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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 2. 1917. DP TO ARCHITECT American Citizenship is Worth TO SHOW PROFITS While in War-Stricken Europe Designer of. Modern Business Buildings Must Show Own ers that it Will Earn a Profit. When one realizes the complexities of modern business and that these same complexities require special ar rangements and devices of all kinds in the buildings in which they are to be housed it will be realized that the architect has a far more important role to play in the general efficiency and economy of the business and in dustrial world than is commonly un derstood. .Many people look upon an architect as a man who will draw the picture of a good-looking building and make a series of black marks on white paper to indicate v, here walls ere to be built, etc.. etc., little .realizing that lie inust. in the planning of the build- in?', bo familiar with the strength of ir.aicrials aid their load carrying lower -must figure , wind pressure must have an intimate knowledge of the mechanical side of construction methods and must intimately know lite technical side of seven professions tnd fort', pr more trades as well as bcVemiliar with the efficiency of hun dreds 'of materials, products and dc uces which ire often incorporated in a sialic building. , Muet Study Economy. Also that he must be familiar with business economics so -as to be able !o ouickly assimulate knowledge of the particular or peculiar requirements of the business for which he is design ing a home or as to devise ways and means of providing the most efficient arrangement of floor space so as to save time, steps and labor on the part of. employes who are to perform their work there bis Lnnwlnriffe of light ing, heating and ventilation must be such as to enable him to meet any of the requirements of peculiarly shaped spaces effciently. And if Ihe building is to' be rented he must know ten ants, what holds them -and at the siiine time produces the greatest reve nue for his client. He must be fa miliar with the laws governing the erection, arrangement and operation of buildings if he is to keep his client out of all sorts of difficulties. Express Thoughts with Pen. Then, in addition to his having a Knowledge of statics, of hydraulics, of metallurgy, of geology, of chemistry, of mechanics and the entire gamut of those "ics'' he is. expected to be an artist (not only in the sense of de signuig attractive buildings, but also he must be capable of beautifully ex pressing his thoughts in a drawing, 10 that the owner will W able to see what his completed building: will look like and that the craftsmen may exe cute his thoughts and conceptions faithfully and last, but tot least, he must be a prophet the building he is designing is not for a day nor a - i c - 1 - - . t year, our ior a iiieamc at leasi thirty years or so of maximum attrac tiveness and usefulness unaffected by changing styles of architecture or changes in conditions, 'climate and other mishaps. To illustrate what real architectural ii.. - , i i...:u . ers it is only necessary to point to a recent investigation which showed that 78 per cent of a large number of .commercial buildings investigated were inefficiently planned, although they were durably built and that this inefficiency on t)ie part of architec tural design of these buildings en abled their owners to secure only 3.3 per cent on their investment, while other' buildings in which the archi 'tects had carefully planned so as to provide for every conceivable contin gency, such as good light, 'sanitation, etc., often located on adjoining prop erty were producing earnings of llJi uer cent. Is it any wonder in the face of such facts that prospective builders are so careful in seeking. out the best archi tectural talent obtainable? Neither is it surprising that some of the best architectural talent in the country is being attracted to OmAlia by the 'Bankers" Realty Investment company when you consider the present day -worth of this section. V , ' . Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success "Mv American citizenship is a blessing ior which I have thanked God daily for the last three years," said Mrs. Harland Clarke Woods, lately of Constantinople, Turkey, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Doane Powell, 2149 South Thirty-third street.. Mrs. Woods has been for four years with her husband, an in structor of engineering in "Roberts college in Constantinople. While Mrs. Woods,speaks very lit tle of the terrors of war and much of the glorious times that -will come to Turkey and the rest of Europe when the war is won by the allies in the depths of her bine eyes still linger shadows of the tragedies they have looked upon, ' Sircj April Mrs. Woods, her hus band and little son have been te diously making their way to Amer ica and Omaha, where her three sis ters live. She has just arrived. As soon as Turkey consented to let the Americans in Constantinople leave Mr. and Mrs. Woods started with a large party of teachers, mis sionaries, etc: 'It took us twenty days to go through Austria alone," said she. ''The whole party was detained for investigation, although we came with the consent of the Turkish govern ment. "Austria seemed happy and quite gay. One would hardly think there was a war. We were kept at a large hotel and treated with the utmost courtesy. We had plenty to cat, al though such luxuries as butter were lacking. Most of the shops were still open and doing business, although food was not sold in the stores. "Finally we were allowed to pro ceed and reached Switzerland. Then we wanted to go to France. " "All - France is now like a great fortress. No one is allowed to en ter the country except on business. If one has relatives at the front or other legitimate reasons he may enter. "But we were detained, as all vis itors are, outside the borders of the 'country fxnvfive days till our reasons ior entering were thoroughly inves tigated. e had to give proofs of our American citizenship and give references among French people we knew. These people were closely questioned before we could enter the country." ' , Few May Enter Paris. , Few people can enter Taris, even the French themselves being ex cluded. Mr. and Mrs. Woods finally were permitted to go , there. Here they met with an enthusiastic recep tion, for the French people admire the Americans extremely now. Mrs. Woods' small son wore a white cap with a tiny American flag embroid ered on it. Wherever he went the French people stopped him, to ex claim over the "petit Americain"'and stuff him with French- bon-bons. "The finest sight I saw in France was the American soldiers," said Mrs. Woods. "We saw them encamped along the way to Bordeaux and other places. 1 wanted to jump off the train and run to greet them f They did look so fine and soldier-like in their khaki suits and broad-brimmed felt hats! "They all seemed happy and very busy. Many of them were the engi neers sent to help reconstruct the rail roads! I did hot get to talk to them, but it made me rejoice just to see Americans. I felt I was nearing home at last. ' ' In Fear of Submarinn. "The trip across the Atlantic was uneventful, but we were in constant fear of submarines, being on a French Labor Day Picnic at Lakeview Park Monday Tomorrow at Lakeview park, un der the auspices of the Omaha Cen tral Labor union, the organized labor forces, their friends and families of the city and Its environs, will h61d their annual Labor day picnic ' and fun feast. The executive council of the, Central Labor union has selected a number of speakers, Gladys Shamp, weirknown locally, being named as one of the speakers. The day will be taken up in enjoying the various devices atrthe park, with dancing in the afternoon and evening the prin cipal feature. Athletic games, with a number of prizes, both cash and otherwise, will be offered to stimu late interest in the sports that have been .arranged. "Stronghold" tires resist road attacks and strains like graniteyet are as resilient and yielding as rubber can be made. The thick, tough non-skid tread is built upN extra thick ,0ft the center, to resist :wear and -puncture where strains are greatest, and to give extra long service at low cost per mile. TIBBB OlTUBEB 1- J Each and every "Stronghold", tire is built the caret ul way, oy hand, under tne personal super vision of experts trained in the "Stronghold" factory famous for 18 years as producers tf wear-resisting rubbergoods. Protect yourself against the trouble and expense that goes with ordinary machine-made tires. Fortify yourself with the hand-made and durable "Stronghold" tires and tubes. Liber' ally guaranteed. , ' . , ComiltU lint of smooth and non-skids with block troadandwhitetidoviaU. RedondGny Inner Tubes ' WHEELER RUBBER CO. S OMAHA, NEB. ? ' 2064 Firum St, . . . Phone Douglas 7M8 ' 0 ''' ? ? 3?rsJfar?aitd 'CMotfs liner. An escort of torpedo boats came part way with us. "It was one of the happiest mo ments of my life when I stepped onto American soil at New York," ended Mrs. Woods. "American women can not appreciate their blessings too highly." Mrs. Woods is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Doane Powell, Miss Lillian Ru dersdorf, art instructor in the high school, and Miss Laura Rtnlersdorf, kindergarten instructor in Omaha. Mr. Woods remained in Chicago to visit engineering schools, but will join her later. Because so many of the young Turkish men have gone to war, and because of the difficulty of obtaining food and .equipment, Roberts .college has closed many of its departments and Mr. Woods prefers to remain in America till the war is over. Navy League Furnishes y Yarn at Cost for Knitters The Navy league, with headquarters at Lincoln, Neb., offers to furnish yarn to all communities i desiring to knitsweaters, helmets, wristlets and socks for the boys of the navy or ma rine service. I lie only requirement is that the finished articles be returned to the Navy league. From there they are sent to enlisted men. The sup plies for making these knitted articles and for comfort kits will be furnished at cost. It is estimated that $1,250. 000 per year must be raised to keep each of the 187,000 navy men and 30, 000 marines supplied with these com fort articles.. ' -'- Perfectly Good Soldier Rejected on Technicality If the parents cf Mikl Sine, 2812 T street, South Side, had had the forethought to return to Serbia after their Austrian residence before the 10-yeaV-oldMikjl embarked for Amer ica Uncle Sam would be one soldier ahead. Miftl applied for enlistment, in the Seventh Nebraska. During the course of his examination jt was dis covered that he was bbrrciri Austria and had never becomea naturalized citizen of the United States. His parents are Serbs, but are liv ing in Austria. He was born in Czash lau, Austria, twenty-two years ago. At the age of 12 he came to America with his brother. He supposed he was an American citizen. Since his parents are citizens of Austria and Mikl has never taken out naturaliza tion papera he "still retains the status of an Austrian citizen, imposed by the citizenship of his parents when he was a minor. The alien enemy bill rules that he is consequently i ineli gible for service in the United States army. When the situation was explained he announced his intention of taking out iirst papers at once. Mikl is a stalwart, intelligent young giant who would be an asset to any army. He showed great disappoint ment over his inability to serve un der the Stars and Stripes and re marked that it was hard that a fellow couldn't join the army w'hen he wanted to when there were so many who could join and wouldn't. Large Number Delinquents Paying Personal Taxes Large numbers of business firms and private individuals arc delinquent in their personal taxes for 1917, ac cording to County and City Treas urer Endres. City taxes, both real and personal, became dclinqnent July 1. Treasurer Endres says he will re serve the( harstf method of distress warrants and sale of personal prop erty for those delinquents who fail to heed the warning in the press and fail to pay their portion of the expense of maintaining the city government. , After September 1 all personal tax collectors will wear badges indi cating their authority. It has been reported to the treasurer that per sons suspected ot being imposters have been representing themselves as tax collectors. ' Labor Day to Be Holiday For Omaha Railroad Men Monday, Labor day, will be a full holiday with railroad employes in Omaha. Headquarters, city offices and freight houses will be closed and from noon today until Tuesday morn ing thousands of men and women will be on vacation. Trains will tie run as usual, but. an effort will be made to give as many as possible of ' the trainmen time off. Five Hundred Men Coming To Equip at Fort Crook' Five hundred men of the quarter master's reserve corps will come to Fort Q;ook next Tuesday. They will remain in the post several weeks till equipped by Major Hamilton and his ! staff ,from the quartermaster's supply Ration at Fort Crook. T do not know where -they will be sent" after that,"., said ' Major Hamil ton. "My only orders are to fit them out. They are all motor truck men, enlisted recently in the quartermas ter's reserve corps." ' Asked if Fort Crook, as this seems to imply, would be. made a receiving station for new troops, Major-Hamilton said he was as much in the dark as anybody. At Forf Crook now are only the quartermaster and his staff, with a few men of the quartermaster's corps to assist him. The post is being guarded by twenty-five civilians, most of them ex-soldiers. Council to Reconsider , Opening Douglas Street The city council will reconsider the project of opening Douglas street, Twenty-fourth street to Twenty-fifth avenue. An ordinance on the subject has been taken from the files and will be discussed next Tuesday morning. Hubby "Cross and Sulky " Wife Sues for' Divorce Rachel Amelia Rushing, suing Will liam M. Rushing for divorce in dis trict court, says he "is cross and sulky." They were married in Omaha, November 10, 1916. Omaha War Notes Victor Caldwell has been transferred from tho aviation to the balloon corps and ex pects to begin training at tha Fort Omaha balloon school. Guy Beckett, who applied for service with the mosquito fleet early in y sum mer, received a summons to report at New Haven, Conn., and left Saturday Wayne Selby, sergeant In ths Quarter master, department at Syracuse, N. T., was hots Thursday and Friday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Selby. Dr. Frank Waldo Scott of Lodgepole, Neb., has received his commission as flret 4 lieutenant in the officers' reservs medical corps and been ordered to report at Fort Omaha. Ted Millard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Millard, who was at the Plattsburg train ing camp, was ono of those chosen to go to Harvard for. the three weeks course un der ,the French officers. President E.' E. Calvin of the Union Pa cific received a cablegram Wednesday an nouncing the safe arrival In France, of his son, Frank,. who went over with the Elev enth regiment of railroad engineers as a private. . Toung Calvin Is orrty nineteen. Colonel and Mrs. J. M. Banister have had a visit from their. youngest son, Fer clval, who Is a cadet at West Point, and who returned there this Week, and they ex pect to go to Fort Riley for this week-end to seo their second son, Lieutenant Edwin Karnister, who Is In the regular army. Their thiTd son, J. U. Banister, Jr., Is with the Canadian troops in France, a private In the. Fifteenth machine sun corps. wit n rvW JEIGHTtYUNDER WSSa Proven byAchicx?ien!s RECORDS ' -v Car Owners' , Service Test, 11.850 Miles ' Non-Motar-Stop, Sheefwhead Bay Motor Speadway, Stock Car Sanction and Super vision A. A. A. Over Tortuous Mt. Wilson, California, on High Gear. 1700 Mile can High Gear in Northern and Southern California. At Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, on High Gear to tha Volcano. "'Round 'the Rim of the World" Route to Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, on Non Boiling Radiation Test. Over Lookout Mountain, Colorado, and Lookout Mountain, California, on High Gar. First in Slow High-Gear Race at Richmond, Va. Cotton Wood Canyon, from Salt Lain City to Brighton, on High Gaar. y g U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps Adopt tha King Chassia for New Typt Light Armored Motor Oar, after GrurrHng Official Tests. On High Gear from Provi rlsnra to IVmiVnrr, Tia Albany and Naw York Oty. Over-the-Road Fuel Econ omy Tast, Pittsburgh to Milwaukee, Car Sanction and Super- A. A. A, 326 Hours Non-Motor -Stop Run, Contsnuoua Driving, Bttwwu Basthuwat and Washington. Vis Detroit from Providence ' to PimtiWim on High Gear. Los Angeles to Los Angeles, a Sen Francisco, on High Gear. First High Gear Ascent Up Lookout Mountain. California, by Woman Driver, made by Helen Gibson in King Eight. - Omaha to Omaha, via Kansas Oty on High Gear. Gruelling Tests have raised stiA higher the proud estate of eight-cylinder KING ownership. To prospective purchasers this pioneer eight-cylinder motor car offers records which mean nothing less than absolute satisfaction in performance, service and operation economy. ., - The secret of KING power lies in an engine de veloped to a point of practical perfection; in a fine balance of weight against horsepower, riicely adjusted for the vigorous passage of quick grades, deep sands, heavy roads, difficult detours. - Dubbed essentially a Woman's Car, the eight cylinder King possesses qualifications to sub- v stantiate this claim : POWER, sufficient that she may climb any but the very steepest of hills without the labor of changing gear. '',"' FLEXIBILITY, so extreme that she may travel 2 miles an hour in traffic on high gear and ' instantly accelerate to 30 miles if desired.' , EASE OF CONTROL, so complete that in abso lutely no detail of the car's operations is she ever embarrassed in the least by the lack of manly strength. LUXURY AND COMFORTS, so well taken care of in the four handsome body styles that KING brilliancy is a spectacular feature of Auto Row. - PRICES EXTRA EQUIPMENT ' ! TourinrCar 11630 I Sedan ..12400 ' r'ourfbke J1700 1 Roadster $1585 Wire wheels $125 esttra all models. Victoria or King Special Tops $125 additional. F. O. B. Detroit. ALL PRICES QUOT.ED MAY BE ADVANCED AT ANY TIME. NO YES - KILLY MOTOR CO. f factory'distributors 2066-68 Farnam St. Omaha, Nab. ! Sr this lir.e at tha Stat Fair, Lineoln, Keb., Sept. to 9. x. School Children to Have Their Heads Examined Twice This Week The new system of public school cad index system which will be started next week, will make it possi ble to determine instantaneously just what is in the head of any boy or girl, and that may be liberally inter preted. , H. W. Anderson, director of re search, has arrived from Dubuque to begin his work. He was recently elected by the board to work under the direction of Superintendent Bev eridge. Mr. Anderson can measure the mentality of any child and de termine the amount of learning in His head. Charlotte- Townsend supervisor of i the school nurses, announces ' that during the second week of school her staff will conduct a gcneral"'head in spection," .which will be to determine whether there are any pediculi in the .heads of the children. Miss Townsend states that her department will maintain a card index of the health record of. every schoot child Examinations will be made of ryes, ears, nosey and throats, as well as general examinations from week to week. At the schools this week the nurses examined 23,000 children and nearly all were given health cards which will admit them to tne schools next Tuesday morning without question. Board Selected to Serve On Registration Day Mrs. C. E. Walrath, in charge of the registration for the Third pre cinct of the Seventh ward has her committee assigned for Women's Registration Day September 12. Nine women will assist a tlhe polls, work ing in three hour shifts. The women who will assist on this committee are: Mesdames Zora D. Clark, F. Welcton, Robert Trimble, Frank J. Lcttee, F. L. Heckman, Her bert E. Woodland, J. C. James and Misses Coroline Sturgess and EfF.ef Sherwood. Postpone Unger Trial On Sutton Charges The trial of Policeman John Un ger beforcthe city council was post poned to next Saturday morning" on account of absence from the city of attorney for the prosecution. The charges were filed by Paul B. Sut ton, against whom Unger testified at a recent hearing before the city council. z 3? ifr1 Two Ranges of Power -yfe car of Dual Personality Tvvb separate Ranges of Power give the'Peerless Eight a dual personality. The Loafing Range In its Loafing Range the Peerless exhibits all the admirable traits you would expect in an eighty horse power eight of real class. But through alljts varied performance in this Range it is automatically operating on half fuel rations. In fact it uses fuel so sparingly as to shame cars of lesser power most sixes even many fours. ' 7. The Sporting Range Open the throttle wider to release the double poppets and give your motor full fuel rations. You change her whole character. You have brute power and speed at your command that puts 'all ordinary contenders at your mercy and you have nothing to fear from the'few cars that rigjhtly claim the distinction of real class. Before you buy your new car, learn the charm of this wonderful contrast of performance by two power ranges. Let us demonstrate. Sporting Roadster $2250 Touring $1980 ' ' (. e. b. Cleveland Ohio, subject to change) Sea Peerlett "8" Exhibit at Card-Adam Exhibit, State Fair, ( LINCOLN, NEB., SEPT. 3 to 8. Npyes-Killy Motor Co. FACTOR! UI3IKIDUIUK 2066-68 Farnam Street. Omaha, Neb. Eight : Ill . 1 vc' Lr a ... --.' - ' -';; ;; ' "J
