THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1919.
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Omaha has nine railroad trunk
'lines, seven point freight rates,
good terminal facilities, and other
advantages for manufacturers.
Don't make the little end the biggest.
It is becoming quite plain that bootlegging
begets lying:
King Corn has the laugh on the pessimists
who predict hit demise.
One .not will not win the war against the
profiteer. ' Keep right on his trail.
Parcel post business ought to be good until
the army surplus food is all disposed of.
Nebraska? new administrative code is start
ing on ita rcaf test. Time will tell if it is serviceable.
New York housewives threaten to turn bol
heviki. In Omaha they are about ready to
quit work.
, Old King Nicotine is now going to get a
run lor hi life. He can at least lay down a
moke screen.
v Omaha led the world last week as a aheep
market, if you want to know what is going on
hereabouts.
Omaha food dealers say they regret the
present high prices. They have the majority
with them in this.
t The Kansas City boy who won $500 from
his father by sticking to his job in the harvest
field will do well in this world of action.
' If some of this government solicitude for
the people had been shown a few months ago,
conditions would be much different today.
. Bernard Baruch says Germany can never
nav the hill. Perhans not. hut we will keen
1 them working at it for a long time to come.
I :
The army airman who made 137 miles an
j hour - went almost fast enough to keep track
of father's weekly pay as it vanishes from view.
v We do not need new laws, but strict en
forcement of some of the existing statutes
might reach the spot in regard to profiteering.
'; Booze that was bought prior to May 1, 1917,
and cached for private use, is safe in Nebraska.
Trouble will be to date the recent sales back
far enough.
We have amongst us a lot of healthy, happy
youngsters who perhaps would not be here if
it were not for The Bee's Free Ice and Milk
fund. Every subscriber knows this.
f Corn and pork have started on the ' back
track, but are not going down as fast as they
went up. If hog and hominy can be bought
cheap enough, we will starve only by choice.
; Railroad men ask for increase of wages
amounting to a billion; that means another in
crease in rates, to be followed by a further in
crease in selling costs, and this means to start
all over again. Where is the end?
A Chicago expert says that much of the high
price of food is due to waste incidental to care
less handling in transportation. This is an
other count in the indictment against govern
ment management of the railroads.
. Government reports show that the Ameri
can bison is increasing in numbers, and now
the count gives about an average daily run of
steers at -the Omaha stock yards. This may
console the sentimental persons who bewail
the "passing" of the buffalo.
Getting to Work Again
' Before the war Belgium was noted for
density of population and the high standard
of comfort among its inhabitants, all enjoying
peaceful conditions, and looking forward, to
their general continuance. It was industrial
efficiency and a calm, hopeful spirit that made
Belgium so populous, thrifty and legitimately
ambitious in business. No country was ever
more inoffensive. Live well and contentedly,
and let others live likewise, was the evident
motto of Belgium. But autocracy had secretly
mapped it to be suddenly overrun and crushed
when the most powerful army in history swept
forward to conquer the world. Belgium met
the first impact, and looks it today. It was
Indomitable through four years of calamity and
captivity. But it has been saved. It is clear
ing away the wreckage. There will be a greater
Belgium, one tried by the fire of millions of
hostile soldiers and thousands of cannon. It
is might, not right, that is a suppliant for .terms.
; What Belgium represented in economics be
fore the war is an instructive example for the
rest of the world. If Missouri had as many in
habitants to the square mile as Belgium the
population of this state would be over 35,000,
000 instead of an eigth of that number. The
fact is an index to the future of Missouri,
whose natural resources are more extensive
and wied. Do the legislatures and other of
ficial representatives of the state ever think
of what is ahead? They are building for
something inconceivably great to narrow mind
and small politician's.
Belgium s old . prosperity will return to it
and more abundantly. St Louis Globe
Xsamocrat j
ONLY THE HALFWAY POST '
"The campaign for suffrage is now over in
Nebraska," is the sage announcement of our
amiable contemporary, commenting on the rat
ification by the legislature of the national con
stitutional amendment prohibiting discrimina
tion in voting privileges on account of sex.
But this is not true at all, for ratification marks
only the halfway post. Nebraska's action on
the federal suffrage amendment will have to be
matched by 35 other states before it can be
effective, and if the Democratic states of the
south refuse to ratify as indications point, final
adoption will Be postponed longer than the
enthusiasts believe. In the meanwhile, if the
suffrage advocates accept the dictum that their
campaign in Nebraska is over, conditions will
remain exactly as they now are with the vote
accorded to women only on such offices as are
statutory, and denied to them on all offices
created by the constitution. In other words,
they will have limited suffrage in Nebraska
unless they keep up the fight to reach the goal
of full suffrage under the state constitution
without waiting for the still indefinite ratifica
tion of the federal amendment. The incon
sistency of the Democratic organ which has
opposed federal amendment on the ground that
suffrage should come from the states, in advis
ing the suffrage people to lay off further activ
ities in Nebraska until the federal amendment
forces the states to make the change, is self-evident.
Speculative Dealings Endanger Industry.
Behind all other causes contributing to the
sky-rocketing of commodity prices is the ele
ment of speculation. This is not confined to a
single line, but permeates all, and is being in
dulged to such an extent as to threaten the
country with financial disaster. High prices
are the inevitable accompaniment of a condi
tion of unusual demand and great expansion of
currency. But all the trouble can not be
ascribed primarily to the diminished purchas
ing power of the dollar. The real cause lies
deeper.
Out of the conduct of the war came a mon
ster in the form of enormously expanded public
credits. It is not only desirable but imperative
that the great bond issues be supported, and
they can be maintained in proximity to par only
by such operations as necessarily involve simi
lar treatment of private credits. This induces
inflation, and that in turn encourages specula
tion, and the present riot of gambling in stocks
and commodities in general follows as naturally
as night comes after day.
The deplorable fact is that this gambling
mania interferes with legitimate industrial oper
ations. Investors are not content to wait for
the slow process of moderate earnings, but seek
inordinate gains by the shortest route. Those
who lose, for there must be a loser wherever
there is a winner in a game of any kind, en
deavor to recoup themselves by further plung
ing, and business stability is further disturbed
thereby.
How to apply the brakes to the whirring
wheels of the stock market and the grain and
provision pit without jolting legitimate enter
prise is the big question. Same way must be
found, for present tendency is in the direction
of disaster. Prices can not go up forever.
Europe is as deeply concerned as America, and
its statesmen, as well as ours, are looking for
a way out. Public credit rests on a solid foun
dation, and is not supported by balloons or
bubbles. These are present, however and un
less carefully deflated may bring calamity.
Potash' and Protection.
The potash industry in America is threat
ened with extermination by removal of the em
bargo on German potash. State department
officials are said to be negotiating with Ameri
can manufacturers of fertilizers to secure from
them an agreement to use a certain proportion
of the domestic product along with the im
ported. The situation is further complicated
by the entrance into the competitive field of a
French company, whch is marketing the Alsa
tian potash, the former chief source of German
supply. Large sums of capital have been in
vested in the potash industry in Nebraska, the
effort being to meet a demand created by the
war. Prices on the raw material went sky
high, but have materially receded, and still fur
ther declines are anticipated. Fertilizer manu
facturers turn with expectancy to a renewal of
trade relations with Germany in hope of beat
ing down the price on the American article.
Here is the problem in a nut shell: Must the
home industry, only partially developed, be
choked off in order that the fertilizer makers
may have larger profits through cheaper raw
material? Nebraska, California, Pennsylvania
and other states where potash deposits are
being worked, are deeply concerned in this.
Protection of the home market has always been
a republican tenet, and congress should take
some action to meet the present situation.
King Ak and the Editors.
Tonight at the "Den" King Ak-Sar-Ben and
the Nebraska ' and Iowa editors will pledge
again those pleasant relations that have sub
sisted between them for so many years. It is
well recognized that through the cordial co
operation of these agents of enlightenment,
the empire over whose destiny the jovial mon
arch presides has received such extensive and
favorable publicity as has made known its ad
vantages and attractions throughout the world.
Ak-Sar-Ben, splendid as its purpose is, can not
exist without the assistance of the editors, and
these in turn have full appreciation of the ben
efits that come directly and indirectly through
the success of the great institution which rep
resents this region as nothing else can. For
twenty-five years this understanding has been
developing, until the mutual determination be
tween the editors and the king is such as
amounts to a most efficient working agreement
Proceedings at the Den this evening will, there
fore, be but a celebration and a renewal of
pledges to work still harder for the good of
the kingdom.
The session of the legislature was just be
ginning to get interesting when adjournment
came. If the members -had shown as much
vim during the regular session, more might
have been accomplished.
Chicago proposes to try the experiment of
barring blacks from certain employment This
looks like a poor way to settle race troubles.
Why not try the experiment of treating all
alike, whether they behave or misbehave?
Duel in the Jungles
From Answers, London.
All day the herd of oryx antelope thick
necked, slender legged, deep shouldered, sand
colored above, white below, black banded be
tween and on the face had hung about in sight
of the drinking place in South Africa.
I do not know how long the herd had gone
without water days perhaps but they could
go without no longer. The nearest other drink
was forty miles away. They could not all make
that and live. Not the calves; not the mothers;
not the heavy cows.
Then why not go to the drinking place no
more than holes, truly, dug by the beasts
themselves in the sandy bed of a dried up
river and have done with it?
Why? Why, lions, my friends lions. Their
splayed, round footprints, the pungent stench
of their royal presence in the bushes all around
the water holes. None had seen them. None
needed to, being oryx and wild antelope; their
noses and their ears were their Marconi receiv
ers and good enough.
At last night came swiftly walking over the
burning plains.
Theii the leader of the oryx made up his
mind, apparently, and gave the-order to march.
And the herd all the herd, bulls, cows and
calves fell in behind, silent, springy and alert,
as well they might be, for they were heading
straight for the drinking place the water holes
of evil repute.
Having once started, that grand old bull
oryx never looked back, but his orders, though
silent, must have been conveyed to the others
somehow. Else how was it, as they neared the
twisted trees lining the banks of the river
dried up the herd closed up behind him cows
and calves somehow in the middle so that he
could hear them press in on his flanks, breath
ing hard in the stillness all about, a serried
phalanx of long, glinting, straight horns?
And how was it, whan they., reached the
river's bank, after a minute's statuesque pause,
all came with him, in one sold, unbroken rush,
to the drinking holes, at the gallop, and in a
fashion unlike the drinking approach of any
other antelopes? And how, too, sticking to
gether close, shoulder to shoulder, they re
treated, paused, and came back to drink again,
always in packed formation with their leader?
Surely no lion, even, could face that.
But the lion did. He was as famished for
food as were the antelopes for water. He, too,
had waited for days. So he came, out of the
scrub and the dusk, coughing, and with great
bounds, and out of course, swift as thought,
and without warning.
he old bull took the charge, thrusting for
ward to cover a cow over anxious and reckless
for her calf, and dropping to his knees, the
better to throw all his power into the blow.
The shock of the impact was terrific. So
was the choking dust that rose up; the appall
ing, crashing roars of the lion writing to disen
gage himself from those terrible 30-inch horns,
that had gone clear through him; the furious
plunging of the oryx bull to free himself and
get away.
But it was all to no purpose or, rather, it
was. Before the moon went down the herd
drank, and later, away up the bank of the river,
the hyenas and the jackals fought audibly over
that hull oryx antelope and the lion, lying face
to face dead I
People You Ask About
Information About Folks in
the Public Eye Will Be Given
in This Column in Answer
to Readers' Questions. Your
Name Will Not Be Printed.
Let The Bee Tell You.
Are Omaha Mothers Designing Crea
tures?
I read the recent article in "Peo
pie You Ask About" relating to the
Prince of Wales' right to marry an
American woman. Is there any pre
cedent for such a marriage? My
daughter's picture was among those
which appeared in The Bee as exam
pies of what the prince would see
were he to visit Omaha, but I do not
anlticipate that he will, or that if
he should, we would see more of him
than the paper headlines, so there
is nothing personal in my question
only a matter of general interest
on which I would appree'ate being
informed. READER.
Thus far the only woman of
American birth ever called upon to
share a European throne has been
the former Alice Heine, born in New
Orleans, daughter of Michel Heine,
a well known banker of the Crescent
City. After the death of the late Due
de Richelieu, she became the con
sort of the ruler of Monaco, and as
such was received with full sovereign
honors at the court of St. James
and some, though by no means all,
of the monarchial capitals of the
continent. She has, however, for
feited her place on the throne and
her sovereign status as the conse
quence of the dissolution of her
marriage by divorce.
The Land of Opportunity.
That America is not the only land
of opportunity, or the only land
where millionaires are made over
night, is illustrated in the case of
Leonard J. Martin, the man who has
Just paid the British government
$20,000,000 for its war stock of 40,
000,000 yards of linen. In London
Mr. Martin is known as "the light
ning millionaire." His career pro
vides a fine romance of "push and
go." At 87 he is a multi-millionaire,
while only a few years ago he was
a mechanic in a tiny shop making
motor boat machinery. His success
he attributes to his foresight and
his readiness to adapt himself to
the changing conditions of the times.
With a comparatively small amount
of capital he had made out of his
little shop he bought up old London
motor buses which wartime condi
tions had put out of business. His
purchases he shipped to remote
parts of the world, at profits which
laid the foundation for his present
vast fortune.
Taft's Rebuke oj Wilson
President Wilson should receive the rebuke
of former President Taft in the spirit of the
adage, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." No
president has ever experienced such loyal and
furthering support from a leader of the party of
the opposition as has been given the democratic
president by his predecessor of the republican
persuasion. Throughout the war and during
the tortuous and anxious times of concluding
peace Mr. Taft refrained from criticism and has
been ever ready with support even though this
was looked upon at first with suspicion and ac
cepted upon grounds of expediency.
Yet in his letter to the republican national
chairman Mr. Taft with the honesty of the need
recites the facts and for the first time makes
known his own deep sympathy with the criti
cisms that have been passed upon Mr. Wilson
for his partisan conduct of the war, for his par
tisan appeal to the country during the last cam
paign and for his amazing ignoring of the real
statesmen of the nation in the makeup of his
peace commission. Such conduct cannot es
cape the censure of history. It has received
abundant censure from contemporary opinion.
But the words of Mr. Taft should be most felt
by Mr. Wilson. With entire self-effacement
the former president points out that it was the
obvious act of broadmindedness for Mr. Wil
son to invite Mr. Root and two members of the
senate committee on foreign relations to be
of the peace party. His failure so to do lead
tn all his subsequent difficulties. Baltimore
American.
Soft Drinks With Hard Names
The person who drops in at a soda foun
tain these days may be in danger at times of
losing his mental poise, so to speak, and a
timely note of warning may spare him from
any sudden shock. If some one slips up be
hind you while you are contentedly munching
a ham sandwich or "strawing" a malted milk
and begins to utter unintelligible jargon, don't
be panic-stricken in the belief that some one
has escaped from a careless keeper. It was
merely a oerson as sane and sober as yourself
who is placing an order for one of the latest
drinks.
"After us the deluge," was the favorite ex
pression of a French king which might well
have been appreciated by the late King Alco
hol. With the official demise of the high
ball and the chaser, has been ushered in a soft
drink era which makes the 57 varieties look like
a solo part. Each day finds a new one on the
market with a name more intricate or "jazzy"
than it spredecessor. In numerous instances
the makers have discounted American dislike
for hyphenated articles and have thoughtfully
divided the complicated moniker into several
syllables, thus making much lighter the attempt
to master its uncertain pronunciation Indiana
polis Star.
Lafayette Day.
When is Lafayette day and where
can 1 get information about it.
J. M.
Lafayette day will be celebrated
September 6 the date of that
distinguished Frenchman's birth.
Charles Stewart Davison of 60 Wall
street, is honorary secretary of the
Lafayette Day National Committee.
Loadi f of (lie Liberals in Canada.
William Neville Martin, who is
looked upon as the foremost candi
date for the leadership of the Lib
eral party in Canada, the choice to
be made at the great party conven
tion meeting in Ottawa tomorrow,
has been premier of the province of
Saskatchewan since 1917. He is a
son of a Presbyterian minister, is a
native of Norwich, Ont., and was
brought up in the manse at Exeter,
in the same province. After a pre
paratory schooling he went to Tor
onto university, where he was grad
uated with honors in the classics.
After graduation he taught for a
while, and, in 1903, removed to Re
gina, where he studied and later
practiced law. In 1908 he was tent
to the national legislature as mem
ber for Regina, and was returned
in 1911. His ability and force of
character early attracted attention,
and insured prominence in provin
cial and federal, politics as a Liberal
leadev.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE CIRCrs BIRD.'
(In thla Btory Judge Owl turm into the
b! ft eat bird In the world, and Peggy and
Billy exhibit him In a clrcua where
strange inings happen.)
Biggest Bird in the World.
rp HE circus was in town. Peggy
-L had watched the parade In the
morning and was now resting com
fortably In her hammock at home.
She was resting because her busy
father was going to take her to the
performance that night and had in
sisted that she have an afternoon
snooze so that she would not be too
tired.
As she rested, Peggy amused her
self blowing up two rubber squaker
balloons her mother had bought for
here while waiting for the morning
parade. One of the bits of rubber
when blown up became a bulging
green watermelon and the other be
came an elephant.
Down the street wailed another
squawker and along came Billy Bel
gium with a balloon in the shape of
a pig.
"Let's see who can blow the big
gest balloon," suggeested Billy. And
so they blew and blew until the
elephant and the pig swelled up
until they could swell no more.
"Hoo! Hoo! Too! Too! Is that part
of the circus?"
They looked up at this question
and there stood Judge Owl perched
on a tree branch above them. He
was looking at them through dark
goggles. Of course, it was queer for
a bird to wear dark goggles, but
Judge Owl, being a night bird, could
not see wen in the day time, so
Peggy had long before given him
that pair of glasses.
"Hello, Judge Owl! What are
you doing so far from Birdland?"
cried Peggy and Billy.
"I've come to' join the circus."
answered the judge. "It's a bit
dull in the woods just now, and I
long for excitement."
"But how can you Join the cir
cus?" asked Billy. "Circuses like
freaks and you're not a freak."
"What's a freak?" demanded the
Julge.
"Why, something different from
others of its kind. If you were the
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
By the (craves of our hero dead,
By the sight of our flans entwined;
ThrouRh the tears and blood
Of the war's red flood f
We have found what was irood to find.
We looked deep In each other's eyas,
vvnen we gave all we had to give;
And It make us friends
For our common ends
That the best In use both should live.
War has killed many age-old lies
Fed with hatred and purpose dire.
Even truths we know
Are but half-way true
In the blaze or our friendship's fire.
May It burn with a white hot flame
To destroy what would come between
All the false things said
And the truths long dead
Keep the trust in ua strong and clean!
If we stand as we stood In war,
Through the strain of the coming years.
Then the threatened blows
Of a world of foes
Cannot touch us nor wake our fears.
As the blood in our veins Is drawn
From one ancient and honored source.
We should tve always
As In war's red days
Friends and comrades through Life's
whole course.
We must watch for the venomed tonpues
speak again with the poisoned word.
They would break the ttes
With their vicious lies
Or their half-truths we long have heard
We must strike each lie's ugly head
As It rears in its foul red way
For the love we bear
To our boys "out there."
Who, with theirs, sleep till God's great
a ay.
HARRY VARLET In the New York
Times.
Few diseases are more to be
dreaded than pains in the stom
ach and bowels resulting from
indigestion. Such attacks are
quickly cured by Chamberlain's
Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy.
The Day We Celebrate.
E. E. Howell, insurance and coal man, born
1860.
Princess Marie Jose, daughter of the king
and queen of the Belgians, born in Brussels, 19
years ago.
Sir Harry Lauder, Scotch comedian, born
at Portobello, Scotland. 49 years ago.
Charles James McCarthy, governor of the
territory of Hawaii, born in Boston, 58 years
ago.
Jesse W. Reno, inventor of the moving
stairway, born at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., 58
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The Musical Union band gave a sacred con
cert at Hanscom park under the direction of
Prof. H. P. Irvine.
The marriage of Rev. George H. Schnur,
pastor of St. Marks Lutheran church, to Miss
Nina Charles, was one of the interesting events
of the week. s
The tennis tournament to be held at the Y.
M. C A. athletic park, Twenty-third and Har
ney streets, has brought some of the finest play
ers in the west to this city.
H. C. McKibben, general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific, has returned from New
York with his wife and family.
A testimonial benefit has been arranged for
Frank Selee, manager of Omaha's base ball
team which continues to head the Western
association.
WHEN Mother passes into the
next world it seems as
though there is no way to go on,
yet it must be done.
Then it is that the soothing busi
ness help of our service does
much to lighten your burden, and
lift the clouds which hang so
heavily. Part of our service con
sists of taking from the shoulders
bowed down with grief, the many
details to be arrainged for the
last sad rites.
We make your burden lighter.
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SIVAL Of THE OOUDS,
"Let's See Who Can Blow the Big.
gest Balloon," Suggested Billy.
in the world, or
or the fatest, you'd
biggest owl
the smallest,
be a freak."
"Are those freaks you're playing
with?" asked the Judge, eyeing the
pig and the elephant.
"No, they are Just rubber bal
loons," explained Peggy.
"If I blew up like that would I
be a freak?" demanded the Judge,
after thinking the matter over for
a minute."
"You surely would be a very
funny freak," laughed Billy.
"Then blow me up," ordered the
Judge. And with that he swallowed
the melon balloon, all except the
squawker end.
This surprised Peggy and Rilly
greatly, but It Seemed a clever Idea,
so Billy blew and blew and Judge
Owl swelled and swelled. He was
well on the way toward becoming
a freak, when, suddenly, he began
to wiggle and then to Jiggle, and
finally he Jerked the squawker out
of Billy's mouth.
"Waak-awk-awk!" walled the
squawker and the wail seemed to
tell how Judge Owl was feeling in
side. "Here, come back. You're not a
freak yet," cried Billy.
"If that's being a freak, I don't
want to be one," gasped Judge Owl,
tearing the balloon out of his
throat. "I nearly burst.
"Tweet! Tweet! You look fun
ny" laughed Mrs. Robin, who had
been watching them from the lawn.
"What are you trying to do?"
"Judge Owl wants to be the big
gest owl in the world so he can Join
the circus," said Peggy.
"Tweet! That's easy. Plant him
in Gardener Phil's hothouse.
Everything grows big in there."
"A good idea!" cried Peggy and
Billy, and away they raced to Gar
dener Phil's hothouse with Judge
Owl.
"We will plant you in this sunny
corner," said Billy, leading the way j
to a spot where tall tomato vines
grew to the roof.
"Just plant my feet," hooted
Judge Owl, when they dug a hole
big enough to hold all of him. And
so they set him in the ground like
a young tree, and Peggy' sprinkled
mm with the sprinkling can.
"Hoo! Hoo! It's hot in here,"
hooted Judge Owl. Peggy and Billy
thought so, too, and so they ran out
for a breath of fresh air. "Hoo!
Hoo! It's hot! Let me out!"
screeched Judge Owl, but Peggy
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and Billy only laughed ".Hoo! Hoo!
for me here," hooted the Judge.
I'm growing so fast there isn't room
Again Peggy and Billy laughed.
"Hoo! Hoo!" screamed a terrific
voloe, "if you don't let me out quick
I'll smash the whole hothouse.
Alarmed at the loudness of the
voice, Peggy and Billy looked in
side. Where they had left Judge
Owl was a mass of feathers the
biggest bird Peggy or Billy had ever
seeen. It was Judge Owl, but fudge
Owl grown until he was larger than
an elephant
Costs
Just now the one
important problem of
the people is just how
to meet the riaing coat
of living. Th question
of lowering th cost of
commodities is occupy
ing the mind of the
federal, state and city
governments.
Wise spending; is a
dominant factor in the
ituation. Maintaining
a checking account to
record xpenditures,
and a systematic sav
ing of even tha small
eat fraction of your
income will undoubt
edly aid in bringing
you safely through
this period.
The U. S. National
bank tries to make
it easy for you to save.
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it easy for you to save. Ifl
The Home Builders Moved
to New Offices.
18th and Dodge Sts.
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Home Builders JTew Offices, Northwest Corner 18th and Dodge Sts
Omaha.
Our new office is one of the most modern in the city of Omaha
and it is the last word from the standpoint of architecture and
convenience, and we are confident that in our new home we will
be able to render to our customers and the public generally, even
better service than was heretofore possible.
In consideration of a long time lease on the ground floor, the
east one of the twin buildings, northwest corner of 18th and Dodge
streets, has been named for Home Builders, Inc.
tfems guilders
MCOVPORATtD
Assets Over $1,000,000.00.
C. C. SHIMER, President. C. A. EGHRHOUGH, Secretary.