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THE - BEE : OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAT 2, 1919.
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RAILROAD MEN
PROMISE AID TO
POTASH FIELDS
Through Rates and Trains to
Be Afforded From Northwest
to Points on Seaboard
East and South.
Relief in aiding the Nebraska pro
ducers of potash to sell their sur
plus stocks is on the way. The
Omaha district freight trafic com
mittee is at work lining up a through
freight rate from the Antioch, Lake
side and Merriam fields to points
in the south and along the Atlantic
coast.
Heretofcre the rate on potash go
ing south and east has been a com
bination of the locals. Ii is pro
posed to reduce this rate from 10 to
25 per cent, making a rate of $8.25
a ton to the Atlantic district and
$3.50 to Baltimore territory, with a
corresponding i eduction' to New
I".n gland and New York points.
The Heavens in May
OUCH! CORNS!
' LIFT CORNS OFF
6! H
s 'jy
Doesn't hurt a bit to lift any corn
right off with fingers
TYT
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Drop a little Freezone on an ach
ing corn, instantly that corn stops
hurting, then you lift it right out.
It doesn't pain one bit. Yes; magic!
Why wait? Your druggist sells a
tiny bottle of Freezone for a few
cents, sufficient to rid your feet of
every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses, with
out soreness or irritation. Freezone
is the much talked of ether dis
covery of a Cincinnati genius.
Adv.
The Advertiser who uses The Bee
Want Ad Column increases his
lesiness thereby and the persons
who read them profit by the oppor
tunities offered.
BvVILLIAM F. RIGGE. '
This month a most important and
unusual phenomena will .ocfear in
the heavens, or rather I should say,
a somewhat unusualand rare event
will be observed for a most unusual
purpose. It is a total eclipse of the
sun that happens on the 29th, that
is causing this stir in astronomical
circles. Not that such an eclipse
should be so rare, since there is one
June 8 last year all along the line
about every two years and we our
selves had a good look at one on
from the state of Washington to that
of Florida, but this total eclipse d
the 29th of this month will be ob
served for a new purpose. The
magnificent corona that surrounds
the totally eclipsed sun, which is the
chief attraction in such cases, will
now be practically ignored and re
jected, I might say, for something
of far greater value. And what ' is
this that should be quickly and so
recently outweigh the corona in im
portance? It is, in a word, the law
of gravitation its61f that is on trial
at this eclipse, the law of gravita
tion established by Isaac Newton
over two centuries ago and accepted
ever since by all scientific men, not
the mere fact of universaKgravita
tion. however, but its nature. LetMis
see what this means.
Let us begin by asking ourselves,
what is gravitation? The most of us
will have to answer, we don't know.
And we will have over 99 per cent
of our fellow mortals to keep us
company. Even after reading the
most learned treatises and bringing
our profoundest mathematics to bear
upon the subject, we shall know very
little more. All we know is the
tendency of all bodies to approach
one anotherwith a force proportion
al directly to the product of their
masses or the amount of matter they
contain, and inversely to the squares
of the distances between them, and
this tendency we call gravitation.
The fact is well and thoroughly
known and is applied continually to
the motions of the heavenly bodies,
which come up to their predicted
places as accurately as we can ob
serve. But the nature of the force
is not known. We do not know
whether it is a pull or a push, or
what the medium is through which
it acts, or whether as a fact it actual
ly uses a medium at all. We know
that the velocity of propagation of
a force in any medium depends
upon the nature of the medium and
not at all upon the force, as per
example, all sounds travel through
the air at the same speed under the
same conditions. We also know that
the luminiferous ether which trans
mits light, heat and electricity, can
propagate a motion only at the rate
of 186,000 miles a second. From
this it follows that gravity, if it
uses the ether as its medium, could
not possibly affect bodies instantane
ously at all distances, as it is sup
posed to do. Thus, as light takes 8
minutes to come to us from the sun,
if gravity came 8 minutes late, the
earth would run away op the tangent
line and the sun would be too slow
to hold it. On the other hand it is
inconceivable that gravity should
need no medium at all. There then
is a serious contradiction, which has
taxed the mental acumen of the
most learned men for quite a while.
The answer may be Very easy, but
we do not know it now. It may be
as easy as it is to a telephone man
and as hard to a student and non
professional to answer the question
as to whether, when we take the tel
ephone off. its hook and call central,
we thereby make or break circuit.
If we make circuit, then before that
our4 circuit was broken, and how
could we be called? If we break
..frf Kn lir,w ran v talk1?
Not only do we not know the na-M
Do You Buy Your
Own
Shoes?
$7.00 10 $12.00
In All Leathers Especially the
New "Beauty Brown."
Sizes to 9
widths AAA to
D.
In the days when Father bought them, getting
your full money's worth ej-id not seem so important.
Now when every dollar must
strive to buy 100 cents' worth
of shoe wear, shoe looks and
shoe comfort, much care must
be taken in the selection.
We feature shoes that give the
full worth of your money. Oni
mod and Strong and Garfield
shoes for men are the best val
ues obtainable if there were
better shoes we would get
them.
La France shoes for women
embody the best leathers, the
latest styles and the finest
workmanship. Ladies who are
particular about their shoes
always choose them.
Dr. Reed' Cushion Sole Shoes for Men and Women
205 So. 13th. St OMAHA
.11 .r r v, r
$5.00 to
$12.00
Shown in all
Sizes and Color
Black and Light and Dark Tan.
hire of gravitation, we do not even
know th nature of the ether which
carries light, heat and electricity and
which may in some way carry gravi
tation alio,. What is the constitu
tion of the ether? It is surely mat
ter; it is not spirit; and if matter, is
it itself subject to gravitation?
A celebrated theory now m-omi-nentrjr
discussed in technical maga
zines, called "Einstein's Theory of
Gravitation," maintains that the eth
er is subject to gravit, and that,
therefore, large bodies like our sun
condense the ether in their neigh
borhoods. If Jhis is true, then the
light of a star that just grazes the
sun's surface must be noticeably re
fracted and bent out of its course,
just as the light of the sun grazing
the earth's surface and passing
through our air, which is enormously
denser than the ether of space, is
visibly refracted and bent into the
earth's shadow so as to fall upon the
moon when it is totally eclipsed in
this shadow, and illuminate it1, with
a dull and beautiful coppery color.
Now, owing to the enormous bril
liancy of the sun, it is impossible to
see. stars near it, except when the
sun itself is totally eclipsed. That
is our only chance. But the stars
must be very near the sun, so near
that their rays must pass through
its corona, and they must be bright
enough to allow themselves to be
photographed during the precious
few secondl that total eclipses gen
erally last. At recent eclipses no
stars were near enough to the sun to
be of use, and weather conditions
were also very adverse. At the
coming eclipse on the 29th the sun
will be near the group of the Hyades
in the constellation of the Bull, and
several very bright stars will be in
excellent position for the purpose
mentioned. And if we add to this
another very exceptional fact, the
long duration of totality, nearly
seven minutes as a maximum, while
other eclipses like ours last year
have only about two minutes or less,
we will understand why the astron
omical world is so much interested
in this eclipse.
But, like everything that is highly
prized, there are many practical dif
ficulties to overcome. The first is
that the best part of the eclipse
track will be across the Atlantic
ocean near the equator, so that on
land stations in South America and
in Africa the sun will not be as high
in the sky as observers would wish,
and the duration will be only about
five minutes instead of nearly seven.
However, even these five are two or
three times as much as usual. Then,
secondly, the climate of the eclipse
stations is said to be very unhealthy
and the weather very unreliable.
And, lastly, the expense of traveling
and setting up ferge apparatus will
be unsually great and forbidding to
governments and universities, com
ing as it does so soon after our
great war. The United States will
not send out an expedition at all.
The only parties that are at present
known to be in the field are two
from England, one of which is in
Brazil and the other in Guinea, in
Africa.
Let me add that when I said be
fore that the stars must be noticea
bly refracted, I mean that two stars
which will be on opposite sides of
the sun during the eclipse will be
displaced on the photographic plate
about one-thousandth of an inch
from tlieir usual positions, when
they are photographed by a tele
scope 13 feet long. No part of this
eclipse on the ,29th will be visible
in the United States.
The days increase in length about
one hour during the month, being 13
hours 52 minutes long on the 1st!
14 hours 24 minutes on the 15th and
14 hours 50 minutes on the 31st. On
the 21st the sun enters Gemini, the
Twins.
We still have the three brightest
planets as evening stars this month,
although the late sunsets will not
show them off to advantage. Venus
sets on the 15th at 11:49 p. m. and
Jupiter at 12:21 a. m., while Saturn
is south at 7:33 p. m. On the 25th
at 6 p. m. Venus and Jupiter will
be in conjunction, their shortest dis
tance apaft being about four times
the diameter of the moon.
The moon will be in conjunction
with Venus on the 2d, with Jupiter
on the 4th and 31st and with Saturn
on the 7th.
SUN.
rlscnooni Set
1.2118.16'
1. 21 8.171
1.218.18
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APRIL.
MOON.
RlseJSo'thl Set.
18.21
8.22
8.23
8.24
8.25
1.21
1.20
1.201
1.20
1.20
1.20l8.2
13 1.20 8.27
12 1.20 8.28
1.20 8.29
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1.20 8.35
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1.2118.43
1.21 8.44
1.2118.44
1.2118.45
1.2118.4(5
1.2118.46
1.2218.47
1.2218.48
30-Wed. n.ra
1- Thur.
2- Frl.
3- Sat.
4- Sun.
6-Mon.
6-Tue. f.q.
T-Wed.
I-Thuri.
9-Frl.
10-Sat.
11- Sun.
12- Mon.
13- Tues.
14-Wed. f.m
15- Thurg.
16- Frl.
'17-Sat.
18- Sun.
19- Mon.
120- Tues.
121 - Wed
I22-Thur. I.o
23- ri.
24-Sat.
26-Sun.
26-Mon.
1 28 -Wed."
2-Tnr. n.m
30-Frl.
'31-Sat.
I 1-Sun.
I 2-Mon.
3-Tues.
6 30
X 21
8N18
9 221
10 28
11 35
12.41
1.44
2.44
3.46
4.45
6.42
6.40,
7.371
8.35
9.29
10.20
11.08
11.50
Mldn
12 27
1 3
1 35
2 03
2 34
3 07
3 40
1.60
2.63
1.56
9.17
10.31
11.34
4.(71 Mldn
8. 84
8.47
7.36
8.22
9.06
9.49
10.32
11.14
11.67
Mldn
12 42
1 291
2 17
3 07
S 57
4 4
5 35
12 28
1 14
6 10
6 42
g 48
9 46
10 46
6 2311 49
251
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10 26
11 31
7 11
7 59
8 48
9 39
10 33
11 371
12.31
1 .35
2. as
12.65
2.01
3.01
4.20
6.35
6.57
8.03
9.13
10.14
3.S9I11 .05
4.36111.45
6.28! Mldn
8.17112 21
MOON'S PHASES.
First quarter on the 6th 6:34 p. m.
Full moon on the 14th at 8:01 p m.
I.aat quarter on the 22d at 8:04 p. m.
New moon on the 29th at 8:12 a. m.
Wolf Buys Interest
Of Kennedys In Big
Downtown Building
One of the largest real estate deals
of the year was consummated when
Harry Wolf purchased the interest
of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kennedy in
the Saunders-Kennedy building on
the southeast corner of Eighteenth
and Douglas street today. It is un-i
derstood the consideration was
based on a valuation of $360,000.
Mr. Wolf purchased the stock for
H. A.- Wolf company, who expect
to occupy the corner room on the
ground floor for their growing real
estate, insurance and investment
business.
The building was built five years
ago on this corner which was a part
of the old Saunders homestead.
It is an eight story fire proof of
fice building and is connected with
the Brandeis Theater building,
making one of the largest office
buildings in Omaha.
The building is owned by a corpor
ation, the Saunders-Kennedy Budd
ing company. Charles L. Saunders
is president .
STRANGER 'NICKS'
THREE BANKS. IN
TOWN FOR $1,200
Takes "French Leave" as
Teller In Omaha . National
Bank Doubts Authenticity
; of Check Signature.
Three Omaha banks yesterday
were holding three worthless checks
aggregating $1,200, . and with 24
hours start on detectives, a former,
tall, handsome, well dressed and
speaking with a southern accent, is
perhaps hundreds of miles distant.
The slick stranger passed a check
at the Corn Exchange National
hank for $500, another at the United
States National bank for $500 and at
the Packers National bank for $400.
The man appeared at the paying
teller's window in the Omaha Na
tional bank and presented a check
for $250 over the name of J. C
Crowl, assistant cashier for the Up
dike Grain Co.
Takes "Franch Leave."
L.'C. Refregier, the teller, was sus
picious of the stranger, although
the forged name was an exact dup
lication of Mr. Crowl's signature.
Mr. Refregier reached for the tele
phone and while he was attempting
to get in communication with Mr.
Crowl the man escaped, leaving the
check.
The matter "was reported to Chief
of Detectives Dunn, who was giv
en a description of the fugitive.
Funeral Services Held
For Sergt. Guy R. Howell
The funeral of Sergt. Guy R. How
ell, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. How
ell, 108 North Forty-first street, was
held yesterday afternoon. Services
were conducted at First Presby
terian church by Rev. E. Hart
Jenks. Members of Omaha ambu
lance company, of which Sergeant
Howell was a member, rendered;
militars honors. '
The active pallbearers were: Leo
Riley, Harry Bailey, Everett Perrin, j
Capt Otis Martin. Leo Boyle and
Lake Deuel. A firing squad from
Fort Omaha participated.
Hospital Train Will Stop
In Omaha On Way West
A hospital train carrying 168
wounded soldiers f rp,m the war zone
of Europe, half a dozen surgeons
and 20 attendants, enroute from Jer
sey City to American Lake, Wash.,
will pass through Omaha Sunday
morning, probably between 7 and 8
o'clock. The train will remain two
hours that the cars may be inspected
by the public
Ampng' the wounded are four lit
ter and 164 other patients. They
are traveling in seven cars, specially
fitted for hospital purposes. It is
Presenting a Two-Day
Sale of Suits
FRIDAY andJSaturday the Emporium will inau
gurate one of the greatest value-giving sales in
its history. Every garment will be worth fully
$10 more than the price asked, and many of the suitsi
will represent a saving of $15 to $25.
DRUGGISTS DON'T
TAKE KINDLY TO
WAR LUXURY TAX
Desire .That Manufacturers
Absorb Tax and Place
Stamps On Original Toilet
Article Packages. ,
A revenue tax on perfumes, ex
tracts, toilet waters, cosmetics, med
icinal cordials, and similar sub
stances became effective yesterday.
The tax is at the rate of 1 cent
for each 25 cents or fraction thereof
of the amount paid by the customer.
The retail druggist selling to the
consumer is responsible for the col
lection of the tax, which must be
added to the cost price to the pur
chaser. The tax will be collected by
means of adhesive proprietary
stamps, which must be placed on
each article sold.
Omaha retail druggists find many
objections to the tax plan.
"The manufacturers and whole
salers neatly sidestepped the re
sponsibility of the tax," said Charles
R. Sherman of the Sherman-Mc-Connell
stores. "The logical place
for the stamps to be placed on the
merchandise is in the laboratory be
fore the bottle is wrapped. ' Many
products are wrapped in glazed pa
per in' which stamps will not stick.
Will it be necessary for the retailer
to teaf off this paper, place tha
stamp on the bottle, then rewrap it?
"Even if the stamp is placed op
the wrapper, when- the consumer
tears it open there will be no evi
dence that a stamp was used," con
tinued Mr. Sherman. "It is the
same tax as that levied during the
civil war, but at that time the man
ufacturers placed the stamps on the
merchandise and absorbed the tax.
Simple substances for which no
special claim is made, will not be
taxed, according to Mr. Sherman's
interpretation of the law. If the
article is advertised as superior to
the same article manufactured by
another concern, it becomes taxable,
he says.- t
Most i Omaha druggists have a
supply of stamps to last for the day
on hand, and all are making prep
arations tfr stamp their quick selling
goods in large quantities.
$2(6
The style diversity em
braces many variations of
the Box Suit, Russian
Blouse and Tailored Suit,
all following the
latest dictates of
the late Spring patterns.
The fabrics are Poplins,
Gabardines, Serge, and Poi
ret Twill.
The trimmings are of
fancy tuckings, buttons, con
trasting collars, etc.
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Yes! A Dolman, too, at $26
Fashionable Dolman Capes, excellently suited
for late Spring and Summer wear, of much wanted
light weight materials, are included in this sale.
We advise earlu mornina shonnina.
V - M
LpJ$2622
$26
Within a radius of 100
miles every woman
knows the value
of our
These suits' are excellent
values underpriced at $35 and
they should be eagerly sought
at this extra priced reduction.
The materials are fine Gab
ardines, Serge, etc., in the
season's most wanted colors.
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25,000 Pounds Ocean Fish
Direct From Boston, Mass.
Now on Sale at the Following Leading Markets anil
at Others Whose Names Were Received Too Late to Be Listed:
H
Hayden Bros.,
Douglas 2600 16tl and Dodge.
Central Market,
Douglas 17901608 Harney. I
Washington Market,
Tyler 4701407 Douglas,
Chas. Stern,
Douglas 20732307 Leavenworth.
0. M. Zarp,
Harney 324 1 608 Park Ave.
Boulevard Grocery and Heat Co.,
Harney 2313008 Haskell.
Jepsen Bros.,
Douglas 18402502 Cuming.
Courtney & Co.,
Douglas 3940 17th and Douglas.
Boston Meat sad Grocery Co.,
Douglas 1089118 N. 16th tj
A. Guennette,
Douglaa 8817608 So. 16th 8
Trod Bonnets,
Harney 6272804 Lotvenworfc
J. D. Grew, ',
Harney 936 33d and Arte U
8am Rlseman,
Douglaa 16022308 Cumin J.
ALL BASKET STORE MARKETS
COUNCIL BLUFFS
S. McAtee,
Tel. 894230 So. Main.
O. J. Cronkelton.
Tel. 828637. Weet Broatfws
People's Market,
Tel. 2740318 Weet Broadway,
Steak Pollock or Boston Blue Fish.
St63k Cod . .;. .-... t;o:i:!..;'TT:Tr:iF:'
Sea Herring
Whiting or Silver Hake..
Native Mackerel .-. .,-?--- - ...- - ? ,'- flOo
WHITING FOR CHILDREN.
Finest sea food in the world for children is "Whiting" comparatively free from
bones are most nutritious and especially recommended for the kiddies. Only the back
bone and pure white meat. (Buy Whiting for the kiddies.) '
Sea Food is meat and has a high food value. Analyses shows that ocean fish contains
as much body building food as beefsteak. St. , -'
Great Events Are Happening
in the FISH Business
The first carload of Ocean Fish, containing 25,000 pounds of popular
varieties, ever shipped west of the Missouri River by the Boston, Fish Pier
Co., BostonMass., has arrived in town, and will be distributed by the King
Cole Co. to all retail dealers of Omaha and vicinity.
These Fine Ocean Fish Now on 4 A nAV. IL
Sale at the Leading Markets at... 1 UC P" l0
The United States Bureau of Fisheries has asked the American public to consume
more fish. The average protein content of staple varieties of fiish "is 18.77. Fresh
beef 18.69. '
DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE '
BUREAU OF FISHERIES
Washington, D. C, -T. v: 25, 1919.
Boston Fish Pier Company,
No. 9 Boston Fish Pier,
Boston, Mass. .
Gentlemen I received your letter of January 23 and am pleased to learn of your
proposed campaign to stimulate the consumption of frozen fish.
One of the great difficulties encountered by those who are endeavoring to increase
the. use of fish is the seasonal character of most of the fisheries, resulting in a surplus at
some times and a dearth at others. Canning, salting and smoking furnish partial solu
tions of the difficulties, but the fisheries will never attain their proper balance and eco
nomic development until it shall become possible to place the peak of the annual fish
supply in cold storage, to be used in filling the valley of the winter months.
Fish placed in the freezer in good condition and not thawed until they are used, are
as wholesome and nutritious and praatically as good in flavor as if fresh, and there is no
reason for prejudice against them. If the hausewife can.be taught to buy these fish sfill
frozen and thaw them immediately before use, both the consumer and the fisheries will
greatly benefit. Very truly yours, 1
- . ' (Signed) H. F. Moore, Deputy Commissioner,
U. S. Largest Fish Produc
ing Nation
The United States is the largest fish pro
ducing nation in the world and yet it is the
smallest fish consumer of all nations, the con
sumption being only 18 pounds j)er v capita,
while Canada consumas 30 to 40 pounds and
England 58 pounds per capita. The fish eat
ing nations of the world are the healthiest
and brainest of all 'races. x
People of the Middle West consume too
much pork . and beef and too little fish.
Points to Remember
Fish must be thoroughly cooked use
plenty of salt and pepper. Ocean fish may
be cooked in the same manner as any fish
baked, broiled, boiled or fried. Fish should
never stand in water. Cooked fish need
never be wasted ; it can be made into a
stew or a delicious salad. A good cook
can do more with fish than any other food.
Plain boiled and mashed potatoes, squash
and green peas, go well with any kind Of
fish. '
KING COLE CO., Distributors
Douglas 351. . 10th and Howard Sts.
Attention Dealers Call us by phone for fall particulars regarding' oar great fish sale.