Prison Labor Report Soon Iowa Legislative Committee Queries Charge Convicts’ Work Too Cheap. By Associated Frees. Ues Moines, la., Jan. 23.—A report hy the joint sub-committee, named to investigate the equality of return upon prison labor and free labor, under the prison industry system worked out by the state board of con trol, probably will not be made until late this week or next week, mem bers of the committee Indicated to day. The committee is charged with de ciding whether the state is receiving enough from the products of prison labor to set the prison Industries out side the realm of unfair competition with free labor. Should the commit tee decide the state was not receiv ing as much as it should, contracts now existing tjndoubtedly will be can celled and the legislature will be tailed upon to revise the prison law. State Board Investigating. Senators Hale and Campbell and Representatives Williams, Vincent and Rhlnehart are members of the subcommittee. The state board of control also Is Investigating and has expressed a willingness to terminate all contracts found to be unduly fa vorable to the concerns with which they were made. A. M. McColl, a member of the board, recently told committees that these qontraots were considered ad vantageous to the state when they p were entered into. Somo recent crit icism of the board was that the prod ucts did not net the stale as much as would similar articles manufac tured by free labor and marketed by a private concern. Law Would Specify. Should the matter come before the legislature it is probable that the type of industry and the rate of re turn would be gone into and speci fied in the law. Such a bill might also provide for a stipulated wage to be paid the prisoners. The board of control now takes the stand that it is not required by law to pay prisoners anything for their work and that if it desires to pay them at ail, it can pay them any thing It wishes. The average return to the state on the work of each prisoner at Anamosa is approxi mately $20 per month. The average wage paid prisoners is blightly under S6, although some, by overtime work, earn for themselves, considerably larger sums. Pioneer Omahan Dies Suddenly in California Word has been received here of i lie sudden death of Philip Schlalfer, 15, pioneer resident of Omaha, Mon day afternoon at Log Angeles. He Is survived by six eons, Abra ham and I. Samuel, Omaha; Oscher, Dundee, 111.; Oscar, Los Angeles; Louis, Seattle, Wash., and Morris, Vienna, Austria; and two daughters, Mrs. J. Waxenberg, Omaha, and Mrs. Meyer Taxman, Kansas City. 3 The body will arrive In Omaha Thursday evening, accompanied by Mrs. Schlalfer and Louis. The funer ;! will be held Friday morning from the home of Mrs. J. Waxenberg, ■J407 Davenport street. ' This Exceptional Luncheon Will Be Served Thursday in the Beautiful Main Dining Room Hotel Pontenelle : Here'* the Menu: Creem of Tomatoea with Whipped Creem I Baked and Stuffed Freah Deviled Crab Sauce Remoulade Pickle and Red Pepper Baled Ham and Egga, Country Styla with Hot Biacuit* Boiled Smoked Ox Tongue * with Freeh Spinach Irith Lanjb Stew, Dublin Style Dumplinge Roaet Young Chicken. Onion and Sage Dreasing Pan Gravy Wax Beana au Gratin Hashed Browned Potatoea Apple Dumpling with Nutmeg Sauce Cherry Pie with Swiaa Cheeac Lemon Sherbet with Macaroona Biacuit Tortonl with Petit Four* Cream Puff. Fontenelle Coffee Tea Milk Our comfortable Indian Grill serves the same menu. Louis Culp’* extraordinary or choatra play* in tho main dining room during luncheon and dinner. LAST TWO f * ry;t y DAYS “Thundering ^11 Two Woman ” Fighting fot tha Soul of . Man SATURDAY , TOM MIX In “Eyes of the Forest” lEDDlE’S FRIENDS_ I.odies’ Night Trying to Avoid It. | " ' % WO\M GET TAl«i - ^ SOU TELL MOGP \MPE ^ Moo'vje Got to \wok« ^ ^M* T.’LL TELL »A»ME: T'W\ PEELlMG ClCK ... f VME UE SIMPLE ^ v -V Lgot TO beeA* / /\ OP TAlS ladies'] i N1 GUT -STQFF- ^ f~DME AAOtEE~ JH NW'tED SESSdOO r AM' X Go J —^ COO-COO ^ ¥s--L-,— - ^NoO 'SANtJ IT! f TaE.w'ctT=i6uet\iG \ OM PLAvJIM. RENEE ROBERT A CIKRS DORF SYMHIONISTS Senator Murphy Inea Courtney with Sid Kayea and ! St or Ur Pattaraon Hail, Erminie A brica Parisian Trio Gaorge Whiting and Sadia Burt NEW WEEK DAY PRICES: (Monday to Saturday, Inclualva) Fv’nge, 22c, 45c. flBc. $1 OO, Plua Tax Matinee* . . 25r and BOr, Plua Tax TODAY ALL WEEK THE COURTSHIP OF MYLES STANDISH with CHARLES RAY §** Omaha** Fun <>ntir Mat. and Nita Today THE SEASONS GALA EVENT, “MONKEY SHINES” -—with Geo. Shelton end Welly Sharpies and a Gntgeou* lloqurt of Glotioua Girls l.adie*' 25r Bargain Mil., 2ilB Wrfk Daye .'•at. Mat.- W'k . Barney liviaiii a AH An Fuai STELLA DALLAS By Olive Higgins Frouty. SYNOPSIS. After erven yearn reparation Stella Pallas In requested he her Vi usba nd '■ at torney to get a dlvnrra on the Rronnil of desertion. When nlle refuser she In told the alternnative will he an action In which she will he eharRed with Immoral conduct with Alfred Munn. an old admirer, from whom she received attention while her dauRhter. laurel. 13, won visiting her father, Stephen Dalian. In New York, she indignantly denier wrongdoing and de clarer rile will fight. Stephen tr derirnur of freedom no that he mav marry Helen Morriron, a widow, lint after threat by Stella, under advice nf her attorney, to mime Mm. Morrison as corespondent In a counteraction he trllr the latter marriage Is im ponsiiile. Coo i vearr later, rinding iterre 1 f ostracized, Stella reekr an Inter view with Mrs. Morri-on no.I offers lo get a divorce If she will marry Stephen, take laurel and Rive I lie girl good social '-landing. The offer Is gladly accepted tint I.aurel refuser to leave Iter muflier after her father marries Mrs. Moniron. (Continued from Y'eaterday.) J It was easier than she had sup IKised. Laurel's hostility to Ld was so white-hot that even a reference to him kindled a controversy. There fore Stella referred to him frequent ly in a light and Inconsequential vein, laughing iit Laurel's opposition. Not only did she refer to Ld, but she saw him; she made engagements with him; she kept engagements with him: she stayed out with him until after 1 o’clock on one occasion; fulled to appear for supper, or to telephone, on another. One afternoon, defiantly, she established Ed in an armchair In the living room of the apartment, and arranged that Laurel, due home from downtown, should find him when she came In. She repeated thiH a week later. Oh, it was too liad. She hated to watch the slow torture her pro eedure was to the child. But It couldn’t he avoided. Somehow she must make her marriage to Ed seetn logical. Laurel's light laughter faded, dls appeared;the soft light In her eyes hardened like a disillusioned lover's. Night after night she lay, on the extreme edge of the heel, beside her mother, silent and unrelenting, and drifted into an unrefreshing sleep. She grew years older. One afternoon In early June, after a particularly difficult morning of argument with her mother about Al fred Munn (afterwards Stella had called goodby to Lollle out of the front window, hut she wouldn’t an swer), she returned to the apart ment lo find it empty. There was a note fastened to the handle of the oven door on the gas stove In the kitchen. Laurel discovered It when she went out to get some supper. Dear Lollie (the note said): I guess you won't he much sur prised. I guess you’ve sort of seen the way the wind was blowing. Ed has wanted me to marry him for years, and as I had’nt any good rea son not to now. I'll be Mrs. Alfred Munn when you read this. I would of told you all about It, but I know how you felt about poor Ed, and it would only of meant more fuss. Ed's got a giand Job down In South America, and he'd crazy to have me go down there with him. You know 1 never had much of a rhance to travel, and It seems a big chance for me. So I'm jumping at it. We may be gone a year or two. I'll send you an address when we Ret one. I've had this up by sleeve quite a long while, marrying Ed. I mean. You can’t explain everything to a child. That was why I hoped you’d stay with your father. But when you didn't, of course, 1 had to keep my promise to Ed Just the same. It wouldn't of been fair if I didn't, and he wouldn't listen to anything else. He's been w aitlng for me all the time you've been growing up, and I won't say' I haven’t been waiting, too. I’ve tried my best to make you see Ed the way 1 do. these last weeks, hut you Just won't, so I've given up trying, and gone ahead and done what I think is right. Ed and I will he back and close up the apartment sometime liefore we sail. I guess we all three can tit In somehow. I expect you to be nice to him though, now he's your sort of father. When you're out, leave the key un der the mat. same as usual. Ed and 1 may be back any time. Love from YOUR MOTHER. R. 8.—It was too bad you wouldn’t turn round this morning and wave goodby. Stephen and Helen, returning late from town the next evening to their Rinnmer home on Long Island (they had Just moved down), were surprised upon entering the hall to hear a sound In the living room—u chair sud denly shoved back, soft swift foot steps. They stepped to the door of tho room. It was Laurel! She still wore her hoi. Her suitcase still stood by the chair where she had been sitting. "Why, Laurel! Why, my dear,” exclaimed Stephen, exclaimed Helen, both hastening toward her. They met her In the middle pf the room. They kissed her—both of them. She returned neither caress. "What Is It, Laurel?” She was very white. Her eyes had a startled, frightened expression. "I've come back," she said quietly. "I'll stay, now, if you want me—if you'll take me.” She made no ges ture, her expression did not change. There was fixed calmness about her as hard as adamant. "What has happened, Laurel?" "I've been put out. I've no other place to go but here. If you don't want me—If—” "You know we want you!” ex claimed Helen. “Dear child! Come. Sit down. You're tired. You've had a long journey. Why, you haven’t even taken off your hat." Laurel remarked, not moving, mak ing no sign of response, "Mother has married," and after a pause, "Mother has married." It was like the wail Ing of a tolling bell Stephen said. “Oh!" Helen said, "I shall take off your hat myself. ' And quickly, deftly, she removed the small toque and laid it aside on a table, laurel standing list less and indifferent beneath her »d ministering hands. "There! That's better. Why, you must have been waiting a long time," lightly she went on. “You ought to have telephoned when you reached New York." "She's married Alfred Munn. fath “Hunchback” Contest Open to All Students in College or School Pbotodrama So Real in Locale That Many Doubt Cathed ral Built Expressly for Film. Have you thought about a story of your Impressions of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" Until the final day of The Omaha Bee "Hunchback” con teat, you have Just as good a chance for a share in that (100 in gold prize money or some of those tickets to see the Carl Laemmle film version of the Victor Hugo novel as has ari;. other school student. The contest Is open to all school or college students. The contest edi tor Is expecting a great number of 250 to 300-word stories of the Impres sions that the story, either in book form or in the film version, which opens at the Brandeis theater Janu ary 27, makes on your mind. How do you like the story? Does it seem true and probable? The photodrama is so repl In Its locale that many persons are loath to believe that Universal really built the immense cathedral and surround ed it with streets and buildings such as existed in the time of Louis XI of France, in order to make the pic ture. There are 10 prizes, starting with Nigel lie Itrulier. ulm lias tlie role ol the archbishop of the anrieiit ilioreae in the film, “The Hunchliaidi of Noire Dame." $50 for the first prize; *25, second $10, third: $5 each for fourth, fifth and sixth; 4 box seats for “The Hunchback” at the iSrandels for sev enth: four orchestra teats as eighth two box seals as ninth, and two or i-hestra seats as 10th. YoU are to writ* on one side of the paper only and send in your story by February 4. An nouncements of the prize winners will be made in The Omaha Bee or February 16. er," eaid Laurel to Stephen, and aft er a pause again, “She's married Al fred Munn," a* if the tolling bell had changed its note. Helen touched Laurel gently on her shoulder. "Come upstairs to your room now," she said. “We’ll talk about It in the morning. I’m going to give you some food and put you to bed now." “Father, you knew him. You couldn't stand film either. 1 under stand now. I see. Of course, you couldn’t live with her. I couldn't live with her myself." "Don't take it so hard, Lollie,'' Bald Stephen. "Don't call me Lollie!” "Don't suffer so, dear." "I'm pot suffering. I'm not suffer ing at all.” "Will you bring up Laurel's suit case. Stephen?" asked Helen. "Come, Laurel." She slipped a steadying arm through Laurel's. "You must go to bed now." (CuntimH in The Mornlnr Bee. BEHIND THE SCREEN—By Samuel Goldwyn. The experiences of a fa mous motion picture producer with the famous stars of the screen. Inti ILIOUSNESS tick headache, sour stomach, constipation, easily avoided. An Hdh* fiver sitiost abaft. CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS Nevar sicken nr gripe—only 25« mate stories of the studios, how the film celebrities live outside the silvet sheet, tlie dashes of temperament tlieir quarrels and their loves, true stories of actual happenings in th< world of make-believe. 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