legislature Now I Ready to Handle | | State Problem Path' Cleared for Business of Session; McMullen to Be Inaugurated Tomorrow. (CntliMd From Put Oat.) ence of opinion as to what consti tutes a real good roads program. It will be in the threshing out of this : question that the big fight will come. Over In the senate end the utmost V! harmony will prevail. The six demo Zt rratio members are convinced that 3 they will be treated with the utmrxt 3. fairness, just as the four democratic IS (senators were two years ago. They ~wljl be represented on the importaiit TT committees, and will even have a ~ chairmanship or two. Robbins of ;; Douglas, president pro lem; McGowan Sof Madison, Dysart of Douglas, Reed *3 of York, Warner of Lancaster and trr Vance of Adams are experienced men, none of whom have, at least at the S3 present time, any other ambition Z • than to serve faithfully and well. *T Purcell of Custer and Robertson of t* Holt are democrats whose honesty V and ability are unquestioned. legislature Sworn In. •o House and senade ware duly or 1"? ganlzed at noon today. Lieutenant ■ Governor Johnson calling the senate ;,i to order and Secretary of State Pool w* calling the house to order. In the senate Luckey of Merrick wfaa the l^only one failing to answer at roll call. 1};Wilson, Purcell and Watson were j£; named as committee on credentials, Tttand they found all 33 as answering £~Jto roll call entitled to seats. Reed, Banning and Wood were named to V call on Chief Justice Morrissey and 'ask him to administer the oath. Sena 4 ™. tor Dolezal answered the roll call, S£hut he failed to show up to take the gX'oath. He had left his credentials at pfthe hotel and thought he had to go get •►. Ihera. He arrived, out ot breath and 5a somewhat nervous after the others had taken the oath and was duly „ sworn In. Luckey arrived a little later ■^and was sworn In all by his lonesome, t" Dysart, Illlan and Shallenberger went over to notify the house that ;*»'he senate was ready for business, * and Jearey, Vance and Robertson —, went over to notify the governor that jfcthe senate was ready to receive com *» munlcatlons. The first Joint session S', is due for Wednesday noon, and at S» that time It is probable that Governor L: Bryan will deliver his budget mes £ »"Se c; Cooper, Scott and Meecham eon £' ferred with the house to arrange the joint session Wednesday to open and tz. canvas the returns. 'j; Griswold of Sheridan, a newspaper iS man, saw to It that the reporters S3 wer# supplied with copies of the ata lutes, session laws and senate Jour nals. Joint Session Today. Aside from the Joint session Wed nesday to canvas the returns there will be very little doing until after the Inaugural ceremonies Thursday. Governor-elect McMullen Is slated to arrive In J.incoln Wednesday njprn lng. and his arrival Is waited with Impatience. The suspense In certain quarters Is becoming tremendous. Upon his arrival, when the committee can break through the cordon of ap plicants, the dommittee on the In auguration ceremonies will wait upon him and arrange the details. The in augural will not be marked by ela borate ceremonies. The two houses will meet in Joint sessIon_wIth the lieutenant governor presiding. Gov ernor Bryan will read his disappear ing message, and then the newly elected state officers will be sworn in by Chief Justice Morrissey. Then Governor McMullen will read his first message. Following will come the usual perfunctory motions and the joint session will adjourn. Immediate ly upon the re assembling of the two branches the Introduction of bills will begin. They used to have Inaugural balls In the old days. The desks and chairs were removed from the house cham ber, a canvas spread over the carpet, an orchestra perched In the speaker’s plsce and flowers scattered all about. Then they danced. There will be no inaugural hall. Governor Mickey, atralghtlaced Methodist, wouldn't stand for It, and since then a recep tion has been the sole social function attending an Inauguration. AURORA CHURCHES PLAN FEDERATION Aurora, Jan. 6.—Congregations of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches of Aurora are seriously considering federation. Tbs matter will be submitted to the two congre gations next Sunday and If they agree that some plan of federation should be worked out, further meetings will be held by the committees already ap pointed. Federation was suggested after de parture of the Rev. Irvine lnglis of the Congregational church to become Sfator of the Vine Congregational :hurch at Lincoln. The church, after nuch consultation, decided to take a referendum next Sunday. If oppoal ion does not develop, the committees ariH present a working program. There has also b _ Debate on Farm Laws Feature of Lincon Meeting \ „ O Hall Packed at Organized Agriculture to Hear Gustaf* gon and Secertary of Farm Bureau. (Cutlnurd From Pace One.) the floor. Several minor debates were being staged *by Impromptu teams. Farmers were expectant and sat si lent, patiently waiting for the pro gram to begin. Steward Outlines Subject. Mr. Steward was introduced and made an outline of the subject for the affirmative. It was plain to be seen that he was prepared. He talked from a carefully written manuscript, punc tuated his argument with keen witti cisms and cryptic remarks about the status of the farmer and the tariff, ills relation to production and his so lution of marketing. Following him Mr. Danielson talked from & written manuscript. He had also gone deep into the question from the affirmative side. At the close of these two affirmative talks I chalked down In my note book a vote for farm legislation. Then Medlar came to the front with the other side of.the question. Cer tainly there are two sides to this im portant farm question. Wish eyery farmer could have heard Medlar’s side, I began to waver when he said, "Supply and demand is the only sound way to regulate farm prices.” I began to wish I had left the con vention before my head became all mussed up with the other side of the question. It was so much easier to be lieve that we could legislate the farm ers out of all this troublesome work of worrying about ,lricome. Gustafson Replies, i Now I want to say that I believe the committee made a mistake rae ■where in planning this debate. To prove it listen to tht«, Gustafson was not coached, was not prepared. Mr. Pollard from Nehawka, Neb., was to have supported Medlar. He was sick and Gustafson was drafted into the program after he had arrived at the meeting. He had only his keen knowledge and interest to support his arguments. Right there is where the mistake was made. His style wasn't cramped with a lot of facto and figures. He spoke right from the heart and it was plain that he was thinking In terms of farmer and not statistics. The trend of his argument was. "The farmer must keep the govern ment and other organizations out of the farm business. The government has never efficiently run a private concern, it la the farmer's business and he alone can solve the question of selling his products." Only wish the management would have taken a rising vote by the audi ence. But, really It doesn't matter. The thing that every farmer carried away from the debate ia, shell we urge legislation to curs our Ills or shall we cure them ourselves? There, are two sides to the question. 400 at Home Meeting. There were more then 400 attend ing the sessions given by the home economics depqrtments. The out standing feature for the dav was the subject of how to raise a better fam ily. Tha farm women were Interest ed In knowing more about those things which would assist them In building better houses, having greater and more extensive programs for in teresting community gatherings but first, last and all the time questions pointed toward a primary interest in better children, healthier youngsters, better educated families. Our Ne braska mothers are looking out for the coming generation. They are anxious that they be not alone greater producers but better citizens. “It is a shame that more real farm women could not have been down Instead of having to send a represen tative from some woman's club,’’ said the reporter when I discussed the pro gram with her. livestock Debate Heated. Some of the livestock discussions over at the livestock pavilllon were rather heated. One Lincoln county farmer got up in between addresses and defended the western broncho. The farmer said: "I had good luck with the wiry little outlaws from the western plains.’’ Undoubtedly his sttements were prompted by the talk given by Fred Holbert of Greeley, la. After an able discussion of the present situation of the horse business, the speaker touched upon the scrub horse. He declared fhat the salva tion of the cheap horse was to slaugh ter him for tankage or dispose of him to foreign consumers, who relish the horse as a meat diet. Of course, the scrub horse is an economic waste, as Holbert showed, but many good farm ers have paid for land with him. Wish the various committees would arrange the programs for more time for discussion by actual farmers. They have some mighty good things to say every now and then. BLOODHOUNDS ON TRAIL OF ROBBERS Falls City, Jan. 8.—Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail of tha robbers who early Monday morning broke Into the Rawley-Myers drug store and stole several hundred dol lars’ worth of Jewelry. The robbers gained entrance by smashing the glass panel of the rear door and then turning the night latch. They showed fine discrimination, tak ing only the best. The Jewelry department Is owned by Dan Sargent. Rock Island Painting Its , Property Yellow and Green Pawnee City, Jan. S.—Rock Island property In Pawnee City haa been painted yellow and green In accord ance with the new colors adopted by the railroad, Instead of the famlliar red. The paint gang spent several weeks here .and laft the first of this week for Sabetha to begin work there. Sheba— her night of romance— will never be for gotten. Well, you won’t forget the picture we’ll show , Saturday, either. STRAND THEATRE By THORNTON W. BURGESS -% For freedom who fa there will aay There'e any price ton much to P«yT —•Old Mother Mature. The PHce of Freedom. , Have you ever been terribly fright ened? Have you ever been so fright ened that you couldn’t even think? That la the way it was with the foollah young Otter when he realised ho was caught in a trap. He was "But V don’t want to loee ray toe,” wailed the young Otter. so filled with terror that he didn’t even thing about the pain In his foot. There la nothing quits so awful as the helpless feeling when caught In a trap. Had that young Otter been caught by an enemy twice his size hs would have fought bravely to tha last breath. But one connot fight * steel trap. After a while the young Otter was so tired out with struggling that ho had to be quite to gat hia breath and to reat. He trembled all over. Every tlmo he heard the least little sound he was sure Is was tha trapper com ing to kill him. Hbw ho did wish he had heeded the warnings of hia father and mother. For a long, long, long time he waa held a prisoner by that dreadful trap. From time to time he tried to cut tha chain that held the trap, but, of is ... !■ —— course, he tried la vain. Hto teeth, 1! •harp as they were, didn't sven scratch the steal of that chala. He ^ wondered If his father and mother y would miss him and look for him. He ij wondered if they would ever find out ^JB what happened to him. jA'* “If I mold only get away from this thing 1 never, never would disobey again/* he sobbed. “No, sir, I ntver, never would disobey again. I do wish father and mother would come. Per haps If they come they could get me, free from this dreadful thing.” It to said that If you wish long enough and hard enough for a thing I you may get your wish. Certainly the foolish young Otter wished long and hard. And at last he did get hla Wish. His father, Little Joe Otter, suddenly appeared. He was looking for that young Otter was held by that dread the young Otter did not return, and had started out ■ to look for him. * , Little Joe didn’t scold that yeung Otter. Instead, he did the best he could to comfort him. The first thing young Otter waa held gy that dread ful trap. He saw right away that ha waa held only by one toe. “You are very lucky, very lucky.-1 declared Little Joe Otter. The young Otter thought he wad very unlucky. He said so. He cou»n c see that there was anything lqpkv about It. Then Uttte Joe explained. “That trap,* nJd he, “has got you only by one tOe, It might have you bv the Whoto foot, and that to the way that trapper meant that It should cat..h you, them would he very llttls hope for you. Aa M 1% M you pull hard enough you may loss your toe but 1 that will be all* “But I don't want to lose my toe!'* walled the young Otter. "All right.” replied Little Joe. “If I \ you had rather lose your life than your toe there is nothing I can about It. You can get free If you real ly want to, but the price of freedom will be that toe.” The next story; “Tbs Young Otter Pays the Price." Roost Raided Twice. Beatrice, Jan. «.-Mrs. Josephine SkrabaJ reporta that thieves visited her place the other night and carried away a doxen chickens. Some week* ago her place was raided and nearly three dozen laying hens were stolen. ^====T ! |jfl I { | ■ Fascinating Fun — it whit you’ll »ay about silhouette - making the Kodak way. And it’s all surprisingly simple. A booklet that’s yours ~ for the asking here at the 1 £ Kodak counter tells you a how. Call for a copy. Ktdak Film in the Yellmti Bn*. Developing. pnnting and en larging ef the tnpener mi. Eastman Kodak Co. > — (The Robert Dempster Ce.) a 1813 Feraun St. Broach Storm 308 South 18th St. 1 The Years Best Offerings in Footwear Recant feature tala groups have been lowered in price and augmented with hundreds of , 1 pairs of Footwear from our regular stock. Values to $10 i Suedes Patent Calf ' Satins ' ~ The very smartest of stylos, now bow patterns, cut out affects, oxfords, pumps In all the favored winter colors. The size range is amply com plete to afford you a splendid field for choosing. N f" Broken Lines Footwear Odds and ends from many success ful sailing lines, about 300 pairs, £ ; ‘ ' all leathers, all styles, but broken * In sixes, values to $10.00. r EXCURSION TO DENVER % To accommodate patrons desiring to visit the NATIONAL WESTERN , STOCK SHOW t the Burlington will sell round-trip ticket* at $25.80 On sale January 1R to January 1ft, in clusive, final return limit January 27. TICKET OFFICE AND TRAVEL BUREAU I lOlli anti Farnam Slrt.ll AT lanlir SS7R J. W SHARPE. Cnnaral Aj.nl —a——— ' i i n.iii-i ..— i BERGS Semi-Annual Sale of Manhattan Shirts pa%ia, $2.50 Quality, Now - - - - $1.70 $3.00 Quality, Now - - - - $2.00 $3.50 Quality, now - - - - $2.35 $4.00 Quality, New - - - ■ $2.70 $5.00 Quality, Now - - - - $3.35 $7.50 Quality, Now - - - ■ $5.00 Flannel Pajama*.,.«. / 1 / n Flannel Night Gown*. .. ... 1/rj I iff All Muffler....«.. J J Berg Clothing Co. 1415 Farnam St. I January Clearance of Radio Sets Wn offer for quick sale some of the finest Radio Sets at greatly reduced prices in order to reduce our stock at once. These instru ments are national known quality, offering everything possible in the latest development in Radio. ! See these big values this week. Save frem 25% to 50% es yeur i radio set by buying during our great January Clearance Sale. I Look at These Bargains 4-Tube Airline, only.830.00 .1-Tube Reinartz, only. 845.00 $125.00 6-Tube Airway, only.875.00 $160.00 3-Tube Zenith, only.880.00 $136 3-Tube Cutting A Washington, only 885.00 EASY TERMS gf Introducing to Omaha, the | New Italian Clay | With this new clay it is possible to achieve the most artistic effects, for one is able to build up de signs without the use of wood. We have a complete new line of plaques and imported prints for use in this work. Candle sticks, lamps, book ends, plaques and other useful and decorative pieces of poly chrome work are taught by ; Miss Helen McMunn of the Coover Art Studio, Lincoln, Wednesday and Thursday, Jam 7-8 Miss McMunn comes to us a most talented instructor, bringing new methods. Our own instructor, Miss Ruth Lichtensteiger, will continue her work. t . ^hnmpsonEelder, =2S±"The Best Place to Shop After as healthy as your gums |?S£SSS The gums are the key* to health. You must keep , them firm, strong and healthy if you would elude a>w Pyorrhea and its attendant ills—loosened teeth, . neuritis, indigestion, anaemia and similar diseases. VJljm Forhan's For die Gums counteracts die effects of r harmful bacteria; hardens soft, tender gums, keeps them sound, firm and pink. Furthermore, it cleans and whitens the teeth and keeps the mouth fresh, clean and wholesome. 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