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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1919. tlAYNARD SAYS hiniiir niTriin Tft UIUH I UJItHUf IU CRITICIZE ARMY flying Parson" Decfares He . m . I IBM TWO MlSlaKfiS wnen '.Giving Interview to AnU- , Saloon League. " ' ; w " v Ktw York, Dec. 12. In a tate riient iiiued just before his depar frt fof Washington to appear be Wrt'Maj. Charles T. Menoher, di rector of air service. Lfeut. Belvin W. Maynard asserted that-extracts of his statement given to the"Anti Saloon league were not intended as criticism of the air service. He said he made two plausible mistakes, ofi when he referred to the trans continental race, and the other when he' referred to his own sobriety. He declared it would be embar- Federation Heads Of U.S. and Canada Ready for Meeting Washington, Dec 12. Chiefs of the international unions of , the United States and Canada affiliated with the -American Federation Labor began assembling here today for the conference called for tomor row by the federatibn's executive committee for discussion of various matters affecting union laboj. The steel and coal strikes are ex pected to be among the chief topics considered, but federation officials attach even greater importance to the formulation ot measures to op pose enactment of anti-strike legisla-v tion contained in the Cummins rail road bill now before( congress. Farmers' organizations have been invited to send representatives to the conference, but there seemed some doubt today as to the number that would accept. Several farm ers societies at then; annual meet ings declined to accept, but o word has been beard from several, it was said today at federation headquar ters. - t Cigar Personality 'v Meditations are likable ci Virars at first acquaintance;and the longer the friendship, the stronger most men are in ac " claiming Meditation "the best smoke yet". ' : Critical smokers say that the skillful blend of fine, mild Havana, gives just the right ; body to the smoke. Wher ever introduced, Meditation , has becomethe popular favorite. x Xs there are 8 shapes to suit all tastes, and good news- Meditations are only lQc, 2 for 25c and 15c straight, j - At All 2Wr' HARLE-HAAS CO , Council Bluffi, la. Piano rassing to him to give specific in stances as' to prove his contention and he. could not afford to do it. Merely Gave Opinion. "Apparently --extracts from the statement I gave the Anti-Saloon league after its repeated requests recardinor the effect of the use of alcoholic beverages in the air serv ice, have stirred up a commotion in aviation circles," the statement said. "My purpose was to give an hon estf straightforward -opinion based on my personal observations of its effect on pilots. These extracts do not convey this opinion. "Mp purpose was not to criticize the air survice which in my opinion is made up of choicest ycung men who are noted for their sobriety. Our flyers are not 'booze artists' and our planes ate , not 'floating Ea loons. I commend our air service to everv voung man as what I be lieve to be the most attractive and congenial corps of our army for young men. . , Few Not Discreet. "Notwithstanding " there are a few as in every other vocation, who are not discreet, from my ob servation of these few I have drawn my conclusions." Lieutenant Maynard said that the blame for the use of alcoholic bev erages in the few fnstances . he bad observed in the air service "cannot be placed on the administraion, but entirely on the individual." He added: ' , ' ' ' ' '"I teg to state further that my observatons have not been confined to our air service. In fact, many ob servations of the effect of alcoholic beverages have been jnade outside our service." " . An attachment for ordinary cam eras patented by a Colorado man permits eight separate photographs to be taken on the same plate or film. Bargains The extraordinary demand for Arapico Reproduce htt Piano and our limited floor space necessitates our making room for a larger display of these r- musical instruments which have so greatly inter- ested and astounded the musical world. For Quick Sale the Following Low Prices: One Knabe Upright, (old) ...... .... . .$150 One Price and Temple Player . . .$185 'One Schaeffcr Upright, slightly used $200 .......$265 One Story and Clark, nearly new OncBrinkoff Upright $275 fOne Strohbcr Upright . .$295 4 , One Milton Player . . . . i . . . $385 One Brinkhoff Player ............. ....$385 J- ' Many Bargains in Slightly Used Phonographs HAY DENS "NEW PIANO DEPARTMENT GORE FOR UNREST IS KNOWLEDGE, WILSON WRITES In Current Magazine Article President Outlines Remedy for Social Disorders Exist ing In. Country. New York, Dec. 12. The cure for social unrest in this country is "a tiller knoweldge"of American insti tutions" declares President Wilsfcn in an article tvritten for the current number of the Independent. "Men today are blessed with a new curiosity about their govern ment." savs the resident. "Every where they are demanding that the doors behind which secret policies have ben incubated be thrown open and kept I open henceforth. The doors that do not respond to the keys the' people hold will be bat tered down. "Autocratic governments of' the past have lived by concealment; free governments must live by under standing. In the new day that is dawning only those governments that have no secrets from their peo ples can long endure.' I do not say that such a government will make no mistakes, but I do say mistakes witl be fewer and more easily cor rected when all governments are guided by well-' informed public opinion. "Unrest is evident everywhere. It is not of itself a disease but a symptom of a disease. In our own country the disease lies principally outside the government. Those who thiukrotherwise are mostly the new comers and the men they have in fluenced. Te cure for their disquiet is a fuller knowledge of- American institutions. In this nation the peo ple have in their ballots the instru ments of peaceful change. "We can know if change is de sirable only by knowing all the facts about the things we wish to alter. The journals that give facts about government, its policies and activ ities, set down by the men princi pally responsible for them, will perform a public service. They will afford a medium through which the government can report continually to the people." Divorce Con rts Rose Falkovitch was granted a di vorce from Jake Falkovitch by Judge Wakeley in divorce court on the ground of cruelty. She was granted $300 alimony, custody of the child and $35 a mouth for the main tenance of the child. Olive McCormick" applied to the district court for a divorce from Frank McCormick on the ground of extreme cruelty. They were married 10 years ago. London Fashion Is s Outdone by Kansas Girl Now In New York AT THE THEATERS h x y - 1 N x I 1 1 Brazil's new president has urged on his congresi the irrigation of more than 2,000,000 acres of land in the northeast of the republic, where famine has' cost more than 1,000,000 lives since 1877. Miss Adelaide Ambrose, originally of Kansas and now living in New York wearing a unique forehead coronet. . The coronet fashion has become quite the race in London, being worn by many of the ultra- fashionable women of Britain, along with heavy jet earrings. The coronet worn by Miss Ambrose is said to have come from Persia, where it adorned one of the court beauties who flourished centuries ago. It is valued , at $18,000. Miss Ambrose expects the forehead band to become quite a fad here. Engineer Stops His Train to Save Life Of Drowning Boy Louisville, Ky., Dec. 12. Chesa neake & Ohio ftassensrer train No. 25 arrived in Louisville last night 15 minutes late, but John Cavinsen- gineer, apparently soothed the an ger of railroad officials with a re port that he "stopped the train just outside of Frankfort, Ky., to save thr life of a boy who had fallen -in an 'icy' pond." Cavins said his train was going slowly around a sharp curve when "I saw boys apparently failing to effect the rescue of a comrade from a mill pond. "I stopped the train, cut the bell cord and hurried to the pond.iThe ice was too thin to bear me, .so I threw the rope , to -the lad.who, though numbed and struggling to keep on top of the water.' passed it around his body and I dragged him out. I took him to the railroad sta tion and, by artificial respiration, re suscitated him. To thwart automobile thieves an Englishman has patented aiT alarm bell, enclosed in a locked box, which rings as long as a car is in motion unless shut off by the car's owner. A new folding camera is equipped with an additional bellows to be drawn out and extejided beside the I regular one to permit accurate io cusing1 to be-done until a picture is taken. i ONE of the most talked-of plays of recent Trears is "The Mas mtsrorlarc " in ..,I,V. f?H.r Bates Post and his company will open a week's engagement at the Boyd theater on Sunday night. It turns on the story of John Chil- cote, member of Parliament, who be comes a slave to drugs, and who de liberately Induces1, .another man, whose resemblance to him is so close as to defy detection, to sub stitute for him. This double makes a hit in the House of Commons, and then meets Chikote's wife. The 'play from here on is intensely thrilling. Mr, Post , still has with him, the players who have shared with him in the great success of the piece in America and abroad. A revolving stage is used, that the shifts of, the story may be kept moving "profnptly. The star of course play both roles, and is cred ited with having achieved a real triumph in the characters. Some splendid scenic effects of lighting and stage management also mark the production. - .. ' N Tomorrow night will mark the first "performance of a Dillingham musical comedy at the Brandeis theater, "She's a Good Fellow,"lhe work of Anne Caldwell, with music by that most prolific of up-tordate composers, Jerome Jern. In the company will be Joseph Santley, in the role of the hero, ebullient Dorothy Maynard, dainty Ivy Saw yer, stalwart Scott Welsh, Bobbie Higgins and James C; Marlow. A couple of precocious youngsters, the Duncan'; sisters, recently recruited from vaudeville,, supplement a com pany that is strong numerically and artistically. A beauty bright chorus, is also assured. The gowns choseij for the adornment of these prepos sessing young damsels dazzle even the untrained eye of the male ob server and fit soothingly into the perfect color scheme carried out in the three acts of the play. The engagement is for two nights only. For the reopening of the Or pheum, now that the fuel ban has been, lifted from, the theaters, a spirited show is promised. The bill for the week beginning Sunday is to be headed by the elaborate musical comedy, '.'Not Yet, Marie." Some 20 people are included in the cast, with William Edmunds, William Cotton, Hazel Boyne and Dorothy Shirley as the principles. Harry and Emma Sharrock will appear in their popular skit, "Behind the Grand Stand." In addition to their com edy they display baffling cleverness in their traversity mind-reading. Farrell Taylor will appear in his amusing sketch, "An African Duke." It is a musical farce cleverly staged and acted. Another featured act will Burns ana rraDito, iney win De seen lin the laughable skit called "ShooV Omaha's first $3 musical eomedv will be a reality when Fred Stone opens a week's engagement at the Brandeis on Sunday, January 11, in Charles Dillingham's production of "Jack o'Lantern." V T Shanahan Starts Home. Washington, Dec. 12. (Special Telegram.) John Shanahan, secre tary Jo Congressman Jefferis, left Friday for his home in Omaha to spend the- holidays with his family. ' H ATR E . SUNPAY Aad Monday Evanini, Dc. 14-18. "SHE'S AGOOD FELLOW" CharlM Dilllnfham'c CHIC MUSICAL COMEDY - The Glob Theater v .N-. Y. Company with JOSEPH SANTLEY, IVY SAWYER, DOROTHY MAYNARD, SCOTT WELSH, JAMES C. MARLOWE. BOBBIE HIGGINS, THE DUNCAN SIS TERS AND THE FAMOUS PAJAMA CHORUS OF BEAU TIES. ' Tickets--SOc to S2.0O. Now Scllinf. Next Wednesday "Th Boomerang" PHONC 004(1494 THC BUT IN VAUDEVILLE REOPENS Sunday NightyDec.14 Fuel Ban Lifted "Hot Yet, Marie" A Big Musical Comedy Written ajid Staged by Frank 'Stammer. HARRY and EMMA SHARROCK FARRELL-TAYLOR CO. BURNS and FRABITO COLOR GEMS . CARL EMMY ND PETS DONALD E. ROBERTS Topics of Day Kinogramt Seats Now on Sal DANCING Sunday Evening 7:45 (o 11:00 v Swedish Auditorium 1611 Chicago Street "OMAHA'S FUN CENTER" , ffffjrf7l No Mats, at present. yMyVy Nightly at 8:30. A REGULAR Show All the Wav Harry Hastings' Big Show SJ"L JSE? DAN COLEMAN Jazs Jollity. Tinkling Tunes. Dancing Deara Varieties of Fun. Beauty Chorus of chaperoned debutantes. Bank the home' fire; warm up with us. Two Wonderful i DRESS OFFERINGS 'Saturday we. will offer Wool Tricotine Dresses, .Satin Dresses,1 Wool Velour Dresses and Jersey Dresses in scores of clever new styles pregular , t$35.00, $45.00 and $5.00 values; choice at $24.75, ; and $290. You will buy one if you see them., JULIUS ORKIN .- ' : - 1508-10 DoukIm Street 'A mmmQj Phone Douglas 2793. V "OMAHA 1 1 : . Ks i patMTiNO y-yi A J J COHPAMY tS V oc m f?gB CrlROAl PS!XnRS-llTH06RAPHERS STEUDlt EHS0S3EIS Dinerent Is Omaha Cities In -This Is Omaha different from the various cities surrounding it on the north, east, west and south as regards amusements?; " ' Personally, I don't think so, yet the action of the local fuel administration and certain citi zens of Omaha leave some doubt in my mind. Omalia was the first town of any size that closed theaters during the late coal .strike, and to date is the only city that has not permitted them to reopen. 7 We were told, when we were asked to close that the switchmen's strike at Kansas City was -the main reason for our being closed down, yet the strike was over three days after we closed, but that had no effect as regards our reopen ing. ' ' . Every time we asked the fuel commission' as to why Des Moines , allowed theaters to re main open, we were told how Nebraska sup plied one of their state institutions with coal. This must be a stock simile, for only yesterday I' again read wliere a citizen of Omaha made this very same' argument ' about -why ;theates should remain closed in Omaha. V During the war the United States Govern ment looked upon theaters as an essential, dur ing the past strike the fuel, administration in Washington has made the same ruling, but here in Omaha theaters have been looked on as a nuisance or something that should be closed for the good of the community. I do not claim that theaters are as essen tial as grocery stores, drug stores, meat markets and possibly dry goods stores but I do claim they are far more essential than many other lines of business which have been permitted to operate, and which in reality consume far more fuel than we do, as the amount of heat and electricity consumed by a theater is very nomi narcompared to the number of people who pat ronize it. "A i . We were also advised by the fuel admin istration that they did not Want the street cars crowded at night. :We told them, with the cur tailed car service, lots of the people would have to walk, butthat argument made no difference. From Other Same Locality? The fuel committee had evidently made up its mind hat Omaha was to be amusementless, and it has been and still is. . v Since Omaha has been closed down I've been in two other cities where we have theaters and tould not help but notice the difference manifested towards the theaters by the fuel commissions. Ever since we opened the Strand Theater ' several' years ago both Mr. Blank and myself haveleen ardent boosters for Omaha, yet I am frank to admit that it certainly dampens our spirits to see one class of business so strenu ously discriminated against as the theaters have been in Omaha during the past crisis. There's no need of my telling you that Sen ator Hitchcock and Congressman Jefferis have wired that orders have been issued opening the. theaters in Omaha. You kfiow that Mayor Smith has requested that the theaters be allowed to . reopen. You doubtless read the editorial in one of the leading Omaha papers urging resumption , of Omaha-amusements, and you also know that every other city is permitting theaters to run "at this time. y The one thing I want to know is this: - I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE -MAJORITY OF CITIZENS OF OMAHA FIGURE, THAT THE THEATERS SHOULD BE DIS CRIMINATED AGAINST AS THEY HAVE BEEN IN OMAHA BY THE LOCAL FUEL BOARD. AND I WANT TO GET THEIR OPINION. 1 At the bottom of this ad you will find a coupon, and if you think we have received the worst of it, compared with other cities, won't you please sign and either mail or hand in at the box office. -H. M. THOMAS, - Manager Rialto Theater. , I do not think the theaters' in Omaha should be closed at this time : ' POSITIVELY OPEriS Tor.ioiinoiv nioiiT FOR -THE WEEK. Omaha's Best t , ... Amusement Lovers Appreciate i - The Season's Dest Offering Si 1? SPIES - . V "MASQUERADED" THE IMPORTANCE of the coming of GUY BATES POST in "THE MAS QUERADER"to the BOYD Theater the week beginning TOMORROW VNIGHT has made itself keenly felMhroughout . the entire territory adjacent to this city, and the mailorders received. for MR. POST'S ENGAGEMENT, fronf cities as far distant as Sioux City, readily il lustrates the importance of securing seats at once'. THE BOX OFFICE IS NOW OPEN and we respectfully suggest to those who anticipate attending any one of MR. POST'S performances thewise ness of prompt purchasing of seats; if they have not done so by mail. V f THERE STILL REMAINS CHOICE SEATS in all parts of the theater at the various prices charged, but the number is limited and late com ers will certainly be denied choice of the most desirable locations. . We desire to take this opportunity to thank the hundreds who have so gen erously expressed their sanction of the bringing to OMAHA AMERICA'S'- GREATEST ACTOR, for Jt will great ly facilitate the bringing of other high class Stars and Attractions to OMAHA for a full week's duration. THE PRICES WILL NOT BE AD VANCEDTHERE WILL BENO TICKETS SOLD AT OTHER THAN THE ADVERTISED BOX- OFFICE. PRICES, FROM $2.50 DOWN (plus tax). THERE WILL BE NO RESER-. VATIONS MADE NO TELEPHONE ORDERS WILL-BE ACCEPTED NO EXTRA PERFORMANCES WILL RF, fiT VF.N V Respectfully, W. J. BURGESS,1 if Mgr. the Boyd Theater. Box Office open for Mr. Post's en gagement from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m.