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fHE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY; JANUARY 1
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FIGURES ATTEST
POPULARITY OF
LAND BANK HERE
, Official Statement Shows
Omaha Institution Has Be
come One of the Lead
ers of Country.
The total loans carried hy the Fed
eral Land bank of Omaha Decem
ber 20, 1919. was $37,440,190, dis
tributed as fallows:
Iowa. $18,274,850; Nebraska, $11,
239,990; South Dakota, $6,805,250;
Wyoming, $1,121,100.
, Total loans reported January 1,
t 1919. were $16,787,240.
These figures, according to offi
cials of this bank, reflect the increas
ing popularity of this institution
among all classes of farmers.
The total capital stock is $2,357,
905, of which $485,855 is owned by
the government and $1,872,080 by
the borrowing stockholders. Thi
bank was started here two and a
half years ago in a single suite of
offices and today it occupies thrre
fourths of the twelfth floor of the
Woodmen of the World building.
The officers issued the following
statement: "It has become one of
- the leading farm loan institutions of
the United States. The popularity
of this bank is due not only to the
fact that it olTers to farmers an
amortized plan of loan, but it is an
oustandiug example of what may he
accomplished through co-operative
effort."
BRINGING UP FATHER-
See JigfS and Maggie in Full
Page of Color in The Sunday Bee.
Drawn for The Bee by McManut
Copyright, 1119 'International New Service.
Seven Hurt in Wreck.
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 1. Seven
persons were reported injured when
a Texas & Pacific freight train and
a passenger train collided at Aledo,
18 miles west of here. A relief,train
is now bringing the injured to F.ort
Worth.
Seine Going Up.
Paris.- Jan. 1. The flood in the
Seine has risen nearly three feet
more and the depth of the river at
present exceeds that fixed in the of
ficial estimates.
LIVE STOCK
Shep.
14.770
12.S13
9 954
7.000
Roc'fflptd we-e Cattln. Hogs.
Official Monday JO. B92 12,423
Official Tn.-sriay 6.737 1 4.805
Official Wi ilnciday. . 4,749 14,448
Estimate Thursday.. 2,300 9,000
. Tcur days this week 24,478 60,856 44,543
Sums days last week. 17, 01 43.S7 25,!07
Sunift two we- ka Hgo 29,89 42,957 M.Sttti
Sums three w0. ago. JO. 695 21,769 48.686
Snme days year ago. 26,09:1 63,206 32,157
Cattle Although trday was not a holi
day at the stock yards, receipts were vory
hKh?, estimates culling for 2,300 head,
making a total of 24,400 for the four days,
an romparod with 17.000 for the same days
iturinsr Christmas week, and 26,100 for the
corresponilns; time last year.
With a small beef supply there was a
tindoncy on ,the part of yard buyers and
sellers to jcet together early and pens
were cleared In good order, with pTlcs
pen-rally sternly to atronjr. As compared
with a week ago, prices for beef are un
changed. Cows and heifers found a .endy
outlet, although they did not move as fast
h the beef. As compared with yester
day, values were steady to strong 'or
the most pa't, with some sales 16c or morj
higher. About as much has been put on
to prices tor cows and heifers as was
taken off, and as compared with ast
week's close, values are unchanged,.
The feeder market was active this
morning nnd an early clearance was ef
fected. Traders were buying earl at
prices that were strong to 1015c hither
and for the four clayts advanced 2tif.10c
ft.r the week. Snipe choice heavy feeders
sold early for 112,
STKKRS.
No. Av. Fr.
20 946 )10 85
EKRTi"
No, Av. Tr.
15 958 $10 50
9...... 058 11
rows.
5 77 fi 00 3 1290 10 75
21 1017 S 60 13. .....1142 9 25
21 113J 9 35 13 1073 0 50
HKIFBRS.
. 13. ..... ; 9 50
CALVES.
..,,.. "0 6 25- 2 3."0 1 1 00
2. ...... 240 9 00 J5 164 1 4 00
3...... 276 U 00 1 110 14 60
Quotations on cattle: Choice to prime
beeves, J14.50lfi.60; good to choice
beeves. 113.00014.60; fair to good beeves,
U. 0013. 00; common to fair beeves. W.00
O11.00; choice to prime yearlings, tM.76
16.26; good to choice yearlings. $13 00
14.75; fslr'to good yearlings, tll.0013.00;
common to fair yearlings. t9 0011.00;
choice te prime heifers, til. 50012. 60; good
to choice helfnnt, tD-00Qtll.il): choice to
prime cows. $9.60W11.00; good to choice
rors. ts.O0iiT9.60; fair to good cows, J6.75
Cs.OO; common to fair cows. $5.00486.. 75:
choice to prime heavv feeders, $11.00
13.00; good to choice feeilrs. $9.6011.00;
medium to good feeders, tj.00tp9.60: com
mon to fair feeders. $6.758.00; good to
choice Blockers, $9.0010.25; fair to good
stockers. $7.5Og-9.00; common to fair
stockers. 16.00 7.25; stock heifers. J6.00
7. 85: stock cows. $5.25Ki'i.50; stock calves.
$8.26 10.25; veal calves, $.5014.60;
bulls, stags, etc.. t5.25W11.50: choice to
prime grass beeves. $12.50fi13.50: good to
choice grass beeves, f 10.5012.50; fair to
good grass beeves. $s.75(i 10.50; common
to fair grass beeves, t7.258.75; Mexican
beeves. $S .50 8. 00.
Hogs The year opened with a h'og run
estimated at 9.000 head There was a fairly
good demand end prices generally steady
to 10c higher than yesterday and trade
was fairly active on this basis. Bulk of
. today's sales was $13.B0U4.00, with i top
of tl4.15.
HOGS.
Sh. Pr. No. Av.
80 tU '60 49. .374
No. Av.
ft. .260
76. .194
49. .264
73. .220
71. .231
73. .234
70
70
70
13 70
13 80
13 90
14 00
14 10
76. .269
61. .234
71. .241
70.. 230
66. .218
Sh. Pr.
210 tl3 65
140 13 75
... 13 85
13 95
14 05
14 15
110
Sheep and Lambs Only a few thousand
sheep were received for today's trade and
the entire supply changed hands readily.
Lambs ruling strong to 10c to 15c higher
and sheep selling on a generally steady
basis. Some handy weight fat lambs sold
en shipping account up to $17.25, with
packers paying $16.7fSi 17.00 for bulk of the
good grades. Ewes arc still quotable tip
to $10.00310.;5. and choice light yetir
lings ar wanted upwards of $15.00. The
few fleshy feeders here today moved read
ily at firm prices. Near fat lambs are
going to the country from $15.50 16 00,
with most of the good to choice feeders
bringing tl4.75i?15 60.
FAT LAMBS.
No. Av. Pr. No. Av. Pr.
108 fed... 72 tl7 00 158 fed ... 81 $17 25
' 113 fed... 74 17 15
FEEDING LAMBS.
it fad... 59 15 00
Sheep and Lambs quotations: Lambs,
good to choice, tl7.O017.25; lambs, fair
to good." fl6.50 18.75; fleshy feeders,
feeders. tl5.5O16.00: good to choice feed-
, ers. $14.7515.50; fair to good feeders.
. tl4.2614.75: cull lambs. tl2 00rl4.5O;
vsarllng. $14.0015.00: wethers. $10.50fy
,11.75; ewes, good to choice. $9.76810.25:
ewes, fair to good. $9.25e.75: good feed
ing ewes. IS.55S7.00; ewes. cullsnd can
cers, tS-OOg "0
s . Chicago live Stock.
Chicago, Jan. 1. Cattle Kecelpts. 10.
00 head; estimated tomorrow, 11,000
head; -market slow; beef steers, medium
and heavyweight, choice and prime, $18.75
1975: medium and good. tl0.75Q18.75;
common. S.75fflo.75: lightweight, good
and choice. I13.506ll.ti: common and
radium, tJ.0OlS50; butcher cattle,
. heifers, IS.40S14.75: coks. $6.25913.50:
canners and cutters. $5.25J6.25; veal
calves $15.75 j?17.00; feeder Bteers, t7.00
12.25;. stoek steers. t6.010,25.
Hogs Receipts, 40,000 head; market,
weak, steady to 1ft cents higher; closing
weak; bulk. $14. 2G 14-30: top, 114. SO;
heavy, tl4.2.514.65; medium. l.S5j
i eo; ngnt, in ngnt iignt,
t14.O0S14.35; heavy packing sows, smooth,
$13.751415: packing sows, rough, $13.15
13.5: Digs. $lS.25rl4.2S.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 14.000
Vead; estimated tomorrow, .18,000 head;
n,arket. strong: Iambs, IIB.76 grll.75; culls
and common, tl2.0015.50: ewes, medium
and good, t8.5019.7i; culls and common.
t4.50ei.25.
No Grain or Financial
Markets Thursday
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OVER ALL THE. DIAMONDS- j- ' ROThER y Jfr
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adolo Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
The Odd Way Madge's Father Be
gan His Chat.
1 availed myself without delay of
:ny mother-in-law's brusque perniis
siou to bring Junior to her for his
morning batli while I talked to mv
father.
It was but the work of a minute
or two to transfer my small on and
the paraphernalia of his bath to his
grandmother's room. Then, leav
ing Mother Graham radiant, Junior
riotously happy, I sped back to mv
own room, and with a sudden im
pulse perched upon my father's
knee, rumplii.g his hair all silver
now, alas for the former debonair
"Quester" but still soft and abund
ant. He slipped an arm around me con
vulsively, then sat very still. I stole
a glance at him, and saw that his
face was working almost to the
point of t,ears. But when he spoka
at last his voice was quiet and con
trolled. "Do you know, daughter," he said,
"I have dreamed of your doing this
rumpling my hair bub you never
have happened to do it before "
I had to pretend gayety to keep
mv voice from tears.
"Well, if that's your idea of bliss
having your hair pulled." I ban
lered, "I can make you happy at
any time! It's one of the besc
things I do " .
I gave his hair a playful tug, then
with a fresh grip on my poise, a
sure knowledge that I would not be
tray the remorse I felt at his un
conscious indictment of my neglect,
I hrnt and kissed him.
"Now, sir, having been duly
rumpled, suppose we settle down tor
a regular chat What's on your
mind?"
It was the veriest banal nonsense,
but I realized from the slight start
rny father gave, that there was
something special about wtiich he
wished to speak to me, wondered
apprehensively if there was any
thing troubling him.
"Are you completely recovered
from your accident?" he asked after
a moment. "Sure you are quite
strong 4agaiti?"
"I never felt better in my life, t
assured him, not quite truthfully, fo
my nerves were still feeling the et
fect of the fright I had undergone.
"How do you feel about driving a
car?" he asked hesitatingly. "Does
the idea frighten you, or do yoi
still want to try one?"
His words took me so completely
by surprise that for a long minute I
did not answer him. I was busy
asking myself silently the same
question he had just put orally. The
ciesise to drive a car had been al
most an obsession with me, but evei
since my accident it had been over
shadowed by another vision, that of
Maior Crantland's powerful car
rushing toward me and my utter
helplessness to guide my own ma
chine out of danger.
The Whimsical Comment.
But persistence in trying to do
anything I like has always been
pronounced trait of mine, whether
a commendable one or not, I never
have been able to determine to my
own satisfaction, and I realized be
fore my minute of introspection was
ever that if only the opportunity of
fered I should be more anxious to
learn to drive than ever I had been.
The very fact of my ignominious
failure would spur me on to prove
both to myself and to others that I
could achieve my ambition.
But not with Dickyl That ques
tion was forever settled in my mind.
My short experience under his tute
lage had proved beyond all doubt
that I not only failed to receive any
benefit from his instruction, but that
his impatience with my slowness, his
insistence that I could grasp the
rudiments of the art and put them
into practice almost without hesita
tion, confused me so completely that
what ideas I Mid gather vanished
absolutely from my mind.
I did not dare to conjecture what
my father's question might mean. It
opened too dazzling a possibility be
fore my mind's eye. I contented
myself with quietly stating the truth.
"I would rather learn to drive a
car than do almost anything else in
the world," I said. "But to tell you
the truth, father, I cannot learn with
Dicky teaching me. I dpn't know
why I fancy it is my fault but the
day I was with him I got so con-
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fused that I did not know what I
was doing. I would never dare at
tempt it again."
My father smiled whimsically.
"I have yet to see the person, man
j or woman, who can learn from the
! teaching of a relative," he said. "Of
course, I suppose there are unusu
ally amiable and placid persons who
can accomplish the feat, but I have
never happened to meet them. And
you and Dicky are the last in the
world to attempt it. Please believe
there is no reflection upon either of
you in that last remark."
He paused deprecatingly.
"Of course," I said breathlessly,
kissing him to hide my suspense.
What did he mean by all this pre
amble? (Continued tomorrow)
Big Corporations Will
Elect Officers In January
Omaha's commercial and financial
institutions are preparing to cast up
their accounts of 1919 and start the
new year with new plans and hopes.
Most of the banks will hold their
annual meetings on January 13, the
second "Tuesday of the new year,
when directors will be elected. Bank
officials say that the 13th day of the
month holds no terrors for them.
The Omaha & Council Bluffs
Street Railway company will hold
its annual meeting January 12,
when stockholde rs will elect nine
directors and the new board will
elect its officers for the year.
ine annual meeting of the Ne
braska Teleohone comoanv will he
held February 14, when a program
ot consmiction will be considered.
No chaiise in the official nersonnel
is anticipated.
1 he Omaha Gas company will
hold its meeting January 19. Five
directors and a successor to the late
hrank T. Hamilton, president, will
be elected.
Fifteen directors of the Nebraska
Power company will be elected at
the annual meeting on the first
Monday in April.
Omaha Grows as Commercial
Metropolis of U. S. Inland
Harvey Milliken, chairman of the
bureau of publicity of the Chamber
of Commerce, states that almost one
of every 10 rated Omaha business
houses have been established within
the last 12 months.
He ofiers the following compara
tive list:
Number of Rated Business Firms.
AT THE
THEATERS
1919
OmaUa 3.7fi4
Nebraska (except Omaha) . .1S.2M
towa (aeven counties) 2.909
Wyoming (five counties).,. 567
192.
4,255
19,074
3.027
- 560
Totals 25,491 28,926
He has figured that Omaha's in
crease has been 9.6 per cent, nearly
twice as much as the increase of
Omaha's trade territory.
"This is an indication of Omaha's
growth as the commercial metrop
olis of a great inland empire" Mr.
Millikin said, "and is reflected in
Omaha's increase in jobbing output
which was 43 per cent more in 1919
than in 1918."
Nurses' Busy Year
The Visiting Nurse association, of
Omaha made 27,447 calls on 3,921
patients last year. The tuberculosis
department attended 978 patients,
300 maternity cases were recorded.
Six hundred and twenty infants were
nursed during the summer conferences.
Sunday evening, at the Bran-
II deis theater, Ired Stone will
be seen for the first time as a
single star in Omaha, in Charjes Dil
lingham's production of a musical
extravaganza, "Jack O'Lantern." In
stead of waiting for a leisurely made
journey from St. Louis, to open on
Monday, a special train was ar
ranged for to bring the company
and production here in time for the
Sunday opening. One of the most
interesting scenes in the extravagan
za is the skating carnival at St.
Moritz, in which Fred Stone gives
a burlesque of the famous Charlotte
and also some Fred Stone stunts of
his own. His company comprises
many favorites, which include the
Six Brown Brothers and the saxa
phone band, Violet Zell, who has
been Fred Stone's acrobatic dance
partner for several years; Katie
Smith, a continental ice skater, who
has made a name for herself in this
country; the tiny Hoye Sisters, who
step out of candy boxes; Teresa Va
lerio, Mabelle Cedars, Elsa May,
Ursula Ohare, Kathryn Walsh, Roy
Hoyer, Charles Mast, Harold West,
Penelope Willard, Jet Stanley, Hazel
Renaud, Evelyn La Deaux, Sigma
Pierce, and two famous acrobats,
Frank Herbert and Coly Lorella.
The Moonbeam Girls, lively and
charming singers and dancers, and
the Globe theater chorus add greatly
to the beauty of the colors of the
costumes and the scenery painted by
Urban. The matinees are Wednes
day and Saturday. i
"Fair and Warmer" more than
made good as a holiday attraction
at Boyd's, when two big audiences
laughed till they wept at the droller
ies of the Avery Hopwood force.
It is one of the most enjoyable
things of the kind ever presented,
and is being played by an excellent
company.
If any one should see a tall man,
about six-foot three, in a gray fox
and a black derby hat, walking
about in Omaha this week, it is
that joyful comedian, Sam Hardy,
wh'o is appearing in the snappy
musical comedy "La La Yucille" at
the Brandeis theater all this week.
The New Year was auspiciously
ushered in at the Orpheum, when
matinee and night audiences meas
ured up to the theater's capacity.
The Society Jazz band, featured this
week, is headed by the baritone
vocalist, Henry Santrey. Another
featured part of the diversified bill
is the amusing one-act farce, "The
Man Hunt," presented by a cap
able company, the chief player being
the clever comedienne, Isolda Illian.
These offerings are but two ele
ments of one of the most popular
shows that the Orpheum has offered
in a long time.
"Scandal," which is coming to
Boyd's next week, starting on Sun
day, is said to be Cosmo Hamilton's
best play, which is a remarkable
statement, when it is remembered
how many successes he has to his
credit This comedy was produced
in Chicago last summer, where it
ran seven months, and is now dupli
cating on tour the triumphs it won
,in the Windv CItv.
"PHOTO PlAY. OFFERINGS FOR TODAY
T
Two post-holiday performances
will be given todav at the Gayety ly
f1 KIPPING the ship, clinging by
one hand to' a rope ladder, drop-
ping from an airship two miles
in the air, crawling out on the tail
cf his "boat" for a leap to a run
away ship and a nose dive with a
ioop-the-loop finish are a few of the
stunts done by Lieut. Omar Lock
ltar in "The Great Air Robbery," a
photo-production which was given
private Omaha screening Monday.
Lieut. I.ocklear, a driver of the
transcontinental air route, reaches
the postal station with a selected
cargo of mail and notices the flyer
who picks up the run at that point is
suffering from a "hang-over," which
causes him to lose control of his
ship as he is leaving the field. He
gets permission from the command
ing officer to try and rescue his com
panion, and the air chase between
the two skilled aviators is on. After:
various attempts, Locklear jumps to
the other ship and both are brought
safely to earth.
In the great mail air robbery later
in the screen the real air stunts are
pulled. A number of former avia
tors witnessed the screening Mon
day and congratulated themselves on
being on chairs instead of in one of
the ships.
It is a Universal film with enough
of a love story attached to tie the
events into quite a pretty story.
Sun New Year's day saw the
first presentation at the Sun theater
of "Erstwhile Susan," in which Con
stance Binney made her initial ap
pearance as a Realart star. The
picture is notable for dramatic sus
pense and strong heart interest. In
terwoven through the main theme
are touches of quaint comedy. In
the role of Barnabetta, the slavery
heroine of the story, Miss Binney
has created a screen characterization
that insures her success.
Strand Life in Greenwich village,
New York's picturesque Bohemian
quarter, forms the interesting back
ground 'for the early action in Billie
Burke's latest picture, "Wanted A
Husband," which was giyen its first
showing to an Omaha audience at,
the Strand theater Thursday. Miss
Burke appears as a designer of wall
paper. Carelessness about her per
sonal appearance makes her the but
of gibes until, aroused, she develop
herself through training into a ra
diant beauty.
Moon "Three Black Eyes," the
Triangle production featuring Tay
lor Holmes at the Moon is a prohi
bitionless, prohibition story, prov
ing a man may become as intoxi
cated by the alluring glances of a
beautiful maiden as he would by a
hirge quantity of real booze. Taylor
met his divinity one night when he
was particularly well "stewed," but
the cold, cheerless dawn of the next
Jack Conway and "The Liberty
Girls," who will then move along to
Kansas City so as to make room for
I. H. Herk's and Arthur Pearson's
brand new offering, "Girls A'La
Carte." "Jamie" Coughlin and Harry
Bentley are the comics and Martha
Pryor, who has many persona!
friends in Omaha, is the prima
donna. ThU is her first season, in
burlesque. The production is lavish
ly mounted. Ladies' matinee today
and tomorrow at 2:15.
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i;R.l lIKh and Itlnne) "THE
MAKK.KT UK SOULS," a delightful
picture, starring DOROTHY IML
TON ; also Mark Sennett comedy.
HAMILTON 40th and Hamilton
WAHUKN KEHRIOAN in "THE
BEST MAX," and episode No. 16 ot
"THE GREAT GAMH1.K.".
APOLLO 29th and Iavmorth
BRYANT WASHHl'RN In "Will
SMITH LKKT HOME"; lsi) comedy.
COM rOKT 24h and Vinton MAE
-MURRAY In "THE PEI.U'IOUS
MTTI.K DEVIL," Hnd "ELMO THE
-MIGHTY," chapter 16.
morning found him still in love,
even more so, in fact. His sweet
heart vanishes. When opportunity
knocks at his door, he bids him en
ter, improves the golden chance, and
shortly afterwards enjoys the fruits
of his endeavors.
Rialto How would you like to be
a girl stenographer and to be told
after living 15 years with a woman,
whom you had always called
mother, that your real mother was a
fabulously wealthy widow who had
been frantically searching for youT
That is the situation that confronts
Marguerite Clark in her picture, "A
Girl Named Mary," offered Omaha
movieites at the Rialto today and
Saturday.
Muse Win. S. Hart's versatility,
not only as an artist, but as a true
portrayer of western life and west
ern character, is dramatically
brought put in many of the details
in his gripping drama, '"Staking His
Life," which is the stellar attrac
tion at the Muse theater today and
the balance of the week. "Staking
His Life" is a photoplay destined to
live long in the public mind, and is
a picture you will enjoy seeing.
Births In Omaha During 1919
Were 3,867; 2,551 Deaths
The clearing away of the influerun
epidemic during the early months of
last year brought a restoration of
normal health conditions, according
to a preliminary report prepared by
Dr. J. T. Edwards, health commis
sioner. During the first four months of
the year there were 29 deaths from
influenza, only four deaths were
recorded during the last eight
months and only one death during
the last six months.
Pneumonia in its various formal
caused more deaths than any other
communicable disease, the total bc-
ing 335 for the year, the heaviest toll
being recorded during the first four
months.
Health conditions here from June
to December were favorable. Dur
ing the year 121 deaths from tuber
culosis were reported.
Total deaths, 19J9, 2,551; 1918
3,579. The large death rate in 1918
was due to the influenza epidemic.
Total births, 1919, 3,867; 1918,
4,046. The decrease in the birth
rate is scattered over the year up to
the last three months, which show
an increase compared with the 'ast
three months of 1918. The health
commissioner dood not venture any
explanation of this unusual condi
tion. Large Increase Reported
In Postof f ice Receipts
The total receipts of the Omaha
postoffice for the fiscal; year, 1918
1919, was $2,239,856.65, compared
with $1,807,295.87 for the previous
year, an increase of 24 per cent.
Totals for other than mail busi
ness were: Internal revenue, $569,
599.89; postal fund deposits, $2,039,
045.02; war savings business, $5,630,
847.34; sub-agency, $97,381.58; total
of all departments, $14,356,840.08.
A total of 3,446 employes are paid
at the Omaha postoffice, including
1,200 railway mail clerks and 1,700
rural mail carriers.
During 1919 the postoffice handled
59,774,590 pieces of first class mail,
an increase of 7,251,352. for the year.
Special delivery letters delivered in
Omaha were increased from 201,376
in 1918 to 261,182 in 1919.
The amount of money orders is
sued during the year was $1,953,
890.70. compared with $1,490,390.14
for 1918.
GoVernor-Elect of
New Jersey May
Upset Prohibition ,
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Jersey City, N. Y., Jan. 1. Governor-fleet
Edwardi announced thai
If certain information reaching hira ,
was found correct he would, a a
citizen, either cal'- upon Secretary
Lansing to revoke his proclamation
of the ratification of the eighteenth
amendment or introduce mandarins
proceedings to compel him to do s.o,
The information was that certain
states in ratifying the amendment
used language different from that in-;
corporatod in the original congres-,
sioual bill. The alleged difference
consisted of using the words "alco
holic liquors" instead of "intoxicat
ing liquors."
Medical Inspection In
Schools Proves Profitable
A report of the public school
medical inspection work since the
opening of the school year last Sep
tember shows that 50 per cent of all
boys and girls examined had defec
tive teeth. When this department
began to examine the teeth of chil
dren in 1917 the per cent was 91.
This material reduction has been
due to vigilance by the school
nurses and also the work of the free
dental dispensary, according to
Charlotte Townsend, supervisor of
the school medical inspection de-
partment.
Since last September 6,458 have
been given complete physical exam
inations and the following defects
were found: Teeth, 3,344; tonsils,
1,138; nasal, 322; vision, 710.
The recorDs show that girls take
better care of their teeth, the pro
portion being two boys to every one.
girl with defective teeth. Health
records are being kept of every boy
and girl in the schools, from first
to eighth grades. The school nurses
made 2,440 home visits last year and
gave 4,200 individual health talks to
children, They administered 1,487
first aid dressings.
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Yekaterinoslav Captured.
' London. Jan. 1. The capture cf
Yekaterinoslav, on the southern
Russian front, and Novomoskovsk,
i .r iiiiica jiL.fi l 1 1 tas l u
is announced in a bolshevik official
statement. The reds also are fight
ing fiercely for possession, of Tcher- -kassy,
on the Dnieper, 95 . miles
southeast of Kiev. They have oc
cupied Mcriinsk, east of Tomsk, qA
the Siberian front, the statement
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PURE FOOD PRODUCTS
PORK AND BEEF PACKERS PROVISIONERS -PRODUCE
DEALERS WHOLESALE BAKERS
MACARONI MANUFACTURERS
THE SKINNER
COMPANY
R. C. HOWE,
VICE PRESIDENT and GENERAL
MANAGER.
OMAHA, U. S. A.
This fi-eat independent food product com
pany U owntd by soma 5,000 atockholden, in
cluding mi ef tht whI'i .(rtotost Uvo stock
producers.
toads mass nsoisTmnaa
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Extravagance
amd Speculation
Twenty-seven years ago a leading authority on business conditions reported
the year 1892 as being
"The most prosperous year ever known in business with strongly favorable indi
' cations for the future."
And so it had been, but extravagance and speculation were rampant; and in
May, 1893, began a most distressing crisis, which -lasted fully four years.
The year 1919, to outward appearances, has been many times more pros
perous than 1892. Shall we, too, predict "strongly favorable indications for
the future?"
"Crisis and Depressions," a book by Theodore E. Burton, declares that a
period of depression "is invariably preceded by a season of great activity,
marked by much real or apparent prosperity;" and further he gives a schedule
of the stages in which the approach of a crisis' may be noticed. Number 5 is
"increasing extravagance in private and public expenditure;" and Number 6 is
"the development of a mania for speculation, attended by dishonest methods
in business and the gullibility of many investors."
The seventh stage is:
"A great expansion of discounts and loans, and a resulting rise in the rate of in
terest; also a material increase in wages, attended by frequent strikes and by dif
ficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of laborers to meet the demand."
Nevertheless, these same indications portend genuine prosperity, provided
there is no overaction and that speculation does not take the place of more
legitimate enterprise. -
The consensus of opinion, by men well versed in finance and business, is that
we may look for continued prosperity only in the event that we put a decided
check upon the twin evils: Extravagance and Speculation. Shall we do it?
It is a matter for each individual to decide for himself. No law can effec
tively stop any man or woman from either. But every individual can help put
on the brake which will prevent 1920 from being an exaggerated 1893: Each
can cut down his or her purchases to actual necessities; save as much as possible
and invest the surplus in good securities which have no taint of speculation. -
We prefer continued prosperity to a panic or crisis. . The prosperity of our
clients means more prosperity for us. Apd so we join in the crusade to stop ex
travagance and retard speculation. Buying fewer fur coats and silk shirts and
more farm bonds and city real estate mortgages will go a long way toward
bringing about the desired result. And to this end, from among many others
equally as good, we offer:
FARM BONDS
$28,000 Due in ten years; 51. per cent semi-annual interest; on 320 acres of Gafe county farm
land, seven miles from Firth, valued at $50,000. In bonds of $1,000 each.
$13,000 Due in five years; 5H par cent semi-annual interest; on 150 acres of Cass county farm
land, near Greenwood, valued at $32,0 00. In bonds of $500 each.
Also many other farm bonds, straight (one note) farm mortgages, municipal
bonds, school district bonds, and warrants. Call at the office; telephone B6844,
or write us your needs. ,
Lincoln Trust Company
W. E. Barkley, Pre.
126 No. 11th St
Lincoln, Nebraska
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