
Madison, Neb., Sept. 10.—The old
schoolmates of the early ’80s of the
Madison public schools held their
third annual picnic at the count}* fair
grounds here. In addition to a sump
tuous banquet, addresses were made
by Judge William V. Allen and Frank
P. Prince. Judge Allen wits not an
old schoolmate but was an honor
guest of the association. Mr. Prince
was the earliest teacher of the Mad
Ison schools now living.
Reuben Payne and Ernest Scofield
of Nellgh were chosen president and
secretary respectively of the associa
tion for the coming year nnd the pic
nic next year will bo held at Nellgh.
The following were present;
Reuben Payne and wife and Percy
Payne and wife. Nellgh; Dell Antls
dell and wife, Brunswick; A1 GateR,
wife nnd daughter, Oakdale; Dawson
Wells and wife, Royal: Ed C. South
and wife. Norfolk; C. A. Adams and
family. Meadow Grove: C. A. Smith,
wife and daughters, Tilden; Mrs. Mar
garet tiley, Tilden; Anthony Robin
son and family, Newman Grove; Lulu
Waite and son Evard Waite, Laurel;
W. R. Ellis and wife, Wayne; A1
Vickers and wife, George W. Kiesling
and wife and son. Paul Grant and
wife and two Rons. Omaha; Myrle
Adams, Meadow Grove; Charles
Brown and wife, Long Beach, Cal.;
Harry Barnes and wife, Battle Creek;
Fred Hodges and wife, Florence; Mrs.
Nora Reiniccius. Stanton: Will L'pton
and wife. Meadow Grove: Mrs. Alice
Stevenson, Broken BowswC. M. Swal
low and wife, Mrs. Alwllda Swallow"
and daughter. Lincoln: Iloyt Osborn
and wife. Battle Creek: and Dr. C. L.
.Wills and wife, M. B. Foster. and
wife. U. D. Mathews nnd wife, F. P.
Prince, George Richardson and son,
J. W. Davies, wife and daughter; C.
S. Snyder and Wife, F. M. Teazel and
wife, William V, Allen and wife,
•‘Grandma'' Mott. Edward O'Shea,
Ella O’Shea. Henry Neidlg, son and
daughter; Edward Neidlg nnd family,
Ira Chittenden and wife and son A. C.,
A. V. Smith and wife, C. S. Smith,
wife, son and daughter; Frank Bel
knap nnd wife, Frank Emery and
wife, E. H. Mathews and wife nnd
son, Fred H. Davis, wife and three
daughters: F. J. Dover and wife,
Amelia Imhoff, Joe Weinberger. A. E.
Ward, wife and three daughters, all
of 'Madison, and Lyle Dlllman and
wife, Newman Grove.
I Circus Truck Drivers
Have “Spill” Near Du Bois
Rnrneston, Neb.. Sept. 10.—In a
move of the Ducky Rill shows and
cirrus from Rnrneston to Pu Rots, In
Pawnee county, east of here, con
siderable had luck wks had. In the
rough country of southern Pawnee
county the drivers lost their way and
two of the heavy truck* conveying
the animals upset on a steep hill, the
cages of the lion and the bear rolling
off the wagons and down the grade
tor several yards, lodging against
trees. The cages stood the strain and
the animals did not escape, but were
badly bruised. Two horses and two
cowboys were also Injured.
Wymore Girl Succumbs
Following Operation
Wymore, Neb., ffept. 10.—Mabel
Rills, 1 " year old 'daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Rills, pioneer resi
dents of Wymore, died In a Lincoln
hospital, where she had been for
several months receiving treatment.
Hhe had been Buffering with ab
soesses In the head, said to have
been caused by getting water In her
cars while swimming in the Blue
river, Several operations were per
formed, the last one a week ago. The
parents and two brothers, Cloyd of
lies Moines and Max, a twin of the
deceased, of Wymore, survive.
Physician Takes Honey
Boo From Woman's Ear
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Columbus, Neb., Kept. 10.—Driven
almost frantic by a honey bee that
crawled Into her ear, Mrs. W. H.
Dunham, Detroit, Mich., tourist, In
Columbus today, rushed into Dr. W.
S. Evans' office. The physician de
ciared the Insect had almost entered
the woman s head entirely, but had
not yet stung her. After removing
the stinger from the bee, the doctor
removed the Insect, one of the Ital
ian variety, about half an Inch In
length.
Half Section Near Filley
Is Sob! for $.')2..’>00 Gash
special Dlapatch to The Omaha Bee.
Reatrlco, Neb., Kept. 10.—The big
gest land deal made here In years
was the sale of the Joseph Ilubku
half section north of Filley, Neb., to
Rankin Denera for $52,500 rash.
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Hughes Plan of Removing Barrier
With Canada Key to World Peace
Advisers Believe International Co-Operation Should
Begin on Small Scale and Point to Common In
terests of United States and Dominion.
Ry MARK MT.UYAN.
Washington, Srpt. 1 O'.—it is quite
possible that, an accurately balanced
Judgment of events of the last week
would put less emphasis on some of
the spectacular misfortunes of the
world and more on a comparatively
ignored point made by Secretary
Hughes in his Canadian speech.
Mr. Hughes appealed for closer
union between the United State* and
Canada and characteristically sug
gesteil a concrete plan. Sooner or
later something will develop out Of
this. Throughout President Harff
Ing'fl administration there were ad
visers close to his heart and Judg
ment who pressed on him that the
best evidence of the league of na
tions as a political dilemma and the
fundamentally wiser beginning of in
ternationai co-operation would be to
start with Canada. Their phrase
was, “If we are to take on the na
tions of the world as brothers, let us
do it slowly, and let us begin with
Canada."
These advisers advocated that,
starting with the hundred years of
peace between these two neighbors
and building upon the common in
terests and bases of mutual Under
standing, we should achieve with
Canada a relation so friendly and in
timate that it would make any shock
Impossible and would provide on ex
ample td the rest of the world.
Scoff at Union.
These advisers not only did not
share but actually abhorred the nc
Fight Launched
for Clean Movies
Organization Perfected to
Seek Legislation Regulating
Amusements in Nebraska.
Red Cloud, Neb., Sept. 10.—A meet
ing of voters of the Twenty-sev
enth state senatorial district was
held at the Congregational church
here. There were present six
representatives from Webster coun
ty. nine from Franklin county,
and 11 from Nuckolls county. The ob*
ject of the meeting was to perfect a
district organisation for the purpose
of nominating and electing senators
and representatives who will work to
create an executive power that will
standardize moving pictures, and es
tabllsh county welfare bureaus and
city welfare bureaus.
It Is not the object to fight moving
pictures hut to standardise them, nr
bring them up to a level that will
meet approval, thereby eliminating
the undesirable. The welfare boards
will have tbe power to regulate piaees
of amusement both Inside and out
side of villages and rifles.
A temporary chairman was appoint
ed for each county as follows: Frank
lin county, N. G. Palmar; Nuckolls
county, G. N. Fisher; Webster coun
ty. H. W. Pope.
Moved and seconded that the meet
ing go on record as In favor of the
standardising of picture films, and of
establishing both city and county
welfare boards.
The following permanent officers of
the organization were elected:* J. If.
Agee, Superior, president; Rev. P J.
Thiel, F'ranklln. vice president; Ed
Portwoo«k Nelson, secretary; E. G.
Caldwell, Red Cloud, treasurer: C. O.
Butler, Franklin, finance: Harry
Vaughan, Guide Roek, publicity; Bert
Miller, Superior, survey; F- If. Wright,
Superior, campaign manager.
A county organisation will he per
fected In each county.
Nebraska City Farmer
Injuretl When Horse Falls
Spec let pfapatrh U The Omaha Bee.
Nebraska City, Neb., Sept. 10.—
Mike Roddy, farmer, was severely
Injured when a horse he was riding
slipped and fell In such a manner
as to catch his leg beneath the ani
mal gnd to fracture It below the
knee.
Beatrice Man to Wetl
Wymore, Neb., Sept. 10.—Applica
tion for a marriage license has been
made by Grace Gaffnrd, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs, C. C. Oaf ford, widely
known resident* of Wymore. and
Dudley G. Hrott, son of W, W. Scott,
furniture dealer, of Beatrice. They
will live In Beatrice, where Mr. Scott
Is in business with his father.
"Women Who Walt,® a acneen ver
sion of the old story, "Cape Cod
Folks,” is to tie filmed with Robert
Fraser In the leading role.
cnslonnl foolish talk of the two coun
tries "coming under a common gov
< rnment.
On the contrary they thought it
more desirable that the two experi
ments In government should go along
side by side. By this they held that
while the political separation should
be maintained in itself there should
be in other respects a relation with
Canada such that, our northern
boundary line would not be much
more than the fence between two
farms. An obvious part of such an
Innovation would be reciprocity in
the field of tariffs.
That a country situated as Canada
Is with respect to America should he
held outside the same tariff walls
as all the rest of the world, has long
been held by many persons to be
contrary to nature. The interests,
both in Canada and the United States,
which get any advantage out of a
tariff harrier itetween the two are
relatively insignificant.
If the process of tariff making were
not a log rolling one in wrhieh each
small interest stands for all the oth
ers, reciprocity with Canada would
quickly become an accepted Institu
tion. In a broader sense every form
of international co-operation must
rest In the aggregate on the common
denominators among the nations con
cerned.
Hold Much in Common.
Everybody knows flint there are
more common denominators between
the United States and Canada—lan
guage, Institutions, point of view, and
the like, than between the United
States and any other country or
countries.
More substantial and equally for
tuitous Is the resumption of normal
international relations with Mexico.
The arrangement made has been
short of satisfactory to a small group
of American Interests that own some
forms of property In Mexico. But the
new status is the fruit of the best
thought of some of the ablest men in
our government and out of It.
The Americans who have been close
to the Mexican situation have a high
estimate of the present personnel of
the Mexican government, and of the
men who seem likely to be in power
in the future. They think that cer
tain aspects of the government of
Mexico under the old Ihaz semi autoc
racy, which were grossly out of tune
with the times, had to be ended and
liavo l>een ended in the past 10 years
of domestic turmoil.
They think that under the now
order there Is no reason why Mcxir-o
should not go on for an uninterrupted
generation of stability. They say that
the people of the 1'tiited States must
t>ear In mind that Mexico Is e dif
ferent race with a different philos
nphy of life and government; and
that we must have respect for tilts
difference as a difference and not ■■
an Inferiority.
For one thing the Mexicans as e
whole are loss commercially minded;
less sympathetic to a machine and
factory. The primarily commercial
philosophy of life and government Is
juet now a little on the defensive In
every part of the globe. If America
ran teach the more aggressively
commercial of our people, who have
direct dealings with Mexico, to un
derstand and respect the Mexican
point of view there should come a
generation of happy and prospermia
relations between the two countries.
Kathleen Norris’ lov
able and irresistibly
human Irish lass Ellen
plays a lone but win
ning hand in “Keep
ing Ellen Out of It.”
With her wise head
on her young (and
very pretty) shoul
ders, she saves Kitty
and her baby from
disgrace.
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'Birthday Present'
Forger Is Sought
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Smooth Stranger Cashed Spur
ious Cheeks Purporting to
Rc Gifts From Mother.
Columbus, Neb., Sept. 10.—Present
ing to the banks spurious checkl, pur
porting to be birthday presents from
his mother, John Haney, a stranger,
during the last two weeks has ob
tained a total of several hundred dol
lars in cash in Columbus and David
City. Detectives havo been put on
his trail by the Hankers' Protective
association.
The fellow's ‘'stunt” is to go to a
bank during the busy hours of the
day, represent that he is either a
member (jf or working for some fam
ily of farmers, and present for pay
ment a check, ostensibly written by
his mother and bearing the signi
ficant inscription across the bottom
“for birthday.” He does It in a man
ner well calculated to allay suspicion.
The stranger made use of forged
checks in denominations of $25, pur
porting to have been made out lo him
by his mother, “Mrs. A. D. Haney.”
The checks were drawn on the Fre
mont Slate liank at Fremont.
Soon after the checks given in
Columbus were found to be bogus, re
ports began coming in from David
City, in which he had been operating.
County Attorney Walter has filed a
"John Doe” complaint against him in
county court hero charging forgery.
Corn Damaged by Hail
to Be Used as Ensilage
Wymore, Neb.. Sept. 10.—An effect
of the severe hall storm of July 1 In
a large district southeast of Wymore,
is noted today. On 'the Blue river
bottom farm of George Hllder, five
mile* southeast, where a silo never
before was found necessary to pre
serve winter feed for the herds of
stock, one is now being built of tile
in the latest Improved fashion. It
will be filled with ensilage made from
the green corn stalk3 in the fields
which were hailed out, 150 acres of
which were stripped clean of leaves
In the July storm. The stalks made
a fair growth, hut there are not a
dozen ears to tne score.
Ford Coupe Is Stolen
From Wymore Doctor
Hanover, Kan., Sept. 10.—No trace
of the Ford coupe belonging to Dr. H.
llurtic of this place, which was
stolen from the street, has been
found. The doctor’s medicine case
was found on the edge of the side
walk In the outskirts of tdwn, the
thieves spparently having thrown It
put r>f the car. The auto was eriuipped
With a burglar proof lock on the
gteerlng wheel, but Dr. Hurtle left
the key in the lock while he stepped
into his offjre fop a moment and
when he came oiit the car was gone.
Nelson School \tlcndancc
Shows Market! Increase
Nelson, Neb., Bept. 10.—The open- 1
ing week of Nelson public schools indi
cates r marked Increase in attend
ance. Superintendent George II. Bake 1
who had charge of the S'-bool last l
year. Is again at th» bead of the
faculty. The Junior high will be in
charge of Miss Gertrude O'Brien as
principal. Miss Ruth Daudna is the
music Instructor and Roy Carroll will
handle manual training and nthletlcs
J. Russell Chandler is the high echoed
principal. Iva Carter is the home
_
economics teacher and Mildred Kava
naugh has Latin and the girls' ath
letics. Sixty nonresident pupils have
already enrolled. j
Du Bois Hat* Completed
$27,000 School Building
Bnrneston, Neb., Sept. 10.—The vil
lage of Du Bois has completed a new
high school building. The building
Is made of Falrbury brick, Is .modern,
and large enough to accommodate the
school population there for many
years. It cost $27,000. The old build
ing on the same lots, after having
been used for, »0 years, was sold to
farmers, who u^ed "'the lumber on
their farms for barns and cribs.
Fivc-Ycar-OId Wymore Boy
Ha? Infantile Paralysis
Wymore, Neb.. Sept. 10.—Tommy
Dobson, 6-year-old son of Rev. Mr.
Dobson of Wymote, Is suffering from
infantile paralysis. He has paralysis
of the right arm, and when he falls
down he cannot rise without help.
Doctors say It la possible that a bump
on the head sometime In the past
could have caused the present trou
ble.
School Facilities in
Omaha Are Sufficient
Though other cities are suffering
from lack of adequate public school
facilities to the extent that 20 per
cent of the children are able to attend
sohool only part time, Omaha Is not
bothered by such a condition, accord
ing to Sties Belle Ryan, assistant
superintendent of education.
Mi*s Ryan said Omaha schools were
thoroughly equipped to take care of
the present number of school children.
A recent issue of Collier's showed
statistics that most other cities were
unable to provide proper educations
for all. Beatrice, Neb., has a shortage
of 300 seats in schools. Grand Island
needs 3S9 more seats. N»w York city
Is SO,000 seats short.
Oloe County Keel Croo»
Civet* SI,000 to Relief Fund
Special IMspsteh t« The Omaha Bee.
Nebraska City, Neb., 8ept, 10.—
The Otoe chapter. American Red
Cross, at a special meeting, donated
$1,000 to the Japanese relief fund.
Extra! Extra! Extra!
Second Story George
Commits New Crime!
Height is no is the best thing
obstacle to Second lie does.,
Story George . . . The picture fails to show
Uid petting liis'n what he got after his raid.
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WARNING—Don't leave Northrup-Jones Butter
milk Shop Pastries around where there are Second
Story Georges apt to locate them . . . for they are
so good that if you want them for dinner you'll
have to keep them out of the kids' way.
Don't Forget . . . Stop in for a Glass of Rich, Sweet
Milk and a Sandwich While Shopping.
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BUTTERMILK, SHOP
ft
Northwest Comer, 16th and Farnam Sts.
The money Is taken from the gen
eral fund of the organization, funds
raised from time to time In cam
paign drives. The director! also
pointed out that It Is desirable thai
Otoe county and Nebraska City add
to the sum given by the chapter by
prlvate donations.
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Crepe de Chine
$1.85 a Yard
This special price for
Fall Sewing Week on
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Wool Challis
98c a Yard
Small figured French
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Pmc*« IH|| Item IVWlm iK* > mu . K...,. i« t mo lot
ik« 7H mi I • W. \ N Y.
In the building
material business
How much —to a penny — did your trucks
cost and earn in the month of May, 1915? Or.
>av, August, 1919? Or 1<ui month?
How many loads did they carry? How mam
miles did they run1 How many hours were they
idle? In fact, are the trucks you bought in 1015
still on the job?
Owners w ho maintain such records krtme trucks
For instance—Tomkins Brothers of Newark,
wholesalers of masons' materials. Their ledgers
show- every detail of eight years of truck operation
And so there is unusual significance in the
tact that Tomkins Brothers recently added twv
Tierce-Arrow- trucks to their fleet —now thir
teen Pierce-Arrows in all.
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The Pierce-Arrow Wbrm-Dnve Truck with
its silent, powerful Dual-Valve engine will ren- ■>
der like satisfaction in your business. Mav we
shew vou the facts?
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Leavenworth Sts. nt 21st. JAckson 4250 Omaha, Nebraska