THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY. 5, 1919.
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ASSURED OMAHA
President McFarland of Real
Estate Board Optimistic
" Over Outlook for Build
ing Activity.
,' W. R. McFarlind, newly elected
president of the Real Estate board,
has issued the following statement
onJ"e .outlook or the coming year:
During the past two years the
American business man has been
obliged to ; quicken his pace or fall
behind; he assumed the double task
of carrying on his business and
helping in every department of war
work, and he as realized that
America's great commerce could be
carried on at almost normal capacity
even in the midst of the great war.
"He enters upon the year 1919
with confidence.
"Omaha has come to the front
greatly in these times. Her stability
and great resources it seems to me
will surely attract attention.
. m Valuea Well Founded.
"eal estate values in Omaha are
- well founded that there has been
A decline and I look for an un
usually active market this year, and
, a constant rapid growth without a
boom. We need more moderate
priced houses, with good streets and
clean surroundings. Factories are
coming to Omaha rapidly, and we
have plenty of trackage facilities.
Warehouse space will be greatly in
Jemand.
"I look for great activity in build
ing in the early spring, both in the
business and the residential sections.
This activity is apparently assured.
as several of our realtors have al
ready started a number of houses.
"Everybody should be an optimist
about Omaha.
"Our skyline has entirely changed
in the past' ten years. Our line
residential sections have, been im
proved in 100 acre tracts within that
timeevery house filled and a de
mand for more.
"The outlook was never better for
a great industrial development in
the middle west, particularly in
Omaha."
Amos Grant Resolves to j
Sell 192 Houses in 1919
Amos Grant, real estate board
member, has made a New Year's
resolution that his firm will sell
during the year of 1919, 15 houses
Eer month. Mr. Grant averaged 16
ouses during the last three months
of 1918. He deals only in small
properties and rarely handles any
thing worth more than $3,500. Fol
lowing is a partial list of houses sold
by him, in Benson during the last
three months: 2543 North Sixty
fifth street, to Emma Johnson; 2204
North Sixty-fifth street, to Clyde
Leslie; 6341 Main street, to Anna
Brewer; 2723 North Sixty-fifth ave
nue, to W. R. Wallace; 2332 North
Sixty-fifth avenue, to Ernest Smith;
2039 North Sixty-fifth avenue, to Al
bert H,; Brown; 5623 Miami street,
to Jesse Sultibaugh; 3309 North
Fifty-ninth street, to Robert R.
Wallace 3824- North Fifty-fifth
street, to Edward H. Harrow; 3122
North Fifty-seventh street, to Law
rence Larson; 6312 Military avenue,
to Paul H. Marxsen; 3122 North
Sixty-fifth street, to Mae Miller;
Emmet street, to Josephine Os
trom; 6571 Evans street, to Leom
das Cook; 2344 North Sixty-fifth
street, to Herman Karstens; 2540
North Tenth street, to Dan Mosco
witz. " . ' ' ' -
Saloon Buildings Will Be
Occupied Say Realtors
Real estate men believe that
practically all of the buildings used
for saloons In Omaha before the
state went, dry will be used for
other lines of business this xyear.
While these buildingv re practic
ally all occupied by men in varnous
lines of business, a good many of
them t present are being rented
from their old owners. During the
last year A. P. Tukey & Son sold
$176,000 worth of saloon property
for one brewery. ,
Other, firmi sold practically as
much. ' ' . .
Tho Km interests are about the
hrwinff concern that have not
already disposed of a large portion J daughter of the
of their saloon properties,
of the saloon properties are on the
corner and in other desirable loca
tions, and inquiries for them are
frequent , .
Real Estate Board Will
Show Money Made Here
The Real Estate board headquar
ters hopes to compile wttnm me
next few months a list of the men
who have become rich and in some
instances made large fortunes solely
through the increase of value of
their real estate holdings. This
record will include the advance in
value made on various well known
corners in the city, such as the old
Board of Trade corner at Sixteenth
and Farnam streets; Securities
building site, known as the Myers
Dillon corner; the Patterson block
and Various sites on Douglas street
and tipper Farnam street. The
Real Estate board will welcome in
formation from any source in this
lines v':::-
RealtorWill Build Forty
New Homes in Parkvale
. C G. Carlberg, Omaha realtor, is
planning the erection of 40 new
houses in the Parkvale district,
southwest of Hanscom park, near
the Windsor school. Mr. Carlberg
during the past week has made sev
eral sales in this addition, to Omaha
business men. to be used for per
manent homes. Paving m the addi
tion will be finished as the weather
permits. : ' -
Real Estate Men to Attend
National Meet in Chicago
4 President McFarland of the Real
Estate board will go to Chicago next
week, where he will attend a meet
t the extcutive committee" of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards, which baa been called to
discass tha building situation.' The
aitimal MMunittc mc balkv ttor
Bee Shoe Fund Dancers
THE dance to be g.ven at Tur
pin's hall, Twenty-eighth and
Farnam streets, Friday evening,
February 10, is expected to draw
hundreds of people, as every penny
taken at the door goes to the Bee
Shoe Fund.
Many hundreds of dollars already
have been - contributed to this
worthy cause, and many a poor little
tot's feet will be kept warm this
winter through the money thus
raised.
The dance is given under the aus
pices of the girls of The Bee's busi
ness office, who have arranged many
surprises for those attending, in the
nature of special stunts and novelty
dances. Miss Betty Cook, commit
tee chairman, has secured the ser
vices of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Connors,
Omaha's popular entertainers, for
the evening and they will, for your
edification, demonstrate the "Paris
ian Fox Trot," and "Toddles," two
of the latest and most popular steps.
Quiet Sergeant Puzzles
Doctors by Curing Yanks
Wrecked by Shell Shock
Has His Own System of Reviving Men Wrecked by German
Shells; Seemingly Hopeless Soldiers Rise from Sick
Bed Within Day After Sergeant Takes Cases.
Washington Society Folk Bids.
Bridal Couple Bon Voyage
Washington Bureau of The Bee.
THE Christmas holidays in Wash
ington have been gay with
chaiity balls, dinner parties, debut
teas and weddings. Chief among
the last named, which interest Ne
braskans, was that of Miss Ethel
Sloan, daughter of Represenative
and Mrs. Charles H. Sloan of Ne
braska, whose home is in Geneva,
and Mr. Grady Corbitt of Ozark,
Ala., United States vice consul at
Lyons, France. The wedding was
hurried considerably, as Mr. Cor
bitt had orders to proceed at once
to his post of duty, and the cere
motny was performed quite private
ly in the apartment of .the bride's
parents at the George Washington
Inn by Rev. James Shera Mont
gomery of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Only the members of the
two families, who were in the city
were present, and the bride wore
her traveling suit of taupe cloth
with hat to match. The arrange
ments were all very simple, owing
to the recent death of the eldest
brother of the bride, Frank Blaine
Sloan, while on his way to the
front irf France. Immediately after
the ceremony Mr. Corbitt and his
bride left for New, York, from
where they sailed yesterday on
the steamer La France for France.
The bride is a graduate of the
University of Nebraska and has
been the recipient of several dis
tinct honors. She is a member of
the. Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
She has been active in the war work
of Washington ever since there has
been anv such work. Mr. Corbitt
is a native of Ozark, Ala., and came
to Washington; as private secretary!
to Representative Steagall of Ala-
bama. He then went into tne con
sular service, in which he is stadily
rising. He graduated from the
State University of Alabama and is
a member of the Kappa Sigma fra
ternity. i Gossip.
Mrs. Walter Fenfield, nee Bacoif,
of Omaha, entertained a distinguish
ed company last Monday at lunch
eon in honor of Mrs. William Gibbs
MrAdoo. wife of the former secre
tary of the treasury, the youngest
daughter of the president. The
askd to meet Mrs. McAdoo
included Mme. de Riano, wife of the
Spanish ambassador, who was Miss
Alice Ward, a former Washington
girl; Mrs. Breckinridge Long, wife
of the third assistant secretary of
state; Mrs. Ira C Copley, wife of
the representative from Aurora,
I1L; Mme. Zaldivar, wife of the
Salvador minister; Mrs. George
Barnett, wife of the major general
commandant of the marine corps;
Mrs. Raymond T. Baker, Mrs. John
prices in building material during
the coming year, and to educate
real estate men throughout the coun
try on the price situation is the ob
ject of the meeting. B. R. Hastings
and E. M. Slater will probably ac
company Mr. McFarland.
Real Estate Board Opens1,.
Permanent Headquarters
The Real Estate board opened its
permanent headquarters Saturday at
308 South Eighteenth street, with
Leo Bozell.in charge. Plans for an
advertising and selling campaign are
being worked out, and in addition to
its marketing plan, the board is
working on a proposal to extend Us
membership to Nebraska and west
ern Iowa towns. Development in
the industrial and wholesale district
is one of the problems they will
work upon, also the garden plan and
the compilation of Irental and sale
values.
The new headquarters will be
adorned with historic maps and have
records on the development of Oma
ha ffom the time of its incorpora
tion. ' "V. 5 , . y
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Tq Locate the Cotter. 1?
A simple and convenient way of
finding the hole for the cotter pin
is to file a notch in the end of the
belt or stud parallel with the hole.
In this way it is easy to bring the
notch points to the castellatioa at
tack end, when the cottar pin will
Hays Hammond and Mrs. T. De
Witt Talmage. Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Adoo are leaying Washington on
Sunday. They will spend the next
three months in pleasuring in Cal
ifornia and then settle down ii. New
York.
Mr. and Mrs. Penfield gave a
supper and dance at .the Club de
Vingt on Thursday evening in honor
of Miss Julia Zaldivar, daughter of
the Salvador minister, a debutante
of this season.
New Year Day.
The New Year's day in Washing
ton was much more brilliant than
the last one, but was as nothing
compared to the New Year's day
of other years, when it was the
day of all days to see the assembled
diplomatic corps, and the army and
navy officers of this country and
every other, who happened to be
here, to call in 6tate at the White
House, to be received by the presi
dent and his wife, the vice president
and members of the cabinet and
thsir wives.
Paris. Tan. 4. "Doctor Van"
isn't a doctor, really that is he has
never been inside a medical school.
He is not a commissioned officer,
either. Two days after war was de
clared in America he enlisted in one
of the cities of the middle west
and came over as a private. He is
a sergeant, now. His experiences
driving an ambulance first,, and
after that in the front line and then
in various camps in France till he
was sent to a base hospital as a
patient, would fill several diaries,
if he keeps such things, which I
doubt. !
But there are a good many men in
that base hospital who owe their
returning health to him, after they
had been in bed for weeks and
even months. Now, although they
almit that he is well again, v they
will not let him go from the hospital.
because a transfer is a long and
tedious business to bring about, and
they need him there to help out with
the patients.
He was only out of bed a day
or so himself when he came across
two boys in one of the wards who
had been in the hospital since April.
One of them had been an interpre
ter with the French army and the
other was a marine from Chateau
Thierry. They had been shell-shock
ed, and in all these months from
April to September they had grown
scarcely any better.
Wanted to Help Them.
"Captain," Sergeant Van said one
morning to the doctor in charge of
the ' ward, "do you mind if I see
what 1 can do for those men there?
I think I may be able to help them
out a bit, if you don't mind."-
The captain looked at him inter
estedly. If it had been any other
man the captain would have been
indifferent, perhaps. But Sergeant
Van has a way with him.
"What do you want to do with
them?" he wanted to know.
"I'd just like to talk to them a
bit, sir, now and then," Sergeant
Van said.
The captaui threw up his hands.
"Kamerad!" he cried jovially
"Talk is the deadliest medicine on
lop of the earth."
"I was meaning it, sir," theser
geanti said, steadily. i
"Oh, go ahead, Van," the captain
agreed. "Do anything you blame
please." '
The next morning, on his rounds
the captain stopped beside the bed
of the first of the two men who had
been shell-shocked.
"How's it coming this morning,
boys?" he asked.
' Speaks First Word.
F-f-Fine, sir," was the answer, a
lntle unsteadily given, perhaps, but
the captain did not notice that. He
sat down on the bed and looked at
the boy in amazement. Those were
the first words he had spoken aloud
since the day-'he came to the hospi
tal, unconscious, five months before
At that moment Sergeant Van
hove into sight from the diet kit
chen. He had a plate of milk toast
in his hands a plate that the boy
in bed followed with an interestel
gaze. ,
"Beg pardon, sir," Sergeant Van
said, saluting, "but I must ask you
to wait until m patient has had his
break.'aSt before you talk with him."
The astonished captain allowed
himself to be waved from the bed
to the nearest chair and watched in
amazement the boy devour the
toast. His hands shook so, from
shell-shock, that he could scarcely
manage it, but he was propped up
and fed himself, with every appear
ance of keen interest in his food.
Thi day before the boy had not been
able to swallow anything but liqu:1
food, and he couldn't have held the
spoon.
The captain beckoned Sergeant
Van to the end of the ward.
"Did you do that?" he demanded
"Yes sir," admitted Sergeant Van.
"How in blue blazes " began
the captain and paused for lack of
words.
"I'll show you if you like, sir."
"I do like," ordered the captain.
Shows liim How.
So Van showed him. Though the
doctor couldn't quite make it out, at
that just what Van did. He stroke 1
their heads a little, and massaged
their throats a bit, and all the time
he talked" to them in the quietest,
most harmless sounding voice in
the world. But ten minutes after he
began the boys were asleep, natural
ly, without a tremor in the bodies
that had been nerve-wrecked for
weeks The doctor looked at Ser
geant, Van heli lessly and left hak
ing his head.
Two weeks later Sergeant , Van
held a clinic before a major gen
eral of the medical corps and sev
eral majors and still more captains
and lieutenants all 'men of reputa
tion in America as doctors. Two of
his subjects were the two men over
whom he had worked that first
morning. They came into the clinic,
clear-eyed and straight and ruddy as
athletes from the field. They passed
tests that the doctors couldn't pass,
themselves. One of them, support
ing himse'f by his shoulders and '
ankles between two tables, held tre
weight of tour cf the huskiest of
the doctors standing upon him at the
same time. Another subject was a
huge negro who bad been brought
to the hospital day before and whom
Sergeant Van had never seen. Four
hypodermics had not been able to
quiet him, and they brought him in
in a straitjacket. It took Van
jus; seven minutes to have him
asleep.
Doctors Are Puzzled.
Since then, the shell-shock cases
have been in Van's hands. The doc
tors shake their heads and wonder
An American professor, well known
for his psychological research work
shakes his head, too, and has notr
ing to say. r
, In the camp and the hospital they
call him the :"hypnotist." Perhaps
he is. Under the management f
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the Y. M. C A. he has given a great
many performances that set the men
into gales of laughter, regular
slap-stick feats of mesmeric ability.
He laughs when you try to get h' n
to explain them. "Oh, I - don't
know' he will say. But he grows
serious over his shell-shock cases'.
"It isn't that I hypnotize them, at
all," he will tell you. "I just tell
them that they are bigger than their
nerves, and that the can control
that if they really want to. And I
show them how. They believe it
because I tell them it is so, and then,
you see they at- well."
But the doctors continue to won
der and to say that Van has discov
ered the first really successful treat
ment for shell-shocic.
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The Wabigoon group, f which
Herberta Barker is guardian, will
meet on Tuesday at the home of
Marjorie Pancoast. .
The girls of the Akita group, of
which Mrs. Charles J. Hubbard is
guardian, had a skat:ng party on
Saturday morning, with a luncheon
at the Prettiest Mile club house fol
lowing.
Miss MabeJ Workman's group met
at Hazel Sunderland's home on Sat
urday afternoon. The girls worked
on their head bands, symbols and
songs.
During the holidays, Mrs. C. J.
Hubbard's group was entertained at
the home of Gene Field. Later the
girls had a matinee party at the
Rialto. Both of these affairs were
Kiven in honor of Dorothy Arter and
Ann Axtell, home from college for
the holidays, and Louise Curtis, who
was formerly guardian of the group
and now secretary of girls' wori
at the Y. W. C. A. at Topeka. Kan.
The office of the Campfire Girls
association in the Patterson block
will be open every day, 9 to 12. 1
to 5. '
Miss Eloise Searle will be hostess
tothe Akita group for an all day
meeting Saturday, January 12. The
girls will work on their costumes and
learn wood blocking.
Miss Helen Buck from national
Campfire headquarters gave a se
ries of lectures to the Campfire
guardians at the Y. W. C. A. on
Monday afternoon, 4 to 6.
A social half hour was spent when
tea was served.
The Petago group held a Xmas
party at the home of their guardian.
Eleanor Potter, on Friday afternoon
from 2 to 5 o'clock. -The girls had
a joke Christmas tree and all had
a most enjoyable time.
The Salem group held a council
fire at the home of Alphild Bystrom.
Ruth Andreesen took the desire;
Blanche Sherwood and , Marjorie
Crichton took the woodgatherer's
desire.
Sue Morearty entertained her
group Saturday afternoon at her
home, 1106 South Thirty-first street.
The guests came dressed as little
girls and had many laughs as they
played childhood games and ate
stick candy, animal cookies, etc.
Another enjoyable Xmas party
was given by the Woha group at
the home of their guardian, Zoe
Schalek. Each girl brought a guest,
there being 24 in alL
The committees for the party were
Ruth Gordon, Helen Hecox. Ruth
Giimmel, Helen Pancoast .for,: the
12 British Planes Fought , 1
40 Fokkers; Shot Down 20;
Keturned, Only 3 Missing
It Was Some Fight, the Very" Best That Fritzie Could Put Up,
But He Was Simply Battling Against the Wrong Man 4
And Machine. i
The writer of tha following has Just
returned troni Billum. and from close
study on spot of ln part played by
the lioynl Air ''orce In the liberation of
King Albert's country.
London, Dec. 2S. (By Mail.)
On the map of Belgium there is a
neat little triangle. It is formed by
lines connecting Ostend, Zebrugge
and Bruges. And within the con
fines of this triangle the Germans
probably expended more wealth and
effort on fortifications than any
other people ever expended in any
other given area of the same size.
That was because they knew that
once they were ousted from'thote
positions, with all ihey meant as
marine bases, they vould be swept
out of Belgium in short order.
That, also, was the reason why
British air squadrons have cease
lessly bombed that region ever since
the early days of the war. In spite
of elaborate shelters mammoth
dugouts constructed with infinite
labor, and hundreds of thousands
of tons of steel reinforced concrete,
life there has been a hell on earth
since the very beginning. The Brit
ish airmen made it so.
The entire coastline testifies' to
the deadly accuracy of the work.
The string of concrete dugouts
among the sand dunes is starred
all over with bomb craters. Gun
emplacements, although cleverly
camouflaged, have been shattered,
and it needs no imagination to de
fine the 'ate of thepun ';rews. And
the remorselesslniKreasing effect
iveness of the aerial bombardment
is apparent from the fact that there
are no fewer than four classes of
dugouts on that line each deeper
and stronger than these previously
built.
Zeebruggee as a submarine base
is wiped out. The fam6us Mole has
Le'en plastered with bombs. The
size and power of f.ome ,of them
may be judged by inspecting the re
mains of a dugout the top of which,
built of. concrete, was eight feet
thick. It h:.d been literally flatten
ed out by a single huge bomb.
Bruges holds a shining example
refreshments, Doroth" Deutsch and
Dorothy Rutherford for the games.
Miss Sue Morearty entertained the
girls of her group at a "school day,"
party Saturday afternoon. The
guests came dressed as little girls
and spent the afternoon in playing
games of childhood.
The Gabeshiwin group gave a din
ner to a family of six.- They had all,
excepting the father, been ill with
the "flu." Presents for iach and
clothing were also given.
The girls in Margaret Woodward's
group were very successful with their
candy sale held at Pardun' & Sip
pie's store the week before Xmas
They made about $8.50. As this was
their first, large undertaking, much
praise na. due the girls. ... V
The ..Abanakee group, of which
Margaret Woodward is 'Tguardian,
postponed their meeting this week
owing to a special guardians' meet
ing held by Miss Helen Buck at the
.Y.W.',G A. "Monday afternoon.
20TH AND HARNEY STREETS
of the splendid accuracy with which
night bombing has been carried out "j
by the British. The docks on on 1 1
side of the town are a scrap-heap f'
Or. the other side the great factor- '
ies which turned out munitions fof,
the Germans have betn completely
wrecked. But in the town propef
not a building has been wreck eaY
not a paving stone disturbed. ' In
habitants there have told me thai
after the first fewjaids by the Britei
ish airmen, they retired with a feel. f
in of pen'ect security Yet tha i
Germrn raids over England in;
variably brought wreckage, not Vti
miltary establishments but to .prfol
vate residences, schools, hospital! -I j
and the like. - ". .
The pushing of the enemy from '
his coastal stronghold was of inn!
mense value to the British from .f
tactical point of view. For foiit S
years they had been obliged 10 1
travel over the sea in order to carry"
out their raids and reconnaissances;
If an eneine went wionir or theit
planes were damaged by anti-air
craft fire, the choice often lay be
tween landing in the cjemy lines of"
in Holland, in such circumstance
the British airmen naturally chos
the alternative of internment Tht
thrusting out of landing space east
of the coast which not only elim
inated the old handicap, but fur
nished excellent bases of operatic
against the enemy's right flank. ,v,r
Many of the former GermaH'
aerodromes were at once occupied
by the British squadrons, the tm
treat of the enemy having been sfli
precipitate that he had not time 49
demolish them. 4
The young major commanding ':
squadron of twelve British planet
looked anxiously in the direction .(if
Ghent while awaiti.ig their . return?
from a raid. , . , ; ; j v
They came back in twos antf
threes. Here and there a bit o
fluttering fabric told where' bocl),T
bullets had torn the surfaces, Twa
or' three spars had been shftt
through, and an occasionel furrow
in a varnished fuselage gave evw,
dence of fair shooting by German V
The youngsters came tumbling"
out of planes and descended upQi
the recording officer in ' an avail
lanche of flying toggery, from whichl
TV,-,, -11 - Ti
J. iiuj an incu IU lalft at UllLC. ' J
ii naa Deen some ngnt, tneyj
said. Twenty Fokkers had delihJ
erately got intheir way. An wilt'
they started in to rhow the en,
what he had let himself in fofi.rj
more Fokkers had corie down frbrrJ
"upstairs" and taken . a hand 4&
against 121 It was a real "dogfight"
then. ,-. ,,',.-.. -;f
The recording officer waited. H
knew better than io try to 'orcfr
tne necessary - details, lhey cam
later, when notes had been exhaust
lvely compared,, when
renters had got a ce
tiv on the morning
final results Droved t
kers destroyed or shot down
of control. The Bnt'sh casu
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when hf nyqrf'
a cerrftinipersftl
ning how.' ly
tred to be 20 Fl
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