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On Growing Up
By The Hon. Henry A.
tValiaee. Secy, of Commerce
Editor’s Note:
The following article grew out
of a conversation I had with the
Secy of Commerce on my last trip
to Washington.
Ruth Taylor
Miss Taylor has asked me what
I think is the greatest need of the
country today. I replied Our great
est need is to grow up.
She then asked: “What do you
mean by growing up?”
Wherefore this shore statement
on maturity.
A mature person is one who can
cahr'y responsibility hot merely
today or tomorrow, nor next week
nor next month, but month after
month and year after year. But
along with this sense of everlast
ing responsibility must go a sense
of forebearance, of tolerance.
My father in speaking of certain
farm leaders used to sal they are
the good old wheel horses. In
Gas Change Must Be
Made Regardless of
Election Outcome
Omaha's need for an increased gas
supply is imperative. The city's needs
can no longer be met with the pres
ent 600 B.t.u. gas. A change will have
to be made regardless of the out
come of the Natural Gas election
November 5.
NATURAL GAS
USED AS MIX SINCE 1934
Since 1934 Natural Gas has been
used to supplement manufacturing
plant capacity in order to meet con
stantly growing demands. It was in
1334 that Natural Gas was substi
tuted for oil in the epriehing process.
This gas was composed of approxi
mately 49% Natural Gas and 51%
manufactured water gas, and tempo
rarily met the city's gas demands.
In 1940 public use had again reached
the point where increased capacity
was necessary. The X 341 State Legis
lature authorized increasing the pro
portion of Natural Gas to V5%. but
this could not be taken advantage of
because of war conditions.
WARTIME EXPEDIENTS
MuHE THAN DOUBLED'
CAPACITY SINCE 1940
However, even during war time the
demand ior gas continuously in
• creased. All the ingenuity of the Dis
trict's staff was used to develop ex
pedients for increasing capacity at a
minimum of cost and with such ma
terials as could be obtained during
the war period. First, the heating
value was raised from 5$0 B.t.u. to
600 7 -t.u. and rates reduced. Second,
\b District changed its process oi
mr. .ulacturing. Third, facilities for
propane gas were* installed for
"i,_c emergencies. And finally, a
• w . r *r er of changes in plant ecpiip
rr-- ♦ eliminated "bottlenecks." Adi
possibility of increasing capacity
vvllh 300 B.t.u. gas was exhausted.
Despite the fact that daily send-out
capacity of the Gas Plant had been
Imore than doubled since 1940, use
acain threatened to exceed supply
cr*d Lhe District was forced to discon
tinue accepting new applications for
gas home heating tins summer.
The situation today is this: Antici
pated daily peak requirements ior
gas home heating this winter just
about equal the maximum plant ca*
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parity. No more heating load can ba
safely added.
WHAT CAN BE DONE
ABOUT THE SITUATION?
Two alternatives present themselves:
1. Increase the proportion of Natural
Gas to 75% (possible under pres
ent state law) and furnish the city
with a mixed 800 B.t.u. gas. This
would involve a total changeover
cost to the District of approximate
ly $1,500,000, but would be only a
temperary solution, since engi
neers' estimates show that de
mand would catch up wilh «
mixed-gas supply in a few years.
2. Supply straight Natural Gas, if
authorized by a majority of the
voters. Changeover dost would be
about the same but straight Natu
ral Gas would give a practically
unlimited supply of gas, capable
of meeting all foreseeable indus
trial and domestic demcivds of
the city.
After a thorough study of the situa
tion, a leading "gas engineer has ad
vised the Utilities District that a
change to straicfht NafluralXSas1 Is ,fhe
only permanent and economical
solution of the problem.
PEOPLE’S APPROVAL
NEEDED FOR STRAIGHT
NATURAL GAS
At present Omaha is limited tp 75%
Natural Gas by state law. This re
striction can only be lifted by a fa
vorable vote of Qmahfcr citizens. If
the restriction is lifted by votes! on
November 5, the way will he open
fpr the District to pyovide straight
Natural Gas service. If the proposal
is defeated, the restriction'remains,
and Omaha will be forced to resort
to a mixed 860 tfi.u. gas ... a tem
porary measure expected by gas en
gineers to last but a few years.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Eugene D. O'Sullivan, Chairman
W. O. Larson, Vice-Chairman
Willard H. Quigley, MO.
Frank L Frost Allan A. Tukey
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Wahec S. Byrne, General Manager
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j other words they carried respon
1 sibility year after year.
They knew the common objec
tive. Nobdy needed to tell them
what to do. When young they had
early learned what field ought to
be ploughed and when. They car
ried this responsibility straight
thru the season and so as young
men they came to be looked upon
as mature people and after they
became farm owners the comm;
unity placed responsibility upon
them.
Today as regional, group and na
tional conflicts multiply, we dis
cover it is not sufficient merely to
carry responsibility year after
year, but it is also essential to
catch the other fellow’s point of
view.
A great German mathematician
had carved on his tombstone the
simple saying, “One must turn
things around”. The capacity to
look at the problem from the other
man’s point of view is perhaps the
most needed quality in the world
today.
Tolerance need not make us
wishy-washy. As a matter of fact
any person who is used to carry
ing responsibility year after year
will never be wishy-washy.
All of this means merely that
we need now a widespread educa
tional program in certain charac
ter fundamentals, .those charac
ter fundamentals which will cause
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SIXTH PLACE WINNER—Pearl Faulkner, “Miss Johnson's
Drug Store”.
EIGHTH PLACE WINNER — Ann Smitherman, “Miss
Althouse Beauty School”.
us to become mature in an indi
vidual, in a group and in national
sense.
After every great war there’ is
a widespread tendency to revert
to childish habits. A certain am
ount of this kind of thing may be
forgiveable in the first few or so
months after a great war. In its
extreme form it is found in the
excesses of the peacetime celebra
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I tion of the Day of Armistice. It
j is time now to put away these ex
cesses which are characteristic of
childhood.
This education cannot come toe
soon if we are to save those Am
erican values which we want most
today as we confront the possibi
lity of the biggest boom and the
most serious bust this nation has
ever seen. FH
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Louis Jordan in 'BEWARE!’
At Town Theatre Midnight Show
SATURDAY—OCTOBER 5TH
All Negro Cast with plenty of LOVIN’, LAUGHIN’,
JUMPIN’ and JIVIN’!!
[ ast week this reviewer saw a most interesting moving pic.
ture of a type with which neither he nor the general pub
lic are familiar. It teas the all-Negro musical “Betcare’’ which
teas produced for Negro audiences.
i nave seen such delightful sue-1
cessful all-Negro motion pictures
as the musicals, “Hallejuah”, re
leased in 1929. and the more recent
“Cabin in the Sky”, starring Lena
Horne, Ethel Waters, and Eddie
Anderson but both of those pic
tures were made for general re
lease.
‘ Beware” produced as I have
said for Negro audiences, is an en
gaging, zestful musical with an ex
cellent score, and its technical and
story content are at least on a par
with some of the ‘program’ musi
cals which have had downtown
openings. It should do well where
ever it is played.
Mnsic for Hepeats
Hit songs of the movie are “Ee
ware, Brother. Beware,” an amus
ing bit of advice to gay bachelors
who would remain single and the
rollicking “Land of the Buffalo
Nickel”. Both of these tunes have
been popularized over the radio
by Louis Jordan and his Tympan
ny Five, who are starred in the
! film.
i Jordan puts over all the songs
I with an enthuiasm, phrasing and
rhythm which reminded me of
Louis Armstrong and some of the
other outstanding Negro entertain
ers. The tune, “Old Fashioned Pas
sion”, has not been plugged over
the radio at all to my knowledge
but it has it all over a number of
current hits.
Jordan, of course, is one of those
electric entertainers who can dyn
amite a song. His joy of living and
exuberance suggest that he has
\ just discovered the pot of gold at i
i the end of the rainbow, and like
1 most fine showmen he is some
I thing of an actor. His jazz is guar
: anteed to find heucats of all de
' scriptions stomping with their
boots on.
Feminine love interest of “Be
ware” is played by Valerie Black
whom I recently saw play one of
the leads in the Broadway hit
“Anna Lueasta”. In the flesh she
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is a remarkably beautiful and In
telligent looking girl. Alas, she is
not photogenic apparently, for the
camera fails to capture her com
eliness.
A one-man riot is Milton Woods,
who appears as the rascal of the
piece. He is a perfect sepia edition
of Mischa Auer, and his sneers
have unmatchable arrogance and
contempt.
Plot of “Beware” concerns the
efforts of a small Negro college
in Ohio to obtain financial aid to
keep its doors open. Its friend in
need, Louis Jordan, is an alum
nus who has made good as am or
chestra leader.
As an added attraction at
the Midnite Show at the Town
Theatre on Saturdayr, Oct. 6,
you will see the sensational
“FIG LEAF FOR EVE”
There's a special reason if that
tantilizing dance that Jan Wiley
performs in “Fig Leaf for Eve”
at the Town Theatre seems to
pack an exceptionally high amount
of allure. You see, the very attrac
tive Miss Wiley had the benefit
of some coaching by a woman who
really knows the opposite sex. In
fact it might be said “she wrote
the book”. The coach was Betty
Blythe once famous as a movie
“vamp” of silent days.
Although playing a supporting
role in “Fig Leaf for Eve”, Miss
Blythe was a name to conjure with
during the period when “vamps”
were the ticket-soling champions
of the movies. Her work as a temp
tress in the unforgetable "Queen
of Sheba” had the male customers
swooning in their seats. Conse
quently, wThen Director Donald
Brodie was ready to shoot Jan
Wiley in the daring dance which
is a key sceene in “Fig Leaf For
Eve” he asked the original movie
“vamp” if she cared to offer any
SEVENTH PLACE WINNER — AnnabeUc King, “Miss
Erskine St.”
NINTH PLACE WINNER— Mae Partridge, “Miss Victory
Beauty Salon”.
TENTH PLACE W INNER—Rowena Sadduth, “Mies UPW'A
CIO, No. 8”.
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tips. And Betty went to work on
the pretty star of the film with
much relish. You’ll see the results
on the screen of the Town The
atre. Miss Wiley’s dance is well on
the way to becoming one of those
historic scenes movie fans love
to whisper about.
Playing opposite Jan Wiley in
“Fig Leaf For Eve” is Phil War
ren and others in the cast beside
Betty Blythe are Janet Scott. Ed
die Dunn, Emmett Vogan and Ed
ward Keane. Donald Brodie direc
ted this Belmont Picture from a
screenplay by Elizabeth Hayter
. . rvy O. Hoyt’s origin
al story. u
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