500 Attorneys
w
to Attend State
Bar Meet Dec. 29
Senator James Reed to Ad
dress Annual Con
vention in
Omaha.
Five hundred attorneys fr6m all
parts of Nebraska will be in Omaha
December 29 and 30 to attend the
25th annual convention of the Ne
braska State Bar association. Head
quarter. of the association will be at
11.e Hotel Fontenelle.
The association will hear addresses
jrorn Federal Judge J. \V. Wood
iQUgh, Leslie M. Shaw, Washington,
tip tand United States Senator
{5 mes A. Heed of Missouri,
i The program follows;
! on Monday mqrning the lawyers
bill hear reports of the executive
committee, the treasurer and the leg
islation and inquiry committees, and
an address by Judge AVoodyaugb.
At Monday there will ba a luncheon
of the alumni of the University of
Nebraska college of law at the Hotel
Fontenelle. There will be a special
meeting of the American citizenship
committee. On Monday evening the
lawyers will be the guests of the
Omaha Bar association at a smoker
at the Elks club. The Nebraska As
sociation of District Judges will hold
its annual banquet at the Hotel
Fontenelle.
Tuesday morning, December 30,
Leslie M. Shaw, former governor of
Iowa and secretary of the treasury,
will address the members on "Consti
tutional Liberty.” Members of the
legal, educational and membership
commutes will read their reports.
On Tuesday afternoon Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri will ad
dress the lawyers on “Menaces to
the Constitution." The,election of
officers will be held Tuesday after
neon. ® ,
The annual banquet of the assoeia
Hon will be held at the Hotel, Fonte
leile Tuesday night.
Following are the officers of the
association:
President, Fred A. AVright, Omaha;
vi.» presidents, L. C. Westwood, Te
cumseh; R. H. Beatty, North Platfe;
F. S. Berry, AVayne; secretary, Anan
Raymond, Omaha; treasurer, A'irgil
,7. llaggart, Omaha; executive coun
cil. Fred A. AAright, James A. Rod
man. R. AA\ DeA'oe. Anan Raymond.
RITES HELD FOR
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Apt-rial ltispatrh to The Omaha Bee.
Ural rice. Neb., Dec. 20.—Funeral
Services for the late Joseph A. Rid
dell, civil war veteran, who died this
week at the home of his son, F. A.
Riddell, at Columbus, Neb., were
bp’-I in Beatrice. Burial was in
Kv'-rjrrt t n I lome cemetery. Mr. Rid
del was 82 years old. He lived in
Beatrice for years before going to
( ‘olllnibller—
Prejudices of 1925
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By O. O. M IXTYRE.
This is thf tims of year to air the
fresh set of resolutions. But I do not
intend to do that. Instead I Intend
to discuss some annoyances I hope
will disappear during the year.
It hasn't been a bad year, as years
go, but it might have been wonderful
ly Improved in many ways. Just a
little consideration here and there and
It would have been a complete suc
cess.
I.et's make this year a wow! I
gant to make it such an overwhelm
ing success that not a single person
will hesitate in a revolving door, nor
will a young man with tortoise shell
glasses and halitosis try to read your
morning paper over your shoulder.
There's a great work to be done
and we must enter into the spirit of
it cheerfully and courageously.
First, I want to sta^f a movement
for the return of the ladies' ears.
Most of us haven't seen an ear for so
long we begin to think of them as a
deformity. And it's tough on novel
“Less I.egs and More Ears,” I* the Best Slogan for 1913.
ists who used to describe the sylvan
dell where Raoul whispered his sweet
nothings into her cor(tl pink ear.
"Ress legs and more ears," will
be a good slogan. Most mothers are
so busy these days shortening their
skirts and lengthening the growing
daughter’s dress they have neglected
ears shamefully.
Next we should do something with
people who pull out for Florid*' at the
first frost complaining they “cannot
stand the rigors of our northern'’
winters." tVe who remain at home
have to stand the cold days and there
is no use rubbing it in. Most of
them are tolk who didn't have one
iiuarter to rub against the other a
few years ago and the minute they
grab off a roll they begin knocking
our northern weather.
Go Out and GVt 'Em.
Something should be done, too.
about people w'ho begin to tell a
story with, “Stop me, if you have
heard thfs one." They know dang
well they cannot be stopped and they
will tell it if it takes all winter. Also
certain death should be meted out to
anyone who tries to tell about the
girl in Venice—you know the soiled
dove.
Mammy sorms should come under a
strict ban. Also imitations of A1
Jolson. And as for the imitators of
Gllda Gray, don’t do anything about
that. Leave them to me. I have
my own idea about handling these,
and it will be swift but painless. I'll
even mop up the blood and tidy
up the room afterward.
Then there are the Conrad and Poe
fiends. Such a high wall of impene
trable hunk has been built up about
them that anyone who does not like
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their wares Is at once a congenital
lowbrow. Conrad to me is as dull as
the works of Christopher Morley and
he's my pet as a creator of dullness.
Poe never wrote a story—It's my opin
ion only and let's don't quarrel—as
ingenuous and terrifying as Irvin
Cobb's “Tho Belled Buzzard.” And
Gerald Beaumont has written stories
that have entertained me more than
Poe ever has. We ought to toss a
few boouets to our modern writers
hnow and then.
The same is largely true of music.
You have to tie dead 10/1 years before
any composition is worth room no the
rack. Irving Berlin still pleases me
nightly and so does George Gershwin
I The Gift that seems like
- a favor of fortune
DO tout children lore and enjoy
music? Is your borne attractive
because beautiful music abounds
there? Had you thought of this
as something within your power to
provide this Christmas ?
You can now give yonr familv
one of the richest gifts that a home
can hold—the lasting love and un
derstanding of music! And yon can
possess it ^Ith a single purchase.
It is the Ampico.
The three-faid feift railed
uThe Ampiro"
What is the Ampico? First, when
you or others sit down to play the
Mason & Hamlin equipped with the
Ampico you find only the most
superb piano used upon the concert
stage today.
Secondly, the Ampico is a marvel
ously sensitive device now placed
within the Mason A Hamlin that
brings you all instrumental music—
operas, classics, hymns, the old
tender favorites — even hilarious,
joyous dance music!
Finally, the Ampico is all this
music, played by the greatest liv
ing interpreters. When you hear
jyginska, Levitzki, Lhevinne, Rach
maninoff. Rosenthal —even when
von hear such dance leaders as
Vincent I-opeu, Ferdie Grofe, and
T’aul Lange—you hear not only the
notes, the tempo, the rhythm as it
came from them, but you hear
every lifelike shade and tone of
color so faithfnlly reproduced that,
from the next room, you actually
believe the artist himself sits at
your piano!
Come in and play the Mason A
Hamlin. Come in and listen to the
Ampico. In all the world there is
no finer gift!
Ampico Also Furnished in the Haines Bros. Piano 1 !
A. HOSPE CO.
1513 Douglas Street I
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and I'd rather see Paul Whiteman
lead hla elegant bunch of Jazzers than
Stokovsk! or any other symphony
lads.
Nut House Fables.
Mah jong will die a natural death
and so will the cross word puzzle so
we only have to leave them to their
Inevitable fate—the ash can.
People from Paris visits must be
muzzled so they will not repeat how
wicked the city Is. We all know It
is wicked. That la why we go there.
In passing, I think also w-e could
get along with fewer poems by Ed
na St. Vincent Millay and Amy Low
ell. Personally, I prefer Robert W.
Service and Berton Braley to either.
And that again stamps me as a hope
less moron. k
People fnust be permitted to buy
early American furniture if they like
it but they shouldn't be permitted to
talk about it. Grand Rapids turns
out some rather rococo stuff. And
I prefer a Morris to a fiddle back
chair.
I’ll also pass the hat to huy balls
and chain for those leap-in the alt
dancers who come nut with 2 cents'
worth of cheesecloth and a garland
of autumn leaves and do "The Ode
to a Passing Zephyr." The old buck
and wing and tap dancing should not
be snuffed out by such inanities.
I'm also glad Charlie Chaplin has
taken a bride for the winter, for
then we won’t have to see all tjje pic
tures of these lovely little gels who
announce their marriage to him.
We must at all hajards swat the
fellow who Insists on making his ow-n
salad dressing. He has made the dys
pepsia table business what it is today.
If he must make salad we should
send him to some desert Island with
all the ingredients and let him mix
until he gets salad dressc-rs' cramp.
Too many meals are being spoiled by
his devotion to his art.
Artless Arty Art.
Also I grow weary of all tftts prattle
that takes place at afternoon teas.
A tea is an affair where ten is rarely
served and after the first two or
three what-have-yous someone begins
a discussion about the art of Duse.
And sniff at the art of Fanny Brice
Will Rogers or Chic Sale.
After* getting away to this high
brow start they probably wind up
rolling dice on the Persian rug in
the parlor and somebody begins cry
ing because of the increase in plant
lice in Hindustan. Why not be hu
man at the start?
Letter writers who mark their en
velopes "Personal" should not be an
swered and those who substitute
"Town" for the name of the city in
which the letter is mailed or "Local"
should be Incinerated forthwith with
out chance for prayers.
Automobile owners who refer to
their cars as "the old bus” should not
be allowed to own cars. And as for
tlTe woman who calls it "a motah
cah," well bring on the guillotine.
Most of us are all ready walking
’-—
out on people who tiegin to talk of
their operations so that Is being han
dled nicely. According to reports, the
Algonquin crowd of back scratchers
are now beginning to knock each
other and we don't have to worry
about that.
There are many other fcopeful signs.
The Joke about one in every six hav
ing pyorrhea is also dying out and
I haven't heard the wheeze about "as
much privacy as a goldfish" in three
months. The old world Is growing
more habitable.
As I said Just a little attention here
and a little murder there will make
1325 one of the best years since the
Rig Wind. We may not abolish nil
the annoyance but if each and every
one does his duty we may find by 1926
that there isn't a young man In
America who taps his cigarot on the
back of his hand before lighting it.
Teeth and tonsil Jerking for all ills
Is not what it once was. These are
nil hopeful signs and' show whither
the straws are drifting.
(Copyright. 1924 )
Embargoes on Poultry
Cost York $1.000 a Week
York, Dec. 20.—The eastern em
bargo on poultry is costing York and
its contributing territory approxi
mately $1,000 a week. Three or four
cars of live poultry a week are sent
east from here under normal condi
tions. Local buyers, having no mar
ket for poultry, have now shut down
on all purchases. York county poul
try is not afflicted with any disease,
farmers say. \
York College Notes.
School closed for the holidays on Fri
day and will be resumed January
Rev. Paul Porter, graduate of 'i ork
college and pastor of the United Brethren
[church ai Merna. Neb., visited at the
college one day last week.
Thursday the expression department or
the college had charge of the chapel
service. Miss Lois Rasp read one of
I Riley*a poems, and Miss Ellen Mann read
“The Other Wise Man." bv Van Dyke.
On Friday morning the Glee ciufc- sang
for the chapel service.
The Histrionic club has decided on a
I play. “Ice-Bound," and the characters
have been selected. The play will be
given soon after the holidays.
The home economics department en
tertained the faculty at a tea. In the
I domestic arts room Wednesday ufternoon.
On the sat afternoon the art depart
ment gave a reception and exhibit.
The faculty met for its regulsr social
meeting of Prof J. C. Morgans home
Thursday evening.
20,855 Fathers
and Sons Took
Part in “Week”
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Report of Committee Shows;
Extraordinary Activities
in Omaha Ob
servance.
More than 20,000 fathers and sons
participated in the recent Father and
Son week in Omaha. The official re
port was infilled to Omahans Friday
as follows:
Organizations participating. 104;
different father and son occasions,
151- churches participating, 75;
schools participating, 12; lodges and
clubs participating, 17; fathers and
sons attending 66 special church serv
ices, 6,477; fathers and sons attending
05 banquets and meetings, 14,378; 7
radio father and son addresses from
Station WOAW; song leaders fur
nished for 32 banquets: pianists for
j 24 banquets; 20,000 father and son
«ong sheets furnished by the Acorn
Press; total number fathers and sons
participating in week, 20,855.
The official report^s signed by J. H.
Beveridge, chairman, and E . E.
Micklewright, secretary of the Omaha
Father and Son week.
God made the country’, but man put
a mortgage on it.—Buffalo New-s.
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Men and Women’s Lunch and t;
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Rurglars Get SaOO in
Hardware Store Robbery
Bridgeport, Pec. 20.—Burglar* en
tered the hardware store of C. E.
Clough of Minatare by breaking out a
side window and unfastening the iron
bars. The store was robbed, after a
similar roobery three months ago
This time the burglars got goods val
ued at $500, consisting of every knife
in the stock, a large number of razors
and a shotgun.
Pawnee Fair Association
Re-Elects All Officers
Table Rock, Neb., Dec. 20.—At a
recent meeting of the Pawnee Coun
ty Fair association, stockholders
unanimously reelected all officers.
They are: President, W. M. Pyle;
vice president, E. L. Vance; secretary,
Bert S. Etchlson; treasurer, ]•'.Ben
nett, sr.; directors, A. b. .lacke, J. D.
Albright and W. H. Bechtel.
The report of the treasurer shows
that the financial condition of the
association Is good. The gross re
ceipts for the 1924 fair were $12,911.3*
ancTthe expenditures were $12,972,13,
leaving an overdraft on the books
of a little over $60. The association
put f-MOO worth of permanent Im
provements on the ground during the
year. ■>>
Larsen Jewelry Sale
20% to 33*4% Off
2,500 Rings—$1.00 Up
Diamonds Watches
Jewelry
Quick Repair Service
DR. l.C.iARSEH, Optician
204 North 16th Street
Just North of Postoffice
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seeking throughout France (or
perfumes ^orth^ of a place
among her exclusive Venetian
Toilet Preparations, has chosen
the chic fragrances of BABANl
OF PARIS!
AMBP.E DE DELHI:
m'jsterf, enchantment
MING: elfin, piafful wetness
LIGEIA: romantic, luxurious
AfGHANI:
colorful, riotous, untamed
JASMIN DE COREE:
provocative, a challenge
—and other fragrances
I In decorative bottles
, from $2.75 up
On Sals at
HOTEL FONTENELLE
DRUG STORE
Operated by Eppley Hotels Co.
BETTY BRONSON, the new
Paramount Player who stars
in ‘ PETER PAN.” Miss
Bronson was chosen by Sir
James Barrie, author of the
play. It is her first appear
ance in motion pictures.
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Six Gold Prizes
for the best pictures of Peter Pan; *
also free admission to a special Satur
day morning showing at the STRAND
THEATER, Omaha, is given each con
testant.
LL children of school age are (
privileged to enter this con
test. Draw any picture you
care to of PETER PAN. You
will find good pictures to
copy on Peter Pan Bread Wrappers,
Peter Pan bill boards, Strand Theater
boards and posters, and in all the
newspapers.
Make your drawings, place your
name, age and home address in the
upper right hand corner and present
your drawing at the Strand Theater,
Omaha, Saturday morning, December
27th, at 10:30 A. M. Your drawing
will be your ticket of admission. Com
petent artists will judge your picture *
and the prizes will be awarded bv the
makers of PETER PAN BREAD.
First Prize . S10.00 in Gold
Five Second Prizes, each $ 5.00 in Gold
See Peter Pan. the Leading Pictinr,
—and eat Peter Pan.
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