THE. BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917.
FREIGHT RATES TO
BE ADJUSTED SOON
Manager McVann Gives Opti
mistic Report to Governors
of Traffic Bureau.
BACK TO OLD SCHEDULE
A complete report of the present
status of the Nebraska freight rates
was made at noon by E. J. McVann,
manager of the traffic bureau of the
Commercial club, before the newly
elected governing committee of the
bureau at the Commercial club
rooms.
It is believed now that an adjust
ment of the Nebraska rates satisfac
tory in a measure to all concerned is
soon to be accomplished. Chaos has
reigned in Nebraska rates since the
Interstate Commerce commission
overthrew the schedule of Nebraska
Order No. 19. During a succession
of recent conferences between rail
road officials and traffic men repre
senting the shippers of Nebraska
cities and towns and the Missouri
river cities across the border from
Nebraska, a tentative schedule of
rates has been practically completed.
This will mean a compromise in some
instances, but in general aims at a
readjustment that will put rates back
as nearly as possible on the basis
they had before Order No. 19 went
into effect a few years ago. It aims
at equalization as nearly as possible.
The conference of these rate ex
perts wtih the traffic men of the roads
is to be continued February 2 at St.
Joseph,- Mo. Manager McVann of
the traffic bureau in Omaha is to at
tend the meeting. I
Omaha Patriots
To Honor Lincoln
j And Washington
Fourteet. patriotic societies of
Greater Omaha are arranging i Lincoln-Washington
bi'thday anniver
sary celebration in the Auditorium,
Monday, February 12, at 2 p. m. The
Board of Education will be requested
to announce this in all schools. The
high school cadets will take part in
the program, which is being arranged.
Major R. S. Wilcox, Captain C. E.
Adams, Colonel Egati, Fran'x Simp
ton and Jonathan Edwards called at
the city hall and arranged for the
use of the Auditorium. Mayor Dahl
man will isr.ue a proclamation and an
effort will be made to have business
suspended during the aftenoon of the
day to be observed in honor of two
immortal Americans. .
Rush Order for
. Building Brings
Judges Together
Judge Troup and Judge Day of the
district court met with the county at
torney and city attorney at noon to 1
discuss the proposed Dill, wmcn win
be drawn up by them, to be prescn'c 1
to the legislature, in which the cou.i
ty commissioners will be authorized
to sell the present county hospital
poor farm property and build a new
institution. The proposed legislation
was derided upon at meeting Sat
urday attended by the commissioners,
county hospital medical board, state
senator! and representatives from
Douglas county, representatives from
the Omaha Commercial club and oth
ers interested in the agitation (or
new county hospital. If the bill is
not presented to the legislature
before Wednesday, it will have to be
introduced by the governor.
Special Knowledge Wins
7 Day for Commissioner
When proposed revised paving spe
cifications were considered by the city
council committee of the whole, Com
missioner Parks put a finger in the
pie. He was a paving contractor be
fore he entered public life. He op
posed City Engineer Bruce on the
proposition of providing for "a sand
cushion between concrete base and
surface of brick pavements
The city engineer explained that
the sand and cement filler serves to
provide an even base for the brick.
Mr. Parks said the filler had no prac
tical value and even showed wherein
it should not be allowed in the new
specifications.
The specifications were referred
t back to the city engineering depart
ment for further consideration.
Gravett Gets Pardon On
Recommendation of Judge
Granted a pardon by the governor
upon recommendation of James M.
Fitzgerald, Omaha police magistrate.
Sam Gravett, sentenced to thirty days
in jail for vagrancy, has been released
and will return to his wife and three
children in Chicago.
Gravett came to Omaha some time
ago in search of work and was picked
up on a vagrancy charge. He re
sisted arrest and when he appeared
in police court he drew a sentence of
thirty days.
His wife and mother-in-law in Chi
cago took up the matter and wrote
several letters to Judge Fitzgerald,
begging him to release Gravett The
judge mailed the letters to the gov
ernor wtih the recommendation that
Gravett be pardoned.
Peace and War Talk Sends
Cash Prices Up a Little
Peace and war talk, while it caused
flurry on the option grain market,
sending it up 2 or 3 cenfs a bushel,
had little effect upon the cash trad
ing. On the Omaha exchange sales
were made at Yi cent to 1 cent above
the prices of Saturday. There was
a good demand and wheat fetched
$1.77 to $1.79 per bushel. Receipts
were 128 carloads.
Corn was cent to V, cent higher,
selling at 94954 cents per bushel,
with 136 carloads on sale.
- Oats were 'A cent up and sold at
5'A(aS! cents per bushel. The re
ceipts were 38 carloads.
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rrd ftmplr laid o Hie -kln no rubbing
required 41 drive Pata away, Jlq. All drug.
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MAKING FRIENDS
FOR A METROPOLIS
Advertising Forces Tributary
Towns to Think of Omaha
First, Last and Always.
IT PAYS, SAYS ROSEWATEE
Every week 900 papers in Nebraska
and Iowa receive articles and news
items concerning Omaha life and bus
iness activity. This service is fur
nished by the bureau of publicity in
Omaha. These articles appearing in
the daily and weekly trade papers
keep the people throughout Omaha's
trade territory posted as to Omaha's
activities.
This is only one of the many meth
ods of publicity used by the bureau,
all of which are recounted and de
scribed in the annual report of the
Bureau of Publicity, just issued by
C. C. Rosewater, last year's chairman
of the governing committee of the
bureau.
Social Cement.
The report on this phase of pub
licity continues: "These news items
deal with Omaha's development in
different lines. They correct mis
leading and false impressions of the
city. They are the most vital factor
in the cementing of friendship of the
state in that they continually show
the constructive side of Omaha life."
The report recounts the many pop
ular movements initiated by the bur
eau, or co-operated in by the bureau,
such as "Stop Off at Omaha," "Ne
braska Day at the State Fair," "Edi
tors' Day" in Omaha, the develop
ment of Omaha as a musical center
by bringing noted talent here for con
certs, the taking over of the Audi
torium by the city and many other
activities of this nature.
Record Shipment of
Recruits Made from Here
The largest shipment of recruits in
the history of the local army recruit
ing office was sent from Omaha to
Fort Logan, Colo., the army training
school, Saturday. Twentv-nine men
were sent to Fort Logan. The previous
record was twenty-two.
A total ot torty-one men were
handled at the local office Saturday,
but four of them were refused and
eight had to be held until a later date
for various reasons.
The Omaha army recruiting office
has made 201 enlistments so far this
month. The record enlistment was
248, made in December, and Sergeant
Hanson, in charge ot the ofhee, hopes
to surpass that mark this month.
Blonde Burglar Bumps
Into J. C. Mertz at Home
J. C. Mertz, contractor, who lives at
4220 Farnam street, was in his library
Monday night when he heard the
front door open. He hurried to the
reception room and ran into a tall
blonde individual.
"Is this 3820 Farnam street?" the
intruder stammered.
"No," said Mr. Mertz, who was
about to take the man to task when
he vanished.
Mr, Mertz believed the stranger
was a burglar. He reported the mat
ter to the police. .
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Hogs Sell Here at
The Record Price
Of Eleven-Fifty
Hogs sold at another record price
yesterday at the stock yards. Four
shipments from Missouri valley
farmers drew a high price of $11.50,
or 5 cents higher than the record es
tablished - last week. The hog run
was exceptionally heavy for a Mon
day. Feeder lambs also sustained a rec
ord mark of $14.15, or 10 cents lower
than the high price paid for fat lambs
on today's market.
Fall clipped lambs made a new rec
ord of $12.50.
Wants to Quit the Army
To Join Uncle Sam's Navy
Once a sailor always a sailor, 'tis
said. That probably is the reason J.
F. Webster, 1001 Park avenue, prefers
the romantic life on the bounding
main to that of a dough boy among
the cactus brush and the tarantulas on
the Mexican border.
Webster was a member of Company
J), Fourth Nebraska National Guard,
but 'the life didn't appeal to him, so
sought to enlist in Uncle Sam's navy
at the local recruiting office.
He is now anxiously awaiting the
arrival of his dismissal papers from
the National Guard, which are now
in transit some place, so that he can
sign his name to the navy roll.
Webster used to be a sailor on a
vessel plying between New York and
Liverpool.
Schools Reopen
With Hundreds of
New Enrollments
The opening of the new semester of
the public schools Monday morning
brought 08 new pupils to the High
School of Commerce, 190 to Central
High school and seventy-five to South
High school. Seventy-five of 650
Eighth B graduates of last week did
not continue their studies in the pub
lic high schools.
The carryall which hat been used
in the Windsor school district has
been abandoned. Children living a
considerable distance from this school
have been transferred to the South
Franklin, which is within walking uis
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THE MANow the GIRDER HAS HEALTH
The man at the desk often
lacks it.
Are you an office worker? Are
you obliged to guard your health
against the consequences of too
much indoor brain work and not
enough out-door exercise P
Constipation is dangerous. The
laxative habit is even more so,
because it tends to make consti
pation chronic.
Nujol relieves constipation
effectively and without forming
a habit. It prevents the contents
of the intestines from becoming
hard, and in this way makes
natural movements easy. It acts
in effect as an internal
lubricant.
Nugol is bottled at the refinery and is
sold only in pint battles bearing the
nam Nujol and the imprint of the
Standard Oil Company (New Jer
sey). Refuse substitutes be sure you
get the genuine. Write today for
booklet, "The Rational Treatment for
Constipation."
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Btyonn
(New Ihmt)
New Jersey
LABOR NOT DEFIANT,
BUT DETERMINED
Samuel Gompers Reviews
Work of Fifty Years at
Testimonial Banquet.
WILSON SENDS REGRETS
New York, Jan. 29. Samuel Gomp
ers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, received one of the
greatest ovations of his career when
he arose to speak early today at the
close of a testimonial dinner attended
by more than 1,000 labor leaders
from all parts of the country. Mr.
Gompers urged organized workmen
to think about peace, to work for
peace and to pray for peace.
"Labor stands with its shoulders
squared," he said, "not defiant, but
determined. The protest against con
ditions that work hardships must not
be diverted for a moment."
The labor leader declared that while
he could leave his children no for
tune, he would leave better labor con
ditions under which they would not
find it so hard to live as he had
found it when he first entered the in
dustrial fields. After every great time
of strife and destruction, -he said,
there was a corresponding reaction
which affected the mass of the peo
ple. The dinner marked the sixty-seventh
anniversary of Mr. Gomper's
birth, the completion of his fifty years
of service in the cause of union labor
and his golden wedding anniversary.
President Wilson sent a letter of
greeting and congratulations. In ex
pressing regret for hjs inability to at
tend the dinner the president said:
"Unhappily I have been obliged to
deny myself every pleasure of this
kind because of imperative duties
which fall upon me every day while
the congress is in session."
The speakers included James Dun
can, vice president of the American
Federation of Labor; Hugh Frayne,
general organizer; Frank Morrison,
secretary; Warren S. Stone, grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers; John Mitchell, chair
man of the New York state industrial
commission; Alton B. Parker and sev
eral others. It was nearly 3 o'clock
when Mr. Gompers made the conclud
ing remarks.
Good Bluffers to Gather
At University Club Soon
Good bluffers are cordially invited
to attend the Candlemas Night
Smoker of the University club Fri
day evening.
"You will be permitted, nay urged,
to violate the sacred rules of the house
committee," says the N. R. S. V. P.
announcer of the entertainment com
mittee. "Slight nourishment will be
administered( to those who show the
need also cut plug. Beware the
bouncer."
A postscript advises "Gamboling 8
to 10."
READ BEE WANT-ADS
We Will Pay $25
For a Slogan!
See If You Can Think of a Catchy and Appro
priate Expression to Advertise That Won
derful Laxative, "Laxola."
It's ffointr to b easy for someone to
get that 125.00. Everyone U eligible
to try. And it touts nothing to try.
Just mail us your suggestion, that's all.
We believe LAX-OLA is without ques
tion the best remedy ever originated for
constipation, sluggish liver, biliousness, as
well as for colds, headaches and other
conditions due to clogging of the intes
tinal tract Its users evidently agree
with us judging from the steadily in
creasing ssles, and from the numerous
letters of praise which come to us. We
would like to have the virtues of LAX
OLA known to every person in the land
who ever has need for a laxative. A
good slogan, or "catch phrase," would
aid considerably in attracting the atten
tion of possible users and in inducing
them to try our product.
On every box of this preparation are
the words "Lax-ola -the Key to Health."
This slogan means much when one stops
to analyze itfor the proper removal of
a constipated dondition means the re
moval also of various other troubles and
symptoms. Yet we believe someone can
suggest a more effective and convincing
slogan. Perhaps something that will give
a better idea of what, LAX-OLA is or
what it does. Perhaps something that
will Impress the reader at a glance With
the fact that LAX-OLA is really "differ
ent" better entirely out of the class of
the usual laxatives and purgatives. Some
thing that will make people want LAX
OLA the instant they read your slogan.
LAX-OLA is sold by druggists at 25
cents a package. It works like Nature.
Not the least griping, distress or dis
comfort accompanies its action. It con
tains no habit-forming element. Does not
injure the delicate lining of stomach, in
testines or kidneys. No weakening or
depressing after result. Rather, there is
a strengthening, vitalizing effect for
LAX-OLA is a helpful tonic as well as lax
ative. And it is pleasant-tasting chil
dren like is as well as adults.
These are some of the reasons why
Lax-ola is preferred by people "who know."
If you have used the remedy you have
no doubt found otner good reasons for
its increasing popularity. If you will ask
some friend who has used it just which
features of superiority appeal most strong
ly to him or her you might secure a
valuable hint in this way.
Try to think of a slogan good enough
for so good a remedy. Brevity is de
sirable. Do not use more than 10 words.
Send your suggestion as soon as you
have it, with your name and address, plain
ly written. Your letter should reach us
not later than Feb. 6th. There are no
other "conditions."
If our board of directors selects your
slogan as the best and moat suitable,
our check for 125.00 will be mailed you
as soon as the decision is reached. Name
and address of the winner will be sent
to all contestants. Contest closes in Chi
cago on Feb. 6th, at 6 o'clock p. m. Your
letter must be here by that time in
order to receive consideration. This an
nouncement will not appear in this paper
again. Cut it out, so you won't lose our
address and send us your slogan after
taking time to hit upon one that pleases
you. Address
International Pharmaceutical Co.,
2-4-6-8 South Dearborn St, Chicago.
Tired All Over
?
Mrs. Kate Metz Mirier, of Cobden, 111., says: "I was troubled
irith Irregularities. . . headache. . . and felt tired all over. . . I
thought I would try Carditi and found it did me so much good. I have
lone of those troubles any more. . . My mother had been suffering S)
with different ailments. and troubles due to change of life. . . head
ache all the time. She began to use the Caxdui, taking about five
bottles. . . now she is not troubled with those old ailments any more. . . I
Dnly wish I could Induce all sick women to try It and be convinced as I have
been." Why don't you try Caidoi? It may be Just what you need.
USED 40 YEARS
The Women's Tonic
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