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TodaH About 1,000 Candidates. Shrouds Out of Place. I\'ew Arm, for Baby. * Real Money in Russia. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ How many sturdy Americans willing to serve their country are now planning to be president, do you suppose? There was a general feeling that McAdoo had the demo cratic nomination unless A1 Smith could get it away from him. _ It seamed certain that Mr. Cooli'dge had the republican nomination by an overwhelming majority on the first ballot. But a little oil makes a great difference in the political situation, and now anybody has a right to hope. Many an ambitious American is s.pending his dollars now, handing them to “political experts” in return for presidential promises. There are probably at the least 1,000 “serious” candidates at this moment. Many new names are introduced into the interesting oil scandal and many new features. Everything was breaking loose in Washington yesterday, reputa tions tumbled down, new names dragged into the light for which they are not at all grateful. Never theless, the gentlemen that gamble in stocks did not take the advice of one of their leaders who told them to sell out, because our glor ious industries couldn’t survive if he senate presumed to investigate diem. Some wise Wall street men seem to think that a little investigating won’t do any harm. All people after all are interested in the gov ernment, and anything that stops wholesale looting and robbing of he government must, in the long tun, be good for all—even Wall •street speculators. At ancient banquets toward the end, it was customary to carry a skull around, to remind guests that all the munching teeth would soon be grinning like the teeth in the skull. What effect it had we don't know. Some probably got .ndiges ion, others said to themselves, “If | hat's the case, I may as well eat nd drink all I can now.” Moderns are more sensitive than i hose ancient banqueters. In New .rk, N. J., John H. Christman, j ndertaker, is ordered by the court lot to hang his shrouds to dry on he clothesline in his backyard. The leighbors said the shrouda gave hem the shivers. It eeems impossible to make ' hath really free from unpleasant less. Cremation, which settles very thing in a ■few'minutes, seems ensible. Hut it is hard for the magination to take the plunge and realize that quick disintegration is letter than slow decay. Besides, the earth may need, restored to its bosom, for fertility’s sake, the bodies that have been built out of ■arth's products. The French have invented a | metal arm. Fastened to the crib, it j holds a milk bottle at exactly the right angle for the baby to drink. That will interest many busy' Amer ican mothers. And Americans could make such an arm. The trou ble is that the mechanical arm couldn't put the nipple back into the baby’s mouth when the baby loses it, nor straighten out the nip ple and set it working again when it “goes flat" because the baby chews too hard. When the bolshevik government started in Russia, it said it was going to make money ridiculous. It succeeded, beyond its wildest hopes. Since then bolshevism has dis covered that making money ridicul ous is not such a good plan after all, since ridiculous money won’t buy anything from outside coun tries. Now dispatches say,. “Russian* have real hard money clinking in their pockets again for the first time.” The government issues silver coins, and is making gold coins. Real money and our kind of civ ilization seems to go together. Kill the money and civilization suffers. A better civilization may be found some day, but the kind we have now calls for “hard cash.” The street cars of New York carry 2,565,000,000 passengers a •.ear. The income in nickels from that crowd amounts to more than $100,000,000 a year. That would scorn a business big enough to jus tify tha people going into it them selves—especially as they have to supply the cash to build subways (hat the “private owners” subse quently operate. Jack Dempsey, champion fighter, is in the hospital, recovering from a surgical operation. To millions of Americans that’s more interesting than the fact that the Belgian cabinet is out, that the new British ambassador has arrived, and that some kind of an arrange ment for German reparations has been completed—and mor# im portant than many other things. Judges have decided that laws forbidding immigration after the arrival of a certain “quota” do not: apply to the wife and children of a man living in America. A resident of the United States rqay bring in his wife and children, and the authorities can't keep them out. An effort made to overrule that decision, is not creditable to the United States, A eountrv that has wept its eyes out over “Uncle Tom’s Cabin," which shows a father sobl into slavery away from his children, is not consistent, refusing to permit father in America to bring his children and the chil dren’s mother to this country. The entire immigration law, keeping out the population that the country needs, the population that would increase prosperity, and con sume the country’s products, is an injury to the United States. (Cupjltsbl, JK4.J Dahlman Softens and Bossie Again May Be on Payroll J * Mayor Believes Runaway City Clerk Came to Omaha as Soon as Pos sible. Claude K. Bossie, runaway city clerk, who has returned to Omaha with a woman he announces is his third wife, probably will Vie restored to tho- good graces of Mayor ‘‘Jiiu'' Dahlman. The mayor's comments on Bossie Thursday morning indicated that his heart is softening toward the man in whom he placed so much trust for years. When Bossie first came to Omaha about IS years ago he became nlligned with the Dahlman forces. During the last city campaign he was manager for Dahlman and his associates and for that virtory Bossie was rewarded with the city clerkship. City .lob, I’erliaps. The mayor stated Thursday morn ing that he would not reinstate Bossie as city clerk, but made it clear that none need lie surprised to see Bossie working in one of the city depart ments. "He's got to live and I read this morning that lie needs a lob," was the terse way the mayfcr expressed the situation. Bossie s unceremonious leave-taking of the fSt'O per month position of city Clerk caused the mayor to feel bit ter for a while, but now he is inclined to forgive and forget, characteristic of Mayor Dahlman. "I believe Bossie came to Omalra as soon as he could. He lias been rathei busy since he returned to New York," the mayor added. "I knew he would be here to attend the audit of the city clerk's office. I want Bossie to turn the affairs of the office over in a regular manner, so that there can be no criticism. I believe the ac counts will check out correctly." Will Locale Here The mayor has not received any direct message from Bossie, hut ex pects a visit. The audit will be start ed as soon as Bossie indicates a readi ness to be present. According to his attorney, Bossii intends to locate in Omaha today and will continue to make this liis home. There is considerable discussion over the charge of wife abandonment pending against Bossie in district court, and a separate maintenance agreement signed by him and his second wife last September. Not Court Record. Attorney John L>. Wear stated that Maybeile McKean Bossie of this city and Eossie called at his office dur ing the middle of September. Bossie had been insisting on a divorce, ac cording to Mrs. Bossie, who said she would not agree to a divorce. The separate maintenance agreement, ac cording to Attorney Wear, was signed before a witness but was not made a matter of court record. “In my opinion this agreement which they signed had the same effect as if a suit had been started in court and a decree entered," Wear added. He stated that the agreement stipulat ed that Bossio should pay’ his wife 40 per cent of his eartilngs. Mrs Bossie said the payments were stopped at the close of last year. The county attorney's office takes the position that tl*> separate main tenance agreement is no estoppal against prosecution on a charge of wife abandonment. To Go Over Accounts. “It is good to be back in Omaha again.’ This was the greeting of Claude F. Bossie when he was brought here from Council Bluffs in charge of deputy sheriffs after his arrest on a charge of wife desertion. Then lie spoke of the more serious side of tlie problems facing hint. ‘‘I’ve got to find a Job. This mixup ha* taken nil the money I had. I'm dead broke.' It was not in anger, but with a sort of wistfulness and a faraway look in his eyes as lie said: “There has been a lot of fuss stirred up about this. Surely I have had to pay the price. muV'h more than seems right. I won der if I've really deserved it all. Vou know I haven't murdered anyone, nor stolen anything." Mrs. Claude Bossie to Prosecute to Limit (Continued From Fife One.) interfere with his idea of happiness. "It waa only by sheer accident that I was tipped off to hla scheme of claiming the Wamaley woman as his wife and sneaking off to Italy. Had he got away with that little scheme, I might never have had a chance. Hut somebody In Kansas f'lty made Claude Bossie Under Escort Comes “Home” From “Gay Paree” ( la ml*- F. hossie, leaving Grand hold, Council Bluffs, in custody of Deputy Sheriff II. L. Bridwcli, who brought tire former city clerk to Omaha on a warrant charging wife abandonment. Hossie endeavored to thwart the efforts of the photographers. _ a blunder nnd sent me a parrel post package that was intended for the Wamsley woman. I told a reporter of The Omaha Bee about that, and_ then The Omaha Bee certainly work ed fast. It discovered the fact that he claimed to be married to the Wamsley woman, and that they were heading for Italy. Then I got busy over the long-distance telephone and communicated with Mr. Kbersteln. Through ahint. the t'nlted States authorities acted, and Bossle was nabbed, together with his companion, while they were in . France. I cer tainly ain under obligations to The Omaha Bee for its quick work, and to Mr. Kbersteln and the other officials of the government. "Am I going to prosecute? To the limit, and on every available count!" The flashing eves boded little com fort for Claude Boesie if he should endeavor to get mercy from the little woman. "Wife desertion, adultery, bigamy, perjury, violation of the Mann act— all of them, one after the other. Just as long as I can keep going and can compel the authorities to prosecute,” Mrs. Bossle said. He showed me no mercy. He scorned me and aban doned me to take up with that wo man. As I have suffered, so he shall suffer. And the woman who wrecked my home, has she any right (o expect from me any more merry than sh<» showed! “He may have political pull that ---- Bring the trip back Ten minutes at our itore and the right camera out fit for your winter trip is yours. You’ll bring the trip back—in pictures. Oursalesmen are schooled in finding out precisely what your needs are; the completeness of our stock is a help, as well. Xtdat and Graftx ramrrai of e\'ery sty It and tqmpmtnt al^ujayt in stcck. Eastman Kodak Co. 4 j cja. 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' "It is true that we agreed to sep arate, an if that lie agreed to allot me 'to pej- cent of his salary. 'But that agreement was abrogated by his own acts, and by his failure to keep his promise of separate maintenance, lie kept up the farce to the last minute, and then sought to sneak out of the country and leave me helpless to fol low him uii and progjeute him. "I am asking only for fair play. 1 do not believe that the world will ifondone his actions, even if the world is so much given to excusing the man and venting its disapprobation upon the woman. Won’t Ash Divorce. "Would you ask for a divorce from llossle if you succeeded In having him convicted and punished? “I would not’’' The answer was Instantaneous and emphatic. "As long as I live, or as long as Claude Bossie lives, 1 will be ids legal wife. He cannot legally secure a divorce from me, and I shall never divorce him." “Is that decision based upon re ligious grounds?" 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She insists that she simply wants to be vindicated be fore the WQrld, and *ee proper pun ishment meted out to one who she jftayj ha* wronged her a* few women have ever horn wronged. The first charge against Boseie that will ho propped will be the charge of desertion. Then the government will act on the charge of violation of the Mann act, and then, If necessary, <<e even years later say* Mr*. Bossi^ if she must wait that hour, will cor m the charge of adultery and blfc'_ And sandwiched in between, some where. will be the charge of false representations to obtain a passport, and that is no small misdemeanor these day*. A Startling Month-End Clearaway h New Spring HATS Three Wonderful Groups $3.29 $4.29 $7.29 The smartest oi: the new modes. Each hat in this Leap Year Sale is worth at least double. Straws Silks Crepes Ribbon Hats Small, Medium and Large Shapes ' Smartly trimmed with rib- # bons, fruit, flowers and buckles. 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