Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, September 17, 1919, Page 2, Image 2
ITHET BEE OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1919. JEWS' GIFTS ARE GENEROUS FOR VAR'SJflCTIMS Governor Asks Meeting to "Startle the State" Zim man and Monsky- Get Big Sums. ' Sixty Omaha Jewish business and ,rofessional men at a special meet ing last evening in ourt room No. 1, court house, subscribed $14,185 in addition to $26,110 previously sub scribed, making a total of $40,295 to ward Omaha's quota of $175,000 to succor destitute Jew in war-torn Europe and the near east. They had been summoned by spe cial letters from Governor JJcKelvie, honorary chairman of the state com mittee. The governor and Attorney General Reed were present and spoke. "Treated 'Em Rough." After these -speeches Harry Zira inan and Henry Monsky took charge nf the meetinK and pulled in sur prisingly large subscriptions in the pecitjiar time-honored Jewish fash ion. A rich young business man led off with a subscription of $500. In any other meeting of the kind this would have' been received with applause and, thanks . Not so here. Mr. Zim min pointed a finger of scorn at "hint. That is not encyigh!" was his sur prising statement. "You will in . crease it to $1,000." f The young man shook his head. "That's my limit," he said. But before the meeting was over he raised his subscription to $1,000 and seemed to like it. From $250 to $1,000. Another mm subscribed $250. Mr, Zimman looked at him with scorn. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," was his greeting. "You are a single man. You are rich. Little babies are starving across the seas, babies of your own great race. Ami you offer $250! Here is a man with a large family, Sitting next to voti. He is struggling to make a living, and he has given $200. Shame on -vou!" "I'll make it $500," said the be rated man with a laugh. "You'll make it more than that before the evening is over," said Mr. Zimman. And he finally did raise it to $1,000. Henry Monsky told of a merchant in Omaha who has been sending money to his relatives in Europe, instead of subscribing largely to re . lief funds. Recently he received back a large sum which he had sent, with the word that his relatives had all died of starvation. .- "Applause Isn't Food." "The applause of the governor's speech won't feed any starving ba bies in Europe," he told them. "You milst give. Don't sit there with an 1 . : r- it.. 1:4.1- inn $200 subscriptions you give. Come out and give something you will be proud of." ... 'vMr.. Zimman told of a wealthy ."commission man who offered $500. "He is worth several hundred . . i i j 1 1 i j ,f i tiivusdiiu uujiars, iic saiu, ana we .rlltari hie cltHcriMtnti VV Hi. GftA T'J out and getthe peddlers to raise the $1,000 that he ought to give." , Money Pours In. At the hcightof the solicitations the workers who went around throtlgh the crowd like workers at an . old-Jashioned revival meeting were shouting out $500 and $1,000 subscriptions faster than the clerks : could take them down. " In numer ous instances men who started with $250. gave $1,000 before the doors were opened and they left the meet ing, all seeming to feel good for hav ing given so liberally to the cause. Most of those present came with- Sprague Tire Co. Men to Boalrd New Member of Omaha Concern Have Been With Company From the Very Start. At the second annual meeting of tockholders of the Sprague Tire and Rubber company yesterday W. A. Fraser and F. H. Gaines were added to the board of directors. The other directors, re-elected, are E. H. Sprague, Clarence :Macay and fFrancis Ferns. The directors re-elected Mr. Sprague president and treasurer, Mr. Mackay vice president and Mr. Ferns secretary. Mr. Fraser is sovereign com mander of the Woodmen of the World. Both he. .and Mr. . Gaines, an Omaha attorney have been inter ested in the Sprague company from the very start. 'i . Mr. Sprague, in reviewing the year's business, told the stockhold ers that the company had made phe nomenal success so 'far, and had al ready arranged distribution in 26 states in the union, as- well as in the orient and South America. He also outlined plans to increase the fac tory's output to 500 or 600 tires and 1,000 tubes a day, beginning Janu ary 1. Adds Two of Directors :i!iill!ilni;i!l il'Hnll'liiuiii'lni;H'iiii:i Menagh Says : OUllb MUSI : Ra SnU 1 .... Umt) hVAlA Wednesday 1 119 of Them Will ! Be Offered for the ; Closing Out Sale j I Wednesday I We have just 21 ? days left in which : to sell our entire : stock, .so you real- ize we are forced to : put prices on all merchandise that mean quick clear- : ance. " All fixtures must I be sold. j All accounts due I 1 us must be-paid at I : once. ' ft m v; All sales are : V final I - ' ' - ! The House I of Menagh i I I I I li I I li II I ;l I, I I I II iUU,i;J0' out knowing the exact purpose of the summons. The governor was in troduced by Attorney General Reed. Expected Something Startling. "I expect you men to do some thing startling to 'awaken the state to the need of this great cause," said Governor McKelvie. "What Lyou do here tonight will be flashed out through the state and will in spire thousands. This fund is to be raised at a time when people are relaxing from the burdens of war. It will require great effort, and it is up to you at this meeting to make that effort and startle the state." Mr. Zimman stated that a "board of equalization" will wait on those wealthy Jews who do not subscribe as much as they ought. "Give until it feels good," he said. "Double your contributions of the past. This is a movement to save millions of that race which gave religion, civilization and education to the world." Hurricane Victims Buried in One Grave (Continued From rage One.) advices at Galveston said' six men were drowned at Port Aransas and that all the women and children there had been saved. Telegraphic advices received by The Associated Press direct from Port Lavaca, which place had been isolated since Sunday, reported no loss of life there or at Seadrift and Port "O'Connor, but said the property damage at Port Lavaca would be about $100,000, mainly on the bay front and to ship ping. Port O'Connor and Seadrift were said to have been considerably wrecked by the wind which reached a velocity of 65 miles an hour. The velocity for a few seconds at Port Lavaca was reported as having at tained 90 miles. Relief for Sufferers. State machinery ' for relief of storm sufferers was completed late Tuesday by Governor Hobby, who ordered units of the Texas National Guard to relieve federal troops at Corpus Christi as quickly as 'trans portation could be arranged. The goyenor issued a proclamation urg ing prompt contributions of money and supplies to the relief fund. Three relief trains reached Corpus Christi Tuesday with food, bedding, clothing and medical supplies and other trains were enroute. Two re lief trains were reported stalled by washouts at Alice, Tex. . Airplanes to Assist Seven scout airplanes were or dered from Kelly field, San Antonio,, to go to Corpus Christi ana find suitable landing fields for larger planes which may be used to trans port supplies from stalled trains into the city. The scouting planes also were under instructions to endeavor to get news from Tort Aransas and Rockport. Latest estimates placed the prop erty loss in Corpus Christi at $10, 000,000 and meager advices indicated the damage at Port Aransas would be very heavy. Destruction in the lower part of the business section and along the north beach at Corpus Christi was reported "indescrib able." Rescue workers faced a tre mendous task of clearing the debris blocked streets and a steady rain which set in at noon Tuesday turned the rapidly drying streets into a slush of mud. ' The rain also added. much to the suffering of the destitute and home less. 77 Bodies Wash Ashore. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 16. A staff co-respondent of the Dallas News sends the following dispatch under date of Sinton, Tex.: "Seventy-seven bodies, black with oil until some could not be distin guished, bruised, broken and torn where they had pounded against rocks and floating wreckage, were washed ashore on the north side of Nueces bay today. "Of the 77 bodies recovered from this side of the coast country today 38 were taken from West Portland, 29 from Whjte Point nine from Sin ton and one from Odem. "Many pitiful scenes are being en acted in Sinton. Relatives, frantic, search for friends. Many . bodies, may be white, may be Mexican, may be negro there is no way to tell will be buried without identification." -X - J Boy Playing With Horse Severely Injured by Kick While playing in a barn at Nine teenth and .Grace streets, Johnny Hanson, 11 years old, 1923 North Eleventh Street, was kicked in the face by a horse, "suffering a lacer ated scalp and internal injuries. He was taken to the Lister hospital. Ship i Strikes Mine London. Sept. 16. The steamer Westorvsda struck a mine off Ter schelling lighthouse, on he Dutch coast, today according to a telegram received by Lloyds. The crew has abandonef the'vessel, which is slow ly sinking. N WARREN TO GIVE AID IN GETTING PERSHING HERE Jefferis and the Ak-Sar-Ben Bring Pressure to Bear. Top: F. H. Gaines. Bottom: W. A. Fraser. Promises of Wilsori Are Still Unfilled (Continued From Fage One.) said he was making a 'report' to the country. The American people have waited in vain for any report of Mr. Wilson's proceedings at Paris. In stead of facts they have had plati tudes and glittering generalities. They have been given no explana tion for the surrender of the prin ciples so often eloquently announced by Mr. Wilson no reason for the abandonment of Americanism and the easy triumph of European and Asiatic diplomacy. Significant Remarks. "In this city of Sioux Falls Mr. Wilson indulged in one or two sig nificant remarks, . pregnant with warning to our people. Your choice,' he said, ''is between the league of nations and Germanism,' and he endeavored by veiled threat to convey that his opponents were tainted with pro-Germanism. It is a bad and lost cause which in its ex tremity resorts to epithets and vitu peration. "And the choice is not betweeij the league of nations and German ism. The choice is between the league of nations and Americanism. The choice is between Mr. Wilson's internationalism, which subordinates and subjects American tov European and Asiatic power, and 'American ism. x Mr. Wilson asserted to you that the terms of the peacc laid down forever the principle that no terri tory ever should be governed ex ceptas the people ..who lived there wanted it governed. The millions of subject peoples of the earth make the issue with Mr. Wilson and his own words to Dr. Williams, the, American expert, that the treaty of fieace was founded upon the secret treaties, some of which, he said, were unconscionable, make his statement grotesque. Senator Johnson left for Lincoln, Neb., where he will speak tomorrow night. Washington. Sept. -16. (Special Telegram.) Pressure is being brought to bear on General Per shing to visit Omaha during the first week in Octbber. It took form to day through a conference Congress man Jefferis had with Senator War ren growing out of a letter from Everett Buckingham, a member of the board of directors ot Ak-Sar-Ben and general manager of the stock yards, in which Mr. Buckingham in dicated that General Pershing would meet more old friends at a recep tion in Omaha than he .could pos sibly meet on any similar occasion. Ready to Show Him. He said they were just waiting for the word of his coming, w-hen they would show the leader of the American expeditionary ' forces in Europe what they thought of him. Congressman Jefferis in his inter view with Senator Warren outlined what the presence of General Per shing in Omaha at its fall festivi ties meant to Nebraska and the west, going so far as to predict that, if the general would honor the Gate City with a visit in October, he be lieved the crowd would be bigger than that which greeted President Wilson three years ago, when he was the guest of the city at the semi-centennial of the state's admin istration. Warren Ready to Help. Senator Warren indicated his willingness to co-operate, but re luctantly admitted that General Per shing was tired and needed a rest. "For two years General Pershing lias been under a great strain," said the senator. "He has a report to make of his stewardship and that is on his mind. If he can see his ,way clear I feel sure he would be only too glad to include Omaha in his list of places to be visited, and it will give me pleasure to urge him to accept Omaha's hospitality if it is physically possible." Obstructions are- removed from Paris sewers by a hollow wooden ball six feet in diameter, moved by a flow of the sewage. Hitchcock and Lodge Go to Mat in Senate (Continued From M Ono.V would not attempt by -artificial means to delay consideration, but that there' would be "due considera tion" so everybody could be heard. There was no objection in the end, and the amendment was temporar ily passed over. After the clerk had started tnto the next article Senator Lodge stopped the reading with a motion to adjourn until Friday. Senator Reed, democrat. Missouri, gave no. tice todav that he would discuss the treaty then, and while formal read ing may continue this week, Senator Lodge "said he had promised mem bers, including two democratic sen ators, that there would be no vote until next week. Full Day's Run. All things considered, the Keaty had virtually a full days' run, start ing off with a three-hour address by Senator Sherman, republican, Illi nois. It was evident that the sen ate was in a fighting frame of mind, as Senator Sherman was interrupt- A nJa., k, Cortotr,. T-tifrHrnrlf and SenatorWalsh, democrat, Colorado, and answered by benator McKeiiar, democrat, Tennessee. After Senator McKeiiar had de livered a spirited defense of the treaty. Senator Lodge 'callerf atten tion to the president's statement in an address last night at Portland, Ore, that the senator in 1915. fa vored the league of nations, and quoted from more than a score of speeches by the president to show, he said, inconsistencies on the lat ter's part. Change of mind had nothing to do with the merits of the case, the senator declared, and his statement that the United States was the best hope of mankind and would remain so. provided it did not become involved in foreign entan glements, was vigorously applauded. Senator Williams followed Sena tor Lodge, and said there were con stant changes before and after the country entered tne war. and that the president with magnificent com mon sense had met them as they arose." POSTAL EMPLOYE'S RE - INSTATEMENT ISASKEDBYA.F.L. Activities in Labor Circles Blamed for Dismissal of Omahan. Efforts are being made by the Omaha Postoflfice Clerks' union No. 134, of the National Federation of Tostal Employes, to have A. C. Smead, who was removed from the Omaha postoffice, reinstated. It is alleged that Mr. Smeads removal was caused by his recent activities in Omaha labor controversies. During the recent teamsters strike Mr. Smead is said to have been a member of the committee which presented the teamsters' troubles to Mayor Smith. The union now de clares that these actions led to the dismissal of Mr. Smead. W. M. Coble; inspector of the Postoffice department, refused to discuss the case. Postmaster Fan ning says that reports concerning Mr. Smead were investigated. The report of the case was sent to the postmaster general with the recom mendation that Mr. Smead be re moved from service. The case of Mr. Smead has been taken up by Secretary Morrison of the American Federation jCf Labor with the first assistant postmaster general. The Omaha postoffice union passed a resolution Sunday afternoon condemning the Postof fice department for the removal of Mr. Smead. An English railroad is painting the hand rails of its freight cars white so that trainmen can see them more easily at night. Hold Seamen for Mutiny. Washington, Sept. 16. Eighteen seamen have been arrested on tRe United States steamship Katonah. charged with mutiny on the high seas, said a dispatch today from Bermuda to the State department. Release Grand Opera Tenor With Contract at $15 Per New York, Sept. 16. 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