Missing Alcohol O Agent Back, but Visitors Repelled Wife and Federal Agents De cline to Reveal Past or Pres ent Whereabouts of Frank Peterson. Frank L. Peterson, head of the Roseville distillery who disappeared January 21 and whose accounts are sold by federal agents to show a shortage of 6,000 gallons of alcohol, has returned to Omaha, Elmer E. Thomas, prohibition director, admit ted Friday. > Thomas said that a complaint was being drawn up and that Peterson would be placed under formal arrest Friday afternoon. Not at Home. A reporter for The Omaha Be*, who visited Peterson's home at 803 South Fifty-ninth street was informed by Mrs. Peterson that her husband was not there. She refused to say where he was. or whether or not she knew where he was. •'I have nothing at all to say. 1 won’t tell you anything about It at all,” she Insisted, Asked whether she wished to make a statement on behalf of her husband tn denial of the charges, she repeated that she had nothing to say. Legion Worker. “I don't know whether he wants to make a statement or not,” she said. "I certainly don’t* Mrs. Peterson and federal agents re fused agents refused to say where Peterson had been since he left Oma ha. January 21. Peterson is prominent In American1 5»glon circles In Omaha and is a termer captain in the Nebraska Na tional Guards. Humboldt to Entertain Two Distinguished Guests Humboldt, Feb. 13.—The Chamber fit Commerce of this city will have as guests at» dinner Monday evening ■February 16, Judge B. I. Salllpger of Carroll, la., and H. J. Corwin, mayor fit Topeka, Kansas. They will make ghort talks. Judge Sallinger will Silpeak at an open meeting of the Ftnlghts of Pythias lodge No. 25, after the banquet and Mayor Corwin will he the guest of Rev. B. H. Dawson, pos ter of the Christian church. Student at Chadron Knocks Doan Teacher Who Slapped His Face _____/ Chadron, Feb. 13.—One of the. boys of the Chadron High school gave his teacher a heavy blow nnder the chin in return for slaps across ihe face while being reprimanded for improper conduct in tlie halls at the beginning of t-he noon intermission, Tlie blow sent tlie instructor sprawl ing to the floor. Tlie student was taken before the superintendent, who seriously consid ered expelling him. However, it was agreed that the instructor over reached his authority in slapping Jlie young mail, and tlie student was per mitted to remain in srhool. STAT SATURDA Y Fourteen Farms . Sold for $334,955 Average of $201,77 an Acre Paid for 1.660 Acres Near Cre6ton. Columbus, Feb. 13.—Authentic fig ures compiled by E. E. Luedtke, cash ier of the Citizens’ State bank at Cres ton, in the northeast part of Platte county, show that during the past 90 day’s 14 farms in that vicinity have been sold, most of them for March 1 transfcrP at prices averaging $201.77 an acre. Luedtke declares every sale was a cash deal. The 14 farms total 1,660 acres, and the prices paid total $334,955. Practically all the sales were of the nelghbor-to-nelghbor type in which there is no inflation of prices for re sale purposes. Woman Near 90 at Death. Columbus, Feb. 13^-Within a few months of her 90th birthday, Mrs. Anna Claussen, a resident of Colum bus and vicinity since 18S5, died at the family home here yesterday. She leaves her husband, one son and one daughter. / Simmons Demands Immediate Action on Farmer Relief Tells House Floor Leaders West Exjiccts Vote at Once; Scores Petty Bills Before Body. Special Dispatch to The Omnhn Ilee Washington, D. C.t Feb. 13.— l.egis lation, which Congressman Robert Simmons of Nebraska believes petty and Inconsequential anil which Is get ting precedence over more important matters in the house, brought forth the ire of\the young Nebraska con gressman yesterday. In a speech to the house he denounced the present tactics of house leaders and demanded that petty matters be set aside. "During the last campaign Presi dent Coolidge promised he would name a commission to Investigate agricultural conditions, to find a way In which the farmer could be helped to prosperity,” said Simmons. "On the strength of this promise the farmers of the west flocked to the president's standard. The president named his commission, and that com mission has made its recommenda tions, many of which would be of immediate relief to our western farm ers. So far the leaders in the house have neglected to bring out fhe recommendations of the commission for pctiop. Their excuse is, ‘We haven’t time now.’ "The house has plenty of time to consider such momentous questions as to whether tourists to the capitol should be forced to pay 23 cents to guides conducting them through the capitol and long debates on the weighty subject of reducing the price of vises to American travelers in Europe. "I do not claim that these meas ures should not he considered, but I do think that more important mat ters, such as farm legislation, should be considered at once.” Today When You Hunt Real Es tate. Pity Mrs. Glass. Lincoln s Return. A Job for the Fords. By ARTHUR BRISBANE. _—-J When you are doing one thing, it is hard to continue interest in other things. That’s what makes it hard for the average American concen trated on his particular enterprise, ty pay attention to government, science, grand opera, studies on atomic construction, and the latest developments of the mechanism, the theory in biology. This is written during a pause in a land-hunting expedition. The day’s task is the selection of a 10, 000-acre tract along the new line of the Seaboard Air Line railway. When your mind is on land, other things dwindle. The most important personage today seems to be Mrs. Giaae, who keeps the excellent hotel at Stuart. Her father bought a few hundred acres on the ocean front. General Grant, as president, signed the gov ernment deed. It cost*25 cents an acre. "We got tired of paying taxes, even if it was only a dollar or two, so we sold the land for $1 an acre. That was a profit of 300 per cent on the cost. We thought we did pretty well.’’ She sighed, and so would you have sighed. The land would be cheap at $2,000 an acre now. Com pare Cassandra’s wailings and warn ings with a case like that. There are real estate tragedies, like the Indians selling New York City for $24, that not even Euripides could handle. Get the right piece of real estate, somewhere, and having got it, grap ple it to your bosom with hooks of steel, don’t let anybody get it itvny from you that you may not curse your folly, as you grow older. That being snid, what is the news, apart from Mrs. Glass’ calamity? Not much. If Lincoln had come back to spend his birthday he would have found us in a land closely united, once more, but with many subdivisions, for every American, at least 10 lots neatly laid out, each an opportunity once missed, never to be equaled. , ^ He, who represented, no mf>nrv, and constant, earnest, worried thinking, would find us a nation of money unlimited, and little think ing. He would find children learn ing one or two of his speeches by heart, grown men celebrating his birthday with golf or other substi tutes for mental occupation. And he would find, if he brought one of his speeches up to date and deliv ered it, adapted to our day, that we do not tolerate ultra-radicalism, or bolshevism, and our best minds minds would tell him so, plainly. Lincoln would find two or three men in the senate denouncing the plan to turn over public property at Muscle Shoals, wo.rth hundreds of milligji?, to private exploitation. He would want to shake hands with the few objectors. But the spirit guid ing him back to earth would say: “Don’t do that. Those senators are not considered respectable. They have been put nut of the party that you established. Don’t you see that they are opposing the man agement of the country by its nat ural rulers, the big corporations?” The La Fnllette followers “clash,” as newspaper English puts it, in their efforts to. establish a perma nent third party. The clashing is unnecessary, also the discussion about admitting socialists to the third party. This is not a country for three parties, or two parties, either. It is a one-party nation. The one party has two divisions, republican and democratic. The democratic half is a sort of spare tire, carried behind prosperity’s band wagon. It is there, just in case, kept ready inflated, that if an accident should lianpen, a republican blow-out would hardly be noticed by the pas sengers. The democratic substitute might be a little smoother, more conservative than the republican, but very little. Happy a people that have no his tory. Happy, perhaps, but dull. The history of America as written for this period would say: “Continual development of intensely scientific industry, with great increase in wealth marked the second quarter of 20th century. “Civilized Europe, and partly civ ilized Asia, saw in the great repub lic only what Venice had repre sented a few centuries before, wealth to he envied, and extracted, if possible." If this country had time t« think seriously outside of real estate busi ness and stocks, the gentlemen that oppose aircraft* construction and defense, to maintain the profits of battleship builders, might find them selves on trial, to decide yhether they were traitors, or onl/ fools. A congressional committee listens to the statements that 12 anti-aircraft guns could ward off any aircraft attack. Army fliers testify that trained air pilots “snap their fingers at anti-aircraft guns,” the question is not one of opinion. The govern ment knows that anti-aircraft guns are useless, thanks to the following experiments: A dummy airplane, very conspicuous, and offering the same target as a regular machine, was dragged through the air behind a real flying machine, at rather slow speed and at rather low eleva tion. The anti-aircraft gunners, excellent marksmen, did their best. And how many hits did they score? Not one. There is no defense against air plane attack, except airplane de fense. One flight of airplanes, which means two inexpensive ma chines, can sink any battleship, in the v»orld. Fortunately, the nation may not find it necessary _to depend exclusively on our politicians, low class statesmen and high class graft ers. Henry Ford and other manu facturers may do for the people what they lack, the brains and en ergy to do for themselves. It is said that Mr. Ford’s son, in many ways as able as his father, and with the blessing of youth, is deeply interested in aircraft. If predictions are verified and the Fords, father and son, undertake the building pf all-metal airplanes, in quantity production, one great problem will be solved. If Ford will supply machines plenty of young Americans will be ready to fly them. We may not have at first such machines as the British are building, to go six miles a minute, and faster, if possible. But with enough flying machines, any flying man from Asia or else where would receive a warm wel come in this country, before reach ing the ground. And they would reach the ground, soon after. The Fords have the power, knowl edge, industrial genius and money to put this nation ahead of all oth ers in air defense. Let them do that, and their fame will outlast the memory of war. (Copyright. 19!*.» ---• Dairy Industry Boosted in Address at Columbus Columbus, Feb. 13.—Business men were urged by M. N. Lawritson, as sistant manager of the Nebraska Dairy Development society, in an ad dress to the chamber of commerce here to discourage the uae cT oieo margerinp and other substitutes for dairy products. "Thertf is no danger' of dairy de velopment being overdone In Ne braska," Mr. Lawritson declaredl "as] the consumption Is constantly in creasing. 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