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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1917)
D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 8, 1917. GROH SINGS OF IAIN IN ALUTS BEAUTY Patter on the Tin Boof is Wel come Sonnd in the Land of ' Growing Crops. HALF OUR SHARE YEAR AGO By A. R. GROH. Welcome, rain I ' Dear old rain, we haven't teen yon or so long. Did you hear it patter ing on the roof last night? Wasn't it nice? I have looked around quite a bit for some appropriate poetry to celebrate you, rain. But I can't find any that does you justice. So I'll write some myself, as follows: Rain, rein, d.ar old rain! -.! Tint H ll our (lad refrain. Wt love to hear you on th roof, Pltf.r-p.Uer-.woof-.woof. Wa llko to feci you In our face, City, country, any placo. Rain, rain, lentl. aln, , Woloomo onca a.alr. I Even that doesn't quite satisfy me. But it will do. Last year they cheated us on the pleasant rain.- We got ool" about seventeen inches when ' we should have had thirty. Think of all the hours of gentle pitter-patter on the tin roof of the porch those thirteen inches would have given I They Forget the Rain. Why is it that the poets all sing about the sunshine or about the "beautiful snow" that has to be shov eled off the ralks? I sing the rain that, falling, kisses the flowers and the cornstalks and the cabbages, that tinkles rhythmi cally on the roof and against the win dow, that runs off the streets and cleans them instead of lying around in everybody's v ay. - We get, on the average, 30.7 inches of rain each year in Omaha. The average for the whole world is 36 inches. North Platte gets only 18.9 inches. Des Moines gets 32.S Inches; Du buque, 34 inches; Denver, 14 inches; Kansas City and St. Louis, 37.2 inches; Chicago, 33.3 inches; New York City, 44.6 inches; San Fran cisco, just half that, 22.3 inches. Th wettest place in the United States is Mobile, Ala., where they have an annual rainfall of 62 inches-. And the dryest place is Yuma, Ariz., with only 3.1 inches of rain a year. (Not much "yumidity" in Yuma, eh?) ' Downpours Rare. If you have ever spent a winter in Pi ris or London you ill be sur prised to learn that their respective annual rainfalls are only 22 inches and 25 inches. It seems to be always drinly or foggy there, but the ac tual downpours re rare. The wettest place on earth is Cherrapongee, in southwestern As sam, where the annual rainfall is 45S inches, fifteen times as much as we have in Om?ha. In 1861 this place 1 had the prodigious rainfall of 901 inches, about two and a half inches a day I It would take a continual downpour tho whole year round to t,rod ce that ; We get just (bout the right amount here. We enjoy it when it comes and don't get so much that we tire of it. I speak here purely from the aes thete standpoint, saying nothing of the great crops that this grin pro duces for us, Oh, beautiful, beautiful rain I Grace Miner's Mother Is Burned to tieath at Home Mrs. Epsrinf Miner, welt known resident of Yankton for the last forty years, died Saturday as the result of burns suffered in an accident in her home Friday. She was the mother of Miss Grace Miner, Orjiaha school teacher and social worker, and of Dr. Harry R. Miner of Falls City, Neb. WAR ORDERS ARE EXECUTED HERE National Guard Resumes Re cruiting and Many Men Join the Navy. GUARD STRATEGIC PLACES Wa? conditions were reflectei lo cally yesterday. Recruiting for the Na tional Guard was resumed at noon under orders from headquarters Steps were taken to commandeer all wi'elcss stations in this d'jtrict. Ap plications to join the army and navy showed marked increases since the war proclamation was issued Friday. National Guard recruiting for the Omaha battalion has been ordered to resume until each if the four line companies has a complement ol 100 men, Colonel Baehr 3)S. As tVe companies now average over sixty men ejeh about ISO nwe guard re cruits are needed now, fficers say. Company B, now abjvc the newly authorized peace strength ot 100 men, will have some of its men trans ferred to smaller comptnies. Origi nal recruiting 'orders for the gt-ad were for war strength jl 150 men per company, so the new orders for a limit of 100 men per company. re taken to indicate that i!c guard wil be kept on as an efficient foot inn as possible by keeping down the nuin ber of green men, Tho unofficial conclusion from 'he order is that the guard is soon going to see active service and will take he field long before the proposed :iri sen soldiery, still being considered by congress. - While recruiting was resumed at the Sixteenth and Farnam station, practically all available guardsmen were posted on important guard duty, as the result of the condition of actual war. Guarding of strategic communi cation and transportation points was supplemented with extra protection to stores of supplies and similar war goods in transit. , Cripple Wireless. Following general orders for the navy to commandeer all wireless plants, and put out of commission those which are 'not neoded for of ficial communication, Lieutenant Wad dell of the local navy recruiting sta 'tiun began a canvass of the wireless stations in this district. There are a considerable number of these, most ly of the small amateur type. Leonard W. Trester ot Lincoln, secretary of the Nebraska Naval Training association, came to Omaha to secure more wireless operators and conferred with Lieutenant Waddell. Five men were .enlisted out of a rush of thirty-lour applicants for the navy, mostly in the afternoon and evening Friday., Seven more were enlisted Saturday up to noon. Army recruiting brought in a total of fourteen certain enlistments and four more nrobable ones Saturday morning. Sixty men had previously been enlisted in the Omaha district during the week. Des Moines fur nished more of these thai any other substation. Marine corps recruiting is being pushed to the limit by Sergeant Car penter, who is alone in the work here. With expected increases to be au thorized for the marine corps, its to tal complement will be more th-.i double what it was a week ago, so many more "soldiers of the sea" are badly needed now. That war conditions now exist here was forcibly brought to the atten tion of Night Captain Schaffer of the .Council Bluffs police, when he at tempted ' unwittingly to pass the Guardsmen's line at one of the bridges. He was brought up short witu a command to halt, winch was emphasised by a loaded rifle be ing leveled at his head. He promptly halted and wildly grabbed the air above his head. GU XVhy A. The bids were dosed . when he arrived to submit his own, which, by the way, would have "landed the bacon". " Q. Surely he knew the closing time and the strictness of the conditions? A. Oh, yes, as wen as he knew how to figure, but his trouble is that, like a ' lot of shrewd business men, he leaves certain important details to incom petents, ."-..,., Q. j what respect? A. He depends upon his chauffeur buy ing just ordinary tires for his car.. With an equipment of Lee Puncture Proof Tires he could laugh ot (ht tnubltt of ordinary tires, and, as a keen man of business he should get the safety idea and the full dollars and r r"ww!4i nn 'i fes from POWELL SUPPbV COMPANY SOSI ramus St. JNmm Dou. Ml "N,Jt WW Lee Standard Tires Give mors tin comfort and mUMge than ever before claimed for any tandard males of tiros, Lee Tubes Alwayalandanofrara thicknaa. and rugged neaa. They an witrtmo ly supple, tough, rall tent and long wearing. County and City at War Over Feed Bills of the City Prisoners Eruption Follows Issuance of ' Ultimatum from Douglas to Omaha. Quote An . cient Law. CITY MUST FOOT TEE BILLS Comes now the county with an ultimatum to the city to pay for the feeding and lodging of city prisoners In the county jail. If the city does not pay for the care of its prisoners he county can refuse admittance to those prisoners, County Attorney Magney has advised county officials. It is the breaking out of an old controversy. The county comptroller has looked up the law which the county attorney says will hold good in case the city does not "kick in." This -state law section 3548, revised statues of 1913 provides that where there are separate city and county jails and the city wishes to care for its prisoners in the county bastile, a charge of 15 cents for feeding and 15 cents for lodging shall be made. In a communication to county offi cials County Attorney Magney ad vises them that if demand is made on the city and it refuses to pay. its share of the jail expenses, as pro vided by law, the county has the right to refuse to accept the pris oners. "The city hasn't paid the keep of city prisoners in years," declared County Clerk Dewey. "The city has always attempted to evade payment by threatening to counteract our claims. But now the county should refuse to accept city prisoners if their feeding and lodging is not paid for." . Columbus Will Have : , ' New Summer Resort Columbys, Neb., April 7. Special.) The people of Columbus and sur rounding territory are to enjoy the privileges of a rea summer and fish ing resort, to be called Shady Lake. It is an inviting body of water north west of the city, 'formerly known both as Stevens and Smith's lake. The promoters. Otto Walter, county attorney, and Harold Kramer, have started the improvements with the erection of a dance hall, pavilion, bath house, boat house, cottage and camp facilities. The Union .mpany of Omaha expects to extend its electric lines to the park so as to provide ample lighting. Row boats, canoes and motor boats will be provided. An investment of several thousand dol lars is being made and everything will be in full swing by June 1. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. REEL FELLOWS' CLUB HONORS L. A. OCR'S Campaigner for Clean Pictures Gets Royal Reception from Omaha Movie Men. OFFER TO THE PRESIDENT Members of the Reel Fellows' club of Omaha gave a luncheon at Hotel Rome at noon in honor of Lee At Ochs, president of the Motion Pic ture Exhibitors' League of America, who is in Omaha, He is making a tour of the country that takes him into practically every state in the uiion. He is preaching the gospel of clean pictures. C. W. Tayljr, president of the Reel- club of Omaha, presided at the luncheon. Mr. Ochs was the prin cipal speaker. "I believe the days of wildcat schemes, and of the exploitation of photoplays of questionable character are over," said Mr. Ochs. Fleeting Success. . "Don't think for a moment that I mean that the so-called sensational film, setting forth the life of the un derworld in various forms, is not a money-maker for a time. It is, and its strength lies in the fact that the exhibitor who sees the crowds lining up in front of his rival's house finds it hard to resist the temptation to go and do likewise. But if these pictures draw crowds, thi, also drive them away. I don't believe you can tell 'me of a single case where a motion pic ture theater has thrived on continued exploitation of them. Nor can you show me a house that has not suf fered severely from the after-effects of these films. The weeks succeeding the showing of one of them are mighty lean. "And so we have been able grad ually to wean the exhibitor away from them until today all of our members are pledged to keep them out of their houses. Even better than that, there is a growing disposition on the part of the film producers to stop manufacturing them and it, will be a matter of a very short time when they are completely eliminated." , Recruiting By Movies. Mr. Ochs has just telegraphed Jo seph Tumulty, secretary to Presi dent Wilson, offering to put at the disposal of the government the movie sc.eens all over the United States for any propaganda or publicity work of any kind that the government might find valuable in the present in ternational crisis. Mr. Ochs says the movies even now are already aiding recruiting a great deal by the pictures being displayed of troops drilling and of the recruiting activities in various places. Woman Has Hip Fractured When Struck by Automobile Mrs. Marie Webster, 5319 Walnut street, received a compound fracture of the right hip Friday evening when she was struck by an automobile at Fifty-third and Center streets, driven by Cyril Sheehy, 815 South Thirty fifth street, son of P. J. Sheehy, su perintendent of the Cudahy Packing company. Cyril Sheehy lost control of his ma chine when it ran into a depression in the road, the car running into Mrs. Webster, who was just about to cross. The car was going at, a moder ate rate of speed, it is said, when the accident occurred. Tha Omaha Phlloaophteal aoolatr will meet Sunday at S In Lyrlo building, Nln.t.nlh and Farnam atreeu. Dr. D. B. Jsnktns. praaldant Unlveralty of Omaha, will aptak on "la Inflnlta Pareonallty a Contradiction In T.rmat1 j Perry Lock j I Steering Wheel j j Theft ! Insurance INo two locks have keys alike. Front wheels are wild when ear is locked. (Ask us about it now. Phone Douglas 8217. National Auto Accessories Co. I 884-6-8 Brandeis Bldg. Omaha, Neb. I .Prices ImcF ay 1st Order Now and Order Quick . ' We have expected a price increase right along and only the immense quantity being produced will enable us to sell at the May 1st price we of course nave no assurances that further increases in price will not be necessary. Everything that goes into the Maxwell is the best this we do know and can prove. The steel is the finest that money can buy the motor no finer, no tougher, no steadier can be built ac cording to our experience and the steeper the hills and the tougher the roads the more the Maxwell seems to like them. 1 Our April allotment will be delivered to us at the old price. That's agreed and that s fair to us. and we are going to be fair to our customers. ' But after May 1st, we can't buy a Maxwell for a penny leu than the new price and we shan't sell you one for a penny less than $665. We ought to get $1000. Come in study this' car-see if we are right or wrong about it When we say biggest value, we mean it and we can prove it by any known tests or standards. We put It up to you to judge after you consider these features. Maxwell Style Same as Highest Priced Cars The Maxwell lines are pleasing to the eye. The design conforms exactly to the prevailing style, as illustrated by any number of high-priced motors cars. " Comfort to the Point of Luxury The Maxwell car is roomy. It seats five passengers in comfort. There is plenty of leg room in front and rear. The long semi elliptic Maxwell springs and the soft, extra-deep upholstery make riding easy. . 150,000 Miles Not Unusual . There are Maxwell cars In daily use which have already run over 150,000 miles. Think of it more than 20 years of average driving! There are Maxwell cars in the mountains and In sections where there are rough roads or no roads, that have gone 50,000 miles ( 50,000 miles that would wreck and tear most cars to pieces. V The World's Endurance Champion i This record was set by a five passenger Maxwell stock touring car, by running for 22,022 miles 44 days and nights WITHOUT A MOTOR STOP, AND WITHOUT ANY REPAIRS OR ADJUST- . MENTS. The run was sanctioned and constantly observed by the supreme court of this Industry The American Automobile Asso ciation. The car was a stock car and was so certified. The facts are Indisputable. ' 'Maxwell Running Expense $8.19 Per Month. Maxwell cars, on account of scientifically correct balance and light weight are very economical to operate. Hundreds of instances are on record, showing from 30 to 44 miles per gallon of gasoline. Mrs. Miriam Seeley Professor, Oregon Agricultural College has Just completed a trip from Gorvallls, Oregon, to Boston and return 9,700 miles (about VA years of average driving). The total expense for gasoline, oil ana repairs was 1 J cents per mile or the equivalent of $8.19 per month. Complete Equipment No Extras to Buy Maxwell cars have every device and accessory for the greater convenience and comfort of the owner. Not a single thing is lack ing. When you buy a Maxwell, no further Investment is necessary. Remember $665 May 1st $635 Now. And get your order in now before these April Cars are gone. C. W. Francis Auto Co. Sales Rooms 2216-18 Farnam St OMAHA, NEB. Phone Douglas 853 Time Payment! If Desired. Service Station 2212 Hai-noy St