i Today >, North, East, South, West, Which Is Best? Miami, or Seattle? San Diego, or Maine? Br ARTHUR BRISBANE, v -» San Simeon Ranch, Cal., Dee. 12. —What i$ the best part of this mar velous western country? Everybody from the northern boundary down to the Mexican frontier believes that the best place is where he lives. The man from the east is bewildered. Like a fly in a pastry shop. Seattle says: “Come here, and you will never leave. Our future will be wonderful, but the present is all that any human being could ask for, sunshine, health, happi ness. Come here where snow, raw winds and coal bills are only night mare memory.” From Petaluma, toward the north, local patriotism wires: “Come and see the egg basket of the world. And near here, the only place where men harness and use live steam coming up from the earth.” The "egg basket” refers to the fact Petaluma is the greatest chick en and egg producing center on earth. , The inhabitants of the Imperial valley, where the soil is literally worth more than all the gold mines of California put together, tell you that they possess the earthly para dise. • Rasselas, even in his happy valley, might have envied them. Imperial valley or heaven, is their motto. Little places, and great cities, like Los Angeles and San Fran cisco, all have good reasons, and you can’t gainsay them. The little place says, we shall be as big as Los Angeles some day. Come now, and let your pocketbook grow up with the town. Los Angeles says the little place will grow of course. But “while they gain 50,000 population we shall have completed our second million, and be started toward five mil lions.” San Francisco, where the old memories, big banks, importing and exporting houses, with thousands of seasoned California business men, live, disdains all competition. “Look at our Golden Gate, the harbor dug by the Divine engineer. Study our railroads. Go where you please, every place is good. But this, the central spot on the Cali fornia coast, will always be what it always has been, California's great city.” ♦ Oakland asks, “Is that so, what about Oakland?” That city across the bay from San Francisco is what you might call a California Brooklyn. Brook lyn already has more inhabitants than Manhattan, the original New York. Oakland is determined to have more population, more busi ness, more manufacture, more money, more everything than the old established San Francisco. While you are wondering, tele grams come by the dozens, from Florida, where this column is print ed in several newspapers. From Jacksonville, Tampa, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and Miami come messages of rebuke and in formation. “We are only a few hours from New York, New England, and the people with real money to spend. Why don’t you write about Flor ida?” “Haven't you heard that Henry Ford loads his ships at River Rouge near Detroit and unloads them here in the port of Jacksonville? This will be a greater port than Los An geles or New York.” Miami telegraphs: “We receive daily automobile loads of land buy ers from Atlantic City and New York. Our enterprising realtors provide free transportation. ■ Chi cago, Monta Carlo and Manchester, England, combined. We have the good points of all, none of the bad points.” West Palm Beach wires: “If you know anybody worth from five mil lion dollars up. ask him, and you will find that he comes to Palm Beach. While they make all the great fortunes of America happy on the Palm Beach sands, just across the bridge from here, we in Palm Beach are building a city that will be second to none. And we are going to join the rest of Florida in building a montfment 500 feet high to S. Davies Warfield, now building his new railroad across Florida from west to east, opening up billions of dollars worth of undeveloped territory and com ing here.” The fine thing about it all is that all Americans, whatever they are, are building up the place where they are and believe in it. From San Diego, diagonally northeast, to Portland, Me., from Miami, diagonally northwest to Seattle, you will pass cities, villages, farms, men and women all con vinced that they have found the best spot on earth. The reporter, for the weekly newspaper at Gallup, N. M„ 4,000 or 5,000 feet above the two oceans, implores you "Get off and spend a week here and you will never leave.” This fine country is worth pre serving. It offers a magnificent flying field for the airplanes need ed to.make it safe from attack. The people of these states should take care of them. (Cojiyrlrht, 1*24.) SUBPOENAS ARE SERVED FOR TRIAL Special IM-pateli to Tile Omaha Bee. Beatrice, Xeb., Dec. 14.—Deputy sheriffs were In the DeWitt vicinity today serving subpoenas on wit nesses who have been summoned to appear in district court next Wed nesday in the case of the state against Edward Schuermann charged with the murder of George Reinmll ler at DeWitt last October. Eighteen witnesses have been called for the state and about the same number for the defense. It will take at least a week for the selection of the jury and trial of the case. Dodge County to Have New Farm Bureau Head Special Ill-patch to The Omaha Bee. Fremont, Xeb., Dec. 14.—Dodge county will have a new farm agent to succeed R. M. Houser, who re signed recently to take over the county agent's office in Saunders county. Mrs. Fred f'usick. deputy in the farm bureau office, will have charge, until the successor of Houser takes office. There are many applications on tile for the position. These are {o tie aciAi upon at a meeting of the executive board of the county farm bureau to he held on December 20. r i First Unwelcome Stranger Uses Bridge l>Upat4 h to Th* Omaha Hff. Newcastle, Neb., Dec. 14.—A large wildcat, an animal which old timers say Is not seen In northeast Nebraska frequently, was shot and killed by Herbert Mille, who, with several other men, captured the creature after • hard chase near the Art Schrain farm, three miles southwest of Newcastle. As there Is a number of bobcats in the Dakotas north of here, it is believed that tile animal crossed the new Meridian highway bridge across* the Missouri river at Yankton, S. J> , and wandered into this locality after food. FOR MOTHER S A FINE NEW ,;g GAS RANGE g for XMAS 6\ CONVENIENT TERMS jj£ Gas Department METROPOLITAN UTILITIES . DISTRICT rffl 1509 Howard St. AT B7d7 jfa The Union Pacific is America’s first * transcontinental railroad, and stands first in the choice of travelers to the Pacific coast. It operates fast,conven ient trains carrying every kind and class of high-grade equipment. Its service to Central and Southern Cali fornia is all-inclusive and provides everyone with just the service de sired The Union Pacific’s standard bearer is the all-Pullman San Francisco Overland Limited Fourothar Union Pacific train* to California, (ncludins tha Loa Angalaa Limited, a twin of tha Ovarland. Two to Danvar with connactiona for Cali fornia. Pf —J —. «<’« r , omptflr tnfnrm i horn 4* nc.*, kvaklHi .4 Ur. L. Balndorff, flan. Ant Vann. l>e»t. Union ra'-lflc Bv»t»m 1922 Farnam Ht Phone .lacW-on 5(22 Atlantic 92H or Union Mellon JOtt> and Marcey 3te 0 A hat title** and effect I vu naigl* I* to dlaaolve two Hayer Tablet* of Ae plrln In fnttr tableapoonfiil* of water and gargle throat thoroughly. It* peat In two hoftr* If neieaaary. He *1110 you uae only the ttenulne Bayer Tablet* of Aaplrln, marked ivlth the Bayer t rue*, which ran be had In tin tioxea of twelve tablet* for few rent*. week had passed we lost none of our confidence, but after 10 days, and then 11 day*, we began to grow more and more uneasy'. We have missed them more than we can say and It's mighty tough that they are not here to push on with us. "Although -we have flown over a lot of wild country, away out here at Attu we are only a little more than a sixth of the way around the globe. So who can foretell what adventures may he awaiting the reet of us front here on? At any' rate whatever those adventures may' be, we are looking forward to them and anxious to get on. "Not only Is Attu the uttermost point of America, an island way out here on the edge of nothing, but its inhabitants arc of tiie lowest breed of human life belonging to North Amer ica. The population of Attu is exact ly 59, all Aleuts. The day we arrived there was no one here in Cljlcagoff excepting 24 women and girls and one old patriarch. I-elgh being the sheik of the party, we have renamed the town ‘Wade’s Paradise,’ in his honor. Native* live In Caves. “The harbor is well sheltered with mountain* all around It, extinct vol canoes of course. The village con sists of three wooden shacks and a number of barrabos, native huts which the Aleuts' burrow in under the surface of the ground. The roofs are made of dirt and sod a.nd sort of half domed shape. Each barrabo has one lone window and from six to eight persons live down there In a space about eight by 10 feet. Here they cook, eat and sleep, and each of these Aleut caves, designed to pro tect the Inhabitants from the while \va\vs. is absolutely airtight, we alt thought wo would like to visit one. Res. being a bold spirit, opened the door and the rest of us started to walk in, but the air was stifling. tVe simply couldn’t breathe, so we heat a hasty retreat and did the rest of our examining of harraboa by long dis tance. Leigh Is the only one of us who has been invited to dine with them. But not caring for fish be has declined. "These curious native huts at Chi cagoff look more like storm cellars than like places where people live. The cramped quarters down there under the ground are divided into two tiny little rooms. The first one is filled with clothes, harpoons, jerked meat, dried fish, and all sorts of odds and ends. The partition be tween this and the ‘living room' Is usually a curtain made of skins. There the old Aleut women with their wrinkled, weather beaten faces squat weaving baskets or making gar ments out of hides. “Behind the rest, on heaped up eklns. The oldeet hag crouched on her shine Her teeth were worn down to her gums And rawhide thonga had acarred her thumbs. She apllt a elnew atrip Is tea (Berk alnew from tha rarlhou>| Between her eunken oor-Ing ]lpa The stringy atrip of elnew ellps. She mumblea It 'twist tongue an* Jawa Ae through her mouth eech atrip she draws; She ruha it with her greasy rllvl T‘nt.11 each anft and molatened aleak Becomes a long and pliant thread. Rubbed round upon her cheek.” “Hold Ip" on Baskets. “These Attu baskets are world fa mous and so few of them are made that they are both rare and expensive. The traders usually get them for from 13 to *4 each. But as a result of their having heard some week ago through Captain Blssell that the coast guard cutter Hnida wag coming In they boosted th# price up to front 110 to 31,’). Ko when we arrived and discovered th# situation In the local market we decided to wait for the Haida, and then we all got together and held out until today they finally dropped back to their normal price. “There are only three wooden build Ings on this barren island; one Is the little Russlsn church which the Aleuts attend, and the other two be long to Mr. Schroeder, who controls the trading rights to Attu. He also lias a number of fox farms on the smsller Islands scattered between here and Atka. floss and Schroeder. the two who control the Islands of Atka and Attu, respectively, slthongh both charming hosts, are as unlike as any two men could he. floaa, a typi cal! down east Yankee, Is the cham pion yarn spinner of the Aleutian*, while Schroeder, a tall, blonde giant. Is the 'strong, ellent' man of the north like you see In the movie*. Radio (>reat Help. “After the Eider left Attu to take up a position midway between here and the nearest Islands off the roast of Asia, from where It can send us weather reports, wo moved ashore to Hchroeder'a house end were delighted to find an excellent library. Our rev enue cutter friends from the Haida have Just come in and set up a port able radio outfit. The pole* are on a hill nearby and the wire* have been run right down here to the trading post. Although with this outfit we can only send messages for s couple of hundred miles, we can receive from a much longer distance. “If th# truth were known, the radio has flayed a really vital part In our success so far. In the first place. If nnythlng happens. Just Is In the case of Major Martin and Sergeant Harvey, radio Is the one and only way of send ing for help and getting It In lime. Secondly, In hopping for hundred* of mile* through the aide* over unin habited region* It la of the ulnioat Im portance to find out what the weather condition* are at various points along the route Just before starting. Then, of course, there is the third advantage of our being able to send dally messages all the way back to America reporting on our progress. "Our good pal. Ensign Lea Baker, radio officer on the llalda, has opened up on Ills two-kllowatt arc and sent message* from behind the mountain* of a land locked harbor for n dim a mo of 1,1100 mile* to a radio station on Vancouver Island, British I'olumhla By th# use of radio we have been able to work In cloa# co-operation with three or four vessel* stationed at dlf ferent points, all at the aania time. “Of couras, during th# lime that BERNICE COAL Arkansas Anthracite We Have a Fresh Supply UPDIKE lcoTlecro* 1 WA Inut 0300 1 mtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmm Major Martin and Sergeant Harvey were lost the number of messages flashed back and forth across the north Pacific, the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Alaskan peninsula, must have been beyond ell calculation. The importance of radio In connection with this world flight cannot be overestimated, and when an around the-world aerial transporta tlon system Is established one of these days radio will he one of the most Important factors In making It a suc cess. "Since the Elder left another great storm has swept down upon us, a storm of such tremendous velocity that It has blown the llalda way out to sea. We were in touch with It by radio alt the time, and F-ee Baker radioed us that the wind was blowing at the rate of fully 60 miles an hour. The Haida has had a had lime of it during this gale, so we can imagine what the little Eider lias been going through away out midway between here and the Kuriles.” Weather Man Life Saver. "Here In this region, where the weather Is nearly always undescrib ably bad,’’ says Lieutenant Smith. "I hardly know what we would have done without our weather wizard, MaJ. William K. Blair of the signal corps, who has be’en living lip here on the ’Eider’ simply in order that we might proceed from point to point with the minimum of danger and de lay. Major Blair certainly deserves his reputation as one of the foremost meteosologlsts In the world. So ac curate have been his forecasts that, except for waiting and hoping that Major Martin would catch up with us. we would have been able to have taken advantage of every possible flying day. The major bn* usually k^pt ahead of us several hundred miles and he has made his observa tions largely with the use of his theodolite and with toy balloons made of pure rubber and filled with hydrogen so they W’ill ascend at the rate of 200 yards a minute. "What the major does is to send up a balloon, take observations each minute for about 3 5 minutes with the aid of tho theodolite, and then by simple trlgonometery figure out the direction and velocity of the winds In the upper air. "The major also uses thermome ters and barometers and estimates the winds and atmospheric conditions by measuring the flight of clouds. He has been working under the most difficult conditions, but the forecasts that he has sent to us by radio re garding fogs and storms have been so accurate as to seem almost un canny." I.esile Arnold's diary tells how it continued to snow and storm up un til May 3 4, when It cleared lofig enough In the afternoon to give the world fliers an opportunity of going fishing. Th»y found great schools of mackerel and black cod In the har bor. "Why. we didn’t even have to bait our books,” he writes. "All we had to do was simply drop a line over hoard with a hook on the end of It and Jerk it up quickly. Invariably we would find that we had hooked a fish through the eye, the tall, or a fin. "A press correspondent on board the Halda has just radioed his office In Seattle the thrilling news that to night the world fliers are going to t-e given a treat on hoard the Tlaida in the form of a bath. He said he didn’t dare mention how long it had been since we had had the ]aJt one. But we are celebrating tonight be cause the weather looks clear, and tomorrow’ there should lie a good chance of our at last hopping off for Siberia.” Read the next installment of the thrilling roiirul the-world flight in j Th^ Omaha Itee tomorrow. ROOFLESS PLATE HIGHLY PRAISED Dr O. W. Todd’* roofle** plate ha* received much praise from hi* satis fied customer* A recent letter from Mr*. A. II. Wiley Mates the follow - | in*: “After vIiiltinDr. Todd’* office. 414 Darker block, and obtaining n roofle** plate, I noticed several im provement* in my health and personal appearant'e, namely: Detter spee< h. natural sense of tH*f* anti a natural and comfortable feelln* In my mouth. 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