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Omaha Daily Bee The Omaha bee la tbn most powerful business tettr In tb weat, bccao It foem to the homes of poor and rich. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Showers and cooler. For Iowa--8hnwer and cooler. For -mhfr report see Ps.ce S. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1000. SINGLE . COPY TWO CENTS. VOL. XXXVIII NO. 305. The FRENCH COIN IS WANTED Diffioult Field to Break Into, but Speculator! Are Malting tho Attempt. &ICH PICKDTQ IS EIGHT Bteel Stock Sponsors ' rently Hav Found WA SPECULATION IS ADA. TE 5 - Rekindling of Torpid Spirit Excitement. ATTEMPT ON FRANCE THE CaCSE Belief ('it rrevelU that If Frenchmen Ba Interested la Financial Campaign The? Will Stick. NEW YORK, Jura 1 There wti a re kindling of the speculative current In tho Now York securities tnafket last week and toward the end of the week thle Issued In a mate of excitement not witnessed In the market for over two yean past. Various Incident served to awaken the market from the semi-torpid state, but apparently It wa the project to Introduce the United Htntes Steel stock to the Pari market v. hkh win of most effect. This was supple mented by the belief that Important plans were working out looking to the harmonis ing of relations between the tranacontlnetal railroads. The great reservoirs of French capital comprised In the numerous smalt accumula tions of that thrifty people are considered tin most Inviting field af supply for that attractive commodity known to the finan clal world. No only doea It furnish an abundant supply, but Investment once dls trlbutcd ammg French holders find I lodgement so tenacious and free from tho usual vicissitudes of constant shifting speculation maneuvers that the stability la thug assured of the corporation concerned. Tho field Is regarded as the most difficult of access by outside enterprise, owing to extreme conservatism of the French co Investor and the rigid French law and Dourse regulations. Steel Men Broke In. That a new way had been found by the United States Steel sponsors to thread this labyrinth appealed to the speculative ele ment. Enough was lacking of distinct knowledge to leavo room for unauthorised tnferencib which form the moat potent fao tor In all ipculative movements. Thua It was reported that the plan for dealing In the United States Steel shares In Paris would Involve an accumulation of aa much as 1.000.0(0 shares for London In a trust against whlci certificates would be Issued us the medium for transactions In Franca. i tt ''" . price apparently paid for these "shares by the syndicate was made grbiind for asHumpttons of the valuation placed upon them by the bankers connected with the corporation and the promise thus In ferred f early Increase In the dividend disbursements. The episode wae regarded -aa. adding greatly to the prestige of the stocks of .'.o great American Industrial concerns and to be the outcrowth of the power of resistance to the lata aevere do presalin ani of quick reaction manifested by them. Tr.e result was seen in qnlck ad vances ot many of tho preferred stocks of this clait United States Steel led tho way but carried many others with It. Transcontinental Outburst. Tho outburst In the transcontinental rail ros.i stocks had Its Inception In the formal arreoinont made between the Union Pa olfic and the Northern Pacific for the Joint uiage o? trackage In a region beyond Seattle. Thla was Interpreted aa a definite treaty of peace between the two great rail road powerfl and as furnishing final assur ance ugulnst such a damaging conflict as was ov:e Involved In the contest for the control of tho Burlington. Intimations wero circulated In Wall street that the atatua of the St. Faul-Paclftc coast extension was fleflnltr!r fist at the aama time. This group of railroads was affected further by the Atchison's offer ot $2,000.000 of convert lble bonds am' the consequent Insurance of Ats flncimial itciilrementa. Rumors of In tended li-creast of dividends on Harrtman stocks and ot an exchange of Southern Pa cific stock at common Induced a furious speculation In those stocks. Little atten 'tlon waa paid to general conditions of busi ness and Industry. Nothing to disturb BentljTiC'iit was rajiorted, but nothing strik ing ' occurred except the continued expan slolt of the steel Industry. Many orders In the various Unas of steel were reported a record figure. Options on the various crops varied somewhat, the news reflecting occasion.il Interest over the winter wheat prospects. A gold shipment to France witnessed the continued control of the New York supply by the foreign market The montr market, however, maintained Its undisturbed ease and furnished the real In centlv for the further speculative Inae. Ilvlty. Heavy Demand for Steel. The movement in finished steel product since June 1 would Indicate that the heavy . buying in May waa less speculative In Character than was supposed. Specifics- . tlons have b?en coming to the mills In large volume and the resulting demand for cntd steel hat nlled a large number of blast furnarea of the steel corporation into ser vice. The American Steel and Iron com pany, shipped l'JO.000 tons of wire products ' last month, breaking all such records. which la In keeping with the excessive rales, and are receiving large additional shipments. Current wire orders contlnui to run at the rate of 9,000 tons per day, or' 1.000 tons In excess of productive ca parity. There Is still a large volume of business in sight for structural and fabricated steel but many orders now coming out are for small lota. Cotton Goods Hlarher. T.ie ootton . goods market has been stronger and more active for a week. The announcement of the government crop es timate has cleared up many doubts con ccrnlng cotton and baa forced selling agent to aeced to calls of manufacturer for piaolng good on a higher level of value to meet mi-eh higher oot of raw material. Some of the large Jobbing 1 interests have been buying liberally - of brown and bleached cottons, tickings, den Ims and prints, Thero has been soma far ther business placed by Red Bea buyers on 1150 yard eheettngs and while heavy fGpnUavad, oa Second I'M.) Harry Martin of Florence Drowns in Whirlpool Efforts of Companions Fail to Rescue Seventeen-Year-Old Boy Swimmer Who Ventured Too Near. Attempting to swim through one of the most dangerous places In the Missouri river near Omaha, Harry Martin, IT years of age, was drowned at noon Sunday in sight of his companions near the intake of the Omaha Water company at Flor ence. He wna a son of Mrs. Harriet Tay lor, wife of Hmory Taylor of Florence. With Clifford Kierle and Tod Miller, the Martin boy was boat riding In the Missouri river and concluded to take a swim. He started clown stream and before he knew It was In one of the whirlpools hii-.h are created and change frequently near the crib of the watur company. Even In the face of the rapids the boat was started at once for the spot where Martin went down and every effort made rescue him. From the very rapids Clifford Klorle haa pulled out several boys ho have been drawn under. But this me the hoy waa gone. One hundred yards or more below the hlrllng waters released Harry Martin, nnd he came to the surface. Hut It was only for a moment. Rapids at that point, here the river is traveling twenty miles n hour and Is thirty fert deep, drew him under as soon as his aims and head ore fairly out of the water. Since the last suction of tho water far below the boat, the body has not been seen nor could- huoks and dynamite recovor after eight or nine hours' work Sunday afternoon and evening. Those acquainted with the freoks of the Missouri river be- eve tha body has been carried down the river past Omaha, the whirling current not permitting It to come to tho surface for a moment. This haa been the experi ence In the past with many who have been drowned near Florence. A year ago a young man named Sulli van was caught In the same rapids which took the life of Harry Martin, Not long before Sullivan lost his life a workman was caught In the maw of the whirlpool, and FIorerTce people believe at least half a dozen have been claimed as victims of the current since the crib was built. Friends of the young man who was drowned Sunday watched the river from the bridge In Omaha and bolow the. city, while workmen were secured and dyna mited In the whirlpools near the scene of the drowning. The young man was In the Florence schools and Is well known In the suburb. Paris to Have Balloon, Service Lines of Dirigibles Are Projected to Run to Several Other Cities. PARIS, June 8. The French Aerial. league baa perfected plans for line ot dirigible balloons from Paris, respectively, to Nancy, Lyons, Pau and Rouen. Five dirigibles will be employed In this service. Their length will be between sixty and eighty meters. Two will have a cnpaclty of 6,500 cubic meters, one af 6.000 and one of 7,000 cubic meters. All wlh be capable of an average speed of fifty kilometers (thirty-one miles an ho'ir). One of the dirigibles, 'which Is named "Vllle Nancy." has been constructed, and the Fal'ls-Nancy lino, with a daily service In good weather, will be Inaugurated In September. In this service stops will be mode at Meaux. and Rheima. Henry Deutsch de la Meurlhe, who offered the prise of $30,000 which Santos-Dumont won by circumnavigating the Eiffel tower In 1900, as well as many aeroplane prizes, ha3 contributed a large sum to the enterprise. The government Is also giving material aid with the object of having a practical aerial fleet available- In case af war. Wellman to Start for Pole in August i Claims to Have Greatly Improved Dirigible and Some Nice Theories. PARIS, June . Walter Wellman, who Is about to undertake another expedition In search of the North pole, and Melvln V'anlman, his engineer have made many Improvement to the dirigible balloon. which Is to be taken with them. It has been equipped with an extra set ot pro pellors capable of being shifted when In motion so that the balloon may be forced up or down at will. They also have perfected an Ingenious sun compass, upon the psinclpal of tha sun dial, and hav devised a theoretical system for navigating by means ot curves. Tha party will leave for Spitsbergen In a fortnight. The start for the pole Is ex pected to take place about August I. Woman Jumps Into Niagara, Husband Tries to Save Her NIAQARA FALLS. N. Y., June 6.-Ixuls Cohen of Buffalo saw his young wife leap Into the swirling river between Second and Third Sisters Islands at I o'clock this aft ernoon, only 150 feet above the brink of the cataract. Without a moment's hesita tion h followed her, caught her hand and struggled desperately to sav her. Before It was possible to bring efficient help much time elapsed, during all of which Cohen wo making frantlo attempts to reach the shore. But the struggle against the cur rent, at tbl point about 20 miles an hour, wa beyond hi power until fortune aided htm. With hH wife tightly clasped to him h felt himself bump into a tree stump, and on this he got a grip with his one free hand. Ward was carried to the res ervation pollc, but It iu nearly an hour after Mrs. Cohen Jumped Into the river that an officer arrived with three other men carrying a rope. Three times they threw the rope before It full within Cohen's grasp. Whin he did catch It he waa too neak to tie it about bla own or bis wife' waist. Once h had bold of th rop th men on shore began to pall and Officer Martin slipped and fell lut Um stream, but quickly regained hi TOBACCO USERS GIVE MILLIONS Report on Tobacco Trust from the Commissioner of Corporations is Astonishing. SOME PUZZLING PROPOSITIONS Impossible to Make Comparison of Earnings and Capital. MONOPOLY POWER PROFITABLE Book Values Do Not Appeal to the Bureau as Reliable. TAX FELL OFF. PROFITS GREW From lf to 1903 Taxes Paid Pell Off Bight Millions, While Profits Increaaed to Over Thirteen Millions. WASHINGTON, June . Responding to a resolution Introduced In the senate by Mr. Beverldge, an exhaustive report made by the bureau of corporations on Informa tion collected affecting the prloes of to bacco has been sent to the senate by Presi dent Taft. Much of the Information covers matters heretofore made public by Com- i mlsfiloner Herbert Knox Smith. It Is stated that the bureau has In prep aration a complete report covering the sub ject (it the prices of tobacco and operations of corporations, Information for which was obtained In accordance with the law cre ating the -bureau. The more Important material, showing In substance the results of the Investigation, Is Included In a pre liminary report. Commissioner Smith says that any consideration of the subject of the tobacco Industry In recent years ba necessarily Involved consideration of the relation of the tobacco combination to the Industry. It Is stated that the tobacco com bination controls substantially three fourths of tho business of manufacturing tobacco, other than cigars. In the United States. To show the extent of this busi ness It Is stated that the output of the In dependent concerns, excluding cigars, now amounts to $1P,000,000 per year. Had Acres to Book. Accordln t to the report, the Amerloan Tobacco company and other companies In the combination have given the bureau full and ready access to their books and rec ords. From comments made on the manner of keeping the books It appears that th bureau has had less valuable Information concerning the conduct of business by In dividual concerns. Tables are included In the report showing the remarkable Increase of profit to con cerns In the tobacco combination from 18M to 1907, Inclusive. The bureau says It is not prepared at the present time to report In detnll on overcapltallxatlon, or ' ' .the cash, value ot th good will acquire torn time to time" by 'the combhta-tlonA W asserted, however, that th value l the good will, which mean value of brands of goods manufactured by concerns which were swallowed up by the combination, would not have exceeded a comparatively small fraction of the value assigned to it on the books of the combination. The only reason why the American Tobacco com pany in Its early years was able to earn liberal dividends on Its entire capltallxa tlon, the report says, is In Its monopoly power. After reviewing capitalization and earnings of the combination, the report says: I nable to Make Comparison. "It Is apparent, therefore, from thess facts that no comparison of any signifi cance can be made between the earnings of the tobacco combination and Its capitali sation or its reported assets." Among the most interesting subjects taken up by Commissioner Smith Is the amount of tax paid by companies In the tobacco combination to the federal govern ment In comparison with the profits mad by the combination. The report says that the maximum amount of taxes paid, as might be expected, was In 1S99 to 1BUL when the war revenue taxes were In force. The mnount of tax collected fell off greaUy 1 1902 and 1MX "The cost of the output of the concerns In tho tobacco combination shows, broadly speak inf a steady Increase slneo 1899, corresponding to the increased volume of output," Bald the commissioner. "Very striking, however, arc the changes In tha profits, and particularly when Its profits are compared with Its taxes paid. As the amount of tax paid fell off, the amount of profits increased. From im to 1908 taxes fell off about $8,000,000, while profits In creased about S23.600.0OO, rising from 13,122, 71 in IK to tl.736,SS9 in 1903. Profits fell off somewhat In 1904, but again Increased, reaching In 1904 th maximum, $20,641,706." SEN ATE IP T WOOLKX SCHEDULE Progressive Republicans and Demo crat Expected to Combine. WASHINGTON, June C Having acted upon most of the vexed problems In the (Continued on Second Page.) feet. When within fifteen feet of the shore Cohen lost his grip on his wife's body, and it was carried off down stream and was lost to view. Cohen was so far gone when the res cuers gut htm on shore that he could not speak for ten minutes. Meanwhile a crowd had gathered and Chief Subridge skirted the Ooat Island shore looking for the body but could see nothing of It. Cohen Joined them, always Insisting that the body must have stopped short of th cataract and might be rescued by men daring enough. William BarneU and Hugh Brown finally spied the body. It waa held fast by a rook about 100 feet above the brink. Without rope Brown and Barnatt waded out Into the stream, and, moving carefully over th slippery rooks, reached the body. Just a Brown touched the body, the current caught It again and It whirred around In an eddy. It was with th greatest diffi culty that th two men brought the body to land. Life was Quit extinct. Cohen ay that worry over the fact that she was unable to suckle her Infant dis tressed his wlf greatly and probably caused her desire for death. He Is a ro bust man and quickly recovered fruta his shock. in in M.inw., , .i1 -Ta', ' r r a From the Cleveland Plain Pealer. JUST A FIELD DAY FOR FINICKY FOLK Such Will Be Next General Election in South Dakota. TICKET TO BE SEVEN FEET LONG Initiative and Referendum Laws Called Into 1'se Freely, and Sev eral Constitutional Amend ment Pcoyoaed. PIERRE, S. D.. June 6. Special.) The "season" for referendum petitions closed Thursday night, and the list of propositions which the people will have to vote upon at the next general election are all In. The constitutional amendment list Includes six propositions, the principal one being that to change the method of taxation In sev eral particulars; others are for equal suf frage; authorizing the legislature to fix the salary of the attorney general, with an $1,800 limitation; authorising the leasing f state school lands for agricultural pur poses; requlrliig the location of any fur ther state Institutions to be submitted to a vote of th people; and authorizing inde pendent school districts to increase their Indebtedness for the purpose of construc tion of buildings. The law submitted through the Initiative and referendum 1 the county option law, which was carried through under the pro vision of the Initiative. The laws which , come under the re iKilditfji alone are thosa providing a method tf control of the state mllltla, the eleolrlc light law, that gerry mandering the state into congressional dis tricts, that abolishing the State Hoard of Embalmers, and the one authorising th governor to remove minor officials for cause after a hearing. This list must all be printed on a ballot ten Inches in width and between each of the different proposi tions presented there must be an Inch of blank space, and this will mako a ribbon fully seven feet long, even In small type. The voter who gets hold of such a ballot, with all Its different propositions, Is likely to get weary before he gots down to the last of the propositions, and to cut out the voting, unless he Is especially Interested In some subject further down the lino. Statement by the Milwaukee. The question of Just what county will be covered by the ew extensions of the Mil waukee line west of the Missouri In the northern part of the state IS shown In the official statement by the road, that the new line Is to begin at a point of connec tion with the main line of said company as now constructed, Immediately west of the Missouri river bridge. In the county of Pewey, and extending In a southwesterly direction to a crossing of th Moreau river, proceeding thence southerly and south westerly up the valley of Virgin creek to the plateau In township 12 north, range 27 cast; thence In a westerly direction along or near the north line tjf Armstrong county, and said line produced, through tho coun ties of Dewey, Armstrong, Schnasse, Meade and Butte, to the west line of Butte county. The estimated length of which line Is approximately 215 miles." Bankers' Program. The program of the State Bankers' asso ciation, which meets In this city the 23d and 24th of this month. Includes talks by Congressman E. W. llartln, Governor Ves sey and Bank Examiner J. L. Jones among the state officials, and bankers from out side the Btate who are on the program, In clude Charles R. FroBt and W. I. Nolan of Minneapolis, David Williams of Duluth, C. N. Lukes of Sioux City and E. R. Gur ney of Fremont, Neb. Besides the business of the session the visitors will be given an excursion to the buffalo pasture, a flsh-cho,wder lunch on Marlon Island, and other entertainment. The session prom ises to be an Important one and a good at- (Continued on Second Page.) Did you ever stop and admire some one's yard full of flowers and shrub bery, and wish you had a yard like that? Listen and we will tell you how you may have your de- sire at a very small cost and a very little work. On our want ad pact's we have a classification "For Garden and Lawn." These advertis ers are asking for a chance to heautify your yards. Tele phone them or call on them. Have you read tha want adg yet today! ,. , m FEW MORE DAYS-LIKE THIS Negro Boxer's Success Pleases Booker T. Noted Colored Educator Uses Jack Johnson's Victory as Text for Sermon. NEW YORK, June C Jack Johnson's title to the heavyweight championship of the world wus the basic theme tonight In a sermon preached by Booker T. Wash ington to the Negro Men's Business league of New York. The fighter's name was not mentioned, however. "In the last analysis," Dr. Washington told his hearers, "success Is what counts. Success, despite race or color, makes the man on top respect you. What the world wants Is success; hold up your successes; don't herald your gloom. You remember when a certain member of our race went to Australia to- rto a Job warnings were sounded that the color line would be drawn. The question was hurled at him: 'Aren't you afraid In that white man's country?' Now suppose he had gone to Australia crestfallen, saying that he was a negro and much oppressed, would ha have won? It Is a godsend that he did win. It shows to the negro race what determination will do. Tho time has come when a negro must get a commercial. business and economic footing, and get It In this generation, or. fall In ever get ting It. Commerce, the dollar, tlraws nd color line. The man who produce what somebody else wants will get the trade." Canada Taking Our Products Figures from Ottawa Indicate that Great Britain is Losing; Ground. WASHINGTON, June 6,-Merchandlse from the United States forms a steadily Increasing share of the imports of Canada, as shown by figures from Canadian offi cial publcatlons. Just received by the Bu-1 reau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Import from the United States to Canada increased from 34.03 per cent of the total Importations of Canada In 1H9 to fi0.4 per cent In th fiscal year ending March SU 1S09, while Im ports from Great Britain have decreased in the same period from 66.2 per cent to 28.69 per cent. Two-thirds of Canada's Imports are manufactured, amounting In 1007, the last year for which statistics are available, to Jiryi.000,000. Of this amount $&9,000,000 worth. 53 per cent were from the United States and only $54,000,000, or 33 per cent from Great Britain. Merchandise entering Can ada from the United Kingdom and most of the British colonies Is admitted at ratea materially below those of the general tariff paid by merchandise from the United States. TAFT LISTENS TO SERMON Companies of the Golf Link at Mar ray Bay Ha President for a Listener. WASHINGTON. June .-Occupying th Lincoln pew at tha New York Avenue Presbyterian ch uioh. President Taft this afternoon heard Rev. Dr. Heridge of Ot tawa, Canada, preaoh the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of George Washington university. Dr. Heridge waa a companion of President Taft on the golf links at Murray Bay on numerous occa sions last summer. Thorndike Compares Men and Women Teachers WASHINGTON, June . That men have less education as a preparation for teach ing In the secondary public schools of the United States than women, .and that they remain In teaching little longer than the opposite sex, are conclusions reached by Edward L. Thorndike of the Teachers' college, Columbia university, after a care ful Investigation. The results are pre sented by lilin In a publication arranged at the request of the United States Bu reau of Education and made public today. Prof. Thorndike presents a variety of significant facts with regard to the educa tion, experience and salaries of teacher In the secondary schools. He also notes that there la not so much difference In the pay for the same (or o-Htenslbly the same) work as th aver age wuiarles usually quoted lead one to btllcve. The average salaries are com poundd In part of, and ovei influenced by, the few large salaries paid to heads of departments, principals and those who may be called "managing teachers," who, with out official roognlUun In UUa, ax ex- l I f li A I " i. U.Vtw-y t WJ- ur '.' j AND- SIIELT0N1M) WOMAN ARRIVE Man Charged with Being Fourth Rob ber of Overland in Omaha. WOMAN WILL TELL A FEW THINGS Lillian Stephenson, Companion of Shelton, Uronaht to Omaha as Witness, Sny Mirll Tell What She Know." Jack Shelton, the fourth suspect In the Overland Limited holdup case, and Lillian Stephenson', the woman who Is expect-! to be one of the principal witnesses against the prisoners, arrived In Omaha from Den ver Sunday Hfternoon and are naw con fined In the county Jail. Shelton a pre liminary hearing ha been set for this morning at 10 o'clock. The arrival of the man and woman from Denver In charge of Deputy Marshals Thomas Clark and W. H. Robinson and Postofflce Inspectors C. L. Patterson and Thompson was to be kept a secret, only the Omaha police and the government and rail way officials being told of It. A large crowd soon gathered at the depot when Shelton and the women were taken from a Union Paclflo train at 6 o'clock and accom panied to the street They were evidently recognized by their pictures and because Shelton was handcuffed. The police auto patrol was waiting and took the male prisoner with' the Denver deputies. United juues Marshal Warner, Chief Canada of the Union Pacific and Police Captain Mostyn to the federal budd ing. The postofflce Inspectors followed In a street car with the woman. First the man and then the woman were taken before United ' States Commissioner Anderson In his private office. Shelton said his name was Jack Shelton, although he was brought here on a warrant which designated him as Jack Gordon, c'las Shel ton. It was explained that as the day was Sunday, no examination could be made, so Commissioner Anderson fixed the bond at $25,000, In default of which Shelton . was committed to th care of Marshal Warner to be placed In the county jail. Lillian 1 Golnar to Talk. Lillian Stephenaon waa taken before the commissioner later, and was told that she was wanted by the government as a wit ness against Shelton. Asked If she could furnish ball, she replied In the negative, so no bond was fixed. She was committed to the custody of the marshal, who was told to provide her with the best comforts available In. the matron' department of th county Jail, give her th best of treat ment and produce her this morning for Shelton's preliminary hearing. Hhe seemed willing to follow the course laid out for her by the authorities. "Are you going to throw down Shelton and the other men and testify against them," she Mas asked while waiting at the federal building. "I'm going to tell, what I know," she said. It is said she claims to hav known Shel ton and the other prisoners only a short time, yet It is known to the officers that she has been living off and on with Shel ton for six weeks and knew him and the others before that time In Spokane, from which city she went to Danver. "Shelton told me when w last met in Denver, a short time ago, that h had been east," she said Sunday. "I heard nothing whatever about a hold-up and If he was In It, It was not with my knowl edge." In answer to question by the officers Shelton said he v.as a barber by trade, had been closely watching tha hold-up news In the Omaha papers,, had "been In Omaha lately," and liked th city all (Continued on Second Page.) pected to do the Hon' share In the organ ization and the car of the school. All these are much more often men than women. Consequently, Prof. Thorndike de clares, the most frequent or most typical man's salary Is only S3 3 per cent greater than that of a omen. The report develops th further facts .hat only one-fifth of th women reach 'he median salary for men; mor than five-ninths of tha women have as long an education as has the median man and not quite two-fifths of the women have taught as long as the median man. After, pointing out that full efficiency from experience In the work of a private secondary school is reached In this cane In three years, Prof. Thorndike suggests, In conclusion, that it may b wise for a city to pay Its teachers what will maintain a certain standard of living rather than what will Just purchase th required efficiency; and on this principle tha head of a family, at least, shoufd be advanced wltlj age or with some other still mor aocurat measur of th alse of bis famUy FIVE THOUSAND HEAR SMITH Powerful Y. M. C. A. Worker Talk in Auditorium on "America's Greatest Sin." "INDIFFERENCE TO GOD." CRIME Employed Officers Form Great Male Choir for Remarkable Meeting. APPEAL FOR HELP ENLISTS MEN Hundreds Arise and Fledge Assists ance, Asking World's Prayers, PROSPERITY CAUSES NEGLECT Frivolity r;ors with It to Undermine RcllKlon n In nays of Mosr When lie Appealed to Men Not to Forget God. Five thousand men hoard Fred B. Smith of New York City at the Omaha Audi torium Sunday afternoon speak on "Amer ica's JreKtfBt Sin." Mr. Smith Is field secretary of religious work of the International committee. Young Men's Christian association; a west ern man who formerly made his home In a small South Dakota town nnd has be come one of the most powerful workers among men In the whole civilised world. Heat was not a stumbling stone to young men of Omaha, and the visiting employed officers of the association who have been attending the conference in Omaha. Many of the visitors occupied seats on tho great stuge and formed a mammoth male chorus, which led tho sing ing. Amid this Inspiring scene Mr. Smith de livered one of his characteristic addresses, closing with a personal appeal to men to help put down the wrong doing which he termed "America's Greatest Sin," and hundreds arose and pledged their help and asked for the prayers of Christian people everywhere. This la the . ln of Today "America's greatest sin Is Indifference to God," declared Mr. Smith. "From away back In the days of Moses comes the far cry: 'Young man, beware lest you forget Ood.' The whole book of Deuteronomy In history of three sermons preached by Moses on on day, and the burdon of all these sermons was: 'Beware, beware, be ware, lest you forget God.' That was centuries upon centuries ago, but there Is a need In North America, the United States, In Nebraska, right here In Omaha, as groat as when Moses ut tered those words of warning. I nave a fear that some day some man will write a history and say In that his tory that at the close of th nineteenth century, and at th dawn of the twentieth century, the fire of commercialism, fun and Indifference burned so hot that many men forgot Ood. Are We In danger T If we are. I must have some arguments to back me up. I will give you three things: "Frivolity, funoslty, prosperity. "These are the three things we are most In danger of, the throe things which are undermining religious life In our coun try. Religion has been a common story, a common nnd Incidental thing. People ar too apt to flirt with It, to be frivolous, and this looking upon religion as something as a matter of course Is the first peril. "The second peril Is what I call funzono or funoslty. , I never saw a country on th face of the globe which was so satis fied with cheap amusement as this coun try of ours. Pleasure Is a good thing, but when the time comes that the dominant note In your life Is that of fun, when the cry of fun has so taken you by the throat , that you cannot remember the Sabbath day and keep It holy, Ood Is not In your life and you are In peril. Cheap Theater Are Cam, "I do not go after the theaters, whole sale, with an axe, for I believe that such men as Joe. Jefferson taught some good lessons, but the five and ten-cnt theater are a bane and an evil. "Prosperity Is the third peril. Ther I too much certainty In our material life to pay much attention to our spiritual life. You men are not praying, church going, God-fearing men because you are satisfied and feel sure In your material prosperity. With the average man re ligion decreases as wealth Increases. It takes a big man to remain true In faco of great prosperity. , The better th Job a man gets or the bigger the salary, th harder It la for him to get down on his knees In prayor to God. "The paramount issue today Is not pros perity, la not money, Is not automotblea; but the great Issue today Is the redemp tion of this old world In th name of Jesus Christ. The man who leaves re ligion out of his Ufa loses bis Ufa. R. liglon Is that thing whloh makea men truly great We have mor honest men than dishonest, but mor young men will rob banks, forge checks and pilfer life Insurance companies end these yeung men will come from that class which leaves religion out. "Be brave.' Forget frivolity, funoslty and prosperity. Get down on your knees before God and confess Him before all men. You can becom a servant of Christ In five minutes If you have the nerv to do it, and men of nerve are tha men th Savior want In His service." A quartet composed of Paul Gilbert of New York. E. W. Peck of Minneapolis. "nn"f ftianuci or Dea Moines and Fred U Willis of Worcester. Mass., sang sev eral songs, and a couple of solos were given by Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Willis, formerly secretary of the Omaha Young Mn' Christian association, directed tha choru singing, whloh waa participated In by th entire audience. BOYS MIST BB TAKE.V ILOSO Internatlonal fleeretary of Boys' De partment "peaks at Church. R. A. Watte, Jr.. of New York. Interna tlonal secretary of the bovs" deportment of th Young Men's Christian association, spoke at the First Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morning. His text ti from Genesis xllv:Sl, "How shall I go unto my Father If the lad be not with me." i, icai im mv vrrjr grnrun or me Young Me" " christian association, and was handled by the peki r in a deeply ln- terestlng snd lirpres:lve manner. "We are too prune to save th boy by the pur.e rather than by the person," suld Mr. Walte. " 'How shall I go to the Father If the lad be not with me,' Is a cry that should Interest every father and anothar of a boy or girl. Of the s.OOO.Oso boys In America only MO.Ots) ar In Ui buuda