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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1919)
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATUKDAY, AUUUST SIT, 119. Stomach is Quick to Upset When School Children Are Idle VACATION days are days of over-eating and under-exercising (or most boys and girls. They loll around nibbling at light food, unconcerned whether the fruit is green or ripe. Th muk k cramps, tkin ouptkxu, pimplet. Vitamer cold, lonstipetioa and diarrhea. The ham of tuck trouble w upset stomach, and nothing will give ufer and quicker relief ihu the well known Or. Caldwell Syrup Pepsin. It it just a combination of ample laxatnre kerb with pepsin, formula evolved tome 30 yean ago by Dr. Caldwell himself. Syrup Peptin ii now uied by millions of vpeople and i today the largest-celling liquid laxative in the world. DP CALDWttLLS It ii the mildest and gentlest of laxa tive. It regulates the stomach and bowels so well that they can soon work normally again without the aid of medi cine. And unlike the hanker physics and cathartics. Syrup Pepsin does not gripe or cause discomfort, even to a tiny baby. A bottle of Or. Caldwell's Syrup Pep'sin can be bought at any drug store for 50c and $1. the latter the family size. A free trial .bottle can be had by tending your address to Dr. W. B. Caldwell. 460 Washington St, Montkello, 11L C y DP CALDWEtLLS T bvruD Pen sin MAYOR CHANGES MIND; WILL KEEP STORE CLOSED Reverses Opinion of LastJ - Month and Gives Advice to "Use Children's Market." Mayor Smith has changed his mind again. When questioned yes terday about the continued delay in opening the municipal store in the Auditorium which was to open Thursday night, t but didn't, the mayor said: "I don't believe it is the province rf the city to run stores." ' Less than four weeks ago, when the mayor was at the height of his enthusiasm regarding selling of staples, he declared: "We're . going into this business and we're' going to sell such things as bacon, ham, canned goods, corn meal, dried . vegetables. We'll es tablish' stores in the Auditorium, South Side city hall and perhaps in the various fire barns. We'll buy government foods and we'll buy from wholesale houses and sell to the people at cost." v Yesterday he said Ihe reason the sole remaining "store" oj his ambiti ous scheme, the one in the Audi torium, will not open tonight, and did not open last night, is that he can't get the foodstuffs from the government. "But aren't you going to buy in the open market, Mr. Smith?' he was asked. "Oh, no," he said. "We won't do that." "' 1 , "And when this government food is all gone the municipal stores wilt go out of existence?" "Yes." v Commissioners Oppose Mayor. City Commissioners Ure and Zimman were leaders m opposing the mayor's scheme, which they characterized as "absurd." Mr. Ure has been xmt of the city since the ordinance for the "stores" was passed. He was to have charge of the "stores" under the ordinance. Commissioner Zimman was given the job during Mr. Ure's absence. But when he started at the work the mayor suddenly took a notion to do the Job himself. Now he is ready to drop it alto gether. e "I will sell some more govern ment food at the Auditorium just as soon as I can buy it," he said. "Cap tain Hofmann, who has charge of this food distribution, tells me he has a mountain or orders from small towns throughout this territory fqr small quantities of this food and he must get this out before he will know how much he wjll have left to sell to the city store. believe the stuff is in the railroad yards now, but I can't get it." "And when will you open the store?" - Watts for U. S. Food. "Can't say at all," declared the mayor. "Have to wait till we can get government food." ' Meanwhile there isn't even a mu nicipal vegetable market in opera tion, though the council has been thrashing that question- out for many months. "We have a market in South Omarra, the children's market which is open' every Wednesday and Sat urday morning,"' said the mayor. "The children sell what they raise in their own gardens there." Goes to Jail Rather Than Pay 7;Cent Street Car Fare Rather than pay the 7-cent street rar far Rnhfrr Rowrletv cuest at the Hotel Windsor, Tenth and TT J . . 1 ' ' 1 nowara streets, cnosc 10 go to jau Thursday night. He was charged with disturbing the'peace and refus ing to pay car fare. Patrolman Manch arrested him at Thirteenth 'and Farnam streets. In police court yesterday he was fined $4 and costs. If the Peddlers Do, It Will Be More Than Mayor Has Done Mayor Smith yesterday issued per mission for peddlers of fruit from wagons' to stand on the vacant lot, southwest corner of Sixteenth and Davenport streets. Complaints tad been received from residents of the neighborhood because of the peddlers' presence there. The may or says they are helping to reduce the cost of living. ADJOURN PROBE OF HIGH PRICES TO ATTEND FAIR - Hearings Will Be Resumed in Douglas County Septem ber 8 Williams Goes to Lincoln. v ! Talk Elevator $ 1 New Fall Clothes High Class All-Wool Suits and Top Coats at Reasonable Prices Our Guarantee x If you can duplicate suits or top coats at any ground floor store for less than $10 more, come back and get your money. The men of Omaha who take advantage of the opportunity which is now presented to buy high grade Fall clothing at this store, will be hard to convince that there is any real need for the tre mendous increases promised by the clothing manufacturers for this Fall. Our system of merchandising buying for cash, selling for cash, and avoiding the many leap ing service costs such as charge accounts, deliver ies, ground floor rents, expensive fixtures, clear ance sales, etc., enables us to sellhigh-class cloth ing at prices considerably less than those asked fyy other stores. Early buying facilitated an -exceptional offering, and never before in our history were we able to present such wonderful values. rf S to Snanti audi T6p at $20 to $40 Trade Upstairs ajid Save Thousands of men in Nebraska and Iowa have come to realize the saving which is made possible by the operating methods of this big daylight clothing store. We number among our clientele bankers, lawyers, business men, salesmen, of fice men and tradesmen. All that we ask is for you to compare the values we offer, with those of other stores. " " f Barker Clothe Wth md Faraam s Shop !nid Floor SOTiriti 8 lldgo t i The state probe into profiteering, which was started in the court house a week ago, ws temporarily ad journed yesterday afterrfoon, with the announcement that it probably will be resumed Monday morning, September 8. "We are investigating some new line of attack and expect to be able to resume the Omaha probe in about a week," said Albert Hunger, spe cial counsel for the state. George A. Williams, chief of the state bureau of markets and market ing, who has been presiding at the locai meetings, returned 10 A-incom last, night. He wants to attend the state fair next week. Pioneer Grocer Testifies. The last witness to testify yes terday was Samuel Sommer, pio neer grocer, of Twenty-eighth and Farnam streets. "The people are mistaken in think ing that the retail grocers are profiteers," said the witness. "I can show you by our boks that we are losing money on such staples as butter, eggs and sugar. Yeste day I bought 75 bags of sugar in Chicago at a price that will figure 1054 cents a pound -at our store. We will sell this sugar at 11 cents per pound which will be at a' loss when you figure the overhead ex pen se.- "People are more fastidious to day than they were five years ago. The other day a colored boy brought back some pork chops and complained that they were not from the inside cut. I offered to return his money and. I thought we were going to have a race riot. Package Goods Expensive. "If we would go backto the cus toms of 25 years ago in some things, we would live better and cheaper. We used to sell molasses and vine gar from barrelsbut who willx buy them today from barrels? People will pay 20 cents for an 8-ounce package of soda crackers, which is 40 cents a pound. They could get just as good crackers in 6-pound packages at 22 cents a pound. There is too much hot air in package goods. " "They claim that package goods are more sanitary. Our grandpar ents lived longer than people of to day and yet they did not have sani tary package goods. ' "It is easier to sell porterhouse steak at our store for 75 cents a pound than it is to sell the cheaper cuts of meat. "Every grocer is working hard himself today behind the counter, and that shows he is not making much money. We have, been run ning at a loss 'for the last two or three years. , Ninety per cent of the grocers can't pay their bills promptly." - . . i Wholesalers Are Blamed. , J. J. Cameron, secretary of the Omaha Retail Grocers' association, anH the Omaha Retail Butchers' as sociation, testified yesterday at the state food probe in the court house. that the average Umana retail gro cer is so careless about his methods of figuring expenses and profits that he is barely eking out a living. T. E. Brvan. vice president of the Basket Stores, Inc., testified to theJ alleged unfair practices among Omaha wholesalers and jobbers in restraining manufacturers and pro ducers from selling direct to Omaha chain store concerns. Mr. Bryan asserted that specific information of combinations formed against those who will not maintain certain fixed prices, has been furnished by his company to the Federal Trade commission. "To illustrate the situation," said Mr. Bryan, "I will state that a week ago I werjt to Denver to meet the SaJea agent of a sugar refinery. He; told me he could not sell us any sugar because we were in the chain store business, and that his - firm would get themselves in bad with the Omaha wholesale grocers if they sold sugar to1 us. We sent a repre sentative to Chicago, where a sugar broker asked our man if he had seen the other brokers, and he then referred our agent to th Omaha sugar rokers. There, was plenty of sugar in Chicago at that time, be cause we obtained knowledge that the same broker to whom we had gone, a few days, later sold 42 cars of sugar to a Chicago chain store company. . Cameron's Line of Defense. "Competition among retail groc ers is so strong that they are afraid to raise prices as fast as the whole salers raise their prices. The retail ers hold the prices down to the last minute," was the line of defense of fered by Mr. Cameron, for the re tailers. "If these grocers would figure into their expenses items of salaries for themselves and mem bers of their families who work in the stores, most of them would show a loss. If they, knew how to figure profits correctly, they would make some money." What Cameron "Knows." "Do you know of anyone who is saving more money today by prac ticing the old principles of economy you referred to? asked Mr. Mun-ger. Yes, I know several, 'r. Cam eron replied. ' Do you know of any profiteering within the last six months?" the witness was asked. "I don't Tcnow of any. I don't think that the word 'profiteering' js the right word to use. I don't be lieve that word describes the condi tions. I know of speculation in food products, but I would not call it profiteering. Take the sugar situa tion, for instance. I believe that the refiners are selling at the. regular average prices, but it seems that speculators have taken options on K hundreds of thousands of bags and have been buying and selling back and forth?' v H. Simon, wholesale grocer,, tes tified that the fruit growers' asso ciations of California constitute a real menace to the publio welfare; that they arbitrarily fix their prices and as much as say to the people: "Here are our goods and our prices, accept or refuse them as you wish." He asserted that the largest crop of California fruits ever raised is reported this season, and' yet prices have been soaring. He believed the federal government should investi gate these fruit growers' associations. Mr. arid Mrs. Shoji Osato , Parents of Baby Girl. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. $hoji Osato yesterday after noon at their home. 4910 Chicago street. Mrs. Osato was Miss Flor ence Fitzpatrick before her mar riage. y " , Wrecked Automobile Found A wrecked autonjobile was found yesterday at the side of a road one half mile west of Benson. Police were notified and hauled the car to the police station, where they are holding it for identification. Berg' i 03 Berg Women's.; Shop 1621 Farnam St. New Ahtumn Styles 03 Exquisite Tricotine Dresses Superbly tailored models. $3500 up Fashonable Silk Frocks- Styled up-to-the-minute. 2975 up Wonderful Tailored Suits More' beautiful than ever. 3975. up Superbly Styled Coats Plain models. $3500 up Sumptuously Fur Trimmed $4950 up LL33enffs ; CO ft 1621 Farnam St. The Drezd Mix tays: "Vacation ia almost over and I have iurely had a good time. Now for I new pair of Shoea and back to School and studies." The only shoe store v in Omaha which has a special department for -the children. It means better service. School Starts September 8th Our new Fall stock of chil dren's shoes is ready, all the new shapes and materials are here awaiting your in spection. Every pair of ERVICE CHOOL HOES is of strictly Drexel quality and you know that means the very best. Bring the . children in Saturday and make your selection .while our stocks are complete DREXEL SHOE CO. 1419 Farnam Street Mail Orders Solicited. Parcel Post Paid GREAT OLD REMEDY FOR SKIN DISEASES S S. S. Clear Skin of Erup tions Drives Poison From the System. Get it fixed In your mind that skin eruptions, Eczema, burping, itching skin, and all skin diseases are due entirely to impure and in jected blood. If the trouble was on the outside of the skin, by simply washing and keeping it clean you could obtain relief not even oint ments, lotions, and salves would be necessary. Agree with us in this belief and your trouble can be re lieved you can be entirely restored to health. S. S. 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