Today Ford in Florida. S Billion Cigarets. Japan s Protest. The Postoffice Pay. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ Henry Ford has bought a great tract of land in Florida, including a county-eeat, and a good many buildings. He gets wood for his cars from forests in the north. He will now, it is said, establish rub ber plantations in Florida to supply material for his tires. “From producer to consumer’’ is his motto. Watch Florida. That one state, among 48 in this union will, before many years, have passed the nation in itself. One task in the United States is not neglected, and that's the job of burning up cigarets. In April the factories turned out more than 5,000,000,000 cigarets, and the out put is constantly increasing. In ■four months this year the country smoked 2,000,000,000 more cigar ets than in the same period last year. If young gentlemen devoted to other tasks the concentration and careful attention and choosing that they devote to cigarets, what a world this would be for accomplish ment. Late dispatches yesterday said that there is “the gravest concern in Washington” because the little Japanese prince regent has author ized his minister to protest violently against the United States ex clusion of Asiatics. • Violent protest is based on the belief of the Japanese that there are knock-kneed gentlemen in Washington. The action of public officials will let the Japanese know whether they are right or wrong about those knock-knees. But it’s fair to let Japan know that politicians in office do not al ways represent the United States If the Japanese think their protest will persuade this country that it hasn’t a right to keep out Asiatics, as Australia and Canada ko*p them out, the Japanese are mistaken. It is suggested that, President Coolidge will veto the bill to raise the pay of postoffice employes on the ground that “the nation cannot afford it.” The president would hardly say that. The nation can afford it, and it can’t afford to treat faithful public servants meanly. The nation supplies the president with a fine private yacht to go sail ing, one that burns many gallons of oil and employs many men. If the nation can afford that for the president, who gets $76,000 a year besides, it can afford to gay living wages to the letter carrier, who pays for his shoes three times what he used to pay. Secretary Wilbur Of the navy says that congress “must never have the power to override supreme court decisions.” Why not? Supreme court de cisions are no better than the men that render them. And judges are no better than the men appointing them, presumably. Congress represents the people, and if the people cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs, includ ing their own supreme court judges, they ought to go back to the kinder garten under King George of Eng land and not pretend to rule them selves. Paderewski, back in Paris, says music is spreading rapidly in the United States. It is, thanks to talk ing machines that have sent the best music recorded with greatest perfection, into every household. Talking machines have done for music what libraries have done for literature. It would be a great calamity if radio should really in terfere with the distribution of the singing and talking machine. Apparently La Follette intends to run independently for the presiden cy. He now says he will do so “un less both old parties are purged.” It isn’t likely that either party will consent to such purging as Dr. La Follette would prescribe. La Follette cannot be elecled and knows it. But he can spoil all the plans and calculations of politicians, if that seems to him worth while. Some that know him well do not be lieve he will run the risk of being responsible, toward the end of his career, of making a democratic president. That was Roosevelt’s farewell accomplishment. (Copyright, 1924.) * BEAL TO COLLECT FINES AND COSTS Executions invonvlng $10,000 were issued .Thursday by County Attorney Henry Beal for the collection of fines and court costs in the cases of 14 convicted bootleggers. According to Beal, the ’leggers serve their jail sentences then obtain their release to collect the fine and disappear. Among the offenders against which the executions have been Issued Is Sam De George, brother of Alflo De George, recently acquitted of the mur der of Frank Gibliterra, $500 and costs. Fawtio City.—About 20 took exami nations here on various subjects with a view of obtaining teachers' rertlfl cates or improving their grade. Tax Payment in Bad Checks Irks County Official Deputy Treasurer Threatens Proseeufion Unless Worth less Paper Is Redeemed at Onee. A large number of Omaha taxpay ers are subject to arrest If they con tinue to pay tlieir taxes with checks for which they have not sufficient funds in the bank, according to Fred Armburst. deputy county treasurer, who is holding several checks marked "not sufficient funds” and one show ing "no account.” If this abuse continues Armburst threatens to require all taxes to be paid with cash as the law provides. Whether It Is carelessness or In tent Is not known, says Armburst. These bad checks, says Armburst, are given In "payment for auto 11 t-" McShane Estate Sued for Back Income Tax Suit to recover J23.6I3.32, alleg ed to be back Income taxes, was filed in federal rourt against Wil liam n. Hosford and Kathryn Mc Shane, executor and trustee, re spectively, of the estate of the late John A. McShane, by United States District Attorney J. C. Kinsler. Kinsler in his petition chargee that the defendants filed “an in rorreot, a misleading and false tax return for 1918 when the Ureigh ton-McRIiane Oil company was dis solved." Kinsler further charges that no tax was paid when the dissolution look pMre and that the tax amount asked for in the petition was disclosed only after a review and audit of the company's books, x-—/ censes, city, county and even per sonal taxes. Last year there were about 300 of these bad checks and they were re deemed only after repeated threats that complaints would be filed. "We get our money back from the Metropolitan Utilities district on gas and water checks," said Armburst, "but how they get it I don't know. "We are going to stop this practice if we have to put every offender In jail.'* On several checks for auto li censes Armburst stated that he threatened to take license plates off cars If payrAent was not made. He declared he had the support of County Attorney Beal and Check In vestigator Paul Steinwender. The county attorney's office hag already mailed Mters-to taxpayers warning them that action would be taken If the checks were not made good at once. Odell.—Mrs. John Hohman, S3, pio neer of Odell, died after a prolonged Illness. She was the mother of Matt Hohman. proprietor of the greenhouse at Odell. Program for May 30. (Courteay of Radto Digest) (By Associated Pres*) WSB, Atlanta Journal (429): 8-9, Shrine band; 10:46, orcheatra. WOR, Buffalo (819): 4:10-5:30. music. 5:30, news; 7-9. Decoration day. 9:30, dance. WGN, Chicago Tribune (370): 7-10, musical. WMAQ, Chicago News (447.8): 7, O A R.; 8:16, Memorial day program. KYW. Chicago (636): 6:30, concert; 7:20, talks, 9-1:30, revue. WLS. Chicago (345): 6-7, musical; 7-8, farm lectuVes, 8-10 Herald Examiner pro gram. WJAX, Cleveland (390): 8, concert. WFAA. Dallas News (476). 12:30-1 V dress; 8:30-9:30. concert. WOC. Davenport (484): 6:30 bedtime; 7, taljt; 8, program. WBAP, Fort Worth Star Telegram (476): 7:30-8:30, concert; 9:30-10.45, con cert. WOS, Jefferson City (410.9): 8, Dec oration day. Boy Scouts. WDAF, Kansas City Star (111): 6-7. Duo-Art. address, story, music; 8, musi cal; 11 45, Night hawks. . WHAS. Louisville Journal (1001X8-9, Klwanls club concert, dramatic reader. KFI, Los Angeles (469): 8:15, vocal; 10-1 a. m., concert. Instrumental, orchea tra. WGI. Medford (360): 5. talk; 6. Dec oration day. WMC. Memphis Commercial Appeal (500): 8:30. Walter Moore; 11, Steamer Idlewild orchestra WLAO. Mlnncapolts-St. Paul '(417) 7:30, lectures; 9:15, business message; 9:30, bugle and drum corps. WOR. Newark (405): 4:15, children; 4:30. stories. 6, Decoration day program WEAF. New York City (192): 4-9. music, talks, orehestrs. WJZ. New York ( 455): 5. bedtime; 5:10. talk; 5 30. French; 6:15. talks, piano, trumpets. WJY. New York (405): 5:30-5. enter tainment. WAAW, Omaha (360): 8:05, bridge WO AW, Omaha (526 ): 6, speakers; 6:30, dinner; 9-11, musical. • WCAE, Pittsburgh (492): 4:30. concert; 6:30 Uncle Kaybee; 6:30, comedy. KDK A, Pittsburgh (326): 4.30. chil dren: 6, Serenade™. WOO. Philadelphia (509): 6:80. orchea tra; 6:30-8. concert; recital, dance. KG W, Portland (492): 10, Memorial day: 12 30. Hoot Owls WKAQ, Ran Juan (390): 6-8. studio. WGY. Schenectady (380): 6:60, talk: 7. songs; 7:15. melodrama. WBZ, Springfield (337): 4. music; 6:30, bedtime; 8. orchestra; 9. music, songs. WO AW Program __ S 6:30 p m. speakers half hour. 6:30 p m. dinner program by Ken Baker's Omahans 9.00 P m.. program by Central High School orchestra. Walter Woerner. di rector. "Star Spangled Banner " Overture. "Lurtplel" .Keler-Rela Walts Symposia .Beudix Baritone Solo—Selected. Roy Larsen "Hearts Longing" .Zamecnlk "Clown Dance" .Zam^nik String Trio. • Serenade".. .Victor Herbert "Remembrance" .Happen "Flirtation" . Cross Vocal Solo—Selected. "Arabian Romance" . • MUdenberg "Mexican Habanera" .... Roberts Clarinet trio. "Merriment Polka" . Barnard "Japanese Sunset" "Desert Caravan" .. . Zamecnlk Violin solo. Helen Williams String trio. "My Heart at Thv Sweet Voice" . . Saint Salens March. Sousa—Selected. "America." Yejjgs Crack and Rifle Two Safes in Heart of City Lincoln Inn and Burbon & Co. Robbed of $500; Empty Money Rags Found in All ey. Yeggmen Wednesday night cracked two Safes In neighboring buildings at Sixteenth and Farnam streets, oh tajning about $500 and leaving no clue behind for police. More than $100 was taken from the safe in the office of the Lincoln Inn in the United States National Bank building. Bet,wen $300 and $400 was obtained from the safe of Burbon & Co., women's ready to wear apparel house, over the McCrory Five and Ten cent store. • Padlock Broken. Christy Jelenek, first employ of the Lincoln Inn to reach the restaurant this morning, found that the padlock on the steel gate guarding the stair way leading to the basement had been broken and then put back in place. A case knife had been used to open the office door, and the safe had been "punched.'’ The receptacle contained Wednes day's receipts, according to Dr. John Mack and W. O. Harrison, proprie tors. Entrance Unsolved. The way in which the yeggsentered the offices of Burbon & Co t(fa mys tery to police. Evidently the robbers had scaled the steel gate downstairs and used a pass key on the doors on the second floor. Leslie Burkenroad and Joseph Bonoff are proprietors of Burbon & Co. Two empty money bags taken from the Burbon & Company safe were found in the alley below Sixteenth street by Jim Mason, Janitor for Browning, King & Co. No Arrest. Both safe Jobs are the clean cut work of professional cracksmen, ac cording to detective. This Crime follows closely on the heels of the daylight downtown hold up of Wednesday when two girls and two men were bound and robbed In the office of the Jewish Welfare fed eration in the Lyric building at Nine teenth and Farnam streets. Steinaurr. — Miss Lily Shutz and Herman Ulrich were married at the Evangelical church here by Rev. H. Krueger. They will make their home on a farm in the Steinauer vicinity. Adele Garrison ‘*My Husband's Love" V, ---' The Amazing Question That Katie Asked Madge. Mother Graham Is a strategist. She had been woefully confused and em barrassed when Junior unconscious ly betrayed the little plan she had made to have him greet his father first, instead of me. Rut at Dicky s smiling quip to me, "You win that bet on a foul,” she at once took a flanking position and questioned im periously: "What bet? What do you mean?" Dicky pretended not to hear her —whether from chivalry toward me or reluctance to engage In any con troversy with his mother, of whom he stands in much awe, I could not determine, but I could not feign tem porary deafness for she was looking directly at me, and w-hen I hesitated for an answer she spoke again: "Do you intend to answer me, Margaret, nr have I become of so little consequence in this house that you can ignore me?" "Pardon me, mother,” I replied, with placating mendacity. "I was Just trying to remember what Dicky said, lie’s always jqking, you know.” She cast a withering glance at me. "You don’t Imagine you can throw any dust in my eyes, do you, Mar garet?" she asked. ”1 insist that you tell me at once.” I did not glance toward Dicky, but I think he received my mental S. O. S. for he turned to his mother in stantly. "What Is It you want to know, mother?” he asked, with suspicious meekness. ”1 didn't hear you ask me anything.” Mother Graham Decides "I wish to know at once what you meant by Margaret's winning a bet." There were icicles, well formed ones. In his mother’s voice now. "Oh. that!:’ Her eon patently sparred for time, then decided that the truth was the only way out "Why. I bet Madge that Junior would run to me first.” "I 'see." She turned to me and scanned me from head tp foot, while 1 waited fop the explosion. Put w hen It came, It was far less violent than I feared. Evidently the remembrance of Junior s unconscious exposure of her own petty, little scheme tempered her speech. 'T do not know much of your sporting terms, Richard." she threw over her shoulder, with her eyes still fixed upon me, "but I should imagine that the remark I heard you address to Margaret, fitted the case exactly. She held me a second longer with her angry eye*, consigning me to outer darknes, then turned to Marion as it neither Dicky nor I longer ex lsted. "Marlon, dear," she said, with the softened voice she almost always uses in addressing Lillian's winsome young daughter, "will you please tell Katie to come here to me Immed iately?” "Eef Some Friend—" I choked back a little laugh st this characteristic piece of feminine retaliation. She meant to give Katie Instructions concerning the house hold routine in a manner wholly Ig noring me. The temptation 'to thwart her little scheme was irresist ible and I addressed my mother in law deferentially; "If you don't mind, Mother, dear. I shall go up to my room now. I am anxious to get off the outer layers of dust at least. The roads certainly need rain.” There was nothing, of course, that she could say to this, but I felt her angry eyes on my retreating back, and knew that I had another bljck mark against my name on my moth er-ln-law’a memory tablets. In the shelter of my own room, I locked the door and flung myself upon the bed, too weary and dis pirited for the moment to care what happened to me or to anybody else. But after a few minutes' relaxa tion, I arose, knowing that I must not give the Impression that I was sulking in my room, although the phrase came nearer describing my action and feeling than anything else. I bathed and changed to a house-dress and was just about to go downstairs when a timid knock sounded on my door and, opening It quickly, I saw Katie standing In front of It casting quick, furtive ' * < glances from aids to lids ss If she feared observation. "Oh, MSssch Graham"' she whls pered, edging past me Into the room “May I splk to you, plees, qveeck? ' I closed the door softly and patted her shoulder reassuringly. “Of course, Katie,’' I said. “What Is It?" She looked at me for a mlnu*. with parted lips, and I knew she wsi trying to frame her question In ade quate words. “Missis Graham," she eald at ls«r "eef some friend of your vant yon to hide somethings for dem, some things you tlnk dere vould be troub les about, vat vould you say?” THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENTS Dunbar. Neb., May 23.—The oldts* son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Q&wtrt narrow]y escaped being killed when a team ran away while he was discing corn. Mrs. Paul Naeve lost control of her auto near here while enroute to Nebraska City from Cook, running Into an embankment, her daughter receiving injuries that required Bur gical attention. The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ross had hia left knee badly lacerated by a cultivator when the horses became frightened® Swims River to Escape. Beatrice, Neb., May £3.—A stranger here In a crap game with loaded dice Is said to have cleaned up a “nice sum." Two young men who lost complained to Deputy Sheriff Ashen felter, and an effort waa made to arreat the fellow, who escaped bj swimming the Blue river after the officer chased him nearly half an hour through the railroad yards. Tree SURGERY can not be executed by everyone. It fa dangerous to attempt this un less you are an expert. We attend to trees when and where they need ft in order to improve their ap pearance and prolong their life. In \e«tigate this service. 20th ami Dodge. C. E. Baldwin, Mgr. AT. 9174 or HA. 3299 North Side—frable Flower Shop 2ftIP* N. 21th *. I! - ** Rome and Omaha • ! In the days of pompous Rome when buildings there were lined with gold; when rich Romans were bedecked with costly jewels, and a heavy blanket of wealth covered the community — the r richest of the rich did not have the con veniences enjoyed by Omahans today. No matter how rich the Roman was even though his home was lined with gold and studded with diamonds—he couldn’t, with the prtss of a button or the turn of a switch, bring forth the many conveniences of electricity. Omaha has no buildings lined with gold. It has more than that ! It has fine schools and churches. It haB good streets, beautiful parks and boule vards, thriving industries and happy folk. Omaha has, also, practically the lowest electric light rate in America, which makes it possible for electricity to be the servant of all. " “Omaha Is a Great Place in -Which to Live!’! « * Nebidskd fH Power S. i STYLE WITHOUT 1519 I 52 I EXTRAVAGANCE <»' DOUGLAS ST END-OF-MONTH SALES-SATURDAY 600 Beautiful Mid-Summer FROCKS In a Wonderful Sale—Saturday Frocks of airy lightness—admirably suited to summer needs — an im mense and greatly varied selection. Frocks you’ll find difficult to duplicate at twice this price. Frocks adapted to every sum mer need and for every woman whatever her taste or desire. The smartest summer modes are represented in this unusual seelction, offering undeniable quality and color charm. 600 to choose from Saturday. Printed Crepe de Chine Flat Crepe Georgette Headed Crepes and Georgette Laces and Lace Combinations Sport I rocks of Tub Silks Sizes 14 to 46. Ferry New and Favored Color. The most successful purchase we have consummated this sea son is responsible for this ex traordinary sale. You’ll wonder how it is possible to sell such beautiful Frocks for only $15. Frocks—Sixth Floor I I Month-End Sale of Pumps and Oxfords $/J_65 Worth doublp and more What a buying op portunity this brings to you—the wanted 1. styles —- and at a OandalS price you cannot re- Cutout Oxfords These are, broken sizes, Strap