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CITY ATTACKS
6-CENT FARES
IN PETITION
Omaha Corporation Counsel
Challenges- Authority of
Commission to Act on
, Traffic Application.
, W. C. Lambert, corporation
counsel for the city of Omaha,
went to Lincoln Saturday
morning to file with the State
Railway commission an ap
pearance and objections to the
Application of the Omaha and
runril Rluffa Street Railway
company for authority to
charge a 6-cent rate within the
,'imits of Omaha.
. Objection is made to the jur--.'.sdiction
of the State Railway
t :ommission over the subject
matter of the application and
, the right and authority of the
.commission to entertain such
. application is challenged.
J- The city of Omaha further appears
"for the purpose of aiding and is
' listing in,a showing that: the peti
rtionet it not entitled to the relief it
; hat asked of the commission." '
'City Files Oboection.-V
'. An abstract of the "document filed
ky Mr. Lambert follows: ,
"That the city of Omaha hat at all
times had and now hat express and
' fulljurisdiction" and authority to de
termine and fix the rates which the
company is entitled to charge; that
the city has at all times exercised and
asserted such jurisidiction and author
ity; that the citywithin recent years
inacted an ordinance requiring said
company td sell seven fares for a
quarter, and prohibiting it, under
penalty, from exacting or receiving
more.
The city's right to enact measures
determining and fixing the rates cjf
S, fare "which the petitioner might
-targe' as a matter of law has been
sustained by the district court of
Douglas county, and, notwithstand
ing that Such authority has been sus
tained by the district court of Doug
Ui county, the petitioner has not ap
plied to the governing authorities of
v of the city of Omaha for permission
to increase the rates and charges from
5 cents (as now charged) to 6 cents.
Y; Legal Fight Now On.
The corporation counsel states that
if the railway ' commission should
elect to proceed to a hearing of tje
application then 'the city of Omaha
Will resist claims made by the street
railway company in its petition, t
Mr. Lambert denies that the com
pany's increased cost of operation
amounts to $595,466 a,year by reason
of the war and demands "strictest
proof of all items of increased costs,
and also demands "a full and com
plete showing of all revenue within
..tie limits of the city, and from all
. sources." . , , ' , ,
It is further stated fn the city's
answer that a fair and reasonable
valuation of the company's property
within the limits of Omaha would
amount to $7,500,000 under normal
conditions, such as prevail othef than
under war-time prices, and it is also
claimed by the city that a surplus
remains after applying a return of
6 per cent. '
, . Effort To Shirk Charged.
"It U further suggested," the city's
answer reads, "that conditions caused
- by the prevailing war are such as to
call for and! require sacrifices' and cur
tailments from all corporations and
' persons alike; that the. individual has
, laid upon him and his' activities, en
larged and enlarging burdens and that
his situation in life or n business is
usually such that he does not find it
possible to shift such added burdens
in whole or in part to the shoulders
of others already well weighed down.
If the company be permitted to shift
the burden-complained of and escape
the sacrifice which circumstances but
, justly place upon it, it will slip to
shoulders least of all prepared to
carry it, because it is the wage earner
ano the toiler wno win oe more ar
, fected."
- "No all-oersuasive reasons arise sug-
ftestinz the need of shifting of such
' turdens.' If it means some sacrifice,
and if it means some loss, the com
pany 'should manfully stand under and
make the same; It is then doing oni
' what most all others are doing, and
to their everlasting credit, doing it un-
cotnolaininKly. It the petitioner is not
willing to do it out of the spirit that
prompts others willing to make. the
asCrihce, then the order of this com-
mission should compel it . to that
course It is prayed that the applica
tion be dismissed.
1IEW OBSERVANCE
OF FOURTH UBGED
BY THE PRESIDENT
" Washington. .May 25. Native
Americans were called upon by Presi
lent Wilson todav'to join with the
foreign, born of the United States in
celebrating. the?Fourth of July this
year; the birth of a new and greater
. spirit of democracy.
... Committees representing nation or
ganizations of nearly every element
of the foreign born citizenship recent
1v sent the president a petition an
flouncing plans for a great demonstra-
. turn on the rourth of loyalty , to tne
United States and the cause for which
it is fighting, and asking. the' entire
; country to join with them.
'The president has made public
his approval of the plan. -
UiSIion U. S. Fighters
'a. ;To Be in France by July
. Taris; ' May 25. The American
inrcft in France will be doubt by
nmid-summer the number. Secretary of
far Baker recently announced as
v ivinir been sent there, and by the
ti of 1918 they will be three times
1 er. said Andre Tardieu. trench
commissioner, in a statement is
V to the French people on nis ar
il (mm the United States today.
r.fcrtary Paker announced on May
" ' iliat more than 500.000 " American
already had been" sent to
Red Cross Conducts Omaha
Vies With Dickens' Old
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By JOHN H. KEARNES.
Omaha has a store which is even
more interesting than Dickens' "Old
Curiosity Shop."
It is the store at 1409 ' Harney
street, conducted by the women of
the salvage division of the Red Cross.
It carries a more varied stock than
a country store and contains more ob
jects of interest than a "municipal
museum.
"All things come to him. or her,
who waits," is the motto of the es
tablishment. "We wanted a desk," said Miss Mar
garet Riley, secretary-treasurer, "and
before we could buy one a suitable
office desk was brought in and do
nated. One of the ladies wanted a
pen tray for' the desk. She expressed
a wish, an lo, the good fairy or
genii of the place waved a wand and
the tray appeared. ,
Young Menagerie Started.
v "We have a bridle and saddle and we
are now waiting fjj. the horse. Don't
laugh, it will come and take its place
with the rest of our live stock. All
we need is a cow and . a horse to
stock up a small farm. We have a
hen and a brood of 15 chickens, two
fat geese donated by Mrs. Lyons.
3630 Monroe street; two Belgian
hares, and a brother of Mrs. Fol
lansbee, 604 South Twenty-eighth
street, residing in Kansas, has prom
ised us a pig. We have homes for all
of the rest of the live stock, and also
for our spitz dog, but no place for the
porker. However, Frank Burkley has
promised to care for it,, even ff he
has to put it in his parlor on its ar
rival. "All is fish that comes to our net.
One man brought in a wooden lest
the other day and th only thing that
we pray is that some one does not
dump a real white elephant on us.
The peril is not beyond the bounds
of possibility." ..
Real Sacrifice Here.
. A case of sacrifice, based on lofty
patriotic sentiment, was revealed at
the store the first of the week. A
woman, evidently in poor circum
stances, accompanied by her little
son, came in. 1 he woman bore in her
arms an old fashioned carbine, the
kind used in the civil war. The in
congruous spectacle of a woman
carrying an obsolete weapon through
the streets caused many an unthink
ing person to smile, but there -were
no smiles, tears, rather, on the count
enances of the Red Cross women
when they heard the woman's story.
I m dog poor, she said, and the
only thing I have in the world I
value outside of my flesh and blood
is this musket which was carried by
my father in the civil war. It has
been at Gettysburg and Malvern Hill
where it has been used in freedom s
cause. I have valued it because -of
that. But it is worth, something and
the freedom of the world is now
threatened and I want to turn this
for what it is worth into money to
give to the Red Cross. It is all I have
to give-except my prayers."
The Widow's Mite.
It was the widow's mite and was
accepted as such.
For many days the store was visited
by 4 large man, a laborer, who .was
looking for a pair of . trousers.- He
was evidently a section laborer and
trying to make his meager dollars
go as far as they could,.
Daily he went through the stock of
second-hand clothing that came in, but
gave up in despair because he could
not find a pair ample enough to fit,
him. i
"Look for the big man's pants." was'
the slogan of the interested women
of the store and it became a game
with them. . r
The other day two fine , pair of
trousers, of ample proportions, came
in from one of the dry cleaning .es
tablishments, having been , discarded
by some nabob. But the big poor
man had disappeared and now the
women are trying to find the big man
to fit the big pants and take them
away. ... - '
Red Cross Aid at Home. - -
Pitiful glimpses of the other "side of
life, are", also revealed. Ope -day .a
woman accompanied by nine, children
of various stages, of growth, came
into the store. She wanted a pair of
shoes to fit the littlest one of her
brood. The rest of the family were
literally upon their uppers, but the
baby was the one she was most con
cerned about.. She selected the poor
est pair of second hand shoes in stock
that would fit the little mite of hu
manity and tendered 25 cents in pay
ment, all she had tor the purpose.
The Red Cross women learned. that
the woman was having a hard strug
gle to make ends meet and that while
her children needed shoes she was
unable to buy them just then. They
told her to .turn her flock, into the
stock of- shoes and fit themselves
which they did. ......
Whole Family Shod.
The family was satisfactorily and
comfortably shod and the footwear
was as free as the air they breathed
An6ther woman came to the store
with a pitifully small purse. She had
a 2-week-old baby in her ' arms
and a little, child tugging at her. side
She explained that she had raised i
very larpe family of children nd-m
all her life had never had the' luxury
,of a baby buggy, nor had any of her
numerous
children known the
hap-
piness pf owning a doll buggy.
, Sbe was sent away with a baby bug
gy given without money or without
any other price than her gratitude
and the little girl was made radiantly
happy by the gift of a doll buggy
salvage iiuvm jjub.
; There are big accumulations of all
kinds of salvage material. The sal
vage trucks are sent to all parts of
the city to collect paper, rags, sec
ond hand clothing, brass, bronze, lead,
rubber. leather findings; furniture.
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THE OMAHA 'SUNDAY BEET:. vMAY
Store That
Curiosity Shop
bric-a-brac, in fact everything that has
a salvage -value. This is disposed of
to dealers in junk, to customers who
find it necessary to buy used stuff in
order to make meager salaries meet
the cost of living, and to those at
tending the auction sales.
Los Angeles. Cal., has a salvage de
partment that is earning $11,000 per
mftnth for the Red Cross chapter of
that city, and Mrs. F. L. Adams,
chairman, and Miss Riley, secretary-
treasurer, with other self-sacrificing
amd industrious assistants, are am
bitious to make the Omaha salvage
Paid to J. B. Cicero for One
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Humble Gusher Oil Field
This One Acre just East of our positively proven
lease in the Humble Field
We offer you the opportunity NOW to get in on the "GROUND FLOOR" of
the NEXT BIG GUSHER OIL FIELD to be developed in this already SEN
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tically every day of the year. -
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One-Half Acr$,
One Whole Acre
PAYMENTS MAY BE ARRANGED IF DESIRED
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ING CONTRACT, giving you part of all bur profits from ALL WELLS WE
DRILL ON OUR 1,000 ACRES AT HIGH ISLAND AND OUR PROVEN
HUMBLE LEASE. ; v
rligh Island is geologically approved by the U. S. Government Geologists
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practically every prommem geoiogisi in mis ramous uui.
Oil Operators all recognize the tremendous possibilities of the proper
development of High Island; They have grabbed all the leases they could.
We predict that High Island will be the most remarkable Oil Field yet devel
oped in America. We expect wells there to equal or surpass the great 50,000'
to 70,000-barrel gushers reported in the Big Fields hich surround us in prac
tically every county. : ' '
We know the Oil Game WE KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOUR MONEY
WORK FOR YOU INSTEAD OF YO U WORKING FOR YOUR MONEY!
Every mail is bringing in orders from the people of this community.
Every day OUR OFFICE IS BEING CROWDED BY INVESTORS who rec
ognize this as the opportunity of a lifetime. COME AND SEE for yourself.
We had a copy of our Red-Hot Oil Bulletin PRINTED FOR YOU. WE
WANT YOU TO HAVE YOUR COPY.
Send today. Absolutely Free. No Obligations on your parti . j
We Are Operating Under Permit
In Compliance with the Laws of this State
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Phone Tyler 398
740 First National Bank Bldg.
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1918."
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MEDICAL SCHOOL
MATRICULATION
STAltTSAT ONCE
Creighton Receives Official
Order From War Depart
ment Affecting Entrance v
"Classes.
In an official War department order,
issued by the surgeon general at
Washington, just received at the
Creighton college of medicine, author
ity is given to all 'well recognized
medical schools tcbegin matriculation
of the entering class of 1913-19 at
once. This order relieves a situa
tion at not only Oreighton, but all
other medical schools of the country,
which threatened to eliminate the
freshmen classes in medicine next
" . : ,
Through the order enlistment or
such freshmen in the medical enlisted
reserve corps is made. Permission
from the "surgeon general's office must
be obtainedin each individual case.
Students of draft age not yet en
tered in medical schools, but who
have finished the necessary prepara
tory ork and have made their ap
plications to the medical colleges,
come under this order.
Conditions of Order.
The order reads: "On and after
Tune 1 such permits will be issued
in casesof registrants under the. se
lective service law who are matricu
lants for the session of 1918-19 in
well-recognized medical schools. The
applicants must first secure a certi
ficate from his local board that he is
not in the current quota of that
board. He must then fill out an ap-
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plication, cauing nimseu a meniDcr
of the first year class for the session
of 1918-19. This certificate and appli
cation must be accompanied by an af-
department even more profitable to
the Red Cross than is the California
rival.
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fidavit of the dean of the school"
The affidavit referred to must state
In detail that, credentials are on file
in the office of the medical school
showing that the applicant has had a
secondary education of at least 14
units. Additional instructions are
given in the rather lengthy order.
Speed Vagaries of the
Locomotive Wheel
It is an interesting point to con
sider that on a locomotive wheel, the
circumference is continually traveling
at different speeds, say the Popular
Science 'Monthly for June. First a
point on the circumstance' of the
wheel will go faster than the" rest of
the locomotive; then that same point
will go slower: at still other times
the point of travel at a speed equal"
to that of the locomotive cabin.
This paradox is explained by con
sidering first the point on the cir
cumference farthest to the rear of the
wheel's center. When the center of
the wheel moves forward with the
Announcement
The New Management
wishes to announce that the v
HOTEL MILLARD
13th and Douglas Streets '
will be entirely remodeled
open for business continually.
Reasonable Summer Rates will be given to Permanent
Guests. .
The remodeling will not interfere with the operation
of the Hotel and Cafe in any respect. -
H. WEINER
GENERAL MANAGER
Phone Douglas 924.
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same speed as the rest of the loco
motive that point will move around
and in a short time it will get ahead
of. the center. Obviously, to do this,
thlV point has to travel faster than
the locomotive. v
As the train moves on from this
position; however, the average speed
of that same point will become less
than that of the locomotive. This is
evident, since the point will soon
change from a position directly in
front of the wheel's center to another
point directly in the rear.
This apparent paradox is not , re
lated to the old saw concerning' the
relative speeds of a "kangaroo's hind
legs and front legs wheir 'jumping
Australian" sand hills. - y
A MUed Message.
'TTIfr, I met Mr. Wombat today aad,(a
sent you a message."
"Yen." i
"Told ma to tell you fomethlng: or ethat."
i "What a mess you maka of things. .What
waa It ?" " - $
"Something about a light blua fovtert pU
or a hashed brown waist, forget which."-
Louisville Courier JQprnal.
of The
Millard Hotel Co..
and refurnished, but will bev
in Famous
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