A Nebraskan in
Washington
By P. C. POWELL,
Washington Correspondent The Omaha Bee
Before leaving for the trouble zone,
Governor Charles W. Bryan called
and paid his respects to Senators
George W. Norris and R. B. Howell.
The governor remained In Washing
ton for a day or two after the meet
ing of the democratic national com
mittee to attend to that part of hts
trip labeled "official state business.”
While Dr. Jennie Callfas. national
democratic committee woman from
Nebraska, was in Washington attend
ing the meeting of the national com
mittee, she was entertained at lunch
eon by Senator and Mrs. George W.
Norris and Senator and Mrs. R. B.
Howell.
Dr. Callfas Is optimistic over a
democratic national victory. When
anyone talks to her about the can
didacy of Art Mullln for national com
mitteeman her eyes snap and she re
fuses to be quoted. Nor will she
make public who she Is for for the
democratic nomination for president.
Miss Grace Shallcnbarger enter;
talned secretaries of Nebraska con
gressmen at the home of her father
last Friday afternoon. Miss Shallen
barger Is acting as secretary for her
father. Congressman Ashton C. Shal
lenbarger.
Did you know that In addition to
other qualities, four members of the
Nebraska lower house delegation
claim singing voices? Willis G. Sears,
Kdgar Howard, John H. Morehead
and M. O. McLaughlin have joined a
congressional' singing class, which
meets regularly once a week.
All railroad propaganda in the
capital these days Is aimed to im
press upon the minds of lawmakers
that railroad service Is better than
in history. "Cut our rates and we’ll
he forced to cut your service,” is ex
pected to be one of their arguments.
Edson Rich of the Union Pacific
and John L. Webster, attorney, both
_ of Omaha, and Tod Sloan, attorney
at Pender, were Washington visitors
in the last week. Sloan has been
waging a strenuous fight In the De
partment of the Interior against the
present method of handling Indian
affairs.
’ Trcnmors Cons says hs’s tired of
ths ultra-politeness of everyone In
Washington and will be glad to re
turn to Nebraska, where someone will
occasionally tell him to “Go to h—.”
Trenmore observes, however, that
they take his money, just the same.
If Congressman John H. Morehead
would only fils for re-election It
would make the batting average of
the lower house delegation from Ne
braska 100 per cent.
The Nebraskan has an aunt who
owns a seven-room modern home In
a country town In Pennsylvania, who
doesn’t get as much for the modern
cottage as he has to pay for parking
space In an old barn. This barn
holds eight cars. The owner of each
cay 1» obliged to pay $11 a month.
Gosh! If the republicans had
chosen New Tork for their conven
tion, couldn't you hear “Brother
Charley” talking about the "Influ
ence of predatory Interests on Wall
street?”
Woman Posing as Collector
for Bakery Found Out
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 26.—A
new fraud scheme developed here
Friday when It was discovered that
a woman was calling on restaurants
and other places where much bread
Is consumed, representing herself as
a collector for a bakery. She related
that the bread factory had been
caught in the Grand Island National
bank failure and was hard pressed
for funds and had sent her out to
collect as much as possible.
One firm became suspicious and
went to the phone to make inquiries.
When he returned the woman had
fled.
Albion to Have Free
Postal Delivery Soon
Rp«lil Dispatch to The Omaha llee.
Albion, Neb,, Jan. 26.—Free postal
delivery will soon be established at
the Albion postofflre. A special in
■spector has been hero ami found the
streets all named and about 85 per
cent of the house numbers in place.
The receipts of the office have been
Aiore than sufficient to obtain free
delivery for several years. The in
spector Indicated that he would recom
mend the additional service at once.
Filtration Plant Asked.
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.
Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 26.—Petitions
will soon be presented to the city
commissioners asking for the eetab
llahment of a filtration plant in the
Blue river at this point. The matter
la to be decided by the coramtsslon
<ara or by a popular vote of the peo
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Omaha’s ‘Seven Wonders’ Are Named by School Children
in Essays Preparing for Observance of ‘Know Omaha’ Week
Historical and Industrial
Places and Inspiring Leaders
in Public Life Are Idol
ized by Youngsters.
By EDWARD BLACK.
Boys and girls of the Eighth B
English class at Lothrop school be
lieve every Omahan should know the
city in which he lives. These pupils
are taking a lively interest in "Know
Omaha Week,” which will be ob
served during the week of February 3.
They are convinced that Omaha
abounds with romance, adventure,
beauty, poetry, and with the products
of industrial effort, the latter stimu
lating the Imagination of these young
sters.
Last week they wrote essays on the
"Seven Wonders of Omaha,” giving
the subject a liberal treatment to in
clude persons as well as places. The
following were included in wonders of
Omaha mentioned in the essays:
Ak-Sar-Ben, smelter plant, Tech
nical High school, air mail service,
stock yards, packing plants, W. O.
AV. building, AVOAAV hadio sta
tion, Nebraska Power company,
tourist camp in Elmwood park, Uni
versity of Omaha, Fort Omaha, but
ter market, Krug Park pool, Brigham
i'oung tree in Florence, Douglas
street bridge, Creighton university.
Linlnger Art gallery, F'ontenelle forest
reserve, spring in Elmwood park,
Joslyn home, national highways en
tering Omaha, University of Nebras
ka medical college, Harry Brader's
symphony orchestra, J. H. Beveridge,
superintendent of public schools:
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor: Sadie Pitt
man, former principal of Lothrop
school; Marion Reed, supervisor of art
in public schools, and "The En
chanted Year," public school pageant
presented by pupils of the four public
high schools last fall for the teach
ers’ convention.
Here Are essayists.
The names of these young essayists
are: Ruth Wintroub, Iva Luse, Mary
Boyer, Kathryn Gillespie, Mary Mr
Nichols, Rachel Block, Margaret Gil
bert, Dorothy .Hamilton, Wesley
Lange, Margaret Gathers, Richard
Funk, Anita Crabb, Margaret Cedar
holm, Charles Cannan. Robert Niel
sen, Ruth Shultz. Merwln Hargrove,
Leroy Linder, Dale Larson.
In conclusion, Anita Crabb wrote,
"Taking it all In all, Omaha Is not
so bad, after all." She paid a tribute
to the University of Omaha. The
boys and girls of this school love
their present principal, Margaret
O'Toole, and they have corners in
their hearts for Miss Pittman, the
former principal. Miss Crabb writes:
"A most brilliant and accomplished
woman who deserves due mention
Is Miss Pittman. She has done much |
to earn our everlasting gratitude I
in making Lothrop school what It Is |
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Ruth Wintroub’s Essay.
During the last 10 years Omaha ha* made such great progress that It Is
hard to tell what Ita seven wonders are, for in these last few years everything
that has happened In the way of progress* seems to be a wonder.
On© of the wonders is the Lininger Art gallery, at Eighteenth and Davenport
streets. None can miss it, for statues can be seen on the window ledges. It is a
private collection gather'd at great expense by George Lininger.
The smelting ami refining works on t he river front, lust north’ of the Douglas
street bridge, is the largest plant of its kind in the world.
Ak-Sar-Uen has become known all over this country, ns the great booster of
Omaha Its carnivals, its floral parades, and its mysterious "den shows." where
business men go every Monday night during the summer to spend a Jolly eve
ning. all indicate the spirit of merriment of our progressive Omaha.
A wonder that happened during 1923 was tho pageant given by the four
high schools. This great piece of work was written and directed by Marlon Heed,
our art teat her.
The new Technical High school is wonderful. This magnificent structure cost
$3,000,000. it is one of the best high schools in the west.
Another wonder of Omaha is the motorized and serial mail service. Delivery
of retail store packages by the United States mall trucks, as part ©f the store
delivery system, and up-to-the-minute air mall service, are features of Omaha's
postal system.
A wonder to our school was our dear principal, Sadie Pittman, who taught us
to do right toward our school and to everyone.
today. Truly I would call her one
of the wonders of Omaha.”
"Omaha was one of the first three
cities in the United States to be
lighted by electricity and It has a
wonderful powrer plant,” is an ex
tract from the essay of Ruth Schultz.
Beveridge Eulogized
Margaret Cathers selected Supt. J.
H. Beveridge as one of the seven
wonders of Omaha. Of him she wrote:
"He may be classed as one of the
wonders of Omaha. He has been of
fered superintendencies in other
cities, but Omaha has managed to
keep him.”
Leroy Linder takes cognizance of
the University of Nebraska Medical
college and of the national and state
highways entering Omaha. Katheryn
Gillespie maintains that the new
Technical High school is one of the
wonders of Omaha. Charles Cannan
stresses the Brigham Young tree in
Florence park, the Douglas street
bridgo and the Creighton University
college of medicine. He has been
reading of the pilgrimage of the
Mormons to Utah many years ago, of
how they camped at Florence, suf
fered privations and disease and left
many of their dead In a cemetery
west of the famous tree.
This tree, the cemetery and the old
grist mill at Florence will be marked
by tlia Major Isaac Sadler chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo
lution.
Dale Laron wrote that the won
der* of a city are its material bless
ing* which promote good repute and
OUR CHILDREN |'
-By ANGELO PATRI.
LITTLE.
It Isn't right to keep telling chil
dren how little they are. In the first
place they do not like It and In the
second place It Is not true.
Children are not little at all. They
are children, of course, aiul therefore
on a smaller scale than adults. But
that does not make them little. They
are really big when you measure
their work In proportion to their
strength and experience. Yet people
love to call them ''little.''
"Now close your little eyes and go
to sleep!" What makes a person so
silly as to call a child's eyes little?—
eyes that have, the whole day
through, taken In the vision of the
world as it passed by his door, letting
not a single bit of u pass unheeded
or unrecorded. What Is little about
them?
“Give me your little hand." says a
thoughtless grownup. Little indeed!
The hand that touched and exploited
everything that came within Its
reach and recorded the investigation
against that day when It should
most he needed. The hand that
clutched and held the child to his
search Illuminating and pointing the
way. A child’s hand little?
"Hold your little head still until I
get your hat on!" My My! His little
head! The head that holds a mind
so keen, so alert that the flicker of
a sunbeam across the floor la caught
and interpreted and filed away for the
morrow. The head that la filled with
dreams snd visions and memories!
The head that carries Intelligence as
a king might carry his crown, nobly
and with majesty. What is little
about a child's head?
Nothing! And the mischief of It is
that constantly telling a child how
little he Is tends to make hint accept
his littleness as a fact and to make
him net accordingly. His little hand
cannot do, and his little head can
not plan. Constant belittling has Its
effect and the little child does In the
little fashion. It Is not fair.
Terming them "little" In any sense
Is a form of cajolery that never mis
leads them. They quite understand
what you are up to and play accord
ingly. Say "little" and they'll b«J
little! Give them a toothy smile and
they'll return It 26 fold.
Children are dignified and In the
main, honest. They are not little
in the true sense of littleness.
"I’m Just as big for me," he said.
As you are big for you."
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make It a worthwhile city. This
writer mentioned radio, air mail serv
ice and Ak-Sar-Ben. Richard Funk
considers the new tourist camp one
of the wonders of Omaha. The butter
market appealed to Margaret Cedar
holm.
Iva Euse, who wrote one of the
best essays, mentioned these seven
wonders of Omaha: Technical High
school, smelting and refining plant,
Sadie Pittman, Krug park pool, Gut
zon Borglum, sheep market and aerial
mall service. Mary Boyer names the
following as the wonders of Omaha:
Marion Reed, supervisor of art in
schools, who wrote and directed "The
Enchanted Years” lafct fall, tourist
camp In Elmwood park, Fontenelle
forest reserve, Sadie Pittman, re
ferred to as "The Bird Wonder
Rady,” springs in Elmwood park
where thousands Journeyed last Aug
ust during the muddy water emer
gency, Krug park pool and Harry
Trader's symphony orchestra.
Rabbit’s Foot'or Lucky Star Do Not
Interest Palmtag; Life Is Charmed
Omaha Police Detective Has
Lost Count of Gun Battles
—Only Scratched Once.
Although he has lost count of the
number of his gun battles and shoot
ing scrapes. Detective Fred Palmtag
bears a charmed life.
Only one bullet ever touched him,
and that passed through the left
sleeve of his coat, inflicting a slight
scratch on his arm.
His latest exploit is coming un
scathed through the gun battle with
the Hrabiks, -father and son, near
Gibson, Neb., several days ago, in
which Detective Paul Haze was shot
in the face, although he was run
ning toward Haze at the time the
shot was fired.
Palmtag has only one rule: "Never
shoot until you're shot at."
This rule, he says, puts the police
officer at an unfair disadvantage, his
opponents having no scruples in this
respect, but he considers it the only
safe rule to follow.
It was in 1920 when the bullet
passed through the left sleeve of his
coat. In company with Detective Itil
lion, he was chasing a prowler at
1718 Pratt street. The man was cap
tured. Palmtag has forgotten the1
date, and cannot even remember the
man’s name.
Another Narrow Escape.
Again in 1921, Palmtag narrowly
escaped death when a box car robber
drew a revolver on him as he entered
the door of a house on Davenport
street between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets. Palmtag fired at the man the
bullet grazing his head, and dazing
him.
In 1919, PJamtag arrested a man
named Harry Steele in an automobile
at Twentieth and Cuming streets, al
though Steele pointed a revolver at
the detective’s head as he mounted
the running board. Palmtag covered
Steele while Sergeant Gardner took
the weapon away from him.
Another of Palmtag’s gun episodes
was with Arnold Solomon, a painter,
at Fourteenth and Howard streets.
He was unwounded.
In a raid on the home of Ben Bur
ton on Cass street in 1921, Burton
drew a gun on Palmtag, but was shot
by Detertive Danbaum before he had
a chance to pull the trigger.
Palmtag was with Detective Arthur
Cooper in the gun battle in which
Cooper was killed in 1918 at Nine
teenth street and St. Marys avenut.
in 1913, during his early days on
the department, while still a patrol
man, Palmlag arrested a bootlegger
after a running gun battle, and took
the man to jail.
In an exchange of shots with James
Rybln, sought in South Omaha sev
eral years ago on a charge of kid
naping his own child, Palmtag shot
Rybin’s revolver out of his hand, and
arrested him.
He also participated more than a
year ago in a gun battle with a gang
of box car thieves, in which one man
was fatally wounded.
Oddly enough, his most serious In
jury since he joined the police de
partment occurred when a typewriter
thief slammed a door in his face. The
glass panel of the door broke, and the
fragments inflicted severe gashes on
Palmtag's head. He continued the pur
suit, however, and captured his man.
Vance of Hastings Files.
B.r .Wiorlatril PrfM.
Lincoln, N'eb., Jan. 26.—R. D. Vance,
Hastings, member of the lower house
of the legislature for two terms,
filed with the secretary of state to
day as republican candidate for the
senate from the Twenty sixth district.
Lila Lee Very Angry;
She May Quit Films
Ix>» Angeles, Jan. 2S.—Lila Lee,
motion picture actress, whose father,
Charles Appel, Is sought by Chicago
authorities - on an embezzlement
charge, tonight threatened to leave
fiimdoni flat on its back and quit the
camera cold unless "the cloud of sus
picion involving me in financial
transactions in Chicago Is immedi
ately removed by those responsible."
Referring to published reports that
notes signed by her had been uncov
ered in connection with Illegal liquor
transactions credited to her father,
the screen actress declared that
■ further publication of such unjust
and false statements’’ would be fol>
lowed by her retirement to private
life.
New High School Opens
at Hpldregc, Nebraska
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Me*.
Holdrege, Neb.. Jan. 28.—School
here will open Monday In the new
$250,000 high achool. This building
has been under construction for more
than a year and Is said to be one of
the finest In the state for a town of
this size.
The building is two stories, with all
offices and recitation rooms on the
outer side of the building, while tie
gymnasium and auditorium occupy
the center. The auditorium will so .'
700 persons and is equipped with a
large stage.
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